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Biology is one of the original natural sciences, even reaching back as far as the study of anatomy in ancient Egypt, where evidence has been found of surgery, forensics, and anatomical knowledge of both organ structure and function. Biology in general is the study of life and living organisms, with specific attention to function, growth, evolution, identification and taxonomy. Modern biology is becoming an interdisciplinary field, overlapping with biomedical engineering, molecular chemistry, and genetics. The biological sciences recognize the cell as the basic unit of life, and DNA as the basic unit of heredity. Moreover, all organisms survive by consuming and transforming energy via respiration or photosynthesis, and by regulating their internal environment via homeostasis.
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"Our little girl is a fighter and is improving each and every day," her parents said in a statement. "We appreciate your patience, love and support, as we too are stunned and saddened by this tragedy."
The victim, identified by the initials PL in court documents, was stabbed by her two classmates after a sleepover in tribute to a fictional demonic creature called Slenderman they apparently believed was real. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier plotted to kill their friend for months in order to become "proxies" to Slenderman, who is written about on horror fiction sites.
One of the victim's stab wounds was just one millimeter away from her heart, so she's incredibly lucky to have survived the shocking attack.
"It's real early to say how long it will take her to get over this situation," a family spokesperson tells People. "It's a long-term healing process from a physical as well as a mental and emotional standpoint of being so young and being betrayed by your two best friends."
A GoFundMe donation site has been set up for the victim and her family, and you can help, too, by sending a homemade paper or felt heart to the victim. "These hearts will blanket the walls of this 12-year-old's room," the site requests. "Be a part of surrounding her with beauty and kindness, so that she may be reminded that the power of love is greater than all else."
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text: Prediction of Serotypes Causing Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Unvaccinated and Vaccinated PopulationsWeinberger, Daniel M.a; Harboe, Zitta B.b; Flasche, Stefanc,d; Scott, J. Anthonye; Lipsitch, Marca,fEpidemiology: March 2011 - Volume 22 - Issue 2 - p 199-207 doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182087634 Infectious Disease: Original Article Abstract In Brief Author Information Introduction: Before the introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevnar-7), the relative prevalence of serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae was fairly stable worldwide. We sought to develop a statistical tool to predict the relative frequency of different serotypes among disease isolates in the pre- and post-Prevnar-7 eras using the limited amount of data that is widely available. Methods: We initially used pre-Prevnar-7 carriage prevalence and estimates of invasiveness derived from case-fatality data as predictors for the relative abundance of serotypes causing invasive pneumococcal disease during the pre- and post-Prevnar-7 eras, using negative binomial regression. We fit the model to pre-Prevnar-7 invasive pneumococcal disease data from England and Wales and used these data to (1) evaluate the performance of the model using several datasets and (2) evaluate the utility of the country-specific carriage data. We then fit an alternative model that used polysaccharide structure, a correlate of prevalence that does not require country-specific information and could be useful in determining the postvaccine population structure, as a predictor. Results: Predictions from the initial model fit data from several pediatric populations in the pre-Prevnar-7 era. After the introduction of Prevnar-7, the model still had a good negative predictive value, though substantial unexplained variation remained. The alternative model had a good negative predictive value but poor positive predictive value. Both models demonstrate that the pneumococcal population follows a somewhat predictable pattern even after vaccination. Conclusions: This approach provides a preliminary framework to evaluate the potential patterns and impact of serotypes causing invasive pneumococcal disease. SUPPLEMENTAL DIGITAL CONTENT IS AVAILABLE IN THE TEXT. From the aDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; bDepartment of Microbiological Surveillance and Research, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; cDepartment of Immunisation, Hepatitis and Blood Safety, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom; dDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom; eCentre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya; and fCenter for Communicable Disease Dynamics and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Submitted 19 May 2010; accepted 7 September 2010; posted 28 December 2010. Supported by the NIH NRSA training program T32 A1007535 and by NIH research grant R01 AI048935 (to M.L.). Supplemental digital content is available through direct URL citations in the HTML and PDF versions of this article (www.epidem.com). Correspondence: Daniel M. Weinberger, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. © 2011 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.


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It's been a while since we've featured the words of one of our favourite design bloggers, so we're honoured today to be joined by the brilliant Stacey Sheppard. Stacey is a freelance writer and blogger best known for the brilliant ideas, fabulous products, and beautiful imagery featured on her award-winning blog The Design Sheppard. She loves nothing more than hunting down the season's most inspiring design finds for the home and has a particular penchant for wallcoverings.
Metallics have been trending in interiors for quite some time now, but the more mainstream metals that first come to mind, such as gold, silver and stainless steel have now given way to softer metallic finishes such as copper and brass. Rather than looking ostentatious, these metals can add a sophisticated elegance to interiors no matter what the overall design scheme.
Copper, whilst being a traditional material that has been used in our homes for centuries, is now undergoing a renewed popularity thanks to its timeless grandeur and flexibility of use.
This versatile material has a variety of finishes which can drastically affect the overall feel of the interior. The interesting way in which it ages adds another layer of intrigue to this graceful material which can develop a beautiful grey-green patina.
It can look ultra glamorous when highly polished to a shiny mirror finish and this works especially well in contemporary design schemes. However, it is also the perfect material to use in its raw state if you are looking to create a more traditional or rustic style in your home. It also looks particularly good when used in interiors that are inspired by the recent industrial or so-called "rough luxe" trends.
However you decide to use this material in your interior you can be sure that it will make its presence felt in an eye-catching yet subtle way. The easiest place to start though is by choosing a few key accessories that you can integrate into your home and luckily there is no shortage to choose from right now. The current trend for copper may have started in high-end interiors but is rapidly trickling down onto the high street so this is a look that can be achieved no matter what your budget.
Probably the easiest and most convenient way to introduce copper into your home is by adding small items such as candlesticks, vases, trinkets, picture frames and clocks. This is a cheap and simple way to integrate the trend into your home as these objects can easily be switched out should you wish to change things up again for the new season. However if you want to make more of a commitment to copper then investing in statement pieces such as furniture, lighting or storage may be the way to go.
The warm glow of copper makes it perfect for the coming winter season. Team it with other natural materials such as wood, cork and leather and you have a look that is authentic and cosy and is sure to be admired.
Copper also works well with most colours so is pretty easy to include in your current design scheme. It's warmth means that it is set off by pinks, reds, yellows and browns but it also provides a great contrast to cooler and darker colours such as blues, greens, greys and especially black.
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Are you guys feeling this heat wave? It hasn't just hit California, that's for sure. Friday + hot summer weather = kick your feet up it's time for a cold cocktail. Or a wine spritzer. Or both? But first start with this luscious libation.
This next sentence might be offensive to the world of the winos out there (especially the FAW crew…aka our neighborly Friday wine and cheese night), but here goes.
Sometimes white wine is just boring.
Red wine is where it's at. That's the truth.
However, when you are wanting a beverage on the cool and refreshing side, you gotta go with a crisp white. And then add stuff to it. Like for example, a healthy pour of frosty cold ginger beer and a splash of freshly squeezed blood orange juice.
That'll do it folks. Instant wine spritzer, perfect enough to enjoy by itself. No meal pairing needed.
You could use a regular old orange or tangerine, but the blood orange has such great flavor, they are usually extremely juicy, have a perfect balance of sweet and tangy, and they have such a sultry deep red color.
I guess anything to make white wine more, well, red. 😉
This fun spritzer will be a great recipe to have on hand during the hot summer months, so be sure to book mark it! And when I mean "book mark it" I really mean make it now. It's Friday for goodness sake. Time to bring on the weekend with a crisp wine beverage.
Orange Ginger Wine Spritzer
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Mix wine, ginger beer and freshly squeeze blood orange juice, together. Pour into a glass, over ice. Enjoy
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Cody Ross likes to make up for his mistakes rather quick. A day after losing a pop up in the sky that gave the Rays the winning run, the Sox outfielder gets a two out RBI single in the eighth which would be the difference in a 5-3 win.
Ross had himself a great night as he had Rays starter Matt Moore work hard tonight. Moore walked Ross with the bases loaded in the first and then took him deep in the third. It appeared that Moore's night could've ended earlier but after the Ross homer, he settled in and retired 10 in a row to keep the Rays into it.
Besides Ross, Marlon Byrd hit his first homer for the Sox to account for the other run. Pedroia was the only other significant contributor as he went 2-5, unless you want to count Mike Aviles picking up his first career ejection after giving the home plate umpire a few choice words for a close third strike call.
Sox starter Felix Doubront looked good out there despite the Rays working the count on him which worked against him as they were able to drive in a couple of runs in the third & fourth innings. Thankfully he pitched into the sixth before Bobby Valentine took him out. He allowed two runs on six hits and four walks. He also struck out seven.
Speaking of Bobby Valentine he was really micro manging tonight. He used Rich Hill, Scott Atichson, and Andrew Miller for one out a piece (throwing ten pitches combined) before letting Vicente Padilla and Alfredo Aceves to pitch the next 2 1/3 innings to close the door on the Rays.
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Swan Racing, currently fielding cars for Whitt and Kligerman, looking at NASCAR future
Swan Racing said Thursday that the team was "exploring every available option" after a tough start for the team's two cars in 2014.
Parker Kligerman and Cole Whitt drive for Swan and have struggled this season. Whitt is 34th in the Sprint Cup Series points standings while Kligerman in 38th.
"The team has been unable to secure the kind of sponsorship required to effectively operate the team," the statement said. "As a result, the team management is exploring every available option. We hope to be in position to provide a detailed update in the near future."
Brandon Davis, owner of Swan Energy, bought the team in 2012 and after parting ways with David Stremme in 2013, started putting younger drivers in the seat of the No. 30 for the rest of the season. After Whitt and Kligerman both drove for Swan down the stretch, Davis expanded to two cars for 2014.
It hasn't been an easy road. Kligerman has four DNFs this season and Whitt crashed out of the Daytona 500 as well.
The team signed a sponsorship deal with 50 Cent's SMS Audio before the season, but it's for a limited number of races. Swan Energy has been listed as the primary sponsor on each car for four races this season, meaning the team has run without a primary sponsor half the time.
Anthony Marlowe, a minority owner in the team, tweeted Thursday that he was going to do everything in his power to keep Whitt on track for the entire season.
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I woke up this morning with tight muscles (but not sore) and my stomach is finally feeling better. It has been two days since the marathon relay and as hoped, the snow held off for the relay! Today, it is snowing and I couldn't be happier. My legs were tight so I did a slow four miles on the treadmill this morning. I'm not good with rest, that is for sure. Well...that or I'm avoiding studying for my next state exam (it isn't until April).
There were a few reasons I wanted to run this morning.
- I'm not good at taking time off.
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As linguists, we know that language matters. But to many people it might come as a surprise to realize that when students begin their university life, some of their main problems are linguistic ones. When students fail to communicate with professors in an appropriate register, or allow the relaxed style of a lecture to disrupt the formality of a term paper, they are falling into linguistic traps for which no one has prepared them. For non-native speakers, the difficulties may be particularly acute, but even for natives, mastering a range of new registers can pose serious difficulties. Yet this problem often passes unnoticed, perhaps because people are almost as oblivious to language as to the air they breathe or because tools have not been available to research the situation objectively. Even with the advent of corpus linguistics, most studies of academic language have focused on published texts, particularly research articles, and little is known about other ways language is used within the university setting, which might include textbooks, lectures, study groups, institutional publications and encounters with administrative and service staff.
University Language by Douglas Biber is an attempt to address the issue of language in the university across the board. The book has its background in the TOEFL 2000 Spoken and Written Academic Language (T2K-SWAL) Project sponsored by ETS and should therefore be of interest to teachers preparing students for TOEFL iBT, as well as to teachers on pre-sessional language courses and linguists interested in corpus research. The aim of the project, which defines the scope of this book as well, was to describe language use across a very wide range of university registers: spoken and written, formal and informal, embracing the major disciplines (humanities, natural and social sciences), the main academic levels (undergraduate and postgraduate), and the typical situations in which students might find themselves (lectures, seminars, tutorials, interaction with administrative staff). Because of the deliberate focus on what students encounter, the design of the book intentionally excludes language that students produce independently: areas such as student presentations and term papers fall outside its scope. In Biber's own words, "the central goal of the book is simple: to provide a relatively comprehensive linguistic description of the range of university registers, surveying the distinctive linguistic characteristics of each register" (p. 22).


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The Sampson Arts Council is planning to host an artist reception to introduce the work of two local artists.
An artist reception will be held Aug. 17 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Victor R. Small House gallery. This event will feature the work of Michael Ray and Brooks Barwick from Aug. 17 until Sept. 22.
This event is free and open to the public. Receptions are typically held on Thursdays, but due to the Alive After Five concert scheduled for Aug. 18, the reception will be held Wednesday evening.
Ray is the art instructor at Clinton High School. Barwick, who is a former student of Ray's, is a recent graduate of Kenyon College.
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Ray's work will feature acrylic painting and prints, while Barwick's work will feature encaustic and oil on panel.


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text: I was looking at the scarves, bags etc on eBay and wondered what is everyone's opinion. What Hermes item or items would you pay over the retail price to purchase?? Give details. I have purchased a bag from a reseller and felt lucky to pay about $1000 over retail only. A few of my cadenas were way over retail - the lion & the lantern and a few just over retail (but no longer available in stores) - the snail & harp. What are you looking for?? Would you buy it at almost any cost??


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- A gradual and undesired change in a characteristic or a set adjustment of a component, circuit, device, instrument, piece of equipment, or system. Examples include frequency drift, thermal drift, or changes in power output. Also called long-term drift (1).
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When asked to choose any topic of interest this week, I immediately revisited the idea of Myth of No Significant Difference. Not shockingly, these thoughts surfaced around the same time as my feelings of overwhelmedness about the amount of work that I am going to have to do shortly to finish my blended Music 9 course prototype. It had me thinking about what the benefits of blended learning really are.
So, at the suggestion of Kara, I decided to see what others have done to create Music LMSs, and learn from their experiences, rather than assuming that I am the first to have tried it. I'm definitely not the first. And I found out that music teachers and institutions around the world are doing amazing things with blended LMSs in music, but one pair of music educators has a website that sucked me in for a couple of hours and lifted me out inspired and armed with a few new tools.
Freebern Music has designed a LMS for music courses at Burr and Burton Academy in Vermont to accommodate lower enrollment and still offer multiple courses. They say,
"We were teaching students HOW to learn, leaving the WHAT to the digital tools we created. As a result, we found that content knowledge and retention was improving."
They also built courses that addressed various outcomes around students' interests WITH those students. In future years, other students used the courses and expanded on them as well.
One of the main concerns that they had after moving all of their music classes to blended environments was that some students still desired to be spoon-fed, and they needed to spend more time helping students develop skills to work autonomously. (Dre and Logan also discussed the importance of scaffolding in their blogs and with me this week.) Unlike in a traditional face-to-face classroom, the Freeberns couldn't ignore this skill building. Without it, students could not be successful. They came up with three areas of focus: "These three components, a desire for autonomy, the instinctive need for mastery and a purpose for study, motivate our students to learn in this type of educational structure; a structure that will help them become lifelong learners." And as we all know, this is the ultimate goal. It's a key component of Saskatchewan Curricula.
Not all of their courses are open, but some course resources are open as well as links to music technology apps and resources. I had so much fun looking through them. It was clear that these educators have done a lot of work already to make this LMS and it was much more useful to spend time looking through their courses, tools, and statements rather than trying to figure it all out myself. One of the tools is sampulator.com. It's a fun intuitive tool that allows people to create simple beats using pre-programmed sounds. I made one, and I think that I'm going to use this tool as the activity for my Music 9 module.
I emailed the developers, Neil and Julie Freebern a note of thanks for sharing their concept, challenges and model and requested temporary access to the modules to see how they have laid them out. Hopefully, they will get back to me! Once again, the results of building a professional learning network have gone beyond my expectations.
The whole website appears to be mind-blowingly professional and comprehensive. Seeing this, has really inspired me. As a teacher who has to promote an elective class in a school with a declining population, I can see how LMS could provide administration with the flexibility needed to give students many opportunities to take music classes.
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19-year-old Grand Prairie man jailed for murder
A 19-year-old suspect is being held at the Grand Prairie Detention Facility, charged with murder.
Police say Zackary Rico shot and killed 21-year-old Jacob Vidaurri, around 1:40, Sunday morning, in the 1800 block of S. Santa Clara Ct. Vidaurri was pronounced dead at the scene.
Witnesses told police they heard the two arguing shortly before the gunfire broke out.
A person claiming to be a friend of Vidaurri's mother has started a GoFundMe account to help pay for funeral expenses. A link to the page can be found HERE


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4-H Horse Show
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Glenn County Fairgrounds
Horse Arena
221 E Yolo Street, Orland, CA 95963
Rain Date: June 3, 2017
Map to Location
Entry Fee $45.00 (All Day) or $4.99 per class
Mail or deliver to: Glenn County Cooperative Extension
P.O. Box 697
Orland, CA 95963
Youth Treatment Authorization Form 2015-16
We also need sponsors for buckles and prizes. If you are interested in sponsoring an award, please contact the Glenn County UCCE Office at (530) 865-1107, or mail donations to Glenn County 4-H Council, P.O. Box 697, Orland, CA 95963.
Hope to see you there!
Rules of Entry
- Classes are open to all 4-Hers in Northern California Counties (Del Norte, Humboldt, Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Plumas, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Mendocino, Lake, Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Solano, Sacramento, Yolo).
- Walk-Trot Division is open to 1st & 2nd year members only. Members who enter into Walk-Trot 1st & 2nd year may not cross enter into Junior or Senior classes (except for showmanship) and must remain in that division all day.
- 4-H Open classes are open to all age divisions except those exhibitors entered into the Walk/Trot 1st & 2nd year classes.
- 4-H members, if required by their county, must have a Horse Identification Form on file with their Cooperative Extension Office.
- Long sleeved shirts and boots or show clothes are required in all classes. ASTM/SEI approved helmets are required by all exhibitors when mounted on a horse or being pulled by one or more horses. It is recommended that helmets be worn at all times when handling a horse.
- 4-H whites are optional for showmanship. ASTM/SEI approved helmets are recommended but not required to be worn in showmanship.
- Management reserves the right to dismiss any horse from the grounds that is handled in such a way as to endanger others.
- No stallions are permitted on grounds.
- Entry fee is $45.00 per day or $4.99 per class. Entries MUST BE SIGNED by parent or guardian.
- A horse may be used by more than one member of the same immediate family, but can only be used once in any one class.
- Any horse shown in snaffle may be ridden with 2 hands.
- No training devices, i.e., sidepulls, martingales, tiedowns, will be allowed in show classes.
- The gymkhana walk/trot classes are not qualifying classes.
- All 4-H policies apply to this event: http://4h.ucanr.edu/Resources/Policies/.
16. Any rule not addressed in these pages may be found at the United States Equestrian Federation website: http://www.usef.org under rule book (equitation, hunter/jumpers and western divisions) or the California Gymkhana Association web site (gymkhana) http://calgymkhana.com/.
List of Classes
1) 4 -H Showmanship - Senior
2) 4-H Showmanship - Junior
3) 4-H English Equitation - Senior
4) 4-H English Equitation - Junior
5) 4-H English Equitation - Walk/Trot
6) 4-H English Pleasure - Senior
7) 4-H English Pleasure - Junior
8) 4-H English Pleasure - Walk/Trot
9) 4-H Hunter Hack - Open- Crossrails
10) 4-H Western or English Horsemanship - Senior
11) 4-H Western or English Horsemanship - Junior
12) 4-H Western or English Horsemanship - Walk/Trot
13) 4-H Western Equitation - Senior
14) 4-H Western Equitation - Junior
15) 4-H Western Equitation -Walk/Trot
16) 4-H Western Pleasure - Senior
17) 4-H Western Pleasure - Junior
18) 4-H Western Pleasure - Walk/Trot
19) 4-H Beginning Reining - Open
20) 4-H Single Stake– Senior
21) 4-H Single Stake– Junior
22) 4-H Single Stake– Walk/Trot
23) 4-H Speed Barrels– Senior
24) 4-H Speed Barrels– Junior
25) 4-H Speed Barrels– Walk/Trot
26) 4-H Cloverleaf Barrels-Senior
27) 4-H Cloverleaf Barrels-Junior
28) 4-H Cloverleaf Barrels-Walk/Trot
29) 4-H Bareback Equitation - Open
30) 4-H Ribbon Race
31) 4-H Egg & Spoon
32) 4-H Australian Trot Race
33) 4-H Team Competition - Boot Race
- Overall High Point buckles will be awarded for each age division in-county and Overall High Point awards will be awarded for each age division out of county. Rider must participate in 2 out of 3 disciplines (English, Western, Gymkhana) offered to be eligible for Overall High Point. High Point awards will be determined by highest combined points earned across all disciplines.
- There will also be in-county awards given for the high point rider in each discipline for each age division. The classes used to determine high point awards per discipline are as follows:
English Walk/Trot: 1 or 2, 5, 8, 12 English Junior: 2, 4, 7, 11 English Senior: 1, 3, 6, 10
Western Walk/Trot: 1 or 2, 12, 15, 18 Western Junior: 2, 11, 14, 17Western Senior: 1, 10, 13, 16
Gymkhana Walk/Trot: 1 or 2, 22, 25, 28 Gymkhana Junior: 2, 21, 24, 27Gymkhana Senior: 1, 20, 23, 26
- Points are awarded in each class as follows:
1st – 10 pts., 2nd – 9 pts., 3rd - 8 pts., 4th – 7 pts., 5th - 6 pts., 6th - 5 pts., 7th - 4 pts., 8th – 3 pts., 9th – 2 pts., 10th – 1 pt.
- Ties for high point will be broken by placing in showmanship. High points will be accumulated on a one horse-one rider basis.
Age Divisions
4-H Junior
13 years of age or under as of January 1st of the current year.
4-H Senior
14 years of age or older and not yet 19 years of age as of January 1st of the current year.
4-H Walk-Trot
1st & 2nd year members only. Members who enter into Walk-Trot 1st & 2nd year may not cross enter into Junior or Senior classes (except for showmanship) and must remain in that division all day.


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Now We Know How Many Ways We Can Arrange 128 Tennis Balls
Here's a question worthy of the ball boy at Wimbledon: if you have 128 tennis balls packed into a container, how many different ways can you arrange them? Answer: 10 250 - more than the entire number of subatomic particles in the universe.
the conclusion
of a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge in England, as described in
a recent paper
in the journal
Physical Review E
. Well, technically they
ran computer simulations
of 128 "soft spheres" with properties very similar to tennis balls. Both are examples of
There have been a number of studies using spheres on what's known as the
"packing problem
," but this is different. The Cambridge team was attempting to calculate a property called configurational entropy. Actually, that's just a fancy jargon word for good old-fashioned
Entropy (a.k.a.
the second law of thermodynamics
) is a cornerstone of
Boltzmann redefined entropy as more of a statistical law, applying to molecules en masse, not individually. A pint of ice cream contains billions of atoms. When frozen, those atoms are arranged in a highly ordered crystal lattice. As the ice cream heats up and begins to melt, that order gradually disappears. There is only one way for the atoms to be arranged in order to form a solid, but several combinations for them to form a liquid, and still more besides for them to form a gas.
Entropy always increases in a closed system. But granular systems - like sand dunes or those 128 packed tennis balls - are different, in that they don't have thermal fluctuations. They won't spontaneously shift the arrangement of their atoms. "If you leave them at rest, they will not change, you have to drive them to change, stir them or pack them," Martiniani told Gizmodo. "For a pile of sand, you'll need some wind or tapping to make it move."
About 25 years ago, a Cambridge scientist named Samuel Edwards suggested that it should be possible to develop a statistical theory of the behavior of granular systems, similar to the Boltzmann approach, except instead of energy, the key factor would be volume. It was an ingenious insight, but it wouldn't work unless you could calculate that entropy - a feat far beyond the computational capabilities at the time.
Even with today's computers, it's a daunting challenge to do such a calculation for a system with more than 20 particles. "The brute force way of doing this would be to keep changing the system and recording the configurations," Martiniani explained in a statement . "Unfortunately, it would take many lifetimes before you could record it all. Also, you couldn't store the configurations, because there isn't enough matter in the universe with which to do it."
Their solution: take just a small sample of all those possible configurations and crunch the probabilities on those. From there, they could extrapolate how many different ways that hypothetical Wimbledon ball boy could arrange 128 tennis balls. That same method could one day help us predict the changing shape of shifting sand dunes over time, or the behavior of snowy avalanches. Martiniani is applying it to machine learning in hopes of building more efficient AI: how many different ways can you wire a neural network and still have it be functional?
Perhaps someday it could help resolve the so-called landscape problem in string theory. Rather than providing a single unique solution, string theory predicts a vast number of worlds - roughly 10 500 possible universes. But if there is an underlying minimizing function (and many string theorists believe there is, although they have yet to uncover it), Martiniani's method could be used to figure out exactly how many possible universes there could be under string theory, and how probable each would be.
It's the universality that gives the Cambridge method its power. "The mechanics of stable packing is just the minimum of a [mathematical] function," Martiniani said. "The methodology could be used anywhere that people are trying to work out how many possible solutions to a problem you can find."
That's the beauty of mathematics. It lets you see hidden connections between things that look very different from each other on the surface, but turn out to share the same underlying dynamics - whether we're talking about sand dunes, neural networks, the multiverse, or tennis balls


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Whether it is the scorching hot summer or bitter cold winter, it is important to prepare for anything. There is nothing worse than being stuck without power, no matter what time of year. Prepare for a power outage, and any situation that results from the problem.
Key Items
There are a few items that are essential during a power outage:
- A manual can opener – it may seem simple, but many people have electric can openers now. Depending on how long the outage is, canned food may be your main source for a while. It is important to have a way to eat what you already have. With a manual can opener, you can dig into your food storage, and wait for the blackout to pass.
- Candles and flashlights – during the day, a power outage means relying on natural light to see around. At night however, it becomes necessary to use artificial lights. Being prepared by having these in your home before the power outage will make things much easier once everything falls apart.
- A generator – if you do not have a backup generator in your home, consider investing in one. If the power goes out, it can give you limited power for a period of time. This is essential during the hot summer and the frigid winter. This will allow you to run the air conditioning or the heater to keep your home comfortable for at least a short period of time. This escape from the heat may be critical if the power goes out during the scorching hot months
- A way to cook food – this can be done with a gas stove, Dutch ovens, or a barbecue grill. The last two methods must be done outside, to reduce the chances of a house fire. If you have access to any of these methods of cooking, you will be able to survive while the power is out, even if it is for an extended period of time.
- Appropriate clothing – it is possible for the power to go out in the heat of summer, or in the dead of winter. In either case, it is essential to have the clothing necessary to protect yourself. Your clothing is your first line of defense against the elements; make sure you have what you need to make it through with no power.
- Entertainment – waiting out a blackout can seem like an eternity. In an age where we have come to rely on TV, computers, and cell phones, it seems as though there is nothing to do during the outage. If you invest in books and games, it will make time seem to go faster. Even without power, you can have fun in your own home. Just make sure that you have the candles and flashlights so you can see what you are doing.
With these items, you can survive without power for at least some time. Even with these items, escaping the heat can be a challenge without access to air conditioning. There are ways that you can beat the heat, even in the worst conditions.
Staying Comfortable any Time of Year
It is important to recognize the temperature difference between levels of your home. The basement can get to a good ten degrees cooler than the upper levels. During the summer, you can escape the heat downstairs in the basement. By residing on a floor that does not receive direct sunlight, you can stay cool, even without power.
As mentioned earlier, some of the best ways to cook are on the grill, with a Dutch oven, or, if you have one, on a gas stove. If you are in a situation where staying cool is essential, avoid cooking inside, and instead use the two methods of cooking that are done outdoors. During the winter, if you have a wood burning stove you can keep your house warm and cook your dinner at the same time.
If you are experiencing a power outage, there are ways to make it more bearable. Waiting for the power company to restore power can be agonizing; but if you have the resources you need, it makes the wait a little more bearable.
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Cassie Costner writes for Method Air HVAC on the best means of dealing with a power outage. Cassie has had to live in her home without a working furnace for a few weeks this autumn and, while it wasn't the result of a power outage, she has had to learn to get creative in order to stay warm.


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How to Get a Good Mobile Numberby Nicholas Smith
When you buy a new mobile phone, you are automatically assigned a phone number based on network availability. However, you have the option of obtaining a custom phone number. For example, you may wish to have a phone number in a rare area code for mobile phones, such as the "212" area code. Or, you may wish to have a phone number that corresponds to a specific word, or a number that is easy to remember. Regardless, you can get a "good" mobile number through your cellphone provider.
Think of a specific phone number that you want. You are more likely to get your desired number if you want a specific area code. However, you can also obtain a fully custom, 10-digit number, if it's available from your mobile provider.
Purchase a SIM card with your desired area code, such as 212, on an auction site such as eBay. Before making a purchase, read all of the details for each listing. For example, find out if you have to bid on the number, or if you can buy it without having to bid. Also, find out whether the current phone number associated with the SIM card is already active, or if it must be activated in a certain period of time. This is an easy way to get a cellphone number in an area code of your choice.
Visit a mobile provider's retail location to request a customized phone number or to activate the SIM card for a number you purchased online. Although you can request new numbers online, you need an agent to activate a custom number. If you request a custom phone number, be prepared to give the customer service agent several options, as your first preference may not be available. If you previously purchased a SIM card with a custom number, be prepared to give the customer service agent the number and the name of the provider with which the card is currently registered. The customer service agent will "port" the number to their network and give you a new SIM card.
Install the new SIM card into your phone by removing the battery cover and battery. Slide the SIM card into the slot provided. Replace the battery and turn on the device.
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I'm looking for a guys opinion on this. My boyfriend of 10 months and I broke up a couple weeks ago. We were living together and fighting constantly. We had a nasty breakup. A few days later he said he's going to really miss me and whatnot. When we would try to say goodbye neither one if us could actually do it. We decided to try again but that he wanted to "take it slow" which I agreed to. But now he doesn't want to come over that often, we don't text the normal affectionate things we did before and when I ask him about it he says I need to stop pushing things and just let things happen. To me it makes me feel like he's slipping away and losing feelings. I feel that if I just step back I will lose him forever. HELP
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Just let things go with the flow. Don't be overbearing, and don't try to rush things. Don't try to control anything, and let things work themselves out.
Sometimes not doing anything is the best- or the only- solution. Some things just cannot be controlled. Only time will fix it, whatever the issue really is.
Maybe he's trying to get back into normalcy, so just let him work out his feelings. He must still care about the relationship a lot if he's willing to work it out and try again. I wouldn't worry too much if I were you.00|00|0


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Ok, the writing is a bit pedantic. And I squirm a bit at the overly sentimental and somewhat melodramatic dialogue and language used by the "god" characters.
And the idea of God the father as a "down-home" older black woman seems at once a bit too "matrix-y" (cf. "the oracle") and a bit too obvious and "over the top". It grated on my nerves reading some of it.
Having said those things, it does some great things:
(1) it reinforces the emerging idea that we (believers) are not being called to conform to some external religious model, but are being called to become what God originally designed us to be (which is not a religious kind of thing at all)
(2) it reinforces the idea that Jesus in his human life wasn't a "superman", but was "the" man - the "Adam" who finally "got it right" in that he lived his entire life in harmony with God's will - not as a counterproposal to human existence, but as "perfected" and "intended" human existence; as such his "powers" were not "god" powers, but were "human" powers as God-intended when we are working and living in harmony with God
(3) I love the way, when challenged by Mack to "justify" the magnitude of human suffering and the ravages of evil in the world, God replies "we're not justifying it, Mack, we're *redeeming* it"; I think this has to hint at a view of post-mortem redemption cum universalism (*in Christ*, a la G. MacDonald's "The Evangelical Universalist")
(4) I also love the way Mack expresses the outrage and frustration of all this evil and suffering and doesn't get platitudes and the typical inexcusable over-simplifications you find in so many theological writers (I'm thinking here of D. A. Carson who, seriously, just doesn't get it and, to a lesser degree, N. T. Wright (who I otherwise love - especially re:NPP))
(5) In the discussions regarding sin, the writer clearly indicates, through the voice of God, no less, that humans aren't truly free in the Greek or philosophical sense as so much of modern evangelicalism teaches and believes; rather, we are severely limited in our free choice by our genetics, our circumstances, our psychology, our personality, and our upbringing - leaving a relatively narrow swath of freedom before us
(6) The writer captures the idea that the creation as it exists today is distorted and broken and does not reflect in its current form the intent and design as God originally created it; he also indicates, also through the voice of God that humans are quick to call good things evil and evil things good when they (humans) lack a full understanding of things; while this is certaintly true and an important point to make, the writer oversteps and tries to make the claim that humans in their propensity to define all things relative to themselves, have no proper understanding of good or evil; this is obviously and patently false; the protagonist quickly and inexplicably fails to define good and evil in any terms other than his own preferences - never mind concepts such as needless suffering; the suffering of innocents; theft; etc. - ideas well-founded and understood in all cultures in all places as immoral and evil; humanity, while certainly incapable of comprehending good and evil in all contexts, it is also false to claim that we have no bearing or understanding of good and evil as categories
(7) An interesting idea the voice of God shares with Mack is the idea that god has hidden the truths of nature in creation as a divine act of love so that humanity and share in the joy of seeking and discovering
(8) The author repeatedly emphasizes my long-held idea that you cannot will yourself to believe something - you either believe it or you do not; you come to it or you do not
(9) The author echoes Nouwen in the idea that humanity is motivated by either love or fear, and practically everyone chooses fear; only God can give us the capacity to choose to live from love
(10) In one of the more disappointing sections of the book, the protagonist is given a "Job-like" challenge to be the judge himself, if he is superior to god - a challenge the protagonist shrinks from and ultimately refuses by offering himself instead of judging one of his own children; while the section is poorly conceived, it ends well and on a soft note that no human can understand the unbearable pain that god feels in seeing so much waste and suffering; it also ends well in that the protagonist still harbors his anger at god for allowing the protagonist's young daughter to be kidnapped and killed some years back; the "explanation" is two-fold: (a) God didn't do it or plan it - but allowed it to happen as part of the plan of unfolding free agency; and (b) the little girl is happy and perfect and joyful in the embrace of Jesus coupled with the message that this life is just th 'antechamber' to true life; I think the author is right on these things, but he can only be right if this is true for all people - not just "Christian" people - therefore, this argument holds only if you believe god will ultimately save and redeem everyone
(11) The author also captures the idea that Jesus is non-institutional, non-systematic - that politics, religion and economics are a "trinity of terror" created by humanity to subjugate and control one another - idols of destruction
(12) On the idea of god's will and sovereignty and suffering, the author as the god character sharply repudiate the idea that god allows evil or orchestrates it in order to do his will. A quote from chapter 13:
"[J]ust because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes...Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors."
(13) In an interesting sideline, the author has the protagonist point out to god the father how before this encounter, he had always thought of God the father as mean and jesus as gracious and kind. God replies, "Sad, isn't it? He came to show people who I am and most folks only believe it about him. They still play us off like good cop/bad cop - especially religious folk...But...he reflected my heart exactly."
(14) Some great quotes from the book;
"even should we find another eden; we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor remain in it forever" Henry Van Dyke
"love is the skin on knowing"
"People are tenacious when it comes to the treasure of their imaginary independence.'
"The flower of faith does not grow in the garden of certainty."
In reading this book, I don't think I heard anything I hadn't heard before, and some of the writing is, stylistically, off-beat a bit. Having said that, the author has done an exceptional job of discussing and, at least at a rudimentary/anecdotal level, defending a whole host of ideas and concepts that I myself believe that are very uncommon in evangelical circles. He stops short of universalism, but lays all the right groundwork to come to that conclusion. A quote from the end of chapter 12:
"Those who love me come from every system that exists. They were Buddhists or Mormons, Baptists or Muslims, Democrats, Republicans and many who don't vote or are not part of any Sunday morning or religious institution. I have followers who were murderers and many who were self-righteous. Some are bankers and bookies, Americans and Iraqis, Jews and Palestinians. I have no desire to make them Christian, but I do want to join them in their transformation into sons and daughters of my Abba, into my brothers and sisters, into my beloved....Most roads don't lead anywhere...I will travel any road to find you."
And, finally, he tackles the issue of the kidnapping and violent murder of the protagonist's 6 year old daughter in a way that was initially flat, but was ultimately satisfying to me, as a father of young daughters - and believe me, that is no mean feat as a father who has tumbled across my own tongue the curses I would lay at God's feet were he to allow some unspeakable evil to touch my girls.
In the end, this simple book is deserving of the hype and praise it has received. It as both deep and touching, if not sophisticated. It is moving and thought-provoking.
So much of the book echoes Nouwen's counsel on moving from the house of fear to the house of love. In a particularly poignant scene where God is gently confronting the protagonist about why he didn't tell his wife about the invitation to the shack (the protagonists says it was to prevent her from the pain of confronting the death of their daughter again; but god corrects him and says the real reason was that he (the protagonist) was afraid of all the emotions they would deal with - i.e., he was hiding the invitation to protect himself, not to protect her), the protagonist worries if tells his wife the truth and asks her forgiveness for his lie, "what if she doesn't forgive me?". To which god replies, "Faith does not grow in the house of certainty."


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Yahoo!!!! Way to go, ryleigh! Little by little you will venture out further and for longer time periods.
Do I detect the attitude of someone who is keeping up with the IBS research study? Lots of good info from them!
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Troubleshooting Exceptions: System.BadImageFormatException
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A BadImageFormatException exception is thrown when the file image of a DLL or executable program is not a valid managed executable.
Reflecting on C++ executable files may throw this exception. This is most likely caused by the C++ compiler stripping the relocation addresses or the .Reloc section from the executable file. To preserve the .relocation address in a C++ executable file, specify /fixed:no when linking.
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Amon Gordon FAQs, Biography And Facts
Amon Gordon Bio & Career Stats
Jersey: #76
Position: Defensive Line
Career: 9 Years
Height: 6-2
Weight: 312
Additional Bio Information
Birth Date: ,
Birth Place: Queens, NY
High School: Mariner HS [Everett, WA]; Mira Mesa HS [San Diego,
College: Stanford
Drafted: 2004 Cleveland Browns (Round: 5 #161)
|Amon Gordon FAQs
Where was Amon Gordon born?
Amon Gordon was born in Queens, NY.
How tall is Amon Gordon?
Amon Gordon stands 6' 2".
Where did Amon Gordon go to High School?
Amon Gordon attended Mariner HS [Everett, WA]; Mira Mesa HS [San Diego,.
Where did Amon Gordon go to College?
Amon Gordon attended Stanford.
What Year did Amon Gordon get drafted?
Amon Gordon was drafted in 2004 by the Cleveland Browns.
In what Round did Amon Gordon get drafted?
Amon Gordon was drafted #161 in Round 5 in 2004.
Which Team Drafted Amon Gordon?
The Cleveland Browns drafted Amon Gordon in 2004.
What Position did Amon Gordon play?
Amon Gordon played Defensive Line.
What is Amon Gordon's Jersey Number?
Amon Gordon's Jersey Number is 76.
What Teams did Amon Gordon Play for?
Amon Gordon played for the Broncos, Browns, Chiefs, Ravens, Seahawks and Titans.
How many seasons did Amon Gordon Play?
Amon Gordon played 7 seasons from 2004 to 2011.


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Download ASN SnapShot apk 1.12 free for Android smartphone
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An app for AutoSoft NET customers to take pictures of their vehicles and post them to their website without connecting to their computers.
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AutoSoft NET part of our Productivity and have average installs from 100 to 500. Last Update May 29, 2015. Google play rating is 60.0. Current verison is 1.12. Actual size 177.0 KB.
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A Google User
Simple and fastest way to upload pics to your site I have it installed on my Asus Transformer tablet, and my old Motorola Droid. Simple design, but it works great. It's much easier than off-loading pics from your camera, and uploading them with AutoDealer Plus. Just make sure you wipe your camera lens before you take pictures (unless you're trying to give your pics the "frosted look"). You have to have AutoDealer Plus, AutoDealer Light, or PRCo Power to be able to use this app, so if it doesn't work, you should probably call AutoSoft NET.
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Ok if you only need to upload one picture at a time
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It does not work....
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Saves Time This tool saves me from having to pay a third-party to take pictures of my inventory for me. I can use my tablet to take as many pictures as I want and they go directly to my ADP system, so my website is updated automatically as well. Everything works together perfectly, great app


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Ancient and mysterious Shrines have revealed the location of an extinct alien home world. Discovered in the aftermath of the Gallius IV war, these Shrines unlock the most powerful technology in the Universe.Read full description
Build your empire upon the bodies of others!
Deadlock II: Shrine wars is an exciting game of strategy, resource management and military conquest. Take control of one of seven races as you search for the secret power an ancient civilization.
Key Features:
New for Deadlock II
A totally redesigned interface, streamlined for ease of use
New classifications of victory conditions for solo and multi-player play
Unlimited stacking capability
9 new combat units
Expanded seas and air combat
14 new buildings
13 new technologies
2 new world types
Sophisticated, new AI to battle against
Ability to establish player alliances
Colony assistant to automate tasks
Use the colony assistant to automate production of new units and resources
Each race has its own strengths and weaknesses - learn to exploit them to your advantage
Build, trade, research, attack - the event log will update you on your victories and defeats.
©2014 Tommo Inc. All rights reserved. RETROISM® and the RETROISM® logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Tommo Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
Deadlock II: Shrine Wars is a turn based strategy game that allows you to play as seven different races with each race having their own campaign scenarios. Unlike a lot of games in this style, you are just fighting over one planet not managing fleets all over a galaxy. The game was released in 98 but it doesn't look much better than the original 95 game. You will position buildings in order to get the best bonuses to your morale, tech tree, etc. Combat is one of the more disappointing features in the game, you have no control of your units and instead give them orders before a battle beings, the fight will then end and let you know what happened while giving you the option to watch a replay. This could be handled well if the AI was good, unfortunately it isn't and many losses will likely be the fault of the bad AI. The game gives you some options for diplomacy but they are limited and the enemy races seem to do things very randomly. An ok game that didn't make the improvements it should have back when it was released, it is now quite dated and much better strategy games can be found.
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Tulare County Arbor Day Celebration is a fun-filled student event aimed at educating 3rd - 5th grade students about the importance of trees in the environment.
Arbor Day Celebration is a hands-on student event provided to all 3rd - 5th grade students in Tulare County. This late spring event provides the opportunity for students to learn about the importance and care of our trees in the environment. Students who participate will experience environmental lessons within Mooney Grove Park. Local environmental experts conduct these fun-filled, activity-based lessons. Students will get the opportunity to tour the County museum and learn about the rich history of our valley. Each class will help plant a tree at Mooney Grove for the restoration of the park. Each student will not only learn how to plant trees properly, but will be given their very own tree to take home and plant with their Mother in celebration of Mother's day!
Teachers get to have fun celebrating with their students, participating in the environmental lessons conducted by skilled gardeners. Each teacher will receive materials with information on trees and environmental education that aligns to state science standards.
Traditionally the National Arbor Day, founded by J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska in 1872, is celebrated each year on the last Friday in April. The Tulare County Arbor Day Celebration is held in early May to accommodate schools involved in the California STAR testing.
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The NSW Procurement Board has the power to issue directions to agencies that set rules and guidelines around the procurement of goods and services and construction by agencies.
Where a Direction is scheduled to commence from a particular date, agencies are not formally required to comply with the Direction until that date. However, where possible, Directions are posted in advance of commencement date to enable agencies to plan for upcoming procurements.
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we LOVE rice crispy treats at our house, so much so that I try to keep the ingredients on hand at all times. I had wondered about doing something different and one day, we decided to try popcorn. it was a GREAT hit!!! This week, with Easter coming, my kids have asked if we can make them, color the marshmallow mixture with food coloring and make them look like colored eggs. I'll let you know how it works, but for you to try it, here is the recipe we used….
2 sticks butter, melted
1 bag of marshmallows (hint::Walmart brand does NOT melt well for this…use the good ones. Save Walmart's for roasting:))
1 cup of unpopped popcorn
food coloring, if desired
Pam, or butter
Pop popcorn–this may take 2-3 batches, depending on your popper; set aside. Melt 2 sticks of butter. Add marshmallows and food coloring, if desired. Stir until marshmallows are melted. Add popcorn and stir like a mad man, so it doesn't get too stiff to work with. spray your hands with Pam and start making balls.
We tend to eat them quicker than we can make them, but you might have more luck.


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The current FREE to download Nintendo Gameboy Advance (GBA) emulator allows users to play Nintendo GBA games (ROMS) on other devices. The latest versions of the emulator are compatible with iOS (so you can play on the iPhone and iPad), Andriod, PC and Mac.
As the Gameboy Advance also plays original Gameboy and Gameboy (Color) games. There is no need to download a separate Gameboy or Gameboy Color emulator.
The emulators for download are compatible with iOS, Android, PC, and Mac. Choose your platform on the download page.
The Gameboy emulators for every platform are completely free to download and use. Just follow the instructions for your Nintendo GBA emulator download.
The current GBA emulators for iPhone & iPad (iOS), PC, Andriod and Mac no longer require you to download Gameboy Advance emulator BIOS separately. Everything you need is included in the download files.
Just download the GBA emulator files, extract them (you may have to use a program like Winrar) and install it. Then run the emulator and load your GBA ROMS (games) from the folder where you store them. The rest will take care of itself!


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Janet Tavakoli has written a new book, The New Robber Barons, available in all the usual places.
Janet's release information says:
With Trillions On the Table Nobody Plays Fair, and Everyone Plays for Keeps.
The New Robber Barons continues financial expert Janet Tavakoli's on-going chronicle of the global financial crisis captured in her articles from the September 2008 meltdown through February 2012. Picking up where her previous book, Dear Mr. Buffett, ended, she exposes the criminogenic environment that enabled international oligarchs to solidify power.
In January 2009, Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, told Tom Brokaw: "the idea that people that move money around are some favored class…strikes me as getting pretty far away from where we should be." Two years later he publicly excused apparent insider trading by one of his successor candidates, David Sokol.
Berkshire Hathaway officer Charlie Munger admonished law students that Americans shouldn't be "bitching about a little bailout."
Shortly before Congress confronted him with Goldman Sachs's profiteering during the financial crisis, Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein quipped he was doing "God's work."
CEO Jamie Dimon told shareholders that he didn't think JPMorgan made a mistake when it came to potential foreclosure fraud: "maybe we'll have to pay penalties eventually to some of the attorneys general but we really think we should just continue." Meanwhile the bank scoured 115,000 mortgage affidavits and reserved $1.3 billion for legal costs.
After MF Global's October 31, 2011, bankruptcy a U.S. Congressman told former CEO Jon Corzine: "You've got thousands of hard working people around this country that feel cheated."
Tavakoli serves up example after stunning international example of no-strings-attached socialization of losses and privatization of gains. In the words of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur: "I believe most of us would call that theft."
The New Robber Barons is a prequel to Tavakoli's The Money Book coming via traditional mainstream publishing later this year. Janet Tavakoli's fiction book, Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits, a financial thriller wherein the Jesuits usurp the Vatican's financial power structure and take control of the church leadership, will be released in March 2012. It is a prequel to Vatican Gold, the Jesuit takeover of the global banking system.
Now here's the thing — it's free today on the Kindle.
That's right, $0.00.
Just go to the Kindle Store and search for it, then "buy" it for $0.00.
If you miss it today, then buy it for real tomorrow. I've not yet read it, but there's nothing Janet has written that, in my experience, hasn't been worth reading.


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Information Technology Empowerment enable the client to utilize, optimize, and commit continuous improvement in areas of information technology.
A company's technology organization should support its business strategy, not constrain it.
We focus on clients strategic businesses needs to determine the proper technology capabilities required to support their bottom line. We aid companies in addressing technology-related decisions and ensure alignment of IT organizations and operating models to create enduring results.
With our team of global experts, SURYADATA brings depth of experience in the following areas:
IT Project Effectiveness
|Underperforming IT negatively affects business performance. SURYADATA works with companies seeking to address their IT efficiency problems to not only reduce costs, but to improve and develop capabilities that enable innovation and agility.
IT Performance Improvement
|SURYADATA helps clients maximize the business results from major technology initiatives, including turnaround programs. We help executives evaluate the case for investment, set up projects for success—or place current projects on the right track—to ensure they capture value when implementing new systems and programs.
Garment Supply Chain Management
|SURYADATA helps Garment Companies to streamline the process of supply chain to reach the target by utilizing technology into their retail sales and distribution.
Retail sales and distribution
|SURYADATA helps clients achieve optimum point of efficiency to reach the target by utilizing technology into their retail sales and distribution. We help executives evaluate available solutions and pick the most fitting solution to capture, process and display valuable data at accurate, timely, and comprehensive manner to improve retail sales.
Business process redesign (BPR) examines the efficiency and effectiveness of the most critical processes within a company. It is a key enabler to deliver the outstanding service, in the most effective way, at the most efficient use of cost and time to generate output.
First, we work together with a cross-functional client team
in order to define a series of principles that will work as guideline to the solution generation stages, and create a vision of the future state of each process from ground up.
We work very closely with our clients in this type of project, enlisting a team from all the functional areas impacted at the leadership and the solution generation level. This allows us to eliminate waste, unnecessary wait times, reports, handovers and sign-offs, while ensuring the integrity of the process.
With our team of global experts, SURYADATA brings depth of experience in the following areas:
Customer insights and segmentation
|We help clients define the target customer or "sweet spot"—the area of distinct advantage over competitors—to inform business decisions and investment allocation.
Product and category management
|We help client break down barriers to innovation and improve ongoing customer-led product development so their value proposition is differentiated and meets customer needs.
|We help resolve the pricing paradox—pricing is almost always the #1 profit lever, yet it remains under-developed in most companies—by building long-term pricing capabilities and capitalizing on in-year-revenue opportunities.
Sales and channel effectiveness
|We help companies identify quick, targeted, customized solutions as well as strategic and operational improvements to boost underperforming sales organizations.
Marketing and brand strategy
|We help companies align marketing and brand strategy with overarching business objectives; ensure marketing investments are generating highest returns and reinforcing the brand positioning; and build a loyal customer base through branding that cultivates a strong, trusted image.
Customer experience
|We work with companies to develop a series of positive interactions with the customer to earn their advocacy and inform consistent delivery of experiences to drive top-line growth.
Supply Chain Management (SCM) empower companies to use their supply chain as a strategic weapon by assessing trade-offs across four strategic attributes—cost & efficiency, reliability, agility, and responsiveness.
We start by identification of variable within the supply chain
in order to define a series of principles for buying better and spending better, and making the savings stick.
By taking a more comprehensive approach to what to buy and how to buy it, companies can reduce cost and free up cash. Full-potential savings programs can save the average 8% to 12% of total procurement costs and as much as 30% for some categories. Typically, these are sustainable cost savings that can be followed by annual cost reduction of 2% to 3%. Furthermore, strategic procurement efforts often result in shorter cycle times, accelerate revenue growth, boost customer satisfaction and advocacy, unlock savings and cash flow, and minimize risk.
With our team of global experts, SURYADATA brings depth of experience in the following areas:
Supply chain
|SURYADATA has tackled some of the toughest supply chain strategy challenges and our approach achieves demonstrably superior results: accelerated revenue growth, enhanced customer satisfaction and advocacy, unlocked savings and cash flow, and minimized risk and increased reliability.
Procurement assessment
|Creating a clear, complete picture of company-wide purchasing spend is a critical first step, whether it is managed centrally by procurement or within the relevant functions or business units.
Procurement savings
|Optimizing prices and suppliers and also focus on changing design specifications, are the second step to improve demand management and understanding the total cost of ownership.
Results sustainability
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General management
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International Business
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|SURYADATA will help you in streamlining various activities performed by the retailer such as planning, buying, and selling of products to the customers for their use. It is an integral part of handling store operations and e-commerce of retailing.
Inventory management
|SURYADATA will work together with the client so they can have helicopter view to oversee and controlling of the ordering, storage and use of components that required during the production process.


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A week ago the OKC Thunder looked unstoppable. Having sent the Spurs packing, the Thunder rolled into the Western Conference Finals against Golden State and put the defending champion Warriors on their heels. A week ago billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said the Thunder was his new favorite to take the NBA title and the Thunder promptly went up 3 games to 1 against Golden State. Now it's 3-3 with a decisive Game 7 scheduled for Monday night.
There's one interested party who may not, despite his close business and personal relationship with Kevin Durant, be rooting for the Thunder — at least not deep down inside. That's Jay Z. The famous hip hop artist and business mogul is essentially Kevin Durant's agent through his management company, Roc Nation Sports. He forced Nike to commit to a massive payday for Durant in 2014 after dangling the then-MVP in front of upstart Under Armour. Jay Z is expected to play similar hardball this summer during Durant's free agency. Here are 5 reasons why Jay Z could/should be secretly rooting against the Thunder in Game 7.
- If Durant wins a championship with OKC, he'll stay and try to repeat. If he doesn't, he'll be more likely to leave.
- If Durant stays in OKC, he's pretty much tapped out on his endorsement potential in that small market.
- If Durant and OKC lose, his exit is much easier to orchestrate without damaging his brand, which includes a reputation for being a loyal team guy.
- Large markets like Washington DC, New York, and Los Angeles are very interested in Durant. Those markets increase Durant's earning power by orders of magnitude.
- If Durant makes it past Golden State and has an epic battle with LeBron James and the Cavaliers, there will be renewed interest in staying — and leaving could be more damaging to his reputation. For Jay Z, a conference finals loss is easiest to navigate. He can claim OKC wasn't as close as it seemed, didn't put pieces in place to support a Durant championship opportunity.


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I was reading Captain Capitalism's Blog this morning and caught this interesting video I thought I would share.
Peter Schiff is one of the only economists who predicted the housing market collapse and still seems to the lone voice. I can understand why no one wants to listen to what he has to say because what he has to say is pretty frightening. In this video he discusses many aspects of the economy, but touches on a few components of the housing market as well.
What are your thoughts on what he has to say here? Is he right on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac? Dodd Frank? Student Loans? The Fed keeping interest rates artificially low? What are your thoughts?
I can't predict the future, but Peter Schiff raises some interesting points.
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Music helping bolster school attendance
The school at Ti Tree, north of Alice Springs, says student attendance figures have been boosted because of a new learning technique.
Students have been encouraged to record their own songs onto CDs.
The school's Pilawuk White says a musician sits in the class and puts music to the students' written assignments.
"Why it's a success is because you have this partnership working within the classroom where a local teacher and myself work together on the program and then it actually helps with attendance where students are turning up and there's a higher attendance because of the types of programs you provide."
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270,000 trees are flushed down the toilet or end up as garbage every day around the world.
Use tissues sparingly.
Creative Director: Mahesh Anvekar
Art Director: Pravin Amudan
Copywriter: Santu Sakar
Graphic Designer: Nilesh Ayare
Done 4 years ago.
270,000 tree's, that's not much worldwide in my oppinion, not how they make it look. 6 billion people only 270,00 tree's.
Hi all. Thanks for your feedback. A number of people have said that the layout / execution of the 'ad' was bad. I would like to point out that this wasn't an ad. It was an ambient media placement.
We had a wall-mounted tissue roll dispenser and people were using it indiscriminately. So we just put a wrap that looked like a tree trunk around the dispenser.
Since the dispenser was wall-mounted and there was no other way of placing it, placing the trunk on the ground - like hal9000 suggested - was not an option.
While the low resolution JPG on this website may not be clear, the actual 3D piece that was put up was of a much better quality - the piece looked like an actual trunk!
With regards to this being done 4 years ago, well - honestly, we did not know about it till one of you pointed out. And yes, that one does 'reduce' as the tissues are being used up. This execution doesn't reduce. But then this is a different way of executing it, right?
Anyway, glad to see so many posts. It is always nice to hear constructive feedback. Thanks again, guys!
DDB, Oman.
It is absolutely normal for an agency to have a few great campaigns and a few that suck... I really don't understand why is DDB getting so personal about everyone's comments? Why not simply accept that the campaign was a bomb and it sucked big time! There is always a new client and another day in every agency!!! Peace!
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