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Warning: Do not read this or scroll down if you haven't watched Wednesday night's episode.
The latest episode of "Just Desserts" brought collapsed edible arrangements, a failed celebri-tea party and Shinmin Li's wrath. But what was most upsetting of all was the departure of Eric, the underdog baker who had blossomed into a pastry chef throughout the season.
For the elimination challenge, the chefs were tasked with making flower sculptures out of pulled sugar, chocolate and other sweets. Zac made a mirrored disco arrangement that looked like a mini version of Jean-Philippe's giant 5-foot mobile flower display in Las Vegas (pictured above), and Danielle put together a sloppy but creative compilation highlighted by candied orange zest roses. Being less comfortable with making large showpieces, Eric the Baker made a giant cupcake using a brioche mold and topped it with dainty buttercream flowers. Guest judge Shinmin was not impressed, and seemed to look down on the fact that he didn't know how to make a proper showpiece.
She did, however, like Morgan and Yigit's creations, both of which utilized pulled sugar. Morgan ended up taking the win, but who knows how that challenge might have resulted had he not accidentally bonked into Yigit's sugar vase, leaving it shattered, and him without an edible container for his chocolate roses.
Eric was shaken in the elimination challenge when the chefs were assigned to make nibbles for a tea party hosted by F&W's Dana Cowan. Each chef was to make two desserts that were inspired by a celebrity couple. Just when the gang had their menus planned, Johnny Iuzzini announced that they were not allowed to use chocolate.
Eric was completely flustered by the situation, and opted to make two dishes based on the same shortbread recipe to represent Stedman Graham and Oprah Winfrey. Zach and Danielle hadn't planned on using chocolate in their offerings, so they were left unfazed by the twist. The winning tea party fare was Zach's "Captain Von Trapp" marscapone cheesecake with Cap'n Crunch and tarragon sugar paired up with Pink Panther Pavlova with grapefruit curd and meringue, inspired by Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards.
Eric ended up on the bottom, and even though he had taken huge strides to improve his plating, presentation and technique, the baker had to say bye-bye.
After high fives and hugs with the rest of the contestants, he teared up as he said his final words: "I am a chef. I became a chef here."
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Top photo: Giant chocolate flowers at Jean Philippe Patisserie in Las Vegas. Credit: Krista Simmons
Bottom photo: Eric Wolitzky. Credit: NBC UMV


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Describing the texture of an igneous rock that has small crystals of one mineral scattered among larger crystals of another
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Poikilitic texture refers to crystals, typically phenocrysts, in an igneous rock which contain small grains of other minerals. The texture is most easily observed in petrographic thin sections. In some rocks there seem to be little tendency for the minerals to envelop one another. This is true of many gabbros, aplites and granites. The grains then lie side by side, with the faces of the latter moulded on or adapted to the more perfect crystalline outlines of the earlier. When the smaller idiomorphic crystals of the first-formed are scattered irregularly through the larger and less perfect crystals of later origin, the structure is said to be poikilitic. A poikioblast is a larger crystal that contains smaller crystals of other minerals. Poikioblasts are a texture of metamorphic rocks.
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Above: A possible photograph of the iceberg that hit Titanic, photographed from the liner Prinze Adelbertby a few miles south of the disaster scene.
19 - the number of icebergs that third class survivor Charles Dahl later claimed he had seen from lifeboat number 15, during the hours following the sinking. In an interview with the Chicago American newspaper Dahl criticised the speed at which Titanic had been travelling through the icefield, describing how Carpathia had needed to zigzag through bergs whilst collecting survivors.
11:39 pm - the time at which the iceberg Titanic struck was first spotted, too late to avoid a collision (read more on the timeline).
30 seconds - the amount of time from the first sighting of the iceberg to the impact.
50 - 100 feet - the estimated height of the iceberg above water, as recounted by Titanic survivors.
200 - 400 feet - the estimated length of the iceberg.
Above: An iceberg photographed by Stephen Rehorek from aboard the MS Bremen, 20 April 1912, and believed to be the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
5 - the number of days after the sinking when Rehorek took his photograph of the iceberg.
85% - the amount of all icebergs in the North Atlantic that originate from the west coast of Greenland.
40,000 - the approximate number of icebergs born each year along the coast of Greenland
According to experts the Ilulissat ice shelf on the west coast of Greenland is now believed to be the most likely place from which the Titanic iceberg originated. At it's mouth, the seaward ice wall of Ilulissat is around 6 kilometres wide and rises 80 metres above sea level.
1909 - the year in which the Titanic iceberg is believed to have been 'born'.
1 - 2 - the likely number of icebergs that the Ilulissat ice-shelf would have produced in 1909.
1 - 4% - the proportion of those icebergs that survive to reach shipping waters. They initially float north along Greenland's west coast before beginning their southward journey past the coastlines of Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland, before passing through the gulf stream into the Atlantic past. Most do not make it this far, either getting caught en route or finally melting in the warm waters of the gulf stream.
1 mile - the likely original length of the Titanic iceberg. The year it would have taken to move along the 40 mile long fjord would have left the iceberg at around a half of its original size.
1,000,000,000 tons - the amount of sea water displaced by the iceberg at its original size (one billion tons!).
Above: A view of the iceberg believed to be the one the Titanic hit, taken from aboard the Carpathia.
300 - the approximate number of icebergs reaching the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic in April 1912, the largest number for around 50 years. The appearance of icebergs this far south can be highly erratic; for example in 2006 the International Ice Patrol (the monitoring team set up after the Titanic disaster) recorded no icebergs crossing south of latitude 48°N; in 2007 they recorded 324.
1/10th - the amount of an iceberg's total mass that is typically visible above water.
"We do not care anything for the heaviest storms in these big ships. It is fog that we fear. The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away. Captain Edward John Smith, Commander of Titanic
15,000 years - the approximate age of the first snowflakes that made up the glacier that produced the Titanic iceberg.
2 years - the approximate time that the Titanic iceberg will have taken since its creation to reach the point of collision.
8 miles - the approximate distance the iceberg would have been traveling per day.
"Icebergs loomed up and fell astern and we never slackened. It was an anxious time with the Titanic's fateful experience very close in our minds. There were 700 souls on Carpathia and those lives as well as the survivors of the Titanic herself depended on the sudden turn of the wheel. Captain Arthur H Rostron, Commander of the Carpathia
14 - the approximate number of days after the collision that the Titanic iceberg would probably have disappeared, melting in the gulf stream's warmer water.
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Vital Leeds United is keeping fans up to date with all the latest transfer rumours over the summer with Neil Warnock looking to build a squad capable of mounting a promotion challenge next season.
I start by saying, today, the transfer window is officially open so many more links should start to appear as the players and manager return for pre-season in just over a week`s time.
After the excitement of the previous week when two players agreed to sign, I was disappointed when at the start of the week it was pointed out that Neil Warnock was having a week`s holiday.
It has been another quiet week with the main new rumours involving two players, one in, one out and involving the same club.
Leeds transfer listed midfielder Adam Clayton has been linked with a move to Premier League new boys Reading whilst fellow midfielder Brian Howard would be heading for Elland Road.
Ross McCormack has added another club to those supposedly chasing him with fellow championship side Crystal Palace joining the race to sign the Leeds striker.
The Leicester Mercury are saying that defender Lee Peltier is all set to sign for Leeds this week now that the transfer window is open.
With the transfer window opening, Paul Green and Adam Drury have now signed for Leeds whilst Aidy White is a free agent from today.
Probably the most important bit of news in the next seven days would be the imminent takeover. We may then know just how much money we have to play with.
If you read of any player links in or out of Elland Road then let us know on Vital Leeds.
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Alan Smith - (Newcastle)
Jermaine Beckford - (Leicester)
Stuart Beavon - (Wycombe Wanderers)
Jason Pearce - (Portsmouth Signed week 3)
Greg Halford - (Portsmouth)
Joel Ward - (Portsmouth - Joined Crystal Palace)
Luke Varney - (Portsmouth)
David Norris - (Portsmouth)
Ben Watson - (Wigan Athletic)
Paul Green - (Derby County - Signed week 8)
Darren Ambrose - (Crystal Palace)
Sol Bamba - (Leicester City - Joined Trabzonspor)
Matt Mills - (Leicester City)
Aidy White - (Newcastle United)
Ramon Nunez - (Doncaster Rovers)
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George Boyd - (Peterborough United)
George Friend - (Doncaster Rovers)
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Tommy Spurr - (Doncaster Rovers)
Richard Keogh - (Coventry City)
Week 3
Clint Hill - (QPR - signed new QPR deal)
Paddy Kenny - (QPR)
Michael Owen - (Manchester United)
Adam Clayton - (Bolton & Burnley)
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Steve Davies - (Derby County)
Ian Harte - (Reading -signed new Reading deal)
Ross McCormack - (Wigan & West Ham)
Aidy White - (Celtic & Arsenal)
Billy Paynter - (Portsmouth)
Luciano Becchio - (Sheffield Wednesday)
Robert Snodgrass - (Norwich, Newcastle, Stoke & West Brom)
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Jamie Mackie - (QPR)
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Lee Peltier - (Leicester City)
Ross McCormack - (Huddersfield Town)
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Andy Lonergan - (Bolton Wanderers)
Aidy White - (Lille & Werder Bremen)
Robert Snodgrass - (Aston Villa)
Billy Paynter - (Brentford & Notts County)
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Brian Howard - (Reading)
Adam Clayton - (Reading)
Ross McCormack - (Crystal Palace)
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Series: Survivor Stories, Book Four
Release Date: June 27, 2016
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Aaron Downing worshiped his mother. She saved his life. She did everything for him. But Anthony Downing has a different perspective. He sees the woman who tossed him into a basement for eight long years and forgot he existed. When Anthony decides he's done being invisible, he packs up and heads for Detroit to stay with his Internet friend Jay, but fate intervenes.
Brendan Mears lost everything the day the man with a gun came into his father's store. Now, he's tethered to a business he can't manage and a brother who resents him.
Different in all the ways that matter, Anthony and Brendan struggle to overcome their psychological obstacles, until a crushing betrayal sends them running for cover and each other.
You have no idea on how long I've been waiting for this book!!!!
No worries because she lives up to the expectation. This series is so devastatingly hard to get through. It puts your emotions through the ringer for sure. But you know what, I didn't even cry, much. I feel slightly cheated on that front. I wanted wracking pain and emotion! I should be able it wasn't, right? LOL. I'm such a masochist for this series. Even though book 2 doesn't exist in my world.
Well it took forever, but her stories always deliver. I mean you can see Anthony crying out for help in Spencer's book. Ugh I went into rage mode because of his parents. It's like they forgot about their youngest child. I know the focus was and is on Aaron. He went through a traumatic experience that it's hard for any parent to just stop caring for him and moving on.
Anthony is the youngest of the bunch. I think he was 9 years old when he had to move down to the basement. A basement he was scared of. He had to fight the demons at home and at school. Gosh, my protective instincts were on high alert in this book. I am still ragey mad by certain things that have happened in the book that didn't get talked about, but I'll let you read for yourselves.
"Being invisible was exhausting.
Like bouncing off transparent walls in an attempt to escape, only no one else sees the walls.
I won't give away the plot, but Anthony's impulsiveness shows through his age. I mean, he didn't think things through in the beginning, and this could have went another way. Meeting Patrick saved his life.
Patrick and Brendan are bother suffering it seems. Living with the brutal death of their father and a constant reminder with the crime isn't a happy place. I will admit, I didn't know which road we were going for a bit. Both guys are dealing with things internally and Anthony comes along and it's like everyone eyes are open. They figure out how to work together. What it means to have one another? Anthony and Brendan come together in a special way.
Anthony has a lot to learn. He has to figure out what he wants in life. I liked the pairing of him and Brendan. It kinda forced Brendan to start caring about himself. It forced Brendan to open his eyes, and realize that he's still alive. Regardless of everything else, he's living, barely if that.
I don't know what the future holds for the series. I will admit, I missed Spencer in this book. He's my favorite. Barnaby has written a thought out series. It's emotional, heartbreaking and leaves everyone wanting to stand in from of these guys. I'd be happy if this was the end of the Survivor Series, because it's not the end to the survivors but the beginning.
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Artificial intelligence and mobility— a proactive road to process control
Leverage artificial intelligence and mobile technology to make sense of plant data.
Engineers in modern manufacturing facilities have a large variety of tools at their disposal. In most cases there is no shortage of data available to these professionals, but in virtually all cases there is a shortage of another key resource: Time.
The large amounts of data available in modern, connected factories help today's engineers keep their processes stable and in control, but there is a time cost associated with managing that data. The time it takes to figure out what database from which to pull data, the time to mine that data, the time to pull reports, and the time to analyze them adds up. The amount of time spent only grows if they get into something more involved, like regression analysis. Timing is critical, especially if a process issue or production stoppage is the reason the engineer started the data mining and analysis work to begin with.
Every minute of mining and analysis could be one minute of lost production which equals lost profit. Some companies even track a metric called Nonvalue Added Activity (NVAA) which is the amount of time dedicated to work done that does not produce parts. An argument can be made that all the time data mining and analyzing process data can be put directly in the NVAA cost bucket. However, without data, how can an engineer know where to start to fix a production issue?
The answer is to leverage artificial intelligence and mobile technology to monitor and mine the data, complete the analysis in continuous real-time, and "push" the answer to the engineer. Utilizing tools that enable push analytics creates plant floor intelligence and visibility that will shorten time to root cause, reduce NVAA, and ultimately reduce loss.
Artificial intelligence and push analytics
As the connected factory grows and joins the Industrial Internet of things (IIoT), it has become possible to apply technology to eliminate the time associated with traditional data acquisition and analysis. Artificial intelligence and push analytics can automate the mining, analysis, creation of charts, and can send the information directly to the correct person to fix the issue. But there is a further step, which is breaking new ground: Doing all of this before there is a production problem, transforming the culture of the plant floor from reactive to proactive.
Pushing alerts and automating reports that can be sent to engineers is not new. The technology to accomplish this task was being used in the 1990s and is still used today. It is improvements in other technologies that enable continuous real-time analytics powered by artificial intelligence to be more affordable and available to the factory floor. Lower-priced data storage, increased connectivity of machines, and high-speed computing are also catalysts for this change in manufacturing. Now instead of pushing alerts and charts, the software can push answers through e-mail clients, text messages, and even smartphone mobile apps, enabling engineers to spend their time fixing issues or, better yet, preventing them.
Providing an intelligent IT automation platform that pushes answers based on the continuous automated analysis of every process on the floor can help anticipate potential process problems and point plant personnel to the source before a production loss occurs. Existing process data is collected, analyzed, and monitored at the cycle time of the production line, and information is sent to the right user at the right time; which is before there is a production loss, not after. This creates a cultural change on the plant floor, where effort is spent preventing issues at a controlled and manageable pace, instead of reacting to production losses in a frenetic and unpredictable fashion. For example, Trumble Inc.'s software product, Reveal, shows engineers emerging trends in the process data that could lead to a production loss. The software uses traditional, time-tested tools like statistical process control (SPC), regression analysis, and Shainin pre-control combined with high-speed computing, powerful algorithms, and artificial intelligence to enable a truly proactive approach to process management.
Challenges of proactive process control
Enabling plant floor intelligence and proactive control does have its challenges. One of the first things that needs to be addressed is getting the plant personnel to recognize that they will not be responding to traditional triggers like flashing red lights, stopped conveyors, and scrambling technicians and engineers.
Another paradigm shift is getting personnel used to fixing something before it breaks. Exception-based alerts based on trends in "good data" will show engineers where to go before a major process event occurs, saving time and money. Again, traditional triggers are absent in this scenario because the plant floor continues to work as designed. Once plant floor personnel embrace this new way to manage their process, they can begin to expand even further to enable concepts like true data-driven preventive maintenance. For example, in machining, preventive maintenance based on process data and part quality can save millions of dollars a year. Expensive cutters are often changed on a regular time interval or after a major quality spill or broken tool. Once proactive controls are enabled, trends in the data are monitored by the system and will only alert when a change needs to be made, before any quality spills or loss occurs. Imagine getting another 10 hours of life out of a tool because the tool tells you it has 10 more hours of life in it. Another area for major improvement will be to take the continuous real-time analytics from the floor and use them for comparison purposes to "digitally validate" plant production virtual simulations. The potential is limitless. The ability to harness artificial intelligence for proactive process control is already here. Once the right technology that truly enables plant floor intelligence is identified, all it takes is a change in a plant's cultures to fully leverage the efficiencies created by push analytics. The technology is important, of course, but people make the difference.
Don Manfredi is president of Trumble Inc., Farmington Hills, Mich.
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Hi again!
Do you know of some Microsoft Tool for tunning all the querys in SQL 2000? The request is to improve the performance of the DB, but for that, the developers have to know where is the problem. How can we get this information?
Thanks a lot for your answeres...
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You are at a disadvantage with SQL 2000, just like many of us that still have support it. The simplest way I know to speed things up on this beast is to run a trace capturing long running queries and then start there. If any of these queries are calling poorly written stored procedures you can tune them, you should also be looking to make sure you have the proper indexes for the most called queries/stored procedures.
You should also look at your disk, CPU, memory, etc. Being on SQL 2000, chances are you have older disk that probably are not aligned properly. You need to check the disk alignment.
Has the system always been running at the current speed or has performance slowly been getting worse? How is your index fragmentation? Are you updating statistics frequently?
Please give us a bit more information so we can give you a more targeted answer.
answered Apr 28, 2012 at 12:08 AM
A profiler trace can help you see what is running and how long it is taking, though it should be noted that the profiler itself can cause a (sometimes major) reduction in performance while it is running. Once you know what is being run the most and what seems to be taking a long time, you will know where to focus your tuning efforts.
The Index Tuning Wizard can help in tuning indexes in particular, but remember that it will generally not give results that are as good as hand tuning by someone with experience, and this was especially true in SQL Server 2000. I also have an article about general techniques to improve performance at SQL Server Central that might be of interest to you.
And it won't particularly help you if you are using SQL Server 2000, but I will point out that Dynamic Management Views can be very helpful for gathering information about where problem points are in later versions of SQL.
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DiskSuite enables you to expand a metadevice by adding additional slices.
Mounted or unmounted UFS file systems contained within a metadevice can be expanded without having to halt or back up your system. (Nevertheless, backing up your data is always a good idea.) After the metadevice is expanded, you grow the file system with the growfs(1M) command.
After a file system is expanded, it cannot be decreased. Decreasing the size of a file system is a UFS limitation.
Applications and databases using the raw metadevice must have their own method to "grow" the added space so that the application or database can recognize it. DiskSuite does not provide this capability.
You can expand the disk space in metadevices in the following ways:
Adding a slice to a stripe or concatenation.
Adding multiple slices to a stripe or concatenation.
Adding a slice or multiple slices to all submirrors of a mirror.
You can use either DiskSuite Tool or the command line interface to add a slice to an existing metadevice.
When using DiskSuite Tool to expand a metadevice that contains a UFS file system, the growfs(1M) command is run automatically. If you use the command line to expand the metadevice, you must manually run the growfs(1M) command.
The growfs(1M) command expands a UFS file system without loss of service or data. H`owever, write-access to the metadevice is suspended while the growfs(1M) command is running. You can expand the file system to the size of the slice or the metadevice that contains the file system.
The file system can be expanded to use only part of the additional disk space by using the -s size option to the growfs(1M) command.
When expanding a mirror, space is added to the mirror's underlying submirrors. Likewise, when expanding a trans metadevice, space is added to the master device. The growfs(1M) command is then run on the mirror or the trans metadevice, respectively. The general rule is that space is added to the underlying devices(s), and the growfs(1M) command is run on the top-level device.


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Two teams are thinking about the Super Bowl, and 30 teams are thinking about free agency and the draft. The Bears have the 26th spot in the first round of the April 29-30 draft, not a bad place. That's where Pittsburgh found All-Pro guard Alan Faneca in 1998 and Baltimore got linebacker Ray Lewis in 1996.
The last time the Bears picked 26th was in 1987, when they took Jim Harbaugh. He became a better quarterback after he left the Bears than he had been in Chicago.


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Millions of children across Russia experience the excitement this week of going back to school: reuniting with friends, tackling new subjects, and expanding their knowledge and skills. But for Russia's more than 540,000 children with disabilities, back to school week may mean very little. Physical barriers in schools and communities, discrimination, and a history of isolating children with disabilities in state orphanages and special "corrective" schools mean that many children with disabilities here have limited chances to receive a good education near home. Russia's progress on disability rights has come under increased public view in recent weeks following an incident where supermodel Natalia Vodianova's sister, who has autism and cerebral palsy, was thrown out of a cafe in Nizhny Novgorod. That revealed, among other things, that children with disabilities in Russia are too often perceived as having no right to be out in public. Russia like many other countries needs to work on fixing these issues. All children have the right to a good and equal education! Where have you seen this?
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ability to click on an account number and jump to it
Everwhere accounts are saved as input this should work. As an example: on an attendent account, one should be able to click on the Timeout Handling | Redirect Number and jump to the Redirect Account. I do realize that sometimes more than one account is allowed on a field. While this is very powerful for entry it does make handling this after the fact more difficult because the information is not normalized. Perhaps ...more »


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UTSA coach Coker expects QB Soza to play
Updated 11:57 pm, Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Photo: Smiley N. Pool, Houston Chronicle
UTSA coach Larry Coker said Tuesday he anticipates quarterback Eric Soza will be cleared to play this weekend at Louisiana Tech. Soza (right hip fracture) has missed the past two games.
Also, receiver Brandon Freeman (shoulder) is expected to return after missing the past four games.
Officials said kicker Sean Ianno (hip muscle) and safety Mauricio Sanchez (groin) are out.
Ianno, whose 51-yard field goal won the game at South Alabama, has been out four games in a row.


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Researchers at Stanford University in the US have developed the first non-invasive imaging technique that can detect micron-sized structures within blood vessels in the brains of mice. The method involves detecting near-infrared fluorescent light from single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) that are injected into the mice. The ability to monitor the structure of blood vessels – and the blood flow within them – is extremely important for treating conditions such as strokes, dementia and brain tumours.
Today, brain imaging mainly relies on techniques such as X-ray computed tomography and magnetic resonance angiography. However, these methods cannot image structures several microns in size. In addition, with these approaches it can take several minutes to acquire an image, which means that it is not possible to use them to monitor blood flow in real time.
Fluorescence-based brain imaging in the visible and near-infrared (NIR) regions of the electromagnetic spectrum (400–900 nm) is a good alternative but at the moment it requires skull-thinning or, worse still, craniotomy – where sections of the skull are removed and replaced with a transparent "window" – to work properly. This is because light at these wavelengths can only travel about 1 mm through the skull.
Window of opportunity
Now, a team led by Hongjie Dai and Calvin Kuo at Stanford has developed a new through-scalp and through-skull fluorescence imaging technique that goes a long way in overcoming these problems. The method makes use of the intrinsic fluorescence of SWCNTs in the 1.3–1.4 µm range. "We define this wavelength as the NIR-IIa window, and it represents just about the longest wavelengths for fluorescence imaging reported thus far," explains Dai.
"Photons at these wavelengths are much less scattered than those in the 400–900 nm window when traversing biological tissues and are not absorbed significantly by water either," says Dai. "All in all, this allows us to see deeper into the brain through intact scalp skin and bone than is possible with traditional fluorescence imaging, which is mostly done with <800 nm wavelength photons."
"Compared with all other techniques for in vivo brain imaging (including MRI and CT), our technique affords higher spatial resolution", he says. "It allows us to image single capillary blood vessels that are just microns across and as deep as 3 mm inside the brain."
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And that is not all: the technique is also fast, at 200 ms per frame or less, which allows blood flow to be monitored in real time. This is particularly important when treating stroke patients because in these cases blood flow in parts of the brain can be drastically reduced, causing serious damage.
The team tested the technique by injecting mice with SWCNTs. The heads of the mice were shaved and illuminated with an infrared laser. The fluorescent light was detected using an array of photodiodes that created a 2D image of the brain. The researchers are now busy trying to image in 3D using their method. "We are also developing imaging agents for an even longer-wavelength window to further minimize photon scattering," adds Dai. "And, we are looking at making NIR-IIa fluorophores that might potentially be used in human clinical trials."
The imaging technique is described in Nature Photonics.
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Be sure to keep scouting for the presence of diseases, especially powdery mildew, at this time. With the return of cooler temperatures and risk of showers and cloudy weather as well, powdery mildew could become a problem, especially in very thick stands of susceptible wheat. It is important to keep the uppermost two leaves as free of diseases as possible to protect yields. At the most, you can wait until you see 5-10% of the upper two leaves infected before applying a fungicide. Tilt, Stratego, Twinline, and Quilt can be applied as late as heads emerged but not yet flowering. If scab should be a concern this year it may be best to use only a triazole fungicide at heading through flowering to avoid mycotoxin issues if scab infection occurs. There is evidence that if fungicides containing strobilurins (Quilt, Twinline, Stratego) or strobilurins alone are applied during heading up to flowering, they can increase mycotoxin production if scab occurs during flowering. If a fungicide is needed as late as flowering for powdery mildew, Septoria leaf blotch, tan spot, or other disease and conditions are favorable for scab development consider applying Prosaro, Caramba, or Folicur for scab suppression and control of the other diseases just mentioned. For a table that rates the efficacy of fungicides for use on wheat diseases see the following link to the Kansas State fact sheet with the NCERA-184 ratings. This is a group of wheat pathologists from across the country that collaborates on wheat disease control. http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/library/plant2/ep130.pdf
Head Scab Risk Assessment Tool
Scab is still the one wheat disease that can cause major economic losses if weather conditions are favorable prior to and during flowering. The tools that we have to manage scab are limited but the use of rotation, resistant varieties and fungicides can help reduce the losses from scab should it appear. One of the tools that we have to help predict its occurrence and aid in making fungicide application decisions is the Head Scab Risk Assessment Tool that is found on the wheat scab website http://www.wheatscab.psu.edu/. The site provides information on how to use the tool and its limits.
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Wembley's constructor Multiplex appears set to be involved in distracting litigation with one of its former sub-contractors until April 2007 following a court ruling on Monday that will see both sides in the high court that month.
Already in their 13th month, the lawsuits brought by Multiplex and Cleveland Bridge [CBUK] were this week given their pre-trial review at the Technology and Construction Court [TCC] in London. The initial trial date is set for April; however, due to the volume of particulars in the claims and counterclaims, the sitting judge Mr Justice Jackson felt obliged to divide it into two separate hearings.
"Normally Cleveland Bridge and Multiplex would not wish to incur huge costs and [loss of] management time in litigation," Mr Justice Jackson said. "The way forward in this case is far from an easy matter. The scale of litigation makes it impossible for an entire trial on all issues or on the majority of the issues."
The case revolves around the steel fabricator CBUK's failure to fulfil its contract on the Wembley project, which it left in the summer of 2004 amid a dispute over steel-erection rates. Multiplex claims CBUK repudiated and is in breach of the terms on the contract; the sub-contractor alleges that a raft of problems it encountered on the site were effectively repudiation on Multiplex's behalf. There is also a wrangle over the value of the contract.
At stake in those particular issues is £18.3m of a total £51m the two firms are claiming in the case. "Which party was in repudiatory breach of the contract is an important issue," said the judge. "If we look at the evidence of the claim and counterclaim, £18.3m turns on the repudiation and valuation.
"That £18.3m is the largest single sum in dispute. Other sums [include] £5.6m attributable to [CBUK's] defects; £17.3m to arch disputes; £2m difference between the parties in the costs-reimbursable period and £11.6m according to Cleveland Bridge for underpayment. My feeling is that Multiplex and CBUK will not be able to compromise until a binding TCC or court of appeal decision regarding the valuation and repudiation issues is reached."
In an industrial adjudication Multiplex was ordered to pay around £5m to CBUK in mitigation for its departure from the project. The company hopes to recover that sum and more from its action at the TCC, which is linked to the high court.
Mr Justice Jackson is optimistic that a settlement can be reached if the dispute over the £18.3m can be resolved; if it is not, however, a second trial will ensue, dragging the court battle into 2007.


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A groundhog nibbles a piece of grass.
- The definition of a nibble is a small amount of food, or an expression of possible interest in something.
- One bite of an apple is an example of a nibble.
- A phone call back about a business plan you've been proposing is an example of a nibble.
- Nibble is to take small bites, or to eat little snacks between meals, or to wear away a little bit at a time.
- When you take just a few small bites of cheese, this is an example of when you nibble.
- When you grab a piece of an apple, then a few cookies as a snack between meals, this is an example of a nibble.
- When you constantly find reasons to prove points in an argument, this is an example of how to nibble away at an opponent's argument.
transitive verb-·bled, -·bling
- to eat (food) with quick bites, taking only a small amount at a time, as a mouse does
- to bite at with small, gentle bites
Origin of nibbleLate Middle English nebyllen, probably akin to Middle Low German nibbelen: for Indo-European base see nip
- to take small, cautious, or gentle bites: usually with at
- to show little interest in food by taking only small bites intermittently: usually with at
- a small bite, morsel, or quantity
- the act or an instance of nibbling
- a slight tug on a fishing line, as from a fish sampling the bait
- Informal any display of interest, as from a potential customer or client
verbnib·bled, nib·bling, nib·bles
- To bite at gently and repeatedly.
- To eat with small, quick bites or in small morsels: nibble a cracker.
- To wear away or diminish bit by bit: "If you start compromising too early … they nibble you to death" ( People )
To take small or hesitant bites: fish nibbling at the bait.
- A very small quantity, especially of food; a morsel.
- The act or an instance of nibbling.
Origin of nibbleMiddle English nebyllen Low German nibbelen
Related Forms:
- nib′bler
(plural nibbles)
(third-person singular simple present nibbles, present participle nibbling, simple past and past participle nibbled)
Perhaps from Middle Low German nibbelen ("to gnaw").
nibble - Computer Definition
Half of a byte (4 bits).
See Also: Byte.
Half a byte (four bits).


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Facebook, on 30th April 2014, announced FBStart, a program for mobile app startups which offers free services from Facebook and other companies to help your mobile app succeed. These services include Facebook advertising credits, tools from companies like Adobe, MailChimp, SurveyMonkey, Appurify, Asana, Desk.com, Proto.io, Quip, UserTesting, and Workable for recruiting, testing, customer support, conferencing, etc.
Facebook announced on a recent blogpost:
Today, we're announcing FbStart, a program that provides developers with free tools and services worth up to $30,000 from Facebook and 11 other companies to help startups take off..FbStart aims to provide developers the essential services needed to either get their business up and running or take it to the next stage of growth.
There are two different models or tracks within FbStart based on your startup – In the first track called the Bootstrap track (for companies starting out), eligible apps will receive tools and services worth up to $5,000, and in the second track called the Accelerate track (for companies looking at growth), eligible apps will receive tools and services worth up to $30,000.
Interested in FbStart? Here are some further details on the FbStart program:
Any mobile app on iOS and Android, listed on Apple store or Google Play store, is eligible if it has been listed on the respective store for at least 30 days.
Number of applications:
You can apply for multiple apps you've developed and also prioritize your apps in your FbStart application. However, even if multiple apps from your company qualify, only one app by each company will be accepted in the program.
Facebook will review application on a continual basis, but the final acceptance will be done once program is full. The expected date for the same is end of June.
Application review turnaround time:
You will get a response within 14 days.
The first batch of qualified apps will graduate on April 30, 2015 from FbStart.
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Revolting Ally
Franco-American crisis.
By John J. Miller & Mark Molesky
France is sometime called America's oldest friend because of the role it played in the American Revolution. But the history of that period is not a simple story about Lafayette's heroics and French aid at Yorktown. French motives were suspect (King Louis XVI did not believe "all men are created equal"), their behavior ultimately was treacherous (at the peace talks ending the war), and much of their military assistance of dubious value (read on).
Here's an exclusive excerpt from the new book by NR's John J. Miller and his co-author Mark Molesky, Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France. (For more information on the authors and their book, plus daily commentary on French politics and history, visit their website here.)
The British reacted to the Franco-American alliance by consolidating their positions. They pulled out of the capital, Philadelphia, to concentrate their forces in New York. As they marched across New Jersey, Washington struck at their rear. The two armies clashed at Monmouth, where a confused battle took place on a June day that was so hot many men died from heat exhaustion. The Americans prevailed, but the redcoats managed to slip away during the night. Five days later, they were safely deposited in New York City.
Within a few days, a French fleet arrived on the scene under the command of Charles-Hector d'Estaing, a headstrong and pompous nobleman who claimed the last king of the Visigoths as an ancestor. Had d'Estaing turned up in American waters just a little bit sooner, he might have thwarted the British retreat to New York. But it had taken him a full 85 days to cross the ocean, a long while even by the standards of the day. D'Estaing was no gritty veteran of naval operations in fact, his knowledge of seafaring was rather poor; he had joined the army at the age of nine and had become an admiral only because of the unusual (and questionable) French practice of permitting officers of high rank to switch branches of military service and still retain large commands. On his way to America, he had wasted valuable time by insisting that his ships chase merchant vessels and hold training exercises. Thus Washington lost a chance to deliver a fatal blow to the British more than three years before Yorktown. D'Estaing's tardiness gave the Americans their first lesson in French military aid: It came with no guarantees of French military competence.
With New York securely in enemy hands, Washington and d'Estaing turned their attention to Newport, Rhode Island. Although several thousand British soldiers protected the city's excellent harbor, Washington hoped for a victory even greater than Saratoga "the finishing blow to British pretensions of sovereignty over this country," as he put it. With so many redcoats pinned down in New York, Washington sent reinforcements to Providence, where General John Sullivan had raised a large militia. By the first part of August, Sullivan had some 10,000 men under his command and the French fleet planned to unload an additional 4,000 troops nearby. Lafayette was given command of a detachment.
The Franco-American force planned a coordinated attack on Newport for August 10, though it was clear from the start that they would face serious problems working together. The aristocrat D'Estaing did not believe that a social inferior like Sullivan, whose parents had been indentured servants from Ireland, had any right to issue him orders. The two men spent as much time bickering with each other as they did organizing their efforts. Lafayette tried to intervene, but at first his presence only complicated matters. Because there was still an order out for his arrest, d'Estaing did not know how to receive him. The admiral expressed "political anxiety about receiving a French officer who had violated the king's orders not to leave for America." After a round of vacillation, d'Estaing decided that his country's new treaty obligations nullified Lafayette's criminal status.
Even then, Lafayette's mediation failed. A professional military man, d'Estaing regarded the Americans as untrustworthy provincials: "I was forced to show an austere firmness to make the allies understand that while their troops were good for a defensive, they had no qualities necessary for attack." When the Americans attacked a weakness in the British defenses without first consulting d'Estaing, the admiral was furious. "The French officers sounded like women disputing precedence in a country dance," said one of Sullivan's colonels, "instead of men engaged in pursuing the common interest of two great nations."
The assault on Newport might have succeeded if the British fleet had stayed put in New York. On the afternoon of August 9, however, a lookout spotted the enemy ships approaching. D'Estaing had not anticipated this possibility. "The surprise was complete," he admitted. The admiral could have denied them an engagement and continued supporting the attack on Newport by seeking refuge in Narragansett Bay, where the royal navy would have had a hard time challenging him. Instead, he sailed out to meet the enemy with his soldiers still onboard. For two days, the French and British fleets probed each other, seeking advantage. Few shots had been fired when a violent storm rolled in with tremendous force, damaging and scattering the ships of both countries.
As the British sailed for the repair docks of New York, Sullivan decided that his attack had been delayed long enough. Assuming that d'Estaing would soon be landing his soldiers, he struck at Newport on August 14. But the Frenchman had other plans. Anxious to patch up his own ships, d'Estaing retreated to Boston without putting any troops ashore.
Sullivan was furious: "I confess that I do most cordially resent the conduct of the Count, or rather the conduct of his officers, who have it seems, compelled him to go to Boston and leave us on an island without any certain means of retreat." Another American commander, John Laurens, complained in a letter to Washington: "The honor of the French Nation, the honor of the Admiral, the safety of the fleet, and a regard for the new alliance required a different conduct."
The alliance that had been born half a year earlier was now in full crisis as d'Estaing considered sailing back to France and urging his king to forsake the vulgar Americans.
The story continues in "Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France," by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky. All week, NRO will feature excerpts from the book.
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"Enemy" is a pretty strong word
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Shawl-collared shrug with simple reversible lace pattern on collar and front sides and similar closed lace over back and sleeves. Knit in one piece from the top down, with 4 sleeve versions. Fits Chest Sizes: 28-32 (33-38, 39-45, 46-52) with cross-back measurements of 17.5 (21.5, 25.5, 29.5)"
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Inspired by model-of-the-moment, Agyness Deyn, this short, androgynous, cropped haircut showcases the very best of the season. The platinum blonde hair color is as playful and bold as the cut.
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"The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether a global warming lawsuit against five big power companies can proceed, with several justices saying the Environmental Protection Agency, not federal judges, should deal with the issue.
The high court justices sounded a skeptical note during arguments when they asked whether complicated environmental issues, such as how much greenhouse gas pollution is allowable & how it should be curbed, should be left to federal judges.
The big environmental case stemmed from a 2004 lawsuit claiming that five coal-burning utilities have created a public nuisance by contributing to climate change. Its consequences, such as rising seas, reduced crop yields & destruction of some hardwood trees, would harm the states' citizens.
The lawsuit, now involving six states, seeks to have a federal judge in New York order the utilities to cut their carbon dioxide emissions.
Both liberal & conservative justices questioned whether the lawsuit can go forward."
Deborah Zabarenko and James Vicini report for Reuters April 20, 2011.
"States' Emissions 'Nuisance' Argument Seems to Fall on Deaf Ears in Supreme Court" (Greenwire)


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Quantum GIS: the Open-Source Geographic Information System
Loading shapefiles into QGIS is done by clicking the toolbar icon labeled Add vector layer, which looks like a plus sign hovering over a map; it opens a standard open file dialog. By preselecting ESRI shapefile (suffix .shp) from Files of Type, I can be sure I'm opening the right file, which is useful, because a shapefile is actually a bundle of files. As I load each shapefile, it shows up under its original name on the left under the Legend window, which acts as a sort of table of contents.
After unpacking the datasets, I load these five shapefiles in this order: allroads_161v7b.shp (roads), hydro_161v7b.shp (rivers), hydropoly_161v7b.shp (lakes), Washtenaw_Potential_Restoration_Area.shp (the name says it all) and Washtenaw_nlcd_1992.shp (land use).
Unfortunately, upon loading the shapefiles, the sum total map that's displayed on the right in the Map View window looks like a big rectangle covered with random black and green blobs and no lines. Where are the roads, lakes and rivers I loaded? One reason for the odd display and missing elements is that the layers I added first are buried under the county-wide land-use layer, which sits on top of everything else. I can begin to solve this problem by dragging the land-use layer down to the bottom of the Legend and tinkering with the other layers so they all are visible.
The other reason for the strange-looking map is that QGIS defaults to display one color for every characteristic in the shapefile. For the road layer, defaulting to one color is fine, because it is simply a collection of lines. However, layers with thousands of polygons are more complicated. All of the many land-use types default to the same color, thus creating no differentiation among them. I must give each land-use type its own unique color manually. To do so, I first right-click on the land-use entry in the legend and select Properties from the menu. On the Symbology tab, I change the drop-down menu next to Legend type from the default value of Single Symbol to Unique Value. Using the drop-down menu in Classification Field, I can select which field in the database to classify. In my case, I classify a field called GRIDCODE, which contains the code that designates the land-use code for each polygon in the layer.
How do I know which database field I should classify, as well as the meaning of each classification? To find out, I sometimes need to leave the Layer Properties menu and examine the attribute table, a display of the database containing the attribute data for the layer. For example, I can examine the attribute table of the land-use layer by right-clicking on the title in the Legend (on the main GUI) and selecting the command Open attribute table. An example of an attribute table is shown in Figure 2. The land-use attribute layer contains a field ID to designate each polygon, as well as the field GRIDCODE to classify each one. Oftentimes the attribute table also contains a field with the label for each classification. Although such a field is missing from the land-use attribute table, a separate file with classifications is found in a text file included in the downloaded dataset.
After consulting the attribute table and the file containing classifications, I am ready to continue with the classification of the field GRIDCODE back in the Layer Properties menu. Pressing the Classify button populates the window below with the unique classification codes found in the layer. I can label each classification as I wish using the "Label" field, and I can give each classification its own color with the Fill color option.
After finishing the classification, I also want to do some more housekeeping to make the Legend and Map View more useful, such as making the colors of the other layers more intuitive (for example, blue lakes) and thickening the lines designating the roads and rivers. I can carry these out also with the Layer Properties dialog (right-click on layer name→Properties). A right-click on the layer name also gives me the option to change the layer name displayed in the Legend.
Post-housekeeping, the Map View in QGIS finally takes shape. I finally can recognize features such as roads and rivers, and now that the land-use types are differentiated, I easily can tell which areas are urban, agricultural, forested and so on. Figure 3 shows the end result.
To simplify visual analysis on my map, I also applied the same color to similar land-use categories. For instance, I applied the same color to two different agricultural categories as well as three different forest-related ones. For this application, I am interested to know only whether the land use is agricultural or forested, not the specific type of each. Fewer colors makes my map less busy.
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Francis Line lived in lineland, and he liked it there. There was little that he didn't like about lineland, it was simple, but complex all the same. He was often in the same place for years at a time because of a people jam, where two peoples next to eachother argued in the same place until they got a long. Nobody ever died in lineland, they just slowly disintegrated until everybody forgot they had ever existed. They reproduced to the right and moved to the left and only reproduced once in their lives, so everybody to the right was younger. Francis Line has one child, a girl, but he doesn't know it because he's always looking ahead of him. Ahead of him was Lucy Line, his mother, but she was also the mother of Francis's daughter, who had a son, and Francis was the father. It always worked that way, if a female was in the back, she would have a male, and if a male was in back, he would have a female. Since linelanders always let off a little bit of themselves into the atmosphere, it would be received by their child who would spit out another line. They couldn't have anymore children because when they had a little bit of debris in them, no more would fit.
They all traveled along the great line. Some thought that the line wasn't really a line at all, but a circle, because sometimes before their last bits disintegrated, people would claim to see children up ahead of them, but only the really old people talked about this.
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The other lineland, the atomic missile lineland is safe from Hubbox-9, but they will never be safe from themselves.


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Richard: First of all, the diagram is out of sync with the text, esp. in relation to the service model. The diagram is a kind of taster of how the text will look. Secondly, I am a little confused by your questions. I hope I have understood them properly: 1. The service description is fundamentally a semantic description of what the service does, and how to interact with it. The latter aspect involves defining the format of messages, binding info etc. This is a more general idea than service description a la WSDL, but should be reasonably consistent with it. 2. The concept of performing on a message does not really grok with me :) This view of service identifies messages as defining choreographic events in the use of a service. That is more abstract than RMI but RMI etc. fall out as special cases. The relationship of a message to a service is a key one for service oriented architectures. To date we haven't managed to really nail it down very well; it is too easy to slip into modes of thought along the lines of "I send you this message and you perform the foo method on the bar object". But that line of thinking does not capture the essence of service; whereas the choreographic way point idea does a better job (IMO). 3. One could have a line between service description and messages; however, if we partition the service description into syntax and semantics (so to speak), then the how of the service is partially captured in the interface to the service, which includes the expected forms of messages. I.e., the form of the message is a proper aspect of the interface to the service. Frank On Jan 12, 2004, at 1:05 PM, email@example.com wrote: > > Frank, > Does not the service description describe the message whereas the > interface defines the operations that can be made on the message? > Would > this not then be represented in the service model as an interface > performs > on a message as opposed to defines? Furthermore a new relationship > between the service description and message would need to be drawn. It > would be of type describes? > I am basing my supposition on my current interpretation of the > WS-Architecture specification. > > Regards; > > Richard D. Chennault > > -----Original Message----- > From: email@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On > Behalf Of firstname.lastname@example.com > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:45 PM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: Slight mod to service model > > > This diagram is slightly modified: > 1. The relationship between a message and task is one of > choreography. > The idea is that messages denote significant events in the choreography > of tasks. Anyone with a better suggestion would be welcomed. > 2. Service roles have a relationship to the tasks performed by a > service. Again, abstracts is a horrible word, but the idea here is that > the role defines the tasks that the service represents for the owning > organization. > 3. To defend the aspect/processing link: > We might short circuit aspect out of the diagram. However, SOAP > 1.2 > clearly identifies that a message processor (intermediary and final > recipient) is not expected to leave messages untouched. In fact, any > processor of a message is, by default, expected to *remove* the > processed element; possibly replacing it with a modified element. The > proper generalization of this is that messages have aspects, or views, > or projections, that fit the role adopted by a given service. > 4. I realize that the diagram does not mention intermediaries directly. > I *could* have added it, it just felt superfluous at the time. I am not > going to lay down as roadkill for that though, as I also subscribe to > the redundancy is not necessarily bad POV. > 5. I understand that the task/action/goal triangle caused confusion. > However, services are there to perform tasks; and that is fundamentally > a combination of an action (or set of actions) and the goal associated > with the task. However, it might be clearer to identify a desired state > rather than goal (they are the same IMO but the wording may be less > contentious) > 6. I added a link from policy to state - to denote that policies apply > to the states achieved as well as the actions performed. Its redundant, > but WTH. > > Frank >Received on Monday, 12 January 2004 16:50:54 UTC
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This is that time of the year when long-haul flights and dawn-till-dusk discussions come to a head as the World Cup Calendar negotiations again near conclusion. With 30 successful World Cup Stops already completed, the calendar for 2011 is almost ready for release.
Last weekend, a special World Cup presentation was made to senior City and Government officials in Kuching City in Sarawak, Borneo, by IWWF President Kuno Ritschard, World Cup Marketing & Media Chairman Des Burke-Kennedy and Hanifah Yoong, Event Director Malaysia of the IWWF. If successful, a Sarawak World Cup Stop would be staged in Kuching in September.
Following detailed discussions at the Ministry of Tourism and Heritage headquarters with YB Datuk Haji Talib Zulpilip, Chairman Sarawak Economic Development Corporation, Datu Ik Pahon Anak Joyik, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Tourism and Heritage, and their colleagues, a major Press Conference was then held at the Riverside Majestic Hotel in Kuching. Here it was announced that a successful agreement was reached to stage a Wakeboard World Cup Stop on the proposed date in September. This was attended by over 30 members of the TV and Press Corps. Today's Sarawak Newspapers carry all the major details and so a big welcome is anticipated for our World Cup athletes when they arrive in town in eight months time !
The venue for this World Cup Stop will be on the river in the middle of Kuching City. This is a spectacular site where most of the permanent infrastructure is already in place to stage such an event. Riverside walkways are ideal for spectators and even the starting docks are in place. Restaurants, shops and Hotels are also right on site and this will make the management of the Stop all the easier for those involved.
Judging by the very warm reception given to our World Cup Team this past weekend, this promises to be a great event in September. The natural facilities available make it perfect for this level of major international competition and with athletes from at least 14 countries expected to compete, the international spotlight will be on Kuching in September. It was also agreed to invite the Stars of Florida Waterski Show Team and they will certainly add to the glamour of the weekend.
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The product is shipped as one unit, for this reason the glass isnt designed to be dismantled for maintenance.
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(Kitco News) - Comex gold futures ended the U.S. day session moderately lower Tuesday, having traded on both sides of unchanged during the session. Buying interest was limited by bearish outside markets that included a firmer U.S. dollar index and weaker crude oil prices. However, strong demand for physical gold did contain selling pressure. June Comex gold last traded down $10.30 at $1,410.90 an ounce. Spot gold was last quoted down $14.60 at $1,412.25. May Comex silver last traded down $0.464 at $22.86 an ounce.
Some fresh U.S. economic data Tuesday failed to significantly move the gold and silver markets. There was weaker-than-expected manufacturing data coming out of China Tuesday that was bearish for the precious metals. The HSBC purchasing managers' index came in at 50.5 in April versus 51.6 in March. Asian stock markets also dropped on the China news.
There was also weak German manufacturing data released Tuesday that bolsters arguments the European Central Bank will lower interest rates at next week's ECB policy meeting. Markit's German purchasing managers index fell to 48.8 in April from 50.6 in March. The German data pushed the Euro currency to a two-week low.
Reports Tuesday said demand for physical gold in India continues very strong, with small gold bars unable to be found in that country. India is the world's largest consumer of gold and a major festival occurs in May, during which time gifts are given.
The U.S. dollar index was higher Tuesday and hit a two-week high. The greenback bulls have upside technical momentum on their side. Meantime, Nymex crude oil futures prices were weaker Tuesday. Crude oil bears have the near-term technical advantage.
The London P.M. gold fix is $1,408.00 versus the previous P.M. fixing of $1,424.50.
Technically, June gold futures prices closed nearer the session low Tuesday. Bulls are trying to stabilize the market and chart consolidation was seen Tuesday. Gold prices remain in a 6.5-month-old downtrend on the daily bar chart and the bears still have the overall technical advantage. The gold bulls' next upside near-term price breakout objective is to produce a close above solid technical resistance at $1,450.00. Bears' next near-term downside breakout price objective is closing prices below solid technical support at $1,400.00. First resistance is seen at $1,425.00 and then at Tuesday's high of $1,432.80. First support is seen at Monday's low of $1,403.50 and then at $1,400.00. Wyckoff's Market Rating: 3.0
May silver futures closed near mid-range Tuesday. The key "outside markets" were in a bearish posture for silver today as the U.S. dollar index was higher and crude oil prices were weaker. Serious near-term and longer-term technical damage has been inflicted in silver recently and the bears are still in command, overall. Silver prices are in a 6.5-month-old downtrend on the daily bar chart. A bearish pennant pattern has also formed on the daily bar chart. Bulls' next upside price breakout objective is closing prices above solid technical resistance at $24.00 an ounce. The next downside price breakout objective for the bears is closing prices below solid technical support at the April low of $22.00. First resistance is seen at $23.00 and then at Tuesday's high of $23.405. Next support is seen at Tuesday's low of $22.555 and then at $22.435. Wyckoff's Market Rating: 2.0.
May N.Y. copper closed down 485 points at 308.25 cents Tuesday. Prices closed nearer the session low and hit a fresh 1.5-year low. The key "outside markets" were in a bearish posture for copper Tuesday as the U.S. dollar index was higher and crude oil prices were weaker. Copper bears have the solid overall near-term technical advantage. Copper bulls' next upside breakout objective is pushing and closing prices above solid technical resistance at 325.00 cents. The next downside price breakout objective for the bears is closing prices below solid technical support at 300.00 cents. First resistance is seen at 310.00 cents and then at Tuesday's high of 313.20 cents. First support is seen at Tuesday's low of 305.70 cents and then at 302.50 cents. Wyckoff's Market Rating: 1.0.
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Decapitating kung-fu? Why Lord, why? I love kung fu but one would think these "bullshit type" of stories should have stayed in the "good old days" of the flying monks and challenge matches in every corner...the "dream time".
Hey, maybe some french revolutionary fled from France in the 18th century and taught a chinese sailor the "art of chopping heads", which means that kung fu comes from europe...Ok, I'm totally fucked up!:owneddanc
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I hate hippies. They stink. I hate hippie MA's they stink to...like bullshit. I need to find one of these Hippie fighters.
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First it was Doug Hirschhorn at Forbes, asking mockingly "Occupy Wall Street? Do you even understand Wall Street?"
Then, Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times decided to assess the protests firsthand after a "major bank" CEO called him to try and understand whether his personal safety was in jeopardy.
Sorkin noticed that many of the protesters who say they dislike capitalism seem to participate in the market system -- an apparent contradiction:
Ms. Evans, who said she has made a career of participating in protests, said she had just flown to New York from Los Angeles to join Occupy Wall Street. How did she get here, I asked. "Virgin America," she replied with a smile. But doesn't Virgin America represent the corporations you are trying to fight? "No," she insisted. Referring to Richard Branson, she said, "He's working on creating solar planes."
As I was leaving, having spoken to scores of protesters, I noticed two of them walking over to the A.T.M. at Bank of America. As much as this group may want to get away from Wall Street and corporate America, it may be trapped by it.
Last night, Erin Burnett, appearing on her new CNN show, took aim at Occupy Wall Street in a segment she called "Seriously?!" -- notice the extra "!" at the end? The clip is below:
You can see the same kind of "gotcha... you buy things... therefore, how can you protest capitalism?" journalism on display here. These yahoos buy Apple (AAPL) stuff, Lululemon (LULU) yoga pants, and cell phones. They also play banjos -- implying they are less than serious.
But the Erin coup de grace is when she lays into the unemployed software developer and sets him straight on the notion that the Wall Street bank bailouts cost America money. Her crack staff ran the numbers and they determined that taxpayers have made $10 billion to date and should ultimately make $20 billion. "This was the big issue?," she asks grinningly. "Well, we [her staff] solved it!"
You hear that, America? This economy is rocking! Go home.
Erin Burnett was way too dismissive and condescending of these protesters. Who proclaimed that only people who live in caves and don't use bank machines can show up to protest on Wall Street?
I love capitalism. It's better than any other alternative system in the world. But that doesn't mean there aren't many changes which can be made to fix it.
And what does it matter if the TARP bailout (which I supported) made money or lost money for the US Treasury? These people still have the right to protest.
The last time I checked, this recession was caused by greedy homeowners, greedy banks over-extending credit to them, and politicians and regulators who were asleep at the switch or condoned what was happening.