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In the midst of today's fuss and furor about our present shortages (and continued depletion) of resources—especially of energy—the accelerating loss of one of our most precious treasures, our topsoil, has gone almost unnoticed, Yet this neglected resource—which is today, and has been in the past, the basis of much of America's wealth—is so slowly renewable as to be virtually irreplaceable.
Recent farming practices, abetted by federal and state farm assistance that has actually encouraged increased crop production at the expense of conservation measures, are leading to unprecedented topsoil erosion—by wind and water—of America's crop and grazing lands. The source of our future productivity is being overused, abused, blown away, and quite literally washed down the river.
How and why is this happening In a country where sophisticated agricultural technology has been almost universally adopted and where farmers have access to state and federal assistance and extension services? Was nothing learned as a result of the disastrous 1930's Dust Bowl? Just how serious is the problem anyway?
Lessons Learned
The Dust Bowl crisis did indeed stimulate an effective national soil conservation program. Farmers were taught—and encouraged through incentives—to employ various techniques that diminish soil erosion and protect fertility.
Among the methods were contour plowing, terracing, and strip planting (the alternation of earth-retaining crops with relatively erosive ones) ... all of which help protect topsoil on sloping land from water erosion. Wind erosion was reduced by planting windbreaks of trees or tall crops.
The depletion of soil nutrients, and both kinds of erosion, were combated with crop rotation ... that is, the planting of a cash crop (such as corn, soybeans, or wheat) in alternate years with grasses or soil-enriching legumes (alfalfa or clover, for example) that provide—in addition—good pasturage for livestock.
Then, in the 1950's, grain production soared as a result of the development of higher-yielding strains, the increased use of fertilizers, and—in some areas—the availability of improved water supply from irrigation projects. Production soon far outstripped demand, and prices began to fall.
To help stabilize farmers' incomes, the government instituted a grain reserve program through which it bought and held surpluses and actively promoted their sale abroad. The "Soil Bank"—which paid farmers to keep a portion of their land out of production—was also initiated at that time. Sensible agriculturists, of course, withheld their least productive fields, which were most often those on hillsides or those with the thinnest, poorest soil. Because this is the kind of land most susceptible to erosion if plowed and planted, the Soil Bank did effectively contribute to the nation's soil conservation efforts.
Lessons Forgotten
However, everything changed In 1972, when—in the face of a 2% growth in the global population—there was a 4% worldwide shortfall in the production of grain ... the basis of the diets of the majority of human beings. One of the worst-hit nations was the Soviet Union, which quietly proceeded to buy over 20 million tons of grain—mostly wheat—from the United States.
Our country suddenly became very hard pressed to meet its domestic demand and other foreign obligations. As a result, grain prices went through the roof in 1973 ... and were soon followed by substantial price rises for grain-fed meat and poultry.
A second major drop in grain production in 1974 aggravated the entire situation, nearly wiping out U.S. grain reserves (which, for practical purposes, are the world's only real food reserves) and bringing on severe famine in several impoverished countries.
The U.S. government's response was to abolish the Soil Bank. (The grain reserve program was already being dismantled by Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and friends, whose fondness for "free market" farm policies had a lot to do with the disastrous fluctuation of farm incomes in the 1970's.) Farmers were encouraged by the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) policies -to plant fence-to-fence and boost production by every possible means.
The higher production that resulted, however, was followed by rock-bottom prices, which—together with increased farming costs (mainly a result of increased consumption of fuel and fertilizer) and higher loan interest rates—reinforced the pressure to produce more. In order to stay in business , many farmers had to coax every possible kernel of grain out of the ground, so corn and wheat growers responded to the economic squeeze by abandoning or cutting back on soil conservation practices. The costs of increased erosion would be paid decades in the future ... while the profits gained from bigger harvests were needed immediately.
Courting Disaster
In 1976 severe droughts reappeared in the western plains, complete with dust storms. Some farmers, unable to make a living, simply gave up and left their bare land to blow away with the wind.
In the Corn Belt, still under the pressure to produce, farmers increased corn and soybean acreage enormously by putting land under continuous cropping. The loss of nitrogen, formerly obtained by rotating cash crops with leguminous pasturage, was compensated for by applying more and more synthetic fertilizers. (Even though soybeans are legumes and do add nitrogen to the earth, they tend to contribute to erosion problems because their root systems don't hold soil well.)
Some farmers gave up strip cropping and terracing on slopes, partly to increase grain production (the alternate crop used in the former techniques had often been less remunerative than the in demand corn and wheat) and partly because such procedures are incompatible with using the latest oversized farm machinery. Worse still, some farmers even completely abandoned the practice of contour plowing!
The most scandalous aspect of all, though, is that such activities have been encouraged—and even financially supported—by the USDA. In recent years, perhaps half of the funds intended to support farmers' conservation practices and paid out through the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) have, In reality, been spent on such measures as improved irrigation and drainage systems ... that do more to increase yields than they do to protect soil.
In 1977, when the Carter administration instituted Its new "set aside" program (the Soil Bank by another name), the ASCS didn't allow pasture to be counted as cropland. So, in order to establish their less-valuable land as "normal" cropped acre age—and thereby qualify it for federal subsidies—many farmers plowed and planted every square Inch of their property in cash crops.
As a result of this lack of attention to conservation, the USDA's Soil Conservation Service warned, in the mid-1970's, that—through water erosion alone—the nation was losing topsoil at an annual rate of three billion tons ... as much as was being lost before the first national conservation programs were established in the 1930's, and twice the amount that should be allowed. The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), a private group supported by several mid-western universities, estimated in 1975 that "one-third of All U.S. cropland was suffering soil losses too great to be sustained without a gradual but ultimately disastrous decline in productivity." And in late 1978, Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland dramatically announced, "We are on a collision course with disaster. "
Heavy Losses
The most recent—and the most exhaustive—study of this problem is a comprehensive "Soil Erosion Inventory" undertaken by the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) in 1977, and released last spring. It showed that the nation (excluding Alaska) lost some two billion tons of topsoil to water erosion during 1977 and—in ten Great Plains states alone—nearly 1.5 billion tons more to the wind.
Water erosion losses that year averaged four to five tons per acre on cropland, pasture, and range land. Since only the deepest soils can sustain losses at such rates, the average is clearly far too high.
Moreover, the average figure tends to conceal the much higher rates that prevail in some of our most fertile states. Iowa, for instance, loses an estimated 9.9 tons per acre ... Illinois, 6.7 ... Missouri, 10.4 ... and Louisiana, 7.9. (Worse yet, the soil in our Caribbean possessions is being eroded at an average rate of over 40 tons per acre per year!)
Wind damage is a serious problem mainly in the relatively dry Great Plains states and the cultivated parts of the arid West, which are—in turn—not terribly vulnerable to water erosion. The average loss of cropland soil to wind erosion, in the ten states surveyed by the SCS, was over five tons per acre in 1977 ... but in three of those states, losses exceeded eight tons per acre (in Texas, the rate of erosion was nearly three times the average).
The SCS concluded that well over half of the nation's cropland needs conservation treatment ... as does the great majority of our pasture, rangeland, and woodland.
Annual soil losses that can be "tolerated"—that is, the rates at which they can be replenished by natural processes and good husbandry—vary from one to five tons per acre, depending on the depth and quality of the topsoil. (Complete destruction of cropland is—for practical purposes—irreversible. Although severe damage can, in time, be repaired, it can be done only at very high expense in comparison to the cost of conservation practices designed to preserve and protect the soil in the first place.)
With careful husbandry (which includes erosion protection and the regular addition of crop residues and other organic material), new soil can be built up ... at the rate of about one inch per century. Nature, however, takes several times longer.
Lower Yields
So far, fortunately, no serious general decline in national productivity has manifested itself as a result of the recent trends toward "chemical" farming and the neglect of conservation ... probably because soil losses can—for a while—be masked by the application of more fertilizers and other chemicals. But high erosion rates clearly cannot be sustained for very long.
And even though overall U.S. cropland productivity hasn't suffered a decline, neither has it grown significantly since the early 1970's ... and it's quite possible that declining soil fertility, due to over-intensive cropping and erosion, is a factor in that lack of growth.
Soil erosion is a major contributor to national pollution problems as well. In the past decade, our government has made considerable progress in forcing industry to clean up its act. The greatest cause of water pollution today is runoff from what are called "non-point sources" ... that is, mainly farms. Most of the two billion or more tons of soil washed annually from U.S. croplands ends up in our rivers, lakes, and estuaries. The silt fills up reservoirs and clogs irrigation ditches, drainage systems, harbors, and river channels.
And along with the billions of tons of soil go additional millions of tons of fertilizers and pesticides. In two-thirds of the river basins in the United States, water quality is adversely affected by such agricultural pollution.
Poorly managed farms also produce air pollution ... in the form of dust particles blown from unprotected dry land. The ultimate in this form of pollution Is the dust storm, for which the 1930's were famous. Few Americans outside of the plains states realize, however, that such storms recurred in the 1950's and 1970's. (Each generation of plains farmers apparently must learn the same lesson all over again.)
In the United States, a return to sensible policies encouraging soil conservation ironically may come about, not because American agriculturists and the USDA have suddenly become farsighted and concerned about future productivity, but because federal clean water laws require that streams and lakes be "fishable and swimmable" by 1983. And the most effective way to control and prevent the water pollution resulting from farm runoff is to employ conventional soil protection practices. Of course, the effects of such techniques can—and should—be abetted by a curtailed use of farm chemicals.
Yet despite the mandate of our national cleanwater laws, not much is being done. Farmers are still being encouraged by USDA policies—and forced by economic circumstances—to struggle for bigger harvests while ignoring conservation practices and allowing their resource base to be undermined and destroyed.
A Rural Clean Water Program was enacted by Congress in 1977 ... but fell victim, in 1978, to administration budget cutting and bureaucratic wrangling over which agency should run it. No funds were appropriated for the program during that year.
That President Carter, who proudly calls himself a farmer, should head an administration which has consistently slashed funding for soil conservation programs is both astonishing and disgraceful. Such "cost cutting" strikes us as the falsest of economies in a hungry world in which the population is expected to increase by nearly two billion by the end of the century.
A sizable-and growing-number of the earth's people are dependent on U.S. food exports. The U.S., in turn, depends on the $25 billion or more that such food exports earn each year to help meet Its oil import bill.
It remains to be seen how much if any of the damage that has already been done to United States farmland can be reversed. At the very least, we as a nation must do our utmost to prevent any further destruction of our irreplaceable soil resources.
Sources for this study included James Risser's "Soil Erosion Creates a Crisis Down on the Farm" a series of articles published in the Des Moines Register inSeptember 1978 and reprinted in the Conservation Foundation Letter, December 1978 ... the Soil Conservation Service's 1977 National Resource Inventories (U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1979) ... and William Lockeretz's "The Lessons of the Dust Bowl" which appears in the American Scientist, vol. 66, September/ October 1978, page 560.
For background material on U.S. agricultural problems, see S.M. Schneider and L. Mesirow's The Genesis Strategy (Plenum, 1976) ... and Chapters 6 and 7 of Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and John P. Holdren's Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment (W. H. Freeman and Co.).
Paul Ehrlich (Bing Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University) and Anne Ehrlich (Senior Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford) are familiar names to ecologists and environmentalists everywhere. As well they should be. Because it was Paul and Anne who—through their writing and research—gave special meaning to the words "population", "resources", and "environment" in the late 1960's. (They also coined the term coevolution, and did a lot to make ecology the household word it is today.) But while most folks are aware of the Ehrlichs' popular writing in the areas of ecology and overpopulation (most of us—for instance—have read Paul's book The Population Bomb) . . . far too few people have any idea of how deeply the Ehrlichs are involved in ecological research (research of the type that tends to be published only in technical journals and college textbooks). That's why it pleases us to be able to present—on a regular basis—these semi-technical columns by authors/ecologists/educators Anne and Paul Ehrlich.


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I'm trying to prove the following: If $T$ is a first-order theory with the property that for every natural number $n$ there is a natural number $m>n$ such that $T$ has an $m$-element model then $T$ has an infinite model.
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Sony manages to conjure up some lovely pieces of kit, but it also has a tendency to slap outrageous price tags on them. And this was no more apparent than when it launched the Vaio P-Series last year. Sony Vaio P Series Sony's Vaio P: small, light, but darned expensive Small and sexy, the original P-Series was designed to …
I have one of the original C1Fs somewhere in the loft (I fried the recharge schematics trying to get it to work with the later C1 (the transmeta one) batteries.
Even the overall system design is the same. As the picturebook was crippled by its horrible Neomagic video adapter this one is crippled by Intel GMA so you get only a fraction of the UE expected from the CPU. It also has the similarly unusable aspect ratio. As the picturebook had 1024x480 this one has 1280x600/1600x768
Let me guess, in 2 years there will be no batteries, no spare parts, no driver support and nothing else of the like. You have to go and buy another fashion item.
Welcome to the world of Sony. No thank you, I will stick with my Lenovo 10e. It may be fugly, but it "just werks" with Debian on it.
FWIW, the current status of common distros with the GMA 500 graphics:
Ubuntu 8.04 through 9.10 - you'll be fine with a few forum threads, it's pretty well developed.
Ubuntu 10.04 - still being worked on, but looking hopeful.
Fedora 11 - add RPM Fusion repo and install xorg-x11-drv-psb package.
Fedora 12, 13 - see Ubuntu 10.04, it's in progress and depending on the same fixes.
Mandriva 2009.1, 2010.0 - should work out of the box.
Mandriva 2010.1 - I think in much the same status as F12/F13 and Ubuntu 10.04.
Forum thread to look at for Ubuntu is http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1229345 .
I'd bet the trackpad issue is the same as on several recent Sonys, the fix is to add kernel parameter 'i8042.nopnp' . The patch to fix this is working its way upstream, see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/89139/ . If that is the issue, someone should probably let upstream know more than just the Z1 is affected...
Sony Canada has had the P720 on sale for $600. And with a 'good attendance' coupon, you can knock off another $60 or so. Mine lacks 3G and GPS, but I have an iPhone so I can Tether via Bluetooth onto the 'net without paying yet-another monthly fee. It's amazing how much farting around MS Windows needs to do before the PC eventually turns its full attention to the human user. It's best to turn it on just before supper, and let it grind away for 15 minutes while you eat.
It's obviously MS's fault, but the damn thing seems to need about an hour a week of updates, installations, and reboots. I've seen military aircraft with better flight-to-maintenance time ratios.
One huge disappointment is when I tried to play an HD TV show from the hard drive. Even using VLC (presumed to be efficient), it choked. Perhaps I've not got everything setup correctly. The screen is lovely, too bad I (apparently) can't watch HD video.
Overall it's well worthwhile at the price I paid.
VLC uses CPU rendering whereas MPC will hook into the GMA graphics and use some of that grunt to render.
I have the same problem with 1080P encodes on my media center, the dual core amd 2.0GHz chip isn't up to smoothly rendering the file in VLC but when using MPC the ATi3850 I have stuffed in the box makes no deal out of it.
Also try running MSCONFIG and removing some of the pointless crap on startup. If it has an SSD look at an optimisation guide for SSD's aswell as there's a ton of crap running to aid HDD's that have a negative impact on an SSD.
... But far too expensive and not good enough to justify the pricetag!
Get yerself an Asus 1005HA-H for £250. Still getting about 9hrs battery from mine and it's under 1.5Kg in mass. Absolutely top machine, great for long-haul flights and daily commuting.
Ok so it's slightly larger than the P Series, but 1/3rd of the price and actually usable as your main machine.
The original P has been out for months and you can't buy a knock off version of it.
Sony is still capable of real top-end engineering, and its high-end systems like the P and Z are custom designs made in Japan; there's no template for cheap unauthorized clones in the Chinese manufacturing business, because the original isn't made there.
Not that this means the P is what you actually *want*, but it's an undeniably impressive bit of engineering and not something that can easily be knocked off by any idiot with a factory...
So, unless you're from Psion, a netbook is a small, cheap, low-powered laptop with a low-res screen. The Vaio P doesn't have the traditional netbook form-factor and it's got a (significantly) above-average screen compared with netbooks. Unsurprisingly, this comes at a premium (especially since the cost of the panel isn't shared among every manufacturer on the planet), so it's not cheap. So why are we calling it a netbook? The article eventually points out that it's not one, but that doesn't really excuse putting "netbook" in the review title. It's not like Sony claim it's a netbook.
By all means rant about whether it's value for money, but starting out by calling it a netbook necessarily puts it on a back foot. If you started by calling it a subnotebook, you could describe it as "cheaper than average and a bit slow". Since "subnotebook" seems to have disappeared from the technical vocabulary, I'd like to remind you that they're very small, premium notebooks, typically compromising functionality in favour of size. This is exactly what a Vaio P is. However, every manufacturer who has traditionally made subnotebooks is now on the back foot, because everyone compared their premium models with the Eee PC. The Eee was "good enough" for a lot of users (especially those like me, used to second-hand Librettos), but that doesn't mean you can ignore every corner that it cut; it was never *that* small, and it was more compromised than true subnotebooks.
If I was in the market for a new laptop, the screen is the first thing I go for, with a portability second. For me, a Vaio P is a very tempting proposition (but not in pink), although I can't deny I'd like it to be a bit cheaper and to have a slightly smoother linux install process. If you're not a resolution addict like me, I'm sure it looks over-priced compared with an original EeePC, because you have no interest in the premium features it offers. Reviewers who don't like high resolution screens (*some* people are comfortable closer to the screen than others) killed the 15.4" WUXGA laptop market; criticising a netbook whose USP is that it has a high-resolution screen for having a high-resolution screen seems unduly harsh. People who want a Vaio P presumably want it because of the screen, not in spite of it (unless they're both idiots and fashion victims).
The Vaio P is in a niche of its own. There are plenty of things to criticise about it, but please don't compare apples to, er, apricots.
"The VPCP11S1E might be small and have an Atom processor, but it's most definitely not a netbook."
I beg to differ. You can't define a product on its price alone. If a 17" gaming laptop is sold for £199, does it suddenly become a netbook?
This is a netbook, even though Sony seems to expect you to pony up 4 times the usual price of one.
Sony aren't above over-charging for the same kit you can get elsewhere, so please don't take this as a defence of the company's pricing in general, but...
The Vaio P isn't a netbook because it's not a cheap subnotebook - that's what a netbook is; it's a market segment that was defined when someone realised you could make a cheap subnotebook with low-end components and sell it to people who'd been buying used subnotebooks off ebay. If you take the "cheap" away from a netbook, that's a subnotebook. At that point, you either have a "hopelessly overpriced for what it is" subnotebook, or a subnotebook that has some features that justifies its premium over netbooks. In order to be cheap, netbooks necessarily cut corners compared with "full" laptops - don't cut the corners and you don't get the cheap.
As it happens, the Vaio P has a couple of features that distinguish it from netbooks - it's smaller than most (at least in some dimensions) and it's got a much better-than-average screen (if what you want is pixels). If you don't care about these, you can ignore them - in which case you'd be right in treating it as an overpriced netbook, and deciding not to buy it. Equally, if you don't have a reason to have a 17" screen, a high performance processor and decent graphics, you could consider a big gaming laptop to be a really poor option if what you really want is a netbook; it'll do the job, but you're paying for features you don't want.
If you treat the Vaio P as a subnotebook, it can be considered to be reasonably-priced but slow compared with the traditional market segment (to be fair, I've not been tracking it, but historically subnotebooks haven't been as far behind the regular notebook performance curve as an Atom system would be). If you don't need more performance, other subnotebooks are over-priced; if you do need more performance, the Vaio P is compromised.
Netbooks are:
1) Cheap. This means that people reviewing premium subnotebooks and describing them as "over-priced netbooks" are missing the point.
2) Small (subnotebooks). That means that people reviewing cheap 14" laptops and describing them as "really big netbooks" are missing the point.
This means netbooks don't get premium components (hence usually an Atom or, at one point, a Via C3) and don't get full-sized screens and keyboards. Add components that cost money, like the Vaio P's screen, and you can't be surprised when the price goes up. Yes, more than I'd like, but I'd not expect it to be free. You really can't fairly ignore the premium components and complain about the price, any more than you can complain that a Pagani Zonda is a desparately overpriced Nissan Micra. What you can do is decide that you don't want the premium components that are offered, and accept that you're looking at a niche product for which you happen not to be the target market. You can only be critical if it's of no interest to *anyone*.
What you can do is complain that the Vaio P has an odd mix of components - maybe people who are prepared to pay a large premium for the screen would like to pay a small premium and get better performance as well. Or you could complain that Sony should have looked at a Libretto and put the mouse buttons on the back of the lid so you could use the track pad one-handed.
You could say that Sony have taken a netbook and added features that nobody could possibly want, in return for doubling the price. From the knowledge that I'd be prepared to pay a premium for one, and some vague belief that occasionally Sony does some market research (between screwing PS3 customers), I'd say that Sony might have decided that the market segment existed before spending a few million tooling up to make the Vaio P. If you believe that the Vaio P means that Sony make over-priced netbooks, that's ignoring the Vaio M, which actually *is* a netbook. It's also much cheaper.
"What you can do is complain that the Vaio P has an odd mix of components - maybe people who are prepared to pay a large premium for the screen would like to pay a small premium and get better performance as well."
I'm sure Sony would've made that possible if they could, but it's not terribly practical. The Atom has one big thing with two consequences going for it in this form factor: TDP (power consumption). It's very light on power. This means it generates very little heat - which is important as something as small as the P has very limited heat dispersion capabilities - and is light on the battery. Obviously, given the size of the system, the P's battery is tiny. Even with the Atom CPU the battery life is crap; the stock battery gives me barely 80 minutes. With something more powerful it wouldn't ever be practical to use the thing without a power cord.
(Have to admit, though, the above doesn't excuse the appalling performance of *both* the stock hard disk and SSD options. The hard disk in the original P is a very slow 4200RPM implementation. The SSD in the original P was pretty crappy performing for an SSD, and bizarrely was connected with some kind of janky IDE->SATA converter, IIRC. No idea why Sony made that decision. I'm not sure if the SSD in the second-gen P is any better, but the benchmarks don't look great. Sony's certainly capable of sourcing good SSDs as the SSD in the Z is stonkingly fast, so yeah, color me confused.)
One of the key component of a netbook is portability and that means battery life (as well as form factor). That's why they have (relatively) poor processors. But this gets under 2 hours?
I like the design and don't find it ugly, but with that battery (and the ludicrous pricetag) this is a major fail.
You can get an extended life battery which sticks out of the bottom a bit, makes it weigh a bit more, and gets it up past 3 hours. I keep that one in my P almost full-time now. It's still very light and small. But yeah, the stock battery is pretty inconvenient for anything beyond a quick website check.
Seriously: WHY??????
With a similarly clocked CULV one could actually WATCH A FLASH VIDEO, UNLIKE ON THE JUNK PAIR of Intel ATOM + Intel GMA garbage, let alone Atom is such a craptastic piece it cannot even run W7 properly.
Stupid, stupid Sony - three thumbs down.
This'll look great in some hollywood blockbuster where it'll inexplicably will sport a 3d holodisplay.
As to price, well, sony has had lots of models in that form factor and at that price point before. Whether they're painting themselves horribly outdated or simply continuing a good niche, the sales figures will have to tell.
Something irks me though: It sports 802.11n, but what bands? I'd expect at least 2.4GHz AND 5GHz for that price, but the review doesn't say.


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In the NEWMAC, the Engineers were ranked third in rebounds per game, averaging 41.6. Individually, junior Rayna Zacks finished fourth in rebounds (8.6) and ninth in field goal percentage (.411).
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The women's basketball team snapped a 12-game losing streak behind the incredible heroics of senior Maria Hidalgo. MIT defeated Massachusetts College, 59-57, paced by Hidalgo's game-high 18 points and a clutch buzzer-beating score. Senior Samia Mahjub rebounded a potential Mass. College game-winner with six seconds left in regulation. Sophomore Andrea Dooley took the initial feed from Mahjub and drove the length of the court as the clock ticked down. Dooley dished to the left wing, where Hidalgo threw up the 12-foot jumper as the game-ending horn sounded.


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UPDATE: The Raiders have confirmed the signing of defensive end Andre Carter.
The Raiders finally got around to signing a safety Tuesday, announcing the signing of Usama Young about five hours after closing a deal with cornerback Mike Jenkins.
Young, who started 11 games for the Cleveland Browns last season and had three interceptions, becomes the prime candidate to start at free safety alongside strong safety Tyvon Branch. The Raiders are listing Young as a strong safety on their web site roster.
A veteran of six seasons and 25 starts, Young played for the New Orleans Saints for four seasons, where his defensive backs coach was Raiders coach Dennis Allen.


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Milky Way Over Ancient Ghost Panel
Long before Stonehenge was built, well before the Dead Sea Scrolls
were written, ancient artists painted life-sized figures on canyon walls
in Utah, USA -- but why? Nobody is sure. The entire panel of figures,
which dates back about 7,000 years, is called the Great Gallery and was
found on the walls of Horseshoe Canyon in Canyonlands National Park.
The humans who painted them likely hunted Mammoths. The unusual
fuzziness of largest figure led to this mural section's informal designation
as the Holy Ghost Panel, although the intended attribution and societal
importance of the figure are really unknown. The above image was taken
during a clear night in March. The oldest objects in the above image are
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'Secret Life' Scoop: Francia Raisa Talks Kissing Grace & Stealing Ricky
Plus, Francia talks about her Teen Choice & Imagen Award nominations. Find out how you can vote for her!
Just when I thought The Secret Life of the American Teenager couldn't get any more sexified, this summer's batch of drama brought even more scandals — teen marriage and lesbian experimentation, to name a few — and Francia Raisa's Adrian has her sassy, well-manicured hand in all of it. HollywoodLife.com chatted with the Teen Choice and Imagen Award nominee for the scoop on what else fans can expect in season five, including whether Adrian will try to steal Ricky (Daren Kagasoff) away from Amy (Shailene Woodley).
Enjoy my full interview with Francia below:
Congratulations on your nominations! How are you feeling?
I'm excited! It's my first [Teen Choice] nomination, and it's for Choice Scene Stealer. It's four days before my birthday and, you know, a surfboard would be a pretty good gift. [Click here to sign in and vote for Fransia!]
'Scene stealer' is the perfect way to describe Adrian.
Thank you, I agree.
Except maybe 'boyfriend stealer.'
Either one works. I think I would unanimously win that one. Hands down.
I still can't believe season five started the week after season four ended. When are you guys not working?
We literally have our vacation during the holiday, and that's it. From February to November, we shoot. But I don't mind it. I hate sitting on my butt. If I don't work more than a day on an episode, I ask [creator Brenda Hampton] for more to do.
Onto season five, will we see Grace and Adrian rebuilding their rocky friendship?
It's only rocky because Grace freaked out. We were experimenting, like I'm sure a lot of people to do. But they're friends, and at the end of the day, she'll get over it. It's not like Adrian did something malicious to her. She's just a little freaked out. The friendship will always be there, though.
Any chance there will be more experimenting in the future?
I never know what's going on. I'll think a storyline is done, but then it'll come back. I think the show catches me by surprise as much as it captures the fans by surprise. Sometimes I'll get a script and go, 'Wait, what?' So hey, maybe Adrian will meet a girl some day, and say, 'This is who I love!'
Hey, you never know. She has pretty much run out of guys in town.
The boyfriend she has now breaks up with her every five minutes. She doesn't really want to be with him, but he's there, so she'll take what she can get.
Do you think she could still have feelings for Ricky, even though he's married?
I love that she says she's not, because I definitely think she is. You can't really just get over your first love like that. Their relationship was so passionate that I think they'll always have a special place in each other's heart. That's one of the reasons why Ricky said he can't be friends with Adrian. He needed to push her away to have a relationship with Amy.
And how will their marriage change the dynamic of the group?
Even though they're married, Ricky will still be a bad boy. And who knows, some random girl might come in and sweep him off his feet! You can't live happily ever after on this show. There will always be drama.
And most of it will end up on 'The Soup.' How do you feel about being on there so much?
Oh my gosh, I love it! I love it so much. I started TiVoing The Soup. I love that they make fun of us!
Looking ahead, how would you like to see Adrian change?
I have so much fun with everything she does, so I hope Adrian keeps doing things to make the show more interesting. I guess I'm supposed to say I hope she grows up and matures, but I have too much fun playing crazy.
What do you hope to see on Secret Life this season? Do you want Amy and Ricky's marriage to last, or do you think Ricky belongs with Adrian? Do you think Adrian and Grace are done experimenting? Drop a comment with your thoughts and theories! And check out ABC Family's official Secret Life page for more show info.


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G.Fast Delivers Gigabit Broadband Speeds To Customers Over Copper (FTTdp)
Subject: General Tech | August 5, 2013 - 07:10 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: rf, itu, gigabit broadband, fttdp, fiber, broadband, bell labs, alcatel lucent
Alcatel Lucent has been working on a new broadband technology called G.Fast that is currently undergoing ITU (International Telecommunications Union) scrutiny and may be ready to implement as soon as 2015. G.Fast is a technology that builds upon VDLS2 and is the next step between the currently-popular FTTN (Fiber To The Node) and true fiber FTTH (Fiber To The Home) internet services. Alcatel Lucent's G.Fast technology is rated for speeds up to symmetrical 1 Gbps over copper lines up to 200 meters and 500 Mbps at up to 300 meters.
G.Fast is currently being tested by Telecom Austria and is being evaluated as a standard by the ITU. G.Fast requires fiber to be pulled closer to consumers, but avoids the massive expense of doing true fiber runs to each individual home. Unlike traditional DSL which is served from a central office up to miles away, or newer VDSL technology like AT&T's U-Verse service that is served from a DSLAM that is located about a mile from customers, G.Fast serves customers from a fiber distribution point that is a maximum of 300 meters away from customers. In the latter two cases, the internet connection is fiber up to the DSLAM or distribution point after which it uses the existing copper phone lines to reach customers' homes. The G.Fast distribution point is about the size of a large shoebox and can be mounted on telephone poles or underground.
G.Fast implements pair bonding, vectoring, and phantom mode techniques (more information, PDF) in addition to a physically closer fiber connection (internet speeds drop off dramatically as copper cable length increases due to cross talk on the cables, interferrence from other RF sources, and other factors). Specifically, G.Fast is able to use multiple physcal copper pairs (pair bonding) along with multiple virtual pairs per each physical pair (phantom mode), and an active noise monitoring and cancelling system to reduce cross talk and interferrence (vectoring). Additionally, G.Fast uses a surprising 100Mhz of spectrum over the copper pair(s) and fancy modulation techniques to wring all the speed possible out of existing telephone lines. For comparison, traditional old-school DSL that you would get from your local telephone provider uses less than a MHz of spectrum, and the latest VDSL2 technologies use around 1MHz of RF spectrum! There is an interesting problem with G.Fast beyond punching all this through the cables, and that is possible issues with FM broadcasters (radio stations) that use RF spectrum between 87.5MHz and 108Mhz. The Register notes that ISPs that implement G.Fast will have to work around the specific FM frequencies actually used in the local area to avoid interferrence. That suggests that operators may not be able to use the full 100MHz of spectrum in the standard, but it would still be a huge step up from VDSL. The site further explains that even if the copper lines are buried underground, it could still cause issues with FM broadcasts as the 200-300 meter line makes for a massive antenna.
Another point in favor fo G.Fast is that it is designed to be a customer installed technology in the sense that customers will be able to plug in their modems to the standard phone jack and recieve service. (Ideally, this would mean no need for technicans to do so-called "home runs" to get the best speeds, but if it is needed with U-Verse it may still be needed for G.Fast, especially in older apartment buildings.)
The ITU is currently looking at G.Fast and working towards a standard along with developer Alcatel Lucent and various telecoms interested in implementing the technology. According to Frank van der Putten of the ITU, G.Fast could be approved as soon as early 2014 with hardware supporting it available in 2015.
G.Fast is by no means the end-all-be-all of internet connections for home users, but it is a massive performance leap ahead of current DSL technologies and thanks to competition from Verizon FIOS, Google Fiber, local municipalities building out their own fiber neworks, and cable companies (in the US at least, where internet over coax is common), G.Fast may be economical enough that telecos are willing to upgrade their networks to head off these competitors all while moving their true fiber networks all that much closer to people's homes and to the (hopefully/ideal) eventual implementation, and final upgrade to, Fiber to the Home connections.
Researchers Use New HC-PBGF Optical Fiber To Transmit Data At 99.7% The Speed of Light
Subject: General Tech | March 27, 2013 - 11:01 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: Internet, hc-pbgf, fiber, data transmission
Transmitting data over optical fiber is one of the fastest methods available, and researchers at the University of Southampton have managed to dial up the speed even further.
Being optical in nature, light is used to transmit data over fiber. The speed of light through a vacuum is 299,792,458 meters per second, but traditional fiber is not nearly that fast due to light traveling approximately 31% slower (206,856,796.02 m/s) through silica glass than a vacuum.
The new fiber employs a hollow design that allows light to travel through air rather than glass while still allowing the cable to bend and twist around corners. The new fiber has been dubbed Hollow Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber, or HC-PBGF, and allows light to travel up to about 298,893,080.63 m/s (~99.7% the speed of light). Currently, the HC-PBGF fiber is still in the experimental phase, but it could have big implications for data centers and HPC server clusters that depend on high bandwidth, low latency connections between individual nodes.
Just how fast is the new HC-PBGF? According to ExtremeTech, a researcher told the site that the new fiber has a total cable throughput of 73.7 Tbps. It transmits 3 modes of 96 channels of 256 Gbps each using a combination of wave division multiplexing and mode division multiplexing. The fiber is 160nm and is noticeably faster than traditional fiber. Additionally, the HC-PBGF has a data loss of 3.5 dB/km which makes it a useful candidate for short runs between nodes or rows of racks, but not yet suitable for longer runs. HC-PBGF will not be blanketing your neighborhood anytime soon, but the research may lead to new optical networking technologies used in the next supercomputer or cloud service, for example.
The full paper can be found here, along with more details over at Ars Technica. Unfortunately, the full paper is behind a paywall but it may be worth seeing your school or work can give you access should you be interested in drilling into the details of the experimental hollow fiber,.
Verizon To Upgrade FIOS To 300Mbps for $204.99 a Month
Subject: General Tech | June 3, 2012 - 04:23 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: verizon, pricing, Internet, fios, fiber, 300mbps
According to sources that talked with The Verge, Verizon is planning on offering faster internet services for its FIOS customers, but the new tiers are going to cost a pretty penny.
Verizon will be upgrading many of its FIOS internet speeds, and the changes are set to go into effect on June 17th. The base 15/5Mbps (download/upload) plan will cost $10 more than the current price of $54.99 at $64.99 a month. The current 25/25Mbps will be upgraded to 50/25 and will not see a price increase–it will continue to cost $74.99. The current 50/20Mbps plan will see a significant speed bump to 150/65Mbps, and it will cost $94.99 a month (no price increase). A new 75/35 speed plan will become available and it will cost $84.99 a month. Finally, the service that readers will be drooling over–the 300Mbps plan–will feature speeds of 300Mbps downloads and 65Mbps uploads. It will cost a hefty $204.99 a month, a price that The Verge notes is a mere $5 more than the 150/35 speed tier that it replaces.
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Comcast telco fashion, Verizon has managed to tack on up to three fees including a $5 per month fee for those without a contract, a $5 fee for those that do not subscribe to FIOS phone service, and a $100 fee to install equipment for those that want the upper two speed tiers. Fortunately (sort of...), users can avoid the $100 fee if they are new customers or already subscribe to the company's 150Mbps tier. Also on the less-than-stellar news front, Verizon will not be upgrading plans for those on VDSL plans (in buildings where Verizon delivers fiber to the premises and uses copper from there to homes–think older apartment buildings). Even worse, VDSL customers will still be subject to the increased pricing although they cannot take advantage of the upgraded speeds.
|Single Family Home
|2 Year Contract
|Month-to-Month Rate
|3/1 Mbps
|3/1 Mbps
|3/1 Mbps
|15/5 Mbps
|10/2 Mbps
|15/5 Mbps
|50/25 Mbps
|20/5 Mbps
|20/10 Mbps
|75/35 Mbps
|30/5 Mbps
|50/10 Mbps
(Source: The Verge. The 150/65 plan doesn't seem like a bad deal actually, if only I had FIOS in my area!)
So this fiber internet upgrade announcement seems great at first does have a dark side. Some customers will be getting a great deal while others will be getting the short end of the stick. Here's hoping that you are one of the lucky customers on the middle tiers who have FTTH that get a free speed upgrade! More information on the specifics of this upgrade should be coming later this month.
Scientists Set New Download Speed Record Using Fiber And Single Laser
Subject: Networking | May 24, 2011 - 06:52 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: networking, Internet, fiber
Using a single laser, scientists were able to encode data and transmit it over 50 km of single-node fiber using "325 optical frequencies within a narrow spectral band of laser wavelengths." The single laser was capable of handling 26 terabits of information per second in an energy efficient manner, which is equivalent to the amount of data used by 400 million phone calls.
The technique used to encode and decode the optical data is called orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). It is a modulation technology that can be applied to both optical and electrical based transmission methods. The data is broken down into numerous parallel streams of data (using mathematics) that greatly increases the transmission speed and amount of bandwidth available. While electrical/copper based systems are not able to transmit 26 terabits of information using OFDM, optical systems are able encode the amount of data in their experiments without speed restrictions and while using "negligible energy." Dr. Leuthold stated "we had to come up with a technique that can process data about one million times faster than what is common in the mobile communications world." Further, his stated that his experiment shows that optical technology still has room for transmission speed improvement, and increases in bit-rate do not necessarily result in higher energy usage.
The important aspect of Dr. Leuthold's research lies in the energy efficiency inherent in reducing the amount of lasers and fiber nodes required to transmit 26 terabits per second of data. Using simple optical technologies, they are able to greatly increase the amount of bandwidth in a single fiber line. Japanese researchers have been able to achieve 109 terabits per second download speeds; however, they had to use multiple lasers to achieve the speeds. Dr. Leuthold iterated that "it's the fact that it's one laser," as being the important results of his research.
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Jayalalithaa could shape India's next government
The politics of forming India's next government could come down to how many seats AIADMK's Jayalalithaa can wrest from her rival DMK's Stalin in Tamil Nadu. A treasurer is plotting to capture DMK: Alagiriindia Updated: Mar 26, 2014 11:21 IST
The politics of forming India's next government could come down to how many seats AIADMK's Jayalalithaa can wrest from her rival DMK's Stalin in Tamil Nadu.
At stake are 39 parliamentary seats in Tamil Nadu, a state known for its ancient Hindu temples, its modern auto industry - and a history of electoral landslides.
With pollsters predicting that no party will win a majority in the 543-seat parliament, the caucus returned by India's sixth-largest state could hold the key to forming a government after the five-week general election that starts on April 7.
Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa is riding a wave of popularity that could take her AIADMK party's seat count to 27, according to one survey, potentially casting her in a new role as national powerbroker.
Her party is one of many regional groups whose proliferation over the past two decades has made it impossible for national parties to rule alone in India. Two more are led by female firebrands, Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal and Mayawati in Uttar Pradesh.
Hopping around the state by helicopter, Jayalalithaa is addressing enthusiastic crowds, including one last week near Tiruvannamalai, a holy site where Hindu pilgrims, in an act of devotion, walk around a mountain barefoot at full moon.
"She is the only one who gives voice to the Tamils," said tea seller MK Baskran, an AIADMK grassroots organiser, to noisy agreement from fellow supporters. Others thanked Jayalalithaa for food handouts that sustained their families.
Pundits in Chennai, describe Tamil Nadu as a 'sweep' state; not a swing state.
"A gap of 4-5 percentage points in the popular vote between the first and second party gives you a hugely disproportionate result," N Ram, publisher of The Hindu newspaper, told Reuters.
Cinemas in Chennai are screening a digitally restored version of Jayalalithaa's 1965 movie 'One Man In A Thousand', in which she plays a damsel in distress saved by leading man MG Ramachandran - or 'MGR' - in the role of a swashbuckling pirate.
As well as bringing her extra publicity, the film revival holds the key to regional politics: It was actor-turned-politician Ramachandran who formed the AIADMK party four decades ago when he was kicked out of the DMK.
"The DMK split was like an amoeba dividing or an earthworm being cut in two," said Chennai journalist and commentator Gnani Sankaran. "These two formations are the major players - always. The others are minor players - always."
The DMK is still led by the 89-year-old M Karunanidhi, who fired Ramachandran in 1972. But it is his son MK Stalin - named in honour of the late Soviet dictator - who is leading the party's rearguard action.
"There's a wave against the Jayalalithaa government's misrule, massive corruption and undemocratic governance," Stalin told the Economic Times last week. Neither party commented to Reuters for this story.
The DMK is, however, riven by in-fighting after quitting the Congress-led government in New Delhi a year ago. The party on Tuesday expelled Karunanidhi's second son, a former cabinet minister, having banned him from the party slate for disloyalty.
Read:A treasurer is plotting to capture DMK, won't let it happen: Alagiri
The DMK, the Congress and a minor ally won 27 seats in Tamil Nadu in the 2009 election. A decade ago, their alliance won all 39 seats, aiding the return to power of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has dominated Indian politics since independence.Read:Vote for Jaya a vote for instability at Centre says Stalin
Congress, isolated, now faces a wipeout in the state. In one sign of looming defeat, finance minister P Chidambaram has bowed out of contesting his family bailiwick in Tamil Nadu, giving his son the chance to cut his political teeth.
And, although the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to emerge as the largest parliamentary party - with 195 seats according to this month's poll by the NDTV news channel - the opposition party has no base in Tamil Nadu.
Even with its allies, the BJP could fall some 40 seats short of the 272 needed for a majority in the national parliament, according to the poll. That is where regional players like Jayalalithaa come into the equation.
Her reluctance to criticise the BJP's candidate for prime minister, Narendra Modi, and a past dalliance with his party, suggest she is positioning herself for power and influence in the next government.
"Jayalalithaa is both in the BJP alliance and not in it," said N. Sathiya Moorthy, director of the Chennai chapter of the Observer Research Foundation, a think tank.
Her ability to dictate terms - or even stake a claim to the premiership - would depend on how big a "last mile" problem the BJP faces in cobbling together a majority.
A weaker BJP result would strengthen Jayalalithaa's hand, as she eyes the alternative of a coalition made up of regional parties, often referred to as a 'Third Front'.
"Within these different groups, anyone with 25-30 MPs is going to be contender for the prime minister's position," said commentator Sankaran. "And if Jayalalithaa has 30 MPs from Tamil Nadu, she will be able to demand the prime ministership."
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Gladys Ochoki and Joseph Cooper, both of Lafayette, Colo., plan to marry.
Ochoki is the daughter of Justus and Tabitha Ongera of Minneapolis. She is a 1994 graduate of Nyabururu Girls High School in Kenya, and a 2007 graduate of St. Cloud State University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. She works as a technician at Corgenix Medical Corp. in Bloomfield, Colo.
Cooper is the son of Dennis and Kathy Cooper of Ashland. He is a 1986 graduate of Ashland High School and a 1991 graduate of the University of Colorado with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology. He works as a teacher at Thorton Middle School in Thorton, Colo.


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This seems like a good way to fight back.. but I can think of a couple of situations where you would be doing just as much harm as the original "hacker"."IT security specialists Backfire Security today announced the availability of a software download as a discreet desk-top client application that wreaks revenge on those hackers and culprits attacking your network or infecting users with worms and/or viruses. The "freeware" package - PAYBACK v1.0 - is available from www.backfiresecurity.co.uk in both PC and Mac formats. PAYBACK v1.0 is a new kind of anti-hacker application called an IRS (Intruder Retaliation System) and is based upon "guerrilla" programming protocols and algorithms originally developed for the Chinese Space Program.
Attacker compromises host A which uses host A as a launch pad for attacks against host B. If host B is your machine and you have PAYBACK installed on it... you are helping destroy a machine of a victim that didn't attack you in the first place. You would be just as guilty as the attacker. Even though you didn't attack host A... you infected it.
I wonder how this would all play out on the legal sides of things...
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday finally admitted what most people already knew, that the world body operates with an unfair bias against Israel.
During a meeting with university students at UN Headquarters in Jerusalem, Ban was told that Israelis feel the UN and the international community at large discriminates against the Jewish state.
Ban acknowledged the "unfortunate situation" of automatic and unfair negative attitudes toward Israel and Israeli officials.
The UN chief tried to clarify that as a full-fledged member of the world body, Israel would always be treated equally along with the other 192 member states. But the grossly disproportionate number of resolutions passed against tiny Israel provided evidence to the contrary.
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Toledo taught me that the world is huge. There is so much to discover. While our daily news channels may focus on the major cities of the world, there is so much more out there. It is so important to be open to new opportunities. Never underestimate what may be hiding around each corner. In your own neighborhood there may be a delicious new restaurant hiding behind an old, rusty sign or a charming antiques shop just beyond the dusty windowpanes.
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The Office of Traffic Safety honored Matt De Moura for his work on the Avoid 8 Program
(Woodland, CA) – (Woodland, CA) – April 25, 2014 - Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that yesterday the California Office of Traffic Safety, OTS, honored Deputy District Attorney Matt De Moura for his work on the "AVOID the 8" program. De Moura received his award at a Greater Sacramento Regional MADD luncheon in Sacramento where members of law enforcement from numerous police agencies were honored for their work in combatting DUIs. De Moura was the only prosecutor honored.
"AVOID the 8" is an OTS grant program specifically intended to create coordinated regional traffic enforcement teams to conduct saturation patrols, sobriety checkpoints, DUI enforcement and holiday traffic enforcement and public information campaigns. Many local law enforcement agencies across the state participate in the AVOID program. Currently, 42 counties in California have AVOID programs. Davis Police Department Sgt. Rod Rifredi leads Yolo County's program.
Earlier this year, OTS awarded the District Attorney's Office grant funding for prevention, education and enforcement in DUI cases. This OTS funding originates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The purpose of the program is to prevent impaired driving and reduce alcohol and drug-impaired traffic fatalities and injuries. In 2012 and 2013, there were seven deaths and 36 injuries as a result of DUI crashes in the County. The grant funds the DA's Vertical Prosecution Unit, allowing one prosecutor to handle a case through all stages of the criminal process, from the time of the arrest through sentencing. The team assists law enforcement in the investigation of fatal and major injury collisions. Additionally, the team works closely with Yolo County school districts to provide training and educational programs on the dangers of driving under the influence.
The DUI team, led by De Moura, has been coordinating trainings with officers of law enforcement agencies throughout the County. Additionally, the team been working with our local school districts to provide training to teachers and staff so they can identify drug signs and symptoms.
One Woodland Joint Unified School District employee who attended a training expressed her appreciation. "I have been in public education for well over 20 years and this was one of the best classes I have attended. It is real information that is current and information we desperately need to keep our students safe and informed." More trainings will be offered throughout the County's school districts in the coming months.
In addition to De Moura, several Yolo County peace officers were recognized for their efforts in combating impaired driving. Officers from Davis, UC Davis, West Sacramento, and Woodland received awards for leading their agencies in DUI arrests.


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Diamond Genesis, also known as Room 339, at Sweden's Icehotel offers a uniquely decorated brand of frozen luxury. Designed by French artist and designer Antoine Weygand and architect Roland Toupet, this simple, striking room offers guests a bed placed atop an illuminated plinth, gigantic glowing diamond-shaped sculptures, and an arched ceiling decorated with precisely carved geometric patterns. All of these elements are made of snow and crystalline ice, and they are kept at a frosty -5 degrees Celsuis "regardless of how cold it may be outside."
The Icehotel, situated by the Torne River in Jukkasjarvi, has been rebuilt each year for over 20 years. An "Ice Farm" located nearby provides the Icehotel with an incredible 30,000 tonnes of snow and ice each year to construct the 60 room building. While that may seem like a huge quantity of frozen water, the hotel claims that 370 cubic meters of water passes Jukkasjarvi every second – that's the equivalent of a new Icehotel passing the Swedish town every other second.
Each incarnation of the Icehotel features a number of Art Suites by designers from around the world who contribute one-of-a-kind rooms to the project, carving their work out of the 2 tonne blocks harvested from the Torne River. The results are fairly staggering, and often whimsical – two of last year's rooms were christened "Ice Fishing" and "Frigid Dare". Diamond Genesis offers enormous ice-carved renditions of precious stones, and the Arktikos Suite invites guests to wake up surrounded by polar bears — made of snow, of course.
Jukkasjarvi is a small village, purported to have a population of 900 residents and a thousand dogs, but as home to the world's first hotel-meets-art-museum-inside-an-igloo, it has developed a name and an industry for itself. Over 55,000 people a year flock to the temporary accommodation to enjoy spectacular views of the northern lights, winter-time recreation, and of course the unique ice-sculpted art and architecture.
Options for enjoying Torne River ice sculptures aren't limited to Scandanavia either – in what appears to be a rather ostentatious out of context novelty, the Icehotel also owns bars in cities from London to Istanbul, in which all interior features from barstools to glasses to the bar itself are carved from imported Torne River ice.
Rates for the Art Suites begin at around $112 per night, and they include back-up "warm" accommodations, winter clothing, and a morning sauna.
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The latest backlash against Apple is coming from professional photographers who feel that Apple has abandoned them in favour of the consumer market, similar to the "Final Cut Pro debacle".
A report criticizes Apple's emphasis on mass market mobile suggesting that, while it's good for shareholders, the "professional photography community need to understand that we are no longer targets of Apple," adding: "They aren't a pro apps company or a hardware company they are a mobile company."
Writing for Photofocus, Scott Bourne notes that while he is intending to buy a MacBook Pro with Retina display he has a number of concerns. He expects that the new display means Photoshop and similar programs will need to be recoded to work with it; in addition he expects that calibration hardware/software might need to be re-worked; and he thinks it is wise to make sure that Lightroom and Photoshop (along with the various plug-ins) are all compatible before buying a Retina display MacBook Pro.
Bourne also criticizes Aperture, suggesting that Apple is dubbing down its professional photography application, case in point: the "integration between a free consumer photo app that kids use in grade school and a pro app like Aperture." Aperture and iPhoto libraries have now been unified.
Bourne complains that the "minor point release to Aperture" bought only a white balance brush, compatibility with the new retina display, "nowhere near the kind of upgrade that Lightroom got."
"This is like the Final Cut Pro debacle," he complains. "Apple essentially has decided that the broader consumer market is more profitable so pro apps are history."
Bourne also slates anyone who thinks the 'new' Mac Pro comes close to competing with the current top-of-the-line Windows machines, is "just kidding yourself," he writes: "It's not even close."
The article concludes: "I used to trust that Apple had my back. No more. I am no longer their target customer."


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May 7, 2008
FITCHBURG, Mass. - Behind Keith Weagle's complete game victory, Fitchburg State closed out MIT's season with a 5-3 win on Tuesday afternoon at Elliot Field.
The Engineers (18-19) jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI single by Steven Nunez. Tech's lead didn't last long as Andrew Sauer led off the bottom half of the inning with a solo homerun to right field to knot the game at 1-1.
The Falcons (12-22) took a lead 2-1 in the third inning on an RBI double by Kris Breen and added single runs in the sixth and seventh on a fielding error and an RBI double by Jim Abreau to extend their advantage to 4-1.
MIT trimmed the deficit to 4-3 in the top of the eighth on an RBI double by freshman Ryne Barry and a fielding error. Matt Slattery added an insurance run in the bottom half of the eighth with an RBI double to cap the scoring.
Weagle (3-3) went the distance on the hill, allowing three runs on five hits while striking out three. Senior Jay Turner (3-5), who made his last career start, pitched 7.2 innings and allowed four earned runs with six strikeouts for the Engineers. Mike Vasquez pitched the final third of an inning allowing a hit.
After a strong middle-half of the season, MIT endured its worst month of May under fifth-year skipper Andy Barlow. The Engineers went 1-5 to close out the campaign including four straight losses to drop the team under .500 for the first time since 2003.
Despite the disappointing finish, MIT set numerous season records during the spring. Sophomore Stewart Park shattered his existing Institute record with 34 stolen bases (39 attempts) while Thomas Phillips clubbed a program-best 15 doubles and Kevin Wheeler helped turn 24 double plays. David Nole tied the single-season record with five triples.
Wheeler earned a few dubious distinctions as well, closing out his career as the program's all-time leader in hit-by-pitches (15) and strikeouts (77). As a team, the Engineers stranded a school-record 294 runners.
MIT also established two career pitching records as Mike Vasquez set a new mark for appearances with 56, while Jay Turner yielded 265 hits. Turner finished his career tied for second on the program's all-time win list with 19 victories (19-11).


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I just got out of my Media lesson and I realized something: everyone I know has something about themselves, something in their personalities or a hobby that they do, that make them stand out from everybody else. You that popular saying "everyone is unique, just like everybody else?" That quote applies to everyone… everyone but me.
What makes me stand out from the general public? What do I do that makes me stand out from my peers? Am I unique, just like everyone else?
I once took a test last year, I can't recall if it was an IQ test or an aptitude one, but the result it gave me was 120. According to the grading sheet, my intelligence was average and that I was neither creative nor logical. Basically, I am average.
That's a daunting thought because, well, I don't want to be average. I don't want to stand out either, because to stand out means to actually talk to people and be happy and polite all the time — I'm perfectly happy with my small group of friends, thanks. However, I really would like to have a defining oomph (I honestly don't know how else to say it).
I'm not creative. I can't draw or paint or design something to save my life. But I'd like to think that I can write a decent story. I'm no Shakespeare, but writing has always been a passion of mine.
I'm not logical either. In Pottermore, there was a chapter near the end of Philosopher's Stone wherein you have to channel Hermione and figure out which potions are safe to drink else you would 'die'. I worked for about twenty minutes on that riddle and still got it wrong, and in the end I gave up and just began choosing potions randomly.
As I think more about it, I began thinking so what if some test told me I was average? I may not be excelling in my lessons at the moment — Media Studies is a killer and Mathematics is just… don't even go there — but I'm willing to work hard to get what I want.


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An HIVer's Guide to Metabolic Complications
A Look at Body Shape Changes, High Cholesterol and Related Problems
December 2005
CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR! The only purpose of this booklet is to educate and to inform. It is no substitute for professional care by a doctor or other medical professionals. Body Health Resources Foundation neither endorses nor opposes any particular treatment option discussed in this booklet. Instead, we encourage you to discuss your options with a healthcare provider who specializes in treating HIV. We would like to thank David Wohl, M.D., for generously providing a medical review of this booklet.
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H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge was named to Vanity Fair's 74th international best-dressed list, the magazine announced Wednesday, making it the former Kate Middleton's fourth time on the annual roundup of the world's most fashionable folks.
"Suit & Tie" singer Justin Timberlake made the list for the second time (he debuted in 2011), as is New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady -- though this is Brady's first team effort since he's in the couples category alongside wife Gisele Bündchen. And it's a three-peat for fashion designer Tory Burch.
Perhaps what's most notable about this year's list is the first-timers club. Among the well-heeled making their debut appearance are Beyonce, Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Brooke Shields, Ronan Farrow (the writer-lawyer-diplomat son of Mia Farrow), J. Crew creative director Jenna Lyons, China's First Lady, Peng Liyuan, and burlesque beauty Dita Von Teese.*
But our hands-down favorite of the freshman class? That'd be the Rolling Stones' most-often rumpled, wrinkled and do-ragged Keith Richards. (Favorite place to shop? "I don't shop!" Favorite accessory? "My silver.")
The 2013 International Best-Dressed List, which appears in the September issue (on newsstands Aug. 1), can also be found at the magazine's website.
[*Updated 7/31/2013, 3:37 p.m.: An earlier version of this post omitted one of our other favorite first-timers on the list -- L.A.'s very own Dita Von Teese. We felt we had to set the record straight.]


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The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Center in Grand Rapids, MI, has been recognized for its environmentally friendly design by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
The Grand Rapids Kroc, which opened in November 2010, has achieved a gold-level designation in the USGBC's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.
Some of the facility's earth-friendly features include a geo-thermal heating and cooling system, a roof designed to reflect heat during the summer, and energy-efficient windows and lighting. Kroc officials say that these features lower the center's energy costs by an estimated 37 percent, The Grand Rapids Press reports.
The Kroc Center programming also reflects its green values by offering occasional education and activities that aim to raise awareness of environmental issues, according to a press release from the facility's public relations office.
The 105,000-square-foot facility includes an 8,000-square-foot health and wellness center with cardio and strength machines, a 30-foot climbing wall, a 7,000-square-foot indoor aquatic center, and an outdoor sports and recreation area with a high-ropes course.


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Life in the Slow Lane - The Nairobi Grind
I've lived in cities famed for their gridlock: 1990s Bangkok (gridlock was as bad as it could be); Los Angeles (gridlock + pollution); New Delhi (gridlock + pollution + honking galore); Nairobi's gridlock is surely up there.
But is traffic "bad"? What sort of question is that you ask? Surely, the answer is 'yes', you say: time wasted stuck in traffic, the frustration, the needless idling of vehicles which creates both local (and global) pollution and so on. But let me suggest this: traffic congestion is also a sign of development. In fact, the more vibrant and dynamic the city as Nairobi surely is, the more traffic congestion you might expect...to paraphrase Gordon Gekko from the movie Wall Street, "Traffic is…good"!


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THE long-awaited return of Aaron O'Connor was marred by Newport County AFC throwing away two points at AFC Wimbledon.
O'Connor came on for the last 25 minutes after the Exiles had taken control of this mid-table clash with a first half stunner from Chris Zebroski and a Mike Flynn penalty just after the break.
But the Dons battled their way to a point with Kwesi Appiah grabbing a goal back just three minutes after the penalty and George Francomb earning his side a point with a long-distance piledriver.
The draw leaves Justin Edinburgh's men still seven points above the relegation zone and now with only three games remaining.
They'll hope to finally secure their safety, mathematically speaking, at home to promotion hopefuls Burton Albion on Monday.
County took the lead after 15 minutes thanks to an unstoppable half volley into the top corner from top scorer Zebroski.
The 20-yard screamer was the striker's 13th of an injury-hit campaign and Exiles fans must be wondering how many he would have scored had he not missed three months with knee ligament damage.
The 27-year-old, who also netted against Wycombe Wanderers last Saturday, seems to be hitting a rich vein of form as the season reaches its conclusion.
And Edinburgh must be keen to tie the much-travelled striker down to a new deal as soon as possible.
Rene Howe has his merits but the prospect of Zebroski forming a front three with Christian Jolley and O'Connor next season is one to savour.
After finally ending his 32-game goal drought last week, Jolley had almost opened the scoring against his former club after just five minutes but Ross Worner saved well for the hosts.
And once the goal went in Edinburgh's men took control of the game against a somewhat lacklustre home team.
Jolley looked like the confidence was starting to return to his game and linked up effectively with Zebroski and Howe up front.
Along with his other former Dons teammates Lee Minshull, Max Porter and Ryan Jackson, Jolley enjoyed a warm reception from the near-capacity Good Friday crowd.
That was more than could be said for Exiles goalkeeper Ian McLoughlin, however.
The Irish stopper, on loan from MK Dons, was the target for pantomime boos throughout.
The pain of the original Wimbledon 'franchise' moving to Milton Keynes evidently still hurts more than a decade on.
And the home fans were suffering even more when half-time substitute Chris Arthur hauled down Jolley in the box just 41 seconds into the second period.
Captain Flynn sent Worner the wrong way from the penalty spot and it seemed that County were on their way to a comfortable victory.
But that's not the County way, of course. They don't tend to do things the easy way and just two minutes later the hosts were back in it.
The back four failed to deal with a Francomb free-kick into the box and Appiah, on loan from Crystal Palace, bundled home at the far post.
Edinburgh tried to lift his troops with the introduction of O'Connor from the bench in place of Howe 20 minutes after the break.
The 30-year-old striker, County's top scorer as they won promotion from the Conference last season, has missed all of their maiden campaign in League Two with a persistent groin injury.
O'Connor's last competitive match was the play-off final at Wembley last May when his goal sealed a 2-0 victory over Welsh rivals Wrexham.
But his much-heralded return failed to spark the Exiles and the hosts were level on 70 minutes thanks to a rocket from Francomb.
McLoughlin had no chance and the home fans sensed blood but County kept the Wombles at bay to earn a deserved point.
There was nearly a fairytale ending as O'Connor found himself in space in the box and his snatched effort rippled the net, but the wrong side of the post for County's returning hero.
Wimbledon: Worner, Fuller, Fenlon (Arthur, 46), S.Moore, Framton, Jones, Morris, Nicholson (Hylton, 46), Appiah, Midson, Francomb (L.Moore, 90)
Subs not used: Brown, Pell, Sweeney, Antwi
County: McLoughlin, Sandell, Jackson, Feely, Blake, Porter, Minshull, Flynn (Chapman, 78), Howe (O'Connor, 65), Zebroski, Jolley (Willmott, 78)
Booked: Minshull, Feely, Sandell
Subs not used: Pidgeley, Hughes, Jeffers, Holloway
Referee: Andy Woolmer
Attendance: 4,398 (412 County)
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Central Connecticut's Monte Mullen finished tied for second at the Palmer Cup on Wednesday. Mullen was part of a three-way tie for the lead that forced a playoff at the completion of the 54-hole event. Blake Morris finally broke the tie and captured the win with a birdie on the fourth playoff hole, topping Mullen and John Flaherty.
The Russell C. Palmer Cup, run by the Connecticut State Golf Association, is a 54-hole stroke play competition played at the Country Club of Waterbury. The event is named for former Executive Director of the CSGA and Connecticut Golf Hall of Fame Member Russell C. Palmer.
Connecticut's top amateur golfers vied for the state's amateur stroke play title on the par-69 Donald Ross layout that was set up to play at a total of 6,558 yards for the competitors. The course was originally founded in 1899.
Mullen was near the top of the leader boarder throughout the two-day event. He posted an opening round even par score of 69, but slipped to a 73 in the second round. However, he fired his second 69 of the event in the final round to close the 54 holes at four-over with 211 total strokes.
CCSU's Jack Ayers also competed in the event and was one of 39 players to make the cut. Ayers posted rounds of 73/77/78 to finish in a tie for 24th. He totaled 228 strokes and was 21 over per for the three rounds.
Mullen will be a senior for the Blue Devils in the fall and Ayers will be a junior.


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Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) delegates have been selected for Sweetwater High School this week. Mickenzie Brownlow will serve as a delegate and Hannah Heredia as an alternate.
Every spring, more than 9,000 deserving high school sophomores from across the country are chosen to represent their high schools in HOBY State Leadership Seminars. The seminars allow students to recognize their leadership talents and apply them in becoming effective leaders in their home, school, and community. Selected students attend a 3 day seminar and participate in hands-on leadership activities, meet leaders in their state, all while learning how to lead others and make a positive impact in their community.
Mickenzie is the daughter of Brian and Debbie Brownlow. Hannah is the daughter of Tony and Diamond Heredia.


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Shares of Safeway (NYSE:SWY) popped 4% on Thursday after announcing it's engaged in conversations over a possible sale of the grocery chain.
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The M&A talks added to enthusiasm over Safeway's stronger-than-expected earnings, which were also released after the close of trading.
Safeway described the buyout negotiations as "ongoing," but warned it has not yet reached an agreement on a transaction and "there can be no assurance" that these discussions will result in a completed deal. The grocer said it won't comment further on the talks at this time.
At the same time, Safeway announced it will distribute the remaining 37.8 million shares it owns of Blackhawk Network Holdings (NASDAQ:HAWK) to Safeway investors. The current plans call for the shares to be distributed in a tax-free manner, though that may change if a sale is consummated.
Safeway also said it plans to explore a possible sale of its 49% stake in Casa Ley, the No. 5 food and general merchandise retailer in Mexico based on sales.
"We continue to pursue strategies to enhance momentum and increase shareholder value. We look forward to continuing progress in 2014," Safeway CEO Robert Edwards said in a statement.
In June 2013, Safeway revealed a lucrative deal worth $5.7 billion to sell its profitable Canadian operations to Sobeys. The price tag on the asset sale essentially matched the value of Safeway's market cap at the time.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday Safeway logged a fourth-quarter non-GAAP profit of 53 cents per share, topping forecasts from analysts of 48 cents.
Revenue ticked up 0.9% to $11.31 billion, missing the Street's view of $11.49 billion. Gross profits expanded to 26.52% from 26.32%.
Looking ahead, Safeway projected adjusted 2014 EPS of $1.15 to $1.35, compared with consensus calls from analysts for $1.68.
Shares of Safeway advanced 4.02% to $36.00 in after-hours trading on Wednesday.


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Day 7: Ikebukuro (Aquarium, Animate)
Finally a new post about my Tokyo travel! I'll do my best to share the other travel posts soon ;u; it took me so long to edit the pics ahah! We went to Ikebukuro, we wanted to visit the Aquarium and then the shops in the area.
Coat Heavens and earth - Top Visalia - Skirt Evris - Clutch Wego - Necklace Nadia el flores corazon - Shoes Cute to the core
I really liked the outfit I wore, it's simple but really cute and a bit more elegant than what I usually wear, it was also really comfy for a long day out ahah! Everything I wore that day (except the shoes) was brand new shopping I did in Tokyo :P.
I made an hilarious amount of pics in the Aquarium, I just shared five of them and if you want to see more you can watch my video about it HERE! Then it was lunch time and we decided to eat inside the super big mall Sunshine City in a chinese restaurant, my plate was delicious and really cheap!
After lunch we checked different stores inside the mall and outside, Ikebukuro is full of cosplay and anime related shops so if you're searching for this kind of shops it's the perfect place for you!
Awwww I found so many things about Fate Stay Night ** this shops was super big and it has many floors, one for cosplay dresses, one for wigs, one for accessories and also makeup items! It had all the items of popular animes like Love Live and Madoka Magica.
We also found a BIG book shop that sells also model photobooks and magazines, I bought so many things there ahahah! And of course we took a purikura before went back to our hotel. We had a dinner in a super cheap restaurant, you can believe me this whole menu was about 600 yen? And it was delicious!!
We went around our hotel district during the evening and we found a bookstore opened 24/24 and found so many manga and magazines! I walked for hours and hours this day but it was totally worth it!