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Bed bugs are tiny insects that can hide easily in mattress crevices and bedding, coming out at night to feed on your skin. The bites can cause everything from inflammation and itchiness to allergic reactions, not to mention a poor night of sleep. Because they are so small, they can be difficult to find and eliminate completely, especially if the infestation is not discovered quickly.
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Following our post last week about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, here is a link to information about the first-ever* interplanetary sundial, which will also be on Mars. Among its other tasks, this Martian sundial will calibrate Pancam, the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rovers.
*so far as we know! ;-)Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat

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A U.S.-funded study released Monday said both Israeli and Palestinian schoolbooks largely present one-sided narratives of the conflict between the two peoples and tend to ignore the existence of the other side, but rarely resort to demonization.
The research by Israeli, Palestinian and American researchers, billed as setting a new standard for textbook analysis, tackled a particularly fraught issue — longstanding Israeli claims that the Palestinians teach incitement and hatred of Israel in their schools.
The study, funded by the U.S. State Department, appeared to undermine these allegations, though it was unlikely to resolve the debate.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argues that the conflict with the Palestinians is not over land, but over Israel's acceptance in the region, and that peace is not possible until the alleged incitement stops.
Palestinians say Netanyahu is hiding behind such claims to divert attention from settlement building on occupied lands and from what they believe is his unwillingness to reach a peace deal on internationally backed terms.
The new study said the school books of both sides are typical for societies in conflict — though books used in Israeli state schools include significantly more information about Palestinians and more self-critical texts. Books used in Israel's ultra-Orthodox religious schools, attended by more than a quarter of Jewish students, and in Palestinian schools contain little information about the other side, the study said.
"On both sides, the chief problem is the crime of omission. It's the absence of a clear, outright recognition of existence and the other side's right to exist," said Gershon Baskin, an Israeli member of the study's scientific advisory panel.
Israel's Education Ministry dismissed the study as biased but did not elaborate. The Palestinian Education Ministry said its books reflect the reality of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories but do not incite to hatred.
The study analyzed 74 Israeli and 94 Palestinian books, covering grades 1-12 and teaching social sciences, geography, literature, religion, Arabic and Hebrew. The Israeli books were from state-run secular and religious schools, as well as independent ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools. The vast majority of the Palestinian books were used in government schools, and only six in private Islamic schools.
Scholars said they developed a new method to ensure greater objectivity, as they reviewed nearly 16,000 pages from Israeli state school books, close to 3,500 pages from books in ultra-Orthodox schools and close to 10,000 pages from Palestinian books.
All Israeli and Palestinian researchers were fluent in both Hebrew and Arabic so they could analyze the books of both communities, study organizers said. Often, the same texts were reviewed by more than one person, and the data was entered remotely into a database at Yale University so researchers could not be influenced by how the study was progressing.
The study found that as part of the selective narratives presented, both the Israeli and Palestinian books tended to describe negative actions of the other against the own community, while portraying the own community in positive terms. Books often lacked information about the religion, culture, economy and daily life of the other side.
"It is clear that each side is emphasizing its own narrative of the conflict," said Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel Aviv University, one of three lead scholars, along with Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University and Bruce Wexler, professor emeritus at Yale.
"There is really minimal dehumanization on both sides, but at the same time, there is really a line of ignoring the other side," he said.
The failure to recognize the other is particularly apparent in maps of the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, where the Palestinians hope to establish their state alongside Israel.
The Palestinians want to form their state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in 1967. For now, they have limited autonomy in 38 percent of the West Bank, where more than 90 percent of the Palestinians live. Israel annexed east Jerusalem immediately after the 1967, a move not recognized by most of the world, and withdrew in 2005 from Gaza, now controlled by the militant Palestinian group Hamas.
Israel was only shown in three of 83 post-1967 maps in Palestinian books, the study said.
Of 330 post-1967 maps in Israeli books, 258 included the area between the Jordan River and the sea. Of those, 196 maps, or 76 percent, did not indicate any borders between Israel and the occupied lands. Of the 62 maps that included a demarcation, 33 showed which areas are under Palestinian self-rule, while 29 maps showed borders with color lines, but do not refer to a Palestinian presence.
Historical events, while not fabricated, are presented selectively to present the own community's national narrative, the study said.
Yossi Kuperwasser, a senior Israeli official who monitors Palestinian statements and actions for the government's "incitement index," rejected the study's conclusions.
"Our curriculum calls for peace and states why peace is good and there (in Palestinian schools) it is just the opposite," he said. "Incitement to violence, to hatred, is the main obstacle to peace, and this has to change if we really are to have peace."
Jihad Zarkarneh, in charge of textbooks in the Palestinian Education Ministry, said that as long as Palestinians live under military rule, their books cannot be expected to portray Israel in a positive light.
"If the study wants me to praise the Israeli occupation, the Israeli culture, I'm telling the researchers that no people on earth praised their occupier, neither in America nor in France or China or anywhere," he said.
The study was overseen by a 19-member scientific advisory panel. On Sunday, 14 members endorsed the findings in a statement. Arnon Groiss, an Israeli researcher who conducted previous textbook studies and did not endorse the findings, declined comment when contacted last week, saying he had not seen the full report.
Previous textbook studies have come to varied conclusions.
A previous joint Israeli-Palestinian study noted that both Israeli and Palestinian books present a national narrative, but that Israeli books allocate more space than in the past to Palestinians and their suffering.
Two NGOs, Palestinian Media Watch and IMPACT-SE, have harshly criticized the Palestinian textbooks, saying they ignore Israel, emphasize "martyrdom," a term for being killed while carrying out an attack or in a clash with Israelis, and do not educate to peace.
The new study was initiated in 2009 by the Jerusalem-based Council of Religious Institutions in the Holy Land, which represents top Jewish, Muslim and Christian clerics.
However, the council is not participating in the study's release, said a top official, Trond Bakkevig, a Norwegian reverend. The study went beyond the requested analysis of books teaching religion, he said, adding that "we found it best it is being published in the name of the scholars who did it."
The State Department said it is one of several to have received grants from Washington, but that they are not being endorsed by the U.S. government. "They are independent assessments that can provide additional perspectives on complicated issues," said spokesman Patrick Ventrell.
Associated Press writer Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah, West Bank contributed reporting.
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Security update for Linux kernel
(Last modified: 08NOV2006)
solutions Security update for Linux kernel
SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (09c539304999e790397997e9b73bc166)
Product(s): SUSE LINUX Retail Solution 8
SuSE Linux School Server for i386
SuSE Linux Standard Server 8
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for x86
SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4
Patch: patch-11283
Release: 20061108
Obsoletes: 4839e281693768ffa93750f8bc54dcf1
- CVE-2006-3468: Remote attackers able to access an NFS of a ext2 or ext3 filesystem can cause a denial of service (file system panic) via a crafted UDP packet with a V2 lookup procedure that specifies a bad file handle (inode number), which triggers an error and causes an exported directory to be remounted read-only. [#192988] [#216265]
- CVE-2006-2935: A stackbased buffer overflow in CDROM / DVD handling was fixed which could be used by a physical local attacker to crash the kernel or execute code within kernel context, depending on presence of automatic DVD handling in the system. [#190396]
- CVE-2006-2444: The snmp_trap_decode function in the SNMP NAT helper allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified remote attack vectors that cause failures in snmp_trap_decode that trigger (1) frees of random memory or (2) frees of previously-freed memory (double-free) by snmp_trap_decode as well as its calling function, as demonstrated via certain test cases of the PROTOS SNMP test suite. [#177577]
- If the IPX network protocol was active, it was possible to remotely crash the machine by special crafted IPX network packets [#197809].
- Fix dumps with DUMP_LEVEL=2 [#93666] (LTC16184)
- Fixed: Server crash with "__alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1f0/0)" errors [#159193]
First, find out which kernel package to use, for example with
rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz
Download the kernel image fitting your setup and install it with either:
- rpm -Fvh k_deflt-2.4.*.i586.rpm for the default kernel image, or
- rpm -Fhv k_athlon-2.4.*.i586.rpm for the AMD Athlon optimized kernel image, or
- rpm -Fhv k_smp-2.4.*.i586.rpm for the SMP kernel image, or
- rpm -Fhv k_psmp-2.4.*.i586.rpm for the PSMP kernel image
In case you are using LILO as bootmanager, please make sure that you also execute the command
after installing the update for the system to remain bootable.
Finally, reboot the system with
shutdown -r now
to load the new kernel (replace "now" with the appropriate amount of time to allow local users to cleanly log out, for example "+5" for five minutes.)
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My family and I just visited the Festival of Trees and Lights at Louisville Slugger Field today. It was a wonderful way to start the holiday season!
We arrived around 11am and started out our morning visiting the gift and sweets shop right inside the door beyond the admission booth. At the gift shop you can find holiday decor ranging from small greenery, wreaths, and centerpieces, all of which are handcrafted. I also saw candle decor and many items featuring UofL and UK gift ideas. In the sweets shop right next door we found cupcakes, cookies, candies, and bars. Most of the goodies ranged in price from $.50-$1.00. My daughter indulged on a peppermint frosted chocolate cupcake and a chocolate milk.
We ventured out into the main area indoors at Slugger Field. Here you will find all of the decorated trees and greenery for sale. Remember, all purchases made at the festival go to Kosair Children's Hospital through the Children's Hospital Foundation. We walked through a winter wonderland winding around decorated trees and wreaths. The smaller miniature trees were very entertaining to view, with themes such as Ernie and his rubber duckies, Keep Louisville Weird, and the many themes put forth by area Girl Scout troops. We found my daughter's troop's trees and were glad to see one had already been sold.
We were also entertained with caroling by the Taylorsville Elementary School chorus. We did not partake in a picture with Santa Claus, but my daughter and toddler chatted with him as he was super nice to call them over to greet them and give out a candy cane treat. Books are for sale at the Bookstacks Plus booth. There is a variety of children's activities that require tickets; tickets can be purchased right before entering the doors to the decorated trees. Each ticket is $.50 and activities ranged from 2-3 tickets for face painting, snowflake and ornament making, among other holiday crafts. Pictures with Santa and gingerbread house-making required 8 tickets, which is a nice donation of $4 toward the charities.
On our way out we enjoyed watching the children's model trains and railroad town set up. We had a really nice time at the Festival of Trees and Lights. I really appreciate the proceeds benefiting Addison Jo Blair Cancer Care Unit at Kosair Children's Hospital. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children under 12, and $3 for seniors; we parked on the street for free. The festival runs through 5pm Saturday, November 10 and 10am-5pm Sunday, November 11. Visit www.kosairchildrens.com/calendar-of-events or call 502-629-8060 if you have questions.
Photos by Erin Nevitt


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For the Planetarium at Vitenfabrikken in Sandnes, Norway, SUPERFLEX created Crimetime – a new narrative genre, which has been dubbed "starplay". Crimetime presents the audience with the dimension of time travel, but rather than the creation of the universe, Crimetime evolves around a local story about Speedway Stig, a member of the notorious West Land Mafia which ravaged the Jæren region on the Norwegian west coast for years. Inspired by Thomas Ergo's documentary book "Kjeltringer" (Nordic Crime Chronicle, 2008), Crimetime tells the actual events (by way of a voice-over) of Speedway Stig's pilfering around Jæren ten years ago while the stars above the audience shows the exact constellations accompanying the events of Speedway Stig at any given time. The planetarium is equipped with a Carl Zeiss SKYMASTER ZKP 4 projector – one of the most advanced planetarium projectors for small and medium-sized domes capable of showing the exact position of the stars at any given location and time, 10.000 years back and ahead of our time.
Crimetime was a collaboration with art consultant Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh and Sandnes Municipality. The speak was done by Berglot Bleken, script by Nikolaj Heltoft and sound engineering by August Engkilde.
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CRIMETIME - a starplay by SUPERFLEX in the planetarium at Vitenfabrikken in Sandnes, Norway.
"He has painted his face with shoe polish and robs the bank with a starting pistol from the speedway track"
Vitenfabrikken in collaboration with art consultant Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh and Sandnes Municipality, invited SUPERFLEX to create a work for Vitenfabrikken. SUPERFLEX has responded by launching an entirely new genre, which has been dubbed "starplay", created specifically for Vitenfabrikkens planetarium.
CRIMETIME presents the audience with the dimension of time travel, but it is not the creation of the universe SUPERFLEX highlights. We meet rather the very local story about "Speedway Stig", a notorious member of the criminals "west land mafia" which for years ravaged Jæren on the Norwegian west coast. Rasmus Nielsen of SUPERFLEX says:
-In CRIMETIME we see the underworld in a cosmic perspective. We show how the stars were exactly that morning in 1999 when Speedway Stig robbed the bank in Nærbø. We use the planetarium as a large magnifying glass and focus on 90 seconds of local history.
SUPERFLEX has found insipiration in Thomas Ergo's great documentary book "Kjeltringer" (Nordic Crime Chronicle, 2008) and CRIMETIME is thus based on events that actually took place in Jæren ten years ago. But in the starplay it is the audience itself that controls time - or so it feels, while the stars pass through above.
Sven Gundersen from Vitenfabrikken says:
"We have always been very interested in the time here at Vitenfabrikken. The planetarium can travel thousands of years back and forth, but in this story it is a bank robbers stopwatch that is vital. So what time is important in a historical perspective? This is just one of the questions that this story asks."
"In Focus Bank on the square in Nærbø the clock is still ticking. Speedway Stig wants the money, he wants all the money"


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Utah moved up six spots to finish second in CNBC's sixth annual study, thanks to high rankings in the categories of workforce, transportation and the cost of doing business.
The three-time winner of the study suffered from steep declines in the individual categories of transportation and the cost of doing business.
We score all the states on 51 measures of competitiveness and 10 categories, from the cost of doing business to technology and innovation.
Overall payroll growth remains subpar and disappointing but these states, which include a few surprises, are showing healthy and diverse growth.
Cost of living may not be among the top criteria for a business, but it can be a big consideration for employees. Look at the cost of a variety of items in the nation's 10 most expensive states.
Hawaii's tropical and beautiful, but some of the nation's coldest states — including the best one in CNBC's category – make the top in our study.
As part of our annual study, America's Top States for Business, we grade states on several criteria in this important category of Technology & Innovation.
Curious about where your state Governor lives? On this years' list, we have homes ranging from mansions to relatively modest.


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What's Blooming In Japan Right Now?
So, around this time of year, I get to thinking about how everybody is about to crowd into Japan to see the fluffy pink things, but that cherry blossom season is far from the only time that this place delivers yowzah-level flower extravaganzas.
So I made a thing. Here's what's blooming when, and the best places to take photos that will have your friends turning green, pink and purple with envy. (If you click on the links, you'll be taken to a page that not only shows you lots of pictures of each place, but also maps, so you can find them.) And if you aren't planning to come to Japan soon, click on the links anyway, just to feast your eyes. I bet Japan will move up your travel list BIGTIME.
Plum blossom season
The very first of the plum trees start blooming, and the best place to see the earliest of them is at Koraku-en Garden.
Plum blossom season
Plum trees explode in all their glory for the entire month, and there are quite a few gardens and shrines where you can see whole groves of them in bloom. Like this:
Here's where to see the best plum blossoms in Tokyo.
Quince blossom season • Cherry blossom season
First off, go see the quince. There's an amazing patch of bushes at Shinjuku Gyou-en Garden. Japanese quince flowers are unusual, because they start out pink then turn to white over the next few days, so there are both pink and white flowers blooming on the plant at the same time.
Then – near the end of the month, predicted breathlessly and in excruciating detail every year – the most famous season begins. The first wave of cherry blossoms is the clouds-of-pink, single flower variety.
Here's where to see the best cherry blossoms in Tokyo.
And here are the best places to see cherry blossoms lit up at night.
If you don't love crowds, here are the best secret cherry blossom spots in Tokyo.
Cherry blossom season • Peony season • Azalea season • Shibazakura season • Wisteria season
After the first wave of single-flower cherry trees, the late-blooming varieties kick in. These are the double-flower, "hanging basket" style cherry blossoms.
Here's where to see the best late-blooming cherry trees in Tokyo
And then there are the peonies. Acres and acres of almost-too-perfect-to-be-real fluffballs, as big as dinner plates.
Here's where to see the best peony gardens in Tokyo.
Next come azaleas. I think I can safely say that you've never seen azalea extravaganzas quite like the ones in Japan. I don't know how they get whole bushes to bloom at the same time, but go gardeners.
Here's where to see the best azalea explosions in Tokyo.
And you've probably never heard of a plant called shibazakura (often translated as "ground cherries" even though they are not the least bit cherry-like) but there's a park near Tokyo where they paint entire hillsides with them in the month of April. Here's what one little corner of the place looks like:
This is the place to see shibazakura.
Next up: wisteria. So much violet goodness, you'll swoon.
Yes, this is one plant. You can see this monster wisteria at the Ashikaga Flower Park near Tokyo, but you can also ogle amazing displays right in the city at other incredible wisteria hotspots right in metro Tokyo.
Nemophila season • Iris season
If you're like me, you never heard of nemophila (even though it's a native of my own NorCal backyard) but you'll definitely want to head up to Hitachi Seaside Park to see the hills totally carpeted with blooming blue:
The nemophila are in solid bloom for the first two weeks in May.
This is the place to see nemophila
Iris season
Near the end of the month, whole fields of iris burst into bloom.
Here's where to see the best iris extravaganzas in Tokyo.
Hydrangea season
If you think of hydrangeas as those boring white puffballs growing by grandma's porch, think again. Japan's hydrangea gardens are an over-the-top fluffbomb explosion, with varieties you've never seen before.
Here's where to see amazing hydrangea gardens in Tokyo.
Lotus season
Mid-July to mid-August is sacred lotus season, and there are a few excellent places around Tokyo to see the divine blooms, including some that were grown from 2000-year-old seeds!
Here's where to see the best lotus gardens in and around Tokyo
Weirdly, there are no flower extravaganzas in the doggiest days of summer, but it's a great time to visit the greenest of the Japanese gardens.
Here's where to stroll in the most serene green gardens in Tokyo. (My favorites for August are Koraku-en, Rikugi-en, Kiyosumi Shirakawa, and Shinjuku Gyou-en.)
Cosmos season • Higanbana season • Bush clover season
Near the end of the month, a whole flurry of little-known but wow-inducing flowers start blooming. First: cosmos. Individually they aren't that spectacular, but planted in vast fields they are amazing. First, the orange ones.
Then, the pink and purple ones.
And finally, the yellow and white ones.
Here's where to see big fields of cosmos in Tokyo.
Next – for just a few days around the autumnal equinox on September 21 – a native variety of amaryllis called higanbana bursts into a carpet of red in the forest near Koma Station.
Here's where to see the enchanted forest of higanbana near Tokyo.
And finally, there's a native flower called bush clover that is beloved of haiku poets as a sign of fall, but it's pretty unassuming…until you plant a whole tunnel of it.
Here's where you can walk through a long tunnel of blooming bush clover.
Fall leaf season
Okay, I know autumn leaves aren't exactly flowers, but I think you'll be happy to know where to see the best ones in Tokyo, once fall rolls around. The Japanese maples start turning color in the parks on the outskirts of Tokyo at the very tail end of October, and continue through November.
Here's where to see the most spectacular autumn leaves in Tokyo.
Fall leaf season • Chrysanthemum season
The last – but arguably the most amazing – flower extravaganza of the year is the chrysanthemum competitions that happen every November. Shrines vie with each other for the most perfectly trained specimens, some even bonsai-ed into samurai made of living flowers.
Here's where to see the most jaw-dropping chrysanthemum displays in Tokyo.
Japanese maples continue to be spectacularly red during November, but at the end of the month they're joined by towering gold ginkgo trees.
Here's where to see the best ginkgo promenades and tunnels in Tokyo.
The gingkos continue to blaze into the first week of December, but naturally flowers are scarce as Tokyo slides into winter. As a bonus amid the gloomy months, though, there are…illuminations! If you love holiday lights, get thee to Tokyo in the month of December. Every year they get better.
Here's where to see the best winter illuminations in Tokyo.
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Photo 1. Little Missouri 1880
This photo was taken shortly after the railroad arrived at the Little Missouri crossing. By the time the Marquis arrived in 1883, the railroad workers with their tents had moved on west and there were about nine buildings at Little Missouri. The townsite was never platted out so buildings were placed as to be off the railroad right of way but not in any orderly fashion. They stretched from the bridge to the station.
"Crossing N.P. and settlement known as
'Little Missouri',
a settlement west of Medora
and on the west side
of the river. More
popularly known as 'Little Misery'."
Photo 2. Medora in 1885 – Little Missouri visible in the background
By 1885 the town of Medora had grown quickly. Some of the Little Missouri businesses had started to re-locate across the river to Medora.
Questions for Photos 1 and 2.
1. Compare the photos. How did the layout of Medora compare to Little Missouri?
2. Why would the Little Missouri businesses have moved across the river to Medora?
3. Can you think of other cities where a river is the division? What comparisons can you make
Photo 3. Murder in Masquerade – Jury Hung in Effigy
While there is no record of an actual hanging or lynching ever occurring in Medora, the town is famous for its "Hanging Tree." This photograph was taken in December, 1895, in the aftermath of a controversial murder trial.
On December 21, 1894, it was reported that cowboy and hunter Ed Severson was killed by a horse kick early that morning on the ranch of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wadsworth, along the Little Missouri River north of Medora. The coroner found Severson's body in the corral, and without suspicion substantiated the manner of death. While neighbors were dressing the body for burial, however, a bullet hole was discovered in his chest.
Mr. and Mrs. Wadsworth proclaimed their innocence, but their 15 year old ranchhand Fred Roehm confessed that Wadsworth had paid him $200 to shoot Severson, and was present at the killing. Fred Roehm pleaded guilty to the murder and on March 28, 1895 he was sentenced to a term in reform school at Plankinton, South Dakota.
The Wadsworth trial was moved to Bismarck in Burleigh County, where Mr. and Mrs. Wadsworth provided each other with alibis. On December 21, 1895 – one year to the day after Severson's death- the jury found the defendants not guilty. Medora residents expressed rage at the verdict by hanging the jury in effigy and displaying a large banner on the side of the de Mores Hotel. An enterprising photographer recorded the scene for posterity. This was the first case filed in Billings County. The preliminary hearing was held in Medora, but a change of venue was granted. The incident occurred at the Bellows ranch about 25 miles north of Medora. This was Wadsworth s ranch. The victim was their hired man.
Over the years people have called several of Medora's large old trees "hanging trees." The one that many visitors remember was in the intersection of Fourth and Broadway. The tree, believed to be more than 100 years old, fell in about 1996. In an attempt to add local color, some people called the large tree in front of the bank and post office buildings on Third Street a "hanging tree." No documentation has been found to prove the story. Pieces of a large tree labeled 'The Hanging Tree" were placed next to the Rough Riders Hotel by the Gold Seal Company [TRMF]. No documentation has been found as to whether the pieces were from the tree next to the Hotel DeMores where the jury was hung in effigy.
Questions for Photo 3
1/8 miles W and 1/8 miles S of
Medora Chimney Park -
west edge of Medora
De Mores Memorial Park -
downtown Medora, ND 58654
Get Directions
The Interpretive Center is open year round
Winter: Labor Day-Memorial Day
9 a.m.-5 p.m. MDT, Tuesday-Saturday, with the last tickets sold at 4 p.m.
Summer: Memorial Day-Labor Day
8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily with the last tickets sold at 4:30 p.m.
The Chateau is open May-October, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, weather permitting. Please call to verify.
Chimney Park and DeMores Memorial Park open year round.
Contact Chateau de Mores:
phone: 701.623.4355
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With a Shiite-Sunni sectarian war brewing along the Syrian border, few Lebanese might want to remember the Israeli invasion of 1982, which started 30 years ago today. Yet that war and its sequels not only changed the balance of power in Lebanon but also set the stage for the regional power struggle across the Middle East today.
Israel's key war aim was to flush the Palestine Liberation Organization out of southern Lebanon, thus dismantling Yasser Arafat's fiefdom known as Fatahland.
The Shiites of Southern Lebanon, the majority in the area, would become the chief beneficiaries of the Israeli victory. This is why they greeted units of the Israeli Defense Force with flowers and sweets.
Few imagined that within less than two years, Fatahland would be replaced by an even more hostile "Imamistan" — a fiefdom controlled by Hezbollah, acting as Iran's cat's paw.
To deal with that unintended consequence of its victory, Israel had to hang on to a strip of territory inside southern Lebanon for two decades, at enormous cost in blood and treasure.
Israel's second objective was to capture or kill Arafat and coterie. It didn't — because the United States, acting with UN approval, intervened militarily to escort Arafat and hundreds of his associates out of Beirut and into safety. And the massacre of Palestinians at Sabra and Shatila, although carried out by the Phalangist militia, provided Arafat and his clan with a new addition to their anti-Israeli narrative of victimhood.
America and its chief ally in that intervention, France, paid heavily for breathing fresh life into the moribund Palestinian cause: Some 241 US Marines and 57 French paratroopers were murdered in suicide attacks organized by Iranian and Syrian agents in Lebanon. In the following decade, 23 American and French citizens were a held hostage by Hezbollah on orders from Tehran and Damascus, and three were murdered.
Israel's third objective was to impose Bashir Gemayel, a Maronite militia commander, as president of Lebanon, hoping to have a friendly neighbor to the north. Once again, a seemingly easy victory quickly turned into a setback: Gemayel became president — but only for a brief moment before he was murdered by Syrian agents.
Already mired in civil war, Lebanon quickly degenerated into a badland where terrorism, kidnapping, drug-smuggling and gun-running became industries employing tens of thousands of people. The civil war would last another decade in its intense form — and, in a sense, continues to this day.
The 1982 war marked the start of a process in which Israel has been sucked into asymmetric war against militias controlled by regional powers. At different times, Libya under Col. Khadafy, Iraq under Saddam Hussein and the Arab oil kingdoms financed and armed different armed factions in Lebanon. Iran and its main Arab client Syria still do so today.
Thirty years later, Lebanon poses a serious threat to Israel's security. Yesterday, the official Iranian news agency, IRNA, boasted that the Islamic Republic had supplied Hezbollah with thousands of short- and medium-range missiles capable of "hitting every single spot" in Israel. It also claimed that 30,000 Hamas fighters and 5,000 "holy warriors" from the Islamic Jihad, based in Gaza, were getting ready "for the final battle with Zionism."
Militarily, Israel achieved a clear victory in Lebanon in 1982. But its leaders couldn't translate that victory into lasting political gain. Part of that was due to UN intervention, which was (as always) designed to prevent Israel from cashing its chips, as it were. But another part was Israeli leaders' failure to see beyond the tactical changes that their victory had produced.
The war was a game-changer in the sense that it turned Lebanon into a battleground between Iran and Syria (backed by Russians) on one side and the United States, with its Arab allies plus Israel, on the other.
Today, Lebanon remains a major strategic prize — control of which could impact the conflict in Syria and the prospect of change in Iran.


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2KO Rwanda delivers full time Design and Animation courses in Rwanda, at centres in Kigali, for groups of four or more students. Students are able to enrol today on our instructor-led training courses in Kigali or our online Design and Animation courses. In addition, 2KO Africa offers online computer courses to international and local students. 2KO International delivers consulting services, in the IT and Business space, as well as being a training provider for IT certification and user level courses. Training can be any blend of bespoke, classroom and online learning, to ensure students have access to the best Design and Animation training in Rwanda. A range of Design and Animation courses for groups is available at your centre in Kigali, Butare, Gitarama and Ruhengeri. Contact us if you have a group.
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The Census Data Enhancement (CDE) project is a major project involving integrating unit record data from the Census of Population and Housing with other ABS and non-ABS datasets to create new datasets for statistical and research purposes.
The project delivers a number of significant benefits, including the improved availability of information to support good government policy making, program evaluation and service delivery and an improved and expanded range of official statistics.
This publication provides an update on the CDE project for the 2011 Census of Population and Housing.
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Ferrari California T The Hot Rod 1:18 scale model
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This accurate 1:18 scale model is a replica of the Ferrari California T The Hot Rod with silver and blue livery created to celebrate Ferrari's 70th anniversary.
Manufactured by Bburago, this model reproduces the iconic Ferrari T The Hot Rod down to the smallest detail, from the chassis to the interior with its blue seats, to the engine, which can be admired by opening the hood. A unique model of its kind, a tribute to 70 successful years of the Maranello-based team.


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Nasir Jambang, son of Pak Dani Jambang, a local fisherman who guided a Greenpeace team, outside his fishermen family's cottage on the Serkap river, in the deep intact peatland rainforest in Kampar Peninsula. The local population is heavily affected by the deforestation, which causes the land to dry out before the forest is turned into acacia or oil palm plantations. Enormous amounts of nutrients are drained out acidifying rivers, lakes and water streams. Since 1998 the fishing catch has dropped by 70 percent.
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City of Madison Snow Plowing Priorities
Public safety is the top priority of the City of Madison's snow and ice policy. We are committed to providing residents and visitors a safe winter travel experience while protecting our environment through the responsible use of deicing chemicals and abrasives.
City staff is responsible for keeping 1,743 lane miles of streets, 150 miles of sidewalks and bike paths, clear of snow and ice. We are also responsible for clearing snow from 887 priority bus stops after most snow storms and another 800 bus stops after major storms.
Motorists, pedestrians, and bicyclists must remember that winter conditions mean slower going. You need to allow additional time to travel to your destination and, motorists should allow more distance to stop.
We are committed to making sure our bus routes are open so residents can take advantage of mass transit during winter. We also strive to clear City sidewalks and bike paths in a timely manner.
Salt Usage
As an effort to protect groundwater and our lakes the City of Madison limits the amount of salt that is applied to its streets. Only main arterials, thoroughfares, main connector streets, Madison Metro bus routes, streets surrounding hospitals and schools and major hills and curves are salted. All other City of Madison streets receive sand to act as an abrasive on hills, intersections and curves.
Snow Plow FAQs
Q: What streets are plowed whenever it snows?
A: For any snow event, our number one goal is to keep designated salt routes in good winter driving condition. Salt routes are bus routes, primary streets, arterial roadways and streets to and from hospitals and schools. These are the streets on which we apply salt and we send crews to work on these routes whenever it snows.
Slippery spots on residential streets will be sanded as needed. City owned sidewalks and priority crosswalks are cleared as needed during regular working hours.
Arterial bikeways are plowed as needed with a goal of having them cleared as soon as possible for commuters.
Q: How do you decide what streets are on the main salt routes?
A: Only main arterials, thoroughfares, main connector streets, Madison Metro bus routes, streets surrounding hospitals and schools and major hills and curves are salted.
Q: Why don't we plow and salt all the streets in the city, specifically secondary and residential streets?
A: The City of Madison limits the amount of salt that is applied to its streets as an effort to protect its groundwater and the quality of the lakes. Only main arterials, thoroughfares, main connector streets, Madison Metro bus routes, streets surrounding hospitals and schools and major hills and curves are salted. All other City of Madison streets receive sand to act as an abrasive on hills, intersections and curves.
Q: I only have on-street parking. Why do you always plow snow against my car?
A: Even though there are cars parked on the street, the plows must clear the traffic lanes of each of the streets. The snow is plowed to the right to where the curb is. Unfortunately for those people who park on the street, the snow is plowed up against the cars. That is why we ask that all cars try to find off street parking whenever there is snow accumulations of 3" or more and until streets are plowed.
Q: What happens if there are less than 3 inches of snow on the streets?
A: All salt routes are plowed and salted during every measurable snow event regardless of the accumulation. Residential streets that are not salted are only plowed when snow accumulations reach the 3" level and the snow event has ended or has just about concluded. If the residential streets are not plowed, sand is applied at hills, intersections and curves to act as an abrasive to assist in braking.
Q: What happens if there are 3 or more inches of snow on the roads?
A: When the snow accumulation reaches 3" or more, we evaluate and, if necessary, declare a "Snow Emergency" and convert from a spreading operation to an all out plowing operation. (During a "Snow Emergency" declaration, alternate side-parking restrictions go into effect in the Snow Emergency Zone and remain in effect throughout the remainder of the City. The Snow Emergency lasts for a minimum of 2 consecutive nights.)
On the second night of a snow emergency crews will plow back snow on the alternate side of residential streets.
Use the Where Do I Park? app to find out what side of the street to park on each night.
Q: What happens during extreme winter weather events, such as, blizzards and ice storms?
A: When Madison is hit with extreme winter events such as blizzards and ice storms, these events can stress our capacity to keep streets safe for driving. During such events, snow and ice operations will focus on a few main streets and routes for emergency vehicles. In extreme weather condtions, we recommend that you stay off the roads.
City staff will issue regular Snow Plow Updates during these severe winter events. Residents can sign up to receive e-mail updates and text alerts on Declared Snow Emergencies and email Snow Plow updates from the Streets Department.
As major winter weather events subside, we will start a General Plowing operation.
Q: Will the snow plow ever completely clear my residential street down to bare pavement?
A: No! It is not the goal of the City's Snow and Ice Policy to have all streets clear down to bare pavement.
Q: How long will it take to finish plowing all the streets?
A: Once a general plow of all 1,793 lane miles of streets begins, it usually takes between 10 to 12 hours to complete.
Q: How do I report that the snow plows missed my street?
A: Submit a missed Snow Removal Report a Problem.
Q: What can I do about snow plows that block my driveway with snow?
A: This is an unfortunate side effect of plowing all streets in the City. All snow must be plowed to the curb and as a result driveways get blocked with the wet, heavy snow from the plow. It is the property owner's responsibility to clear the snow from the bottom of the driveway.
Q: What does the City of Madison do about snow & ice during the winter?
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Estimation of Boundary Properties Using Stochastic Differential Equations and COMSOLA. Atalla[1], and A. Jeremic[1]
[1]McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
The inverse diffusion problems deal with the estimation of many crucial parameters such as the diffusion coefficient, source properties, and boundary conditions. Such algorithms are widely applied in many design problems in different physical, chemical, and biological fields. Recently, the estimation of the boundary properties, of the diffusion process, have attracted researchers. We first utilize Fokker-planck equation with the corresponding boundary conditions to derive the forward model, at which, we utilize the COMSOL Multiphysics package to solve for the position density function of the particle undergoing diffusion.


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Fashion inspiration can come from the strangest places. Take the Maine Home Shirt for example. Chas Bruns, the brains behind the design, felt inspired from a scene in the movie "W". "There's a scene when George Bush's character is jogging, and we noticed he was wearing a shirt with the flag of Texas on it. Under the flag it said HOME. We both immediately turned to each other and said, 'Damn, that's the type of shirt we need to make!'" explains Bruns. After a little tinkering in photo shop, the t-shirt design was born soon after.
Growing up in Bangor, Bruns would hear a lot of negative comments about Maine, mostly from friends that wanted to move away. "After I moved away myself and lived in other cities around the country all I ever heard was 'I love California!' or 'I'm proud to be from New York.' It was strange for me to see so much state pride! It made me a little angry, but it also motivated me," he says. Since creating the shirt in 2008, it's taken off. Mainers that are living away are wearing it in support of their roots. A few have even gotten the design tattooed on.
"I am proud that Mainers are finally excited to showcase their home state," says Bruns, "and aren't afraid to wear it on their chest." Pick one up for yourself right here.


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I'm in love with the MyFitnessPal app
Ever since my first child was born, I've been heavier than I like. I'm still fairly trim, but I am no longer slim. Even four and half years of martial arts didn't change that. I became well-muscled, but not slim. Since my knee problems started, I've stopped exercising, but I didn't change my eating habits.
When I couldn't lose weight, I told myself two lies. The first lie was that my metabolism had slowed significantly with age and pregnancies. The second (and this was a whopper) was that I didn't eat much. I'm a nosher, and so I just grazed all day, constantly telling myself that I was having "just a little bit."
A friend of mine bemoaned her weight as well, although she'd always been more honest with herself about her role in her weight. Last week, though, she told me, "I'm finally on a diet that's going to work. I am going to lose weight."
Naturally, I was intrigued, and asked her about her certainty. She told me that she's got a new app, free, called "MyFitnessPal." The beauty of this app is that it's incredibly easy to calculate calories eaten and calories burned doing exercise. It begins by asking you to put in your current weight, your fitness regimen, and your weight goal. It then calculates how many calories you should be eating per day.
My friend is right. MyFitnessPal is easy, especially because I can use it on my phone, iPad, and desktop, meaning I'm always near something in which I can enter my data and track my progress. No matter what food I've eaten, MyFitnessPal has information about its calories and nutrition. It's endlessly scalable so, if I eat a third of a slice of Cello Variety Pack cheese, I can enter precisely that amount and get calorie data.
MyFitnessPal allows me to enter my recipes, and it will calculate the recipe's calorie and nutrition content, ingredient by ingredient. If I exercise, it allows me to calculate roughly how many calories I've burned, which it applies to the calories I'm supposed to eat for that day. At the end of the day, MyFitnessPal will tell me how much weight I would lose in 5 weeks if I kept to that given day's regimen.
For me, seeing the data play out in real-time is astonishing. It turns out that it's not that my metabolism has slowed that much. Instead, I've been eating roughly twice as many calories per day as I should. If it weren't for my metabolism, I'd be a butterball, five feet wide by five feet tall.
I think that, for once and for real, I'll be happy to find a weight that's comfortable for me — more than I weighed before babies, but significantly less than I weigh now.
If you're looking to lose weight, I highly recommend MyFitnessPal.


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In 1902, the first T-rex skeleton was exhumed on a dig led by Barnum Brown, an eccentric — albeit brilliant — scientist who also sat as the senior paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History.
The T-Rex's fossilized remains were quickly shipped to the AMNH, where they were first displayed (pictured up top), and later tucked away into storage as newer, bigger T-rex specimens were discovered. For years, the dismantled skeleton remained hidden away — each individual bone labeled with the number "973" — until 1941, when Brown sold the completed skeleton to the New York museum's biggest rival - the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. Or at least, that's what everyone thought happened.
Because as it turns out, the Carnegie Museum had actually paid for an incomplete specimen; the T. rex that arrived in Pittsburgh was missing a rib bone featured in the AMNH's original collection.
Since it was just one bone from an otherwise whole skeleton, the missing piece went unnoticed for almost three-quarters of a century, and likely would have gone overlooked indefinitely had a young researcher named Thomas Carr not happened upon it while rummaging through the back rooms of the AMNH.
Carr recently recounted his discovery to NPR's Christopher Joyce:
"When I was going through this process of opening up cabinets and looking through shelves...I came upon this one cabinet." Carr peered inside, and "with unbelieving eyes," he says, he saw some bone fragments. "I knew what it was because of the number, 973..."
You can read more about the history of one of the world's most important paleontological finds, its drawn-out journey from Montana to Pennsylvania, and the long-overdue reunion with its wayward rib bone over at NPR.
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robotfindskitten (Maemo)
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DescriptionIn robotfindskitten, the name is the game: You are robot, and you have to find kitten. Sounds simple.
Problems start with the fact that there are other objects which are not kitten! Even worse: You don't know which objects are kitten and which are not! The only way to differentiate them both is touching. If you touch a non-kitten, you get some quirky phrase, otherwise: robotfindskitten!
The game is a mindless yet meditative and (due to its idiosyncratic humour) quite fun lo-fi adventure-oid with some similarities to roguelikes (all-ASCII, single player, top-down randomized dungeon) and others to Progress Quest.
It also comes with an impressive base of platforms, having been ported to over 20 systems, encompassing old and new, consoles and home computers. Particularly interesting is the OpenGL 3D Windows version aptly named robotfindskitten3d.
There are no Maemo user screenshots for this game.
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- "rfk" -- acronym
- "Am I Kitten Or Not" -- CGI version
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TriviaThe Macintosh version was ported in 2008 for the 2008 RetroChallenge. It was written in Think Pascal.
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- Play robotfindskitten online (Javascript implementation of the game)
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Google is looking to change the way we use the Internet to communicate with a new service that it calls Google Wave. Wave was previewed Thursday during the Google I/O conference as a way to combine e-mail, chat, photos, feeds from around the Web, and more in a collaborative environment. The project is not only cool-sounding, it's also quite ambitious, and Google hopes it will eventually replace some of our uses for e-mail.
In a post to the Official Google Blog, Google Software Engineering Manager Lars Rasmussen discussed the evolution of Wave after he and his brother Jens joined Google. According to Rasmussen, too much of our Internet communication was created out of imitation of a real-life form (e-mail, live chat, document sharing), and as a result, it had become too segmented when it didn't have to be. "What if we tried designing a communications system that took advantage of computers' current abilities, rather than imitating non-electronic forms?"
Cue Google Wave, which is "equal parts conversation and document." Invited parties can insert elements (photos, rich text, feeds, anything) or talk about different parts. Because it allows both collaboration and communication, Wave can be used for both quick messages or content that will be used over time. And, if you miss part of what happened with other collaborators on a wave, there's a playback feature so that you can see how something evolved.
Wave is not yet available to the public, though a set of APIs is available to developers—and developers seem to be pretty excited about them. On the newly created Google Wave Developer Blog, Google discusses how the APIs can be used to embed waves into your own site or write your own robots/gadgets that will work within a wave. Wave also makes use of the Google Wave Federation Protocol, allowing developers to create self-hosted instances of Wave that can communicate with each other over an open protocol without depending on Google's servers.
Some believe that Google's openness with its protocols and licensing indicate that the company has major ambitions for Wave to possibly replace e-mail and other traditional communications. Of course, that would depend on Wave gaining sufficient traction upon launch, and not everyone is sure that Google can pull it off on the level the company seems to think it can. For now, however, interested developers can request access to a Wave Sandbox so they can work on projects during the preview phase, and the rest of us can just sit and wait to hear more details when they become available.


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Redesigned Coe Website a Bonanza for Coil-Feeding System Shoppers
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From the rolling scroll bar atop the homepage, flush with photos of coil-handling and feeding products and systems, to the treasure trove of downloadable assets including literature, how-to articles and order forms, the new Coe Press Equipment website features a clean new design, efficient navigation cues and upgraded content. Visit the site, www.cpec.com, to gain a thorough update on the latest in roll feeds, straighteners, reels, cradles and air feeds, as well as complete integrated feed-line systems.
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Previously Google bought drone-maker Titan Aerospace last month and now it's in talks to buy Skybox Imaging, a startup that creates high-resolution satellite images, for $1 billion.
The two apparently go hand-in-hand for Google which uses high-resolution satellite images for Google Maps and its business-to-business branch, Earth Enterprise, which creates maps for companies, according to TechCrunch. Previously Google was also looking at other satellite imaging companies such as Planet Labs, but has now zeroed in on the Mountain View, Calif. company.
Skybox previously raised $70 million in 2012 and was valued around $600 million, but Google's reported $1 billion is making the deal happen, according to an unnamed TechCrunch source.
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"A constellation of small imaging satellites, like what we already have in place today with RapidEye or what Skybox may have in the future, would give Google a very reliable, rich content source for imagery analytics and related applications," Scott Soenen, CTO at another satellite company, BlackBridge, told TechCrunch.
Skybox, founded in 2009 by Julian Mann, Dan Berkenstock, Ching-Yu Hu, and John Fenwick in 2009, has created a way to commercialize data and images, but it's not clear how much money the startup is generating. Unfortunately, TechCrunch is reporting a rumor that Skybox is running out of money and either needs to raise funds now or sell. It also is basing all of its data on one of its satellites now in orbit and is relying on Russian spacecraft for the next few launches -- and U.S.-Russian relations aren't good.
The report seems a bit confusing to us. Why buy a struggling satellite imaging startup for $1 billion when it's obviously a fire sale? There are also dozens of companies doing what Skybox does, so it's not clear why Google is setting its heart on Skybox. Sure, it's in its backyard, but that's hardly the central reason to spend $1 billion on a startup. Perhaps this news is all a smokescreen for Google to buy something else in secret, or a way to drum up much-needed venture capital for Skybox.


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POC plays a major role in Force Protection by providing cutting-edge, compact, ultra broadband tunable notch and band pass filters for radio communications, wireless data systems, CREW systems and jammers.
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Getting tired and feeling sleepy during the day is a common problem. Many of us resort to several cups of joe per day and some even try energy drinks, which are now reported as deadly.
Mindbloom wants to help. The Seattle-based interactive media company today debuted its free new app for iOS devices called Juice that is designed to help everyday people discover exactly why they lack energy and provide expert tips to help you feel better throughout the day.
Here's how it works. You record your daily behaviors in nutrition, sleep and exercise and then match that with your daily energy level. At the end of one week, users receive a report that offers insight into the reasons that negatively affect energy.
Users are then given daily tips from Mindbloom's partner network of health experts and authors. They can also pay $.99 or spend earned points to receive other trackers — mood, stress and life balance — to help pinpoint their causes of energy loss.
Advice for those problems could be anything from a suggestion to feed sweet cravings with fruit or to avoid digital displays an hour before bedtime to increase sleep. It all depends on each individual and his or her habits throughout each day.
The app is the first of a series of consumer mHealth (mobile health) apps produced by Mindbloom in collaboration with Vivacity, a national leader in providing innovative wellness solutions to engage consumers in enhancing their own health and wellness.
"As consumers' appetites for mHealth apps increase, Mindbloom and Vivacity have come together to offer the perfect combination of art, technology and science to engage them to actively participate in their own well-being," Mindbloom founder Chris Hewett said in a press release. "It's an exciting time to see smartphones shift into health and wellness devices and we look forward to collaborating with Vivacity on applications that inspire people to define what's important, discover what motivates them, and take meaningful daily actions in all areas of their life."
Part of Juice's appeal is its simplicity and fun interface. The instructions are extremely easy to understand and the visuals are playful and interactive. That's what Mindbloom wants — an engaging app that anyone can use.
"JUICE is not an application for the ultra-marathoner or the traditional Nike+ 'tracker' crowd. Instead, it is an energy tracker for the rest of us," Hewett said. "Today's $31.9 billion market for energy drinks reflects the fact that many of us lack the energy we want, but most people don't know why and don't have the time to begin to learn how to address the issue. JUICE offers the average person the perfect place to start."
Mindbloom, based in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood, was founded by Hewett, formerly of the Monolith Productions video-game studio, along with Brent Poole, an Amazon.com veteran.
Previously on GeekWire: Online wellness startup Limeade squeezes $5M round out of TVC


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Austin Leads Rams to 38-8 Blowout at Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS - Tavon Austin returned a punt 98 yards for a touchdown and caught two TD passes, almost single-handedly ending the Rams' three-game losing streak with a stunning 38-8 victory Sunday at Indianapolis.
The smallish receiver caught only two passes, for 138 yards, and averaged 36.0 yards on four punt returns including the one he fooled the Colts' coverage unit by waving away his teammates and then grabbing the bouncing ball at his own 2-yard line before sprinting down the sideline for a TD.
St. Louis (4-6) won for the first time since Kellen Clemens replaced the injured Sam Bradford. Clemens was 9 of 16 for 247 yards with the two longest pass plays of his NFL career - a 57-yard TD to Austin in the first half and an 81-yarder to Austin in the second half.
Indy (6-3) struggled again without Reggie Wayne. Andrew Luck finished 29 of 47 for 353 yards with one TD and three interceptions.


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Slim Fit Long Sleeve Shirt With Contrast Sleeves
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Mixing classic with quirky, the boohooMAN shirt collection is sure to shake up your wardrobe. Long sleeve or short, the Oxford shirt takes care of your work wear woes, while checks and stripes see you through from day to night in style. Pair prints with primary colour chinos, a retro rucksack and street style snapback.
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Australia's koalas could be wiped out within 30 years unless urgent action is taken to halt a decline in population, according to researchers.
They say development, climate change and bushfires have all combined to send the numbers of wild koalas plummeting.
The Australian Koala Foundation said a recent survey showed the population could have dropped by more than half in the past six years.
Many have been killed by the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia.
Previous estimates put the number of koalas at more than 100,000 - but the latest calculations suggest there could now be as few as 43,000.
The foundation collected field data from 1,800 sites and 80,000 trees to calculate the numbers.
In one area in northern Queensland estimated to have 20,000 koalas a decade ago, a team of eight people could not find a single animal in four days of searching.
The foundation said as well as problems caused by deforestation, hotter, drier conditions attributed to global warming had reduced the nutritional value of their staple food, eucalyptus leaves, leading to malnutrition.
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Koalas, which are confined to forests in Australia's east and south, are notoriously fussy about what types of the leaves they eat.
Foundation chief Deborah Tabart said: "The koalas are missing everywhere we look. It's really no tree, no me. If you keep cutting down trees you don't have any koalas."
Death adder
She is hoping the new figures will persuade the government's Threatened Species Steering Committee (TSSC) to list the koala as threatened.
But committee chairman Bob Beeton said a decision was not likely until mid-2010 - and the koala's status as one of the country's favourite animals would not be a factor.
"There's a number of species which are charismatic and emotionally charged. We don't consider that," Mr Beeton was reported as saying by the AFP agency.
"We'd consider the koala with the same level of diligence and dedication as if it were the death adder."


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Dita Von Teese can basically do no wrong in my book. She is always immaculately put together, and she knows exactly what suits her and sticks with it. This lady has a look.
I love her here in a peach Jenny Packham dress and bronze accessories. Most people would never go with red lips, but she pulls it off with panache. She smartly went simple with the jewels, choosing a pair of yellow gold and diamond retro earrings that aren't too flashy, but have a bit of personality. I am a huge fan of vintage button-style earrings, and they are totally back in style these days. See below for some of my favorites:
Vintage Platinum Diamond Pearl Stud Earrings Jackets
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Platinum Vintage Art Deco 1940's 9 ctw European-Cut Diamond Clip-On Earrings


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Sometimes I get things in the post; a lump of cheese, beef jerky, a signed photograph of Charlie Sheen – and I just don't know what to do with it.
Mohdoh is one of those things. This unusual product like a Playdoh, or plasticine, in a pot with aromatherapy benefits included.
They say:
mohdoh™ combines three therapeutic elements, proven to produce positive results; aromatherapy, play therapy and colour therapy. It is these three elements that make mohdoh™ such a powerful holistic therapy.
All oils are pure oils and no artificial fragrances are used . Some people may have allergies to certain oils, so care should be taken. Under 3's should be supervised.
Hear that? It LOOKS like it could be a toy but it isn't!
Here is the purple substance:
This doesn't actually feel like Playdoh – be still your beating heart – it's a lot firmer…In fact, it's so firm that I didn't manage to pull the whole thing out and give it a good squish. There's no way you could stick your finger through to the bottom of the tub, for example.
Now, remember this is all about the aromatherapy!
This stuff comes in various scents and for different things; Breathe, Calm, Quit, Sleep, Slim, Travel, Unwind, Think.
Each modoh is not just scented accordingly, it is also coloured accordingly.
So mine is 'Unwind' and is a lovely (presumably relaxing) shade of purple.
The idea is to use the dough as a stress relief tool, you can mould it and use it like you would with a stress ball, you can inhale the scent etc.
I have to say it is scented really beautifully. It contains Lavender, Rosewood, Geranium, Juniper…warm smells. It's really lovely.
I totally get the idea behind this and although I liked smelling it, I'm not totally convinced by it.
I just spent so much time staring at it, and repressing my urge to eat it. The 6 year old me is looking at her cherry scented play doh and eating the spaghetti strands all over again.
This purple colour would make a really nice dress or perhaps handbag:
These last 3 months after opening, so you can finally overcome your urge to eat it after this time.
It's a cute idea and I am sure that if you are the kind of person who likes to squish things when you're stressed, then this could be for you.
I do have this germ thing…I mean taking it out, squishing it whilst it gathers bacteria and cat hair then putting it back in the tub isn't very hygienic. I guess you could play with a bit and throw it away because it's not like you can get the whole thing out in one go anyway.
I guess I just found mohdoh quite perplexing…I think I would've liked a softer squishy texture to play with than this, but then again, that's what boobs are for.
mohdoh's cost £4.99 and you can buy them at Lucy Rose.


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VISIT KINNEIL HOUSE & MUSEUM: Information on Kinneil House tours in 2020 is not yet available but will be confirmed in due course on the Historic Environment Scotland website. Neighbouring Kinneil Museum is open free throughout the year, providing information on Kinneil House and Estate, and the heritage of the wider Kinneil and Bo'ness areas.
GO WILD ABOUT KINNEIL: Kinneil is home to lots of wildlife, from ducks and swans to badgers and deer. There's 200 acres of estate to explore. There's also the neighbouring Kinneil Nature Reserve (Foreshore) to visit.
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Liverpool Care Pathway: Relatives 'must be informed'
Relatives of terminally-ill patients would have to be consulted before a decision to withdraw food or water is taken, under new government proposals.
It comes after some patients were placed on the Liverpool Care Pathway - designed to relieve suffering - without their relatives' knowledge.
The government wants to ensure families are told of life and death decisions.
The instruction will be included in a number of proposed changes to the NHS Constitution to be unveiled on Monday.
The Liverpool Care Pathway was developed at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the city's Marie Curie hospice to relieve suffering in dying patients, setting out principles for their treatment in their final days and hours.
Supporters say it can make the end of a patient's life as comfortable as possible and the method is also widely backed by doctors and many health charities.
However, critics argue it can be inhumane.
The government has now said that the rules needed to be stricter, meaning relatives of patients are always consulted before the technique is applied.
'New right'
A Department of Health (DoH) spokesman said the proposed changes would set out a "new right" under the NHS Constitution, which was established by the Health Act 2009, but he stopped short of describing the move as a "legal requirement".
However, the spokesman added: "Anybody providing NHS services is required by law to take account of it [the NHS constitution] in their decisions and actions."
Some reports suggested health trusts that failed to involve patients and families in decisions could be sued, while doctors could face being struck off.
The DoH spokesman said it was unlikely policy had been developed on this as the proposal was still at an early stage.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will launch a 12-week consultation on the proposed changes to the constitution - the formal statement of patients' rights - on Monday.
Health minister Norman Lamb said this week that it was "completely wrong" for terminally-ill patients to be put on a "pathway" to death without relatives being consulted.
Mr Lamb has called a meeting of doctors and patients to discuss worries about the pathway.
Meanwhile, Conservative peer Baroness Knight called for an inquiry into claims some people might have survived had they not received this treatment.


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Reacting to Apple at CES 2012, part three: Sony, Motorola, RIM, NokiaAs noted in the previous two segments, Apple's success with the MacBook Air and iPad have changed the course of Intel and its Ultrabook PC makers and Samsung and its mobility products. Here's a look at how the rest of the industry has chased (or flirted with) Apple at this year's CES.
Reacting to Apple at CES 2012, part one: Intel's Ultrabooks
Reacting to Apple at CES 2012, part two: Samsung's Galaxy Note
Reacting to Apple at CES 2012, part three: Sony, Motorola, RIM, Nokia
Sony: AirPlay, Reader, Personal 3D
Near Samsung's sprawling booth, Sony had erected its own temple of technologies. One that jumped out was "Simple Wireless Connection," a new feature that would enable wireless content sharing for Sony devices just like Apple's AirPlay from 2010, as well as wireless screen mirroring for Sony devices, an apparent doppelgänger of the AirPlay Mirroring feature Steve Jobs demonstrated a year ago on iPad 2 (and which also works on iPhone 4S).
When asked how these differ from Apple's projects, the presenter acknowledged that Sony's versions are only technology demonstrations and won't be immediately shipping.
Remember when Sony was leading the ebook reader category? Apparently the company still makes Reader products. Without going to CES, one might not have known that.
At a trade show sea of 3D products, ranging from the vertigo inducing "glasses free" type to various passive and active HDTV systems requiring glasses, Sony was presenting a novel approach to delivering immersive TV and gameplay: glasses sporting dual 720p OLED displays and "virtual 5.1" surround sound. The novel part was that they were actually usable and desirable.
While the $800 Personal 3D glasses only look a tiny bit sillier than regular 3D glasses, they deliver a distraction free image that moves with your head, allowing you to enter a 3D world without having to buy and hang a huge display in a suitable room. The system also presents regular 2D images. Weighing less than a pound, the system is also quite portable.
The glasses hook up to a small box that accepts any standard HDMI input (the presenter was kind enough to unlock the cabinet to show the unit, below), and present an image roughly equivalent to "a 750 inch screen that's 65 feet away" according to the company, or alternatively, a 150 inch screen 12 feet away. That's larger than the 92 inch 3D screen Mitsubishi had on display around the corner.
Thanks to OLED technology, the unit presents high contrast images with less motion blur than typical LCD screens, along with true black reproduction (as OLED doesn't use backlighting).
The unit can pass through its HDMI signal to an external display, allowing a user to enjoy the glasses when alone, watch HDTV without recabling anything, or display the game one is immersed in on a secondary display while playing it inside the Personal 3D glasses. Interestingly, Sony specifically includes Apple TV among the devices that can drive its standard HDMI Personal 3D system. Of course, you could also hook up your MacBook.
An alternative to Sony's wearable immersive video was on display by Steel Space and its partner Modern Work Environment Labs, although the "scorpion-like" Emperor Chair they demonstrated was really just a fancy way to sit at a PC with multiple monitors hung overhead.
The system was also demonstrated in white for Mac users. The art project was actually a demonstration of the company's transforming shipping container, which the "computer office in a chair" systems were placed on, so Sony doesn't have a lot to worry about.
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|Disclaimer: I don't really do rogue theorycraft. My rogue is not my main. I do, however, like to do semi-decent damage when I play my alt, and have spent some time at the dummies, reading a few guides, and in 5-mans seeing what results in the most DPS.
- Open with Garrote. Or maybe just Mutilate. Depends on how fast your tank is pulling; stealth is slow.
- Slice N Dice.
- HfB if Bleeding. Rupture if not Bleeding, then HfB.
- Mutilate.
- Envenom.
- Mutilate.
- Envenom.
- Mutilate.
- Envenom.
- It's not dead yet? Return to step 4.
- Use Tricks of the Trade whenever it's up; toss it on the tank when entering combat, especially in a PuG. Use it whenever aggro is looking... scary. Your healer will love you for it, and you can freak out the tank by entering combat ahead of him and attacking mobs he hasn't touched, which is good for an evil little roguely giggle. Kae, evil? Nahhhh.
- Use kick, gouge, kidney shot, and/or arcane torrent to interrupt anything that they cast.
- Use Feint to lower damage you take from AoE.
- Use Cloak of Shadows to become temporarily immune to spell effects.
- Use Vanish if you pull aggro around ToT.
- Use Evasion if vanish is down; grats, you're a tank.
- Use Fan of Knives if there are 3-4+ targets. If you feel like it. In a pug, aggro is not guaranteed, so make sure you hit ToT first.
- Make the warrior or combat rogue sunder; Expose Armor hurts your dps rotation and requires you to actually build Combo Points to use. ;) If it's a boss and neither are available... may as well hit an expose armor early, once your SnD is established. If you remember.
- Love your dps warriors/feral druids/combat rogues/hunter pets that cast bleeds. They take the Rupture out of your HfB juggle!
I think assassination spec is in for a nerf. My rogue feels OP right now : / I run with Deadly Poison on offhand (which is needed for mut/envenom, and stacks to 5) and Instant Poison on mainhand (insta-damage). The patch introduced a "small" poison change: when I have a full 5-stack of deadly poison on my target (which is pretty much always), it'll proc my instant poison instead when it tries to add to my deadly poison stack, effectively giving me a free insta-poison hit where previously I had no effect. I'm doing huge amounts of damage, all while wearing a blue offhand dagger (due to the 1.3 attack speed). It's frightening.
You go, little rogue alt.
Granted, they did swing out the nerf bat late last week with reducing HfB to a 10% damage increase, down from 15%. The tooltip (last I checked) still says 15%, and I still feel like I'm doing far more damage than I should for my gear level, but hey, it's made my alt fun to play recently :)
(any raiding mutilate-rogue mains that wish to give tips/pointers, of course, are welcome)


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|Faces of the departed - 2007
Roll Call
CPL Alexandre A Alexeev
SGT Matthew S Apuan
PFC James L Arnold
1LT Andrew J Bacevich
CPL Zachary D Baker
PFC Dane R Balcon
PVT Michael A Baloga
SGT Jeremy D Barnett
SPC David W Behrle
PFC Ryan R Berg
PFC Joseph R Berlin Jr
SPC Kamisha J Block
PFC Brandon K Bobb
SGT Emerson N Brand
SSGT Kevin R Brown
SSGT Jerry C Burge
SPC Mark R.C. Caguioa
SPC Eric T Caldwell
SPC Derek A Calhoun
SPC Leeroy A Camacho
CPL Joseph H Cantrell IV
SPC Edgar E Cardenas
CWO Cornell C Chao
PFC Adam J Chitjian
SGT Caleb P Christopher
SGT Pedro J Colon
PFC James J Coon
PFC Branden C Cummings
CWO Jason G DeFrenn
SGT Dariek E Dehn
SSGT Donnie D Dixon
SPC Jason E Dore
PFC Andrew T Engstrom
SGT Anthony D Ewing
PFC Nathan P Fairlie
PFC Gabriel J Figueroa
SPC Joseph A Gilmore
PVT Mark W Graham
SGT Ryan P Green
PFC Larry I Guyton
SSGT Christopher N Hamlin
SSGT Marlon B Harper
SPC Blake M Harris
SSGT Blake M Harris
PFC Travis F Haslip
SPC Marisol Heredia
SPC Josiah W Hollopeter
SGT Joel A House
CAPT Rowdy J Inman
PFC Ron J Joshua Jr.
SSGT Christopher S Kiernan
SPC Stephen M Kowalczyk
SPC Johnathan A Lahmann
SSGT Paul M Latourney
SPC Charles E Leonard Jr
SGT nicholas J Lightner
CPL Darryl W Linder
SPC Jonathan A Lowery
SPC Vincent A Madero
SPC Ronnie G Madore Jr
SSGT Jimy M Malone
SGT Jonathan A Markham
SGT Anselmo Martinez III
PVT Barry W Mayo
SPC Montrel S Mcarn
PVT Christopher M McCloud
SGT Jean P Medlin
SGT Michael J Montpetit
SSGT Christopher Moore
SFC Allen Mosteiro
SPC Todd A Motley
SSGT Donald L Munn II
SPC Casey W Nash
SPC Christine M Ndururi
1LT Phillip I Neel
1LT Gwilym J Newman
SSGT Daniel A Newsome
SPC Dan H Nguyen
SSGT Paul B Norris
SGT Alfred G Paredez Jr
PFC Justin T Paton
SPC Christopher G Patton
SGT Benjamin B Portell
PFC Jerome J Potter
SSGT Terry W Prater
CPL Stephen J Raderstorf
SPC Shawn Rankinen
1LT Jeremy E Ray
SPC William J Rechenmacher
CPT Mark T Resh
1LT Daniel P Riordan
SPC Jonathan Rivadeneira
SPC Michael D Rivera
SGT John D Rode
SPC Luis O Rodriguez-Contrera
SPC Joshua G Romero
SPC Alexander R Rosa, Jr.
SPC Adam J Rosema
SSGT Eric Ross
SPC Ryan D Russell
SGT Princess C Samuels
PVT Justin T Sanders
SGT Carl L Seigart
SGT Raymond S Sevaaetasi
SPC Jason A Shaffer
SSGT Alan W Shaw
PFC Darrell W Shipp
SPC Eric R Dieger
SGT Todd A Singleton
SPC Jonathan K Smith
PFC Katie M Soenksen
PVT Clarence T Spencer
SPC Curtis R Spivey
PFC Jon B St. John II
SSGT Wilberto Suliveras
CPL James E Summers III
CPL Timothy A Swanson
PFC Ddavid T Toomalatai
PFC Omar E Torres
SSGT Michael I Townes
PFC Jacob T Tracy
CPL Francis M Trussel Jr.
PFC Alexander R Varela
SSGT Terry D Wagoner
SPC Aaron Walker
SPC Zandra T Walker
CPL William T Warford III
SSGT Christopher R Webb
SPC Andrew R Weiss
1LT Kile G West
SPC Doonewey White
PVT Wesley Williams
CW4 Keith Yoakum
SPC Donald M Young
CW2 Christopher Martin
SGT Christopher Monroe
Chaplain Rodney Thomas
May our Soldiers come home soon.
I'm not really sure why these names were added to the 2007 stone instead of their respective stones.
NOTE: There were actually 2 men by the name of Blake M Harris killed in combat in 2007. It is not an error on the memorial


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As you already know, the HIRES screen is made of 200 lines of 40 bytes, but only six bits of each byte are actually displayed.
As soon as you want to shift these bits in order to have a smooth animation, it becomes a nightmare...
E.g.: let's say there's an object in memory you want to transfer to screen.
Without any shift, a sequence of bytes (a line of the object) would normally be transfered like this:
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ldy #WIDTH_IN_BYTES-1
lda (obj_line_ptr),y
sta (screen_ptr),y
bpl xferloop
When you wish to shift the bytes one position to the left, it is a bit more complicated, but still manageable through the Carry flag, like in:
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ldy #WIDTH_IN_BYTES-1
lda (obj_line_ptr),y
rol a ; shifts in the bit coming from the right
asl a ; shifts the 6th bit two times to carry
asl a ; so that the 6th bit can be propagated to next byte
and #$3F ; keeps only the 6 bits
ora #$40 ; make sure the byte is not an attribute
sta (screen_ptr),y
bpl xferloop
We don't have a hardware shifter like there was on the early Midway arcade machines (Space Invaders, etc). So, an obvious fast technique is to store all objects (and their masks) six times. This means that a single 24x40 sprite would require something like 2400 bytes (5x40x2x6)... 15 sprites and you eat all the memory...
So, come on, share you ideas for fast hires shift techniques on the Oric...


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Wilmer Lodge is an attractive accommodation situated off the main Belfast/Dublin Road (A4). Five minutes from the Killyhelvin Hotel, Enniskillen Town, Castle Coole and the Ardhowen Theatre. It is on the direct route to Marble Arch Caves and Florencecourt, both of which are major tourist attractions in Fermanagh. The property is placed close enough to explore the Erne's top angling spots and angling advice is offered. A bait fridge and tackle store is also available. You can also have a pleasant walk to the nearby lakeside marina.
Wilmer Lodge is owned by the Mulligan family (Margaret and Mervyn) and you can be sure of a warm welcome, excellent food and comfortable, friendly surroundings. All bedrooms have central heating, colour TV, Tea / Coffee making facilities, radio and hairdryer. Two bedrooms are en suite. A TV lounge is also available for guests. Mealtimes (breakfast/dinner) are flexible.