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Webroot Software, Inc., the leading provider of anti-spyware software for consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced the availability of RockSafe™ E1000, Webroot's first anti-spyware SDK for perimeter-level network protection. The SDK combines the scanning strength of Spy Sweeper Enterprise with Webroot's extensive spyware definition database to deliver the most effective anti-spyware engine available to the network appliance OEM market.
"Webroot has a long history of providing best-in-class anti-spyware for the corporate desktop environment. While we firmly believe that desktop protection against spyware is a necessity, many of our customers have expressed the desire to deploy a multilayer anti-spyware security solution that includes defense at the perimeter," said Seksom Suriyapa, SVP of business development at Webroot Software Inc. "With the introduction of RockSafe E1000, we are able to provide our customers with that added level of protection from Webroot, a trusted security provider."
RockSafe E1000 provides the core technology for products that monitor traffic at the network perimeter and takes appropriate action when a spyware threat is identified. By scanning both URLs and binaries, RockSafe E1000 technology can be used to provide protection for inbound and outbound network traffic. With the comprehensive software and documentation included in the RockSafe E1000 SDK, Webroot partners can easily integrate spyware protection into their network gateway appliance offerings. RockSafe E1000 offers developers fast track integration while satisfying the requirement of high-bandwidth environments for minimal performance overhead.
RockSafe E1000 leverages the power of Phileas™ V, the next generation of Webroot's automated spyware research system designed to proactively seek out the most malicious types of spyware and malware, and Webroot's renowned in-house Threat Research Team. Phileas V includes a multitiered bot network that employs advanced research techniques, like deep packet sniffing. This and other advanced technologies ultimately improve Phileas' ability to discover new threats more quickly, accurately and efficiently than ever before. Utilizing the data culled by Phileas V, Webroot's Threat Research Team has created a comprehensive set of network perimeter definitions that can be used to stop malicious threats before they reach the desktop. With nearly 150,000 different spyware traces addressed in this definition set, RockSafe provides a comprehensive first layer of defense.
Webroot has signed an agreement with a best-of-breed appliance vendor to distribute the RockSafe solution to enterprise customers this year. Webroot intends to enable a select group of other best-of-breed vendors to integrate the RockSafe solution.


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We're still snapping away, aided by the fantastic summer weather we've been getting.
Kirwee Public Cemetery has been photographed and listings are now appearing, slowly but surely.
Kimberley is also in progress, but to make sure I don't get too far ahead of myself I will complete Kirwee's two cemeteries before listing Kimberley.
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Hall of Fame CEO Explains Why They Excluded Current Kiss Members
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has explained why only four members of Kiss were chosen for induction into their organization, prompting a strong response from singer / guitarist Paul Stanley.
Remaining founders Gene Simmons and Stanley would like to see subsequent members of the group recognized, while the hall has limited the award to Kiss's original lineup, which also included Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. When he was rebuffed, Stanley said Kiss wouldn't appear.
"We have other artists, other inductees showing up and performing when they can," Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation CEO Joel Peresman tells Billboard. "We're very hopeful that Ace and Peter and Paul and Gene come and accept their award. We're obviously honored to have them inducted."
Stanley confirms that he will attend the ceremony, set for April 10 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. But he likewise isn't budging on his insistence that contributors like Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer, who have performed together in the current Kiss lineup since 2002, should also be on stage.
"There are a lot of people who are great inspirations to me, and still are, who are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and for that reason and the fact that fans want us in there, I graciously and vigorously will be there to accept the award," Stanley says. "We should salute and enjoy an evening that celebrates what the four of us started. But just because I'm getting inducted doesn't mean it's turned into a love fest."
Peresman also outlined the reasons behind the decision to limit the induction to Kiss' initial founding members, saying Thayer and Eric Singer "are fine musicians who … basically have the same makeup and are the same characters that Ace and Peter started. It's not like they created these other characters with different makeup and playing different songs. They took the persona of characters that were created by Ace and Peter."
This statement prompted a fast and direct rebuttal from Stanley, posted on the band's official website and included in full below:
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame continues to attempt to restore its questionable credibility and glimpses behind the facade with nonsense and half truths.
The truth is Joel Peresman and the rest of the decision makers refused to consider the induction of ANY former KISS members and specifically the late Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick who were both in the band through multi-platinum albums and worldwide tours and DIDN'T* wear makeup.
There is no getting around the reality that the Hall of Fame's favoritism and preferential treatment towards artists they like goes as far as ASKING the Grateful Dead how many members THEY wanted the hall to induct and following their directive while also including a songwriter who was never in the actual band.
Let's just accept the truth as it is and move on.
– Paul Stanley
*Note: Carr wore his own unique, fox-themed makeup from the time he joined the group in 1980 until their public "unmasking" in 1983.
Kiss has moved on from the controversy, announcing a co-headlining tour this with Def Leppard and a massive vinyl reissue project. Stanley will also release an autobiography called 'Face The Music: A Life Exposed' just two days before their induction, on April 8.


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If There Were An Annual 'Regulation Day'
As Iain Murray points out at National Review's "Corner," there's no date on the calendar each year that reminds us, the way income tax filing day does, of the huge share of our economic labors that the government commands in the name of regulation. In part this is because the costs of regulation are even better disguised than those of taxation: while paycheck withholding may lull us into complacency about our income tax burden, it is downright transparent compared with the costs of regulation, which the ordinary citizen may never recognize when passed along in the form of higher utility bills or sluggish performance by some sector of the economy. Iain notes the good work done by his colleagues at the Competitive Enterprise Institute:
Regulations cost $1.75 trillion in compliance costs, according to the Small Business Administration. That's greater than the record federal budget deficit — projected at $1.48 trillion for FY 2011 — and greater even than all corporate pretax profits. This is only one of many findings of the new edition of Wayne [Crews'] "Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State," a survey of the cost and compliance burden imposed by federal regulations.
As is now becoming evident, the Obama Administration is presiding over one of the most extraordinary expansions of regulation in all American history, in areas from health care to consumer finance, university governance to "obesity policy," labor and employment law to the environment. Not all these developments originated with Obama appointees — some had their start under President George W. Bush or with lawmakers in Congress — but this administration has pursued stringent regulatory measures with extraordinary zeal, notwithstanding the odd feint to soothe business‐sector misgivings.
Here are three more or less random samplings from recent days of the quiet momentum that's built up in Washington toward a much bigger regulatory state:
- Reflecting the historical development of the Food and Drug Administration, the introduction of new medical devices such as pacemakers and joint replacements is still somewhat less intensively regulated than the introduction of new pharmaceutical compounds. As Emory's Paul Rubin relates at Truth on the Market, pressure is building in Washington to correct this supposed anomaly by intensifying the regulation of devices. As Rubin notes, "virtually all economists who have studied the FDA drug approval process have concluded that it causes serious harm by delaying drugs," yet the premise of the new campaign for regulation "is that we should duplicate that harm with medical devices."
- Much of the new regulation of consumer finance has taken the form of rules governing what information lenders can ask for or consider about borrowers' situation in extending credit. One such proposed rule, from the Federal Reserve, "would require credit card issuers to consider only a person's independent income, and not the household's income, when underwriting credit cards in an effort to protect young adults unable to repay debt." Great big unforeseen consequence: many stay‐at‐home parents will now be unable to establish credit in their own names (via).
- Among a slew of other high‐profile regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has chosen this moment to demand very rapid new reductions in emissions from industrial boilers ("Boiler MACT" rules). Per ShopFloor, Thomas A. Fanning, who runs one of the nation's largest electric utilities, the Southern Company, thinks trouble lies ahead:
EPA has proposed Utility MACT rules under timelines that we believe will put the reliability and affordability of our nation's power system at risk. EPA's proposal will impact plants that are responsible for nearly 50 percent of total electricity generation in the United States. It imposes a three‐year timeline for compliance, at a time when the industry is laboring to comply with a myriad of other EPA mandates. The result will be to reduce reserve margins — generating capacity that is available during times of high demand or plant outages — and to cause costs to soar. Lower reserve margins place customers at a risk for experiencing significant interruptions in electric service, and costs increases will ultimately be reflected in service rates, which will rise rapidly as utilities press ahead with retrofitting and projects to replace lost generating capacity due to plant retirements.
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Do you really get out of character when some patient complaints about not getting proper reply from the front office when they called to book their appointment? Do you really care patients and think that they, just beyond prescribing drugs, require personal care and attention? If your answer to all these troublesome questions is a BIG YES, I suggest you to go for Virtual Medical Receptionist that can make you, your patients and your staff happy. It will leave you to enjoy your medical practice treating patients other than always banging your head against wall to manage the medical office with incapable human staff.
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Antiretroviral Treatment Simplification Study With Efavirenz + Abacavir + 3TC Once Daily
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00314626
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 14, 2006
Last Update Posted : January 29, 2008
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|Condition or disease
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|Drug: efavirenz Drug: Abacavir+lamivudine
|Phase 3
Treatment simplification is a therapeutic strategy that allows patients with controlled viral replication to switch to an easier-to-take antiretroviral system to promote long-term adherence and thus maintain controlled viral load for longer, delaying the evolution of the HIV infection.
The combination of ABC+3TC+EFV is a potent and easy-to-take regimen (2 tablets once a day) that could be suitable for the simplification of antiretroviral treatment in patients with controlled viral load with a regimen that includes 2 NRTI taken twice daily.
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|Multicentre, Open Label, Prospective, Randomised Clinical Trial of an Antiretroviral Simplification Treatment With Efavirenz + Abacavir + 3TC Once Daily
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abacavir 600 mg + lamivudine (3TC) 300 mg in 1 tablet + efavirenz 600 mg 1/24h
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Drug: Abacavir+lamivudine
Other Name: Kivexa
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- Viral load of HIV-1 at each visit with regard to the baseline visit. [ Time Frame: At 12, 24, 36 and 48 weeks ]
- To evaluate immunological efficacy (changes in the CD4 and CD8 counts) of the combination studied over the follow-up period. [ Time Frame: At 12, 24, 36 and 48 weeks ]
- To evaluate the tolerance and safety of the combination of abacavir+ lamivudine (in a single tablet) + efavirenz given once daily over 48-week treatment period. [ Time Frame: At 12, 24, 36 and 48 weeks ]
- To evaluate treatment adherence (assessed by a self-reported questionnaire and with graduated satisfaction scales) and patient quality of life (assessed by means of the MOS-HIV questionnaire). [ Time Frame: At 12, 24, 36 and 48 weeks ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
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- Patients on HAART therapy including efavirenz and two NRTIs in a twice-daily regimen for 6 months at least.
- Patients with an undetectable HIV-1 viral load over the last 6 months (at least 2 determinations separated by 3 months).
- Subject able to follow the treatment period.
- Signature of the informed consent.
- Women may not be of fertile age (defined as at least one year from menopause or undergoing any surgical sterilisation technique), or must undertake to use a barrier contraceptive method during the study.
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- Hepatic tests > 5 times above normality.
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Presence of opportunistic infections and/or recent tumours (< 6 months).
- Suspected or documented resistance to any of the investigational drugs.
- Known allergic hypersensitivity to any of the investigational drugs or any similar drug.
- Subjects with abusive consumption of alcohol or illegal drugs.
- Patients participating in another clinical trial.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00314626
|Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital
|Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, 08916
|Hospital de Mataró
|Mataro, Barcelona, Spain, 08304
|Hospital de Aranzazu
|San Sebastian, Guipuzcoa, Spain, 20014
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|Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, 26001
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|Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain, 28005
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|Mostoles, Madrid, Spain, 28935
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|Marbella, Málaga, Spain, 29600
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|La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 38320
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|Barcelona, Spain, 08035
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|Granada, Spain, 18014
|Hospital Arnau de Vilanova de Lleida
|Lleida, Spain, 25198
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|Madrid, Spain, 28911
|Hospital Cristal-Piñor
|Ourense, Spain, 32005
|Hospital Santa María Nai
|Ourense, Spain, 32005
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|Pamplona, Spain, 31008
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|Valencia, Spain, 46014
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China PV installations to boom in fourth quarter after grace period removalJanuary 31, 2018On 22 December 2017, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in China confirmed the 2018 FiT rate and the anticipated grace period until June 2018 to obtain the 2017 FiT rate (for projects approved in 2017). The FiT tariff valid from 1 January 2018 is 0.55 yuan/kWh, 0.65 yuan/kWh, and 0.75 yuan/kWh for resource areas I, II and III, respectively. Distributed PV systems that sell surplus power to the grid will obtain 0.37 yuan/kWh for the excess power. The updated policy has removed the grace period in 2019, meaning that the 2019 FiT rate will apply for all projects as of 1 January 2019. The FiT deadlines for different policy segments, in parallel with events in PV markets outside China, will determine the quarterly module pricing and installation patterns. IHS Markit maintains its current annual 50 GW PV installation projection for China in 2018, but we are reviewing the quarterly distribution.Subscribers Only
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China's NEA announces another 5.3 GW of PV capacity quota – IHS AnalysisOctober 16, 2015On 28th September, China's NEA (National Energy Administration) announced plans to increase the country's quota for solar PV capacity by an additional 5.3 GWac. This has been widely reported as China increasing its 2015 PV installation target.Subscribers Only
Solar Installations to Rise 20 Percent in 2014, Thanks to Strong Fourth QuarterOctober 08, 2014Global photovoltaic (PV) solar installations will rise to 45.4 gigawatts (GW) in 2014, with 32 percent of this total, or 14.4 GW, coming in the fourth quarter, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
Solar Microinverter and Power Optimizer Market to Break $1 Billion Barrier in 2018September 18, 2014The market for global photovoltaic (PV) solar microinverters and power optimizers is forecast to more than triple in the coming years, rising to more than $1 billion in 2018, as both established and new regions increase their adoption of the emerging technology, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
NEA's Lowered Target for Chinese Distributed Solar Helps Boost Market in H2'14August 19, 2014Whilst China's National Energy Administration (NEA) lowered its 2014 installation target from 14 GW to 13 GW and matched IHS' forecast from earlier in the year, it vowed to continue support for the PV industry and upcoming policy will help to remove barriers for distributed solar (DPV) and accelerate the build-out of new projects.
US and Chinese Solar EPC Companies Continue to Dominate in Global PV InstallationsAugust 06, 2014The world's 10 largest photovoltaic (PV) Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies are set this year to install a combined 8 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity, equivalent to 20 percent of the world's non-residential PV demand, according to a new report from IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
Domestic Suppliers Dominate Chinese Solar Inverter Market as Demand DoublesJuly 15, 2014The Chinese photovoltaic (PV) solar inverter market grew by more than 100 percent in 2013, providing a huge boost to the country's domestic supplier base, according to the latest report from IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
TBEA SunOasis Set to Overtake First Solar as World's Largest Solar EPC Company in 2014May 15, 2014U.S.-based First Solar delivered on expectations in 2013 to become the leading Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) company in the global photovoltaic (PV) industry, even though it is likely to be surpassed in 2014 by Chinese EPC TBEA SunOasis, according to a new report from IHS Technology.
Competition Heats Up in US PV Inverter Market as Asian Suppliers Dominate Home TurfMay 08, 2014The U.S. market for photovoltaic (PV) inverters turned highly competitive in 2013 as the three biggest suppliers headquartered in the country lost share in the wake of a European-led influx of new players, according to new analysis from IHS Technology.
Leading Solar Module Suppliers Extend Dominance in 2013; Chinese Still on TopApril 30, 2014The top makers of photovoltaic (PV) modules solidified their market dominance in 2013 with Chinese suppliers continuing to lead the solar world, according to IHS Technology.
US to Dodge Solar Shortage This Year Even Amid New Antidumping Fines on Chinese Module SuppliersApril 17, 2014A long-running battle in the global photovoltaic (PV) market between the United States and China over antidumping and subsidy charges could expand into higher solar costs, with wide-ranging ramifications for the U.S. if punitive tariffs are levied on Taiwanese cells.
2013 PV Inverter Supplier Rankings: Asian Suppliers Tighten Grip as European Leadership WeakensApril 10, 2014The number of Asian companies appearing among the world's 10 largest photovoltaic (PV) inverter suppliers doubled in 2013, with four from China and Japan appearing within the charmed circle, compared to just two in 2012 and none in 2011, according to new analysis from IHS Technology.
China to Install More Solar than Europe in 2014 as Asia Drives Global PV Installations to 46 GW, IHS PredictsMarch 31, 2014Global solar photovoltaic (PV) installations will grow by a robust 22 percent in 2014, largely as a result of recent policy changes in the two largest markets, China and Japan, according to IHS...


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While I was in Florida last week, James and crew got the new metal roof put on. I had a hard time deciding on colors for roof and siding, but ended up choosing a neutral brown tone metal and a gray siding with white trim. I know....boooorrrrring! Just didn't want to get too carried away and become outdated in a few years. Siding is ordered and hopefully we will have it up soon.
They also took down the brick half wall that was on the front of the house and tore off the back porch.
Yay, no more brick!
So today, we began the daunting task of working inside. However, before we can do a whole lot, there is tons of clean-up that must be done as you will see from these next few images. I just wanted to get good "before" shots of all the rooms before they were touched so we could really appreciate the finished project!
(yes, you are correct, there is no floor in the living room!)
Saved insulation from the missing floor we presume.
(WHY would someone save this????)
There was some roof leak which cause damage inside.
So, today we got all the carpet and padding out (as well as all that fantastic insulation) and started taking out the carpet tacking. We also discovered a weird floor issue in one of the bedrooms that puzzled James, but I know he will figure it out! The A/C we are still unsure about - the wires have been cut, so it was a hot day to work. Luckily the house has an attic fan (one of my favorite features - we had one our house growing up) so there was a little airflow.
I also put out mouse/rat poison and foggers so we could make sure there are no varmints or creepy crawlies taking up residence.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Tyrus McGee scored 16 points off the bench, Will Clyburn added 12 and Iowa State beat TCU 63-50 on Saturday for its third straight victory.
The Cyclones (13-4, 3-1 Big 12) are off to their best start in conference play since starting 4-0 in 2000. Melvin Ejim had 10 points and 12 rebounds for Iowa State, which hasn't lost since dropping an overtime game to No. 4 Kansas.
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Guide to Notable Books of 2011Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Check out the new guide listing notable books of 2011 that the CFCC Library owns. The list is pulled from annual "Best of…" lists from sources including: Booklist, Library Journal, The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and Amazon. It also includes titles from award sources like the Man Booker Prize, the Pen/Faulkner Award, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Awards. When the Pulitzers are announced on April 12, those titles will be added as well. This is an impressive list of material for your reading pleasure!! Check out the list and then come over and check out some of the best reads of the year.
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"Gentle & Soft: the Story of the Blue Jean Committee," Parts 1 and 2, has everything a music documentary needs. Rock journalists commenting on seminal moments in the band's history, band members reflecting on internal strife and great times, producers recalling how things came together and fell apart. The thing is, in this two-parter, the band is fake, the music is unbearable and the creators and stars Fred Armisen and Bill Hader have pulled off a fine parody.
"Documentary Now!" on IFC from Armisen, Hader and Seth Meyers, under executive producer Lorne Michaels, is a clever series that emulates the styles of great documentaries past and applies them to fanciful (nonsensical) people and events.
The loving "Blue Jean Committee" faux documentary, premiering Sept. 24, is the best soft rock parody since Christopher Guest's "A Might Wind."
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The aquatic ecosystems of Antarctica keep turning up surprises for scientists, who have found flourishing ecosystems comprised mostly of microorganisms. A new paper, published in Science, examined samples drawn from an Antarctic lake and tracked seasonal changes in the viruses that prey on these bacteria. They found large, diverse populations of viruses, some of which have never been seen underwater before, and some that had previously only been found infecting birds, mammals, or plants.
The Antarctic is a great area if you're in want of a virtually untouched ecosystem. Several lakes that are covered with ice for most or all of the year have ecosystems that consist mostly of microorganisms that have adapted to the cold, dark, and nutrient-scarce environment. These microbial ecosystems are balanced by limiting factors, such as the amount of food and predators. In the case of Antarctic lake inhabitants, though, the predators are viruses that have likewise adapted to the conditions.
These systems and their viral predators have previously been difficult to study, due to the obstacles involved in getting the viruses' hosts to grow in lab conditions. To rectify this, a research team collected water samples from Lake Limnopolar on the Byers Peninsula in Antarctica before and after the warm season. The samples showed that Lake Limnopolar harbored an unusually high number of viral genotypes—they ran into the thousands, whereas previously studied ecosystems had only a few hundred.
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At the outset of the study, the sheer diversity and number of viruses found to be living in the lake were a surprise to the researchers. They not only found an ecosystem that adjusts to the time of year, but one that depends on a viral presence that was expected: an undiscovered family of eukaryote viruses that were slumming with bacteria in the dead of winter. Despite the unexpected findings, the samples put researchers well on their way to understanding the freshwater ecosystems of Antarctica.
Science, 2009. DOI: 10.1126/science.1179287


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Friday, 30 July 2010
The London Cycle Hire scheme is here!
Hooray! today is the first official day of the London Cycle hire scheme for those who have registered. I set off on my virgin voyage from Old street station, cycled up to our warehouse and then docked it back in Shoreditch Park. Apart from a little panic at the funny noise it made at me when I docked it back in it was all plain sailing.
A few tips on getting started
1. Register - To be one of the first to get involved you need to register for an annual membership through TFL's website. It is fairly straight forward. You need to pay £45 and then an additional £3 for the key. I registered on Saturday and the key arrived promptly on Tues.
2. Activate - you need to either phone or go online to activate the key before you use it.
3. Find your nearest docking Stations - You get a map of all the Docking stations when you register, as long as you are in the catchment area there are lots of them and you can't miss them. Apparently there are a couple of good apps out there though for locating the docking stations.
4. Push key in - wait for green light and then pull out your bike.
5. Check the time - Your first half hour is free so its a really good idea to check the time just as you release the bike.
6. Helmet? - It entirely up to you if you wear a helmet or not. personally I prefer to wear a helmet when cycling in central London so I brought my nice lightweight Nutcase with me in my bag and popped it on before I began cycling
7. Bags? the bike has a bag holder with a bungee strap to secure it. I managed to get my Kate Sheridan handbag in there but you may require a rucksack or messenger bags if you have a lot to carry.
8. Adjust your seat- The saddle is easily adjustable and has a number system so you can remember which height works for you and off you go.
9. Gears and lights - The bike has 3 gears which are very easy to adjust on the right handle bar and there have automatic dynamo style lights.
10. Dock back in - by pushing the bike into an empty docking station, You don't need to put the key back in and please do ignore the funny noise... this is just the bike saying hello to the docking station apparently!
Cyclechic's accessory suggestions for getting started on the cycle hire scheme
Lightweight Nutcase helmet £45
Fjallraven vintage laptop messenger bag £61.99
10 comments:
- Lady Vélo said...
Excellent post - thank you for sharing this with us, as I was interestied to hear how it went today!
Seems very straightforward which is ace - and loving the accessories too :)
Lady Vélo.
- 30 July 2010 at 14:28
- Velouria said...
That Kate Sherridan bag looks good up front; can probably brighten up any rental bike!
- 30 July 2010 at 19:31
- Campfire said...
It seems like a really good idea Caz.
- 31 July 2010 at 20:37
- Nathalia Ferreira said...
I put a link of your blog on mine!
Hope you liked it!
- 1 August 2010 at 17:44
Hope the Montreal-based scheme, transported to London, will work out okay in the long run. I live about 8 hours from Montreal and have never tried the Bixi bike there, but have heard good things.
Here's to London making it their own to be successful.
- 2 August 2010 at 16:14
- Bespoke Weddings said...
I only just noticed that the bikes don't have pannier racks :/ how much stuff can you get on the front?
- 3 August 2010 at 12:34
- Caz said...
Thanks Lady Velo, yes pretty straight forward thank goodness and the bikes are nice to ride especially if you are used to a heavier bike as us Pashley riders are!
- 3 August 2010 at 13:51
- Caz said...
Hi George
The bag holder type thing at the front is good for a small/medium sized bag but if you have excess luggage you would need a a messenger bag or ruck sack.
- 3 August 2010 at 13:55
- joven said...
beautiful blog..pls visit mine and be a follower.. thanks and God bless..
- 5 August 2010 at 13:45
The Bixi program has been successful beyond expectations and has been expanding out of demand in it's second year. I can't see how it could fail in London.
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James Costley-White, BikeRadar.com
Marginally lighter, but 10 percent cheaper
Shimano has unveiled a new version of its mid-level 105 road groupset which features plenty of trickle-down technology from the company's higher-end groups. According to Mark Greshon of UK distributor Madison, the new 5700 series 105 is "designed for riders looking for all the technological features of Dura-Ace and Ultegra at an unrivalled price".
This means that it lacks the titanium sprockets or carbon brake levers of its more expensive stablemates, and weight savings over the current 105 are minimal – 2,481g compared to 2,559g.
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The Hollowtech II chainset is available in double (52-39T or 53-39T), compact (50-34T) and triple (50-39-30T) versions, with a choice of 165, 170, 172.5 or 175mm crankarms. It lacks the Hollowglide outer ring found on Shimano's more expensive road groups.
The new wide link design rear mech will again look familiar to anyone used to Dura-Ace and Ultegra and is available in SS (short cage) and GS (medium cage, for triple cranksets) versions. The front mech is also available in two versions and now features a wide inner link for extra rigidity and an improved chain guide design. Shimano say the aim was to provide a featherlight downshift.
The Dual-Pivot brakes come with improved pads that are said to offer better performance in the wet. Other features include a spring tension adjuster, brake shoes with adjustable toe-in and a redesigned arch that's designed to provide more linear braking.
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The groupset also includes pedals, which are available in the two new colours but are otherwise unchanged from the previous 105, and hubs with improved labyrinth seals. We'll bring you more on the new 105 as soon as we can, including pricing details and full reviews.
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Mother's Day is not a good day to be on the road. Especially if you plan to stop and eat anywhere. Most especially if you plan to stop and eat somewhere, do not have reservations, and do not want to spend a long time waiting to get into a restaurant.
We did not have reservations. We thought we were smart because we had eaten up all of our perishables (= all of our good breakfast foods) before we left. We were not smart.
The good news? Americans love their mothers. Because, as far as I can judge, everyone was busy taking their mothers out to brunch and then again out to dinner on Mother's Day. We did finally manage to get something to eat.
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Short of Stories began in April 8, 2012. In the meantime it had more than 7000 visits, which is amazing for such a new blog covering such a niche-specific subject. I also won a pretty award from Script Magazine. But the truth is that there's not much to talk about. Of course, i could keep developing some article here and there, but i'd never fool you: i'd never offer to review your script for money, i'd never write crap to hunt page views. One of the reasons to have started this blog was because i was tired of the amount of bullshit i've found online.
When i say there's not much to talk about i don't mean solely about this blog, but to the whole internet. There are only a few places where is still valid to read about screenwriting, all the others are lists of repeated advice crawling for page hits through the internet searches.
Film is a brand-new art in terms of history, but storytelling is not. We're still attached to the same rules Aristotle wrote in the Ancient Greek (take this note: read the Poetics). Then you could move forward in time and read Lajos Egri's The Art of Dramatic Writing and Christian Vogler's The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers & Screenwriters. Do you want something more straightforward? Read Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting, by Robert McKee. Don't waste your time (and money) with these lectures, workshops and internet gurus. As you get deep into this world you realize how predatory it is when unexperienced people offer to read your scripts and give you feedback. Wanna pay for a reading? Don't pay cheap, get a renewed professional.
But don't read anything else about screenwriting on the internet. Is it a list? Close it as fast as you can. Advice to fight writer's block? Block the goddamn page instead. This cage of birds that has become the screenwriting online content, singing the same tune all day long is exactly the opposite of your need.
Film is a stagnated art when it comes to storytelling; in more than 100 years barely nothing has changed and so didn't the advice. This advice that precedes the film itself as it comes from the Ancient Greece. Can't you see what you're reading? It is the same god damn thing in loop since 335 B.C. and every form of art has already overcome this stage. But i don't mean that the storytelling in film must change. I don't care about film at this particular moment (it is much bigger than any of us), i care about you. I care that you could be writing, but you're not. I care that people try to take advantage of your naivety as a writer (and your insecurity, most of the time) to grab your few bucks left.
In the end, the only good advice about screenwriting is don't read about screenwriting. Do anything else. Disconnect. Write.
Yes, this is the last post from Short of Stories. It's been a lovely time and i've learnt a lot. I'd like to says thanks to the Reddit community for the large support in this period. The blog won't go down and there's plenty of resources to check out if you're willing to write a short film, but don't. Block this page, block every page, every blog.
I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'm as mad as hell, and i'm not going to take this anymore!'
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- Kids can enjoy learning the names of Planets & Constellations
- Toddlers can learn about Community Helpers, their tools and roles
- Kids of all ages will find it fun to learn the names & sounds of Animals in different habitats, including Dinosaurs
- Older kids can enjoy the educational aspects of the app as they learn the names of Continents and Oceans
- Learning and fun will become synonymous when kids get to know some of the Wonders of the World
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- Bake & decorate Cupcakes and Donuts
- Grill & garnish Pizzas
- Cook & design Pastas
- Freeze & decorate Popsicles & Smoothies
- Paint and beautify nails
- Make lovely accessories such as tiaras, necklaces and earrings
- colouring Pad
- Decorate photos with Funny Cammy
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- Become an astronaut, make your own space ship, rescue aliens & explore space
- Help out sick aquatic animals by playing as a Fish Doctor
- Play as a Handyman and fix broken things around the house
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Kids love to have their own pets, but parents can often be hesitant to get them one.
With My Pet Buddy, kids can have their own virtual pet without the mess and chores.
Kids can discover what their pet likes, by interacting with it in different ways.
Kids can feed, walk, pat it, rub it and much more.
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Growing petunias
It's no wonder petunias continue to rank among the most popular flowering annuals. They're bright and lively, bloom from spring until frost, and scent the air with lovely fragrance. Best of all, they're amazingly easy to grow, both in the garden and in containers.
Choosing petunias
There are literally hundreds of named petunia varieties. They fall into four distinct categories, based on flower size and growth habit. Some are more suited to container growing, while others are better for massing in the garden.
Grandiflora petunias
The most popular type, produce large flowers that are three to four or more inches across. They may be singles or ruffly doubles. Some have a pendulous, cascading habit that makes them more suitable for hanging baskets and window boxes, but most are upright plants that develop over the summer into large mounds of flowers which are twelve to fifteen inches tall.
Multiflora petunias
Are often more compact. Their flowers are smaller than the grandifloras, but they make up for it with the sheer number of blossoms that are open at any given time. Like grandiflora varieties, they're available in single or double forms, though the vast majority are singles. Typically, they're massed together to create big splashes of color in the garden.
Milliflora petunias
Are compact, miniature plants that produce abundant quantities of perfect, small flowers only an inch to an inch and a half in diameter. They make good edging plants and are also attractive when mixed with other flowering annuals in containers, where they may be viewed close-up.
Groundcover or "spreading" petunias
Are only about six inches tall, but spread so rapidly that they cover a huge area over one growing season, provided they're watered and fertilized frequently. This makes them ideal for scrambling down a hillside garden, or planting atop a retaining wall. They're also amazing in hanging baskets and window boxes, where they trail two to three feet or more over the summer. When grown in full sunlight, they are so covered by flowers that you hardly see any foliage.
Site and soil
The most important requirement for growing petunias successfully is a location with plenty of light. Petunias need at least five or six hours of good sunlight; they'll perform even better when located in full sun all day. The more shade they receive, the fewer flowers they'll produce. Impatiens are a better choice for blooming in shady places.
While soil needn't be terribly rich to grow good petunias, it must drain decently. It's always useful to improve garden soil by conditioning it with organic matter, such as baled peat moss, well-rotted leaf compost or manure.
Spread the organic matter two to three inches thick. Then incorporate it into the soil to a depth of eight to ten inches, using a rototiller or garden fork. This helps open up heavy clay soil, which improves drainage, but can also increase the ability of light, sandy soil to hold moisture and nutrients.
Fertilizer and water
Work a balanced fertilizer such as 8-8-8, 10-10-10, or 12-12-12 into garden soil at a rate of two pounds per hundred square feet. Later--early to mid-July--begin to use liquid fertilizer every three weeks (weekly for "spreading" petunias). Once the plants have begun to spread, it will be much easier to water this solution into the soil than to side dress with dry fertilizer.
Incorporate timed-release fertilizer into the soil when planting window boxes or other containers. Otherwise fertilize regularly every two weeks with a liquid fertilizer meant specially for flowering plants. ("Spreading" types require weekly fertilizing.) For a fertilizer recommendation tailor made to your specific garden conditions, have an accurate soil test run. Contact your local County Extension office or the Soil Testing Lab at the University of Minnesota for information.
Petunias tolerate lots of heat, and are relatively undemanding when it comes to water. Except for "spreading" types, which require frequent watering, thorough watering once a week should be sufficient in all but the worst weather. Leave sprinklers on long enough to soak the soil to a depth of six to eight inches every time you water. Hanging baskets and other containers also need more frequent watering, perhaps as often as daily, depending on their size and the volume of soil they contain.
Starting seeds indoors
Although petunias are easy to grow outdoors from transplants, they may prove difficult for beginning gardeners to start indoors. The advantages of starting petunias indoors are that you have a wider choice of varieties from which to choose, and you can raise large quantities of plants for less money. But it takes ten to twelve weeks before petunias are big enough to plant out, so they need to be started early (about March first in northern climates). This means there's ample opportunity for problems to develop between seeding and the final product!
Because of their size, petunia seeds present a challenge, even to experienced gardeners. Not only are they very tiny and fine, but they also need light in order to germinate. Pelleted seeds are easier to handle, but not always available.
Spread seeds sparingly on top of a container of clean, damp potting soil or milled sphagnum moss. Water with a fine mist to wash them into the potting material or press them in gently with your fingers before watering. Then cover the container with clear plastic and store it in a bright, warm (70 to 85 degrees F) place-out of direct sunlight-until seeds begin to sprout. This usually takes seven to ten days after planting. Remove the plastic film once seedlings emerge. Then relocate the container to a bright, but cooler place; 65 degree days, with night temperatures anywhere from 55 to 65 degrees.
For best results, place the petunias four to six inches below a fluorescent light fixture until they're ready to plant outdoors. You needn't invest in expensive lights made specially for growing plants. Ordinary fluorescent tubes usually do just fine. Put the lights on a timer to keep them lit sixteen to eighteen hours daily. Raise the lights as seedlings grow, always maintaining that four to six inch space between plants and lights.
When seedlings have three true leaves, it's time to transplant them into individual peat pots or packs that hold several plants each. Feed them every two weeks (weekly for the "spreaders") with diluted liquid fertilizer. Harden off young plants by putting them outside on sunny, warm days. Then bring them back in at night for several days before planting them outdoors permanently.
Planting tips
Wait until soil warms to about 60 degrees and frost danger has passed before transplanting petunias into the garden. Space grandifloras and multifloras about twelve inches apart in full sunlight, or several inches closer together when planted in a shadier location. Milliflora petunias can be spaced as close as four to six inches, but the spreading ground-cover types of petunias should be planted at least one and a half feet apart. Petunias must be planted much more closely together in containers in order to look attractively full right from the start.
Plan to provide some protection from midday sun for the first few days, if weather is hot or windy with few clouds at transplanting time. When grandifloras or multifloras grow about six inches tall, pinch them back to encourage rapid formation of flowering side shoots. Do not pinch millifloras or "spreading" petunias.
Whenever feasible, it's a good idea to remove faded flowers, including the portion below each flower where seeds will develop. This practice, called "deadheading," encourages blooming by preventing seed maturation. Although it may not be practical to deadhead masses of petunias in the garden, it's a must for flowering annuals in containers. Deadheading not only helps prolong blooming, it also keeps plants looking fresh, healthy and well-groomed.
A final tip: If you have an abundance of petunias blooming in the garden, it won't hurt to cut a length of stem here and there to take indoors for use in bouquets and floral arrangements. Just be sure to remove any leaves that will be submerged in the vase, where they would deteriorate rapidly.
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Want Change? Let's Try Truly Free Markets
For all of the talk about "change!" in this election, the incoming president's political party, and perhaps the president-elect himself, seems stubbornly resistant to it.
Joseph Schumpeter famously -- and admiringly -- wrote about the "creative destruction" inherent in the actions of the free market. I refuse to use the word "capitalism" in this context, because it's really a Marxist term and doesn't capture the essence of a system in which individuals and corporations freely exchange goods and services without government interference, if indeed it ever did. When so-called "capitalists" who run the finance, real estate, insurance, and now automotive industries come to Washington, hat in hand, for taxpayer dollars, it's laughably ludicrous to call them supporters of the free market. Moreover, the term "capitalism" doesn't capture or connote the importance of property rights and the ability to exchange them freely that are at the base of human liberty in the way that the phrase "free market" does.
In Schumpeter's view -- which is supported abundantly by history -- as new technological or financial or cultural innovations arise, or as the societal desires and composition change, so change the markets and business models for existing companies. They have a choice of adapting to that change or, if incapable of doing so for either corporate cultural or other reasons, they can die. They can die, that is, if they don't have courtiers at the royal court. Then, their options are more varied and they don't require the necessary and painful change to their ways of doing business that might be required to survive in the new circumstances.
In her seminal book, The Future and Its Enemies, Virginia Postrel writes about the real political divide -- not left versus right, but what she calls stasists versus dynamists. The former fear change and want to use government power to minimize it, if not eliminate it. The latter accept that improvements in the human condition require change by definition, and understand that the best way to ensure it is to allow individuals the freedom to make choices, with consequences, both good and ill, to be borne by them.
By these definitions, both presidential candidates in this election were largely stasists. Barack Obama wanted, and wants, to avoid the "change" of having people lose their jobs. John McCain wanted homeowners -- even homeowners who didn't really "own" their home by any sensible definition of that word, in that they had no equity in it -- to "stay in their homes" and avoid the change of having to move out and rent. Never mind that in many cases they made no down payment. Never mind that in many cases they could probably rent for less than the mortgage they cannot afford. Never mind that in not selling or foreclosing, the day at which the market prices of the homes are determined, and the point at which we can discover the value of the paper that is based on them, is put off further into the future, delaying the bottom of the market and the resolution of the financial crisis. No, they must stay in "their" homes and not have to undergo "change."


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Neglecting Beekeeping: Then & Now
"Practical beekeeping in this country is in a very depressed condition, being entirely neglected by the mass of those most favorably suited for its pursuit.
This observation is how Langstroth begins The Hive and the Honeybee.
There's no arguing that the country of America was in a different place when the Reverend first bemoaned the lack of beekeeping, but there's also no arguing that despite the evolution and industrialization of America, the lack of beekeeping has remained a constant factor. In fact, beekeeping has likely become much less popular than it was then, when many more average folks raised their own food. Clearly, Langstroth was both astute and aware of the issues of his time and endowed with a certain impressive amount of foresight, which is probably why he became known as the "father of American apiculture".
What Langstroth probably meant was that people with small gardens or land in rural areas were quite capable of installing a colony of bees behind their house and reaping the rewards, but that beekeeping was a bit too complicated at the time for the common man to accomplish this easily. Reasonable. So he built a new kind of hive to enable an Average Joe to keep bees.
You have to wonder if it worked though. These days, anyone can order a pre-built hive box with easily removable wax-coated frames (thanks to the Rev. Langstroth), a kit with a hive tool, smoker and veil or suit, and a package of bees. But still, beekeeping remains "neglected" by those who are most capable of doing it. Got a garden? A roof? That's all you need. Of course it would be naïve to say that everyone has got the time and money to start up a hive, but we can say that those of us with backyard space are " favorably suited" to pick up the hobby.
Then what keeps us from beekeeping? Many of us (myself included) suffer from api- or melissophobia, a fear of bees, but I've definitely become less afraid as I've spent more time with the lovely creatures. Certainly there's effort involved, and time needs to be devoted to a hive, but Anna and I have worked our schedule around not interrupting the bees too often- they thrive alone, and don't really need our interference that much. And money? Yeah, it costs, but I would guess 99% of beekeepers would say that the work and the monetary or personal rewards they reap make up for it.
So not to preach or anything, but if you think you're one of the "mass of those favorably suited" to keep bees-GO FOR IT!!