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When the Falcons released running back Michael Turner, Steven Jackson was believed to be their choice to replace him.
It took a couple days and some rumored interest from the Packers, but the Falcons got their man. Adam Schefter of ESPN broke the news that Jackson and the Falcons have agreed to terms on a contract that will bring the NFL's leading active rusher to Atlanta.
Jackson's a clear upgrade on Turner and he's been a strong receiver throughout his career, something that could add another wrinkle to a Falcons offense that looks even better than the one that helped them to the NFC Championship Game last year. With Tony Gonzalez coming back, the Falcons appear to be loading up for a run at the Super Bowl.
They'll need to do some work on defense to get there, namely a pass rusher to replace the departed John Abraham and some secondary help whether or not they bring back Brent Grimes. Jackson's a big get for them, though, and should be a very good fit in an offense that could have used his skills last season.


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Paula Deen Dishes on Thanksgiving Dinner
Star chef says it's all about seasoning, stuffing and southern hospitality.
Nov. 24, 2008 -- Paula Deen, the popular Food Network star with a renowned restaurant, a lifestyle magazine, two cooking shows and a host of cookbooks to her name, says that food has always been the focus of life in her family.
"Food was very, very important; it was a big, big part in our life," Deen said. "And I think it does play a tremendous part for Southerners, because that's how we tell you we love you, through our kitchen and the gifts that can come out of that room."
Deen was born in Albany, Ga., and learned to cook from her grandmother, who operated a hot dog stand near the Atlanta airport.
"I am proud to be a Southerner," Deen said. "I think Southern hospitality is very… I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice."
Deen says her first food memories come from her grandmother's kitchen when she was just a toddler.
"Grandma was a wonderful Southern cook," she said. "There was just nothing that she couldn't cook."
Not surprisingly, Thanksgiving in the Deen household is a family affair. She says it's her favorite holiday "because it's just about food, family and friends: my three favorite 'f' words."
Growing up, Deen says there was a strong emphasis on that Southern hospitality.
"There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody," she said. "That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people, because in my line of work, it was my greatest desire to have people come in and feel good about being there… It has to be sincere 'cause you can't fool folks."
Deen got married at 18, and says she "didn't know how to boil an egg." She started cooking when she realized her mother wasn't going to come over and cook for them. Her mother passed away when Deen was 23, but she says their close relationship impacted how she relates to her own children through cooking.
Paula Deen: Portrait of 'The Lady'
Deen's sons Jamie and Bobby -- "two of the sweetest boys in the entire world," she says -- run the family restaurant, The Lady & Sons in Savannah, and are frequent guests on her Food Network shows, "Paula's Home Cooking" and "Paula's Party."
"I love being in the kitchen with my boys," Deen said. "It's fun. It's a lot of fun when we're home doing it and there's no customers out there saying 'where's my food, where's my food?' I can truthfully say that being in the kitchen in a restaurant is a whole different arena from being in the home kitchen."
"They've got good hearts; they're good inside," she added. "And one of them finally made me a grandmother, which I didn't think was ever going to happen… Jack was 2 [years old] in August, and he is the most precious little boy I have ever seen."
Perhaps inspired by her grandson, Deen published her first children's cookbook, "Paula Deen's My First Cookbook," in October.
After struggling with agoraphobia and enduring a difficult divorce, Deen was a 42-year-old housewife raising Jamie and Bobby on her own when she started her first business in 1989.
"It had dawned on me that, you know, God had made me just as capable as he had a man. I really didn't have to have anybody to take care of me, and there was no reason why I shouldn't step up to the pump and take that responsibility over and I did. I lay in bed and I would dream about how could I help myself? How could I help my children?" she recalled.
"So I said, well if you got a talent Paula, it's definitely in front of your stove. So I started dreaming about ways that I could do that."
Deen opened The Bag Lady, a small catering company, with a cooler and $50 worth of groceries, and her business grew by word of mouth.
"The food was so good and so fresh," she recalled. "I touched everything; I did every bite myself, and it had to be perfect. So I found out my talent was through making people smile and what came out of my kitchen."
After outgrowing her home-based business, Deen opened her first restaurant, called The Lady, eventually relocating and opening The Lady & Sons in 1996.
A Deen Family Thanksgiving
To Deen, southern food is all about love… and proper seasoning.
"It sounds so corny and cliché, but we put a lot of love in our food," she said. "We really, really do. Plus, did I mention butter? And ham hocks? Oh and don't forget the salt and pepper. Oh, and bacon grease. You know, we don't hold back on the flavors… when you come to The Lady and Sons, you shouldn't have to pick up salt, pepper or hot sauce, unless you just like it extra hot. We're just not afraid to season our pots."
For years, Thanksgiving meant working hard in the restaurant -- one of the busiest days of the year when Deen said they'd work to "make families happy that walked through our doors." Now, she says, it's about spending time with family and friends, and giving back on a larger scale.
"I'm real excited to go back home to Savannah because I'm going to be delivering 25,000 pounds of protein to our food bank," she said. "That's a lot of food… I always said, you know, I want to feed the world, I want to feed the world. Obviously my little restaurant wouldn't hold the world, but now I've got the opportunity to feed more than just the people that visit our restaurant, and that gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling inside."
Though she loves a traditional turkey and dressing, Deen says for a different twist on Thanksgiving dinner, she suggests Cornish hens -- a favorite of her husband Michael. (CLICK HERE for the recipe)
"If you don't want to prepare it for Thanksgiving," she says, "you may want to think about it for Christmas. It'll be a perfect Christmas meal."
And of course, Deen says that no Thanksgiving would be complete without stuffing.
Spectacular Thanksgiving Stuffing
A few of her secret ingredients? Rice, saltine crackers and "a good, old country sausage." (CLICK HERE for the recipe)
"That sausage is going to release a wonderful flavor throughout our stuffing, and it's going to be great with those little birds we have in the oven," she said.
"You know, I understand that a lot of people, especially up north, put fruits and nuts in their stuffing, which is good, but for myself personally, I love an old-timey savory dressing."
"Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good," she added. "In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell."
Deen says this year she's thankful for many things, especially for the "second chance" she was given in her life.
"I say all the time that I've been over blessed. God has been so good to me. I've got a fabulous family. I've got good friends. I've probably got the best working team, who is like my extended family that you could ever find. And I'm so thankful for a second chance because I really blew the first one. I am so thankful. "

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Courtesy of ITV Global Entertainment Ltd
Cast: Iain Cuthbertson (Raphael Hendrick), Gareth Thomas (Professor Adam Brake), Peter Demin (Matthew Brake), Veronica Strong (Margaret Smythe), Katharine Levy (Sandra Smythe), Freddie Jones (Dai)
Scientist Adam Brake and his son Matthew come to the quiet village of Milbury to study the 4000 year-old stone circle that surrounds it. But the stones seem to hold some kind of ancient power, one that the mysterious Mr Hendrick hopes to tap into and that holds all of the villagers in its thrall.
Children of the Stones (ITV, 1977) borrows plot strands and styles popular in
1960s and '70s British horror cinema, mixing them into a satisfying serial that
appeared fresh and new to children. The sinister air of a relentlessly happy,
sunny English village echoes the film Village of the Damned (d. Wolf Rilla,
1960), while Professor Brake's scientific detachment in the face of seemingly
supernatural Pagan or alien forces recalls Nigel Kneale's works Quatermass and
the Pit (BBC, 1958) and The Stone Tape (BBC, tx. 25/12/1972).
Brake can plausibly hold forth on topics such as psychic ability, the power
of ley lines, the energy of the stones, black holes, supernovas, psychokinesis
and atomic clocks to happily fulfil an educational remit. This factual basis
helps to create a horror fantasy grounded in some scientific, rational reality,
making events seem even more frightening.
Director Peter Graham Scott remarked on seeing the script of Episode One,
"And this is for children?" Not only is it genuinely frightening, thanks in no
small part to Sidney Sager's unsettling pseudo-Neolithic vocal score, but the
script is unpatronisingly complex. The ending - which sees Hendrick seemingly
absorbed by an alien force focused on the ring of stones and events then jumping
back to the beginning of the serial on an alternate 'time plane' - was perhaps
slightly too complex for younger viewers.
A product of ITV's regional structure of the 1970s, both storyline and
location filming are centred in the West Country. The stone circle that rings
the village of Avebury in Wiltshire provides the basis of the script and doubles
up as Milbury for filming. Production company HTV also dabbled in Arthurian and
Pagan myth with Sky (ITV, 1975) and Robin of Sherwood (ITV, 1984-86). Writers
Burnham and Ray next wrote Raven (ITV, 1977), a fantasy serial based on the legends of King Arthur.
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Obstetrics is a branch of medicine and surgery concerned with childbirth and midwifery whereas gynecology is the branch of physiology and medicine which deals with the functions and diseases specific to women and girls, especially those concerning reproductive organs and reproductive health. The doctor treating such disorders is called as a gynecologist who might or might not have a degree in surgery. Cases which require a surgery would be treated by a gynecologist who has a degree in surgery.
Bumrungrad International Hospital, the forerunner healthcare service provider in Thailand, are highly renowned for their hospitality and excellent clinical care in the whole Asia Pacific. The distinguished multispecialty hospital was founded in 1980 and has been listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand since 1989. It is one of the biggest privately owned hospitals in Southeast Asia.
The 580 bedded hospital is an international standard medical facility equipped with cutting-edge technology and world-class infrastructure. The outstanding team of doctors at Bumrungrad are committed in their goal to deliver expert medical care across all 70 sub-specialties.
The globally recognized specialists ensures that all patients receive the best of medical treatments and standard clinical care. Bumrungrad Hospital is an internationally accredited and highly awarded hospital which treats over 1.1 million patients every year with 520,000 being the international patients coming from over 190 different countries. The hospital has remarkable medical facilities with well-established outpatient, inpatient, and emergency as well as critical care service.
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[Censored Adult Content] New figure from Daiki Kogyo is a Original Artwork called Aya Ayanokouji. Nothing less than a super sexy bikini removable girl, with a naked juicy body. She comes with a weird small guy and a white liquid that looks like human male milk.
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So, Thanksgiving is over and whether or not you braved the mall over the weekend, Monday morning has come bright and early – and as you reach for your morning cup of coffee you might also want to grab your laptop because today is Cyber Monday!
Cyber Monday was originally coined by Shop.org in 2005 in a press release when they used it to describe the Monday following Black Friday because they saw a 77% increase in online sales and shopping on that day. Ever since, Cyber Monday has boomed, and the name recognition has simply followed its success and retailers have even planned advertising campaigns around the day.
Shopping online has its perks including no bumper-to-bumper traffic, no lines, no fighting the winter weather… Plus, many people take advantage of the convenience of cyber Monday no matter where they are – and this often means at work!
And although convenient, safe online shopping should always be a priority, and as with any shopping spree, be it at the mall, or online, you should have a good plan in place to help you stay organized. Here are a few great tips for Cyber Monday. And remember, if you're shopping at work, wait for your lunch hour – or don't get caught!
- Stick with familiar retailers
- Be wary of AMAZING deals
- Insist on secure transactions
- Think before you buy
- Don't shop at a leaky hotspot
- Use a credit card
- Question detailed information requests
- Don't expect money for answering questions
- Create an online account to use for shopping only


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Team:TU Munich/Project/Limonene
From 2012.igem.org
Limonene is a cyclic terpene and a major constituent of several citrus oils. D-Limonene is used as a component of flavorings and fragrances since it has an orange/lemon-like odor. Limonene has been shown to inhibit rat mammary and other tumor development (Tsuda et al. 2004). Being an excellent solvent of cholesterol, d-limonene also has been used clinically to dissolve cholesterol-containing gallstones. Because of its gastric acid neutralizing effect and its support of normal peristalsis, it has also been used for relief of heartburn [Sun, 2007].
Producing the flavoring substance limonene in our beer might result in a fresh, lemon-like taste on the one hand. On the other hand, we might have beneficial effects on health such as preventive activity against cancer, dissolution of gallstones and relief of heartburn.
Background and principles
Limonene is a cyclic terpene and a major constituent of several citrus oils (orange, lemon, mandarin, lime and grapefruit). It is a chiral liquid with the molecular mass of 136.24 g/mol. The (R)-enantiomer smells like oranges and is content of many fruits, while the (S)-enantionmer has a piney odor [Fietzek, 2001]. Therefore D-Limonene ((+)-Limonene, (R)-enantiomer) is used as a component of flavorings and fragrances.
Limonene is produced by limonene synthase which uses geranyl pyrophosphate (GPP) as educt which is the universal precursor of monoterpenoids. (+)-limonene synthase from Citrus limon consists of 606 aminoacids (EC=18.104.22.168) and catalyzes the following reaction: Geranyl pyrophosphate = (+)-(4R)-limonene + diphosphate.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae produces geranyl pyrophosphate via the mevalonate pathway where it occurs exclusively as an intermediate of farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) synthesis [Oswald et al., 2007]. It has been established that S. cerevisiae has enough free GPP to be used by exogenous monoterpene synthases to produce monoterpenes under laboratory and vinification conditions [Herrero et al., 2008, Oswald et al., 2007].
The molecular and physiological effects of limonene
Limonene is listed in the Code of Federal Regulations as generally recognized as safe (GRAS) [FDA] for a flavoring agent and does not pose a mutagenic, carcinogenic, or nephrotoxic risk to humans. Today it can be found in common food items such as fruit juices, soft drinks, baked goods, ice cream, and pudding [Sun, 2007].
As natural compound of Plants Limonene has practical advantages with regard to availability, suitability for oral apllication, regulatory approval and mechanisms of action.
It has been shown to inhibit rat mammary and other tumor development by Apoptosis induction and modulation of oncogene signal transduction [Tsuda, 2004].
Furthermore It is used as excellent solvent of cholesterol, therefore d-limonene has been used clinically to dissolve cholesterol-containing gallstones. Because of its gastric acid neutralizing effect and its support of normal peristalsis, it also has been used for relief of heartburn [Sun, 2007].
(+)-Limonene synthase 1 with Strep-tag and yeast consensus sequence.
This part contains the (+)-Limonene Synthase 1 of Citrus limon. It is preceeded by the yeast consensus sequence for improved expression and carries a C-Terminal Strep-Tag for purification or detection by westernblot. It is an improved version of BBa_I742111.
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(+)-Limonene synthase 1 coding region from Citrus limon.
Improved version of BBa_I742111.
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(+)-limonene synthase 1 expression cassette for yeast.
This part can be used to express Citrus limon (+)-limonene synthase 1 in yeast. The expression is controlled by TEF1 promoter and CYC1 terminator.
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(+)-limonene synthase 1 expression cassette for yeast.
This part can be used to express Citrus limon (+)-limonene synthase 1 in yeast. The expression is controlled by yeast TEF1 promoter and yeast TEF1 terminator.
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(+)-limonene synthase 1 expression cassette for yeast.
This part can be used to express Citrus limon (+)-limonene synthase 1 in yeast. The expression is controlled by yeast TEF2 promoter and yeast CYC1 terminator.
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(+)-Limonene synthase 1 with Strep-Tag
This part contains the coding region of (+)-limonene synthase from Citrus limon with a C-terminal Strep-tag. This part is based on BBa_K801061.
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(+)-Limonene synthase 1 with yeast consensus sequence for improved expression.
This part is second version of BBa_K801060. It contains (+)-limonene synthase and the consensus sequence for enhanced expression in yeast. It does not contain a C-terminal Strep tag as BBa_K801060. The sequence does not contain a stop codon so that RFC 25 has to be used.
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Gel Picture of finished construct
SDS Page of Limonene Synthase
InVitro detection of limonene
To test functionality of purified Limonenesynthase in vitro we used an optimized protocol of an Enzyme Assay with previous Extraction of [Landmann et al, 2007]. The Enzyme Assay was carried out in Tris-HCl buffer with Glycerol, DTT and Cofactors. An identified amount of substrate (geranyl pyrophosphate) and purified recombinant limonene synthase. The mixture was extracted with pentane, dried with Sodiumsulfate and reduced under a stream of nitrogen. The pentane extracts were analyzed with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry ("5890 Series II GC" coupled to a "Finnigan Mat 55 S MS") to identify the enzymatically synthesized products.
InVivo detection of limonene
Because Limonene is volatile, [Misawa, 2011] we expected an arbitrarily amount of Limonene outside the cells in the supernatant. To verify this predication we could detect Limonene via Headspace (SPME needle) GC-MS in the yeast cell culture supernatant.
Detection of limonene in beer
We analyzed our beer for limonene content via Headspace (SPME needle) GC-MS. Unfortunately we could not yet proof a significant difference between our limonene containing beer and the negative control beer. This might be due to a lost of the plasmid which encodes limonene synthase. We will try to integrate the limonene synthase coding region into the genome of yeast and will try again.
Toxicity Assay
To establish whether limonene has an effect on yeast cells , we inoculated three different yeast strains with different concentrations of limonene. Limonene was added to the medium and the used yeast strains were the laboratory strain INVSc1, a strain which is used for brewing beer and a strain which can be purchased in a supermarket.
Limonene at high concentrations affects the growth of yeast cells. We could show an inhibition of growth at 1 mM and even a lethal effect at 100 mM. At lower concentrations (1 µM, 10 µM, 100 µM) no inhibition could be observed. The growth rates of yeast cells which were incubated with low concentrations of limonene do not show a difference compared to the negative control (incubation with YPD without limonene).
The in vivo GCMS detection of limonene [B] displayed a concentration of 50 µM. Hence the amount of limonene we will produce with the modified yeast will not reach a toxic concentration at all.
- [Fietzek et al., 2001] Fietzek, C., Hermle, T., Rosenstiel, W., Schurig, V. (2001) Chiral discrimination of limonene by use of beta-cyclodextrin-coated quartz-crystal-microbalances (QCMs) and data evaluation by artificial neuronal networks. Fresenius J Anal Chem., 371(1):58-63.
- [Herrero et al., 2008] Herrero, O., Ram ́on, D., and Orejas, M. (2008). Engineering the Saccharomyces cerevisiae isoprenoid pathway for de novo production of aromatic monoterpenes in wine. Metab Eng, 10(2):78–86.
- [Landmann et al., 2007] Landmann, C., Fink, B., Festner, M., Dregus, M., Engel, K.-H., and Schwab, W. (2007). Cloning and functional characterization of three terpene synthases from lavender (Lavandula angustifolia). Arch Biochem Biophys, 465(2):417–29.
- [Lücker et al., 2002] Lücker, J., El Tamer, M. K., Schwab, W., Verstappen, F. W. A., van der Plas, L. H. W., Bouwmeester, H. J., and Verhoeven, H. A. (2002). Monoterpene biosynthesis in lemon (Citrus limon). cDNA isolation and functional analysis of four monoterpene synthases. Eur J Biochem, 269(13):3160–71.
- [Oswald et al., 2007] Oswald, M., Fischer, M., Dirninger, N., and Karst, F. (2007). Monoterpenoid biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Yeast Res, 7(3):413–21.
- [Rico et al., 2010] Rico, J., Pardo, E., and Orejas, M. (2010). Enhanced production of a plant monoterpene by overexpression of the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme a reductase catalytic domain in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Appl Environ Microbiol, 76(19):6449–54.
- [Sun, 2007] Sun, J. (2007). D-limonene: safety and clinical applications. Altern Med Rev, 12(3):259–64.
- [Tsuda et al., 2004] Tsuda, H., Ohshima, Y., Nomoto, H., Fujita, K., Matsuda, E., Iigo, M., Takasuka, N., Moore, MA. (2004). Cancer prevention by natural compounds. Drug Metab Pharmacokinet. 19(4):245-63.
- [Williams et al., 1998] Williams, D. C., McGarvey, D. J., Katahira, E. J., and Croteau, R. (1998). Truncation of limonene synthase preprotein provides a fully active 'pseudomature' form of this monoterpene cyclase and reveals the function of the amino-terminal arginine pair. Biochemistry, 37(35):12213–20.


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NYC breaks ground on 26-acre Hudson Yards project
Work to transform the largest undeveloped property in Manhattan from a railroad storage yard into a sleek new neighborhood of spiky high-rises and graceful parks has gotten its formal start.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday for a new neighborhood and $15 billion project called Hudson Yards. The 26-acre site on Manhattan's west side is the planned home for a new business district.
Developer Stephen Ross compares it to the Empire State Building, Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and other iconic developments.
The area is now old Hudson rail storage yards, with warehouses and low-rent brownstones.
Those connected to the plan envision millions of square feet of office space and housing, as well as a riverfront park and a cultural center.
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It's appropriate that the annual Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethon is primarily based in Las Vegas: The show has given us plenty of opportunity over the years to play a game of chance we'll call TV Channel Roulette.
Flip on the show at 3 a.m. and perhaps you'll see a no-name lounge singer crooning "Volare." Try again and you'll spot a corporate stiff in a boardroom suit handing over an oversized check for $25,000. Flip back and just maybe you'll catch a magic moment, like in 1976 when Frank Sinatra reunited Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin after a two-decade feud.
This year, no matter when you turn on the show, one thing appears certain: You won't be seeing Jerry Lewis.
Which is a shame. Even if it is time for him to exit, Lewis, who dedicated more than half of his 85 years to the charity, helping raise more than $2 billion, deserves a chance to say goodbye.
The treatment of Lewis is puzzling: In May, it was announced the upcoming telethon would mark his last appearance after 45 turns at the helm. In early August, MDA officials declared, without much explanation, that Lewis was off the show for good. A report he'd be back after all later surfaced, only to be promptly sunk.
We're guessing that Lewis can't be easy to work with, and, we're not going to pretend the comic actor, for all his good work, is anything close to a saint. He's shown far more personalities over the years than his greatest creation, "The Nutty Professor." There's the arrogant egomaniac who once declared women aren't funny. There's the bawling do-gooder who, you suspect, genuinely cares for his "kids." After all these years, he can instantly morph into the manic, "Hey, Lady!"-screeching manchild he rode to fame nearly seven decades ago.
Part of our fascination with the telethon rested in that you never knew which Jerry you would be getting moment to moment – save for the end of the 21 1/2-hour marathon, when he would tearfully sing, without a trace of irony, "You'll Never Walk Alone."
All of those Jerry Lewises, all outsized personalities contained under a helmet of shellacked hair, should get to take one last bow. The show – and for more importantly, the charity – are great diminished without him, and not just because the telethon has been reduced to a mere six hours this years.
If only out of habit, we'll play a game of TV Channel Roulette Sunday night and hope that somehow we'll see Lewis on hand to receive the grand sendoff he's earned.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992.


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Why you should take the time to learn languages and the Cyrillic alphabet
Although I find El Matador's post on languages highly entertaining and a better policy than not learning foreign languages at all, I think it's better to learn them right. You don't need to be a master linguist but the simple fact is, in most of the travel destinations we recommend people really, really appreciate the effort to learn even of the most basic of phrases. It is a way of showing respect and interest in the culture and customs of the country. There is no better way to dissociate yourself from the typical douchebag western tourist. Read More


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Dinosaurs were created by God on Day 6 of creation, approximately 6,000 years ago, and were originally vegetarian. During the global Flood, many were buried and fossilized but two of each kind survived on Noah's Ark. They eventually died out, due to human activity, climate changes, or other factors.
Dinosaurs are awe-inspiring creatures, but they are not a mystery. The Bible makes sense of dinosaurs and the evidence that humans encountered them. It also tells us why we no longer see them today.
It's so important that children, young people, and adults be informed on the truth of dinosaurs. This will then give them powerful answers to witness to a skeptical world. As non-Christians hear the Christian faith explain dinosaurs, many have been and will be challenged to listen to the rest of what the Bible states.
Since T. rex is found only in Flood deposits, our knowledge of this great animal is limited to his fossilized remains. Contrary to popular portrayals of T. rex as an ungainly brute who lumbered onto the scene millions of years ago, he was regally designed. Though lots of "ifs" remain, we can learn many amazing things from fossils.
The story we have all heard from movies, television, newspapers, and most magazines and textbooks is that dinosaurs "ruled the Earth" for 140 million years, died out 65 million years ago, and therefore weren't around when Noah and company set sail on the Ark around 4,300 years ago. However, the Bible gives a completely different view of Earth (and therefore, dinosaur) history.
The presence of soft tissue in dinosaur bones cries out for a young earth, not for millions of years. These not-so-dry bones support the Bible's history!
An aura of mystery surrounds the extinction of the dinosaurs supposedly 65 million years ago—or does it? The Bible provides the true answer!
Dinosaur bones aren't the only artifacts left behind by these creatures. Fossilized footprints point toward the watery cataclysm that buried the dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs enthrall society, and many movies are produced to feed this fascination. But how much of these movies is fact and how much is evolutionary fiction?
Contrary to popular evolutionary opinion, the magnificent dinosaurs, created on the same day as Adam and Eve, recently lived and walked with humans.
Echoes of dinosaur and human cohabitation still resound around the world in dragon legends and myths.
Did birds really evolve from dinosaurs? How should Christians understand the numerous claims of feathered dinosaurs used to support this idea?
Triceratops to T. rex, the many types of dinosaurs exhibit a great deal of variety. The design of these great reptiles calls out for a Creator.
Did dinosaurs live millions of years ago, or have these impressive creatures existed much more recently? Could some even be alive today?
Small mammals likely scavenged dinosaur bones, indicating they lived at the same time—more evidence of a global flood in Noah's day.
Few creatures have captured popular imagination as fully as dinosaurs. Where did they come from? When did they live? What happened to them? Can we ever know?
Job 41 certainly describes Leviathan as a real creature that only the God of creation could master.
Putting together the pieces of this puzzle points to the cataclysmic events of the global flood.
Did this 7.5-mile-wide asteroid really kill off the dinosaurs as secular scientists claim?
To settle this issue of the reality of dragons, let us turn to the Word of Almighty God who knows all things.
The hoatzin is a very unique bird, a conglomeration of traits typical of birds, reptiles, and mammals. Its most unique features are distinctly un-birdlike.
Are dinosaurs proof of millions of years of evolution? Or a reminder of God's glory?
The evolutionary "family tree" that ties all dinosaurs together has just been redrawn. What bigger questions does this raise?
Dinosaurs and lagerpetids (their supposed evolutionary ancestors) have been found fossilized together, indicating they lived at the same time.
Hardly a month passes without new reports of "soft tissue" discovered in fossils. Could this material last millions of years?
For decades, dinosaurs have troubled Christians who didn't know how to explain them from the Bible.
Scientists were hoping for insight into why so many fossilized dinosaurs are buried in rock appearing to be in what's been called the "throes of death" posture.
How does cowboy life intersect with creation? Dinosaurs.
Researchers claim to rewind evolution of bird beaks from dinosaur snouts by blocking beak-building genes to revert embryos to their ancestral state.
Imagine dinosaurs living with people. It's the only reasonable conclusion if the Bible is true.
Evolutionists have come to largely accept the fact that soft tissues can be preserved in fossils for an extraordinarily long time. But millions of years . . . ?
Many scientists today have accepted the idea that some dinosaurs were covered in feathers. Is Jurassic World wrong for opting for scaly bodies?
Most literature states the average dinosaur was only the size of a sheep. This paper hopefully assists creationists base statements on the best available data.PDF Download
In this study, I analyzed a theropod dinosaur group, Tyrannosauroidea, through the use of statistical baraminology.PDF Download
It doesn't take much to understand why creationists love dinosaurs.
The God of creation owns it all and He wins!
Massive Dreadnoughtus said to shed light on the evolution of gigantism.
Evolutionists surround us, lobbing their ideas about millions of years and slow processes, trying to knock us out of the game.
Get used to seeing feathers on all evolutionary depictions of dinosaurs, not just theropods!
A name like "Creation Research, Science Education Foundation (CRSEF)" may not capture much attention. But dinosaurs sure will.
Dinosaur body temperatures, like Goldilocks's preferred porridge, may have been neither hot nor cold but somewhere in the middle.
Trace elements in theropod toe show bone-healing physiology is unchanged since dinosaurs walked the earth.
Scientists velcroed wood-'n'-clay tails onto chickens to reverse-engineer dinosaur-to-bird evolution. Really.
Identification of fossilized species, especially for an entire group of extinct animals, can be challenging.
Dinosaur skin sample may yield the secret of its color, but anything about the creature's age?
Scientists in China are excited to report their analysis of a much older batch of miscellaneous disarticulated dinosaur embryo bones and eggshells.
The secularists are really upset that the Creation Museum uses dinosaurs to share our Christian faith. They act as if creationists have no right to use dinosaurs.
"Dinosaur Encore"? Harvard physicist thinks dino-clones are around the corner.
Determining the meaning of tannin requires a close look at the actual Hebrew word and a study of the various contexts in which it appears.
"When dinosaurs walked the earth, monsters ruled the skies."
Download free dinosaur wallpaper for your desktop!
Big dinosaur eyes evolved because of the ecologically driven need to hunt food at night . . . so say researchers in a study from UC–Davis.
Scientists have turned up dozens and dozens of dinosaur eggs in southern India, BBC News reports.
Answers in Genesis is an apologetics ministry, dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.


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Call for Media: ESA presents André Kuipers mission to Space Station
ESA PR N°22-2011 - ESA astronaut André Kuipers will talk about his upcoming mission to the International Space Station during two media events: 5 September in Cologne, Germany, and 8 September in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
The events will highlight the scientific and educational aspects of the mission, the operations teams and the mission name and logo. André will be launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in late 2011, subject to confirmation of the return to flight of the Soyuz launchers.
Cologne event
On Monday 5 September at 15:00 CEST, André will be at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne to talk to media about his six-month flight.
During an exclusive guided tour of the centre with ESA managers, accredited media will have the opportunity to see the preparations for a long space mission.
EAC will open the doors to the International Space Station training hall, the medical control room and the EuroCom console, from where part of the mission is controlled.
Thomas Reiter, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations and former astronaut, will then unveil the name and logo of André's mission.
Noordwijk event
On Thursday 8 September, at 13:30 CEST, ESTEC, ESA's space research and technology centre in Noordwijk, will hold an event dedicated to Dutch media.
This event will not only focus on the scientific objectives of ESA's fourth long mission on the –Space Station but it will also be a unique opportunity for media to hear about the involvement of the Netherlands in ESA space programmes.
In addition to presenting the milestones of his upcoming mission, André Kuipers will also offer media a behind-the-scenes look at the Erasmus User Support and Operations Centre, which supports the remote 'tele-operations' of facilities and experiments on the Station.
André will also introduce the winner of the mission name competition.
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This month, NWO is launching a new pilot programme titled 'Refugees in Science'. The aim is to fund one-year appointments for academics who have fled their home country and wish to continue their scientific career in the Netherlands. Candidates must hold a master's degree or a doctorate and must have been granted refugee status in the Netherlands. The pilot was developed in consultation with the Young Academy, KNAW and the Foundation for Refugee Students (UAF).


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Ohio land owners have until Friday to sign up for flood plain easements at their local USDA Service Center NRCS office.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will provide up to $30 million to eligible landowners in Ohio through the flood plain easement component of its Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program, State Conservationist Terry Cosby said. The funds will be used to restore frequently flooded land to its natural state and create jobs.
"We will be working with land owners who voluntarily agree to restore the flood plains to their natural condition by placing their land into easements," Cosby said. "These easements will convert environmentally sensitive lands into riparian corridors and wooded bottomlands that are so vital for fish and wildlife habitat and to mitigate downstream flooding."
Cosby said green jobs can be created in rural communities across Ohio when land owners establish conservation practices on the land entered into easement. Jobs will be created mostly in the engineering, biology and construction fields when trees and native grasses are planted and the hydrology of the flood plain is restored.
The funding, obtained from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, includes both technical and financial assistance to restore the easements. All funds will be spent on targeted projects that can be completed with economic stimulus monies. The goal is to have all flood plain easements acquired and restored within 12 to 18 months.
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'Great' Floridians: Thomas Edison, Zora Neale Hurston, Tim Tebow?
Things haven't been going great for Mr. Tebow in New York. But once the Jets cut him loose (and they will, eventually), he's got a bit of good news waiting for him back in his home state.
Today, Tebow will be honored with a "Great Floridian" distinction by Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R). The ceremony will take place at Tebow's charity golf tournament, the Tim Tebow Celebrity Gala and Golf Classic in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., on Friday.
The honor is "presented annually in recognition of the outstanding achievements of men and women who have made significant contributions to the progress and welfare of this state," according to the Florida Division of Historical Resources.
OK, so it's not an Oscar, a Nobel Prize, or even a Heisman Trophy (which he already has). Winners don't get much more than a round of applause and a plaque hanging somewhere in the state Capitol. But in becoming a Great Floridian, Tebow joins fairly exclusive company.
Since the program's founding in 1981, there have only been 66 "Great Floridians," and up until recently, the list seemed culled straight from the Florida history textbooks and street signs of my youth: Pedro Menendez, the Spanish explorer and founder of St. Augustine (the nation's real first permanent settlement. Sorry, Jamestown) was honored in 2009. Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the author of "River of Grass" and a driving force behind the conservation of Florida's Everglades, was among the first honorees. Zora Neale Hurston is there, as is inventor Thomas Edison (not technically a Floridian, but he did have a winter vacation home in Fort Myers).
Florida's chief export, after citrus, is NFL players, but sports don't dominate the "Great Floridian" list. There are a few coaches here and there, the founder of NASCAR, and some names you'll see attached to college stadiums (Ben Hill Griffin Jr.: Fruit baron, home of the Florida Gators).
But Tebow, shockingly, is the first athlete to make the cut, from a state that has given us Emmitt Smith, Deion Sanders, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, to name a few. So, why Tebow?
The most obvious answer: Floridians really do adore him and seem dogged in their efforts to make him a historical entity. He has a statue at the University of Florida, and his famous "speech" – the one, after a loss, that they say inspired the Gators to their second national championship in three years, hangs on a plaque at the Gators' Home Turf. Last year, when Tebow was up for a trade from the Denver Broncos, his hometown Jacksonville Jaguars tried their best to generate fan interest in the lagging club by signing him, before he, ultimately, went to the Jets.
The other, less sane possibility: It's a calculated political move by an unpopular governor in an election year.
Governor Scott has been on a tear handing out "Great Floridian" honors: Tebow included, he's given out 17 since his inauguration in 2011. And the list has gotten a bit more accessible on his watch: He gave Edison the nod, as well as former governor Jeb Bush and George Jenkins, the founder of Publix supermarkets. (If you've ever been to a Publix, you understand that this is heartily deserved. I still miss Publix.)
Last year, he tapped former Florida State University head football coach Bobby Bowden, who turned the Seminoles program into a national powerhouse, becoming the winningest Division I head coach of all time in the process. Scott couldn't have a beloved Seminole so recently on the list without giving their bitter rivals, the Gators, a Great Floridian all their own.
This is all silly conjecture, of course, but every shrewd Florida politician knows: Don't anger a football fan base. Expect a Miami Hurricane to be honored in 2014. Maybe Ray Lewis?


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eBay Sheltered From Troubled Tech Waters
Oct 19, 2012 5:00 AM PT
eBay turned in a better-than-expected profit for its third quarter -- bucking the tide of less-than-stellar financial reports coming from other tech firms this week. eBay reported revenue of US$3.4 billion, a 15 percent increase over the same period in 2011.
Its Q3 net income on a GAAP basis was $597 million, or $0.45 per diluted share; non-GAAP net income was $718 million, or $0.55 per diluted share -- increases of 22 percent and 14 percent, respectively, year over year, driven by top-line growth.
The company's revenue was only a tad lower than expected, Andreas Scherer, managing partner with Salto Partners, told the E-Commerce Times. Profit was a tad higher -- "overall, a good performance."
PayPal's performance is worth highlighting, he added. eBay reported 117.4 million active PayPal accounts, which is an increase of 14 percent from a year ago. The service brought in revenue of $1.367 billion, up 23 percent year-over-year.
"PayPal is a success story within eBay," Scherer said.
Good Prospects
eBay will see annual growth rates of 10 percent to 15 percent over the next five years in both revenue and profit, according to projections by Covestor Model Manager Paul Franke, who is also director of research at Quantemonics Investing.
The rosy forecast is based on eBay's "excellent management team," its strong balance sheet with plenty of cash, its fair PEG (price/earnings to growth) ratio, and its few long-term liabilities.
"eBay is one of a handful of large technology companies -- with great brand names and online followers -- that is growing revenues and profits organically at rates above 15 percent annually," Franke told the E-Commerce Times. "The eBay online sales environment and PayPal unit are both wonderful assets going forward, given a weak economy and rising rates of inflation."
The Holiday Season
The news comes as retailers are prepping for their raison d'être -- the holiday shopping season. For the past few years -- and this one is no exception -- online retailers have been feeling a bit more confident about their prospects than their brick-and-mortar counterparts.
Overall, sales will rise 4.1 percent this year, a percentage point lower than growth in each of the past two years, according to the National Retail Federation's forecast. Online sales, though -- the turf where eBay plays -- are poised to do much better. Shop.org, NFR's digital division, predicts that retail Web sales will increase 12 percent over last year's holiday shopping season, reaching between $92 and $96 billion.
Consumers are still feeling cautious about spending, and online retail is seen as a better bargain than buying from brick-and-mortar retailers.
Not that consumers are flashing back to 2009, Mike Tarsala, chartered market technician at Covestor, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's not terrible out there, but the fiscal cliff, the elections and the economy are all lingering concerns."
Indeed, this theme was also present in eBay's Q3 earnings report. Its forecast for fourth-quarter revenue -- $3.85 billion to $4 billion -- is slightly less than analysts' predictions of $3.94 billion.
Lingering Legacy
eBay has other problems besides the general economy. It still has the image -- albeit fading -- of a seller of used goods, Scherer said.
eBay, for its part, continues to take steps to reposition itself, not only by rebranding its website earlier this month, but also by increasing its focus on mobile. Indeed, mobile was another bright spot in the earnings report.
It also launched eBay Now, a new shipping service that enables people to get products delivered from local retailers on the same day they make their purchases online.
"This positions eBay well against Walmart that is piloting a similar service in selected markets," Scherer said. "It also counters Amazon's strategy of deploying more local warehouses."
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What makes own voice issues so hard to solve?
Even when fitted open, wearers are often dissatisfied with the sound of their own voice. In such cases, the problem is most likely due to hearing aid output. This is because conventional hearing aids cannot distinguish the wearer's voice from all other sounds. As a result, the wearer's own voice is amplified the same as external sound and is perceived as too loud or distracting. And for exactly the same reason, when the HCP reduces the gain applied to the wearer's own voice, other sounds from the environment are affected as well.
Hearing aid manufacturers have tried to take the wearer's own voice into consideration. Modern hearing aids can identify speech based on its temporal and spectral characteristics and process it differently than other sounds, but they cannot identify the speaker from external voices. Existing solutions are ineffective because external sounds and the own voice are treated equally which results in one or the other being compromised.
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Matt Lindsay had been the head football coach at Bishop Luers High School in Fort Wayne, Ind., for 33 years. His teams won nine state championships. But he was fired Sunday for what the school's principal would only say were "violations of school and diocesan policies, and his violations of his employment contract obligations." Which had to mean something very bad happened, and which led a number of town locals to speculate as to what it was.
Tuesday, a police report from last year surfaced. Lindsay was never arrested, but, um ... best to let the Indiana News Center explain:
In August of 2011, an officer was called to the Glenaqua pool on the report of a suspicious person.
Dispatchers received a call that Lindsay was allegedly taking pictures of girls or recording video of them on his cell phone at the pool — something that Lindsay denied.
The report says that when a girl's father followed Lindsay to his minivan, the father told the officer Lindsay's hands were shaking and that he was rapidly deleting pictures from his phone, then drove away.
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, quoting from the police report, has additional details:
"(A pool official) stated approx. 10 parents have approached her in the past and made allegations against (Lindsay) that he put a camera in his bag and used it to take pictures of young boys and girls in the locker room," the report said.
Pool officials also told police others accused Lindsay of lying in a beach chair around the pool with a camera placed in a bag between his legs. Lindsay always came to the pool alone, pool officials said in the report.
By yesterday, the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese announced that "[a] large number of inappropriate video clips," as the Journal Gazette worded it, had been discovered on Lindsay's computer. The images did not contain nudity, but they did depict "students and others." The diocese has turned everything over to the police.
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Malware and viruses are bad, but so long as you're careful, your PC will stay squeaky clean, right? Maybe not. Microsoft has found that many PCs from China are coming with malware pre-installed, as many as a fifth.
As if bloatware wasn't bad enough, the four offending computers all run forged versions of Windows, forged versions of Windows with all kinds of nasty functionality baked right in. Generally, the malware is designed to control the PCs for use in a botnet, mostly for DDOS attacks. In worse cases, the viruses could remotely engage cameras and microphones.
You're probably safe; most of the computers that suffer from this come from relatively unregulated markets like China. Still, even if your laptop is clean having more infected computers out there in the wild isn't going to be good for anyone. Microsoft has been trying to fix the problem with a lawsuit, but it's a big problem to fix. For the time being, don't buy a new computer in China if you can avoid it. [The Guardian]
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Shoes.com Insider on Florsheim ShoesIn 1892, Milton Florsheim began producing shoes in a small factory located in Chicago, Illinois. The first pairs of Florsheim shoes made by Milton and his father, Sigmund, were a remarkable combination of style, comfort and high quality workmanship.
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Episode 0.0.5: Chris Houser at Clojure Conj 2011Posted: March 13, 2012 Filed under: Clojure Conj, Conversation, Episode 1 Comment
Recorded November 12th, 2011, the fourth and final recording in a series of conversations from Clojure Conj 2011.
Chris Houser (usually known as chouser online) has been working with Clojure longer than nearly anyone else; he started tinkering with the language in early 2008, and was a fixture in #clojure irc and on the mailing list for years. His contributions to the language, early libraries, and community through his always genial and insightful presence are hard to overstate. More recently, he has coauthored the excellent Joy of Clojure along with Michael Fogus, and is now working with Clojure daily over at Lonocloud.
It's been my privilege to know and work with Chris a bit over the years, and, as always, it was great to talk with him in person.
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- "Everything I learned, I [learned] on irc?!"
- Macros (a.k.a. "compile time metaprogramming") in Scala? Project Kepler
- Rich Hickey once made a visit to the Western Mass. Developer's Group, and delivered one of his great early talks on Clojure, complete with an ants demo. My post on the event, and video.
- "Tooling is a canard."
- Chouser wrote "the first ClojureScript" years ago, a proof of concept using JavaScript as a host for a Clojure implementation. (Don't go looking for it, I think it's dropped off the internets by now; check out the "real" ClojureScript if you want a Clojure for JavaScript.)
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XYplorer 8.00 has been released on 15-Jun-2009. Here's a quick introduction to the main new features:1) Dual Pane Dual Pane file management is synonymous with productivity and ease of use. It combines comfort, speed, and power in the most natural way, namely by letting you look at the contents of two folders side by side. Both panes are tabbed, and can be arranged vertically or horizontally, or shown individually as single panes.2) Overlong filenames supported. All fundamental file operations now work with extremely long filenames (longer than 260 characters): Rename, Copy, Move, Delete, Preview, Thumbnails, Backup, Properties, Time Stamp, Attributes Stamp, etc.
Is it just me, or is the listing of long file list very slow?-urlwolf (June 16, 2009, 04:23 AM)
Hi DonL,Thanks for answering. This is a desktop machine, with fast disks, so I'm not usre either. The only different thing is that this is windows server 2008 64-bit.-urlwolf (June 16, 2009, 06:28 AM)
I still find it strange not to see as many thumbnails as I want to. I.e. PDN files (from Paint.NET) can be seen in Explorer...-fenixproductions (June 16, 2009, 06:53 AM)
Nobody ever asked for PDN files. The place for bug reports and wishes is the XY User Forum... -DonL (June 16, 2009, 07:17 AM)
descript.ion is crap compared to tag.dat.-XY admin
I can elaborate more on that point here if you'd like, but people over in your forum start foaming at the mouth every time someone brings the point up over there.-Innuendo (June 16, 2009, 09:59 AM)
2nd: I am not XY user and I will never be. Why should I post anything on their forum then?-fenixproductions (June 16, 2009, 07:39 AM)
Well then it seems silly to complain that XY doesn't support it, does it not? If the desire for such a feature is so small that no one wants to bring it up on the XY forums, how can anyone expect that feature gets implemented? It's a bit backwards to think that Don (who is the only person behind XY) should scour the Internet looking for features to implement for people who "will never be" XY users, when he already has wishes of his own and his community on his to-do list.-TheQwerty (June 16, 2009, 12:35 PM)
I'm not convinced of the concept of descript.ion files. It looks like a bureaucratic overhead to me, which leads to more problems than solutions.And, the sheer fact that not every program supports it reduces its usefulness considerably, doesn't it?-admin
I have a lot of experience with work organisation, and I found more often than not that adding another level of description leads to more problems, more work, more waste of time.-admin
Sorry, but this topic is through. TrackerV3 is for people who know the art of naming files.-admin
As author I see it as my responsibility to make some decisions for the user. This may seem arrogant, but this arrogance is inherent in any authorship, isn't it?-admin
And regarding explorer thumbnails, I love them and have them turned on in Total Commander, but I do realize that they do slow the file listings down & Don has stated he wants to keep XYplorer as fast as possible so I can understand why he would have omitted the feature in the name of speed.-Innuendo (June 16, 2009, 06:15 PM)
First of all, I want this to be a neutral place to comment.-Innuendo (June 16, 2009, 06:15 PM)
I would, however, like to discuss with Don the uses of descript.ion files and let him know how I use them to keep track of things between programs and hopefully he'll reconsider adding the feature.-Innuendo (June 16, 2009, 08:32 PM)
I use them too but I'm less ardent than you -cranioscopical
I just miss descript.ion file support.-Innuendo (June 17, 2009, 09:28 AM)
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Approximately one in five Medicare patients are rehospitalized within 30 days of discharge.* The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) considers this rate excessive, and began reducing payments to hospitals that have excessive readmission rates in October 2012 under a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. While the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program penalizes readmission to any hospital, most hospitals are only tracking same-hospital readmissions using administrative data that is recorded for billing purposes. However, according to new research findings presented at the 2013 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, same-hospital readmission rates are an unreliable surrogate for predicting all-hospital readmissions rates.
"With increasing penalization for readmissions rates, hospitals need complete information to effectively target areas for quality improvement," said study coauthor Andrew Gonzalez, MD, JD, MPH, a research fellow in vascular surgery at the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "Under the current model, hospitals are attempting to solve the readmissions problem without havng all the puzzle pieces–they know about read-missions to their own facilities, but not about readmissions to other facilities."
For the University of Michigan study, researchers evaluated three years of data on 660,700 Medicare patients undergoing one of three major surgical operations: coronary artery bypass grafts, hip fracture repair, and colectomy. Within this group, 86,200 patients (about 13 percent overall), had at least one readmission within 30 days of their operation. Within that 13 percent, 54,264, or about two-thirds, were readmitted to the same hospital.
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I'm a pretty noob writer. And when it comes to writing after a few chapters I lose interest. Constructive criticism is wanted please!
But I've got to explain a few things first.
1. This chapter is about 1/3 ways into the story. A small militia team have just infiltrated the Bio Empire Citadel by B.E dropships. They're there to rescue one of their soldiers that are captured earlier in the story.
2. Dradavasky's personality is partly inspired by a kind of russian like father figure. Dradavasky's is more of a rural forest type of man, hunting, fishing that sort of stuff.
3. The story takes place on some fictional planet during a sort of modern/Future era. The main populace are being preyed upon by a sinister alien/biotic empire (inspired by American civil war armies). Me being very unimaginative mind just named them the Bio Empire or Bio Army. Space flight hasn't been accomplished yet but airships dominate the skies and are the preffered mode of transport. Sea transport is impossible due to a massive infestation of sea creatures known as Leviathans
4. There isn't a strong nationalist presence on this planet because since I chose to set this story here these people aren't human and so do not seek what most humans seek (That being destruction by nuclear war, thirst to kill others, etc)
Chapter XIII
Several armed figures slipped out of the alien drop-ships and into the dark hanger. It was near pitch black in cold unforgiving hanger and Louise tightened her trench coat around her and unslung her rifle from her back and huddled with the others as they revised the plan. Other than Ulysses reassurances tensions were running high and Elaine was clearly shaking. They were truly in the belly of the beast now. The distant sounds of activity lingered in the air like cancerous smoke and caused them all to adopt a solemn silence. Louise spotted Jake daydreaming at the huge glass hanger window, gazing dreamily upwards at the innards of the Bio Army spire. Bright, intense lights lit up each floor and occasionally a dark figure would pass close to the window, a soldier on patrol most likely. Ulysses checked his watch and bit his tongue.
Sun comes up in four hours everyone, Ulysses sighed and shuffled towards the hanger doors, Lets move.
Dradavasky cursed and extinguished his smoke and hefted his grenade launcher over his shoulder. Ulysses gave a final near silent prayer and slid out the door with two of the group and Elaine close behind. Dradavasky called over Jake and Louise and waited until he was sure it was clear.
Make haste, be silent little ones whispered Dradavasky as he exited followed by the pair into the dimly lit halls. The three scuttled down the hall to the elevator. It was a large cargo elevator with heavy steel walls and one wall had been taken off and replaced with a pane of reinforced glass allowing the passengers to witness the insides of the spire. Dradavasky moved to the panel and slung his grenade launcher away and brought out a crumpled piece of paper and started decoding the symbols on the large multicoloured panel. Louise regretted allowing Jake to come on the strike, he was too young for this type of action. If the alarm was raised by a single soldier then this entire mission had been a total failure and the Bio Army would become paranoid and bump up their security measures. And they would all be enslaved or killed if they were lucky.
What are we waiting for? Jake paced impatiently in the darkened corridor and aimed the rifle around, getting a feel for it.
Shush, little one. We are only required to take action once the others have set off the signal Dradavasky had sketched the translations underneath the elevator symbols using a black marker. Jake wandered over to the pane of glass to look up at the inside of the spire.
Louise! Jake pointed up at one of the spire platforms, Look at that!.
Jake! Shut up! Louise slapped the back of Jakes head but looked up at the indicated platform and saw a large armoured airship take off and head towards a 'Keyhole', Jake! It was nothing. Could you please quieten down? Louise pleaded and turned her attention back to Dradavasky who was watching his arm-mounted 'Sphere' tool hack into the Bio Army systems but get instantly denied access as soon as he found anything of note.
Hey! Don't use that they could track you! Louise felt she was becoming more and more of a nagging presence to everyone and was about to apologise when Dradavasky replied swiftly.
Not your place to argue little one Dradavasky commanded the 'Sphere' tool to continue hacking and decoding the alien files and translating them which on ordinary computer would take two years. Suddenly Ulysses voice sparked from the comm unit on Louise's belt.
Go ahead- * Static * -Confirming Level 54 as designated holding area- * Static * -Medium resistance- * Silence * -I'll trigger the distraction in approximately one minute Louise dragged Jake away from the window and into the elevator. Dradavasky entered the right series of symbols and the elevator doors snapped together with a sharp piercing squeak and the sturdy box rumbled upwards before regaining a smooth ascent. The inside of the spire was awe-inspiring. The size of the entire Bio Army tower was possibly the largest structure ever to be built on this world. The epic sized tower had a large sink-hole down the centre of the tower with 'Keyhole' like gaps in the side, allowing Bio Army airships to enter the sink-hole to land on the innards of the spire. A huge power generator at the top of the sink-hole which took up too much space to allow airships through but a small fighter could possibly slip in. Three hours and a half hours of darkness remaining.
Suddenly an ear piercing screech echoed down the inside of the tower that rattled the elevator but it maintained it's assent. Jake shouted out in terror as klaxon alarms started to sound. Nearly every floor's lights snapped out and blinded the trio who had to cover their eyes from the intense white lights. Louise regained her sight first and lost the feeling in her legs when she saw them. Bio Empire troops were pouring out of nearly every door way, rifles equipped with the alien bayonets and voices yelling at each other in a confused manner. Louise had learned the Bio Empire language a while back from a small collection of spy tapes taken from a listening post, she understood most of the basic words and verbiage of the troops.
Intruders have been detected on the Level 54. a harsh alien voice echoed through the tower, Take them alive.
What did it say? Jake was almost completely freaked out now, backed into the corner trying to hide in the most pathetic fashion possible. Louise felt a pang of pity of what the Bio Empire might do to Jake. Dradavasky stopped the elevator, the doors began to open but Dradavasky forced the doors apart with a groan of metal.
Quickly! Dradavasky turned and ran to two doors nearby and checked them both, opening the second one he found a storage room filled with red canisters, Get in here little ones.
Louise and Jake were almost shoved inside by Dradavasky who then slammed the door shut.
Wait! Jake tried to wrestle out of Louise's grasp to get out until she pinned him down and signalled to him to shut up. Muffled distant gunfire emanated from outside. Over the muffled shots Louise heard Bio Empire soldiers.
You! Halt! Lay down your arms!
Then came Dradavasky's voice but he spoke the Bio Empire language, his voice sounding sharp and violent.
I would rather die in battle! Come and fight me!
Then came the sounds of a volley of gunfire, the explosion of a grenade and an alien scream and then silence.
This is unit 145 reporting. One intruder has been neutralised. We have sustained two casualties. Now moving to level 54.
Louise slumped against the wall letting herself slide to the ground, her head in her hands. The voices of some of the Bio Empire soldiers barked at each other before some started to vanish. A few minutes passed and Louise forced herself to open the door. The two B.E soldiers had been dragged aside respectfully and placed by the window but they had shown no respect to their enemy. Red smoke drifted lazily around Dradavasky's body, blood pooling around his torso where the B.E soldiers had struck their mark. Jake watched silently from the doorway as Louise held back the tears that she knew were about to flow. Respectfully closing Dradavasky's eyes and collecting his grenade launcher and slinging it over her back Louise held the distant sounds of Bio Empire rifle fire.
Jake... Lets go
Last Edit: December 28, 2010, 07:16:25 pm by Red Ivan
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Re: BioStorm
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December 14, 2010, 04:44:27 pm »
sorry but... planet the size of jupiter?
even if it was waaay less dense than earth humans would weigh fuckin tonns there.
btw, Are the wings on fire?
Red Ivan
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Re: BioStorm
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December 14, 2010, 09:58:23 pm »
Lol its not supposed to be that big but I wanted space guess I'll just scale it down then.
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Re: BioStorm
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December 15, 2010, 10:43:21 am »
yes, but you are a writer, so you kinda have to make the story make sense:P
btw, Are the wings on fire?
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Re: BioStorm
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December 15, 2010, 10:16:26 pm »
If you suspend your disbeleif, you'll find things can me alot more enjoyable.
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Re: BioStorm
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December 16, 2010, 01:38:20 pm »
Well, the characters aren't human, so it's ok to imagine that they may be adapted to a high gravity environment. Their cells could contain gas vacuoles, making their flesh barely heavier than the atmosphere, or they could be very small, tipping the weight/strength ratio to their advantage. Pseudo-science can make anything you like make sort of sense, the only important part is being internally consistant.
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Re: BioStorm
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December 16, 2010, 03:09:01 pm »
Well, i thought that at least one side of the conflict was humans.
if they are not- tis all pseudo ok;p
why bother yourself with gas vacuoles? they dont need to be carbon based at all, could be based on lighter elements, like hydrogen and sodium for example.
would be funny, them meeting oxygen atmosphere:D
btw, Are the wings on fire?
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