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So enough, already, of Super Bowl revelry and debauchery. Let's spend a day kicking back with the dead and the dead-connectors.
The city's famed cemeteries, many dating back to the yellow fever epidemic of the mid-1800s, are a huge tourist attraction, with their ornate above-ground crypts containing the remains of the famous.
Voodoo, the art and science of connecting with the dead and spirits, is big business and a serious religion.
After a week in the Big Easy, there's no better place to visit than the New Orleans Healing Center, a mini-mall of health and healing, and home office of famed voodoo priestess Sallie Ann Glassman.
Glassman happens to be in at her little Island of Salvation Botanica, a voodoo boutique. As one of the few Haitian-ordained voodoo priestesses, Glassman is happy to talk voodoo.
Voodoo was brought to Louisiana by the slaves from Africa and Haiti, and it infused itself into the life and religion of the bayou. Now it's a do-all healing art.
"I do readings, healings, give people tools and technology to connect with spirits and reconnect with themselves," explains Glassman, whose iPhone ring tone is the very spooky "sci-fi." "It's an extraordinary way of healing on a psychological and spiritual level."
Glassman is a revered figure and a celebrity in voodoo culture. When Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley wed in New Orleans in 2002, they asked Glassman to do a spirit wedding at a cemetery. Then they pulled a no-show, leaving the priestess at the altar.
CBS people came to Glassman to arrange a voodoo ceremony for the Super Bowl, a blessing for fewer injuries on the field, but then the TV folks backed out.
You might think all that rejection would have Glassman going wild with voodoo dolls, but that's not really what her art is about.
This night, she says, she will preside over a ceremony in which she will attempt to draw a specific soul back from the Waters of Return, invisible spiritual waters where the dead reside, and from which they can be coaxed back.
I ask if she plans to watch the Super Bowl. She shakes her head and says, "I was a bartender, and I watched every goddamn Super Bowl."
Since this is a day for intrepid photog and I to hang with the dead, Glassman directs us to a nearby cemetery, St. Roch's, named for a 14th century Frenchman, the patron saint of miraculous healing.
When the yellow fever epidemic was raging, a Catholic priest in the parish prayed to St. Roch to protect the flock. When none of the parishioners died of the disease, the priest built the small Gothic chapel, the altar of which features a carved likeness of St. Roch and his dog.
A tiny room just off the altar looks like a coat-check room, only instead of coats, it's for prosthetic limbs – feet, hands, legs, many of them crude and quite old. The limbs, crutches and other personal items have been placed here either as thanks for miracle cures, or as requests for prayers for cures. Many of the items have handwritten notes attached, thank-yous and prayer requests.
Next, we decide to pass on a visit to the famed St. Louis Cemetery, which is featured in dozens of movies ("Easy Rider"). It's the resting place of the most famed voodoo priestess of all, Marie Laveau, whose grave draws more people than the Memphis grave of Elvis. It is customary to scratch three X's on Madame Laveau's tomb and make wishes.
We figure St. Louis is probably overrun by Super Bowlers, including gamblers looking to goose their luck. So we make our last stop at Holt Cemetery, the city's pauper's graveyard.
The dice are definitely not rolling your way if you wind up planted at Holt, because it is one wretched and ragged potter's field, home of the original po'boy.
Holt dates back to the yellow fever epidemic, too, and is the only graveyard, of the city's 19, where the bodies are buried in the ground. The graves appear quite shallow. If you're in Holt, you're 6 inches under.
Cemeteries are supposed to be fancy and kempt, or at least dignified, especially in New Orleans, but Holt didn't get the memo. Most of the headstones are handmade and crudely lettered. One headstone was originally a traffic sign. The plots are jammed together and their borders defined with whatever random materials the mourners could scrounge up.
But Sallie Glassman had told us that spirits live in the trees, and Holt has some beautiful, ancient, massive oak trees hung dramatically with Spanish moss.
Life might have been tough, you po'boys, but now they've got it made in the shade, and with a little voodoo, they can always come back and say hi.
Scott Ostler is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com


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Thank you Dr. Young and all your colleagues. Your hard wok makes our dream come true.
Thank you Dr. Young and all your colleagues. Your hard wok makes our dream come true.
It's a shame of human beings that SCI cannot be cured.
DOC. you the man !!
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We are proceeding very carefully. Let me explain about the surgical procedure.
In 2006, we held a consensus conference in China, using the vast experience in China regarding laminectomy and cell transplants by many of our investigators. We discuss many issues at this conference. Many investigators in our network, for example, have transplanted cells into many dozens or even hundreds of patients. We considered many factors:
- Ruling out intravenous/intrathecal injection. While some investigators believe that intravenously injected cells can "home" to the injury site, both a review of the literature and our own studies failed provide credible data of such beliefs, particularly for chronic spinal cord injury. For example, when we inject genetically labelled (GFP) cells intravenously into animals shortly after injury, we find very few if any of the cells getting into the spinal cord at the injury site. Likewise, unless a huge bolus of cells is injected, intrathecally administered cells typically accumulate at the bottom of the cauda equina and are not present in large numbers in the spinal cord. While we have not ruled out intrathecal injections all together, we decided do direct intraspinal injections of cells.
- Laminectomy vs percutaneous injection. There was initial discussion about injecting cells into the spinal cord by percutaneous injection (through the skin) with CT guidance. While many of our centers in China have CT guidance facilities, many surgeons felt that injection of the cells into the spinal cord exposed by laminectomy was much safer. CT guidance does not prevent the possibiity of the needle penetrating into a blood vessel on the surface of the spinal cord. There are many such vessels and a bleed would be devastating. The laminectomy will be small (so-called mini-laminectomy) that takes only half of a segment. Such laminectomies will fill in within several weeks and and will not pose an danger of instability to the spinal cord. These can be safely done with no risk to the spinal cord.
- Dorsal entry zone. We chose to inject into the dorsal root entry zone (DREZ), using a 45 degree angle (from vertical) injection route for the following reasons. This is the only route of entry into the spinal cord that does not cross any white matter pathways. The DREZ is also a area that neurosurgeons have operated on for many decades, to treat neuropathic pain. They would insert needles into the DREZ to coagulate and kill the neurons in that area to stop neuropathic pain. It seldom causes any loss of function. Any loss occurs, it is only loss of sensation for the specific dermatome of the injected segment and usually only on one side.
- Volume of the injection. A lot of people don't realize that a microliter (µliter) is one cubic millimeter. In rats, we typically inject 1 µliter or less into the spinal cord because the spinal cord of the rat is about 3 mm in diameter. The human spinal cord is about the thickness of your pinky finger (about 1.2 cm). In China, people like Hongyun Huang and others usually inject 35-50 µliters of cells. Geron just got approval of the FDA to inject embryonic stem cell derived progenitor cells into human spinal cord in volumes of 25 µliter. Anyway, we decided to be more cautious. In the current trial, we are first injecting 4 µliters (x4), then 8 µliters (x4), and then 16 µliters (x4). We will go forward with the higher volumes only if there are no significant neurological deficits associated with the injections of a previously smaller volume.
- Density of cell suspensions. We are injecting cell suspensions. If you really pack the cells, you can fit probably 200,000 cells in one µliter. We decided to use a more loosely packed suspension of 100,000 per µliter. This allows us to keep the cells longer in the syringe (while they are in the syringe, they have no access to oxygen).
- Fixed versus floating needles. The spinal cord pulsates, often 1-2 mm, with respiration. So, if one sticks a needle into such a moving spinal cord from a fixed device, the needle will be repeated plunged in and out of the spinal cord over 100 times during a 5 minute injection period. The only options are to inject quickly or use a floating needle. Rapid injections often result in higher pressure developing at the injection site and cells coming back out of the track. We thus decided to use the floating needle approach. We are inserting the smaller scalp vein needle (28 gauge) to a depth of 3 mm into the spinal cord at a 45 degree angle and then letting go so that the needle can rise and fall with spinal cord pulsations. We actually tried this in a monkey spinal cord and observed no histological evidence of damage in the spinal cord afterward.
The injured spinal cord is actually quite resilient if handled slowly and gently. I have seen many cases of intramedullary tumor removal from the spinal cord of children in the 1980's by Fred Epstein and know that it can be safely done with no loss of neurological function. The worst complications are due to hemorrhage and cerebrospinal fluid leak. But, if care is taken not to penetrate any blood vessels on the surface of the spinal cord and the dura is tightly closed, these risks should be negligible. It is one of the reasons why our surgeons believe that direct exposure of the spinal cord is necessary to ensure that both of these complications do not occur.
To date, most of the medical tourism clinics have been giving umbilical cord blood cells intravenously or intrathecally. They are often giving non-HLA matched cells. In my opinion, such treatments should have no or small beneficial effects on the spinal cord. Few of the cells will reach the spinal cord and the cells will be immune-rejected within weeks. Our protocol circumvents these approaches. The cells will be injected into the spinal cord above and below the injury site, at the edge of the white matter damage. In animal studies, we have shown that the cells migrate into and forms a bridge of cells across the injury site.
The upcoming trial will tell us a great deal about umbilical cord blood cells. It will be the first time that HLA-matched umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells will have been injected into the spinal cord of people with chronic spinal cord injury. If these cells are beneficial, this would provide strong rationale for going forward with a phase III study to establish the efficacy of such a treatment in large numbers of people with chronic spinal cord injury.
Some people were worried that participating in this trial would disqualify them from participating in other trials in the future. I want to assure people that this will not be the case for ChinaSCINet. We will do everything that we can to design clinical trials that will provide access to the most promising therapies for those subjects who have already participated in our trials. We have even gone to the unusual length of committing ourselves to provide the effective therapy, if one is found in the trial, to subjects that did not get that particular therapy.
Some people are worried that we don't have direct animal data supporting the beneficial effects of umbilical cord blood and lithium combination therapy. However, this situation sometimes happens. We had found that cyclosporin negates the effects of lithium on umbilical cord blood cells, blocking both the proliferative and the neurotrophin-secreting effects. Because animals must be immune-suppressed in order for the cells to survive even 2-3 weeks, this rules out out ability to study the effects of umbilical cord blood mononuclear and lithium treatment of rats with chronic spinal cord injury. In my opinion, much evidence from multiple independent laboratories have reported beneficial effects of umbilical cord blood mononuclear cell transplants.
Thousands of people are going to clinics in China, India, and Carribean, paying to get umbilical cord blood cells injected intravenously or intrathecally. The treatment in our trial should be significantly better in that the cells are HLA-matched and will be injected directly into the spinal cord. If umbilical cord blood cells are effective, they should show beneficial effects in this study. if they do not show beneficial effects or even deleterious effects, we will of course not continue onto the phase 3 trial or continue to give the therapy to children, older patients, or patients with high quadriplegia.
Dear Wise,
You mention thousands of people going to various clinics abroad. Have you ever seen or heard of any positive outcomes? Just wondering. The trials in China, do they comprise of patients from just china or are patients from other countries volunteering to be a part of the trial. You hear so much about acute and chronics. What is the exact goal of Sci-net in the beginning stages? I appreciate the knowledge you share with all of us. I am very new to medical science and have much to learn. Thank You.
Other popular medical tourism destination that provide cells for spinal cord injuries include:
- Germany. You go to X-cells in Cologne (Germany) and pay $6000-$10,000 (I think) for them to extract some bone marrow cells. You then take the cells to some doctor or clinic nearby and the cells are then injected intravenously.
- India. Geeta Shroff in Delhi injects what she claims are embryonic stem cells intramuscularly or intrathecally. There are other clinics in Chennai and Mumbai that provide umbilical cord blood or bone marrow cells for intravenous or intrathecal administration.
- Caribbean and Mexico. Numerous clinics in Monterey (Mexico) and Caribbean are giving intravenous injections of umbilical cord blood cells. I don't think that they are HLA-matched.
There are of course some people claiming beneficial effects. Based on placebo response alone one would expect a 40% response rate. Unfortunately, what one does not hear about are all the patients who show no response to the therapy. Also, the responses that people report are generally not that impressive and usually not confirmed by medical examination.
I am not sure that I understand your question about ChinaSCINet's initial goals. Our goal has always been at the beginning and now: to carry out rigorous clinical trials to test promising therapies of spinal cord injury. The group decided to focus on umbilical cord blood cells and lithium for chronic spinal cord injury as its first therapeutic testing program. We are beginning to test other therapies, such as intradural decompression for subacute spinal cord injury.
There is interest within the ChinaSCINet investigators to study Schwann cells, olfactory ensheathing glia, Nogo antibodies, chondroitinase, and other therapies. The network has already completed phase 1 and 2 trials examining the safety and efficacy of lithium treatment of chronic spinal cord injury.
Dr. Young,
Thank you for the answers. I just didn't understand all of these bio-tech clinics selling a fake package of goods. As for SCINet , I was not sure if they wanted to work on new SCI's before a lot of scar tissue sets in or work on both Acutes and Chronics at the same time testing your treatments . I think the main goal is regeneration in all . I guess that is what I was looking for in a response but you have clarified intentions. I wanted to know about the clinical patients because I have traveled to china a few times for our business in the past. I know the southern part of china pretty well.I would travel their if you needed some U.S. patients and I qualified. I know they have a lot of SCI patients in china . I just wasn't sure if they were going to mix the nationalalities up of the patients. I didn't know if that had an effect on the different genes or if it was just the injury of a person . Thanks again. I wish you much success with these trials. Best Regards,
Yes, but is it really ethical to continue with these kinds of treatments??? I worry that you are playing God here.
Ok, I'm just kidding - go for it...!!! Great news, keep up with the progress.....I will quietly await my turn some year.......
Your passion and determination are very admirable.
"Wheelie Wanna Walk!"
Thankyou Dr. Wise for the further clarification-my head is buzzing, am delighted with the amount of research and networking that has been done to get to this stage and just need to settle myself and wait!
P:s : I have worked as an Occupational therapist in stroke rehab for 17 years and i have never had a person from the medical profession take the time to explain something to me so detailed. THanks for making me feel i have a brain!

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- 1 cup flour
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (recommended: Nestle Toll House)
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In a small bowl, combine the chocolate and butter. Place the bowl over a pan of barely simmering water and stir occasionally until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth.
In the bowl of a food processor, finely chop the chocolate covered espresso beans. In a medium bowl, whisk together the chopped espresso beans, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt.
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IBM announced the public availability of Milepost GCC, an open-source machine-learning compiler that intelligently optimizes applications, translating directly into shorter software development times and bigger performance gains. Initial IBM experiments conducted on IBM System p servers achieved an average 18 percent performance improvement on embedded-application benchmarks.
The new compiler, a result of collaboration between IBM and its partners in the European Union-funded Milepost Consortium, is expected to reduce time-to-market for new software designs. Applications can now be more quickly tuned for the targeted architecture, shortening the development cycle. For example, when a company wants to develop a new mobile phone, it normally takes application developers many months to get their software running at an acceptable level of performance. Milepost GCC can reduce the amount of time it takes to reach that level by a factor of 10.
"Our technology automatically learns how to get the best performance from the hardware -- whether mobile phones, desktops, or entire systems -- the software will run faster and use less energy," noted Bilha Mendelson, Manager of Code Optimization Technologies at IBM Research - Haifa. "We opened the compiler environment so it can access artificial intelligence and machine learning guidance to automatically determine exactly what specific optimizations should be used and when to apply them to ramp-up performance."
"We've developed a more cost-effective development process where you can choose to integrate additional functionality or use less power in your current system," added Mike O'Boyle, Professor of Computer Science at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and Project Coordinator for Milepost. "Previously, the same devices could only support a limited list of features while still maintaining a high level of performance. Significantly boosting an application's performance means there's now more room for added functionality while maintaining high performance."
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|Link to Extension at Chrome store
Current functions:
1. Aliexpress seller check tool - helps to check sellers reliability before purchasing an item (for all customers)
2. Instant tracking number upload from Aliexpress order (for registered customers)
3. Instant tracking number upload from Gearbest order (for registered customers)
4. Instant tracking number upload from Fasttech order (for registered customers)
5. Instant tracking number upload from Banggood order (for registered customers)
6. Instant tracking number upload from Asos order (for registered customers)
7. Instant tracking number upload from Iherb order (for registered customers)
Supported browsers
-- Chrome
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-- Postal company Choise
-- If you wish to add any shop into extension, you can suggest it in this topic, and send us copy of the order page with tracking number for analysis.
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Application works, so theres some troubles on your side.
The only way to find out is to ask you to send pages inner data.
Maybe you have different looking pages than we do. So if it is, then sure it wouldn't work.
Also current developer seems to be out of order, so please send application isssues to support email.
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Hello, I am having what seems like same issue.
I can record a screen video of the behaviour and collect traces (but you need to tell me how to enable them), can share separately.
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Page source should be the same, it's always the same item i try to add in these tests.
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Now I don't have time to continue with this but i am more than willing to help you help me... your extension is very useful! tomorrow or later tonight i might be able to try again and collect more diagnostics.
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Three 2012 Holiday Online Shopping Trends to Follow in 2013
Annual growth among online retailers continued to outpace the growth seen by brick-and-mortar merchants during the 2012 holiday season. In fact, year-over-year growth in both sales and transaction volume was more than three times higher among e-commerce retailers, according to our Chase Holiday Pulse, which aggregates payment processing data from 50 of the largest U.S. e-commerce merchants. Retailers experienced a continued downward trend in average ticket prices, with season-to-date prices down nearly 8 percent compared to last year. This dichotomy between a rise in sales volume and a decline in ticket prices is a pattern to watch in the year ahead.
Behind all of these numbers are three trends to follow this year.
First, the 2012 holiday shopping season was the initial year e-commerce retailers witnessed the "Online Shopping Continuum," where typical peak shopping days — such as Black Friday, Cyber Monday and even Christmas Eve, which continue to be significant moments for brick-and-mortar merchants — morphed into a week-long phenomenon. During the week following Black Friday, for instance, retailers saw strong online sales volume growth, powered by additional incentives on the days following Cyber Monday, such as time-sensitive, around-the-clock coupons and special offers. This is a continuation of the urgency mechanism that many retailers implement during key shopping days.
What had traditionally been secluded to a 24-hour period became week-long shopping, dubbed "Cyber Week." For the seven-day period after Black Friday, the Chase Holiday Pulse revealed that year-over-year sales increased by nearly 23 percent. This could be a contributing factor to the continued decline in average ticket prices as consumers are shopping more frequently, purchasing in increments rather than in bulk, purchasing fewer or less expensive items or taking advantage of extended promotions. Interestingly, consumer spending tapered down the weekend following Cyber Week, with year-over-year sales growth rates declining by nearly 18 percent.
The Chase Holiday Pulse also reported 38 percent sales growth between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, potentially fueled by extended retailer price reductions and the rise of mobile commerce that provided more flexible real-time shopping over the weekend.
Second, we saw a rise in online sales during what the analysts called "Green Week" (Dec. 10-17), which was the busiest seven-day period of the holiday shopping season in terms of transaction volume this year. Online merchants saw high shopping volume — year-over-year sales and transaction for the same period were up nearly 11 percent and 17 percent respectively — throughout the week as responsible consumers acted to utilize free delivery offers before the holidays.
Finally, the powerful comparison shopping behavior known as "showrooming" played an outsized role thanks to the growth of the mobile smartphone. Showrooming, which is when consumers use brick-and-mortar stores to survey and compare products and then ultimately buy those products online through a phone, tablet or computer, potentially from a competitor, has pushed retailers to match online prices and enhance their in-store customer service. But there's no reason to believe this phenomenon is a passing fad. Forty-three percent of U.S. adults admitted to participating in showrooming, according to a November 2012 poll from Harris Interactive.
The conclusion of the 2012 holiday shopping season suggests continued demand for e-commerce shopping in 2013. Continued growth in both sales and transaction volume, driven by extended periods of strong sales, the increased use of mobile technology and the emergence of showrooming, made for a record season for online retailers across the country. The aggregated power of these trends helped drive the 2012 holiday shopping season. As the online retail industry continues to grow — adapting to new technology trends and consumer behaviors — there is reason to be optimistic for a healthy economy in 2013.
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Ashley Greene sports red hot lips on the cover of Manhattan magazine's November 2012 issue.
Here is what the 25-year-old Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 actress had to share with the mag:
On relationships: "You need someone who is going to help you make that better version of yourself. I need someone who is strong but supportive and who loves me�"someone who isn't afraid to call me on my sh*t."
On New York City: "I like the energy�"it's so contagious and I feel like you just have to be productive here. It's very artistic and inspiring."
On one of her favorite actresses: "I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose."
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Commodity markets diverged this week, torn between strong global economic data and ongoing worries over the possible withdrawal of US Federal Reserve stimulus.
Encouraging economic data from Britain, China, the eurozone and the US sparked hopes of keen demand for many raw materials, providing limited support for some commodities.
Arabica coffee and sugar prices sank, as the Brazilian currency tumbled on fears that the Fed's possible move could spark outflows of foreign cash.
OIL: Brent oil prices rose on demand hopes, bright data and geopolitical worries in the crude-rich Middle East region.
"Brent prices pushed higher at the end of the week following positive economic data released from China, the US, the eurozone and the UK," analyst Lucy Sidebotham at British-based energy consultancy Inenco said.
"This showed the global economy to be recovering and could point towards higher oil demand," she said.
However, traders were worried that the Egyptian unrest could hit crude shipments through the Suez Canal and Sumed Pipeline, which provide a link between Europe and oil producers in the Gulf. Further oil price support stemmed from supply outages in Libya.
By Friday on London's Intercontinental Exchange, Brent North Sea crude for delivery in October advanced to US$111.06 a barrel compared with US$110.01 a week earlier.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, West Texas Intermediate or light sweet crude for September eased to US$106.20 a barrel, from US$107.59.
PRECIOUS METALS: Gold, silver and platinum hit multimonth highs on expectations that recent strong global data will translate into buoyant demand.
Gold rallied on Monday to US$1,384.55 per ounce — the highest level since June. Silver rallied to US$23.63, striking a peak last seen in the middle of May.
"The feel-good factor — the big economies around the world are all improving — has easily spilled over into the precious metal market," Capital Spreads dealer Jonathan Sudaria said.
By late Friday on the London Bullion Market, the price of gold rallied to US$1,377.50 an ounce from US$1,369.25 a week earlier.
Silver climbed to US$23.06 an ounce from US$22.83.
On the London Platinum and Palladium Market, platinum increased to US$1,538 an ounce from US$1,524.
Palladium eased to US$752 an ounce from US$762.
BASE METALS: Base or industrial metals mostly fell, as some traders questioned the economic strength of key consumer China.
"We continue to think the backdrop for commodities in general, and industrial metals in particular, will be very challenging," Capital Economics analyst Ross Strachan said, adding: "China's rebound has been largely built on a rapid expansion of credit, so it is unlikely to be sustained."
By Friday on the London Metal Exchange, copper for delivery in three months declined to US$7,335 a tonne from US$7,381 a week earlier.
Three-month aluminum slid to US$1,885 a tonne from US$1,927.
Three-month lead fell to US$2,214 a tonne from US$2,234, while three-month tin firmed to US$21,919 a tonne from US$21,800.
COFFEE: Coffee prices dived on the back of abundant supplies and slumping currencies in emerging market producer nations.
Arabica coffee sank to US$1.1635 per pound, which was the lowest level since July 2009.
"Besides the prospect of plentiful supply, the collapse of the currencies of key producer countries is weighing on prices," Commerzbank analysts said.


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This course provides a theoretical basis for radiological sciences and protection, with a rigorous review of the fundamentals of radiation physics including nuclear reactions, radioactivity and the kinetics of radioactive decay, natural and man-made radiation sources, the characteristics of ionizing radiation, radioactivity analysis, radiation dose quantities and measurement, external and internal radiation dosimetry, and radiation protection techniques.
Pre-Reqs: PHYS 2100 Introductory Modern Physics, MATH 2340 Differential Equations or MATH 2360 Eng Differential Equations with a 'C-' or higher.
This course provides a continuation of the theoretical and practical aspects of radiation protection provided in Radiation Safety and Control I (98.501). Topics include the statistical analyses and data reduction techniques that are used to analyze radiation measurements pertaining to the field of radiation protection. Laboratory sessions on alpha and gamma radiation measurements and air sampling will reinforce class lectures. Students also will experience applied radiation protection and dose assessment through a contamination control exercise that involves the use of protective clothing and respiratory protection.
Pre-Reqs: PHYS 4010 or RADI.5010L Radiation Safety & Control I, and MATH.3860 Probability and Statistics I or MATH 3850 Applied Statistics.
This course provides the operating principles and applications of nuclear radiation detection systems, including detector theory, electronic signal processing, and measurement and data reduction techniques. The systems covered include gas-filled detectors (ion chambers, proportional counters, and Geiger-Mueller counters), inorganic and organic scintillators, and high-purity germanium detectors, for the detection of alpha, beta, gamma, and neutron radiation. This course also covers hypothesis testing, detection limits, and detector dead time.
Pre-Req: PHYS 2100 Intro Modern Physics and PHYS 2610L The Physics of Materials & Dev or PHYS 2450L Physics III Lab
This course provides the operating principles and applications of nuclear radiation detection systems, including detector theory, electronic signal processing, and measurement and data reduction techniques. The systems covered include gas-filled detectors (ion chambers, proportional counters, and Geiger_Mueller counters), inorganic and organic scintillators, and high-purity germanium detectors, for the detection of alpha, beta, gamma, and neutron radiation. This course also covers hypothesis testing, detection limits,and detector dead time, This course is adapted for Nuclear Engineering and Medical Physics majors. (offered as 98.509 for graduate credit).
Natural and man-made sources of environmental radioactivity and radiation; environmental transport in air, water, and soil; exposure pathways; environmental standards and regulations; environmental monitoring and surveys (MARSSIM); contaminated site characterization, and site remediation; environmental radiological impact of industry, accidents, and natural and man-made disasters.
This course provides the theory and application of dosimetry and shielding for ionizing radiation sources outside the human body. Differential cross-sections, energy transfer and absorption coefficients, kerma, attenuation, and buildup are discussed for photons. Cross-sections, kerma factors, removal coefficients, diffusion, and point-source dose functions for fissioning sources are discussed for neutrons. Beta dosimetry concepts include stopping power, point-source dose functions, and the effects of attenuating materials. Heat generation and temperature profiles are discussed for irradiated materials and radioactive substances. Dosimetry concepts and barrier requirements also are described for particle accelerators, radiotherapy facilities, and medical x-ray imaging facilities.
Pre-Reqs: PHYS 4020 or RADI 5020L Radiation Safety & Control II.
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This course provides the theory and application of several analytical techniques, including precipitation, solvent extraction, ion exchange chromatography, and electrodeposition, to the separation and analysis of radioactive substances in various samples. This course also covers some common radiation detection systems, measurement and data reduction techniques, radiotracer and isotope dilution techniques, neutron activation analysis, and radio-immunoassay.
Pre-Reqs: PHYS 2100 Introductory Modern Physics, CHEM 1220 Chemistry II, and CHEM 1240L Chemistry II Lab.
Effects of ionizing radiation on cellular, molecular and organ systems levels of biological organization; Study of x-rays, gamma rays, accelerator beams, and neutrons in interaction with living systems; Cohesive treatment of radiation biophysics with applications in health physics and radiation oncology. (offered as 98.562 for graduate credit)
Pre-Req: 95.210 Introductory Modern Physics with a 'C-' or better.
Introduction to the fundamental physics of radiation therapy, with emphasis on external beam photon and electron therapy and on brachytherapy. For these modalities, the basic operation of delivery equipment, treatment planning principles, methods of dose calculations, determination of time of irradiation from dose prescription, dose measurements, and quality assurance will be studied. This knowledge will prepare the student for an introduction to the practice of clinical physics in radiation therapy, for advanced radiation therapy physics, and research in radiation therapy physics.
Pre-Req: RADI 5010L Radiation Safety and Control I or Co-req RADI 5010L Radiation Safety and Control I, and RADI 5060 Nuclear Instrumentation or Permission of Instructor.
Advanced problem solving in radiological sciences including strategies for preparing for and taking professional certification examinations.
This course provides an overview of applied mathematical concepts that are useful in radiological sciences and protection, including special techniques for radiation physics, radiation dosimetry, and radiation shielding, with emphasis on computer applications.
This course provides a more advanced mathematical treatment of the topics covered in 98.481, with extensive application of computer techniques to numerical problem solving that is applicable to radiological sciences and protection.
Pre-Reqs: 95.481 or 98.581 Math Methods of Rad Sciences.
Key topics of modern medical imaging: principles of medical imaging, image formation, Fourier analysis, image reconstruction, digital image processing with applications in computed tomography, radioisotope imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, ultrasound imaging, and optical imaging. Strengths and limitations of imaging modalities.
Pre-Req: RADI.5010L/4010L Radiation Safety & Control 1.
Photon, neutron, and electron interactions and energy deposition; the Boltzmann equation, elementary analytical solutions; deterministic computational methods, including spherical harmonics and discrete ordinates techniques; continuous slowing down and Fokker Planck approximations.
Radiation transport simulation by the Monte Carlo method: phase space tracking, dose response estimators, biasing methoda; integral form of the Boltzmann equation; condensed history method for charged particles; neutron, photon, and electron transport calculations for medical physics and health physics applications.
Pre-Reqs: RADI 6050 Radiation Transport and Interactions, and 98.581 Mathematical Methods of Rad Sci
The student will be introduced to the physics of advanced treatment techniques used in radiation therapy, which include external beam electron, proton, and photon therapy and internal brachytherapy. For these techniques, the principles of the techniques such as clinical applications, radiation delivery equipment, treatment planning methods, methods of dose calculations, determination of time of irradiation from dose prescription, dose measurements, and quality assurance will be studied. This knowledge will prepare the student for an introduction to the clinical practice of medical physics applied to complex treatment techniques used in radiation therapy. Also, this should help prepare the student for research in radiation therapy physics.
Pre-req or Co-Req: RADI.5650 Introduction to Radiation Therapy Physics.
Clinical Rotation under the direction of clinical staff. This course provides the student with exposure to medical physics responsibilities in a radiation oncology department, including simulation, treatment planning and preparation, monitor unit calculations, dose measurements and calculations, treatment delivery techniques, quality assurance, and radiation safety.
Clinical Rotation under the direction of clinical staff. This course involves the student in one or more projects that require skill development, extended involvement, and project completion, which includes planning and delivery of advanced radiation therapy treatments.
Pre-Req; RADI 6760L Graduate Medical Physics Internship; Pre/Co-Req: RADI 6650 Advanced Radiation Therapy Physics.
Advanced Medical Imaging course presents the key topics of modern medical imaging in a systematic program structured as follows: principles of medical imaging, computer tomography, radioactive traces imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound imaging, and optical imaging. The purpose of this course is to outline the breadth and depth of scientific knowledge underlying Medical Imaging. It describes the core physics related to medical imaging that a physicist should know when graduating from an accredited Medical Physics program. The course will aid him/her in understanding the strengths and limitations of the available medical imaging tools.
Pre-req: 98.598 Introduction to Medical Imaging.


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If you associate BlackBerry with top-notch security, time to think again. The company has released news which warns of a vulnerability that could expose enterprise servers to massive malware attacks.
Listed as "high severity", the flaw could allow attackers to leverage a loophole in the way TIFF image files are rendered to take down servers. From the release:
Vulnerabilities exist in how the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service and the BlackBerry Messaging Agent process TIFF images for rendering on the BlackBerry smartphone.
Successful exploitation of any of these vulnerabilities might allow an attacker to gain access to and execute code on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
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PROVO — On the day Martin MacNeill's wife was found dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove home, his behavior was "hysterical" but not suspicious, a former police detective said Tuesday.
"He was very hysterical, animated," said Marc Wright, who now works for Lindon police. "Lots of hand gestures and moving about the room between the bathroom and the bedroom."
But that bombastic behavior, including swearing, pacing, and episodes of shouting "Why did she have the surgery?" and pleading for his wife to "come back to him" didn't trigger a homicide investigation, the detective testified in Provo's 4th District Court.
Wright photographed the MacNeill home and documented blood spots on the bathroom floor, the tub and a pile of Michele MacNeill's soaking wet clothing cut off by paramedics, but never returned to the home after the former beauty queen was pronounced dead.
"You never came back to the house to do any follow-up investigation?" defense attorney Randall Spencer asked Wright during cross-examination in Martin MacNeill's murder trial Tuesday. "At that time you did not think his behavior was suspicious?"
"No," Wright said.
Michele MacNeill, 50, was found dead in the tub by her youngest daughter, Ada, on April 11, 2007, about a week after she had a facelift. Utah County Attorney's Office investigators began to examine the death in 2008 and finally brought criminal charges against her husband in 2012.
An autopsy found Michele had taken a combination of four drugs — Lortab syrup, Ambien, oxycodone and Valium — prescribed following her plastic surgery a week earlier. Prosecutors contend MacNeill used the drug cocktail to render his wife incapable of walking or fending off threats to her safety and then drowned her. They believe MacNeill wanted his wife out of the way so he could begin a life with his mistress, Gypsy Willis.
On Tuesday, prosecutors put a stream of police, paramedics and firefighters on the stand. Their accounts were similar: MacNeill was erratic, animated and loud. He barked orders at paramedics for his wife's resuscitation efforts and treatment, questioned her decision to have surgery and claimed he told her it wasn't necessary. MacNeill also said he thought his wife had overdosed on painkillers and railed against God for Michele's apparent death, Pleasant Grove Fire Chief Sanderson said.
"He said that based on his affiliation (with the LDS Church) and the amount of money he's donated, this is how God repaid him," Sanderson testified.
Later at the hospital, MacNeill also begged emergency room workers to save his wife, saying he would "give them all he had," former paramedic Steven Brande said, adding on cross-examination that MacNeill cried when Michele was finally pronounced dead.
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Also testifying for the jury of six men and five women was Steven Mickelson, a nurse practitioner who was supervised by MacNeill at the Utah Developmental Center.
Mickelson told the jury he also went to the MacNeill home on the morning of Michele's death and that a "distraught" MacNeill shoved a phone at him so he could tell MacNeill's daughter, Alexis, that something had happened to her mother.
"I told her to get up here (from Las Vegas) and fast," said Mickelson. "I couldn't bring myself to tell her that her mother looked like she was dead."
Mickelson, who described MacNeill as a person with a strong personality, said he was surprised by MacNeill's return to work about a week later — before the allowed bereavement days were exhausted. He also said he noticed MacNeill was wearing a different wedding band than he had in the past — a gold and black band instead of a plain gold one.
Finally, Mickelson said that in 2002 he had prescribed a trio of drugs for Michele MacNeill at her husband's request. Michele reportedly hurt her neck after hitting her head on a headboard and needed some pain relief. Mickelson said he was "uncomfortable" with the number of pills Martin MacNeill asked for but complied as a "professional courtesy" and as a one-time thing, until she could be seen.
Will MacNeill's daughter testify?
After testimony ended on Tuesday, the judge and attorneys discussed whether Ada MacNeill will be allowed to testify before the jury. Ada, who was 6 in 2007 and is now 12, was the first person to find her mother in the bathtub.
Spencer objected to her testifying, contending that her memories have been tainted over time by conversations she has had with others — specifically her sisters — who pushed for the death to be investigated as a homicide. Spencer said he fears Ada's memory has been so compromised that "there is a high probability of false memories."
Judge Derek P. Pullan will delay the start of Thursday's court testimony to hold a two-hour hearing on the issue. Prosecutors will put two investigators and sister Alexis Somers on the stand to try to establish that Ada's accounts of what occurred have not altered over time.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. - A researcher at Oregon State University has reported Oregon's first documented case of a "zombie" fly infecting a honeybee, but he doubts that the parasite at the moment poses a threat to the already beleaguered bee, which is a vital pollinator of some of the state's key crops.
Ramesh Sagili, a honeybee specialist with the OSU Extension Service, stumbled upon a belly-up bee on a sidewalk under a street light on campus in Corvallis one morning in late July. He placed it in a vial in his lab, and four days later seven maggots crawled out of the bee's neck. Almost three weeks after that, one matured into an Apocephalus borealis fly, commonly called a zombie fly because of the disoriented behavior it is suspected of causing the bees to exhibit at night.
The finding comes amid rising concern about the health of honeybees, which have been hit by a mysterious phenomenon called colony collapse disorder in which adult honeybees disappear from a hive, either entirely or in large numbers. It came to light in late 2006 when beekeepers on the East Coast began to see their honeybee colonies dwindle. The disorder has since spread to other states. A cause has not been determined, but suspects include mites, viruses, malnutrition, pesticides, a lack of genetic diversity, and stress that results from commercial hives being trucked around the country to pollinate crops.
Sagili doubts that the fly is playing a role in the widespread die-off of honeybees, which are crucial pollinators for various Oregon crops, including blueberries, pears, cherries, apples, clover, cranberries and vegetable seeds.
"It's a stretch to say the fly is correlated to colony collapse disorder," he said. "At this point, I don't think it's a threat. I don't think it's at the level where it can depopulate hives in large numbers."
Earlier this year in a journal article, researchers in California became the first to document that the fly attacks honeybees. They discovered the parasite in honeybees in California and South Dakota, the only states besides Oregon where fly-infected honeybees, or ZomBees, have been reported.
The fly is known to parasitize bumblebees but little is known about its impact on them in Oregon, said Sujaya Rao, an entomologist at OSU who studies them.
Sagili hypothesizes that the fly is just now being found in honeybees because it may be trying to branch out from its other hosts when they're not available. He added that although honeybees are widely studied, it's possible that scientists just never saw the parasite because they usually preserve their collected bees in alcohol, which would kill the larvae and keep them from popping out.
The brownish-red fly, which lays eggs inside the bees and is smaller than a fruit fly, is native to North America and has been found in Canada and various states that include Alaska, Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico and New York, said Brian Brown, the curator of entomology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and an expert on the parasitic fly.
Brown said the fly has been in Oregon for thousands of years but has just never been found in a honeybee in the state until now. In 1993, he identified a fly from Oregon as being an Apocephalus borealis. He doesn't know, however, when it was actually found because it was part of a museum's collection he borrowed. In 1934, a collector found the fly just south of Oregon in Gasquet, Calif., near Crescent City.
Oregon was home to 56,200 commercial honeybee hives last year, according to a report from the OSU Extension Service. About two dozen beekeepers owned 90 percent of them, Sagili said. Every year, Sagili and retired entomologist Dewey Caron survey the state's commercial beekeepers to find out how their hives are faring. Between October 2010 and April 2011, they lost 17 percent of their combined hives versus the same period a year earlier, Sagili said. In 2009-10, they lost about 25 percent, he said.
To find out if the parasitic fly is playing a role in the losses, Sagili has placed traps by hives at two locations on campus and is encouraging commercial and hobby beekeepers to do the same near their colonies. Instructions on making traps can be found at www.zombeewatch.org/tutorial.
People who don't raise bees can also become ZomBee hunters just by collecting dead or dying honeybees they might find under porch or street lights. Sagili recommends placing the bees in a jar with multiple layers of cheesecloth secured over the top with a rubber band to let in air. Collectors should watch for the possible emergence of maggots. If they do find the parasite in the bees, Sagili encourages them to email him at email@example.com. They can also submit their findings to www.ZomBeeWatch.org so the fly's whereabouts can be posted on an online map.
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Composer Luke Bedford is giving exclusive and unique insights into the creation of his new opera, Through His Teeth via his blog.
Luke has collaborated with Scottish playwright David Harrower to write the piece, a chilling exploration of identity, trust and surveillance based on the Faust legend. Directed by Bijan Sheibani, the opera tells the story of a woman seduced by a charismatic conman.
Last year, Luke began a blog to document the development of his opera. From reflections on choosing the theme and creating the characters, to descriptions of composing specific scenes, the blog offers a unique insight into his creative process. It includes photos, video diaries and images of the score.
Read Luke's Through His Teeth blog.
As opening night draws ever closer, the blog will be updated to feature details of creating and staging the new work, from finalizing and printing the score, to beginning rehearsals at the Royal Opera House.
Through his Teeth will be performed alongside The Crackle, a new work by pioneering sound artist Matthew Herbert. Both works have been commissioned by The Royal Opera alongside Gounod's Faust, which opens on the Main Stage on 4 April. A range of events across the Royal Opera House will offer a very different interpretation of the Faust legend.
Through His Teeth runs from 3 to 11 April. Tickets are available now.
The production is generously supported by the John S Cohen Foundation, the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for Music, the Boltini Trust and the RVW Trust.


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We emphasize the professional development of staff and other community early childhood providers. Each year, our agency sponsors the Great Beginnings Conference for advanced early childhood professionals.
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A doctor of osteopathic medicine (D.O.) is a fully trained and licensed doctor who has attended and graduated from a U.S. osteopathic medical school. A doctor of medicine (M.D.) has attended and graduated from a conventional medical school.
The major difference between osteopathic and allopathic doctors is that some osteopathic doctors provide manual medicine therapies, such as spinal manipulation or massage therapy, as part of their treatment.
After medical school, both M.D.s and D.O.s must complete residency training in their chosen specialties. They must also pass the same licensing examination before they can treat people and prescribe medications.
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5 Dangerous Guns Sold Online In America
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story published on Dec. 14, 2012 contained factual errors regarding the sale of guns via the Internet. The National Memo regrets the errors and apologizes to readers.
While the nation is processing yet another deadly mass shooting, this time involving children at an elementary school in Connecticut (at least 20 students were killed out of 27 total dead, including the shooter), the question will be whether this will be the wakeup call the United States needs to have a serious conversation about gun control and the gun culture fueled by the National Rifle Association.
Will we demand our political leaders take action to get at the root of the problem — America's lax gun control laws? Or will we let the NRA and its followers continue to dominate the discussion by dismissing guns as the problem or even arguing that every private citizen should own a gun? Should the children have been packing?
Shopping malls. Houses of worship. Schools. Cinemas. A mass shooting every other week. Will we become numb to what should be shocking? Is this the price our society has to pay for the Second Amendment?
Last week it was an Oregon shopping mall shooting. This week it is a Connecticut elementary school in the line of fire. Where will the next mass shooting take place as a consequence of American gun violence? Organizations like Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence are fighting the good fight against the NRA and for stricter gun control measures.
While federally licensed firearms (FLF) dealers are required to conduct background checks on all buyers via the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), unlicensed private gun dealers are not required to conduct background checks in 33 states if the sale is conducted within the state — and 40 percent of guns are sold through private sellers.
There are federal rules against private sellers repeatedly engaging in selling guns for a profit, which is why many call this loophole the "casual sales exception." There are also federal rules against unlicensed dealers selling guns to someone they suspect couldn't pass a background check, although this is often ignored, as an investigation by the City of New York into private online gun sales found that 62 percent of private gun sellers agreed to sell a firearm to a buyer who said they couldn't pass a background check. The in-state transactions generally occur either via mail or face-to-face in a parking lot after arranging to meet via email or phone.
The NYC Fix Gun Checks Report recommends a federal law requiring background checks on all gun sales, including private sales, making sure the ATF enforces existing gun laws, and encouraging websites to take self-policing steps to stop illegal gun sales.
Here are five of the most dangerous firearms advertised online:
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Jonathan Martin's camp accuses Dolphins of 'player misconduct'
- Martin left the team last week and hasn%27t returned
- Dolphins say they have been in contact with Martin and his family
- MIami pledges to %27review the matter further%27
The Miami Dolphins broke their organizational silence Sunday morning on Jonathan Martin's departure from the team, releasing a statement in which they said they've been in contact with Martin and his family and saying reports that bullying led to his exit are "based on speculation."
But a few hours later, the team altered its stance.
"We received notification today from Jonathan's representation about allegations of player misconduct," read a statement released by the Dolphins.
"We are taking these allegations very seriously and plan to review the matter further. We have also reached out to the NFL and asked them to conduct an objective and thorough review. As an organization, we are committed to a culture of team-first accountability and respect for one another."
Martin, the second-year offensive tackle from Stanford, left the team last week and has not returned. FOXSports first reported teammates pulled a prank in the cafeteria on Martin, who smashed his tray and took off.
NFL Network reported Sunday night that one of Martin's linemates, guard Richie Incognito, had been suspended indefinitely while the league investigates the situation.
ESPN reported Friday the NFL Players Association was investigating Incognito's role in alleged harassment of Martin dating to his rookie season in 2012.
"We have an obligation to protect and support all of our members," the statement said. "We take official investigations very seriously and in this case, we have not launched an investigation into Richie Incognito or other players in Miami."
Incognito took to Twitter to defend himself Sunday morning.
"@espn shame on you for attaching my name to false speculation," Incognito wrote in one of the tweets. "I won't be holding my breathe (sic) for an apology."
ORIGINAL STORY:Martin leaves Dolphins
"Our primary concern for Jonathan is his overall health and well-being. As an organization, we take any accusations of player misconduct seriously," a statement released by the Dolphins early Sunday morning stated. At the time, the Dolphins claimed to be unaware of any hazing of Martin or pranks directed at him.
"The notion of bullying is based on speculation and has not been presented to us as a concern from Jonathan or anyone else internally. The reports that the NFLPA is investigating our players are inaccurate."
BELL:Martin situation brings bullying to forefront
In a statement released Saturday by the union, the NFLPA stressed its concern about players being provided a "safe and professional workplace."
INCOGNITO :Unhappy with bullying allegations
The Dolphins originally attributed Martin's absence to a non-football illness. He was listed as doubtful for Thursday's game against Cincinnati – an overtime win for Miami, snapping a four-game losing streak – before being downgraded to out.
When asked Friday if he has seen evidence of bullying or harassment, coach Joe Philbin said: "This is something we take very seriously, and it will not be tolerated."
The Dolphins play on the road against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Nov. 11.
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Somehow I'm now a Master. Weird. You fools.
Iain's Quickie Review of his new Nokia 770
Finally got it after a phone call to complain to UPS who seemed unable to find the door of a cafe that was open from 8am til 11pm and decided not to deliver it at all, but return it to the depot with "Premises closed" as the reason. Second time they sent a driver with a degree in door opening apparently.
Smaller than I imagined, but quite nice size. Device is cool, slightly annoyed that the powerpack isn't the same type as my phone, but oh well. The bag is nice, but the stand just looks and feels tacky.
Playing with it, I realised that I got bored of it within about an hour. Its nice and all, but I don't use the internet very often except for checking emails once a day. Maybe once I get sdk installed on my laptop and start hacking on it, it might be fun, but as it stands all I'm using it for at the moment is playing Mahjongg in class.
Had no problem pairing it with my Bluetooth phone, and like that the phone turns up in the file selector like another volume automatically without me having to do anything silly.
Also no problem setting up wireless, clickity click click, type the WEP key and away you go. All pretty painless.
It gets slow sometimes, the email program is fairly unusable with 500 emails, and having the news feed reader and a few browser windows seems to slow the device down a bit, but I guess thats just me forgetting that its only a little tablet and not a whopping big computer.
In short, its nice and all, but I'm not a big enough geek to care about it overly, and I wouldn't have bought one had nokia not given me insane discount.
Oh, and I thought "Oh, its got a neat audio player, I can listen to music in class while I play Mahjongg"(*) and so I uploaded a few OGGs onto it, only to discover that the media player doesn't play OGG files.
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MARYSVILLE — Sheriff's deputies and the Snohomish County Violent Offender Task Force on Tuesday were searching for a 38-year-old man suspected of stealing a red Ninja motorcycle.
Law officers, as well as two police helicopters, on Tuesday afternoon were searching the area where the motorcycle was abandoned near the 2700 block of 116th Street NE west of Marysville.
During the search, which started around 1:30 p.m, two deputies were stung several times after they disturbed a nest of bees or hornets, Snohomish County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Shari Ireton said. The search was suspended about four hours later.
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Benni_TR necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 95 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
This logo is to be designed for an upcoming music and contest related social networking and communitainment website called T&R. Therefore we would like the logo to integrate a human and musical aspect to it.
Be Creative. It should be an encouraging short copy with an integrative touch. Don�t be too pushy but make the user want to participate.
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Calabaza en Tacha
Señora Consuelo de Mendoza
There are many regional recipes for pumpkins cooked with raw sugar, either piloncillo in the form of cones, or panela, in thick rounds — the darker the color the richer the flavor. This recipe comes from the eastern part of Michoacán, where it is eaten preferably for breakfast with a glass of cold milk.
- Yield
- Makes about 30 pieces
- 1 medium pumpkin, about 5 pounds (2.5 kg)
- 8 cups (2L) water
- 1 1/2 pounds (675 g) piloncillo or panela, broken into small pieces, just under 4 cups (960 ml) or dark brown sugar
- 3 2-inch (5-cm) cinnamon sticks
- 10 guavas (optional), halved, seeds left in
- Pierce the shell-like outer rind of the pumpkin in several places to enable the syrup to penetrate the flesh and cut into pieces about 3 inches (8 cm) square, leaving the fibrous flesh and seeds inside.
- In a wide, heavy saucepan put enough water to completely cover the pumpkin. Add the brown sugar and cinnamon sticks and bring to a boil. Add the pieces of pumpkin and guavas and cook over fairly high heat, moving the pieces around from time to time to avoid sticking. Cover the pan and cook for about 15 minutes, then remove the lid and continue cooking until the syrup has reduced and the flesh of the pumpkin is a rich brown.
The Essential Cuisines of Mexico
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- Carbohydrates26 g(9%)
- Fat0 g(0%)
- Protein1 g(2%)
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- Sodium9 mg(0%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
- Fiber1 g(6%)
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Guide to Faculty Advising
What is Academic Advising?
It is the process by which university faculty and staff help guide students toward successful and timely completion of their college degrees. Although course selection and registration are important components of academic advising, advising is an opportunity for students and advisors to discuss many other aspects of university life that are critical to student success, including educational opportunities, support services, and career paths.
Academic advising for students who have declared a major is performed by faculty within the major. Students who have not declared a major are called exploratory students and are advised by the Academic Advisement Center.
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Responsibility for Academic Advising
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The responsibility for appropriate and effective academic advisement rests with the faculty and the students. The faculty member is responsible for communicating accurate and up-to-date academic information. The student is responsible for implementing decisions derived from the advising process in order to fulfill the requirements necessary for graduation. Both the faculty member and the student must make a commitment to the advising process to enable it to be efficient and effective. Without a shared responsibility, academic advising will fail to achieve the goal of optimum progression through the University experience.
Responsibilities of Faculty Advisors
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- To know the program requirements and University regulations with which the student must comply.
- To assist each student in planning his/her sequence of courses to meet graduation requirements.
- To approve, semester by semester, the specific program of courses which the student takes.
- To refer students to appropriate University staff in matters which are outside the area of the faculty member's competence (e.g., Health Services, Counseling, Academic Deans, Graduate Dean, etc.)
- To recommend to the Department Chair and to the appropriate dean any waivers or exceptions to the program requirements which he/she judges to be essential for the student's best academic interests.
- To advise the department on the status of each advisee as he/she reaches various stages in his/her program (e.g., admission to standing as upper class major, approval of application for independent Study or Student Developed Study, etc.).
Academic Advisement Duties
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- Students should meet an advisor appropriate to his/her major at least once a semester prior to registration academic interests.
- The advisor should be responsible for reviewing prerequisites, core requirements, and program requirements with the student.
Good Advisors Should:
- Know advisees
- Know course/major/program/degree requirements
- Encourage self-reliance in students
- Be interested in and listen to students
- Offer sound advice and guidance
- Monitor academic progress
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Bagatelle halls no longer have a place in Salt Lake County's business license ordinance.
Draymen are out, too.
Both were excised along with shooting galleries, scavengers and chicken hatcheries from the ordinance as it was trimmed from 281 pages to 132 by the county Planning and Development Division.
The yearlong editing process also eliminated 45 fees for specialized business licenses such as $30 for an indoor, year-round miniature golf course or $150 for a slaughterhouse.
"They weren't really relevant to business owners or to us in regulating them," said Brittany Grimes, division permitting and license supervisor.
And that sits just fine with leaders of two local chambers of commerce that helped county officials to remove provisions no longer relevant in the modern business world.
"The main goal was to simplify, and they've done that," said Magna Chamber of Commerce President Bennion Gardner. "We've had businesses that tried to open in Magna, but getting business licenses sometimes was difficult. They had to spend a lot of money and time getting licenses before they could open their doors. So they would start out in the hole immediately which is hard for a small business to do."
Now was the time to update the document, added Alan Anderson, president/CEO of ChamberWest Regional Chamber of Commerce, which covers Kearns, West Valley City and Taylorsville, and the East Valley Regional Chamber in Millcreek.
"With any rebounding economy, it's the entrepreneurs of the world who come into play," said Anderson, whose chambers represent about 3,000 unincorporated-area businesses. "It should be easier now to start a business in Millcreek or Kearns."
Gardner said the old ordinance often confused county officials as much as licensees, a criticism not disputed by Grimes' boss, Division Director Rolen Yoshinaga.
"It was just running us around in circles, trying to effectively apply and enforce the ordinance," he said, noting that his staff frequently came away from readings of specific provisions saying, " 'This is crazy. Why are we doing this?' At the time some of these provisions were added [to the ordinance] I'm sure there was a good reason. But, over time, they've become non-issues."
Like the requirement for a drayman to have a license.
"I had to go to the dictionary to find out what a drayman was. It's the driver of a sled or cart to haul cargo around," Yoshinaga said, noting it might apply these days only to the "guy driving the Budweiser Clydesdales when they're in town. We're not going to make the Clydesdale driver get a license. It's just silly little things like that that have been around for a while."
He has no idea when Salt Lake County had its last bagatelle hall. But there was a time when the county saw fit to charge an extra $30 per table to regulate businesses where people played the billiards game in which nine balls had to be directed through a series of wooden pins and into a hole.
No more. Nor will the county require a special business license for rooms where people play "backgammon, cards, checkers or other games of similar nature, or any game played with beans, buttons, dice or similar devices."
Yoshinaga cited several other oddities removed from the books. Laundromat owners will be spared a fee of $6 per washing machine and county officials won't have to put stickers on machines to show the fee was paid while grocery stores won't be charged an extra fee based on the gallons of milk in the store.
"We scratched all of those," he said.
All that remains in the ordinance are chapters dealing with businesses regulated by state or federal governments establishments selling alcohol and tobacco, massage parlors and sexually oriented businesses, residential solicitors, taxi companies, check cashers and alarm businesses.
Chamber leader Anderson was pleased that the consolidated fee schedule was revenue-neutral for the county. "If it costs $150 to process it, the business license should cost $150, not $200. Don't turn it into a revenue center."
The County Council voted 6-1 last week in favor of the revisions. Council member Randy Horiuchi cast the lone nay vote, citing concerns about the appeals process, but most council members shared the perspective of Arlyn Bradshaw.
"I'm glad we're simplifying things but not neglecting our necessary oversight," he said.
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