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There are probably too many to choose from, so we'll let you guys decide: Which was the moment you'll remember from this year's Australian Open the most? There was plenty to talk about over the two weeks of the tourney, including a wacky week one. Did Rafa's exit surprise you? Or how about the way Roger and Murray went down to eventual-champ Djokovic in straights? Li Na made it a step closer to a slam title, but Clijsters was there with her agility and power. Can anyone stop her?
More afterthoughts to come this week… but for now, we'll leave it up to you.
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Until Harmony is the newest HIGHLY ANTICIPATED standalone in the Until Her Series by Aurora Rose Reynolds!
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Release Date: March 6, 2018
Harmony Mayson isn't the kind of girl to take unnecessary risk, but after meeting Harlen MacCabe, she starts to wonder if maybe she should be. The more time she spends with the wild and free biker, the more she starts to crave the freedom he gives her… And even more, she starts to crave him.
Harlen lives his life on his own terms. After losing both his parents at an early age to a robbery gone bad, he knows how precious life is, and he's determined to get as much out of it as he can. When he runs into the beautiful Harmony and finds out she's moving to town, he knows it's time to take his shot. She thinks he only wants to be friends, but she couldn't be more wrong.
What Harmony and Harlen don't know is that their time might be cut short. Revenge is in the air, and someone won't stop until a debt is settled.
About the Author
Aurora Rose Reynolds is a navy brat who's husband served in the United States Navy. She has lived all over the country but now resides in New York City with her Husband and pet fish. She's married to an alpha male that loves her as much as the men in her books love their women. He gives her over the top inspiration everyday. In her free time she reads, writes and enjoys going to the movies with her husband and cookie. She also enjoys taking mini weekend vacations to nowhere, or spends time at home with friends and family. Last but not least she appreciates everyday and admires it's beauty.

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'If you want to go to college," my mother said, "you'll have to get a scholarship."
Luckily, I did. I was admitted to George Washington University, which generously awarded me a grant covering the full cost of my tuition. To the best of my recollection, that sum was $2,400 in 1975, the year I entered GW. To pay for my other expenses there were several forms of need-based financial aid, and I received what is now called a Pell Grant and a subsidized work-study job on campus.
Adjusted for inflation, the $2,400 GW charged for tuition when I was a freshman would equal $10,220 today. But for freshmen entering this year, tuition at GW is $45,780. In other words, four years of GW in the 1970s cost less (in 2012 dollars) than a single year there — or at many other universities — today.
GW is a private institution, but the price of a college education has been skyrocketing at public campuses too. All told, the average cost of an undergraduate education has more than doubled in real dollars since I entered college in the mid-1970s. Over the past 3½ decades, the consumer price index has climbed around 3.8 percent per year; over the same period, college tuition and fees have been soaring at an annual rate of 7.5 percent. But nothing soars forever.
College opened my mind to all kinds of new ideas, many of which I can remember animatedly chewing over with fellow students. But one thing I know we never discussed was the prospect of graduating from college with tens of thousands of dollars in debt hanging over our heads. In the 1970s, that would have been unimaginable. Now it's anything but.
"At a protest last year at New York University," began a story in Sunday's New York Times, "students called attention to their mounting debt by wearing T-shirts with the amount they owed scribbled across the front — $90,000, $75,000, $20,000." Outstanding student-loan debt in the United States now stands at more than $1 trillion, a number greater than the total credit-card debt Americans owe. Millions of borrowers are in default; many others face the prospect of spending most of their lives paying for their college education.
If there were a museum of good intentions leading to bad results, the government's longstanding policy of trying to make higher education affordable would be a featured exhibit. Most of the adults I grew up with had no more than a high-school education. But by the 1970s it was becoming axiomatic that college was a virtually unmitigated good, and that government subsidies could put a college degree within every family's reach.
So politicians right and left vied to increase funding for student aid, channeling ever more public dollars into Pell Grants, guaranteed loans, work-study subsidies, and tuition tax breaks. Colleges happily raised their prices to soak up the subsidies — and to soak up as well all the money being borrowed by parents and students to finance college degrees that grew steadily less, not more, affordable. All the while Americans were assured that a college degree was an excellent investment, a gateway to prosperity tomorrow that justified the sticker shock today.
Many people said the same thing about technology stocks as their share prices shot upward in the 1990s. Even more recently people were saying the same thing about housing prices. In retrospect, the ugly collapse of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and the even more calamitous end to the housing bubble in 2007 both seem inevitable. Is the higher-education bubble going to burst too?
Economic bubbles are sustained by belief, and there are signs everywhere that Americans no longer believe that a college degree is everything it has been cracked up to be. "Potential students are becoming aware of just how bad student debt can be," writes University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds in a recent monograph. "That's causing them to change their behavior." More students, he notes, are choosing military service, community college, or vocational training over a traditional university education. Inexpensive web-based learning programs, such as EdX, the online school founded by Harvard and MIT, are drawing lively interest. A growing number of students, The Washington Post reported in 2010, are backing away from college entirely, finding success and satisfaction in the skilled manual trades.
"Is College A Lousy Investment?" asks Newsweek's current cover story. More and more Americans are deciding that the answer is yes. It may not happen tomorrow, but the higher-education bubble is getting ready to burst.
Jeff Jacoby can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @jeff_jacoby.


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Humboldt Supes Endorse Prop 19 – October 26, 2010
Daniel Mintz
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HUMBOLDT – Despite recommendations from two of its members to be silent about the Proposition 19 marijuana legalization measure, the Board of Supervisors has voted to take a position in support of it.
A majority of supervisors advocated for passage of Prop 19 at the Board's Oct. 19 meeting, with Supervisor Bonnie Neely leading the charge.
Neely changed the direction of an agenda item sponsored by Supervisor Mark Lovelace which recommended not taking a stance on the controversial ballot measure.
Lovelace is a member of a California State Association of Counties' marijuana policy task force and is also on a supervisors subcommittee that's drafting a new county medical marijuana ordinance.
He said Proposition 19 is problematic because it doesn't spell out how legalized marijuana will be regulated. "The reason to legalize it is because having it be illegal has been a deterrent to effective regulation – it's prevented the ability to regulate the most significant impacts," Lovelace continued.
He told his colleagues that despite doing extensive research on the measure, "I've ultimately felt like there's just not enough there for me to be able to recommend a position of either support or opposition."
But Lovelace would later join the majority vote supporting Prop 19. Neely was the first of three supervisors to vouch for it. So did those who spoke during a public comment period.
The initiative's most obvious result would be make it legal to possess up to an ounce of marijuana and to grow it in a 25-square-foot area. It leaves regulation up to local governments but also allows for action by the state legislature.
Responding to Lovelace's concerns about leaving regulation to local governments, Timothy Crlenjack said he thinks supervisors are up for the job.
"I believe you have a tough job and you should be paid for that tough job – and one of the tough jobs is dealing with the passage of this proposition," he told supervisors.
Syreeta Lux of the Humboldt Medical Marijuana Advisory Panel (HuMMAP) acknowledged qualms about Prop 19 but urged "support with reservations."
She said that's the stance of her group and it's largely based on economic considerations. "Humboldt County is a wholesale marijuana center and under Prop 215 we're not having enough room to maneuver and compete with what's going on in the urban markets," Lux continued.
Neely described "a little bit of a different take on this item" and made a motion to support Prop 19. She said it's unrealistic to expect the initiative to set forth a specific regulatory scheme and praised its approach.
"I would say that allowing local jurisdictions to exercise local control is a very positive thing," said Neely.
Her motion was seconded by Supervisor Jill Duffy and approved with a 4–0 vote. Supervisor Jimmy Smith, the second member of the Board's medical marijuana policy subcommittee, had agreed with Lovelace. Forced to vote one way or the other, Smith stuck to the spirit of the "take no position" recommendation and abstained.


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Offshoring has become so engrained in IT processes that 65 percent of businesses now do it for some aspect of their business, according to an annual survey of IT budgets and technology trends by the Society of Information Management (SIM).
This survey, which is based on data collected from CIOs and senior IT leaders at 275 companies, found that nearly a quarter of the companies using offshore services did so to run existing systems applications. And another 20 percent said they used offshore services to manage their infrastructure.
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This survey is wide-ranging and offers a number of findings about how corporations and workers are dealing with continuing economic problems.
For instance, employee turnover in 2010 was 5.5 percent, almost the same level it is this year. From 2006 to 2011, employee turnover averaged 5.92 percent, reported SIM.
"The boomers that were expecting to leave aren't leaving," said Jerry Luftman, a management professor at Stevens Institute of Technology who heads SIM's survey project.
The average tenure of a CIO is 4.36 years, the survey reported. That finding lines up well with similar surveys.
Companies aren't cutting IT. Last year, 65 percent of the firms responding to this survey said their budgets would be equal or greater to the previous year. That increased to 83 percent this year, and 85 percent of the respondents said next year's budgets would be equal or better than their current budgets.
Although the timing of this report was before the stock market's August-September swoon, Luftman believes that respondents weren't necessarily optimistic about the economy. "Nobody is confident that the economy is turned around," he said.
The top management concern, according to the survey, is business alignment; the last concern, in the list of 10, is IT cost reduction. The reason IT cost reduction is such a low priority is that many companies are trying to leverage IT to reduce costs instead of cutting IT to save money, said Luftman.
The other IT priorities, in order, were business agility, business process management, IT strategic planning, IT reliability and efficiency, enterprise architecture, security and revenue-generating IT innovations.
Of the firms using offshore outsourcing, 58 percent had turned to Indian-based companies, with the next largest segment, China at 10 percent. That was followed by Mexico, 7 percent; Western Europe, 6 percent; and Eastern Europe, Philippines and the Caribbean, all tied at 4 percent. Russia and Brazil were tied at 3 percent, the survey said.
Patrick Thibodeau covers cloud computing and enterprise applications, outsourcing, government IT policies, data centers and IT workforce issues for Computerworld. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @DCgov or subscribe to Patrick's RSS feed. His email address is email@example.com.
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The St. Louis Symphony Joins The Circus
Each Spring, Circus Flora sets up its "big top" in the parking lot of Powell Hall. Over the years, the Flying Wallendas, Nino the Clown, and the St. Louis Arches have become familiar to many St. Louisans.
For the second time, Circus Flora will move inside the hall, high wires and all, to join the St. Louis Symphony in a holiday production which will bring to life Dylan Thomas' classic, "A Child's Christmas in Wales."
The symphony will perform a variety of Christmas favorites as well as several works by British composers. A Circus Flora member will provide narration with excerpts of the story, while the Flying Wallendas, a group of trained housecats and other circus acts entertain.
Circus Flora Founder and Artistic Director Ivor David Balding and St. Louis Symphony cellist Bjorn Ranheim were host Steve Potter's guests to discuss the partnership, Dylan Thomas, the circus acts and the music.
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Circus Flora and the St. Louis Symphony Present "A Child's Christmas in Wales"
December 14 and 15, 2012
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December 16, 2012
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Powell Hall, 718 N. Grand Blvd.


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By Albert Cowan – SonicElectronix Install Technician
Vehicle owners with manual locks always ask me how much it would cost for them to add a remote entry system to their vehicle. For many used car owners, the most practical way to add automatic locks is to install a pair of universal actuators along with an entry level car alarm. This past Friday my customer had a 2000 Ford Ranger with a nice aftermarket system, so he was looking for a high end alarm to protect his car audio equipment. Besides vehicle security, he also wanted a remote entry system so that he could lock and unlock his doors with the press of a button. As an added bonus, once you lock the doors, the car alarm is armed and it will sound once your sensors are triggered by a disturbance. I recommended the Viper 5901 (p/n 5702V) alarm because it was one of the best alarms considering the Viper reputation. It also has remote start, which my customer wasn't planning on getting until I explained to him that remote start car alarms allow you to set the temperature in your vehicle from your keychain. Besides, it is good to for your vehicle's engine to warm up while you are still getting ready to leave. Plus, the Viper 5901 comes with two remotes, and in my experience, you never appreciate how valuable a spare remote is until you lose or break the first one.
In order to access the steering column, I removed four torque screws so that I could pull out the dash cover. Then I removed four more screws to pull out the steering column's metallic frame. I had to access the brain of the old car alarm that had been installed previously. I found a bird's nest of wire, which made me realize the install was going to be a bit more complicated than I anticipated. Anytime you have to clean up someone's mess, you are in for a bit of an adventure. While I was inside the brain, I wanted to test the old actuators that had been installed in the door panels. As the vehicle in question was a 2000 Ford Ranger, I was able to scrape the door trigger wires against the metal chassis to test the door locks. The actuators were not functioning so I had to remove and replace the door lock actuators in order to add automatic locks to this vehicle.
I used my window crank removal tool to remove the window crank handles, and then I removed all of the screws holding in the door panels. I carefully snapped off the plastic door handle piece from each door. Then I peeled away the door skins to access the actuators. One screw held the wiring at the top of the door, so I removed this screw and then unplugged the two wire terminals that had connected the actuator to the vehicle's electrical system. I mounted the new actuators in the same place and connected the wiring. Keeping the door panels off, I tested the door trigger wiring against the metal chassis to see if the actuators responded properly. Bingo. The locks were all ready to go. Now it was time to install the Viper 5901 alarm to enable the remote lock/unlock feature.
When it comes to installs, my motto is that you always have to treat each car like it's your own. That's what I strive to do and is probably why I have been fortunate enough to develop many repeat customers as a professional installer. So even when I saw an absolute bird's nest of wires inside this Ford Ranger, I took the time to clean up someone else's mess. After I removed the tape and untangled the wires, I disconnected the old alarm and pulled it out of the kick panel. Now I was trying to decide where I should mount the brain of the Viper 5901 alarm. I tried various areas before deciding to mount it in the cubby hole behind the AC vents on the right side of the kick panel. I used a drill and some screws to ensure a secure mounting position, although taping the alarm to the chassis would be an acceptable alternative.
Now that I had the Viper 5901 mounted, I used some of my catalogs to help me figure out which wire responded to each command in the 2000 Ford Ranger. When installing alarms, it is also helpful to know what each wire color corresponds to on car alarms. Types of car alarm wires include the ignition wire (yellow), siren wire (brown wire), parking lights wire (usually white), door sensor wires, the "negative when armed" wire (usually an orange wire, this wire sends a negative impedance to trigger additional sensors such as window modules), and the door trigger wiring. After matching the wires from the car alarm to the vehicle, I used a solder gun to seal the connections. Finally, to install the remote start, I disconnected the vehicle battery and connected the remote start wires to the vehicle electrical system. I re-connected the vehicle battery and prepared to test the alarm's functionality.
With everything in place, I left all of the panels off while testing the remote functions. With the doors closed, the locks responded to the button on the keychain remote. Perfect. Now it was time to test the sensitivity sensors. With the doors locked and the alarm armed, I gave the door a wack near the door handle, and sure enough the alarm sounded. I disarmed the alarm using the unlock button, moved on to the remote start button, and the engine started humming! With everything functioning properly, I replaced the panels, and let the customer know his vehicle was good to go!


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- Did Jules Hoffman deserve the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology? "Jules again, in his very subtle manner, described the Toll story as a team-work. I sat there, nauseated."
- Babies given antibiotics more likely to be obese at age 3. This is very likely cause and effect because it is well-established that giving livestock antibiotics makes them fat.
- Lynn Yaeger on collecting. "I'll be trying to get to the bottom of the mystery of what makes otherwise sane people spend all their money on King George coffee mugs."
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Light gene allows tomatoes to grow 24/7
Hothouse crop Scientists have found a gene in wild tomatoes that enables farmed tomato plants to be grown 24 hours a day under natural and artificial light, boosting yields by up to 20 per cent.
Back in the 1920s, experiments showed that modern tomato plants suffer potentially fatal damage to their leaves when grown under continuous light.
As a result, commercial tomatoes have to be grown under a day-night cycle in which light is limited to around 16 hours a day.
In contrast, other plant species such as peppers, lettuces and roses do not have this problem -- they can be grown in continuous light all the time, which is a boon for big factory-style greenhouses.
Researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands trawled through the genomes of eight strains of wild tomato that are native to South America.
On chromosome 7, they found a gene called CAB-13, which confers tolerance to continuous light.
The gene was then transferred to modern domesticated plants by traditional cross-breeding, rather than genetic engineering, and the hybrid was put to the test, they say.
Plants that were grown 24 hours a day achieved a gain in yield of up to 20 per cent compared to those grown for 16 hours in greenhouse conditions, the researchers report in the journal Nature Communications.
What about taste?
So far, there has been no sign of any negative impact on the tomato's taste or shelf life, says lead researcher Aaron Velez-Ramirez.
"It seems that we are just talking of more tomatoes with the same characteristics as those produced under the 16-hour photo period," says Velez-Ramirez.
"Some varieties of potato and petunias, which belong to the same family as tomato, are sensitive to continuous light as well. So they could benefit from finding a way to confer on them tolerance to continuous light, but I do not think that it will make economic (sense) to do so."
Many plant species are tolerant to continuous light, but it only makes financial sense for growers to focus on high-value crops given the cost of lighting, he explains.
"From a scientific point of view, of course, it is always interesting to find why some species can cope with continuous light and some others cannot," he adds.
"When answering this kind of question, we learn a lot on how plants function and how they adapt to their environment."


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If you are an experienced binary options trader or a newbie, you've probably heard of Tesler on the web, everyone talking about it. If interested in knowing more about this software, what it does and whether it's genuine, this Tesler review is going to highlight everything. Before investing your hard earned cash, know for sure if it's worth doing it with this software.
What is Tesler?
Tesler is a web based binary options software robot that first hit the Binary Options trading markets on December 19, 2016. This revolutionary software is pioneered by an online entrepreneur and an investor, Steven Abrahams under the Tesler Investments umbrella. The system is available for free access via their website, Tesler.co.
The system employs an innovative Lead Pattern technology as indicated by Steve Abrahams in his promotional video. This trading algorithm is not the first to be used by Tesler, as many other trading software have used it since it was first introduced in the markets 9 years ago. The Tesler robot has been subjected to numerous tests and has proven time and again that it is a superb binary options software in the market today.
Tesler App works on a full automation trading mode, but allows you to disable it if you are an experienced trader. The auto–trading mode lets you earn up approximately $237 every hour with a success rate of 86%. What's particularly amazing is that the system gives you a Free Trial for just 5 minutes and see how much profit you can make with it.
Tesler video at a glance
On our part, we felt the Tesler promotional video was a little exaggerated, especially on the amount of money you can make per day. In the video, Steven Abrahams says that you can earn up to $237 in a single hour. We felt that he failed to mention one thing: depending on how much you've invested. But everything else said is rational.
Steven Abrahams in the video says that Tesler App was built with the objective of allowing anyone to make money right from the comfort of their seat at home. He says that using the system is absolutely free. And from our own experience with it, we proved it. You'll find out shortly about how we made great profits with only $250 as our initial investment.
Regarding the withdrawals, something we really wanted to hear from the CEO, he says that withdrawals are processed fast and deposited to your chosen accounts. He says that his main life goal is providing the ordinary folks a simple and easy opportunity to make money online without hefty investments or risks.
How to get started with Tesler
As indicated earlier, Tesler is available online for free. All you have to do is create your account at Tesler.com. Once your account is approved, you will have to fill your details via the members section. After that, you will be required to make a minimum deposit of $250 to start trading and winning. Tesler will provide you with a broker account for trading purposes. Every broker is regulated and certified.
Once through with the initial setup, simply enable the Autotrading feature and set your risk level to Low. We often recommend users to start off with the auto-trading mode especially if you are just getting started with binary option trading. Set your trading size to $25 if you are a skeptical trader. With that trading amount, we managed to earn a total profit amount of $3800 within 7 days of trading. We started off with a stake of $250 and so far we've made withdrawals of up to $4900.
However, placing $25 on your trades will only give you little profit amounts. If you want large sized profits, set your trades to be more than $25. With a success rate of 86%, placing larger stakes will mean more profits since the winning ratio promises good profit potential after all.
How does Tesler App works?
Tesler uses the Lead Partner algorithm which runs fast on high end computers and devices, allowing you to place your trades faster and earn profits quicker. In 4 years, the Tesler Investment has only lost trades only once, which is something amazing. The algorithm uses the orderliness that was in place until a trade became successful, to place trades for subsequent trades. And this happens so fast even before a subsequent trade is completed. This trading technology has the ability to predict the circumstances and give suggestions only when there is a winning chance to traders.
The system bases its grounds on Algo-trading. As demonstrated by Steven Abrahams, the system does not place a trade or give suggestions where there is a slightest chance of negative outcome.
Through is auto-trading feature, newbies in binary options trading are advantaged since by enabling the feature, they can scoop more profits without themselves getting involved. The system places trades automatically, but you have to approve it first before it is sent.
The software is accessible across multiple platforms, on computers and mobile devices including smartphones and tablets. They have a mobile app on both Apple AppStore and Google Play store so you can continue trading while on the go. Tesler allows you to start trading after making a minimum deposit of $250.
Why the system is called Tesler?
Tesler App is fully automated through its patented Lead Pattern Technology. This algorithm works in an amazing way that makes it possible to predict trades and give suggestions successfully. Just a few seconds before a trade that was successful comes to an end, the algorithm start a back analysis process where it reviews every variable and factor that lead to success of the trade. This also includes news which might have led to spontaneous reactions in the market. This is what is called the Tesler Principle. This is where the name of the system comes to be.
By using the Tesler Principle, the system will place trades only in situations where there is at least an 86% match with the conditions that lead to the success of just completed trade.
What is the suitable skill level to start trading?
You've probably encountered some trading systems that require a lot knowledge in binary options trading for you to win even a single trade. With Tesler, you don't have to be trading genius. There is no requirement of initial knowledge in trading. This is guaranteed by the highly innovative Lead Partner algorithm which uses mathematical logic to place trades. When you enable the auto-trading mode, you simply give this mathematical algorithm to place trades on your behalf.
Additionally, the user interface is highly intuitive, so anyone with basic computer skills can easily use it without worries. All you need to do is performing simple clicks and you are set for your profit.
Our take on success ratio
Steven Abrahams through his vide states that Tesler App will lose only a single trade out of 98 trades placed. The system has been restricted to make 12 trades for every single hour and the maximum investment you can make per trade is $85. Therefore, assuming that you place all 12 trades in a single hour at maximums of $85, you shall have a stake of $1020 each hour. Since the app may lose a single trade out of 98 trades, before hitting the 98th mark, you shall have made a substantial amount of profit in a single day.
This is the reason why Steven Abrahams claims that you can earn between $5700 and $10,000 in a day. You will be able to achieve such profit amounts only if you chose to trade maximally.
Pros of Tesler App
Tesler App has amazing benefits, here are a few of those:
- It has a winning ratio of above 86% allowing users to earn up to $237 per hour.
- Requires a minimum deposit of only $250.
- Offers the auto-trading mode to suit binary option newbies.
- It makes use of the patented Lead Pattern technology which predicts successful wins based on the just ended successful trades.
- Requires no software downloads or installations.
- Account signup is free and instant.
- Uses only certified and regulated brokers.
- Withdrawals are processed very fast.
- The system has an intuitive user interface suitable for less skilled traders.
- Its mobile friendly and accessible via mobile app on Google Play and Apple AppStore.
Any cons?
- Requires strong internet access.
- Your profit amounts greatly depend on your minimum deposits and trade amount per trade.
Final thoughts
From our own experience with Tesler App, it is very true that traders can make incredible profit amounts, only if they place their best stakes. With a minimum deposit of $250, you can earn some good profit, but if you are a serious trader you will have to invest more. Tesler App promises a success rate of 86%, which is backed by their patented Lead Pattern Technology. Steven Abrahams, the CEO of Tesler promises profits of up to $237 per hour which we have proven to be virtually true. Any serious binary options trader should seize this great opportunity presented by Tesler App to make themselves massive profits.


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Greetings from the Polaris Signet,
Many people have asked me questions in the three months I've been in this office and many of these questions have led me to believe there are a great number of people who aren't exactly sure of what I do. So – now that I've figured out what I'm suppose to be doing – I thought I'd share that information.
For the most part, I'm the hub of the scribal community – the intermediary between the Crown and the scribes who make award scrolls. That's it. That's the really short version but most of you will only really need to know that I'm the person you call if you didn't get your award scroll.
Since the award process itself seems to be at the center of many questions I thought I'd explain that a bit too. Check your calendar. See those summer events you plan to go to? Wouldn't it be nice if that person in your group finally got that well deserved award for all the time and effort they put into that thing they do? If it doesn't happen you're going to be disappointed, but did you remember to write an award recommendation and tell the Crown what you saw? Unless you do, that hardworking gentle might continue to go unrewarded. Why risk it? Why leave it up to someone else to do? After you send in your pre-registration for the event, sit down and send in your award recommendations. There is a simple form online to do this at http://www.northshield.org/admin/award/. Then you'll know it's taken care of.
Several weeks before an event, the Crown sits down and reads all the award recommendations it has and makes a list of the gentles they wish to give awards to. (This process is foreign to me – steeped in old traditions I'm sure. I only know the Crown gets award recs and they send me a list. What happens in between the two events is a mystery to me. It probably involves many beverages and snack cakes. At least I like to think it does, so if it doesn't, please don't tell me. It would ruin my day.)
Once I have that list of awards to be given, usually 3 weeks before the court, I notify my list of scribes willing to help and each one who wants to do an assignment lets me know. I find an award that meets their needs and talents and send it onto them with as much information as I have. If you wrote in your award recommendation that the individual was a tenth century Viking or a late period Spaniard then I can pass that information on to the scribe who takes the assignment. In fact, many scribes only do a specific type or two, so if I know I'm looking at a tenth century persona then I wouldn't give it to someone who specializes in Gothic. It doesn't always work out so perfect but you get the idea; the more information you provide available the better.
On the day of the event, I gather up all the scrolls that the scribes either mailed or personally brought, or sent the scroll with a trusted friend to give to me. I check them all off my list and meet with the Crown to have them sign all the scrolls. At that time they are also stamped with the Kingdom seal and put in the correct order for court. Court starts, the awards are bestowed, I go home. The process starts over again for the next event. Not exactly the same every time – problems do occur.
For instance - you recieved an award but you didn't get a scroll.
Not every scroll is made on paper and scrolls are not required to make an award official. It just so happens that in Northshield a personalized token almost always comes with every award. But not every scroll gets completed on time, some have gotten lost in the mail, a last minute emergency could have prevented the messenger from attending the event. It happens. If I have enough warning that such a thing happened there is the possibility of making a promissory or even a whole new scroll (well just the calligraphy – I bring pre-painted scroll blanks with me most of the time.) It's important that you contact the Polaris Signet (that's me right now) if you receive a promissory – especially if the signet wasn't at the event. Send all the pertinent information (including the full promissory text if possible) so that if the scroll got lost it can be reassigned. If the scroll just didn't make it to court, then it can be signed and sealed at the next event and passed on to you.
Another example would involve your recieving an award and not being at court to accept it. In this case, one of your friends, your Baron/Baroness or your group seneschal may have accepted the scroll on your behalf. I do not track who actually picks up the scroll. If nobody picks it up, and it is still in the posession of the court herald or the signet, then chances are you will recieve it at a future court. But if someone picked it up for you, and then didn't get it to you, there is very little I can do other than advise you to attend court more often. If you received an award and are missing your scroll, there is a list of unclaimed scrolls on the Polaris Signet's web page at http://www.northshield.org/officers/herald/signet/
Everyone should get an award token of some sort but not every award goes through the signet office. Some items the Crown decides to keep to themselves and either arrange a scroll on their own or create a promisory so a scroll can be made after the secret is out. Peerage scrolls do not usually go through the signet office, since it is the responsibility of the person begging the boon to commision the scroll. I am willing to assist with finding a scribe if needed (and will usually check to make sure it has been arranged if I know about it).
And that brings us to the end – getting the award to you so you can hang it on your wall. I will not (and this is a personal choice – the next signet might have different feelings on the subject) mail a scroll unless you first confirm that I have it and you send me the funds to pay for shipping. I can send it to an event and give it to a person you designate. Or you can make other arrangements by contacting me. With the exception of promisories I know about right away, it will be up to you to get the signatures (I have all the seals so that will be less of a problem.)
If you're a scribe and would be interested in working on either court lists or backlog scrolls please contact me. You don't need to be able to do the whole thing yourself – you can do just illumination or just calligraphy. Once you let me know of your willingness to help you will also need to tell me what your good at and, if possible, show me some examples of your work. Then I can put you on the notification list and you can start whenever your ready.
And if you recieved an award and never got a token please contact me with your name, the award, the date and event and the royals who gave the award (and the reason if you happen to know it.) I will see if it is part of my 'unclaimed' collection. Likewise if you claimed an award and didn't have a chance to get it to its rightful owner. I can probably help with that too.
If you wish to know who made your scroll and there is no signature on the back, you can contact the signet (within 6 months of recieving the award). I would need to know the name of the event, your name, and the award name. I can also forward a message to the scribe in question if you would like.
And I wish you all to know I enjoy this job – I think it will be much easier now that everyone knows what I do exactly.
Peaceful journeys with much sunshine always,


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Internet person KatMann has done something wonderful to an old Monopoly board: Developed a custom BioShock "mod", letting you play a Rapture version of the classic game.
Best part? Unlike other novelty Monopoly games you buy in a store, this one works with one you've already got, so it's 100% (though to be honest, you don't even need an original, just print this stuff off and play!).
After you've braced yourself for the torrent of "Is a man not entitled to $200" jokes every time someone passes Go, you can download it at the link below.
BioShock Monopoly by KatMann [Rapture City Archives, via Elysha]
You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.


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Feast Day of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
12 comments June 29th, 2009 Headsman
June 29 is the shared feast day (in both the Latin and Greek rites) of the two biggest wheels in first century Christianity, Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
Tradition holds that both men were martyred in Rome during the persecutions of Emperor Nero after Rome burned: Paul beheaded, Peter crucified upside-down at his own request not to die in the manner of his lord.* Some traditions have both being put to death on the same day; others do not.
Concrete dates** are going to be hard to come by, of course, and the purported historical doings of New Testament Christians are inextricably conjoined to theological ox-goring.
But it is their lives and not their deaths that make them memorable, and to judge by the conquest of the faith they propounded, their feast day honors are richly deserved. Some scholars with no fear for their soul will tell you that Paul in particular can be rated a more consequential historical person than the Nazarene himself, having formulated the doctrine and conducted the ministry needed to turn a dead-end Jewish sect or inchoate reform movement into a surging universal religion that would play to Praetorians.
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While linked on this day, Peter and Paul appear in the Bible as sometime rivals. One might well speculate at the dynamics between them: Peter, after all, got his commission straight from the Savior himself; the upstart Saul of Tarsus, late of the Jewish establishment, arrived fired with the zeal of the converted and went from persecuting Christians to appropriating their doctrine, even calling Peter out publicly.
However they sublimated that awkwardness, their respective offices as Apostle to the Jews (Peter) and Apostle to the Gentiles (Paul) allude to an oft-explored problem whose resolution would prove decisive for the nascent faith: did Christianity require adherence to the strict Mosaic law?
The stakes: would anyone outside of already-existing Jews actually want to convert?
Paul looks like the firebrand, boldly and tirelessly enacting his revolutionary faith-alone revelation (so central to the Protestant Reformation 15 centuries later) on the pacified highways and sea lanes of the Pax Romana; Peter seems the compromiser (or a vacillator), instinctively granting precedence to the Jewish tradition but being carried along by events towards Paul.
Peter is seen in the Bible acceding to Paul's opposition to making Greeks eat kosher and circumcise, and even persuading the most august Judaizer and leader of the Jewish Christians at Jerusalem, Saint James.
Amongst these illustrious names, we may perceive or imagine — "through a glass darkly", as it were — what must have been a blossoming multitude of contending beliefs and practices.
Paul made Christian doctrine amenable† to the practices that would make it a phenomenal evangelical success (and separate it from the faith of Abraham), but on that same winners-write-history basis one is entitled to wonder whether the authority of Peter and James have been appropriated ex post facto by the Biblical writers of the Pauline party. If so, you wouldn't say his reputation has suffered for it: the pope still claims to speak as "the unworthy heir of St. Peter" … and in St. Peter's Basilica.
Whatever the faithful and the merely interested may speculate about their historicity, their names are on the founding charter of Christianity.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day … (St. Paul, 2 Timothy 4:7-8)
A very few of the very many books about Peter and Paul and their times
* See the apocryphal Acts of Peter.
** Italian archaeologist Margherita Guarducci, however, argued that Peter's death could be assigned to a precise date: October 13, 64. We can pose against this skepticism that Peter ever went to Rome at all, a sometime Protestant hobby-horse supposed to undermine the primacy of the Holy See.
† But not so decisively that he wasn't soon at loggerheads with the Jerusalem Jewish Christians again.
Update: Just as this post was getting set to publish, the Vatican announced the discovery of what it claims may be the oldest image of St. Paul, a 4th century fresco uncovered in a Roman catacomb.
On this day..
- 1938: Shlomo Ben-Yosef, Mandatory Palestine Zionist protomartyr - 2020
- 1955: Gerhard Benkowitz and Hans-Dietrich Kogel, of the KgU - 2018
- 1996: The Abu Salim prison massacre - 2017
- 1726: Joseph Quasson - 2016
- 1900: Benjamin Snell, electricity in his head - 2015
- 1612: Robert Crichton, Lord Sanquhar and mediocre swordsman - 2014
- 1944: A day in mass executions in Axis Europe - 2013
- 1799: Admiral Francesco Caracciolo, Neapolitan - 2012
- 1925: Sheikh Said Piran, Kurdish rebel - 2011
- 1541: Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre - 2010
- 2000: Two kidnappers, televised by Guatemala - 2008
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[ps2id id='leptospirosis-in-dogs' target="/]Fact Sheet Leptospirosis in Dogs
Surry County,VA
Is leptospirosis found in Surry County? Leptospirosis has been found in Surry County, Virginia. The Health Department located in Surry investigates several cases each year. Many different animals can carry the bacteria that cause leptospirosis. In Surry County, the most common sources are rodents.
[ps2id id='how-do-dogs-get-leptospirosis' target="/]How do dogs get leptospirosis? The bacteria that cause leptospirosis are spread through the urine of infected animals and can survive in water or soil for weeks to months. People and animals can get infected through contact with contaminated urine, water or soil. The bacteria can enter the body through skin or mucous membranes (eyes, nose or mouth), especially if the skin is broken from a cut or scratch. Dogs usually become infected by drinking, swimming or walking through contaminated water.
[ps2id id='what-are-the-symptoms-of-leptospirosis-in-a-dog' target="/]Leptospirosis in dogs symptoms, and how long do they last? Dogs usually get sick one to two weeks after exposure. Illness can last days or weeks and may include fever, chills, vomiting, muscle aches or diarrhea. Some dogs may seem to recover after the initial illness, but later develop more severe symptoms. This second phase of the disease may include kidney failure or liver failure. A veterinarian will diagnose leptospirosis based on history of exposure, symptoms and a blood test and/or urine test.
[ps2id id='treatment-of-leptospirosis-in-dogs' target="/]Can leptospirosis be treated? Yes, leptospirosis is treated with antibiotics. Treating the disease early can help prevent severe symptoms. Hospitalization may be necessary for dogs with severe illness.
[ps2id id='how-to-prevent-leptospirosis' target="/]How can I protect my dog from leptospirosis? Keep your home free of rodents and prevent your dog from having direct contact with rodents and small mammals when outdoors. Do not let your dog drink from puddles or other sources of water that may be contaminated with animal urine.
[ps2id id='can-leptospirosis-recur' target="/]If my dog already had leptospirosis, can it get infected again? Yes. Many different types (serovars) of the bacteria exist. After recovery from leptospirosis, an animal will only be immune to the serovar that caused the original infection.
[ps2id id='how-is-leptospirosis-spread-to-humans' target="/]Can I get leptospirosis from my dog? Yes, although dog-to-human transmission is extremely rare.
[ps2id id='chances-of-dog-surviving-leptospirosis' target="/]What should I do if my dog is diagnosed with leptospirosis? After starting treatment, your dog may continue to pass leptospirosis bacteria for six weeks. During that time, protect yourself and others: • Wash your hands carefully after direct contact with your dog or its urine. • Have your dog urinate in an area where the urine will dry up quickly and where other dogs or people will not come into contact with it. Sunlight and drying will kill the bacteria. • Wear disposable gloves when cleaning the dog's bedding or any areas with urine. • Disinfect areas that may have been contaminated by urine, feces (stool) or vomit with an iodine- or bleach-based disinfectant. • Contact your doctor if you feel sick.Column Content


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As the summer swelters on, skyscrapers and apartments around the city will be cranking up the air conditioning and pushing the city's power grid to the limit.
But some office towers and buildings have found a way to stay cool while keeping the AC to a minimum - by using an energy-saving system that relies on blocks of ice to pump chilly air through buildings.
The systems save companies money and reduce strain on the electrical grid in New York, where the city consumes more power on hot summer days than the entire nation of Chile.
It also cuts down on pollution. An ice-cooling system in the Credit Suisse offices at the historic Metropolitan Life tower in Manhattan is as good for the environment as taking 223 cars off the streets or planting 1.9 million acres of trees to absorb the carbon dioxide caused by electrical usage for one year.
Such a reduction in pollution is valuable in a city where the majority of emissions come from the operation of buildings. State officials say there are at least 3,000 ice-cooling systems worldwide.
"It is worth it to do in New York City," said William Beck, the head of critical engineering systems for Credit Suisse. "If you take the time to look, you can find innovative ways to be energy efficient, be environmental and sustainable."
Because electricity is needed to make the ice, water is frozen in large silver tanks at night when power demands are low. The cool air emanating from the ice blocks is then piped throughout the building more or less like traditional air conditioning. At night the water is frozen again and the cycle repeats.
Ice storage can be used as the sole cooling system, or it can be combined with traditional systems to help ease the power demands during peak hours. At Credit Suisse, for example, the company must cool 1.9 million square feet of office space at the Met Life tower, a historic building that was New York's tallest in the days before the Empire State Building.
In the basement, three main cooling rooms house chilling machines and 64 tanks that hold 800 gallons of water each. Credit Suisse has a traditional air conditioning system, but engineers use the more efficient system first.
Construction on the system took about four months, and company engineers say it is extremely efficient.
"The concept is the same, but when you make something mechanical, it can break, but a big block of ice four floors below grade level isn't going to do anything but melt," said Todd Coulard of Trane Energy Services. The company built the Credit Suisse system and is one of several that work with ice storage.
Trane, the air-conditioning arm of American Standard, also developed a system for Morgan Stanley's Westchester County offices, and just completed a new system for its offices on Fifth Avenue. A new Goldman Sachs headquarters will also have ice cooling. Credit Suisse is looking at installing the systems in offices around the globe, but nothing has been decided yet.
Coulard, an expert in energy efficiency, was hired by the company four years ago to develop the energy services department.
"I've been doing green since before it was cool," he said. "The idea of not only saving money for large companies, but doing something that benefits the environment is win-win. It's doing the right thing."
Engineers say the power-saving results from the system are impressive. And it translates into millions of dollars saved in energy bills for the companies.
Ice storage at Credit Suisse lowers the facility's peak energy use by 900 kilowatts, and reduces overall electric usage by 2.15 million kilowatt-hours annually - enough to power about 200 homes.
At the Morgan Stanley facility in Westchester County, the system reduces peak energy use by 740 kilowatts and overall electricity usage by 900,000 kilowatt hours annually.
Both companies received incentives from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority under a program designed to improve the power grid and help businesses reduce operating costs.
The technology isn't for every office space. There has to be room to install the large tanks. And costs are considerable: Credit Suisse spent more than $3 million to renovate its cooling system; and Morgan Stanley's costs were comparable, which means the technology is best suited to large companies.
"This is for companies that want to go green but that there has to be other benefits, returns on investments," Coulard said. "It works for larger companies because their cooling costs are so considerable."


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If the Looney Toons team had played with plastic blocks that snap together, "The Lego Movie" is the kind of surreal subversion they might have made. Their Looney heirs, the guys behind the original "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller), have turned a 90-minute exercise in product placement into a trippy clarion call for creativity – for not following "the instructions" of these fiendishly simple Danish building blocks.
The story – if you can call it that – is a riff on "Tron," an alternate world out of sight of our own whose denizens lead an assault on conformity. The characters, ranging from a blind wizard (Morgan Freeman) and "master builder" ninja (Elizabeth Banks) to Batman (a growling Will Arnett), an evil overlord named President Business (Will Ferrell) and his Bad Cop (Liam Neeson) henchman, make the case that it's those who can improvise, invent and see the world differently who are "the special."
Mild-mannered Emmet (Chris Pratt) is just another yellow-faced Lego construction worker who is a model citizen in a planned society. He follows the rules.
"Always return a compliment. Always root for the local sports team …"
Everybody loves the same TV show – "Where are My Pants?" Everbody's "jam" is the same song – "Everything is AWEsome."
And then Emmet stumbles onto an object of prophecy, "the piece of resistance." That must mean he's the chosen one, "the special." So Wyldstyle (Banks) tries to help him get that "piece" to where it can stop President (actually Lord) Business from destroying the many Lego universes, from Bricksville to the Old West to Middle Zealand.
Jerky computer animation vividly mimics the shiny look and tactile feel of Lego blocks. The movie shows off these blocks as "the Original Transformers," clickable into a wild variety of shapes, from cities to saloons, sailing ships to the plastic sea they sail on.
Slapstick violence befalls the clueless Emmet and those who help him, "master builders" honored for their crazy-quilt Lego designs, making cars, motorcycles, stagecoaches and spaceships on the fly to aid in their escape.
Batman pitches in. The Green Lantern (a needy Jonah Hill) doesn't.
And out to stop them at every turn is the furious and sadistic Good Cop / Bad Cop, a two-faced police Lego both voiced by a foul-mouthed Neeson. ("Darn darn Darney Darn darn-it!")
A clever touch – the writers note how creative kids slip small, everyday objects into their Lego play as golf balls (Teet-leest), Q-Tips, 9 volt batteries and Xacto knives ("The sword of Exact-Zero!") become exalted props in this universe.
The animation is a plastic-coated blur at times. Many of the jokes will fly over the heads of the intended audience, and the sermonizing about being creative gets repetitive. But from its slapstick physics to its theology ("The Man Upstairs"), "The Lego Movie" amuses and never fails to leave viewers –especially adults – a little dazzled at the demented audacity of it all.
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NEW YORK – Myanmar, Marseille, New Zealand and Gettysburg are all on the travel radar for 2013 thanks to new tours, events and anniversaries. But the best pitch for travel in the new year might just be coming from Ireland, which is running ads "calling all Flynns, O'Malleys and Schweizenbergs" to the Emerald Isle for a unique grassroots homecoming called "The Gathering."
Here are details on these and other places, events and travel trends for 2013.
"It's a citizen-led initiative to attract people who are Irish-born, Irish-bred or Irish in spirit to join us in 2013," said Bernard McMullan of Tourism Ireland. "It's almost become a competition where one county, town or village tries to have as quirky a gathering as the next."
More than 2,000 events are already planned, including events for redheads and left-handers as well as reunions based on family names and clans.
Arabella Bowen, executive editorial director of Fodor's Travel, is one of more than 44 million Americans (including President Obama) with an Irish ancestor in the family tree. "There are Irish people all over the world," she said. "It will be great fun being able to connect with others going back for this event. It's like an entire year of St. Patrick's Day parties."
President Barack Obama's historic recent visit to Myanmar — the first ever by a sitting U.S. president — is adding to already heated-up interest in the country, which has only fully opened to tourism in the last few years. Fodor's Bowen says it's especially attractive to people who are already well traveled and are seeking that next unknown destination.
Many tour companies are adding Myanmar trips due to demand and the U.S. Tour Operators Association's active members named Myanmar No. 1 on a list of "off-the-beaten path" countries they foresee becoming popular in 2013.
New Zealand received a huge boost in tourism from fans of "The Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy, and the release of the new movie "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" is focusing attention on the destination once again. All four of the movies were filmed in New Zealand.
The French port city Marseille is one of two European capitals of culture in 2013, along with the Slovakian city of Kosice. Fodor's Bowen says Marseille "has been overlooked in the past" by a lot of travelers heading to the lavender fields and wineries of Provence, but she believes it's ripe for a "renaissance" with new hotels, art galleries and culinary hotspots. XL Airways France is launching direct flights from New York in late May.
Several important anniversaries take place in 2013, with exhibits and events to mark them.
— Gettysburg, Pa., is marking 150 years since the famous Civil War battle, which took place July 1-13, 1863. The town will also mark the sesquicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln's brief but brilliant 272-word speech, the Gettysburg Address, which he delivered Nov. 19, 1863 at the battlefield cemetery.
Marquee events for the battle commemoration, including reenactments and tours, will take place June 28 to July 7, but there will be activities and programs throughout the year. On July 1, the new Seminary Ridge Museum opens in a building that was used as a soldiers' hospital. Union Gen. John Buford also used the structure's cupola to scout the countryside on the battle's first day.
— Dallas plans a ceremony to mark 50 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, at the exact time and place where shots rang out: Dealey Plaza, Nov. 22, 12:25 p.m. The ceremony will begin with church bells tolling and a moment of silence, followed by a reading of Kennedy's speeches, songs, prayers and a military flyover. Special programming is also planned by many other sites, from the Newseum in Washington, D.C., to the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, located in a building where a sniper's nest and rifle were found following the shooting.
— Saratoga, N.Y., is planning a May to September celebration with festivals and concerts marking the 150th anniversary of the race course, where watching the horses remains a fun and popular pastime. The town is also known for upscale eateries and lodging along with Saratoga Spa State Park, with its beautiful pools and natural springs.
— New York City's Grand Central Terminal kicks off its centennial Feb. 1 with a rededication of the landmarked Beaux Arts station. Performances, lectures, exhibits and tours are planned throughout the year.
— Florida is marking the state's 500th anniversary of European discovery and exploration, with events in all 67 counties.
Next summer will see the popular 3-D ride based on the "Transformers" movies opening at Universal's theme park in Orlando. "Transformers: The Ride — 3D" previously opened this past May at Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles.
At Disneyland in California, spring will see the opening of Fantasy Faire, located at Fantasyland and dedicated to Disney heroes and heroines. At Disney World near Orlando, Fla., a new attraction called Princess Fairytale Hall, where guests can meet Disney princesses, is also scheduled to open in 2013. Princess Fairytale Hall will be located at the Magic Kingdom's New Fantasyland, which opened in early December, doubling the size of the original Fantasyland. Both parks are offering weekly surprises for guests as part of a yearlong 2013 program called Limited Time Magic.
Superstorm Sandy destroyed beaches, boardwalks and waterfront attractions all along the mid-Atlantic coast. Many communities on the Jersey shore, the beloved pier in Ocean City, Md., and elsewhere are hoping to have infrastructure rebuilt by summer.
On Coney Island, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the landmark Cyclone and Wonder Wheel rides are in good condition along with other amusement park attractions and are expected to reopen in spring as usual, along with the famous hot dog eatery Nathan's and the home stadium for the Cyclones minor league baseball team. The New York Aquarium at Coney has been closed due to damage from flooding but hopes to reopen some if not all exhibits by summer.
According to Anne Banas, executive editor of Smarter Travel, ever-increasing airfares and airline fees have forced travelers to focus on the other big-ticket item in vacation spending: Hotels. "It's all about hotels now and hotel deals," she said, adding that interest is skyrocketing in hotel booking sites, apps and membership-only sites. The vacation rental market is changing too, with more owners allowing people to book for a weekend of a few nights instead of the Sunday-to-Sunday week.
Banas said sites like SniqueAway, Jetsetter and the Vacationist are becoming more popular "because you can get a more luxurious property for lower prices — you can stay at a four- or five-star hotel for the price of a three-star. But you have to be more flexible. You have to take what's being offered, which might be offseason or slow season."
Another site, Tingo, "automatically rebooks you at a lower price if the price drops, and issues you a refund," Banas said. "Tingo does all the work. It's a nice passive way to save some money."
Several new sites and apps offer highly discounted hotel rooms that can only be booked that night, including HotelTonight and Priceline's Tonight -Only Deals.
"This is for two types of people — people who are really last-minute, flexible travelers, or people whose flight is canceled and they need a hotel tonight," Banas said.
Jan Freitag of STR, which tracks hotel data, said mobile apps are becoming a "preferred travel booking tool" to the point where some travel startups are forgoing websites for app-only hotel booking models.
Ann Mack, director of Trendspotting at JWT, the advertising agency, is noting several trends for 2013 with implications for travelers. For the trend toward "intelligent things" — tech-enabled smart devices — one example offered by JWT is The Hop, a prototype suitcase that literally follows you around using a system based on sensors that track Bluetooth signals from a smartphone.
JWT says another trend, the "Super Stress Era," will lead to ramped-up efforts to fight stress. Examples include the San Francisco International Airport's yoga room and the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport's 1.4-mile walking loop.
— The George W. Bush Presidential Center opens in the spring on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
— In Nashville, the Johnny Cash Museum is expected to open in the spring.
— American Express reports an emerging interest in safaris "beyond Africa," from "Borneo's orangutans to Cambodia's elephants, India's tigers to Indonesia's komodo dragons."


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- Sharding >
- Data Partitioning with Chunks >
- Split Chunks in a Sharded Cluster
Split Chunks in a Sharded Cluster¶
Normally, MongoDB splits a chunk after an insert if the chunk exceeds the maximum chunk size. However, you may want to split chunks manually if:
- you have a large amount of data in your cluster and very few chunks, as is the case after deploying a cluster using existing data.
- you expect to add a large amount of data that would initially reside
in a single chunk or shard. For example, you plan to insert a large
amount of data with shard key values between
400, but all values of your shard keys are between
500are in a single chunk.
MongoDB provides the
mergeChunks command
to combine contiguous chunk ranges into a single chunk. See
Merge Chunks in a Sharded Cluster for more
The balancer may migrate recently split chunks to a new shard immediately if the move benefits future insertions. The balancer does not distinguish between chunks split manually and those split automatically by the system.
Be careful when splitting data in a sharded collection to create new chunks. When you shard a collection that has existing data, MongoDB automatically creates chunks to evenly distribute the collection. To split data effectively in a sharded cluster you must consider the number of documents in a chunk and the average document size to create a uniform chunk size. When chunks have irregular sizes, shards may have an equal number of chunks but have very different data sizes. Avoid creating splits that lead to a collection with differently sized chunks.
sh.status() to determine the current chunk ranges across
the cluster.
To split chunks manually, use the
split command with either
middle or
find. The
mongo shell provides the
helper methods
sh.splitFind() and
splitFind() splits the chunk that contains the first
document returned that matches this query into two equally sized chunks.
You must specify the full namespace (i.e. "
of the sharded collection to
splitFind(). The query in
splitFind() does not need to use the shard key, though it
nearly always makes sense to do so.
The following command splits the chunk that contains the value of
63109 for the
zipcode field in the
people collection of
records database:
splitAt() to split a chunk in two, using the queried
document as the lower bound in the new chunk:
The following command splits the chunk that contains the value of
63109 for the
zipcode field in the
people collection of
records database.
splitAt() does not necessarily split the chunk
into two equally sized chunks. The split occurs at the location of
the document matching the query, regardless of where that document is
in the chunk.
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Court records show the following actions taken in Homer District Court through July 3:
Pete K. Daily, 62, Anchor Point, charge dismissed, refusal to submit to a breath test. He pleaded guilty at his arraignment to driving under the influence. He was fined $2,000 with $500 suspended and sentenced to 90 days in jail with 87 days suspended; ordered to pay $75 to support the Police Training Fund, a $150 jail surcharge with $100 suspended and the $330 cost of imprisonment; ordered to attend an alcohol safety action program and install an ignition interlock device; had his driver's license revoked for 90 days; and was placed on probation for one year.
Criminal Court
Erik F. Donhauser-Sagemoen, 20, second-degree failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer, driving while license revoked, driving under the influence, marijuana.
Johnathon R. Cumpton, 25, Ninilchik, DUI, driving while license suspended.
Joshua D. Moore, 33, Mesa, Ariz., DUI.
Benjamin J. Poore, 26, reckless endangerment, fourth-degree misconduct involving weapons.
Maxim Gostevskyh, 34, Nikolaevsk, retaining commercial Individual Fishing Quota halibut with a valid entry permit card.
Vance R. Haines, 37, retain overlimit of halibut and filleting halibut in violation of regulations, two counts.
Tad H. Long, 46, DWLR.
Gerald H. Grappi, 66, third-degree assault, a felony; DUI.
Alan T. Blatchford, 67, fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance, methamphetamines; sixth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance, marijuana.
Theresa M. Bush, 55, DWLR, driving in violation of limitations placed on license.
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A great list, thanks! I know if you spread lime juice onto an avocado that's been sliced it will stop it from going "brown". I can't remember the scientific process behind it but it certainly works! I'll have a read of the others later, but for now it's all about groceries. The sad thing about veg (and I really do love vegetables) is how quickly they go off.
Another tip; remember, don't keep tomatoes or bananas in the fridge. They need to be kept at room temperature.


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- Euclid
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* * *flourished с 300 BC, Alexandria, EgyptGreek mathematician of antiquity, known primarily for his highly influential treatise on geometry, the Elements.He founded a school in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I. Little is known of his life, but there are many anecdotes. In the most famous, asked by Ptolemy if there is a shorter way to geometry than through his Elements, Euclid replies, "There is no royal road to geometry." The Elements, based on the works of earlier mathematicians, is a brilliant synthesis of old and new. It has been a major influence on rational thought and a model for many philosophical treatises, and it has set a standard for logical thinking and methods of proof in the sciences. The starting point not just of Euclidean geometry but of an approach to reasoning, it is sometimes said to be the most translated, published, and studied work after the Bible.
* * *▪ Greek mathematicianIntroductionGreek Eukleidesborn c. 300 BC, Alexandria, Egyptthe most prominent mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity, best known for his treatise on geometry, the Elements.LifeOf Euclid's life nothing is known except what the Greek philosopher Proclus (c. AD 410–485) reports in his "summary" of famous Greek mathematicians. According to him, Euclid taught at Alexandria in the time of Ptolemy I Soter, who reigned over Egypt from 323 to 285 BC. Medieval translators and editors often confused him with the philosopher Eukleides of Megara, a contemporary of Plato about a century before, and therefore called him Megarensis. Proclus supported his date for Euclid by writing "Ptolemy once asked Euclid if there was not a shorter road to geometry than through the Elements, and Euclid replied that there was no royal road to geometry." Today few historians challenge the consensus that Euclid was older than Archimedes (c. 290/280–212/211 BC).Sources and contents of the ElementsEuclid compiled his Elements from a number of works of earlier men. Among these are Hippocrates of Chios (flourished c. 460 BC), not to be confused with the physician Hippocrates of Cos (Hippocrates) (c. 460–377 BC). The latest compiler before Euclid was Theudius, whose textbook was used in the Academy and was probably the one used by Aristotle (384–322 BC). The older elements were at once superseded by Euclid's and then forgotten. For his subject matter Euclid doubtless drew upon all his predecessors, but it is clear that the whole design of his work was his own, culminating in the construction of the five regular solids, now known as the Platonic solids (Platonic solid).Euclid's axioms and common notionsA brief survey of the Elements belies a common belief that it concerns only geometry. This misconception may be caused by reading no further than Books I through IV, which cover elementary plane geometry. Euclid understood that building a logical and rigorous geometry (and mathematics) depends on the foundation—a foundation that Euclid began in Book I with 23 definitions (such as "a point is that which has no part" and "a line is a length without breadth"), five unproved assumptions that Euclid called postulates (now known as axioms (axiom)), and five further unproved assumptions that he called common notions. (See the table (Euclid's axioms and common notions) of Euclid's 10 initial assumptions.) Book I then proves elementary theorems about triangles and parallelograms and ends with the Pythagorean theorem. (For Euclid's proof of the theorem, see the sidebar: Euclid's Windmill Proof.)The subject of Book II has been called geometric algebra because it states algebraic identities as theorems about equivalent geometric figures. Book II contains a construction of "the section," the division of a line into two parts such that the ratio of the larger to the smaller segment is equal to the ratio of the original line to the larger segment. (This division was renamed the golden section in the Renaissance after artists and architects rediscovered its pleasing proportions.) Book II also generalizes the Pythagorean theorem to arbitrary triangles, a result that is equivalent to the law of cosines (see plane trigonometry (trigonometry)). Book III deals with properties of circles and Book IV with the construction of regular polygons, in particular the pentagon.Book V shifts from plane geometry to expound a general theory of ratios and proportions that is attributed by Proclus (along with Book XII) to Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 390–350 BC). While Book V can be read independently of the rest of the Elements, its solution to the problem of (irrational numbers) is essential to later books. In addition, it formed the foundation for a geometric theory of numbers until an analytic theory developed in the late 19th century. Book VI applies this theory of ratios to plane geometry, mainly triangles and parallelograms, culminating in the "application of areas," a procedure for solving quadratic problems by geometric means.Books VII–IX contain elements of number theory, where number (arithmos) means positive integers greater than 1. Beginning with 22 new definitions—such as unity, even, odd, and prime—these books develop various properties of the positive integers. For instance, Book VII describes a method, antanaresis (now known as the Euclidean algorithm), for finding the greatest common divisor of two or more numbers; Book VIII examines numbers in continued proportions, now known as geometric sequences (such as ax, ax2, ax3, ax4…); and Book IX proves that there are an infinite number of primes.According to Proclus, Books X and XIII incorporate the work of the Pythagorean Theaetetus (c. 417–369 BC). Book X, which comprises roughly one-fourth of the Elements, seems disproportionate to the importance of its classification of incommensurable lines and areas (although study of this book would inspire Johannes Kepler (Kepler, Johannes) [1571–1630] in his search for a cosmological model).Books XI–XIII examine three-dimensional figures, in Greek stereometria. Book XI concerns the intersections of planes, lines, and parallelepipeds (solids with parallel parallelograms as opposite faces). Book XII applies Eudoxus' method of exhaustion (exhaustion, method of) to prove that the areas of circles are to one another as the squares of their diameters and that the volumes of spheres are to one another as the cubes of their diameters. Book XIII culminates with the construction of the five regular Platonic solids (Platonic solid) (pyramid, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron) in a given sphere.The unevenness of the several books and the varied mathematical levels may give the impression that Euclid was but an editor of treatises written by other mathematicians. To some extent this is certainly true, although it is probably impossible to figure out which parts are his own and which were adaptations from his predecessors. Euclid's contemporaries considered his work final and authoritative; if more was to be said, it had to be as commentaries to the Elements.Renditions of the ElementsIn ancient times, commentaries were written by Hero of Alexandria (Heron of Alexandria) (flourished c. AD 62), Pappus of Alexandria (flourished c. AD 320), Proclus, and Simplicius Of Cilicia (flourished c. AD 530). The father of Hypatia, Theon of Alexandria (c. AD 335–405), edited the Elements with textual changes and some additions; his version quickly drove other editions out of existence, and it remained the Greek source for all subsequent Arabic and Latin translations until 1808, when an earlier edition was discovered in the Vatican.The immense impact of the Elements on Islamic mathematics is visible through the many translations into Arabic from the 9th century forward, three of which must be mentioned: two by al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, first for the Abbāssid caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (Hārūn ar-Rashīd) (ruled 786–809) and again for the caliph al-Maʾmūn (Maʾmūn, al-) (ruled 813–833); a third by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (808–873) was revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (Thābit ibn Qurra) (c. 836–901) and again by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-) (1201–74). Euclid first became known in Europe through Latin translations of these versions.The first extant Latin translation of the Elements was made about 1120 by Adelard Of Bath, who obtained a copy of an Arabic version in Spain, where he traveled while disguised as a Muslim student. Adelard also composed an abridged version and an edition with commentary, thus starting a Euclidean tradition of the greatest importance until the Renaissance unearthed Greek manuscripts. Incontestably the best Latin translation from Arabic was made by Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114–87) from the Isḥāq-Thābit versions.The first direct translation from the Greek without an Arabic intermediary was made by Bartolomeo Zamberti and published in Vienna in Latin in 1505; and the editio princeps of the Greek text was published in Basel in 1533 by Simon Grynaeus. The first English translation of the Elements was by Sir Henry Billingsley in 1570. The impact of this activity on European mathematics cannot be exaggerated; the ideas and methods of Kepler, Pierre de Fermat (Fermat, Pierre de) (1601–65), René Descartes (Descartes, René) (1596–1650), and Isaac Newton (Newton, Sir Isaac) (1642 [Old Style]–1727) were deeply rooted in, and inconceivable without, Euclid's Elements.Other writingsThe Euclidean corpus falls into two groups: elementary geometry and general mathematics. Although many of Euclid's writings were translated into Arabic in medieval times, works from both groups have vanished. Extant in the first group is the Data (from the first Greek word in the book, dedomena ["given"]), a disparate collection of 94 advanced geometric propositions that all take the following form: given some item or property, then other items or properties are also "given"—that is, they can be determined. Some of the propositions can be viewed as geometry exercises to determine if a figure is constructible by Euclidean means. On Divisions (of figures)—restored and edited in 1915 from extant Arabic and Latin versions—deals with problems of dividing a given figure by one or more straight lines into various ratios to one another or to other given areas.Four lost works in geometry are described in Greek sources and attributed to Euclid. The purpose of the Pseudaria ("Fallacies"), says Proclus, was to distinguish and to warn beginners against different types of fallacies to which they might be susceptible in geometrical reasoning. According to Pappus, the Porisms ("Corollaries"), in three books, contained 171 propositions. Michel Chasles (Chasles, Michel) (1793–1880) conjectured that the work contained propositions belonging to the modern theory of transversals and to projective geometry. Like the fate of earlier "Elements," Euclid's Conics, in four books, was supplanted by a more thorough book on the conic sections (conic section) with the same title written by Apollonius of Perga (c. 262–190 BC). Pappus also mentioned the Surface-loci (in two books), whose subject can only be inferred from the title.Among Euclid's extant works are the Optics, the first Greek treatise on perspective, and the Phaenomena, an introduction to mathematical astronomy. Those works are part of a corpus known as "the Little Astronomy" that also includes the Moving Sphere by Autolycus of Pitane.Two treatises on music, the "Division of the Scale" (a basically Pythagorean theory of music (Pythagoreanism)) and the "Introduction to Harmony," were once mistakenly thought to be from The Elements of Music, a lost work attributed by Proclus to Euclid.AssessmentAlmost from the time of its writing, the Elements exerted a continuous and major influence on human affairs. It was the primary source of geometric reasoning, theorems, and methods at least until the advent of non-Euclidean geometry in the 19th century. It is sometimes said that, other than the Bible, the Elements is the most translated, published, and studied of all the books produced in the Western world. Euclid may not have been a first-class mathematician, but he set a standard for deductive reasoning and geometric instruction that persisted, practically unchanged, for more than 2,000 years.Bartel Leendert van der Waerden Christian Marinus TaisbakMajor WorksEuclid's extant works are collected in Euclidis Opera Omnia, ed. by J.L. Heiberg and H. Menge, 9 vol. (1883–1916), containing the Elementa, Libri I–XIII, Elementorum, Data, Optica, and Phaenomena.The standard English translation of the Elements is T.L. Heath, The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, 3 vol., (1908; 2nd ed., rev. with additions, 1926). A restoration of Euclid's On Divisions is Raymond Clare Archibald, Euclid's Book on Divisions of Figures (1915). Euclid's contributions to astronomy are accessible in a recent English translation and commentary by J.L. Berggren and R.S.D. Thomas, Euclid's Phaenomena (1996).Christian Marinus TaisbakAdditional ReadingGeorge Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, 3 vol. in 5 (1927–48), vol. 1, pp. 153–156, contains an extensive bibliography up to the 1920s. Thomas L. Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (1921, reprinted 1993), vol. 1, pp. 354–446, presents an authoritative survey of Euclid's works; it can be supplemented by Victor J. Katz, A History of Mathematics: An Introduction, 2nd ed. (1998), pp. 58–101, whose bibliography refers to most recent treatments of Euclid's works. Information on Euclid and Platonism is contained in Glenn R. Morrow (trans.), Proclus: A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements (1970, reprinted 1992). A recent accessible contribution to the literature is Benno Artmann, Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics (1999).Christian Marinus Taisbakcity, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., on Lake Erie, just northeast of Cleveland. The original township area was settled in 1797 and was named for the famous Greek mathematician by the surveyors who arrived with Moses Cleaveland, an agent of the Connecticut Land Company. It remained largely rural, noted chiefly for grapes, until after 1940, when there was rapid industrial and urban growth. Manufactures now include airplane parts, assembly-line equipment, motors, metal fasteners, electrical and welding equipment, and earthmovers. Inc. village, 1903; city, 1930. Pop. (2000) 52,717; (2005 est.) 49,619.
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Interactions are an essential part of any organization. Whether it is receiving help from colleagues or gaining access to crucial information, developing a strong internal network makes it easier for an employee to get things done. This latest study examines the impact of performance evaluations on an individual's network.
This article from Andrew Parker is the subject of the 24th GEM LAB Executive Summaries.
From 2004 to 2009, the authors of the study surveyed 150 employees about their internal networking habits. The employees worked at a global IT company spread out over 11 countries. Each year, they were asked to detail the number of colleagues they interacted with and how often these interactions took place. These yearly analyses of internal networks were then correlated with employee performance evaluations.
A determining factor for internal networking
From the article
Dynamics of Social Capital: Effects of Performance Feedback on Network Change
Organization studies 1 – 23 DOI: 10.1177/0170840615613371
Andrew Parker, Daniel S. Halgin, Stephen P. Borgatti, 2016
The study results suggest that a manager's feedback can greatly impact an employee's desire to develop or reduce his or her internal network. The authors highlight that employees with positive evaluations increased their interactions with existing contacts and developed new contacts. In contrast, employees with negative evaluations reduced their number of contacts and interacted more often with those in their limited network.
Positive feedback encourages risk-taking
The correlation between positive performance evaluations and increased network development suggests that evaluations have a strong impact on individual confidence levels. The decision to expand one's network requires a degree of risk-taking (e.g., choosing who to contact? are they reliable? etc.). As positive feedback from a manager promoted employee confidence, individuals developed the energy to expand their networks despite possible risks.
On the other hand, negative evaluations caused employees to adopt defensive attitudes. By undermining confidence, negative feedback can cause employees to focus on contacts they already know and trust. The authors note that similar conclusions had already been reached in 2003 concerning the CEOs at companies in difficult situations. During a crisis, these CEOs had a tendency to limit their network to familiar contacts. The result was that they lost the opportunity to discover new ideas, which might have helped them overcome their current challenge.
Providing support after negative evaluations
Given the results of this study, the researchers advise companies to provide support for employees who receive negative feedback. The goal is to encourage them to expand their networks and highlight how this can in fact improve performance and future evaluations. To provide support and opportunities for employees to expand their networks, companies can implement various actions such as mentoring, training, interdepartmental meetings or transversal projects
Key Points
- Annual performance evaluations influence how employees manage their internal networks.
- Positive evaluations improve confidence levels and encourage employees to expand their networks.
- Negative evaluations can cause employees to reduce their networks. Companies and managers must provide support for these employees in order to limit the negative impact of an evaluation and help them expand their networks


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But why is it called Pixel? It's the first Chromebook with a retina-like display, 3:2 aspect ratio and 2560x1700 resolution. Much like Apple's Retina MacBook Pro, Chromebook Pixel uses pixel doubling to make everything look sharp and crisp. The display has "the highest pixel density (239 pixels per inch) of any laptop screen on the market today" and it's a 12.85-inch IPS touchscreen with 400 nit brightness and 178° extra-wide viewing angles.
Pixel has an anodized aluminium body, glass touchpad, backlit keyboard, hidden vents, Intel i5 processor and 4GB of RAM. "The touchpad is made from etched glass, analyzed and honed using a laser microscope to ensure precise navigation. The Pixel also has powerful, full-range speakers for crisp sound, a 720p webcam for clear video, and a total of three microphones designed to cancel out surrounding noise," informs Google.
Google also includes 1TB of free Google Drive Storage for 3 years. You can also buy a special model with an integrated LTE modem for Verizon.
The Verge has some cool pictures. "There are subtle design touches throughout the machine that help add to the 'premium' feel that Google is going for. The fan vents out in the hinge, every edge is subtly bezeled to prevent sharp angles, the speakers are fairly loud despite being hidden underneath the keyboard, and Google even opted to not put labels next to the ports."
The downside is that Google's Chromebook is really expensive: $1300 (WiFi)/$1450 (WiFi+LTE). It's more expensive than Apple's MacBook Air and most ultrabooks. While it has a better display, Chrome OS is more limited than MacOS (or Windows) and it only became popular when Samsung and Acer started to offer $200-$250 Chromebooks. When you can buy tablets with high-resolution displays for $400 (Nexus 10) or $500 (iPad), the $1300 Chromebook Pixel feels out of place and overkill. After all, you can buy a Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10 and a Samsung Chromebook for less than $1200. An ARM device would've been a lot cheaper, but less powerful.
"The Pixel will be available for purchase starting today on Google Play in the U.S. and U.K., and soon on BestBuy.com. The WiFi version ($1,299 U.S. and £1,049 U.K.) will start shipping next week and the LTE version ($1,449) will ship in the U.S. in April. If you're interested in a hands-on experience, you can visit select Best Buy (U.S.) and Currys PC World (U.K.) store locations."
Now Google has a good reason to open its own physical stores.
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Leaked: This Year's MacArthur Genius Grant Winners
Whoops. Mississippi newspaper The Sun Herald accidentally published the closely-guarded list of MacArthur "genius grant" recipients several hours before the MacArthur Foundation's press embargo. We've copied the full list of winners below. Each receives $625,000 over five years, to spend on whatever he or she wants. (Spoiler: You did not win. Maybe next year.)
— Kyle Abraham, 36, New York City. Choreographer and dancer who explores the confluence of personal history and identity.
— Donald Antrim, 55, New York City. Teaches writing at Columbia University and is being recognized for his fiction and nonfiction.
— Phil Baran, 36, La Jolla, Calif. Organic chemist at Scripps Research Institute who invents ways to recreate natural products with potential pharmaceutical uses.
— C. Kevin Boyce, 39, Stanford, Calif. Paleobotanist at Stanford University who looks at links between ancient plants and today's ecosystems.
— Jeffrey Brenner, 44, Camden, N.J. The physician founded a health care delivery model that finds, tracks and serves the city's poorest and sickest residents.
— Colin Camerer, 53, Pasadena, Calif. Behavioral economist at the California Institute of Technology whose pioneering research has challenged assumptions in traditional economic models.
— Jeremy Denk, 43, New York City. Writer and concert pianist who combines his skills to help readers and listeners to better appreciate classical music.
— Angela Duckworth, 43, Philadelphia. Research psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania helping to transform understanding of just what roles self-control and grit play in educational achievement.
— Craig Fennie, 40, Ithaca, N.Y. Materials scientist at Cornell University has designed new materials with electrical, optical and magnetic properties needed for electronics and communication technology.
— Robin Fleming, 57, Chestnut Hill, Mass. A medieval historian at Boston College who's written extensively on the lives of common people in Britain in the years after the fall of the Roman Empire.
— Carl Haber, 54, Berkeley, Calif. Taking insights from his work on imaging subatomic particle tracks, the experimental physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed new technologies to preserve rare, damaged and old sound recordings.
— Vijay Iyer, 41, New York City. Jazz pianist, composer and bandleader and writer reconceptualizing the genre through compositions for his ensembles, as well as cross-disciplinary collaborations and scholarly writing.
— Dina Katabi, 42, Cambridge, Mass. A computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has worked at interfacing computer science and electrical engineering to improve the speed and security of data exchange.
— Julie Livingston, 46, New Brunswick, N.J. Medical historian at Rutgers University interested in the care of chronically ill patients in Botswana who exposed the unlikelihood that technology will fix health issues in Africa or the rest of the world.
— David Lobell, 34, Stanford, Calif. Agricultural ecologist at Stanford University who has investigated the impact of climate change on crop production and food security around the world.
— Tarell McCraney, 32, Chicago. Playwright at Steppenwolf Theater Company who examines the diversity of African-American experiences.
— Susan Murphy, 55, Ann Arbor, Mich. A statistician at the University of Michigan, she has translated statistical theory into tools that can be used to evaluate and customize treatment regimens for people with chronic or relapsing disorders.
— Sheila Nirenberg, New York City. Neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medical College exploring the nervous system and creating new prosthetic devices and robots.
— Alexei Ratmansky, 45, New York City. Choreographer and artist-in-residence at the American Ballet Theatre revitalizing classical ballet with interpretations of traditional works and original pieces.
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