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There are many grim projections for the Cosmic Era, and far from being the most horrific or exotic, the Universe 26 model has a frighteningly real chance of happening.
'Llaewyn the Fair she was in her youth, in all truth a lover of mine. Though that boast is not mine alone, she was the beloved of many. And joyous, most joyous in form and deed. Till the time of her father's death. She alone sat by the auld king's bed and soothed his fevered brow though ever cruel in life was he. Cruel to all but Llaewyn to whom he gave every comfort and protection his world had to offer. The Fair One walked into the chamber of his last breath and the Black Queen walked out.' -Spectre of the Courtier
The PCs are in a graveyard, when as they are passing a noble tomb with a certain symbol embossed on the door, the magic user in the party hears a voice from being the tomb door begging to be let out. What do the PCs do?
Even evil gets lonely.
Goblins descended on civilised land from the east nearly one thousand years ago. Now, it's time to descend upon them with all the fury they have shown us they are capable of.
The holovids are full of stories about mecha garrisons bravely battling dastardly pirate raiders. It's a pretty picture for the propaganda films, but its a long way from the truth of the pirate raids.
...and I'm going to fucking give it to them. (Note: This submission is largely so I don't forget the details of this plan once I'm less pissed off.)
People live inside a series of walls. Outside the walls, there are Titans (giants, unless you actually want to use the Titan, which are fetching powerful). There's a spell that needs breaking to return everything to normal size. That can only be done by collecting the elemental devil arms. Hot dang.
In the middle of summer a small town is beset by a blizzard that enshrouds it in a blanket of snow. The cause is unknown and all contact with the town is lost. The player characters are hired to investigate the town and put a stop to the blizzard if at all possible.
(An adventure written in the more rigid and hand holding "old school" style and quality level of original fantasy adventure modules from the early to mid 1980's)
The town of Silverfox Mill was a quiet place for many years, but this peaceful town has begun to unravel. The arrival of the Usury Guild drained the populace of their livelihood, forcing many into poverty, alcoholism, and prostitution. Complicating this trying time the town has recently lost its most beloved citizen, the wizard Osric Skanderbag. With his absence it seems the long-dead witch Anna has been raised to murder and poison, but this may be a front for more contemporary threats.
The Sea hides many secrets in its depths, here are 30.
Five heirs. Five years. One crown.
'You are freed from all cares brothers and sisters! All worries! All need to toil and labour for the baron's taxes, in the guild's fields and for the peddler's wares! All the drink you could ever need!'
Final words of an extremely drunk hedge conjurer by name of Oates Greenlock.
An ominous emblem begins appearing in tapestries, paintings, engravings, streets, etc. across the town or city in which the players are staying.
While enjoying a meal in the local tavern, the party strikes up a conversation with another customer, who is witty and urbane.
A sorcerer with evil intentions or just a murderer waiting for another fool?
At a crossroads, the characters come across a trio of thick poles set into the ground, just outside the overlapping roads.
An obviously wealthy and beautiful woman contracts the PC's to solve a missing persons case. The missing person is her younger sibling, a teenage boy.
Or why you should always look women in the eye
I have just one question: How do I use this as a dungeon master.
Women expressed themselves by the clothes they wore~
One can only defeat so many villains that want to "cover the world in darkness" before one starts to look for a different flavor of horrible.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Finding a job in January - is this plausable? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Finding a job in January - is this plausable? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> France View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Jame VelmontJoined: 27 Feb 2005Posts: 6Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject: Finding a job in January - is this plausable? From my research I know that the best time to find a job in france is September and that a lot of teachers sign a contract then for eight or ten months or whatever. I know the worst time is the summer because a lot of the schools shut down, but what about the middle of the school year? I'm planning on moving to france (paris) in january - should it be that difficult to get a job then? btw, i have a uni degree, will be TESOL cert. by then, several years teaching exp in asia and a working knowledge of french. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. cheers Back to top roganJoined: 03 Mar 2003Posts: 416Location: at home, in France Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:59 am Post subject: My guess is that your canadian nationality will be your biggest problem. That said, you might find some help through a twinning organisation linking Laval (Mayenne) and Laval (Quebec or Ontario) Don't know a great deal about it, but it does exist to tighten links between the old country and old emigrés Back to top Jame VelmontJoined: 27 Feb 2005Posts: 6Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject: Quote: "My guess is that your canadian nationality will be your biggest problem." why is that? if i have a working holiday visa i would assume it would not be THAT difficult to find work? is there really that much of a bias towards non-EU workers? Back to top LuderJoined: 10 Jul 2004Posts: 74 Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject: Don't listen to Rogan, Jame. At least not when he's busy delighting in telling us North Americans we can't work in Europe. He's always doing it. It gets old. As for your question, outside of September, January is probably as good a time as any to look for work in Paris. That said, pay is poor in most places and life is expensive. Back to top John HamiltonJoined: 17 Apr 2006Posts: 45Location: France Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: January in Paris I think that's a bit harsh on Rogan. It is simply much harder for North Americans to find work in Europe, not impossible but much harder. In fact about as easy as it is for Brits to get a Green Card. Back to top go2guyJoined: 15 Apr 2004Posts: 74Location: France Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:30 pm Post subject: Good "entry periods" for finding work are indeed September and January, but there is a constant need for good trainers in France. The CDN working holiday visa may be the best "back door" for those looking to work for a year -- and beyond! I have met a few Canucks here who have used it to set up good situations and then make it work toward snaring a carte de séjour (after going back to Canada for a mandatory waiting period for visa processing, mind you). 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ATY Northeast
Mass. yard building scalloper; home to Maine for repowering
After launching the 95-foot scalloper Concordia in December 2011 for Malvin Kvilhaug of South Dartmouth, Mass., Fairhaven Shipyard in Fairhaven, Mass., has another scalloper under construction.
The new boat will measure 79′ x 26′ and is for Kirk Larson of Barnegat Light, N.J. She was designed by Farrell & Norton Naval Architects with offices in Newcastle, Maine, and Fairhaven, Mass. Fairhaven Shipyard's Kevin McLaughlin says he "believes the scalloper will replace an existing boat."
The new boat is designed along the lines of the Elizabeth — an 83′ x 24′ dragger built at Fairhaven Shipyard in 2008 — says Garrett Norton of Farrell & Norton. "She is just shorter and wider. It's a single-chine, dual-dredge with an ice fish hold."
McLaughlin said the keel was laid in the summer, "then we took a break. Now we are framing all the bulkheads and tank tops and will probably start assembly after the first of the year. It will probably be ready about this time next year. The owner doesn't want it for the 2013 season."
The 79-footer will most likely be powered with an 800-hp main engine, but in late December the owner hadn't made a decision as to what engine, though McLaughlin thinks the choice is between a Caterpillar and a Mitsubishi.
The keel on Larson's boat went down prior to the July 1, 2012, deadline when she would have been subjected to new load line and classification standards. Norton says the keels for a "couple of other boats" also went down before the July 1 deadline, but they "seem to have just drifted off to the side."
He attributes this to a kind of wait-and-see attitude where "a lot of people are leery that they have cut the scallops back so much next year. They are saying they will give them back the days, but I don't think anybody believes that."
Besides building Larson's scalloper, Fairhaven Shipyard has a fair amount of work with 10 boats in for repairs. Among them are the scalloper Celtic, which is getting new steel plating along the sides of the boat, as well as in the shaft alley and the engine room.
The Sea Ranger is having work done on her bulwarks. The scalloper Luzitano is getting a new tail shaft, and yard crew went over the decks on the scalloper Contender and is installing new bunk rooms and a new heating, ventilating and air conditioning system.
One thing about satisfied customers is that they will most likely return, even if it takes a while to get there. A case in point is the 38-foot Red Storm that was trucked up from its home port of Riverhead, which is on New York's Long Island, to Farrin's Boatshop in Walpole, Maine.
The first week in January, the Red Storm, which fishes for snails and sea bass, was outside the boatshop, waiting for a crane to show up and haul out the boat's 500-hp Lugger 6125.
In 2000, Farrin's Boatshop finished off a new Wesmac-38 hull. That was the Red Storm. "Now we're going to repower it, paint the hull, the superstructure," says the boatshop's Bruce Farrin, adding that he "sure appreciates my long-distance customers."
The replacement engine hadn't been determined. "We're beating that around now," said Farrin. The options were between John Deere, Cummins and Caterpillar. Whatever the choice, there will be a drop in horsepower.
"The newer engines are more efficient, and the fisheries have changed so they don't have to run as far," Farrin says. "The new engine will be quieter, burn less fuel and be easier for maintenance." He expects the repowering job to be pretty straightforward with no changes to the exhaust or cooling system.
Besides repowering the boat, the crew at Farrin's Boatshop will be going over the Red Storm, "from the keel to the top of her and check everything out, hoses, bolts, seacocks, hydraulics and probably Awlgrip the hull," Farrin says. The electronics are good so they shouldn't need to be upgraded.
Besides the work being done on the Red Storm, Farrin's Boatshop is repowering a pleasure boat from gas to diesel and rebuilding a 36-foot Jarvis Newman pleasure boat. — Michael Crowley
ATY West
Bowpicker will also longline; 58-footer getting a whaleback
A hull for an aluminum bowpicker built by Hard Drive Marine in Bellingham, Wash., is on the floor of Petrzelka Bros. in Mount Vernon, Wash. Petrzelka Bros. is finishing off the 34′ x 12′ hull for Ashton Poole of Homer, Alaska, who will use it in the Copper River salmon fishery.
This boat should be a little different from other bowpickers. It will have a "sliding net drum, extra hold space and a fairly large fuel capacity — for more cruising range. It will also be set up for an RSW system," says Petrzelka Bros.' Jon Petrzelka. Poole is "trying to make it so he can do other fisheries. He wants to be able to longline as well as gillnet with it."
Poole's boat has a pair of Iveco engines hooked up to Doen water jets. Petrzelka says that while "most people use Hamiltons, the Doen is considerably less expensive, and some people like them as well or better than Hamiltons."
Another gillnetter being finished off at Petrzelka Bros. is a 32-footer for Bristol Bay that was built at Master Marine Services in Mount Vernon. The gillnetter has a tophouse and a single Traktor Jet hooked up to an 850-hp MAN.
Traktor Jets, from NAM Jet in Benton, Ark., are going into a lot more boats built for the Bristol Bay gillnet fishery, in part "because it seems to push the load with a Bristol Bay boat easily," says Petrzelka.
A return customer for Petrzelka Bros. brought in a fiberglass bowpicker that the boatshop had repowered and built a new cabin for "five or six years ago," says Petrzelka.
This time the boat's deck was removed and the yard installed a new raised, flush deck. They lowered the hatches for the fish holds "so they are all on the same level. You don't have to handle the fish more than once. They fall on the floor and go in the fish hold," says Petrzelka.
Besides building boats, Petrzelka Bros. is also known for the deck equipment it designs and builds for gillnetters. This winter that's a big part of the boatshop's work as "a lot of new bowpickers are being built for Cordova," says Petrzelka. "So we are building a lot of reels, power rollers and deck equipment. It seems like 30 to 40 percent of the new boats built, we put the equipment on them."
At the Oregon boatshop J&H Boatworks in Astoria, Tim Hill refers to the 58-footer in his shop as "one of the most complete metal renovations that I'm aware of."
The boat, out of King Cove, Alaska, was built in the 1950s and has sunk once that Hill knows of, and maybe twice. The owners salvaged the boat and had her rebuilt so they could fish it.
This fall they brought the 58-footer to J&H Boatworks for a sponsoning job — the beam went from 19 to 26 feet — a whaleback addition and to have a freestanding mast built. "The old style house is completely gone. The tophouse is up on four little skinny legs and we are tying a whaleback into it," Hill says.
In addition, J&H Boatworks cut open the transom and constructed a stern ramp for dragging. By the time she returns to Alaska, the 58-footer will also be set up for crabbing, pot fishing for cod, and salmon seining.
For the time being, the fish hold won't be expanded into the sponsoned area, though that could be a future option.
"For a small boat it's a huge amount of work," Hill says. The owners "wanted it to look really nice. It's a design that has nothing but curves. There's no straight section."
Tullio Celano, whose company is Crescere Marine Engineering in Columbia City, Ore., did the design work. "He is getting to be well known," Hill says.
Once J&H Boatworks completes the metal work — Hill is hoping for March — the boat will go to Seattle for an interior rebuild.
J&H Boatworks is also building shelter decks for a couple of boats in the longline and crab fisheries. One of those, the 75-foot Majestic, is getting a 33′ x 30′ shelter deck. — Michael Crowley
ATY South
More scallopers from Fla. yard; history lesson in pound netter
Duckworth S
teel Boats of Tarpon Springs, Fla., is building two scallop boats for Eastern Fisheries in New Bedford, Mass. This will bring the total to eight that the Florida boatyard has sent to Eastern Fisheries, which now has 25 scallopers.
Prior to starting work on the two boats, Duckworth launched two scallopers in 2012 for Eastern, the Røst and the Pyxi. Both were 95′ x 27′ x 12′ and had bulbous bows.
The two new scallopers measure 95′ x 28′ x 14′ 6″ and will also have bulbous bows.
Duckworth Steel Boats is also working on a scallop boat owned by Billy Wells of Wells Scallop Co. in Seaford, Va. The boatyard's Joe Duckworth says cabin windows on Wells' boat leaked horribly. This required removing the old pilothouse and building a new one along with some new rigging.
"The scallop fishery is keeping our yard real busy," says Duckworth. "It's one ocean fishery that seems to remain strong."
Moving up to Chesapeake Bay, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission's policy of annually rotating oyster grounds for commercial harvesting has resulted in at least one oysterman building a new boat.
The oyster grounds range from the James River to Tangier Sound in Chesapeake Bay, which is a considerable distance for a small boat to travel on a daily basis. Thomas Lee Walton of Walton's Seafood in Urbanna, Va., and his sons, Lee and Scott, have been using 24- to 32-foot fiberglass boats for oyster dredging.
The Waltons trailer their boats to the James, York and Rappahannock rivers but Tangier Sound oyster grounds are in the opposite direction and in the middle of Chesapeake Bay. Trailering a boat that distance from Walton's oyster shucking house in Urbanna could require staying overnight.
So the Waltons are having JC Kinnamon of Kinnamon Construction on Maryland's Tilghman Island build them a 39′ x 11′ fiberglass-over-wood deadrise boat. The boat will have overnight accommodations and enough power, length and beam to run across the bay to Tangier Sound.
Prior to starting Walton's boat, Kinnamon finished a 37′ x 11′ fiberglass-over-wood boat for Maryland waterman Dennis Jones for blue crab trotlining. "That's all [Jones] has ever done," says Kinnamon. "He needed a new boat and my father and I have built a many a boat for the trotline fishery."
On the rails at Reedville Marine Railway in Reedville, Va., is the 64-foot Dudley, a pound-net boat built by the late Gilbert White of Palmer, Va., in 1938 for the Biddlecomb family. The boat is still owned by Reedville's Fred Biddlecomb.
George Butler and his crew at the railway are replacing the last of the pine bottom planks installed in 1938 with 2-inch juniper planks.
Biddlecomb uses the boat to drive pound poles for fishermen and for charter fishing. The boat is named after his brother, Dudley.
White was a renowned Virginia boatbuilder, who started out building log canoes in Mathews County. Then he moved to Lancaster County and became a pioneer in the development of deadrise and cross-planked boats in the Virginia area of Chesapeake Bay.
The Dudley has some old-time construction features that aren't used by today's builders of wooden boats. "The keel has to come off to replace any portion of the bottom," says Butler.
"Mr. White's boat were built with the ends of the bottom planks butted up to each other, flattened [on the inside edges toward the keel], and the keel goes on over the seams of the bottom planks. Modern boatbuilders butt cross-bottom planks up to the keel so individual planks can be removed without disturbing the keel."
Portions of the skeg were also replaced, as were two sister keelsons with cypress timbers.
"Many of Mr. White's older boatbuilding features show us how construction of deadrise construction evolved," says Butler. "It's a lot of work to remove the keel just to replace bottom planks so that style of construction was soon altered. Mr. White was a pioneer in deadrise construction and he built a good boat that lasted. Just look at the Dudley, she's still working the Bay at [75] years old."
— Larry Chowning


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Leading companies are moving beyond conventional AI uses like chat-bot issue resolution or personalized shopping. Instead, they are thinking more broadly about how AI can transform the customer experience.
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Frequently Asked Questions About FAC and FAC Overpayments
- What is FAC?
- Federal Additional Compensation (FAC) was a federal program created as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The FAC program provided a $25 weekly supplement to the Unemployment Insurance (UI) payments. The FAC program ended December 12, 2010.
- Why am I receiving a notice of a FAC overpayment?
- You are receiving the UCB-25 Notice of Federal Additional Compensation Overpayment because you were found to have been totally overpaid unemployment insurance benefits for a week(s) and you must also repay the overpaid FAC payments. The date of the original overpayment decision or notice that established the overpayment is shown on the UCB-25.
- Why am I receiving this notice of FAC overpayment now? The overpayment was from a long time ago.
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What you need to know before you go
Most come to Cambridge to visit the hallowed halls of its prestigious 800-year-old university or marvel at the antiquities housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum, but there's more to see than these grand old institutions of academia.
You could grab a bite to eat at one of the city's Michelin-starred restaurants, join the young students at one of the many summer festivals, or take to the waters zig-zagging down the River Cam on punts in search of a sunny picnic spot. Culture vultures could catch one of the year-round theatre productions or admire one of the country's greatest collections of 20th-century art at Kettle's Yard.


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MILLEDGVILLE, Ga. – Senior
Diane Danna (Paris) of the No. 30 Georgia
College & State University women's tennis team (10-10,
5-6 PBC) was named GCSU Athlete of the Week for the week ending
April 11. This is the first such honor for the Bobcat women's
tennis team this season.
In first singles action the senior went 4-0, while going 2-2 in No. 1 doubles with teammate Bertille Lion (Lyon, France) this past week. Tuesday, the 'Cats fell 6-3 to No. 12 Clayton State University, where No. 48 Danna defeated No. 43 Viktoriya Semyrodenko in three sets, 6-3, 2-6 and 10-4. In the 7-2 loss to Brenau University, the Paris native downed Lyn See Choo 6-1, 6-4.
Against UNC Pembroke Friday in the 6-3 Bobcat win, Danna beat Jenna McGary in a pair of 6-3 sets, while the French duo won 8-4 over McGary and Janna Oxendine. Sunday, the 'Cats took down a very tough NAIA team in the Savannah College of Art and Design, 7-2. Danna claimed her match 6-1 and 6-0 against Romina Mrochen. Down 7-2 in doubles against Mrochen and Courtney Collins, the French pair fought back to an impressive 9-7 victory. Danna has now won 10 out of her last 11 singles matches.
The Bobcats are back in action Wednesday, April 14 hosting Peach Belt Conference (PBC) foe No. 32 Lander University for Senior Day at 2:30 p.m.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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The New Ramchargers: We Talk Viper Engines From 1992 to 2014 and Beyond
Chrysler has always had an odd relationship with its motorsports involvement, never as officially hands-off as GM, nor as "Destroy All Enemies No Matter the Cost" as Ford. Even in the heyday of powerful pentastars, during the development of the 426 Hemi, there was a relatively small number of engineers working on racing projects. Many of the famous Ramchargers spent their own time and money to get cars out to the track for testing and grassroots marketing.
Judging by the Chrysler engineers we met at Summit Motorsports Park during Power Tour 2014, the spirit of the independent Ramcharger is still alive and well. There were several Dodge (sometimes SRT) Vipers on Power Tour, and three of them were straight from Detroit, with current or former Viper engineers behind the wheel. We (well, me for sure, but I think the rest of HRM too) really like the Viper. We like its history of being a big American brute of a car and declaring with a V10 roar that Corvettes are for sissies, and we like its current refinement into a modern muscle car that we'd gladly make our daily driver. Talking about the Viper with some of the men who made it happen was pretty neat, and we sensed some of the same passion and competitiveness that we admire in the original Ramchargers in the current crop. These guys take the Viper personally. They are irritated that Dodge isn't out in the fray with Camaro and Mustang, and they seem pretty excited about the upcoming Hellcat Challenger. "I wanted to bring the Hellcat down for this," said Viper Powertrain Engineer, Dick Winkles. "I think we should have had it here." This last bit was said with just the slightest hint of frustration, as if the powers that be had rejected his suggestion. Winkles did manage to snag a 2014 Viper for the day though, and he made some pretty solid 11-second passes on a track that was a bit slick from dragstrip newbies rolling through the waterboxes on street tires. When he had a chance, we sat down and talked Viper engines. The 2014 V10 is rated at 640 hp. That's a big number from a smog-legal naturally aspirated production engine, even if it does have two extra cylinders. How did the Viper engineers get from the original 400 horses to more than 600, and what does the future hold for performance engines?
Gen 1 '92-'95
400 hp
460 tq
The Viper engine has been disparagingly called a "truck" motor, due to the V10 configuration which seems at first glance to be similar to that of the Dodge truck line, and the initial prototype being an iron block didn't help its reputation, but Viper engineers hate to hear that. "It's an aluminum block based loosely off the small-block Chrysler V8," says Winkles. "It's not the truck engine. If you went through it, we shared, like, one part. A bolt or something. It was much more like the A-engine." Think fuel-injected and fancied up 340.
How did Chrysler develop an aluminum engine? Well, at the time, Chrysler owned Lamborghini, remember that? The big bull was under the ram from 1987 to 1994. Winkles was over in Italy during the initial design of the Viper prototype, working on Lambo V10 engines, so when the decision was made to go with an aluminum 10-cylinder in the Viper, he was put on the engine team. "I came back from Italy and heard, you're on the Viper now. We had some design help from Lamborghini, to convert iron to aluminum. You can't just cast the same block. Aluminum requires different strengthening ribs, has different cooling characteristics. Lambo designed the water jackets, they had a lot of experience with multi-cylinder aluminum engines."
Gen 2 '96-'02
450 hp
490 tq
The Gen 1 engine was a very solid piece of machinery, perhaps more solid than necessary. The V10 weighed something like 700 pounds. Winkles says the first place they went for more horsepower in the second generation was scraping some metal off that big ol' motor.
"In Gen 1 we overdesigned everything. It had to be bulletproof. I can't blame people for thinking it's the truck engine. It certainly looks like one. The Gen 2 objective was to lose weight. The heads are much more sculptured, I can't remember exactly, but I think we took 60 or 80 pounds out of the engine.
Our target was 450 hp. We changed cam profiles, it has more aggressive ramps, but no real change to duration and overlap. The main changes were in the exhaust. We had a lot of noise restrictions, and we knew that if we went out the rear of the car, that helps with sound, so no side exits."
Note: Staff Editor Brandan thinks a Viper with rear exhaust is not a Viper. Just so you know in case you're planning on buying him one for Christmas.
Winkles with the '14, Herb Helbig with the '09, and Greg French with the '03
Gen 3 '03-'06
500 hp
525 tq
Bigger is better, so the Viper engine grew a bit in '03. Something else important happened at the same time. Wanna guess? Well, if you'd always wondered why the Viper wasn't a Hemi powered machine, it's because it predates the return of the Hemi engine. In '03, Dodge introduced the Gen III Hemi, but by then the Viper was pretty well established—and designed around—the decamer of the V10. Despite that, Winkles says the Viper did pull some parts from its new Hemi brethren, and it bumped up the horses to half a thou.
"The desire was 500 horse. We increased the displacement (from 488 to 505 ci) with a larger bore and longer stroke. It shares a common rod and piston design with the Hemi. In '04 we went to a powdered-metal rod. We changed the ports. The big difference in the Gen 3 engine was how good the ports were."
What was it they learned about porting that they hadn't known in 1992?
"Airflow science evolved. In the early days you couldn't cast or machine the way you wanted. CNC was so expensive. You were limited by the foundry. We started using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) programs that allow you to optimize the design to reduce losses. The combustion chamber was improved, the runners on the intake manifold were shortened for more rpm. We went back to a side exhaust, which had crossover pipes to tune out sounds and keep back pressure. The downside was heat in the cabin. We called that crossover 'The ring of fire.' We were experimenting with active noise cancellation, but the speakers weren't durable enough at the time."
Gen 4 '08-'10
600 hp
560 tq
The Gen 4 Viper engine is really an impressive use of modern engine technology. "I bought a Gen 4 Viper myself," Winkles said, and we noticed that several of the other engineers were also rocking the '08, '09, and '10 snakes. It's always very telling to look at what the factory guys are driving…although, the father of the 426 Hemi, Bill Weertman drove a six-cylinder wagon, so there are always exceptions.
Back to the Viper. The car was in trouble. The emissions rules made it nearly impossible to make horsepower in the old school way, by simply making lobes and cylinders bigger. "CARB came to us and basically said 'Thou Shalt Not Continue to Build This Car,' and we didn't know what to do." Winkles recalls. "The main problem was OBD requirements, mainly misfire detection readings. With a large overlap cam, that causes difficulty with misfire detection. With a big engine and a lot of cylinders, it's really hard to detect a misfire, and so the readings were not meeting regulations. We had to reduce dilution in the cylinder at light load, and that's caused by overlap. If we went to a fixed camshaft that would meet the requirements, we'd lose 100 hp, and we could not have the Viper come out with less horsepower than previous years.
We looked at high energy ignition, reed valves in the manifold, none of that would work. While we were testing we found that exhaust lobe position affected misfire at low speed combustion. Mechadyne had come to us in the past about its cam-in-cam tech. That's a cam which is a shaft inside a tube so you can independently time either intake or exhaust. It's not a new idea, it goes back to the '30s, but Mechadyne had a modern patent. It's a very complex change, so we hadn't done anything with it until we ran into the CARB problems.
Originally we wanted to do VVT (Variable Valve Timing) on both intake and exhaust. We had problems with the dual phaser so we decided to go with fixed intake and varied exhaust. Varying the intake might have gained some more low end power, but the Viper isn't exactly down on torque.
Making it work was a huge undertaking, we were the first production car to use cam-in-cam. Others had VVT with dual overhead cams, but not cam-in-cam. One side benefit was the exhaust note control allowed by the VVT, it cooled the passenger compartment down."
So was the cam what made the 100-horse jump?
"No, no, that is not what made the extra hp, the big difference, the big bump was cylinder heads, we went to a CNC port. The airflow improvement from Gen 3 to Gen 4 was about 60 of the 100 hp we made. The intake was another bump. We went to 8.4 L (510 ci), and commonized the piston with the Hemi, a cast piston. Cast pistons actually make more hp."
They do? Why?
"You can make a more complex shape with a cast piston, with a multi-part mold, but a forged piston can be more durable, and has a performance reputation."
Gen 5 '12-Present
640 hp
600 tq
Perhaps because of the performance reputation of forging, the Gen 5 Viper went back to a forged piston. No 100-horsepower jumps this time, Winkles says the latest V10 is an exercise in refinement.
"When we went back to a forged piston, we looked at a lot of piston options and they would all be a 20 hp loss or more. We ended up choosing Mahle and only lost 3-4 hp which we made up in other improvements. The intake is now plastic, which is 12 pounds lighter, and has better thermal characteristics. We evened out the intake runners, and got about 12 hp. We picked up 10-12 from a cam change, 5 from a high-flow cat. It's all little improvements."
What will we see in the future?
"I feel the Viper engine is at the zenith of a naturally aspirated cam-in-block two-valve engine. There aren't any large stones unturned. You could make over 800 hp if you didn't have to pass emissions, but we do. Emissions will force the downsizing of engines, so that will mean more power adders in the future."
So there you go. The snake trail to 640 hp.


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NC honoring veterans at Capitol ceremony
RALEIGH, N.C. — Current and former service members will focus upon the recent return of military personnel from the war in Iraq during this year's Veterans Day ceremony at North Carolina's state Capitol.
Gov. Beverly Perdue was slated make remarks at Saturday morning's official state ceremony on the old Capitol grounds in downtown Raleigh.
The commander of the state's American Legion, a U.S. deputy surgeon general and a one-star Army general at the Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg also were set to attend the event.
A downtown Raleigh veterans' parade preceded the scheduled ceremony.
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It's the best time of the year... floating season! Book your spots for a fun trip down Central Texas's favorite natural lazy river!
Your ticket includes:
- Round-trip transportation from downtown Austin to and from the San Marcos River to float with our partners at Texas State Tubes.
- A Tube
- A Cooler Tube for your group to use
- After leaving downtown Austin, we will stop on the way to the river for you to pick up alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages, snacks and ice for you to take on the river. In order to protect the San Marcos River, styrofoam and glass are not allowed.
- We provide the coolers complimentary for your convenience on the bus. Please be sure to buy some ice when we stop for beverages!
- Floats normally last around 3 hours, depending on the speed of the river which is altered by the amount of rain we have in the area annually.
- The entire experience lasts about 6 hours
- The bus and float are BYOB.
Check In:
- Check In is at BBG's on 6th St. the 25 minutes prior to your booked departure time.
- The bus will depart promptly at the time on your reservation!
- BBG's will have drink specials for our guests, and can also make food-to-go for your trip!
$3 Mimosa
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We'll send full details including your guide's name and number, what to bring, and other information via email the week of your float!
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- New regulations are being enforced by the city of San Marcos on the river - stopping for long periods of time not will be allowed on the float during prime season dates, July-August.
- Please grab a reusable trash bag from Texas State tubes before hopping on the river to collect your trash for the duration of the float. If you do not grab a trash bag, put empty cans back in your cooler. Please do not throw your trash in the river!
- The bus will leave from Texas State Tubes no later than 4:00 PM. You are responsible for arriving by this time in order get a ride with ATC back to Austin. The bus cannot wait longer than this time. If you are later than this time, your valuables will be left on-site and you will be responsible for getting your ride back to Austin. There is plenty of time to float and arrive back before this time - just be mindful!
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What is International Treasurer?
iTreasurer (formerly International Treasurer) is the NeuGroup's flagship monthly newsletter. Launched in 1994, iTreasurer and its companion website iTreasurer.com have been the leading providers of "Intelligence for Treasurers" for more than 20 years. Drawing on exclusive access to senior treasury executives at the world's leading companies, iTreasurer provides an unrivaled perspective on what is driving the treasury agenda.
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As a subscriber to iTreasurer, you will receive concise, high quality articles that focus on the news, issues and trends that are specifically important to treasurers who are building world-class treasury departments. You will stay abreast of what treasurers are thinking, what's on their agendas, and how they are responding to current challenges. You will be privy to the latest developments in banking, treasury technology and other treasury services, and how world-class treasury practitioners are using and reacting to them.


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In-kind gifts of catering, travel, hotel accommodations, floral designs, technology equipment, printing, art and office supplies, and consulting enhance LUMA's ability to provide the highest quality museum experience for our visitors. Be as imaginative as you like, and we will acknowledge your generosity in all related promotional and marketing initiatives. We look forward to discussing further this mutually beneficial partnership! For more information, please contact Theolyn Patterson at 312.915.6719 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Gifts of Art
The Museum's collections have benefitted greatly from the generous gift of art by its supporters. Among these is donor James Govan, who has begun the incremental transfer of his 500-piece contemporary crèche collection with the initial gift of 50 works. Other recent gifts to both the Martin D'Arcy and LUMA collections span cultures, faiths, and media from 308 Neolithic idols to a color lithograph by Marc Chagall and a print series by Stephen Prina.
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Effectively introduce and reaffirm your gourmet standing in Chicago to LUMA's visitors and members. We invite you to be a part of and benefit from exclusive events, openings, and education programs by providing your signature food and beverage. In-kind donations of food and beverage are welcomed for all LUMA events.
- Annual Gala: the Museum's yearly fundraising celebration for 300 art aficionados and dedicated supporters
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Cover Gallery for June 19, 2013
A note about the Cover Gallery:
New Comics are listed first, followed by New TPBs and other items. Restocks and Reorders follow all new items. Clicking on an image will take you to a larger image with detailed info for the comic (and in some instances, preview pages).
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Pentagon inspector general raps European Command chief
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military's top officer in Europe used a military plane to fly him and his wife to France for an exclusive party with top wine-makers and lovers, a violation of rules on using government property for private activities, according to the Pentagon's inspector general.
Adm. James Stavridis, commander of U.S. European Command and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, maintained that the trip to the Burgundy region of France included meetings with French military officials and was thus part of his official duties.
The report is the second this year that criticized the military's most senior officers for abusing the privileges of their offices. Army Gen. Kip Ward, the former head of Africa Command, spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for private travel on military aircraft and stays at luxury hotels, the inspector general found in a report released in June. Ward also accepted free meals and tickets to a Broadway show in violation of federal rules.
Stavridis is the military's top officer in Europe, overseeing military operations from the continent to Israel. As Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, he helps oversee the coalition's war operations in Afghanistan. He also oversaw the alliance's air war in Libya.
On May 8, 2010, Stavridis traveled to Dijon, France, to attend a ceremony sponsored by the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin (the Brotherhood), an international society of Burgundy wine enthusiasts dating to 1934, the inspector general noted. He was inducted in the Brotherhood, a private organization that promotes the wines, food, customs and traditions of the Burgundy region.
Stavridis, his wife and several staff members flew from his post in Belgium to Dijon, France, aboard a C-37, which is a Gulfstream V business jet outfitted for the military.
Stavridis accepted the invitation to the Brotherhood, according to his response to the inspector general, because the ceremony included top statesmen, military and business leaders. He also noted that France's top military officer had invited him, although the inspector general's investigators could find no record of that.
The admiral told investigators that he gave a speech in French at the event on the importance of the NATO alliance.
"We do not contend that Adm. Stavridis' attendance was not beneficial to NATO and the United States," the inspector general report found. "We are not persuaded that those benefits justified his attendance at the event in an official status."
The inspector general concluded that Stavridis, his wife and other staffers reimburse the government for the cost of the flight. It also recommended the Pentagon take "corrective action" against him.
The report also found excessive spending on cellphones by the admiral's staff and the failure by some to fully reimburse for personal calls. Three staff members had annual usage fees in 2010 of more than $17,000 each, including the top cellphone spender at $32,860.26.
An official admonished staffers about their cellphone expenditures in an e-mail, obtained by the inspector general.
"In closing, I need to remind everyone that we all have a fiscal responsibility to use our Taxpayer's funds appropriately," the unnamed official wrote. "Think of these devices as you would if you were paying the bill, when it comes to usage and time duration of calls."
The Pentagon had no comment Friday on the report.


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Tickets from the Panama Pacific International Exposition On February 15, 1911, President William Howard Taft signs a resolution designating San Francisco as the official World's Fair City to celebrate the future opening of the Panama Canal. Eight months later, on October 14th, Taft comes to San Francisco to break the ceremonial ground. The next day he lunches at the Cliff House, and toasts San Francisco as "the City that knows how."
Sheet music from the Panama Pacific International Exposition San Francisco invites the world to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition for opening ceremonies on February 20, 1915. The City is honoring the 1914 opening of the Panama Canal, the culmination of a heroic, decade-long construction miracle by United States Army engineers. America succeeds where others have failed—against all odds and obstacles from mountains to malaria—in cutting a passage through the land bridge at Panama and uniting the two great oceans with heavy-lifting locks to accommodate the world's ships.
No less is the Fair an occasion for San Francisco to celebrate her own rise from the ashes of the earthquake and fire of 1906.
View of Exposition Grounds
"You know I have never cared for cities, but San Francisco is the most beautiful thing….The White Tower of Jewels is in sight from there. The jewels strung about it glitter and shine in beautiful colors."
Souvenir book from the P.P.I.E.
"Meet Me on the Joy Zone"
Zone crowd in the rain The 65-acre amusement area at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is not called the "Midway," but in keeping with the Panama Canal celebration, the "Zone." From Fillmore Street to Van Ness Avenue, the Zone is filled with attractions, rides and affordable food. The Ghirardelli Chocolate parlor and the Welch's Grape Juice stand, in their own attractive buildings, are very popular.The most popular food of all is the "Frankfurter sausage"—not the hot dog.


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He's off the gossip pages and back in politics. But former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't running for anything.
Now the actor-turned-politician is presiding over a forum at the new USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy.
"When one of our brave men and women leave for Iraq or Afghanistan, where ever they go around the world, they risk their life," said Schwarzenegger. "And If they can risk their life for our country, why wouldn't a politician risk their office for making the right decision."
Local news from across Southern California
For the former governor, it's a chance to escape the gossip page and get pack into policy. Monday, he brought together star power from politics and entertainment for the debut forum at his new USC Institute.
"There's going to be major scandals, because there's too many billions of dollars washing around our political campaigns," said Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, who shared his ideas on campaign finance at the forum.
High-power music producer Jimmy Iovine was there, too, making the case that the demise of the music industry has done nothing to improve the quality of the art form.
"They've got Twitter, Facebook, but the content is provided by the consumer," said Iovine. "It's user-generated content, all of it, but they need culture."
Schwarzenegger did not make himself available for questions from reporters, perhaps sensing that it would distract from the event.
But we'll soon be hearing a lot more from the one-time action-adventure movie star. The former governor will start a book tour next week, and he'll be featured on CBS's 60 Minutes.
For those involved Monday, the event was well-received. And it seemed to reflect Schwarzenegger's philosophy of not waiting for permission to take action.
"If you can get the cities of the world together, and the states and provinces of the world together, maybe you can make change that way and sort of go around national governments," said Schwarzenegger biographer Joe Mathews. "That's new, that's interesting."


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This quick-cooking, healthy dinner is a simple combination of zucchini, shrimp and pasta flecked with plenty of fresh basil. If you have leftover cooked pasta from another meal, use it and skip Step 2. Since the recipe combines a starch, vegetables and the shrimp, all you need is a fruit or vegetable salad to round out the menu. Recipe by Nancy Baggett for EatingWell.
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App Review: Aqua Globs by Qwiboo
by Dorothy on
September 3, 2009
Filed under Daily App Reviews, Entertainment, Games, Kids
Aqua Globs is a fun game that challenges your ability to keep an eye on a thousand things at once. The game consists of orange, blue and green globs that float around the screen. Your job is to combine same colored globs to make them disappear, while keeping the orange and blue globs from running into each other. Orange and glue globs do not like each other. If they do collide, it will cost you one of your three lives.
Globs are steered by drawing out a path for them to follow. Each time you combine two orange globs or two blue globs, you make one larger glob and earn a point. These larger globs can then be combined with larger globs of the same color to remove them from the screen. The wild card in the game are the green globs. These globs can be combined with either the orange or the blue globs. They will also combine with any size glob. When you combine a green glob with another glob, you also get 2 points instead of just one.
As the game progresses, there are more and more globs on the screen at a time. With such a crowded screen, it is hard to keep the orange and blue globs from crashing. When two globs get dangerously close to one another, they are surrounded by a red circle to warn you of the collision. For $0.99, Aqua Globs is a fun game that you can play over and over again. Unlock goals and try to beat your own high score.
Developer's Website: http://www.qwiboo.com/aquaglobs/


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Glass pharmacy storage bottle, Italy, 1864
Illustrated with an image of a woman giving birth, this bottle originates from the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Florence, Italy, a hospital founded in 1288 by a rich benefactor. The hospital was unusual for its time as it was a secular institution. Most hospital care was carried out by religious orders. The bottle's contents are protected by a velvet-covered glass stopper and it was bought in Florence by one of Henry Wellcome's collecting agents, Captain Johnston-Saint, in November 1929.
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The Perks of Local Government
The Washington Examiner reports:
Six of [the Washington-area mass transit system] Metro's top executives are assigned agency-owned vehicles that they can drive home, the transit system acknowledged Tuesday, one day after saying none of them had take-home vehicles.
That is in addition to the 116 Metro employees who receive take-home vehicles, including 88 managers and superintendents, first reported by The Washington Examiner.
I wonder if executives and managers at automobile companies get free subway passes?


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Zhen Yan
Research Descriptions:
The ATLAS Experiment at CERN
The ATLAS experiment is a large detector system developed by a collaboration of physicists from around the world to study very-high-energy proton-proton interactions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a laboratory for high energy physics near Geneva, Switzerland. This experiment will probe the origins of electroweak symmetry breaking and the particles associated with the new physics (such as the hypothetical Higgs Boson) that must appear at energies at the symmetry breaking scale. Boston University personnel were involved in the construction and installation of the muon detectors for ATLAS. The detectors occupy a region the size of a five-story building and will measure the trajectories of muons in a magnetic field with a precision of better than 1/10 of a millimeter. This permits the determination of the muon momentum, which will be an important ingredient in searches for new phenomena at the LHC's energy scale, which will be an order of magnitude greater than currently available. Boston University also played a leading role in the development of computing and analysis tools that have been crucial since the experiment's inception. It is expected that many important discoveries in particle physics will be made at the LHC in the coming decade. These discoveries will improve our understanding of the fundamental particles and their interactions, and also of the nature of the early universe. One important goal of the LHC is to search for particles that may be responsible for the so-called "dark matter" of the universe. Possible candidates for this mysterious phenomenon are the particles associated with supersymmetry theories.


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Dear MySQL users, MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.1 beta, a new version of the ODBC driver for the MySQL database management system, has been released. The available downloads include both a Unicode driver and an ANSI driver based on the same modern codebase. Please select driver type you need based on the type of your application - Unicode or ANSI. Server-side prepared statements are enabled by default. It is suitable for use with any MySQL version since 4.1 (It will not work with 4.0 or earlier releases.) This is the second release of the MySQL ODBC driver conforming to the ODBC 3.8 specification. It contains the minimally required implementation of the standard with key 3.8 features, which include self-identification as a ODBC 3.8 driver, streaming of output parameters (supported for binary types only), support of the SQL_ATTR_RESET_CONNECTION connection attribute (for the Unicode driver only). Also Connector/ODBC 5.3 introduces a GTK+-based setup library providing GUI DSN setup dialog on some Unix based systems, currently included in the Oracle Linux 6 and Debian 6 binary packages. Other new features in the 5.3 driver are FileDSN and Bookmarks support. Keep in mind that this is a beta release, and as with any other pre-production release, caution should be taken when installing on production level systems or systems with critical data. Not all of the features planned for the final Connector/ODBC 5.3 release are implemented. The release is now available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/5.3.html For information on installing, please see the documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/connector-odbc-installation.html Enjoy! The MySQL Connectors team at Oracle - Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.1 (2013-11-27) Functionality Added or Changed * Implemented the SQL_ATTR_RESET_CONNECTION connection attribute, newly introduced in ODBC 3.8. See the ODBC specifications for details. Currently, the connection attribute is supported by the Unicode driver, but not the ANSI driver. Bugs Fixed * Calling SQLBulkOperations() without setting SQLSetStmtAttr resulted in a segmentation fault. (Bug #17714290) * A memory leak occurred when using Connector/ODBC to update the contents of a row. (Bug #17653461, Bug #70662) * A bad memory access occurred in the ssps_get_out_params function in my_prepared_stmt.c, when a call was made to a stored procedure with any IN parameters coming after the last OUT or INOUT parameter. (Bug #17640929, Bug #70642) * A memory leak occurred in SQLConnect() when it was invoked after a call of SQLSetConnectAttr() that used the parameter SQL_ATTR_CURRENT_CATALOG. (Bug #17586844) * A memory leak occurred in SQLSetStmtAttr(), because statement deallocation was missing. (Bug #17441507) * A segmentation fault occurred when SQLColumns()'s table argument is longer than 256 characters, or its column argument is longer than 129 characters. This fix makes Connector/ODBC return a proper error for the situation. (Bug #17358838) * A memory leak occurred in SQLProcedureColumns() when no function or procedure column satisfying the selection condition existed. (Bug #17298721) * An assertion failure occurred in SQLDescribeCol() if the column number used is larger than the number of columns in the result set. (Bug #17311065) * The function SQLPutData() gave an error when handling a Unicode string that had SQL_NTS given as its string length. (Bug #14810497, Bug #66943) * From Connector/ODBC version 5.2.2 onwards, the function SQLForeignKeys() did not work if the connection option NO_INFORMATION_SCHEMA was set. (Bug #13712420, Bug #64307) -- Hery Ramilison MySQL/ORACLE Release Engineering Team
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The Newseum is committed to providing a quality experience for all visitors. The ADA compliant services offered cover visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing, have mobility impairments, and are blind or have low vision.
Trained service animals are welcome at the Newseum. All service animals must remain on a leash or be harnessed at all times. Please note that Newseum staff and security officers are not permitted to handle service animals.
The Newseum's exhibits and store are fully wheelchair accessible. Visitor Services maintains a limited number of wheelchairs, mobility scooters and walking aids for use in the Newseum that are available on a first-come, first-served basis. All are free at the coat check on Level 1. Visitors are requested to leave a photo ID while using any of these items. Sorry, no advance or phone reservations.
Elevators provide access to all floors and exhibits, and are located on the east and west ends of the building. All restrooms are wheelchair accessible and located on the east end of the building. There is minimal seating in the exhibit areas.
Visitors Guide: Large print and Braille Visitors Guides are available upon request at the information desk. Visitors are requested to leave a photo ID while using any of these items.
Alternative printed formats (e.g. Braille, large print) for programs/tours can be arranged with at least seven business days' notice by contacting AccessUs at email@example.com or by calling 202/292-6453.
The Newseum is pleased to offer one-hour Guided Highlights Tours for visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing and use American Sign Language. Tours will be held on the first Saturday of each month at 1:30 p.m. Tours are on a first-come, first-served basis and do not require advanced notice. Additional ASL tours will be provided with seven business days notice by emailing email@example.com or calling the AccessUs Hotline at 202/292-6453.
The majority of the Newseum's films and videos are open captioned.
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The information provided here is meant to give you a general idea about each of the medications listed below. Only the most general side effects are included, so ask your doctor if you need to take any special precautions. Use each of these medications as recommended by your doctor, or according to the instructions provided. If you have further questions about usage or side effects, contact your doctor.
If your premenstrual syndrome (PMS) symptoms do not improve after 2-3 months of lifestyle changes, your doctor may recommend drug therapy. The following drugs may be used to treat PMS symptoms:
Prescription Medications
- Combination of estrogen and progestin
- Progestin only
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
- Citalopram
- Fluvoxamine
- Paroxetine
- Fluoxetine
- Sertraline
- Alprazolam
- Lorazepam
Prescription Medications
Since hormonal contraceptives suppress ovulation, they may be able to provide PMS relief in many women. Depending on your medical history and risk factors, your doctor may prescribe combined oral contraceptive pills (which contain both estrogen and progestin) or a progestin-only contraceptive.
Possible side effects include:
- Mood changes
- Breast tenderness
- Headaches
- Unpredictable spotting (usually resolves after first 3 cycles)
Common names include:
- Citalopram
- Fluvoxamine
- Paroxetine
- Fluoxetine
- Sertraline
Serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) affect the concentration of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain. These medication are used in the treatment of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a more uncommon and severe form of PMS. The medication can help relieve depression , irritability, and some of the physical symptoms. SSRIs may also offer benefit to women who have severe PMS, but are not diagnosed with PMDD.
SSRIs tend to work much faster in relieving depressive symptoms associated with PMS than the symptoms of major depression. This is why it is important for your doctor to correctly diagnose you. Depending on your condition, you may only need to take SSRIs during the 2-week premenstrual period.
Possible side effects include:
Common names include:
- Alprazolam
- Lorazepam
Benzodiazepines may be helpful if you have severe premenstrual anxiety that is not relieved by SSRIs or other treatments. These drugs must be used carefully because they can cause dependency if used on a regular basis for 3 months or more. It may be best to use these drugs only a few days a month when symptoms are most severe.
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- Medications can be dangerous when mixed. Talk to your doctor if you are taking more than one medication, including over-the-counter products and supplements.
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The Greenridge Eichler Community is located in the hills of Castro Valley, California overlooking the San Francisco Bay. We are literally in the center of the Bay Area, about 25 miles Southeast of San Francisco, right across the San Mateo Bridge from the Peninsula. This is one of the lesser-known but more pristine Eichler developments, with about 200 homes built in the early 1960's.
Greenridge was featured as a "Neighborhood on the Rise" in the Spring 2011 issue of CA Modern. It's a great piece that really captures the spirit of our community!


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Sports Leagues Figure Out Build It Online, And They Will Come
from the somebody's-paying-attention deptWe've mentioned several times about how sports leagues are trying to crack down on unauthorized web streams of their games. It's a misguided effort that fails to recognize the opportunity here: people watch these streams because they generally don't have other options. Largely, they're not cheapskate pirates, but underserved customers. With that in mind, it was nice to see a story in the WSJ a few days back talking about how some American leagues' subscription streaming services are enjoying success. They've figured out that by offering users a better service than the pirate streams, they can get them to pay subscription fees. This gets to the heart of so many different industries' battles against piracy: it's not a technological problem that exists because there are inadequate locks for content, it's a business problem that exists because many companies are too complacent to develop services that deliver consumers content they want in a format they desire.
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Toulon eliminate Leinster
Defending Heineken Cup champions Toulon knocked out three-time winners Leinster in a titanic struggle in France to set up a semi-final clash with Munster.
Xavier Chiocci and Drew Mitchell scored second-half tries while Matt Giteau kicked 10 points to steer the holders through as 29-14 victors.
Jonny Wilkinson also kicked two penalties before he was forced off during the first half through injury.
Delon Armitage kicked a penalty while brother Steffon was named man of the match following a dynamic display.
Jordi Murphy grabbed a late try for Leinster but that was too late to rescue the visitors in what was to be Brian O'Driscoll's final appearance in the Heineken Cup.
Between them these teams had lifted the trophy four times in the last five years yet this was their first meeting in the tournament.
Wilkinson kicked Toulon into a 6-0 lead though it was only some desperate Leinster defending that prevented it from being more.
Toulon, roared on by their vociferous support at the sun-drenched Stade Felix-Mayol, began at a thunderous pace, led by Mathieu Bastareaud.
The powerful French centre was twice involved in the build up to the first of Wilkinson's penalty inside four minutes after Juanne Smith went close.
Wilkinson then put David Smith through and only a crucial interception by Rob Kearney prevented a score.
That was to prove a recurring theme during the first half as Toulon were knocked off their stride by Leinster and wasted several chances.
Giteau evaded Rhys Ruddock, Mitchell broke clear and twice Craig Burden made inroads but all came to nothing amid catalogue of handling errors.
More mistakes also resulted in Wilkinson, forced to clear the danger following a dropped pass and blocked kick, trudging off injured in the 28th minute following a heavy collision.
And Jimmy Gopperth's two kicks ensured Leinster went in level 6-6 at half-time amid a chorus of whistles and boos from the restless home crowd.
Jeers turned to cheers when Toulon burst into a 10-point lead just five minutes into the second half.
Giteau struck from close to the halfway line, having missed an earlier effort from a similar range.
The former Wallaby then followed another searing break by livewire hooker Burden.
Juanne Smith and Danie Rossouw were stopped short before prop Chiocci crashed over from close range.
Gopperth clawed back three points but the game turned once Toulon made their passes stick.
Rossouw disrupted a Leinster lineout that had been erratic throughout and Steffon Armitage hacked ahead.
The English number eight showed tremendous pace to win the foot race and Bastareaud crashed through three tackles before Mitchell shrugged off Gordon D'Arcy to score a vital try on 62 minutes.
Giteau converted and Delon Armitage added a penalty from the halfway line as Toulon established a commanding 26-9 lead.
Leinster showed their mettle when they responded with a well-worked try - Murphy was bundled over from a lineout drive five metres out 10 minutes from time.
However Gopperth missed the conversion from the touchline and Toulon remained just out of sight.
The hosts ended the game with 14 men when Florian Fresia was binned for a dangerous tackle on Reddan yet it was they who had the last word.
Kearney's tackle denied David Smith a score but Giteau followed with his fourth kick to settle the tie in the final minutes.
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Michael Lehmann Appointed Patheon Inc. (PTI.TO)'s President of Global Pharmaceutical Development Services
TORONTO, Nov. 1, 2012 - Patheon Inc. (TSX: PTI), a leading provider of contract development and manufacturing services to the global pharmaceutical industry, today announced that Michael Lehmann has joined the company as President of Global Pharmaceutical Development Services (PDS).
"I am pleased to be welcoming Mike and getting him quickly integrated with Patheon's leadership team," stated James C. Mullen, Patheon's Chief Executive Officer. "He is a highly accomplished senior executive with a proven track record in the healthcare, life sciences and drug development sectors. Patheon will significantly benefit from his recognized ability to drive both growth and competitiveness in varying market conditions, and I look forward to his future contributions as we continue to transform our business to provide the leading customer experience."
Mr. Lehmann was most recently Corporate Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Global Early Development business of Covance from 2005 to 2012, which is one of the world's largest drug development services companies. In his role, he was responsible for global early development and P&L management; and key accomplishments included executive leadership in strategic deals between Covance, Lilly and Sanofi. Prior to joining Covance, Mr. Lehmann worked for 17 years at GE's Healthcare in key operational and management roles. His career started with a focus in client services, managing large call centers for both external customers and repair technicians. In 1998, he was tasked with assisting in the integration of the company's MECON acquisition, operational and clinical performance optimization services. Mr. Lehmann progressed through various other comparable roles to emerge as the General Manager of the Multivendor Solutions business in 2003, where he was responsible for facilitating the upkeep and repair of other OEM diagnostic imaging equipment and accessories with complete P&L responsibilities.
Mr. Lehmann holds an M.B.A from Marquette University and a B.S in mechanical engineering from the Catholic University of America.
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Patheon Inc. (TSX: PTI) is a leading global provider of contract development and manufacturing services to the global pharmaceutical industry. The company provides the highest quality products and services to approximately 300 of the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Patheon's services range from preclinical development through commercial manufacturing of a full array of solid and sterile dosage forms.
The company's comprehensive range of fully integrated Pharmaceutical Development Services includes pre-formulation, formulation, analytical development, clinical manufacturing, scale-up and commercialization. The company's integrated development and manufacturing network of nine manufacturing facilities and nine development centers across North America and Europe, enables customer products to be launched with confidence anywhere in the world. For more information visit www.Patheon.com.
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Storm-Weary Midwest Hoping to Dodge More Devastation
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- In storm-weary middle America, many people were counting themselves fortunate after powerful storms swept through the region for the third time in four days but apparently claimed no lives.
Dozens of people were injured, mobile homes were flipped and roofs were torn off houses when tornadoes and thunderstorms hit Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and other states Wednesday evening.
In southern Indiana, neighbors used flashlights to check on each other and their homes and barns near Bloomington after powerful winds overturned two mobile homes. Crews worked overnight to clear uprooted trees and downed power lines after a tornado touched down in a mostly rural area about 25 miles south near Bedford.
The extent of the damage wouldn't be known until daybreak, but residents expressed relief that no deaths were reported in the latest round of storms even though several homes were destroyed and more than a dozen people were injured, including three or four children.
"We're very fortunate," said Lawrence County Sheriff Sam Craig.
Wednesday's storms followed a deadly outbreak Tuesday in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas that killed at least 15 people. On Sunday, the nation's deadliest single tornado since 1950 killed 125 in the southwest Missouri city of Joplin.
The National Weather Service issued tornado watches and a series of warnings in a dozen states earlier Wednesday, stretching northwest from Texas though the Mississippi River valley to Ohio. By Thursday morning, tornado watches were in effect in most of Mississippi, northwestern Alabama and central Kentucky.
"This is just a wild ride," said Beverly Poole, chief meteorologist at the National Weather Service's office in Paducah, Ky.
Heavy rain, hail and lightning pounded Memphis on Wednesday night as a tornado warning sounded. There were no confirmed reports of tornadoes touching down.
Back in southern Indiana, tow truck driver Martin Poteat was in the parking lot of the Walmart on the south side of Bloomington when the storm struck, ripping a cart corral loose and sending it into his truck and spawning up a debris cloud.
"Everything came up off the ground. Everything was just flying," he said.
Earlier in the day, as many as 25 people suffered minor injuries when a tornado damaged several homes and businesses in the central Missouri city of Sedalia. Officials said most were able to get themselves to the hospital for treatment.
"Considering the destruction that occurred in Joplin -- being that we're in tornado alley and Sedalia has historically been hit by tornadoes in the past -- I think people heeded that warning," Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond said. "And so, I think that helped tremendously."
Officials in Sedalia ended the school year several days early because of damage to buses.
Sean McCabe was rushing to the basement of his mother's home in Sedalia when the tornado struck and shoved him down the final flight of steps. The 30-year-old suffered scrapes and cuts on his hands, wrists, back and feet. He said neighbors and firefighters helped him get out.
Most of the roof was ripped off the house, which was among the more heavily damaged homes in the area. McCabe, who has a service dog for epilepsy, said both his family's dogs survived, including one found muddy and wet about a block away.
"I saw little debris and then I saw big debris, and I'm like `OK, let's go,"' McCabe said.
Elsewhere in the hard-hit neighborhood, law officers stood on corners and electrical crews worked on power lines. Numerous trees were down, and tarps were covering some houses while others were missing chunks of their roofs. People were cleaning debris and sifting through belongings.
In Illinois, strong winds, rain and at least four possible tornadoes knocked down power lines and damaged at least one home and a number of farm buildings across the central and eastern parts of the state.
"Mostly it was shingles off roofs and garages," said Illinois Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Patti Thompson.


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Last night I had a good time trying to farm up some Infernal Machine keys with Bearness. We played on MP 4, and generally did not have too many problems....well besides the Act 3 key master. That guy is a fucking asshole.
Edit: Fucking Asshole has been nerfed. He no longer cast illusions, and the frozen body attack hits for less damage. Woohoo!
I got the key from Act 1 and Act 2, but will have to continue working on 3 (and then whatever I need from Act 4).
The good news is that they are nerfing the damage done by monsters in MP1-10. It becomes much more pronounced at the higher levels, so here is a chart of how it is going to look.
•MP1: 109.60% (down from 114%)
•MP2: 120.12% (down from 130%)
•MP3: 131.65% (down from 148%)
•MP4: 144.29% (down from 169%)
•MP5: 158.14% (down from 193%)
•MP6: 173.32% (down from 220%)
•MP7: 189.96% (down from 250%)
•MP8: 208.20% (down from 285%)
•MP9: 228.18% (down from 325%)
•MP10: 250.09% (down from 371%)
This essentially means that if you were doing MP7 before, you can probably safely do MP 10 (although it would probably be slow with the hitpoints each mob has.
This patch has made D3 so much better at max level. I did not find any legendaries last night (Bearness found two Wizard Strength pieces lol), but I feel like every thing I log on, there is a chance I find something amazing.
I also got my Barbarian to Paragon 16 last night. Moving on up.....slowly but surely.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
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STR Wiz hats FTW!
Where did you get the info about Act 3 warden nerf? I couldn't find anything.
- October 23, 2012 at 9:29 AM
- Darraxus said...
Got it off of reddit which linked back to battle.net I believe.
His abilities do less damage, the slow is not as bad, and he will no spawn multiple versions of himself or have the fast affix.
- October 23, 2012 at 2:20 PM
- Darraxus said...
Here is a link.
- October 23, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Cool. Thanks! I'm going to check it out later.
- October 23, 2012 at 2:38 PM
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Dear Em,
Just a few words to let you know that I am in a better mood than when I wrote that letter to Lena. Everything is all dryed out again and I have got a board floor in my tent. Tomorrow is Sunday, and that means a very easy day. The mosquitoes are getting very thick here now on account of so much wet weather. How are they up there? I got your card today, in fact I am getting a card or two every day and it pleases me very much.
Gee but it is a swell night here to night. I am writing this in the Y.M.C.A. which accounts for the ink and pen. The nights are getting pretty cool now. I think I will go to church tomorrow. How is the talk machine. There is a fellow at the piano now playing all the raggy tunes, and say I couldnt try to say how it makes me feel. You can guess it better than I can explain it.
Tell Lena to sit right down at that piano now and play a rag and then a melody for me will you. I can hear it away down here on the Rio Grande "The Dauter of Mother Marchree". He is playing this now and (I mean it when I say I am home sick again. Lena and I are going to be old pals when I get back, for I have found out that she is never out of my thoughts when I have the blues. I am always glad to hear from her. Have Pa write a line on a letter or post card that you send will you.
What is the latest song any way? Do you, or would you like to hear me sing it. Just as soon as I seem to get used to this life, some one sings a song plays a tune, and then it is all off. I am back home in the front room near the graphophone or piano. Well I can't think of any more.
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Need help writing a clever, if nonsensical, Facebook status? There's an app for that.
"What Would I Say?" is a status generating app that runs your old Facebook statuses through a bot to generate new posts that are at times funny, confusing and perhaps somewhat familiar.
The app looks simple but the technology consists of a Markov Bot algorithm, which scrambles words and data in a specific manner. Applying it to Facebook statuses yields posts that the developers say could "sound like you!" There is also button that allows users to post the new status on Facebook.
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Eight Princeton University graduate students created the app over the weekend at HackPrinceton 2013. One of the developers Ugne Klibaite said she was surprised to see how the Internet has taken to the app. Gawker, Slate and the Huffington Post have all also linked to it.
"This was just for fun," Klibaite told the New Yorker. "We never thought we would get further than showing this off at the Hackathon and to our friends on Facebook."
Check out the app and share your best statuses in the comments section below.


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2013-14: Finished 11th in the 200 free, 12th in the 200 fly, and 13th in the 200 IM at the America East Championships… Recorded season-best time in the 200 fly (2:09.10) and 200 IM (2:08.09) at the conference meet in Worcester, Mass. … Also helped the 800 free relay capture the bronze medal at the America East Championships… Won the 200 free and 100 free against Howard and was then named the America East Swimmer of the Week on Jan. 13… Swam a season-best time in the 100 fly (59.77) against Bucknell and finished fourth… Set her season-best time of 59.93 in the 100 back against Navy on Oct. 18, placing third in the event… Selected to the America East All-Academic Team… Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2012-13: Recorded her top times in the 100-yd. butterfly (58.17), 100-yd. backstroke (58.51), and 200-yd. backstroke (2:03.26) at the America East Championships at Maine… Won her first career dual meet event when she took top honors in the 200 back against George Washington on Oct. 27… Doubled her win total with a victory in the 200 fly against Howard… Named to the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll.
Background: Named to the All-State Team three times (2010, 2011 and 2012) in addition to being named a Scholastic All-American in 2011... Qualifed for the Grand Prix in 2011... Helped set the 4x100 free relay record for the Maryland State Long Course... Won the Women's High Point Award at the 2012 Retriever Aquatic Club Classic... Named to the Academic Honor Roll all four years at Howard... A member of the National Honor Society.
Personal: Daughter of Richard and Jennifer Frediani... Has one sister, Lauren... Major is undecided... Born Oct. 31, 1994.


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Welcome to the Payroll / SAP Resources Webpage
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Pay Statement Inquiry / Timesheet Entry
This will redirect you to the SAP portal where you can view and print your pay statement and enter timesheet information using your SAP password. If you do not have a password, please request one using this link to the IT Assistance Center.
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Direct Deposit Sign up here.
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Looks – Pinks and Purples from Suite Array
Look from yesterday 🙂 My brain is tired from reading marketing–at least it isn't dying like it was doing accounting homework. I think accounting might kick my butt, LOL!
You will need the following…
- Eyes: Lovely Lily pigment (lavender), Up-do eyeshadow (light pink), Team Violets eyeshadow duo (mauve-plum/dark burgundy), Hush eyeshadow (pink-toned highlighter), Urban Decay Lust Eye Liner (purple), Rave pearlglide liner (dark purple), Chanel Exceptionnel mascara (black)
- Cheeks: Blooming blush (soft pink)
- Lips: YSL Lingerie Pink rouge volupte lipstick (pale pink), Negligee lipglass (purple-pink)
- Brushes: 266 (firm, angled brush), 249 (flat, firm brush), 239 (fluffy shadow brush), 129 (dense blush brush)
- Substitutes: Lovely Lily = Kitschmas (close); Up-do = Sushi Flower; Team Violet = Fig. 1//Sketch; Rave = Prunella; Blooming = Well Dressed; Negligee = Cultured
Directions: Define brows using a coordinating powder shadow applied with the 266 brush. Apply Lovely Lily pigment all over the lid as the base with the 249. On the inner lid, apply Up-do eyeshadow using the 239. Apply Team Violets (lighter side) to the middle of the lid. Darken the outer lid using Team Violets (darker side) and drag into crease using the 239. Sweep Hush eyeshadowunderneath the brow bone to highlight. Finish with Rave pearlglide liner on outer lower lash line and UD Lust Eye Liner on inner lower lash line, and Chanel Exceptionnel mascara on lashes. Sweep apples of cheeks with Blooming blush using the 129. Apply YSL Lingerie Pink lipstick to lips, and then top with Negligee lipglass for color and shine.
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We've had some fun with Gregg Doyel around these parts — we'd actually forgotten about all that "glog" business, though we think we and Doyel had the world's best ever Glog Feud — but generally speaking, we think he livens the place up over at CBS Sportsline.
But we've never gotten over this outfit; he wore it on CNN's Reliable Sources. (It was an episode we were on as well; contrasting with Doyel, we looked like Wally Cleaver. We worked this angle, a tactic that would benefit us later as well.) Hey, Gregg, you're on TV: Try something with a collar. Or at least something without numbers on the front.
Anyway, it's a Friday, and we're counting days. We had to fit Doyel in.
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Thursday, March 01, 2012
The Where Did You Wear It map from Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest is designed to promote safe sex. Users of the map are asked to check-in and report where they last used a condom. Reported check-ins (adjusted for anonymity) are then added to the map.
The map will hopefully prove useful in promoting the issue of safe sex but I'm guessing it could also prove useful to Planned Parenthood in targeting their support.
Users are asked to give a few details such as age, sex, the nature of the sexual encounter and the reasons why they used a condom. This data coupled with the location data could prove useful to Planned Parenthood in targeting their sexual health campaigns.
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