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This is a question on geometric tilting theory. On smooth projective variety it is possible to define in general tilting object as perfect complex that satisfy some properties, but are there examples of tilting objects that are actually complexes? All examples I know are vector bundles obtained as sums of exceptional sequences. What would be examples of different nature?
Edit: if we denote variety $X$ then tilting object $T$ in $D(X)$ is a perfect complex (or from the point of view of abstract triangulated categories "compact object") such that $T$ generates $D(X)$ and $Ext^i(T,T)=0$ for $i \neq 0$.


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Is it any good? Who knows? It's certainly better than my last two efforts.
For draft three, I'm just going to decide what point of view to use. I wrote it in first person, but I rewrote the first half of draft two in third-person. I'm going to read the whole thing and decide which half has more potential, and then I'll beat the other half into submission.
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text: We can't believe it, but Fusion CA-1P500 is apparently the first head unit that allows you to dock and hide your iPod directly inside the face. The thing costs £149.99 (US$278), which isn't too bad for a head unit that has an OLED menu, a knob that corresponds to the iPod's scroll wheel, and SRS Wow. It fits the classic, touch and nano, but supposedly not the iPhone. Weird, aren't the touch and iPhone about the same? In any case, what we'd love is for it to take in the iPhone and give us full handsfree calling capabilities through a mic in the head and output through the speakers. [Fusion via T3]


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Our personal and cultural associations affect our experience of color. Colors are seen as warm or cool mainly because of long-held (and often universal) associations. Yellow, orange and red are associated with the heat of sun and fire; blue, green and violet with the coolness of leaves, sea and the sky. Warm colors seem closer to the viewer than cool colors, but vivid cool colors can overwhelm light and subtle warm colors. Using warm colors for foreground and cool colors for background enhances the perception of depth.
Although red, yellow and orange are in general considered high-arousal colors and blue, green and most violets are low-arousal hues, the brilliance, darkness and lightness of a color can alter the psychological message. While a light blue-green appears to be tranquil, wet and cool, a brilliant turquoise, often associated with a lush tropical ocean setting, will be more exciting to the eye. The psychological association of a color is often more meaningful than the visual experience.
Colors act upon the body as well as the mind. Red has been shown to stimulate the senses and raise the blood pressure, while blue has the opposite effect and calms the mind.
People will actually gamble more and make riskier bets when seated under a red light as opposed to a blue light. That's why Las Vegas is the city of red neon.
For most people, one of the first decisions of the day concerns color harmony. What am I going to wear? This question is answered not only by choosing a style and fabric appropriate to the season, but by making the right color choices. And it goes on from there. Whether you're designing a new kitchen, wrapping a present or creating a bar chart, the colors you choose greatly affect your final results.
How often have you caught your breath at the sight of a flowerbed in full bloom? Most likely the gardener has arranged the flowers according to their color for extra vibrancy. Have you ever seen a movie in which a coordinated color scheme helps the film create a world unto itself? With a little knowledge of good color relationships, you can make colors work better for you in your business graphics and other applications.
Color is light and light is energy. Scientists have found that actual physiological changes take place in human beings when they are exposed to certain colors. Colors can stimulate, excite, depress, tranquilize, increase appetite and create a feeling of warmth or coolness. This is known as chromodynamics.
An executive for a paint company received complaints from workers in a blue office that the office was too cold. When the offices were painted a warm peach, the sweaters came off even though the temperature had not changed.
The illusions discussed below will show you that sometimes combinations of colors can deceive the viewer, sometimes in ways that work to your advantage. They can also cause unfortunate effects in your graphics, so be sure to watch out for these little traps.
Sometimes colors affect each other in unexpected ways. For example, most colors, when placed next to their complements, produce vibrating, electric effects. Other colors, in the right combinations, seem quite different from what you'd expect.
The most striking color illusions are those where identical colors, when surrounded by different backgrounds, appear to be different from each other. In a related effect, different colors can appear to be the same color when surrounded by certain backgrounds.
When you look at a colored object, your brain determines its color in the context of the surrounding colors.
In this picture, the two bows are the same color, but because the surrounding areas are strikingly different in contrast, it seems to our eyes that they are different. Keep this effect in mind when creating graphics where color matching is critical. If you attempt to match your corporation's official colors, you may find that even if you achieve an exact match, it may look wrong in context.
In the same way that one color can appear different in different surroundings, two similar colors may appear to be identical under some conditions. Even though the two symbols are actually slightly different tones, the contrasting backgrounds cause our brains to think that they are the same color. This effect is harder to control, but be aware of it because it can affect your graphics in hidden ways.
The feeling you get when looking at bright complementary colors next to each other is a vibrating or pulsing effect. It seems that the colors are pulling away from each other. It's caused by an effect called color fatiguing. When one color strikes a portion of the retina long enough, the optic nerve begins sending confused signals to the brain. This confusion is intensified by the complementaries.
Mixing brilliant complementary colors gets attention, but it should be used with restraint. The effect is disconcerting and can make your eyes feel like they've been shaken around.
If you want to use complementary colors without causing discomfort, you can outline each of the colors with a thin neutral white, gray or black line. The outlines separate the two colors, which helps your brain keep them separated.
When two very similar colors touch in an image, both colors appear to wash out and become indistinct. This is because the borders between the colors are difficult to distinguish and your brain blurs the colors together.
If you outline each of the colors with a thin neutral white, gray or black line, the colors become easier to distinguish. This is called the stained glass technique and is a way to reduce this blurring of the colors.
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Facebook is working on a big deal to acquire Face.com, according to multiple reports.
The estimated buy price is between $80 and $100 million, but TechCrunch's sources peg it at the latter.
That would make Face.com one of Facebook's largest acquisitions yet. It spent about $1 billion on Instagram in cash and stock. In 2009 Facebook spent $50 million on FriendFeed but the deal actually ended up being worth ~$330 million when Facebook's valuation skyrocketed.
Face.com is a face recognition technology that's already integrated with Facebook. It can auto-tag friends in photos uploaded by users, either one at a time or by entire albums. It can guess a user's age, gender and even mood. Face.com has a mobile API and an app called KLIK that uses a camera to auto tag Facebook photos.
Face.com has only raised $5.3 million to date, so the 9-figure exit would be a big win for founders Eden Shochat, Gil Hirsch, Yaniv Taigman and Moti Shniberg, and investors Yandex and Rhodium. It was founded in Israel in 2007.
It's easy to see why the acquisition makes a lot of sense for Facebook -- not to mention Facebook would be picking up a great domain name.
Here's what KLIK, Face.com's mobile app, looks like. And here's a walk-through of how the app works >
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Football coaches at the Pop Warner level up to the NFL have one thing in common; they all teach basic fundamentals of football every single day.When talking about quarterbacks, fundamentals are very important. Grip and stance, passing technique, footwork, throwing on the run and how to run the option are all basic fundamentals that can be taught to all ages.I have had the fortunate opportunity to play quarterback at the high school, college and professional (United Indoor Football League) levels. Regardless of the level I played at, the one consistent factor was working on the basic fundamentals every day in practice. The following will cover the basic technique and drills I was taught, and that I now use to develop quarterbacks. ... To read this article, and for full access to all CLN resources, get your MEMBERSHIP NOW.
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Paris Hilton has claimed through a rep that her reported arrest in South Africa on a marijuana charge on Friday was a "complete misunderstanding."
Earlier on Friday, South Africa's News24 reported that it had confirmed that the celebutante was arrested on a "drug related charge." Additionally, an unnamed police officer told the Associated Press that she had been "found in possession of some amount of dagga," a local nickname for marijuana. Hilton's rep, however, told Access Hollywood on Friday it was all a big mistake.
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"Paris Hilton was questioned today by police in South Africa on allegations of smoking marijuana," Hilton's rep said in a statement to Access. "I can confirm that the incident was a complete misunderstanding and it was actually another person in the group who did it."
The rep added that, "the case has been dropped against Paris and no charges will be made."
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Hilton's rep said authorities had "apologized for wrongfully accusing her since she had nothing to do with the incident," adding, "Paris is having an incredible time at the World Cup."
Hilton had been attending the Brazil vs. Netherlands World Cup match when she was escorted by police at around 8 PM local time to the Mount Road Police station in St. Croix, South Africa's DispatchOnline previously reported.
The star herself hit Twitter on Friday evening, claiming she actually had not been arrested as had been reported by several news agenicies, including the AP.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Paris Hilton's Journey From 'Simple' To Superstar!
"Everything is completely fine. I was not charged or arrested, cause I didn't do anything," she wrote. "I was assisting the police with the investigation and answering their questions. Everyone was super nice and friendly to me. I love South Africa! Such an amazing place, especially during The World Cup! Hope that clears everything up."
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Our cult of decade anniversaries—the tenth of 9/11, the twentieth of "Nevermind"—are for the most part mere accidents of our fingers: because we've got five on each hand, we count things out in tens and hundreds. And yet the fifty-year birthday of a good children's book marks a real passage, since it means that the book hasn't been passed just from parent to child but from parent to child and on to child again. A book that has crossed that three-generation barrier has a good chance at permanence. So to note the fiftieth birthday of the closest thing that American literature has to an "Alice in Wonderland" of its own, Norton Juster's "The Phantom Tollbooth"—with illustrations, by Jules Feiffer, that are as perfectly matched to Juster's text as Tenniel's were to Carroll's—is to mark an anniversary that matters. (And there are two new books for the occasion, both coming out this month from Knopf: "The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth," with notes by Leonard Marcus; and a fiftieth-anniversary edition, with a series of short essays by notable readers about the effect the book has had on their lives.)
This reader, from the first generation, received a copy not long after the book appeared, and can still recall its curious force. How odd the first chapter seemed, with so little time taken up with the kind of persuasive domestic detail that fills the beginning chapters of the first Narnia book or "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" or "Mary Poppins." We're quickly introduced to the almost anonymous, and not very actively parented, Milo, a large-eyed boy in a dark shirt—a boy too bored to look up from the pavement as he walks home from school. Within paragraphs, a strange package has arrived in his room. It turns out to be a cardboard tollbooth, waiting to be assembled. Milo obediently sets it up, pays his fare (he has an enviable electric car already parked by his bed), and is rushed away to the Lands Beyond, a fantastical world of pure ideas. The book breaks the first rule of "good" children's literature: we're in the plot before we know the people.
It's a commonplace of scholarship to insist that children's literature came of age when it began to break away from the authoritarian model of the moralizing allegory. Yet "The Phantom Tollbooth" is an old-fashioned moralizing allegory, with a symbolic point at every turn. Milo finds that the strange land on the other side of the tollbooth is sundered between words and numbers, between the land of Azaz the Unabridged, the King of Dictionopolis, and his brother the Mathemagician, the ruler of Digitopolis. The only way to reunite the kingdoms is for someone—why not Milo?—to scale the Mountains of Ignorance, defeat the demons, and release the banished princesses of Rhyme and Reason from their prison. (They were banished because they refused to choose between words and numbers, thereby infuriating the kings.) Along the way, each new experience makes funny and concrete some familiar idea or turn of speech: Milo jumps to Conclusions, a crowded island; grows drowsy in the Doldrums; and finds that you can swim in the Sea of Knowledge for hours and not get wet. The book is made magical by Juster's and Feiffer's gift for transforming abstract philosophical ideas into unforgettable images. The thinnest fat man in the world turns out to be the fattest thin man; we see them both. We meet the fractional boy, divided in the middle of his smile, who is the ".58 child" in the average American family of 2.58 children. The tone of the book is at once antic and professorial, as if a very smart middle-aged academic were working his way through an absurd and elaborate parable for his kids. The reality is that when Juster wrote "The Phantom Tollbooth" he was a young architect in Brooklyn, just out of the Navy, unmarried and childless, and with no particular background in writing or teaching, working out a series of jokes and joys for himself alone.
This became clear the other day, when the two creators of "The Phantom Tollbooth" were briefly sequestered in a Manhattan living room to talk about their work, and why it has lasted. Feiffer and Juster, both born in 1929, are like a pair of wryly benevolent uncles, with Norton the dreamy, crinkle-eyed, soft-spoken uncle who gives you the one piece of good advice you never forget, and Jules the wisecracking uncle who never lets up on your foibles but was happy to have you crash on his couch that night you just couldn't bear going home. They interrupted, teased, and shpritzed each other as they recalled having blundered into a classic.
Juster, who speaks with the soft accents of the old Brooklyn, began recalling the origins of the book: "I had come back from the service, and I went to work in an architectural office. I was really kind of bored with everything, and I think, I'll do a little book on cities. The kind of book that will be interesting for kids. I applied to the Ford Foundation for a grant—old saying, when God wants to punish you, he gives you what you ask for!—and got the grant."
"Five thousand bucks you got!" Feiffer interjected.
"Was it that much? Anyway, I was up to my ass in worries and notes and couldn't get it done. And so I took a vacation with friends, at the beach, Fire Island."
"Probably with me!"
"No, it wasn't you, Jules," Juster added, though he explained that they already shared a roof. Stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1956, Juster had found a garden apartment—"That's what they call a basement room in Brooklyn," Feiffer noted—in the Brooklyn Heights building where Feiffer was living, two floors up.
"My guilt for not doing it was overwhelming," Juster continued. "So I started work on a little story about a kid who didn't know what to do with himself, and didn't like to learn. It was Milo! At that point, I just kept writing. When I finished the book, I felt very worried and very guilty. I thought the Ford Foundation was going to demand the money back."
"I wondered what became of our money," Feiffer said.
"After the book came out, I never heard from them. Long time later, I found that they were delighted about it." Juster went on, "In fact, I didn't know I was writing the book. I knew it was about this little kid named Milo, wrote bits and pieces everywhere. At a certain point, I needed something to tie it all together. It was all so haphazard. Jules's wife, Judy, said, 'Write a two-page synopsis.' And I did, and it had nothing to do with what happened in the book. And of course the demons appeared very early in my thinking but didn't arrive in the book until very late. Judy took it to Jason Epstein, a real major player. He was doing, quite coincidentally, a series of reprints of children's books. The Looking Glass Library."
"Very classy-looking," Feiffer put in.
"At that time, everyone was writing down to children. There were these lists: no kid should ever open a book and find anything in it that he didn't already know. 'The Phantom Tollbooth' was the only original book Jason did. He was a wonderful editor, and he used to scare the hell out of me. At a certain point, he'd stop and say, 'It's your book. Do what you want with it.' I'd get rigid."
Two childhood experiences shaped the book. One was a curious mental condition. "I had an ailment called synesthesia," Juster explained, pronouncing the word carefully. "I could only do numbers by colors." His mind—in a way that will be familiar to readers of the memoirs of that fellow-synesthete Nabokov—made instant, inescapable associations between a number and a color. "I can still remember a few: 4 was blue, 7 was black, and so the only way I could do math was by associating colors." As frequently happens with synesthetes, the condition extended to words and images. "One of the things I always did was think literally when I heard words. On the 'Lone Ranger,' they would say, 'Here come the Injuns!' and I always had an image of engines, of train engines."
The other shaping experience was listening to the radio. As both artists stress, having a pure stream of sound as your major source of entertainment meant that your mind was already working imaginatively, without your necessarily realizing it. "It's impossible today!" Feiffer said. "Everything is visual. We had thought balloons in our heads that played jazz riffs off what we read and what we heard, and that's what led to the imaginative restructuring of reality."
Juster agreed: "Sometimes I go into schools now and say, Let me start a story. And what you get from the kids is almost exactly what comes out of the TV set. The kids have very few images of their own. We came home from school, listened to hours of fifteen-minute serials, Jack Armstrong and Don Winslow, and it was great."
The book was published in 1961, and no one had much hope that it would find an audience. "Everyone said this is not a children's book, the vocabulary is much too difficult, the wordplay and the punning they will never understand, and anyway fantasy is bad for children because it disorients them," Juster said, four million copies later. "I thought, O.K., it will come out, and end on the remainder table."
What does make the enduring magic of "The Phantom Tollbooth"? As with every classic of children's literature, its real subject is education. The distinctive quality of modern civilization, after all, is that children are subjected to year after year after year of schooling. In the best-loved kids' books, the choice is often between the true education presented in the book—say, Arthur's through animals at the hands of Merlyn, in "The Sword in the Stone"—and the false education of the world and school. The child being read to (and the adult reading) is persuaded that self-reliance is a better model for learning than slavish obedience.
Each story of self-education has, to be sure, its period slant. Lewis Carroll's Alice learns to resist the world's nonsense, however seductively dressed as logic, but she also learns, Victorianly, that manners matter. In "The Wind in the Willows," Mole is educated by Rat to mess around in boats and prefer the river to the burrow, but he's also taught, as schoolchildren were in Edwardian England, to accept communality as the highest of virtues, and standing out too much, pushiness, as the worst of sins (particularly as displayed by the obviously outsider Mr. Toad). In the colonial French "Babar," the elephant is educated in how to be a colonial Frenchman. In the "Mary Poppins" books, which first appeared in the thirties and forties, the Banks children are educated by their upright-seeming but poetic nanny in the Dionysian joys—they learn that the stars come down to go Christmas shopping, and you get the moon if you wish for it.
Milo is the most watchful and passive of classic protagonists, the hero as freshman. An American boy of the late fifties, he is very much an empty vessel. Juster said he was actually concerned, when he was halfway through writing the book, that Milo would seem too empty—too socially isolated and too apart from the world. "I was a curious kid, but not like that," he added. Milo learns to trust the wisdom of others—to admire the truly learned—and to find the marvellous not in the heavens above or in the middle earth below but in the textbooks at hand. He's the perfect first-generation American undergraduate, scanning the course catalogue, wide-eyed.
Milo is also one of the few protagonists in children's literature—Dorothy is another—who have a wiser best friend throughout their journey, in this case Tock, the watchdog. Just as Dorothy learns from the smart Scarecrow, Milo learns from Tock's timekeeper's knowledge. Milo doesn't educate himself; he gets educated. His epiphany is that math and reading and even spelling are themselves subjects of adventure, if seen from the right angle. The point of "The Phantom Tollbooth" is not that there's more to life than school; it's that normal school subjects can be wonderful if you don't have to experience them as normal schooling.
Both Juster and Feiffer are perfect representatives of that faith: outer-borough boys from immigrant backgrounds who passed through the Army and the Navy to end up, blissfully, learning stuff—reading old books and mastering new theorems. They were part of the explosion of higher education that began in the mid-fifties. Feiffer's satiric subject in his great early comic strips is the comedy of the newly educated—the interpretive dancer, the foreign-filmgoer—and Juster, in "The Phantom Tollbooth," takes it on as a celebratory subject.
For "The Phantom Tollbooth" is not just a manifesto for learning; it is a manifesto for the liberal arts, for a liberal education, and even for the liberal-arts college. (Juster, who, knowing that he had started out with a classic, went on to publish sparingly, if beautifully—his visual romance "The Dot and the Line" is his best-known later work—spent most of his career as an architect and as a teacher at Hampshire College.) What Milo discovers is that math and literature, Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, should assume their places not under the pentagon of Purpose and Power but under the presidency of Rhyme and Reason. Learning isn't a set of things that we know but a world that we enter.
Juster was writing a comic hymn to the value of the liberal arts at a moment of their renaissance, buoyed as they were by the G.I. Bill and new cadres of students. Like Randall Jarrell's college novel "Pictures from an Institution," Juster's book bears the flavor of those sweet postwar years, when every faculty was growing and every arts course resonating, and war seemed left far behind. Auden captured that spirit in a poem published in the late forties, "Under Which Lyre": "Encamped upon the college plain / Raw veterans already train/As freshman forces . . . / And nerves that steeled themselves to slaughter /Are shot to pieces by the shorter /Poems of Donne." But, where Jarrell revels in the absurdity of the liberal arts, "The Phantom Tollbooth" asserts their necessity. In "The Phantom Tollbooth," the real moral sin is knowing too much about one thing: the Mathemagician who obsesses over quantities; the unabridged Azaz who lives off his own words. Against those who worried that the liberal arts could not help us "win the future," Juster argued for the love of knowledge, and against narrow specialization. "The Phantom Tollbooth" was for learning, against usefulness. "Many of the things I'm supposed to know seem so useless that I can't see the purpose in learning them at all," Milo complains to Rhyme and Reason. They don't tell him to listen to his inner spirit, or trust the Force. Instead, Reason says, "You may not see it now, but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else. . . . Whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer."
That's why, of all the tributes to the book that have been included in the new edition, Juster's favorite is one by the Soviet-born, now Cambridge-resident scholar Maria Nikolajeva. She writes of encountering "The Phantom Tollbooth" in her Muscovite childhood, and realizing, "A good laugh and linguistic acrobatics helped us survive. We excelled in watchdogs, Spelling Bees, Humbugs, Whiches, and Whether Men. We envied the lucky few who did manage to escape, and Milo's example inspired us. We were bored to death, but we started thinking. Deep inside, we despised cabinet members who made mountains out of molehills and split hairs. We didn't want to be smart alecks who only had one point of view, even though it is much less trouble that way. We hated the thought of living in Ignorance." Juster vindicated the value to the world of a liberal-arts degree.
Fifty years ago, the book was rescued from the remainder table, Juster recalls, when a rhapsodic review appeared in this magazine, by Emily Maxwell (who was, among many other things, the wife of the longtime New Yorker fiction editor William Maxwell), and then children readers instantly, mysteriously, took to it. Today, he thinks that the Mountains of Ignorance are higher and more perilous than they have ever been. Still, the continuing life of the book is some reassurance.
Two curious absences in the book make Juster and Feiffer chuckle today. In all the drawings in the original book, there is not a single image of Milo passing through a tollbooth. "And the funny thing is, that may be the one thing in the book that dates," Juster added. "We're getting rid of all our tollbooths! Kids are going to read the book and ask, Yeah, but what's a tollbooth?" The other is that, though we know the trip costs something—you enter through a tollbooth, after all—the specific sum Milo pays, the tuition for his liberal education, is never calculated in numbers or defined in words. Whatever it cost then, it surely costs more now. ♦


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The American Civil War is about to break out and best friends Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles find themselves thrust into battle when Union marauders destroy Jack's family plantation. They join the Bushwackers, a skilled unit of guerilla-style fighters, and fight side-by-side until some of the members begin to distrust Jake and his Union sympathizing father. Jake becomes isolated from the gang and strikes up a friendship with Holt, a former black slave, as his seperation from Jack takes one final, deadly turn.
Genre: Romance, History, Drama
Actor: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel Kilcher
Director: Ang Lee
Country: United States
Duration: 138 min
Quality: HD
Release: 1999
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Before travel, be sure you and your children are up to date on all routine immunizations according to schedules approved by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP). See the schedule for adults and the schedule for infants and children. Some schedules can be accelerated for travel.
See your doctor at least 4–6 weeks before your trip to allow time for shots to take effect. If it is less than 4 weeks before you leave, you should still see your doctor. It might not be too late to get your shots or medications as well as other information about how to protect yourself from illness and injury while traveling.
The following vaccines may be recommended for your travel to the Middle East. Discuss your travel plans and personal health with a health-care provider to determine which vaccines you will need.
The preventive measures you need to take while traveling in the Middle East depend on the areas you visit and the length of time you stay. You should observe the precautions listed in this document in most areas of this region. However, in highly developed areas of Israel, you should observe health precautions similar to those that would apply while traveling in the United States.
Malaria is always a serious disease and may be a deadly illness.
Humans get malaria from the bite of a mosquito infected with the parasite. Prevent this serious disease by seeing your health care provider for a prescription antimalarial drug and by protecting yourself against mosquito bites.Your risk of malaria may be high in these countries, including some cities. Travelers to malaria-risk areas, including infants, children, and former residents of the Middle East, should take an antimalarial drug. Travelers to some areas of Iran, Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, and Yemen may be at risk for malaria.
For additional information on malaria risk and prevention, see Malaria Information for Travelers to the Middle East.
There is no risk of malariain Bahrain, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
There is no risk for yellow fever in the Middle East. A certificate of yellow fever vaccination may be required for entry into certain of these countries if you are coming from countries in South America or sub-Saharan Africa. For detailed information, see Comprehensive Yellow Fever Vaccination Requirements. Also, find the nearest authorized U.S. yellow fever vaccine center.
Make sure your food and drinking water are safe. Food and waterborne diseases are the primary cause of illness in travelers. Travelers' diarrhea can be caused by viruses, bacteria, or parasites, which are found throughout the Middle East and can contaminate food or water. Infections may cause diarrhea and vomiting (E. coli, Salmonella, cholera, and parasites), fever (typhoid fever and toxoplasmosis), or liver damage ( hepatitis).
Additional information: see the Safe Food and Water page for a list of links.
Cutaneous leishmaniasis is reported throughout the area; visceral leishmaniasis, although rare throughout most of the area, is common in central Iraq, in the southwest of Saudi Arabia, in the northwest of Syria, in Turkey (southeast Anatolia only), and in the west of Yemen. Many cases of leishmaniasis have been reported in the US military in Iraq. A rise in West Nile fever has been seen recently in Israel. Outbreaks of dengue occurred in Saudi Arabia and Yemen in 2002. Protecting yourself against insect bites (see below) will help to prevent these diseases.
Other infections that tend to occur more often in longer-term travelers (or immigrants from this region) include tuberculosis (Yemen), lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis (Yemen), hepatitis B, and schistosomiasis (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria) To prevent schistosomiasis, do not swim in fresh water (except in well-chlorinated swimming pools) in these countries. (For more information, please see Swimming and Recreational Water Precautions.) Polio has resurfaced in Yemen. Pilgrims to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia have acquired meningococcal infections caused by serotypes A and W-135, as well as influenza.
Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of injury among travelers. Protect yourself from motor vehicle injuries: avoid drinking and driving; wear your safety belt and place children in age-appropriate restraints in the back seat; follow the local customs and laws regarding pedestrian safety and vehicle speed; obey the rules of the road; and use helmets on bikes, motorcycles, and motor bikes. Avoid boarding an overloaded bus or mini-bus. Where possible, hire a local driver.
Travelers should take the following precautions
If you have visited a malaria-risk area, continue taking your antimalarial drug for 4 weeks (chloroquine, doxycycline, or mefloquine) or seven days (atovaquone/proguanil) after leaving the risk area.
Malaria is always a serious disease and may be a deadly illness. If you become ill with a fever or flu-like illness either while traveling in a malaria-risk area or after you return home (for up to 1 year), you should seek immediate medical attention and should tell the physician your travel history.
Important: This document is not a complete medical guide for travelers to this region. Consult with your doctor for specific information related to your needs and your medical history; recommendations may differ for pregnant women, young children, and persons who have chronic medical conditions.Date: July 19, 2005


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Photo Booth is a photo manipulation app on iPad 2 that works with the iPad 2 cameras. You use Photo Booth to capture photos using various fun effects. With some effects, you can create a kaleidoscope effect; with others, you can stretch, squeeze, or twirl the subject of the photo. Some effects are artistic, while others are just plain fun.
You select an effect first, then take a photo using the iPad's cameras.
1Tap the Photo Booth icon on the Home screen.
The Photo Booth app is opened, and the different possible effects that can be used in the current view of the camera appear.
2Tap an effect, and then tap the Capture button.
The camera's image is captured using that effect, and it appears along with a filmstrip of all images you've captured using Photo Booth.
To try other effects, tap the Effects button in the bottom left corner of the screen. If you want to delete an image that didn't turn out as planned, tap the Menu button, tap a photo, and then tap Delete.
3Tap the Home button to return to the Home screen.
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The purpose of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (or SAAC) is to recognize the student-athlete in the fields of academics and athletics.
The student-athlete is at the heart of the athletic programs at U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and so this vehicle was created to allow student-athletes to talk about issues comfortably without fear of reprimand. Also, it was created to implement programs that will promote a positive image of intercollegiate athletics and the student-athlete.
We recognize that student-athletes are, to some extent, role model?s, and that they have some responsibility to the community; that is, to give something of themselves for the greater good. The committee is comprised of student-athletes so as to best reach and target the problems and needs of themselves and their peers in order to further the USMMA tradition of excellence in both academics and athletics. Some of the areas that are recognized for study include:
Student-Athlete involvement and empowerment in decision making
Student-Athlete/Coach relationships
Student-Athlete Life
Appreciation for diversity
Giving back to the community
Informational liaisons
The mission of the USMMA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee shall be consistent with the overall mission of the Academy and the Athletic Department. The student-athlete must be at the heart of the program.
We recognize that every student-athlete has goals that are fulfilled by personal academic and athletic success. The SAAC consists of student-athletes whose goal is to create an environment through which the concerns, questions, and ideas of student-athletes can be heard.
The members of the committee will act as a conduit through which athletes may be heard within the Athletics Department. The SAAC will also strive to examine and improve relations between the student-athlete, the campus at large and to provide service to the community. There must be a balance that assures that the student-athlete is provided the opportunity to attain these goals.


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Wounded Warriors Hit 'Road 2 Recovery'
By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2008 - Neither rainy May skies nor unseasonably cool temperatures stopped cyclists from beginning the 480-mile "Road 2 Recovery" ride from Walter Reed Army Medical Center here to Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C., today.
Through bicycling, the Road 2 Recovery organization assists veterans with mental and physical rehabilitation.
About 20 cyclists, including six wounded warriors from Walter Reed and three from Fort Bragg, N.C., gathered at the Mologne House on the Walter Reed campus for well-wishes before heading south.
The journey is more than just the physical challenge it represents for many of the recovering soldiers, Army Col. Patricia D. Horoho, commander of Walter Reed Health Care System, said.
"This event really is symbolic of the road that our warriors in transition take from the point of injury on the battlefield through the entire journey of healing to the triumph of full recovery," she told those gathered to see the cyclists off. "This is truly a testament of their courage and commitment to take control of their lives as they continue the healing journey."
America is doing its best to bolster that courage, said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense for internal communication and public liaison.
"We hope you feel embraced by the American people, who every day are trying to find ways to communicate one message to you," the deputy assistant secretary. "That message is: America does support you."
The riders are sure to feel that embrace as they make their way south. Bicyclists are expected to join them at different stages of the ride, including some stars in the cycling community.
"We're very excited about the ride," said John Wordin, founder of Road 2 Recovery. "It's going to be an interesting challenge [for the veterans]."
Wordin said the idea for the program originated in September, when he was invited to do a ride with veterans from the Palo Alto, Calif., Veterans Affairs facility who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. The facility had started a cycling program as a regular part of the patients' mental rehabilitation, he said.
"By participating in cycling, it helps speed up their recovery process," Wordin said. "There have been a lot of studies done on physical activity, and there are two things it does.
"One is it decreases depression," he said. "The second thing is, by doing a physical activity it helps develop your muscles."
Army 1st Lt. Ferris Butler, soon to be promoted to captain, is walking proof of that.
"I sat in a wheelchair for 15 months, so getting strength back in my legs to the point where I was just able to stand under my own weight was important," he said. "Riding a bike is no impact, and it's just an amazing way ... to get in shape. It just really expedited my therapy."
Butler was injured in a bomb blast on Dec. 21, 2006, in Iraq's Sunni Triangle. He lost his left leg below the knee after an attempt to save it failed. He also lost half of his right foot to the explosion.
He said that, not only is biking a great way to shape up physically, but also just getting out of the hospital for awhile is a big lift.
"It's just so good to get out of the hospital, just leave this place for a week or even a day," Butler said. "I don't know if I have the expectations of making the 480 miles, but we'll see. I've got goals for each day, and I'm just going to take it one day at a time.
"This is just a stepping stone for me," he added.
Though he only recently received his three-wheeled bike and didn't get a lot of road training in, Army Spc. Justin Clark said he's planning on finishing the whole ride.
"If I don't, I'll be kind of frustrated with myself," he said in halting speech. "But if I make it one mile, it's more than I would have done by not doing it at all."
Clark suffered a traumatic brain and spinal cord injury when he was electrocuted and fell south of Baghdad in 2004. He can't remember exactly where the accident happened. His fiancee, Audrey Proctor, has one reason for making the ride with Clark: "Because he wanted me to do it," she said. "That was pretty much it."
She said she's confident the challenge is manageable for both of them, she added.
If the 80-mile-a-day average turns out to be too strenuous for any of the riders, two "sag wagons" will be available for cyclists who need to ride for a bit. Cyclists can continue cycling when they're ready.
The Road 2 Recovery ride concludes in Charlotte on May 25 with a few special events, which include a celebratory lap around the Lowe's Motor Speedway. The riders will be welcomed by cheering fans gathered for the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that will be run later that evening.
A tour of the garages will be followed by the opportunity to take in the race from catbird seats in the one of the corporate suites.
Road 2 Recovery is a supporter of America Supports You, a Defense Department program connecting citizens and companies with servicemembers and their families serving at home and abroad.
*Related Sites:*
Road 2 Recovery [ http://www.road2recovery.us.com ]
Wounded Warriors Hit 'Road 2 Recovery' [ http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49945 ]


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For most American restaurants, tea had become something of an afterthought among nonalcoholic beverages.
Sure, tea is the world's No. 2 beverage, second only to water. But as quick-service and fast-casual eateries focused on the expanding number of carbonated drinks and growing interest in coffee mixtures, tea was seen as a boring, necessary part of the menu.
These days, however, tea is hot, so to speak, and not just in teahouses. Restaurants' tea sales have picked up briskly, especially as more units offer sweet tea, and traditional coffee houses are increasingly expanding their tea offerings.
"We're seeing tea sales grow, and you can't look past McDonald's, or Subway, or any of the quick-service restaurants," says Joe Simrany, president of the Tea Association of the USA Inc.
"They're embracing tea like we haven't seen in a long, long time."
Consumers are "looking for more natural, more healthy alternatives," and that is fueling the interest in different varieties and flavors of fresh brewed teas, he says. "People overdosed on carbonated soft drinks, and iced tea is benefiting from that."
Almost all the tea sold in the U.S. is grown outside the country, and the Tea Association estimates tea imports grew more than 10 percent in 2010 over the previous year. Foodservice tea sales have been rising 3–5 percent annually in recent years.
More anecdotal evidence was the number of companies, nearly 50, exhibiting tea products at the annual National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago in May.
"People want an alternative beverage that is refreshing, with great taste, and that is healthy," says Toby Tomblin, vice president and director of food innovations and ingredients at S&D Coffee Inc., which supplies restaurants with coffee and custom teas.
"Tea is a pretty natural product," he adds, rich in antioxidants "with clean labels and a short ingredients list."
In fact, tea accounted for 15.2 percent of restaurant beverage menu items during the fourth quarter of 2010, making it the third most-available type of nonalcoholic beverage at eateries, according to research firm Mintel.
The number of tea beverages offered at restaurants grew 11.2 percent from 2008 to 2010.
"Everyone's trying to branch out beyond carbonated beverages," says Kathy Hayden, foodservice analyst at Mintel. "Just as good coffee has become a requirement now for restaurants, operators are looking to do the same with tea."
Tea provides an inexpensive alternative, she says, and "you can make a signature drink with just one flavor."
Tomblin says flavors can be applied to the tea leaves before brewing or can be applied to the brewed tea afterward.
"You can get just about any flavor you want," he says.
Consumption of tea, derived from certain shrubs and small trees in eastern and central Asia, dates back 5,000 years. It is grouped by various production and curing techniques, with six basic classifications: black, green, white, oolong, yellow, and post-fermented.
Black tea is the most common variety in North America, accounting for about 90 percent of all tea sales. The term comes from its color, which is the result of the leaves being fully oxidized. The tea became a popular trade item because it retains its flavor for years.
Green tea has grown in popularity in recent years because of its supposed health benefits, although the unwilted, unoxidized tea generally loses its flavor within a year.
White tea uses young leaves that are wilted and unoxidized, while yellow tea is unwilted and unoxidized, but with a slower drying phase than green tea. Oolong, which also is gaining in popularity, is wilted under strong sun and partially oxidized.
Similar to wine, different types of tea take their names from the districts where they're grown, and each area is known for producing brews with a unique flavor and character.
By far, most tea consumed in the U.S. is the iced variety. Mintel research determined that 39 percent of restaurant-goers drink cold tea, about twice as many that have hot tea.
Additionally, a report by research and consulting firm Technomic Inc. found that 10 percent of restaurant consumers are drinking more iced tea than just two years ago, despite a 7 percent increase in prices during that same period.
For many years, quick-service tea didn't always focus on quality, but that has been changing in recent years, as fresh-brewed tea, often made several times a day, became the norm.
Some fast feeders have their own blends of teas, while others use national brands. Subway, for instance, is using a fresh-brewed version of Coca Cola's Fuze. Other quick serves and fast casuals offer bottled teas in refrigerated cases.
Technology has also helped bring better fresh-brewed iced tea to restaurants. One new idea is the Teafinity Brewmaster system developed by S&D Coffee.
Teafinity Brewmaster was one of the winners of the first Food & Beverage Product Innovations Awards showcased at the NRA Show.
The two-part system uses a liquid tea concentrate and a new dispensing system that delivers the look and taste of consistent, high-quality, fresh-brewed tea.
The flavor comes from real tea leaves and the brewing process is similar to steeping tea, Tomblin says. "It's all about the correct amount of raw tea, the correct temperature of the water, and the correct dilution level."
The resulting concentrate is packaged, placed into the machine, and mixed with fresh filtered water to create the final product. To customers, the Brewmaster looks like a typical tea dispenser.
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Open a terminal and type the following:in the end of the file, comment out/remove the line /usr/bin/mint-fortune, and then save the file. Open a new terminal and you should no longer see that line.
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Edit-I just read the rest of this topic and I guess I had better thank clem as well for originally posting this hint.


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Today brings us some apps all about the finer things in life, like beautiful and artistic photography, fine wines, and pirates! VSCO Cam has been re-launched in a big way, offering an impressive alternative camera/editor with an air of authenticity about it. Plonk, meanwhile, helps newbie and veteran wine drinkers alike learn about wines and […]
Today brings us some apps all about the finer things in life, like beautiful and artistic photography, fine wines, and pirates! VSCO Cam has been re-launched in a big way, offering an impressive alternative camera/editor with an air of authenticity about it. Plonk, meanwhile, helps newbie and veteran wine drinkers alike learn about wines and wine culture through a streamlined and stylish interface. Finally, Scurvy Scallywags is a funny new match-three game with RPG elements, offering a bit more substance than currently popular games of similar style.
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VSCO Cam (Free)
What's it about? VSCO Cam is a an elegant app dedicated to helping you create authentically artistic photography, with filters that enhance your photos rather than define them.
What's cool? Technically the second version of a pre-existing app, this re-launch of the Visual Supply Company's primary app is all about intuitive editing and innovative image processing technology. The remarkable app offers plenty of filters, including optional ones available for purchase, and neat features like a before and after viewer and the VSCO Journal, which is full of inspiration and tutelage. Now, I'm not an expert when it comes to photography, but without sacrificing resolution or quality, I must say that the end results of this app can be extremely impressive. In addition, if you had the old app, it's pretty easy to transfer your old library into the new app.
Who's it for? Any iPhone photographer who wants a great camera and editor in one easy to use package should definitely give this a look, even with all the other options.
What's it like? The big one would be Camera+, which is also free. Others, like ProCamera, will cost you. For simple editing, I'd recommend Snapseed.
Plonk (Free)
What's it about? Do you want to feel like a cultured and refined connoisseur of fine wine, but you have no idea where to start? Plonk is your app.
What's cool? I'm not exactly the kind of guy who one associates with words like "refined" or "connoisseur," and to this day I've yet to find a wine that I really like. But with Plonk, I have a wealth of information at my fingertips, from different wine styles and a periodic table of grape types. I can keep track of wines that I've tried in the past, and look them up by country, or match different wines to appropriately complementary foods. With Plonk, you can have the right wine for every occasion, and even learn how to pronounce all those fancy-shmancy names, totally impressing your date or family members with your knowledge and tastefulness!
Who's it for? Anyone who is interested in learning more about wine from pretty much any aspect, including people who just want to find the right wine for them.
What's it like? A very similar yet less stylized and minimalist take on this idea can be found in Hello Vino – Wine Reccomendations
Scurvy Scallywags ($0.99)
What's it about? A surprisingly epic match-three game from legendary designer Ron Gilbert. I shouldn't need to say much more, but I will.
What's cool? Ron Gilbert, for those of you not in the know, is a veteran game designer who worked for Lucas Arts in the golden age of adventure games, such as Secret of Monkey Island. As an homage, the island in this game has the same name. Essentially, you move from area to area in an epic pirate quest for treasure and booty, fighting zombie pirates along the way. Rife with RPG elements, your main character and enemies appear as pieces on the board. You need to build up combos to increase the captains skills enough to take on said zombies, adding a lot of strategy to a very casual game type.
Who's it for? This game is for anyone who likes match three titles, but is tired of the freemium in-app purchase pushing elements or just wants something with a bit more charm and depth.
What's it like? It's very similar in spirit to Puzzle Quest 2, though more on the comical side than the epic side. 10000000 is also a great innovative match three.
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34th Annual Cranberry Bowl Presented By Ocean Spray
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Clean Harbors Stadium, Buzzards Bay, Mass.
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Bridgewater State (9-1, 6-1 NEFC) 7 7 3 14 - 31
Massachusetts Maritime (5-4, 4-3 NEFC) 7 7 7 0 - 21
MAM: Stefan Gustafson 1 yd run (Brandon Rodrigues kick) 11:04 1st
BSU: Matt Green 16 yd pass from Mike McCarthy (Jarred Diorio kick) 2:40 1st
BSU: Caleb Gelsomino 1 yd run (Diorio kick) 11:01 2nd
MAM: Gustafson 1 yd run (Rodrigues kick) 8:43 2nd
BSU: Diorio 20 yd FG 9:07 3rd
MAM: John Trudel 9 yd run (Rodrigues kick) 7:33 3rd
BSU: McCarthy 5 yd run (Diorio kick) 8:59 4th
BSU: McCarthy 22 yd run (Diorio kick) 2:58 4th
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BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. -- Junior quarterback Mike McCarthy (Edgartown, Mass.) amassed 254 yards of total offense and accounted for three touchdowns to earn Lee Harrington Most Valuable Player honors for a second straight season in leading Bridgewater State to a 31-21 victory over Massachusetts Maritime in the 34th Annual Cranberry Bowl Presented By Ocean Spray Saturday afternoon at Clean Harbors Stadium.
The visiting Bears (9-1, 6-1 New England Football Conference Bogan) trailed 21-17 entering the final quarter of play, but McCarthy capped a 14-play, 80-yard drive that consumed 6:45 of the clock with a five-yard touchdown run to give Bridgewater State the lead for good at 24-21 with 8:59 remaining. Senior cornerback Vincent Henry's (Middleboro, Mass.) interception of the host Buccaneers' (5-4, 4-3 NEFC Bogan) ensuing drive gave the visitors the ball back on their own 31-yard line, and McCarthy once again directed the Bears on an extended drive of 11 plays and 69 yards that killed 5:29 of clock time, as he iced Bridgewater State's triumph with a 22-yard scoring scamper with 2:58 remaining.
Massachusetts Maritime took the opening kickoff and marched 78 yards in 13 plays over the first 3:56 of action, as junior Stefan Gustafson's (Plymouth, Mass.) one-yard plunge gave the Buccaneers a 7-0 edge. McCarthy evened matters for the Bears with 2:40 to play in the first quarter when he connected with fellow junior Matt Green (Stoughton, Mass.) on a 16-yard touchdown pass, and Bridgewater State took advantage of a short field in taking a 14-7 cushion four minutes into the second stanza on senior quarterback Caleb Gelsomino's (North Scituate, R.I.) one-yard plunge. Gustafson countered on the hosts' ensuing drive with his second one-yard touchdown run of the day that squared the contest at 14-14 at the break, but the visitors took a 17-14 edge on the opening possession following intermission on sophomore Jarred Diorio's (Kingston, N.H.) 20-yard field goal. Sophomore quarterback John Trudel (Niantic, Conn.) gave Massachusetts Maritime its final lead of the day on the ensuing drive, as his nine-yard touchdown run midway through the third quarter staked the Buccaneers to a 21-17 edge. Junior Sheldon Roper's (Sharpsburg, Ga.) interception on his own 17-yard drive thwarted a Bridgewater State scoring opportunity, but the two teams traded punts on ensuing possessions to set up McCarthy's fourth quarter heroics.
McCarthy finished with 180 rushing yards on 29 carries while throwing for 74 yards to go with his three scores for the Bears, who amassed 436 yards of total offense and held the ball for 42-plus minutes while holding Massachusetts Maritime (who ranked second nationally in total offense at 552.8 yards per game entering the contest) to just 263 yards and 17-plus minutes of possession. Senior Mike Gentili (Leominster, Mass.) added 96 rushing yards on 17 carries for Bridgewater State, which also received 45 receiving yards from senior Matt Monahan (Wrentham, Mass.). Gustafson rushed for 81 yards on 24 carries to go with his two touchdowns in the setback for the Buccaneers, who also received a combined 98 yards of total offense from Trudel, including 50 on the ground and 48 through the air.
Junior Eddie Jewel (Amherst, Mass.) paced Bridgewater State defensively with 11 solo tackles, while fellow junior Adam Toman (Barrington, R.I.) added six total tackles and a sack for the Bears. Sophomore Kevin Stanton (Abington, Mass.) led Massachusetts Maritime on the defensive side with 11 total tackles (10 solo), while Roper added 10 solo stops to go with his interception for the Buccaneers, who also received nine total tackles and a pair of sacks from senior Nick Mazurkiewicz (Attleboro, Mass.).
Today's Cranberry Bowl marked the regular season finale for both squads, who will now await word of possible post-season berths in the either the NCAA or ECAC Championships, as those pairings will be announced on Monday, November 12th.


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I am back from five beautiful days in Florida. We were there for a wedding but decided to stay a couple extra days to soak up some sun and beach time. Unfortunately, the ocean temperature was a bit too cold to go in, at least it was for me. Luckily I had brought my kindle, and was just as content sitting on the beach and catching up on my reading.
One of the great things about returning to Minnesota at this time is that you really get to see the seasons change. When we left, everything was still brown and grey but in a matter of five days, trees are filled with small green leaves, lawns are already in all their glory, and Minnesotans are coming out of the winter rut.
There are also seasonal changes in the groceries. At the moment, asparagus are at their peak so I took the opportunity to snatch a fresh bunch. I do not remember where but I read that, when choosing them, you should look for thicker spears because they have a juicier interior and are sweeter. Previously, there was only one way in which I prepared asparagus: steamed for two to three minutes, then seasoned with salt and pepper and drizzled with olive oil. To be honest, I am a little tired of that. So, today, I'm sharing my newest asparagus recipe. It does start by steaming but by adding a few extra ingredients a lowly side dish is transformed into a filling lunch or dinner salad.
Asparagus Salad with Gorgonzola Basil Pesto
Serves 2
1 lb asparagus
2 eggs
3 tbsp olive oil
2 oz gorgonzola
5 or 6 large basil leaves
1 small avocado
candied pecans
salt pepper
french bread, optional
1. To prepare pesto, puree gorgonzola, olive oil and basil leaves in food processor until relatively smooth. Set aside until ready to use.
2. Steam your asparagus for two minutes, or if you prefer, get four cups of water boiling, add asparagus and boil for a minute or two. Remove the steamed or boiled spears to an ice bath.
3. Meanwhile, fry eggs in hot skillet. Season with salt. Alternatively boiled eggs can be substituted here.
4. Plate the salad by layering half of the asparagus spears, an egg, drizzle on pesto and garnish with half of the sliced avocado and candied or plain pecans. Repeat for the next salad. Serve with a slice of french bread.
*Remember, this recipe serves two but it can be easily doubled or tripled.


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Aug. 23, 2005
Karen Robichaud is returning to her alma mater as the new track and cross country coach for both men and women at Lipscomb University.
Robichaud was on the Lipscomb cross country team, winning the Most Valuable Runner award in 1995, 1996 and 1997.
She has been the cross country coach for Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tenn. since 2001. In 2004 Robichaud was named Tennessee High School Female Cross Country Coach of the Year by the National Federation of State High Schools Association. In 2003 she was selected as the 2003 Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association Female Cross Country Coach of the Year.
"Karen is a great fit for our program," said Steve Potts, Lipscomb's Director of Athletics. "She had an exceptional career as a student-athlete here at Lipscomb and she has been successful coaching in a high quality program at Brentwood High. Karen's enthusiasm for cross country and track is a valuable motivational tool. We are delighted in her decision to join the Lipscomb University athletic family. "
At Brentwood Robichaud directed boy's cross country team to a third place finish in the state in 2003. In 2003 and 2004 the Brentwood girl's cross country team finished first in the state.
In 2002 she added the role of assistant track coach at Brentwood High. In 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 the Brentwood girl's track team finished as state champion.
"I am extremely excited about working with Lipscomb runners." Robichaud said. "The gifted athletes that I've met so far are highly motivated and eager to improve. Working with these teams is ideal; it will merge my passion for running with a desire to help athletes maximize their potential. I am grateful for this opportunity and am committed to helping Bison runners succeed."
Robichaud was named Miss Lipscomb her senior year. She has been honored by Lipscomb as representative of the decade. She was named to the All-Trans South Athletic Conference team in 1997. She competed in the NAIA Cross Country National Championship Meet in 1996 and 1997.
Robichaud received a B.S. degree in Health and Physical Education from Lipscomb. She earned a Master of Science in Exercise Science from Middle Tennessee State University in 2002.


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Fixed pause not working with the GUI. Also removed super annoying printf from MotorControl. And also fixed some pause/resume GUI bugs and the fact that process.kill and process.terminate wouldnt do anything.
Added latching to publishers so the first message gets noticed.
Added conversions abs_to_rel and rel_to_abs.
Also, added warnings after these conversions in the case that a requested speed has to be cropped.
Tested against a temporary behavior which set the speeds (now removed since it's very easy to write such a test behavior).
Added code for unit conversion, pending tests.
Pushing modified behavior process that requires less arguments and appends scoutname to ros node name. and a compiling but not tested version of test_behaviors (scheduler and wh_robot)
Updated the licensing information in many files.
This is a broken commit because I decided to do this at a bad time. Sorry! The build will be working after next commit, I promise (and I won't push till then). This commit reflects the licensing in the files after I used my auto-add/remove script.
Modified the Behaviors to take a scoutname.
Scoutname now specifies which scout the behavior will affect. Scoutname must be passed to the constructors of each control module (some of which are now in need of modification), so that they can publish to the correct topic....
Updated the Behavior definition and extensions.
The Behavior.cpp/h class now works and can be extended by simply implementing its run() method. However, the subclass must also be extantiated and used in an external executable. An example of this can be seen in PriyaBehavior.cpp/h, and the executable, priya_behavior_process.cpp. In the future, we should move all behaviors into a behaviors/ folder, and autogenerate the executable to be compiled....
Got motor control working with scoutsim
Behaviors can now use the MotorControl class to change the speed of the motors in the simulator. The simulator correctly handles the command.At the moment, the set_motors command is limited to 'scout1'. We should look into prefixes to specify which scout (scout1, scout2, etc) each behavior should command....
Made a lot of changes to the general structure.
Applied object-orienting techniques to the code, cleaning it up considerably. Major design changes are as follows:


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Battleground Tracking Poll: Obama retakes lead
MARION, Ohio — With eight days to go until the election, President Barack Obama has recaptured a narrow national lead over Mitt Romney, riding increased support from women and an edge in early voting.
A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll of 1,000 likely voters — taken from last Monday through Thursday — shows Obama ahead of Romney by 1 percentage point, 49 percent to 48 percent. That represents a 3-point swing in Obama's direction from a week ago but reflects a race that remains statistically tied.
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Obama leads by 8 points among those who have already voted, 53 percent to 45 percent. These early voters represent 15 percent of the electorate, with many more expected to vote in the next few days — though Hurricane Sandy could change that.
But the GOP nominee maintains a potentially pivotal advantage in intensity among his supporters. Sixty percent of those who support Obama say they are "extremely likely" to vote, compared with 73 percent who back Romney. Among this group, Romney leads Obama by 9 points, 53 percent to 44 percent.
By any measure, the race is neck and neck: 43 percent say they will "definitely" vote Romney, compared with 42 percent who say the same of the president.
On the generic congressional ballot, Republicans lead Democrats, 46 percent to 45 percent, after trailing slightly for much of the fall.
Obama leads among women by 11 points, 54 percent to 43 percent. The gap had narrowed to 6 points a week ago, but much of that survey was conducted before the GOP nominee's comment at the second debate that he had reviewed "binders full of women" as part of a gender diversity effort as Massachusetts governor. Obama and his allies have also been hitting full swing at Romney as an enemy of women's rights on abortion and contraception in advertising and speeches.
The president is now closer in standing to where he's been the past few months, and the swing is due to female support. On every issue and question of character, women now favor Obama over Romney.
Men, meanwhile, support Romney over Obama by 12 points, 55 percent to 43 percent.
"The women have come back, and they look pretty locked in," said Celinda Lake, the Democratic pollster who helped conduct the bipartisan poll. "The key is to win the women by as much as you're losing the men by."


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Australia skipper Neill signs Watford deal
Australia captain Lucas Neill has signed for Championship side Watford until the end of the season.
The 35-year-old defender had been training with former club Blackburn Rovers after his contract with J-League side Omiya Ardija came to an end.
Yet Neill has now signed a short-term deal with Giuseppe Sannino's side, subject to international clearance, and will be keen to gain regular football with the FIFA World Cup on the horizon.
"I want to add my experience to the Watford squad and I'm hoping that some of my natural leadership skills can benefit the group here," he told the club's official website.
"I'm highly motivated to keep playing. There's still a huge passion within me for football.
"I've had experience in different territories across recent years. I took up challenges in different countries because I wanted some new experiences – but this is a great chance for me to play at an excellent level and help Watford finish the season as strongly as possible."
Watford become Neill's fifth club in England, and the first since he left Everton in 2010 for Galatasaray.
He joins Watford with the club 12th in the Championship and eight points adrift of the play-off positions.


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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:24 PM GMT on August 25, 2012
Tropical Storm Isaac is pounding Haiti and the Dominican Republic with torrential rains that are causing extremely dangerous flooding and landslides. Isaac's center passed over Haiti's southwest peninsula early this morning, tracking about 50 miles west of the capital of Port-au-Prince. As the center pulled away to the northwest, Isaac's heaviest thunderstorms moved ashore over Hispaniola near sunrise, and are now dumping heavy rains with rainfall rates approaching one inch per hour, according to recent microwave satellite estimates. Barahona on the south coast of the Dominican Republic had received 5.14" of rain as of 8 am EDT this morning, and it is probable that some mountainous areas in Haiti and the Dominican Republic have already received up to 10" of rain from Isaac. These rains will continue though much of the day, and have the potential to cause high loss of life in Hispaniola.
Figure 1. A river north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti in flood due to rains from Isaac. Image from Amélie Baron via Twitter.
Latest observations
Isaac built a partial eyewall last night as the storm approached Haiti, but passage over the rough mountains of Haiti has destroyed the inner core, and the surface center of the storm is now fully exposed to view on satellite images. Radar out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba shows no sign of an organized center, but does reveal some very intense thunderstorms affecting Eastern Cuba, Western Haiti, and nearby islands. Latest data from the Air Force Hurricane Hunters confirm that Isaac has weakened; during their penetration to obtain their 7:08 am EDT center fix, the aircraft reported top surface winds of 55 mph with their SFMR instrument, top flight-level winds at 5,000 feet of 68 mph, and a pressure rise of 3 mb, to 998 mb. Infrared and visible satellite loops show that Isaac remains a large and well-organized storm, though it lacks an inner core. An analysis of upper level winds from the University of Wisconsin CIMSS shows that upper-level outflow is still good to the north, but is lacking elsewhere. An impressive large multi-day satellite animation of Isaac is available from the Navy Research Lab.
Figure 2. Rainfall rates estimated by the NOAA F-17 polar orbiting satellite at 6:21 am EDT August 25, 2012. Rainfall rates of 1 inch per hour (orange colors) were occurring in a large area to the south of Hispaniola, and these heavy rains have now moved onshore. Image credit: Navy Research Laboratory.
Latest model runs for Isaac
The latest set of 0Z and 06Z (8 pm and 2 am EDT) model runs are similar in spread to the previous set of runs. Our two best models, the GFS and ECMWF, are virtually on top of each other, with a landfall location in the Florida Panhandle between Fort Walton Beach and Panama City. It is likely that the trough of low pressure pulling Isaac to the north will not be strong enough to pull Isaac all the way to the northeast and out to sea, and Isaac has the potential to drop torrential rains capable of causing serious flooding over the Southeast U.S. The latest 8-day precipitation forecast from the GFS model (Figure 3) calls for 10 - 15 inches of rain over portions of Georgia and South Carolina from Isaac. The ECMWF model, however, predicts that a ridge of high pressure will build in and force Isaac to the west after landfall, resulting in a slow motion across the Tennessee Valley into Arkansas by Friday. Arkansas is experiencing its worst drought in over 50 years, so the rains would be welcome there.
Figure 3. Predicted precipitation for the 8-day period from 2 am Saturday August 25 to 2 am Sunday September 2, from the 2 am EDT August 25 run of the GFS model. This model is predicting a wide swath of 5 - 10 inches of rain (orange colors) will affect portions of Cuba, Florida, the Bahamas, and the Southeast U.S. Image credit: NOAA/NCEP.
Intensity forecast for Isaac
Isaac survived passage over Hispaniola relatively intact. It's large size aided this, and this will also help it survive passage over Cuba today and Sunday. By the time Isaac pops off the coast of Cuba into the Florida Straits on Sunday, it will likely be a 50 mph tropical storm with a large, intact circulation. Isaac will be over very warm waters of 31°C (88°F) in the Florida Straits, wind shear will be light to moderate, and the upper-level wind pattern will feature an upper-level anticyclone over the storm, aiding its upper-level outflow. As I discussed in my previous post, Crossing Hispaniola and Cuba: a history, there have been five storms since 1900 with an intensity similar to Isaac, which crossed over both Haiti and Cuba, then emerged into the Florida Straits. These five storms strengthened by 5 - 20 mph in their first 24 hours after coming off the coast of Cuba. Given the relatively intact structure of Isaac so far, and the favorable conditions for intensification, I expect Isaac will intensify by 15 - 20 mph in 24 hours once the center moves off of the north coast of Cuba. If Isaac spends a full two days over water after passing the Florida Keys, it is possible that it will have enough time to develop a full eyewall and undergo rapid intensification into a Category 2 or 3 hurricane. The latest 06Z (2 am EDT) run of the GFDL model is calling for Isaac to intensify to Category 2 strength, then weaken to Category 1 at landfall in Mississippi on Tuesday. The 06Z HWRF run is calling for landfall in the Florida Panhandle near Fort Walton Beach as a borderline Category 2 or 3 hurricane. The 5 am EDT NHC wind probability forecast gave Isaac a 19% chance of becoming a Category 2 or stronger hurricane in the Gulf. I expect these odds are too low, and that Isaac has a 40% chance of becoming a Category 2 or stronger hurricane in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. I doubt the storm has much of a chance of hitting Category 4 or 5 status, though. While the surface waters in the Gulf of Mexico are very warm, near 30 - 31°C, the total heat content of these waters is unusually low for this time of year. We got lucky with the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current this summer, as it did not shed a big warm eddy during the height of hurricane season, like happened in 2005 (I discuss this in my Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Tutorial.) Without the type of super-high heat energy we had in 2005 in the Gulf of Mexico, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in 2012 will have difficulty forming.
Invest 97L off the coast of Africa
A tropical wave (Invest 97L) is located about 350 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa. The storm has a modest amount of spin and heavy thunderstorms, and is under moderate wind shear. In their 8 am EDT Tropical Weather Outlook, NHC gave 97L a 30% chance of developing by Monday morning. The 8 am EDT SHIPS model forecast predicts moderate shear for the next 5 days over 97L, so some development is possible if 97L can fend off the dry air to its north. None of the reliable models foresee that 97L will be a threat to the Lesser Antilles Islands. However, both the GFS and ECMWF models predict that a tropical wave that has not yet emerged from the coast of Africa may develop next week, and potentially take a more westward track towards the Lesser Antilles.
The Weather Channel's hurricane expert, Brian Norcross, is now writing a blog on wunderground.com. For those of you unfamiliar with his background, here's an excerpt from his first post, from last night:
"This evening 20 years ago the sun set on the horrendous first day after Hurricane Andrew. I was in downtown Miami at the studios of the NBC station. We knew that there was "total" destruction in South Dade County, but even that didn't describe it. Here's to the people that went through it... and held their families together in a situation that most people can't imagine."
Angela Fritz will have a new post here by 6 pm EDT. For the next few days, I plan to do the morning blog post, and Angela will be doing the late afternoon post.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Resolution 2231 (2015)-Adopted by the Security Council & Annexes
Annexes – Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the concerns raised by French foreign minister about Iran are fabricated, unfounded and hostile and will not help resolve any of the regional crises.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a twitter message on Saturday that Irans stability is secured by its people not coalitions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif paid a visit to the headquarters of the executive election committee of expatriates stationed at foreign ministry. Iranian diplomatic missions in 102 countries are open to the nationals wishing to vote in the 12th presidential election of Iran.
JCPOA Commissions Approvals
The bitter events brought about by blind terrorism in France have once again, moved me to speak to you young people.
Joint Statement by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister M.Javad Zarif


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Legislature would make Kemp's ridley the turtle of Texas
Fourth-graders cheer as bill they helped write advances
GALVESTON — A classroom full of Galveston fourth-graders on Thursday gathered expectantly in front of a live-stream video to watch the Texas Senate vote on the bill they wrote making the endangered Kemp's ridley the official sea turtle of Texas.
Unfortunately, the live stream wouldn't load and the Oppe Elementary School students sat dejectedly at their desks. The mood changed fast after the school principal entered the room about 10 minutes later and announced that the bill had passed.
"You should have seen the looks on their faces today when it passed on the floor and they knew it only had one more step," said Kathryn Pistone Blaser, who teaches the environmental class.
"We all just started jumping up and down and started talking to each other, and we got loud!" said 9-year-old student Isabella Walser.
A few minutes later, they got a phone call from state Sen. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood, congratulating them on the bill's passage.
"I'm really proud of what we've done because it was really hard and it was just a group of us kids that did this," Isabella said.
Isabella was one of several Oppe students who testified in Austin in support of the bill. Now she hopes that she and her classmates will be allowed to attend when Gov. Rick Perry signs the bill into law.
The students did their own research on the Kemp's ridley with help from the Sea Turtle Restoration Project.
The children wrote the bill with assistance from state Rep. Craig Eiland, D-Galveston, who introduced it in the House.
Their next project is to persuade the Galveston City Council to declare a Kemp's ridley sea turtle day.


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Turns out the real ALF may not have been so family-friendly.
Supposed leaked "ALF" footage from the '80s NBC sitcom about an alien living with a typical suburban family show the puppet cussing, dropping the N-word repeatedly as a joke and hitting on his female co-star.
The string of rehearsal clips was originally posted online a year ago, but has gained wider attention after being put on YouTube last week, the New York Daily News reported.
Series creator Paul Fusco, who played the ALF puppet, appears to be shown in character using the N-word barrage while spoofing an episode of "L.A. Law" that features someone with Tourette Syndrome, according the News.
After "ALF" went off the air in 1990, the character briefly resurfaced as a talk-show host on TV Land in 2004 and later appeared in commericals, E! News reported.
Steve Lama, an "ALF" associate producer for three years, told TMZ anyone offended by the character's foul language should "lighten up already."
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Selected Reading: Daily News, TMZ, YouTube, E!


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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! It is NFL Day. Here are my Hot Six Spread Picks for the weekend, given gratis and at no charge. DISCLAIMER: What you do with this information is At Your Own Risk. (LOL)
Miami at ATLANTA (-5.5)
Chad Pennington has Dartmouth douchebag hair, and the Dolphins are going to mildly eat it. Though maybe Chad #2, the Henne, will come out and shave the Pennster's lame head for a HOT GAY UPSET!
Kansas City at BALTIMORE (-11.5)
Obvs I love the way John Harbaugh fills out a polo. Awesome coaching man-rack. Hayyyyy, get it, B-more!
Detroit at NEW ORLEANS (-23.5) Isn't it crazy that we're starting with the north's most devastated city against the south's most devastated? I give this game a giant frowny face. Sorry America! So sad, too bad. And what's worse, listen, the Lions had THREE guys who didn't practice yesterday, because they barely have a good knee between them, including Drew Stanton, which: yum! OMG he is so hot. Also: Detroit, I mean, no.
Jacksonville at INDIANAPOLIS (-4.5)
Eww, are there two uglier cities in the U S of A? I polled my super-homo water volleyball team, and we agreed to pick Indiana for the win in memory of Michael Jackson. Indianapolis. Whatever it's fucking called.
NEW YORK at Houston (-6.5)
It's a whole new Jets, and a whole new who cares. So long Brett Favre, you thuggish hottie, and hello Mark Sanchez, you overpaid little bitch. Even though Houston rescued that tall and strapping Dan Orlovsky from Detroit, that is not enough to withstand the pounding that Mark Sanchez is going to deliver.
SAN DIEGO at Oakland (-7.5)
Okay, my momma's hometown of Oakland (REPRESENT) has a hard time with San Diego, no lie. But now they have Charlie Frye! And all I have to say is: gut 'em, Charlie! Still Oakland is going down, but with a struggle. (Also, that's what she said.)
Hit me up on Twitter if you want any more pointers for this weekend's other games! For a small fee we can work something out. (She said that as well.)