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This is an activity that compares the magnetic field of the Earth to the complex magnetic field of the Sun. Using images of the Earth and Sun that have magnets attached in appropriate orientations, learners will use a handheld magnetic field... (View More) detector to observe the magnetic field of the Earth and compare it to that of the Sun, especially in sunspot areas. For each group of students, this activity requires use of a handheld magnetic field detector, such as a Magnaprobe or a similar device, a bar magnet, and ten small disc magnets. (View Less)
Materials Cost: Over $20 per group of students
This is a lesson about the formation of glaciers, ice layering and stratigraphy, and the cryosphere and cryobotics. Learners will collect evidence of layering, explore the science story that layering tells, study snow and ice for insights into... (View More) climate change, and learn about the tools used to explore ice layers on Earth and in the solar system. Connections between rings of a tree and rings in an ice core will be made. Activities include small group miming, speaking, drawing, and/or writing. This is lesson 7 of 12 in the unit, Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
This is a lesson about the characteristics of ice as a mineral and how it compares to other minerals with respect to hardness. Learners will observe ice crystals, develop a hardness scale and position ice on it. Learners will also practice working... (View More) collaboratively in a team. Activities include small group miming, speaking, drawing, and/or writing. This is lesson 3 of 12 in the unit, Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
Learners will investigate how water and ice exist in the atmosphere as they study water vapor condensing, find that clouds are made of tiny droplets of water, and notice that snow forms in clouds. Activities include demonstrations by the teacher,... (View More) small group miming, speaking, drawing, and/or writing. In addition to commonly found classroom materials, dry ice, an aquarium or terrarium container, magnifying glass are needed. This is lesson 6 of 12 in the unit, Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
This is a lesson about how and why ice flows, especially in a large mass such as a glacier. Learners will experience the qualities of viscoelastic materials and view videos of glacial ice flows. They will observe ice flows and materials other than... (View More) ice flowing differently under stress, and will investigate landscape changes as a result of large scale glacial movement. Activities include small group miming, speaking, drawing, and/or writing. This is lesson 5 of 12 in the unit, Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
In this activity, students will demonstrate the generator effect, which is due to electromagnetic induction when a conductor (a long metal wire) moves through a magnetic field. Materials required to this activity include: a 100-foot extension cord... (View More) with ground prong, current or voltage galvanometer, two lead wires with alligator clips on at least one end, and one compass. This activity must be done in an open space large enough to swing a 100-foot cord as a jump rope, such as a gymnasium or outdoor field. This is activity three of "Exploring Magnetism." The guide includes science background information, student worksheets, glossary and related resources. (View Less)
Materials Cost: Over $20 per group of students
Temperature Variations and Habitability: Activity A Observing, Describing, and Adapting to Environmental Variations
In this activity, student teams design and conduct a scientific investigation in which they explore the conditions necessary for life. They conduct observations of environmental conditions both indoor and outdoor, and determine the range of... (View More) variation they see. They compare these data with published temperature data for Earth, Mars, Pluto and Venus. The activity supports inquiry into the real world challenge of searching for life in extreme environments. The resource includes several student data sheets, data table and images, and a teacher's guide. Materials needed for this activity include weather instruments (e.g., thermometers, barometers, anemometers). This is Activity A of two activities in the first module, titled "Temperature variations and habitability," of the resource, "Earth Climate Course: What Determines a Planet's Climate?" The course aims to help students to develop an understanding of our environment as a system of human and natural processes that result in changes that occur over various space and time scales. (View Less)
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This activity guides students through sampling, identification and counting of macroinvertebrates sampled in a GLOBE hydrology study site, and understand how the taxa composition found in the sample can be an indicator of water quality and ecosystem... (View More) health. The resource includes 8 field and laboratory protocols. This resource is a protocol within the Hydrology chapter of the GLOBE Teacher's Guide. GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide, hands-on, K-12 school-based science education program. (View Less)
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Sesame Street "Zoe Loves Rocco" Zoe is hanging out with her pet rock, Rocco, when Alan stops by and sings Rocco's favorite song, "Rocco and Roll." Zoe leaves to get Rocco's hat, and asks Elmo, who's playing astronaut with Baby David nearby, to watch Rocco while she's gone. As Elmo plays with David, a flying disc knocks Rocco to the ground. D
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Dinosaur Train "The Amazing Michelinoceras Brothers/Dads' Day Out" The Amazing Michelinoceras Brothers - The Pteranodon family travels deep underwater on the Dinosaur Train to view two backwards-bounding brothers named Max and Mitch Michelinoceras. The kids are delighted to see that Max and Mitch put on a synchronized swimming show. Dads' Day Out - Buddy, Tiny, and Mr. Pteranodon join Annie Tyrannosaurus and Leroy Lambeosaurus and their dads for a Dads' Day at the Big Pond. D
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Super Why! "The Stars in the Sky" Princess Pea wants to play in a rainbow, but her mother says it simply can't be done! So the Super Readers soar into the story The Stars in the Sky and accompany a little girl named Ella with a big dream of her own! As the Super Readers climb higher and higher they begin to wonder - will they play with the stars, or merely wish on them? Educational Objectives: To learn about the fun of fantasy, follow the alphabet, practice spelling skills and use the power to read to change the story and save the day!. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Be Cool/Elephant Walk" Be Cool - Phew, it's hot outside! How are Sally and Nick going to stay cool? Cat suggests that they should visit some friends in the Dizzle-dazzle Desert to learn how to keep cool. They learn that some animals are light coloured, some stay out of the sun, and some, like Tommy the coolest toad around, just mooove sloooow. Nick and Sally take their advice, but Cat has an even better idea - run through a sprinkler! Elephant Walk - When building a toy construction set, Nick and Sally wonder if there's such thing as a one-thing-does-it-all tool. D
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Wild Kratts "Googly-Eye: The Night Guru" The Kratt brothers secretly "borrow" Aviva's half finished night vision goggles to go in search of a mysterious nocturnal creature. But when the unstable goggles stop working, the brothers find themselves taken in by the nocturnal society of the tarsier. As they investigate, the Wild Kratts team discovers that nocturnal creatures only come out at night and learn that eyes help a creature see by collecting the light that comes from objects all around. D
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Sara's Weeknight Meals "High 5 - 5 Ingredient Mains" The fewer the ingredients, the faster dinner gets to the table - that's why Sara's rustled up some delicious recipes featuring only 5 ingredients, and boy are they good! Try the Roasted Salmon with Hot Mustard Cracker Topping - crunchy on the outside and oh so tender on the inside. Buffalo Rice mixes the best tastes of Buffalo chicken wings - hot sauce, blue cheese, celery, crispy chicken - in a quick and flavorful rice bowl. Sauteed Duck Breasts have an Apricot Szechuan Peppercorn Sauce that's packed with sweet and spicy flavors. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Athens and Side Trips" Rick tours the must-sees of ancient Athens, then takes the fast-paced pulse of the modern city. On side trips, he visits the ruins of the mystical oracle at Delphi and takes a fast boat to the traffic-free island of Hydra.G
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Song of the Mountains New North Carolina Ramblers; Buck & Company; Gold Heart. D
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My Hero "Cassie Come Home" Defrocked superhero Arnie and George are threatened with deportation but George's brush with the North Pole and his increased magnetism solves the problem.G
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Are You Being Served? "Agent" To supplement his salary, Mr. Goldberg runs an agency to fix suitable positions for talented members of the sales staff.G
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As Time Goes By "The Wedding" The best man breaks a leg so Lionel's father, Rocky, is asked to step into the wedding party. Jean is now working hard to pair Harry off with Sandy.G
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Ladies of Letters Irene Spence (Maureen Lipman) and Vera Small (Anne Reid) see each other at a daughter's wedding, and begin a dutiful correspondence that reveals a battle of wits and egos as they comment upon events in their lives.G
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Keeping Up Appearances - The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket "Seaside Fun" Hyacinth is at the seaside for the fair at a pleasure beach. She looks after a travel-weary elderly lady and deals with an amorous Italian pensioner.G
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The Thin Blue Line "Yuletide Spirit" Christmas comes to Gasfoth and Goody intends to try again with Maggie Habib by giving her some sexy underwear for Christmas. He also buys Fowler a puncture repair kit. Unfortunately, he mixes up the packages.G
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Outnumbered "Christmas Special 2009" It's only Boxing Day but Karen has already made a list of New Year resolutions. There is also an onslaught of unsuitable toys, lost pets, and discussions as to whether robbers and/or aliens have stolen Ben's pants.G
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My Family "The Abi Habit" According to Susan, abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. While Janey looks at having it thrust upon her, for Abi, it seems like a longer-term commitment.G
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My Hero "Cassie Come Home" Defrocked superhero Arnie and George are threatened with deportation but George's brush with the North Pole and his increased magnetism solves the problem.G
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Are You Being Served? "Agent" To supplement his salary, Mr. Goldberg runs an agency to fix suitable positions for talented members of the sales staff.G
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Just when you thought you knew where all the world's creepy crawlers were located, researchers at the San Diego Natural History Museum -- with help from experts in Mexico and Brazil -- have discovered a new species of cave-dwelling spider in a small mountain range just outside of La Paz in Baja California Sur.
The Sierra Cacachilas wandering spider (a.k.a. Califorctenus cacachilensis, for all you scientists) was discovered in 2013 and, four years later, published in Zootaxa as a new species on March 2, according to the San Diego Natural History Museum.
And this spider is definitely not your ordinary, everyday arachnid.
"This is the type of spider that a lot of people would shriek and run from," Michael Wall, one of the researchers from the museum, told the LA Times while commenting on the spider's impressive size.
The spider's coffee-brown, yellowish body, according to the Smithsonian, is about an inch long with legs that stretch about four inches across. The LA Times referred to it as "softball-sized."
"When I saw these spiders for the first time, I was very impressed by their size," said Dr. Maria Luisa Jimenez, the foremost expert on spiders in the area, according to the museum, in a blog post. "In all my experience over the years collecting spiders on the peninsula [Baja California Sur], I had never seen a spider this large."
And although it appears to be scarily big, and apparently hangs with the same spider crowd as a notoriously venomous spider, it doesn't appear to be dangerous -- to humans anyway.
"Almost all spiders are venomous, but very few are dangerous to humans," Jim Berrian, one of the researchers with the San Diego Natural History Museum, said in a blog post. "I got bit while handling a live specimen of Califorctenus cacachilensis and I'm still alive."
And if that's not enough to make your skin crawl -- according to the museum -- researchers estimate there are still millions and millions of insect and spider species waiting to be discovered.
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KnowledgeBase 00015: Using GDI-only printers in Windows
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Windows supports two modes of operation for printers; the Graphical Device Interface (GDI) and the non-GDI mode that is frequently referred to as raw mode or text mode.
Essentially, GDI mode allows an application to construct a page as a graphical image enabling use of non-printer resident fonts, etc whereas raw mode simply sends text to the printer.
There is a growing trend, especially for the lower cost printers, for the printer to ship with only a GDI driver. QM uses raw mode by default and the effect of printing in raw mode to a GDI-only device is undefined but often causes the print job to appear in the Windows print queue, apparently complete successfully, but without actually printing anything.
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The SETPTR and SET.QUEUE commands both support a GDI option when used on Windows systems. This option causes QM to use the Windows Graphical Device Interface when creating printed output. Although this may at first appear to be a perfect work-around for the lack of a raw mode printer driver, using GDI mode in this way prevents applications sending control codes such as PCL escape sequences directly to the printer and also uses whatever the default GDI font is for the printer.
QM release 3.0-4 added the FONT and FONT.SIZE options to the SETPTR command to set the font name and size for a GDI mode printer.
Mode Translators
Recognising that this trend by printer manufacturers not to ship raw mode drivers is causing problems for some applications, several software vendors have created packages that look like raw mode drivers but translate the data output by the application into GDI format.
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Beach Boys To Reunite For 2012 Grammy Ceremony?
Looks like it could be the Beach Boys, not Van Halen, who are going to make big news by reuniting at the Grammy Awards this year. Rumors were flying at breakneck pace around the music business that Van Halen were to make some major announcement at the nominations telecast. That didn't happen, and it may turn out it was a different iconic California band who appears at the actual ceremony.
Once (and future?) Beach Boys guitarist Al Jardine told Rolling Stone, "I thought the Grammys might make the announcement. I don't know what happened. There will be a surprise at the Grammys. We'll do something really exciting. It's going to be a very big operation." The word is that the '60s legends, who celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first album next year, will reunite for the Grammy 2012 broadcast. Well, reunite is a relative term here since both Carl and Dennis Wilson are long dead, but, plans for Jardine to join up with Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston are apparently rolling along.
According to Jardine, The Beach Boys have booked time in the recording studio, saying he and his old bandmates appear to have put their past differences behind them. "That stuff doesn't permeate the atmosphere. When you're in the presence of greatness, you don't wallow in that crap."
Earlier this year, Mike Love told Beach Boys fanzine Endless Summer Quarterly, "We had a session at Capitol Records. Brian was conducting the session. At the end of the session Brian said, "I can't believe a 70-year-old guy can sing that great!" It was cool. There's a lot of talk and conjecture both internally and externally. All I can say at the moment is I think it would be great to work with Brian and see what can come of it."
At this point it must be said, Wilson doesn't seem to be on the same page as Love or Jardine. In a recent interview with Q magazine, Wilson said "There's been talk that I was going to join the Mike Love group but it's not true."


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This is the first module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Activities are self-directed by students or student teams using online videos and data from the SDO satellite to explore, research and build knowledge about... (View More) features of the Sun. Students build vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections, and creating resources to use in their investigations. Each activity comes with both a teacher and student guide with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos and internet resources. Activity 1A: Structure of the Earth's Star takes students through the features and function of the Sun's structures using online videos, completing a "Sun Primer" data sheet using information from the videos, and creating a 3D origami model of the Sun. Students use a KWL chart to track what they have learned. Activity 1B: Observing the Sun has students capture real solar images from SDO data to find and record sunspots and track their movement across the surface of the Sun. Activity 1C has students create a pin-hole camera to use in calculating the actual diameter of the Sun, and then calculate scales to create a Earth-Sun scale model. Students reflect on their learning and results at the end of the module. An internet connection and access to computers are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This is the fourth and culminating module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Student teams use information and resources from the other three modules in the project suite to create a 3D interactive solar exhibit to... (View More) educate others about the Sun and how SDO informs scientists about the Sun's activity, structures and features, and Earth-Sun interactions. Students then self-evaluate their team's solar exhibit. Both a teacher and student guide are included, as well as tools for students to self-direct and track project process, and record reflections and information. A computer for student-teams and access to the internet are needed for this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
Materials Cost: $5 - $10 per group of students
In this lesson, learners will first use computers to research and learn how solar panels convert sunlight into electricity. Next, they will calculate the surface area of solar panels board a satellite and their total power generated in various... (View More) positions of the satellite, given the dimension of the panels. After, learners will organize and write a report summarizing the information about the MMS mission satellites. This activity requires student access to internet accessible computers. This is lesson four of the MMS Mission Educator's Instructional Guide, which uses examples from the mission to introduce mathematics (focusing on geometry) in a real-world context. The lessons use the 5E instructional cycle. Note: MMS launched March 12, 2015. For the latest science and news, visit the MMS Mission Website under Related & Supplemental Resources (right side of this page). (View Less)
This is a book about the importance of the Sun's energy as it relates to its impact on the Earth's environment. Learners will read or listen to a story about a young boy, Joshua, who finds out that the Sun provides the Earth with energy in the... (View More) form of light and heat, which is necessary for all forms of life, for maintaining Earth's environment, and for allowing humans to produce their own forms of energy. Additionally, an extension activity is included, Searching for the Sun, where learners can conduct a hands-on experiment observing how plants grow towards sunlight in order to make conclusions about why the Sun's energy is a necessary component for life. Reading and vocabulary activities are also included. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about the phenomenon of ice and about scientific inquiry. Learners will ask scientific questions about ice, will delve into the nature of science, embark upon scientific inquiry, and will practice scientific enterprise. Activities... (View More) include thinking and acting like scientists and keeping scientific journals. Also includes an activity called "Act Out the Science" - a whole group participatory activity in which students act out the parts of a story. An optional small group version is included in which students act out their own stories. This is the introductory lesson for Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
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Dannell Ellerbe
Why did he leave? Inside linebacker Dannell Ellerbe landed with the Miami Dolphins when he couldn't come to an agreement with the Ravens. Considered one of the top free agent priorities for the Ravens after last season, Ellerbe slipped away to sign a five-year, $35-million deal in March with the Dolphins. Week 7 highlights: Ellerbe continues to be hampered by a shoulder injury. He was inactive in the Dolphins' loss to the Buffalo Bills. Week 6 highlights: Bye Week 5 highlights: Ellerbe was active against his former team before leaving the game with a shoulder injury late in the first quarter of the 26-23 loss to the Ravens. Week 4 highlights: The Dolphins were handed their first loss of the season by the New Orleans Saints on Monday night, losing 38-17. Ellerbe had eight total tackles and a fumble recovery in the loss. Week 3 highlights: Ellerbe has been battling a pectoral injury, but played in Sunday's comeback victory over the Atlanta Falcons. He had 10 total tackles and one quarterback hit in the 27-23 win that helped the Dolphins improve to 3-0. Week 2 highlights: Ellerbe accounted for a team-best 14 total tackles in the Dolphins' 24-20 win over the Indianapolis Colts. Week 1 highlights: Ellerbe was active in the season opener, tying for a team-high six tackles in the Dolphins' 23-10 win over the Cleveland Browns. Ellerbe was part of the pressure applied to Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden, at one point forcing an interception.
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Battle for Energy, Power, Love and Money Rages Again as TNT Starts Production on New Series "Dallas"
TNT began production this week on the first season of the eagerly anticipated new series Dallas, from Warner Horizon Television. J.R., Bobby and Sue Ellen Ewing are all back at Southfork, with plenty of secrets, schemes and betrayals in mind. This time, they're joined by the next generation of Ewings, who take ambition and deception to a new level. The battle for power, love and the control of Southfork will erupt again when TNT premieres the new Dallas next summer.
TNT's Dallas stars Josh Henderson (Desperate Housewives) as J.R. Ewing and Sue Ellen Ewing's son, John Ross, who is determined to undermine his grandmother's legacy by drilling for oil on Ewing land. Jesse Metcalfe (John Tucker Must Die) is Christopher, Bobby's adopted son, who hopes to take the family business in the new direction of alternative energy sources. Jordana Brewster (The Fast and the Furious movies) plays Elena Ramos, John Ross' girlfriend and Christopher's former love. Julie Gonzalo (Veronica Mars) is Rebecca Sutter, Christopher's fiancée, who is trying to find her place in the vast Ewing family tree. And Brenda Strong (Desperate Housewives) is Ann, Bobby's wife, whose beauty and grace are matched by a fierce resolve to maintain peace within the family.
Joining this fresh new cast are the iconic stars from the original Dallas. Larry Hagman is J.R. Ewing, whose plots and schemes over the years have threatened to destroy his entire family. With an increasingly volatile feud now brewing between John Ross and Christopher, the stage is set for J.R. to return to his nefarious ways and rekindle the long-standing rivalry with his younger brother. Patrick Duffy plays Bobby Ewing, the new family patriarch, who will stop at nothing to keep John Ross and Christopher from perpetuating the family battle that tore the Ewings apart for so many years. Linda Gray is Sue Ellen Ewing, John Ross' mother, who hopes to see her son take his rightful position as head of the family.
Shot on location in the title city, Dallas comes to TNT from Warner Horizon Television, with pilot writer Cynthia Cidre and Michael M. Robin serving as executive producers. TNT's Dallas is based upon the series created by David Jacobs.
To launch the start of production, cast members will provide Twitter updates using the hashtag #tntbackontheset.
About Warner Horizon Television
Warner Horizon Television (WHTV) is one of the entertainment industry's leading producers of scripted series for the cable marketplace and primetime reality series for both network and cable. Founded in 2006, this second production entity allows the Warner Bros. Television Group to expand its programming offerings and explore creative options made possible under a new business model. WHTV's current unscripted series are The Voice for NBC, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad and Take the Money and Run for ABC and Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew for MTV. Scripted programs from WHTV are Rizzoli & Isles and the forthcoming Dallas for TNT, Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game for ABC Family and Longmire for A&E.
About TNT
TNT, one of cable's top-rated networks, is television's destination for drama. Seen in 100.5 million households, the network is home to such original series as The Closer, starring Emmy(R) winner Kyra Sedgwick; Rizzoli & Isles, starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander; Falling Skies, starring Noah Wyle; Franklin & Bash, with Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer; Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton; Southland, from Emmy-winning producer John Wells; as well as the upcoming series Major Crimes, Dallas and Perception. TNT also presents compelling original movies, including a slate of thrillers set to premiere this fall in The TNT Mystery Movie Night showcase. TNT is the cable home to powerful dramas like The Mentalist, Bones, Supernatural, Las Vegas, Law & Order, CSI: NY, Cold Case and, starting next year, Castle; primetime specials, such as the Screen Actors Guild Awards(R); blockbuster movies; and championship sports coverage, including NASCAR, the NBA and the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. TNT is available in high-definition.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news; entertainment; animation and young adult; and sports media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.


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The 2010 TiPb Awards are underway and it's time to vote on all your favorite social iPhone/iPad game of the year. You know what we're talking about. The ones where you pwn -- er, share with -- your friends. Where you try to oust them, out grow them, out shoot them, out build them, or just out spell them.
iPhone or iPad, regular, HD version, or universal binary, there are tons of candidates but there can only be one 2010 TiPb Award winner, so vote up in the pole above and then let us know why you chose the favorite you did in comments below. (And if you don't see your favorite here, add it as a write-in as well!)
- Farmville [iTunes link]
- Foursquare [iTunes link]
- NOVA [iTunes link]
- We Rule [iTunes link]
- Words with Friends [iTunes link]
Ready, set, vote!
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A message relay computer relays messages (virus reports, etc.) between computers running Endpoint Security and Control or Sophos Anti-Virus and your management server. Reasons for using a message relay computer include:
The computer that acts as a message relay:
Note: As a guide, a correctly specified and configured message relay with sufficient resources should be capable of supporting 4000 to 8000 endpoints, however, Sophos recommends no more than 5000 endpoints per Message Relay for best performance.
Applies to the following Sophos product(s) and version(s) Enterprise Console
There are three main steps to setting up a message relay:
The procedure listed above must be performed for each message relay to be configured. The detailed instructions for setting up a message relay are listed below.
In order to configure a message relay, you must change some settings in the mrinit.conf file contained in its update location; therefore, each message relay will need a separate Distribution point.
You must create a new distribution point for each package to be deployed; however, the distribution points can share the mrinit.conf file if they will use the same message relay.
The file mrinit.conf contains the router configuration information for the Distribution point. It must be edited to specify the message router's IP address. As the message router settings are identical for all packages in one Distribution point, once edited, you can copy the mrinit.conf file to the other packages in the group.
\\[Server1]\SophosUpdate\CIDs\Sxxx\[package name]
In the above example this could be "ParentRouterAddress"="10.1.200.65,MRComputer.Sales.Acme,MRComputer"
In the above example this could be "ParentRouterAddress"="10.1.200.65,MRComputer.Sales.Acme,MRComputer"
\\[Server1]\SophosUpdate\CIDs\Sxxx\[package name]\rms\
Note: If User Account Control (UAC) is enabled on the computer ensure you open a command prompt as administrator ('Run as administrator') even if you are logged on with an administrative account.
Adding entry for \rms\mrinit.conf
Adding entry for \mrinit.conf
Read catalog file cidsync.upd
Updating checksum
Updating legacy checksum
These lines confirm that the file mrinit.conf was found, and was added to the catalogue of files to be downloaded by Sophos AutoUpdate on your endpoints, and on the message relay computer.
In Enterprise Console:
In Enterprise Console: \\[Server1]\SophosUpdate\
In Enterprise Console: \\[Server1]\SophosUpdate\
Note: If you are using "Sophos" as Secondary update location it is recommended to enable the option "Allow location roaming" to prevent the client from changing the Message Relay configuration as long as it is getting updates from Sophos.
Set up the message relay computer first
Deploy to the endpoint computers
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sophos\Messaging System\Router\ | ParentAddress
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Sophos\Messaging System\Router | ParentAddress
The Sophos Message Routers on the workstations are configured to report to the message relay computer as their parent, rather than directly to the management server. Message relays are thus managed computers which act as parent routers for other computers. However, because a message relay computer is expected to have a potentially large number of connected child routers, server-grade operating systems and hardware are required. The message relay's settings are modified by the process described above in order to handle the increased message load.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\[Wow6432Node]\Sophos\Messaging System\Router] "ConnectionCache"=dword:00005020 "NumSenderThreads"=dword:00000008 "ConnectRetriesPause"=dword:00000064 "TotalConnectRetryTimeSecs"=dword:0000000a "GetterInterval"=dword:00000078 "GetterShortInterval"=dword:00000078 "NumNotificationThresholdThreads"=dword:00000004
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\[Wow6432Node]\Sophos\Messaging System\Router] "NumORBThreads"=dword:00000010
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After turnaround season last year, a deep Lincoln-Sudbury boys tennis team aims for another winning season.
The Lincoln-Sudbury boys tennis team made a major improvement last season. After a 7-9 campaign in 2015, the Warriors rolled to a 14-3 season last year.
That was head coach Jon Murch's third season leading the program, and he saw several elements that contributed to the Warriors' rise to a Dual County League contender.
"Our depth was a real factor," Murch said. "Practices were very challenging as a result. The players worked really hard and the improvement throughout the year was obvious and a big part of it was how competitive practice was. It was also a tight-knit group. They did a great job of fighting hard for each other."
A year later, expectations are just as high for L-S.
That depth that Murch spoke about being so important last season? The Warriors have even more of it now, so much that the coach jokes about putting two varsity squads out there.
"The depth that L-S tennis has this year is amazing," Murch said. "I have 13 legitimate candidates to start and could field two teams in the DCL and be competitive with both. We have easily the most talented team I have coached to date at L-S and have high expectations for the year.
"What I love the most about this group is a nice mix between young players and more experienced players. They are all hard workers who love tennis and as long as we continue to focus each day and on getting better, this is going to be a great season."
Among those experienced players for L-S is Jack Darley, who went undefeated last season. In L-S's season-ending tournament loss to Andover, Darley rallied for a 5-7, 7-5, 10-6 victory to complete his perfect season.
"Jack is an excellent competitor," Murch said. "He never gets nervous in tight situations. It is a testament to his character as an athlete that he could remain undefeated playing both second and third singles last year. He comes back an even better player than last year."
For now, Darley is slotted in as the Warriors' No. 3 singles player. Freshmen Nick Vroman and Matt Campbell are L-S's No. 1 and 2 singles, respectively.
"Nick and Matt are accomplished junior players, highly ranked in New England tennis," Murch said. "We are so happy to add them to our team. They have done a great job of assimilating onto a veteran team."
Senior co-captains Andrew Vroman and Will Tarini make up the team's first doubles team, with sophomore Drew Teitelbaum playing second doubles alongside either junior Kenny Ho or senior Michael Blicher.
"Andrew and Will are exceptional leaders who have done an admirable job of making this such a cohesive team," Murch said. "Andrew and Will are able to keep the entire team focused on our goals as opposed to individual success, it is their leadership that makes this team successful."


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Charlotte Russe
Hours And Locations for Raleigh, North Carolina
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Women's Apparel-Retail
Charlotte Russe is a growing, mall-based specialty retailer of fashionable, value-priced apparel and accessories. We are focused on providing exciting, fashion-forward merchandise that appeals to customers across age and socioeconomic boundaries, with a core emphasis on the lifestyle trends of young women in their teens and twenties. Our stores offer merchandise at value-oriented prices and the majority of our merchandise is sold under our proprietary Charlotte Russe labels, including Charlotte Russe, Refuge and blu Chic. The remainder of our merchandise consists of nationally-recognized brand ...
There are over 500 Charlotte Russe locations in the US.
Charlotte Russe Hours And Locations for Raleigh, North Carolina NC
Women's Apparel-Retail
4325 Glenwood Avenue
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Unlike in-game marriages, real-life marriages can be problematic when video games are involved.
Andrew Allen, a USC film student and a lifelong gamer, acts out these troubles in his latest episode of games versus marriage. Featured is Gears of War, which has undoubtedly ruined many people's social and marriage lives. But Andrew (or, rather, the character he plays) manages to win this round.
Of course if this were me, I'd probably be on the couch with my fictional husband kicking his arse in the game. Or at the very least mocking his attempts. Because video games, that's why.


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- Tickets
- Fan Zone
- Media Zone
- Social
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MACON, Ga. (Oct. 8, 2009) - The ETSU men's soccer team dropped a heartbreak to first place Mercer as the Bucs lost in double overtime to the Bears on Thursday night at Bear Field in Macon, Ga., 1-0.
"We have again played well dominating in possession, defending well and creating numerous chances," said head coach Scott Calabrese. "There is only one solution. We simply must convert our chances."
The Bucs (1-5-3, 0-1-1 A-Sun) outshot the Bears (4-4-2, 3-0-0 A-Sun) in the match 15-8 with seven shots coming on goal. ETSU also had the advantage in corners taking nine on the night, while Mercer only had one. Senior Scott Rosman (
In the first half, the Bucs dominated play as they held Mercer without a shot in the half, while taking seven shots of their own.
Mercer goal keeper Brett Petricek was busy in the half as the Bucs had three good scoring opportunities, but ETSU came away empty handed as the game remained scoreless at the break.
Both teams had good looks in the second half as the Bucs outshot Mercer 5-4 in the period. Neither team was able to get on the board in the half as the game remained 0-0 at the end of regulation.
In the first overtime period, freshman Alesi Osorio (
Mercer got the game winner in the 107th minute as Richie Edmondson knocked a one-timer from Arkenson Neckles past Rosman into the net to make the final 1-0.
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Saturday, 15 May 2010
It was meant to be at 11.45 so I left work, ditched my car and rode my little bicycle to the hospital. First problem - finding bike racks in the damn place. Second problem - finding the ultrasound ward which had recently been moved so none of the signs pointed to the right place. Also every person I asked had a different idea where it was. Anyway, cue a lot of running down corridors and up and down stairs (I think this must be some sort of new way they're getting arthritis patients to exercise!) I find it, all sweaty and out of breath - nice.
I shouldn't have hurried or stressed out because I had to wait almost 2 hours to be seen, but I didn't mind, these things happen. When I actually saw the doctor (not my usual consultant) she was lovely and very thorough and spent about an hour and a half with me. She did both my hands, my right wrist and my right foot (right hand and foot are my biggest problems). There's almost nothing wrong with any of my joints, no erosions or fluid on them. She wasn't sure but she thought there was maybe a tiny bit of synovial thickening on one of my PIP joints on the right hand - the one that started all this trouble anyway so that doesn't surprise me.
Anyway she said it looked 99% well, and taking my clinical symptoms and blood tests and xrays in mind there's no need in her opinion to put me on methotrexate just yet.
She wrote me a perscription for sulphasalazine, starting on Tuesday (when my throat clears up properly - still not quite right!!) Here's a picture of my new best friend:
Hurray - yellow pee, here I come.
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- Anonymous27 May 2010 at 16:02
I think it's wonderful that your doctor spent so much time with you. An hour and a half! In all the time I've had RA, I've never had a single doc spend that sort of time on me. I've also never had ultrasound as a diagnostic tool for RA. It sounds like it could be really useful. Instead, I've had random x-rays of different joints over the years.ReplyDelete
I've been taking sulfasalazine for close to two years now, all without any problems other than the bright yellow pee you mentioned. And that's nothing. I also take Arava. My body seems to tolerate it well, too, except that it DOES make my hair fall out, bit by bit. That's not so nice, but as long as I don't go totally bald, I can deal with it.
The combination of meds has brought the inflammation in my body down considerably, though it's still a lot higher than "normal." My rheumatologist feels that my RA is "under control" and relatively "mild." I'm not sure about the mild part, since my hands are always sore and achy. However, they aren't awful, I can use them, and at this point, no other joints are affected. So I think he's right, even if I'd like to discuss what "mild" means with him.
I hope sulfasalazine helps your RA and eases your pain. And I hope you had a wonderful time in Spain. Can't wait to see your photos!
- Anonymous8 June 2010 at 19:16
I love reading your blog! It is such a source of strength to read about others who are going through similar circumstances. I too have recently started a blog about my journeys with RA @ http://madrewithra.wordpress.com/ReplyDelete
Hope you'll stop by. Keep up the great writing!!


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Ukraine - A Forgotten Generation
Many parents, desperate at their inability to support their families in a failing economy, are increasingly giving up their children to state orphanages. The state structures, however, are often in no better position to care for the children. It is here that the Greek Catholic Church has recently been called upon to help develop and support the failing social structures and to care for and educate the increasing number of orphaned children - this despite Ukraine's strict separation of Church and state.
DVD Title: Ukraine - A Forgotten Generation


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There are just some things I want to get down right now. There was less blogging this year (I know...the spirit just didn't move me, as much, maybe I should set up some kind of schedule.)
Things to Consider about Grading
-go back to 5 point scale
-first assessment - feedback only?
-require that homework be done, checked, discussed, etc before reassessment?
-"show me what you practiced" - you must provide evidence of practice before reassessment. at a minimum, corrections on the two in-class assessments - and the practice problems from that day on the calendar (?)
-summative assessments - all MC questions - every 6-10 weeks
-pare down standards list somehow
-write reassessment questions ahead of time and have them ready
-alternative assessments/reassessments? record themselves solving a problem?
Add to Lessons
-notebook checks and grades for notebook organization
-Discovery Education videos? (we have a subscription, apparently)
-more structure for vocab in geometry
-open notes for quizzes?
-allow single-page crib sheet for quizzes?
-compelling the kids to write more. Don't just tell me the answer, describe how you got it. Describe how you know. Save samples of good and bad writing.
Things I Don't Yet Know the Answer to:
Ways for kids to share their thinking in the middle of class without interrupting the flow too much. Options right now are: 1. Throw whatever they have in front of them under the document camera. Quick but sloppy. They aren't necessarily writing for an audience in their notes. 2. Haul their butts up to the whiteboard to copy what they've already done so everyone can see it. Takes time. That we don't have to spare. 3. Some elegant tech-y solution I haven't thought of yet. (Idea: Poll them early to figure out who has a camera phone on them, and who can text/email an image for free. Go with that.)
Big Overall Thing I Notice about Myself this Year: I used to be the annoying asshole in the group who was always trying to show she was smarter than everyone else. I've turned into the slightly less annoying asshole who's paying attention to actively supporting whatever good is transpiring around her slash shutting up and listening. I like new me a whole lot more than old me.


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Keith Jackson quotes
I haven't made a video since January, when ZFR flipped me the bird and had YouTube block 2/3 of my account. Apparently, compilation videos are fair game as all of them are still up. With that said, I'd like to make one. Ace's Keith Jackson thread made me nostalgic and since he broadcasted more Michigan games than any other school for nearly 3 decades, I thought I would make a vid dedicated to his most memorable quotes during Michigan football games.
To help me out here, I want you all to list your favorite Keith Jackson quotes. Whether they are pregame speak, calls of plays or random funny quotes like the time he said, "Clarence Williams grandmother could have scored that one," when we played Notre Dame in 97. Stuff like that.
And since I'm anti-misery, painful moments are not allowed.
So, list away if you can and I'll go find them.


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Obituary published Nov. 23, 2012 in The Mexico Ledger
Ray Edward Heaton, 67 of Mexico, died unexpectedly Thursday, November 22, 2012 at his home.
Memorial services will be held 2:00 PM Monday at the First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Terry Kukuk officiating. Visitation will follow the service at the church on Monday. Entombment will be in the First Presbyter-ian Columbarium.
Ray was born on January 9, 1945 in Oskaloosa, Iowa the son of Clifford and Kathryn (Boles) Heaton.
On February 3, 1968 in Mexico, Ray married Janet James and she survives.
Ray taught at the Hardin and Mexico Junior High Schools in Mexico for 30 years, where he was a Life Science Teacher. Ray was the head wrestling coach from 1987-1999, he also was a football and track coach. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Mexico, the Optimist Club, the Monday lunch and the Wednesday breakfast groups. Ray also worked for 13 years at Missouri Military Academy.
Along with his wife Janet, Ray is survived by a son, Todd Heaton and wife Malia of Phoenix, AZ; a daughter, Julie Lassere and husband Tracey of Daphne, AL; five grandchildren, twins, Sam and Sophie Heaton, Erin, Ethan, and Ellen Lassere; his mother, Kathryn Heaton of Oskaloosa, IA; mother-in-law, Virginia James of Mexico; sister, Lorraine Blom and husband Rex of Oskaloosa, IA.
Ray was preceded in death by his father, Clifford.
Memorial donations are suggested to the Mexico Wrestling Booster Club in care of Arnold Funeral Home 425 S. Jefferson Mexico, MO 65265.
Condolences at www.arnoldfh.com


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Events throughout the week included Meatless Monday at lunch throughout all the dining halls, free Bike Workshops sponsored by BU Bikes, a screening of the film Earth 2100, and a compost awareness day. (In fact, BU composts much of their waste regularly to Save That Stuff. Read more about what BU Dining Services is doing about food and sustainability here).
Slow Food BU participated in the Earth Day Celebration on the GSU Plaza last Thursday with environmental groups from BU and the Boston area. This year, we teamed up with Fair Trade Boston to bring students free fair trade banana splits, made with fair trade bananas from Equal Exchange and Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Ben & Jerry's aims to expand their full product line to Fair Trade Certified ingredients by 2013 as announced in their press release.
Other groups present at the Earth Day Celebration included BU Dining Services,
BU Bikes (with bike-powered smoothies, of course!), and BU's Organic Gardening Collective, among others.
As always, Earth Day was a great success, and the students and the groups involved in Earth Week learned a lot and had a good time. We look forward to participating again next year!


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ANTARCTICA — It's a National Geographic moment. And we were part of it.
On snow-dusted Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean, just inland from the dark sands of the beach, four of Polar Pioneer's energetic, robust crew members are waist deep in an ice-encased, watery pit, digging frantically. Six young, anxious faces peer from the hole in which they are trapped, their large black eyes, set in wrinkled, whiskered, velvety silver-grey faces, and distressed cries draw a sympathetic crowd of expeditioners.
The bulging round eyes and bleating cry of one particularly chubby southern elephant seal, who is wedged so tight it takes three of the guides, under the guidance of naturalist Santiago Imberti, some time to safely hoist and push to freedom, is heart-rending.
Free at last, his cries cease and he nestles for a moment on the snowy crust with the other releases, before they slowly begin the belly-flop crawl down to the beach, where teenage males — identifiable by their just beginning to grow elephant trunk-like proboscis's — play fight and the rest of their infant herd lolls, sans their mothers, who have returned with the bulls to sea.
Some, like him, have lots of blubber, some less so, but all appear to still have enough weight to survive. Others, less strong, have already died, their withered, decaying carcasses dotting the beach. The juxtaposition of life and death makes the job underway more urgent; more poignant.
Survival of the fittest, Darwin would say. Maybe so, but the 21 weaned seal pups rescued that day were entrapped by an unusual late season snowstorm. When the heat of their bodies melted the snow underneath, they dropped into steep-sided holes more than a metre deep, with no way to get out. Imberti figured they had been trapped for a week to 10 days.
Although the expedition staff briefly debated the ethics of man interfering with nature here on this ice-covered mountainous island in the outer reaches of the South Shetlands off the north coast of Antarctica — and it became fodder for lively discussion back on the ship — not one could imagine leaving the babies to die.
"This is not natural," Imberti explains. "They had no chance."
With the blessing of expedition leader Don McFadzien, ice axes and a shovel were borrowed from the climbing group (their planned climb aborted) and the laborious excavation of the first of three pits commenced.
Along with others in the photography group — another of the three options offered on our Aurora Expeditions' Antarctic Peninsula Voyage — I click madly, trying to capture the drama of this amazing rescue, while some other passengers assist, taking turns digging the creatures out.
The seals, once nearly extinct from hunting, are not the first beings to be rescued on Elephant Island. Twenty-two men from Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance expedition were marooned here for four months in 1916, while Shackleton journeyed to South Georgia for help.
As one by one, the pups are freed, I am deeply touched. The emotions of all I have experienced over the last days come welling up, like a cork released from champagne.
I'm awed by the pristine icescape of Earth's southernmost continent and the raw, tenacious nature that somehow survives here in this wild, remote place. I have seen the world almost as it was before mankind.
There among the migratory gentoo penguins, elephant seals and nesting seabirds, all of whom are unafraid of humans, I cry hot, happy tears.
It is our last landfall and, for me, No. 1 of many highlights during our 10-night expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula's west coast.
I had no idea what to expect when I boarded the ice-strengthened Polar Pioneer on a chilly, blustery holiday Monday late November in frontier town Ushuaia, Argentina — the southernmost city in the world — with 49 intrepid adventurers, ranging in age from 20s to 70s, from Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the United States and Canada, Western expedition staff and Russian crew.
"Put your expectations aside and make the most of what we have," leader McFadzien advised, warning he never sticks to plan. "The expedition philosophy is things will change. Weather and sea ice make big calls."
Indeed, from the get-go, weather did when the port was closed due to wind, delaying our departure by an hour.
Along with the sailing away excitement, passengers shared some trepidation as the 1,000-km-wide Drake Passage, known as the roughest sea crossing in the world, lay ahead. Seasickness was probable (turns out I was fine, but green passengers were cared for by kindly Dr. John).
Crossing the Antarctic Convergence — a borderline between the cold Antarctic and relatively warm South Atlantic waters — air and water temperatures slightly fell and a first iceberg sighting contest was on. The first was indeed exciting, though it wasn't the stereotypical towering pyramid, but rather a huge snowy chunk drifting on the grey sea, just visible through low cloud.
At last, after a slow crossing due to weather, we arrived in Antarctica on the third day. The excitement was palpable as those of us in the kayaking group donned loads of gear, including a dry suit, the climbers geared up, and the rest piled into zodiacs to land at Hydrurga Rocks, where they were greeted by two gentoos atop an iceberg and chinstrap penguins nesting on rocky slabs free of snow.
Meanwhile, getting off the ship's stern deck into our kayaks was an adventure in agility and balance. First was a scamper down a rope ladder into a bobbing zodiac and then, with kayaking guide Al Bakker's help, over the gunwale into the kayak which he steadied. Next came the battle, with chilly fingers, to fasten the spray skirt. Nevertheless, three of 11 kayakers were golden year go-getters.
Once underway, our group found the rhythm that unites paddler and water. It was magical gliding through bobbing brash ice — which sounded like chinking ice in a cocktail glass as we bumped through it — and among sculpted holographic blue and white icebergs rippled with all kinds of textures.
After a brief, chilly stop to snap our first penguin photos, we rounded the islet straight into 1.5-metre waves. They tested our mettle; the only challenging conditions encountered in four days of paddling. When solo kayaker Nick became the trip's first polar plunger (willing passengers later went for a dip), the zodiac rescue was impressively speedy.
Paddles, two or three times daily, on millpond seas with visibility divers dream of, through the mirrored reflections of snow-capped mountains and dwarfing grey glaciers, which occasionally calved with startling cracks, were simply ethereal. Hauling out on ice under a sunny, blue sky for a hot chocolate break with unperturbed Weddell seals snoozing nearby and curious penguins was an unforgettable highlight.
Other high points included our first landing on the Antarctic Continent at Portal Point; the bowing, Tete-à-Tete courtship display of mating gentoo penguins and the rock-stealing shenanigans of nest-building males; the historic museum at research station Port Lockroy, from where we stamped our passports and sent postcards home (took seven weeks to arrive); a crazy hat barbecue party on deck while anchored in an idyllic, sun splashed bay; zodiac "bronco riding"; and, for some, sleeping on the ice in near endless daylight.
Enduring friendships were the most unexpected. Never have I seen a group stay so in touch, sharing photos, videos and gifts of Blue-Ray DVDs and photographic posters.
For many, like Peter Ryan, who patiently waited 50 years for his dream, Antarctica is a trip-of-a-lifetime. For others, it changes their life.
"The trip leaves ripples in my soul that will affect forever my life going forward," says Australian Hague Showell; adding, "I have already made some long overdue changes since my return."
If you go to Antarctica with Aurora Expeditions
Getting there:
Fly to Buenos Aires, Argentina by commercial flight, then to Ushuaia. I had trouble with my booking with United Airlines with no apology offered. Aurora can arrange flights and provides travel planning assistance. A valid passport is necessary.
About Aurora Expeditions:
Aurora Expeditions, based in Australia, is a pioneer in adventure expedition cruising to Antarctica, the European Arctic and Australia's Kimberley Coast.
Polar Pioneer carries 54 passengers, allowing more intimate encounters with wildlife and lessening impact on regions visited. Voyages are led by a team of expert naturalists, geologists, historians, staff and crew. Polar itineraries are flexible, innovative and subject to change due to weather conditions, currents and pack ice.
Antarctic voyages range from 10 to 20 days, November through March. Drake Passage one-way sail/fly trips are offered. Free or additional cost options (kayaking, alpine climbing, photography and overnight camping) are available on some voyages.
Aurora is committed to environmentally responsible practices. It is a founding Australian member of the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators and supports research, donates funds and allocates resources to leave places as they found them, or better. Passengers are schooled on environmental responsibilities and attend lectures highlighting wildlife and ecosystems.
Visit auroraexpeditions.com.au
About kayaking with Southern Sea Ventures:
Former Vancouverite Al Bakker is the owner of Southern Sea Ventures in Australia, which operates Aurora's kayaking expeditions for experienced paddlers.
The company also offers trips to the Arctic, Europe, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, Asia and Panama.
Buenos Aires travel tips:
As it's necessary to fly via Argentina's capital, most passengers spend time here. A highly recommendable local tour operator that assisted with my three-day visit is Say Hueque, which bills itself as the agency for independent travelers to Argentina and Chile. A private tour using public transportation revealed interesting history, brought the city to life and helped me understand what it is that makes Buenos Aires special and unique. I was also provided an excellent printed miniguide. SayHueque.com
Hotel Tres65 Concept downtown, like a large, affordable New York City loft apartment, was an unexpected quiet haven. tres65concept.com.ar
As tango is a classic institution here, treat yourself to the tango/dinner show at Tango Porteño tangoporteno.com.ar


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Tyler, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/02/2014 -- Despite a slowly but steadily recovering economy, statistics from the financial sector indicate at least 25 percent of American families have yet to gain any ground against the effects of the recent recession, a facet clearly reflected in their credit scores. Though many of these struggling families are merely victims of circumstance, their current financial standings have a negative impact on many aspects of their lives. Medical facilities, traditional lending institutions and employers are only a few of those who frown upon a poor credit history.The J.D. Byrider, the nation's largest used car and finance franchise enterprise, is well aware of these conditions.
Founded in 1989 with the mission to help those with credit challenges, this company has built one of the most extensive dealer-carried used car financing programs in the nation. As the latest step in their ongoing efforts to better serve the public, the company has launched a campaign to help its franchises further educate those with credit problems on budgeting for a used vehicle purchase.A representative from the company's Tyler, Texas franchise stated, "While we want to pair each of our customers with a quality vehicle that meets their needs, we also realize selling them a car they can't afford will do more harm than good.
Unlike many used car dealerships, we sit down with our prospective customers and discuss a number of aspects of their finances. Once we determine how much they can comfortably afford to spend on a vehicle, we introduce them to the selection we have in their price range."According to the company's website, the budgeting process begins with tallying household income, including earned income as well as child support, disability payments and other relevant sources. How often the applicant receives this income is also taken into consideration. From this initial amount, other monthly expenses are deducted.
These include everything from rent or mortgage, electric and gas bills, credit card payments, insurance to any child support or alimony the applicant is responsible for paying.The family's typical monthly allotment for food and other necessities is also subtracted. Finally, a disposable income amount for recreational purposes is taken into account. The figure remaining after these primary expenses are subtracted is considered the amount the applicant is able to spend on monthly vehicle payments. The amount the customer provides for down payment will also affect payments.The spokesperson concluded, "In many cases, we are able to find a vehicle for customers on the same day they apply for financing. We take measures to ensure our customers are able to purchase a dependable vehicle without putting themselves in a financial bind or having to sacrifice the occasional movie night or amusement park visit. As an added bonus, we report to the major credit bureaus, so those eligible for a bad credit auto loan who make their monthly payments on time can begin to work on making their credit better. It can definitely be a step in the right direction."
About J.D. Byrider
With 158 dealerships in 33 states, J.D. Byrider is America's leading used car and dealer-carried financing franchise. The company has sold more than 1 million vehicles and intends to carry on this tradition of putting customers in position to take charge of making their credit better while enjoying a reliable and affordable vehicle.


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DailyDirt: Studying Advertising As A Science...?
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
There's a quote attributed to John Wanamaker that goes: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Marketing analytics is getting better all the time, but it's still pretty hard to pin down what really works. (At least the traveling salesman problem has a brute force approach!) Here are just a few interesting links about advertising.
- Sex sells. Here's a project that aims to prove it by advertising to monkeys. Photoshopping the ideal female monkey form must be a pretty weird job... [url]
- There's some research that suggests that the special status of fine art could be lost if used in advertising carelessly. Yah, like when I first heard The Beatles' Revolution in a Nike commercial. [url]
- Authenticity is important -- even to a Nazi. Psychologist Paul Bloom talks about how we're all essentialists at TED and mentions how kids could think veggies are tastier if they're included in a Happy Meal. [url]
- To discover more interesting advertising-related content, check out what's floating around on StumbleUpon. [url]


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Young at heart, or wild and free, we are the original GIVE-BACK-PACKERS
An award winning fresh approach to epic adventure travel!
This is YOUR world. Let's explore it together!
A fresh approach to adventure travel. With 14 years of experience in group tours and volunteering, we have perfected the art of combining adventure with giving-back. Everything we do, everywhere we go, we leave a positive footprint (have a positive impact) whilst ensuring that you have a great time.
Volunteer with Bamboo and join any of our projects across the planet. Choose to support elephant or sea turtle welfare, teach English to kids who need it, build and repair schools that have no outside help, install drinking water systems in to slum communities, and much more. Wherever there's a need, there's a way.
"We're not just a travel company, we're a collection of people and ideas. Every single step we take we ensure we make a difference to both community and you, our intrepid explorer! Why can't adventure travel be EPIC and give-back at the same time?
Since 2002 we have led that many epically-awesome adventure travelers and placed that many big-hearted volunteers around the world!
That's a hell'uva lot of blood, sweat and blisters that our volunteers have spent working with our grassroots community organisation. (Based on an average placement of 5 weeks at 30 hours per week).
We have raised US$ 2,457,493.14 for nutrition, education, infrastructure and sustainability projects.
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Dolphins at Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at the Mirage are apparently taking to painting like, well, a fish to water. A "Painting With the Dolphins" program may sound like a "Saturday Night Live" spoof, but the trainers insist it's real -- and therapeutic.
For $199 per person, visitors to Las Vegas can interact with the intelligent animals that put paintbrush to canvas to create abstract works of art. Holding dolphin-friendly paintbrushes in their mouths, they stroke away as poolside participants hold the canvases in place. Guests choose a canvas color and three hues of paint.
As strange as it seems, this curious, only-in-Vegas attraction apparently provides much-needed exercise.
"Our primary goal at the Dolphin Habitat is to ensure the highest quality of care, which includes high levels of physical and mental stimulation for the animals each and every day," Philip Admire, who oversees the dolphins' well-being, said in a statement.
"Our 'Painting With the Dolphins' program creates another avenue to mentally challenge and engage our dolphins with their trainers while providing guests with an unforgettable experience."
Participants get to take home their one-of-a-kind paintings. They also receive a souvenir photo and a certificate of authenticity, just in case friends find it hard to believe that Flipper created the masterpiece. More of the unusual paintings are also for sale in the gift shop.


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Videolectures.net is a company that has taken on the job of videotaping and packaging conference talks. They're based out of Slovenia, and offer a good service: they take your talk and your slides, and sync up the talk video and slides so someone watching later on can follow along.
For examples, you can see my talk at ETVC, and here are the other talks. I first heard about this company when I was googling a paper and discovered that the ICML talk was online.
I originally thought that they only handle events in Europe, but they appear to have covered this year's KDD as well (although the coverage appears strangely limited).


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5 Refreshing Summer Sips with Rosemary
Want to jazz up your non-alcoholic drinks like sparkling water, iced tea, and lemonade? Add a sprig or two of aromatic rosemary. These five beverages are a little bit herbal, a little bit sweet, and very refreshing.
1. Sparkling Rosemary Limeade: A punchy drink with an herbal note from rosemary, and just enough sugar to keep it from being mouth-puckering.
2. Rosemary Citrus Spritzer: Serve this soda as an alternative to mimosas at brunch, or sip outside on a warm afternoon.
3. Peach and Rosemary Spritzer: For a non-alcoholic version, replace the white or rose wine with sparkling water or white grape juice. (via Martha Stewart)
4. Honey-Rosemary Lemonade: Fresh rosemary adds dimension to lemonade, especially one made with honey. (via Oprah)
5. Iced Tea with Rosemary Simple Syrup: Simple syrup isn't just for cocktails — use it to sweeten iced tea and other cold drinks.
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1860 US Census
1860 United States Census
The 1860 United States census was the eighth census in the United States and is the second census to include and name all persons living in each household. The official enumeration day was June 1, 1860. Unfortunately, as in the 1850 census, the census questionnaire did not indicate the relationships between each member of the household. There could therefore be brothers and sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, etc., living with the families that would not be readily identifiable.
Images used in this transcriptions were originally copied from National Archives and Records Administration microfilm, number M653 (1438 rolls). 1860 images and index were provided by Ancestry.com.
Items included on the 1860 census form were as follows: name, age as of the day of the census, sex, color, birthplace, occupations of those over 15, real estate value, marriage within the previous year, whether blind, deaf, dumb, insane, paupers or convicts.
A total of thirty-three states were enumerated, with Minnesota and Oregon being added since the 1850 census. Unlike previous census records, there were no district or state-wide losses.
The 1860 census included a total of 4398 Titus and other, possibly related, names. Some with other than Titus surnames were included in this transcription if it was considered that they may have been related. Images could not be found for Kansas Territory families 5, 6 and 7.


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Lower Job Churn Hurts Young Workers
Job-Hopping Can Boost Résumés, Lifetime Pay
Quitting a job often can be a good thing. But not enough workers have been doing it.
During and after the recession, the U.S. economy has been too weak for many workers to undertake the sort of job-hopping that economists say is critical to building careers and advancing the nation's long-run growth prospects. The consequence: Even many Americans who have remained employed have stunted their earnings growth by staying pinned down to their current jobs....


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Guests who come inside any of Malibu Tan's many locations are greeted with a handshake. Though that might seem like an old-school approach to customer service, Malibu Tan's owner encourages it as a genuine way for his staff to connect with each client and provide them with customized services. For more than 15 years, Malibu's friendly staffers have also connected with higher-profile clients—including the Houston Dymano Girls team—by helping them choose the best of each facility's tanning options for their skin types. With UV tanning, regardless of whether a client prefers a supine or standup system, they are bound to get a strong tan, as all UV bulbs are changed 200 hours before they hit capacity. There are also plenty of UV-free options such as VersaSpa sunless tanning, which darkens exteriors with a hydrating DHA-based solution. Each location also offers tan-enhancing products from Designer Skin and California Tan.


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2018 F-150 SuperCrew Cab 4x4, Pickup (Stock #FD58476)
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4X4, 10-Way Power Driver & Passenger Seats, 110V/400W Outlet, 2-Bar Style Grille w/Chrome 2 Minor Bars, 4.2" Productivity Screen in Instrument Cluster… , 4-Wheel Disc Brakes, 4x4 FX4 Off-Road Bodyside Decal, ABS brakes, Air Conditioning, Auto-Dimming Rear-View Mirror, Brake assist, Chrome Door & Tailgate Handles w/Body-Color Bezel, Chrome Step Bars, Class IV Trailer Hitch Receiver, Cloth 40/20/40 Front Seat, Electronic Stability Control, Equipment Group 302A Luxury, Extended Range 36 Gallon Fuel Tank, Fixed Backlight w/Privacy Glass, Front fog lights, Fully automatic headlights, FX4 Off-Road Package, Heated Front Seats, Hill Descent Control, Illuminated entry, Integrated Trailer Brake Controller, Leather-Wrapped Steering Wheel, Off-Road Tuned Front Shock Absorbers, Panic alarm, Power Glass Heated Sideview Mirrors, Power steering, Power windows, Power-Adjustable Pedals, Pro Trailer Backup Assist, Radio: Single-CD/SiriusXM w/7 Speakers, Rear Under-Seat Storage, Rear Window Defroster, Remote keyless entry, Remote Start System, Reverse Sensing System, Security system, Single-Tip Chrome Exhaust, Speed control, Speed-sensing steering, Spray-In Bedliner (Pre-Installed), Steering wheel mounted audio controls, SYNC, SYNC 3, Tachometer, Tailgate Step w/Tailgate Lift Assist, Telescoping steering wheel, Tilt steering wheel, Traction control, Trailer Tow Package, Upgraded Front Stabilizer Bar, Voice-Activated Touchscreen Navigation System, Wheels: 20" Chrome-Like PVD, XLT Chrome Appearance Package. XLT 5.0L V8 Ti-VCT Magma RedWhy Mullinax Ford of Olympia? Getting your next vehicle from Mullinax is car buying the way it should be: fun, informative and fair.Here are our promises:* Our Best Price First, Pure and Simple* Commission Free, Information Rich Sales People* One Massive Inventory* Comprehensive Service* No Hassle Sell or Trade Any Car* Pressure Free Road TestNo Hassle, No Haggle, Up Front Pricing - A NEW Way of Purchasing a Vehicle! Price includes: $3,500 - Retail Customer Cash. Exp. 04/01/2019, $500 - VIN Specific Select Inventory Retail Customer Cash. Exp. 04/01/2019, $1,500 - Bonus Customer Cash. Exp. 04/01/2019, $1,250 - Special Package Retail Customer Cash. Exp. 02/28/2019
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You might expect that after being repeatedly overrun by hordes of the undead in recent years, we'd need a break. At some point, vampires and zombies will have been bled dry as a cultural resource. But the undead are notoriously hard to kill off, in part because they're useful tools to think with.
Vampires tend to be elite, foreign, rich, queer, and intellectual. Zombies, by contrast, tend to be lumpen, local, poor, gruntingly conventional in their desires, and stupid. Vampires are cartoonish one-percenters, in other words, and zombies are cartoonish ninety-niners. If whenever you see a vampire you think "elite" and whenever you see a zombie you think "the masses," even splatter-by-numbers genre exercises can get more interesting.
Take, for instance, the movie "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter," which opens Friday. It employs a clever premise — interweaving known facts of Lincoln's life with the story of a secret war against a vampire cabal — to set up a number of scenes in which our axe-virtuoso of a 16th president takes out acrobatic foes, producing elegant stop-motion gouts of dark blood.
Timur Bekmambetov, who directed, has clearly paid attention to Hong Kong action movies. His Lincoln fantasy's loopy inventiveness, loosey-goosey plotting, and spectacle-above-all priorities turn Abe into an American cousin of Wong Fei-hung, the Chinese folk hero who battles colonialist outlanders in kung fu movies. It took a director from Kazakhstan to point out the kinship between the two iconic figures.
All that stylishness might distract you from the movie's truly astonishing move, which is to use vampires to somehow let Americans off the hook for slavery. It reimagines Abe's great achievement as exposing and defeating the invisible and parasitical foreign ruling class that imported slavery, and sending its remnants scuttling "back to Europe." As a problem of vampiric origin, slavery becomes a taint imposed from outside and above, which can be excised from the American body politic by a regular guy with an axe who rises up from under.
Seth Grahame-Smith, who adapted the screenplay from his own novel, is also the author of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," another novel no doubt soon to be a major motion picture. (I'm not entirely convinced that there is such a person, by the way. I mean, yes, there's a guy originally named Seth Greenberg who grew up in the suburbs of New York, went to Emerson College, and wrote "The Big Book of Porn," "The Spider-Man Handbook," and "How to Survive a Horror Movie" before hitting the jackpot with his zombie and vampire mash-ups. But "Seth Grahame-Smith" could just as plausibly be the name of a data-mining program that trolls popular culture for market-tested material to recombine into product, processing our undead-overpopulated zeitgeist into narrative sausage links.)
Grahame-Smith's Austen vs. zombies novel derives most of its kick from juxtaposing high and low. As a literary send-up, it forces canonical literature and schlock to meet cute. And as a comedy of manners, it has fun forcing Austen's characters, so sharply attuned to niceties of status and ever-alert for an advantageous marital match, to confront shambling subhumans who lust only for human flesh.
The undead are, it turns out, particularly good for thinking about class. There's a left-critique strain in the tradition: think of zombies besieging the mall in "Dawn of the Dead," a slapstick lampoon of consumer culture. And zombie stories also have a strong right-vigilante theme: If the proper relationship to others is to blow their brains out when they trespass on your property to eat you, then the prudent individualist should stockpile firepower and forget about appealing to the state for help.
You can see, then, why it wouldn't do to sic Abe on zombies. We don't want to watch our greatest man-of-the-people president slaughter the people. But he's perfect for dispatching depraved aristos from elsewhere who are secretly responsible for everything bad that ever happened in America.
Speaking of which, an election year occasions a major uptick in paint-by-numbers genre exercises of all sorts, especially those that offer us equipment for thinking about elites and masses. Between action movies and campaign ads, hordes of cartoonish monsters are closing in on all sides.Carlo Rotella is director of American studies at Boston College. His column appears regularly in the Globe.


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Fall is the season when Canadians think most about finishing their basements and while installing a bathroom down there is usually a necessary part of the plan, it can also be a big challenge, too. At least it is when gravity isn't on your side. The need for a bathroom where large drain pipes don't already exist below the floor is a common problem, but a Canadian company is solving this difficulty around the world.
All bathrooms with toilets need three-or four-inch pipes that slope downward so waste water drains away, but many basements have sewage pipes that exit the basement up above the floor.
Even installing a bathroom in an above-ground room is a pain if big, black pipes weren't installed originally.
But imagine the possibilities offered by a toilet that reliably drains through nothing larger than a ¾-inch diameter pipe. And imagine if this toilet system could also pump its own waste water uphill, to wherever the nearest drain pipe exists.
One company that's been making this trick happen is Saniflo (saniflo.ca; 800-363-5874). They began in the early 1960s, and I've watched their development over the last 15 years.
What I hadn't seen until last year is how their systems work on a mechanical level. How is it possible to hook a toilet to a drain that's 95-per-cent smaller than the usual pipe used to handle the waste water? How is it possible to reliably pump waste water up to drain pipes? What I discovered after taking a Saniflo unit apart in my shop is an impressive example of heavy-duty simplicity.
The heart of the system is the macerating unit. Think of it like a fully enclosed blender. A specially designed, six-litre-per-flush porcelain toilet connects to the macerating unit, with additional ports for accepting 1½-inch and two-inch drain lines from a sink and shower.
Inside the macerator is an oil-filled, motorized assembly that unbolts from inside the reservoir after opening it up. A pair of thick blades spins over the intake ports of the unit, slicing everything to smithereens before pumping it out via the spinning action of the blades themselves. I apologize for this less-than-pretty image, but all the dirty work happens behind the scenes, completely enclosed. No one ever sees it. While it's true that macerating operation is noisier than a conventional flush toilet, the sound only happens for a short time after flushing.
Installing a full bathroom without pre-existing pipes requires a few externally mounted sections of ¾-inch diameter pipe on the inside face of bathroom walls connecting the toilet, sink and shower to the macerating unit. These need to be sloped the standard ¼-inch of drop for every 12 inches of horizontal run, but that's it.
The model I looked at is strong enough to lift waste water 18 feet up, while also driving it horizontally anywhere from 60 to 240 feet. That's way more than would ever be required in any home, no matter how large.
Even though only a small hole is needed through a foundation wall for a Saniflo system, the work of making this hole is still more challenging than boring through wood. If you're doing the work yourself, rent a tool called a rotary hammer. It's like an electric jack hammer that vibrates the drill bit as well as rotating it. A tool like this makes short work of drilling through any kind of masonry foundation wall, either blocks or solid, poured concrete.
Building a bathroom without big, pre-existing, sloped drains demands more expensive, more technically complicated hardware than an ordinary toilet, shower and sink. But when the only option is this or nothing, it's good to know that today's technology delivers more choices than ever.
Steve Maxwell, syndicated home-improvement and woodworking columnist, has shared his DIY tips, how-to videos and product reviews since 1988. Follow him at SteveMaxwell.ca, on Facebook or on Twitter @Maxwells_Tips.
Basement bathroom now easier to install
Fall is the season when Canadians think most about finishing their basements and while installing a bathroom down there is usually a necessary part of the plan, it can also be a big challenge, too. At least it is when gravity isn't on your side. The need for a bathroom where large drain pipes don't already exist below the floor is a common problem, but a Canadian company is solving this difficulty around the world.