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"Watch this message by Russ Freeman from The Rippingtons who is very much looking forward to playing Whistler Olympic Plaza Sept 3rd @ 6pm."
This Labour Day weekend, the end-of-summer blues sing a happy tune as Canada's newest jazz festival hits town;Jazz On The Mountain At Whistler. Nestled in the spectacular mountains of Whistler, this celebration of jazz, culture and entertainment promises to captivate spectators of all ages. Escape the city commotion for the long weekend and listen to jazz icons such as Stanley Jordan, Kevin Eubanks and The New Gary Burton Quartet. With over thirty free and ticketed shows from top international and Canadian artists, daily concerts and street entertainment throughout Whistler village, both jazz aficionados and music fans alike will delight in this three-day event.
"We look forward to Spyro Gyra's performance @ Whistler Olympic Plaza Sunday, Sept 4th. Check out this behind the scenes video of the recording of the band's new CD "A Foreign Affair".
After the events at Whistler Olympic Plaza wrap up each night, sensational jazz continues from 10pm to 1am with The Mallard Lounge Jazz Jams atThe Fairmont Chateau Whistler. This ultra swank after-party will serve up smoking hot improv jazz each night of the festival. The world-class Jazz On The Mountain At Whistler House Band will perform nightly joined by some of the Festival's top musicians and headliners. Sit back and experience once-in-a-lifetime, up-close performances in the Mallard Lounge's intimate setting. Be sure to get there early as these free performances are guaranteed to fill up fast.
"What is Stanley Jordan known for? Yes, that's right! His amazing "touch" or "tap" technique on the guitar. Check out this video from one of his part performances on The Late Show with David Letterman. An oldie but a goodie."
As the festival's leading accommodation partner, The Fairmont Chateau Whistler is thrilled to offer a special jazz festival package over September 2-4, 2011, including two nights of luxury Whistler resort accommodations and three-day Jazz On The Mountain passes for two.
"Get your tickets now for our late night series where Kevin Eubanks, Stanley Jordan & Russ Freeman will take to the stage for a solo performance. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see guitar virtuosos in their element."
For more information on Jazz On The Mountain At Whistler and other packages available, please call The Fairmont Chateau Whistler at1-800 606-8244 or visit us online at www.fairmont.com/whistler. For more details on festival events visit www.whistlerjazzfest.com


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One of our readers, after considering the things that mean the most to her family, has this to say about why conservatives should continue to support President Bush:
"1) My husband is an officer in the US military. Every time he goes to base ops to fly, he stops in front of Bush's picture and salutes and says 'Thank you sir'. He had to serve 8 yrs under Clinton and it was very depressing for everyone in the military. The day Bush was sworn in there was a palpable sense of relief and an up-swing in the mood at the squadron. That's enough right there for me.
2) I used to be a counselor in a crisis pregnancy support center and saw firsthand the effects 'choice' had on the women I was privileged to work with.. The very fact that President Bush signed the partial-birth abortion ban is another reason that's enough for me.
3) My husband and I homeschool 6 of our 9 children. Our oldest son is in college and homeschooled from 8th-12th grades, right into college, and is doing very well. President Bush is a long-time supporter of homeschoolers. The previous administration was not.
4) Tax relief…. As a family of 11, trust me, we can see a big difference in our taxes. We are not 'rich' like Kerry says, we are an average middle class middle income family. The tax relief has made a major big difference to us."
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VIDEO: Harden's huge night rallies Rockets past Blazers in OT
HOUSTON — This is what it's like to stand on the beach when the birds start to twitter, the winds begin to kick up and the ocean is suddenly roiling and full of foreboding.
There's not much you can do when the tsunami rolls in and the Trail Blazers were just the latest to get washed away.
It's past the point where the Rockets are an interesting little side trip on the road to June and thoughts of a championship.
Right now, Dwight Howard, James Harden and their dangerous buddies are in the fast lane with the top down and passing everybody else on the freeway.
Miami? Been there.
Indiana? Done that.
Portland? Please.
The Rockets spotted the Blazers a 12-point lead going into the fourth quarter and still didn't panic. Not even when it took a flick-of-the-wrist, never-a-doubt 3-point statement at the end of regulation.
That statement? We're as good as it gets. The best team in the NBA.
"I think so," said Chandler Parsons. "We're playing well. We don't think we're done. We're not getting arrogant or conceited or anything, but we think we can play with anybody and we've proved that this week. It's fun because we know we can even get better."
"Yes. Yes. We are," said Harden.
It wasn't supposed to happen this fast. To the outside world, it probably wasn't even thinkable this season.
So here are the Rockets with the best record in the league (23-6) since the start of 2014, with 15 wins in their last 17 games, and with the surging confidence that comes from having not only survived a grueling week that was supposed to examine their credentials, but aced the test.
It's no longer about them just constantly trying to push the pace and beat every opponent with a crazyball attack of firing up 3-pointers.
Now they're learning to win games like the one Sunday night, when it starts in a torpor, improves eventually to a slog and they manage to come out the other side because they just don't stop grinding.
"I can feel guys coming together," said coach Kevin McHale. "Their chemistry is improving. Their belief in each other is improving. They're bonding has improved and you can feel that. And it's nice.
"That's what makes sports special, when you get around guys that are bonding and fighting together. It's kind of why you're in the business. That's the hope for all us guys that have been doing it for many, many years, that belief that together you can get something accomplished."
Jeremy Lin came off the bench to end his slump and with his biggest-scoring game since November with 26 points.
Harden popped in 20 of his 41 points in the fourth quarter and overtime.
The unique ability of Harden to suddenly turn it on and turn around a game when the Rockets started out making just 1-for-13 on 3-pointers is part of what makes them dangerous.
But it's also a growing sense of purpose inside the locker room that says there is no reason they have to honor a predetermined pecking order and wait their turn.
Howard is in his 10th season. He's climbed nearly to the peak with a trip to the NBA Finals in 2009 with Orlando and knows how quickly the best-laid plans can fall apart.
This was a night when the Rockets' big men were getting beaten on the boards by Portland through the first half. Then McHale went to a small lineup and it all turned around.
Howard knows there are nights when he can be the fearsome low-post beast that gobbles up rebounds and points in the paint. But he also feels like he can almost blend into the background, put in an honest day's work and his team will still survive.
The Rockets are a bunch that you can practically see growing taller and stronger right before your eyes.
"We're as good as we are right now," said point guard Patrick Beverley. "We don't really look for other teams. We just go out there and try to play the type of basketball we know how to play. We don't focus on other teams. We focus on us."
Beverley will sink his teeth in, Parsons will scratch and claw, Howard will do the heavy lifting and Harden makes magic happen.
It's enough to make you change your notions of just which is the team to beat in the wild, wild West as the playoffs approach.
San Antonio is currently the No. 1 seed in the conference. But the Rockets are 3-0 against the Spurs.
The Thunder are the No. 2 seed. But the Rockets didn't just lose on Sunday afternoon to the, uh, Lakers Lite.
Is it possible the best team in the NBA is gathering like a hurricane off the Gulf Coast of Texas?
The week ahead might hold the answer as a three-game road trip to OKC, Chicago and Miami looms.
"We just want to hold up that trophy come June," Howard said. "We've got to stay humble. That's the message. We cannot get cocky. We cannot lose our focus. That's when you fail. So you got to stay humble.
"We're getting better. We're not satisfied. We still have a ways to go. But I like the way we're playing. No fear. We make mistakes. We get in the huddle. We come out and try to get the job done. We're together. That's the sign of a good team."
And maybe, just maybe, much more.
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Building Capacity for Nano Education and Outreach through Partnerships with Science Museums: Overview and Case Study
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For nanoscale science & engineering, environmental health & safety, and societal implications researchers, these partnerships often fall within the realm of NSF "broader impacts" efforts and help the researchers engage with local communities, while for science museums and media producers, these partnerships provide expertise, resources, and content for their current science and technology education initiatives.
While new curricula slowly winds its way through the adoption process in thousands of local school districts, science museums and saavy media producers can provide more timely science and engineering enrichment opportunities beyond the classroom, and have more freedom to explore innovative approaches. Science museums in particular can and do play a big role in this country in increasing science literacy, fostering citizen engagement, motivating youth, and in professional development and training for K-12 educators. Recent surveys conducted for the Pew Internet and American Life Project and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) indicate that about three of five American adults visit an informal science institution in the past year and most of them brought children. Another study (Bayer, 2007) noted that professional scientists and engineers often stress the role of their informal STEM experiences in motivating them to pursue STEM careers. As a case in point, my home institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, is the biggest cultural attraction in New England, with some 1.5 million annual visitors.
Since 2001, the Museum of Science has worked with two Boston-area, NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers to produce a very large and diverse portfolio of public engagement experiences, media, and professional development workshops for educators, journalists, and early-career research centers. The partners have produced an extensive portfolio of exhibits, videos, multimedia, live daily museum presentations, guest researcher events, forums, live performances, cable news stories, podcasts, science communication workshops for early career researchers and education symposia. Audience reach is literally in the hundreds of thousands. The partnerships help educators and their audiences become more familiar with nanoscale research and help researchers develop new skills in engaging broad audiences.
This session will present the background and theory behind these collaborations and activities, provide examples, and address evaluative aspects. We will also touch briefly on a range of other examples of nanoscale research center – informal science education institutional collaborations, now linked and sharing resources through the NISE Network. We will also address what these organizations have learned about what makes these kinds of partnerships most effective and how the NISE Network can provide resources and expertise to assist in collaborative efforts. NanoDays 2009 is scheduled for March 28 – April 5, and it is an excellent opportunity around which to kickstart a productive new education and outreach collaboration.
Carol Lynn Alpert serves as director of strategic projects at the Museum of Science, Boston; Co-PI for the NISE Net; director of informal science education for the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing; and director of public engagement for the Harvard-based Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center.
Carol Lynn Alpert joined the staff at the Museum of Science, Boston in 1999 to order to lead development of the Current Science & Technology Center, an award-winning live stage, exhibit, cablecasting and multimedia production facility designed to engage public audiences with current research. She now leads the Museum's Strategic Projects department, which fosters education outreach partnerships with research centers and produces live programming, exhibits, media, forums, and professional development workshops. Alpert also heads up the Research Center – Informal Science Education (RISE) partnership initiative for the NISE Network, and the NISE Network Media group, and has been working in the area of nanoscale informal science education since 2001, beginning with a strategic partnership with the Harvard-based Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. Alpert is also active in the NIH NCRR Science Education Partnership Awards program, an advisor for Dragonfly TV Nano, and an advisor for the Portal to the Public initiative, and an appointed member of the City of Cambridge Nanomaterials Advisory Committee. Alpert has published articles about nano informal science education and public engagement in Materials Today, ASTC Dimensions, and several conference proceedings. She is the director of the useum's Nanotech Symposium for Educators and Journalists, writer and director of the Museum's popular Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show, and producer of the new six-DVD educational video series, Talking Nano, available at talkingnano.net.
Before coming to the Museum of Science, Alpert was a non-fiction book editor and developed and produced documentaries for the NOVA Science Unit, Frontline, the American Experience, Scientific American Frontiers, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, The Nobel Legacy, and the American Museum of Natural History. She earned her BA Magna Cum Laude in History of Science department at Harvard University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, AAAS, ASTC, and MRS.
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Gluten-Free Sourdough and Perfect Loaves, Yeah Right!
HI All,
Lately I've been asked many questions about various technical aspects of making my bread. It seems the universe decided to remind me of some of the challenges so I could answer your questions from the best experience possible.
I'm preparing to vendor at a conference in a few short weeks.
Let's set aside that I decided to revise my book so the books I sell will be the most current and needed to have that done in time to self-print many books.
Let's set aside that my editor had to let go of my project about 10 pages into the book.
(My wonderful daughter took over the editing while she was preparing to move out of my house. The first night in her new apartment she stared at her computer for many hours, faithfully editing my book. I owe her big time)
Let's set aside that the ink I bought, at a good price online, has been delayed. When it finally arrived, I wasn't home and the delivery people needed a human to sign for it so it is still in their truck. (got ink from different site, not the best price, no shipping, next day delivered. I'm printing books as we speak, or as I write)
Let's set aside the logistics of packing my car for the conference: books, bread samples, humans, our own food, (we're all on special diets) rice cooker, toaster, hot pot, special pillows.
Now we come to what I wanted to really write about: I'm making samples, Mock Rye Bread. I froze some starter last week, took it out on Friday and planned to bake on Monday. The starter was sluggish, minimal bubbles, not much ferment smell at all.
Gave it an extra dose of water kefir but it didn't really help. (someone just wrote to me about just that).
Then I had to be out for a whole day so fed the starter and refrigerated it. (someone asked about that recently).
Still sluggish, no smell. I kept feeding it worrying it wouldn't be ready or perhaps it was never going to ferment properly. (Now that it's Fall the ambient temp in the house is cooler, probably part of the problem) (3 cold aspects, frozen starter, refrigerated starter, cool house)
Monday morning comes, I hoped to have Peggy videotape a Mock Rye Bread demo for the online course but the starter is just sitting there. We switch gears and do a Feeding Technique #1 and #2 video.
Early Monday evening I feed it once more rather than dump the whole thing in the compost.
Late Monday night the starter starts rumbling and quaking and is in danger of overflowing its 16 cup bowl. (someone just asked about batters overflowing their pans)
I divide it into quart measuring cups, feed, cover and plan to bake on Tuesday morning. I'm left with 5 batches, a lot to do at once but hey, a baker's work is never done.
As I assemble the ingredients for the first loaf I see the starter is a bit too thick, so I add a little water to the next 4. They seem to be alright but instead of a slow pour into the pan, they plop in to the pan. Nowhere in my book do I mention "plop" as a batter texture.
Of course, my schedule for Tuesday does not allow for a proper rise. I will get home one and a half hours later than a 7 hour rise but I really can't get around it. As I'm driving home I visualize that the breads should stay nice and risen, hold their texture, be tall but when I come home they've fallen quite a bit. (someone just wrote about too short and too long rise times).
I bake them, they seem okay. I cut them open using a hacksaw (like someone just wrote about) Although they rose they're not fully cooked through on the top in the center of the loaf. (some wrote about that, too) I would have cooked them longer but they started to get a scorched smell.
A lot of it was usable, though, I cut off the uncooked pieces, hacksawed the rest into slices and froze them for the conference. I feel 99% sure they will be fine after thawing and toasting.
Luckily I also have some perfect loaves I made a few weeks ago.
I saved the uncooked parts and will see if they respond to double toasting. (more info for future questions)
So, All, if you thought I made perfect loaves all the time, you now know the truth. I'm still working with this fluid animal called Sourdough.
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By Ashton B. Carter
Sunday, April 3, 2005; Page B07
President Bush praised the Robb-Silberman commission report for its scathing and perceptive analysis of "intelligence failures" in the "axis of evil" states of Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Indeed, the report contains many useful recommendations for improving intelligence on weapons of mass destruction. But the fallacy in the administration's appointment of a commission to study intelligence failures is that there is almost never such a thing as a pure intelligence failure. Intelligence failure is usually linked to policy failure.
It's easy to see why Bush, or any president, would not want to call attention to that link. But the commission should have.
Let's take the case of North Korea. While the commission's chapters on North Korea's nuclear program are rightly classified, the unclassified summary suggests that spies and satellites have yielded very little information about that country's nuclear weapons efforts. But what does it matter? North Korea has admitted, indeed boasted, of its growing nuclear arsenal, and the United States has done nothing to stop it. How could a few more details provided by the CIA make a difference? If you don't have a policy, intelligence is irrelevant. North Korea's runaway nuclear program is a policy failure, not an intelligence failure.
What's worse, policy failure has actually caused intelligence failure in North Korea. From 1994 to 2003 North Korea's plutonium was at a known location, Yongbyon, where it was measured, handled and surveilled by international (including American) inspectors. We could inspect it -- or bomb it -- at any time. But when North Korea threw the inspectors out and threatened to truck the plutonium away to a hidden location, the United States did nothing. In due course the North Koreans made good on their threat and took the plutonium away. Are we now supposed to believe that it is an "intelligence failure" that we don't know where it is?
A second member of the axis of evil, Iran, demonstrates the same point. Iran, unlike North Korea, denies it has a nuclear weapons program. The Bush administration firmly contends that it does and is almost surely right, even though the intelligence is apparently not a "slam dunk." But since the administration does not plan either to attack Iran's nuclear sites or to try to negotiate them away (the Europeans are supposed to be trying the negotiation route), it hardly matters whether we know all the details.
The "intelligence failure" that prompted the creation of the Robb-Silberman commission was, of course, Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction. Here there surely was a policy -- full-scale invasion, no less -- and no one can accuse the Bush administration of inaction. Knowing what we thought we knew, invasion was absolutely the right decision. WMD are too dangerous to take chances. But Bush has since made it clear that even if he knew then what we know now -- that the information on Hussein's weapons was "nearly worthless," in the words of the Robb-Silberman commission -- he would have invaded anyway. There were other reasons for his policy -- Hussein's mistreatment of his population and the wider implications for the Middle East of his continued rule in Iraq. Future historians will decide whether his policy was a failure or a success, but they will know from his own testimony that the CIA's "intelligence failure" was not the determining factor.
It therefore is a fact that in the three most important cases studied by the commission -- Iraq, Iran and North Korea -- the intelligence failures the commission so carefully identifies and makes recommendations to correct made no difference to policy success or failure.
The commission's recommendations focus on improving intelligence on classical proliferation targets -- rogue regimes such as the three axis-of-evil states and Libya. But in the post-Sept. 11 world, we have to fear WMD not just in the hands of national governments but in the hands of terrorists. Here the policy-intelligence mismatch is also evident. Osama bin Laden has declared it a "sacred duty" of jihadists to get nuclear weapons. We hardly need more intelligence on his intentions. But to make a bomb, bin Laden's followers must get either plutonium or highly enriched uranium. U.S. efforts to safeguard these materials worldwide, even after Sept. 11, have been halfhearted. The tremendous success of the Nunn-Lugar program in denuclearizing the former Soviet Union in the 1990s has not been replicated in the post-Cold War era of terrorism. If the United States had such a vigorous set of policies to combat nuclear terrorism, it would need good intelligence to implement those policies. But until we get the policy right, it hardly matters that the intelligence is imperfect.
Without a comprehensive policy to combat WMD, better intelligence will not improve U.S. security. Bush was right to say that keeping the worst weapons out of the hands of the worst people is a U.S. president's highest national security priority. Since Sept. 11, under his leadership, we have scored many successes against the worst people. But U.S. policy toward the worst weapons is still in a pre-Sept. 11 state. Indeed, since Sept. 11 the United States has suffered greater setbacks in counterproliferation than at any time since the 1980s, when Pakistan went nuclear. Until this changes, preventing intelligence failures will still not matter.
The writer is co-director of the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project and was assistant defense secretary in the Clinton administration. He testified before the Robb-Silberman commission.


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Diane Ravitch, a major watchdog of educational policy and practice, has a discussion blog at http://dianeravitch.net. Join in the discussions or just read what others have to say about important issues in education.
Here's a post that caught my attention on Facebook today about "turnaround schools." Is money really being spent appropriately for the best student outcomes? You decide…


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- Bahrain Grand Prix
Mosley warns Bahrain decision could haunt F1
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Former FIA president Max Mosley has criticised the decision to reschedule the Bahrain Grand Prix, warning it could turn out to be a mistake which will haunt the sport.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Mosley said that sport could not only operate in countries without any human rights or political issues, but explained that Bahrain was different because the race was being used by the authorities to legitimise the regime.
"We will be told that holding the Grand Prix in October will show that, once again, Bahrain is a happy, peaceful country. So why is it wrong for Formula One to go along with this? Why is this different to running an event in any number of countries where people are oppressed, kept in poverty, held without trial and mistreated (or worse) in prison? Surely the line has to be drawn when a sporting event is not mere entertainment in a less-than-perfect country, but is being used by an oppressive regime to camouflage its actions.
"If a sport accepts this role, it becomes a tool of government. If Formula One allows itself to be used in this way in Bahrain, it will share the regime's guilt as surely as if it went out and helped brutalise unarmed protesters."
Mosley said that initially peaceful protests "were soon met with brutal repression … demonstrators were shot dead, protesters were imprisoned and, according to credible reports, hideously mistreated, even tortured and killed.
"Doctors and nurses who treated the injured were themselves arrested and imprisoned. When these measures failed to crush the protests, the Bahrain government called in troops from neighbouring Saudi Arabia to crush all opposition with naked force.
"Having carried out these horrific acts, the Bahrain government wants to clean up its image. That's where the Grand Prix comes in. By running the race they hope to show the world the troubles were just a small, temporary difficulty and everything is now back to normal.
"By agreeing to race there, Formula One becomes complicit in what has happened. It becomes one of the Bahrain government's instruments of repression. The decision to hold the race is a mistake which will not be forgotten and, if not reversed, will eventually cost Formula One dear."


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- EXTREME COUGAR WIVES follows three women and their much-younger beaus airing November 25th at 10pm ET/PT -
Some lovers are star-crossed; others are decades-crossed. TLC's new special EXTREME COUGAR WIVES goes behind generational lines with three couples who live by the expression "age is only a number." While these couples are in relationship bliss, friends, family, and onlookers often do little more than gawk or pass judgment. Airing Sunday, November 25th at 10pm ET/PT, EXTREME COUGAR WIVES is a candid look into the lives of women who pursue younger men - and the men who fall for them.
The women you will meet in EXTREME COUGAR WIVES:
· Hattie, age 76, only has an eye for the young bucks. And they have an eye for her - not many old women flaunt their sprightly sex lives. From blind dates to chance meetings by her hotel swimming pool, Hattie follows her bliss and never thinks twice. When she meets 25-year-old Andrew during her swim, the chase begins once again.
· Stephanie, age 65, is tired of being a widow. 28-year-old Octavio is perfect - she loves him, loves the excitement, and loves that he won't die of old age before she does. Octavio's friends, however, aren't as comfortable with his seasoned girlfriend.
· Jude, age 53, first met 21-year-old Kevin while he was dating her daughter seven years ago, and she's been managing his music career since he was 18. A year ago, Kevin professed his love and their relationship changed forever. They've committed for life, but Kevin still hasn't told his parents. Including his mom, who's younger than his lover.
Witness the love stories of these three different elder women leading extraordinary lives, only on TLC's EXTREME COUGAR WIVES. STILETTO Television is producing the one-hour special for TLC; Mark C. Grove, Garry C. Kief, Troy P. Queen and Fiona Kennedy serve as Executive Producers.
TLC is a global brand that celebrates extraordinary people and relatable life moments through innovative nonfiction programming. A top 10 cable network in key female demos, TLC has built successful franchises around the Cake Boss and Say Yes to the Dress brands. In 2011, TLC had 28 series averaging 1.0 million P2+ viewers or more including Sister Wives, My Strange Addiction, Extreme Couponing, Toddlers & Tiaras, 19 Kids and Counting, What Not To Wear and Long Island Medium. TLC is available in more than 99 million homes in the US and more than 227 million households in nearly 150 markets internationally. A destination online, TLC.com offers in-depth fan sites, exclusive video content, and original editorial covering style, home, food, and more. Fans can also interact with TLC via On Demand services, on mobile platforms, including an iPhone App, and through social media such as Facebook or @TLC on Twitter. TLC is part of Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA,DISCB, DISCK), the world's number one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in 209 countries and territories.


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Join us in Jeju in the Members' Lounge for networking and informal discussions, access to information services or simply just the chance to sit down and contemplate the magnificent view across the North Pacific Ocean.
The Members' Lounge is one of the most important areas for Members and Commission members at Congress. It is an area for networking, discussions and obtaining vital information, as well as for running informal Members meeting. Colleagues from the Secretariat and partners will also join us to work alongside Members and Commission members.
The Members' Lounge will be coordinated by members of the Membership Support Team, comprising colleagues from all regions with experience of membership issues and a range of languages skills, who will do their best to assist Members and Commission members, as well as potential Members with queries. The Membership Support Team will rotate between the Members' Lounge and Accreditation area at Congress.
The Members' Lounge is situated in a prime location on the fifth floor of the International Convention Centre – Jeju (ICCJ): the Ocean View room, plus an adjoining area and terrace.
In order to take best advantage of the area, and to encourage networking and sharing across geographical and other cultural divides, the Congress Executive Committee agreed that the Members' Lounge set-up will be developed in line with IUCN's One Programme approach, aiming to foster exchange between Members and Commission members. Thus the lounge, located in Ocean View and the adjoining terrace, is not split into multiple sections by region, but rather provides rather generic areas for networking, discussions, information sharing and relaxing, capitalizing on the magnificent views over the Pacific Ocean.
At the centre of the Members' Lounge is the Information Hub, where Members (and potential Members) and Commission members can seek information about the membership services IUCN provides, and information related to membership issues at Congress.
The Terrace is an extension of the Members' Lounge and contains some tables and chairs. This is a non-smoking area.
The IUCN Bookstore will be located in the adjoining area to the Ocean View room.
Important: Minimizing paper consumption at Congress
In line with the guidelines for minimizing paper consumption at Congress, which indicate that "there will be no designated spaces to leave printed material to be picked up in ICC Jeju", we will not offer spaces for leaving paper documentation. Members can use their exhibitions or their specific events to distribute any (limited) materials they bring. We plan to assist Members to load documents and information, in electronic format, onto the Members' portal via computers in the Members' Lounge. IUCN is determined to 'walk the talk' and we count on all Congress participants to support this message and practice.
Members' Lounge opening hours:
Friday 7 and Saturday 8 September 09:00 – 22:00
Sunday 9 to Wednesday 12 September 09:00 – 21:00
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Hoot! Hoot! It's Play time!
Adorable over-sized play gym features soft linen, patterned arches and includes a matching supportive tummy time pillow. Five hanging toys attach to 13 easy-to-hang loops to hang toys low or high on the play mat,
offering irresistible multi-sensory play for baby at every stage of development. A mirror and built-in sounds and textures on the mat add to the fun.
Four different ways the baby gym can be used. Use this sweet quilted mat for tummy time or but baby on their back for gazing and reaching. Without the arches play mat is great for travel or hang it on a wall to decorate babies room or the play room. For ages 0 months and up.
Activities Included: chiming owl with felt ruffled tummy for tactile play, mirror apple has baby safe mirror and tuggable stem, rattle birdie with see-through rattle and crinkle wings, nutty squirrel whose squeaker is soft and cuddly, and singing birdie with wooden teether and crinkle wings.
Baby Gym Dimensions: 36 wide x 19 high inches. Two-minute assembly.


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MUSIC, MONEY AND SUCCESS: THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO MAKING MONEY IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS is the industry bible and the ultimate guide to making money in the music business.
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It tells you HOW THE BUSINESS WORKS – WHAT YOU MUST KNOW TO SUCCEED – AND HOW MUCH MONEY YOU CAN MAKE in Films, Television, Video Games, ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, Record Sales, Downloads and Streams, Advertising Commercials, Ringtones and Ringbacks, Interactive Dolls and Toys, Broadway, New Media, Scoring Contracts and Synch Licenses, Music Publishing, Foreign Countries and MUCH MORE.
Written by industry insiders Todd Brabec, Educator, Entertainment Law Attorney and Former ASCAP Executive Vice President and Worldwide Director of Membership, and Jeff Brabec, Vice President, Business Affairs, BMG.


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It basically computes ambient brightness, and set screen's correct backlight, simply making captures from the webcam, for laptop without light sensor.
It basically computes ambient brightness, and set screen's correct backlight, simply making captures from the webcam, for laptop without light sensor.
Revision as of 08:54, 3 December 2012
Screen brightness can often be tricky to control. On many machines, physical hardware switches are missing and software solutions may or may not work well. Make sure to find a working method for your hardware! Too bright screens can cause eye strain.
There are many ways to adjust the screen backlight of a monitor, laptop or integrated panel (such as the iMac) using software, but depending on hardware and model, sometimes only some options are available. This article aims to summarize all possible ways to adjust the backlight.
There are many ways to control brightness. According to this discussion[1] and this wiki page [2], the control method could be divided into these category:
- brightness is controlled by vendor specified hotkey. And there is no interface for OS to adjust brightness.
- brightness is controlled by OS:
- brightness could be controlled by ACPI
- brightness could be controlled by graphic driver.
all methods expose themselves to user by /sys/class/brightness. And xrandr/xbacklight could use this folder and choose one method to control brightness. But it is still not very clear which one is preferred by xbacklight as default. See FS#27677 for xbacklight, if you get "No outputs have backlight property"
- brightness is controlled by HW register throught setpci
It is often possible to adjust the backlight by ACPI. This controls the actual LEDs or cathodes of the screen. When this ACPI option is available, the illumination is controllable using a GUI slider in the Display/Screen system settings or by simple commands on the CLI. The ACPI kernel interface for interacting with the backlight is typically be located here:
It contains the following files and folders:
actual_brightness brightness max_brightness subsystem/ uevent bl_power device/ power/ type
The maximum brightness (often 15) can be found by running
# cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness 15
Brightness can then be set (as root) with
# echo 5 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
Sometimes ACPI does not work well due to different motherboard implementations and ACPI quirks. This include some models with dual graphics (e.g. Nvidia-optimus/Radeon with intel (i915)) and some examples with this problem in notebooks such as Dell Studio, Dell XPS 14/15/17 and some Lenovo series, Kamal Mostafa kernel developer make patches for solved this issue included after 3.1 kernel version. You can try adding the following kernel parameters in your bootloader(grub, syslinux...) to adjust ACPI model:
acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor
acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=legacy
acpi_backlight=vendor will prefer vendor specific driver (e.g. thinkpad_acpi, sony_acpi, etc.) instead of the ACPI video.ko driver.
Switching off the backlight
Switching off the backlight (for example when one locks the notebook) can be useful to conserve battery energy. Ideally the following command inside of a graphical session should work:
sleep 1 && xset dpms force off
The backlight should switch on again on mouse movement or keyboard input. If the previous command does not work, there is a chance that
vbetool works. Note, however, that in this case the backlight must be manually activated again. The command is as follows:
vbetool dpms off
To activate the backlight again:
vbetool dpms on
For example, this can be put to use when closing the notebook lid as outlined in the entry for Acipd.
You can adjust the backlight through the xorg-server command
xbacklight. The utility is provided by the xorg-xbacklight package in [extra].
A useful demonstration was posted by gotbletu on YouTube. He suggests the following commands to adjust the backlight:
- brighten up:
xbacklight -inc 40
- dim down:
xbacklight -dec 40
The program xcalib can be downloaded from AUR and used to dim the screen. Again, the user gotbletu posted a demonstration on Youtube. This program can correct gamma, invert colors and reduce contrast, the latter of which we use in this case:
- dim down:
xcalib -co 40 -a
This program uses ICC technology to interact with X11 and while the screen is dimmed, you may find that the mouse cursor is just as bright as before.
The program redshift in the community repository uses
randr to adjust the screen brightness depending on the time of day and your geographic position. It can also do RGB gamma corrections and set color temperatures. As with
xcalib, this is very much a software solution and the look of the mouse cursor is unaffected. To execute a single quick adjustment of the brightness, try something like this:
redshift -o -l 0:0 -b 0.8 -t 6500:6500
setpci (use with great care)
It is possible to set the register of the graphic card to adjust the backlight. It means you adjust the backlight by manipulating the hardware directly, which can be risky and generally is not a good idea. Not all of the graphic cards support this method.
When using this method, you need to use
lspci first to find out where your graphic card is.
# setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=0
The software calise can be found in AUR.
- Stable version: caliseAUR
- Development version: calise-gitAUR
It basically computes ambient brightness, and set screen's correct backlight, simply making captures from the webcam, for laptop without light sensor. For more information, calise has its own wiki: Calise wiki.
The main features of this program are that it's very precise, very light on resource usage, and with the daemon version (.service file for systemd users available too), it has practically no impact on battery life.
KDE users can adjust the backlight via System Settings -> Power Management -> Power Profiles.
NVIDIA Settings
Users of NVIDIA's proprietary drivers users can change display brightness via the nvidia-settings utility under "X Server Color Correction." However, note that this has absolutely nothing to do with backlight (intensity), it merely adjusts the color output. (Reducing brightness this way is a power-inefficient last resort when all other options fail; increasing brightness spoils your color output completely, in a way similar to overexposed photos.)


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Doesn't this photo just make you feel all warm and tingly in several places? With a fairly brutal winter for many of us across the country, I figured we could all use some warming up courtesy of this random teasing daddy from Tumblr. In the words of Liz Lemon, I want to go to there. Between the white briefs and the think-you-can-see-it-but-damn-that-clever-use-of-shadow set up of the photo, there's no where else I'd rather be right now than right there next to/on top of/underneath/in between this man right now. Wherever he is.
For those of us counting down the days till we too can strip down in the sun, where would you go to the escape the winter blues?


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Source : http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5629084.htmlApple Computer has released nearly a dozen fixes for flaws in its Mac OS operating system, including a script for preventing phishers from fooling users of its Safari browser.
The script, released Monday, tackles a pernicious phishing problem in browsers. The loophole could allow an attacker to use certain characters from different languages to create legitimate-looking Web addresses that actually send victims to malicious Web sites. The security problem affected all browsers that supported Internationalized Domain Names, or IDN, and is not Apple-specific.
"For example, the Cyrillic letter 'a' could be used in place of the Latin letter 'a,' making it difficult for a user to tell if they are at www.apple.com or a malicious imposter website that's designed to look like the real one," the company said in an advisory discussing the problem. "These sites can be used to collect account numbers, passwords and other personal information."
Other browsers affected by the IDN security issue include the Mozilla Foundation's Mozilla and Firefox, and Opera. Both Mozilla and Opera Software have issued fixes for the problem. Microsoft's Internet Explorer does not support IDN, so it is not vulnerable to such attacks. However, plug-ins that add IDN functionality to Internet Explorer do put it at risk.
The newly released patches take care of flaws in the Apple Filing Protocol server and the Samba filing-sharing server, as well as multiple issues with the Cyrus authentication software, Mailman, SquirrelMail and Cyrus mail software.
The patches can be downloaded from Apple's Web site or automatically installed via Apple's Software Update tool.
Apple has moved to a regular release schedule, publishing fixes every month. The first major company to embrace a monthly patch process was Microsoft, and database maker Oracle has also moved to regular releases, but on a quarterly basis.
Symantec study warns of more OS X attacks
Source : http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5628665.htmlSecurity vendor Symantec is warning that Apple's OS X operating system is increasingly becoming a target for hackers and malware authors.
In its seventh bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec said over the past year, security researchers had discovered at least 37 serious vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X system. According to Symantec, as Apple increases its market share--with new low cost products such as the Mac mini--its user base is likely to come under increasing attack.
"Contrary to popular belief, the Macintosh operating system has not always been a safe haven from malicious code," Symantec said. "Out of the public eye for some time, it is now clear that the Mac OS is increasingly becoming a target for the malicious activity that is more commonly associated with Microsoft and various Unix-based operating systems," the report said.
"Apple Computer has become a target for new attacks The appearance of a rootkit109 called Opener in October 2004, serves to illustrate the growth in vulnerability research on the OS X platform The various OS X vulnerabilities allow attackers to carry out information disclosure, authentication bypass, code execution, privilege escalation, and DoS attacks. Symantec believes that as the popularity of Apple's new platform continues to grow, so too will the number of attacks directed at it," the report said.
Symantecs concerns were echoed by James Turner, security analyst at Frost & Sullivan Australia, who said many of the people who bought Apple products were not concerned about security, which left them wide open to attack.
"The iPod, PowerBooks and mini Macs are cool products," Turner said. "The by-product is that people are buying these products for form over function. They say it looks pretty and then buy it but dont secure it. As Apple increases its market share, it will be a legitimate target."
Trend Micro senior systems engineer Adam Biviano said all complex operating systems had security flaws and the more popular the platform, the more likely it would be attacked.
"All sophisticated platforms--Mac, Linux, Solaris or anything else will have vulnerabilities," Biviano said. "The only reason Windows has had mass exploits written for it is the sheer number of connected devices that are present on most networks. As soon as you start seeing mass deployment of any technology you are going to see exploits."
According to Biviano, while there have not been any mass outbreaks of viruses targeting the Mac, the potential does exist. "You dont see Macintosh viruses in mass outbreaks but you do see them in the labs as proof of concepts. There aren't any outbreaks because there are simply are not enough [Macs] out there. For a virus to be successful it needs a combination of an exploit and a large target audience," said Biviano, who nominated the mobile phone market as an example of malware writers targeting the most popular platform, not Microsofts platform.
"Look at where mobile viruses are going and they are not targeting Microsoft--they are targeting the market leader, which is Symbian," he said. The Symantec report found in the second half of last year, an increasing proportion of malware was designed to expose confidential information. The report also found that phishing attacks increased by 366 percent while the number of Windows-based worms and viruses increased by 64 percent, when compared to the first half of 2004.


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StairMaster is expected to add 60 jobs this year and a total of 100 jobs over the next five years at its Vancouver, WA, headquarters. This is a result of consolidation of the StairMaster and Star Trac companies, which are both owned by Michael Bruno.
Dustin Grosz, president of both Star Trac and StairMaster, discussed the consolidation when Star Trac recently announced it was shutting down its plant in California and moving production to its Land America plant in China. The StairMaster headquarters will house executive, administrative and customer service functions, such as finance, IT, human resources and accounting, for both StairMaster and Star Trac.
"We worked very quickly on where the best place would be to consolidate the business," Grosz says. "One of the options that I started looking at [after taking over as Star Trac president in March] was consolidating the back end of Star Trac and StairMaster. This very quickly became apparent as a viable option."
Grosz said earlier this month that Star Trac will continue to have its headquarters in Irvine for its marketing team, product development team, warehousing and shipping of goods, as well as a showroom.
Five executives from Star Trac are expected to move from Star Trac's Irvine, CA, headquarters to Vancouver. The Columbia River Economic Development Council (CREDC), based in Vancouver, aided Star Trac with relocation costs by securing $100,000 from Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire's strategic reserve fund.
CREDC also is working with the Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council by assisting StairMaster in recruiting employees for the new available jobs in Vancouver, says Jeanie Ashe, director of business recruitment for the CREDC.
Ashe says StairMaster executives, who already were located in Vancouver, had been traveling to and from Irvine. The relocation costs will aid those executives, Ashe says.
"They have a very talented workforce down in Irvine, and they didn't want to lose key personnel," Ashe says.
In a statement released by the CREDC, Grosz said that Vancouver, whose metro area includes Portland, OR, met the company's needs.
"The Portland-Vancouver metro is the nation's hub for outdoor and fitness equipment enthusiasts, which allows us to have access to the type of workforce we want to grow and shape our company," Grosz said.
Beginning next Wednesday, June 1, the StairMaster headquarters will be in a 26,000-square-foot building that had housed Vancouver city employees, who will move to a new city hall building downtown. StairMaster had operated in a 10,000-square-foot building with about 23 employees.
Grosz told the Portland Business Journal that StairMaster exceeded its goal of $25 million in revenue by 12 percent over the past year. He also told the newspaper that he estimated Star Trac's sales this year will be about 40 percent lower than the $175 million the company generated two years ago.


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When I first heard the "Double Rainbow Guy" yell out "WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??" while in tears, I almost cried from laughter myself.
The sheer joy and appreciation that Paul Vasquez, YouTube user "hungrybear9562″, shows for the rainbows outside his Yosemite, Calif. home inevitably puts smiles on the faces of anyone who watches. Despite being posted back in January, the video didn't get traction until recently, when it picked up millions of clicks within days and even made headlines.
For me, it meant some excellent conversation on July 4 while waiting for another, man-made light show. It's just something you have to watch yourself to understand, if you haven't already:
Yes, the dude seems like he is high out of his mind, though he told Good Morning America over the weekend that he was running on "pure rainbow power." But you can't help but laugh and smile at his appreciation for seeing the atmospheric phenomenon.
I mean, double rainbows are a once in a lifetime thing, right? Not so.
According to Accuweather.com, the double rainbows are actually pretty common, under the right conditions:
While a primary rainbow is visible when light is reflected once off the back of a raindrop, a secondary and usually dimmer rainbow is spotted when light is reflected twice in a more complicated pattern.
The colors of the second rainbow are inverted, with blue on the outside and red moved to the inside. The second bow appears dimmer or cloudier because much more light is released from two reflections, and both bows cover a larger portion of the sky.
It is rare and unlikely, but three or even four rainbows can be seen on occasion, but only if they are reflected off of the earthly objects.
Their meteorologists say that if you catch sight of one in the morning or evening when the sun is low, with conditions just right, you might even see a triple or quadruple rainbow. Somebody hire the Double Rainbow Guy and make it happen, please.
Also check out this sick auto-tune remix that makes Double Rainbow Guy sound like a cross between Owl City's Adam Young and Chris Brown.
Here's Vasquez talking to the folks of Good Morning America:
h/t The Sci Guy


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Man shot and killed on North Carolina A&T State University campus
Greensboro Police say a man was shot and killed on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University late Thursday night.
Around 11:30 pm, campus police found an unidentified man suffering from a gunshot wound in a vehicle near Pride Hall.
The victim was taken to Moses Cone Hospital where he died from the injury.
Greensboro Police say there was a struggle between a woman who was visiting the campus and another unidentified man.
The woman notified campus security that this man had a gun.
Police say the woman and the unidentified man got into a brief struggle and the gun went off.
The woman was not shot, but received a minor injury. The armed man ran off from campus.
Police say their investigation hasn't determined whether the fatal gunshot was the one fired during the struggle between the visitor and armed man.
NC A&T State University Campus Police and Greensboro Police are investigating this case. Greensboro Police is handling the homicide.
The deadly shooting at NC A&T is the third homicide in Greensboro in 24 hours.


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The National Kidney Foundation will host the San Diego Kidney Walk at Liberty Station in Point Loma. Check-in begins at 8 a.m.; the walk begins at 9:30 a.m. Every walker who raises a minimum of $100 will receive a Kidney Walk T-Shirt. On average, walkers raise $200 and many reach $1,000 to become a member of the Top Fundraiser's Club. Sign up and start a team by visiting www.kidneywalk.org. For more information, call (619) 972-4009.
WEDNESDAY, May 15
The Point Loma Peninsula Republican Women's monthly luncheon meeting will be 10 a.m. at the Bali Hai resort at Shelter Island. Members of the leadership panel will speak briefly on various topics. Visitors are welcome, but encouraged to RSVP by May 7. For more information or to RSVP, call Marilyn at (619) 222-9532.
The annual Feast of the Holy Spirit festival weekend, located at the Portuguese SES Hall, 2818 Avenida da Portugal in Point Loma. Live music, food and activities. For more information, call (619) 647-5788.


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J.R.R. Tolkien, author and creator of the epic mythology known as "The Lord of the Rings", obviously spent a lot of time reflecting on the nature of the many stories that are part of our shared human experience. Every culture in the world has stories of the beginning of human life, and Tolkien recognized in these stories some common truths. "I believe that legends and myths are largely made of truth, and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode," he wrote. "There cannot be any 'story' without a fall—all stories are ultimately about the fall."
It's an insightful comment. Can you think of any good story you have read or watched that does not include within it a "fall" of some kind? There is a dilemma, a tragedy or a loss that ironically gives the story life.
Often it is in the overcoming or the acceptance of this "fall" that the story finds its resolution. We relate to these stories easily because our own lives are not a straight line heading forever upward. Rather, they too are filled with many ups and downs.
The original fall
But the Bible tells us that life was not always like this. According to Scripture, there was a time when peace reigned, when justice was ever present, when love was the dominant motivator in the universe and when all was good.
However, something or someone changed all that, and it seems. (all the "fall" stories that have ever been written point back to the original "fall" story found in Revelation 12: 7-9: There was war in heaven. Michael [the leader of God's army) and his angels fought against the dragon [Satan], and the dragon and his angels fought back.
But they were not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. "And that great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him (Revelation 12:9)."
Somehow, even in heaven, a seed of envy and malicious deceit had begun to grow in the mind of angel called Lucifer. While God with his omnipotent power could have destroyed Lucifer then and there, God is also loving, merciful and committed to justice.
These qualities are the moral building blocks of the universe. Thus, God allowed Lucifer, now called Satan, to live and sent him to Earth where he encountered people like you and me.
Our human fall
Our part of the story is found in Genesis 3:1-7: "Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God really say, "You must not eat from any tree in the garden?"
"The woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die."
" 'You will not surely die,' the serpent said to the woman. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'
"When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.
"She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked."
It seems that the desire of humans to be godlike has not diminished with time. A story is told of Muhammad Ali who was sitting in a plane flying at a high altitude, when, due to turbulence up ahead, the captain turned on the "Fasten seatbelt" sign.
The flight attendant quickly went through the plane making sure the passengers were aware of the sign and had followed the instructions.
One flight attendant noticed that Muhammad Ali had not fastened his seat belt, so she said to him, "Mr. Ali you need to fasten your seat belt as there is turbulence up ahead." Muhammad Ali promptly replied. "Superman don't need no seat belt." To which the flight attendant, without missing a beat, replied, "Superman don't need no plane either!"
The story of Adam and Eve is about their desire to be God. Somewhat ironically, Genesis tells us that Adam and Eve were in fact made like God—in His very image (Genesis 1:27). But they allowed seeds of lust, greed and envy to grow in their hearts, and they made a terrible decision for themselves and for all humanity.
Sin becomes universal
Paul tells us in Romans 5:12 that "Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned." As a result of Adam and Eve's sin, the world as Adam and Eve knew it changed and became the world, as we know it today.
Genesis 3:16-19 provides us with some examples of the changes the Fall manifested. The world became a place where women experienced pain in labor, where men ruled over women, and where the earth grew thistles and thorns and growing food would require sweat and hard labor. And the final result: death entered our world. And now, every morning when we get up out of bed, instead of making right decisions all day, every day, we are a bit like one of Tolkien's characters, Gollum, who typifies both the good and the evil of what it is to be human. Gollum is a character with a fallen, broken and divided personality, who converses with himself about his actions towards Frodo the hobbit, the hero whose mission it is to destroy the ring that embodies all evil by throwing it into a lake of fire. A memorable scene in the movie adaptation of "The Two Towers"— the second in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy—depicts the conflict between the two natures in an extended and heated conversation that Gollum has with himself. At that point in the story, the better nature gains the upper hand. Sadly however, the scheming and greedy side of Gollum triumphs in the end, leading to his death.
We have all felt this inner struggle between good and evil to some degree. Paul talked about it in Romans 7:15-21: "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I don't do, but what I hate I do.
And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me." I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me." In Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson," Joseph Baretti is quoted as saying, "I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."
Can you relate to what Paul and Baretti are saying? I know I can.
There are times when evil wins and times when good wins. As a result of his struggle and failure to do what we know to be right, we can become discouraged or even depressed. Paul exclaims, "What a wretched man I am!" (Romans 7:24). And yet there is an answer to this human condition. The answer, Paul said, is in "Jesus Christ our Lord" (verse 25).
It's a simple two-step process. First, we find forgiveness for our wrongdoing because "there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1). And second, this leads to an empowerment through "the Spirit of life" to overcome the law of his death" (verse 2).
This is good news! Despites Adam's sin that brings "condemnation for all men," the good news is that Christ's "one act of righteousness, leads to "justification that brings hope for all men" (Romans 5:18). Do you want to be an overcomer? Are you tired of repeating the old same stuff that drags you down? Why not invite Jesus Christ into your life today? A new life with him is waiting for you.
This article originally appeared in Signs of the Times in September, 2008.


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PBS is airing a new program called "Make Em Laugh," a six-part documentary history of a century or so of American comedy. There's plenty to like about the program, especially the film clips of so many great comics. Unfortunately, PBS feels compelled roughly every 15 minutes to have someone, typically not a top comedian, tell us that comedians "are our truth-tellers," or words to that effect.
Actually, the relationship between comedy and truth is more complex and more tenuous. Most comedians need to work within a paradigm, but the views that fit that paradigm need not be "the truth."
Consider jokes about mothers-in-law. They can work whether or not a majority of mothers-in-law fit the stereotype on which the jokes rely. Indeed, they probably will work if only a small percentage fit that stereotype. Or consider ethnic jokes (here I'll write in the past tense). For these jokes to work, members of the target group need not have been less intelligent (say) than average. All that was required was for the audience to believe that they were less intelligent, or even just to assume this for purposes of the joke. The joke was then "judged" by how novel and witty it was within the genre of jokes about that group or other groups who were treated the same way by comedians.
Political humor, which seems to get a disproportionately large amount of attention from PBS, has, if anything, an even more tenuous relationship with "the truth." A joke targeting a particular figure or concept does not depend for laughs on the truth of its attack. Assuming that the threshold level of wit (often low) is met, the joke requires only that the audience agree with the joke's thrust or simply that it dislike the target.
For example, the documentary shows Stephen Colbert getting a laugh at the White House correspondent's dinner by saying that "reality has a well-known left-wing bias." This line got a laugh because the assembled MSM members, as leftists, agreed with Colbert that leftists have the correct understanding of reality. (President Bush, for example, did not laugh). The laugh these kinds of jokes produce does not depend on whether Colbert is a "truth-teller." The laugh will be equally robust at the time the joke is made whether or not it turns out, as Colbert assumes, that the left has the better understanding of reality. PBS inadvertently proves the point by playing what it considers a funny clip of Jon Stewart ridiculing President Bush for claiming that the "surge" was producing "progress."
PBS devotes an entire episode to political satire. It includes not a single clip in which a Democrat or a liberal is satirized. This result isn't very surprising given the two filters at work. First, comedians take many more shots at conservatives than at liberals; second, when comedians do take shots at liberals, PBS (and possibly those funding the documentary) probably doesn't see much humor.
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Neil Young, John Mellencamp to Headline Farm Aid 2012
The date and place for the yearly festival that is Farm Aid — headlined and hosted by Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews and John Mellencamp — has been announced. On Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, the concert will find it's home at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Penn.
Farm Aid, for those who for some bizarre reason aren't aware, is a music festival dedicated to two things: music and homegrown food. It's a concert that pays homage to and raises money for the farmers of America.
Joining the legendary quartet of musicians — all of whom sit on the board of Farm Aid and are set to perform with Neil Young being the headliner — are artists such as Tim Reynolds (who, as per usual, will appear alongside Dave Matthews) Jack Johnson, ALO, Pegi Young & The Survivors, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, and many more who have yet to be named. The ticket pre-sale begins on July 10.
The concert comes at an opportune time for Young, who's newest album 'Americana' was released on June 5. A film documenting his last tour, 'Neil Young Journeys,' is also currently playing at theaters across the country.


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Current news for the tubing industry includes the relaunch of Sharon Tube.
Sharon Tube announced its relaunch in April, and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 11th. To join in the celebration they invited family, customers, and the media to their facility in Wheatland, PA.
The event also included speakers Barry Zekelman, CEO of JMC Steel Group, Brian Beader the Mercer County Commissioner, and Sharon Tube's president Bill Perrine.
Sharon Tube's relaunch marks a positive future for domestic industry.
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Minnie Bruce Pratt was born on September 12, 1946, in Selma, Alabama, and grew up in Centreville. She attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her books of poetry include The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry; Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999), which was named book of the year by ForeWord magazine in the Gay/Lesbian category and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry; Crime Against Nature (1990), which was chosen as the Academy of American Poets' Lamont Poetry Selection, received the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature; We Say We Love Each Other (1985); and a chapbook, The Sound of One Fork (1981).
For five years she was a member of the editorial collective of Feminary: A Feminist Journal for the South, Emphasizing Lesbian Visions. Together with Elly Bulkin and Barbara Smith, she co-authored Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives On Anti-Semitism and Racism (1988), which has been adopted for classroom use in hundreds of college courses. In 1991 Pratt was chosen, along with lesbian writers Chrystos and Audre Lorde, to receive a Lillian Hellman-Dashiell Hammett award given by the Fund for Free Expression. In 1992 her book of autobiographical and political essays, Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 (1991), was a finalist in nonfiction for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her book of prose stories about gender boundary crossing, S/HE (1995), was one of five finalists in nonfiction for the 1995 American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award, as well as one of three finalists for the Firecracker Award in nonfiction. Pratt has also been granted a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts.
In spring 2000 she was a Community Writer-in-Residence for the YMCA National Writer's Voice Program, and from 2002-2003 she was the Jane Watson Irwin Chair in Women's Studies at Hamilton College. Pratt lives with writer and activist Leslie Feinberg in Jersey City, New Jersey.


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Last March I received a note from Steve Scott. It began, "I write a blog on author John D MacDonald, a guy who wrote hundreds of short stories for magazines of the forties and fifties, and I own a pile of old magazines containing his work."
"Mostly I simply use scans of old covers -- ones I own or ones I found on the web -- but I occasionally do the inside magazine artwork if I can. I have to confess that I already nicked a couple of your scans for my blog: Thornton Utz's "Hangover" and Arpie Ermoyan's "The Trouble with Erica."
Steve continued, "I'd be happy to send you copies of anything I scan for use on your blog, assuming I don't already see it in your collection." And not long thereafter, Steve sent some really terrific images by one of my favourite mid-century illustrators, Thornton Utz. Its those images which decorate today's post.
Steve explained, "I started wondering how I learned [about] the friendship between Utz and MacDonald. A little digging and I uncovered the April 1957 issue of Cosmopolitan. It's their Florida issue and it contains the attached photo of Utz, MacDonald and yet another artist neighbor, Al Buell."
"This issue features a MacDonald work illustrated by Buell..."
"... plus another Utz work illustrating a story by Thornton Delehanty."
Steve concludes, "I'm sure to come across more illustrations by this great artist and I'll be sure to forward them on to you when I do."
Many thanks, Steve! Besides seeing once again what a versatile illustrator Utz was, its interesting to discover that he, Al Buell and John D. MacDonald were close friends and neighbours.
* Steve's blog is called The Trap of Solid Gold, named after a John D. MacDonald short story. Be sure to drop by there and check it out!
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New York! Jason will perform live at the Today Show Plaza on Friday, August 31 and you'll have a chance to win tickets to see him and Christina Perri on tour!
All you have to do is create and bring your best Jason Mraz fan sign to the Today Show Plaza during his performance. Jason will choose one lucky fan with the best sign – and this winner will walk away with two tickets to his September 1st show at Jones Beach! (Winner must be 18+ or have an adult present to accept the prize on his/her behalf.)
For the concert, enter the Today Show Plaza on 48th St between 5th and 6th Ave. See you on August 31st!


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Who wouldn't want to look like Faith Hill, right? Taylor Swift says Hill is her country style icon because, as she says, "She always looks like a knockout no matter what she wears." And if she had to pick one celeb whose closet she'd like to raid, it would be Zoe Saldana's. "That girl knows how to dress," Swift said in the new issue of People Country on newsstands now. But beyond the style topic, Swift also admits coveting Zooey Deschanel's bangs because they "look like they're made of magic." Here are a few more beauty thoughts Swift came up with:
It would be liberating to rock a pantsuit one day (and she did, in fact, rock a sexy white one on the red carpet at the VMAs.)
She couldn't live without red lipstick.
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text: [i:Vibes] :: View topic - Disco Fries & Shanahan feat. Shy Martin-Is It Over [OUT NOW] Guidelines FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Bookmarks Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Main Menu Frontpage News Reviews Interviews Party Reports Artist Profiles Label profiles Diaries Tutorials What is... Links Radio-info Interactive Forum User Stats Info FAQ Crew-info i:Vibes Info Site Updates Disco Fries & Shanahan feat. Shy Martin-Is It Over [OUT NOW] [i:Vibes] Forum Index -> Music discussion (trance, techno, progressive and other genres) View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message KrisAHead BouncerVibes: 119.62Joined: 24 Nov 2008Member #: 26,996Posts: 573 Post subject: Disco Fries & Shanahan feat. Shy Martin-Is It Over [OUT Artist: Disco Fries & Shanahan feat. Shy Martin Release: Is It Over Label: Enhanced Recordings Beatport / Spotify: https://enhanced.lnk.to/IIO All Stores Release: 14th October 2016 SoundCloud preview: https://soundcloud.com/thediscofries/disco-fries-and-shanahan-is-it-over-ft-shy-martin Returning to Enhanced with their innovative sound after their debut on Tritonal's 'Tritonia Chapter 002' compilation back in 2015, Disco Fries team up with talented label regular Shanahan and Shy Martin, who both recently featured on Tritonal's album - in a gloriously infectious, feel-good cross-over anthem, 'Is It Over'. 'Is It Over' combines Disco Fries & Shanahans breathtaking, forward thinking production with Shy Martin's effortlessly smooth vocals in a track brimming with Summer-infused energy. With both Disco Fries & Shanahan receiving extensive airplay across the likes of Sirius XM's BPM channel along with repeated chart and streaming success in the past few years, 'Is It Over' brings a promising, creative collaborative effort together in a bonafide hit. Connect with Disco Fries Facebook: https://facebook.com/thediscofries Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDiscoFries SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thediscofries Connect with Shanahan Facebook: https://facebook.com/shanahanofficial Twitter: https://twitter.com/shanahanmusic SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/shanahanofficial Connect with Shy Martin Facebook: https://facebook.com/ShyMartinMusic Instagram: https://instagram.com/shy.martin Connect with Enhanced: Website: http://enhancedmusic.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/EnhancedMusicLtd Twitter: http://twitter.com/enhanced_music YouTube: http://youtube.com/EnhancedRecordings SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/enhanced Instagram: http://enhan.co/EnhancedInsta Post rating: 0 Rate this post: Not logged in Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 2:10 pm Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First [i:Vibes] Forum Index -> Music discussion (trance, techno, progressive and other genres) All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Spam----------------Spam posts Music----------------Music discussion (trance, techno, progressive and other genres)EquipmentArtist and Label NewsRadio BroadcastsMusic Production and DJ Mix PromotionClub Listings Non-music related----------------Other discussionBuy & Sell [i:Vibes]----------------Site Feedback and Help Content Discussion----------------News DiscussionReview DiscussionInterview DiscussionTutorial DiscussionWhat is...Party ReportsArtist ProfilesLabel Profiles You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forumYou cannot attach files in this forumYou can download files in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group


text: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:29:58 +0800, Laurence Liew <laurenceliew at yahoo.com.sg> wrote: [...] > 3. Try running Postgresql on a cluster filesystem like PVFS - it is not > gauranteed as it probably fails the ACID test for a SQL compliant > database. The basic idea is that if we cannot parallelise the database - > we make the underlying IO parallel and hence boost the IO performance of > the system.. and any applications that run on them.. and this includes > Postgresql. I tried this as part of my dissertation (I'm not a database person though). We basically compared the performance of thee different configurations: A single-node Oracle, Oracle on top of PVFS, and Oracle on top of a distributed-devices system. More specifically, we tried: - Oracle running on a single node with a single SCSI disk. - Oracle running on a single node, accessing its data files on a PVFS with 6 servers interconnected by Gigabit Ethernet. - Oracle running on a single node, accessing its data files on a RAID0, who's 3 constituting partitions were accessed by a special protocol (similar in its idea to network block devices) over Gigabit Ethernet. We ran the experiments (TPC-D benchmarks) a few years ago. The results were in a nutshell: The performance of the above PVFS configuration was very low, most likely because the database's 4-KByte reads were to small. While the configuration with distributed devices was much better, it was not significantly faster then the single-node configuration. To compare, we also tried the TP-Lite query-distribution middleware (which distributes the queries to 3 Oracle servers over Gigabit Ethernet), and the performance was best for most cases. If you are interested in more details (please forgive me the advertisement), you might want to have a look at chapter 8 of my thesis [1] or an upcoming paper titled "OS Support for a Commodity Database on PC Clusters -- Distributed Devices vs. Distributed File Systems" to be published at the 16th Australasian Database Conference (the final version is unfortunately not yet ready). - Felix


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Oudinmania has hit the American press, folks.
The American teen, Melanie Oudin, who beat Jelena Jankovic yesterday to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon is on the front page of the New York Times web site as we speak. She also graced the front page of TENNIS.com, was the main tennis story for USA Today, ESPN.com and many other media outlets.
Sure, the gal's accomplishment is not to be diminished. But aren't we all being a little… well, British about this? The desperate state of American tennis is to blame, if you ask me. We are DES-PER-ATE for someone to come along. But is she the real deal?
Does anyone remember Meilen Tu? Or Alexa Glatch? How about Vania King? What about Madison Brengle or Shenay Perry? Alexandra Stevenson? There's been plenty of up-and-coming Americans for us to get excited about, but never have the media got this excited…
Above, Oudin was showcased on TENNIS.com. Below, she graces ESPN.com.
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A Mississippi State biomedical engineering researcher focused on decreasing amputations and other leg injuries to soldiers in IED-attacked vehicles will present her findings next week at a NATO conference in Canada.
Lakiesha N. Williams, an assistant professor of biological engineering at the university, will address NATO's Research and Technology Organization during a Monday-Wednesday [Oct. 3-5] defense meeting in Halifax, Canada. Organized by NATO'S Human Factors and Medicine Panel, the gathering will deal with "blast injury across the full landscape of military science."
Williams, director of the interdisciplinary human body simulation research group in the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering, is the principal investigator for the research project. She works closely with co-principal investigator Jun Liao, an assistant professor of biological engineering.
This $400,000 project receives support from the Department of Defense as part of a larger project at MSU's Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems.
Their investigation uses high-performance computer modeling and simulations to mimic what happens to soldiers' legs when vehicles they're in run over improvised explosive devices and other explosive materials. Understanding human body impacts under these scenarios ultimately can help the military develop tools and innovative designs to decrease the traumatic impact on soldiers.
"We simulate how bones break, skin tears and muscles fail in soldiers' lower extremities," said Williams, an MSU doctoral graduate who also studies traumatic brain injuries. "High performance computers can simulate effects on the legs from IED explosions."
She said the MSU research differs from other automotive studies affecting people's legs, since few other studies have focused on intensive, explosive battlefield situations and incorporated this high level of anatomical details.
Assisting Williams and Liao on the Human Body Simulation team include biomedical engineering doctoral student Robbin E. Bertucci of Long Beach and senior biological engineering major Ryan M. Gilbrech of Slidell, La.
With interests in mathematics, science and helping others, Bertucci planned as an undergraduate to pursue medical school before she developed a relationship with Williams.
"This interdisciplinary field can lead into all kinds of directions," she said.
Williams said continuing development of this research project could assist professionals who face potential traumatic, high-impact situations, including medicine, sports and public safety in traumatic, high-impact situations.
After presenting the research group's findings at the NATO conference, Williams and other researchers will add more advanced modeling and simulations to the current model.
"Our group's larger goal includes developing a full, virtual human body model that can provide accurate predictions of injuries," she said.
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Although the New Orleans Saints and Philadelphia Eagles have defensive coordinator openings and ex-Bears coach Lovie Smith would be a respectable choice for either job, Smith's plans for 2013 reportedly don't involve coaching in the NFL.
Per ESPN's Adam Schefter, Smith plans to sit out the upcoming season and return as a head coach in 2014.
Fired by the Bears on the morning of December 31, Smith spent nine years as Chicago's head coach, compiling an 84-66 regular season record with three NFC North championships and one Super Bowl trip. Sitting out a full season and returning in a top job is often easier said than done, but Jeff Fisher did it in 2012 and it's obviously not impossible.
Smith will be 56 years old when the 2014 season starts. He is three months younger than Fisher.


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