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NAIA Wrestler of the Week ? No. 3
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KANSAS CITY, Mo - Mitchell Lofstedt of Southern Oregon has been named the NAIA National Wrestler of the Week, announced Wednesday by the national office. Lofstedt was selected based on his performances from Jan. 14 - 20.
Lofstedt, a native of Roseburg, Ore., went 6-0 on the weekend, helping Southern Oregon to wins against Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) and New Mexico Highlands at the Mile High Duals on Jan. 18, while also claiming the individual crown at 125 pounds at the Mile High Open on Jan. 19. Both events were held in Prescott, Ariz. During the dual event, Lofstedt went 3-0, including pin of seventh-ranked Sean Silva of Embry-Riddle and a 14-4 major decision over NCAA Division II second-ranked Kyle McCrite of Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Lofstedt continued his dominant performance in the open competition by pinning all three of his opponents in a combined time of 5:42. He finished the weekend with five pins in six matches.
On the season, Lofstedt boasts a 39-2 overall record, including a 21-0 mark against NAIA opponents. Additionally, 26 of his 39 victories have come by pinfall.
The next Wrestler of the Week announcement will be on Jan. 30. For the complete Player of the Week calendar, click here.
Nominees: Lonnie Brown, Midland (Neb.); Brandon Starkey, Concordia (Neb.); Vince Pezzuto, Cumberlands (Ky.); Jonathan Tiernan, Great Falls (Mont.); Brandon Gebhardt, Baker (Kan.); Joao Vicente, William Penn (Iowa); Daniel Mueller, Missouri Valley; Kidd Gomez, Oklahoma City; Kyle Gerlach, Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.); Dillon Kifer, Jamestown (N.D.); Darryl Grayson, Indiana Tech; Zeke Hunt, Cumberland (Tenn.).
2012-13 Wrestlers of the Week
Week 1 (Jan. 9): Tyler Kacmarynski, Morningside (Iowa)
Week 2 (Jan. 16): Jarid Price, Baker (Kan.)
Week 3 (Jan. 23): Mitchell Lofstedt, Southern Oregon


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The Shamal is a multi-role, jet powered business airplane in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto V, though it can't be used by the player in GTA IV.
The first time the player could fly the Shamal was in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The plane, despite its interior size, can only transport the player. The Shamal is a good choice for people who are just learning to fly jets, as its handling is balanced, and is easy to land on runways. The plane draws its influence from the Learjet 60.
The most prominent appearance of the Shamal is during "Freefall", when the plane's interior can be seen. The size of the interior appears larger than usual for an aircraft with a relatively small fuselage, and the interior incongruously features 16 windows (9 on the left and 7 on the right) when the plane features only 8 outside.
In Grand Theft Auto IV, numerous Shamals can be found at the Francis International Airport, though they cannot be used by the player. Since an identical plane in Grand Theft Auto V was confirmed to be called "Shamal", it was concluded that the business jets in GTA IV were also Shamals.
The Shamal in GTA IV and GTA V features an updated design, though very close to the GTA San Andreas iteration. In GTA IV, a Shamal is used by Kenny Petrovic during the Hangman's NOOSE multiplayer mission wherein up to four players must hold back NOOSE units and escort Petrovic from his jet at Francis International Airport to a safepoint.
The interior of the Shamal in GTA San Andreas, towards the back (Towards the cockpit).
- Los Santos International Airport, just north of the runway.
- Easter Bay Airport, west of the Nevada.
- Las Venturas Airport, parked north of a pair of Dodos.
Similar aircraft
In other GTA games, business jets resembling the Shamal first appeared in Grand Theft Auto III and then Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; however, the player could not fly the plane. The plane has also been depicted in take-off and landing in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories; in GTA Liberty City Stories, the player can stand on the plane's wing while it's accelerating to fly away, but will most likely fall after a while, and in GTA Vice City Stories, the plane is seen entering and exiting Escobar International Airport from time to time. A glitch allows the player to enter the plane in GTA Vice City Stories, but it is not controllable. Similarly, a business jet is used as an escape vehicle during a cutscene of Grand Theft Auto Advance's final mission.
In The Ballad of Gay Tony, Ray Bulgarin owns a jet called a Ghawar, similar to the Shamal.
- In GTA San Andreas, when in the interior of the Shamal, the player can shoot out the lights and headrests.
- Like most other aircraft in GTA San Andreas, the Shamal plays K-DST by default.
See also
- Ghawar, non-controllable equivalent in The Ballad of Gay Tony.

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Mounting an NTFS drive in Debian
As an ex Windows user, I still have quite a collection of music on my old NTFS drive that I don't want to mess with Fortunately you can mount the drive in Linux and read and write to it as you would have done before Here I get the best of both worlds.
Being able to access my old Windows drives was one of the big barriers to my coming over to Linux. Once I had trawled the forums and help pages and found out I can still use ntfs to a degree I was sold. The tools won't make Linux use ntfs, they just allow you to access them.
The process has two dependencies, ntfs-3g and libfuse 2. You will need these two packages installed before you begin the process. Ntfs-3g is a third party package that allows reading and writing to ntfs drives, which is the holy grail for me right now!
apt-get install libfuse2
apt-get install ntfs-3g
Once you have the two packages installed we can begin.
The first step is to ensure your Debian system 'sees' the ntfs drive. You're not going to be able to mount anything if Linux can't see it.
fdisk -l | grep NTFS
You should then see something like;
/dev/hda1 * 1 14387 156288421+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
So now we know your ntfs drive is located on hda1. Check it isn't mounted already by typing;
There should be nothing coming up unless this isn't the first time you are attempting this. The next step is to create a folder to mount the drive in. Linux won't create somewhere dynamically for you. You have to tell it where you want it to put the information. I called my directory 'windows' but you can call it what you want.
mkdir /media/windows
mount –t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /media/windows
This last command mounts hda1 with ntfs-3g in the /media/windows directory. If you navigate to it now you should see your ntfs files inside. If yours works like mine did then you should also get a drive icon on the desktop. This should be labeled as whatever you called your folder in /media. You can now double click and access the files inside.
Now here is a very important step that had me stumped for ages. Unmounting the ntfs drive.
umount /dev/hda1
Notice the spelling. U-mount, not un-mount! I saw unmount whenever I read this for ages and couldn't for the life of me figure out what was going on. So hopefully those few words are going to save you much more time than I spent trying to get the thing to work properly.
You don't want to have to manually mount the drive every time you boot up Debian. So here is another little trick to auto mount it whenever the system starts. To do this we have to modify a file called fstab. Be very careful!!!! If you damage this file it will not boot.
Modify the file in your text editor of choice and add the line;
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
Save this, and now every time you boot your machine your ntfs drive will b mounted and ready to use!
March 20, 2009 at 3:03 pm
If you are using Debian 5.0 'lenny' amd Gnome desktop then you don't nesessarily need to modify /etc/fstab by hand. You can let disk-manager to detect and mount new unmounted partitions, including NTFS-partitions. You can also use disk-manager tool to set mount point for the partitions.
It's good to know how to modify fstab by hand, but for the new users it probably is much easier to use disk-manager.
Here is how you can install disk-manager:
# apt-get install disk-manager
Now you can find disk-manager from gnome menu:
System->Administration->Disk Manager
March 21, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Accellent tutorial!
Couldn't be easier than this.
All you have to to is do a quick
apt-get install ntfs-3g
and then mount the drive to a given folder
mount –t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /media/windows
May 1, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Thank you for your guide.
I am forever in debted to you… maybe not but thank you anyway :D. I must still ask though. Last time when I installed debian I can mount things just fine. This time around, somehow I had to worry about not able to access NTFS directly anymore…. By last time, I meant last september with debian 4.0r5. Anyway got things working ^^ thank you~
May 23, 2009 at 9:12 am
Cheers dude. Been looking for how to do this for ages. Thanks heaps.
August 2, 2009 at 12:49 am
How to auto mount in ubuntu? Means if we open NTFS doesn't ask password
November 4, 2009 at 12:40 pm
November 23, 2009 at 12:58 pm
i have a problem – the thing is that i don't want the mounted ntfs volumes to be shown on desktop but only in computer folder – what should i do? i tried moving the directories created to a new folder named "mount" instad of "media" because i thought the directories in "media" folder are shown on desktop but it didn't work
January 5, 2010 at 5:15 pm
thank you
February 9, 2010 at 11:44 am
thank you very much friends…
February 23, 2010 at 3:22 am
'all you have to do is apt-get install … blah blah .. '
only ntfs-3g isnt in the official repo's ..
February 25, 2010 at 3:48 pm
March 27, 2010 at 11:19 am
@Huge: ????
ntfs-3g has been in an official repo for sometime together with libntfs-3g31. Maybe, you are not using lenny or your sources are kinda jacked up…
June 23, 2010 at 12:09 am
It did not work in my case. I am running SUSE Linux 11 SP1
outlook:/opt # apt-get install ntfs-3g
If 'apt-get' is not a typo you can run the following command to lookup the package that contains the binary:
command-not-found apt-get
bash: apt-get: command not found
outlook:/opt # apt-get install libntfs-3g31
If 'apt-get' is not a typo you can run the following command to lookup the package that contains the binary:
command-not-found apt-get
bash: apt-get: command not found
August 10, 2010 at 12:25 am
@Yamen, the apt-get only runs on Debian and Ubuntu.
August 20, 2010 at 2:10 pm
@Yamen: If I remember correctly SUSE uses YUM not apt-get check the manual for reference.
October 1, 2010 at 1:06 am
THANK YOU ! For some reason the coherently written article didn't help me much. But installing disk-manager was just three clicks away from the solution to my problems.
Thank you very much.
February 27, 2011 at 12:43 pm
There is no ntfs packages in SLES11 SP1.
Can you give me the solution to install it because I can't mount ntfs partition's.
pravin:/home/pravin # cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
pravin:/home/pravin #
pravin:/home/pravin # df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 20G 4.5G 14G 25% /
devtmpfs 1.9G 116K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.9G 88K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sr0 2.9G 2.9G 0 100% /media/SLES-11-SP1-DVD-x86_64.0432..001
pravin:/home/pravin # mount -t ntfs -o utf8,id=1000,gid=1000 /dev/sda8 /media/100GB_F
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
pravin:/home/pravin # mount -t ntfs-3g -o utf8,id=1000,gid=1000 /dev/sda8 /media/100GB_F
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'
pravin:/home/pravin # rpm -qa | grep -i ntfs
pravin:/home/pravin # lsmod | grep -i ntfs
pravin:/home/pravin # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007536b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 3188 25600000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 3188 5737 20480000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 5737 7650 15360000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 7650 60802 426943488+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 7650 9562 15360000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 9562 11474 15360000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 11474 24223 102400000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 24223 60802 293820416 7 HPFS/NTFS
pravin:/home/pravin #
May 26, 2011 at 9:42 pm
why is this not on the frontpage of debian.org ???
June 5, 2011 at 2:48 pm
tHANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I've been on others websites, gave the right commands but did non say you have to install libfuse2 and ntfs-3g.
I couldn't understand why the commands put in fstab did not work but now I know .I didn't have libfuse and ntfs-3g on my Debian Lenny v5.
Thank you again.
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A 9-year-old boy helped Hazel Park police catch two armed-robbery suspects after police say the men broke into his home and forced his parents to lie on the kitchen floor at gunpoint.
'He was a brave young man,' said Hazel Park Police Chief Martin Barner.
The boy hid in a bedroom closet as police say the suspects robbed his parents and ransacked the house about 9:15 p.m. Sunday in the 1200 block of East Muir.
'From the closet he saw the suspects grabbing property and loading it into a bag,' Barner said. 'When the suspects left the room, he climbed out a window and ran to a neighbor's house to call police.'
The suspects – Clarence Wilson Jr., 34, of Clinton Township and Monte Rowe, 22, of Detroit – were arraigned Tuesday before Hazel Park 43rd District Magistrate James Paterson on charges of armed robbery, home invasion and multiple felony firearm charges. They are both jailed without bond.
Officers were able to arrive at the house and surround it before the suspects fled. Ferndale and Madison Heights police officers assisted Hazel Park police.
No one answered the door when police knocked and they forced their way into the home when they heard a scream from inside.
Officers found the boy's mother and father lying on the kitchen floor, their heads covered with a blanket, Barner said.
One suspect was found inside the house and arrested. The other was caught as he was trying jump out a window at the back of the house, police said.
Police said they recovered a .22-caliber revolver the men used and items stolen from the parents, including a wallet, debit card, a small amount of cash and keys.
One of the suspects had been at the house shortly before the robbery and knocked on the door, Barner said, possibly to check whether anyone was home. The suspect spoke only briefly when one of the parents answered the door and left, police said.
'The suspect then returned a couple of minutes later with the second suspect and they forced their way into the home,' Barner said. 'We were fortunate the boy was able to escape. These situations at times have a tendency to escalate into more heinous acts.'
The suspects are scheduled for a pre-exam conference in Hazel Park District Court at 1 p.m. May 7.


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Author: Leslie P. Polzer
Desktop environments like KDE and GNOME offer a popular interface to computing. Unfortunately they are also often heavy on resource usage. By contrast, the Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) is the fastest desktop environment I know of — but its lack of standards support and a few missing features may be troubling to some users.
The boundaries between desktop environments and window managers are often blurred. No window manager by itself offers the things included in a run-of-the-mill point-and-click environment: a desktop with icons, a task bar that shows the running programs and a system tray. Of course, you can always piece together a solution featuring your favorite WM along with Idesk and the right now unmaintained PerlPanel. But such a solution will never look coherent and appealing.
EDE feels as light as a window manager but also offers the features mentioned above. The speed advantage of EDE most likely lies in its foundation, a modified version of the Fast Light ToolKit GUI library. EDE started almost instantly on the 500MHz machine I tested it on, whereas the other environments needed at least a few seconds. EDE provides a coherent and simple interface that requires little effort to learn.
To use EDE, you need to install its EFLTK library and the EDE package itself. You can find Ubuntu packages of EDE's previous 1.x branch, but it is highly probable that you will have to install EDE's latest 1.2 version from source. A script from the EDE maintainers called netinstall helps you installing both EFLTK and EDE. A line like
sudo sh -c 'wget -qO- http://equinox-project.org/netinstall | sh'
should download and extract the current sources for you and build and install the software in /usr/local.
If you use GDM, you can now just enter your login screen and choose "EDE" as session type. Otherwise, you need to edit your $HOME/.xinitrc file if you start X from the command line via startx, or $HOME/.xsession if you use a login manager like KDM or XDM. Start the startede script is started by placing the line
exec startede
at the end of the file, but before other calls to exec. The startede script starts the single components that together make up the basic desktop environment of Equinox. Save the file, log in again, and now whenever you start a new X session, you will run EDE.
Upon first start you should see a desktop with a sample icon that lets you start xterm, and a horizontal panel in the lower part of the screen. The panel in turn consists of a menu button, a quick launch area, a workspace chooser, a task area, and a system tray area.
The system tray area offers quick access to a volume control application and lets you change the keyboard layout. There's also a nice CPU utilization monitor. A control panel lets you configure basic aspects of the desktop environment, such as screensaver, colors, and fonts.
I like the clean, simple, and well-integrated way these applets function. For example, the screensaver dialog offers just the basic things you would expect from it: graphics style and activation time. There's also a power management part that lets you explore further options, but it is clearly separated from the rest. Even a front end to basic software installation from the RPM, DEB, and TGZ package formats is included in the control panel.
Weak spots
While using EDE, you will notice some minor features missing. For instance, you cannot draw a square rubber band around a group of desktop icons, and icons don't react to mouse actions aimed at their text labels.
I also miss functionality that lets you resize a window by holding the Meta (or Alt) key and the right mouse button. Most window managers offer this, and it's really handy compared to finding the magic spot on the window border that lets you resize it. And there's room for more improvement and innovation: the corners of the screen could be sensitive to user actions, for example.
But a major problem is EDE's non-conformance to the popular freedesktopstandards. For example, it didn't show the icons that were in my Desktop/ folder, preferring its homegrown $HOME/.ede/desktop directory. Interoperable drag and drop seems to be an unknown protocol to the desktop component, too: icons dropped onto windows just land on the desktop surface below them. EDE's menu system doesn't seem to follow the widely accepted menu specification used by package installers, leaving it up to you to manage it. There's no launch feedback for applications, either.
EDE doesn't claim to adhere to these standards. It would be highly useful if it did, though, since a lot of popular applications (for example, most Qt and GTK+2 applications) and other desktop environments build on them.
The bottom line
In summary, the EDE project is on its way to achieving its core goal of providing a fast and small working environment for users. If you like innovative user interfaces like tiling window managers, you won't be happy with EDE. Its focus is on being a conservative lightweight environment. With minor modifications, such as correcting the drag-and-drop functionality, it would be ready for deployment in a production environment. Unfortunately, development seems to move at a slow pace, so don't count on things being fixed in the near future.
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But then Jonah started doing something much odder: he started recommending another author's self-published horror novel. Not just once, but over and over again. It quickly became obvious that the Facebook Jonah Hill was not the real Jonah Hill. The Facebook account was shut down and the self-published author, who was masquerading as the actor, quickly disappeared.
Fake Jonah Hill is hardly the first fake name to endorse a product. These days, online reviews and product rankings are rife with outright fraud and ethically dubious behavior. Authors are paying for good reviews of their novels, companies are gaming the system by paying for five-star product ratings or leaving ratings themselves under fake names, and a new product review magazine even paid a research firm to prove that its product rankings were "better" than those generated by the venerable Consumer Reports. On the opposite side of the spectrum, some products get targeted by fake bad reviews, like a book about AIDS that was recently targeted by anti-circumcision activists.
The problem seems to get more and more pervasive every month: a recent survey found that by 2014 at least 10 to 15 percent of online product reviews will be fakes.
But at the same time, consumers depend on product reviews to make sure their money is well spent. "More than 60 percent of consumers read online reviews before making a purchase, and close to three-fourths trust online reviews from any source," says Andrew Schrage, co-owner of the Money Crashers personal finance website.
So how do you know if a product review online is honest and trustworthy? "For customers, the best solution is to not trust a single site in isolation," says Mike Essex, online marketing manager for Koozai, a London-based digital marketing agency. "Check multiple sites for reviews and try to find a group opinion."
Brian Sheridan, development and marketing manager for the Council for Watershed Health in Los Angeles, says "the best way to trust a review is to look at the number of responses." The more good responses or replies a review has, the more likely it is to be real.
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There are a few episodes of The Cosby Show that make me cry. Probably as much for their unrealistic portrayals of black life that looked nothing like my real-life experiences as for the happily-ever-after endings that concluded every 30 minute segment. The things I found most believable and desirable, however, were not necessarily the brownstone in Brooklyn, discretionary funds, or inevitable success of five children…ironically, for me, the thing that made me cry was the "daddy-is-in-the-house-and-gives-a-damn" storyline (which was the most un-real and the most tear inspiring). Nevermind the fact that daddy was a doctor, mama was a lawyer, and they had five well mannered and well adjusted children who did not suffer from a lack of attention, affection, or supervision (imagine that no premarital sex or pregnancy, no drug experimentation, no disciplinary problems, etc.).
I grew up in a full house but with female father-figures because my biological didn't bother–and divided time between my mother, othermothers, grandmother and pseudo aunties and cousins. We were NOT the Huxtables. But it is not the traditional, nuclear family structure that most turns my heart upside down—it was the lovingly strict and humorous way with which Cliff handled his children–loved his children. One episode in particular made me cry for hours after it was over (the "Father's Day" episode, season 1). In the episode Cliff reminisces about various father's day gifts he has received from his children and complains that they always give their mother the "good" gifts. After being confronted by their father with the various useless items they have either made or purchased for him over the years, the children decide to celebrate Father's Day early (even though it is Christmastime) to show Cliff how much they love and appreciate him. The gifts represent their personal relationship with their father and their observations of his needs and appreciation of his being a good father.
I couldn't stop crying. While I am not 100% sure that the tears were not hormone-driven (I may have been pre-menstrual) or that I would have the same reaction watching the same episode now, something in me moved that day and every other day when I think about the impact of not being a daddy's girl. I have a recovered relationship with my father (meaning the wounds are healed and covered with band-aids) but I still find it difficult on birthdays and holidays to find a card that truly represents our relationship. They don't have deadbeat daddy cards. There is not a greeting card that acknowledges "you were never there for me…but I love you anyway," or "I can remember the time I needed you and you were not there," etc. I usually opt for a blank card and write my own words, or get a generic card that could just as easily go to someone I barely know. With cards, however, it is the thought that counts.
I remember thinking how lucky Rudy was (we are almost the same age) and wanting so desperately (but eventually outgrowing) to be a daddy's girl. All these years later and instead of being daddy's little girl I am a grown woman negotiating daddy issues. Daddy issues manifest themselves in many ways—as a teenager (and in my 20s) they led me to attract men who were unavailable or uninterested (in me) so that I could correct in me what was never right with Daddy. My tantrums (various culminations of begging, pleading, kicking, screaming, crying) never worked to win the men over, but it never stopped me from wanting their attention and affection–even if it meant waiting (patiently and diligently). Even when it meant believing lies.
I have been actively forgiving my father for years. When I think about it, it is so much bigger than I'm sorry. My father could never say he is sorry enough to make up for how his treatment and dismissal of me as a child has affected how I see myself, how I see men, and how I see relationships. Its all broken, and in some ways I am broken, and him being sorry or saying sorry isn't enough. But it is a start.
It was selfish of him to make a daughter and then walk away—to prioritize everything above me—to not give me a semblance of balance between loving myself and showing me what love looked like. The template he gave me is the template I have followed—he starved me for his love so that when he gave me any moment of attention the moments were delicious—I have always ravished the uninterrupted attention of a man.
It is a miracle I am not a whore because attention and affection are addictive. But I think I learned a long time ago, from my daddy, that some types of love are temporary. Luckily the sick one-sided love relationships I had with men who were just like my daddy ended as quickly as they started—because otherwise I may have found myself a baby's mama to a triflin' motherfucker with no prospects. My daddy issues translated into fierce independence and success because as a little black girl I was conditioned to be strong and told that I could not wrap my dreams around a man—and unlike the Huxtable kids I wasn't given an example that looked like right…
I come from a long line of absent fathers. My daddy, my mama's daddy, my grandmama's daddy (my great-great grandfather did not abandon his children, however, but worked out of the state) and I struggle with becoming the fourth generation of women in my family who try to figure out who they are and how to give (and receive) love to men who don't care enough to stay. Or leave.
The Cosby Show episode ends with children laughing around a father who would be every little girl's dream. My daddy made me laugh. And he has always been one of the most beautiful men in my life. If I were to gather all of his father's day gifts together they would probably include empty bottles I waited for him to fill and issues I am ready to pour out.


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Conde Nast cites political whiz kid
Is Jonathan Krohn — the onetime child conservative turned teenage progressive — now a star for simply having a change of heart?
M magazine seems to think so. The Condé Nast magazine, whose latest issue features Bradley Cooper on the cover, highlights Krohn as one of its "Ambitionists," a roster of talented shapers that includes Drake and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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Krohn is highlighted for his ambition "to rule the future," according to the magazine.
"Fox News and Newt Gingrich loved Jonathan Krohn's book, 'Defining Conservatism,' which he wrote when he was 13. These days, the NYU freshman 'has nothing to do with' the GOP limelight, instead preferring to read philosophy journals and study film. 'I don't engage with big ideas,' he says. 'Engaging with big ideas doesn't get it done.' Ideologues, he maintains are all too common. Although he now admits to 'left-leaning' sympathies, don't expect to find him writing for the Huffington Post. 'I'm out of politics,' he says. Unless, of course, he's satirizing it."
Krohn is joined on the list by Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein (ambition: "to cut through the crap") and the Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver.


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Correctly sizing an electric motor for a hydraulic power unit is a straightforward procedure. And if load pressure and flow remain fairly constant, determining the power requirement is relatively simple by using the familiar equation:
hp = (q × p) ÷ (1714 × EM)
q is flow, gpm (and accounts for the pump's volumetric efficiency)
p is system pressure at full load, psi, and
EM is the pump's mechanical efficiency
For example, assume an application requires a flow of 13.7 gpm at a maximum pressure of 2000 psi, and with a pump efficiency of 0.80. From the equation above:
hp = (13.7 × 2000) ÷ (1714 × 0.80) = 20 hp.
It may seem that an internal-combustion engine as the prime mover would have the same power rating as an electric motor. However, the general rule of thumb is to specify an internal-combustion engine with a power rating 2½ times that of an equivalent electric motor. This is due to the fact that internal combustion engines have different torque-speed relationships than electric motors do. Examining the different torque characteristics will provide the understanding to make a choice based on solid reasoning — rather than putting faith in a rule of thumb.
Pump torque requirements
Power, of course, is the combination of torque and rotational speed. A pump's torque requirement is the main factor that determines whether a motor or engine is suitable for an application. Speed is less critical, because if a pump runs slowly, it will still pump fluid. However, if the prime mover does not develop enough torque to drive the pump, the pump will not produce any output flow.
To determine the torque required by a hydraulic pump, use the following equation:
T = (p × D) ÷ (6.28 × 12 x EM)
T is torque, lb-ft, and
D is displacement, in.3/revolution
Pump displacement is provided in manufacturer's literature. Continuing with the example introduced at left, if the pump has a displacement of 1.75 in.3/rev., required torque is calculated as follows:
T = (2000 × 1.75) ÷ (75.36 x 0.80)
T = 58 lb-ft
Torque can also be calculated using the familiar horsepower equation:
hp = T × (n ÷ 5250)
n is shaft speed, rpm.
Substituting values from the example:
T = 58 lb-ft.
Electric motor torque signature
To understand the differences in power characteristics between an electric motor and internal-combustion engine, we'll first examine characteristics of a standard 3-phase electric motor. Figure 2 shows the torque-speed relationship of a 20 hp, 1800 rpm, NEMA Design B motor. Upon receiving power, the motor develops an initial, locked-rotor torque, and the rotor turns. As the rotor accelerates, torque decreases slightly, then begins to increase as the rotor accelerates beyond about 400 rpm. This dip in the torque curve generally is referred to as the pull-up torque. Torque eventually reaches a maximum value at around 1500 rpm, which is the motor's break-down torque. As rotor speed increases beyond this point, torque applied to the rotor decreases sharply. This is know as the running torque, which becomes the full-load torque when the motor is running at its rated full-load speed — usually 1725 or 1750 rpm.
The torque-speed curve for a 3600-rpm motor would look almost identical to that of the 1800-rpm motor. The difference would be that speed values would be doubled and torque values would be halved.
Common practice is to ensure that torque required from the motor will always be less than breakdown torque. Applying torque equal to or greater than breakdown torque will cause the motor's speed to drop suddenly and severely, which will tend to stall the motor and most likely burn it out. If the motor is already running, it is possible to momentarily load a motor to near its breakdown torque. But for simplicity of discussion, assume the electric motor is selected based on full-load torque.
Note that Figure 2 shows a temporary large torque excess that can provide additional muscle to drive the hydraulic pump through momentary load increases. These types of electric motors also can be run indefinitely at their rated hp plus an additional percentage based on their service factor — generally 1.15 to 1.25 (at altitudes to 3300 ft).
Catalog ratings for electric motors list their usable power at a rated speed. If the load increases, motor speed will decrease and torque will increase to a value higher than full-load torque (but less than break-down torque). So when operating the pump at 1800 rpm, the electric motor has more than enough torque in reserve to drive the pump.
Torque behavior of engines
A gasoline engine has a torque-speed curve, Figure 3, dramatically different from an electric motor's. A gasoline engine exhibits a much less variable torque output throughout its speed range. Depending on their design, diesel engines with the same power ratings may generate slightly higher or lower torque at lower speeds than gasoline engines do, but diesels exhibit a similar torque curve throughout their operating speed range.
Calculations above determined that 58 lb-ft of torque is required to drive the pump at any speed. Referring to Figure 3, the 20-hp gasoline engine develops a maximum torque of only 31 lb-ft — clearly not enough to drive the pump. This is because its 20-hp rating is based on performance at 3600 rpm. Maximum torque occurs at speeds near 3000 rpm, but is still well below the 58 lb-ft required by the pump. Even if the engine produced enough torque at this speed, power would still be inadequate due to the lower speed.
This is where the 2½ sizing rule comes from. An HPU requiring a 20-hp electric motor to drive the pump at 1800 rpm would require a gas or diesel engine rated at about 50 hp. Moreover, these values are based on an engine operating at its maximum torque and power ratings. However, manufacturers recommend that gasoline and diesel engines only operate continuously at about 85% of their maximum rated values to prevent seriously shortening of their service lives. So referring again to Figure 3, a 20-hp gasoline engine would develop just over 26 lb-ft of maximum torque, and only 24 lb-ft at 3600 rpm.
It is also interesting to compare this performance with fuel consumption. The fuel consumption chart, Figure 4, shows that a 20-hp gasoline engine achieves greatest fuel efficiency at about 2400 rpm, where it consumes just over 8.2 lb/hr (0.41 lb/hp × 20 hp). At 3600 rpm, the engine would be considerably less fuel efficient.
Actions to be taken
By now it should be clear that specifying a gasoline or diesel engine to drive a hydraulic power unit follows a different procedure than that for specifying an electric motor. If you are accustomed to specifying electric motors for hydraulic power units, you may be tempted to size a pump to be driven at 1800 rpm, then specify an oversized motor that can develop enough torque to drive the pump at this speed. This technique will produce a reliable power unit, but one that is relatively heavy, bulky, inefficient, and noisy.
Instead of following this procedure, any of several options should be considered. One would be to drive the pump at a speed higher than 1800 rpm. Pump literature for mobile equipment should list ratings at a variety of speeds. If it doesn't, consult the pump manufacturer. Driving the pump at a higher speed decreases its required displacement, thereby reducing its size, weight, and torque requirement. So operating the power unit at higher speed more closely matches engine performance to the application by increasing torque produced by the engine and reducing the torque required by the pump.
More specifically, operating the pump in our example at 2800 rpm would increase engine torque to more than 30 lb-ft and reduce torque required by the pump to perhaps 38 lb-ft. Although the engine torque still would fall short of that required, it obviously comes much closer to matching pump torque than when operating at 1800 rpm.
Designers may be tempted to run a gas or diesel engine at or near the speed at which it exhibits optimum fuel efficiency. However, an operating speed where the engine produces maximum torque generally takes priority. This is because if the engine doesn't generate enough torque at its optimum fuel efficiency speed, a larger engine would be required. But a larger engine consumes more fuel, which would defeat the purpose of trying to conserve fuel by operating at a specific speed.
In addition, pumps generally have a speed range at which they are most efficient. So even if an engine operates a few hundred rpm above or below its optimum fuel efficiency speed, torque produced and pump dynamics generally have a more pronounced effect on overall efficiency of the power unit. Therefore, the speed at which the gas or diesel engine operates should take all of these considerations into account.
As far as pump performance, many designs exhibit higher mechanical and volumetric efficiencies when operated at speeds greater than 1800 rpm. On the other hand, operating a pump at a speed higher than what it was designed for would reduce its service life. Therefore, it is important to choose a pump speed that offers the best combination of pump and engine performance.
Perhaps an even better alternative would be to provide a gearbox or other type of speed reducer between the engine and pump. Although this would add components to the power unit, it would increase torque and reduce speed while allowing both the engine and the pump to operate at their optimum speeds. The additional cost of the speed reducer may be offset by the lower cost of a smaller, lighter, and less-expensive engine.
Other considerations
Because gas and diesel engines do not exhibit the torque reserve of electric motors — especially when accelerating from rest — it is especially important that the pump be unloaded whenever the HPU is started. This can be done hydraulically, or mechanically through a centrifugal clutch or other type of drive element.
Finally, as with HPUs driven by electric motors, pump size — and, therefore, size of the prime mover — often can be reduced by incorporating accumulators into the hydraulic system. If the hydraulic system operates in cycles where full flow is needed only for brief periods, an accumulator can store hydraulic power during periods of low flow demand and release this energy when full flow is needed.
Ronald R. Gould, P.E., is vice president, engineering, Advance Lifts Inc., Lake Charles, IL.


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WASHINGTON – The Senate late Wednesday confirmed the nomination of Caroline Kennedy as the next U.S. ambassador to Japan.
Kennedy, a prominent author and philanthropist and the daughter of President Kennedy, was nominated for the position by President Obama in July.
The Senate confirmed Kennedy's nomination without a vote by consent.
Last month, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kennedy told the panel of her father's efforts to improve relations between the two countries after World War II.
"I would be humbled to carry forward his legacy in a small way, and represent the powerful bonds that unite our two democratic societies," she told the panel.
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This visit to Rockpool definitely has to be the highlight of my food journeys so far. For our anniversary, the Man took me to this much famed restaurant - beautiful decor, beautiful food, beautiful wine. I actually didn't believe him when he told me where we were going.
The weather was quite wet and dreary as it always seems to be during the Vivid festival but once we were inside, we instantly forgot about the rain and snugly waited for our yummies to come.
It' been a while since this visit took place so sadly, I don't remember what we actually had.
I have a thing for pretty lights.
There were only a few tables when we came in but then again, this was just the downstairs.
Always love a clean table, set up and ready.
Oh this bread! I know you're not supposed to pig out on the bread before the meal but this bread was so chewy and rustic that we couldn't help but finish it.
Creamy and savoury, this little appetizer was small but just enough to satisfy.
First course.
The blue swimmer crab and corn congee. Soft, creamy texture with familiar Asian flavours.
This was the braised pork cheeks, I think. The Man didn't like the texture of the jelly-like meat but if you're used to it, then go for it.
Second course.
This was slightly sweet but oh so lovely!
Another oriental dish for the Man.
Third course.
Date tart. The tart was very light and soft with a creamy filling and underlined with sweet dates.
I remember I was vocally expressing my delight as I ate this dish, "Mmm! Wow! I like this."
Vacherin of pandan custard, coconut parfait, jasmine sorbet and lime granita. After all these courses, the lime granita was certainly a shock of contrasting flavours.
The Man, being a fan of the sour and savoury, demolished this while I was happily lost in my date tart.
Their service is also something to note. As of today, the service has definitely been the best I've experienced.
I don't doubt all these new, themed restaurants have great food but it's a must to try out these classic fine dining restaurants. The complexity of flavours, textures, and presentation is what differentiates Rockpool from other fine dining restaurants. Each dish is beautiful and fun. Gratitude to the Man for such a fantastic night (from 'Spartacus' just in case you know it!) :)


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A memorial service held Wednesday at the New Bern Police Department�s headquarters to remember fallen police officers was attended by an assorted crowd of observers who wanted to salute the fallen heroes.
A memorial service held Wednesday at the New Bern Police Department�s headquarters to remember fallen police officers was attended by an assorted crowd of observers who wanted to salute the fallen heroes.
Two New Bern police officers have been killed. The first was Sgt. Carl Ellis Mayo Jr. His watch ended May 29, 1960. He was 33 years old.
Most recently, detective Donald Miller, 33, was shot and killed while off duty when he confronted a man who was driving recklessly in a Wilmington hospital parking lot. He was there to be by his wife�s bedside. He died Christmas Day 2001.
One of Wednesday�s invited guests, Craven County Superior Court Judge Ken Crow, said he owed his career to many, including a core of New Bern police officers.
After Crow graduated from law school 23 years ago, he came to New Bern to practice law. Former Craven County District Attorney David McFadyen hired Crow.
�He wanted me to prosecute drug and vice cases,� the judge said. �I had book knowledge and the theory of law, but no practical experience. A core group of several New Bern police officers showed me the way. I went out at night with them as they made arrests. Those officers had long, hard hours, and I am grateful that they shaped my career.�
Crow said the police officers were the best assistance in launching his career.
�I told them I work for them,� he said.
New Bern police support services manager Joseph Cowan said, �We are here to honor those who gave their life to protect others.�
Cowan said the first police officer to be killed was in 1791. Since then, 20,000 law enforcement officers have been killed, he said.
�As they get ready for their shift, they do not know what the day or night will bring,� Cowan said.
New Bern Police Chief Toussaint Summers Jr. made a short statement, inviting those attending to come inside for an open house at the police department. He also recognized former New Bern Police Chief Frank Palombo for attending.
�Thank you for being here and your support,� Summers said.
In 1962, the late President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation creating a peace officers memorial day.
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Budapest has more thermal and medicinal water springs than any other capital city in the world. Budapest's thermal waters were enjoyed by the Romans as early as the 2nd century, but it was only during the Turkish occupation of Hungary in the 16th century that the bath culture really started flourishing. Today, there are 15 public thermal baths in Budapest, not counting the private thermal spas established in some luxury hotels. The spa at the Hotel Gellért is a public bath. Some of the baths arrange special programs (like awesome parties!).
Rudas Döbrentei tér 9 (at the foot of the Buda bridgehead of the Erzsébet bridge).
Széchenyi Állatkerti körút 9–11 (in the city park).
Gellért Kelenhegyi út 4 (at the Buda bridgehead of the Szabadság bridge).
Note: before you go swashing, check with reception to make sure it´s not a male-only or female-only day at the bath of your choice!
MargaretIsland (Margit-sziget)
Budapest´s most popular park, right between Buda and Pest. Cars are forbidden so enjoy a breath of fresh air right in the City!
Though urban life is fun, at one point, we all long to be back to the arms of mother nature. In great cities it is extremely difficult to find green areas, but fortunately, the Hungarian capital has its own wonderful emerald isle! Planning to go on a long run? Would like to meditate, take a short walk,or just a chill at a peaceful place? Then MargaretIsland, with its lovely paths, blooming flowers and verdant trees is the place what you need!


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The latest instalment of the world's favourite fighting game Street Fighter V hit PlayStation 4 and PC recently but does it live up to the inevitable hype?
To tell the truth as a huge Street Fighter fanboy it is difficult to be objective when it comes to Capcom's legendary series.
But the overwhelming feeling I get having spent many hours playing through SFV is that I'm reviewing it at the wrong time.
The game just doesn't feel finished.
With so much great content - including a fight store to purchase lots more characters and the like - planned for its first major update in March, perhaps that is the time to give a true assessment of the overall package.
Much was made of the playable story mode in SFV pre-launch but for me it is the biggest turkey in the game.
While the art work is fantastic, the actual storyboard, script and voice acting are awful... almost laughable.
In mitigation, though, the stories serve as a prologue for the Street Fighter V cinematic story expansion, which will be released in June 2016 as a free update to all players. Another reason perhaps that scoring SFV at the moment could prove premature.
But Street Fighter has never been about storylines, it has always been about blood pumping 100mph fighting action.
And in this most crucial area the franchise continues to deliver and then some.
Focus attacks, which many gamers complained slowed down the action in the last game, are no more, instead being replaced by V-Triggers, the 'V' standing for Variable.
This is a clever introduction and gives the game huge variety.
Each character's V-Trigger move works in a different way so for example Ryu enters a powered up state from which he can do extra damage and guard break while Chun-Li's V-Trigger gives her attacks extra hits.
Charlie has a teleport, M. Bison improved movement and new combos and so on.
The V-Triggers can't just be button mashed so will take some mastering and fighters will need a full V-Gauge to use them. How do you build the V gauge? By taking damage.
V-Skill move (MP + MK) is a defensive option that, again, works differently for each character. Unlike the V-Trigger and V-Reversal abilities, V-Skill does not require any meter to use, so you can use it at will.
Ultra Combos have been replaced with Critical Arts and you will need a full EX meter to use it. Pull them off and you guessed it, they will do a massive amount of damage.
Online play has been smooth for me and while SFV is far from perfect at launch it is still an immense fighter warts and all.
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Katy Perry has hinted her new single Roar is about her on/off boyfriend John Mayer.
The singer has scored a big hit with her latest single, soaring to the top of the pop charts following the song's release at the end of August after her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards.
She has now spoken about the song's inspiration, revealing she wrote the track while reeling from a break-up, leading fans to speculate the subject is her current boyfriend Mayer, who she recently reunited with after a split earlier this year.
Perry tells BBC Radio 1, "Road is a song I wrote as I was a little bit upset. I found myself having a break with my boyfriend, who I loved very much and it really hurt my heart. I said to myself, 'I need to see what is going on with me and make sure I'm all good.' When you break up with someone it's easy to say they are crazy and think it's all them, but, honestly, maybe there is 50 per cent responsibility on your behalf. It was just time for me to be honest with myself."
Mayer recently revealed he was blown away heard Roar, telling Billboard, "I remember hearing it, going like, 'Wow, what an interesting experience' to hear something that you identify as massive before it's massive… In a way you get swallowed up by it, it's so big. Because it's such an incredibly big song that it doesn't need you to tell anybody, while you're eating lunch, (that) millions of people are going to be dancing on tables to that."
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Twenty-nine men, suspected members of the Tacoma Hilltop Crips gang, have been arrested in a series of raid since Tuesday morning.
One of the men arrested, Manuel Jose Hernandez, pleaded guilty to the Toews murder in 2000. Hernandez was 12 at the time. He was sentenced to state custody until he turned 21 in October of 2008.
Since then, prosecutors say, Hernandez has been an active gang member. He was arraigned Wednesday on charges including: conspiracy, robbery, auto theft and trafficking stolen property.
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Related to lamellar corpuscle: Pacinian corpuscle, tactile corpuscle, Meissner's corpuscle, bulbous corpuscle
any small mass or body. adj., adj corpus´cular.
blood corpuscle blood cell.
colostrum c's large rounded bodies in colostrum, containing droplets of fat and sometimes a nucleus.
Krause's corpuscle end-bulb.
malpighian corpuscle the funnel-like structure constituting the beginning of the structural unit of the kidney (nephron) and comprising the malpighian capsule and its partially enclosed glomerulus. Called also renal corpuscle.
Meissner's corpuscle tactile corpuscle.
Purkinje's c's large, branched nerve cells composing the middle layer of the cortex of the cerebellum.
red corpuscle (red blood corpuscle) erythrocyte.
renal corpuscle malpighian corpuscle.
tactile corpuscle a medium-sized nerve ending in the skin, particularly the fingertips and lips; called also Meissner's corpuscle and tactile papilla.
white corpuscle (white blood corpuscle) leukocyte.
1. A small mass or body.
2. A blood cell.
Synonym(s): corpusculum
[L. corpusculum, dim. of corpus, body]
corpuscle/cor·pus·cle/ (kor´pus'l) any small mass or body.corpus´cular
blood corpuscle see under cell.
corneal corpuscles star-shaped corpuscles within the corneal spaces.
genital corpuscle a type of small encapsulated nerve ending in the mucous membranes of the genital region and the skin around the nipples.
Golgi's corpuscle Golgi tendon organ.
Hassall's corpuscles spherical or ovoid bodies found in the medulla of the thymus, composed of concentric arrays of epithelial cells which contain keratohyalin and bundles of cytoplasmic filaments.
lamellar corpuscle , lamellated corpuscle a type of large encapsulated nerve ending found throughout the body, concerned with perception of sensations.
malpighian corpuscles renal c's.
Meissner's corpuscle tactile c.
Pacini's corpuscle , pacinian corpuscle lamellated c.
paciniform corpuscles a type of rapidly adapting lamellated corpuscles responding to muscle stretch and light pressure.
red corpuscle erythrocyte.
renal corpuscles bodies forming the beginning of nephrons, each consisting of the glomerulus and glomerular capsule.
tactile corpuscle a type of medium-sized encapsulated nerve ending in the skin, chiefly in the palms and soles.
thymus corpuscles Hassall's c's.
white corpuscle leukocyte.
corpuscle(kôr′pə-səl, -pŭs′əl)
a. An unattached body cell, such as a blood or lymph cell.
b. A rounded globular mass of cells, such as the pressure receptor on certain nerve endings.
2. A discrete particle, such as a photon or an electron.
3. A minute globular particle.
cor·pus′cu·lar (kôr-pŭs′kyə-lər) adj.
Etymology: L, corpusculum, little body
1 any cell of the body.
2 a red or white blood cell. Also called corpuscule. corpuscular, adj.
1. A small mass or body.
2. A blood cell.
Synonym(s): corpusculum.
Synonym(s): corpusculum.
[L. corpusculum, dim. of corpus, body]
corpuscle(kor'pus-el) [L. corpusculum, little body]
1. Any small rounded body.
2. An encapsulated sensory nerve ending.
3. A blood cell. corpuscular (kor-pus'kyu-lar), adjective
axis corpuscle
The center of a tactile corpuscle.
blood corpuscle.
An erythrocyte or leukocyte.
bone corpuscleBone cell.
cancroid corpuscle
The characteristic nodule in cutaneous epithelioma.
cartilage corpuscleChondrocyte.
chromophil corpuscleNissl body.
chyle corpuscle
A corpuscle seen in chyle.
colloid corpuscleCorpus amylaceum.
colostrum corpuscle
A cell containing phagocytosed fat globules, present in milk secreted the first few days after parturition.
corneal corpuscle
A type of connective tissue cell found in the fibrous tissue of the cornea.
Drysdale's corpuscleSee: Drysdale's corpuscle
genital corpuscle
An encapsulated sensory nerve ending resembling a pacinian corpuscle that is found in the skin of the external genitalia and nipples.
ghost corpuscleSee: red cell ghost
Gierke's corpuscleHassall's corpuscle.
Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscleSee: Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscle
Hassall's corpuscleSee: Hassall's corpuscle
Krause's corpuscleSee: Krause's corpuscle
lymph corpuscleLymphocyte.
malpighian corpuscle
1. Renal corpuscle.
2. A malpighian body of the spleen.
Mazzoni's corpuscleSee: Krause's corpuscle.
Meissner's corpuscleSee: Meissner's corpuscle
milk corpuscle
A fat-filled globule present in milk. It represents the distal end of a mammary gland cell broken off in apocrine secretion.
pacinian corpuscle
An encapsulated nerve ending found in the dermis, subcutaneous tissue, and other connective tissue membranes; it is a sensory receptor for pressure.
Purkinje corpuscleSee: Purkinje cell
red corpuscleErythrocyte.
red blood corpuscleErythrocyte.
renal corpuscle
A glomerulus and Bowman's capsule of the nephron of a kidney, the site of glomerular filtration.Synonym: malpighian corpuscle (1) See: illustration
reticulated corpuscle
An obsolete term for reticulocyte.See: reticulocyte
Ruffini corpuscleSee: Ruffini, Angelo
splenic corpuscle
A nodule of lymphatic tissue in the spleen.
tactile corpuscle
A sensory receptor that responds to touch (e.g., Meissner's corpuscle). Tactile corpuscles are located in the dermal papillae just beneath the epidermis and are most numerous on the fingertips, toes, soles, palms, lips, nipples, and tip of the tongue.
terminal corpuscle
A nerve ending.
white corpuscleLeukocyte.
white blood corpuscleLeukocyte.
corpuscleA general term for any small, discrete, microscopic structure such as a red blood cell, a sensory nerve ending, an OSTEOCYTE or a GLOMERULUS of a kidney.
corpuscleAn old-fashioned term for a free-floating blood cell, such as a red or white blood cell. The term derives from the Latin corpusculum , the diminutive of the term for 'body'.
1. A small mass or body.
2. A blood cell.
[L. corpusculum, dim. of corpus, body]
any small mass or body.
blood c's
formed elements in the blood, i.e. erythrocytes and leukocytes.
bulbous corpuscle
temperature-sensitive nerve endorgan.
colostrum c's
large rounded bodies in colostrum, containing droplets of fat and sometimes a nucleus.
compound granular corpuscle
see gitter cells.
genital corpuscle
pressure receptor nerve-endings in the penis and clitoris.
Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscle
probably a pressure receptor; occur in hairless skin and associated mucosae, glans penis, foot pad of carnivores, hoof connective tissue.
corpuscle of Grandry
in the dermis of a duck's bill. See also corpuscle of Herbst (below).
corpuscle of Herbst
located in the dermis of the duck's bill these corpuscles are extremely sensitive to vibration.
lamellar corpuscle
pressure-sensitive nerve-endings. Called also Ruffini corpuscle.
malpighian corpuscle
see renal corpuscle (below).
Meissner corpuscle
touch-sensitive nerve receptors.
meniscoid corpuscle
touch-sensitive nerve endorgan.
pacinian c's
see pacinian corpuscle.
Purkinje's c's
large, branched nerve cells composing the middle layer of the cortex of the cerebellum.
red blood corpuscle
renal corpuscle
a tuft of capillaries enveloped by the dilated end of a renal tubule. Constitutes the beginning of the structural unit of the kidney (nephron). Called also malpighian corpuscle.
Ruffini corpuscle
see lamellar corpuscle (above).
tactile c's
medium-sized encapsulated nerve endings in the skin; called also tactile papillae.
white blood corpuscle


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Microsoft has published documentation that reveals some of the changes that will be made in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to accommodate Google's demand for third-party search integration.
Rather than complying with all of Google's demands and making the entire search system replaceable, Microsoft has provided an interface for integrating third-party search applications so that they can be established as the system default and used through several of the operating system's search entry points. An overview of the search changes made in the latest SP1 beta provides additional details.
Microsoft has also provided documentation for a simplistic protocol used for search queries. When a user performs a search using the supported search entry points, the operating system will generate a string that uses the special search protocol syntax and pass it to the default search application, which will then choose how it displays the result. This protocol could also theoretically be used by third-party applications that need to be able to transparently leverage the user's default search system.
The documentation also includes instructions that explain how to set the default search program. This process involves configuring a set of registry keys. It's a relatively straightforward process that can easily be automated by an installer program.
Microsoft's solution falls short of Google's expectations in several respects. As we have reported in the past, one of Google's primary complaints is that it isn't easy to completely turn off Vista's indexing service. This increases barriers to third-party adoption because it means that adding third-party indexers will probably negatively impact system performance. System indexers tend to be I/O intensive.
Microsoft told blogger Mary Jo Foley that the modifications to the search system in SP1 "are designed to enable a customer who chooses a third-party search solution (which has been designed to take advantage of these changes) to have easy and direct access to that solution through the Windows user-interface."
Microsoft allows third-party search tools to be used in many contexts, but the results from Vista's built-in indexer are still displayed by default in Windows Explorer, which only provides access to third-party indexers when a special Search Everywhere button is selected.
After reviewing the documentation, one can conclude that Microsoft has provided a relatively straightforward and effective mechanism for developers to use to make their program the default search tool. But much to Google's chagrin, Microsoft has not provided adequate means for integrating third-party search systems as tightly as the company's own search system.


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Good morning readers! Well, let's first get the obvious out of the way: yes, I've been gone for awhile but nothing's wrong. In fact, everything's right because I finally, finally, finally got a JOB! Yes, I am once again among the gainfully employed – woohoo! It's a little tough getting used to a set schedule once again but it's getting easier every week. This past Sunday I was actually able to spend a couple of hours in my sewing room. I know that's not a lot but it was very therapeutic. Thanks again to all of you who emailed to check on me during my absence, I'm quite flattered. 🙂
Sooooooo, when I went into my sewing room last weekend I thought I'd work on the dress pattern I'd been altering. But, I just didn't feel like working on that so I pulled out one of my summer favorites, the HP Metropolitan Deneuve Tuxedo Shirt. I've made two already and every time I wear one I wish I had a couple more. It's hot as blazes right now and I can barely stand to have anything touch me so this cool but chic tunic fits the bill.
I bought this Irish linen at Maggi's For Fine Fabrics about 15 or 16 years ago so I thought it was high time I did something with it. Since it has a woven stripe I decided to cut the bib on the bias for interest. I eliminated the placket and will use bias ties instead (like I did on my heirloom version).
I used Japanese straight tape to stabilize the front edge and the shoulders. At the front edge, I simply cut it in half with the rotary cutter so it would be hidden under my binding.
Then it was just a matter of running the front edges through my 1 1/4″ binding attachment and then running the neckline through. If you don't have a binding attachment, you would simply use your trusty Clover bias tape maker.
To make the ties, I started binding at the shoulder and then just ran the excess length through the binder.
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Justin Bieber Has a Dirty Mouth While Being Roasted During Comedy Show [VIDEO]
Justin Bieber made a surprise appearance during Chris D'Elia's set at the Laugh Factory on Friday (Dec. 13). The Boy Wonder was invited on the stage and quickly became the target of D'Elia's jokes and the punchline. He also made his own potty-mouthed comment.
Hey, he asked for it by agreeing to get on stage... And by what he wore. D'Elia let 'er rip, going to town on every aspect of The Biebs' uniform, from his leather choices to his accessories.
If you are a Belieber, take a chill pill, because this is about to get painful and ugly. Anyone over the age of 18 will appreciate the humor, since it's hilarious!
His attire was attacked first. His watch was then criticized.
The Biebs sat there on a stool, with his arms folded over his chest, grinning and taking his roasting and ribbing like a man -- even though he recently told Ryan Seacrest that he is languishing in the nebulous, in-between phase of boyhood and manhood.
At the 1:48 mark, the comedian said The Biebs f--ks himself and that's when the singer's potty mouth came to light, as he answered "And b---hes."
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