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Zupponn wrote:stubby wrote:I hope you learned your lesson and got a PC instead of another macbook.
He should just stop buying laptops altogether if he doesn't need the mobility they provide. They're much more likely to crap out on him than a desktop.
The Shadowscythe wrote:The macbooks where given to us for free as part of our universities provisions for students with learning disabilities mind, so now I have one 2000 quid paperweight and another macbook in need of another 40 quid hard drive so its no big loss in my eyes.
I swear . . . does anyone actually read the shit I post or not?
The macbooks where given to us for free as part of our universities provisions for students with learning disabilities
The macbooks where given to us for free
No money parted hands in the acquisition of the Macbooks, which where also loaded up with things like the complete adobe package, final cut pro, apple motion and a load of other software for our media degrees, but we never actually paid for them at all.
dilanski wrote:The Shadowscythe wrote:The hard drive that died wad in MacBook no.2, which is seven years old itself from MacBook no.1 - and was in the process of being backed up just as it died, taking the deity with it..
Didn't you upload that? If it's the ship I'm thinking of (Wedge shaped base with a shaft, right?) Then It's part of your full fleet upload. http://brikwars.wikispaces.com/file/vie ... 0fleet.lxf
Dilanski wins, the Diety is saved - I can now return to my other projects.


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Charlene Heaston
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2005 Track & Field Recap: Red-Shirted her 2nd year as a Gaucho.
2004 Track & Field Recap: Charlene had a fantastic freshman season for the gauchos finishing 8th at the Big West Championships in the shot put. She threw the 2nd farthest UCSB All-time Shot Put and 7th longest UCSB All-time Discus Throw.
High School: Charlene qualified for the 2003 CA HS State Meet in the shot put (3rd at NCS Finals) and discus, also qualifying in 2002 and 2001. Charlene won the Diablo Valley Athletic League Titles in both of her events in 2001, 2002 and 2003, and was named Most Valuable Field Athlete in 2003.
Personal Bests Shot Put: 45-06.50 Discus: 144-04 Hammer: 142-09

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 22, 2013) – The Twang Bangers have announced they will hold a free postgame concert, presented by ETSU Athletics and Campus Ridge, this Saturday outside Thomas Stadium.
The concert will begin shortly after the conclusion of the ETSU/Kennesaw State baseball game, which is scheduled to get underway at 2:05 p.m.
The free event is open to the public. The concert is scheduled to last an hour and a half and will be held in the grassy area near the ETSU batting cages.
This event is the first-ever postgame tailgate concert to be held at Thomas Stadium and it has been labeled "Banging with the Bucs."
"We are very excited to have The Twang Bangers be a part of this inaugural event," said Sara Hacker, Assistant Athletic Director for Corporate Development. "This is a great way to showcase our stadium to the community and we hope to continue to hold more events like this throughout the year. We also want to thank Campus Ridge for their support in putting this special day together."
In addition, the Twang Bangers are also excited to be playing at Thomas Stadium.
"There would be no Twang Bangers without ETSU and the support of the Blue and Gold Nation," said lead vocalist Wes Holtsclaw. "We certainly look forward to bringing our music to The Thom after an exciting game on Saturday. We urge all ETSU students, fellow alumni and area fans to come out, tailgate, support the team and enjoy an amazing day in Johnson City."
Starting Monday and running through Friday, trivia questions will be posted on the ETSU Athletics Facebook page (ETSU Buccaneer Athletics), while hints will be provided on the Campus Ridge Facebook page. The first person to answer the question each day on the ETSU Athletics page will win a prize pack.
Click here to access the ETSU Athletics Facebook page and click here to access the Campus Ridge Facebook page.
Based in Johnson City, The Twang Bangers formed through the Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music program at ETSU in 2008 and have performed throughout the southeastern United States. The group will play a mix of original songs, available on iTunes, as well as popular country music, southern rock and classic rock covers encompassing everyone from Luke Bryan and Eric Church to Tom Petty and the Rolling Stones.
You can find The Twang Bangers online at Facebook.com/twangbangers and Twitter at @twangbangers.
ETSU fans wanting to receive Buccaneer news, score updates, in-game promotions and much more sent to their mobile device can do so by signing up for "Buc Updates." Click here to sign up today!
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Panel Discussion To Feature CT6 Coaches Starts At 8 a.m.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The 2011 Connecticut 6 Tip-Off Breakfast will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 1 at the Hartford Marriott Downtown. The event, which is open to the public, kicks-off at 7:30 a.m. with a continental breakfast followed by a 30-minute panel discussion beginning at 8:00 a.m. The panel features all six men's basketball head coaches from the participating schools, including John Gallagher (Hartford), Howie Dickenman (CCSU), first-year head coach Sydney Johnson (Fairfield), Tom Moore (Quinnipiac), Dave Bike (Sacred Heart) and James Jones (Yale).
The cost to attend the breakfast is $10 per attendee. To make reservations, please contact Pat O'Neill at 203-432-2205 or by email at email@example.com.
The third annual Connecticut 6 Classic will be held on Friday, Nov. 11 at the Mohegan Sun Arena. The Bulldogs play Central Connecticut in the third game at 8 p.m. Hartford plays Sacred Heart in the first game at 3:30 p.m. followed by Fairfield taking on Quinnipiac.
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Students use a calorimeter made of common materials to demonstrate that energy can be measured and converted from one form to another. Hydrocarbons, such as paraffin, contain stored chemical energy; food contains stored chemical energy. The activity... (View More) uses a raw potato, a nut, a candle, an aluminum drink can, a thermometer, and a balance scale. A data sheet is included in the resource. The investigation supports material presented in chapter 1, "What is Energy?" in the textbook, Energy Flow, part of Global System Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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To report an emergency in progress, call 911.
Get help for the victim of a violent crime?
Contact Victim/Witness of Crimes in Placer County at 916-543-8000 for information and referrals.
Can I report suspected child abuse and remain anonymous?
Yes, one may remain anonymous. Please call 866-293-1940. For reporting suspected adult abuse, please call 530-886-2900.
I am concerned about the welfare and/or health of a child, who do I call?
Please contact Placer County Family and Children's Services toll free at 866-293-1940, or 916-872-6549.
Can my family and I qualify for County services if we have private insurance?
One must first exhaust all benefits from private insurance before contacting the county for additional services. Priority for county services are given to those who have Medi-Cal coverage and who meet Severely Emotionally Disturbed criteria, and those with no other form of insurance. County services are designed as "safety net" services for those who do not have access to other resources.
My teenager is having behavioral problems in school and at home, who do I call?
Please call Family and Children's Services toll free at 866-293-1940 or 916-872-6549 to determine if a youth qualifies for county services, or to receive referrals to community resources. One may also contact the school to request assistance for the problems that occur in school if they are interfering with a teenager's ability to learn.
I recently gave birth, but now am feeling depressed, lonely and confused, who do I call?
Contact the Postpartum Support International Depression Helpline at 800-944-4773. The Suicide Prevention Hotline at 800-SUICIDE (800-784-2433) or 800-273-TALK (800-273-8255) . As well as many other resources which can be found on the internet or at a local hospital.
How can I become a foster care or adoptive parent?
Placer County operates a collaborative with Sierra Forever Families, to recruit, train, and support foster and adoptive families, as well as match children needing a temporary or permanent home with available families. For more information, please contact Donna Aleccia at 530-887-9982.
Are the trainings posted to your website open to the public?
Some are open to community partners depending on the topic. Please use the contact information to question a specific training either via the telephone or via email.
The following is a list of key concepts and terms that are commonly used in the fields of mental health and substance abuse. Many of these terms have been defined by federal agencies, particularly the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. This is not an exhaustive list, but it represents many of the concepts, services, and models of care that are used by mental health and substance abuse programs, services, and systems that serve children, adolescents, and their families.
An assessment is a professional, comprehensive, and individualized review of child* and family needs that is conducted when services are first sought from a mental health professional (e.g. psychiatrist, psychologist, or social worker). The assessment of the child includes a review of physical and mental health, intelligence, school performance, family situation, and behavior in the community. An assessment also evaluates the strengths and resources of the child and family. Any decisions about treatment and supports should be made by the family and mental health professional together.
Case Management
Case management is a service that helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports (e.g. health, mental health, educational, vocational, transportation, respite care, and recreational). Case managers typically organize and coordinate services and supports for children with mental health problems and their families. While numerous case management models exist, case management can involve assessment of child and family needs, development of service plans, contact with service providers on a child or family's behalf, and work with the child and/or family to facilitate access to needed services.
Co-location is one strategy for integrating primary and behavioral health care services to address issues of access, quality, and fragmented delivery systems in children's mental health. Generally, this term refers to models whereby mental health professionals are co-located within primary care settings, or primary care clinicians are co-located within mental health programs, typically public programs. In cases where primary care settings co-locate mental health professionals, examples of models include large co-located multispecialty group practices (e.g. behavioral care and primary care), community governed nonprofit health centers, and traditional private primary care offices. In the latter, business arrangements may include an employee of a mental health agency who is "out-stationed" in the primary care office, a self-employed mental health professional who is renting or using space in the primary care office, or a mental health professional who is employed by the primary care practice. (See Resources for Further Information for information on co-location models in primary care settings.)
* For purposes of this Glossary, the term "child" is used to refer to children and adolescents from birth through 21 years of age.
Crisis residential treatment services
This term refers to short-term, 24-hour care provided in a nonhospital setting during a mental health crisis. For example, when a child becomes aggressive and uncontrollable, despite in-home supports, a parent can temporarily place the child in a crisis residential treatment service. This care is designed to avoid inpatient hospitalization, help stabilize the child, and determine the next appropriate step.
Day treatment
Day treatment includes special education, counseling, parent training, vocational training, skill building, crisis intervention, and recreational therapy, lasting at least 4 hours a day. These programs work in conjunction with, and may be provided by, mental health, recreation, and education organizations.
Diagnostic evaluation
The goals of a diagnostic evaluation (general psychiatric evaluation) are:
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition DSM-IV
The DSM-IV is the official manual of mental health problems developed by the American Psychiatric Association. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other health and mental health care providers use this reference book to understand and diagnose mental health problems. Insurance companies and health care providers also use the terms and explanations in this book when categorizing or describing mental health problems.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Primary Care (DSM-PC) Child and Adolescent
DSM-PC Child and Adolescent Version provides a step-by-step guide for the primary care clinicians to help assess, diagnose, and refer mental health conditions. It includes symptom listings for simple, comprehensive diagnoses, mental/physical disorder differential diagnosis for psychosocial problems, enhanced communication between colleagues by DSM-IV compatibility, and easy-to-use charts, tables, and text.
Dual diagnosis
A person who has both an alcohol or drug problem and an emotional/psychiatric problem is said to have a dual diagnosis.
Early intervention (EI) program
Early intervention is a process used to recognize mental, emotional, behavioral, and/or learning problems and to respond to factors that put individuals at risk of developing mental health problems before they become established and more difficult to treat. Early intervention can help children get better in less time and can prevent problems from developing or becoming worse. Early intervention processes use validated screening tools to identify children with or at risk for mental health problems; include consultation by trained professionals with parents, teachers and other caregivers; and work with children in their natural environments to provide needed supports and guidance.
The Early Intervention program was created as a result of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), originally passed by Congress in 1986. States subsequently passed legislation to support and operationalize the system.
There are two separate EI programs for young children who have or are at risk of having a disability or other special need that may affect their development, health, or education: the Infant-Toddler program covers children from birth through age two. The Preschool program covers children from three to five (or until the child enters kindergarten). Primary responsibility for each of these programs is assigned to a lead agency; these assignments vary from state to state. Children participating in the Infant-Toddler Program are eligible for such services as a multi-disciplinary evaluation, service coordination, individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP), and an array of assistive and supportive services. Agencies may render a charge for some of these services, though services cannot be denied because of a family's inability to pay. Children participating in the Preschool Program are entitled to free and appropriate special education service in the least restrictive environment through the local school system. Services may include a multi-disciplinary evaluation, Individualized Education Program (IEP), and an array of assistive and supportive services.
Emergency and Crisis Services
Crisis intervention services are used in emergency situations to provide immediate intervention or care when children are, or are at high risk of becoming, a danger to themselves or others, or are experiencing acute psychotic episodes or other emergency events (e.g. suicide). Such services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and provide screening, psychiatric evaluation, emergency intervention and treatment, stabilization services, and referral to community services and resources. Examples include telephone crisis hotlines, suicide hotlines, crisis counseling, crisis residential treatment services, crisis outreach teams, and crisis respite care.
Evidence-based practices
These are practices that research has shown to produce consistently good outcomes and applicable across varied populations.
Family Support Services
Family support services refer to help designed to keep the family together, while coping with the mental health problems that affect them. These services may include consumer information workshops, in-home supports, family therapy, parenting training, crisis services, and respite care.
Inpatient hospitalization
This term refers to intensive mental health treatment that is provided in a hospital setting 24 hours a day.
Inpatient hospitalization provides:
These services are designed to briefly assess the type and degree of a child's mental health condition to determine whether services are needed and to link a child to the most appropriate and available service. Services may include interviews, psychological testing, physical examinations, including speech/hearing, and laboratory studies.
Mental Health
Mental health is the state of successful performance of mental function, resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships with other people, and the ability to adapt to change and to cope with adversity.
Mental illness
Mental illness collectively refers to all mental disorders, defined as health conditions that are characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior (or some combination) associated with distress and/or impaired functioning. Mental disorders feature abnormalities in cognition, emotion or mood, and the highest integrative aspects of human behavior, such as social interactions.
Mental Health Problems
This term refers to signs and symptoms of insufficient intensity or duration to meet the criteria for any mental disorder.
Residential treatment centers
Residential treatment centers provide services 24 hours a day for children with serious emotional disturbances who require constant supervision and care, and can usually serve more than 12 children at a time. Treatment may include individual, group, and family therapy; behavior therapy; special education; recreation therapy; and medical services. Residential treatment is usually more long-term than inpatient hospitalization. Residential treatment centers also are known as therapeutic group homes. The primary purpose of residential treatment is to improve overall functioning, including social and behavioral skills, so the individual can function adequately in the community, either at home or independently.
Screening is a process used to inform parents and professionals about the physical, cognitive, and emotional strengths and needs of a child. It is designed to determine whether children may be at-risk of having behavioral or emotional conditions that warrant further review and/or intervention. Mental health screening is designed to identify social and emotional development needs in children as early as possible to prevent potential mental health problems from developing or worsening.
Screening is conducted by an adequately trained professional (e.g. health care provider, social worker, psychologist, or counselor) and uses objective, accurate, reliable, and validated instruments and methods.
Screening does not result in definitive statements about a child's problem nor does it draw a conclusion about a mental health disorder or diagnosis.
Serious emotional disturbances
Serious emotional disturbances are diagnosable disorders in children and adolescents that severely disrupt their daily functioning in the home, school, or community. Serious emotional disturbances may include depression, ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, conduct disorder, eating disorders, or other conditions contributing to severe functional impairment.
System of Care
System of Care is an evidence-based approach to the care of children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances and their families. It incorporates a broad array of services and supports that are organized into a coordinated network, integrate care planning and management across multiple levels, are culturally and linguistically competent, and build meaningful partnerships with families and youth at service delivery and policy levels.
Guiding principles in a System of Care specify that services should be.
Wrap-around services
Wrap-around services refer to a package of unique community services and natural supports that are flexible and tailored to meet the unique needs of children with serious emotional disturbances.
Wrap-around services are based on a definable planning process and are designed for children and their families to achieve a positive set of outcomes in the home setting.
Services are provided by multidisciplinary teams that may include case managers, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, vocational specialists, substance abuse specialists, community workers, and family members or caregivers.


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Let's look at the truth about reconditioned breakers, including when to use them and how to ensure reconditioning provides a safe and reliable breaker.
Many facilities managers use reconditioned and retrofitted circuit breakers with complete confidence. Reconditioning can decrease the number of unplanned facility outages while increasing personnel safety. This would seem obvious since you're replacing worn or damaged parts with new components. What is not so obvious is you can also add technology the breaker didn't originally have.
How to ensure a good reconditioning job. Let's put one myth to rest. You are not taking a risk to save a few bucks by reconditioning a breaker - provided you find the right firm to do the job. However, the manufacturer is not your only source of high-quality reconditioning work. You can also use a reconditioning center. Ideally, a reconditioning center will have a history with a variety of power breaker manufacturers, database of all manufacturer information, quality control process, testing program per ANSI/IEEE standards, and technician training/certification program.
What is reconditioning? The IEEE says power breaker reconditioning is "the process of maintaining existing power switchgear equipment in operating condition as recommended by the manufacturer's instructions, using only the original manufacturer's designed parts." A list of such parts could include add-ons developed since the purchase of your breaker.
High-quality reconditioning should include complete disassembly of the power breakers, component-specific cleaning and analysis, reassembly, and a final inspection and test. Then, you should log the entire testing profile into the reconditioning company's database for future breaker reference.
Depending on who does your reconditioning, you'll encounter different pricing standards and different results. A good reconditioning shop will be able to loan you a breaker while reconditioning yours. Depending on the status of the breakers, reconditioning can take anywhere from three days to three weeks.
Because reconditioning isn't just about cleaning, but also about installing the latest technology to the power breaker, a reconditioning center should be able to add diagnostic capabilities to the breakers. By installing system communications, a facility can gather trending and usage information on its entire system. Another practical purpose for power breaker communications is the ability to ensure all equipment is working efficiently, and one particular machine is not wasting energy or producing at a slower rate than others.
You know your first step is to select a qualified party to recondition your breaker, but your responsibility doesn't end there. There are many other factors to consider before you decide to ship the breaker off, including:
- Assess the breaker for suitability. Reconditioning can't always make a breaker like new. Ask the reconditioning shop how to look for signs that the breaker needs replacement rather than reconditioning. For example, a charred arc chute indicates probable damage to the breaker's structure. Reconditioning this breaker would be inappropriate.
- Consider its application. Does the interrupting rating meet the system requirements? Do the trip unit functions provide the ability to meet current system demands?
- Consider upgrades. What features would help you monitor conditions at the breaker, customize its response to conditions, or monitor equipment that breaker serves?
- Have documentation ready. You'll need one-lines, detailed drawings, maintenance procedures, process operations information, and sign-offs granting you sufficient downtime.
- Plan ahead. Arrange downtime with your operations department for all equipment served by that switchgear. Arrange to have a tested spare put in place of the breaker you're reconditioning.
Ensure adequate clearances, sufficient lighting, sufficient workspace, and sufficient expertise are all available for this project. If you are arranging for small generators to power lighting while the power is off, arrange for adequate ventilation.
- Consider other breakers. Circuit breakers more than five years old are likely candidates for reconditioning. It would be embarrassing if you reconditioned one breaker, only to have another one in the same switchgear fail a week later.
- Coordinate other maintenance. While equipment is down, test the grounding system, check the bus connections, schedule repairs and inspections you can't do without downtime, and arrange for the necessary contractors and equipment (both rented and purchased) to make it happen.
With proper preparation, reconditioning will go smoothly. Now let's look at the major reasons for reconditioning breakers.
Maintenance. On the one hand, it's not economical to completely replace circuit breakers because some key components experience wear through normal use. On the other hand, it's dangerous to assume an electrical system is safe and operating effectively just because the facility hasn't experienced an outage. But, adding breaker reconditioning to your regular maintenance plan can save you major expense.
You can compare the requirements of maintaining low- and medium-voltage breakers to the requirements for maintaining a car. Just as you would not keep driving a car with worn tires, so you would not keep running breakers with pitted contacts.
The enclosure requires little more than keeping the exterior clean and free of scratches and dents. Under the hood, though, maintenance requirements get serious. Interior components of power breakers include racking mechanisms, operating mechanisms, a frame, electrical components, and electric current feeders. These pieces need cleaning and lubrication. The charging motor of a power breaker needs testing and reconditioning to provide continual protective service. All of the steel parts require cleaning and replating. Some reconditioning centers merely "repaint" the steel parts, as opposed to cleaning and replating them. Don't settle for that: Paint can chip and crack and eventually create mechanism problems.
Legacy hardware. You might need to recondition breakers simply because of hardware constraints. Aside from the large capital expenditure that prevents facility managers from completely replacing existing switchgear and breakers, size and space requirements may play a role in your decision to recondition breakers.
For example, your old breakers may not have direct replacements. You may be able to stretch your budget to purchase a whole new switchboard, but then what about that old bus that runs to it? Rather than open a Pandora's box of electrical work, you can save time and money by reconditioning.
New construction. When doing new construction, use new breakers. New construction is a capital investment, while maintenance is an expense - savings from applying used breakers to new construction are not sufficient economic justification to go that route.
You also must consider the performance difference. Reconditioning a breaker can bring it back to a "like-new" operating condition. However, it cannot eliminate all signs of aging. Just as a car frame ages regardless of maintenance, so do breakers. While a reconditioned breaker is superior to the same breaker unreconditioned, a properly specified new breaker is superior to either.
Once reconditioned, power circuit breakers will serve their protective function while increasing the safety and uptime of the facility - as well as your peace of mind.
In the 1980s, engineers traced the sudden rash of breaker malfunctions to reconditioned breakers from certain firms. Suddenly, buyers everywhere were skittish about using any reconditioned breakers. Those few offshore companies who did the bad reconditioning didn't follow industry practices or manufacturer guidelines. These companies mislabeled their breakers, didn't test them, and often sold them as new.
The resulting furor left a stain on the breaker reconditioning industry. It's a classic "guilty by association" problem, but one that results in a lower safety level than when you use properly reconditioned breakers as part of your overall maintenance program.


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Sippey tipped us to PUBLIC Bikes, a new Rob Forbes' company. He founded Design Within Reach who have been dabbling in bikes, including the Biomega we reviewed a few years ago.
Next month they're launching simple, Dutch-style bikes with a modern look. The bike trend we spotted that started this blog continues to grow in 2010 and when guys with the juice of Rob get involved, that makes us happy.


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Best of SEMA: the DecoLiner
Like a lot of the coolest stuff at SEMA, the DecoLiner was out in the parking lot, so even the great unwashed?meaning anyone without a badge?could check it out.
It's billed as "Flash Gordon's Motorhome," and I can't think of a better way to describe this creation. Builder Randy Grubb and the Blastolene crew used a frame from a '70s motorhome and the nose from a '50s cab-over-engine truck, but everything else is a clean-paper design. As you can see, the results are striking.
The "Flying Bridge" on top has seating for five, and the coolest past are the nautical-style controls, which allowthe DecoLiner to be driven from either inside the cab or the bridge. Legal? Maybe. Awesome? You know it!


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"i order them often.. they are great!"
"I like to pick up small gifts throughout the year for my friends and family and hold on to them until an occasion arises and this is a great one."
"I use this pad for notes and messages for my work and family."
"Love the idea of adding quotes to my daily notepad as inspiration"
"Heavy paper. Crisp pictures with true to color ink and tears away from pad easily."
In today's busy life, it can be more than difficult to keep everything organized. If you are someone that likes to make lists to keep everything straight, a personalized notepad is a fun way to make sure you can get everything crossed off. You can grab a notepad and take it with you to encourage organization in all aspects of your life. Custom notepads also make great gifts and promotional products and add the right touches of personality to one's life.
Shutterfly makes it easier than ever to turn your favorite memories, artwork, and photographs into beautiful custom products. When designing your notepad, simply upload your favorite images into one of the easy-to-use templates. Utilize the design assistant to modify your notepad with custom design elements, messaging and other options to make it truly yours.
Once you realize how easy it is to create a custom notepad, you may be wondering "What other everyday objects can I personalize?" Here are just a few ideas:
- You can turn your favorite pictures or artwork into a reusable shopping bag that you will use every day. Reusable bags are perfect for carting the kid's stuff between school, sports, parks, and the beach.
- Are you a coffee lover, or is there one in your life? A custom latte mug is a fun way to greet each day and guaranteed to help you start each morning with a smile.
- Need to thank someone for all that they do? A personalized desk plaque is an elegant way to say "thank you."
With Shutterfly, it is easier than ever to turn your favorite memories into beautiful gifts, decorations, and products that you (and the ones you love) can use every single day.
Organization and list-making do not have to be boring. Whether you are looking for a way to spruce up your desk at home or in the office, creating personalized stationery is a fun way to add a little extra pizazz into your everyday life. Shutterfly is here to help you keep track of all the things you need to do while having a little fun as you take care of business.


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Before & After: Craigslist Coffee Table To Tufted Ottoman
Tufted ottomans are a great solution for many small spaces that need something that can not only serve as extra seating but also as spot to set a tray down in a pinch - but they are often quite expensive. Over at Five Days ... Five Ways they repurposed an old coffee table that had seen better days into a fantastic looking tufted ottoman.
Considering that these ottomans usually run new in the many hundreds of dollars the cost breakdown for this project is quite impressive.
- Coffee table: $40
- Foam: $24
- Quilt batting: $8
- Buttons: $6
- Paint: $3
- Upholstery thread + Needles: $8
- Nail-head trim: $12
- Fabric: $15
See the entire tutorial at Five Days...Five Ways.
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SARASOTA, Fla. -- Right-hander Chris Tillman pitched 1 2/3 innings in his first Grapefruit League start of the year, allowing no runs on one hit and two walks in Wednesday night's split-squad game against the Boston Red Sox at Ed Smith Stadium.
Tillman threw 43 pitches, 22 of them for strikes. He labored a bit, but said he was OK with his performance.
"Yeah, first time out, I'm not really disappointed,'' Tillman said. "I felt OK. Command was spotty at best. I guess you kind of expect that the first time out, but other than that I felt pretty good."
If the mission was to get out there and air it out, it was a successful outing. His velocity topped out at 93 mph.
"You try to work on fastball command early,'' Tillman said. "That's what it's all about the first time out. Mix up my pitches. Fastball, changeup there. Breaking stuff is not where it needs to be right now, but that's typical at this time in spring."


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SOURCE: Threshold Pharmaceuticals
April 11, 2012 07:30 ET
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Apr 11, 2012) - Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: THLD) today announced it has earned a $20 million milestone payment from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, for achieving a statistically significant progression free survival benefit in its 214-patient randomized controlled Phase 2 clinical trial ("404 trial") evaluating the efficacy and safety of two doses of TH-302, a hypoxia-targeted drug, in combination with gemcitabine compared to gemcitabine alone in patients with first-line advanced pancreatic cancer. The observed safety profile was consistent with previous studies of TH-302. These results were recently presented at the American Association of Cancer Research 2012 Annual Meeting in Chicago.
"The achievement of this milestone validates the encouraging results seen in our 404 trial," said Barry Selick, Ph.D., CEO of Threshold. "We look forward to working in collaboration with Merck to rapidly determine next steps and move forward in this disease where few advances have been made."
Under the terms of the agreement with Merck announced in early February, Threshold was entitled to an upfront payment of $25 million, which has now been received following the termination of the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.
About TH-302
TH-302 is a hypoxia-targeted drug that is thought to be activated under tumor hypoxic conditions, a hallmark of many cancer indications. Areas of low oxygen levels (hypoxia) within tissues are common in many solid tumors due to insufficient blood vessel growth. Similarly, the bone marrow of patients with hematological malignancies has also been shown, in some cases, to be extremely hypoxic.
TH-302 has been investigated in over 600 patients in Phase 1/2 clinical trials to date in a broad spectrum of tumor types, both as a monotherapy and in combination with chemotherapy treatments and other targeted cancer drugs. Threshold has several additional ongoing clinical trials, the most advanced of which is a Phase 3 pivotal study evaluating TH-302 in combination with doxorubicin versus doxorubicin alone in patients with soft tissue sarcoma. In February 2012, Threshold signed a global agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, to co-develop and commercialize TH-302.
About Threshold Pharmaceuticals
Threshold is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of drugs targeting Tumor Hypoxia, the low oxygen condition found in microenvironments of most solid tumors as well as the bone marrows of some hematologic malignancies. This approach offers broad potential to treat a variety of cancers. By selectively targeting tumor cells, we are building a pipeline of drugs that hold promise to be more effective and less toxic to healthy tissues than conventional anticancer drugs. For additional information, please visit our website (www.thresholdpharm.com).
Forward-Looking Statements
Except for statements of historical fact, the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding TH-302's potential ability to treat cancers, planned clinical trials, and potential therapeutic uses and benefits of TH-302. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that can cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, Threshold's ability to enroll or complete its anticipated clinical trials, the time and expense required to conduct such clinical trials and analyze data, whether such trials confirm results from earlier trials and preclinical studies, potential side effects associated with TH-302, and issues arising in the regulatory or manufacturing process and the results of such clinical trials (including product safety issues and efficacy results). Further information regarding these and other risks is included under the heading "Risk Factors" in Threshold's Annual Report on Form 10-K, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2012 and is available from the SEC's website (www.sec.gov) and on our website (www.thresholdpharm.com) under the heading "Investors." We undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statement made in this news release.
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Purwokerto is a sleepy little town located in the Central Java province, Indonesia. It is also a major transportation hub in Java, connecting other major cities in Java, such as Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, and Cirebon.
Purwokerto is a town of 300,000 inhabitants. Commonly referred as a cross-road between Jakarta and Yogyakarta. The town is on the foothill of Gunung Slamet volcano, the highest volcano in Central Java. Purwokerto also the main entrance to climb Gunung Slamet. Many of Indonesian famous people originated from Purwokerto, namely Jendral Sudirman, Jendral Gatot Subroto, Soepardjo Roestam etc. Most of those heroic people are honoured as a street name all over Indonesia.
Get in
By plane
Until today airport in Banyumas area is still in planning process. Military airport in Wirasaba Purbalingga is only a half hour from Purwokerto, capital city of Banyumas. Nowadays the airport has been being built for commercial flight. From capital city of Jakarta through Sukarno Hatta Airport, you can pass Adi Sucipto Airport (Yogyakarta), Adi Sumarmo Airport (Solo), Tunggul Wulung Airstrip (Cilacap) and Ahmad Yani International Airport (Semarang) and then go through road way. from: [26]
By bus
The bus station is Terminal Bus Purwokerto on 10 hectares area, clean, save and comfort located 4 km to the south of the town center. There are regular services throughout the island, including Jakarta (9 hours) with customer recommended Sinar Jaya bus, Yogyakarta (4 to 5.5 hours) with Raharja and Efisiensi bus, Semarang (6 hours) with Nusantara bus and Bandung (6 to 8 hours) with Budiman and Goodwill bus. The terminal serves for 24 hours.
By train
Trains to Jakarta take between 4 to 9 hours from the main Purwokerto station depend on train class. The Argo-class trains (Argo Lawu and Argo Dwipangga) are the best of the lot: most comfortable and fastest. Taksaka is almost as good. These train also cater for Yogyakarta destination.
there is a complete list of Train Schedule and Cost at [27]
Get around
Purwokerto is a relatively small city, travelling around town should not be too expensive. You may jog around town for 40 minutes.
By trishaw
Traditional three-wheeled pedal-powered carts known as becak can be found in most part of Purwokerto. Haggle furiously.
By angkot
Although Purwokerto is a small city, travelling around town can be more faster and easier by angkot (a van that carries passengers, very common in Indonesia). Always have direct routes but sometimes can be very crowded. Costs Rp 2500 per person.
By taxi
Purwokerto has many beautiful buildings and monuments.
The educational institution in Purwokerto:
Traditional Market
The biggest traditional market is Pasar Wage. There are also several small traditional markets, such as Pasar Manis and Pasar Pon.
Boutique and Distro
There are a number of boutique and distro along the HR Bunyamin Street, in the northern part of the city. Mostly visited by the youths and college students.
Shopping Mall
There are plenty of handicrafts and souvenirs stands in the nearby Baturaden, a cool resort-town 14 km to the north.
Local snacks
The following dishes should be on every traveller's agenda:
You can visit in Overste Isdiman Purwokerto RM endut is famous with the hainan chicken rice and nasi campur. located on jln. wahid hasim 118 purwokerto. delivery service 0281-7647345
Wedang ronde is hot ginger drink with gluten rice balls, peanuts, jelly
Kebon Cafe is located at Jatiwinagun street. Good place to hangin around. lot of local musicians there.
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Special Forces train with special skill
It starts at Kirtland Air Force Base with a briefing and then everyone loads their gear into the C-130. An hour later, we're above Roswell and it's time to jump.
"I'd be lying if we saying it wasn't scary," says Staff Sgt. Troy Campbell, who's made almost 300 jumps with the Marines. "So it is scary and that's what helps us keep the edge. If you're not afraid you're probably missing something and you're probably not going through the correct steps so a good healthy fear."
The Marines and Air Force face that fear in the day and especially at night, when they can not exactly see what they are jumping into.
"It just increases that stealth of us coming in," says Sgt. Campbell. "But there's nothing scarier than jumping out to something you can't see and trying to land on something you can't see either."
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NWSB Insider and Seattle Sounders writer Jonathan Irwin brings us his favorite Oregon State Beavers websites on the web. With of course nwsportsbeat.com being the best there is to offer, there are some other local, and national media based sites that offer some good rundowns of Beaver athletics. The list is sure to keep you in touch with your inner black and orange.
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Aviva Premiership
Exeter given permission to redevelop Sandy Park
ESPN Staff
October 30, 2012
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The Exeter Chiefs have confirmed that local councillors have given plans to redevelop their Sandy Park home the green light.
Over the next five years the Chiefs plan to expand the capacity of their ground from the current figure of 10,744 to 20,600. It is anticipated that the redevelopment will cost in the region of £24million with three new grandstands and a 1,000-seater auditorium some of the additions to the current set-up.
"I'm really pleased with Monday's outcome because it has been a long journey with Sandy Park," Exeter Chiefs CEO Tony Rowe said. "We first talked to the City Council some 10, 11 years ago and we got our original planning permission back in 2004. Since then we have worked closely with the council and various other bodies, particularly this latest six to nine months, to achieve this latest planning consent.
"This decision now means we can get on and develop Sandy Park as we wish over these next five to seven years."
With the club looking to raise finance for the scheme through the private sector, Rowe envisages the plans will help to transform the club not only into a major force within the English game, but also that of the European game in the long term.
"We hope over the next two or three years to build our average match-day attendance up to something like 10,000 a game - at the moment we are at 8,500 - and then look to develop ourselves even further as one of the top clubs in Europe, where we would hope to attract crowds of between 15,000 and 20,000."
Central to their redevelopment plans is the team and Rowe wants the side to continue making a name for themselves in the Aviva Premiership which will probably lead to an increase in sponsorship and off-field attention.
"We can't live just off 20 days of rugby a year," Rowe said. "The other 340-odd days Sandy Park is the major conferencing and banqueting facility in this part of the country. With the works we have planned, the idea is to develop Sandy Park into an even greater facility, attracting lots of money which in turn will help finance the rugby on the pitch.
"To succeed, it's all about creating the wealth so that Rob [Baxter] can put a decent team out. The first phase of the West Grandstand, we believe, will add an extra £500,000 on the bottom line and that will go straight into the playing budget."
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Actress needs a stunning website design that captures the essence of her work thus far. Looking for fun, unique, and innovative designs. Only want psd file for the design - no coding necessary.
We want a site that is not like the typical actor / actress website. Would like to see the design based on the Thesis Wordpress Platform, for we will most likely use wordpress as our base.
However, we are not married to the theme and will incorporate the best design you can come up with.
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Stairway/Platform System
This maintenance platform comprises a long platform and two 45° stairways. It measures 4,150 mm long in total.
This walkway features two 60° stairways. Anti-Slip Tape has been added at distances in line with the relevant standards. The design is space saving and incredibly easy to assemble.
This platform highlights the versatility of the Stairway/Platform System. Intermediate platforms are just as easy to achieve as 90° angles. Structures can also be extended to incorporate several accessible levels with a range of stairways and platform sizes.
This overpass is a classic bridge comprising two stairways, each with a gradient of 45°. The tread surfaces feature anti-slip tape and hazard warning markings.
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J. Paul Robinson, chairman of Purdue University's faculty senate, strode through the halls of a 10-story concrete-and-glass administrative tower.
"I have no idea what these people do," said Robinson, waving his hand across a row of offices, his voice rising.
The 59-year-old professor of biomedical engineering is leading a faculty revolt against bureaucratic bloat at the public university in Indiana. In the past decade, the number of administrative employees jumped 54 percent, almost eight times the growth of tenured and tenure-track faculty.
Purdue has a $313,000-a-year acting provost and six vice and associate vice provosts, including a $198,000 chief diversity officer. It employs 16 deans and 11 vice presidents, among them a $253,000 marketing officer and a $433,000 business school chief.
Administrative costs on college campuses are soaring, crowding out instruction at a time of skyrocketing tuition and $1 trillion in outstanding student loans. At Purdue and other U.S. college campuses, bureaucratic growth is pitting professors against administrators and sparking complaints that tight budgets could be spent more efficiently.
"We're a public university," Robinson said. "We're here to deliver a high-quality education at as low a price as possible. Why is it that we can't find any money for more faculty, but there seems to be an almost unlimited budget for administrators?"
'Administrative bloat'
U.S. universities employed more than 230,000 administrators in 2009, up 60 percent from 1993, or 10 times the rate of growth of the tenured faculty, those with permanent positions and job security, according to U.S. Education Department data.
Spending on administration has been rising faster than funds for instruction and research at 198 leading U.S. research universities, concluded a 2010 study by Jay Greene, an education professor at the University of Arkansas.
"Administrative bloat is clearly contributing to the overall cost of higher education," Greene said.
Purdue and other public universities, which rely on state taxpayers, have become a flashpoint for anger about bureaucratic spending. State colleges have long been considered affordable havens for those of modest means, yet they have raised tuition faster than their costlier private peers.
Taxpayer cost
The cost of attending Purdue, in West Lafayette, leaped about 60 percent over the past decade. Including room, board and other expenses, undergraduates from Indiana pay $23,000—out-of-state students, $42,000—similar to other Midwestern public colleges.
"Parents can spend $60,000 to send their kid to Harvard—that's their choice," said Benjamin Ginsberg, a political science professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of a 2011 book critical of college administrative spending. "The taxpayers support state universities. It's much more incumbent on them to justify their costs."
Purdue says bureaucratic expansion hasn't led to higher tuition.
Rather, state funding, which makes up 13 percent of its budget, hasn't kept pace with the university's rising costs, according to Timothy Sands, the school's acting president. Purdue has beefed up its staff for fundraising and marketing, partly to attract full-paying students from other states and around the world, Sands said in an interview at his office, overlooking the school's main quadrangle.
Lean operation
To maintain its position as a top-ranked university, Purdue must also administer hundreds of millions of dollars in government and industry research grants, Sands said.
"This is a $2.2 billion operation—you've got to have some people involved in administering it, managing it, running it, leading it," Sands said. "We're about as lean as we can afford to be."
Purdue officials acknowledge that, as the administration has expanded, spending on instruction has lagged behind. The university plans to hire more than 100 engineering professors in the next five years. The average full professor at Purdue gets a $125,000 salary, according to the university. Unlike many other colleges, Purdue hasn't turned to low-paid, part-time faculty, a move that has offset the declines in tenured professors elsewhere, the school said.
Administrative salaries and other expenses—as well as tuition costs and debt—are drawing ire on other campuses.
UConn salaries
Trustees at the University of Connecticut's flagship campus in Storrs, known for its NCAA champion Huskies basketball teams, said last year they were reviewing the level of administrators' pay. The move followed a controversy over the then campus police chief, who received $256,000 annually—more than New York City's police commissioner.
UConn has a $312,000-a-year provost and 13 vice, deputy and associate vice provosts, including one overseeing "engagement" who makes almost $275,000 a year. The university has seven vice presidents and 13 deans. President Susan Herbst, who receives a $500,000 salary, has a $199,000 chief of staff.
UConn's police chief had broad responsibilities, and he was replaced with a $165,000-a-year official with a narrower job, said Stephanie Reitz, a spokeswoman for the campus.
"UConn's administrative structure is an appropriately sized, comparatively lean operation," Reitz said in an e-mail.
At the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, the faculty senate studied its school's own bureaucracy and found duplication among its eight vice presidents, said Russell Luepker, a professor of public health. In particular, most had their own communications office.
Faculty complaints
As part of an overhaul of its management, the university eliminated a senior vice president's position this month and will cut an additional 5.5 administrative jobs, said Chuck Tombarge, a University of Minnesota spokesman. Eric Kaler, who became president in July 2011, is reducing annual administrative expenses by $1.6 million, Tombarge said.
The fight over such costs has become especially public and bitter at Purdue.
Nestled in the corn and soybean fields around its main campus, 65 miles northwest of Indianapolis, Purdue turns out engineers sought by blue-chip employers, such as General Electric Co., which recruits on its campus. It counts 23 astronauts among its graduates, including the first and last men to walk on the moon: Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan.
Purdue's faculty senate, led by Robinson, has taken its complaints to both the trustees and the school's soon-to-be president, Mitch Daniels, Indiana's Republican governor known for his budget cutting.
Daniels says he's sympathetic to faculty complaints.
"When your spending goes up at a rocket rate, it's pretty hard for state support to keep up," Daniels said in an interview at the Indianapolis State House. He wants to take a look at administrative costs that he suspects are "marbled" throughout the university, he said.
Daniels said he was horrified when he heard that Purdue was renovating his 4,000-square-foot campus office suite in anticipation of his move—a decision he called "not the right signal, not the right priority."
The cost: $355,000.
Amid controversy over such spending, the debt of the average Purdue graduate who took out loans rose 74 percent in the past decade, to about $27,000.
John Stucker, a senior from Cincinnati, must pay back $80,000 he took out in student loans or borrowed from his parents. During a break from an engineering lab, he questioned the number of Purdue administrators.
Frustrated students
"It's frustrating," said Stucker, a 21-year-old engineering major. "They're making ridiculous money, and they're not even teaching students."
Kyle Pendergast, a 20-year-old junior from Orange County, Calif., heard faculty complaints about administrative spending at a student-government meeting this month. Pendergast, a student senator, expects to graduate with $20,000 in loans.
"It seems ridiculous that some Purdue administrators make so much money when I don't know what they do on a daily basis," said Pendergast, a biomedical engineering major.
Alexander Francis, an associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, said he used to have as many as four teaching assistants for his speech course, with about 70 students. Now, he has two for 100 undergraduates. Purdue has reduced the number of graduate teaching assistants by 17 percent over the past decade.
"We keep cutting what we're supposed to put first, which is teaching," Francis said.
Purdue Pete
Professors also question Purdue's brand spending, led by Teri Lucie Thompson, a former insurance executive who is the school's $253,000-a-year vice president for marketing and media, and chief marketing officer.
A recent campaign played with Purdue's nickname of "Boilermakers," or factory workers who made steel boilers in the heartland. The marketing department came up with the slogan: "We are Purdue. Makers, all. What we make moves the world forward."
The athletic department also tried to make over Purdue Pete, the school's mascot, a muscle-bound, hard-hatted boilermaker with a hammer. Last year, football fans gave a chilly reception to a softer-looking Pete, produced at a cost of $25,000.
"He was booed off the field," said Charles Bouman, a Purdue professor of electrical and computer engineering.
Campus rebranding
Not counting the Pete makeover, which was killed after two days, the rebranding campaign cost $500,000. That figure included $300,000 for broader brand research, which will be used for as long as a decade, said Chris Sigurdson, assistant vice president for external relations. Purdue said it uses donations, not tax or tuition money, for marketing.
To quell an outcry over the shortening of boilermaker, the marketing department also changed the slogan, removing the phrase "makers, all."
Purdue must advertise, especially on the Internet and through social media, to attract young people, as the number of college-age students in the Midwest is projected to decline, Thompson said.
"You want that mind share," Thompson said.
Another administrative initiative has agitated the faculty: possibly changing the academic calendar to a trimester from a semester system. The switch would let Purdue use empty buildings year-round. It could also offer popular courses to students over the summer, so more will graduate in four years.
More committees
First, though, the concept required hiring a new administrator: Frank Dooley, a $172,000-a-year associate vice provost and professor of agricultural economics. Dooley and a part-time financial analyst will cost the university $212,000 a year, excluding benefits.
The associate vice provost works in an 8-by-10-foot windowless office in the building that houses Purdue's president. Dooley plans to establish seven or eight committees of professors, administrators, students and others for discussion and fact-gathering. He expects a decision in 2015.
"I look at myself as an envoy or ambassador," Dooley said. "My job is to make sure these seven or eight committees are aware of what's going on in the other committees."
Marcus Rogers, a Purdue professor of information technology, views Dooley less as a diplomat and more as a symbol of misplaced priorities.
"We have more vice provosts, vice presidents and assistant vice presidents than we've ever had before," Rogers said. "Now, we're spending $250,000 a year to oversee something we haven't even agreed to."


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I Love You (Wedding Song)
Happy, percussive and upbeat. This song will bring you to a special place. Mixing asian ethnic percussion, jolly strumming and warm vocals this song will surely brighten your day! The lyrics are excellent too, this song is super sweet and lovely and makes perfect for a Valentine's gift or romantic happy ending to a movie!


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Adam Levine & Behati Prinsloo Hold Hands for Apartment Hunting
Adam Levine and fiancee Behati Prinsloo hold hands while doing some apartment hunting on Friday (November 15) in New York City.
Earlier in the day, the 34-year-old Maroon 5 front man promoted the fifth season of his hit show The Voice during an appearance on The Today Show, where he cradled a cute puppy.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Adam Levine
"It would be an interesting idea… I know nothing," Adam shared during the Today Show appearance about rumors that he is People's Sexiest Man Alive, which will be revealed next week.


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Intellectual Ventures Sues Google/Motorola Mobility Yet Again, Using Highly Questionable Nokia Patents
from the look-at-that dept
- 5,790,793: Method and system to create, transmit, receive and process information, including an address to further information
- 7,136,392: System and method for ordering data messages having differing levels of priority for transmission over a shared communication channel
- 6,121,960: Touch screen systems and methods
- 7,382,771: Mobile wireless hotspot system
- 7,564,784: Method and arrangement for transferring information in a packet radio service
- 6,170,073: Method and apparatus for error detection in digital communications
- 7,848,353: Method, communication system and communication unit for synchronisation for multi-rate communication
Most of the other patents are similarly broad or obvious concepts that were generally not being done because of other factors, not because there was anything non-obvious about the idea, or that it was particularly difficult to do. A patent is supposed to incentivize someone to invent something that wouldn't otherwise be invented. That's not happening here.
And, remember, this is the same Intellectual Ventures that claims it that it focuses on "high quality" patents.
Oh yeah, also, for all the talk about IV's inventive operations, not a single one of these patents originated with IV. And they're not from the proverbial "independent inventor" IV likes to claim it's helping. The 784 and 073 patents both came from Nokia, while the other patents originated with a variety of other companies: NetDelivery, Conexant, ViA, In Motion and IP Wireless. Most of the companies are still in business. It's unclear if anyone -- such as Nokia -- retains an interest in those patents, but that would be a pretty slimy move to pass off patents to IV to avoid suing a direct competitor themselves. As Groklaw rightly notes, this certainly has all the hallmarks of privateering, where big companies pass off their patents to some trolls to do their dirty work. It's just that, in this case, the troll is the world's largest, Intellectual Ventures.


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The Brazilian Association of Seeds and Seedlings, ABRASEM, on Tuesday released the sixth edition of studies on the economic and social-environmental impacts of the adoption of biotechnology on Brazilian crops.
According to the analysis, prepared by Celeres and Celeres Ambiental, the grower of a crop of 50 hectares (about 123 acres) of insect-resistant corn has already earned an additional return of up to $100,400 since this technology was commercialized in Brazil.
The projection is that over the next ten years, this same grower will see an increase of $324,100 in earnings, chiefly due to the increase of productivity that the technology provides.
Evaluating the overall picture for biotechnology in Brazil, taking into account the three crops with transgenic varieties that have already been approved and are in commercial production – corn, soybeans and cotton – the results are also significant. With the prospect of the approval of new technologies, greater adoption by growers and enhancements of the existing technology, the total economic benefit from the adoption of transgenics in the next ten years should come to $118.2 billion, with 82% of this amount going to the grower.
"ABRASEM has sought to bring results closer to the reality of Brazilian farmers, primarily family farms," explains farmer and ABRASEM President, Narciso Barison Neto.
Productivity gains yield good results and stimulate competitiveness
Another highlight of the study is gains in productivity, which turned out to be the key factor in economic benefits generated for growers, surpassing the reduction of production costs, a dominant factor in earlier studies. This change could also be attributed to the good results for agriculture accruing from the adoption of transgenic corn.
"Analyzing the economic results that the adoption of biotechnology has achieved for Brazilian agriculture in the last 16 years, as well as prospects for the next ten years, it becomes essential to improve and continue to oversee public policies to ensure a favorable environment for the development of biotechnology in Brazil," explains Anderson Galvao, managing partner at Celeres and coordinator of the economic study.
For Barison, the study shows that investment in biotechnology is good for growers.
"[T]his is all the more important when we think of keeping up the competitiveness of national agricultural production, at a time when expectations of growing world demand for food are taking over the local and international discussion," he notes.
"The case of corn is the most striking example of the leap in profitability and environmental impact that biotechnology can offer to growers. And the impacts of this adoption are even more discernible for small and medium growers, whose competitiveness is improving," Barison adds.
Environmental benefits
The study also presents the benefits of biotechnology for the environment and the sustainability of Brazilian agribusiness over the past 16 years – since the arrival of the first genetically modified seeds in Brazil – as well as for the next ten years, taking into consideration factors such as water use, diesel consumption, carbon emissions and the use of pesticides.
The projected benefit with regard to water use for the period from 2012-13 to 2021-22 is 167.4 billion liters of water that would cease to be used on crops with the adoption of biotechnology. This volume could supply a population of 3.8 million people.
The amount of diesel fuel used in agricultural machinery for transgenic crops will also see a significant reduction over the next ten years that could be as high as 1.4 billion liters, enough to supply a fleet of 581,200 light vehicles. For carbon emissions resulting from the use of diesel oil, it is projected that about 3.7 million tons of CO2 would not be released into the atmosphere, which is the equivalent of preserving 27.3 million trees.
"The level of benefits increases as growers accelerate the adoption of biotechnology, a tool that is capable of contributing more sustainable farming practices that reduce pressure on natural resources," explains Paula Carneiro, director of Celeres Ambiental and coordinator of the social-environmental study.
This is the sixth edition of a study monitoring the benefits of biotechnology for Brazilian agriculture, which has been conducted annually for ABRASEM since 2008. The evaluation is divided between economic benefits, analyzed by Celeres, and social-environmental benefits, addressed by Celeres Ambiental.
These companies monitor the adoption of transgenics in agriculture. The results are based on field research and interviews with more than 360 growers of soybeans, corn and cotton scattered all over the country. These are the three crops in Brazil with approved GM events that are already available on the market.
Read the full studies on economic benefits and social-environmental benefits.


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Tungsten. Basalt. Giant holes. "Smart" materials that morph from hard to soft. Tennis rackets, like everything in life, seem to get stranger and techier by the minute — but do they actually make you hit the ball better? We gathered four of the hottest new upper-end models from the biggest brands in the U.S., put them in the hands of enthusiastic players, from college-age to middle-age, and headed to the courts to find out.
Control freak
Babolat Aero Pro Drive:
The latest design from this 135-year-old French racket maker features a frame of graphite interlaced with thin threads of tough, strong tungsten and a neck molded in an "aero modular" triangular shape.
Stiff, balanced racket with excellent control. Several players thought it was especially well-suited for doubles and heavy net play, where control is key. Strong hitters seeking more control liked it best. "I feel very comfortable following through my swing with this. The Prince is more powerful, but I don't need that," one player said. 10.6 ounces unstrung. Head size: 100 square inches.
White handle tape looks dirty all the time.
$189 unstrung. (877) 316-9435;
Ground and pound
Head YouTech Six-Star:
Designed by
, this all-round racket squeezes in another 7 square inches of head size (to 107 square inches) and a larger sweet spot with a unique "quadface" frame that lengthens strings in the four sculpted-out corners of the head. It also utilizes D30, a so-called smart material that supposedly changes behavior on impact — staying soft during slow hits and locking together on hard hits.
Bulges with power. Quite top-heavy (weighted more to the head than handle), it's a good baseline racket for not-so-strong singles players who dream of being able to stand back and wail. 9 ounces.
Control suffers a bit from lack of "feel," said some. The foam-based D30 material and a unique, built-in dampener may contribute to this.
$250. (800) 289-7366;
The hole shebang
Prince EXO 3 White 100 and Black 100:
Well-balanced rackets featuring huge O-Tech holes, ½- to ¾-inch wide, that supposedly increase strength, stability and swing speed by eliminating the small drilled string holes that compromise the integrity of the carbon fibers.
It also has subtle grooves and other design elements that purportedly enhance energy transfer, lessen vibration, and aid ball spin and control.
Good all-round power and control. The heavier black model (10.8 ounces) is better for aggressive baseline pounding.
Not sure if the holes actually make the rackets move any faster through the air, but they are a good conversation piece. 100 square inches; 10.4 ounces (white).
$200, white; $220, black. 800-2-TENNIS;
Vibration cessation
Wilson Pro Open BLX:
The composite frame, slightly larger than that used by
, is interwoven with a fine fiber-matrix of basalt, a volcanic rock that supposedly insulates and dampens "bad" vibration while maintaining "good" feedback.
Good balance of control and power; a similar feel to the Prince. 100-square-inch head (Federer's is 90 square inches). 10.5 ounces.
The basalt may muffle vibration too well for some, hindering control. One player complained of less-than-optimal ball "feel."
$210. (800) 272-6060;
Wallack is the co-author of "Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100."


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I ask because I've noted on several content sites that they reject articles on poker, horse betting etc. But accept articles about spread betting. And yet when I speak to my friends who earn a living spread betting, they tell me that it is gambling. Certainly when compared to other forms of investment, but the risk can be reduced by increasing your skill in the activity.
Categorisation is important in seo.
As is the semantic meaning of words and phrases.
Spread betting is one of those terms that can have one foot in gambling and one foot in investment.
Why is this important?
Many phrases are what's called polysemic, meaning they have a number of meanings, read Clustering of Polysemic Words for an interesting look into the the subject with regards to categorisation. The Wikipedia entry for Polysemy is a good place to look for a further understanding of the term.
It is important if you are building a keyword list, sorting keywords into categorisations. Categorising keywords as you well know is an essential part of SEO and so an understanding of the nature of the term, polysemic, may help you in this task.
Context is crucial when deciding which category to put a term which has multiple meanings in. But, there are many forms of context. Most importantly the viewer has a context which if you have done your research correctly you already are aware of and have prepared for.
Our brains like to order things, it's why lists are so popular. If you confuse the brain over the meaning of a term your message will be lost. Context happens because of the meaning around keyword we are targeting. Context is what happens before, during, around and after the keyword has been digested by the brain.
Many things affect context, and maybe that's for another blog post.
All this folds into useability and how effective your website is at reaching its objective, be it sales, links, subscribers etc.
Further reading on the subject can be found at:
Don't Make Me Think, Steve Krug
When Search Meets Web Usability, Nick Musica and Shari Thurow
Neuro Web Design, Dr. Susan M. Weinschenk. Ph.D.
For a more in depth understanding of the workings of spread betting please go to financial-spread-betting.com


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Historic Golf Gear and Memorabilia of Golf Collectors in Westchester and the Hudson Valley
Masterpieces and mementos: Hudson Valley and Westchester's golf collectors preserve and celebrate the game
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Garth Bishop, Hopewell Junction
Garth Bishop, 12 years old at the time, was caddying at Mount Kisco Country Club when he saw a golf ball floating in the pond near the 10th green. Since golf balls normally sink like stones, he knew he was on to something. He fished it out, and sure enough, it was a novelty ball labeled "floater." That golf ball is still in the 57-year-old Bishop's collection of books, autographs, clubs, balls, novelties, figurines, tournament programs, trophies, toys, and much more that fills a spare bedroom and overflows to bookcases and cabinets throughout his home.
"I have no idea how many items are in the collection or how much it's worth." Bishop says. "If I see an article or artifact that helps me understand the game, I add it to the collection."
The watercolor map on Bishop's wall is of the Mount Kisco Golf Club, which was in a different location from the current Mount Kisco Country Club and disappeared before World War II, replaced by houses, some office buildings, and a gas station, although one of the tee boxes still exists near Route 117. The map is a plan for lengthening the course prepared by A.W. Tillinghast in 1920.
Bishop started his serious collecting with putters, although he has plenty of mashies, niblicks, cleeks, brassies, and driving irons as well. Two of the earliest clubs in his collection have screw-in shafts and date to 1894. He talks easily of spring-faced clubs and dual-faced irons, none of which would be legal on the course today.
One of the most interesting items in Bishop's collection is a 1959 vinyl LP with golf lessons recorded by Arnold Palmer, complete with an instruction book bound into the cover. Who said multimedia is a new idea?
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Dr. Marunick received his DDS from the University of Michigan in 1975. He then entered the US Public Health Service, completed a General Practice Residency at Staten Island, NY, and served as Chief Dental Officer of a USPHS Dental Clinic on Eglin AFB in Florida for two years. He received his MS in Prosthodontics from the University of Michigan in 1980 and completed a Residency in Maxillofacial Prosthetics at UCLA in 1981 before going into private practice in Toledo, OH. In 1986, he accepted a full-time position in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine where he is a Professor. He is Chief of Dentistry at the Detroit Medical Center and is Director of Maxillofacial Prosthetics at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is a Consultant to the John Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit and to the Henry Ford Health System. He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Department of Biologic and Material Science, Division of Prosthodontics at the University of Michigan where he teaches Maxillofacial Prosthetics to the Prosthodontic Graduate Residents.
Dr. Marunick has been involved in NIH funded research studying rehabilitation of Head and Neck Cancer patients and is a past recipient of the American Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Career Development Award. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Maxillofacial Prosthetics and of the American College of Prosthodontists, a member of the International Society for Maxillofacial Rehabilitation, Academy of Osseointegration, and the Michigan Section of the American College of Prosthodontists. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics.
Dr. Marunick teaches maxillofacial prosthodontics to the University of Michigan prosthodontic graduate residents.


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Federal authorities have taken over the investigation of a plane crash that occurred Tuesday just inside South Carolina near the Henderson County line.
Emergency and rescue crews from Henderson and Greenville (S.C.) counties responded to a 911 call just after 6 p.m. about a plane that had crashed in a wooded area near Corbin Mountain Road and Mountain Summit Road. The plane was reported to have crashed near the North Carolina/South Carolina state line.
"911, what's the address of the emergency?" a dispatcher asked.
"I wish I knew. I have been involved in an airplane crash. I'm fine. I'm in the woods somewhere," the pilot replied. "There is an emergency locator transmitter which has gone off and is sending out a signal. I just wanted to say that I'm fine. I might have a couple of scratches, but I don't think there are broken bones."
The pilot, identified as the plane's owner, Anderson Andreas of Van Nuys, Calif., told emergency dispatchers he was flying alone on his way to Greenville when he flew into a cloud and couldn't use visual references. He said he tried to escape from the conditions, but was "unsuccessful."
Scott Justus, of the Henderson County Technical Rescue Team, said Andreas told emergency crews he was flying blind in the clouds and became tangled in tree tops before the crash. He walked away from the wreckage with minor injuries.
"His guardian angels were with him," Justus said.
Andreas also told dispatchers that he lost his glasses in the crash. In the darkened woods, he searched for a pair of glasses and a GPS unit to give exact coordinates to his rescuers.
But with a little bit of ingenuity, members of Green River Fire & Rescue were closing in. While Andreas relayed what he heard around him to emergency dispatchers on his phone, Justus said Green River firefighters employed their sirens as they drove through the region. The louder the siren to Andreas, the closer they drew to the wreckage.
Justus later joined the search with a radio that picked up the distress signal from Andreas' emergency locator transmitter. Using maps, the radio, a compass and the good, old-fashioned search method of "Marco Polo," rescuers made their way down and up slippery terrain.
Hampered by dense fog, rain and the rough terrain, they found Andreas at 8:02 p.m.
"After the rescue and confirmation of coordinates, it was determined the crash actually was just inside of South Carolina," said Maj. Frank Stout of the Henderson County Sheriff's Office. "Information gathered by our agency and rescue members has been turned over to the Greenville County Sheriff's Office, National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration as the investigation continues."
The public information division of the Greenville County Sheriff's Office referred all questions to federal authorities. An officer with the NTSB said they had not received any information about the investigation from local authorities as of 5 p.m.
Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman for the southern division of the FAA, said the fixed-wing, single-engine, amateur-built aircraft was involved in an accident about 10 miles south-southeast of Hendersonville.
"The flight departed John C. Tune Airport in Nashville and was headed to Greenville, S.C. Downtown Airport," she said.
The FAA is investigating the crash.
"The NTSB will determine probable cause," Bergen said.
Henderson County EMS, Henderson County Sheriff's Office, Henderson County Technical Rescue Team and Greenville County Emergency Services assisted Green River in the search and at the scene.
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Rescuers describe search, rescue mission after plane crash
Federal authorities have taken over the investigation of a plane crash that occurred Tuesday just inside South Carolina near the Henderson County line.


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1. Passover, April 15, 2014
2. Tabernacles October 8, 2014
3. Passover, April 4, 2015
4. Tabernacles, September 28, 2015
What is significant about this? A tetrad of lunar eclipses on feast days has only occurred two times in the last 500 years; 1949/50, and 1967/68. During each of those tetrads of total eclipses Israel was at war.
Though Israel was declared an independent state sixty years ago in 1948, the war with its neighbors began after its first day and lasted for a year. Therefore, the first lunar eclipse of 1949 occurred during this war for the establishment of Israel. The next tetrad began on Passover 1967, which was just six weeks before the Six-Day-War. Therefore, these two significant wars of Israel were covered by each tetrad period.[1]
The next time there was a tetrad of eclipses on feast days was in 1493/4. In 1492 the Jews were kicked out of Spain. Is this upcoming tetrad a sign from God that something significant will occur in 2014/15 in regards to Israel? Will they be involved in another major war at that time, possibly even the end times war with the antichrist when Israel is surrounded by armies and has to flee into the wilderness?
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. (Luke 21:20-21)
These are things to ponder and watch for. There is something else involving eclipses that is of significance around this time. There are five solar eclipses from 2008 to 2015 that align on significant dates.
1. Tamuz 29/Av 1: August 2, 2008 August 1, 2008 Total eclipse
2. Tamuz 29/Av 1: July 21-22, 2009 July 22, 2009 Total eclipse
3. Tamuz 29/Av 1: July 11-12, 2010 July 11, 2010 Total eclipse
4. Adar 29/Nisan 1 (Beginning of the religious calendar): March 20-21, 2015 Total eclipse
5. Rosh Hashanah: September 14, 2015 September 13, 2015 Partial eclipse
Jewish tradition believes that lunar eclipses signal judgment for Israel and solar eclipses signal judgment for the nations. Are the three solar eclipses on Av 1 in 2008-10 an indication that a time of distress is to begin for the world? Think of what happened after August 2008—the beginning of the financial collapse. Are the three solar eclipses a sign that the 70th week will begin between the first and last eclipse? Also note that in 2015 you have 2 lunar and 2 solar eclipses all on significant days.
You have the religious year beginning with the total solar eclipse, two weeks later a total lunar eclipse on Passover, and then the civil year beginning with the solar eclipse followed two weeks later by another total blood red moon on the Feast of Succoth all in 2015.[2]
What do all these celestial occurrences mean? Are they signs for us from God? If the 70th week does start in 2009 then 2014/15 would be after the antichrist has taken over the world and will be during the time when Jews and Christians will be persecuted. Are these eclipses a sign of the coming persecutions? It could also be the time frame of when the rapture could possibly occur. Are these eclipses related in some way to the rapture? We will have to wait and see. But if these conjectures are correct and these eclipses are signs of these end times events then these eclipses also point to the 70th week possibly starting in 2009.
[1] http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2008/danielm517.htm
[2] http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=6285


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Oh, Mrs. Robinson – really? Not in Cobb, darling. As a general note, she has some cojones. A quick Google shows her company's 2011 revenue estimated at $190,000. So, if she (allegedly) stole $430k over two years… was Medicaid her only client? SMH.
The press release from AG Olens office:
On Thursday, November 8, 2012, a Cobb County Grand Jury charged Erika Robinson with one felony count of Medicaid Fraud (O.G.G.A. § 49-4-146.1(b)) for stealing over $430,000.00 from Georgia Medicaid. Robinson is the owner and operator of Speech Therepeze, Inc., doing business as Progressive Therapy, in DeKalb County and a branch operating in Cobb County.
Between January 4, 2010 and January 23, 2012, Robinson was enrolled as a provider of services in the Georgia Medicaid Program's Children's Intervention Services. The Program rules and regulations require that treating therapists must be licensed with the State of Georgia, and the provider can only bill for services rendered. The charge alleges that Robinson employed unlicensed therapists to treat patients of Speech Therepeze. None of these services are reimbursable by Medicaid. Robinson is also charged with fraudulently billing for providing services to patients on days that the patients were not treated. As a result of her fraudulent claims, Robinson received payments from Georgia Medicaid totaling $438,622.03 to which she was not entitled.
Assistant Attorney General Robin Daitch presented the case to the Cobb County Grand Jury in Cobb County Superior Court. The case was investigated by Investigator Gretchen Culberson, Investigative Auditor Denise Colson, Nurse Investigator Darlene Herndon and Chief Analyst Carmen Staley of the Georgia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
Members of the public should keep in mind that indictments contain only allegations against the individual(s) against whom the indictment is sought. A defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty, and it will be the government's burden at trial to prove the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the allegations contained in the indictment.


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Vanessa Hudgens: Monday Morning Workout!
Vanessa Hudgens wears her hair in braids while leaving the gym on Monday morning (March 25) in Hollywood.
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