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Winter Guide 2012: Things to do this winter
From museum free days to hot club nights, here are 27 things we're looking forward to while we wait for that first robin of spring to chirp. Click through our calendar of events, below, and then check out other late-winter problem solvers at the bottom of the page.
Museums: Winter free days
Ongoing through February
January and February traditionally offer a wealth of free days for Illinois residents, and this year is no different. If you want to take advantage of comped admission, check out our handy list of free days. Note: The Shedd Aquarium offers free admission to its original galleries only (and no, you can't sneak into the more exciting Oceanarium and Wild Reef).
Art Institute of Chicago: Weekdays through Feb 10.
Shedd Aquarium: Jan 31.
Field Museum: Jan 31.
Adler Planetarium: Jan 31, Feb 1, Feb 6-9, Feb 14, Feb 15, Feb 21, Feb 22, Feb 28, Feb 29.
Museum of Science and Industry: Jan 31, Wednesdays in Feb.
Chicago History Museum: Feb 5-29.
Copyright 2010 SaverioTruglia
Theater: Ameriville
January 27-February 26
New artistic director Chay Yew puts his first stamp on Victory Gardens' programming with this piece by the performance group Universes. Ameriville, which Yew also directed in its 2009 debut at Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, uses a collage of music, spoken word, video and dance to explore issues of race, class, immigration and poverty through the lens of post-Katrina New Orleans.?
Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N Lincoln Ave (773-871-3000, victorygardens.org). Jan 27-Feb 26; $20-$50.
Photograph: Johnny Knight
Theater: Motion
January 28-March 3
The last play that Signal Ensemble Theatre co-artistic director Ronan Marra penned was Aftermath, the Rolling Stones bio that sold out its run, extended, sold out again, was remounted months later, and sold out that run as well. So anticipation for his follow-up, set in the locker rooms and back rooms of pro football as a top sports agent jockeys for his client's draft pick, is high.
Signal Ensemble Theatre, 1802 W Berenice Ave (773-347-1350, signalensemble.com). Jan 28-Mar 3; $20, students and seniors $15.
Music: Rumer
Feb 2
Burt Bacharach's new muse is poised to be next Adele. But despite her ode to �Aretha,� Rumer is far from retro-soul. She�s in a funk, not funky. Rumer, born Sarah Joyce in Islamabad, Pakistan, soothes with an aloe-like contralto, pipes that can not avoid comparison to Karen Carpenter. The wonderfully tranquilizing lounge pop tunes within her debut, Seasons of My Soul, are the kind of soft tragedies Ali McGraw used to die to.
Lincoln Hall, 2424 N Lincoln Ave, (773-525-2501, lincolnhallchicago.com). Feb 2 at 9pm; $13 ($15 at door).
Music: Estelle
Feb 3
The "American Boy" singer has the cool cadence of Sade on new single �Thank You.� There�s a romantic quality to Estelle�s voice, and matters of the heart serve her best. �Break My Heart� speaks to that with silky, �70s low-rider soul, as does the robotic yet seductive �ColdCrush.� The budding diva has found a classy workaround to pushing the tempo.
Double Door, 1572 N Milwaukee Ave (773-489-3160 doubledoor.com). Feb 3 at 9pm; $20.
Shopping: Randolph Street Markets
Feb 4, 5
To entice hibernators out of their lairs, this thrifters�-approved flea promises more than its usual spread, which includes vintage clothing, jewelry, furnishings and art. New this year: Style bloggers and writers help you avoid the hazards of rummaging (read: purchasing items you don�t want or need). If shopping�s not your vice and someone dragged you out to carry his or her bags, chill in the Super Bowl big-screen TV lounge. Not into sports? No problemo. Get crafty and make your honey a V-Day card at the love-letter writing station. No flame? Warm up with a bowl of chili. Market vendors are also slinging comfort foods.
Beaux Arts Plumbers Union Hall Building, 1340 W Washington Blvd (312-666-1200, chicagoantiquemarket.com). Feb 4, 5, noon-6pm. $10, online $8.
Photograph: William Frederking
Dance: The Seldoms: This Is Not A Dance Concert
Feb 4
The Seldoms open their tenth season with a show made for the colored neon-lit lobby spaces of the Harris Theater, not its stage and house. As far as we know, it�ll be the first time that anyone has used the Harris� love-it-or-hate-it, Dan Flavin-esque lobby for live performance. Music is by Chicago percussionist Tim Daisy, and costumes are by Maria �Michelle Obama� Pinto.
Harris Theater (205 E Randolph Dr, 312-334-7777, harristheaterchicago.org). Feb 4 at 7, 8:15 and 9:30pm; $20, with 10th anniversary gala reception $100.
Photograph: Doug Hamilton
Theater: American Idiot
February 7-19
Take a stroll down the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams": The Broadway entertainment inspired by Green Day's 2004 concept album, crafted by band frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and director Michael Mayer using the songs from that album and others from Green Day's catalog, hits town on its national tour. A film version is due next year.?
Oriental Theatre, 24 W Randolph St (800-775-2000, broadwayinchicago.com). Feb 7-19; $27-$95.
Comedy: Brian Posehn at UP
Feb 10, 11
Name not ringing a bell? Remember the shlubby mail carrier from Just Shoot Me or the pot-smoking, video-game playing, gay guy on The Sarah Silverman Program? Ah, now you know who we're talking about. As a stand-up, Posehn's a lot like his Silverman character (minus the gay part) in that he's a nerd enthusiast with a passion for death metal. Although it's still "UP" in the air, Posehn's February appearance is likely to coincide with a weekend of festivities to officially celebrate the grand opening of the UP Comedy Club. ?
UP Comedy Club, 230 W North Ave (312-662-4562, upcomedyclub.com). Feb 10, 11 at 8, 10:30pm; $25.
Art: "This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s" at the MCA
Feb 11-Jun 3
While we have to mock the decade that gave us stirrup pants and Ronald Reagan's presidency, the 1980s yielded some phenomenal art. Robert Mapplethorpe, Doris Salcedo and Felix Gonzalez-Torres are among the heavyweights in this exhibition, which examines how feminism, multiculturalism, the AIDS crisis and other issues transformed contemporary art. ?
220 E Chicago Ave (312-280-2660, mcachicago.org). Tue 10am-8pm; Wed-Sun 10am-5pm, Feb 11-Jun 3; $12 suggested admission, seniors and students $7, kids under 12 free. Tuesdays free for Illinois residents.
Art: "Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art" at the Smart Museum
Feb 15-Jun 10
Art aficionados and foodies can at last break bread together at this show, which celebrates 30-plus artists who have incorporated meals into their practices. The tastiest part? Several artists will involve the public in participatory projects, including Michael Rakowitz, whose Enemy Kitchen (@enemykitchen) food truck will roam the city, with Iraq War veterans serving up Iraqi cuisine; and Tom Marioni, who recruited guest bartenders such as MCA director Madeleine Grynsztejn for his installation The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art.?
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 5550 S Greenwood Ave (773-702-0200, smartmuseum.uchicago.edu). Tue, Wed 10am-4pm; Thu 10am-8pm; Fri 10am-4pm; Sat, Sun 11am-5pm; Feb 15-Jun 10; FREE.
Film: Margaret
February 17-23
Mired in editing and legal troubles, You Can Count on Me director Kenneth Lonergan�s masterpiece Margaret didn�t reach screens until six years after production wrapped. And even then, it tanked, despite the rhapsodic praise of a few reviewers (us included). A Twitter campaign and some year-end accolades later, this rich, volatile, endlessly debatable movie�a portrait of an emotionally turbulent high-school teen (Anna Paquin) who inadvertently causes a bus accident�is finally starting to attract the attention it deserves. The Siskel has booked an encore run from February 17-23. Don�t miss it: You might have to wait another six years. ?
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N State St (312-846-2600, siskelfilmcenter.org).
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Nightlife: DJ Krush + Orchard Lounge + Maker at the Mid
February 21
Throwing around a term like cutting edge takes on a whole different meaning when it comes to turntablist samurai DJ Krush. The Japanese DJ and producer has been working his brand of left-field hip-hop and beat-driven grooves since the '80s, so to call him an elder statesman almost sells him short. He used to show up in town more often, but these days his visits are as seldom as once every other year. Given that this gig falls on a Tuesday, this basically means we'll see you there. Groovy dance trio Orchard Lounge and stalwart beats DJ Maker open. ?
The Mid, 306 N Halsted St (312-265-3990, themidchicago.com). Feb 21 at 10pm; $25, discounts in advance at clubtix.com.
Photograph: Nadia Oussenko
Dance: The Delicate Hour
Feb 23-25
Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak�s latest work goes up in February. The contemporary-dance collective�s long-gestating dances are always anticipated and tend to pack a satisfying payoff; Mad Shak�s last big project, Sharks Before Drowning, made more than one of our best-of lists in 2010.
Dance Center of Columbia College (1306 S Michigan Ave, 312-369-8300, colum.edu/dancecenter). Feb 23-25 at 8pm; $26.
Music: Bird in Flight: The Music of Charlie Parker with Strings
Feb 24
Puerto Rican alto saxist Miguel Zen�n sits in with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble to toast the Bird. The cats dig into the master's 1950 recordings, Charlie Parker with Strings, pretty much the template for this whole classical-jazz fusion thing.?
Harris Theater 205 E Randolph Dr (312-334-7777, harristheaterchicago.org). Feb 24 at 7:30pm; $18-$48.
Theater: Show Boat
Feb 24
The Lyric Opera looks to new audiences with its foray into Broadway. Not sure a Jerome Kern musical from 1927 will rake in the Glee set, but it'll be fascinating to follow the initiative, which could send the subscribers with fur coats and pearl binoculars into a tizzy. Hear "Ol' Man River" deeper than you've ever heard it. These are mighty bassos.?
Civic Opera House, 20 N Wacker Dr (312-332-2244, lyricopera.org). Feb 12-Mar 17; $54-$224.
Music: Van Halen
Feb 24
David Lee Roth dresses like an old-timey paperboy and can't hit the high notes and high kicks. Michael "The Mullet" Anthony and his harmonies have been replaced out of nepotism with a kid named Wolfgang. But Eddie, poor Eddie, can still shred. A comeback record was largely based from demos older than most of our staff, which bodes well. And you won't hear "Poundcake." Out of morbid curiosity, we want to see this Camaro crash into a tractor. ?
United Center, 1901 W Madison St (312-455-4500, http://www.unitedcenter.com). Feb 24 at 7:30pm; $69-$2,750.
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Nightlife: Damian Lazarus at Spy Bar
February 24
Never one to follow trends, club land's challenger of the status quo Damian Lazarus returns to Chicago for an aural excursion at Spy Bar. Proprietor of the fittingly named Crosstown Rebels label, Lazarus is a key player behind the careers of some of the hottest current acts in underground tech-house, including Art Department, Dinky, Jamie Jones and Visionquest. If you're a seeker of that "next" sound when you head out on the dance floor, you need look no further than this veteran selector.?
Spy Bar, 646 N Franklin St (312-587-8779, spybarchicago.com). Feb 24 at 10pm; $20, free before midnight with R.S.V.P. at clubtix.com.
Art: "Entre Nous: The Art of Claude Cahun" at the Art Institute of Chicago
Feb 25-Jun 3
Claude Cahun (1894-1954), a.k.a. French-born artist Lucy Schwob, is a recently rediscovered Surrealist whose deconstructions of gender and identity seem decades ahead of their time. Cahun's revolutionary life included a lifelong artistic partnership with her stepsister and lover Suzanne Malherbe, and brave efforts on behalf of the Resistance during World War II. But you should see this show for her photographs and photomontages, curated by the Jeu de Paume, Paris.?
Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Ave (312-443-3600, artic.edu/aic). Mon-Wed 10:30am-5pm; Thu 10:30am-8pm; Fri-Sun 10:30am-5pm; Feb 25-Jun 3. $18; seniors, students and kids 14 and over $12; kids 13 and under free. First and second Wednesdays of the month are free for Illinois residents. $2 discount for Chicago residents.
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Music: Zed's Dead + araabMUZIK + Dillon Francis + Midnight Conspiracy at Congress Theater
March 2
As far as the "brostep" brand of dubstep goes, Zed's Dead falls to the more tolerable side of the sound. The duo mixes heavy amounts of soul samples into its speaker-rattling bass stompers. Another cross-genre talent, MPC wizard araabMUZIK looks to the euphoric side of dance music for his source material, sampling acts like Kaskade and flipping it into some of the most potent hip-hop beats coming out. Diplo discovery Dillon Francis has his roots in dubstep, but has recently taken a liking to the emerging moombahton sound, stripping away the Latin-heavy side of the midtempo dance sound and giving it a potent pop makeover. Kicking the whole night off, local electro-step duo Midnight Conspiracy rolls out a new live show based around the humongous LED screen you might have seen at one of its earlier gigs this year.
Congress Theater, 2135 N Milwaukee Ave (773-486-6672, congresschicago.com). Mar 2 at 7pm; $25, discounts in advance at clubtix.com. 17 and up.
Gay & Lesbian: Chicago Takes Off
March 3
TPAN's annual striptease gala missed the mark by just a hair last year with its modest Lido des Boyz, but expect it to return with a sweaty, fighting vengeance with "Game On 2012," a sexy, sporty take on striptease that is already filling our heads with locker-room fantasies and images of wide receivers and tight ends. As usual, the funds generated benefit more than 25,000 Chicagoans impacted by HIV/AIDS.
Park West, 322 W Armitage Ave (773-929-1322, parkwestchicago.com). Mar 3 at 7:30, 10:30pm; $50-$150.
Comedy: Jerry Seinfeld
March 3
We've got to hand it to Seinfeld, various recent successes like the Seinfeld reunion on season seven's Curb Your Enthusiasm and directing Colin Quinn in last year's Long Story Short haven't stopped the man from doing what he loves best, stand-up comedy. Seinfeld continues to be a ubiquitous face on the touring circuit, and his appearances on late night have showcased a man at the top of his game.?
Rosemont Theatre, 5400 N River Rd (847-671-5100; rosemonttheatre.com). Mar 3 at 7, 10pm; $45-$75.
Art: "Alan and Michael Fleming" at threewalls
Mar 9-Apr 21
The Flemings, who are twins, have collaborated since 2005 on playful videos, performances and other works that remind us art can actually be fun. We're eager to see the two SAIC alums double down on their first Chicago solo show. ?
threewalls,119 N Peoria St, suite 2C (312-432-3972, three-walls.org). Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Mar 9-Apr 21; FREE.
Photograph: Gadi Dagon
Dance: Batsheva Dance Company
March 17, 18
Two of 2011�s best dance premieres were made by choreographers from Tel Aviv�s Batsheva, for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. The Israeli company itself follows up on its brilliant 2009 Chicago visit with a double bill of choreography by Ohad Naharin, MAX and B/OLERO. It�d be hard to overstate how excited we are for this.
Auditorium Theatre (50 E Congress Pkwy, 312-922-2110, auditoriumtheatre.org). Mar 17 at 7:30pm, Mar 18 at 2pm; $30-$90.
Music: Black Keys + Arctic Monkeys
Mar 19
Yeah, the modest Ohio boys are playing on the Bulls' home court. Hard to believe. To justify that jump to the big leagues, the Keys have nitro-charged and given a coat of gloss to their blooze on the new El Camino. It's probably their worst record, and Patrick Carney's cross-armed clunk-drumming is four pistons short of a power engine, but goddamn can Dan Auerbach belt 'em.?
United Center, 1901 W Madison St (312-455-4500, http://www.unitedcenter.com). Mar 19 at 7:30pm; $66-$310.
Photograph: Courtesy of the Auditorium Theatre
Dance: American Ballet Theatre: Giselle
March 22-25
New York�s ABT brings its Giselle to the Aud for five shows beginning March 22, with the Chicago Sinfonietta in the pit. On Saturday 24, see Natalia Osipova, David Hallberg and Gillian Murphy in the Romantic ballet�s lead roles�they�re three of the most talked-about classical dancers alive today. Hallberg, recently a guest on The Colbert Report, made waves for defecting from the U.S. to join Moscow�s Bolshoi Ballet. Osipova, who, in another bit of big news, recently left the Bolshoi for St. Petersburg�s Mikhailovsky, is a freak of nature. The two are gorgeous together onstage, especially in Giselle. Not to be missed, balletomanes.
Auditorium Theatre (50 E Congress Pkwy, 312-922-2110, auditoriumtheatre.org). Mar 22, 23 at 7:30pm; Mar 24 at 2pm, 8pm; Mar 25 at 2pm. $32-$127.
Photograph: Eduardo Patino
Dance: Ballet Hispanico
March 22-24
Now directed by the founder of Chicago�s Luna Negra Dance Theater, BH�s upcoming visit includes a new piece by Ronald K. Brown, a genius at blending and mashing up different dance styles from the U.S., Africa and the Caribbean, to songs by Peruvian singer Susana Baca. The company will also perform a work by Andrea Miller, whose work we tend to love, and another by hot up-and-coming European choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa.
Dance Center of Columbia College (1306 S Michigan Ave, 312-369-8300, colum.edu/dancecenter). Mar 22-24 at 8pm; $26.
Photo credit: Murray Close
Film: The Hunger Games
Mar 23
With the Twilight saga winding down, audiences may be starved for a new teen-lit movie franchise to sink their fangs into. Can this post-apocalyptic actioner, based on the first book in Suzanne Collins's best-selling trilogy, fill the void? Winter's Bone breakout star Jennifer Lawrence reportedly edged out 30 other actresses�including True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld and Hanna's Saoirse Ronan�to win the starring role. She plays Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year-old girl competing against other youngsters in a televised death tournament. Bella who? ?
Opens Mar 23 at area theaters.
Museums: Winter free days
Ongoing through February
January and February traditionally offer a wealth of free days for Illinois residents, and this year is no different. If you want to take advantage of comped admission, check out our handy list of free days. Note: The Shedd Aquarium offers free admission to its original galleries only (and no, you can't sneak into the more exciting Oceanarium and Wild Reef).
Art Institute of Chicago: Weekdays through Feb 10.
Shedd Aquarium: Jan 31.
Field Museum: Jan 31.
Adler Planetarium: Jan 31, Feb 1, Feb 6-9, Feb 14, Feb 15, Feb 21, Feb 22, Feb 28, Feb 29.
Museum of Science and Industry: Jan 31, Wednesdays in Feb.
Chicago History Museum: Feb 5-29.


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Was I raped? I don't want to go to the police. I just want to know the answer. — Super Sad
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Your mother's friend sounds kind, smart and supportive. Please let her help you now. You need STD and pregnancy testing. (Planned Parenthood can provide testing and counseling; check plannedparenthood.org for your local clinic.)
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I am certain that your willingness to tell your story will help many people.
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I feel as if I can't be around her or her daughter because the name will keep my baby in my head. What should I do? How do I let her know how I feel without coming across as confrontational? — Sad
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She may tell you that she thought this would honor your child's memory. If she says this, you'll have to tell her she is very mistaken and that it makes it hard for you to be around them.
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Introducing the Baricuda Extruder for 3D Printing Sugar and Chocolate
Derived from the venerable MakerBot MK2 Frostruder, this air-pressure driven extruder ("baric") is a Universal extruder because it adds a Degree Amplifier (yep... temperature) to let you extrude anything.
The Source Code and Files are Hosted on Github:
We used this to precisely extruder sugar templates for engineering vascular tissues for regenerative medicine research. See the details here:
You can use it for:
1) Molten Sugar Extrusion
2) Molten Chocolate Extrusion
3) Molten PLA and ABS and other experimental plastics Extrusion
3) Molten Extrusion -- This is a Universal Extruder! Any thermoplastic material can be extruded.
You are only limited by your motherboard and the number of MOSFETs you have (for control of pneumatics just like the Frostruder).
Operation is IDENTICAL to the Frostruder, you just need to add a heating element and thermistor for temperature measurement.
UPDATE 2: HOW-TO ASSEMBLE Visual instructions posted on my flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/sets/72157631469935204/
UPDATE: My Z-idler files are now posted at the request of bill20r3.
NOTE: Sugar and Chocolate precision extrusion should be controlled NOT by precision of air pressure (which is hard) but instead by precision of temperature (which is easy). Temperature controls viscosity which controls extrusion rate at a given temperature.
The temperature to use depends on the material properties of your extrudate (read: the sugar). But you want around 100 úC extrusion for this type of sugar glass you can make at home (you DON'T need the cream of tartar):
Chocolate is just as easy -- but don't use water! Chocolate and water don't mix.RepRap does not support such a large extruder by default. You may need to first 3D print the additional Mendel vertices to widen the top of the Mendel so you can fit this extruder in there easily.
- Get a Frostruder MK2 (you need the rubber stopper, tubing, and pneumatic solenoids)
- Lasercut these new parts out of 1/4" MDF or other RIGID wood. It has to be really really stiff.
- 3D print the RepRap holder for the extruder
- Get the bolts, nuts, washers, and aluminum standoffs you need. I recommend locking nuts so that the fitting is tight.
- Assemble and WIN!
NOTE: There's no BOM because it will depend on the thickness of the material you laser cut. I used 1/4" MDF and 50 mm screws with 25 mm aluminum standoffs. You should be able to figure it out by looking at the images in this Thing.
But the idea is you take the stopper clamp and top clamp and put the glass syringe in (I use Air-Tite.com). Then you wrap in foil and then wrap in nichrome and affix your thermistor. Then you put the stand-offs in and get the spacing you want with one or more spacer clamps. Then you should be all set.
I use one stopper clamp, one top clamp, one spacer clamp, and one bottom clamp.
The bottom clamp has the holes that affix it to the x-carriage on the RepRap. If you use 1/4" MDF it will be stiff enough to support the entire BariCUDA Extruder even while extruding. We have been using this design for more than a year and half with no problems.
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I'd love to make one of these. Is it possible even though MakerBot's Frostruder is discontinued?
I discovered that, "Rice Paper Sheets" make a excellent printing medium that retains edibility after printing and the sheets and prints are easily removable from a heated bed; I assume it would be food safe food items vs kapton or non food-grade glass (they make spring rolls from the particular sheets I have and objects can be removed with H20 or another solvent that is suitable for your print material), These print sheets could be combined with this extruder for some really nice creations. I will be building this extruder and testing sugar and chocolate prints on the rice paper ASAP. Thx for posting this it should prove a indispensable tool for my research.
So, the thing about this is that the Frostruder has been discontinued.
I'm new to 3D printing, and I have no idea what a MOSFET is (or realistically half of the other terms you used).
Basically, my point is, I have no idea what to do with this project. I know you print the parts out that you've provided. Beyond that, how do I go about setting this up and using it?
This is listed as CC-BY-SA here, but the github http://README.mdREADME.md lists it as CC-BY-NC-SA. Are they intended to be different?
Hey Branko,
It was great talking via Skype, lemme know if you have any more questions.
hi Jordan ,
Congratulations with your novel vascularization technique. Two days ago I read the Nature article , the link was posted at :
I'm working as bioinformatics for Toxicogenetics group in LUMC , Netherlands , and would like to replicate
your experiment.
I guess hepatocytes are most interesting for our group. My boss just came from vacations and I'll talk to him next week about this.
Anyhow, I have some questions regarding the article and would surely have Qs down the replicatio
n road .
So would you be kind to send me your email adr (or any other comm. tool gtalk/skype ... )
at [email protected] ?
All the best ,
Can you tell me what size glass syringe you use? How much nichrome wire did you wrap around the syringe? A BOM for your setup would be very helpful, I know it depends on the thickness of material like you say, but it would be great to see what you use and go from there.
Very cool! Do you think wax can be printed with this (for lost wax casting)? I am guessing so.
Between this and Mars rovers with skycranes I am mildly offended that they still have programming time to waste on the Olympics.
I was trying to explain 3D printing to a friend, and it was not making any sense to them. Now throw in the phrase, "...with special attachments, you can print candy bunnies, or blood vessels for growing a new liver in a petri dish. "
BOOM their head explodes.
Gimme pics!
...and his write-up is at the RepRap blog now: http://blog.reprap.org/2012/07/on-challenge-of-3d-printing-sugar-for.htmlhttp://blog.reprap.org/2012/07...
There's always this YouTube video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VHFlwJQIkEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Former Bros star Matt Goss has ended his 10 year relationship with model-turned-actress Daisy Fuentes.
Goss and Fuentes shared a home together in the Hollywood Hills and were engaged in 2003.
The break-up follows rumors Fuentes rekindled her relationship with Latin singer Luis Miguel. The pair dated for three years before breaking up in 1998.
Singer Goss confirmed the split, telling RadarOnline.com, "We had a long and loving relationship. This came as a shock especially when you think you really know someone. I wish her all the best and hope she finds whatever it is that she's searching for."


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Dream Concert 2013
Dream Concert has, and always will be, more like a sports event or a festival than a concert. Yes, there is music, and it's an opportunity to see your favourite idols in a venue bigger than anything they've ever performed before. However, it's also the only time that the entire k-pop community in Korea gets together in such volume to share their love for music. The seats are assigned in sections by group, and the fan clubs all sit in their fandom colours, their faces painted as they wave signs and pen lights in the massive stadium.
It's definitely easy to see where the trends in k-pop lie when looking at the seating at Dream Concert. World Cup Stadium was able to hold up to 45,000 people, and it was as full as it could be. The third floor was made up almost entirely of fans of SM artists – SHINee, SNSD and Exo.
Infinite fans, known as Inspirits, also took up three sections in the third floor. The surprisingly huge section was on the second floor, the five sections taken up by Beauties, which are Beast fans. Also on the second floor were Banas (B1A4), Kamilas (KARA), Kiss Mes (U-Kiss), IAMs (2AM) and most of the other artists that were performing. The ground floor was made up of people who were willing to pay much more than the normal 5,000 won a ticket that the fans pay for the fan club seats.
For many of the fans, Dream Concert is an all day event. Half of the fun is lining up and waiting with your fan club, getting to talk about your favourites while waiting for the doors to open to get your seats. The grounds of World Cup Stadium are near chaos, especially for those who dare go near the Homeplus to try get something to drink or eat.
Finally, at 6:30, the show opened. The MCs for the evening, SHINee's Onew, KARA's Hara and Beast's Doojoon opened the show and introduced the first act, Rainbow. Their cute spring song, "Tell Me" helped get the audience dancing along. They then performed one of their more popular pieces, "A".
Next up were the incredibly popular rookie group, Exo. Both Exo-K and Exo-M performed together through Mama and History, with intricate dancing, helping get the entire audience excited for a comeback that would be announced a few days later. Following Exo was B1A4, another newer group that had seen incredible success since their debut. They performed their newest song, "What's Happening?" and then performed their incredibly popular "Sleep Well, Good Night".
Huh Gak was next. Thought of as "Korea's Paul Potts" because of his unassuming job as a repairman before entering Superstar K, he is very popular across the board now for his ballads. He performed "1440" and "Running in the Sky" while the entire audience sang along.
The ballads were just a brief intermission between the up-tempo music, as Girls Day came on next to perform their latest single, "Expectation" with the famous suspenders dance. They also performed one of their most famous songs, "Twinkle Twinkle", which got the entire audience of 45,000 dancing and singing along. Boyfriend were then up with their latest songs, "Janus" and "I Ya". Another newer group, BtoB, followed Boyfriend, with "Second Confession" and "Wow".
Dream Concert veterans U-Kiss took to the stage next, with their subunit uBeat performing their single "Should Have Treated You Better". The rest of the members joined uBeat on stage for their second song, their latest single "Standing Still".
After a long run of up tempo music, another ballad group took to the stage with 2am. Performing "One Spring Day" and "Can't Let You Go, Even if I Die", the audience once again was able to sing along with every line, both songs well loved by the general public.
Another very popular group, Secret, took to the stage next. Performing their current single, "Yoohoo", they showed their cute side compared to their single before. They paired that song with "Shy Boy", a song that is still incredibly popular despite the fact it came out a few years ago.
Up next were the infinitely popular Infinite. Inspirits, their fan club, went wild as the group came out on the stage and sang their very popular current song, "Man In Love". Keeping with the theme of using their happier love songs, Infinite went back almost two years in their releases to perform "Nothing's Over", which brought cheers from the entire crowd as everyone sung along. Kara, another incredibly popular group, followed up with their songs "Pandora" and "Step", both which had the fans going mad.
Around this time, the sun was beginning to set, and the audience was beginning to show signs of just how long the day had been. The show switched over from high profile acts to some of the newer or lesser known groups. Z:EA, who have a strong fandom but don't promote as regularly as other groups, came out and performed "Aftermath". Then, their sub unit, ZE:A5 performed "The Day We Broke Up". They were followed by VIXX, a popular group that debuted last year, and they performed two of their singles, "On and On" and "Super Hero". New group Evol followed with their unique sounding "Get Up", catching many people's attention. Speed then performed their singles "It's Over" and "Pain".
After a break from the big names, the audience was ready to get back on their feet. One of the special stages was brought out, which was a combination of two of the most talented power vocals in k-pop: Changmin from 2AM and Hyorin from Sistar. The two performed "When I First Saw You", originally a duet between Jamie Foxx and Beyonce. At this point, the audience knew we were at the final stretch of the concert, with a lot of big names coming up.
T-Ara's subuit, T-ARA N4, performed their current single, "Jeonwon Diary", to an energized crowd. The sound is quite different from T-Ara's regular image, and they were really able to bring some energy into the crowd. Keeping the powerful girl group image vibe going, Four Minute were up next. Despite Hyuna being absent, the girls powerfully performed "What's Your Name" and "Hot Issue". "What's Your Name" has been hugely popular, and the chorus boomed around the stadium as the audience sang along. Last but not least in the girl power section, Sistar took the stage. After an incredibly successful 2012, the girls owned the stage, performing their insanely successful singles "Lonely" and "Loving U". With the warm early summer mixing with the cool summer air, it was really easy to get back into the summer vibe that "Loving U" was able to bring last summer.
After taking a long break from the spotlight as a group, Beast returned to the Dream Concert stage with a massive fan section cheering them on. Singing their own summer anthem, "Beautiful Night", Beast were able to keep with the warm weather late night party feel that was ringing through the stadium. Then going back through their single collection, Beast performed one of their most popular pieces, "Fiction."
By this point, there were only a few acts left, and their fan groups were getting impatient. The shawols had been chanting SHINee's name for the past hour, and finally they got their wish as an extended opening to "Why So Serious" opened. The guys came out, Jonghyun still not returned from his recovery, and brought the house down with their funk rock sound, showing off every bit of vocal talent that the boys have in them. They then went into the equally catchy "Dream Girl", both that had the crowds on their feet, screaming, dancing, and cheering along.
There was only one group left. And no matter how people may feel about them, boy girl, young or old, like or dislike, there is something about when SNSD take the stage that is impressive. The command they have of the stage, and the confidence they show is admirable. And even if the songs come across as very repetitive when it's just audio, when performed, they suddenly become incredibly to take in. The girls opened with "The Boys", which had everyone singing the lyrics along with. Last song of the night was "I Got A Boy", which is one of those love or hate songs. However, with the energy in the crowd, and the way the girls performed, there was no way someone could sit there and dislike the song at that moment. It was too easy to be swept in.
For one last song, all of the artists returned to the stage to sing the classic Korean song "Bon Voyage (여행을떠나요)" and say goodbye to their fans while fireworks went off and the 45,000 fans went to struggle to deal with the last few trains that could take them home.


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Even The Papers Are Bored Of Villa?!
I think I'll make this the worlds fastest rumours article ever because to be Frank (but only if you'll be Sheila), I'm bored!
One link says we are after £7million rated German international defender Per Mertesacker who plays for Werder Bremen. No quotes to it, not even an agent talking but there you go!
The Daily Mail have re-hashed a summer long rumour that we are going to bid £3million for Fulham's 23-year-old right-back Liam Rosenior. Maybe we will, maybe we won't! Surely if we were going after him we'd have done it when we sold Aaron Hughes or Steven Davis to them?
The Portugoal.net site claim we are once again looking at Valencia's Portuguese right-back Miguel. Roma are also linked. The report suggests we have been out priced in a move for Porto's Jose Bosingwa and that without the prospect of European football, Miguel won't choose us. Oh how my heart breaks.
And yes, that really is your lot, even the papers are bored of telling us who we aren't going to buy. Personally, I'd go and get king of the sulks Nicolas Anelka, he's a fine fine striker and I'd hate to see Portsmouth grab him from Bolton! As if what I think counts ffs!!


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Nelson S. Rosa, Paulo R. F. Cunha, George R. R. Justo.
One of key methods to increase availability of distributed systems is to allow dynamic changes to place at runtime without to stop the entire system. A critical task carried out during such changes consists of verifying and preserving the functional properties of the system. However, as important as to preserve the integrity of functional aspects, non-functional properties (e.g., security and performance) must also be preserved when modifications occur. We present a formal approach for specifying non-functional properties of dynamic distributed systems. This approach allows formal verification to be performed before a change is committed. The paper illustrates our approach with an example of a dynamic client-server application.
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Add chance to recieve Heroic/Normal Items.
Add Warforged Seals
Add Noodle Carts, and other big raid-foodbuffs.
Add Misc Legendary Items(very low)
Add Valor Point Badges(Useable after the 1000 Valor Cap)
Increase Gold-Drop by 10 Times.
Add Misc Titles.
Add Misc World Drops, especially from MoP.
Add PvP Gear, newest season.
Add a new item, allowing you to reset your LFR save, and do it all over again.
http://www.twitch.tv/hammerpairs 7/7 Mythic EN / 3/3 Mythic ToV / 10/10 Mythic NH / 9/9 Mythic ToS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBmNLMo4vcI some old school CM fun
"Your lights will go out. The darkness will envelop you. And you will fear the shadows that move within it."
The only option that is even close to reasonable is increase gold drop but even now you can get tons of gold from lfr so I don't think it's needed. Rest of the options are just plain dumb.
can't vote i don't agree with ANY of those options, giving LFR extra stuff for raiding the easiest content.
to get the carriers back? would require you give ME the special extra loot, but non of the scrubbags i carry get anything extra.
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It really fudementally boils down to the simple fact that LFR isn't a quick easy way for a chance at lower item level gear and perhaps a bit more (rare pet perhaps) anymore. I swear i've spent more time per week in LFR just going in for secrets on my monk then i actually raid in Normal and Herioc modes on my paladin, which is extremely sad. No carrot on a stick will be enough incentive for me to go into LFR over flex, ever. Its bad enough that i'm "forced" into ToT raidfinder for secrets. Trust me, being forced into doing RF via a legendary quest only pisses me off at the end of the day. Adding something else that will force me into LFR on my paladin as well will just tick me off.
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Most of the options seem pretty ridiculous, however one thing i would like to see changed is the amount of valor rewarded. Most players want to find the easiest and quickest method of valor capping and right now 90 valor for 2-3 hours, sometimes longer, simply means no one wants to step foot near lfr.
edit: before anyone says you're not forced it's a choice, it's a moral guilt trip if you don't try and get the best gear you can you're letting everyone else in the raid down, that's how heroic progress works.
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Am I the only person reading "How NOT to fix LFR"?
Wanna know how to fix LFR? Make it stupidly easy and rasie the ilvl requirement. It won't ensure that their won't be difficulties but it would allow bad groups to derp roll ezmode bosses.
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Getting people to go back and carry the group is a bad thing. Most of the people that carried LFR also didn't like it. There should never be LFR exclusive stuff, that's ridiculous.
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Mountain Rustic Bathroom Design Inspiration
At Home on the Range we often use reclaimed wood and rustic materials in our Western designs, as they add natural elements and help warm up every space—including bathrooms. In fact bathrooms are extremely popular spaces to have updated and remodeled, so we thought we'd share some of our favorite rustic bathroom designs—from Houzz and from our own portfolio—to help inspire you.
This rustic wood vanity by Tineke Triggs of Artistic Designs for Living would look fabulous in any mountain home.
A chiseled stone tile wall adds a wonderful rustic touch to this contemporary bathroom by Philpotts Interiors.
Below is an eye-catching mix of woods, tiles and color in this spa bath by Harrell Remodeling!
We love the horizontal application of board and batten paired with a contemporary-style wood pedestal vanity in this rustic bathroom by Andrew Melaragno.
We hope you'll also get some great ideas from the Home on the Range rustic bathrooms pictured below.
This Pioneer Homestead master bath features reclaimed beech cabinets paired with a classic clawfoot tub.
A custom-designed concrete countertop rests on a reclaimed timber vanity base in this Western Mine-style guest bath.
The rustic cabinetry in this master bath is made from antique pine and works well with the reclaimed timbers that frame the room .
We incorporated an Oceanside stone and glass mosaic tub face and honey onyx tub deck into this rustic contemporary master bath.
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Photos: 1 by Tineke Triggs of Artistic Designs for Living via Houzz; 2 by Philpotts Interiors via Houzz; 3 by Harrell Remodeling via Houzz; 4 by Andrew Melaragno via Houzz; 5-8 Interior design by Home on the Range, Photos by Tim Murphy, Architecture by Joe Patrick Robbins, AIA


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BRE Bid Joins Apartment Hunt Amid REIT Discount: Real M&A
BRE Properties Inc. (BRE), a California real estate investment trust, is the latest target in a $22 billion apartment landlord spending spree that could swoop up Home Properties Inc. (HME) and Post Properties Inc. next.
Essex Property Trust Inc. this week offered about $5 billion for BRE, topping a rejected bid from Land & Buildings, said two people familiar with the matter. A deal for BRE would follow $22 billion in U.S. purchases completed by apartment REITs so far this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Even with rents rising and occupancy rates at a 12-year high, the Bloomberg Apartment REIT Index has fallen almost 7 percent this year. The share drop has created opportunities for buyers seeking high-quality assets such as BRE's properties in the San Francisco Bay area. Before Essex disclosed its bid, BRE traded 13 percent below its net asset value, according to Sentry Investments. With Home Properties and Post Properties also estimated to be trading at discounts, Bloomberg Industries analyst Jeffrey Langbaum said stock gains this week show investors expect them to be next.
"It's very hard to grow in size by doing one-off property acquisitions and one-off property developments," Langbaum, a REIT analyst in Skillman, New Jersey, said in a phone interview. "If you want to grow in earnest, a big portfolio is one way to do that. You've had companies taking advantage of those opportunities."
San Francisco-based BRE rejected a $4.6 billion offer in July from a consortium of bidders that included Land & Buildings, an investment firm focused on real estate securities.
Essex Approach
Essex also approached BRE earlier this year and was rebuffed, said two people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the information was private. The Palo Alto, California-based company's latest offer for BRE equates to between $64 and $65 a share, implying a premium of about 22 percent to BRE's average stock price on the 20 days prior to when the bid was reported.
The deal, which will probably be comprised of some stock, seems reasonable, said Sachin Shah, a special situations and merger-arbitrage strategist at New York-based Albert Fried & Co.
"Many of their peers' stock, over the past three months, hasn't traded very well and so when somebody offers you presumably a 19 to 20 percent premium, then you should probably take it," Shah said.
BRE is a logical target because it offers attractive assets at a discounted valuation, said Michael Missaghie, a fund manager in Toronto at Sentry Investments who focuses on real estate securities.
Hot Market
The company's properties in the San Francisco Bay area are located in one of the hottest markets for rent growth and occupancy in the U.S., according to data compiled by Axiometrics Inc.
Missaghie estimated the company's net asset value at about $61 a share, compared with its $53.37 close on Dec. 3. Yesterday, BRE closed at $59.30.
"You're getting high-quality assets that you can turn around and operate properly under a different platform," Missaghie said in a phone interview. "They've operated at that discount valuation, but the quality of the assets are high and the locations are strong."
Stock Declines
While BRE shares have been pressured in part because of criticism of management and operating results, the entire sector has been in decline. Apartment owners are the second-worst performers in the Bloomberg REIT Index this year, behind only landlords at health-care facilities. The broader REIT measure has lost about 1 percent, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 25 percent.
The drop reflects investor concern that a rebound in the single-family housing market and slowing job growth will sap demand for rentals and limit how much landlords can raise rents, said Calvin Schnure, senior economist with the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, a Washington-based industry trade group.
The specter of rising interest rates has also contributed to the decline, Michael Bilerman, a New York-based analyst at Citigroup Inc., wrote in a Dec. 4 report.
Even so, the rental business remains strong. Apartment occupancy in the U.S. was 94.6 percent in October, the highest in 12 years, and rents are poised to climb 3 percent nationally through the end of 2014, according to Axiometrics data.
Valuation Mismatch
That opens up opportunities for potential acquirers, Schnure said.
"You have a lot of mismatch in the valuation of apartment buildings or apartment REITs," he said. "Long-term factors here are still very stacked on the side of solid growth."
Among apartment REITs trading at a discount, Post Properties (PPS), a $2.5 billion operator of buildings in the southeastern U.S., and Home Properties, a $3.2 billion REIT concentrated in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic markets, stand out, Citigroup analyst Bilerman wrote.
In a Nov. 22 report, Citigroup analysts put Atlanta-based Post Properties' net asset value at $58.16 a share and Home Properties' net asset value at $73.17. Yesterday, Post Properties closed 22 percent below their estimate at $45.50, while Rochester, New York-based Home Properties ended at $55.50, a 24 percent discount.
Next Up?
"Home Properties and Post Properties are the logical kind of next man up in terms of who is the potential takeout," Langbaum of Bloomberg Industries said. "They always seem to outperform when M&A is driving the market. They're smaller players in those markets that could potentially be absorbed by larger players."
Post Properties climbed 5.8 percent in the two days after Essex's bid was reported, while Home Properties rose 4.7 percent. Today, Post Properties gained 1.4 percent to $46.15, while Home Properties rose 1 cent to $55.51.
Besides Post Properties, Associated Estates Realty Corp. (AEC) is a potential target, Alexander Goldfarb, a New York-based managing director at Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP, wrote in a Dec. 4 report. He estimated last month that the $940 million company's net asset value was $21.90, compared with a stock price yesterday of $16.34.
Today, Associated Estates rose 1 cent to $16.35.
Representatives for Post Properties, Home Properties and Richmond Heights, Ohio-based Associated Estates didn't respond to phone messages seeking comment.
Additional deals would follow the 34 U.S. acquisitions completed by apartment REITs this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
'Good Opportunity'
The biggest apartment deal this year was the $16 billion purchase of Archstone Inc. by Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities Inc., the two largest apartment REITs, from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. In October, Mid-America Communities Inc. completed a $4 billion acquisition of Colonial Properties Trust, a landlord focused on the Southeast U.S.
"The REITs themselves are at a bit of a discount, so it's not surprising" that somebody would want to invest in the companies or buy them out, said Schnure of NAREIT. "With fundamentals remaining fairly strong and the stock valuations being off, it really gives you a good opportunity for purchases."
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
If apps can track racist graffiti, why has tech failed to find Flight 370?
The Malaysian government confirmed on Monday that Flight 370 crashed into the ocean, although recovery of the debris and location of the area of the crash still remains unspecified. The disappearance of Flight 370 caught global attention, and the frustration of numerous agencies that failed to get the fast results they wanted from all the tech carried on the plane as well as the tech carried by the passengers. When you consider that BBC has reported that Japanese activists can now track racism via Google Maps on the same day, the question is why has the gap between consumer software and public safety software become so large. The contrast between news that a free app can find where the people you want to avoid are and a multi-million dollar public safety software architecture can't track a plane with technology that wants to be found should be of concern to the public, and investors.
Immarsat reaches back to the 19th century to solve the mystery
Immarsat, the UK company responsible for providing satellite tracking services resorted to using a wave phenomenon formula that was discovered in the 19th century in order to model the potential flight paths of Flight 370 which led to the determination of the plane crashing into the ocean. None of the current satellite data, or the data that should have been recorded during the hours of the flight were available. While Immarsat has played the role of the savior in this case of forensic analysis, the question is how reliable are the government sector data services that companies like Immarsat provide? Also, if the government sector services are not up to par; what does that mean for the rest of the customers of enterprise aggregate systems of any type? Much has been made of the security of these systems, but has security revealed its fatal flaw in that it sacrifices real time accuracy when it may be most critically needed?
How Japan tracks racism through Google Maps
The same day the Prime Minister made his pronouncement on the demise of Flight 370, BBC released a trending report that activists in Japan were using Google Maps to track racism. Independent users can log on and record instances of racist graffiti that are pin flagged to a publically shared map. Users can also delete pins when the graffiti is removed as well as verify the accuracy of the initial report. This type of community mapping uses the connectivity of the Internet and its broad reach to generate as much real time data as possible without the fear of a power interruption (ref: ups centrale termice). The information does have its percentage flaws, but it has a recovery and reconciliation rate that would shame most government and private statistical aggregators.
A question for investors
For investors, and for consumers, the question that Flight 370 and the mapping activity of the Japanese activists brings to the fore is whether or not lifting a ban on cellphone usage in flight is a matter of public safety. If the proprietary and secure satellite systems are not capable of providing real time information, perhaps turning towards a crowd based app is a better way of tracking flight passage. With more individual unit sources of data brought into play, tragedies such as the mystery surrounding 370s disappearance and the trauma it caused their families could be avoided. As well the re-allotment of monies and rethinking of the nature of public security may cause many burdensome budgets to be lightened significantly.


text: Ingo Molnar wrote:> i've just uploaded V0.6.2 that fixes a console-unblanking-timer thinko. > This bug was present for quite some time, but this is the first time it > triggered on my testbox - might be more common on others.> > IngoHi Ingo,I finally got to test your patch again. Now I've been running -V0.6.2 for almost two hours and have not yet encountered a single deadlock.So it seems that the netfilter deadlock, that I could easily reproduce in -V0.4.1, is solved.There is one strange thing, though:michich@k4-912b:~$ uptime 00:09:17 up 1:49, 7 users, load average: 707.72, 706.40, 682.16In fact my computer is mostly idle.ps shows no zombies nor any D-state processes. The system runs fine.Michal-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to email@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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Dear Dr. Barchas, I have a 4-year-old indoor Himalayan/Tabby mix who has cat dandruff on the back half of the top of her back. I was wondering what may be the cause of this and what treatment would help. She has had it since she was a kitten, but it pretty much only becomes obvious when I brush her or take her to the vet. My vet has seen it before, so it may not be something to even be concerned about? –Amber
One summer day between my third and fourth years of vet school, I was lazing by the pool at my apartment complex in Davis, California. I may have enjoyed an adult beverage or two. One of the local cats came up to my lounge chair. She was very friendly, but I couldn't help noticing the massive quantity of white flakes that coated the oily hair on her back. I commented aloud. This is what I said, verbatim: "Holy crap, that's the worst cat dandruff I've ever seen!"
I learned something important that day, and it wasn't about about feline dermatology. The stranger to my left promptly advised me that she had sought treatment for the cat's dandruff at several veterinary offices and was told that nothing could be done. The lesson, of course, was to keep my stupid mouth shut.
It should not surprise the reader that veterinary medicine has a term to describe severe dandruff: seborrheic dermatitis. (Given that veterinary medicine even has a term to describe freckles in ginger cats — lentigo simplex — the bigger surprise to me is that there is no special term for putting one's foot in one's mouth.) I prefer to call it dandruff.
Amber, cat dandruff is common. It occurs most frequently exactly where you have described: on the back, closer to the tail than to the head. The dandruff may be accompanied by greasy hair.
Most of the time, dandruff, even when severe, is not representative of a disease. However, some skin parasites (particularly one called Demodex) and fungal infections (such as ringworm) can lead to dandruff. So can glandular disorders such as hyperthyroidism, allergies to fleas or food, and even severe problems such as lymphoma. Some cats appear to respond to dermatological insults (such as exposure to chemical irritants) by producing dandruff.
To be sure, you did the right thing by taking your cat to the vet. I hope that she did the appropriate tests to rule out those more serious problems. If she did, it is safe to say that your cat has a good, old-fashioned case of feline dandruff. That means two things. First, the problem will be hard to solve. Second, the problem isn't a problem and it doesn't need to be solved.
Feline dandruff is, in my experience, hard to treat. Some vets have touted success with dietary supplements such as omega-3 fatty acids. Others recommend special shampoos or spot-on therapies (specifically, I have seen some vets recommend Douxo Spot On or Alloderm). A few owners have reported success after changing their cats' diets.
However, most people who own dandruff-laden cats end up frustrated. In my experience, the "problem" does not improve no matter what is done.
I put "problem" in quotes for a reason. If your vet has ruled out serious skin disease, and your cat is not suffering from itching, hair loss, or pain, then as far as your cat is concerned, there is no problem. Cats, unlike humans, don't worry about first impressions. They don't obsess in the mirror.
Since the dandruff isn't bothering your cat, I recommend that you not let it bother you. Why risk gastrointestinal upset from a diet change, or an adverse reaction to a shampoo? The problem isn't really a problem, so why not do nothing? Veterinary medicine has a fancy term for this as well: benign neglect.
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text: der Mouse <email@example.com> writes: >> I agree that the *implementation* is not good, but the >> *functionality*, that is, allowing for the interposition of controls >> on each system call a process tries to invoke, is both doable and a >> good thing. > > Unfortunately, while doable, it's very hard. Everything the controller > looks at must be passed to the kernel in a way that guarantees that > what the kernel sees is data the controller has vetted. Yes. It requires that, for example, strings corresponding to paths being opened be copied into the kernel before they are vetted, and that the vetting be performed on the canonical version in the kernel, not on the version in userland that another thread can change. This is not "very hard", it is just different from the implementation strategies people have been using to date. > For simple arguments that are passed in registers, this is easy. > For self-contained strings like the pathname arguments to calls like > open() or readlink(), it's a little more difficult, but not all that > much. > > Cases like sendmsg(), where the argument points to a structure that has > pointers off to other data, are even worse, the more so if those other > pointers are conditional on something. The important part in something like sendmsg is to prevent unauthorized processes from calling it at all, and to prevent authorized processes from sending to the wrong place. It is not necessary to vet all the data in practice, so it isn't really a problem. > With driver-specific ioctls it's approximately impossible with our > current kernel setup. That's not a big deal in that the big issue is preventing processes from opening devices they're not authorized to touch in the first place. > To do this right, we'd have to arrange that copyin() and its relatives > can be redirected so they get serviced by the controller process, I'm not sure we actually need to do this with a controller process. That is certainly a model worth playing with (and that is the systrace model), and it provides a very general mechanism, but even more restricted mechanisms that operated in kernel can do quite a lot. That said, I would certainly like to see the most general mechanism available, if only for experiments. > or at least serviced from memory not writable by anyone else during > the interval between the controller OKing the call and the kernel > reading the memory. The latter seems more reasonable to me -- that is, I would suggest copying data to the kernel and then vetting and then acting on it. > And, of course, ideally analogous things should be true for data > passing in the kernel->user direction too. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger firstname.lastname@example.com


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Yes. The Illuminati I believe is thought to have origins coming from the Freemasons. The main concept behind it is having a group traditionally consisting of only men of high political, intellectual, economical, or social status to work towards the "perfect" or "ideal world". They have a nasty reputation linking them to conspiracy. Some think they may have roots in the occult or occultist practice.
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The computerised application system for the training posts that lead to consultant jobs was scrapped by a review set up this week to establish why many of the best-qualified candidates had been left without a single interview.
The review, led by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, took just three days to bin the online system, which was supposed to deliver a centralised and fairer application process. Junior doctors who have not got interviews in round one will be re-assessed the old way, through scrutiny of their CV and a structured interview. There has been a public outcry in the last 10 days, since doctors received emails telling them whether or not they had an interview for jobs beginning in August. Junior doctors, who have already spent seven or eight years training, protested and surgeons in the West Midlands refused to go ahead with the interview process.
Last night the Royal College of Surgeons said the computerised selection process had "clearly failed and has caused deep distress". Its president, Bernie Ribeiro, claimed a victory. "It is clear that there is a large group of highly skilled trainees who have not been shortlisted for interview due to faults in the application process. I am pleased to say that the secretary of state for health has listened to our advice and acted quickly to set up this review which has hopefully reassured both patients and trainees."
On Wednesday, the Department of Health insisted any changes would have to be to the second round of interviews next month. "It would be irresponsible to halt the interview process at this late stage," it said. "It would create far greater uncertainty and anxiety...[trusts] would be left without a system of recruiting doctors into posts beginning in August 2007."
But the BMA was still calling for the whole process to be suspended and doctors complained that the best jobs would be taken by round two. Medical advisers will now look in detail at candidates not shortlisted. The colleges believe they can have the right people in place by August.
Some 30,000 junior doctors are chasing 22,000 jobs, not all of which carry the prospect of becoming a consultant. The online application form, (Medical Training Application Service) was supposed to be fairer. Doctors were scored for their answers to generalised questions about their attitude, motivation and approach to their work - which had to be answered in 150 words. Shortlisters saw the responses to a single question without the context of the rest of the form. More weight was given to these questions than to the CV.
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This appendix describes some best practices for resource adapter developers.
You can package resource adapter classes in one or more JAR files, and then place the JAR files in the RAR file. These are called nested JARs. When you nest JAR files in the RAR file, and classes need to be loaded by the classloader, the JARs within the RAR file must be opened and closed and iterated through for each class that must be loaded.
If there are very few JARs in the RAR file and if the JARs are relatively small in size, there will be no significant performance impact. On the other hand, if there are many JARs and the JARs are large in size, the performance impact can be great.
To avoid such performance issues, you can do either of the following:
Deploy the resource adapter in an exploded format. This eliminates the nesting of JARs and hence reduces the performance hit involved in looking for classes.
If deploying the resource adapter in exploded format is not an option, the JARs can be exploded within the RAR file. This also eliminates the nesting of JARs and thus improves the performance of classloading significantly.
Oracle recommends that resource adapters implement the optional enhancements described in sections 7.16.1 and 7.16.2 of JSR 322: Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6. Implementing these interfaces allows WebLogic Server to provide several features that will not be available without them.
Lazy Connection Association Optimization, as described in section 7.16.1, allows the server to automatically clean up unused connections and prevent applications from hogging resources. Lazy Transaction Enlistment Optimization, as described in 7.16.2, allows applications to start a transaction after a connection is already opened.
Resource adapter implementations should use the
WorkManager (as described in Chapter 10, "Work Management," in JSR 322: Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6 to launch operations that need to run in a new thread, rather than creating new threads directly. This allows WebLogic Server to manage and monitor these threads.
WebLogic Server supports the Common Client Interface (CCI) for EIS access, as defined in Chapter 17, "Common Client Interface," in JSR 322: Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6. The CCI defines a standard client API for application components that enables application components and EAI frameworks to drive interactions across heterogeneous EISes.
As a best practice, you should not store the
InteractionSpec class that the CCI resource adapter is required to implement in the RAR file. Instead, you should package it in a separate JAR file outside of the RAR file, so that the client can access it without having to put the
InteractionSpec interface class in the generic CLASSPATH.
With respect to the
InteractionSpec interface, it is important to note that when all application components (EJBs, resource adapters, Web applications) are packaged in an EAR file, all common classes can be placed in the
APP-INF/lib directory. This is the easiest possible scenario.
This is not the case for standalone resource adapters (packaged as RAR files). If the interface is serializable (as is the case with
InteractionSpec), then both the client and the resource adapter need access to the
InteractionSpec interface as well as the implementation classes. However, if the interface extends
java.io.Remote, then the client only needs access to the interface class.
When using an EJB or servlet to send messages using a JCA adapter backing a JMS provider using XA transactions, the
resource-ref needs to be
In a WebLogic Server environment, specifying
javax.jms.ConnectionFactory implements WebLogic JMS Wrappers which are not compatible with this JCA adapter configuration. See "Enhanced Support for Using WebLogic JMS with EJBs and Servlets" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Programming JMS for Oracle WebLogic Server.


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A wickedly handsome warrior who lived by blood and the sword, Falcon de Burgh wanted to wed no woman--until he laid eyes on the exquisite Jasmine, and he vowed to possess her, to teach her all the wondrous ways a man could love a woman, no matter what it might take to conquer her fiery, unyielding heart. Falcon knew only blind, reckless passion as he swore to tame, at the risk of his life...
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