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Viz wrote:the only good news on espn are the sharks. just want to watch the sharks keep rolling... too bad there isnt as many sharks fans on here but then again this is a warriors forum hahah... at least some of us can go to this thread and talk about a great team. Ill have my bag of popcorn ready for thursday's big gameLinc Mob wrote:Viz, I feel you.
The Sharks have been my saving grace in regards to sports the last few months.
I've been quiet on the Warriors thus far this year since I haven't seen a lot of their games and the ones I have were straight depressing.
Sharks play tonight at 4:00 PM Pacific against Columbus. Game is listed as viewable on NHL Center Ice. However last game against the Kings was available on Yahoo live, so I'm hoping the same for tonights game.
Game against the Red Wings is in Det. 4:30 PM start on CSN. Doesn't list as being on HD though.
I'm just happy people are talking sharks. I thought for sure this thread would be dead by now. thanks guys.
I'm hoping for a lopsided win tonight so the boys can be rested for tomorrow night. Interesting quote by McLellan, basically he noted that the Wings were tired and hurt going into the tank last time. This time, the sharks are going to be playing their 3rd game in 4 nights and are a little banged up. it's gonna be a great test for this team.


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Feminist cosplay specialist Gloria Allred held another press conference yesterday where she announced the plight of her newest client — 29-year-old Lauren Odes, who was told by her employers that she was "too hot" to see lingerie and that she should tape her breasts down.
Odes says that two days after being hired to work at a Garment District, she was told to wear a red bathrobe (she helpfully submitted a cell phone photo of herself in said bathrobe, as evidence that she once wore a bathrobe). After she refused to tape her breasts down for work, the religious owners of the store said that her body was simply too boobalicious for them, and fired her.
Allred, of course, was in top cryface form, walking into the press conference with her arm around Odes's waist, like she was her gymnastics coach and Odes had broken her ankle in the last vault before Team USA won the gold medal. She managed to refrain from petting Odes's hair, hugging and rocking her, or presenting her with "Fuck those assholes!" gift basket containing a bottle of white wine, a copy of a Kate Hudson film, and a bag of Dove Promises.


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"The Abs Diet" is a book written by Dave Zinczenko, the current Editor-in-Chief of "Mens Health magazine." Although the ultimate goal of the Abs Diet® is to help individuals define their abdominal muscles, Zinczenko encourages individuals to adopt eating patterns and a lifestyle that are conducive to achieving physical fitness. Exercises focusing on the abdominal muscles are combined with eating patterns to assist adherents in losing weight.
While the title of Zinczenko's book implies that adherents will develop all of the abdominal muscles in suggested exercises, the focus is actually on developing the rectus abdominis muscles. The development of these muscles is a key component of the exercises, including abdominal muscle crunches, in this diet. This muscle group runs in four equidistant parallel lines on both sides of the anterior abdomen.
As the editor of "Men's Health" magazine, Zinczeno has been able to attract considerable attention for his eating plan. The diet's eating and exercise plan is based on the American popular culture conception that defined abdominal muscles may render a male more sexually attractive.
"The Abs Diet" is written to appeal to health and appearance-conscious young and middle-aged men.
The Abs Diet® encourages people to eat a balanced diet as recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), rather than eliminating commonly accepted principles of nutrition to lose weight. However, no higher quality studies have been conducted on the efficacy of the Abs Diet® to help the patient achieve a state of physical fitness or to lose weight.
The goal of the Abs Diet® is to achieve lifelong weight loss. However, the immediate focus of the diet is to increase the physical prominence of the rectus abdominis muscles.
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Many of the "power foods" are high in fiber. Daily intake of 3 grams of soluble fiber from oats or 7 grams of soluble fiber from psyllium has been shown to lower blood cholesterol levels. A diet high in soluble fiber may reduce total serum cholesterol and LDL ("bad cholesterol") by as much as 15%. By forming a gel, water soluble fibers may stay in the stomach longer and help slow food absorption. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently authorized food companies to use a health claim for soluble fiber from both psyllium and oats. For example, the new claim for psyllium states, "Soluble fiber from foods with psyllium husk, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease."
There is extensive scientific evidence suggesting that regular exercise offers major health benefits. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the failure to exercise regularly is a significant precursor to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer. Exercising on a regular basis is one of the most inexpensive and easiest measures a person can take in order to reduce their risk and/or delay the onset of serious illnesses. In general, the type and intensity of exercise performed is not necessarily as important as simply completing the exercise. However, the increased prominence of abdominal muscles is apparently a desired result of specific exercises in the Abs Diet® .
A 2006 article in "The American Journal of Nursing" reviewed a series of popular weigh loss and diet strategies. The article found that controlling portion size was a crucial element of diet success. Further, the article stressed the importance of the patient's dedication to behavioral change necessary to sustain long-term changes in exercise and eating routine.
A 2007 article in the "Mayo Clinic Proceedings" stated that treatment of obesity requires the physician and patient to tackle diet, physical activity, and behavioral issues. In some cases, medication and surgical treatments not discussed in the Abs Diet® may be warranted.
A 2007 article in "The Journal of Nutrition" found that an increase in energy use by exercise and a decrease in caloric intake (through an eating routine such as the one described in "The Abs Diet") improves the body's glucose tolerance and insulin action. Such changes in the body metabolism may stave off obesity and pre-diabetes.
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Baker B. Weight loss and diet plans. Am J Nurs. 2006 Jun;106(6):52-9; quiz 60.
Thompson WG, Cook DA, Clark MM, et al. Treatment of obesity. Mayo Clin Proc. 2007 Jan;82(1):93-101; quiz 101-2.
Weiss EP, Holloszy JO. Improvements in body composition, glucose tolerance, and insulin action induced by increasing energy expenditure or decreasing energy intake. J Nutr. 2007 Apr;137(4):1087-90.
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"The Abs Diet" advocates consuming 12 "power foods," which are thought to promote weight loss, build muscle, regulate blood pressure, strengthen bone, prevent heart disease, improve immune functioning, and fight cancer. Followers of this diet build meals and snacks around these foods. This diet recommends that two or three of these foods be incorporated into every major meal, and at least one of them be incorporated into every snack. These "power foods" include nuts, beans and legumes, green vegetables, low fat dairy products, oatmeal, eggs, lean meats, peanut butter, olive oil, whole wheat grains and cereals, whey powder, and berries.
"The Abs Diet" book and website includes recipes as well as healthier alternatives to popular American snack foods. For instance, almonds baked at low temperature with canola oil may be substituted for microwave popcorn.
This diet suggest that readers eat three meals and three snacks a day to "provide the body with continuous energy."
Like most recent diets, the Abs Diet® does not advocate counting calories. Rather, adherents are encouraged to practice portion control and eat the "power foods."
Excessive consumption of alcohol is not encouraged because it increases caloric intake and may inhibit the body's ability to burn fat.
The reader is encouraged to eat whatever they want for one meal a week as a reward for abiding by the diet plan.
The Abs Diet® website and book series directs its readers to engage in strength training, cardiovascular exercise, and abdominal muscle exercises nearly every day of the week. The exercises are done in a circuit format, where the reader exercises continuously through a series of different movements.
The Abs Diet® book series and webpage is aimed at individual readers. However, people who choose the Abs Diet may pay a fee to participate in the online community. A newsletter is also available through the "Men's Health" magazine webpage.
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Faces of the world: Nat Geo photographer's amazing portraits
As the child of a Pan Am flight attendant, award-winning photographer Alison Wright says that her passion for travel was acquired "in utero."
Often on the job for publications such as National Geographic, Smithsonian and Islands, Wright, 50, has traveled to 125 countries.
Her latest book is an unusual step for a travel photographer used to capturing landscapes and dramatic scenes.
"Face to Face: Portraits of the Human Spirit (Schiffer Publications)," due out March 28, is a collection of 184 color portraits of people she's encountered on her travels, from geishas and cowboys to the Dalai Lama and Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
CNN Travel: How often do you travel?
Alison Wright: A lot. I like to be in motion. I'm from San Francisco, but I've been based in Europe, a few years in Australia, a few years in Nepal. I've now been in New York for four years but I'm always out the door. As soon as I moved here I had to shoot three books for National Geographic on London, Great Britain and China, so I wasn't here very much.
Now I'm really in and out, I don't even count how many days, but I'd say at least 200-240 days of the year.
CNN Travel: How do you decide where to travel next?
Wright: Sometimes I get a specific assignment, or I'm asked to go somewhere and I'm not quite sure what the angle is until I get there. Other times it's my own personal project that I shoot and pitch later.
I like photographing travel stories, but I love the meaty in-depth projects.
Travel inspires me while socially conscious issues motivate me.
CNN Travel: Why a book of portraits?
Wright: I have spent a career traveling to the remotest regions of the globe, documenting the traditions and changes of indigenous cultures and people as well as issues concerning the human condition in all its evolving compassion and chaos. The curiosities of humanity will never cease to engage me, but it's the emotive beauty and grace of the human face, in all its diversity, that will never cease to inspire me.
One of the many things I have learned during my years of global travel is that no matter how unique we may look in appearance, from the exotic to the mundane, we basically have the same universal desires and concerns.
This book is a celebration of the spirit within us all. It is what bonds us as mankind, a continued thread, as together we continue on this journey in the pilgrimage of life.
CNN Travel: What travel destinations do you recommend?
Wright: Personally, my heart is in Asia. I love the mellow Buddhist vibe and it's so visually stimulating. I always travel to shoot.
I'm a photographer that travels, not a traveler that happens to photograph.
CNN Travel: Is there a particular country that you make a point of visiting regularly?
Wright: I've been returning to Tibet and covering the Tibetan Diaspora for more than 25 years. My heart breaks for this culture as it continues trying to survive without a land. I feel a little like Edward Curtis, who documented the demise of America Indians, photographing these nomads who will probably not exist for another generation as we know them.
CNN Travel: You also have an affinity for Laos.
Wright: In the year 2000 I was in a devastating bus accident in Laos. If it weren't for the local villagers I would have died.
It's a harrowing story, but after more than 30 surgeries and years of rehabilitation I'm back doing what I love. It brought a whole new empathy to my work and after I wrote my book about the experience, "Learning to Breathe," it prompted me to start my foundation, Faces of Hope Fund, which helps children in crisis around the world through medical care and education.
We've been busy supporting a health clinic in Laos, sending girls to school in India and donating to a rehabilitation center for children in the Middle East. I'm now returning to Thailand to help fund a mobile medical unit for Burmese refugees in Thailand.
CNN Travel: What kind of cameras do you use?
Wright: An array of Nikons, mostly Nikon D3S and D3s now.
CNN Travel: What are some tips for taking a good portrait?
Wright: I think about my backgrounds, look to catch lights in the eyes and try to connect with the person that I'm photographing. I love the challenge of bringing a face to the place, and bringing that universal human connection home.
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Statement by President Barroso on the 2030 Energy and Climate Framework
Press conference with Commissioners Oettinger and Hedegaard
Brussels, 22 January 2014
Today we have agreed on the long-term direction for our energy and climate change policy.
We show how the European Union's leadership in global climate action is beyond doubt and we show that we can do this in a way that is beneficial for the economy. An ambitious and smart "2030 strategy" will contribute to Europe's share in global climate action, but will also help to reduce our costly dependency on import of gas and oil, boost our green technology industry and sustainable growth by providing a stable long-term perspective for our companies to invest.
So this "2030 proposal" is critically important. Climate change is a defining challenge of our time, while a truly European energy policy is key for our competitiveness. What we are presenting today is both ambitious and affordable. It shows that we are beyond the debate where you had to either be "green" or a defender of industry. We believe these two issues are not contradictory, but can perfectly go together if handled smartly.
Let me begin with the main headline figures:
Since we are on track with our 2020 policies, we should build on them and go beyond. We are therefore proposing a binding 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target for the European Union of minus 40% (relative to 1990). That is ambitious, but feasible. 40% is the most cost-effective milestone on the 2050 road map for decarbonizing Europe's economy.
We also set a binding 2030 target for renewables at European Union-level. The goal is at least 27% of energy consumption. It is a function of the 40% target, because we can't reach the greenhouse gas target without a collective effort on renewables.
Having such a European Union renewables objective is also a very important signal to investors who need long-term certainty to make investments, and also a clear signal in terms of our security of supply.
However, we propose not to set national binding targets for renewables anymore, individually from Member State to Member State as we do now; because one lesson we have drawn from experience is that they risk the fragmentation of the internal market and do not allow us to reach the targets in the most cost effective way.
Here we will lead a bottom-up approach, leaving more flexibility to member states. They will work with us to make sure the national efforts add up to the European Union target. This flexibility is possible, because we are in a much more advanced stage of renewables policy than a few years ago. But of course our proposals will make it sure that with the new governance system we will be completely assured that we are going to reach the overall targets at European level.
I would like also to be especially clear on this: Member States remain free to set their own national renewables goals if they so wish; they can continue to support renewables, provided they remain within our state aid rules. And some of them are ready to be more ambitious than others. As you know, regarding the state aid rules, we are currently reviewing them to make sure there are no distortions. Because we have seen in the past that in some countries there were distortions precisely because of these national targets on renewables, including heavy subsidiarisation with sometimes important costs for competiveness and also creating distortion in terms of the internal market.
Thirdly, on energy efficiency, a very important, extremely important part of our efforts, the current 2020 strategy, as you know, does not have a binding target. The new Energy Efficiency Directive foresees a review in mid-2014, so this year. We have considered that we should wait until after this review before we consider the next steps, without prejudging them at this stage. But we have agreed that of course energy efficiency will remain a very important objective of our policies.
Of course, to deliver these targets we will need an overarching EU governance structure to ensure the delivery, maximise coherence, promote the integration of the European energy market, boost supply security and provide certainty to businesses.
There are first ideas for this in the package that we are now presenting, notably the "national plans" for secure, competitive and sustainable energy. We will develop this in dialogue with Member States and it is wise to leave now some room for discussion. We want this package to be owned by all Europeans. We are now making the proposal, but at the end we need to have the support of the Member States and of course the European Parliament. After that debate, the Commission will make more detailed proposals.
But our 2030 package is not just about numerical targets, even if they are extremely important.
The completion of the internal energy market for both electricity and gas is essential part of our approach. It is estimated that a fully integrated and competitive market could result in cost savings of between 40 to 70 billion euro until 2030. Such progress cannot take place without a properly integrated, modern infrastructure.
That's why, as you know, we have also in the Multiannual Financial Framework proposed this Connecting Europe Facility and in fact we are doing everything we can to support Member States completing the infrastructure because this is one of the real problems we have that limits the possibilities of a true internal market.
Competition on energy markets must be enhanced through the development of energy transport infrastructure - including cross-border interconnectors, that may be more efficient in ensuring security of supply than support for domestic generation capacity. The agreed Projects of Common Interest under the Energy Infrastructure Regulation are an important step for Member States to meet the 10% level of interconnectors as a share of installed production capacity. The Commission will remain particularly engaged on this, especially because, as we know, the costs of some of this programme are different according to Member States, so it is only fair that there is strong attention precisely to have interconnections with the countries that are not yet fully connected to the European energy market.
Our package also deals with the Emissions Trading Scheme which is one of the keys to reaching our greenhouse gas reduction goals. Today we are tabling draft legislation amending the Emissions Trading Directive to tackle the supply-demand mismatch in the ETS. This will give predictability for the regime post 2020. To be clear on one point: we do not intend to change the market-based nature of the ETS - we want an automatic stabilizer. And even if only to be implemented afterwards we believe we should already now make the legislative proposal, precisely for the reasons that I have mentioned, of certainty for investments.
And we are also dealing with the sensitive issue of shale gas. As you know, shale gas is now, in many ways, changing in a dramatic way the landscape of energy, at least in some parts of the world, also with very important consequences in terms of relative competitiveness. Today we are proposing a Communication and Recommendation on shale gas that balances the right of Member States to decide whether or not to exploit shale gas with the need to draw a Europe-wide baseline of environmental and safety rules. So this is an enabling framework on the basis of the existing acquis. This is not new legislation.
This is a good demonstration of the role that the European Union should play: setting the cross-border rules for the environment, health and safety, but not meddling in the basic energy mix that is to be chosen by Member States.
Finally, we are also publishing a detailed analysis of energy costs and their drivers, which contain very important, interesting and useful facts on the real reasons of rising EU energy costs, and on what we can do at the European level. We need to halt the constantly rising energy costs for households and business. Many factors are at play – we'll see them clearly in that very important study – but I want to see a serious effort made to make our energy as cost effective as possible. And you will see that a big part of the costs are the result of the fact that we don't have yet a really integrated internal energy market and that with very different policies of support from Member States this creates additional costs, not only on taxation, but also because of the fact that there is not for instance a proper interconnection.
Let me conclude on why we are doing this now.
It is in everyone's interest that we provide predictability for investors, that we complete the internal energy market and that we tackle import dependency. This is our internal reason to act. 2020 is basically around the corner so we need already to prepare for 2030, we need to launch the debate now.
But there are also very strong international reasons for coming forward with a 2030 proposal now, precisely to shape the global debate. We are the first to come now with concrete and ambitious proposals for the future. As you know, in 2015, France will host the key UN climate conference in Paris (COP-21). The EU will need to make the first formal commitments, ideally in spring 2015. UNSG Ban Ki-moon will hold a climate "leaders' summit" this September, for which we need a first position. Coming with our proposals now, having already as we have now requested a debate on this in the European Council in March we will enable Europe to keep the leadership role and also to help shaping the global climate action.
What we are presenting to you today is a package that is the result of thousands of hours of work. I really want to thank Commissioners Oettinger and Hedegaard and their services for the very important work they have done, in very close cooperation, and I was happy to be able to support that cooperation. From an expert point of view, there is an incredible input in this package. Trying to see – and you are going to see that in the documents we are going to deliver to you – all the different options, assessments and models, so we can have a truly European and informed debate.
We believe that this package for Climate and Energy is ambitious but realistic. And I am sure it will now launch the "2030 debate" among Member States, the European Parliament and stakeholders. I would like to ask Günther and Connie to give you more details on the specific proposals on what is indeed a very important package that we are proud to present to you today.
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"The reason she ought to be president, over and above her vision and her plans is that she has proven in every position she has ever had in life, whether it was in elected office or not, that she is a world-class genius in making positive changes in other people's lives."Making positive changes in other people's lives.... It sounds
World-class genius... Must we talk about that too? Two thoughts:
1. A man calls his wife a genius. Does it mean anything, even if he charges it up with the 90s modifier "world-class"? "World-class" actually detracts from it. If a man tells you his wife is a "great cook," are you more likely to believe it's anything more than the guy's preening about his own stature if he makes it "awesomely great"? If he tells you his wife looks like a model, does your mental image of her improve if he says she looks like a "super model"? A man is bragging about his woman: That places her ever more firmly in the position of his woman.
2. Remember the way people talked about John Kerry in 2004? Supposedly, he had a brilliant mind, full of "nuance" and "complexity." But, as I wrote at the time, the evidence was lacking. There was also some discussion back then about whether smarter actually is better for a President. But some people — dare I say, especially on the left? — are susceptible to the argument that the most intellectually brilliant candidate ought to win. And right now, these poor souls are being massaged by statements like Bill's about Hillary. So where's the evidence?
I've been reading Carl Bernstein's book "A Woman in Charge." Here's a passage:
By tenth grade, Hillary had realized that she was by no means the smartest member of her class, and that to compete at the top level of academic achievement she would have to work harder than others. She was an honor roll student by force of will, intense preparation, and dutiful study. Even with such extraordinary effort, her grade point average was too low to be among the top ten students in her class.Meanwhile, Alan Greenspan's book "The Age of Turbulence" lavishes praise on Bill Clinton for his intellect (especially for his grasp of economics and his perception of how things would change in the future). Greenspan classes Bill Clinton with the smartest of all the Presidents he has known: Richard Nixon. Which brings us back to the point that "smartest" doesn't encapsulate what you really want in a President.
ADDED: I love found humor. I was just Googling around for some talk about the irritating adjective "world-class" — the usage panel does not accept it as "as a vague way of emphasizing magnitude or degree" — and I found this 2005 blog post from Brad Feld:
I heard the phrase "world class" three times today. I've decided to toss it on the scrap heap of "phrases that mean nothing to me anymore." I'm finishing up Friedman's The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century(which is awesome BTW - definitely a world class book – I'll be done on my SF to Chicago trip Thursday night.) It dawned on me that the phrase "world class" isn't indexed against anything. No one ever says, "that's not world class, it's American class."...Of course, Bill Clinton can't be saying of Hillary, "She sucks less." But the truth is that's all most of us expect from a candidate, for them to suck less than the others.
In my first company, we talked briefly (I think about 60 seconds) about creating a mission "to be the best software consulting company in the world." After all the MIT / Brown / Wellesley people in my company laughed ("hey Brad, who gives a damn about a stupid vague unattainable mission like that?"), I / we realized that vapid phrases didn't inspire anything (except internal contempt). It took more than 60 seconds to come up with our mission, which was "We suck less."...
We delivered more often then not. So - while we never achieved that elusive "world class" status, we definitely sucked less most of the time. And - when I wandered down the hallways saying "guys - focus on sucking less - that's the key to our success", people rallied a lot more than if I had shouted "we are going to be world class" from the rooftops.


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These O gauge model trains collected by Bruce Macdonald were made by more than 30 different manufacturers from across Australia and New Zealand between the 1930s and the 1960s.
The O gauge was a popular choice for hobbyists and a number of manufacturers chose to specialise in that scale. The gauge of a train model is measured between the inside edges of the load-bearing rails, with O gauge generally measuring 32 millimetres, at a scale of 1:43.
Austral Railways model trains (from left): New South Wales Railways SBS air-conditioned saloon car, Victorian Railways country passenger car, New South Wales Railways SFS air-conditioned passenger coach, and New South Wales Railways guard/power van. These models were made with pressed metal rooves, wooden chassis and die-cast bogie components, by Frank Slovnic in Sydney, about 1951. Slovnic established Austral Railways in Sydney in the late 1940s. The company produced a range of products for basic tinplate enthusiasts and serious modellers. During the 1950s, Slovnic began to produce detailed rolling stock kits with increasing diversity, until age and hearing problems forced him to give up his shop in 1965. National Museum of Australia
Ferris electric train set in its original box. Jason McCarthy, National Museum of Australia
'Boomerang Milk Express' box car, with wooden chassis, printed cardboard, diecast bogies and printed paper, by Frank Slovnic, Sydney, 1953. National Museum of Australia
New South Wales Railways four-wheel open wagon made of wood, with turned brass wheels, by William Christie, Sydney, about 1938. William Christie began constructing and displaying O gauge items at his Rose Bay home from 1936, moving the sale of model railway material to his umbrella shop in Bathurst Street, Sydney, in 1938. Along with his range of New South Wales rolling stock, parts and accessories, Christie also stocked a range of Fleet products and items produced by Frank Fitzgerald. National Museum of Australia
Solid metal road bridge with side ramps made by FW Strong and associates of Melbourne, in 1949. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1910, Frederick W Strauss established his business as a toolmaker and die caster manufacturing handbag fittings and toys under the name FW Strong in Melbourne from 1946. Working from his home with business partner Rudolph Hersch, Strong produced a range of traffic lights, signs and railway signals for O gauge and HO scale, in die cast metals and plastic. From 1949, Strong's products appeared in boxes with the title 'Bonnie Toys' and an image of a black Scottish terrier – believed to represent the family's pet dog on whom the trade name and mark were based. Strong later produced die cast parts for the automotive industry, until his death in 1966. National Museum of Australia
Box cover for solid metal road bridge with side ramps, made by FW Strong and associates of Melbourne, in 1949. National Museum of Australia
Model train production in Australia
Following the Second World War, local manufacturers responded to shortages in imported products by creating quality toy and model trains for a growing market. During the 1950s and 60s, the Australian toy and scale model train industries prospered, creating products for children and serious collectors.
Australian manufacturers, including Ferris, O Gauge House, Maurlyn and Robilt, produced trains modelled primarily on New South Wales and Victorian rolling stock. While model trains of the 1930s and 40s were often made of wood or simple tin-plate, by the 1950s and 60s complicated and highly detailed pressed sheet metal trains that ran on electric tracks were being mass-produced.
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Lifetime love of trains
Bruce Macdonald received his first train set at the age of five, the start of a lifetime love of trains. As an adult, he was involved in the restoration and conservation of historic full-sized steam-powered engines, including items in the Museum's collection.
During the 1970s, Macdonald returned to his interest in O gauge toys and models and spent decades collecting examples of the main Australian and New Zealand manufacturers.
A member of the Australian Railway Historical Society since 1943, Macdonald is one of Australia's foremost authorities on industrial railways and steam power in both full-size and miniature forms. He wrote Spring, Spark and Steam: An Illustrated Guide to Australian Toy and Model Trains.
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By Charles Darwent
Ten years and nearly $500 million after it shut for renovation, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is finally open. One of the world's great national galleries, it is also, as you'd expect, the best place in the world for seeing Dutch art. If Rembrandt, Vermeer and Frans Hals are your thing, then the elegant new Rijksmuseum is where you need to be.
The old museum was a mess. The Neo-Gothic style of its architect, Pierre Cuypers, was dismissed as too Catholic-looking when the gallery opened in 1885. In the 1920's, Cuypers' flowered wall-paintings and murals of knights and damsels were painted over in cream. By 2003, the Rijksmuseum felt more like a hospital than a world-class collection, and a run down hospital at that. New galleries had been added on piecemeal, so that getting from one to another called for a compass and a good pair of walking shoes.
The new museum's architects, Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz, have done two things. First, they have reinstated Cuypers' lavish designs, training a team of apprentices in wall-painting skills that had been on the point of disappearing forever. Then the Spaniards joined up a pair of disused courtyards and dug deep down beneath them, creating a dramatic central space from which visitors move on to whatever art takes their fancy.
The Rijksmuseum's airy new marble-lined atrium at basement-level is bisected up high by a street-level glass tunnel, testament to the undying love of the Dutch for bicycles. If any country was going to have a cycle lane slap through the middle of its national gallery, then that country was Holland. Objections to the closing of an earlier bike lane had helped fuel the infamous delays. Ortiz and Cruz have turned the cycle-path into a piece of performance art, a never-ending vista of stolidly-pedaling Dutchmen.
Upstairs, the biggest change is in the scope of the work on show. The museum's hang has been broadened, so that there is an Asian Pavilion and a whole floor devoted to the 20th century. In the old days, "art" meant European paintings before 1900. Now, it takes in not just the great Dutch abstract artist, Piet Mondrian, but the uniform worn by a Dutch concentration camp survivor and a First World War FK 23 Bantam biplane designed by a Dutch engineer.
The key word, you'll have gathered, is "Dutch." The aim of the new hang is to show how clever this small and low-lying nation has been, and is, which means starting your visit up on the second floor.
That is where you'll find that great flowering of art known as the Dutch Golden Age. The painters of 17th century Holland – Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Vermeer and the rest – are still the real reason for going to the Rijksmuseum. So, while everything else has been moved around, Rembrandt's great Night Watch has stayed right where it was, in a room of its own at the end of Cuyper's restored Eregalerij, or Hall of Fame.
Walking towards Rembrandt's massive masterpiece – it was even bigger before a bunch of unsentimental Hollanders cut it down in 1715 – has the feel of approaching a high altar. It is meant to. The Louvre's Mona Lisa may be a masterpiece, but it is an Italian masterpiece, not a French one. Walk towards The Night Watch and you hear the gentle toot of the Dutch blowing their own horn. And why not?
If the range of other Golden Age works on show stays largely the same, where and how they are hung does not. In the old Rijksmuseum, paintings and decorative objects – porcelain, furniture, silverware, tapestries – were kept strictly apart, even though many of them had been made at the same time and for the homes of the same people. In the new galleries, the two kinds of art are shown side-by-side.
Turn right at The Night Watch and you'll find yourself in a room full of canvas – paintings of Dutch sea battles by the likes of Willem van de Velde the Younger, but also, smack in the middle of the gallery, a ten-foot scale model of the battleship, the William Rex, in full sail. You sense, as never before, the hold that the sea had over the Dutch, the way maritime trade and war defined what they were. And how it paid for the art of the Golden Age.
That putting-in-context is also new. The old gallery treated art as a thing apart, as though the only purpose in making it had been for it to hang in the Rijksmuseum. The restored gallery makes art part of life. In a room given over to the work of the young Rembrandt, you will find, alongside his heart-stopping self-portrait of 1628, pictures of his friends and fine pieces of glass and silver made by craftsmen he knew. It is a portrait not just of Rembrandt, but of the life he lived, the things he saw; a picture of Dutch-ness.
The Rijksmuseum, Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, is open from 9am to 5pm, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Tickets are €15 / $20, free for children under 18.


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LOS ANGELES - The newest hot young thing in Los Angeles is a guy you can't take your eyes off of. He's well-built, with a winning smile and engaging personality. He doesn't say a lot, preferring to let his performance speak for him.
He's getting rave reviews and is a hit on the Internet. Hollywood isn't after him yet, but if Yasiel Puig keeps this up, opportunities will surely come calling.
Fittingly, the Los Angeles Dodgers' rookie plays for a team co-owned by Magic Johnson, a guy who knew a thing or two about showmanship and style during his NBA days.
The 22-year-old right fielder has shown plenty of both while creating a buzz that had been missing at Chavez Ravine so far this season. Puig was batting .464 with a .964 slugging percentage going into Monday night's game against Arizona.
His first week in the majors was a memorable one, with 13 hits in 28 at-bats, four home runs and 10 RBIs in his first seven games since coming up from the minor leagues. He was named NL player of the week Monday.
Puig electrified the last-place Dodgers with a multi-homer game and a grand slam, and helped them to four wins in seven games, big for a club with a $215 million payroll that has greatly underperformed.
"As long as the team is pulling together, I'm happy to be a part of it," he said in Spanish through a translator.
Manager Don Mattingly loves Puig's personality and enthusiasm for the game, evident by the way he runs hard, whether it's to take up his position in right field or charge around the bases.
"It's just infectious the way he plays," Mattingly said. "Seems like there's a joy in his game. It's the way you're supposed to play. He just looks so fresh."
Puig's splashy debut and the ensuing excitement it's created have drawn comparisons to Manny Ramirez's arrival in Los Angeles in July 2008.
The following month, Ramirez hit .415 with 25 RBIs, nine home runs and 21 runs scored as a section of left field became "Mannywood." He finished fourth in voting for the NL MVP award that season. Eventually, the good times ended when he was suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs.
"I'd seen Manny play and knew what he could do," said Mattingly, then a Dodgers coach. "But this cat is a different animal. The more you see it, the more you believe it."
Puig's talent and the lift he's given to the injury-riddled Dodgers remind some of Angels star Mike Trout and Washington left fielder Bryce Harper, whose breakout seasons boosted their teams.
With center fielder Matt Kemp and left fielder Carl Crawford on the disabled list, the Dodgers called up Puig from Double-A Chattanooga on June 3. Mattingly put him in right field and had him batting leadoff.
Puig turned heads with an amazing throw in the ninth inning of his first game. He caught the ball near the wall and fired a line drive to first base that doubled off the startled runner to end the game with a double play in a 2-1 victory.
The next night, Puig hit two home runs in a 9-7 win. He came down to Earth last Wednesday with an 0 for 4 night that included two strikeouts. But he bounced back the following night with the grand slam, inducing Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, who's seen plenty of remarkable feats, to proclaim, "I don't believe it!"
Puig became just the third player since 1900 with three homers in his first four career games, according to information provided to the Dodgers by Elias Sports Bureau.
Oh yeah, he homered again last Friday.
Puig's ability to speak English is limited, and Mattingly was asked how he communicates with the rookie during games.
"I don't have to communicate, just kind of go," Mattingly said, smiling and putting his hands together in a clapping gesture.
Puig's exploits last week drew four curtain calls. Actor and fellow Cuban Andy Garcia came to check him out. The Dodgers rushed T-shirts and jerseys with his No. 66 into production and had them for sale late last week.
"I'm very happy because the fans are wearing my T-shirt and saying my name," he said.
Even if some of his teammates aren't quite sure how to pronounce it.
Count Skip Schumaker among them.
"There's a different energy from the Cuban," the second baseman said. "He's just been amazing for us and it feels like something is going to happen every time he comes up."
Puig's five-tool skills have dazzled Dodgers fans, who cheer for his speed, power and strong throwing arm. His at-bats are must-see baseball, no matter what the score of the game. He's a free swinger, whether he's putting the ball in play, fouling it off or taking a strike.
"He's up there with an intent to do damage," Dodgers pitcher Ted Lilly said.
Each time Puig comes to the plate, he pauses on the edge of the grass and uses the tip of his bat to draw a cross in the dirt.
"Just giving thanks to God for all the good things he's doing for me," he said.
One week is too soon to tell whether Puig's impact will be a lasting one.
"We'll see how he does six or eight weeks into the season, see what kind of adjustments people make to him and he makes to them," Atlanta pitcher Tim Hudson said.
Rookies often slump when they face pitchers a second and third time during the season.
Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke cautions, "It's early so we'll see how it keeps going. You don't want to give someone too much credit too soon."
The Dodgers gave Puig a lot of money even though only two of their scouts had even seen him.
The 6-foot-3, 245-pounder signed a $42 million, seven-year contract last June, a record for a Cuban defector. He received a $12 million signing bonus and is making $2 million this season.
Puig is the first Cuban to play for the Dodgers since pitcher Danys Baez in 2006 and the first position player since Zoilo Versalles in 1968.
He lives in Miami, where he bought a house for his parents and 17-year-old sister, all of whom attended his big-league debut last week.
Puig's first week heroics may have taken fans by surprise, but the Dodgers knew what he was capable of. They saw his talent in spring training with the big-league club, although he was sent down to start the season, with the front office hoping he could learn the game and hone his hitting away from the spotlight.
Attention found Puig in April when he was arrested for driving 97 mph in a 50 mph zone in Chattanooga, Tenn. On the field, he was hitting .313 with eight homers and 37 RBIs in 40 games before getting called up.
Puig has seemingly adjusted well in the clubhouse, where his corner locker is located between fellow Spanish speakers Luis Cruz and Adrian Gonzalez, whose fatherly advice for the rookie was "just be yourself."
"He's an energetic guy, eager to get on the field, loves the game, always has a big smile on his face," Gonzalez said. "This isn't something he's not prepared for."
Taped above Puig's locker is a photo of a Hanley Ramirez bobblehead with Puig's face superimposed on it. Ramirez's name has been crossed out and Puig's written in.
As he goes out in Los Angeles to search for his beloved Mexican food, Puig is getting recognized and gladly signs autographs for all comers.
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St. Paul, MN--"If it's not invented here, we don't want it." For so many years, that philosophy ruled in countless technology-driven companies, not just in America, but around the world.
My, have things ever changed. In every industry you can name, companies are establishing joint ventures and technical alliances--even with firms that you would think would be tooth-and-nail competitors.
In the past few months, for example, the OEM has witnessed two new major joint ventures in the important elastomers field: 3M's specialty fluoropolymer business has joined together with Germany's Hoechst AG to form a new materials company called Dyneon, headquartered in St. Paul. And in the east, Wilmington, DE, will be home to another new enterprise--DuPont Dow Elastomers.
What brought these global materials giants together? The same reason that is triggering new technical alliances throughout the entire original equipment market: ever-increasing customer demands.
"Specialty elastomers--especially fluoroelastomers--is an area of great technical potential and market growth," says Dyneon President Robert Brullo, "and the bogey keeps getting higher. Customers want us to push the envelope to develop materials that will perform well at temperature extremes, as well as withstand harsh chemicals and other tough environments."
Typical of the customer challenges that both Dyneon and DuPont Dow are tackling: corrosion resistant linings, gaskets, seals, tubes, insulation, and cables for such applications as aerospace, automotive, food processing, off-highway and heavy equipment, chemical processing, industrial pollution-control systems, and medical equipment.
By mustering the combined resources of companies that already are at the forefront in these applications, the new ventures hope to give design engineers and other customers what they want faster, while supporting them in virtually every corner of the globe. Dyneon's operations include R&D facilities in the U.S. and Germany, production in the U.S., Belgium, and Germany, and sales organizations in some 50 countries. DuPont Dow will support 13 plants in the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific and expects to double its sales to $2 billion in the next five years.
DuPont Dow combines DuPont's worldwide marketing muscle in elastomers with Dow's unique INSITE(TM) mettalocene catalyst technology. This technology designs and processes polymers across several variables rather than creating a polymer with a "balance" of properties. The goal: provide polymers that meet the customer's performance requirements rather than asking customers to modify their needs to match what the material can deliver.
Secondly, company officials say that the process yields polymers with highly predictable performance, eliminating much of the trial and error in the development process. Since the materials design process takes place almost entirely on computer, the company can input the necessary physical and rheological performance characteristics and play "what-if" scenarios. All this can speed product development by as much as 70%, according to DuPont Dow.
And development time, as every design engineer knows, is becoming increasingly crucial. Studies by the McKinsey consulting group show that getting a product into the marketplace six months sooner can improve gross profit potential by 33%.
These two new partnerships in the elastomers field are betting big money that they have what it takes to help design engineers trim precious development time, while creating materials that offer distinct performance advantages.


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The holidays are nearly upon us! With Halloween just past, Thanksgiving will be here before we know it. Then, more festivities arrive in December. This all means one thing for most of us…. the potential for overindulging from time to time! Whether raiding your kid's Halloween candy basket or celebrating at your office holiday party, we all fall prey to consuming too much food and drink during the last quarter of the calendar year. Though many of us do try to adhere to healthy eating habits during this time, it's not always practical and certainly not always easy. Eating and drinking too much is hardest on your liver, kidneys and intestines according to a report by FoxNews.com and usually leads to a general feeling of lethargy and discomfort. Too many holiday cocktails can also lead to dehydration and the dreaded hangover.
Did you know that by drinking water, you can rid your body of many of the toxins left residing in your system and rehydrate at the same time? So, when sticking to a healthy diet just isn't an option, consider detoxing with good old fashioned H2O! As a bonus, drinking water can also restore moisture to overly parched winter skin.
It is not necessary to jump on the bandwagon with one of the many detox fad diets that are on the market today. Although the phrase has gained much popularity in the recent years, the truth is that all you need is nature's oldest and purest element, water! The idea is to flush the system with an ample amount of water, usually the old adage 8 glasses per day.
Don't care for the taste of plain water? Not a problem. There are a lot of simple ingredients that can be added to enhance the flavor, plus contribute to additional health benefits. An article on EverydayRoots.com, recommends the following:
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Start with a 2 liter pitcher of purified water; add one or a combination of any or all of the above ingredients. Then refrigerate. The longer you allow it to sit, the stronger the flavors will be. Then, simply serve over ice with added lemon or lime if desired. Drink the entire 2 liters throughout the day to receive the most benefits. This water detox plan is safe to use on a daily basis, as it is completely natural with no harsh additives or chemicals.
Before you start this simple plan, make sure to invest in a quality water filtration system from FiltersFast.com. You may choose from filtered pitchers and water bottles to under sink filtration and whole house filtration systems. Once you have decided on the best way to filter your drinking water, follow this regimen for a few days after overindulging and you should be back to normal in no time. So if you find yourself feeling out of sorts during the holidays this year, just drink up…water that is!


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Monument to Dr. George Stewart Burns d. 1896 by William Kellock Brown (c.1856-1934). Marble. Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow. According to the Mapping Sculpture website, Brown, a sculptor, modeller, and metal worker, was born in Glasgow and "initially trained with his father, then at the Glasgow School of Art and lastly with Lanteri at the Royal College of Art. After spending some years in London he returned to Glasgow to teach modelling, metal work and repoussé at Glasgow School of Art, c.1888-98. From 1892 he had a lively practice and executed numerous commissions in Glasgow and the west of Scotland."
Photograph and research by Robert Freidus. Formatting, text, and perspective correction by George P. Landow. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web a print one.]
"William Kellock Brown." Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Web. 3 May 2011.
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You've done your slide deck; you've even shared it online, on your website or blog or SlideShare (which you can use right on The Eloquent Woman on Facebook). So why bother making your slides into a video? I have seven reasons for taking that extra step:
- Not everyone uses your slide program. Shocking, perhaps, but true. You'll reach a wider audience for this reason alone.
- You'll bring more people "into the room." For absent friends, a video presentation of your slides can help you get your points across directly.
- Let your viewers be lazy. Video advances the slides for them. What could be more appealing in a busy day? You're removing one more barrier to the presentation being seen.
- Speak to the people. Video comes with audio narration options, which adds another dimension.
- It's the gift that keeps on giving. Users can watch your presentation more than once, or share it with their friends if you upload it to YouTube or a similar site. Even if your presentation is only for internal consumption, you can put the video on a shared drive for viewing company-wide.
- Online video is the strongest social media trend, which means any networked speaker should be taking advantage of it. More than 80 percent of Internet users are watching short videos these days, clearly making it the place you want to be.
- You'll find an audience you didn't know you had. Sharing your presentation with a video will make it available to viewers you couldn't anticipate. What if one of them is your future boss, a potential donor or investor, or someone who can introduce you to a new world of contacts?
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Nick Gascoigne
I found the space log linked up through kottke.org a few days ago. It worked pretty well on the iphone too. I found myself drawn into the astronaut's conversation, looking for the more human parts of their dialog amongst the technical.
Great to see an insight into your design process.


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*takes noose off of neck*
Phew! I was getting a little scared for a second.
Dear Steve Ballmer,
Please may I borrow the money you have just sitting around in a non interest-bearing escrow account to buy the Clippers. Just for a month. I'll head to Vegas... take in a SL game or two... have it back to you in plenty of time to buy the team.
When is this gonna be over with? It's taking WAY to long.


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Maison Margiela
Martin Margiela is a designer whose work occupies a unique position in the contemporary fashion world. The consistency of his vision has made him one of the most influential and iconoclastic designers of the last decade. Born in Limbourg, Belgium in 1959, he studied at the Royal Academy Antwerp, and was one of the first wave of talent to emerge from the city in the early 1980s (known as the 'Antwerp Six'). In 1984 he began a 3-year assistantship with Jean Paul Gaultier. He then founded his own enterprise, 'Maison Martin Margiela' in Paris in 1988 showing his first womenswear collection (Spring-Summer 1989) that year.
Margiela staged his first collections in unusual locations such as an abandoned metro or a circus tent. The fashion press labelled his fashion mood 'deconstruction' - an attempt to disclose the process and craft of making clothes. Martin Margiela eschewed the cult of personality that surrounds many designers and instead fostered a 'cult of impersonality', a further deconstruction of the conventions of the fashion industry. His appointment as head designer of Hermes womenswear in 1997, a time when big name appointments were in profusion, was considered very refreshing.
In 2000 the first Margiela shop opened in Tokyo, followed in 2002 by Brussels and Paris. Each carry the full range of Margiela products including footwear (label '22'), publications and objects. Margiela has participated in many exhibitions, including an ambitious installation as part of 'Radical Fashion' at London's Victoria & Albert Museum in 2001.
In December 2009, a press release was issued to say that Martin Margiela had left the brand that he had created.
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By Russ Finley on Aug 7, 2016 with 3 responses
First Annual Clean Energy Forum at the Columbia (nuclear power) Generating Station
I was recently invited to attend the first annual Clean Energy Forum, hosted by Energy Northwest in Richland, Washington, which included a tour of the Columbia Generating station.
The Tour
We were greeted at the security gate by three polite security guards who inspected the bus and checked our photo IDs against a list. This level of security isn't unique to nuclear power stations. You would have to go through a similar procedure to take a tour of Hoover dam. We also had to leave our cell phones on the bus (which would also be the case should you ever get the chance to take the highly recommended Boeing, Everett factory tour). CONTINUE»


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Pictured from left to right: Gene Marino, Gerri and Denise
This week, WebUndies.com donated over 500 pairs of pajamas to a wonderful organization, Pajama Program. Two of the WebUndies.com owners, Gene and Ruth Marino made the trip to Red bank, New Jersey with a car full of boxes! They are pictured above with Gerri & Denise, of the New Jersey chapter of the Pajama Program.
WebUndies.com has experienced fantastic growth over the last 14 years and we are in the process of expanding our warehouse & fulfillment space (again). Rather than relocate all of our products, our partners pored over the list of products and selected items for donation. The big question was who should be on the receiving end. Terri Hunsinger, also a partner at WebUndies.com, had been following the Pajama Program's efforts for several years and felt the organization was a great fit.
According to the official Pajama Program purpose, Pajama Program provides new pajamas and new books to children in need, many who are waiting and hoping to be adopted. These children live in various situations including group homes, shelters and temporary housing facilities and are shuffled often from one place to another. Many of them have been abandoned, abused or neglected. Most of these children have never enjoyed the simple comfort of having a mother or father tuck them in at bedtime with warm, clean pajamas and a bedtime story. How could we resist?


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Telescope Officially Donated to Etscorn Observatory, Oct. 30, 2008
By Thomas Guengerich
Right: New Mexico Tech astrophysics senior Krista McCord with the 20-inch Dobsonian telescope at Etscorn Observatory.
SOCORRO – The Etscorn Observatory at New Mexico Tech – thanks to two donors – is officially the owner of the mainstay telescope that had been on loan for many years.
Physics Department Chair Dave Westpfahl and an anonymous donor provided the money for the university to purchase a 20-inch diameter, six-foot long Dobsonian telescope.
"I'm really fond of it and I'm glad we're keeping it," doctoral student Jason Speights. "In astronomy, size matters. With a 20-inch mirror, it's really useful for viewing faint, fuzzy things."
Westpfahl said the telescope belonged to a former member of the local Astronomy Club who had moved away from Socorro. Ken Mason was an amateur astronomer who owned the telescope, but stored the Dobson scope at Etscorn and allowed the university and community members to use it.
Mason recently decided to sell the telescope and Westpfahl was quick to enlist the support of the club and the university to purchase the item.
The facility is named after former Tech professor Dr. Frank Etscorn, who invented the nicotine patch. An avid astronomer, Etscorn made the initial donation that funded the construction of the observatories first buildings.
The Dobsonian telescope is optimized for viewing and is not attached to scientific instruments or photographic equipment, Westpfahl said. The 20-inch diameter makes the Dobson rather large for amateur astronomy. It's six-foot length requires observers to use a step-ladder to access the eyepiece.
Krista McCord is a senior astrophysics major and the president of the Astronomy Club. She said she likes using the Dobsonian because it's very convenient.
"We can move it with our hands and see objects with our eyes," she said, "instead of computerized controls and looking at pictures."
Left: New Mexico Tech doctoral student Jason Speights shows off the 20-inch Dobsonian telescope, which is the workhorse instrument at the Etscorn Observatory. Speights teaches the astrophysics labs that focus on using telescopes.
Klinglesmith and Westpfahl both said the Dobson is also an important teaching tool for university students.
"We use it to teach students how to find things in the sky," Klinglesmith said. "That's an art that is being lost with these fancy, new telescopes. With new computerized equipment, you type in a name and the telescope finds it. This is a good tool for teaching students how to use optical equipment."
The Etscorn Observatory is important because it's the home to the astronomy club and it's provides popular activities for students, Westpfahl said. "It's a place where we popularize science and we take science to the community."
Astrophysicist Dr. Daniel Klinglesmith said the Dobsonian is the single most important outreach tool for bringing astronomy to the community.
"In real estate, it's location, location, location," Klinglesmith said. "In telescopes, it's aperture, aperture, aperture. The 20-inch Dobsonian is physically the largest one we have at the Etscorn Observatory. It makes a big impression on people. I get lots of, 'Oh, gee! Wow!' reactions when people look through it and see planets, the moon or galaxies."
"The planets [in the solar system] look amazing," Speights said. "They almost look like cartoons. People ask us if what they're seeing is real because it looks like something you'd see on a TV show."
This telescope has been the mainstay of the observatory's outreach activities for years. The facility hosts more than 1,000 visitors each year, during monthly community star parties and events held in conjunction with other festivals, like the Festival of the Cranes. The observatory is hosts school groups regularly as well.
"Think of a public night and a family comes to the observatory," Westpfahl said. "Everybody sees Saturn and its rings for the first time – not just a picture, you really see it."
Speights said youngsters get a real kick out of climbing up the stairs and looking in this behemoth of a telescope. University students really like the Dobsonian too. Speights, who teaches astronomy labs to undergraduate, said astrophysics majors virtually live at Etscorn during their junior year.
"Etscorn is a beautiful facility with multiple telescopes in multiple buildings," Westpfahl said. "The Dobsonian telescope has its own dome and is a true asset."
The Etscorn Observatory is largely run by students. Speights and McCord are among the select few who have keys to the facility. Both students came to New Mexico Tech – both from Texas – because of the astrophysics department and the university's superior equipment.
McCord found an interest in astronomy as a youngster. By the time she was in high school, she knew she wanted to study astrophysics. As she began looking at colleges, she was especially swayed by the research opportunities offered at Tech for undergraduate students.
Speights said very few – if any – universities in the nation have comparable telescopes and observing facilities.
The Dobsonian is mounted inside a 16-foot diameter dome. Other telescopes include a 6" Takahashi refractor scope, a 14-inch Celestron and three 13-inch portable Dobsonians. Most of the telescopes are permanently mounted in their own domes.
The observatory is used for astrophysics observation laboratory classes, using Dobsonians and other telescopes equipped with cameras and spectrometers.
In his astronomy lab, Speights teaches students how to use all the telescopes at Etscorn. Among the lab activities is a "scavenger hunt," in which students have a list of things to find in the skies.
"The 20-inch telescope is by far their favorite," he said. "They practically arm-wrestle each other to use it."


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st: Fw: ADO file for ML estimation and temporary variables
Daniele Pacifico <firstname.lastname@example.com>
st: Fw: ADO file for ML estimation and temporary variables
Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:20:30 +0000 (GMT)
Dear Stata users,
I am trying to write an ado file for a maximum likelihood estimator and I hope
you can help me with a problem I found..
Let's assume I have an ado file called "newcmd1.ado" that should perform
some manipulations of the variables in "varlist"..
Here is the syntax:
program newcmd1
newcmd1 varlist [if] [in], etc...
Note that "newcmd1.ado" is not an estimation command.. It just performs
manipulations of existing variables..
At some point, this ado file calls another ado file - "newcmd2.ado" - that
should perform the maximisation of a likelihood function.
The results of this maximisation will be used WITHIN "newcmd.ado" (the first
one) once the
likelihood has been estimated (by using newcmd2.ado).
Hence, in the middle of "newcmd1" it appears the syntax for the other ado file
newcmd2 varlist2 [if] [in], etc..
Since this is an estimation file, we also need "newcmd2_ll", which contains
the ml evaluator..
Okay, the first problem is how to pass the temporary variables that
"newcmd1" creates before calling "newcmd2" into the ml evaluator contained
in "newcmd2".. Importantly, these variables are EXTRA variables with respect to
those in "varlist2", i.e. the equation that I want to compute the
parameters of (see the syntax of newcmd2 above for "varlist2"..).
More crucially, these "extra" temporary variables should also be read WITHIN
newcmd2_ll.. but this seems really impossible!
Here is an example of my problem:
In "newcmd1.ado" I create a local variable `age' and a local scalar `ls'.. both
these elements will be needed within "newcmd2.ado"..
In "newcmd2.ado" I specified the syntax line as:
program newcmd2
syntax varlist [if] [in], ncl(real) othervar(varlist)
Hence - in "newcmd1" - I can write this:
local varlist2 `sex educ'
newcom2 `varlist2', ncl(`ls') othervar(`age')
In this way, I manage to pass the elements I need - the scalar `ls' and
the variable `age' - from "newcmd1.ado" to "newcmd2.ado"..
Clearly, in "newcmd2" the scalar `ls' is now called `ncl' and the local variable
`age' is now `othervar'.. (Isn't this a waste of memory by the way?).
Well, these two elements are then used within "newcmd2.ado" to create some NEW
elements: new temporary variables and new local scalars..
So, I would like to copy/exchange these new elements from "newcmd2" to
"newcmd2_ll" since
they enter the likelihood function I want to maximize.. However, neither `ncl'
nor `othervar' can be read within newcmd2_ll... How is it possible? How can I
push a temporary variable created within newcmd2.ado into the ml evaluator
Hope you can help me, I do not know what else I can try!
Thanks in advance,
Daniele Pacifico
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97. OCWs - The lengths (and miles) we'd go for a better life for our family, as proven by these modern-day heroes of the economy. 98. The Filipino artist - From Luna's magnificent "Spoliarium" and Amorsolo's su n-kissed ricefields, to Ang Kiukok's jarring abstractions and Borlongan's haunti ng ghosts, and everybody else in between. Hang a Filipino painting on your wall, and you're hanging one of Asia's best. 99.Tagalog soap operas. From "Gulong ng Palad" and "Flor de Luna" to today's inc arnations like "Mula sa Puso"--they're the story of our lives, and we feel stron gly for them, MariMar notwithstanding. 100.Midnight madness, weekends sales, bangketas and baratillos. It's retail ther apy at its best, with Filipinos braving traffic, crowds, and human deluge to fin d a bargain.


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Saturday, June 13, 2009
My Brute
It's silly and fun. It's basically a Pokemon-type game where you have a fighter and the fighter fights duels. It levels up and gets weapons and abilities. The graphics and style is very well done.
However, look at the sign-up process. It's elegant and streamlined, and is quite beautiful. If you're looking at making a web game or RPG, take a look at what these people do. They don't require you to sign up ahead of time, signing up is done after the fact.
2 comments:
http://kittywraith.mybrute.com if you guys like you can use this link as well :DReplyDelete
- Anonymous2:09 AM, June 21, 2009
Hi all, first of all I would like to congratulate the developers, very good games, beautiful graphics, it may be missing a tutorial for this that have never played the PC version.ReplyDelete
For info the beginning of the game is a long time is taken quickly by other Taules brutes. it is a bit boring coup.
The best way is to choose a good master chatting like mine at the start of games.
it has many bonus:
- Specific chat: tape two shots in a row, bonus vitality, ..
- Animals: bears, wolves, ...
- Weapons: ax, sword, knives, ...
- Bonus: double XP for 3 days, new arenas, ...
I choose the best way to change quickly, is to become "The Brute"
We are already 23 (at 48.39, 36.34 ,..), Come join the clan "BIG UP" by typing "CHBIGHFE"
An email address to join, or I give you tips and tricks to move quickly: firstname.lastname@example.com
Yes We Can


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Texas Fashion Collection - 9 Matching Results
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- Shoes
- Pair of shoes of ivory kid leather. Rounded toes, with stitched detailing on tongues and with applied leather bow at instep with many "loops" creating large "poof". Shoes of ivory kid leather. Short, modified Louis heel covered with same leather. Stamped inside left Shoe: "Mayer & Stern/ Phila. / Centennial / 1776-1876"
- Jacket
- Jacket of black silk satin. The jacket, formed as a basque bodice with typical close-fitting achieved by seaming, has extended front panels and is edged with ivory lace. The jacket is embellished with dark blue velvet and olive brown chenille appliques of floral and leaf forms and black jet beading. Lined in ivory silk satin. Photograph is from the exhibition Haute Couture - The Great Paris Designers, held at The Grace Museum, Abilene Texas, October 17 - December 30, 2000, and shows jacket as displayed with a period hat (Accession #: 1981.015.001) and skirt (Accession #: 1967.025.099).
- Boots
- Pair of boots or "High Button Shoes" of ivory kidskin leather. The shoes, designed with slightly rounded toes, button closed along outer side, with 8 domed leather-covered buttons on each shoe. Edge along buttons is scalloped, as is the upper edge of the boot. The The low, stacked heels are rounded at sides and back, and are curved at front, and taper slightly to base. Left Shoe markings: "Excelsior"
- Child's Dress
- Child's dress of tan flannel with front panel of brown velvet. Long sleeves with 3" cuff of brown velvet. Turndown collar of brown velvet with pointed ends and neckline trimmed in ivory lace; collar partially detaches on right and secures with a hook & eye. Patch pockets at sides of brown velvet. Front panel has 10 tortoise shell buttons to left of panel and right side opening of 11 matching buttons with barred buttonholes. Gored in back with six small pleats at bottom of back. Hem of garment has pleated 4-1/2" border of self trimmed with 1-1/2" band of brown velvet. Lined in tan cotton.
- Child's Dress
- Child's dress of black wool with red paisley trim. Full length dress, with turned down collar of paisley print. Long sleeves with 4" cuffs trimmed in matching paisley print. Center front opening with 15 nonfunctional paisley covered buttons with hook & eyes underneath. Side pockets trimmed in paisley print. Center back panel is gathered at waist to give slight bustle effect and is belted in paisley print with oval buckle in black ribbed fabric. Lined in brown polished cotton.
- Child's Dress
- Child's dress of black & tan woven cotton check/plaid. Full-length, with high, rounded collar. Set in black taffeta full-length sleeves with wide cuffs of the black/tan check, secured with two mother of pearl buttons each. Natural waist. Hem with wide band of ruffled black taffeta and a plain band of black taffeta running slightly above hem. Patch pocket at right hip composed of plaid panels formed as a "vest", with black taffeta ruffle filling in center, and three non-functioning circular mother of pearl buttons on slight curve following edge of "vest" front non-functioning opening. Center back opening with 9 circular mother of pearl buttons and hook & loop at neckline.
- Fan
- Folding fan of bone and satin. Guards and sticks of bone, intricately carved with pierced latticework. Plain off-white silk satin leaf. Chased metal bail ring at pivot with mother-of-pearl beads. Off-white silk tassel tied to bail. Inscribed on silk leaf along one guard: "Hood W. [illeg.] / June 5th /73"; other inscriptions on other guard, too fragile to examine.
- Fan
- Folding fan with mother-of-pearl sticks and guards. Leaf of white needlepoint lace backed3with cream satin. Silver-colored "U" shaped bail ring at bottom.
- Girl's Dress
- Girl's dress of blue calico cotton with white print. Stand up collar. Inset waist with long, gathered skirt. Long sleeves gathered at wrist with drawstrings. Center front opening with 8 button closure. Bodice lined with what may be sugar sack fabric; skirt unlined. Skirt is 33" long with 22" waist.