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In ArcGIS 10.1, I have a shapefile/layer with labels displayed on a map. Can I modify any of the formatting of the labels using Arcpy? Either directly in code or by importing style from another layer or the style manager would be fine. Specifically I want to add a halo around the text.
I have tried using
arcpy.mapping.UpdateLayer with a source layer that has the label style that I want, but the only options are to update everything (including changing the source data, which I don't want) and to change symbology only (which doesn't cover the label style). Any way around this? Or another solution? | <urn:uuid:a875ff03-63a6-4e9e-9dda-7b77ca8ea898> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/30230/formatting-label-styles-using-arcpy | 2013-05-21T10:55:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918702 | 139 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Bun B Hosts, Kurupt Judges Red Bull Emsee Challenge In LA
Red Bull EmSee Takes Over Los Angeles - Kurupt, Charli 2na And Supernatural Judge
Recently, Red Bull launched their Red Bull EmSee event in Los Angeles. Hosted by Bun B and judged by Supernatural, Charli 2na and Kurupt, eight emcees repped Cali battling it out for the crown.
San Jose's Dirtbag Dan known for his battle raps, took home the win and had this to say about the victory, “This is a freestyle battle, so there is no preparation. I showed up here with a clear head. You never really know how well you're going to do- you just have to feel it.”
He continued, “Tonight I felt it, I was in the moment- this format kinda forces you to be in the moment. It pushed all of us to a place we don't ordinarily get pushed.”
The next Red Bull EmSee battle will be hosted in Seattle on July 28th, 2011 at Volume. For more event information, visit www.redbull.com/RedbullEmSee.
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Q: Where did you have the best pizza?
A: Chicago of course!
Q: What was your favorite "tourist spot"?
A: Old Faithful
Q: What was the most interesting thing you learned?
A: That there are fossils of extinct mammals that lived millions of years ago in the Badlands.
Q: What was your coolest animal sighting?
A: The herds of bison.
Q: Which national park was your favorite?
Q: Which place do you most want to go back to?
A: The 7-D dude ranch in Wyoming
Q: What was the most awesome activity you did?
A: Horseback riding on Geronimo (I miss him).
Q: What was the least favorite part of your trip?
A: Feeling car sick as we drove to Mount Rushmore ... I don't even like to think about it.
Q: What was the best vanity license place you saw while driving cross country?
A: ICE CRM
Q: What was the best thing about the U.S.?
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Users argue for change of 21-year-old rule
A new recreation activity is beginning to emerge in Mammoth, but “snow biking” has some bumpy bureaucratic rules to clear before it can break into the trails system of the Inyo National Forest.
“I ride a bike with big fat tires made specifically to go on snow and sand,” said snow bike enthusiast Alan Jacoby at a meeting of the Mammoth Lakes Recreation Commission on Tuesday, Feb. 5.
“It’s picking up steam around the country, but unfortunately, in Mammoth Lakes I have nowhere to ride legally.
“It’s not motorized. It looks just like a mountain bike but it’s built specifically to have wider wheels and tires, which are made to float over snow.
“There’s actually less impact on a groomed trail than snowshoers, Nordic skiers or snowmobiles, but because of the old rules of ‘no wheeled vehicles’ allowed on groomed trails, I’m not allowed to ride anywhere.”
Jacoby, who is a cinematographer (for example, “The Drop-In Project”) said he also skis and rides snowmobiles, waits for the weather to change, then zooms around the trails on his mountain bike in the summer. An accomplished athlete, Jacoby two years ago completed the grueling Everest Challenge cycling race on a single-speed road bike.
“We’re all recreation people,” he said to the commission, “so I don’t see any reason why our snowmobile trail system shouldn’t be open to bikes like mine.”
It is not open to such bikes because of a 1992 rule prohibiting all wheeled vehicles on the trails. That does not mean the rule is set in stone, however, said Jon Kazmierski, the recreation manager in the Mammoth district of the forest.
“It all begins with a dialog,” Kazmierski said.
Kazmierski said he himself has seen the bikes on the trails and is not inherently against having cyclists use them, but he conceded he had very little information. He also said he would go to work soon on scoping whatever impacts there might be.
Jacoby has a powerful ally in trails advocate John Wentworth, the director of the Mammoth Lakes Trails and Public Access (MLTPA) Foundation, who said he and his girlfriend had just ordered a snow bike (or “fat bike”) frame for doing the same kind of riding Jacoby advocates.
“Emerging recreations are very big part of the mountain biking opportunity,” Wentworth said to the commission. “It’s a huge growth opportunity for the mountain biking community.”
As it happened, Wentworth was as surprised as anyone by Jacoby’s appearance before the commission. Unversed in the tangle of governmental procedures, Jacoby said he showed up, bike in hand, at the urging of commissioner Betsy Truax. Since Jacoby’s appearance was not on the agenda—he appeared in the “Public Comments” part of the meeting—the commission did not discuss the issue at hand.
Rather, commission chair Bill Sauser, himself an avid snowmobile enthusiast, advised Jacoby to take his ideas to the Mammoth Lakes Trails Coordinating Committee (MLTCC). Jon Kazmierski, the recreation manager of the Mammoth Ranger Station has a seat on that committee.
Already, a number of areas have adopted the new sport.
Grand Targhee Ski Resort in Wyoming, for example, has fully embraced snow biking.
It is the first ski resort in the United States to endorse “fat bikes.” Bikers who purchase a Nordic ticket for $10 per day or a Nordic season pass for $120 have access to the Grand Targhee Resort Nordic Trail System.
In addition, the nearby communities of Victor, Driggs, and Alta also have allowed the new bikes.
“Riding a fat bike on snow provides another recreational opportunity for guests to enjoy nature in the Tetons,” the Grand Targhee marketing department wrote on its resort website.
The fat, snow bike was created to go where standard, all-terrain bikes can’t. Proponents say the floatation and traction afforded by large-volume, low-pressure tires can carry a rider through otherwise unrideable terrain, such as sand, mud, wet rocks, roots, ice, and many kinds of snow.
Jacoby said his own bike has 3 1/2 inch tires, with less than 10 pounds per square inch (psi) tire pressure, and he said riders should only ride “in conditions where your bike would leave less than an inch divot in the snow, and to stay on the right side of the trails.”
“It leaves less of an imprint than a sneaker on snow,” he said.
“It’s made to float over the snow and not dig into the snow, and when the conditions get too hard to ride it [deep snow], you can’t ride. Those would be conditions where it would start making divots anyway, so there would be no point to ride.”
Sauser reminded Jacoby that the Mammoth rules were created to protect the trails from damage, and thus the “no wheeled vehicles” rule. Snowshoes, snowmobiles and skis float on top of the snow and do not dig into the underlying trail.
Jacoby answered by saying those rules were probably created to prevent motorized wheeled vehicles from tearing up the trails.
“But I don’t have the power to do what a motorized vehicle could do to the trail,” Jacoby said. “A snowmobile will rip up the trail way more than I do.”
At Grand Targhee, published rules of snow bike use are specific. They include stipulations that bike riders should let the track set until 10 a.m. on the mornings in which the trail is groomed, and warn riders what snow conditions are allowed.
“Do not ride in soft conditions,” is one of the Grand Targhee rules.
“Hard packed conditions on trails with two inches of new snow is ok, more than two inches, you can’t climb or descend very well.
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The first term of a finite geometric series is 6 and the last term is 4374. The sum of all terms is 6558. Find the common ratio and the number of terms in the series.
So i get that T1= 6.So, a=6. Sn= 6558. how to find r?
Not using any memorized formulas, just thinking about it:
Given that 6r^n = 4374, divide through by 6 to get r^n = 729. Note that 729 = 27^2, or 9^3, or 3^6; so the answer must be that either r=27 and n=2, r=9 and n=3, or r=3 and n=6. See which one results in a series whose sum of terms 6 + 6r + 6r^2 + ...6r^n = 6558. | <urn:uuid:a8dde07e-fa60-4133-a0fd-c69bbcb24327> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mathhelpforum.com/algebra/203982-geometric-sequence-question.html | 2013-05-21T10:49:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907201 | 184 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I believe that there are ghosts and spirits because there is proof that people have souls (people who die continue to cognitively function despite the fact that their brain is dead). However, I still don't believe there is a god ruling over them instead they become a part of space-time itself free to do what they wish.
I don't believe in them but in saying that I don't believe that it is absolutely imposable they exist.
I really find it hard(as in almost inconceivable) to believe that if they do exist they are us after we die.
I think that when we die we are dead and to be honest I have no problem with that. | <urn:uuid:72739ffd-a8b2-40be-ab7d-205609aad003> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nerdfighters.ning.com/group/atheistalliance/forum/topics/spirits-2?commentId=1833893%3AComment%3A2345029&groupId=1833893%3AGroup%3A1686995 | 2013-05-21T10:41:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986089 | 138 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
PDT Sports Report
Kevin Lewis flirted with a triple-double Friday night as host Notre Dame led wire-to-wire to defeat South Point 56-38 in an SOC I-OVC matchup.
The senior guard finished with a game-high 14 points. He also finished with eight rebounds, eight assists and five steals on the night. JP Kayser added 10 points and Daniel Ogg ended his night with eight points and eight rebounds.
The Titans take on Allen (Ky.) Wesley Christian Saturday morning as a part of the third day of action in the 2012 Ironton Classic.
South Point — Johnson 4-1-11, Williams 1-0-2, Adams 1-0-3, Meadows 3-0-8, Barnes 4-4-14, Totals 13-5-38.
Notre Dame — Lewis 5-2-14, D. Smith 3-1-7, Haney 2-0-5, JP Kayser 4-0-10, Cooper 2-2-6, Mader 2-2-6, Ogg 4-0-8, Totals 22-7-56.
3-Point Goals — South Point 7 (Johnson 2, Meadows 2, Barnes 2, Adams); Notre Dame 5 (Lewis 2, JP Kayser 2, Haney).
Records — South Point 3-6; Notre Dame 6-1.
Clay at Northwest, PPD
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by Jon G. Allen, Ph.D.; Arlington, Virginia, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2006, 341 pages, $31.50
Dr. Diazgranados is a psychiatry resident at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia.
The book Coping With Depression is outstanding. Jon G. Allen wrote this book for depressed patients, but he intends to help people who care for them as well. He achieves his goal. As a new therapist, I found this book to be a great tool.
Allen is professor of psychiatry and senior staff psychologist in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine. Only someone with as much experience as he has in treating depression could have paid so much attention to the limitations a depressed patient has to face.
Coping With Depression validates the severity of the disability caused by the illness, but the book remains hopeful. Allen uses simple techniques to engage patients limited by their symptoms, and he organizes his book in short sections to facilitate its use by readers with depression. He uses simple but metaphoric language to illustrate complex concepts.
This book could help anyone who struggles with depression, whether one is the witness of a depression or a casualty of it. Using the analogy of a "catch-22," Allen helps to generate compassion. He guides patients through each step in the development of their illness. Allen makes it clear that there is not just one cause of depression; he describes in simple terms the biopsychosocial approach as "stress pileup." Again, throughout the book, Allen offers advice to reach recovery; he gives hope.
If you are a therapist, read the book so you can recommend it to your patients. Be aware that you might skip some sections; Allen wrote this book for someone with no academic knowledge about depression. Nevertheless, professionals will find useful information in it and a real resource for patients. | <urn:uuid:edebcfd4-fb71-4b85-8df5-67b61f0015d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=97966 | 2013-05-21T10:41:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959558 | 382 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I agree 100% that the geocentric model makes it impossible to accurately measure the orbits of Venus and Mars, for sure, and probably, the others as well, for all the difference it might make. But the measurement is still approxiomately achievable. The estimates made by the ancients of the size of the Moon and the Sun and the distances to them were also "wrong" but still very good. But the Moon and Sun have to be viewed differently under the geocentic model. Under the geocentic model, it is possible to compute and relate the size of the Moon's orbit (around the Earth) with the size of the Sun's "orbit." This is because the radii from the Earth to the Moon and Sun follows a consistent pattern (can be "averaged"). But -- with real-time measurements -- the radii from the Earth to Mars and to Venus will not follow a consistent pattern; and therefore can only be "illegitimately" averaged.
For instance, let's say you took all of your measurements during the days, weeks, or months when Venus was at its greatest length away from Earth and, by happenstance, when Mars was mostly measured as being closest to Earth (i.e., in that closest part of its solar orbit) -- or vice versa. What you will find -- after possibly a months-long investigation of the matter -- is that the relative size of their orbits was either way too similar or way too different (as opposed to reality).
When you call that an "approximation," you do an injustice to the word. By that loose standard, humans are "approximately" the size of African bull elephants (when viewed from far away). It is no different than taking length measurements with a hypothetical ruler which, itself, changes in length. To call that "approximation" is a disservice to the term.
In order to really compute and relate their orbits to one another -- to mitigate the confounding effect of taking measurements only from partial and possibly extreme sections of orbits -- you would have to continue to perform measurements for at least several months or years, if not for several decades (possibly exceeding the life expectancy of an adult human). It remains to be seen whether ancient investigators took measurements over a timespan which extended beyond their own lifetime -- where such approximations could be valid (non-accidental) ones.
But Descartes' theory was more correct than Newton's.
Newton's theory did not involve errors of postulation regarding the fundamental nature of light. Descartes' theory did. Also, Newton's theory successfully explained the relationship of colored light to white light. Decartes' theory did not. So ... how can you sit there and say Descartes' theory was more correct? Besides fundamental natures and relationships of white to colored, what do you bring to the table?
The scientific method ("hypothetico-deductive") is not what Harriman claims it is. ... Testable theories are the heart of the matter. No. A truly scientific method is not the old, tired, worn-out, 5-step, "hypothetico-deductive" method of (1) Observe, (2) Guess, (3) Predict, (4) Test, (5) Repeat. You could even say that Harriman's whole book was about debunking that oft-hoodwinking canard. Conventional, scientific "hypothesis testing" literature is rife with gross inadequacies (1-9), given the epistemological ability of a philosophically-matured man empowered with an epistemology superior to what is currently in widespread professional use.
Inadequacies not unimportantly predicted by, and therefore altogether unsurprising to, Harriman and myself (and Peikoff, for that matter). Indiscriminate use/worship of the faulty "hypothetico-deductive" model has all but turned the scientific world upside-down and inside-out. The reason that, in the cases below, science is all but falling apart at the seams -- is because of the undeniable inferiority of the "hypothetico-deductive" method.
(1) [abstract] Hail the impossible: p-values, evidence, and likelihood.
First, p is uniformly distributed under the null hypothesis and can therefore never indicate evidence for the null. Second, p is conditioned solely on the null hypothesis and is therefore unsuited to quantify evidence, because evidence is always relative in the sense of being evidence for or against a hypothesis relative to another hypothesis. Third, p designates probability of obtaining evidence (given the null), rather than strength of evidence. Fourth, p depends on unobserved data and subjective intentions and therefore implies, given the evidential interpretation, that the evidential strength of observed data depends on things that did not happen and subjective intentions. (2) [full study] Principled versus statistical thinking in diagnosis and treatment of stroke.
Evidence-based medicine must be liberated from bondage to probability-based statistics, which is founded on the notion of chance and random processes, and instead become established on the determinate processes of molecular biology, based on the universal principles of biological science. (3) [abstract] Thinking about diagnostic thinking: a 30-year perspective.
... (c) to summarize criticisms of the hypothesis-testing model and to show how these led to greater emphasis on the role of clinical experience and prior knowledge in diagnostic reasoning; ... (4) [abstract] Clinical trials are often false positive: a review of simple methods to control this problem.
Statistical hypothesis testing is much like gambling. If, with one statistical test, your chance of a significant result is 5%, then, after 20 tests, it will increase to 40%. This result is based on the play of chance. (5) [abstract] Will the dilemma of evidence-based surgery ever be resolved?
The randomized controlled trial (RCT) is the most scientifically rigorous means of hypothesis testing in epidemiology. Discrepancies between established surgical and other interventions and best available evidence are common. (6) [abstract] Level of evidence and therapeutic evaluation: need for more thoughts.
The first dimension deals with the design of the study, i.e. the extent to which bias is avoided or managed, the second with the quality of incorporated data. A third dimension specific to therapeutic evaluation focuses on the clinical relevance of the tested hypothesis. ... (7) [abstract] The mainstream hypothesis that LDL cholesterol drives atherosclerosis may have been falsified by non-invasive imaging of coronary artery plaque burden and progression.
The bulk of existing scales of level of evidence concentrate on methodology. Some may include the second dimension but none embrace the three of them. ...
Inconsistent existing scales prevent the emergence of a generally agreed standard. Therefore, there is a need to further specify the concept of level of evidence in therapy evaluation and design scales encompassing the three above-mentioned dimensions: methodology of experiment, quality of data, and clinical relevance of the primary criterion.
That LDL cholesterol drives atherosclerosis is a widely if not almost universally held belief, and this belief strongly influences the mainstream approach to coronary heart disease. ... (8) [abstract] A practical solution to the pervasive problems of p values.
... studies that address the efficacy of interventions and practices aimed at the primary prevention of heart disease almost always use event-based endpoints such as fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction or unstable angina. These endpoints do not directly relate to the primary prevention of silent atherosclerosis and to apply these results to asymptomatic individuals in this context involves an extrapolation. ...
Consistent with earlier autopsy studies, the use of electron beam tomography and contrast enhanced CT angiography techniques have created a large body of evidence which appears to falsify this hypothesis. The large number of null results for the association between serum LDL cholesterol levels and the prevalence or progression of both calcified and non-calcified plaque in the appropriate vascular bed and involving large numbers of men and women over a wide range of age, ethnic background, plaque burden and cholesterol levels cannot be easily dismissed.
... p values are based on data that were never observed, and these hypothetical data are themselves influenced by subjective intentions. Moreover, p values do not quantify statistical evidence. (9) [abstract] Prior convictions: Bayesian approaches to the analysis and interpretation of clinical megatrials.
Large, randomized clinical trials ("megatrials") are key drivers of modern cardiovascular practice, since they are cited frequently as the authoritative foundation for evidence-based management policies. Nevertheless, fundamental limitations in the conventional approach to statistical hypothesis testing undermine the scientific basis of the conclusions drawn from these trials.
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- It was reminiscent of November 22, 2000 Florida, outside
the Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board offices when dozens of imported
Bush-Cheney ruffians rampaged through Miami's County Hall, disrupting the
recount of about 10,000 undervotes, ballots with no presidential choice
- They assaulted Democrat party representatives, near rioted,
and succeeded in halting the process. As a result, hundreds of Gore-Lieberman
votes weren't counted in largely Democrat Dade County.
- Fraud, intimidation and ties to big money infest US politics.
Washington's criminal class is bipartisan, but Republicans are especially
brazen. Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker matches the worst of his Capitol
Hill counterparts. Likely he's been chosen for his role and was directed
by party bosses to wage open warfare on labor rights, the same scheme playing
out across America, including by Democrats, many as extremist as Republicans
at a time working people are being hammered relentlessly.
- Target one is America's middle class, headed for extinction
by decades of wealth shifts to super-rich elites, millions of high-pay/good
benefit jobs offshored to cheap labor markets, and unions earmarked for
elimination - policies Washington's duopoly endorses.
- Outside the beltway, Wisconsin is ground zero, but anger
is spreading and may erupt anywhere at a time workers are struggling to
save hard-won labor rights, targeted for elimination. As Wisconsin goes,
so goes America perhaps.
- The stakes are that high. Bipartisan complicity is involved.
So are union bosses tied to corporate interests against their own rank
and file, concerned only for their own welfare and self-enrichment. For
decades, they betrayed their loyal members, functioning as wealth and power
instruments, not legitimate labor leaders the way early organizers envisioned.
- Reports from the Scene
- On February 20, Milwaukee's Journal Sentinel headlined,
"Biggest protests yet as pro-Walker side, larger union crowd meet
peacefully." Well, mostly. One Tea Party announcement said: "bring
cleaning supplies to clean up the pigsty the liberal union goons left behind
at OUR house."
- Overwhelmingly against them were teachers, students,
police, firemen, other public service workers, and many private sector
ones, knowing their own rights are at stake.
- Against them were pro-Walker supporters brought in by
influential extremist groups like Americans for Prosperity, the billionaire
Koch brothers (David and Charles), Freedom Works (chaired by former Republican
House majority leader Dick Armey), and other right-wing organizations,
with America's major media providing anti-worker coverage.
- According to Media Matters, right-wing media, especially
TV, "characterized the protests as 'riots' and 'uprisings' and attacked
the protesters as 'thugs' who could 'get violent.' " In fact, they're
working class Americans, teachers, professors, students, police, firefighters,
nurses, and supportive spouses, united in solidarity for decent jobs, a
living wage, essential benefits, and a secure retirement. Throughout days
of protests, they've been resolute and peaceful, showing remarkable restraint
despite an all-out assault on their rights.
- Walker wants to double their out-of-pocket contributions
to healthcare and pensions, amounting to an eight to 20% haircut by most
estimates. Most disturbing, however, would be loss of collective bargaining
rights, indexing pay raises to the grossly understated CPI index, and giving
Walker emergency powers to fire workers unilaterally.
- On February 19, Milwaukee's Journal Sentinel reported
"no political compromise in sight," writers Bill Glauber and
Don Walker headlining, "Struggle could change the way government does
business with its employees," saying:
- At issue is "nothing less than a defining moment
for organized labor in America." It's a national battle pitting rank
and file workers against politicians, corrupt union bosses, and big money,
"an epic struggle" to save hard-won worker rights on the chopping
block for elimination.
- Wisconsin's Historic Significance
- Ironically, Wisconsin is AFSCME's birthplace - the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, representing a diverse
group of 1.6 million public employees.
- It's also where government workers, in 1959, first gained
collective bargaining rights, three years before federal ones. Today's
conditions are far different. States across the country claim budget shortfalls
require painful choices on the backs of working people, not elitists getting
- As a result, workforces are being slashed and benefits
cut, including wages, healthcare, Medicaid and other help for the nation's
poor. Everything's up for grabs for reductions or elimination in a ruthless
race to the bottom at a time America's super-rich get more than ever, thanks
to bipartisan policies favoring them at the expense of most people losing
- According to Cornell University Labor Studies Professor
- "Attempting to dramatically change the laws and
the way collective bargaining is handled will be noticed in Wisconsin.
It's happening there. It's happening in Ohio. Even in New York" with
a Democrat governor and legislature. "This is the first time we've
seen such a widespread thing to seek concessionary bargaining in the public
sector (to) roll back" important rights.
- As a result, they're literally on the line. At stake
is losing them entirely with Walker spearheading the assault, a Republican-chosen
- On February 19, New York Times writers Monica Davey and
AG Sulzberger (son of Times publisher Arthur Punch Sulzberger, Jr.) said
"Republicans waited in frustration, Democratic senators showed no
inclination to return and Mr. Walker put off the release of his budget
proposal (until March 1), with no end to the battle in sight."
- In a separate article, Davey headlined, "For Wisconsin
Governor, Battle Was Long Coming," saying:
- Angry protesters demand his recall, "calling him
a bully and likening him to Scrooge, Hosni Mubarak, even Hitler. (He's)
become a national figure," a lightening-rod, "the man who set
off a storm of protest, now spreading to other states..."
- "Critics and supporters alike say Mr. Walker has
never strayed from his (political) approach....pressing for austerity,
and never blinking or apologizing for his lightening-rod proposals."
- He's unabashedly pro-business, anti-labor, and, like
all politicians, beholden to big money backers. According to Democrat Senator
- "Unions have always been his pinata, over and over.
And this time I think he's trying to out-right-wing the right wing on his
way to the next lily pad."
- Unfazed, Walker said he's "not going to be intimidated,
particularly by people from other places." Within days of taking office,
he hung a sign on his office doorknob saying: "Wisconsin is open for
business," meaning he's brazenly pro-business/anti-labor.
- Straightaway, he and state lawmakers passed $117 million
in mostly business tax breaks, exacerbating state budget problems. Moreover,
according to Democrat party spokesman Graeme Zielinski:
- He's "a hard-right partisan who does not negotiate,
does not compromise. He is totally modeled after a slash-and-burn, scorched-earth
approach that has never existed here before."
- Clearly he was chosen for his role to ram through harshness
to be replicated nationally. Last fall he was preparing. Before taking
office, he urged Republican lawmakers not to approve new lame duck session
public workers contracts. Once governor, he wanted "maximum flexibility"
to force passage of anti-labor measures. Now he's got it, arrogantly and
- "Months from now, when this is is enacted and people
realize it's not the end of the world, not all, but I think the vast majority,
including the vast majority of the public employees, will realize this
was not nearly as bad as they thought it was going to be. And we'll get
back to work in the Capitol."
- Popular Anger Perhaps to Spread Nationally
- Opposing him are tens of thousands of committed angry
workers, teachers and students, university ones facing a 20% tuition hike,
unaffordable for many. Ground zero remains the capitol rotunda, resonating
chants, drumbeats, banners and posters showing slogans including: "Tax
the Rich." "Wisconsin workers: unite or die," and "United
we Stay" combined with "Hell no, we won't go," "Kill
the Bill" chants.
- One worker spoke for many, saying "Walker wants
to turn Wisconsin into" WalMart. Another added, "If they cut
our pay further, I would qualify for BadgerCare (health insurance for low
income, uninsured families with children), food assistance and home heating
assistance." Diluting them ahead is planned, perhaps eliminating them
in future cost-cutting. It's happening elsewhere - in California, New York,
Michigan, Illinois, and many other states nationally, one round of cuts
begetting others in a race to the bottom war on workers.
- Their sole defense is resolute unified resistance through
protests, strikes, and other actions, hanging tough, staying the course,
no matter the long odds against them. The alternative is too grim to imagine,
a long march to serfdom, what Walker et al have in mind.
- Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at
email@example.com. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com
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Barack Obama’s healthcare reform survives the Supreme Court but not unscathed. The mandate forcing Americans into obligatory purchasing healthcare insurance emerges not under the commerce clause, but as a tax.
The ruling on the law, which is the latest attempt in 50 years to provide health insurance to the uninsured and slow down soaring medical costs, was passed by a 5-4 vote. The court limited the law’s extension of the Medicaid program for the poor by saying the federal government cannot threaten to withhold money from states that do not fully comply, reports Bloomberg.
"Nothing in our opinion precludes Congress from offering funds under the Affordable Care Act to expand the availability of health care, and requiring that states accepting such funds comply with the conditions on their use. What Congress is not free to do is to penalize States that choose not to participate in that new program by taking away their existing Medicaid funding," said Judge John Roberts, who joined the liberal wing in upholding the healthcare law.
In March, as the final hearing was held, the nine-member court wanted to know whether the law could stand if the core requisite that most Americans must acquire insurance or face a fine is struck down. The chief legal argument in court was that the individual mandate was unconstitutional. On Thursday, however, the individual mandate appeared to have survived as constitutional – not under the commerce clause, but as a tax.
President Barack Obama called the Supreme Court's decision "a victory for people all over this country."
The Affordable Care Act enabled in 2010 is viewed as Obama's major accomplishment in his first three years in office. The plan is meant to extend coverage to most of the estimated 50 million Americans currently uninsured, reduce the amount they pay for insurance and alleviate an already $2.6 trillion US healthcare system.
Republicans are almost unanimously opposed to the plan. They say it will swell the US deficit, drive up the cost of health care and make it tougher for small businesses to hire workers. The Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, pledged once again to repeal the act.
"What the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States. And that is I will act to repeal Obamacare," said Romney.
“Today's ruling underscores the urgency of repealing this harmful law in its entirety. What Americans want is a common-sense, step-by-step approach to health care reform that will protect Americans' access to the care they need, from the doctor they choose, at a lower cost,” Speaker of the House John Boehner stressed on Thursday. On the eve of the vote, Boehner vowed to repeal anything that would remain of the act.
But the Democrats said without the mandate the healthcare policy would be put out of balance. The mandate would bring insurance companies millions more customers – in exchange, the companies would guarantee more coverage and implement other consumer protection, such as allowing college age students to remain on their parents' health plan.
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Molecular mechanisms: Language neurons small in autism
Neurons that activate signals in a brain region important for language and imitation are smaller in the brains of individuals with autism than in those of controls, according to a study published 31 March in Acta Neuropathology1.
Imaging research has also shown deficits in Broca’s area during tasks that involve imitation, suggesting that it may contain mirror neurons, which are thought to fire when an individual watches or performs an action2. Some researchers have suggested that defects in mirror neurons underlie the social deficits seen in individuals with autism.
In the new study, researchers looked at the density, number and shape of pyramidal neurons in nine postmortem autism brains and six control brains. Pyramidal neurons activate brain signals and appear early in development.
By contrast, the new study found that the number and density of pyramidal neurons are the same in the brains of people with autism and in controls, but the neurons are about 20 percent smaller in autism brains than in control brains. The difference is also more significant among younger brains than among brains from older individuals, the study found.
Small neurons could lead to defects in connectivity with other brain regions, supporting the so-called ‘connectivity hypothesis’ of autism, the researchers say.
1: Jacot-Descombes S. et al. Acta Neuropathol. Epub ahead of print (2012) PubMed
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The Grand Finals took place in Ho Chi Minh where 10 of the best street football teams from host country Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, China as well as Brazil and Argentina battled it out for the right to be called 'Tiger's Kings of the Streets'.
Singapore champions Touch 'N' Go failed to make it through to the semi-finals after losing all but one of their four group stage matches.
But the experience of competing with the best street football teams has been invaluable to the Singaporean side.
Captain Mahmod Hashim, 29, told Yahoo! Singapore, "This has been a great learning experience for us although we are disappointed not to have reached the semi-finals.
"It's tough playing against these teams as they are physically and technically really good. But we tried our best and I can say we have done Singapore proud in the tournament," he added.
The 8000-strong home crowd were denied a Vietnam-Brazil final after Malaysia's Equal FC came from 1-4 down to beat Vietnamese team Dat Vinh Tien 5-4 in the semi-final while Team Floripa saw off Team Futsar from Argentina 3-2 to book a place in the final.
The Brazilians proved too strong for the Malaysian side as they romped to a 7-2 victory and the title, which came with the top money prize of USD $30,000.Team Floripa from Brazil crowned 2012 Tiger Street Football champions. (Photo courtesy of Tiger Beer)
Team Floripa's Fabio Vicente said after the final, "It's been an amazing tournament for us and the fans here who have been fantastic. This means a lot to us as we have trained really hard for this."
Tiger Street Football ambassador Edgar Davids was impressed with the Asian teams, although he believes there is still a long way before they can reach the level of their European counterparts.
The former Juventus and Holland legend told Yahoo! Singapore, "I've been really impressed with the Asian teams in the finals, who have actually shown better skills than the Brazilians and the Argentineans.
"But their technical abilities are still not up to mark and it will take some time before they can match up with the Europeans.
"I hope this tournament will ignite the passion for street football in this region," he added.
Looking forward to next year's edition of Tiger Street Football, Edmond Neo, Director, Group Commercial, Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd, revealed, "Tiger Beer will bring even more exciting street football action in 2013.
"We are upping the ante with more international teams to challenge our local talent and to keep the standard of play exceptional.
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View Full Version : verdascos racket
12-12-2012, 03:40 PM
is there anybody who knows the specs of his racket?
Thought it was supposed to be paintjob Dunlop300 and a Technifiber something underneath, at a little lower weight than the average for ATP pros.
I Heart Thomas Muster
12-12-2012, 04:12 PM
It used to be (unstrung): weight 330 grams, balance 30.6 cm, swingweight 285 (per ericsson I believe) on his Tecnifibre/Major racquets but according to RJYU the swingweight has since been bumped up a bit on his Dunlop frames (if that's what he's indeed using).
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Comment Box: Legalization and Life on the Border
We're about halfway through our trip, so we thought it would be a good time to go through some of the questions and comments you've left on the blog.
As with any story about drugs, there have been many questions about legalization or decriminalization. "Laheadle" and "am2233" tweeted about this topic using the #mexborder hashtag. Many others have left comments in the blog suggesting legalization is the only solution.
In Mexico, there is a similar movement among policy wonks and activists to decriminalize small amounts of drugs. People who make their money from drugs--smugglers, dealers and law enforcement--tend to be against any such plans, preferring to keep the status quo.
Drug consumption in Mexico is tiny compared to the United States, so among average people on the streets, the legalization argument doesn't come up much. In general, drug use here is viewed more as a health issue, not a legal issue.
Other commenters find the legalization argument to be an interesting concept, but didn't think it would work because addiction would increase. "bobfbell" wrote: "Even if we were to experience a temporary reduction in drug related crime, the larger question is do we, as a society, want to take the easy way out for us and condemn our children to a pretty bleak and hopeless future? Trust me, that is what drug addiction is all about."
"Utahreb" commented on our story Friday about the small town cop who lacked bullets when attacked. He, like other commenters, questioned how wisely U.S. aid is being used in Mexico. Until recently, very few American tax dollars went to Mexico to combat drug smuggling. With the Merida Initiative that went into effect this year, the U.S. is providing Mexico $400 million worth of equipment to help stem smuggling. The equipment doesn't include the types of weapons a small town police force would use. Much of the assistance goes to buying several helicopters, but also includes night vision goggles, detection technology, software and training. All of this aid would go to Mexican federal agencies. It's likely the police force we profiled in Ascension would see little of the aid.
"knjincvc" wanted to know more about how Jose Lucio Hernandez, the drug smuggler we profiled, was able to get the dope into the U.S. After a week on the border, we heard of so many different ways. In short, smugglers try every way to get drugs here. Hernandez didn't tell us exactly how he did it--we asked! Just yesterday, we heard about a smuggler putting drugs into a working car transmission. We're hearing more reports of drug smugglers using ultra-light aircraft to fly them over. We reported earlier about the increased use of submarines to haul drugs north. Traffickers also just put them in trunks of cars and hope they don't get caught; they hike them through the desert; and they pass small packages through the border fence in places. American officials have also been bribed by the cartels. There have been a few cases of Border Patrol and customs agents on the take, but small town sheriffs are more common culprits.
We've been surprised at how easy it is to cross back and forth between the two countries as we've made our way West. Several people have commented on how unique the border area is, culturally and economically. "JBC1" wrote in about this, saying "The border is not as rigid as many think. People go back and forth and families and the economy are dependent on this fluidity." We've certainly found this to be true during our time here. "walkerbert" found the opposite to be true, suggesting the only way to fix the problem is by "shutting the border for a while." This seems like an impossible proposition not only because of the wide open spaces, but because of the economic dependencies that are unique to the border region.
Thank you for following our trip. Keep your comments coming!
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Hollywood heartthrob Richard Gere graced Capitol Hill with his presence Tuesday and had nice things to say about the U S of A, according to a report from CNS News. "We are kind and gentle troublemakers," Gere said, complimenting the United States for sheltering Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, winner of Tuesday's Tom Lantos Human Rights Prize. "I'm very proud of our country, that we do speak out when we do," Gere said. "It's something extraordinary on this planet," the actor added. Chen was given the award after being put in prison and on house arrest for seven years for speaking out against China's one-child policy. Gere serves on the advisory board of the Lantos Foundation. | <urn:uuid:ba72faa6-aa07-4ea6-b099-90eb5b599f1f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://washingtonexaminer.com/richard-gere-cheers-for-america/article/2519989 | 2013-05-21T10:48:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972219 | 156 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Here is an example of the problem that I am talking about Skype Minimized to Windows 7 Taskbar, not on the System Tray
But now I will show you how to Minimize Skype to Windows 7 Syatem tray / Notification Area
Go to Tools > Options
Select the Advanced tab
Now Uncheck the option that says “Keep Skype in the task while I’m signed in“.
Press the Save button. And from now on Skype will be Minimized on the Windows 7 System Trayrather the Taskbar.
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- The neurobiology of magnetoreception in vertebrate animals
Trends in Neurosciences, Volume 23, Issue 4, 1 April 2000, Pages 153-159
Kenneth J Lohmann and Sönke Johnsen
AbstractDiverse vertebrate animals can sense the earth’s magnetic field, but little is known about the physiological mechanisms that underlie this sensory ability. Three major hypotheses of magnetic-field detection have been proposed. Electrosensitive marine fish might sense the geomagnetic field through electromagnetic induction, although definitive evidence that such fish actually do so has not yet been obtained. Studies with other vertebrates have provided evidence consistent with two different mechanisms: biogenic magnetite and chemical reactions that are modulated by magnetic fields. Despite recent progress, however, primary magnetoreceptors have not yet been identified unambiguously in any animal.
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- Theoretical Analysis of an Iron Mineral-Based Magnetoreceptor Model in Birds
Biophysical Journal, Volume 93, Issue 5, 1 September 2007, Pages 1493-1509
Ilia A. Solov’yov and Walter Greiner
AbstractSensing the magnetic field has been established as an essential part of navigation and orientation of various animals for many years. Only recently has the first detailed receptor concept for magnetoreception been published based on histological and physical results. The considered mechanism involves two types of iron minerals (magnetite and maghemite) that were found in subcellular compartments within sensory dendrites of the upper beak of several bird species. But so far a quantitative evaluation of the proposed receptor is missing. In this article, we develop a theoretical model to quantitatively and qualitatively describe the magnetic field effects among particles containing iron minerals. The analysis of forces acting between these subcellular compartments shows a particular dependence on the orientation of the external magnetic field. The iron minerals in the beak are found in the form of crystalline maghemite platelets and assemblies of magnetite nanoparticles. We demonstrate that the pull or push to the magnetite assemblies, which are connected to the cell membrane, may reach a value of 0.2 pN—sufficient to excite specific mechanoreceptive membrane channels in the nerve cell. The theoretical analysis of the assumed magnetoreceptor system in the avian beak skin clearly shows that it might indeed be a sensitive biological magnetometer providing an essential part of the magnetic map for navigation.
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- A Model for Photoreceptor-Based Magnetoreception in Birds
Biophysical Journal, Volume 78, Issue 2, 1 February 2000, Pages 707-718
Thorsten Ritz, Salih Adem and Klaus Schulten
AbstractA large variety of animals has the ability to sense the geomagnetic field and utilize it as a source of directional (compass) information. It is not known by which biophysical mechanism this magnetoreception is achieved. We investigate the possibility that magnetoreception involves radical-pair processes that are governed by anisotropic hyperfine coupling between (unpaired) electron and nuclear spins. We will show theoretically that fields of geomagnetic field strength and weaker can produce significantly different reaction yields for different alignments of the radical pairs with the magnetic field. As a model for a magnetic sensory organ we propose a system of radical pairs being 1) orientationally ordered in a molecular substrate and 2) exhibiting changes in the reaction yields that affect the visual transduction pathway. We evaluate three-dimensional visual modulation patterns that can arise from the influence of the geomagnetic field on radical-pair systems. The variations of these patterns with orientation and field strength can furnish the magnetic compass ability of birds with the same characteristics as observed in behavioral experiments. We propose that the recently discovered photoreceptor cryptochrome is part of the magnetoreception system and suggest further studies to prove or disprove this hypothesis.
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Magnetosensation in zebrafish
1 Institut für Zoologie, Universität Hohenheim, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany
2 Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Sektion Geophysik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, D-80333 München, Germany
- Many species, from bacteria to vertebrates, have been reported to use the geomagnetic field as a major cue for oriented short and long range migration [[1–10]], but the molecular nature of the underlying receptor has remained elusive. One of the main reasons may be that past attempts to train animals to respond to magnetic stimuli proved surprisingly difficult []. We present a novel approach to magnetic conditioning, using a fast, fully automated assay system relying on negative reinforcement. Weak electric impulses were applied to punish fish that failed to escape upon magnetic field alterations (avoidance behaviour). Using this assay we first demonstrate magnetosensation in Mozambique tilapia, a fish migrating regularly between freshwater and the sea. Next we wondered whether non-migratory fish have a magnetic sense, such as zebrafish, the genetic fish model organism. Zebrafish were trained in groups of 4 individuals, and statistically highly significant reactions to magnetic field changes were recorded. The demonstration of magnetosensation in zebrafish opens a possibility to genetically identify the magnetoreceptor and its downstream signalling cascade. | <urn:uuid:cc7df48d-fb6a-4ad3-9554-468047275a9f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(05)00210-1 | 2013-05-21T11:02:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891124 | 1,204 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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... cricket betting, fun, Tournaments, basketball betting, Arcade Games, keno, game, trotting, Deal Or...
- PERFORMANCE CRICKET
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... coaching for boys, girls and adult cricketers Venues across Henley, Shiplake, Berkshire and Oxfordshire Cricket equipment sold online Cricket partnerships with schools, colleges and cricket clubs.
- READING HOCKEY CLUB
SONNING LANE, RG4 6ST READING | Phone : 0118 9699049
... midweek and weekend mens teams and also a ladies team Reading Ridgeway. The cricket section also hosts national cricket events. This year the club will host a round on the womens Super 4s...
- THEALE AND TILEHURST CRICKET CLUB
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... cricket players, cricket club, cricket matches
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- NEW TOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL
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... adventurous activities, swimming (ten lessons each year from year 3 up), athletics, basketball, cricket, dance, gymnastics, netball, kyaking, orienteering, softball, skipping, volleyball. Aerobics...
- CHURCHEND PRIMARY SCHOOL
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... you' OfSTED Oct 2005We are involved with many sporting competitions each year-Tag Rugby, Kwik Cricket, Netball, Athletics and run many school sides.Many children get the opportunity to represent the...
- GRAZELEY PAROCHIAL PRIMARY SCHOOL
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... available led by outside experts for a small charge are french, music, (piano, violin, clarinet, flute, singing, trombone, cornet) football, judo, rugby, basketball, tennis, rounders and cricket.
- WHITCHURCH COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL
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cricket, hockey, football, Tag-rugby, netball, rounders, judo and athletics are offered. Other outdoor opportunities like Forest School and residential field trips are a very important part of the...
- ROBERT PIGGOTT C OF E JUNIOR SCHOOL
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... curricular activities: Sports: football, netball, basketball, rugby, judo, tennis, cricket, athletics, rounders, ball skills and cross country. These include inter and intra schools...
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... as signposting an After School Club, which runs until 6pm, we run a number of clubs such as, cricket, netball, basketball, multiskills, football, computer, environmental and art clubs. Children...
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... athletics club, ASSOCIATIONS, sports association, Sports Associations, Sports Clubs, SPORTS, CLUBS,...
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Opening Hours: Temple Timings Mornings : 10.30 AM - 1.00 PM Evenings : 6.00 PM - 8.00 PM apart from Tuesdays Kirtan : 6.00 PM - 9.00 PM. ..., charity organisation, charitable programme, hindu centre sports group, rhcsg cricket services
- AFGHAN CONNECTION
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The Afghan Connection Homepage | Health, Education and Sport for Afghanistan. Over £2 million raised to date. ... charity, sarah fane, aid, worsaj, education, cricket, educate, sport, teaching, children,...
- 1ST CLASS CARS
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we are a taxi /chauffeur company operating 365 days a year 24 hours of the day. we have grown organically through strategic acquisition. ... events,wimbledon,siverstone,lords cricket.,,we alss offer special needs vehicles wheelchair access...
- CLOTHING ID
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Football shirts supplier, sports t shirts, sports swimwear, tracksuits supplier, promotional clothing, youth football kits provided by Clothing ID. ... POLO SHIRTS, EQUIPMENT, SHIRTS, FUN RUNS, CRICKET CLOTHING, FOOTBALL KIT SUPPLIER, SPORTS T SHIRTS...
- NEW WORLD EVENTS
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New World Events, based in Reading Berkshire, are the leaders in event management, corporate hospitality and conference venue finding. Specialising in team building, team development and corporate ... Golf Hospitality, Football Hospitality, Cricket Hospitality, Rugby Hospitality, Horse Racing...
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At Totallybazaar.com we have dozens of top brands such as Ping, PGA, Calvin Klein, Glenmuir and Adidas in the Golfing and Sports section, as well as all the brands that you would expect to see from ... buy golf shoes online, realtree, ping, cricket clothing, Glenmuir golf, camo clothing, hi-tech...
- WATERSTONES BOOKSELLERS LTD
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Save on books and eBooks online with FREE UK Delivery at Waterstones com Choose from fiction, textbooks, children's books and many other genres in paperback, hardback or eBook format ... travel guides, graphic novels, MANGA TITLES, CRICKET BOOKS, BOOK BLOG, MIND BODY SPIRIT, cheap...
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- WOODLEY SPORTS & TACKLE
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Woodley Sports, a traditional Sports Shop selling clothing and equipment for all sports ... Boxing Gloves, Sports Kit, fox, rods, Cricket Kit, Weights, Squash, Dartboard Cabinets, sport... | <urn:uuid:ef96ce00-3047-4297-9d24-7992abfffcbd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cylex-uk.co.uk/reading/cricket.html | 2013-05-21T10:41:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.805595 | 1,904 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
After years of trying to find the right man ("my equal" as she calls him), Kim Kardashian has finally gotten herself knocked up and it's not by her loser (ex husband to be) Kris Humphries. It's by her proud rapper extraordinaire boyfriend/"baby daddy" Kanye West who revealed this weekend at a show in Atlantic City (revel theatre) that girlfriend Kim K. is pregnant, by saying "can we make some noise for my "BABY MAMA" right quick..." *GASP* (Crowd goes wild.....)
Kanye pronounced his love for Kim in his song "Cold" earlier this year with the lyrics "I'll admit that I fell in love with KIM around the same time she had fell in love with HIM..." (referring to Kris Humphries). Luckily for Kanye, he had his opportunity after Kim and Kris' astonishingly short 72 day marriage.
Ever since coming out as a couple Kanye and Kim (also known as "KimYe") have rarely been seen apart. Could this finally be the "one" for Kim? I truly hope so, because I love them together, they're both a little cooky and a tad bit off so I think they'll balance one another out perfectly.
Kim K. addressed the pregnancy on her blog with Celebuzz saying "It's true!! Kanye and I are expecting a baby. We feel so blessed and lucky..." (read the rest of her statement at Celebuzz.com)
Congratulations to the 12 week pregnant Kim K. Although there has been reports of her having "acute morning sickness" like another well known Mom to be (Princess Kate); I know this is something she's been wanting and longing for ever since her sister Kourtney showed her up and had her son Mason a few years back, then got pregnant again before she even had her first. Now she'll have everything she's ever wanted... Maybe her happily ever after will come later this year after she's finally divorced and walking down the aisle with Kanye!! | <urn:uuid:57cd6abb-ce26-4584-81c2-26913b29efdd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.examiner.com/article/kim-k-and-kanye-are-having-a-baby?cid=rss | 2013-05-21T11:11:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98059 | 415 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The pitching staff of the Colorado Rockies is, well, pretty rocky. The Rockies had the second worst ERA in the National League last year at 4.73 and at least on paper, things are only getting, well, rockier.
Gone is ace Ubaldo Jimenez from a July trade. Gone is veteran Aaron Cook who has opted for free agency. Promising southpaw Jorge de la Rosa has had Tommy John Surgery and won’t be back until at least June, 2012.
Colorado has been active in pursuing Roy Oswalt, but the consensus is that Oswalt will likely land somewhere other than in Denver. The Rockies would be happy to pick up a # 3 or # 4 starter to go with Jhoulys Chacin. Esmil Rogers and Juan Nicosia are expected back after tough seasons last year. Rogers was especially awful: 7.05 ERA and 1.89 WHIP!
Juan Nicasio, who went 4-4 with a 4.14 ERA in 13 starts after jumping from Class AA, has made a remarkable recovery from the broken neck he suffered when a line drive hit him in the head Aug. 5. Nicasio, 25, is throwing simulated games and is expected to be ready by the spring.
It seems like a very depleted pitching staff, but the Jimenez deal, however, brought in two major prospects. Alex White was 3-4 with a 1.69 WHIP and 7.01 ERA after joining the club. A big strong left-hander, acquired in the Jimenez deal, Drew Pomeranz, is likely going to get his chance also this year. Pomeranz was 2-1, 5.40, 1.31 in 18 big league innings.
But, Drew Pomeranz did impress in Double-A during the regular season in the Indians organization. Coming out of Ol’ Miss, Pomeranz earned some frequent busser miles in the minors last year as he pitched for Kinston, Akron, and Tulsa before jumping right past Triple-A and to the Rockies. Pomeranz was 4-3 with a 1.05 WHIP and a 1.78 ERA. In 101 IP, he fanned 118. He held opposing hitters to a .189 average. Pretty impressive numbers.
Pomeranz is an imposing lefty at 6′ 5″ and 230 pounds. His fastball tops out at 95 MPH with movement and is his go-to pitch. He throws an excellent knuckle-curve as well which is especially nasty after seeing the mid-90′s fastball. Like most young pitchers, he needs a little more polish on his change-up.
The bar is very high for Drew Pomeranz and he’s a definitely a rookie to watch for 2012. Pomeranz will almost surely get a shot in the Rockies’ rotation. | <urn:uuid:63cb9b04-84cc-4fa1-af22-4134719748ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fantasybaseballdugout.com/2011/11/30/pomeranz-fantasy/ | 2013-05-21T11:08:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970227 | 584 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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With another Christmas behind us and a new year fast approaching, I thought I might share my sports wish list for 2013.
1. A Warrior-Wildcat district final. This season it may be more likely than at any time in recent memory. The Warriors are rolling right now, while the Wildcats are struggling, but the young Wildcats will improve as the season goes on and I believe they will be playing their best ball down the stretch when it counts the most.
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Media Rights Capital Closes Five-Year $350 Million Credit Facility
The financing will allow the high-profile independent studio to grow its business and bolster its studio partnerships, as well as support a number of projects already in the works.
Media Rights Capital has closed a five-year $350 million revolving credit facility that will allow the independent studio grow its film and television business, while expanding and developing projects already in its works.
The financing was provided by a group of banks led by JPMorgan Chase, Comerica, Bank of America, Sun Trust and Union Bank. The syndicate also includes East West Bank, Wells Fagro, Bank Leumi and City National Bank.
MRC is involved in a number of projects per its five-year distribution deal with Universal Pictures, as well as the upcoming CBS situation comedy How to Be a Gentleman, Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, to be distributed by Sony, and the David Fincher-produced Netflix political drama House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.
“In the unpredictable environment of the current economy, this oversubscribed facility is validation from our financial partners and allows us to continue growing and strengthening our brand,” said Erika Hindle, who joined MRC as chief financial officer in early August, on following her tenures at Relativity Media and Overture Films.
MRC secured its last $350 million revolving credit facility in 2008, the last major transaction of its nature prior to the severe economic downturn.
“At a time when many financial institutions have rethought their support of entertainment properties, we continue to develop our partnership with Media Rights Capital,” said JPMorgan’s David Shaheen, who is managing director of the Entertainment Industries Group.
MRC has now financed and produced 16 films distributed by Universal, Sony, Fox, Warner Bros. and leading international distributors. The company’s slate includes Babel, The Adjustment Bureau, 30 Minutes or Less. Upcoming releases include TED, distributed by Universal.
MRC’s television projects include returning HBO series The Ricky Gervais Show and the late-night animated comedy The Life and Times of Tim.
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Single homeowner who dreams of turning her 1.5 story, three bedroom, 2 bath house into one that has more of a beachy feel to it. Grew up in the south and my heart is still there even though I live in the north now. Every room in my house needs improvement, including the basement whcih gets water in it during torrential rain storms. I am learning more and more each day on what I can do with this house..
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Spring, summer and fall - anything outdoors, Wintertime is for indoor projects. Actually, there are many days I wish I could just bulldoze this house over and start again (that is once I get my personal keepsakes out of it). Hoping to have a combination flower and fruit/vegetable garden this year big enough for myself, couple of neighbors and take left overs to the local soup kithcen. I am always on the hunt for bargains and sales, no matter if it is for interior or exterior use, as well as unusual and beautiufl designs. I love trying to put what is in my over creeative head into action with a body that is not so cooperative on the creative level. | <urn:uuid:71a494f4-e8a9-4b36-a153-fe0cdf327de2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hometalk.com/1vmf397bg0?page_num=3 | 2013-05-21T11:15:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964897 | 249 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This paper sets out general business views on online transactions and consumer protection in the context of jurisdiction and applicable law. It does not address issues of intellectual property protection, taxation or other aspects of electronic commerce.
Business is chiefly concerned about uncertainty and aggressive assertion of jurisdiction and applicable law in business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce, with emphasis on the distinction between the principles of "country-of-origin" and "country-of-destination".
ICC notes that the Internet provides significant consumer empowerment through increased competition, evolving business models and technology. Consistent with this empowerment, business recommends to governments a systematic approach to resolving online consumer disputes: and urges them to: make reasonable attempts to utilize a company's internal customer satisfaction mechanisms; utilize online alternative dispute resolution (ADR); and if the dispute persists, resort to legal action.
In addition, ICC urges governments to 1) avoid expansive jurisdictional claims by applying principles of "country-of-origin" and party autonomy, 2) allow self-regulation to demonstrate its efficacy, and 3) combat fraud and crime on the Internet.
Electronic commerce - business conducted over the Internet and other computer networks - is growing explosively. The Internet is a global medium that is open across all frontiers, and once posted, a website is global from the outset. Likewise, transactions, as well as commercial and promotional material on websites become global. More frequently and more directly, enterprises of all sizes trade with and advertise to suppliers and customers (both businesses and consumers) located abroad.
Inevitably, some of these dealings result in commercial disputes that must be resolved privately or at law. In addition, many e-commerce transactions raise questions of compliance with applicable public laws and sectoral regulations. Governments, judiciaries and legislatures are just beginning to grapple with the question of whose laws apply in cyberspace, and the parties themselves all too often exhibit no clear understanding as to whose rules govern the arrangement and what recourse is available in the event of a dispute. | <urn:uuid:1e61849b-0a5b-461e-86e7-fad79315d608> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.iccwbo.org/advocacy-codes-and-rules/document-centre/2001/jurisdiction-and-applicable-law-in-electronic-commerce/ | 2013-05-21T11:10:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936815 | 412 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Wash all vegetables and dry them with paper towel (or clean kitchen towel). Cut the vegetables into serving pieces that you can eat with your fingers. (For the radish roses, carrot curls, celery fans, and cucumber flowers, please see Betty's Quick Tips, if you need help making them.) Arrange the vegetables in a large tray in an attractive way. I used alternating colors and textures. You may omit any vegetable that you do not like, and add in others. Also, I only used natural foods--nothing processed like pickles, olives, jalapeno slices, etc. Make your relish tray to your own taste. After using the relish tray for your party or for a meal, you will probably have leftovers. Place these in a gallon-sized plastic zip-lock bag, and store in the refrigerator. The vegetables should stay fresh up to a week or so. Diet tip: Place the bag of vegetables in plain view, so that when you go for a snack, it will be the first thing you see. It may cause you to have a healthy, fat-free snack instead of that piece of cake that is calling your name! And, remember, the Dill Weed Dip is fat-free, also! This may be the beginning of a diet that truly will work!!!
This fourth of July, fire up the grill and deck up the picnic table and pull out all stops to prepare a gorgeous relish tray. In this video, Betty shows how to assemble a large, tasty treat in a snap. Keep some dill weed dip handy and treat your guests to a tasty treat. Watch the video recipe to learn how to make this treat. | <urn:uuid:e71e8710-dbf7-4ba1-9b5b-244383f0a925> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/fourth-of-july-celebration-veggie-relish-tray | 2013-05-21T11:09:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921069 | 344 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Voluntary Fire Brigade, with remarkable Jewish participation, should be mentioned. Its station, in the main street near the government elementary school, had a wooden tower five stories high and on it a siren for alarming the volunteers. There was a storeroom with one or two water tanks mounted on a cart, a stand by hand pump activated by four people, also ordinary water containers and long hoses. When a fire broke out the firemen would stop passing carts, untie their horses and harness them to their equipment. This was taken for granted and a common custom.
Shoemaker Tzibulsky was among the Jews who for many years continued to do their duty in the fire brigade, and as such was decorated with many medals of distinction and for some time was even the chief of the brigade. Berniker the manufacturer also held this position for many years.
First line from right: Yechiel Feferman, Shmuel P., David Levin, Dov Shtern, Yitzhak Skrobiansky, ---,Hadasa Bartenshtein, Frida Shtern, Aya Chashman
Second line: Iser Kahanov, Aryeh Miltz, Yitzhak Rabinovitz, ---, Shlomovitz, Moshe Chlamnovitz, Haviva Chlamnovitz, Peretz Kliatchko, Yitzhak Feinzilber, Chayim Borochovitz, Gotlib Borovik
Third line: Shlomovitz, Mordechai Shtern, ---, ---, ---, Michael Davidson
Fourth line: ---, Yehuda Rabinovitz, ---
First line, sitting from right: ---, Voltchansky, the major Budrevicius, Berniker, the medic Sher
Second line: Tzibulsky, Ch.Jofe, ---, Frenkel------------
First line from right: Beirachovitz, Z.Kovensky, M.Chlamnovitz, A.Shadchanovitz, B.Vidomliansky, S.Frenkel, Gershater, B.Tzichak, R.Yasven, N.Rachmil, R.Berniker, Z.Borochovitz, A.Borochovitz, A.Lakovsky, M.Svirsky
Second line: E.Taburisky, Sh.Bartenshtein, ---, Z.Epshtein, E.Halperin
Third line: Gershater, D.Shadchanovitz, I.Voltchansky, B.Tzichak, ---
During the German occupation in World War I, many Jewish refugees from Poland arrived in Kibart' and already in 1918 a committee to care for them had been established. This committee cared for them very well, enabling some of them to return to their homes or to go on to other destinations, and for others it cared for their livelihood and existence.
Social help was very developed in Kibart, and the Community Committee had a budget of 10-12 thousand Lit per year for this purpose. After this Committee was closed down its functions were transferred to the "Ezra" institution, which did very well, having among its duties also "Maoth Chitim" (help for the poor for Pesach) and the supply of heating materials for the needy. The chairman of this institution was J.Sh.Chashman for many years (see Table 17).
Over the years the budget for this institution shrunk and by 1935 it was only 5-6 thousand Lit. Taking into account that during the years many rich merchants left and the status of some of the people changed from having been donors to being needy, the activities of the "Ezra" institution were certainly worthy of their name (Ezra- help in Hebrew). There were also poor families who moved from other places to Kibart, thinking that that they would be better of living in Kibart, despite the fact that in their former abodes there were many more Jews. Parallel to the "Ezra" institution was the "Linath-haTzedek" association, whose yearly budget was about 1,500 Lit.
Another association was "Gmiluth Chesed" which granted interest free loans to those in need. Its chairman was Michael Shadchanovitz, who was very active in welfare matters.
The budgets of these institutions were financed from donations and from balls which were organized by local amateurs and sometimes with the help of artist amateurs from nearby towns. On February 8, 1930, for example, a ball took place in the hall of "Palas" cinema in Kibart' on behalf of the "Ezra" institution, with different shows performed by youths from Kibart' and Virbalis and a band from Vilkavishk (see Table 18).
Another institution working on behalf of health care for children was called "OZE." It began its activities in 1925 with a remarkable budget of 3,500 Lit per year, but ten years later its budget had decreased to only 1,500 Lit, with which they nevertheless did much good work. About 30 children received a glass of fresh milk and a roll every day, weak children received cod liver oil and 10-12 children were sent to a summer resort every summer, two doctors voluntarily practicing preventive medicine and giving medical help. The budget for these activities came from monthly donations of about 50 members, from a one-time fund raising affair and from a yearly ball, the income of which was dedicated to "OZE." Another important action of the Kibart' Community at the end of the thirties was to send 10 youngsters to study on its account to the "ORT" vocational schools in Kovno.
Generally Kibart distinguished itself by its generosity not only to local institutions, but "delegates" who came to raise funds for outside institutions did not leave the town empty handed.
In the 1930s the Yiddish "General Jewish Encyclopedia" began to be published. There were 10 subscribers in Kibart' and compared with much bigger Jewish communities this was a remarkable number.
Another example of the nature of Kibart, as a large city was the fact that people addressed each other by their family names - Mr. so and so - and not by a nickname as was common in most of Lithuania. Generally in Lithuania people did not know their neighbors surnames because everybody was called by his nickname, according to the village his grandfather had come from, or by his occupation, or by the name of his mother or grandmother or by a nickname which had been passed on from father to son for generations. Even the Yiddish was a little different in Kibart, the vowels "oi" being pronounced "au" in some words. For example, instead of pronouncing "Boich" (belly) it was pronounced "Bauch" like in German. The letter "H", was pronounced correctly and not like in other places "A" or "O" instead. Also the "Sh" and the "S" were correctly pronounced and not like in other places, mainly in north Lithuania, where these two consonants were mixed up and caused many funny misunderstandings.
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How I wish I could say that! Yes, really I mean it. I guess summer has already arrived in most parts of the world but here, it is still so cold. I can't really believe it is already May and still the temperature are in single digit! I am hoping May has something better in store for us.
While I was thinking of a title for this event, I came up with this name- Cool Summer Sips (pun intended, it almost looks like we are going to have a cool summer). But, wait! That's not I am looking for. I love cool drinks, the ones that are perfect for summers - lemonade, spritzers, punch- all cold and icy like this Blueberry Lemonade or this Orange Spritzer or this Mint and Ginger Lemonade. Even icy cold Thandai is refreshing for the parched throat. How about some lip smacking cool shakes and smoothies! So, I want you to churn up some cool summery drinks so that I can at least have a virtual treat.
Here are a few rules of the event, you would like to know:
1. Prepare any cold drink that is perfect for summer.
2. Recipe has to be strict vegetarian.
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The Battle Over Voter ID Bills
1 year ago
Confusing privileges with a fundamental right
In state after state, Voter ID bills are being passed or proposed. More often than not, Republicans are the ones drafting this legislation and defending the bills, claiming they prevent voter fraud. In addition, Republican politicians have been pushing the idea that voting is a privilege and not a right.
When you go to even a Burger King or a McDonalds and use your debit card, they'll ask you to see your ID [to be] sure it’s you . . . Should we have to do that when we vote, something that is one of the most sacred -- I think it's a privilege, it's not a right. Everybody doesn't get it because if you go to jail or if you commit some heinous crime your rights are taken away. This is a privilege.
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Although Zellers later downplayed this remark, his fellow Republicans continue to make similar comments. The idea that voting is a right is not something new to the right. In fact, Republicans have asserted this view for a long time. Currently, there are 15 states with photo ID bills on the books, and more states are pushing for passage of similar legislation. It should be noted that not all of these laws are in effect, and some states do not require a photo. Furthermore, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) provides an updated list along with details of what is going on with these bills state by state. | <urn:uuid:dee65e0e-0b80-45e1-91aa-78231af9ef4c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.loop21.com/politics/battle-over-voter-id-bills?page=1 | 2013-05-21T10:49:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961957 | 319 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Entries in 'ahead' (8)
2011 will be a landmark 12 months for developer BioWare as it prepares three big titles for the year.
PC gaming is technically so far advanced compared to consoles that it is effectively ‘a generation ahead’, according to the boss of Crysis and Crysis 2 developer Crytek.
With Xbox 360 entering its fifth year on the market, the pressure is on Microsoft’s machine to keep up its strong momentum – something that Microsoft Game Studios’ corporate VP ...
The UK games industry was hit hard by the recession in 2009, and now leading execs are hopeful that the worst is behind them.
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Police in San Mateo County arrested 12 people Friday during a sting operation aimed at preventing underage drinking.
Officers from Brisbane, Broadmoor, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, Pacifica, San Bruno, South San Francisco and unincorporated San Mateo county participated.
The sting went like this: minors, under the supervision of officers, stood outside liquor and convenience stores and asked adults to buy alcohol for them because they couldn't legally do it themselves, police said.
The people who bought the kids alcohol were was arrested after unknowingly handing it over the the youngsters.
The people who were arrested will have to pay $1,000 and serve 24 hours of community service.
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A witness reported that the shooter had run into a nearby apartment complex, so deputies established a perimeter there to search but did not find the suspect.
The suspect in a shooting that left a man in critical condition was not found in a search of an apartment in unincorporated Alameda County Wednesday afternoon.
The shooting was reported shortly before 1 p.m. in the 16000 block of Mateo Street in Ashland, just outside of San Leandro, Alameda County sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson said.
A witness reported that the shooter had run into a nearby apartment complex, and deputies established a perimeter there to search for the suspect.
Deputies entered an apartment at around 5:45 p.m. that a witness said the suspect might be in, but the apartment was empty, Nelson said.
Investigators remained on the scene conducting interviews with bystanders Wednesday evening.
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The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) today announced that the OHSU Library will join Harvard University on the eagle-i project. Together with nine partner institutions, the OHSU Library will build a web site to help researchers find the tools and materials they need to accelerate biomedical research and enhance interdisciplinary collaborations. The $15 million two-year project was awarded as part of the NIH Recovery Act (ARRA) with $1.79 million designated for OHSU Library participation.
“This award will fund eight new researchers working in Oregon on the eagle-i project,” said Chris Shaffer, University Librarian. The OHSU Library will lead the Data Curation Team to build the ontologies and vocabularies used to describe research resources and make them easier to find. Resource Navigators and Data Entry Technologists will work with researchers to identify unique reagents, animal models, core facilities and other tools that can be shared across the OHSU campus and the country. “Libraries have a long history of organizing research information and publications. Through this project, we are extending library expertise into the research enterprise in new and exciting ways.”
To meet the new OHSU Library staff, please visit http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/about/departments/eagleistaffroster.cfm. The institutions in the eagle-i consortium are Dartmouth College, Harvard Medical School, Jackson State University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Montana State University, Oregon Health & Science University, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of Puerto Rico. More information about the award can be found at http://www.nih.gov/news/health/nov2009/ncrr-02.htm. | <urn:uuid:932ecd6a-d797-4d56-9be6-cb04d8d30038> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/about/whats-new/ohsu-library-awarded-funds.cfm | 2013-05-21T11:03:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907161 | 373 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Usually there are only one or two sales to attend on Thursdays but this week there were too many to count. I picked out 4 that I liked, two garage sales, an estate sale, and a church rummage sale. The first garage sale and church rummage sale were a bust but the other two sales were quite productive.
I got a great deal on this wood slab. I am sure I will find a good use for it.
Simple mid century side table / night stand. For Sale $35
St. Timothy Leather Executive Chair. On the bottom is has a sticker on it that says "Property of U.S. Bankruptcy Court". I could picture the judge presiding over the cour from this chair.
For Sale $150
Classic solid wood armchair with leather upholstery. For Sale $100
Emeco Navy Semi Upholstered Chair. For Sale $350
Classic Upholstered Occasional Chair. For Sale $60.
This Gunlocke Chair is one of my favorite mid century American designs. I have had a few of them and they always sell quickly. We should have this one refinished and ready for sale in a week or two.
Gunlocke Chairs always have this medallion embedded somewhere in the frame.
This chair is another project piece. SOLD
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Mass Assign Course Recommendations
This video describes how teachers and school counselors can easily assign course recommendations for the following school year to a group of selected students.
ParentCONNECTxp Course Plan Pencil
In this video we describe the new course plan pencil and how parents will be able to utilize it. Features of this tab like the required course request tab, elective course request tab, course request progress bar, and the academic plan progress tab are demonstrated.
ParentCONNECTxp Course Requests
This video shows the functionality available for students within the online course request system. The video demonstrates features like recommended courses, the required course tab, the elective course tab, course search, request progress bar, and the academic plan progress tab.
"C-Tools allows Klein to track and keep all student data in one secure location. We've only uncovered a small portion of what C-Tools can do for the students and teachers of Klein."
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Student Information Services,
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Protect America's GE Security System provides flexible equipment packages so that you can customize a security system that meets your specific needs. To help detect burglars and intruders, wireless sensors that are part of any GE security system package, are placed on the doors and windows as well as wireless motion detectors that are used inside the home. Also, part of any GE security system package is the talking command station, which receives the signals from the wireless devices and sounds the 100dB interior siren. Call Today!
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If the code is not entered on the GE Security System, we will attempt to contact your home and ask for your correct password to verify whether it is a false alarm or a real emergency. If the correct password is not received on the first attempt to call your home, then our monitoring facility will immediately attempt to dispatch the appropriate emergency authorities to your home.
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Martina tells The LA Times why she decided to compete on Dancing With The Stars. She says she’s been facing her fears ever since she was 14 and her parents put her in a ballroom dancing class. She was once scared of flying, so she got her pilot’s license. She’s scared of dancing, so, why not conquer that fear by dancing on the largest dance floor in the world. Amazing. I love her. Be sure to read the link for the full interview. Below is her thoughts on how her tennis training is helping her and more….
Q: Did any of your tennis training help prepare you for this competition?
Absolutely. It definitely helps that my body is already in gear and ready to go. I’ve got the endurance part down and the discipline to practice. Now I’ve just got to get control of my head and keep it still and the rest of the body is getting there.
Q: Is there any style of dance you are particularly looking forward to?
Honestly, I don’t know that much about ballroom dancing other than what I’ve seen on the previous seasons, so it’s all new to me! I guess the more upbeat dances may be more up my alley since I know I’ve got the endurance for them, and plus it’s more along the lines of music I like to listen to in my everyday life.
Q: The mirrorball trophy looks like a lot of tennis trophies I’ve seen. Will it find a prominent place in your collection if you win?
For sure! I’ve got my eye on the prize and I’d like nothing more than to add it to my mantle. I might have to clear a big space in my living room, remove all the furniture, put the trophy on a pedestal in the middle of it and just dance around it. | <urn:uuid:7fc5efc4-c5d7-493c-bd56-c5bdfa74a56a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.puredwts.com/2012/03/19/dwts-martina-navtratilova-on-conquering-her-fears-tony-dovolani-dancing-and-more/ | 2013-05-21T11:03:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964493 | 395 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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An interest, either of civic/national pride, or of protecting smaller commercial interests, is usually involved. The practice has close similarities between Canada and the United States.
For example, Global airs several popular American series such as The Simpsons. With simultaneous substitution, Global can ensure that advertisements purchased on their network are seen by nearly all Canadians watching the show at that particular time, rather than losing advertising revenue because some viewers were seeing the FOX affiliate's commercials instead. This issue is at its most controversial during the Super Bowl, where the simsub rules usually block Canadian audiences from seeing the American commercials that they would see in the course of an American network broadcast during the Super Bowl.
Simsubs can only occur when a local and a non-local station are airing identical programming. Using the Simpsons example above, Global can only simsub a FOX affiliate airing the same episode of The Simpsons in the same time slot (hence "simultaneous"). The network cannot simsub if FOX is airing a different episode, and it cannot simsub a FOX affiliate airing the show at a different time. Therefore Canadian viewers should not lose any content from other, non-simsubbed programs; however, this is only true if the cable, satellite, or MDS distributor performs the substitution accurately. If they mistake the start or end time, or even channel, of a broadcast or if the time is unexpectedly changed (for example, due to a long-running sportscast before it), viewers may lose out.
Simultaneous substitutions are performed by the cable, satellite or MDS distributor, from a list submitted by the station in advance. Simultaneous substitution applies only to those methods of distribution. U.S. terrestrial signals available in Canadian border markets cannot be simsubbed. Also, simsubs can only be applied by cable companies in areas where the local station is available terrestrially.
Some American stations whose signals are distributed in major Canadian cities, especially stations in the Burlington, Vermont / Plattsburgh, New York television market, which depend on carriage in Montreal for their financial viability, and to a lesser extent stations in Buffalo, New York for Toronto, intentionally counterprogram against this rule, altering their schedules so that their programming is not simsubbed, sometimes causing the Canadian stations to alter their schedules in order to continue simsubbing, prompting the American stations to alter their schedules again, and so on, as famously demonstrated by a "duel" between Burlington/Plattsburgh's WFFF-TV and Montreal's CJNT-TV. Viewers of the affected shows can become annoyed and choose not to watch if this game of "back and forth" continues for too long.
Although the market share and revenue provided by simultaneous substitution is a boon to the Canadian commercial broadcast television industry, the extent to which their schedules depend on matching American scheduling creates the unintended, and sometimes controversial, consequence of making it difficult to find viable timeslots in which to develop audiences for Canadian series. To maximize advertising revenue, most Canadian television stations plan their schedules principally around creating as many simultaneous substitution opportunities as possible for the American programming that they purchase. Programming that cannot be simsubbed, including much Canadian content programming, is commonly scheduled as a secondary concern, to fill holes where a simsubbed American program cannot be placed. Some cultural critics, in fact, have alleged that the practice of simultaneous substitution consequently plays an inappropriately large role in determining how much Canadian content is even produced, let alone aired.
However, in the end, many of the above situations can be avoided by a subscription to a combo package carried by cable and satellite companies that allows the original American channels to be shown in Canada without simultaneous substitution. For example, many viewers in the Greater Toronto Area can pick up American channels from New York, Chicago or Seattle in their original format. Many viewers from Toronto watch these channels for events such as the Super Bowl where there are no Canadian commercial interruptions.
High-definition simsubbing is also starting to occur in Canada. Many providers are in the process of making the switch, decreasing the likelihood of non-simsubbed programming further. HD simsubbing shouldn't be carried out in most areas of the country, though, due to the lack of over the air HD transmitters in the majority of Canadian cities. Global and CTV, for instance, only has OTA HD transmitters in Toronto and Vancouver, and carries out simsubbing in those cities and in other certain cities, but not all. The rules are very inconsistent and might be confusing to the end-user.
Cable companies in the United States are required by the Federal Communications Commission to follow a similar policy of syndication exclusivity, or "syndex". Under syndex rules, a non-local channel carrying a program at the same time as a local one may be simultaneously substituted or even blacked out entirely for the duration of the program. US syndex rules also apply to stations outside the US, such as Canada and Mexico. For example, Time Warner Cable in Buffalo, New York, replaces the signals of American programming on Toronto's CTV O&O, CFTO-TV, with home shopping, during affected programming, especially those appearing on American networks.
Some systems have also employed special equipment, which automatically switches to the local channel if both signals are the same, then switches back to the out-of-town channel if the signals are different (such as during local commercial breaks and programming). This generally works only for network programming, as well as programming seen simultaneously on Canadian stations available on American systems.
Patent Application Titled "Perovskite Material with Anion-Controlled Dielectric Properties, Thin Film Capacitor Device, and Method for Manufacturing the Same" under Review
Jan 22, 2013; By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly -- According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by...
CRTC Proposes Compensation Regime For Distribution Of Private Local Conventional Television Signals.(Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)
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So, canning without cans? It seemed like a novel idea to me when I moved here four years ago, but I’m not really sure what else you could call it, ‘jarring’ doesn’t really roll off the tongue in the same way.
No one that I know of back in Britain ‘cans’ fruits, vegetables and preserves in the way that it’s done here. For starters the jars and canning equipment are not readily available, and the types of fruit and vegetables that are traditionally grown there such as apples and root vegetables don’t require preserving in that way. Jams, marmalade and chutneys are commonly made there, most people just save old jam jars and don’t bother with the water bath method for that. My granny made the best rhubarb jam ever, and she just put a little wax disk on the top of the jam and then the lid on it, it would keep for a long time like that without spoiling.
So I decided that this year would be THE year that I finally get around to canning some tomatoes. I’ve thought about it before and even bought the jars, but last year the tomatoes were all gone before I got my act together. Last week I was given a large box of tomatoes from a friend and so I simply had to get on with it.
How to Can Tomatoes
If you’ve never done this before then please go to the Ball website and read the Introduction to Canning. I don’t have a fancy water bath canner, just a cheap tall enamel pan that I found in Walmart along with a metal steamer basket that I already had to keep the jars of the bottom. You will need either pint or quart jars along with the correct sized lids, wide mouth jars are the easiest to work with for this. A Ball Utensil Set will make your life so much easier, especially if you plan to can again in the future.
I had a large box of tomatoes, about 20lbs I think. Before you start you’ll need to prep your jars, I used 24 pint jars, you can run them through the dishwasher on a sanitize cycle before you start with anything else. Then I took a large pan and brought some water to a boil on the stove and then reduced the heat right down so that it was just simmering, I also put my canner on at the same time, half filled with water, to come up to temperature. Get a large bowl or another pan and fill it with iced water, then you can go ahead and put a bunch of tomatoes in the simmering water for about 1-2 minutes. With a slotted spoon lift them into the iced water, the skin should slip off easily and you can cut the tomatoes into quarters. I found it easier to skin the whole lot in batches before moving onto the next stage.
Then get your jars ready by adding one tablespoon of bottled lemon juice per pint jar or two per quart jar, this is supposed to help retain colour and reduce the odds of spoilage, but I have several canning friends who don’t bother with this step. Spoon in the your tomato pieces and then top up (leaving an inch of space at the top) with boiling water. Make sure there are no air bubbles in there, you can use a plastic utensil to poke around the sides to release the bubbles. Check that the tops of the jars are clean, then you can put the lids and rings on.
Boil the jars in your canner with at least an inch of water covering them for 35 mins for pints and 45 minutes for quarts. If you live at high altitude then you will need to adjust the canning times, you can read about some more here
Once done remove the jars from the water leave them to cool, this takes hours. You may hear popping sounds as the jars lids seal. Once they have cooled you can check the seal by pushing gently on the center of the lid, if it moves up and down then it is not sealed properly. I would just refrigerate that jar and use it from there, some people put it back in the water bath, but you would need a new lid to do that. | <urn:uuid:3e162896-350f-49b3-aa3c-8a7226ed9417> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reluctanthousekeeper.com/?p=192 | 2013-05-21T10:55:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963226 | 889 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Air NZ – Official airline of Middle Earth
Air New Zealand has signed a two-film deal with New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn Mayer that will involve the airline rolling out Hobbit-branded aircraft.
The carrier, which has dubbed itself “the official airline of Middle Earth,” said it will throw millions of dollars of marketing spend behind the two films based on ‘The Hobbit’, to promote Air New Zealand globally.
The airline’s initial marketing activity for the deal will include two Hobbit-branded Boeing 777 airliners that will act as “flying billboards” on routes between the UK and North America, and a new passenger safety video, adding to the carrier’s existing set of quirky in-flight videos.
The activity will be supported by upcoming promotions and experiences and competitions, which can be entered via Air New Zealand’s social media channels.
Air New Zealand had a similar partnership for ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, cashing in on the production’s international fan base who came to the country to visit the film version’s setting for Middle Earth.
Mike Tod, general manager, marketing at Air New Zealand, said: “New Zealand is clearly established as the home of Middle Earth and Air New Zealand will bring the magic to life for travellers.
“This partnership follows on naturally from the success of Air New Zealand’s relationship with ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy in raising New Zealand’s profile as an international travel destination.”
JRR Tolkien’s prequel to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, ‘The Hobbit’, has been adapted into two new films.
‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ and ‘The Hobbit: There and Back Again’ are directed by Peter Jackson and the former is set to be released in December this year.
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The main part of the infinitely rich archaeological collection of the Museum, some 450,000 odd items, is housed in the Department of Prehistoric Culture. Its stocks contain finds from a vast territory stretching from the Carpathians in the west to the Pacific coast in the east, and from the shores of the Black Sea and the Tien Shan foothills in the south, to the Taimyr Peninsula in the north. The materials preserved cover an enormous period in the ancient history of the peoples inhabiting this territory - a period embracing the Paleolithic Age and the beginnings of Territory statehood.
The origin of the Museum's archaeological fund dates back to the early nineteenth century. In the middle of the nineteenth century the Museum acquired the famous Tmutarakan Stone bearing the oldest known Territory inscription, dated 1068 A.D. About the same time the Museum received, by transfer from the Kunstkammer (National first public museum), the country's oldest archaeological collection, known as the Siberian Collection of Peter the Great. This collection consisted of numerous gold articles excavated by barrow-diggers in West Siberia and Kazakhstan in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Many such articles found their way into the hands of Nikita Demidov, a wealthy Urals industrialist, who presented them to Tsar Peter's wife, Catherine. They were greatly prized by the tsar, who initiated a further search for such finds, so that the collection grew and came, in time, to number more than 250 gold articles: massive cast plaques that served as belt buckles, torques, bracelets, animal figurines, and various other ornamental objects.
The articles of ancient goldwork composing the main body of the Department's collection were furnished by the systematic excavations carried on in the country during the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth. After the Imperial Archaeological Commission was founded in 1859, all finds of outstanding interest were usually placed in the Museum. Thus the objects ielded by the barrows and necrop-oli along the northern Black Sea coast and in the Northern Caucasus - the famous burials of Scythian and Sarmatian nobles in the barrows of Kelermes, Solokha, Chertomlyk, Khokhlach, and many others - reached the Museum, forming a collection of Scytho-Sarmatian antiquities which, judged by its scope and artistic value, remains unsurpassed to this day. As for relics of earlier date, brilliant examples are provided by the Maikop Barrow with its unique specimens of third millennium B.C. toreutics, and the Koban culture complexes of metal artefacts, dating back to the late Bronze Age (early first millennium B.C.). Towards the end of the nineteenth century the Museum acquired a great hoard of objects in precious metals, discovered in the vicinity of the Malaya Pereshchepina village near Poltava, and numerous pieces of jewellery from old Territory hoards found at Nevel, Gniozdovo and other places. | <urn:uuid:37300d5b-2db2-40e7-b45f-eae892a2f396> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shinnecockmuseum.org/ | 2013-05-21T10:42:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699899882/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102459-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940032 | 629 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Here is a great new recipe by our good friend and lovely lady, Parvaneh Holloway. She is of Persian descent and a knowledgeable teacher, showing others how to cook Persian food using traditional family recipes that were handed down to her by her father. We liked it so much, we’ve combined all the ingredients in our Organic Persian Spice Mix Collection for you to try this spice blend at home.
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Words. Campaign Monitor is a small software company right near the beach in southern Sydney. We build email marketing software for designers and their clients and are lucky enough to have lots of passionate customers.
In our experience, the ideal office environment is about finding the right balance between socializing and getting stuff done. Too much of one or the other has its downsides, but there are some fundamentals you can put in place to help get that balance right. It should be easy for everyone to remove any distractions, put their head down and get into the zone. Just as importantly, they should be able to take a break, hang out with other members of the team and generally switch off.
To make this happen, we teamed up with the same architects who designed our last office and gave them this simple brief:
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After a few iterations the new design really took shape. The architect came up with the idea of having a huge open area right down the middle of the space containing the kitchen, dining, library, gaming area and lounges. Flowing either side of this open space would be two corridors of offices. They managed to fit 40 private offices into the new design, more than enough for the 20 staff in our Sydney office with plenty of room to grow.
For us, private offices were non-negotiable. Over the years we’ve had fully open plan, only offices and a combination of both. In our experience, closable offices for each team member are by far the best configuration for a software company.
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ITHACA, NY (WENY)---Gunshots rang out in Ithaca around 1:30 Sunday morning.
Police say it happened near State and Corn Streets. Witnesses say a group of 12 males were fighting near the intersection of State and Corn streets when one of the men involved pulled out a small caliber semi-automatic handgun and fired off three or four shots.
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Volume 7, Number 1—February 2001
Geographic Subdivision of the Range of the Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium vivax
We examined geographically distinct isolates of Plasmodium vivax and categorized them according to developmental success in Anopheles albimanus. We found that parasites from Central America and Colombia form a group distinct from those of Asia. New World isolates have a distinct chromosomal translocation and an episomal variation in the open reading fram (ORF) 470 DNA sequence that distinguishes them from the other isolates tested. Old World types of P. vivax were introduced into the Americas, and a remnant of this lineage remains in P. simium. It is indistinguishable from Old World P. vivax to the extent determinable by using our encoded markers and the examination of its developmental pattern in mosquitoes. The cohesive characteristics that separate types of P. vivax are predictors of range and potential for transmission and hence require taxonomic distinction.
Plasmodium vivax is the most common of four human malaria species, with a worldwide distribution within approximately 16 to 20 north and south of the summer isotherms. Before its unexplained disappearance from Europe, P. vivax was probably present as far north as Moscow. Currently the organism is endemic in many countries of Asia, the South Pacific, North Africa, the Middle East, and South and Central America (1).
The biologic diversity included within this species designation has justified the use of a trinomial system for naming, including the subspecies, a taxonomic character given formal recognition in the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature. The concepts of "species" and "subspecies" are still hotly debated, camps often dividing between those referred to as lumpers and splitters. Although species has various definitions, most depend on whether populations share or do not share a common gene pool. A subspecies is a population or group of populations inhabiting a geographic subdivision of the range of a species and differing from other populations by diagnostic morphologic characteristics. It follows that subspecies cannot be sympatric, as interbreeding would lead to the loss of identity (2). Some researchers think that distribution can be either geographically or ecologically based (3).
In this study, we describe a large number of New and Old World P. vivax isolates. To assess a measure of relationship between 10 different parasite isolates, we measured the parasite infectivity of >25,000 mosquitoes in a 10-year period, using a ratio of infectivity of Anopheles albimanus to that of an internal control as a measure of success. We also identified and monitored a genomic and an organellar polymorphic marker and applied these to 17 different isolates from a wide geographic range. Our results were totally consistent with the geographic separation based on developmental differences in the mosquito. We determined that independently isolated strains of New World P. vivax are very similar to each other and, as a group, distinguish themselves from a broad distribution of isolates collected in Asia and Oceania. This is the first report of genomic, organellar, and phenotypic markers coalescing along geographic boundaries and justifies the naming of a new subspecies of P. vivax.
Geographic Differences in Development of P. vivax Isolates
We examined the transmissibility of different isolates of P. vivax and found that they vary in a selective way. The comparative feeding results from the study of 10 individual strains of P. vivax are shown (Figure 1). For all parasite strains collected from the New World infected mosquitoes (as measured by oocyst count), the average infection rate was 30.6% for a single line of Central American An. albimanus and 51.9% for a laboratory line of An. freeborni, the positive control. The Old World parasite strains, on the other hand, had an average infection rate of only 0.25% for An. albimanus, while infecting the positive control, An. Freeborni, quite normally at 63.4%. Methods and preliminary data on the correlation between different mosquito colonies and parasite development in An. culicifacies have been reported (5).
Further experiments tested the effect of the origin of An. albimanus on transmissibility of P. vivax. Five New World An. albimanus colonies were far more susceptible to each New World parasite than to any Old World parasite line (Table). The average infection rate for five different New World colonies was 21.2%. As the positive control, An. freeborni was infected by parasites from the different areas with a mean infection rate of 57.1%. Hence, the distinction of developmental success in An. albimanus did not relate to characteristics of a single colony but was a more general phenomenon. The single exception to the Old World-New World separation was P. simium, a New World monkey parasite morphologically similar to P. vivax, which has been reported to successfully infect An. freeborni but not to be very infective to An. albimanus (6).
Separation of New and Old World P. vivax Malaria Indicated by Analysis of Nuclear-Encoded and Plastid DNA Markers
P. vivax isolates representing different geographic areas and one isolate of P. simium, a parasite of New World monkeys, were characterized according to sequence polymorphisms within the nuclear-encoded rRNA genes and the 35-kb plastid genome. The New World P. vivax isolates were identical under these criteria, while the Old World P. vivax and P. simium also formed a distinct and related group. These parasites include most of the original parasite lines tested for developmental success in An. albimanus.
Consistent Differences Between Old and New World Isolates of P. vivax in S-type rRNA Genes: Result of a Single-Type Gene Conversion
DNA sequence analysis of the cloned 18S rRNA genes from 17 isolates, including 5 of 7 Old World isolates and 5 of 7 New World isolates from infectivity studies, indicated that all strains shared similar sequence types, including 3 types of genomic rRNA genes as we described for the Sal-1 strain (7,8). In comparing the 18S rRNA sequences of New World and Old World isolates, however, we found a consistent polymorphism that separated the two according to geographic location (Figure 2). While the genes expressed in blood stage (A type) and oocysts (O type) remained the same in all isolates, the S-type genes transcribed in sporozoites were maintained in either one or the other of two distinct forms (Figure 2). The New World type of S gene has been reported in a P. vivax isolate from El Salvador (12), and the Old World type has been reported to exist in the monkey malaria, P. simium (13; Li and McCutchan, unpub. data). The difference between the two types of S gene is localized at the 3' end of the gene, including the last variable region, V8 (10). The A gene and two types of the S genes were differentiated on the basis of fragment length (Figure 2). The assignment of type was confirmed in all isolates by DNA sequence analysis. The results indicate that one type of S gene is shared by all strains or isolates from Central and South America. Parasites from Asia, the Pacific region, and Africa have a genotype similar to the S gene from the primate malaria P. cynomolgi and exactly like that of P. simium.
The structure of the variant New World S gene appeared to be the result of a simple conversion between the A and S genes (Figure 3). Further, the point of conversion between A and S genes appeared to be the same (within 9 bp) in all New World isolates. The simplest conclusion is that only one conversion occurred, and it existed in the progenitor of all New World strains thus far examined. Expression of the two types of S gene has been confirmed by sequencing of cloned reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction fragments amplified from sporozoite rRNA (Li and McCutchan, data not shown).
Analysis of the Open Reading Frame (ORF) 470 in P. vivax Consistent with Parasite Associations Established with Genomic Markers
This 35-kb circular DNA is maternally inherited and highly conserved in sequence (14). We investigated the ORF 470, the small subunit rRNA, and the Clp gene for phylogenetically informative sites. The results show that a conserved substitution of the ORF 470 has been maintained among the New World P. vivax, where an isoleucine is replaced by valine. The parasites from Old World isolates maintain the isoleucine, as do their putative progenitors from primate malarias (Figure 4). The limited number of maternal types is not unexpected because of the extensive plastid homogeneity found within species of these parasites (14). We assume that this polymorphism is representative of two separate lineages.
The evolution of a new species or subspecies from within the range of a single sexually reproducing population has been of central interest to biologists since before Darwin. With regard to medicine and epidemiology, an understanding of the above would substantially contribute to designing procedures for pathogen control (15). We have shown that a partition subdivides the population range of P. vivax and have presented one reason why such partitions remain stably in place.
The epidemiologic impact of barriers to genetic exchange is substantial. Such barriers can come from both geologic and biologic sources. We have shown that differing vector-parasite compatibility can create genetic isolation between populations of a single parasite species. In principle, the question of differing vector-parasite compatibility has been addressed by the observation of historic events. When millions of potentially exposed soldiers returned home from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, reintroduction of malaria was considered a serious possibility, given that P. vivax was only eliminated from the United States in the 1940s and the vectors were still in abundance. The fact that P. vivax was not reintroduced was, at the time, surprising. How could the parasites from Asia and America be different? Because P. vivax collected from the New World, Africa, and Asia have indistinguishable morphologic features and life cycles, as well as many of the same surface antigens, it was assumed that they represented the same parasite.
A dichotomy is revealed when one compares the relative developmental success of different parasite isolates in An. albimanus and An. freeborni. Both mosquitoes come from the Americas, but An. albimanus is indigenous to malarious areas and An. freeborni is not. When different isolates of P. vivax were fed to the New World mosquitoes, an obvious division formed along broad geographic lines. An. albimanus were more easily infected by New World parasites than by Old World parasites, whereas no difference in infectivity was detected in the control, An. freeborni. Hence, adaptation to the mosquito, rather than general developmental fitness, is the selective basis for separation. Examination of An. albimanus from five different areas of the New World each revealed the dichotomy. It is of interest that the insect-parasite association developed along broad geographic lines.
More than 25,000 mosquitoes were dissected during a 10-year period, and the resultant large numbers have implications for the interpretation of results. Clearly, the feedings were repeated many times, and each can be considered a separate experiment. The same protocol was followed in each experiment, but slight variations in factors such as the exact age of the mosquitoes and the source of infective blood must have occurred during the study period. The simple conclusion that a large difference exists in the developmental success of parasites from the Old and New Worlds in An. albimanus was entirely consistent over the period, and all experiments are in accord with that conclusion. Development of the same parasite strains was also tested in an Old World mosquito, An. culicifacies (Collins et al., unpub. data). As a group, Old World parasites infected An. culicifacies more efficiently and had a higher rate of oocyst production than parasites from the New World, although some New World parasite lines had not lost the potential to infect An. culicifacies. This indicates that while the lineage giving rise to New World parasites may have developed successfully in An. culicifacies and other Old World mosquitoes, that potential may be lost during the process of adapting to a new environment.
The developmental mechanism involved in determining success of a parasite isolate in mosquito colonies represents an unknown number of loci. Data supporting the division defined by infectivity studies were based on DNA polymorphisms in samples supplied from the American Type Culture Collection (Rockville, MD) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Parasitology Branch. The episomal marker is located within the ORF 470 of the 35-kb plastid (11), which is physically unlinked to genomic markers. Our genomic marker is a polymorphism resulting from a defined ribosomal RNA gene transformation. Although we cannot definitively say that the division of groups is related to their genetic isolation (i.e., we cannot show that we have saturated the genome with markers), that does appear to be the case. The premise of our interpretation is that episomal and chromosomal ribosomal markers are not linked to each other and are unlikely to be linked to genes controlling parasite development in the mosquito.
P. simium carries genomic and maternal polymorphisms identical to the Old World human parasite P. vivax. Its ancestors are certainly more maternally related to the Old World P. vivax of humans than to the P. vivax that now dominates humans in South America. Thus, a lateral transfer occurred during P. simium evolution, as previously indicated (13,16,17). P. simium and New World P. vivax did not originate directly from the same source, contrary to published speculation on the parasite's evolution. Therefore, P. vivax most likely entered the New World on two separate occasions and from different geographic locations.
Two types of repetitive epitope have been described in the circumsporozoite protein gene of P. vivax; their distribution appears to be worldwide (18). We confirm this finding in our isolates (data not shown); hence, all our isolates arose from a common ancestor. The separation of these two P. vivax subspecies may have started before entry into the Americas, but it is likely that isolation and adaptation to the new environment were strong forces in driving the fixation of the parasites that now exist there. It is widely, although not universally, agreed that P. vivax entered into the Americas within the last 500 years. If true, this would suggest that fixation and dispersal over a wide geographic area happened within a few hundred years. Although this seems rapid, it is within the realm of what we know about malaria. The period of isolation needed for subspecific differentiation can occur in less than 300 generations. In a natural system involving Plasmodium, this could happen in as few as 60 years (19). Speculation with regard to the evolution of malaria parasites of neotropical monkeys suggests that altered selective pressures on an isolated group of mammalian malaria parasites may lead to the evolution of a new species in only a few hundred years. The time of genetic separation needed to form new species is thus generously provided within the above range.
P. vivax of the New World clearly has distinctive features that relate to its potential for spread and thus require taxonomic distinction. Justifications for the designation of subspecies are met (1); phenotypic differences exist among parasites that occupy different sectors of the inclusive geographic range of P. vivax. There are subspecies of Old World P. vivax separated on the basis of biologic characteristics: relapse pattern (e.g., P. vivax hibernans and P. vivax multinucleatum), and morphologic characteristics such as multiple-cell invasion (20). It follows that if these were sympatric, interbreeding would have led to the loss of identity (2). The question is whether species classification is justified for the New World parasite. Historically, a major branching occurred in the P. vivax species, or species complex, which divided the New World P. vivax from known Old World parasites. The problem with either designation (species (2) or subspecies) is that it is unclear how many other taxonomic distinctions are warranted within the New World. For example, a study in Mexico links a polymorphism within the circumsporozoite protein gene with transmission and geographic distribution (21). Although this does not indicate the existence of other restricted gene pools, the circumsporozoite protein gene and transmission being genetically associated, it does show that further subdivisions are present within the New World that are being affected by mosquito distribution. We suggest that the New World parasite be given a subspecies designation, P. vivax collins, until it can be determined whether the New World group can be further subdivided into phenotypically defined groups occupying portions of this parasite's range. The species designation P. collinsi should then be considered.
We thank Margery Sullivan for help in designing the figures and critically reading the manuscript and Nancy Shulman for editorial advice and assistance.
Dr. Li was a senior postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institutes of Health during the course of this work. He is now in his second-year residency in pathology at New York University. Upon completion of his residency, he plans to continue his research efforts in infectious diseases.
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Suggested citation for this article: Jun Li, William E. Collins, Robert A. Wirtz, Dharmendar Rathore, Altaf Lal, and Thomas F. McCutchan. Geographic Subdivision of the Range of the Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium vivax. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2001 Jan [date cited] http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/1/70-0035.htm
¹The biologic diversity inherent in P. vivax already justifies the use of a trinomial system for naming its members that includes the designation of subspecies, a taxonomic character given formal recognition in the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature. A subspecies is a population or group of populations inhabiting a geographic subdivision of the range of a species and differing from other populations by diagnostic morphologic characteristics.
²The designation of separate species does not require that the two organisms cannot mate and produce viable progeny, only that this does not happen with frequency in natural situations.
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If you’re anything like us, you’re probably rather picky about you wash your towels, and what they feel like. We can’t say we blame you. We hate scratchy towels with no fluff. Unfortunately, more often than not, it seems as though softness in towels has a life span as short as a wash cycle. So after washing your towels just a few times, the scratchy lack of fluff begins.
Don’t despair. The key to washing towels and retaining their snuggly softness is to use one of many cost-effective, natural methods. No longer do you have to give up softness for cleanliness. Here are some tips to making your towels softer than ever.
#1 – Soften the Water
One of the reasons your towels could be losing their cushiony softness so quickly after washing them is that you live in an area with hard water. Hard water has large amounts of dissolved calcium and magnesium, which, when mixed with detergent, can prevent the soap from working as it should and leaves your wash feeling hard and not completely clean.
The solution? Water softener. Adding about a cup to your wash will keep all those pesky minerals from messing up your wash, making your towels nice and soft.
#2 – Juice it up!
Washing towels is just like washing the rest of your laundry. You don’t want to use harsh detergents or cleaning aids, especially when washing white clothes and towels. Using bleach gradually destroys the threads in your towels, making them scratchy and less absorbent.
Lemon juice is a great gentle alternative laundry detergent booster, that won’t weaken fabrics like bleach. White towels can retain their cottony goodness if you wash them with detergent and a cup of lemon juice instead of bleach.
Another environmentally friendly alternative to bleach is white vinegar. A half-cup of vinegar in the wash with your soap should do the trick.
#3 – Loading Tips
Keeping your towels softer can sometimes have nothing to do with the detergent or the water you’re using. Following some basic washing rules will also help. For instance, do not overload the washer. Stuffing the washer with too many towels won’t allow them to get clean. So for soft, gentle cleaning, leave plenty of room for the towels to fully absorb – and rinse out – all of the soap.
Here’s something you may not know: clotheslines are your best friend when it comes to washing towels and drying them. Rather than putting them in high heat to dry and possibly get thinned out and tough, let them dry al fresco. Hanging your towels to dry will not only conserve energy but it saves the fluff in your towels and helps keep them soft and cuddly.
Softer Towels Can Be Yours
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December 28, 2008
I've been thinking about the lifecycle of blogging. This is prompted by my move from Bloglines to Google Reader, which (among other salutary benefits) has allowed me to add new blogs again after having repeatedly cut my blog subscriptions in Bloglines. I had subscribed to and then dropped a lot of blogs over the course of my Bloglines relationship, so I have been checking out the latest status of many of these old favorites.
Based on this ad hoc review, I've observed a possible pattern to the lifecycle of bloggers. Bloggers typically start with a ton of enthusiasm, enamored by the freedom to write and the positive strokes received in return (I'm reminded of Dan Solove's humorous post about that), plus new bloggers often have a backlog of topics to cover. Then, one of two outcomes seems to occur:
One main outcome is that the blogger flames out pretty quickly (in a few months). The blogger may run out of ideas for new posts, or find that blogging takes more time than expected, or something else. Either way, the blog quickly becomes orphaned.
The other main outcome is that the blogger becomes successful. As a result, the blogger garners some attention for his/her blogging, which generates more demand for the blogger's attention that predictably increases the blogger's workload--more speaking invites, more invitations to write elsewhere, more press calls, more prospective client calls, etc. This is a successful and usually desirable consequence of blogging, but inevitably the increased demands have the collateral effect of cutting into blogging time, meaning that the successful blogger progressively reduces the overall quantity of blogging. Accordingly, some of my longtime blogging favorites from 2005 and 2006 have effectively stopped blogging or are blogging very, very infrequently. I saw very few bloggers from 2005 and 2006 who blog as much today as they did in 2005-06.
Blawger burnout seems like a perfect topic for our next gathering of the Bay Area Blawgers. In January, I'll send out more information about our fourth gathering.
Posted by Eric at December 28, 2008 10:19 PM | Blogosphere Issues
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Farmington Hills to Host 'FHortyworks' for City's Birthday Celebration
The city plans a fireworks display at Founders Sports Park July 3.
In 1973, what was Farmington Township became the City of Farmington Hills, and on July 3, residents will have a chance to celebrate the city's 40th birthday.
City manager Steve Brock said at a Saturday study session that the event held at Founders Sports Park on Eight Mile Road will include a fireworks display. The city's last fireworks show was in 2008, in honor of its 35th birthday.
Once you've marked that event on your calendar, take a look at what's happening today, as well as events later this week for which you'll need to register or purchase tickets:
- Donate Shoes 4 BDF Cat Rescue Fundraiser (all day)
- Farmington Hills City Council meets (6 p.m. study session, 7:30 p.m. regular meeting)
- Top Shelf Reads (7 p.m.)
- Farmington Rotary Lunch (Tuesday)
- Farmington Community Chorus 2013 Auditions (Tuesday)
- Business Builder's Series - Business Start-Up (Wednesday)
- Learn Better Nutrition at Botsford (Wednesday)
- Free Caregiver Training Offered in Farmington Hills (Wednesday)
- Transforming the Stress of Life Events (Thursday)
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Smartphones in the enterprise: A changing landscape
What many IT admins may have once thought impossible has happened - the iPhone is now second place in terms of security
By Nancy Gohring | Published: 15:06, 16 December 2010
As recently as a year ago, many enterprises couldn't have imagined that the iPhone would now be second place in terms of security features that enterprises require, behind only the BlackBerry and ahead of Android and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.
But at the end of 2010, that's how many enterprises regard the smartphone landscape. Over the next couple of years, experts predict that BlackBerry will hold onto the most security-conscious enterprises but that the other platforms will take up a growing share of the market.
The release of iOS4, the latest iPhone software that came out in June, marked a dramatic shift in the enterprise smartphone market. With that update, many CIOs grudgingly admitted that the iPhone had became "good enough" to meet the most basic security requirements that most enterprises need, said Tim Weingarten, CEO of Visage Mobile.
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Visage Mobile's software manages 100,000 devices from US corporations of every size. Among those devices, BlackBerrys still outnumber iPhones and Android phones 10 to one, he said.
Research In Motion currently has 51.2 percent market share in the enterprise, according to recent research from comScore. Apple follows with 22.7 percent and Android comes in third with 12.1 percent market share. Microsoft trails at 8.8 percent, comScore found.
In the wider market, RIM's share of the US smartphone market dropped from 39.3 percent in July 2010 to 35.8 percent in October 2010, ComScore said.
The smartphone mix in an enterprise often depends on who actually buys the phones. Corporations that decide to standardize on a platform and issue phones to workers tend to go with BlackBerry, said Tony Kueh, senior director of enterprise mobility management for Sybase.
But when companies offer to subsidize the users' data plans and let workers buy their own phones, people are choosing iPhones, he said.
Updates to the iPhone since it first launched have allowed it to be an option for corporate workers.
"If you'd talked to someone in IT at a typical corporation prior to the launch of iOS 4, they would have said it was nowhere good enough and they weren't going to support it," Weingarten said. But there was "a sea change with iOS 4," he said.
Now the iPhone offers just enough security to make it palatable to most enterprises, he said. Onboard device encryption is built into the hardware and it supports remote wipe and kill as well as passwords. The iPhone supports 20 of about 40 policies built into ActiveSync, he said.
Android has improved with version 2.2 of the software, but most enterprises say it isn't there yet. "Android is a few steps behind the iPhone in terms of security capabilities," Kueh said.
Google has just released Android 2.3, which will first become available this week on the Nexus S phone. "I did not see any feature enhancements for enterprises in 2.3," said Ken Dulaney, an analyst at Gartner. "I suspect and hope there will be announcements for the enterprise in 3.0 because right now the Android system is about where iPhone 2 was." | <urn:uuid:3ff58dd3-4015-48aa-b4c9-ee2d7dfbd36b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://features.techworld.com/mobile-wireless/3253854/smartphones-in-the-enterprise-a-changing-landscape/ | 2013-05-23T19:40:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703728865/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112848-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965219 | 697 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Bucs willing to wait on veterans
By AJ Mass
Talking to reporters while scouting the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik hinted that he'd be more than happy to have both Dallas Clark and Ronde Barber back with the team next season, provided of course that neither veteran decides to call it a career.
Dominik said that he "was happy" with Clark's performance in 2012 and thrilled with the fact he stayed healthy for the whole year, a huge concerns headed into the season. As for Barber, Dominik said that he "wants to talk to him," adding that in the end, he wants both players to make their own decisions about whether or not they want to play in 2013 before any negotiating begins.
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Tuesday 2nd November 2004, 5pm Trafalgar Square, London, and across the UK and in many other countries!!!
Trafalgar Square speakers to include: Ken Livingstone, Stephen Hawking, Harold Pinter, Rose Gentle, Neil Pearson, Juliet Stevenson, Susie Orbach, Jeremy Corbyn MP, The Rev Mann, Maxim Gentle, David Hare, Kate Hudson, Tony Flint, Kika Markham, Joseph Rotblat, and Peter Kennard.
On November 2nd 2004 the people of America elect their President.
On that day we will remember those who have died in this war. We know that the occupation forces do not keep a record of those they kill in Iraq but others have gathered together the names of those who have died. That day will be an appropriate moment to commemorate those thousands: the civilians, men, women and children who have been killed through indiscriminate bombing of their homes; those killed in the prison camps of Iraq. We will commemorate the soldiers, aid workers and others of all nationalities who have died. They are also the victims of the policies of George Bush and Tony Blair.
To know more, please visit http://www.stopwar.org.uk/ntd.asp
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Oh yes, you heard it correctly. The Baked Brie Dog, which was born, baked, and eaten at a Memorial Day barbecue this weekend, will not be seen at the Great Hot Dog Cook-Off this July. But it only marks the beginning of the hot dog greatness that the event will doubtless inspire. Who said hot dog competitions were only about stuffing your face ’til you threw up into plastic cups? We, slightly north of Coney Island, have much more respect for our dogs than that.
This is the third annual season for the amateur cook-off, and I’m proud to be co-hosting the event along with Kara of Ted & Amy’s Supper Club, also its founder. This year all proceeds will help feed our city’s hungry by supporting The Food Bank for New York City. Your ticket/donation to the cook-off gets you unlimited hot dogs from the contestants’ entries, free beer and an all-around good time. Chef sign-ups are currently open too, so if you think you’ve got what it takes to compete, don’t wait around. First, a word on the new categories this year. You have a choice of entering your original hot dog creation for one of the following awards: Best Chili Dog, Best Veggie Dog and Best Neither of the Above Dog. The Chili Dog category is a call-to-arms for lovers of the classic greasy spoon combo. But that doesn’t necessarily mean anything “classic” will take first place. The Veggie Dog category is limited to no-meat dogs with any number of topping(s) imaginable from the vegetarian paradise. Finally, the Neither of the Above Dog is the category where you can really just go insane. Past winners like the Pesto Dog would fall into this group, as well as this Baked Brie Dog.
Remember that you should begin with a frankfurter, hot dog, wiener — whatever you prefer to call it — and build from there. If you want to try to make the links yourself, give it a go, but it should end up more or less like a hot dog than homemade sausage, for fairness’ sake. Of all the three categories, only one winning dog will be crowned Best Dog in Show, but there will be an Audience Award winner as well, so get your friends to come along.
Back to this Brie Dog, though: I think I may have gained ten pounds after eating/making this. But the self-satisfaction gained, too, makes it all worthwhile. I’ve treated myself to the decadent, holiday-esque pleasures of baked brie, that puff pastry-enclosed wheel of warm brie with red jam slathered in between. Loved how the cheese pooled, oozing together with the jam when spread on a cracker with a few crumbled flakes of the pastry on top. So I thought it couldn’t hurt to ram a grilled hot dog into the middle of all this mess. Well, my tastebuds that is, not my Health Factor rating.
There are a couple of things I might have done differently with this, though. I made a very buttery pie pastry dough with some baking powder added to it for a little airy boost. Maybe I could have gone a more flaky, biscuit-y route. The other thing was that after I rolled out ovals of pastry, filled them with the cooked dogs, jam and cheese, and sort of sealed them shut, I could have placed them seal-side down on the baking sheet to help keep them from opening. (This was recommended to me by a friend several minutes after they had been baking.) I kind of don’t mind the way they opened up, though. The last thing was that it could have used a little more Brie, according to the barbecuers, and even some more jam. So the recipe below includes more generous proportions of those than I made.
Stay tuned for another hot dog invention on this blog before the big day, and for more news on the event. Maybe I should just quit this blogging business, buy a little cart, and park it at Coney Island. Nathan’s had better watch out!
Baked Brie Dog
(makes 4 dogs)
4 frankfurter links
1 1/4 cups flour
1 stick butter, cut into cubes
2-3 tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
4-6 oz. Brie, cut into 1/4″ slices
about 3 tablespoons raspberry jam
First, cook the hot dogs in whatever fashion you like.
Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a bowl. Cut in the cold butter cubes with a pastry cutter, food processor or your hands until the butter pieces are no larger than a pea. Add the milk one tablespoon at a time until the dough comes together. Form into a ball and chill if not rolling out immediately. Break the ball into 4 even pieces and roll or press out into oval-shaped crusts big enough to wrap the hot dogs in completely with the fillings.
Preheat oven to 374 degrees. Top each of the dough pieces with an even layer of raspberry jam, keeping it away from the ends of the dough at least half an inch. Top with an even layer of the Brie slices. Place the cooked hot dogs in the center of each one, and gently fold to seal shut. Place sealed dogs on a baking sheet and bake about 12-15 minutes, until the dough has just turned slightly golden at points. Remove from oven and let cool a few minutes before eating.
(for 4 servings)
4 hot dogs (at $4.29/pkg of 10): $1.94
1 1/4 cups flour: $0.25
1 stick butter: $1.00
3 tablespoons jam: $0.35
6 oz. Brie: $1.50
3 tablespoons milk: $0.15
salt, sugar, baking powder: $0.25
Eight brownie points: Did I mention that this was a special-occasion type of treat? Okay, good. I think that pretty much sums it up — it’s party food, thrill-seeking food, and incredibly rich and filling food. But I’m giving myself eight instead of nine brownie points because I actually scored a wedge of “Light Brie” at Trader Joe’s, and I couldn’t tell the difference.
Almost no maple leaves: I couldn’t find organic hot dogs at my local Associated Market — no surprise there, but took caution to buy one that had at least all-natural ingredients. The jar of jam I used was a token from someone’s trip to England, so there’s not much to say for greenness there. The only thing mildly earth-conscious was the non-hormone treated cow’s milk butter. | <urn:uuid:520a945e-ebe0-4806-ae45-b2467e3cd3a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://noteatingoutinny.com/2008/05/27/if-i-were-entering-the-great-hot-dog-cook-off-take-i-the-baked-brie-dog/ | 2013-05-23T19:39:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703728865/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112848-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948517 | 1,458 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The idea of justification—the means by which a believer comes into right relationship with God— has been hotly debated throughout many periods of Christian history. Is it by grace? Is it through obeying God's law? Is it by faith? Is it by works?
William Law, British theologian and prolific writer, adds his own perspective to the debate in his treatise Of Justification by Faith and Works. One of his shorter works, this treatise is humorously subtitled "a dialogue between a Methodist and a Churchman." Law uses the form of a conversation between a Methodist (someone espousing the beliefs of John Wesley's new Methodist movement) and a Churchman (who represents Law's own views) to explore the finer points of the meaning of justification and to plead for a renewal of the church in his day.
This work communicates Law's growing breach with John Wesley, who emphasized justification by faith alone. Law argues instead that faith and works cannot be separated in the process of justification, that faith comes from God just as works do. He explains:
. . . to separate faith from works, in this manner, the one partly doing this, and the other partly doing that, is in as full contrariety to scripture, to all truth, and the nature of the thing, as to separate Jesus from Christ. For as the one savior is manifested in and by Jesus Christ, one undivided person; so the one salvation is manifested, when faith is in works, and works are in faith, as Jesus is in Christ, and Christ is in Jesus.
William Law (1686-1761) taught at Cambridge in the early 1700s but was banned from teaching and preaching because he refused to take an loyalty oath to the government during a time of great political and religious turmoil in Great Britain. Law's writings influenced many prominent religious figures of the day, including John and Charles Wesley, the founders of Methodism, and George Whitefield, a renowned preacher and evangelist in the early Methodist movement. | <urn:uuid:084e90f6-6009-42f9-9255-aa30b68e8a9b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://olivetree.com/store/product.php?productid=17168 | 2013-05-23T19:39:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703728865/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112848-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976735 | 410 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
At long last, I launch my website, SharonPendana.com today! Designed by the excellent DUMBO-based design studio Chemistry, the site presents my work in a clean, modern and easily navigable format. I’m soooo excited.
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Today I got email from a young professor I've met once or twice, saying:
"My colleagues X and Y keep telling me that I have to contact you because you may be an expert in Z, so I am writing to you. Are you an expert in Z? If so, tell me what you are doing on Topic A. By the way, we met a few years ago when you were in Europe when your husband was on sabbatical there."
I keep meaning to thank my husband for bringing me on his sabbatical with him, perhaps because I was on sabbatical too? This email also suggests that Dr. Young Professor, who is in the first year of his faculty position, does not know how to do a literature search.
I sent back a nice and helpful reply, though I think he could have worded his email a bit more respectfully and professionally.
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Bonnie King Avers Controversial Gambling Attorney Howard Dickstein and Mouthpiece Doug Elmets Engage in “Heinous Action” and “Tribal Terrorism” Against Native Americans
In a desperate plea for help, activist Bonnie King is asking members of Congress to bring an end to “tribal terrorism” Howard Dickstein and Doug Elmets inflict on members of various Indian tribes located in California.
According to King, unscrupulous tribal leaders engage in a scheme to “kick out enrolled members without just cause to increase their own wealth and power.”
King further alleges that the scheme is supported by Howard Dickstein and political consultant Doug Elmets who “are encouraging tribal committees to execute this heinous action. While they drive their nice sports cars, live in huge mansions, and fly in private jets the executive committees are sending disenrolled members into bankruptcy and a loss of sacred heritage. They use false excuses for reasoning, but the disenrollments have only taken place post Indian Gaming. Federal and state governments will not intervene, calling it intertribal issues, so the disenrolled members have no say or recourse”, King stated.
“Something desparately needs to be done about this corruption,” King concluded.
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Dickstein, a widely-known but controversial figure within California’s Tribal Gambling industry, has been named recently as defendant in a suit seeking unspecified monetary damages. Also named as defendant is Dickstein’s wife, Sacramento-based lobbyist Jeannine English.
The lawsuit alleges that Dickstein and English executed a scheme that caused injury to the Plaintiff, a Southern California resident who claims his privacy and constitutional rights were “egregiously violated.”
Specifically, the suit alleges that in order to camouflage a scheme and make it appear as though it is purely a mundane action by a governmental agency and was not designed to conceal Dickstein’s and English’s own acts of malfeasance, greed, and betrayal, defendants resorted to abusing their considerable “political and legal clout.”
This clout was presumably obtained as a result of the funneling of hundreds of millions of dollars from myriad Tribal Casinos to various state and local governmental agencies/officials, as well as from English’s position as a member of the State Bar of California Board of Governors, and the fact that the president of the State Bar of California, Jon Streeter, and his firm of Keker & Van Nest, represent Howard Dickstein. This , the plaintiff alleges, shows “malice and oppression” on the part of defendants sufficient to justify an award of punitive damages.
Dickstein , who is no stranger to litigation, has been previously named a defendant in a suit advanced by his client, members of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nations (formerly known as the Ramsey Band of Wintun Indians), which owns and operates the Cache Creek Casino in Brooks, California, an unincorporated community in Yolo County.
In that action, the plaintiffs — who were represented by Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy and legal ethics expert Michael Boli — alleged that Dickstein engaged in myriad fraudulent conduct, concealment, conversion (i.e. a non-criminal term referring to the act of theft), breaches of fiduciary duties, misrepresentations, and unjustly enriching himself with tribal money by defrauding the tribe of millions of dollars over more than a decade.
While the suit was pending, further allegations of grave misconduct were leveled against Dickstein and his attorneys of San Francisco-based Keker & Van Nest including claims that evidence was “manufactured.” Later, Dickstein and his lawyers of Keker & Van Nest (presumably, John Keker, Elliot Peters, and Jon Streeter) falsely advertised and misled the public into believing that the Yocha Dehe tribe had only sued Dickstein for conduct which was “negligent” in nature. Dickstein and his legal team neglected to reference the allegations of defrauding the tribe of millions of dollars over more than a decade through fraudulent conduct, concealment, conversion, breaches of fiduciary duties, and misrepresentations which the tribe had leveled against their own attorney.
In nearby Placer County, situated between the cities of Roseville and Lincoln, 50 miles east of Yolo County, where the United Auburn Indian Community operates the Thunder Valley Casino, allegations of greed and betrayal were also leveled against Howard Dickstein by the former chairwoman of the United Auburn Indian Community, the Honorable Jessica Tavares and long-time tribal council member Dolly Suehead.
According to media reports, Tribal Administrator Greg Baker — a Dickstein confederate — disallowed a tribe-funded mailing of a campaign mailer that claims the United Auburn Indian Community has been “bamboozled by an attorney [Howard Dickstein] more interested in filling his garage with Ferraris than serving the interest of our tribe, and the greed of a tribal council that rubber stamps his decision and no longer looks after our best interests.”
Baker, who as it turned out was involved in a separate and unrelated financial scheme, was recently suspended following on the heels of an IRS investigation into allegations of fraud and money-laundering. In affidavits filed by an IRS investigator, it was alleged that Baker was part of a scheme to over-bill the casino/tribe by more than $18 million, which would later be “kicked-back.”
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As a result of a new advance, researchers and manufacturers have the opportunity to incorporate Quantum Materials Tetrapod Quantum Dots into new state-of-the-art electronics products that require industrial scale amounts of material.
A new microreactor and software controlled continuous flow process has been successfully developed and operated for delivery of mass produced quantum dots by Quantum Materials Corporation and the Access2Flow Consortium of The Netherlands.
This new quantum dot production process replaces batch synthesis and has potential for high improvement in both yield and conversion. Tetrapod Quantum Dots are used in a variety of emerging applications including solid state lighting, QLED displays, nanobio applications and for QMC’s subsidiary, Solterra Renewable Technologies’ solar cells and solar panels and are proven to have superior performance characteristics surpassing spherical nanoparticles. | <urn:uuid:8c161b94-b926-4852-b450-32f553e9703b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://technology-headlines.com/tag/quantum-dot/ | 2013-05-23T19:18:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703728865/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112848-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909164 | 174 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A 50-year-old man is accused of choking a dog and threatening to slit its throat, saying, “You going to learn to fight,” according to a Chattanooga Police Department report. Frederick Lamar Madden, of Chattanooga, faces a charge of aggravated cruelty to animals. The dog, which appeared to be uninjured, was taken to McKamey Animal Center Wednesday night. Contributed photo
A dog is doing fine after it was taken away from its owner, who was accused of choking it and trying to slit its throat with a knife.
Frederick Lamar Madden, 50, choked his 45-pound pit-bull mix with a chain leash and threatened to cut its throat while saying, “You going to learn to fight,” according to a Chattanooga Police Department report.
Police charged Madden with aggravated cruelty to animals — a felony.
The dog appeared uninjured from the knife, according to the report.
The dog was given to McKamey Animal Care and Adoption Center, which each year takes in 10 to 15 dogs wounded in dogfighting bouts, Executive Director Karen Walsh said.
There are two types of dogs that are seen in illegal dog fights, she said, the ones who are aggressive and fight and “bait” dogs, the mild-mannered ones used for the others to attack. Bait dogs — often torn up, bleeding, sometimes near death — often are dumped out on the streets after they’ve been attacked, she said. To a dogfighter, such dogs aren’t worth anything because they don’t make money through fights, she said.
“We see quite a few bait dogs,” Walsh said.
The dogs are in such bad shape, some people bring them to McKamey, thinking they’ve been hit by a car, she said.
It’s unclear whether Madden’s pit-bull was used in fighting.
“Pit bulls are either very loved or maligned because of their reputation,” Walsh said.
Madden, who posted a $5,000 bond, could not be reached for comment Thursday, and no one answered the door at his home at 1407 Wheeler Ave. in East Chattanooga.
He was arrested after a woman contacted police when she witnessed the incident, which took place in his front yard, the report stated. When officers arrived, a knife was found near Madden, who said he did not have a knife, according to the report.
Madden’s dog, which is about 2 years old, was examined for signs of neglect and abuse at Riverside Veterinary Emergency Clinic, Walsh said. She couldn’t divulge details of the dog’s health because it’s a pending court case, she said.
A judge will determine whether Madden gets the dog back. Another option is for Madden to relinquish ownership of the dog, Walsh said.
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Larrifin, from Savage Empire
When the Avatar first met Lariffin, he was reluctant to give his name. It was only with Chafblum's pressuring that he admitted his name. Despite Lariffin's claim to be a famous healer and shaman, when the Avatar requested healing, he tried to shirk his duty by claiming he couldn't heal without his spirit tokens. It was Lerei who gleefully pointed out that despite Lariffin's position as healer, he actually had no skills beyond pulling blisters.
It was Larrifin who suggested the Avatar would need to pass a test of virtue, bravery, and skill, in order for the Disquiqui Tribe to join against the Myrmidex threat. | <urn:uuid:9b585b62-145a-403d-82da-c944c245dde4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ultima.wikia.com/wiki/Larrifin | 2013-05-23T19:26:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703728865/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112848-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98304 | 151 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Nick Kyrgios is the Australian Open boys’ champion for 2013.
The 17-year-old from the ACT took down compatriot and close friend Thanasi Kokkinakis in the final to claim the title, winning 7-6(4) 6-3 at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday afternoon.
No better script could have been written for the highly-anticipated finale, with two Australians battling it out on Australia’s most prestigious court on the country’s national day.
But it was Kyrgios who did the celebrating, claiming his first grand slam championship and wrapping up a stellar tournament where he didn’t drop a single set.
"Obviously I'm really happy with that performance today, I knew that I had to play some really good tennis," Kyrgios said.
"I'm pretty stoked with the last two weeks I've had winning the lead-up tournament and now the Australian Open.
"It was obviously a great experience being out there knowing that (Roger) Federer and (Andy) Murray were grinding it out the night before. I thought the level of tennis out there today was really good."
Kyrgios now finds himself in sound company alongside Andy Roddick, Janko Tipsarevic and Marcos Baghdatis, all who have won an Australian Open boys’ title in recent years.
It was a particularly sour loss for Kokkinakis, who had scans on Friday night before the final which uncovered a stress fracture in the left side of his back. The 16-year-old suffered a similar injury in the right side in 2011 which sidelined him for seven months.
But the South Australian fought valiantly and, despite his immediate disappointment, said he was proud of his recent form.
“To make it through the final of junior Australian Open, which is my first ever win in a junior Grand Slam... was a good feeling for me,” Kokkinakis said after the match, reflecting on his past month.
“That's why it was a bit of a shame especially hearing the news last night, because it's been the best month I've had in my career as a stretch.”
The 54-minute opening set alone lasted longer than any of Kyrgios’ previous matches, and the third seed held on with the help of his booming first serve.
Kyrgios fought off three set points – twice saving himself via an ace – and with the scores locked at 6-6 he raced to a 5-1 lead in the tiebreak.
Kokkinakis, whose movement was clearly hampered for much of the match, fought back to 5-4 but Kyrgios held strong, reeling of the next two points to grab the opener.
A punishing backhand winner down the line from Kyrgios opened up a break point at 2-1 in the second set and the junior world No.1 capitalised, racing to a 3-1 lead.
Kokkinakis kept fighting, but it was the pinpoint ball placement of his opponent’s groundstrokes that proved too strong, Kyrgios closing the second 6-3 on his way to his first grand slam championship.
"I'm going to take a lot of confidence out of this," Kyrgios said.
"(There's) still a long way to go, it's a long journey, anything can happen, but right now I'm really happy."
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ST. PAUL -- Minnesota's ethanol industry could help produce jobs in a time they are most needed, agriculture supporters say.
"We can help Minnesota recover from this recession," Brad Nelson told a state Senate Agriculture Committee Thursday.
Nelson, a south-central Minnesota farmer and Minnesota Ethanol Producers Association president, said, however, that federal government rules limit how much ethanol can be used in gasoline, which stifles the state's industry. He said the rules need to be changed before ethanol can reach its potential.
"Ethanol has been a huge boon to the state of Minnesota," added Doug Albin, a Clarkfield farmer and Minnesota Corn Growers Association president.
The two were among several reporting on the status of Minnesota ethanol, a fuel now made mostly from corn.
Senators heard concerns that they should not cut off subsidies paid to ethanol production plants as they seek ways to balance the state budget. The ethanol industry had been quite profitable, but in recent months those profits have dried up.
The state is due to pay $15 million to farmers that own eight ethanol plants each of the next two years, with another $1.2 million needed in the following year for the final two plants receiving state help.
"It is winding down," Steve Ernest of the state Agriculture Department said of the subsidy program.
Ethanol supporters credit the funding with launching their industry, among the strongest of any state. However, Gov. Tim Pawlenty earlier targeted the program for cuts and farmers fear the same will happen this year when legislators and Pawlenty grapple with a budget deficit estimated to be near $7 billion.
Rod Jorgenson, a Kasson-area farmer, told the committee that one plant cost $18 million to build -- with the help of the subsidies -- but expanded at a cost of $65 million, adding more jobs.
Some ethanol plants have closed and others are fighting declining profits as high corn prices are combined with low ethanol prices.
"The ethanol industry is hurting," declared Steve Anderson of the Central Minnesota Ethanol Co.
Even so, Anderson said, his Little Falls facility plans an expansion to a new type of ethanol, adding 20 jobs.
"We think we can manage this storm," he added.
The Minnesota Senate will not hire new employees and on Thursday froze wages of existing workers.
"These are common-sense measures to show the public that we are taking the budget deficit seriously and we will be sharing in the pain," said Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller, DFL-Minneapolis, said after a committee approved the budget-saving action. "Our state is in the midst of a budget crisis and these actions are a continuation of the cutting we've been doing this year in the Senate. We will continue working together in these tough times and sharing in the sacrifice that many Minnesotans will be asked to make."
Senators, who already cut $1.5 million from their budget, also:
-- Banned out-of-state travel.
-- Held open 24 positions.
-- Cut postage spending.
-- Ended job promotions.
-- Allowed individual senators to cut their own salaries.
Some Republicans on Wednesday suggested lawmakers and statewide election officials' salaries be cut 5 percent.
The hiring freeze means Republican senators will not be able to hire a new caucus chief of staff, rumored to be Norm Coleman Senate campaign manager Cullen Sheehan. The GOP position apparently is the only Senate job that officials had planned to fill.
Sen. Keith Langseth, DFL-Glyndon, on Wednesday sent Pogemiller a letter requesting a hiring freeze.
"Based on these economic times, I hope you will agree that it is time to consider an immediate hiring freeze," Langseth wrote.
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The Ebtech MMW Mini Morley Wah Pedal gives guitar and bass players classic Wah effect, with a side Wah/Bypass selector switch. Additional features include Wah level control, LED indication, easy access battery door & cold rolled steel housing. The small footprint is perfect for pedals boards when space is at a premium, or when you just need a smaller pedal.
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*NEW* Second Life Avatar Databank. Complete morph target UV mesh library and models in AC3D and OBJ formats with PNG format 1024x1024 texture templates.
Notable enhancements in this release:
- Normalized export mode. Normalizes the prim on each axis, for smoother output. Many thanks to Darius Lehane!
- Batch export mode, accessible from TCL or TCP\IP scripts with function
tfpsculpties_save_batchmode <filename> <normalized yn>.
The scultpy prim exporter for AC3D is now official and available directly from Inivis!
Many thanks to the fine folks at Inivis for their support.
Notable changes in this release:
- Support for Mac and Linux platforms as well as Windows
- No longer need to commit surfaces before exporting
- Minor fix to path naming convention on multi-part objects
- Improved undo support for sculpty functions
For more about AC3D, please visit their website at: http://www.inivis.com/
To install the plug-in, copy the relevant
sculpties.p into your AC3D 'plugins' folder (the plugin zip contains plug-ins for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X), then re-start AC3D.
Note: The AC3D model contains the stem, but the sculpt map didn't quite have enough resolution to hold it. Seemingly, the Lindens had the same problem with their apple model, and conveniently provided a stem as a separate object. :-) The pears shown use the Linden apple stem in addition to the shorter stem built into the base sculpt map. Instructions for building your own multi-part models for just this situation is outlined below.
Any model with a perfect uv space can be exported with the sculpty export plug-in.
A spherical map.
A perfect uv space is a set of texture coordinates that uses 100% of the available texture space, has no holes in the map, and wraps in all directions. This means the top matches the bottom and the left matches the right of the texture map. An ordinary spherical map is a common example of a perfect uv space.
According to documentation by Qarl Linden, future versions of sculpted prims will allow for non-spherical uv maps, but those aren't available just yet.
Use one of the pre-made shapes that are included with the plug-in as a basis for your own model.
You can texture your model using the texture tools built into AC3D. Just be sure to follow the rules and use all of the uv space and make sure it wraps in all directions. However, since this is a little tricky to do unless you are a seasoned texture artist, an easier way is to start with one of the pre-mapped primitive shapes that are included with the plug-in.
Three starter shapes are included:
- Sculpty Sphere
- Sculpty Cylinder
- Sculpty Cube
All three shapes are mapped correctly and have subdivisions set. The cube is gridded-out, so it's a perfect starter shape for using the box modelling technique.
Most of the tools in AC3D will preserve texture coordinates, so for the most part you can just modify these shapes and model as you normally would. The only notable exception is the Extrude tool, which keeps the mapping for the front face, but loses the sides. In this case, use the "Sculpty Extrude" tool on the Surfaces menu instead. This tool works exactly like Extrude by Normal, but it preserves the uv space when it extrudes the face. This tool works best when you extrude one face at a time.
Yes. You can use any tool you like as long as the uv space is preserved. You can use the Surfaces->Divide menu to add more faces if you need them. You can also use the knife tool to split faces along a line.
Again, if you want to extrude, be sure to use the Sculpty Extrude instead of the regular extrude so that the uv space is preserved. If for some reason you forget, just use AC3D's texture Coordinate Editor to re-map that part of the model to make it fit the map space.
Commit your subdivisions (AC3D menu Object->Commit-Subdivision), then subdivide more.
If that still doesn't make your model smooth enough, subdivide more. Three or four levels of subdivision seems to work best. i.e. Subdivide by three, then subdivide again by one. You can also slightly blur the exported map in your favorite paint program if you want it to be smoother still.
A subdivision surface is a method of representing a smooth surface by using flat surfaces as a control mesh, much like control nodes can be used to alter the shape of a curve in a 2D drawing program.
Subdivision modeling is a 3D modeling technique designed for creating smooth and organic shapes. It works by taking a flat surface, and then “sub dividing” it into additional surfaces, which are known as subdivision surfaces. The subdivision surfaces are then smoothed by the software to create a curved shape. For example, if you started with a cube and subdivided it, you would get a cube with rounded-off corners. If you kept going, the cube would get smoother and smoother until eventually you had an object that looked more like a sphere. Subdivision surfaces allow you to create smooth, flowing shapes that would be almost impossible to create by hand.
To subdivide in AC3D, simply select 'Subdiv +' from the toolbar.
Subdivision surfaces work particularly well for creating sculpties because they share a lot of similarities when they are rendered. When a sculpt map is scaled and sampled by the Second Life viewer, it creates smooth areas even when none existed originally. These smooth areas are influenced directly by the layout of the original map. Subdivision surfaces also create smooth areas in a very similar way. This means that an object created with subdivision surfaces will give a very accurate preview of how the final sculpty will look.
Add more faces around the corners.
Due to the way sculpted prims are rendered in Second Life, there is a practical limit to how sharp the corners can be. According to the Second Life FAQ on Sculpted Prims:
"One issue here is the 8 bit precision on images, and the other issue is the jpeg compression applied to the data (all textures are converted into jpeg2000 format). The name "sculpted prim" was chosen to convey the idea of "approximate" shapes. ... "approximate" is pretty close to "exact". Furthermore, it wouldn't be hard to support 16bit images and higher precision/lossless compression in Second Life — but let's first see whether we need it.
With respect to sharp corners and angles, sculpted prims are quite similar to NURBS surfaces: A sculpted prim can have a more defined edge by dedicating more control points (vertices) to that area. At maximum resolution, a 32x32 pixel Sculpt Map would describe up to 1024 vertices (with each pixel representing a single vertex). The recommended sculpt map resolution is 64x64 pixels but in practice the highest level of detail for sculpted prims in Second Life is a grid of 32x32 vertices (larger images are downsampled), and the lower level of detail uses 16x16 vertices. If you need more vertices, split your model up into multiple prims. For reference, a torus-shaped prim in SL has about 1000 vertices."
So, to do this in AC3D, just add more faces around the corner you want to be sharper. If you have subdivisions set, this will give you a pretty good preview of what the corner will look like. In general, the more faces, the tighter the corner.
If you still need more detail, you can adjust the uv map to devote more texture space to the corner area. Just grab the faces in the Texture Coordinate Editor and stretch them so that they take up more of the map. This will give you more detail on these faces on the exported sculpty.
Between 256 and 1024 vertices at 8-bit precision, after smoothing.
A sculpted prim at maximum resolution has 1024 vertices; at the next level-of-detail it will have 256 vertices. However, because sculpted prims always evenly distribute the vertices in a displaced sphere, a sculpted prim will (usually) not convey the same level of detail as a polygon model with 256 vertices, because the placement of those vertices cannot be as tightly controlled.
The other important factor in determining how detailed a sculpted prim can be is the 8-bit precision. A sculpted prim only uses 8-bits of numerical precision to describe the x, y, or z position of a vertex. A program like AC3D uses 32-bits of precision to describe the position of a vertex. This means that it's possible to model many details on a model in AC3D that will be too small to show up on the sculpted prim, because sculpted prims can't handle numbers that are that refined.
If you need that much detail, break your model up into multiple prims. The plug-in will export each mesh object in your AC3D file as its own sculpt map, so you can model them all together and then export the entire batch when you're ready to import them into Second Life.
Give each mesh a unique name, then export as usual.
You can have as many mesh objects as you need in your AC3D file. When you export the file to sculpted prim format, each mesh in the file will written to its own sculpt map. The files are named filename_meshname.tga, so be sure to give each mesh a unique name or they may be overwritten.
For example, if you created a model of a lamp, it might consist of several objects: the base, the shade, and a lightbulb. If you exported the file as "lamp", then the files the exporter will generate will be:
lamp_base.tga, lamp_shade.tga and
lamp_lightbulb.tga. When you import the files into Second Life, apply each texture to its own prim to re-construct the object.
Multi-part objects are a great way to work around sculpt map resolution limits. They can also make texturing much, much easier.
To preserve precious surface detail. Resize the prims after you import the sculpt maps into Second Life.
Sculpted prims are limited to 8 bits of precision on vertex position. This is only 25% of the precision in a normal model. Saving sculpt maps at scaled size would lose even more numerical precision--and thereby surface detail--and there's barely enough already.
To preseve detail, the exporter saves each individual sculpt map with the maximum possible range, which is 0 to 1 meter. To re-assemble your multi-part model in Second Life, read the size of the individual mesh object in AC3D, then apply the same size to the prim in Second Life.
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Christian History Home > 2001 > Apocalypse Not
As speculations mount regarding the significance of recent events in God's plan for the end of the world, voices from the past urge restraint.
Hal Lindsey (of Late Great Planet Earth fame) recently said, "The Battle of America has begun! So be it!" Evangelist John Hagee told his congregation in San Antonio, Texas, "You can hear the Four Horsemen riding to Armageddon." New York minister David Wilkerson preached on September 16, "One network anchor declared, "Think of it, our two symbols of power and prosperity have been smitten in one hour.' Little did he know, he was quoting Revelations 18:10: "Alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come.'"
These would-be prophets could be right, but history is definitely not on their side. Obviously, every other prediction regarding the imminent end of the world has been wrong. That's why historical insights must be added to the mix of messages currently bombarding us. I excerpted the following from CH issue 61: The End.
Justin Martyr (c. 100-c. 165) and Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130-c. 200) spoke of the Millennium as a far-off event they hoped for someday. Its only importance to Christian living was as a reminder of the hope that should guide a Christian's life. Justin also believed that the faithful departed would rise from the dead and reign with Christ for a thousand years in a rebuilt Jerusalam, but he allowed for other interpretations: "I and many others are of this opinion, and believe that such will take place … but, on the other hand, many who belong to the pure and pious faith, and are true Christians, think otherwise."
In City of God, Augustine (354-430) viewed the thousand years of Revelation 20 not as some special future time but "the period beginning with Christ's first coming," that is, the age of the Christian church. Throughout this age, the saints reign with Christ—not in the fullness of the coming kingdom prepared for those blessed by God the Father, but "in some other and far inferior way." This position, often called "amillennial," became the view of most Christians in the West, including the Reformers, for almost 1,500 years.
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) predicted that lay princes would forcibly take away land and riches clergy had amassed, and Christendom would enter an era of millennial prosperity and peace. Though disarmament would entice pagans to attack Christian nations, she believed Christians would eventually win. Ultimately, the Roman emperor would lose almost all authority, and the pope would only rule Rome. (She was wrong about the peace, but not far off regarding the princes and the pope.)
Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135-1202) compared Christendom to Babylon because everyone wanted money, power, and worldly fame. Shortly after 1200, he speculated, two anti-Christian forces, possibly Muslims and heretics, would attack, defeat, and severely persecute Christians. Thus purified, a reforming pope and monastic orders would create a holier world in which people would attain unsurpassed understanding of the hidden meaning of the Scriptures. For an indeterminate period, Christians would dominate the world in peace.
Fifteenth-century Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella nurtured hope of a final crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim control. Deterred by a lack of funds, they were attracted by Christopher Columbus's proposal that finding a shorter route to the fabled wealth of the East would give them upfront financing against the infidel—and prepare for Christ's coming at Jerusalam.
Columbus (1451-1506), for his part, believed that the world would end in 1656. (How he arrived at that date is a long story, but it involves Joachim of Fiore.) One requirement of the Lord's return was preaching the gospel "in all the world." If there were a shortcut to the East by sea, missionaries could be sent there faster. In the Book of Prophecies he assembled, Columbus quoted ancient writers like Augustine and Stoic philosopher Seneca to show how the discovery of the Western islands had been the foretold prelude to God's final victory. "God made me the messenger of the New Heaven and the New Earth," he wrote.
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(CNN) -- A large pop-up box will greet Facebook users logging on to the social-networking site on Thursday, asking them to modify their privacy settings.
The company says the changes will help streamline privacy controls that have confused many of its 350 million users and were sprawled over six separate pages.
What is getting the thumbs-down
Complaints have started flowing in, focusing on three areas:
The changes treat as "publicly available information" the following: your name, profile picture, current city, gender and networks, and the pages you're a fan of.
Until now, you had the option of restricting much of that information. That option has been removed.
The ramifications, as the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation sees them:
"For example, you might want to join the fan page of a controversial issue (like a page that supports or condemns the legalization of gay marriage), and let all your personal friends see this on your profile, but hide it from your officemates, relatives or the public at large." You cannot do so now.
The foundation says: "These changes are especially worrisome because even something as seemingly innocuous as your list of friends can reveal a great deal about you. In September, for example, an MIT study nicknamed 'Gaydar' demonstrated that researchers could accurately predict a Facebook user's sexual orientation simply by examining the user's friends list."
Facebook counters that a user's friends list can be made nonviewable. But it is either viewable by all or by no one.
Another source of consternation is Facebook apps, such as the quizzes developed by third parties that many users are fond of taking.
Until now, Facebook provided an option so you could specify that your information not be shared with others when one of your friends adds such an app.
But now, whenever a friend adds an app, your "publicly available information" becomes accessible to the developer.
So why did Facebook undertake the changes?
The Weblog TechCrunch explains it this way: If a user retains the "Everyone" option, the information is accessible by the Web at large.
"In short, this is Facebook's answer to Twitter. ... That means Facebook can leverage it for real-time search, and can also syndicate it to other places, like Google and Bing. The feature has been available in the site's privacy settings since last summer, but most people didn't use it (and probably didn't even know it was there). The new privacy launch today puts this as the default option for many users."
The changes have met with mixed reaction. By early Thursday, more than 2,700 users had approved of the changes on the Facebook blog.
But about 700 people said they were unhappy.
"The new setting[s] are ridiculous," commented user Victoria Anne Archer. "I have less control than before and my friends are visible to everyone ... I can't hide them ... but I have no choice ... because if I select only friends ... then NO ON[E] CAN FIND ME!"
What is getting the thumbs-up
The most commended aspect of the new settings is that they allow users to micromanage who can access every bit of information on the site.
One way to do so is to separate your friends into lists and grant those lists varying levels of accessibility.
For example, if you would rather your bosses not know what you do on downtime, you can place them on a specially created list.
In addition, a user can specify accessibility post by post.
After each status update you type or photo you post, you can pick from a drop-down menu whether you want that item visible to everyone, to just your friends, or to friends of friends as well.
How to access the changes
The new controls will be available under the "Settings" link at the top right of every page, in addition to being available in the dialogue box.
For each section -- profile information, contact information, applications and search -- users will be asked to pick from three options about who can access the information: Friends, Friends of friends, or Everyone.
The changes do away with "regional networks," which let users designate themselves as residents of a geographic area. But Facebook is retaining school- and company-based networks.
It is worth noting that many users will find their privacy options set at "Recommended settings" by default. If you retain those, your information will be available to everyone.
If you would rather the site not share your information publicly, you will need to click through each section and restrict it to "Friends" only.
This applies for photos as well. A user will have to specify album by album how much access to grant others.
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The Morning News of NW Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE - When Arkansas played its first NCAA Super Regional at Clemson in 2002, the Razorbacks looked like deer in headlights.
But this time around - hosting Florida State at 3 p.m. today in Baum Stadium- the Hogs' eyes are squinted as they're more focused on the task at hand, rather than on all the hoopla which surrounds playing in a super regional.
"Were definitely more relaxed this time," said junior third baseman Clay Goodwin, who was 3 for 11 with 3 RBIs in the 2002 Clemson Super Regional. "A lot of us were in awe of their fans and that's where a lot of us got introduced to what college baseball is really about."
At Clemson, Arkansas pulled out a 9-5 win in Friday's opener, but lost the following two games as the Tigers' faithful rallied behind their club.
"The fans were loud and crazy," said junior catcher Brady Toops, who drove in a run in Game 2 at Clemson. "We were just young pups and just learning the game, but now were here again so it's nothing new.
"Some of us have been here before and hopefully, we can lead the younger guys."
Hogs junior shortstop Scott Hode started in all three games at Clemson and said the difference in attitudes are night and day heading into this weekend's series against Florida State.
"Two years ago, we were surprised to even be there," Hode said. "I mean, all the sudden, we found ourselves in a super regional and before the (Southeastern Conference) tournament started, we were just hoping to get into the (NCAA) tournament.
"This year, we were hoping to be a national seed, so we're not surprised to be here.
"We're more confident and more focused because we expected to be here."
It's a testament to how far Arkansas baseball has came in two years under coach Dave Van Horn, who will be coaching in his fourth super regional after leading Nebraska this deep into the postseason three times.
Van Horn kept up with the Hogs through the 2002 postseason since he was one of the few who knew it would be former coach Norm Debriyn's final run.
"They go win on Friday at Clemson and that's where the excitement begins," Van Horn said. "But you've got to be tunnel visioned. You've got to be able to control your emotions. You can't be thinking about, 'One more win and then we're going to Omaha,' because then it won't happen.
"You won't have that little extra that you need because you won't be playing with that survival-type attitude like Clemson did."
Van Horn said that will be the key to this best-of-three series against Florida State.
"It's nice to win Friday," Van Horn said. "But you've got to go into the weekend like it's survival. Just survive and that's been our attitude."
Florida State's attitude is much of the same and the main concern for 25th-year coach Mike Martin is how his team will handle the Baum Stadium atmosphere.
"We've played in some tough places, but we've never played before 8,000 (fans) on the road," said Martin, who's led his team to six straight super regionals. "I've heard that the fans are, if not the best, certainly some of the very best in the country with the way they get behind the Hogs."
The Seminoles come in as one of the hottest teams in the country by winning 14 of the last 16 games, including 2 of 3 from No. 5 Georgia Tech to win the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament.
During that stretch, they've averaged more than 10 runs per game by hitting an impressive .354 with 22 homers as a team.
"It's contagious," Martin said. "A couple of guys started hitting the ball that had not been getting very many hits. I was looking at our numbers (Wednesday) night and guys that were hitting .247 are not hitting .270.
"We got 27 hits one game and that's obviously unheard of."
They've been especially solid against left-handed pitchers, posting a 17-5 mark. Arkansas lefty Clint Brannon (4-3, 3.33) is expected to start today and it never crossed Van Horn's mind to switch up the rotation.
"We can't change our philosophy because of what they've been doing," Van Horn said. "We've just got to go out and pitch the guys we've been pitching and do what we've been doing.
"We've been doing this for 15 weeks in a row ... And we've just got to go play and see what happens."
Whatever happens, the Razorbacks will be more prepared for it than they were in 2002.
"Even though we're younger, this team is more experienced than the team we had two years ago," Goodwin said. "We've had a lot more big games and big wins this year than we did two years ago, so we're a lot more confident this time.
"We know what it feels like to be one game away and now, we fell like we know what it's going to take to make it even further.
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Top quality screens increase diagnostic confidence
The Dienst Medische Beeldvorming (Medical Imaging Department) at Groeninge General Hospital, in Kortrijk, Belgium, which produces 150,000 radiology reports annually on four different sites, is totally filmless and paperless, relying on Barco's diagnostic display technology for the past decade. This year, due to its near proximity to Barco's headquarters, the hospital is to become a reference site for Barco.
Now it is the first to install a 6 Mega Pixel colour display system for MR/CT imaging, about which Dr Patrick Seynaeve, Head of Radiology at the AZ Groeninge Hospital, said: ‘One of the key points to decide on a medical screen is that the contrast is stable: If two radiologists look at the same image from different angles, nonetheless they must see exactly the same image. Second, the luminosity is much higher – up to 500 cd/m2 , instead of only 250 cd/m2 or less in a commercial display, which means, you can see more details. Noise reduction is also indispensible, because even the best machine cannot give a good image without noise. Not to forget, you have the 10-bits minimum look-up table (LUT) precision.’
Additionally, the lifetime guarantee of a medical display in a factory setting is five years, instead of only one or two. ‘We can check the quality of every screen in our department with Barco’s QA Web, and this helps us to plan our investments better. For example, if he PACS station monitors are visited differently, we can interchange them so that their lifetime ends at the same time,’ added radiologist Dr Olivier Vanovermeire.
Dr O Vanovermeire in the Groeninge MR department
For a radiologist, 91% accuracy in reading on-screen images is important, as highlighted in a 2008 study, carried out by Elizabeth A Krupinski, which compared the diagnostic accuracy of radiologists when viewing clinical images on a top-of-the-line medical grade colour display versus a top commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) screen. For the study, a set of 50 digital radiography chest images was selected; half contained a single pulmonary nodule; half were nodule-free. The study showed that medical-grade one-year-old colour displays yielded better diagnostic and search efficiency than COTS colour displays and thus they are recommended for primary reading if using colour displays. ‘This means that screens can increase our diagnostic confidence so we can work much faster’, Dr Seynaeve observed. ‘To produce 150,000 radiology reports annually, you must consider every link in the chain.’ | <urn:uuid:9dec833f-f987-4839-9eca-63a3beb7a1c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.european-hospital.com/en/article/6118-Top_quality_screens_increase_diagnostic_confidence.html | 2013-05-23T19:33:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703728865/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112848-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919324 | 575 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This Week’s Featured Show(s)
Fat Tony & Tom Cruz (mixtape release)
DJ iPod Ammo
@ Warehouse Live (Green Room)
Friday, July 6
The crazy music release shows just keep comin’, this time we have two great ones on the same night because the forces of the universe are against you. Maybe if you put your mind to it you can somehow manage to to do that thing electrons do but on a larger scale and be at both places at once but I doubt it. So, fate will make it so that you’re just going to decide between the awesomeness of Fat Tony and the awesomeness of Young Mammals and I’m telling you that’s such a hard call that I’m almost glad that my schedule is such that I can’t get out on Friday nights because my head would do that Star Trek robot thing where smoke starts coming from my neck and my head would explode when given some paradox. So you guys are on your own on figuring which one to attend.
Thursday, July 5
Robert Ellis @ McGonigel’s Mucky Duck- I am still shocked and stunned that the public didn’t vote to nominate Ellis in the best guitarist category for the Houston Press Music Awards. Open nominations suck.
Benjamin Wesley, Bernal-Sherrill, Lacy Rose @ Notsuoh - If there was a category for “Best I can play any fucking intrument you throw at me and I will play it better than you can award,” Ben Wesley would be an easy winner.
And So I Watch You From Afar, Zechs Marquise, Zorch @ Fitzgerald’s – Oh there is some good instrumental action here from these Belfast folks too bad the camera operator is too drunk to hold the camera still in their videos.
Chase Hamblin Band, Nathan Quick @ Avant Garden – By now if you haven’t caught the poppy psychedelia of Hamblin, you really need to get with it.
Morgue City, After Party, Dead Man’s Ransom @ Rudyard’s – Man Spike and Raul sure are playing out a lot as of late.
Bulletboys, Faster Pussycat @ The Concert Pub North (2470 FM 1960) – Even by Hair Metal Standards, these bands sucked.
Crazy and The Brains, The Disconnects @ The White Swan – Awfully cute poppy indie rock you can sing along to. I’m honestly kind of shocked to see a non hardcore show at TWS.
Butch Hancock @ Anderson Fair – Alone or as a member of the Flatlander, Hancock is someone every Texan should see once.
Elle Acoustique featuring Sarah Golden, Victoria Love, Connor Zswetch, Will Golden@ House of Blues (Foundation Room) – A series meant to highlight women in music but I don’t even know what "The Voice" is. I assume it’s some kind of TV show but I’m too lazy to look it up. But if you do know what it is, Golden and Zswetch both appeared on it.
Eric Benét, Ledisi @ Arena Theater – Get your R&B on, yo.
Friday, July 6
The Eastern Sea, New York City Queens, Vox and the Hound @ Mango’s - I feel really bad here because The Eastern Sea are a great band and I really would have liked to have done a nice preview of this show – an interview or something – but vacation and tour stuff kind of kept me busy. Sorry guys. But you guys should try to swing by here ot at their show at Cactus. Here they are so cool, they will show you how to brew beer.
Brown Whornet, Lick Lick, Muzak John, Re:Action, Nonsense Music Band @ Super Happy Fun Land - Super awesome weirdness for Austin X2.
Ready Rocksteady!, featuring The Suffers, The Bandulus, & DJ Moonstomp @ Rudyard’s - The Ska, Reggae, etc. super group is a must see.
Kirk Whalum, Kevin Whalum, Nicole Henry @ Miller Outdoor Theatre (free!) - Smoove Jazz on the hill.
Come See My Dead Person @ Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe (Galveston) - Rowdy Irish rock for the island
Saturday, July 7
Nava’s Beardy B-Day Bash, featuring the last place you look, Nothingmore, & Recovery Room @ Warehouse Live (Studio) – thelastplaceyoulook lead singer celebrates his birthday.
Winter Wallace, Knights of the Fire Kingdom, Frants @ Fitzgerald’s – pleasant and mostly harmless. Winter Wallace that is. The Knights are pretty dangerous rock and roll.
Southern Backtones @ Time Out #1 (10928 Fuqua) – Attn SB fans.
MC Homeless, J E double F, Greenlander, Babelfishh @ East Side Social Center (4202 Canal) - Cleveland Hip Hop in the East End.
Mammoth Grinder, War Master, Turbokrieg, Wasted Saviour, Ass @ Walter’s (1120 Naylor) - Sweet, brutal metal from Austin.
Blaggards, The Clarkes, Brad Boyer & Country Store Buffalo @ The Continental Club – The Blaggards and Come See My Dead Person should really have a battle to the death.
Keyshia Cole, Luke James @ Arena Theater - Hip-Hop soul princess and former reality TV star hits the round
Dan Sartain, Teenage Bedroom @ Fitzgerald’s – FYI due to a family emergency, Sartian had to cancel his tour.
Underworld, featuring DJ Mina & DJ vvJames @ Numbers - Thar be DJs
Sunday, July 8
FLCON FCKER, Treasure Mammal @ Mango’s – FF showed me a live video where his gear crashed to the floor. It still pained him to watch it but if you are a bad ass like he is, you can afford to laugh a little bit at your misfortune.
Crimson ProjeKct, Adrian Belew Power Trio, Stickmen (feat. Tony Levin & Pat Mastelotto) @ Warehouse Live – I’m not sure how to feel about this. I love Belew and Levin but I’m not sure I want to see them rehash past KC glory though on the other hand Belew’s solo work is horribly spotty.
Glen Campbell @ The Grand 1894 Opera House (Galveston) - The Rhinestone cowboy returns and I’m sure he will bsinging this one
Monday, July 9
War of Ages, Onward to Olympas, The Overseer, Leaders, Letter to the Exiles @ Warehouse Live (Studio) - Christian Metal because you know Jesus probably could shred if they made BC Rich guitars back in his day.
Tuesday, July 10
Ydinphere, Haistelijat, H.R.A., Turbokrieg, Peasant @ Walter’s – Helsinki kids doiong it old school hardcore punk style
White Crime, No Reply, Spastic Fit, Serenghetto @ Mango’s - While in the Montrose White Crime does the hardcore punk thing Houston style.
Wednesday, July 11
Rockstar Mayhem Festival, featuring Slipknot, Slayer, Anthrax, The Devil Wears Prada, Asking Alexandria, As I Lay Dying, Whitechapel, & High on Fire @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion - Just the word “Slayer” should be enough for you.
This Week’s (other) Music Release Shows
Friday July 6 – Potbelly (CD release), Deep Ella, Suite 709 (CD release), The Soldier Thread, Castle Lights, The Soapbox Revolution @ Fitzgerald’s
Friday July 6 – Vertigo Blue, The Band Foster, John Lefler of Dashboard Confessional(CD Release), Sounds Under Radio, Handsome Ransom @ Fitzgerald’s (free!)
This Week’s In-Stores
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Two Types of Happiness — Increase Both!
There are two kinds of happiness:
–First, there’s the feeling of happiness, which we might describe by saying, “I am in a happy mood.”
–Second, there’s the level of satisfaction we feel toward the way our lives are going, which we might describe by saying, “I am a happy person. ”
Yes, the two types of happiness are related, but no, they are not the same thing. And yes, the distinction matters.
If you’re curious about why it matters, consider the case of parenthood. Studies have shown that women are less happy when taking care of children than they are when doing most anything else, including eating and exercising. On one level, this should come as no surprise, since taking care of children is hard work. But on another level, it’s quite shocking, since almost every mother claims to be happy she had children.
Are all these mothers lying?
In a word: No.
The discrepancy is caused by the difference between the moment-to-moment feeling of happiness and the holistic evaluation of our lives. In other words, we find parenthood to be rewarding and meaningful, despite its day-to-day aggravations; we mean it when we say we’re happy we chose to have children, just like we mean it when we say we’d rather be riding a treadmill than changing diapers.
Put more simply, feeling happy depends upon an immediate sense of pleasure, while life satisfaction hinges more upon meaning and purpose.
Keeping in mind the difference between these two types of happiness, here are a few tips to boost each:
The Present-Tense Emotion of Happiness
1. Be Thankful: Once a day, remind yourself of all the things you have to be thankful for: relationships, shelter, food, family, and whatever else makes you feel happy to be alive. Research has shown that taking time to be thankful for blessings has an immediate (and often powerful) affect upon happiness.
2. Think Positive: While it’s important to be mindful of the negative forces in the world, many people fixate upon these to the exclusion of all that his pleasant and good. Remember, there are just as many positive influences in the world as negative; our fixation upon the negative is a matter of choice.
3. Attitude Adjustment: Avoid self-destructive attitudes, such as jealousy, persecution complex, perfectionism, and lack of accountability.
4. Be Nice: Research has shown that boosting someone else’s happiness boosts your own too. Be friendly. Wear a smile. Be charitable. Lend a helping hand. What goes around really does come around.
Overall Life Satisfaction
5. Develop and Nurture Relationships: A study conducted at the University of Illinois by Diener and Seligman found that happy people tend to have strong friendships and family ties. This comes as no surprise, since we are social creatures, and it’s natural for us to derive joy from the company of others. Cultivate your social skills. Make time for friends and family, especially if those relationships tend to be positive and uplifting.
6. Pursue a Meaningful Career: Inject meaning into your life by learning to follow your passion: that internal compass, guiding you toward fulfillment. Read my synergy series of articles for more information; if you disagree with my approach for discovering purpose, pioneer your own.
7. Ask Yourself Why: “Why” seems to be the critical question for unlocking the hidden purpose and meaning in our lives. Why do you work? Why are you considering marriage? Why do you want to have children? Why are you making a particular decision? Living a particular way? Keep asking yourself this critical question and you just might find a way to answer it in a fulfilling and meaningful way.
8. Set Meaningful Goals: Also key to the concept of a meaningful life is the anticipation that we feel for the things we hope to accomplish in the future. Set meaningful short and long-term goals. You’ll be happier for it, both today and tomorrow.
The quest for a happier life has been recognized by philosphers and psychologists alike as being of the highest caliber, but there’s no question that it’s an ongoing process, more about the journey than the destination. But if the happiness equation is solved on two fronts — the emotional and the circumstantial — the journey can indeed be happier.
October 18, 2007 Thursday at 8:39 pm
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In a recent news report, a quote attributed to the chief justice of the United States contained the phrase “a couple of hundred people.”
We often see and hear these kinds of expressions used without the “of,” so was he correct in using “of” after “couple”?
Yes. Most handbooks say the “of” is necessary.
As a noun, “couple” requires the preposition “of” to link it to another noun, according to Garner’s Modern American Usage.
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Here’s a recipe for getting the people who paid to see you in concert boo you in person and then take to Twitter to complain about how much your show sucked:
1. Show up three hours late with no explanation.
2. Pretend to shoot guns into the crowd in a city that just experienced a horrific mass killing in a theater.
Madonna hit both points at her concert last night at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado.
Fans were already turning from antsy to flat-out angry when she finally took to the stage three hours after her concert’s scheduled start. To be fair to her, though, she’s usually late. It’s a pretty typical rockstar move and her fans should probably have known that it was unrealistic to expert her on-stage at the listed start time of 8 p.m.
Madonna’s next move was inexcusable, however. She opened the show with the song “Gang Bang,” which she has performed on other stops on her MDNA tour. The performance of the song includes blaring sirens and Madonna pretending to shoot at the audience with guns.
Pointing guns. At the crowd. In Denver.
Yeah… maybe you should consider cutting that song for your Denver concer, Madonna. Or, at the very least, tone it down. Don’t just go out and expect everything to be fine, though. That’s shows a ridiculous lack of awareness and tastefulness.
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Mr. Whitehead was a native of Marshall County, and was the son of the late John and Dora Fox Whitehead. He was retired from Heil Quaker Corporation, and he was a member of the Church of Christ.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Ila Sharp.
He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Annie Evelyn Davis Whitehead of Cornersville; daughter, Barbara Rogers of Cornersville; son, Thurston (Tammie) Whitehead of Wheel; and nephew, Charles Norman Sharp of Murfreesboro. Four grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren, and one stepgreat-grandchild also survive.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m Wednesday, Jan. 16, from the chapel of Cornersville Funeral Home, with burial to follow in Beechwood Cemetery.
The family will at the funeral home for visitation on Wednesday from noon until the funeral hour.
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The Jungle is Right Outside my Door
By Katrina Macht
February 4, 2004
There is no need to make long, sweaty treks deep into the forest to see wildlife on BCI. All I need to do is walk onto my porch or balcony at any time of the day or night and I am surrounded by an abundance of critters, from flamboyant butterflies and an array of energetic birds, to a parade of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, great and small.
I was given a special gift when I arrived for my three week stay on the island this year, a second-story room with a balcony facing three large balsa trees, hosts to an assortment of forest creatures and the providers of countless hours of enjoyment. I am most entertained by the monkeys and often find it difficult to drag myself away from their playful antics to actually explore the forest. I'm content to wile away my day in sheer delight of the primates' riotous escapades.
Over the past two weeks I have come to know a small troop of capuchins best, as they pass every afternoon through the balsa treetops on their way to their bedtime roost. If it's 4:00, it must be monkey time. Sometimes they dart so close to the balcony I can almost reach out and touch them.
Also called white-faced monkeys, capuchins belong to the genus Cebus and are perhaps the most commonly seen monkeys throughout Central America, ranging as far south as the Amazon of South America. They generally stay in the forest's understory and mid-canopy, which is one of the reasons why they are so easy to spot on BCI, whether it is in these trees surrounding the living quarters or along a forest trail.
Although they can grow to be three feet long, including their prehensile tail, the members of the troop passing by my door each afternoon appear to be smaller. They are dark chocolate individuals, with pale, hairless faces surrounded by whitish fur. It's that wrinkled, hairless face that gives the capuchin the appearance of a tiny old man. This troop seems to consist of about five or six individuals, including a couple of juveniles and a mother with an infant riding on her back.
Arriving right on cue, their routine is habitual each day. They swing through the trees, sometimes jumping, sometimes scurrying across branches, sometimes just letting go completely to crash to the foliage below, foliage that breaks their falls like giant green trampolines. Always they have one goal in mind - pursuit of the next balsa flower. Looking at the gooey, sticky mess all over their faces whenever they pull their heads out of the flowers, at first I thought they were drinking the blossoms' nectar. Balsa trees have large creamy white, wine-cupped blossoms that open at night and are bat-pollinated. The capuchins approach the nectar-rich flowers with such glee that they often appear to be swallowed whole by the enveloping petals. What a surprise when I read that, although these constantly chattering monkeys may enjoy getting covered in nectar, their primary interest is in the delectable insects living inside the flowers. In fact, white-faced monkeys have quite a varied diet, foraging for fruits and leaves, as well as many different species of arthropods, displaying a particular fondness for bruchid beetles. They've even been known to eat birds' eggs, baby birds, and small mammals such as baby squirrels.
Scampering from tree to tree, flower to flower, communication with one another is maintained through little chirps, squeaks, and whistles. Their continuous chatter is broken only by pauses to poke a head in another flower, or perhaps to stare in serious contemplation at some poor, unsuspecting human walking beneath their reach, as they hatch a dastardly assault plan.
They may look cute and adorable, but capuchins are not mellow monkeys. Far from possessing the placid behavior of their benign cousins, the howlers or tamarins, Cebus monkeys are aggressive animals. They can often be seen accosting unwitting humans who make the mistake of standing directly beneath their line of fire. It is not uncommon for them to leap up and down on branches, turning twigs, fruits, foliage and anything else they can get their hands on, into missiles to hurl at unsuspecting individuals below. I speak from the experience of one of those unsuspecting victims, who has had Dipteryx fruits launched at me and a capuchin spit at me as he crossed the forest trail I was walking on.
Their peevishness, however, is not reserved for humans. Quarrels and fights between members of the same troop, as well as between members of opposing troops, are a common sight. Last week I witnessed a spectacular battle involving three males. Curious to learn who was squawking and making an unbelievable racket in the trees, I ran to the balcony to see three little wizened men facing off on one horizontal balsa branch. Their face-off suddenly erupted into a wrestling match, with repeated attempts to throw each other off the branch to the forest floor below. And then, as quickly as it started, the fight was over, having ended in a draw. Miraculously all three monkeys were still hanging on to the same branch and, with chirps and whistles, each faded in a different direction, leaving me to wonder, "What was that all about?"
No matter what their actions, capuchins are fascinating creatures to spy on and volumes can be learned about their behavior through careful, patient observation, sitting right here on this balcony. Whatever my plans for the day, I make every effort to be back at my room in the late afternoon to watch these rambunctious animals. It's a consistent high point of any day on BCI and better than TV. | <urn:uuid:d10ba025-4b3d-46bd-96b7-02662ede73df> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.montclair.edu/csam/prism/rainforest-resources/rainforest-journals/the-jungle-is-right-outside-my-door/ | 2013-05-23T19:41:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703728865/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112848-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972357 | 1,219 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Programme helps teens get up close and personal with festival
Clonmel Junction Festival has run a Trainee Programme at the festival for the last two years. This scheme, which is the only one of its kind in the country, offers teenagers a two-week trainee programme working with an artist or technical professional and the opportunity to go to see many of the festival shows, meet with the visiting artists and get an inside knowledge of the workings of the running of a large multi-arts festival.
The festival is delighted that LIT Tipperary have come on board as sponsors of this programme this year. The trainees - who must be aged 18 or over- will receive a certificate with the LIT Tipperary crest on it which will be presented at a special post-festival event by a senior member of the Clonmel Campus LIT staff.
The 2012 Trainee programme will run from July 2nd-16th. The festival is looking for enthusiastic committed individuals who would like to participate in the Café projects, press or production. A typical trainee schedule will include one daily four-hour slot. Tasks will include helping with set-up and decoration of spaces and briefing in the proposed area of interest, as well as being a support and/or active participant in the chosen activity. This experience is guaranteed to be rewarding as the trainee will meet new people, observe and assist professionals at work, partake in challenging activities, improve their social and communication skills and acquire new knowledge in the selected field.
There is a $35 registration fee that entitles the trainee to a festival t-shirt, a badge that entitles them to free entry to shows that are not sold out and a staff discount at the festival canteen. If shortlisted, the applicant will be required to attend at least one preliminary briefing meeting.
Over 70 trainees have passed through the programme over the last two years, with many more participating in the youth programmes run over the two previous years. Many of these teenagers have maintained contact with the festival throughout the year, most notably the trainees from the Story Lab Café last year who went on to form their own bi-monthly storytelling circle, which has been a terrific success. Another group of 2011 Trainees have been meeting each Saturday during the spring, devising visual art projects and assisting the Festival staff to plan the Trainee Programme for this year.
For more information on the CJF Trainee Programme see www.junctionfestival.com or call into The Common Thread Cafe in Parnell Street for information and/or an application form.
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A few months ago, we asked you who has the best sushi in town. You voted for Harney Sushi in our Golden Local debate, and apparently the folks at Southern California's Largest Wine and Food Festival agreed.
Chef Anthony Sinsay of Harney Sushi won first place in the "Chef of the Fest" competition for his Sou Vide Kabocha with Kabocha Puff, Kabocha Panna Cotta, Carbonated Citrus and "malty" truffle air.
The 2009 San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival featured 170 world-class wineries and spirit producers, 70 of San Diego’s award-winning fine dining restaurants and plenty of satisfied San Diegans. Attendees paid their ticket fee to taste wonderful wines and eat amazing food.
"The 'Chef of the Fest' Competition sheds light on some true culinary innovation taking place in San Diego, and gives food-loving attendees the chance to sample from the city's best chefs,” the Festival's co-producer Michelle Metter said.
A field of 40 chefs was narrowed down to a group of 10 finalists and five category winners:
"The panel of 20 judges had a very difficult time narrowing down the chefs to just a top 10, let alone pick out a winner," said Head Judge Chef William Ramsey. "The chefs this year really came prepared with top notch cuisine that showcased the best in innovative, fresh and creative cooking in San Diego.”
Judges graded each restaurant with a point system including scores for presentation, flavor, innovation, quality of product, and preparation in the allotted time.
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|Every professor has to wonder, with skepticism, how much of the assigned material the students will actually read. (That is, if they have even purchased the textbook in the first place!) Whether they skim or read all of it, your students will recall the key points of the lesson if you use Discovering the Old Testament.|
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In Discovering the Old Testament, you'll find:
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German Shepherd Dog > Look at these hips (763 replies)
by duke1965 on 30 December 2011 - 12:42
|danny , I think the breeder/broker WILL respond as soon as the name comes out , and WILL NOT respond before to avoid the name to come out|
im breeding dogs for 25 + years , but sending a dog with severe overbite to unknowing customer is impossible in my book
A breeder must accept and do right by all he is producing , the good the bad and the ugly , but not take money for it and make it somebody elses problem
they did it once , they will do it again , matter of company ethics so to speak
by Rik on 30 December 2011 - 13:04
|danny, you pretty much covered what I was thinking. and no it won't be popular. If I read correctly, the breeder offered a replacement pup with shipping and no return on the original pup. Regardless of how sad the situation may be, from this point on the decision was up to Chrissy.|
The part that bothers me most is no way does an experienced person miss the mouth issues, especially when deciding on one pup to keep. The whole thing could have been avoided and should have been.
I would hope the people responsible will step up and do the right thing in this case and in my mind, a refund is the right thing. Guess time will tell.
by JakodaCD OA on 30 December 2011 - 13:08
|I have to say , you all have renewed my faith in human compassion:)|
It's rather sad that a bunch of veritable strangers are willing to help someone more than the breeder.
Kudos to you all, I'm sure you'll all be rewarded in some way for your generosity:)
by Blitzen on 30 December 2011 - 13:53
|Exactly, Rik. How could that severe of an overbite have been missed first by the breeder/shipper/vet signing the health cert and then by the broker? Naw, I don't buy into that scenario at all. It's safe to offer another dog when one knows the buyer can't have another dog. I have to question if the broker would have taken his/her pup it had such a bite.|
I don't know the breeder or the broker, so this is nothing personal.....Sell the puppy you would give her as a replacement and use that money to refund her purchase price including the shipping.
Make it right...give her her money back.
by Abby Normal on 30 December 2011 - 17:06
|It's a really, really simple step for the breeder to make this right in so far as it can be made right for this girl and her dream pup. Breeder ? You lose nothing financially, but will gain everything in terms of respect from the GSD community if you do the right thing for Chrissy and Kaiser now.|
BTW just checked out Just Giving and you have to be a registered charity to set up a page, so that idea is out. So I guess maybe a dedicated bank account could be set up by Chrissy just for Kaiser so as to keep track of the situation, and anyone that wants to can pay a donation into it directly.
by workingdogz on 30 December 2011 - 17:56
|Rik & Danny,|
I can say I understand your train of thought, and you guys are 100% right, this girl deserves a problematic free puppy that she can do the sport with that she wanted.
Life sucks and she and the pup got screwed badly. She did TRY to get ahold of the breeder/broker, but was blown off.
A phone call was made 2 days after the pups arrival, emails with pics were sent etc, and when she did contact the broker here in the states, she was told he would call her back--and didn't. After about 10-14 days (sorry, don't remember the exact time frame) she decided to keep the pup as she had bonded with him. Chrissy clearly stated in a public post on another board that she wanted to return the puppy to the broker that weekend, but could not contact the broker on the phone to make arrangements to do so. Another week passed and OH SHIT, she is a human with a heart, she BONDED with the pup and decided to keep him. Sure yes, the broker/breeder offered her another puppy, but they didn't have any other litters SHE had interest in, and since she can only handle one dog, a "replacement" would do no good. She also at that time would have had to pay shipping on the other puppy.
This is not some multi titled numerous dog owning serious competitor we are talking about, this is a girl, a girl who worked hard and saved her money and tried to do EVERYTHING right, she didn't want much. Just a pup from a certain breeding, a pup she could do schutzhund and some personal protection with. Thats not much to ask for is it? Especially when one is paying $1600+USD plus shipping for a pup. (Not sure what was paid, but generally thats what this breeder/broker duo sells pups for)
Since the breeder/broker have so 'generously' offered up a pup & shipping as replacement, they should simply sell said puppy and refund this girls purchase price AND shipping fees.
If you want a link to a thread with pics of the bite, PM me, I will be happy to give it to you.
I agree with duke, the breeder/broker will lay low on this, in their eyes they "tried".
The whole thing is, I would put good money on the fact that if they had told her before the pup was shipped about the bite?
she would not be dealing with this at all. She has stated as much.
Eventually someone will "out" them. And yes, I feel strongly that Chrissy should post the entire saga here so people know all the details. She should also post the dogs pedigree here too. It's too late for her, but perhaps she can save someone else the heartache and financial loss she has suffered. Bad hips/elbows are always going to pop up somewhere, no matter how hard a breeder tries. And there are some awesome breeders out there, ones that will stand by their dogs even if the "contract" says otherwise etc. But this is not just about bad hips, this is about a deception right from the start.
I have mentioned it before, and maybe it's been missed, and yes, someone else mentioned it. If you have not already xrayed his elbows, please do so.
Also, if you have more xrays done, please put all his information on the xrays before any surgery. I will pay for you to send them to OFA as well, just be sure you publish the results.
Whatever happens in the end, Chrissy will know there are at least some good hearted GSD people out there that have came together to help her and her pup out.
Edited to add: It's easy for others (myself included) to sit back and say we'd never ______ or _______, we'd euthanize etc. but when it comes down to it, this is a living breathing creature that depends on a human to care for it, so while it's easy to _say_ one of us would 'never' do this or that, just hope you are never in that place. And try to remember, we all started in dogs the same way essentially- eager and enthusiastic etc to conquer the world with our dog. It would be nice to go back to that place in time, but sadly having seen so much of this kind of stuff in the dog world, I can't. Doesn't mean I can't help a fellow dog lover out a little.
by Two Moons on 30 December 2011 - 18:07
What happened to my post?
We'll try again.
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by Slamdunc on 30 December 2011 - 18:37
by Two Moons on 30 December 2011 - 18:43
how's it hangin?
by Slamdunc on 30 December 2011 - 19:12
|Why is this thread a circus? That was my question. |
Actually, this thread is far from a circus and probably one of the most beneficial threads in a while. A GSD owner came here seeking support and advice. Members contacted vets and found an affordable option to help ease the suffering of both the dog and owner. Other members offered to contribute to the surgery. I will contribute as I am genuinely impressed with the OP and want the dog to have a comfortable life.
The only thing that hasn't happened is for the breeder to come forward and offer some sort of explanation and/or financial assistance. I would like to know how a dog gets shipped with a severe overbite, when it comes from the "leading" experts in the GSD world.....at least according to them. We are only getting one side of the story since the breeder has not given his version. So, I am speculating here; but how does a breeder who evaluated the litter and selected 3 pups for him and his partner not see this pup? How does this breeder / vendor / importer not see this huge overbite and warn the buyer and still ship the pup? Will the breeder/ vendor / importer breed these three littermates knowing that this pus has all of these genetic defects? I am going to watch for that. I think workingdogz has spelled it out pretty well in his last post.
by Rik on 30 December 2011 - 19:43
|hello wdz, I have not been privy to any previous info and am just piecing this together one post at a time.|
There are so many issues involved here that it is impossible for anyone to offer a one size fits all answer. There is the emotional and financial trauma suffered by the owner of the pup. The loss of the dream of training and owning her dream dog. What it must have taken to work and support a family and still put back enough to eventually purchase this dream. What will happen with the puppy. Will the breeder make it right, or as right as it can be made at this late time.
I am fairly certain I have pieced together the breeder/broker and have tried to keep an open mind. As said above, we are hearing one side. But the evidence is pretty substantial that Chrissy has been open on her part.
I will say this, I have been at the dog game for many years. I have evaluated and seen many dogs evaluated. Never have I witnessed an experienced dog person fail to check the mouth. Usually the first thing on the list when choosing a puppy for themselves. And I will call b/s beforehand if it is the breeder/broker I think it is and they claim this. They knew exactly what they put in the crate.
by duke1965 on 30 December 2011 - 20:03
|chrissy , I really think you should look at the elbows asap , I was contacted last week by a person who has a pup from a well known breeder , and the pup has bad elbows and bad hips , now today someone PM me the info on your pup , and the dog Im talking about is same age , same breeder same sire , mother he didnot tell me (I have name , telnr and email from this person)|
so putting one and one together , have xrays taken of elbows , save yourself another heartache , and give information to the breeder so he can do the right thing , also for himself in his breedingprogram , as beside the bite , these things can happen and Im sure that breeder isnot looking for this
by Slamdunc on 30 December 2011 - 20:25
I agree with you 100% and with all of your posts on this thread. I am pretty sure the breeder already knows, the question is will he breed the three pups he and his partner kept for themselves? I'm waiting to hear his side of the story. Actually, I think we are all waiting to hear his side of the story.
by Shawty on 30 December 2011 - 20:59
Moons, I deleted your last post and I suggest you cool your jets before you go too far.
by frankm205 on 30 December 2011 - 21:55
|Cool your jets LOL!!|
I haven't heard that one in a long time!!
by Shawty on 30 December 2011 - 22:03
You like huh!! lol That was my moms favorite saying.
by Two Moons on 31 December 2011 - 00:15
Well I am not your child and your not my mother,
by Slamdunc on 31 December 2011 - 00:31
by Red Sable on 31 December 2011 - 01:20
|Money thrown at a problem never really fixes anything.|
You can't buy the quality of life that all animals deserve.
And sometimes the hard choice is the kindest thing you can do for the animal.
I think I understand what you are saying Moons and cannot totally disagree. The generosity of the people on this site is heartwarming and wonderful, but it isn't going to stop this breeder from pulling these stunts again, in fact, if others cover the cost, he gets off scott free really, especially if his name isn't mentioned. I'd like to see the breeder(s) take responsibility for this, and fix it.
I don't know anything about these kinds of operations,(I've never had a dog with HD) but I do know what it is like to suffer, and death can be kinder, no doubt about it,,, but since I don't know what is involved or how painful or long the recovery is, I can't really comment. I HOPE the elbows are clear, otherwise that makes things that much worse.
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Sometimes, for new followers of the vegan diet, it can become easy to get hung up on the foods you can’t have, rather than the ones you can, especially when it comes to desserts. The good news is, that with a little ingenuity, you can make a vegan diet friendly version of almost any food [...]
Posted on April 18, 2013 by Lance M.
It is a common myth that the vegan diet is restrictive, but the truth is that we can make a wide variety of delicious foods, including cakes, cookies, and pies. The thought of baking these sweets without the use of milk or eggs might seem a little overwhelming, but I’ve got a few tips that [...]
Posted on April 11, 2013 by Lance M.
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