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I'd like to draw 3D directly to Screen. And I tried using WIN32 API - Layered Window with FBO.
It succeeded in creating transparency enabled window . But a problem has occurred in essential Drawing 3D .
Drawing surfaces of Cube was incorrectly . It seems that Depth buffer couldn't work well .
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A general theoretical treatment of intensity perturbations due to centrifugal distortion is given for the vibration-rotation lines of asymmetric-rotor molecules. The present theory gives the intensity perturbations up to the second order. By use of empirical constants, the theory is applied to the ν2 band of H2O and good agreement is obtained with experimental results of various authors.
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This gene encodes a member of the peptidase S9B family, a small family of dipeptidyl peptidases that are able to cleave peptide substrates at a prolyl bond. The encoded protein shares similarity with dipeptidyl peptidase IV in that it is ubiquitously expressed, and hydrolyzes the same substrates. These similarities suggest that, like dipeptidyl peptidase IV, this protein may play a role in T-cell activation and immune function. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described. [provided by RefSeq]
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REGINA -- The CFL isn't through celebrating the 2012 season.
The league takes a break from meetings at the CFL Congress in Regina to announce the winner of the league's coach-of-the-year award. This year's finalists are Scott Milanovich, head coach of the Toronto Argonauts, John Hufnagel head coach and general manager of the Calgary Stampeders, and head coach Mike Benevides of the B.C. Lions. The winner receives the Annis Stukus Trophy at Thursday's luncheon.
The finalists were determined through voting by representatives of the Football Reporters of Canada. Each nominee is worthy of the award, but for different reasons.
Milanovich led the Argonauts to a 35-22 victory over the Stampeders in the 100th Grey Cup game at the Rogers Centre. Milanovich was the first rookie head coach to win the Grey Cup since 2008 when Hufnagel guided the Stampeders to a 22-14 victory over the Montreal Alouettes.
The Argonauts finished the regular season with a 9-9 record, played host to a playoff game for the first time since 2007 and won the Grey Cup for the first time since 2004.
"I was really proud of our team's backbone," Milanovich told reporters Wednesday. "There were a lot of games where we weren't winning at halftime or we started slow. For what we considered to be a pretty young team, they never panicked at the half. They believed in each other and that was fun."
Jim Barker was the last Toronto head coach to win the coach-of-the-year award, earning the honour in 2010.
Hufnagel led the Stampeders to a 12-4 record despite losing starting quarterback Drew Tate for most of the season to a shoulder injury. Veteran Kevin Glenn took over for Tate and helped the Stampeders finish second in the West Division. Like the Argonauts, the Stampeders won two playoff games en route to the Grey Cup game. Hufnagel won the coach-of-the-year award in 2008.
"My role was just to make sure the team had the focus that we're out there to win a football game and there aren't any excuses," Hufnagel said. "I talk to my players -- not too much, but hopefully enough that I keep their attention."
Benevides guided the Lions to first place in the West Division with a 13-5 record. He also tied a Lions record for the most wins by a rookie head coach. The Lions' defence led the CFL in 18 of the league's 25 categories, including fewest points allowed (19.7), yards (294.6) per game and sacks (47).
B.C.'s Wally Buono won the 2011 coach of the year after the Lions beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 34-23 at BC Place. | <urn:uuid:85e4b31d-acca-4c4f-b447-84ce3aba844c> | 2013-05-21T17:26:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Republican Party says they refuse to raise taxes. However they are only talking about not raising taxes on the greedy rich. They only care about the middle class and the poor as a resource to finance the greedy rich’s lavish lifestyles.
Romney’s tax plan is the bluntest, most direct, obvious, and detailed plan I have seen about how the Republicans are interested only in shifting as much money to the greedy rich as they can. It appears, through their actions, the Republican Party thinks the rich don’t have enough and the poor have too much. Why else would they insist on taking money from the poor and middle class and giving it to the greedy rich?
According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the greedy rich will get an average tax cut of $87,000 while the middle class would see their taxes raised by an average of $2000. In fact when you add the poor, 95% of Americans would see their taxes increase.
The Republican Party has become the unapologetic party of the 1%. They are willing to destroy the middle class so the greedy rich can make more money. Mitt Romney, as the leader of the Republican Party, is also willing to destroy the middle class so he can make more money. | <urn:uuid:cad328ea-4a9a-405c-b79f-401dbd462be4> | 2013-05-21T17:10:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A-DATA Plus-Series DDR2 800 2 x 2GB Reviewsdy284 - June 22, 2008
Company of Heroes is a real time strategy game set during World War II. The object is to occupy and control the ground you capture, while forcing the opponents to capitulate. We will use the in-game performance test to measure the performance of the system.
The settings used in this test are listed below:
- All settings to maximum
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A Brain System for Procedural Memory
Researchers have divided procedural memory into two general types. One type involves the acquisition of habits and skills, the capacity for a very broad variety of stereotyped and unconscious behavioral repertoires. The other type of procedural memory involves specific sensory-to-motor adaptations, that is, adjustments of reflexes, such as changing the force exerted to compensate for a new load, or acquisition of conditioned reflexes that involve novel motor responses to a new sensory contingency. This chapter analyzes the brain systems that support these two types of unconscious learning. It shows that procedural learning is mediated by a complex circuitry involving the motor cortical areas and two main subcortical loops, one through the striatum and another through the cerebellum.
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1. Otters hold hands when sleeping so they don’t drift away
from each other.
2. Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on
the Moon, wrote his daughter initials there. They’ll last at
least 50,000 years.
3. There’s a type of jellyfish that lives forever.
4. Wayne Allwine (the voice of Mickey Mouse) and Russi
voice of Minnie Mouse) were married in real life.
5. We now have less crime, a lower death rate and longer
life expectancy than at any other time in human history.
6. Butterflies can taste with their feet.
7. When you die, your body decomposes, and the atoms that
contained “you” are recycled into Earth to be used again.
8. Every year the Netherlands sends 20,000
tulip bulbs to
Canada to thank them for their aid in the Second World War.
9. Rats giggle when you tickle them. Their voices are so
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when you do, their laughs are immediately evident.
10. Sea horses mate for life, are completely faithful and
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So, you're looking for Mary Poppins, huh? The perfect nanny to watch your kids when you can't. Well who isn't? Finding a nanny is a daunting prospect, but working with an agency can make the job a bit easier. Here are some helpful tips for dealing with a nanny agency:
- Be sure to get recommendations from friends and check reviews online before selecting an agency.
- Look for one that is willing to help you navigate the process of hiring a nanny— including taxes, payroll and immigration issues, if applicable. Ideally, the agency will also agree to help your nanny settle in to her arrangement with your family.
- Ask the agency if they will let you work with a nanny for a week or two on a trial basis before paying their fee.
- Keep in mind that agencies generally charge a placement fee that is around one month of the nanny's salary or 15% of the nanny's annual pay. The fee should cover pre-screening of candidates and reference checks.
- Don't forget to ask the agency if there is a placement guarantee in case things don't work out and your kid doesn't gel with the new sitter. Many agencies offer a 3-month guarantee where they'll replace your nanny without any additional charge if you ended up with someone you don't like. | <urn:uuid:ab963a63-b182-4a5f-9a9d-687ffbf26bf3> | 2013-05-21T17:24:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Conversely, in the [private sector], they have access to an unlimited public. And particularly by paying recruiting bonuses or using perhaps incentives, you can get literally unlimited potential to do any task that needs to be done anywhere in the world.
[Don't you have to pay them] more money?
Typically, yes. Paying more money is one very effective way to move people quickly.
But eventually the cost comes back to the taxpayer.
Right. I think the one thing that people frequently forget when they talk about the outsourcing is that there's two separate issues. Many people think about outsourcing primarily as a tool to save money.
The other way to think about it is sometimes the government pays more money for greater flexibility or greater capacity or better services or services that could be provided more quickly. And I think that particularly with the LOGCAP [Logistics Civil Augmentation Program] contracts, it's important to keep in mind --
That's the big logistics contract that [KBR (Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root)] has?
Yes. With the LOGCAP contract, it's important to keep in mind that whether or not it saved money, there's no question that KBR was able to provide more services more quickly to the battle area than the United States military was capable of providing when we went into Iraq or today.
They claim it's cheaper.
I'm waiting to see the empirical research on that.
Isn't the truth that nobody quite knows whether it's cheaper or not? Does the Pentagon have a handle on this?
I don't think there's any question that no one knows whether it's cheaper or not. One of the best studies we've seen on whether outsourcing saves money is the RAND study, which is now a few years old. And what the RAND study says is there's the potential for immense cost-saving in outsourcing. But it hasn't been proven yet.
There's a number of episodic studies since, but there has not been a compelling case made that government outsourcing, particularly this type of outsourcing, saves money.
Help me out. It seems to me it would cost a lot more money if you hire truck drivers, for instance, that are getting two, three, four times as much. You hire security guards and you subcontract with a security company that provides security, they're going to get a lot more than soldiers would get doing the same [job]. How can it possibly not cost a lot more money?
Well, it's easy to see a number of ways that it might end up being worth it to pay individuals a tremendous amount of money for a short period of time. Consider, for example, the government isn't going to pay pensions for anyone working for a contractor in Iraq.
In addition, the government didn't have to have these people on its payroll before we went to war in Iraq. So if you think about the old model, particularly before the end of the Cold War, the United States military had thousands and thousands of troops sitting around and training, but basically waiting in military installations all over the world.
Now, with this leaner, meaner fighting force, the military doesn't have that capacity sitting around, so the private sector can bring these people in. The government hasn't been paying in advance. They don't have to pay the pensions later. And they don't have to pay the types of buyouts that we've typically seen when there's been aggressive reductions in force in the military. …
There's this notion out there, certainly publicly -- comedians talk about it all the time -- that KBR and Halliburton is getting away with gouging. The taxpayers are paying a huge burden. … Is Halliburton getting away with murder?
No. First of all, while the comedians may have a lot of fun with it, I think there's some important things to keep in mind. First of all, nobody actually believes Halliburton's making any money on the contract, and [it] is probably losing money. The guaranteed profit margin was very, very low. And even with the incentive bonuses that have been paid, the number of unallowable costs in the contract are such that they're probably losing a tremendous amount of money.
But it's [a cost-plus contract, meaning the company would get reimbursed for what it spent, plus an additional percentage as profit].
The fact that a contractor can be reimbursed for allowable costs doesn't mean that it recovers all the money that it spends. Now, part of this is just the nuance of the way government contracts operate. But it is perfectly feasible, and it happens all the time, for contractors to lose money on cost-reimbursement contracts.
Let's also not lose sight of the fact that KBR's employees have not only been injured but have been killed in large numbers in Iraq, and it's very difficult to put a price tag on that type of activity or that type of loss.
Is there any danger of the military becoming overly dependent on the private sector?
There's no question that the military has become overly dependent on the private sector. When I was a young Army officer, as I learned the military doctrine, … the military relied on contractors on the battlefield only to the extent that they could fight without the contractors.
That's simply no longer the case in the United States military. The United States military can no longer fight effectively without contractors on the battlefield, and that has to be an item of great concern both to commanders and to the public. If we are faced with a legitimate foe that could in fact compete with us in terms of competence on the battlefield … this pervasive presence … of contractors could be potentially disastrous.
When you say that we are overly dependent, in which services? Where do you draw the line?
Well, I think that particularly in terms of ground warfare, the military, the Army, is totally dependent upon contractors. They're dependent upon them for food; they're dependent upon them for water, housing, laundry, the basic services.
But in addition, we have contractors ferrying ammunition to the battle area at this point. That's pretty significant. Also, if we look at almost every high-technology weapon that we're employing on the battlefield, we do not have sufficient numbers of skilled operators to operate many of these systems without contractor assistance. Very, very scary situation.
Have you seen this play out in Iraq?
Well, I think there's no more dramatic example than some of the situations where we've seen large numbers of contractor personnel be killed. We're now at the point where over 200 contractor personnel have been killed in the battle area in Iraq.
There is this issue of whether or not it's not about economic cost savings but political cost savings.
Right. It seems to me politically, there's two major concerns with having this staggering number of contractors in the battle area. First, in the court of public opinion, the government has artificially deflated the military's involvement in Iraq. For example, the military would love to say that we have fewer than 100,000 troops on the ground in Iraq. But if we do get below that 100,000 number again, it will only be because we have tens of thousands of contractors supporting the military.
Many of them armed security guards.
Indeed, tens of thousands of armed security guards. But in addition, while the public reads about military fatalities on a regular basis in the newspaper, there's almost no coverage whatsoever on contractor fatalities. And I believe the numbers show that something on the order of 10 percent of the fatalities in terms of the allied forces in Iraq have been contractor personnel, and I believe that that artificially deflates the human cost of our involvement in Iraq.
And I find that quite troubling. To some extent, I find that analogous to the government's decision not to release the photographs of the caskets returning to the United States. It's about painting a prettier picture for the American public about what the human cost of our involvement in Iraq is.
So you think contractors are seen as expendable?
I don't think that there's any question that they're seen as expendable. I don't know that that was necessarily the intent of the Defense Department, but in practice, it's proved to be a very convenient topic --
What about vulnerability? You say that we've made ourselves overly dependent. Have you seen examples in Iraq on the battlefield where our ability to fight the war effectively has been drawn down because of our dependence on [private contractors]?
Maybe the best example I could give you is the consistent concern we hear from the private security companies in Iraq that they're not really part of the tactical operations group. So, for example, we have tens of thousands of armed contractors in Iraq defending the Green Zone, defending military, defending contractors in and around the area.
But they're not part of the military command structure. They don't communicate in the same networks. They don't get the same intelligence information. And so when things begin to develop quickly, there's an awful lot of people around with weapons who have important tactical responsibilities who don't have the same information and aren't getting the same messages from the tactical leadership. …
Describe if you can the scale of the … private contracting work. …
There's a number of examples that you could use. For example, with the oil rehabilitation work, what you might want to think of as an analog would be to basically say: "Assume that you had one or two contractors who are basically going to rehabilitate or completely rebuild the entire oil infrastructure in the state of Texas. And while you're doing it, we're going to basically give weapons to most of the people in the state and incentivize them to kill you if the opportunity arises." That's a pretty daunting task, if you think about it. So if you look at the map, he might be able to bring that home a little bit.
And what about historically the amount of logistics being provided to the military? How does this [compare]?
If we were to compare our two experiences in Iraq in the last 20 years, what you'd find is a much heavier level of contractor involvement this time than the last time around. It's particularly true with regard to the breadth and the extent of services.
For example, if you talk to troops who are over in Kuwait and Iraq for Desert Shield and Desert Storm, they ate what we call MREs, Meals Ready to Eat, for many more months than troops have been exposed to this time around. So a lot of it is just the basic services: housing, food, water, showers and the like. But in addition, the fact that we have all of this construction, or what we might call reconstruction work, going on just completely changes the very nature of what's going on in the theater.
You've said they've won the hearts and minds and stomachs of the military; they're doing a fabulous job, and our troops are better for it. Why does having large bases like Anaconda with four dining halls, a huge rec center, a kind of permanent base structure like you'd find in Germany during the Cold War, why does that help us better to fight insurgents?
I think if you look at it from a very personal standpoint, it might help. People are shooting at you. You're away from home; you're away from your family. And for the most part, you're probably being paid less than the minimum wage.
Now, in that situation, you could be living out of a tent. You could be eating freeze-dried food. You could be cold, and you could be wearing filthy clothes. In the alternative, you might be sleeping with a roof over your head, getting clean laundry on a regular basis, getting a hot shower once a week or maybe even every day, getting at least one hot meal a day or if you're very lucky, as many as two hot meals a day.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that in the latter situation, you're going to be a much more effective, cohesive and rational fighting force if you're taken care of and treated like a human being.
But at the same time, you're creating a huge footprint in the country. You're creating more targets for insurgents. And you multiply the convoys that have to supply these large bases and provide all the food and provide all the amenities, so you've made yourself a larger target.
I don't think that there's any question that we've made a much, much larger target over there, and a more vulnerable target. Just a generation ago, where, for example, the people serving the food were people in the military who had gone through basic training, these were all people who themselves could handle a weapon.
So not only is our footprint much larger, but a significant number of the contractors on the ground are not only unarmed, but they're prohibited from carrying arms. And they're not trained to deal with arms. So we have a much larger, far more vulnerable force on the ground. It's just an easier target.
I'm not sure how to evaluate that pro and con. Seems to me you've created a lot of vulnerability. You're creating a lot of targets out on the roads, all those convoys carrying food to the bases. Doesn't seem like until the situation is secured that we really need to have that kind of base structure.
Well, I think that you get back to the point that I hope many people would agree with, and that is what we ought to do as a country, if we decide to go to war, is go to war and project military might with an aggressive, success-oriented attitude.
And the bottom line is we should go and fight and we should get the job done. And then if we're going to do reconstruction or something like that, then we should begin that process. But it's very difficult to try to be all things to all people or do all things at one time. And I think that that's one of the major problems we have in Iraq. Overall, this is a poorly-planned enterprise that was incredibly ambitious and, frankly, unbelievably naive. And it has been shown time and time again in almost every sphere of consideration in the area. …
So why not continue to privatize?
I think there's a number of problems with trying to privatize. First of all, there's just basic capacity. If we, in fact, continue to rely more and more on private military, there will come a time when as a country, we lack sufficiently trained professional military soldiers, and I think we have to be troubled by that.
There's also always the concern -- and this is one that might sound a little bit hyperbolic, but it's still something we need to think about -- the fact that if you have a private military, someone may be willing to pay more for those services. Now, we don't like to describe the private military firms in Iraq as mercenaries, but there is some history on this planet of mercenaries going to work for the highest bidder. And I think it's a legitimate concern.
There's a tremendous number of contractors [in Iraq]. It [dwarfs] previous engagements, correct?
Right. The United States military hasn't had this percentage, this type of reliance on contractors in the battlefield in conventional memory.
That creates a need for managing all these different contracts, and each of these contacts then has subcontracts. How well does the military do at managing all these contracts?
It's been an unmitigated disaster to the extent that the United States military and the government generally has refused to invest in the required amount of contract management resources needed to get the job done. To say that another way, there are not enough trained professionals in the government to manage the contractors that the government needs every day.
What you're saying is that you've decided to privatize, [but] decided to underman those departments of the Pentagon that need to monitor and manage these contracts?
And that makes no sense.
… No. It makes no sense whatsoever. The way that we got there is particularly disturbing. From the late 1980s until well into 2000, as part of the reduction and the size of the government, procurement professionals, professional buyers and contract managers were slashed dramatically as a matter of policy. I think that was a bad idea.
But in addition to that, assuming that we didn't have enough procurement professionals left in the government on Sept. 11, 2001, you have to keep in mind that after Sept. 11, the United States has increased by 50 percent the amount of procurement, the amount of buying it does every year.
So all these guys that are there, men and women who are supposed to go over the contracts and make sure that the private contractors hold to the terms of the contract, there are not enough of them?
Indeed. … During the 1990s, we gave buyers more flexibility. We gave them more discretion. But the trade-off was we basically gave up bodies, so there's not enough people left.
So what happens?
Here's the scariest thing to think about. If the government's requirements don't decrease and you have insufficient number of buyers, what ends up happening is --
Buyers meaning procurement officers?
Or contracting officers.
The people who manage the private contracts for the military.
Exactly. The problem that you have is the government must keep buying so the resources that remain spend all of their time buying. But once the contracts are rewarded, no one manages the contracts.
The best analogy that I can give you is if you were having your kitchen or bathroom renovated, you would choose a contractor and then basically say to them, "Go ahead and renovate my kitchen, and I'll be back in six months."
And it's a cost-plus contract?
Oftentimes it is, because we don't have enough people to basically figure out what the risks are in advance so that we can quantify them and monitor returns.
There's no better anecdote on that than the small number of contractors who were involved in the atrocities at the Abu Ghraib prison. It wasn't that there wasn't a contract manager in the prison managing them, and it wasn't that there wasn't a contracting officer or a contracting officer's representative in Baghdad supervising them. There was no one in the country managing the contractors that were working in the prison. It's a very, very scary situation when you have that many service contractors in the battle area.
There's also quite a number of layers of contracts. It's not just a prime contractor and the military. There's, in many cases, four, five, six layers deep.
Right. And this is another byproduct of not having enough acquisition professionals in the government. If you have enough procurement professionals in the government, you would award smaller, more discrete contracts, and then manage them effectively.
But if you don't have enough people, there's a tremendous amount of pressure to award massive contracts to small numbers of contractors and let them subcontract. An excellent example would be the [Bechtel/Parsons] capital reconstruction contract that the USAID, the Agency for International Development, awarded.
So basically you have one contractor just doing in excess of $1 billion of reconstruction work all over the country of Iraq with as few as six government employees managing the entire operation. The contractor daily has to make discretionary decisions that should be made by government employees. But there's not enough people home to make those decisions.
Now, what do we make of [it] when we hear that KBR, for instance, has billed the government for $1.8 billion of unsupported costs?
I think that one of the realities with almost all of the overcharging allegations that you read about in the newspaper is that a certain mandate was unequivocally communicated to most of the contractors in the battle area.
They were told to do something?
They were told to provide essential services now, and that getting the services done were more important than cost control. I'm not saying that it's pretty, but it's the reality of the battlefield.
So they went out and spent a lot of money, didn't get receipts. And they come back and they say, "We need $1.8 billion; we have no receipts"?
Right. The other problem is, it's very, very common in cost-reimbursement work for the government and the contractor to estimate the work going forward, and then the contractor does the work, and then they reconcile after three or six months. Particularly with, for example, mess hall services, [it's] very difficult to estimate with accuracy when you have troops moving in and out. So it's not in the least surprising to see wild fluctuations like we see when the auditors come in.
Frankly, the other concern is it's not really fair to send auditors into the battle area and have them audit contractors' cost control the same way you do in Washington, D.C., or [in a] military installation in the United States. It's just a different area over there.
But there's no model for this, because it's all sort of first time. We haven't really done this before.
Right. Theoretically, if we had a little bit more planning and if we put some thought into this in advance, we'd manage it a little bit better. But the absence of planning is one of the pervasive themes throughout everything that's happened in Iraq.
So given that, you give KBR pretty good marks under the circumstances?
Under the circumstances, I give KBR unbelievable marks.
And the Pentagon?
I think that the Pentagon's incredibly happy with them. In fact, I'm actually a little bit disappointed with the Pentagon that they've not done better defending KBR in the court of public opinion.
Regardless of the marginal dollars involved, KBR has fed our troops, housed our troops, provided showers, water, laundry and the like. They've lost a staggering number of personnel. They have had a tremendous number of people injured. And the bottom line is, they've been slaughtered in the court of public opinion, and they haven't left. And if you had a son or a daughter who was over there in Iraq and they were feeding your son and daughter, my guess [is] you'd be awfully darn appreciative of what they're doing every day.
The LOGCAP contracts, as I understand them, logistic contract, stipulates that the security be provided … by the U.S. military.
Right. It's the only one.
Why is that?
I'm not sure if I can give you an articulate reason as to why. The very nature of the LOGCAP contract originally saw the contractors fully integrated into the base operation. So the military gets projected to a certain battle area; KBR comes to provide logistic support to them, and they would be considered part of the battle unit. And so, to the extent that the military would defend itself, the expectation would be that the LOGCAP contractor would be in that zone of protection.
So they're in the military bubble, security bubble, let's say, and some of the idea is that if you bring in the central supplies, whether it's food or ammunition, you should have military escorts?
Seems like a perfectly logical way to think about it. The problem for many of the other contractors that we've brought into Iraq is the United States military simply doesn't have the horses available to defend the contractors. In fact, the military doesn't have enough people left to defend the military, which is now -- we now have tens of thousands of arms-bearing contractors not only protecting other contractors, but also protecting, for example, political officers of the United States government, and in some cases, the United States military.
So we're subcontracting a central military function such as the protection of military facilities, military personnel, to private companies?
Right. The United States military is contracting out arms-bearing work, which includes many essential services such as protecting the military, protecting political officers, protecting contractors who are providing essential services.
Is that over the line in your view?
I think it's well over the line. …
We put a lot of people out there with guns. What's their legal status?
There's any number of issues related to the legal status of the contractors on the battlefield today. There are issues under the Geneva Convention, how they're going to be treated if in fact they become prisoners of war.
One of the issues that hasn't been addressed very well -- and in fact we've been quite lucky in Iraq -- is the issue of friendly fire. Any military historian would tell you that a significant number of casualties on the battlefield derive from friendly fire, and I think we've been pretty lucky so far that we haven't had contractors killing other contractors or contractors killing members of the military.
How would we know that we haven't?
Well, if it's happened, it hasn't been widely reported. But it is eventually going to happen, and the legal issues associated with that have simply not been worked out yet.
There's also tremendous issues with regard to the commander's ability to control the battle area. Keep in mind that a decade ago or even a generation ago, the commander was in control of everyone in the battle area. Whether on the frontline or in the rear area, everybody worked for the commander. The commander does not actually have control over the contractors. They work for someone called the contracting officer, and it's quite clear that we've not fully resolved all of the abilities of the commander to take cognizance over and direct the behavior of everyone in the battle area.
What you're saying is, they don't even necessarily know who's in the region.
Well, they're doing a lot better now than they were a couple years ago, at least keeping track of who's in the battle area. But it is true that the commander is not fully aware of all of the people, particularly all of the arms-bearing people, who are part of the effort in the area. And that's quite dangerous. ...
What's the takeaway here? You think that KBR has done a wonderful job. The military has done not such a good job in terms of monitoring what's going on. You think we're overly dependent on the contractors. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away. You think KBR's doing a wonderful job, but yet you think that perhaps there's too much of it?
There's so many different categories of reliance on contractors in Iraq that it's very difficult to distill it down to a single point. So, for example, KBR is providing logistical support, a huge enterprise. KBR and other firms are now doing oil field rehabilitation. [Bechtel/Parsons] is doing capital construction around the country. And in addition, we have tens of thousands of security personnel providing various services.
I think that we have to look at each of these individually to try to decide what it is we're trying to achieve and whether we're achieving that goal. I think that in the main, we have too small of a fighting force. We have been unrealistic and somewhat naive about what we can achieve and how quickly we can achieve it. And as a result, we're having unreasonably high numbers of casualties and wasting a tremendous amount of money by not planning first and executing second in a reasonable manner.
Do you know anecdotally what the workload [is] on individual procurement officers in the Pentagon?
... The best statistic I could give you was that up until Sept. 11, federal procurement had stabilized at about $2 billion a year. And as a general rule, the Defense Department accounts for 60 percent to 65 percent of all procurement spending. So think about a scenario where the Defense Department is spending $115 billion or $120 billion a year.
Since Sept. 11, procurement spending in the United States has gone up by 50 percent, and some people think it's gone up more. When the next procurement data reports come out, many people expect government procurement for the federal government to be over $350 billion.
It's a good time to be a private contractor to the military?
Indeed. But at the same time, we had an inadequate acquisition workforce before Sept. 11. We've increased federal procurement spending by over 50 percent, and there has been effectively no reaction whatsoever by the federal government to first hire more people or get the right kind of people to manage the type of contractors that we're managing today.
We don't have enough contract professionals on the ground in Iraq. We don't have enough contract professionals in the United States government. And if we were merely to look at the private sector by any objective metric you could use, the government is inadequately staffed to spend money responsibly today.
Is there anybody in Washington who's looking at this?
There are a small number of people who, from time to time, look at it. But there does not appear to be one voice in the Congress, in the executive branch or almost anywhere in the federal government that is waving the flag and trying to draw attention to the fact that we simply don't have enough procurement professionals to responsibly spend the public's money today.
And are they waiting for some procurement officers to jump out the windows? It sounds like you've got some pretty stressed officers.
Well, if you combine the fact that over 50 percent of what we call the 1102s, or the contracting officers, in the federal government today are retirement-eligible; we've done, for all intents and purposes, no new hiring or new significant recruiting since the late 1980s; and we've increased the burden on purchasing by 50 percent in the last three to four years, I think it's pretty safe to conclude that's a crisis situation. And you'd like to assume at some point, somebody in the government would step up to the plate and do something about it. ... | <urn:uuid:f899df65-66e4-4947-aa52-bd3f9ff3d4e4> | 2013-05-21T17:38:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Easy HTML5 Video is a simple tool which makes it extremely straightforward to create and publish HTML5 videos on your website.
At a minimum, all you have to do is drag and drop your videos onto the program, and click the Start button. Easy HTML5 Video will then use the popular file format conversion library FFmpeg to convert your clips so they're web-ready.
And once the transcoding is complete, the program can publish the results directly to your website (via FTP), or to a local folder for testing. Try out the latter option and you'll see it produces a web page, with a Flash player, a WebM video which will work in all the latest browsers, and an MP4 version just as a fallback, in case a visitor can't view the HTML5 content after all.
If this is a little too basic then an initial Options dialog allows you to apply a few tweaks. You're able to resize the video, if you like; give it a custom title; decide whether the video should play as soon as the page is loaded, or wait for a user click; and more.
The only problem, really, is that the free-for-personal-use version of the program embeds a small watermark in the converted video. To avoid this you'll need to purchase the business version, which costs $49 for use on a single site, or $69 to use on as many sites as you like. Find out more on the Easy HTML5 Video site. | <urn:uuid:3e0d2f49-a246-400c-8368-065e3d5598b5> | 2013-05-21T17:44:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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... and since you have a celeron the problem is worse, celeron is not a good cpu, is the low end of cpus...
True, but don't diss Celerons so easily.
The latest versions of Celerons (the Exxx series) has surprisingly good HD video capabilites, even with low-end video cards.
For example, I tested a Celeron E5200 (2.6 GHz Dual Core) in a Biostar G31 motherboard, with the integrated Intel video card.
It plays HD Youtube videos at 1080i in full screen without a glitch. I couldn't believe it, but I saw it myself.
In fact, I believe that these Exxx Celerons are in fact degraded Pentiums; I know that Intel does that, so it's possible.
The only problem is that it plays HD youtubes perfectly in Windows - sadly, not so much in Linux.
In PCLOS it happens just what OP says; the youtube video is jerky, but the downloaded video plays perfectly using SMPlayer.
If I can, I'll try reverting to an older version of Flash, as suggested; just to see what happens. | <urn:uuid:85f396ad-25ff-470c-84f0-9f8706a72002> | 2013-05-21T17:33:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Children’s safety plan
Children can participate and learn some strategies to stay safe during violent episodes in their homes. The goal is for them to seek safety and to know where and how to get help. It is not their role to stop the violence. Before engaging in a conversation with your child, remember to consider what are the best age-appropriate actions they can take. Children are more likely to follow through with a plan when they have been part of creating it themselves. | <urn:uuid:14989708-93db-4b5e-8a5d-59935f8babf5> | 2013-05-21T17:38:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Paralympian Oscar Pistorius arrived at the Pretoria Magistrate's Court shortly before 9am on Friday to be formally charged with murder.
With a jacket over his head and a policeman covering his face with a book, and television cameras and photographers surging towards him, he was rushed into the building.
The court session was expected to start at 10am. He would apply for bail. The State said on Thursday it would oppose this. Court C itself, where he expected to appear, was packed.
Reeva Steenkamp, a model and law graduate from Port Elizabeth, was shot dead in Pistorius's home in the Silver Woods Country Estate, in Pretoria, in the early hours of Thursday morning.
At first it was reported that it was an accidental shooting, he having mistaken her for a robber. Police later have distanced themselves from that information.
Pistorius spent Thursday night in police custody.
Motorists outside the court wanted to know where Pistorius was, shouting at journalists: "Where is Oscar?" | <urn:uuid:d9abfd11-70a3-46c6-8c06-1ea3daab5482> | 2013-05-21T17:17:19Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The following are key questions and answers about where the city’s debt crisis is, and where it could be heading:
Q: When will City Council vote on the mayor’s plan?
A: Before council can vote on it, a few things must happen:
- The mayor has to schedule a public hearing on the plan by Aug. 12.
- All written comments about it, including remarks from Julia Novak, Harrisburg’s former Act 47 team coordinator, must be submitted to Thompson by Aug. 17.
- The mayor then has until Aug. 26 to revise the plan.
- Council must accept or reject it by Sept. 6.
Q: What if council approves the mayor’s plan?
A: If council signs off on it, the plan goes to the desk of state Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary C. Alan Walker for his consideration. Walker has until Sept. 20 to accept or reject Thompson’s plan.
If he accepts it, the city is responsible for implementing the plan on its own, but it would not lose state funding.
If Walker rejects it, the city can implement its plan, but it would lose several million dollars of annual state funding.
Q: What if council rejects the mayor’s plan?
A: If council shoots down Thompson’s plan, the state can begin enforcing sanctions against the city, which would result in the loss of state funding.
Q: What funding can the state withhold from Harrisburg?
A: It can withhold future capital improvement money, grants, loans or entitlements.
Harrisburg could lose $1.7 million of recurring funding in the next year and $1.3 of project funding the commonwealth has approved for the capital city. Some of the money would be kept in escrow.
Q: What money can’t the state keep?
A: The state cannot take away federal disaster funding, state pension fund disbursements or capital improvement funding for projects that are under way. It’s unclear how much the state cannot withhold because the DCED has yet to calculate that amount, said Steve Kratz, the department’s spokesman.
Q: Would state funding automatically go away if Thompson’s plan is shot down?
A: State statute permits the loss of money, but state officials first would deliberate on the matter, Kratz said.
Q: Why did council vote down the Act 47 plan?
A: Four of the seven members said the plan protected other stakeholders, including Dauphin County and the municipal bond insurance company, Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., but it put too much fiscal pain on the city’s shoulders.
The county and AGM are guarantors of much of the city’s incinerator debt and have combined to make $75 million of bond payments for Harrisburg.
The majority also said it was unfair that bond investors didn’t have to take a financial haircut in the plan.
Q: What would it take to get council to approve a plan?
A: More shared fiscal pain.
The four members who voted down the plan said they would like to see a possible countywide commuter tax, sales tax or another tax proposal included in the plan if the city is asked to sell or lease its parking system. The council does not want to lease the parking system for a long period of time, either. The parking system is a profitable asset.
Q: Should the city be allowed to levy a special tax to pay down debt?
A The state allowed 15 other municipalities to levy taxes in fiscal recovery plans, but midstate leaders are lining up to block Harrisburg from doing it.
State Sen. Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin County, and Rep. Ron Marsico, R-Lower Paxton Twp., have two bills pending that would prevent Harrisburg from adopting a commuter tax.
Piccola has a bill under review with the House Urban Affairs Committee that would lead to a state takeover of Harrisburg if council does not adopt the Act 47 plan it already rejected. The bill would prevent Harrisburg from filing for bankruptcy, too.
Time ran out on Senate Bill 1151 before the General Assembly left for summer recess.
Q: Is the city about to run out of money?
A: Yes. That is why some council members said it is important for council to approve a plan to build from because the Act 47 plan is a living document. Harrisburg’s coffers are expected to run dry by September.
It faces a more than $3 million budget deficit and will not be able to make a general obligation bond payment due in September.
City vehicles have a limited amount of fuel left and are going to go dry in the next few weeks, too. Harrisburg’s Department of Public Works already is struggling to make ends meet. Sinkholes keep opening and go unfilled, street lights remain unlit and trash is spilling into the streets. The Act 47 plan would create funding streams that could keep the city operating and providing basic services.
Q: Did the mayor work with council to arrive at an acceptable plan?
A: Thompson says yes. She met with six council members last week, had meetings with union officials and said she is developing a plan that avoids stumbling blocks.
Q: What’s at stake?
A: For the state - reputation, votes and taxes. For the city - everything.
The county and AGM have seven lawsuits pending against Harrisburg and each could force the city to use its first tax dollars to repay the debt it owes them. If that happens, Harrisburg would be forced to file for bankruptcy, said Councilman Brad Koplinski.
The city can’t file for bankruptcy for at least a year, however, thanks to an amendment to the state’s fiscal code the legislature slid in before it went to recess for the summer. Since Harrisburg is the state capital, legislators are not willing to let the city go bankrupt. It would reflect poorly on the state and could prevent other municipalities from issuing bonds for projects and operations in the future.
Legislators don’t want constituents from the suburbs or themselves to have to pay a commuter tax or any other tax proposal in a recovery plan.
Piccola and Marsico said its not fair for constituents in the suburbs to have to pay for poor leadership from city officials. If a commuter tax would be enacted, it would cost them and other midstate officials votes. Gov. Tom Corbett said he would sign Piccola’s bill allowing for a state takeover if it reaches his desk. Piccola intends to pursue the bill when the General Assembly reconvenes this fall. He and Marsico also plan to push the bills preventing a commuter tax forward, too.
The state and other critics of the city’s debt crisis have said that if the city files for bankruptcy, it would send shock waves through the municipal bond market.
Municipal bankruptcies are rare. But those in support of a Chapter 9 filing say other municipalities across the U.S. have filed for bankruptcy and the markets have not fallen apart. | <urn:uuid:46be03ee-c15b-45eb-88a2-14574cd8d047> | 2013-05-21T17:17:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Justice or Mad Vengeance?
More than 13 months later, Barnes is still waiting for resolution in what has become an unusual and controversial case with strong feelings on both sides. Soon after Barnes's arrest, Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham charged him with the murder of police Officer Walter Barclay, 64, who'd died the month before from a urinary tract infection. What did that have to do with Barnes? In November 1966—41 years earlier—Barnes had wounded Barclay during an attempted break-in, a crime for which he served 20 years in prison. Abraham contends that the original injury was the cause of Barclay's death—the longest such interval on record in a murder charge in American legal history. "When you set in motion a chain of events, a perpetrator of a crime is responsible for every single thing that flows from that chain of events ... as long as we can prove the chain is unbroken," said Abraham in bringing the charge. Barclay's family supports the D.A.'s decision, says Barclay's sister Rosalyn Harrison. "We feel very strongly they should pursue the murder charge," she says. But it has left Barnes stunned and bewildered. During an interview at the state prison in Waynesburg, Pa., he said he feels terrible about shooting Barclay and has thought of him every day since then, but insists, "I did not murder this man."
There are those who agree. While the case does not involve double jeopardy, which stipulates only that a defendant cannot be tried twice on the same charge, experts question whether Abraham can prove her case. No one can find Barclay's medical records from the time of the shooting until the late 1970s, and he was in two car accidents after the shooting. Former New York Police Department homicide commander Vernon Geberth says he doesn't see how Abraham can demonstrate that Barclay's death was a result of the shooting. "I'm all for prosecuting people who shoot police to the fullest extent of the law," says Geberth, author of Practical Homicide Investigation, a textbook used by police academies around the world. "However, if the case is 41 years old and the person died of a urinary tract infection, I'd like to know what the linkage is." Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Bob Ballantine says there is such a link. "When Barnes shot Barclay he was a healthy young cop," he says. "Afterward, his quality of life was horrendous." Barnes, who has had two heart attacks and wears a heart monitor, was not allowed bail, so he's been in a maximum-security prison since August 2007, waiting for a trial that still hasn't been scheduled. Says his attorney Bobby Hoof: "I think they're hoping he'll die before he gets a trial."
Barnes was 30 years old when he and Barclay crossed paths at a West Philadelphia beauty shop in the early morning hours of November 27, 1966. Barclay was 23, with less than two years as a cop under his belt. He and his partner caught Barnes trying to pry open the shop's back door. Barnes shot Barclay in the leg and upper shoulder, with one of the bullets bruising his spine. Barnes was arrested three days later and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for attempted murder. After serving 14 years, Barnes was released, but it wasn't long before he was in trouble again. He committed armed robbery and ended up back in prison in 1981, sentenced to finish out the remainder of his sentence for shooting Barclay and 12 to 24 years for robbery. Barnes makes no excuses for himself. "It's a choice," Barnes says of his criminal past. "Low moral character. Low morals. I just didn't care."
A dozen years and numerous escape attempts later Barnes says he had an epiphany. He was in solitary confinement in March 1993 and realized he had to change his ways. According to state prison officials, he did, becoming a model inmate who enrolled in every program available, from anger management to victim awareness. "I made a decision to turn my life around," he says. "I didn't want to die in jail."
Barnes was released in 2005 on early parole at the age of 69. One of the first people he caught up with was Allen Hornblum, a Temple University professor who'd met him in prison while doing research for a book. Hornblum invited Barnes to speak to his urban studies classes. "He was a potent, powerful speaker," says Hornblum. "This was a guy who had wasted his life behind bars, regretted it and was passing on that advice and counsel to young people."
Barnes also began giving talks at the Eastern State Penitentiary Museum, which closed its doors as a prison in 1971 but is where he'd spent six years in the 1960s. He was so popular the museum began paying him $50 a talk, says Sean Kelley, the museum's program director: "He never justifies his behavior."
Barnes also found a job as a janitor at a local ShopRite. He began to reconnect with his son, 41-year-old Mike Friel, who wasn't even born when he shot Barclay. Friel introduced Barnes to his children for the first time a couple of weeks before his arrest last year. "I started living like a normal, honest person does," Barnes says. His son, who waited until he was sure his father was truly a changed man before introducing him to his kids, says his father has paid his dues for the crime. "You're taking a guy the system already corrected and throwing him back in."
Later this month, Hoof will try to get the murder charge dismissed, but it seems likely that Barnes will have to stand trial. (In preparing the defense, Hoof has hired noted forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht.) Meanwhile, all Barnes yearns for is to spend his twilight years getting to know his family from outside prison walls. "My whole life is a failure," he says. "You don't live in prison. You just exist." | <urn:uuid:82005c36-a13b-4dc7-8fd8-b64f41b87ddd> | 2013-05-21T17:17:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Barbara Walters Hospitalized After Inauguration Weekend Fall
Barbara Walters, 83, fell Saturday night on a step at the residence of the British Ambassador to the United States, Peter Westmacott, and was hospitalized, the Associated Press reported.
ABC spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said Walters, who cut her forehead, was taken to a Washington, D.C., hospital for treatment and was alert after the fall, "telling everyone what to do, which we all take as a very positive sign," he said.
Walters had been scheduled to contribute to ABC's coverage of the second-term inauguration of President Barack Obama, who is set to give a speech during formal ceremonies Monday.
Walters, who made history in 1976 when she become the first female network anchor to earn a $1 million salary, has remained vibrant after more than 30 years in the news business. Her show, The View, which she created in 1997, has continued to be a hit along with her annual special, The 10 Most Fascinating People.
In May 2010, Walters underwent successful heart surgery, and returned to The View in September of that year, pronouncing herself "fine." | <urn:uuid:3da0b3bd-2cf1-4212-952b-1994525cb991> | 2013-05-21T17:10:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Filling out one college application form after another can be daunting, especially when you're trying to make a good impression upon the admission committees and get everything done on a deadline. This list should help you get the job done well — and on time!
The college application: what to do
- DO read college applications and directions carefully.
- DO make sure that everything that is supposed to be included is enclosed.
- DO fill out your own applications. Type the information yourself to avoid crucial mistakes.
- DO start with the simple applications and then progress to the more complex ones.
- DO make copies of college applications, and practice filling one out before you complete the original.
- DO type or neatly print your answers, and then proofread the applications and essays several times for accuracy. Also ask someone else to proofread them for you.
- DO describe how you can make a contribution to the schools to which you apply (if you're asked).
- DO be truthful, and do not exaggerate your accomplishments.
- DO keep a copy of all the forms you submit to colleges.
- DO be thorough and turn things in on time.
The college application: what NOT to do
- DON'T use correction fluid. If you type your application for college, use a correctable typewriter or liftoff strips to correct mistakes. Better yet, fill out your application online.
- DON'T write in script. If you don't have access to a computer or typewriter, print neatly.
- DON'T leave blank spaces. Missing information may cause your application to be sent back or delayed while admission officers wait for complete information.
- DON'T be unclear. If the question calls for a specific answer, don't try to dodge it by being vague.
- DON'T put it off!
One way to save time when filling out applications is to use the college common application form for the schools you're applying to that accept it. This way, you only have to fill out the form once and it can be sent to multiple colleges! | <urn:uuid:ca0a06d9-c14c-4620-a88d-aa5dae7368d5> | 2013-05-21T17:25:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
Drawing Room from Lansdowne HouseMade in England, Europe
Designed by Robert Adam, Scottish, 1728 - 1792. Painted decoration by Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian (active Florence and England), 1727 - 1785, and Antonio Zucchi, Italian, 1726 - 1795. Gilded by Joseph Perfetti, Italian, active London from 1760 - 1778.
1931-104-1Gift of Graeme Lorimer and Sarah Moss Lorimer in memory of George Horace Lorimer, 1931
This drawing room is an archetypal example of the work of Robert Adam, a Scottish architect and designer whose name has become synonymous with this style of neoclassical decoration. The room was originally situated on the ground floor of the grand London house that Adam designed for the third Earl of Bute in the early 1760s. Adam's original plans refer to it as the "Organ Drawing Room," the large recess being intended for Lord Bute's vastly expensive mechanical organ.
In 1765, Lord Bute sold the unfinished house to William Petty Fitzmaurice, second Earl of Shelburne and later first Marquess of Lansdowne, with the provision that Adam be retained to continue work on the home. Adam was already well known to Lord Shelburne, whose father had employed the architect to remodel Bowood, his family's country estate in Wiltshire. (Shelburne, who served as Secretary of State and in 1783 concluded the Treaty of Paris granting independence to the United States, entertained Benjamin Franklin at Bowood on several occasions.) Lord Shelburne and his wife moved into the house in 1768, when it was in what Lady Shelburne described as "so unfurnishd a State." Yet by the time of Lady Shelburne's death and the end of Adam's employment by Lord Shelburne in 1771, the decoration of the drawing room remained incomplete and was evidently abandoned.
Although the room's original furnishings do not survive today, it is known that Adam provided designs for a pier-glass and a semicircular pier-table, executed by John Gilbert; circular picture frames, executed by Sefferin Nelson; and a carpet, the design for which is in the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum in London.
In 1929, Lord Shelburne's heirs sold the house to a group of investors. The room was acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1931, when the front of the house, including the drawing room and the dining room (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art), was slated for demolition to make way for a new street.
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* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit. | <urn:uuid:c7a9a5fb-efea-4536-9bf8-80ff9ff57eb2> | 2013-05-21T17:10:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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ANC News Channel, or ANC is a cable news network in the Philippines. It is operated by the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation. Its programs are primarily in English. ANC is the only real 24-hour news channel in the Philippines. Originally known as the Sarimanok News Network (SNN), the channel was conceptualized to bring the news that matter most to Filipinos.
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Entry Title: "
Along The River Rouge: Detroit's Industrial Mecca"
Category: Non-Professional, Industrial
Entry Description: Photographing Along The River Rouge: Detroit's Industrial Mecca
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The associative array -- an indispensable data type used to describe a collection of unique keys and associated values -- is a mainstay of all programming languages, PHP included. In fact, associative arrays are so central to the task of Web development that PHP supports dozens of functions and other features capable of manipulating array data in every conceivable manner. Such extensive support can be a bit overwhelming to developers seeking the most effective way to manipulate arrays within their applications. In this article, I'll offer 10 tips that can help you shred, slice and dice your data in countless ways.
1. Adding Array Elements
PHP is a weakly typed language, meaning you're not required to explicitly declare an array nor its size. Instead you can both declare and populate the array simultaneously:
Additional array elements can be appended like this:
$capitals['Arkansas'] = 'Little Rock';
If you're dealing with numerically indexed arrays and would rather prepend and append elements using an explicitly-named function, check out the array_push() and array_unshift() functions (these functions don't work with associative arrays).
2. Removing Array Elements
To remove an element from an array, use the unset() function:
When using numerically indexed arrays you have a bit more flexibility in terms of removing array elements in that you can use the array_shift() and array_pop() functions to remove an element from the beginning and end of the array, respectively.
3. Swapping Keys and Values
Suppose you wanted to create a new array called $states, which would use state capitals as the index and state names as the associated value. This task is easily accomplished using the array_flip() function:
Suppose the previous arrays were used in conjunction with a Web-based "flash card" service, and you wanted to provide students with a way to test their knowledge of worldwide capitals, U.S. states included. You can merge arrays containing both state and country capitals using the array_merge() function:
Suppose the data found in an array potentially contains capitalization errors, and you want to correct these errors before inserting the data into the database. You can use the array_map() function to apply a callback to every array element:
The Standard PHP Library (SPL) offers developers with quite a few data structures, iterators, interfaces, exceptions and other features not previously available within the PHP language. Among these features is the ability to iterate over an array using a convenient object-oriented syntax:
$capitals = array(
'Arizona' => 'Phoenix',
'Alaska' => 'Juneau',
'Alabama' => 'Montgomery'
$arrayObject = new ArrayObject($capitals);
foreach ($arrayObject as $state => $capital)
printf("The capital of %s is %s<br />", $state, $capital);
// The capital of Arizona is Phoenix
// The capital of Alaska is Juneau
// The capital of Alabama is Montgomery
This is just one of countless great features bundled into the SPL, be sure to consult the PHP documentation for more information.
About the Author
Jason Gilmore is the founder of the publishing and consulting firm WJGilmore.com. He also is the author of several popular books, including "Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework", "Easy PayPal with PHP", and "Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fourth Edition". Follow him on Twitter at @wjgilmore. | <urn:uuid:8d9d41d5-5f23-454d-95a8-8abc57ab3eae> | 2013-05-21T17:17:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Looking for original electronics to spread brand awareness? These types of gifts and giveaways are great to consider using for your next marketing promotion. Fun and functional, they are a great way to reach out to others through your company. With a wide variety of products available, including disposable cameras for a film school, speakers for a music department, or cell phone accessories for a wireless service provider, we have the perfect electronics for all of your technological needs. Sleek and sophisticated, they are also a valuable tool for executing successful marketing campaigns. When considering multiple ideas for your next campaign, think about the message you want to convey. Do you want to appear high-tech, sophisticated, conservative, casual or maybe even trendy? Depending on your target audience, these products can be as youthful or mature as you prefer. This flexibility and variability allows you to be as creative and build a theme around any strategic goal. | <urn:uuid:a7568e4d-1664-402a-bb12-77999d8128de> | 2013-05-21T17:18:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Estimates and assumptions
6. Estimates and assumptions
The preparation of the consolidated financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions which, in some circumstances, are based on difficult and subjective judgments and estimates derived from historical experience and assumptions which, each time, are believed to be reasonable and realistic under the circumstances. Such estimates affect the reported amounts of some assets and liabilities, costs and revenues, as well as the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the balance sheet date.
The estimates and assumptions will generally refer to the measurement of the recoverable amounts of intangible assets, the definition of the useful lives of property, plant and equipment, the recoverability of receivables and the recognition and measurement of provisions. The estimates and assumptions are based upon data which reflects the current state of available knowledge.
Accounting policies of particular importance requiring a higher degree of judgment
The accounting policies involving a higher degree of judgment by management in making estimates and for which a change in the conditions underlying the assumptions could have a significant impact on the consolidated financial statements are the following:
In accordance with the accounting policies applied in the preparation of the financial statements, goodwill is tested annually in order to assess whether there is an impairment that should be recorded in the income statement. In particular, the test involves the allocation of goodwill to cash-generating units and the determination of the relative recoverable amount, understood as being the higher of fair value and the value in use.
If the value in use is lower than the carrying amount of the cash-generating units, an impairment on the goodwill allocated to them should recognized. The allocation of goodwill to cash-generating units and the determination of their value in use involves estimates which depend on subjective valuations as well as on factors which could change over time with consequent and possibly significant effects on the assessment made by management.
Impairment of property, plant and equipment and intangible assets
In accordance with the accounting policies applied, property, plant and equipment and intangible assets are tested to ascertain if there is an impairment, which should be recognized, when there are indications that would imply difficulties in recovering the net carrying amount through the use of the asset. The verification of the existence of these indications requires management to make judgments based on available internal or external information and historical experience. Moreover, when it has been determined that there could be a potential impairment, that impairment must be determined by reference to suitable valuation techniques. The proper identification of elements indicating the existence of a potential impairment and the estimates used to determine it depend on subjective judgments and factors which can vary over time and influence the assessments and estimates made by management.
Deferred income taxes
The recognition of deferred tax assets is made on the basis of expectations of future income. The measurement of future income for purposes of recognizing deferred income taxes depends on factors which can vary over time and determine significant effects on the measurement of deferred tax assets.
Provisions for other liabilities and charges
Accruals are made for legal and fiscal liabilities and charges that will probably require an outflow of resources. The amount of the provisions recorded in the financial statements relating to such liabilities and charges represents the best estimate at that time made by management. This estimate involves assumptions which depend on factors which can change over time and which could therefore have significant effects on the current estimates made by management in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements. | <urn:uuid:f9e66b03-ecb7-4302-8042-44c5bd9255d5> | 2013-05-21T17:09:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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gf turtle wrote:Congrats!!! Wow, that's a looong title! Good boy!
cheekymunkee wrote:Congrats to you AND that sweet boy!
LOL I posted it on another forum and even left part out when I typed it. LOL So no way I can say it 3 times.Purple wrote:Congratulations to you! That's a hullauva title, betcha can't say it three times fast!!!
pitbullmamaliz wrote:Congratulations! Thank God dogs don't need business cards - his would have to be on legal size paper!
Romanwild wrote:You're doing a great job Therese! Keep up the good work!
Dreyfus passed that one too!
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Icelandic orchestral-rock group Sigur Rós should be one of the most reviled acts on the pop landscape. Its songs typically last eight minutes, it titles albums with symbols, singer Jon Thor Birgisson makes up his own language, and, last but certainly not least, it's an Icelandic orchestral-rock group. Yet nobody else making records today sounds like Sigur Rós. And nobody's making records as gorgeous and as mind-blowing. With its fourth album, Takk ... , Sigur Rós fortifies its position as one of the few new-millennium bands that bothers to craft entire sets of songs, an escalating rarity in the iPod age. The album's 11 cuts are connected by a harmonic, if not lyrical, thread. (Birgisson at least strings together genuine words this time around.) The melancholy horns that join the parade on "Se Lest" eventually give way to "Saeglopur," a momentous set piece that erupts in a discharge of choral voices, horns, strings and bowed guitar. And the ten-minute "Milano" amounts to modern classical music played with a rock-band aesthetic. (And, yes, Sigur Rós actually named its new songs; 2002's ( ) included eight untitled tracks.) If all this sounds similar to 2000's breakthrough CD, Ágætis Byrjun, well, it sorta is. But atmospheric mood music has never sounded so elevating or inviting. | <urn:uuid:7336a8b4-40c4-4623-8f17-da06618df595> | 2013-05-21T17:26:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Chateau de Chenonceau, Chenonceaux Tourist Attractions
The little village of Chenonceaux (pop. 325) lies on the north bank of the Cher. The Château de Chenonceau (without the x) was built from 1513 onwards on the site of an earlier building by Charles VII's treasurer, but was later surrendered to the crown. In 1547 Henry II presented it to his favorite Diane de Poitiers, who was later forced by Henry's widow Catherine de Médicis to exchange it for Chaumont. Thereafter it was the scene of splendid entertainments. In the 18th C. the château became the property of a tax-farmer named Dupin, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived here for some time as tutor to his son.The château is still in private ownership, but it is open to the public. It is approached by a fine avenue of plane-trees, at the end of which a drawbridge leads on to a terrace in front of the entrance. The central structure of the château, the Corps de Logis, with four corner towers, is built over the Cher. Beyond this is a two-story gallery built by Catherine de Médicis, also built over the river. The two lower floors, which are shown to visitors, contain pictures and tapestries. On both sides of the château are gardens laid out by Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Médicis.This garden is divided into three sections, the first with a raised path, the second with clipped santolina and yew, and the third with roses and pools. Beyond this is an ancient woodland of oak and chestnut. | <urn:uuid:a5f1a166-0e7a-424d-b2a4-496927f19372> | 2013-05-21T17:44:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Hey guys, I'm kind of new at this home theater busineess and I had a question about volume. First a little background.
I have a Denon AVR-1905, 2 Polk Rti-4 front speakers, and a Polk PSW 10 sub. I plan on adding a center channel and surround speakers later. My question is this: When watching regular TV or listening to music I usually set the volume on around -35. However, when I watch a DVD movie, I have to set the volume up to around -20 to -15 to really hear, especially the dialogue. Is this just because I don't have a center channel speaker? I did the setup through the receiver and it knows I don't have a center channel speaker. Shouldn't it route all the dialogue through the front speakers? Sorry for the newbie question. I'm sure this is obvious to most of you guys. I would really appreciate some help. Thanks. | <urn:uuid:91c7865d-4d8c-4038-8637-ad61e4fccd18> | 2013-05-21T17:45:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sheen 911 Call: Charlie Has a Knife
During the 911 call, she is heard crying as she says she is "scared" for her life after he "threatened" her. She tells the dispatcher that Sheen is "in the back room" with the knife -- which she describes as a "switch blade" -- and fears that he is trying to "sneak out the back" of the house in Aspen. (Listen to the call here.) "I gotta file this report," Brooke says in the call.
Contrary to Mueller's 911 claims, Sheen denied threatening her with a knife.
But she insisted to the officer that Sheen said, "You better be in fear. If you tell anybody, I'll kill you."
Mueller said Sheen also told her, "Your mother's money means nothing. I have ex-police I can hire who know how to get the job done and they won't leave any trace," according to the affidavit, which also stated that an officer later noticed Mueller had "red marks on the upper part of the front of her neck."
Mueller told the officer that she managed to get Sheen off her by telling him, "You're right. You're right. You're right. I'm sorry. I love you."Sheen was later booked for second-degree assault, menacing and criminal mischief and spent most of his Christmas Day behind bars. He was released on $8,500 bond late Friday. Prosecutors say they probably won't decide until Sheen's next court appearance Feb. 8 whether to file charges against the actor.
In December 1996, Sheen was arrested for attacking ex-girlfriend Brittany Ashfield at his home in Southern California. He pleaded guilty in 1997 and was placed on two years' probation.
Pitkin County Department of Social Services is "aware" of the alleged incident between Sheen and his wife Brooke Mueller -- and the department is considering whether to pursue an investigation, reports TMZ. Sheen and Mueller have two 9-month-old children together -- and Charlie has two young daughters from his relationship with Denise Richards.
Officials at the PCDSS say, "When there is a domestic dispute and children are present in the home, we are always notified."
The official added, "If the family is vacationing in Pitkin County, and we feel that a thorough follow up is needed, we will contact the department where the family resides."
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The shape-memory alloy actuators might power minimally invasive surgical devices or tiny laptop cameras
Shape-memory alloys that change shape when heated could become tiny mechanical muscles for electronic devices. New mechanical devices based on the alloys produce three to six times more torque than electric motors, and weigh just one-20th as much.
Such devices, known as actuators, can be cut from a flat sheet of metal just a fraction of a millimeter thick. They emerged from a roject that aims to build printable robots, where the robots would consist of both the metal actuators and plastic components that could be built layer-by-layer through a process similar to inkjet printing. | <urn:uuid:445f2943-2c46-4a0d-a7fc-003ee5c0c754> | 2013-05-21T17:39:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"Bot 3-2 has been given permission to commence operation," the announcer booms. "Victor Tango is on the move!" At just after 8 AM Pacific time, "Odin"—the modded SUV from Virginia Tech—purrs to life, passes in front of the bleachers to give spectators an eyeful, and disappears around the corner to a chorus of cheers. Odin's competitor number has a special significance; it honors the 32 students and staff killed in the recent Virginia Tech massacre. A few seconds later, the Stanford Racing Team's "Junior" gets the go-ahead. Junior lurches and pauses for a long moment just after exiting the blocks, but then regains its composure and follows Odin onto the course. The other nine vehicles follow, spaced a few minutes apart to decrease the odds of a collision.
A cortege of human-driven "traffic vehicles" escorts each autonomous entrant. The drivers are there to make sure the robotic vehicles don't "misbehave," as DARPA director Tony Tether puts it—but they could be putting their own lives on the line in the process. In earlier rounds of the competition, "on one merging turn, they had a bet on who was going to get hit first, and somebody won," Tether says. But not to worry, he quickly adds: "All these drivers are well-protected by cages built to NASCAR standards."—Elizabeth Svoboda | <urn:uuid:4757deb9-7a60-496a-b3a0-c71e29a1b8b3> | 2013-05-21T17:26:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Barrie Hunt, says 'Despite 2010 being a very warm year globally, the severity of the 2009-2010 northern winter and a wetter and cooler Australia in 2010 relative to the past few years have been misinterpreted by some to imply that climate change is not occurring.'
'Recent wet conditions in eastern Australia mainly reflect short-term climate variability and weather events, not longer-term climate change trends. Conclusions that climate is not changing are based on a misunderstanding of the roles of climatic change caused by increasing greenhouse gases and climatic variability due to natural processes in the climatic system.
'These two components of the climate system interact continuously, sometimes enhancing and sometimes counteracting one another to either exacerbate or moderate climate extremes.'
Mr Hunt says his climatic model simulations support what is clear from recent observations – that in addition to the role of climate change linked to human activity, natural variability produces periods where the global climate can be either cooler or warmer than usual. Mr Hunt’s results were published in the latest edition of the international journal Climate Dynamics.
He says some such natural temperature variations can last for 10 to 15 years, with persistent variations of about 0.2°C.
'Such natural variability could explain the above average temperatures observed globally in the 1940s, and the warm but relatively constant global temperatures of the last decade.'
Mr Hunt also found that seasonal cold spells will still be expected under enhanced greenhouse conditions. For example, monthly mean temperatures up to 10°C below present values were found to occur over North America as late as 2060 in model simulations, with similar cold spells over Asia. Variations of up to 15°C below current temperatures were found to occur on individual days, even in 2060, despite a long-term trend of warming on average.
'These results suggest that a few severe winters in the Northern hemisphere are not sufficient to indicate that climatic change has ceased. The long-term trends that characterise climate change can be interpreted only by analysing many years of observations.'
'Future changes in global temperature as the concentration of greenhouse gases increases will not show a simple year-on-year increase but will vary around a background of long-term warming. Winters as cold as that recently experienced in the Northern Hemisphere, however, will become progressively less frequent as the greenhouse effect eventually dominates,' Mr Hunt said.
This underlying warming trend, reflected in the projections of future climate and the observation that the past decade has been the warmest in the instrumental record, underline the need to both adapt to what is now inevitable change and mitigate even greater changes.
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Scripture: Acts 3:14 NIV You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
15 You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this….
19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,
Observation: Luke, the author of the book of Acts here records Peter’s sermon. Peter is claiming that Jesus is “the Holy and Righteous One” and “the author of life.” This agrees with the apostles John (John 1:9-14) and Paul (Colossians 1:15-20). Jesus is the “Author of life.” He allowed himself to be killed in full faith that death was not the end. He assured his followers the he would return to life after being crucified.
Application: I have that same assurance. The Author of life has blazed the way through death’s door. Death is the end of my existence in a physical body here on earth, but not the end of my existence. In preparation, I must repent, by faith receive His forgiveness, and make Him the Lord of my life.
Prayer: Lord, you are the “Author of life,” and the “Creator of all things.” You know this earthly life because you not only created it, you lived it! I trust your forgiveness and your guidance. Amen
Making friends for time and eternity! | <urn:uuid:a6524ebb-18bc-425d-90d8-66c878ef8f12> | 2013-05-21T17:27:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"EDgun LLC is a company that develops pre-charged pneumatics. It has been founded in 2002 and started its activity with construction and mass production of compact rifles named "Matador" arranged as "Bullpup". Due to amazing technical features and superb design, the rifle has become one of the most popular PCP rifles sold in Russian Federation and neighboring countries. Initially rifles were created manually on general-purpose equipment, but in 2008 they were modified for manufacturing on high-precision CNC machines. Currently the "Matador" rifle is produced in three versions, which differ in overall length, barrel length and compressed-air reservoir capacity." | <urn:uuid:4311ed1b-402c-4c0a-8fc9-aa5f6afd48cf> | 2013-05-21T17:11:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Royalty Free Music Collection: Classical: Baroque Music from The Masters
Classical: Baroque Music from The Masters
A selection of 13 well loved Baroque music from Bach, Handel, Pachelbel, Clarke and Pucell. Baroque Music from The Masters. Baroque music describes a style of European classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1750. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance and was followed by the Classical era. | <urn:uuid:b53a4483-38dd-46b6-9f45-8d5179f2e4fd> | 2013-05-21T17:47:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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You've no doubt heard about the risks associated with investing. This investment carries this type of risk, while that investment carries another one. And it is certainly true that all investments do involve some form of risk. But what about not investing? Isn't there some risk associated with that, too?
In fact, by staying on the investment sidelines, or at least by avoiding long-term, growth-oriented investments, you may incur several risks. Here are some to consider: | <urn:uuid:088bdefc-66fa-4e1d-a448-5f4b3476abad> | 2013-05-21T17:26:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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LONG BEACH — Two men have been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run incident downtown that killed a 24-year-old mother last week, police said Wednesday.
Long Beach detectives arrested 26-year-old Compton resident Froylan Velazquez, who was charged by the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office with vehicular manslaughter and felony hit and run Tuesday, and 26-year-old Bellflower resident Edward Martinez, who was booked for being an accessory and is awaiting arraignment.
At 1:45 a.m. on Feb. 13, officers were called to Third Street and Pine Avenue for a "vehicle versus passenger" incident that resulted in the death of Long Beach resident Serena Medina, who family members said had a 4-year-old daughter.
Miguel Peralta, Medina's father, said police told him that two men got into a car and reversed the vehicle, hitting Medina and one other person and fleeing by the time police arrived.
Both victims were taken to a local hospital, where Medina died, police said.
Homicide and Accident Investigation Detail detectives came to a similar conclusion.
"As the investigation progressed, it became clear to investigators that this was not a typical traffic accident and possibly was an intentional act," police said in a
Detectives went on a search for the suspects' vehicle and found it in Compton.
"My daughter is going to finally get justice," Peralta said Wednesday after he learned of the arrests.
Meanwhile, friends and family members gathered for a vigil Wednesday night at Third Street and Pine Avenue to celebrate Medina's life.
Medina, who was unemployed and unmarried, had many friends and wasn't the type of person to get involved in a fight, Peralta said. He said she hadn't been directly involved in last week's altercation and that he had heard that she was trying to calm the situation before she was hit.
"Everybody loved her," said her friend Cassandra Medina, who isn't related to her. "She always had a smile on her face and she was very sweet and loving.
"It's so sad that this happened to her."
Serena Medina loved to sing and made her daughter, Leah, a priority, her friend said.
Peralta said he has been overwhelmed by the response of the community, who donated money and time at car washes last weekend and at other activities to help raise money for his daughter's funeral.
"It seems like the whole community got together," he said.
Medina's funeral is scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday at All Souls Cemetery, 4400 Cherry Ave., in Long Beach.
Anyone with information may contact Long Beach Police Homicide Detectives Hugo Cortes or Peter Lackovic at 562-570-7244. Those who want to remain anonymous may call 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), or text TIPLA plus your tip to 274637 (CRIMES), or visit www.LACrimeStoppers.org. | <urn:uuid:8b6795df-ccb9-4ec3-a574-f2d92b12ac34> | 2013-05-21T17:27:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Princeton awards five honorary degrees
Posted June 3, 2008; 01:46 p.m.
Princeton University awarded honorary degrees during Commencement exercises June 3 to five distinguished individuals for their contributions to humanitarian efforts, music and entertainment, political theory, science and medicine, literature and higher learning.
Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman awarded degrees to Quincy Jones, an inspirational creative artist and entertainment industry executive; George Kateb, an influential political theorist and Princeton's William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics Emeritus; Mary-Claire King, a pioneering geneticist whose work extends to human rights; Haruki Murakami, a celebrated and innovative author; and John Waterbury, a university president and Princeton's William Stewart Tod Professor of Politics and International Affairs Emeritus.
Honorary degree recipients are elected by Princeton's Board of Trustees. A trustee committee, which includes faculty and students, solicits nominations from the entire University.
The following is biographical information on the recipients and the official citations.
Quincy Jones, Doctor of Music
The creative career of Quincy Jones spans more than 60 years and includes many roles, most notably as musician, composer, producer, arranger and conductor. Musical since childhood, Jones' young adulthood connected him to key individuals who helped to shape his future. As a teenager in Seattle he played trumpet in a small band led by Ray Charles; he left the Berklee College of Music in Boston to tour with Lionel Hampton; and he learned composition from Nadia Boulanger in Paris. During the 1950s, Jones began arranging and recording music, making records for artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan. He also started composing film music, and in 1965 Jones left Mercury Records for Hollywood. Since then, he has scored music for 33 major motion pictures, as well as numerous television shows. Over the years, Jones has won 27 Grammy awards, seven Oscar nominations and an Emmy.
In the 1980s, Jones' impact on popular culture was historic on a global scale when he produced Michael Jackson's "Thriller," the best-selling album in recording industry history, and the benefit song "We Are the World," which became the best-selling single of all time. Consistently, Jones has brought diverse musical talents together, such as through his landmark 1989 album "Back on the Block," and his 1995 recording "Q's Jook Joint." Jones also is known for his humanitarian efforts, particularly through his Quincy Jones Foundation, which works to foster global dialogue and to help children around the world. In reaching out to those in need, Jones has partnered with various entities and individuals, such as with UNICEF to address health care in Cambodia, and with Bono of U2 on the global charity project Live 8.
A musical, cinematic and entertainment pioneer, he transformed the landscape of 20th-century popular culture. As a composer, arranger, record producer, conductor and instrumentalist, he has innovated, translated and fused together the sonic fabric of our times. Moving effortlessly and boldly across genres, carrying us from jazz blue notes and an Afro-Latin bossa nova beat through the soul pop "Thriller" revolution of the 1980s and '90s, he has opened up our musical world and provided the soundtrack for an integrated universe born out of the Civil Rights era. Powered by a wide-roving artistic vision that extends into film, television and beyond, his entrepreneurial spirit continues to shape how we hear, see and experience the 21st century.
George Kateb, Doctor of Humane Letters
George Kateb is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics Emeritus at Princeton. An influential political theorist with an international reputation, he is a champion of democratic individuality and a critic of its many challengers. He is the author of "Utopia and Its Enemies" (1963); "Political Theory; Its Nature and Uses" (1968); "Hannah Arendt: Politics, Conscience, Evil" (1984); "The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture" (1992); "Emerson and Self-Reliance" (1994); and "Patriotism and Other Mistakes" (2006).
Kateb came to Princeton in 1987 after 30 years on the faculty at Amherst College. At Princeton, he was a dynamic lecturer and a legendary adviser of graduate students. He served as director of the Program in Political Philosophy and was a member of the executive committee of the University Center for Human Values, of which he also served as director. In 1997, he was awarded Princeton's Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities. He retired from the faculty in 2002. Kateb has been president of the New England Political Science Association and vice president of the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served on the editorial boards of the leading journals in his field.
The foremost American theorist of democratic individuality, he writes in the tradition of Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman. A voice for a spirited and self-critical democratic liberalism, he is a defender of the dignity of the human person, a celebrant of democratic self-expression, a critic of convention and complacency. In brilliant lectures and intense seminars, he taught political theory by example, criticizing his own ideas as rigorously as those of the great writers of the canon. And while living the values of an Emersonian individualist, he has been a University citizen of the highest order.
Mary-Claire King, Doctor of Science
Mary-Claire King is the American Cancer Society Professor in the departments of medicine and genome sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Her pioneering work has brought molecular genetics to several fields of medicine and has extended it into the sphere of human rights. In 1990, King demonstrated that a single gene was responsible for a large number of familial breast and ovarian cancer cases, a discovery that opened up new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of these cancers as well as research into other illnesses. Her research at Washington, where she moved in 1995 after 19 years on the faculty at the University of California-Berkeley, focuses on inherited breast and ovarian cancer, inherited deafness and, most recently, the genetics of schizophrenia.
When she was a doctoral student at Berkeley, King broke new ground as a geneticist by showing that the DNA of human beings and chimpanzees is 99 percent identical. She developed, introduced and implemented DNA testing technology to make it possible to reunite with their families the orphaned and stolen children of the "disappeared" dissidents who had been murdered by the Argentinian dictatorship. As an educator, King teaches courses in human and molecular genetics and travels frequently for the American Cancer Society. Among her many awards are the Clowes Award for Basic Research, the Brinker Award for Breast Cancer Research, the International Genetics Prize, the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine, the Gruber Prize in Genetics, the Weizmann Award for Women and Science and the Medal of Honor for Clinical Research from the American Cancer Society.
Her groundbreaking research reveals family ties -- to other species, with whom we have a high degree of genetic similarity; to our mothers, from whom some of us will inherit a genetic predisposition for breast cancer; to children and grandchildren, who can be returned to us after the dislocations of war or violence or natural catastrophe. Her work helps us understand who we are at a fundamental, genetic level and how we may be able to escape or overcome the harmful effects of genetic links to cancer or deafness or schizophrenia. Social activism is built into her DNA, and by example she shows us the good we can do if we realize our full and highest human potential.
Haruki Murakami, Doctor of Letters
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949, and his writing is read around the world in more than 40 languages. Best known as a fiction writer with a taste for the surreal, Murakami is also a highly regarded essayist and translator. After studying theater arts at Waseda University in Tokyo, Murakami owned a jazz bar in Japan's capital for seven years before publishing his first novel, "Hear the Wind Sing," which won the Gunzou Literature Prize for budding writers in 1979. It was followed by "Pinball, 1973" and "A Wild Sheep Chase," the latter of which won the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers and established Murakami's literary career. In 1987, "Norwegian Wood" became a best-seller in Japan.
Starting in 1991 Murakami and his wife, Yoko, spent four years in the United States, where he was a visiting lecturer at Princeton. In that time, he wrote "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" (1994), which won the distinguished Yomiuri Literary Prize. In 1995, after the Kobe earthquake and the poison gas attack in the Tokyo subway, Murakami returned to Japan and wrote about these events. "The Place That Was Promised," a nonfiction book based on interviews with the gas attack victims, won the Kuwabara Takeo Academic Award and became the basis for the English edition "Underground," published in 2000. Murakami's literary honors also include the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize and the Asahi Prize. The English translation of Murakami's most recent work, a memoir titled "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running," will appear later this summer.
His literary spiderwebs remind us that, though we may not be fully aware of it, something profoundly disturbing lies at the heart of what we take for everyday reality. With his surreal imagination grounded in down-to-earth experience, his novels, short stories, essays and even his memoir juxtapose the uncanny with the ordinary to capture the loneliness and uncertainty at the heart of modern life. His protagonists may be disaffected young Japanese men and women, but their experience of ennui and loss, and their search for love and certainty, speak to us all. Amid the alienation, flickers of hopefulness spring from seemingly random human interactions and connections, reminding us that the race is well worth running.
John Waterbury, Doctor of Laws
Since 1998, John Waterbury has led the American University of Beirut (AUB) as its first president since 1984 to reside in Beirut. This academic year is his last as AUB's 14th president. During his tenure, Waterbury has sought to restore the university, which was chartered in 1863, to its long-standing reputation as an institution of higher learning with the highest international standards. Among many achievements under his leadership, AUB has completed a campus master plan as well as a five-year fundraising campaign, and has deepened and expanded academic opportunities. During his tenure, AUB reinstituted programs that had been interrupted during the Lebanese civil war, launched seven new doctoral programs and added several new academic and medical research institutes.
Before joining AUB, Waterbury was, for nearly 20 years, on the faculty at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, becoming the William Stewart Tod Professor of Politics and International Affairs in 1985. He is an expert on the political economy of developing countries with a special focus on the Middle East and the author of many books. While at Princeton, he was also director of the Center for International Studies and editor of the academic journal World Politics from 1992 to 1998. He is a member of Princeton's class of 1961.
Scholar, professor and lifetime student of the Middle East, he graced the classrooms of Princeton University, served as president of the American University of Beirut and provided insight into the political economy of developing nations during a career spanning 40 years. Braving the upheavals of a country in turmoil, defying the opponents of peace by living in Lebanon and continuing the scholarship for which he is world-renowned, he led his university to new heights of academic excellence and restored it to sound financial footing. Through his scholarship and his personal example, he has been an eloquent advocate for improved understanding between the Middle East and the West, helping each to recognize shared aspirations and a common humanity. | <urn:uuid:6b22224a-fc8f-454a-b576-33ff650823db> | 2013-05-21T17:44:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) recently determined that CN and Canadian Pacific exceeded their revenue caps for moving western grain in crop year 2011-12 by less than 0.1 percent.
CN's grain revenue totaling $542,756,316 (in Canadian dollars) surpassed its cap by $240,185 and CP's grain revenue totaling $494,436,705 exceeded its cap by $400,132.
In the crop year, 33.1 million tons of western grain were transported, about 6.2 percent higher than the previous crop year, CTA officials said in a prepared statement. In addition, the average length of haul decreased 1.3 percent to 952 miles.
CN and CP now have 30 days to pay the amount by which they exceeded their 2011-12 revenue caps, in addition to a 5 percent penalty. Government regulations stipulate that the payments be made to the Western Grains Research Foundation, a farmer-financed and directed organization.
The Canadian Transportation Act requires the CTA to set each railroad's revenue cap annually and determine whether each cap was exceeded in a given crop year. Calculated via a formula containing numerous elements, the revenue cap is a form of economic regulation that enables CN and CP to set their own rates, provided the total amount of revenue they collect remains below the set ceiling, CTA officials said.
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Ana Rosa Rodriguez was a 32-week-old foetus when her mother, Rosa, went to the New York City abortion chamber of Doctor Abu Hayat, the notorious "Butcher of Avenue A" in 1991. Even though abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy are illegal under New York law, this was going to be just another of the thousands of routine, late-term abortions performed annually in the state. According to Rosa, who was then 20 years old, she told Hayat that she had changed her mind and didn't want to go through with the abortion. "He said that it was impossible to stop, that I had to continue," she told New York Newsday.
According to Rosa, Hayat's assistants held her down while he sedated her. When she awoke, she was told that the abortion was incomplete and that she should come back the following day. That evening, however, she experienced increasing pain and bleeding. Her mother took her to Jamaica Hospital by taxi, where, five hours later, Baby Ana Rosa was born. But Hayat had left his mark upon her; Ana Rosa's tiny right arm had been torn off in the brutal abortion attempt. Ana Rosa has disappeared from public view, but when last reported, in 1996, she was a perfectly healthy, beautiful, little girl, aside from the abortionist's stigmata, which she will always bear. | <urn:uuid:a14b168e-1e67-4357-8211-47feb9622218> | 2013-05-21T17:44:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The upper side of the left-lower triangle is actually aligned with the upper side of the right-upper triangle, the former appears to tilt counterclockwise while the latter clockwise.
Bourdon, B. (1902) La perception visuelle de l'espace. Paris: Reinwald.
In my vision, anomalous motion illusion is also observed in the same direction as the tilt illusion. <September 3, 2005>
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Let me begin this topic by stating that I have been a member of a fraternity for almost 48 years and during my 42-year career in Student Affairs, I had responsibility for Fraternity and Sorority Life and/or Greek Housing for most of those years. Likewise, my undergraduate experience as a fraternity member was a very positive one and during my alumni years I have also had very good experiences as a national officer and committee member, chapter and faculty advisor, leadership training workshop facilitator, keynote speaker, etc. I have said many times that, if done right, the fraternity experience is one of the best experiences a man can have but, if done wrong, that experience can be one of the worst experiences he can have.
What do I mean? If the experience is handled properly, the fraternity and its Ritual will instill in the member a sense of purpose and a set of values by which he will live his life. The undergraduate experience will be a tremendous leadership lab where he will learn and develop skills in listening, empathy, compassion, communication, conversation, appreciation for diversity in all of its forms, motivation, self-understanding, integrity, delegation, supervision, etiquette, philanthropy, volunteerism, service to and treatment of others, etc. A member who has this experience can and should come out of it as a role model for others and one who, as an alumni member, wants to ensure that that experience continues for undergraduates of the future.
On the other hand, if the experience is not handled properly, the fraternity will teach members all the wrong behaviors and values: alcohol misuse and abuse, hazing, apathy, irresponsibility, sexual misconduct, damage and disregard for people and property, etc. From all of my years of experience in working with fraternities, my observation is that you can trace most any problem in a fraternity to a failure to hold oneself and one's brothers accountable for these behaviors which are contrary to the fraternity's values and Ritual. These poor behaviors seem to recur, time and time again, and result in negative consequences for fraternity chapters and their members. Tragically, these consequences sometimes even include the deaths of members, prospective members, and guests (invited and uninvited).
So, that brings me to the issues on which I encourage your comments:
1) Can we ensure, and how do we ensure, that a chapter stays in "the positive zone" and provides the right experience and values for its members. For example: Do we require adult supervision and advisorship? Do we prohibit alcohol in the house or at any events unless there is third party responsibility? Do we require periodic training and workshops on selected topics?
2) If we cannot transform a chapter or cannot ensure that chapters provide a positive experience, is it time to terminate that chapter or abandon the fraternity system? Is progressive discipline with such chapters an effective strategy or are the problems so inherent and ingrained that we should eliminate the fraternity system?
Your comments, please! | <urn:uuid:53faa015-3398-4390-8292-6d8b0b85bf70> | 2013-05-21T17:24:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I have had this awesome recipe in my files for years, but could not find where I first discovered it. I sure know I didn't come up with it...so thank you to whoever had this amazing idea! :)
All you need is a can of crescent rolls, marshmallows, melted butter and some cinnamon sugar.
First off, I started by explaining that during the time that Jesus lived, when a person died, their bodies were buried in tombs. Then I explained that the body was wrapped in cloth before it was placed in the tomb. Our crescent rolls represented that cloth. | <urn:uuid:7458814c-a743-4bdc-844e-0a3dbb9550ee> | 2013-05-21T17:16:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Shots - Health News
Wed February 27, 2013
How Guinea Pigs Could Help Autistic Children
Originally published on Thu February 28, 2013 12:18 pm
Feeling a little awkward? Consider skipping the alcohol and grabbing a pet instead.
As any dog walker knows, it's easy — unavoidable, even — to strike up conversations with strangers when accompanied by a canine friend. Smaller animals like rabbits and turtles can also lubricate social interactions.
Given this effect, Maggie O'Haire, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Queensland, wondered if animals could also help children with autism spectrum disorders connect with other people.
As it turns out, they can.
In a study described in the latest PLOS ONE, O'Haire and her colleagues introduced two guinea pigs into 15 different classrooms and looked at how the presence of these furry creatures affected the interactions of autistic children with adults and non-autistic kids.
The researchers found that autistic children were significantly more talkative and cheerful in the presence of guinea pigs than in the presence of toys. The children were also more likely to look at faces, make physical contact, and interact with other children and adults.
O'Haire has several theories as to why animals might have this effect.
First of all, animals facilitate social interaction by giving people a common focus of attention. "There's something about having an animal present that gets people talking," says O'Haire.
Additionally, animals have a calming effect. For children with autism, the classroom can be a stressful environment, and O'Haire says an animal may relax them enough to make them feel comfortable interacting with peers.
Animals also make people look better. "If you have an animal with you, people actually perceive you as friendlier, happier, and less threatening," O'Haire says. "Having an animal there may have changed the children's perceptions of their peers in a more positive light."
O'Haire thinks animals could aid autistic children with social interactions in a many places, including classrooms and therapists' offices. "I certainly think that in any situation where there's rapport that needs to be built, this data seems to show that having an animal would really help," she says.
But is it practical? More research needs to be done to figure out how to implement so-called animal-assisted interventions, but O'Haire doesn't think that it's far-fetched to hope that animals could be useful.
She points out that fish tanks are already commonplace in doctor's offices and that some other workplaces allow pets because of their demonstrated benefits for both social interaction and stress reduction.
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Pro tip: Don't start an argument you can't finish.
You can't prove a religion is true, you also can't disprove it. You either choose to believe or not to believe; but when you are religious and your argument against someone trying to prove that your religion isn't true is that they can't "back it up" what they are saying...well that's stupid because neither can you.
I'm not religious nor am I an atheist, I recognize the fact that it's very likely that us humans are never going to know the truth until we are dead (if we're lucky) so I just don't worry about it. For me, if I devoted my life to Jesus, going to church and praying and arguing for him my entire life, and then I die and find out none of it is real? Well I just wasted a good portion of my life for nothing...which is a major reason I don't want to be involved in any formal religion.
The thing I don't like about religion is how people use it for the wrong reasons; to control and manipulate people. Sometimes I think that the world would be better off without it for this reason, but there is a good chance I could be wrong. But I won't get in the way of anyone's beliefs and if any religious group (or any group really) was actually being persecuted I'd defend their right to believe what they want to until my last breath. I guess you could say I believe more in fighting for Freedom and Justice myself than I believe in some higher power doing it for me.
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The Magic String Game #4 (Schnurspiel mit sechs W
Object: Remove the metal piece from the string
Difficulty: Level 8 - Demanding
Brand: Logika Spiele
Warning! The instructions are in German.
Colors may vary.
These games are thinking- and cleverness-games out of recycled-plastic. A magic string game consists of a string and several stones. These stones have holes of different dimensions. There are 3 different string games: with one cube and 2 rectangular solids, with 2 cubes and 1 rectangular solid and with 6 cubes and one rectangular solid.
The origin of these games was found in the distant Africa. Modifications of these were also found in Guinea and China and they are also used for the conversation today. The object of the magic string games is to transport the stones from one string to another, or to take away the string completely from the stones. | <urn:uuid:8dbb5104-26ad-4ebe-b623-e4dc3c730a42> | 2013-05-21T17:45:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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kasper wrote:Maybe you have to explain it once more? I can select several regions after one another and hold the shift key. The behavior is ok; everything is selected correctly.
I'm talking about the stretch command. When I execute it from the menu or the button, regardless of what I already have selected, it prompts in the following order:
1) Specify first corner -- where you click on the drawing defines one corner of the selection box
2) Specify second corner -- click to define the opposite corner
3) Specify reference point -- click to set the reference point for motion
4) Specify target point -- click to set the end point for motion
What I'm saying is that if you hold down shift during 1) and 2) it still goes on to 3). Similarly this command ignores whatever you've selected in the window before you execute it. So you can't, as far as I can tell, select more than one box for stretching. If vertices were selectable you could drag select multiple times to get multiple groups of vertices, edges, curves and hatches to move together. | <urn:uuid:5106c6ec-8795-4447-a368-0d1bb58e9e81> | 2013-05-21T17:17:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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QNX Technical Articles
Packaging Your QNX®-based Product - Part 2by Jerry Chappell, QNX Software Systems Ltd.
Part one of this article dealt with the 'packager' utility and explained how to create an initial package of your product. Now that you've mastered this process, let's hope you never have to do it again! In this part, you'll learn how to keep a record of the answers you entered, and how to automate the packaging process so that when you change your software in the future, you can easily re-package it for the world.
Working with a package-generation file
Learning to automate the packaging process means that future changes to your software are easily reflected in a new package without much effort. Here are the steps you'll follow: (1) generate your package; (2) tell packager to generate a QPG (QNX Package Generation) file from your package; (3) edit the QPG to point to your source files on disk; (4) pass the QPG file to packager to regenerate your package; and (5) test the resultant package.
The QPG file is used to provide the command-line options and answers to packager's questions automatically, without user intervention. It is also an XML-style document that can be edited using any standard ASCII text editor. (As was mentioned in part one of this article, we recommend against editing the file by hand.) You can generate an initial QPG file by typing: packager -m mypackage.qpr -x basedir. This command generates a file called xpackage.qpg which contains the manifest values within your package, and a reference to each of the files inside your package. The 'basedir' you specify should be the directory in which your files reside that was created in your initial packaging session.
If you do a 'use packager' command, you may notice that packager will accept either a 'basedir' or a 'qpg_file' as its final argument. If no basedir/ is specified on the command line when packager is started, you can specify a QPG file name for packager to use. If none is specified, it will look for a package.qpg file by default. This allows you to simply type 'packager' on the command line, and packager will rebuild your package according to the options in the local package.qpg file.
A QPG file has five main sections: (1) command-line options; (2) ownership/editor of the package; (3) other QPG files to merge as if they are part of the same QPG; (4) a list of manifest values that packager uses as answers to its questions; and (5) a list of files to be packaged, along with their installation locations. There are many options in a QPG file, so we recommend you read the documentation found here, which details the possible tags in a QPG file, and includes descriptions for each.
Editing your QPG file
Here is a sample QPG file that shows all the elements that might appear in your final generation file. Edit the QPG file carefully since it must follow the XML format, where each opening tag has a corresponding closing tag, and spelling mistakes are not tolerated.
The list of files <QPG:Files> is the most advanced (and flexible) part of the QPG file. Here, you can list the files that are to be packaged from your hard disk (in any location), the location where they should appear once the package is installed, the types of files they are, any special handling for the files, and any files that should be excluded from your package. Packager will automatically determine each of these values, if they are not specified, as long as you provide the source file name (file="") and the install location (install="").
The <QPG:PackageFilter> section is where you place manifest tags that you would like to appear in the final package manifest(s). The easiest way to fill in this section is to let packager create the QPG for you (-x option). However, when you're trying to add a special feature of some kind, e.g. launch menu items, you can edit this section to include all the tags you need. The document showing the possible tags you can enter into your manifests can be found in Part 1 of this article, or it can be found here. Some manifest tags are packager-determined each time packager is run, so specifying those values will have no effect in the generated packages. An empty tag has the effect of suppressing the question for that tag, when running packager in attended mode.
To create a symbolic link, you simply add another <QPG:Add> line to your QPG file. But this time, you'll change the entries to look like this:
<QPG:Add file="sym_link_name" install="/opt/bin/" filetype="symlink"
When packager detects the filetype="symlink" attribute, it recognizes this as a request to put a symbolic link into one of your packages. It will automatically search the other files being packaged, looking for the file to which the symbolic link points. When such a file is found, the symbolic link is placed into the same package as that file.
For example, add a file from your hard drive (libmine.so), but install it as a different file (libmine.so.1). Then create a symbolic link (libmine.so -> libmine.so.1):
<QPG:Add file="src/lib/libmine.so" install="/opt/lib/libmine.so.1"/>
<QPG:Add file="libmine.so" install="/opt/lib/" filetype="symlink"
Working with components
Components are simply optional parts of a master product. Parts of your software can be installed with or without other components. For example, think of the set of QNX Photon® microGUI packages, which consists of a core package, a drivers component, a games component, and other components. With a single session of packager, you can generate a product and all of its components.
Any file that you are packaging can be specified to be part of a component. To specify which component a given file is to be part of, simply add a component="" to the <QPG:Add> line:
<QPG:Add file="bin/my_game" install="opt/bin/" component="games"/>
When packager finds such a line, the file will be put into a new package that has a <QPM:PackageModel> of "games," with the same product identifier as your core package. This new package is independent of the other portions of your product, but its installation location will be alongside the rest of the product it's derived from. For example:
Note that packager uses components automatically when it detects that you are attempting to package development files. Let's say you're packaging some header (*.h) files. When packager detects these files being packaged, it will automatically create a component for your package called "dev." This development package will contain all of the files that are part of the software development process. Only executable files and configuration files actually go into the core product itself.
Forcing files into certain packages
If the idea of a development (dev) package is not what you're looking for when you package your software, or if packager puts a file into a package that you had not intended, it's possible to force files to be handled differently. To do this, make further specifications on the <QPG:Add> line to tell packager exactly how to handle the file. Check the QPG file structure document under <QPG:Add> to see the various options that can be specified. Below are some examples below showing common ways to redirect files...
Packager uses the elf header information, along with the file name extension, to determine what type of file is being packaged. After this determination, the file will automatically be assigned a "file type." You can override this and force a change to the file type, by setting the filetype="" attribute. For instance, set filetype="exe" to force a file to be considered executable, and to appear in a processor-specific package that corresponds to a proc="processor" attribute, like this:
<QPG:Add file="src/include/readme.txt" filetype="exe" proc="x86"
Packager automatically strips your executable files so that unnecessary debug information is not left in your packaged files. This behavior is sometimes undesirable, so you can turn it off. To change this for the entire session, look in the <QPG:Options> section, where you can set:
This option turns off all strip operations. As an alternative, you can define that a particular file not be stripped when packaged, as shown here:
<QPG:Add file="src/bin/my_program" install="/opt/bin/" strip="no"/>
Packager attempts to keep your file's ownership, group, and permissions identical to the original file's settings. To override this behaviour, or to apply specific settings to a file, use the permissions="", user="", and/or group="" attributes, as required:
<QPG:Add file="src/bin/my_program" install="/opt/bin/" permissions="x+s"/>
Merging other QPG files
Merging additional QPG files is easy. By adding a <QPG:Merge> entry into your QPG file, you can simplify a complicated product into a number of easy-to-manage QPG files. Note that the <QPG:Options> block is only read from the primary QPG file; a merged QPG file's option block will be ignored by packager.
For example, your package.qpg file might show:
Here's a sample license.qpg you can use to add a license to your package. If you want to use this file, add the <QPG:Merge> line to your main QPG file and be sure to remove the manifest tags which are referenced in the license.qpg file (i.e. QPM:ReleaseCopyright, QPM:ReleaseCopyrightURL, and QPM:LicenseURL) from your main QPG file.
When merging, you may want to apply a set of file attributes to an entire QPG file. For instance, you might change the destination component for the files referenced within the QPG. To do this, use a <QPG:MergeFilter> block with the desired attributes around any number of <QPG:Merge> commands:
The packager will automatically detect any shared object libraries that you are packaging (.so files) and will insert a corresponding <QPM:ContainsLibrary> tag into the manifest of a package that contains such a library:
Similarly, if any files you're packaging require a shared object library in order to operate correctly (and such a library is not being packaged alongside this file), then packager will automatically add a corresponding <QPM:RequiresLibrary> tag into the manifest of the package that contains such a requirement. This becomes an automatic dependency when the package is installed. If the required library is not available, the package installer will search all installed software to try to find another package that contains the required library. If such a package is not installed, the package installer will search all known repositories for a package that contains the corresponding <QPM:ProvidesLibrary> tag. To avoid downloading a large package that happens to contain the library you require, and perhaps a lot of unnecessary files as well, the package installer tries to find a small package that contains only a set of libraries. Such a package is called a SLIB package.
When you're packaging your files and a shared object library is detected, it's placed into the package you are making and the library is placed into a SLIB package. This SLIB package has a similar name to your package; the only difference is that the component name has "slib-" added to it. The SLIB package will be made available alongside your product (in the same repository), but it will not show up in the package installer as a new package. It's only there for dependency resolution, in case someone who doesn't already have your product installed, is installing a package that requires one of your libraries.
If you are packaging a QNX Photon microGUI application, for example, your application will already have requirements on phlib.so.1 internally, and packager puts these requirement into your package. The great advantage of SLIB packages is that you don't have a separate dependency that QNX Photon be installed, since this will happen automatically when your package is installed.
Regenerating a package
Each time a package is generated, you must change either its version number, its build number, or its release number. By doing so, you ensure that the package installer will uninstall any previous versions of the program and will recognize your package as being a newer version than the one already installed.
Version numbers for your software can change at any time, usually indicating that a set of features have changed, or that a new architecture is in place. You can set the version number in the QPG under the <QPM:ReleaseVersion> tag. It must be specified in this format: major[.minor[.sub]][letter]
For example: 1.0, 1.0A, 2.13.0, 2.13.1A, 7.15.433B
If you are keeping the same version, you can change the build number (an integer) to indicate that the software has been rebuilt, perhaps after fixing bugs or making minor changes. You can set the build number in your QPG using the <QPM:ReleaseBuild> tag, however, this fixes the build number and forces you to change the QPG each time packager is executed. A better method is to set an option in the <QPG:Generation> block. Add the <QPG:Build> tag and either set the build number to "+" (auto-increment), or to "date" (use today's date as yyyymmddhh). You can also set the build number from the command line using the -b option.
If you're keeping the same version and build number, you can change the release number to indicate that the software hasn't been modified and is simply being repackaged. The release number, an integer, will be automatically incremented by packager each time it's executed, although it will be reset to "1" whenever the build number changes. You can also set the release number in your QPG using the <QPM:PackageReleaseNumber> tag. However, this also fixes the release number and forces you to change the QPG each time packager is executed. You can disable auto- incrementation by setting the block. Add the tag and set the release number to "-" (do not auto-increment). You can also disable auto- incrementation from the command line using the -i option.
Generating a repository
Packager can also be used to generate a repository (a location holding any number of packages) and make it available to anyone who can access that repository. To do this, place all of your desired QPM and QPK files into the repository directory. (If you are working with QPR files, decompress them using tar -zxf my_package.qpr). Change directory into this repository and type the following: packager -r
Packager will ask you a number of questions related to your repository, which you should answer fully and truthfully. The description will be the first thing a user sees when they click on your repository, so it should be as detailed and accurate as possible. Here are the questions that will be asked of you when you create a new repository.
In generating your repository, packager will create the following files:
index - a list of the files in the repository
content.tgz - an archive of all of the QPM files in the repository, which have been stripped of the file listing section (for faster download), including all support files like licenses, scripts, and web pages
repository.qrm - a repository manifest file with details about the number of packages in the repository, a web site, icons, and a description of the repository
Whenever you change the packages that appear in your repository, or when any packages are changed, you should again run packager -r in this directory. Once you have answered the questions you won't have to answer them again, so you may wish to subsequently set packager to run unattended and in expert mode with the following command: packager -ruv2
There are many options that haven't been mentioned in this article. You need not worry about them for the majority of your packaging needs. However, you may wish to look over packager's options (with the use message or via the links throughout this document), to get an idea of the various ways that packager can be used to package your software.
Feel free to post any questions you have in the qdn.public.qnxrtp.porting newsgroup. | <urn:uuid:85540952-fa5b-480e-8ea0-9cd5c78c3a61> | 2013-05-21T17:17:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Thu Apr 13 13:25:06 EDT 2006
Here are my suggestions for eval:
- Keep `eval' itself much like it is.
- Ditch `null-environment'.
- Add a procedure
where library-specifier is whatever the library proposal uses to
identify a library (currently a string).
This returns a specifier for an environment that contains all the
bindings in the named library. As with `scheme-report-environment',
the effect of assigning a variable bound in a library environment is
unspecified, as is the effect of evaluating non-expression programs.
Probably, `scheme-report-environment' could be defined in terms of
`library-environment' by making available libraries that correspond
to whatever we want it to correspond to.
- Add a procedure
that takes an S-expression representing a library definition (which
will presumably still exist, even after the changes to the library
mechanism), and makes the library available in the running program.
- Do we want to offer a library corresponding mostly to R5RS? (I'd
- Do we want to omit `scheme-report-environment' altogether. (I'd say
no, keep, at least for 5 argument.)
- Do we want to specify (scheme-report-environment 6)? (I'd say no.)
- Do we want to restrict the set of libraries available through
`library-environment'? My inclinication is to say that at least the
library the reference to eval is in, and the libraries imported by
it must be available, and more libraries can be made available
through an implementation-specific mechanism. (Which we'd strongly
encourage implementors to provide.) This way people can ship sets
of libraries or applications containing calls to `eval' without
having to include everything that's, say, in the development system.
- Do we want to crack down on programs that assign to library
variables or contain top-level definitions? My inclinination is to
say that the behavior is unspecified. We might restrict
implementations to one of two choices: either run the code as if
appended to the library body, or raise a specified exception, say
&eval-assignment or &eval-definition. I'd be in favor of that.
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla
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The World Rally Championship is in danger of alienating the public with its confusing use of tactics on gravel rallies, believes Ford's lead driver Mikko Hirvonen.
Having retired early on the second day of last week's Jordan Rally, Hirvonen returned for the final day to be deployed as part of Ford's effort to sweep the road for his teammate Jari-Matti Latvala. While Hirvonen was happy to take the time penalties for checking in early on Saturday morning, he admitted he was concerned about the consequences for the watching wider world.
"We are confusing the public," said Hirvonen. "Nobody really listens to the drivers, but there is a really easy solution: the first 10 or 15 drivers pick their road position. On the first rally of the season, the champion gets first pick and then after that, the leader at the end of the day gets to chose his place for the next day. It's simple."
Hirvonen's team director Malcolm Wilson is not so sure that Hirvonen's suggestion is the right way to go, pointing out that the best drivers running in the best place on the road will not offer any variety of results.
"If we do that," said Wilson, "we'll know who's going to win the rally on Friday night. We could write the top five for the next few rallies now. The current system creates excitement."
Wilson's opposite number at Citroen, Olivier Quesnel disagreed with Wilson, saying: "I don't think we would know the winner. Honestly, Mikko is as fast as [Sebastien] Loeb, Latvala as well. I don't think we would have the winner on Friday night."
WRC promoter North One Sport CEO Simon Long said the time had come for change.
"The regulations need to be looked at," said Long. "As a sport it's confusing to wake up and see the guy you thought was second is now actually sixth. We need clarity to tell a consistent story from the sport. I hope the regulations can be looked at to avoid this kind of thing in the future." | <urn:uuid:5fa94f18-d86f-4853-8693-c2632fabf76f> | 2013-05-21T17:39:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Jorge Lorenzo was quick to congratulate his Yamaha teammate Valentino Rossi on winning a seventh premier class world championship at the Malaysian Grand Prix.
The Spaniard, who needed to win to stand even a slim chance of taking the battle to a final-round decider, could do no better than fourth in a wet race, meaning that Rossi won the championship with a round to spare.
"I want to congratulate Valentino, because this year he has just beaten me, simple. He is just a winner," said Lorenzo. "Next year, maybe I will beat him."
Lorenzo was delighted with his ride to fourth, having started from the back of the field after he failed to make onto the grid before the pitlane had closed. He overtook front-row starter Rossi halfway round the opening lap, and fought his way up to fourth inside the first third of the race. But he lost out to Rossi on lap eight and stayed behind his teammate for the rest of the race, as a drying line began to appear.
"It was a fantastic race for me, because I started in the last position on the grid, so I had to overtake some other riders to be on the top," he added. "At the beginning of the racer I felt great on the bike, but after a few laps I felt there was no grip at the year and I was sliding a lot."
Lorenzo's fourth place means that he still needs a points finish at the final race of the season at Valencia to secure second place in the championship from race winner Casey Stoner. | <urn:uuid:0da6256a-cfc3-401f-87f8-d8a12222de8e> | 2013-05-21T17:12:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The moment it became clear Muslim Brotherhood candidate has won Egypt elections, those who are enemies of real democracy enacted de facto military coup in Egypt. Overnight the military assumed all powers hitherto enjoyed by the ousted president Hosni Mubarak. Why Mr. Morsi, who is duly elected by the people of Egypt, is deprived of the powers of an elected president needs to be answered. Mr. Morsi must be restored all the powers.
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In his latest exclusive dispatch from Deir el-Zour province, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad meets fighters who have left the Free Syrian Army for the discipline and ideology of global jihad
As they stood outside the commandeered government building in the town of Mohassen, it was hard to distinguish Abu Khuder's men from any other brigade in the Syrian civil war, in their combat fatigues, T-shirts and beards.
But these were not average members of the Free Syrian Army. Abu Khuder and his men fight for al-Qaida. They call themselves the ghuraba'a, or "strangers", after a famous jihadi poem celebrating Osama bin Laden's time with his followers in the Afghan mountains, and they are one of a number of jihadi organisations establishing a foothold in the east of the country now that the conflict in Syria has stretched well into its second bloody year.
They try to hide their presence. "Some people are worried about carrying the [black] flags," said Abu Khuder. "They fear America will come and fight us. So we fight in secret. Why give Bashar and the west a pretext?" But their existence is common knowledge in Mohassen. Even passers-by joke with the men about car bombs and IEDs.
According to Abu Khuder, his men are working closely with the military council that commands the Free Syrian Army brigades in the region. "We meet almost every day," he said. "We have clear instructions from our [al-Qaida] leadership that if the FSA need our help we should give it. We help them with IEDs and car bombs. Our main talent is in the bombing operations." Abu Khuder's men had a lot of experience in bomb-making from Iraq and elsewhere, he added.
Abu Khuder spoke later at length. He reclined on a pile of cushions in a house in Mohassen, resting his left arm which had been hit by a sniper's bullet and was wrapped in plaster and bandages. Four teenage boys kneeled in a tight crescent in front of him, craning their necks and listening with awe. Other villagers in the room looked uneasy.
Abu Khuder had been an officer in a mechanised Syrian border force called the Camel Corps when he took up arms against the regime. He fought the security forces with a pistol and a light hunting rifle, gaining a reputation as one of the bravest and most ruthless men in Deir el-Zour province and helped to form one of the first FSA battalions.
He soon became disillusioned with what he saw as the rebel army's disorganisation and inability to strike at the regime, however. He illustrated this by describing an attempt to attack the government garrison in Mohassen. Fortified in a former textile factory behind concrete walls, sand bags, machine-gun turrets and armoured vehicles, the garrison was immune to the rebels' puny attempt at assault.
"When we attacked the base with the FSA we tried everything and failed," said Abu Khuder. "Even with around 200 men attacking from multiple fronts they couldn't injure a single government soldier and instead wasted 1.5m Syrian pounds [£14,500] on firing ammunition at the walls."
Then a group of devout and disciplined Islamist fighters in the nearby village offered to help. They summoned an expert from Damascus and after two days of work handed Abu Khuder their token of friendship: a truck rigged with two tonnes of explosives.
Two men drove the truck close to the gate of the base and detonated it remotely. The explosion was so large, Abu Khuder said, that windows and metal shutters were blown hundreds of metres, trees were ripped up by their roots and a huge crater was left in the middle of the road.
The next day the army left and the town of Mohassen was free.
"The car bomb cost us 100,000 Syrian pounds and fewer than 10 people were involved [in the operation]," he said. "Within two days of the bomb expert arriving we had it ready. We didn't waste a single bullet.
"Al-Qaida has experience in these military activities and it knows how to deal with it."
After the bombing, Abu Khuder split with the FSA and pledged allegiance to al-Qaida's organisation in Syria, the Jabhat al Nusra or Solidarity Front. He let his beard grow and adopted the religious rhetoric of a jihadi, becoming a commander of one their battalions.
"The Free Syrian Army has no rules and no military or religious order. Everything happens chaotically," he said. "Al-Qaida has a law that no one, not even the emir, can break.
"The FSA lacks the ability to plan and lacks military experience. That is what [al-Qaida] can bring. They have an organisation that all countries have acknowledged.
"In the beginning there were very few. Now, mashallah, there are immigrants joining us and bringing their experience," he told the gathered people. "Men from Yemen, Saudi, Iraq and Jordan. Yemenis are the best in their religion and discipline and the Iraqis are the worst in everything – even in religion."
At this, one man in the room – an activist in his mid-30s who did not want to be named – said: "So what are you trying to do, Abu Khuder? Are you going to start cutting off hands and make us like Saudi? Is this why we are fighting a revolution?"
"[Al-Qaida's] goal is establishing an Islamic state and not a Syrian state," he replied. "Those who fear the organisation fear the implementation of Allah's jurisdiction. If you don't commit sins there is nothing to fear."
Religious and sectarian rhetoric has taken a leading role in the Syrian revolution from the early days. This is partly because of the need for outside funding and weapons, which are coming through well-established Muslim networks, and partly because religion provides a useful rallying cry for fighters, with promises of martyrdom and redemption.
Almost every rebel brigade has adopted a Sunni religious name with rhetoric exalting jihad and martyrdom, even when the brigades are run by secular commanders and manned by fighters who barely pray.
"Religion is a major rallying force in this revolution – look at Ara'our [a rabid sectarian preacher], he is hysterical and we don't like him but he offers unquestionable support to the fighters and they need it," the activist said later.
Another FSA commander in Deir el-Zour city explained the role of religion in the uprising: "Religion is the best way to impose discipline. Even if the fighter is not religious he can't disobey a religious order in battle."
Al-Qaida has existed in this parched region of eastern Syria, where the desert and the tribes straddle the border with Iraq, for almost a decade.
During the years of American occupation of Iraq, Deir el-Zour became the gateway through which thousands of foreign jihadis flooded to fight the holy war. Many senior insurgents took refuge from American and Iraqi government raids in the villages and deserts of Deir el-Zourx.
Osama, a young jihadi from Abu Khuder's unit with a kind smile, was 17 in 2003 when the Americans invaded Iraq, he said. He ran away from home and joined the thousands of other Syrians who crossed the porous border and went to fight. Like most of those volunteers, at first he was inspired by a mixture of nationalistic and tribal allegiances, but later religion became his sole motivation.
After returning to Syria he drifted closer to the jihadi ideology. It was dangerous then, and some of his friends were imprisoned by the regime, which for years played a double game, allowing jihadis to filter across the borders to fight the Americans while at the same time keeping them tightly under control at home.
In the first months of the Syrian uprising, he joined the protesters in the street, and when some of his relatives were killed he defected and joined the Free Syrian Army.
"I decided to join the others," he said. "But then I became very disappointed with the FSA. When they fought they were great, but then most of the time they sat in their rooms doing nothing but smoke and gossip and chat on Skype."
Fed up with his commanders' bickering and fighting over money, he turned to another fighting group based in the village of Shahail, 50 miles west of Mohassen, which has become the de facto capital of al-Qaida in Deir el-Zour. More than 20 of its young men were killed in Iraq. In Shahail the al-Qaida fighters drive around in white SUVs with al-Qaida flags fluttering.
The group there was led by a pious man. He knew a couple of them from his time in Iraq. One day, the group's leader – a Saudi who covered his hair with a red scarf and carried a small Kalashnikov, in the style of Bin Laden – visited Mohassen. He gave a long sermon during the funeral of a local commander, telling the audience how jihad was the only way to lead a revolution against the infidel regime of Bashar al-Assad, and how they, the Syrians, were not only victims of the regime but also of the hypocrisy of the west, which refused to help them.
"They were committed," said Osama. "They obeyed their leader and never argued. In the FSA, if you have 10 people they usually split and form three groups." The jihadis, by contrast, used their time "in useful things, even the chores are divided equally".
Osama joined the group. "He [the Saudi] is a very good man, he spends his days teaching us. You ask him anything and he will answer you with verses from the Qur'an, you want to read the Qur'an you can read. You want to study bomb-making he will teach you."
In the pre-revolutionary days when the regime was strong it would take a year to recruit someone to the secret cause of jihad. "Now, thanks to God, we are working in the open and many people are joining in," said Osama.
In Shahail we interviewed Saleem Abu Yassir, a village elder and the commander of the local FSA brigade. He sat in a room filled with tribal fighters and machine-guns. The relationship with al-Qaida had been very difficult, he said, with the jihadis being secretive and despising the FSA and even calling them infidel secularists. But now they had opened up, co-operating with other rebel groups.
"Are they good fighters?" he threw the question rhetorically into the room. "Yes, they are, but they have a problem with executions. They capture a soldier and they put a pistol to his head and shoot him. We have religious courts and we have to try people before executing them. This abundance of killing is what we fear. We fear they are trying to bring us back to the days of Iraq and we have seen what that achieved."
Osama had told me that his group was very cautious about not repeating the Iraq experience – "they admit they made a lot of mistakes in Iraq and they are keen to avoid it", he said – but others, including a young doctor working for the revolution, were not convinced. The opposition needed to admit Al-Qaida were among them, and be on their guard.
"Who kidnapped the foreign engineers who worked in the nearby oilfield?" he asked. "They have better financing than the FSA and we have to admit they are here.
"They are stealing the revolution from us and they are working for the day that comes after."
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INC- Network of Local Radio Stations in cooperation with in total 15 local radio stations from Kosovo broadcasting in Serbian language and five local radio stations in Serbia including Radio Presheva, Albanian local broadcaster, with the support, of BTD, Austrian.., KFOS Soros Fund and NED, in the period of July-September 2011, produced and broadcast weekly shows titled The Bridge, Prishtina - Belgrade Civil Dialogue which as the main objective had promotion of ethnic tolerance, intra-ethnic and regional cooperation between Albanians and Serbs i.e. Kosovo and Serbia. The motivation for the initiation and then implementation of this unique project which involved in total 15 local broadcasters from Kosovo and Serbia was the beginning of the technical dialogue between two capitols with the mediation of European Union. As the opinion is aware these ongoing talks as the main objective had solving of issues that remains an obstacle in normalization of relations between two capitols. The project was unique for couple of reasons which will be elaborated in this report, however we need to underline here the fact that ‘The Bridge” is the first project which saw such close cooperation and joint work between local broadcasters from Kosovo and Serbia, i.e. for the first time local broadcasters from these two countries together produced and broadcasted same weekly shows, a fact that in itself is an indicator of the conclusion that this project was unique and that was successful in its implementation. | <urn:uuid:f4dc52d5-c7de-459a-9d97-07a7344bdc1e> | 2013-05-21T17:39:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I posted this on the main page as well.
Bill Polian (former NFL General Manager for the Bills, Panthers and Colts) was on Sportsnet 590 last night talking about evaluation criteria when scouting potential draft picks. And one of the factors he mentioned is a player's ability to scan the field, absorb/process all information in a split second, and react/make the right decision accordingly. I loosely interpret this to mean intelligence (not "football IQ", but general intelligence). He said that he has seen hundreds of players over the years who have all the physical gifts in the world, combined with a strong/dedicated work ethic, who have failed on the field because of their inability to process information quickly. He was mainly speaking of quarterbacks, but reiterated that it applies to all other positions as well.
Long story short, I wonder how true this is in basketball. Is general intelligence what truly separates good players from the all-time greats? Should general IQ tests be used as part of the scouting process? Do the Raptors currently have players that appear to be of high IQ (again, not "basketball IQ", but general intelligence)? | <urn:uuid:84c047e9-89f1-4b50-bf62-824a20f964d9> | 2013-05-21T17:31:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Where should we start with this joke?
1. It's time for you to jump in your car and head to Vegas!
2. Saturday's going to be a great Knight Rider!
3. You better Baywatching Saturday! (You get that the Bay is like "be," right?)
4. Take your daughter to Vegas, grab a burger, and enjoy the National Anthem!
Alright, is Everybody Happy now? Hasselhoff will sing the National Anthem at the Las Vegas Bowl this Saturday at 5pm. If that doesn't get Arizona and BYU pumped to play football, I don't know what will. | <urn:uuid:2a1d2047-9667-4cda-a6d1-1db81dbb18fe> | 2013-05-21T17:24:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The press conference on July 22 about an upcoming sports program started off fairly on topic. However, soon into it, Hugo Chavez decided the moment was ripe to announce his country was breaking off diplomatic relations with neighboring Colombia. The decision was in response to that country's expected complaint before the Organization of American States that rebel narco groups are taking refuge inside Venezuela.
Anybody who has paid attention to President Chavez's statements over the years should be familiar with his unique speaking style. His thoughts scatter over a plethora of topics that he then proceeds to unload in a stream-of-consciousness manner. But the recurrence went beyond matters of form. It was the fourth time, in less than three years, that President Chavez announced he was rupturing diplomatic relations with Colombia, and the second time he warned of outright war.
Which is to say, though it might be tempting to treat this outburst as just another hollow gesture, it would be a premature dismissal. This most recent display of umbrage could become a watershed in Chavez's history as a statesman.
To understand why, it's necessary to go back to events in March 2008. The Colombian government of now outgoing-President Alvaro Uribe, acting on intelligence procured by Minister of Defense (and now President-elect) Juan Manuel Santos that proved accurate, ordered its forces to engage insurgent militants in their territory's border with Ecuador. They ultimately ended up pursuing a high-ranking FARC member into that neighboring country in an action that resulted in his death.
President Chavez's reaction then was to announce the rupture of relations with Colombia and threaten hostile retaliations - the first and second times he did so per the count above. Yet his virulent indignation, at times louder than the one from Ecuador, resonated deeply. Country after country followed in condemning Colombia's actions. President Chavez succeeded in portraying the narrative as a case of an overzealous, and disproportionate, display of might by that country; so much so he almost turned Colombia into a pariah within the region. It was arguably the zenith of his regional leadership.
Meanwhile, the Colombian government learned an important lesson. If it wanted to pursue the fight to the border with Venezuela it needed a change of strategy. Refusing to follow diplomatic due process in Latin America, and ignoring foreign policy as a regional - as opposed to a national - construct, would prove too troublesome in the aftermath of any military action within Venezuelan territory.
So the intent became making sure the matter was viewed as a security issue and not a power play - especially not one directed against the Chavez government. Colombia would gather evidence, build a case and methodically roll out the arguments for a more secure border. In that sense, engaging Chavez through President-elect Santos' rapprochements, while taking their grievances to multi-lateral environments (like the Organization of American States), serve as two pieces of one approach as opposed to diverging policies. These tactics will continue until Colombia's security concerns are validated by a majority of the international, and especially South American, community. Only then will it move to decisively resolve the problem.
Now, it is difficult to ascertain conclusively at this time whether Hugo Chavez willingly harbors, or is knowingly or unknowingly oblivious about, insurgents taking refuge in Venezuela. What is more certain is that he has always viewed the situation as a geopolitical contest. By changing its strategy as described above, however, the Colombian government made Chavez's premise obsolete. When he announced that Venezuela would rupture relations with Colombia it was an important moment precisely because it was one more empty gesture.
So as it is, and before he realizes it, Chavez could be forced to either grudgingly allow Colombian or international forces to monitor Venezuela's borders, do it himself, accept a combination thereof or turn into an even worse pariah than the one he almost turned Colombia into more than two years ago. No matter what, it will be very hard to deny he was outplayed. So what, then, would be the aftermath of this likely debacle?
The common wisdom on Chavez would retort that he is a survivor, impossible to corner and pin down. But the problem with perpetuating power through a populist platform, like he has, is that all it takes is one bad election year to bring the whole structure down. To that, and leaving aside the matter of Colombia for a moment, consider just a few other troubles building up as his 2012 re-election bid approaches.
For one, Venezuela is facing economic havoc since Chavez's introduction of a dual exchange rate in January, and all the while he continues tapping the Central Bank for foreign reserves to fund pet projects. Add to that the country's $2.5 billion in likely debt maturing between August and April 2011. Although Venezuela will likely make payment, it will put a dent in the state's finances nonetheless.
Meanwhile, his stature as patron of the Bolivarian bloc in Latin America, a position that served to prop up his image abroad and by extension at home, is much eroded. It tumbled down precipitously following his failure to return former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, one of his close allies, to his old post. The episode turned into a stark reminder to his other partners of the lesson he has exemplified for many years: your own political survival ought to be priority number one, always.
Such factors by themselves would make it possible, albeit unlikely, that sooner than later President Chavez might face the very real prospect of being voted out of office. But the rub is that the issue with Colombia will materialize just in time to be the fulminating denouement in this series of unfortunate predicaments. In the heat of the election could he claim to be a master statesman when he so plainly misread the Colombian "threat"?
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These sprites really do not fit in Doom.
It doesn't have to be a Doom weapon...I'm just using Doom enemies to illustrate how it works. But I might end up using DN64's since there's already the Polymorph with the same sprites as this.
Consider what R667 is for. It's a resource of weapons, monsters and things for people to use in their mods, and this doesn't fit the style of Doom, Heretic, Hexen or even Strife (Well, Strife is debatable, but the angle's still way too off to fit in there).
Quite frankly, I would've rejected the Polymorph outright for the same thing. | <urn:uuid:3b033181-c970-44cb-b525-51b1e77636f0> | 2013-05-21T17:44:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Rebels are victorious over the evil Empire, but their fragile new Alliance is in jeopardy. A Hiromi spy secretly instigates a misunderstanding between the Ewoks and the Lahsbees. The conflict threatens to become an all-out war that will engulf the rest of the galaxy. Will the Rebels help the Ewoks and Lahsbees resolve their conflict before its too late?
Points of Interest:
Machook is a repaint of Graak from 2007's TAC Romba & Graak. This time around, he has a modified hood and a head with pointy ears.
Keoulkeech is a repaint of Graak from 2007's TAC Romba & Graak. This time around, he has a new head with flattened ears and wears Romba's hood and a new Stormtrooper belt. He can also wear an oversized Stormtrooper helmet.
Kettch is a repaint of Romba from 2007's TAC Romba & Graak. This time around, he wears the chest armor from a Clone Trooper (Training Fatigues). It should also be noted that "Kettch" is not the name of an actual Ewok, but was a made up character during the Wraith Squadron novels.
For more information on the Marvel Comics Star Wars comic book series, check out our cover gallery and Jedi Journals entry.
The packaging for this comic pack is not numbered, while the indicia of this comic says #36.
Photography by Dan Curto | <urn:uuid:8f6d0d44-dab6-4272-a8e9-b767bb91256c> | 2013-05-21T17:11:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Black Glutinous Rice Porridge RecipeTagged in Holiday
In a saucepan bring water and pandan leaf to a boil. Add rice and stir. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove pandan leaf and stir in brown sugar and white sugar. Continue to cook for 5 minutes. Stir in the coconut milk and remove from heat.
- 1 2/3 cups water
- 1 pandan leaf
- 3/4 cup black glutinous rice
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 2 cups coconut milk
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Suppose you had to eat either chicken or beef for the rest of your life. Which would you choose?
Way to go!
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Gingerbread is fun to work with at any time of the year. It is especially popular at holiday times. Gingerbread can be cut into most any shape you can imagine. Some shapes that are commonly used are gingerbread people, Christmas shapes, hearts, and animal shapes.
Chocolate is used in many candy recipes: cakes, cookies, and for decorating foods such as chocolate covered strawberries. Chocolate shapes, such as chocolate kisses are used in recipes such as Chocolate Drop Pretzels. We have many recipes for satisfying anyone's chocolate cravings.
There are so many delicious Christmas cookies and sweets to enjoy at Christmas time that it is hard to decide what we should make. You can make Christmas cookies, sugar cookies, breads, cakes, candies, bars, pies, tarts, and much more to share with family and friends throughout the holiday season. Christmas cookies are among the favorites during the holiday season, especially with the children. There is nothing like a frosted sugar cookie to bring a smile to everyone's face.
Chocolate covered strawberries are perfect for serving on many special occasions. Whether you serve them for someone special on Valentine's Day, on a Wedding buffet table, or at a special luncheon, they are bound to catch everyone's eye. | <urn:uuid:dc6fb7b3-624f-4f5b-be91-0b8bac23bbde> | 2013-05-21T17:11:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Cook County commissioners today approved a $20 million payment to the family of a toddler who suffered brain damage after surgery at Stroger Hospital.
Justine Francique's now 3-year-old son Keith was left with severe, irreversible brain damage after he suffered cardiac arrest following surgery to repair an undescended testicle at Stroger Hospital, according to court documents.
The boy was recovering from surgery in December 2011 when medical personnel did not initiate CPR until five minutes after his heart stopped, according to court documents.
The child was revived, but no pulse was detected for at least 15 minutes, the documents state. As a result of the heart attack and oxygen deprivation, he suffered permanent brain injury, according to the documents.
Commissioners approved the payment without discussion or opposition, along with three others, all related to malpractice claims against Stroger Hospital. The total of the settlements approved today was $24 million. | <urn:uuid:5454acbc-8f83-47fa-b196-5312ed65bf45> | 2013-05-21T17:38:52Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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'The BJP's base is shifting to the countryside'
'Youth have to be taken on board'
'Rahul should thank his mother for letting him go alone'
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Southern Polar Cap
Mars has a seasonal southern polar cap composed of carbon dioxide (CO2, commonly known as dry ice), that overlies a permanent polar cap which is a mixture of CO2 ice, water ice and dust. As the CO2 evaporates in the spring the escaping gas carves channels in the permanent cap below. Often these channels radiate outward (or converge inward), giving them a spider-like appearance.
In this false color image the seasonal frost is whitish-lavendar. The tan areas starting to show through are where the frost has already evaporated (sublimated is actually the correct term, when ice changes directly to a gas). Tan-colored dust blows around and accummulates in the bottom of some of the channels.
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The British Agricultural Revolution describes a period of development in Britain between the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, which saw a massive increase in agricultural productivity and net output. This in turn supported unprecedented population growth, freeing up a significant percentage of the workforce, and thereby helped drive the Industrial Revolution. How this came about is not entirely clear. In recent decades, enclosure, mechanization, four-field crop rotation, and selective breeding have been highlighted as primary causes, with credit given to relatively few individuals.
Prior to the 18th century, agriculture had been much the same across Europe since the Middle Ages. The open field system was essentially post-feudal, with each farmer subsistence-cropping strips of land in one of three or four large fields held in common and splitting up the products likewise.
Beginning as early as the 12th century, some of the common fields in Britain were enclosed into individually owned fields, and the process rapidly accelerated in the 15th and 16th centuries. This led to farmers losing their land and their grazing rights, and left many unemployed. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the practice of enclosure was denounced by the Church, and legislation was drawn up against it; but the developments in agricultural mechanization during the 18th century required large, enclosed fields in order to be workable. This led to a series of government acts, culminating finally in the General Inclosure Act of 1801.
While farmers received compensation for their strips, it was minimal, and the loss of rights for the rural population led to an increased dependency on the Poor law. Surveying and legal costs weighed heavily on poor farmers, who sometimes even had to sell their share of the land to pay for its being split up. Only a few found work in the (increasingly mechanised) enclosed farms. Most were forced to relocate to the cities to try to find work in the emerging factories of the Industrial Revolution.
By the end of the 18th century the process of enclosure was complete.
Joseph Foljambe's Rotherham plough of 1730, while not the first iron plough, was the first iron plough to have any commercial success, combining an earlier Dutch design with a number of technological innovations. Its fittings and coulter were made of iron and the mouldboard and share were covered with an iron plate making it lighter to pull and more controllable than previous ploughs. It remained in use in Britain until the development of the tractor. It was followed by John Small of Doncaster and Berwickshire in 1763, whose 'Scots Plough' used an improved cast iron shape to turn the soil more effectively with less draft, wear, or strain on the ploughing team.
Andrew Meikle's threshing machine of 1786 was the final straw for many farm labourers, and led to the 1830 agricultural rebellion of Captain Swing (a probably mythical character comparable to the Luddite's Ned Ludd).
In the 1850s and '60s John Fowler, an agricultural engineer and inventor, produced a steam-driven engine that could plough farmland more quickly and more economically than horse-drawn ploughs. His ploughing engine could also be used to dig drainage channels, thereby bringing into cultivation previously unused swampy land. Although faster than horse-drawn ploughing, the capital costs of a pair of engines would often be too much for a single farmer to purchase for his own exclusive use, which lead to the development of an independent contracting industry for ploughing.
During the Middle Ages, the open field system had employed a three year crop rotation, with a different crop in each of the three fields, eg. wheat and barley in two, with the third fallow. 'Fallow' is a term which means that the field is empty, there is nothing growing there. Over the following two centuries, the regular planting of nitrogen-rich legumes in the fields which were previously fallow slowly increased the fertility of croplands. The planting of legumes (leguminosae, plants of the pea/bean family) helped to increase plant growth in the empty field because they used a different set of nutrients to grow than the grains. The legumes put back nutrients the grains used, nitrates produced from nitrogen in the atmosphere, and the grains put back the minerals the legumes used. In a way, they fed each other. Other crops that were occasionally grown were flax, and members of the mustard family. Medieval record keepers did not distinguish between rape seed or other mustards grown for animal feed and mustard grown for mustard seed for condiments. When the pastures were brought back into crop production after their long fallow, their fertility was much greater than they had been in medieval times. The farmers in Flanders (current day Belgium), however, discovered a still more effective four-field rotation system, introducing turnips and clover to replace the fallow year. Clover was both an ideal fodder crop, and it actually improved grain yields in the following year (clover is part of the pea family, leguminosae). The improved grain production simultaneously increased livestock production. Farmers could grow more livestock because there was more food, and manure was an excellent fertilizer, so they could have even more productive crops. Charles Townshend learned the four field system from Flanders and introduced it to Great Britain in 1730.
The increase in population led to more demand from the people for goods such as clothing. A new class of landless labourers, products of enclosure, provided the basis for cottage industry, a stepping stone to the Industrial Revolution. To supply continually growing demand, shrewd businessmen began to pioneer new technology to meet demand from the people. This led to the first industrial factories. People who once were farmers moved to large cities to get jobs in the factories. It should be noted that the British Agricultural Revolution not only made the population increase possible, but also increased the yield per agricultural worker, meaning that a larger percentage of the population could work in these new, post-Agricultural Revolution jobs.
The British Agricultural Revolution was the cause of drastic changes in the lives of British women. Before the Agricultural Revolution, women worked alongside their husbands in the fields and were an active part of farming. The increased efficiency of the new machinery, along with the fact that this new machinery was often heavier and difficult for a woman to wield, made this unnecessary and impractical, and women were relegated to other roles in society. To supplement the family's income, many went into cottage industries. Others became domestic servants or were forced into professions such as prostitution. The new, limited roles of women, dubbed by one historian as "this defamation of women workers", (Valenze) fueled prejudices of women only being fit to work in the home, and also effectively separated them from the new, mechanized areas of work, leading to a divide in the pay between men and women.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the substantial gains in British agricultural productivity were rapidly offset by competition from cheaper imports, made possible by advances in transportation, refrigeration, and many other technologies. From that point, farming in Britain entered a period of economic struggle which continues to the present day.
Prior to the Agricultural Revolution, perhaps half of land was kept in an open-field system, which included the village commons, where such activities as wheat threshing and animal grazing might take place. Parliamentary enclosures saw much of this being taken into private plots of land. With the elimination of the manor court, private property laws prevailed over what had once been land for common usage. | <urn:uuid:f7476dd3-0ecd-49bd-b9b6-0229520328e2> | 2013-05-21T17:32:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (sometimes called simply The Lamb) is a double concept album recorded and released in 1974 by the British progressive rock band Genesis. It was their sixth studio album and the last album by the group to feature the involvement of lead singer Peter Gabriel.
Most of the music on the album was written by band members Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford, without Gabriel's participation and with little participation from Steve Hackett as well. Gabriel insisted on writing the story and all the lyrics himself, which caused friction, in particular because Rutherford had originally suggested another project for the band — an album based on Antoine de Saint Exupéry's The Little Prince. Gabriel was absent from the album's writing and rehearsal sessions due to personal problems — his wife was having difficulties with her first pregnancy — which added to the strain. However, Banks and Rutherford wrote the words for "The Light Dies Down on Broadway", as Gabriel could not come up with a linking piece between "Ravine" and "Riding the Scree". Gabriel did contribute to the writing of the music more than has been assumed; his then-wife Jill pointed out in Spencer Bright's Peter Gabriel: An Authorized Biography that he wrote the main melody for "The Carpet Crawlers", of which he is especially proud. It should also be noted that tracks like "Anyway" and "Lilywhite Lilith" were developed from earlier unused compositions by the band ("Frustration" and "The Light" respectively) which were likely to have been group efforts, in which Gabriel had played some part in creating as well.
During the album's pre-production, Gabriel was contacted by filmmaker William Friedkin, (at the time enjoying great success with The Exorcist), about a possible film project after Friedkin read Gabriel's short story on the sleeve of the Genesis Live album. Despite his bandmates' disapproval, Gabriel left them to work on some early script drafts. However, the project came to nothing (Friedkin instead working with Tangerine Dream to score his next film, Sorcerer), and Gabriel returned to the band.
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway met with mixed reviews (see above), and reached #10 in the UK, while nearly cracking the U.S. Top 40, reaching # 41 and eventually going Gold. The band went on a world tour upon its release, performing the album in its entirety 102 times. The Lamb Tour was slated to begin on October 29 1974, but due to an injury to Steve Hackett's hand, the tour was postponed until November 12 1974, days prior to the album's release to the public. Opening night for the tour commenced at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois on November 20, 1974. The final show on The Lamb tour was May 27, 1975 at the Palais des Sports in Besançon, France. Early into the tour, Gabriel decided he would be leaving Genesis, although he would finish the tour amicably with the band and not go public until August 1975.
Gabriel showed restraint for the first half of the show, dressed as Rael in leather jacket, T-shirt and jeans, while relying on effective lighting and dramatic expression without the use of props or costumes. During the second half, however, the costumes and other visuals became much more elaborate. During "The Lamia", for instance, Gabriel was surrounded by a spinning cone-like structure decorated with images of snakes. For the last verse of the song, the cone would collapse to reveal Gabriel wearing a body suit that glowed under the stage's black lights. However, the most notorious of Gabriel's costumes was the Slipperman, an outrageous naked monster with inflatable genitalia and covered in lumps. At the intro to the final song "It," a huge explosion set off twin strobes, and the audience was faced with both Gabriel and a dummy dressed identically, clueless as to which was real.
Although these visuals were, as in past concerts, meant to enhance the experience, the rest of the band became frustrated with the press focusing only on the theatrical side of the show and not the musicianship. Another problem for the band was that many fans reacted as if Gabriel was the star and the rest of the group merely his backing band. Collins stated in Hugh Fielder's 1984 book, The Book Of Genesis, that backstage after a Lamb concert, "people would steam straight past Tony, Mike, Steve and I, go straight up to Peter and say, 'You're fantastic, we really enjoyed the show.' It was becoming a one-man show to the audience."
Aside from the band's frustration at the amount of attention given to Gabriel, the tour was frought with other difficulties. According to Tony Banks, the slides which accompanied the music never worked perfectly and came close to working perfectly on only four or five occasions. Gabriel often had difficulty getting a microphone near enough to his mouth to be heard in some of his costumes, especially the Slipperman. And, during a performance of "It" in one concert in Oslo, a stage manager's error resulted in an explosion so intense that it caused the band to stop playing, fearing for their safety. Still, the concerts were not without some enjoyable surprises: at the final Lamb concert in Besançon, roadie Geoff Banks, just for a laugh and without telling the band beforehand, put on the dummy's leather jacket and – wearing nothing else – replaced the Gabriel dummy on stage for the intro to "It." Collins said it was an image he will never forget.
Genesis never had any of their Lamb concerts filmed in their entirety, although several pieces from the show were filmed, including some bootleg footage taken by audience members. There is a nearly-complete audio recording of their Lamb performance from January 24, 1975 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles that is available on their box set, Genesis Archive 1967-75, although it has some re-recorded vocals and guitar parts by Gabriel and Hackett, as both men were dissatisfied with their performances on the original concert recording. Also, the tape ran out during the performance of "It," so a remastered version of the studio original, with a new lead vocal by Gabriel, is substituted.
In 2004, Genesis considered reuniting for a brief reunion tour of "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway." All five former band members met in November 2004 to discuss the possible "Lamb" tour, but ultimately Gabriel bowed out due to his solo commitments, which precluded Hackett's participation. In 2007, Banks, Collins and Rutherford went ahead with the Genesis reunion tour without Gabriel and Hackett, playing only a couple of "Lamb" songs during the show, the standard live numbers "In the Cage" and "Carpet Crawlers." However, the trio had all stated that they still hope a reunion tour of "The Lamb" with Gabriel and Hackett would still happen at some point, but it all depends on Gabriel's availability and commitment.
A SACD / DVD double disc set (including new 5.1 and Stereo mixes) is planned for release in November 2008.
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The story explains how Huey, Dewey and Louie originally joined the Junior Woodchucks. Years ago, when the boys were still very small, they were up to so much mischief that Donald finally got fed up with it and decided that something must be done. By chance, he ran across a scout group of the Junior Woodchucks, and this inspired him to send his nephews to join the organisation.
At the annual grand jamboree of the Junior Woodchucks, the boys discovered that their own grandmother is the daughter of the organisation's founder. Thus interested, the boys wanted to join the Junior Woodchucks immediately. The chiefs originally didn't want to accept them, but when they learned they were the great-great-grandchildren of their original founder, they accepted them immediately. They never had descendants of their founder before, even though Huey, Dewey and Louie weren't the first ones to try; Donald had also tried to join them, but was rejected because of his bad temper.
As novices in the Junior Woodchucks, the boys' first task was to find the remains of the Fort Duck, which was demolished to make room for Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin. The trail led the boys, accompanied by Major Snozzie, to a wood pulp factory owned by Scrooge, where the logs from the fortress were about to be made into pulp. But when the worker responsible for the pulp making learned of the logs' origin, as a former Junior Woodchuck himself, he immediately stopped the machines, to avoid destroying the historical remains.
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Former boxing champ Mike Tyson to take one-man show on the road
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson plans to take his one-man theater show on the road across the United States early next year.
Tyson, 45, made the announcement on ABC's late-night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Tuesday.
"Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth" is an autobiographical monologue performed by Tyson in which he reflects upon his tough childhood in Brooklyn, the absence of his father and his self-described "reckless and destructive" behavior. It premiered in Las Vegas in April and had a run on Broadway.
Tyson, whose reputation was boosted by a cameo in the 2009 hit comedy "The Hangover," told Kimmel that his inspiration for the show came from a one-man performance of "A Bronx Tale" in Las Vegas.
The 23-date tour, which features the Broadway show directed by Spike Lee, is scheduled to begin on February 12 in Indianapolis, Indiana, the city where Tyson was convicted in 1992 of raping then 18-year-old beauty queen Desiree Washington.
Tyson, who at the age of 20 became the youngest world heavyweight champion, served three years in prison before restarting his boxing career in 1995.
He later became better known for his erratic behavior than for his prowess in the ring. Tyson notoriously bit off portions of opponent Evander Holyfield's ears in a 1997 bout and publicly said he wanted to eat British champion Lennox Lewis' children.
Tyson retired from boxing in 2006.
(Reporting By Eric Kelsey; Editing by Patrica Reaney)
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Just when it seemed that Ai Enma was finally at peace, Yuzuki Mikage appears: the perfect host for Ai's damned spirit to possess! Now, as the darkest secrets of the Hell Girl threaten to consume her, Yuzuki's attempts to maintain her own humanity become ever more desperate as the world around her slowly shatters into a terrifying series of riddles.
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Cliff Drysdale has an impressive resume as a tennis player, commentator, director and stadium designer. One of the first players to ever use a two-handed backhand, his 33 singles titles rank him among the top 50 players of all time. During the height of his playing days, he held the national singles championships of Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland and South Africa. Mr. Drysdale played a major role in the development of professional tennis by being elected to serve as the first president of the ATP in 1972-73, and was a player representative on the Men’s Tennis Council from 1974-81. He also served four years on the National Executive Committee of the United States Tennis Association and six years on the National Board of the United States Professional Tennis Association.
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Snoring is the hoarse or harsh sound that occurs when your breathing is obstructed in some way while you're sleeping. Sometimes snoring may indicate a serious health condition. In addition, snoring can be a nuisance to your partner.
As many as half of adults snore at least occasionally. Snoring occurs when air flows past relaxed tissues in your throat, causing the tissues to vibrate as you breathe, which creates those irritating sounds.
Lifestyle changes, such as losing weight, avoiding alcohol close to bedtime or sleeping on your side, can help stop snoring.
In addition, medical devices and surgery are available that may reduce disruptive snoring. However, these aren't suitable or necessary for everyone who snores.
Depending on the cause of your snoring, in addition to the noise caused by snoring, you may also experience:
See your doctor if:
These may indicate your snoring is caused by a more serious condition, such as obstructive sleep apnea.
If your child snores, ask your pediatrician about it. Children can have obstructive sleep apnea too. But, nose and throat problems — such as enlarged tonsils — and obesity often underlie habitual snoring in children. Treating these conditions could help your child sleep better.
There are a variety of factors that can lead to snoring, such as the anatomy of your mouth and sinuses, alcohol consumption, allergies, a cold, and your weight.
When you doze off and progress from a light sleep to a deep sleep, the muscles in the roof of your mouth (soft palate), tongue and throat relax. The tissues in your throat can relax enough that they vibrate and may partially obstruct your airway. And, the more narrowed your airway, the more forceful the airflow becomes. This causes tissue vibration to increase, which makes your snoring grows louder.
The following conditions can affect the airway and cause snoring:
Snoring occurs when air flows past relaxed tissues, such as your tongue, soft palate and airway, as you breathe. The sagging tissues narrow your airway, causing these tissues to vibrate. ...
Risk factors that may contribute to snoring include:
Habitual snoring may be more than just a nuisance. Depending on the cause of your snoring, it may result in:
Preparing for your appointment
You're likely to first see your family doctor or a general practitioner. However, you may then be referred to a doctor who specializes in treating sleep disorders or an ear, nose and throat specialist (otolaryngologist).
Because appointments can be brief, and there's often a lot of ground to cover, it's a good idea to arrive well prepared. Here's some information to help you get ready for your appointment, and what to expect from your doctor.
What you can do
Your time with your doctor may be limited, so preparing a list of questions can help you make the most of your time together. For snoring, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
In addition to the questions that you've prepared to ask your doctor, don't hesitate to ask questions during your appointment at any time that you don't understand something.
What to expect from your doctor
What you can do in the meantime
Tests and diagnosis
Using sensors placed on your head and various parts of your body, polysomnography records your brain waves, blood oxygen level, heart rate and breathing rate, as well as eye and leg movements during sleep.
Sometimes, these tests can be done at home, but the in-center sleep tests tend to be more accurate than those done at home.
Treatments and drugs
Your doctor will likely first recommend lifestyle changes, such as losing weight, avoiding alcohol close to bedtime and changing sleeping positions. If lifestyle changes don't eliminate snoring, your doctor may suggest:
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
For moderate to severe sleep apnea, your doctor may recommend a common therapy device called a nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine. A CPAP machine delivers just enough air ...
Lifestyle and home remedies
To prevent or quiet snoring, try these tips:
Because snoring is such a common problem, there are numerous products available, such as nasal sprays or homeopathic therapies. However, most of the products haven't been proven effective in clinical trials. For example, MSM (methylsulfonylmethane) is marketed in a nose drop formula to treat snoring, but there's no evidence it has any effect on snoring.
Therapies that might help ease your snoring include:
Coping and support
If your partner is the one who's snoring, you may sometimes feel frustrated as well as fatigued. Suggest some of the home remedies mentioned, and if those don't help quiet your partner's nocturnal noisemaking, have your partner make a doctor's appointment. In the meantime, earplugs or earphones hooked up to soothing music might help block some of the noise. Or, you could try going to sleep at different times. Maybe if you're already asleep when your partner starts snoring, it might not bother you.
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Interstate 95 in Virginia
Interstate 95 in Virginia traverses 178.93 miles north-south, including the 3.20-mile-long overlap with I-64 and the 7.56-mile-long overlap with I-495. I-95 runs from the North Carolina border in Greensville County to the District of Columbia border (Potomac River) in the City of Alexandria (I-95/I-495 makes landfall in Maryland after crossing the Potomac River). I-95 serves the towns and cities of Emporia, Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Chester, Richmond, Ashland, Fredericksburg, Falmouth, Dale City, Woodbridge, Springfield, and Alexandria. I-95 was built near to and parallel to existing major interregional highways; US-301 from North Carolina to Petersburg, US-1/US-301 from Petersburg to Richmond, and US-1 from Richmond to the District of Columbia. Virginia I-95 has four Interstate spur and loop routes, I-195 and I-295 in the Richmond area, and I-395 and I-495 in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C.
The terrain that Virginia I-95 crosses is generally Piedmont gently rolling land through the southern, central and northern part of the state. The Fall Line passes through Richmond, west of Fredericksburg, and west of the District of Columbia. Much of the route from Richmond to Northern Virginia is through heavily forested areas. I-95 crosses two major transportation barriers, the James River (the James River Bridge is 4,185 feet long) in downtown Richmond, and the Potomac River (the Woodrow Wilson Bridge is 6,120 feet long) from Virginia to Maryland.
I-95 crosses a wide variety of both rural areas and major urban areas. It runs through the cities of Petersburg and Colonial Heights, serving a metropolitan area of 130 thousand population called the Tri-Cities, which also includes the city of Hopewell. I-95 runs through Richmond, the state capital, a metropolitan area of 800 thousand population. I-95 also passes through the city of Fredericksburg, and that metropolitan area has over 140 thousand people. I-95 serves Northern Virginia, which is the regional name of the Virginia suburbs of D.C., with a population of almost 2 million people. I-95 serves the entire D.C. region of 4.7 million people, which includes the District of Columbia, the Virginia suburbs, and the Maryland suburbs. Military installations served by I-95 and its spurs and loops (I-195, I-295, I-395, I-495) include Fort Lee near Petersburg, the Quantico U.S. Marine Corps Reservation near Triangle, Fort Belvoir near Lorton, and the Pentagon in Arlington. Major commercial airports served include Richmond International Airport and Washington National Airport. The once-planned I-595 Airport Connector from I-395 to National Airport was built as a partially-access-controlled highway upgrade of US-1, and the George Washington Memorial Parkway forms the limited access highway link from I-395 to the airport.
Route openings. The first section of I-95 in Virginia to open to traffic was on July 1, 1958 with the 29.9-mile-long section of the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike (RPT) from US-301 in Petersburg to US-301 in Henrico County just north of Richmond, and the RPT was a state-built revenue-bond-financed tollroad (no state or federal tax revenue used). The RPT was a tollroad from its inception until July 1, 1992 when it became toll-free and all the toll booths were removed. The first section of federally-funded Interstate highway (from the 1956 federal highway act) to be completed in Virginia was the 4.87-mile-long I-95 Emporia Bypass which opened on Sept. 9, 1959. The remaining 8.6 miles of I-95 from the Emporia Bypass to the North Carolina border opened in June 1963. The 10.8-mile-long section from the RPT to VA-35 in Prince George County opened in 2 sections in Oct. 1961 and Oct. 1962, and this directly tied into the 28-mile-long 4-lane rural US-301 highway that provided a continuous 4-lane route that also tied directly into the I-95 Emporia Bypass. That section of US-301 was widened to 4 lanes divided in 1958, and with just one traffic signal at VA-40 in Stony Creek, it provided the effective completion of I-95 in Southside Virginia (I know, it wasn't a limited access highway, but it provided near-rural-Interstate highway width, alignment, speed and capacity, and no other traffic lights needed to be added before I-95 was built through there). The 10.9 miles of I-95 from the north end of the RPT to VA-54 at Ashland was opened in Feb. 1963. The 17.6-mile-long VA-350 Shirley Highway was completed on May 24, 1952, from US-1 just north of the Occoquan River at Woodbridge to the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River into D.C.; and it was incorporated into the Interstate system in 1965, and it was reconstructed to urban Interstate standards from 1965-1975. The 71-mile-long section of I-95 from VA-54 at Ashland to the south end of Shirley Highway was opened in 3 sections in 1964 (the last on Dec. 18, 1964), completing I-95 from Richmond and Petersburg to the District of Columbia, and effectively completing I-95 in Virginia (see my note above). The 18.3 miles of US-301 from Jarratt to VA-35 was reconstructed to Interstate standards and completed in 5 sections between Oct. 1979 and June 1980. The final 9.5 miles in I-95 in Virginia, from the I-95 Emporia Bypass to Jarratt, opened in 2 sections in mid-1982, with the last section, the southern 4.9 miles, on Sept. 15, 1982. Nationally, I-95 runs 1,907 miles from Miami, Florida to the Canada border at Houlton, Maine.
Traffic volumes on I-95 vary widely. VDOT 1997 traffic volume data follows. Figures are published rounded to the nearest 100. At the North Carolina border I-95 carries 36,000 annual average daily traffic (AADT) with 20% large trucks; at US-58 at Emporia the AADT is 34,000, at VA-40 at Stony Creek it is 30,000 with 20% large trucks; and from VA-35 to I-295, the AADT is 38,000 with 17% large trucks. Traffic volume just north of I-295 is 28,000 with 9% large trucks, and volume increases northward, reaching 38,000 just south of the I-85 junction in Petersburg with 12% large trucks. I-95 north of I-85 is much busier, with 76,000 and 9% large trucks just north of the junction. The traffic stream of I-95 north of the junction essentially splits into 2 traffic streams (I-95 and I-85) each with about half the traffic, south of the junction. At Colonial Heights just north of VA-144 Temple Avenue, the AADT is 75,000; just north of VA-10 Chester it is 90,000; and from VA-150 Chippenham Parkway to Maury Street it ranges from 83,000 to 88,000. The James River Bridge carries 116,000 AADT with 9% large trucks, and the same volume extends to the I-64 downtown interchange. The I-95/I-64 3.2-mile-long overlap carries 126,000 with 9% large trucks. The volume is 102,000 just north of US-1, and 84,000 at Parham Road, and ranges from 84,000 to 97,000 from I-295 to VA-54 at Ashland, with 14% large trucks. Volumes from VA-54 to VA-3 at Fredericksburg range from 70,000 to 84,000, with the higher volumes on the south end of the section, the lowest just south of VA-3, and the large trucks are 16%. North of VA-3, the volumes are much higher, with 120,000 and 9% large trucks just north of VA-3. From US-17 north of Fredericksburg to VA-784 Dale Boulevard at Dale City, the volumes range from 106,000 to 128,000 AADT. Just north of VA-123 at Woodbridge, the AADT is 175,000 with 9% large trucks. Traffic just south of the VA-644 Franconia Road interchange is 195,000, and from VA-644 to I-495 is 285,000. Volume on the I-95/I-495 portion of the Capital Beltway ranges from 164,000 to 174,000 with 9% large trucks.
Number of lanes. These sections of I-95 were initially built with 6 lanes: 19 miles from Maury Street in south Richmond to VA-54 at Ashland, and 11 miles from VA-619 at Triangle to the US-1 interchange just north of the Occoquan River. The rest of I-95 was initially built with 4 lanes.
In 2000, I-95 in Virginia has 6 lanes for 101 miles from the I-85 junction in Petersburg to just south of the VA-234 interchange in Prince William County, where the center reversible roadway begins/ends. For the next 19 miles to the Springfield Interchange (I-95/I-395/I-495), the highway has 8 lanes with a 3-2-3 three-roadway arrangement with the center roadway reversible for HOV-3 for peak period traffic and unrestricted traffic otherwise (actually a 3-mile section from I-495 south has a 4-2-4 arrangement), and Shirley Highway continues in that configuration as I-395 to the 14th Street Bridge. At the Springfield Interchange (it is NOT the Mixing Bowl, recent 1998-1999 local newspaper articles notwithstanding), I-95 transfers between Shirley Highway and the Capital Beltway. The 7-mile-long I-95/I-495 Capital Beltway section from the Springfield Interchange to US-1 at Alexandria has 8 lanes on a standard 4-4 configuration, narrowing to 6 lanes at US-1, and is 6 lanes across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
Major Interstate widening projects on I-95 include: Widened 9 miles of Shirley Highway from US-1 just north of Woodbridge to I-495 at Springfield (from 4 to 6 lanes, completed 1968). Widened 2/3 mile of I-95 at US-1 just north of Woodbridge (from 4 to 6 lanes, completed about 1980); this brought the only remaining 4-lane section north of VA-619 at Triangle to 6 lanes or more. Widened 22 miles from I-85 in Petersburg to Maury Street in south Richmond (from 4 to 6 lanes, completed 1977-78), joining the original 6-lane section from Maury Street northward. Widened 58 miles from VA-54 at Ashland to VA-619 at Triangle (from 4 to 6 lanes, completed 1983-87); joining the original 6-lane sections at either end. Widened and/or reconstructed 19 miles from VA-234 at Dumfries to I-495 at Springfield (from 6 to 3-2-3 and 4-2-4, completed 1995-97), this widening overlaps the previous 1968 9-mile-long widening project. This is a total of 108 miles of Interstate widening projects on I-95 in Virginia.
Current major construction projects on I-95 in Virginia include the I-95 James River Bridge reconstruction (completed 2002) and the
New interchanges added to the original I-95 are: In Henrico County, I-295 in Oct. 1980. In Prince George County, I-295 in June 1992. In Petersburg, Wagner Road in June 1989. In Colonial Heights, Ivey Avenue in Feb. 1989. In Chesterfield County, VA-288 in November 1989. In Alexandria, Eisenhower Avenue Connector, 1998.
For more details, see my articles Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway (I-95 and I-395) and Capital Beltway (I-495 and I-95) and Springfield Interchange Project and Woodrow Wilson Bridge (I-495 and I-95) and 14th Street Bridge Complex (I-395 and US-1) and Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike (I-95/I-85) and I-295 and I-195 Beltline Expressway and Richmond Beltway and Route 895 Connector and Richmond Interstates and Expressways. See David "ZZYZX" Steinberg's Interstate 95 page for description of the national I-95 route.
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Five Must-Knows When Getting A Kanji Tattoo
Q: What do famous celebrities like Pink, Britney Spears and the Spice Girls? Mel C all have in common?
A: They all have Japanese tattoos!
Japanese tattoos are cool. Of course, if you have money to burn like any of these ladies, you can afford to hire a professional translator to pick out the perfect character combination. But if personal translation is out of your league how can you avoid becoming a kanji fashion victim and get stuck with a tattoo you will really regret?
1. Know the difference ? hiragana, katakana and kanji
Before you talk to your tattoo artist, make sure you know what you are talking about. You say you want a Japanese tattoo, but what do you know about Japanese characters? You need a quick stint in 2-minute Japanese boot camp.
First off, let?s be clear that there is no Japanese ?alphabet?. There are three sets of Japanese characters ? hiragana, katakana and kanji ? and each group has its own history, function and style. Get your head around these facts and you will already know more than 99% of the people walking around with Japanese tattoos right now:
These simple, rounded characters represent sounds, but have no independent meaning. They were developed by women in the Heian period and are still considered feminine by Japanese people.
Developed by Buddhist monks around the same time as hiragana, these are simple, angular characters that also represent sounds and have no meaning of their own. You saw them cascading down the screen in Matrix (although they were backwards!)
Originally from China, these characters are like pictures, representing a meaning and also several different sounds depending on the situation.
Just reading this has probably given you an idea of which style you might like for your tattoo ? but don?t stop just yet! Now you know what kinds of Japanese characters there are, let?s move on to?
2. Writing styles
Come a bit closer. Lean forward towards the screen. That?s right. Now, look at the words in front of you. Take a good, close look at the shapes of these letters. OK? Now tell me honestly: Would you want a tattoo in Times New Roman? How about Tahoma? What?s that? You don?t want a tattoo by Canon or Epson? Sure you don?t. And in the same way, you don?t want to have your Japanese tattoo looking like a printout either!
So, now we move on to writing styles. Just like there are three kinds of Japanese characters, there are also three ways they can be written. Don?t worry. This is easy! I know, you are thinking that you can?t even read Japanese, so how on earth will you be able to recognize these different styles? Well, try this:
Block letters. You learned to write your ABCs like this, and Japanese kids learn to write their characters in just the same way: Like a Volvo ? boxy but good.
Cursive letters. You moved up to middle school and learned you could write faster by letting the parts of some letters flow into the next. Yes, you guessed it - the Japanese do the same thing, and they call it gyousho.
Super-cursive letters. Ever seen a prescription from a doctor? Then you know what sousho is like in Japanese: Sure, the writer or some other trained person can (probably) read it, but no one else has a clue what it says!
Are you getting the picture? If you want to look like a computer printout, then be my guest and go for the kaisho style. That?s your choice. But I think you probably want to use either gyousho or sousho for your tattoo. My personal preference would be gyousho: It?s stylish, but it won?t leave even native speakers baffled.
3. Real or fake?
Remember I mentioned Mel C at the beginning? Well guess what kanji she got tattooed on her arm? That?s right ? ?Girl Power?: Great in English, but show this kanji combincation to most Japanese people and you?ll get a blank look at best. Want a worse example? Try ?big daddy?. Now, you know what it means in English, but put it into kanji and you end up with ?large father?! It just doesn?t work.
I?m sure you remember that kanji are the only characters that have meaning as well as sound. And their beauty means that they are what most people want for their tattoos. But watch out: As well as being popular, they can also be the most dangerous!
Let?s see if we can find a pattern here: Look carefully at the examples above. What are they communicating - concrete concepts or abstract ideas? Can you see the difficulty the translators had? The kanji for ?dragon?, ?samurai?, ?love? or any other concrete ideas are pretty easy to discover. But go for anything with an idiomatic meaning and whoever is trying to help you translate it is going to get a major headache!
Just an idea, but how about this suggestion: Rather than trying to force a round English peg into a square Japanese hole, why not find a real Japanese phrase that you like and get that instead? Bushidou (the Way of the Warrior) and Ninjutsu (The Art of Stealth) are two good examples of real Japanese terms that would make great tattoos.
4. Your name in Japanese
As I?m sure you remember from 2-minute Japanese boot camp, katakana are the characters usually used to write foreign words and names. So, if you want to get a tattoo of your name, technically these would be the characters you would choose. But I am guessing that, like most people, you want your name written in kanji.
Do a quick search on Google and you can find a number of sites that specialize in translating names into kanji. Basically there are two different methods that these sites use, so let?s look at them here.
Translating the meaning ? This method involves finding out the original meaning of the English name, and then researching the kanji equivalent.
For example, my name has its origins in Greek and means ?crowned one?. The one who is crowned is the king, so I could translate my name into the kanji for king and call myself ohsama. (Perhaps a little pretentious ? and disturbingly similar to Mr. Bin Laden?s first name!)
Translating the sound ? This is a lot more difficult! Flick through a dictionary and you will find a bunch of kanji that can be combined to sound like your name. But sound isn?t everything: Remember that kanji have meaning as well. In fact, it is even more complex than this! Be sure to check each of the following factors with anyone who translates your name like using this method:
* Sound ? Does it sound like your name or not? I have seen my name ?translated? on certain websites to sound like Stefan. Shame my name (Stephen) is actually said the same as Steven!
* On-yomi and kun-yomi ? Yes, more technical words! But don?t panic ? they are easy to understand: Basically, kanji have two kinds of reading. One kind, on-yomi, is their original Chinese sound. The other, kun-yomi, is their Japanese-only sound. What to watch is that (like oil and water) on-yomi and kun-yomi don?t mix. Use either all on-yomi reading or all kun-yomi readings to make the sound of your name.
* Meaning ? Do the kanji have a good meaning together? Now, it can be very difficult to find kanji that sound right and have a good meaning, so you may need to compromise a little on one of these.
* Masculine or feminine ? I guess this is more like a sub-category of meaning, but it is something you need to check out to avoid embarrassment. For example, while ?Asian Beauty? may be a great combination for a woman, I get the feeling most men would not be too happy about having that permanently written into their skin!
5. If in doubt, check!
First, use your new-found knowledge of Japanese to ask a few difficult questions to your tattoo artist or kanji ?specialist?. If you get the feeling they don?t know what they are talking about, you probably want to look elsewhere.
Next, before you get anything permanent done, use an online dictionary (like the one at http://kanjidict.stc.cx/dict) to check whether the Japanese really means what you want it to. You may not be able to input Japanese yourself, but you can copy and paste characters from an email or web page and see what they mean.
Finally, if you are lucky enough to know any, ask a Japanese person what they think. Their confused expression may tell you that you have come up with another ?big daddy?!
Follow this advice and you will avoid the most dangerous pitfalls of Japanese tattoos and get a kanji tattoo you can be proud of.
About the Author: Stephen Munday lives in Japan and is the creator of http://www.japanese-name-translation.com/ where you can download images of over 2,200 names in kanji or have a unique phrase translated into Japanese for a tattoo. | <urn:uuid:526bd6f9-5d73-48d2-bb8a-3de319a8715b> | 2013-05-21T17:45:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Today we celebrate the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ. There has been no event in the history of the world more amazing than the Nativity of Christ. The Lord God Pantocrator, who created the visible and invisible world and all that is therein with but a single word, that Same God humbled Himself, took for Himself Flesh of the Most-blessed Virgin Mary, was born in a cave, and as a helpless Infant, was laid in a manger.
Heaven was terrified, and the ends of the earth moved. A tremendous miracle and mystery had taken place, one utterly beyond the comprehension not only of man, but of the highest of the heavenly host.
For what reason did the Lord come down to earth?
There is but one answer: in order to save man. We should recognize that if the Lord performs this act for man, man must be of some particular value [to God], for [He] would not have employed such a means to salvation for the sake of anything worthless or insignificant. One thousand years before the Nativity of Christ, the king and prophet David had exclaimed in bewilderment [in Psalm 8: 4-5]: "O Lord, what is man, that Thou art mindful of him? And the Son of man, that Thou visitest him? For Thou madest him a little lower than the Angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor." We have even more cause to fall in fear and reverence before the Lord and cry out: "Lord, what is man, that Thou didst not disdain a virgin womb, that Thou didst hide Thy Divinity and didst deign to become a man?" What is man after all? The Word of God says: man is God's finest creation.
Man is the image of God.
All was created by God's all-powerful word. God said: "Let there be light: and there was light" [Genesis 1:3]. "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind "[Gen. 1:11], and it was so. And God said: "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of Heaven" [Gen. 1:20]. And everything happened according to the word of God. When all was arranged, God turned to the creation of man, but only
after, as it were, deliberation and counsel. In what caused St Gregory of Nyssa to marvel, God [the Father] as it were invited the other Persons of the Holy Trinity to confer together. For the Lord first said: "Let Us make man in Our Image, after Our Likeness..." [Gen. 1:26]. "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life" [Gen. 3:7].
The Lord created man by a special act: He first created the body, and then breathed into it the "breath of life," i.e. he instilled in it as it were a portion of His Divine Essence. That is why in the Psalm [Ps. 82:6 KJV/81:6 Septuagint], the Prophet David has God say about people: "I have said, ye are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High." The Incarnate Lord Jesus Christ Himself confirmed the Truth of those words to the Jews who
were prepared to stone Him to death, accusing Him of making Himself equal to God by calling God his Father. The Lord replied to them thus: "Is it not written in your law, I said, 'Ye are gods' and the scripture cannot be broken?" [John 10:34-35]. Thus, man is the image of invisible God, and has within him a "tiny piece" of Divinity. Man was so fine and beautiful before the Fall into sin, and even more so after his redemption by the Lord, that Saints to whom the mysteries of heaven had been revealed, e.g. Makarios of Egypt, would say: "there is nothing finer than the human soul either on earth or in heaven." Man was predestined for blissful happiness, but because of the devil's envy, he fell, betrayed God, went voluntarily over to the side of the slanderer, the devil, and desired to know not only the good which he had known in paradise, but also evil, which he had not theretofore known. Having fallen away from God, he fell under the sentence earlier pronounced by God: "Thou shalt die."
Adam and Eve were spiritually devastated. Their intellect became darkened and clouded, their will perverse, their heart twisted; where they had been given a heavenly body, they now received crude matter, like unto that of cattle. Because of them, the earth was cursed, and they themselves were doomed to sorrow and to knowledge of evil--that which they, on the devil's advice, had sought to know. The more mankind multiplied, the darker and more sullied did he become. Lest man fall into despair and utterly perish, the Lord promised him that in time the family of the wife (not the husband) - i.e. Christ, born of a Virgin, by the Holy Spirit--would crush the head of the serpent and would save man. It is this mysterious event that we now celebrate. The Lord took pity on His creation, and came down to earth, in order to save the sheep that had been lost to predators. He came down to earth in order to raise us up to Heaven once again. He took on the form of a man, took upon Himself the sins of all mankind, "God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son."
Jesus Christ opened the closed gates of paradise. He rebuilt the spiritual ladder by which man may ascend to Heaven. In taking on human flesh, the Lord raised man above the ranks of Angels, and robed him in glory greater than that of Adam in Paradise before the Fall.
If we are in fact true Christians, if we force ourselves to act on the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who had came for our sake, then we will also be with the Lord, as He promised his disciples in their final talk before His Ascension. The Lord said that those who are vouchsafed the Kingdom of God will become bright as the sun. On Mt. Tabor, the Lord revealed to man his future glory. His face was like the sun, His garments sparkled like lightning. That external beauty and glory was but a tiny hint of the enormous glory that is within, for according to the prophet "the kings daughter is all glorious within..."
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No cases of overdose were reported during GLUMETZA (metformin hcl) clinical trials. It would be expected that adverse reactions of a more intense character including epigastric discomfort, nausea, and vomiting followed by diarrhea, drowsiness, weakness, dizziness, malaise and headache might be seen. Should those symptoms persist, lactic acidosis should be excluded. The drug should be discontinued and proper supportive therapy instituted. In other metformin clinical trials, hypoglycemia has not been seen even with ingestion of up to 85 grams of metformin, although lactic acidosis has occurred in such circumstances (see WARNINGS). Metformin is dialyzable with a clearance of up to 170 mL/min under good hemodynamic conditions. Therefore, hemodialysis may be useful for removal of accumulated drug from patients in whom metformin overdosage is suspected.
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1810 - Born on December 8th in New Britain, Connecticut. American crusader for peace and a code of international law.
1826 - At sixteen he was apprenticed to a blacksmith, and he made this his trade both there and at Worcester, Massachusetts.
1828 - He supported the plan of William Ladd, founder of the American Peace Society, for a congress of nations to formulate international law and for a court of nations to interpret that law.
1840 - He mastered Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian and German, and by the age of thirty could read nearly fifty languages.
1848 - He organized peace congresses in Brussels, Paris, Frankfurt am Main, London, and other cities.
- He wrote, for insertion in European newspapers, a succession of single pages called Olive Leaves, presenting pacifist arguments with emphasis on an international law code.
1865 - He was U.S. consul at Birmingham.
1873 - Among his much-read books were Sparks from the Anvil and Ten Minute Talks.
1879 - Died on March 6th in New Britain.
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Swedish-American painter who was born in Attmar, Medelpad, Sweden 11 June 1855. Olof Grafstrom graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1882. After painting in Sweden for several years, he first came to the United states in 1886 and lived in Portland, Oregon where one of his paintings won a silver medal at the1890 Exposition. Several other of his paintings, including one, "A View of Spirit Lake" which shows Mt. St Helens before it's eruption in 1980, were also awarded honors at various competitions.
Olof Grafstrom lived for a time in Portland, San Francisco and Spokane before moving to Kansas where he taught at Bethany College from 1893 to 1897. From 1897 to 1926 he headed the Art Department at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. and painted hundreds of landscapes, portraits and large altar pieces during his time there before suffering a heart attack in 1926 and returning to Sweden, where he died 30 March 1933 in Stockholm.
Samples of Olof Grafstrom's work reside at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Augustana College in Rock Island, IL., at several museums and the Stockholm Palace in his native Sweden, as well as in many private collections. His large altar pieces can still be found in several older Lutheran churches across America including his "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane" 1899 at the First Lutheran Church, Lake City, MN., "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane",1894 in Trinity Lutheran Church in Worcester, MA., and "The Risen Christ" 1915 at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Seattle, WA.
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Ivey Adell Lambert, a retired teacher and Republican Party activist who called Sacramento's Curtis Park neighborhood home for almost a century, died Nov. 15 at 96, her family said.
Mrs. Lambert taught English, speech and art to thousands of students for 38 years. Starting before World War II, she spent time at Nevada City High School, Sacramento City High School and Redwood City High School before teaching many years at Sacramento City College. She was the first director of art education at Cosumnes River College, where she retired in the 1970s.
Mrs. Lambert was an active member and leader in many groups. She started a Republican Club at Sacramento City College during the 1960s and belonged to the California Republican Central Committee and California Republican Women. She founded the Presbyterian Women group and was an elder at Faith Presbyterian Church in Sacramento.
In Curtis Park, Mrs. Lambert was a beloved neighbor and pioneer. She was born Feb. 15, 1916, in a home that her father built in 1911 on Second Avenue, which later became Fifth Avenue, said her son Kent.
She was the only surviving child of Mabel and Richard Ruiter, a contractor who built many of the first houses in Curtis Park. She spent most of her life in a second home he built on Fifth Avenue, where she hosted tea parties and gatherings for friends.
A matriarch of five generations, she also served as a surrogate grandmother for many neighborhood families.
"She held their babies and spent holidays with them," her son said. "People told me that she was the only grandmother their families knew."
Mrs. Lambert graduated from Sacramento High School and Sacramento Junior College and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in art from Mills College. She belonged to PEO Sisterhood and was a former president of the Sacramento City College Emeriti Affiliates.
She had three children and was married for 31 years to William A. Lambert, a lawyer and Republican activist who died in 1978.
She is survived by her children, William Lambert of Richland, Wash., Louise Fredericks of Oroville, and Kent Lambert of Colorado Springs, Colo.; eight grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.
A service was held Nov. 21. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Faith Presbyterian Church, 625 Florin Road, Sacramento, CA 95831; POE Chapter IP in care of Elaine Fowler, 15031 Guadalupe Drive, Rancho Murieta, CA 95683; or Gideons International, www.gideons.org. | <urn:uuid:9561e4f5-0df0-4ed5-a4ec-09f7b0d4622d> | 2013-05-21T17:40:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Clinton was questioned Wednesday about Rice, who is facing withering GOP criticism over her initial account of the deadly raid on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died in the September attack.
Rice is seen as the top candidate to replace Clinton, who has made clear that she would step down in President Barack Obama's second term. Clinton said the decision on her successor was up to the president.
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The Malagrotta Affair was one of the major events that lead up to the Reunification War. The incident occurred in February of 2573 and was a 'misunderstanding' on all sides during an increasingly volatile time. Both the Star League and Federated Suns had become angry over the continued indifference of the Taurian Concordat; the Periphery nation would not bow or acknowledge the Inner Sphere's authority. But the Concordat was not entirely clean in this debacle, as long-buried records imply that the 'error' in navigation was less accident and more intent to gauge House Davion's resolve.
In 2499 the Taurian Concordat explored the Malagrotta star system and discovered on one of the moons orbiting the gas giant DeeCee was tremendously rich in titanium. But right on their heels came a Davion exploratory mission in the same system. Though colonized first by the Taurians, mining rights to the moon of Fontana were granted to both Taurian and Davion mining concerns following the Omsol Accord in 2511. This treaty was one of the very few times a resolution was made without military force, a great rarity of the era. The treaty also stipulated that neither the Concordat nor the Federated Suns could establish a military presence in the system. For over 60 years separate mining operations were successful for both nations when, during the escalating hostilities leading to the Reunification War, a small Taurian WarShip flotilla entered the system accidentally. The frightened Davion mining crews immediately notified a Davion fleet that happened to be waiting in a nearby system. The larger Davion fleet jumped into the system and found the five Taurian vessels orbiting the moon. Unable to communicate with the 'invading' Warships, the Davion officers ordered an attack, destroying two Wagon Wheel-class Warships and capturing a third vessel.
Though the Taurians were technically in the wrong, the Davion response went far overboard. First Lord Ian Cameron ordered both parties to come to him and let him mediate. However, Alexander Davion attempted to cover up the errors of his officers, and Protector Caterina Calderon was not kind in her assertion that the matter was solely between the Federated Suns and the Taurian Concordat; the First Lord and his Star League had no right to control mediation. Thus, an irate First Lord declared the Taurians in the wrong and even commented "We have been compassionate long enough. I'll be damned if I am going to pull anymore punches." Several months later, Protector Caterina Calderon offered an apology and restitution. However, the apology was too little and too late to prevent the oncoming cataclysm. Nineteen months after the Affair, Ian Cameron delivered the Pollux Proclamation and set what would become the Reunification War into motion. | <urn:uuid:73b4ce3e-7771-4fe4-8d10-342f825d76c3> | 2013-05-21T17:37:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Comparative Environmental Economic Analysis of the Tourism Sector in the MENA Region
Since the beginning of the 1990's, the tourism sector has rapidly grown in the MENA countries with adverse environmental effects. The relationship between environmental requirements and tourism productivity is complex. In fact, ecologists consider that tourism activities are incompatible with the current lack of resources (e.g. fresh water, energy) and may lead to large landscape and shore deteriorations. On the other hand, managers argue that tourism activities create high value-added and incentives for protecting the natural patrimony. The reality lies somewhere in between. In order to set the limits in this domain, policies are needed.
The comparative environmental economic analysis of the tourism sector in the MENA region will help to link environmental and economic perspectives. The project approach consists in estimating the monetary value of environmental damages
The project will offer decision-making tools
that can balance the economic and environmental perception of tourism. The findings and conclusions will support the policy-makers' strategic choices and prioritizing.
The project aims to define and analyse decision-makings tools (based on the monetary valuation of the environment) for the tourism sector in the MENA region in order to ensure the economic efficiency of environmental protection (i.e. to guarantee that the most efficient remediation measures are used first).
The overall goal of such environmental economic study is to address several normative issues to guide tourism activities.
The environmental economic approach applied to the tourism sector in the MENA region will answer the following questions:
- What are the economic benefits for the tourism sector to protect the environment?
- What are the most efficient remediation measures to be applied in the tourism sector?
- What is the share of the tourism sector (meso level) in the national degradation of the environment (macro level)?
The project will also provide answers to the following questions:
- What are the indicators allowing the monitoring of the environmental degradation evolution at the micro level (hotel, resort, chain, touristic village, etc.)?
- What are the best-chosen indicators to obtain a relevant comparative approach of environmental degradation due to tourism (meso level) in the MENA region?
Additionally, the project will take into account potential problems that the tourism sector will face:
- What would happen to water resources in case of a massive influx of tourists?
- What is the impact of the development of tourism infrastructure on coastal ecosystems and natural resources?
- How will the tourism sector evolve environmentally in the MENA region?
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To conduct such environmental economic study, it is important to define first the potential damage and inefficiency related to the tourism sector in the MENA region. In this respect, the following environmental categories will be addressed:
- Soil degradation
- Air pollution
- Energy consumption
- Water consumption and pollution
The analysis will observe the impact of tourism on the demand of water and natural resources, on traffic congestion and emissions as well as its impacts on land quality (landscape, littoral).
The project requires secondary data to highlight the economic dimensions of the tourism sector (VA, turnover, direct and indirect employment, number of tourists, prices) and its environmental repercussions (resources used, waste generated, pollutant emitted).
The project will have three major outputs:
- Database of environmental and economic information. This database will be an important tool for managing the environmental dimensions of the tourism sector in the MENA region. It will also indicate where important information is missing in order to be collected.
- Analysis of the main environmental economic results in order to decision-making process and priority setting of tourism managers and policy-makers in the MENA region.
- Final executive report highlighting main findings of the project that will also be published in an international peer reviewed scientific magazine for a wide dissemination.
This research is supported by a grant from the Economic Research Forum: www.erf.org.eg
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June 14, 2007 At one time Cyclone Gonu was a powerful Category 5 storm packing sustained winds of 160 mph (139 knots), according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, making it the most powerful cyclone ever to threaten the Arabian Peninsula since record keeping began back in 1945. Fortunately the storm weakened significantly by the time it brushed the far eastern tip of Oman, but it still threatened petroleum shipping lanes in the northern part of the Arabian Sea that are unprepared for such an intense cyclone.
While tropical cyclones occasionally form in the Arabian Sea, they rarely exceed tropical storm intensity. In 2006, Tropical Storm Mukda was the only tropical system to form in the region and it remained well out to sea before dissipating.
Gonu became a tropical storm on the morning (local time) of Sat., Jun. 2, in the east-central Arabian Sea. After some initial fluctuations in direction, it settled on a northwesterly track and began to intensify. Gonu strengthened from tropical storm intensity on the morning of June 3 to Category 2 that night. By daybreak on June 4, Gonu had intensified to Category 4 with winds estimated at 132 mph (115 knots).
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured an image of Gonu as it was moving northwest through the central Arabian Sea. Taken on Mon., Jun. 4 at 0323 UTC (11:23 p.m. EDT on Sun., Jun. 3), it shows the horizontal distribution of rain intensity looking down on the storm. TRMM reveals the tell-tale signs of a potent storm. Not only does Gonu have a complete, well-formed symmetrical eye surrounded by an intense eyewall (innermost red ring), this inner eyewall is surrounded by a concentric outer eyewall (outermost red and green ring). This double eyewall structure only occurs in very intense storms. Eventually the outer eyewall will contract and replace the inner eyewall.
Another image provides a unique 3-D perspective of Gonu using data collected from the TRMM Precipitation Radar from the same overpass as the previous image. Higher radar echo tops are indicated in red. The areas of intense rain in the previous image are associated with deep convective towers both in the innermost eyewall and in parts of outer eyewall. The inner ring has the higher tops at this time. Deep convective towers near the storm's center can be a precursor to future strengthening as they indicate that large amounts of heat are being released into the storm's core. At the time of these images, Gonu was a Category 4 cyclone. Several hours later, Gonu reached Category 5 intensity.
The system finally began to weaken during the night of June 4 and was downgraded to a Category 3 storm at 1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. EDT) on June 5.
NASA's Quikscat spacecraft also observed Gonu. Its SeaWinds scatterometer, a specialized microwave radar, measured near-surface wind speed and direction within the storm.
Gonu continued to weaken as it neared the coast of Oman. The center remained just offshore Oman's northeast coast as a Category 1 storm before turning northward towards Iran, where it is expected to make landfall as a tropical storm.
TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. QuikScat is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI / NASA GSFC). Caption by Steve Lang (SSAI / NASA GSFC), Mike Bettwy (RSIS / NASA GSFC), and NASA/JPL/QuikScat Science Team.
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Sep. 13, 2012 It's not a magic trick and it's not sleight of hand -- scientists really are using levitation to improve the drug development process, eventually yielding more effective pharmaceuticals with fewer side effects.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to use sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing different pharmaceuticals. While the connection between levitation and drug development may not be immediately apparent, a special relationship emerges at the molecular level.
At the molecular level, pharmaceutical structures fall into one of two categories: amorphous or crystalline. Amorphous drugs typically are more efficiently taken up by the body than their crystalline cousins; this is because amorphous drugs are both more highly soluble and have a higher bioavailability, suggesting that a lower dose can produce the desired effect.
"One of the biggest challenges when it comes to drug development is in reducing the amount of the drug needed to attain the therapeutic benefit, whatever it is," said Argonne X-ray physicist Chris Benmore, who led the study.
"Most drugs on the market are crystalline -- they don't get fully absorbed by the body and thus we aren't getting the most efficient use out of them," added Yash Vaishnav, Argonne Senior Manager for Intellectual Property Development and Commercialization.
Getting pharmaceuticals from solution into an amorphous state, however, is no easy task. If the solution evaporates while it is in contact with part of a vessel, it is far more likely to solidify in its crystalline form. "It's almost as if these substances want to find a way to become crystalline," Benmore said.
In order to avoid this problem, Benmore needed to find a way to evaporate a solution without it touching anything. Because liquids conform to the shape of their containers, this was a nearly impossible requirement -- so difficult, in fact, that Benmore had to turn to an acoustic levitator, a piece of equipment originally developed for NASA to simulate microgravity conditions.
Levitation or "containerless processing" can form pristine samples that can be probed in situ with the high-energy X-ray beam at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source. "This allows amorphization of the drug to be studied while it is being processed," said Rick Weber, who works on the project team at the synchrotron.
The acoustic levitator uses two small speakers to generate sound waves at frequencies slightly above the audible range -- roughly 22 kilohertz. When the top and bottom speakers are precisely aligned, they create two sets of sound waves that perfectly interfere with each other, setting up a phenomenon known as a standing wave.
At certain points along a standing wave, known as nodes, there is no net transfer of energy at all. Because the acoustic pressure from the sound waves is sufficient to cancel the effect of gravity, light objects are able to levitate when placed at the nodes.
Although only small quantities of a drug can currently be "amorphized" using this technique, it remains a powerful analytical tool for understanding the conditions that make for the best amorphous preparation, Vaishnav explained.
Argonne researchers have already investigated more than a dozen different pharmaceuticals, and the laboratory's Technology Development & Commercialization Division is currently pursuing a patent for the method. Technology Development & Commercialization is also interested in partnering with the pharmaceutical industry to develop the technology further as well as to license it for commercial development.
After adapting the technology for drug research, the Argonne scientists teamed up with Professors Stephen Byrn and Lynne Taylor at the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University and Jeffery Yarger of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University. The group is now working on identifying which drugs the levitation instrumentation will impact most strongly.
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The chemical traces of water have been found in this moon rock, called the Genesis Rock. The moon rock was collected by astronauts during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971 and is thought to be a piece of the moon's primordial crust. Image: NASA/Johnson Space Center
The discovery of "significant amounts" of water in moon rock samples collected by NASA's Apollo astronauts is challenging a longstanding theory about how the moon formed, scientists say.
Since the Apollo era, scientists have thought the moon came to be after a Mars-size object smashed into Earth early in the planet's history, generating a ring of debris that slowly coalesced over millions of years.
That process, scientists have said, should have flung away the water-forming element hydrogen into space.
But a new study suggests the accepted scenario is not possible given the amount of water found in moon rocks collected from the lunar surface in the early 1970s during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions. By "water," the researchers don't mean liquid water, but hydroxyl, a chemical that includes the hydrogen and oxygen ingredients of water.
Those water-forming elements would have been on the moon all along, the scientist said. [Water on the Moon: The Search in Photos]
"I still think the impact scenario is the best formation scenario for the moon, but we need to reconcile the theory of hydrogen," study leader Hejiu Hui, an engineering researcher at the University of Notre Dame, told SPACE.com.
The results were published in Nature Geoscienceon Sunday (Feb. 17).
Water in moon's 'Genesis Rock'
Past studies have suggested water-forming elements came to the moon from outside sources long after the moon's crust cooled. The solar wind — a stream of particles emanating from the sun — as well as meteorites and comets were pegged as possible sources ofwater depositson the moon in recent studies.
But that explanation does not account for the amount of water found in the Apollo samples, the researchers stated in the new study.
Because they found hydroxyl deep inside each sampled rock, the scientists say they have eliminated the solar wind moon water explanation, because those particles can penetrate the surface only slightly. An impact from an asteroid or comet could push the hydrogen in further, but it would not be as pristine as the samples the researchers observed, because it would have melted from the heat of the asteroid collision.
Researchers probed samples from the late Apollo missions, including the famous "Genesis Rock" that was named for its advanced age of 4.5 billion years, about the same time the moon is thought to have formed.
Using an infrared spectrometer, the researchers found water embedded in the Genesis Rock, as well as all the Apollo samples they studied. This implies that the various landing sites of Apollo 15, 16 and 17 each had water present.
Hui's research flies in the face of past analyses of Apollo rocks that found they were very dry, except for a small bit of water attributed to the rock containers leaking when they were returned to Earth.
Past instruments that analyzed these samples, however, were not very sensitive. Hui said those older spectrometers had a sensitivity of around 50 parts per million (ppm), while his instruments were able to detect water at concentrations of about 6 ppm in anorthosites and 2.7 ppm in troctolites, which are both igneous rocks found in the moon's crust.
Troctolites form in the highlands as part of the moon's highland upper crust, and anorthosites are believed to be a part of the moon's "primary" crust, which solidified around the same time as other bodies in the solar system. | <urn:uuid:6f64d0fb-6a9f-4041-a215-454df9c1625b> | 2013-05-21T17:37:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Build a working wind turbine and use it to conduct more than 20 experiments, including using it to generate electricity to power an LED or charge a battery.
Vary the number of rotor blades, different blade angles and profiles, different wind speeds, different gear ratios, and more to learn the physics of force, motion, and vectors.
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