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Mexico extradites alleged cartel member to U.S.
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(AP) SAN DIEGO - Mexico extradited Eduardo Arellano-Felix to the United States Friday, marking what one U.S. official said was the end of a 20-year investigation into the once-mighty drug cartel headed by his older brother.
Arellano Felix, 55, arrived in the United States and will make an initial court appearance Tuesday in San Diego on charges of narcotics trafficking, racketeering and money laundering, said Laura Duffy, the U.S. attorney in San Diego, who built her career on the case.
A 2003 federal indictment calls Eduardo Arellano Felix "the senior advisor" to his older brother, Benjamin, who headed the Tijuana, Mexico-based organization from its beginnings in the late 1980s until his arrest in 2002 in Mexico. In April, Benjamin Arellano Felix was sentenced to 25 years in prison in San Diego after being extradited last year.
Eduardo Arellano Felix was arrested in October 2008 in a Saturday night shootout with Mexican authorities at his Tijuana home that was witnessed by his 11-year-old daughter. Duffy said Mexico granted extradition in 2010, which was followed by two years of unsuccessful appeals by Arellano Felix.
The indictment says Eduardo was involved in all major cartel decisions, including moving drugs into the United States, distributing them on American soil and kidnapping and murdering rivals.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration poured massive resources into pursuing the Arellano Felix clan as it moved tons of Mexican marijuana and Colombian cocaine across California's borders in the 1990s and well into the 2000s and killed untold scores of rivals.
"The extradition of Eduardo Arellano Felix today marks the end of a 20-year DEA investigation into this vicious drug cartel," said William Sherman, acting special agent in charge of the DEA in San Diego.
The cartel was severely weakened after Benjamin was arrested in 2002 and another brother, Ramon, was killed that year in a shootout with Mexican authorities. U.S. officials have described Benjamin as the mastermind and Ramon as the main enforcer.
Javier, another brother who inherited the helm after Benjamin's arrest, was captured by the U.S. Coast Guard on a fishing boat in international waters off the Mexican coast in 2006 and sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in San Diego.


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Earlier today we brought you a review of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB reference card. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 uses the GK104 "Kepler" GPU and has 1152 CUDA cores with a base clock speed of 980MHz, while the boost clock speed is 1033MHz. The 2GB of GDDR5 memory runs on a 256-bit bus and is clocked at 6008MHz (effective). Pretty impressive specifications for a desktop graphics card in the $250 price segment.
However, pretty much every NVIDIA board partner will be offering factory overclocked GeForce GTX 760 boards that run at even higher clock speeds along with custom GPU coolers for improved cooling. This is great for consumers as when you purchase a desktop graphics cards you have a a wide variety brands and models to pick from. The number of different cards can be daunting, but you can get exactly what you want. The very first retail board partner GeForce GTX 760 card that we will be looking at is the MSI N760 TF 2GD5/OC. We were told to call it the MSI N760 TF 2GD5/OC, but if you go by the retail box it would be the GeForce GTX 760 Twin Frozr Gaming OC Edition.
The MSI GeForce GTX 760 Twin Frozr Gaming OC 2GB looks nothing like the NVIDIA Reference card as you can see from the image above.
| GeForce GTX 760
|MSI Twin Frozr Gaming 2GB
|NVIDIA Reference
|GPU boost clock
|GPU base clock
|Memory clock
|1502MHz (6008MHz)
|1502MHz (6008MHz)
|Memory interface
The MSI GeForce GTX 760 Twin Frozr Gaming OC is clocked at 1020MHz on the core and 1085MHz on the boost clock. This is a 4% overclock on the base clock and a 5% overclock on the boost clock. The 2GB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1502MHz (6008MHz effective), so the memory has not been overclocked and is running at stock speeds.
MSI was kind enough to send over a pair of their GeForce GTX 760 Twin Frozr Gaming OC cards for us to try out in both single card and 2-way SLI.
The MSI GeForce GTX 760 Gaming features two 100mm (10cm) fans and the Twin Frozr IV GPU cooler that has 5 copper heat pipes. At start up the fans are audible but quickly fade to nearly inaudible.
MSI uses Military Class 4 components on the Gaming series card, so they have Hi-c CAP, new SFC and Solid CAP. The dual 10cm PWM fans have propeller blade technology with dust technology, so they spin backwards for a second when first started to prevent dust from blowing into the heat sink.
MSI went with an 8-pin and 6-pin PCI-e power connectors for their GeForce GTX 760 gaming edition card. MSI suggests a 500 Watt or greater power supply for proper operation.
Here we can see the video output connectors for the GTX760 card. It has a pair of dual-link DVI connectors, the bottom is a DVI-I while the top is DVI-D. Display Port is at the bottom left and HDMI is in the middle. The design looks is identical to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 reference card, so the video outputs are the same.
Here we have the back side of the card where it should be noted that this card uses a PCB that is 10.0″ in length, but the GPU cooler extends past the card making it nearly 10.25″ in length. This is about 0.75-inches longer than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 reference card.
From this angle you can better see that the Twin Frozr 4 GPU cooler extends past the PCB and how it pushes air in all directions. Not much air is exhausted out of the chassis, so it will be interesting to see how the temperatures are during our SLI testin.
MSI is using SK hynix GDDR5 IC's that are marked H5GQ2H24AFR-R0C. These are the same exact ICs that NVIDIA used for the frame buffer on the reference card. According to the SK hynix website these specific IC's are rated to run at 6.0Gbps (0.3ns) at 1.5V.
Let's take a look at the retail box and bundle!
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No good deed goes unpunished! Following last week's epic Jersey Shore bar brawl, the cast members are being taken to court! Justin Viterito and Devon Chichele, two of the victims in the fight, are planning a massive lawsuit against Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, J-Woww's boyfriend Roger Matthews, MTV, Viacom (the company that owns MTV), the bar's bouncer, and Bamboo Bar where the brawl took place!
The fight began innocently enough, but quickly spiraled out of control. According to TMZ, Justin Viterito was drinking with Ronnie and Roger but when Devon Chichele approached to find his friend a member of the Jersey Shore entourage "pushed him in the back," says their lawyer Matthew DiBrino.
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LONDON (AP) — Actress Freida Pinto of "Slumdog Millionaire" fame has joined forces with girls' rights campaigners in calling for an end to the practice of female genital mutilation.
The Indian actress, an ambassador for an international children's development organization, called Tuesday for more progress to abolish the practice as she addressed Britain's inaugural "Girl Summit."
UNICEF, the United Nations' children agency, said some progress has been made on ending female genital mutilation, most commonly practiced in Africa and the Middle East. It is still highly prevalent in Egypt, Sudan, Mali and Somalia.
The agency and Britain's government hope that the summit will help galvanize action to end the practice within a generation.
Britain's government announced new measures to tackle the problems in the U.K., including prosecution for parents if they fail to prevent their daughters from being subjected to the practice.
The one-day event also focused on child marriages, which UNICEF says affects 700 million women alive today, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Also to address the summit was Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who was shot by the Taliban and recovered to become a global campaigner for education and women's rights.
"Traditions are not sent from heaven, they are not sent from God," she said. "It is we who make cultures and we have the right to change it and we should change it."


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Hello, and welcome to the Advanced JavaScript Tutorial, where I finish off what I started in the basic JavaScript Tutorial. In the second installment – This Time We Mean It – I'll be covering the finer points of JavaScript that I passed over back in Part I. I'll also introduce you to some of the fancier aspects of JavaScript and the tips and lowdown that will allow you to build real multimedia applications.
As we head into the JavaScript nitty-gritty, I'm going to assume that you've covered the following:
- Assigning values to variables
- If-then statements
- For and while loops
- Writing your own functions
- Opening and manipulating windows
- Reading and writing to HTML forms
- Using arrays
- Conducting image swaps
Any of these sound unfamiliar? You may want to take a peek at the first five JavaScript lessons before you get into Part II.
The Five-Day Lesson Plan
Back in Part I, we covered the heart of JavaScript:most of the important syntax and many of the most commonly used objects. It is now time to refine your JavaScript knowledge and become a true JavaScript master. And here's what you'll find along the path to enlightenment.
- Day 1
- Introductions and the tying up of a few loose ends. A pretty light start, with just a few tips and teasers to get you into the mood. Highlights include a new kind of if-then-else statement and the true meaning of var.
- Day 2
- Fancy string handling, saving information about your visitors after they've left your site, and a new type of array.
- Day 3
- Day 4
- Preloading images, image maps and JavaScript. Creating your own objects and using loops to easily get at hard-to-find objects.
- Day 5
- Tools for developing and testing JavaScript, debugging techniques, and tips for making your JavaScript code run quickly.
By the end of these five lessons, you should have a grip on the full range of JavaScript possibilities. With this knowledge firmly in your grasp, a vast array of Internet applications will be yours for the writing.
Let's get started with a lovely if-then-else shortcut.
An If-Then-Else Shortcut
One of the most commonly used statements in JavaScript is the good old if-then-else. Take the Webmonkey reward schedule for instance:
if (monkey_behavior == "good") { var toy = "videogames"; } else { var toy = "rocks"; }
In plain English, this means, "If the monkey's been good, he gets to play videogames. If not, he gets only rocks." For reasons of legibility, it is a perfectly good way to do this. For those who don't like to squander keystrokes, however, there is a shortcut (albeit, a less legible one). It's called the "conditional operator," and it goes a little something like this:
var toy = (monkey_behavior=="good") ? "videogames" :"rocks";
This expression does the same thing as the if-then-else statement above it. See what I mean about legibility? The conditional operator has three parts:a conditional test, a value to return if that test is true, and a value to return if that test is false. So, in the above example, the conditional test is
(monkey_behavior=="good"). If that test is true, it returns the value after the question mark. In this case, it's the string videogames. If the conditional test is false, the value after the colon is returned; in this case, it's rocks.
This sort of shortcut is most useful inside function calls. For example, you can use it to do something like this:
var password = "open sesame"; var answer = prompt("what's the password? ",""); alert((answer == password) ? "welcome!" :"buzz off");
Click here to see this in action. What you're seeing is the conditional operator doing its job and returning either welcome or buzz off, depending on the answer you give at the prompt. The value returned by the conditional gets sent to alert, which throws up an alert box with that value.
Without the conditional operator, the code would look like this:
var password = "open sesame"; var answer = prompt("what's the password? ",""); if (answer == password) { alert("welcome"); } else { alert("buzz off"); }
It's definitely longer, but some people find it more readable, and understandable, to actually write out the if-then-else statement. The method you choose is simply a matter of personal preference.
OK, last stop on today's tour of loose ends: the mysterious
What Is This Thing Called Var?
Way back in Part I, Day 2, I said that the first time you use a variable, you should declare it with the word "var." I promised that I'd explain why when I talked about functions. Well, I forgot! So, now is the time.
Just to jiggle your memory, here's an example of var in use:
var happiness = "a banana split"; alert("The monkeys think happiness is " + happiness);
This little blurb declares a variable called happiness, then throws up an alert box that uses that variable.
If you've been looking at other people's JavaScript, you might have noticed that not everyone declares their variables with var, which can cause problems. First, some versions of MSIE will bomb, or at least act strangely, if a variable isn't declared with var. This is especially true for MSIE on Macs. Second, if you want to write JavaScripts of any significant size, you're going to have to write your own functions. And once you start writing your own functions, you really need to understand what var is all about.
As described in Part I, Day 4, a function is a block of JavaScript that can be called when necessary. The best functions are self-contained. You know what goes into the function and what comes out of it, and, once you've written the function, you don't have to worry about how it works.
As long as all your functions are self-contained, you never have to worry that writing a new function will accidentally screw up a function you've already written. The key to writing self-contained functions is to make sure that your function doesn't alter variables that aren't passed directly into them as parameters.
Here's an example of what can happen if you're not careful. Let's say you want to write a program that converts Fahrenheit temperatures into Celsius. Click the Fahrenheit/Celsius converter to see what I mean. If you convert 50 degrees Fahrenheit, you get a message saying, "50 degrees Fahrenheit is 10 degrees Celsius." You could write a script without vars that would look something like this:
function fahrenToCelsius(faren) { temp = (faren - 32) * 5/9; return temp; } function convertTemp() { temp = prompt("what temperature fahrenheit? ","50"); celsius = fahrenToCelsius(temp); alert(temp + " degrees Fahrenheit is " + celsius + " degrees Celsius."); }
The workings of these functions should be pretty clear to you. One function named
convertTemp() calls another function named
fahrenToCelsius() and returns the results. Take a moment to make sure you understand what's going on. Breathe. Breathe. If it's just not coming to you, revisit Day 4, which covers functions at great length.
OK, ready?
The confusing thing about this example is that the variable called temp is used in both functions. In the
convertTemp() function, it's used to store the temperature in Fahrenheit (which is supplied by the user). In the
fahrenToCelsius() function, it's used to calculate temperature in Celsius. Not only does this confuse us, it also confuses JavaScript. Here's what happens when you try running the code without vars.
Notice that if you try to convert 50 degrees Fahrenheit, you get a message that says, "10 degrees Fahrenheit is 10 degrees Celsius." Why does the program suddenly think you entered 10 degrees instead of 50? Let's trace the functions to see what happened.
When we call
convertTemp() and type "50" into the prompt, we get
temp = 50;
In the next step, "temp" is passed to the function called
farenToCelsius(). Inside
farenToCelsius(), the parameter called
faren is then set to 50 and "temp" gets set to (50 – 32) * 5/9, which is 10. Before returning the value, you have:
faren = 50 temp = 10
farenToCelsius() returns 10 to the variable
temp = 10 celsius = 10
And we're left with the false statement, "10 degrees Fahrenheit is 10 degrees Celsius."
It's possible to solve this issue if you carefully avoid naming your variables the same thing. If you didn't have a variable called temp in both functions, you wouldn't have a problem.
Unfortunately, this isn't the best solution. As you start adding more and more functions to your script, it becomes harder to ensure that you're not re-using variable names. Also, you will repeatedly use lots of variable names, like loop, index, count, and the_name. Coming up with different versions of these commonly used variable names would be a real pain.
A better solution is to tell JavaScript that the variable called temp inside the
fahrenToCelsius() function is different from the temp variable in the
convertTemp() function. If every function has its own special temp variable, then you don't have to worry about certain functions messing with the variables of other functions.
If you haven't guessed yet, this is exactly what var does. Let's take a look.
The Way of Var
To keep JavaScript from mixing up same-name variables, put var in front of your variables as you declare them. A variable inside a function that's declared with var is called a local variable, and it only exists inside that function. In general, you want your variables to be local whenever possible.
Here is the JavaScript with the correct vars in it:
function fahrenToCelsius(faren) { var temp = (faren - 32) * 5 / 9; return temp; } function convertTemp() { var temp = prompt("what temperature Fahrenheit? ","50"); var celsius = badFahrenToCelsius(temp); alert(temp + " degrees Fahrenheit is " + celsius + " degrees Celsius."); }
And here's how it works. Let's say we call
convertTemp() and type 50 into the prompt. Because we used var before the prompt, this temp is localized to the
convertTemp() function. So …
(inside convertTemp) temp = 50
As before, we pass temp to the function called
fahrenToCelsius(). Inside
fahrenToCelsius(), the parameter called
faren gets set to 50. Then temp is set with the line:
var temp = (faren - 32) * 5 / 9;
As before, putting that var in front of temp tells JavaScript, "This variable called temp is different than any other variable called temp. This one exists only inside the
fahrenToCelsius function." Once JavaScript finishes with
fahrenToCelsius(), the special temp variable vanishes. So, just before
fahrenToCelsius() returns,
faren = 50 (inside fahrenToCelsius) temp = 10 (inside convertTemp) temp = 50
fahrenToCelsius() then returns its version of the temp variable, which is 10. Once we leave
fahrenToCelsius(), its version of the temp variable vanishes.
fahrenToCelsius() returns, it sets the variable called
celsius to 10:
(inside convertTemp) temp = 50 (inside convertTemp) celsius = 10
And thus the alert message says, "50 degrees Fahrenheit is 10 degrees Celsius." Which is exactly what we want.
To review, by using var before a variable, you localize that variable to the one function that houses it. And once that function ends, the variable ceases to exist.
And that's the (loose) end of today's lesson. Now all that's left is your homework assignment.
I didn't want to give you anything too heavy on the very first day. Mostly I just wanted to make sure you understood all the elements covered in Part I. After today, we'll be diving in pretty deep, and, if you don't have a firm grasp of the basics, you might slide into an abyss of confusion. Or – even worse – stop reading. So, make double-sure you understood:
- why var is a good thing;
- how to use the if-then-else shorthand operator.
Before we get down and dirty tomorrow, put your knowledge to the test with a little exercise I whipped up.
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Hi - Im Megan and recently moved to Palm Desert from the OC. I would love to get back into tennis. I used to play on a regular basis. Anyone want to hit some balls in evenings or weekends please let me know.
I live in Palm Desert / Desert Falls area....
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Hi Megan,
I have not found a lot of play on this site. Maybe you will do better. Jay is the one exception. He organizes games at Palm Desert Civic Park. I would be happy meeting you somewhere between Palm Springs and PD. I belong to CC Country Club. That would be a good place to meet. Courts are always available. Good luck. Call or text.
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Hi Megan
Are you still playing at Desert Falls? I just moved to Desert Falls too and am looking to hit some tennis. My cell is 408-655-1096
new to this area also, I'm free weekdays at night after 700pm, we have six courts at my complex or i can meet you
Hi Megan
If you would like to practice I live pretty close in Rancho Mirage my name is Nancy 760.409.7317 I m a 3.5/4.0
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Methane can be released to the atmosphere from a variety of natural and and made sources. The fragile and rapidly changing Arctic region is home to large reservoirs of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. As Earth's climate warms, the methane, frozen in reservoirs stored in Arctic tundra soils or marine sediments, is vulnerable to being released into the atmosphere, where it can add to global warming. Now a multi-institutional study by Eric Kort of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has uncovered a surprising and potentially important new source of Arctic methane: the ocean itself.
Atmospheric methane levels are of interest due to its impact on climate change. Atmospheric methane is one of the most potent and influential greenhouse gases on Earth. The 100-year global warming potential of methane is 25, i.e. over a 100-year period, it traps 25 times more heat per mass unit than carbon dioxide.
Previously there have been many potential sources of atmospheric methane: Wetlands (20% - decomposition), animal flatulence and burps, forests, Arctic methane release and clathrate effect/permafrost, farming, natural gas releases or incomplete combustion, rice farming, and landfills.
Now there is a new potential methane source.
During five HIPPO flights over the Arctic from 2009 to 2010, Kort's team observed increased methane levels while flying at low altitudes over the remote Arctic Ocean, north of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. The methane level was about one-half percent larger than normal background levels.
But where was the methane coming from? The team detected no carbon monoxide in the atmosphere that would point to possible contributions from human combustion activities. In addition, based on the time of year, location and nature of the emissions, it was extremely unlikely the methane was coming from high-latitude wetlands or geologic reservoirs.
By comparing locations of the enhanced methane levels with airborne measurements of carbon monoxide, water vapor and ozone, they pinpointed a source: the ocean surface, through cracks in Arctic sea ice and areas of partial sea ice cover. The cracks expose open Arctic seawater, allowing the ocean to interact with the air, and methane in the surface waters to escape into the atmosphere. The team detected no enhanced methane levels when flying over areas of solid ice.
Kort said previous studies by others had measured high concentrations of methane in Arctic surface waters, but before now no one had predicted that these enhanced levels of ocean methane would find their way to the overlying atmosphere.
So how is the methane being produced? The scientists aren't yet sure, but Kort hinted biological production from living things in Arctic surface waters may be a likely culprit. "It's possible that as large areas of sea ice melt and expose more ocean water, methane production may increase, leading to larger methane emissions," he said. He said future studies will be needed to understand the enhanced methane levels and associated emission processes and to measure their total contribution to overall Arctic methane levels.


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Born: May 4, 1922
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Semyon was born to a Jewish family in the small village of Komarovo in Polish Ukraine. His parents were farmers and tended their own fields while managing the estate of a Polish landowner who lived in Warsaw. Of the estimated 200 families living in Komarovo, only five were Jewish.
1933-39: Since there was no Jewish school in our town, my parents sent me to the nearby city of Sarny to study. I finished school in 1938 and returned to Komarovo to help my parents with our farm. But in September 1939 the Germans invaded Poland and divided it with the Soviet Union; our village was annexed by the Soviets. All private property was seized; everything was owned by the State and we worked in cooperatives.
1940-44: The German army entered Komarovo in 1941 and sent all the Jews to a ghetto in nearby Kolki. In 1942 the ghetto was encircled by local police and German troops, who liquidated the ghetto, loading Jews on trucks. I asked my father if, when the guards began to shoot, he would try to escape with me. My father patted my head and said, "I don't want to see you killed and I don't want you to see my death." When the trucks reached the edge of town, they stopped. The Germans began shooting and I jumped from the truck and ran to the woods.
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Im gonna try this thanks,
Im still kinda experimenting with the distance when im spraying or the number of spray I put on the same place.
This isn't something new to most of you here but I'll try to keep it clear and simple:
I couldn't understand why sometimes Versace The Dreamer smelled so wonderful on my skin, while sometimes it was simply horrible, even after hours. Until I got it, the secret is the amount you spray. In this case The Dreamer sprays a lot on your skin that's why you need to hold it far away (20 cm / 7.8 inch ) from the target zone.
For example if you want 2 on your neck, just hold your other hand as a barrier on the face (unless you want fragrance on your face) and spray. The top notes won't be that harsh, the beautiful dry-down will come easier, and it still lasts, lasts and lasts..
I shared the same experience with A*MEN, Bvlgari Soir, BLV, Opium, Zino Davidoff, PdN New York, By Kilian Love, Beyond Love, Paco Rabanne XS
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Im gonna try this thanks,
Im still kinda experimenting with the distance when im spraying or the number of spray I put on the same place.
Yes I agree, for strong fragrance, if you spray like that the base note will show quicker.
I wore The Dreamer a few weeks ago, it was wonderful and long lasting.
Current Top 5
1. Creed Aventus
2. A*Men Pure Malt
3. L'instant Extreme
4. Nasomatto Duro
5. CDG - Kyoto
This is what I do with Joop Homme. If you spray too close you your direct skin ...ugh it is so harsh that you want punch a brick wall.
If a fragrance sometimes smells 'wonderful' and other times 'horrible' it is not an excellent fragrance. You can concentrate the molecules in different amounts to change the smell to a slight degree, but no fragrance is worth it if it is as temperamental as you say. And what you smell on your wrist is not necessarily what others smell in sillage. Keep that in mind if one smells horrible. I would never wear something that ever at any point smelled bad to me.
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.


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The West Asia region is known for its rich biodiversity and wide range of fauna and flora, but like any other region, its biodiversity is seriously threatened. Due to increasing threats to species, there is an urgent need to build capacity in the West Asia for assessing the status of threatened fauna and flora, and thus the Royal Botanic Garden of Jordan and IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature – Regional Office for West Asia (ROWA) are organizing a joint regional workshop to train experts in West Asia on the use of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.
The IUCN Red List is the world's most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of plant, fungi and animal species. It is based on an objective system for assessing the risk of extinction of a species should no conservation action be taken. "The scientific knowledge provided by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species can be used by decision makers to inform conservation planning and influence policy for the benefit of nature and people. It is an indicator and a 'parameter' to measure the harmonization between our developmental programmes and our nature and species conservation efforts." Said Dr. Odeh Al-Jayyousi, IUCN West Asia Regional Director.
The workshop will be held from 17-21 January 2011 at the Dead Sea, in the presence of HRH Princess Basma bint Ali, founder of the Royal Botanic Garden initiative, and under the patronage of HE Minister of Environment Eng. Nasser Shraideh. "This training is considered a starting point for preparing the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in the region," said Her Royal Highness Princess Basma bint Ali founder of the Royal Botanic Garden Initiative. "We, at the Royal Botanic Garden and in Jordan are ready to provide the neighboring countries with our full support to prepare the IUCN Red List," she added.
This workshop is the first of its kind to be conducted in the West Asia region. More than thirty, from governmental and nongovernmental organizations in Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen and Iran, will be trained in the application of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Categories and Criteria for species assessments. The outcome will be a skilled team that is capable of assessing, evaluating and preparing the Red List of Threatened Species in West Asia
This workshop is considered the cornerstone for the development of national and regional strategies to assess the threats facing the species across the region. "We should differentiate between species extinction and the humankind activities that are threatening the species survival," said HE Nasser Shraideh, Minister of Environment in Jordan. "We are hoping from this workshop to develop the basis for a national effort to document the situation of species and take necessary measures to reduce the level extinction and increase the numbers of threatened species to acceptable limits," he added.
The latest update of the IUCN Red List showed that globally 21 percent of all known mammals, 30 percent of all known amphibians, 12 percent of all known birds, and 28 percent of reptiles, 21 percent of fish species, 68 percent of plants that have been assessed so far are threatened with extinction.


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Source Code released:http://www.thomasbertani.it/files/gnuboy-1.0.3.tar.gz
What works
When removing the illume keyboard and installing the matchbox-keyboard (See also: Switching_Keyboards) it's possible to use the matchbox keyboard as input method (tested only on 2007.2, please verify). You need to create a ~/.matchbox/keyboard.xml file:
mkdir /home/root/.matchbox cp /usr/share/matchbox-keyboard/keyboard.xml ~/.matchbox/
PieterC created a profile to this file to change the layout to a game-boy lay-out (browsing the layouts can easily be done by pushing the > butten in the left bottom corner): add this to ~/.matchbox/keyboard.xml:
<layout id="GameBoy"> <row> <space width="500"/> <key> <default display="b" action="s"/> </key> <key> <default display="a" action="d" /> </key> <space width="300"/> <key> <default display="↑" action="up" /> </key> <space width="4000" extended="true" /> </row> <row> <key> <default display=">" action="modifier:layout"/> </key> <key fill="true"><default display="start" action="return"/> </key> <key> <default display="slt" action="space" /> </key> <space width="500" extended="true"/> <key> <default display="←" action="left" /> </key> <key> <default display="↓" action="down" /> </key> <key> <default display="→" action="right" /> </key> </row> </layout>
After untarring gnuboy to the openmoko, you can launch your favorite rom-file by running
./sdlgnuboy --fullscreen=0 --scale=2 pg.gbc
Some work has to be done...
Using the matchbox keyboard is clearly only a temporary solution: we need an input method that works out of the box. Since it uses sdl, we can check out the code of duke3d and simply port it into the put_events() function in the main.c. Some of us tried yet to implement this but no one succeeded to implement it, due to this[1] issue.
When trying to implement the touchscreen as an input device for gnuboy, we won't be able to do multi touching (strike 2 buttons at a time). Since this is mandatory to some games (mostly fighting games) on the gameboy (color), we micht not use the touchscreen for all events. I propose to use the accelerometers as up down left & right, and use the touchscreen as A, B, start & select.
External links that might be interesting
[2] - SDL touchscreen issue
[3] - the source of gnuboy as released in 2001 by Laguna
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Dubai, March 26, 2013
Wally, a personal finance iPhone application launched worldwide this week, has been downloaded over 10,000 times to date, and claimed the top position in finance apps in the Apple app store in than six countries.
The app, which has more than 9,500 active users, won first place prize for best new startup in the Middle East at the recently concluded ArabNet 2013 Beirut.
Wally helps users anywhere in the world keep track of what they spend and the details, in their own currencies. After nine months of private testing, the app is now available for free, and user privacy is ensured as user-generated data is only saved on the phone.
"The idea behind Wally is that our personal finances are usually a mess, and we just don't have the right tools to manage them," said Saeid Hejazi, CEO and cofounder, Wally.
"Some of us use Excel, some use a paper and pen, and then there are some people that actually learned how to use a type of personal accounting software – bless them. The truth is, we're not all born gifted accountants.
"The feedback from users and tech bloggers alike has been phenomenal – it seems people are looking for exactly what we have created," he added.
"We're on a mission to solve our problem and one that many people, everywhere, are facing. Ultimately, we want to be able to give users a comprehensive view on their finances; what comes in, what goes out, and what is left in savings for emergencies or special treats," Hejazi noted.
"As of today, we're pretty proud of what we've done and that is to help users keep track of the money going out, which is why we're mobile only at the moment; quick ways of logging your expenses, scanning your receipts, easy to understand graphs and more."
The next steps for Wally are already under development, with an Android version of the app in the pipeline, he explained.
Web access and integration will follow, giving users more detailed information, analysis tools and visualization, if they want them. Wally is currently being translated into nine languages following user feedback from around the world.
"In terms of the finance tracking features, Wally users will soon be able to enter their income and use the app to plan and budget different aspects of their spending. Right now we help them capture what goes out. Our next plan is to capture what they make, their income and help them compare the two," said Hejazi.
"When it comes to the question of how we make money, the simple answer is, we don't. Wally is completely free and doesn't have any ads. The idea is to build a really good basic version that everyone can use and love. As we build, we'll be adding some premium type features that users will be able to pay for if they choose; probably anything from $15 to $25 a year, but we will never take away or limit the current features," Hejazi concluded.
Wally is currently available free to download in the iPhone Apple app store. – TradeArabia News Service


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I have dabbled with the swamp cooler technique once and day 2 i put the carboy in the cooler and the yeast shocked and fermentation stalled around 1040. Is there a good trick to prevent that or will that issue not occur if the carboy reaches the same temp of the cooler water prefermentation or prekrausen?
An excess of FAN will cause fusel alcohols—low molecular-weight proteins are also foam-negative. Might be something to look into if you're seeing low head and hot alcohol.
... Almost all my beers have a "hot" alcohol taste, even the low gravity ones... In the book he mentioned hot fermentation temperatures can make some hot alcohol flavors and I ferment at 66(coldest room in my house) would this be the culprit of my hot alcohol flavors?


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Oh man! looks soooo good! Sounds like you loved the new sauce? Really looks delicious! inspiring! was the crust still l loos emergency thin crust you did before? rock on Bob!
no worries Bob! Thanks for getting back to me! Your changes sound really interesting! milk and beer! Did you still get a crisp bottom? It sounds like you liked the flavor of the crust too? Nice work!
Bob, I'm not very familiar with the Chicago thin style pizza, but yours are some of the best looking ones I've ever seen. They look incredibly appetizing. I don't think I have a proper cutter pan, but I'd like to try to make a pizza like this anyway. What was your baking temperature and time for the pizzas you posted at the start of the thread? What's the typical range of cooking time/temp for this style?
Dont know what recipe of Chicago Bobs this is but I tried it and it was really good, quick and easy. No pics as the batteries in the camera died. From http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,23730.msg241043.html#msg241043AP Flour (I use AP) 100%Water 50Corn oil 3Salt 2IDY .08TF = .09I rolled it as thin as I could. Put it in the pan and trimmed off the rest. Took the trimmings and made another smaller pizza with it. Did that one on a stone without a pan. Both pizzas were great. Thanks for the recipe CB. Now I just need to work on my sauce.
Hey CB happy birthday. CB I'll give your updated recipe a try. Same hour? You do let it rise correct? I'm guessing rise intil it doubles or close to doubleing. Anyways that is what I did with the other one just let it rise then rolled it out as thin as I could and panned it, sauced, topped and off to a 500 degree oven. Btw I used ADY at the same amounts as your IDY.


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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:52 pm
Post subject: Brining Length
I typically brine a turkey in a solution a little less salty than seawater for 3-4 days. I use Zatarain's Seafood Boil Salt and Brown Sugar. Just wonderful.....
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:35 pm
Post subject: Brining a turkey with sugar
I read this entire thread thoroughly, and while someone mentioned brining a fish with the sugar did not ruin the fish, I am really interested in turkeys. I do not want to ruin our Thanksgiving turkey, so if anyone has brined their turkey with sugar (most basic recipes I have read are 1/2 cup of salt and 1/2 cup of sugar per 1 gallon of water) please tell me if the turkey tastes sweet. I don't really want a sweet turkey, nor an overly salty one, but a moist and tender turkey would be fabulous.
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:26 pm
Post subject: Re: Brining a turkey with sugar
Anonymous wrote:
I do not want to ruin our Thanksgiving turkey, so if anyone has brined their turkey with sugar (most basic recipes I have read are 1/2 cup of salt and 1/2 cup of sugar per 1 gallon of water) please tell me if the turkey tastes sweet. I don't really want a sweet turkey, nor an overly salty one, but a moist and tender turkey would be fabulous.
I personally don't find the sugar necessary in the brine. I generally use 1 cup table salt to 1 gallon water concentration for about 4 hours for my turkeys.
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:18 pm
Post subject: brine process
I am using martha stewart recipe for brining from her website which consists of 3 cups salt,5 cups sugar,carrots,onions,celery,spices,and 10 cups water and let it soak immersed for 24 hours.sounds good,but my only concern is the after process off letting it sit for 2 hours at room temperature.I went through cooking school years back and remember the utmost important rule of cooking.4 hours meat sitting in temperatures between 40-140 degrees is a danger zone.and that doesnt mean 4 hours at one time,four consecutive hours.so my question to anyone is it just as fine to let it sit for the 2 hours after the brining is complete into the fridge?
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:24 pm
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STOP! immediately check you sources.
the salt sugar water ratio is like way off the scale!
I'm not able to follow the logic of the question regarding time in the danger zone, but you should treat it as cumulative time. cold slows down bacterial growth - if you got a big colony of nastie baccies - re-refrigerating does not help....
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:51 pm
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i got the recipe here:
i dont know,hope its ok?
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:58 pm
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Brad -
see also :http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/turkey-brine-from-living?lnc=5a79cf380e1dd010VgnVCM1000005b09a00aRCRD&rsc=recipecontent_food
3 cups of salt to 10 cups of water is extreme suspect.
more typically it's one cup salt to one gallon of water - something's very fishy there.
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:12 pm
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I agree... three cups (even if it's "coarse salt") is way too much salt for 10 cups of water and a 24 hour brine.
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:28 pm
Post subject: When it gets too salty...
Just a thought, but my family used to get double cured hams that were extremely salty if cooked before they were soaked in fresh water overnight. If the meat is brined too long (and is now too salty) perhaps a resoaking in fresh water would save your meat.
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:54 am
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Does brining work for beef and other meats? Or Seafood?
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:40 pm
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>>Does brining work for beef and other meats? Or Seafood?
from a technical standpoint, it should - I've never heard anything to indicate chicken meat cells are vastly different from other meat cells and so "it doesn't work" . . .
the question might be: "why?" poultry is selectively bred to be very lean - that lack of fat in the meat can result in dryness when cooked.
fish have natural oils, some species more than others, which keeps them moister (when not over cooked) and even lean beef has more fat that chicken. pork is one that can get dry.
marinating beef / pork is not uncommon - typically for "flavor" but marinates usually have a salt component, the liquids usually are acid based but do contain water. one could argue as to whether a marinate is not also "brining" the meat.
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:06 pm
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For what it's worth, increasing the temperature of the water to make sodium chloride dissolve more doesn't work because its solubility doesn't increase with increasing temperature:
Having said that, heating the water may make it dissolve a little faster, but then you have to cool it off again. I just made a gallon of cold brine by using 7/8 of a gallon of room temperature water to dissolve the 150 gm of salt and then adding a pound of ice cubes after the salt had dissolved. Adding the ice later only meant that it was easier to see when the salt had dissolved...
The salt dissolved quite quickly in the room temperature water. Interestingly, as the salt dissolved, the water became cloudy as a result of gases dissolved in the water coming out of solution. This occurs because the solubility of gases in water decreases with increasing salinity.
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:03 pm
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When you add sugar to water, the sugar crystals dissolve and the sugar goes into solution. But you cant dissolve an infinite amount of sugar into a fixed volume of water. When as much sugar has been dissolved into a solution as possible, the solution is said to be saturated.
The saturation point is different at different temperatures. The higher the temperature, the more sugar that can be held in solution.
Usually as you increase the temperature, an increased amount of solute will be able to dissolve.
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Many thanks for this post. Finally a place that explains cooking and satisfies my questions.
And thanks for providing this site, I'd like to brine my mind with its contents...
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:36 pm
Post subject: Brining and pseudo-moistness
The basic premise of brining is that the salt in the brine denatures meat protein, making brined meat more moisture-retentive. After the brine diffuses into the intercellular spaces, it drains water out of the cells by osmosis. That increases the
(not the number) of dissolved salt ions inside the cells, which causes the protein molecules to unfold. The protein matrix traps and holds the remaining cellular water, so it isn't squeezed out as soon by the heat of cooking.
A second thesis [main article, paras. 4-6; 5/28/07 comment] claims that the brine increases the
of intracellular solutes, thereby reversing the original osmotic flow and resulting in a net increase in moisture content. This theory assumes that the "broken down" intracellular solutes increase to the point where they actually exceed the intercellular solutes, including those from the brine. If, instead, the solutes outside the cell walls still outnumber those inside, the osmotic flow out of the cells would continue, though its rate might slow down.
(Parenthetically, are there any quantitative experimental data supporting this second theory [cf. 7/5/06 comment]? More particularly, how long would it take for any "reverse flow" to offset the initial osmotic dehydration? Though its advocates claim that brining requires as little as 30 minutes of refrigerated soaking, it's hard to believe that the initial diffusion, even, would penetrate very far in that time. Have there been experiments with brines containing dyes or other markers?)
Yet even assuming one or both of these mechanisms, so what? A large part of the brining liquid ends up in the intercellular spaces, or in gaps between muscles or under the skin. ("Meats have space between [their] constituent parts where water and salt can collect. A piece of cloth dropped in a salt water bath will come out moist and salty without the benefit of a semi-permeable membrane or denatured proteins" [9/4/06 comment].) But during cooking, this liquid is the first to go, at temperatures as low as 120F -- well below the target temperatures for brined meats like turkey or pork. If you're used to turkey that's absolutely desiccated, anything would be an improvement, even breast meat whose remaining juices run out as it's carved -- at least it
moist, the same way a sidewalk sprayed with water looks wet. But if all you want is meat coated with liquid, a sauce is a more direct, more controlled, and much easier way to get it.
For something better than that, brining's promise of greater intracellular water retention may be the truth, but it's not the whole truth. Away from the lab, what counts is juiciness as you're chewing the meat, not numerical moisture content. For example, even with its maximum natural moisture, raw meat like sashimi is rubbery, not juicy; it doesn't really
moist. So too with brined meat: the salt denatures the meat protein, just as baking a custard denatures the egg protein; and like a baked custard, brined meat may hold appreciable added liquid without feeling any more moist in the mouth.
The very mechanism that retains the liquid converts it into a semisolid.
Cook's Illustrated
/ America's Test Kitchen, longtime purveyors of brining pop science, compare brined meat to "water-added" pork products like frankfurters, and that is exactly the effect of brining: the "better" it works, the more it transforms the juiciness of unbrined meat into the rubberiness of a hot dog. Less than that, and it mostly just adds salt.
For some meats in some long-cooked applications like barbecue, brining may have a place. Otherwise, it's utterly unnecessary. Simply put, what causes dry meat is overcooking, not a deficiency of water or salt in the raw meat; and the cure is simply to cook the meat a shorter time, to a lower internal temperature. With turkey, the traditional methods (frequent basting, covering the breast with cheesecloth) can produce a bird with pink, pliable, moist, and rich-tasting breast meat -- and no over-salty pan drippings. Unbrined boneless chicken breasts are easily cooked (about 3 minutes on the first side, 2 minutes on the second) until they feel pliable but resilient when prodded with a fingertip. (Or, for cold salads or sandwiches, whole bone-in breasts can be "oven poached" for around 45 minutes at 300F.) And for pork, brining is just plain silly: Modern pork is bred to be lean and moist instead of fatty, and cryovac packing makes it damper still; an unbrined 1-inch boneless pork chop (pan-browned 3 minutes on the first side, then turned over and roasted 9 minutes at 325F) is already so juicy that I have to make the accompanying sauce thicker than usual to compensate for the liquid that comes out as I cut into the chop.
In the end, while some people report moister meats after brining, I suspect this is an artifact; my guess is that they either use an updated recipe with shorter cooking times, or simply pay closer attention to how the cooking is coming along. Or there may be a placebo effect. Anyway, most panaceas are suspect, and this one should be no exception. Brining is modern-day snake-oil.
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Ok, so I last wrote about a little venture I am starting called Tribal Method, and already the questions are rolling in (just not here for some reason). So I'll explain a bit more.
First, I need a gathering place for my own ideas and projects. Just to manage them if nothing else. So I'm going to incorporate as Tribal Method first to start organizing my own efforts. The initial website will host them and provide links to services that support what I'm about to describe.
As I mentally explored ideas on project organization, I realized the if I could solve MY needs I could solve ANYone's. Just… unconventionally.
See, I deal with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). I refuse to say "suffer from" because although the syndrome can be a major pain in the butt, it's also ironically responsible for my success in many areas. ADD is a common cause of unboxed creative thinking and I would not trade this curse for any gift. But– constantly generating countless revolutionary ideas is rather useless if there's no mechanism for moving them forward. In my career I have often had to depend on others for that. I'd rather not.
Project management tools have not helped, because they don't work the way I do. Too often they demand too much labor in setup and maintenance, and lack natural connectivity to my other systems and data stores. This makes project management extremely inefficient.
Everyone with ADD or ADHD right now is nodding in sympathetic horror. We HATE inefficiencies– even our own.
My idea count has just been mounting with no end or solution in sight. Pulling together teams has been frustrating because the people I know well enough to trust have their own things going. Part of the solution has been getting out more and getting involved on the business side, but even that has made me realize there's still a need out there for herding ideas through the development process and into actual products and services.
So I'm going to bite the bullet and focus foremost on crafting a solution. I need something immersive. Where my often-erratic workflow automatically incorporates the actual management part. Something that Just Works. Seamlessly. Invisibly.
As I said last time, technology should be an enabler. It should support solutions that work the way users want to work rather than forcing us into awkward, counterproductive corners. And while not everyone has to deal with ADD or ADHD, other constraints impose on them the same problems I experience.
It's time to create something to address that.


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Agriculture is on the cusp of technology that can make really complex recordkeeping simple, says Ted Macy. "It's a very exciting time" in terms of hardware and software that will automate generation, storage, and analyzing much of the data related to crop production, he said at the ninth annual National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Conference at Robinsonville, Miss.
"Precision agriculture technology has become a given, an integral part of everyday farming operations."
Macy, who's president of MapShots, Inc., Cummings, Ga., says many of the hardware/software incompatibilities that have limited the use of such technology are now being resolved as the industry becomes more standardized.
By using computerized technology to track usage of resources in crop production — land, products applied, machines, people, fertilizer, grain bins, warehousing, ginning, etc. — a producer can document and analyze everything that occurs during the crop cycle.
"We've been doing yield monitoring for almost 15 years," Macy said, "but it's only within the last year that there has been a single piece of software able to read data from any manufacturer.
"One of the simplest forms of automated records is generated by sensors on harvesting equipment: grain flow, moisture, distance, width, etc. But now we have systems with the capability of monitoring and recording variable product applications from a planter."
Spatially aware sensors can monitor the seeding rate on every planter hopper and calculate plant populations for each row, along with amounts of fertilizer applied."
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on product containers, receivers on planters, and flow meters can all communicate via wireless "Bluetooth" devices, Macy said, and can capture data on everything that's taking place with a planter or other machinery and record it for analysis.
All this is done automatically, Macy noted, eliminating the need for operator training. "The data can be captured without the operator even knowing which button to push."
As improvements continue to be made in hardware and software, he said, the entire process will become even more user friendly.
"The most exciting thing we see in the industry, given the movement to auto-steer guidance systems, is the ability to automate the spray boom to avoid overlapping on rows." This will not only cut chemical use, but will reduce crop damage and enhance environmental stewardship.
"Sensors on the spray boom can make a decision to turn the spray on or off, based on field maps generated as the equipment passes through the field. The system can detect which areas have already been sprayed and turn the nozzles off."
Data generated can also be valuable in producing records for the Environmental Protection Agency, Macy said.
Equipment is now available, he noted, to automate data exchange between growers and cotton gins for monitoring the status of cotton harvest, without manual data entry.
Documentation is "much more complex" than for grain harvesting, he noted, and can capture data related to specific fields and allow modules from different fields to be combined while keeping separate records for each. The system tracks modules produced, picked up, ginned, classed, etc.
"It can automatically identify a module in the field, notify the gin that the module is available, notify the grower when the gin picks up the module, and provide notification to the grower when the module has been ginned and classed. And there's potential for all this to be done wirelessly."
By linking to a global positioning system (GPS), it can map every module's location in the field and even generate directions to the truck driver for picking up the module. And it can generate status reports without any keyboard entries.
Alabama producer Larkin Martin, who grows cotton, corn, and soybeans, is using MapShot's EASi Suite crop recordkeeping, mapping, and precision agriculture program to automate many data generation and analysis functions of her 6,000-acre farm, Macy said.
Mrs. Martin was unable to attend the conference, but Macy said she has been using the system for five years, during which time it has evolved from a grain-oriented recordkeeping program to a sophisticated, flexible software package for grain, cotton, and chemical/fertilizer applications.
"She can walk into her office each morning and immediately generate a status report of her entire cotton harvesting operation."
The system, Macy said, can organize information related to various farming operations, coordinate it, and make it readily available for decision-making, variable rate application prescription writing, and other uses "never before possible."
It provides her the ability to reconcile business records and agronomic records, to do share rent calculations and reports, to use data to create management zones, to use yield maps to manage soil fertility, and to create soil test sampling and liming zones.
While currently much of the information is manually entered into the system by farm staff, he said Mrs. Martin wants to move to additional automation as quickly as possible.
Even though farmers may not have a use for all the data that can now be generated by automated technology, Macy said, it is advisable to begin capturing it so it will be available as future needs develop.
And, he said, even though data generation and recordkeeping are becoming easier, "human knowledge is still a very valuable component in interpreting that information and using it for management advantage."
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|2012-05-15, 14:55
|Link #1421
100% Tsun... 0% Dere
Join Date: Jan 2012
i want to see a unique sword and not the typical two handed dual wield.
Even star wars made an epic dual light saber... id much rather see that type of weapon, then two swords, one being black, and the other being white... cuz then we got kirito all over again from SAO, with his black Elucidator, and shinning Dark Repulser all over again.
|2012-05-15, 16:54
|Link #1425
100% Tsun... 0% Dere
Join Date: Jan 2012
once they do read SAO, they realize how much better kirito is then kamito should he have dual sabers.
|2012-05-15, 16:57
|Link #1426
Emperor of the Expected
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Florida
I never read SAO so I have no idea what his dual wielding is about. Just to be fair Soji is correct, the author foreshadowed a lot for Kamito to dual wield swords, though I wouldn't mind him have Est and Restia fuse into one sword. Like think of a Katana, since Est is a Holy Sword Spirit (I think) and Restia is a Dark Sword Spirit (I think again) so the colors of the blade would be black and white. One side of a Katana is black while the other is while. Richocet, you are correct, haven't read the other half of vol 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 yet since the translations are slow and summaries are vague at best. I am sure he receive much more abuse at the hands of the harem. Usually you think they would be only one Tsundere in a Harem, yet this one has all of them. When Kamito does something in their mind bad, let the S&M play begin except the M person isn't enjoying it, but when Kamito say something sweet or just say something nice they purr like kittens.
|2012-05-15, 17:00
|Link #1427
100% Tsun... 0% Dere
Join Date: Jan 2012
Basically meaning he can use his left hand as well as his right hand.
Also, you really should read SAO reaper... lets just say Kirito has written the book for dual wielding, as he can dual wield just about anything down to a sword + Pistol.
|2012-05-15, 17:02
|Link #1429
100% Tsun... 0% Dere
Join Date: Jan 2012
he basically dig's his own grave each time, and then regrets picking up the shovel.
Otherwise the Hax'd version makes the non hax'd version seem small....
|2012-05-15, 17:12
|Link #1430
Emperor of the Expected
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Florida
Well that takes out the excitement and character progression if a Character is too Hax. I prefer they start out weak gradually become Stronger. Kamito at the beginning 3 years ago was too Hax considering he overwhelmed everyone in the Tournament, he just lost he power and skill since then. Now he is trying to get it back, all the while he is getting Stronger in the back in our heads we are thinking how strong was before even though he is strong now.
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|2012-05-15, 17:16
|Link #1431
100% Tsun... 0% Dere
Join Date: Jan 2012
Basically your hax'd but your trying really hard to hide your HAX, and end up doing things which are HAX'd but you believe they are normal, so people begin to think your HAX'd yet you yourself think your normal.
Its much more fun when you see a hero go SPAAAAAAAAAAAAN~ and then go "tehehe... oops i over did it.." while the crowd is jaw gapping going WTF happened?
The hero goes SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN~ and nothing happens but his sword breaks, and the crowd is laughing there asses off at the hero.
|2012-05-15, 17:34
|Link #1432
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Seattle and Houston... sleeping in a car.
On the contrary, we don't see as much strong characters from the get-go. It's something fresh.
|2012-05-15, 17:54
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Emperor of the Expected
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Florida
I will say that is true that it is overused, but when the Main Character gets too hax then where is the excitement when the Main Character fight the antagonist? Just like you said whsie it is only interesting when it is very unique. Greatest example is Ise from High School DXD, I cannot find any match. Though Kamito is very close to it considering he is a very likable Main Character.
|2012-05-15, 18:03
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Join Date: Apr 2007
I disagree hax makes things uninteresting. Have you read Chrome Shelled Regios (I think thats the title).
The mc starts off as a heaven's blade receiver. One of small group of the strongest fighters on earth. The tension comes from wondering whether or not Leyton will have finally met his match and actually get hit as opposed to owning his opponent every time. It works pretty good. Look at how big their thread is.
|2012-05-15, 18:21
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Florida
Sylphic, I read the Novel and dropped it after vol 14. The main character isn't too hax considering he was toyed with when facing his teacher for a long time, then after that the girl he loved abandoned him and even calling him pathetic, he then confess his love to her and she rejected him coldly, the next two volumes consist a year after that and he lost his will to fight since then, and allowed a girl who was closest to him to be wounded. That isn't hax to me and I felt so bad for the Main Character it was the closest non hentai NTR feeling I had ever felt. Anyway back to topic, Kamito isn't overly hax, but has the right balance. I love this Novel and wish Baka-tsuki translators would hurry up, but they got a life of their own to foucus on than my entertainment.
|2012-05-15, 18:26
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I guess the point I was trying to make was that you can make novel with something. Resides weakling-> strong dude progression.
Leyton is invincible on the battlefield, but he is still a victim of circumstance and destiny and to put it harshly luck as well. That's how an interesting story can be told rather than the typical amnesia or whatever excuse to start weak.
Kamito is alright. He tells us he is Ren Ashbell Wwwwaaaayy too often though.
|2012-05-15, 18:36
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Emperor of the Expected
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Florida
I heard that Layfon gotten over it in vol 18 where he fought a major boss and clues stating that he was more than the Child of Oblivion which is the Ignasis. A Major figure in the Novel and many of the fans of the Novel hope that he is so Leerin (Layfon's love interest and female that broke his heart and sent him into a depression) can be trolled so badly and for layfon and Felli to be in a relationship since the last 3 main volumes are pertaining to her. Anyway back to Dance Blade, the fact that he showed many times he was Ren Ashbell and the harem seeing the resemblance then forgets it afterwards makes great comedy. Unlike many harem series where the Main Character is dense, it is the harem who is dense. That is original of changing the formula of many harem Novels.
|2012-05-15, 20:08
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Location: Earth
Dang, I haven't been reading CSR since the last chapter by blewin...
BOT, Kamito could dual-wield, but would that be really good? Because, when the MC becomes too strong, there's difficulty to make him progress, and boring becomes the story.
|2012-05-16, 00:31
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Wow I just realized that Blade Dance is one of the few series with a useless harem. Est doesn't count.
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Is It Cheating Or Is It Collaboration?
from the sounds-like-collaboration dept
The premise of memorization is the problem here. What's far more important than memorizing some formulas is knowing where to find them and how to apply them.Well said. Again, I don't think that "cheating" is the problem here. The problem is this focus on not teaching people how to work together to solve problems and assuming that everything needs to be done by the individual themselves. That's not how things work in the real world, and it does children a disservice to downplay collaboration and reinforce the idea that building off the works of others is somehow wrong. Standing on the shoulders of giants is important, or we're always reinventing the wheel.
In NO industry is collaboration considered cheating. Only in SCHOOL is this a problem. What are we teaching our kids?
I'm an employer. I want my employees reaching out and building networks of people that can help them. I struggle with this whole 'that's cheating' attitude. It's something I need to UNTEACH my employees. It does NOT matter to me if you know how to do something, it matters to me that you can figure out how to do it. Most businesses, especially information based, need employees who know how to find and apply information, not that have a repository of facts in their heads. We are creating everything new -- NO ONE knows how to do the things many companies deal with on a daily basis unless you are a clerk of some kind. We are figuring it all out on the fly. Building alliances, search skills, knowing where and how to find information -- all these are what's valuable.
The argument that school, memorization, and solitary work teaches you how to think is absolutely wrong. If we really want to teach people how to think, we should have a class called How To Think, not Ancient Greek History. You don't teach thinking skills by forcing 30 people to memorize the same names, dates, and events. You do it by teaching principles, and by teaching directly the actual skills the education system claims to want to create.
We need more 'How to Think', 'How to Collaborate', 'How to Negotiate', 'How to Resolve Conflict' and less 'Memorize a bunch of stuff for a test'
Plagiarism is an exception. Passing off someone else's work as your own is clearly wrong. But forcing kids to memorize facts and not giving them what's truly important -- that is to say thinking skills is the big problem here.
Thinking about plagiarism some more. I'm always telling my employees to research before writing -- cobble together a collection of other people's work and give me an opinion. Build on whats already out there, don't start from scratch.


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Jeff Gordon grabbed the lead in the final laps at Kansas Speedway and held on for his first victory of the season and 89th overall.
The 42-year-old Gordon held off a hard-charging Kevin Harvick on the final lap to move into the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field.
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PEPPERELL -- Selectmen hope to form a coalition with other towns in Middlesex County to present a united front against a natural-gas pipeline that has been proposed through northern Massachusetts.
Selectmen voted 3-0 Monday to form the coalition, and voted for Selectman Stephen Themelis to represent Pepperell selectmen on it. They said they plan to invite representatives from the towns of Ashby, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Lowell, North Reading, Reading, Tewksbury, Townsend, Tyngsboro and Wilmington, as well as Hollis, N.H., to join the coalition.
In Groton, Town Manager Mark Haddad said Monday representatives from Kinder Morgan Energy Partners agreed to meet with residents at a public hearing June 23.
A high-pressure natural-gas pipeline route across the state has been proposed by Kinder Morgan and its subsidiary, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., LLC, to provide natural-gas service to New England.
The board also voted to call a Special Town Meeting on June 30 at Nissitissit Middle School to address a petition asking selectmen to take a stand against the pipeline. The petition, which garnered 255 certified signatures, asks that the town pass a non-binding resolution to stand against the pipeline and not allow it within town borders. The petition also asks for opposition to any pipeline through Massachusetts that would carry natural gas obtained by hydraulic fracturing.
Each selectmen expressed some degree of support for opposing the pipeline.
"We as a board, we need to try to take action against the pipeline. We need to try to go with other towns in the area that will be affected to present a united front for this," said Selectman Michelle Gallagher.
Themelis said he was in support of the petition's request to oppose the pipeline because of the effects the project would have on property owners and conservation land in town.
"We're looking at emotional stress and financial hardship for our property owners," Themelis said.
Chairman Michael Green's response was more tempered, stressing his hope to work in the town's best interest whether the pipeline comes through Pepperell.
"I don't want it in my town, but I would like to make sure that I still have the ability to work for the town if it sets in that this thing's going to happen and it's going to be federally mandated, but also work hard to do everything we can to either get them to change their course or maybe prove to them it's not necessary," Green said.
A letter sent from Town Administrator John Moak to Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. representative Rick Charbonnier on May 23 has so far gone unanswered, selectmen said.
The letter asked the company to provide written responses to concerns raised by residents at a meeting last month. Among those questions were the safety of the pipeline, the effects on property values, impacts on water supplies and natural habitats and why other routes along roadways or existing utility easements weren't being pursued.
Selectmen said they had not hired an attorney to represent the town on the pipeline issue because there is no money to do so.
"We're doing our best with what we have at this time," Themelis said.
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