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glayd • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: An opening in a forest, a small field or only lightly wooded area in the woods.
Notes: Today's Good Word has a lovely sound about it that suggests pleasant picnics, sunning, getting away from it all. No surprise that a leading US air freshener has taken it as its brand name. While glades are usually small, the Everglades in Florida are glades that seem to go on forever.
In Play: Glades are often thought of as cool places, probably because of a confusion with shade, but who knows? "Brooke Trout loved to read on summer days in a grassy glade sliced by a gurgling stream, just a pleasant walk from her house." Glades are usually found in forests, which are themselves cool, shady places: "Major Slaughter, intrepid hunter that he was, chased his prey into an open glade that turned out to be the 17th hole of the Hickory Nut Golf Course."
Word History: An interesting point: The original meaning of English glad was "bright, shining" and it was sometimes spelled g-l-a-d-e. This suggests that before the 16th century, when today's word first appeared, there was but one word glad or glade that meant "bright, shining". During the 16th century, however, the word split into two spellings, paralleled by two pronunciations and two meanings. If so, today's Good Word is related to a series of words in English referring to brightness or shining: glow, glimmer, glitter, gleam, glint. These words are all the meanings of German glänzen, which shares the same origin.
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September 02, 2003
LOS ANGELES — On Thursday, August 28, 2003, UCLA and National University of Singapore (NUS) officially launched their joint Executive Master of Business Administration MBA (EMBA) program. Bruce Willison, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management, participated in a signing ceremony at NUS, along with Professor Chris Erickson, who will serve as program director, managing UCLA Anderson's role in this new and unique EMBA program.
The new EMBA program was initiated by Anderson School Professor Chris Tang, who is currently on leave from UCLA while he serves as dean of NUS Business School. Prof. Tang, who holds the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration at UCLA, worked closely with Dean Willison, Prof. Erickson, NUS colleagues and officials at UCLA's graduate division for the last year to develop the new program and get it approved.
At the launch ceremony, Prof. Tang and Dean Willison signed a memo of understanding, as about 150 attendees looked on. Among those in the audience was Singapore's acting minister of education, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who offered warm words of encouragement for the success of the new program. Dean Willison and Prof. Tang also shared their perspectives on the importance of this new EMBA program to their respective business schools and universities.
"Two great countries, two top universities, two MBA degrees, all in one unique program," said Prof. Tang. "Indeed, the UCLA-NUS Executive MBA program provides a truly global education that synthesizes the best of the East and the West."
The new Executive MBA program is dual-degree program designed to train top executives for the global marketplace. In this truly distinctive partnership, students will enter two of the world's leading graduate management education programs. UCLA Anderson and the NUS Business School provide a learning culture that values individual vision, intellectual discipline and teamwork — an extraordinary framework in preparing senior executives for top management positions.
"Together our two leading business schools produce a remarkable synergy," said Dean Willison. "We bring together an exceptional program offering exceptional value by two leading public universities."
The program brings together faculty from both UCLA Anderson and NUS Business School who offer the highest standards of research and teaching to deliver an unparalleled response to the needs of organizations, leaders, managers and entrepreneurs in a profoundly changing global atmosphere. The UCLA-NUS partnership offers an unparalleled platform for learning in a highly interactive and experiential environment.
The launch of the UCLA-NUS EMBA program is especially timely in light of China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the recently concluded U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, which require business leaders who can think globally and act locally. The program provides a well-balanced general management focus that imparts knowledge and develops skills that executives need to manage multinational corporations.
"The increasingly global economy requires today's managers to have not only the depth and breadth of knowledge and experience, but also the insight and foresight to move organizations ahead in the international marketplace," said Dean Willison. "The UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Program will constantly test theory in real-world settings that students can readily apply to the workplace."
The intensive program comprises six two-week residential segments in Los Angeles, Shanghai and Singapore over 15 months, providing in-depth exposure to the distinct intellectual and business cultures of these cities and adding much value to the total learning experience. Upon completion, students will receive degrees from both UCLA and NUS, both of whose business schools are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
Click here for details about the UCLA-NUS Executive MBA program.
Click here to find the date, time and location of an upcoming information session on the UCLA-NUS Executive MBA program.
About NUS Business School
NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, provides a rigorous, relevant, and rewarding business education that develops leaders for the global marketplace. It is the first in ASEAN and one of only seven in the Asia-Pacific to be accredited by AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) for having met the highest standard of achievement in education and research for business schools worldwide. The School has been ranked by The Economist Intelligence Unit and Financial Times among the world's top 100 business schools. It has also been rated consistently as a top business school in the Asia-Pacific regional publications such as Asia Inc and Chief Executive China.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is perennially ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in full-time, part-time and executive MBA programs and doctoral programs.

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Sometimes The Easiest Way To Repair A Street Stock Is In A Traditional Body Shop
There are a relative few who can race an entire season without banging up their racecar. Those people are either so good they are sailing clear at the front against outmatched competition, or so bad they can't catch up to the action. For the rest of us, wrinkled sheet metal and occasionally twisted frames are just part of the game. After all, if you took the rubbing and bumping out of stock car racing, you would have to start calling it Indycar.
So the question becomes, "When the inevitable happens, what's the easiest and best way to get my car fixed so I can get back out on the track and be competitive once again?" If you race a tube-frame car such as a Late Model, the answer usually is to cut out the damaged section and splice in new tubing. But if you are in a class where part of the chassis is required to remain stock, frame damage can create a much trickier situation. With a stock frame, whether it is the front clip or the center section, cutting away a section of damaged frame and replacing it can be very difficult to do correctly. This is especially true in unibody cars, where the chassis and sheet metal are a single unit.
One answer is to take your damaged racecar to a traditional body shop just like you would a wrecked street car. Most body shops are equipped with a frame table (also referred to as a frame bender, a chassis stretcher or many other similar versions), which is essentially an extremely sturdy jig on which a chassis can be pulled back into shape. A good body shop will have several different tools available that work with the frame table to pull a damaged frame back into shape. The results aren't perfect (for example, you can flatten out a balled-up piece of notebook paper, but you can never get all the wrinkles out), but in many instances a competent body man can get it close enough to get your wheels back in alignment so you can go racing again.
You may, however, have to do a little calling around. Some shops-mostly large chains-are not willing to work with racecars. Also, because of the rollcage, racecars behave differently on a frame table than a standard over-the-road car. If you are really lucky, you will be able to find a racer who also works in a body shop. This is the case with Dirt Late Model driver Chris Hargett who works at Eddie's Paint and Body (Eddie is Chris's dad). Hargett is one of those racers everybody knows who seems to spend as much time helping others with their racecars as he does working on his own.
"There is a lot you can do with these machines if you are patient and pay attention to what you are doing," Hargett says. "A lot of times, though, the only way to know if you can stretch a frame back into shape is to put it up on the table and start pulling. But there is really nothing to lose since the worst-case scenario is that you will have to cut the damaged sections off-which is what you would have to do otherwise.
"If you are racing a body-on-frame car, then there is a lot you can do to pull it back into shape. But the unibody cars are really common in the stock classes now, and they can be tougher to work with. That is because they really do not have framerails. There is usually something that looks a little bit like a framerail, but much of the structure is provided by the floor, the firewalls and even the roof. Because it is all connected, a hard hit can push and twist the metal in a lot of different directions."
Hargett says with a unibody car, the damage that can most dependably be fixed is a hit from the side that bends the metal in one direction. What is really difficult to fix, though, is a head-on collision that causes the sheet-metal to crumple like an accordion. "When it is bent in all different directions, I can try to pull it back out," he says, "but they are usually trash."
According to Hargett, the best way to avoid the dreaded "accordion" is by installing an intelligently designed rollcage. The first step is to attach the 'cage to the car in several areas. Four is the absolute minimum. A better idea is to attach the 'cage to at least six points on the car, tying the inside of the driver's compartment together, and include kickers that connect to the front and rear clips in at least two points each. Any bars that connect to the car should never be welded directly to the sheet metal. The sheet metal is too weak and will only tear away from the rollcage in a hard hit. Instead, weld a plate to the sheet metal that's at least four inches square, then weld the tubing to that. Additionally, an excellent addition for unibody cars is to run lateral 'cage bars just above the floor along each side of the car that attach to the 'cage's front and rear down tubes. This provides significant additional strength to the car's frame in the event of a big hit from the front.
Often, if your car has damage to the front or rear clip, you may be forced into a fair amount of disassembly so that you can identify the extent of the damage. One area of concern should be the fuel cell as well as the fuel-cell cage at the rear of the car. If you take a hit to the rear of the car strong enough to tweak the metal casing of the fuel cell, Hargett recommends removing the fuel cell before trying to pull the rear clip back into shape. This is because the hit was hard enough to bend something in the fuel-cell cage and tweak the metal casing of the fuel cell. If you tried to straighten it out, it could damage the cell even more. If, however, the fuel cell is undamaged, it is usually okay to try to straighten the frame with the fuel cell installed.


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History of Science "Who Are We?" Michael Mosley explores how the twin sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who humans are. Serious study of the brain did not begin until the 17th century.G
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Make Me "Smart" Medically trained television producer and presenter Mike Mosley tries techniques to boost his brain, including a groundbreaking neurofeedback procedure. He also participates in an alternative intelligence test; competes in the world memory championships in Bahrain; meets America's "most intelligent man"; and attends an institute claiming to teach babies to read.G
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NOVA "Earth from Space" This special reveals a new space-based vision of Earth. Produced in consultation with NASA scientists, the film takes data from Earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate web of forces that sustain life on Earth. The techniques reveal how dust blown from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon; how a submarine "waterfall" off Antarctica helps drive ocean currents; and how the sun's heating of the southern Atlantic gives birth to a powerful hurricane.G


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Valerie Harper is positively radiant these days. There's a sparkle in her eyes and a genuine warmth in her smile. Why not? She's defied the odds.
Early last year, Harper was told she had three months to live. Harper, a non-smoker who had a cancerous tumor removed from her lung in 2009, has a rare form of lung cancer that had spread to areas around her brain.
"I was supposed to be dead a year ago," said Harper, 74. "We are all terminal, let's face it. I did the shock and grief. My husband, Tony, took it terribly. He said, 'That's not true. I don't accept that.' "
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Despite the devastating prognosis, "I kept going," said Harper, who became a TV icon in her Emmy Award-winning turn as the endearing window dresser Rhoda Morgenstern from 1970-78 on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and her spinoff series, "Rhoda." "I thought it was important."
And she thought it was important for her fans, whom she calls her "extended" family, to know about what was happening. "People write me letters — not just about this — that are so loving and supportive, for years," she said. "I know there are a whole bunch of Rhoda rooters out there."
Harper has kept an extraordinary pace since her diagnosis. She reunited with "MTM" stars Moore, Betty White, Georgia Engel and Cloris Leachman for the finale of TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland" last fall. She did "Dancing With the Stars" last season — Harper and her partner, Tristan McManus, were voted off after their fourth dance — and has a quirky guest starring role in Martha Williamson's ("Touched by an Angel," "Promised Land") new series "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," which premieres Easter evening on the Hallmark Channel.
"The message of all of this is don't give up on your life worrying about death," Harper said, during a recent interview at the Hallmark Channel offices in Studio City.
Earlier this week, Harper took to the media to clarify a magazine article that quoted her saying, "I'm absolutely cancer free." Harper isn't "absolutely" cancer free. But she has responded well to the medicine she has taken for the last year.
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"Every subsequent brain scan is less and less and now my brain scan looks normal," she said. "It's great that it's cleared up in my brain scan, but it could be anywhere the spinal fluid is."
Long before she was cast as Rhoda, Harper was a professional dancer who appeared in the corps de ballet at the Radio City Music Hall as a teenager as well as in the chorus of such early 1960s musicals as "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball and "Take Me Along" with Jackie Gleason and Robert Morse.
But it had been along time since she danced when she joined "Dancing With the Stars" last fall. "I turned it down many times," she said. When the series approached Harper after her diagnosis, she told her husband, 'Why should I do it? I have cancer.' He said, 'That's why you should do it. Think of the people you will inspire.'"
She got letters of thanks, including one from a woman who wrote her, "My mom has cancer and I can't get her off the couch. But she saw 'Dancing With the Stars' and went to dance class the next day."
Harper and McManus have remained close and even meet for an occasional dinner. "I had such a great time working with Valerie," said McManus. "I didn't know much about her beforehand. Generally with the show I try to get to know my partners. I was really surprised at how interested Valerie was in me as well. There was an honesty about it. It was like we were building a relationship as well as a partnership."
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"Signed, Sealed, Delivered" revolves around four civil servants who become an elite team of lost-mail detectives determined to deliver the undeliverable. The uplifting family show reunites Harper with Williamson, who has been a good friend since the actress did her first "Touched by Angel" episode, as well as series star Eric Mabius ("Ugly Betty"), who worked with Harper in a 2001 TV movie, "Dancing on the Harvest Moon."
Harper's Theresa is the group's new, slightly eccentric supervisor. A legend in the postal service, all she really wants to do is act. Harper performs the life-affirming "No Time at All" from "Pippin" in the first episode and in the second offers sage advice to her staff on not wasting a moment of life as Glinda in an amateur production of "The Wizard of Oz."
The role was tailored for Harper. "Valerie is somebody who would take a challenge like this and turn it into an opportunity to encourage other people," Williamson noted. "The first thing she and Tony said to me when I told them about the show was we want to use this show as an opportunity to encourage other people."
Harper also encourages everyone on the set. "Actors are usually terribly neurotic and worried about what people are thinking of them," said Mabius. "It's a breath of fresh air to be around Valerie, who wants everyone around her to succeed. She's constantly pushing people to be better than they think they can be and making sure everyone has fun."
Harper plans to keep working as long as she can. She's mulling two plays "heading toward Broadway — maybe," said, smiling. "There is one I really love. We'll see."
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Benjamin Black necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 90 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
Akkadian Ventures
We are launching a new kind of venture capital firm. We specialize in secondary direct investing, which is the purchase of stock in private companies from founders, seed investors and early employees. Our goal is to provide early liquidity for individuals who want to sell positions that are usually highly illiquid.
The principals of the firm have invested over $100M in technology driven private companies.
Our goal is to provide a fast and orderly purchase process for the seller and the company. The transactions can be as small as $250,000.
We are based in San Francisco.
We must appeal to a audience that is highly sophisticated in the world of private equity and venture capital. They are smart and modern and believe in technology. They will expect a sleek design that represents sophistication in the world of social media and advanced internet applications. Many of our investors and sellers have been involved in creating the leading companies in Silicon Valley.
We are seeking a logo that will provide the basis for large identify work for use on a website and for business cards. Our goal is to position ourselves and younger, faster and better than the the stodgy firms we compete with
For reference our competition includes the following firms
Companies like ours tend to choose looks that either stress stability and strength (like a bank or large financial institution) or appear modern and risk-taking. We want to look more like a cutting edge venture firm than a bank .. we want nothing stodgy or traditional. The logo has to feel modern and cutting edge .. We like the following logos and looks:
We have to fax quite a bit so it needs to look good in both color and black and white.
Here is what we are trying to avoid: http://www.collercapital.com/
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
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Articles with titles like "Speeding Saudi Woman's Bentley Impounded in Dubai" and "Saudi Woman Fined for Speeding in Dubai" appeared in national Saudi newspapers and in Emirates 24/7 News. In fact the Emirates newspaper even published a lovely photo of the speeding Saudi businesswoman, Maha Makki.
Here is an excerpt from the Saudi Gazette article:
Maha Makki, a Saudi businesswoman, ran several red lights while speeding in her Bentley car in Dubai because she had an important business appointment she didn't want to miss.
The traffic police however did not accept her explanation. She was fined heavily and her car has been impounded for 60 days.
Maha says she did not notice the red lights because she was in a hurry and that it was the first traffic violation she has ever had in her life. "Maybe I was driving a bit fast," she said.
And why exactly is this news? Because the driver was a Saudi woman - no other reason. It's as if these newspapers are saying, "See? This is why we don't let women drive in Saudi Arabia. Women are bad drivers."
If this is truly news, where are all the articles which involve Saudi men who have committed traffic infractions? Because when men speed and run red lights, it's not news - but it is when WOMEN do!
Saudi Arabia ranks dead last in the entire world when it comes to traffic safety - gee, I wonder if that could be because only men are permitted to drive in KSA? It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out.
These newspapers should be ashamed of themselves for turning this incident into propaganda, for supporting discrimination against Saudi women, and for perpetuating the myth that women are not safe drivers. I am totally disgusted.


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Rats! is a science fiction fanzine by Charlene Komar Kunkel and Bill Kunkel.
Rats! was published in New York, U.S.A. beginning in the late 1960s and continuing into the 1970s.
Both editors contributed columns to this "fannish fanzine".
Contributors of writing included Arnie Katz, Richard Meltzer, Ray Nelson, Bob Shaw, and Greg Shaw.
Contributing artists included Grant Canfield, Tom Foster, Jay Kinney, Ray Nelson and Bill Rotsler.
Contributing columnists included John Berry's (Pot Pourri) column 'Kebab', Frank Lunney's 'Accidents', and Harry Warner, Jr.'s (Horizons, fan history about 'The Fapaish Fifties'.
Other contributors of writing included Arnie Katz, Richard Meltzer, Ray Nelson, Bob Shaw, and Greg Shaw.
Letters came from Ray Nelson and Ted Pauls, among others.
Charlene and Bill Krunkel also published Four Star Extra with Joyce and Arnie Katz, and Bill published the fanzine The Main Event with Arnie. Bill Krunkel went on to be a video game developer and journalist, founding the videogame magazine Electronic Games with Arnie Katz and Joyce Worley in 1981 and serving as Executive Editor till 1995. In the 1990s, he and wife Laurie published the fanzine Doodlebug. He later also editing the gaming magazine Tips & Tricks, as well as writing the book, Confessions of a Game Doctor in 2005. He passed away September 2011.


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What is a TLD Registry?
A TLD registry comprises the organization and the technical resources required to create, manage and track the domain names ending in that TLD. The registry applies the registration policy, records the domain names and key contact information associated with each domain. It updates the TLD servers so that the active domain names can be resolved through them to end user websites.
What services does CORE provide for TLD registries
CORE has been set up to run TLD registries. For new TLDs, it can either act as a TLD registry technical operator and the contractual party for the individual domain registration and/or registrar agreements, or it can act as the technical operator on behalf of a registry that will itself act as contract party for registration and/or registrar agreements.
What is a TLD Sponsoring Organization
The expression "sponsoring organization" refers to the organization that assumes the ultimate responsibility for a given TLD. It usually means that it will be the contract party to registrars who in turn are contract parties individual domain holders. The sponsoring organization can either act itself as a registry operator or outsource the technical registry operation to a specialized organization (such as CORE).


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Russell Crowe came to play
Oh he wants it. So he brought his Movie Star Game to Cannes. It's a game that's been missing from his repertoire for a while. But he trotted his kids out, and he trotted Danielle out, and suddenly Russell Crowe is Mr Congeniality with reporters, and smiling for photogs, and obliging with the press, and even tweeting about how hot he is for his wife and there was no phone in sight with which to club a hotel clerk, hell no. This Russell came to play. In doing so he's convinced me he belongs with them again.
As noted last week about the appeal of Gladiator, there are many who consider it one of the more important films of a generation and Russell Crowe as Maximus one of the most iconic characters of all time. The film won almost everything, and of course earned him an Oscar. At the height of that popularity, yes indeed, Crowe was on par with the handful of super elite superstar Movie Stars – Clooney, Roberts, Hanks, Pitt, Depp, Jolie, Cruise – of which there are, really, only a few.
And then it went away.
And now it's back again. In Cannes last night, at the photo call, on the carpet, Russell Crowe became a Movie Star again. Wife Danielle was at his side all night, they were surprisingly affectionate and emotive during arrivals, even more so when they entered the palais, and the way he entered the theatre, as everyone waited and watched – I've seen George Clooney enter this theatre and he practically races to his seat – it was like Maximus Decimus Meridius entering the Coliseum. There was pomp about his pace, it was a gladiator's swagger, and this is what you want at Cannes, especially on opening night. Cannes is excess and over the top and theatricality. Russell Crowe delivered on that last night, and in doing so he's sold me on him again. I remembered why he was one of them. And he still belongs there.
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Why can't you all face the reality that you are getting leftovers from the U22 voting?
Why can't you all face the reality that you are getting leftovers from the U22 voting?You think their engineers would go back to the studio and remix/remaster some other songs that haven't been remastered yet, just for a fan club release?It doesn't take a genius to figure it out.All the songs that were up for voting, minus U22, minus the bonus tracks (Unknown Caller, Spanish Eyes, No Line On The Horizon), minus the non-album or non-single tracks - then you pretty much have the entire "Edge's picks" there.Do you even think Edge actually played a hand in all this?Come on folks, sometimes we just need not listen to all the marketing hype and be realistic.Cheers,J
I don't know why there is so much hate for Jick on this site. His posts are usually well thought out and intelligent which is more than I can say for many people around here. Also, like it or not, he is usually right.
I wouldn't be surprised if I'll Go Crazy and Moment of Surrender were on there, since they've both been released before (on Wide Awake in Europe and in the case of Crazy, on Artificial Horizon as well). That version of MOS is fantastic though, so hopefully it is on there.


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Each version of the game is being developed to take advantage of all five console platforms. The PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360 version will feature cinematic, third-person action gameplay with melee combos, ranged hammer throws, tide-turning elemental powers and an upgrade system to bolster Thor's powers as gamers progress. Players will be able to follow the same overarching story in the PSP, Nintendo Wii and DS versions presented in a comic book style, allowing fans to explore new content in the same universe.
While taking its inspiration directly from the mythology of the comics, Thor: The Video Game will launch around the time of the upcoming Thor film adaptation from Marvel Studios.
Brought to the Marvel Universe by the legendary Stan Lee and his brother Larry Lieber, and penciled by noted artist Jack Kirby, Thor first appeared in Marvel Comics in 1962. Based on Norse mythology, the Marvel character of Thor became a comic book Super Hero both in his own right and as a member of the Avengers alongside comic book icons The Hulk, Iron Man and Captain America. Thor: The Video Game marks the character's progression from mythology to comics, TV, then film and now to interactive entertainment in his first standalone appearance in a videogame.


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A 25-year-old man was shot and killed while driving on Fourth Avenue Tuesday morning, police said.
Officer James Miller, a police spokesman, said police ruled Richard Gibbs' death a homicide.
The Rutland Street man was driving around 1 a.m. near the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Clinton Street when he was shot in the upper body, Miller said. The victim lost control of his car and crashed a block away, hitting a home at the corner of Broad Street and Fourth Avenue, Miller said.
Gibbs was rushed to Albany Medical Center, but pronounced dead on arrival, Miller said.
"I don't know why anyone would do that to him. He wasn't the type of person to get into trouble. He was well respected, a good kid," said Antonio Rodriguez, a longtime friend of Gibbs'.
Rodriguez was planning to meet Gibbs at a Madison Avenue eatery when the shooting occurred. He said a friend phoned him with news of the shooting.
Carlos Chacon, who lives on 105 Fourth Ave., said he heard the impact and initially thought someone was breaking into his home.
He looked outside and saw the car.
"Neighbors came out, saw it and started to scream," he said.


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Where Collin County History Comes Alive!
Step back in time with a visit to Chestnut Square Historic Village. Sitting on 2.5 shaded acres just two blocks south of the historic downtown McKinney square, Chestnut Square provides an opportunity to step back in time and regain a sense of community. With ten structures dating from 1854 to 1930, the Village offers docent led tours, facility rentals, a wedding venue, living history demonstrations and community events like the #1 Farmers Market in Texas and the Killis Melton Ice Cream Crank-Off.
Celebrate Community
Chestnut Square holds community oriented events that bring people together to enjoy McKinney and Collin County's heritage.
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There she goes: Grace (and beauty) under pressure
Several students vied to become UVA's Next Top Model, but only one could wear the crown. On Tuesday, April 26, ten women, six judges, and a crowd of fans gathered in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom for the announcement of the winner.
Modeled after the popular TV reality show and sponsored by the Theta Kappa chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the contest was a fundraiser to support sorority community projects. All female UVA students were welcome to enter.
The ten contestants who made it to the final round faced challenges such as a strut down the catwalk, a photo shoot with a male model (a UVA student), putting together an outfit, presenting and selling a product, and– most taxing, perhaps– wearing a plastic bag. (That's right, a plastic bag.)
After each hurdle, the panel of judges– a UVA faculty member, a photographer, a producer, and members of UVA's fashion design club– had to decide and then explain who did and didn't make the cut to move on to the next challenge. Each of the contestants was judged on qualities such as creativity, style, confidence, and personality.
The judges had a hard job, but somebody had to do it, and after much deliberation, the verdict was in: Malaika Schiller got to take the victory stroll.
In addition to the glory of being UVA's Next Top Model, Schiller won a cash prize, a photo shoot with a professional photographer, and a gift bag from Mary Kay.
In one challenge, contestants read a script and try to sell a bag of potato chips to the judges and crowd.
You be the judge: Six remaining contestants step up to the next challenge and test their fashion sense by combining and donning a choice of hats, belts, and handbags.
The crowd is having a blast!
Priscilla Kuanghlawn strikes a pose in front of the judges during the "runway" challenge.
The Hostess with the mostest: Sharisse Barksdale keeps the show rolling.
On the catwalk: UVA's 'Next Top Model' contest gave students a chance to strut their stuff.
Isn't she lovely? UVA's Next Top Model 2005, Malaika Schiller
Work it, own it: Newcomb Hall Ballroom turned 'runway' for the evening.


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Backyard Banter: Holidaying at home
It's the time of year when you'll be giving some consideration to planning your well-deserved annual holiday.
However, you might like to think twice before booking a trip out of town.
The "staycation" is fast becoming the kind of vacation most preferred by those who are still keen to get away from the office and their everyday surroundings, without spending the earth to do it.
So how do you book a holiday that feels like you've actually left town?
So how do you book a holiday that feels like you've actually left town?
What about treating yourself to a night in a local hotel.
Nothing says "holiday" more than a night in a plush hotel room.
Book a room at a nice, local hotel and treat yourself to their excellent services.
Wear the fluffy robe, soak in the spa, and order room service – pamper yourself.
Take the opportunity to visit local attractions.
There must be at least one reason visitors choose to visit your region.
Why not jump on Google and see what attractions are most popular.
Maybe it's a trip to the beach or a bushwalk.
If you haven't been to the local museum, put that on your list too.
Dine at a fancy restaurant. If your idea of culinary indulgence is takeaway Thai, dream bigger and book a table at the best restaurant in town.
Concerned about price?
Head there for lunch instead.
What's most important is that you don't do the cooking – or the cleaning up.
Ask your neighbours on Nabo.com.au what restaurants they recommend.
Be technology free.
You're on holiday, so turn off your phone and resist the urge to post pictures of dinner on Instagram.
Make the most of every second to indulge in your oasis away from work.


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Money Monday On The Pete and Doug Show [06-03-13]
We all know that money makes the world go round, so every Monday at 10:40 we reach deep into our pockets and talk money with the experts from Laraway Financial Advisors. It might be the stock market, it might be the price of gas, but it's always how money or even the lack thereof, affects you. Our experts aren't on the show to dispense advice, they're on the show to give us and you a better understanding of how the power brokers on Wall Street, Main Street and Web Street think, and how you can take your future into your own hands.
This week, Steve Laraway from Laraway Financial Advisors explains a term we hear frequently, but we may not understand what it is; fiduciary.


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Amy Matsuoka is a shy and quiet type. The Corona del Mar High freshman is not one to speak much.
This season, she is just letting her play do all the talking on the golf course.
Matsuoka made quite the statement Thursday when she shot seven-over-par 79 to finish tied for 27th at the CIF Southern Section Individual Final to qualify for next week's CIF Regional State Qualifier.
She made three birdies on the challenging course at Western Hills Golf & Country Club in Chino Hills.
"I was pretty excited," Matsuoka said of her reaction upon learning that she had made the cut to extend her season.
Matsuoka, who had never played Western Hills before, tied with seven others and was among the 33 who made the cut, which was 80. Matsuoka, who finished third in the Pacific Coast League, was the league's lone qualifier.
Newport Harbor freshman Grace Ferrell shot 88 and Estancia High senior Cassie Stevenson finished with an 89.
Diamond Bar's Bethany Wu's won the section final with a 69. Esther Lee of Los Alamitos was second with 71 and was the only other girl to shoot under par on the long course.
"They played from the silver tees, which made the course a lot more difficult," CdM Coach Mike Starkweather said. "That added about 400 yards to the course. For Amy, who is a freshman and not very large, that made it difficult to get to the greens. I was very proud of Amy."
Matsuoka said qualifying for the CIF Regional State Qualifier ranks very high on her list of accomplishments. She said she plans to celebrate with her family during a dinner outing this weekend. Then it's back to work.
She will compete Nov. 8 at The Golf Club at Rancho California in Murrieta. Matsuoka has played the course before and remembers it being just as difficult as Western Hills.
She will be vying to advance to the CIF State Championship at Red Hill Country Club in Rancho Cucamonga Nov. 13.
The top nine individual competitors from the Southern California Regional in Murrieta, not on any of the top three teams, will advance to the CIF State Championship.
— Steve Virgen
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ROLLING HILLS ESTATES — The Sea Kings' season ended after losing to the No. 4-seeded team in the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs Thursday.
Senior Sophia Chen and freshman Siena Sharf won two out of three doubles sets for CdM (16-6), which finished second in the Pacific Coast League.
Lauren Thaxter, the Sea Kings' No. 1 singles player, earned first-team all-league honors in singles and finished with a 27-5 record. CdM's No. 2 singles player Olivia Dajee received second-team all-league recognition and finished with a 42-18 record. In doubles, six CdM players were on the all-league second team, including Chen, Kenzie Purcifull, Kimmia Naaseh, Riley Gerdau, Taylor Fogarty and Sharf.
Division 1 playoffs
Newport Harbor (15-5) will play host to No. 2-seeded Dana Hills in a second-round match Friday at 2 p.m.
Division 2 playoffs
Sage Hill (9-8) will play host to Westridge of Pasadena in a second-round match Friday at 2 p.m. at The Tennis Club Newport Beach.


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Liberty News
Missionaries and missions agencies come to Liberty for annual Missions Emphasis Week
As a 5-year-old boy, Steve Saint's world revolved around his father. Then he was told the devastating news that his dad had been killed.
"I thought my life was over," he said at Wednesday's convocation service in the Vines Center. His visit was part of Missions Emphasis Week at LU.
Now, 50 years after his father, Nate Saint, and four fellow missionaries were slain by the Waodani Indians in the jungles of Ecuador, it is clear his life has revolved around missions and reaching out to the unreached. That includes the same people who were responsible for his dad's death.
Saint, whose best-selling memoir "End of the Spear" was made into a movie by the same name, went back to live among the same tribe his father had felt a call to reach in 1956. Steve Saint eventually saw many become "God followers," including the man who (he found out just a few years ago) was most likely the one to have slain his dad –- a man he now calls "grandfather" Mincaye.
Mincaye and Saint stood side by side on the stage and, with Saint as a translator, Mincaye told about following God, how his heart had been cleansed of sin "as you use soap to wash your clothes," and how he had been shown the "trail" to Heaven marked out for him through God's son.
The story of the attack on five missionaries made headlines in the Christian community in 1956. LU chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said his father's generation "came along when this had just occurred and it was an inspiration to a whole generation of Bible students and graduates."
Now Mincaye and Saint are hoping the rest of the story — the story about God's plan for five men to die so that many more could find eternal life — will be inspirational to students today.
"My Dad thought that he had been called to reach the Waodani with the Gospel message," Saint said. "I don't think that that was God's plan, looking back at it 50 years later. I feel that God chose my dad and his four friends, to go and plan their death to wake up a church in North America that had become apathetic to His children going into a Christ-less eternity."
Sadly, he said, the church is back in that same state. He told students he accepted the invitation to come to Liberty because "I think you're the generation that would make that difference. I think you're the ones that can turn missions into what it can be."
After the service, Saint and Mincaye met with a long line of students to sign books and take pictures in DeMoss Learning Center, where a missions expo has been taking place all week.
For Missions Emphasis Week, students are also learning about mission work through dozens of seminars focusing on missions-related topics and other special events planned on campus.
A Taste of the Nations international food tasting was held Wednesday night at the Schilling Center and a concert by WorldHelp's Children of the World choir took place on Thursday night, also in the Schilling Center.
The Friday convocation in the Vines Center was set to feature the Rev. John Gichinga of Kenya. (Due to inclement weather, the university was closed Friday and the event did not go on as scheduled). Gichinga, until recently, was the pastor of the Nairobi Baptist Church. Under his leadership this influential congregation grew to more than 5,000 people in weekly attendance while simultaneously planting sister churches all over Nairobi. Ginchinga is now heavily involved in counseling and humanitarian efforts throughout the nation of Kenya.
Kicking off the week was Brother Yun, a Chinese believer, who spoke at Monday's convocation on the remarkable arising of evangelicals in his home nation. Yun spent many months in prison for his faith, and is the subject of a best-selling book titled, "The Heavenly Man." In his native tongue, with a translator at his side, Yun shared about his supernatural escape from prison when Jesus told him, "The prison is real, but I am the Truth and the Truth shall set you free." The convocation service began with a Parade of Nations, where international students marched in with flags and represented their native countries.
A detailed schedule of the week's events is available at www.lumissionsconference.com.


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I know I'm banging on about frosting a lot lately, but I've been trying different things; I wouldn't exactly say I am bored with buttercream but it's nice to discover all the alternatives out there. This one is heavenly – like a softer, creamier ice cream.
On an unrelated note, I was lucky enough to be invited to the Lakeland Christmas preview this week. Wow! And if I can just repeat: wow! I am saving up my pennies already as I saw so many things I will be buying. In the style of the Generation Game conveyor belt memory test bit, here are some of the things I want: speech bubble cookie cutters, topsy turvy cake pans, Christmas pudding plate, bowl and jug, slender rolling pins with Christmas designs on them so that when you roll out the icing it embosses it, cute little ice cream bowls and matching spoons, cheese making equipment, giant biscuit cutters in the shape of Christmas baubles with little cut out panels, Russian doll salt and pepper set...and did I mention the awesome, yet affordable, copper pans? I am going to have to be a very good little girl right up until Christmas for Father Christmas to deem me worthy of all those goodies!
100g unsalted butter, at room temperature
2 eggs
150g plain flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
205ml stout – I used March of the Penguins, but Guinness or Mackeson would also be perfect
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In Saboura, WFP food assistance reaches beneficiaries at their doorsteps. The majority of internally displaced people in this village that sits 800 metres above sea level come from the besieged town of Moadamiyeh where food, water and fuel have almost run out.
Saboura, RURAL DAMASCUS – The valley of Zabadani's Saboura village is one of very few in rural Damascus that did not witness any clashes and became a refuge for many Syrians who were driven out of their areas by intense fighting. However, as a tourist destination and an area that has always attracted wealthy Syrians, Saboura is one of the most expensive places in Syria.
As tourism and wealth has waned in Syria, so have job opportunities in Saboura. Most internally displaced Syrians are jobless and their living conditions are quite basic. Most families have come from Moadamiyeh and Daraa that have seen some of the worst fighting in the past two years. With unemployment, penury and other woes, they are totally dependent on WFP food assistance.
In Saboura, WFP food assistance reaches beneficiaries at their doorsteps through WFP's partner NGO Moaz Bin Jabal Charit. Fathi and his family are one of them. He fled Moadamiyeh after months of fighting emptied stores' shelves.
No food in shops
"Shops ran out of most foods months ago; bread hasn't been available for months as well," Fathi says of Moadamiyeh that he left only a month ago. "There was no fuel, no cooking gas; people had to use wood for cooking".
He says they could survive the summer months as they produced their own vegetables and fruits but when winter approached only olives were left. "Once olives are gone there will be nothing left to eat there," he says.
Abou Ajwad's story was not much different; he also had to flee Moadamiyeh after having refused for months. "I am a farmer and we don't leave our land, the olive trees are my soul, the farm I had was everything for me," says Abou Ajwad. With no bread for over nine months, all he ate was raw vegetables and green leaves. "There came a moment when I got too weak; I couldn't stand on my feet and they took me out on a stretcher. I wouldn't have left otherwise. Although I am happy I'm reunited with my family who fled to Saboura a long time ago, I quite sad I had to leave Moadamiyeh."
Both Fathi and Abou Ajwad say many like them are still trapped in Moadamiyeh and refuse to leave their homes and lands. WFP has tried several times over the past few months to reach the besieged town of Moadamiyeh. All attempts have been unsuccessful so far. Syrians in the town of Moadamiyeh have not received any assistance for over a year.
WFP is aiming to reach 4 million people inside Syria with food assistance this month. In November, WFP reached 3.4 people across the country.
If you would like to support WFP's operations to support Syrians in places like Saboura, please go to: wfp.org/crisis/syria


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UShopfast.com needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 41 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
We are a successful online internet retailer bring the best deals to the consumer. Most of our products are computer related, but will expand to video games, automotive (basically anything guys like)
The target audience will be the general consumer that is geared more toward technology but will be both male and female although probably more male.
This is an E-Commerce site, so it must be functional. Absolutely no flash except in the banners. We are building a site for functionality for online shopping so we have attached a lot of e-commerce site you can reference.
The colors should match those of our logo
We will require PSD, Illustrator, JPEG's. Optionally but not required, are all of the assets used on the website and also a stylesheet with Template HTML (using sprites). Ideally we are using ASP.NET so if you can code the design in ASP.NET even better.
We have also attached our the sites we want to reference as what we need as it is a combination of all the sites an not just one.
We need the site to be very polished, so reference the document so you can see what is needed.
The Logo font fyi is Gill Sans ultra Bold.
Use web fonts - try different styles, verdana lucida etc
Pages required - For this contest, we only need the Home Page and the Product Detail Page. The winning designer will be hired to do
the other pages, category page, FAQ page & search results page if they are chosen as
the winner.
Read the requirements document.
We've attached some other designs that have been submitted but aren't quite there yet but you can borrow from them.
Also we forgot to add, please add a proof with roll over top navigation, good examples are amazon.com, target.com and http://www.easports.com
As we have mentioned, we will be using CCS Sprites for the site http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/ is a good article


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Sheeee's BACK! That's right, kids; the master (or mistress, if you please) of all things polyamory — the delightful and oh so wise, Cunning Minx, is here again to finish the conversation we began at this time last week.
Gauging from the comments I've received about last week's podcast, you've been chomping on the bit, as have I, for her speedy return with more of her exceptional Sex EDGE-U-cation.
But wait, did you somehow miss Part 1 of this insightful lesson on polyamory? Well, not to worry, buckaroos! Last week's podcast, like all my podcasts, is archived right here on my site. All ya gotta do is use the search function in the sidebar to your right; type in Podcast #163 and Voilà! But don't forget to include the #sign when you search.
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Soldering Workshop
From Bloominglabs
Bloominglabs Soldering Class
Come and learn the basics of soldering and de-soldering for electronics. Soldering is your key to entering the world of building, altering, and repairing electronics! In this workshop, participants will use their newfound skills to assemble "phaser" electronics kits to take home (flashing lights, buzzing buzzers, and frequency knobs!!!). No prior experience necessary! All tools and hardware provided! All ages are welcome; children ages15 and younger should be accompanied by an adult.
- Phasor schematic File:Phaser01.pdf
- Phasor batch pcb transparency
- Phasor zip file with EagleCAD schematic, pcb, and gerber files File:Phasor eagle pcb-v1.0.zip
- Soldering workshop questionnaire File:Questionnaire-Soldering.pdf
Course Outline
I. Tools - Go ahead and plug in your irons now A. Soldering Iron 1. Wattages a. hotter means you can work quicker and expose the part to heat for less time b. 30W is a good starting point c. 190 to 840 °F is the temp range of soldering, anything higher is brazing (brass) 2. Tips 3. Base model and the high-end station B. Types of solder 1. metal compositions a. leaded - tin+lead b. 60/40 Tin/Silver (lead free) 2. rosin core - a mild acid which removes oxidation from the component you are soldering 3. different thicknesses of solder strand 4. water pipe solder and rosin - DO NOT USE FOR ELECTRONICS, we're not doing copper sweats! C. Sponge worthy 1. keep your sponge wet 2. clean your iron's tip often D. Heat-sink 1. protects part from excessive heat during soldering 2. rarely used, not really neccessary once you get decent at soldering quickly E. Tip cleaner 1. not required but can help clean a dirty tip 2. depends on your personal preference too F. Desoldering braid 1. squish it together so it widens out, absorbs solder better 2. watch out, copper conducts heat well G. Solder sucker/vacume tool 1. have a bowl handy to discharge waste solder into, do not discharge into general purpose trash can - could cause fire II. A few pointers before you begin A. You know the iron is warm enough when you can melt solder to the tip B. Thou shall keep thy tip clean 1. use your sponge to clean the tip off regularly 2. scrape sludge and carbon build-up off with a utility knife if you have to C. Heat the part and apply solder to the part, not your iron III. Lets solder! A. Plug in irons, get them hot if they are not already on B. Tin your tip with solder C. Start putting some "lead" down D. That smoke, don't breath it: 1. it's from the rosen core (mostly fermaldahyde vapor) 2. since solder is now generally lead-free it's not supposed to be toxic 3. still gets in your way, use a low-speed fan or blow it out of the way E. Tips: 1. Make good physical contact with the component you want to solder (push the iron into it) 2. You want to apply solder to the component, not the iron 3. It's ok to cheat and put the solder just a little on the iron tip to get it flowing, then move solder to the component IV. Now De-solder! A. Advice: 1. Being good at soldering means being good at desoldering 2. You will make mistakes, the faster you can recover (desolder the mistake) the sooner you can get back to soldering 3. It's fun, don't fret your mistakes! B. Use the solder-sucker tool C. Use desoldering braid - careful, it gets hot V. Kit Assembly A. Schematic symbols - lets go over them B. How to read a basic circuit schematic C. Count your components, make sure nothing is missing from your kit D. Start with the IC socket, then install everything else E. Careful, components can be ruined by too much heat F. Troubleshooting: 1. Verify component orientation (IC1 & LED) 1. Check power - use a voltmeter to verify the IC has 9V on the correct pins 2. Check for solder bridges VI. World Domination - Some parting words A. If you ever have to use a non-ideal soldering iron: 1. under wattage 2. dirty tip/dull tip 3. tips are usually made of copper, use a utility knife and sharpen it like a pencil 4. then tin the tip as best as you can B. Turn your iron off as soon as you are done with it - clean the tip just before you do this!!! C. What did everyone think of this class???
I have a simple variable LED flasher+piezo buzzer circuit in mind for this. It only takes 10 components plus some wire to build, plus this circuit could also be used for other courses such as an oscilloscope class.
- 1x cut PCB
- 1x 9V battery clip
- 1x 9V battery
- 1x piezo speaker
- 1x LED
- 1x 4049 CMOS hex inverter
- 1x 1M ohm potentiometer
- 1x .22uF cap
- 1x 4.7k ohm
- 1x 2.2k ohm
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Hanover (New Hampshire)
Dartmouth Lake Sunapee : Hanover (New Hampshire)
Hanover is a city in west central New Hampshire. It is home to Dartmouth College[2], founded in 1769. Dartmouth's pretty campus dominates the center of this small town and provides most of the attraction.
Get in
By car
Interstate 93 north to Interstate 89 north at Concord, NH. Exit I-89 at Exit 18 in Lebanon, NH, bear right onto Route 120 north and follow to Hanover.
Take I-89 south to I-91 north in White River Junction, VT. Continue as below.
Take Interstate 91 north to exit 13 at Norwich, Vermont. Bear right off the exit, across the Ledyard Bridge spanning the Connecticut River. Continue up the hill on West Wheelock St. in Hanover.
By air
By train
By bus
Get around
Be advised that accommodations are extremely difficult to find in the area on special Dartmouth weekends such as Graduation, home football games and Winter Carnival.
Get out
Hanover is in the middle of many charming small towns. For a scenic drive take Route 10 north along the Connecticut River and then Routes 116 and 112 to the Lincoln in the White Mountain National Forest.


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Robert Blankenheim and Derek Johnson Productions have created a trailer for ET-X: Extinction, an unnecessarily gritty and violent sequel to Steven Spielberg's family-friendly blockbuster.
In this preview, grown-up footage of Henry Thomas and Drew Barrymore is spliced with generic disaster flick scenes (starring an authoritative Morgan Freeman, natch) and new animation of the red-eyed, cobra-necked extraterrestrials. The most groan-worthy line? "C'mon ET! Let's go save the world!"
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In recent years, in light of the most interesting event is the rise of the semiconductor lighting. The mid-1990s, Japan's Nichia Corporation Nakamura, who through unremitting efforts, broke through the manufacture of blue light-emitting diode (LED) of the key technologies, and thus developed a fluorescent material to cover the blue LED technology produces white light source . Semiconductor lighting with green environmental protection, long life, high efficiency, resistance to harsh environments, simple structure, small size, light weight, fast response, low voltage and good security features, so as the incandescent, fluorescent after The third generation of lighting power source, otherwise known as 21st century green light. United States, Japan and Europe have injected a lot of manpower and financial resources, the establishment of specialized agencies to promote the development of semiconductor lighting technology.
There are many ways to achieve white light LED, developed earlier, the way of industrialization has been achieved in the LED chip is coated with phosphor to achieve white light emission.
LED with phosphor There are three main methods to achieve white light, but they are not fully mature, thus seriously affecting the white LED in the lighting field. Specifically, the first method is the blue LED chip coated with yellow phosphor can be excited by blue light, emitted blue chip and yellow phosphor issued complementary form white light. The technology monopolized by the Japanese company Nichia, and this program is a principle of the shortcomings in the phosphor emission spectra of Ce3 + ion is not a continuous spectrum features, the color is poor, it is difficult to meet the requirements of low color temperature light, while light-emitting efficiency is not enough high efficiency through the development of new phosphors to improve.
The second method is a blue LED chip coated with green and red phosphor, blue light emitted by the chip and the issue of green and red phosphor compound to be white, the color is good. However, this method is to use phosphor conversion efficiency is low, especially in the efficiency of red phosphors to be more substantial increase.
The third method is to achieve the violet or ultraviolet LED chip coated with three primary colors or multiple colors of phosphors, the use of the long-wave ultraviolet light emitted by the device (370nm-380nm) or violet (380nm-410nm) to stimulate phosphor to achieve white light emission, the method has better color, but there are also similar problems and the second method, and the current conversion efficiency higher than for the red and green phosphor sulfide system, such phosphors poor stability, the light fades, so the development of efficient, low-light white LED with a phosphor decay has become an urgent task.
Domestic research institutions recently by Taiwan and China joint research partners to develop a variety of uses phosphor color LED.
The use of phosphors to create color LED has the following advantages: First, do not use phosphor, can prepare a red, yellow, green, blue, purple and other colors of the color LED, but because of these different color LED luminous efficiency of a big difference , using the phosphor can be used after some band advantages of high efficiency LED light to prepare the other band of the LED, in order to improve the luminous efficiency of the band. For example, some green band of the LED efficiency is low, the mainland offered Taiwan manufacturers to use a more efficient phosphor prepared, be referred to as "apple green" LED backlight for mobile phones, and achieved good economic benefits.
Secondly, LED light-emitting wavelength is still difficult to precisely control, which may cause some applications, the wavelength of the LED are not a waste, for example, requires the preparation of 470nm LED, it may prepare them is from 455nm to 480nm with a wide range of LED emission wavelength of the LED at both ends of the lower prices can only dispose of or abandoned, while the use of phosphors can be so-called "waste" into the desired color. Third, the use of phosphors, certain LED light color will become more soft or bright, to suit different application needs. Of course, the phosphors in the LED is still the most widely used in the white area, but because of its unique advantages, but also in color LED in certain applications, but the phosphor in the color LED on the application has just started, the need for further in-depth research and development.
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Was one of the five pitches John Maine threw last night his final one with the Mets?
That's what many are thinking, but if Jerry Manuel's job security was secure, or at least stable, it might be enough for him to outlast Maine, but it is a house of cards.
Maine was the third Mets starter to go down during the team's dreadful 2-6 road trip, but if the DL is in his immediate future then he'll get another chance to save his career.
Manuel and pitching coach Dan Warthen think Maine is hiding an injury – the latter called the pitcher a "habitual liar'' when it comes to discussing his health – and we should know after he sees a doctor today.
"I would like an explanation,'' Maine said about his removal. "Me throwing 85 mph I don't think is a good explanation to be taken out.''
A weak warm-up session and Maine hunched over on the mound might have had something to do with it.
However, Maine partly answered his own question about why he wasn't allowed to stay in the game.
"I'm in no position, I don't have enough clout,'' said Maine. "I don't have enough star power to say anything. So what happens happens.''
While Maine's verbal explosion might doom him with some organizations, what might save him was how this was bungled by Manuel and Warthen.
"I just didn't think John had enough to compete tonight,'' Warthen said. "If he's throwing that way, then there's got to be something incorrect in that arm. … He wants to go out there and pitch. But we have to be smart enough to realize this guy isn't right.''
How come then, if his warm-ups were so bad, weren't they smart enough to pull the plug before he took the mound?
Warthen told Manuel that Maine wasn't throwing 80 mph in the bullpen. When Maine bounced a warm-up pitch, Manuel immediately got Raul Valdes up and throwing.
Manuel talked so much about wanting to protect Maine, but he let him start the game anyway? If one pitch could blow out his shoulder, then why take the chance?
Maine said he was never asked how he felt or that he was scheduled to see a doctor today. There's a protocol in dealing with pitcher's injuries and it wasn't followed.
To be sure, Maine didn't handle things properly, but neither did Manuel or Warthen, and the ice they are skating on is thinner than Maine's.


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Autumn is upon us. With the chilly weather slowly creeping in on the East Coast and Halloween season not too far away, it seems appropriate that BTI Consulting Group released its "Fearsome Foursome" list just last week. This year, according to BTI's annual survey of in-house attorneys, the "Most Feared Firms in Litigation" are… (cue haunted house sound effects please)… Jones Day, Kirkland & Ellis, Quinn Emanuel, and Skadden Arps. BTI collects its data through one-on-one interviews of 300 in-house lawyers at "top-spending organizations" to find out which firms send shivers running down their spines.
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Jones Day: Attorneys described their impressions of Jones Day, which ranked #19 in the Vault Law 100, with phrases like: "big guns," "gold standard," "young attorneys are impressive," "powerhouse," and "cutthroat and aggressive." One attorney reluctantly remarked, "I hate to say it, but they're great." Consistent with BTI's findings, Jones Day earned top marks in Vault's survey for its litigation practice areas, ranking high for Antitrust, Appellate Litigation, Bankruptcy, General Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, International, Labor & Employment, Products Liability, Securities Litigation, and White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations.
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NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox attended a meeting at United Nations headquarters in July to send a simple, unequivocal message to the international bureaucrats who want to eliminate your Right to Keep and Bear Arms: An international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that in any way, shape or form affects the constitutional rights of American gun owners is completely unacceptable.
In his address to conference participants from around the world, LaPierre made it clear that NRA will accept no compromise on this critical issue.
"The Right to Keep and Bear Arms in defense of self, family and country is ultimately self-evident and is part of the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution," he said. "Reduced to its core, it is about fundamental individual freedom, human worth and self-destiny. We reject the notion that American gun owners must accept any lesser amount of freedom in order to be accepted among the international community."
In 2009, at the behest of the Obama administration, the United States joined 152 other countries in endorsing a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Resolution. The resolution establishes an international conference to be held next year, at which leaders from countries around the world—many of which have deplorable human rights records—will draw up an international treaty designed to severely restrict or even outright ban your right to sell, purchase, carry or own a firearm.
In reversing President George W. Bush's opposition to U.N. mandated global gun control, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared, "The United States is committed to actively pursuing a strong and robust treaty that contains the highest possible, legally binding standard. …"
NRA has alerted American gun owners to be on guard against this ticking time bomb for years. NRA-ILA was the first group to be officially recognized by the U.N. as a "non-governmental organization" determined to protect the freedoms of American gun owners, hunters and shooters. The threat to those freedoms posed by an international Arms Trade Treaty has gained steam under the current administration.
President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the U.N. claim that the only purpose of the ATT is to fight terrorism and international crime syndicates. Americans should not be fooled.
In speaking out for the nation's gun owners, LaPierre warned that, "Those working on this treaty have asked us to trust them. … but they've proven to be unworthy of that trust."
Dissecting the U.N. blueprint, LaPierre concluded that:
• "We are told, 'Trust us, an ATT will only affect the illegal trade in firearms. 'But then we're told that in order to control the illegal trade, all states must control the legal firearms trade;
• "We are told, 'Trust us, an ATT will not require registration of civilian firearms.' Yet, there are numerous calls for record-keeping and firearm tracking from production to eventual destruction. That's nothing more than gun registration by a different name;
• "We are told, 'Trust us, an ATT will not interfere with the lawful international commerce in civilian firearms.' But a manufacturer of civilian shotguns would have to comply with the same regulatory process as a manufacturer of military attack helicopters."
LaPierre demanded that proposals affecting civilian firearm ownership that are woven throughout the ATT must be completely removed from the scope of any international agreement, saying, "On this there can be no compromise, as American gun owners will never surrender their Second Amendment freedoms."
There can be no question that what is taking shape at the U.N. is an all-out attack on the constitutional freedom of American gun owners. U.N. bureaucrats have focused intensely on record-keeping, oversight, inspections, supervision, tracking, tracing, surveillance, marking, documentation, verification, paper trails and data banks, new global agencies and data centers regarding firearms and ammunition. Nowhere are there provisions about respecting citizens' rights of self-defense, privacy, property, due process or observing personal freedoms of any kind.
International gun-ban activists have demanded ATT provisions that would force America to license firearm owners, severely restrict all firearm purchases, destroy firearms deemed "unauthorized," ban commonly owned semi-automatic rifles and join an international gun registry.
While a treaty can't override the Second Amendment, it can become the law of the land either directly—equal to any law passed by Congress—or through implementing legislation. Even if a treaty isn't ratified by a two-thirds majority of the U.S. Senate, it never dies, and can still affect your rights. The U.S. Senate could take a signed treaty off the shelf and vote to ratify it 10, 20 or 50 years from now—as we know from experience. Just two years ago, NRA fought a push to consider a 1997 Organization of American States (OAS) gun control treaty in the Senate. Although the U.S. never ratified that treaty, the Clinton administration used it as an excuse to restrict exports of gun parts and accessories to Canada.
In a 2010 speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Hillary Clinton's Under Secretary for Arms Control told the audience: "We will work between now and the U.N. Conference in 2012 to negotiate a legally binding Arms Trade Treaty, and we'll need your help in achieving it. We have made that a fundamental policy commitment."
So you can bet that if President Obama wins a second term he'll move full-speed ahead for Senate ratification and implementation of the ATT's mandates.
Obama and Clinton have spent their entire careers demonizing American gun owners and doing everything in their power to make firearm ownership more expensive, more difficult and, in many cases, illegal. Now they want to unleash the U.N. gun-ban axis on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
It's time for all Americans to sound the alarm on this treacherous assault on U.S. sovereignty and join the NRA in this all-out fight to oppose any ATT that includes civilian firearms within its scope.
The cornerstone of our freedom is the Second Amendment. Neither the United Nations, nor any other foreign influence, has the authority to meddle with the freedoms guaranteed by our Bill of Rights, endowed by our Creator and due to all humankind.
In all of this, as the full measure of the Obama administration's sell-out of our nation unfolds, NRA members must stand united to prevent and reverse the damage the administration's "change" is inflicting on American freedom and our sovereignty.
To read the full text of Wayne's speech before the U.N. and get the latest news on the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, go to: www.nraila.org/unArmsTradeTreaty.


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Shocking, but only one in four kids ages 4 to 15 wears a helmet when bike riding. This is truly unfortunate since wearing a helmet reduces the risk of brain injury by 88 percent—but only if the helmet sits level on the child's head and fits securely. Here's what you need to know about toddler bike helmet safety and how to ensure the proper fit.
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1. Measure your toddler's head for approximate size. To ensure bike helmet safety, your toddler's helmet should fit now. "Just like with shoes, don't buy a helmet for your child to 'grow into,'"says Rene Hopkins, RN, a child-safety researcher in Augusta, Ga.
2. Position the bike helmet so that it sits low on your child's head, about two finger-widths above the eyebrow. When she looks up, she should see the rim of the bike helmet.
3. Adjust bike helmet straps so that they form a "V" under the ears. When buckled under the chin, the bike helmet should fit snugly and no more than two of her fingers should fit under the strap.
4. Shake it, baby. If the helmet flops at all, adjust straps for a tighter fit.
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While you'd love to take your baby or young toddler along for the bike ride, safety experts strongly advise against it. Why? In children younger than 12 months, neck muscles aren't strong enough to support the weight of the helmet. "Do not consider taking a baby in a bike trailer or carrier seat," Hopkins says. "If you want to take your child before he's 2 years old, ask your pediatrician if he's ready."
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So what's up with these poor souls? Is it a scary movie? Are they being forced to use an iPhone? Who knows, but one thing we're certain of is that Nokia has clearly lost the plot this time. Nokia Malaysia has published the above video, which shows some weird things happening in the country.
The description of the video simply reads "Very strange things have been happening in Malaysia." So we put the question to you: What can the matter be? If we were to guess, we'd say everyone's going slightly mad having to wait for the Lumia 720 and Lumia 520 to arrive.
Source: YouTube, Lumia Live Centre; thanks, Piaget, for the tip!