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Epic Shows Samaritan Demo Running On Next-Generation NVIDIA 'Kepler' GPU
March 7th, 2012
By Andrew Burnes
Last year at the Game Developers Conference, Epic Games unveiled the jaw-dropping Samaritan demo, a look at the next generation of videogame graphics. Created in a dark, futuristic setting, the demo utilized a host of advanced rendering techniques that smoothly tessellated and morphed facial features, created realistic street scenes using point light reflections, and replicated the work of the best movie directors through the use of fine-tuned out of focus bokeh filters. The only downside was that it took three GeForce GTX 580s to run the demo in real-time.
Today GDC 2012 is upon us, and once again Epic has shown the Samaritan demo, but this time with a twist - instead of three GeForce GTX 580s, the demo was shown running on a single next generation NVIDIA graphics card.
At the conclusion of the demo the card in question was revealed to be our much-anticipated 'Kepler' GPU, the follow-up to our current-generation Fermi card. Although no further information on Kepler was given, the demo sent a clear message: the graphics in Samaritan, generally regarded as a glimpse of the gaming industry's far-off future, will in fact be possible in the near future on PC systems running a single next-generation graphics card.
But it wasn't just the Kepler graphics card that made the demo possible. As important was the addition of Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA), an NVIDIA-developed anti-aliasing technique aiming to improve upon the established success of Multisample Anti-Aliasing (MSAA), the form of anti-aliasing most commonly seen in today's games. Used to smooth out jagged edges and improve visual fidelity, anti-aliasing is key to creating the incredible sights of Samaritan.
Despite MSAA's popularity, "it is relatively costly in the demo because Samaritan uses deferred shading," explains Ignacio Llamas, a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA who worked with Epic on the FXAA implementation. By writing pixel attributes to off-screen render targets prior to final shading, deferred shading enables complex, realistic lighting effects that would be otherwise impossible using forward rendering, a lighting technique commonly used in many game engines. There are a couple of downsides to this: first the render targets require four times the memory since they must hold the information of four samples per pixel; and second, the deferred shading work is also multiplied by four in areas with numerous pieces of intersecting geometry.
"Without anti-aliasing, Samaritan's lighting pass uses about 120MB of GPU memory. Enabling 4x MSAA consumes close to 500MB, or a third of what's available on the GTX 580. This increased memory pressure makes it more challenging to fit the demo's highly detailed textures into the GPU's available VRAM, and led to increased paging and GPU memory thrashing, which can sometimes decrease framerates."
"FXAA is a shader-based anti-aliasing technique," however, and as such "doesn't require additional memory so it's much more performance friendly for deferred renderers such as Samaritan." By freeing up this additional memory developers will have the option of reinvesting it in additional textures or other niceties, increasing graphical fidelity even further.
FXAA can also produce gradients smoother than those of 4x MSAA, as is particularly evident in the Samaritan demo, shown below in our interactive comparison images contrasting the anti-aliasing quality of MSAA and FXAA 3.
As you can see, FXAA is noticeably smoother, eliminating the pronounced jagged edges that are especially visible when placed against the scene's background lighting.
If you'd like to learn more about Samaritan, Unreal Engine 3, or any other aspect of the demo, check out our in-depth Samaritan deep dive from May 2011.
For more info on our next-generation Kepler graphics card, stay tuned to uk.geforce.com.


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3 missing children seen in Lake City
Children believed to be with 32-year-old Carrie Weingarth
MIAMI – Police continue to search for three missing children who were last seen in the Lake City area.
Police believe Erin Pena, 12, Steven Pena, 8, and Derick Pena, 7, may be with 32-year-old Carrie Weingarth. Weingarth shares custody of the two younger boys but not the oldest one.
Investigators said she walked into Erin's school office and was told she was not authorized to take him, but somehow found a way to get inside and take him from the cafeteria.
The children were last seen in the 2000 block of U.S. Highway 90 West in Lake City, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
They may be traveling in a 2014 white Nissan Altima with Florida license plate No. U291LR.
Erin was last seen wearing a blue Polo shirt, khaki pants and gray and orange tennis shoes.
Weingarth was described as 5 feet 1 inches tall, 130 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of the three children or Weingarth is asked to call FDLE at 1-888-FL-MISSING the Miami-Dade Police Department at 305-995-2677.
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As large-scale poultry farmers are required to do, Alan Hudson of Berlin filed a plan last year with Maryland environmental regulators spelling out how he intended to prevent manure from his flocks from fouling the Chesapeake Bay.
Hudson had hired a consultant to write the plan, but before submitting it he made the consultant remove recommendations that he take steps to prevent manure blown out of his chicken houses by ventilation fans from reaching a drainage ditch, according to court documents and testimony in a recent trial. He also had a statement deleted about how he had put too much fertilizer on some fields the previous year.
Hudson's revisions came to light during a trial that cleared the Eastern Shore farmer and poultry producer Perdue of allegations that they fouled the Pocomoke River. While environmentalists have not appealed the decision, they say the case demonstrates problems with how Maryland oversees farm pollution and the failings of a system that relies on plans created by the farmers themselves.
"The trial has helped expose … what a lot of us had suspected all along," said Assateague Coastkeeper Kathy Phillips, who helped bring the lawsuit, "that the nutrient management program in the state looks great on paper, but it's not really implemented."
Maryland law requires all but the smallest farms to follow "nutrient management" plans limiting how much chemical fertilizer and manure they place on their fields. Medium- and large-scale livestock and poultry farms like Hudson's must also follow conservation plans that spell out how they will prevent their animals' waste from washing or blowing into drainage ditches and streams.
Agriculture is the largest single source of nutrient pollution fouling the Chesapeake Bay, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Fertilizer and manure runoff from farms is a major contributor to the algae blooms and fish-suffocating "dead zone" that form every summer in the bay.
According to the Maryland Department of Agriculture, nearly 100 percent of the 5,433 farms required to prepare nutrient management plans had done so by the end of June. But many plans are not up to date or complete, and some are not being followed.
The department launched enforcement actions against five farmers and fined one $350 for not having a plan in the year ended June 30. It also fined 43 farmers $10,700 for late or missing annual reports.
Over the same time, the department conducted on-farm audits of roughly 10 percent of the farms. Major violations of the state nutrient management regulations were found at one out of every three farms visited by state agriculture specialists, according to the department's report. Even after follow-up visits, more than a quarter of the farms checked still were not in compliance with state laws and regulations.
The majority of violations were for expired plans. One in 12 farms checked, however, was found to be applying too much fertilizer to crops, raising the likelihood that some would wash off into ditches and streams. That was twice the rate of farms applying too much fertilizer two years earlier. The department issued 189 warnings and fined six farmers a total of $1,100 for failing to promptly fix problems with their plans.
Overall, the compliance rate found among farms whose plans were audited has ranged between 60 percent and 70 percent during the past three years.
Farm bureau leaders contend that farmers are doing their part to clean up the bay.
Asked during the trial why he removed pollution-control recommendations from his plan, Hudson testified: "I didn't think we needed them." His lawyer, George F. Ritchie IV, declined to discuss his client's reasons, citing attorney-client privilege. Hudson, who said after the verdict that he just wanted to put the legal ordeal behind him and his family, could not be reached to comment further.
The Waterkeeper Alliance, the plaintiff in the lawsuit, alleged that Hudson's chicken operation fouled the ditch in the way the consultant suggested it could. Lawyers for Perdue, for whom Hudson raised the birds, argued successfully that any pollution in the ditches had to be from Hudson's cows, which were not required to be kept away from the ditches.
State environmental officials say they're still reviewing the Hudson farm's plan and checking with federal agriculture officials to see if the document was prepared properly.
"What's wrong here is the entire system," said Scott Edwards of Food & Water Watch, former legal director for the Waterkeeper Alliance, the New York-based group that pursued the Hudson case. "They can have Alan Hudson rewrite his [plan], but what about all the other [plans]?"
Edwards said the plans are vital because they are "literally the only way to regulate farm pollution."
"That's the document that dictates whether a farm is going to pollute or not and how much pollution is going to come off it," Edwards said. "So they have to be constructed carefully, they have to be exact and valid."
The plans are supposed to be written either by University of Maryland specialists, government-certified consultants or by the farmers themselves if they've been trained and certified by the state. The state checks them, but no one checks the state; most of the plans are not available for the public to see. State law bars the disclosure of any identifiable farm's plan, though any documents filed by large-scale poultry or livestock farms to get federal permits are public documents.
Patricia Langenfelder, president of the Maryland Farm Bureau, said most farmers are complying with the law. Of those found to be spreading too much fertilizer, she said, "If you turn that around, that's 92 percent that are following the rules."
"It's no benefit to farmers to over-apply nutrients," she said. Spreading fertilizer that's not needed simply takes money out of growers' pockets, she added. "I think most farmers are in compliance and are good stewards."
Activists point out that testimony during the Waterkeeper trial indicated that Hudson operated without a valid nutrient management plan for several years and did not keep required records of how much fertilizer he used.
The state agriculture department "could have easily verified that he didn't have [a plan] by checking their files, but they didn't bother," said Edwards.
The state doesn't make farmers file plans every year, but does require annual reports attesting that they have current plans and follow them. Hudson testified he filed those reports, even though he hadn't updated his plan.
The state's agriculture secretary, Earl F. "Buddy" Hance, who attended the trial to support the Hudsons, insisted that the majority of farmers do what they're supposed to.
The agriculture secretary defended his department's oversight of the nutrient management program, saying he has a staff of eight to check on 5,700 farms, down one position in an agency that's seen its staffing shrink 12 percent to 15 percent in the past five or six years.
"Some farmers think some of this stuff is just a big hassle," Hance acknowledged. But he said he believed most farmers realize why they need to track their fertilizer use, adding that the Hudson case may heighten awareness of the importance.
"We'd like to see 100 percent compliance, just like everyone else," Hance concluded. "But we at least take some comfort in the fact that the most outstanding issues we do find are paperwork and not issues that have a direct impact on water quality."
But state inspections of most farms to date have been limited to checking a farmer's paperwork. Royden Powell III, assistant agriculture secretary, said inspectors don't normally review the farm itself looking for runoff problems, but will do so in future years as new rules take effect.
In the case of poultry farms, stricter oversight is already supposed to be in place. Regulations imposed three years ago, just before the Hudson lawsuit was filed, require large livestock and poultry farms to apply for permits from the Maryland Department of the Environment, just as a factory or any other industry would.
The growers must also submit "comprehensive nutrient management plans," which not only limit how much fertilizer they can use but spell out steps to be taken to minimize runoff.
Statewide, 608 farms have filed notices in the past three years with the state agency that they intend to apply for permits for their large-scale livestock operations.
But a shortage of consultants qualified to prepare the farms' more comprehensive nutrient management plans has delayed the process. As of November, regulators have finished reviewing just 274. Those without permits still must pledge to comply with state regulations and follow recommended conservation practices.
Horacio Tablada, the environment department's land programs manager, said he has six people to oversee large-scale animal operations. Since the regulatory program began in December 2009, his staff has inspected 585 farms, he said, some more than once.
So far, Tablada said, his staff has focused on seeing that all chicken farms that should have a permit have applied for one. Violators initially got warnings, but in the past year the department has begun issuing violation notices and fining farmers. The agency cited 13 farms and took additional action in one case, he said. It also collected $8,350 in penalties from two farms found out of compliance.
"Now we're ... increasing the level of enforcement, as the program becomes more mature and people become more aware of it," Tablada said. "In the beginning people can argue, 'I didn't know.' I don't think many can argue that now."
But Tablada said he wasn't that familiar with the Waterkeeper lawsuit or the contention that farmer Alan Hudson had altered his plan. His agency relies on the consultants who write the plans, he said, and those professionals certify that their work meets federal standards.
"If it's something obvious, we're going to correct that," he said.
Environmental activists contend the Waterkeeper case shows the state needs more inspectors to ensure farms are complying with water pollution laws. They say it also indicates the state needs to scrutinize the pollution-prevention plans themselves to ensure they're not being manipulated.
The state recently adopted new regulations for farmers aimed at reducing polluted runoff by limiting how and when they can spread fertilizer on their fields, and requiring them to keep their livestock away from water. The new rules, which are to be phased in over several years, will require more comprehensive inspection of farms, state agriculture officials say.
Gov. Martin O'Malley, in his budget request for the coming year, did not ask for funds to hire additional farm inspectors. Powell said the number of staff visiting farms from the agriculture department has been increased by shifting employees' duties.


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I write a Christian book review post about once a year. The last post I did highlighting Christian books was here: https://theparentingpassageway.com/2011/08/10/three-books-of-importchristian-book-reviews/. I would like to share a few books I have recently read and loved with you today! Here we go!
Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirituality by J. Phillip Newell, the Warden of Spirituality for the Anglican diocese of Portsmouth. One of the foundations of Christian life is the ability to achieve stillness and to listen. This book is divided into sections on Listening for the Goodness (looking at the maligned Pelagius), Listening within Creation (Eriugena), Listening for God In All Things (the Carmina Gadelica), Listening with the Imagination (using the writings of George MacDonald), Listening and Acting (George MacLeod), and Two Ways of Listening (The Apostles John and Peter).
Where God Happens: Discovering Christ In One Another by Rowan Williams, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury. Excellent look at the Desert Fathers and spiritual searching.
Abiding: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2013 which talks about abiding in body, abiding in mind, abiding through care, and abiding in relationships. This books weaves together how we abide in God's will through many stories – stories of St. Benedictine, stories of South Africa and Congo, Michael Ende's Momo, and St. Macrina.
Encountering The Mystery by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. I love this book, and have re-read it over and over. Whilst specific to Orthodox Christianity, it also touches on issue that all Christians should be thinking about. My copy has a lot of underlined parts in it and notes in the margin. Highly, highly recommended. Continue reading


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SEC hasnt made inroads in Texas yet
Texas A&M's impending move from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference was supposed to fling open the door for SEC football programs to have a greater recruiting presence in Texas.
That door appears to be only slightly ajar.
SEC schools venturing into Texas could always try to sell prospects on the caliber of competition, quality of coaching, maniacal support from fans, development for the NFL and a streak of national champions that has now reached six consecutive years.
But this was the first year the SEC programs could offer conference games being played in the Lone Star State.
Still, SEC programs weren't much more successful in the Lone Star State than in previous years.
SEC programs (excluding A&M) signed 11 players from the state of Texas and only three who were ranked among the state's top 40 prospects by Rivals.com.
A year ago, SEC programs signed 10 players from Texas - and five of those went to Arkansas, which has had a recruiting presence in Texas for years dating back to its days in the old Southwest Conference.
Three-star rated linebacker Dalton Santos, who was committed to Tennessee, even flipped to Texas last weekend.
Missouri, which is also moving from the Big 12 to the SEC next season, typically recruits heavily in Texas. But this year the Tigers only signed six players out of that state.
In fact, this year may be known as the time Missouri did poorly in Texas as five recruits who had once verbally committed to Missouri ended up elsewhere.
Perhaps the SEC's pull isn't as great as some thought.
"Just playing in the SEC isn't a big deal to me," Brenham (Texas) High four-star linebacker Timothy Cole said last month.
Cole is staying home to play at Texas.
"Competition is competition," he said. "The Big 12 has good competition, so why switch? The grass isn't always greener on the other side."
Oklahoma signee John Michael McGee, a four-star offensive lineman from Texarkana (Texas) High, agreed.
"Once I got an offer from OU, I wanted to go to OU," he said. "I'm not worried about the SEC. Some guys go there and I'm proud for them. But OU was the place for me."
For McGee, the school means more than the conference.
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"It's smart to go to a successful program, not just because it's a school in a new conference," he said. "Personally, I don't think those teams (A&M and Missouri) are going to do well in the SEC. Guys are still going to go to OU and Texas and places like that."
Despite McGee's prediction, Texas A&M had an impressive recruiting haul under new coach Kevin Sumlin.
Perhaps the move to the SEC boosted the Aggies' recruiting efforts. Despite the coaching change and some defections because of it, A&M's class is ranked 14th in the country by Rivals.com, its highest ranking since a No. 8 finish in 2005.
Sumlin certainly felt like the move to the SEC helped.
"There's a certain level of player that has embraced the SEC," he said. "Texas A&M is a very special place; tremendous traditions and pageant at football games, but a tremendous amount of pride of fans and parents also, particularly on game day. Now, with the game day experience, the academics and now moving into the SEC, the game day experience is every day.
"There have been a lot of players who have embraced that and want to be a part of it."
The other SEC teams can only hope more will feel that way in the future.
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Best and Worst of Paris Haute Couture 2012
Which Paris Couture Week Looks Were Truly Haute? Vote!
Which Paris Couture Week Looks Were Truly Haute? Vote!
Paris Couture Week never disappoints lovers of innovative hairstyling and makeup, and this season took many of your favorite beauty trends to new levels of drama and decadence. Of the looks that Chanel, Dior, Versace, and all the other big names sent down the runway this week, though, which deserve your thumbs up? See what the big houses had to offer and decide for yourself.


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Preference for Clarinex Tablets vs Allegra Tablets in Patients With Seasonal Allergies (P03178)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00794768
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 20, 2008
Last Update Posted : June 22, 2015
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
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Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
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Brief Summary:
This was a crossover study designed to see if patients with seasonal allergy symptoms preferred Clarinex® or Allegra®. Patients were randomized to take 7 days of Clarinex or Allegra treatment, followed by a 5 to 28-day washout period (days when no drug is given), followed by 7 days of the opposite treatment. At the end of each 7-day treatment, patients were asked questions to determine which drug, Clarinex or Allegra, the patient prefers more.
|Condition or disease
|Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis
|Drug: desloratadine 5 mg Drug: fexofenadine
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|118 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Crossover Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Official Title:
|Preference Evaluation of Clarinex Tablets vs. Allegra Tablets in Subjects With Symptomatic Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis
|Study Start Date :
|November 2002
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2003
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 2003
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MedlinePlus related topics: Hay Fever
Drug Information available for: Fexofenadine Desloratadine Fexofenadine hydrochloride
Experimental: Clarinex followed by Allegra
Clarinex 5 mg by mouth daily for 7 days followed by Allegra 180 mg by mouth daily for 7 days, with 5-28 days washout between treatments.
Drug: desloratadine 5 mg
Clarinex 5 mg daily x 7 days
Other Name: Clarinex, SCH 34117
Drug: fexofenadine
Allegra 180 mg daily x 7 days
Other Name: Allegra
Experimental: Allegra followed by Clarinex
Allegra 180 mg by mouth daily for 7 days followed by Clarinex 5 mg by mouth daily for 7 days, with 5-28 days washout between treatments.
Drug: desloratadine 5 mg
Clarinex 5 mg daily x 7 days
Other Name: Clarinex, SCH 34117
Drug: fexofenadine
Allegra 180 mg daily x 7 days
Other Name: Allegra
Primary Outcome Measures :
- The primary efficacy measure was the preference rates calculated from subject comparative evaluation. [ Time Frame: 1 day after the end of the last treatment period (Visit 5) ]
Secondary Outcome Measures :
- Subject Non-Comparative Evaluation and subject Response to Therapy [ Time Frame: 1 day after the end of each 7-day treatment period (Visit 3 and Visit 5) ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- had at least a two-year history of seasonal allergic rhinitis;
- currently experiencing symptoms of SAR, including nasal symptoms at Visits 2 and 4, prior to entering each treatment phase;
- had not taken Clarinex or Allegra within the previous year;
- were 18 years of age or older;
- had negative urine test (hCG) for females of childbearing potential;
- for women of childbearing potential, agreed to use a medically accepted method of birth control;
- were free of any clinically significant disease (other than SAR) that would interfere with study evaluations.
Exclusion Criteria:
- were pregnant or nursing;
- had allergic or idiosyncratic reaction to antihistamines;
- had current or history of frequent, clinically significant sinusitis or chronic purulent nasal discharge;
- had rhinitis medicamentosa or nasal structural abnormalities (including large nasal polyps and marked septal deviation) that significantly interfered with nasal airflow;
- in the opinion of the Investigator, were dependent upon nasal, oral or ocular decongestants, nasal topical antihistamines, or nasal steroids (i.e., subjects who could or would not observe the washout period for these prohibited medications);
- had an upper respiratory tract or sinus infection that required antibiotic therapy with the last dose within 14 days prior to Screening, or had a viral upper respiratory infection within 7 days prior to Screening;
- had asthma, unless their symptoms could be controlled by a short-acting inhaled Beta2-agonist used on an "as needed" basis;
- were on immunotherapy, unless they were on a stable maintenance schedule prior to screening. The dose of immunotherapy should remain constant and subjects could not receive immunotherapy within 24 hours prior to any visit;
- had a history of psychosis, antagonistic personality, poor motivation, hypochondriasis, or any other emotional or intellectual problems that were likely to limit the validity of consent to participate in the study;
- had a history of non-compliance with medications or treatment protocols;
- had any clinically significant deviation from normal in the physical examination that, in the Investigator's judgment, may have interfered with the study evaluations or affect subject safety;
- had any clinically significant metabolic, cardiovascular, immunologic, neurologic, hematologic, gastrointestinal, cerebrovascular, or respiratory disease, or any other disorder which, in the judgment of the Investigator, might interfere with the study evaluations or affect subject safety;
- had liver or renal impairment.
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|Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
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|NCT00794768 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|November 20, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 22, 2015
|Last Verified:
|June 2015
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Rhinitis, Allergic
Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal
Nose Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Respiratory Tract Infections
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Respiratory Hypersensitivity
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
Immune System Diseases
Cholinergic Antagonists
Cholinergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Histamine H1 Antagonists, Non-Sedating
Histamine H1 Antagonists
Histamine Antagonists
Histamine Agents
Anti-Allergic Agents


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Back in the early days of the Dakar, when it wasn't a South American branding exercise but a race to the capital of Senegal, a group of French people entered a custom-built Rolls–Royce Corniche powered by a 5.7-liter Chevy V8.
It didn't finish. Which doesn't not make it the coolset Dakar race car ever. Yours for only $250,000!


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The amount of Chinese foreign property investments in general currently stands at $33.7 billion USD. The amount invested in the past year is 200 times greater than in 2008, the beginning of the world-wide economic crunch. The U.S. portion of those investments is $9.72 billion and climbing.
"Domestic restrictions and cooling market conditions in the Chinese real estate sector are pushing many investors to diversify to developed countries where signs of economic recovery and the prospect of asset appreciation promise more attractive returns."
Not all of that is EB-5, but it is clear that EB-5 investments significant portion. Applying some simple math, 7,688 I-526 applications in the past fiscal year represents a potential aggregate investment of $3.8 billion. We cannot emphasize enough the opportunity we have to assist Chinese businessmen and women with the process of investment and immigration.
To learn more about how to put the EB-5 investment visa program to work for you, contact Dr. Gregory Finkelson at American Corporate Services or call 415-682-2550. To order my book, How to Find Chinese Investors, Agents & Clients for Your EB-5 Projects & Services - A Practical Guide for Regional Centers, Attorneys, Developers and Businessmen, click here.


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Madrid World Cup
World Cup coverage sponsored by Vélirium 2004 and ORYX
We are on site at the first mountain bike World Cup of the 2004 season - Casa de Campo park on the outskirts of Madrid. This was also the first race of the season in 2002. The course has not changed much, we are told, covering 8 kilometres, with the main obstacles being a hard, steep climb, a very technical descent, and a set of stairs the riders have to go up and down. We won't know number of laps until after the manager's meeting tomorrow. Two years ago, it was very dusty and hot, and we expect the same this year, although it has been raining off and on today; just enough to keep the dust down. This location also adds some "local colour" - the racing community discovered in 2002 that parts of the course wound its way through areas where the "local talent" ply their trade. That apparently has not changed, according to riders who ran across transactions underway while training...
The other news item of interest is the wedding tomorrow (Saturday) of Crown Prince Filipe. The downtown core is already closed to vehicular traffic, in preparation for the celebration and parade.
One of the first people I ran into was Quebec coach Michel Leblanc, who is here looking after a number of Canadian riders who do not have team support at this race. Michel said that there is a sizable Canadian contingent:
Roland Green
Ryder Hesjedal
Geoff Kabush
Seamus McGrath
Ricky Federau
Kris Sneddon
Mat Toulouse
Kiara Bisaro
Marie-Helene Premont
Trish Sinclair
Alison Sydor
Chrissy Redden
Martina Feldmann
Melanie McQuaid
Sara Noble
Michel is looking after McGrath, Federau, Toulouse, Bisaro, Premont, Sinclair, McQuaid. Ricky Federau has already suffered a blow to his chances of doing well, after a crash in training today resulted in 3 staples in his left calf. Federau washed out his front wheel in a corner and went down, unluckily catching his leg on one of the posts used to mark the trail. There is no muscle or tendon damage, but the skin was peeled back, and he has a lot of soreness and some stiffening of the quad muscle. He plans on starting on Sunday.
Tomorrow the Juniors and Masters race - and there are no surprise Canadian entries like Max Plaxton two years ago... On Sunday the women race at 10 am local time (4:00 am EDT, 1:00 am PDT) and the men at 1:00 pm local (7:00 am EDT, 4:00 am PDT). We will be providing live, lap-by-lap coverage for both races.
The World Cup is always important, but this year it is even more crucial as riders from all nations fight for points for Olympic qualification. Within the Canadian ranks, Green, Hesjedal, Kabush and McGrath are fighting for two men's spots, and Bisaro, Redden and Premont are fighting for two women's spots (Alison Sydor has an automatic spot).
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Creating Easements
An easement is a right of one person to use (or control the use of) another person's land. You can create an easement in any of the following ways:
By express agreement: If the agreement isn't evidenced by a writing satisfying the statute of frauds, you have to prove estoppel or part performance in order to enforce the agreement.
By implication: An easement is implied by prior use when an owner has been using part of his land to benefit another part of his land in some way that's apparent, continuous, and reasonably necessary and then transfers one of those parts to someone else. An easement is implied by necessity when a landowner transfers part of his land and one of the resulting parts thereby loses any access to a public street. The filing of a subdivision plat also implies that lot owners have easements that are shown on the plat.
By prescription: You acquire an easement by using someone else's land openly and continuously as if you have the right to do so for a period of time specified by state statute.
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IMF Survey Vol.30, No.1 January 2001
- Significant milestone achieved: Twenty-two poorest countries qualify for debt relief under joint IMF–World Bank HIPC Initiative
- Interview with Eduard Brau: Treasurer's Department has important role in mobilizing, managing, safeguarding resources
- HIPC Initiative
- IMF, World Bank Boards approve accelerated HIPC assistance for Zambia
- Issues Brief: African countries face challenges in tackling major problems of reducing debt
- IMF proposes quota increase for China
- Joint IMF-Korea seminar: Experts discuss trends and approaches to assessing statistical quality
- IMF publishes guide for policymakers on how to design and implement price-subsidy reforms
- Köhler announces agreement on strengthened Argentine program
- IMF determines new currency amounts for SDR valuation basket
- Experience of industrial countries: Economists consider impact of "new economy" and prospects for its further expansion
- Economic Forum reviews information technology's impact on productivity and economic prospects
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- Members' use of IMF credit
- Stand-By, EFF, and ESAF arrangements as of November 30
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Khrunichev and International Launch Services (ILS) say an anomaly that occurred during the launch of the Yamal 402 satellite Dec. 9 has left the spacecraft in the wrong orbit.The satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, was launched atop a Proton Breeze M rocket at 7:13 pm local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Preliminary flight information indicates the fourth and final burn of the Breeze M engine ended about four minutes early, subsequently separating the spacecraft.
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WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a Minnesota case challenging a state law that allows sex offenders to remain locked up indefinitely.
The court announced Monday, Oct. 2, that it will not take up the case. In not hearing it, the court allows an early 2017 ruling by a federal appeals court to stand.
The appeals decision overturned a lower court decision that found the sex offender program unconstitutional. The appeals ruling removed requirements for immediate changes.
The lawsuit against the sex offender treatment program has gone on for years. In it, participants in the program claim they are kept in a prison-like setting at state facilities in St. Peter and Moose Lake with no realistic chance to get out.
Until recently, no one had been let out of the program, but the Dayton administration has changed the philosophy and began looking at ways to move some offenders to less restrictive living conditions.
About 700 Minnesotans are in the program, most committed to it indefinitely after their prison sentences end.
Study: Minnesota River 'strains under pressure'
MANKATO, Minn.-The Minnesota River "strains under pressure from its geology, surrounding land use and changing climate," the state Pollution Control Agency reports after an extensive study.
The MPCA reported on Monday, Oct. 2, that the river faces water quality issues from sediment that clouds the water, phosphorus that contributes to algae growth and nitrogen and bacteria that pose health risks.
The river, which stretches from the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities south to near Mankato and then to the northwest to Big Stone Lake in extreme western Minnesota, has 13 major tributaries to make up one of the state's main watersheds.
Row crops are on about 70 percent of the 14,000 square miles in the basis, the MPCA reported.
"Runoff and artificial drainage are the main ways that pollutants reach rivers from farmland," the MPCA reported. "They also increase flows in the rivers, causing problems like streambank erosion, a major source of sediment."
The report shows that the Minnesota River is the largest contributor of Mississippi River sediment and nutrient pollution.
Rochester senator enters U.S. House race
ROCHESTER, Minn. - A Minnesota state senator says she is running for the U.S. House of Representatives seat that serves southern Minnesota.
However, Sen. Carla Nelson of Rochester would say little about her campaign on Monday, Oct. 2.
"While I have decided to run for Congress, today is not a day for campaigning," she said. "This is a solemn day for our nation, a time when we need to come together and pray for the victims of Las Vegas, their families and all who have been affected by this tragedy."
A Republican, she enters a race full of Democrats, but only one other in her party.
The GOP's Jim Hagedorn, making his third run for the office, said he has a wide head start after coming within 0.4 percent of being incumbent U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, a Democrat, last year.
Walz is not seeking re-election, opting instead to run for governor.
"It takes an enormous amount of time and effort to personally connect with voters in a large 21-county district like Minnesota's First..." Hagedorn said. "Our campaign is strongly positioned to achieve victory in 2018" because it is unifying Republicans and has support of prominent members of the party.
Nelson was elected to the House in 2002 and the Senate in 2010.
Man dies in Douglas County rollover
KENSINGTON, Minn.-A 33-year-old Brandon man was killed Sunday evening, Oct. 1, in a rollover crash near Kensington.
Mitchell Brazel died in the crash about 8 p.m., the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
Brazel was driving east on Elk Lake Road when he came to a T intersection on County Road 25. Brazel did not make the turn and his 2003 GMC Yukon went off the embankment and hit a tree at the bottom of the ditch.
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Central Animal Facility, Building #12, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, CANADA
In the United States, rodents used in research are commonly kept in minimum sized, barren cages. In Canada, trends toward environmental enrichment have been implemented in many research facilities. However, biomedical researchers do occasionally require animals to be housed in small, wire bottom cages for the purpose of urine and fecal collection. Investigators often argue that the animals do not find such living quarters to be stressful, and that they would not make use of additional space. The present study examines if this assumption is really correct.
The subjects of this project were 24 male Wistar Han rats who were all 31 days old at the beginning of the study. The animals were kept either in small wire bottom cages that had a floor area of 432 cm2 or in large test cages that had a floor area of 1088 cm2. All cages were 18 cm high and of the same design (Figure 1). The cages were either barren or enriched with a PVC tube of 6 cm length and 3 cm diameter plus a Nylabone(tm) (Figure 2). The animals had ad libitum access to pelleted food and water.
Six rats each were assigned to the following four housing conditions:
* small barren cage (Group 1)
* small enriched cage (Group 2)
* large barren cage (Group 3)
* large enriched cage (Group 4)
The amount of time spent moving around, resting on the cage floor, contacting the PVC tube [resting in or on it] and contacting the Nylabone(tm) [gnawing, pushing around] was recorded for each individual rat four times a week from 10-11 am over a period of six weeks. The amount of food consumed was recorded weekly for each animal. The animals' body weights were taken once a week. Their stress levels were estimated also once a week by scoring the porphyrin staining around the nose and back of the neck of each of the 24 rats. Porphyrin is a red pigment that is secreted by the Harderian glands when a rat is stressed. The weights of the rats, their feed, and their porphyrin scores were recorded weekly on Mondays. The study ended on Monday of week seven. No behavioural observations were recorded in week seven.
Results and Discussion
Regardless of the housing condition, the rats of all four groups spent about the same percentage of observation-time moving around (~30%) and the same amount of time resting (~54%). This implies that neither the provision of more space nor the provision of enrichment encouraged the animals to engage in more exercise.
Those rats who lived in enriched cages spent approximately 3% of the test session time contacting the Nylabone(tm) versus more than 40% of the time contacting the PVC tube which, apparently, was much more attractive and/or useful for the animals. Both, in the small and in the large cages, the animals spent more time resting in/on the PVC tube
(~30%) than on the bare floor (~23%). This suggests that rats feel more comfortable and perhaps more secure with a PVC tube offering an elevated vantage point plus seclusion than with the bare floor. The porphyrin scores substantiate this assumption: The scores were significantly higher in rats housed in small or large cages that were barren than in rats housed in small or large cages that were furnished with a PVC tube. The lowest porphyrin scores were found in rats living in the large PVC tube-furnished cages (Figure 3). This housing environment was the least stressful one of the four test situations.
The animals' stress status was reflected in their food consumption with rats living in barren cages eating much more food and gaining significantly more weight than rats living in the enriched cages (Figure 4). Rats kept in the typical, barren standard cages very often become obese. The present findings indicate that this problem is related to stressful living conditions, similar to obesity in modern people living in stressful environments.
Laboratory rats do not benefit from more cage space, unless the space is provisioned with proper enrichment such as a PVC tube. Being confined in a small standard cage is a much more stressful experience for rats than being confined in a larger cage furnished with a PVC tube. Access to a PVC tube reduces a rat's stress level in a small cage, but the stress is still much higher than in a large cage with a PVC tube.
Stress is a sign of poor welfare. Housing laboratory rats in larger cages that are furnished with PVC tubes rather than in small standard cages would, therefore, contribute to the animals' welfare. It would also improve scientific research methodology by reducing the variable stress resulting from inappropriate living quarters.
Thank you Animal Welfare Institute for providing the 2003 Refinement Award to fund this study. Thank you to the 24 rats, of which 10 have already been adopted and placed into good homes. Thank you to Dr. Atkinson, Dr. Duncan, Dr. Widowski, and Margaret Quinton for all your guidance and assistance. Finally, thank you to the staff at Animal Care Services for your dedication to the animals in your charge.


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Back when the first Gears of War was launched in 2006, so many Japanese gamers used to turn their noses up at Western games. Slowly, but surely, that's beginning to change.
While at this year's Tokyo Game Show, many members of the Japanese press I talked with expressed interest and excitement about Gears of War 3.
Sure, Halo has its hardcore Japanese fans. The mechanics of Gears of War always felt like they'd fare better in Japan than Halo.
With its loose similarities to Resident Evil 4, Gears always seemed to be the American game that could cross over in a big way. Just basic things like the game being in the third person point-of-view and being able to see the character made it a more conducive title for Japan.
A few years back, I remember talking to former Capcom producer Ben Judd, and he said that the first-person view is notorious in Japan for making people ill, adding that Japanese gamers like seeing their characters, instead of being them.
But Gears is unabashedly American. It looks and sounds American. A few years back, that might have put off some Japanese gamers — it still might put them off. But with more and more Japanese gamers complaining about when Western games get shit dubs or subtitles and about how content is editing, their Americana becomes part of the appeal.
The first Gears of War sold around 45,000 copies in Japan. It did break the country's top 10 on the sales chart, and it got good reviews.
Gears 2 sold around 37,000 in its first week. The biggest first week in Japan for a foreign game on the Xbox 360 was Halo 3's 61,000 copies. These aren't huge numbers for these games. They sell millions in the West. Bit by bit, they are selling more and more in Japan. They've got a fan base. It's small. But dammit, it's there.
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Enjoy a complimentary day out at a National Trust place in our all-electric BMW i3.22/05/2019
Enjoy a complimentary day out at a National Trust place in our all-electric BMW i3.22/05/2019
We are delighted that for the second year running, BMW i is partnering with the National Trust. With a mutual belief in the natural and the sustainable, BMW i and the National Trust want to help make greener travel options more widespread. To experience our partnership, we would like to invite you to take a complimentary day out to a National Trust place in our all-electric BMW i3.
All you need to do is use the link below to our test drive form and book your day out. We shall be delighted to welcome you to our BMW Centre at a mutually convenient time, pick up your special National Trust & BMW i3/ day out pack and experience our all-electric BMW i3 for the day.
'Your pack will include a complimentary day pass* to a National Trust place for family up to four, puzzle books for the kids and more. The admission pass can be used for:
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The complimentary National Trust family day pass can be used by 1 adult and 3 children or by 2 adults and 2 children under the age of 18. The pass is valid to any National Trust place except those listed here. The pass must be surrendered on admission. The pass must be surrendered upon admission and is not transferable against the cost of membership. Photocopies will not be accepted. There is no cash alternative. The pass cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Valid at participating National Trust properties only during the published opening times. Please check individual opening times before you visit. Not valid at National Trust events where a separate charge is made. Pass valid until 31 December 2019.


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Wallet TrackR App Aims to Stop You From Losing Your Wallet [VIDEO]
Losing your wallet is the ultimate inconvenience — credit cards, I.D., money are all gone in an instant.
The Wallet TrackR and accompanying iPhone app aim to prevent this problem through the power of tech. Here's how it works: Place the "TrackR card," a rectangular Bluetooth device, into your wallet; when it gets separated from your iPhone or iPad, the app alerts you. In case you don't hear the alert, the app also photographs your wallet's location at the time it was lost.
For those prone to losing their phones, the technology works both ways: Your wallet can also alert you if you're leaving your phone behind.
Wallet TrackR works with the iPad mini, the iPhone 4S and 5, as well as the latest iPad and iPod Touch.
Its official website looks similar to a Kickstarter page, with the company asking for $250,000 in funding with "27 days left." So far, Wallet TrackR has raised just over $9,200.
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Where does one begin when it comes to the legacy of Stan Musial?
Where does one begin when it comes to the legacy of Stan Musial?
He had a heart like no other being. Whether in a baseball uniform as a legendary player of our national pastime or in a suit and tie as a public figure amongst the people, Stan was and always will be "The Man." He is an example of the best ways to live life humbly and honorably.
There's no denying we all knew this day would come. No one lives forever, even though Stan had a prominent and seemingly immortal glow and persona, but nonetheless his loss in this world is still felt; from those like myself who never saw him play but know and feel him impact, to those who gathered around the radio and TV just to hear and see what he would do next.
No matter how many men wear the St. Louis uniform with the birds on the bat to become popular and legendary as defined by either the fans or the game, they will all always be gathered in second place to Stan Musial. The Man is the reason why baseball is so special to us who adore the hot days and dark memorable nights between April and October. Because of Stan, our fathers and grandfathers have stories to tell us of what they saw, what they heard that we as a Cardinal Nation pass on to our own children and them to their's. Stan was a real life story book hero who lived amongst the people. To see him at the ballpark or any function was like being in the presence King Arthur or Joan of Arc. But unlike them, the hero who was the subject of so many stories due to his battles on the baseball diamond in his armor of an STL ballcap, high stirrup socks and a thick wool uniform was amongst us, the people, the fans. And now with his passing, a new story is written. Those of us who witnessed him at any stage of his life now have the honor of saying we saw him here, or there, wherever the place may have been. And we are now not only the repeat story tellers of what older generations told us of The Man, we are now the story tellers that keep his legend alive, the story tellers who shared this earth with The Man until his final days.
Everyone has a Musial story to tell in some capacity. And I'm proud to say that I am not unlike anyone else. My piano teacher in grade school grew up as Stan the Man's neighbor and was friends with his children; my grandmother's phone was used by a family friend who knew Stan in Pennsylvania and called him up at his restaurant, and I myself got to shake his hand as he made his way into the Cardinals clubhouse.
I was just a college journalist lucky to have a press pass at Busch Stadium II and as Stan made his way in to the Cardinals clubhouse all of the reporters standing nearby got into an impromptu line to shake his hand. I was in the same line as journalists from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and local TV sports anchors, guys who I thrived to be someday. I blended in as best as I could and got a spot in line right next to the clubhouse door. Everyone greeted The Man with "Hi Stan," and "Hey Stan." I kept quiet and extended my hand as he came by. It wasn't a traditional handshake, his right hand cuffed and clasped with mine and he gave me a polite, grace shake of greeting. He didn't have time to make eye contact, he just kept moving when he exchanged pleasantries with everyone — it was clear if he was going into the Cardinals clubhouse, The Man was on a mission.
Even when Hollywood came to St. Louis to make a movie about the 1950 U.S. World Cup Soccer Team, "Miracle Match," a conversation between the characters in the film is halted when Stan the Man Musial comes to the plate.
Stan will always be The Man, and he will always be the pedestal every Cardinal player will thrive to reach.
Dominic Genetti writes for the Hannibal, Mo., Courier-Post.


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Meissen is a town in Germany where porcelain has been made since 1710. Any china made in the town can be called Meissen, although the famous Meissen factory made the finest porcelains of the area. The crossed swords mark of the great Meissen factory has been copied by many other firms in Germany and other parts of the world. Meissen can be reissues of figurines and dishes made in earlier years or modern designs in art nouveau, art deco, fifties, and later styles. Pieces of Meissen dinnerware in the Onion pattern are listed in their own category.
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These would have a tale to tell
The sun goin' down and dinner bells
And children playin' at hide and seek
[F] They would tell you [G]that I'm [C]sorry [G]
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[F] They would tell you [G]that it's [Am]only that I have a [G]stubborn [F]streak
If these walls could [C]speak
If these old fashion window panes had eyes
I guess they would have seen it all
Each little tear and silent step fall
And every dream that we came to seek
And followed after, if these old walls could speak
They would tell you that I owe you
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Smithsonian Magazine offers snapshots taken by Spirit and Opportunity over the past ten years.
Another bow to the engineers. They figured the two Rovers would last three months. Spirit lasted six years and Opportunity is still working, a decade in.
Check out the rounded rocks. A long-gone river?
A closeup of tiny spherical rocks clustered in a square inch of the Martian surface, captured by Opportunity. Full size version. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS/Cathy Weitz)


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Property TypeResidential – Single Family
SubdivisionBEAVER LAKES ESTATES
Listing Date07/12/19
Year Built1984
Lot Size2.00 Acres
Property Description
Idyllic mountain home on 2 acres covered in aspen groves! Enjoy soaring ceilings and upgraded finishes. Two comfortable bedrooms, plus full bath featuring jetted tub and rain shower. Kitchen has all stainless appliances, granite counters, and blown glass pendant lights. Open living/dining area leads out to the spacious deck. Perched at the top of a private neighborhood with stocked fishing lakes, you can also enjoy immediate access to hiking and snowshoeing in public lands right out your door!
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A road may be a flat surface for transiting from place to place for most. But here are seven surreal pieces of road art reminding us it can be so much more.
Mr. & Mrs. Pump
These must be lawyers. Photo Credit: David Clow
Street Corner Living Room
This Dutch street scene is either a commentary on life in transit or an angry ex with a sense of humor. Photo Credit: Material Boy @ Flickr
Loch Ness Monster Crossing
We didn't realize Nessie was living in France, but a summer in Paris is just what it needed.
Deer Blind Towers
This series of Deer Blinds outside a Cabela's in Buda, Texas isn't intentionally surreal road art until the bicycle is added. Photo Credit: Chainsawpanda @ Flickr
Families Crossing
Seriously, they're in a hurry. Emsef @ Flickr
Traffic Barrel Monster
Have we mentioned how much we love the traffic barrel monster? Totally worth going to jail over.
Don't Mess With Their Ecosystem
Seriously, those Kangaroos are going to jack you up.
Photo Credit: Grilled Baby Pandas @ Flickr


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Well, we had a spectacular Halloween! The girls have about 10 pounds of candy each! We trick or treat in downtown Boston - at Beacon Hill - which is a beautiful, afluent part of town that goes all out for Halloween :) It was a very pleasant night, and the costumes held up great!
Since we had Jessie and Buzz Lightyear, it was only fitting for Sean and I to be Toy Story characters as well.
I made this Mrs. Potato Head costume out of felt. The ears are stiff felt. The "accessories" are sewn around the edges, with a little stuffing inside to make them stick out a bit. The best part - it was warm!
Bullseye is a hoodie with felt sewn onto it. I used the same method to sew the mane and tail that I used when sewing the dragon hoodies here.
Then, I added ears, eyes, and a saddle with felt, some of it stuffed to make it 3-D as well.
We had fun together, and got lots of nice comments. As usual, it is hard to get a good family photo - but here we all are together at a party a few nights ago.
Happy Halloween - as Buzz would say, "To Infinity, and Beyond!"


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'"There were times when we lost momentum killing penalties," Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff said. "After we got through those stretches, I thought we were the more determined team and had the better opportunities. You've got to give their goaltender a lot of credit. He made some key saves on odd number situations."'
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By Robin Schmahl
A recent move to the upside in cheese prices ran into a ceiling less than two weeks ago.
Buyers were unwilling to bid blocks higher than $1.51 or barrels higher than $1.45 1/2. Sellers held out as long as they could while waiting for prices to increase. Once sellers began to re-enter the market with more aggressiveness, buyers stepped back. Some cheese being held back from the market began to move toward the 30-day-old mark, after which it cannot be traded on the spot market unless it is specified as aged.
This wasn't the only reason cheese prices began to fall. Orders began to fall off with some cancellations due to cheese prices increasing so quickly. Demand began to be affected. This demand was not necessarily from the consumer reducing purchases but more from the buyer standpoint.
Inventories have been increasing seasonally and remain at the highest level they have been since the mid 1980s. Buyers have been looking ahead and purchasing cheese fairly consistently during the past four months. They are building a product cushion to avoid being caught short during the higher demand period later this year.
So, when prices increase too much, they step back. They have extra product already on hand and will wait until prices weaken again. I know this appears to be market manipulation, but the fact of the matter is, this is business. Any of us would do the same.
In fact, many farmers do this with feed purchases. Feed will be purchased hand-to-mouth until prices drop enough to forward purchase for future months or for the year. This eliminates the need to purchase feed when prices increase and become more volatile. If you are a seller of grain or hay, you wait until price increases before you let go of some of your inventory.
There are some signs the dairy market is improving. A bottom has likely been established and milk prices should not fall lower than they already have. I know this is not much consolation right now especially since cheese prices and Class III milk prices have fallen below $13.00 again.
Probably one of the most-watched monthly events is the Fonterra Auction. This auction is held on the first Tuesday of each month trading Whole Milk Powder, Skim Milk Powder, and Anhydrous Milk Fat.
It gives an idea of world demand and world prices. In fact, other than daily spot trading, it is the only event that takes place which gives us the information almost immediately. All other reports in the dairy industry are generally one or two months behind, which is why it has become one of the most watched reports/events of the industry. The latest trading event resulted in the Whole Milk Powder price increasing 21% and the highest level it has been since August 2008, Skim Milk Powder price increased 25.5%, and Anhydrous Milk Fat price increased 21.9%.
This certainly indicates improved global demand and, although it does not directly impact what takes place on the daily CME spot market, better demand and higher world prices will impact domestic prices.
Another sign of improving demand is that of our exports. The latest report from the Foreign Agricultural Service indicates exports during the month of February improved over the same month a year ago. Exports of whey improved 29.4%, nonfat dry milk exports increased 21.9%, cheese and curd increased 16.6% with butter and milkfat exports up 19.3%. The level of exports remains lower than 2008, but this is certainly showing some light at the end of the tunnel.
Lest you think I am saying milk prices will be improving significantly soon, this may not be the case. There is still a large quantity of cheese in inventory which needs to be reduced. Inventory continues to increase monthly and will likely increase seasonally through June. There are nearly a billion pounds of cheese in inventory, a level last seen in 1984. This needs to be reduced and supply needs to tighten. This may not happen quickly with milk production steady and increasing over last year.
I have been promoting purchasing put options and fence positions for some time now as a strategy for price protection. Those who have implemented these positions have been rewarded with protecting a higher price for their milk.
I continue to recommend these positions each time futures move up significantly. Put options work well for closer months due to less time values, while fence positions work well for later months by utilizing time value to your benefit. Try to maintain at least a $1.50-$2.00 price spread between the put and call when using the fence.
Upcoming reports to watch:
- Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook report on April 21
- March Cold Storage Report on April 22
- May Class I price announcement on April 23
- March Livestock Slaughter report on April 23
- Commercial Disappearance on April 27
- April class prices announced on April 30
- April Agricultural Prices report on April 30
Robin Schmahl is a commodity broker and owner of AgDairy LLC, a full-service commodity brokerage firm located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. He can be reached at 877-256-3253 or through their website at www.agdairy.com.
The thoughts expressed and the data from which they are drawn are believed to be reliable but cannot be guaranteed. Any opinions expressed are subject to change without notice. There is risk of loss in trading and my not be suitable for everyone. Those acting on this information are responsible for their own actions


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Dodgers honor championship teams on Opening Day
Koufax from '63 squad throws first pitch to Hershisher from '88
LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers pulled out all the stops to welcome fans to Dodger Stadium for Opening Day on Monday against the Giants.
Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax threw out the first pitch to 1988 Cy Young Award winner and World Series MVP Orel Hershiser. It appeared Magic Johnson would throw the first pitch before manager Don Mattingly walked to the mound and signaled for Koufax.
The organization celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1963 championship team and the 25th anniversary of the 1988 championship club. The Dodgers recognized Maury Wills and Tommy Davis from the 1963 team and Tommy Lasorda from the 1988 club.
The Dodgers showed off $100 million in stadium improvements that include: new high-definition video boards in left field and right field, a new sound system, a Wi-Fi network, new concession stands, renovated bathrooms and designated areas for kids to play.
There was a moment of silence for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.
Aloe Blacc sang the national anthem, while Chris Mann sang "God Bless America." Blue Man Group also performed before the game in center field.
The organization also acknowledged Hall of Fame announcers Jaime Jarrin, in his 55th season, and Vin Scully, in his 64th season. The Dodgers are the only Major League team with two announcers recognized by the Hall of Fame.
The crowd rose to its feet as fireworks exploded when each Dodgers starter was introduced before the game.


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Primo Levi, born in Turin, Italy, in 1919, and trained as a chemist, was arrested during the Second World War as a member of the anti-Fascist resistance and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. His experience in the death camp and his subsequent travels through Eastern Europe were the subject of powerful memoirs, fiction and poetry. Levi died in Turin in April 1987.
Some of Levi's words are more powerful then anything ever expressed about the man-made Nazi atrocities. His memoirs of and refelections on those are light years above careerist, pornographic exploitations by many renowned, award-winning speakers or politicians.
As a composer and librettist, inspired by some of Levi's writings, his life and his death, it took me some years to finally begin a grand, seductive opera, to scratch an angel. The project has already aroused interest in some extraordinary performers and has the blessing of the Levi family.will perform excerpts from to scratch an angel as part of their Showcasing American Composers series, May 15th 2001 at 4:00 PM. The full orchestra and soloists presentation will be in Westpark Church, Amsterdam Avenue corner of 86th Street in New York City. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, go here.
40 years after his imprisonment, in the spring of 1982, Primo Levi returned to Auschwitz ("in the role", as he put it, "of a tourist"). He accompanied a group of students and professors from Florence, as well as some other concentration camp survivors. A troupe from Sorgenti di Vita went along to document the visit. "Springs of Life" was a cultural television program of the Unione Comunita Israelitiche Italiane, offered bi-weekly by Radiotelevisione Italiana [RAI] on Sunday afternoons.
The Italian interviewer was not identified in the rare transcript that follows. An Italian school teacher, Mrs. Bianca Maria Pace, has recently informed me that it was Daniel Toaff, the son of E.Toaff, the Rabbi of Rome. The original airdate of this program was April 25, 1983. This English translation is by Mirto Stone. It is here designed over 22 web pages, amongst book covers and portraits as well as some of the many photographs I had taken during a visit to Torino in 1989.
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In response to calls from critics to strip Russia of the 2018 World Cup for its ongoing disastrous human rights record, FIFA has come out firmly on Russia's side.
"History has shown so far," the organization said in a statement," that boycotting sport events or a policy of isolation or confrontation are not the most effective ways to solve problems."
"FIFA is convinced that, through football, particularly the FIFA World Cup and its international spotlight, we can achieve positive change in the world, but football cannot be seen as a solution for all issues, particularly those related to world politics. We have seen that the FIFA World Cup can be a force for good and FIFA believes this will be the case for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia."
In possibly semi-related news, the above photo, from 2013, shows FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, as Vladimir Putin looked on, celebrating a deal that made the Russian state-owned natural gas company the highest-level corporate sponsor of FIFA.


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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
Brett Susi stopped halfway to second base and stared at the catcher to try to draw the throw. In the delay, Zac Susi slipped into third base and watched carefully for a chance to head home. Willimantic's catcher seemed confused as Southington runners toyed with him like a kitten with a ball of string.
On Monday, July 22, Southington Post 72 opened the American Legion Baseball postseason against the third place team in Zone 6. Willimantic had size. Willimantic had a postseason win under their belt, but they didn't have Southington's speed or audacity.
Matt DiNello, the power hitter, ran out a bunt for a single. Matt Santovasi beat out a sure out for a two-out single in the third inning that sparked a six-run rally. Southington runners combined for six stolen bases, and Willimantic never knew what hit them. Southington rallied to a 14-3 win that was stopped by mercy rule after seven innings.
"I thought they were a very good team. They had some big guys and a lot of athletes, but we just put the pressure on them," said Southington coach Marc Verderame. "We got into our offense and started stealing bases and hitting the ball. We really put it to them."
That's become the style of play for Southington's boys of summer, and it worked to perfection in the postseason opener. Ted Shaw earned two stolen bases. Zac Susi manufactured a run with an error, a stolen base, and two wild pitches. Southington rallied for six unearned runs in the third inning to break open the game, and they put it out of reach with a seven run rally in the fifth as Willimantic's defense unraveled with five untimely errors.
"That's what you have to do in this league. You have to take advantage of mistakes," said Verderame. "We happened to hit, along with their eight errors or something like that, and you're not going to get away with that."
It didn't hurt that the locals combined for 13 hits off of three Willimantic pitchers. Matt Sirois (3-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBI) and Brett Shaw (3-for-5, 3 RBI) led the way. Ted Shaw (2-for-3) scored three times. DiNello and Santovasi scored twice. Palladino drove in three runs, and Andrew Goralski drove in two more.
Southington reached on bunts, errors, and walks, and each time they came around to score.
On the mound, Craig Frobel scattered eight hits and five strikeouts over seven innings with most of that coming during Willimantic's two-run rally in the fifth inning that left the bases loaded at the end of the inning.
"He hunkered down," said Verderame. "That could have been a big inning for them. It was 7-2. If they get a base hit, all of a sudden it could be 7-5. He gets the strikeout. We get six runs the next inning, and that was kind of it right there."
With the victory, Southington (20-5) advanced to face R-C-P in the final round of the sectional tournament for a chance to advance into the state brackets. The Cromwell-based team went 19-2 to capture the Zone 7 title. Verderame likes his team's chances in the contest that was scheduled for Tuesday, July 23.
"They have some good pitching. Cromwell was good in high school this year, so it's going to be a tough test," said the coach. "We're looking forward to the challenge."
Regular season finale at Wolcott
Ted Shaw (3-for-4) opened the game with a triple and scored to give Southington a 1-0 lead, but it took extra innings for a 3-2 win over Wolcott in the season finale.
Brett Shaw drew a walk to start the sixth inning and capitalized on two Wolcott errors to score. Matt Sirois (2-for-2) was the only other local with multiple hits as the offense combined for three runs on six hits.
Joe Daigle scattered six hits and five strikeouts over six innings to set up the win. Sirois scored the victory with two scoreless innings of relief and drove in the winning run.
Wolcott (6-18) scored both their runs in the third inning. Southington finished the season with a 19-5 record.


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"The Way, Way Back" Cast and Crew on Adulthood
Director Nat Faxon and Actress Toni Collete discuss ideas of adulthood in their new film "The Way, Way Back," with Wendy Bounds at Breakfast Briefings in Bryant Park.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Previously before, I didn't touch apps like GeekTool because I was afraid that it would slow down my system performance severely. (MacBook Pro 15" C2D 2.4ghz Late 2008) However, I have decided to use it as a clock on my wallpaper.
How much CPU % would GeekTool use? I only have the measly 2 hour battery for the MacBook Pro, so conserving as much CPU cycles as possible would be my aim.


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package kkk; import java.io.File; import javax.media.Manager; import javax.media.Player; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; public class GunFireSoundEffect { private Player player; public void gunFireSound() { File file = new File("C:\\KKKFOLDER\\rShot.mp3"); try { player = Manager.createPlayer(file.toURL()); player.start(); // start player } catch (Exception e) { JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Invalid file or location", "Error loading file", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE); } } public static void main(String[] args) { new GunFireSoundEffect().gunFireSound(); } }
this code for a gun fire sound effect works perfectly fine.. im using it in the game that im creating .. where the enemy shoots. i put it in the loop where the gun fire animation happens. the problem is that every time the the gunFireSound() method is being called.. there is something poping out in my task bar everytime the sound effect is being generated... how can i resolve this one?
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The engaging, readable narrative is enhanced by numerous excerpts from Brenners professional and personal correspondence, from his published work, and from interviews of friends and colleagues. Friedberg provides descriptions of the nuts and bolts of research that should interest general readers and resonate with scientists.
Friedberg...offers a wonderful overview of the life of one of the most interesting scientists living today.
The author finds the right tone for discussing Brenners scientific thoughts and discoveries: his descriptions of the science are basic enough that nonbiologists will understand the essence but not simplified too far.
I can enthusiastically endorse Friedbergs book and recommend it to anyone interested in modern biological sciences and the story of the men and women who pioneered this exciting field of research. Sydney Brenner is undoubtedly one of the most important pioneers in its development and, in his 80s, is still making significant contributions to it.
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Friedbergs book is a well-written, engaging account that does justice to its subject it is not overly flattering nor does it underplay Brenners many accomplishments. Both those who have read other Brenner biographies and those who dont know anything about him would benefit from giving Friedbergs biography a read.
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Errol Friedberg has written an absorbing account of Sydney Brenner, one of the founders of molecular biology...Friedbergs book is thoroughly researched and based on numerous interviews. It contains revealing quotes for chemists..., an excellent collection of photographs. I strongly recommend this account of the life of a man of unusual talent, humour and intensity...
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With meticulous attention to detail, Errol Friedberg takes us on a journey through the extraordinary life of Sydney Brenner....Friedberg laces his narrative with quotations and letters, family anecdotes and opinions from colleagues which humanize Brenner, highlighting his indisputable strengths and his minor foibles....This biography will inspire scientists...
I found this book fascinating, both from the historical aspect of the window it gives on to the golden age of biology through the description of Brenners scientific work, and also from the human aspect of Brenner the leader, advisor, mentor and family man. I heartily recommend it as a good read for anyone interested in exploring how we arrived at our current state of knowledge in molecular biology and the part played by this great man.
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I read it more like a historic novel about molecular biology than a biography; and was totally hooked to the story....its written so well that you forget about your own knowledge, and live the discoveries with Brenner, Watson, Crick, Nirenberg, and so on. Seriously they could make a nerdy TV show out of this. I learned so many things reading it, but also laughed a lot...
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Introduction to the Plasmoid QML Declarative API
This document provides an overview/reference of the Declarative QML API for Plasmoids. It isn't a full binding to all of Qt or KDE's libraries, but a focused set of bindings designed to make writing Plasmoids fast and easy, while remaining powerful.
The API in this documentation covers the API of the Plasma specific QML components, so only the Declarative part of the API.
The QML ScriptEngine is bassed upon the Plasma JavaScript engine, making the API of the JavaScript part identical to the one of the JavaScript plasmoids engine. To see the api of the global Plasmoid object, see the JavaScript API documentation. (TODO: the JavaScript api paged should probably be copied and stripped down the imperative bits not present there, it would make harder to update tough)
What Is A Simplified JavaScript Plasmoid?
To denote that this Plasmoid is a Declarative widget, ensure that in the metadata.desktop file there is this line:
What follows is a description of the Plasma declarative classes instantiable from QML.