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The EU drugs action plan (2009-2012)05 January 2010
by Ina Dimireva -- last modified 06 January 2010
This action plan establishes five priorities to be implemented in the fight against drugs: coordination at European and national levels, reduction of demand for drugs, reduction of supply of drugs, international cooperation and information on the drugs phenomenon.
EU Drugs Action Plan for 2009-2012 of 20 December 2008 [Official Journal C 326 of 20.12.2008].
Following on from the EU drugs action plan 2005-08, the current action plan builds on the measures established to coordinate drugs policy in Member States. These two action plans implement the EU drugs strategy for 2005-12, which was adopted by the European Council in December 2004. The overall aim of these instruments is to reduce the demand for and supply of drugs, as well as the social and health damage the use of and trade in drugs causes.
Based on the existing framework, the action plan for the period 2009-12 provides for specific actions under five priority areas:
Improve coordination
In order to develop and implement drugs policy more effectively, coordination and cooperation at the European and national levels must be strengthened. The Council's Horizontal Drugs Group (HDG) should pro-actively coordinate EU drug policy. At the same time, the Council together with the Commission must ensure that the internal and external drugs policies are coherent. To move forward with specific and urgent issues, the national drugs coordinators should be convened on a regular basis.
At the national level, a balanced and integrated approach should be taken in forming drugs policy, with the civil society enabled to participate in informing thereof. The Commission should consult the Civil Society Forum on Drugs at least once a year and invite civil society (via "The European Alliance on Drugs" initiative) to contribute to the fight against drugs.
Reduce demand
The measures that reduce drug use and the related health and social consequences must be made more effective. In particular, the accessibility to as well as availability and quality of services that prevent, treat and reduce harm should be improved. Successful prevention programmes and interventions should be made available for a variety of target groups. Due regard should be given to the specific needs of drug users, especially in terms of age, gender, cultural background, etc. Targeted measures should also be put in place to prevent high risk behaviour of drug users.
The offer of drug treatments that consist of both psychological and pharmacological measures should be improved and new rehabilitation and re-integration programmes developed. The availability and effectiveness of demand reduction interventions should be surveyed by Member States. They should also agree on common minimum quality standards and benchmarks for these services.
Member States should make more use of sanctions other than prison to punish drug-offenders. At the same time, services for drug users in prison should be developed, with particular emphasis placed on health care as well as follow-up care upon release. Member States should also take steps to guarantee access to appropriate services to prevent the propagation of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and other blood-borne infectious diseases, as well as to reduce the number of deaths caused by drugs.
Reduce supply
Law enforcement cooperation at European level must be improved in order to fight drug production and trafficking effectively. To that end, multidisciplinary operations involving Europol, Eurojust, as well as police, customs and border control services should be used to a greater extent through bilateral and multilateral cooperation initiatives, namely joint investigation teams (JIT) and joint customs operations (JCO). Furthermore, judicial cooperation among Member States should be improved, especially by encouraging the full application of EU instruments for mutual recognition and assistance.
With a view to responding to emerging threats in a rapid and effective manner at the operational level, regional security platforms, such as the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre – Narcotics (MAOC-N) and the Baltic Sea Task Force (BSTF) should be set up. At the same time, manufacturing and supplying of synthetic drugs as well as the trafficking of drug precursors must be diminished. This requires enhanced border control management and international operational cooperation.
Improve international cooperation
The effectiveness of cooperation with third countries and international organisations must be improved. The EU drugs policy must be incorporated into the general development and security agenda. Alternative development projects and programmes should be supported through increased financial aid. Projects aimed at producer countries and countries along trafficking routes should be stepped up to reduce the demand for and supply of drugs. Similarly, regional and intraregional cooperation funded by Member States and EC programmes should be enhanced with third countries. Monitoring and assessment tools must also be developed to evaluate EU assistance.
The European integrated and balanced approach to the drugs problem should be promoted, in particular through the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). Furthermore, EU drug-related activities should be coordinated with a wide range of international programmes.
Finally, the candidate and stabilisation and association process countries should be given technical and other assistance so that they may become familiar with the EU acquis and take the necessary actions concerning drug-related issues. Such dialogue should also be developed with the European Neighbourhood Policy countries.
Improve understanding of the drugs phenomenon
Understanding of the drugs phenomenon in the EU must be increased, not least to raise awareness among citizens, but also to expand the knowledge base for public policy. This should be achieved through the promotion of research and of exchanges of drug-related data.
It is essential that monitoring instruments, such as the five key epidemiological indicators of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), be further developed to assess the drug situation in Europe. Member States must regularly evaluate their drug policies and amend them accordingly.
The current action plan shall be reviewed annually. In addition, the implementation of the EU drugs strategy for 2005-12 and of this action plan shall be assessed in 2012, with a view to considering any follow-up actions.

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text: CHICAGO—Bally CEO Paul Toback, who earned $900,000 in bonuses in 2005, will earn an additional $900,000 if he is terminated without cause before February 2007, according to a document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Bally's compensation committee and the board of directors approved a modification agreement to Toback's employment agreement on Aug. 6. On that same date, the nominating and corporate governance committee and the board of directors agreed to pay the following one-time bonuses: $35,000 to the lead director; $35,000 to the chairman of the audit committee; and $25,000 to the chairmen of the compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees. Bally will also pay $17,500 to each co-chairman of the strategic alternatives committee for each of the third and four quarters of 2006. The payment for the audit committee members also doubled from $1,000 to $2,000 for meetings held from January through June of this year. For more information, read the full report here http://phx.corporate-ir.net/


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I was watching a show on Comedy Central the other night as one of the standup comedians launched into a bit about a topic that most of us do not typically find terribly funny - death. He began by suggesting that burying people in the ground may be quite misguided. After all, most of us would like to believe that our dearly departed are heading off to receive their just rewards "up there." So why start them off by burying them beneath the ground? Seen in this light, he felt that placing their last remains underground was counterproductive and suggested putting the freshly deceased in catapults and propelling them towards the heavens instead. I laughed pretty hard when I first heard this and I'm chuckling again now. This is very good for my health and I plan to tell this joke several times since I am of the opinion that doing so will help me live longer.
This is consistent with other decisions I have made in the past as a longevity doctor. In my own life, I try to set a good example to my patients and show that I am willing to go the extra distance. For instance, a few years ago I began drinking alcohol more frequently after I learned that consuming one or two glasses of red wine a day is associated with increased longevity.
According to some recent studies, the folks at Reader's Digest hit the nail on the head when they say that "Laughter is the best medicine." Scientific proof of this has come from the medical school at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Dr. Sven Svenbak tracked 54,000 Norwegians for seven years and discovered that those individuals who found life the funniest lived longer than their less mirthful countrymen. People who found the world to be the most humorous were 35 percent more likely to still be alive at the end of the seven years of the study and cancer patients were many times more likely to survive if they managed to maintain their sense of humor despite their cancer diagnosis.
Norman Cousins calls laughter "a form of internal jogging" and recent studies from Greece have shown that the act of hearty laughter, just like physical exercise, decreases arterial stiffness. Japanese researchers have demonstrated better blood sugar control in diabetics who laugh regularly, while research from Western Kentucky University has shown that laughter can improve the cancer killing ability of NK (natural killer) cells. Other studies have shown that laughter can decrease stress, increase pain tolerance, reduce depression and improve quality of life.
"I have horrible news and terrible news for you," said the doctor. "Give it to me straight, doc. What's the horrible news?" asked the patient. "You have terminal cancer. I figure 6 months at the most." "And the terrible news?" he asked. "You also have Alzheimer's." "Well, it could be worse," said the man. "At least I don't have cancer!"
Happy Anti-aging!
Terry Grossman, M.D.
For more information about longevity medicine visit Dr. Grossman's Web site
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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by Edward Tenner, M.D.
The autoimmune bullous skin diseases, pemphigus (with major subsets pemphigus vulgaris, pemphigus foliaceus and paraneoplastic pemphigus) and the more common bullous pemphigoid (with variant disease phenotypes of cicatricial pemphigoid and gestational pemphigoid) each may have ocular manifestations.
Diagnosis of PV is made by a characteristic clinical presentation, histological suprabasilar intraepithelial acantholysis, IgG autoantibodies on the cell surface by direct immunofluorescence testing of a biopsied lesion and the presence of circulating antiepithelial autoantibodies.1 The incidence of PV varies between 1/million in the general population to over 1/100,000 among Ashkenazi Jews in Israel. This variability correlates to a strong association of PV in individuals with selected class II MHC genes. For instance, 90% of Ashkenazi Jews with PV carry the gene allele DRB1 *0402.
New advances in characterization of the antigen and autoantibodies involved in autoimmune bullous diseases have helped elucidate the mechanism of the epithelial damage. Pathophysiologically, PV is caused by autoantibodies against desmoglein 3 (Dsg 3), a glycoprotein that localizes to the core of desmosomes. These autoantibodies cause acantholysis in the deeper suprabasal epidermis which is where Dsg 3 is mainly located. Dsg 3 is also located throughout the oral and other mucous membranes including the conjunctiva where blisters also occur in PV.2 ELISA tests for autoantibodies against desmoglein 1 (Dsg 1) and Dsg 3 are recently available that differentiate pemphigus vulgaris (anti-Dsg 3 IgG detected) from pemphigus foliaceus (only anti-Dsg 1 IgG detected), and the clinical subtypes of PV i.e. mucosal dominant (anti-Dsg 3 IgG detected) and mucocutaneous (anti-Dsg 3 IgG and anti-Dsg 1 IgG detected).
While almost uniformly fatal before the advent of corticosteroid treatment, PV can now be controlled in most patients and the mortality rate is less than 5%. Along with prednisone, an immunosuppressive drug is often needed. Azathioprine and mycophenolate mofetil are the most commonly used but in unresponsive patients cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine, or chlorambucil can be substituted.
After seeing a patient with active PV and ocular involvement, a search of the medical literature was sparse concerning ocular involvement in PV. In cooperation with the International Pemphigus Foundation a survey was undertaken to determine the prevalence and extent of ocular involvement in this rare disease.
Questions relating to the eye were part of an International Pemphigus Questionnaire that appeared in the Foundation's website, discussion group and quarterly newsletter. A total of 158 responses were collected in 1999. Of these, 134 were from patients with PV and only those responses were considered.
The general disease parameters from the survey approximate what is generally known about PV, such as average age at onset in the sixth decade and equal occurrence in males and females (Table 1). Questions were framed to differentiate between prior eye problems and new ones appearing during the course of PV. New eye problems after being diagnosed with PV were reported in 62% (83 out of 134 persons). Cataract, glaucoma or both developed in 32% (43 out of 134 persons). Since most of these patients were on high dose glucocorticoid treatment, this ocular involvement most likely was treatment related and not due to PV. Although there are reports of cataract formation in pemphigus foliaceus, there is little about cataract with PV in the medical literature.
Disease related ocular involvement excluding cataract and glaucoma was noted by 40% (53 out of 134 persons), which is detailed in Table 2. It is noteworthy that blisters occurred not only on lid margins and conjunctiva but also on the eyelids themselves.3 While past reports indicate that conjunctivitis is the most common ocular involvement in PV4, the survey indicates that eyelid involvement is equally common.
The importance of careful ophthalmologic care for patients with PV as their disease is being treated is apparent with almost two-thirds of those surveyed having ocular problems at some time. Also because tearing and foreign body sensation due to conjunctival involvement can precede the appearance of mouth and skin lesions in PV as noted in an article by Hodak5, ophthalmologists may be among the first to see patients with this often misdiagnosed disease. Early care should minimize ocular morbidity.
- Nousari HC, Anhalt GJ. Pemphigus & bullous pemphigoid. The Lancet 1999; 354: 667-672.
- Mahoney MG, Wang Z, Rothenberger K, Koch PJ, Amagai M, Stanley JR. Explanations for the clinical and microscopic localization of lesions in pemphigus foliaceus and vulgaris. J Clin Invest.1999; 103: 461-468.
- Seishima M, Oyama Z, Shimizu H, Naganawa Y, Yoshimura T, Yamazaki F. Pemphigus of the eyelids. Eur J Dermatol. 2001; 11: 141-143.
- Ekong AS, Foster CS, Roque MR. Eye involvement in autoimmune blistering diseases. Clin Dermatol. 2001; 19: 742-749.
- Hodak E, Kremer I, David M, et al. Conjunctival involvement in pemphigus vulgaris: a clinical, histopathological and immunofluorescence study. Br J Dermatol. 1990; 123: 615-620.
TABLE I. General findings in 134 PV patients
|79 (59%) Female
|55 (41%) Male
|Clinical presentation
|40 (30%) Mucosal
|94 (70%) Mucocutaneous
|Average age, yrs
|50.3 At onset of disease
|55.5 At time of report
TABLE II. Ocular finding in 134 PV patients
|Periocular skin & eyelid involvement
|18 (13%)
|19 (14%)
|Corneal problem
|7 (5%)
|34 (25%)
|15 (11%)
|Misc. (iritis, dry eyes, herpes simplex, blurred vision, blisters on eyes)
|23 (17%)
|Total with eye problems (some had more than one type of involvement)
|83 (62%)


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Here is the diaper cake:
Saturday, August 27, 2011
My latest Baby Shower
Here is the diaper cake:
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
PKS Let's Face it Friday Challenge--Shape Card
The latest Let's Face it Friday Challenge over at the Peachy Keen Stamps blog is a shape card. I have a friend who just bought her first house and I needed a card to go with her housewarming gift. This challenge was perfect for it!
Since I didn't win the faces in the last challenge (LOL), I used my Everyday Paper Dolls face assortment set for the face on the heart. I then covered the heart and the tulips with glossy accents to add some texture. I used liquid pearls for the door knob. If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks for looking!
Ink: Stampin' Up!, Tim Holtz distress ink (walnut stain)
Cartridges: Create a Critter
Stamps: Everyday Paper Dolls (PKS)
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
PKS-Let's Face It Friday-So Punny!
Ok, I admit....this is my first time to create a card like this....ever. I really want to win the PKS Basic Paper Doll Assortment Face set!! It is so cute! I only have the Everyday Character Face Assortment and I NEED the Basic Face Assortment to use for all my paper doll and other creations!!! LOL!!!
I am entering this card into the Let's Face It Friday-So Punny! Challenge over at the PKS challenge blog. For all the info, click HERE. All you have to do is link up a card using a pun sentiment and a PKS face stamp. I had no idea where to start, but I found this older Stampin' Up! set (One Smart Cookie) that I thought would be perfect. That's really where I got my idea. I looked for a bunch of grapes on my cricut cartridges, but I don't own a cartridge with a bunch of grapes! Oh no, what to do?!?! Improvise and make your own!! I punched the circles with a 3/4" circle punch and layered them together to look like a bunch of grapes. I cut the leaves from the 50 states cartridge and created my own stem. I tried out an embossing folder technique that I saw Christina do a couple of weeks ago. I think this card came out really cute!! I need to pull out those face assortment sets and use them more often. If my number gets chosen to win the PKS Basic Face Assortment set, I'll have more to choose from!!!! :) Thanks for looking!!!
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1Seven women will take hold of one man*
on that day, saying:
"We will eat our own food
and wear our own clothing;
Only let your name be given us,
put an end to our disgrace!"
2* On that day,
The branch* of the LORD will be beauty and glory,
and the fruit of the land will be honor and splendor
for the survivors of Israel.
3Everyone who remains in Zion,
everyone left in Jerusalem
Will be called holy:
everyone inscribed for life* in Jerusalem.a
4When the Lord washes away
the filth of the daughters of Zion,
And purges Jerusalem's blood from her midst
with a blast of judgment, a searing blast,b
5Then will the LORD create,
over the whole site of Mount Zion
and over her place of assembly,
A smoking cloud by day
and a light of flaming fire by night.c
6For over all, his glory will be shelter and protection:
shade from the parching heat of day,
refuge and cover from storm and rain.d
* [4:1] Seven women…one man: deportation (cf. note on 3:1–12) would result in a disproportion of the sexes and leave the female population without enough male partners. The women are willing to marry, not for support, but to avoid disgrace.
* [4:2–6] Usually judged a later addition to the oracles of Isaiah. It relieves the threatening tone of the surrounding chaps. 3 and 5.
* [4:2] Branch: the term (Heb. semah) that is sometimes used of the ideal Davidic king of the future (cf. Jer 23:5; 33:15; Zec 3:8; 6:12). However, the parallel "fruit of the land" does not favor that usage here.
* [4:3] Inscribed for life: in God's list of the elect; cf. Ex 32:32.
a. [4:3] Is 6:13; Ob 17; Mal 3:16.
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The world depends on mariners. Mariners depend on SCI. And we depend on you.
Photos of Christmas at Sea distribution to employees of Kirby Offshore Marine on Staten Island, NY, taken December 2012.
Photos by David Rider, President & Executive Director.
Volunteer knitters from around the country knit garments as symbols of SCI's mission of hospitality. Each year, SCI distributes these warming gifts to mariners far away from home.


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I thought I would share with you my latest project. I am hosting a baby shower for a dear friend of mine and I'm really excited to do so! Here are the invitation that I made for the shower!
I loved this card because the entire baby carriage is covered with glitter! It's not often you can get by with glitter for a baby boy!!!
There will be more projects for this baby shower to come! Thanks for looking! If you have any questions, just let me know!
Stamps: PK baby faces
Paper: Stampin' Up bashful blue, certainly celery, chocolate chip, and whisper white
Accessories: SU Satin ribbon (old olive), scallop and oval punches, dots embossing folder, glitter, Baby Steps cricut cartridge, copic markers, computer font for sentiment
Thursday, June 30, 2011
My latest project
I thought I would share with you my latest project. I am hosting a baby shower for a dear friend of mine and I'm really excited to do so! Here are the invitation that I made for the shower!
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
First Copic Card!
I recently discovered a very talented crafter--Darlene from darlenedesign.com. She was my main inspiration for this card. After surfing many blogs and watching many videos, I settled on buying Gina K. Designs paper to use with my copic markers. It was very affordable for me! Then after watching several video tutorials, I attempted my first coloring project with copics. Well, I'm pleased with the results! What do you think? I also used some nestabilities dies for layering and I really like how this card turned out! Thanks for looking!!
Paper-Stampin Up!
Stamps- Fabulous Florets and Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU!)
Ink-Stampin Up! Classic Ink
Accessories- Perfect Pearls spray mist, punches (SU!), copic markers, stickles, seam binding, nestabilities
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Labels: copic, fabulous florets, nestabilities, perfect pearls, stickles, sympathy, teeny tiny wishes
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Happy Birthday to my Friend
One of my dear friends celebrated her birthday a couple of weeks ago. Me being the crafty girl that I am decided to make her a birthday present. Despite many attempts to discover the length and width of my friend's camera strap I had to flat out ask her. I wanted to make her a camera strap cover for her Canon ISXI camera. Seeing that I have a Rebel I could not use the measurements from mine. I found the inspiration for this project HERE. She has a wonderful tutorial on how to make these. Instead of quilting mine, I just make one long strap out of a single piece of fabric. I also made one for my camera and it's very comfortable!
Of course I had to make her a birthday card that accompanied it!
All supplies are SU!
Thanks for looking! If you have any questions, please let me know!
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Labels: birthday, camerahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif strap, card, queen, sew suite


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In a case of much ado about nothing--well, certainly nothing "intimate"--the legal system is on the Duggar family's side.
E! News has learned that photographer Theresa Hunt plead guilty today in a Federal Court in Davenport, Iowa on one count of extortion. In February, Hunt was arrested after demanding TLC's show 19 Kids and Counting be canceled or parent company Discovery pay her $10,000 in order to ensure she would not release, what she called, "intimate" photos of Amy Duggar and singer James Garrett.
Check out a 19 Kids and Counting Sneak Peek: Alleged Extortion Targets Amy Duggar and James Garrett Talk Music
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The photo in question, featuring 25-year-old Amy (the daughter of Jim Bob Duggar's older sister) and 58-year-old Garrett was later released and was hardly risqu. It featured the two at a restaurant called McFarlands after they both had performed in a John Denver Tribute Show.
Since the beginning, Garrett has claimed he and the family are "all laughing about" the attempted extortion. James is still close with the Duggar family and had a guest appearance on 19 Kids and Counting on Feb. 28, 2012. The episode featured Amy singing at his Branson tribute show.
"I was saddened to find that the person extorting the Discovery Channel with pictures of Amy Duggar and me was Teresa Hunt, my personal photographer for shows I produce in Branson, Missouri," Garrett said in a statement to E! News.
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"As many news outlets have reported, the pictures were just harmless photos of the two of us after performances in my show," Garrett continues. "In fact, they weren't even Teresa's photos, they were taken from mine and Amy Duggar's Facebook pages. I'm satisfied that Teresa has taken responsibility for her actions by pleading guilty to the extortion charges and hope she gets the help she needs."
Hunt's sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 9th.


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Apple's new wearable computers will be for fitness enthusiasts rather than gamers, according to a new report.
Apparently that's where the cultural zeitgeist is heading, CNNMoney reported. Because Apple has hired health and fitness experts, is working with Nike and seems to be hiring more health and fitness app developers, it appears to be the case. If you're still not convinced, Apple already has placed a processor in the iPhone 5S to keep track one's activity.
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Now with patented headphones that can track heart rate, sweat and body temperature, we are heading toward what's coined as the integrated life -- where one's movements, breath and heartbeats are captured and analyzed. In essence, Apple isn't going to put out another innovative iPhone, but rather accessories for that iPhone that work with health and fitness apps.


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Phone: (719) 228-6800
E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
To view the U.S. Men's 2011 FIVB World League Media Guide, click here.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 7, 2011) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team will face Brazil in an official FIVB match for the first time since the finals of the 2008 Olympic Games in two World League matches on June 11-12 (6 a.m. PT both days) at the Mineirinho in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
The U.S. Men won that final match in Beijing, 20-25, 25-22, 25-21, 25-23. But some things have changed in two years.
Brazil, ranked No. 1 in the world, is even better, U.S. team captain and outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) said.
"They have a true opposite," Priddy said. "They were struggling at that position. With (Leandro) Vissotto, for the first time since I've been playing internationally, they really have a true opposite that can hit high balls and get them out of bad situations.
"Their setters have that much more experience. The rise of Murilo (Endres) is significant. They always seem to have world-class, elite outside hitter in the wings."
Brazil has won every FIVB World League since 2002, except for 2008 when the U.S. Men won the Final Round in Rio de Janeiro, defeating Brazil in the process. Since 2008, Brazil has won every major international men's volleyball title, including the 2009 World Grand Champions Cup and the 2010 World Championship.
Brazil is coached by Bernardo Resende. His son Bruno, was the backup setter in Beijing, is now the team's starter.
So far in the 2011 World League, the South American team has defeated Puerto Rico in two three-set matches (25-15, 25-19, 25-16 and 25-19, 31-29, 25-23) and over Poland in one sweep and one four-set match (25-23, 26-24, 25-21 and 28-26, 23-25, 26-24, 25-23). It is leading Pool A with a 4-0 record while the U.S. Men, ranked fifth in the world, sit in second at 3-1; their only loss is a first-match sweep in Poland on May 27.
It's their own game, not necessarily Brazil's that the U.S. Men are focusing on, Priddy said.
"It's interesting because I really think that given the first two weekends, the best thing we can do is try to improve on taking care of the ball on our side of the net," Priddy said. "We still have a lot of things on our side of the net that can be cleaned up: free-ball passes, transition hitting and setting. Unforced errors are not something we want to be in the fabric of what this team is made of."
The U.S. Men have added setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach) and opposite Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) to their roster. Hansen had to sit out the first two weekends of World League after having his appendix removed in May.
The U.S. Men have several players among the leaders in individual statistics.
After his seven-ace performance in Puerto Rico, including four in a row in the fourth set of the second match on June 4, U.S. opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii) leads all servers with 11 aces and 12 faults on 74 attempts (0.79 aces per set). Priddy is fourth among all servers with six aces and nine faults on 65 attempts (0.43 aces per set).
Priddy leads the U.S. Men's Team in scoring and is fourth overall with 68 points on 54 kills, eight blocks and six aces (4.86 points per set).
Middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) is fifth among all blockers with 14 blocks and 26 errors on 61 attempts (1.00 block per set). U.S. libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) is second among all diggers with 51 and 19 faults on 92 attempts (3.64 digs per set). Stanley is sixth among diggers with 34 and 13 faults on 65 attempts (2.43 digs per set).
Lambourne is third among all liberos with 80 "excellents" and 22 faults in 163 attempts.
To visit the USA Volleyball World League web site, click here.
To visit the FIVB World League web site, click here.
Tickets to see the U.S. Men play Poland at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates are available at the Sears Centre Arena Box Office (5333 Prairie Stone Parkway), online at SearsCentre.com or by calling (888) SEARSTIX (732-7784).
Tickets to see the U.S. Men take on world No. 1 Brazil in Tulsa at the Reynolds Center at the University of Tulsa are available online at TulsaHurricane.com. Tickets are available at the box office (800 South Tucker Drive) by calling (918) 631-4688 or in person (office hours 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday-Friday).
Tickets to see the U.S. Men play Puerto Rico on July 1-2 (7 p.m. PT both nights) at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach can be purchased by visiting the Long Beach State athletics web site, by calling the ticket office at (562) 985-4949 or by visiting the box office (open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. starting June 6; the address is 1250 Bellflower Blvd.).
For more information, visit the USA Volleyball World League web site.
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14-Player Roster for June 11-12 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
(12-player rosters for each night are announced shortly before the matches)
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
3 Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7 Donald Suxho (S, 6-5, Korce, Albania, USC)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Utah, BYU)
10 Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
12 Russell Holmes (MB, 6-7, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
13 Clay Stanley (OPP, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawaii)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
17 Max Holt (MB, 6-9, Cincinnati, Ohio, Penn State)
18 Scott Touzinsky (OH, 6-6, St. Louis, Mo., Long Beach State)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Team Leader: Rob Browning(Newport Beach, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Medical Doctor: Dr. Michael Terry (Burr Ridge, Ill.)
Trainer: Ron Larsen (Lafayette, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Medical Support: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
Pool A Standings
Team record (points)
1. Brazil 4-0 (12)
3. Poland 1-3 (3)
4. Puerto Rico 0-4 (0)
U.S. Schedule and Results
Date: May 27-28
Opponent: Poland
Location: Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland
May 27: Poland def. USA, 25-20, 25-22, 25-19
May 28: USA def. Poland, 25-22, 25-19, 37-35
Date: June 3-4
Opponent: Puerto Rico
Location: Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico
June 3: USA def. Puerto Rico, 24-26, 29-27, 25-17, 25-17
June 4: USA def. Puerto Rico, 25-23, 26-24, 22-25, 25-12
Date: June 11-12
Opponent: Brazil
Location: Mineirinho in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Date: June 17-18 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Poland
Location: Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill. – BUY TICKETS
Date: June 24-25 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Brazil
Location: Reynolds Center at the University of Tulsa (Okla.) - BUY TICKETS
Date: July 1-2 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Puerto Rico
Location: Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif. - BUY TICKETS
Date: July 6-10
Opponent: Teams must qualify
Location: Gdansk-Sopot, Poland


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Is Forwarding A Single Sentence Email From A Mailing List Infringement?
from the thankfully,-no deptWe've noted how copyright gets weird when you realize that everything that computers do is about making copies, and it can lead to some bizarre lawsuits. Eric Johnson points us to a writeup by Eugene Volokh of an attempt by a lawyer (of course) named Kenneth Stern, who argued that forwarding a single 23-word sentence that he had sent out to a listserv email list, constituted copyright infringement. As Johnson notes, the full sentence, at 150 characters, was just slightly larger than a Twitter message:
Has anyone had a problem with White, Zuckerman . . . cpas including their economist employee Venita McMorris over billing or trying to churn the file?Now, the reason we can be comfortable reposting that, without fear of dealing with a copyright infringement lawsuit from Kenneth Stern is because the court shot down the lawsuit, noting both that the sentence was not covered by copyright, and even if it were, forwarding it to a mailing list would be fair use. Oh, and the court didn't just shoot it down. It said that Stern's lawsuit was frivolous... to the point of saying that he may need to pay attorney's fees for the people he sued.
Plaintiff asserts that he holds a valid copyright and that Defendants' acts -- copying and distributing his listserv post -- constituted both copyright infringement and contributory infringement....Separately, the fair use argument strikes me as quite interesting in a few ways as well. For example, in discussing the four prongs, the court finds that the forwarding of the email (which was sent to the law firm that Stern was asking about) was "transformative." Now, we often hear from copyright defenders who claim that to be transformative, you have to totally change the work itself, but the court explains that's not the case:
[T]he copyrightability of a very short textual work -- be it word, phrase, sentence, or stanza -- depends on the presence of creativity. The opening sentence of a poem may contain sufficient creativity to warrant copyright protection whereas a more prosaic sentence of similar length may not. For instance, the opening stanza/sentence of the poem Jabberwocky contains, coincidentally, the same number of words -- 23 -- as Plaintiff's listserv post: " 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe." The utter creativity of this "greatest of all nonsense poems in English" prompted one court to suggest that even its first line would be entitled to copyright protection.
Plaintiff�s listserv post, in contrast, displays no creativity whatsoever -- its content is dictated solely by functional considerations. Plaintiff merely requested factual information: whether anyone on the listserv had a bad experience with a certain forensic accounting firm -- and one employee in particular -- regarding overbilling and the churning of client files. His single sentence conveys precisely this idea and no more. As Plaintiff's expression of his idea is indistinguishable from the idea itself, it is not entitled to copyright protection....
Defendants' use of Plaintiff�s sentence is highly transformative. Plaintiff's listserv post sought specific information about a forensic accounting firm's questionable business tactics. Defendants did not seek any information at all; their purpose was to alert the company about Plaintiff's post. By forwarding the post in e-mails, they conveyed the fact of the post rather than its underlying message. Defendants' e-mails thus had a substantially different purpose than the post itself, a fact which weighs heavily in favor of fair use.
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It's a well-known fact that Google is obsessed with speed. Heck, they created a whole new browser, and even developed an alternative to the http protocol to speed things up. Now, they have announced four new features for its core search offerings that it hopes will enable the user to find the information he wants faster than ever before.
Google Voice Search: Voice search is something that the mobile edition of Google Search has been capable of doing for quite some time, and now Google is introducing the same feature to the desktop edition also. This feature will leverage the new HTML5 speech input API. As long as you have a mic and a browser that supports HTML5 voice recognition (currently that means only Chrome 11), you will be able to search the web through speech.
Google Search by Image: Google has been doing image recognition for quite some time through its remarkably cool Google Goggles app. Now it is adding similar capabilities to its desktop Google Image search. Users will be able to snap pictures, drag and drop existing images, or paste the link of an image to get relevant results.
Google Images with Instant: Almost a year after successfully launching Instant, Google is incorporating the same feature to its image search engine. For now, Instant for Google Images will be restricted only to users who opt in for the experiment. However, within the next couple of months, Google will roll it out to all domains and languages where Instant is already available for Search.
Google Instant Pages: One of Google's earliest attempts at speeding up surfing was its ill-fated Web Accelerator software, which essentially prefetched pages (loaded web pages in advance). Although poor execution ensured that the Web Accelerator died a quick death, it did succeed in demonstrating that prefetching, if done smartly, can be advantageous. Now Google is baking in something similar into Chrome. On occasions where Google is fairly confident that the first result answers your query, it will load the page in advance. Instant Pages is currently limited to the developer version of Chrome, but will be included in the next beta of Chrome.


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The code for a larger (11x14) font is already included in the Wise Clock 3/4 software (file fontLarge.h),
I modified the original sketch (posted in this thread of the Arduino forum) to include the following lines at the top of the file:
char* msgLine = " Hello world - demo for large font scrolling on dual 3216 display.";
int crtPos = 0;
int crtColor = GREEN;
and the loop() function:
void loop ()
if (crtPos >= strlen(msgLine))
crtPos = 0;
The source code for the demo in the video can be found here.
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I encountered a problem while I read about using "windows" with ncurses library. When I tried to create a simple program using windows, it compiled well without any warnings, but window's borders don't show up in console. In some point I did something that made them flash (right now I don't have any idea about what I did), but after flashing once, they went away right away. I've tried to refresh it. Example programs in this tutorial don't work.
If someone wants, here's a simple example program.
My OS is Gentoo Linux 2007.0. I'm using bash-3.1 and I've tried in ash-1.6. Compiler is gcc 4.1.1 and linker GNU ld-2.17. I have latest version of ncurses library. If someone needs more information, I can tell it.Code:#include <ncurses.h> int main(void) { WINDOW *wp; initscr(); wp = newwin(10, 10, 10, 10); box(wp, 0, 0); wprintw(wp, "foo"); wrefresh(wp); endwin(); return 0; }


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This new one has to be better than previous one, right?
James Mangold, who directed last summer's "Knight & Day," starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, has been giving the dubious honor of directing the upcoming "Wolverine" sequel, reported Deadline.
Finding someone to helm this thing has been quite a process with Darren Aronofsky bailing back in March, and the likes of Gavin O'Connor, Antoine Fuqua and others being considered. And who can blame Aronofsky, for as much as he and Hugh Jackman like each other, the first installment of this spin-off franchise was a wretched mess.
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But we wonder about Mangold, who for all the talent he showed in films like "Walk the Line," "Cop Land" and "3:10 to Yuma," seemed totally overmatched handling the most basic special effects in "Knight & Day," which featured some of the most amateurish green-screen work of recent memory.
But Mangold and Jackman have worked before, on 2001's "Kate & Leopold," maybe Hugh lobbied for him--who knows?
"The Wolverine," written by Chris McQuarrie, was originally supposed to start filming back in April, so it's safe to assume everyone plans to get to work pretty soon.


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A former CBS television producer is starting a six-month New York jail term for trying to shake down David Letterman over the comic icon's office affairs.
Robert "Joe'' Halderman was led out of a Manhattan court in handcuffs Tuesday after being sentenced to the jail time and 1,000 hours of community service. He had agreed to both when he pleaded guilty in March to attempted grand larceny.
Letterman blunted the blackmail threat by divulging his workplace dalliances himself. His viewership hasn't suffered, and his status was barely scuffed.
But celebrity lawyers and image-makers say it's unclear whether the case will function as a cautionary tale that deters similar episodes.
Many luminaries would rather beat back or settle such matters privately than press charges that would air their dirty laundry, the experts say. Even if a threatened celebrity is willing to go public, few have the persona and forum to do it the way Letterman did: in a forthright, sometimes funny monologue on his own show.
"There are lots of people running around the planet thinking that blackmailing celebrities or prominent, wealthy people is a great way to make a living," said veteran celebrity publicist Michael Levine. "The lesson of Letterman is: Every so often, you're going to run into someone who isn't going to play."
But, he added, "Not all people are David Letterman."
Stars ranging from Cameron Diaz to Yoko Ono have been confronted in recent years with people demanding money to keep photos or information private. Those are episodes that became criminal cases and public knowledge. Many others are kept from ever becoming known, attorneys say.
Los Angeles lawyer Mark Geragos said he has discreetly dealt with such situations for notable clients he won't name, including several he handled after the Letterman episode.
"Most entertainers are loath to go public with these things if they can at all help it," Geragos said.
Halderman, 52, isn't expected to speak at his sentencing and declined through his lawyer to be interviewed. Halderman's expected jail term and 1,000 hours of community service were set when he pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny.
He admitted in court that he tried to squeeze $2 million from the "Late Show" host "by threatening to disclose personal and private information about him, whether true or false."
He presented the threat as a faintly fictionalized screenplay about Letterman — and backed it up with information authorities have said Halderman gleaned from reading his former girlfriend's diary. She worked for Letterman and described an affair with him in the diary, authorities have said.
Halderman's plea deal requires him never to discuss the material.
Letterman revealed on-air Oct. 1 that he'd had sex with women who work for him and disclosed the blackmail attempt. It was the first the public had heard of the case — prosecutors announced the charges the next day — and made it a story told largely in Letterman's voice. Critics and public-relations experts hailed his disclosure as a master stroke.
"Letterman gave everybody, within what's reasonable, what they needed to know to make up their own minds and decide what's right and wrong," said Winston-Salem, N.C.-based crisis-management consultant Rick Amme.
The case appears to have made little difference with television viewers. Letterman is averaging 4 million viewers this season, up 3 percent over last season, according to the Nielsen Co. He was helped by not having to compete against Jay Leno for several months.
Still, Letterman has said the scandal took a personal toll.
"You take a look at the explosion, and it knocks you down, and you wake up every morning, and you're scared and you're depressed and sad," the comic said Friday on "Live! With Regis and Kelly."
"And you kind of got to let that knock you down and knock you down, and then pretty soon you've got to start knocking IT down," Letterman added.
Letterman isn't expected to attend Halderman's sentencing.
Halderman no longer has his job with CBS' "48 Hours Mystery." The network also hosts Letterman's show.
After getting out of jail, he's expected to do his community service at New York and Connecticut organizations that provide job training to formerly homeless people and convicts getting out of prison.
Letterman Blackmailer Starts Jail Term
A former CBS television producer is starting a six-month New York jail term for trying to shake down David Letterman over the comic icon's office affairs.


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A chamber affiliate will give away $5,000 in American Express gift cards to encourage people to shop and dine in downtown Chambersburg on Small Business Saturday - Nov. 24.
CHAMBERSBURG — A Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce affiliate will give away $5,000 in American Express gift cards to encourage people to shop and dine in downtown Chambersburg on Small Business Saturday — Nov. 24.
Chamber affiliate Downtown Chambersburg Inc. received 200 American Express cards worth $25 each from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. DCI will distribute the gift cards in a variety of ways, including a giveaway on Memorial Square, radio promotions and Facebook contests.
Only 100 chambers in the nation received the American Express gift cards this holiday season. The Chambersburg chamber was one of the first 100 to apply for the cards. The local chamber also received Small Business Saturday tote bags, floor mats and balloons to help get the community excited about the event. Each gift card comes with a letter that explains the promotion.
Small Business Saturday, the day after Black Friday and the Saturday before Cyber Monday, encourages shoppers to support small businesses in their communities, like those typically found in downtowns. It began in 2010 when American Express came up with the idea to help small businesses get more exposure during one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year. In 2011, more than 100 million people shopped at independently owned small businesses on the day. Now, in its third year, Small Business Saturday is expected to be even bigger.
"This is a day for everyone to recognize and support small businesses in our community," said Noel Purdy, president of Downtown Chambersburg Inc. "Small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy and they contribute a great deal to our community."
Giveaway details
Shop or dine in downtown Chambersburg on Saturday and spend $25 or more. Then, beginning at 10 a.m., be one of the first 100 people to bring your receipt to the courthouse plaza on Memorial Square to receive a gift card. You must present a receipt dated Nov. 24 from a downtown Chambersburg business and for $25 or more.
Cards may be claimed until 4 p.m. or until all cards are distributed.
Limit one per household. Downtown businesses are defined as those located in the Borough of Chambersburg's Central Core Neighborhood (http:.//www.borough.chambersburg.pa.us/pdf/Zoning%20Map%2020111201.pdf).
In the event that all cards are not claimed on Nov. 24, cards may be claimed by bringing a receipt from a downtown Chambersburg business to the Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce, 100 Lincoln Way East, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. starting Nov. 26.
Come into the Chambersburg Heritage Center at 100 Lincoln Way East between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday and enter your name in a drawing to win one of 10 American Express gift cards valued at $25 each. On Nov. 26, the names of 10 lucky winners will be drawn. Limit one winner per household.
Listen to area radio stations owned by Mainline Broadcasting (Mix 95.1 and 94.3) and Verstandig Broadcasting (104.7 WAYZ, 101.5 BobRocks and 92.1) for your chance to win a card. Listen to the announcements for rules and restrictions.
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Cargo Drama in the Desert
On the uncommon occasions that I take the laptop home from work, it gets strapped to the rack, as in the photo. I believe at the moment I took the photo, I was thinking of something along the lines of a connectedness between the Pony Express people in the "Passing the Legacy" statue and me commuting by bike with my computer. Mammal-powered cargo carrying or something like that. But, that's kind of a stretch. Then I remembered that the stations were 10 miles apart on average, which means that I commute a little farther each day than a pony in the express usually galloped between stations. They were all about speed and carrying the mail from point A to point B, while I am just out to enjoy the ride. So my analogy would have been pretty stretched out, but then it is a pretty long distance from this location of this monument in Scottsdale, Arizona to the actual route of the Pony Express, which went through Utah and Nevada 1860-61, so some elongation of perspective is perfectly in order. In fact, one commonly used search and mapping engine suggests this novel 729 mile, three day route to ride a bike from this spot to the historic Pony Express route. If you can ride 729 miles in three days on bike, you should be the freaking Pony Express. I don't think I would try to take the computer on that trip. Get up. Go ride.


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Earth's poles are the wheeling grounds for two polar rovers: solar-powered Cool Robot and its younger cousin Yeti.
The pair, designed by a team led by engineer Laura Ray at Dartmouth College, are among the first autonomous polar robots to go to work. Now, knee-high Yeti is on an expedition to Antarctica, peering beneath the ice and snow on Mt. Erebus, in search of steam-carved caves hiding in the volcano's ice cap.
"The idea was that we should have terrestrial robots — rovers that can do science missions much like planetary rovers," said team member James Lever, an engineer at the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. "They can be less expensive. It's not quite as harsh as a planetary mission. But it's still pretty demanding."
Lever shared an update on the robots' activities Dec. 4 at the American Geophysical Union, the day after the bots' bigger, interplanetary cousin Curiosity took center stage at a press spectacle.
First deployed in 2005, Cool Robot was designed to help science teams working at the ends of the Earth. Because the rover needs to be able to work for long periods of time, the team decided Cool Robot should be solar powered. Enclosed in a box of solar panels, Cool Robot is able to feed off the sun and can cover more than 300 miles in a week. "The only restriction is that you do summertime science, but the advantage is that the sun's up 24 hours a day," Lever said. The robot's solar panels are designed to capture as much sunlight as possible – even the bits bouncing off the bright white northern ice, which contribute about one-third of the rover's power.
Next year, the 130-pound Cool Robot will return to Greenland, its preferred work place and one it's visited many times. In June, the robot will begin mapping the snow's surface features and roughness, providing data from the ground that can be compared with satellite observations. It'll also measure the emissions footprint of Summit Station, a National Science Foundation research outpost parked atop the Greenland ice cap at 10,530 feet elevation. "We'll circumnavigate the summit and get the emissions footprint. As often as we can. Until we get thrown out," Lever said.
Yeti, completed in 2008, is a 180-pound, radar-enabled, battery-powered robot. More worldly than Cool Robot, Yeti has seen both the snows of the Arctic in Greenland, and the Antarctic at South Pole and McMurdo Stations. "Yeti was a bit more purpose-built," Lever said. "This one was designed to do ground-penetrating radar surveys to detect crevasses."
Snow covered and deep, crevasses hiding from view are hazardous to teams toting heavy loads of science equipment. GPS-guided Yeti travels ahead of heavier vehicles and uses its radar, housed in an inner tube, to help teams avoid the dangerous cracks. So far, Yeti has peered beneath the sheets in Greenland and Antarctica and will soon be helping researchers map the crevasse-riven area separating the McMurdo and Ross ice shelves, a key crossing for research teams in the Antarctic.
In December 2011, Yeti helped researchers study the buried remains of the original South Pole station, a collection of buildings built in 1956. Abandoned in the 1970s, "Old Pole" now lies under roughly 30 feet of snow. Yeti's job was to find out if any of the buildings were still intact, creating voids that are hazardous to people on the surface above. "If the structures are collapsed under the weight of the snow, they're OK as is," Lever said. If not, it could be crushed by machinery trundling along above it. Yeti's studies show that despite demolition by explosives in 2010, some of the buried buildings appear to be intact.
Now, Yeti has returned to Antarctica, where it will be joining an 11-person team studying Mt. Erebus, Earth's most southern active volcano. Until January, the robot will be looking for hidden ice caves formed by fumaroles, vents that send hot vapors and gases into the surrounding ice. Using a machine-learning approach, Dartmouth graduate student Rebecca Williams is also teaching Yeti how to analyze the crevasse-finding radar images, rather than sending the data to a human for processing.
In the future, scientists hope autonomous polar robots will be able to substantially contribute to research projects at the poles, perhaps by deploying and maintaining a network of space weather sensors – which need continual repositioning in response to shifting solar storms – or by studying glaciers and icy terrains.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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This Envisat multitemporal radar composite shows the port of Maracaibo, positioned on the west side of the narrow strait that links oil-rich Lake Maracaibo - the largest water body in South America - with the Gulf of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea.
With an area of 13 210 square kilometres, the vase-shaped Lake Maracaibo extends some 180 kilometres inland, the neck of the vase being this 55-km-long strait that connects it to the open sea.
Lake Maracaibo is generally considered the largest lake in South America, although by some estimates it should be considered an inland sea since it has a direct connection with the ocean – a connection strengthened in the 1950s when the strait was dredged.
Maracaibo is one of the oldest lakes on Earth – at 36 million years old it is predated only by Lake Baikal in Russia - with major oil deposits located under and around its coastline.
Its basin is therefore one of the major oil-producing areas of the world, its commercial development beginning early in the 20th century. Since the First World War, around 14 000 oil wells have been drilled in the Lake. Its once pristine waters have been heavily polluted: oil spills, along with sewage and river run-off, have caused runaway blooms of duckweed or lemma, an aquatic plant.
The port of Maracaibo, located on the west side of the strait, is the second city of Venezuela after Caracas and the capital of Zulia state. With a 1990 population of 1.29 million, it is the country's oil capital and a commercial and industrial centre. Bright points visible off its coast are individual ships.
The General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge connects the city to the eastern side of the strait. At eight kilometres in length it is one of the longest bridges in the world. It is just visible at the centre of the image as a reddish line contrasting with the surrounding greenish waters. On the eastern side to the south is the city of Cabimas.
Radar images measure surface texture rather than reflected light. The colour in the image comes from the fact that this is actually a combination of three Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) images, and works to highlight changes occurring between acquisitions. A colour is assigned to each date of acquisition: red for 8 September 2004, green for 26 February 2004 and blue for 17 June 2004.
In particular, signs of seasonal cultivation can be seen in the patchwork fields on the eastern side of the strait.
The view was acquired in ASAR Image Mode Precision, with pixel sampling of 12.5 metres. It covers an area of 62 km x 70 km.


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BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe | 430i M Sport 5dr Auto [Professional Media]
BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe Overview
I would like all maintenance and service costs included
Initial Rental (Personal)
£3,623.83 inc VAT
Initial Rental (Business)
£3,019.86 ex VAT
Contract Length
48 Months
Processing fee
£199.99 ex VAT
Standard Options
- Electric front windows with fingertip open/close anti-trap facility
- Green tinted heat protection glazing
- Heated windscreen washer jets
- Rain sensor including auto headlights activation
- Two speed adjustable intervals windscreen wipers
- Windscreen with grey shadeband
- Anti lock braking system (ABS) with brake assist
- Automatic Stability Control (ASC)
- Brake drying
- Brake energy regeneration
- CBC - (Cornering brake control)
- Dynamic brake control
- Dynamic stability control (DSC )
- Dynamic Traction Control - DTC
- Front and rear ventilated brake disc
- Hill start assistant
- Variable torque distribution
- Velour floor mats
- Aluminium front suspension
- Drive performance control with ECO PRO comfort sport mode
- Five link rear suspension
- M sport suspension
- Bluetooth hands free facility with USB audio interface with bluetooth audio streaming
- BMW remote services
- Cruise control with brake function
- Electric Power Steering (EPS) with Servotronic
- Front/rear park distance control (PDC)
- Auto start-stop
- Automatic tailgate operation
- BMW emergency call
- BMW Online services
- BMW Teleservices
- Brake pad wear indicator in front and rear
- Check Control warning system for monitoring of lights and door/luggage compartment open warning
- Control display - 6.5" colour display screen
- iDrive Controller with 8 favourite buttons
- Instrument cluster with speedometer with mph readout, tachometer, fuel gauge and oil temperature gauge
- Lights on warning by audio warning signal when ignition is switched off
- M Sport instrument cluster
- Oil sensor for level and grade, warning by check control system
- On board computer - average speed, fuel consumption, outside temp display with acoustic warning, clock/date, service interval, odometer/trip meter
- Optimum shift indicator
- Personal Profile - automatic lock when driving away selectable
- Professional multimedia navigation system
- Run flat indicator
- Auto dimming rear view mirror
- Body colour mirror caps
- Direction indicator, side repeaters, integrated in exterior mirrors
- Heated, electrically adjustable exterior mirror aspheric on driver side, convex on passenger side
- Aluminium hexagon interior trim finishers with estoril blue matt highlight
- Lightweight engineering
- BMW Professional radio with Single CD player two-way six speakers 4x25W loudspeaker system MP3 playback capability
- DAB tuner
- Body colour door handles
- Body colour front bumper
- Body colour rear bumper
- Body colour roof mouldings
- Chrome kidney grille with extra wide black, high gloss black vertical slats
- Door sill finishers with M designation
- Dual exhaust tailpipes in left with chrome finisher
- Front air inlet with high gloss black finish
- Front and rear bumper system
- High gloss black air breather
- High gloss black rear bumper insert
- High gloss shadow line exterior trim
- M aerodynamic bodystyling
- M designation side badges
- Model designation
- Shark fin antenna
- Solid paint
- Visible VIN plate
- Dynamic brake lights
- Follow me home headlights
- High level third brake light
- LED daytime running lights
- LED direction indicator lenses
- LED eyebrow light
- LED front fog lights
- LED tail lights with 3D L-shaped LED light design
- Low and high beam LED headlights
- Automatic air conditioning with two zone control
- 12V sockets in front centre console and passenger footwell
- 3 spoke leather M sport multifunction sports steering wheel
- 4 grab handles
- Air conditioning and radio control panel in high gloss black
- Anthracite headlining
- Bottle holders integrated into front door trim storage compartments
- Chrome centre console panel highlight
- Dakota leather upholstery
- Front and rear side armrests integrated into door trim
- Front folding sliding armrest with storage compartment
- Full black panel display
- Glove compartment
- Leather gearknob and handbrake lever
- Load lashing eyes in luggage compartment
- Reach rake manual adjustable steering column
- Rear coded belt buckles
- Rear seat centre armrest with two cupholders
- Storage compartment in rear centre console
- Toolkit located in luggage compartment
- Two front cup holders with a sliding lid
- Ambient lighting - switchable BMW classic orange/ cold white LED
- Interior lighting, front centre over interior mirror and rear centre automatic interior light activation when door is opened
- Welcome lighting
- Extended lighting package - 4 Series Gran coupe
- Non Smokers pack
- 3 point seatbelts on all seats
- 3 rear 3 point seatbelts
- Airbag - Front driver and passenger, front and rear head, front side, curtain head protection, manual deactivation of front passenger airbag possible
- Battery safety cut-off
- Brake pretensioning
- Crash sensor activating central locking release, hazard warning lights
- Front seatbelt force limiters
- Pyrotechnically pre-tensioned front seatbelts
- Seat belt security check for driver
- Side impact protection
- Twin horns
- Tyre pressure monitoring with three level warning strategy
- Warning triangle and first aid kit
- 2 Rear seat headrests
- 60/40 split folding rear seat
- Driver and front passenger seat heating
- Electric front seat adjustment with driver memory
- Front head restraints
- Front sports seats
- Rear child seat isofix attachment with passenger airbag deactivation
- Alarm system (Thatcham 1) with electronic engine immobiliser
- Central locking switch for all doors, fuel filler cap and luggage compartment
- Remote control integrated key with blue inset
- Start/stop button with Comfort Go keyless engine start and auto Start/stop deactivation button
- Electronic differential lock
- Sport automatic transmission with steering-wheel mounted gearshift paddles and launch control
- Sunvisors with vanity mirrors and ticket pocket
- Reduced rolling resistance tyres
- Run flat tyres
- 18" M Double spoke light alloy wheels with mixed tyres - Style 400M
Technical Options
- HC+NOx: N
- Noise Level dB(A): 73
- NOx: 0.041
- Particles: 0.0003
- Standard Euro Emissions: EURO 6
- Bore: 82
- Catalytic Convertor: True
- Compression Ratio: 10.2:1
- Cylinder Layout: IN-LINE
- Cylinders: 4
- Engine Codes: B48B20O0
- Engine Layout: NORTH SOUTH
- Fuel Type: TURBO DIRECT INJECTION
- Gears: 8 SPEED
- Number of Valves: 16
- Stroke: 94.6
- Valve gear: DOHC
- EC: True
- EC Combined: 46.3
- EC Extra Urban: 52.3
- EC Urban: 38.7
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Medium - Max: 10.1
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Medium - Min: 7.7
- WLTP - MPG - Comb: 6.7
- WLTP - MPG - Comb - Max: 7.4
- WLTP - MPG - Comb - Min: 7.6
- WLTP - MPG - Extra High: 10.1
- WLTP - MPG - Extra High - Max: 10.4
- WLTP - MPG - Extra High - Min: 7.7
- WLTP - MPG - High: 8
- WLTP - MPG - High - Max: 6.7
- WLTP - MPG - High - Min: 7
- WLTP - MPG - Low: 7.4
- WLTP - MPG - Low - Max: 7.7
- WLTP - MPG - Low - Min: 7.6
- WLTP - MPG - Medium: 7.9
- Any aspect of the vehicles safety cause concern?: Data Not Available
- Based On ID: N
- Coin Description: i
- Coin Series: M Sport [Prof Media]
- Man Corrosion Perforation Guarantee - Years: 6
- Manufacturers Paintwork Guarantee - Years: 3
- NCAP Adult Occupant Protection %: N
- NCAP Child Occupant Protection %: N
- NCAP Overall Rating - Effective February 09: 252
- NCAP Pedestrian Protection %: 2.0
- NCAP Safety Assist %: M1
- Service Interval Frequency - Months: N
- Special Edition: Data Not Available
- Special Order: Data Not Available
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Mileage: 999999
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Years: 3
- This vehicle is classed as a car for VED purposes: 24
- Timing Belt Interval Frequency - Months: N
- Timing Belt Interval Mileage: N
- 0 to 60: Data Not Available
- 0 to 62: 5.9
- Engine Power KW: 185
- Engine Power RPM: 5200
- Engine Torque LBS.FT: 258
- Engine Torque MKG: 35.7
- Engine Torque NM: 350
- Engine Torque RPM: 1450
- PS: True
- Top Speed: 155
- Alloys?: True
- Space Saver?: Data Not Available
- Tyre Size Front: 225/45 R18
- Tyre Size Rear: 255/40 R18
- Tyre Size Spare: RUN FLAT TYRES
- Wheel Style: M DOUBLE SPOKE STYLE 400M
- Wheel Type: 18" ALLOY
- Height: 1389
- Height (including roof rails): N
- Length: 4640
- Turning Circle - Kerb to Kerb: 11.3
- Wheelbase: 2810
- Width (excluding mirrors): 1825
- Width (including mirrors): 2017
- Boot Capacity Saloons: 480
- Fuel Tank Capacity (Litres): 60
- Gross Vehicle Weight: 2115
- Luggage Capacity (Seats Up): 1300
- Max. Roof Load: 75
- Max. Towing Weight - Braked: 1700
- Max. Towing Weight - Unbraked: 745
- Minimum Kerbweight: 1540
- No. of Seats: 5
- Payload: 575
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So the coupe version of the BMW 3 Series is the 4 Series, right? Not if you add two more doors and call it a 4 Series Gran Coupe. Jonathan Crouch reports on the revised range.
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If you like the look of a BMW 4 Series Coupe but family duties look like forcing you into something a bit frumpier, help is at hand. The 4 Series Gran Coupe retains a sleek shape but adds a couple of rear doors. We think it's a much better bet than the frumpier 3 Series Gran Turismo model.
Stick with us here. This one takes a bit of working out. BMW will sell you a four-door 3 Series but gives the two-door Coupe and Convertible versions a '4 Series' badge. So far, so good. If you want five doors in a compact executive model of this type from BMW, it's a little more complicated. There is a five-door 3 Series - the 'Gran Turismo' model - but very few people buy it. One of the reasons why is the existence of this car, the 4 Series Gran Coupe. Here, you get much more stylish five-door practicality, with all the usual 3 Series good bits underneath. These days, those good bits also include a rejuvenated range of petrol engines, plus the option of xDrive all-wheel drive and, with this recently revised model, smarter styling too. In short, it looks like there's most of what you're going to need here. Let's check this car out.
Driving Experience
Given that the 4 Series Gran Coupe runs on the same running gear as the 4 Series Coupe, it's reasonable to expect similar driving dynamics. The wheelbase, length, track and width of the Gran Coupe are exactly the same as its two-door sibling, so it clues you into what you're going to get. This 4 sits a bit closer to the road than a 3 Series and also gets the coupe's extra bracing between the front subframe and the body, beefing up steering response. On to engines. Diesel-wise, there's a choice of three units, starting with the 190bhp powerplant found in the 420d - the biggest seller and a variant available with either two or four wheel drive. Above that come the six cylinder diesel models. There are rear wheel drive and xDrive 4WD versions of the 258bhp 430d, before you get to the 435d xDrive diesel range-topper with a hefty 313bhp at its disposal. The more recent engineering changes with this car though, centre on the petrol units in the line-up. Not much is different with the base four cylinder 184bhp 2.0-litre unit found in the 420i, though it is slightly more efficient than it used to be and, as before, comes in rear wheel drive and xDrive 4WD guises. The pokier version of this powerplant carries a '430i' badge and has 252bhp, with 350Nm of torque, making possible a rest to 62mph time of just 5.9s. That makes it difficult to imagine why you'd want a six cylinder petrol model, but if you still do, there's a 326bhp '440i' variant.
Design and Build
The changes made to this revised 4 Series Gran Coupe are really quite subtle. If you know the car well, you'll spot the new twin LED headlights that now come as standard. An even more distinctive 'Icon Adaptive LED headlight' package is optional. Another frontal change is found in the central air intake which has an aperture that increases in size towards the outer edges, adding a more imposing presence and greater sense of width to the entire nose section. Otherwise, it's as you were. Changes over the 4 Series Coupe obviously include the extra rear doors, but you'll also notice the way that the Gran Coupe roofline has been teased backwards to offer more space, the long boot lid of the Coupe being sacrificed to a more stub-tailed silhouette. Due to the fact that this isn't a long wheelbase variant, you can't expect a great deal more room in the rear. There's a bit more headroom in the back; the roofline sitting 12mm higher. There's a 480-litre boot which gives you an additional 35-litres over the Coupe and the 40/20/40 split rear seat is a nice touch. Fold the seats down and there's a massive 1,300 litres available. BMW claims the Gran Coupe can swallow weekend luggage for four without recourse to folding the rear seats. Even with four up, longer items can be accommodated with the folding centre section. There's a Smart Open function offered which automatically opens and closes the tailgate if you wave your foot under the rear bumper although if you're so laden down that you can't open the tailgate, you probably don't want to be doing one-footed manoeuvres.
Market and Model
The 4 Series Gran Coupe trim line-up mirrors that of the Coupe, with SE, Sport and M Sport trims, with pricing starting from around £32,000. Entry-level versions get leather heated seats, xenon headlamps, LED rear lights, a parking radar, as well as climate control, so although the prices are around £3,000 more expensive model-for-model than the 3 Series, you do get more gear. The xDrive 4WD system is an option for buyers of the 420i, 420d and 430d derivatives - and it's standard on the top 435d variant. Satellite navigation is standard on most versions, but the adaptive dampers are a box you might want to tick on the options list, as well as the sport steering. We could take or leave the sports seats, but the stereo upgrade is worth giving a listening to. BMW will also tempt you with a range of Connected services, a head-up display and some neat driver aids but you'll need to keep an eye on the asking price. It's easily possible to spend around £38,000 on an M Sport 420d with an auto box, add a few options and end up having spent more than £40,000 on a four-cylinder, two-litre diesel hatch.
Cost of Ownership
Like all modern BMWs, the 4 Series Gran Coupe delivers some incredible efficiency figures. Once you've got over the upfront cost of the car, this means that actual day-to-day running costs will be on a par with far more humble tackle. Thank BMW's EfficientDynamics technology for that, this suite of measures resulting in ultra-competitive economy and emissions figures right across the board. Take the 430i for example; a petrol-engined performance model that can dip under six seconds to 60mph yet in auto form, still returns a fuel economy figure of 47.8mpg on the combined cycle and emissions of just 136g/km. The real standout performer at present is the 420d, which in auto form manages to wring 70.6 miles from a gallon of diesel on the combined cycle and emits a mere 106g/km. Even if you go for the range-topping 440i petrol version, you'll see 41.5mpg and 159g/km. Expect strong residuals which will continue to give mainstream car manufacturers something to fret over. Insurance ratings are also said to have been driven down by better repairability and improved security.
Once you've wrapped your brain around the BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe's reason for existence, there's a lot to like about it. Granted, there are many chassis derivatives spun off the basic 3 Series underpinnings and the 4 Series Gran Coupe is unashamedly niche, but if you need usable back seats but also want a sleek body style, this is about your best bet at the accessible end of the BMW range. The 4 Series Gran Coupe has muscled effectively in on the territory of the Audi A5 Sportback and has even poached some orders away from cars like the Mercedes CLA as well. We've recently had some models that seemed strange additions to the BMW range and the public have given them the cold shoulder. This one though, has more than enough talent to succeed.
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After subscribing to Ottobre for about 6 years I have a nice stack of them. At the start of each season I flick through them and see what I should make for the girls and now my girls flick through them and find things they would like me to make them. They often manage to find things I have not noticed at all. One of those things was a skirt from 4/2006.
This one is for Grace and she chose a scrap of corduroy from a dress I made a couple of years ago (that Eva now wears) and some of that lovely lightweight denim that Spotlight was selling at the start of last year which seems impossible to find now (lucky I bought lots).
This is a really simple patterns and the curve is so big that it is not hard to sew at all. Now I had better start Amelia's which is off course identical, but uses a scrap of corduroy from the dress I made her.


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Elder Sign Omens for Android and iOS: Nights at the Museum, Rolling Dice with Ancient Eldritch Horrors
With scant regard for the electricity bill, or the harm it's doing to the planet, we plan to sleep with the lights on for the next three months. Why? Because we've just had a couple of rounds with Elder Sign: Omens. By golly, this game is frightening, packed to the gills with demons, ghouls and other unspeakable fiends inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.


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We are looking for a local craft intern. Someone with craft skill, tools, making things, process development and lab work. If you think you might qualify for this please contact me via the link on the right of this page. The subject is a paper like product and you do not have to have camera experience specifically.
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Meanwhile, one of our sources of old style silver halide emulsions has gone. Efke will be missed. Shanghai still produces a negative material that works with DTR, at least for now, but their prices have doubled. These "dip and dunk" emulsions may be primitive, but the availability of the silver halide rocks close to the surface, unlike T grained films, makes DTR possible. ADOX type films can fall into this category. We've tried every Ilford film including Delta 100 and were not successful in getting consistent DTR performance, but the door is still open there.
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"You're about to go worldwide on CBS, Stockton! Make some noise! You want everyone to know what Stockton is all about!"
The public-address announcer at the Stockton Arena didn't have to work very hard to whip the nearly sold-out crowd into a frenzy on Saturday. The pugnacious practitioners of that increasingly popular sport known as mixed martial arts had come to their town for CBS's Saturday Fight Night. So not only were they going to be treated to an electrifying evening of caged violence, they were going to get some rare prime-time television exposure.
When I was growing up in Stockton, the place was known more as a great boxing town. It was even immortalized in a novel and a John Huston movie called "Fat City." But these days, boxing is so old-school. Young fans crave the all-out intensity and near street-brawl spirit of mixed martial arts.


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A piece I wrote, Burn Me Farewell, is featured in the March issue of Jeffrey S. Callico's Negative Suck.
The March issue of Negative Suck is featuring the following authors and artists:
Kenneth Pobo, Ron Androla, KJ Hays, Eileen Escabar, Emily Smith-Miller, Brittany Wallace, Lyn Lifshin (Negative Suck's first guest author), John C. Mannone, Lynn Kinsey, Lara Konesky, Kristen Shaw, Adam Moorad, and returning author Jelena Vencl Ohlrogge. (Another piece I wrote, "Some Men Talk Too Much", was published in The Virgin Issue of Negative Suck in December 2009.)