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Schuster, PBS, WGBH reporting on slavery
Joint efforts commemorate the past, recognize the millions currently enslaved
Although President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery 150 years ago, reporting by the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and others provides examples of how slavery persists today.
As part of its Human Trafficking & Modern-Day Slavery Project, the institute has joined WGBH Boston Public Radio and PBS's American Experience in examining slavery in history and the present day.
The three organizations are jointly commemorating past efforts to eradicate slavery while also recognizing that more than 20 million people are enslaved today, according to the International Labor Organization. In particular, the Schuster Institute is highlighting the crucial role journalists have played in informing the public about slavery in both 19th century America and the 21st century global economy.
The collaboration includes three projects: WGBH Boston Public Radio's "Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok," an eight-part broadcast, in which Schuster Institute senior fellow and WGBH senior reporter Phillip Martin will trace human trafficking routes from East Asia to the American Northeast; PBS's "The Abolitionists," chronicling five abolitionists and their efforts to turn a "despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation;" and the Schuster Institute's "Investigating Slavery Now and Then," a companion website that features the institute's reporting and resources on modern-day slavery, and emphasizes the role that past and contemporary journalists have played in exposing this issue. The WGBH series began Jan 8 and is running Tuesdays and Thursdays through the end of January.
The Schuster Institute's project includes essays by journalists and authors who have documented anti-slavery movements of the past and present, reporting on slavery today across the globe -- including previous Schuster Institute cross-border investigations -- and additional resources to contextualize the WGBH and PBS series.
"Most people today do not realize that slavery still exists. They believe that it ended with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and that it can be relegated to the past," says Florence Graves, founding director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. "Just as journalists were crucial in inciting public conversation about slavery in the 19th century, they now play an important role in uncovering and widely exposing the fact that slavery exists today.
"Unless journalists shine a light on this issue," Graves says, "the public and policymakers will remain ignorant about slavery's presence in our global economy and how close we may be to slavery — from living down the street from a massage parlors serving as fronts for a human trafficking ring, to eating food harvested or wearing clothes sewn by slaves."
The institute's section on "The Role of Journalists in Exposing Slavery" features authors Adam Hochschild and Brooke Kroeger, who make the case for human rights journalism and undercover reporting in exposing slavery. Kroeger, a Schuster Institute Senior Fellow and New York University journalism professor, is the author of "Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception." She brings together a unique database of groundbreaking journalism by undercover reporters totaling more than 2,000 published pieces and including the work of journalists who have exposed slavery from the 1840s to the present, from Horace Greeley's New York Tribune to NBC's Dateline.
The institute's ongoing Modern-day Slavery and Human Trafficking Reporting Project is devoted to exposing instances of modern-day slavery throughout the world—and connecting Western audiences to this often hidden crime. Schuster Institute journalists have reported on slavery in the New Zealand fishing industry and how slave-caught seafood enters American grocery stores and restaurants, sex trafficking rings in Boston and the Northeast, and the U.S. State Department's successes and limitations in fighting slavery worldwide, among other topics. The project was launched in 2010 with a grant from founding benefactors Elaine and Gerald Schuster.
Brandeis undergraduate research assistants were integral to these investigations, providing support for "Investigating Slavery Now & Then" as well as conducting research for Martin's research for the WGBH series.
"It is so important to have students learn firsthand how to investigate a complex story—and how much attention to detail and determined pursuit of information goes into a project like this," says Sophie Elsner, research editor at the Schuster Institute, who supervises the student workers. "Many students have told me that before working at the Schuster Institute, they had no idea that human trafficking existed, and now they have a deep understanding of this issue."
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Pintura is a REST-style web framework that utilizes a layered approach to application development that facilitates straightforward, well-designed rich internet applications. Pintura forms the core web framework for Persevere 2.0, and consists of a powerful data modeling and persistence framework called Perstore, in combination with a REST-style web framework. You can read more about the goals and principles behind Pintura, but here we will look at how to get started writing applications.
Pintura-based applications normally consist of server-side data models with three layers: data stores, store models, and model facets. On top of this, different representation handlers (for serializing data to different formats) can be defined, but Pintura comes with a good set of these (including JSON, JavaScript, multipart, and Atom), so usually that is not necessary. This provides a well-structured separation of concerns, distinguishing storage configuration (data stores), core data logic (models), varying capabilities of access to the data (facets), and data serialization (representations). Perhaps the easiest way to understand this approach to take a look at an example application.
Naturally we need to install Pintura first. Pintura is JavaScript based and can run on Node and Rhino (via RingoJS). The Pintura installation process is described here.
A basic Pintura application is very easy to create. The quickest way to get started is to install the Persevere example wiki, and start making changes. With this example as a template, we can start by editing the app.js:
var fullModel = {
MyData: Model({}),
Once we start up our server for this application, we now have the full Persevere HTTP/REST interface for creating, querying, updating, and deleting objects from the MyTable model. We have everything we need on the server to write a web client application, which can utilize REST methods like GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE, (as well as JSON-RPC) to interact with the server model class to store and query data. We get an enormous amount of functionality for free, including cross-site capabilities (JSONP, and CORS support), cross-site request forgery protection, authentication, conditional request handling, and more.
However, most applications will require more server-side logic than simply a generic data store. Generally, application code will be written as model and facet definitions using Persevere's persistence framework, Perstore. With this framework, we can define handlers for different aspects of the object's interaction and lifecycle, such as
put, and
delete handlers. We can define data integrity contracts by adding JSON schema constraints. We can define additional methods for the model as well as methods for the persisted object instances (by defining methods on the model prototype), once again using the same structure as the first version of Persevere. For example, we could easily add a new method on object instances:
MyData: Model({
prototype: {
addFriend: function(friend){
Pintura comes with an example wiki, we will examine how it is constructed to see how we can further understand what it looks like to build an application with Pintura. The example wiki is found in the example folder in the Pintura distribution, and we will break out the various parts and how they fit together.
We will start by looking at the
app.js file found in the
example/lib directory. This is the entry module which loads the other modules, starting from a user perspective, first defining the application-specific resource representations and user access levels. This module also defines a set of facets for accessing data, for the different sets of users. For each user, a set of facets is returned and the facet provides the capability through which the user can access the application data. We can then drill down into
facet/page.js module, which defines how the underlying model class can be accessed through each facet. The
model/page.js defines the core application logic which in turn accesses the data store that provides the low-level interaction with the underlying storage medium.
Let's look more closely at each of the levels, starting at the bottom with the store. A data store is the basic entity which allows for RESTful interaction with a storage system. Storage systems can be relational SQL-based databases, document based databases, OS files, remote servers, and so on. The object store API basically follows the W3C Indexed Database API for an object store. The Perstore framework comes with a variety of data store implementations, including a MongoDB store, and a JavaScript/JSON file-based data store. Creating your own store is possible, it essentially involves implementing
put(object, id),
query(query), and
delete(id) functions (and optionally
transaction, and
subscribe for additional functionality). In our example application, we don't define any special stores, we will simply use the default store, which out of the box is the
perstore/store/memory module, an object store which stores records in memory and saves them into a JavaScript/JSON file.
The object store API is not only used at the bottom storage level in Pintura, but the model class and facets also follow the same API for consistency; classes and facets are simply wrappers that expose the same store API, adding their own functionality and/or constraining operations. Model classes act as the gateway to stores, providing the central core logic of the application. Any application data logic that should be enforced for all users should be implemented here. Models do not need to implement the entire store API themselves. Any store method that is not implemented simply passes through the underlying object store. An empty class is perfectly valid, and would result in all REST actions being passed through to the object store. In
model/page.js, we can see the
put handler is implemented to add a lastModifiedBy property and create a new PageChange instance:
exports.Page = Model(pageStore, {
put: function(object, id){
object.lastModifiedBy = auth.currentUser.username;
We can also define the prototype for this class, which allows us to create methods that are available on all instances of the class.
At the next layer up, we have the set of facets used to access the Page class. Facets are defined in a similar way to model classes, they follow the store API, wrapping a class, and only methods with specific logic need to be implemented. There are two primary types of facets, restrictive and permissive facets. These differ in how they handle unimplemented methods. A permissive facet will default to passing all actions through to the underlying class. A restrictive facet defaults to only passing retrieval actions (
get and
query) through, methods have to be explicitly implemented to interact with the class.
facet/page.js we see three facets defined to accommodate different groups of users. The public facet is defined to be restrictive, essentially making the objects read-only for public users. The public facet also defines the query method so that only published pages are accessible. The user facet and admin facet are permissive, allowing all actions on the pages. All of these facets control access to the model class, and in fact, model classes are simply a special permissive facet that applies to data stores.
Continuing back up the stack, the access module can now be understood as the initial logic that determines which facets are available for the authenticated user, so their access is properly controlled.
The initial
lib/app.js file also defines the custom media module used for generating the HTML for pages. Pintura comes with a good selection of media handlers out of the box; the JavaScript and JSON handlers are the primary use case handlers, allowing objects to easily be accessed through XHR by Ajax applications. Pintura is designed first and foremost for Ajax applications, so normally these will be used most frequently. However, we need a specific HTML handler in this case so that pages can be directly generated as HTML for easy indexing by search engines.
Media handlers are simple to implement. In the
media/wiki-html.js handler we can just define the media type, the quality of the media type (for content negotiation), and the serializer. Bi-direction media handlers can also implement a deserialize method (for handling PUT and POST requests), but this isn't needed for our Wiki, all updates to pages will be done through JSON-based XHR requests. The Wiki HTML handler simply uses the the wiky package to do the transformation of markup to HTML for us.
By default, Pintura does all the HTTP request handling for you, handling cross-site issues, authentication, transaction management, and converting requests to calls to facets and model classes. However, Pintura is highly modular, actually consisting of about 13 modular middleware components, many of which can be used on their own. With these set of modules, one can easily create new HTTP request handling stacks, or reuse individual modules for handling other requests. To see the Pintura stack, you can open up
lib/pintura.js, and easily see the different middleware modules that come together in Pintura (this file also lists the set of media type handlers that Pintura registers by default).
The Pintura application stack is defined as the request handler in
index.js. With these startup files we can define our own additional request handling logic, and still defer store related requests to the Pintura handler. This application definition defines static file handlers to simplify development. For the example application, we also created a very simple JSGI middleware module
jsgi/redirect-root that will check for requests to the root path, and redirect to a specific "root" wiki page. This middleware wraps the pintura.app request handler, handling the root path, and delegating all other requests to Pintura.
The example wiki gives us a good starting point for beginning to build with Pintura. Much of the persistence, model and facet APIs are defined at the Perstore project page. In the next article in this series, we will look at some more examples of how to leverage the persistence framework and its various stores.
Pintura provides the complete web client-server REST functionality of Persevere combined with a simple, modular, JavaScript-based, facet-oriented architecture, for easy to build to JavaScript applications, with end-to-end consistency, and flexible control and security.
Other posts in the series
- CommonJS/JSGI: The Emerging JavaScript Application Server Platform
- Nodules: Better Module/Package Handling for Node.js
- Introducing Pintura
- Getting Started With Pintura
- Promised-IO
- Patr: Promise-based Asynchronous Test Runner
- Pintura JSGI Modules
- Run-Anywhere JavaScript Modules Boilerplate Code
- CommonJS Utilities
- Object Capability Model and Facets in Persevere
- Real-time Comet Applications on Node with Tunguska
- Multi-node: Concurrent NodeJS HTTP Server

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Winstrol is the popular brand name for the anabolic steroid Stanozolol. It is technically classified as an anabolic steroid, shown to exhibit a slightly greater tendency for muscle growth than androgenic activity in early studies. Stanozolol provides quality muscle growth. The anabolic properties of this substance are still mild in comparison to many stronger compounds. Winstrol is known as a reliable muscle builder.
Since Stanozolol is not capable of converting into estrogen, an anti-estrogen is not necessary when using this steroid, gynecomastia is not a concern even among the most sensitive individuals. Since estrogen is also the cause of water retention, instead of bulk look, Winstrol produces a lean, quality look with no fear of excess subcutaneous fluid retention. This makes it a great steroid to use during cutting cycles, when water and fat retention are a major concern. It is also very popular among athletes in combination strength/speed sports such as Track and Field.
Although less common, there is still a possibility of liver damage occurring with the injectable form. While it does not enter the body through the liver, it is still broken down by it, providing a lower (but more continuous) level of stress. Such stress would of course be increased with the addition of other c17-AA oral compounds to a cycle of Winstrol.
When using such combinations, cautious users would make every effort to limit the length of the cycle (preferably 6 to 8 weeks) and take some form of liver protectants. It should also be noted that both versions of Winstrol have been linked to strong adverse changes in HDL/LDL cholesterol levels.
This side effect is common with anabolic steroid therapy, and obviously can become a health concern as the dose/duration of intake increase above normal. The oral version should have a greater impact on cholesterol values than the injectable due to the method of administration, and may therefore be the worse choice of the two for those concerned and this side effect.
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Enkaustikos Wax Snaps Encaustic Paints
Enkaustikos Wax Snaps Encaustic Paints have the same formula as Enkaustikos Hot Cakes in a versatile, easy-to-use shape. Just snap off what you need and use at full strength for direct painting, drawing, printmaking, and more! They're perfect for small projects, workshops, and for refilling Hot Cakes tins. Artist-quality colors are made from the most beautiful pigments, the finest damar resin, and United States Pharmaceutical Grade (USP) beeswax. They contain no bleach or synthetic adulterants. Plus, because they're solvent-free, they require no turpentine or mineral spirits for cleanup. Enkaustikos Wax Snaps are so concentrated they can be diluted with Enkaustikos Wax Medium or XD Wax Medium to create thinner washes of color. Each snap is 40 ml and measures 1-3/8" × 4-1/2" (35 mm × 114 mm).


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Transit Agency Engages Students Across the Region to Promote Safety
Mount Prospect, Ill. – Winners have been chosen in the 2013 edition of Metra's Safety Poster and Essay Contest, designed to promote and reinforce railroad safety messages and keep children safe around trains. Hundreds of students from across the six-county region participated by creating artwork or writing essays around the theme "Take Care, Be Aware, Look Listen Live."
Each year, Metra's Safety Contest invites students in grades K-12 throughout its six-county service area to submit poster designs and essays highlighting the importance of railroad safety. Tasked with selecting the winners were a panel of 20 judges, including government officials, representatives from safety and education advocacy groups, business and community leaders, media and railroad professionals.
"Safety is Metra's highest priority and this contest allows us to bring the discussion of rail safety into our region's classrooms so that we educate our future riders as well as our current riders," said Metra Deputy Executive Director Alex Z. Wiggins. "We could not be more proud of the contributions made by these students to our mission to promote the importance of safety near our trains and tracks."
First-, second- and third-place winners were chosen from each grade level for the Metra Safety Poster Contest. One winner from each grade group – elementary school, middle school and high school – was chosen for the Safety Essay Contest. First-place poster and essay contest winners receive an iPad, while second- and third-place poster contest winners receive $250 and $100 gift cards, respectively.
A People's Choice winner will also be selected via voting on Metra's website www.metrarail.com/2013postercontest . The winner will be selected from the first prize winners through an online poll. Voting will be available online beginning Wednesday, July 17 through midnight August 5 and is open to the public. The artist who garners the most votes will receive an additional $250 prize. The winner will be announced at the August meeting of the Metra Board.
Metra also recognizes the school with the most entries submitted in the poster contest. This year's winner is Chicago' Mozart Elementary. The school will receive a computer for use in the classroom.
The first-place poster designs will be printed and distributed to more than 2,000 schools in northeast Illinois. The posters will also be featured in station displays, in Metra's 2014 safety calendar, on monthly tickets and on the Metra website. Winning safety essays will also be featured in the safety calendar, the Metra website and Facebook page. The second and third place posters will also be featured on the contest's Facebook page.
The contest, which is in its seventh year, would not be possible without the support of its sponsors, whose generous contributions have helped Metra defray the costs of the contest prizes as well as the production of the safety posters. This year's contest sponsors include the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad and Hubbard Radio Group, owners of Chicago radio stations 97.1 FM The Drive, 100.3 Chicago's Rewind and 101.9 The Mix.
To date, campaign outreach efforts include the distribution of more than 300,000 safety posters and 12,000 Metra Safety Calendars and more than two million pencil kits to schools throughout the region.
Information about the campaign, along with all of the Safety Contest winners, is available at www.metrarail.com and www.facebook.com/MetraContest.
The following Mount Prospect student was chosen as a 2012-2013 Safety Poster Contest third-place winner:
• Julie Kupperman, Seventh Grade, Lincoln Middle School, Mt. Prospect, Ill.


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Sauna is a sort of bathroom or building made for a special purpose of the steam bath. The steam bath is the main activity of a Sauna Bath. Sauna causes sweating which gives many health benefits. Sauna detoxifies the body and promotes immunity of the body. However, Saunas should be avoided by blood pressure patients.
Currently, steam baths or saunas are used all over the world. Till recently, saunas were generally commercial, but now so many people prefer to install the saunas for their residences for personal use, which shows the increasing popularity of the Saunas. And also they prefer to install the best sauna heaters in their pre-installed bathrooms.
Although outdoor saunas are also employed, yet Indoor Saunas are more popular. If you build your personal/residential sauna, build it near your bathroom, this will be more convenient to use both facilities. But you have to make sure before installing the electric sauna heater in your sauna that the floor is plain and proper electricity supply of 120 V. or 240 V. is available for sauna installation.
Commercial Saunas:
If you are going to build a commercial Sauna, then before investment, you may consider all its business aspects, although Sauna installation does not involve higher investment. Most of the gyms and health clubs have sauna installation in their business establishments.
Sauna Heaters:
It should be known well that the sauna heater and stoves can be bought in Gas, wood burning or electric sauna heater. But since this is a consumer society, Electricity and gas are preferred fuels for the saunas. Recently Infra-red saunas are also available in the market. But they need more precautions in their use. Choose freestanding heaters mounted on the floor if you plan to build a larger sauna bath; otherwise compact saunas mounted on walls are installed in average sauna installments. 110 Volts electric current is sufficient for them. They are meant for 1 to 3 persons. For larger sauna heaters ignited with 220 V. are required. Their size may vary from 2 KW to 18 KW. For a space of every 45 to 50 cubic feet, One KW electric energy for its heater is required.
Sauna Installation is not a costly affair. Radium Sauna for 4 persons costs from US$ 3300 to US$ 7000 which is a moderate amount as per USA standards or even as per standards of other countries of the world.
Saunas in hot countries and regions:
You will be glad to know that Saunas are also used even in hot countries including the countries of South Asia. However, Sauna bath is generally in more demand in cool countries.
Infrared saunas versus traditional saunas:
Both of these types can have a few advantages as well as side effects. Persons with high blood pressures should avoid sauna bath. More care should be taken in the use of radiant saunas as they have infra-red rays, so more care in using them.


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Rangel takes on The New York Times
He may fear "death by a thousand cuts" — a stream of damning newspaper stories, private grumblings from Democratic colleagues, a pending ethics investigation — but insiders say House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel has no intention of giving up his powerful post.
To the contrary, the New York Democrat is launching a concerted counterattack against The New York Times, which reported last week that Rangel helped retain a multimillion-dollar tax loophole for an oil drilling company at the same time that the company's CEO was pledging $1 million to the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, is denying GOP charges that she has interfered with the House ethics committee's investigation into Rangel by promising that the panel's probe would be completed by the end of the 110th Congress.
Although Pelosi said last week that she'd received "assurances" that the committee would finish its investigation before Jan. 3, her office says she was referring to assurances from her own staff that the committee typically completes its investigations that quickly — and not to any inappropriate, inside communication she received from committee members themselves.
That Pelosi's office felt obliged to respond to the GOP complaints underscores the degree to which the continuing furor over Rangel — with new allegations of improprieties now surfacing regularly — has become a major problem for the speaker and her colleagues in the Democratic leadership. Republicans have tried to tie Democrats to Rangel, and some Democrats have begun to say privately that Rangel should step down in order to allow them to press ahead, undistracted and untainted, with President-elect Barack Obama's plans for dealing with the economy.
Rangel's ethics problems grew significantly worse last week after the Times reported that Rangel met on Feb. 12, 2007, with Eugene Isenberg, the CEO of oil drilling company Nabors Industries, about retaining a tax loophole worth millions of dollars to the company. On the same morning, the Times said, Rangel and Isenberg discussed Isenberg's $1 million pledge to the Rangel center.
Isenberg first made a $100,000 donation to the Rangel center in December 2006 and followed that up with another $100,000 on Feb. 7, 2007, according to the Times.
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Rangel has vehemently denied any link between Isenberg's donation and his committee's action — or even that he was aware of Isenberg's contribution, — and aides to Rangel have raised questions about the accuracy of the Times story. Rangel, however, has yet to fully explain why he met with Isenberg and his lobbyist, Ken Kies, on the same day as a committee markup. Neither Isenberg nor Kies, considered by many to be the top tax lobbyist in Washington, were available for comment on Monday.
Kies and Isenberg have never donated to any of Rangel's fundraising committees, although Kathleen Kies, Kies' wife, gave $4,000 to Rangel's reelection campaign on June 29, 2007, according to Federal Election Commission records.
On Monday, Rangel's aides said that the Ways and Means Committee in 2007 never considered eliminating the loophole that benefited Nabors. Thus, they say, Rangel could not have blocked the measure.
"The New York Times reporter repeatedly ignored facts and statements provided by tax policy experts that Chairman Rangel played no role in defending this tax loophole," said Matthew Beck, communications director for the Ways and Means Committee. "In fact, the Nabors Corp. was grandfathered into the benefit by those who negotiated the 2004 Republican Jobs Act, a group that did not include Chairman Rangel."


text: The stairs bookcase was cool, but this is an entire igloo-like bookcase structure that you can actually use as a miniature dwelling. In fact, this "Uroko House" is built around a bed, which makes it one hell of a place to sleep for any kid—whether they like to read or not. There are no written instructions on how to make your own, but the images in the gallery help illustrate the process. [Flickr via Freshome]


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Post up a pic of what you would like to see the new rally chassis dressed in.
Heres mine:
Ya can't polish fertilizer...
I really want an Impreza body. Preferably the newest 4-door body style so it matches whats in the driveway.
I will be happy with any Subby body but I would prefer the option of a non-WRC decal set.
Pay It Forward.
I would love to see a Suzuki Escudo body... It's just epic.
My Summit summits.
+1 ocd rc on the suby body but Id rather see a 05 STi, so it can match whats sitting in my driveway..lol
HaHa, Bomber I was going to say the same thing. Just sold My modded 02 wrx, but want an 05 sti to build now. The guy who tuned my 02 is in Alb. NM.
*Proud Husband of United state's Air Force wife.*
I would like it to be like
Lancia 037
Ford RS200 Evo
Simply the best. The beautiful Traxxas SRT and TCP
Ya got me, the rs200 would be as cool as the Escudo....
Ya can't polish fertilizer...
yeah those are cool cars..... but mines going to look like this after I drop a castle in it
Batmobile rally... interesting.
Ya can't polish fertilizer...
Depends how I am feeling, and depends how crazy the power is
With 3S power maybe something like Pikes Peak Escudo pictured above.
With less more controllable 2S power well I've always been a huge fan of the Renault 5 Turbo...
But that wouldn't work well with the Rally 4x4 chassis (RWD).
So perhaps a Lacia Delta HF Integrale:
Or an Escort Cosworth:
The options are so wide open its funny, a "LeCar" would be really cool! I think it would work in scale... The hood seems tall enough to accommodate the shock towers.
Ya can't polish fertilizer...
yeah im going to make a batman theme one and probably go with one of the ford rally cars but the wheel and tire combos are going to be insane!!!! mud, snow, gravel, asphalt.......this is going to be a cool machine!!! im looking forward to the LCG frame, hopefully we can take fast turns and not flip like the slash!!
I am thinking 1/8 buggy badlands would be a great all terrain spec tire. This car should not come with sct tires/rims
Ya can't polish fertilizer...
yeah i was going to see how my proline dirt hawgs do on it.........their amazing on my merv and its used as an all terrain vehicle....it will be a little loose on the dirt though
the escort cosworth would be cool
Audi Sport Quattro S1
Lancia Stratos
Peugeot 206 WRC
& video:
Alt-248 on the number pad = °
Fiat 500 Abarth! Old or new the Superbowl Commercial gets me everytime.
Weak Revenge
Strong Forgive
Intelligent Ignore
If the stratos body will clear the shock towers I am in... Only shame is that its not 4x4
Wonder rc4wd will produce some outrageously high priced scale vintage rally rims...
Ya can't polish fertilizer...
I'm too dumb to post pics but maybe some of the older guys will get a kick from this:
How bout an AMC Eagle?
Or better yet a Hornet? They were 4x4s LOL
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Summit, ERBE X2, 4pdes, 2pdes, etc lol
Ya can't polish fertilizer...
Okay, going with the Batmobile/movie theme I had to pick probably my all time favorite movie car. I will not post pics since I want to see how many of you have actually seen the movie. This body would be sweet on the rally chassis even though it isn't a rally car. Again, shock tower clearance could be an issue. Let's hear from everyone who has seen the movie.
Was an xl-5, now its vxl-ent!
Ewww. It's all SHEENY!
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^Good one ksb!!!
Was an xl-5, now its vxl-ent!
Forgot all about that movie. Cool idea dc!
And thanks much for editing my post ksb! I never saw one in my life without rust on it though haha
Summit, ERBE X2, 4pdes, 2pdes, etc lol
Oooooooh "The Wraith" car. How clean is that. LOL
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Is this going to be bigger than a 1/10 touring car? Can we use the 200mm and 190mm body's on them?
Its WAY bigger, its 297mm wide. It's really a 1/8 scale.
And there he goes with the carbon...
my slash will be converted as soon as parts are available.
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That is a good replica. What body is in the last pic, and what chassis is it designed for? Is it a 1/8 body???
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Length: 480mm
Width: 305-310mm
Wheelbase: 330mm
It's called a 1:8 vehicle.
1/10 Rally Dimensions
Length: 552mm
Track: 297mm
Wheelbase: 324mm
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That is sweet, a HUGE mini!
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I prefer the ford focus body. I believe koyosh drx nitro is a 1/9 scale. Would the 9th scale body fit on the Traxxas rally?
kyosho do a 1/8 scale and the bodies fit the slash 4x4 so they should fit the rally.
slash revo vxl x4 rally x2 ped 2wd slash vxl rus
With all the Rally and Slash hype we should see more bodies that fit the slash !!
Revo 5309 3.3 new But a work in progress !!
there is no argument or conversation about this - at all!! This is the original and ONLY Rally car!
ok, let the fun begin.....
Oh no you didnt go there!!! ^^^ Probably one of my most fav cars of all time!!!!
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The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence states: We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
The opening paragraph of the Constitution states: We the People of the United Stated, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
The "We" in The Declaration of Independence and Constitution are the government guaranteeing all the truths and rights mentioned, that all men and women are created equal under the law with certain unalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Guaranteeing those rights means that "we" share the responsibilities and risks. It means guaranteeing the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. But sadly, the 15th Amendment is not exercised by a larger segment of our population, endangering our freedom and putting our democracy at risk.
Guaranteeing equal opportunity for jobs, housing, health, education, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and every other aspect of citizenship in America is a shared right as is guaranteeing the right to worship in a manner of one's choosing and guaranteeing freedom of speech that gives individuals the right to express themselves without fear of reprisals from those who may disagree.
Guaranteeing the protection of the United States is the responsibility of the federal government and individual states that provide the common defense and the general welfare to all citizens.
We the People share this responsibility and the risk associated with protecting the Constitution. Guaranteeing justice is the responsibility of our judicial systems that assures that responsibilities and shared risk is equally applied.
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A dysfunctional government comprised by special interest groups that have compromised voting districts for their own benefit, aided by tremendous amounts of money at their disposal, serves only those special interests. When "We" subjugate our responsibilities to special interest, our truths and rights are at risk.
Many in our society advocate that they should not have to share equally in guaranteeing the Constitution yet they demand all the benefits. Those who disavow that responsibility put "We the People" at risk.
In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln reconfirmed that all are created equal, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
Guaranteeing that was upheld by a Civil War after the nation was put at risk by those opposing the Constitution for "We the People".
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The first half is going to be X1 through X4 which is great, but the second half... is X5 through X8. Meaning it's completely redundant save for X8 maybe. X5 is a huge disappointment, X6 is trash, and X7 is even worse.
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Jillian Gibbs '88, Founder and CEO of Advertising Production Resources
As the founder and chief executive of Advertising Production Resources, Jillian Gibbs and her team oversee more than $1 billion in global advertising production for brands such as L'Oreal, PepsiCo, Walmart, and Microsoft. Getting there took several bold moves for the music performance major.
"Right out of college and after a six-month gig singing and dancing onboard cruise ships, I landed some work at advertising agencies as a temp," she says. Unilever hired her to be a telephone operator and then assistant to the head of its broadcast production.
After her boss and mentor retired, Gibbs, who was 25 at the time, pushed to take over his job. She was given the mammoth task of developing television and radio commercials and print and outdoor ads for all of Unilever's brands, which included Chesebrough-Ponds, Lever Brothers, Van den Bergh Foods, Ragu, and Lipton.
"I quickly realized that I was the only person at Unilever who had oversight across all five divisions and had visibility to all the content being produced," Gibbs says. "I started to leverage their resources to work smarter and more efficiently." She wondered if she could do the same thing elsewhere for other advertisers.
Nine years later, in 2000, Gibbs got her chance when she moved to Colorado. "I went knocking on the doors of the largest advertisers in Colorado," she says. Her boldness paid off: Coors signed on, and her company got its start.
Part of the challenge in building APR has been the nature of the business itself: "Most marketing departments and creative agencies work in silos and think only about the projects assigned to them," Gibbs says, but her approach has crossed boundaries. Gibbs has also expanded the consultancy's reach to European, Latin American, and Asian based advertisers and offers other ad production services, such as auditing and creating a database for tracking data and creating industry benchmarks.
A music education may not seem to have much crossover with launching an advertising consultancy, but for Gibbs, it's a natural pairing. "My degree in music performance helped me to excel in math, which is a big part of what I do today, and to speak to a crowd and engage them," she says. "Ithaca College prepared me with the tools I needed to be bold, take chances, and keep evolving to stay current."
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An abundance of home grown craftsmanship, bold print and a sophisticated, idiosyncratic use of layered colours and textures make up the essence of Caramel. The label was originally conceived to challenge traditional, limited perceptions of childrenswear and a strong, distinctive aesthetic of fresh silhouettes which balance the classic and contemporary quickly ensued. It's a design template that continues to thrive each season.Today there are 10 stores in 6 countries and Caramel is also sold through more than 100 independent retailers. Recent openings include Ukraine and Kuwait.Read more
Says Eva Karayiannis, "From the outset, I wanted to find a modern, distinctive style, which could be individual—yet at the same time was luxurious and understated. That, it seems to me, is the essence of caramel. Why shouldn't children's clothes be beautiful and tough-wearing at the same time? Why shouldn't they be luxurious, but also with a refined simplicity?
"It seemed to me children either had to wear mass-produced clothes, or expensive glitzy items which were often impractical or anachronistic or both—none of which is what childhood is really about."
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Leawood investigates possible stranger danger case
Man asked boys to see his dog outside grocery store
Leawood police said they're trying to find out whether an encounter between a man and a pair of boys outside a grocery store was innocent or an attempted abduction.
Police said a man approached the boys near a Price Chopper store at 135th Street and Mission Road and asked them if they wanted to see his dog, but the boys refused.
Investigators said they aren't sure whether the man had any criminal intention or just wanted to show the boys a dog.
Shoppers at the store said they were surprised to hear about the case, especially considering how close it was to nearby Mission Trail Elementary School.
"I feel this is pretty safe area of town and I'm surprised at that," said neighbor Mary Johnston.
Police said they don't have much information about the man, but they said he was in his 60s.
An email went out to parents at the Cure of Ars school near 94th Street and Mission Road telling them about the incident. The school did not return calls asking whether one of its students was involved.


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The Japanese are just so far ahead of us in their ability to turn seemingly innocent things into something naughty. First Hello Kitty, and now this. Our national pasttime has become a theme for their undergarments. I have some baseball glove conditioning oil, and I'm willing to help break it in.
Different lingerie sets are available for Japanese baseball teams Hanshin Tigers, and Rakuten Eagles. There's also a tremendously creative bra that commemorates horse racing, and I really can't say enough about the bras that are available just in time for World Cup soccer. What would it look like if they did a bra for the Lingerie Bowl?
Anyway, I can't argue with the results, and our hope our cultures can collaborate more often.
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I'm trying to tackle the problem step by step. What I am having trouble is where to start lol
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/* 63. Write a class encapsulating the concept of student grades on a test, assuming student grades are composed of a list of integers between 0 and 100. Write the following methods: ❑ A constructor with just one parameter, the number of stu- dents; all grades can be randomly generated ❑ Accessor, mutator, toString, and equals methods ❑ A method returning an array of the grades sorted in ascending order ❑ A method returning the highest grade ❑ A method returning the average grade ❑ A method returning the median grade (Hint: The median grade will be located in the middle of the sorted array of grades.) ❑ A method returning the mode (the grade that occurs most often) * * (Hint: Create an array of counters; count how many times each grade occurs; then pick the maximum in the array of counters; the array index is the mode.) Write a client class to test all the methods in your class. */ package natashaepperson_chapter_08_exercise_63; import java.util.Random; public class Student { //array random grades private int []grades; private String [] counters = { "How many times grade occurs", "Max Grade", }; //constructor with just one parameter, the number of students; all grades can be randomly generated public StudentGrades() { grades = new int[grade.lenght]; fillGrades(); } }


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With Mayhem, Windows Phone users can make a custom remote control for virtually anything
Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group has a little project going on that allows you to connect your Windows Phone to various services through a wide range of devices that includes your Windows Phone. The basic operation of the Mayhem project is creating and connecting a trigger reaction to a desired reaction.
For example, with Mayhem you can turn your Windows Phone into a remote control (using the Mayhem Remote app) for your computer to control a PowerPoint presentation or to control the playback controls for a video. Mayhem enables you to connect everything to everything else from the comfort of your Windows Phone, computer, Kinect, or even an Xbox controller.
Mayhem is open source, provided through the Outcurved Foundation, to allow developers and users to expand its capabilities. There's even a contest to see what creative add-ons can be developed for a chance to wing $3,000. You can find all the details on the Mayhem Contest here (submissions must be made by midnight PST on June 30th) at the Mayhem contest page.
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More than 100 live Christmas trees are on their way to military bases overseas after a number of Ohio growers donated trees and hundreds of volunteers packed handmade ornaments during Operation Evergreen.
More than 100 live Christmas trees are on their way to military bases overseas after a number of Ohio growers donated trees and hundreds of volunteers packed handmade ornaments during Operation Evergreen.
The trees were inspected at the Ohio Department of Agriculture headquarters in Reynoldsburg Nov. 13 before being shipped.
The pine scent of a blue spruce, white pine or Fraser fir sends hundreds of people out to tree farms all over Ohio each year, but soldiers stationed overseas rarely get a chance to enjoy that aroma, said Amy Galehouse, coordinator of Operation Evergreen and owner of Galehouse Tree Farms in Doylestown, Ohio.
"Our family lived overseas a long time ago and we know it is hard to be away from family at Christmas, so we wanted to send troops some Christmas cheer from home," she said.
Sponsored by the Ohio Christmas Tree Association, in partnership with the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Operation Evergreen has sent trees to troops stationed overseas since 1995.
Galehouse said 29 trees were sent the first year, but last year, the program sent 320 trees.
"The volume changes with the overseas command," she said. "We send them as a block donation, then military personnel distribute the trees among the units."
So how do you get a tree that's nearly 6 feet high and 4 feet wide tree into a shipping box?
"We usually send white pine or fir or some other variety that compresses well," Galehouse said. "We have automatic balers that can compress the tree to 12 inches across. We pack handmade ornaments around the trees, made by scout troops, schools and church groups."
She said 60 students from various schools in Doylestown, Granville, Akron, Bucyrus, Carroll and other communities helped to pack the ornaments into plastic bags.
"Some of the students also made cards and banners for the troops," she said. "The kids often put their school email addresses on the cards and usually get responses back from the troops -- and sometimes veterans come back and visit the schools."
Shipping the trees is not inexpensive, however. Shipping costs this year through UPS came to $130 per tree, or $14,600.
Galehouse said the organization has already collected a little more than half that through donations from area businesses and other organizations, but anyone else who wants to contribute may contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
She said Ohio's drought this year affected thousands of seedlings planted by tree farmers.
"We had to replant almost everything we planted last year," she said.
Seedlings run from 60 cents each to $3 each.
"We are one of the bigger tree farms, so we plant anywhere from 7,000 to 14,000 trees, but most growers plant in the 500 to 3,000 range," Galehouse said.
She said besides the extra expense for replanting, growers will be impacted by this year's drought 10 years from now, when the trees were supposed to be mature enough to sell.
"We usually have to try to counteract that loss by planting bigger seedlings, but that also costs more," she said.
She said the military absorbed shipping costs for Operation Evergreen until the end of 2004, when it was decided all donations had to be shipped by a commercial carrier. In 2005, FedEx and the Christmas Spirit Foundation included Operation Evergreen donations in their Trees for Troops shipping. This year, though, that offer came with stipulations: Shipping would be covered only if the organization decided to "lose" the name Operation Evergreen and consent to be assimilated into the Trees for Troops program.
Galehouse said the Ohio Christmas Trees Association's board of directors decided it would rather be a standalone program.
"The troops who receive the trees overseas very much appreciate the touch of home our Christmas trees provide," she said.


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In a 60 Minutes segment this evening, we learned modern slot machines are so well designed that addicts often think they're winning even when they're losing. Other users report disliking jackpots (i.e. "winning") because they slow down the action!
Gambling addiction is nothing new, of course, but the hook with tonight's segment was that modern-day slot machines are so well designed that they may be even more addictive than ever before.
In a series of interviews with recovering slot machine addicts, an MIT anthropologist and several government officials (casinos or gambling are allowed in 38 states), 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl found that slot machines' sounds, insane speeds and huge humber of simultaneous bets may have made the humble one-armed bandit into the perfect gambling machine. Perfect for the casinos, that is, which—whether deliberately or not is uncear—are raking in the cash courtesy the 2% to 3% of the U.S. population that simply cannot say "no" because of their addiction.
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The biggest story in the world is the comeback of the American consumer.
The unemployment rate is collapsing.
Housing starts are booming.
Confidence is on the rise.
Writing at The American Conservative, Scott Galupo states the crucial point about what this means for Mitt Romney, if he gets elected.
What this means is that, if he's elected, Romney may inherit an economy that, while far from ideal, has achieved escape velocity. President Obama, meanwhile, will have borne the brunt of the nastiest crisis since the Depression and still gotten the boot. One man's unjust legacy is another man's just deserts, however. Recall that George H.W. Bush passed on an already-recovered economy to his successor, Bill Clinton, who in turn passed on a recession to George W. Bush.
The narrative that will be pushed by corporate leaders and the media is already pre-written: With the switch to Romney, people will say, American corporate leaders finally got the confidence to invest, and so the economy took off.
And in fact, there's a good reason to think that corporate America IS on the verge of a ferocious investment comeback, since currently corporations are pessimistic and under-investing. But that under-investment won't be able to stand in the face of the consumer comeback, which is the most powerful force in the global economy.
A reminder of how much corporate investment has slowed down is this year-over-year change chart in the 3-month average of core Capital Expenditures.
The idea that corporate confidence is the main problem in this economy is a complete myth.
But with consumers powering forward, and corporations inevitably caught in a place where they have to catch up, the timing could not be better for a Romney victory to "validate" that storyline.
As an aside, Zeke Miller at Buzzfeed reports that in the closing days of the campaign, Obama is going to start taking credit for the economic comeback, something he's never done before. The news is spreading: The US economy is on the mend.


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UPS To Hire 55,000 Seasonal Workers
NEW YORK -- UPS expects to deliver 527 million packages between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, surpassing last year's record high by 10 percent.
The world's largest package delivery company estimates 28 million of those will be delivered on Thursday, Dec. 20 -- projected to be the busiest day of the year. That's nearly double what the Atlanta company moves on an average day.
The busiest day of the year has moved close to Christmas because more Americans are ordering gifts online and using expedited shipping. Most packages will arrive within three days. Last-minute shoppers who ship packages by Friday, Dec. 21, can get their goods by Christmas Eve via next-day air.
To handle the big jump in package volume, UPS plans to hire 55,000 seasonal workers to sort, load and deliver packages, the same number that it hired last year, but 10 percent higher than in 2010.
UPS' smaller rival, FedEx, expects to handle 280 million shipments between Thanksgiving and Christmas, up 13 percent from the same stretch last year.
More:Seasonal Jobs: Top Companies Hiring For The Holidays
On FedEx's busiest day this year, projected to be Dec. 10, it forecasts that 19 million packages will move through its network, up 10 percent from 2011.
FedEx's busiest day is much earlier because its peak time shipments are comprised of fewer priority packages. The company is based in Memphis, Tenn.
Overall holiday sales are projected to rise 4.1 percent, according to The National Retail Federation. That would be the smallest increase since 2009, but still higher than the 10-year average of 3.5 percent.
But online holiday sales will grow 16.8 percent, excluding travel purchases, according to research firm eMarketer. Online shopping accounts for about $1 in every $10 spent over the holidays.
FedEx Corp. and UPS Inc. can benefit twice when consumers shop online: They ship the gift to the receiver, and they also ship the unwanted presents that are later returned.
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Bombs Test the U.S. Melting Pot's Mettle
Last week, the melting pot met the pressure-cooker bomb.
The Boston Marathon bombing, apparently carried out by brothers of Chechen/Russian origins, one a newly naturalized citizen and the other a legal immigrant, did more than shine a light on the phenomenon of homegrown terrorism.
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'Waiting Room' gets timing right
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar, it looks for the right film for the right time.
"It's a perception of the impact the film is making: Are people talking about the film? Is it a film of the moment?"
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So says filmmaker Peter Nicks, whose documentary, "The Waiting Room," which was named this week to the 15-film Oscar documentary feature shortlist. (In January, the Academy will reveal the final five nominees.)
Nicks, 44, knows a thing or two about how timing and filmmaking can often come together to produce great results. He began working on the documentary — which provides a behind-the-scenes look at the struggles of Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif., and uninsured patients — in 2007, but saw the completion of his project coincide with one of the year's biggest news stories: the Supreme Court's upholding of President Barack Obama's health care legislation.
"It's that mixture of timing and the quality of the film itself," Nicks told POLITICO. "I think in the grand scheme of things, a film like this is fairly well-positioned to get at least a really good look. It is a film of the moment. So, I think, in that sense, it's a bit like momentum. It's a lot like politics, actually."
"The serendipity has sort of fallen onto the film," adds Nicks, who lives in Piedmont, Calif., and whose résumé includes staff producer for ABC News and producer for PBS's "Life 360" series. In addition, he earned an Emmy for his work on PBS's "Blame Somebody Else." "The Waiting Room" is his first feature-length film.
The health care debate — and the cacophony of discussion it generated — provided an opening for his film and its look at how the health care system plays out for Americans.
"This was a moment when the conversation around health care reform was dominated by media pundits and politicians and people who have access to the megaphone. And the folks in these waiting rooms all around the country didn't really have access to that conversation and that's what really drove us in terms of the style in which we made the film. No talking heads. No graphics. No context other than allowing the audience to really experience what it's like to navigate the safety net system on one given day."


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Q: With so many choices, how do I choose a healthy cereal?
A: Trying to find the right cereal can be overwhelming, I agree. But here are three easy "rules" to help you narrow down the options:
1. Look for a whole grain (whole wheat, whole corn, oats, brown rice) as the first ingredient. The best choices are 100% whole grain.
2. Choose one that's a good source of fiber — at least 3 grams per serving.
3. Limit sugars to no more than 6 grams (that's 1 1/2 tsp.) per serving.
Check out some more healthy breakfasts that get you going.
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• How Do I Curb My Sugar Cravings?
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The TPS3779 and TPS3780 are a family of high-accuracy, two-channel voltage detectors with low-power and small solution size. The SENSE1 and SENSE2 inputs include hysteresis to reject brief glitches, ensuring stable output operation without false triggering. This family offers different factory-set hysteresis options of 0.5%, 1%, 5%, or 10%.
The TPS3779 and TPS3780 have adjustable SENSE inputs that can be configured by an external resistor divider. When the voltage at the SENSE1 or SENSE2 input goes below the falling threshold, OUT1 or OUT2 is driven low, respectively. When SENSE1 or SENSE2 rises above the rising threshold, OUT1 or OUT2 goes high, respectively.
The devices have a very low quiescent current of 2 µA (typical) and provide a precise, space-conscious solution for voltage detection suitable for low-power system-monitoring and portable applications. The TPS3779 and TPS3780 operate from 1.5 V to 6.5 V, over the –40°C to 125°C temperature range.
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Sky Heating and Air Conditioning has been in business since 1979 and services the Portland metropolitan area. We are looking for a maintenance technician with basic furnace and hand tool skills all the way up to a full service technician. We will provide some on the job training as to our policies and procedures. We offer retirement plans, health care, taking vehicles home and lots of time for education and paid training.
Our service department has been steadily growing and we currently can not keep up with the service demand, we currently have two full time service technicians and a few installers that will do service if installs are slow. We use ESC via iPhones for dispatching and have a full time service manager to assist you in your tasks. We have over 700 maintenance agreements with multiple peices of equipment to keep you busy. We start at 7:30AM and work til 4:00 PM, overtime is sometimes available and we pay SPIFF's for upsells.
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Shaun controls Agent 47 again causing mayhem and murders in tiki robes and chipmunk costumes.
Shaun becomes Agent 47 again and terrorizes the fictional town of Hope, SD.
Maxwell Mcbargains goes over the best deals of the week on The Lobby.
Common Sense Media survey finds majority of parents nationwide have issues with levels of violence in games.
Chris Watters takes a fond look back at the virtual firearms of 2012 in The Gun Show's Holiday Special.
GameSpot's Jonathan Toyad brings you to a musical tour of 2012's greatest in video game music.
Inject some Deus Ex into Hitman: Absolution with a shiny new Adam Jensen disguise for Agent 47.
Accidentally on purpose, a game guide to Agent 47's signature kills in Hitman: Absolution. Part one.
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Watch some gameplay examples from each game juxtaposed against one another to see for yourself if Absolution is an evolution from Blood Money.
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Agent 47 goes nun hunting in rural America.
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Don't mess with a mascot, they will stuff your body in a wooden box.
Agent 47 goes in guns blazing.
Kevin VanOrd wears all the disguises as he reviews Agent 47's return in Hitman: Absolution.
GameSpot's Aaron Sampson is joined by IO Interactive's Tore Blystad to show off some exclusive content for Hitman: Absolution!
Prepare to unleash your inner Agent 47--Hitman: Absolution is out next week.
This Hitman: Absolution video sheds some light on the little known facts about the original assassin and his craftsmanship.
Prepare to step into the shoes of Agent 47 in Hitman: Absolution.
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This video for Hitman: Absolution focuses on the composition and implementation of the in-game music.
The What if Machine is returning for another season of science-meets-video games goodness. Get a sneak peek of the topics Cam will be casting his bionic eye over this time.
Which disguise will you use to assassinate your targets?
Hitman: Absolution's Deluxe Professional Edition and all of its coolness gets unboxed in this video.
Learn more about the storytelling aspect in Hitman Absolution.
"Introducing the Art of the Kill" showcases the creative ways to take out targets in Hitman: Absolution.
Here's an 18-minute walkthrough video showcasing and explaining the new Contracts multiplayer-mode in Hitman: Absolution.
GameSpot Asia's Jonathan Toyad speaks with Hitman: Absolution's art director Roberto Marchesi about the game's art style and aesthetics, as well as some bits about Contracts mode.
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Keith Carradine takes on the role of the villainous Blake Dexter in Hitman: Absolution.
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The European Commission has opened negotiations with the US on the creation of a data protection agreement that would govern all data transfers between the EU and the US.
Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding told The Atlantic Council in Washington that the negotiation of separate deals on issues such as airline passenger name records (PNR) and financial data was not the best way to address privacy concerns.
"It is my determination to end this piecemeal approach. That is why, within my first few months in office in Brussels, I worked on a mandate to start negotiations with the US on an umbrella data protection agreement," Reding said. "The aim is clear: to provide legal certainty to data transfers by ensuring that all these transfers are subject to high standards of data protection on both sides of the Atlantic."
"EU Member States are currently discussing the fine print of the Commission's proposal before negotiations can officially start. This will be done swiftly and I am confident that the green light will be given in the coming months," she said.
Last week the European Parliament gave its approval to the latest framework within which US authorities can gain access to Europeans' banking details to aid their counter-terrorism police and intelligence operations. The Parliament had rejected previous proposals and has been more protective of Europeans' privacy than other EU governing bodies.
EU data protection law states that personal data must only leave Europe if it is protected as well as it would be within Europe. This can be done by other countries' data protection laws or by agreements about how specific information will be treated.
Reding said that she recognised that many data protection regulators and legislators are concerned about the US's generally less privacy-protective laws.
"Past negotiations on the transfer of passenger data or the more recent talks on the transfer of financial transaction data for the purposes of the [US anti-terrorism programme] have shown how difficult it is to find mutually acceptable standards and practice for the protection of personal data," said Reding.
"For years experts have been discussing the usefulness of having an international agreement between the European Union and the US based on high standards for the protection of personal data to prevent and prosecute crime," she said. "There were many talks but little political will. This has to change."
Reding said that the cultural differences between the approaches to personal data processing in the US and Europe had to be resolved.
"The EU and the US are both committed to the protection of personal data and privacy, even if our systems for doing so are not identical," she said. "Removing protection gaps and discrepancies between the two legal systems and thereby improving legal certainty and reaching a high level of protection for any individual are the goals for this new agreement."
Reding said that the proposed agreement on how to treat data transferred for criminal purposes would also help authorities to come to agreement on data swapping for other, non-criminal purposes. She said it could become an 'umbrella agreement' for all others.
"I want to negotiate a data protection agreement that contains all the necessary high level data protection standards, with obligations for data controllers and rights for data subjects, as well as mechanisms to ensure the application of those standards," said Reding. "This should become a complete self-contained set of rules. The US would feel the benefits immediately since high data protection standards would guarantee legal certainty and facilitate data transfers to and from the US much more easily than is currently possible."
Last week the European Parliament withdrew its objections to US processing of Europeans' banking data. The Parliament voted to approve a revised deal containing better privacy protections than one it rejected in February.
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BC: You have beautiful pearlised greens and iridescent peacock blues that come to the surface in slits. Round About Midnight looks that way: the painting begins to exfoliate.
JM: Well, Cy Twombly did the loops, Jackson Pollock did the drips with the latex spinning out like fishing lines. It all comes down to claiming a new surface. One profound revelation did come when I stood on the floor and threw the paint like Pollock. I was drinking fruit juice and some if it went on in a big glob. It was not attractive, so I grabbed the jar and I rolled over the glob and I ended up with a beautiful surface that I hadn't seen before. So I explored in that direction and came to the conclusion that everything - animal, vegetable and mineral - is muck under pressure. If you were to say, what does everything on earth have in common, it's muck under pressure. It sounds irreverent but it was quite a religious discovery. It was like a unification theory.
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[Lignes directrices européennes pour l'assurance de la qualité dans le dépistage du cancer colorectal]
The guidelines on colorectal cancer screening form the third and final set of three cancer screening guidelines on breast and cervical cancer published by the Commission to assist Member States in their screening and early detection programmes.
Today's publication provides the first ever set of uniform guidelines on all the steps necessary for effective population based colorectal cancer screening in the EU. By implementing them, Member States have the potential to organise their health systems more effectively, including the diagnosis and management of cancers detected in screening. There is good evidence that population-based screening using the EU-recommended test reduces mortality from colorectal cancer by around 15% in people of appropriate age (50 to 74 years) invited to attend screening.
The guidelines, coordinated for the Commission by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), were developed with the input of over 90 experts from 32 countries, and set a benchmark for best practice in colorectal cancer screening. Widespread application of the Guidelines should also make it easier for experts in the field to exchange information and experience across the EU. This is essential for innovation and continuous quality improvement of existing cancer screening programmes.


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Australia needs to rethink how it keeps sick, elderly people alive in hospitals and stop overtreating them at the end of their lives, the outgoing director of St Vincent's Hospital's Intensive Care Unit says.
Bob Wright, AM, a pioneer of intensive care medicine, said older patients are being treated more intensively and expensively than ever before and ''sometimes you wonder whether it's the right thing''.
Medical and legal experts have backed his call for greater discussion of the issue, warning that politicians and doctors are hamstrung by a system geared to save as many lives as possible.
New figures show over 65s are the most expensive age group to treat in intensive care, costing more than complicated neonatal cases.
Dr Wright, who retired recently from the position he held for 43 years, questioned whether it is worthwhile expending time, energy and money on elderly people who are beyond medical help.
''You can take someone who's young and dying and bring them back to life and then you've got someone who can live for another 40, 50, 60 years,'' he said.
He said elderly people who led active lives and were fit and healthy could still benefit greatly from intensive care, but there was a "spectrum" of doctors, patients and families who argued for vigorous treatment at the end of a life, even when the patient was ''irretrievable''.
Preliminary analysis provided to Fairfax Media by the NSW Department of Health shows it costs about $202 for every hour a person over 65 is in ICU, 71 per cent more than the cost of very young babies.
The number of people aged over 85 admitted to hospital surged 9 per cent a year in the five years to 2011-12, the most recent Australian Institute of Health and Welfare figures show.
University of NSW Professor of Intensive Care Ken Hillman said the issue was one of the most important facing the health system. "When we first established intensive care in the 1960s and 1970s we could keep people alive longer than we had previously, but … this gradual creep occurred, and we look at it now and think maybe this is something really perverse."
Professor Hillman said it was hard for politicians to talk about it because "everyone will say they are just doing it to save money". "If you think about the way that birthing changed in the '50s … The babyboomers need to change dying and death like they did with birth,'' he said.
Graeme Duke, an intensive care specialist at Box Hill Hospital in Melbourne, analysed data on more than 108,000 older Victorian patients and found ICU admissions for people aged over 80 rose more than 3 per cent a year over 12 years.
"I think it's probably related to better primary healthcare," he said. "This is a big quandary in modern healthcare: today's survivor may well be tomorrow's complex patient."
But he said he was surprised that his research, published this year in the Medical Journal of Australia, found that while people aged over 65 used an increasing proportion of ICU resources when they were admitted, their rate of admission was decreasing.
"It seemed to point towards … people getting better advice.''
In 2013 NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner launched the advanced care plan, which includes a website that provides information on how to plan medical care.
Ben White, director of the Health Law Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology, said some doctors were also hampered by legal concerns.
Australian Medical Association president Steve Hambleton said society needs to do a better job of end of life planning with the whole population. But he said that focus needs to steer away from cost of care, and placed on quality of life.


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Friendly volleyball tournament held in Gitega
Teams that participated in the tournament include New Dove, St. Teresa High School Mushasha Gitega, Bujumbura and Magarama Volleyball Club Gitega.
Gitega, the second city of Burundi, houses many secondary boarding schools and has long been the nursery of the country in the sport in general and volleyball in particular, according to Louis Rwakiranya, president of the Burundian Volleyball Federation.
Taking this opportunity, the Burundian Federation of Volleyball joined former national volleyball facilities in Gitega to distribute materials for the tournament, such as nets and balls.
Rwakiranya also expressed his desire to increase opportunities for youths to participate in volleyball.
As the Minister of Youth Sports and Culture, Rukenkanya Adolphethanked the club Bujumbura and FBVB for the initiative. He also announced to the public that this was the FBVB federation's most organized event and he congratulated the President.


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The Sounds feature serves as your iPhone's sound stage. This feature provides several sound options on your iPhone. It's where you can turn on or off audio alerts for a variety of functions: new voicemails, new text messages, new mail, sent mail, and calendar alerts. This is also where you set ringtones.
The Sounds feature has more options. You can decide whether you want to hear lock sounds and keyboard clicks. You can determine whether the iPhone should vibrate when you get a call. And you can drag the volume slider to determine how loud your ringer and alerts will be.
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Are newlyweds Bruce Willis and Emma Heming planning to have kids?
"Well you know anything is possible, anything is possible," the 54-year-old actor told Access Hollywood on Thursday night at the Hollywood premiere of his new movie, "Surrogates."
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"It has been suggested that we should begin breeding immediately," he continued, explaining that it's not his 31-year-old wife who is proposing they expand their family. "Other people who see us together… I think [they] do the math."
In August, Bruce told Access the future – including the possibility of having more kids (he has three daughers with ex-wife Demi Moore) – is wide open.
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What's this gizmo? Another ridiculous lens thing for bolting on the front of your phone to beef up that pitiful 2-megapixel camera? Actually, no: it's the CellScope, which turns a normal mobile phone -- in this case, a rather venerable Nokia N73 -- into a microscope. Limited access to microscopy in the developing world makes this a handy tool for diagnosing diseases like tuberculosis and malaria.
The CellScope works with handhelds and even netbooks. The really clever bit is that it wirelessly transmits patient data to clinical centres, allowing the patient to be evaluated remotely and treatment suggested. Developed by Daniel Fletcher, associate professor of bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, the device could also be used for home monitoring of patients in the developed world.
The CellScope is one of four winners of the Inspire Empower Challenge, announced at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. More than 200 ideas were proposed by developers -- ranging from individuals to NGOs to companies -- all tackling education, healthcare, environmental or economic problems in developing countries.
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