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Conservation through Education
Home | The Animals | Cheetah
World of
Cheetahs (Coming Soon)
This WORLD features one of the most endangered cats on the brink of extinction,
also known as the fastest land mammal on earth.
Common Name:
Genus/Species: Acinonyx jubatus
Cheetahs were originally distributed across all of Africa excepting the rain forest
and the middle of the Sahara, and also across much of Asia Minor, Turkestan and
The dry savanna is the preferred habitat of cheetahs, both in Africa and, earlier,
in Asia. This habitat has a four to
eight month drought period, and the annual rainfall is 5 to 10 m.
The grass is about chest high and the only trees found are palms and a few
deciduous varieties.
Physical Appearance:
Distinctive cheetah characteristics include the short, highly arched skull, the
long legs, in which not the metatarsals but the femurs are elongated, the mane of
the newborn cheetahs, a completely atypical hunting technique, and primitive dentition.
The cheetah can almost be called a dog with a cat's head. The paws are very
narrow compared to those of other felids. The claws are non‑retractile, for their
claw sheaths are vestigial. However, young cheetahs possess well‑developed sheaths
until they are fifteen weeks old and they can retract their claws completely into
these sheaths. After that time the sheaths degenerate. Because of the absence of
claw sheaths, cheetah tracks bear claw marks and thus are unlike those of any other
cat. They have 30 teeth. The eyes are yellow and the pupils contract to circles.
Once a male and female have mated, they stay together for a long period
of time.
The male reportedly helps raise the young.
After the 90 to 95 day gestations, the
female bears one to eight cubs in a protected site of rotting bushes or grass.
Births in eastern Africa usually take place from March to June.
The young open
their eyes after eight to eleven days.
Half the cubs die in the first eight months.
STATUS in Natural
Endangered. Almost certain to become
extinct due to the limited gene pool of existing animals.
Cool Fact:
As its build suggests, the cheetah is a superb runner.
A cheetah can easily attain speeds of 75 mph without undue effort.
This tremendous sprint is accompanied by a great energy loss that leads to
near exhaustion after several hundred meters.
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text: The 50th annual Knoxville Nationals will go down in history as one of the best races in Nationals history as Pennsylvania driver Tim Shaffer won in dramatic fashion and ended Donny Schatz run of four straight Nationals wins. For the first time in it's history, the race was 50 laps to honor the 50th anniversary and included a five minute pit stop which came at lap 25 allowing teams five minutes to make any changes they needed before returning for the final 25 laps. Sammy Swindell dominated the race leading the first 44 laps before Schatz passed him to lead lap 45. Swindell came right back to lead laps 46 and 47 and looked to have the race won, however he blew a tire taking him out of the race giving Schatz the lead with just three laps remaining. On the restart Schatz led lap 48 but Shaffer made the pass heading to the white flag and held on to the checkers to win the first Knoxville Nationals of his career. Schatz was second followed by Shane Stewart, Craig Dollansky started 24th and finished 4th and Kerry Madsen completed the top five. For complete results of the entire night go to kniakrls.com and click sports or click the Knoxville Nationals banner at the top of the home page and click results.


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Chair, Professor, Director of Gaming + Animation
MFA + New Media Virginia Commonwealth University
BFA + Graphic Design University of Oklahoma
Jeff Price received his B.F.A. in Visual Communications from the University of Oklahoma and an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University. Jeff has an extensive background in game design, electronic media, interactive communications, and graphic design.
Now teaching Gaming and Animation at Oklahoma Christian University, Jeff draws from 20+ years of experience as an Associate Professor of Gaming and Animation at Sam Houston State University and Oklahoma State University, Assistant Professor of Interactive Design at Virginia Commonwealth University, and his experience as the owner of Price Media Group. Jeff 's experience in the design and development of websites and web-based communications, as well as interactive multimedia and CD-ROM projects, led him to launch Price Media Group in 2000. As principal of PMG, Price has won several industry awards in video, animation, interactive, and print design.
At VCU, Jeff was the director of the Advanced Visualization Lab, focusing on the delivery of traditional and 3d computer animation and virtual reality applications. He has worked for multi-service design and advertising agencies and has developed print design, signage, logos, and a/v presentations.
Jeff's students have gone on to work at industry giants such as Dreamworks, Sony Imageworks, Digital Domain, ID Software, Imaginary Forces, Magnet Interactive, Organic, Blur, Midway Games, and Big Idea.


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FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq, June 26, 2006 – As the nature of the war on terror in Iraq has changed, so have the targets sought by coalition and Iraqi forces.
When Operation Iraqi Freedom began, typical targets were military formations and vehicles of the former Iraqi army, Republican Guard formations, and state-sponsored terrorists.
After Saddam Hussein fell, common targets became Saddamist loyalists and foreign fighters.
Since then, Iraq has become a battleground of ideas, as extremists have come to the country to challenge the coalition, and a homegrown insurgency has arisen. Coalition forces are not targeting military hardware, but ideas. Soldiers of the 506th Regimental Combat Team, 4th Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, understand that and have changed accordingly.
The unit, part of Multinational Division Baghdad, has applied military terms to non-lethal engagements. The 506th is based here, between Rusafa and Sadr City in eastern Baghdad. Officials estimate the area is home to about 4.7 million people. The mostly Shiite area was the scene of desperate fighting between Shiite militias and 1st Cavalry Division and 1st Armored Division troops in April 2004.
Yet the area has remained comparatively peaceful since. Regiment commander Army Col. Thomas Vail said the effectiveness of non-lethal targeting is part of the reason for the relative calm. "I've always been a big fan of effects-based targeting," the colonel said during an interview June 19. "My intent is always 'effects' and, to my mind, non-lethal and lethal targeting have to be considered together."
By this he means that commanders must determine what effect they want in a certain area and what the best way to get that outcome is. For instance, if a commander can speak to a local sheikh and defuse or prevent a situation from escalating, then that is more effective than a "kinetic" approach, using combat power.
The unit is carrying on a plan first formed after the April 2004 fighting between coalition forces and Shitte militias. The 1st Cavalry Division used commander's emergency response funds to target the ills of Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood. At the time, the city was a festering slum. Sewage ran in the streets, breaches in pipes mixed the sewage with drinking water, causing water-borne diseases, especially among the young and old. People used barbed wire to hook their homes up to the power grid.
The 1st Cavalry Division, and later the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, attacked these problems. They used local workers to refurbish the sewers and build pumping stations. Other local workers dug trenches for new pipes and built a series of water purification plants. Still others attached homes to the power grid properly.
The results have been startling. The streets are clear, pure drinking water is available in every home in the city, and while the electrical grid would never meet code in the United States, it is a vast improvement over what it once was.
The number of incidents against coalition troops dropped as the work progressed and the residents began seeing results. Soon, people were calling in tips about insurgents to the Baghdad tips line because they did not want to see progress stopped. Army and police recruiting picked up.
Neighborhood councils met and helped decide where projects were needed and allocated resources against those projects. People began going to the councils for help and with ideas, and the power of the groups to enact the peoples' will grew.
Still, Vail said, lethal targeting is not a thing of the past. "There are terrorists out there, and you have to kill or capture them," he said. "But if you only use the lethal tool to impose security, you will soon lose the support of the people. With 4.7 million population in our sector alone, there is no way you are going to continually get away with doing kinetic operations. The people will not tolerate the collateral damage, and there will be a misunderstanding by the population of why you are doing the operation."
In East Baghdad, the Iraqi army is in the lead, and the police presence is growing fast. Military transition teams from the 506th work with the Iraqi units to help them with the targeting procedures. "They understand that intelligence drives operations," Vail said. "And they know that force is often not the preferred solution."
Maj. Gen Jawad Romi Aldaini, commander of the Iraqi army's 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, instinctively understands what needs to be done in the area, Vail said. Communication with the people is key, and Jawad is taking advantage of the free press in the city to communicate across the area.
"The last battlefield circulation he made through the area he had, he brought the press with him," Vail said. "That was a huge step for the Iraqi army in reaching out to the people."
The colonel said relationships drive progress in the area. Tribal, neighborhood and family ties are at the heart of the culture. He said his unit worked hard before arriving in Iraq in December 2005 and January 2006 to understand the culture. His unit leaders studied with scholars from universities and spoke with soldiers who had been in the region. It also helped that many of the soldiers are veterans of previous deployments to the region, he said.
The soldiers understood the need for engagement as part of the non-lethal targeting process, he said. "If you have to drink tea with the sheikh, then do so," he said. "That's the culture and the way things are done here."
Then the unit tried to understand the dynamics of working in a city. The leaders went to Atlanta and spoke to city officials. They toured CNN headquarters there and spoke with embedded reporters. They spoke with agents at the FBI field office and talked about the interagency processes in theater. "Then we went over to the Atlanta police department and spent a whole day with them," Vail said. "All the company commanders got in separate squad cars and did 'battlefield circulation' with the police. The object was to observe how the police see the small nuances of behavior."
Vail said the tour helped the commanders understand the dynamics of a city, and how important personal relationships are to those people providing security. It also helped commanders and staff learn how to use police as an extension of the targeting program.
All 24 police stations in Vail's region have police training teams. The teams are a mixture of military experts and civilian international police liaison office personnel. The police work under the tactical control of the 506th, and the process works very well.
In East Baghdad, the Iraqis are "completely in the lead," Vail said. "Every area in East Baghdad is a combined battlespace."
In fact, in many sectors progress has been so good that "there is the possibility that you may be able to turn the area directly over to the police, and skip the (Iraqi army) piece altogether," he said. "There are maybe some areas that are mature enough that we can put Iraqi police in the lead, and we can have overwatch by national police or the Iraqi army."
The U.S. solders work hard with their Iraqi compatriots to move that day closer. "They are proud of what they do; they see the results in the streets every day," Vail said. "The soldiers are the ones who stare into the eyes of the children in Sadr City, New Baghdad, Salman Pak. They know they are giving these people a chance.
"It's a flat-out honor to serve with these soldiers," he continued. "Anyone who comes and walks with these soldiers will never forget it, because they've never seen such humility and competence in people at such a young age."
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UW-Oshkosh exploded for an early lead and held on with five takeaways to post a 31-28 season-opening football win over Central College (Iowa) on Saturday (Sept. 3) at J.J. Keller Field at Titan Stadium.
The Titans wasted no time getting on the scoreboard. Following a Dutch fumble on the opening kickoff, Charlie Weissman (Sr. • Colgate) bolted up the middle for a 29-yard touchdown run. The UW-Oshkosh defense forced a punt to set up another score. On third-and-long, Nate Wara (Jr. • Oshkosh) fired deep downfield for Caleb Voss (So. • Van Dyne), who caught the ball in stride and went 84 yards for a 14-0 lead just five minutes into play.
Central College (0-1) continued the scoring on its next drive. Nate Snead found Jeremy Snead three times, with the final connection going 22 yards for a touchdown. UW-Oshkosh answered back as Nick Olla (So. • Kewaskum) passed to Weissman for a pickup of 57 yards. That gain set up a Nate Becker (Jr. • Waukesha) 24-yard field goal that gave the Titans a 17-7 lead.
Just five snaps occurred in the third quarter before the Titans executed another big play. Wara tossed a perfect rainbow over the middle to Voss for a 51-yard score. Central College came right back with a grind-it-out, 16-play drive to make it 24-14. Nate Snead registered nine rushing attempts during the series, including a one-yard plunge for the touchdown.
Wara showed his own versatility on the ensuing possession. He had runs of 14 and 12 yards while recording a 15-yard pass completion. On first down at the Central 15-yard line, Wara rolled right and threw all the way back to the left pylon to an outstretched Weissman for the touchdown. UW-Oshkosh's margin stood at 31-14 with 1:26 left in the third quarter.
The Dutch put together two touchdown drives in the final 13 minutes to put the outcome in doubt. After Nate Snead found Jeremy Snead on consecutive plays for 20 yards, Nate Snead ran two yards for a touchdown with 10:15 remaining. Central College then used a 41-yard pass reception by Ben Lechtenberg to threaten again. Jeremy Snead hauled in a 17-yard pass with 3:13 on the clock to pull the Dutch within 31-28.
Central College threatened in the game's closing minutes, but Jacob Juedes (Sr. • Sheboygan Falls) and Zach Wettengel (Jr. • Appleton) intercepted passes for UW-Oshkosh. Wettengel sealed the Titans' 28th season-opening victory in 31 years with his theft at UW-Oshkoh's 22-yard line with 1:35 remaining.
Wara finished the game by completing 17-of-25 passes for 241 yards and three touchdowns. He also added another 36 yards rushing. Weissman caught four passes for 88 yards and rushed 11 times for another 43. The Titans' leading pass receiver was Voss, who tallied 148 yards on four catches.
Central College lost its season opener for the first time since 2004 despite the efforts of Nate Snead. He racked up 291 passing yards and four total touchdowns. His 26 carries resulted in just 66 yards. Jeremy Snead totaled nine catches for 98 yards and Lechtenberg six for 99.
The Dutch owned most statistical categories, including marks of 23-12 in first downs, 390-369 in total yards and 32:44-27:16 in time of possession. UW-Oshkosh made up for its 3-of-16 efficiency on third downs by posting four plays of 29-plus yards. Central College ended up with conversions on 11 of its 17 third downs.
Jack Breese (Sr. • Kewaskum) paced the Titans with nine tackles, while Manfred Johnson (Jr. • Milwaukee) added eight solo tackles and Andrew Thompson (Jr. • Greendale) six stops and two quarterback sacks. The Central College defense was highlighted by the nine tackles of Keith Rush and the eight tackles of Ryan Schmidt.
UW-Oshkosh has quite a challenge when it travels to second-ranked University of Mount Union (Ohio) on Saturday (Sept. 10).


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To make its meetings more accessible to the public, the Evergreen Fire Protection District will hold regular monthly board meetings on a trial basis in the auditorium or training room on the first floor instead of the much smaller second-floor boardroom at the fire district headquarters on Bergen Parkway.
Fire Chief Garry DeJong proposed the change at a special meeting of the board on Jan. 12, saying it would make it easier for the board members to see the public face-to-face.
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To submit an event, email firstname.lastname@example.com, fax listing information to (423) 392-1385 or contact the Sports Department after 6 p.m. at (423) 392-1323 or 1-800-251-0328, ext. 4323.
Dobyns-Bennett hopes to keep its boys soccer program flying high with Monday's announcement that Tom LaGuardia is the Tribe's new coach.
To submit an event, email the Sports Department at firstname.lastname@example.com, fax listing information to (423) 392-1385 or contact the Sports Department after 6 p.m. at (423) 392-1323 or 1-800-251-0328, ext. 4323.
Basketball season is about to begin for East Tennessee State, and fourth-year coach Steve Forbes is ready to go.
Blake Rutherford resigned as Dobyns-Bennett soccer coach Wednesday, deciding to take another opportunity outside of education and coaching.
Many area teams will begin their quests for state football championships when the first round of the TSSAA playoffs begin Friday. But only six championship trophies are available.
Also in this week's NET Notes, the Tribe Hogs were all about their business Friday night, pounding pads — which allowed Ian Hicks to rush for 284 yards — while the pass protection was solid enough for a completion rate of 60 percent.
Tennessee High beat Dobyns-Bennett 4-3 on Tuesday in the District 1-AAA soccer semifinals at Indian Highland Park, clinching a spot opposite Science Hill in the finals.
Cami Davidson scored twice for Elizabethton, which defeated Sullivan Central 3-1 on Tuesday night in a District 1-AA match at Citizens Bank Stadium.
Sullivan South and Sullivan Central both advanced in the District 1-AA soccer tournament, though in opposing fashions. The Lady Rebels won a squeaker while the Lady Cougars rolled on Monday.
Over the past two games, Greeneville's first-team offense held the ball for a little over five minutes and scored 77 points. Eleven touchdowns. That's a touchdown for every 28 seconds of clock time.
The Dobyns-Bennett Lady Indians hosted Morristown East on Senior Night at Indian Highland Park. The Tribe rolled away with a 9-0 victory.
Bernard Childress and Karissa Niehoff have co-authored an opinion piece about kids growing up in the digital age, and their solution hits the target square in the center.


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Gerard Butler: Shirtless Boat Ride in Ischia!
Gerard Butler goes shirtless while spending time on a boat with a mystery girl on Saturday (July 9) off the coast of the island Ischia in Naples, Italy.
The 41-year-old actor spent time with Pascal Vicedomini, founder of the Ischia Film Festival, earlier in the day. Gerard is in town to receive the Actor of the Year Award at the festival.
The 2011 Ischia Film Festival kicks off on Sunday (July 10) and will last one week. Among the events at the festival will be a premiere of Nicole Kidman's film Trespass.


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Spotlight on Girls Education in East Asia and the Pacific
10 October 2006 - The Regional Group on the United Nation's Girl's Education Initiative (UNGEI ) in East Asia and the Pacific met on 6 October 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand.
On the agenda were updates on the EFA Mid-Decade Assessment and thematic studies, documentation of good practices, and possible regional and country level activities, and networking with other key players in the region. The group was co-chaired by UNICEF and UNESCO Bangkok.
The Regional UNGEI for East Asia and the Pacific was launched in May 2002. It seeks to establish networks and partnerships among experts and organizations promoting education and gender rights. The goal of the regional group is to ensure the availability of a quality education for all girls across the region.
Contact: UNESCO Bangkok: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Practice what you preach. Engaging in Humanities research through critical praxis
I finally managed to add hyperlinks to the paper I presented at the HASTAC V conference in Ann Arbor last December. Please find it underneath accompanied by my Prezi presentation. … Continue reading →
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20 Games Like The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds(TBA)
Finding Paradise
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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A young man discovers through a series of hallucinations that he will grow up to become a violent psychopath. How will he respond to these revelations? Can he change his fate? Can you even... change fate...
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Rusty Lake: Roots
James Vanderboom's life drastically changes when he plants a special seed in the garden of the house he has inherited. Expand your bloodline by unlocking portraits in the tree of life.
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Life is Strange 2
The long awaited sequel to the award winning Life is Strange returns with a new 5-part narrative adventure from DONTNOD Entertainment.
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Tsumamigui 3
A visual novel from Alice Soft and the third game in the Tsumamigui series.
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences. Your aim is to find other survivors, gain their respect, and build a community. You'll scavenge for supplies, trade, plant crops, go on quests, face moral dilemmas, go to war, and uncover dark, terrible secrets!
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Rusty Lake Hotel
Welcome our guests to the Rusty Lake Hotel and make sure they will have a pleasant stay. There will be 5 dinners this week. Make sure every dinner is worth dying for.
Rusty Lake Hotel is a mysterious point and click game developed by the creators of the intriguing Cube Escape series.
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Allison Road
Allison Road is a survival horror game developed in Unreal Engine 4, played in first person view with optional Oculus Rift support.
You will take on the role of the unnamed protagonist who wakes up one day without any recollection of prior events. Over the course of five nights It is your objective to uncover the whereabouts of your family, unravel the mysteries of the house, and face off against Lily and other dark entities that are nested deep within the house, while the clock is relentlessly ticking towards 3:00am.
What would you do if you could feel something stalking you in the dark in the safety of your own home?
If you couldn't tell what's real and what's not?
Allison Road combines old-school survival horror and adventure game mechanics with next-gen graphics and optional VR support.
The game was initially developed by one person but then the team slowly grew to its current size of 6 people.
House Party
House Party, in its concept and sense of humor, is inspired by the adventure style games of the 80s and 90s like Leisure Suit Larry and Monkey Island, but it is rendered in a beautiful full-3D first-person context.
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Forgotton Anne
Forgotton Anne is a 2d cinematic adventure game combining puzzle platforming with adventure game elements. You play as Anne, the enforcer keeping order in the Forgotton Realm, as she sets out to squash a rebellion that might prevent her master, Bonku, and herself from returning to the human world.
The World of Forgotton Anne: Imagine a place where everything that is lost and forgotten goes; old toys, letters, single socks. The Forgotten Realm is a magical world inhabited by Forgotlings, creatures composed of mislaid objects longing to be remembered again.
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Onichichi After: Nure Suke Airi to Amayadori-hen
A pornographic visual novel from Blue Gale.
Toby: The Secret Mine
A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.
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Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way to aid your adventure, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
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Savage Lands
A New Land, A New Life: Savage Lands is a gritty, brutal, first-person open-world fantasy survival experience in which players have only one goal: Stay Alive. Explore a world where days and nights are spent slaughtering vicious creatures, gathering scarce resources, building shelter and crafting powerful weapons needed to survive. Every decision counts, because one mistake can lead to an unfortunate encounter with death's cold embrace.
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If My Heart Had Wings
This game is an animated visual novel based on a youthful, dream filled high school life story. This game portrays the player as Aoi, the protagonist, and brings the player through the feat of building the glider that will realise their dreams, while bonding with the female characters.
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Salt is an ocean based adventure and exploration game set in a infinite procedurally generated world. Experience pure freedom to play the way you want as you sail across a vast ocean and explore huge islands in your search for adventure. During your travels you will fight pirates, bosses and other creatures, complete quests, customize your ships, hunt wildlife, sail huge waves, loot and craft items and resources, and discover mysterious places and secrets throughout the world.
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The game notoriously came to attention (aside from it's name) for being banned on Twitch.


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HGTV Extends Production of "Home By Novogratz"
NEW YORK, N.Y. [For Immediate Release - October 11, 2011] HGTV has ordered 13 additional episodes of Home By Novogratz, the weekly series featuring design duo Robert and Cortney Novogratz. Currently airing at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT during the network's popular Saturday night design lineup, Home by Novogratz showcases the married couple as they create wildly original spaces for dozens of clients - all while raising seven children. The Novogratz funky, downtown-chic aesthetic and unpretentious design sensibility already has attracted legions of passionate fans. Season two of the series, currently scheduled to premiere in April 2012, will continue to stress amazing transformations in every type of home - including spectacular room makeovers in capes and townhouses as well as the creation of the ultimate ski house.
Visitors to HGTV.com can view photo galleries of the Novogratz room designs and read Cortney's weekly blog about Home by Novogratz.
About HGTV
HGTV, America's leading home and lifestyle brand, is one of cable's top-rated networks and is distributed to more than 99 million U.S. households. HGTV's website, HGTV.com, is the nation's leading online home-and-garden destination that attracts an average of 4 million unique visitors per month. The HGTV HOME consumer products line currently includes exclusive offerings of paint, flooring, soft goods, lighting and other home-oriented products. In partnership with Hearst Magazines, the HGTV Magazine, a home and lifestyle publication, will be available on newsstands beginning October 2011.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
By digging a pit in either Hawaii or Massachusetts, scientists learn about soil composition and how it is formed. View Video
Geologist Andy Kurtz describes how lichens and plants speed the process of soil accumulation. View Video


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It wasn't an apology so much as an explanation that Willis Earl Beal offered at the close of his set Thursday at the filled-to-capacity Hideout.
"I'm not a musician," the said. "I'm a motivational speaker of harmonious intentions."
No, Beal is not a musician, but he makes moving music in spite of his limitations, which were considerable. When he sat down to play the piano, the chords came reluctantly and offered no discernible melody. When he grabbed a guitar, he tried to make it comply but the strings wouldn't yield.
Yet there was something inspiring and inspired all the same about Beal, a 28-year-old South Sider. A voice, for one thing. What a voice. The voice suggested something out of a 78-rpm field recording by Alan Lomax, recorded on a porch off a dirt road in the Deep South during the Depression. Deep and expressive, it moaned and demanded, the kind of desperation you'd hear from a man who is drowning.
Beal's story wants to be a movie or a novel. He drifted until he was in his twenties, and then began making music in his own, untrained way to fill the emptiness. Using household items as percussion instruments and playing toy keyboards and a little rudimentary guitar, he fashioned more than 100 crude songs – some of them unlistenable, others extraordinary – that spanned a range of genres and influences, from ancient field hollers and whispered ballads to noisy avant-garde assaults that suggested "Swordfish Trombones"-era Tom Waits.
A year ago he was singing at L stops and on streetcorners. He gave out his cellphone number and offered to sing a song to anyone who called. Now Beal finds himself on a new label, Hot Charity, that is a subsidiary of XL Recordings, the home of Radiohead and Adele, among others.
A new album of his old home recordings, "Acousmatic Sorcery," is being written about and mostly praised by serious music bloggers and mainstream publications. The next step is figuring out how to present his music to a curious, paying audience, rather than passersby tossing spare change at a whim.
He took the stage wearing sunglasses and a white T-shirt that declared he was "Nobody." His chiseled face and taut, slender physique suggested a young Wesley Snipes. He sang at first without any accompaniment at all, demanding attention, bringing to mind an adage tucked inside the small "novel" that accompanies "Acousmatic Sorcery": "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even bother."
Then he turned on a reel-to-reel tape machine that played backing instrumentation (mostly percussion and keyboard sounds) he had recorded. The introduction of the tape player led to the night's best moment – Beal removed the machine's shroud and later draped it around his neck like a cape, then over his head like a shawl while singing with the neo-operatic drama of a preacher.
His voice trilled in falsetto during "Sambo Joe from the Rainbow," pleading, "You've got to save me from this cruel, cruel world." He swung hard during "Swing on Low," a gospel song with a secular, earthy swagger, and mined the tenderness in "Away My Silent Lover."
With a guitar or piano, Beal was more constrained, less potent. The set lasted barely 45 minutes, more of a workshop than a concert. In fits and starts it presented a gifted singer who is still figuring out how to shape his idiosyncrasies into a show. Maybe he needs a couple musicians with him who can actually play. Or maybe that would ruin everything.


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Regarding John Trant leaving his post with Cranberry Township, I wonder how many residents know who Trant is or what he has done as chief strategic planner over 14 years with the township.
Unless you have actually been to a meeting of the Cranberry Township supervisors or planning commission, you have no idea how important he has been. When hot topics like the future vision of Freedom Road were at their pitch, Trant was always the middle man between the township, the supervisors and the citizens of Cranberry.
With Trant's skills, as Manager Jerry Andree pointed out, it's not surprisinig he's been lured away by a private sector position.
What struck me most about John Trant was his patience and his ability to deal with the harshest of situations that sometimes came with the clashes between the township's government and its citizens. We were lucky to have him during a difficult period in our county's history, and we will be the beneficiaries of his hard work for years to come.
How about naming a small street after him? Better yet, how about renaming Freedom Road after him?


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Earlier this year I gave Mendeley a try, after having been a happy JabRef user, unhappy Connotea user (main problem was that any URI can be bookmarked, not just papers, so very noisy), happy CiteULike user (and still am). But the client did not bring me what I needed, and I canceled my account again.
Since then, Mendeley has undergone a transformation, and there is talk about OpenSourcing the client (or not), Open Data, and an Open Standard API. But, importantly, I no longer need the client and can do everything in the browser.
Moreover, Mendeley has momentum and is starting to provide interesting apps around the API, such as readermeter.org. And since being a scientist is playing the publishing game, one just must add once papers to these systems, just advertise them:
This brings us to problem #1: author identity, which is a general problem and addressed by projects like ORCID. So, besides the page shown above, I have a second page under an entry with just my first name.
But, as the title of the post suggests, Mendeley suffers from a second problem, which was recently brought up by Duncan in his How many unique papers are there in Mendeley? post. Mendeley, apparently, claims 36M papers, but the number of unique papers is much smaller, as detailedly outline by Duncan. Mr. Gunn replied that [d]uplicates are understandably enriched among the popular papers, such as yours, and it's harder to go from 6 duplicates to 1 canonical document than from 2 to one, because the variability is higher (see this comment), but I do not buy that.
I replied in the blog about that claim and also made a suggestion: this dereplication should really be a crowd-sourcing event, but I found it impossible to find a place to report duplication, so I had to use a message to support form and a uninformative category Other. If I was working in Mendeley, I would make this reporting a key technology behind their dereplication efforts.
Anyway, the duplication goes deep, very deep into the long tail. And really, my papers are fairly well received in general (many of my papers in BMC journals are 'Highly Accessed'; I did request some distinction there, using the StackOverflow gold, silver, bronze system), but incomparable with the highly bookmarked papers in Mendeley. I know this is probably not something Mendeley likes to hear, but the paper duplication goes deep, very deep too: a majority of my papers show duplicates. A semi-exhaustive scan showed me duplication for the XMPP paper (here and here), the Blue Obelisk paper (here, here, and here; yes, three copies), the CDK-Taverna paper (here and here), the Bioclipse 2 paper (here and here), the userscripts paper (here and here), the CDK I paper (here and here), and the CDK II paper (here and here).
Hopefully, by the time you read this post, at least some above the above links no longer work. In that respect, I would also like to request URIs based on the DOI instead.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's health cost-effectiveness watchdog NICE said it planned to recommend the use of Novartis's severe asthma drug Xolair after prevaricating for months over whether it should be paid for on the taxpayer-funded National Health Service (NHS).
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said on Thursday it had reversed a November decision in the light of extra analyses and a move by Novartis to offer a so-called patient access scheme to discount Xolair's list price.
Xolair works by blocking immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies from attaching to allergens. When IgE attaches to an allergen, it sets off a process that eventually leads to an allergic reaction.
Asthma campaign groups welcomed NICE's decision.
"Xolair is the only treatment that works for some people with severe allergic asthma who would otherwise be virtually housebound because of breathlessness and living in constant fear of the next asthma attack," Samantha Walker of the charity Asthma UK said in a statement.
NICE said in November 2012 that it planned to recommend against the use of Xolair in the NHS, reversing an earlier plan to recommend it.
In a statement on Thursday, NICE said it had now decided to recommend Xolair, known generically as omalizumab, as an option for treating certain types of severe, persistent, allergic asthma in people aged six years and older as an add-on to the maximum standard therapy.
It said this would be allowed only if Novartis makes omalizumab available with the agreed patient access scheme discount, but did not disclose the level of that discount.
Xolair's list price is 256.15 pounds ($390) for a 150 milligram (mg) vial and 128.07 pounds ($190) for a 75 mg vial. The dosage administered is 75-600 mg every two or four weeks, up to a maximum dosage of 600 mg every two weeks.
This means the cost of the drug ranges from around 1,665 pounds ($2,500) per patient per year to approximately 26,640 pounds ($40,300) per patient per year.
NICE said its final decision had not yet been issued in guidance to the NHS and noted that it could still change in the event of an appeal. It said final guidance is expected to be published in April 2013.
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Adah Bakalinsky says there are more than 650 public stairways in San Francisco. She knows because she's climbed them all, except the newest ones. And at age 90, she still climbs them with friends.
"At the spur of the moment we might decide to walk, to check out something interesting about an area. It's a way of being in touch with different parts of the city. Walks are always full of surprises," said Bakalinsky, who has been walking San Francisco's public stairways since arriving there in 1970.
Bakalinsky is impressive not just because she stays active at her age, but because of the energy she puts into finding new nooks and crannies in San Francisco and encouraging others to do the same. She has written two books on walks using public stairways — one for Los Angeles and one for San Francisco.
Americans have gotten accustomed to navigating through urban areas by car, and the freeways running around and through our cities may give potential walkers pause.
But there are discoveries to be made on foot — call it urban hiking, urban walking or just going for a stroll. Paths and trails that have been created over the years, and are still being created, are being discovered as portals to urban epiphanies.
Even in car-jammed Los Angeles.
Author and adventurer Dan Koeppel has led thousands on walks over the past eight years — through historic LA, up to landmarks like the Hollywood Sign, and up and down public stairways.
Koeppel says these treks are akin to "urban forensics." Included in some of his tours is a spot beneath a bridge where there's graffiti written by hobos who rode the rails a century ago.
With urban walks, Koeppel says, "You get to know your neighbours, your city and what people are doing. There's something incredibly satisfying about learning something about your neighbourhood you didn't know before."
Each May, he leads a 40-mile(64-kilometre), two-day trek called the Big Parade, which starts downtown and ends at the Hollywood Sign. Some people walk just a few miles (kilometres) of the Big Parade. Some do the whole walk. One of the featured attractions is a little-known pedestrian pathway along the Pasadena Freeway. It's "a combination of stairs, tunnels, ramps, spirals and walkways that makes you feel as if you're literally standing in the middle of traffic," he says. In fact, you are standing in the middle of traffic — but protected by a caged barrier.
"It is an absolutely intense experience," Koeppel says.
Elsewhere, Atlanta is developing a 22-mile (35.4-kilometre) network of multi-use trails. The project is not complete, but walkers, runners and cyclists are already swarming a 2-mile (3.2-kilometre) segment of recently finished paved trail.
Houston is developing trails and parks along its bayous.
And planners in other cities are embarking on similar projects, trying to make their towns more attractive.
Some urban walks can seem almost pastoral. On the trails overlooking downtown Portland, Oregon, it's easy to forget that you are in city limits. You walk through stands of Douglas fir trees and hardwoods dripping with rainforest moss.
With its miles and miles of trails curling through forests on the West Hills and other areas, verdant Portland is an urban hiker's paradise.
"When we talk to people in the community, the No. 1 thing they want is opportunities to walk — paths and trails," said Mike Abbate, director of Portland Parks and Recreation.
One of the latest Portland efforts is something called the 4T trail, a tour that incorporates light-rail trains, trolleys, forest trails, and even a sky tram that gives spectacular views of downtown and the surrounding countryside. You can take light-rail up into the West Hills, walk a couple of hours through the woods on hiking trails, come back down on the tram, and take a trolley to downtown.
On urban walks, you're apt to see a greater range of people than you would on a trek in the wilderness. Frequenters of Portland's West Hills include hipsters with tight jeans and sneakers, athletes running in high-tech shoes, and gents and ladies wearing clothes you might expect to see at a performance of the Oregon Symphony.
A similar mix can be found on the trails under development in Atlanta. The project, called the Atlanta Beltline, is being developed along an old rail corridor.
"It slices through the city in a way you can't do by car," said Ryan Gravel, an urban planner who came up with the idea for the Beltline in 1999 while working on his master's degree.
The 2-mile (3.2-kilometre)segment completed last year, paved and 14-feet (4.3-meters) wide, is "mobbed with people walking, jogging and biking," he said.
The Atlanta project is similar to one in New York City called the High Line, an elevated park being developed atop a former railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan.
In some cities, once-forgotten public stairways are becoming an integral part of an urban walk. Many were built decades ago, sometimes connecting hilly neighbourhoods with trolley lines or with other neighbourhoods.
Seattle residents Jake and Cathy Jaramillo wrote a book about the estimated 650 public stairways in their hilly city, and lead tours that focus on them. Their walks range from half a mile (kilometre) to 5 miles (8 kilometres). Folks on the tours have discovered obscure public gardens, and spectacular views of Seattle, Lake Washington and distant mountains. Walkers also are rewarded with fresh perspectives on the city's history and architecture.
"You meet people along the way. They tell you stories and what they know. There is a social element as you get immersed in the neighbourhoods," said Jake Jaramillo.


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Sarah, 11 Dec 2007 @ 4:49pm
Good to hear someone is looking into solutionsBecause I'm an anime fan but have not been keeping up any of my favorite series because the length of time to get new episodes takes too long and the prices to buy them on DVD is expensive and if you go with the pirated versions with horrible subbing, you really lose interest. My sister has gone so far as to learn to read Japanese but not everyone has the time to do that.
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Hen, 11 Dec 2007 @ 5:12pm
Quality is also an issueIs it just me or are the fansubs higher quality? Ive had quite a few purchased anime that have enough odd words and poor translations where even after purchasing, I end up grabbing the fansub so im not constantly jarred out of the viewing experience by the oddities.
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Paul, 11 Dec 2007 @ 5:16pm
Flip FlopWow the first 2 comments are nearly completely the opposite opinion. One thinks fan subs are horrible and the other thinks they are better than the official subs.
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Hen, 11 Dec 2007 @ 5:24pm
Anime QualityMaybe it depends on which anime you're grabbing / which language it is fansubbed into. My friend's site http://www.anime-planet.com/ shows that there are a lot more out there than Naruto. I really don't know what channels people go through to grab their fan-subs but there are groups known for higher quality. I know the bad ones and avoid them, but the good groups have been great. Ive watched 80 series and have something like 3 months of anime hours logged haha. /internet cred, but as the owner of quite a few, I find the good groups do outstanding work while the standard US release is plain and poorly done.
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err, 11 Dec 2007 @ 5:31pm
Re: Flip FlopFlip flopping would require one person to hold both opinions...
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Gunnar, 11 Dec 2007 @ 5:49pmIn my experience, which lacks about a year and a half of current anime, fansubs are usually great quality. Though for popular releases, the first release was always an admitted rush job, with the better releases coming out a few days later.
Some fansubbers clearly do better jobs than others, but the quality of the writing isn't terribly important. You have the actors voice giving you emotion, all you need is the meaning, which all fansubers do better some licensed distributors. With fansubs you get no editing for things Americans wouldn't understand or might find offensive (like taking the cigarettes away from Sanji and Smoker in One Piece).
I mean, the subbing/dubbing for Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon was terrible, what do you expect from anime companies?
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Izzy84075, 11 Dec 2007 @ 6:24pm
My opinionI, myself, prefer fansubs(Or licensed subs, if available(most of the time I'll watch dubbed DVDs with the Japanese audio and English subtitles(I've gotten good at translating Engrish...), if available)), because of the voices chosen for the dubbed version, the price of buying the DVDs, and the quality of the translations.
Most of the time, the voices don't fit the character, and many times hurt my ears.
In my understanding, the authors work together with the animation people to choose voice actors and other stuff for the original Japanese version, so the voices are chosen to fit the author's vision of the character, rather than chosen by someone who has probably only seen/read/listened to a small portion of the series for the English version. I may be wrong on this, but this is my understanding on the way things work, and please correct me if I'm wrong.
There are a few times where the voices fit(Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu(The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) comes to mind, although there are occasions where Haruhi's English voice doesn't fit...), but in my experience these are few and far apart.
And there's also the fact that, if the translating crew doesn't remove it, there is extra lip movement after the English actor is done with the line, so you end up annoying phrases that are repeated over and over again...(Dubbed Naruto, anyone? Yes, I know he has extra stuff in the Japanese version, too, but that's not noticeable to me.)
As to the price issue, this is because of the fact that I don't have enough money to spend $20-$50+ on a few episodes, and then wait a month or two to buy the next DVD in the series for another $20-$50+. If you multiply this by a few series, it starts to add up extremely quickly. When you're a kid with no job, you tend to look for the cheapest way to do things.
In my experience with fansubs and licensed DVDs, the translations on good fansubs end up better, because the people who do fansubs are also fans of the series and want to see the translation stay as true to the original as possible.
Because of these things, I prefer fansubs for their quality, in audio, video(as compared to the original), and translation clarity.
Keep in mind, this is all my opinion and is in no way the definitive answer.
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ScaryFast, 11 Dec 2007 @ 6:38pmThese subbing groups are so fast that they often easily sub new shows and release them online the same day they air in Japan. Now, if Bandai could come up with an agreement with Japanese studios to let them air shows right away, and then hired those fansub groups, they could have them subbed and playing on the Bandai Anime Network within days of release.
Of course, some might argue that it would cut into DVD sales down the road, but I don't buy it. Tons of people buy North American TV series on DVD now, and if the prices for these Anime dvd's weren't stupid they would sell a lot more of them as well.
Hollywood writers are on strike right now because everyone is making money off of DVD sales of TV series except them, so it's obviously doing better than everyone expected.
Also, some people prefer Dubbed anime, so they could release subbed anime on the Bandai Anime Network and take their time doing dubs and cleaning up the subs for the DVD release. An Anime DVD release with good subs AND dubs? that would be amazing.
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Izzy84075, 11 Dec 2007 @ 6:49pm
Re:Ah! That's another thing I missed! Speed of release! Why would I wait several months to pay for a lower quality translation when I can go online the day after(or sometimes sooner) and watch a better version for free?
If they aired subbed anime anywhere on American TV, with good quality subs and fairly quickly after the Japanese airing... Cable, satellite, anywhere... I would pay for it. I don't know how, but I would pay for it, and I would gladly pay for the DVDs of the show if I wanted to go back and watch it again without waiting for reruns.
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B, 11 Dec 2007 @ 7:21pm
Man the KeyboardMaybe to satisfy the needs of their fans, anime companies could start airing subbed series over the web. Charge a small subscription fee and then release lower-priced DVDs with higher video quality.
Just a thought - it's not like their audience isn't already on the internet.
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Anonymous Coward, 11 Dec 2007 @ 9:10pmCHIBI HUMANS!
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Just Anonymous, 12 Dec 2007 @ 2:54am
Re: My opinionAll valid points.
I'll be adding one thing though: In my personal experience, every time an anime has been localized and dubbed, there's always been something lost from the original. Plus I've seen a good deal of anime that simply won't make it to the west because of western censors.
After I got into the habit of watching anime in its original japanese and untouched by wester censors, I found there was some good stuff out there that I'd never see.
I generally hate almost all dubs with rare but notable exceptions (Azumanga Daio). The only way for me to purchase the anime in the form I want would be to import it from Japan if by some miracle the DVD has english subtitles which they usually don't.
I can safely say that most of the fansubbed anime I have archived still hasn't had a western release and most of them probably won't anytime soon.
My two cents.
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mkam, 12 Dec 2007 @ 4:28am
fansub vs dubfansubbing is better and dubbing anyday. I got hooked on the fansubbed Naruto and Bleach episodes quite a while ago. I tried to watch the US dubbed version and it is terrible. The voices completely change the feeling of the characters even if the translation may be a little better. US actors don't accentuate the same words or syllables and some Japanese words don't have exact translations due to culture or Asian History. Give me a fansub anyday.
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bshock, 12 Dec 2007 @ 7:40am
Poor ParasitesSounds like tapeworms are complaining that potential hosts prefer to have calories leeched out by exercise.
I have no sympathy for distribution companies. So they're stupid enough to buy "rights" to distribute content that was given away (or nearly so) in Japan. Why should I have to suffer for their poor business model?
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Eric the Grey, 12 Dec 2007 @ 3:15pm
Re: My opinionI have to agree with you. My main problem with Anime purchased here in the US is the choice of voice actors.
I don't dislike any of them, but when you have a character who's 7 or 8 years old, speaking with a voice that belongs on an adult, or older-teen, it just ruins the effect.
Really, that's my only complaint, as most of the rest, I can overlook, including the price issue. I simply have to pick and choose which Anime I purchase.
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Robert The Addled, 12 Dec 2007 @ 7:26pm
Fansubbed vs DubbedFirst - I concur with the above where inappropriate voice actors (adult or teen for a pre-teen characters) are all too common and with the other writer complaining about the distortion of the original themes/concepts when dubbed. Fansubbing (and there are usually multiple subs for each anime series) tend to better translate the cultural idioms - some of the EARLY Anime imports used completely different scripts and plots for the same animation. The Tenchi variations come to mind for that flaw.
Second IMHO there are at least two MAJOR obstructions to the penetration of legal anime into the US market: Primus is the availability for TV viewing to determine if it is something a viewer would wish to follow up on. Secondus is definately pricing - an example is something I was pricing for an xmas gift - the 1st 20 half hour episodes of Bleach - NOT even a full season by most television standards - The store prices found were in the $60 to $80 range. A typical US TV series of hour long episodes runs a third to half that price and has 20% more episodes.
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Michael Evans, 13 Dec 2007 @ 6:06am
Digital Distribution - Patent woes the blame?http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071126/182202.shtml (Look at comment #41)
I was late then, and very long, but it boils down to the exact same things said here, and I also point out the biggest obstacle on this. Digital content naturally wants to trend towards a very low cost per unit due to the extreme ease of distribution. Barriers to that are greed from many parties. However the biggest nightmare are the Lawyers and Lobbyists.
Yes, our nemesis, out of control Patents. Communications standards, the very languages we use to exchange information content, must be developed somehow. Yes, people deserve to eat, but once that has been figured out, and the fixed research cost paid for, the cost of duplicating the idea is practically nothing with modern technology.
Patents might best be rectified by sourcing their cost of development, and applying a short (maybe 5 year?) time frame on monetary recovery, along with a cap of some multiplier or simple formula over the development cost. Within that 5 years/capped value, any additional 'licenses' would pay back to prior licensees and the innovators based on a pro-rated division of time relative to the remainder of the patent. (That is, whoever literally buys in to using the patent first would get the most back each time the increasingly standard method is used.)
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Neil, 9 Mar 2009 @ 11:53am
fan subbing fuels the marketIf it wasnt for fan subbing in the first place there would hardly be a market for Anime in the west. Series like Bleach have become so popular over this way through consumers downloading and watching the fansubs that they have now bought bleach over, if there were no subs then there would not be such a high demand for it. If you have a look at http://www.animeoxide.com/ you will see loads of anime that hasnt made its way to these shores yet but it will only be a matter of time do to the fansubbing.
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2011 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter | AutomotiveCode.com
2011 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
What#8217;s New for 2011
For 2011, the Cargo Van variant of the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter can be had with a rear bench seat, thus becoming the Crew Van. The new Minibus version is slightly longer than the Passenger Van and has more seats.
A Mercedes-Benz full-size van? What, are we made of money? Are you going to suggest a Louis Vuitton work belt next? How about a Gucci hard hat?
Yes, the idea of buying a 2011 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter might seem a little nutty for your cargo-hauling or people-moving needs, and, yes, it is more expensive than full-size vans from Ford and GM. However, only two years ago, this van was known as the Dodge Sprinter #8212; the last vestige of the ill-fated DaimlerChrysler #8212; and for the most part, it#8217;s the same excellent vehicle. At the time, the Dodge Sprinter was well worth its price premium, but now the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter carries a price premium that#8217;s $4,000 more than before, so apparently a big three-pointed star is worth more than a chrome Ram#8217;s head.
Despite being constructed of better materials and to a higher standard than its American competition (though nowhere close to its fellow Benzes), the Sprinter has a number of other notable advantages. For one, it#8217;s absolutely cavernous thanks to its minibus dimensions and space-efficient design. The load floor is the lowest among full-size vans and yet someone 6-foot-3 can walk around upright within its rear compartment (the max height in a Ford E-Series is 4-foot-3).
In its largest configuration, the Sprinter cargo van has a maximum storage capacity of 547 cubic feet; the most a Chevy Express can muster is 237.3.
Since the Sprinter is bigger and taller than everything else, driving it around must be only slightly less cumbersome than an 18-wheeler, right? Actually, the Sprinter#8217;s modern chassis design makes it far more maneuverable around town than the full-size Detroit-branded vans. In fact, driving the Sprinter feels pretty normal except for its colossal windshield and short front end.
Thanks to its turbocharged diesel engine, the Sprinter also has a fuel economy advantage over its competition. This engine now makes more power as a Mercedes than it did as a Dodge, and it also features Mercedes Bluetec technology, meaning it burns just as clean as a gasoline engine. While the Sprinter#8217;s diesel V6 offers torque output that#8217;s similar to smaller V8s from rivals, horsepower is way down.
Certainly no one would ever describe the Sprinter as anything other than slow (surely the Sprinter name is meant to be ironic). As such, the Sprinter is best-suited for an urban or suburban environment rather than the highway.
Should you find the Mercedes-Benz badge too pretentious, the Sprinter is also sold as a Freightliner with almost identical specifications. Unfortunately, it also comes with an almost identical price tag, which is certainly its biggest drawback. Though superior in most ways to its ancient competitors from Ford and GM, the 2011 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter#8217;s added cost might be hard to justify.
That#8217;s a shame, though you could always try to find a used Dodge version instead.
Body Styles, Trim Levels, and Options
The 2011 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is a full-size van available in multiple configurations, each available with two wheelbases and two roof heights. The Cargo Van has only two front seats matched with an empty cargo bay, while the Crew Van is essentially a Cargo Van with a three-place rear bench seat. The Passenger Van features four rows of seats good for 12 people, while the larger MiniBus adds an additional seating row for a grand total of 15 people.
The Cargo Van is also available in a 3500 configuration (versus the standard 2500), which ups its payload capacity.
Standard equipment on the Cargo Van includes 16-inch steel wheels, right-side sliding door, wood cargo floor, 270-degree-opening rear doors, air-conditioning, a tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel and a two-speaker radio. The Crew Van is identically equipped save for its second-row bench seat and added adjacent side windows. The Passenger Van is equipped similarly, but features three rear seat rows, rear interior trim, tinted rear windows and rear speakers.
The new, stretched-wheelbase MiniBus version has additional seats available in a number of different configurations, plus an electric dual-panel passenger side door.
The options list for each is lengthy, but highlights include 16-inch alloy wheels, a driver-side sliding rear door, parking sensors, a rearview camera, bi-xenon headlights, headlight washers, automatic headlights and wipers, a heated windshield, heated power mirrors, foglamps, cruise control, upgraded front seats and an upgraded stereo. The Cargo and Crew Vans can be equipped with driver-compartment bulkheads, a roof fan, a fixed rear sunroof and roof rack mounting rails.
The Passenger Van and MiniBus can be equipped with a rear heater, rear air-conditioning and rear windshield wipers. Many of these optional items are available within packages as well.
Powertrains and Performance
Every 2011 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is rear-wheel drive. The turbocharged 3.0-liter diesel V6 features Bluetec exhaust-scrubbing technology and produces 188 horsepower and a robust 325 pound-feet of torque. A five-speed automatic transmission is standard.
There are no EPA fuel economy estimates available, but given its engine, expect significantly better gas mileage than that of the Sprinter#8217;s Ford and GM competitors.
Every 2011 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter comes standard with stability and traction control, and front airbags. Optional are a driver side airbag, driver and front passenger side airbags packaged together, front side curtain airbags, parking sensors, a back-up alarm and a rearview camera.
Interior Design and Special Features
Despite its Mercedes-Benz badge, don#8217;t expect wood trim, leather upholstery or the latest high-tech gizmos inside the Sprinter. At the same time, build quality is notably better than in other full-size vans, and the Sprinter generally also has a more modern feel. A tilt-and-telescoping steering column and four different front seat styles with multiple adjustments ensure ample comfort, while the Sprinter#8217;s modern control layout makes it feel more like a midsize SUV than a utilitarian van.
Thanks to its 51-inch sliding door and class-leading 20-inch step-in height, the Sprinter makes entering and exiting the passenger area a cinch. Inside, the high-roof option and its 6-foot-4-inch cabin height allow for even tall folks to walk upright; the Ford and Chevy at best can only accommodate the Lollipop Guild. The Sprinter#8217;s payload is similarly superior, and the rating of the 2500 Cargo Van ranges from 2,872 pounds to 3,469 pounds depending on body configuration, while the rating of the 3500 ranges from 4,845 pounds to 5,375.
Driving Impressions
With its huge windshield and truncated front end, the 2011 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter does a pretty fair impression of a tour bus from behind the wheel.
And at up to 24 feet long and 9 feet high, it could be one, too. But a reasonably carlike driving position and respectable handling help make the Sprinter feel manageable around town.
Quite simply, this is the easiest and least cumbersome full-size van to drive. Around town, the turbodiesel engine offers satisfactory thrust. It#8217;s only on the highway that the Sprinter#8217;s power deficit becomes glaringly apparent.
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3D spatial vision provides flexible, scalable vision guidance
MotoSight 3D Spatial Vision System by Motoman Robotics is a 3D vision system that delivers flexible and scalable real-time 3D vision guidance for Motoman robots. It is ideally suited to enhance part picking, box moving and automated kitting.
"MotoSight 3D Spatial Vision is a great step forward in 3D vision guidance for industrial robots," said Roger Christian, Vice President Marketing and International Groups at Motoman Robotics. "Powered by Universal Robotics' Spatial Vision Robotics software, we are now able to offer 3D vision guidance at 2D prices that can be customized to a user's needs. We are excited to partner with Universal Robotics to bring this solution to market."
The MotoSight 3D features an alignment wizard that walks the user through a simple process of calibrating the cameras and robot, and then loading standard CAD files of parts the system should track. The calibration files can interface to C, C++ or MATLAB robotic real-time control programs.
MotoSight 3D Spatial Vision uses world-class pattern matching to determine true 3D for six degrees (X, Y, Z, Rx, Ry, Rz) of position and pose information. It offers guided intrinsic (camera/camera) and extrinsic (camera/robot) calibration. The vision system provides 2-4 mm accuracy at typical robot working distance using off-the-shelf Logitech 9000 webcams. GigE cameras can be used to improve accuracy. MotoSight 3D Spatial Vision's accuracy is achieved through advanced vision processing of raw images for image rectification, Laplacian of Gaussian and dense stereopsis for full-frame depth maps.
"The 3D vision market has long struggled with very expensive systems that require specialized equipment and are difficult to install, scale or customize," said David Peters, CEO of Universal Robotics. "With our Spatial Vision Robotics software, Universal Robotics created a unique solution to these challenges: an accurate and easy-to-install 3D vision system that uses off-the-shelf cameras and costs a fraction of traditional systems. Together with Motoman, we have created a 3D guidance system for industrial robots that enhances several facets of materials handling."
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Kings got their first win of the season, each member of their top line got his first point of the season, and rookie defenseman Jake Muzzin played clutch minutes while scoring his first NHL goal.
Notably missing from that list is the Kings' first power-play goal of the season. They're still waiting for that, but they checked off a healthy number of significant "firsts" Saturday in earning a 4-2 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes in the teams' first meeting since the Kings prevailed in the Western Conference finals last spring.
"That's another one that will feel nice when it happens," winger Justin Williams said of the missing power-play production, which hit 0 for 23 after an 0-for-4 performance that included a wasted five-on-three.
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Hey was wondering where you bought Xu Shaofa table from? Thanks.
Very helpful review.
Name and Brand, origin Joola Infinity, sale by Sears and made in China. Table surface (thickness, quality, other) This table has a smooth blue surface, with painted-on lines. Thickness is 25mm, 1 inch Median Density Particleboard. Frame (material, 2-piece or fold-up, sturdiness, roll-away or fixed, etc) This table is steel framed, and very good on support, it's adequate, heavy and solid. Roll-away to fold up. 4-inch Wheels are pretty smooth to move around. Performance (playing performance compared to a competition table) The bounce on this table is consistent. Does much better than Butterfly Primer Rollaway. And close to Butterfly Competition 25. Performance is great. Well, The Surface painting is kind of too easy to wiped off. The white and orange ping pong balls became the a little blue after hours play. The surface left some ping pong ball prints (small painting dots, not damages) when you look the surface closely although they do not affect the performance.Durability (table surface, warping of main surface, etc) Since I bought it days ago, I do not have any experience yet for durability. From the building structure, I don't think there is any warping. The table is in my garage. Hope it last for many years.
Value for money, recommend or not?Since it costs just over $500, it is great investment. Did not get any solid answer from Joola Customer service about for the surface painting and ball print. The shape looks like Cornilleau. Maybe not detailed like Cornilleau. All materials are metals and wood for surface. I say this is 4 of 5 stars. Strong recommend it for any home/club users.
We use the Joola Infinity at our club and your review is spot on. IMO these are some of the best tables for the money you can buy. I thought the same thing about the Cornilleau similarities. It is obvious of the design.
Great review!!
Someone on this forum has to be from Korea. I hear those Champion tables are all over the place there. They sure look like an exceptional value. Not to mention the vendor for Champion tables is near Dallas which is a quick trip for me.


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The good news is we now have full planning approval from the District Council for our new car park. The not so good news is, as the winter has been too wet for construction, and we'll soon be in the bird nesting season, it's unlikely the car park will be completed until September.
As anyone who visits us here at our Shapwick Moor Nature Reserve on the Somerset Levels knows only too well, the current parking area is treacherous at best for cars, and with wet winter weather conditions, downright impossible (or should that be impassable!)
The less muddy alternative is to park off-site along the roadside; far from ideal and a bit risky. As a stop gap to provide modest car parking (max 6 cars), particularly for the volunteers, and to tide us over the next 6 months until construction of the new facility, it was decided we should level the entrance and stone up the first part of the farm drove.
I arranged with a local contractor to complete the work, which also has the effect of reducing the amount we need to do when the new car park is constructed. The result, which can be clearly seen in Barry Gray's photo, is something of an improvement!
Phil Holms
Trustee | Hawk and Owl Trust
Shapwick Moor Nature Reserve 7 February 2013


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Your Cynicism About Lobbyists Only Helps The Lobbyists Win
from the too-much-cynicism dept
Earlier this year, when This American Life did an hourlong episode on lobbying, there was one message that has really stuck with me: yes, lobbying has tremendous power in terms of its impact on Congress and the White House, but votes will trump lobbying every single time. I can't remember which politician said it during the episode, but it was made clear: in the absence of the public speaking out on an issue, yes, the lobbyists will likely win. But if the public is interested, no matter how much money is spent, the public will win, because the votes matter more than the lobbyists. Always.
I'd been meaning to write about this in response to the defeatism I saw after that letter, but Public Knowledge's Sherwin Siy beat me to it (and did it much better, since he's got a hell of a lot more experience on this front), pointing out that the best way to fight big money politics is to speak out and take part. Yes, it may seem like the deck is stacked, and yes, the lobbyists have plenty of power -- but that power only works if the voting public stays quiet.
In other words: your cynicism only helps the lobbyists.
Trust me, I understand where that cynicism comes from, and there are significant problems with the way money works in politics today and just how corrupt the system often appears. But, as Siy notes, all that money is a means to an end, and the end is to get re-elected (or elected in the first place). And that means that votes -- and the people behind the votes -- can trump money in politics. The larger problem is that we can't do that for any and every issue. But saying that you shouldn't even bother to speak out at all is self-defeating. It's automatically handing victory to the lobbyists.


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This snaffle bridle includes a flash and luxurious padding on Vespucci's signature Single Crownpiece, noseband, brow band, under flash attachment, and under the jaw. Stainless steel hardware. Plain raised noseband and brow band. 5/8" cheeks.
Reins sold separately. The action photo shows this bridle with a Vespucci Brass Clincher Browband (sold separately).
About Vespucci Bridles
Renowned saddle and bridle designer Peter Menet is looking at horses with a powerful new vision. Following an exhaustive study of horse anatomy as it relates to veins, arteries, nerves, and the soft tissue areas, he can actually see where a horse is susceptible to facial pain and injury, inspiring him to literally reinvent the bridle.
Vespucci's design philosophy takes into consideration the biomechanics of a horse in motion, pressure points on the horse's head, and the best way to communicate instructions between rider and horse. All of which is for the purpose of creating a union, where the horse almost intuitively understands the rider's direction and the two move together as one.


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EUGENE — The Ashland girls tennis team captured the seven-team Midwestern League District Championship title and its top doubles squad cruised to victory in the finals at the Eugene Swim and Tennis Club on Friday.
Hanna Greenberg and Vika O'Brien — the Grizzlies' top doubles pairing and the defending Class 5A state champions — routed Marist's Lauren Sibole and Madison Penn, 6-0, 6-0, in the championship match to remain undefeated on the year.
In the semifinals, Greenberg and O'Brien topped teammates Katy Barnard and Elana Cooper (Ashland's No. 2 team), 6-2, 6-0.
In singles action, Marist's top player Madisyn Bryant beat Ashland No. 4 Anne Kim, 7-5, 6-1, in the semifinals. Prior to the match, Bryant had not lost a game in the district tournament.
Churchill No. 3 Marilyn Walker got past Ashland No. 2 Ashley Knecht, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, in the other semifinal.
In the finals, Bryant downed Walker, 6-1, 6-0.
In the third-place match, Knecht defeated Kim, 6-0, 6-1.
Marist took second as a team.
Greenberg, O'Brien, Barnard, Cooper, Kim and Knecht will next play in the state tournament at Tualatin Hills Tennis Center May 16.
Boys Tennis
At Eugene, Grant Kahn beat teammate Mischa Kirby to claim third place in singles and Max Burt and Michael Montes teamed up to claim third in doubles as Ashland finished third in the Midwestern League championships at the Eugene Swim and Tennis Club.
Marist and Churchill ended up tied for first with 30 points apiece, and Ashland was second with 26.
Kahn beat Kirby 6-0, 6-4 in the third-place singles match. In the third-place doubles match, Burt and Montes beat Aaron Kenny and Andrew Bennion of Churchill, 0-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Neu Nipatasaj of Marist claimed the singles title with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Nathan Hampton of Churchill. In doubles, AJ Bartko and Austin Tyner of Marist toppled Chuck Taylor and Kurtis Bineham of Churchill, 6-3, 6-4.
Ashland High girls claim Midwestern League title, doubles team cruises
EUGENE — The Ashland girls tennis team captured the seven-team Midwestern League District Championship title and its top doubles squad cruised to victory in the finals at the Eugene Swim and Tennis Club on Friday.