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|Instrument: AMSR-E : Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
Instrument Category:
Earth Remote Sensing Instruments
Instrument Class: Passive Remote Sensing
Instrument Type: Spectrometers/Radiometers
Instrument Subtype: Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers
Associated Platforms
Spectral/Frequency Information
Wavelength Keyword: Microwave
Number Channels: 12 Channels
Spectral/Frequency Coverage/Range: 0.34 - 4.35 cm / 6.9 - 89.0 GHz
Related Data Sets
View all records related to this instrument
The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS (AMSR-E) is one of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission instruments flown on the Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua spacecraft, which was launched May 4, 2002. A similar instrument (AMSR) was flown on the JAXA ADEOS-II spacecraft in December 2002.
AMSR-E monitors various atmospheric and surface water processes that influence weather and climate. It provides improved measurements of rain rates and greatly extends the spatial coverage of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, while also measuring water vapor, sea surface winds, sea surface temperature, sea ice, soil moisture, snow cover, and the amount of water in clouds.
The AMSR-E is a 14-channel, 8-frequency passive microwave radiometer which measures microwave radiation from the Earth's surface and atmosphere. Frequencies of the AMSR-E are 6.9, 10.7, 18.7, 23.8, 36.5, and 89.0 (horizontal and vertical polarization), and 50.3 and 52.8 GHz (vertical polarization only). AMSR has a large antenna (2 meters, one of the largest), and a field of view of 7 km at 89 GHz and 60km at 6.9 GHz. It scans conically at an incidence angle of 55 degrees to achieve a 1600 km swath width. Data are externally calibrated by a cold sky temperature (2.7K) and a high-temperature hot load.
Key AMSR-E Facts
Heritage: SMMR (on Nimbus-7 and Seasat), SSM/I (on DMSP), AMSR (on ADEOS II)
Swath Width: 1445 km
Coverage: Global coverage every 1 to 2 days
Spatial Resolution: 6 km x 4 km (89.0 GHz), 14 km x 8 km (36.5 GHz), 32 km x 18 km (23.8 GHz), 27 km x 16 km (18.7 GHz), 51 km x 29 km (10.65 GHz), 74 km x 43 km (6.925 GHz)
Dimensions: Sensor Unit: 1.95 m x 1.7 m x 2.4 m (deployed); Control Unit: 0.8 m x 1.0 m x 0.6 m
Mass: 314 kg
Power: 350 W
Duty Cycle: 100%
View: Forward-looking conical scan
Incidence Angle: 55°
Instrument IFOV at Nadir: Ranges from 74 km x 43 km for 6.9 GHz to 6 km x 4 km for 89.0 GHz
Sampling Interval: 10 km for 6-36 GHz channels, 5 km for the 89 GHz channel
Accuracy: 1 K or better
Design Life: 3 years
Online Resources
Instrument Logistics
Data Rate: 87.4 kbps average, 125 kbps peak
Instrument Start Date: 2002-06-18
Instrument Owner: JAPAN/JAXA

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The Fuji Guys mentioned today that Fuji's upcoming line of X-series interchangeable lens, mirror-less cameras based on the popular X-100 will not use a micro 4/3 sensor but rather a "premium" (read: larger) one that delivers better resolution and less noise than a 35mm full frame sensor.
Other details are still scarce and it looks like we'll have to wait until Fuji officially unveils the cameras at CES 2012 in January for more. [Fuji Guys via Petapixel]
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Steak Ingredients
2 flank steaks, 1 1/2 lb each
kosher salt
2 tsp light brown sugar, packed
1 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Vegetable oil (for brushing)
Salad Ingredients
1 cup finely chopped red onion
3 tbsp sherry vinegar, divided
2 lbs cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
1 cup chopped celery hearts (inner stalks and leaves from 1 bunch)
1/2 cup chopped brined green olives plus 2 tbsp olive brine
2 tbsp prepared horseradish
1 tbsp Worchestershire sauce
1 tsp hot pepper sauce
1/2 tsp celery seed
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Steak Directions
Place steaks on a large rimmed baking sheet, season with salt. Mix sugar and next 3 ingredients in a small bowl; rub all over steaks. Cover and refrigerate 1-3 hours.
Let steaks stand at room temperature for 1 hour. Build a medium-hot fire in a charcoal grill, or heat a gas grill to high. Brush grates with oil. Grill to desired doneness, about 5-7 minutes per side for medium-rare. Let rest for 10 minutes.
Salad Directions
Mix onion and 1 tablespoon vinegar in a large bowl. Let macerate 10 minutes, tossing often. Add tomatoes, celery, and olives.
Whisk remaining 2 tablespoons vinegar, olive brine, horseradish, and next 3 ingredients in a medium bowl. Slowly whisk in oil. Add to bowl with tomato mixture; toss to coat. Season with salt and pepper.
Cut steak crosswise into 1/4" thick slices. Serve salad with steak.


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U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin by phone Friday morning, but no consensus on how best to move forward over the crisis in Ukraine was reached and each country represented the call, not surprisingly, with sharply different narratives.
On Thursday, Obama signed off on a series of "soft" sanctions against Russia, but Putin is reportedly undeterred by the U.S. placement of some travel restrictions on officials.
"The U.S. has the right [to sanction], and we have the right to respond to it," said Vladimir Lukin, a Russian government official who has worked on the Ukrainian crisis, told Interfax, a Russian news agency. "But all that is, of course, not making me happy." Lukin was referring to previous Russian warnings that it would respond to economic sanctions by western countries, with counter-sanctions of its own.
While Obama repeated his objections to a move by Crimea to schedule a vote on whether it would remain part of Ukraine, Putin said that his country would defend the right of Crimeans to seek Russian protection as they continue to ask for it.
"Russia cannot ignore calls for help and it acts accordingly, in full compliance with international law," Putin said on his call with Obama. The Russian Federation Council on Friday also offered its official endorsement of the Crimea referendum.
According to statements from the White House, Mr. Obama urged Mr. Putin on the call to authorize direct talks with Ukraine's newly established government in Kiev, allow entry of international monitors and return his military forces to the bases that Russia maintains in Crimea.
Putin responded by saying that the government Kiev was ushered in by an "anti-constitutional coup" and he continues to view it as not "legitimate" it as it has no popular mandate across the country.
The New York Times explains the tensions surrounding the Crimea vote, currently set for March 16, by noting how both international powers are leveraging their outsized influence to make declarations about representing the will of the Ukrainian people:
With Washington and Moscow trading angry accusations of hypocrisy on the issue of respecting state sovereignty, validating Crimea's secession would carry pointed political risks for Mr. Putin, given longstanding demands for independence from Russia by its own similarly autonomous republics in the Caucasus, including Dagestan and Chechnya.
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The West, which has insisted that the Ukrainian people are entitled to decide their future without interference from Russia, faces similar challenges as it seeks to explain why the people of Crimea should not necessarily decide their own fate.
Meanwhile, the Guardian reports that "Ukraine's border guard operation now believes Russia has 30,000 troops in the region, almost twice the estimate of 16,000 given by the Ukrainian government earlier this week."
Lastly, as events on the international and diplomatic level continued to unfold, voices on the street in Crimea reveal the worry by many that what will be forgotten as world powers like the U.S., Russia, and the EU squabble over their own interests and desires, the interests of Ukrainians--on all sides of the complex situation--will be forgotten. As the Moscow Times reports from a pro-Russian rally in the regional capitol of Simferopol:
Most of the people at the rally were middle aged or older with a minority of younger people.
"We vote for Russia, but there are diverse opinions among the young," said Liza, 17, and Anton, 22, who are not related but share the surname Kuznetsov.
"We do not want to see in Simferopol what has happened in Kiev," they said.
Overall, passions in Crimea are high. Expressions of feverish joy and gloomy despair provide thin cover for the only emotion that is shared by everyone here — anxiety.
"Russians have their own interests, Americans theirs and nobody thinks of the people," said Geroy, spitting on the ground.


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Red and Green machine hits full throttle, downs SHG 58-42
By Jeff Benjamin
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[February 16, 2013]
In a moment of full disclosure,
I have to admit that this article took a while to get going. How to
convey all the emotions that enveloped Roy S. Anderson on Friday
night? What catchy way to grab your attention, leading into
discussion about the Railer victory? But, as I generally do, I go
back to some of the lessons my dad taught me, and one hit me square
in the face: Get to the point and make it.
John Welsh will be truly missed.
Short and to the point. Now there is much more to that point, but
as Justin Tierney so effectively pointed out in his
preview article, you can't get too far in a trip to Railer
Nation without finding something that was touched by John Welsh, who
died last Sunday.
"He had more impact on me than anyone else here at Lincoln,"
coach Neil Alexander said after his Railers picked up their 24th win
of the season, a 58-42 win over SHG. "It was a sad day when he
(Welsh) left us."
How true. How very, very true.
And Friday night's contest, yes, Welsh would have enjoyed that as
well. It was a game that brought some of the tenacity that has
become the trademark of Lincoln defense, in this, a season where the
school's defensive scoring average is being challenged by a squad
that is allowing just 37.6 points per game.
Welsh was honored before the game as the Railers and their
coaches stood in front of the Lincoln bench. As PA announcer Steve
Sauer seemed to choke back his own emotions, Welsh's attributes and
involvements were noted as a solemn crowd listened. As Sauer
finished his remarks, a full house at Roy S. Anderson came to its
feet as one for a standing ovation in tribute to a man who is as
responsible as anyone for the tradition of Lincoln Railer
On to Railer basketball and a game that could have been hyped as
a revenge game, but the coaching staff tried to make sure the team
looked at it as just a game to focus on and let everything take care
of itself. After falling to SHG in late January, if the Railers had
any aspirations of playing for at least a share of the conference
title next week, a win was necessary on Friday night.
For about a quarter and a half, it was a back-and-forth struggle.
Finally, the Red and Green machine hit full throttle on both ends of
the court, and a seemingly tight affair got out of hand very
After giving up an early 3, the Railers knotted the score with a
3 of their own from Tyler Horchem. The junior had struggled from
behind the line last weekend, going 0-fer from behind the arc.
Senior Will Podbelsek's pull-up jumper just inside the 3-point line
put Lincoln up 5-3 and ended up being the Railers' only two-pointer
of the first half. SHG continued to counter all the Railer scoring
as they tied the game at five as well as eight after Edward Bowlby
connected from long range.
Junior Max Cook, who scored a game-high 19 points, hit the first
of his four 3-pointers to put Lincoln back up at 11-8. Cook's 3 from
the top of the key was set up by a nice effort from Joey Olden, who
kept the ball alive on the offensive glass in order to get the ball
to Cook.
A 3 from Podbelsek pushed the Lincoln lead to six at 14-8, but an
answer from Ben Sestak, SHG's own long-range threat, closed the
first-quarter scoring with the Railers up 14-11.
The Cyclones (19-7, 10-5) continued their run to start the second
quarter, tallying the first four points to take the lead 15-14. As
has been habit all season, the Railers were able to answer with a
run of their own. Threes from Cook and Bowlby started the run, and
Olden made a pair from the line to give Lincoln the 22-15 advantage.
After another 3 from Sestak pulled SHG closer, the frustrations grew
on the bench.
"What frustrated me the most was we never made him (Sestak) put
the ball on the floor," Alexander said. "He was able to just catch
and shoot. At the end, you saw how we rushed him, but we've got to
do better."
Cook closed out the scoring with a pair of free throws to send
Lincoln into the locker room with a 24-18 lead.
The halftime break did not interfere with the Railer momentum as
Lincoln (24-4, 13-2) exploded for the first eight points of the half
to extend the run to 18-3. A 3 from Podbelsek was followed by a hoop
from Cook and the first scoring of the night from sophomore Gavin
Block, who finished the night with 13 points. Another free throw
from Cook and SHG was looking up at a 32-18 deficit, a much
different game than the Jan. 25 contest at Jim Belz Gymnasium.
But give SHG and coach Blake Lucas credit as they did not just go
away. They continued to fight, but on this night, the Railers had an
answer each time it was needed.
[to top of second column]
A pair of 3s from Cook, one to end the third and another to start
the fourth, put the Lincoln lead at 15, up 40-25. The 3s from Cook
allowed him to pass Nathaniel Smith for 24th on the list of career
3s made, with now 72 in his three seasons. A conventional
three-point play from Block gave Lincoln their biggest lead of the
night at 17, and from there it was a basket from Bowlby mixed with
one trip after another to the free-throw line, where the Railers
finished 14 of 16 in the fourth quarter.
SHG did have one final attempt to get back into it but simply ran
out of time. The Cyclones produced a spurt of 11-5 to pull to within
10 at 50-40 but could never get the lead back under double figures.
Block came up big in the fourth, hitting all seven of his free-throw
It was certainly a physical game, and I don't think we'd expect a
Lincoln-SHG tilt to be any different.
Coach Alexander thinks SHG could be a tough out in the
Jacksonville Regional. "They're a tough, tough team and they could
win over there," Alexander stated. "But Southeast is probably the
favorite, but Lanphier won over Jacksonville tonight, so really,
anybody could win that one."
Once again, balanced scoring was the name of the game for Lincoln
as three got to double figures and just missed having a fourth.
Cook's 19 led the way, with Block scoring 13. Podbelsek, in his
next-to-last game at home, added 10 along with tying Jake Carey for
20th all-time with 85 made 3-pointers. Bowlby finished with nine
points, with Olden going perfect in four attempts from the line and
Horchem scoring three.
The night got off to a good start as usual with the sophomores
improving to 21-1 with a decisive 55-27 victory.
In another moment fitting of the standing ovation received, a
plaque was presented to PA announcer Steve Sauer for his over 30
years of contributions and service to Lincoln sports. AD Sam Knox
noted that as the announcer for basketball, football, softball and
many other activities, Sauer has been the voice of Railer Sports for
well over 1,000 games. Sauer is planning to retire from his vocal
responsibilities to spend more time with his family. A tribute
well-deserved for Steve.
The Railers are back in action one final time at Roy S. Anderson
this season. Saturday night, the Maroons of Moline will play the
role of attempted spoiler. It is again an early start, with the
sophomores beginning at 5 and the varsity at 6:30.
A reminder that Saturday night is also Senior Night and Fan
Appreciation Night. This is a great opportunity to see a very good
basketball team that is supported by the best pep band in the state
of Illinois as well as a cheer and pom squad that puts in all the
work and effort as well to make a night at Roy S. Anderson an
experience that is well worth it. For the seniors, it is the last
go-around. Let's send them out showing how much they are appreciated
by the Railer Nation.
Cook 5 5-6 19, Block 3 7-7 13, Podbelsek 3 2-4 10, Bowlby 3 1-3
9, Olden 0 4-4 4, Horchem 1 0-0 3, Krusz 0 0-0 0. Team 15 19-24 58.
3-point field goals 9 (Cook 4, Podbelsek 2, Bowlby 2, Horchem).
Sestak 12, Turner 9, Lowis 7, Vogel 6, Aiello 3, Zanger 3, Jacob
2. Team 13 9-13 42. 3-point field goals 7 (Sestak 4, Vogel, Zanger,
Scoring by quarters:
One final note. How much impact has John Welsh had on the Railer
program? Well, maybe without him explaining to coach Alexander how
important the tradition of Lincoln basketball is, it's possible
Alexander might not have passed a milestone of his own this week.
Friday night was the 694the game in Coach Al's career at Lincoln,
giving him one more than the games coached by No. 2 (Paul Johnson,
354) and No. 3 (Loren Wallace, 339) on that list combined (693).
[By JEFF BENJAMIN]
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The second BCS rankings were released Sunday night, and there wasn't much change among the top five. The only move? Kansas State hurdled Oregon to take over the No. 3 position after a convincing win over West Virginia on Saturday.
The SEC still holds the top two spots in the BCS with Alabama and Florida. Notre Dame stayed at No. 5 after barely beating BYU. The Irish will have a chance to move up the standings next week if they can beat No. 8 Oklahoma. LSU, the highest-ranked one-loss team, comes in at No. 6 and Oregon State continues to have a remarkable season at No. 7. USC and Georgia round out the top 10.
The SEC's presence in the BCS continues with Mississippi State at No. 11 and Florida State comes in at No. 12. The Bulldogs will face top-ranked Alabama next. South Carolina drops six spots after getting throttled at Florida, and a pair of Big East teams, Louisville and Rutgers, land at spots 15 and 16.
West Virginia continues to slide down the polls after its second consecutive blowout loss and Texas A&M comes in at No. 20 to give the SEC seven BCS top-25 teams. Boise State, Michigan (hello again, B1G), Texas, Ohio (for the first time in school history) and Wisconsin round out the top 25.
(Many thanks to the National Football Foundation for the chart)


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There's nothing like being first, of course, and Ride's fame and popularity stems in part from her place in history. But Ride hasn't coasted since returning from low orbit. After the Challenger explosion in 1986, Ride was appointed to the Presidential Commission that investigated the accident. Her work on the Commission proved so valuable that she stayed at NASA headquarters to develop an influential report on the future of the space program that offered many reasons to look beyond the shuttle disaster.
Since retiring from NASA, Ride's passion has been science education and finding new ways to bring more women in science and math fields. Her company Sally Ride Science provides teaching materials to K-12 classrooms that showcase real-life role models among women and minority scientists. She's also in high demand as a speaker on science education, and her "Shoot for the Stars" lecture is one of her most-requested speeches. This version below shows why she's been asked to pilot the podium so often, and what you might be able to borrow for your own solo flights:
- Don't skip the details. Ride opens many of her talks by describing how she became an astronaut. The short story is that she answered an ad in the Stanford school newspaper. But Ride makes a smart move by telling the story the long way instead. She talks about exactly where she was sitting in the cafeteria with the paper, where the ad was placed on the page and how she finished her NASA application that same afternoon. The details make it easy for listeners to "join" Ride as she revisits that important day, and then they're ready to move with her as she continues the speech.
- Use slides for more than just background. Ride jokes that she's not allowed to speak anywhere unless she agrees to bring along photos from her shuttle flights. And her slides are gorgeous and unique, from the "thin blue crayon line" that delineates the Earth's atmosphere to the jet contrails woven over the busy Lisbon airport. But she carefully chooses images that will make a point for her: Science is needed to grapple with challenges like climate change and urbanization that affect all of us on the planet. For the most part, Ride is an unemotional speaker, so the slides also serve to make this point in a more eloquent way than might happen if she had to spell it out. If you're scared to embrace visual aids, consider how much work the "pretty pictures" do in this speech.
- Say more with your Q&A. Ride smoothly handles the questions at the end of this speech, but it's interesting to watch how well she uses the Q&A to fit even more data into a data-filled speech. She's able to give guidance to a teacher who says her students think math is too difficult, and she offers some statistics on the employment outlook for engineers and technical workers. The topics are important enough to go into the main body of her talk, but she's had enough experience to know when to hold back and wait to hear what else her audience wants to know.


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Ship La Grace
La Grace is an authentic replica of a brig from the second half of the 18th century. Her construction by Dan Rosecky was based on the plans which were published in Architectura navalis mercatoria from 1768 by a Sweedish admiral Fredrik Henrik af Chapman. He was probably the greatest ship constructor of all times who laid foundation to modern ship construction based on accurate building plans. Long before Ford he established a "flow production" from prearranged parts and thanks to this idea he cut down the construction time 10x. Many war and trade ships were constructed by his plans. And on his plans are based all modern replicas of historical sailing ships from 15 to 18 century.
Brigs were the most common commercial ship since they didn't require a large crew. For their speed and maneuverability they were used by navy as courier boats, for combats with pirates and for espionage.
Although La Grace is build in such a way that even admiral Nelson will not recognize any historical inconsistency at first sight, inside she is equipped by all the modern electronics, safety systems and equipments which will allow her to sail safely and also provide the crew by comfortable environment for relaxation or training.
|Technical description
|Length of hull
|23,8 m
|Max. length inkl. jib boom
|32,3 m
|2,8 m
|125 t
|Sail area
|364 m2
|High of masts
|25 m
|Engine MAN D 2866 TE
|Oil tanks
|4 t
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Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2011
Two teenage girls and a noble, aged horse on a road trip. What could beat that?
Sixteen-year-old Hattie, in an expressive, quirky yet pitch-perfect first-person voice, provides the flowing narrative, as she steals Speed, an ancient horse scheduled to be put down the following autumn morning (merely to prevent the possibility of a difficult winter burial) and heads west with her best friend, Delores. She's an emotionally fragile 18-year-old, rejected by her boyfriend-focused mother, and needs a rescue almost as badly as the horse. Their goal is to find free range for Speed, offering him the opportunity, for once in his life, to just be a horse—free, not plodding around a carnival ring. Along the way they encounter other horse lovers, most notably Julie, an elderly woman who just wants to share a few heart-wrenching moments with patient Speed; Fry, a Minnesota double amputee with plenty of land and a big heart; and Punch, a handsome young rodeo rider who loves both horses and Hattie. Monniger's writing is delicious, evocative and, especially during horse-focused scenes, moving.
Horse story, road trip, coming-of-age tale: It's any and all of these, but mostly a tender and authentic voyage into the mind of a wise, funny and wholly likable protagonist. (Fiction. 11 & up)


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Todd Duffee: Time Away from UFC Hurt Development, But It's a Relief to Return
After more than two and a half years away from the UFC, Todd Duffee was relieved to get back in the Octagon and score a win Dec. 29 at UFC 155.
The 27-year-old heavyweight stopped Philip De Fries with punches 2:04 into the first round.
"It's a big relief," Duffee told the Sherdog Radio Network's "Beatdown" show. "I can actually kind of relax for the fact that all I have to worry about now is training and fighting. I don't have to be sitting on the phone trying to figure out when can I get a fight."
Duffee debuted in the UFC with a seven-second knockout of Tim Hague in August 2009. However, he was released after a loss to Mike Russow and struggled to get fights outside of the promotion.
"The big thing, I think, [about] this time away was it hurt my development," Duffee said. "I think I could have improved a lot more in the last two years had I not been dealing with some of the situations I had."
Duffee was 1-1 in his time outside of the UFC, losing via knockout to Alistair Overeem before stopping Neil Grove. His inability to stay active caused him to consider retirement.
"I was at the point financially that the efforts I was putting in, it wasn't paying off," Duffee said. "It didn't make a lot of sense. You start feeling stupid after a certain amount of time, like how delusional am I? But it did pay off, and I'm excited that I've got things back on track."
Not only is Duffee back in the UFC, he has settled at one of the premier training camps in MMA: American Kickboxing Academy. There, he trains alongside UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez and also Daniel Cormier, among others.
"I think wrestling's a huge part of the sport, and that's what I've always kind of been chasing, to get that kind of training, and I'm getting it," Duffee said. "Obviously [AKA] is going to help me there. It's going to help me everywhere. It's a good camp, and the best thing about it is they've got great bodies in there to work with and we all work together really well."
Duffee sees himself sticking with AKA, and though he once considered retirement, he sees himself fighting for some time as well.
"In my career it's been pretty evident that I've seen some of the absolute highs of the highs of this sport and I've also seen some of the lows of the lows," he said. "That's everybody in this sport. If they stick around long enough and they really stick through it, that stuff's going to happen. To sum it up, it's been a roller coaster, but I've still found a way to really truly enjoy it."
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BanyanTheory necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 80 design presentati da 26 designer.
Blue Valley Insurance Agency needs a new logo to go along with a new website design.
Blue Valley Insurance Agency, Inc.
Desired Color Scheme:
gray-blue, as described in the main description
Desired Style:
clean, professional, and relatively simple, but not boring
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
Blue Valley Insurance Agency needs a new logo to go along with a new website design. The in-progress website design is viewable at http://bvia.banyantheory.com.
The main logo color should be approximately the same gray-blue that was used for the company's existing logo, available at http://www.bvia.com/Logo.jpg. Another acceptable color to use (if the original gray-blue is too designer unfriendly) is #4A5A78. Other like blues will be considered, but should be similar in order to stay consistent with the company's existing stationery. The website design will be updated to reflect the final logo color scheme, so please do not use the site design as a color reference. Please do, however, refer to it to make sure the logo fits the design.
Note that the logo on the demo site is just a placeholder, and neither it nor the company's existing logo should influence the new logo design.
The new logo should portray a clean, professional image of the company. It should have a transparent background, and it should be arranged in such a way that it is wide and short so as to fit in the same space as the placeholder logo. The exact dimensions of the placeholder is 356x61, but this is not a hard limit.
Only the words "Blue Valley Insurance" are required. The word "Agency" is optional, and "Inc." is also acceptable if it fits nicely within the logo. The owner expressed interest in dropping "Agency" and "Inc." from the new logo, but in general prefers whatever best fits the design.
The logo should be in vector format. Specifically, it must be able to be opened with Adobe Illustrator CS3.
Please do not contact Blue Valley Insurance directly. This contest is being held on its behalf, by Banyan Theory, LLC (http://www.banyantheory.com).
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I thought that since I have a strong sweet-tooth, I should be submitting a Dessert!! My contribution to this cookbook is Mango Kulfi. This is the result of my experiment in submitting a recipe to this endeavour. I must say that it was very succesful and I am proud to be contributing this recipe to the book.
As I am not allowed to publish the recipe before the book is released, I can only give you some tempting pictures and a description of how it turned out. The mango kulfi was really creamy and decadent with the perfect texture of authentic Indian Kulfi. The tantalizing flavor of mango turned out to be in an excellent balance with the other ingredients. The flavor of the "spices" added make the kulfi all the more delicious. I garnished it with some chopped mango and pistachios. It is a must-try for all the dessert lovers out there. JM was asking for more every time he tasted it. I am sure he would've finished the entire thing if would've had let him!! I have also fallen in love with this recipe. I definitely will be making more of this. For now, I hope you all like the pictures of this awesome dessert.
The cookbook will contain contributions from many of your favorite food bloggers. I will update you all on the progress of this effort and you can also help by supporting the cause in ways that you can. Thank you all for reading this post with a cause! ;-)
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FL-D Filter
FL-D filters are used to correct for the greenish tone that appears when shooting daylight film under fluorescent lighting.
An FL-B filter is used to correct the color balance when shooting tungsten film under fluorescent lighting.
Fluorescent lamps burn at many different temperatures and often require more demanding filtration for exact results. For specific filtration and professional use, it is strongly recommended that a color temperature meter be employed along with Color Correction filters (i.e.CC30M) when shooting under fluorescent lighting. This is the only proven way to achieve exact color correction.
Pleasing skin tones under fluorescent lighting without flash
True-to-life color rendition
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Suppose we are in an abelian tensor category with duals, where all objects have finite length. Let $0 \to A \to B \to C \to 0$ be a short exact sequence and $Z$ an object of the category. Is $$0 \to Z \otimes A \to Z \otimes B \to Z \otimes C \to 0$$ exact?
Motivation: I am reading the proof of Proposition 5.7 in this paper of Deligne and trying to figure out why the lower sequence at the bottom of page 23 is exact. I believe $\mathcal{H}om(X,Y)$ here is $X^{\vee} \otimes Y$, although I have not actually found the point in the paper where he defines it. What he is trying to prove is that the corresponding sequence of external Hom's is exact, so he can't be using that fact.
There are, of course, tons of abelian tensor categories where $\otimes$ is not exact. For example, modules for any commutative ring $A$ which is not a field, with tensor product $\otimes_A$. But these don't usually have duals for all of their objects.


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The Transitional Colorado Assessment Program (TCAP) is Colorado's standards-based assessment designed to provide a picture of student performance to schools, districts, educators, parents and the community. The primary purpose of the assessment program is to determine the level at which Colorado students meet the Colorado Model Content Standards in the content areas assessed. The TCAP is collaboratively developed by the Colorado Department of Education, the Colorado teaching community and CTB/McGraw-Hill. The data should be used to keep abreast of individual student, school, and district progress toward attaining higher student achievement levels. The fact that TCAP is based on the Colorado Model Content Standards will ensure that all districts are held to the same challenging standards that Coloradans expect for their students regardless of whether they live in urban, suburban, or rural areas.
Transitional Colorado Assessment Program (TCAP) Key Points
As Colorado shifts to new academic content standards and assessments to measure them, we recognize there are questions about the transition and its roll-out. Here are some key points you may find helpful in explaining that process.
- In December of 2009 and August of 2011, the State Board adopted the new Colorado Academic Standards.
- The Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) was based on the old Colorado Model Content Standards, which does not reflect in any way the new standards. After 16 years, CSAP has concluded its lifecycle.
- The Transitional Colorado Assessment Program (TCAP) has been designed to support school districts as they transition to the new standards.
- Where possible, TCAP has been designed to measure standards that are common between the old standards and new standards.
- The TCAP frameworks clearly show the relationship between the assessment objectives and the Colorado Academic Standards.
- The new standards, however, are often assessed at a lower level than what will be expected once the new standards are fully implemented.
- TCAP will continue to assess the same content areas and grades as CSAP: math, reading and writing in grades three through 10. Science will be assessed in fifth, eighth and 10th grades.
- TCAP encourages districts to move forward with implementation of the new standards, while providing time for the preparation of students for the higher expectations to come.
- TCAP has been designed to be used for two years and by the conclusion of that time, all districts are expected to have transitioned fully to teaching the new academic standards.
- TCAP does not assess the entire Colorado Academic Standards, nor does it assess the new standards at the same level of difficulty which will be expected once the new standards are implemented.
- TCAP does not assess Colorado's new personal financial literacy expectations or social studies. It does not test any content standards that have shifted grades and it will not test any new learning skills that are embedded in the new standards, such as invention and information management.
- When the new standards are fully implemented, a new assessment designed to assess the full depth and breadth of those standards will be needed.
Administration and Procedures
- According to state law, every Colorado student enrolled in a public school is required to take either the TCAP or CoAlt (alternate assessment) in the appropriate grade levels and content areas.
- The cost to administer the TCAP is comparable to the cost of the CSAP.


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The Ghost of Criterion's Past
Ghost talks Criterion's downsizing and its expansion into the UK.
"There was never any big official decision to stop [Criterion working on Need For Speed]," says former Criterion creative director Craig Sullivan. "It just naturally evolved that way. Alex [Ward, Criterion creative director] and Fiona [Sperry, studio director] wanted to do something that wasn't Need For Speed and that's what they're doing now. If you're not both working on the same game then you might as well go and work on separate bits and pieces."
Sullivan's career at Criterion spanned over a decade, during which he contributed to fan-favourite smash 'em up Burnout and shooter experiment Black, and helped lead the charge on Need For Speed's reinvention with 2010's critical darling Hot Pursuit and last year's Most Wanted. But over the last few months, things have changed. Along with 80 per cent of his former Criterion colleagues, Sullivan has formally made the jump to Ghost Games, serving as creative director on the studio's debut title Need For Speed: Rivals.
"At the end of Most Wanted, I knew that Marcus [Nilsson, Ghost studio head] and his team over at Gothenburg were working on Rivals," says Sullivan. "I wanted to be involved, you know, unfinished business with Need For Speed. I love Need For Speed and it's like, give me some more, I'll come and help. I'll be creative director."
Sullivan was one of around 70 people who splintered off from Criterion to grow Ghost, a new Need For Speed studio founded in Gothenburg that has since engulfed the majority of Criterion's Guildford team. But as the news of Criterion's downsizing broke, the changes to the studio raised plenty of unanswered questions, prompting fans to take to message boards and social networks to ponder the 'end' of one of the industry's best-loved teams. Why had the team size been cut to just 16 people? What sort of projects would Criterion be capable of with such a small amount of people? And was this the final nail in the coffin for Burnout?
"Alex, Fiona and a group of around 20-odd people are working on some new stuff that I haven't seen and the majority of the guys [at Ghost UK] haven't seen," says Sullivan, unwilling to spill the beans on the studio's projects. "They're doing cool stuff."
But with Criterion's shrinkage, Ghost swelled. "At the moment, Need For Speed Rivals is being made by close to 100 people in Gothenburg and probably 70 people at Ghost UK," says Sullivan. "There's a lot of experience here so we wanted to make the best use of that."
The UK extension will play a significant role in the future of Need For Speed beyond this year's game. But rather than isolate the studios and allocating them different projects, Sullivan suggests that the teams may be structured to work on the same project in tandem.
"We're only an hour and a half away on the plane so we're constantly pinging back and forth," he says, "and everybody's working on the same software. So to me, it's a big team just in two locations. We've actually had a lot of the guys [from Guildford] coming over and spending a week, two weeks, sometimes longer in Gothenburg, and the same thing for the guys in Gothenburg coming over here. They're essentially the same studio in two different locations. It sounds a bit strange but that's how it's panning out."
Both teams are being overlooked by management in Gothenburg, says Sullivan, "but we have senior guys here as well. This team here I've worked with very closely to ship Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit and Need For Speed: Most Wanted, so 80 per cent of the people who shipped those games are upstairs working on Rivals right now."
If Ghost UK and Ghost Gothenburg continue to collaborate extensively on future projects, though, there are questions to be asked over Need For Speed's scheduling. Even with two teams on board, will Ghost have enough time to develop a new game each year or will Need For Speed be forced to break its 16-year tradition and be taken out of annual rotation?
"Who knows?" says Sullivan. "At the moment, everybody in this building and everybody at Gothenburg is working on Rivals. There are lots of different things we could do after that, but no core decisions have been made yet. There are lots of ideas floating around, but the reality is that it takes so much for a team to ship a game that we are 100 per cent focussed on this. Then when we're done and the game is out and people are having fun with it, then we'll look at exactly what the future holds for us.
"The future is obviously Need For Speed because Ghost are picking up the Need For Speed banner," he continues, "but that can mean many different things. We could stop and wait a few years and do another game or we could do another game sooner. Or we could do a service or tablet stuff. The fact is, there are lots of different things we can do and we will make the decision on exactly what that's going to be once this game is done."
For the immediate future, then, Ghost is concentrating on wrapping up Rivals, a sandbox racer that promises to blend the sweeping roads and high speed pursuits of Hot Pursuit with the open world freedom of Most Wanted.
"The handling is definitely the best we've ever done," says Sullivan. "I think the cars feel a bit more realistic than they have before, but they feel tight and controllable in terms of the best high-speed handling from Hot Pursuit and the best low-speed handling from Most Wanted. I think we've got a really good marriage between the two, and obviously the cop and racer gameplay is back and deeper than ever."
And if Ghost can marry up Criterion's finest with some of the hires it's made recently in Gothenburg, it may be on to a winner in the years ahead, too.
"We have some interesting plans for the future," Sullivan teases. "We've been through some changes and it's all been good and really beneficial to everybody involved, but what happens after this is something that we're working out now and looking very closely at. I can't go into details on that stuff, but I'm sure you and many other people will draw your own conclusions from that."


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New on Inspire Magazine: Adobe Illustrator for web designers
The latest edition of Adobe Inspire Magazine has a great article on using Illustrator for web design.
Michael Chaize, senior Creative Cloud Evangelist, gives you a deep dive into using Illustrator for the web, from creating pixel-perfect graphics, to working with smart Symbols, to extracting CSS properties directly from Illustrator.
The latest features of Illustrator CC are covered as well, such as saving responsive SVG files, and Michael shares some fun tips too, such as playing with color in Kuler and Recolor Artwork.
Be sure to check out this and other stories in this month's Inspire, either on the web, or get the enhanced, interactive version of Adobe Inspire Magazine for Apple iPad and Windows 8.1 devices.


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JAKA TARUB AND NAWANG WULAN legend indonesian
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Jaka Tarub promised to take good care of their daughter. He once again asked for forgiveness for all of his mistakes. "I've forgiven you, so you don't have to feel guilty. I must go now. Take care," said Nawang Wulan as she flew to the bright full moon.visit indonesian bro ^_^ and go to sumatra kerinci.
JAKA TARUB AND NAWANG WULAN legend indonesian
Jaka Tarub was a handsome and diligent young man. He lived in a village near a lake. One day, when Jaka Tarub passed the lake, he heard some giggles and laughs of some girls who were bathing in the lake. He was curious, so he peeped through the bushes. There were seven beautiful girls in the lake. They're fairies from the heavenly kingdom of kahyangan. Jaka Tarub saw a scarf near the bushes. It belonged to one of the fairies. Jaka Tarub then took it and hid it.
Crack!!! Accidentally, Jaka Tarub stepped on a twig. "There's someone!" said one of the fairies. "Let's get back. Hurry!" she said. They pulled over and wear their scarf. "Where is my scarf?" one of the fairies couldn't find her scarf. She was the youngest fairy called Nawang Wulan. They tried to search for it, but it was no where to be found. "We're sorry, Wulan. We have to go back to kahyangan," said the eldest fairy. "You'll have to find it by yourself. We'll wait for you in kahyangan," she said in empathy. The other fairies then flew to the sky leaving Nawang Wulan behind. Nawang Wulan saw them leaving in tears. She was so sad.
"Excuse me …," said Jaka Tarub, startling Nawang Wulan. "Are you okay?" he asked. Nawang Wulan moved backward, "Who are you?" she asked. "My name is Jaka Tarub. I was passing by and I heard you crying, so I came to see what happen," Jaka Tarub lied. Nawang Wulan then told him about her problem. "I can't fly without my scarf," she said. Jaka Tarub then asked Nawang Wulan to come home with him. At first, Nawang Wulan refused the offer. But since she didn't have anywhere else to go, Nawang Wulan then decided to follow Jaka Tarub.
Nawang Wulan stayed with Jaka Tarub in the village. A month passed, and they decided to get married. Nawang Wulan was willing to marry a human because she fell in love with Jaka Tarub. After a year, they had a beautiful daughter. They named her Kumalasari. They lived happily.
Jaka Tarub was also happy to live with Nawang Wulan and Kumalasari. Especially because he always got a lot of harvest since he married Nawang Wulan. He couldn't even keep all of his harvest in the barn because it was always full. "It's so weird. Nawang Wulan cooked everyday, but why is my barn always full," Jaka Tarub mumbled to himself. He was so curious. One day, Jaka Tarub stayed at home. "I want to stay home today. I'd like to play with Kumalasari," he said to his wife. "Well, I'll go to the river to wash the clothes. Please keep an eye on Kumalasari," asked Nawang Wulan. "I'm cooking rice now. Please do not open the pan cover before it's done," she said just before she left. "Could this be the secret?" Jaka Tarub thought. After Nawang Wulan left, he curiously opened the pan cover. He found only one single paddy. "How come?" he wondered.
Before lunch, Nawang Wulan came home. She headed to the kitchen to see the rice she had cooked. She found that the rice turned into only a few grains. "Did you open the pan cover?" she asked her husband. "I… I'm sorry. I was curious," Jaka Tarub said as he realized his fault.
Ever since, Nawang Wulan had lost her power. She couldn't cook rice with only a single paddy. Their paddy supply was slowly lessened. Their barn was almost empty. One day, Nawang Wulan went to the barn to get some paddy. When she took one of them, she found a scarf. "What's this? This is my scarf," said Nawang Wulan startled.
That night, Nawang Wulan asked her husband about the scarf. Jaka Tarub's eyes widened, "You found it?" he asked. Jaka Tarub looked down and asked for her forgiveness. "Because I've found my scarf, it's time for me to go back to where I belong," Nawang Wulan said. Jaka Tarub tried to stop her, but Nawang Wulan had made up her mind. "Please take good care of Kumalasari," she said. "If she wanted to see me, take seven grains of candlenut and put it into a basket. Shake it as you play the bamboo flute. I'll come to see her," she explained.
Jaka Tarub promised to take good care of their daughter. He once again asked for forgiveness for all of his mistakes. "I've forgiven you, so you don't have to feel guilty. I must go now. Take care," said Nawang Wulan as she flew to the bright full moon.visit indonesian bro ^_^ and go to sumatra kerinci.


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Tutorial - Win32 and OpenGL 4.3 - Part3
1. Introduction
This article is mainly intended to give some introductory background information to the graphics pipeline in a triangle based rendering scheme and how it maps to the different system components. We'll only cover the parts of the pipeline that are relevant to understand the rendering of a single triangle with OpenGL (which will be covered in a later post).
2. Graphics Pipeline
The basic functionality of the graphics pipeline is to transform your 3D scene, given a certain camera position and camera orientation, into a 2D image that represents the 3D scene from this camera's viewpoint. We'll start by giving an overview of this graphics pipeline for a triangle based rendering scheme in the following paragraph. Subsequent paragraphs will then elaborate on the identified components.
2.1. High-level Graphics pipeline overview
The basic functionality of the graphics pipeline is to transform your 3D scene, given a certain camera position and camera orientation, into a 2D image that represents the 3D scene from this camera's viewpoint. We'll start by giving an overview of this graphics pipeline for a triangle based rendering scheme in the following paragraph. Subsequent paragraphs will then elaborate on the identified components.
2.1. High-level Graphics pipeline overview
We'll discuss the graphics pipeline from what can be seen in figure 1. This figure shows the application running on the CPU as the starting point for the graphics pipeline. The application will be responsible for the creation of the vertices and it will be using a 3D API to instruct the CPU/GPU to draw these vertices to the screen.
We'll typically want to transfer our vertices to the memory of the GPU. As soon as the vertices have arrived on the GPU, they can be used as input to the shader stages of the GPU. The first shader stage is the vertex shader, followed by the fragment shader. The input of the fragment shader will be provided by the rasterizer and the output of the fragment shader will be captured in a color buffer which resides in the backbuffer of our double-buffered framebuffer. The contents of the frontbuffer from the double-buffered framebuffer is displayed on the screen. In order to create animation, the front- and backbuffer will need to swap roles as soon as a new image has been rendered to the backbuffer.
|Figure 1: Functional Graphics Pipeline
Typically, our application is the place where we want to define the geometry that we want to render to the screen. This geometry can be defined by points, lines, triangles, quads, triangle strips... These are so called geometric primitives, since they can be used to generate the desired geometry. A square for example can be composed out of 2 triangles and a triangle can be composed from 3 points. Lets assume we want to render a triangle, then you can define 3 points in your application, which is exactly what we'll do here. These points will then reside in system memory. The GPU will need access to these points, this is where the 3D API, such as Direct3D or OpenGL will come into play. Your application will use the 3D API to transfer the defined vertices from system memory into the GPU memory. Also note that the order of the points can not be random. This will be discussed when we consider primitive assembly.
2.2. Vertices
In graphics programming, we tend add some more meaning to a vertex then its mathematical definition. In mathematics you could say that a vertex defines the location of a point in space. In graphics programming however, we generally add some additional information. Suppose we already know that we would like to render a green point, then this color information can be added. So we'll have a vertex that contains location, as well as color information. Figure 2 clarifies this aspect, where you can see a more classical "mathematical" point definition on the left and a "graphics programming" definition on the right.
|Figure 2: Pure "mathematics" view on the left versus a "graphics programming" view on the right
Shaders can be seen as programs, taking inputs to transform them into outputs. It is interesting to understand that a given shader is executed multiple times in parallel for independent input values: since the input values are independent and need to be processed in exact the same way, we can see how the processing can be done in parallel.
We can consider the vertices of a triangle as independent inputs to the vertex shaders. Figure 3 tries to clarify this with a "pass-through" vertex shader. A "pass-through" vertex shader will take the shader inputs and will pass these to its output without modifying these: the vertices P1, P2 and P3 from the triangle are fetched from memory, each individual vertex is fed to vertex shader instances which run in parallel. The outputs from the vertex shaders are fed into the primitive assembly stage.
|Figure 3: Clarification of shaders
The primitive assembly stage will break our geometry down into the most elementary primitives such as points, lines and triangles. For triangles it will also determine whether it is visible or not, based on the "winding" of the triangle. In OpenGL, an anti-clockwise wounded triangle is considered as front-facing by default and will thus be visible. Clockwise wounded triangles are considered back-facing and will thus be culled (or removed from rendering).
2.5. Rasterization
After the visible primitives have been determined by the primitive assembly stage, it is up to the rasterization stage to determine which pixels of the viewport will need to be lit: the primitive is broken down into its composing fragments. This can be seen in figure 4: the cells represent the individual pixels, the pixels marked in grey are the pixels that are covered by the primitive, they indicate the fragments of the triangle.
|Figure 4: Rasterization of a primitive into 58 fragments
2.6. Fragment shaders
Each of these 58 fragments generated by the rasterization stage will be processed by fragment shaders. The general role of the fragment shader is to calculate the shading function, which is a function that indicates how light will interact with the fragment, resulting in a desired color for the given fragment. A big advantage of these fragments is that they can be treated independently from each other, meaning that the shader programs can run in parallel. After the color has been determined, this color is passed on to the framebuffer.
2.7. Framebuffer
From figure 1, we already learned that we are using a double-buffered framebuffer, which means that we have 2 buffers, a frontbuffer and a backbuffer. Each of these buffers contains a color buffer. Now the big difference between the frontbuffer and the backbuffer is that the frontbuffer's contents are actually being shown on the screen, whereas the backbuffer's contents are basically (I'm neglecting the blend stage at this point) being written by the fragment shaders. As soon as all our geometry has been rendered into the backbuffer, the front- and backbuffer can be swapped. This means that the frontbuffer becomes the backbuffer and the backbuffer becomes the frontbuffer.
Figure 1 and figure 5 represent this buffer swaps with the red arrows. In figure 1, you can see how color buffer 1 is used as color buffer for the backbuffer, whereas color buffer 2 is used for the frontbuffer. The situation is reversed in figure 5.
|Figure 5: Functional Graphics Pipeline with swapped front- and backbuffer
3. Further reading
If you are interested to explore the graphics pipeline in more detail and read up on, e.g.: other shader stages, the blending stage... then, by all means, feel free to have a look at this.
If you want to have an impression of the OpenGL pipeline map, click on the link.
This article is also maintained on Gamedev.net.
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Military to extend same-sex marriage benefits
(CNN) — The Pentagon will permit members of the military to travel to wed same-sex partners if the community or state where they are based does not permit it, a key element of a new benefits policy unveiled Wednesday.
The Defense Department announced its intention to extended health, housing and other benefits to same-sex spouses of uniformed military personnel and defense civilian employees.
That follows a presidential directive to act swiftly in complying with changes brought about by a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
The military said it would make spousal and family benefits available no later than September 3, "regardless of sexual orientation" so long as a valid marriage certificate is provided.
"The Department of Defense remains committed to ensuring that all men and women who serve in the U.S. military, and their families, are treated fairly and equally as the law directs," the Pentagon said in a statement.
Claims are retroactive to the Supreme Court's decision on June 26 to throw out key parts of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as that between a man and a woman and outlawed federal benefits for same-sex couples.
A centerpiece of the new policy would grant administrative leave to military personnel to travel to wed if where they are based does not permit same-sex marriage.
"This will provide accelerated access to the full range of benefits offered to married military couples throughout the department, and help level the playing field between opposite-sex and same-sex couples seeking to be married," the statement said.
Following the high court decision, President Barack Obama ordered that federal agencies act swiftly to implement related changes.
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This conference seeks papers that address and examine the shifting trajectories and connected histories of individual objects and ideologies across time and space. Over the last decade, there has been increased interest in network culture in ancient cultures, the early modern world, and postmodern globalization. This conference will focus on the ways in which material culture – singular artworks, objects, and technologies – reveals what Sanjay Subrahmanyam proposes as "the at times fragile threads that connect the globe." In paying particular attention to perhaps paradoxical heterogeneity and following the "fragile threads" of memory, history, and culture, this conference confronts and questions historical and cultural transmission across time and space.…


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Release Date: Nov 1, 2013
The NetScaler AppExpert API is available along with an SDK that documents the API usage, as well as the WSDLs for the API calls. Also available for OS versions 8.0 onwards, is the FilterWSDL tool, that lets users create a subset of the overall WSDLs, having only those API calls that the users intend to use within calling code. The FilterWSDL helps create smaller WSDLs, so compilation of the WSDL can be fast.


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Tim Donnelly may save us.
By us, I don't necessarily mean California. But that slice of California known as the media.
The Republican state legislator has declared that he is considering a run for governor in 2014. He has no chance of winning -- Donnelly is a former Minuteman who is best known for trying to carry a gun on board a plane -- but he could spice up what is shaping up as a deadly dull election.
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Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to run for re-election, and right now he looks like a shoo-in. Democrats seem unlikely to challenge him, and the Republican Party, in disarray, may not have a serious candidate.
But it will have Donnelly.
That's not good for Republicans -- he reinforces stereotypes about Republicans as reckless, anti-immigrant gun nuts -- but Donnelly is incapable of being boring. He'll create stories and a debate.
So let me say, on behalf of the state's journalists, don't think about it too long, Assemblyman. Run, Tim! Run!


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Looking for a logo and an html/css template I can use to make great web 2.0 presence for business that helps parents find and achieve their goals and create more happiness.
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White background with orange and some blue accents
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Simple, clean, friendly site. Should feel comfortable, relaxed, and inviting, but not cutesy.
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Discover Your Life provides life coaching, seminars, books, newsletters, and blogs to help parents build happiness in their lives. Our business objective is building lasting relationships with our clients, so that is an important theme/mood of everything we do.Â
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The first reading today is from the Prophet Jonah, who resisted God for all
kinds of reasons, but mostly, it looks like, because he did not want to
preach repentance to a people that he did not like. God is able to make us
do His will but normally God invites us to do His will, rather than forcing
us. For the Prophet Jonah, God finally forces him to do His will and Jonah
begins preaching, hoping that the people will not listen to him. Instead,
the people of Ninevah change their ways and Jonah is upset. He would
rather that the rejected the word of God.
We can have the same feelings towards others at times, hoping that they
won't be faithful, hoping that they will reject the word of God, hoping
that they will ultimately reject God - because we do not like them.
The second reading today, from the First Letter to the Corinthians, puts
right before our eyes that the world in its present form is passing away.
Many of the early Christians felt that the Second Coming would happen in
their lifetime, but it did not. On the other hand, if we truly life the
message of Jesus, this world is passing away even now because our way of
living changes it. We are not so good at that, for sure, but we keep
The Gospel brings us back to the need to change. Jesus invites his first
followers to come with Him. Jesus invites us to follow Him as well. We
need at some level to have this personal encounter with the Lord, even
though it will not be in the same way as these earlier followers who were
able to touch Him, to hear Him, to see Him, in the flesh. We walk by
faith. Yet we are still called, by faith, to touch Him, to hear Him and to
see Him. In order to do this, we must change. The change we need is to
live by faith and to touch by faith and to see by faith. It is not an easy
change, because the world around us wants us not to believe, to touch or to
May Jesus Himself touch our hearts today so that we may touch Him. May
Jesus Himself open our eyes today so that we may see Him. May Jesus
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MOH Airborne and Soul Calibur IV hit Games on Demand
Microsoft has added MOH Airborne and Soulcalibur IV to its Games on Demand service.
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Soul Calibur IV wins for Namco in Q4
Namco Bandai slipped out its financial results while the Acti Blizz Q4 call was in full swing last night, revealing Soul Calibur IV as its best seller in its fourth quarter. The company closed out Q4 with a net income of ¥9,019,000,000 ($100 million), with global sales figures for the following games being posted: Soul […]
SCIV Vader and Yoda DLC date and price
Namco Bandai has revealed that Darth Vader and Yoda will be available as downloadbale content this Thursday for 400 MS Points. We're still waiting on a confirmation of a Euro price for PSN, but it'll cost our American bed-fellows $4.99. The two characters were previously console specific, and they still are, until Thursday, of course. […]
First official Vader versus Yoda SCIV fight shots released, DLC confirmed
Dengeki Online's got the first official screens of Yoda fighting Vader in Soul Calibur IV, and has confirmed that the two characters will be available to the other's version of the game via DLC. As of October 23 in Japan, Yoda will be available as PS3 DLC for ¥600 (US$5.93), and Vader will go for […]
Soul Calibur IV demo on Xbox Live
For those of you who haven't bought the game yet, a demo of Namco's fighter, Soul Calibur IV is available to download from Xbox Live. The demo is 695.20Mb and is available in all regions. Thanks, Major Nelson. By Mike Bowden
God of War's Kratos to tee off in Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds
It's not Soul Calibur IV, but it's still a nice consolation. PS.blog sends word that everyone's favorite Spartan god-smacker will be available as DLC in Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds. Come this Thursday, you'll be able to experience the fruits of an epic collaboration between Clap Hanz and the God of War team, which […]
Wii Fit strides to top UK Charts (again)
Wii Fit bounced back to the top of the UK software this week, knocking last week's leader, Ubisoft's Soulcalibur IV, off the top spot. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games is still hanging in there too. Wonder why? Data for week ending August 9 is as follows: Wii Fit Soul Calibur IV Mario Kart […]
Japanese software sales, July 28 to August 3
PSP's still going strong in Japan, it seems, with Phantasy Star Universe going top in its first week in the charts. If you look close enough, you'll see that there's a 360 title thrown in there too: Soul Calibur IV to be precise. Nintendo however, still has an iron grip on the scene, making up […]
Vader and Yoda rumoured for opposite Soul Calibur IV versions - movie
After the break there's a movie of Yoda fighting Darth Vader in Soul Calibur IV. This kind of wasn't supposed to happen: Yoda's was billed as a 360-exclusive character, Vader as PS3-only. The rumour accompanying the video is that both will be made available for the other version as DLC. You can't really argue with […]
No Soul Calibur IV demo until after release
Joystiq learned at E3 this week that a Soul Calibur IV demo will not be available until after the game's released later this month. Namco Bandai would not be pushed on the matter, only saying it will be ready sometime "down the road." Soul Calibur IV is released on PS3 and Xbox 360 on July […]
Soul Calibur IV PS3 install is optional on UK code
We've just been told that the install on current UK Soul Calibur IV PS3 code is optional, not mandatory as is being reported by US sites. As we reported earlier this evening, the fighter's install is 2.85Gb, with saves coming in at 2Mb. We'll check this with Ubisoft tomorrow.
Soul Calibur IV PS3 install is 2.85Gb
According to this PS3F story, Soul Calibur IV mandatory PS3 install is going to cost you 2.85Gb of hard drive space. Saves weigh in t 2Mb each, apparently. That's not so bad, is it? Not for a fighting game that looks so stupidly good. Not in our book. More through the link.
Soul Calibur IV character customization revealed
In a tone of screens on Dengeki Online, Soul Calibur IV's character customization mode's finally been shown off. Looks very cool to us. We're properly buying this. Take a look. Thanks, Kotaku.
Soul Calibur IV Star Wars stage shown off
On Joystiq. This video, all by itself, has sold the game to us completely. Fuck the stage: just look at Siegfried. We must own that. Amazing stuff. Game's out on August 1 in Europe.
Ubisoft refuses to offer India price concessions, Soul Calibur IV denied release
According to this AngryPixel report, Soul Calibur IV won't be releasing in India because distributor Ubisoft's refusing to drop prices for the market. Indian games distributor e-Xpress said it won't be buying in the title because of Ubisoft's stance, and fears – in India, at least – are now that many future Ubisoft games may […]
No Kratos in Soul Calibur IV, says 1UP
Well, there we are, then. According to this PSBeyond story, 1UP's confirmed that Kratos won't be included in Soul Calibur IV, as was previously rumoured. The news comes from the latest 1UP podcast, which we're not going to listen to because it's 7.00am. You know how it is.
Soul Calibur IV pre-order loot detailed
Ubi's just posted shots of all the stuff you can get by pre-ordering Soul Calibur IV in the UK. Play's offering an exclusive 360 faceplate, which is nice. Game's giving out a bonus DVD and art booklet "in a beautiful steel book." Both PS3 and 360 versions get this. Take a look. Game's out on […]
BBFC gives Soul Calibur IV a 12, no bare ass involved
The BBFC has given Soul Calibur IV a 12 rating, thanks in part to the fact you can't strip the female characters to the nude. "The game… contains some female warrior characters with exaggerated 'curvy' figures accentuated by skimpy costumes," said the body. "They are presented in a comic book manner and although the game […]
Heap of new Soul Calibur IV info in this month's Famitsu
The new Famitsu has hit the Japanese streets and those busy bi-lingual internet beavers have translated a section containing loads of new Soul Calibur IV information. The info is: Custom characters: Complete freedom for use of parts, color change, and cloth combinations. Custom characters: Body build and muscle are also adjustable, there's a 100 levels […]
Kratos rumoured as Soul Calibur IV character
The latest issue of EGM is rumouring that God of War's Kratos is about to be announced as a Soul Calibur IV character. At least it'll be a better fit that Vader and Yoda. No idea if there's any truth in this at all. Thanks, NeoGaf.
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Giants' offense sputters in loss to Padres
Belt's ninth-inning homer only damage; Cain delivers strong start
SAN DIEGO -- The Giants' streak of one-run games is intriguing, but it's mostly a statistical anomaly.
Matt Cain's dreadful luck against the San Diego Padres is regrettable, but other pitchers have endured similar misfortune.
San Francisco's inability to hit is the real issue at hand, which manager Bruce Bochy acknowledged after Friday night's 2-1 loss.
The Giants' season-opening scoring binge, in which they amassed at least seven runs in five of their first eight games, now seems illusory. Lately, the Giants have more closely resembled last year's ineffectual bunch, which ranked 10th in the National League in runs.
San Francisco has mustered two runs in its last 19 innings and four in its last 26 innings. Though it's far too early in the season to over-analyze a ballclub, Bochy seemed to sense that the Giants will be in trouble unless they stop chasing pitches and resume hitting them soon.
"They're big boys. They have to fight through this," Bochy said. "We'll stay behind them and keep working. What we have to stop doing is going out of the strike zone."
The game's final pitch provided an example of that. Hector Sanchez, whose first-inning passed ball enabled San Diego to score what appeared destined to be the game's lone run, swung wildly at Huston Street's rising fastball and struck out to strand Hunter Pence on second base.
"I tried to do too much in that at-bat," said Sanchez, who ripped a 12th-inning walk-off single Tuesday night against the Dodgers. "That happens. Everybody wants to get the good hit in that situation. But that's why you have to be under control."
Circumstances aligned to give Sanchez a chance to be a hero once again.
With Buster Posey and Michael Morse resting -- they both pinch-hit unsuccessfully in the eighth inning -- San Diego's Tyson Ross blanked the Giants on four hits through eight innings. "That was a lot of fun," said Ross, a Berkeley native who graduated from Bishop O'Dowd High School. "I grew up an A's fan. East Bay, always."
Facing Street, Brandon Belt blasted his sixth homer of the season and halved San Diego's 2-0 lead with one out in the ninth. Pence walked with two outs and stole second base. It was the Giants' third theft of the evening, a season-high which reflected their fervent efforts to generate offense.
Ultimately, all that flurry accomplished was to seal the Giants' eighth consecutive one-run decision, their most since their New York ancestors also played eight such games in a row from Aug. 11-17, 1910.
The margin of defeat was a cruel one for Sanchez, who dwelled on his passed ball. Earlier in the first inning, Chris Denorfia tripled to right-center field and scored as Cain threw a changeup low and outside to walk Jedd Gyorko. Sanchez's glove brushed the ball but it eluded him and rolled to the backstop, enabling Denorfia to score.
"I thought at that moment I caught the ball," Sanchez said. "But I looked at the ground and I did not have it." Pinch-hitter Yasmani Grandal's eighth-inning homer off reliever Juan Gutierrez accounted for San Diego's other run. Sanchez accounted for that as he continued to lament his passed ball: "It's sad, because it's a different story if I catch that ball. We're probably still playing."
Sanchez said that he hadn't watched a replay of his transgression. "I'd probably break the computer," he said.
This added to Cain's compendium of frustrating outings against the Padres. His 12 career losses to them are the most among active players. Yet he owns a respectable 3.04 ERA against San Diego.
Cain held himself accountable by questioning his approach to Gyorko, who batted with two outs. "I should have been a little more aggressive going after him," Cain said.


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The 5 Wildest Press Conference Meltdowns in Sports
What do you get when you combine highly competitive sports figures and post-game press conferences? Pure viewing magic. Whether it's a disappointing in-game performance or a media dispute, it doesn't take much to light the fuse of a sports personality. Here's a look at some hilarious, shocking, and downright scary press conference meltdowns:
Jim Mora has never been a stranger to press conference antics, but his "Playoffs?!" rant is undoubtedly his most memorable. Mora's Colts had just dropped to 4-6 after an ugly loss to the 49ers. The fiery coach proceeded to rip his team apart during an interview, ridiculing their sloppy offensive performance and kick coverage. At this point, a brave journalist had the courage to ask Mora if he expected to make the playoffs. "Playoffs?!," he responded, "I just hope we can win another game!"
'The Bears Are Who We Thought They Were!'
Dennis Green's tenure as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals may not have been memorable, but football fans will never forget this tirade. The Cardinals had just blown a 20-point lead against the unbeaten Chicago Bears, despite forcing six turnovers. After the debacle, Green vented to the media, punching the microphone and screaming, "They are who we THOUGHT they were!" Green's meltdown cost him a coaching job, although he did manage to snag a television commercial out of it.
'I'm a man! I'm 40!'
Amateur athletes have to deal with tough media coverage too, and Mike Gundy is mad as hell about it. The Oklahoma State football coach had recently demoted his starting quarterback, prompting a reporter to write a critical article about the young athlete. Gundy was furious that a journalist would write a disparaging article on a college kid, and proceeded to lecture the offender on everything from professional ethics to parenting. He urged reporters to pick on him instead, yelling, "Come after me! I'm a man, I'm 40!" After the outburst, the reporters did just that.
'We Talkin' About Practice!'
Being the NBA's leading scorer can afford you a lot of privileges, but missing practice isn't one of them. The Celtics had just dropped Iverson's Sixers in the first round of the playoffs, prompting coach Larry Brown to question his star's tendency to miss team walkthroughs. Allen fired back with this long-winded diatribe, saying, "I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're in here talking about practice!" In all, Iverson used the word "practice" over 20 times. I think we get the picture, Allen.
Chaney Vs. Calipari
It's rare, but sometimes a heated post-game press conference can take a violent turn. That was certainly the case in this 1994 clip, when Hall of Fame college basketball coach John Chaney attempted to pummel John Calipari. Chaney was convinced that his opponent was manipulating the referees to secure favorable calls, and decided to take matters into his own hands. It took a roomful of grown men to restrain the Temple coach, as he threatened Calipari and screamed that he had told his players to "knock (his) [bleepin'] kids in the mouth."