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Updating your system
You should back up your system before installation; you can use Time Machine.
Do not interrupt the installation process once you have started to update your system. You may experience unexpected results if you have third-party system software modifications installed, or if you've modified the operating system through other means.
Choose Software Update from the Apple () menu to check for the latest Apple software via the Internet, including this update.
Other software updates available for your computer may appear, which you should install. Note that an update's size may vary from computer-to-computer when installed using Software Update. Also, some updates must be installed prior to others, so you should run Software Update until Software Updates states "Your software is up to date".
You can manually download the update installer. This is a useful option when you need to update multiple computers but only want to download the update once. These versions of the standalone installers are available from Apple Support Downloads.
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What's included?
The OS X Lion v10.7.3 Update includes Safari 5.1.3 and fixes that:
- Add Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian language support
- Address issues when using smart cards to log into OS X
- Address compatibility issues with Microsoft Windows file sharing
- Address an issue printing Microsoft Word documents that use markup
- Address a graphics performance issue after sleep on some earlier iMacs that use ATI graphics
- Resolve a Wi-Fi connection issue when waking from sleep
- Address an issue that may prevent Safari from opening before joining a wireless network
- Fix a potential issue authenticating to an SMB DFS share
- Include RAW image compatibility for additional digital cameras
 Directory Services
- Improve binding to read-only Active Directory Domain Controllers
- Improve binding and login speed for Active Directory users in a domain whose name ends in ".local"
- Improve reliability of Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updates by Active Directory clients
- Allow login with an Active Directory username that contains a space
- Improve compatibility with Active Directory schemas that have been extended with the "apple-user-homeDirectory" and "apple-user-homeurl" attributes
- Fix home directory Dock item for Active Directory users with mobile accounts
- Allow NIS users with MD5-hashed passwords to log in
For information about the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.


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What's it about?
Indie Game: The Movie is a feature documentary about video games, their creators and the craft. The film follows the dramatic journeys of indie game developers as they create their games, and as they release those works, and themselves, to the world.
Indie Game: The Movie is about making video games, but at its core, it's about the creative process and exposing yourself through your work.
The film tells the emotional story of a two-man team, Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes, as they craft and release their first major game for XBOX, "Super Meat Boy". It follows Phil Fish, the creator of the highly- anticipated game, "Fez", as he shows it for the first time in 4 years at the giant gaming expo, PAX EAST. And, the film tells behind-the-scenes story an independent designer, Jonathan Blow, who made one of highest-rated video games of all-time, "Braid".
Four developers, three games, and one ultimate goal - to express one's self through a video game.
The Music
We are extremely excited/proud/lucky to announce that the uber-talented Canadian musician, Jim Guthrie, will be composing the music for the film. In case you don't know Jim, he is the composer/collaborator/muse behind this year's much-lauded indie game release, Superbrothers: Sword and Swocery EP. (It is beautiful and magical - check it out now if you haven't!). You can check his soundtrack ('The Ballad of the Space Babies') and more of his great work on Bandcamp.
The Current Status & Why We Need YouWe're done filming and have a very solid rough cut. The finish line is wonderfully close and we're on target to have IGTM complete in mid-August.
If you like what you see in the trailer and on the website,
please consider pre-ordering your copy today. These pre-orders are really help us
make the film better.
So far, we've done everything ourselves on this project. The producing, directing, cinematography, editing, and writing for the feature film and all the web videos we've made during the process. But, now we need some help from others and support to get the feature film done right and taken to the next level, technically-speaking.
We're looking for help with the finishing costs of the feature film (audio, colour, and mastering) in order to make this movie the best possible version of itself.
To date, this project has been solely funded by the original Kickstarter campaign, website pre-orders and personal savings (often ill-advised in the film world :)
Please pass on the trailer and tell your friends about the project. We hope to get a lot of people to see this film, hear these stories and learn more about indie games. Many thanks!
The Regular Edition DVD
The DVD will include the film, deleted scenes, videos about the making of the film, a directors commentary and a real-time commentary of the film from Edmund and Tommy of Team Meat. Basically, we plan to cram as much extra features as we can on the regular edition. Whatever can not fit (which will be a lot) will find a home on the Special Edition.
The Special Edition DVD
The Special Edition will everything in the regular edition DVD, as well as feature new content, stories behind other notable indie games, and expert discussions about games and game design. We will be telling these stories individually and thoroughly, with the same polish and motion graphic treatment of the feature film.
The Digital Download Pre-order
Today, we're now taking digital pre-orders for the film! (Please note that this will include only the main film itself and NOT any of the extra / special features.)
But, now, what if you ordered a DVD version over the past year, you'd prefer a digital version? Our solution: You'll get both :)
All DVD and Special Edition pre-orders from start of the project until the end of our latest Kickstarter campaign, will get a digital copy free of charge. After this date, digital copies will likely be sold separately.
The Release Plans
We're hoping to screen the feature film at some festivals and create a number special event screenings this Fall.
Our goal is to release the DVD, the digital download, and the DVD educational version/license by the end of this year or very early in 2012.
The Special Edition will be release in early 2012. However, those backers will not be left in the cold and will receive a digital copy when the digital version / regular DVD is released.
Who have we filmed with?
Over the course of production, we have filmed with the following people - all of whom make appearances in either the film or the film's Special Edition: Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes (Super Meat Boy), Phil Fish and Renaud Bédard (Fez), Jonathan Blow (Braid/The Witness), Ron Carmel (World of Goo), Alec Holowka (Aquaria/Marian), Derek Yu (Aquaria/Spelunky), Steph Thirion (Eliss/Faraway), David Hellman (Braid), Adam Saltzman (Canabalt/Gravity Hook), Jason Rohrer (Passage/Sleep is Death), Kellee Santiago and Jenova Chen (Flower/Journey), Matthew Wegner (Flashbang/Blurst), Chevy Ray (Beacon/Flashpunk), Mark Johns (Hot Throttle/Space Barnacle), Mark Essen (NIDHOGG/Flywrench), Erin Robinson (Puzzle Bots), Jeff Lindsay (Hacker Dojo), Steve Swink and Scott Anderson (Shadow Physics), Kyle Pulver (Snapshot), Simon Carless (UBM TechWeb Game Network), Brandon Boyer (The Independent Games Festival), Anthony Carboni (Bytejacker), Gus Mastrapa (Contributor Wired, EGM, Edge), Jamin Warren (Kill Screen/Former Reporter, The Wall Street Journal), Chris Dahlen (Kill Screen/Pitchfork/Onion AV Club), and Ken Schachter (Trapdoor/Warp).

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"Little Dissipation Occurred … Due to the Nature of the Rapid Global Air Circulation System"
We warned mere days after the Japanese earthquake that the West Coast of North America could be hit with radiation.
Our concerns – unfortunately – have been validated. See this and this.
The peer-reviewed scientific journal Science of the Total Environment reports:
Massive amounts of anthropogenic radionuclides were released from the nuclear reactors located in Fukushima (northeastern Japan) between 12 and 16 March 2011 following the earthquake and tsunami. Ground level air radioactivity was monitored around the globe immediately after the Fukushima accident. This global effort provided a unique opportunity to trace the surface air mass movement at different sites in the Northern Hemisphere.
The analysis of the air mass forward movements during 12th -16th March showed that the air mass was displaced eastward from the Fukushima area and bifurcated into a northern and a southern branch outside of Japan (Fig. 3). This eastward bifurcation of air masses is in agreement with the simulation of the potential dispersion of the radioactive cloud after the nuclear accident of Fukushima (Weather OnlineWebsite of United Kingdom, UK, 2012).
This work clearly demonstrates how little dissipation occurred during this time due to the nature of the rapid global air circulation system, and the Fukushima radioactive plume contaminated the entire Northern Hemisphere during a relatively short period of time.
Note: The West Coast of North America is also at risk from ocean radiation.
The Department of Homeland Security and National Nuclear Security Administration recently sent low-flying helicopters over the San Francisco Bay Area to test for radiation. But they almost certainly will not make their findings public.


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Friday, 13 February 2009
One Year
After a long year of growth and development and a lot of birthday partying, he "fell asleep at the roll."
It has been a year of very good times and many challenges. But since this is (sort of) a blog about running, I'll just point out that, if anything, having a baby helped my running.
I PR'd in the mile, the 5k, the 10k and the marathon. I won a 5k, a 6.2k, a 10k and a marathon. And I ran my first two 50k's and my first 50 miler. I think I deserve to fall asleep at the roll, too.
So the obvious question is, what's next? Well, first of all, full time work. But other than that, we've got the major goal of the 7 day trans-alpine run in September. And we're hoping to get into orienteering running. But honestly, the major challenge is going to be to stay in shape while working full time.
Speaking of which, the weight was at 50.4 this morning. 0.3kg from my goal. Some would settle for taking a diuretic and reweighing.
Running song of the day: Kun for mig by Medina
7 comments:
- Abbie said...
You crack me up with your comments. Falling asleep at the roll? Love it! Happy birthday little Bois! It's been fun watching you grow up.
- 13 February 2009 at 20:21
- Michelle said...
Awww, happy birthday to the Bois!! Hard to believe he's already one!
- 13 February 2009 at 22:54
- Lisa said...
What a cutie pie. Still clutching his bread, too. Happy Birthday Lorax!
- 16 February 2009 at 18:45
- Ingrid said...
I love the birthday pictures! I found your blog quite a few months ago and have enjoyed reading about your adventures with running and the Bois.
I was wondering if I could ask you some questions about eating while pregnant. I'm a runner too and at 16 weeks pregnant am trying to figure out how to eat well but not gain a ton of weight (aiming for 20 pounds). I thought you might have some advice and I couldn't figure out how to email you, so I figured that I would stop lurking and ask! :-)
- 16 February 2009 at 19:39
- sea legs girl said...
I'll pass the birthday wishes on to The Bois.
Ingrid, I'd love to email with you. You can write to firstname.lastname@example.com.
- 17 February 2009 at 18:14
- Emily said...
The Bois certainly does look GREAT as a 1 year old! Growing up so fast!
- 17 February 2009 at 20:00
Sea Legs and Ingrid, I thought you might appreciate this article questioning US pregnancy weight gain guidelines. You don't have to gain a lot of weight to have a healthy baby. Sea Legs, it looks like medical science may finally be catching up with you.
Link to article:
US Doctors' Pregnancy Weight Gain Advice Questioned
Personally, I'm at 24 weeks, baby's growth is ahead of the curve, and I've gained less than 8 lbs. It can be done, and no one - baby or mom - needs to suffer any negative consequences.
- 21 February 2009 at 06:03


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Below are poll averages (from Real Clear Politics) for Gubernatorial, Senate, and contested House seats. A positive poll average favors the Republican candidate whereas a negative poll average favors the Democratic candidate. From the poll averages a ranking and probability are calculated for each race. A probability above 0.5 (50%) favors the Republican candidate whereas a probability under 0.5 favors the Democratic candidate. The higher ranking, the higher the probability the race will go to the Republican candidate. The lower the ranking, the higher the probability the race will go to the Democratic candidate. Since polling in House races are not very accurate, the formula to calculate the probability is more complex taking into account race ratings by the Cook, Election Projection, and Sabato political reports as well as generic congressional polling results and PVI (Partisan Voting Index). A positive PVI means the percentage of registered Republicans in the district outnumbers registered Democrats whereas a negative PVI means the percentage of registered Democrats in the district outnumbers registered Republicans. The overall probability for the President, Senate, Gubernatorial, and House races are computed to project the number of seats (including the presidency) that are going to be won by Republicans and Democrats respectively. Race candidates will be filled in to the below tables once they are determined by state primaries. I will update and post this information regularly (many primaries and candidates have not been decided and most polls are not pertinent because they do not contain the right candidates). Below is an overall summary of the predicted outcomes based on probability density function models.
Governor Races: Current - Republicans 29; Democrats 21 (including 2 Independents); Model Projection - Republicans 27; Democrats 23 (including 2 Independents)
Senate Races: Current - Republicans 45; Democrats 55 (Including 2 Independents); Model Projection - Republicans 50; Democrats 50 (Including 2 Independents)
House Races: Current - Republicans 234; Democrats 204; Model Projection: Republicans 252; Democrats 186
Below is an overall summary of the predicted outcomes based solely on election polls:
Governor Races: Republicans 30; Democrats 30 (including 2 Independents)
Senate Races: Republicans 52; Democrats 48 (Including 3 Independents)


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Aubree Cherie at Living Free, my choice for the Blogger Secret Ingredient hostess, selected the noble cashew for this week's event. Since the cashew is probably one of my favorite foods, I had to participate. I've been a bit obsessed with baking this week and my coworkers and friends have been employed as my guinea pigs. Scones, skillet bread, a chocolate torte, blackberry buckwheat swirly buns - my oven has been working overtime. Anyway, the cashew slid to the back of my mind, and I kind of forgot about it.
Until last night.
Cashew cheese is a pretty standard dairy-free thing to make, so I like to dress it up a bit by making cute little wheels crusted with coarsely ground peppercorns. This recipe isn't anything groundbreaking, but it is a handy - and most importantly, delicious - thing to have in your repertoire. Back in the day, I was a sucker for those lovely herb or peppercorn-crusted logs of fresh chevre. This reminds me a bit of that, but without that tricky lactose. Cashew cheese really couldn't be easier to make and it takes well to adaptations, so if you don't like my choice of seasonings, feel free to mix it up with your own! If I could, I would add sun-dried tomatoes.
When made into these lovely little wheels, cashew cheese is a wonderfully fancy-looking addition to the snack table at a party, a special treat for picnics, or added to a tapas plate with some olives and dried figs. If you don't want to make it into wheels, feel free to use the cheese as is. Either way, it is delicious and "cheese"like and very satisfying, and would be perfect for the Mother's Day brunch table! Use it on crackers or fresh vegetables - it is great with thinly sliced radish. Spread it on bread, or use it on pizza. Do anything with it! I spread some on a slice of my Pumpkinseed Teff Sandwich Bread, and also crumbled some up and threw it in to my first attempt at a savory filled braid bread.
Savory Filled Braid Bread, round 1, with a little gooey cashew cheese inside.
Feeling cashewliscious? Here are some other tasty cashew recipes from my site:
- Cashew Rosewater Cookies
- Rhubarb Cashew Cookies
- Cashew Seaweed Gomasio
- Creamy Cashew Wild Rice Soup
- Summer Spaghetti with Cashew-Zucchini Alfredo
- Apple Cupcakes with Raisin Cashew Frosting
- Vegan Custard Tart with Oatmeal Lavender Crust and Blueberry Sauce
- Yeast-Free, Soy-Free Vegan Parmesan Cheese
Pepper-Crusted Cashew Cheese with Herbs
yield: 2-3 cheese wheels, or roughly 1 1/2 cups cheese
If you don't tolerate pepper, feel free to garnish with minced herbs instead. It will still be delicious and beautiful! See note at end of recipe.
1 1/2 cups raw cashews
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp vitamin C crystals (or 2-3 tsp lemon juice if you do citrus)
1/4 tsp sea salt
1/8 tsp freshly ground black peppercorns
optional: 1 tsp chickpea miso (adds a nice yeastiness that is somewhat cheese-like)
water, as needed
2 Tbsp minced fresh herbs (I used chives, dill, and parsley)
2 tsp coarsely ground fresh black peppercorns
fresh chive flowers
Place cashews in 4 cups of water and let soak for 4 hours. Drain and rinse well. Place in a food processor fitted with the "S" blade or a high powered blender (like a Vitamix). Process until coarsely ground, then scrape sides and garlic powder, vitamin C crystals, salt, 1/4 tsp pepper, and miso, and continue to process until smooth, adding water by the 1/2 teaspoon as necessary for it to come together. Once smooth, add fresh herbs and additional salt/pepper to taste, and pulse a few times to incorporate.
Use the cheese as is as a tasty spread, or to make lovely little wheels continue to the next step!
Line a 1/2 or 1/3 cup measuring cup with plastic wrap, smoothing the bottom as much as possible, and leaving at least 2 inches of plastic wrap around the edges. If you use a 1/2 cup measure, you will end up with 2 wheels and some leftover cheese. If you use a 1/3 cup measure, you can get 4 slightly smaller wheels. You could also form one big ball (or a bunch of smaller ones) and just roll it in peppercorns. Whatever, the choice is up to you. :)
Once lined, sprinkle in black pepper to fully coat bottom of cup, then pack cashew "cheese" firmly into the cup. Lift gently on edges of plastic wrap and pull out wheel, wrap well, and refrigerate until ready to serve, or at least 1 hour. It will become firmer as it cools. When ready to serve, gently peel off plastic wrap and place on a plate. If desired, garnish with chive flowers.
HERB GARNISH VARIATION: to make pepper-free, omit pepper from the recipe, and use 2-3 tsp of finely minced fresh herbs in the plastic lined measuring cups. Your cheese wheel will have a lovely green top!
ROASTED GARLIC VARIATION: omit garlic powder and add 3-4 roasted garlic cloves while processing. So tasty!


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Series – Ezra + Nehemiah
Summary: The central thread woven through the biblical narrative is grace. One day, by grace, he will "make all things new." The thread of grace touches every story just like it touches every human life. There are other threads woven in the human and biblical narratives, like rebellion and exile. Rebellion exiles the human heart creating a great distance; a distance that only grace can reach. God's grace is a love and acceptance given to an exiled and rebellious people. So it is with Ezra and Nehemiah. Rebellious and exiled Israelites receive God's grace and the restored relationships and security that comes with his grace. Ezra and Nehemiah point forward to a time when, through God's grace, we will know perfect relationships and total security.
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IUCN Oceania has had a close relationship with the Fiji Islands Voyaging Society (FIVS) since its inception in 2009, to the point that staff have been aboard the Uto Ni Yalo (the FIVS flagship) on several occasions, and one staff member joining a sail to Savusavu as a crew member.
It seemed only fitting that when the opportunity arose in late 2010 to broaden the environmental outreach programme to include other voyaging societies, IUCN Oceania was a part of the team that developed, drafted, and submitted a proposal to the Packard Foundation to kick-start the process.
The Pacific Voyagers' Network, comprising voyaging societies from 10 countries in the Pacific, will set out on a Pan-Pacific voyage from New Zealand to Hawaii in April, calling in at Fakarava and Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia on the way. IUCN Oceania continues to play a role with the network, the culmination of staff involvement being the coordination of a week of 'environmental messaging' sessions with 4 of the 7 vaka crews participating in the voyage.
The sessions aim to equip the crews with information on various Pacific Ocean issues ranging from invasive species to marine pollution, ocean acidification to ocean noise. The voyage presents excellent opportunities for crew to interact with communities and interested groups during the various port stops, giving them an opportunity to share their personal experiences and observations while sailing. The outreach programme is to be further supplemented by monitoring of ocean conditions, observations of rubbish/debris, as well as marine wildlife (birds, whales, dolphins, fish, etc) that the vakas pass while sailing to their next destination.
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Face it, asking for fighting games with online to have zero to no lag is a tall order. Replicating that versus arcade experience is hard. Heck, when Virtua Fighter launched on the PS3 back in early 2007, it didn't have online. (Well, neither did the PS3, really.) Even Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono even admits that lag will be problematic for the home versions. Up front and honest, he tells the Official Xbox 360 Magazine:
Obviously lag will be a huge problem for online play. We're working on it. Compared to other games such as Virtua Fighter and Soul Calibur, they've got replay functions and so forth. It's quite difficult for 3D Street Fighter at the moment. In order to prevent the lag we're thinking about trying to balance it up at user interface level and input timing by using joystick or something like that. We still haven't got a complete plan as yet. We're still working on it. That's all we can say at the moment.
Here's hoping they figure something out. Street Fighter IV interview [OXM via Joystiq]


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cinematictech necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
Prime Time Advantage Group
We are a financial firm within the Real Estate Industry. We invest money into different real estate deals for our clients. We are trying to get this company off the ground and need a really clean and professional logo to help push our brand.
Our audience will be Commercial real estate developers and investors. Mainly investors.
We are looking for a logo that will represent a professional image for our company Prime Time Advantage Group.
We would like to see two types of logos to start and from there we will determine which type looks best and choose a winner.
1. A purely textual representation of the our name "Prime Time Advantage Group". Feel free to abbr. PTA and then spell it out below it.
2. A text version with a bit of the real estate business mixed in. I am thinking a commercial building that is a bit abstract would be great.
When adding some graphics to the second type of logo please keep in mind the below:
1. Please do not use any "real" images, I would like to see drawn out objects. No clip art, photographs, or stock imagery.
2. When I say abstract I mean a style of a paint brush perhaps, nothing to crazy, they need to able to distinguish that its a building.
For colors, we would like to use different shades of blue please.
Overall Feel: Corporate and Professional
Files needed from winner:
Print file format - .ai
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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posted on Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 3:43 pm
I am using a longitudinal dataset (NHANES) where the baseline ages range from 25 to 75 and there are three followups, after 10, 15 and 20 years. I need to estimate a GCM, starting with a univariate GC for a 'health' variable. I wanted to simply estimate a univariate GC with slope indicators based on the years to followup (0,10,15,20) and using baseline age as a predictor. However, because of the wide baseline age range I was advised to use the ages at interviews for the slope indicators: ages are grouped into 5-year intervals and a person gets a missing value if no interview was conducted at that age range and the appropriate value otherwise. This way, however, there are so many missing values that the model doesn't get estimated. I lowered the covariance coverage and the convergence criterion but to no avail. Q1: Do I really need to do the ages as slope indicators or is the way I started adequate? Q2: If the second way is better, are there any tricks to making the model work? Thank you very much for your suggestions!
posted on Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 4:52 pm
It sounds like you should view this as a multiple-cohort situation and handle it via multiple-group growth model analysis (one group for each cohort). The cohorts (groups) are the age groups - I guess 10 of them. I would assume NHANES has a large enough sample to give sufficients numbers in each of these age cohorts. Each cohort is measured 4 times. In this way, low coverage is not an issue unless there is very strong attrition. The multiple-group approach allows you to test hypotheses about varying degrees of invariance of parameters of the growth model across the age cohorts.
Anna Zajacova
posted on Monday, October 24, 2005 - 11:13 am
Thanks so much for your answer! May I ask two more quick question? I intended to examine how the trajectory of excess weight affected changes in health. If I use the multiple-cohort setup, won't the whole model become too unwieldy? Would it really be wrong to use the times of measurement as the time variables? (I mainly ask the second question because the listwise deletion of individuals who die during the followup, which I understand to be the default in multiple cohort setup, would be a problem.)
I really appreciate your help!
posted on Monday, October 24, 2005 - 11:25 am
The multiple-cohort/mutliple-group approach is not complicated. Using times of measurement is not as good of an approach. Listwise deletion is only the default in the automatic data rearrangement Mplus does using MCOHORT. I am not referring to that. Instead, you would rearrange your data yourself. With this approach, attrition is not a problem.
Anna Zajacova
posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 8:29 am
Dear Dr. Muthen,
I have rearranged the data myself and tried to estimate the model (not as a multiple-cohort setup) but the covariance coverage is too low. Is there a way to use the MC setup with the data already rearranged? I hate to ask you this question since it may have an obvious answer but I couldn't find it in the manual. Perhaps you could point me to source(s) I could research?
thank you very much for your answer,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 9:24 am
I think you are asking about the multiple cohort/multiple group analysis that Bengt mentioned above. For this, the data should not be rearranged.
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Philosophical analysis of the concepts and assumptions central to feminism. Theoretical positions within the feminist movement; view of the ideal society, goals and strategies of the movement, intersections of the sex-gender system with other systems of oppression. Offered: jointly with GWSS 206/POL S 212.
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This is an introductory class to feminist philosophies and theories. We will focus on a range of feminist perspectives as they intersect with key political and philosophical concepts: identity, knowledge, globalization, social change, among others. There are two related goals of the class, to introduce you to these key concepts through the lens of feminist thought so you can understand the ways in which feminists have engaged, critiqued, and developed the work of other philosophers and theorists, and to ask you to reflect on knowledge more generally. Our knowledge is formed from various sources, some quite explicit and clear, others more subtle. As we engage in this reflection, I will ask you to consider the role of knowledge and the role of wisdom in your own life through the lens of feminist philosophy and thought. Offered: jointly with PHIL 206/POL S 212.
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Beth Ellbeg, RN, MS, nurse director of the Preadmission Testing Area/Same-Day Surgery Unit-Preoperative Services, and Lisa Warren, MD, director of Ambulatory and Regional Anesthesia for the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, have received Patriot Awards from the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), an organization of the U.S. Department of Defense. Recipients are recognized for offering support to National Guard or Reserve members and are nominated by an employee who serves in the National Guard or Reserve. Elizabeth Ryder, RN, MSN, of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, and a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve, nominated Warren and Ellbeg, who were presented the awards Feb. 17 by two ESGR representatives.
Patricia Sylla, MD, a colorectal surgeon in the MGH Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, has been awarded the 2011-2012 Harvard Catalyst/Program for Faculty Development and Diversity Faculty Fellowship. The fellowship program supports the research of a junior faculty member through a $100,000 award provided over two years. Sylla's research is focused on evaluating the safety and efficacy of NOTES (Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery) transanal endoscopic rectosigmoid resection for rectal cancer. David Rattner, MD, chief of the Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, will act as Sylla's mentor.
MGH physicians David L. Berger, MD, David G. Forcione, MD, John Godine, MD, PhD, Annekathryn Goodman, MD, Matthew M. Hutter, MD, Julie Ann Jolin, MD, Myles David Keroack, MD, Daniel Stephan Pratt, MD, and Paul Shellito, MD, were selected to a list of 2010 Top Doctors by the Just Ask a Nurse Group LLC. Honored physicians were chosen through surveys of registered nurses.
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Jmepal necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 177 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
Kalos, Inc.
Kalos, Inc. is a unique company comprised of two departments. We are interested in rebranding with a new logo that includes elements that are representative of both departments in the same icon. We are one company offering a unique blend of products & services.
• Our systems department focuses on developing and supporting cutting-edge, custom pharmacy management software. Our systems department is customer-driven and innovative, striving to be progressive and forward-moving.
• Our printing services department focuses on selling printed products and just about anything print-related. These printed products primarily include labels, forms, commercial printing, and promotional products. Our printing services department has continuously diversified and expanded its product offering and services as new technology and trends affect the maturing print industry.
Both departments offer high quality products and excellent, friendly customer service.
Our name, Kalos, is a Greek word meaning "good, honorable, honest, fair, perfect, beautiful." This is a description of how we strive to do business.
Our systems department has a target audience comprised of university health centers, correctional institutions, and retail pharmacies.
Our printing services department has a target audience of the general public.
We would like a simple and clean logo that has a modern, high-tech and progressive flair, but is also friendly (not too staunch or militaristic looking).
The logo design should include:
1) an icon/symbol (such as Nike's swoosh logo, AT&T's globe logo, etc.).
2) the company name in a wordmark of some type.
We would prefer that the icon be something that can be used with or without the wordmark. The icon may be built into the wordmark, but should also be able to be printed by itself without the company name if needed (see examples attached). Burgundy is our preferred color of choice.
Required File Formats:
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Honey, I read your translation of Ishikawa Jun's xxxxx, but I'm not sure I get it. What does it mean?
Your question reminds me of that line in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" where a young boy asks the narrator, What does the grass mean? and the narrator replies, rather opaquely, it's the "flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven," which is about as good an answer as I can give, so let's just say that xxxxx is the flag of my disposition (though I don't think it's woven of any hopeful green stuff).
But that's not much of an answer. Let me try again. You see, Ishikawa Jun's debut work xxxxx (1935), which I have translated as xxx xxxxxx, is a relatively short modernist self-portrait constructed through the largely ironic appropriation of at least three historically antecedent genres of novel: the künstlerroman (artist-novel), the possession novel, and the symbolist novel. The work is part künstlerroman in that … (click here to continue reading my rough exegesis of the work). (**Removed to prevent plagiarism, Sally Suzuki, 1/25/12).


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Sandy Hook Parents and Teachers to Put on a Brave Face for Students
(MONROE, Conn.) -- When the students of Sandy Hook Elementary School arrive at their new school building for the first day of classes on Thursday, they will be greeted by their beloved pet turtle, Shelley, and a winter wonderland of cut-out snowflakes sent by well-wishers from around the world.
"You have to put on a smile and you have to just move forward with enthusiasm," parent and school volunteer Karen Dryer told ABC News. "You have to make it the best possible place for the children. You can't afford to fall apart or be afraid yourself. You have to just be really brave and put on a big smile and be reassuring."
Dryer's 5-year-old son is a kindergarten student at the school, and she is the class volunteer for his class who has helped prepare the new school.
Thursday's "Opening Day," as the school is calling it, will mark the first time the roughly 500 members of the school are all together after the Dec. 14 rampage in which gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six staffers.
The school's new home is the building that used to be the Chalk Hill Middle School in Monroe, Conn., about six miles from Sandy Hook in Newtown.
"[It took] a great deal of thought and effort and volunteer work to make this as seamless as possible," Newtown schools superintendent Janet Robinson said at a news conference Wednesday. "Right now, Chalk Hill has been transformed from a middle school to a very cheerful, nurturing elementary school."
Sinks and toilets were lowered to elementary school levels. Walls were painted and the school's mascot Shelley, a red slider turtle, has been moved to his new home in the library. Many of the students and their parents have already visited the new school and many more were set to visit at an open house Wednesday.
"All the kids love Shelley," Dryer said. "Just seeing Shelley was a huge thing for the kids, knowing he's okay and that he's going to be at the new school."
The paper snowflakes hanging from the ceilings were part of an international effort to send the decorations to the school. The snowflakes came from all around the country and world, from as far away as Israel. Some are personalized with messages on them.
"We just got this brand-new school and it's all decorated and really looking beautiful," she said. "The classrooms are all completely set up, all decorated really well because the teachers and volunteers put in a lot of time making sure it looks welcoming and somewhat familiar."
She said the level to which the classrooms were recreated varied by class and age.
For kindergartners who need structure for security, the classrooms were meticulously recreated from the drawings on the wall to the crayons and water bottles on the desks.
For some of the older students who perhaps saw or heard things that were traumatic, some of the teachers have gone with new designs that are welcoming but not too reminiscent of the past room.
Dryer said that the community has experienced many "miracles" in the weeks since the shooting, but that two big miracles come to mind in terms of the school.
The first was the town of Monroe giving Sandy Hook an entire building to use for their school. When splitting up the school and distributing the members to other schools arose as an idea, it was rejected immediately.
"The teachers were up in arms and they said absolutely not and all the parents agreed that they need to be together more than ever. You cannot split up those teachers or those kids."
The second "miracle" was the return of former principal Donna Page (pronounced Pa-jhay), who the superintendent Wednesday called a "godsend."
Page is leading the new school as interim principal, telling parents it was her "calling" to return after the tragedy. Parents have dubbed her the "new old principal" because Page was the school's leader for 14 years before retiring in 2010.
The school's principal, Dawn Hochsprung, was among the first victims of the shooting. The school didn't know how they would fill Hochsprung's "very, very big shoes" until they heard from Page, who said she knew she was being called back to the school when she heard about the shooting, Dryer said.
Dryer knew Page from when her daughter, now a sophomore in high school, was at Sandy Hook while Page was principal.
"She's amazing. She's an extremely strong woman," Dryer said. "She is the perfect person to come in and take control and lead this school and staff forward."
"Once we had those two things in place, we felt so much better and then everything has been coming together and working hard to prepare the space," she said. "They literally worked around the clock to get it all up to date."
As the school prepares to officially open, security is paramount in everyone's mind. There is a police presence on campus and drivers of every vehicle that comes onto campus are being interviewed.
"Our goal is to make it a safe and secure learning environment for these kids to return too, and the teachers also," Monroe police Lt. Keith White said at the news conference.
A "state-of-the-art" security system is in place, but authorities will not go into detail about the system, saying only that the school will probably be "the safest school in America."
Every adult in the school who is not immediately recognizable will be required to wear a badge as identification, Dryer said.
"They want to know exactly who you are at sight, whether or not you should be there," Dryer said.
The first few days will be a delicate balancing act between assessing the children's needs and trying to get them back to a normal routine.
"They want to try to get things back into a routine as quickly as possible, but they do see the need for some therapeutic days," Dryer said. "They're going to spend the first few days mostly acclimating themselves to the new space doing a lot of different things that will help them get familiar with the school."
Dryer said that some children will do activities that seem like simple, fun games, but are actually providing some therapy and giving adults a chance to assess where they are.
Now that the construction is finished, the walls are painted and the decorations hung, Robinson said that the only missing piece is the children.
"I think they'll feel welcome as they come through the front door," Lt. White said. "Their teachers eagerly await to meet them again and move forward from this point."
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Chairman, BenQ Corporation
K.Y. Lee
K.Y. Lee is Chairman of BenQ, a world-leading human technology and solutions provider dedicated to elevating and enriching aspect of consumers' lives that matter most to people today – lifestyle, business, healthcare, and education. His strategic vision, forward-thinking leadership, and determination has not only led BenQ Corporation and the BenQ brand but also BenQ Group as a whole, through development transitions and expansions that result in the transformation of the corporate vision, "Bringing Enjoyment 'N' Quality to Life", and the birth of a new brand philosophy, "Because it matters". With the hope of providing the world with the means to live better, increase efficiency, feel healthier and enhance learning, Lee has taken broad steps to drive worldwide growth and success critically acclaimed by industry experts and praised by consumers – and will continue to do so as he leads BenQ into the future.
Kick-starting his career at Acer Group, Lee quickly progressed his way through a diverse range of positions in manufacturing, marketing, sales and strategic planning, with eventually assuming the position of Vice President of Acer, Inc.
In 1991, Lee transferred as President to Acer Peripherals, and in 2000, Acer Peripherals became Acer Communications and Multimedia (ACM), which reflected Lee's vision for the company's strategic move from a peripherals company to a communications, optical and multimedia powerhouse. In 2001, ACM adopted the name BenQ to better reflect its focus on 'Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to Life'and integrating technologies for modern digital lifestyles. In 2005, BenQ has accumulated industry insight to further solidify its 3C strengths and brand prowess in hopes to launch the BenQ brand onto the world stage.
Under Lee's leadership, BenQ's vertical integration business strategy has been essential to its rapid growth and expansion. Throughout Lee's tenure, BenQ has seen the increase in the extent of the BenQ Group, a $20+ billion powerhouse comprised of 15+ independent companies operating in over 30 countries across numerous industries with a collective workforce of over 100,000 employees. Each Group member is a recognized leader in its own field, contributing to the BenQ Group's vast resources, broad R&D, and distinct strategic strengths. By leveraging each company's vertical specialization to create true scale across horizontal markets, the BenQ Group controls a highly efficient value chain with an unrivaled ability to deliver critical components and world-class solutions in the following industries: TFT-LCD, green energy, fine chemicals and advanced materials, lighting, IC design, precision components, system integration, branded business, and service. The Group is committed to profitable and sustainable businesses that share its long-standing vision of Bringing Enjoyment 'N' Quality to Life and its brand philosophy of "Because it matters".
The BenQ Group companies are: BenQ Corporation, AU Optronics Corporation (world's top manufacturer of large-size TFT-LCD panels), Qisda Corporation, Darfon Electronics Corporation, BenQ ESCO Corp., BenQ Materials Corp., BenQ Guru Corp., BenQ Medical Center, BenQ Medical Technology Corp., BriView Co., Ltd., Daxin Materials Corp., Darwin Precisions, Ltd., Dazzo Technology Corp., Forhouse Corp., Lextar Electronics Corp. and Raydium Semiconductor Corp.
In his free time, Lee enjoys reading and shares an interest and passion for history. He also enjoys numerous outdoor activities including hiking and mountain climbing. Leading by example, Lee makes recommendations to BenQ's internal book club and leads the annual BenQ Olympiad as well as the annual Yushan Mountain (3992 meters in height) executive climb in southern Taiwan.
Lee holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Current positions held:
Chairman of AU Optronics Corporation
Chairman of BenQ Corporation
Chairman of Qisda Corporation
Other accomplishments:
1987 - Outstanding Manager of Taiwan awarded by the R.O.C. government
1994 - Premier Award presented by Business Weekly Taiwan
2000 - Selected as one of the Leading CEOs in Taiwan by Business NEXT
2001 - Selected as a Technology Leader in Taiwan by Global Views
2003- Conferred DATO Award by Government of Malaysia


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The artwork/photo is sold UNFRAMED, and will be carefully rolled in a hard tube with many layers of protection for safe international shipping. I work with top printing houses in Madrid & Barcelona, Spain that have extensive experience dealing with art galleries to make sure the art prints are of the highest gallery/museum quality.
Fine art photography 2016. Giclée on Canson/Hahnemuhle fine art paper, the most premium quality fine art paper which delivers the most accurate and vibrant colors in print as you see onscreen and also gives a touch of classic painting to the photo.
The photo is printed with 2cm white border each side, which makes it easy for putting in frame. Comes with signed & numbered Certificate of Authenticity, to be affixed to the back when framed. Also artist signature in pencil at the back of the photo.
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The Sonnet of Beauty (2016)
Photograph by Viet Ha Tran
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- Size: 38.58 x 26.38 x 0.04 in (unframed) / 37.01 x 24.8 in (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: People and portraits
This artwork is sold by Viet Ha Tran from Spain


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The 5 Browser Add-Ons That Everyone Must Have
We browse the internet religiously every day. It's in our system, and we need it for survival. Here are few add ons to make life much easier.Saumya Soman, 07th Jun 2016
UC Browser Update For Windows Phone Lets You Cut Down On Data Costs
Comes with advanced cloud-based features that let you sync bookmarks and more across devices.Sheldon Pinto, 21st Jul 2015
Google Chrome Beta Update Helps Your Laptop Battery Last Longer
Focusses on pausing flash in background tabs.Sheldon Pinto, 05th Jun 2015
New Opera Mini Browser Update Available For Android Users
With this update, the Opera Mini seems to behave a lot more like a native Android web browser.Phalgunn Maharishi, 15th Apr 2015
Microsoft To Unveil An New, Lighter Web Browser Alongside Windows 10
The browser is supposedly codenamed "Spartan" and will function more like Chrome or FirefoxTeam TechTree, 30th Dec 2014
Will Apple Ditch Google In Favour Of Its Own Search Engine?
A deal betweeen the two rivals is due to end in early 2015, sparking off claims that Apple could replace Google Search with Bing, Yahoo or its own search engineAlnoor M Peermohamed, 27th Nov 2014
Opera Introduces Video Boost For Mini Browser On iOS
Claims to have solved the a major pothole on the internet highway.Team TechTree, 07th Nov 2014
Google's New Tech Will Let You To Load Websites While Offline
The Service Workers browser standard will allow websites to store data locallyTeam TechTree, 19th Sep 2014
Opera Mini Beta Now Available For Testers On Windows Phone
Clearly in its Beta state for now.Sheldon Pinto, 10th Sep 2014
Opera Mini Beta Subscriptions Now Open For Windows Phone
As predicted, post the licensing agreement , the company has finally prepared a Windows Phone version of the browser.Sheldon Pinto, 03rd Sep 2014
Opera Mini To Become Default Browser For Low-End Microsoft Handsets
Will be available as an optional default for current handsets.Team TechTree, 22nd Aug 2014
UC Browser Gets A Major Update; Adds Ad Blocker And More
A pretty handy set of features along with a revamped UI makes for a worthy update.Team TechTree, 14th Aug 2014
Google Outs A Beta Edition Of Its 64-bit Chrome Browser For Windows
Going into beta testing stage signifies that a truly stable 64-bit browser could be just weeks away.Alnoor M Peermohamed, 31st Jul 2014
Amazon Launches Its Kindle 'Cloud Reader' Service In India
Read books in your Kindle library right off your web browser. No downloading or syncing issues.Team TechTree, 29th May 2014
Mozilla Pulls The Plug On Metro Mode For Its Firefox Browser
This leaves you with Internet Explorer as the only touch intutive web browser for Windows 8.Alnoor M Peermohamed, 17th Mar 2014
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I've lost my membership card. What should I do?
Please call the Membership Office at 413.585.2777 or e-mail. We will be happy to issue you a new card.
When I signed up for membership, why did I receive a letter from Smith College thanking me for my gift, but did not receive a membership card?
When you become a member of SCMA, your membership dues are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law. You receive a gift receipt from Smith College immediately after your membership dues are received, and your membership packet is mailed shortly thereafter.
How do I upgrade my membership?
You can easily upgrade your membership and take advantage of additional member benefits. Please indicate "membership upgrade" on your payment. Upgrades to current memberships can only be made within the first nine months of membership. After nine months, membership payments are regarded as renewals. Click here.
How do I take advantage of my Museum Shop member discount?
All members receive a 10 percent discount at the Museum Shop. (Just present your current membership card.) This discount applies to in-person, telephone, and online Museum Shop purchases. Members also receive a 20 percent discount, with membership card, at our annual Members' Double-Discount Days at the Museum Shop.
I want to increase my support of SCMA. How do I make a gift to the Museum in addition to my membership dues?
The Museum is grateful for the support received from its donors and members. You can increase your support of the Museum by raising your membership level or making an additional gift to any of our special initiatives or to the annual appeal.
How do I update my address for Museum mailings?
Email or call the Membership Office at 413.585.2777.
- Do SCMA members also get benefits at other museums?
- Yes, SCMA offers two reciprocal membership programs. All Museum members receive reciprocal membership privileges through the College and University Art Museums Reciprocal Program. SCMA Members at the "leader level" of membership or above also receive reciprocal membership privileges at more than thirty additional museums nationwide as part of the Art Museum Reciprocal Network. Reciprocal privileges entitle SCMA Members to free admission to our reciprocal museums' permanent collections and discounts in their museum stores. Ticketed exhibitions and special events are not included. Check with individual member museums for exact privileges.


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Students at Texas High School Plan 'No Makeup' Day
(DALLAS) -- Teens at Plano Senior High School in Texas are trying to redefine beauty, rallying students to wear no makeup Friday -- an initiative they're calling "Operation Beautiful."
"I just really began to see how I don't need makeup to be beautiful," said Madeline Milby, 17, vice president of the student congress and a senior at PSHS, which is in the Dallas suburbs. "There's so much more to me. It's your personality, your passion and what's inside your heart."
Plano Senior High is a school with 2,500 11th and 12th graders. Milby said she would spend up to an hour and fifteen minutes getting ready for school, putting on makeup and styling her hair. It turned out that a majority of the girls at her school were doing the same. That jump-started the idea of "no makeup day" at PSHS.
"A while back we heard of a school doing this before, and we thought it'd be a really cool idea to bring it to our school," Milby told ABC News. "The goal for this project is to promote inner beauty and to let girls know it's not about what's on the outside but about what's on the inside, and that's what makes you beautiful."
Last semester, Milby, along with senior class president Binna Kim and student congress president Monica Plenger, came up with the idea to get all girls at the school to have one day without makeup.
"I think there's pressure for girls to look a certain way, to meet a standard. The standard is being pushed through media and magazines and everything," said Milby. "I'm really hoping it'll make the girls at school feel more comfortable and see that they're beautiful without makeup and they don't need to use makeup to cover up themselves."
To get the word out and gain support for "no makeup day," the three best friends and other classmates created a YouTube video explaining the mindset behind "Operation Beautiful." Teachers showed the video in their classrooms at school.
"We just really want to focus on, not that makeup [is] a bad thing, we're not trying to say that, you know, don't wear makeup ever again," says Kim in the video. "What we really want to do on this day is to prioritize bettering yourself on the inside rather than bettering yourself on the outside."
In the video, girls who attend PSHS confess they spend up to an hour and a half getting ready for school while boys say they spend only five minutes.
"We challenge you this Friday, March 8, to not wear makeup and support Operation Beautiful," say subtitles at the end of the video.
While there has mostly been a positive response from girls and boys at PSHS, they've heard some negative feedback. Still, Milby said she hopes that all students learn from Operation Beauty apart from their position.
"Guys are in shock. They really are starting to realize how much pressure there is on girls," said Milby. "We're all seniors, but we're hoping about making it a recurring event at school."
As one male student put it in the Youtube video by quoting teen sensation One Direction, "You don't need makeup to cover up, because being the way that you are is enough."
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Like the horror movie villain that never dies, Google+ Hangouts is still somehow finding a way to slither into our collective mind even after we've forgotten about it. This time, the expected top two NFL picks in this year's draft, Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, will host Google+ Hangouts on their teams page.
The draft today and it's one of those days for NFL fans where hope springs eternal, even for teams that were awful last year like the Colts and the Redskins (the two teams that will take Luck and RG3). You can follow along the Google+ Hangout for Andrew Luck at around 9PM here and actually put your name in the mix to talk to RG3 on Google+ here. The Redskins are only picking 5 people to talk to RG3 but since this is Google+, there is significantly less people competing with you. [Colts+, Redskins+ viaMashable]


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SharksMedia necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 111 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
Hello designers
We need a new design for http://www.flexer.dk. Flexer.dk is a portal similar to getafreelancer.com where companies can create projects and freelancers with matching competences can reply and place a bet on solving the projects.
Flexer.dk only provide matchmaking for companies/freelancers in the IT sector, usually programmers, webdesigners, SEO consultants and so on. Our targeted audience is therefore freelancers with tecnical skills, and companies who need theese freelancers.
We need a new design, and we are going for a clean look. We very much like the design here on 99designs because it is simple and clean., so we would like something similar.
We will like to have the frontpage divided into two, left side for the companies and the right side for the freelancers. On both sides we want to have a random testimonial/statement from companies/freelancers who have had a good experience using flexer.dk. The frontpage will also have to include some form of loginbox, signup buttons and a footer containing some links.
We prefer a designer who is flexible, and are willing to help us out in the future when we are going to rebuild the site (Of course not for free).


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White Paper - Lime Scale Accumulation: The Energy Thief
White Paper - Lime Scale Accumulation: The Energy Thief
Background on Scale Buildup
Water is used in a wide range of commercial applications. Every day, businesses and facilities heat water to serve the needs of their customers and patrons. While restaurants, laundromats, hotels and car washes all require very large amounts of hot water to stay in business, nearly all companies rely on hot water in one way or another. Each year, a significant portion of their overhead is allotted to the fuel required to heat water, and everyday that allotment becomes slightly larger. However, many do not realize what they lose each year due to the negative by-products of heating water.
Water is often called the "universal solvent," because it dissolves most substances with which it comes in contact. Water contains dissolved minerals, such as calcium-carbonate (lime), magnesium, silica, iron and phosphate. The amount of these dissolved minerals in water varies throughout the country and from municipality to municipality. However, 85 percent of this country's area is served with water containing concentrations of dissolved minerals sufficient to form scale.
When water is heated, it undergoes a chemical reaction that causes the dissolved minerals to "precipitate" out as solids. The amount of precipitant, or scale, is directly proportional to the volume of water used and its temperature. As the temperature of water increases, so does the rate of corrosion. Heated water releases the dissolved corrosive gases, such as oxygen and carbon dioxide, which increases the electrical conductivity of water.
Harmful Effects of Scale
Scaling and corrosion will inevitably cause efficiency losses, malfunctions and total equipment failure. It is responsible for millions of wasted dollars each year in maintenance cost and energy consumption. Since most commercial water heaters transfer heat inside the tank through flue tubes or coil-type heat exchangers, the scaling and corrosion wreaks havoc on them.
Scale has a very low thermal conductivity. In fact, it acts as a better insulator than a conductor for heat transfer. The thermal conductivity of a typical lime/scale deposit measured in Btu/hr/ft²/in/ºF ranges from three to seven. As a comparison, the thermal conductivity of copper is 2680 and steel is 460. It is easy to see that a heat transfer surface which has accumulated a scale build-up will have a less efficient heat transfer process. This means that the metal surface must be hotter for the same amount of heat to be passed through both the metal surface and scale accumulation then into the water. If enough scale is present, the metal overheats, causing distortion, embrittlement and eventual failure of the water heater. In fact, as little as one-fourth of an inch of lime scale on the heat exchanger can increase operating costs by 25 percent and cause tank failure in as little as two years.
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What's been going on in the life of this student midwife lately? A lot of beautiful things. I've been:
:: Attending some beautiful, smooth, and perfectly normal homebirths
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:: Increasing my own confidence dramatically when talking with clients, piping up frequently to share my own knowledge or unique point of view
:: Helping teach childbirth education classes
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:: Listening to radio shows featuring Ina May Gaskin and talking about birth justice while cleaning my kitchen
:: Bringing breakfast in bed to my sweetie after long nights up with our new puppy
:: Getting opportunities to palpate bellies holding twins and breeches. Increasingmy skills and feeling honored to be a part of these mamas' journeys
:: Getting more involved in the queer community in Austin
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Captain's ReportUnfortunately, these days there are only six major production boat companies world-wide building convertibles in the 52' to 55' range. In addition to the big three there is Ocean Yachts, Riviera and Maritimo. Now, with Cabo entering the 50'+ ranks, there are seven. Some of those builders offer two models in that range so a buyer may find himself with, say, a total 12 or 13 models to choose from. Not many. All seven of these builders know what they are doing, are experienced, and are building good boats. In many respects they are all very similar. But what differentiates them? Isn't one slightly larger than another, or a better value, or more seaworthy, or faster, or more luxurious below, or have a better warranty, or better for entertaining or cruising, or be more comfortable in some other way? The answer is a resounding "yes" to all of those questions. To find the right boat for any individual is a matter of lining up one's priorities and then looking very closely.
The business end of the Cabo 52 Flybridge model is as fishy as they come. Here there is plenty of room for a fighting chair, a couple of anglers working fish if there is a double hook-up, or a large cocktail party back at the dock to celebrate a successful day on the water.
Cabo is 18 years old and as such is the newest major convertible builder on the American scene and its rise has been nothing short of meteoric. Clearly its founders knew what they were doing. Now the company is owned by Brunswick which also owns Hatteras which builds a competitive 54-footer.
The Cabo Niche
If we had to pick one theme over the years for Cabo, we would say that is "good value." Cabo's mission has always been to build a seaworthy boat with all of the fishing amenities for the expert angler who didn't need to spend money on fine-yacht joinery and lots of glitzy gadgets. And since Cabo was the newest company attacking each market as it slowly built larger and ever large boats, it had the advantage of surveying the existing competition and do them all one better. Cabo has made a career of doing just that and has sold over 1200 boats since it started in business in 1991. That's an average of 67 boats a year which is a lot for this market in this size range.
Three staterooms and two heads is the standard accommodations plan in this size boat.
Some Details
Her lines are pretty standard for an American convertible. The 52 has a soft and graceful sheer swooping down to her cockpit coaming. Her cockpit has all of the fishing amenities one would expect, including a 75 gallon live bait well in the transom with picture window, refrigerators and freezers under the mez seating and large fish boxes in the cockpit sole. Her cockpit is not only wide but also ample fore and aft, and there is plenty of room for a mate behind the fighting chair to keep it pointed in the right direction at all times.
This flying bridge layout is not fancy but time-tested and functional. Note there is plenty of real estate for several screens and the instrument panel is at a 45-degree angle, ideal for seeing the screens when standing or sitting. There is also seating in front of the console.
Steaming Speed
According to the folks at Cabo, the boat can go over 40 knots with the C-32 1675-hp Cats. That is the holy grail of many tournament fishermen. Pull her back to something more reasonable, say, 1600 rpms, and she goes around 28 knots, according to Cabo, giving her a range of about 475 n. miles. Cabo says she is on plane at 1200 rpms which will get her 550 n. miles at 14 knots. She carries 1400 gallons of fuel which means when you slow her down you can go a long way. For example, at 25 knots you can easily make it from St. Pete to Isla Mujeres, Mexico if you want to fish off Cozumel. That would probably be your longest distance between fuel stops in the whole Caribbean.
Note her deep, high deadrise forefoot, bow flair, chine flats and propeller pockets. Her DR is 16-degrees at the transom.
The Cabo 52 flying bridge model has the same hull as the Cabo 52 Express that has proven itself over the seasons. The hull has a Divinycell core with an E-glass layup schedule vacuum-bagged with vinylester resin. These are SOTA construction techniques and materials. E-glass and Divinycell, together with the resin infusion, assure that the glass to resin ratio is optimum. This is one of the reasons that the boat is lighter than some of her competitors. We like vinylester resin because it stops water migration to the core, and on the Cabo it is not just a skin coat to avoid blistering. The surface of her hull is ISO/NPG gel coat. Her warped bottom hull is relatively deep forward and has a 16-degrees deadrise at the transom. This is a nice compromise between a good ride in a head sea and speed when conditions allow.
Cabo has placed what appear to be ½-inch fiddles on the starboard and aft sides of the galley counter, but failed to do the same on the interior side. We'd call this a good start, now it needs to complete the job. Note the ample pantry space.
The main salon, dinette and galley are all pretty much the standard arrangement. The galley has two sinks and a four-burner cooktop which is a bit better than some boats we know of this size. Below, the master stateroom is to port and has an en suite head. Forward is the VIP stateroom which is nestled in the bow, and shares a head with the guest stateroom. Both heads are snug, but they both have separate shower stalls. Joinery work and cabinetry quality are what you will find on all of the Cabos no matter what the size.
This guest cabin is the most unique layout on the boat. The single bunk is alongside the hull and takes advantage of hull flare, and note that hanging lockers are below. The athawartship bunk is a double, something we've never seen in this class of boat.
She appears to have all of the accommodations and amenities of convertibles 5 feet longer, but with a smaller price tag. How does the Cabo 52 do it? First, while the boat has a 17'9" beam at the widest point, she is not as beamy on the waterline as most of her competitors. That saves weight, but it also reduces the interior volume. For example, the Hatteras 54 has a 17' 3" beam, but actually has more room below. Boats that are 25,000 to 30,000 lbs. heavier – as are many of her 54' competitors -- are also larger and you can often "feel" that weight inside the boat in added elbow room in cubic volume.Cabo cleverly uses its hull flare, and trims in the sides of its queen beds to create added accommodation space in a smaller footprint. She is a bit snug here and there, but we think Cabo has successfully squeezed in three staterooms, two heads and a rod locker below.
The master stateroom with en suite head is to port, has good storage and a large hanging locker.
Standard and Optional Equipment
As we look down the Cabo 52 Flybridge list of standard equipment a few things pop out at us as either unusual, or just plan something you ought to have no matter what boat you buy. Those things are—*Transom door with top gate. (Transom doors should open out, but a top gate will keep someone from breaking open the door if they fall on it.) *Electric priming pumps for the engines. *Trolling valves on the transmissions.*Engine-driven emergency bilge pump driven by one engine.*Glendenning Cablemaster with 50' of cable. (Upgrade to 100'.)*Arched stateroom and head doors.We are happy to report that in our opinion this boat does not need a lot of optional equipment. On our "needed" optional equipment list would be—*700 gpd watermaker. (Water capacity is only 200 gallons which is actually about the same or more than competitive boats – they all need watermakers.)*Black mask.*Hot and cold shower in the cockpit.*Spare 5-bladed props. (These props are expensive are usually not sitting around in stock, so you may lose valuable days if you don't have your own spares.)*Swim ladder.
The VIP stateroom is in the bow. Note the good use of bow flare space for the lockers port and starboard.
Power to the People
Probably the most important question a prospective buyer should ask about this boat is what engines to install. The C-32 1675-hp Cats are expensive. While we don't know how fast the C-18 1015-hp Cats will propel the Caboo 52 flybridge, we suspect that it would be plenty fast for us, say, 30-knots WOT and 25-knot cruise, as a guess. And, of course fuel consumption would be commensurately less. We have found that one of the biggest reasons why people go for the big engines is not because they want them, but because they are afraid that when they go to sell the boat if they don't have big engines it will be slow to move. That may be true, but as time goes on, we think that even aggressive tournament fishermen will realize that 10 knots more speed only gets you that 10 miles to the fishing grounds 5 minutes faster. The C-32s are a lot extra money for only five minutes extra fishing time.
Take her anywhere in the Caribbean and have fuel to spare.
The MSRP base price of the Cabo 52 Flybridge convertible is $1,622,200 with the C-18s. That is not a bad price for a boat so equipped.We don't know what the base price of the 52 is with C-32s, but MarineMax's office in Coconut Grove, Florida has one for sale listed at $2,241,455 with tower and other options. And she is the only Cabo 52 Flybridge that we know of that is available.For more information, contact the Coconut Grove MarineMax office at 305-856-5830, or go to the Cabo website…
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Hello everyone, thank you so much for having a look in here at this very busy time of year! I hope you have survived the first part of the festive season!
Let me start by wishing you all the very best for 2014!!! I hope you will have the most amazing creative year and that you will get closer to realizing your dreams!
I have several aims and dreams for the world in general of course, but also for my creative journey, one of them being to journal more regularly. So what better start than to create a cover for a brand new journal.
One of the things I love about Spellbinder dies is that they can be used in so many different ways, and for this project I chose to use them to add dimension to my Mixed Media cover.
These were the dies and other products I used:
Radiant Rectangles
Grateful Lattice
Persian Motifs
Tattered Blossoms (Heartfelt Creations)
Font One Uppercase
Fantastic Flourish 1
Medallion 6
Les Papillions
I realize this is a lot of different dies, but these could be substituted for any other ones you might have in your collection.
Other products:
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Embellishments and other products:
Molding paste, Gesso, Muli Medium (Matte), Crackle Medium, Embossing Powders, Treasure Gold gilding paste, Walnut Stain (Tsukineko), Some background stamps, script stencil, paper flower, selection of cogs, little key charms, some bits of lace,Derwent Pastel Pencil.
First I cut a piece if 7 x 9" mount board to form the actual cover of my journal.
Next I used my Grateful Lattice die and made it into a stencil, by cutting it out of an old cereal packet.
Here are some further close up photos still of different parts
Well, here is the finished piece and I hope you have enjoyed my little mixed media step by step.
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Jeremy Bulloch, the actor who portrayed the infamous Boba Fett in both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, took some time to discuss the fan-favorite character with us. The Star Wars saga finally makes its way to Blu-ray in September and while Bulloch has not seen the Blu-ray edition yet, he is excited to see the franchise continue to adapt to new technology.
With a rare opportunity to talk Star Wars with an original cast member, we jumped right into what makes Boba Fett tick. Recent discussions of a possible Boba Fett spin-off have re-ignited interest in the character whose popularity didn't die with his memorable fall into the Sarlacc pit. Bulloch had some fascinating things to say about the character he brought to life, including thoughts on Robot Chicken's alternative look at the bounty hunter.
Speaking with Bulloch reminds us that some characters can define an actor's entire career. While he has made a name for both on stage and in front of the camera, Bulloch has embraced his iconic status as the original Boba Fett and hopes that the integrity of the character stays intact through years to come. Read our brief interview with Bulloch below and check out what he had to say about the spin-off, Robot Chicken, Boba Fett's history and why it is important to keep the mask on at all times.
Screen Rant: First of all, thank you for the character of Boba Fett and everything you brought to that character. Obviously it has stood the test of time and people love him.
Jeremy Bulloch: Well, at the time I was working in the theater at nights as well as working on the film during the day. I think I was very lucky because a lot film companies won't allow you to be doing something else as well. In the evenings, with the proper theater work and talking non-stop for two and half hours, to then come in and be filming in the morning hardly uttering a word, so it's quite a nice rest before going into the theater.
SR: I imagine working multiple projects is difficult, but you didn't have any trouble combining the two?
Bulloch: No. In theater I was doing a very fast comedy thing. In a way I think it helped because you could calm down completely during the day, thinking well I've got the theater tonight - just stand absolutely still. And it was then I start wondering what is going on in his mind, so you start thinking about it and he is just waiting.
SR: So what did you bring to the character?
Bulloch: You were given direction from Irvin Kershner and George had set him up as a bounty hunter and he's going to capture Han Solo briefly. But from day to day you didn't exactly know what you were going to do and it was nice to think, well, the outfit is terrific and if I am to look quite menacing here, but for me it was a wonderful chance for me to be in [The Empire Strikes Back]. And who knows, will it be integral to A New Hope or will it be better? In the end I think [The Empire Strikes Back] was slightly better than A New Hope.
SR: A lot of films like this keep the character destinies from even the actors playing them. Did you know that your character would suffer a pretty memorable fate?
Bulloch: No, I didn't know anything at all. You suddenly think to yourself, well that's showbiz. At least when I was told you were doing Return of the Jedi, they were asking for me back so it couldn't be all that bad. But you know, I think it was probably a little bit too quick in getting rid of him. But as I said earlier, sometimes it works out where the character becomes quite popular and a discussion for them can happen. People will say, "Hey did you see the way Boba Fett got snuffed, that was terrible. Why did George do it?" And in a way I think it's quite clever that they got rid of him and it kept everyone talking about him.
SR: Now we have heard rumors of a potential Boba Fett spin-off. What do you say to that?
Bulloch: I've heard about it, and of course the first thing that people say is, "Will you be Boba Fett?" Well, I very much doubt it. I'm getting on a bit now, but still very fit. It would be lovely to have a cameo role, just without showing your face, just nodding your head and saying you need to talk to me because I know all about Boba Fett. That would be nice. The first thing I would say is that whoever wears the costume, make sure it is lighter than the one I had.
SR: Have you seen the Robot Chicken parodies by any chance?
Bulloch: Oh, yes. The Robot Chicken really made me laugh. That's fantastic. It's incredible the amount of toys that were made and beautiful stuff, statues and pictures and I've collected a few bits and pieces. I think it's incredible what this character has created. They've made an ice cream about Boba Fett.
SR: Do you see him as a villain or just a man doing his job?
Bulloch: No, I think you are right. He is a man doing his job and doing it very well. He'll shoot you if you try something silly. He'll get at you and that's the end of you and he will carry on. I've said this before, but I believe somewhere along the line, he worked with Han Solo and something went wrong. I think probably they flew together and Boba Fett decided to go his own way.
SR: Right now we are seeing a ton of superheroes who have masks to cover their identity. Could you even call Boba Fett a superhero or super-villain to some extent?
Bulloch: In a way I can call him a superhero. I used to notice in wrestling some of the guys would wear masks to hide their identity. They don't want to be seen resting. Boba Fett doesn't want to be seen going to a McDonald's.
SR: How do you feel about the prequels and the direction they took with Boba Fett's backstory?
Bulloch: I think it's good that now people know who Boba Fett is. I think it would be nice that you never see his face. Keep the mask on after being a young kid. Something happened that he keeps his mask over his face, so there's a mystery surrounding him all the time. I think that's good just to keep. What's under the mask? What's going on?
While this interview was set in motion thanks to the upcoming release of the Star Wars Blu-ray, Bulloch had not seen the Blu-ray, nor considered himself familiar with the technology. For those of you still interested in what the Blu-ray edition has to offer, it will be a huge home video event. Never-before-seen deleted scenes and other featurettes will be included that should enhance the decades-long legend that Star Wars has established.
Share your favorite memories about Boba Fett and what you would like to see in any future exploration of the character on-screen.
The Star Wars Blu-ray releases in America on September 16th.
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GOP Pushing Mandatory Invasive Ultrasound Legislation in Pennsylvania Too
Virginia isn't the only state in which Republicans are trying to pass vicious slut-shaming mandatory ultrasound laws, of course; the GOP is also pushing this misogynistic legislation in Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, and now Pennsylvania.
A bill that would require women to have an ultrasound at least 24 hours before an abortion, passed through the Pennsylvania House Health Committee earlier this month.
House Bill 1077, sponsored by State Rep. Kathy Rapp, R-District 65, would also require doctors performing the ultrasounds to position the screen so that the patient can easily see the full image.
It would also provide women with ultrasound images in sealed envelopes, one to keep and one to provide to the doctor performing the abortion.
Maria Gallagher, the legislative director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, called the bill a "victory for patients' rights." …
"It's essentially an attempt to shame women into not having an abortion," said Andy Hoover, legislative director for the ACLU of Pennsylvania.
Hoover said the bill falsely suggests that women aren't capable of making informed decisions of their own.
"This legislation brings the government into a place where it does not belong," Hoover said. "Into an exam room, into a doctor's office where a doctor is consulting with a patient. And it's cruel to women, quite frankly."