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HP once hurled robots and processor spays at customers, as its answers to cooling data centers. Today, it's only selling air conditioning sensors.
HP yesterday unveiled its new sensor system, hoping to cash in on growing concerns around data center energy consumption and costs. The company has moved to a cooling model that relies on the interactions between thousands of 1-wire temperature sensors, air conditioning units and software to make sure data centers operate at their optimal temperature. Such technology could save a large company more than $1m per data center every year, according to HP.
"This is not a cooling solution," said Paul Perez, a VP at HP, during a briefing at the company's Palo Alto headquarters. "This is a cooling management solution."
HP knows how to draw such fine marketing lines of demarcation after spending years in the cooling
management game. In 2002, for example, HP announced "that it is working on a suite of technologies to address the growing problem of heat generation and energy use in increasingly powerful microprocessors and data centers." That suite included things such as a robot that roamed data centers searching for troublesome hot spots and Ronco-inspired coolant spray for coating processors.
The spray eluded us during Tuesday's data center tour, although we did spot the robot resting in between some broken down cardboard boxes.
HP claims that the new sensor idea is just the "evolution" of 2002's gadgetry.
It has moved to place a handful of 1-wire sensors on each server rack and has these report back to a shared server. That system then takes in the temperature data, cranks away on some fancy algorithms and tells the air conditioning units what they should do.
"It's all in the algorithms," said Chandrakant Patel, an HP Fellow.
HP pitches the sensor network and air conditioning system as a type of sensitive ecosystem. For example, little tweaks to a blower speed here and there can have dramatic effects throughout a data center. HP can make better use of such shifts by having all the cooling units in a data center work in concert rather than viewing them as individual systems meant to run at a constant speed and temperature.
HP's technology also deals with the unexpected. An operator could leave a box of new equipment over a vent by mistake or a system could fail, causing a dramatic rise in temperature. In such instances, the sensors tell the central server to kick up the cooling power to handle the extra load.
In total, HP claims a more than 30 per cent savings in energy costs by using its technology. That translates to about $600,000 in savings per year for a 10,000 sq. ft. data center that eats up up 2MW today. Operators of large, 35,000 sq. ft. data centers might enjoy close to $1.1m in savings.
HP, like IBM, Sun, Intel, AMD and others, has started making a bigger deal about data center cooling as customers grapple with rising energy costs and hotter systems.
For what it's worth, IDC pegs 2007 as the first year in which customers will spend more operating data centers than they do on new system purchases. Meanwhile, companies such as Google and Microsoft have started building large data centers in areas with lower energy costs, while other ISPs have turned to server makers with more power efficient hardware.
IBM has rolled out some data center cooling services to deal with these issues, while Sun has started selling White Trash data centers in shipping containers.
Sun's WTDCs address the space crunch faced by large customers in a more direct fashion that HP's sensor approach. Patel, however, noted that HP too has looked at using shipping containers.
HP plans to begin outfitting certain customers with the sensor networks early next year and hopes to have a more formal sales process by mid-2007. The company has yet to decide how it will price the cooling services or what brand it will use for the relevant software.
Clay Ryder, an analyst at the Sageza Group, said HP is on the right track, although few customers would be likely to grab the first iteration of the sensor technology.
"I think it is very early," he said. "Customers won't really embrace this technology until the sensors and software are integrated parts of the server package. That requires all the bits and pieces here to be properly in place."
Ryder expects server vendors to sell high-end rack boxes and blades with the sensors as options over the next couple of years.
Key to the success of such technology will be the backing of energy companies like PG&E, according to Ryder.
A PG&E executive just happened to make his way to the HP data center tour and said the company will help out customers with financial breaks if they use HP's technology.
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GONZALEZ ESTRADA, Adrián; CAMACHO AMADOR, Maricela e SANGERMAN-JARQUIN, Dora Ma. Incorporation of ecological accounts and environmental services in social accounting matrices. Rev. Mex. Cienc. Agríc [online]. 2011, vol.2, n.5, pp.715-731. ISSN 2007-0934.
The intensity of the environment use and natural resources is excessive and its deterioration has a huge cost to society, which is not being paid by those who benefit most from it. This represents a market and society failure to achieve sustainability of the current production system. Social accounting matrices do not express these costs and even less efficient payments that should be charged for that damage; nor ecological accounts and environmental services. In order to help overcome these shortcomings, the aims of this research were: a) to propose a method for introducing ecological accounts and environmental services in the social accounting matrix; b) to define economically efficient policies and socially optimal for the sustainable use of natural resources and environment; and c) to apply these results in Mexico. The method used is based on the principles of general equilibrium theory and the theory of externalities. The results show that the objectives of this research were achieved; given that the total costs of depletion and environmental degradation in Mexico were 712 344 million pesos in 2004, it is concluded that a fiscal-environmental policy is required, which includes an efficient payment for financing environmental services, in order to restore the quality and productive capacity of the environment and natural resources of the country.
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LOS ANGELES – The FedEx big rig involved in the fatal bus crash that killed 10 people, including five Los Angeles-area students, on Interstate 5 in Northern California, was on fire when it crossed the median strip, witnesses to the collision told reporters on Friday.
The witnesses were identified on the CBS2 website as Bonnie and Fred Duran from Washington state. They were in a northbound Nissan Altima, which they said was clipped on the driver's side by the big rig before it struck the northbound tour bus.
"I looked over and saw the FedEx truck coming straight for me," Bonnie Duran, who was driving, told the station
"I just started going this way, and he clipped the back end of me … and went on to hit the bus."
The California Highway Patrol had previously said the big rig, which was towing two trailers, had crossed the 60-foot median, struck a white vehicle and then collided with the bus, causing both to explode into flames.
Bonnie Duran told NBC4 the flames appeared to be coming from behind the cab of the big rig.
Joe Duran, who said he was in the passenger seat, described the moment as "like a 3-D movie. Imagine a Mack truck coming out of a movie — unbelievable."
"We didn't even have time to react. She did a great job," he said of his wife's driving.
"It was so scary," Duran said. "We were wondering if anyone was going to get out of there alive."
"You just think, 'I'm dead, I'm dead'," he told NBC4.
Duran said their vehicle "kind of floated" towards a ditch on the right hand side of the highway, from the impact of the glancing blow from the big rig.
FedEx says it is cooperating with authorities who are investigating the deadly crash, according to CBSLA.com. Both FedEx and the tour bus operator released statements after the crash, according to the website.
Counselors were dispatched to Los Angeles Unified School District campuses and other schools across the area, and officials warned that identifying the people killed in the crash will likely have to be done using dental and medical records, and potentially DNA, delaying the process. They also said it could be months before the cause of the wreck is known.
Five students were among the dead. The adults killed in the crash were the bus driver, the truck driver and the three chaperones accompanying Los Angeles-area high school seniors, according to the California Highway Patrol.
One chaperone was identified as Arthur Arzola, 26, of Rancho Cucamonga, who was a college recruiter. El Monte High School senior Adrian Castro was also killed. Castro was a football player at the school.
His mother, Veronica Soriano, told the "Los Angeles Times" she drove all night to the crash site after she was unable to get information about her son. She was told yesterday that authorities were 90 percent sure Castro was killed.
"They just had to get the dental records to confirm," she told the newspaper.
A 17-year-old girl, Marisa Serrato, who attended Norte Vista High School in Riverside, was among those killed, her family told NBC4. Her twin sister, Marisol, made the trip on a different bus and was not injured.
Two other victims were identified as Mattison Haywood and her fiance, Michael Myvett, 29. Myvett was a therapist for autistic children at a facility in Torrance, and the couple got engaged in Paris on Christmas Day, according to various media reports.
During a briefing at the CHP's Willows Area office, officials said 31 people had been taken to seven hospitals following the crash. Nine people died at the scene, and one person who suffered severe burns died at a hospital.
The students were scheduled to visit Humboldt State University in Arcata when their bus, which was chartered by the university, collided with the big rig at around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. The students had been accepted or were considering attending the university.
The 48 occupants of the bus included 44 students, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District.
According to the LAUSD, there were 19 students aboard the bus from 11 LAUSD schools — Grant, Dorsey, Fremont, Visual Arts and Humanities (one of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools), Manual Arts, Banning, Carson, Chavez, Wilson, Chatsworth and Middle College.
The university issued a list of all schools represented on the bus and posted it on the website www.humboldt.edu/emergency. The campuses included schools in San Diego, Riverside and Orange counties.
A hotline for LAUSD parents concerned about students involved in last night's bus crash has been established at (213) 241-3841.
A Long Beach Unified School District official said two of its students were aboard the bus, and they suffered injuries described as "non-life- threatening." The Pasadena Unified School District said four students from that district took part in the bus trip, but only one was aboard the bus that crashed. That student suffered leg injuries.
A Pacifica High School senior will need surgery but is "expected to make a full and complete recovery," said Amy Stevens of the Garden Grove Unified School District. His parents were with him on Friday at a hospital, she added.
Santa Ana Unified School District officials said two students from that district were on the bus and suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Investigators said they would work to determine if any mechanical failures contributed to the wreck and would also review weather and road conditions at the time. They said it was unclear if the driver of the FedEx truck may have fallen asleep, if there was a mechanical problem with the truck or if another accident may have occurred that forced the truck across the freeway median.
Jonathan Gutierrez, a Banning High student who was aboard the bus, tweeted that he had sustained "bruised leg, eyebrow cut open, scratches all over my arm & all my stuff that I packed is burned. i'm beyond thankful that I'm still here."
Joyce Lopes, the Humboldt State Vice President for Administrative Affairs, said the university had chartered three buses for the campus tour. One was for students from Fresno.
Lopes said the students had been assigned to buses "largely, but not entirely" on an alphabetical basis. Some students with names earlier in the alphabet had left Los Angeles on the second bus, she said, adding that the buses had been due to arrive at the university at around 7 p.m. on Thursday.
The second bus from Los Angeles arrived safely, and counselors were made available for the students, Lopes said.
A CHP spokeswoman said the collision sequence began with the big rig crossing into the northbound lanes for an unknown reason, side-swiping a white sedan and then colliding with the bus. This was followed by an "immediate explosion," she said.
The bus was owned by Silverado Stages of San Luis Obispo. A statement on the company's website said it was helping authorities gather information regarding the accident.
"Our top priority is making sure the injured are being cared for," the statement said.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were at the site.
Humboldt State University said the prospective students were en route to a spring preview day scheduled for today — part of a two-day visit to the Arcata campus.
The students were participants in the university-funded Preview Plus program, which brings low-income and first-generation prospective students from the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas to the campus, according to Humboldt State.
Families of students who may have been affected were advised to contact university police at (707) 826-6327 for further information or guidance. The Red Cross has established a support site in Orland for victims of the crash at the Orland Veterans Memorial Hall.


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Optometrists who serve Medicare patients take note: Patients now have access to a large data set that might include what Medicare services and procedures you got paid for in 2012—and the amounts.
"America's doctors of optometry have been caring for the aging eyes of our seniors for nearly three decades as physicians under Medicare."
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released this data set on April 9 to increase transparency and inform the public about which services doctors provided under Medicare. The data had been withheld for decades due to a court order, but the order was lifted in 2013.
The information covers more than 880,000 health care professionals who received $77 billion in payments for Medicare Part B services in 2012. An AOA analysis shows that the data includes services provided by 25,509 ODs, who collectively received $680 million for the care they provided.
Consumers who access this data can make comparisons by Medicare physician specialty, types of medical services and procedures, submitted charges, and total reimbursement, according to a CMS press release.
The AOA encourages members to look up their numbers in the data so they can find out what the public sees. Be prepared to discuss those numbers with patients. CMS indicates that the information comes from claims data. If you feel your number is incorrect, contact your Medicare contractor and notify the AOA of the problem via Kara Webb at email@example.com.
In the meantime, know the limitations of this data.
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The information does not include all expenditures. CMS excluded some data, specifically services provided to fewer than 11 patients in 2012. This means ODs were probably paid more than $680 million; other data show that they were paid around $1 billion in 2012 overall.
In general, OD Medicare payments have been on the rise, mainly because the amount of services and the payments per service are increasing. ODs have been caring for "the aging eyes of our seniors for nearly three decades as physicians under Medicare," says AOA President Mitchell T. Munson, O.D. In 2014, AOA expects Medicare will pay ODs more than $1.1 billion.
2. Doctors don't set payment rates
The amount ODs get paid is not the amount they charge, but the amount they've agreed to accept from an insurance company—which is usually lower than the charges.
Patients may view the new data and think doctors are charging too much. In fact, federal regulators under Medicare's fee schedule formula are responsible for setting the payments.
3. There are inconsistencies across regions
Some geographic considerations apply. The information only reflects a partial set of physician practice data, which can limit doctor-to-doctor comparisons. Payment amounts can vary by site of service or geographic location—as can standards of care, coverage, and coding and billing rules.
Health status determines the type and level of services provided and billed; yet the data provide no information on how healthy or sick the patients were.
4. It doesn't reflect quality
Patients should know that the new data doesn't reflect quality of services or procedures.
Dr. Munson observes that ODs have been taking steps to align their practices and patient care protocols with health care reform initiatives, which place an emphasis on quality.
As CMS statistics show, the profession has embraced the Affordable Care Act with its "robust implementation of electronic health records, e-prescribing, and participation" in the Physician Quality Reporting System, he says.


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Chalk another one up to camera traps! You're looking at a close-up of one of the only known photos of a living Myanmar snub-nosed monkey — a bizarre species of primate that is so snub-nosed, it reportedly sneezes when it rains.
"The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey was described scientifically in 2010 from a dead specimen collected from a local hunter," said Frank Momberg of Fauna & Flora International (FFI), who organized the expeditions that led to the monkey's discovery. "As yet, no scientist has seen a live individual."
According to a research paper published by Momberg and his colleagues in The American Journal of Primatology back in 2010, the monkeys' distribution area appears to cover about 270 km2 in northeastern Myanmar, and the entire species is estimated to comprise between 260 and 330 individuals. It is expected that the species will soon be classified as "Critically Endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville felon was sentenced Friday morning to life in prison for the August 2009 murder of another man.
The sentence guarantees Shawn Shanks will never be released from prison.
Shanks, a three-time convicted felon, was found guilty in September on charges of second-degree murder for killing Willie Bell III. He was also found guilty of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Shanks got into a verbal argument with Bell at a car wash on McDuff Avenue on the Westside. Two friends who were with Shanks tried to convince him to leave the area and end the argument, but Shanks refused.
The then-40-year-old pulled out a handgun and shot Bell in the face. Bell, 44, died at the scene.
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Next up in Brendan's mini-series, Chromatic Approaches for Triads, he shows us approaches from one chromatic note above the chord tones. As Brendan would say: "Super fun, super easy, super awesome!"
Taught by Brendan Burns in Theory & Improv with Brendan Burns seriesLength: 14:59Difficulty: 2.5 of 5
Brendan Burns talks about the circle of fifths, intervals and more to help you in your playing.
Lesson 1
Brendan Burns explains the circle of fifths and how to navigate it on the neck of the guitar.Length: 11:22 Difficulty: 0.5 FREE
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Brendan Burns demonstrates an exercise that will help you locate and play octaves on the guitar.Length: 12:35 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
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Brendan Burns focuses on the fifth interval in chapter two of the interval workout.Length: 6:58 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
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In the third interval workout chapter, Brendan discusses and demonstrates the perfect fourth interval.Length: 6:30 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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In chapter four of his interval workout series, Brendan discusses and demonstrates the major third interval.Length: 3:43 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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Brendan Burns demonstrates the tritone intervals.Length: 3:51 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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Brendan Burns demonstrates the major second intervals.Length: 3:02 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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Brendan Burns demonstrates the minor second intervals.Length: 2:42 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
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Brendan Burns demonstrates the major sixth intervals.Length: 3:15 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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Brendan Burns demonstrates the minor sixth intervals.Length: 2:54 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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Brendan Burns demonstrates the major seventh intervals.Length: 2:26 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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Brendan continues his navigation series by showing us how to play the modes on two strings.Length: 23:33 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Brendan teaches us how to improve our improvisation using just the major pentatonic scale.Length: 27:31 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Brendan continues in the Harmonic Pentatonic Improvisation series by showing us some exercises with the minor pentatonic scale.Length: 11:30 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Brendan demonstrates the next chromatic approach in the series: one chromatic note below and one from above the chord tone.Length: 15:37 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Brendan concludes the first half of the Chromatic Approaches to Triads series by reviewing the "one above/one below" approach to the chord tones.Length: 13:57 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Brendan continues to explore the cool sounds of chromatic approaches. Here, he looks at double chromatic approaches to the triad chord tones from above.Length: 15:46 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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While at Berklee, Brendan was a member of the Music Mentoring Program, teaching private lessons to gifted high school students. He is currently teaches, and is chair of the guitar department at Brookline Music School. Brendan also teaches guitar for Tune Foolery & privately at his home in Cambridge, MA.
Along with educating, Brendan plays out often as a Solo Guitarist, performing standards, pop, and classical repertoire. He has recorded and played with the chamber-fusion band Ra Quintent, and as well as Vessela Stoyanova's Eastern Stories Under Western Skies Project. Brendan also performs as a leader, director and sideman for various Boston art-rock projects, and is former member of MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika.
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1. It's Spring Break for most of the world this week, except for us. Well, kinda. My fancy planning calendar that I spent way too much time making out at the beginning of the year says that we are working through this week, because our Spring Break will come 'round Easter. The fact that we've only had a full school day once this week seems to be speaking to the fact that it is, in fact, Spring Break for us, too. For the record, though, it is super hard to keep
myself the kids motivated when everyone and their 2nd cousin asks how our Spring Break is going and the response that I have to continually hear is, "We don't have Spring Break. Our mom makes us work." Nice.
This is what I came up with.
Notice that nowhere on his list is Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Hmmm....Oh well.
Somehow I managed to convince him that pirates think dinosaurs are way cool......
4. We are up to our ears in baseball. I'm not going to complain, because this is definitely my favorite time of year, but I will say that we are just plain B.U.S.Y. Between all 3 boys, we have 4 different baseball teams. Two regular league teams, and two traveling tournament teams. Needless to say, we are at a ballfield 7 days a week. And if we just so happen to squeeze in a day without a practice or a game, that day is spent hashing over plays at the dinner table, hitting in the batting cage, or washing a uniform of somekind. Definitely tiring, but good times.
7. I went to the dentist yesterday. 'Nuff said.
8. My Lenten fast is going really really well. I've made it 16 days now and feel better than I have in ages. I even resisted a piece of the orange chocolate T-Rex pirate baseball cake this weekend. Although I will tell you that right now there is a jar of ranch dip and a package of open taterchips sitting next to me on my bar, and I'm about to lose my religion over it. The children love to play this little torture game with me....
9. I still haven't done our taxes. I probably should get on that, huh?
10. American Idol is making me swoon. So much good talent in one tiny space. My favorites are cutie-pie screecher James, quirky white-teeth Paul, Southern Belle sweetie Lauren, and ornery-as-all-get-out Casey. Actually at this point, I'm just rootin' for the ones that I want to get kicked off, because after they're gone, it'll all be cake for me. Love this season...
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This is a Wonderful Poem
Come at it carefully, don't trust it, that isn't its right name, It's wearing stolen rags, it's never been washed, its breath Would look moss-green if it were really breathing, It won't get out of the way, it stares at you Out of eyes burnt gray as the sidewalk, Its skin is overcast with colorless dirt, It has no distinguishing marks, no I.D. cards, It wants something of yours but hasn't decided Whether to ask for it or just take it, There are no policemen, no friendly neighbors, No peacekeeping busybodies to yell for, only this Thing standing between you and the place you were headed, You have about thirty seconds to get past it, around it, Or simply to back away and try to forget it, It won't take no for an answer: try hitting it first And you'll learn what's trembling in its torn pocket. Now, what do you want to do about it? From http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16205 accessed 5/31/08. I smiled when I read this poem for the first time. I'm trying to decide if David Wagoner has taken any risks in this poem. The tone of this poem is something like menace: "Come at it carefully, don't trust it..." "It won't get out of the way..." "It wants something of yours but hasn't decided/Whether to ask for it or just take it..." "It won't take no for an answer..." "What do you want to do about it?" This poem reminds me of a skit I saw in which a girl talks to a guy who isn't interested in talking to her. She wants to know what he likes to do for fun, she tells him she could have any guy in this place, she wants to know if he'll dance with her, she wants to know if he's gay, she asks him what's wrong with you, etc. The guy doesn't have much to say. He's not interested in her. She gets in his face much like this poem is getting in the face of the reader. So yes, Wagoner has taken the risk of appearing to be anti-social with this poem. In the fourth-to-last line, the "simply" doesn't need to be there. The "try to" doesn't need to be there either. The line could be "Or back away and forget it..." Wagoner may be making some subtle assertions here about his expectations of the reading ability of the average person and the way memory works. The poem wouldn't lose anything in my estimation if he took out "try hitting it first/And you'll learn what's trembling in its torn pocket." Clearly he's having fun with this poem. The poem describes itself as something that is alive but does not anthropomorphize: the poem doesn't breathe. And there is another risk: the risk of the poem explaining itself. A good poem does not explain itself. This poem describes itself in a nebulous way and not in an explicit way, so it doesn't really explain itself. It does talk about what it's doing, as though it is self-aware. So there's a cleverness here because a poem is only capable of doing what the reader will allow it to do, and this poem describes itself as alive and waiting for the reader to decide what to do about it. Of course, the poem can at best only be metaphorically alive, and that could only happen with an indulging, generous, intelligent reader. And now we have an irony: the tone of voice in the poem is one that would attenuate any desire in the reader to be indulgent or generous toward the poem. But that is exactly what's needed for the poem to "live." Here we have a "wonderful" poem that is clever and amusing and I would say memorable as well. Because I smiled when I read this poem, I know I will remember it. A smile is a visceral reaction, is it not? He got me.


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Erroneous Assumptions
To the Editor:
The letters from Messrs. Krein, McArthur, and Wiener in the October issue of Perspectives and from Mr. Haverkamp in this issue concerning my "Revisionist Historians" essay are premised on two erroneous assumptions. First is the assumption that the views expressed in the "From the President" column speak for the AHA or "for the profession." They do not; they represent the president's views alone.
Having said this, however, I will note that my essay elicited scores of personal communications from AHA members, 95 percent of whom expressed agreement with my view. Second is the implied assumption that historians should stick to history and avoid political commentary. I believe that an analysis of the government's foreign and military policies during the past two years is most certainly a legitimate subject for historians. If my commentary struck some readers as "smugly supercilious" and "unremittingly sarcastic and dismissive," I apologize. But anyone who watched Ms. Rice's and Mr. Bush's televised references to "revisionist historians" in July must concede that they far outdid me in sarcasm and dismissiveness.
Messrs. Wiener and Haverkamp should have read my remarks more carefully. I did not "admit" that I had not read Condoleezza Rice's book—I have read it. I stated that (as a nonspecialist in a specialized subject), I could not judge the review's accuracy and fairness. And I did not define historical revisionism as "ignoring, distorting, denying, or falsifying evidence and giving slanted interpretations," but rather suggested that Ms. Rice and Mr. Bush may have meant to define revisionism in this way.
Finally, I am willing to leave it up to readers to decide whether my "conclusions and arguments" are more or less likely "to flow automatically from ideology rather than from evidence" than those of the Bush administration.
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Scientists at the UCSF-afiliated Gladstone Institutes are one step closer to understanding and overcoming one of the least-understood mechanisms of HIV infection — by devising a method to precisely track the life cycle of individual cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Leor Weinberger, PhD
In a paper published online Tuesday in Lab on a Chip, the laboratory of Gladstone investigator Leor Weinberger, PhD, announced the development of a device that can pinpoint and track HIV inside CD4 T cells — the type of white blood cell that the AIDS virus targets. This development is particularly important for understanding "HIV latency," a state in which the virus goes dormant after the patient begins standard antiretroviral treatment.
Current antiretroviral drugs do not kill HIV — they only keep it at bay — meaning that those with HIV must continue a lifetime of drug treatment so as not to develop AIDS. If they discontinue the drugs, the latent virus "wakes up" within just a few weeks and begins an onslaught against the body's immune system.
The breakthrough comes as the AIDS-researcher community is beginning to speak publicly about the possibility of curing HIV/AIDS. Understanding — and consequently interrupting — HIV latency is a key element in the effort to discover a cure for this devastating disease.
"HIV latency is perhaps the single greatest obstacle to eradicating HIV/AIDS in the 34 million people who live with the disease worldwide," said Weinberger, who is also an associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF, with which Gladstone is affiliated. "Existing techniques that try to uncover the cellular and viral mechanisms behind HIV latency are inefficient at studying very rare cells — and cells housing the latent HIV virus are one-in-a-million. Our technique presents a clear path towards understanding how HIV latency is regulated within a single cell, by tracking the individual cells that traditionally had been difficult to monitor."
Singe-cell, time-lapse microscopy — a state-of-the-art technique that scientists have lately used to track some viral infections and map antibiotic resistance to drugs — has not worked for tracking the HIV-infection cycle in CD4 T cells, especially in the latent state. This is because these cells are notoriously evasive. They spontaneously move around, attaching and detaching from their neighbors, making it nearly impossible to monitor individual HIV-infected cells over time.
However, Dr. Weinberger's team devised a clever system that essentially guides and suspends HIV-infected T cells into tiny finger-like channels — reducing their ability to move or detach from their neighbors.
"First, we load the T cells into a small well, allowing them to settle into the bottom — which is filled with nutrients that keep the cells well-fed and stress-free," explained the paper's lead author Brandon Razooky, a Gladstone and UCSF graduate student. "Next, we tilt the device and the cells slide into microscopic finger-like channels that are attached to the well. Finally, we return the device to its upright position, locking about 25 T cells inside each channel and essentially 'freezing' them in place."
The device has several advantages over current methods. First and foremost, individual cells stay in place so investigators can follow them over time with single-cell, time-lapse microscopy. Second, the fact that each T cell is suspended in nutrients in close physical contact with other cells results in near optimal conditions for keeping the infected cell alive for the virus' entire life cycle.
"This means that we now have the potential to analyze the entire course of an HIV infection in an individual cell — especially during the crucial latency stage — for which we know so little," said Weinberger. "In the future, we plan to expand the device's design to include a larger number of wells and channels to track HIV infection on a larger scale. We want to use the information gleaned here to finally unravel the mechanisms behind HIV latency. With that knowledge, we hope to devise a treatment to bring the latent virus out of hiding in order to flush it from a patient's system, once and for all."
This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
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Are African Current Account Deficits Different? Stylized Facts, Transitory Shocks, and Decomposition Analysis »
Volume/Issue: 2001/4
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Luisa Zanforlin , César Calderón , and Alberto Chong
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 2001
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451842043.001
Keywords: Dynamic Panel Data Models, Decomposition Analysis, current account deficits, current account deficit, current account balance, current account balances, International Finance: General, Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance: General,
This paper analyzes the behavior of current account deficits in Africa and estimates whether the deficits are excessive with respect to fundamentals. The findings are the deficits are (i) not very persistent; (ii)...


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If cities were stocks, you'd want to short Phoenix.
Of course, it's an easy city to pick on. The nation's 13th largest metropolitan area (nudging out Detroit) crams 4.3 million people into a low bowl in a hot desert, where horrific heat waves and windstorms visit it regularly. It snuggles next to the nation's largest nuclear plant and, having exhausted local sources, it depends on an improbable infrastructure to suck water from the distant (and dwindling) Colorado River.
In Phoenix, you don't ask: What could go wrong? You ask: What couldn't?
And that's the point, really. Phoenix's multiple vulnerabilities, which are plenty daunting taken one by one, have the capacity to magnify one another, like compounding illnesses. In this regard, it's a quintessentially modern city, a pyramid of complexities requiring large energy inputs to keep the whole apparatus humming. The urban disasters of our time — New Orleans hit by Katrina, New York City swamped by Sandy — may arise from single storms, but the damage they do is the result of a chain reaction of failures — grids going down, levees failing, back-up systems not backing up. As you might expect, academics have come up with a name for such breakdowns: infrastructure failure interdependencies. You wouldn't want to use it in a poem, but it does catch an emerging theme of our time.
Phoenix's pyramid of complexities looks shakier than most because it stands squarely in the crosshairs of climate change. The area, like much of the rest of the American Southwest, is already hot and dry; it's getting ever hotter and drier, and is increasingly battered by powerful storms. Sandy and Katrina previewed how coastal cities can expect to fare as seas rise and storms strengthen. Phoenix pulls back the curtain on the future of inland empires. If you want a taste of the brutal new climate to come, the place to look is where that climate is already harsh, and growing more so — the aptly named Valley of the Sun.
In Phoenix, it's the convergence of heat, drought, and violent winds, interacting and amplifying each other that you worry about. Generally speaking, in contemporary society, nothing that matters happens for just one reason, and in Phoenix there are all too many "reasons" primed to collaborate and produce big problems, with climate change foremost among them, juicing up the heat, the drought, and the wind to ever greater extremes, like so many sluggers on steroids. Notably, each of these nemeses, in its own way, has the potential to undermine the sine qua non of modern urban life, the electrical grid, which in Phoenix merits special attention.
If, in summer, the grid there fails on a large scale and for a significant period of time, the fallout will make the consequences of Superstorm Sandy look mild. Sure, people will hunt madly for power outlets to charge their cellphones and struggle to keep their milk fresh, but communications and food refrigeration will not top their list of priorities. Phoenix is an air-conditioned city. If the power goes out, people fry.
In the summer of 2003, a heat wave swept Europe and killed 70,000 people. The temperature in London touched 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time since records had been kept, and in portions of France the mercury climbed as high as 104°F. Those temperatures, however, are child's play in Phoenix, where readings commonly exceed 100°F for more than 100 days a year. In 2011, the city set a new record for days over 110°F: there were 33 of them, more than a month of spectacularly superheated days ushering in a new era.
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Cuban native Dayan Viciedo, the big third baseman/first baseman, hit just .182 in 10 spring games and will be spending his first summer at Charlotte, so the media were curious what manager Ozzie Guillen expected of him.
"To get the (bleep) out of here quickly as he can," Guillen said. "I think he has a great chance to be a big league player and that's our expectation. He will dictate to us how fast he's going to be in the big leagues.
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What do you do when you've got a renegade artificial intelligence on your hands? What should we do with Skynets and Hal 9000s of the world when they decide to turn their deadly power on human beings? One computer scientist wants to start building virtual prisons to house our most dangerous AIs.
Roman Yampolskiy, a computer scientist at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, wants to build these prisons to contain powerful artificial intelligences before they become self-aware. He fears a Skynet-like scenario where an intelligence is allowed to roam free through computer systems, triggering some sort of technological apocalypse. Yampolskiy proposes developing a new field of cybersecurity that could hold even the most clever intelligences.
Yampolskiy warns that such a security system would have to be technological in nature, so that human guards wouldn't be able to free the AI. He suspects that a sophisticate intelligence that really wanted to break free, it could blackmail or befriend a human guard into letting it go. Of course, he acknowledges that the real hazard is that we can't fully test how such a system would perform against a dangerous and ingenious AI until we got our hands on one — at which point we'd be closing the gate after the deadly cyber horse had already escaped the barn.
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Enhancements to GibbsCAM overall with an additional focus on high speed machining.
Enhancements to GibbsCAM overall with an additional focus on high speed machining.
Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM® software for programming CNC machine tools and a Cimatron company, announced today that GibbsCAM 2008 will be previewed at WESTEC 2008. This release introduces enhanced capabilities across the entire GibbsCAM product family, along with a complete range of 3-axis milling functionality with support for high speed machining. WESTEC is being held at the Los Angles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on March 31st – April 3rd, 2008.
"We continue to expand on GibbsCAM's world class production machining capabilities," states Bill Gibbs, founder and president of Gibbs and Associates. "With this release a majority of enhancements have been made to system core, so all GibbsCAM modules benefit from them. This ensures that all customers will receive considerable value with this release. In addition, there are new 3-axis surface machining capabilities that provide more control and flexibility in toolpath generation with integral high speed machining support. The new functionality is keeping with GibbsCAM's tradition of uniquely blending ease-of-use and powerful functionality, a combination that can't be beaten in production machining."
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Sobameshi (そば飯 ), literally means noodles-rice, is pan fried noodles together with steamed rice. It is a common Japanese home-cooked dish that my boys like. Whenever I have leftover of fried noodles, I will keep it in the fridge even a small amount. And, make into sobameshi with other ingredients available in the fridge at times.
Having said it is a Japanese dish but the flavour is up to individual, such as black pepper, kimchi flavour, sambal belacan and so forth. For my boys I always cooked non-spicy version with heaps of chopped vegetables.
Ingredients (makes 2 servings):
1 cup yellow noodles
1 cup steamed rice (leftover will be good)
¼ cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped lettuce
½ cup grated carrot
¼ cup tuna flakes (canned tuna)
1 no. large egg
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tbsp olive oil
Salt to taste
Black pepper
Furikake (optional)
Nori flakes
- Heat oil in pan/wok, add in chopped onion and cook until onion is translucent.
- Add in egg, stir to break the egg and cook until the egg is almost set.
- Add in noodles and rice, stir to mix and use spatula to cut noodles into small pieces.
- Add in carrot, soy sauce and tuna flakes together with the liquid. Stir fry for about 2 minutes (longer if using rice straight from the fridge).
- Add in salt and pepper to taste, and lettuce. Stir to mix.
- Turn the heat off and transfer to serving plates. Garnish with nori flakes and tomato, serve warm.Cook's note:If using leftover fried noodles, add in step (4).
At some points, many of us will invest on non-stick cookwares. My main reason for my very first non-stick wok about 10 years ago was to reduce oil consumption in cooking, especially pan-fried dishes. After some times, I found out that the best wok/pan is still the old fashion steel wok. I could not use non-stick pan for cooking crab (we love chilli crab), chicken with sharp bone, etc. Now, I use old fashion wok for 90% of my cooking including non-Chinese dishes. Until today, I have not found a 100% non-stick non-stick pan. Any good one around?
When I was younger, I always asked my mom "Why is my fish sticking onto the wok, but when you fried it would not stick?" She always said "Use stronger fire (heat)". Until recent years, through experiences and research, I can use my old fashion wok as if a non-stick wok.
Just follow these simple steps, you can use much lesser amount of oil in cooking your favourite Chinese stir-fried dishes. As you can see in the photo, my sobameshi was not greasy and non-sticking to wok at all.
- Heat up pan/wok with medium heat until it is really hot before adding in oil.
- Then, add in small amount of oil and swirl the pan/wok to coat. You should be able to see some smoke as it reaches smoke point.
- You can also use a paper towel to grease the pan/wok, make sure the heat is turned to low when you are doing so. After greasing, turn the heat up again until it reaches smoke point.
- Turn the heat down, add in the rest of oil as stated in recipe and start cooking as normal.


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Following months of zealous advocacy on behalf of adequate funding for our
justice system, Boston Bar Association President Lisa C. Goodheart issued the
following statement:
Amid serious concerns about inadequate funding for our justice system,
the Boston Bar Association is pleased to report that the Massachusetts House of
Representatives last night approved a budget providing additional funds for the
Massachusetts Trial Courts and for the Massachusetts Legal Assistance
Corporation (MLAC), the primary source of civil legal aid in the
Commonwealth. The continued advocacy of BBA members played an important
role in spotlighting significant unmet needs.
A consolidated amendment provided an additional $6 million to the Trial
Court, bringing its House appropriation up to $560 million.
The House
budget also provided an additional $1 million for civil legal services, bringing
the MLAC appropriation up to $12 million.
There are hurdles yet to be cleared. In the coming weeks, the Senate will be
considering its own budget recommendations. As the budgeting process continues,
the Boston Bar Association will continue to press for adequate funding for our
justice system."
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Progressive Judaism, sometimes called Reform Judaism is a movement within Judaism. This movement has its roots in a movement in 19th century Germany. There are a number of movements which fall under these denominations. In very basic terms:
- Jewish laws can be split into ethical and ritual laws. The ethical laws do not change, the ritual laws can be adapted to customs.
- To some extent, Jews should integrate into the society they live in. This means that some of the ritual laws must be adapted. Such adaptations also allow modern lifestyles.
- The texts that are the basis of Judaism should not be read literally. They can be analyzed and criticized like any other text.
- Women are seen as equals to men and are allowed to sit with the men when attending synagogue while in Orthodox Judaism, women are expected to sit in a different area. Women are also allowed to not wear head coverings when attending synagogue.
- Less Hebrew is spoken in Reform synagogues.
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- Orthodox Judaism - the stricter movement


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LairdSquared | 3D Design & Animation
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It keeps on going viral...a swedish site called creativetools which are retailers of printers such as makerbot and several other printers and pro printers, and they are also retailer of 3dmax,cinema4d,maya,rhino..they
have noticed the great work of chris jones and have it on their blog now...
No mention directly in their blog about Lightwave though...I think they might have mentioned it if they actually were retailers of Lightwave, I have asked why no lightwave in their sales? and they said
they have spoken to newtek about it, but didn´t get clarification to be a retailer for it...newtek didn´t want that.
I was fiddling around with Sigma2, and found that not only does it behave in a more skin-like fashion than Simple Skin, but it also allows control over reflection blur, doesn't require a closed mesh, and displays none of that unsightly intersection glow. So now I've covered his whole head with it:
The main drawback is that it renders black in VPR. Despite this (and the crippled caustics and frangible FFX), LW has been a bit more cooperative this time around. I also reshaped the head and improved the brows and lashes a bit.
Written on your tomb stone...
"Chris Jones made everyone look bad at 3D.
Death via animators with pitchforks."
Have an internet hug, because that is pretty damn amazing. Very well done... not much else I can say really.
Flaming gorgeous. How are the render times in comparison?
Push the software, don't let it push YOU!
My own plugins and work:www.mikegreen.name
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Amazing! Shame you can't get 'Skin' to work properly, with the self-intersection bug. LW isn't terribly good at handling volumes.
Visit my Website and Facebook Artist profile
That's simply *A*W*E*S*O*M*E* !!!
Can't wait to see it animated!
Lino Grandi
3D Artist at OTOY
Yup... as I expected... AWESOME!!!
Keep up the truly incredible work!!!
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How are the render times with that model and Sigma 2?
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Amazing realism.
Reminds me of the cool sniper in Jack Reacher
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2) 4WIW, getting Sigma2 to show up on VPR would be just really great, NT.
Just sayin'...
Awesome stuff as always
VPR unfortunate doesn't post process, i'd really like that, and many others too...


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Keeping politics out of the pulpit
The Internal Revenue Service advises churches and other tax-exempt organizations that, under federal law, they are "absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office." But the 2012 election campaign that mercifully is coming to a close demonstrates that some religious leaders, while they may be abiding by the letter of the law, are willing to undermine its spirit. To wit:
•A week after Mitt Romney visited the venerable evangelist Billy Graham, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn. removed Mormonism from its list of religious cults. Graham's son, Franklin, also an evangelist, wrote an article titled "Can an Evangelical Christian Vote for a Mormon?" The answer: Yes. (According to the New Yokr Times, Franklin Graham said the "cult" reference was mistakenly made by a staff member.)
•In Peoria, Ill., Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky ordered priests in his diocese to read a letter to parishioners the Sunday before the election criticizing "the president" for including contraception in his health insurance mandate. Jenky then warned that "Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord." He ended with this appeal: "I therefore call upon every practicing Catholic in this diocese to vote. Be faithful to Christ and to your Catholic faith."
•Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., suggested that hellfire awaited Catholics who voted the wrong way. "I am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against," he wrote in the diocesan newspaper. "But I am saying that you need to think and pray very carefully about your vote, because a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil ... makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy." Paprocki's "evils": same-sex marriage and abortion.
Some religious leaders are willing to challenge the prohibition of political activity directly. In New York City earlier this year, a priest inserted in a church bulletin an article by several former U.S. ambassadors to the Vatican calling on Catholics to vote for Romney. And last month, dozens of churches participated in the fifth "Pulpit Freedom Sunday" sponsored by the conservative group Alliance Defending Freedom. Participants were invited to preach about "what Scripture says about the selection of our national, state, or local leaders." Some preachers sent their sermons to the IRS, essentially daring the agency to investigate them. The alliance boasts that none of those pastors has been punished or censored by the IRS.
Some would argue that it's futile for the IRS to try to police political activity by churches. We disagree. The IRS can and should investigate accusations of blatant partisanship, such as a church bulletin that endorses a candidate by name or the sign outside a Texas church that reportedly advised: "Vote for the Mormon, not the Muslim! The capitalist, not the communist!"
Yet it's also true that much advocacy by churches will not be explicit enough to justify legal reprisals. That was the case, for example, with the prolonged and inconclusive IRS investigation of an antiwar sermon preached in 2004 at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena. The retired rector had described a scenario in which Jesus participated in a debate with George W. Bush and John F. Kerry. He didn't endorse either candidate but said that Jesus would have told Bush that his war strategy in Iraq "has led to disaster."
One consolation for those offended by heavy-handed election-year sermonizing is that, even in the traditionally hierarchical Catholic Church, religious leaders don't always have the last word. For example, Bishop Paprocki's warning prompted rebuttals from politically liberal Catholics who noted that the late Pope John Paul II had applied the term "intrinsically evil" also to "subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution and trafficking in women and children; [and] degrading conditions of work which treat laborers as mere instruments of profit, and not as free responsible persons."
Believers understandably pay attention to their religious leaders. But in the end they are likely to think, and vote, for themselves.
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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and several other Christian denominations filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Arizona vs. United States, supporting the principle that the federal government controls the enactment and implementation of the nation's immigration laws. The March 26 brief argued that the federal government is in the best position to protect the well-established goals of family unity and human dignity in the nation's immigration system.
The brief also made the case that a patchwork of state laws could inhibit the Church's mission to serve immigrants, thus impinging upon religious liberty. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service joined the bishops in filing the brief.
Citing numerous examples of federal immigration policies designed to further family unity and human dignity, the brief argued that Arizona's SB 1070 is not a solution to the problems in federal law and in fact creates more problems than it solves.
"The Conference has a strong interest in ensuring that courts adhere to two important goals of federal immigration law—the promotion of family unity and the protection of human dignity," the brief stated."The provisions of SB 1070 at issue in this case would hinder these critical federal objectives by replacing them with the single goal of reducing the number of undocumented immigrants in Arizona at all costs."
The brief said that state laws such as SB 1070 threaten to restrict the Church's ability to provide pastoral and social service care to immigrants and their families, thus infringing upon the Church's religious liberty.
"The Catholic Church's religious faith, like that of many religious denominations, requires it to offer charity—ranging from soup kitchens to homeless shelters—to all in need, whether they are present in this country legally or not. Yet SB 1070 and related state immigration laws have provisions that could….criminalize this charity… [or] exclude from that charity all those whose presence Arizona and other states would criminalize," the brief argued.
The brief asked the Supreme Court to affirm the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in striking down the Arizona law.
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Some new images from two promising fall releases have surfaced. First up is new images from director John Hillcoat's (The Road) prohibition-era drama Lawless. The film stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, and Jason Clarke as three brothers who became bootleggers in the South during Prohibition. I caught the film at Comic-Con and thought it was great. The violence is brutal and hard-hitting, but the film is grounded with engaging characters and bits of dark humor. Moreover, Guy Pearce is terrifying as a corrupt FBI agent who's obsessed with bringing the Bondurant brothers down. Lawless opens on August 31st, and I highly recommend checking it out.
Additionally, we've got a couple of new images from director Joe Wright's (Hanna) adaptation of the classic Leo Tolstoy novel Anna Karenina. Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Johnson star in this visually impressive period pic that's definitely high on my list of anticipated fall titles. Anna Karenina opens on November 16th. Hit the jump to check out all the images.
Images courtesy of Kino Gallery (via The Playlist).
Here's the synopsis for Lawless:
LAWLESS is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic gangster tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family in his novel "The Wettest County in the World", the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
Images courtesy of Kinopoisk (via The Playlist).
Here's the synopsis for Anna Karenina:
The third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with director Joe Wright, following the award-winning boxoffice successes "Pride & Prejudice" and "Atonement," is the epic love story "Anna Karenina," adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard ("Shakespeare in Love"). The story unfolds in its original late-19th-century Russia high-society setting and powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart, from the passion between adulterers to the bond between a mother and her children. As Anna (Ms. Knightley) questions her happiness, change comes to her family, friends, and community.


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IT for Education
Posted by Manish Panchmatia on Friday, August 7, 2015 Labels: Education, India / Comments: (3) Full article...>>
My today's post is also based on a recent news in Times of India. I wrote earlier on "Reading, Writing and Coding" Let me list out few important website addresses. Majority of them are with reference to today's news
Ref: 7th August Times of India
- Vedantu, Video conferencing,
- Topper, Online Test preparation,
- Easyprep, Online Test preparation,
- SuperProfs, Online platform for test preparation,
- iProf, * Mobile education,
- Tutorvista, Video conferencing,
- Byju's Classes, Tablet content for school and online platform for test preparation
- Pearson, Everything about education,
- Pearson, Books and vidoe,
- flipClass, Personal tution,
Few more
- eVidyalay, Gujarati education videos etc. ,
- Helloclass.com: Home Tuition & Online Tutoring in India
- EdSix Brain : Multi-language platform for online and offline games
- MeritNation : Online Educational platform
- Toppr : Competitive Exams
- Ignis Carrers
- Avanti Learning Centers
- SEED Schools
- Purple Squirrel Eduventures : Industry Visits and Workshops
Ref: 8 Education Tech Startup to Watch
- VidCode : Code your story. Video effects using Javascript
- ToneTree : World of Sound for Students
- Gotit : Homework Help On-Demand
- BeeLine Reader : Read faster and easier
- WordsU : Discover new words as you text
- PocketLab : Low cost wireless sensor
- WriteReader : Children as creator
Few more