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Friday, December 16, 2011
Brave finish for Al Muhairi in Jebel Ali feature
Atlantic Brave won the featured 1600m conditions race, kindly sponsored by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Shadwell Farm, at Jebel Ali on Friday afternoon, to open his seasonal account at the third attempt.
Owned and trained by Musabah Al Muhairi and returned to his optimum trip of 1600m, he was forced to fight hard to land the spoils under Wayne Smith who was able to drive him ahead in the final 50m to deny both Yirga and Mureb in a close finish.
Reigning Champion Jockey Smith was to complete a double when winning the concluding 1000m handicap on Kilt Rock for trainer Doug Watson who was himself completing a double in the last two races.
Tadhg O'Shea was in the saddle on the trainer's first winner, Daboos, who was making his local debut a winning one in the second 1400m handicap.
Watson said: "Kilt Rock has been a revelation this year and it is a great effort to win three races on the bounce for any horse. He thrived over the summer and we had hoped he would go well this season. Daboos is a nice new horse who has not had much racing. We hoped he would run well today but perhaps did not expect him to win. He should come on for that and hopefully has more improvement in him."
The previous 1400m handicap was a quality affair and the Satish Seemar-trained He'sminenotyours was very impressive under Richard Mullen.
Mullen said: "I was very hopeful coming into the race as I think this horse has improved a lot from last season. I was always happy in the race and hopefully he has more to offer."
Seemar added: "We will certainly have to think about the Jebel Ali Mile for him."
Trainer Jaci Wickham totally dominated the opening 1400m conditions race, the only race on the card for Purebred Arabians and saddled a memorable 1-2-3.
Royston Ffrench was in the saddle on winner Kareem W'Rsan, who denied Mullen on Ma'Eror W'Rsan with Ted Durcan's mount, A'Nnabak W'Rsan snatching third on the line.
Wickham was obviously delighted and said: "We knew we had three good chances but we could not have expected that. The winner is a nice horse who has had his problems, while the other two are pretty useful. Hopefully they can all win again."
The other race, an 1800m handicap, was won by King Charles, ridden by Ahmad Ajtebi, for Abdulla bin Huzaim.
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Jake Owen Wasn't Planning to Get Married
Just two weeks before Jake Owen proposed to now-wife Lacey Buchanan, he said marriage was not on his radar. Owen co-hosted the syndicated radio show Country Countdown USA at the end of March and told host Lon Helton that while Buchanan would be the one he would marry if he was going to be married, she shouldn't expect a ring anytime soon.
"Like I said, I'm not married, Lon, and I don't have plans of getting married soon," Owen said. "But if I get married, I'm gonna marry that girl, cause she's awesome." The 'Barefoot Blue Jean Night' hitmaker and show host had been talking about a tattoo Owen has on his arm of Buchanan's lips when the subject came up.
On April 7, Owen surprised everyone when he dropped to one knee during a concert in Florida and asked his girlfriend to be Mrs. Jake Owen. A month later, they said "I do" on the beach in Owen's hometown of Vero Beach, Fla.
It's not clear what made Owen change his mind so quickly about tying the knot, although it's possible he was just being coy to surprise Buchanan. Perhaps the singer — who is notoriously carefree — was just flying by the seat of his pants on this one, as he didn't even have the ring handy when he popped the question. Whatever the case may be, he and his new wife seem happy and eager to start a life together, so we wish them the best of luck!

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Remember that old myth that it takes 21 days to form a habit*? We are now 23 days into the first month of 2014, and as someone who began working out on the 2nd, I'm exactly 3 weeks into my goal of making the gym my new habit. So, how's it going?
Short answer: good. Long answer: it's far too early to decide whether this will end up being a long term thing, but so far I've been kicking butt. Along the way I've reflected on why this time is different and what has helped me to commit more time than I ever have in my life (embarrassing, right) to hitting the gym.
Here are my 8 tips for developing a gym-habit.
- Get a workout buddy. And not just anyone. I've been heading to the gym with my bestie/roomie Laura Clendenning (of Dedicated Not Addicted) who isn't only passionate about getting in shape, but knows her stuff too. She's currently training for her 4th (!!) fitness competition and is studying to earn her Personal Training certification. She's energetic, committed, and knows exactly what she's doing. Going with someone who knows which machines to use and how to use them takes away the intimidation factor of wandering around a crowded gym (which is ALWAYS filled with insanely good-looking people who appear completely at home.) The commitment factor is a big one here as well, as it's harder to skip a workout once you told someone you were going to go. There's also the added bonus of spending time with someone who's dope- a little social time in between sets never hurt anyone.
- Plan your workout. Another trick I learned from LC is to write down your workout prior to hitting the gym. This provides structure and purpose, preventing you from giving up and saying "That's enough" 20 minutes after you've arrived.
- Record your workout. It's hard to remember which days you went, let alone which set of exercises you did two weeks ago if you don't write it down. As someone who's constantly learning new machines and sequences, it's extremely helpful to bring a notebook and jot things down as I go. I'm able to record the weights I use and the times I run which means next time I can push myself to improve them. It's been extremely satisfying tracking my progress and seeing improvements so far.
- Switch it up. Doing the same routine gets boring real fast and I knew that my gym-going wouldn't last long if I was constantly doing the same thing every time. As a member of the YMCA I have huge flexibility with my workouts- I am for 2 days of weights (usually one arms/shoulders and one legs/back day), a longer cardio session, and one power yoga class every week. Not only does this give me balance, but I can shuffle my workouts based on what I'm feeling and have yet to feel completely bored. It's a mini success, but I'll take it!
- Equip yourself. I'm not saying that every piece of workout clothing has to be the newest, most expensive Lululemon, but there's something to be said for wearing proper gear at the gym. I invested in some new shorts and quick dry tops last summer and just got an amazing gym bag for Christmas that I'm stoked to rock. If you look the part, you'll start to feel the part, and a sleek luon tank is a lot more motivating than an over-sized stained T from high school. Pick up a cool notebook, stack a killer playlist, grab container of protein powder and you'll feel like you belong at the gym in no time.
- Forgive yourself. I learned pretty quickly that there are going to be weeks where I don't get to the gym as much as I'd like. Being busy is okay as long as it's the exception and not the rule. If you miss a workout, let it go. But then get back on track and hit the gym hard the next day.
- Set a deadline. There's nothing more motivating than a looming deadline. As one of my big goals this year is to run a 10K, I figured it was time to light the fire and sign up for the Vancouver Sun Run 2014. (I literally did it as I was writing this post- early bird goes until January 31st!) Knowing that I'm going to have to run 10K whether I'm in shape or not means I'll certainly be training with some added gusto.
- Just get there. I've found that without a doubt the hardest thing about adding gym time into my routine is actually getting myself to the gym. Once I'm there, I'm good! I have two tricks for making this happen: 1) Drink a pre-workout shake because then I'm obligated to go work it off, and 2) Tell myself that I just need to do a super short workout and then I can hit the steam room- more often then not, I'll stay for the full workout once I'm there.
There you have it, all my gym 'secrets' are yours for the taking! For all you fitness peeps, don't forget to check out Laura's blog here for workouts, recipes, challenges, and a heaping dose of motivation.
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*Turns out it's more like 66 -according to this study– but can vary between 18-254 days.


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I was recently diagnosed with two different forms of sleep apnea and was issued a CPAP. Since using the CPAP, it has had a significant impact on me. I feel rested, resulting in more energy, improved short-term memory, significantly improved dream recall, and my thinking not being foggy due to no longer being in a state of constant sleep deprivation.
However, with the associated benefits of my rehabilitation, there are some potentially negative side effects. I've had dreams every single night since using the CPAP. Additionally, almost every single time of using the CPAP, I will wake up in the middle of the night and find the mask that goes over my face has been taken off. Apparently, I take off the mask while asleep and place it on my dresser. I presume the deep sleep is inducing me to sleepwalk. However, I haven't used the CPAP for two days, which while I was on a camping trip with friends, I was sleepwalking within about an hour and thirty minutes after falling to sleep.
What I was doing while sleepwalking is that I was pacing back of forth at the rear end of my friend's vehicle. I woke her up because I was repeating something while pacing. She asked me what I was doing, if I was looking for the air mattress. I responded with "five five one". She thought I was asking what time it was and said "No, it is 3:23 a.m., not 5:51 a.m.". I responded with "Maybe that is what she meant by 551, she was talking about time...", then I went back to sleep.
My concern is the extent to how much I am sleepwalking now. Sleepwalking on a camping trip isn't exactly appealing, since I could wake up in the middle of the woods. Additionally, I'm never going to acquire a full eight hours of normal sleep if I keep sleepwalking and taking the mask off. It is almost like my body is trying to prevent itself from receiving real sleep. I have a check-up with my doctor in about a month to go over how the CPAP machine is, my sleep etc., but in the mean time I'm curious if anyone here sleepwalks and/or talks in their sleep to this extent and if someone might have tips to share.
Maybe I should chain my arms down to immobilize myself?
Personally, I do not know what "five five one" means, but I do know I had a bunch of dreams that night, though they are all a blur. I told someone I know about the dream and if 551 meant anything to her. Ironically, it is the first three digits of her social security number, which is kind of weird.
Now, I'm pretty sure I know why I was repeating 551. I've psychologically conditioned myself to become lucid in dreams when tangible information is present. When lucidity is induced due to names, acronyms, dates, etc. that have unique feelings associated with them, I will start repeating the information over and over verbally in the dream so that I will have it memorized for when I wake up. My guess is that I was lucid while sleepwalking, but I forgot the lucid dream since all the other dreams are a blur.
The only thing I've figured "five five one" could be is that it is an area code, because it is very specific, not like saying "five hundred and fifty one". The area code 551 is for New Jersey. Then again, 551 could be nothing. I would totally be interested in setting up a recording device while I'm sleeping to see how often I talk in my sleep or if I talk in sleep while lucid. Unfortunately, the light humming noise from my CPAP would probably activate the recording device instead of my voice activating it.
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My dad said one day I got up and, Went to the computer. He said "You can't go on the computer this late"
So I went back to my bed and just passed out on my bed.
So I went back to my bed and just passed out on my bed.
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My dad says I once got up and ate some peanut butter before he told me to go back to bed.
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I think Sleepwalking is very terrible.
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Lately, I've had noticeably more people asking me about Tapestry and why one should choose it over the other (Java) web frameworks. To me, Tapestry is a good compromise, just like Java is. Linus Torvalds, my fellow country man, has famously said "performance almost always matters". There are so many aspects to web development, and performance is often seen as one of the smallest of your problems because in the end "it always comes down to the database". However, a high performing framework solves many other problems. Today, a typical, reasonably well-implemented Java web application on a modest hardware can serve hundreds of concurrent requests, thousands of concurrent users and tens of thousands of users a day from a single server. Most start-ups never need to worry about the scaling out problem until they actually have the money to pay for it. Unfortunately, you can also easily make the implementation horribly slow, suffering from scalability problems from the get-go and even more unfortunately, it's easier to go wrong with some Java frameworks than with others. For what Tapestry offers, the performance of the framework itself, both in terms of cpu and memory consumption is simply phenomenal. Performance matters.
However, I really don't want to make this post about Tapestry's performance. As soon as you mention one thing about a particular framework, people tend to place it in that category and forget about everything else. What I really like to give as an answer to people who ask why one should use Tapestry is this: because it is well-balanced and comprehensive. There are a lot of other web frameworks that are optimized with a certain thing in mind and in that narrow field, they typically beat the competition. It's difficult though to be a good all-around contender but that's exactly what Tapestry is all about. Tapestry doesn't force you to a certain development model - such as using sessions, always post, single url, ajax-only, thick RIA etc. If you just need to handle a specific case, such as building a single-page, desktop-like application for web, you could pick GWT, Flex or Vaadin, but if you are a building a generic, mixed static/dynamic content site with multiple pages you'd undoubtedly pick entirely different set of tools. Tapestry though, is an "enabling" technology - you could use it together with all three aforementioned RIA frameworks. You could also use and people have used Tapestry-IoC alone in non-web desktop applications. Not a whole lot of other "web" frameworks can claim suitability for such diverse use cases. Sadly, comprehensiveness of a framework can be a somewhat difficult area to objectively compare so each framework usually resorts to toting their best features to prove their superiority over others.
One criteria I personally use a lot in comparing effectiveness of competing solutions is their expressiveness and succinctness. Now, everybody knows that Java is a butt-ugly language (though it makes up on other departments, like performance and comprehensiveness). Today's Java is far from your grandfather's Java a few years back and Tapestry makes the best use of the more advanced, modern JVM techniques available today, such as bytecode manipulation, annotation-based meta programming and introspection without reflection. Tapestry code is purposefully remarkably succinct. Minimal effort required for creating Tapestry components makes it easy to refactor your application logic into reusable elements, rather than having to repeat yourself. Patterns in object-oriented languages are a well studied and accepted principle, but only a few (IoC) frameworks besides Tapestry IoC manages to have a framework level support for implementing common ones, such as chain of command, strategy and pipelines.
For Tynamo, I've said it before but I just don't think we could have achieved the same CRUD functionality with any other framework. Certainly anything can be done, but the cost of it would have both been far higher and we would have needed to build much more infrastructure. When we moved from Tapestry 4 to Tapestry 5 (and from Trails to Tynamo), it was amazing to see how we were able to simplify our implementation and remove huge amounts of code while keeping the concept unchanged and making it all more modular at the same time. Using a different stack, you could probably get closest to what tapestry-model is with a combination of Wicket and Spring, but allowing the same level of extensibility would undoubtedly be more cumbersome. Back in Trails, we actually had one person working on a pure Spring (MVC + core) implementation of the same concept but it died a slow death. As the documentation states, tapestry-model produced "default model is highly customizable, you can change pretty much anything you need, and make the changes specific to type, page or instance - a feature that very few other CRUD frameworks offer". The big difference is that when you need to customize the model, you don't have to rewrite it all, you'll be just customizing the pages and overriding components as needed.
Perhaps we've gone a bit overboard with modularity, but since it's just that simple with Tapestry, most of our modules are independently usable but seamlessly work together in the same web application as soon as you add them to the classpath. Today, Tynamo is much more than just tapestry-model, the CRUD framework. Tapestry-security, tapestry-conversations and tapestry-resteasy are all steadily gaining popularity and based on the page views, it seems that tapestry-security is poised to become our most popular module offering at some point. On that note, I have a few new supplemental modules for tapestry-security coming up which should be of interest to others as well, but more on that in a separate post. For now, I hope I've been able to give some answers to why at Tynamo, we think we've made the right choice with Tapestry and I'm confident that 2011 will be the best year yet both for Tapestry and Tynamo!


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A hard-fought compromise bill allowing Illinois residents to legally carry concealed weapons is on Gov. Pat Quinn's desk.
But Quinn, a staunch gun-control advocate, faces the Damoclean sword of a July 9 deadline set by a federal court that invalidated the state's ban on concealed carry.
House Bill 183 passed both houses on the last day of the spring session May 31, with the three-fifths majorities needed to override a veto.
The following is a guide to how this debate got started, and what the bill will do.
Q: How did we get concealed carry?
A: The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Illinois' ban on concealed carry last December, concluding that the Second Amendment applies outside of an individual's home.
A downstate woman who was savagely attacked while working as a church treasurer sued in 2011 – she has handguns and firearms training but was unarmed because of the law.
Realizing the public safety issues involved, the appeals court granted Illinois lawmakers a deadline of June 9 to craft legislation regulating concealed carry. They since have pushed the deadline to July 9 at the request of Attorney General Lisa Madigan so Quinn has time to review the bill.
The ruling was the latest in a string of legal victories for gun-rights groups. U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 2008 and 2010 invalidated handgun bans at the federal and state levels.
Illinois was the only state in the union with a total ban on concealed carry.
Q: So citizens of the other 49 states are allowed to carry concealed weapons?
A: Not quite – the laws vary wildly.
States such as Hawaii, Maryland and New Jersey have concealed-carry provisions, but the laws are so strict that it is almost impossible for an ordinary citizen to get permission. Other states, such as Alaska, Vermont and Arizona, do not require permits to carry a concealed weapon.
Residents of conservative Alaska and liberal Vermont do not even have to conceal them, and can carry handguns openly.
Q: The General Assembly convened in January. Why did they get this done at the last minute?
A: The primary reason is the ideological divide over gun rights in Illinois.
Chicago lawmakers advocate strict gun control. Downstate lawmakers, Democrat and Republican alike, support gun rights, and suburban lawmakers are a mixed bag. So laws that tilt too heavily toward one side or the other usually do not have the votes to pass.
Q: How does this proposed law work?
A: Residents with a valid FOID card can pay a $150 nonrefundable application fee to the Illinois State Police – the fee is $300 for nonresidents – and must complete a 16-hour training course. The license is good for five years, and a three-hour refresher course will be required for renewal.
The state police have 180 days from the day the bill becomes law to set up the permit system.
Q: Are there public safety checks and balances?
A: Yes. Local law enforcement agencies can submit an objection to granting a license if they have a reasonable suspicion that the applicant is a danger to himself or others. That applicant can appeal the objection to a seven-member state review board.
The bill also sets up additional reporting requirements for schools and physicians to help keep weapons out of the hands of the mentally unstable.
Q: Where can I carry and where can't I?
A: Concealed carry would not be allowed on mass transit, in schools and college campuses, government buildings and courthouses, parks, stadiums, hospitals and street festivals. It would be allowed in restaurants and other businesses that serve alcohol only if alcohol makes up less than half of their total sales.
The bill also makes it a crime to carry a concealed weapon while intoxicated.
Businesses have the right to forbid concealed weapons from their premises if they post a sign banning them.
The bill allows permit holders to keep loaded weapons in a secured vehicle, meaning they can be left there if going to one of the places where concealed carry is banned.
Q: Some media agencies have "outed" gun owners in other states by printing lists of concealed-carry and firearm permit holders. Could that happen here?
A: No. The bill exempts concealed-carry permits from the Illinois Freedom of Information Act – FOID cards already are exempt. The bill also exempts the review board from the Illinois Open Meetings Act.
Q: Could Quinn use his amendatory veto power to tack unrelated gun-control measures onto the bill?
A: He could try, and he has done so before, but he almost certainly would fail.
Quinn last year completely rewrote a gun rights bill regarding ammunition sales into an assault weapons ban, which has not had the votes to pass. But lawmakers unanimously overrode his amendatory veto.
Also, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a governor cannot use his amendatory veto power to fundamentally change a piece of legislation's purpose.
Q: Could Madigan appeal the 7th Circuit's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court?
A: Madigan asked for and received an extended deadline to June 24 to appeal if she so wishes. If the bill becomes law before that, the court case becomes moot and Madigan loses the right to appeal.


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Tuesday, March 26
Good morning, TexMessagers! How will budget cuts affect special needs students?
The Texas Tribune reported yesterday that special education students will be one of the victims in Capitol Hill's failure to resolve the sequester impasse.
The Tribune reported special education programs could see a cut of $51 million in next year's budget, resulting in layoffs and larger classrooms.
The Tribune interviewed one parent of a special needs child and activist on the issue, Stacy Ford.
"If you take away staff, it's a given that the quality of education will decrease," said Stacy Ford told the Tribune. "It doesn't take a Ph.D. to figure that out."
According to the Department of Education, the federal government spent $12.6 billion on special education last year, out of a total budget of $117 billion.
Sequestration was first put into law as a compromise to raise the debt ceiling in the summer of 2011. The bill would cut programs like the Department of Education, across the board, at 8.2 percent. Congress failed to create an alternative, though delayed the cuts until March. Agreements failed because Republicans would not agree to include tax increases, and Democrats would not agree to only cut spending.
Steve Stockman, R-Friendswood, who was not in congress when sequester was first created, took to twitter to lay the blame on Democrats.
"GOP passed two bills to repeal sequester. Senate Democrats killed them. Obama vowed to veto them. Now kids are paying the price," Stockman wrote.
Headlines from TxPotomac's top articles
★ John Cornyn's Texas constituents send Obama a clear message: 'Re-open the people's house'
★ From NFL players to Karl Rove, opposition melting to same-sex marriage
★ Cruz chewed out by colleague Mary Landrieu over abortion amendment
★Exclusive analysis: If Texas Latinos had same turnout rate as Anglos, the state would already be 'purple'
Reader Comment of the Day
In response to our post, From NFL players to Karl Rove, opposition melting to same-sex marriage, JilliBrown wrote in the comments forum,
"Hmm…one of these days the republicans are going to join the rest of us here in the 21st century. I sure hope we don't have to wait until they're all blessed by their God with a gay or lesbian child. Either way, time marches on – with or without the right wing."
★ The Urban Institute has a panel discussion looking at whether nonprofits deliver on their promises at 9 am.
★ The Commonwealth Fund has a discussion on healthcare payment reform at 11 am.
★ The Woman's National Democratic Club has a conference on environmental challenges at 1130 am.
★ The Atlantic Council of the United States has a discussion on the impact of sanctions on Iran and its nuclear program at noon.
Tomorrow and beyond:
★ April 5 The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases monthly employment information.
★ April 9 The Senate Energy and Commerce Committee has a hearing on the nomination for the Department of Energy.
★ April 15 The Senate Judiciary Committee has a hearing on the targeted killing by drones
★ April 16 The Senate Armed Services Committee has a hearing on Afghanistan
★ April 16 Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee of House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a hearing on the proposed fiscal 2014 budget request for the U.S. Coast Guard and related marine transportation programs.
Today in Texas History
On this date in 1948, the American G.I. Forum was founded, when Dr. Hector P. Garcia and about 700 other Mexican-American veterans convened in Corpus Christi to organize the civil-rights organization. More>>>


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BEVERLY HILLS, CA, FEBRUARY 5, 2013 - The Paley Center for Media today announced the full lineup of special guest panelists scheduled to appear for the upcoming 30th annual ultimate TV fan festival, PaleyFest: The William S. Paley Television Festival, which takes place at the Saban Theatre, March 1-15, 2013. The annual celebration of great television will honor members of the Casts and Creative Teams of The Walking Dead, which will serve as the opening night presentation for PaleyFest, Revolution, Once Upon A Time, The Newsroom, Community, whose cast will present a live table read at their unprecedented fourth appearance at the festival; The New Normal, Parenthood, The Mindy Project, Nashville, Arrow, Dallas, New Girl, The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls, and American Horror Story: Asylum, which will close out the 15-day Festival.
WHAT: PaleyFest (The William S. Paley Television Festival) is a cavalcade of interactive panel sessions and premiere screenings that connects the worldwide community of television fans and industry insiders alike with the casts and creators of their favorite TV series, and the icons that are changing the face of media.
Over the past thirty years, PaleyFest has become a destination event for the worldwide community of television fans who gather each year to connect with the talent, from the stars to the creative teams of the shows, during interactive panel sessions and premiere screenings.
The Festival benefits The Paley Center for Media's preservation and archival digitization efforts, and its ongoing mission to explore the significant impact of media on our culture and society.
Hulu will expand its relationship with the Festival as the Premier Sponsor for PaleyFest 2013 and will stream full-length panel content and short form clips, exclusively on-demand from each PaleyFest panel on the free ad-supported Hulu, and the Hulu Plus subscription service at www.hulu.com.
Fans are invited to follow @paleycenter and #PaleyFest on Twitter for immediate announcements and live tweeting from the events.
WHEN: March 1 to 15, 2013
WHERE: The Saban Theatre
8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211
WHO: The full PaleyFest 2013 panelist lineup is as follows (panelists to appear schedule permitting)
TICKETS: PaleyFest.org, the Festival's official website, is the official destination for ongoing PaleyFest announcements, content including photos and video clips from Festival events both current and classic, Festival merchandise, and ticket sales. Tickets can be purchased at the festival's official website www.paleyfest.org and via its ticket provider www.ticketweb.com.
The full lineup is as follows (each panel will be available on Hulu and Hulu Plus the next day):
Friday, March 1: Opening Night Presentation: The Walking Dead (7:00 pm)
Moderator: Chris Hardwick: Host, "The Talking Dead"
· Robert Kirkman: Executive Producer
· Gale Anne Hurd: Executive Producer
· Dave Alpert: Executive Producer
· Greg Nicotero: Executive Producer
· Andrew Lincoln: "Rick Grimes"
· David Morrissey: "The Governor"
· Danai Gurira: "Michonne"
· Laurie Holden: "Andrea"
· Lauren Cohan: "Maggie Greene"
· Steven Yeun: "Glenn Rhee"
· Norman Reedus: "Daryl Dixon"
· Scott Wilson: " Hershel Greene"
· Chandler Riggs: "Carl Grimes"
Saturday, March 2: Revolution (7:00 pm)
Moderator: Michael Schneider, LA Bureau Chief, TV Guide Magazine
· Eric Kripke: Creator & Executive Producer
· Billy Burke: "Miles Matheson"
· Tracy Spiridakos: "Charlie Matheson"
· Giancarlo Esposito: "Major Tom Neville"
· Daniella Alonso: "Nora Clayton"
· JD Pardo: "Jason Neville"
· Elizabeth Mitchell: "Rachel Matheson"
· Plus additional guests to be announced
Sunday, March 3: Once Upon A Time (1:00 pm)
Moderator: Matt Mitovich, Editor-At-Large, TVLine.com
· Edward Kitsis: Creator & Executive Producer
· Adam Horowitz: Creator & Executive Producer
· Ginnifer Goodwin: "Snow White"/ " Mary Margaret Blanchard"
· Jennifer Morrison: "Emma Swan"
· Robert Carlyle: "Rumplestiltskin"/ "Mr. Gold"
· Lana Parrilla: "Evil Queen"/ "Regina Mills"
· Josh Dallas: "Prince Charming"/ "David Nolan"
· Colin O'Donoghue: "Captain Hook"
Sunday, March 3: The Newsroom (7:00 pm)
Moderator: Piers Morgan, Host, Piers Morgan Tonight
· Aaron Sorkin: Creator & Executive Producer
· Alan Poul: Executive Producer
· Jeff Daniels: "Will McAvoy"
· Emily Mortimer: "MacKenzie McHale"
· Sam Waterston: "Charlie Skinner"
· John Gallagher, Jr.: "Jim Harper"
· Alison Pill: "Maggie Jordan"
· Thomas Sadoski: "Don Keefer"
· Olivia Munn: "Sloan Sabbith"
· Dev Patel: "Neal Sampat"
· Plus additional panelists to be announced
Tuesday, March 5: Community (7:00 pm)
Moderator: Michael Schneider, LA Bureau Chief, TV Guide Magazine
· Russ Krasnoff: Executive Producer
· David Guarascio: Executive Producer
· Moses Port: Executive Producer
· Joel McHale: "Jeff Winger"
· Gillian Jacobs: "Britta Perry"
· Yvette Nicole Brown: "Shirley Bennett"
· Danny Pudi: "Abed Nadir"
· Alison Brie: "Annie Edison"
· Jim Rash: "Dean Pelton"
· Plus additional guests to be announced
Wednesday, March 6: The New Normal (7:00 pm)
Moderator: TBA
· Ryan Murphy: Creator & Executive Producer
· Ali Adler: Creator & Executive Producer
· Dante Di Loreto: Executive Producer
· Andrew Rannells: "Bryan Collins"
· Justin Bartha: "David Murray"
· Ellen Barkin: "Jane Forrest"
· Georgia King: "Goldie Clemmons"
· Bebe Wood: "Shania Clemmons"
· NeNe Leakes: "Rocky"
· Jayson Blair: "Clay Clemmons"
Thursday, March 7: Parenthood (7:00 pm)
Moderator: TBA
· Jason Katims: Executive Producer
· Peter Krause: "Adam Braverman"
· Lauren Graham: "Sarah Braverman"
· Dax Shepard: "Crosby Braverman"
· Erika Christensen: "Julia Braverman-Graham"
· Monica Potter: "Kristina Braverman"
· Sam Jaeger: "Joel Graham"
· Mae Whitman: "Amber Holt"
· Jason Ritter: "Mark Cyr"
· Joy Bryant: "Jasmine Trussell"
· Miles Heizer: "Drew Holt"
· Max Burkholder: "Max Braverman"
· Plus additional guests to be announced
Friday, March 8: The Mindy Project (7:00 pm)
Moderator: Rob Moynihan, LA Correspondent, TV Guide Magazine
· Mindy Kaling: Creator & Executive Producer / "Mindy Lahiri"
· Matt Warburton: Executive Producer
· Chris Messina: "Danny Castellano"
· Ed Weeks: "Jeremy Reed"
· Zoe Jarman: "Betsy Putch"
· Ike Barinholtz: "Morgan Tookers"
· Beth Grant: "Beverly Janoszewski"
Saturday, March 9: Nashville (1:00 pm)
Moderator: TBA
· Callie Khouri: Creator & Executive Producer
· Dee Johnson: Executive Producer
· R.J. Cutler: Executive Producer
· Connie Britton: "Rayna Jaymes"
· Hayden Panettiere: "Juliette Barnes"
· Plus additional guests to be announced
Saturday, March 9: Arrow (7:00 pm)
Moderator: TBA
· Greg Berlanti: Executive Producer
· Marc Guggenheim: Executive Producer
· Andrew Kreisberg: Executive Producer
· Stephen Amell: "Oliver Queen"
· Katie Cassidy: "Laurel Lance"
· David Ramsey: "John Diggle"
· Susanna Thompson: "Moira Queen"
Sunday, March 10: Dallas (1:00 pm)
Moderator: Will Keck, Sr. Editor & Columnist, TV Guide Magazine
· Cynthia Cidre: Executive Producer
· Michael Robin: Executive Producer
· Patrick Duffy: "Bobby Ewing"
· Linda Gray: "Sue Ellen Ewing"
· Jesse Metcalfe: "Christopher Ewing"
· Josh Henderson: "John Ross Ewing"
· Jordana Brewster: "Elena Ramos"
· Julie Gonzalo: "Pamela Rebecca Barnes"
· Brenda Strong: "Ann Ewing"
Monday, March 11: New Girl (7:00 pm)
Moderator: TBA
· Elizabeth Meriwether: Creator & Executive Producer
· Brett Baer: Executive Producer
· Dave Finkel: Executive Producer
· Jake Kasdan: Executive Producer
· Zooey Deschanel: "Jess"
· Max Greenfield: "Schmidt"
· Jake Johnson: "Nick Miller"
· Lamorne Morris: "Winston Bishop"
· Hannah Simone: "Cece"
Wednesday, March 13: The Big Bang Theory (7:00 pm)
Moderator: TBA
· Chuck Lorre: Creator & Executive Producer
· Bill Prady: Creator & Executive Producer
· Steven Molaro: Executive Producer
· Johnny Galecki: "Leonard Hofstadter"
· Jim Parsons: "Sheldon Cooper"
· Kaley Cuoco: "Penny"
· Simon Helberg: "Howard Wolowitz"
· Kunal Nayyar: "Raj Koothrappali"
· Mayim Bialik: "Amy Farrah Fowler"
· Melissa Rauch: "Bernadette Rostenkowski"
Thursday, March 14: 2 Broke Girls (7:00 pm)
Moderator: TBA
· Michael Patrick King: Creator & Executive Producer
· Kat Dennings: "Max Black"
· Beth Behrs: "Caroline Channing"
· Garrett Morris: "Earl"
· Jonathan Kite: "Oleg"
· Matthew Moy: "Han Lee"
· Jennifer Coolidge: "Sophie"
Friday, March 15: Closing Night Presentation: American Horror Story: Asylum (7:00 pm)
Moderator: Tim Stack, Senior Writer, Entertainment Weekly
· Ryan Murphy: Co-Creator & Executive Producer
· Brad Falchuk: Co-Creator & Executive Producer
· Dante Di Loreto: Executive Producer
· Frances Conroy: "Dark Angel"
· Evan Peters: "Kit Walker"
· Lily Rabe: "Sister Mary Eunice"
· James Cromwell: "Dr. Arthur Arden"
· Plus additional guests to be announced
About The Paley Center for Media:
The Paley Center for Media, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public. For more information, please visit www.paleycenter.org.


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What went right: Just about everything. This was as dominant as CU has been all season. They started strong and finished stronger. They out-rebounded Washington 44-30. They held the Huskies to 32.3 percent shooting and shot 55.4 percent themselves.
What went wrong: CU had a brief lapse after taking a 17-point lead in the first half, letting Washington pull within seven at one point.
Star of the game: Xavier Johnson. The sophomore had a career-high 27 points, while also pulling down 10 rebounds. It was his fifth career double-double.
What's next?: The Buffs visit UCLA on Thursday in Los Angeles.
Following a blowout loss at Arizona State on Jan. 25, the entire Colorado basketball program had a week to step back, take a deep breath and regroup.
Nobody took advantage of that opportunity like Xavier Johnson.
Johnson completed a sensational homestand on Sunday by scoring a career-high 27 points, pulling down 10 rebounds and stepping up on defense to lead the Buffaloes to a 91-65 rout of Washington at Coors Events Center.
"I felt like was his, if not his best game as a Buff, it's right up there," CU head coach Tad Boyle said. "He just was terrific in every way."
CU (18-6, 7-4 Pac-12) has won three games in a row since that 21-point loss at ASU. Washington (13-11, 5-6) dropped its sixth consecutive road game.
In addition to Johnson, Josh Scott had 21 points and Askia Booker had 20, giving the Buffs three 20-point scorers in the same game for the first time since Feb. 3, 2007, against Oklahoma State. Kal Bay, Dominique Coleman and Richard Roby combined for 61 points that day.
CU improved to 4-3 since losing star point guard Spencer Dinwiddie to a season-ending knee injury on Jan. 12 at Washington.
For Johnson, the turnaround came two weeks ago. He didn't play well in the initial games without Dinwiddie. He began to show a spark during that two-game trip in Arizona. But, the days after that loss at ASU were potentially season-changing days for him.
"Coach really brought us back to our principles (that week)," Johnson said. "He ingrained that into my mind.
"The biggest thing he's been working on with me is my mental focus the entire time I've been here. I'm just trying to focus mentally and do the little things. Those are the things that count."
Boyle said he challenged the 6-foot-7 sophomore forward that week.
"He was in my office and we had one-on-one meetings," Boyle said. "He was watching film with assistant coaches. The thing I like about Xavier, he's pretty self aware. He knows when he's not doing what he should be doing and he doesn't make excuses for it.
"He's gone out and he's changed, and that's what you have to do as player. When your coach, your teammates challenge you, you have to accept that challenge, and he's done a great job of that."
Johnson had 11 points and 10 rebounds the next game, a 79-75 overtime win against Utah on Feb. 1. Then, on Wednesday, he had 20 points and nine rebounds.
Sunday, he was even better. He went 10-for-14 from the floor, including 3-for-3 from 3-point range. He even banked in a 3-pointer late in the game, a sure sign that this was his day.
In addition to his 27 points and 10 rebounds, he spent part of the game – including the opening minutes – guarding Washington star C.J. Wilcox. Johnson and freshman Jaron Hopkins combined to hold Wilcox, the Pac-12's second-leading scorer, to a season-low eight points.
"If he plays like this, I think we can beat anybody," Booker said of Johnson. "He defended his butt off tonight. When he takes on a challenge on the defensive end and he can score on the offensive end, he's one of the better players in the country. Period."
He didn't play like it in the first few games without Dinwiddie, but there's no question he has picked up his game of late.
"Those (first two games without Dinwiddie), I just felt like I didn't do what I needed to as a leader," he said. "I'm trying to really lead the team and do everything possible. I'm a capable player and my teammates know that, so they gave me opportunities to do that.
"I'm trying to do the best I can, because I don't want to lose anymore and I don't want the doubters to think we're out because Spencer is out. We're still here, we're still fighting and we can win."
Booker and Scott have been fairly consistent over the past month. With Johnson now elevating his game, the Buffs were simply dominant Sunday.
Johnson had two dunks in CU's game-opening 10-0 run. The Buffs had leads of 20-4 and 26-9 in the first half. The lead stretched to 30 points – CU's biggest advantage of the season – at one point in the second half.
"Colorado, wow," Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said.
A lot of teams could be saying that if CU keeps getting the kind of effort it has been getting from Johnson lately.
"Hopefully he doesn't get too cocky or too high on himself and he brings it next week, because we will need him no matter what," Booker said.
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Brokeback Mountain premieres
On this day in 2005, Brokeback Mountain, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as a pair of cowboys who meet as sheep herders in Wyoming in 1963 and begin a romantic relationship that endures for two decades, premieres in New York City. Helmed by the Taiwanese director Ang Lee, the movieearned eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Ledger) and Best Supporting Actor (Gyllenhaal), and took home three Oscars, including Best Director. Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana shared a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Brokeback Mountain, which was based on a 1997 short story by Annie Proulx. In addition to its awards, the film did well at the box-office. However, some groups criticized Brokeback Mountain for its portrayal of a same-sex relationship, and one theater owner in Utah backed out on an agreement to show the film.
Brokeback Mountain marked Heath Ledger's first Academy Award-nominated performance. The actor, who was born on April 4, 1979, in Perth, Australia, appeared in Australian television shows and films as a teenager and had his first Hollywood hit with 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You. Ledger followed up on that film with roles in The Patriot and Monster's Ball (both 2000) before headlining a string of poorly reviewed box-office duds, including A Knight's Tale (2001), The Four Feathers (2002), Ned Kelly (2003) and The Brothers Grimm (2003). Following the breakout success of Brokeback Mountain, Ledger went on to play one of several incarnations of the music icon Bob Dylan in 2007's I'm Not There. On January 22, 2008, Ledger, then only 28 years old, was found dead in his New York City apartment from an accidental prescription-drug overdose. He had recently completed filming on The Dark Knight, the fifth film in the big-screen Batman series. That film opened in theaters on July 18, 2008, beating out the previous record-holder, 2007's Spiderman 3, to score the highest-grossing weekend of any movie in history (some $158 million). Critics specifically singled out Ledger's portrayal of Batman's nemesis, The Joker, as one of the film's strongest aspects.
Ledger was survived by his young daughter Matilda, who was born in 2005 to Ledger's then-fiancee, Michelle Williams, who played the wife of his Brokeback Mountain character Ennis Del Mar. Matilda's godfather is Jake Gyllenhaal. Brokeback Mountain also marked the first Oscar nomination for Gyllenhaal, who was born on December 19, 1980. The actor made his big-screen debut in 1991's City Slickers, in which he played the son of Billy Crystal's character, and went on to appear in such films as October Sky (1999), Donnie Darko (1999), The Good Girl (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Jarhead (2005), Zodiac (2007) and Rendition (2007).


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ORCS now offering online NIH recombinant DNA training
The Office of Regulatory Compliance and Safety at Mississippi State is now offering an online training course covering the National Institutes of Health guidelines for research involving recombinant DNA (rDNA) molecules. This training is designed to familiarize principal investigators (PI) and laboratory personnel with the NIH guidelines.
The guidelines are standards for containment and safe research practices involving the manipulation of genetic material from animals, plants and microorganisms. PIs are responsible for knowing the guidelines and training lab personnel as it pertains to their research.
The training covers the types of experiments that require NIH oversight; the responsibilities of the NIH, the Institutional Biosafety Committee, and the principal investigator; and explains the use of the IBC application and Research Review for Biosafety forms.
Please follow the steps listed below to access the training:
1. Click http://orc.msstate.edu/quicklinks/training.php
2. Click vertical Tab No. 4 -- Biosafety
3. Scroll down to find the instructions for accessing the training.
4. You will need to enter your NetID and password for access.
To request department-specific training or if you have any questions, please contact Patricia Cox at email@example.com or 662-325-0620.


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Home of the MinGW and MSYS Projects
MinGW, a contraction of "Minimalist GNU for Windows", is a minimalist development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications.
MinGW provides a complete Open Source programming tool set which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows applications, and which do not depend on any 3rd-party C-Runtime DLLs. (It does depend on a number of DLLs provided by Microsoft themselves, as components of the operating system; most notable among these is MSVCRT.DLL, the Microsoft C runtime library. Additionally, threaded applications must ship with a freely distributable thread support DLL, provided as part of MinGW itself).
MinGW compilers provide access to the functionality of the Microsoft C runtime and some language-specific runtimes. MinGW, being Minimalist, does not, and never will, attempt to provide a POSIX runtime environment for POSIX application deployment on MS-Windows. If you want POSIX application deployment on this platform, please consider Cygwin instead.
Primarily intended for use by developers working on the native MS-Windows platform, but also available for cross-hosted use, (see note below -- you may need to follow the "read more" link to see it), MinGW includes:
- A port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), including C, C++, ADA and Fortran compilers;
- GNU Binutils for Windows (assembler, linker, archive manager)
- A command-line installer, with optional GUI front-end, (mingw-get) for MinGW and MSYS deployment on MS-Windows
- A GUI first-time setup tool (mingw-get-setup), to get you up and running with mingw-get.
MSYS, a contraction of "Minimal SYStem", is a Bourne Shell command line interpreter system. Offered as an alternative to Microsoft's cmd.exe, this provides a general purpose command line environment, which is particularly suited to use with MinGW, for porting of many Open Source applications to the MS-Windows platform; a light-weight fork of Cygwin-1.3, it includes a small selection of Unix tools, chosen to facilitate that objective.
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Several project affiliated Mailing Lists are available, which you are encouraged to join, and in which you are invited to participate. In particular, there is a general discussion list, email@example.com, for general questions: please use it; do not create wiki pages, or add comments to wiki pages, to ask questions. Information for sign-up, and links to the archives can be found on the mailing lists page. You may search the archives using the "Mail List Search" form found on the right hand side of every http://www.mingw.org page.
Using MinGW for Cross-Hosted Development
While MinGW provides tools primarily intended for use by developers working on the MS-Windows platform, many developers choose to run cross-compiler variants of the MinGW tools, on platforms such as GNU/Linux, to generate applications for deployment on MS-Windows. To facilitate this development model, many Linux distributors provide the necessary cross-compiler tools, derived from the MinGW tool chains; such cross-compiler tool chains are not directly supported by MinGW.org, although we may be able to help out with advice related to the specifics of MS-Windows applications development, common to the use of our own native tool chains and to such cross-compilers.
For those who would prefer to use a cross-compiler tool chain which is supported by MinGW.org, we do provide a set of interactive shell scripts, which will guide you through the process of building a suitable cross-compiler tool suite directly from our sources. However, please be advised that, due to limited manpower resources, we have been unable to update our offering of such scripts to deliver any version of the tool chain which postdates GCC-3.4.5.


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Tips for an Ethical Christmas. Be discerning. Don't Panic.
19 December, 2008
This afternoon sees the start of Christmas panic weekend – offices are closing, works lunches are about to be served, and the early afternoon shops are starting to brim with suited men and women looking for some way of making the last weekend before Christmas just a little bit easier. We Brits go for ethical Christmas gifts quite a bit now, but wherever you're from the approach you can take to buying ethical gifts should be the same. Here are a few random tips and items that we have collected for you to think about today:
1) Bring your own bags.
2) Stay Christmassy! (we're talking about having ethical fun)
3) Appreciate the value of giving different gifts, or gifts with a twist – Children and adults both like new toys too!
4) Be discerning. Take a little time to think and appreciate what you can learn about ethical retailers, about the ideas and suggestions of others, and your real wishes for Christmas cheer.
5) Don't Panic! If you can't manage 100% ethical christmas this year don't let it mean you stop trying. What can you do after Christmas? Have you found ethical birthday presents too? Have you seen ethical ideas you can use every day? Can you make ethical consumption a regular thing and not just for Christmas?
Green labelling and regulation needs to be 'owned' by all of us…
19 December, 2008
Where does your Christmas Tree come from and do you care?
Today's Advent Calendar entry – 19th December – will make you consider just that, as well as how we interact with our own government's ethical legislation…
Standards for 'ethical' and 'fair' can vary!
18 December, 2008
A compact but terrific intervention today in NJfC's Advent Calendar for 18th December, which reminds us not to take the attractiveness of 'fair trade' or 'ethical consumption' at face value. It's worth being discriminating, and today's entry includes a tipsheet on just how to do that!
Edible Ethical
18 December, 2008
News from Devon – yes, the BBC local newsroom which seems to be in overdrive this time of year – that a company in Tiverton has developed an ethical Christmas card which is edible, rather than biodegradable.
Photos from our December event
18 December, 2008
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Our NJfC Christmas e-Card – From us to YOU
12 December, 2008
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12 December, 2008
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Television host Jeff Foxworthy of CBS' new summer reality series "The American Baking Competition" guest co-hosts THE TALK, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 on the CBS Television Network. Jeff Foxworthy, from left, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler, Sheryl Underwood and Sara Gilbert, shown. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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NEW YORK—Neil Patrick Harris will be back for his fourth turn as host of the Tony Awards.
Producers of the show announced Thursday that Harris, a stage veteran and star of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, will host the 67th annual awards to be presented June 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The show will air live on CBS.
In a statement, Harris said he was excited to be back hosting the Tonys, adding: "The show will rock!"
The 39-year-old Harris has starred in three Broadway productions, including Assassins, Proof and Cabaret.


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text: Programs encouraging teenagers to develop healthy eating habits have popped up all over the country in recent years: "Project EAT (Eating Among Teens"), "Eat, Think and Be Active!" and "The Power of Choice: Helping Youth Make Healthy Eating and Fitness Decisions," to name a few.They don't seem to be helping. A five-year study by the University of Oklahoma's School of Public Health shows 80 percent of U.S. teens are eating their way to heart disease. Looking at more than 5,000 teens, the study found less than 1 percent of those surveyed ate a diet considered ideal for preventing cardiovascular disease. The American Heart Association, which published the study, called the results "unacceptably high." No kidding. The Heart Association leadership calls for "broad social and cultural changes" as the only way to keep the United States from ever-increasing health care costs as today's teens become tomorrow's middle-aged adults. The association has set a goal of reducing deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20 percent by 2020. It will be a stretch. Just slowing the growth of obesity would be significant. But so far nobody has figured out how to get teenagers to exercise regularly -- even a brisk walk a day would do wonders -- and replace fast-food, pizza and soft drinks with fruit, vegetables and whole grains, at least most of the time. All the health insurance reform in the world won't bring down health care costs if America's teens -- not to mention their parents -- don't take better care of themselves. (c)2013 the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) Visit the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) at www.mercurynews.com Distributed by MCT Information Services


text: The exhibition "CAGE" by Chinese artist Li Hui will be shown at the Ernst Schering Foundation's Project Space on Unter den Linden. In his works, Li Hui creates unreal situations that have a dreamlike quality. In the exhibition room, the visitor is temporarily and randomly surrounded by a cage made of laser beams. Hui uses the cage, which encloses but does not harm the visitor, to explore individual boundaries and demonstrate how people are influenced by purely optical though physically irrelevant barriers. Visitors are confronted with both a liminal and a powerful visual aesthetic experience. The installation not only makes the visitor "inside the cage" examine his or her feelings, the "outside" observers, too, can watch the experiment and behavior of "those trapped inside."


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New Mexico Tech Signs Contract with Telescope Manufacturer
By Thomas Guengerich
SOCORRO, N.M., July 31, 2008 – New Mexico Tech has awarded a $3.3 million contract option to Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems, or AMOS, of Liège, Belgium, to build the first telescope for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI) telescope.
Right: from left are Carlo Flebus, Pierre Gloesener, Colby Jurgenson, Michelle Creech-Eakman and Jean-Pierre Chisogne. MRO Interferometer Project Scientist Michelle Creech-Eakman led the New Mexico Tech contingent at the SPIE conference in Marseille. In photo, she and Tech instrument specialist Colby Jurgenson visit with three representatives of AMOS, the Belgian firm that is building the telescope mounts.
"This is a major event. I'm very excited," said interferometer project manager Eric Bakker. "This will drive our entire schedule. The first telescope will arrive in less than two years and will provide us with the tools to look at starlight for the first time."
New Mexico Tech and the University of Cambridge are the two main collaborators in the design and construction of the interferometer. Already, Tech has received more than $52 million for the observatory, which also includes a 2.4-meter optical telescope.
Tech and Cambridge scientists will periodically visit the AMOS facility in Belgium and company representatives will periodically visit Socorro over the next 18 months.
The interferometer will use a three-mirror telescope that will boost the efficiency of the telescopes and reduce the amount of light loss.
"Most telescopes have five to nine mirrors," Bakker said. "With each reflection you lose light to scatter or absorption. The fewer mirrors you have, the higher the throughput and the more photons enter the vacuum pipes."
"We made an important decision in May 2007 to use telescopes that only need three reflections to get light into the vacuum pipes," program director Cormier said. "We could have bought more telescopes with the money, but they would have had more reflections."
Dr. David Westpfahl is the chief scientist for both telescopes and chairman of the Department of Physics. He said with each reflection, a telescope loses 2 to 4 percent of the light. The MRO interferometer telescope will have a total of three reflections on the telescope and two more sending the light into the vacuum system, which will result in light loss of about 10.5 percent. The system architects maintain a detailed "throughput budget" that accounts for every reflection loss and optical wavefront aberration in the interferometer, Creech-Eakman, interferometer project scientist said.
In contrast, a telescope with 10 mirrors before the vacuum pipes – which is an average number – loses about 34 percent of its light, Westpfahl said.
After entering the vacuum pipes, the light reflects off another 14 optics before completing the beam-combining process and producing an image.
Phase A for the facility calls for six 1.4-meter telescopes and infrared observing capabilities. Phase B includes another four telescopes and the addition of optical capabilities.
Stellar interferometry combines light from multiple telescopes to form "interference fringes." A complex optical system with multiple light reflections from the light-collecting surfaces to the detectors measures these fringes.
At full capacity, beams from the 10 telescopes will be combined in a 190-meter long facility that includes more than 2 kilometers of aluminum pipe. The facility will mimic the resolving capabilities of a telescope that is up to 340 meters in diameter.
The interferometer is expected to see first light in early 2010. Project leaders hope that they will have "first fringes" – which requires two telescopes – in late 2010.
"Ultimately, the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer has one main goal – producing very-high-resolution images of faint astronomical targets," Creech-Eakman said. "The facility will be capable of producing images with resolution 100 times greater than the Hubble Space Telescope."
Magdalena Ridge Observatory facility will employ a variety of new technologies that are revolutionizing interferometry. Tech and Cambridge scientists unveiled several of their breakthroughs in late June at an optics conference in Marseille, France.
Westpfahl was the initial champion of bringing an interferometer to New Mexico Tech.
"It's been a long haul," Westpfahl said. "We consider our start date October 5, 1995. It's been 13 years to get here."
The project has overcome several challenges, including the dissolution of the initial consortium of university partners. One technical challenge was devising an appropriate bid package. In 2005, the Tech team requested proposals to construct the entire telescope assemblage – telescopes, mirrors and protective domes. That attempt yielded no acceptable bids.
On a second attempt, Tech solicited three separate bids for the mounts, mirrors and protective domes. That move led to the working relationship with AMOS. An Albuquerque company, Optical Surface Technologies, is building the mirrors. The bid for the protective domes has not yet been awarded.


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Sioux Falls Firefighters In Training [VIDEO]
If you drove by Augustana College in Thursday, you're probably wondering why all the fire trucks and emergency vehicles were stationed there. There was no fire. This was an intense fire training exercise at Granskou Hall.
I had the opportunity to enter a smoke filled room on the 6th floor with Rick Tupper, Augustana College Security Director. Check out the video with Rick. In just seconds, I was disoriented and confused...unable to know what to do. My mind was on panic mode.' Imagine if this was indeed a real fire!
What I experienced in this simulation exercise is what our firefighters encounter every time they enter a smoke filled room. It is literally a matter of life and death!
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Vindaloo FartThursday, February 9th, 2012
Featuring Remy Sharp, Tantek Celik and Bruce Lawson, today's comic would make the perfect premise for a sitcom. I think "Three Developers and a Squirrel" would have a very nice ring to it. The comic also looks at the stinky mess we're going to put ourselves into if we fail to recognize the problems of the past so that we can avoid repeating them.
In a move that threatens to undo over a decade of hard work to drag web development out of the horrors of the "Great Browser War" and educate developers to make forward-compatible, standards-compliant websites, the CSS Working Group recently discussed the idea of all browsers adopting -webkit CSS properties. Yep, you heard that right. IE, Opera, Firefox… all using -webkit properties.
This step appears to be intended to guarantee that their browsers will properly render websites being made by short-sighted developers who only bother using -webkit properties for advanced and experimental features in their websites even when the other browsers have their own test implementations such as -o, -moz and -ie.
Short version: They're considering giving up and handing the browsers of the world over to a bunch of standards-blind morons for short term compatibility gains in exchange for long term problems that will make the current version of Webkit be the IE6 of tomorrow.
I'm not a member of the old guard. In the nineties I was in high school and pretending to be in college while making personal websites that were just short of visually hideous but definitely counted as nauseating. I didn't know better. But thanks to the efforts of too many dedicated and educating web developers to name I was exposed to the concept of "web standards" and went about the process of learning how to do things properly.
I also landed a sweet job at Mindfly and became a member of the professional web world. All thanks to web standards.
As someone who's been working on websites professionally for the past five years I've had my share of struggles with IE6 compatibility. I hate that browser more than I hate most other things on the planet. Intellectually I know it was the bee's knees in its era. I don't care. Its era was a long time ago and being forced to keep sites compatible with it due to the lack of standards in its era is a direct cause of hundreds of hours of suffering on my part. I'm grateful that it is now all but extinct, letting me concentrate on dealing with modern or near-modern browsers with a lot less cussing, sweating and crying.
As it stands now, Webkit is a pretty decent browser engine. Chrome is snappy. I like it. I'm using it right this second. But it's also only as good as it is today. If we stop bothering to properly style our websites with a forwards-compatible approach, using all available browser extensions for experimental properties as well as the non-extension version of the properties for when they becomes available, then we're daft. We will be putting ourselves at risk of making today's Webkit the rotting zombie in the room that we'll be screaming at in terror ten years from now. We, or developers after us, will be wasting countless hours and drinking more heavily in response to dealing with thousands of poorly-made websites that require compatibility with the -webkit properties we shortsightedly hung everything upon.
We need to stop this.
Need more information? Need inspiration on how to help? Lucky for you I've got a list:
- Read Daniel Glazman's Call For Action. He's co-chair of the CSS Working Group, and he knows that this is a very bad thing that needs to be stopped. He even suggests how to do it.
- Also read Remy Sharp's article on the topic and his suggestions on how to help.
- Take direct action and help Chris Heilmann Pre-fix the Web, rooting out Github projects that have gone down the dark side and get them forked back into the light.
- Get Bruce Lawson's perspective on the vendor prefix issue, taking advantage of the wisdom he's gained in trying to educate against this exact sort of problem. Also see the first reference of the dreaded vindaloo fart.
- And please read Eric Meyer's pessimistic, but perhaps realistic, assessment of the issue in Unfixed.
Whatever you do, don't be apathetic. Don't think to yourself that -webkit only sites are professional or even remotely acceptable. Because they're not. It takes very little effort to guarantee forward-looking, cross-browser websites with the vast majority of most modern CSS properties. Doing anything less for the sake of ease is lazy, unprofessional, and going to cost someone a lot of money and effort in the future.
If you do decide to only use -webkit prefixes, watch out, because Bruce Lawson will vindaloo fart on you.


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In addition to weight manage, there are significant overall health advantages to typical physical exercise including lowered incidence of heart attack, diabetes, and stroke. I honestly did not consider I'd ever see the day exactly where a particular person would try to make the argument that exercise doesn't help in weight loss. The muscle also helps tone your body so that you never have a bunch of sagging skin hanging off your bones just after you've lost weight. Weight bearing workouts also help build stronger bones which you are going to need as you age. Diet program drinks and sugar substitutes have essentially been shown to bring about weight achieve.
I am not a perfect eater, but I'm way better than I utilized to be. My nutritionist advised that my protein intake was not sufficient. So I enhanced it. I treat†myself once a week, and nevertheless handle to remain inside my recommended every day calorie intake. B)Not eating all of your calories in 1 day (i.e recommended intake 1400, but net cals are 1250) with cals left over to eat for that day, carrying out this practically just about every day, sooner or later getting a deficit of 3500 total calories more than the span of a week or a lot more.
I have attempted each and every eating plan out there and i consider i am about to give up. I have strongly regarded surgery in order to loose weight but i think i will attempt your work out routine before i do Wish me luck! Hi Melanie, if you are aiming to obtain muscle ten reps must be very good, and yes you can go a littler higher on the 1st set and then enhance weight and lower reps on consecutive reps.
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text: Really nice work from Australian artist Abbey McCulloch. There's almost a fashion illustration vibe with these paintings, which feature female figures staring at you from eyes weighed down with heavy makeup. And so often when an artist does cite fashion illustration as an influence, what they really mean is straight up fashion illustration placed in a gallery setting. That wouldn't be the case with McCulloch's work, whether she drew direct inspiration from the realm of fashion or not. Her palette selection is so good. And the expressions on her subjects' faces, captured with just a few brushstrokes, are uncommonly evocative. Click past the jump to see more. (via)