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Sneh at Gel's Kitchen is hosting an event called No Time to Cook, highlighting recipes that can be made in 15 to 20 minutes. This month's theme is chocolate. I haven't mentioned this here before, but for the past month and a half or so, I've been avoiding eating sugar, for reasons that I'll probably end up explaining soon. So I wanted to make something that was naturally sweetened. One of the best natural sweeteners is banana, and it works really well in these simple, quick, pops.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pops
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
- 1 very ripe banana
- 1 small or 1/2 of a medium avocado
- 3 tablespoons peanut butter
- milk or almond/soy milk to thin the mixture
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Melt the chocolate over medium heat. In a blender or a food processor, combine all ingredients and a few splashes of milk. Blend until completely homogeneous, adding just enough milk to get the mixture to come together. In the end the mix should be about the consistency of thin pudding. Pour into popsicle molds and freeze. That's it!


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A reception celebrating University of Delaware global leaders capped off International Education Week (IEW) at the University on Nov. 18.
Matthew Robinson, director of the Institute for Global Studies (IGS) and professor of business administration, served as master of ceremonies at the event, which recognized Fulbright and Salzburg Fellows, as well as former IGS director Lesa Griffiths, and Janet Louise, an instructor at the English Language Institute (ELI) who will retire this June after 25 years of service.
James Magee, professor of political science and international relations, delivered the remarks honoring Griffiths, who returned to the faculty of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources in August after serving as associate provost for international programs and IGS director for nearly 10 years.
During her tenure, Griffiths' cultivated a reputation as a dedicated leader and "straight shooter," said Magee, who has worked closely with Griffiths as faculty director of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).
Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, MEPI helps students from the Middle East and North Africa gain more effective leadership skills as well as a more realistic understanding of American norms and institutions. The program, which has been funded at UD for the past eight years, also helps break down stereotypes of Arabs among the Americans with whom the students interact.
"Since the very first MEPI program, the Institute for Global Studies, under Lesa Griffiths' leadership, has built a growing network of MEPI alumni and American participants who keep in touch with each other," Magee said. "In Arab capitals and even in remote villages, there are MEPI alumni — and their families — with a deep affection for and a yearning to return to UD and Newark, Delaware."
Ann Ardis, deputy dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered the remarks honoring Janet Louise, noting that the veteran instructor of English as a Second Language at the ELI "aimed not simply to transform minds but to renew spirits."
Ardis spoke of how Louise, a 25-year devotee of martial arts, had learned from tai chi how to stay calm and centered amid the storm of homesickness while working abroad for a number of years — and shared those lessons with her students struggling with the culture shock of coming to the U.S. and learning a new language. Louise also never hesitated to impart motherly advice, compassion and reassurance to her charges.
As one former student shared: "I would have given up and gone home long ago, had not Janet helped me through my darkest hours and helped me see the way to success."
Sami Nassim, chair of the international caucus, reported that hundreds of people had attended each of the IEW events, from talks by distinguished international speakers to an international talent and fashion show.
Scott Stevens, ELI director, spoke of the increasing interest in multiculturalism among UD students, causing some events to be moved to larger venues this year and how the new locations this year also were packed.
Robinson thanked the ELI, Residence Life, and offices across the University for their support for IEW and said he looked forward to collaborating on other global events and activities.
As UD Deputy Provost Nancy Brickhouse pointed out, "International Education Week is more than a week-long endeavor at the University of Delaware, it is important and integral to the Path to Prominence and to the fabric of UD."
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A spring swoon? This is the fourth year in a row we've seen an economic slowdown in the spring. March economic data were a reverse of the stronger data we saw in January and February.
Over the weekend, there was a lot of chatter about whether this was the start of a more serious market correction that the three percent correction in the S&P 500 we have seen in the last two weeks.
Maybe, but a lot of the issues that roiled the markets in the last few years (housing weakness, a European meltdown, etc.) are not present. If China growth—now expected to be 7 percent to 8 percent this year—dropped to zero, that might do it, but that's unlikely.
Remember: The Federal Reserve is now reacting in real time and it can increase or decrease quantitative easing whenever it wants to. That should add some stability to stocks.


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There's No Such Thing As 'Natural' Search Results; Search Results Are Inherently Biased
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The other annoying thing was everyone kept pointing to "search" as if that's the entire market. Senator Kohl even suggested that when it came to news, the only places to find news are Google or Bing. He flat out claimed that if Bing went out of business, the only way to find news would be Google. Huh?!? As we've noted in the past, we actually get a smaller and smaller percentage of our traffic coming from Google these days. Instead, more and more is coming from social networks and other systems. StumbleUpon, Reddit, Twitter and Facebook have all taken significant referral share from Google -- and reports from other sites suggest the same thing.


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I made the pattern myself and it's not that difficult. Just two rectangles, one for the front, one for the back. I used elastic ribbon for the waitsband. Then I fold the seam allowance of the slit and the hem. Finished!
I wear a jersey-mini skirt underneath because the maxiskirt-fabric is a little bit lucent.
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- chiffon (with pattern repeat)
- elastic ribbon for the waitsband
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Jul 1, 2013, 08.11 PMby Virginia's Daughter
I love chiffon fabric…how it looks, how it feels. This is one of those "throw it on really quick and look cute" kind of skirts. The mini skirt idea is a great alternative to creating a lining. Nice!
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- Richard Hamilton London, England, 1922 - 2011
- William Katz New York, USA, 1926 - 2003
This button adds artworks from lists or content page in order to organize a visit to the Museum. Clicking 'Print', artworks are arranged in a document by floor and room to facilitate the visit.Select artworks
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It's easy to feel cynical about love sometimes, especially in light of the recent news that Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez have eviscerated their love the way Han Solo eviscerated Luke Skywalker's tauntaun to keep Luke from freezing to death...more or less. The point is, sometimes love is like a smelly pile of intestines freshly unzipped from a fictional biped, but there's always the chance that love can yield a Han Solo prairie dog that gives cinematic goodbye kisses and smiles rakishly before jumping into a dirt tunnel or carbonite freezing chamber, as the case may be.
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They widely use deconvolution sharpening technology. So would the military on their recon imaging. Do they use NR by channel? Probably not, most of their work is B/W for the higher sensitivity of no color filters.
So I take it from your answer that means no, it wouldn't be feasible for that type of application. So what use do you see this method widely adopted?I noticed no one else in this thread posted their own NR method to compare against. It seems most of the functionality lies in your skill set, Arthur. I know I wouldn't be able to pull those results off with my own 6MP Pentax PEFs.
Nikon D800 ISO3200 NR0 converted in Images plus. Note the fine random nature of the noise.The second screenshot is with NR by channel. It gets some faint color grouping from the NR. The noise does not start to form into a pattern.
IMHO ACR with Noiseware for noise reduction provides equivalent or better results than your method and with more convenience and with color management, which your images from ImagesPlus lack. I note that your uploaded image is untagged. The colors are only generic. For most of us, color management and accurate colors are highly desirable.With the D800, I find that NR is often unnecessary with even high ISO if one uses proper technique. Your test image is underexposed by over 1 stop as shown by Rawdigger.Nonetheless, one often must make best use of what one has. I rendered the image into sRGB with ACR 7.3 and then applied some NR with Noiseware (I haven't felt the need to use Noiseware for some time, but it is a good plug in to have). Your conversion is on the top and there is still some speckling in the top wrapper of the wine bottle. Also the print on the calculator shows some edge artifacting and fuzziness. For my routine photography I will continue to use ACR/LR. Depending on the ISO and print size, NR beyond what is offered by LR/ACR is usually not needed with the D800. The sophisticated filters and other image processing functions in ImagesPlus are sometimes useful, but I would render the image into a TIFF with defined color space with ACR and then load the image into ImagesPlus. I think this is what Roger Clark does.Regards,Bill
Maybe someone with DxO testing software or imatest can compare the results.
Thanks, that is certainly a real issue.What are your thoughts on the detail of the image you posted? On mine the texture of the metal wrapper on the bottle is clearly visible. On yours it is smeared out looking flat. On the background the noise is basically random on mine, on yours it is forming into color clumps. What is your analysis of that?
I have tested a new method (as far as I know) for Noise Reduction. Unless I hear its published already I will call it Arthur's method.
Not for nothing but I'm pretty sure Bruce Fraser wrote about per channel sharpening and noise reduction back in one of his early Real World Photoshop books well over a decade ago. Doing per channel noise reduction offers more flexibility than when running on composite RGB data. If you look at the Reduce Noise filter in Photoshop (with the advanced option checked) you'll see that the amount of the noise reduction can be adjusted on a per channel basis. As I recall, both Reduce Noise and Smart Sharpen (which also has per channel options) have been around for a long time and as I recall, Bruce was involved in early alpha testing of both with the engineers.But if you are working with raw images (as apposed to film scans) I have a feeling that the ACR/LR noise reduction is pretty much leading edge and has made 3rd party noise reduction (or obscure image processing routines) a bit passe. Not reason not to keep experimenting but it's useful to know that work being done now is often (not always) built on the work of others...
I'm a property developer that went to top business schools not someone in the photoshop community.
But if you are working with raw images (as apposed to film scans) I have a feeling that the ACR/LR noise reduction is pretty much leading edge and has made 3rd party noise reduction (or obscure image processing routines) a bit passe. Not reason not to keep experimenting but it's useful to know that work being done now is often (not always) built on the work of others...
Attached is a screenshot of some of the smoothing and sharpening functions in Images Plus. It's a tightly coded 64bit multi-threaded app that is only 7.5MB in size. The entire installation is 8.82MB for the 4.25 version. That is pretty amazing. No code bloat here. A lot of this capability is not available in other software. I have no association with Mike or the software other than a happy user. I get no other benefit than using it.
Your approach is interesting and would be useful when noise reduction in ACR/LR is not sufficient. The parametric editing in LR is attractive because the 36 MP D800 file expands to 200 MP in a 16 bit TIFF. How do you determine the PSF for deconvolution?Regards,Bill


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Eight years ago, environmental groups reached a consensus that a single north-south road through Shelby Farms Park was unavoidable and should be pushed as far west in the park as possible.
Since the 2005 agreement, the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy has been formed and the Shelby Farms Greenline has been added, along with other bicycle and pedestrian trails and a playground. An expansion of Patriot Lake is in future plans. And the park has become a destination for two to three times more people than came to the park in 2005.
And the parkway plan, known as Shelby Farms Parkway and Kirby-Whitten Parkway, is now at the center of a discussion that has shifted as well.
"Traffic in the vicinity of the park has not grown in eight years," said Dennis Lynch of the local chapter of the Sierra Club, on the WKNO-TV program "Behind the Headlines." "We think there is need for much less of a road."
The episode, hosted by Daily News publisher Eric Barnes and featuring conservancy executive director Laura Adams and landscape architect Ritchie Smith, can be seen on The Daily News Video page, video.memphisdailynews.com.
The Sierra Club was part of the original coalition on the road compromise now being pursued by the Tennessee Department of Transportation. But Lynch is among those who question traffic studies underpinning the need for the parkway.
"There were three north-south roads in the transportation plan … that would bisect the center of the park and the east edge. The grand compromise then … was that there would be consideration of a western road – Kirby Parkway," said Smith, who served on an advisory committee that came up with the 2005 compromise. "There's a severe issue when you have a north-south road of I-240 on the west side and miles east Germantown Parkway."
The conservancy has set a list of conditions it wants to see addressed before it agrees to the parkway plan. As recently as last week's state public hearing on the roadway, the conservancy was still not ready to sign off.
"The conservancy isn't pro-road or anti-road. The conservancy is always pro-park," Adams said. "The park is at least two to three times busier than it has ever been. The park sits in the geographic center of the population of Shelby County. … We see that there are some issues with transportation. We experience them personally when people are even trying to come to the park and get in the park. People on a busy Saturday will turn away."
Lynch is leading the move to review a possible fix to the intersection of Walnut Grove and Farm roads as an alternative to the parkway.
"We stood at that intersection and watched it in the evening rush hour. The left turn lane if you are going east on Walnut Grove Road, only holds 18 or 19 cars … and then they fall into the travel lanes," he said. "By increasing the length of that turn lane and adjusting the traffic signal properly, that problem can be relieved."
But Adams argues the traffic problem the parkway is supposed to eliminate also relieves a problem that wasn't present when planning for the road began. The conservancy's long-range plan calls for use of Farm Road as an internal park road only.
"The downside to us, the hard thing to us, is Farm Road puts all of the cut-through traffic right in the heart of the park. It's a visual and noise disturbance currently to people who are using the heart of the park," she said. "As we implement the new part of our master plan … we're troubled by the prospect of people not having an easy way to get into the park. We're troubled by the prospect of an expanded Farm Road that would bring more traffic and more congestion right near the heart of recreation."
Adams said the conservancy is not opposed to exploring the option suggested by Lynch and the Sierra Club.
Smith doesn't see much in a fix of an old intersection that he views as nowhere near up to handling the traffic currently coming to the intersection.
"No one would design Walnut Grove that way if we were in the scenario now with this park. If you even had to put a road through the park, it would be a beautiful parkway that fits the land and fits the aesthetics," Smith said. "Farm Road is a version of (Walnut Grove). It's a straight gash. It was designed for utilitarian functions. It's unattractive. It's linear. It doesn't work with the land or the topography or the aesthetics."
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Cook- full time with benefits and part time- no late nights!
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Are you looking for a job that:
- Allows you to build RELATIONSHIPS and MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
- Is FUN and REWARDING??
- Has a GREAT STARTING WAGE based on experience?
Then WE are looking for YOU!!
Our Interlude and SummerWood of Plymouth communities are seeking full time and part time Cooks to join our team. As a Cook, you will play a critical role in caring for older adults- not only with their dietary needs, but also emotionally, socially, mentally, and spiritually. The Cook is a crucial member of the team that demonstrates care and compassion for our residents by preparing and providing a high quality dining experience for them.
We offer competitive wages and benefits, with full time status defined as working a minimum of 60 hours during the two week pay period. We give regular pay raises based on your hours worked with us. With tuition reimbursement, scholarship programs, a variety of learning and development opportunities on site, and a commitment to promote from within, opportunities to grow and develop with us are virtually unlimited. Whether you desire to continue your learning and professional development within your culinary role or in something completely different, PHS wants to help you on your journey! Our employees are the most important resource in our ministry, and because of this, we are committed to an environment where employees are valued and empowered to make a difference.
Presbyterian Homes & Services has been serving older adults since 1955 and is a leader in the industry. Our team has over 6000 employees and is growing- we are one of the fastest growing older adult services organizations in the nation. We are mission driven and faith based. Our employees work together within a caring Christian culture to create great living environments and provide high-quality, high-touch, and compassionate services for older adults so that they may live vibrantly in their sunset years. If you have a passion and desire to enrich the lives and touch the hearts of older adults please consider joining our team and help us achieve our goal of providing a broad range of opportunities to allow our older adults the freedom to live well!
The Cook is responsible for creating high quality meals and dining experience for customers by preparing and serving attractive, nutritious and palatable meals consistent with regulations and established policies, procedures and best practices.
- Must possess a high school or equivalent education.
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- Demonstrated ability to read, write, speak and understand the English language to communicate with all customers.
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Presbyterian Homes & Services (PHS), based in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a non-profit, faith-based organization providing high-quality housing, care, and service options for older adults since 1955. Currently serving over 26,000 older adults in 43 locations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa, we seek compassionate employees to further our reputation as an innovative leader committed to promoting independence, vitality, and well-being for those we serve.
We believe employees are the most important resource in our ministry and we are committed to an environment where employees are valued and empowered to make a difference. With over 6,300 employees and plans for continued growth, the development opportunities with us are virtually unlimited. We offer competitive wages, opportunities for advancement and incredible benefits like education assistance and nursing loan forgiveness.
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James H. McCole and Grandson Paul
October 7, 2010
James Henry McCole (1860-1942), son of Cornelius and Catherine Higgins McCole, was born at the McCole farm in Brant (Chilton), Wisconsin. Soon after his marriage to Mary Nolan in 1887, he homesteaded in Tilden, Antelope County, Nebraska, where he had five children. His fourth child, Cornelius Ambrose married Audrey Acrea and lived in Idaho where their son Paul, above, was born in 1917. Cornelius died later that year.
The picture above was probably taken in Twin Falls, ID, about the time of Cornelius's death.
Audrey Acrea McCole subsequently married Millard F. Shuford and moved to Oklahoma (1930 Census) and Paul took the surname Shuford.


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Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot
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Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot
MSNBC/Reuters, January 22, 2013
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Emelie Olsson is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she's often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barely stay awake, and often misses school or having fun with friends. She is only 14, but at times she has wondered if her life is worth living. Emelie is one of around 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being immunized with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine made by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in 2009. Their fate, coping with an illness that all but destroys normal life, is developing into what the health official who coordinated Sweden's vaccination campaign calls a "medical tragedy" that will demand rising scientific and medical attention. Europe's drugs regulator has ruled Pandemrix should no longer be used in people aged under 20. "There's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that Pandemrix increased the occurrence of narcolepsy onset in children in some countries - and probably in most countries," says [Emmanuel] Mignot, a specialist in the sleep disorder at Stanford University in the United States. In total, the GSK shot was given to more than 30 million people in 47 countries during the 2009-2010 H1N1 swine flu pandemic. Because it contains an adjuvant, or booster, it was not used in the United States because drug regulators there are wary of adjuvanted vaccines.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on the major risks of flu shots, click here. If you are thinking of getting a flu vaccine, it is most highly recommended to educate yourself on risk vs. benefits. See this link for more. To see Piers Morgan receive a flu shot on the Dr. Oz show and then come down with a flu less than 10 days later after having been guaranteed that wouldn't happen, click here.
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U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
2001-05-01, ABC News
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's ... Fidel Castro. America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the fault lies with the Communists." The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after.
Note: Why was ABC the only major news source to report on this highly revealing story? Read the shocking declassified documents on Operation Northwoods. Many military and political leaders look at the world as a grand chessboard. Sacrificing pawns (innocent civilians) is sometimes necessary to capture the queen. Explore revealing news articles on military corruption. Then check out eye-opening 9/11 news articles.
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group
2005-09-29, BBC News
How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. Every year since 1954 [they have brought] together about 120 leading business people and politicians. At this year's meeting in Germany, the audience included the heads of the World Bank and European Central Bank, Chairmen or Chief Executives from Nokia, BP, Unilever, DaimlerChrysler and Pepsi ... editors from five major newspapers, members of parliament, ministers, European commissioners ... and the queen of the Netherlands. The chairman ... is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon. In an extremely rare interview, he played down the importance of Bilderberg. "I don't think (we are) a global ruling class because I don't think a global ruling class exists." Will Hutton ... who attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1997, says people take part in these networks in order to influence the way the world works, to create what he calls "the international common sense". And that "common sense" is one which supports the interests of Bilderberg's main participants. For Bilderberg's critics the fact that there is almost no publicity about the annual meetings is proof that they are up to no good. Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still governor of Arkansas, Tony Blair was there two years later while still an opposition MP. All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed. Informal and private networks like Bilderberg have helped to oil the wheels of global politics and globalisation for the past half a century.
Note: Why is this meeting of top world leaders kept so secret? Why, until a few years ago, was there virtually no reporting on this influential group in the major media? Thankfully, the alternative media has had some good articles. And a Google search can be highly informative. Explore many other revealing major media news articles on powerful secret societies. And for those interested, check out reliable, eye-opening information covering the big picture of how and why these secret societies are using government-sponsored mind control programs to achieve their agenda.
[9/11] Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
2001-09-23, BBC News
Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the [9/11] suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September. His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world. He told journalists there that he had nothing to do with the attacks. He has contacted both the Saudi and American authorities. He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Daytona Beach in the United States, and is indeed the same Waleed Al Shehri to whom the FBI has been referring. But, he says, he left the United States in September last year [and] became a pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines. Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects ... says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that he lost his passport while studying in Denver. Meanwhile ... a London-based Arabic daily says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi. He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be alive. FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt.
Note: The deceptions in the official story of 9/11 are nowhere more clearly shown than in this important story. The FBI never revised its list of alleged hijackers, and these four are all later listed in the official 9/11 Commission report as the hijackers. Click here and scroll down a little over half way to see their photos in the official report. For more on this, click here. For an abundance of reliable information suggesting a major 9/11 cover-up, click here. For other revealing news articles on 9/11, click here.
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The Freshman Congressional Renegades
2018-12-27, U.S. News & World Report
In the seven weeks since she became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has joined a protest staged in Nancy Pelosi's office, established a new standard to pay interns $15 an hour, tussled with Sen. Lindsey Graham and the president's eldest son on Twitter. Before this 29-year-old Democratic socialist Latina from the Bronx is even sworn in to the House next week, she's become one of the most influential figures in the Democratic Party – and the unordained leader of a flock of progressive renegade freshman females hellbent on breaking the norms of the institution. Many of their electoral victories were had by skipping the established line, so they're wired to approach governing in the same rebellious way. Their sizable followings on social media provide them with an imposing arsenal of support that can be converted into raw political power. "The freshman class as an aggregate will have more power than the leadership," says Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat. "The balance of power is shifting in the House. The size of your Twitter following and the size of your external base makes a huge difference." Of the 235-member Democratic House majority that will take power on Jan. 3, just over a quarter of the class – totalling 63 members – will be freshmen. And during the transition period, a handful of incoming members – self-described as the "squad" – have signaled their intentions to rock the boat. They not only look different than your father's stodgy, old, whitebread Congress, they're making moves both substantive and symbolic that break with protocol and tradition.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption from reliable major media sources.
How power and money colluded to let a sex-obsessed monster get away with abuse
2018-12-07, Washington Post
Recent revelations about billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart deal with government prosecutors ... are the tip of the iceberg in a scandal of money, power, sex, corruption and boys' club criminality. The story [involves] the sexual abuse of girls as young as 14 — and a decade-long process in which lawyers allegedly violated the victims' rights under federal law. Alan Dershowitz and former Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr [Epstein's lawyers] negotiated a non-prosecution agreement that ultimately afforded Epstein an absurdly lenient sentence: just over a year in the county jail. Epstein was allowed to stay in a vacant wing of the jail and spend up to 12 hours a day in his office, six days a week. Credible allegations in a 53-page, federal draft indictment ... could have put him away for life. Ten years ago, many of the alleged victims were children and likely unaware of their rights. Now fully informed adults, many of the women ... are seeking to set aside the non-prosecution agreement so that their voices can be heard. There's no doubt that Epstein's accusers were denied their rights under the 2004 federal Crime Victims' Rights Act. Among other things, the law asserts that accusers are to be notified of any legal proceedings ... and they or their attorneys are to be present at such proceedings. None of this happened. The sealed, non-prosecution agreement granted federal immunity not only to Epstein and four named accomplices but also to "any [unnamed] potential co-conspirators."
Note: The "potential co-conspirators" include Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, many actors, business tycoons, and more according to this Miami Herald article. Another article directly implicates Prince Andrew and details the revelations of Epstein's butler, who feared for his life. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on Epstein's child sex ring from reliable major media sources.
Serial sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein apologizes — but not to his victims
2018-12-04, Miami Herald (Miami's leading newspaper)
Jeffrey Epstein, a politically connected multimillionaire who molested dozens of underage girls — and is suspected of trafficking countless other girls around the world — issued a public apology Tuesday. It was not to the victims ... but to one of their lawyers. The apology came as a settlement was announced ... between Epstein, 65, and Fort Lauderdale attorney Bradley Edwards, who represents several of Epstein's victims. Those victims, now in their late 20s and early 30s, had been scheduled to testify in the trial, which was about to get underway. The case only indirectly involved the abuse inflicted on Epstein's victims and instead focused on a battle between Epstein and Edwards. The trial ended before it began, with a dramatic statement ... that Epstein admitted now he'd used the civil justice system "as a tool for extortion" in order to intimidate Edwards into abandoning his quest for justice for [Epstein's] victims. Several of Epstein's victims described how they felt intimidated and shamed into silence by both Epstein and the federal and state prosecutors. The women were deliberately kept in the dark. Prosecutors effectively sabotaged their case in order to help Epstein, whose friends included former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Prince Andrew and actors, academics and world leaders. Edwards hoped to use the forum of the trial to allow sex abuse victims to tell their stories ... for the first time. But over the past several months, the judge had narrowed the scope of the case, prohibiting Edwards from producing evidence that Epstein had abused and trafficked hundreds of young girls between 1999 and 2006.
Note: Once again, the U.S. justice system bends the law to protect a convicted pedophile and the top leaders to whom he served young girls for sex. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on Epstein's child sex ring from reliable major media sources. Then explore other excellent, reliable news summaries on high level sex abuse scandals around the world.
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Preparing to ditch
It was his third try, and the first two hadn't gone well. The man was seated in a bus-like facsimile of an airplane cabin suspended above what looked like an Olympic-size swimming pool. At the command of the leader of the exercise, the big blue "fuselage" plunged into the water and slowly turned upside-down. As the cabin filled with water, all the other "passengers" followed the prescribed procedure of keeping their feet on the inverted floor and calmly moving from one handhold to the next toward the closest exit. But this one man did what he'd done the previous two times–he tried to swim his way to safety. Predictably, he bobbed up toward the highest point of the cabin–in this position, that would be the back section, farthest from the door–just as he had the previous two times.
After one of the two scuba divers poised for just such an intervention rescued him, the man shook his head in disbelief. "I knew what I was supposed to do," he lamented between gasps for air. "I just couldn't keep myself from trying to swim." Dan McInnis, an instructor for Survival Systems USA in Groton, Conn., said, "There's a big difference between sitting in your seat and hearing a briefing and experiencing what we do here. And that difference saves lives when it happens for real."
He suggested that regular passengers on private aircraft should at least ask the crew for an emergency procedures walk-through–what he described as an "extended safety briefing"–which involves physically following safety measures for evacuating an aircraft. Better yet, attend a safety course where you actually experience the rush of water and the blurred vision or even total darkness involved in a water landing. "It's the little things that people learn to recognize as most important," McInnis said. "Like releasing the seat belt is one of the last things you do, not the first."
There are two lessons here: First, if your pilot has to ditch, don't try to swim to an exit. Second, people who undergo emergency training are far more likely to revert to that training when the emergency happens for real–the man in the example above was the exception that proves the rule. Of course, pilots understand this from their regular recurrent training in the cockpit. They prepare over and over for catastrophes involving engine failures, cabin fires, electrical malfunctions, severe weather and more. This reinforces their memory in the same way basketball players improve their free throws and jump shots by practicing thousands of times.
But how about passengers? It can be just as important for them to react calmly and correctly when the chips are down. Think of what might have happened during the "Miracle on the Hudson" ditching if half the passengers–or even just a few–had panicked and disrupted the evacuation procedure.
If you fly regularly on private aircraft, ask the crew for not just a preflight briefing but also a walk-through of the evacuation procedure. Physically "walking the walk" will leave you with a much clearer memory of what you'd need to do than would simply hearing about procedures. This would be especially important in the event of a nighttime emergency, when the lights go out. If you fly over water, you should know the locations of emergency lighting, flotation gear, fire extinguishers and first-aid kits. And know how to find them by feel alone.
An actual cabin-evacuation course with a training provider such as Survival Systems can give you the invaluable added benefit of actually carrying out emergency procedures. There is nothing like experiencing the rush of cold water and a cabin filling up. The same is true of a realistic cabin-smoke training or an altitude chamber where you can experience a facsimile of rapid cabin decompression.
The odds against ever having to evacuate an aircraft for real are astronomical (discounting the possible need to escape an uncomfortable conversation with your boss while taxiing to the parking area). But understanding the recommended procedures and knowing the escape routes can give you a peace of mind you might appreciate, flight after flight. It can also be a comfort to know that you can assume a leadership role should the situation call for fast action and a cool head. Remember the man who couldn't stop trying to swim his way to safety, and "don't be that guy."


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (September 13, 2011) – Following one of the most successful seasons in ETSU baseball history, the Buccaneers began preparations for the 2012 season when they returned to the diamond for fall practice.
The Bucs kicked off fall practice last Wednesday and held scrimmages over the weekend. Practices are being held at Joe O'Brien Field, the home of the Elizabethton Twins, for the entire fall practice schedule.
Fall practice will culminate with the annual Blue and Gold Fall World Series that will take place in the middle of October.
ETSU returns 20 letterwinners from last year's squad that finished with a 36-21 overall record. In addition, the Bucs have added nine newcomers to the team. Below is some information on the ETSU newcomers.
Zach Thompson – INF – 5-9 – 170 – Science Hill HS (Johnson City, Tenn.)
Helped lead the Hilltoppers to a 20-6 record in 2011 under head coach Ryan Edwards...Hit .453 with 8 home runs and 35 RBIs as a senior…Earned Johnson City Press Super 22 First-Team honors following his senior season…Recorded eight triples in 2008 to rank as the seventh most in Tennessee State High School history for a single season…Named to the 2010 All-NET Baseball team after hitting .393 with 8 home runs and 53 RBI…Was named to the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association (TBCA) All-Region Team following his senior season, while also earning Second-Team All-State honors.
Will Carter – INF/RHP – 6-3 – 170 – Science Hill HS (Johnson City, Tenn.)
Helped lead the Hilltoppers to a 20-6 record in 2011 under head coach Ryan Edwards…Earned Johnson City Press Super 22 First-Team honors following his senior season...Went 5-1 with a 2.48 ERA as a senior, while striking out 35 in 36.2 innings of work…Pitched 12 shutout innings while helping the East Cobb Yankees to a runner-up finish in the World Wood Bat Association's 18-under tournament in Atlanta.
Jake Long – RHP – 6-0 – 185 – Spartanburg Methodist College (Anderson, S.C.)
Finished 5-2 with a stellar 1.64 ERA in a team-high 49.1 innings during the 2011 season at Spartanburg Methodist…Recorded a team-best 48 strikeouts with just 15 walks…Was a 2010 Second-Team Independent Mail All-Area selection at T.L. Hanna High School…Was a North-South selection following his senior season…Finished 5-1 with a 2.32 ERA and 62 strikeouts in 48.3 innings during senior season.
Chris Riopedre – INF – 5-9 – 170 – Monsignor Pace HS (Cooper City, Fla.)
Was named Third-Team All-Dade Country following his senior season…Excelled for the Spartans as he averaged .380 at the plate in his first three seasons with 10 home runs...A Second Team All-County selection in 2010, Riopedre helped guide Archbishop McCarthy High School to its first-ever Florida State Tournament appearance...Riopedre was invited to take part in both the MLB summer workouts and the Chicago White Sox Showcase, and also played for the prestigious Team Marruci…Was named to Perfect Game Florida Honorable Mention All-High School Team.
Kuehl McEachern – RHP – 6-3 – 190 – Eustis HS (Mt. Dora, Fla.)
Was named Florida Region Honorable Mention in 2011 by Perfect Game…Was 6-0 with a 0.70 ERA during his senior season…Also hit .372 with 2 homeruns and 26 RBIs…In 2010, McEachern was named the Orlando Sentinel Player of the Week. McEachern is a member of the Chet Lemon's Juice travel team and has helped the team win the George Steinbrenner Inaugural Classic and Perfect Game World Wood Bat Tournament.
Jordan Sanford – INF – 6-2 – 185 – Powell HS (Powell, Tenn.)
Was named Southeast Region Honorable Mention by Perfect Game…Was named All-Region in 2010 and All-District in 2009 and 2010. The Powell,Tenn.native also received Super Sophomore and Freshmen Team honors from the Knoxville New Sentinel. As a junior,Sanfordhit .407 with five home runs, 39 RBI and 19 stolen bases.Sanfordalso was named to the Perfect Game Pre-season All-American Honorable Mention Team in 2010.
Jimmy Nesselt – LHP – 6-2 – 225 – American Heritage School (Plantation, Fla.)
A four-year letterwinner for head coach Todd Fitzgerald at American Heritage School…Helped lead the Patriots to 105 combined wins during his four years on the squad, including a state and national championship in 2008…Earned first-team all-county and second-team all-state in both 2010 and 2011…Was named first-team all-county and third-team all-state in 2009…Played in the Sebring All Star Game following his senior season…Finished his career with 207 innings pitched and a 29-5 record…Had 246 strikeouts and just 43 walks, while finishing with an impressive 1.84 ERA.
Mason Hershey – C – 6-2 – 225 – Potomac State JC (Altoona, Pa.)
Helped lead Potomac to the 2011 NJCAA World Series, where they lost in the semifinals …Finished his JUCO career hitting .278 while gaining a reputation for being an outstanding defensive catcher
Shade Jett – INF – 6-2 – 220 – Jefferson County HS (Dandridge, Tenn.)
Was named to the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association (TBCA) All-Region Team in 2011… Led Jefferson County to a school record 31 wins and a District 2-AAA tournament championship in 2011.
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We spent the weekend in Ridgecrest, but having run a 50 miler and a 35 miler the previous two weekends, I had zero desire to run the OTHTC High Desert 50k/30k on Sunday. (No Monica or Hans am I!) After seeing friends off at the start, I ran a rather uninspiring ~7-mile section of the course... uninspiring to me because what I *really* wanted to be doing was climbing Owens Peak, at 8400+ ft. the first real peak of the Southern Sierras, which provide a spectacular backdrop to the desert towns of Ridgecrest and Inyokern. And -- oh no! -- it's on a list.
So, after my ho-hum warmup, I headed west for the mountains. Thanks to DeLorme, I found the trailhead easily and, although 4 WD was "highly recommended," I made it up the 8-mile gravel road in the 2WD Honda Element without problem. The hike was a steep one and, with one minor detour (I lost the trail), I summitted in about 1 1/2 hours. Cool, cool rocks on the ridge flowing east down from the summit which I will go back and explore some day with buddy Rick, who tells of Indian petroglyphs/pictographs (what's the difference?) further down the ridge; a Google image search produced numerous hits of some spectacular artwork.
Happily, I rock hopped and jogged back down to the trailhead, my peakbagging fix sated for awhile.


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Lightroom vs Photoshop
Posted 20 October 2011 - 09:51 AM
I've just upgrade from a P&S to a D7000. Raw on the P&S was painfully slow so I'm on a new learning curve with a camera that's Raw capable. I've searched but still have a few questions. I have PS Elements 9 and Nikon NX2 and I'm quite proficient with Elements It seems to me that LR has some benefits for bulk processing from Raw but as we are constantly at different depths, lighting etc etc I'm not likely to have too many photos requiring the same processing.
Currently I have a PC so not considering Aperture though I will probable need to upgrade my computing power and am tempted to go to Apple. Do you think I need LR?
Posted 20 October 2011 - 10:46 AM
Photoshop is a powerful tool to edit your photos but has no catalog functions.
When you have a big collecion of pictures, Lightroom comes very handy and the price for it is ok.
I load all my pictures from the camera in Lightroom to see them and make basic corrections like exposure, contrast, etc,
for use in a slide show or for low-res internet use.
If i need to edit a particular picture for high quality use or to apply special filters i open it with Photoshoop ad edit it there.
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Posted 20 October 2011 - 06:04 PM
I can do all the editing I need to do with Lightroom. Most of the time I need to do very little, perhaps a tweak to contrast here or there. Sure, Photoshop would be more powerful but I figure if I need to do that much editing I screwed up at the time of taking the image anyway.
The automation available in Lightroom is amazing and there are many plugins available to supplement the built in functions.
Lightroom is not perfect, and there are a number of bugs and areas that could do with improving, but overall it works well.
You can download a free trial (full function for 30 days) and see how it works for you. If you are shooting raw I recommend using the camera profiles.
Posted 21 October 2011 - 10:55 AM
For photographers, L/R can do all requires relative to image manipulation.
Lightroom has a good key word and cataloging system.
Photoshop has over 1400 commands and photographers will only use a very small portion of them
We still jump into P/S for some features only as we are more comfortable there.
Lastly, lightroom is about one half the cost of photoshop!
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Posted 21 October 2011 - 06:56 PM
Its simple, more organize and have all the basic editing i ever need.
Right now, i only use ps's remove dust/noise feature for removing backscatter.
Other than that, i use LR..
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Posted 11 December 2011 - 11:14 AM
Lightroom is fantastic for work flow management but there are others out there that are great too. I don't use aperture so can't comment on it but most people who use it seem to rate it highly but for some reason i have it in my head that it is a nikon thing.. no idea why.. I know a few pro's that use Photo Mechanic and seem to like a lot. The editing abilities in Lightroom are not meant to be advanced, but are great for letting you get a good idea of what things could be and personally i use them to see how different crops might look, different filters etc. and it is also good for helping re-sizing for printing etc.. and also helps you create instant backup when you import new stuff which have definitely been a god send on a few occasions!
Photoshop is simply an amazingly powerful editing program and most users will rarely use the full range of what it can offer, but i think most people would agree that for photographers they are best used in combination with each other and not an either / or.
Anyways, that just my thought.. bored on a sunday evening so apologies!
Posted 12 December 2011 - 06:42 PM
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 01:12 AM
Version 3.6 was announced yesterday - http://www.adobe.com....jsp?ftpID=5308 - it says it fixes some bugs plus the usual new camera models etc
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Posted 13 December 2011 - 01:35 AM
I used Photoshop Elements Ver. 6 for the last three years.... and only got Lightroom 3 this year...(slow to embrace the norms.... I know)
For RAW processing its a brill. programme...and actually I now use it all the time...its so much better and faster for catalogue...and quick processing...which I much prefer.
Having to spend long periods of time messing with a photo in elements is not my thing.
In short , I adore Lightroom....andI regret I didnt get this super programme earlier....but .......am very happy to have elements and lightroom together, cause elements gives you a bit more editing facilities if you need them.
If I was you...I would say..def. get Lightroom..it will compliment and marry to your elements version 9 really nice!...you wont regret it.
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Posted 05 February 2012 - 09:48 AM
Can anyone tell me if Lightroom will allow this? Conversion to CMYK can unleash some vile colour shifts, so I would prefer to do my own colour-correcting before going to print.
Mercifully, I can buy this software with the educational discount so the price issue isn't huge...
Edited by Stoo, 05 February 2012 - 11:41 AM.
Posted 05 February 2012 - 01:57 PM
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Posted 06 February 2012 - 07:49 AM
Can anyone tell me if Lightroom will allow this? Conversion to CMYK can unleash some vile colour shifts, so I would prefer to do my own colour-correcting before going to print.
Are you certain you need CMYK work? Did your print shop recommend it? Are you magazine publishing?
I get wonderful prints by making certain I use a calibrated monitor, sending work to a pro print shop and using metallic paper.
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Posted 06 February 2012 - 09:44 AM
Posted 07 February 2012 - 08:08 AM
I'd like to add one more note: although LR contains basically the same features as PS, I find LR *much* easier to use, in that the controls can be manipulated much more easily. It is much easier to crop and retain the same aspect ratio, and its spot removal tool is light years ahead of PS's (the brush can be resized with a turn of the mouse wheel or by clicking and dragging on the target itself, the sample area can also be dragged to an optimal spot). I find that not only to I save a lot of time using LR over PS, but I get superior results as well.
Posted 07 February 2012 - 11:21 AM
Are you certain you need CMYK work? Did your print shop recommend it? Are you magazine publishing?
I get wonderful prints by making certain I use a calibrated monitor, sending work to a pro print shop and using metallic paper.
I have published some calendars and notecards and am selling them (oddly well) in dive shops. I figure a little business will let me right trips off on my taxes. I am doubtful that it will ever be a profitable business, but I might as well milk it as long as Revenue Canada will let me...
I actually work in the print industry (so I get really good prices!). We could certainly do the conversion to CMYK in-house. On small digital runs, the RGB files convert automatically, but that's when the colour shift occurs... Offset jobs need to be converted to CMYK before anything else happens.
I can always get our art dept to tweak them at proofing, but it's simpler to do it myself. None of our artists have the foggiest idea what stuff underwater looks like.
Edited by Stoo, 07 February 2012 - 11:23 AM.
Posted 07 February 2012 - 07:29 PM
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Posted 12 February 2012 - 10:57 AM
for me that is something that is done after, by the printer(?) and even for reasonable magazine and brochure prints my calibrated monitor and LR do me just fine. I tried Photoshop and really it was too much of a tool for me - amazing but too much. although i still feel like i would like to have the full version.... and use both.... but the D400 is going to be out soon......
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Wikitravel:Dutch Wikitravel Expedition
Dutch (Nederlands) is a Germanic language mainly spoken in 3 countries, the Netherlands, Belgium and Surinam. With about 22 million native speakers it is a major language in the European Union.
Attention should be spent on using general dutch (AN) and not Netherlands-dutch words or Belgian-dutch words.
Why not translate also the name.
See the Language version policy for see what it takes to start our own Wikitravel.
Gather a minimum team[edit]
Members who would gladly like to contribute:
Next Steps[edit]
The interface localization file has to be translated (or modified from the one on Wikipedia), checked for correctness, and then we will vote for a go-between.
LanguageNl.php is for creating this collaboratively. It's started with the Wikipedia language interface file, but it needs to be changed to match Wikitravel.
For comparison, the English file is at Wikitravel:LanguageEn.php. Major things to watch for:
Hier is de versie: nl:Wikitravel:LanguageNl.php Nog aan te passen (dit wegdoen als de file compleet is)...
We need one more step -- a go-between. Some language versions have just had someone come forward to do it; others have voted. It's up to the group here.
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As we established last week, with Dune, every Monday night at 9pm Eastern, we're gonna pick a scifi film that's available on Netflix Instant and tweet our way through it. We've got a special Twitter account set up for it, so follow along with @io9commentary - and feel free to chime in by tweeting back with the #io9moviemonday hashtag.
We'll post the results, so you can re-experience the madness if you were there - or enjoy it for the first time, if you weren't. So, come and join our little soiree, won't you?


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Garbage Collection (GC) logging data is generated by the -verbose:gc command line option. The log information is really useful for monitoring Java applications, and for helping you diagnose performance or memory problems. Often, you want to diagnose a problem when it first happens. To do this, you need to enable logging so that you already have the monitoring information.
The problem with enabling any logging or tracing is that it can affect the overall performance of the system. How do you determine the impact of enabling -verbose:gc on an IBM Java Runtime? How do you decide if the cost of continual logging is too great?
In theory, the performance impact of GC logging should be very low. The data is always generated internally by the garbage collector, because it is used to enable self-tuning. There should be no significant overhead for logging the values. The cost of enabling -verbose:gc should be the same as adding any output markup, then writing the output to either stderr or a log file.
For a running Java application we would expect the GC overhead: (the percentage of time spent running GC versus the time spent running Java code) to be around 3% or less. Some very basic quantitative tests we carried out during development work has shown us that GC logging causes GC to take about 1% longer, and thereby would increase that GC overhead to 3.03%. This shows that the overall performance cost of enabling GC logging is as low as 0.03%.
From this we can see that enabling GC logging has no real performance impact on the application, but gives you the benefit of monitoring for potential performance and memory problems, and helping you to diagnose them the first time they happen.
The other consideration for any logging is making sure that you store the logs for later analysis. This almost always requires disk space. With the -verbose:gc option, you can choose to log the data to a file rather than the default stderr, by using the following command line options:
where the optional <X> and <Y> parameters are the number of files to write to, and the number of garbage collection cycles a file should contain. This allows logging to occur on a circular basis.
So, in summary, it is often a good idea to run your application with -verbose:gc switched on; the performance overhead is very low, and the disk space required by the logging output can be managed using rotating log files.


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Copper thieves knock out phone, Internet service
Copper thieves knock out phone, Internet service
OMAHA, Neb. —
Copper thieves knocked out phone and Internet service to Midtown residents Friday night.
CenturyLink said someone broke into neighborhood equipment boxes and chopped out active wires in order to steal the copper inside.
Repair crews are working to restore service, which could take all night.
Centurylink said at least 20 boxes have been struck this month.
Omaha police are investigating. If anyone sees suspicious activity around utility boxes, they are advised to call police.


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What exactly is a Class I location? Can you define it, or better yet, easily identify it in the field? You have a Class I location any time enough flammable gases or vapors are present in the air in quantities that may produce an explosive or ignitable mixture. When you have a Class I installation, you must follow the requirements outlined in Article 501. When doing so, you will need to refer back to Article 500 — which defines two types of Class I locations: Div. 1 and Div. 2.
You have Div. 1 where the Class I ignition sources may be present or are present [500.5(B)(1)]. But in a Div. 2 location, these sources are normally confined within closed containers (or systems) or vented (via positive mechanical ventilation). You also have a Div. 2 location when the area is adjacent to a Div. 1 space, and ignitable concentrations may occasionally waft over due to lack of positive pressure ventilation [500.5(B)(2)]. Article 501 requirements are, consequently, less stringent for Div. 2 areas.
Wiring methods. For Div. 1 spaces, you can use these wiring methods [501.10(A)]:
General wiring, which consists of:
Fixed wiring. Threaded rigid metal conduit or intermediate metal conduit with explosionproof fittings.
Type MI cable with termination fittings listed for the location.
In industrial establishments, if only qualified persons service the installation, you can also use:
Type MC-HL cable with fittings listed for a Class I, Div. 1 location (Fig. 1).
Type ITC-HL cable with fittings listed for a Class I, Div. 1 location.
Flexible wiring. You can use explosionproof flexible metal couplings when necessary for vibration, movement, or difficult bends.
Boxes and fittings. All boxes and fittings must be approved by the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) for Class I, Div. 1 locations.
For Div. 2 spaces, you can use these wiring methods [501.10(B)]:
General wiring, which consists of:
Wiring methods permitted in Class I, Div. 1 areas [501.10(A)].
Threaded rigid metal or intermediate metal conduit.
Enclosed gasketed busways and enclosed gasketed wireways.
Type PLTC cable per Article 725 (avoid tensile stress at the termination fittings).
Type ITC cable [727.4(3)].
Cables — MI, MC, MV, or TC — with termination fittings.
Flexible wiring. Where limited flexibility is necessary, you can use one or more of:
Flexible metal fittings
Flexible metal conduit with listed fittings
Liquidtight flexible metal conduit (or nonmetallic conduit) with listed fittings
Flexible cords listed for extra-hard usage, containing an equipment grounding (bonding) conductor, and terminated with a listed bushed fitting
Nonincendive field wiring. You can use any of the wiring methods allowed for unclassified locations.
Boxes and fittings. You can use general-purpose enclosures and fittings — unless the enclosure contains make-and-break contacts for meters, instruments, and relays [501.105(B)(1)], switches, circuit breakers, or motor controllers [501.115(B)(1)], signaling, alarm, remote-control, or communications systems [501.150(B)].
Conduit and cable seals. By keeping flames inside enclosures and conduit, seals reduce the likelihood of ignition of the surrounding environment. The seal requirements in 501.15 can seem intimidating, due to their length, but don't get overwhelmed. Here are some highlights:
No splices or taps within a conduit seal fitting.
The conductor area must not exceed 25% of the cross-sectional area of rigid metal conduit, unless the seal fitting is identified for a higher percentage fill (Fig. 2).
Provide seals at enclosures (with some exceptions).
Provide seals at the boundary (with some exceptions).
Provide seals in each unpressurized conduit where the conduit enters a pressurized enclosure.
Use only explosionproof unions, couplings, reducers, elbows, etc., between the conduit seal and the explosionproof enclosure (Fig. 3).
Use sealing compounds listed for the specific location.
Use seal fittings listed for the specific sealing compounds and location.
Mix and install the conduit seal compound per manufacturer's instructions. The sealing compound must be from the same manufacturer as the conduit seal.
The minimum thickness of the conduit seal compound must not be less than the trade size of the seal fitting (with some exceptions).
Bond wiring and equipment to an effective ground-fault current path per 250.100.
Surge protection. For Div. 1 locations, install surge arresters, transient voltage surge suppressors (TVSSs), and capacitors in enclosures identified for Class I, Div. 1 locations. For Div. 2 spaces, you must use surge arresters and (TVSSs) designed for the specific duty, but you can install them in general-purpose enclosures [501.35].
Equipment. Part III of Article 501 addresses equipment. As before, the requirements for Div. I equipment are more stringent than those for Div. II equipment.
Transformers and capacitors
Div. 1: If they contain liquid that will burn, install them in vaults complying with 450.41 through 450.48 plus 501.100(A)(1) through (4). Otherwise, install them in vaults complying with 501.100 (A)(1).
Div. 2: Install them in vaults complying with 450.21 through 450.27 [501.100(B)].
Meters, instruments, and relays
Div. 1: Install these items in enclosures identified for a Class I, Div. 1 location [501.105(A)].
Div. 2: You can install some items in general-purpose enclosures — provided you meet the various conditions listed in 501.105(B)(1) through (6). Otherwise, use Class I, Div. 1 enclosures.
Switches, circuit breakers, motor controllers, and fuses
Div. 1: Install these in enclosures identified for a Class I, Div. 1 location [501.115(A)].
Div. 2: If the installation meets certain (extensive) requirements, you can use general enclosures [501.115(B)]. Otherwise, use Class I, Div. 1 enclosures.
Control transformers and resistors Div. 1: Install them in explosionproof enclosures identified for a Class I, Div. 1 location [501.120(A)].
Div. 2: You can use general-purpose enclosures. But you must install make-and-break contacts within enclosures identified for a Class I, Div. 1 location [501.120].
Motors and generators
Div. 1 motors and generators must be [501.125(A)]:
Identified for a Class I, Div. 1 location;
Of the totally enclosed type supplied with positive-pressure ventilation and arranged to automatically de-energize if the air supply fails;
Of the totally enclosed inert gas-filled type and arranged to automatically de-energize if the gas supply fails; or
Submerged in a liquid that is flammable only when vaporized and mixed with air, and arranged to automatically de-energize if the liquid is reduced to atmospheric pressure (vaporized).
Div. 2 motors and generators may be of the open type (squirrel-cage induction motors without arcing devices) if the motor or generator doesn't contain any brushes, switching mechanisms, or similar arc-producing devices. However, motors and generators containing switching mechanisms must be identified for a Class I, Div. 1 location [501.125(A)].
Div. 1 luminaires must be: identified for use in a Class I, Div. 1 location [501.130(A)]; completely enclosed, capable of both withstanding an explosion, capable of preventing the ignition of the gas or vapor surrounding the luminaire; and marked to indicate maximum lamp wattage.
If fixed, then protected against physical damage by a suitable guard or by location.
If pendant, then suspended by and supplied through threaded conduit stems. Threaded joints must be provided with set screws or other means to prevent loosening. Stems longer than 1 foot must have permanent and effective lateral bracing or a flexible fitting or connector identified for a Class I, Div. 1 location (Fig. 4).
Div. 2 luminaires must comply with the following [501.130(B)]:
Fixed luminaires must be protected from physical damage by suitable guards or by location. Where the lamp temperature exceeds 80% of the ignition temperature of the gas or vapor, luminaires must be identified for a Class I, Div. 1 location.
Pendant luminaires must be suspended by and supplied through threaded conduit stems, and threaded joints must be provided with set screws or other means to prevent loosening. Stems longer than 1 foot must be provided with permanent and effective lateral bracing, or an identified, flexible fitting, or connector must be provided.
Portable lighting equipment must be listed for use in a Class I, Div. 1 location, unless the luminaire is mounted on movable stands and connected by a flexible cord as provided in 501.140.
Flexible cords.
Regardless of Division, if you meet the six requirements of 501.140(B) you can use flexible cord for:
Portable lighting or utilization equipment.
Industrial situations where you need the flexibility, provide suitable protection, and ensure qualified persons install and service the installation.
Extension (within a suitable raceway) between a submersible pump (in a wet-pit) and the power source.
Electric mixers intended for travel into/out of open-type mixing tanks or vats.
Article 501 has some additional equipment requirements, which address receptacles and attachment plugs [501.145] and signaling, alarm, remote-control, and communications systems [501.150]. These are straightforward and self-explanatory.
The purpose of all 501 requirements is to keep flammable gases (or vapors) and ignition sources from reaching each other. In some cases, you may not have enough information to determine if a location is going to be Div. 2 or if you "have to" adhere to Div. 1 requirements. Don't think in terms of what you can get by with. Ask yourself how well you are keeping fuel and ignition apart. That's one question you never want forensics engineers to ask about something you designed or built.


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U.S.-India Security Ties
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On April 21-23, 2005, the India Studies Program at Indiana University hosted a conference aimed at assessing the current state of Indo-U.S. relations. More than 20 scholars, policymakers, and military leaders attended the conference, and provided a number of viewpoints on the evolution of the relationship between the two countries. In particular, conference attendees focused on issues pertaining to strategic cooperation and questioned whether we are, in fact, witnessing the convergence of grand strategies between two states that have traditionally maintained tenuous security links.
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