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The immediacy of playwriting gives it the ability to comment quickly on the surrounding culture. Indeed, the Humana Festival is all about shining a spotlight on new voices and, presumably, their reaction to our changing world. In the new play, Michael Von Seibenburg Melts Through the Floorboards, playwright Greg Kotis tells a vampire story unlike all the others that dominate the pop culture landscape. Whether a reaction to those other franchises or not, Kotis turns the modern romantic version of vampirism into a grizzly need for cannibalism to extend life indefinitely. In a play that focuses on the gruesome murder, the continuing threat of being caught, and the history that lives on with the immortal, Michael Von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards offers a substantive, often very funny, exploration on whether a soul can be redeemed, even after five hundred years of sins.
The story itself revolves around the routine that Michael Von Siebenburg and his cohort, Sammy, have perfected over their many years. Sammy finds and hypnotizes women into agreeing to meet Von Seibenburg. Then Von Seibenburg whines, dines, and drugs the women, ultimately killing and processing their bodies for consumption. This cycle stutters when Dickensian ghosts begin to visit Von Seibenburg, forcing him to question his life, and pull him towards different futures. His long dead wife Maria appears and pleads with him to stop eating the innocent. His dead fellow crusader Otto comes to him and wants to renew the fight for Istanbul. Meanwhile, Sammy despairs over Von Seibenburg's lack of initiative and grows hungrier.
This play succeeds because of its dedication to context. Saying a character is five hundred years old does nothing unless you give weight to the time that has passed. The inclusion of so much history shows more of the characters than dialogue ever could. The old world views that carried on, the stories that were told, the crusader trying to restart the fight for the holy land; these points deepened the characters and brought perspectives to the viewing that made the narrative more layered. To my mind, it even contained some message of gender equality. Modern women prove so much more difficult to lure into their trap. And I can't imagine it is an accident that characters of authority are played by women. It is an interesting view of culture shifts and the adaptation that immortality demands.
Though the main themes lay heavy, the play also contained quite a bit of playful humor. Self-referential dialogue and tricks of light and sound raised the atmosphere often. While I definitely found most of the jokes hit, I wondered how well the more absurdist jokes folded in with the greater existential questions. That said, I found the concept of a dead group of crusaders working in concert to take back contemporary Istanbul from the hated Turks simply delightful.
The production ran beautifully slick and professional. Detailed thought was given to every aspect of the staging and the one set bent easily around different settings. Director Kip Fagan used sound and light to magnificent effect, transporting the audience between timelines and dreamscapes. Rufus Collins who played the title role, acted an inspired arc from suave playboy to broken man. Micah Stock as Sammy and John Ahlin as Otto delivered snappy, memorable roles that played expertly for full effect.
Michael Von Seibenburg Melts Through the Floorboards highlights the continued importance of drama in modern life. Its enjoyable commentary on our changing times and desperation for longevity feels freshly recognizable. It is a play that strives to embrace and learn from its past, giving both a wonderful production and a lesson on the toll our desires take on our humanity.
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Research that produced the world's first message sent using tiny neutrino particles — a project led in part by North Carolina State University engineers — has been named among Physics World magazine's top 10 breakthroughs for 2012.
Research that produced the world's first message sent using tiny neutrino particles — a project led in part by North Carolina State University engineers — has been named among Physics World magazine's top 10 breakthroughs for 2012.
Earlier this year, the team of researchers successfully sent a beam of neutrinos through 240 meters of earth with a message in binary code that read, "neutrino." The communication marked the first time information had been transmitted with the particles, which can pass through almost anything because they have no electrical charge and very little mass.
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Neutrinos have long held promise for communications. As the Physics World story notes: "For ease of transmission through any material … , nothing beats the neutrino. The ghostly particle is affected only by the weak nuclear force and, very faintly, by gravity. As a result, it can pass through almost everything and interacts with virtually nothing."
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About three years ago, the story continues, Dr. Daniel Stancil, head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State, was thinking about possibilities for communicating using axions — hypothetical particles that pique researchers' interest because they might be part of dark matter. From a communications perspective, axions are interesting because, if they exist, they could pass through any material. A former student pointed out that the concept could be tested with neutrinos at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab (FermiLab) outside of Chicago, where researchers were conducting a neutrino scattering experiment called MINERvA.
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The Library's current rare book exhibit celebrates the works of William Morris (1834-1896), 19th century English craftsman. He is often remembered today for Morris & Co. which manufactured and sold distinctive furnishings and décor including wallpaper, stained glass, rugs, and tapestries. However, he also founded one of the most famous private presses – the Kelmscott Press – where he produced beautiful and limited-edition, hand-crafted books. This exhibition showcases works of the Kelmscott Press from the Library's collection, including the renowned Chaucer, and a selection of books from local presses influenced by Morris such as the Roycroft Press (East Aurora, NY) and Aries Press (Eden, NY). The Kelmscott Chaucer (1896), completed only a few months before Morris passed away, is widely regarded as the greatest publication issued by a modern private press and has even been hailed as the finest book ever printed.
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You may be wondering what is meant by the term "literary canon." Consider, then, the following definitions for "canon" that appear in the American Heritage Dictionary:
1. an ecclesiastical law or code of laws established by a church council;
2. a secular law, rule, or code of law;
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4. the books of the Bible officially recognized by the Church;
5. Often capital C. the part of the Mass beginning after the Sanctus and ending just before the Lord's prayer;
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7. an authoritative list, as of the works of an author;
8. Music. a composition or passage in which the same melody is repeated by one or more voices, overlapping in time in the same or a related key;
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10. one of a chapter of priests serving in a cathedral or collegiate church;
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As the term is ordinarily used, "literary canon" is defined by definition #7 above: "an authoritative list, as of the works of an author." Yet the sense of definition #3 ("standard, criterion") is also strongly implied as the means by which individual works find their way into the literary canon. How do the other definitions of "canon" resonate with the concept of an authoritative list of authors who are taught in literature courses? In what sense have authors been canonized saints or priests in Western culture, or to what extent may we think of the literary canon in the sense of #8, "a composition . . . in which the same melody is repeated by one or more voices, overlapping in time in the same or a related key"?
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Listen to Britain (1942): Dir Humphrey Jennings
Listen to Britain (1942): Dir. Humphrey Jennings
A Scots regiment singing 'Home on the Range' in Listen to Britain
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For formal perfection, for essence of Jennings - albeit extracted by McAllister - probably 'Listen to Britain' would be the one to put in the time capsule. It never palls I must have seen it hundreds of times, but still every time I notice something I hadn't seen before. Somehow it has captured life's rhythm and texture. To watch it is to experience life afresh with an awareness that usually eludes us. The tiniest things...There's the pleasure of recognition, but also I think a revelation of the poetry in the everyday. (Drazin, 2007 pp 155-156)
The Importance of Naturalness
Jennings seemed to be better than most at capturing people being very natural 'capturing it how it was'. Jennings didn't work to much of a preconceived script which was to be disadvantageous when it came to trying to raise money for a feature film, but it worked brilliantly in documentary. Listen to Britain has certainly proved to be a very influential film for Britian's documentary and realist film makers as Mike Leigh notes:
I also admire Jennings's Listen to Britain. It is a fantastic piece of film-making for all of us (and this includes me) who in our films have tried to build film stories in an atmospheric way, using all kinds of elements, including sound and music. Listen to Britain does this extraordinarily well, and with an incredible ease of editing. Although it is not a narrative film, it is an exemplary piece of film storytelling and it raises the hairs on the back of your neck every time. (Mike Leigh Channel Four Website)
Probably to be great at documentary you have to be opportunistic and take advantage of moments of serendipity. Drazin discusses how in the shooting of Listen to Britain at a primary school it was impossible to shoot inside because of the lighting conditions so the children were asked to do a dance in the playground. One of the girls had made a mistake and the cameraman wanted to do a re-shoot Jennings wanted the naturalness of a child making a slip:'... the child's half-stumble, with its quality of truth made the scene.' (Drazin, 2007 p 157). However the Film Maker Mike Leigh makes an interesting point about the way many people are scratching on Jennings films:
If you look very closely at Jennings's work, you start to see some very interesting behavioural detail. For example, he often gets people to scratch - all over the place, across all of his films. You can see that he told them to do it when the camera gets to a certain moment. On your first viewing, you just accept it as part of the texture but it actually does look very self-conscious. The reason he's doing it is to introduce some kind of realistic movement into the very static style of documentary at that time. Don't forget that it wasn't until after the war that BBC radio realised that you could interview a working-class person spontaneously. Before that, they used to go out and talk to ordinary people, then write a script, and then get them to read the script. (Leigh ibid)
Despite his powerful intellectual capacity Jennings and his own taste for so-called 'high culture' he was concerned to capture tastes and cultural practices across the board. The filming of Flanagan & Alan doing a show in a factory canteen has a well timed cut to Dame Myra Hess playing Mozart in the National Gallery to the Queen amongst others. There was nothing judgemental there, all were enjoying themselves and the music they loved providing a unity in difference. Jackson points out in his introduction to the Humphrey Jennings Reader that Jennings:
...would not turn people into allegories or types, no matter how benign the typing might be, and the outcome was that he was able to show the British at war as nobody else could. Those singing factory girls are neither dupes of capitalism nor Stakhanovite heroines: they are the women Jennings chanced to meet when he took his cameras down to the shop floor, and thier faces are vivid and unforgettable after half a century. (Jackson, 1993 p XV).
In the Editing Room
Jointly on the credits with Humphrey Jennings is Stewart McAllister an editor with whom Jennigs worked a lot. Joe Mendoza who was a young assisstant in the GPO film Unit at the time was asked to work with Jennings because he was the only person who could read a musical score in the unit. This was a prospect he found intimidating as Jennings had a reputation for shouting at people according to Drazin. Mendoza thought that Jennings had the visual brilliance whilst McAllister worked more on the issue of the music and creating a progression thorugh the film giving it some structure even though it isn't a narrative documentary.
In Listen to Britain McAllister has been credited with several important sections such as the build up of aircraft sound over the cornfield and the crucial cut from the Flanagan and Allen factory floor show to Myra Hess in the National Portrait gallery. Creative editing was especially important in teis film as around 25% was taken from existing sources note Aldrich and Richards.
Despite the importance of McAllister's contributions and his ability to work well with Jennings Aldrich and Richards comment:
Nevetheless it is hard to to accept that the overall conception, the continuing preoccupations, the structure even of the films are not ultimately those of Jennings. (Aldrich and Richards p 224)
They point out that Jennings always did the scripting and of course all the shooting of the footage and even where some of this was spontaneous it was also done in the framework of the masterplan in Jennings' mind. It is they note Jennings belief in a pattern but one in which:
...artistic form was a wider reflection of British history and of English life and culture. It is this consistent and coherent world view which ultimately marks Jennings out as the directing intelligence of the films... (Aldrich and Richards 2007 p 225)
Critical Reception of Listen to Britain
In many quarters a jingoistic 'up and at them' form of propaganda was the only thing worth having, Aldgate and Richards cite Edward Anstey of the Spectator who was a s scornful of the film as were the documentary purists writing in Documentary News Letter who were scathing about Words for Battle:
By the time Humphrey Jenings has done with it, it has become the rarest bit of fiddling since the days of Nero. It will be a disaster if this film is sent overseas. One shudders to imagine the effect upon our allies should they learn that an official British film-making unit can find the time these days to contemplate the current sights and sounds of Britain... (Cited Aldgate and Richards 2007, pp 222-223)
However, in reality it went down well with audiences in fact the description below sounds closer to a rock group reception than a 'documentary' screening. The deputy head of non-theatrical distribution for the Ministry of Information (MoI) reported that:
All sorts of audiences felt it to be a distillation and also a magnification of their own experiences on the home front. This was especially true of factory audiences. I remember one show in a factory in the Midlands where about 800 workers clapped and stamped approval. (Aldgate and Richards 2007 p223)
Roger Manvell then working as the Films Officer in the South West and later North-West of the country reported that he always showed a Jennings film because of the :
...poetic and emotional life they gave the programmes as a whole. I do not exaggerate when I say that members of audiences under the emotional strains of war ... frequently wept as a result of Jennings' direct appeal to the rich cultural heritage of Britain.... (Manvell cited Aldgate & Richards 2007, 223 )
Overall Listen to Britain is a powerful film which through a very creative notion of documentarism manages to not only capture fragments of everyday life but unify them in a way which is at the highest level of myth-making thus comfortably achieving the aims of the MoI. The Spectator commentator was proved spectacularly wrong. This geninely was propaganda as art an extraordianry feat and one which Triumph of the Will doesn't come near thankfully.
Screenonline: Listen to Britain
Screenonline: John Krish. Editing asisstant on Listen to Britain
Pembroke College International Programme: Theory and Practice of Documentary Film
Victor Burgin Exhibition inspired by Listen to Britain
Corner, John. Sounds Real. Cambridge Journal of Popular Music. (Reality Check: You'll Need to Pay for this one)
Guardian on a documenting Britain exhibition in Liverpool 2006
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The State Department is reviewing more than 1.2 million public comments submitted on a draft environmental assessment of the planned Keystone XL pipeline. TransCanada wants to build a section of the pipeline from Alberta and needs federal permission for a section crossing the U.S.-Canadian border.
Advocacy group Rainforest Action Network said 60 people were arrested Monday during a protest in front of the State Department in Washington. Along with social change network CREDO, the group said it was upset an inspector general found the pipeline assessment's contractor, Environmental Resources Management, had ties to TransCanada.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Manager Ned Yost continued his recovery from gall bladder surgery and put in a second full day at the Royals' complex.
"I feel pretty darn good. Maybe I'm tough, maybe I'm not," Yost said. "Maybe it ain't a tough surgery. But on a scale of 1 to 10, I'm a 2 or a 3. I feel much better because it's out. It's sore, but I don't have that side-ache pain."
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A U.S. regulator is urging domestic exchanges to help prevent the Iranian regime from using cryptocurrency to bypass economic sanctions.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published an advisory Friday, stating that Iran's "illicit and malign" use of cryptocurrency to "exploit" the financial system includes at least $3.8 million-worth of bitcoin-denominated transactions every year.
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I did covers for Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Omni etc.
Are you asking WHO IS THIS PERSON? I've no idea and if I had to pickup an airbrush
now I'd be a goner. I did this for almost 10 years. Hillary Clinton came along with her cutbacks on pharmaceutical wastage-
among them, ads that ended up in the circular file
i.e. the wastepaper basket
i.e. what I was producing
And my very lucrative medical illustration business went down the drain. Around then I volunteered for the James Beard House. And a new career evolved that still kept me in champagne and caviar. From there I went on to wine art, but that's another Wednesday story.


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Collaborative Research Center / Transregio 166
High-end light microscopy elucidates membrane receptor function
In the CRC/TRR 166 ReceptorLight high-end light microscopy techniques with highest spatial and time resolution are applied and further developed to gain deeper insight into the function of membrane receptors. The participating groups in Jena and Würzburg bundle their methodological expertise in the field of super-resolution microscopy, electrophysiology, and biophysics of membrane receptors to generate new insights into the function and distribution of diverse membrane receptors, and in parallel, to induce the development of new high-end light-microscopy methods.
For more informations see www.receptorlight.uni-jena.de
Center for Personalized Molecular Immunotherapy
The European Structural Fund supports two new projects of the University of Würzburg with more than EUR 4.3 million. In close cooperation with the University Hospital and regional companies, research activities aim to drive medical progress.
"The Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Science and the Arts funds two seminal projects which the University of Würzburg runs jointly with regional companies by providing more than EUR 4.3 million in total from funds of the European Regional Development Fund", Bavarian Minister of State, Dr Ludwig Spaenle, announced a few days ago. more >>
Light-induced cell damage in live-cell super-resolution microscopy
Super-resolution microscopy can unravel previously hidden details of cellular structures but requires high irradiation intensities to use the limited photon budget efficiently. Such high photon densities are likely to induce cellular damage in live-cell experiments. more >>
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Super-resolution imaging reveals the nanoscale organization of metabotropic glutamate receptors at presynaptic active zones in Sci Adv (2020). 6(16) eaay7193-.
Targeting GABAAR-Associated Proteins: New Modulators, Labels and Concepts in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience (2019). 12 162-.
Opsin 1 and Opsin 2 of the Corn Smut Fungus Ustilago maydis Are Green Light-Driven Proton Pumps in Frontiers in Microbiology (2019). 10


text: Since 1992 the once resplendent coastal city of Mogadishu has been the epicenter of Somalia's brutal civil war. The streets and infrastructure destroyed, the people mentally and physically frayed from the daily street-to-street warfare, kidnappings, suicide attacks, food and water shortages. But still, life goes on and the will to survive is a testament to human resolve. I first went to Mogadishu in April 2011 when it was too dangerous to even leave the frontline clinic I was staying at. Five months later there was a lull in the fighting and I immediately returned. I did not want to snatch photographs from a car window, I wanted to meet Somalis face to face. So I decided to work with a background cloth, whose history dates back to World War Two and the London blitz when my grandmother used it as a blackout curtain. With armed security we moved carefully around Mogadishu, finding secure areas where I could set up to make portraits of a cross section of Mogadishu society – from street sweepers, nurses, IDP's, (internally displaced persons), and the ubiquitous security. Using the background cloth was a way to formalize the portraits and allow the people as individuals to shine, yet still allowing Mogadishu itself to be acknowledged through the semi-translucent cloth. The city has become synonymous with war, Islamic fundamentalism, drought, and chaos. Therefore, it was important for me, as a continuation of the portrait work I have done in other conflict zones – using the same cloth - to present people as human beings to be honored, and not just as faceless statistics Words and images by Jason Florio - Published in Virginia Quarterly Review Online Exhibition - Forward Thinking Museum


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The Fragrance Foundation's 34th Annual FiFi Awards were held April 3 to honor excellence and creative achievement in the fragrance industry. The night's host was Geena Davis, and presenters included Sarah Jessica Parker, Vivica A. Fox, Betsey Johnson and more. Evelyn H. Lauder, senior corporate vice president of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., received The Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award. Lauder was chosen as this year's winner by The Fragrance Foundation's board of directors for the extraordinary ingenuity, dedication and inner resources she has brought, not only to her company's success, but to the entire fragrance industry.
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Women's Luxe: euphoria Calvin Klein (Coty Presitge) – IFF
Men's Luxe: Armani Code (Giorgio Armani Parfums) – Givaudan
Women's Nouveau Niche: Narciso Rodriguez 'for her' Eau de Parfum (Beauté Prestige International) – Quest International
Men's Nouveau Niche: Armani Privé (Giorgio Armani Parfums); Ambre Soie – Quest; Bois d'Encens – Robertet; Eau de Jade – Givaudan; Pierre de Lune – Givaudan
Women's Private Label/Direct Sell: So in Love (Victoria's Secret Beauty) – Firmenich
Men's Private Label/Direct Sell: Today. Tomorrow. Always for Men (Avon Products Inc.) – drom
Women's Popular Appeal: Spirit Antonio Banderas for Women (Puig Fragrances & Personal Care Inc.) – Mane
Men's Popular Appeal: Stetson Black (Coty Beauty US) – Takasago
Fragrance Hall of Fame: Fracas de Robert Piguet (Fashion Fragrances & Cosmetics Ltd.) – Givaudan
Interior Scent Collection of the Year: Apothia Aromatic Collection Candles (Latitudes International For Apothia)
Bath & Body Line of the Year: Island Michael Kors (Michael Kors Beauty)
Hall of Fame: Evelyn H. Lauder
Best Packaging of the Year
Women's Prestige: Armani Privé (Giorgio Armani Parfums)
Men's Prestige: Armani Privé (Giorgio Armani Parfums)
Women's Popular Appeal: Celine Dion Belong (Coty Beauty US)
Men's Popular Appeal: Today. Tomorrow. Always For Men (Avon Products)
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The Salamander is a normal Unique Staff with an item level of 28 and a Character Level requirement of 21.
Staves are very little used in Diablo II, since they make carrying a shield impossible. They do poor damage, and are not effective for dealing damage through any sort of quality armor. Their greatest attribute is their ability to carry bonus spell levels for the Sorceress, and she can turn them to use as a bashing weapon, but her Attack Rating will usually prevent her from making contact a sufficient percent of the time, and her damage will be low in any event. Still, a very good staff, or one of the excellent Unique staves, is not a bad choice for a Sorceress, if she can make up the resistance she'd usually have on a shield.
- All staves are two-handed.
- You cannot gamble for staves, they must be found.
- All blunt weapons (including staves) have +50% Damage vs Undead.
- In 1.10 of the Expansion the odds of gambling a Unique is 1 in 2000.
- Normal Uniques are identical in Diablo II and the Expansion.
- Item Level: Chests and monsters must be at least this level to drop the item. Ilvl is used in gambling, sales and other calculations as well.
- Clvl Req: Your character must be this level or higher to equip the item. No Uniques had Clvl requirements prior to v1.07 D2.
- Range: Goes from 1 (least) to 5 (most), and is identical for all melee weapon types. I.E. a 3 sword = a 3 spear = a 3 hammer.
- Dmg Bonus: This determines how you multiply the item damage by your stats to reach the actual damage. Each point in this statistic multiplies your damage by bonus/100 %. For example a damage bonus of 70 is 70/100 or and additional .7% weapon damage per point. Most weapons have 100 str, which gives 100/100 or an additional 1% weapon damage per point in str.
- Weapon Speed (WSM): A relative comparison to other weapons of the same type. 0 is the base -10, -20, etc is faster, 10, 20, etc is slower.
- Swing Speed: The speed shown in-game for each character using this melee weapon. This speed is mostly meaningless and is included for completeness only. Characters are abbreviated to their first letters, with Amazon = Am and Assassin = As.
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|The Salamander
Battle Staff
|6 - 13 Damage
40 Durability
No Str Required
No Dex Required
Item Level: 28
Clvl Req: 21
|Adds 15-32 fire damage
Fire Resist +30%
+1 to Fire Wall (Sorceress Only)
+2 to Fire Ball (Sorceress Only)
+3 to Warmth (Sorceress Only)
+2 to All Fire Skills (All Chars)
|Range: 2
Weapon Speed: 0
Dmg Bonus: 100 Str
Swing Speed:
Sorc: Fast
Prior Stats
- v1.08: Had +2 to All Fire Skills (All Chars), Fire Resist +20%, Adds 1-10 Fire Damage, +50 to Attack Rating, +50-60% Enhanced Damage.
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Amazon Weapons
Assassin Claws
Barbarian Helms
Druid Helms
Necromancer Totems
Paladin Shields
Sorceress Orbs
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|Diablo II Classic Item Sets
|Diablo II Expansion Item Sets
• Angelic Raiment
• Hsaru's Defense
• Aldur's Watchtower
• Naj's Ancient Vestige


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I'm not usually a bossy gal, but you must make this pasta dish. I bookmarked it months ago when I came across it on Local Lemons, but never got around to executing for some reason or another. I was given the reminder that I needed when it was featured on Serious Eats last week. Two gentle nudgings was all it took for me to pick up the necessary ingredients and prepare a double batch.
Let me tell you, this pasta rules! From the basil-infused breadcrumbs to the creamy hunks of burrata to the spicy dash of chilies and sweet summer corn, there are so many amazing flavors and textures in every bowl-full. Each bite is exciting, fresh, and deliciously different. I hope to prepare this pasta several more times before summer fades into fall and fresh corn disappears from the market. I encourage you to do the same.
- 1/2 pound dried or fresh wide noodles, like pappardelle or fettuccine
- 1/2 cup panko (Japanese bread crumbs)
- 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves, plus more to garnish
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt, plus more to season
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 pound pancetta
- 2 ears of corn, kernels removed
- 2 dried red chilies, cut into small pieces
- 1/2 cup Parmigiana Reggiano, shredded
- 1/4 pound burrata
I purchased all of the ingredients at Trader Joe's and a local Mexican supermarket. I already had the panko bread crumbs in the pantry.
Cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until al dente, stirring often. Drain, reserving a 1/2 cup of the cooking liquid.
While the pasta is cooking, prepare the breadcrumbs and sauce. For the breadcrumbs, place the panko, basil, and salt in a food processor and grind until small. Drizzle the breadcrumbs with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and pulse until well incorporated.
Using a non-stick skillet, toast the breadcrumbs until lightly browned and dry. Set aside.
For the sauce, heat up a large skillet and add 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Add the pancetta and cook for 2 minutes, or until slightly caramelized. Add the corn and chilies to the skillet and cook on medium heat for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally. Deglaze the pan with some of the cooking liquid if necessary.
Finally, turn off the heat and add the pasta, cheese, and cooking liquid to the skillet. Combine well using tongs. Top with a generous dusting of breadcrumbs and several hunks of the burrata. Garnish with torn basil leaves.
Serves 2.
Recipe adapted from Local Lemons and Serious Eats. [For Printable Recipe Click Here]


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An ETH Zurich researcher has developed a computational method for predicting the structure of materials. He used it to solve the structure of a newly synthesized form of pure boron that displays some unusual physical properties and brings a surprise: it is partially ionic.
New phase of elemental boron discovered
The new structure can be viewed as a NaCl-type structure, with anionic and cationic positions occupied by two different clusters of boron atoms (B12 and B2). The difference of the electronic properties of these clusters brings about charge transfer, making this material a partially ionic boron boride (B2)?+(B12)?-. Results have been published in today's "Nature" online magazine.
Boron is the chemical element most sensitive to impurities. This enhanced sensitivity makes experimental studies of this element very difficult. However, with the discovery of a new, superhard phase of the element, the theorists and expe-rimentalists involved in the research have now come a big step closer to understanding boron. A separate publication by the authors in the "Journal of Superhard Materials" demonstrated that the new phase is superhard.
Independently synthesized
The new superhard material was independently synthesized by two researchers who eventually joined forces with crystallographer Artem Oganov's theoretical team. Initially, Jiuhua Chen, a material scientist at Florida International University, and Vladimir Solozhenko, a physical chemist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France, conducted experiments on ex-tremely pure boron material, containing at most one foreign atom to one million boron atoms. They exposed this material to temperatures of over 1,500 degrees Celsius and to pressures in the range 12-30 GPa, similar to those found several hundreds of kilometers inside the Earth. Under these conditions both teams of experimentalists found a new polymorph of boron, but could not solve its structure.
New method leads to breakthrough
Artem Oganov, working at ETH Zurich's Department of Material Science, has now developed a computational method for predicting the stable crystal structu-res of materials. His calculations reveal that in the new phase, boron atoms form two different kinds of nanoclusters: an icosahedron B12 consisting of twelve atoms and dumbbell B2 consisting of just two boron atoms.
These nanoclusters are arranged in the new phase of boron just as are sodium and chlorine ions in the rock salt (table salt) structure (see diagram). The new phase is predicted to remain stable to 89 GPa. The new knowledge obtained in this study allowed the researchers to propose a phase diagram for boron - the only light element whose phase diagram remained unknown until now.
Unusual properties identified
The unexpected structure of the new phase, which the authors called gamma-B, contains atoms which are ionized, meaning that the electrons are distributed between the atoms unevenly. According to classical textbooks, ionic bonds are possible only between two different elements, such as sodium and chlorine in table salt. But in the new structure ionic bonds occur between atoms of the same element, though belonging to two kinds of nanoclusters. This ionicity leads to unusual for an element phenomena in dielectric properties, lattice dynamics, and anomalous electronic properties. Additional experiments carried out by the researchers also show that the new phase is superhard.
Oganov and his colleagues expect that forms of other elements, such as carbon heterofullerites, might display charge transfer and partial ionicity. Now a profes-sor at State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA), Oganov anticipates that sooner or later applications will be developed which are based on ionic elements. These applications could be based on switching on or off the anomalous properties (for example, strong infrared absorption) possessed by ionic elements - such properties will display dramatic changes as a result of pressure- or temperature-induced phase transitions. In addition, interesting effects related to superconductivity may appear as well.
To download an image of the newly synthesized form of pure boron, click on:
ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) has a student body of fourteen thousand students from 80 nations. Nearly 360 professors teach mainly in engineering sciences and architecture, system-oriented sciences, mathematics and natural sciences, as well as carry out research that is highly valued worldwide. Distinguished by the successes of 21 Nobel laureates, ETH Zurich is committed to providing its students with unparalleled education and outstanding leadership skills.
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Arthur Sulzberger was getting irritated. The New York Times publisher was on the dais at Columbia University on Tuesday night, fielding questions about the newspaper's new plan to charge its readers online.
There was confusion about how much the pay meter costs, a Columbia dean, Bill Grueskin, noted. The website plus a smartphone costs $15; use an iPad and it's $20; use all three for $35; or just choose any print subscription. Could readers be forgiven for feeling the system was overly complex?
"Let's talk about complexity," Sulzberger said. "I don't know how to break this to you, but if you want to get home delivery of the Times in print—look, there's one plan that's seven days. There's another plan that's Sunday only. There's a third plan that's called 'The Weekender.'" By this point he was laying it on pretty thick. "I know this is sounding complex, but bear with me! OK? So you have three different print plans that you can choose from. And sometimes, on top of that, you can even go outside and buy it." Sulzberger's voice was dripping with sarcasm; on the dais next to him, Times CEO Janet Robinson maintained a poker face.
If Sulzberger was exasperated, it's because he's been subjected to a bit of a barrage lately. Nine days after the Times' pay meter went into effect in the United States, there are questions—lots of them—about how the model works, how much it cost to develop, whether it is at odds with the essential fabric of the Web, why certain Times fiefs are exempt, the powerful influence of Apple and Google, and many more. Aside from perhaps Facebook, there may be no other company whose attempts to get paid for what it does receives such scrutiny.
Sulzberger has been, at times, less than felicitous in his explanations. Last summer, he raised eyebrows by agreeing at a public appearance that the Times was pursuing a " drug-dealer model"—as in, the first few tastes (articles) are free, and then the charges begin. Last month, he said that the only people who would try to skirt the Times meter would be " mostly high-school kids and people who are out of work." ("I can't believe I just said that," he added.)
"If I were to run down Broadway I could probably pass a newsstand and grab a copy of The New York Times and keep running. ... It's called theft."
At the Columbia journalism school event Tuesday night, Sulzberger repeated an analogy he has made about such people. "We recognize that there are going to be ways of getting around the gate, of getting access to the content in ways that are at best immoral," he said. "Just as if I were to run down Broadway I could probably pass a newsstand and grab a copy of The New York Times and keep running. ... It's called theft."
There were other questions about the Times pay meter. (Audience members were gently scolded for using the term "pay wall.") Had it really cost $40 million to devise the code, as has been reported? "Vastly wrong," Sulzberger said. Will the Times merge with Google or Bloomberg? "No." What about a blog post by a former employee lamenting that during the pay meter's long gestation, entire innovative companies like Groupon and The Daily were launched? Robinson answered that one: The Times had spent the period aggressively cutting its costs.
An audience member asked: How will low-income residents now access The Times at home?
There was a moment of silence from the dais. Sulzberger said, "I'm sorry—what?" The audience laughed. In an academic, leftist setting, the question made a kind of sense. But on any level of inspection it was absurd, and Sulzberger's pique showed again.
"Just translate that question to print," he said. "'How will low-income people get access to The New York Times in print?'"
Finally, Grueskin read aloud something from a surprising ally: The Onion, which had recently run an item headlined "NYTimes.com's Plan to Charge People Money for Consuming Goods, Services Called Bold Business Move." The satirical site fake-quoted Sulzberger as saying, "If this fails, I'd honestly rather The New York Times not exist in a world where people are unwilling to pay the price of a fucking movie ticket for a monthly online subscription."
Grueskin offered to clean up the quote for the audience.
"Don't!" Sulzberger said. "It's the first time they've quoted me accurately."
Nick Summers is a senior writer for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Previously, he was the media columnist for The New York Observer, founded the blog IvyGate, and was editor in chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator.


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Sphex pensylvanicus
Sphex pensylvanicus, the great black wasp, one of the largest and most common insects in North America.
Urbana, Illinois, USA
Sphex pensylvanicus, the great black wasp.
Urbana, Illinois, USA
A thread-waisted wasp visits a late fall aster. Austin, Texas, USA.
Sceliphron laetum
The common mud-dauber wasp with a nearly completed set of cells. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia.
A mud-dauber wasp poses with a partially completed set of cells. This spider-eating species is common across Australia. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia.
A mud-dauber attempts to stuff one more spider into an already packed cell. These wasps find and paralyze dozens of spiders per day to provision their nests. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia.
Sceliphron caementarium
A mud-dauber wasp gathers a packet of mud for nest construction. Austin, Texas, USA.
A mud-dauber wasp carries a load back to her nest. Austin, Texas, USA.
A cross-section of an Australian mud-dauber nest reveals larvae and pupae at varying stages of development, along with the bodies of their spider prey. Yandoit, Victoria, Australia.
The silken cocoon of an overwintering mud-dauber wasp. Austin, Texas, USA.
Metamorphosis in the common mud dauber: larva, pupa, recently eclosed adult. Austin, Texas, USA.
Isodontia mexicana
A grass-carrying wasp feeds from fall goldenrod. Austin, Texas, USA.
This Isodontia mexicana wasp has been stylopized by Paraxenos parasites in the enigmatic order Strepsiptera, evident as bulges emerging between the abdominal segments.
Illinois, USA
A grass-carrying wasp. Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia.
Sphecius speciosus
A male cicada killer wasp (Sphecius speciosus) monitors his territory from the top of a coneflower.
Urbana, Illinois, USA
Philanthus sand wasps mating.
California, USA
Pison sp.
A Pison sp. mud wasp (Crabronidae). The sealed cells contain paralyzed spiders that will serve as food to her offspring.
Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Breaking open the sealed mud cell of a Pison mud wasp (Crabronidae) reveals a cache of paralyzed spiders. By not killing the spiders outright, the wasp's larvae can eat them before they start to rot.
Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
A Pison sp. mud wasp (Crabronidae) nest.
Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
A cricket-hunter wasp, Liris sp., drags her paralyzed prey through leaf litter on the way to her burrow. Austin, Texas, USA.
A small sand wasp emerges from her burrow. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas, USA.


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In addition to new stages, Super Monkey Ball Deluxe will offer a new Challenge mode, integrating varying skill settings (Beginner, Advanced, and Expert) into one fluid ramp up, rather than breaking them out as independent gameplay sections. There will also be additional stages in the story mode. All twelve of the party games from Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2 are also to be included.
"Super Monkey Ball has been a fan favorite since its introduction on the Nintendo GameCube in 2001," said Scott A. Steinberg, vice president of entertainment marketing, SEGA of America, Inc. "We're pleased to finally make this unique, broadly accessible franchise available to gamers across all platforms."
Effectively two-and-a-half retail games on one disc, this "E" rated value-packed product will retail in early 2005 for only 29.95 MSRP.
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Corbin Valkyrie Custom - Motorcycle.com
When Honda introduced the F6 Valkyrie earlier this year, they set the motorcycle cruising world on its ear -- no one had ever attempted such a bold departure from the traditional air-cooled V-twin formula that has been so outrageously popular over the years. Various configurations have tried to capture the fancy of the cruiser market; while many have failed, the tried-and-true air-cooled V-twin formula has endured in the hearts and showrooms of America.
That is, until the Valkyrie came along.
Now that the dust has settled and the hype has slowed from its feverish pace, the true worth of the Valkyrie can be measured; its acceptance and longevity.
Critics said the Valkyrie wouldn't gain the favor of buyers since it came "too complete" right off the showroom floor. With nothing needed the bike would soon lose its appeal, they reasoned. As every bike would look the same, bikers' desire to customizing the machine would not satisfied.
Well, they were wrong.
The Valkyrie has remained popular, and even showed itself to be a threat at the most sacred of holy alters of cruiser tradition, The Black Hills Rally at Sturgis, South Dakota this past August.
Launching the first wave of aftermarket parts for Honda's heavyweight cruiser was Mike Corbin, introducing several custom saddles for long range comfort. Realizing the potential of the Valkyrie, Corbin soon geared up to produce their popular Grifter saddlebags for the big Honda.
"Pictured before you is Corbin's take on customizing the Valkyrie for fun and versatility."
The first step was adding the Grifter saddlebags and sidecovers to clean up the lines along the side of the bike, giving it the appearance of a one-off custom. Stock colors were applied by the Corbin crew (Grifter saddlebags come unpainted, the thinking being that most people want a custom design) in a scallop design that appears as an extension of the stock theme, causing more than one spectator to do a double take. In addition to the Grifter Saddlebags, our Valkyrie also wears a Corbin Gunfighter solo saddle.
This Valkyrie not only looks good, it does something that few, if any, Valkyries can do -- it sounds good. And we're not talking about the purr that emanates from the flat-six motor. This Valkyrie can really sing while styling down the road.
Tunes are provided by a custom 10-disk CD changer system designed by J&M Audio in conjunction with Corbin. In addition to providing music for machines, J&M also makes communicators and just about anything else that involves transmitting sound. A mounting plate specially designed to fit in the Grifter saddlebag holds the Kenwood 10-disc CD changer and assorted hardware. A J&M amplifier combines with the Kenwood changer to send tunes to J&M all-weather speakers mounted on the handlebar. Hey, if you're going to go for it, you might as well go all the way.
In addition to the handlebar-mounted speakers, a remote control for J&M's system is mounted on a handlebar clamp allowing you to change discs, skip through songs, pause, and when the ride is over, stop the music.
We tested the unit both on the highway and around town, where it performed well with better sound quality than any stock OEM stereos we've tested -- it's able to out-power an 85 mph wind, and, at that speed, is still audible through a full-face helmet.
The CD player was especially resistant to skipping, thanks in part to the Corbin/J&M mounting system, and skipped only when the bike was jarred enough to cause kidney pain.
If you are one of the lucky ones to own a Valkyrie, and are looking to add a bit of soul, the Corbin/J&M package will not only make your lady sing, it will give her a face lift as well.
Saddlebags: Corbin Grifter Saddlebags
Set Includes:
Doors, Door locks, Weather stripping, Liners, Turn signals, Installation hardware
Stereo System: Kenwood 10-Disc CD Changer, with Handlebar-Mounted Remote Control
Speakers: J&M all-weather, handlebar-mounted speakers For more information, contact: Corbin Saddles
11445 Commercial Parkway
Castroville, CA 95012
http://www.motorcycle.com/cgi-bin/redirector?www.corbin.com/corbin.html J & M Audio
1415 South Cherry
Tucson, AZ 85713


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Editor's Note: John Defterios is CNN's emerging markets editor and anchor of Global Exchange, CNN's business show focused on the emerging and BRIC markets. Watch it at 15:00 GMT weekdays.
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Morsy's actions towards the military show he is taking a bold stand
But these changes have far reaching implications, including on the economy
Attack scenes in the Sinai also have potential to spook tourists
It's time to take back control of the trouble spot and get Egyptians back to work
The new President of Egypt is taking the concept of getting work done in the first 100 days in office very seriously.
Mohamed Morsy forced out the long-serving head of the military Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, his number two, and a handful of other generals. At the same time, Morsy nullified the constitutional declaration made by the military council before he took office June 30th.
His message is clear. And while the military wanted to sustain its grip on power, Morsi was able to wrestle control after what was seen as a military lapse in the Sinai.
Morsy is taking a bold stand, ordering counter attacks against militant hideouts over the weekend near al-Arish in Northern Sinai, after 16 border guards were killed in a surprise attacks when they were breaking fast at sundown during Ramadan.
But the president is going down a tricky road.
Mohammed Al Issis, a political economist at the American University in Cairo, said Morsy's strategy is particularly difficult since it is "not clear who the enemy is. " Recent events, he said, provided an early indication of where the Sinai is headed.
The attacks, and changes at the top in the military, have far reaching implications – not the least of which is the attempted rebuilding of the Egyptian economy.
Nearly a year and a half after the uprisings against the 30 year rule of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is struggling to find its footing. The Sinai may be vast, but scenes of attacks in the north have real potential to spook tourists who were just getting comfortable with coming back to Red Sea resorts in the south.
Blog: Was Clinton's Egypt visit a mistake?
Tourism is the number one foreign exchange earner in the country, but revenues dropped in 2011 to just under $9 billion, from $12.5 billion the year before the uprisings.
The southern Sinai, especially Sharm El Sheikh, is the main foreign tourist destination. There is a genuine cash crunch, with foreign exchange reserves at roughly $14 billion – half the level of early 2011. Strategists say the cash will last only four months if revenues don't start coming in at a faster pace.
The Egyptian government is still pegging growth during the current fiscal year at 3.5% to 4%, but economists who closely track the Middle East and North Africa region, known as MENA, are beginning to mark down expectations.
Alia Moubayed, of Barclays, says the security challenge "not only puts the recovery in this particular region on negative outlook, but highlights the volatility of the challenges that this new government and president will face."
Strategically, it was thought that Morsy and Tantawi could work together against a common enemy in the Sinai. This was expected to include Bedouin tribal leaders who also want to bring their territory under control. That plan moves ahead, but Tantawi and his team are not part of it.
Read more: With global instability, who wants to be a tourist?
The new president wants to get this military challenge under control – hence the strong and quick use of force – so he can focus on the bigger picture, which remains hazy.
The International Monetary Fund mission is still planning to visit Egypt this month to jump-start negotiations on a $3.2 billion loan program. Talks took place last spring but there was reluctance to push ahead with that program until a government was in place with a new plan of action.
Knowing the importance of Egypt to the broader region, Gulf players with ample oil and gas revenues are stepping up funding. Qatar has said it would inject $2 billion into the Egyptian Central Bank, and Saudi Arabia earlier this year pledged a billion dollars.
Candidate Morsy campaigned on delivering what he called a Renaissance Project for Egypt, an economic blueprint that engages wider swaths of society. One of the key criticisms of the Mubarak regime was that the reform program started too late in the middle of the last decade and then trickled down too slowly.
London based Arabia Monitor, commenting after attacks in Sinai, said the new government "faces the difficult challenge of striking the right balance between propping up the economy, achieving fiscal consolidation, and improving the socio-economic conditions that helped overturn the old order."
The budget deficit could top 9% this year, but most agree this is not the time for austerity. It is a time to wrest back control of the trouble spot on the volatile border with Israel and Gaza and get Egyptians back to work, and the economy growing again.


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The journal Evolution has joined other Dryad partner journals in announcing a new data archiving policy mandating, as a condition of publication, that the data used in a paper be made publicly available.
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Data that are properly archived are saved for posterity, and the archives also function to preserve data in a useable form for the original authors. Moreover, if datasets are put into a readily interpretable format while the methods and structure of the data are foremost in the scientists' minds, that data can be used later more easily by those scientists and others.
When fully in place, the policy will require authors to archive the data required to support the conclusions in their published paper, along with sufficient details that a third party can reasonably interpret those data correctly.
To be implemented next year, the policy is parallel to those already announced by two other prominent journals, also Dryad partners:
- Whitlock, M. C., M. A. McPeek, M. D. Rausher, L. Rieseberg, and A. J. Moore. 2010. Data Archiving. American Naturalist. 175:145-146, doi:10.1086/650340
- Rieseberg, L., T. Vines, and N. Kane. Editorial and retrospective 2010. Molecular Ecology. 19:1-22, doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04450.x


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DevExtreme v23.1 is now available.
Explore our newest features/capabilities and share your thoughts with us.
The DevExtreme Navigation components support right-to-left (RTL) languages. The components can display content in a right-to-left direction and mirror associated UI elements.
To enable RTL language support in the application, you can either set the globalConfig object's rtlEnabled property to true or specify each component's rtlEnabled property individually. Note that individual RTL parameters have higher priority than general parameters.
In this demo, you can use the language drop-down menu (for example, change the language from English to Arabic) to explore the differences between default and RTL modes.


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Aaron Hernandez jerseys are hot sellers on eBay
The NFL has stopped selling Aaron Hernandez jerseys, and the Patriots are offering a replacement jersey for anyone who wants to exchange one with Hernandez's name and number. But that doesn't mean Hernandez jerseys are going away.
In fact, fans who have listed Hernandez jerseys on eBay in the days since Hernandez was charged with first-degree murder have been able to turn a profit.
Patriots fan John Lamothe told the Boston Globe he was shocked to get $289 for a Hernandez jersey he put on eBay last week.
"I thought about giving it to Goodwill, but I didn't think anybody would want it," Lamothe said. "I thought I might get $15 for it."
Lynn L'Heureux, who paid $100 for a Hernandez jersey, has seen the bidding reach $127 so far.
"I can't think of any reason why people would want it," L'Heureux said. "They might think it will go up in value later on, and maybe it will, but I'm not interested. I just don't want it in my possession. I want to use the money to buy a jersey that reflects my pride in the Patriots."
So despite everything we've learned about Hernandez in the last couple of weeks, we may still see some Hernandez jerseys in the stands at Gillette Stadium this season.


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AT&T to release Android, WebOS devices & new app platform
The devices include a Motorola smartphone powered by MOTOBLUR, its social networking software; Dell's first smartphone, the Mini 3 — an AT&T exclusive; and a new HTC handset also exclusive to AT&T. The company also said that two Palm WebOS-based devices would be offered "soon."
AT&T also revealed its "Apps to All" initiative, which aims to bring mobile applications beyond smartphones and to more basic mobile phones for all consumers. A new software development kit will be issued to encourage this.
Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, said currently only iPhone users can take advantage of the platform's more than 100,000 apps. His company would like to see those options expand to other platforms as well.
"Our goal is to bring more apps to millions more of our customers who want convenient access to the market's hottest apps," de la Vega said. "At the same time, in the future, we plan to go well beyond mobile devices to spur apps development."
To reach that goal, AT&T has reached an agreement with chip maker Qualcomm to standardize app development for mid-range Quick Messaging Devices using the BREW Mobile Platform. AT&T said the devices are used by millions of customers who typically do not have access to the variety of software seen on smartphones. An estimated 30 percent of AT&T's postpaid customers who are new or upgrading are using a Quick Messaging Device.
The AT&T App Center will adopt a similar business model to Apple's App Store, with a 70-30 revenue split favoring developers.
The BREW mobile platform will begin appearing on the company's Quick Messaging Devices in the second half of the year. AT&T hopes that 90 percent of its devices in that segment will be based on BREW by 2011.
"Today, developers must essentially rebuild apps for different handsets and operating systems, increasing their costs, slowing the pace of innovation and stalling the delivery of mobile apps to customers," said David Christopher, AT&T chief marketing officer. "We want to tear down the barriers and make it much easier for developers to reach our customers — and for our customers to access apps."
The company also announced a new "Virtual Innovation Lab" and two "Innovation Centers," which it said will help developers and spur development of new applications.
In addition, AT&T has stated a goal to offer all major smartphone OS app stores, in addition to the Android Market and iPhone App Store. Existing agreements are already in place with Nokia's Ovi store and Microsoft's Windows Marketplace. Carrier billing for mobile application stores will also be integrated.
The moves could be a sign of how AT&T intends to offset the inevitable loss of iPhone exclusivity. It is widely believed that the wireless carrier's contract with Apple expires this year. AT&T executives have, on numerous occasions, said that their contract with Apple to have exclusive access to the iPhone in the U.S. will not last forever.
With more than 3 billion downloads to date in the iPhone App Store., numerous companies have looked to replicate Apple's success. In addition to the Android Marketplace and other similar mobile phone-based stores, Intel plans to create a store for Atom-based netbooks, and TV manufacturers are interested in allowing cross-platform applications on a variety of different sets. AT&T competitor Verizon, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., also plans to have its own application store.
Most notably missing from AT&T's announcement Wednesday was Google's just-announced, Android-powered Nexus One. While the device can be bought unlocked and run on the AT&T network, it is not compatible with the company's high-speed 3G wireless frequency. On Tuesday, Google revealed that the handset, currently available for T-Mobile, would come to Verizon in the U.S. this spring.


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You can cast spells even while in a form that cannot normally cast spells.
Prerequisites: Wis 13, wild shape class feature.
Benefit: You can complete the verbal and somatic components of spells while using wild shape. You substitute various noises and gestures for the normal verbal and somatic components of a spell.
You can also use any material components or focuses you possess, even if such items are melded within your current form. This feat does not permit the use of magic items while you are in a form that could not ordinarily use them, and you do not gain the ability to speak while using wild shape.
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Citizen's Charter
THE BLGF CITIZEN'S CHARTERThe Bureau of Local Government Finance, since its inception, is geared towards the compliance with regulatory requirements and provision of quality service delivery to its employees, the local government units (LGUs), key stakeholders, and the general public. The BLGF consistently complied with the Republic Act No. 9485 or the Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007. With the enactment of the Republic Act No. 11032, or otherwise known as the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018, the BLGF continuously push for quality public service as it integrates the Quality Management System (QMS) in this Citizen's Charter.
National Budget Circular 542
National Budget Circular 542, issued by the Department of Budget and Management on August 29, 2012, reiterates compliance with Section 93 of the General Appropriations Act of FY2012. Section 93 is the Transparency Seal provision, to wit:
Sec. 93. Transparency Seal. To enhance transparency and enforce accountability, all national government agencies shall maintain a transparency seal on their official websites. The transparency seal shall contain the following information: (i) the agency's mandates and functions, names of its officials with their position and designation, and contact information; (ii) annual reports, as required under National Budget Circular Nos. 507 and 507-A dated January 31, 2007 and June 12, 2007, respectively, for the last three (3) years; (iii) their respective approved budgets and corresponding targets immediately upon approval of this Act; (iv) major programs and projects categorized in accordance with the five key results areas under E.O. No. 43, s. 2011; (v) the program/projects beneficiaries as identified in the applicable special provisions; (vi) status of implementation and program/project evaluation and/or assessment reports; and (vii) annual procurement plan, contracts awarded and the name of contractors/suppliers/consultants. The respective heads of the agencies shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with this section.
A Transparency Seal, prominently displayed on the main page of the website of a particular government agency, is a certificate that it has complied with the requirements of Section 93. This Seal links to a page within the agency's website which contains an index of downloadable items of each of the above-mentioned documents.


text: New problems lol Hi, i have followed this guide (which was supurb btw thankyu so much ) and have succesfully installed kernel-220.127.116.11 on my debian system. But now am wondering how one goes about instaling the kernel headers for it. My problems all start when i bought a Netgear WG311 Wireless PCI Card, im following a guide for it i found http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Distribution_list/Debian Found out in the sys requriments page you need at least a kernel of 2.6.10 which i had 2.6.8, http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/ACX#System_requirements so i followed this guide and installed the latest kernel at the time. But it also says it needs the kernel header files installed which i cant find out how to compile or install. Ive tried installing the module-assistant and using the "prepare" feature which should install the correct kernel headers, but its unable to find any for the kenerl. Does anyone know what to do or where to go on from here lol Many thanks dan


text: 2019 Winner at the International Chocolate Awards 2019 The International Chocolate Awards is an independent competition recognising excellence in fine chocolate making and in the products made with fine chocolate. As the World's only fully independent international fine chocolate competition, we aim to support companies producing fine chocolate and chocolatiers, small companies and artisans working with fine chocolate. By helping these markets to grow and develop, we also aim to support the farmers that grow fine cacao. Riccardo Depetris