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Jamie Rees and the Crimson have tied their last two opponents (Gil Talbot).
The Game:
The Harvard men's soccer team will play its last away game this season, as the Crimson travels to Columbia for an Ivy League game Saturday, Nov. 5 at 4 p.m.
Harvard sits at 2-10-3 overall and 0-4-1 in the Ivy, while the Lions are 7-7-1 and 3-2 in the Ancient Eight.
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Live statistics will be available for Saturday's game.
The Matchup:
The Crimson leads the all-time series against Columbia, 35-21-5. Harvard's winning streak of five straight wins against the Lions dating back to Nov. 5, 2005 was snapped last year in a 1-0 loss at home on Nov. 6.
About Harvard:
Tim Schmoll, Jamie Rees, and Connor McCarthy all scored for Harvard in a come from behind 3-3 tie against a poised Colgate attack Nov. 1. McCarthy tied the game with just four seconds remaining in regulation to send the game into overtime.
Brian Rogers (2-0-4) and Obiajulu Agha (2-0-4) and Ross Friedman (four assists) are tied for the team lead in points, while Schmoll, Michael Innocenzi and Ivy League Rookie of the Week Hiroki Kobayashi have also found the back of the net recently this season.
Austin Harms and Brett Conrad have both started multiple games in net for the Crimson. Harms is 2-7-2 with two clean sheets and a 1.50 goals-against average, to go along with 43 saves. Conrad has recorded one shutout and made 10 saves. Conrad also owns a 1.07 goals-against mark.
Harvard is outshooting teams, 176-171, while opponents have an edge in corner kicks, 61-59, and goals, 22-11.
About Columbia:
The Lions come into this match earning a 3-2 mark in their last five games. In that span, Columbia earned victories against Princeton (2-1), Yale (1-0) and Adelphi (2-1). Currently, the Lions are just two points out of first place in the Ivy League.
Offensively, Columbia's top goal scorer, junior forward Will Stamatis has found the back of the net six times this season. Stamatis has scored three goals against Ivy opponents, which puts him tied for second in goals scored in conference play. Other contributors of the Columbia attack include Henning Sauerbier (4-3-11), Nick Scott (five assists) and captain Mike Mazzullo (four assists). The Lions attack has outshot opponents this season 164-134. Despite that, opponents still have outscored Columbia 19-15.
Seniors Alexander Aurrichio, Ronnie Shaban and Jesse Vella lead the Lions' defense this fall. Aurrichio has blocked 26 shots in 12 starts this season while Shaban and Vella are two of only three Lions that have started every game this season. Collectively, Columbia's defense has earned three shutouts this 2011 campaign with two of the clean sheets belonging to Aurrichio.
Extra Credit Hours:
Harvard is unbeaten in overtime this season, going 1-0-3. The Crimson defeated Massachusetts and earned ties against Santa Clara, Dartmouth and Colgate.
Pesky Freshman:
The Crimson's last three games have seen freshman Michael Innocenzi, Hiroki Kobayashi and Tim Schmoll score goals.
Moving Up:
With 182 career saves, Austin Harms now stands at fifth all-time in saves in program history. In addition, with 18 clean sheets in his career, the government concentration out of Corona del Mar, Calif., remains just one shutout away from tying Chris Johnson '06 (19) for the Harvard program record. Harms has two clean sheets this season after recording three as a junior, seven as a sophomore and six as a freshman.
Up Next:
Harvard will host Penn in the final game of the regular season at the Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium Saturday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. Prior to the game, seniors Michael Gomes, Tsiu Moorosi, Austin Harms, Tim Linden, Baba Omosegbon, Jamie Rees and Ben Tsuda will be honored in a pre-game ceremony.


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The past year of my life has been a frightening and extraordinary journey for me and my family. I would like to take this opportunity to share it with you now. For the past 28 years, I have been an employee of St. Tammany Parish Hospital. Beginning my career at STPH as a registered nurse, I became Chief Nursing Officer in 2000 and most recently in 2009… a patient.
In January of last year, after a routine mammogram at our Breast Center, I returned for a breast MRI on the recommendation of my radiologist and the MRI confirmed a small mass. The next step was a breast biopsy. To my dismay, the results revealed invasive lobular breast cancer. The cancer was at an early stage with a good prognosis for recovery and I soon began treatment which included three complex surgical procedures and a course of chemotherapy.
Following the devastating "you have cancer" phone call, I contacted the Hospital's Cancer Resource Center. In my opinion, knowledge is power and I wanted to know everything to prepare myself. I began a one-on-one session of "chemo school" with a nurse practitioner to help me prepare for the treatment, including the emotional trauma of losing my hair. Visits to our chemotherapy infusion suite were likewise reassuring and gave me a unique perspective on the work of our very specialized chemo nurses. When I had an adverse reaction during a chemotherapy session, they knew precisely and immediately what to do. I was in excellent hands.
Our Operating Room staff are "unsung heroes" for the special attention they gave me before, during and after each of my procedures. The surgical team's efforts to protect and preserve my dignity and keep my family informed provided me with a welcome sense of calm, as did the exemplary skills of the surgeons who performed my procedures. I completed the last chapter of treatment this summer with a number of final cosmetic steps to restore my body's appearance.
During my many months of treatment, I came in contact with so many caring and compassionate employees, physicians and volunteers. Nurses and nutritionists provided guidance on foods that could boost my well-being during and after those draining chemotherapy sessions. Genetic counseling at the Cancer Resource Center assured me that I do not carry a genetic marker which could put my daughter and son at an elevated risk of a similar diagnosis. It is not possible to tell you about all of these special people. But I will never forget them.
Until I was involved on a personal level as a patient, I could have never begun to understand the depth and breadth of the care given daily at STPH. We are so fortunate to have such excellent healthcare in St. Tammany Parish delivered right here, close to home. It was never necessary for me to go a long distance away from the unsurpassed support system of my caregivers, family and friends to obtain world-class cancer care. My journey is not over. I will continue to seek the expertise of our community caregivers as I support others with this diagnosis and funding for patient navigators to steer them through their journeys.
Will you please consider a tax-deductible gift to the St. Tammany Hospital Foundation? Our Hospital is a not-for-profit organization and receives no government or parish funding. Every gift from every individual is absolutely vital. Your gift will keep the hospital on the cutting edge of care, not only for breast cancer patients, but for all patients. Your support will allow you to rest easy, knowing that when a health crisis does come your way, the best care is always right here at home. Your donation can and will support continued growth at the Hospital.
As a member of the Hospital's senior leadership team, it is my pleasure to share with you some the exciting new developments designed to expand technology and services for our patients on the Northshore:
Thank you in advance for doing your part to support cancer care and the myriad of other healthcare services and programs provided by St. Tammany Parish Hospital. Because of your generosity, STPH will continue to be there for you, for your friends, for each of us, when we most need it.
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Tearaway for the PS Vita is a paper-tastic delight (preview)
Last week the folks at Sony held a couple of events to showcase some of their upcoming games for PS Vita and PlayStation 3, and one of those games was Tearaway for the PS Vita.
Developed by Media Molecule, the same folks behind LittleBigPlanet, Tearaway was developed solely for the PS Vita and I was invited to check out the game.
Tearaway is based in a world made of paper where you play as Iota or Atoi, a little envelope-headed character, on a mission to deliver a message. I got to play a couple of levels and sections of the game and the first thing you notice is how beautiful the world is.


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Microsoft's Michael Mercieca is in trouble for sexual harassment, and the ensuing investigation has kicked up a potential shitstorm for a fellow employee over some awful comments about the Japanese tsunami, the Telegraph reports. Thanks, Mike!
"I would have zero pity for Japan. I would push them right under the bus and create another tsunami." Do those sound like the words of a guy who is going to keep his job? Probably not, if the alleged statement really was uttered by one of Mercieca's coworkers—another company executive. Microsoft has denounced—though not denied—the disgusting dig at Japan: "Microsoft would find any comment of this nature to be deplorable and in no way representative of our culture and values, let alone our response to this natural disaster to which the company and our employees have donated significant sums to aid relief efforts."
Yeah, it's deplorable. So, did someone say it, or not? [Telegraph]
Update: A previous version of this post incorrectly attributed the Japan remark to Mercieca himself.


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WHO External Quality Assessment Project for the detection of influenza viruses by PCR
The WHO External Quality Assessment Project (EQAP) was established in 2007 to monitor the quality of GISRS and other national influenza reference laboratories that perform PCR diagnosis and to identify gaps of PCR testing in these laboratories. Influenza viruses are constantly evolving and subsequently require the timely adjustment of PCR testing in order to maintain certain sensitivity of virus detection. By monitoring quality and standards of performance, the EQAP plays a key role in strengthening the GISRS diagnostic capacity and preparedness to effectively respond to influenza outbreaks world-wide.
The overall goal of this project is to improve the global laboratory capacity for influenza diagnosis by the detection of influenza virus type A by PCR and the promotion of good laboratory practices. In 2010 the programme was extended to include detection of influenza B viruses. In 2017 the scope of the project was expanded to broader Molecular Detection, Subtyping and Characterization of Influenza Viruses and its importance for risk assessment and rapid response in influenza epidemics or pandemic events.
The EQAP is open to all NICs with PCR capacity and candidate NICs that are willing to participate.
Overview of the EQA Project
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Driver killed after I-35W rollover accident in Minneapolis
A rollover accident on I-35W early this morning killed the driver of the vehicle and injured a passenger.
The vehicle appears to have been speeding prior to the accident, according to Lt. Matt Langer of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. The vehicle struck a median wall while traveling south near 50th Street on I-35W, then went across lanes to the right and struck the west wall. The vehicle then rolled over and the driver was ejected.
The names of the driver and the passenger have not yet been released. The extent of the injuries to the passenger has also not yet been released, pending notification of next of kin.
A section of the freeway was closed briefly due to the accident, but has since been reopened.


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December 29, 2017 | By Paul Kelly, Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Editor's Note: This is the ninth of a series of 10 vignettes in which IMS Senior Communications Manager Paul Kelly picks his top 10 moments of 2017 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Before May 27, 2017, the most endearing moment in Takuma Sato's career at the Indianapolis 500 was a crash.
Sato ended up crunching the SAFER Barrier in Turn 1 after making contact with eventual race winner Dario Franchitti as they dueled side by side for the lead on the final lap of the 2012 Indianapolis 500.
Former Formula One driver Sato ended up 17th in the box score that year with his second crash in his first three starts in "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing," only reinforcing his somewhat undeserved reputation as a fast but reckless driver. But his daring, risks-be-damned attempt to win the world's biggest race created a new level of respect and appreciation from fans, aided by Sato's very infectious, bubbly personality.
Still, few fans probably penciled in Sato's name in a prediction pool before the 101st Indianapolis 500 presented by PennGrade Motor Oil this May, even after he qualified fourth. After all, Sato had just one victory during his previous seven years in the Verizon IndyCar Series, and that came in 2013 on the street course in Long Beach. His best oval finish was fifth in 2011 at Texas, and his previous-best finish in the Indianapolis 500 was 13th in 2013 and 2015.
But Sato showed speed all day and held off three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves by .2011 of a second to become the first Japanese driver to win the world's most prestigious race.
Sato wasted little time driving to the front in the 200-lap race, leading Laps 65-75 in the No. 26 Andretti Autosport Honda. He never panicked after losing the lead, staying in touch with the leaders through pit stops and cautions.
Unheralded Max Chilton of Chip Ganassi Racing took the lead on Lap 169 after the last round of pit stops for nearly every driver in the 33-car field. Chilton stayed out front in the No. 8 Gallagher Honda and kept the lead on the final restart of the race, on Lap 189 after a five-car crash in Turn 2 involving Josef Newgarden, James Hinchcliffe, Will Power, Oriol Servia and James Davison.
Sato drove side by side with Chilton in Turn 1 to try to gain the lead on Lap 191, but Chilton parried the move.
Then it was go time for Castroneves. He hunted down Chilton and passed him with a bold outside move in Turn 3 on Lap 194.
Meanwhile, Sato passed Chilton for second on the same lap and then zeroed in on Castroneves to make his decisive pass on Lap 195.
Castroneves looked outside of Sato for the lead in Turn 1 on Lap 199, but he never had enough momentum to challenge over the final two laps.
Sato showed incredible grace and speed under pressure over the final two laps, refusing to fumble away his chance for glory like in 2012. It's one thing to win at Indy; it's quite another to hold off Castroneves, one of the best drivers to ever turn a lap around the historic 2.5-mile oval.
"This time I was pointing in the right direction, wasn't I?" Sato said. "It's beautiful. I dreamed of something like this. I can't thank everyone enough for their support."
The victory triggered a wave of affection from the huge crowd for the affable Sato, who seems to be improving as a driver even at age 40. His scream of "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" on the team radio immediately after crossing the finish line was perhaps the most visceral reaction to an Indy victory since Gil de Ferran's similar yelp of joy in 2003.
Sato's win also spawned even more global publicity for the "500," especially in Sato's native land of Japan. The demand for Sato and anything Indianapolis 500-related was so great that the Borg-Warner Trophy left the United States for the first time in late November for a two-week victory tour with Sato around Japan.


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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- The field in the 24th Southworth Senior PGA Professional National Championship presented by Mercedes-Benz USA is perhaps the strongest assembled in the history of the popular PGA of America member event.
The 264-player contingent that converges Oct. 10-14 at Creighton Farms in Aldie, Va., and River Creek Club in Leesburg, Va., features representatives from 43 states, including 11 past National Champions: Tom Joyce, Huntington, N.Y. (1990, '91); Pete Oakley, Palm City, Fla. (1999); Ed Sabo, Tequesta, Fla. (2000, '01); Mike San Filippo, Hobe Sound, Fla. (2002, '05); Jeff Thomsen, Boise, Idaho (2003); Jim White, Lincoln, Neb. (2004); Jeff Coston, Blaine, Wash. (2006); Bill Loeffler, Littleton, Colo. (2007); Kirk Hanefeld, Acton, Mass (2008, '11); Bill Britton, Colts Neck, N.J. (2009); and Robert Thompson, Huntsville, Texas (2010).
Oakley, a 63-year-old PGA Life Member, is the only member of the field to claim a professional major. Oakley won the 2004 Senior British Open at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland in style, making a 10-foot par putt on the 18th green to avoid a playoff with Tom Kite and Eduardo Romero. Oakley became the 10th Open qualifier to win a Champions Tour event.
Five members of the field own a PGA Professional National Championship: Darrell Kestner, Glen Cove, N.Y. (1996); Bruce Zabriski, Jupiter, Fla. (1997); Mike Burke Jr., Towaco, N.J. (1998); Wayne DeFrancesco, Columbia, Md. (2001); and Barry Evans, Charleston, W.Va. (2002).
Six members of the field are past PGA Assistant Professional Champions: Kestner (1982, '87); Robert Thompson, Huntsville, Texas (1986); Steve Gotsche, Great Bend, Kan. (1990); Bill Loeffler, Littleton, Colo. (1992); Zabriski (1995); and Frank Dobbs, Port St. Lucie, Fla. (2001).
There are seven past PGA Senior Professional Players of the Year competing this week: Steve Veriato, San Marcos, Texas (1996); Roy Vucinich, Moon Township, Pa. (1997, '98); Sabo, Tequesta, Fla. (2000); Kestner (2004, '05); Chris Starkjohann, Oceanside, Calif. (2006, '07, '09), and Sonny Skinner, Sylvester, Ga. (2010, '11), who is the only PGA of America member to win both a PGA Professional Player of the Year (2008) and Senior PGA Professional Player of the Year award.
Five-time recipient Bruce Zabriski, a PGA assistant professional at Westchester Country Club in Rye, N.Y., heads six past PGA Professional Players of the Year in the field. Zabriski, 55, earned the national award in 1991, '94, '96, '97, and '98. Joining him are the other national award recipients: Bob Ford, Oakmont, Pa. (1988); San Filippo (1993); Rick Hartmann, Sag Harbor, N.Y. (2000); Don Berry, Brooklyn Park, Minn. (2002); and Skinner (2008).
The 264-player field features PGA Professionals at least 50 years of age, as of the Championship, who have qualified through one of the 41 PGA Sections. The low 70 scorers and ties after Friday's second round advance to the weekend's final 36 holes at Creighton Farms.
The low 35 finishers will qualify for the 2013 Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Mo.
The top eight finishers, including ties, will receive exemptions into the 2013 Senior PGA Professional National Championship.
In addition, the top five finishers will be exempt into the Champions Tour National Finals at TPC Eagle Trace in Coral Springs, Fla., provided they have submitted an entry by the entry deadline.


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RADIATION— "What should the citizen conclude about ionizing radiation? Ionizing radiation has always been with us and will be for all foreseeable time. Our genetic system is probably well adjusted by natural selection to normal background radiation. Added radiation will increase the frequency of mutations; most of these will be harmful. Exposure to radiation in large amounts will increase malignant disease; small amounts may possibly do the same. In view of these potentially harmful effects every reasonable effort should be made to reduce the levels of ionizing radiation to which man is exposed to the lowest levels that can reasonably be attained. As to fallout from nuclear-weapons tests, the citizen will conclude that it contributes in a small way to world-wide levels of radiation. For this reason alone the tests should be discontinued. —George W. Beadle"
CENSUS— "The counting at the end of each decade of every man, woman, and child in the United States is one of the biggest undertakings the government is called upon to assume. To facilitate counting, machines will be used invented by Mr. James Powers, a mechanical expert of the Census Bureau, for use in the thirteenth census, which were successfully tried in the recent Cuban Census and now in use in the Division of Vital Statistics. The mechanical method for counting the census requires two types of machines. The keynote of the system, however, is a punched card, which contains the data collected by the enumerators, who travel from house to house in every nook and corner of the land. The data include the nature and extent of our industries, and the amount of our wealth."
HENRY HUDSON'S 300TH— "The ship 'Half Moon' set sail from Amsterdam April 4th, 1609, with a crew of eighteen Dutch and English sailors. On September 3rd, the 'Half Moon' let go her anchor inside of Sandy Hook (New Jersey). The week was spent exploring the bay with a small boat, and 'they found a good entrance between two headlands' (The Narrows) and thus entered on the 12th of September 'as fine a river as can be found.' When the replica of Henry Hudson's 'Half Moon' was lifted by the floating crane at the Brooklyn navy yard from the deck of the 'Soestdyk,' on which she was brought over from Holland, and lowered into the water, there was a general expression of surprise at her diminutive appearance; for she was no larger than a small harbor tug."
WORMS— "The common earthworm, though apt to be despised and trodden on, is really a useful creature. According to Mr. [Charles] Darwin, they give a kind of under tillage to the land, performing the same below ground that the spade does above for the garden, and the plow for arable soil. Fields which have been overspread with lime, burnt marl, or cinder, become, in time, covered by finely-divided soil. This result, usually attributed by farmers to the 'working down' of these materials, is really due to the action of earthworms. Mr. Darwin says, 'A field manured with marl has been covered, in the course of 80 years, with a bed of earth averaging 13 inches in thickness.'"
COTTON MARKET— "The 'crop year' for cotton has just closed, and it has been somewhat eventful. The previous year of the financial panic had passed with a very small consumption, leaving large stocks of goods in the hands of merchants and considerable supplies of raw materials with the manufacturers. Returning ease in the money market has been accompanied by abundant crops, cheap food, low rates for transportation, and a large consumption of goods, promising to absorb the whole of the crop. Up to January, purchases at home and abroad were very large, at improving prices."
EVIL BROADCLOTH— "Professor Hamilton says: 'Gentlemen have adopted as a national costume a thin, tight-fitting black suit of broadcloth. To foreigners, we seem always in mourning: we travel in black, we write in black, we work in black. Even the day-laborer chooses always the same unvarying, monotonous black broadcloth. It is too thin to be warm in the winter, and too black to be cool in the summer.'"
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Expect to pay more to register your vehicle and get it inspected.
The directors of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation on Wednesday approved an increase to three Registry of Motor Vehicle Division fees that will help close a projected $55 million budget gap
Under the plan approved by the Board today non-commercial vehicle registration fees for motor vehicles will increase from $50 to $60. There will be no change to commercial registration fees.
Annual motor vehicle inspections will increase to $35, up from $29. The inspection fee was last increased in 1999. One dollar of the increase will be retained by the inspection station that conducts the inspection.
The road test fee, a one-time fee for the majority of drivers, will increase to $35, up from $20. Portions of the road test revenue will help support improved customer service for first time drivers.
The increases are expected to bring in $55 million to $63 million in fiscal 2015. Public hearings owill be held this spring on the increases, which will take July 1.
Legislation passed in 2013 required the transportation agency to generate revenue to help fund future budgets.


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It's easy to have a good time at this Theatre at Anne Arundel Community College showing
Every generation has its rites of passage, not to be confused with steps up on the ladder of maturity. For 40 years, seeing and participating in The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been one of those rites. Part of the rite is dressing up. Part is talking back. Part is making rain with water pistols and tossing bread crusts every which way. Not least is doing The Time Warp.
Can the live Rocky Horror Show compete with the screen version?
The Horror Show now being staged at Anne Arundel Community College can. It's a fun and raunchy romp through Transsexual, Transylvania, led by that Sweet Transvestite and hottie host Frank'n'Furter (Peter N. Crews) and a cast of singin' and dancin' Sycophants. As in any good story, the main characters Brad (Greg Baron) and Janet (Megan Morse Jans) find themselves out of their element — on a rainy night, with a flat tire and no place to go but the crazy castle, aka the Frankenstein Place. The couple is as sensual as pencils, unaccustomed to pleasure of any sort.
The evening changes that, and we, the audience, are the beneficiaries, so long as what we seek is an excuse to cut loose. Unlike the screen version, the live rendition throbs with the pulse of all involved.
Almost everything works well in this staging of the cult classic, written by Richard O'Brien and originally staged in London in 1973. Lars Tatom's direction, Douglas Brandt Byerly's music direction and Tommy Parlon's choreography are seamless. Costumes and makeup are appropriately staid or sleazy, depending on the character.
The roles feel properly cast, especially Crews, Baron and Jans. Riff Raff (Isaac Simonaire), Magenta (Carlie Kidd), Columbia (Emma Bedlin), Dr. Scott (Jerry Vess) and Eddie (Erik W. Alexis) fit supporting roles. Rocky (Jacques Snyman) nails his part in terms of physique and, like his counterpart in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein tale, comes across as intelligent. The Narrator (Jessica Long) is a stitch, as is her German accent.
Live music is one of the show's strengths but also its weakness. The band out-competes vocals. The issue seems to be mic'ing and sound mixing.
Sound problems did not stop the audience from dancing The Time Warp.
Anne Arundel Community College's rendition of Rocky Horror is easy on the eyes, easy on the ears and gets people pumped. You don't have to submit to any Frankensteinian experiments. You just have to show up.
Directing & costumes: Lars Tatom. Set: Sean Urbantke. Lighting: Peter Kaiser. Makeup and hair design: Rob Berry. Stage manager: Kelly Hoffman. Sound: Sarah Bierc. Music direction and band: Douglas Brandt Byerly with Nick Zurowski, Alex Barnett, Michael Busch, Lindsay Hammond, Matt Henry and Scott Tabor.
Playing thru April 21 at 8pm ThFSa & 11pm Fri. April 20, at Kauffman Theater, Pascal Center, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold. rsvp: $20 w/discounts: 410-777-2457; www.aacc.edu/performingarts.


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I have an old Thompson Center 54cal I want to get rid of. I'm thinkin' that a FFL is not needed? If I find a buyer, can I send it directly to him through the mail?
I have an old Thompson Center 54cal I want to get rid of. I'm thinkin' that a FFL is not needed? If I find a buyer, can I send it directly to him through the mail?
Funny you ask that. I bought one straight from the Mfg a few years ago and they were all set to mail straight to my door. They were slow getting it off the line or to UPS, though, and I had a trip coming up that I was worried would have me away from home exactly when the gun showed up. Didn't want signing hassles at delivery, a possible return to sender, or the thing sitting unattended on my front porch for a week. Other things have grown legs and walked away from my house from time to time, so call me paranoid.
So I called my gunsmith and asked him if he'd receive and hold the rifle for me, and oh, by the way, if I drop off a scope to you before I get out of Dodge, would you mount it when the gun comes in to save me some time? Sure, he says, and I go off on my merry way after notifying the gunmaker of the change to the shipping address.
Well, the rifle arrives at my gunsmith's, and he calls me to tell me and then he asks how I got them to send the thing to me direct without paperwork (the original plan), and I said, "What paperwork? It's a blackpowder gun." Because I always thought blackpowder guns could go direct to you (which is why you can buy them straight from a catalog). He says he knows, but because it's capable of taking a 209 primer for ignition, the rules are different. Well, I'd never heard of such a thing and figured the gunmaker would have known that, so why were they willing to ship to me direct and then to my gunsmith direct when my gunsmith says we need to sign transfer papers?
The whole thing had me scratching my head.
Anyway, my gunsmith is an honest guy and wouldn't put up with government bureaucracy just for the heck of it unless it meant possible jail time, so I had to go with what he was telling me.
I still think he should have cut me a break on the transfer fee though, LOL. Freakin $30 to fill out a form, and I had to use my own pen!
By the way, the question isn't really whether I should have had to do paperwork at my gunsmith's, given the circumstances-- I can see where the idiot bureaucracy might have demanded it if we're connecting dots, but I maintain that it wasn't called for if you use common sense---The real point is that a guy who probably knows what he's talking about questions why the gun mfgr never raised the issue of any shipping hassles with me in the first place.
Maybe he doesn't/didn't know the law, and the mfgr did, but I kinda doubt it, knowing him.
I wasn't aware of the 290 primer thing either, but doing a little digging I found a few references to rulings from BATFE that do seem to call out 209 primer-fired MLs as a special case. I also checked out a couple of prominent on-line vendors of such MLs and they require shipping to a FFL as well. So your smith may well be correct.
Don't go ninja-in' nobody don't need ninja-in'.
- Diemon Dave
Er....."209" primer. The coffee seems to have finally worn off.
Don't go ninja-in' nobody don't need ninja-in'.
- Diemon Dave
209, 290....whatever it takes....


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Peaches's Boyfriend: I want his everything
I have a thing for Peaches Geldof. I know this will amount to nothing, and that no matter how hard she tries to make herself happen, she probably won't happen, but that doesn't change the fact that though no one else cares about her, I do.
Peaches is all skinny and sickly blonde now and she may be engaged to her boyfriend Thomas Cohen, a musician, of course, who is reportedly sick in love with her and very, very jealous and possessive, and they apparently can't stand to be apart. Amazing. The best kind. Last week the two had lunch together in London. As you can see, Thomas is beautiful. In that way slightly androgynous way that British boys are these days. If I were that age, I'd be all over it too.
But I don't know if I could handle that he's wearing his hair and his clothes better than I would want to wear his hair and his clothes. Alexa Chung probably couldn't wear his hair and clothes better than he's wearing his hair and clothes. I am OBSESSED with this. Also, I might need to buy Peaches's shoes.
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Institute of Medicine Proposes Consumer-Friendly, Front-of-Package Nutrition Labeling
Statement of CSPI Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson
The Institute of Medicine's proposal is eminently sensible—and will probably be roundly condemned by food manufacturers. A simple icon with 3, 2, 1, or zero check marks would give shoppers at-a-glance information about nutritional booby traps lurking inside packaged foods.
The IOM's proposal is far preferable to the voluntary "Facts Up Front" labeling program that the grocery industry is rushing to market. The industry hopes to preempt more consumer-friendly requirements by the FDA. The industry's complex scheme requires consumers to consider the amounts of calories and four to six nutrients, without any numerical score or useful symbols to convey a food's nutritional value.
It is worth noting that the IOM's approach, like all of the systems yet developed, still has holes that the FDA would have to address. For instance, it gives no consideration to foods' vitamin, mineral, fiber, or protein content. Also, white bread, whole wheat bread, broccoli, artificially sweetened soft drinks, and artificially colored and flavored diet Jell-O would all have top scores of 3. Still, the FDA should promptly assign a task force to develop a mandatory front-of-package labeling regulation based on the IOM's advice.
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Note: In 2006, CSPI petitioned the FDA to devise a front-of-package labeling system to supplant the proliferating systems being used by manufacturers and supermarkets. Subsequently, CSPI encouraged Congress to fund an Institute of Medicine study on front-of-package labeling, with today's report being the second of two on the topic.
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Copycat Mongolian Beef
Since my mom made a point of calling out this recipe in yesterday's update, I thought I'd go ahead and get this one out of the way.
My husband David is not a big fan of Chinese food. When we met, he didn't like it at all, but I slowly wore him down with my homemade recipes and nagging requests to go to P.F. Chang's, and now he's made his peace with at least some chinese food. First, he found he liked my pepper steak. He eats the cashew chicken and sweet & sour chicken that I make from scratch. An occasional stir-fry or two. Then he branched out into similar dishes from Chinese restaurants, like beef and broccoli. Once we went to P.F. Chang's, though, he was absolutely sold on Mongolian Beef.
And why wouldn't he be? P.F. Chang's Mongolian Beef is a delicious, tender, yet crispy pieces of thin steak, tossed in a delicious spicy-sweet sauce. Using a couple of recipes I found online, I was able to replicate the flavors almost perfectly. Keep reading to see how.
Copycat Mongolian Beef
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger, minced
- 1 tablespoon garlic, chopped
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup water
- 3/4 cup dark brown sugar
- vegetable oil, for frying (about 1 cup)
- 1 lb flank steak
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 2 large green onions, sliced (you can skip these if you don't like them)
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (also optional, or you can use less or more depending on how spicy you like your food)
1. Make the sauce by heating 2 tsp of vegetable oil in a medium saucepan over medium low heat. Be careful not to let the oil get too hot. It should shimmer, but not smoke.
2. Add ginger and garlic to the pan and quickly add the soy sauce and water before the garlic scorches.
3. Dissolve the brown sugar in the sauce, then raise the heat to medium and boil the sauce for 2-3 minutes or until the sauce thickens. Remove it from the heat.
4. Slice the flank steak against the grain into 1/4″ thick bite-size slices. If you tilt the blade of your knife at about a forty five degree angle to the top of the steak you'll get wider cuts.
5. Dip the steak pieces into the cornstarch to apply a very thin dusting to both sides of each piece of beef. And let it sit for about 10 minutes so that the cornstarch sticks.
6. While the coated beef is resting, heat up one cup of oil in a wok. (I don't have a wok, so I used a dutch oven. Any heavy pan that holds heat well will work, as long as you can cover the beef with oil.
7. Just as before, heat the oil over medium heat until it's hot, but not smoking. Add the beef to the oil and sauté for just two minutes, or until the beef just begins to darken on the edges. (You don't need to fully cook the beef here, since it'll go to go back on the heat later.) Stir the meat around a little so that it cooks evenly.
8. After a couple minutes, use a large slotted spoon to take the meat out and onto paper towels, and drain the oil out of your wok or pan. Put the pan back over the heat, dump the meat back into it and cook for another minute.
9. Add the sauce from earlier, cook for 1-2 minutes while stirring, then add the green onions and red pepper flakes, if using. Continue to cook for one more minute, then remove the beef mixture with tongs or a slotted spoon to a serving plate. There will be extra sauce, but it's delicious as a dipping sauce for egg rolls or dumplings, or just drizzled over the beef when served with rice. You'll definitely want to serve this over rice to soak up as much of the rich sauce as possible.
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A model analyst develops models to help visualize, observe, and predict complicated data. Model analysis is the process of taking large amounts of data and separate it into a structure that makes it intelligible to the binary process of computers.
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Not long ago the Fuduntu team announced the end of their popular Fedora-based distribution due to developmental issues and later decided to offer an openSUSE based one. But yesterday, Shawn W. Dunn announced that distro would never see the light of day.
In an announcement on the Cloverleaf Website Dunn said due to manpower shortages, the openSUSE-based distribution would not be possible. As an alternative, the guys will maintain an addon repository for their "kernel, Mesa, Wine, Netflix-desktop and/or Pipelight, KlyDE, and Consort, targeting openSUSE:12.3 and openSUSE:Factory. Our repositories on OBS are not going anywhere, and may be added to any installation of openSUSE:12.3 or openSUSE:Factory."
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The Cleveland Orchestra Plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24
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The Cleveland Orchestra and pianist Lang Lang play Mozart's piano concerto No. 24 led by conductor Franz Welser-Möst.
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Michael Bolton Demands Apology From Bruno Tonioli
Michael Bolton is the second celeb to get the ax on "Dancing With the Stars."
Sept. 29, 2010 -- Michael Bolton, who was booted off "Dancing With the Stars" Tuesday night, is not leaving without a fight.
After the singer-songwriter's "Hound Dog" routine was savagely torn apart by judge Bruno Tonioli, who called it "the worst jive in 11 seasons," Bolton has demanded an apology.
"You heard the tone. Even Len [Goodman] stopped him and said, 'That's inappropriate,' and I think he should apologize publically and be reprimanded for it," Bolton, 57, told "Good Morning America."
Monday night, Bruno lashed out at Bolton's jive with professional partner Chelsie Hightower in which they used a dog house as a prop. He gave the couple the low score of three out of 10, putting him way behind his competitors.
"I am a dog lover, but you make it so hard for me. You should have taken your bone and gone back to the dog house," Bruno said. "You did it all very, very, very badly."
Bolton said he was "disappointed" by the judge's harsh critique.
"To me, [Bruno] let everybody down. My mom was there, she flew in. She's 90 and I thought she was going to really enjoy it, and I just didn't expect that level of disrespect from him," the Grammy-award winning singer said.
"Dancing With the Stars" producers said Tonioli shouldn't have to apologize for doing his job.
"Bruno's role as a judge is to give his honest opinions on the quality of the dances he's judging, which is what he did in this case," they said in a statement. "While we respect the feelings of our celebrities and dancers, we don't feel Bruno should be expected to apologize for doing his job."
Bolton Calls 'Hound Dog' Dance 'Hilarious'
Despite the low score, Bolton stood by the dance, calling it "hilarious."
"I'd do the dog house thing again in a second," he said. "It was me having fun with myself."
He also praised Hightower for coaching him through the second week of competition.
"What can you do with someone who's not a dancer?...Chelsie did everything she could, she was cracking the whip, getting down to the final hour, she knew exactly how much we had to learn," he said.
Even though he got the ax, Bolton said has no regrets and wants to make dancing part of his life.
"I wouldn't change the cast of characters. They're wonderful dancers and competitors. The contestants, backstage you bond, you meet some amazing people, and that stays with you forever," he said. "I wouldn't change the fact that now I'm introducing dance into my life much more and I'm going to embrace that deeply. I'm very grateful to the show for that."
Ten couples remain in the competition, including actress Jennifer Grey of "Dirty Dancing" fame; singer R&B/pop singer Brandy; comedian and actress Margaret Cho; former NBA champion Rick Fox; actress and author Florence Henderson; Kyle Orlando Massey, star of the hit Disney Channel program, "Cory in the House;" Bristol Palin, a teen abstinence activist and daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin; reality TV star Audrina Patridge; Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino of the reality TV show "The Jersey Shore," and NFL Superbowl champion Kurt Warner.
Bolton, who actually had laryngitis during his performance Monday, will return to his worldwide concert tour, promoting his latest album, "One World One Love."
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Brandy is a platinum-selling R&B and pop singer, actress, songwriter, and record/television producer. In 1994, at the age of 15, Brandy released her eponymous debut album, which sold more than 6 million copies. Following a major success with "The Boy Is Mine," a duet with singer Monica that spent 13 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, she won a Grammy Award for Best R&B performance by a duo or group. The accompanying album, "Never Say Never," in 1998 sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. A series of hit CDs followed, including "Full Moon," "Afrodisiac" and "Human," bringing the star's sales to more than 30 million records to date. While maintaining a recording career, Brandy also gained fame as an actress, starring in several film and TV projects, including the popular UPN sitcom "Moesha" (1996-2001), the 1997 version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella," "Double Platinum," a miniseries co-starring Diana Ross, and the movie "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer." Brandy has also been spokesmodel for Cover Girl, Candies Shoes, DKNY, Sketchers Shoes and Ultima/Kaneka brand by Brandy. Her civic and charity interests include the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Norwood Kids Foundation, which supports music and the performing arts in public schools. She is currently filming season two of the hit VH1 reality show "Brandy and Ray J: a Family Business" in which she stars and is executive producer. She is also in the studio recording a new CD for release in 2011.
Margaret Cho
One of the most successful stand-up comedians of today, Margaret Cho has performed for millions of people around the world. Having first performed stand-up in her native San Francisco at the age of 16, Cho has had numerous successful tours, including the off-Broadway hit/concert film "I'm the One That I Want," "Notorious C.H.O.," "Revolution," and "Beautiful." Cho is also a regular cast member of the hit Lifetime series "Drop Dead Diva." Her other acting work includes her starring role in the sitcom "All-American Girl" and "Face/Off," and several guest appearances, including "Sex and the City" and "Ghost Whisperer." Cho is also a best-selling author, whose books include "I'm The One That I Want" and a collection of essays titled "I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight." A passionate advocate for equal rights, Cho has received honors from GLAAD, the National Gay and Lesbian task Force, the National Organization for Women, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Victory Fund, and many others. Cho is currently touring with "Cho Dependent," which includes both stand-up and songs from her new music comedy album of the same name.
Rick Fox
Three-time NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers, actor and producer Rick Fox has appeared in a number of film and television projects, sharing the screen with actors ranging from Whoopi Goldberg to Henry Winkler to Angela Bassett and Shia LeBeouf. Fox's acting debut came in 1994 in William Friedkin's "Blue Chips." Similar roles followed in 1996's "Eddie" and 1998's critically acclaimed "He Got Game" (directed by Spike Lee) before Fox's breakout role on the hit HBO series "Oz." Since then, Rick has appeared in more than a dozen network shows, including "Ugly Betty," "One Tree Hill," "The Game" and "Dirt." In addition, Fox has appeared in numerous films, including "Resurrection," "Holes," "Mini's First Time" and Tyler Perry's "Meet The Browns." While Fox continues to strengthen his craft, he's just as busy behind the camera, developing his own film and television projects for his production company, 1744 Entertainment. As a star basketball athlete, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was coached by the legendary Dean Smith. Fox began his pro basketball career when he was drafted into the NBA by the Boston Celtics as a first round pick. He went on to be the captain of both the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, where he was coached by 11-time champion Phil Jackson. Fox is a father of two and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Jennifer Grey
A beloved actress of both film and television, Jennifer Grey is best known for her starring roles in the iconic movies "Dirty Dancing" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Grey starred as Frances "Baby" Houseman in the award-winning, box office hit "Dirty Dancing," which is widely considered one of the best dance movies of all time. Some of Grey's other films include Ben Affleck's "Bounce," "Red Dawn" and "The Cotton Club." Grey starred in the television sitcom "It's Like, You Know …" and has made memorable television appearances on such shows as "Friends," "John From Cincinnati," "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and an upcoming episode of the medical drama "House." She has also starred in various television movies, including "A Case for Murder," CBS's "The West Side Waltz" and a Lifetime original movie "Road to Christmas." Jennifer is the daughter of Tony and Academy Award winner Joel Grey, and resides in Los Angeles with her husband, actor-director Clark Gregg, and daughter.
Florence Henderson
Florence Henderson is a multi-talented actress, talk show host, recording artist, author, Broadway veteran and philanthropist. Her career is as active today as when she first appeared as the "Today Girl" on "NBC's Today Show" and was the first woman to host "The Tonight Show." Henderson has appeared on such popular prime-time programs and made for television specials as the critically acclaimed movie of the week for Hallmark titled "Ladies of the House" and the popular RLTV Network's "Florence Henderson Show." She will always be best known in syndication worldwide as "America's Favorite Mom" and matriarch Carol Brady, on the classic hit TV series "The Brady Bunch," which aired for five seasons (1969-74), has never been off the air in this country and currently airs in 122 countries around the world. Acknowledged as one of the top leading spokespeople in the United States, Henderson has been a celebrity spokeswoman for Oldsmobile, Tang, Polident, Rain Soft, Pepsi Light and Wesson Oil. She maintains a busy schedule as one of the country's most popular and sought-after motivational speakers as well as performing her one-woman show, "All the Lives of Me ... A Musical Journey." Her first stage role was in Joshua Logan's musical "Wish You Were Here," and shortly thereafter she was cast in Rodgers & Hammerstein's last national tour of "Oklahoma!" Henderson's long list of stage credits includes the starring role in "The Great Waltz" for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, the starring role in "Fanny," the lead role of Maria in "The Sound of Music," the lead in "The Girl Who Came to Supper," the role of Nellie Forbush in Noel Coward's "South Pacific" and the starring role of Anna, opposite Ricardo Montalban, in "The King and I." Her first feature film credit was in "The Song of Norway." As a producer and a talk-show host, her credits also include the Nashville Network's cooking and comedy series "Country Kitchen." The experiences inspired her to write a cookbook, "A Little Cooking, A Little Talking and a Whole Lot of Fun."
Bristol Palin Hits the 'Dancing' Floor
Kyle Massey
Kyle Orlando Massey stars as Cory Baxter in Disney Channel's No. 1 hit sitcom, "Cory in the House," Disney Channel's first spinoff. He originated the role of Cory in Disney's "That's So Raven," the first show in Disney's history to produce more than 100 episodes. For his work on "That's So Raven" and "Cory in the House," he received an NAACP Image Award nomination. In addition to appearing in numerous commercials, he starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie, "Life is Ruff." He has a recurring role on the animated series "American Dragon: Jake Long" and sings the main title theme songs on "Cory in the House," "Yin! Yang! Yo!" and performed the title track for Walt Disney Pictures' "Underdog." Currently, Kyle is starring as the voice of Milo on the Disney Channel's upcoming animated series "Fish Hooks." For his prowess in golf, he won first place in the National Minority Junior Golf Tournament in 2003. Kyle has participated in several celebrity golf tournaments, placing third in a recent White House Golf Tournament. Together with his brother, Christopher, Kyle has worked on projects to benefit the charity organization Feed the Children and traveled to Africa for the network prime-time television special "Eyes on Kenya." They have also performed their rap music in "Heroes Among Us: the 2009 Hero Awards" and in MyNetworkTV's "The Spirit of Christmas." Currently, they are co-hosting and starring in the comedy series "World's Funniest Moments."
Bristol Palin
Bristol Palin, former first daughter of Alaska, entered the national spotlight when her mother, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was selected to be John McCain's running mate in the 2008 presidential election. Bristol Palin traveled the country, alongside her mother, father and siblings, on the campaign trail. After giving birth to her son Tripp, and becoming a single teen mother in 2008, Palin became a spokeswoman for the prevention of teen pregnancy and other teen issues. As an advocate, Palin wanted to share her story with other teens who may one day face a similar situation. Palin also acts as teen ambassador for the Candie's Foundation to prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy. As part of her campaign, Palin recently guest-starred as herself on an episode of ABC Family's teenage drama "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." Palin resides in Alaska with her son and family.
Audrina Patridge
After starring in six seasons of the hit series "The Hills," Audrina Patridge has joined the ranks of young Hollywood as one of the most sought-after and talked about talents on television. Patridge, who aspired to become an actress from a very early age, has been honing her skills with well-regarded coaches and private acting classes. She made her debut on the big screen last fall in the thriller "Sorority Row." Other film credits include the action-adventure film "Into the Blue 2" and "Honey 2." Patridge has also tested her hand at comedy, appearing on an episode of the sitcom "Do Not Disturb" and in a skit for "MAD TV." Last summer, Patridge made headlines steaming up TV screens in a commercial for Carl's Jr. This July, she became the latest Bongo girl, shooting the fall advertising campaign with famed photographer Tony Duran.
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino
Mike Sorrentino is quickly becoming one of Hollywood's emerging talents. Born in Staten Island, N.Y., and raised in Manalapan, N.J., he is known for starring on the hit show "The Jersey Shore," now in its second season on MTV. He graduated from Manalapan High School and went on to college in New Jersey, where he graduated in 2004. After graduation, he tried his hand at personal training, fitness modeling and soon after was scouted for an upcoming reality show that would eventually become "The Jersey Shore." The popularity of the show caught fire, becoming one of the highest rated shows in MTV history and made "The Situation" into a pop culture phenomenon. As "The Jersey Shore" continues in its success, Sorrentino continues to gain in popularity -- nationally and internationally. He was nominated this year at the Teen Choice Awards for "Choice TV: Male Reality Star." His upcoming projects include a book, "Here's the Situation," which will be on store shelves Nov. 2, a vitamin line with nationwide store GNC, which launches in the fall, and a fitness DVD, which comes out in December.
Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner is the first quarterback to participate in "Dancing With the Stars." In 1999, he emerged from obscurity to lead the St. Louis Rams to a victory in Super Bowl XXXIV. That same year, Warner was named the NFL and Super Bowl Most Valuable Player. As the ringleader of the Greatest Show on Turf, he led the Rams to two additional playoff appearances, including another Super Bowl, and received Pro Bowl honors for three consecutive years (1999-2001). He also earned his second NFL MVP in 2001. Injuries led Warner to move from the Rams to the Giants, and finally the Arizona Cardinals in 2005. In 2007, he led the Cardinals to their first Super Bowl berth, was voted to his fourth Pro Bowl and surpassed several Cardinals' franchise records, including touchdowns, attempts, completions, completion percentage and passer rating. Warner's gridiron accomplishments pale in comparison to the dedication he devotes to the community. In 2001, Kurt and his wife Brenda established the First Things First Foundation, a nonprofit public charity dedicated to affecting lives by promoting Christian values, sharing experiences and providing opportunities to encourage everyone that all things are possible when people seek to put first things first. Warner was born and raised in Iowa and played college football at the University of Northern Iowa. He lives in Arizona with his wife Brenda and seven children.


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Louis Robert Jules d'Adhémar
Born: 1 November 1874 in Saint Hippolyte-du-Fort, Gard, France
Died: 9 July 1941 in Nice, Côte d'Azur, France
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The viscount Robert d'Adhémar, born on the first of November 1874 in Saint Hippolyte-du-Fort (Gard, France), was descended from one of the oldest noble and protestant families from the region of Provence (South of France). His father, Marius d'Adhémar, worked for the French administration as a collector of taxes (receveur de l'enregistrement et des domaines) and, a few years before his son's birth, fought in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Robert d'Adhémar's mother was Louise Willelmine Grand d'Esnon. Although Robert was born into a protestant family and brought up as a protestant, he later converted to become a Roman Catholic.
Robert d'Adhémar was awarded his baccalaureate in 1890 in Montpellier (Hérault, France). He then studied at the Lycée Ampère at Lyon, which he entered on 1 October 1891, preparing for the entrance examination for the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris. He began his studies at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1893, graduating with an engineering degree in 1896. He went on to study mathematics on his own and was, therefore, self-taught in mathematics. In April 1898 he wrote to his friend Robert de Montessus de Ballore telling him about the lectures of Émile Picard that he was attending [2]:-
A word in haste to tell you that I will write at length soon to tell you about the course of M Picard that I am attending regularly - tomorrow is the 10th lesson. We might make a judgement under these conditions, which was hard after 3 or 4 lessons. The course is wonderful, like his books only easier. In short, one learns properly only with really good books. This is to reassure and encourage you.From 1898 he began teaching at the Saint François boarding school in Evreux, about 90 km to the west of Paris, in fact the letter we just quoted from was sent from Evreux. He obtained his Licence es Sciences in 1899 from the Sorbonne. In 1902, the lectures of Émile Picard edited by Robert d'Adhémar were published under the title Leçons sur les séries à termes positifs, professées au Collège de France Ⓣ. He was elected to the Société Mathématique de France on the 21 February 1900. His candidature was supported by Émile Picard and Maurice d'Ocagne.
Robert d'Adhémar defended his thesis on 22 April 1904 before a committee consisting of his supervisor Émile Picard, Jacques Hadamard and Édouard Goursat. The first part of the thesis, entitled Sur une classe d'équations aux dérivées partielles du second ordre, du type hyperbolique, à 3 ou 4 variables indépendantes Ⓣ, dealt with the partial differential equation (1) with limit condition that arise in the two problems: the interior problem and the exterior problem.
In fact, he improved on a work of Vito Volterra on that subject. In the case of the interior problem, Robert d'Adhémar used his new methods to confirm more quickly the formulas which Volterra had obtained. For this problem, he dealt also with the equation (2).
The thesis was published in 1905 in the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (5) 10, pp 131-207. In a lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians at Heidelberg in August 1904, Hadamard referred to the ideas in Robert d'Adhémar's thesis.
In 1901, Robert d'Adhémar became Maître de Conférences (essentially equivalent to an assistant lecturer) at the Lille Catholic University. He was promoted in November 1904 to substitute professor, then to full professor in 1907. He taught differential and integral calculus. In 1902 he helped his friend, the mathematician Robert de Montessus de Ballore, to join the Catholic University of Lille when he proposed him to fill a vacancy as substitute for the Special Mathematics course. Robert de Montessus was, at this time, teaching in Senlis and d'Adhémar wrote to his friend [2]:-
I do not write to you to influence you but I think you must have the courage to leave Senlis, as I had the audacity to leave Evreux. ...Moreover, in the same letter, Robert d'Adhémar explained to his friend that the course of Jules Drach at the University of Lille would be of a great interest for him to prepare for the agrégation.
Robert d'Adhémar married Jeanne Marie Henriette Duhamel (born the 15 April 1881 and died the 20 August 1965) on 5 February 1904 in Merville. Jeanne Marie Henriette Duhamel was the daughter of a manufacturer who owned a castle in Merville in the north of France. Robert d'Adhémar and his wife lived in Lambersart in the suburbs of Lille.
Robert d'Adhémar became an officer in the general staff of the French Army in Italy during World War I. He wrote to Robert de Montessus from the Italian front on 25 May 1918 [2]:-
My dear friend, I spent one month in Alsace, and I was called urgently to Italy. My training in Alsace was too short ... It was also lovely. I visited all the batteries in an area, and heard the shells whistle, accompanied by a charming man, Gal Jaquet. Here we organize a large ... firing between France and Italy. I deal with the artillery and I have a lot of work under a blazing sun, surrounded by roses. The front has nothing in common with the French front.He left the Lille Catholic University, being given leave during the academic years 1920-1921 and 1921-1922, then was appointed as professor at the engineering school Institut Industriel du Nord (now a day École Centrale de Lille) in 1922.
It was in 1901 that Robert d'Adhémar's first publications were published, namely the mathematical papers Sur une intégration par approximations successives Ⓣ and Sur une classe d'équations aux dérivés partielles du second ordre Ⓣ. In the same year his 40-page paper on the history of mathematics L'oeuvre mathématique du XIXe siècle Ⓣ also appeared. His first book, however, was on the philosophy of science and religion, topics which occupied him in the early part of his career. The Preface to the book La philosophie des sciences et le problème religieux Ⓣ (1904) begins as follows:-
The philosophy of science has completely changed its point of view in France in the last ten years of the 19th century. I would like to show the major importance in this movement of ideas and to perceive what may be their distant consequences.He divides science into three parts, mathematics, physics/chemistry, and biological sciences but, in this book, considers mainly the philosophy of mathematics and physics. The final chapter is on science and religion. He continues this discussion of the ideas in this book in his second book Le triple conflit : science, philosophie, religion (1905).
His next book Les variations des théories de la science Ⓣ (1907) continued to investigate similar subjects. He writes in the Introduction:-
I do not wish to speak ill of my contemporaries. And yet we must admit that when it comes to religious things, most of them lose their composure. But, addressing them, we say that the Catholic Church is the greatest in the history of religion and the Catholic faith lives in a very large number of intellectually elite men of high morals. ... we will be booed three times, held to be of unsound mind and narrow heart.He goes on to say that religious thought varies both with the times and with the individual thinkers.
Although he had been writing philosophy book, he continued to publish mathematical papers such as Sur une équation aux dérivées partielles du type hyperbolique Ⓣ (1905) and historical works such as Trois maîtres: Ampère, Cauchy, Hermite Ⓣ (1905). His first mathematics book Les équations aux dérivées partielles à caractéristiques réelles Ⓣ was published in 1907. This was quickly followed by the books Exercices et leçons d'analyse. Quadratures. Équations différentielles. Équations intégrales de M Fredholm et de M Volterra. Équations aux dérivées partielles du second ordre Ⓣ (1908) and L'équation de Fredholm et les problèmes de Dirichlet et de Neumann Ⓣ (1909).
In collaboration with Robert de Montessus, he wrote the two volume book Calcul numérique Ⓣ (1911). The first volume covered arithmetic and algebraic operations and the second volume studied integration. This book gave numerical methods for solving non-linear equations. Perhaps his most famous book was the two volume Lecons sur les principes de l'analyse par R d'Adhémar, professeur a la Faculté Libre des Sciences de Lille Ⓣ. The first volume Séries.- Déterminants.- Intégrales.- Potentiels. Equations intégrales. Equations différentielles et fonctionnnelles Ⓣ was published in 1912 with the second volume Fonctions synectiques, méthodes des majorantes. Equations aux derivées partielles du premier ordre. Fonctions entières Ⓣ being published in the following year.
His later books were: Henri Poincaré (1914); Résistance des matériaux Ⓣ (1921); and Statique cinématique Ⓣ (1923) which was intended as an introduction to mechanics for engineers. He wrote several works on ballistics such as La balistique extérieure Ⓣ, Gauthier-Villars (Paris, 1934) and Théorie du mouvement gyroscopique des projectiles Ⓣ (1939).
Article by: Hervé Le Ferrand, Université de Bourgogne, and Edmund Robertson, University of St Andrews.
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You'd never know from how 'little' we harp on about it, but iPods aren't exactly the best sounding media players on the market. As a result, if you care about quality reproduction of your audio you'll probably be inclined to sacrifice their admittedly impeccable user interfaces in favour of a player better suited to do justice to your music collection.
While Apple might not make much effort to improve the iPod's audio processing itself, the company does seem happy for third parties to do something about it by way of the iPod dock connector.
For instance, the dock on the Onkyo ND-S1 Digital Media Transport can tap directly into the digital files stored on an iPod thereby bypassing the player's DAC and amplifier so they can be decoded elsewhere. As such you could plug in an iPod classic, fifth gen iPod, any gen of iPod nano, iPod touch or even an iPhone (in flight mode) into the ND-S1 and the quality of the audio available will be dictated not by the version of iPod you're using, but by the quality of the digital files stored therein, and the system to which you are sending them.
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The teaser commercial for the new Motorola Droid smartphone, set for release on Friday, is clear: Verizon hopes it has an iPhone-killer on its hands. With black text on a white background, a la every iPhone commercial, the Droid ad attacks everything the iPhone lacks.
Media coverage of the new smartphone largely has focused on its chances of competing with Apple's immensely popular device. Along with Droid's inclusion of a QWERTY keyboard, the biggest difference between it and the iPhone is the operating system: Google-backed Android. It'll be Verizon's first Android phone and the first smartphone on the market with Android 2.0.
Rarely mentioned, however, is another player in the mobile OS market Microsoft. Why not? Because not many people in the smartphone world seem to really give a hoot about Windows Mobile anymore.
"It was gaining fractions" of market share, said Azita Arvani, a mobile-industry analyst and the founder of Los Angeles-based Arvani Group. "Then it just seemed like Microsoft dropped the ball a couple years ago."
Even after the October release of Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft's mobile operating system seems antiquated because it's still mostly text-based, Arvani said. Apple's iPhone OS and Google Android, for example, are much more visual.
Maybe Microsoft got distracted by the problems it had with Windows Vista. Maybe it just lost sight of the future smartphone market.
But in any case, Microsoft's Windows Mobile team needs to turn things around, Arvani said. And soon.
"They need to have a different mindset and change their thinking completely," she said. "The world has changed. It's no longer about downloading operating systems and downloading applications, and sitting and going on the Internet occasionally."
Microsoft's main advantage is the potential for integration between Windows on the desktop and Windows Mobile. But as the world shifts more and more toward cloud computing, such integration will become less important. Microsoft should take advantage of that opportunity as soon as possible, or it will be left in the dust.
Keep in mind that Microsoft, with Windows, does have the market's biggest developer base. If Microsoft can make it easier for developers to work with Windows Mobile, they could have a huge advantage even though Apple already has more than 100,000 applications in its iPhone/iPod Touch App Store.
"But other than that, they don't have much to stand on," Arvani said of Microsoft.
There are about 20,000 apps available for Windows Mobile, with 450 of them available at Microsoft's Windows Marketplace for Mobile as of Oct. 21, the company said.
With the release of the Droid, Microsoft may have missed its last chance. Android 2.0 is an open-source operating system, meaning anybody with the know-how can create and market an app for it. And soon Android 2.0 will be on more smartphones.
The first version of Android, of course, also was open-source and the operating system may prove to be a sleeping giant. Research firm Gartner has predicted Android will make up 14.5 percent of the market by 2012, ahead of Apple's mobile OS but second to Symbian.
Meanwhile, Windows Mobile's market share plummeted 33 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of 2009, according to analysis firm Canalys. The OS now has about 8.8 percent of the market.
Microsoft is expected to release Windows Mobile 7 sometime during 2010. But the company is staying mum about the product except for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's comments that he wished WinMo7 were already released.
He also said that the company has pumped new people into the Windows Mobile team and that mistakes "will not happen again."
"I think (Microsoft) might still have a shot at it, but time is of the essence here," Arvani said. "There's no wow-factor. Everything they have, other phones can do."
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Updated 1:51 p.m., Nov. 5: So far going largely unnoticed, Verizon is releasing another Android phone on Friday. It's called the Droid Eris, and it's manufactured by HTC.


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AAFP Statement: AAFP Supports Draft Legislation to Repeal SGR and Reform Medicare Payment for Physicians
Friday, July 19, 2013
Statement Attributable to:
Jeffrey J. Cain, MD
American Academy of Family Physicians
"The American Academy of Family Physicians applauds the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee's bipartisan draft legislation to repeal Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula, stabilize physician payment for five years, and set our health care system on the path to coordinated and cost-effective care.
"This proposed legislation abolishes a formula that has, for a decade, threatened to slash payment for medical services and has destabilized elderly patients' health security. Moreover, it calls for an annual increase in payment over the next five years, enabling physicians to make long-term plans that are essential to making their practices more patient centered. Together, these provisions set the stage for reforms that will build on the patient-centered medical home and strengthen the comprehensive, preventive, coordinated and accessible care our country needs.
"We are particularly pleased the draft includes expedited recognition of patient-centered medical homes as an approved alternative payment model for medical practices. We further applaud the subcommittee for designating medical homes as eligible for care coordination fees for patients with complex chronic diseases. Study after study has demonstrated that PCMHs improve the quality of care, help control the escalating cost of health care and increase access to services. By providing a care coordination fee for PCMHs, the draft legislation compensates for the additional expertise and time required to care for patients with complex and chronic conditions. The subcommitee's draft has taken an important step toward recognizing the value of continuous and comprehensive primary care, provided through a medical home, to patients with complex chronic disease, and we urge Congress to acknowledge the value of the medical home for all patients.
"Also important, the draft legislation calls on the Secretary of Health and Human Services to identify and adjust misvalued payment codes. Although this is only an early step that will require additional attention, this provision recognizes that physician payment codes no longer accurately describe the expertise, time and investment of services they describe. Accuracy in payment codes is vital to ensuring that patients receive the services they need and don't pay more than they should.
"We are disappointed that the subcommittee's draft does not include a provision to specify a higher base payment rate for those services provided by primary care physicians. We continue to believe that primary care offers the most substantial mechanism to improve health care quality overall and reduce the growth of health care costs, and that the current fee schedule fails to accurately capture the complexity of modern primary care services.
"Nonetheless, with this draft legislation, the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee has made solid progress in meaningful reforms that provide health security for elderly and disabled patients and restrain costs. We welcome the effort and look forward to working with Congress to finish this important reform of the Medicare payment system."
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ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (ADVANCE) NSF Wide Programs
ADVANCE Program Proposal Preparation Webinar and link to FAQs
The ADVANCE program has published a Webinar on proposal preparation for ADVANCE solicitation NSF 19-552. You may view the video here.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for the ADVANCE solicitation NSF 19-552. Please review for potential answers to your questions.
ADVANCE Program Information
The ADVANCE program seeks to develop systemic approaches to increase the participation and advancement of women in academic STEM careers. For more information on the program, please view the ADVANCE brochure here.
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Important Information for Proposers
A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 20-1), is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after June 1, 2020. Please be advised that, depending on the specified due date, the guidelines contained in NSF 20-1 may apply to proposals submitted in response to this funding opportunity.
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The NSF ADVANCE program contributes to the National Science Foundation's goal of a more diverse and capable science and engineering workforce.[1] In this solicitation, the NSF ADVANCE program seeks to build on prior NSF ADVANCE work and other research and literature concerning gender, racial, and ethnic equity. The NSF ADVANCE program goal is to broaden the implementation of evidence-based systemic change strategies that promote equity for STEM [2] faculty in academic workplaces and the academic profession. The NSF ADVANCE program provides grants to enhance the systemic factors that support equity and inclusion and to mitigate the systemic factors that create inequities in the academic profession and workplaces. Systemic (or organizational) inequities may exist in areas such as policy and practice as well as in organizational culture and climate. For example, practices in academic departments that result in the inequitable allocation of service or teaching assignments may impede research productivity, delay advancement, and create a culture of differential treatment and rewards. Similarly, policies and procedures that do not mitigate implicit bias in hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions could lead to women and racial and ethnic minorities being evaluated less favorably, perpetuating historical under-participation in STEM academic careers and contributing to an academic climate that is not inclusive.
All NSF ADVANCE proposals are expected to use intersectional approaches in the design of systemic change strategies for STEM faculty in recognition that gender, race and ethnicity do not exist in isolation from each other and from other categories of social identity. The solicitation includes four funding tracks Institutional Transformation (IT), Adaptation, Partnership, and Catalyst, in support of the NSF ADVANCE program goal to broaden the implementation of systemic strategies that promote equity for STEM faculty.
Please note that NSF ADVANCE does not provide fellowships, research, or travel grants to individual students, postdoctoral researchers, or faculty to pursue STEM degrees or research. Undergraduate STEM opportunities can be found at stemundergrads.science.gov and graduate STEM opportunities at stemgradstudents.science.gov.
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Holiday Baking with Kids: How to Keep it Fun (Without Destroying Your Kitchen!)
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These 5 tips for holiday baking with kids (without destroying your kitchen) were written for Melissa & Doug by special Guest Blogger Tiffany of Peanut Blossom!
The holidays are looming, your to-do list is growing by the day. Now is the perfect time to gather your children for some holiday memory making 'round the kitchen mixer! Of course, baking with kids naturally takes a bit longer and makes quite a bit more mess.
When you're trying to tackle that mile-long to do list it can be easy to think, "I could get this done so much faster alone!" For the over-scheduled mamas of the world, I'm here to share my top 5 tips for making your baking adventures with kids high on fun, low on mess so you're more likely to do it again!
1. Sort ingredients by color: For this holiday cookie recipe we planned to use decorative chocolate candies. While I was gathering all our ingredients for the dough I asked my 5 year old to sort the candies by color into separate bowls. It bought me some time to prepare, kept her busy, and completely engaged with her task.
2. Divide ingredients in half: When baking with 2 kids it can be tricky to make sure everyone feels like they are contributing. When a recipe calls for an even quantity of an ingredient (2 cups of flour, 1 cup of sugar) use a measuring cup 1/2 size down and let each child add half the ingredient (1 cup flour for each to add, 1/2 cup sugar x 2 kids, etc.)
3. Easy pouring: "What can I do?!" both my 5 & 2 year old chime in. I shudder to think of broken eggshells in the cookie dough but my girls just can't resist handling the eggs. I crack the eggs into a separate cup, one at a time. I let the girls take turns dumping the egg into the batter before I crack the next one into the cup.
4. Be ready for the downtime: Being patient for the cookies in the oven can be extremely trying for the little ones. They are so excited to get to the decorating stage but there are 15 minutes of baking and another 10 of cooling before they can start. Rather than breaking up the baking flow, continue the fun with the Melissa & Doug Slice & Bake Cookie Set.
I had the girls mimic our original steps:
– Separate the pretend cookie decorations by color into 2 real prep bowls
– Take turns decorating half the cookie pan.
They enjoyed interacting with this toy and pretending to eat their treats, which gave me plenty of time to rinse down our dishes and mop up the counter so the kitchen was ready for the next step.
5. Rimmed trays save floors!: Give each child a rimmed tray of their own for decorating cookies. All the sprinkles and candies spill over onto the tray and not your floor! You can easily dump the excess into the sink when everyone is done.
If you'd like to have a copy of the recipe for these Peppermint Candy Bark Cookies I'm sharing it over on Peanut Blossom today.


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Blackmon's nine hits in two days tie Rox record
DENVER -- Proving he's no one-night wonder, Charlie Blackmon was back at it Saturday night, following up his franchise-record-tying six-hit performance from Friday night with a three-hit outing Saturday that etched him another spot in the Rockies' record books.
"Charlie's slumping," manager Walt Weiss joked after Blackmon's productivity was cut in half on Saturday. "He'll come out of it."
Blackmon's nine hits over two consecutive games tied a club record set by Juan Pierre from Sept. 20-21, 2002. The Rockies' opponent for Pierre's feat was also the D-backs, with Curt Schilling and Brian Anderson making the starts for Arizona.
"I can't believe he didn't set a record," Weiss said. "It's an amazing run. I don't know if I've seen a 9-for-10. Charlie's worked real hard. It's good to see the payoff."
Blackmon singled to right to lead off the bottom of the first inning Saturday, then saw his string of consecutive hits end at seven in the third when he grounded out on a tough play to first baseman Paul Goldschmidt.
Blackmon beat out an infield single to short in the fifth inning, then stole second and scored the game's tying run on a single to right off the bat of DJ LeMahieu.
Blackmon's record-tying hit came with one on and nobody out in the seventh. He drove a single into center, contributing to another run-scoring rally before being doubled up on a deep drive by LeMahieu to the center-field wall that scored a run while resulting in an 8-4-3 double play.
The Rockies rallied again in the eighth, putting three doubles and two runs together, but the inning ended with Blackmon in the on-deck circle, denied a final chance to take sole possession of the two-day record.
Pierre needed 11 at-bats to collect his nine hits, driving in three and scoring four times over the two-game span.
Blackmon's 9-for-10 spree included five RBIs, five runs scored, three doubles and a home run.
His seven hits in seven consecutive plate appearances were three shy of the National League record of 10, accomplished four times and most recently by the Braves' Matt Diaz in 2006. The Major League record is 12 hits in 12 consecutive plate appearances by Detroit's Walt Dropo in 1952.


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The Delta Rain Cuff is an exquisite, finely handcrafted cuff, finished with a 24 kt gold plating, and decorated with AB Swarovski crystals.
Part of a collection of high-end luxury jewellery from Eden Diodati. Hand made by an extraordinary cooperative of women who survived the genocide in Rwanda. Gathering orphaned and widowed women in Kigali, the cooperative provides work for more than 5,000 genocide survivors.
Eden Diodati is a unique collection of sustainable luxury jewellery pieces made by an extraordinary social cooperative of women who survived the genocide in Rwanda. Each piece is made in Italy and hand beaded in Rwanda, employing centuries old artisanal skills and craftsmanship to achieve finishes of the highest level.
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Omron's initial offering of IO-Link products includes photoelectric sensors, color mark sensors, proximity sensors and IO-Link masters. By connecting sensors and controllers via IO-Link, all necessary information for satble sensor operations, such as incident light levels, are visible. Now, monitoring and error detection at the sensor level is possible; reducing downtime, aiding in predictive maintenance and decreasing commissioning time.


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Tales from Tales of the Cocktail: A Little Advice
Editor's Note: Our barman Michael Neff is reporting from Tales of the Cocktail. What's that? He filled us in here.
Roosevelt Hotel, 5:14 a.m.
The question of how to survive Tales of the Cocktail has come up often in the last few weeks, and at this late hour, retaining the ability to both stay awake and put words together to form sentences, I feel capable of giving the following tips:
1. Remember that you are always working. Tales is attended by both consumers, hobbyists, and professionals, and to the consumers and hobbyists I would say, "Have a great time!" New Orleans is full of opportunities for drinking at any hour, and the events at Tales add even more to the mix. If this is your vacation and you are not in the business, knock yourself out.
For those of us here in a professional capacity, keep it together. Yes, you can be drunk at two in the afternoon and no one will look sideways at you, but you are in public, among your peers, your bosses, and people who may consider hiring you in the future. If you are the one who drunkenly jumped in to the pool, that incident is probably going to be discussed at a future job interview.
2. Do not wear a suit. If you do, you become a magnet for local pan-handlers, prostitutes, and street-corner roustabouts. I have lived in cities all over this country, and have never been approached for money more often than when I am wearing a suit in New Orleans. Every single hustle has started with the same line: "Hey, that's a nice suit."
3. Eat well and often. New Orleans has a fantastic food culture, from the "Peacemaker Po' Boy" to a multi-star meal at Cochon. It is one of those cities where the most pedestrian of food both reflects the local culture and can be amazing for not a lot of money. There is no excuse to drink on an empty stomach.
4. Remember that there are always more drinks to come. Tonight I attended two massive welcome parties, and people were drinking the free cocktails as if the well would run dry and no one ever get a cocktail again. Take your time. Pace yourself. You don't want to be the person at the end of the night who tries to make out with a fire hydrant.
5. Be mindful of safety. The people are nice, but that doesn't mean that they won't kill you. This evening a local bartender warned me that crime is a continuous problem in New Orleans, and the murder rate is one of the highest in the country. Remember that you have to walk through those streets to get back to your hotel, and the very friendly local who pats you on the back on the sidewalk is probably not trying to just make friends. Be careful.
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dumiretech necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 14 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
I need a prototype of a site for a local jewelry store. Must be art deco inspired, targeted towards a middle aged female clientele. Specifically looking for some curves, but not flowery. Must incorporate the existing logo (which is admittedly not art deco). We'll need a main content box for images and text and square icons beneath it for navigation. Must have by Monday May 7 at noon.
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art deco style. Must have some curve to it. Should be feminine for the target audience of 35+ females. Not pretentious.
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Unflattened Photoshop .psd
I have a very picky jewelry store client and I need a prototype for thier site. They want their site to reflect the look of the store. The site design needs to be art deco inspired in that it has some curve to it but the overall design should be simple and elegent, but not pretentious. It needs to be soft and feminine. It also needs to incorporate their existing logo, which is not soft, or feminine, or art deco for that matter.
The layout should have a center content box that will contain the main page items. Beneath that box should be a line of icons. These icons will cause the center box to change. They like the transitions that come with flash but we may also use dhtml.
I'm specifically looking for an unflattened photoshop file as the final deliverable. I will handle the rest of the coding. I need to have something to show the client by Monday May 7 at noon. Sorry for the crunch but I'm hoping some of you will have some time to kill over the weekend.
I'll load some photos that they would like to use and the logo to my dev server at http://jbd.dumire.net (It's not there yet but will be by about 2:00 PM today (Friday May 4)