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Ah, updates!
I remember that, back in my days as a Windows ME user, I learned to be truly afraid of them. Updates were supposed to help your computer but, almost inevitably, something would go very wrong after applying them.
I would have thought that, by now, Microsoft mastered the process of providing updates that do not break your computer. However, that is not the case. A colleague told me that her husband applied updates to her Windows 7 desktop and the old MS magic was performed just the same: the sound card went crazy and refused to work with the microphone and the webcam also stopped working.
And then, there's the celebrated Microsoft update to convert your Windows 8 RT computer into a Windows 8.1 RT... brick! It went so bad that Microsoft had to prevent people from installing it.
I don't know if they fixed it but, according to this post, the update to Win 8.1 now seems to convert your computer into a cat (because it does not play nicely with mice).
To be fair, I have also heard complaints on updates coming from Linux users. I myself have messed up with some Linux installs because of carelessness during the updating process. My last experience was when I tried to install PCLinuxOS 2013.10. Of course, it was all my fault: I had been sluggish with my bi-weekly updating process and, being PCLOS a semi-rolling distro, that is a rather serious mistake.
I learned my lesson and today's PCLOS update went smoothly. It was a major one, too: it converted my KDE 4.10.5 laptop into a KDE 4.11 machine.
By the way, I am also getting a Mageia update with Firefox 25... At last! This thing of not being able to read PDF files directly from the browser was getting me frustrated...
It's great that updates come around!
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Updates knocking on the door!
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One can understand updates breaking a system when they are experimental...but how do people accept the same in a supposedly finished commercial product? As you said, MS should have polished that process by now, but it seems all the years they have in the market do not count as experience. Each update does pretty much the same since I remember.ResponderEliminar
"how do people accept the same in a supposedly finished commercial product?"ResponderEliminar
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The year 2015 is an especially memorable one for Pilz: - Opening of the first production site outside Europe – in Jintan, China - Construction of new Peter Pilz Production and Logistics Centre in Ostfildern and expansion into Pilz Campus - New logo visually underlines positioning as a supplier of complete solutions for safety and automation. - Pilz brings own web-based visualisation software PASvisu onto the market - The number of employees will exceed 2000 this year for the first time ever. So the signs point to growth at Pilz. Its values and core beliefs are the springboard.
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Value orientation for success – values create future
In just the same way that rubbing along with your fellow humans in private life depends on common rules and codes of behaviour, cooperation within the company is based on a time-honoured bedrock of values. At Pilz, these roots can be traced back to Christian principles. The values that we practise include mutual appreciation and treating one another with respect, as well as honesty, openness, loyalty, reliability, helpfulness and diligence. The notion of the staff member who thinks and acts entrepreneurially is enshrined in the mission statement. As a family business, Pilz is also defined by its staff. The image it presents in the marketplace and to customers bears the hallmarks of trust, reliability and courage.
Trust means commitment
For years, products and solutions by Pilz have been ensuring that wherever hazardous movements or events can occur in factory halls, e.g. from presses or CNC machinery, or in the public domain in cable cars, fairground rides, theatres, rail technology or large buildings, people are still safe and protected from harm. This is all dependent on trust in Pilz's technology, and that is a major commitment.
The courage to innovate
Pilz offers complete automation solutions based around its core skill of safety – in everything from the sensor technology to the control systems and actuators. Since this year, custom visualisation has therefore also been added to the portfolio.
The web-based visualisation solution PASvisu gives the user a complete overview of the automation. Using this web-based software solution opens up new possibilities in machine operation, monitoring, analysis and maintenance. Embedding the visualisation solution into a plant's control concept is a key factor in its performance. It was precisely this philosophy that guided us from very early on in the development of PASvisu in 2012: users of Pilz control solutions can access the machine control system's entire data stock for visualisation tasks, enabling them to operate, diagnose and monitor all aspects of a plant.
In common with all its core products, Pilz also had PASvisu developed entirely in-house: by a team of developers and engineers from Ostfildern and the software development centre in Cork, Ireland. Such complex proprietary developments above all call for courage, alongside expertise and the requisite resources. Courage, because for all the plans and forecasts drawn up, there is never any guarantee or assurance of success. A new product only qualifies as an innovation if the market accepts it. The mere fact of being technology leader does not make a company successful. Pilz's relish for technology and innovation lends wings to this courage to innovate.
Industrie 4.0 needs reliability
Over recent decades Pilz has built up a wealth of experience through developing new products, using applications and actively participating in many standardisation committees; it can now draw on that experience in tackling the challenges of the future in the shape of Industrie 4.0.
Development takes place in steps. Anyone who remembers the convergence of mechanical and electronic engineering will know that it wasn't without its hiatuses or free from suspicion in both camps. Industrie 4.0 will be a similar affair. The current debate revolving around the standards required reflects the laborious process involved in handling growing integration and the advent of the Internet in factory halls.
From the '80s and '90s right through to today, Pilz has been instrumental in standardising machine safety and – as independent sources confirm – has made industrial history.
Together we can create Industrie 4.0
Pilz aims to demonstrate trust, reliability and courage in actively shaping the future, including when it comes to Industrie 4.0. Through its participation in the German government's Research Alliance, the medium-sized enterprise has been helping to bring on Industrie 4.0 right from the outset. Industrie 4.0 as an initiative first took shape in that central advisory body on research policy to which Managing Partner Susanne Kunschert was appointed in 2010. Pilz has successfully lobbied for safety, as a critical factor for the success of Industrie 4.0, to be enshrined in the recommendations for action presented to the German government. We will continue to work on creating common, practicable standards in committees such as the Industrie 4.0 Alliance of the state of Baden-Württemberg and the SmartFactory KL research platforms – always with an eye to safety and security.
Pilz is familiar with the process needed for compiling such standards: the company helped to establish and define it for machine safety, both in its early days and in the ensuing decades. Today, users and mechanical engineers can rely on established standards and directives. Pilz can be proud of that. Because it is of inestimable value in our modern industrial society.
This standardisation process is also essential for security. Industrie 4.0 needs reliable standards for security, otherwise the solutions will not be practicable. As an ambassador of safety, Pilz considers this to be an important task for the coming years that will need to be tackled together.
Making room for values
The automation market is fast-moving, forcing companies such as Pilz to develop continually. If common values such as trust, reliability and courage as well as the corresponding management culture are to develop and be practised, they need leeway – both intellectual and physical.
And Pilz has created such leeway with the new Peter Pilz Production and Logistics Centre. The aim was to erect a building that meets both present and future technical and environmental requirements. Pilz wants to promote a beneficial environment, not only by protecting the natural world around it or by being a good neighbour to the adjacent residential area and industry park, but also within Pilz itself. It wants people – whether staff members or guests – to feel at ease in the new Production and Logistics Centre.
The building is merely a construct. It is people who fill the building with life and give it meaning. This was the idea that helped the Pilz Campus take shape together with the new Production and Logistics Centre. Production and production-related departments under one roof, and all other departments on a single site: the transfer of Production together with Goods Inward, Dispatch and the warehouse to the new building expands and improves the working environment for the other departments, most notably Development, which has space for its laboratories and offices in the former production building.
Campus of short distances
It is almost impossible to put a value on this proximity and the resulting quality of cooperation on the campus of short distances. All departments continually receive feedback on their work and a mutual understanding of each other's work takes shape. There is greater transparency. Interface problems between individual groups are reduced. So the distances in question are short both in a physical sense and an intellectual sense, too. We have created conditions that are simply beneficial here. It means Pilz can give its staff the space to join forces here to "create" things – the Swabians like to use the word "schaffen" with all its undertones of industriousness – in keeping with Pilz's values.
The economic development of our company reveals how this emphasis on values is paying dividends economically: Pilz comprehensively achieved its revenue targets for the first three quarters, and on that basis the company expects 2015 to bring similarly healthy growth to 2014. Pilz is equally seeing its employee total grow steadily, and this year the figure will exceed 2000 for the first time ever. Values create future!
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If you've given up waiting for Capcom to announce a new entry in the Darkstalkers series, take solace in the fact one of the originals is primed for a re-release over the PlayStation Network.
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors has been rated by the ESRB (T for Teen, for the record), clearing it for an upcoming release as a PSone Classic on the PS3 and PSP. Look for it soon.
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What is the difference between certification and licensure?
The terms certification and licensure are frequently used interchangeably. For our purposes, certification differs from licensure in that occupational licenses are typically issued by a government entity and are required before an individual may work or practice in a particular occupation or profession (e.g. Licensed Practical Nurse).
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Eurohockey.net is reporting [10] that veteran AHLer and Lightning farm hand Norm Milley [11] has agreed to play for Wolfsburg in the German DEL league next season.
The website is also reporting that Lightning prospect Stanislav Lascek [12], who has spent much of this season with Mississippi of the ECHL, has agreed to play next season for Zvolen in Slovakia. Lascek, who was drafted as an overage player in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, finished second in the QMJHL in scoring in his final year of junior hockey but has been underwhelming in two seasons of professional hockey that have been spent largely in the ECHL.
Milley's departure leaves an opening for a veteran forward to be retained or signed for Norfolk of the AHL next season. Milley leaves the Lightning organization after three seasons which have included 182 games split between Springfield and Norfolk of the AHL and 14 games of NHL service with Tampa Bay during the 2005-2006 season. Milley has scored 63 goals and 154 points in his 182 games of AHL service with the franchise. He will be missed.
It is not completely clear what Lascek's status will be given that he still has a year left on his NHL Entry Level deal. Whether or not the Lightning retain Lascek's rights, it does appear his departure may give the Lightning some relief on the 50-man roster front where potentially difficult signing decisions need to be made for currently contracted prospects Mike Egener [13] and Marek Kvapil [14] and minor league contracted players Adam Henrich [15] and Rob Klinkhammer.


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Official: New ChessCube Tournaments launching 28-Nov-2011
We've been monitoring feedback on Tournaments over the past few months. Many users have emailed us saying that the "Points" handicap in Warzone Tournaments is really tough - and encourages sandbagging. We took to starting a poll on our Facebook Fan Page - asking you which handicaps do you like most - and the "Points" handicap, as expected, performed quite poorly.
So, based on this feedback - we've removed the Points handicap from all our Warzone tournaments.
Another huge request was a longer time control in our Standard Swiss-Type tournaments - where the maximum was a 10 minute time control. As requested, we've now added 1 tournament with a 20 minute time control. There is one for now, and based on how popular this tournament becomes, we may add more over time.
Other changes - we've now added 3 FREE daily tournaments with Cubit prizes for all countries that have chat rooms on ChessCube. They will run every morning, afternoon and evening - every day. I'd encourage you to join these tournaments and get your fellow countrymen to join too.. they're FREE!
Here is the updated tournament schedule that will take effect on 28 November 2011:
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Dog and cat health…early detection is the best medicine
I just discovered that there is an alternative and complimentary medical dictionary online.
Below is the definition of early detection. Everyone agrees on this atleast.
(Noun) In complementary, conventional, and natural medicine, the act of discovering a disorder or disease before it has fully developed.
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text: Women in MBF We are actively seeking to increase the number of high-calibre female students in the MBF programme. Join us to discover exciting paths in the financial industry. MBF Fellowships for Women Starting from the 2016 intake, five MBF Fellowships are exclusively awarded to five female entrants. These MBF Fellowships are intended to inspire students who have already an excellent record in university studies or professional life to attend the MBF programme. Moreover, the MBF Fellowships provide an incentive for constantly good results in the programme. Each of these MBF Fellowships amounts to CHF 8000, with CHF 3000 being paid at the beginning of the programme, and CHF 5000 after passing the compulsory course examinations with a minimum grade of 5.0 in all of them within twelve months after entering the MBF programme. All female students who have been admitted to the MBF will be automatically considered for these fellowships. The students awarded with one of the MBF Fellowships will be informed in their letter of admission. MBF Women Club On a regular basis, the MBF Women Club organizes some special events for the female community of the MBF. The events offer interested female Bachelor students the opportunity to get in touch with current MBF students, to learn more about the MBF programme and to discover exciting career paths in the financial industry. You will also have the chance to meet with current and former MBF students who successfully pursue a career in banking and finance. For corporate partners, the MBF Women Club offers various opportunities to collaborate. If your are curious about next events or ways how to collaborate, please, just get in touch with us. MBF Women Club Board 2018 (from left to right): Martina Porubcova, Gabriela Bakova, Alexandra Katinová, Merit Studerus, Mahsa Abolhassani Toroghi, Violeta Rios Condori


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Dance steps worry for Harry's bride
The new bride of 2011's Strictly Come Dancing champ Harry Judd was unable to sleep on the eve of their wedding - because she was worried about remembering the moves to their first dance.
The McFly drummer tied the knot with violinist Izzy Johnston in a church ceremony, attended by his bandmates and pals such as Robbie Savage.
The newlyweds are pictured on their wedding day on a lawn of lit candles in Hello! magazine.
They said they rehearsed a spectacular dance with lifts and spins which had been choreographed by Strictly professional Ian Waite.
The couple put in eleven hours of rehearsal - nine of those under the eye of their coach - as they perfected the routine to Michael Buble's Can't Help Falling in Love.
But former Escala musician Johnston admitted: "The night before the wedding I didn't sleep because I was going through the steps in my head."
Judd - who won the dance contest just over a year ago - arranged for Strictly announcer Alan Dedicoat to record a special greeting ahead of their first dance.
Dedicoat said: "Live from St Michael's Manor, performing an American Smooth, Izzy Judd and her dance partner, Harry Judd."
They married at St Nicholas's Church in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, shortly before Christmas, and held their reception at nearby St Michael's Manor.
Judd said: "It was just perfection. Genuinely the best day ever. Izzy looked absolutely beautiful."
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Public relations are important. That's as true in technology as it is with every industry. You can create the greatest, most innovative device or piece of software the world has ever seen, but if you manage to somehow alienate your potential user base in the process, you're setting yourself up for disaster.
There are countless roads to such alienation, of course. The easiest route is simply releasing an inferior product. Send something bad out into the world and the press and users will take care of the rest.
And if things weren't already bad enough, there are some pretty easy ways to make things worse. You can choose to simply ignore the problem and hope that it will go away on its own. Better yet, blame the user for the problem—insist that problems aren't inherent with the product so much as the way people are using it. Let "you're holding it wrong" become your public relations rally cry.
Crazy executives can also go a long way towards upsetting potential customers—it's hard to trust the stability of a product and company when it appears to be run by people who seem barely capable of getting themselves dressed in the morning. And then there's the lawsuit method. There's perhaps no more efficient way of working yourself into oblivion than by waging a war against the people you hope will buy what you're selling.
Want to take a look back at the best tech company public relations disaster? We do!
In the slideshow, we've rounded up our favorite public relations train wrecks, including Wi-Fi sniffing, exploding devices, crashed million dollar sports cars, jailed political dissidents, and good old fashioned faked Amazon reviews.
1 Apple Antennagate
2 WeTab Exec Fakes Amazon Reviews
3 Sony Exploding Batteries
4 RIAA Sues Everyone
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6 Facebook Terms of Use
7 JooJoo
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9 Google Wi-Fi Data Sniffing
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With a contagious can-do attitude and the know-how to make things happen, Zem Joaquin is spreading the word. Sustainability is sexy. Green is luxurious. And being environmentally responsible is not a guilt-ridden obligation but a stylish option.
Born and raised in a California commune, Zem has a well-bred respect for nature. She combines that flower-child upbringing, however, with a sophisticated style cultivated from years of working in the fashion industry and living in Milan, Paris, and London. This earth-child-meets-haute-couture aesthetic is showcased in her home and on her Web site, ecofabulous.com.
"Our mission at Ecofabulous is to inspire people to live a more sustainable life and to provide the tools to do so without having to sacrifice style or quality," Zem says.
While she's been an environmentalist since childhood, Zem got serious about eco-design in 2006, shortly after she and her husband, James, bought a 40-year-old house in the San Francisco Bay area. The Joaquins' two children, Dylan and Zoe, suffered from allergies, and the Joaquins embarked on an eco-conscious renovation, working with California designer Aaron Mutscheller.
Zem immersed herself in the subject, reading all she could about sustainable and healthful design. She attended seminars and enrolled in college courses.
She applied that newly acquired knowledge to her home's renovation, choosing finishes and building materials that contained no VOCs (volatile organic compounds) or toxins that could off-gas into the air. She searched for furnishings that were recycled, locally sourced, or made from sustainably harvested wood.
The Joaquins worked within the house's existing floor plan, making as few alterations as possible. Wood floors and some of the wool carpets remained.
In the master bedroom and childrens' rooms, carpets were replaced with cork floors. Cork is a rapidly renewable product, harvested without killing the tree, and the Joaquins' cork floors take eco-design one step further: Their floors are made from recycled wine corks. Radiant-heat systems under the floors warm the bedrooms without blowing dust and allergens.
In the kitchen, the Joaquins kept the professional-style range and hood and had new cabinets made by a nearby builder who used eco-friendly processes and finishes. The walnut veneers were fabricated with wood harvested from nonproducing trees in an old local nut orchard. The cabinet boxes are made of wood certified as sustainable by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
Gorgeous Italian marble on backsplashes and some countertops is the star in the kitchen. Although the marble is imported, Zem discovered most high-end marble is cut in Italy--even if it's quarried in the United States. "In Italy, they've been doing this for centuries, and they are masters at knowing how to maximize output and minimize waste," she says. If marble is sent to Italy to be cut, why not buy an Italian marble she loves and save one trip overseas, Zem figured.
Another of Zem's favorite features are floor pedals that control water flow at the kitchen sinks, minimizing water waste and making the kitchen more sanitary. "These are an easy add-on to an existing kitchen, and they save a tremendous amount of water," she says.
The Joaquins added a whole-house water-filtration system so they can refill water bottles, reducing the need to buy bottled water. They also have a solar water heater as well as photovoltaic solar panels on the roof that provide 80 percent of the house's electricity.
"There's a lot of innovation happening, and I love being witness to it and sharing it," Zem says. "It's so exciting to show people that no matter what their style, there are sustainable alternatives."
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Interior design: Zem Joaquin, Ecofabulous, 250 Brannan St., Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107; ecofabulous.com.
Structural design/codesigner: Aaron Mutscheller, 43 Laurel Grove Ave., Ross, CA 94957; 415/497-8359.
Kitchen builder: Howling Dog Woodworks, 707/480-4524, howlingdogwoodworks.com.
In the dining room the ceiling beams, painted orange when the family bought the house, were sanded and finished with natural beeswax rather than being chemically stripped with toxic products. Clerestory windows and an open floor plan allow light to fill the home, reducing the need for electric fixtures.
Paints from Benjamin Moore Aura collection are low in volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The blue on the wall is a custom mix; white is "Sailcloth."
Vintage dining chairs designed by Paul Laszlo are padded with natural latex rubber foam. The chairs and table are from the 1stdibs shopping site.
Table and chairs (vintage Paul Laszlo): 1st Dibs, 1stdibs.com.
White chairs; decorative pillow; accessories: owner's collection.
Chair-seat fabric on white chairs ("Luna" #1001-02, Satin Wool-Lights Collection): Q Collection, 800/775-0994, qcollection.com.
Blinds: Smith + Noble, 800/765-7776, smithandnoble.com.
Credenza: Empiric, 323/634-7323, empiricstudio.com.
Handblown glass bubble light: Studio Barndiva, 707/431-7404, studiobarndiva.com.
Chandelier ("Neblena"): Ironies, 510/644-2100, ironies.com.
Vase: Tiffany & Co., 800/843-3269, tiffany.com.
Rug: owner's collection.
Wall paint (custom); trim paint ("Sail Cloth"): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
Painting: Steve Teijeiro, 415/747-6714.
Flowers: Soul Flower Design, 415/971-8507, soulflowersf.com.
The kitchen counters from Coverings Etc. are recycled cellulose, Portland cement, and fly ash. Marble backsplashes were quarried and finished in Italy, where stone cutters keep waste to a minimum.
Keeping the range and vent hood saved resources--nothing was consumed to make and install new appliances. The existing oak floor remained, too.
Walnut harvested from a defunct nut orchard was fabricated into cabinet veneers. The kitchen cabinets are built without formaldehyde glues or toxic finishes.
Cabinets: Howling Dog Woodworks, 707/480-4524.
Tray; cream set: Past Perfect, 415/929-7651.
Foot pedals control water flow at the kitchen sink faucet, reducing the amount of water consumed and contributing to sanitation. Standard hand controls adjust the water temperature.
Foot pedal: Pedal Valves Inc., 800/431-3668, pedalvalve.com.
The chocolate-and-cream draperies were vintage finds bought at the Alameda, California, antiques fair. Two classic chairs, re-covered in remnant silk fabric, flank a new table made with recycled metal.
Drapery; chair; chair fabric: owner's collection.
Lanterns; vase: Past Perfect, 415/929-7651.
Table: Pottery Barn, 800/922-5507, potterybarn.com.
Bookshelves in the library were built with Forest Stewardship Council-certified mahogany. The Regency chairs in lavender silk were purchased on eBay, one of Zem's favorite shopping sources.
Cabinet/shelving (custom finish): by Steve Teijeiro, 415/747-6714.
Paint (custom): Yolo, 877/493-8276, yolocolorhouse.com.
Table (vintage, original Alberto Pinto game table): Coup d'Etat, 415/241-9300, 1stdibs.com.
Chairs; console: owner's collection.
The zebra rug is llama wool, hand-loomed in Peru for designer Jonathan Adler by weavers working with Aid to Artisans. Organic cotton and wool mattress is from Ergo Sleep Studio, and organic bedding is from Pottery Barn Kids.
Mattress: Ergo Sleep Studio, 949/833-0338, ergocomfort.net.
Bed (Corsican white bunny bed, painted): Koo Koo Bear Kids, 800/475-6909, kookoobearkids.com.
Duvet: Pottery Barn Kids, 800/430-7373, potterybarnkids.com.
Riding hat: Past Perfect, 415/929-7651.
White/gold pillow: Under the Canopy, 888/226-6799.
Leather pouf; accessories; gold chair; desk: owner's collection.
Stuffed animals: Susan's Store Room, 415/456-1333, susansstoreroom.com.
Floors (custom): cork.
Chair: Past Perfect, 415/929-7651.
Alpaca rug ("Zebra"); lamp: Jonathan Adler, 800/657-7752, jonathanadler.com.
Paint ("Sail Cloth"): Benjamin Moore & Co., 888/236-6667.
Painting: by Steve Teijeiro, 415/747-6714.
Drapery: Silk Trading Co., 415/282-5574.
Cork flooring in ocean blue won't harbor dust mites or other allergens. Cork is a rapidly renewable resource made from the bark of cork trees and harvested without harming the tree.
Mattress: Ergo Sleep Studio, 949/833-0338.
Boat bed: Pottery Barn, 800/922-5507.
Bedding: Pottery Barn Kids, 800/430-7373.com.
Flooring (custom): cork.
Chairs: Blackman Cruz, 415/934-9228.
Photo art (by Grant Ernhart): BatterseaSF, 415/553-8500.
Globe: Past Perfect, 415/929-7651.
Nautical steering wheel; bookends; treasure chest: owner's collection.
Boat toy: Sprig Toys, 877/469-4266, sprigtoys.com.
Paint (custom): Yolo, 877/493-8276, yolocolorhouse.com.
Zem Joaquin is a nonstop activist for environmental causes and is particularly active in Global Green, a national environmental nonprofit focused on fighting global climate change by creating green buildings and cities.
Six years ago, she was instrumental in launching the organization's signature fund-raising eco-fashion event, the Gorgeous and Green Gala, which attracts such celebrities as Leonardo DiCaprio.
In addition, Zem is an active board member of other environmentally focused groups, including Healthy Child Healthy World, Teens Turning Green, and Architecture for Humanity.


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Most people who do a PhD and postdoctoral work in the biomedical sciences do not end up as principal investigators in a research lab. Despite this, graduate courses and postdoctoral fellowships tend to focus almost exclusively on training for bench science rather than other career paths. This book plugs the gap by providing information about a wide variety of different careers that individuals with a PhD in the life sciences can pursue.
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SEDALIA - The Sedalia City Council passed measures Wednesday night that will allow three construction projects to start. The projects include repairing the Washington Avenue bridge, building a new fire station, and repairing the Sedalia Public Library. The City Council received $7.3 million in bonds, and will also use money from its reserve funds to complete the projects.
The Sedalia Public Library was built in 1901 and hasn't been renovated since 1955. This summer's drought led to major foundation problems. "The problems were so bad you could see the light from outside coming in through the cracks." said Sedalia City administrator, Gary Edwards. Construction crews started working on the library when it closed in August. The library does not have an expected completion date, but Edwards said it should open by next summer.
The 100-year-old Washington Avenue bridge, which connects the north side of Sedalia to downtown Sedalia, will take a little longer. The bridge was closed last year and now the city plans to repair it. The council chose to repair, rather than rebuild the bridge or build a bridge in a new location. Edwards said, "Engineers are finalizing plans for the bridge and it should be completed by the fall 2013."
Sedalia is also building a new Fire Station at a cost of $3.7 million. The new station headquarters will replace the 40-year-old Station No. 2 on West 16th Street. It will house a new fire truck that can reach taller buildings. The new station will also feature much-needed space, including a classroom area that can be used by the community, more sleeping quarters, and offices. Training facilities and a tower that can be used for hose-drying are also in the plans.


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Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: West Yorkshire Life OnlineHow did our lives change when the internet was born? Find out in the world's first gallery dedicated to the social, technological and cultural impact of the web. Follow the history of the internet around Life Online.National Science and Media Museum | Bradford | 1 November 2014 — 1 January 2020
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Who turned out the lights?
Super Bowl XLVII is over, but the Superdome blackout blame game lives on.
Even before the lights returned to the New Orleans stadium Sunday night, some people were trying to deflect — or assign — responsibility for the most embarrassing power outage in recent history.
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Local power company Entergy's message: It wasn't us. ("Power is being provided to the building," the company tweeted at 8:57 p.m.).
The Drudge Report snarkily linked to an Energy Department article published Saturday that praised New Orleans for being at the "Energy Efficient Forefront" and noted that the Superdome "features more than 26,000 LED lights" that conserve energy. However, others quickly pointed out that those are exterior lights, not the lights that went dark inside the dome.
Others saw an opportunity to tie the outage to a larger issue, such as the nation's ailing energy infrastructure or the benefits and drawbacks of power "smart grids."
"It's possible that such an embarrassing episode during America's most iconic cultural event, in front of the whole world, will prompt the Congress to get serious about upgrading the U.S. grid and electrical transmission system," wrote Paul Bledsoe, an independent consultant and former Clinton White House aide, in an email to POLITICO. "Depending on the cause of this incident, we might hear the president will mention this event in the State of the Union in nine days in this context."
And countless people joshed that Beyoncé's high-voltage halftime performance was to blame.
Just one detail is missing: What actually caused the blackout, anyway?
A statement early Monday from Entergy and Superdome management company SMG suggested that "a piece of equipment that is designed to monitor electrical load sensed an abnormality in the system," tripping a breaker — a statement that didn't clear up what caused the "abnormality." It added that "backup generators kicked in immediately as designed."
Later in the day, SMG senior vice president Doug Thornton told reporters that the hunt for a cause was continuing, according to The New Orleans Times-Picayune. "All we know is that we had an interruption in service that occurred. We're going to work with Entergy, our partner here, to determine the root cause of that. That analysis is under way right now."
Thornton was able to absolve Beyoncé however. He said the halftime show was run on "generated power," and noted that the stadium's house lights were turned off during her performance, according to USA Today. The newspaper added that "early indications from Entergy … are that the power outage was the result of a problem in one of the two feeder lines that power the stadium from an external substation."
The Times-Picayune reported early Monday that "minutes of the 2012 meetings of the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, the public authority that owns the Dome, show multiple references to electrical work in the latter part of the year, underscoring the urgency to complete last-minute electrical work in advance of the Super Bowl." But it was unclear whether that work had any role in the blackout.
Whatever the cause turns out to be, New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman saw one enduring U.S. tradition alive and well in the blackout aftermath.
"Only in America," he tweeted Sunday night, linking to Drudge's DOE link. "Blackout at Superdome actually becoming a political issue."
Then again, a 34-minute break in Super Bowl play is nothing compared with a lengthy, expensive blackout that cripples large swaths of the U.S. electric grid — the kind of calamity that experts warn could arise from a terrorist attack or a major natural disaster.
"Terrorists could destroy key elements of the electricity generation and delivery system, causing blackouts that are unprecedented in this country in duration and extent," said a 2007 National Research Council report that was released publicly for the first time last year.


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With a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike all but assured sometime next year, short-dated Treasury bonds and other traditional safe-haven assets aren't looking so safe these days, according to Russ Koesterich, BlackRock's global chief investment strategist. Koesterich writes today that BlackRock expects the Fed to start raising rates in the first half of 2015, saying short-dated bonds and commodities will feel downward price pressure even if rates will likely "remain relatively low" after the rate-normalization process gets underway:
[T]raditional "safe haven" assets such as shorter-term U.S. Treasuries and gold may, in fact, be more vulnerable than stocks in the near term. Although not cheap, stocks have the tailwinds of still-low rates and improving economic conditions at their back....
How should investors position for a rate hike? While longer-term interest rates have remained stable, the prospect for an early Fed tightening is exerting downward pressure on the prices of shorter-maturity Treasury bonds — particularly those with two- to five-year maturities — and pushing yields higher. We continue to suggest investors exercise caution in these maturities, as we expect they will prove the most vulnerable if the Fed accelerates the timetable of the first rate hike.
Koesterich points out that stronger economic data and the prospect for tighter monetary conditions have pushed the dollar to its highest level in nearly a year, while the price of gold is down 5% from its July high while oil and other commodities have suffered as well. Meanwhile stocks are resurgent of late and even high-yield bonds have almost fully recovered this month from their late-July selloff. More from Koesterich:
The buoyant investor sentiment appeared to seep over to the more-aggressive segments of the fixed income markets, such as U.S. high yield. As we discussed several weeks ago, high yield is no longer cheap, but we believe strong fundamentals and low default rates justify current valuations. This is arguably one reason why sentiment seems to have turned, with flows going back into the asset class and spreads once again tightening relative to Treasuries.


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My Claim To Fame
Who is the only announcer in minor league baseball to have a character on "The Simpsons" named for him?
That's right, it's yours truly.
If you've ever noticed "Dan's Favorite Links" on the right side of this page, one of the three things listed is "Ken Levine's blog."
Ken is an Emmy Award winning screenwriter, director, and producer who has written for such shows at M*A*S*H*, Cheers, Frazier, and The Simpsons. He has also been a play-by-play announcer for the Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, and San Diego Padres, and he is currently one of the hosts of "Dodger Talk" after every LA Dodgers game on 790 KABC in Los Angeles.
Not a bad resume huh?
But I'm sure the job he is most proud of is spending the summer of 1988 as my broadcasting partner with the Syracuse Chiefs.
Hollywood screenwriters were on strike that summer, so Ken lugged his wife and two kids to Syracuse to pursue his love of broadcasting baseball games.
Remarkably, Debby didn't divorce him.
We had a ton of laughs that summer — unfortunately, the ones we had on the air were only heard by the person running the show back at the station (it had such a weak signal that we were convinced it was powered by a hamster on a treadmill).
That became one of our running gags as each night we welcomed listeners in distant locations like Borneo.
I made a lifelong friend and I will always be grateful to Ken for writing me into an episode of the "The Simpsons."
It's from the second season and called "Dancin' Homer." The plot involves Homer Simpson having one too many beers at the local minor league baseball game and making a fool of himself by dancing on the dugout. However, his dance fires up the crowd and inspires the Springfield Isotopes to snap a long losing streak. Homer is then offered a job as team mascot and eventually makes it to the big leagues.
In any case, Springfield's broadcaster in the episode is named Dan Hoard (my buddy Ken provides the voice) and this was his best line:
"Here comes Springfield slugger Big Bill McCloskey to the plate. As soon as he pops up we'll get right to the post-game show."
If you would like more nuggets about the episode, here is a portion of the script from Ken's blog.
And here is all sorts of stuff about the episode from wikipedia.
The episode gets played several times a year in syndication. Whenever it does, I hear from several people who ask, "did I just hear your name on The Simpsons?"
Now you know the answer.
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Wanna see John Smoltz pitch at McCoy Stadium?
Then circle Friday, June 5th on your PawSox schedule.
(photo courtesy of Kelly O'Connor)
Last night, Smoltz made his first appearance for Double-A Portland and told reporters after the game that he expects to pitch 5-innings for Class-A Greenville on Sunday before joining the PawSox for 2 starts.
If he stays on a normal 5-day schedule, that would put him on the mound at McCoy against Louisville on June 5th.
The PawSox do not have a game on June 10th, so if he stays with Pawtucket, his second start would be on June 11th at Syracuse when the PawSox are scheduled to play a doubleheader. (I wonder if he'll want to join Hyder and me for the world's best chicken wings at the famed "Change of Pace" restaurant).
If all goes well, his first start for Boston would be on June 16th at Fenway against the Florida Marlins.
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Everybody at Slugger Field on Tuesday was still talking about Clay Buchholz's near-perfect game from the night before.
Buchholz retired the first 24 batters before allowing a leadoff single in the 9th inning to Louisville's Danny Richar.
I asked catcher Dusty Brown if he had ever been behind the plate in a game like that and he told me that he and Buchholz had teamed up on a similar effort in Double-A in 2007.
He then laughed and added ,"Buchholz shook me off that time too."
In Monday's masterpiece, Brown called for a changeup on the first pitch of the 9th inning, but Buchholz elected to throw a fastball to Richar who slapped it the opposite way for a clean base hit.
In 2007 with Portland, Buchholz took a no-hitter into the 7th inning against Bowie, shook off Brown, and then gave up a single to the immortal Paco Figueroa.
Clay did exactly what Brown told him to do AFTER he allowed the 9th inning hit a couple of days ago. Once the perfect game was gone, manager Ron Johnson had closer Fernando Cabrera start warming up in the bullpen and directed Dusty to go to the mound to kill some time.
Brown says he told Buchholz that, "I want you to finish this game — don't let RJ take you out. You deserve to go the distance."
Buchholz got the next three batters on 10 pitches to complete the 1-hit shutout.
By the way, it was great to hear from Dusty's mom Lisa via e-mail during the broadcast on Tuesday night. She's excited about becomming a first-time grandmother this summer as Dusty and his wife are expecting a son in mid-July. His mom tells me the due date is 6 days after her 50th birthday.
Sounds like the ultimate birthday gift.
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If Buchholz had tossed a perfect game on Monday, Travis Denker would have been remembered for making a tremendous defensive play to save it. In the 7th inning, the PawSox second baseman ranged to his right to field a bouncer up the middle and made a great throw to first to nip the speedy Norris Hopper.
Denker spent some time with the San Francisco Giants last year and I asked him how Buchholz compares to Tim Lincecum, who won the National League Cy Young Award last year at Clay's current age of 24.
"Buchholz is right there with Lincecum," Denker told me. "He's a freak."
In this case, that's a compliment.
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Tuesday was another tough night for 24-year-old lefty Kris Johnson, who allowed 7 runs (5 earned) in 2.2 IP in a 7-5 loss at Louisville.
After pitching 10 scoreless innings to begin the season, KJ is 1-6 in his last 7 starts with a 10.08 ERA.
He actually appeared to have pretty good stuff last night, but too threw too many pitches in bad locations.
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We'll report to work bright and early on Wednesday for an 11:05 start against the Bats. Charlie Zink and Matt Maloney are the starters. I'll hope you'll join us for the radio call beginning with the pre-game show at 10:50. I should be on my 4th or 5th cup of coffee by then.
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Putting a price tag on existence
By Heather Hansen, Red Lodge Clearing House
There's an important change brewing in the protection of endangered species. It appears to push economic considerations higher up in the part of the law dealing with critical habitat designation. The shift comes in the form of a proposed rule by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service, the agencies that determine which plants and animals require federal protection, and would change when economic analyses for critical habitat designations are conducted and published.
Critical habitat is defined in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as a specific geographic area that is essential for the conservation of a threatened or endangered species. Basically, all species need space to feed, to rest and to reproduce. It may include areas that are not currently occupied by a species, and it can include both public and private land. Scientists rely on several criteria to identify critical habitat and their determinations are peer-reviewed and open for public comment before they are finalized by the Secretary of the Interior.
The proposed change -- which would require that the economic impact of establishing critical habitat be considered alongside the designation itself -- is being driven by a presidential memorandum issued several months ago in regard to the Northern Spotted Owl, a species that was initially listed as threatened in 1990. It took until 2008 to designate critical habitat for the species, though that plan has been in revision since then. The proposed rule is being touted as a way to reduce regulatory burden, and as a way to exercise "flexibility and pragmatism" in administering the ESA. The agencies insist that both transparency and public comment will be improved by presenting the economic impacts, which normally come later, upfront. I largely disagree. Particularly in our current political and economic climate, forcing the economic analyses to be conducted early in the process could force decision makers to overweight economic impacts, something they are not supposed to do.
The ESA is a remarkable, strongly-worded statute. The original Act, passed in 1973, declares that "…various species of fish, wildlife, and plants in the United States have been rendered extinct as a consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation." It demands that biological factors are paramount and that listings be made "on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data available."
That ruling prompted an outcry, with worries that the entire country would ultimately be designated critical habitat. So the Senate did consider several amendments to the ESA that would have taken a huge swipe at the statute by requiring an economic balancing test. While that was ultimately rejected, Congress placated ESA opponents with two provisions -- one which requires the USFWS to "consider" economic factors when designating critical habitat. But while they may be considered, the good of the species is still prioritized over economics as the major factor in making critical habitat decisions. In 1982, in order to solidify the importance of science over private interests in ESA listings, Congress specifically added the word "solely" to the beginning of the Act's phrase "on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data available."
Since setting aside critical habitat has always been one of the most controversial aspects of the statute, the agencies have largely turned a blind eye to it. Even though studies show that species with protected habitat are twice as likely to avoid extinction than those without it, thousands of species have no such designations. This key aspect of the ESA has only really been in play for the past decade or so (since conservation organizations started suing the feds for downplaying it) and, during that time, it has led a checkered life.
A study released last July looks at 169 peer-reviewed critical habitat designations made from 2002 to 2007, during the George W. Bush years. The findings were dismal. Of those 169 peer reviews, 85 recommended increasing the critical area for 36 species. But in 34 of those designations the USFWS ultimately reduced the critical area by nearly half. The critical habitat also tended to focus on where species nested or found food and gave short shrift to historic range and the space needed for mate selection.
In the years since then, the Obama administration appeared to take a stand against political interference with an albeit vague "scientific integrity" policy which was intended to remind all federal agencies that science is king (whether or not it's been effective is debatable). Earlier this year came a proposed rule by the USFWS to clarify the meaning of a species being threatened or endangered in a "significant portion of its range" which could sanction the dismissal of a species' historic range in ESA and critical habitat determinations.
Last year two controversial critical habitat cases, one involving ranchers and the Mexican spotted owl and the other builders and 15 species in Northern California, made it to doorstep of the Supreme Court, which ultimately chose not to hear arguments on them. In both cases, the plaintiffs argued that the feds didn't sufficiently take into account the economic impacts of habitat designations.
While the courts remain consistent in their interpretations of the ESA, the statute is being weakened in other ways as critical habitat designations are being challenged routinely. In this climate, the latest move by the USFWS must be scrutinized. The presidential memorandum specifically requires that "job impacts" be considered when considering critical habitat and that the agencies should "adopt the least burdensome means, including avoidance of unnecessary burdens on States, tribes, localities, and the private sector, of promoting compliance with the ESA."
In a bad economy, measures to preserve humanity trump the conservation of species lower down the food chain. You don't have to look much further than the priorities expressed by the camps competing for president: employment, energy, health care, education and public safety are front and center, while talk of the environment is virtually non-existent.
This is a touchy time to put economic impacts on par with scientific imperatives, and the proposed rule sets the stage to subject critical habitat designations to a cost-benefit analysis. This plus or minus approach is helpful in many areas, but not in regard to biodiversity. While the costs of reserving an area of land as habitat are often easily quantifiable, benefits require an unsatisfying, abstract non-market valuation.
At the time, decades ago, that the "economic impact" piece was added to the ESA it was recognized as an apples-to-oranges comparison. It wasn't meant to be an exact calculation but a passing glance to ensure that costs and benefits were not wildly out of proportion. Conservation requires trade-offs, but maintaining biodiversity simply cannot be measured along the same metrics as money.
Without any further context, the proposed rule threatens to exacerbate an existing problem and weaken the ESA. Considering economic effects in tandem with the critical habitat designation can only work if there is dialogue between the competing priorities while the habitat is being established. Keeping politics out of this process and presenting a fair picture of species in imperil will require major effort, but we the people will be the better for it. The public may comment on the proposed rule through October 23.
Essays in the Range blog are not written by High Country News. The authors are solely responsible for their content.
Heather Hansen is an environmental journalist working with the Red Lodge Clearinghouse /Natural Resources Law Center at CU Boulder, to help raise awareness of natural resource issues.
Image of the snail darter, which delayed construction in Tennessee, courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Lynx image and Mexican spotted owl images courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service


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SARATOGA SPRINGS -- One person died of a drug overdose and 81 people were arrested during the three days of Phish concerts at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. All but one of the arrests were related to drugs. "There were a lot of drugs out there," Saratoga Springs Lt. John Catone said. "We were out there aggressively andproactively enforcing
." State park police charged 55 people with 62 charges -- more than half felonies. They also issued 95 violation tickets. Meanwhile, the Saratoga Springs Police Department charged an additional 26 people with 49 charges, 15 of which were felonies. City police said they encountered LSD, MDMA (ecstasy or molly), hallucinogenic mushrooms, hashish, ketamine, bath salts, cocaine, heroin and nitrous oxide. Law enforcement also discovered candy, gummy bears and cotton candy laced with LSD. While Catone said heroin use seemed down at the show this year, ketamine, an animal and human tranquilizer that comes in powder form, was "the big one this year. There was more MDMA and a lot more ketamine." In fact, based on an arrest made by the Saratoga Springs Police Department at SPAC, Colonie police raided a hotel and seized more than an ounce of ketamine, Catone said. "That's a lot of ketamine." Separately, New York State Police arrested two men in a traffic stop in Malta Friday night related to thePhish show
. They also had ketamine as well as narcotics, hallucinogenic MDMA and hashish. Police made so many arrests over the weekend that four assistant district attorneys were assigned to handle the volume of cases. Saratoga County District Attorney James A. Murphy III said a city judge conducted arraignments at the Lincoln Baths throughout the night and shuttles between the "courthouse" and the jail ran all night, transporting people to Saratoga County Jail until their subsequent court appearances. Saratoga Springs police and state police joined forces to work on Operation Impact, geared at "aggressively deal(ing) with illegal narcotics," which Catone said are "often associated with these types of events." Murphy announced the overdose death, but he did not provide the identity of the person or what drug he overdosed on. State park officials confirmed that Brent Wallace, 40, of Randolph, Vt., was taken to Albany Medical Center and placed on life support Friday night, but would not comment further. A death notice appeared in the Valley News for Wallace, indicating he died Saturday. The drug overdose was the only significant injury or death Catone had heard of. Saratoga Hospital reported taking in 45 people from the Phish show, primarily due to drugs and alcohol. Overall, Catone said, "I think it went well. I think we made it safer for a lot of people." Park police also charged one person with forcible touching and one person with resisting arrest. City police also made 75 traffic stops and issued 50 traffic tickets, and state park police responded to 41 drug andalcohol
complaints, 14 calls to assist patrons, 15 motor vehicle complaints, five auto accidents and 53 other miscellaneous calls for service.


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