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The report warns that climate changes are occurring much faster than anticipated by the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, issued in 2007.
While earlier estimates forecast up to half a meter (19.5 inches) rise in sea level in the coming century, updated calculations suggest that the rise may be as high as two meters (78 inches).
Melting ice sheets and glaciers in the northern and southern hemispheres will not only contribute to sea level rise, but will also leave many regions around the world without basic water resources for human consumption and industrial production.
In its new report, the World Bank focuses on four climate impacts of special concern: "the warming and eventual disabling of mountain ecosystems in the Andes; the bleaching of coral reefs leading to an anticipated total collapse of the coral biome in the Caribbean basin; the damage to vast stretches of wetlands and associated coastal systems in the Gulf of Mexico; and the risk of forest dieback in the Amazon basin."
Wetlands at the base of a melting glacier in the Peruvian Andes January 2007. (Photo by Huantopa)
Last week, World Bank climate experts presented devastating news to an audience in Lima, Peru - glaciers in the Andes mountain range may disappear within the next 20 years unless immediate action is taken to mitigate climate change.
In the past 35 years, Peruvian glaciers have shrunk by 22 percent, resulting in a 12 percent reduction in freshwater for the coastal area, the home of about 60 percent of the country's population.
Bolivia and Ecuador, which depend on nearby glaciers for water, also are facing serious shortages.
The World Bank report "Low Carbon, High Growth: Latin American Responses to Climate Change," is being presented during regional visit by bank experts who were in Central America earlier this month and are now touring Andean countries. The visit will finish with a visit to Argentina, Chile and Brazil by mid-March.
Damage from hurricanes and tropical storms will increase, the World Bank reports. Estimates suggest that losses from hurricane damage along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico "could increase tenfold from 2020 to 2025."
"In Central America and the Caribbean, losses will triple or quadruple, respectively, in the same period," said World Bank economist John Nash, who presented the report in El Salvador.
"Climate change can have extremely severe consequences for Colombian agriculture," said Walter Vergara, a bank climate change expert who spoke during the presentation held in Bogota on February 16.
Vergara warned that in the worst-case scenario Colombian farm production could suffer an almost total loss of 94 percent as a result of temperature rises from 2.5 to five degrees Celsius and a 10 percent variation in annual rainfalls.
The bank's report acknowledges the efforts Colombia is making in its fight against climate change, especially in the area of public transportation. The bank experts foresee potential benefits for the country as a result of new global agreements and aid programs.
Augusto de la Torre, a national of Ecuador, is the chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean. (Photo courtesy World Bank)
"Current negotiations seek to include programs for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries, commonly known as REDD, in a future post-Kyoto agreement," explained Augusto de la Torre, World Bank lead economist for the region and one of the authors of the report.
This post-Kyoto agreement is being shaped by talks among governments throughout this year that will culminate in the annual UN climate conference in December in Copenhagen, where an agreement is expected to be finalized.
Combating rising temperatures and slowing the rate that ice and snow are melting requires quick action.
One near-term solution is to focus on black carbon, or soot, an aerosol that scientists assert may be the second largest contributor to climate change after the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and that has an enhanced impact on snow and ice melt.
Black carbon is emitted from incomplete combustion of burning fossil fuels and biomass, and contributes to climate change in two ways. First, while in the atmosphere, the dark particles absorb heat and warm the air.
Then, when black carbon falls on ice and snow, it absorbs more solar radiation, leading to more rapid melting, which then leads to less reflective ice, in a dangerous accelerating feedback cycle.
Sooty sky obscures a double rainbow over the town of Greenock in western Scotland. (Photo by Bilco8)
Unlike carbon dioxide, CO2, which remains in the atmosphere for over a thousand years, black carbon lingers only for a few days, so reducing black carbon emissions would have an immediate effect on global warming and also would have health benefits for millions of people risk disease and death from breathing polluted air.
"In contrast to reductions in black carbon soot, cuts in CO2 emissions, while essential, do not produce significant cooling for at least a thousand years," said Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development.
Zaelke attended UNEP's Governing Council meeting in Nairobi last week to urge fast action on black carbon and other strategies that can produce quick climate mitigation.
He urges that the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty be used to rapidly phase out hydrofluorocarbons, HFCs, which are used as refrigerants and foam blowing agents. They also are used in manufacturing and emitted as by-products of industrial processes.
HFCs are a class of replacements for ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons phased out under the Montreal Protocol. Because HFCs do not contain chlorine or bromine, they do not deplete the ozone layer, but they do have global warming potential that is much higher than CO2.
Another carbon negative strategy is the production of biochar, which scientists say can significantly reduce current CO2 concentrations within decades.
Zaelke warns, "The UNEP and World Bank reports are clear - the world is facing serious danger, and we have to take urgent and aggressive action now - starting with black carbon reductions - to avoid devastating consequences of passing tipping points."
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 no.8 Cape Town Ago. 2012
Traditional eye medication and pterygium occurrence in Limpopo Province
P AnguriaI; S NtuliII; B InterewiczIII; T CarmichaelIV
IMB ChB, MMed Ophth. Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
IIBSc (Hon) Stat, MSc Biostat. University of Limpopo, Polokwane Campus, Ga-Rankuwa
IIIMD, PhD. University of Limpopo, Polokwane Campus, Ga-Rankuwa
IVMB BCH, FCS (SA), PhD (Med), MSc (Med).Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
BACKGROUND: The relative importance of environmental and hereditary factors in the occurrence of pterygium in African blacks has not been reported.
AIM. To investigate the relative significance of factors associated with pterygium occurrence.
METHODS: This was a prospective case-controlled study where 150 pterygium patients and 150 controls participated. Interviews were conducted, eyes examined and multivariate analysis done. The families of 51 pterygium cases and 50 controls were examined for presence of pterygium.
RESULTS: Of 150 cases and 150 controls, 79 (52.6%) and 60 (40%) used traditional eye drops (odds ratio (OR) 2.03; p=0.009. Ten cases (6.6%) and 26 controls (17.3%) had unstable tear film (OR 0.30; p=0.007. Forty-six cases (30.6%) and 15 controls (10%) reported a positive family history (OR 3.93; p<0.001). Groups of 3 - 5 pterygium cases in a household occurred in 36 of 51 pterygium families (70.5%) v. 1 of 50 controls (2%).
CONCLUSIONS: Pterygium occurrence was associated with the use of traditional eye drops, a positive family history and having groups of diagnosed pterygium-affected relatives. However, unstable tear film seemed protective against pterygium occurrence.
Blacks in Africa use traditional medicine widely1 but there is no report of whether its topical use in the eyes is associated with pterygium occurrence. Excessive exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light based on location,2 occupation,3 and length of time spent outdoors4 is regarded as the main association of pterygium occurrence. However, a previous report has shown that pterygium cases were more frequent in the Karoo than the Transkei, areas that receive similar levels of UV light.5 Moreover, climatic droplet keratopathy and pingueculae, which are also associated with excessive sunlight exposure, did not occur together with pterygium significantly.5 Contrary to expectation, pterygium prevalence was found to be low in patients attending a referral hospital in Rwanda, which is close to the equator and at a high altitude.6 Those reports suggest that there was another factor besides UV light in pterygium occurrence.
Exposure to dust has been reported to be associated with pterygium3,5 and heredity may also be a factor;8,9 however, single pedigrees were investigated, or the participants self-reported their family histories.
A relationship between dry eyes and pterygium has been claimed,10 yet has also been contradicted.9 Dry eye, whether associated with pterygium or not, has not been reported to be independent of other factors related to pterygium occurrence. Tobacco use has been reported to be associated,11 but also as being protective,12 and to have no relationship13 with pterygium presence. There is no report on a relationship between tobacco use and pterygium among blacks.
As the relative importance of hereditary and environmental factors in the occurrence of pterygium in blacks has not been reported, we aimed to determine the relative significance of the main factors associated with pterygium occurrence in rural blacks. Our objectives were to investigate whether environmental factors such as use of traditional eye drops, UV exposure, dust exposure, tobacco use, dry eye and family history were associated with pterygium, and whether pterygium clusters in rural black families.
This was a prospective case-controlled study, matched for age and sex, in Mankweng Hospital, Sovenga, which receives patients from all over Limpopo Province. The tropic of Capricorn crosses the province, which is predominantly rural, and is sunny and dry for most of the year.14
Ethical clearance was obtained from the two institutions' research ethics committees, and the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki (2000) were followed in obtaining consent.
Eligible participants were consecutive black patients aged 21 - 65 years who were born and living in a rural area. They were selected from the Outpatients Department in the Eye Unit. Those attending the eye clinic had primary pterygium; the controls, who were attending the refraction clinic, did not have pterygium and were not contact lens users. Cases and controls with previous ocular surgery or trauma, blepharitis or lid deformities, ocular surface malignancy, corneal scars, cataracts, maculopathy, glaucoma, optic atrophy or swelling were excluded. After obtaining consent, the selected individuals were recruited. A sample size of 300 (150 pterygium cases and 150 controls) was calculated to give a 20% difference in family history between cases and controls with a power of 80% and an alpha value of 0.05, assuming a base rate of 10% in controls. Between August 2008 and 2011, 150 pterygium cases and 150 controls were interviewed using structured questions that had been used in an earlier study.9 A full eye examination was done. Demographic factors such as ethnic group and level of education were documented. The risk factors assessed were: use of traditional eye drops, occupational exposure to sunlight and dust, tobacco use, dry eye and family occurrence of pterygium.
Use of traditional eye drops was recorded. UV light was assessed by determining the daily mean hours of exposure to sunlight, which was calculated from time spent working outdoors and leisure time outdoors. The proportion of outdoor occupations as a percentage of all occupations was calculated. Exposure to dust while at work and whether tobacco had ever been used was verified.
Familial occurrence was initially assessed by asking for family history. Such history was considered present if the pterygium patient or control said that a relative had or ever had a lesion on the eye that looked similar to a pterygium as shown to them in photographs.
The presence or not of dry eyes was evaluated by measuring the tear film break-up time (TBUT) as previously reported.9 The cornea was assessed for dark spots or streaks after application of fluorescein. The mean of three time intervals between blinks for the appearance of these areas was the TBUT, and a value <10 seconds was considered to indicate an unstable tear film (dry eye).
Follow-up family studies on selected cases and controls, who accepted a family visit and whose relatives were living within 20 km of each other within the rural areas of Limpopo Province were conducted. Families that did not possess diagnostic photographs of absent key members were excluded.
The key relatives of51 pterygium probands and 50 controls were visited and the eyes of those >9 years old were examined by one ophthalmologist (PA) using a diagnostic lamp, for presence of pterygium. Nine years was chosen as a cut-off age because this is the youngest age reported at which pterygium has been diagnosed in black patients.5 Photographs of absent family members were examined by PA. Key relatives included siblings, parents, offspring, grandparents, first uncles and aunts, and the propositus.
Data on variables that were reported to be present in a patient and the control partner during the period before the person was diagnosed as having pterygium, and data from eye examination, as well as data from family studies, were considered. Descriptive statistics for pterygium cases and controls were summarised. Odds ratios (ORs) for the risk factors of pterygium were calculated by a conditional logistic regression model. In all models, a 1:1 pair-matched analysis was performed using age and gender as pairing variables. Statistical significance was tested by the chi-square test, and variables that were significant in the univariate analyses were included in a multivariate analysis. In all the analyses, significance was set at p<0.05. STATA 9 for Windows software (STATA Corporation, College Station, USA) was used for statistical calculations.
To obtain a larger sample size for analysis in family studies, the key relatives of the case patients and those of the controls were combined into two separate large families.15 The difference in proportion of pterygium-affected individuals between the combined families of the cases and those of the controls was compared. The proportion of pedigrees having a group of pterygium-affected individuals was compared between cases and controls.
One hundred and fifty pairs of cases and controls were interviewed and their eyes examined. Table 1 presents demographic factors and environmental factors not found to be significant. The most frequent age range was 40 - 49 years. There were over 3½ times as many females as males. Education and ethnicity were similar among the cases and the controls.
Table 2 presents the count (percentage) and odds ratio (OR) of variables significantly associated with pterygium occurrence from the univariate analyses. The use of traditional eye drops and family history of pterygium were reported more frequently in pterygium patients. Dry eye was more frequent in controls.
Table 3 summarises a joint model of pterygium susceptibility with all variables listed in Table 2. All remained independently significant of one another. The pedigrees of 51 pterygium cases and 50 controls were visited. The families were located in the different regions of Limpopo Province; 382 individuals were examined in the combined families of pterygium cases and 394 in controls. Fourteen (3.6%) of 382 family members of pterygium probands, and 17 (4.3%) controls, were diagnosed by means of photographs. The age range of the family members was from 10 to 86 years, and the proportion of individuals aged <40 years was 71.9% (275 of 382) in pterygium cases and 72% (284 of 394) in controls. The pterygium probands had 56 combined offspring aged <20 years, of whom 3 (5.4%) were affected. Two - 14 individuals in a family were examined among the case pedigrees, and 4 - 12 in control pedigrees. Thirty-four (66.7%) of 51 case families and 33 (66%) of 50 control families had 6 - 9 individuals in a household, which was the median and also the most frequent range of family size. We found that 157 (41%) of 382 combined key relatives in cases were pterygium-affected, and 16 (4%) of 394 in the combined control pedigrees were pterygium-affected.
Table 4 presents the number of pedigrees of cases and controls in relation to the number of family members and number of individuals affected in a household. Larger families tended to have more pterygium-affected persons. Groups of pterygium-affected family members were more frequent in cases. Groups of 3 - 5 pterygium cases in a household occurred in 36 (70.5%) of 51 pterygium families v. 1 (2%) of 50 controls.
The use of traditional eye drops was the only significant environmental factor related to the occurrence of pterygium, and this was independent of family history and the presence or absence of dry eyes. Traditional eye drops are prepared from the leaves of a plant that the Pedi call Mmale, and were used several times a day for several weeks when eyes were acutely red (personal communication in 2011 from 3 users). As nearly half of the controls reported use of these traditional eye drops, yet did not have pterygium, it is unlikely that traditional eye drops directly caused pterygium. It has been reported that blacks who used traditional medicine believed in it1 and that they also followed certain traditions16 such as cross-cousin marriage,17 which tends to promote hereditary conditions in an extended family.18 The use of traditional eye medicine implicates an hereditary predisposition to pterygium occurrence in this study.
Family history of pterygium, which suggests heredity,9 was found to be the most significant, and independent risk, factor for pterygium occurrence, which has not been reported before. Diagnosed pterygium-affected key relatives were associated with pterygium occurrence, so confirming familial occurrence, which is a similar finding to that in a report on primary blepharospasm.15 The association of diagnosed pterygium-affected relatives with pterygium cases has not been reported before. Since alleles may or may not be transmitted, this explains why some families had 1 or 2 affected individuals. The presence of pterygium-affected individuals in some families of control probands seems to oppose a hereditary effect; however, those families were of pterygium patients in whom the probands were unaffected. Having both affected and unaffected individuals in a family does not mean that the disease is not hereditary.
Familial occurrence may be due to heredity or a shared environment or both. Since excessive sunlight exposure and dust exposure were not confirmed to be associated with pterygium cases; and the affected and unaffected family members lived close together; and the affected offspring of pterygium probands, who were aged <20 years were much fewer than the unaffected, yet both groups of offspring had similar exposure to sunlight as they were scholars; and the families of cases and controls lived in the same province that has been reported to be sunny and dry;14 and the age range of the individuals in the families of cases and controls was similar, suggesting a similar lifetime duration of exposure; we conclude that it is unlikely that excessive sunlight exposure and dust exposure were the shared environment that determined pterygium occurrence. Heredity may be the predisposing factor for the familial occurrence of pterygium.19 Moreover, heredity explains the tendency of larger families to have more affected members.15,20 Because some patients were exposed for short durations, sunlight despite low exposure may be only a trigger for pterygium to occur in predisposed individuals. As the level of education was equally low among patients and controls, and the available employment was mainly on farms (as reported before21), these may be reasons why controls were as excessively exposed to sunlight and dust as the cases.
An unstable tear film was infrequent in this study. This condition was negatively associated with pterygium presence, and was independent of use of eye drops and of family history. The blurring of eyesight owing to dry eyes was a reason for some controls to seek refraction. The majority of participants were female, perhaps because of male migration from rural areas to urban centres to find work, as previously reported.9
The use of traditional eye drops appears to be associated with pterygium occurrence in rural blacks while an unstable tear film, suggesting dry eyes, appears to be protective. Heredity, which manifested as a family history of pterygium, confirmed by having diagnosed affected relatives, was significant in pterygium occurrence. Investigations on a molecular basis for hereditary predisposition to pterygium occurrence are recommended as this will facilitate strategies to prevent pterygium.
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13. Durkin SR, Abhary S, Newland HS, Selva D, Aung T, Casson RJ. The prevalence, severity and risk factors for pterygium in central Myanmar: the Meiktila Eye Study. Br J Ophthalmol 2008;92:25-29. [ Links ]
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Accepted 14 June 2012.
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What a great idea! So much better than the excessive focus on "the dress," as you note.tReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 9, 2011 at 6:59 AM
I love this. What a wonderful tradition....thanks for posting.ReplyDelete
I love this! I love the tradition, the unbroken chain of the dress being handed down; it is sacramental and puts the focus on something besides the outward show.ReplyDelete
Truly lovely.
Fran (from work id)
I love this idea, very thoughtful and resourceful. Resourcefulness is a virtue! Another expensive item is prom gowns. I borrowed one from my friend in high school and nobody was the wiser.ReplyDelete
- Valerie SheehyMay 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM
I agree. And First Communion always comes so close to Easter (another occasion when money is spent on fancy clothes that don't get worn much) that when my two sons made their First Communion they each wore their Easter suit with a white tie and a white rose in the lapel. They also wrote a note to Project Bread and donated the money that would have been spent on a white suit. And unless they're doing a second grade production of "Mark Twain Tonight" when are you going to wear that again??ReplyDelete
Delightful and, as Fran pointed out, a wonderful way to instill a sense of tradition and appreciation thereof. I worry about the loss of knowledge about folk traditions from Catholics with diverse ethnic backgrounds. These traditions are charming, inspiring and occasionally wonderfully goofy.ReplyDelete
I love tradition and this is a beautiful one. Was only able to use my baptismal dress for our seven children and many of the 22 grandchildren wore it too.ReplyDelete
Just this morning I had an email from a friend in another state who found her daughter's First Communion veil and, after a bit of "update," is taking it to her granddaughter in yet another state who will wear it for her First Communion in a few days. Beautiful!
Thumbs up! I've heard of a few parishes that keep a rack of First Communion dresses for loan each year.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 9, 2011 at 5:27 PM
For my First Communion I wore a perfectly plain white organdy dress. But over it I wore an old lace dress that my mother had worn for her First Communion. I guess the underneath part of her dress had deteriorated. I loved the dress and I loved the fact that it had been my mother's!ReplyDelete


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Intel has spoken of its near-future plans to tackle the mobile processor market, where it's currently being soundly beaten by ARM, whose architecture is used on more than 90-percent of the world's smartphones. While Intel has already had a go at grabbing some of the market for itself with the Medfield Atom chip, its limited adoption has seen it become largely forgotten.
So what's next for Intel? Its plan is to forge ahead with the creation of much smaller and more efficient mobile systems-on-a-chip, this time built using a 22nm manufacturing process, which it currently uses for its Ivy Bridge PC processors amongst others. Intel's current crop of mobile chips are built using 32nm technology, and by shrinking them down to 22nm, they would become the smallest of their type in the world.
All this was announced at the International Electron Devices Meeting which took place in San Francisco earlier this week. Reuters reports that the presentation used at the conference promises the 22nm Intel SoCs, "will be ready for high volume manufacturing in 2013."
Drawing on experience
This makes it all sound very easy, and while Intel has a certain advantage over its competitors by already building 22nm chips – Qualcomm's at 28nm and Nvidia's at 40nm – it's quite different to try and squeeze all the components not usually associated with PC processors, such as the memory and the radios, onto a single, tiny chip. Intel says its going to overcome this problem by employing the same 3D Tri-Gate transistors it uses in the production of its Ivy Bridge chips.
According to a report by Bit-Tech this would, "provide a significant boost in efficiency," while an Intel spokesperson said 22nm Tri-Gate chips could offer hardware manufacturers with the option of increased performance from the same amount of power, or to keep the performance the same as 32nm chips while lowering power usage. As standby times and battery performance are becoming more important to us, this could be seen as a considerable benefit.
However, for all Intel's noise, no other date except for 2013 was offered for when the next generation chips would arrive. Because it has taken nearly a year to launch a handful of phones using its Medfield chip, it's hard to imagine anything much happening at a consumer level before 2014. Earlier this year, Intel Mobile VP Mike Bell said the Merrifield 22nm smartphone SoC would be out in 2013, saying, "This is a really big deal for us," and that it would, "change the game for Intel in the smartphone world."


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Our yards don't provide you with tools or a mechanic to help you get your part, but if you ask around there is some people that charge a determined amount of money to pull the part for you. Auto Salvage yard places only allow a person who is over the age of 16 to their yard for obvious reasons, your kid gets hurt and they get in trouble. Most Auto Salvage places charge a fee to get into the yard, those prices vary from $1.00 – $3.50
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Remember my Modified project? Good, because I'd all but forgotten about it. Locked away in storage since I boxed and Z'd the stock A chassis and installed the Dagel's Street Rods crossmember kit last year, I recently got all fired up about it again after a house move meant I finally had all my cars and parts in one place. Figuring a rolling chassis would be easier to move around than the wheelbarrow-like chassis and rearend, I set about acquiring the parts to install a dropped I-beam on quarter-elliptic springs. With the rearend already pushed forward a good few inches, despite the front axle now being way ahead of the crossmember, and even the framehorns, in spite of appearance the wheelbase isn't as long as that of a '32.
With the exception of the hubs and wheels (and the drum brakes when I get to that point), all the parts used here are new, but the overall project should still have an "old" feel to it upon completion—at least that's what I'm aiming for. One exception I'm going to have to live with are the steering arms. I wanted to use early Ford spindles with their built-in arms, but, as with the majority of I-beams, these arms hit the "dropped" section of the Vintage Parts axle and don't offer enough turning radius to be used safely. However, the steering assembly will be the subject of another installment.
I want this car to ride low, albeit with nothing hanging below the scrub-line, and like the look of quarter-elliptic springs. I also wanted to mount these above the framehorns, rather than remove the horns as is commonplace. This meant heavily modifying the mounts supplied with the springs by Posies. I decided it'd be easier to simply fabricate new ones for my application. The dropped I-beam is a new product by Vintage Parts, and is supplied pre-drilled. Though Posies also offers bolt-on spring perches, these wouldn't align with the holes in the axle, so again I made my own, though the ones shown here are temporary. Posies builds ride height adjusters into their mounts, which I unashamedly copied, but I'd like to get the height as close as possible to ideal before using the adjusters, so the perches shown here were quickly fabricated to provide a baseline. I deliberately used seamed tubing so I won't be tempted to use them on final assembly, where I'll make neater versions from seamless DOM (drawn over mandrel) tube.
I'm no different from you guys out there, and can't afford everything at once, which is why you'll notice no front tires on the early Ford 16×4 steel wheels. However, knowing I'll be using 26-inch tires meant I could use wood blocks to set the wheels at ride height, to establish the height of the front axle. The caster angle then determined where the rear of the split Fatman Fabrications wishbone would mount, as I wanted to mount them through the side of the chassis 'rails. This then determined the height of the front of the chassis in relation to the floor, consequently determining where the springs would be mounted. Got that? You have to start somewhere, and the height of the axle is the single non-adjustable part of the equation once you know your tire diameter. So working within these self-imposed parameters, let's get this chassis rolling …


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NERSC-8 Procurement
*** The NERSC-8 System has been announced. This page remains for reference. ***
NERSC-8 Procurement Overview
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) requires a high performance production computing system in the 2015/2016 timeframe to support the rapidly increasing computational demands of the entire spectrum of DOE SC computational research. The system needs to provide a significant upgrade in computational capabilities, with a target increase between 10-30 times the sustained performance over the NERSC-6 Hopper system.
In addition to increasing the computational capability available to DOE computational scientists, the system also needs to be a platform that will begin to transition DOE scientific applications to more energy-efficient, many-core architectures. This need is closely aligned with the US Department of Energy's 2011 strategic plan, which states an imperative to continue to advance the frontiers of energy-efficient computing and supercomputing to enable greater computational capacity with lower energy needs. Energy-efficient computing is a cornerstone technology of what has been called exascale computing and represents the only way of continuing NERSC's historic performance growth in response to science needs.
Read more from the NERSC-8 Mission Need Statement.
Partnership with Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center and the Alliance for Computing at Extreme Scale (ACES), a collaboration between Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory are partnering to release a joint Request for Proposal (RFP) for two next generation systems, NERSC-8 and Trinity, to be delivered in the 2015/2016 time frame. The intention is to choose a single vendor to deliver two systems of similar technology.
Workload Analysis and Vendor Market Survey
At the start of each procurement NERSC surveys the HPC vendor market to understand current and future technologies and to gather input from vendors before the formal RFP is released. NERSC also shares high level goals, design targets and constraints in a Vendor Market Survey Presentation.
Also see a recent workload analysis presentation for information on the type of applications and algorithms that NERSC users run. The presentation also includes statistics on memory, threading, and library usage.
Assuring that real applications perform well on the NERSC-8 and Trinity platforms is key to the success of the systems. Because the full applications are large, often with millions of lines of code, are typically written using MPI only, and in some cases (LANL/SNL) are export controlled, NERSC and ACES have put together a suite of 'mini-apps' and micro-benchmarks for RFP evaluation and system acceptance.
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Commercial expression, anti-smoking extremism and the risks of hyper-regulation.
Christopher Snowdon examines the case for plain packaging of cigarettes, including examples from around the world. He finds that its supposed benefits are, in fact, nonexistant, and plain packaging laws may have significant unintended consequences as well, including making counterfeiting of cigarettes more common. Plain packaging laws could lead us down a slippery slope where alcohol and even fatty foods are also controlled by the government.


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Jessica is going to college! She started her first year of college this fall, and she's loving it! And seems to be doing well. (Would she tell me if she wasn't?) She's going to school close to home, and comes home often (which I'm very thankful for!). She came home this past week for fall break. I quizzed her again about CFS –
I asked her if she has any symptoms, and she said no. She did have a sore throat a few weeks ago, and I think that was due to some stress at the time. She actually said she had a sore throat last week. And she has had a few headaches lately.She stays busy with schoolwork and activities. I worry that she's too involved and is doing too much, but so far it seems that she's doing ok. She goes to 2 or 3 different collegiate ministries during the week nights. She's on the Student Activities Board, but they haven't been doing much. She's on the pep club. And of course she's hanging out with friends. She's even been running some, and just started the Couch to 5K program. Does she still have CFS?
I asked her if she limits herself, and she said no…. if she paces herself, and she said no… if she takes naps, and she said no (though she took one Sunday before fall break, several during fall break, one yesterday, one today...). She has rearranged her sleep schedule – because college kids stay up late! – and she stays up late and wakes up later in the morning (to roll out of bed and go to her 9:30 or 10:00 classes).
She does still take all her medications. And my husband and I request that she bring her pills back home with her when she comes so that we can fill up the daily pill cases to help ensure that she is taking them. She's doing pretty good with it. When we went to her doctor's appointment with Dr. S in August, he encouraged her to continue taking her medicine even when she feels good because it would be harder to get her back to that point if she quit taking her medicine and had a bad crash.
She just got her midterm grades, and she's making A's and B's. So she's studying too!
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Annual, perennial herb, generally from rhizomes
Stem round or flat
Leaves generally mostly basal; sheath margins fused, or overlapping and generally with 2 ear-like extensions at blade junction; blade round, flat, or vestigial, glabrous or margin hairy
Inflorescence: head-like clusters or single flowers, variously arranged; bracts subtending inflorescence 2, generally leaf-like; bracts subtending inflorescence branches 12, reduced; bractlets subtending flowers generally 12, generally translucent
Flower generally bisexual, radial; sepals and petals similar, persistent, green to brown or purplish black; stamens generally 3 or 6, anthers linear, persistent; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 1 or 3, placentas 1 and basal or 3 and axile or parietal, stigmas generally > style
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal
Seeds 3many, often with white appendages on 1 or both ends
Genera in family: 9 genera, 325 species: temp, arctic, tropical mtns. Fls late spring to early fall.
Perennial; rhizome often short, vertical
Stem round
Leaves mostly basal, reduced upward; sheath closed; margin and sheath opening generally with long, soft hairs; blades flat or channeled, veins indistinct, tips often thick
Inflorescence: head-like clusters or panicles of separate flowers; bractlets 13, margins often hairy
Flower: stamens 6; pistil 1, chamber 1, placenta basal
Seeds 3, plump, elliptic, often with a distinct ridge, sometimes attached to placenta by tuft of hairs
Species in genus: 80 species: worldwide, especially n hemisphere
Etymology: (Latin: light; Italian: glowworm)
When present, fleshy seed appendage (outer seed coat) adapts large seeds to ant dispersal.
Plant cespitose, 1040 cm
Leaf: sheath opening and blade margin with long, soft, wavy hairs; blade 515 cm, 37 mm wide, tip thickened
Inflorescence umbel-like; clusters 16, spike-like, 515 mm, 57 mm diam, spheric to cylindric; lowest bract < to >> inflorescence; bractlets clear, margins ciliate, especially in upper 1/2
Flower: perianth segments 25 mm (sepals often > petals), dark brown to pale, margins wide, translucent; filaments << to > anthers
Fruit spheric, = to << perianth, greenish to dark brown
Seed 11.5 mm, cylindric, red-brown to brown; appendage 1/41/2 seed-body length
Chromosomes: 2n=12,24
Ecology: Common. Meadows, open woodlands, coniferous forests
Elevation: 503200 m.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, High Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada (except Tehachapi Mountain Area), Central Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, Channel Islands, San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, Modoc Plateau
Distribution outside California: to Alaska, Rocky Mtns
Synonyms: vars. congesta S. Watson, macrantha S. Watson, subsessilis (Buchenau) S. Watson; L. campestris var. columbiana H. St. John
Highly variable, the intergrading and poorly defined forms often treated under L. campestris (L.) DC. or L. multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Monitoring sensors in the background
The source of the problem is that the sensor is powered down when the screen is off. This is implemented below the Android framework (either in the kernel driver or in hardware, I would be curious if anyone knows the answer) because if you recompile the latest sources from android.git.kernel.org, sensor data will be delivered nicely to the application in the emulator even if the keyguard is locked (the stock 2.1 emulator's Goldfish sensor does not emit any event, that is why you have to recompile from source) . The fact remains: if you want acceleration sensor data on the Nexus One, the screen must be on. This pretty much kills all the user-friendly applications that want to analyze sensor data in the background while the phone is idle. In the worst case, the screen must be constantly on (e.g. for a pedometer that needs to measure constantly because you never know when the user makes a step) but the situation for a simple context reasoner service is not much better. Such a service (read the vision paper for background, you need free registration to access) may want to sample the sensors periodically (e.g. collecting 5 sec. of samples in every minute). In order to perform the sampling, the screen should be switched on for this duration which would result in a very annoying flashing screen and increased power consumption.
You can observe these effects in the improved Sensors program that is able to capture sensor data in the background.
Click here to download the example program.
Start and deploy this program and you will see the familiar sensor list. If you click on any list item, the old interactive display comes up. The improvement here is that the application measures the sensor sampling frequency. The rate can be set in the settings menu, from the main activity. If, however, you long-press on the list item, the sampling will be started in the background. In this case there is no interactive display of the samples, they are always saved into the /sdcard/capture.csv file. The background sampler does respect the sampling rate setting, however. The background sampler is implemented as a service.
So far there is nothing extraordinary. You may observe the ScreenOffBroadcastReceiver class in SamplingService that intercepts ACTION_SCREEN_OFF intent broadcasts and does something weird in response. In order to understand its operation, you must be aware that the power manager deactivates all the wake locks that are stronger than PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK when the keyguard powers the device down. Obtaining for example a SCREEN_BRIGHT_WAKE_LOCK in the broadcast receiver would be of no use because at this point the screen is still on and the wake lock would be deactivated when the screen is turned off. Instead, the broadcast receiver starts a thread, waits for 2 sec (experimental value) and then it activates the wake lock with wakeup option. Try to push the power button when the background sampling is on, the screen will go off for 2 seconds but then it is turned on again and you will see the keyguard screen. If you check the log, you will see that the sensor sampling stops for that 2 seconds then it comes back on. Don't worry, when the background sampling is stopped (by long-pressing the sensor's name in the list again) the screen will turn off correctly.
Ugly? You bet. Not only the solution is a bad hack but it also prevents the device from switching off the screen and those AMOLED displays plus the high-powered processors eat battery power like pigs. The decision that the sensors are powered down when the screen is off prevents the implementation of some of the most exciting mobile applications and significantly decreases the value of the platform.
But enough of the grunting. This is the state of the art in background sensor sampling in Android (as of version 2.1 of the platform), I will continue with signal processing algorithms.
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- Matthew said...
It's still an annoying hack, but you can get by with a PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK. At least for the accelerometer and for my Android 2.0-2.01 device (Motorola Droid).
You need to register for the ACTION_SCREEN_OFF event and then when that fires unregister your sensor listener and then re-register it. The screen stays off, but the monitoring continues.
protected BroadcastReceiver mReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
if (intent.getAction().equals(Intent.ACTION_SCREEN_OFF)) {
sensorManager.registerListener(sensorEventListener, sensorAccelerometer, SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL);
Good luck with this work-around!
- April 22, 2010 at 9:42 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
sorry, mathew, i tried it on the nexus and re-registration does not work.
- April 22, 2010 at 10:15 PM
- Matthew said...
I haven't tried it since I was upgraded to 2.1 on my Droid, so maybe it's an OS version difference. From what I saw, Google developers acknowledge that this is a problem that shouldn't exist, so I'd hope it didn't get worse going into 2.1.
I'll re-try my own app and see how it does on my upgraded Droid.
- April 22, 2010 at 10:21 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
i am very much convinced that the problem is below the android framework. i suspect the kernel power driver. is the kernel also upgraded during the update process?
- April 23, 2010 at 6:18 AM
- kosiakk said...
There is known firmare bug describing this problem:
More information on
- April 23, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- Gabor Paller said...
kosiakk, my understanding is that it is not a bug, it is an intentional decision from Google's part to protect users against power-hungry background applications. This, however. goes against the Android philosophy (everything is possible if the user is aware of it).
Creating appropriate permissions or more sophisticated power management framework where apps could declare how power-hungry they are and let the users decide would be a better approach.
- April 23, 2010 at 10:13 AM
- Kevin McDonagh said...
On a related hardware sleeping note, upon waking from sleep, something to be aware of is that is that the radio hardware may be turned off, connecting to network hubs and allocating IPs might take a little time and so a connection is active without an actual internet connection. Granular privileged intents will be difficult to manage in the community but are inevitable.
- April 23, 2010 at 12:15 PM
- kosiakk said...
Gabor, nope.
I talked to one of Android managers directly, Reto Meier, and he confirmed that this is threated as a bug. "If you hold wake lock - you should receive sensor events" and promised that the fix is already there, but delivery depends on cellular providers, as usual.
Another question is who and why added this 'bug'. I agree that this might be the part of power-saving effort. But we will newer know for sure =)
There's an permission for accessing wake lock - Prevent phone from sleeping.
No nothing should be changed, but the bug itself.
- April 23, 2010 at 12:23 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
kosiakk, would partial wake lock be enough? Because it does not help if you need to turn on the screen just to be able to receive sensor events.
- April 23, 2010 at 12:54 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
Could you elaborate about this one? :-)
"Granular privileged intents will be difficult to manage in the community but are inevitable."
- April 23, 2010 at 2:42 PM
- Calle said...
Very interesting blogpost Gabor. I am actually working with a similar task and have a question about background monitoring. I perform tests with a HTC Desire which behave very similar as the N1. Have you heard anything on how this matter has changed in the 2.1 version? Again, thanks for very interesting reading on your blog.
- May 6, 2010 at 2:12 PM
- Gabor Paller said...
Calle, I don't know more than what is explained by kosiakk here in the comments. According to him, it is a fault and simple partial wake lock should be enough to keep the sensors running. I have 2.1 on my N1 and the problem is present, loud and clear.
The solution presented here is a bad hack but I am not aware of anything better at this moment. :-/
- May 6, 2010 at 4:46 PM
- Jordan said...
For what it's worth, I just installed the Froyo FRF50 build that has been kicking around on the internets for the last few days. On my Nexus One, it now seems that the sensors remain on when the screen is locked (ie., off). I've bitched about this a bunch on the Android Developers mailing list, and I'm hoping that they have taken the bait, and at least in the next update they will allow sensors to work once again when the screen is locked.
It's also possible that this leaked build that I'm running is not what will eventually be released, and they'll go and disable the sensors again and piss of a whole bunch of developers... time will tell...
- May 23, 2010 at 11:51 PM
- David Shellabarger said...
I know this is not a problem on the myTouch 3G because I have killed battery's that way with older versions of Smart Lock.
I know register my Sensors with ACTION_SCREEN_ON.
I had reports that Nexus One users had the same battery draining problem, but I recently upgraded myTouch 3G to 2.1 (cyanogenMod) so I'll test out the sensor responsiveness with the screen off and get back to you.
- June 15, 2010 at 7:08 AM
- blazivic said...
great post!
quick question: what does the numbers on the left column of the capture.csv represent?
another if i may: the sampling frequency, does it varies during the measurement? or we can assume that the value 17hz (in UI mode) is constant throughout the measurement?
- July 26, 2012 at 3:53 PM
AS of 2014, Issue 3708 is still unfixed. The workaround mentioned above by first poster only works on certain devices. It's not a universal fix.
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Sometimes the Robins and Batgirls get *really* mixed up. There's been what... at least 4 Robins and 4 Batgirls? (Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Damian Wayne; Betty Kane, Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain, and Stephanie Brown - plus all the alternate timeline/universe versions)
The turnover rate for Batman's sidekicks is worse than part-time retail positions. They all seem to get killed (Jason Todd), maimed (Barbara Gordon), or turn into bad guys (looking at YOU, Cassandra).
Personally, I was kinda hoping for Starfire, Static Shock, Blue Beetle, Red Hood (Jason Todd), or Ravager (Rose Wilson).
But I guess we can't have every comic character. Though in my opinion the roster is pretty sparse considering what Marvel vs. Capcom's rosters are like. Not to mention Ravager would be too much like Deathstroke in playstyle and Red Hood would be a bit too much like Nightwing.
At least give us Martian Manhunter, though. Dear God, why do people always forget about him? HE IS AWESOME! ;_;
I can understand most of the playable characters being in the game, but I don't see why Ares and Solomon Grundy are there. Ares... bleh. Not exactly iconic unless you're a big fan of Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl (Wonder Girl is probably more relevant to more modern/younger audiences, and she's not even in the game). And Solomon Grundy is just kinda bland. So many better (and more iconic) Batman villains they could have used, like Clayface, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, Ra's al Ghul, or Deadshot. I mean, just choose one. Hell, even the Scarecrow would have been more interesting than Solomon Grundy.
I am, however, really pleased that Deathstroke, Shazam, and Raven are in it. To be honest I wasn't expecting Shazam or Raven to be in it, but I can be pleasantly surprised.
I was pretty disappointed that Scorpion was one of the FOUR DLC characters (assuming it's true). I know he's an obvious choice for an MK crossover, but between the choice of a crossover character and another DC character, I'd take another DC character any day of the week. I already own MK9, so why would I bother using Scorpion? Considering the sheer number of cool DC characters they could have used, it's seriously a wasted opportunity. Any real DC fan could instantly rattle off ten characters that they would trade for Scorpion. It also irritates me because I suspect he's going to be a direct port of his MK9 version.
I'm okay with Zod and Lobo. I was never a cult fan of Lobo, but I know he does have a large fanbase. Zod is just badass. If he wasn't in a game where Superman is a main character I would question Netherrealm's sanity.
If they have Batgirl, it should be Barbara Gordon. Just my personal opinion, but I think it would fit better considering that Cassandra turns into a bad guy after the One Year Later arc. Not to mention she was the first Batgirl that actually mattered.
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Cassandra Cain was handled badly, they later had it being that she was under the influence of a drug.
With how badly the Heel Turn was with her DC started to consider her "Toxic" and still do to this very day even though THEY screwed up her character with a very poorly planned event to try and help Tim Drake who didn't need help anyway. Hell, Tim fans were angry that Cassandra, who has a great relationship and history with Tim and is one of his most trusted allies, was changed so drastically and for no good reason. Cassandra also sold consistently well when she had her Batgirl title so this change made even LESS sense as she didn't even need it either nor was it wanted.
Than there's the thing about Tim still being one of the characters that can hold a book with just his name alone and sell well. Like how they used Tim to sell New 52 Teen Titans and only now are they considering on giving Tim his own solo again.
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I still can't believe that they had Nightwing have that happen to him by that crazy lady. What's even more sad is that the person that did that issue didn't believe it was what it was even after saying that Nightwing was in no position to say No and wasn't into her.
Though to be fair Tim has almost had women force themselves upon him a few times(Such as Red Robin where Ra's wanted his DNA for a true heir and it almost happened until Cassandra saved him from losing his virginity) and he has a lot of girls that want his virginity as lovers. Even his adopted sister Cassandra wants Tim and Tim still remembers that he saw her naked before in the same thought process as he's thinking of his other love interests that he has seen naked while slowing heading towards a girl that was showering.
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Any person that has a lung condition or disease will tell you how scary it is to have trouble breathing. Samaritan Medical Center is committed to helping the northern New York and Fort Drum community diagnose and treat their lung diseases, as well as provide rehabilitation options to help you breathe easier.
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Early detection is a proven, successful strategy for fighting many forms of cancer. Samaritan Medical Center offers low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for people at high risk for lung cancer.
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related death in both men and women in the United States. Because lung cancer has no symptoms in its early stages, more than 85 percent of the men and women who are diagnosed with lung cancer today are diagnosed in a late stage, after symptoms occur and when there is very little chance of cure.
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Bronchoscopy is a procedure that allows your doctor to look inside your lungs' airways, called the bronchi and bronchioles. The airways carry air from the trachea, or windpipe, to the lungs. Bronchoscopy can help find the cause of a lung problem. For example, during the procedure, your doctor may see:
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EBUS is used to obtain lung specimens to be biopsied for lung cancer. EBUS is a tool used by physicians, which features an ultrasound Doppler. This procedure is less invasive than conventional surgery. The EBUS system also makes biopsies safer and more accurate than conventional methods.
Pulmonologists Dr. Rechlin, Dr. Kramer, Dr. Youngblood and Dr. Sears are credentialed to perform this specialized and advanced procedure. To schedule an appointment with these specialists, please call Pulmonary Associates at 315-786-0254.
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The ENB is a specialized system of endoscopic tools and technology used along with traditional bronchoscopy to provide computer-driven GPS based on a patient's CT scan. The tools extend much further into the lungs than standard bronchoscopes, which enables the physicians to reach more of the lung tissue for a more accurate diagnosis.
ENB is an outpatient procedure, and patients are typically discharged the same day. The ENB technology provides a safer, lower complication risk alternative to traditional methods or the other approaches, such as "watchful waiting," as is the case with many patients diagnosed with lung cancer who are often non-surgical candidates.
Pulmonologists Dr. Rechlin, Dr. Kramer, Dr. Youngblood and Dr. Sears are credentialed to perform this specialized and advanced procedure. To schedule an appointment with these specialists, please call Pulmonary Associates at 315-786-0254.
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Pulmonary Rehabilitation is designed to help people living with lung disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic bronchitis, emphysema, occupational/environmental lung disease, neuromuscular disease, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung disease, heart-lung transplant, and restrictive chest wall disease. To learn more, contact Samaritan's Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation at 315-785-4208.


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Check that. The Three Masked Cavaliers (move over, Musketeers) attempted to storm into MSG with their 5-19 brigade. Commander, Kyrie Irving aka Batman/Zorro/Uncle Drew, struck gold, playing with a vindictive attitude under the mask, erupting for 41 points. Commander Irving reminisced game 2 Rajon Rondo from last year's Eastern Conference Finals, refusing to give up in the final seconds, hitting a couple of huge threes in crunch time. The Wine and Goldknights' raid nearly succeeded, but Lieutenant General, Anderson Varejao, missed a crucial second free throw with a second left. The Knickerbockers without their 5 star commander, Carmelo Anthony, retained their home turf. Sorry guys, I got too excited with war metaphors, but they do correspond with tonight's down-to-the-wire Knick win at home. Sloppiness on defense summed up the Knicks' first quarter, mostly the interior defense, being the main cause for the Cavs' early 28-27 lead at the end of the first. Steve Novak, J.R Smith and Jason Kidd combined for five threes in the second, propelling the Knicks into a 48-45 first half lead at halftime. 15 points of the Knicks' 21 second quarter points came from beyond the arc. The Knicks went on to beat the Cavs in the third quarter 30-28 and ended up losing the fourth quarter 29-25 because of that man named Kyrie Irving, who had 16 points in the fourth. Notes and stuff:
- With Carmelo Anthony sitting out (substantial sanctions, David Stern? I don't think so),
Brittney GrinerChris Copeland made his debut, finishing with 11 points on a very efficient 4-5. Cope was off to a great start. He hit a corner three back in the beginning of the first quarter, leading me to believe that it was Melo in a hand made Chris Copeland suit. Turns out that wasn't the case later on. Cope on the defensive end was mediocre. He was using his hands too much. Cope even said that he wasn't a good defender, claiming that he's a scorer, but at least he should of tried his best. Maybe he did try his best and he's just that bad of a defender. Hmph. Overall, Cope's debut was an outstanding one on the offensive end, but poopy on the defensive end. I'll take it.
- The Knicks are like Kevin Garnett in that they love 20-22 foot jumpers. Who's that bulldog/duck that loves to sensually kiss those long twos? That is the man himself, Raymond Felton. Per usual, he couldn't get enough of those, according to him, sexy long twos. The long twos need to remind him that he's married. He took 6 of those. Seriously, does Ray know that he needs to stop cheating on the three point line (and, ahem, J.R)? But Ray did go 3-4 from downtown, so it's all good. Along with his 25 points, he had 7 assists, mostly from the Felton-Chandler pick and roll excellence continued, containing a couple of beautiful lobs. Ray continues to get a little overexcited with the lobs, but when they work, I fist pump like Judd Nelson every time.
- Ronnie Brewer made his lone jump shot in the wee minutes of the first quarter. Not much of him was seen, but he did come up with 3 rebounds and a couple of assists. The littlest of things can help.
- After missing his only shot of the game in the early minutes of the first quarter, Tyson Chandler went on to make his next 9 shots, continuing to scare the living bejesus out of everyone because of his through-the-roof efficiency. Tyson ended with a double-double (23-10). He dominated both the offensive glass and defensive glass, grabbing 5 rebounds each. My Tyson Chandler tip-out counter: OVERLOAD. Somebody has to trademark Tyson's tip-out because it's so absurd how many times he tipped out rebounds. You know what? I'm gonna trademark it right now. When in doubt, if you're ever playing Scattergories and the category is "Famous sports phrases", The Tyson Tipout™ will get you not double points, but triple points. To tack along with Tyson's double-double, he went 5-7 from the charity stripe. WATCH OUT, RESTRICTED AREAS, THE UNFALTERING TRUE SHOOTING PERCENTAGE/EFFECTIVE FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE BEHEMOTH IS COMING FOR YOU. Oh, and somehow, Tyson ended up with a -8. This is where +/- can backfire.
- Jason Kidd was visually impaired on offense. J-Kidd was trying to channel his inner Donyell Marshall by jacking up a ton of threes, but he didn't succeed in doing so because he didn't even make a quarter of them, shooting 3-13 from three. Yes, all of his shot attempts were from the perimeter except one. Chucking up threes wasn't the solution, so J-Kidd decided with his cranium full of basketball IQ that he was going to dish and provide some assistance in the rebounding department. He rightfully did so, dishing 8 assists and snagging 6 rebounds and even had a couple of rejections. Of all the Knick starters, J-Kidd was the only one that went positive (+5). I applaud of your veteran leadership and ass-hauling for 37 minutes, J-Kidd. Now get some damn rest.
- Another episode of Bad J.R happened. Captain J.R got me high tonight for bad reasons, and it barely got me through tonight (Billy J.R.). Erratic as J.R is, well, he was hyper-erratic in another typical Bad J.R shooting night. *Echoes of Ray Felton 20-22 foot jumpers in his head occur.* J.R's drink of choice tonight was shots of Ciroc *J.R fantasizes about him being P. Diddy in the Ciroc commercial.* Not to mention, he got away with a no-call strip on C.J Miles in crunch time, which is the equivalent of barely passing a sobriety test. Amazingly, Earl ended with a -1.
- Stevie Novak capped off a barrage of threes in the second quarter. He also produced under the boards, grabbing 5 rebounds. Novakaine's quick release was only really on in the second. His release was off for the rest of the game, but on the bright side, there was a Novak block sighting. Unfortunately, Novakaine's perfect 1.000 FT% was ended tonight, after missing a free throw in the 4th quarter. Sad face. Novak tried being Ricky Rubio, but that pass resulted in ref Monty McCutchen David Lee Roth jumping over the ball, hitting courtside patrons, causing them to spill beer on other fans in the vicinity.
- Kurt Thomas's alter ego "The Bruiser" was showcased. 4 of his 5 rebounds were hustle offensive rebounds. Kurt also had a couple of sweet assists and a block with a +4 in 14 minutes. That's what we exactly have Kurt for.
- Pablo Prigioni inbounds steals make me go wild. They really do. Other than that, there wasn't a lot of action from Prigs. He did contribute to the boards getting 3 rebounds. I predict two inbounds steals next time around.
Kyrie Irving must of borrowed Kobe's mask from last season, making a few little modifications to it. Anderson Varejao was held in check by Tyson, holding him to only 8 rebounds. Surprisingly, Donald Sloan didn't flop. Maybe he learned the first time he flopped. C.J Miles was quite the scorer. Tristan Thompson did his best Tyson Chandler impression going a perfect 5-5 from the field. And Tyler Zeller' s hook shot isn't actually a hook shot, it's basically my hook shot from 5th grade blacktop basketball.
The Knicks are now a perfect 10-0 at home. Jeremy Lin's return to MSG is tomorrow, which is gonna be so blood-tingling. I think there will be mixed reaction when he makes his entrance. Fans should be cheering for him because after all, he was branded in NYC where he jump started, but I doubt everyone is gonna cheer for him. There will be some boos, though. Quite frankly, I got over the Jeremy Lin offseason stuff really fast. It would of been awesome to have him back, but he didn't come back, and look at where the Knicks are now. Raymond Felton has proved so many people wrong this season, which has made me done several cartwheels. I had so much faith in Raymond Felton prior to the season starting. I knew that he was eating too many cupcakes, and he knew he was very out of shape. At some point, he may have been contemplating about eating himself to death. He hated Nate McMillan's system back in Portland (sorry, Blazer fans), leading to his worst season historically and playing in Denver as a bench option was never the same feeling he had in his first stint as a Knick. Ray loves New York. He wanted to be back in New York. And here he back in New York at the helm for the 18-5 Knicks.


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FaceBlam! App For iPad - Quickly Create and Customize Facebook Timeline Art
There are some cool Facebook cover art images out there that combine the user's profile image and cover photo to seemingly appear to be one photo. However, the task to find photos, resize and align them to get that same look isn't as straightforward. The name leaves something to be desired, but the FaceBlam! app can let iPad users select an image, add effects, and create perfectly-sized Facebook timeline art.
It's pretty simple to setup - If you have a 2nd to 4th generation iPad, you can either snap a new picture by positioning the objects in the pre-determined Facebook timeline art guidelines. If you can't avoid people laughing at your for taking a picture with your iPad, you can import any image from your Facebook account. Once you have selected an image, use your fingers to scale, rotate, crop, and move the image fit within the guidelines.
FaceBlam! Also lets users apply Instagram-type filters and effects to images for a more customized-look. Once you have everything perfect, the app saves the image to a new "FBlam Photos" album on Facebook. To apply the finished images, you will have to ditch the iPad and visit Facebook on your computer to change your cover art and profile photo, but the end result is a formatted profile image and cover art that's automagically blended together to form Facebook timeline art that didn't take 'intro to Photoshop' lessons to accomplish.
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On Wednesday, June 29, 2011, Governor John Hickenlooper announced his appointment of Valerie V. Haynes to serve as the County Court Judge in the Tenth Judicial District, which serves Pueblo County. Haynes will begin her tenure on the bench July 1.
Haynes is currently the Assistant County Attorney for Pueblo County, where she has served since 2004. As Assistant County Attorney, Haynes focused on representing governmental entities in the areas of statutory and regulatory compliance. Previously, she was a Deputy District Attorney for the Thirteenth Judicial District, the Fourth Judicial District, and the Tenth Judicial District. She also worked in private practice.
Haynes received her B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado in 1985, and her law degree from the University of Denver in 1995.


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Flashback chess!!
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CowBe wrote:lolol good story Mia! and yes chess helps open ur Brain and reasoning..and u know what?? some weeks after i learned how to play chess..i challengue to themaster that failed my exam..and i WON woo hoo but he killed me saying " u should use the intellinge in ur examn as u use in this match "
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Hey, it's another Disney attraction recreated in Half-Life 2! Last time it was the Tower of Terror, this time it's the sadly now-closed Adventurer's Club at Disney World.
Video games as a virtual archive for shuttered theme park rides (or, in this case, nightclubs). It's not the most expected role for the medium, but I have to say, it's definitely one of the most charming. Especially since the interior is so painstakingly depicted. There's love and history at work here, and those two together can do wonderful things.
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Can I Change Radiation Facilities for a Week?
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
How difficult would it be to temporarily transfer radiation treatment for 1 week? Chemotherapy is completed & a full mastectomy was done. The radiation is the last step to treat any cells remaining in the breast area. The patient has been looking forward to a vacation that was booked a year ago. The treatment would all be within the state of New Jersey.
Terry Styles, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
Each radiation treatment machine is different, and every course of radiation treatment is planned based on the specifications of a specific treatment machine. On rare occasions, such as a necessary and unplanned machine repair, we may consider switching a patient to a different machine within our department for 1 or 2 treatments. We can consider doing this because the differences between all of the machines in our department have already been measured. Thus, we are able to quickly quantify the differences between the two machines and recalculate the treatment for the new machine to ensure that things are fairly consistent. When you are talking about switching from one department to another, however, this is extremely difficult to do, and accounting for variations is extremely challenging. As a result, we very strongly discourage any temporary (or permanent) transfers from one radiation therapy center to another (even if they're all in the same state) once your treatment is already underway.
The radiation oncologist may feel that it is possible to safely hold radiation treatments for a week and to resume upon return. This may mean inferior cancer control, and may require some extra treatments to compensate for that missed week. . If side effects are really bad (i.e. skin breakdown during breast radiation), such treatment breaks are given, but again, It may impact negatively on outcome, and thus we try to avoid treatment breaks as much as possible.