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SIOUX FALLS - A 32-year old Sioux Falls man has been identified as the person killed in the multi-vehicle accident at 41st & Minnesota Thursday morning, February 14th.
Troy M. Hohn of Sioux Falls was the driver of a Chevy Blazer who was driving at 'a high rate of speed that triggered the accident just before lunchtime.
Sioux Falls Police Lt. Jerome Miller said in a Friday morning police briefing that they had gotten a few calls about a reckless driver just before the fatal accident, from the area around 57th Street and just west of Minnesota Avenue.
Investigators say Hohn hit a Durango waiting at the traffic light, which triggered the other vehicle accidents. A total of six people were taken to various hospitals with non-life threatening injuries.
Hohn's vehicle flipped onto it's roof and came to a stop next to the gas pumps at Taylor's Pantry on the southeast corner of 41st & Minnesota. No damage was reported to the gas pumps although a small fire started in Hohn's vehicle which was extinguished by first responders. Taylor's Pantry owners reported in excess of $20,000 in property damage but she said it could have been so much worse for them.
Sioux Falls police have not released an estimate of Hohn's speed, though witnesses estimate it at over 60 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour zone. Police also did not give any more details on why the accident happened while waiting for final investigator findings.
Hohn did have a number of moving violations on his record, though no felonies. He was convicted of fleeing from an officer in Minnesota in 2003. Hohn also had three speeding tickets, and one DUI conviction in 2007.
Investigators reopened the intersection about 6:00 Thursday evening.
The accident happened at about 11:45 Thursday morning.
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中本聪身份被确认!首次技术上证明就是Craig Wrig
澳大利亚企业家Craig Wright公开表明他是比特币的创造者——中本聪。 他的声明,结束了多年来对这个数字货币系统的底层技术创造者的猜想。 Wright已经提供了技术上证据来支持他的讲话,他宣称可以使用那些只有比特币创建者才能够动用的比特币。 比特币社区的一些核心成员和核心开发团队也已经确认了Wright先生的说法。 Wright先生已经向三家传媒公司透露他的真实身份——BBC、经济学人和GQ。 在BBC的会议上,Wright先生使用在比特币开发早期阶段,他所创建的密钥来进行签名。这些密钥应该是中本聪创建或者"挖矿"比特币区块所使用的。 Wright先生在演示说,
"这些区块链曾经在2009年发送给Hal Finney10个比特币,这是首笔比特币交易。"
他说,著名的密码学专家Hal Finney是多位曾经帮助把Wright先生想法变成比特币协议的工程师之一。
在2014年,Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto曾经被错误的确认是中本聪。 他说,
Wright先生说他计划发布这个消息,这允许其他人能够通过密码学证据来确认他是不是中本聪。 Jon Matonis,是经济学家和比特币基金会的创始董事之一,他说,他相信Wright就是他声称的那个人。 他说,
"在伦敦会议期间,我有机会根据三个不同的方向来研究数据:密码学、社会和技术。所以我个人非常确定,Craig Wright完全满足这三个条件。"
我想要工作 随着走向公众,Wright先生希望结束到底谁是中本聪的猜测。无论是《纽约客》、《快公司》、《新闻周刊》和许多其他媒体都在很长的时间来调查寻找比特币的创造者,并找到了很多人作为候选人。 在2015年12月,有两家杂志《Wired》和《Gizmodo》,称为Wright先生是一个候选人,因为他们收到一些从他这里偷出来文档,证明他参与开发这个项目。 这些故事发表不久之后,澳大利亚当局搜查了Wright先生的家。澳大利亚税务局表示,这样的突袭只要是是为了调查一些税务支付问题,而不是为了比特币。
当被问及这些突袭时,Wright先生说他充分和澳大利亚税务局进行配合。 他说,
比特币现在已经被很多商品和服务作为一种支付方式——各种需要进行国际汇款的服务,包括被计算机病毒绑架数据来缴纳赎金。目前大约有1.55千万个比特币在流通中,每个大约价值449美元。 中本聪被认为至少持有一百万比特币以上,如果全部转化成现金的话,大约价值4.5亿美元。 Nakamoto So's identity was confirmed! For the first time technically proved to be Craig Wrig Commentary: Runaway Nakamoto So who is maybe today would have the answer, at least this is the first time that technically, he held Nakamoto So will hold the key, it basically can prove that he is likely to be true nakamoto. But it must be emphasized, appear in the Cong and will not have much impact on the bitcoin world, he could not directly exert any influence to the bitcoin world, even if he was physically destroyed, can not change the bitcoin world works. But in any case, the Nobel prize was awarded at least. Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright publicly shows that he is the creator of bitcoin – China Ben Cong. His statement ended years of speculation about the underlying technology creators of the digital money system. Wright has provided technical evidence to support his speech, and he claims to be able to use bitcoins that only bitcoin creators can use. Some of the core members of the bitcoin community and the core development team have confirmed Mr. Wright's claims. Mr. Wright has revealed his true identity to three media companies – BBC, the economist and GQ. At the BBC meeting, Mr. Wright used the key he created in the early stages of bitcoin development to sign. These keys are created or Nakamoto So mining bitcoin block used. Mr. Wright is speaking at the demonstration, "The blocks used to Hal Finney10 chain bitcoin sent in 2009, this is the first bitcoin transaction." The famous cryptography expert, Hal Finney, is one of several engineers who helped turn Mr Wright's idea into a bitcoin protocol, he said. In 2014, Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto was wrongly identified as "Zhong Ben Cong". He said, "I was the most important, and a lot of people helped me, too." Mr. Wright said he plans to release the news, which allows others to use cryptography evidence to confirm whether he is Nakamoto So. Jon Matonis, one of the founding directors of the economist and bitcoin foundation, said he believes Wright is the person he claims to be. He said, "During the London conference, I had the opportunity to study data in three different directions: cryptography, society and technology.". So personally, I'm pretty sure that Craig Wright meets all three requirements." I want work As he moves toward the public, Mr Wright hopes to end up, who is the central China conjecture?. Both the New York guest, the fast company, Newsweek, and many other media have been investigating the creators of bitcoin for a long time and found many candidates. In December 2015, two magazines, Wired and Gizmodo, called Mr. Wright, were candidates because they received documents stolen from him and proved he was involved in developing the project. Soon after the stories were published, the Australian authorities searched Mr. Wright's home. The Australian tax authority said such raids were only needed to investigate some tax payment issues, not to bitcoin. When asked about the raids, Mr. Wright said he fully coordinated with the Australian tax office. He said, "My lawyers have been negotiating with them, and how much should I pay?." "The story of December has made many journalists and others chasing him," he said "There are many stories already in existence, and many of them are fabricated. I don't want anyone who I care to hurt. I don't want anyone to be influenced by it." He expressed regret that he had to publish his identity. "I don't want to be any kind of public image. I'd rather not do that. I have to work, and I want to continue what I want to do. I don't want money. I don't want to be famous. I don't want to be adored. I just want to be alone." Bitcoin has now been used as a form of payment for a variety of goods and services – services that require international remittances, including data kidnapped by computer viruses to pay ransom. Currently, about 15 million 500 thousand bitcoins are in circulation, each worth about $449. Nakamoto So is believed to have at least one million bitcoins or more, and would cost about $450 million if all were converted into cash.
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The Willow Tree and the UFOs Down Near The Lake
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The Thomas and Mathew Reed Case could be one of the largest multi-generational abduction cases ever reported. Tom and his brother Mathew have asked UFO Digest to help tell their family's story. We are very happy to bring out the truth of perhaps the most important alien abduction case in modern history. Tom will be attending the 2nd Annual Tennessee MUFON UFO Conference, in Murfreesboro, TN on Saturday, September 18th, from 9 AM until 5 PM.
In 1966 Tom Reed drew a picture of a willow tree that he had seen while on a UFO. He had been abducted and was being held by extraterrestrials and he didn't know the meaning of that willow tree and still doesn't. Oddly, it was on a screen on the inside wall of the craft! It was projected and/or appeared to be part of the walls of the craft. It was a good 20 feet wide and 15 feet high. It was like being there; it was beautiful, huge and vivid. It was amazing.
At first this willow did not seem important at all or make any sense, but it would follow his family in such a way that it did become very important. Years later it would become the most important message of all.
Tom is a member of an unique family, a family that has a generational link to extraterrestrial abductions and being taken aboard unidentified flying crafts. Tom, his brother Mathew, their mother and grandmother have all been abducted multiple times from at least 1954 onwards – more about the generational abductions in a future article.
Because of the continued interactions between the Reeds and the extraterrestrials, MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network) has designated Steve White as their personal MUFON field investigator. Steve is also a crime scene investigator with the Roane County Sheriff's office.
Back to the willow tree. Tom relayed the story about the picture of the tree that he had first seen 44 years earlier. He told Steve how simply viewing the picture in his mind seemed to calm him down. He described the scene aboard the craft deliberately: the tree was next to a lake and there were several UFOs in the sky. Tom was not alone aboard the UFO; his brother Mathew was also there, "but he was back 15 feet in a hallway", said Thomas Reed.
When they returned home they said nothing to their mother. To their surprise she went out and purchased a willow and planted it down by the small watering hole on their horse farm. Tom believes his mother was familiar with the effects of the willow and had previously seen it.
Today Mathew has a willow tree in his front yard and Thomas has had several on various proprieties he has owned.
In February (2010) Steve White asked Tom to draw the willow tree that he had seen before. Tom drew the images and phoned Steve. He then emailed the drawing to him. A copy of it should still be in his MUFON case file.
Some time passed and then amazingly, on July 15, Steve emailed Tom back a photograph of his property, and in it was the willow tree Tom remembered. Now it's possible that this is not Tom's willow tree; basically all willow trees look alike, right?
But Tom believes the resemblance is more than pure coincidence. Could it be that the crafts that he had seen in the picture were harbingers of their future, forming a triangle involving his family, MUFON and the others?
Steve White's photograph of a willow tree on his property
Tom said there seems to be a calm feeling about the willow tree. The message of the willow, at the time Tom was six years old, as a whole, was to be reassuring; "It's not like they talk with us as much as there are feelings that come from the ETs. They projected thoughts and images, along with some very strong feelings."
After being abducted Tom was naturally scared and then witnessed the willow tree projection. He recalls the screen wrapped around the better part of the room he was in.
He understood at the time, and said to Steve, that he thought they were trying to say that their planet was very similar to ours. And at the time, he was also made to feel important, and this was a positive message. It was by no means a negative one.
Regarding the day of the abduction as a whole, it was not at the top of the discussion; but this image of the willow, that he could never make sense of, is still here.
This article is the first in a series documenting the abductions of the Reed family.
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The Willow Tree Down By the Lake article
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As everyone of us know, by default if we create a Primary Key (PK) field in a table it would create Clustered Index automatically. I have been frequently asked by some of blog readers on "Is there a way to create PK fields without clustered Index?". Actually there are three methods by which we can achieve this. Let me give you the sample for both the methods below:
Method 1:
Using this method we can specify it while creating the table schema itself.
Create Table tblTest
Field1 int Identity not null primary key nonclustered,
Field2 varchar(30),
Field 3 int null
Method 2:
Using this method also we could specify it while creating the table schema. It just depends on your preference.
Create Table tblTest
Field1 int Identity not null,
Field2 varchar(30),
Field 3 int null
Constraint pk_parent primary key nonclustered (Field1)
Method 3:
If at all you already have a table which have a clustered index on a PK field then you might want to opt for this method.
Step 1: Find the contraint name
sp_helpconstraint tblTest
This way we could find out the constraint name. Lets assume that our constraint name is PK_tblTest_74794A92
Step 2: First drop the existing constaint
Alter table tblTest drop constraint PK_tblTest_74794A92
Step 3: Add the new nonclustered index to that field now
Alter table tblTest add constraint PK_parent1 primary key nonclustered (Field1)


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What happens if a Japanese truck "dies and goes to heaven?" It becomes one of the glorified "Dekotora" trucks!
Age of Japan
Bejeweled style matching game with a Japanese motif. Swap the pieces to create horizontal or vertical chains of three or more identical pieces.
A Japanese coffee company, Goeorgia Max Coffee, modified the bathrooms of ski areas around Japan to promote their coffee energy drinks. This is probably the most exciting bathroom I've ever seen!
Japanese Tatami Room
Design your own Japanese Tatami Room.
Japan to China using Google Maps
Spot on instructions. Check No.41
Drum machine
Very cool animation from Japan.
Goma-Mugi cha
Awesome tv spot from japan selling a tea helping with high blood pressure.
Make-up does miracles!
What some make-up can do to a Japanese girl! Transformation!
Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization? Answer: ...read the joke
Chinese VS Goldberg
A short yet funny chat!
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As a Samurai, you have mastered all skills except intelligence! But never fear.
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Chinese Girl Hilarious Prank
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Around Town: Superman flies again and the New Wave returns
A Francois Truffaut retrospective, an animation festival and a screening of 1978's "Superman" are among this week's highlights.
The American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre celebrates the legacy of one of the founders of France's New Wave cinema, Francois Truffaut, who died at the age of 52 in 1984. "The Film Lover: A Francois Truffaut Retrospective" commences Friday evening with his first feature film, 1959's "The 400 Blows," his critically acclaimed autobiographical drama about a troubled young boy, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud in a stunning performance). The second feature is Truffaut's third entry in the Antoine Doinel series, the 1968 romantic comedy "Stolen Kisses," with Leaud and Delphine Seyrig.
Truffaut pays homage to one of his icons, Alfred Hitchcock, in his 1968 mystery thriller "The Bride Wore Black," starring Jeanne Moreau in the title role, which screens Saturday. Also on tap is his 1962 masterwork, "Jules and Jim" with Moreau and Oskar Werner. The retrospective concludes Sunday with his 1960 film noir, "Shoot the Piano Player" with Charles Aznavour, and 1980's World War II drama "The Last Metro," with Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve. http://www.americancinematheque.com
Cinefamily's Silent Movie Theatre gets highly animated this week. The "Animation Breakdown" begins with "An Evening With Don Hertzfeldt" on Thursday, featuring the L.A. premiere of his latest animated short, "It's Such a Beautiful Day." The filmmaker will be appearing in person. On Friday, Cinefamily shines the spotlight on Polish animation with several shorts by noted animators including an exclusive presentation of the Brothers Quays' latest film, "Maska." Saturday afternoon's offering is a sneak preview of Pixar's newest short film, "La Luna," six months before its theatrical release. Later in the afternoon, Cinefamily presents a cast and crew reunion of the Cartoon Network series "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast."


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Gayatri Vidhyapeeth, Shantikunj, said of the 29 entries from its students, one by Dhara Sharma, a student of Class 7, "has achieved the position within first 10".
Similar essays by Dipesh Bharti, Saurabh Rathi and Jasprit Kaur of Gayatri Vidhyapeeth at Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh had also been picked by NASA, it said.
The international essay competition related to pictures taken by Cassini-Huygens, a flagship class NASA robotic spacecraft sent to Saturn.
Since 2004, it has studied the planet and its many natural satellites.
The Haridwar school said participating students were asked to write an essay within 500 words expressing their scientific and artistic view of the pictures taken of Saturn.


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Green Bay Packers fans are going to love this. Football season is in full swing and the Packers are undefeated and the Minnesota Vikings are having one of the worst seasons in recent memory. The toodler in this video is obviously a die-hard Vikings fan and cannot stand the thought of her team losing to the dreaded Packers. The Packers did beat the Vikes a couple of weeks ago and this kid didn't take it very well as you can see for yourself below, very funny.


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Airline stocks have long been tagged by investors as one of the most uninvestable groups in the stock market. As a business, airlines are capital-intensive, labor-intensive, and fuel-intensive on the cost side, while facing commodity pricing on the revenue side. Barriers to entry are astonishingly low, as any individual with a few billion dollars can start an airline (and several have), while barriers to exit are surprisingly high — not exactly a model for success.
If a capitalist had been present at Kittyhawk back in the early 1900s, he should have shot Orville Wright.
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If a capitalist had been present at Kittyhawk back in the early 1900s, he should have shot Orville Wright.
From bankruptcy to financial health: How today's airline industry swung to a profit
Yet after a nearly four-decades-long period of turmoil, labor strife, competition, and, ultimately consolidation, today's airline industry looks healthier than ever, making it a solid investment candidate once again, in our opinion. So what makes today's environment potentially different from the many failures of the past? We outline several reasons below:
The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, while a boon for passengers, signaled a radical change in airline economics. Prior to 1978, interstate domestic airline traffic was regulated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), a bureaucracy that set pricing, schedules, and lanes. Thus, carriers had little control over frequencies or what they could charge, but received some degree of protection on their lanes. In other words, the airlines could be assured a certain level of profitability in the good times and would likely face losses when traffic declined. But lack of competition meant that pricing was stable.
Everything changed after 1978. With the airlines free to schedule and price as they chose, they moved from a point-to-point, price-protected system to a hub-and-spoke, competitive one. The hub-and-spoke system is a mixed blessing for airlines. It offers the ability to connect passengers more easily and thereby widen an airline's network, but it is also highly inefficient, as planes sit for longer periods of time, waiting for passengers.
Over the next three decades, airlines discovered that they were facing a worst-case scenario. True, airlines were able to enact monopolistic pricing in their hubs, but the majority of passengers were on connecting flights, and now passengers had several hubs over which they could connect. Since most passengers are price-elastic, fares fell to the point where they simply covered marginal costs. To this day, in fact, on an inflation adjusted basis, fares are lower than they were prior to deregulation (source: Wolfe Research, as of April 2014).
And while fares started to decline, costs moved in the opposite direction. Pattern bargaining became the norm, as work groups would look at the most recently signed contract at a competitor and generally demand 1-2% more than that level. Knowing that the unions' strike funds could last longer than an airline generating no cash, management generally conceded. Once labor recognized that "mutually assured destruction" was working in its favor, its demands increased. Work rules became looser while hourly pay continued to move up. No management team wanted to lead the next Braniff or Eastern Airlines. In the good times, airlines were flying enough passengers to be profitable, but when the economy turned down, their income statements were devastated, as were their stocks.
With wages largely fixed, airlines had no choice but to raise prices. Leisure passengers, however, were highly price-elastic; a small change in pricing led to a significant decline in the volume of passengers. Business travelers, however, were just the opposite. Their tickets were often purchased last minute and, with most hubs existing in major cities, they often had only one or two options to travel. Thus, last-minute pricing went up and was often 6-7 times the fare that would have been paid only a month earlier. Airlines implemented rules such as Saturday night stays to differentiate between business and leisure passengers further.
The major carriers might have been able to survive with their business plan intact had it not been for the low-cost carriers, Southwest Airlines in particular. Unlike the major airlines, which ran inefficient, high-cost hub networks, Southwest was largely a point-to-point carrier that was never subject to regulation, since it originally flew only intrastate. Competition from Braniff forced Southwest to become low-cost early and it maintained this culture. It had one class of service and kept fares low, attracting leisure passengers and small businesses. Its work rules were more favorable to the company and management, led by the charismatic Herb Kelleher, generally had a good relationship with labor.
Instead of competing with the majors in their hubs, Southwest chose secondary cities near the hub. For instance, it would fly into Love Field in Dallas instead of Fort Worth, or Providence, R.I., instead of Boston. While Southwest may have been a gnat in 1971, it was the largest domestic carrier in the United States (in terms of seat-miles flown) by the mid-2000s. The majors became terrified of "the Southwest Effect," which was the decline in prices that took effect when Southwest came into its markets.
By this time, it was becoming clear that the only way for airlines to generate enough revenue to survive was to gain massive market share. The problem with market share, however, is that it is easy to gain and easier to lose. As soon as your competitors under-price you, they pick up your share. Ultimately, it becomes a race to the bottom in which nobody wins. But there is one other way to pick up share from your competitors: You consider buying them.
Mergers, however, are difficult to pull off in the best of times and next to impossible in the worst. And for the airlines, they were about to enter the worst. The wheels came off the planes, so to speak, in 2000, when United Airlines made a bid for US Airways. And while the government and consumer groups were opposed to the merger, the biggest detractors were the employees, particularly the United pilots. So management did what it always does in this situation: It bought off the pilots, promising them that they would not lose any seniority. (A pilot's pay and what they fly are determined by seniority.) Or, if they did, they would receive the pay that they would have received had the merger not gone through. United hoped that the combined entity would generate enough revenue to offset the extravagant (some would say ridiculous) contracts.
As the economy turned south in 2001, however, and the Justice Department continued to oppose the merger, United saw the writing on the wall, paid US Airways a break-up fee, and walked away. But there was one problem: United had already promised its employees large wage hikes. Pilots received 25% hikes, with smaller wage hikes for the rest of the employees. Overall, United enacted a destructive 13% increase in its personnel line and failed to generate any additional revenue. And because of pattern bargaining, every other airline eventually had to match. United filed bankruptcy in 2002. In fact, virtually every major airline filed bankruptcy at least once in the decade, with US Airways pulling off the trick twice, once before, and once after, its merger with America West. A combined Delta-Northwest combination made it to 2005 before filing.
Bankruptcy proved to be somewhat of a panacea to the airlines, at least in terms of labor costs. Contracts were broken, pensions were frozen, and staffs were downsized. While not quite lean and mean, its costs were more competitive and the airlines were making money by the middle of the decade. Stocks rallied, particularly after US Airways made a bid for Delta in 2006, one that ultimately failed but would have cut capacity (and raised prices) significantly on the east coast. But that merger attempt proved to be the peak.
As the economy tumbled into the "Great Recession," airlines felt the pressure and their stocks tumbled, as well. US Airways, for example, which had peaked above $60 in 2007, fell to almost $2 per share by 2009. American Airlines was hit even worse, falling from more than $60 per share to $2, and eventually filing bankruptcy a few years later. Once again, airline investors learned the hard way that these stocks were simply trading stocks. (Data: Bloomberg.)
But something different happened this time: the airlines survived. With lower costs and lawyers in charge instead of traditional airline guys, the airlines took the focus off of market share and cut excess capacity, instead. Meanwhile, Southwest, which had survived the mid-decade fuel price shock with a series of strategic hedges, lost control of its other costs and saw its gap with the majors narrow. Continental and United merged in 2010, followed a few years later by US Airways and American. And as we enter 2014, the airlines look healthier than they have ever been, in our view.
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If airline managements continue to deliver on their promises, we believe investors could add 2-3 points of multiple expansion to the group, a bit below what the rails saw when they finally started to concentrate on returns. While airlines do have more upside potential on the earnings front, they are not as volatile as the rails, nor do they dominate individual markets with zero threat of competitive entry (that is, a rail company cannot simply pick up and move a train if a competitor's market is doing better).
Nevertheless, airlines are beginning to generate cash flow and return it to shareholders, first in the form of balance sheet repair, and later, with dividends and share repurchases. This means that the airlines shouldn't backslide when the economy turns down, but these managements have seen what happens in bankruptcy and aren't anxious to return to it. Furthermore, they own equity in their companies, as well. Personal enrichment, in addition to shareholder enrichment, is never viewed as a bad thing.
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My boyfriend and I have become interested in "Water Sports" through the encouragement of some friends. I have been vacinated against Hepatitis A and B. But I'm wondering what the risk is of contracting hepatitis C from contact with urine? I know the rules regarding seman and HIV transmission, but what about urine and Hep-C?
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The hepatitis C virus is transmitted primarily through direct blood-to-blood contact (for example sharing needles). Occasionally, it can also be transmitted sexually, most often through unprotected intercourse. The hepatitis C virus can sometimes be found in other body fluids like saliva, semen, and urine, but the risks are less than exposure to blood.
When it comes to watersports (sex involving urine), this is a sexual activity that rarely gets discussed. I am not aware of any cases of hepatitis C transmission specifically through watersports. Theoretically speaking, there may be some risk of infection through watersports if you drink your partners urine (known as internal watersports). If he has a high viral load in his blood, there is a chance that the viral load in his urine may be increased as well. Although there may be some risk of infection through internal watersports, we can generally say that the risk is less than direct blood-to-blood contact, and less than unprotected intercourse. Getting his urine on your skin (known as external watersports) is very low risk, since the hepatitis C virus must get into your bloodstream in order to infect you.
In summary, as far as internal watersports are concerned, there may be some risk of infection, especially if he has a high viral load. But because the issue of watersports and hepatitis C is based more on theoretical possibilities rather than actual clinical case reports, we cannot definitively say what the risks are. But what we can say is, if there is a risk of infection, it is a lower risk than blood exposure or unprotected intercourse. As far as the risks of external watersports are concerned, the risk is very low. And remember, your vaccinations against hepatitis A and hepatitis B will not protect you against hepatitis C, nor other forms of hepatitis.
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2 in a Row & Lovin Alameda
2 in a row. A four hour session today. 2 hour yesterday Windy, rainy and cold. Just like I like it! The wind was directly on shore and low tide which makes for some fun riding because you can go all the way up and down the beach. Many times I was going all the way down to McDonalds and then back up to the harbor North of the launch. These kind of conditions are rare at Alamead and a real treat if you hit it right. Not one other kiter out with me for days. I wonder where everyone was?? Just a couple wind surfers. I called it quits at 3pm but now I am regreting it because no wind in the forcast. At 3pm I was getting poored on, fighting to roll up my kite, could not feel my feet or hands, stepped in dog crap and still looked around thinking how lucky I was to have such a sick a$$ session! Gotta love Alameda in the storms! Wahooooooo! Oh I think I got in on the news or in the paper too. Hopefully the headline does not read "Crazy a$$ kiter goes out in huge winter storm to have some fun! What was he thinking?"
Maybe it was a profile on people who don't pick up after their dogs and they caught you being the "worst case senario".
That is cool you had such a great session. I have never kited alameda but that sounds soo cool going down the beach like that waving at the cars as you kite next to them. sweet. You are definately getting me stoked for spring. rock on.
You ain't the only one diggin' the Ala acion this weekend. Me and about 4 other kiters were out from 10 to 2 on Sat. Wind went from 10- to 20
+ in a few hours....up and down the beach with huge air along the way!
I was on a Gaastra 21 and downed to a North 12 to finish the session. Hopefully I will see everyone at the next big storm session.
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Sorry, I meant after you left. Actually you were what gave me the courage to stay out so long. I figured if you were ok then I should be ok as well. I guess I got to excited when I did my post!!!
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text: Hi Paolo, The funny thing is that the console remains blank. We have all these systems connected to a KVM and the kvm shows the system as actually disconnected post the crash. That is what makes it so hard to debug. No screen output at all. -Rahul On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Paolo Supino <paolo.supino at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rahul > > Did you try to redirect console to a serial port? If a system crashes > and all console messages (including kernel) will be sent to the serial > console that will keep displaying the messages it received until the > system is power cycled ... > > > > > > -- > ttyl > Paolo > > > > Rahul Nabar wrote: >> On my Centos system I installed kexec/kdump to investigate the cause of >> some random system-crashes by getting access to a crash-dump. I installed >> the rpm for kexec and then made the change to grub.conf that reserves the >> additional memory for the new kernel. >> >> Also configured kdump.conf. I start the kexec service.and then I tried to >> simulate a crash by echo c to sysrq-trigger. >> >> The system does crash and then after a while reboots itself. But I see no >> vmcore when it coms back up. /var/crash is empty. This is when I tried to >> write to local drive. >> >> I also tried a nfs write but then still no success. >> >> Any idea what could be missing in my steps? Or any other debug >> suggestions? Any other kdump users on Beowulf? >> > >


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Ellen McCormack, a New York housewife who briefly became a national figure in American politics when she twice ran for president, in 1976 and 1980, in campaigns designed to galvanize the antiabortion movement, has died. She was 84.
McCormack died of congestive heart failure Sunday at an assisted-living facility in Avon, Conn., said a daughter, Kathy McCormack-Batterson.
In the 1976 Democratic presidential primary, McCormack made history twice. She was the first female candidate to receive Secret Service protection and to qualify for federal matching funds.
She wasn't running for herself, New York magazine reminded in 1976, but "as the embodiment of a total philosophical commitment to outlaw abortion."
"I'm in this to defend the unborn child," McCormack said upon entering the race. She invariably indentified herself as a housewife, a mother of four and a grandmother — and took umbrage when accused of running on a "one-plank platform."
"I am a candidate," McCormack, then 49, firmly told the Associated Press in 1976. "George McGovern was called a one-issue candidate because he was against the Vietnam War. Others have gotten into the race mainly on a single issue, but they had to respond to all issues."
The Pro-Life Action Committee that backed McCormack was a small group of mostly Catholic women on New York's Long Island that began as a book club with a political bent.
When the committee realized that matching funds could be used to make commercials with an antiabortion viewpoint, they persuaded McCormack to run. She ended up qualifying for more than $247,000 in federal financing.
Her presence in the first presidential election after Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that established abortion as a fundamental right, forced both major parties to address the abortion issue, according to the "Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics" (1999).
She also "played a major role in the rise of the pro-life movement," Phyllis Schlafly, a longtime antiabortion leader, wrote in a 2007 column on the Eagle Forum website. "Her leadership enabled the then-young pro-life movement to flex its muscles and demonstrate political courage."
McCormack appeared on the 1976 primary ballot in at least 18 states and captured 22 delegates at the Democratic National Convention that nominated Jimmy Carter.
Four years later, she ran for president as the candidate of the Right-to-Life Party. McCormack was on the primary ballot in only three states in 1980 and received about 32,320 votes.
Reflecting on her presidential runs, McCormack told Newsday in 1999: "It was an effort to educate people."
She was born Eleanor Rose Cullen on Sept. 15, 1926, in New York City to Irish immigrants William and Ellen Cullen. Her father worked for Consolidated Edison.
At a dance, she met Francis McCormack, a New York police officer who rose to deputy inspector. When he died in 1993, they had been married 44 years.
"One article from 1976 talked about how she would get her Irish up if she was not taken seriously. That was so typical of my mother," said her daughter Kathy. "Her beliefs, her fight for the unborn were truly her passion."
In addition to her daughter Kathy, McCormack is survived by two other daughters, Anne McCormack and Ellen Stapleton; a son, John; two sisters; 11 grandchildren; and four-great-grandchildren.


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Coffee tables come in thousands of different shapes and sizes, as do living areas. When making your purchase you need to find the size and shape that will best match your room whilst still looking and functioning how you require. Some people consider the look of a coffee table their number one priority and may prefer a very large coffee table for maximum visual impact. Others prefer to maximize the amount of floor space available for other uses. As a general guideline it is preferable to have a minimum of two feet around each side of the coffee table and it should be reachable, without standing, from each of the seating areas.
Some people also suggest that your coffee table should be no larger than sixty percent of your sofas length. The height that you choose very much depends on what you intend to use it for. Modern coffee tables are often very low; however this may make using it for eating difficult. It is often a good idea to place an item of a similar size and shape to any table that you intend to buy in the room. This will give you a feel for how it will work with the space that you have.
Sealers and, of course, coasters can help protect the surface from water damage. Sometimes a coffee table that isn't the standard height or width is exactly what a room needs. In this instance a very low coffee table creates a crisp horizontal plane in the foreground, offsetting the long horizontal line of the credenza in the background. A higher table would have blocked the view of the credenza and competed with it; the varying heights add interest.
A coffee table does a lot of work. It needs to hold books, magazines, drinks, food — even games on game night. You might want to put your feet up on it, or the kids might need a place for coloring. Plus it's usually smack dab in the middle of the room, where you can't miss it — so make sure it's a good one. Sculptural wood coffee tables tell their own story and can add a natural element and warmth to a room with multiple upholstered pieces.


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saint_matthew wrote:Wheeljack wrote:What's the immunity for on the roundhouse kick? Don't you get automatic immunity to damage from area attacks already? (but only damage).
No, you don't get an immediate immunity to your own powers. An technically you don't need immunity to your own power if you take selective, you just select not to kick yourself.
No, you are immune to your own Close Area Burst Effects(Not just limited to Damage). Which is what I presume a roundhouse kick would be. In fact, if you want the Close Area Burst Effect to work on you as well, it's a +1 Extra.


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One of my friends, who is also in the philosophy class I help teach, emailed me several weeks ago asking why God loves us? It's a great question. In light of our sin and the darkness within us why would a perfectly moral and holy being love us? I responded to her question and I thought I'd share it online here. So, to jump to the end and give you my answer up front: I have no idea why God loves us.
This is one of those things that you can surely put the puzzle pieces together to say that God is just and that God is loving. Any philosophy of religion text or systematic theology can articulate the theological coherence of these things. The hardest thing about this is that, like you, I still don't get it. It's certainly not a simple answer in my opinion. I'm an existentialist at heart. I think we find ourselves on the scene thrusted into existence without any ability to say otherwise.


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Which City Has the Best Pizza?
My friend and former editor, the brilliant Sam Sifton, developed the Pizza Cognition Theory, which postulates that the first pizza a person eats becomes the standard by which that person judges all pizza he or she subsequently eats.
According to Sam, "The first slice of pizza a child sees and tastes (and somehow appreciates on something more than a childlike, mmmgoood, thanks-mom level), becomes, for him, pizza. He relegates all subsequent slices, if they are different in some manner from that first triangle of dough and cheese and tomato and oil and herbs and spices, to a status that we can characterize as not pizza."
So by Sam's theory, if Pizza Hut was the pizza you first ate, every other pizza you subsequently ate would pale by comparison, because it wouldn't be Pizza Hut pizza. Sam is a smart fellow, but I believe that people ultimately understand that circumstances beyond their control dictated their initial pizza-eating experiences and preferences, namely where they lived and where their parents took them for pie. Furthermore, I believe that pizza discernment can be learned once we move away from home.
I wrote an entire book, Pizza: A Slice of Heaven, trying to move beyond Sam's theory. I ate a thousand pieces of pizza in 20 states and Italy and Canada trying to answer the question of what the best pizza city in the world was.
Naples, Italy, is of course pizza's ancestral home, and many traditionalists insist it is still the home of the world's best pizza.
Other Italians and world travelers say that the thin-crust pizza sold in Rome is their pizza paradigm.
New York City is where America's pizza culture began in 1905, when Gennaro Lombardi applied for a license to sell pizza at his grocery store on Spring Street.
Many discerning pizza lovers will tell you that New Haven, Connecticut, the home of Pepe's, Sally's, and Modern, is the only city worth eating pizza in.
Folks in Chicago and beyond will insist that they have the most fully developed and varied pizza culture in the world, ranging from the casserole-like deep dish pizza of Gino's East, to the thin-crust bar pizza of Vito & Nick's, to the Neapolitan-style pies at Spacca Napoli.
So I would like the good folks reading this to settle the issue once and for all by casting a vote in the first ever SliceSerious Eats Pizza City Poll. After all, we do live in a pizzacracy (or would it be a pizzocracy?)
The best pizza city in the world is:
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B. New York
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D. Chicago
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BWP(10): Time Analysis
Get those pencils going!
The type of graph paper will vary depending on the number of small squares per inch. You will need to adjust your yearly entry depending on the type of graph paper.
At this point, the most important aspect is the documentation that you have obtained doing your own tree climbing. Start with the most secure fact! This becomes your starting point in the notebook.
You will need to make your own scale of months, days, years. Use the back of each page for the additional information you will be obtaining.
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I am confused as to what to put in each little square that represents a date. Do I put in the date? Do I put in a reference number?ReplyDelete
Say I have a date for So and So's marriage (4 November 1849). I would go to the square that represents that date. It's too small to put much information in is.
Hey Michelle, you put what is important to document. You can use the whole line (month) for the information if a date. You want to be able to see a "big picture" once you have placed all the factors surrounding the date, such as place, events surrounding the date, etc. The little squares are just to help the chronology to be carefully understood. You can even write information with the pages tilted to the side giving a margin to the pages.ReplyDelete
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Understanding Deformation Processes in Nanocrystalline Metals Through the Use of Real-time Electron Microscopy Techniques
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It is has long been known that the grain size of a material has a substantial effect on its mechanical strength, through the well-established Hall-Petch relationship. In the past decade or so, there has been a resurgence of interest in this topic resulting from the ability to create metals with grain sizes in the deep sub-micron to nano-crystalline scale via a variety of processing techniques. In these materials, it has been conjectured that it may no longer be possible to deform individual grains via simple unit dislocation processes, and other mechanisms may be required to achieve plastic flow.
Here we utilize the technique of in-situ transmission electron microscopy to directly image how deformation proceeds in materials with grains sizes in the sub-micron and deep nano-crystalline regime. In the first portion of the presentation, we will review our work in the area of in-situ nano-indentation of sub-micron and nano-crystalline evaporated aluminum, while in the second portion, we will compare these results with in-situ uniaxial straining of pulsed-laser deposited (PLD) nickel.
We have constructed a unique sample holder for transmission electron microscopy that allows us to perform localized nano-indentation into the edge of an electron transparent material. This permits us to dynamically observe the processes by which mechanical deformation proceeds (Minor, et al., Nat. Mat, 2006). During the nano-indentation of sub-micron grains, we find that deformation induces grain growth, resulting from grain boundary migration, grain rotation and grain coalescence. In-situ studies of nano-grained films suggest that the same mechanisms are operative, though the difficulty of these nano-sized grains makes the evidence less clear (Jin, et al. Acat Mat, 2004).
Uniaxial straining experiments of PLD nickel provide additional strong evidence of grain rotation and grain agglomeration. Through the use of dark-field imaging, we have conclusively demonstrated that that when the grain size is on the order of 10 nm grain rotation can become a prominent deformation response. However, even at these small grain sizes, we find that dislocations are trapped within the grains, indicating that dislocation processes are still active. (Shan, et al. Science, 2004)
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- This article is an expansion of a section entitled Children from within the main article: Bipolar disorder
Childhood Bipolar Disorder Edit
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Prepuberal and early adolescent bipolar I disorder phenotype (PEA-BP) is bipolar disorder I in DSM-IV-TR.[2]
Children with bipolar disorder may have rapid-cycling or mixed-cycling. Rapid cycling occurs when the cycles between depression and mania occur quickly, sometimes within the same day or the same hour. When the symptoms of both mania and depression occur simultaneously, mixed cycling occurs.
Often other psychiatric disorders are diagnosed in bipolar children. These other diagnoses may be concurrent problems or they may be misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder. Depression, ADHD, ODD, schizophrenia, and Tourette syndrome are common comorbid conditions. [3]
Misdiagnosis can lead to incorrect treatment. Incorrect medications can trigger mania and/or suicidal ideation and attempts. The energy, impulse control difficulties, and lack of maturity in bipolar children can make suicide risk a serious concern, even with children younger than 8 years old.
During severe episodes of mania and mixed states, a child may suffer from symptoms of psychosis. These episodes can be negative (such as thinking their poster on the wall is staring at them angrily) or positive (such as telling people that a rock band is coming to his or her birthday party).
There are many medications which can help calm the symptoms of bipolarity, including in children and adolescents. However, finding the right medicine or combination of medicines is not easy. Most medications for the treatment of Bipolar Disorder have not been tested for use with children. An exact scientific means of choosing medication for bipolar treatment does not exist. With children this problem is made worse by the fact that as children grow, their weight, metabolism, hormones, brain structure, etc. changes. These changes often require adjustments in the medication(s), significantly more often than adults.
Bipolar children may be bullies, and the victims of bullies. They may not see how their actions result in severe social problems at school, home, and elsewhere. These children are confusing for parents, teachers and other professionals, because bipolar disease is one that cycles. Bipolar children may have periods of sweetness, success, creativity, and other wonderful behaviors. Unfortunately, they may also show behaviors that are also extremely negative. This combination makes parenting, teaching, and counseling these children challenging.
Family and friends of the parents of bipolar children rarely understand how difficult things can get when the child is having severe symptoms. This may lead to strained relations with the friends and families of the parents of the affected child.
Diagnosis Edit
Before the DSM-III, bipolar disorder had been considered as a disease of adults or those who have past their puberty. Various studies found that childhood bipolar exist; it is simply difficult to diagnose. [4] There is a high comorbidity between Reactive attachment disorder and Bipolar disorder in children (Alston, 2000) [5]
On September, 2007, experts (from New York, Maryland and Madrid) found that the number of American children and adolescents treated for bipolar disorder increased 40-fold from 1994 to 2003, and it was increasing ever since. However, the increase was due to the fact that doctors more aggressively applied the diagnosis to children, and not that the incidence of the disorder had increased. The study calculated the number of visits which increased, from 20,000 in 1994 to 800,000 in 2003, or 1% of the population under age 20. [6]
Treatment Edit
Usual treatment involves medication and psychotherapy[7]
Handbooks for researchers and clinicians Edit
Bipolar Disorder in Childhood ad Early Adolescence. Gellar, B., & BelBello, M. (ed)
References Edit
- ↑ Papolos, D. (2003). Bipolar disorder and comorbid disorders: the case for dimensional nosology. p77 In Bipolar Disorder in Childhood ad Early Adolescence. Gellar, B., & BelBello, M. (ed)
- ↑ Bipolar Disorder in Childhood ad Early Adolescence. Gellar, B., & BelBello, M. (ed)
- ↑ Gellar., et al (2003). Phenomenology and longitudinal course of children with prepubescentearly adolescent bipolar disorder phenotype. p25 In Bipolar Disorder in Childhood ad Early Adolescence. Gellar, B., & BelBello, M. (ed)
- ↑ Bipolar Disorder in Childhood ad Early Adolescence. Gellar, B., & BelBello, M. (ed) p77
- ↑ Alston, J., (2000), Correltation between Childhood Biploar I Disorder and Reactive Attachment Disorder, Disinhibited Type. In Attachment Interventions, Edited ty T. Levy, 2000, Academic Press.
- ↑ New York Times, Bipolar Illness Soars as a Diagnosis for the Young
- ↑ The Bipolar Child, 2002. Papolos, Demitri, & Papolos, J., Broadway Books, NY


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edog wrote:I found the following agreement through a Winnipeg web site. Shows further why Houston isn't really a viable option for Mario.....
Specifically pay attention to the NHL team rights versus the NBA team rights. This agreement is heavily slanted towards the Rockets.
THe thing about Houston, if Alexander buys the team, then it doesn't matter. But yes, if the LG looks to keep the team or sell it, then Houston is not a good choice.


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