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(CNN) -- It inspired childlike moments of wonder. It was a feeling that many had not felt since NASA's final space shuttle launch, Atlantis in July 2011.
That's how the fans and followers around the Web described the weekend's events to NASA's social media team. And while social media users are often portrayed as having short attention spans, the @MarsCuriosity Twitter account continues to receive about 1,000 new followers an hour since landing on the red planet early Monday morning. The Facebook page imploded from 30,000 to more than 200,000 fans.
"We were blown out of the water," Stephanie L. Smith, social media specialist at NASA, said about the response NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab's social team received on platforms including Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and Google+.
The social media strategy was something that was considered years before the landing. NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory social media manager Veronica McGregor's first mission with Mars was in 2008 when the Phoenix rover landed. McGregor began making plans for Curiosity's big day back then. @MarsPhoenix was the fifth most followed Twitter account in 2008, she said. That account still has more than 200,000 followers.
There is literally nothing more important to humanity happening at this moment. This planet of ours ain't gonna last forever, folks.— Josh Helfferich (@JoshHelfferich) August 6, 2012/a>
"We knew there was a big audience out there on Twitter," McGregor said. The Saturday before the landing, @MarsCuriosity had 150,000 followers. It now has more than 818,000 and is growing at a rate of approximately 1,000 per hour, McGregor estimates. She and two team members, Courtney O'Connor and Smith, shape the voices behind many of NASA's social media accounts including @NASAJPL @MarsCuriosity and @asteroidwatch.
Although exact numbers aren't yet available they were astounded when they discovered their official "landing tweet" at 1:32 a.m. EST on August 6 was retweeted 70,000 times around the world. A search of links, tweets and images including "Mars" from Saturday to Tuesday surpassed 700,000.
I'm safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!!— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) August 6, 2012
McGregor and her team said they believe interest in space has always been high. Social media simply allowed the community to find each other, McGregor says.
Mars rover captures nearby rocket 'footprint'
CNN commenters also responded enthusiastically, sharing the Mars landing article to social media more than 26,000 times and leaving more than 4,900 comments.
A CNN.com commenter known as Explore wrote, "At the very core of me is a desire to seek the unknown, a desire to look beyond the confines of this tiny little spec in the universe to the vastness that lies beyond. This is inherent to every one of us even though we may sometimes deny it because we can only see the here and now."
And then there were the unexpected Internet wins that the NASA social media team never expected to happen.
Bobak Ferdowsi, a NASA engineer and flight director of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission, was quickly dubbed the "NASA Mohawk Guy" by Twitter users who followed his updates at @TweetsOutLoud. Internet memes showing a side view of Ferdowsi's mohawk with captions including, "Becomes an Internet sensation. Too busy landing a robot on Mars to notice," Tumblrs about Bobak and blog posts exploded across the Web. He received several marriage proposals via Twitter but probably hasn't seen them.
McGregor says Ferdowsi has been on Twitter "a while" but his account went from several hundred followers on Saturday to more than 30,000 Tuesday. As Curiosity landed Ferdowski tweeted, "So incredible to be a part of this team and all that we've accomplished. Impossible not to be an emotional wreck."
Not rdy for the attention, but happy to show it takes all types to make— Bobak F. (@tweetsoutloud) August 6, 2012
@marscuriosity ! If only my coworkers wld stop making fun of me ;)
A Curiosity rover "Call Me Maybe" mashup video surfaced on YouTube. Caley Burke, an aerospace engineer with the Kennedy Space Center created the video after being inspired by the U.S. Olympic swim team's version.
5 reasons to be excited about Curiosity
After closely listening to the lyrics for the first time Burke said it made perfect sense. "I knew we were only going to get the call if the rover actually landed," she said. YouTube analytics show the video has been viewed 27,000 times, mostly by males between the ages of 45 and 54.
There were viewing parties and thousands crowded into Times Square in New York City to watch the event unfold, snapping photos and sharing them with McGregor and her team. It was an event that, judging by social media updates, connected science-loving strangers, restored people's hope in space exploration and elicited a sense of awe.
Since 2010 NASA has ranked at the top of public sector organizations in effectiveness of social media sites by experts from L2, a think tank for digital innovation. NASA hosted social media followers at seven field centers around the nation on August 3 and live streamed the event online. Participants were also given the opportunity to be present when the first signal of the landing was detected by mission control.
Gold medal for NASA in the 563 billion meters— Ben Dolman (@bdolman) August 6, 2012
Strategy aside, for some it was simply a moment in time to reflect on the amazing accomplishments of their fellow humans and science.
Today I saw a man with no legs run in the Olympics and a robot from Earth land on Mars. Holy freaking hell - science is awesome.— Janessa Goldbeck (@jgoldbeck) August 6, 2012
No matter how they arrived, they walked away with much more than just Curiosity.
To see more tweets and photos click here.

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Dear Bill: Why the Distinction Between College and K‑12?
At the Techonomy conference last week, Bill Gates declared that going to school would soon be obsolete, and that "five years from now, on the web, for free, you'll be able to find the best lectures in the world." What's interesting is that Bill was quick to note that he was talking only of higher education. K‑12 education should still be tied to physical schools, he is reported to have added.
Certainly there's a custodial aspect to the education of young children, but there's no reason that electronic learning options cannot be combined with custodial supervision — and much more affordably than traditional schooling. Homeschooling already consists of hybrids of parent lessons, lessons taught by paid tutors and guest lecturers, web classes, etc. This flexible format could be generalized to serve a much broader range of students. So why not encourage the exploration of these new possibilities at the k‑12 level, just as at the higher education level?


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Loupedeck review: this hardware puts Adobe Lightroom's controls at your fingertips
This photo editing console helps you work faster by allowing you to focus on your images instead of hunting for software controls.
This photo editing console helps you work faster by allowing you to focus on your images instead of hunting for software controls.
If you want to get your kids into coding and making as well as design and art, the Kano is a great way in for 7-10 year olds.
Updated: This is the desktop most designers and artists would love to own. But does it deliver and justify the workstation-grade price?
The latest version of Final Cut Pro X has some new features of great appeal to editors, even if you're not editing next-generation formats like 8K and 360 video for VR.
The Microsoft Surface Book 2 could be the most powerful tablet/laptop hybrid you can draw on. We went hands-on in both the UK and US to find out.
Can the latest Microsoft Surface Pro match up to iPad Pro or Wacom MobileStudio Pro for creating digital artwork. Artist Sam Gilbey investigates.
We've worked with artist Sam Gilbey to give you the definitive review of the new 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models whether you want to use it for illustratin, digital and graphic design, video or animation.
This new version of Corel Painter is here – gaining a fantastic set of Thick Paint tools to add to its already impressive list of brushes.
Artist Sam Gilbey tries out Microsoft's iMac rival to see what it's like to paint and draw on.
Apple's brand-new 2017 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar makes it a serious contender for designers and artists – though it's not without its flaws.
Every creative studio is going to want a Microsoft Surface Hub, but few will be able to justify the cost.
Don't dismiss Intel's brand new line of desktop CPUs with a meh just yet. There's more to the chip than you expect.
This low-cost app is a serious rival to Photoshop and Lightroom if you're only interested in editing photos on your Mac.
MakerBot has improved on its flagship 3D printer – the Replicator+ – with the sixth generation of its product. The printer is more accurate, among other things. But there are still deficiencies in print quality that MakerBot needs to address.
XYZprinting's inexpensive da Vinci Mini focuses on what is most important in a 3D printer: The ability to create good quality models in a short amount of time.
Adobe's video-editing software delivers a winning combination of performance enhancements and awesome new proxy workflow.
This year's update offers little in terms of new features for the visual effects app, you'll feel the changes every time you use it.
The Lenovo ThinkPad P40 Yoga is a laptop and a tablet - innovative and ideal for those on a budget.
The new Glazing Brushes and Texture Painting tools make this new Corel Painter upgrade one you'll not want to skip.
After months of use, we've discovered that, in some ways, the 9.7-inch iPad Pro is actually better than the 12.9-inch model. Here's why.


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Oakland Raiders punter Chris Kluwe is giving fans the opportunity to see what it's like to take part in an NFL training camp after getting his hands on a set of Google Glass.
Kluwe posted four videos from practice at the Raiders training camp home in Napa, Calif. to his YouTube account.
The videos feature Kluwe catching and returning a punt, punting some balls himself and holding for kicker Sebastian Janikowski. He also handed the glasses to Janikowski to try for some field goal attempts.
Some of the videos contain some "not safe for work" language, so viewer discretion is advised. But if you can get around the language, Kluwe actually gives some interesting commentary while chatting with fellow punter Marquette King about punting techniques and the thoughts going through his head during the kicking process.
The St. Louis Rams also experimented with the technology during their offseason workouts.
The videos posted by Kluwe allow a unique opportunity to see inside the helmet of an NFL player and a vantage point fans just don't have the ability to experience.


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Southwest jet slides off taxiway at Denver airport
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DENVER – A Southwest Airlines jet slid off a taxiway at Denver International Airport on Saturday amid light snowfall and freezing temperatures.
DIA spokeswoman Jenny Schiavone confirmed that the aircraft slid off the taxiway shortly after 5 p.m. There were no reports of injuries.
Schiavone says passengers of Flight 1905 were bused from the taxiway to the concourse.
The Denver-bound Boeing 737 had departed Saturday afternoon from Metropolitan Oakland International in California.
Schiavone says flight schedules and overall DIA operations were not disrupted following the incident.
Further details were not immediately available.
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reQuire necesitaba un nuevo diseño de animación en Flash y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 33 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We are a service company in the Real Estate Title Industry. We are looking to change the look and feel of our website. This contest has been created in the hopes of finding a web design and development partner.
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Desired Color Scheme:
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- We are very impressed and like the look and feel of the ingdirect.com website and would like to use a similar page for our home page
- White background
- We like the bouncing sphere on the ingdirect.com site (with shadowing) and would like to incorporate our logo and tag line using similar movement
- Incorporate current logo (see http://support.titletracking.com/im…round.jpg) w/ the tag line "Your No-Cost Solution to Tracking and Releasing Liens!"
(possibly a bouncing/sliding [r] or q )
- We like the curve in the graphic on the ingdirect.com site, with spherical rollover buttons - Customer Login, Sign Up Now, Learn More
- Logo at top leftÂ
- Please give us different color combination optionsÂ
- Everything sized to fit one screen – no scrolling – 1024x768 Our goal is to find someone who we can work with on an on-going basis, once this first project is completed. We will be redesigning our entire site after the home page and will need someone who is quick, reliable and very savvy. Our current site is http://www.titletracking.com.
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A Chinese child sits amongst a pile of wires and e-waste. Children can often be found dismantling e-waste containing many hazardous chemicals known to be potentially very damaging to children's health.
The rate at which these mountains of obsolete electronic products are growing will reach crisis proportions unless electronics corporations that profit from making and selling these devices face up to their responsibilities. It is possible to make clean, durable products that can be upgraded, recycled, or disposed of safely and don't end up as hazardous waste in someone's backyard.
Discover more about e-waste, what happens after it is thrown away, which companies are top and bottom of the toxic product class and the solutions to the problem.
Greenpeace has been investigating the immoral and illegal e-waste dumping in developing countries since 2002. After China, India, Pakistan and Ghana, this is the story of how one very broken TV managed to avoid being tested and recycled according...
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Welcome to Helping Hands Fresh Food Delivery service. By ordering through us you are providing meaningful and fair-trade employment for people from the Klong Toey Community.
Due to demand we are offering deliveries Monday to Friday. The delivery fee is 200 baht for areas around Sukumvit Rama 4 and Sathorn. For areas beyond that we will let you know when you send in your order. If you are unhappy with the price quoted you are under no obligation to proceed. If you are unhappy with the quality of any food delivered you are able to return it and your money will be refunded.
If you have any special requests regarding food not listed, delivery times or preferences please use the comments box at the bottom of the order and we will email you back with a response. Feel free to give us your feedback in this box also.
Plastic containers and trays are to be washed and re-used, (except those that have been used for meat , fish or poultry), please keep them and send them back when you receive your next delivery.
We will aim to deliver before 12pm the day after your order has been received unless you specify otherwise. Orders must be received by 6pm the day before delivery.
We aim to keep our delivery costs as low as possible. However, in order to make our service run efficiently, please refer to the scale for delivery costs according to the size of your fresh food order.
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We hope you enjoy this service and we look forward to providing you with freshest produce from the Klong Toey market.
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Helping Hands
What is Helping Hands Fresh Foods Delivery? How does it work?
Helping Hands Fresh Foods Delivery is a fair-trade delivery service of perishable foods from the Klong Toey market in central Bangkok. Members of the service place orders weekly for fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, eggs and meats. Helping Hands staff purchase the food for you at the Klong Toey market (where they are usually much cheaper than in supermarkets) and deliver it to your door for a minimal delivery fee.
We want to make your life a little easier by providing you with great service, reasonable prices, quality foods & of course, convenience. Online shopping is quick and easy. Your first shopping trip may take a little more time as you become aquainted with our site, but soon you'll finish shopping in 10 minutes or less! Simply log in, choose your products and then checkout before 6pm the day before your requested delivery. Your fresh foods will then be delivered to your door by 12pm the following delivery day (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thur, Fri) .
Where does Helping Hands deliver in Bangkok?
- Sukhumvit Lower (expressway to Asok)
- Sukhumvit Middle (Asok to Ekamai)
- Sukhumvit Upper (Ekamai to On Nut)
- Ploenchit Area (Ruam Rudee/Wittayu)
- Lang Suan/Chitlom
- Sathorn/Yenakart/Silom
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Fresh produce is purchased each day and delivered by 12pm .
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Tahoe Resource Conservation District hires new district manager
Tahoe Resource Conservation District's new district manager, John Skeel, officially took over duties on July 19 at TRCD's offices in South Lake Tahoe.
Skeel has 24 years of experience working with government organizations and not-for-profit agencies, focused primarily on community services, parks and recreation. During this time, Mr. Skeel has managed multiple parks totaling hundreds of acres, as well as recreation centers, lakes and other facilities, receiving extensive experience in administrative, financial, planning, restructuring, staff development, marketing, special events, and public/private partnerships.
"I'm really looking forward to working with Tahoe Resource Conservation District," Skeel stated in a press release. "Some of my goals with Tahoe RCD include improving the efficiency of programs and operations and developing ways to improve communication between Tahoe RCD and the community."


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Whidbey Coffee announced it is partnering with the Whidbey General Hospital Foundation in the fight against breast cancer.
Whidbey Coffee said it will match dollar for dollar any contributions to the foundation's Breast MRI Fundraising Campaign made during July at any of its Whidbey Island store locations in Clinton, Freeland and Oak Harbor.
Hospital medical staff identified breast MRI scan and biopsy equipment as the missing diagnostic tools needed for a comprehensive breast program at Whidbey General.
It is well-documented that a woman's chances of survival are better if the cancer is detected early, before it spreads to other parts of the body.
In fact, when breast cancer is found early and confined to the breast, the five-year relative survival rate today is 99 percent.
Early detection is the key, according to health experts.
Dan Ollis, president and owner of Whidbey Coffee, said he was eager to help in the fight against cancer.
"Whidbey Coffee has been a part of cancer fighting causes for years, and to have the opportunity to help my local hometown cuts straight to my heart," he said.
"I believe our customers will want to help us in getting the best tools available for Island women."
Whidbey Coffee will match its customers' gifts up to $2,500, but reserves the right to raise the maximum matching limit.
To learn more about the hospital foundation, go to www.whidbeygen.org/wgh-foundation.


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Diagnostic devices for Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing, Indirect Calorimetry, Pulmonary function test and Body Composition
A New Generation of Metabolic Technology, for Quick, Accurate, Intuitive and Affordable Indirect CalorimetryQ-NRG is the first Indirect Calorimeter specifically intended for the measurement of Resting Energy Expenditure (REE) in patients who are mechanically ventilated or spontaneously breathing and for healthy subjects. Q-NRG is a unique product, resulting from the COSMED's collaboration with world-class institutes in the field of nutrition support in intensive care units. This collaboration has made possible the development of an accurate metabolic system easy to use and at the same time resolving all typical pitfalls of the indirect calorimetry technology (no warm-up time, no gas calibrations, etc.).
FeNO measurement, fast, reliable and accessible also to the asthma patientThe new Vivatmo breath analysis devices from Bosch measure the fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) in human breath. The test is quick, painless, reliable, and the measured value provides an indicator of the inflammatory activity of allergic asthma. Vivatmo systems are maintenance-free, easy-to-use cordless measuring devices designed either for professional use (Vivatmo pro and Vivatmo me) or for home use (Vivatmo me).
A breakthrough in the field of exercise physiology and human performance assessmentCOSMED is proud to introduce K5, the 4th generation of the most popular wearable metabolic system, and a breakthrough in the field of exercise physiology and human performance assessment. The K5 is the most innovative and versatile metabolic system ever created. The K5 reaps the benefits of more than 25 years of experience with metabolic systems. It features a list of new and unique characteristics that expand the scope of metabolic testing from clinical exercise testing to performance assessment.
Spiropalm 6MWT
The world's first advanced Six Minute Walk Test with integrated spirometryThe Spiropalm 6MWT is a new medical device incorporating the latest design for portable spirometry and a unique tool for the standardized Six-Minute Walk Test (6MWT). The Spiropalm 6MWT is a complete testing package. It measures minute ventilation and breathing pattern during walking, together with a fully integrated pulse oximeter, to monitor SpO2 and HR during the test. The Spiropalm 6MWT was recognized in 2013 as a "new way of measuring and reporting results for the Six Minute Walk Test (6MWT) by evaluating exercise capacity with integrated pulse oximeter and ventilation measurement" and received the prestigious ERS Product of Outstanding Interest award.


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Jennifer Benson is dean of the School of Business and professor in the Communication Department, where she serves as department chair. She received her B.F.A. with honors in drama from Carnegie Mellon University and her M.F.A. in dramatic media from the University of Georgia. Before coming to Emmanuel in 2004, she worked for CNN, DreamWorks Pictures, and as a newspaper reporter and photographer. She teaches courses in communication, mass media, film, and theatre. She is a former Governor's Teaching Fellow and CCCU Leadership Development Institute Fellow. She currently serves on the Executive Board for the Georgia Communication Association.
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Moran Prairie Grange #161
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Welcome to the Moran Prairie Grange
We are a local, non-profit organization committed to serving our community through outreach and fundraising efforts. Our Grange has been making a difference in our community since it's establishment in 1929. Our goal is to strengthen our commitment locally so that we can have a greater impact in our local and surrounding areas.
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Clinical Services and Care Coordination
In the Department of Clinical Services and Care Coordination at Nationwide Children's Hospital, several professional disciplines and programs work together to provide clinical and support services for patients and families. The department includes nurses, social workers and interpreters.
Clinical Nursing Services
Manager: Deb Pratt (614) 722-6336
Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) and Nurse Clinicians care for children with complex medical needs in inpatient and outpatient settings. Nurse Practitioners are APNs who provide direct clinical care to select patients in collaboration with physician providers. In addition APNs and Nurse Clinicians provide care, treatment and education requiring special expertise to various patient populations. The nurses also coordinate care for patients with complex needs during an episode of care or, in some instances, throughout the course of their treatment.
Care Coordination Services
Manager: Brenda Lutsch (614) 722-1566
Nurses who have special training in Utilization Management and Discharge-Planning communicate with insurance companies about the child's hospital care and discharge plans. They collaborate with the health care team to arrange for skilled discharge planning needs of patients including equipment and home nursing care. The department also coordinates the appeal process when insurance claims for hospital stays are denied by the health plans for reasons related to medical necessity.
Clinical Social Work Services
Manager: Jeanette Foster (614) 722-1567
Clinical Social Workers provide care for children with complex psychosocial needs in our inpatient, outpatient and community settings. Hospital social workers are licensed clinicians who have special education and training to recognize the impact of illness or injury on children and families, assist patients and families in adjusting to illness and hospitalization, and help them overcome barriers to maintaining optimal health for their children.
Social workers counsel families confronted with social and financial difficulties; intervene in crisis situations; provide information about community resources; assess children in need of child protective and behavioral health services, and serve as a link between the family, the hospital and community agencies.
Social workers assist with dischare planning and, in some program, provide ongoing care coordination and support for children with complex needs.
Interpreter Services
Manager: H. Valerie Huang (614) 722-6338
The department coordinates and provides medical interpreter and translation services for families with limited English proficiency (LEP) and for those who are deaf or hard of hearing. The department has a core staff of interpreters who are bilingual professionals who have undergone specialized training in medical interpreting. To provide for services across all areas of the hospital in all languages, the department also procures interpreter services from community and telephonic interpreting agencies.


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Book 5 in the Stella Batts series was released this month!
Who's in Charge by Courtney Sheinmel
From Sleeping Bear Press, "In "Who's in Charge" Stella gets a lesson in responsibility when she volunteers to watch her best friend's dog, Bella, for a few days. The only problem with this plan is that Stella didn't ask her mother for permission." Learn more about the series at www.Stellabatts.com.


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Tulowitzki's 2 homers lead Rockies past Rangers
DENVER (AP) A different team and a new season has made all the difference for Jordan Lyles.
Lyles pitched effectively into the ninth inning, Troy Tulowitzki homered twice, and the Colorado Rockies beat the Texas Rangers 8-2 on Monday night.
Nolan Arenado also homered to extend his hitting streak to 25 games. It is the longest in the majors this season.
Lyles (4-0) stole the spotlight from his teammates with another outstanding performance. He came to the Rockies from Houston in the offseason, where he had a career ERA of 5.35 in 72 games and 65 starts. After Monday's gem he's carrying a 2.62 ERA in seven starts, three of which have come at hitter-friendly Coors Field.
''The biggest thing is making better pitches when guys are in scoring position. I don't know the numbers but I can figure I wasn't too good in the past,'' he said. ''That's the biggest key.''
He also got plenty of offensive support.
Tulowitzki, who was named the NL Player of the Month for April before the game, had his first multi-homer game of the season and the ninth of his career. He hit a two-run shot off Texas starter Martin Perez in the fifth and hit another two-run homer off reliever Shawn Tolleson to give Colorado a 7-1 lead in the seventh.
Both homers came after Drew Stubbs had doubled.
Tulowitzki had a chance for a third home run when he came to bat in the eighth but he walked.
''If there was a good pitch to hit I was definitely going to offer,'' Tulowitzki said. ''You do think about three home runs but it's not like I was trying to go deep, I was trying to put together a good at-bat.''
It was more than enough for Lyles (4-0), who came within three outs of the second complete game of his career.
He had struggled in six previous starts against Texas but held the Rangers in check a night after they had 14 hits and nine walks in a 14-3 win over the Angels. He worked out of trouble in the third and the Rangers' first run came on a ground out to shortstop in the sixth.
Texas had runners on first and second in the eighth but Lyles got Josh Wilson to ground into the third double play of the night to end the inning.
''He was not the same guy we faced last year,'' Texas catcher Robinson Chirinos said. ''Today he was keeping the ball down and getting ground balls.''
Manager Walt Weiss sent him out for the start of the ninth but Lyles left to a standing ovation after giving up a leadoff single to Adrian Beltre.
He allowed two runs on seven hits and struck out five in his longest outing since throwing a complete game against Milwaukee on Sept. 30, 2012.
''He threw a heck of a game and it was a way to try to reward him for what he's done and show confidence in him for what he's done,'' Weiss said. ''I told him it was going to be a short leash sending him out there.''
Perez (4-2) struggled for the second consecutive start after hurling 26 straight scoreless innings. He allowed five runs on seven hits over five innings. In his past two games he has been touched for 13 runs in 9 2-3 innings.
''When he made a mistake out over the plate, they made him pay for it,'' Texas manager Ron Washington said. ''He's only human. He's going to have some starts that don't go in his favor.''
Perez had not surrendered a home run for 46 innings dating back to last season when Arenado went deep on him in the second.
After Carlos Gonzalez led off the second with a double to left, Arenado drilled a 93-mph fastball into the tunnel in left field to make it 2-0.
It was Arenado's sixth of the season and fourth during his streak. The hitting streak is the second-longest in Rockies history.
Gonzalez made it 3-0 in the third when his ground out to first scored Brandon Barnes.
Notes: Rockies manager Walt Weiss appealed an out call at first base in the second inning and the call was reversed upon review. ... Tulowitzki hit .364 with seven home runs and 22 RBIs in April. The only other time Tulowitzki won the NL Player of the Month award was September 2010. ... The Rockies selected the contract of RHP Nick Masset from Triple A and optioned INF Ryan Wheeler to Colorado Springs. ... Texas will send Robbie Ross Jr. (1-2, 3.86) against Colorado's Juan Nicasio (3-1, 4.19) on Tuesday.


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One-Day Train-the-Trainer Institute
SCHOOL NURSES: Enhance Effective Medical Emergency Response Teams at Each of Your School Sites
Presented by Evilia Jankowski
Specifically Designed for School Nurses, District Nurses, Supervisors, and Coordinators Serving Grades PreK-12
- Train and establish effective teams to respond to school medical emergencies (You'll receive all the training materials for use in your own schools)
- Develop standardized emergency action plans for the most common emergency conditions using current, evidence-based recommendations
- Equip your team with the current, best knowledge and skills in caring for Sudden Cardiac Arrest and the BIG 4 (Asthma, Anaphylaxis, Diabetes, and Seizures)
Practical Ideas and Strategies
Are the school staff you support fully prepared and trained to respond in case of an emergency —whether you are on campus or not?
In this one-day train-the-trainer program you will learn to craft effective school emergency medical interventions and establish and train a Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) in every building where you work! Evilia Jankowski, an expert on developing school MERTs brings over 24 years of school nursing experience to this important topic. Evilia provides critical and practical strategies to ensure that your MERT is prepared for any emergency situation.
Empower building staff with the skills, confidence and preparation needed for the unexpected. Leverage strategies outlined in the NASN Framework for the 21st Century School Nursing Practice to develop a multi-disciplinary, collaborative response to medical emergencies.
You will leave this seminar with all of the tools and training materials you need to create an effective Medical Emergency Response Team in your school building(s). Join Evilia for a dynamic, fast-paced day filled with evidence-based, yet practical, proven ways you can help safeguard the buildings where you work in case of an emergency.
Gain the tools, knowledge and confidence to establish and train effective Medical Emergency Response Teams.
Ten Key Benefits of Attending
- Establish and Train a School Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT)
Receive the training you need to enhance a Medical Emergency Response Team at each of your school sites … Leave this train-the-trainer workshop with a wealth of tools and an implementation plan
- Streamline Medical Emergency Response
Learn highly effective practices to plan for and address medical emergencies that occur before, during and after school
- Empower and Train Your Staff
Receive the tools, strategies and components you need to conduct professional development to train and empower staff to respond effectively in emergencies (You'll receive all the training materials for use in your own schools)
- Sudden Cardiac Arrest and the BIG 4
Receive current, best information and practices for the emergency management of Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Asthma, Anaphylaxis, Diabetes and Seizures … Learn what you and your team need to know most
- Essential Elements of Emergency Response Plans
Craft emergency response plans that reflect the most important local and national data, trends and requirements … Leverage evidence-based approaches from NASN's Framework for the 21st Century School Nursing Practice
- Maximize Effective Staff Communication During Emergencies
Facilitate clear communication and problem solving among all staff for a smooth and effective response to medical emergencies
- Build School and District Support
Learn strategies to build support among administrators and staff … Become the change agent for a coordinated and effective emergency response plan in your school and district
- Who, What, When, and Where
How to delegate appropriate roles and responsibilities for the most effective response to medical emergencies … Maximize medical expertise
- Practice and Plan for MERT Trainings
Participate in hands-on activities to help you learn and practice essential elements of a school medical response team … Establish a clear action plan
- Receive an Extensive Medical Emergency Response Team Handbook
As a participant, you will receive a MERT handbook packed with tools and strategies to help you establish and train school medical response teams at each of your school sites … Plus receive online access to the tools and the ability to customize to meet your specific needs
Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately
- Create and train a school Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) that is prepared to respond to medical emergencies at each of your school sites
- Powerful ways to utilize NASN's Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice to plan for school medical emergencies
- Train your MERT on the latest information and best practices regarding the BIG 4 (Asthma, Anaphylaxis, Diabetes, and Seizures)
- Easy-to-follow action sequence algorithms to respond to common medical emergencies
- Implement effective systems-level leadership
- Secure buy-in from administrators and stakeholders for the MERT Plan
- Develop protocols to address medical emergencies during the school day, after school and during large evening events
- Assemble interdisciplinary teams to effectively respond to medical emergencies
- Manage school medical emergencies through a team approach
- Easy-to-implement tools to delegate responsibilities
- Create a collaborative and effective emergency communication plan
- How to integrate communication strategies for maximum effectiveness
- Implement common language and protocols to enhance communication during medical emergencies in the school setting
- Comply with state and national regulations regarding school medical emergencies
A Message From Your Seminar Leader
Dear Colleague:
Medical emergencies occur in our schools. Inevitably, emergencies often happen when the school nurse is away from the building. What if you could be assured that anyone experiencing a medical emergency will have an effective response, even when the school nurse is not able to respond?
In this one-day train-the-trainer program, I will show you how to establish or enhance your Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) with well-defined individual actions and responsibilities so that all required actions will be taken.
There is nothing more frightening to staff than a student or adult struggling to breathe, experiencing a seizure or another medical emergency. Even more frightening is the feeling of helplessness when they don't know how to help in these situations.
I want to help you provide the staff with whom you work the knowledge and skills they need to respond appropriately to any medical emergency in school—whether you are present or not. Learn how to empower your staff and get the added benefit of a team who can provide competent assistance when it is most needed.
Please join me for a critical day in which I will provide you with all the practical tips, tools and approaches you need to successfully implement the MERT process in your school(s). I want to help you be a leader and change agent in effectively preparing staff to respond in case of an emergency. I look forward to meeting you and working with you!
Evilia Jankowski
P.S. You will leave this seminar with a handbook complete with templates and tools to help you implement the MERT process. Don't miss this opportunity!
Who Should Attend
School Nurses, District Nurses, Supervisors, and Coordinators Serving Grades PreK-12
Special Benefits of Attending
Extensive Medical Emergency Response Team Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:
- Strategies, ideas, resources, documents, training materials, and forms to help your school staff effectively address school medical emergencies
- Ways to gain support from school staff
- Checklists to ensure supplies are ready when needed
- Ready-to-use emergency and healthcare forms to prepare for medical events
- Practical tips to engage and build relationships with EMS
- Samples procedures to make your medical emergency training drills efficient and complete
Meet and Share
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in training and developing a Medical Emergency Response Team.
Consultation Available
Evilia will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own medical emergency program.
Semester Credit Option
Up to four Graduate level professional development credit are available with an additional fee and completion of follow up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with Brandman University, part of the Chapman University system, will be available at this BER program.
Meet Inservice Requirements
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in meeting continuing education requirements.
Can't Make it?
Related PD Resources
On Demand Video-Based Online Learning
School Nurses: Best, Current Practices for School Medical Emergencies, Grades K-12


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Brendan Conway outlines three stocks that are likely to capture the attention of traders on Friday. Photo: AP Images.
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Bart needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 17 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
I need a sharp looking design in adobe illustrator for an elite cycling team's cyling jersey and shorts.
Acceleradedc.com (the logos needed are the blue conte's logo and the Accelerade logo)
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The design needs to be for a cycling jersey and shorts and completed in Adobe Illustrator.
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The electrolytic capacitor can be modeled at an ideal capacitor with two back-to-back zener diodes in parallel with it, with each zener representing one of the cutoff voltages. The leakage slowly increases for voltages below these cutoff voltages, and then quickly for levels above the cutoff voltages. The performance is very consistent within these bounds as well, with differences most likely accounted for by heating effects due to the increase in current flow at higher voltages. So it seems that an electrolytic can be used backwards with negligible change in circuit behaviour, as long as it is within these bounds. These bounds change on both the positive and negative sides with capacitor voltage rating. A 1uF/50V capacitor was tested, and it operated up to -16V in reverse bias, which suggests a linear relationship between forward and reverse breakdown voltages. So if you plan to use a capacitor backwards, give it a quick check first to find out where its reverse breakdown begins. A DC current of 0.1uA is a good threshold to use.
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david n necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 26 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
After having much success with my previous design contest for some buttons, I've decided to retry my luck and see what everyone has to offer.
I need a Web 2.0 style logo for an automotive news/social networking site that will be launched in a number of weeks. I have a concept in mind but would like somebody to flesh it out and possibly expand or improve upon what I had in mind.
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The logo is for a site I'm still building - http://www.autoconcourse.com
If you go to the site, you'll see an under construction/site off-line page, but you can see what is currently there as a logo (just text.) What I'm looking for is some sort of small logo to go to the left of the text. The carbon fiber pattern will stay as the header.
I'd like to keep the color scheme: auto in red(ff3333 or ff0000), concourse in white, but I'm open to suggestions. The color scheme of the site is red, white, black, and grey. Fonts I like are Berthold Akzidenz-Grotesk Extended and Sveningsson(currently being used.) Please keep the logo text in lower case, with very little gap spacing between the letters and the two words. (follow the existing example) If anybody wants to experiment and apply some sort of effect(s) to the text, that'd be great too.
The site's name implies a place for cars (or in my case, automotive enthusiasts) to come together. As such, what I have in mind is a logo that combines elements of a 6-speed shiftgate and what many social networking sites implement in their logos - a stick-like figure with a head, usually in numbers.
To elaborate, the 6-speed pattern should look like this: (edited to show picture instead of text)
I don't know how this will look, but I was thinking of applying some circles at each point, where the R, and gear number are, so that at first glance, it looks like a 6-speed shiftgate, but at second glance, also looks like a person to the left, connected to others, kind of like 6 degrees of separation.
I don't know whether to just have the logo placed next to the text on its own or have it enclosed in some shape, but I'm open to any ideas.
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Last note: Per the advice given in the FAQs, I would like to get a signed contract from the designer, assigning copyright to me, before issuing payment. I'd also like to have the the designer warrant the originality of the artwork in writing. Sorry, I hope that doesn't deter anybody from entering, but I figure it's best for all parties involved.
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Lance Dixon received his B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics from Caltech in 1982, and his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 1986. He was a post-doctoral fellow at SLAC for one year before his appointment as an assistant professor at Princeton. In 1989 he returned to SLAC as a Panofsky Fellow. He became an associate professor at SLAC in 1992, and full professor in 1998. He was awarded fellowship in the American Physical Society in 1995, and was named an outstanding referee for the APS in 2008. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure and Durham University, a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a scientific associate at CERN. His current research in phenomenology focuses on precision calculation in quantum chromodynamics, as applied to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. On the formal side, he is interested in the multi-loop properties of gauge and gravitational theories, including N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, whose amplitudes can be determined to high loop order using unitarity and other powerful analytic constraints, and N=8 supergravity, whose amplitudes shed light on the possibility of its perturbative finiteness.
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bluevegas needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 107 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
We are a newly formed company of programmers & web designers although our primary service is designing software we work with many advanced internet technologies.
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We are looking for a fresh modern looking logo either designed with grey,silver & black OR using fresh modern colours like bright green, blue, red etc
We would like the company name to be seen like; eSynergy and the name solutions can either be there or not, it's not important.
We deal with many insurance, banking & financial companies so it can look stylish & cool but remember we deal with stiff necks. All of our team is between 20 and 40 years old so we a pretty young organization with open minds.
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President Obama is failing as CEO of the U.S government. His appointment of Susan Rice to be his top national security advisor and other missteps, indicate he views the fallout from recent scandals as a political challenge, rather than a management failure. Nothing could be less true or more damaging.
Revelations about the IRS targeting conservative groups, the Justice Department searching the emails of journalists, and recent revelations indicate systemic management dysfunctions, and a culture of contempt for the protections of individual rights and the limits on the executive power required by the Constitution.
His stockholders — the American people — are rapidly losing confidence in his management. In a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll 55 percent of respondents said IRS targeting of conservative groups raised doubts about the broader honesty and integrity of his administration.
Yet, Obama is behaving as if all the turmoil on Capitol Hill and the media come down to Republican gaming in preparation for the 2014 elections.
By appointing Susan Rice as National Security Advisor, who misled Americans into believing the murder of U.S. diplomats in Benghazi was the result of spontaneous demonstrations when the State Department knew otherwise, he is challenging the GOP to stop him if they can, instead of committing to get to the root of recent scandals and fixing what is broke.
Similarly, the president sent up three very liberal nominations for the pivotal D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, where the constitutionality of many presidential actions is determined. The plan, crafted with Democratic senators, is to force their Republican colleagues into blocking those appointments, make the GOP appear obstructionist, and distract attention from all the scandals.
At the heart of Obama's problems is his aloof style, impatience with critiques and disdain for the rules of the game. For example, in a clear disregard for the separation of powers, his administration is training Democratic members of Congress and their staff to help sign up constituents for health insurance under Obama Care.
Wrong on two counts: signing up Americans is clearly an Executive Branch responsibility, which should be kept out of the hands of politicians, and it appears Americans who have Democratic representatives are more entitled to benefits than those who vote Republican.
Similarly, we learn that Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin specifically asked the IRS to investigate conservative groups in 2010, which led to terrible harassment. Yet, the President has not encouraged his Democratic colleagues to better discipline their more visceral political instincts.
Over and over again, the president has demonstrated an attitude of whatever it takes to move forward his progressive agenda. In the Federal agencies and on Capitol Hill, this cultivates impatience and disregard for thoughtful people who have honest disagreements with him and their constitutional rights.
Now his second term agenda is threatened by growing distrust and lack of confidence in the honesty and fundamental integrity of his Administration and with more than three years remaining, that is a terribly dangerous brew.
Any good CEO would root out the abuses at the IRS, Justice and elsewhere, put in place reasonable standards of performance and expectations for the use of managerial discretion, and establish mechanisms to both evaluate managers' performance and insulate them from inappropriate outside interference — for the IRS, the likes of Senator Durbin.
To win back the confidence of all Americans, the president must forthrightly take responsibility for government agency missteps and abuses, and explain what he is doing to fix them — this is no time to lead from behind.
Instead the president continues to treat the multiplying crises and escalating concerns about his leadership as a political game—this to the great peril of our liberties, security and ultimately the legitimacy of our Republic.
Peter Morici is an economist and professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and widely published columnist.


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Ephraim Stern, professor emeritus of archaeology at Hebrew University and chairman of the state of Israel archaeological council, corroborated Mazar's claim. "The material she showed me is from the Persian period," the period of Nehemiah, he said. "I can sign on the date of the material she found."You can read the full story here.
Another scholar disputed the significance of the discovery.
Israel Finkelstein, professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University, called the discovery "an interesting find," but said the pottery and other remains do not indicate that the wall was built in the time of Nehemiah. Because the debris was not connected to a floor or other structural part of the wall, the wall could have been built later, Finkelstein said.
"The wall could have been built, theoretically, in the Ottoman period," he said. "It's not later than the pottery — that's all we know."
On the picture above, the wall redated to Nehemiah's time is in between the "Southern Hasmonean period tower" and "Northern Hasmonean period tower," behind the "Stepped Stone Structure."
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Google Initiatives Help Safeguard User Privacy
Google has your back when it comes to privacy, says a company official.
Google senior vice-president and chief legal officer David Drummond took to the company blog Jan. 28 to reassure its users the company is not cavalier when it comes to releasing user information to authorities (courts and government agencies).
Google's recently released Transparency Report revealed government requests for user data has continued to rise globally and, once again, the U.S. is leading the charge.
In the July to December period of 2012, Google received 8,438 requests for information from the U.S., a six percent increase from the first half of 2012. Google complied with 88 percent of requests from authorities made by subpoena or search warrant.
"It's important for law enforcement agencies to pursue illegal activity and keep the public safe," Drummond said. "We're a law-abiding company, and we don't want our services to be used in harmful ways. But it's just as important that laws protect you against overly broad requests for your personal information."
To strike a balance, Google employs three initiatives to protect user privacy and security, he said.
1. Backing Law Updates
Google is actively advocating laws such as the U.S. Electronic Communications Privacy Act be updated so e-mail and online documents receive the same protection under the law as personal documents kept in a home filing cabinet or safe.
"We'll continue this effort strongly in 2013 through our membership in the Digital Due Process coalition and other initiatives," Drummond said.
2. Request Scrutiny
When a government agency requests a user's personal information the Google team carefully examines the request to ensure it satisfies the law and its own policies. Google said for requests to be considered, generally, they must be made in writing, signed by an authorized official of the requesting agency and issued under an appropriate law.
Drummond said if a request is too broad, Google frequently refuses to provide the information or seeks to narrow the request. The company also notifies users about legal demands "when appropriate so they can contact the entity requesting it or consult a lawyer," Drummond said. "Sometimes we can't, either because we're legally prohibited (in which case we sometimes seek to lift gag orders or unseal search warrants) or we don't have their verified contact information."
Google also requires government agencies conducting criminal investigations to obtain a search warrant before releasing user's search query information and private content stored in a Google account such as Gmail messages, documents, photos and YouTube videos.
"We believe a warrant is required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable search and seizure and overrides conflicting provisions in ECPA," Drummond said.
3. Keeping Users Informed
Google releases bi-annual Transparency Reports to try to keep its users informed about the process. Google this week has added a new section to its report to answers users' questions such as: Why might a government agency request my data? or I received an e-mail from Google saying that someone has requested information related to my account. What does this mean?
"We're proud of our approach," Drummond said. "We believe it's the right way to make sure governments can pursue legitimate investigations while we do our best to protect your privacy and security."
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Working or looking after a family can be hard work, even when you're well. It may seem impossible to try to juggle work life and/or family life at the same time as coping with cancer and all the emotions it can cause. It can also feel difficult to support other people when you feel in need of support yourself.
It is important to be realistic about what you can manage.
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If you're a parent, you may not be able to do all the things you usually do for your children. This doesn't mean you have failed in any way. It just means you need to plan your time and save your energy for the most important tasks.
Your family members may also be finding it difficult to cope with changes to family life. They also will have fears about the future. Try to talk openly about concerns and how you can help support each other.
Work is an important part of life for some people. It can help to have a discussion with your employer about the best way to manage your work. If you're finding things very difficult to cope with, you may need to take time off until you feel better. It can feel very different going back to work. Your priorities can change, and you may want to consider working part-time or returning to work gradually.
You may find our information about work and cancer helpful. If you're self-employed, you may also like to read our information about self-employment and cancer. We also have information for carers about working while caring for someone with cancer.
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Game Changes: Sony's New Terms of Service
Last Thursday, Sony quietly added a binding arbitration and class action waiver section to its Playstation Network terms of service agreement. The result: users now agree to proceed individually in any dispute against Sony, foreclosing the option to participate in new class action suits. The terms also give Sony the option to handle any dispute through arbitration, the results of which are binding and final. These changes come in the wake of several class action Continue Reading →


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Magnets are chaotic—and fast—at the very smallest scale
Using a new type of camera that makes extremely fast snapshots with an extremely high resolution, it is now possible to observe the behaviour of magnetic materials at the nanoscale. This behaviour is more chaotic than previously thought, as reported in Nature Materials on 17 March. The observed behaviour changes our understanding of data storage, says Theo Rasing, one of the authors of the article.
Surprisingly, it would seem that the chaotic behaviour of the magnetic material is highly significant as far as the transport of magnetic information at the smallest possible scale is concerned. This is the result of research carried out by Theo Rasing's group at Radboud University Nijmegen, with colleagues from Stanford, Berlin and Tokyo. Use was made of a very special measuring instrument – the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) – a unique X-ray laser at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Essentially, this X-ray laser is like a camera with both an extremely short shutter time of 100 femtoseconds (one tenth of a trillionth of a second) and an extremely high spatial resolution of a few nanometers (one billionth of a meter). The measurements show that the magnetic material behaves completely different at the nanoscale than at the macroscale.
Nanoscale spin transport
Seen at the atomic scale, all magnets are made up of lots of small magnets, called spins. Magnetic switching for data storage involves reversing the magnetisation direction of the spins: a north pole becomes a south pole, and vice versa. The magnetic material in question contained two spin types from two different elements: iron (Fe) and gadolinium (Gd). The researchers observed that, at the nanoscale, the spins were unevenly distributed: there were areas with a higher than average amount of Fe and areas with a higher than average amount of Gd – hence chaotic magnets.
It appears that magnetic switching starts with the ultrafast transport (~10nm/300fs) of spins between the Fe areas and the Gd areas, after which collisions result in the reversal. Such an ultrafast transfer of spin information has not yet been observed at such a small scale.
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These results make it possible to develop ultrafast nanomagnets in the future in which spin transfer is further optimised through nanostructuring. This will open up pathways for even smaller and faster magnetic data storage.
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Rocco Helps Rays beat White Sox
Rays 9, White Sox 4
I always look forward to the Chicago White Sox and Rays series during the year. White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen always has a few surprises in his oral comments, and usually has a few up his sleeves for the Rays on the basepaths.
And in this series, Ozzie did something I thought would not happen, he was actually commenting positive about the Rays upward climb through the league. Guillen finished his playing career as a Tampa Bay Devilray. He then went into coaching in the minors before getting his shot with the White Sox.
Guillen has always been counted on for saying his mind and not worrying about the backlash or the pitfalls. you got to respect a guy for not being afraid of even the MLB office when you comment that "I do throws at guys," pertaining to the plucking of batters by pitching staffs throughout the league. Such a vocal hurricane can get you in a mountain of trouble with the league and even your own team management. But Guillen plays it all off as part of the game, and if they are that sensitive, they should find another line of work. Gotta love Ozzie!
Edwin Jackson is showing more and more ever start that he can be the pitcher the Rays can depend on come playoff time. Jackson got his 10th win of the season Friday night by throwing 97 pitches over 6 innings and leaving the game with the Rays up 3-2.
Jackson can attribute his new found success to his late breaking slider that has become a great weapon to catch AL batters' off guard this season. On the night, Jackson was determined to make as many first pitch strikes as possible to put the White Sox batters' in an early hole. This was the third time this season that Jon Danks and Jackson have toed the mound against each other, with Danks winning 2 out of 3 against Jackson.
Edwin got in trouble in the bottom of the 4th inning as Ken Griffey Jr. got a lead-off single to leftfield for the Sox. Nick Swisher then came up and hit a 2-run homer on a 3-2 count to put the White Sox up early 2-0.
In the 4th inning, Rays Manager, Joe Maddon saw something in the way the baserunners were leaning and called two straight pitchouts on Juan Uribe and Orlando Cabrera to record two straight putouts at second base. The caught stealing calls erased a single by Uribe and a walk to Cabrera to smother the White Sox threat.
The Rays tried to get a lead early in the 2nd inning, but Rocco Baldelli was tagged out by Danks at home. Baldelli got walked by Danks and advanced on Willy Aybar broken bat hit to left. Baldelli tried to score on Ben Zobrists' short grounder in front of the plate, in which Danks tagged Baldelli out at home.
Dioner Navarro then hit a sacrifice fly to left, and Aybar was also tagged out at home by A J Pierzenski to end the 2nd inning. In the 5th inning, the Rays finally put a run across the plate when Akinora Iwamura hit a triple that 1-hopped to the leftfield wall and Navarro came in to put the Rays on the board.
In the 6th inning, Carlos Pena hit his 26th homer on a 3-2 count to center to tie the score 2-2. The homer was only the 12th homer given up by Danks this season. In the 7th inning, Navarro lead off with a double down the leftfield line, and then scored on Jason Bartlett's 1-hop double to leftcenter. At that point, Danks had thrown 100 pitches and he was replaced by Guillen.
In the 8th inning, the Rays exploded for 3 runs against the White Sox relievers. Rocco Baldelli started the scoring with his first homer since May 3, 2007 to the leftfield bleachers. Baldelli hit a 0-1 pitch off White Sox reliever Matt Thorton for his first of the year. Willy Aybar hit a ball off the leftfield wall to end up at second base with Zobrist at the plate.
Zobrist then connected on a 2-run homer to complete the Rays scoring in the inning. In the 9th inning, the Rays again put up 3 runs as B J Upton lead off the inning with his third walk of the night. Upton then beat out a pick-off play by the White Sox when Nick Swisher tried to go across BJ's body to get the throw to first base. Swisher's throw did not get Upton at second base in time.
Upton then came around to score on Pena's blast into the rightfield corner that bounced away from Jermain Dye and put the Rays up 7-4. Baldelli then came up and hit an RBI single that scored Pena. Baldelli ended up coming around and scoring on Zobrists' single to leftfield.
The win gave the Rays the best record in baseball at 78-49 on the year. It was also a memorible night for Joe Maddon who tied Rays' ex-Manager, Larry Rothchild for overall team victories. Maddon now has 205 wins as the Rays skipper and will be going for the all time lead tomorrow afternoon against the White Sox. The win also help give the Rays a leg up as they are going for their first series win at U S Cellular Field since April 1998.
Coming into this series, White Sox starting catcher AJ Pierzynski has allowed 80 stolen bases this season. That is second worst in the AL this year.
Rays reliever J P Howell had a bad night in Chicago giving up 2 runs on 1 hit and letting the Sox back into the game at the time 6-4. Howell has been alsmost automatic at times this season, but seemed to be struggling with his off speed pitches against the White Sox. At one point, it seemed that the Sox were waiting on Howell's slider and setting up for it. Howell pitched one inning for the Rays before leaving the game.
Jason Hammel then came on to pitch in the bottom of the 9th inning and got the White Sox 1-2-3 to end the game for the Rays.


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March 3, 2011 -- Despite some previous research casting doubt on the value of physical activity for the knees, a new study says it's beneficial for knee joint health.
Researchers in Australia say although it's true that exercise has been linked to bony spurs called osteophytes, physical activity in general is good for the knees.
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