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Michael Idov is a contributing writer at New York Magazine and the editor-in-chief of RUSSIA!, an English-language quarterly highlighting Russian art and design. He moved to the U.S. from the former U.S.S.R. at the age of 16, settling in Cleveland before moving to New York. After a degree in film studies from the University of Michigan, Michael embarked on a series of odd jobs that included anchoring a Russian news program and owning a failed coffee house, and ended with his joining the staff of New York. His writing has appeared in outlets as diverse as Slate, Vogue, Pitchfork Media, NPR, the New Republic and (in his native Russian) Moscow's Bolshoi Gorod. Idov's on-and-off band Spielerfrau, playing what the New Yorker dubbed "sophisticated, reverb-drenched rock with intelligent lyrics," is set to release its second LP in April 2008. His first novel, "Ground Up," will be published in early 2009 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Scientists see 'rarest event ever recorded' in search for dark matter
The team caught a glimpse of a process that takes 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
- In Italy, a team of scientists is using a highly sophisticated detector to hunt for dark matter.
- The team observed an ultra-rare particle interaction that reveals the half-life of a xenon-124 atom to be 18 sextillion years.
- The half-life of a process is how long it takes for half of the radioactive nuclei present in a sample to decay.
Yale scientists restore brain function to 32 clinically dead pigs
Researchers hope the technology will further our understanding of the brain, but lawmakers may not be ready for the ethical challenges.
- Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine successfully restored some functions to pig brains that had been dead for hours.
- They hope the technology will advance our understanding of the brain, potentially developing new treatments for debilitating diseases and disorders.
- The research raises many ethical questions and puts to the test our current understanding of death.
The image of an undead brain coming back to live again is the stuff of science fiction. Not just any science fiction, specifically B-grade sci fi. What instantly springs to mind is the black-and-white horrors of films like Fiend Without a Face. Bad acting. Plastic monstrosities. Visible strings. And a spinal cord that, for some reason, is also a tentacle?
But like any good science fiction, it's only a matter of time before some manner of it seeps into our reality. This week's Nature published the findings of researchers who managed to restore function to pigs' brains that were clinically dead. At least, what we once thought of as dead.
What's dead may never die, it seems
The researchers did not hail from House Greyjoy — "What is dead may never die" — but came largely from the Yale School of Medicine. They connected 32 pig brains to a system called BrainEx. BrainEx is an artificial perfusion system — that is, a system that takes over the functions normally regulated by the organ. The pigs had been killed four hours earlier at a U.S. Department of Agriculture slaughterhouse; their brains completely removed from the skulls.
BrainEx pumped an experiment solution into the brain that essentially mimic blood flow. It brought oxygen and nutrients to the tissues, giving brain cells the resources to begin many normal functions. The cells began consuming and metabolizing sugars. The brains' immune systems kicked in. Neuron samples could carry an electrical signal. Some brain cells even responded to drugs.
The researchers have managed to keep some brains alive for up to 36 hours, and currently do not know if BrainEx can have sustained the brains longer. "It is conceivable we are just preventing the inevitable, and the brain won't be able to recover," said Nenad Sestan, Yale neuroscientist and the lead researcher.
As a control, other brains received either a fake solution or no solution at all. None revived brain activity and deteriorated as normal.
The researchers hope the technology can enhance our ability to study the brain and its cellular functions. One of the main avenues of such studies would be brain disorders and diseases. This could point the way to developing new of treatments for the likes of brain injuries, Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and neurodegenerative conditions.
"This is an extraordinary and very promising breakthrough for neuroscience. It immediately offers a much better model for studying the human brain, which is extraordinarily important, given the vast amount of human suffering from diseases of the mind [and] brain," Nita Farahany, the bioethicists at the Duke University School of Law who wrote the study's commentary, told National Geographic.
An ethical gray matter
Before anyone gets an Island of Dr. Moreau vibe, it's worth noting that the brains did not approach neural activity anywhere near consciousness.
The BrainEx solution contained chemicals that prevented neurons from firing. To be extra cautious, the researchers also monitored the brains for any such activity and were prepared to administer an anesthetic should they have seen signs of consciousness.
Even so, the research signals a massive debate to come regarding medical ethics and our definition of death.
Most countries define death, clinically speaking, as the irreversible loss of brain or circulatory function. This definition was already at odds with some folk- and value-centric understandings, but where do we go if it becomes possible to reverse clinical death with artificial perfusion?
"This is wild," Jonathan Moreno, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, told the New York Times. "If ever there was an issue that merited big public deliberation on the ethics of science and medicine, this is one."
One possible consequence involves organ donations. Some European countries require emergency responders to use a process that preserves organs when they cannot resuscitate a person. They continue to pump blood throughout the body, but use a "thoracic aortic occlusion balloon" to prevent that blood from reaching the brain.
The system is already controversial because it raises concerns about what caused the patient's death. But what happens when brain death becomes readily reversible? Stuart Younger, a bioethicist at Case Western Reserve University, told Nature that if BrainEx were to become widely available, it could shrink the pool of eligible donors.
"There's a potential conflict here between the interests of potential donors — who might not even be donors — and people who are waiting for organs," he said.
It will be a while before such experiments go anywhere near human subjects. A more immediate ethical question relates to how such experiments harm animal subjects.
Ethical review boards evaluate research protocols and can reject any that causes undue pain, suffering, or distress. Since dead animals feel no pain, suffer no trauma, they are typically approved as subjects. But how do such boards make a judgement regarding the suffering of a "cellularly active" brain? The distress of a partially alive brain?
The dilemma is unprecedented.
Setting new boundaries
Another science fiction story that comes to mind when discussing this story is, of course, Frankenstein. As Farahany told National Geographic: "It is definitely has [sic] a good science-fiction element to it, and it is restoring cellular function where we previously thought impossible. But to have Frankenstein, you need some degree of consciousness, some 'there' there. [The researchers] did not recover any form of consciousness in this study, and it is still unclear if we ever could. But we are one step closer to that possibility."
She's right. The researchers undertook their research for the betterment of humanity, and we may one day reap some unimaginable medical benefits from it. The ethical questions, however, remain as unsettling as the stories they remind us of.
Why compassion fades
A scientific look into a ubiquitous phenomenon.
One victim can break our hearts. Remember the image of the young Syrian boy discovered dead on a beach in Turkey in 2015? Donations to relief agencies soared after that image went viral. However, we feel less compassion as the number of victims grows. Are we incapable of feeling compassion for large groups of people who suffer a tragedy, such as an earthquake or the recent Sri Lanka Easter bombings? Of course not, but the truth is we aren't as compassionate as we'd like to believe, because of a paradox of large numbers. Why is this?
Compassion is a product of our sociality as primates. In his book, The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress, Peter Singer states, "Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human." Mr. Singer goes on to say, "We can be sure that we restrained our behavior toward our fellows before we were rational human beings. Social life requires some degree of restraint. A social grouping cannot stay together if its members make frequent and unrestrained attacks on one another."
Attacks on ingroups can come from forces of nature as well. In this light, compassion is a form of expressed empathy to demonstrate camaraderie.
Yet even after hundreds of centuries of evolution, when tragedy strikes beyond our community, our compassion wanes as the number of displaced, injured, and dead mounts.
The drop-off in commiseration has been termed the collapse of compassion. The term has also been defined in The Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science: ". . . people tend to feel and act less compassionately for multiple suffering victims than for a single suffering victim."
That the drop-off happens has been widely documented, but at what point this phenomenon happens remains unclear. One paper, written by Paul Slovic and Daniel Västfjäll, sets out a simple formula, ". . . where the emotion or affective feeling is greatest at N =1 but begins to fade at N = 2 and collapses at some higher value of N that becomes simply 'a statistic.'"
The ambiguity of "some higher value" is curious. That value may relate to Dunbar's Number, a theory developed by British anthropologist, Robin Dunbar. His research centers on communal groups of primates that evolved to support and care for larger and larger groups as their brains (our brains) expanded in capacity. Dunbar's is the number of people with whom we can maintain a stable relationship — approximately 150.
Some back story
Professor Robin Dunbar of the University of Oxford has published considerable research on anthropology and evolutionary psychology. His work is informed by anthropology, sociology and psychology. Dunbar's Number is a cognitive boundary, one we are likely incapable of breaching. The number is based around two notions; that brain size in primates correlates with the size of the social groups they live among and that these groups in human primates are relative to communal numbers set deep in our evolutionary past. In simpler terms, 150 is about the maximum number of people with whom we can identify with, interact with, care about, and work to protect. Dunbar's Number falls along a logorithmic continuum, beginning with the smallest, most emotionally connected group of five, then expanding outward in multiples of three: 5, 15, 50, 150. The numbers in these concentric circles are affected by multiple variables, including the closeness and size of immediate and extended families, along with the greater cognitive capacity of some individuals to maintain stable relationships with larger than normal group sizes. In other words, folks with more cerebral candlepower can engage with larger groups. Those with lesser cognitive powers, smaller groups.
The number that triggers "compassion collapse" might be different for individuals, but I think it may begin to unravel along the continuum of Dunbar's relatable 150. We can commiserate with 5 to 15 to 150 people because upon those numbers, we can overlay names and faces of people we know: our families, friends and coworkers, the members of our clan. In addition, from an evolutionary perspective, that number is important. We needed to care if bands of our clan were being harmed by raids, disaster, or disease, because our survival depended on the group staying intact. Our brains developed the capacity to care for the entirety of the group but not beyond it. Beyond our ingroup was an outgroup that may have competed with us for food and safety and it served us no practical purpose to feel sad that something awful had happened to them, only to learn the lessons so as to apply them for our own survival, e.g., don't swim with hippos.
Imagine losing 10 family members in a house fire. Now instead, lose 10 neighbors, 10 from a nearby town, 10 from Belgium, 10 from Vietnam 10 years ago. One could almost feel the emotion ebbing as the sentence drew to a close.
There are two other important factors which contribute to the softening of our compassion: proximity and time. While enjoying lunch in Santa Fe, we can discuss the death toll in the French revolution with no emotional response but might be nauseated to discuss three children lost in a recent car crash around the corner. Conflict journalists attempt to bridge these geotemporal lapses but have long struggled to ignite compassion in their home audience for far-flung tragedies, Being a witness to carnage is an immense stressor, but the impact diminishes across the airwaves as the kilometers pile up.
A Dunbar Correlation
Where is the inflection point at which people become statistics? Can we find that number? In what way might that inflection point be influenced by the Dunbar 150?
"Yes, the Dunbar number seems relevant here," said Gad Saad, PhD., the evolutionary behavioral scientist from the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, Montreal, in an email correspondence. Saad also recommended Singer's work.
I also went to the wellspring. I asked Professor Dunbar by email if he thought 150 was a reasonable inflection point for moving from compassion into statistics. He graciously responded, lightly edited for space.
Professor Dunbar's response:
"The short answer is that I have no idea, but what you suggest is perfect sense. . . . One-hundred and fifty is the inflection point between the individuals we can empathize with because we have personal relationships with them and those with whom we don't have personalized relationships. There is, however, also another inflection point at 1,500 (the typical size of tribes in hunter-gatherer societies) which defines the limit set by the number of faces we can put names to. After 1,500, they are all completely anonymous."
I asked Dunbar if he knows of or suspects a neurophysiological aspect to the point where we simply lose the capacity to manage our compassion:
"These limits are underpinned by the size of key bits of the brain (mainly the frontal lobes, but not wholly). There are a number of studies showing this, both across primate species and within humans."
In his literature, Professor Dunbar presents two reasons why his number stands at 150, despite the ubiquity of social networking: the first is time — investing our time in a relationship is limited by the number of hours we have available to us in a given week. The second is our brain capacity measured in primates by our brain volume.
Friendship, kinship and limitations
"We devote around 40 percent of our available social time to our 5 most intimate friends and relations," Dunbar has written, "(the subset of individuals on whom we rely the most) and the remaining 60 percent in progressively decreasing amounts to the other 145."
These brain functions are costly, in terms of time, energy and emotion. Dunbar states, "There is extensive evidence, for example, to suggest that network size has significant effects on health and well-being, including morbidity and mortality, recovery from illness, cognitive function, and even willingness to adopt healthy lifestyles." This suggests that we devote so much energy to our own network that caring about a larger number may be too demanding.
"These differences in functionality may well reflect the role of mentalizing competencies. The optimal group size for a task may depend on the extent to which the group members have to be able to empathize with the beliefs and intentions of other members so as to coordinate closely…" This neocortical-to-community model carries over to compassion for others, whether in or out of our social network. Time constrains all human activity, including time to feel.
As Dunbar writes in The Anatomy of Friendship, "Friendship is the single most important factor influencing our health, well-being, and happiness. Creating and maintaining friendships is, however, extremely costly, in terms of both the time that has to be invested and the cognitive mechanisms that underpin them. Nonetheless, personal social networks exhibit many constancies, notably in their size and their hierarchical structuring." Our mental capacity may be the primary reason we feel less empathy and compassion for larger groups; we simply don't have the cerebral apparatus to manage their plights. "Part of friendship is the act of mentalizing, or mentally envisioning the landscape of another's mind. Cognitively, this process is extraordinarily taxing, and as such, intimate conversations seem to be capped at about four people before they break down and form smaller conversational groups. If the conversation involves speculating about an absent person's mental state (e.g., gossiping), then the cap is three — which is also a number that Shakespeare's plays respect."
We cannot mentalize what is going on in the minds of people in our groups much beyond our inner circle, so it stands to reason we cannot do it for large groups separated from us by geotemporal lapses.
Emotional regulation
In a paper, C. Daryl Cameron and Keith B. Payne state, "Some researchers have suggested that [compassion collapse] happens because emotions are not triggered by aggregates. We provide evidence for an alternative account. People expect the needs of large groups to be potentially overwhelming, and, as a result, they engage in emotion regulation to prevent themselves from experiencing overwhelming levels of emotion. Because groups are more likely than individuals to elicit emotion regulation, people feel less for groups than for individuals."
This argument seems to imply that we have more control over diminishing compassion than not. To say, "people expect the needs of large groups to be potentially overwhelming" suggests we consciously consider what that caring could entail and back away from it, or that we become aware that we are reaching and an endpoint of compassion and begin to purposely shift the framing of the incident from one that is personal to one that is statistical. The authors offer an alternative hypothesis to the notion that emotions are not triggered by aggregates, by attempting to show that we regulate our emotional response as the number of victims becomes perceived to be overwhelming. However, in the real world, for example, large death tolls are not brought to us one victim at a time. We are told, about a devastating event, then react viscerally.
If we don't begin to express our emotions consciously, then the process must be subconscious, and that number could have evolved to where it is now innate.
Gray matter matters
One of Dunbar's most salient points is that brain capacity influences social networks. In his paper, The Social Brain, he writes: "Path analysis suggests that there is a specific causal relationship in which the volume of a key prefrontal cortex subregion (or subregions) determines an individual's mentalizing skills, and these skills in turn determine the size of his or her social network."
It's not only the size of the brain but in fact, mentalizing recruits different regions for ingroup empathy. The Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education published a study of the brain regions activated when showing empathy for strangers in which the authors stated, "Interestingly, in brain imaging studies of mentalizing, participants recruit more dorsal portions of the medial prefrontal cortex (dMPFC; BA 8/9) when mentalizing about strangers, whereas they recruit more ventral regions of the medial prefrontal cortex (BA 10), similar to the MPFC activation reported in the current study, when mentalizing about close others with whom participants experience self-other overlap."⁷
It's possible the region of the brain that activates to help an ingroup member evolved for good reason, survival of the group. Other regions may have begun to expand as those smaller tribal groups expanded into larger societies.
Rabbit holes
There is an eclectic list of reasons why compassion may collapse, irrespective of sheer numbers:
(1) Manner: How the news is presented affects viewer framing. In her book, European Foreign Conflict Reporting: A Comparative Analysis of Public News, Emma Heywood explores how tragedies and war are offered to the viewers, which can elicit greater or lesser compassionate responses. "Techniques, which could raise compassion amongst the viewers, and which prevail on New at Ten, are disregarded, allowing the victims to remain unfamiliar and dissociated from the viewer. This approach does not encourage viewers to engage with the sufferers, rather releases them from any responsibility to participate emotionally. Instead compassion values are sidelined and potential opportunities to dwell on victim coverage are replaced by images of fighting and violence."
(2) Ethnicity. How relatable are the victims? Although it can be argued that people in western countries would feel a lesser degree of compassion for victims of a bombing in Karachi, that doesn't mean people in countries near Pakistan wouldn't feel compassion for the Karachi victims at a level comparable to what westerners might feel about a bombing in Toronto. Distance has a role to play in this dynamic as much as in the sound evolutionary data that demonstrate a need for us to both recognize and empathize with people who look like our communal entity. It's not racism; it's tribalism. We are simply not evolved from massive heterogeneous cultures. As evolving humans, we're still working it all out. It's a survival mechanism that developed over millennia that we now struggle with as we fine tune our trust for others.
In the end
Think of compassion collapse on a grid, with compassion represented in the Y axis and the number of victims running along the X. As the number of victims increases beyond one, our level of compassion is expected to rise. Setting aside other variables that may raise compassion (proximity, familiarity etc.), the level continues to rise until, for some reason, it begins to fall precipitously.
Is it because we've become aware of being overwhelmed or because we have reached max-capacity neuron load? Dunbar's Number seems a reasonable place to look for a tipping point.
Professor Dunbar has referred to the limits of friendship as a "budgeting problem." We simply don't have the time to manage a bigger group of friends. Our compassion for the plight of strangers may drop of at a number equivalent to the number of people with who we can be friends, a number to which we unconsciously relate. Whether or not we solve this intellectual question, it remains a curious fact that the larger a tragedy is, the more likely human faces are to become faceless numbers.
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For the last two weeks, the ship buzzed with activity. But now, the storerooms and magazines are full, and the last items, the fresh fruits and vegetables, were loaded on Friday. Finally, after a deceptive calm overtook the ship for the weekend as RUSSELL's crew finished their personal business and packing - and savored their last hours at home - RUSSELL took in all lines yesterday at 1:29 PM and headed fair for sea.
My weekend overflowed with many of the routine activities of a holiday weekend – an Easter Egg hunt on Saturday and services and dinner on Sunday. I squeezed in the critical items on my "Honey Do" list, and even managed to pack most of my last-minute items without detracting from the family time. Still, Monday morning came all too quickly, and after making my spouse's favorite comfort foods for breakfast, Eggs Benedict with tomato and asparagus and Mexican chocolate mocha, we piled into the car for an unusually quiet drive to the ship. Finally, after the last of the goodbyes and prayers of Godspeed, the business of the day surged to the forefront.
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The hard work and planning that went into a fast cruise and one-day underway after our leave periods expired manifested itself immediately when the Officer of the Deck ordered the sea detail to their stations. Long periods in port tend to dull our mariner skills, and when we pretended to go to sea on the 15th and went to sea on the 18th for the day, the ship struggled here and there to execute the plan. Not so on "Game Day". All hands were on station and on time, and with the exception of one bridgewing pelorus, all our equipment worked as designed. In what felt like no time at all, heat billowed from the stacks and all lines were hauled on deck, and the Boatswain's Mate of the Watch's whistle screeched over the ship's announcing system as he called out, "Underway. Shift colors."
Soon, we were bidding farewell to Mighty Mo' and turning out of the basin for the channel. As we pulled away from the pier, though, the crowd struck me as unusually thin. I soon discovered why. All along the channel, the shores were dotted with small groups and individuals gathered to say their goodbyes and wave as the ship passed. A man and three children perched on rock at the water's edge, and stood at attention and saluted. The ship's whistle howled one prolonged blast in farewell as we passed the final group, left our home behind, and hurried off to undertake the potentially deadly business at hand.

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Woman accused of abducting infant grandson in Florida pleads to lesser charge in Missouri
CHILLICOTHE, Mo. – A 60-year-old woman accused of abducting her infant grandson from his father's Florida home in 2000 has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in northwest Missouri.
Sandy Hatte was charged last month in Livingston County with felony child abduction, but she pleaded guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor interference with custody and was given a suspended one-year jail sentence and placed on two years' probation, The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune reported (http://bit.ly/17fTgTt ).
A school administrator became suspicious, and called authorities, leading to the pair's discovery. The boy's father, who lives in Alabama, was reunited in September with his son. The father was in the courtroom Wednesday and said afterward, "It is my understanding that's all that can be done." The names of both the boy and the father were not released.
Livingston County prosecutor Adam Warren said all information collected in the case was given to the father so that he could give it to Florida authorities.
"We've paved the way for Florida to pick something up," Warren said, who noted that several factors went into his decision to amend the felony abduction charge to a misdemeanor and avoid a trial.
"It goes back 13 years and there are a lot of unknowns in that case. There are a lot of reasons a jury might acquit her," he said.
Warren also said the boy might have trouble testifying against Hatte, who was his caretaker for nearly all of his life.
"She was not accused of abusing the child and she had him enrolled in school," Warren said. "She stepped on the father's rights to the child."
Northwest Missouri authorities began working on the case Sept. 5 when an administrator at a Livingston County school alerted the sheriff that something was unusual about the custody of a new student. Hatte, who was living in Chula, had claimed to be his mother, the school official said.
Hatte was arrested within two weeks. A detective said Hatte admitted to him that she took the boy from Florida in December 2000 and that she did not have legal custody of him.
The father, who reported the boy's disappearance to Florida authorities in early 2001, told the newspaper Wednesday that his son is doing well.
"I've got him around some good people," he said.
Investigators found that Hatte and her grandson had lived in several Missouri cities since 2002 while she took jobs at residential care facilities. A private investigator hired by the boy's family traced Hatte and the child to another northwest Missouri county in February of this year, but Hatte fled when she was contacted by law enforcement.
Jocelyn Meservey, administrator for the public school in Chula, said last month it was evident the child had gaps in his education and had lived in several different places.
"He definitely had some education, but he hadn't been enrolled in any school for several years," she said.


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Author Notes: My family and I have spent a good bit of time traveling all over the Caribbean and across the board everyone's favorite is rum punch. There are variations from island to island but there is a general rule of thumb to making a rum punch "one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, and four of weak" If you follow this basic recipe you can alternate which types of juices (the weak) and sweeteners you use. We have tried tons of combinations at home - looking for that perfect drink that brings us back to vacation - but the bottom line is that rum punch should just be strong and not too sweet. That is what makes it the perfect poolside cocktail. You can vary what juices you use but I think passionfruit is the juice I have seen used most commonly. For my home version I make a ginger simple syrup for the "sweet" - I think it really makes it refreshing.
The measurements for this recipe are presented as "parts". If you use a shot glass as your "part" it makes one large pint sized drink or two smaller drinks. This easily can be expanded to serve a party. —meganvt01
Serves: 1 - 100
Ginger Simple Syrup
four inch long piece of ginger, peeled and cut into 5 chunks
cup sugar
cup water
Rum punch
part freshly squeezed lime juice
parts ginger simple syrup
parts dark Caribbean rum
parts freshly squeezed orange juice
parts passionfruit juice
Ginger Simple Syrup
- Put all the ingredients in a small saucepan and heat over medium high heat until the liquid boils and the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Remove from heat and let the ginger steep in the simple syrup for about an hour. Remove the ginger before using in the punch.
Rum punch
- Combine the ingredients in a glass and mix well. Serve over crushed ice with a lime garnish.
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By Ollie Irish
Put together a composite XI made up of the best players from Arsenal and Barcelona and what do you get? Something like this (note: based on current ability rather than career overall, and assuming all players are fit):
Some tough calls in there. Yes, I'd take a fully fit, motivated William Gallas ahead of Carles Puyol and Thomas Vermaelen. Just. And I'd also take a fully fit Van Persie ahead of either Zlatan (so much talent but has a rampant ego and does f-all in big games) or Thierry Henry (a couple of years past his peak). Otherwise, it's fairly straightforward, with the possible exception of Clichy/Abidal, and Clichy's form this season has been patchy, so the Barcelona left-back gets the nod.
Agree/disgaree with the team?


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Maybe you want to put rubber tracks on your lifted pickup. You like the idea of a truck with tracks, but you're concerned you won't be able to do massive burnouts with them. Well, worry no more.
The burnout was done by the guys at Mattracks Inc., which makes these tracks.
(Hat tip to Jared Glentz!)


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- Please use this form to list all of the reserve items needed for a particular semester's courses: Reserve Request Form.
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UW-Manitowoc Guidelines for Faculty: Reserves and Electronic Reserves
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The UW-Manitowoc Library supports and acts in accordance with the fair use provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, Section 107, which permits the making of copies for classroom use if the four determining factors are considered and found to be in support of fair use. The Fair Use analysis is applied on a case by case basis in each and every instance of copying. Those factors to be considered in determining if the copying is fair use are:
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- The effect of the use on the potential market (copying that does not cause someone to not buy the whole work is more likely to be fair use).
The Library has also adopted a number of guidelines for Electronic Reserve which were included in the Fair Use Guidelines for Electronic Reserve Systems, developed by participants in the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU). The Library stays abreast of developments with regards to digital copyright laws and guidelines and modify its copyright guidelines for Reserve and Electronic Reserve as needed. See Resources for Copyright Information below for important sites which provide current copyright information.
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- Material shall be placed on either Reserve or Electronic Reserve at the initiative of the faculty or staff at UW-Manitowoc solely for the non-commercial, educational use of UW-Manitowoc students.
- Fill out the reserve request form for all items to be placed on Reserve in the Library. Forms are available at the library circulation desk or downloaded from the library web site. When signed by the instructor, indication is made that the instructor is following the Copyright Act (Title 17 U.S. Code).
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- The Library will follow the principles of Fair Use when determining if copies should be placed on Reserve or e-Reserve.
- A copyright notice will appear on the first page of any scanned document available via electronic reserve. A copyright notice will be stamped on the first page of each document on Reserve. In addition, a copyright notice is affixed to each printer and copy machine located in the Library and computer labs.
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- Material made available for student use through Reserve or e-Reserve will be removed when it is no longer needed. For example, student access to e-Reserve materials may be terminated at the end of the term.
- Longer works, such as complete books, will not be copied for Electronic Reserve, even if the works are in the public domain or otherwise within the scope of the fair use guidelines.
- Coursepacks may not be placed on Reserve. Instructors cannot in effect create a coursepack by placing several articles together on reserve under one title. Individual citations must be provided for each item.
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- Not more than a single chapter of a book or work may be used.
- Only one chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon, or picture per book or journal issue may be used when the entire article or chapter is not used.
IV. Copying or scanning beyond Fair Use guidelines
If an instructor needs material copied or scanned for Reserve or e-Reserve that, in the library staff member's judgment, exceeds the bounds of the Fair Use Guidelines, then copyright permission must be secured. To complete that process:
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- While copyright permission is being requested, the Library will temporarily make the material available, pending permission from the copyright owner.
- Any fees or charges associated with obtaining copyright permission are the responsibility of the instructor.
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Resources for Copyright Information
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) maintains a web site with current contact information for over 300 publishers with offices in the United States.
AcqWeb is an international directory of publishers and vendors. This list is very complete and often used by librarians to locate and contact publishers. It includes links to publishers' web sites and e-mail addresses.
Copyright and the Public Domain chart shows when published material falls in the public domain and can be used without obtaining permission of the copyright holder.
Know Your Copy Rights has a resource page and FAQ geared to teaching faculty.
Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians is a useful resource for understanding copyright and how it effects educators.
Fair Use Evaluator is a tool designed to help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code.
The University of Minnesota Libraries also has an easy to use Fair Use Analysis Tool. This site will produce a report for fair use documentation.
The WATCH File (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) is a database containing primarily, but not exclusively, the names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists whose archives are housed, in whole or in part, in libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom. WATCH is a joint project of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Reading Library, Reading, England.
Sample e-reserve letter (for articles)
To: [copyright holder]
From: Professor
University of Wisconsin – Manitowoc
Re: Permission to use copyrighted material
I would like your permission, as the holder of copyright for the material listed below, to allow the materials to be scanned by the UW-Manitowoc Library and made available via their electronic reserve system to the students in my class.
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Citation of Material to be used:
Title of article/Chapter:
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Thank you for your prompt reply to this request and for assisting in the educational process at the University of Wisconsin–Manitowoc.
Sample hard-copy reserve letter (print, film, music, etc.)
To: [Copyright Holder]
From: Professor
University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc
Re: Permission to use copyrighted material
I would like your permission, as the holder of the copyright for the material listed below, to allow the material to be copied by the UW-Manitowoc Library and made available to students in my class through the Libraries' Reserve Desk.
Only one copy of the work will be made by the library staff. Access to this copy will be restricted to the UW-Manitowoc community. The reproduction will faithfully copy the work in its entirety and will include a copyright notice.
Citation of material to be used:
title of article/chapter:
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Thank you for your prompt reply to this request and for assisting in the educational process at the University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc County.


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Off Fox News, on with the show
Yes, there is life after Fox News.
Sarah Palin "parted ways" with the network in January. Dick Morris was gone the following month. Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum were suspended as contributors in March 2011 while they considered presidential runs. They haven't come back.
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Being escorted — or, in some cases, shoved — off Fox News's big stage has tested the ability of the four to find ways to stay relevant, whether through social media, books, radio shows, public appearances or other projects. In the time since these former high-profile paid commentators departed the most-watched news channel in the country — and its unquestionably massive media platform — they've all remade their media personas with varying degrees of success.
( PHOTOS: The GOP, Fox political purge)
Some have undoubtedly faced diminished exposure and influence (Morris), while others have been fairly effective at keeping themselves and their causes in the public eye (Palin). And experts say the benefits of having appeared regularly on Fox News tend to live on long after the commentators left the air (Santorum and Gingrich).
POLITICO interviewed some of the former Fox News stars, spoke with a number of Republican consultants and media experts and used databases to determine the number of mentions in the media to assess what remains of the impact and media presence of Palin, Morris, Gingrich and Santorum.
Each is experiencing a kind of newfound freedom from being liberated from the bounds of Fox — whether it's Morris on his new radio program, Palin continuing to own social media, Santorum developing new projects and gearing up for a potential 2016 presidential bid or Gingrich making the TV rounds and being considered as a potential host for CNN's "Crossfire" reboot.
"If Fox had taken them off the air in a world without the Internet, it might have had more of an impact," said Dan Schnur, head of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California. "But there's no shortage of venues for partisan voices to be heard. If anything, it just requires these individuals to be a little more creative."
Here's POLITICO's look at life after Fox:
Dick Morris
For 13 years, Fox News gave the political strategist and pollster the airtime for 3,000 interviews. And then they shut him down.
After his very wrong election prediction in November and widespread mockery — Mitt Romney did not win the presidency in a landslide, it turned out — Morris did not appear on the network for three months. And in February, news broke that Fox News wasn't renewing his contract.
Morris wasted little time in lining up a new media gig, although on a much smaller scale — in March, he was named the host of an afternoon show on Philadelphia's WPHT radio station. Instead of regularly stopping by "Hannity" or "The O'Reilly Factor" — among the highest rated shows on cable — to talk politics, Morris is now holding court with Philly listeners for four hours a day.
"I'm brand new in talk radio — the only thing I know for certain is that I love it," Morris told POLITICO.
And his new bosses say they are pleased so far with Morris's talk radio debut. Andy Bloom, WPHT's operations manager, said the station feels "great about how the show is developing and have had nothing but terrific feedback."
But as for Morris the media personality, there's no question that getting the boot from Fox has meant losing major influence — there's no chance he can just appear on screens in 90 million homes around the country a few times a week anymore.


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SWAT Team In The Works
Oil Boom A Factor In Regional Effort Spearheaded By Valley County
A Valley County sheriff's deputy is expanding the common practice of mutual aid in rural Montana to start a regional SWAT team.
Chief Deputy Reed Mesman has begun making plans with eight law enforcement agencies to train and equip a tactical team for high-risk situations. The sheriff's departments in the five counties in northeast Montana, the Glasgow and Wolf Point police departments and the Fort Peck tribes are all participating.
"We're kind of alone out here," said Mesman. "There are no tactical teams to respond to major incidents. It's a four-to-six-hour minimum response time."
Mesman and Valley County Sheriff Glen Meier said a regional SWAT team is needed to respond to increased crime generated by the Bakken oil boom because small local jurisdictions are not capable of handling it on their own.
"We're all very small agencies that depend on each other for mutual aid," Mesman said. "We don't have the resources to deal with the crime and drugs we're seeing from the Bakken."
The team would ultimately consist of about 15 volunteer officers from the region, who would undergo extensive training at the Montana Law Enforcement Academy in Helena to be certified. Candidates would have to pass rigorous physical fitness and firearms tests before attending the LEA course. Mesman and a few other Valley County deputies have already taken this training, but it is only offered once a year, so the team will take a while to build.
"There are very strict requirements for training," Meier said. "Deputies have washed out of the program. It's not an easy row to hoe. They must be very committed to join this team."
The team would be on call at any time for hostage situations, school invasions, high-risk drug arrests, events involving weapons and other specialized needs. In the past 10 years, there have been several incidents to which a regional SWAT team could have responded. An armed Plentywood man took his wife hostage, then barricaded himself in a house after she escaped. The hospital shooter in Glasgow elicited a massive response from regional agencies of all kinds.
The SWAT team would train in various locations once a month. The training would not only be useful in dealing with the increased pursuits and shootings related to the oil patch influx, but also with the usual calls in small towns.
Mesman has been digging for grant money for this team. Meier said they are not relying on taxpayer money to fund it. Recently the Sheriff's Office received a $1,000 donation from Nemont, which will be used for safety equipment like ballistic vests and helmets.


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(PRWEB) January 21, 2014
Exotic Limousine Concord, a luxury ground transportation provider for the East Bay Area, is proud to announce the addition of mega party buses for the East Bay Area customers. These new Concord party bus rentals will accommodate up to 55 passengers. "We are adding these buses to our fleet due to the huge demand of our Concord prom party bus customers; however, the buses can be used for any service or occasion," said Moe Kakar, the company manager. The buses will be added in to the fleet in the last week of February, 2014; however, Exotic Limousine will start taking reservations for these starting the first week of February.
"We will launch the buses in the city of Concord, but the buses will serve the entire East Bay Area. It's hard to rent party buses in the smaller cities of the East Bay; however, we will offer these buses to even the smaller towns in East Bay like Antioch, Moraga, and Oakley," said Kakar.
Exotic Limousine will be adding the buses in four different sizes: 18-22 passenger party bus, 23-28 passenger party bus, 29-35 passenger limo bus, and 36-55 passenger party bus to serve the customers in Concord and the East Bay. "Our party buses will feature single window design which will give a fancy look to the exterior of the buses. Many companies renovate older para-transit or handicap buses and convert them in to party that lack the exterior appeal; however, we understand the demand of our customers and have ordered new buses with the single window look, best exterior designs and custom paint jobs," said Marcos, the manager of party bus design at Exotic Limousine. The party buses have various luxury features like Italian tile flooring and limousine-inspired seats with the dance poles to provide the feel of a mini nightclub or a VIP lounge. Many entertainment features such as karaoke systems, PlayStation 3, satellite TV, HD LCD TVs, DVD and blue-ray player, and blue-tooth audio streaming will be available in these luxury land yachts. Some party buses will also have a restroom for the convenience of the passengers.
The limo buses are already very popular with the party crowd, prom customers, and bachelor parties; however, "We recommend our party buses for occasions and services. The airport travelers can experience extra comfort and space before a long flight, corporate customers can host company meetings on these roomy and luxurious vehicles, larger parties can go on wine tours without splitting their group into two vehicles, wedding customers can accommodate large groups and have the extra space for the bride's dress, casino trips, sports events, concerts, and night on the town customers can also use these elegant buses," said Ruben Singh, CEO of Exotic Limousine. The company has trained its staff members to answer the customer's queries and assist them in booking these new best party buses. The chauffeurs are also being trained by the manufacturers of these buses to operate the long list of luxury features of the buses and drive these hi-tech machines safely for all occasions. The customers can get more information about these party buses by contacting the company's customer care executives or by visiting Exotic Limousine website at http://www.limoserviceconcord.com.


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Half-Life (PC) review
"Theres a surprise around every corner, be it a new enemy, a new platforming challenge, or some new method of simply scaring the piss out of you, like watching a scientist get sucked into a hole in the wall, only to see him re-emerge in pieces a moment later. Take out any five-minute segment of Half-Life and it probably wouldnt seem like anything particularly special you have to play it all at once to fully understand just how well each piece compliments the next, how it all adds up to one nearly seamless FPS experience with rarely a single dull moment, or even one that feels like what youve already been through. It is truly greater than the sum of its parts."
Staff review by Mike Suskie (June 01, 2008)
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Distinct needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 177 designs submitted by 46 freelance designers.
Distinct Consulting
We are a young and bespoke consultancy company providing regulatory and strategy advice to private companies and governmental agencies active in networking industries sectors.
The areas that we are active in include telecommunications, broadcasting, gas and electricity, postal services and areas related to the above.
The target audience is decision makers and other professional contacts in private undertakings in the above mentioned areas as well as in regulatory authorities and other governmental agencies charged with oversight and regulation of operators in those areas.
We are looking for a logo representing our bespoke consultancy company, incorporating the company name "Distinct Consulting".
We like the logo to be the following:
- Clean and simple, yet sophisticated and professional;
- Fresh and modern, without looking trendy;
- Recognizable and describable.
Please avoid the following: Cartoons, clip arts or stock images.
Please feel free to try different colour options/schemes.
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Smoky Cayenne Pepper Sauce
A 4oz jar of our Happy Quail Farm Smoky Cayenne Hot Sauce is thick, almost chunky with plenty of heat and lots of full-fruit-pepper-flavor.We puree our whole fresh farm-grown peppers, with a touch of onion and garlic, Nana Mae's Apple Cider Vinegar, and salt. Nothing more, its all about the fruity flavor of the peppers. This year we have partnered with Happy Girls Kitchen from San Francisco to minimally process our Hot Sauces using only the finest, locally-sourced natural ingredients to enhance the fresh flavor of our peppers.


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A fabulous set about various heroic and duplicitous deeds! From Firebrands to all six in print volumes of the CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting to Edible Secrets!
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Season 2 episodes of Regular Show are comin' to a close, so I thought I'd post some miscellaneous sketches and character designs I did from the episodes I boarded with Calvin Wong. Hope you approve. Hmm-hmm!
Original drawing of Starla by JG Quintel
morphing into all the other characters at once.


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Community & Economic Development Agency (CEDA) Dissolved
On December 29, 2011, the California Supreme Court upheld two bills that were part of the State of California's efforts to close its significant budget deficit last year. In its ruling, the Court upheld ABx126, which eliminated Redevelopment Agencies throughout California. It also struck down ABx127, which would have allowed redevelopment agencies to remain in operation as long as they made payment to the State. The Court's ruling set February 1, 2012, as the dissolution date for Redevelopment Agencies, and left no mechanism for reinstatement.
For the City of Oakland, the loss of Redevelopment funding created a potential budget gap of about $28 million – approximately $8.2 million in FY 2011-12 (February-June 2012) and approximately $20.3 million in FY 2012-13.
An Amended Policy Budget for Fiscal Year 2011-13 was adopted by the City Council on January 31 which closed the gap through significant organizational restructuring into a flatter, more traditional structure.
Services Decentralized to Four New Offices
Due to the loss of Redevelopment, functions previously performed by CEDA staff are either no longer completed by the City, or decentralized to one of four new offices. Follow the links below to go to their new websites:
- Consolidated the Planning Division and Building Services Division into an Department of Planning, Building & Neighborhood Preservation, which better reflects the mission and goals of these services.
- Converted CEDA Housing Services into an Department of Housing & Community Development, which will provide primary staff support for Housing Successor Agency activities.
- Established a new Economic & Workforce Development Department to ensure that the City's economic development priority has adequate resources and is focused on business relations, retention, attraction, and development. This newly formed office will be positioned to grow as legislative activity emerges that supports economic development in light of the dissolution of redevelopment.
- Established a new Public/Private Partnerships Division to transition from a Redevelopment Agency to a functional unit focused on implementing qualifying projects outlined in the Enforceable Obligation Payment Schedule (EOPS) and to support Successor Agency activities as detailed in the EOPS report.
For more information regarding the impacts of the loss of Redevelopment, see our Redevelopment Successor Agency page.
For more information regarding the Amended Policy Budget, visit the Budget Office website, or download the February 23, 2012 Press Release.


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Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes: Messy Spraypaint
It's Photoshop Brush time again, and I've got a new set of 10 high res brushes for you. These aren't traditional spraypaint brushes, so "Messy Spraypaint" is as close as I could get to an accurate name. Most of them are 2500px, and I also included PNGs for anyone not using Photoshop. CS1 & CS3 brushes, PNGs, screenshots after the jump.
A couple examples of what's inside:
1. Download the file and unzip it.
2. Copy the .abr file to your Photoshop/Presets/Brushes folder.
3. In your Photoshop Brushes palette, click on the arrow in the upper right and click on "Load Brushes."
4. Navigate until you find the file and load it (Photoshop/Presets/Brushes/BB_HiRes_Messy_Spraypaint_CS3.abr )
Note: The next time you restart Photoshop you will not have to load the file, it will be in the list of Brush Libraries.


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Nouveau Chicago
At Grant Achatz's restaurant, Alinea, innovation is on parade (lobster parfait?). To stay inspired, Achatz looks for—and finds—creativity in Chicago's many classics.
Why my town
"Chicago is so far from just meat and potatoes. There are chefs with empires. There's a younger crowd like myself. We've got great ethnic food, and we've got farm-to-table and progressive cuisines that are leading the country."
New standout
"One of my favorite recent openings is The Bristol. You have to order the pappardelle with bacon and chicken liver and a side of 'monkey bread pull apart' (freshly baked bread with dill and sea salt)." 2152 N. Damen Ave., thebristolchicago.com, entrées from $15.
A serious hot dog...
"Definitely get to Hot Doug's for the duck-fat fries and the Chicago-style dog. Hot Doug's closes at 4 p.m. No exceptions. You could be banging on the door at 4:01, but Doug is not opening it." 3324 N. California Ave., hotdougs.com, hot dogs from $1.75.
...A really serious burger
"At Kuma's Corner I get the classic most of the time, but they serve these esoteric burgers, too. I'm a Metallica fan, and they happen to have a Metallica burger—it's got bacon, buffalo sauce, and blue cheese." 2900 W. Belmont Ave., kumascorner.com, burgers from $10.
Best Sunday grazing
"The New Maxwell Street Market has incredible Mexican and Latin American food. There are dozens of vendors selling tacos, tamales, horchata, everything. Buy a little plate, take a few bites, and move on to the next one. Go as early as you can, though—serious eaters get there at 7 a.m." S. Desplaines St. and W. Roosevelt Rd.
Thin-crust pizza
"It takes some determination to score a seat at Great Lake, but the pizza—with a crackly, blistered crust—is excellent." 1477 W. Balmoral Ave., 773/334-9270, pizzas from $21.
At my place
"The hot potato cold potato (potato puree like you've never had before), along with the black truffle explosion, has become a signature at Alinea. P.S. Reservations are not that hard to get. That's a bad rumor." 1723 N. Halsted St., alinearestaurant.com, tasting menu $150.


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a one-man band formed by luis dubuc. his music is defined as techno/electro/pop - i define it as heaven to my ears.
the secret handshake is amazing.
by what the hell let this one work June 21, 2008
It starts off with a girl agreeing to let you slap her bare ass. It gets fun when you then proceed to tickle her kooch a bit, she jumps up a little, and then you slap her ass with a vengeance. Often times she will get upset and you may have to make a quick exit.
Man, Ashley sure jumped last night when I gave her the secret handshake. I don't understand why she seemed so mad.
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Rolling out to consumers on an unannounced date in October, Dish Network is bringing a streaming competitor to Netflix with the Blockbuster brand. Reported by Bloomberg earlier today, Dish will be using an existing infrastructure that delivers on-demand movies to consumers. This service may be structured with a dual purpose, offering a selection of classic and archive movies titles as well as brand new, on-demand titles currently available to Dish Network customers. The new streaming offering is also expected to include Starz, the media network that dropped out of negotiations with Netflix as of yesterday.
While pricing is undetermined at the moment, this leaked announcement is coincidentally timed when Netflix raised prices by 60 percent on the combination of streaming content and disc rentals. Blockbuster could potentially price a streaming / disc combination plan lower than Netflix's combined cost of $15.98 for unlimited streaming and one disc out at a time. The news of a viable competitor to Netflix may continue to strike fear into the hearts of investors. Since the announcement about Starz pulling away from negotiations, Netflix stock has fallen sharply over the last 24 hours by about nine percent. With the new streaming service and Blockbuster's existing relationships with movie studios, Dish Network could potentially present a larger library of content than Netflix is offering.
Dish Network acquired Blockbuster in April of this year for a bargain price of around $320 million dollars. Blockbuster had filed for bankruptcy in September of 2010 due to an outstanding debt of $900 million due to increased competition from Netflix on mailing discs and Redbox for renting movies at physical locations. While Blockbuster had over 4,000 locations during the height of its success, Dish Network is only keeping 600 stores open worldwide.


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The first two images on Google Image Search for this game are the Amazon and Sorceress. So... yeah. Look on the bright side! At least it's not Mugen Souls!I like the elf more anyway. I always had a particular preference for elf characters.
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Just wanted to say, I'm currently in the process of redesigning this site.
Part of that process will include going back through the archives, cleaning up (and standardizing) the format of drink recipes, and adding any garnishes into the ingredients lists. I know it's a particular pet peeve of some of my fellow cocktail bloggers to find a garnish mentioned only at the end of the technique paragraph, and not in the ingredients list.
At some point, inexplicably, my recipe formatting broke. I think a WP upgrade was misreading my CSS or my FORTRAN KO'd my COBOL or something, and my ingredients became all strung out on one line instead of listed out tidily.
Here's an example of what I mean. My MxMo post from November 2007 is among the busted and broken and I failed to list the garnish. A little tweaking, though, and it all works out okay. My design work isn't done yet, but you can see a before version and an after version that's mostly complete.
(Please note that the URL for this site will not change. A Dash of Bitters will continue to live at www.adashofbitters.com. The URL for the redesign–michaeldietsch.com/bitters-redesign–is just a test site! You're peeking behind the curtains a bit. As soon as the redesign is done–sometime on or around 1/1/09–I'm porting all of the changes back over to this blog and I will probably delete the entire directory that holds the test site.
Please don't update your RSS settings, change your bookmarks or blogroll, or remove this site from same.)
Oh, happy new year, drunks. Remember to be careful handling loaded weapons after sipping six Seelbachs.


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Quantum in $2.5M Contract With Santa Ana Truck Company
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Lake Forest-based Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. got a $2.5 million order to provide fuel-storage systems for GreenKraft Inc., a Santa Ana-based manufacturer of commercial trucks and automotive products.
Quantum said it will assemble and pre-test the compressed natural gas storage packages at its local factory. The company late last year announced it will be boosting its focus on the production of natural-gas fuel tanks, with plans to add 30,000 square feet of work space this year and another 30,000 square feet in 2014.
Quantum's renewed focus on fuel-storage systems marks a step back from other business lines, including components and drive systems for hybrid vehicles, as well as various renewable-energy products.
Quantum, which has a market value of nearly $34 million, saw about $23 million in revenue for the first three quarters last year. It posted a loss of roughly $32 million over the same period.


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FamilyBuilder.com and DNA
November 25, 2008 at 3:22 pm 1 comment
-Special thanks to David Rheins, Chief Marketing Officer, for this article-
We launched our first social network application, Family Tree, in June of 2007 to help people build their family trees on Facebook and quickly realized the increasing trend of how people yearned to be social with their family connections.
Seeking to continue to serve this increasingly evident trend, we built our Family Tree applications to help people foster family interactions and explore their genealogy in social and collaborative environments on all the major social networks online, including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, and Hi5.
By offering our users Family Tree applications within their existing social networks, we removed a major adoption barrier of having to convince one's relatives to register for an entirely new website.
We also helped people understand that genealogy can be fun — and not a chore done in the basement of a town hall record room or on an online genealogy service that concentrates on drawing lines into the past.
Familybuilder prides itself on how people are making connections with real-live relatives they can actually interact with — a major departure from researching deceased relatives alone.
Over the last 15 months, our model has proven itself: we have seen over 21 million relatives added to our applications by over 4.5 million users.
Familybuilder's DNA kit, the lowest-priced genealogy DNA test on the market at $59.95, an ideal complement for our FamilyTree social network application.
Is the only genealogy service to run a family tree application on all the
major social networks: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, and Orkut.
Maintains over 21million family tree profiles built by its users.
Has been very successful in leveraging viral growth to build out an
extensive user base, including over 5 million users on Facebook alone.
Is one of the top 50 applications on Facebook (out of 38,000) according
to Adonomics (08/08).
Is the only genealogy service to bridge together family trees across
The multiple online social networks so people can find & track family
members no matter where they may dwell online.
Is the only genealogy service to offer DNA services across multiple
social networks.
Familybuilder offers both paternal (YDNA) and maternal (mtDNA) tests:
Familybuilder's YDNA test is a 17 marker test (compare to FamilyTreeDNA' s 12 markers)
Familybuilder's mtDNA test analyzes 420 base pairs of the HV1 region
Familybuilder provides results online, and by email
Familybuilder's DNA test is the most affordable on the market, priced at
only $59.95 for both YDNA and mtDNA tests
Current pricing for DNA products:
YDNA test $129.00
mtDNA test: $159.00
FamilyTree DNA
YDNA test: $149.00
mtDNA test: $129.00
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YDNA test: $149.00
mtDNA test: $179.00
mtDNA tests $399.00
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mtDNA: $59.95
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Samsung's aggressive marketing campaign, which included TV ads mocking the iPhone, drove Apple "crazy," according to a lawyer representing Samsung in its latest patent fight against Apple.
On day two of the second trial of Apple v. Samsung, lawyer John Quinn said Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller was "obsessed" with the Galaxy S smartphone campaign, urging Tim Cook to consider hiring a new ad agency in response, The Verge reported.
Schiller emailed his team: "We have a lot of work to do to turn this around," referring to a Wall Street Journal article in January titled \"Has Apple Lost Its Cool to Samsung?\", according to internal documents, the report said.
Samsung's viral "The Next Big Thing is Already Here" campaign poked fun at the Cupertino giant while highlighting the differences between the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S3. And it doesn\'t just stop at iPhone — Samsung also parodied a 2013 Apple commercial featuring an iPad Air hiding behind a No. 2 pencil.
The trial comes a year and a half after Samsung was ordered to pay Apple $930 million in damages for infringing on several iPhone and iPad design patents. Samsung is appealing the verdict and the case has since set off various countersuits, claims and disputes around the world.
The trial that started earlier this week is over software patents within iOS including the "slide to unlock" feature and auto-complete texts. Apple is seeking $2 billion in damages and Samsung is firing back, seeking $7 million. The trial is in the same courtroom with the same judge presiding as the 2012 trial.
Samsung uses Google\'s Android operating system, which accounts for about 80% of the world smartphone market, according to IDC.
At one point, Samsung\'s lawyer, Quinn, said, \"Apple \'is trying to gain from you in this courtroom what it has lost in the marketplace,\'\" according to The Wall Street Journal.
Adweek reported that Samsung's Galaxy S3 spot was the most viral tech ad of 2012.
—Michelle Coffey
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Welcome to Kurnai College
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We pride ourselves in the development and achievements of our Learning Community.
At Kurnai College all members of our community are focused on their own learning and on supporting the learning of others.
Our proud reputation, as a place where excellence in all fields of endeavour is expected and encouraged continues to..Read More