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Bid History for 3branch Discovery Activity Table- Lego Table
Auction Start Date: 06/05/23 12:42 PM ET
Auction End Date: 06/19/23 7:45 PM ET
Asset ID: 3121 Number of Bids: 1
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3branch Discovery Activity Table- Lego Table
Diminutions: 18.5" H, 32" D, 55.5" L. Lego workspace is 45" L x 30" D. PICKUP MUST BE AFTER JUNE 5TH, 2023.
Piece shows minor wear and tear; two pieces of trim are missing. Lock and drawer are in working condition. Used indoors at the Public Library.
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The 10-foot-tall cylinders glow neon yellow and orange, looking like something out of a futuristic dance club. They're actually an experiment with global implications — an effort to see how well algae can wipe out pollution belched by power plants.
The Howard County startup running these bioreactors hasn't hit on an entirely new idea. The U.S. Department of Energy started funding projects related to algae and power plants at least 35 years ago, but the focus largely has been on growing algae for fuel.
HY-TEK Bio's aim is emissions reduction, an area getting increasing interest from both companies and countries that see potential in algae. HY-TEK's leaders say algae products — such as biofuel, pharmaceutical ingredients and nutritional supplements — would be secondary, a way to help make the main goal cost-effective.
It's an endeavor full of pitfalls. But HY-TEK's motto sums up the potential boon: "Clean energy from fossil fuels."
The company is deep into a pilot project at an energy-producing wastewater treatment plant just outside Baltimore, and officials say the results look good.
"We're really close to commercialization," said Robert M. Mroz, the four-year-old company's CEO. "By next year, we'll have a revenue stream."
The unassuming green goop that drives pond owners crazy might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against greenhouse gases, which the Environmental Protection Agency says trap heat and contribute to climate change. Algae's appeal is that these plantlike organisms can clean the atmosphere just by existing. They use carbon dioxide — the greenhouse gas CO¿ — to reproduce and also can break down nitrogen dioxide, a smog ingredient emitted by many power plants, absorbing the nitrogen while releasing the oxygen.
Getting algae to wipe out pollution in a cost-effective way from, say, a coal-fired power plant is where the real challenge lies.
"The reason that we don't have algae ponds next to all our power plants is that the devil's in the details," said Andres Clarens, who researches carbon management as an assistant professor with the University of Virginia's civil and environmental engineering department.
It comes down to cost and logistics, he said. Ponds take up a lot of land. Bioreactors, tanks used as an alternative to ponds for growing algae, are pricey. And though the EPA is working on new carbon-dioxide rules for power plants, there's currently no requirement for existing facilities to reduce emissions, which means operators aren't clamoring to spend millions on it.
HY-TEK's plan to entice early adopters is to pay participating power plants back within seven to 10 years through the sale of oxygen, omega-3 fatty acids and other algae products. Mroz said his research suggests there's plenty of demand for those products, plus room to grow into markets like the paint industry, which can use algae as a thickener but generally opts for palm oil because it's more available.
Clarens isn't sure the market is big enough. People don't consume algae products like nutritional supplements in the same quantities as they consume energy, he said, and that's a supply and demand risk. Build lots of emissions-reducing projects on the assumption that the cost can be borne by selling those products, and you could flood the market — reducing the price you'll get.
As a result, Clarens doubts HY-TEK is onto something big. Algae has potential, he said, but he's seen plenty of companies in this space fail.
"Hopefully these guys are able to make some breakthroughs, but I would approach it with caution," he said.
Bjorn Frogner, entrepreneur in residence at both the Maryland Clean Energy Center and bwtech@UMBC, a university complex that includes business incubators, has followed HY-TEK for about two years now. He knows the pitfalls but really wants HY-TEK to succeed.
"That is kind of the Holy Grail for the power industry, because in this country, about 40 percent of our electricity comes from coal, and coal is the main polluter of CO¿ into the atmosphere," Frogner said. "If you can find a mechanism to [reduce] that cost effectively, that would be very attractive.
"Bob Mroz says he can do that, and I am very skeptical, but gee whiz, I hope he's right and I'm wrong."
'Very promising'
Mroz, a retired Federal Communications Commission official who has run his own software firm for years, thinks HY-TEK has made breakthroughs.
He and co-founder Jack French, whose background is in marketing, have chipped away at costs from various angles — lighting, algae food and bioreactor construction. They believe they've got a model that will both work and make money.
As for pollution reduction, the results so far look "very promising," said Ted Atwood, Baltimore's energy office director.
His office is involved in the experiment HY-TEK is running at the city's Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant, where bioreactors are bathed in colored light. The project, which kicked off last year, is funded with a $250,000 grant from the federal energy department and about $850,000 in donated equipment and services from U.S. companies enthused about the idea.
HY-TEK has four bioreactors at the plant. That's enough to take in about one-eighth of the flue gas emitted by the electricity-generating engines there, which run on biogas made by waste digesters on site, Atwood said.
The flue gas is injected into the bottom of the bioreactors. As the gas works its way up, the algae breaks nitrogen dioxide into its components and consumes the bad stuff — wiping out the pollutant, HY-TEK says. The algae also eliminates about 85 percent of the carbon dioxide.
That's with 10-foot-tall bioreactors. HY-TEK is about to replace them with a 20-foot-tall design. Mroz said he's confident the extra space will reduce the carbon dioxide to zero.
Atwood said Baltimore decided to try the project after staffers reviewed the plan and thought it compared well with the competition.
"We felt they were doing more to maximize the growth of the algae," he said. "They had better economic potential than some of the others … we knew were out there."
Biofuel to pollution
What got Mroz and French interested in algae five years ago was alternative fuel. French, who pilots ultralight planes, wanted to develop biofuel for that aircraft. But when they looked into it, Mroz said, "we had an epiphany."
"It takes two tons of CO¿ to produce one ton of algae," he said. "We said, 'What are we doing fuel for? This stuff needs to be used in the mitigation of greenhouse gases.'"
They formed HY-TEK Bio in 2009 and teamed up with researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, who narrowed down tens of thousands of algae strains in an effort to find ones best suited for the company's purposes.
The winner happened to come from Back River in Baltimore County, right beside the wastewater treatment plant.
"It had never been isolated before, so we got to name it," Mroz said. "That was pretty neat."
(It's now called HTB1, for HY-TEK Bio strain 1. That's the sort of name algae gets.)
One of the company's cost-saving measures is making bioreactors from Mylar strengthened with Kevlar mesh, cheaper than alternatives like acrylic plastic or fiberglass. And they're modulating their colored LED lights — turning them on and off — in a way that they say increases algae growth and decreases energy use.
Next up: skipping fertilizer as food for the algae and extracting nutrients from chicken manure instead. A 16-ounce bottle of Miracle-Gro costs $2 in bulk, Mroz said, compared with less than a penny for the same amount of nutrients from the manure.
Mroz said the company is in talks to construct its algae systems for a small power plant expected to be built in Maryland and a local waste-to-energy operation. HY-TEK is on track to start selling algae products next year, he said.
Mroz said he's also talking to people outside the energy industry about other applications for the bioreactors, such as cleaning air in subways and offices.
For now, though, his company manages on a shoestring budget. None of its 12 workers — the co-founders included — is getting paid. Mroz's Dayton home doubles as headquarters. He and French won grants to cover much of the research, but they've each contributed thousands of dollars.
They keep pushing on, enthused about the possibilities and the level of interest. Mroz said hundreds have visited the Baltimore pilot site, including a group from China.
Kathy Magruder, executive director of the Maryland Clean Energy Center in Annapolis, connected HY-TEK with the University of Maryland and a program that helped fund that research. She said she's glad the company has managed to "navigate the Valley of Death so far" in the tough world of translating intriguing technology into a revenue stream.
"What they're doing is validating their technology works," Magruder said. "They're showing us what's possible."


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Killing someone because they looked like they were "up to no good" doesn't really pass legal muster.
Under the Obama administration, the CIA drone program uses what they call signature strikes, as you've no doubt heard. Usually, the term "signature" has a positive connotation, as in a characteristic that distinguishes one from others. But, to the CIA, it just means that any military-age males in an area it has decided is a strike zone are combatants. In other words, they look like they're "up to no good" and deserve to die.
In September, as you may be aware, the Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic and the Global Justice Clinic at NYU School of Law released a landmark report titled Living Under Drones. In one section it reveals the sheer simple-mindedness of dividing individuals under surveillance into either civilians or militants. In fact, most of those labeled militants should be painted in shades of gray. (Emphasis added.)
Major media outlets in the US, Europe, and Pakistan that report on drone strikes tend to divide all those killed by drone strikes into just two categories: civilians or "militants." This reflects and reinforces a widespread assumption and misunderstanding that all "militants" are legitimate targets for the use of lethal force, and that any strike against a "militant" is lawful. This binary distinction. … distinction is extremely problematic, however, from a legal perspective.
[First] use of the word "militant" to describe individuals killed by drones often obscures whether those killed are in fact lawful targets under the international legal regime governing the US operations in Pakistan. It is not necessarily the case that any person who might be described as a "militant" can be lawfully intentionally killed.
Even if one buys into the drone program, he or she must acknowledge that
… in order for an intentional lethal targeting to be lawful, a fundamental set of legal tests must be satisfied. For example … the targeted individual must either be directly participating in hostilities with the US (international humanitarian law) or posing an imminent threat that only lethal force can prevent (international human rights law).
But that's only the beginning of the criteria that should be used in determining if someone is Predator or Reaper fodder.
[First] members of militant groups with which the US is not in an armed conflict are not lawful targets, absent additional circumstances … Further, simply being suspected of some connection to a "militant" organization—or, under the current administration's apparent definition, simply being a male of military age in an area where "militant" organizations are believed to operate–is not alone sufficient to make someone a permissible target for killing.
… Second, the label "militant" also fails to distinguish between so-called "high-value" targets with alleged leadership roles in Al Qaeda or [the Taliban], and low-level alleged insurgents with no apparent … means of posing a serious or imminent threat to the US. National security analysts—and the White House itself—have found that the vast majority of those killed in drone strikes in Pakistan have been low-level alleged "militants."
To make matters worse, along with the CIA failing to properly discriminate about who it attacks
… Often, little to no information is presented to support the claim … that a certain number of those killed were "militants." And, it is entirely unclear what, if any, investigations are carried out by the Pakistani or US governments to determine who and how many people were killed.
The drone program was key in preventing many of us from throwing our support behind President Obama in the election. In future posts, we'll examine further atrocities within the atrocity that the drone program as a whole constitutes.


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Inside the troll factory: meet the former Russian internet agitators who say Mueller's indictments are on target
'The most important principle of the work is to have an account like a real person. They create real characters'
While Russian officials scoff at a US indictment charging 13 Russians with meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, several people who worked at the same St Petersburg "troll factory" say they think the criminal charges are well-founded.
Marat Mindiyarov, a former commenter at the innocuously named Internet Research Agency, says the organisation's Facebook department hired people with excellent English skills to sway US public opinion through an elaborate social media campaign.
His own experience at the agency makes him trust the US indictment, Mindiyarov said. "I believe that that's how it was and that it was them," he said.
The federal indictment issued Friday by Special Counsel Robert Mueller names a businessman linked to President Vladimir Putin and a dozen other Russians. It alleges that Yevgeny Prigozhin – a wealthy restaurateur dubbed "Putin's chef," paid for the internet operation that created fictitious social media accounts and used them to spread tendentious messages.
The aim of the factory's work was either to influence voters or to undermine their faith in the US political system, the 37-page indictment states.
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that while the indictment focuses on "Russian nationals," it gives "no indication that the Russian government was involved in this in any way." Peskov reasserted that Moscow did not interfere in the US election.
Mindiyarov said he failed the language exam needed to get a job on the Internet Research Agency's Facebook desk, where the pay was double than the domestic side of the factory. The sleek operation produced content that looked as if it were written by native English speakers, he said.
"These were people with excellent language skills, interpreters, university graduates," he said, "It's very hard to tell it's a foreigner writing because they master the language wonderfully."
"I wrote that her chances were high and she could become the first female president," he said.
Mindiyarov said he took a job at the troll factory in late 2014 because he was unemployed and curious. At the time, about 400 people occupied four floors of an office building and worked 12-hour shifts, he said. Most of the operation focused on the separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia, not political races in the West, he said.
The factory had video and photo departments, Mindiyarov said. The trolls received their wages in cash and operated in teams as they tried to foment public interest with fake discussions, he said.
"We worked in a group of three where one played the part of a scoundrel, the other one was a hero, and the third one kept a neutral position," he said. "For instance, one could write that Putin was bad, the other one would say it was not so, and the third would confirm the position of the second while inserting some picture."
After only a couple of months, Mindiyarov quit. He said he hated the work.
Another former worker at the St Petersburg workshop, Lyudmila Savchuk, also described it as an efficient venture that churned out posts around the clock.
Like Mindiyarov, Savchuk was employed in the domestic department of the "troll farm," not the international division. Nevertheless, she said her experience there corresponds with what she knows of the allegations made by American authorities.
"The posts and comments are made to form the opinion of Russian citizens regarding certain issues, and as we see it works for other countries, too," Savchuk said.
Paid trolls used carefully crafted fake identities that made them come across like real people, she said.
"The most important principle of the work is to have an account like a real person," Savchuk said. "They create real characters, choosing a gender, a name, a place of living and an occupation. Therefore, it's hard to tell that the account was made for the propaganda."
Along with producing social media supporting Donald Trump's candidacy and disparaging Clinton, the Internet Research Agency purchased online advertisements using identities stolen from Americans and staged political rallies while posing as American political activists, the indictment alleges. The agency also paid people in the US to promote or ridicule the candidates, the document states.
Analysts and journalists have found that some of the Russian-run accounts accrued national followings in the United States, while far-right Americans and several members of Trump's team retweeted posts created in St Petersburg.
It reportedly used doctored videos to spread false reports about a supposed Islamic State attack on a chemical plant in Louisiana and a purported case of Ebola in the state of Georgia. Seeking to sow division and mistrust ahead of the US election, the agency apparently whipped up a fake video of an African-American woman being shot dead by a white police officer in Atlanta.
"All of the trolls knew that it's Prigozhin who stands behind this all," Mindiyarov, the ex-commenter who left the organisation in early 2015, said. "But nobody had any evidence."
He said that the employees disliked Prigozhin, in part because he didn't set up a cafeteria or canteen in the troll factory building even though he owned a sprawling catering business.
"People had to bring food boxes from home," Mindiyarov said. "Prigozhin did not treat the trolls well. He could at least feed them."
While the US indictment mentioned 13 people, many more must have been involved in the effort, according to Savchuk.
"Here they laugh about the news that 13 people could influence the elections in the US, but there were many more people doing that," she said. "These technologies are unbelievably effective."
She added that she learned how effective the troll farm's work was when she saw regular people sharing opinions and information that she knew were planted by trolls.
"They believed it was their own thoughts, but I saw that those thoughts were formed by the propagandists," she said.
The Internet Research Agency has reportedly changed locations, moving to another business centre in the northern part of St Petersburg. It's unclear whether it still goes by that name.
Andrey Zakharov, an investigative journalist with Russian RBC outlet who co-reported an investigation of the troll factory, said the list of indicted Russians looked "quite random" to him.
"They simply included in it all the names they could find," Zakharov said. "According to our information, some of these people don't work at the factory now and did not even work there during the (US) elections. This does not look like a result of a solid investigation."
Although the US indictment is detailed, it makes assertions without providing evidence outright. Russian officials have seized on that, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who dismissed the charges as "just blabber."


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The extra 3.3 articles will have to wait tomorrow, I eventually decided to spend more time on the small datamining issues I had and got a better preview of Shadowmourne out of it. It also means that the shamans will get some tier 10 love really soon. Also, the blue posters will most likely be back today!
Shadowmourne - Legendary Axe
The end of the PTR is near and it's time for a new preview of Shadowmourne, mostly to give you a much more interesting video of the weapon.
Keep in mind that you will have to defeat Sindragosa to claim the weapon and it will take months before the encounter is unlocked on live servers.
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The first quest is given by Darion Mograine in the Icecrown Citadel, the only prerequisite is to be friendly with the Ashen Verdict. Of course it's not that simple and the very first quest will require you to obtain Primordial Saronite x 25 along with quest items from Festergut and Rotface. Primordial Saronite is the new rare reagent from raid bosses (The new Crusader's Orb basically) and it won't be easy to get 25 of them ...
The Sacred and the Corrupt
It is against my judgment that I present you this errand,
, as it will likely end in your undoing. Ignore my counsel and embark on the endeavor, and I shall provide you with the knowledge and resources to see it through.
You must return to Frostmourne Cavern and recover Light's Vengeance, Arthas' discarded hammer. Reforged with saronite and etched with the acidic blood of the Lich King's abominations, it will provide the foundation for our work.
Unholy Infusion
Before your weapon can reach its full potential it must be endowed with its signature powers. First among them is unholiness. You must seek out and defeat the one called Professor Putricide, but his death is not your only goal. You must use his resources against him.
Find a way to absorb his mutated slime. Use the foul substance to infuse your weapon with the power of the unholy. Only when this has been done shall I reveal your next task.
Blood Infusion
Your weapon is now prepared to be endowed with the power of blood. You are to face Queen Lana'thel in battle and bathe the axe in her Blood Mirror power. When it has been fully infused, you must slay her unmercifully.
May her screams pierce the ears of the Lich King as he awaits his fate.
Frost Infusion
Shadow's Edge is prepared to receive its final infusion of power. Sindragosa, the enemy's own mount, must fall. But before she is brought down, you must sustain three of her frozen breath attacks without tasting death.
Without his dragon, nothing shall stand between you and the Lich King.
The Splintered Throne
The Lich King's throne once served as his prison. Kil'jaeden himself crafted the vessel of icy crystals from the twisting nether. Its sole purpose was to hold Ner'zhul's vengeful spirit. When Arthas struck the crystal with Frostmourne, he released Ner'zhul's soul, allowing it to merge with with his own. Splinters from that impact are now scattered throughout the citadel.
I shall require those shards, held only by the Lich King's most powerful servants, to seal the power contained in your blade.
A Feast of Souls
Shadow's Edge is among the greatest weapons a
could hope to obtain. Is your lust for power sated, ?
I thought not. A final warning then... You now embark on the most treacherous leg of your quest. Bridle your aspirations, for if your aims are impure then your life, your very soul, is forfeit.
The weapon you hold is but an empty husk, a mere shadow of what it may become. Only the devouring of a thousand souls will unlock its true potential.
Shadowmourne ...
Highlord Darion Mograine wants you to bring him Shadow's Edge.
This quest isn't fully implemented yet but already rewards you with Shadowmourne ...
The Lich King's Last Stand
Shadowmourne; a newly forged weapon already steeped in this world's history, reborn into an unrivaled destiny. With this weapon you bear a solemn responsibility, and the time to carry out that charge is at hand.
Take this weapon of myth and legend and march on the enemy. Avenge the countless heroes lost in his merciless campaign. Bring rest to their tortured souls.
Steel yourself,
, and guide Shadowmourne to fulfill the purpose of its creation.
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Three Reasons Why You Can't Find a Guy
Always attracting men who won't commit? Find out why it may be your fault!
Always attracting men who won't commit? Find out why it may be your fault!
What is wrong with men these days? This is a frequent complaint I hear from my customers and clients. No matter how positive they try to be, they still seem to meet men who just don't want a commitment. The ones who want to get married are boring and the ones who don't are so sexy, but flaky when it comes to settling down to a long-term relationship.
If you are always meeting non-committal men (or women), the problem isn't with the selection out there, but within your own mind. It is easy to blame singles in your age group, the quality of singles who date online, or that the type of partner you seek is really not out there. Passing the responsibility on to external circumstances is the way your subconscious mind tries to lead you away from the truth of what is really going on. If you find the truth, you will change your results.
The law of cause and effect states that every effect is driven by a cause. First, you need to look at your results. For example, always attracting non-committal people is the effect. Then, you have to understand what is causing the effect you are experiencing. When you look outside of yourself for the cause, you don't have any power to change it. When you look within for the source, you can be empowered to shift your experience to attract the love you desire.
Now, don't be too hard on yourself because you are not consciously creating this experience. If you knew what you were doing (or feeling/thinking) to cause it, I am sure you would change it immediately unless you really don't want to have love in your life. In my experience, here are the top reasons why you may be attracting non-committal partners.
1. You are not committed to having a partner and are unaware of it. Most likely, there is a stronger unconscious desire inside of you to stay single.
Solution: Ask yourself what benefits you receive from staying in the status quo and if you are willing to give them up in order to be in a committed relationship.
2. You want a quick fix for love. Those fly-by-night men actually feed that need for fast love. They say all the right things and create an "instant" relationship. However, they often end as fast as they begin.
Solution: Heal the urgency for love and you will stop attracting the ones who mesmerize you into short-term heartbreak.
3. You are afraid of getting emotionally intimate with a partner. Non-committal people never want to get close so you don't have to deal with emotional intimacy. Sexual intimacy is easy if this is you, but the emotional part is scary.
Solution: Heal the past which has caused you to be afraid of opening up deeply to a partner. If you already worked on this, you need to dig a little deeper to get to the root of the fear. Very Important! If you are afraid of getting too intimate, you will also be afraid to do the deep work required to heal this issue.
There are three steps to changing your results.
First, notice the pattern you are experiencing in your relationships.
Second, as you recognize the pattern, you must accept that you are the cause of the pattern. By accepting responsibility, you are armed with the power to change, and you can stop wasting time blaming others or waiting and hoping for outside conditions to change.
Lastly, face the things you have been avoiding including healing past relationships, working with uncomfortable emotions and getting outside of your comfort zone.
So, thank your latest unavailable man for holding up a powerful mirror for your inner healing. Have compassion for them because they also have the same issues with love (that's why you keep attracting each other). If you take these three steps, you will discover that love is waiting for you as you open your heart and mind to the ones who truly want to be with you. If you remove the barriers within your own mind, you can effortlessly find the love you truly deserve.
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Compatibility: In a Man's Eyes
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In Your Relationships: Have You Been Naughty or Nice?


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
I'm getting a failed to setup X after following all the steps from this wiki.* L3mce determined that my card (GT440, ID=0de0) has its ID in the "backports required" section of /usr/pluto/bin/nvidia-install.sh, and it should NOT be there. We've removed it, and then manually uninstalled the backports.* We're still getting a failed to setup X however.[EDIT]After much fighting with this and continuing to get "Failed to setup X", I realized that each time I installed the nvidia driver manually I was getting an error According to this page http://typethinker.blogspot.ca/2010/02/ubuntu-fails-to-load-nvidia-kernel.html all it really wants is the headers for the installed kernel.I did an Code: [Select]sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)and voila, nvidia module compiled, and no more failed to setup x. L3mce, I'm guessing this should be run after upgrading to natty kernel as described in your wiki?This is currently a highly hacked with install, but I now have video and audio* via HDMI working on the GT440 using driver 304, natty kernel, and the modified setupaudiovideo.sh. I'm going to try a clean install to test if my theory is correct.*Audio didn't seem to be working in MythTV.
CurKernel="-generic"if uname -r | grep "pae"; then CurKernel="-generic-pae"; fiapt-cache policy linux-headers${CurKernel}-lts-backport-natty | grep stall
Part of installing the natty kernel IS installing the headers file...CurKernel="-generic"if uname -r | grep "pae"; then CurKernel="-generic-pae"; fiNewKernel="linux-image${CurKernel}-lts-backport-natty"NewHeaders="linux-headers${CurKernel}-lts-backport-natty"apt-get -yf install "$NewKernel"apt-get -yf install "$NewHeaders"Please give me the result of the following:Code: [Select]CurKernel="-generic"if uname -r | grep "pae"; then CurKernel="-generic-pae"; fiapt-cache policy linux-headers${CurKernel}-lts-backport-natty | grep stall
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About the Book[edit | edit source]
Meteorology embraces the study of the physics, chemistry, and dynamics of the atmosphere of the earth, including the related effects at the air–earth boundary over both land and the oceans. Fundamental topics include the composition, structure, and motion of the atmosphere. Meteorologists aim to understand completely and predict accurately atmospheric phenomena. Weather describes the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place with respect to such variables as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. Determining future weather involves more than simply looking at some pictures.
Understanding meteorology requires understanding the atmosphere, some physics, and a lot of charts. Although this book may attempt to explain some mathematical concepts, many chapters simply require a preexisting considerable understanding of differential and integral calculus. Linear algebra, differential equations, and vector calculus also will aid the student greatly. Students also should possess some familiarity with physics, chemistry, computer information science (programming), statistics, and communication.
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- Introduction to Meteorology and the Atmosphere
- Dynamic Meteorology
- Heating and Temperature
- Seasons
- Heat and Temperature Defined
- Incoming Solar Energy
- Heat Transfer
- Heat Balance
- Earth Radiation
- Temperature Controls
- Scales
- Measurement
- Agriculture and Architecture
- Moisture
- Atmospheric Stability
- Clouds and Precipitation
- Formation of Clouds
- Classification
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Quentin Jammer trying to get off roster bubble with Broncos
Quentin Jammer did a lot of things during his 11 years as a cornerback with the Chargers, but that doesn't mean that there aren't some new experiences left for him to try.
One of them is playing in the fourth preseason game of the year, something he never did with San Diego but something he'll do when the Broncos face the Cardinals on Thursday night. Jammer isn't just playing the cameo role reserved for key contributors, either. Jammer will be playing to prove to the Broncos that he deserves a job on the 53-man roster.
Jammer signed with Denver in May and the Broncos toyed with moving the veteran cornerback to safety, but the move didn't work out as Jammer struggled to pick up the new position. Jammer's now back at corner and Mike Klis of the Denver Post reports that he's battling Omar Bolden to be the team's 10th defensive back. It's a big difference from where he was in San Diego, but Jammer says he's fine with the change in circumstances.
"I've felt like I'm always on the bubble," Jammer said. "I'm going to go out and work and continue to get better. It's my second week back at corner. But I felt right at home when I got out there."
Cutting Jammer wouldn't cost the Broncos anything other than a $50,000 workout bonus and he'll make $1.05 million more if they keep him on the roster. If the Broncos are worried about Champ Bailey's availability for the start of the season, the veteran's chances of sticking in Denver would seem to improve although his first-ever action in a preseason finale will loom large in a decision under any circumstances.


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Stem Cell Therapy for Deafness? So stem cell therapy may be able to cure Crohn's disease and blindness, but can it treat hearing loss too? Stefan Heller, professor of otolaryngology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and his team believe that it can.
However, it will take the researchers a couple of years to generate human hair cells that could replace damaged hair cells in the cochlea.
Normally, these hair cells which convert sound waves into electrical signals that are sent on to the brain, do not regenerate when damaged but Heller and company believe that they can coax the cells to regenerate with their new stem cell technology.
Learn more about this possible stem cell therapy for deafness from this Stanford University Press Release:
Aiming to cure deafness, Stanford scientists first to create functional inner-ear cells
STANFORD, Calif. — Deep inside the ear, specialized cells called hair cells detect vibrations in the air and translate them into sound. Ten years ago, Stefan Heller, PhD, professor of otolaryngology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, came up with the idea that if you could create these cells in the laboratory from stem cells, it would go a long way toward helping scientists understand the molecular basis of hearing in order to develop better treatments for deafness.
After years of lab work, researchers in Heller's lab will report in the May 14 issue of Cell that they have found a way to develop mouse cells that look and act just like the animal's inner-ear hair cells — the linchpin to our sense of hearing and balance — in a petri dish.
If they can further perfect the recipe to generate hair cells in the millions, it could lead to significant scientific and clinical advances along the path to curing deafness in the future, they said.
"This gives us real hope that there might be some kind of therapy for regenerating hair cells," said David Corey, PhD, professor of neurobiology at Harvard University who was not involved in the study. "It could take a decade or more, but it's a possibility."
Using both embryonic stem cells from mice as well as reprogrammed mouse fibroblasts (a type of relatively undifferentiated cell found in many parts of the body), the researchers present a step-by-step guide on how to coax these cells into the sensory cells that normally reside in the inner ear.
"We knew it was really working when we saw them in the electron microscope," Heller said. "They really looked like they were more or less taken out of the ear."
Humans are born with 30,000 cochlear and vestibular hair cells per ear. (By contrast, one retina harbors about 120 million photoreceptors.) When a significant number of these cells are lost or damaged, hearing loss occurs. The major reason for hearing loss and certain balance disorders is that — unlike other species such as birds — humans and other mammals are unable to spontaneously regenerate these hearing cells.
As the population has aged and noise pollution has grown more severe, health experts now estimate that one in three adults over the age of 65 has developed a handicapping hearing loss due to the destruction of these limited number of hair cells.
One of the roadblocks to understanding the molecular basis of hearing is the paucity of hair cells available for study, Heller said. While researchers will ultimately need human hair cells, the mouse version is a good model for the initial phases of experimentation, he said. In addition to using mouse embryonic stem cells, the researchers used fibroblasts that had been reprogrammed to behave like stem cells: These are known as induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells.
"Our study offers a protocol to generate millions of functional hair cells from a renewable source," Heller said. "We can now generate these cells and don't have to go through dozens of mice for a single experiment. This allows us to do molecular studies with much higher efficiency."
The study details how the researchers succeeded in coaxing the mouse embryonic stem cells and the iPS cells through different phases of development that occur in the womb. According to lead author Kazuo Oshima, MD, PhD, a research instructor at Stanford who works in Heller's lab, they started by turning the stem and iPS cells into the type of cells that form a young embryo's ectoderm — the embryo's outer layer of cells that eventually differentiate into many tissues and structures, such as skin and nerve cells. Next they used specific growth factors to transform them into "otic-progenitor" cells (otic means ear). And after that, they varied the chemical soup in the dish, so that the cells clustered in a manner similar to hair cells and developed stereociliary bundles, which are also characteristic of hair cells.
"We looked at how the ear develops in an embryo, at the developmental steps, and mimicked these steps in a culture dish," Heller said.
Hair cells in the inner ear contain tiny clumps of hair-like projections, known as stereocilia. Sound vibrations cause the stereocilia to bend slightly, causing mechanical vibrations that are then converted into an electrochemical signal that the brain interprets as sound.
The cells in the petri dish, under close examination, had this same structure.
"These cells have a very intriguing structure," Heller said. "They look like they have hair tufts of stereocilia."
More importantly, further study showed that the cells also responded to mechanical stimulation by producing currents just like hair cells. Using a probe, researchers stimulated the bundles and recorded the currents that were evoked. Co-author Anthony Ricci, PhD, associate professor of otolaryngology, was responsible for this step of the work.
Heller, a leader in stem-cell based research on the inner ear, has recently been focused on two paths for possible cures for deafness: drug therapy — which could be as simple as an application of ear drops — and stem cell transplantation into the inner ear.
Both paths could be further advanced by the ability to develop hair-cell-like cells, he said. "We could now test thousands of drugs in a culture dish," he explained. "It is impossible to achieve such a scale in animals. Within a decade or so we could reap the benefits of this type of screening."
The lab's research into the regeneration of hair cells for transplantation into the inner ear to cure deafness will also continue.
"We made hair-cell-like cells in a petri dish," said Oshima. "This is an important step toward development of future therapies."
Stem Cell Therapy for Deafness: Stanford University Press Release. Posted 13 May 2010. Last updated on 13 May 2010.


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BETUMI: The African Culinary Network (www.betumi.com) connects anyone who delights in African cuisine, foodways, and food history.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Lunch at Elmina Beach Hotel
This week my husband and I headed to Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana. Driving along the palm-lined coast we passed through Elmina and Cape Coast (whose grim slave castles earn this region a place as a UN World Heritage site). Instead of Accra's Ga kenkey, we passed roadside stands selling the Fanti version. We stopped for a lovely lunch: cassava and plantain fufu with goat groundnut (peanut) soup and I chatted with Theresa Anokye, the demi-chef responsible for the soup. I was delighted to find that this restaurant regularly features a weekend buffet of traditional Ghanaian foods that moves beyond the ordinary dishes to include those less familiar (to tourists), like tatale and bambara beans or aprapransa. Ah, yes, note the Star beer, too. And my Africa Cup of Nations scarf.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Eating waakye, ripe plantain, gravy, and vegetables in Ghana
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Last night I cooked up some waakye (pronounced "WAAchi where the "i" sounds like the "i" in "in" and made from rice and beans or black-eyed peas), fried some ripe plantain slices, made a little gravy (oil, onion, tomatoes, hot peppers, salt and tomato paste), and stir-fried some cabbage and carrots for dinner. Here's a picture to mark our new location and the foods easily accessible here.
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"The blue, cloudless skies over the Coachella Valley most days hide a darker truth: The area has serious, chronic air pollution challenges.
For up to three months of the year, valley residents and visitors breathe air with pollutant levels considered unhealthy, harmful — even deadly for some.
"(The pollutants) are killing people. Thousands of people die each year as a result of bad air," said Riverside County Supervisor Roy Wilson, vice chairman of the South Coast Air Quality Management District governing board."
Keith Matheny reports a feature package for the Palm Beach Desert Sun July 12, 2009.
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Duguid, Northcott to be inducted into World Curling Hall of Fame
Two of Canada's most accomplished curlers will be inducted into the World Curling Hall of Fame, it was announced today by the World Curling Federation (WCF) and Canadian Curling Association (CCA). Three-time world champion Ron Northcott and two-time world champ Don Duguid will officially be inducted into the Hall on April 7 during the closing banquet of the Ford World Men's Curling Championship, presented by Booster Juice, in Victoria, B.C. www.worldcurling.org/world-curling-hall-of-fame."The Canadian Curling Association and curling fans across our country are thrilled to see Don Duguid and Ron Northcott inducted into the World Curling Hall of Fame," said CCA Chief Executive Officer Greg Stremlaw. "The achievements of Don and Ron speak for themselves, and just as importantly they represented themselves, our country and our sport with class and professionalism." Northcott (born Dec. 31, 1935) put together a team in Calgary that followed in the footsteps of the legendary Ernie Richardson foursome from Saskatchewan. Northcott put together a 23-2 cumulative record en route to winning world titles (known as the Scotch Cup from 1959 through 1967) in 1966 (8-0 at Vancouver), 1968 (8-1 at Pointe-Claire, Que., when the event became known as the Air Canada Silver Broom) and 1969 (7-1 at Perth, Scotland). Northcott had the same front end — lead Fred Storey and second Bernie Sparkes — for all three of those titles, and three different thirds: George Fink in 1966, Jim Shields in 1968 and Dave Gerlach in 1969. Known as the "Owl," Northcott won six Alberta championships, and also was named to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1973, and was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1976. "I definitely was thrilled. I was totally surprised," said Northcott. "I have no idea who would have nominated me and how I got by the selection committee. But it's certainly an honour and I'm very excited about it. I mean, how long has it been? Close to 50 years — that's a long time." Duguid (born Jan. 25, 1935) took up the Canadian cause the year after Northcott's last world title. Backed up by third Rod Hunter, second Jim Pettapiece and lead Bryan Wood, the Winnipeg powerhouse swept to back-to-back unbeaten world championships, going 8-0 in 1970 at Utica, N.Y., and 9-0 a year later in Megève, France. Previously, Duguid had played third for Terry Braunstein's 1965 Brier championship quartet, and made it to the final of the 1965 world championship in Perth, Scotland, finishing second (5-2) after losing the final to Bud Somerville of the United States. Duguid, who turned to broadcasting after his competitive playing career was over (he worked for CBC and NBC), was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1974 and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1991. "It's a great honour; it's unbelievable," said Duguid. "I'm in the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame, the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, and now the World Curling Hall of Fame? That's just great. It's been a great journey for me. And going in with Ron Northcott really tickles me. He was an inspiration to me when I watched him curl." It's the second year the World Curling Federation has accepted nominations for induction into the Hall of Fame, which is described as "the highest 'non-playing' honour that the World Curling Federation can bestow on someone and recognizes outstanding contribution to the sport of curling whether through on ice exploits or off ice endeavours." Prior to 2012, the WCF awarded the World Curling Freytag Award, named after the late Elmer Freytag of the U.S. Curling Association, who was a founding member of the International Curling Federation (now the WCF). Previous Canadian Freytag honourees were: Ray Kingsmith (2011), Sandra Schmirler (2009), Shirley Morash (2001), Ernie Richardson (2000), Colin Campbell (1990), Bob Picken (1987), Don McLeod (1985), Mabel Deware (1983), Doug Maxwell (1981) and Ken Watson (1978). For more information on the World Curling Hall of Fame, go to:


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Vancouver residents are welcoming the world by sharing their hometown's beautiful landscape and resources with an estimated 2.3 million athletes, officials, international visitors, media, and spectators.
The House of Switzerland Canada 2010 will show its appreciation to the City of Vancouver by hosting a charity auction on its website in support of Streetohome, a partnership between the Vancouver Foundation, City of Vancouver and Province of British Columbia, dedicated to providing Vancouverites access to safe, standard, affordable housing.
"As we are guests in Canada and have enjoyed great support from the public, we would like to give something back to the local community," said Manuel Salchi, Director of the House of Switzerland Canada 2010.
The House of Switzerland is auctioning off special Swiss products from its Partners and Sponsors including a Flyer electric bike, exclusive Swiss Olympic celebration jackets, brand new Nespresso coffee machines, Lindt chocolate gift baskets, fondue sets, raclette grills, and various ski and snowboard wear from Zimtstern clothing.
"We are honoured that the House of Switzerland is donating their time and resources to benefit the residents of Vancouver. Their generous commitment to this community demonstrates the Olympic ideals of unity and humanity," says Barbara Grantham, Acting President of Streetohome Foundation.
Online Charity Auction Details
WEBSITE: http://www.houseofswitzerland.org/de/charity-auction.html
OPENING DATE: February 22, 2010
CLOSING DATE:February 28, 2010, 12:00PM
HOW TO BID: Email the item number, contact information, and bid amount to email@example.com. Bids will be updated on the website in the morning, afternoon, and evening. The highest bidders will be contacted by phone at the end of the auction, February 28th.
WINNING BIDS: Winning bidders must pick up their items at the House of Switzerland Canada 2010 in Vancouver located at 1696 Duranleau Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC on March 1, 2010 between 5:00PM – 10:00PM. Only credit card and cash accepted. No home delivery option.
About Streetohome Foundation
Streetohome Foundation is a community organization working to ensure that all citizens of Vancouver have access to safe, decent, affordable housing. They bring together business, government and community leaders to build resources and develop lasting solutions to homelessness. Everyone has a role to play. Find out how you can be part of the solution at www.streetohome.org.


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|Olanya, Modesto
|NYANKANGA, RICHARD - University Of Nairobi
|OJIAMBO, PETER - North Carolina State University
|LEMAGA, BERGA - International Potato Center
|KAKUHENZIRE, ROGERS - International Potato Center
|FONTEM, DOMINIC - University Of Dschang
Submitted to: Sustainable potato production: global case studies
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/21/2011
Publication Date: 5/25/2012
Citation: Olanya, O.M., Nyankanga, R., Ojiambo, P., Lemaga, B., Kakuhenzire, R., Fontem, D. 2012. Optimization of late blight and bacterial wilt management in potato production systems in the highland tropics of Africa. In: He, Z., Larkin, R.P., Honeycutt, C.W., editors. Sustainable potato production: global case studies. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Springer. p. 509-531.
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Technical Abstract: Late blight and bacterial wilt are two formidable disease constraints on potato and account for significant losses in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).In this chapter, various management techniques for late blight and bacterial wilt diseases are highlighted and discussed with examples drawn from diverse research. The disease management approaches include resistant cultivars, disease monitoring and reduced fungicide applications, cultural practices, and post-harvest management. Deployment of cultivars with major resistant-genes and quantitative resistance in combination with fungicide use has contributed significantly to sustained late blight management in tropical Africa. Similarly, cultural practices such as manipulation of date of potato planting, disease-free tubers, rouging and bio-rational approaches (plant-derived extracts and phosphoric acid) have been used to a lesser degree. Disease monitoring and weather-based predictions in relation to fungicide applications have been utilized in conjunction with host-plant resistance. Similarly, bacterial wilt has been successfully managed through non-chemical means which include crop rotation, sanitation (removal of wilted plants, destruction of crop residues), and minimum post-emergence cultivation of potatoes. Small-scale seed plot technique, non-diseased tubers, soil amendments and less susceptible cultivars have been important components for integrated management of bacterial wilt disease. The holistic approach for control of late blight and bacterial wilt ultimately lead to increased potato production and better economic returns in the diverse potato production region of SSA.


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Fast-Growing Chabad Asks: Who Will Be Leader for Next Generation?
The top echelons of the Chabad movement are on the verge of a once-in-a-generation leadership transition.
The Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement never replaced its spiritual leader, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, after he died in 1994 at the age of 92. Yet a coterie of gray-bearded rabbis picked by Schneerson continues to run the movement from its headquarters on Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway, sending thousands of missionaries to outposts around the world and providing services for its growing base of followers.
Now, Chabad's leadership is once again aging, leaving open the question of whether the centuries-old Hasidic movement can choose a new top leadership without the input of a rebbe. The uncertainty comes as the movement's central organizations face internal challenges from messianists inside Chabad and from increasingly powerful regional Chabad leaders.
While he was still alive, Schneerson appointed two head administrators, Rabbis Yehuda Krinsky and Abraham Shemtov, who have led the movement since his death. Both are now in their late 70s. First among their possible successors is Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, 65, a key movement fundraiser and a powerful figure in the outreach operation.
Kotlarsky's influence is today limited to the movement's outreach arm and its emissaries, who seek to engage Jews from their outposts around the globe. Krinsky and Shemtov's power is broader, stretching over several key Lubavitch institutions.
Officially second in command beneath Krinsky within the outreach organization, Kotlarsky is seen as an heir apparent. What remains unclear is whether Kotlarsky, or anyone else waiting in the wings, could attain Krinsky's or Shemtov's level of influence without the Rebbe around to give his blessing.
"Transitions are difficult," said Samuel Heilman, a professor at Queens College and the co-author of "The Rebbe," a 2010 book about Schneerson. "If the Rebbe were still alive, the Rebbe would decide. But in the absence of the Rebbe, there's no one who can say, 'Now you're retiring and someone else is going to take your place.'"
In an interview with the Forward, Kotlarsky deferred questions about formal succession within the outreach arm. The outreach organization's board, he said, would make the leadership decisions. "I wish him tremendous, long life," Kotlarsky said of Krinsky. "With inflation, at least until 180. And I'm sure that moshiach will come way before that."
Born and raised in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, Kotlarsky, unlike Shemtov and Krinsky, does not come from a particularly large or prominent Lubavitch family. In style and temperament, he is the old-fashioned Brooklyn ward boss to Krinsky's Boston Brahmin. While Krinsky is small and tidy, with a beard tucked up at the bottom so that it appears to be neatly trimmed, Kotlarsky is big, with a round belly and long and wild facial hair.
Krinsky is technically Kotlarsky's boss at Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the outreach group that sends Lubavitch men and women to set up synagogues in towns, cities and college campuses across the United States and around the world.
The Merkos is one of four central organizations that make up Chabad's institutional apparatus. The other core Chabad institutions include a publication arm, a social service arm and an umbrella group. Schneerson appointed Krinsky and Shemtov to leading roles within three of the institutions; Krinsky's son-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Friedman, runs the fourth.
Even a decade and a half after the Rebbe's death, the fact that Schneerson picked Krinsky and Shemtov carries major weight.
"Chabad is a Hasidic movement," said Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, an ethnographer of Hasidic Judaism and a Lubavitcher. "A Hasidic movement works from the Rebbe down."
If Krinsky and Shemtov have the imprimatur of the Rebbe, however, Kotlarsky has the Rebbe's army. Since Schneerson's death there has been less to tie Lubavitchers to Crown Heights, reinforcing the already central role Chabad's missionaries played in the movement's life and its theology.
The importance of the missionaries, operating from their own semi-autonomous bases, has grown along with their numbers. There are 4,000 emissary families today, more than four times as many as two decades ago, according to Chabad.
"The central institutions are not as important any longer as the shluchim," or emissaries, Heilman said. Referring to annual gatherings that bring the emissaries back to Brooklyn from their outposts around the world, he said, "Life in Crown Heights only comes alive when there are these gatherings that bring people in from the periphery."
It's Kotlarsky's job to be the link between those emissaries and the central institutions. He functions as a roving fundraiser and troubleshooter for the Merkos, sometimes mediating local disputes, other times managing tragedies. When interviewed by the Forward, Kotlarsky had just returned from Vancouver and was about to leave for Ukraine. When terrorists attacked a Chabad house in Mumbai and killed Chabad's emissaries there, it was Kotlarsky who was dispatched to speak at their funeral.
The emissaries don't necessarily rely on the Merkos to pay their salaries or to give them day-to-day instruction. Instead, powerful senior emissaries wield administrative authority over entire regions, approving hires and new outposts. Kotlarsky, however, has found ways to make himself indispensable to the far-flung missionaries.
It's Kotlarsky who has cultivated Chabad's relationship with George Rohr, the investor who funded the movement's expansion on college campuses. Rohr provides startup grants to Chabad campus houses through the Chabad on Campus International Foundation of which Kotlarsky is chairman. Kotlarsky is also chairman of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, which creates classes for local Chabad houses, some of which can provide income for the local rabbis.
Kotlarsky's political savvy is on full display in a 2010 article on a Chabad website with pictures of Kotlarsky sending out $1.25 million in checks from donors to pay for the weddings and bar mitzvahs of emissary's children.
He also goes out of his way to avoid controversy. Kotlarsky has been reluctant to speak critically of the strain in Chabad that has insisted on proclaiming Schneerson to be the Messiah after his death. Shemtov and Krinsky have loudly denounced the so-called messianists. Kotlarsky, however, treads carefully.
"Rabbi Krinsky is the chairman of the board," Kotlarsky said when asked by the Forward about his position on the messianist movement. "Whatever his policy is, that's my policy. There is no schism between us on any of these policy issues."
Kotlarsky isn't suspected of harboring messianist beliefs. Rather, his reticence is seen as a canny bit of internal politics. "He's less willing to alienate people who might not agree with him, because he likes to be friends with everyone," a longtime Chabad activist said. "It's a political thing, not a theological thing."
Each year it's Kotlarsky who organizes the annual convention that welcomes the missionaries to Crown Heights. He serves as master of ceremonies for the banquet, the weekend's main event, speaking to the thousands of emissaries who attend and serving as the face of the Merkos.
That leaves Krinsky, in a sense, in the shadows. Krinsky is now 79; Shemtov is 75. Krinsky entered Schneerson's service as a young man, serving as his driver and his close adviser. During Schneerson's last years Krinsky led a faction of younger aides who argued for more intensive medical intervention for the Rebbe. His opponent at the time, longtime Schneerson secretary Rabbi Leib Groner, was effectively pushed out of the movement's leadership after Schneerson's death.
Shemtov is a member of a sprawling clan of influential Chabad officials. His brother, Rabbi Berel Shemtov, is a powerful Chabad rabbi based in Michigan. Abraham Shemtov was appointed by Schneerson to serve as his emissary to Philadelphia and continues to work from there, rather from movement headquarters in Crown Heights.
It's not as though Kotlarsky is openly campaigning for Krinsky or Shemtov's jobs. "I try to be a very humble servant serving the Rebbe's mission," he told the Forward. "I'm here to serve… I just work in the things that I've always been working."
It's hard, however, not to wonder what will happen after Krinsky and Shemtov die or retire. The two have held together the Lubavitch movement at a time when other Brooklyn Hasidic sects have been torn by internal rivalries and by dueling claims to leadership.
That's despite a handful of serious challenges to their authority. The messianist movement, which bitterly opposes Krinsky and Shemtov, has gained currency in Crown Heights, where men on the street wear yellow messianist flag pins on their lapels, and where Krinsky has had to fight to maintain control of the synagogue in the basement of 770 Eastern Parkway.
Meanwhile, regional Chabad leaders have gained power, in some instances even distancing themselves publicly from the Crown Heights headquarters. In March, for example, Chabad in Russia publicly dissented from the international organization's determination to pursue the recovery of the Rebbe's library, currently held in Moscow, via a lawsuit in the United States.
Challenges have even come from within the central organization itself. In 2010, Kotlarsky and other members of the Merkos board took Krinsky to rabbinical court in a dispute over management of the organization. Rabbi Motti Seligson, a spokesman for Chabad.org, a subsidiary of the Merkos that handles media relations, would not comment on the rabbinical court proceedings.
"The purpose of having multiple people on the board is so that they represent various perspectives and, built into the system, is to seek periodic rabbinic input," Seligson wrote in an email. "Needless to say, I cannot comment on or even confirm any specific deliberation of the board."
Despite all this, Krinsky and Shemtov have largely kept the movement unified.
According to one source familiar with dynamics inside of Chabad headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, it's hard to imagine someone like Kotlarsky, who was not picked by Schneerson, ever attaining the kind of broad leadership now held by Krinsky and Shemtov.
Yet some outside observers are sanguine. "I think they've done quite well with succession up until now," said Jeffrey Gurock, a professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. "In general terms, these types of successions are difficult, but they've done well, and my expectation is they'll work on this internally and it will work out."
Contact Josh Nathan-Kazis at [email protected] or on Twitter, @joshnathankazis


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All the tips and tricks needed to shape up for 2013. Each day brings new, expert advice on how to look your best and live life to the fullest, while having a little fun doing it.
Believe it or not, dry cleaning is not the best way to clean your shirts. Yes, you're taking it to professionals, but even the best dry cleaning can lead to your favorite shirt's demise. After all, the process involves an intense chemical bath which can weaken fabric fibers and give white shirts a yellow hue. A better option is to simply machine wash your shirts at home in warm/cold water with a non-bleach detergent like OxiClean and let them air dry. You'll find that the casual shirts like plaids and oxfords won't even need to by ironed. (Dress shirts will likely require a quick pressing.) It's a simpler and more affordable way to keep your clothes clean, which will also prolong the life of your favorite garments.
If you insist on taking your shirts to a cleaner, ask for them to be laundered and hand-pressed with no starch. It may cost a little more, but starch unnaturally stiffens the shirt and shortens its lifespan, while machine-pressing can crack your buttons or flatten your collar. And when you spend your hard-earned dough on clothes you love, don't you want to keep them in the best possible condition for as long as you can?
One shirt that should be dry cleaned? A particularly dark dress shirt.
If laundered, the color will likely fade.
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Actor Michael Madsen pleads no contest to DUI
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Michael Madsen has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor drunken driving after crashing his SUV into a pole in Malibu in March.
In an agreement with prosecutors, the "Reservoir Dogs" actor entered the plea to one count of driving with .08% blood alcohol content within 10 years of another DUI offense.
He was sentenced Thursday to four days in jail and five years' probation.
His attorney Perry Wander says Madsen did not receive any special treatment in the case and the sentence is standard.
Wander says Madsen looks forward to completing his probation and asks for his family's privacy.
No one was injured when Madsen was driving a Toyota Land Rover that ran into a pole on March 24.
The 61-year-old is best known for playing gun-toting tough guys in the films of director Quentin Tarantino.
This story has been corrected to show that Madsen pleaded no contest to the charge.


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