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DetailsThe NS1000 noise cancelling headphones combine all of Goldring's award winning hi-fi experience with the latest in Active Noise Reduction technology. The noise cancelling isolation attenuates annoying and unwanted background sound, including the drone of a train or airplane engine, leaving you to enjoy your favourite music. * ANR (Active Noise Reduction) technology * Ultra-comfortable ear cushions ideal for extended listening * Advanced neodymium magnet drivers deliver exceptional hi-fidelity performance * Closed back design reduces sound leakage * Detachable, single sided 1m cable, designed by Britain's leading hi fi cable manufacturer, QED * Pack includes: Protective durable travel case, aeroplane adaptor, battery, Gold plated 3.5mm stereo jack with 6.3mm adaptor
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Active Noise Reduction ON
Frequency response: 15Hz - 23kHz
Total Harmonic Distortion: <0.3% (1mW @ 1kHz)
Sound Pressure Level: 101dB (1mW @ 1kHz)
Max input power: 260 mW
Impedance: 300 Ohms
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Max Input Power: 300mW
Impedance: 100 Ohms
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Hi - I'm about a 3.5 and looking to play tennis in the mornings or evenings a few times a week. i'm really rusty... and just want to hit around a bunch to get it back, and eventually play sets. the queen anne courts are closest to me but I'll travel!!!
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Hey... this works for me, but only for mornings. I like morning coffee tennis and like 7-8AM, so I can get into work on time. I take night graduate courses, so evenings are out for me.
Might you be interested in some 7-8AM tennis at Plummer Park on Fountain, in WeHo? Mondays and Fridays are great for me.
let me know :-) Me: 3.5 to 4.0 player... easy going and friendly, punctual... I like to hit/drill for about 20-30 minutes and then play some friendly spirited games.
Hi Jane! I'd love to play, I'm an advance beginner and would love to get out on courts as much as I can. Let me know if you'd like to set something up. Any time and any day works for me as of right now. :]
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14.6.: Workshop: Music Boards
Martina Schlusnus (Architektur & Design, München) /Elena Rykova (Komponistin, Boston/Moskau) - Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2018; 17:30–21:00Atelier im KunstQuartier, Bergstraße 12a, 5020 Salzburg
In this workshop we will look into possibilities of interacting with things around us in a new way, making them speak and sound. There is a hidden sound creature inside each existing object, our goal will be to find the way to communicate with it and integrate it into creation of our own unique music instruments, developing techniques of playing them and playing around with it by the end of the workshop altogether.
It will be a highly interactive playground with the insight into the Thing Theory, music discourse and building techniques via practice and art making.
Participants are also welcome to bring any screws and nails of different length, springs, several hammers, wire cutters and scissors, screwdrivers (better electrical), little pieces/cubes of wood or similar construction materials with them, whatever they have at home/garage that they would like to use in building their instruments.
Open to all. Limited number of participants.
In German and English
Teilnahme kostenfrei
Anmeldung erforderlich: Ingeborg Schrems, +43 662 8044 2380


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MicroseismicFracMapping: Moving Beyond the Dots from an Engineering Perspective
Jeff Noe
MicroSeismic, Inc.
Chief EngineerThe University of OklahomaMEWBOURNE COLLEGE OF EARTH & ENERGY
ShalesMoving Forward
Moore Norman Technology CenterNorman, OklahomaJuly 21, 2011Outline
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A glance in the rear view mirror
The engineer's fracture diagnostics toolbox
Why engineer's use microseismicmonitoring
Microseismictechnology advancements
"Unconventionals" have changed the game
What's missing? –Moving Beyond the Dots
Value addition opportunities
What's Next?Microseismic101
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Practice of listening to passive, microseismicactivity caused by hydraulic fracturing(reservoir subsidence, and water, steam, or CO2 injection or sequestration).
Microseisms are seismic energy emissions generated by shear slippages along weakness planes in the earth
Passive Imaging is seismic without sources –receivers only
Passive Imaging
•Detect and locate microseismic events in time and space.
•Measure characteristics of events (magnitude, source mechanism, etc. )
•Provide diagnostic information about the hydraulic fracture
Surface Array
▼A Glance in the Rearview Mirror
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1860–Nitroglycerin injection used to stimulate shallow oil well in Pennsylvania (precursor to fracing?)
1947 -StanolindOil conducted the first experimental fracturing in the Hugoton field located in southwestern Kansas. The treatment utilized napalm (gelled gasoline) and sand from the Arkansas River. (1)
1949 -Halliburton conducted the first two commercial hydraulic fracturing treatments in Oklahoma (1)
1950's through 1980's –Numerous hydraulic fracturing pumping and diagnostics technology developments
1992-Pinnacle Technologies introduced surface tilt fracmapping
Late 1990's and early 2000's –Pinnacle Technologies introduced downholetilt and microseismicfracmapping
2003-MicroSeismic, Inc. introduced surface microseismicfracmapping
2008-MicroSeismic, Inc. introduced BuriedArray™ microseismicfracmapping
Over 1.1 million hydraulic fracture stimulation jobs in the past 6 decades
Less than 2% of these jobs monitored using fracmapping technology(1) SPE JPT, December 2010; Hydraulic Fracturing –The Fuss, The Facts, The FutureThe Engineer's Fracture Diagnostics Toolbox
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5Why engineer's use microseismicmonitoring
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Diagnostic tool to better understand hydraulic fracture geometry
Identify patterns of hydraulic fracture development
•Zonal containment or lack thereof
•Well to well or stage to stage overlap
Estimate stimulated reservoir volume
Fracture treatment refinement
Long-term field development optimization
Map View
Depth ViewZone breakoutTechnology Advancements -Downhole
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•Stacked arrays
•Expanded arrays
•Fiber-optic wirelineTechnology Advancements -Surface
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•Array TypeSurface
•Duration Temporary
•Coverage area~3 to 7 Sq. Miles
FracStar® Array
1000+ channels of 1-C geophone strings, 6 phones per string
Radial FracStar® array, 8-14 armsTechnology Advancements –Buried Array™
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•Array TypeSub-Surface
•Duration Permanent
•Coverage areaHundreds of Sq. Miles
•CapabilitiesFracMonitoringReservoir Monitoring
Up to 300 ftCuttings
BentoniteCementTechnology Advancements -Processing
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Improved event detection capability and location accuracy
Detailed source analyses –better understanding of how rock is breakingTechnology Advancements –Visualization
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11Well and Events
Discrete Fracture Network
Stimulated Reservoir Volume
•Layered permeability distribution
•Average fracture aperture -ft
•Average fracture porosity -unitless
•Total fracture volume (ft3) –sum of fracture volumes in the model
•Stimulated reservoir volume (ft3) –volume of geocellularcubes that have fracture properties (the affected rock matrix)Unconventionalsare Changing The Game
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Barnett widespread development began in 2003. Horizontal wells and hydraulic fracturing were the key enablers. Other unconventional plays followed on the heels of the Barnett at a rapid pace.Unconventionalsare Changing The Game
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137/8/11 Update:US Land –1854Horizontal –1073% of total -58Unconventionalsare Changing The Game
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•~ 450% increase in pumping capacity since 2003
•Still growing at ~ 20-25% per yearThe New Landscape -Unconventionals© 2011 MicroSeismic. All Rights Reserved. 15
Almost exclusively HW's
Almost all wells require hydraulic fracturing
Long laterals (up to 10,000')
More fracstages per lateral (>30)
•Plug and perfcapabilities extended
•Packer and sleeve systems enhanced
High rate (>100 bpm), large volume (> 100,000 bbls/well), high proppanttonnage (> 4,000,000 lbs/well) fracs
24 hour fracoperations (30+ stages/24 hrs)
"Factory" style multi-well pads and innovative fracsequencing
•Zipper fracs
•Simultaneous fracs
Result is significantly more data at a much faster pace
Operators (and service providers) are overwhelmedLarge fracspreads"Factory" Style multi-well padsMicroseismicFracMapping –Beyond the Dots
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Engineers are asking:
•What Does it Mean?
•How does it relate to production?
•What needs to be changed?
Determination of individual well fracture geometries , well orientation and well spacing requirements are no longer enough
Must view and analyze as a "system"
Engineers want an integrated solution:
•ProductionView as System, not just individual wellsValue Addition Opportunity Model
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Enhanced Engineering Analysis and Content
Well and Stage Interaction Evaluation
FracModelingReservoir Simulation
Statistical DiscoveryParticularly importantfor "factory" style multi-well pad applications
•Microseismicdata in fracmodels
•Net pressure behavior and relationship to microseismicand production results
•Use to help calibrate DFN/SRV models
•Microseismicdata in simulators
•Use to help calibrate DFN/SRV models
•Technical database
•Multivariate statistical analysis
•ID cause-and-effect relationships
•Key drivers for improved well and reservoir performance What's Ahead
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Continued R&D on event characterization to improve understanding of how the rock is breaking
Improved understanding of "created" versus "effective" fracture geometry –"Where is the proppant?"
Better understanding of how fracture geometry evolves during a treatment
•Are we reactivating pre-existing fractures or creating new fractures or both?
•Which is more prevalent?
•How are stress changes that occur during fracture treatments driving and/or rerouting the fractures?
Better understanding of the connectivity and flow properties of the hydraulic fracture network What's Ahead
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•Reservoir Monitoring
•Production, Haynesville
•SAGD, Alberta
•Water injection, Saudi Arabia
•Compaction, North Sea
•Production, North Sea
•Cyclic Steam Injection, Alberta
•CO2Injection, Wyoming
•Gas Injection, Dubai
•Earthquake Monitoring
•Environmental Monitoring
•Integration ofactive and passive seismic
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Simon Cowell could be the $144 million man.
The "American Idol" judge, known for his withering critiques of hapless amateur crooners, is negotiating a new deal with Fox. He reportedly made $36 million last year, but the network is offering him three or four times that amount -- between $100 million and $144 million per year -- to stick around after his contract expires next May, according to The Guardian, a London newspaper.
Fox declined yesterday to comment about the salary negotiations. The show earns a reported $900 million a year, and Cowell is the undisputed star with his trademark sniping at co-hosts and scathing reviews of performers.
According to The Guardian, he has his pal, UK retail magnate Sir Philip Green, negotiating the terms of what would be a new "Idol" contract.
"Idol" recently finished its eighth season, with Kris Allen edging out Adam Lambert in the most contested final vote in the show's history. More than 100 million votes were cast, according to the show, which airs twice a week. Ratings for the 2009 season were down slightly, but the Wednesday show, in which results are aired, was first in its time slot. The Tuesday show, in which performances are aired, was second.


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Step 1: Remove the old starter rope
Photo 1: Remove the rewind unit
Remove the screws that hold the rewind to the engine and lift it off. Use a nut driver to remove hex head screws.
You tug one last time to get the lawn mower started, and suddenly the rope breaks and the end goes spinning into the hole. Don't blow a gasket. If you have even a tinge of mechanical aptitude, replacing a starter rope is pretty easy. If the spring breaks—a rare event, according to our repair expert—the fix is a lot harder, and we recommend you take the mower to a repair center. Check out what to do if your lawn mower won't start.
The first step is to remove the rewind assembly from the lawn mower, and how you do this varies. It's usually held on by three or more screws. Remove the screws and lift off the rewind (Photo 1). Some mowers have a shroud covering the top of the mower. On these you'll have to search for and remove the screws that hold the shroud in place. If your rewind unit is held on by rivets instead of screws, see "No Screws?" below.
After you remove the rewind unit, flip it over and look inside to find the knotted end of the broken rope. Grab it with a needle-nose pliers and pull it out. You'll thread the new rope through this hole. You'll find replacement starter ropes at home centers, hardware stores and small-engine repair centers.
Step 2: Install a new rope
Photo 2: Replace the rope
First, remove the broken piece of rope by unwinding it, grabbing the knot and pulling it out. Then rewind the spring and hold it in place with a screwdriver.
Photo 3: Tie a knot
Tie a knot in the end of the rope. Let the pulley wind the rope back into the rewind. Reinstall the rewind unit and any other parts you've removed.
Before you install the new rope, you have to rewind the spring by twisting the rope pulley in the same direction it goes when you pull on the rope. You'll know when you're turning the pulley in the right direction because it will get harder to turn. Keep turning the pulley until you feel resistance and it won't turn easily. Then let it unwind about one-half to one revolution until the hole in the pulley lines up with the hole in the rewind housing. Wedge a screwdriver against the pulley to keep the spring from unwinding while you thread the rope through the holes (Photo 2). Tip: With leather gloves on, melt the end of the rope with a match. While the plastic is hot, give it a quick twist to create a pointed end so it's easier to thread in.
Push the end of the rope through both holes and tie a knot (Photo 3). Heat the knot a little bit with a match and pull it tight to keep it from coming undone. Remove the screwdriver while you keep pressure on the pulley with your finger, and gradually let the rope wind onto the wheel. You may have extra rope to cut off after everything's back together. Mount the rewind unit and reinstall any shrouding or other parts you had to remove. Put the handle on the rope and tie a knot. Position the knot so that there's a little tension on the rope when you release the handle. If the rope on your lawn mower extends up the handle, make sure to place the rope handle in its final position before tensioning the rope slightly and tying the knot.
No Screws?
Rivets hold this rewind unit to the metal shroud. To access the rewind unit, remove the bolts that hold the shroud to the engine. If the rivets are loose, drill them out and replace them with bolts and locknuts.
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ISON and Encke in STEREO: Nov19-23, 2013
Comet ISON (the brighter of the two) and Comet Encke, can be seen racing through the solar system here, both with tails strongly interacting with the solar wind! CLICK TO ANIMATE! [Image Credit: Karl Battams/NRL/NASA/CIOC]I don't have much time tonight to make a cool looking animation with labels and things as I still need to prepare to head out for my week at Kitt Peak. However, I did have time to at least create an animated gif with the latest images I was able to get my hands on! These images span Nov 20 18:05 UT to Nov 23 22:49UT with an image about once an hour.
If you recall from my last blog post, there was a coronal mass ejection (CME) on the way and we wondered if it would hit the comets. Our question has been sort of answered... The CME can be seen coming towards the comets but then... argh! We had a data gap! (Put the tin foil down! Data gaps happen all the time, and they're temporary.) We pick up the sequence a few hours after the CME has passed but there doesn't appear to be any major interaction happening so I suspect they didn't get hit, or if they did then it wasn't a directly blow.
Both of these comets are directly in the line of fire for CMEs, though, so hopefully we do get a big one in the next couple of days.
For those of you that follow me on Twitter, you'll have seen that earlier on I mentioned that there were now three comets visible in this field of view. That is indeed the case, with the third being C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy). I didn't include that comet in this movie as it's kind of small and unimpressive and tucked away in the corner. You can see what I mean in this full-resolution frame.
I don't really have much analysis to add tonight beyond what I said last time.
The tails are clearly interacting strongly with the solar wind, with ISON perhaps in a slightly faster stream than Encke. We have had several questions from folks confused about the geometry here, so I urge you to take a look at the animations here that illustrate ISON's orbit relative to the STEREO-A spacecraft. Comet Encke isn't on that plot but it's near to Mercury also.
Tomorrow I will be in transit for nearly all of the day so, aside from the occasional Tweet and a new Image of the Week feature (which you absolutely need to check back for tomorrow as it's fabulous!), you might not hear too much from me until Tuesday. I'll do what I can, though, and hopefully Matthew will chime in with some thoughts on here.
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Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches
Europol has revealed a wide-ranging investigation into match-fixing has uncovered more than 380 suspicious matches.
Last Updated: 05/02/13 8:23pm
These games include World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two UEFA Champions League games, one of which was in England.
Europol's chief Rob Wainwright said the investigation found "match fixing activity on a scale we have not seen before", with one of the matches an unnamed Champions League clash in England.
Wainwright revealed the probe uncovered around £7m in betting profits and £1.27m in bribes to players and officials and has already led to several prosecutions.
The investigation identified about 425 corrupt officials, players and serious criminals in 15 countries and 50 arrests have been made so far.
Wainwright also stated that the involvement of organised crime "highlights a big problem for the integrity of football in Europe" with Asian gambling cartels identified as part of the match fixing operation.
Wainwright would not reveal the identity of the Champions League match staged in England under suspicion due to "ongoing judicial proceedings" - but he did confirm it had taken place in the "last three to four years" and admitted England was not a country under particular scrutiny.
He said: "The focus has been on other countries, not the United Kingdom. However we were surprised by the scale generally of the criminal enterprise and just how widespread it was.
"It would be naive and complacent of those in the UK to think such a criminal conspiracy does not involve the English game and all the football in Europe."
Europol also found another 300 questionable games outside Europe, mainly in Africa, Asia, South and Central America.
There was though an element of mystery surrounding the investigation in England with the Football Association admitting they did not know about the probe.
A spokesman for the FA said: "The FA are not aware of any credible reports into suspicious Champions League fixtures in England, nor has any information been shared with us.
"While the Champions League comes under UEFA jurisdiction, The FA, alongside the Premier League, Football League and Conference, monitor markets for the top seven leagues and three major cup competitions in England and take matters of integrity in football extremely seriously."
Europe's football governing body stressed it had a zero-tolerance approach to match-fixing.
It added in a statement: "UEFA is aware of the statements made by Europol regarding the alleged match-fixing that has taken place in various football competitions and expects to receive further information in the coming days.
"As part of the fight against the manipulation of matches, UEFA is already co-operating with the authorities on these serious matters as part of its zero-tolerance policy towards match-fixing in our sport.
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In just a few short years our alumni have gone on and done great things around the world. They have been able to leave footprints not only in our community but also in the global community. The traditions we have today exist in large part because of the energy and enthusiasm our alumni have displayed in their time at Binghamton
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Despite the community's young age, Mountainview College has already produced incredible alumni. Check out some of Mountainview's distinguished alumni here!
I am currently an Associate Producer at SportsNet New York. I started my career at an online PR firm right after college, and I tell people getting laid off was the best thing that ever happened to me! I was able to shift my career path into a field that a) I never even had considered back in college and b) in an industry I knew I belonged in from the get-go. Working in sports was a dream of mine since I was in 2nd grade watching Sportscenter on the way to school. Now, I get to bump elbows with David Wright in the Mets clubhouse, and go on a bunch of cool shoots interviewing current and former Mets, and working on other projects as well. I worked my butt off in college doing everything I could to ensure I had the job of my dreams when I graduated, and I'm proud to say I achieved that goal!!!
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Mark Liu is a Clinical Practice Supervisor at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a world-renowned organization dedicated to the progressive control and cure of cancer. Memorial Sloan-Kettering works toward this goal through programs of patient care, scientific research and community education. In the department of Ambulatory Care, Mark supervises the day-to-day operations of the Breast Medicine and Surgery outpatient services. Mark is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and its local affiliate, Health Leaders of New York. Outside of work, Mark has volunteered as as tax preparer for working poor families in NYC and was a 2008 Fellow in the Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service (FELPS). He has served on the FELPS Alumni Board for three years, including one year as president and another as vice president of the board. He is in his fourth year as an Alumni Guide this year.
Mark graduated from Binghamton University in 2007 with a BS in Psychobiology and Sociology. His thesis explored ways of "Improving Cultural Competency of American Hospitals for Limited English Proficiency Populations." He also recently completed a Master Certificate in Six Sigma in 2012. While at Binghamton University, he served as the associate director of a student-led economic think tank, volunteered regularly as an emergency medical technician and held several leadership positions in community student government. One of his major accomplishments was organizing an award-winning program to promote awareness and empower students to increase access to healthcare through his role in student government.
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WASHINGTON — President Bill Clinton asked advisers for more information on Osama bin Laden in 1998 after flagging a newspaper story, according to records from the Clinton White House that were released Friday. The records also detail consideration of military action in Haiti in 1994 and preparations for Supreme Court nomination hearings.
The National Archives released about 1,000 pages of previously restricted documents from Clinton's two terms, part of about 20,000 pages of Clinton records that have been disseminated since February. The papers, which are stored at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, have received interest as former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton considers another presidential bid.
The latest batch also covers the Supreme Court nominations of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, the appellate court nomination of future Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, security planning for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 presidential campaign of Al Gore, the then vice president.
A look at the documents:
In one file referencing bin Laden, Clinton urgently asked his top national security aide whether the CIA overstated the involvement of the terrorist leader in the August 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In his April 1999 scrawled note, Clinton referred to a New York Times story from that month that suggested U.S. intelligence officials had gathered no firsthand evidence of bin Laden's involvement.
"If this article is right, the CIA sure overstated its case to me — what are the facts?" Clinton asked national security adviser Samuel "Sandy" Berger. Clinton's note prompted a flurry of replies from Berger, counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke and aide Daniel Benjamin, but those responses were withheld, apparently for national security concerns.
Government prosecutors later indicted bin Laden among a group of al-Qaida leaders and operatives for their involvement in the simultaneous bombings, which killed 213 people in Nairobi and 85 in Dar es Salaam. Six terror associates were convicted and are serving life terms in U.S. prisons.
Bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, was still under indictment when he was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan in May 2011.
In 1994, Clinton's team weighed taking action in Haiti to restore democracy and to remove military leaders who staged a coup. Congress opposed any intervention and Clinton's aides debated how to act without lawmakers.
"The operation is likely to involve low intensity and short conflict. Given the consent of President (Jean-Bertrand) Artistide and the limited capability of the Armed Forces of Haiti, such action does not intrude upon the power of Congress to declare war," national security aide Tony Lake wrote to White House counsel Lloyd Cutler.
In another memo, Lake, Cutler and Pat Griffin urged Clinton to take action without congressional approval. They said that simply informing Congress immediately before military strikes was sufficient.
Clinton deployed armed forces in September 1994. As some U.S. military members were in the air en route to the island, Haitian military leaders agreed to step down and they left the country in October. Aristide resumed power.
BREYER and GINSBURG NOMINATIONS
The files show the behind-the-scenes planning that took place to win Senate confirmation of Ginsburg and Breyer's Supreme Court nomination. After Justice Byron White announced his retirement in 1993, Clinton's team noted that "Senate leaders, particularly Chairman (Joe) Biden, have previously made strong statements about their desire to be consulted on Supreme Court nominations."
Ginsburg's papers include a list of recommended witnesses — sent by her husband, Washington attorney Martin Ginsburg — along with talking points for an unnamed adviser playing Sen. William Cohen, a Maine Republican, in preparation sessions.
Before the hearings, White House aide Ron Klain wrote that Ginsburg's preparation showed she viewed the White House as "having a stake in presenting her as a moderate and in getting along well with the Senate; she sees her interests as 'being herself,' preserving her 'dignity,' and promoting her 'independence.'"
When Clinton nominated Breyer in 1994, White House aide David Dreyer suggested the confirmation process could be used "as a vehicle to put the President and his staff in the best possible light." Dreyer also recommended "shutting down critics" such as Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat. Both Ginsburg and Breyer were confirmed with broad support.
Clinton nominated Sotomayor, then a federal district court judge in New York, to the appellate bench in 1997.
In one letter, Sotomayor thanks White House associate counsel Peter Erichsen for their spring 1996 meeting, writing, "It may appear strange that a meeting of our type could be described as enjoyable, but I do describe it as such."
Sotomayor was recommended by a group of White House aides in a March 1997 memo, describing her as "well known and well respected not only for her compelling life story but also for her legal acumen and work ethic." She was eventually confirmed in 1998 and joined the Supreme Court in 2009.
A June 1996 memo from top aides to Clinton and Gore detailed White House efforts to oversee security in Atlanta for the Summer Olympics Games — as well as to lay plans for Clinton administration efforts to tap into the heavily televised events' successes.
Saying the federal government had a "considerable" stake in the events, the aides wrote that the Olympics "will be a daily focus at the White House." In a nod to the growing importance of instant media and communication responses, the aides devised daily meetings of communications aides to respond to good-news developments. "The key is to be able to be spontaneous in celebrating successes at the gates by planning for such 'spontaneity,'" wrote White House chief of staff Mack McLarty and Gore aide Ron Klain.
The 1996 games proved to be a mixed success. A record 197 nations participated, but there were complaints about crowding and commercialism. A bomb set off in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park caused two deaths and 111 injuries. Eric Rudolph, an anti-abortion activist, pleaded guilty in 2005 to the bombing and is serving a life prison term.
In July 2000, White House deputy chief of staff Steven Ricchetti — now Vice President Joe Biden's chief of staff — wrote to colleagues that they would have to take vacation or unpaid leave if they wanted to attend that year's Democratic convention. Added White House counsel Beth Nolan: "With few exceptions, you must attend the convention on your own time."
Senior White House staff members were stern in warning aides that they should not use their official positions to help Gore's campaign. Specifically, no staffers could make fundraising calls or have political events at the White house.
"The simplest rule to follow is the commonsense practice that anything obviously political that involves the use of resources should be done by the campaign, even if doing it here can be legally justified," senior White House lawyers wrote to colleagues.
Associated Press writers Stephen Braun, Philip Elliott and Connie Cass contributed to this report.


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Trying to start-up a due diligence thread for the Groupon IPO . . . any thoughtful submissions posted here would be much appreciated!
Trying to start-up a due diligence thread for the Groupon IPO . . . any thoughtful submissions posted here would be much appreciated!
Basic primer to get started:
"The company offers one "Groupon" ("group coupon") per day in each of the markets it serves. The Groupon works as an assurance contract using ThePoint's platform: if a certain number of people sign up for the offer, then the deal becomes available to all;[11] if the predetermined minimum is not met, no one gets the deal that day.[5] This reduces risk for retailers, who can treat the coupons as quantity discounts[5] as well as sales promotion tools. Groupon makes money by getting a cut of the deal from the retailers."
Here's the Groupon website link:
$9 for One Adult Admission to the Museum of Sex (Up to $18 Value)
I do know someone who would enjoy this deal!
Investment bankers have been making proposals to online deals site Groupon Inc. about a proposed initial public offering for the past week through an informal "bake-off," people familiar with the matter said.
Groupon, which turned down a $6 billion takeover offer from Google Inc. last year and said it would raise $950 million in funding, has been planning its public debut for later this year, these people said. An IPO is likely ...
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"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein went to Chicago to pitch Groupon executives on hiring his bank to underwrite the online coupon company's initial public offering, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
The report was attributed to a single unnamed source. Banks are currently pitching to underwrite a "meaningfully sized" Groupon IPO, a source previously told Reuters.
Top bank executives sometimes attend so-called "bakeoff" meetings to pitch their banks' ability to underwrite significant IPOs -- but Blankfein is not known for doing so."
For those who don't know, the beauty of the system is that it targets zip codes so the deals are local. Groupon isn't doing a "deal a day" like some other websites, they are doing thousands of deals per day, targeted to local customers.
The problem with the system is Google (because of its sales team and adwords) could essentially clone the service tomorrow if they wanted to.
Groupon raised another $16 million and filed it with the SEC http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1...rimary_doc.xml
This is very strange considering they just finished a $950 million venture round. What the hell is another 16 mill?
Groupon's CEO, Andrew Mason, attended Sun Valley last year, while company COO Rob Solomon just got back from last week's Arizona retreat.
Groupon famously turned down a $6 billion offer from Google and is planning an upcoming IPO. The company, which organizes online coupons for the masses, values itself at $15 billion, according to reports.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/busines...#ixzz1GX9beKVj
The print version of the report includes a graphic as follows:
Valuation: $15 Billion
Share Price: $40
Revenue: $2 Billion
Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey, speaking in a Q4 earnings call, said incorporating Citadel will give Cumulus "the necessary scale to invest in technology-based initiatives including 'personalized' and 'interactive' radio."
Dickey also revealed that Cumulus is working on some sort of Groupon-like service. Again, the incorporation of Citadel gives Cumulus "the critical mass to develop social commerce initiatives."
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String Encoding In Django
Status: (as of Friday, April 6, 2007) Still being written. -- mtredinnick
Django accepts and sends data to and from a number of external entities: databases, web browsers (form input, HTML output), XML syndication feeds, PDF documents... the list is quite long. Since we would like Django to be able to offer all these features to people in all locations, we need to pay particular attention to our internationalization support.
An important part of internationalization is how we handle strings inside Django and at the interfaces between Django and other applications.
This page tries to capture both what we are aiming to do internally and what we are currently doing (which might be different from the eventual goal). It is partly an attempt to get my (Malcolm Tredinnick's) thoughts down in a logical form. This stuff is very tricky and it's easy to become confused when working on the code. That happens to me regularly, so I need notes like this.
String Types In Python
Python essentially has two different types of strings: bytestrings, which are sequences of 8-bit bytes that can sometimes be printed, and unicode strings, which hold true Unicode character points in a portable fashion. Unicode strings carry no particular byte encoding, but can be converted to any encoding we like, using the encode() method, possibly with the aid of the codecs module in the standard library.
Applications intending to be of use to an international (or even merely non-ASCII) audience are recommended to use unicode strings internally wherever possible. Communication with the outside world (e.g. web browsers) usually involves sending and receiving bytestrings (or streams of data that can be converted to bytestrings) and carrying around information about the encoding of those bytestrings alongside the string. This shows the logic behind using unicode strings wherever possible: without an extra piece of information indicating the encoding, a bytestring is an opaque data item. We have no way of knowing whether the bytes it contains are encoded as UTF-8 or KOI8-R or anything else. So we either have to invent a new object representing a bytestring + encoding or convert to the existing Python solution: unicode strings, which are encoding-neutral.
A lot of this page is concerned with identifying where we cannot avoid bytestrings and how to work out their encoding at that point and then converting them to unicode immediately for internal use.
The Big Picture
Each arrow in this diagram shows an interface between the core Django framework (henceforth, Django) and applications which interact with Django. The arrow heads show the direction of the string exchanges.
For simplicity, I have written "Form Input" to represent any kind of data submitted to Django and, similarly, "Template output" to represent all of the possible data that Django can return to a client.
In the following sections, we will go over each of these interfaces in turn. The goal here is to establish what features Django can control and how it should handle things outside its control. A good understanding of these interactions is necessary in order to establish consistent internal string handling behaviour.
HTTP Input Handling
Django's views should be able to handle any data that can be submitted over an HTTP connection. This includes, but is not limited to
- HTML form submissions (both application/x-ww-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data MIME types).
- XML data, such as Atom Publishing Protocol, other REST-based protocol submissions or even WS-*/SOAP and XML-RPC-based submissions.
- Abitrary binary data encoded with a known MIME type.
Of these submission types, the first one is the one needing the most attention from Django. Arbitrary data submission, which includes the latter two scenarios, need to be handled by the view functions and presumably those view functions will know how to decode the incoming message.
The main thing we need to concerned with from a string encoding perspective is understanding the encoding of the incoming data and the converting it to a known format for subsequent processing.
Form Input Handing
HTML form submission is an area that has traditionally had poor browser compliance with standards and not particularly encompassing standards in the first place. So there are a lot of corner cases involved here. For the most part, though, we can get by with a few simple rules and a couple of conventions ("conventions" meaning that if you don't follow them, anything could, and probably will, happen).
- This is one area where conversion from UTF-8 to unicode may fail. Malicious or accidental causes.
- setting "accept" types on forms makes it the responsibility of the developer to handle. Don't guess.
Passing Strings Between Django and the Developer's Code
(By Developer's code, I mean any code that is part of an application, but not in Django's core. This includes views, model definitions, URL configuration and templates. Anything the Django user is responsible for writing.)
The only potential problem here is when bytestrings are passed between Django and the developer's code. Once again, we have no way of knowing the encoding. Most of the time, the two parties should exchange unicode strings. When bytestrings are passed, we need to have a convention about how these strings are encoded. This is a case where we cannot enforce (at the Python level) any requirement. We can only say "here is what Django expects" and if a developer does not respect this, any errors are their own to deal with.
New Convention: All bytestrings used inside the Django core are assumed to be UTF-8 encoded.
Bytestrings passed between the core and the applications should not be dependent on the encoding of the source files they were created in (those files using PEP 263 encoding declarations). PEP 263 does not do anything special to bytestrings. It parses them, but leaves them with their original encoding. That encoding information is lost as soon as the string moves beyond its original source file.
Similarly, we should not make assumptions based on the value of settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET. That setting is for the default output character encoding used by Django. It is designed to be changeable by the application user. If the internal code depended on this setting, the developer would need to change the code whenever the setting changed and two applications written by two developers with different default assumptions would not interact correctly.
Database Interaction
The application developer may not be in control of the basic database configuration. This may require help from a database administrator. Or the application may be built on top of a legacy database. Consequently, it is unreasonable to assume that Django can enforce a particular character set encoding on the database.
Django will need to encode all strings it sends to the database with the right encoding method. Similarly, all incoming strings needs to be decoded to unicode objects (keeping them as bytestrings will lose the information about the database encoding, which may not always be UTF-8).
There is currently no way in Django to have the database encoding be any different from the HTML output encoding. We need to fix this (this has been fixed in [4971] -- mtredinnick)
Proposal: For databases that support table creation with different collation or encoding schemes, add support in the existing DATABASE_OPTIONS setting for these.
This would be analagous to the current encoding support that is provided in DATABASE_OPTIONS for MySQL.
Talking To External Processes
A Django developer's code may need to talk to external services or applications to retrieve necessary data.
It is entirely outside the realm of Django to handle the character set encoding and conversion issues here. Rather, the application developer is responsible for ensuring that any strings used by Django are either unicode strings or bytestrings encoded as UTF-8.
HTTP Output
As with input, Django's output possibilities are essentially limitless. However, we can loosely group them into two categories:
- Template generated output
- Arbitrary data sent back by the view.
These two cases could also be called "things we care about" and "things we don't". In the first case, Django itself is responsible for encoding the output in the correct way and passing the HTTP handler a bytestring that can be returned. This conversion will be done using the encoding specified by settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET.
In the second scenario, the developer (of the view) is entirely responsible for encoding the bytestring correctly and setting the right MIME types and, consequently, charset-encoding value for the returned result.
There are a couple of fuzzy, middle-ground areas here. Automated email sending for 404 pages and other admin items is handled by Django. This is treated similarly to template output generation and settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET is used to encode the output.
Current Problems and Solution Outline
(This list is incomplete at the moment)
- Django does not currently handle arbitrary database encodings, unattached to the concept of DEFAULT_CHARSET.
- Add DEFAULT_CHARSET setting
- teach database backends how to encode unicode and bytestrings for the database (avoid pointless round-trips for bytestrings, if the target is UTF-8).
- The getttext() functions return bytestrings using DEFAULT_CHARSET. This causes a number of difficulties in the code, because UTF-8 encoded bytestrings cannot safely be passed to the string.join() method.
- Consider switching to ugettext() and friends everywhere internally. These return unicode strings that can be used in join() calls. The alternative requires being aware of when bytestrings might be involved and doing yet another decode()/encode() round-trip around the join(). Error-prone and time-consuming.
- gettext_lazy() is not a perfect proxy for a string. In particular, .join([gettext_lazy('some string'), foo]) does not work, because join() wants a real string instance as the first element.
- This might be fixable by using metaprogramming to make the returned result of gettext_lazy() look like an instance of its result classes. This could have unintended side-effects, though. I haven't tested this out yet.
- The alternative is to blow away gettext_lazy and do what other languages do: use gettext_noop() to mark strings and then put gettext() calls in at the presentation locations to do the translation.
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While the legal arguments are firmly on our side, and hopefully the judge will agree, a quick look back at the testimony over the past two months should lead anyone with common sense—without requiring a law degree—to conclude that the plaintiffs in this case have no case.
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Like the Vergara lawsuit itself, today's ruling is deeply flawed. CTA, CFT and the state of California will appeal. We will appeal on behalf of students and educators. Circumventing the legislative process to strip teachers of their professional rights hurts our students and our schools.
During the nearly two-month trial, numerous defense witnesses, including superintendents, principals, teachers, and nationally-recognized education policy experts testified that these laws work well and benefit students in well-run school districts all over the state. The plaintiffs put on administrators from poorly-managed school districts like Oakland, who attempted to blame the challenged statutes for their district's problems, rather than poor management and an incredibly high teacher and administrator turnover rates.
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Dive Ops/Destinations which restrict strobe use
Posted 19 July 2009 - 11:54 PM
While it is their perogative to do so, it does present an important issue for underwater shooters who do use artificial lighting to shoot. Thus I thought it'd be useful if members who have experienced such restrictions with either dive ops or destinations in general to list them in this thread. This will help your fellow shooters avoid having "issues" with the operations and ruin the trip.
From the above linked thread, it seems the first destination banning strobes is Malapascua, Philippines. They have banned the use of artificial lighting on Monad Shoals for the thresher sharks. Since Malapascua is probably the most famous destination to view thresher sharks, it's a very important piece of information for shooters to know before going there.
Please help your fellow shooters by listing the operations and destinations which have these restrictions.
Please remember to post only operations or destinations you know for sure and not places you've heard or think they do. This is in fairness to those operations who may not really have those restrictions in place.
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Posted 20 July 2009 - 12:09 AM
and (eventually after about 5 shots) on turtles at Marsa Mubarak
...it maybe dependant on what guide you have tho, but I certainly was asked not to (May 2009)
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Posted 20 July 2009 - 05:38 AM
it seems the first destination banning strobes is Malapascua, Philippines. They have banned the use of artificial lighting on Monad Shoals for the thresher sharks. Since Malapascua is probably the most famous destination to view thresher sharks, it's a very important piece of information for shooters to know before going there.
Not that it really matters too much when it comes to the thresher sharks there, as they are often somewhat in the distance and your strobe wouldn't be able to provide much if any light on the fish anyway. Using strobes on that dive would be most useful for other things you might see on the Shoal top while eternally waiting for the lucky glimpse of the thresher in the distance. I do know that there have been lucky divers who have seen them much closer (like Gustsy), I am not sure how many get that experience there.
While I saw the threshers on several of my dives there (in 2004 and 2005 ... when strobes were not banned), they were always in the distance, required me to sort of squint my eyes and "believe" that I saw the shark that the guide was pointing at. The best thresher view was from the boat on the way from Monad to Calanagaman Island where we saw a thresher leap into the air with the trademark tail curl twice (could have been two sharks or same one twice)!
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To clarify so there are no misunderstandings, did Graham show displeasure or Stewart of the 7 Seas? Or was it just the other guests? I'm assuming this is the WP Indonesia trip with Alex? Generally Diving 4 Images charters boats for their trips and it's not boat specific.
If Stewart or one of the guides from the boat said something, that'd be a first in my many trips on the boat. So please elaborate on where the displeasure was being generated from.
EDIT: Tim confirmed it was Graham of Diving4Images who moved him along. There are no restrictions from Diving4Images or the 7 Seas regarding strobes. Tim's incident is a one off based on the fact the pygmy was showing signs of stress.
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Posted 02 August 2009 - 07:31 PM
I agree that strobes would be of little or no use use for shots of the thresher shark in Monad Shoals. My own gut feeling is that banning the use of strobes actually increased the number of times this skittish shark comes up from the deep to use the cleaning stations on the top of this sea mount and consequntly resulted in more sightings by divers. Talking to divers during my trip in 2005 when strobes were allowed and in 2007 when they were not, this unscientific survey revealed about 3 to 1 sightings in favor of 2007. My own experience was seeing 2 treshers in one dive in 2007 and none in 2005. Also, what other critters you can see in Monad Shoal requiring strobes for proper picture taking, you will see them in other dive sites in Malapascua.
Posted 23 November 2009 - 04:21 PM
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Posted 24 November 2009 - 10:41 AM
I believe I've read they don't allow strobes in Bonne Terre Mine, Missouri. Or maybe that was just dive lights....
You can use strobes at Bonne Terre Mine but not dive lights. It's a fascinating place to dive and shoot.
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Posted 13 December 2010 - 05:31 AM
It was stated on whaleshark.org , the international ID website for individual sharks, the rules and regs of swimming with the sharks and included no flash photography. Although i cant find it now on their site but have found the PADI version on their site which is exactly the same plus some PADI spiel:
We have found (here in Leyte, Philippines where sharks are common dec-apr) that whale sharks do react to large strobes at the head end, normally bolting down and out into the blue and ending the interaction. This always annoys customers without cameras and also when they bolt they do swing that large tail about and can put others at risk.
They are on the surface anyway so natural light is enough we have found. So yes all dive operations here ban the use of strobes with whale sharks. If a whale shark joins us on a normal dive rather than a specific whale shark snorkel tour we encourage people to turn their strobes off put one or two will still take the shots before i tap them on the shoulder.
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You can follow Fashion Week on the go whether you're standing on line to get into a show or are just picking up a latte before you run to your job.
What used to be just a New York-focused industry event, New York Fashion Week is now a nationwide celebration and a worldwide phenomenon. It's something the tech industry can understand, particularly with the iPhone 5 announcement a day away and its attendant hype months in the making.
"When we started the shows, 'technology' was not a word associated with Fashion Week," the creator of Fashion Week, Fern Mallis, told BizBash at a recent event about the future of fashion. "Digital cameras didn't exist, email was not our religion, cell phones were the size of bricks, and none of them came with eight-megapixel cameras, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. And fashion shows were not called content. Now invitations have bar codes and scanning codes on them, and there's content for everybody, and their tools are in their hands or in their handbags."
Indeed the documenting, commenting, and watching of Fashion Week is a mobile and global event. There are apps to stream the action on the runway, spy the style on the street, and eavesdrop on the gossip from the front row. Fashionistas can even order looks months before they're released right from their phones.
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13-yo Girl Took Her Own Life After Relationship With Teacher
The grieving father of a 13-year-old girl who took her own life after having a relationship with a teacher, has labelled the man a mongrel.
Bruce McLelland revealed the disturbing relationship between his mentally unstable daughter and her disgraced former teacher, Sam Back.
At an inquest into his daughter Reiha's death, Mr McLelland claimed the 42-year-old teacher had a secret sleepover with the 13-year-old.
The heartbroken father read the inquest his original police statement, which claimed Mr Back sent his daughter text messages in an attempt to 'sexually groom her' and had tried really hard to develop a 'strange bond.'
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Mr McLelland and his wife said they first learned about the relationship when they caught the 13-year-old sneaking off at night with her passport to a waiting car. Inside was Mr Back and his partner Angie Mepham.
However, they said they only realised the extend of the 'excessive' text messages from Mr McLelland after his daughter's tragic death in 2014.
Ms Mepham was also questioned by the inquest about her involvement, as it was revealed she too was in regular contact with the girl.
In one text message read to the inquest, the former Gisborne High School teacher told the 13-year-old she could stay at his home 'as long as all your bases are covered'
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I also made about 200 macarons, in four different flavors. Pistachio macs with white chocolate ganache, yellow macs with lemon curd, orange macs with peach marmalade buttercream, and my favorite, Earl Grey macarons with a orange buttercream.
After the shells have rested, preheat oven to 290 degrees F, place one rack on the top shelf, and set an empty baking sheet on the rack. I have found this helps them not get too brown before they are done baking. Bake the macarons one pan at a time in the middle of the oven for about 18-20 minutes, depending on how big you piped them.
Honestly the best way to tell if they are done, is to sacrifice one of your shells, pop it off the parchment and break it open. If it is gooey inside, bake for another few minutes, if it is done, take them out. If they are overdone, not to worry, after filling them and letting them age in the refrigerator for a day or two, they will most likely still be delicious.