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The two biggest capital spending items in Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam's state budget proposal are a $62 million renovation of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis and a new $60 million Community Health Building at the University of Memphis.
The Community Health Building on the University of Memphis Park Avenue Campus is one of the local medical projects included in the new state budget.
(Photo Courtesy of The University of Memphis)
Both items represent more than new buildings for the Memphis medical community. They also come with moves toward medical research and economic development in the medical field that have been overshadowed by the dollar figures.
The state of Tennessee would put up $45 million of the $60 million cost of the new four-story 177,000-square-foot building on the University of Memphis's Park Avenue campus.
It would be the new anchor building on the land that was once the old Kennedy Hospital for military veterans and returning soldiers. The university would raise the remaining $15 million.
The Loewenberg School of Nursing would move from its current location on the main campus to the building. Its 1,100 students and 68 faculty and staff would be the largest group using the facility.
But university president Shirley Raines pushed for a new home in the building for the school of communication sciences and disorders as well as the Memphis Speech and Hearing Center. The center, which the university has been a part of since 1967, is now in the Memphis Medical Center.
Raines said the new home for the school and center is "much needed."
"We have people on waiting lists trying to get into those programs," she said.
Haslam, in a visit last week to the University of Memphis, said Raines lobbied for the new center, telling him the training will help attract and fill jobs in an industry that is growing.
He commended Raines for "understanding the needs of the market and being able to meet that."
The $62 million renovation at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center is "overdue," Haslam said of the conversion of the space to up-to-date research labs and administrative buildings.
Just as Raines lobbied Haslam, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital CEO Dr. Bill Evans also sought Haslam's support for a smaller amount of state funding – $15 million at a rate of $3 million annually for five years.
The money comes from tobacco arbitration settlement money that is Tennessee's share from tobacco litigation split among numerous states.
The state funding will be combined with similar financial commitments from St. Jude and Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center as a recruitment fund for researchers at UT's pediatric medicine department, specifically the Center for Excellence in Pediatric Obesity.
Dr. John McCullers began his tenure March 1 as chairman of the department and pediatrician in chief at Le Bonheur.
"The more we can help them elevate that department as a top 20 academic department of pediatrics, the better it is for the entire community including St. Jude," Evans said, referencing a point he made to the St. Jude board of directors last summer. The board approved it and directed Evans to seek a state commitment as well.
"Those people will come to our campus and provide some consultative service and to some extent engage in our research," Evans said. "The stronger they are, the more impact they can have on us. The whole concept here was that we want all of the boats of pediatric medicine to rise with this rising tide."
Pediatric sub specialists at Le Bonheur already participate in care and some research on the St. Jude campus. And St. Jude has long sought stronger research ties with the University of Tennessee.
"St. Jude is incredibly strong in pediatric cancer and sickle cell," Evans said. "But when it comes to pediatric cardiology and these other specialties, that's where we need to rely on our colleagues at UT. That's really what this is investing in."
Haslam talked in general about a goal of battling childhood obesity in the state as he highlighted the research recruitment funding.
"When we talk about Medicaid costs consuming so much of our budget, improving the health of our citizens isn't only about their welfare," Haslam said in his state of the state address Monday, Jan. 28, in Nashville. "It's also about dollars and cents."
Evans said the medical problem is an example of how research can be shared among the three institutions.
"The link to St. Jude is that a part of obesity is genetics. A part is environmental – what you eat and how much exercise you get. But some of it is genetic predisposition. We have a lot of genetics expertise on our campus," he said. "Those people at Le Bonheur can interact with our people, collaborate, leverage. This is the motivator here."


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This month has came and has now almost gone and I've missed it entirely. It's a shame, because September is my second favorite but less of a shame than it would be if I am still saying the same about October, which is my actual favorite. Nevertheless, I put my foot down and decided I absolutely, unequivocally would not let this month go without at least making you an apple honey challah. Due to my innate gift for impeccable timing (ha), I got the idea for this about two days after the High Holidays ended last year. So, for the better part of 12 months, I've plotted this spin on traditional challah and am still about six hours late on it. Typical.
Honey challahs are surprisingly easy — you simply swap sugar for honey, and you can increase it for a stronger honey flavor. Apple challahs, however, are challenging, mostly because larger chunks of baked apple are far more satisfying to bite into you than pea-sized ones, but they're also tricky to work into a soft dough, and then shape that dough with a traditional braid. Many recipes I saw for apple challah forewent the braid, and baked the bread in a tin instead but it felt too much like cake to me. Plus, I like playing with
Play-Doh bread dough far too much to do that. So, I came to two agreements with my dough. One, that I would not put so much apple in that it was more cake than bread, and also nearly impossible to shape and two, that if apple chunks fell out — and of course, they will — I'd just poke them back in. I'm pretty sure you're picturing me right now negotiating with a large blob of dough on a speckled counter and your premonition would be correct. At least I'm not talking to myself, right?
The other reason I just had to share this with you was that when I was doing research last year for a different challah that's going in my cookbook, I came across the best, easiest, coolest way to make a pretty round challah without all of that 6-to-4, 2-to-6, 1-to-3, 5-to-1 brain scrambling of 6-strand braids. Or the weirdness of trying to turn that braid into a round loaf. More of a weave than a braid, I only had to read the directions for this once before I had it down and frankly, have been inventing excuses to make round challahs knowing that this will have them looking bumpy and grand. I hope you'll find it as simple. I hope that if you're celebrating the new year, that you have a sweet one and even if you're not, that you will find excuse to make one of these anyway.
One year ago: Beef Chili + Sour Cream and Cheddar Biscuits
Two years ago: Date Spice Loaf
Three years ago: Black and White Cookies and Summer's Last Hurrah Panzanella
Four years ago: Red Velvet Cake and Cream Cheese Noodle Kugel, Spaghetti with Chorizo and Almonds and Couscous and Feta-Stuffed Peppers
Five years ago: Orange Chocolate Chunk Cake
Friday 9/30 Do you live near NYC? Please forgive me if you're hearing this for the second time, but I'll be speaking at the Apple Store on West 14th Street in NYC on Friday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. about this here little Internet website, with lots of time for Q&A. Anyone is welcome to attend, most especially you because I bet we haven't met yet and we totally should.
Apple and Honey Challah
I've adapted my challah formula over the years from Joan Nathan's, and I find her tips about three risings (which won't take as long as it sounds, promise) and two brushes with egg wash spot on. If you're looking for a basic challah recipe, here you go. But this one is especially fun for right now, as apples and honey are traditionally eaten together on the Jewish New Year, which begins tonight. And can you imagine how awesome the leftovers will be for French toast?
I didn't put any cinnamon in this; I was hoping it would taste foremost like apples and honey but if you'd like cinnamon in there, you could toss the apple chunks with a teaspoon of it. The apples will bake down into almost sauce-like puddles and they manage to remain a little tart. The honey flavor isn't aggressive, mostly because I didn't want the challah to be overly sweet (we serve it at dinner, not dessert) but you can always increase the level or just serve it with more honey. I was dubious about the sugar on top of the loaf at first, but ended up enjoying the way it brought out the subtle sweetness of the bread.
One tip: If you measure your oil in your 1/3 cup measuring cup first, and then your honey, the honey will slide right out.
Makes 1 round woven challah
2 1/4 teaspoons (1 standard 1/4-ounce packet) active dry yeast
1/3 cup (79 ml) plus 1 teaspoon honey
1/3 cup (79 ml) neutral oil, plus more for the bowl
2 large eggs plus 1 large yolk
1 1/2 teaspoons (8 grams) table salt
4 1/4 cups all-purpose (530 grams) or bread flour (578 grams), plus more for your work surface
Apple filling
2 medium baking apples (I love baking with MacIntoshes), peeled, cored and in 1/2- to 3/4-inch chunks
Squeeze of lemon juice, to keep them from browning
Egg wash
1 large egg
Coarse or pearl sugar for sprinkling (optional)
Make your dough: Whisk yeast and 1 teaspoon honey into 2/3 cup warm water and let stand until foamy, a few minutes.
With a stand mixer: In the bowl of a stand mixture, whisk together yeast mixture, oil, remaining honey (1/3 cup), eggs and yolk. Switch to dough hook and add 4 1/4 cups flour and salt. Use dough hook on a moderate speed until it pulls all of the flour and wet ingredients together into a craggy mass. Lower the speed and let the dough hook knead the dough for 5 minutes, until smooth, elastic and a little sticky.
By hand:: In a large bowl, whisk together yeast mixture, oil, remaining honey (1/3 cup), eggs and yolk. Add flour and salt all at once and stir with a wooden spoon until you get a craggy mass of uneven dough. Turn dough out onto a floured counter and knead it into a smooth, elastic dough, about 5 to 8 minutes. Try to use as little flour as necessary when kneading the dough; you don't want to toughen the bread. A bench scraper can make it really easy to remove it from the counter if it gets stuck in a spot. [More bread tips here.]
Both methods: Transfer dough to large oil-coated bowl, cover with plastic wrap and set aside for 1 hour, or until almost doubled in size.
Add apples to dough: [See photos in post.] Turn dough out onto a floured counter and gently press it down into a flat, oblong shape. The shape does not matter so however it goes, it goes. Spread 2/3 of apple chunks over 1/2 of the flattened dough. Fold the other half over the apple chunks and press the dough down around them, flattening the now lumpy dough. Spread the remaining 1/3 apple chunks over half the folded dough. Fold the other half over the apples, pressing the dough down again. Your dough packet will likely be square-ish. Fold the corners under with the sides of your hands and form the dough into a round. Upend your empty bowl over and set it aside for another 30 minutes.
Weave your bread: [See photos in post.] Divide dough into 4 pieces. Roll and stretch each one as carefully as you can into a rope — don't worry about getting it too long or thin, just 12 inches or so should do. If any apple chunks fall out as you form the ropes or at any other time in the forming of the loaf or risings, just poke them back in with your finger.
Arrange two strands in each direction, perpendicular to each other, like a plus sign. Weave them so that one side is over, and the other is under, where they meet. So, now you've got an 8-legged woven-headed octopus. Take the four legs that come from underneath the center and move them over the leg to their right, i.e. jumping it. Take those legs that were on the right and again, jump each over the leg before, this time to the left. If you had extra length to your ropes, you can repeat these left-right jumps until you run out of rope. For me, this was enough. Just as you had with the folded packet of apple dough above, tuck the corners/odd bumps under the dough with the sides of your hands to form a round.
Transfer the dough to a parchment-covered heavy baking sheet or baker's peel (if you'll be using a bread stone). Beat egg until smooth and brush over challah. Let challah rise for another hour but 45 minutes into this rise, preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
Bake your loaf: Before baking, brush loaf one more time with egg wash and sprinkle with coarse sugar if you're using it. Bake in middle of oven for 40 to 45 minutes. It should be beautifully bronzed; if yours (like mine, except I didn't catch it in time) starts getting too dark too quickly, cover it with foil for the remainder of the baking time. The very best way to check for doneness in any bread but especially on like this where the wetness of the apples can slow down the baking time a bit, is with an instant read thermometer — the center of the loaf should be 195 degrees.
Cool loaf on a rack before serving. Or, well, good luck with that.


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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Silly Saturday – Go On, Smile
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So cute.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing this photo, Nessa.
You have a great weekend.
Awww..very cute!ReplyDelete
Have a great day!
- AnonymousSat Feb 27, 09:56:00 AM EST
Oh my goodness...how cute :)ReplyDelete
Something seems very fishy around here!ReplyDelete
Nothing like being eaten by a shark to make your day! He is CUTE!!!ReplyDelete
That's priceless! What a cutie he is! Funny shot -- well, as long as it's not for real!!! Hope you have a great weekend, Nessa!ReplyDelete
not sure I would smile in the mouth of a shark eitherReplyDelete
I hope he is on his way out and not on his way in.ReplyDelete
Very cute! Happy Saturday!ReplyDelete
Hahah great pic.ReplyDelete
Love Jeanie's comment.
What a great photo!ReplyDelete
AWW how freking adorable is he!! too cute :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSat Feb 27, 11:09:00 PM EST
very cute :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSat Feb 27, 11:09:00 PM EST
very cute :)ReplyDelete
Aw, so very cute! Cute, cute, cute.;))ReplyDelete
Have a lovely Sunday,
There's something a wee bit sinister about that!ReplyDelete
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When finding the equation for a trig function, try to identify if it is a sine or cosine graph. To find the equation of sine waves given the graph, find the amplitude which is half the distance between the maximum and minimum. Next, find the period of the function which is the horizontal distance for the function to repeat. If the period is more than 2pi, B is a fraction; use the formula period=2pi/B to find the exact value. Last, find any phase shift, h.
I want to find an equation of a sine or a cosine wave. I've got an example. Here I'm given a graph and I have to come up with the equation. So he's given an equation of the graph that I have here.
I first have to decide whether this is going to be a sine or cosine curve. From the look of it, I would say cosine because it starts at a maximum point. You know, the sine graph looks something like this. It starts on a 0, on an intercept and then goes up whereas the cosine curve starts like this. So I'm going to guess that this is some kind of transformed cosine curve with an equation of the form y=a cosine bx. So the question is what's a and what's b.
Well, this is really our only clue. We have 2 pi as the x value of this point and the -3 as the y value and I'm going to assume that this this length is the same as this length and in that case that means the amplitude is 3. Right? Because amplitude gives me half the distance between the maximum and minimum. So if the amplitude is 3, that means a is either plus or minus 3. And I'm going to say that it's +3 because cosine normally starts from its maximum. And for this it's starting from its minimum. I would say that a was -3.
So we have that y=3 cosine bx. We just have to find b. So it's going to have something to do with the x coordinate here. We have to figure out what the period of this function is and it looks like it's going to be 4 pi. If this is 2 pi then this is going to be 4 pi. Now if the period is 4 pi, I can use this formula for period to find out what b is. Plug in 4 pi for the period then I can multiply both sides by b and then divide by 4 pi. And it looks like I'm going to get one half. b is one half and so our final answer is y=3 times the cosine of one half x.
When you're finding the equation for the graph of a sine or cosine curve, you have to first try recognize whether it's a sine or cosine curve. A sine curve would start at the origin like this. It starts on an intercept whereas a cosine curve starts at its max or its mean if it's reflected.


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Germany's powerhouse, Borussia Dortmund, dare to dream after winning toughest group in Champion s League
Borussia Dortmund could be forgiven for daring to dream of Champions League glory after clinching top spot in arguably the competition's toughest group with a 4-1 thrashing of Ajax Amsterdam on Wednesday.
The visitors were ruthless against Ajax, scoring three times in a superbly efficient first half for their biggest ever win in the competition to secure top spot in Group D ahead of nine-times European champions Real Madrid with a game to spare.
In a group that also contains big-spending Manchester City, the German champions have enjoyed a far more assured run in their second successive Champions League campaign after faltering at the group stage last season.
"To win the group with a game to spare is something that none of us believed would happen when we saw the draw," said Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp, who has also led his team to back-to-back Bundesliga titles over the past two seasons.
"It is crazy but it is something the team has earned. We will continue in the Champions League in the next year and that is unusual," he said of Dortmund's first venture into the knockout stage since 2003.
"This match was another milestone in the club's unbelievable history. I am proud of my team."
Madrid and Manchester City both needed late home equalisers to spare their blushes against a lightning-quick Dortmund attack with Mario Goetze, Marco Reus and Robert Lewandowski showing no fear against their more illustrious opponents.
The trio combined again on Wednesday, taking the four-time European champions apart with Goetze and Reus, who scored after a stunning 80-metre run, on target once. Lewandowski added two more for an eye-popping 4-0 lead before Ajax pulled one back.
"If they keep playing like that then it does not matter who they will play in the next round," honorary Bayern Munich president Franz Beckenbauer remarked.
"If you play Real Madrid twice the way they have done in this group, then a Champions League victory is possible for them."
Dortmund beat Real 2-1 in Germany and drew 2-2 in Madrid with the hosts rescued by an 89th minute equaliser.
Bayern have felt the Dortmund fury first hand having failed to beat them in the past two years as the 1997 Champions League winners challenged the Bavarians' long-standing domestic dominance.
"We would have never believed such a run before the start of the season," said 20-year-old German international Goetze, who had a hand in all of his team's goals on Wednesday and has quickly risen to become one of Europe's most-coveted players.
"We really wanted the last 16 spot and we did it. We can be happy both about the game we played as for the result. We are looking forward to the next games," he added.
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Dear Friends and Supporters of Sunflower Nursery, Sunflower Nursery is a small nursery providing high quality childcare for children between the ages of 4 months and 4 years old. It cares for 33 children, 15 of whom are on assisted places. At a meeting convened by Cambridge housing Society(CHS) for the parents, CHS announced its \'in-principle\' decision to close Sunflower nursery. Parents were told that the final decision will be made by the CHS board on the 12th of June and an unfavourable decision could mean the nursery closes on the 28th of September. In the wake of a \'good-value\' assessment based on out of date information, the nursery is judged to be underperforming financially and not to provide enough social benefit. CHS refused repeatedly, at the meeting, to state clearly what \"adequate financial performance and social benefit\" might entail. In particular, CHS refused to give parents and staff any clear targets that might be worked toward, let alone a clear breakdown of the nursery\'s huge overheads. The Nursery plays an important role in the local community. It promotes social integration in an area that is increasingly threatened by social divisions. It encourages gender equality by making it possible for women to return to work or in some cases school or College, safe in the knowledge that their children are in good hands, and without having to lose precious work time (and add to local traffic congestion) by using cars to take their children to more distant nurseries. It plays a significant part enhancing the financial prospects of local families, whether their children are on assisted places or not. It is no secret that career breaks impact negatively on the future earnings of women, which in turn affects their families, particularly their children. Although powerless individually, if we stand together, we can make a change. It is however imperative that we act NOW, very urgently, otherwise it will be too late. We have two aims: 1. to persuade Cambridge Housing Society to keep the nursery open for another year, so that 2. we can explore in detail and implement policies that will turn the nursery into a fully independent entity. We cannot achieve objective number 2 in the next few weeks - we need to collect data on rents, expenses, how other small nurseries that are independent work etc. This work can only start this summer, and we are not asking you to commit yourself to any kind of eventual solution that is proposed. We request you to sign a petition to the Board of CHS, asking them to keep the nursery open atleast another year, in order to help the nursery become independent after that.


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We were having a chat in the Clearleft office today about site stats and their relative uselessness; numbers about bounce rates are like eyetracking data—without knowing the context, they're not going to tell you anything.
Anyway, I was reminded that I have an account over at Google Webmaster Tools set up for three of my sites: adactio.com, huffduffer.com and thesession.org. I logged in today for the first time in ages and started poking around.
I noticed that I had some unread messages. Who knew that Google Webmaster Tools has a messaging system? I guess all software really does evolve until it can send email.
One of the messages had the subject line Blocked URLs:
For legal reasons, we've excluded from our search results content located at or under the following URL/directory:
This content has been removed from all Google search results.
Cause: Somone has filed a DMCA complaint against your site.
What now?
I visited the URL and found a fairly tame discussion about Perfect Pitch. Here's the only part of the discussion that references an external resource in a non-flattering light:
I think that is referring to www.PerfectPitch.com. I'm not saying anything about such commercially-oriented courses because I don't know them, but I think we'd all be wise to bear in mind the general comments voiced in the first two posts on this thread.
That single reference to a third-party site is, apparently, enough to trigger a DMCA complaint.
Google link to the complaint on Chilling Effects but that just says
The cease-and-desist or legal threat you requested is not yet available. It does, however, list the party who sent the complaint: Boucherle.
By a staggering coincidence, Gary Boucherle of American Educational Music, Inc. is registered as the owner of perfectpitch.com.
So let's get this straight. In a discussion about perfect pitch, someone mentions the website perfectpitch.com. They don't repost any materials from the site. They don't even link to the site. They don't really say anything particularly disparaging. But it all takes is for the owner of perfectpitch.com to abuse the Digitial Millenium Copyright Act with a spurious complaint and just like that, Google removes the discussion from its search index.
To be fair, Google also explain how to file a counter-complaint. However, the part about agreeing to potentially show up in a court in California is somewhat off-putting for those of us, like me, who live outside the United States of America.
There is another possible explanation for this insane over-reaction; one that would explain why the offended party sent the complaint to Google rather than going down the more traditional route of threatening the ISP…
The Session has pretty good Google juice. The markup is pretty lean, the content is semantically structured and there's plenty of inbound links. Could it be that the owner of perfectpitch.com sent a DMCA complaint to Google simply because another site was getting higher rankings for the phrase "perfect pitch"? If so, then that's a whole new level of SEO snake-oilery.
Hmmm… that gives me an idea.
If you have a blog or other personal publishing platform, perhaps you would like to write a post titled Perfect Pitch? Feel free to republish anything from this post, which is also coincidentally titled Perfect Pitch. And feel free to republish the contents of the original discussion on The Session titled, you guessed it: Perfect Pitch.
Update: Thanks for inbound links, everyone. The matter is now being resolved. I have received an apology from Gary Bourcherle who was being more stupid than evil.


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The M1 Garand — Legendary American .30-06 Springfield Rifle
M1 Garand Springfield Armory July 1941 production. Facebook photo by Shinnosuke Tanaka.
My father carried a Garand in WWII. That was reason enough for me to want one. But I also loved the look, feel, and heft of this classic American battle rifle. And the unique "Ping" of the ejected en-bloc clip is music to the ears of Garand fans. Some folks own a Garand for the history, while others enjoy competing with this old war-horse. Around the country there are regular competition series for Garand shooters, and the CMP's John C. Garand Match is one of the most popular events at Camp Perry every year. This year's Garand Match will be held Saturday, August 1, 2020. SEE CMP 2020 NM Calendar.
The CMP also has a John C. Garand Match each June as part of the D-Day Competition at the Talladega Marksmanship Park. Here's a video from the inaugural Talladega D-Day Event in 2015. This year's Talladega D-Day Matches run June 3-7, 2020.
Watch Prone Stage from the Inaugural Talladega D-Day Match in 2015
M1 Garand Manual
Recommended M1 Garand Manual
Among the many M1 Garand manuals available, we recommend the CMP's U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1: 'Read This First' Manual. This booklet covers take-down, reassembly, cleaning, lubrication, and operation. The manual, included with CMP rifles, is available for $3.25 from the CMP eStore. The author of Garand Tips & Tricks says: "It's one of the best firearms manuals I've seen. I highly recommend it."
M1 Garand Slow-Motion Shooting Video
What really happens when an M1 Garand fires the final round and the En-Bloc clip ejects with the distinctive "Ping"? Well thanks to ForgottenWeapons.com, you can see for yourself in super-slow-motion. The entire cycling process of a Garand has been captured using a high-speed camera running at 2000 frames per second (about sixty times normal rate). Watch the clip eject at the 00:27 time-mark. It makes an acrobatic exit, spinning 90° counter-clockwise and then tumbling end over end.
2000 frame per second video shows M1 Garand ejecting spent cartridges and En-bloc clip.
M1 Garand History
Jean Cantius Garand, also known as John C. Garand, was a Canadian designer of firearms who created the M1 Garand, a semi-automatic rifle that was widely used by the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps during World War II and the Korean War. The U.S. government employed Garand as an engineer with the Springfield Armory from 1919 until he retired in 1953. At Springfield Armory Garand was tasked with designing a basic gas-actuated self-loading infantry rifle and carbine that would eject the spent cartridge and reload a new round. It took fifteen years to perfect the M1 prototype model to meet all the U.S. Army specifications. The resulting Semiautomatic, Caliber .30, M1 Rifle was patented by Garand in 1932, approved by the U.S. Army on January 9, 1936, and went into mass production in 1940. It replaced the bolt-action M1903 Springfield and became the standard infantry rifle known as the Garand Rifle. During the World War II, over four million M1 rifles were manufactured.
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Over 1 million PlayStation 4's were sold in the first 24 hours after the game console went on sale early Friday, Sony said.
The game system is Sony's first in seven years and includes new social features, streaming video apps and a touch pad on the controller. It is compatible with about 20 games, but the catalog is expected to expand by the end of the year.
It's one of two hot game systems going head-to-head this holiday season. Microsoft's Xbox One goes on sale this coming Friday.
Sony says it expects to sell 5 million PlayStation 4's by the end of March and analysts expect demand will outpace the supply through Christmas.
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by Sarah Geegan
The University of Kentucky Confucius Institute (UKCI), established for only two years, was named the 2012 Confucius Institute of the Year in December.
Awarded by the Office of Chinese Language Council International (colloquially known as the Hanban), the honor distinguishes the UKCI among the more than 430 Confucius Institutes in 115 countries; there are approximately 90 Confucius Institutes in the U.S. UKCI director Huajing Maskeand interim Provost Tim Tracy accepted the award at the seventh World Confucius Institute Conference in Beijing, along with 25 other institutions around the world that also received the honor.
"It is a tremendous honor for the University of Kentucky and our Confucius Institute to receive this award," Tracy said. "The recognition is particularly gratifying as our Institute was only established two years ago. The receipt of this award is a testament to the hard work and leadership of Dr. Huajing Maske and her team as they have made a significant impact on international efforts on our campus and with relationships at universities across China."
In the past two years, the UKCI facilitated partnerships with eight Chinese universities and institutions. Maske said this acknowledgment will help the institute to establish even more collaborations.
"This puts UK's name with the top 3 percent of the more than 430 universities in 115 countries," Maske said. "This means that UK's name is known to most of the 1.3 billion Chinese people who watch Chinese TV and who read the Chinese newspapers. What's more, we have been reported in the recent People's Daily overseas edition which means more people living outside China also read about us."
The scope of the award highlights how the impact and influence of the UKCI go beyond Kentucky. As the key facilitator to UK's China exchanges, the institute also helps colleges identify and develop their strategic China partnerships with reputable Chinese universities. These partnerships create tremendous opportunities for research and teaching for faculty, as well as scholarships and study opportunities for students.
By assisting colleges in establishing these strategic collaborations, the UKCI plays a key role in attracting excellent Chinese students and in contributing to the Chinese experience of UK students to enhance their success as 21st century students with a global outlook.
The UKCI has brought more than a dozen distinguished speakers to UK to speak on various topics related to China. Its Chinese Medicine Week in November went beyond the UK campus to Transylvania University, the Chinese community and the Lexington Public Library.
In fewer than two years, the UKCI demonstrated strong leadership in the Chinese language and culture programs in Kentucky's K-12 schools. The institute sent out specialized instructors to public schools, and helped Woodford Public Schools to jumpstart a Chinese program in every school, granting more than 2,000 American students the opportunity to study Chinese language and culture. The institute also conducted 15 different Chinese teacher training workshops, the largest one attracting 150 Chinese teachers from 16 different states.
Maske said that strong Chinese programs in Kentucky's K-12 schools will ensure a pipeline of students entering UK with higher levels of Chinese proficiency, enhancing UK's Chinese major.
In addition to the works on campus and in the public schools, UKCI has worked with more than 10 organizations in the community and conducted dozens of events and activities on Chinese art and culture. UKCI's Spring Gala, with excellent performances brought all the way from China, has become a popular annual event in Lexington.
"The most important work UKCI conducts is the work that connects UK's colleges to China, because this work contributes to UK's core value and mission, which is students' and faculty success," Maske said. "The partnerships with China create the kinds of opportunities for faculty and students to succeed in today's global world. Our work helps UK create differentiated graduates that excel in academia and research, embrace global outlook and seek international experience."
Practically speaking, the award is not only an acknowledgment of the UKCI's excellence in the past years, but it will also result in more program funding and resources. This will allow the institute to expand services and programs on the UK campus and in the community.
"I'm confident that even greater impact will be realized upon our campus because of what this institute provides to enrich our students' experiences and prepare them for an increasingly global economy and society," Tracy said.


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Nevermind the hair: Here's a pic of Gael Monfils' sleeveless crew from K-Swiss in a black/green colorway. He'd been wearing another version — in white/black — for these last few tournaments of 2010.
Gael was the runner-up to Rafa Nadal at this past week's Rakuten Japan Open in Tokyo.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Stronger hiring and higher pay and savings should support solid growth for the economy in coming months.
That was a key message that emerged Wednesday from a report on economic growth in the final three months of 2011. The economy grew at a 3 percent annual rate in the October-December quarter, up from a previous estimate of 2.8 percent, the Commerce Department said.
Most of last quarter's growth stemmed from a jump in company restocking. That happened because businesses rebuilt inventories that had been depleted last summer. Stockpiling is expected to slow sharply this quarter. And as it slows, economic growth could, too.
But economists stressed that the fundamental drivers of the economy ? incomes, consumer spending and business investment ? are rising. They will likely sustain modest growth this year.
Expectations for growth this quarter are slightly better than they were a month ago. Economists expect the economy to expand at a roughly 2 percent annual pace in the current quarter and about 2.5 percent for the full year, according to the National Association for Business Economics. That would be faster than last year's 1.7 percent growth.
In its first report in January on fourth-quarter growth, the government had estimated that incomes rose only slightly. That estimate was revised Wednesday to show incomes grew much more than previously thought.
After taxes, inflation-adjusted incomes rose 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter. That's nearly double the first estimate.
And in the third quarter, incomes rose 0.7 percent, compared with earlier estimates of a 1.9 percent drop.
Economists had worried that growth wouldn't be sustainable without more income gains. Wednesday's report showed that households were in better financial shape than many had expected.
Some economists detect signs of a self-fulfilling cycle in which more jobs fuel more spending and pay, which spark further hiring and spending.
"Today's figures give encouraging evidence of a virtuous cycle developing where incomes and consumption move up together," said Nigel Gault, an economist at IHS Global Insight.
Higher incomes should also make it easier for consumers to absorb higher gas prices and keep spending on other items.
"The consumer is in a better position to weather higher gasoline prices than appeared to be the case prior to these revisions," said Joshua Shapiro, chief economist at MFR Inc., in a note to clients.
A big reason for the higher estimate of growth in the October-December quarter was that consumers and businesses spent more than first thought.
Imports, which subtract from the gross domestic product, rose by a smaller amount. GDP is the broadest measure of the nation's output of goods and services.
The savings rate was revised higher. Americans saved 4.5 percent of their incomes in the October-December quarter. That was down slightly from the third quarter. But it topped the previous 3.7 percent estimate for the fourth quarter.
Consumer spending rose 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter, powered by a jump in spending on autos and other long-lasting goods. That's an improvement from the third quarter. And it's much better than spending during the spring, when high gas prices nearly brought consumer spending to a standstill.
Growth would have been stronger last quarter if not for a steep drop in government spending. Cuts in federal defense spending, along with reduced spending at the state and local levels, shaved nearly a full point off growth.
A host of recent data has made many analysts more optimistic about this year's prospects. Companies have stepped up hiring, pushing the unemployment rate down for five straight months to 8.3 percent.
U.S. factories boosted output last month, and December was their strongest month of growth in five years. Consumer confidence rose to its highest point in a year this month, the Conference Board reported Tuesday. That could signal that Americans are ready to step up spending. Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of economic activity.
Some trends likely to slow growth in the current quarter are still good for consumers. The warm winter weather will likely mean Americans won't have to spend as much to heat their homes.
Still, growth could be held back this year by rising gas prices, which have jumped 30 cents in the past month. That forces consumers to spend more for the same amount of gas and leaves less money for other purchases. A sharp rise in gas prices early last year helped slow the economy to a near-standstill.
But so far, higher gas prices aren't enough to cause a repeat of last year's setback, economists say. With hiring accelerating and incomes higher, consumers are better able to pay the higher prices.
In addition, last year, the prices of other goods, particularly food and energy sources such as natural gas, also jumped. But natural gas costs have plummeted recently. And food prices are rising much more slowly. Those trends should offset some of the squeeze on spending from pricier gas.
The government makes three estimates of the gross domestic product for each quarter. GDP includes everything from autos to utility output to haircuts. Each revision is based on more complete economic data.


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This extension is free of charge, however you can donate to support the development and appreciate the work which has allready been done.
There is currently no warranty for the results from blender CAM - you have to check your paths before use. Blender CAM has been tested with success in my studio. I wouldn't recommend Blender CAM for metalworking now, be carefull if you try it.
- Several milling strategies for 2D and 3D
- Cutter types: ball, flat, v-carve with various angles
- work with 3d data or depth images
- Layers and skin for roughing.
- Inverse milling
- Various options for ambient around model
- protection of vertical surfaces
- stay low - option for movement
- material size setup
- simulation of 3d operations
- Background computing of the operations, so you can continue working
- helix entry, arc retract, ramp down for some of the strategies.
- Automatic bridges for cutout operation
- Chain export and simulation
- verious machines, uses nc BSD library from HeeksCNC
- motion direction - classic, conventional, meander, are only partially supported
- 4 and 5 axis milling. 4 axis indexed milling wouldn't be hard to add, I just need donations to buy a 4 axis machine ;)
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Circular and Spiral, best suited for coins or other circular objects.


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Famed interviewer Charlie Rose grilled Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on Tuesday about Yahoo's brand, the company's future ... and that controversial Vogue photo shoot.
Rose and Mayer appeared onstage at the IAB Mixx conference as part of New York City's Advertising Week. After Rose asked Mayer about gender issues as a female CEO -- to which she answered, "I really don't feel it" -- he segued into last month's flap over Mayer's photo shoot in Vogue magazine.
The magazine published a two-page photo spread of Mayer, along with a 3,000-word article about her in its September issue. In the spread, Mayer posed upside-down on a chaise lounge, hair fanned out, holding a tablet featuring an image of her face.
That photo, along with an accompanying article Vogue published about what Mayer wears to work, set off yet another Mayer-focused debate about women in the workplace.
Related - Marissa Mayer: Yahoo gets 12,000 resumes a week
Rose began to ask "about that Vogue cover," but Mayer cut him off.
"It wasn't the cover!" Mayer said, smiling a bit sheepishly. She added simply: "It was a nice photo."
Mayer walked Rose through her Vogue experience. She explained that she showed up to the Vogue shoot, where the staffers offered her a choice between a black dress or a blue one. As a rule she doesn't wear black, she said, so she chose the blue Michael Kors. At first she simply sat on the chaise, but after just two minutes the photographer said he wouldn't be able to use the prim "First Lady-like" shots, Mayer said.
"He said, 'This is not going to work at all ... Would you try kind of going upside down?' I said, 'Will it look good?' and he told me not to worry," Mayer said.
Mayer didn't read the accompanying Vogue article. She's said several times that she avoids reading press about herself, a point that she echoed on Tuesday,
"Madeleine Albright once said that press, good or bad, it influences you and it changes you," Mayer told Rose. "I think that's really true. It pulls you off your center. I know who I am, I know what I like, and I have a clear view of what I want Yahoo to be."
The press has closely covered Mayer's decisions, including her ban of telecommuting at Yahoo (YHOO). But the woman herself is clearly focused on staying "on message" at public events like Tuesday's, shying away from controversial questions about gender politics and repeating ad nauseum that Yahoo is on the road to a turnaround.


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The government's monthly jobs report almost always generates heated debate, but it usually requires a closer check beneath the hood to determine what the numbers really mean.
Rarely has that been truer than the September nonfarm payrolls report released Friday, which on its face showed a huge leap in the number of working Americans and a drop in the unemployment rateto 7.8 percent, but which simultaneously masked some weaker fundamentals.
(Read more: What the Numbers Mean)
The conflicting signals consequently sparked a fierce debate about the state of the labor market, featuring an animated online battle over the very legitimacy of the numbers themselves.
"I don't think this is a game-changing report," said Lee Ferridge, head of macro strategy for North America at State Street Global Markets. "We saw a big rise in the employed in the household survey which caused that big drop in the unemployment rate. A lot of people will look for that to unwind in the next month or two."
On the plus side, the payrolls reportshowed 873,000 more jobs and 418,000 more Americans in the labor force — which had been drowning at 31-year lows — in addition to that headline-grabbing fall in the jobless rate to its lowest level since Barack Obama became president in 2009.
But the underlying details told a less buoyant story: The closely watched U-6 rate, which takes into account the underemployed and those who have quit looking for work, held at 14.7 percent. Had the participation rate not dropped as much as it has over the past three years, the more-publicized U-3 unemployment rate actually would be 9.8 percent, according to University of Maryland economist Peter Morici.
At the same time, the number of unemployed for 27 weeks or more fell below 5 million for the first time since July 2009. But the average duration of joblessness rose to 39.8 weeks, its highest since June and still near the all-time peak of 40.9 weeks set in November 2011.
Perhaps most telling of all, the number of part-time workers soared by 582,000.
"The employment picture didn't really change all that much with the September report but there were enough shifts in enough pieces to suggest the glass can be viewed as half full rather than half empty," said Steve Blitz, chief economist at ITG Investment Research in New York. "Things look better at the moment but none of this is to suggest all is well."
The monthly numbers on the first Friday — "jobs Friday" — are important for the obvious reason to gauge how Americans are doing economically, and somewhat less obviously to try to gauge public policy response.
If the numbers are really as good as the headlines indicate, that could suggest the Federal Reserve was a little quick to fire off its third round of quantitative easing last month.
The program entails the central bank creating money that it then uses to buy mortgage-backed securities, with the ultimate intent to put more cash in consumers' pockets that will drive demand and in turn spur more hiring. QE carries risks, most notably in terms of inflation, so the Fed needs to be sure conditions warrant such drastic action.
Most experts agree, though, that the jobs report will not cause pangs of regret from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who said easing will continue even after the economy starts showing improvement.
"Clearly the Fed has a more open eye on their employment mandate than they do on their inflation mandate. But it begs the question: What happens if both of their mandates start to send a message that this unbelievably excessive easing is no longer appropriate?" said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab in San Francisco.
"I don't think we're there yet," she added. "But if this trend continues and inflation starts to pick up a little bit, then you have to wonder about the 2015 time frame and open-ended QE."
And then there's the question of whether we can believe any of it.
Jack Welch, the outspoken former CEO at General Electric ," ignited a storm on microblogging site Twitter when he tweeted, "Unbelievable jobs numbers...these Chicago guys will do anything...can't debate so change numbers." (Click here for reaction to Welch)
Labor Secretary Hilda Solisbristled, telling CNBC, that she was "insulted" by the suggestion.
The prevailing sentiment, however, is that one month does not a recovery — or a recession — make.
"The Fed wants much stronger growth to consistently bring down the unemployment rate," Ferridge, of State Street, said. "We're not there. But we're not about to see the U.S. economy dive full-tilt into recession, either."
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Another applied linear equation problem, and this is again dealing with mixtures. So, in this one, a nut farmer mixes some peanuts that sell for 250 a pound, with some almonds, that sell for $5 a pound, to make a 12 pound mixture, worth $3 a pound, and it's asking for, how many pounds of peanuts were in the mixture?
So, the first step I always do in these is, to go and take our word problem, and make a diagram out of it. So, we have a bunch of peanuts that are 250 a pound, so this is 250 a pound, and we have a certain amount, but we don't know how much that is. So we can call it x. We're adding in almonds, which are $5 a pound and again, we don't know how much this is, so we're actually going to leave this blank, for right now, we'll come back to it in a second, and we're adding these together and our result is $3 a pound and 12 pounds.
So, we have a certain amount of peanuts, a certain amount of almonds and in total we have 12 pounds. If we had, just say, one pound of peanuts, we know our total has to be 12. So, we know that this has to be 11 pounds of almonds. If this was 4 pounds, we know our total also has to 12, so this has to be 8. So, there's always that difference where these two have to add up to 12. So if we actually take x away from 12, that will result with the amount of almonds. So this is actually 12 minus x. You can always check to make sure if this was 3, the 12 minus 3, 9; 3 and 9 would equal 12. So no matter what xs, these two are always going to add up to 12 pounds of mixture.
So we have a diagram. The second step is going to be turning this diagram into a linear equation. If we have one pound of almonds, this whole bag would sell for 250 just the one pound times the amount it's selling for. If this was two pounds, it'll just be 2 times 250, so basically the amount that's worth is the amount you have times the cost that it goes for. So this is just going to be 250 times x is the amount that your peanuts are worth.
By that same logic; cost times weight is the amount that your almonds are worth and you have $3 a pound, 12pounds this is just going to be 3 times 12 $36 worth of nuts in our final bag. We've taken our diagram changed it into a linear equation.
So for this one, we could either multiply by 10 or 100 or just leave at end, for this one I'm actually just going to leave in a decimal to show you it works either way. So this decimal doesn't actually do anything 2.50 is the same thing as 2.5 so it's 2.5x, distributing our 5 in 5 times 12 is 60 so we're left with 5 minus 5x and then this is equal to 3 times 12, 36.
Combining like terms 2 and a half minus 5, this is just going to give us -2.5x and then plus 60 is equal to 36, subtract that 60 over, 36 minus 60 is -24 and then to solve for x just divide by -2 and a half. 24 divided by 2.5, x is equal to 9.6.
So we only need to make sure we're giving what the question is asking for and this question was asking for how many pounds of peanuts were in the mixture, amount of peanuts we had was x, so that corresponds to this x right here so just make sure we have our units, we have 9.6 pounds of peanuts. As for almonds, just plug in 9.6 back into here and solve it out.
So we've taken our word problem, made a diagram, taken it into an equation and solved it out.


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OCEAN CITY – Habitat for Humanity Worcester County dedicated another home to a deserving family this past Saturday.
"It is part of our ongoing mission to provide decent affordable homes for deserving families in the area," Habitat Humanity of Worcester County President Clint Houser said on Saturday.
Worcester County is a local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, an ecumenical housing ministry. The Board of Directors is comprised of about 20 volunteers representing many talents and interests. Volunteer "builders" are recruited from the community at large and work side by side with board members and partner families on many aspects of the new home's construction.
Habitat for Humanity of Worcester County was affiliated in 1994. Initial resources of $100,000 came from an anonymous donation and it's supplemented by local fund raising efforts.
Last Saturday Houser presented Tameka Pinkney with the keys to her new home. She is a 23-year-old single mother of her young daughter, Nakiah.
"Words cannot express how I feel and how overjoyed I am in my heart to be able to have this stability," Pinkney said.
The house is the second to be dedicated by Habitat for Humanity on Flower Street in Berlin.
"I thank all the hard working volunteers that helped me accomplish my life goal," Pinkney said. "I'm a young single mother…it just does not happen like this. With god's blessing and a bunch of sweat equity work, and all the blood and tears that went into this house I can't say thank you enough."
Mayor Gee Williams was on site to welcome Pinkney to her new home.
"I would like to officially welcome you to Berlin as our newest residents and we are very excited and very proud of you and we look for forward to a very long and happy life here," he said.
Williams said that Habitat for Humanity serves a critical role in providing affordable housing in the community of Berlin. It also provides the community and the entire region with a great example of what volunteers can do when they all work together for a noble and important purpose.
"On behalf of the Mayor and Council and the citizens of Berlin, I want to express our sincere appreciation to everyone who is associated with Habitat for making these homes possible and making this very special day possible for Tameka and Nakiah," he said.
Houser said that Habitat for Humanity hopes to begin building another Habitat house next door to Pinkney's new home by summer time.
"We had a great team in place but we are always in need of additional volunteers," he said. "So if anybody is willing to spend some time we are always happy to have you."
Lauren Bunting, chair of the local Habitat's fundraising, added that there are tickets available the organization's dinner fundraiser next month. Last year the dinner raised $9,000, and this year there is a goal of $10,000. It will be held April 1 at Fager's Island.
"We would love to have you come and participate, it is a really fun night," she said. "The murder mystery troupe comes and performs during dinner, and we have live music and entertainment during the cocktail hour."
To purchase tickets or for sponsorship opportunities, call Bunting at 410-422-9899 or email [email protected]


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We'd already heard before that in the wake of the Apple Maps iOS 6 fiasco, Google was plotting its own app for iOS to launch before the end of the year. The Wall Street Journal reports that the app is in the polishing stages, and that it will soon be submitted for approval to Apple.
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According to the WSJ's unnamed sources a "test version" of the new iOS Google Maps app has been distributed outside the company to a limited number of people. This could indicate that the app is headed for the approval process soon, though, the official comment from Google doesn't confirm much of anything. If the report is true, the Apple Maps dark ages might soon be over. Godspeed on your crusade Google. [WSJ]