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Suitcase nuclear device
A suitcase nuclear device (also suitcase bomb, backpack nuke, mini-nuke and pocket nuke) is a tactical nuclear weapon which uses, or is portable enough that it could use, a suitcase as its delivery method. Thus far, only the United States and the Soviet Union/Russian Federation are known to have possessed nuclear weapons programs developed and funded well enough to manufacture miniaturized nuclear weapons.[1][2] Both the United States and the Soviet Union have acknowledged producing nuclear weapons small enough to be carried in specially-designed backpacks during the Cold War, but neither have ever made public the existence or development of weapons small enough to fit into a normal-sized suitcase or briefcase. It has also been reported that Israel has produced nuclear warheads small enough to fit into a suitcase.[3]
The Center for Defense Information (CDI) claims that a detailed training replica—with dummy explosives and no fissionable material—was routinely concealed inside a briefcase and hand-carried on domestic airline flights in the early 1980s.[4][better source needed]
While the explosive power of the W54—up to an equivalent of 6 kiloton[lower-alpha 1] of TNT (though the more common yield was much lower)—is not much by the normal standards of a nuclear weapon (the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II were around 16 to 21 kilotons each), their value lies in their ability to be easily smuggled across borders, transported by means widely available, and placed as close to the target as possible.
Similar-sized weapons
In nuclear weapon design, there is a trade-off in small weapons designs between weight and compact size. Extremely small (as small as 5 inches (13 cm) diameter and 24.4 inches (62 cm) long) linear implosion type weapons, which might conceivably fit in a large briefcase or typical suitcase, have been tested, but the lightest of those are nearly 100 pounds (45 kg) and had a maximum yield of only 0.19 kiloton.[lower-alpha 2] The largest yield of a relatively compact linear implosion device was under 2 kilotons for the cancelled (or never deployed, but apparently tested) US W82-1 artillery shell design, with yield under 2 kilotons for a 95 pounds (43 kg) artillery shell 6.1 inches (15 cm) in diameter and 34 inches (86 cm) long.
The highest-ranking GRU defector Stanislav Lunev claimed that such Russian-made devices do exist and described them in more detail.[6] These devices, "identified as RA-115s (or RA-115-01s for submersible weapons)" weigh from fifty to sixty pounds. They can last for many years if wired to an electric source. In case there is a loss of power, there is a battery backup. If the battery runs low, the weapon has a transmitter that sends a coded message—either by satellite or directly to a GRU post at a Russian embassy or consulate." According to Lunev, the number of "missing" nuclear devices (as found by General Lebed) "is almost identical to the number of strategic targets upon which those bombs would be used." [6]
Lunev suggested that suitcase nukes might be already deployed by the GRU operatives on US soil to assassinate US leaders in the event of war.[6] He alleged that arms caches were hidden by the KGB in many countries for the planned terrorism acts. They were booby-trapped with "Lightning" explosive devices. One such cache, identified by Vasili Mitrokhin, exploded when Swiss authorities sprayed it with a high pressure water gun in a wooded area near Bern. Several others caches were removed successfully.[7] Lunev said that he had personally looked for hiding places for weapons caches in the Shenandoah Valley area[6] and that "it is surprisingly easy to smuggle nuclear weapons into the US" either across the Mexican border or using a small transport missile that can slip undetected when launched from a Russian airplane.[6] US Congressman Curt Weldon supported claims by Lunev but noted that Lunev had "exaggerated things" according to the FBI.[8] Searches of the areas identified by Lunev have been conducted, "but law-enforcement officials have never found such weapons caches, with or without portable nuclear weapons."[9]
United States
The lightest nuclear warhead ever acknowledged to have been manufactured by the U.S. is the W54, which was used in both the Davy Crockett 120 mm recoilless rifle–launched warhead, and the backpack-carried version called the Mk-54 SADM (Special Atomic Demolition Munition). The bare warhead package was an 11 in by 16 in (28 cm by 41 cm) cylinder that weighed 51 lbs (23 kg). It was, however, small enough to fit in a footlocker-sized container.
Former Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers has claimed that he, along with other Green Beret special forces troops, practiced infiltrating Warsaw pact countries with backpack-sized nuclear weapons, with a mission to "detonate a portable nuclear bomb."[10]
In 1994 the United States Congress passed The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994, preventing the government from developing nuclear weapons with a yield of less than 5 kilotons, thereby making the official development of these weapons in the U.S. unlawful. This law was, however, repealed in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004.[11]
See also
- ↑ The W54 test in Operation Hardtack II test Socorro on Oct 22, 1958 was the highest yield W54 family test with a yield of 6 kilotons and weighed 58.1 lb. See Hardtack 2 at the www.nuclearweapon.org website.
- ↑ The Swift nuclear device, tested in Operation Redwing's Yuma test on May 27, 1956.[5]
- ↑ Woolf, Amy F (August 10, 2009), Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons (PDF), FAS<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>.
- ↑ Shrader, K. "Suitcase nukes closer to fiction than reality". ABC News. Retrieved 2009-08-11.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Hersh, Seymour M (1991), The Samson Option, New York: Random House, p. 220, ISBN 0-394-57006-5<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>.
- ↑ Nuclear Terrorism, CDI<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>.
- ↑ Redwing Yuma, Nuclear weapon archive<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Stanislav Lunev. Through the Eyes of the Enemy: The Autobiography of Stanislav Lunev. Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1998. ISBN 0-89526-390-4.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin (1999) The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West. Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9358-8, page 475-476
- ↑ Nicholas Horrock, "FBI focusing on portable nuke threat", UPI (20 December 2001).
- ↑ Steve Goldstein and Chris Mondics, "Some Weldon-backed allegations unconfirmed; Among them: A plot to crash planes into a reactor, and missing suitcase-size Soviet atomic weapons." Philadelphia Inquirer (15 March 2006) A7.
- ↑ "A Secret Warrior Leaves the Pentagon as Quietly as He Entered".<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 Repeal of the 1994 act".<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tactical nuclear weapons.
- Suitcase Nukes by National Terror Alert Response Center
- Suitcase Nukes: Permanently Lost Luggage by SAST REPORT
- Alexander Lebed and Suitcase Nukes
- Are Suitcase Bombs Possible?
- "Suitcase Nukes": A Reassessment, 2002 article by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies
- W54 SADM photo by Brookings Institution
- Symposium: Al Qaeda's Nukes by Jamie Glazov, FrontPage Magazine, October 27, 2006.
- Article discussing the development of smaller nuclear weapons in the U.S.A.


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New Testament Canon
The Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, (272-337) had a great effect on Orthodox Christianity. With his Edict of Milan in 313, Christians had more freedom and Church leadership took aggressive public stances. As a result, Church controversies now flared into public schisms, sometimes with violence. Constantine saw the quelling of religious disorder as the divinely-appointed emperor's duty and called the 314 Council of Arles against the Donatists and the first Ecumenical Council: the First Council of Nicaea (May 20 - July 25, 325), to settle some of the doctrinal problems seen as plaguing Early Christianity. A number of early Christian writings were lost or destroyed during this time.
Early in the first century, a small group of Jews near Jerusalem started to claim that a young man named Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah. They said that the Romans had executed Jesus, and that their God Yahweh had raised him from the dead.
In the year 62, Iudaea Province began to revolt against the Romans. During this period of instability, temple priests loyal to Herod murdered the group's leader, James the Just. In the suppression of the rebellions, lasting till 135, Roman troops depopulated and destroyed much of Judaea, including the city of Jerusalem. One account of the life and teachings of Jesus, dating from this time, was written by a person named Matthew.
According to the Orthodox Fathers, the apostle Matthew, wrote his account in Aramaic. Although circulated among Jewish followers of Jesus, this Gospel of the Hebrews was little known among the churches founded by Paul of Tarsus, for even among Paul's literate followers few were fluent in Aramaic written in Hebrew script.
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According to the Fathers, the Gospel of the Hebrews or the Hebrew Gospel was authoritative and apostolic in nature. For example, Papias and Irenaeus wrote that the Apostle Matthew wrote it in "Hebrew letters

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Harsh words from Randall Munroe's XKCD regarding the achievements of America's space program. To be fair, he was good to follow up his diss by noting that "[NASA's Mars rovers] Spirit and Opportunity are pretty awesome. And Kepler. And New Horizons, Cassini, Curiosity, TiME, and Project M."
"But c'mon," he concludes, "if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the surface."
Should humanity gauge its greatest accomplishments in space on how far we can fling members of our species off the face of our home planet? Certainly not. But Munroe has a point. Not since the moon landing has humanity had a space-related accomplishment so compelling as to capture the attention of the entire planet. Wouldn't you say we're about due for one?
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For Amir Eshel, the new head of Israel's Air Force, the Holocaust is too close for him to accept a Volkswagen staff car. His mother lost a lot of relatives, so despite excellent Israeli-German military relations, Eshel refuses to use a German car. He opted instead for a Chevrolet Malibu.
Israel and Germany have enjoyed normal trade relations since 1959. Germany agreed to pay 45 million Marks in reparations and Israelis generally got over their understandable dislike of anything that came from the country that had caused the death of six million Jews. At the time, it was difficult for anyone to say no to the well-built and inexpensive Volkswagen beetle, among other quality products from the rebuilt German democracy.
Since then, many goods have flowed back and forth between the Teutonic and Jewish States. The holocaust left a mark on many peoples' lives, but as far as trade went, no hard feelings. It is believed that Israel will buy up to six more Dolphin-class submarines — nuclear warhead-carrying ones — from Germany by 2017.
But Eshel — who is famous for leading a group of three F-15 Eagles in a flyover of Auschwitz in 2003 — is sticking to his guns. We're sure the Germans will understand. (Hat tip to @JesusDiaz!)
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That's awesome. How long did it take her?
It's a very nice work she did here but tell me... your 9 years old daughter read Berserk ?
although I did have to explain to her what Bad Ass means Rhombaad!
Great going Rhombaad.
Of course she doesn't read Berserk!
Rhombaad, how dare you corrupt the mind of a child. You should be ashamed.
Wow!! I wish I had such a daughter. And she must be gifted with many other things as well.I was kinda good at knitting at her age but nowadays I can't even sew a button. I really want to have that. Doesn't she want some pocket money?


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Finally, the Mustang is coming to the UK?
Yes, but not for a while yet. This is our first look at the all-new Mustang, and though it will be available in countries other than the US, you won't be able to get one in Britain for another 18 months or so. But it will have the steering wheel on the correct - by which we mean right-hand - side.
That's the first time the Mustang's officially been sold in Europe?
Not quite. The first generation '65-'66 Mustangs were exported to Germany badged as the T5. Most of them, which only had a few cosmetic changes, were sold to US service people stationed there and shipped back to the US once their tour had finished. But there are still a few T5s blaring around the Fatherland.
So what's the news about this new - sixth? Seventh? generation - 'Stang?
So what's the news about this new - sixth? Seventh? generation - 'Stang?
It will actually be the tenth-gen model to wear the hallowed badge when it arrives, on what will be its 50th birthday. Ford has sold more than nine million of them to date, so expect this new one to see the Mustang over the 10m mark some time around 2016.
It looks like a Mustang.
It is definitely more evolutionary than radically new. And it would have been nonsense to do anything different. The successful Mustangs are those which have stayed true to the original's long bonnet, cab rearward design, so there was no need, or desire, to take any chances with this new one. But the MkX, built on the latest Ford S550 platform, is a completely fresh rethink of the classic. There's less than two per cent carry over in componentry from the current model.
What have they done to the design?
What have they done to the design?
All of the trademark 'Stang features - the shark bite grille, bluff front end, power dome on the bonnet, triple rear taillights, etc - are present and very correct. But they've all been subtly updated to be smoother and slicker than ever before. The overall design of the car highlights its length and lack of rake plus the fact that it is 38mm lower and 40mm wider. The window area is narrower, the A-pillar slightly (30mm) more rearward.
And the chassis?
The changes are more than just skin deep. The big news is that all models of the tenth-gen Mustang get independent rear suspension as standard for the first time. About time, too. Even though it has managed to perform miracles with its solid rear axle for years, the Blue Oval has finally grasped the nettle and done the right thing. The initial word is that a new V8-engined car with the optional Performance Pack has already beaten the Boss 302 - the best handling 'Stang of the current generation - around the Ford test track.
So will they all be V8s?
No, there'll be three engines in the line-up. A slightly warmer, more frugal version of the current V6, just for the US, and an uprated version of the 5.0-litre V8 that will have 'over 420bhp'. But the big announcement in the engine room is that there shall also be a 2.3-litre version of the twin-scroll turbo EcoBoost motor available, too. This, say Ford engineers, has been 'engineered for performance' and will have a power output of 'more than 305bhp'.
What? A four-cylinder engine in a Mustang?
What? A four-cylinder engine in a Mustang?
Yes, but do not be alarmed. Ford did a similar thing when it started offering an Ecoboost V6 in its F150 pick up. After everyone had got over the shock of seeing a bent six in place of the V8, they drove it, loved it and it is now one of the biggest selling models of the best selling vehicle in the US. So it could just be the right choice.
Will it be available in right hand drive?
Will it be available in right hand drive?
Yes. The new 'Stang has been designed and engineered from the start to be either right or left-hand drive. So you will be able to see when you overtake, rather than having to rely on your passenger's screams, or luck.
And what about the convertible?
And what about the convertible?
The soft-topped 'Stang - the US fly-drive holiday car of choice - gets all of the same mechanical changes as the coupe and a few of its own. Designed at the same time as the hardtop, it has a much flatter boot lid and generally looks a lot tidier, less fussy with the roof down than the current car. Ford isn't giving out numbers yet but promises vastly reduced scuttle shake and improved stiffness. All the hoods are now electrically rather than hydraulically operated and made out of cloth rather than vinyl. There's still a manual catch to open and close it, but now there's only one central one instead of the usual two.
So how much will it cost?
So how much will it cost?
We don't know yet. But we're hoping the base 'Stang coupe will weigh in under £30,000, which would make it a tempting proposition against, say, the Toyota GT86 and Nissan 370Z. Too far north of that and it'll bump into some very stiff competition from BMW, Audi and Mercedes. Even so, it's unlikely any of the Germans will offer quite so much bang for your buck. Sorry, quid...


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My favorite café in Konstanz, the Café Adler.
It's old fashioned and a bit kitschy, but it has a couple of lovely window seats, offers some of the best people-watching in Konstanz, serves coffee by the pot, and introduced me to the culinary delight that is the Butterbretzel. I spent many an hour reading, writing, knitting, and just hanging out in one of those two alcoves above. The younger waitress and I are facebook friends, which gives you a pretty good idea of just how often I was there.
It will be closing in three weeks. I'm glad I got a chance to say goodbye.


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It must be happy hour, I'm alone behind the bar and a long order comes in.
"21 Gin Fizz Tropicals for the Lounge?"
"Everyone in that group wants the same cocktail?"
The server assures me this is the case.
"Well, that will be a while, Egg White drinks and all. I can only make 4 at a time."
I set about making them…
"What the!?"
Someone seems to have swapped out my measuring jiggers for others I don't recognize.
Ack! I fumble around, trying to make sense out of the equipment.
Suddenly, for some reason, I'm also having a hard time remembering the recipe… Is it apricot liqeuer? How much Gin?
I awake with a start and quickly run through the Gin Fizz Tropical in my head, 2oz Plymouth Gin, 1oz Lime, 1/2 oz Orgeat, 1/2 oz Pineapple Gum, 1/2 oz Egg White. Dry shake, shake with ice. Soda.


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Readercon 20
I arrived on Friday in time for the Interfictions reading -- twelve of us reading very small bits of our stories in less than an hour, which was a lively good time. There was even room for questions afterward! People had great fun with the format, and it provided a vivid picture of what the anthologies are trying to achieve -- a great diversity of structures and approaches to fiction united by a shared sense of play.
The next event I attended was a panel on people of color in science fiction and fantasy, a panel moderated by David Anthony Durham, with panelists Cecilia Tan, Anil Menon, Tempest Bradford, and Eileen Gunn. It's a topic I find particularly interesting, important, and challenging, and one Tempest and I have talked about a bunch with each other. I was pleased that when the topic of Nisi Shawl's Filter House was raised in conjunction with a discussion of SF awards, Tempest (who was a member of the Tiptree Award jury that made Filter House a co-winner this year) was willing to bring up my review of the book as an example of how the stories can be misread and misunderstood. Tempest said that one of the things she so admired about the book is that it represents a black woman's concerns and experiences without making concessions to a perceived white readership. This then makes it, she posited, a particularly difficult book for somebody who is, for instance, a white guy, to appreciate, and especially to review. I didn't respond during the panel, because if my own inability to really appreciate the book is based on a blindness created by my identity, then I'm the last person who would be able to say that is the fact -- otherwise, it wouldn't be a blindness. Of course, I would like to think that is not the case, and that my struggle with the book is aesthetic, but I don't believe in the idea of a universal reader who is capable of disinterestedly evaluating every text (and even if I did believe in such a ridiculous idea, I would have a big problem with assuming that a white male was such a thing. White guys have gotten away for too long with thinking our experience is somehow the universal and important one). When I read the explanations by the Tiptree jury of their excitement about Filter House, I had a sharp sense of speaking a different sort of language -- I recognized the book they described, certainly, but I did not recognize the way of reading and evaluating that they offered as one that I am comfortable or even perhaps capable of for myself. That suggests to me that I am the wrong reader for the book ... but I'm not entirely sure what that means.
The difficulty I face in completely accepting Tempest's take on Filter House (and other books that similarly, and admirably, broaden the range of represented experience) is that I don't know what to do with it within the narrow and limited realm of critical evaluation. Such a view circumvents critical evaluation in a way that may, in fact, say more about the act of evaluation than anything else. The question is not only one of identity, either -- a review by someone who has little experience with science fiction of an SF novel has sometimes led me to think, "Wow, you just don't get it, do you?" Heck, I think that a lot of the time of reviews, even good ones... If a reviewer slams, or even just expresses reservations about, a book that we've found particularly affecting, is there anything that would make us think the reviewer was anything better than obtuse? At best, I feel pity for people who dislike books I really love, because they aren't able to experience the profound joy I have experienced with them. And I expect the same has, at best, been thought of me...
I am torn by the idea that a person's lack of appreciation for a certain text suggests that they have not worked hard enough to appreciate it, or have the wrong experience (either of life or reading) to appreciate it, because on one hand I think this idea is obvious -- most eight-year-olds can't make much of James Joyce -- and on the other hand I think it dodges the possibility of critical evaluation by saying that any evaluation which is not fundamentally positive is invalid.
I'm too much of a postmodernist to believe there is such a thing as objective evaluation, but I am also a great fan of negative reviews, because even when they are of books I cherish (cue the soundtrack: "Wow, you don't get it, do you?"), I am suspicious of an environment of pure appreciation. Thus, there must be room within a discourse for negative evaluation if such discourse is to have any hope of being about the art at hand. And yet it's also self-evident that readers are extraordinarily different, even when they might seem similar in all sorts of ways -- one of the things that makes talking about books so addictive is that even when you know a certain reader's proclivities and history inside-out, there will be books that reader responds to in ways that seem surprising.
Accepting subjectivity and the immense variability of reading experiences is tough for a book reviewer, though, because the rhetoric of reviews requires an illusion of objectivity, or at least an appeal to certain traditions of aesthetic evaluation -- the ability to say, without irony, that something is "good" or "bad" according to a set of precedents and traditions. Yet all precedents and traditions are the product of people interacting with each other, and thus of systems and powers that can be historicized and analyzed.
Which brings in another big question -- that of power. (And yes, I adore Bessie Head's novel A Question of Power and think anybody who doesn't is obtuse and judging from the wrong precedents and traditions!) A review is an assertion of authority and power: the authority and power to evaluate a book. Given the dynamics and history of power in the U.S. and in the literary world, I think it's foolish to pretend that a review by a white guy of a book by a black gal does not contain some potential problems, regardless of whether the review is on the whole positive or negative. Most reviewers, particularly of SF, are white males, and that's deeply limiting, because people from different backgrounds and experiences will better compensate each other's blindnesses and offer a more varied and interesting range of readings. Similarly, in referencing such white, mainstream writers as John Gardner and Flannery O'Connor in my review of Filter House, I may have reified power structures I profoundly disagree with: the examples that seemed to me to offer the clearest indication of the aesthetic criteria I was applying could perhaps even more easily be seen as valorizing the mainstream/genre dichotomy and, worse, the idea that white writers are superior to non-white writers. Yikes.
Anyway, I don't have settled thoughts on any of this, but the riffing I've done here on it shows one of the strengths of Readercon's panels and panelists -- every year, I've come away from at least one panel or discussion with lots to think about, and sometimes some really productive self-reflection. This year felt to me like the high-water mark for that.
On Friday night, I went out to eat with Liz Gorinsky, Michael Tax, and Eric Rosenfield, which gave Eric and me the opportunity to continue some of our endless discussion of genre, this time with good input and questions from Liz and Michael. Readercon was Eric's first SF convention, and it was fun to see him wrestle with how it compares (or doesn't) with non-SF get-togethers. I'm sure there will be some more posts on Wet Asphalt about all this as he continues to sift through his experiences. Eric was also one of the most prolific Tweeters of #Readercon (an amusing cult).
On Saturday, I started the day with Charlie Finlay's talk on "The Genre Roots of American Mainstream Fiction", which proved, I thought, how difficult it is to extend the idea of SF as a genre much before 1926, when Hugo Gernsback launched Amazing Stories -- and especially 1927, when he began publishing readers' letters along with their mailing addresses, allowing fans to get in touch with each other (Delany offers 1911, when Gernsback published Ralph 124C 41+, but I'm even narrower and more conservative. For good discussion of the early letters columns of SF magazines, see Justine Larbalestier's essential The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction and the additional material on her website). What was wonderful about Charlie's lecture -- aside from his lively delivery -- was the range of his references, and the marvelous writers and books he discovered in his research for the Traitor to the Crown trilogy. We're going to do an interview about this soon, so I'm not going to say anything more about it right now.....
Chip Delany and I got to have lunch together, which was great fun, because we had never met in person when he knew who I was (I had met him first in 2006, I think, at Readercon, when I talked to him briefly at the Wesleyan University Press table and told him his book The Jewel-Hinged Jaw had had a tremendous effect on me at an early age. He nodded politely and clearly thought I was a weirdo.)
A few hours later, Chip and I were on a panel with Dennis Danvers, David Hartwell, Fred Lerner, and Veronica Schanoes about "Academic Attention: Good, Bad, or Ugly". We began by naming our academic affiliations, and I began by saying I have a master's degree from Dartmouth College in Samuel R. Delany. The panel really got going once we were able to discuss some of the different experiences we'd had with science fiction in the academy in terms of how the subject has been seen within different disciplines, our particular experiences at certain institutions, and the changes in reception to the idea of SF as worthy of academic attention over the last 50 years or so. One of the strengths of the panel, I thought, was the diversity of ages -- Veronica and I have had quite different experiences from folks who tried to do academic work on SF in previous decades. At the end of the discussion, I said that in my experience, though, there is a real difference between how SF is viewed by literature professors vs. writing professors. We didn't have time to really explore this idea, which was a disappointment, because I'm very curious what other people's experiences have been with regard to such a split. The only times I've ever been told I could not do something related to SF in an academic setting was in certain writing workshops. I think, perhaps optimistically, that this is changing, though.
After the panel, I spent time in the bookshop and hanging out with various folks, including the great and glorious Victoria Blake of Underland Press, the newly generic Adam Golaski of New Genre, the wise and worldly Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld, the fantastic and science fictional Gordon van Gelder of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the small-ly beerish Jedediah Berry of Small Beer Press. Because finances are a little perilous at the moment, I worked hard not to go crazy in the bookshop, though I could not resist buying a copy of Greer Gilman's Cloud & Ashes, a book I have been anticipating for years -- I have a copy of the issue of the Century magazine with "Jack Daw's Pack" in it, and "A Crowd of Bone" is one of the most linguistically astonishing stories I know. To have those included now alongside the previously unpublished, novel-length story "Unleaving" in a book of breathtakingly beautiful design was simply irresistible.
Then I spent an hour saying goodbye to people and headed north, back to the Great State of New Hampshire, where we've had 40 days of rain, but where the sun is currently shining, hopefully as a harbinger of good things to come...


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This is not the first sketchbook I have made on here but it will be the first time I will be able to put time into one now that I have finished school and got my degree. I think my last sketchbook on here was close to two years ago which is why I am making a new one.
I will be using this sketchbook to experiment a lot as well as display my studies.


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I and my friends have been there and were scared out of our wits when she attacked us...Joe Citro alludes to our experience when he talks in some of his books about Vaughn and the shaking car...I'm Vaughn. He's never spoken to me about it, so he must have gotten the incident related to him from a third party. Believe me, what we experienced there was FAR SCARIER than what little he has written in his books about it.
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ORDER MAKING FINDINGS, IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS, AND IMPOSING A CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER PURSUANT TO SECTION 8A OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 AND SECTIONS 15(b)(6) AND 21C OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 AS TO VLADIMIR CARVALLO
On June 14, 2000, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") entered an Order Instituting Public Administrative and Cease-and-Desist Proceedings Pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act"), Sections 15(b)(6) and 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") ("Initial Order") against Respondent Vladimir Carvallo ("Carvallo").
Carvallo has submitted an Offer of Settlement of Vladimir Carvallo ("Offer") to these administrative proceedings, which the Commission has determined to accept. Solely for the purpose of these proceedings and any other proceedings brought by or on behalf of the Commission, or to which the Commission is a party, and without admitting or denying the findings herein, except as to the Commission's jurisdiction over him, the subject matter of these proceedings, and paragraph III.D, which are admitted, Carvallo consents to the entry of this Order Making Findings, Imposing Remedial Sanctions, and Imposing a Cease-and-Desist Order Pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act and Sections 15(b)(6) and 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Order"), as set forth below.
On the basis of this Order and Carvallo's Offer, the Commission finds1 that:
A. Carvallo was associated as a registered representative with various broker-dealers that were registered with the Commission, including: a) from December 1991 through August 1992, Chatfield Dean & Co.; b) from March 1995 through October 1996, Investors Associates, Inc.; c) from April 1998 through June 1999, Morgan Grant Capital Corp.; and d) from April 2000 through June 2000, Delta Asset Management. Carvallo, age 37, resides in Brooklyn, New York.
B. Carvallo participated in the public offering of Power Explorations, Inc. ("Power Explorations") and Hytk Industries, Inc. ("Hytk") stock, which at all relevant times were penny stocks.
C. From late 1999 through at least March 2000, Carvallo received bribes in exchange for causing, through brokers controlled by Carvallo, retail demand for Power Explorations and Hytk by recommending those stocks to retail customers. Carvallo did not disclose the bribes to the retail customers who purchased the stock.
D. On December 20, 2002, Carvallo pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit commercial bribery in connection with the manipulation scheme concerning Hytk stock and one count of securities fraud in connection with the manipulation scheme concerning Power Explorations stock in U.S. v. Carvallo, 100-Cr-628-006 (JGK).
E. In his plea allocution, Carvallo admitted that during 1999 and 2000, he knowingly arranged for other brokers to receive bribes in exchange for recommending Power Explorations and Hytk stock to retail clients. Carvallo did not disclose the bribes to the retail customers who purchased the stock.
F. On May 22, 2003, Carvallo was sentenced to 18 months in prison, 24 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $200,000 in restitution.
G. Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act [15 U.S.C. § 78j(b)] prohibits the use of "any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance," and Section 17(a)(1) of the Securities Act [15 U.S.C. § 77q(a)] and Rule 10b-5 under the Exchange Act [17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5] prohibit the use of "any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud." One of the "basic aim[s] of the anti-fraud provisions [of the federal securities laws] is to 'prevent rigging of the market and to permit operation of the natural law of supply and demand.'" SEC v. First Jersey Secs., Inc., 101 F.3d 1450, 1466 (2d Cir. 1996) (quoting United States v. Stein, 456 F.2d 844, 850 (2d Cir. 1972)). "This prohibition with respect to manipulative activity is not confined to any particular type of manipulation, but . . . is necessarily designed to outlaw every device 'used to persuade the public that activity in a security is the reflection of a genuine demand instead of a mirage.'" SEC v. Resch-Cassin & Co., Inc., 362 F. Supp. 964, 975 (S.D.N.Y. 1973) (citation omitted).
H. Payment of undisclosed compensation to brokers or other securities professionals to tout stocks to others for the purpose of manipulating the public market for those stocks violates the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws. See, e.g., United States v. Blitz, 533 F.2d 1329, 1338 (2d Cir. 1976) (undisclosed fees to brokers for selling stock promoted by payor violates the securities laws); United States v. Koss, 506 F.2d 1103, 1109 (2d Cir. 1974) (undisclosed kickback arrangement between representatives of group seeking to unload shares of manipulated stock and individual touting the stock violate Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act); United States v. Hayutin, 398 F.2d 944, 948-49 (2d Cir. 1968) (arranging for payment of undisclosed kickbacks to brokers held to constitute participation in market manipulation scheme); United States v. Cannistraro, 734 F. Supp. 1110, 1125 (D.N.J. 1990) (paying mutual fund managers to cause mutual funds to purchase stock promoted by payor "aptly characterize[d] as a bribery scheme" that "worked a fraud on shareholders of the Funds in violation of Rule 10b-5").
I. Carvallo willfully violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Act, Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder.
In view of the foregoing, the Commission deems it appropriate and in the public interest to impose the sanctions agreed to in Carvallo's Offer.
Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that:
1. Pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act and Section 21C of the Exchange Act, Carvallo cease and desist from committing or causing any violation and any future violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act, Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act, and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder;
2. Pursuant to Section 15(b)(6) of the Exchange Act, Carvallo be, and hereby is, barred from association with any broker or dealer.
Any reapplication for association by Carvallo will be subject to the applicable laws and regulations governing the reentry process, and reentry may be conditioned upon a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the satisfaction of any or all of the following: (a) any disgorgement ordered against Carvallo, whether or not the Commission has fully or partially waived payment of such disgorgement; (b) any arbitration award related to the conduct that served as the basis for the Commission order; (c) any self-regulatory organization arbitration award to a customer, whether or not related to the conduct that served as the basis for the Commission order; and (d) any restitution order by a self-regulatory organization, whether or not related to the conduct that served as the basis for the Commission order.
3. Carvallo be, and hereby is, barred from participating in any offering of penny stock, including: acting as a promoter, finder, consultant, agent, or other person who engages in activities with a broker, dealer or issuer for purposes of the issuance or trading in any penny stock; or inducing or attempting to induce the purchase or sale of any penny stock.
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Facing AIDS
In many ways, HIV/AIDS is still an anonymous disease, even 30 years after Americans first heard of it. The Valley AIDS Network helps those with the disease, and in the process is putting a face to it for JMU students who intern there.
By Brad Jenkins ('99)
For Becky Marksteiner, interning with Valley AIDS Network allows her to apply classroom material to real life.
Some things you can't prepare for in a classroom.
Social work student Becky Marksteiner found that out when she arrived at a client's house recently and found the man injured, and bleeding from his head. While her classwork never covered such a specific situation, she did draw on her training to remain calm and compassionate.
Marksteiner is an intern with Valley AIDS Network a non-profit that helps HIV/AIDS patients find care and resources, and helps educate the region about the disease. It is connected to JMU's Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services.
The Fairfax native's experiences did more than help her apply classroom material to real life. It put a face on a disease that, even 30 years after first being diagnosed in the United States, is still very much unknown because of lingering stigmas.
"People think we don't have that here," says Alexandra deHavilland, the network's executive director. "But it's an equal-opportunity disease. It doesn't discriminate."
Education and awareness are critical in the fight against HIV, and VAN has forged a real JMU connection, running several on-campus and community events with the help of Madison Equality, The Black Student Alliance and the University Health Center. "We have become an extremely popular place for JMU interns from public health and social work," says deHavilland. "It has been really great to see such a surge in student interest for issues surrounding HIV/AIDS. A new student organization called Madison HIV/AIDS Alliance has been very active in peer education and awareness of HIV/AIDS on JMU's campus."
A life-changer
Even though the disease is no longer the death sentence it once was because of various treatments, HIV/AIDS is still a life-changer. Those with the illness spend a lifetime buying thousand-dollar medications, dealing with stigmas and explaining their status to their partners. One client told deHavilland that every pill he took reminded him that he was ill, that he was different.
These realities confront Marksteiner and other student interns, many who grew up in middle- and upper-class homes, sheltered from the pain and poverty that can come to some with the disease. Most have never met someone with HIV/AIDS, and so many begin their internships tentatively.
"When I started, I wondered what the clients would be like," Marksteiner says. "It opened my eyes to misconceptions you may have about all kinds of things."
"[AIDS is] an equal-opportunity disease. It doesn't discriminate," says Alexandra deHavilland, executive director of the Valley AIDS Network.
Fighting the stigma
Many still think only three kinds of people get the disease: gay men, prostitutes and intravenous drug users, says deHavilland. The perception is especially prevalent in small cities and rural areas. "AIDS is still a taboo topic," she says.
The stigma causes many to remain anonymous. That includes Mark, a Valley AIDS Network client who didn't want his real name used in this story. At 46, the Augusta County man has lived with HIV/AIDS since he was 20. He came to the network for help in 2009 after moving to the area to be closer to family. At the time, he was in pain, physically and emotionally, facing numerous crises. "I was so frazzled, I didn't know what to do," he says. "I was shell-shocked, caged in." deHavilland, his case manager, stepped in and became his "mouthpiece."
Mark still struggles, but is doing better now than when he arrived, and he's even planning for the future, thinking about a job refinishing furniture.
Mark credits VAN for his well-being, and he's glad to share his story with student interns. deHavilland says that's what makes the network's internships so valuable.
"This is real life," deHavilland says. "This is what it feels like to take seven medications. This is what it feels like when I'm overwhelmed with medical bills. This is what it feels like when I'm stigmatized because of my disease. They get exposed to all these situations."
About JMU's Institute for the Innovation in Health and Human Services: When social work student Becky Marksteiner applies her classroom material to real life situations as an intern with Valley AIDS Network, there's mutual benefit for her and VAN clients. That beneficial relationship reflects the mission of JMU's Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services, a collaboration of all of the university's various health and human service programs. The value of focusing learning experiences on community needs was a fervent belief of the late IIHHS director Vida Huber, who believed such service-learning experiences provide the education experience an unparalleled authenticity.
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Huell Howser, 67, one of public television's most iconic figures, died Sunday night, his assistant Ryan Morris said. No other details were given.
His platform was traditional and unflashy — highlighting familiar and off-the-beaten-track spots all around California in public television series with titles such as "California's Gold," "Visiting," "Road Trip" and "Downtown."
But though his shows were focused on points and people of interest, it was Howser who turned into the main attraction, tackling his subjects with an awestruck curiosity and relentless enthusiasm. His upbeat boosterism accompanied an appearance that was simultaneously off-kilter and yet somehow cool, with a hint of retro — a thick, square mane of white hair, sunglasses, shirts that showed off a drill sergeant's build and huge biceps, and expressions that ranged from pleasantness to jaw-dropping wonder with some of his discoveries. Often, he wore shorts.
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Anti-Fraud: New anti-fraud programmes adopted to protect EU financial interests until 2020
Brussels, 19 December 2011, EU Anti-Fraud policy makes a substantial contribution to protecting the financial interests of the EU and Member States' budgets every year. It ensures that EU and national budgets are well protected, that the money is spent for its intended purposes and reaches its proper beneficiaries.
In order to continue its work in this field, the European Commission today adopted two proposals for the Hercule III and Pericles 2020 programmes. With a budget of 110 million euro and 7.7 million euro respectively, these programmes will run for seven years from January 2014.
Algirdas Šemeta, Commissioner for Taxation, Customs, Anti-fraud and Audit, said: "Fraud against the EU budget is not a victimless crime. It concerns all European citizens because it is everybody's money. As the EU is in the midst of a global financial crisis, it is particularly important that we protect our revenues and make sure our citizens benefit as much as possible from EU funds."
Hercule III
The Hercule III programme is dedicated to fighting fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities affecting the financial interests of the EU. It focuses in particular on cooperation between the Commission, via the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF), competent authorities in the Member States, and other European institutions and bodies.
The programme aims at ensuring equivalent protection in the Member States and in all EU institutions, bodies and agencies. Actions provided under the Hercule III programme include: technical and operational support for law enforcement authorities in the Member States in their fight against illegal cross-border activities, and professional training activities.
The previous Hercule programme produced important results such as 70 technical assistance projects that financed the purchase of sophisticated technical equipment for law enforcement agencies combating fraud, as well as anti-fraud training for over 5 300 law enforcement staff.
Pericles 2020
The Pericles 2020 programme is an exchange, assistance and training programme to strengthen the protection of euro banknotes and coins in Europe and worldwide.
Projects financed under the Pericles programme include, among others, a seminar on the "Community Strategy for the protection of the euro in the Mediterranean area", a training course on money counterfeiting in Latin America and a number of staff exchanges between authorities within and outside the EU.
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The draft Regulations will be discussed by the Council and the European Parliament, with a view to adoption by the end of 2012, so that the new programme can start on 1 January 2014.
Negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework for the whole EU budget will continue in parallel (see MEMO/11/468)
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HEY GUYS DOES SOMEBODY KNOWS THE TAB FROM MATTS HARMONICA?? i been looking it for soo long but i cant find it .. if someone know please let me know i want to play that song so bad with my harmonica.. heres the video in case thank you so much ^^
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youtube, look for midi inputs, usually popular stuff like nights of nights will have midi software inputs, then you just play the video, and watch the music scroll. It helps to have a keyboard near buy, like an eletric paino/ korg. but not ever one does so just use you laptop and move it to you piano and use it as "sheet music" per se. Its a bitch but touhou songs are pretty repetitive so like in nights of nights once you memeorize a couple portions of the song you'll be playing the full song in no time
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Got any music sheets for the song:
1. Kaerimichi - Jyukai (included in the album for Aa! Megami-sama...
2. Maiochiru Yuki no Youni - Suara (ED for White Album S1)
3. Shintouka - Jyukai (single.. ^^ hey, it's a free request anyway haha)
I can't seem to find any of these ANYWHERE. So if someone is offering free transcription, please PM me and I'll do anything at my best in return.
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Got any music sheets for the song Yuuchou Sentai Dajare Ranger (by Konata and Patty), Cosplay no Kokoroe (Patty) and Sadai Seichi Carnival (by Patty)?
I hope someone can offer free transcription...
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Ok, so I just registered and joined to pretty much ask this request.
Is there any sheet music of Last Exile- "To the Race" Preferably treble clef..
If not, I might try my hand at transposing it so I can play it on my recorder. (I usually play the Sax.)
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oh and, has anyone got sheet music(piano) for Truth by Shinkichi Mitsumune or Kodoku na Kokoro.
has anyone seen the episode, of the funeral for Asuna Cagurazaka in Negima! Magister Negi Magi? is there sum kind of.. sheet music for that? and the bit before it, the melody sounds like: DD-Sharp GD CG FB-sharp FD-sharp DG DCFC, ive heard it played, with a soft drum beat and something else i cant remember rite now.. help plz?
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EXCLUSIVEHalle Berry did NOT make any deal with soon-to-be baby daddy Olivier Martinez over who gets custody and who pays for diapers ... so says her lawyer.
Celeb lawyer Steve Kolodny tells TMZ a report in Us Weekly is bogus ... a report claiming Halle and fiance Olivier have hashed out a prenatal agreement in which he agreed to pay her child support if they break up. Kolodny says not only is there no deal, there hasn't been a discussion or even a whisper about one.
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Stationary perturbation theory is concerned with finding the changes in the discrete energy levels and the changes in the corresponding energy eigenfunctions of a system, when the Hamiltonian of a system is changed by a small amount. In this section we provide reading material regarding stationary perturbation theory, slides and homework assignments.
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text: Farmer Composes Tunes for YouTube January 3, 2013 11:00 PM Tweet © The "Daddy D" video posted recently by Kansas farmer Derek Klingenberg is a self-composed rap that pays tribute to farming and family life. In this screenshot from the video, Klingenberg reads to two of his daughters. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Nate Birt Top Producer Managing Editor Email A love of music and a passion for filmmaking prompted farmer Derek Klingenberg of Peabody, Kan., to begin producing YouTube videos several years ago. As a father to three young daughters, he wants to spotlight the importance of family. "That's the most important crop I'll ever grow," says Klingenberg, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat with his dad and two brothers. They also run a backgrounding operation for cattle on their 80-year-old farm founded by Klingenberg's grandfather, an immigrant from West Prussia. Since joining YouTube in late 2008, Klingenberg (who shares videos under the name klingpossum) has posted more than 20 clips. The latest, "Daddy D," is a self-composed rap that pays homage to family and farm life. His first post, "Bumble Bees in the Hay," features another self-written song and has been viewed more than 18,000 times. To film, Klingenberg first had to convince brother Grant to stop operating machinery, dress up in a bee suit and run around in 100-degree weather. He eventually participated in exchange for ice cream bars, says Klingenberg. He then uploaded the video to YouTube at Grant's house because he didn't have Internet at the time: Music has been a part of Klingenberg's life for some time. For three years, he and his brothers sang in a bluegrass band called The Possum Boys. The group stopped performing after brother Brett left for Mennonite seminary and two other members also left to fulfill personal commitments elsewhere. In the years since, his music has found a home on YouTube and in commercials for several local organizations and businesses. One song called "White Pickup Truck" – a parody of Toby Keith's "Red Solo Cup" – played in a commercial highlighting the Mid Kansas Cooperative. The Kansas State University graduate also turned walls in his machine shop and a new heated shed into green screens. Actors stand in front of the screens during filming. That allows him to substitute the green background with any image he wants during the production process. Klingenberg primarily seeks to entertain viewers with his videos. But he also thinks it's important to focus on the need for good parenting. That's particularly true given the emphasis on guns, not parenting, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Conn., he says. "I think our country is completely missing out that parenting is No. 1," Klingenberg says. The public should know that farmers value sustainable agriculture and want to feed the world, Klingenberg says. He encourages farmers -- whom he says are often secretive about their business practices -- to get involved in social media. "Don't be scared of it, just start clicking on things," he says. Back to news


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Knitted Tessellations: Playful and Powerful Patterns in Practice (Deluxe Edition) with Franklin HabitA hands-on introduction to the creation of tessellations: motifs that interlock without gaps or overlaps. Tessellations are as old and pervasive as design itself; they can be found in some of the most ancient examples of human craft, and were famously used in the modern era by the artist M.C. Escher.
In this class, we will begin by discussing the theories behind tessellating, and put into practice the basic techniques for designing new tessellated patterns in hand-knitted fabrics. In this expanded, six-hour edition we will also delve into eleven varieties of symmetry, and use them to create striking, original new designs.
Note: Fluency in the basics of knitting in the round (or, if it is the student's preference, speed-swatching or flat stranded colorwork). Students are offered the choice of working in knit/purl texture patterns or in two-color (stranded) knitting; those choosing the latter should be adept at it. A sense of humor, a taste for adventure, and a reasonable ability to concentrate are strongly advised.
SuppliesYarn: Choose solid or semi-solid colors with little or no halo/fuzz to obscure visibility or make ripping back difficult. Two balls in highly contrasting colorways if you wish to work in stranded colorwork; one ball if you choose to work in knit/purl texture patterns. (If the latter, white or a light solid color is preferred.)
Needles: Select circular or double-pointed needles of a size appropriate to the yarn(s) selected, according to your preference.
Notions: Stitch markers, scissors, notebook, pencils (not pens) and erasers for sketching and charting. A roll of cellophane (i.e., Scotch) tape. Five to ten 8.5x11 sheets of graph paper ruled in squares at 4 squares/inch. This paper is easily procured from shops or can be printed, free, at http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/square.html.
Students who are fluent in the use of software that can be used for charting (i.e., Illustrator, Stitch Painter) are welcome to bring laptops loaded with such software to use in class. Please be advised, however, that instruction in the use of computers and/or design software will not be provided.
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When it comes to his work, Singhal really is "the human search engine." He's been working on unpaid search at Google for more than a decade. He dreams of creating a technology similar to the computer on the starship Enterprise, that can answer questions such as "How did Alfred Nobel make his money?" At the moment, that's beyond the capability of modern search engines…but we're getting closer.
Trial and error plays a huge role in the process. Consider this: Google's search algorithm simultaneously considers more than 200 factors when ranking results. The company launched more than 500 changes to that algorithm last year alone. But according to Singhal, "Concurrently we have approximately 100 ideas floating around that people are testing – we test thousands in a year. Last year we ran around 20,000 experiments. Clearly they don't all make it out there but we run the process very scientifically."
Each algorithm change goes through the same process: build, evaluate, launch, learn, improve, repeat. A change is proposed, tested on a small scale, evaluated, scaled up, tested again, evaluated, and so forth. Vanessa Fox at Search Engine Land described a five-step process:
First, a Google engineer comes up with an idea for a signal to introduce or adjust to improve the relevance of the search engine's results.
Second, developers run the algorithm change on test data. If it runs smoothly, human raters enter the equation in a sort of blind A/B test. They take a look at search results for a wide range of queries, but aren't told which results were compiled before incorporating the change, and which came after the change. The human raters state in their reports what percentage of results became more relevant, and what percentage became less relevant.
Third, engineers tweak the algorithm and repeat step two several times to reduce the percentage of queries that become less relevant after the change. Until the ratings from human testers show that the tweak makes the results better overall, Google doesn't move this change on to the next step.
Fourth, the algorithm change goes into wider testing. Google rolls it out at one of its many data centers, and rolls out modified results to perhaps one percent of the queries that hit the center. What do searchers think of these new results? Singhal notes that searcher behavior answers that question. Searchers clicking on higher ranked pages likely means that the top results are more relevant.
Finally, Google gets a statistical analysis of the results from an independent analyst. These reports get presented once a week at search quality meetings. At these meetings, engineers examine the data, discuss the effects of the changes, and debate whether or not to roll them out more widely. Does the change improve the quality of search results overall? Is it good for the web? Can the internal systems handle it without becoming overly taxed? In these typically hour-long discussions, participants answer these questions for a number of proposed changes; some will roll out, while others will get held back for more research, development, and improvement. Some ideas might even be shelved indefinitely.
It's worth noting, by the way, that never in this process does Google consider how a change to its unpaid search algorithm will affect its revenue. Indeed, Singhal insisted, in response to a question posed after he finished his keynote address, that "no revenue measurement is included in our evaluation of a rankings change." For Google, relevance trumps everything.


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DALLAS – Stephen Curry made a tiebreaking jumper in the final second of overtime, lifting the Golden State Warriors to a 122-120 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night.
Curry finished with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Klay Thompson led Golden State with 27 points, and Jermaine O'Neal added 20.
Dallas had a three-point lead until Thompson made a 3-point shot with 1:01 remaining in regulation.
O'Neal blocked a Dallas shot with the game tied at 120, setting the stage for Curry's winning move. He dribbled the ball to the left side of the court and hit from 20 feet.
The Mavericks called timeout, but the inbounds pass failed to connect as time ran out.
Dirk Nowitzki led Dallas with 33 points and 11 rebounds. He had 16 in the Mavericks' 41-point second quarter.
Dallas dropped from seventh in the Western Conference to ninth, a half-game behind Memphis and Phoenix in the final two playoff positions.
The Mavericks also split a franchise-record, eight-game homestand, losing three of four overtime games. For the season, the Mavericks are 1-4 in overtime; the Warriors are 1-2.
Golden State led throughout the first quarter, scoring the first eight points and taking an 11-point lead at 30-19 on Jordan Crawford's layup with 11 seconds remaining.
Dallas bounced back in the second. Nowitzki banked in a 3-pointer, capping a 9-0 run that got the Mavericks within two at 30-28. Vince Carter then gave Dallas a 45-42 lead with the second of his three 3-pointers in the quarter.
Two consecutive 3s by Nowitzki stretched the lead to 62-51 with 50 seconds left in the half. Thompson's jump shot pulled Golden State to 62-53 at halftime.
In the second quarter, Nowitzki made all four of his 3-point attempts. Carter was 3 for 3 from 3-point range. Dallas was 14 for 21 from the floor, including 8 for 10 on 3s.
The Warriors outscored the Mavericks 32-19 to take an 85-81 lead into the final period.
Curry scored 11 points and O'Neal had 10 in the quarter.
Monta Ellis keyed another Dallas rally with nine fourth-quarter points. Both teams missed chances to win the game in the closing seconds of regulation.
Ellis finished with 27 points, and Brandan Wright had 14.
NOTES: Two of Golden State's big men, Andrew Bogut and David Lee, missed the game. Lee has missed three games because of a strained right hamstring. Bogut, who did not make the trip to Texas, has missed two games because of a pelvis/groin contusion. Replacing them were O'Neal, making his ninth start at center, and Draymond Green, starting for the seventh time at power forward. The Warriors dressed only 10 players. . As part of a campaign to gain Carter recognition for Sixth Man of the Year, Dallas' management gave blue "Vince for VI" T-shirts to spectators.


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Urine immunoelectrophoresis is a laboratory test that measures immunoglobulins in a urine sample.
Immunoglobulins are
See also:
Alternative Names
Immunoglobulin electrophoresis - urine; Gamma globulin electrophoresis - urine; Urine immunoglobulin electrophoresis; IEP - urine
How the test is performed
Collect a "clean-catch" (midstream) urine sample. To obtain a clean-catch sample, men or boys should wipe clean the head of the penis. Women or girls need to wash the area between the labia (lips of the vagina) with soapy water and rinse well.
As you start to urinate, allow a small amount to fall into the toilet bowl. This clears the urethra -- the tube that carries urine from the bladder and opens to the outside. Then, in a clean container, catch about 1 - 2 ounces of urine. Remove the container from the urine stream. Give the container to the health care provider or assistant.
In an infant, thoroughly wash the area around the opening of the urethra. Open a urine collection bag (a plastic bag with an adhesive paper on one end), and place it on your infant. For males, the entire penis can be placed in the bag and the adhesive attached to the skin. For females, the bag is placed over the labia. Place a diaper over the infant (bag and all).
Check your baby frequently, and remove the bag after the infant has urinated into it. For active infants, this procedure may take a couple of attempts. Lively infants can displace the bag, making it difficult to get the specimen. Drain the urine into a container for transport back to the health care provider.
The laboratory technician uses electrical charges to separate and identify various immunoglobulins in the urine.
How to prepare for the test
Your health care provider may recommend that you collect the first morning urine, which is the most concentrated.
If you are taking the collection from an infant, you may need extra collection bags.
How the test will feel
The test involves only normal urination, and there is no discomfort.
Why the test is performed
This test is used to measure the amounts of various immunoglobulins in urine. Most often, it is done after a large amount of protein is found in the urine.
Normal Values
Normally there is no, or only a small amount, of protein in the urine. When there is protein in the urine, it normally consists of mainly albumin.
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
What abnormal results mean
Immunoglobulinin the urine can result from:
- Amyloidosis
- Leukemia
- Multiple myeloma
- Kidney disorders such as
IgA nephropathyor IgM nephropathy Waldenstroms macroglobulinemia
Some people have monoclonal immunoglobulins, but do not have cancer. This is called "monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance," or MGUS.
McPherson RA, Massey HD. Laboratory evaluation of immunoglobulin function and humoral immunity. In McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henrys Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia,Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 46.
Perry MC. Plasma cell disorders. In Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap193.
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David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Yi-Bin Chen, MD, Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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A Collection of Dogs Reuniting With Veterans Returning From War — Daily Distraction
By now you've probably seen at least one video of a soldier or Marine returning home and seeing his dog for the first time. It's one of the things the Internet does that really, genuinely tugs at your heartstrings.
Watch These Older Folks Rocking Out on the Dance Floor — Daily Distraction
Well, it might not be a nightclub dance floor so much as the living room, but the point is the same: these folks just wanna dance!
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Having a trampoline in your backyard is more popular than ever, and our four-legged friends are getting in on the action.
Watch These Wedding Bouquet Tosses Go Awry — Daily Distraction
It might seem like a simple procedure, but the traditional bouquet toss at a wedding can create quite a bit of mayhem: fire, wrestling matches, multiple-bridesmaid pile-ups, you name it.
Video Proof That the Moonwalk Is a Really Tough (and Painful) Dance — Daily Distraction
Doing the Moonwalk is harder than it looks. Just ask any of these people.
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A treadmill is great for exercise. That seems simple, right? But people keep finding new—and hilariously entertaining—ways to mis-use this seemingly straightforward piece of equipment.
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Sit. Shake hands. Roll over. Express your deepest emotions about me in a concisely worded phrase.
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It's every fan's dream: you get picked to take one shot from the middle of the court, and if you make it, you win ... something pretty great. But in this glorious age of online video, you also win eternal glory.
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Ah, the old trust fall. What a great way to build bonds! Or not.
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Monkeys and apes—sometimes they look so much like us that it's almost like we're all somehow related.
Watch These Cats Opening Doors — Daily Distraction
Anyone who's ever had a cat knows that cats can find their way into just about anything. So it's particularly amusing to watch them mastering the art of opening the door. It may be simple to us, but remember: we have thumbs.
Watch These People React to Wedding Proposals — Daily Distraction
As you may be aware, today is Valentine's Day. And as you may have guessed, it's one of the most popular days for people to propose to each other.
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Grandparents are great. They bring such joy to the world, so it's nice to see what makes them happiest: becoming grandparents.
A Collection of 'Baby Powder in the Blow Dryer' Pranks — Daily Distraction
Want to do something nice for your sweetie on Valentine's Day? DON'T pull the baby-powder-in-the-blow-dryer prank. (But if you do anyway, be sure to film it, thanks!)
This Video Collection of Building Implosions Is Oddly Mesmerizing — Daily Distraction
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The city of Osage Beach has decided to delay a decision on extending its lease of electronic signs at each end of the Grand Glaize Bridge.
The city of Osage Beach has decided to delay a decision on extending its lease of electronic signs at each end of the Grand Glaize Bridge.
The board of aldermen considered extending the lease through the end of the year so the city's fall and winter activities can be promoted, along with businesses through the holiday season. The current agreement expires Oct. 6. Lamar Advertising Company would honor the original cost of $1,500 per month per board, which is discounted from the full rate of $2,500 per month.
The agenda item prompted discussion among board members as to the return on investment for the city and businesses along Osage Beach Parkway. The city decided several months ago to use the billboards as a way to promote Osage Beach businesses which purportedly have suffered economically since the expressway opened and the Parkway was closed at the west end.
Alderman John Olivarri said he is willing to consider extending the lease, but wondered if there is a way to evaluate the effectiveness of the signs.
Alderman Fred Catcott said he felt the billboards are a positive investment for the city and are worth the money.
But Olivarri said he isn't sure the signs are worth the $36,000 annual cost.
Alderman Ron Schmitt said he doesn't often see the Osage Beach messages, which rotate with those of other businesses and organizations. "I'm not sure they're worth it," he said.
Alderman Steve Kahrs wondered if the staff could find out from businesses along the Parkway if the billboards have directly impacted them.
Mayor Penny Lyons said staff would have a questionnaire at its Fall Festival booth last Saturday. In addition, Lake Media was asked to solicit feedback on the impact of the billboards for the city.
Ward II Alderman Lois Farmer announced in a letter to the city that she is resigning from the board effectively immediately so she and her husband, Les, can relocate closer to family members in Illinois.
Mayor Penny Lyons read a Resolution of Appreciation, thanking Farmer for her service, her public record and her influence on the city of Osage Beach. The resolution read in part:
"During her period of service, she made numerous valuable contributions in all areas of Osage Beach government such as serving on the Joint Sewer Board, the Community Law Enforcement Partnership Advisory Committee, the Leisure Services Advisory Committee, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee, the Planning Commission the Chautauqua Committee, the Fall Festival Committee and was instrumental in promoting public relations with military bases with the Patriotic March by members of the military from City Hall to Bagnell Dam."
Farmer received accolades from her fellow board members and staff later in the meeting.
"I'm the lucky one," Farmer responded. "And I'm going miss you all."
Even before she was elected to office, Farmer was instrumental in getting a traffic light installed at Nichols Road and Osage Beach Parkway (before it was the Parkway). The walking trail along Dude Ranch Road from Nichols Road is also one of her successes.
Mayor Lyons is expected to recommend someone to fill Farmer's unexpired term.


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"Grunge f#@ked it up for everybody. It wasn't fair at all. We were never a grunge band. You have a whole bunch of guys that used to wear plaid shirts because they were warm and now we can't wear them anymore. It screwed everything up," Dave Pirner says jokingly. "I'm glad you understand that because you're the only person that does. So why don't you print that [laughs]? "
As lead singer of Soul Asylum, Pirner can rightfully be a little jaded over their mislabeling in the early 90s. Seattle's "grunge" era was just beginning to take shape: flannel shirts, leggings, cut off shorts and Doc Marten boots became the uniform for the impressionable Generation X. A few years later, bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone, Mudhoney and Soundgarden became integral components of the soundtrack. But Soul Asylum wasn't on it. The Minneapolis natives had come along way before Kurt Cobain or Eddie Vedder were household names.
Forming in 1981 under the name Loud Fast Rules, the initial line-up consisted of Dave Pirner on drums, Dan Murphy on lead guitar, Karl Mueller on bass and Pat Morley, who would eventually take Pirner's place so Pirner could do vocals. Amid all the line-up changes, Soul Asylum was on its way to carving a niche for themselves. However, their major label debut, 1988's Hang Time, didn't exactly perform well on the charts. In 1990 And The Horse They Rode In On had a similar fate, and Soul Asylum considered breaking up. Instead, they signed with Columbia Records. And in 1992 Grave Dancers Union was certified platinum three times over.
The Grammy Award-winning single "Runaway Train" resulted in their superstar status. Next thing you know, they were performing at President Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration. Anyone with MTV at the time of the song's release may recall the video for "Runaway Train", which was directed by Tony Kaye (American History X). It involved the names and photographs of missing children, delivered in a PSA fashion.
"The song stemmed from depression. It was all about that. Then the video gave it a whole other context. It was interesting to be part of that era where people put out a video and it interpreted the song. In retrospect, it's fascinating. I'm more sensitive about missing and exploiting children," he says. "It's connected to this strange time. The director suggested we use milk cartons. We thought that was a cool idea. The song really didn't have anything to do with the video, but it was all swept up into a certain time and that's fine."
"The stars can only align that much. There was nothing insincere about any of it. There was nothing sideways about any of it. There was no ulterior motive," he continues. "Tony Kaye was kind of a messed up genius artist kind of guy. The way it all came together was amazing. He goes for very strong imagery and graphic visuals."
1995's Let Your Dim Light Shine, while not as commercially successful as the previous record, was still certified platinum and produced another Top 20 hit, "Misery."
Then things started to go somewhat south. In 1998, they put out Candy From A Stranger which flopped, and the band was dropped from Columbia's roster. Eight years would pass before Soul Asylum broke their silence with 2006's The Silver Lining. During that time, Pirner was trying to do his own thing and reassess where he wanted to go with his music career.
"We lost our bass player and I made a solo record. All of that stuff was going on. It was a period of reckoning, for sure," he recalls.
Fast forward five years and Soul Asylum has reconvened. Pirner, lead guitarist Dan Murphy, drummer Michael Bland and bassist Tommy Stinson are inching closer to releasing their new record as well as going back on the road.
"I guess we just figured 'What the hell?' It was sort of just what I do, you know? The motivation part of it is puzzling at best. We were looking for something to do other than our jobs," he explains. "I gotta tell you something really exciting. We're all going to get back in a bus. We've never been in a bus together so I'm going to have my way with these sweet, young things [laughs]."
Although their absence might not have been noticed all that much, it's a welcome return to long-time fans. They've learned some hard lessons along the way; and they're better musicians and people, for that matter. Everyone knows it's a different market now, and sales of physical albums have plummeted. The digital era is upon us, something Pirner is not necessarily for or against.
"I'm a fan of content. I don't think that it's sick and wrong to share music or anything. I started buying vinyl again because it sounds better. I think the compromise that's been made with the mp3 is terrible. They're just going to sell you that music back in a better format in another three years and everyone's a chump," he exclaims. "They're going to keep selling you Jimi Hendrix, just on another format. It doesn't make any sense. I think it's really insincere."
"It's putting a lot of people out of business. I don't know how analytical you want to be about it. You have Steve Jobs kind of selling out the whole music industry," he goes on. "I think the thrill is in the analog search. You should make it a mission. Go out of your house and go to a record store. There's a whole world out there. The non-virtual world is awesome!"


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The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is the fastest production car ever (for now), but if the previously-shown black-and-orange paint job puts you off, fear not because now they've debuted this stunning blue-tinted carbon fiber finish. Now that's a proper color.
Now, instead of those new-money orange wheels and gauche orange highlights, a subtle blue to match the country home in the Hamptons. If you hurry, you can pick one up from Charles down at the Bugatti dealer. Only $2.4 million.


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One-dimensional projectile motion (8)
Physics: How to solve kinematics problems about one-dimensional projectile motion, also known as "freefall". These videos are offered on a "pay what you like" basis. You can pay for the use of the videos at my website: http://www.freelance-teacher.com/videos.htm For a printable document containing the equations and systematic method discussed in this video series, go to my website. For a list of all the available video series, arranged in suggested viewing order, go to my website. This series of videos on one-dimensional projectile motion is intended to be watched after you have completed the previous series on general one-dimensional motion. Click here to view the previous series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J9neu_58Zc&feature=PlayList&p=F25530A4B7A94618&index=0&playnext=1 For a playlist containing all the videos in this series, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjZbNUkofWM&feature=PlayList&p=0BA7C9EC0267BB8C&index=0&playnext=1 (1) Intro (2) "g"--the magnitude of the acceleration due to gravity (3) "g", continued. The path of a one-dimensional projectile (4) The path, continued (5) The path, concluded. Summary of key points for problem-solving (6) "Freefall". The equations for one-dimensional projectile motion are the same as the equations for general one-dimensional motion (7) An example (8) The example continued (9) Another question about the same example (10) Another example (11) The example continued (12) Another question about the same example (13) Another example (14) The example concluded (15) Another example (16) The example continued (17) The example continued (18) The example continued--more about the path (19) Conceptual examples (20) More conceptual examples (21) Conceptual examples concluded tags: education college student university exam test educational study campus
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text: Today I noticed strange issue on my ispconfig 3 installation. After some debugging it was clear that anyone can send emails to local domains without authentication. I checked main.cf and sow that smtp_senders_restriction pointing to mail_access table in ispconfig database. The issue is that table is empty and I'm not sure how to add record there through ispconfig interface. Any thoughts?? Thanks in advance.