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I, like many of you, was shocked to hear that Joanne was leaving and was even more shocked when Andrew asked me if I would like to help.
Trust me, I suggested every one to fill that lone seat before me, but I do enjoy the show and think every one that works at the Rocketboom office is amazingly talented, clever and intelligent and do hope that some of that rubs off of me while I can still hang around.
The last thing I ever said to Joanne was while she was in between shooting interviews at ROFLThing. I was like, "Hey, it's professional Joanne!" and she was like, "Ha, professional Joanne? I kind of like that" and then I was like, "She spoke to me!" and ran away and cried into my screen-printed Joanne pillow.
And it was beautiful.
If I don't remain Rocketboom host, hopefully I'll still be able to talk about Space & Science every now and again. Honestly, when I read those stories and scripts I'm always gasping and am amazed at the discoveries. I wouldn't really get to learn about what was happening in those fields if it wasn't for Rocketboom and I did oh-so-love learning about Space in Primary School :P and deeply regretted opting out of Science in Year 10 at High School (when my favourite teacher left to be an artist, all my faith in learning about it died).
Some of the constructive criticism I already knew:
- Enunciate each word - I've had that problem forever. Maybe I should see a speech coach or something. I'm fairly sure it has to do something with having a lazy Aussie-accent type mouth, but I know I can change that
- Make over - I've never been a fan of make up (wore it all the time for concerts and dance competitions and theatre since I was 3 years old) or ever cared about my hair (use to just wear it in a bun for ballet all day), but if I keep getting Melissa Joan Hart comments I will have to either decide to care about it or kill myself. Honestly, there is no alternative road. Look different or die. I do NOT want to be MJH at all. It's such a terrible curse... Don't worry, even I can't tell if I'm joking or not.
- Be yourself - I don't even know who that is. But I will try to develop my own flavour. But I'm pretty boring. I love to be dreadfully serious or a class-clown prat. Let's see if I can actually learn some grace, hmm?
- Lose weight - I'm not sure if this is actually constructive. I am surprised by how many people think I am fat. It's quite shocking, actually, because it just goes to show you how the definition of fat has changed in people's mind over the years. I'll aim to be healthier and stronger anyway.
Tweet at us at rocketboom and thatgirlonline
And here are the episodes in case you did not see them or just want to watch them again because that map is just so bloody fabulous.
This is a really amazing opportunity for me to learn a lot of new things and myself, but don't forget that I'm still hard at work as the Chief Creative Officer at Hitviews - an amazing place that will guarantee you don't get forgotten as the online UGC world tries to become a 2nd Television.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
A baby boy was born. Just a day and a half shy of my trip to Michigan to begin the Midwives Alliance board meetings. I'm here now in Traverse City, tired and jet lagged, but happy to have seen my new nephew's arrival, sunny side up I might add.
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Congrats! How exciting!
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Application of an Industrial Robot in Master-Slave Teleoperation with Haptic Interface
Cabrera, Rigoberto
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The implementation of a master-slave teleoperation system as a technique to perform complex tasks in hazardous environments has been in use for several decades. The results of previous systems developed in the nuclear industry have excellent performance. However, the implementation of every use case has specific requirements that consume a lot of time and resources; the reduction of time in development and budget is an important factor of the system success nowadays. This thesis describes the implementation of a teleoperation system based in the operation of an industrial robot, the already made software, hardware tools and the interaction with a third party software for the system implementation. The main goal is to implement a conventional teleoperation system with and additional functionalities, which permit to manually manipulate the robot, control the position of the joints and provide a bilateral force-reflection as well. The development is basically divided in two systems. The first system is related with the interaction of the hardware and software that provides the basic teleoperation platform. Such system requires the knowledge of different programming languages, the know-how of mechatronic systems and a high level expertise for the integration of technologies. The second part of the system focuses on the computation of the parameters related to the dynamics of the robot and the real-time performance of the teleoperation system. The creation of interfaces for monitoring the control loops in the haptic device is the result of the implementation of this thesis work. The configuration of the teleoperation system on an industrial robot platform is the main limitation; the system has a closed-architecture, where programming or change main variables is not allowed. The implementation is limited by existing software tools and the guidelines provided by the robot manufacturer. However, these tools have the advantage of reducing the implementation time, which has a direct impact on the budget of the project. Another advantage of this implementation is the utilization of 3D software that provides a state of the arts visual environment, enhancing the user immersion. This gives the operator another tool for reference and facilitates the realization of his tasks. /Kir10


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>>>>FERMENTATION MICROBIOLOGY<<<< JUNE 3-5, 1998 Limited to 20 participants Fee: $895.00 2.1 CEUs Location: University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Bioprocess Scaleup Facility (BSF) ************************************************************ Sponsored by the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) http://www.atcc.org/workshops/workshop/ferment.html 1-800-359-7370 workshops at atcc.org ************************************************************ A three-day course designed to provide you with hands-on experience and instruction with various fermentation systems. The program will acquaint you with the techniques, methodologies, principles and applications of aerobic bacterial and fungal fermentation and anaerobic bacterial fermentation. The workshop provides an opportunity for participants to learn the principles of bacterial and fungal fermentation scale-up at the bench, as well as recent advances and up-to-date applications of this methodology. Lecture topics include an overview of fermentation, medium components and cell physiology, stoichiometry and kinetics, data analysis, oxygen consumption and transfer, computer-assisted control and monitoring, quality control and assurance,process scaleup, safety, and inoculation and sampling. Laboratory sessions include assembly and disassembly of benchtop fermentors (2-5 liter) from four different vendors, sterilization procedures, preparation of inoculum and inoculation, process sampling, measurement of optical density and glucose levels, process control, and harvesting techniques. This year the workshop has been streamlined into a three-day format. The workshop laboratory will tale place in a newly-renovated learning facility located within the University of Maryland Bioprocess Scaleup Facility (BSF) on the College Park campus. The BSF houses bioprocessing equipment for process development and optimization ranging from 1 L to 350 L. All workshop participants will examine and test large scale fermentation equipment while they perform their own experiments on benchtop units provided by four vendors. The three-day format is fast-paced but plenty of time has been allocated for discussions with the workshop faculty. Faculty: William Bentley, Ph.D., Director, Bioprocess Scale-up Facility, University of Maryland College Park (Workshop Co-Director); Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., University of Illinois (Workshop Co-Director); Gregory Payne, Ph.D., Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Govind Rao, Ph.D., Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Terry Chase, Manager Bioprocess Scale-up Facility, University of Maryland College Park. -- ****************************************************************************** Ken Carter ^ American Type Culture Collection / | \ (301) 231-5525 12301 Parklawn Drive /___|___\__ fax:(301) 816-4364 Rockville, Maryland 20852 \______/ kcarter at atcc.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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McCain Gets No Love From Russia
Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, told the BBC the campaign had not itself received any complaints from the mission and that "it sounds like they're having a little fun at our expense".
[Election 2008]
Black Star News Editor's Note: The following article was published on bbc.co.uk under the headline
"Russians reject McCain cash plea". How ironic it is that Senator John McCain who has been falsely accusing Senator Barack Obama of being a "Socialist" actually sent a solicitation letter to the Russian embassy --Russia was once the mother of all Socialism-- begging for campaign funding.
The Russian mission to the UN in New York says it has turned down a request from John McCain to help fund his "presidential campaign."
Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin and others received standard mail-outs asking them to help "stop the Democrats from seizing control of Washington".Spokesmen for the McCain campaign and the mission accepted the letters were "a computer error".
Mr. McCain has been a strong opponent of Russia on human rights and Georgia.Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, told the BBC the campaign had not itself received any complaints from the mission and that "it sounds like they're having a little fun at our expense".
"It's just an error," he said.
US presidential candidates are legally barred from accepting foreign donations.The letter to Mr. Churkin has a return form which carries the words: "I am proud to stand with our Republican candidates as the Obama Democrats and their wealthy liberal backers focus their attacks squarely on defeating Republicans and gaining control of our government."I want to do all I can to help stop the Democrats from seizing control of Washington and implementing their radically liberal policy for our nation."
The form then has a space for a signature over the typed name, Vitaly Churkin.On the copy the Russians released, the space is unsigned.
Ruslan Bakhtin, a spokesman for Russia's UN mission, said: "It's evident that [the letter] was a mistake. It happens."
But he also stressed: "Russian authorities are in no way engaged in funding political campaigns or political activities abroad."
Mr. McCain has opposed Moscow on a number of measures.
To evade Russia's veto in the UN Security Council he has proposed setting up an alternative body: the League of Democracies. During the Russia-Georgia conflict this summer, he said: "We are all Georgians now."
He has also proposed throwing Russia out of the G8 over its human rights record.
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For the second move of the seemingly long and uneventful offseason, the Packers acquired guard/center Duke Preston. You might already know a little about this guy – he's built like a tank (6'5, 326), versatile on the line and McCarthy thinks "he's more of an athlete." (Glad to hear we're finally getting the athletes.) But I wanted to get beyond his American beauhunk frame and delve a little into the personal side of Mr. Duke. Like, what's his favorite color? Mac or PC? Has he ever had a bratwurst? If he could only have one superpower, what would it be and why? You know, the usual.
I'm assuming Duke's been pretty busy with the offseason workouts and cruising College Ave. in Appleton because he hasn't responded to my emails yet. That's OK because I was still able to pluck a few nuggets from the world wide interweb.
His full name is Raymond Newton Preston III ("Duke" was definitely the right call.) He's a San Diego native, who lettered all four years in football and baseball – even was all-academic, which had to please Packer management. Duke's dad actually played 9 years in the NFL with the Chargers. Here's his 1980 Topps rookie card, currently selling for around $10 in mint condition on ebay – that tells you he was a decent player.
While pursuing his speech communications degree at Illinois, Duke played behind an all-American center in Luke Butkus. Luke never panned out as a pro and is a Bears O-line coach now. And if "Butkus" sounds familiar – and of course it does – it's because Luke is the nephew of Mr. Dick himself. And everyone remembers Dick Butkus as the amiable owner of Klawicki's, the apartment diner in the hit series "My Two Dads." According to IMDB and vague memories from the late 80s, Dick left the show after three years (undisclosed reasons) and the show got canned soon after, meaning the Butkus was undoubtedly the show's ubiquitious impetus. But I'm getting sidetracked here.
So how much of an impact is Duke Preston going to have on the Packers? No clue. But I can tell you he is one of the best golfers in the NFL, his favorite athlete ever in the world was Muhammed Ali, and he frequently dreams about going to school naked. (note: I could not confirm the dreams part, but hasn't everyone had that dream at one point?) Everybody say, "Hi, Duke!"


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Recent news that Android has blasted past the iPhone in smartphone market share triggered a huge brawl among fans in both camps about whether the numbers were accurate and which platform would reign supreme.
In light of this, we wanted to find out more about what makes people choose one platform over the other. So we wrote up a smartphone survey, which received more than 2,000 responses.
We've included the specific questions and responses in the slides that follow.
Here are the key points:
- Almost all of the survey participants already use smartphones
- The majority of participants use Android, with most of the rest using iPhones. (This is similar to the recent market-share figures from Comscore, although Android and iPhone appear to be over-represented and BlackBerry appears to be under-represented).
- Most survey participants are planning to upgrade to a new smartphone in the next year or two.
- Most participants say they will upgrade to the "latest, greatest" smartphone, not an older, cheaper one.
- Most survey participants are NOT planning to switch platforms when they upgrade
- Most participants say "features" and "platform" are the most important factors when choosing a smartphone. App selection is also important, but not as important as most people think.
- Most iPhone owners say they would buy an Android phone if there was an Android phone that was better in most key ways than an iPhone. This suggests the iPhone's feature lead still matters. It also suggests that the Apple platform does not have the "lock-in" that many Apple bulls believe. It also increases the pressure on the iPhone 5 to be a humdinger of an upgrade.
- Most Android users say they won't consider buying an iPhone because they "hate Apple." (We'll explore why in a future survey).
- Most of the rest of Android users say they would consider buying an iPhone if iPhones worked better with non-Apple products. This highlights the risk of Apple's closed system.
- Most iPhone owners already have the iPhone 4.
- Most iPhone owners are still planning to upgrade to the iPhone 5.
- Almost no participants are planning to buy a BlackBerry, a Windows Phone 7 phone, or Palm.


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Operator Driven Reliability
Putting the power of condition monitoring within reachOperator Driven Reliability (ODR) – a process pioneered by SKF – empowers operators to contribute proactively to a company-wide maintenance strategy. The process is built on a simple realization – that equipment operators are usually the first to detect even the smallest changes in machine conditions. SKF operator involvment starts from the first ODR project facilitation meeting where operators participate in criticality and failure mode effect analysis. The shared asset knowledge is the basis for correct operator activities.
Using the SKF Microlog Inspector series of handheld mobile computers, operators perform process parameter inspections, make minor adjustments, and record general observations of machine performance. These SKF handheld tools allow operators to communicate findings and initiate timely corrective actions. The tools also facilitate communication between departments, making it easier to implement and run an ODR program.


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Power Players: Coconut Water Energy Drinks Scoring Big With Sports Stars
By Barry Janoff
May 24, 2012: Carmelo Anthony, all-star forward for the New York Knicks, has joined a growing roster of athletes who are part of the burgeoning category of sports and energy drinks made primarily with coconut water.
Coconut water sports-energy drink company PowerCoco said it has signed a deal under which Anthony becomes not only a marketing spokesman but an investor and executive vice president of innovation.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
According to PowerCoco, Anthony "will take on an active role [and] work with PowerCoco's executive committee on the evolution of the brand, product functionality and flavor development."
Anthony will become the face of the brand via marketing and experiential activation and will "utilize his experience as a professional athlete to spread awareness about the benefits of natural hydration." The company has unveiled initial efforts via such social media sites as Facebook and Twitter.
Sales of coconut water products doubled in the U.S. and Europe in 2011, with the U.S. market estimated to be $110 million, according to industry Web site BeverageDaily.com.
In addition to PowerCoco, U.S. products include Vita Coco, which lists as endorsers MLB players Josh Hamilton (pictured) and Dustin Pedroia, surfing champion Kelly Slater and award-winning singer Rihanna; and Zico, whose Web site features 70 athlete endorsers, such as Olympic decathlete Bryan Clay, NBA all-star Kevin Garnett and surfer Bethany Hamilton.
PowerCoco describes itself as "the next generation sports drink with a formula that combines natural coconut water and electrolytes, while also being low in sugar and calories." It is available in Lemon Lime, Tangerine, Grape, Tropical Berry.
"After many years as a professional athlete, I've become more aware of the ingredients I put into my body to perform at my best," Anthony said in a statement. "There is no question that the natural ingredients and low sugar formula of PowerCoco is the best choice to keep me hydrated on and off the court. I am proud to help introduce 'The Next Generation Sports Drink' as a part of the PowerCoco movement."
According to Steve Vasquez, president of PowerCoco, "Most consumers would be shocked if they took the time to realize how much sugar exists in other sports drinks. It is clear that Carmelo shares our mission for delivering a better sports drink to the market. The PowerCoco team is looking forward to the perspective that Carmelo will bring to our brand as more than just an investor."
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LARISA BROWN and JAYA NARAIN
Daily Mail
September 18, 2012
The last remaining full-body X-ray airport scanners are to be scrapped within weeks.
The security systems, which have been tested at air terminals since 2009, scan through passengers' clothes, creating a detailed ghost-like image of the naked body. The scan is then viewed by security staff.
Critics said the machines invaded passengers' privacy and the radiation they generate raised the risk of cancer. Some Muslim groups also refused to walk through them on religious grounds.
The European Commission ruled that the cancer risk was �close to zero' but, under Brussels legislation, the three-year trial period has elapsed and it has decided not to �prioritise' them for permanent use across the continent.


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Comics Guesthouse
Comics Guesthouse is without doubt the the best place in Rome with our exclusively-designed Rooms where you can relax with all your Heroes or sleep with many comics Character...
As well all that you will enjoy our regular parties at the property and our knowledgeable and friendly international staff are always here to help.
Also, we provide free maps, free WIFI, free videos and sports that you can watch in our TV lounge, free linen and towels and some vending machine.
Incredible prices for incredible services and rooms!!!
We hope you will be having a great trip & we are looking forward to seeing you here soon!
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Check in from 2pm 8.30pm you need to inform us about your estimated time of arrival, we will cancel your booking after 9,00pm if you don't contact us.
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Payment upon arrival by cash and major credit cards (VI, VI Electron, MC, Maestro, Bancomat - NO AMEX)
Cancellation policy: 3 days advance notice
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Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 5 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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Please note that the city tax (tassa di soggiorno) of €3,5 per person per day is not included in the rates and shall be added to your balance upon arrival. This should be paid in cash to the hostel. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience. Check-in: 1200 to 2000 only. You have to advise us about your estimate time of arrival. Cancellations must be made only by email at least 4 days prior to your arrival date. If adequate notice to arrival after 20,00 is not received, we will unfortunately have to debit your card.
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From Fiumicino airport take the express train until Termini (1 ticket = € 14.00 ), local train to Tiburtina station (1 ticket = € 8.00) or taxi(48 euros flat price per car).
From Ciampino airport take Terravision Bus until Termini (1 ticket = € 6.00 ), local train to Tiburtina station (1 ticket = € 8.00) or taxi(30 euros flat price per car).
Take the metro line B to Termini (if you get off in Tiburtina) and switch with A line to Lepanto Station (about 4 stops, 1 ticket cost 1,50 € valid 75 min, metro/bus) get out from right side exit and follow the pair number , Then walk for 50 mt and you are here, across hotel Farnese
We do offer airport trasfer service at the price of 55.00 from/to apt 24/7 (per car).
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