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A 135-pound women's bout between Amanda Nunes (6-1 MMA, 1-0 SF) and Julie Kedzie (16-8 MMA, 0-0 SF) has been scratched from this month's "Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum" event.
A foot injury forced Nunes off the June 18 card.
Kedzie tweeted her disappointment over the news, which MMADiehards.com first reported. MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) could not confirm if Kedzie will remain on the card with a new opponent.
"Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum" takes place at American Airlines Center in Dallas, and the night's main card airs live on Showtime. Nunes vs. Kedzie was slated for the HDNet-televised preliminary card.
Nunes, a Brazilian who fought throughout the country, recently made his her U.S. and Strikeforce debut and posted a stunning 14-second knockout of Julia Budd at Strikeforce Challengers 13. Her six-fight win streak made her one of the organization's top female prospects.
Kedzie, a Greg Jackson-trained fighter who turned pro in 2004, is one of women's MMA's most experienced fighters. The EliteXC and BodogFIGHT vet currently is riding a four-fight win streak (all via decisions), which included wins over notables Kaitlin Young and Sarah D'Alelio. Since a 2007 loss to Gina Carano, Kedzie has posted an 8-2 record.
For more on "Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum," stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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Remember MTV and the music video? And no I'm not talking about YouTube I'm talkin about the good ole music stations back when they played music. Well here's a dozen videos that you either should have already seen or didn't hear about. Check them all and find the gems of the video world, both from the mainstream and the underground, check em out and you won't regret it. Note: these are in no particular order.
Slick Rick- "Street Talkin" Ft Outkast. . This video-song combo was and could still be my favorite of all time. Slick leaves the pen and gets picked up...by himself, and takes himself on an ashy to classy mission while cruising in a drop top. Add the quick cuts to 1990's styled Outkast...classic.
Wu Tang Clan- "Gravel Pit". . The Wu meets the Flinstones to create an epic scene from 2,000,000 B.C. The Clan plays Bobby Boulders, Joe Quarry, Frank Stoney, Lex Rockhead, Stonefingers and Bo Rockhard all spitting on one of the craziest sets ever created for a video shoot. This is the most unique video in Hip-Hop history with CGI dinosaurs and ancient-ninja fighting scenes while still being able to throw in the diamonds and furs we know and love. .
Trick Daddy- "I'm A Thug".
Trick Daddy - I'm A Thug (Official Music Video). Watch more top selected videos about: Trick Daddy. Here we have another great video concept and one of the funniest hip hop videos to this day. Trick's thuggery wreaks havoc on his bougie chick, her fam and neighborhood. He even orders chicken to the country club making one of the most memorable moments in any music video. Sh*t still cracks me up a decade later. Check out the 2:50 mark if you want a quick laugh. .
Cam'Ron- "Oh Boy". . This video was true turn of the millenium swag from start to finish. Dame Dash's funny ass intro sets the tone for this classic vid full of cameos and NYC streets. This was Dipset's true prime. They showed everyone why you aint sh*t if you're not in Lambos, Rarris or if you're pouring your own cereal. .
Obie Trice- "Got Some Teeth". . Okie dokie Obie's here on the list with an all-too often forgotten banger and hilarious video. If you know the song you can figure how funny the video's gonna be. Obie goes on a special edition of the game show 'Dream Date.' Obie's sippin the whole time doing work on his blind dates until he wakes up to find out what? You guessed it, no teeth. Check the animations and the Em cameo as the bartender. .
Ghostface Killah- "Cherchez La Ghost". . If we wanted we really could make this list straight through Wu and its members, but we like variety. In this Ghost classic he shows us a real party and the og Hangover morning, before anyone knew who Galifiankis was (or could pronounce his name at least). You gotta give it up for Ghost's wardrobe too, every outfit is more over the top than the last, swag. .
Redman- "I'll Bee Dat". . Redman at his finest, wylin out with fat b*tches, stealing cars and putting his own spin on just about every commercial product you see on TV. Every scene is dumb funny, and that scene with chick on the bike at the 2:15 mark is classic. Pure comedy with a dope track in this one. .
L.E.P. Bogus Boys- "Trading Places". . This video changes up the pace from comedy to drama. The Low End Professionals song is a script and the video a movie. The directing really makes you think you're watching a film, especially with the Bogus Boys telling the story in the song. When the video ends you'll be wondering what happens next and probably watch it again. I wonder if this is really a true story of theirs or another story thats simply "based" on a true one, either way sh*t' is dope. .
Rad Omen- "Rad Anthem". . Alright so this aint hip-hop but it is one of the best, funniest, well shot and creative videos I've ever seen. Watch this video and see how Ronald McDonald, Colonel Sanders, Jack In The Box, the Burger King and Wendy (played by Nick Swardson) get down after the food chains close. This video has it all, girls, bar fights, drugs, drinking and just general raging. .
Team Facelift- "Sexual Perversions". . I don't know what it is about this video that gets me everytime, oh wait yea I do, dope girls and Fat Jew being funny as sh*t, giving Ghostface a run for his money on the outfit game. The directing is great too with some trippy effects and great cinematography. We also get to see one of the best lines in the song happen on screen, it has to do with Bombay, watch to find out. .
Pharoahe Monch- "Clap (One Day)". . Once again we're switching it up to that drama-movie feel with Pharoahe Monch's "Clap." I don't know if this can be considered a music video when its ten minutes long and has real actors in it (like Chris from The Wire) but its dope from start to finish. Pharoahe depicts a police raid gone wrong in epic proportions. Gotta love seeing Po's catchin a bad rap in any medium. .
A Dozen Music Videos To Know and Love. A collection of classic music videos.

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Accellera is proud to sponsor two awards programs annually:
- Accellera Leadership Award - The Accellera Leadership Award is given to an individual who has provided active leadership and contributed significantly in the vision of EDA and IP standards development activities and the governance of Accellera Systems Initiative (and/or its precedent organizations).
The recipient of the Accellera Leadership Award is recognized at the Accellera breakfast at the Design Automation Conference.
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Withnail & I, Booze or Boots, 1986
This beautiful print is taken from the cult British film, 'Withnail & I'. First call for the world's most influential film makers and directors, Murray close was invited to shoot the cast and crew during filming.
Of 'Withnail & I' in 1986.
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First call for the world's most influential film makers and directors, Murray close was invited to shoot the cast and crew during filming of 'Withnail & I' in 1986. The resulting images are a joyous and revealing collection.
About the Photographer
Working for Stanley Kubrick on 'the shining' in 1978 was the beginning of an illustrious career that has lasted for over 35 years and continues to this day. It was over the course of these three years that Murray Close worked with Kubrick that Stanley's sense of composition and style influenced his work from then on. Forging a career as a renowned stills and specialist photographer, Close established very early on strong links within the film industry and became first call to esteemed directors and filmmakers.
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Hello Kitty restaurant is terribly cute and its food just terrible
Hello Kitty-fans might be the world's most spoiled travelers as the tourism industry seems determined to build a complete service chain out of that five-apple-tall bobtail cat.
Taiwan's Eva Air flies a fleet of five Hello Kitty airplanes. Dubai houses a posh Hello Kitty spa. Anji, a county some 220 kilometers southwest of Shanghai, is building a US$200 million Hello Kitty theme park (scheduled to open in 2014).
And now in Beijing, a Hello Kitty-themed restaurant is creating a lot of new buzz.
'Couples come here to propose'
Located in an upmarket shopping mall in Sanlitun, Hello Kitty Dreams opened its doors to much fanfare in December last year.
According to the restaurant's staff, the Sanrio-licensed business is the first Hello Kitty-themed restaurant in Asia.
"When we first opened you had to book days in advance," says restaurant manager Ted Chen. "We were packed from when we opened at 11 a.m. everyday."
Couples make up a large part of the restaurant's clientèle.
"The most exciting thing is when couples come here to propose," says Chen.
"Men think that this will be a memorable place for the proposal, and so far all the women have said yes," he continues.
Singer and actress Sarah Wang is the CEO of the restaurant. Wang, only 25, said in an earlier interview that Hello Kitty Dreams is targeting at female customers aged between 15 and 35.
More on CNN: Video guide to Beijing's best street foods
Cuteness overcharge
The restaurant seats approximately 70 people and is bursting with Hello Kitty paraphernalia.
There is a Hello Kitty sink and mirror, pink cat-shaped dining booths, and toys are arranged on every surface with a huge, multi-tiered pyramid of stuffed animals at the restaurant's entrance.
Waiter Wang Bing has been working at the restaurant since its grand opening.
"I had other options for work, but I chose this job because I find Hello Kitty really interesting," he explains. "My friends don't think it's weird that I'm a guy and work here; they know it's just my job."
One of the diners at the restaurant is Cao Ning, a 36-year-old male international trade manager.
"I take my female colleagues here for lunch sometimes because I know they grew up with Hello Kitty and still enjoy it," he says.
Meanwhile, his three female fellow diners, in their 20s, collapse into fits of child-like giggles, admitting they still buy Hello Kitty souvenirs, such as mobile phone cases and cosmetic bags.
The food
The menu at the Hello Kitty restaurant is an eclectic mix of both Asian and Western fare, featuring roasted meats, soups, salads, sandwiches, pizzas, pastas, fried rice and curries.
Waiter's recommendation is the cheese baked chicken chop (RMB 58, or US$9.3) with sides of pasta, French fries, and vegetables moulded in the shape of Kitty's face.
But this was a disappointment -- the chicken looks gray and tastes stringy, the cheese is solidified, and tepid spaghetti sauce tastes like it came straight from a can.
More on CNN: This Peking duck video made us really, really hungry
Secured with cute Hello Kitty toothpicks, the mini burgers (RMB 88) weren't much better, with stale buns and a selection of four bland fillings -- beef, chicken, fish, and tomato and mozzarella.
The Hello Kitty Homemade Ice Cream (RMB 36), on the other hand, provides a tasty end to an otherwise terrible meal. A concoction of fluorescent fruit loops and layers of whipped cream, the ice cream was creamy, refreshing, and actually tasted homemade.
The pink-overload restaurant is also extremely popular with families, with plenty of toys for sale and an arts and crafts section full of kids.
When we ask six-year-old girl Jiang Yichen if she has been excited to come, her mother sheepishly admits that it has been her idea to bring the family for lunch as she was quite the Hello Kitty fan herself.
So, who's been to Hello Kitty Dreams and who wants to go?
More on CNN: Beijing's big 4 sites: The ultimate weekend guide
Hello Kitty Dreams (Hello Kitty梦幻西餐厅)
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Malaria deaths are down but progress remains fragile
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 13, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Malaria mortality rates have fallen by more than 25% globally since 2000, and by 33% in the WHO African Region, according to the World Malaria Report 2011, issued today by the World Health Organization. This progress is the result of a significant scaling-up of malaria prevention and control measures in the last decade, including the widespread use of bed nets, better diagnostics and a wider availability of effective medicines to treat malaria.
However, WHO warns that a projected shortfall in funding threatens the fragile gains and that the double challenge of emerging drug and insecticide resistance needs to be proactively addressed.
"We are making significant progress in battling a major public health problem. Coverage of at-risk populations with malaria prevention and control measures increased again in 2010, and resulted in a further decline in estimated malaria cases and deaths," says Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General. "But there are worrisome signs that suggest progress might slow."
During the past decade, malaria incidence and mortality rates have been cut in all regions of the world, according to the World Malaria Report 2011. In 2010, there were an estimated 216 million cases of malaria in 106 endemic countries and territories in the world. An estimated 81% percent of these cases and 91% of deaths occurred in the WHO African Region. Globally, 86% of the victims were children under 5 years of age.
There were an estimated 655 000 malaria deaths in 2010, which is 36 000 lower than the year before.* While this 5% year-on-year decline represents significant progress, the mortality figures are still disconcertingly high for a disease that is entirely preventable and treatable.
"With malaria deaths in Africa having fallen significantly since 2000, the return on our investment to end malaria deaths has been greater than any I have experienced in the business world. But one child still dies every minute from malaria - and that is one child and one minute too many," says Raymond G. Chambers, the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for Malaria.
"The toll taken by the current economic crisis must not result in our gains being reversed, or progress slowed. With Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's charge for near zero deaths by end of 2015, turning back now is not an option," Mr Chambers adds.
Steady progress in malaria control
Long-lasting insecticidal nets have been one of the least expensive and most effective weapons in the fight against malaria. According to the new report, the number of bed nets delivered to malaria-endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa increased from 88.5 million in 2009 to 145 million in 2010. An estimated 50% of households in sub-Saharan Africa now have at least one bed net, and 96% of persons with access to a net use it.
There has also been further progress in rolling out diagnostic testing, which is crucially important to separate malaria from other febrile illnesses. The number of rapid diagnostic tests delivered by manufacturers climbed from 45 million in 2008 to 88 million in 2010, and the testing rate in the public sector in the WHO African Region rose from 20% in 2005 to 45% in 2010.
Worldwide, the volume of antimalarial medication delivered to the public sector has also increased. In 2010, 181 million courses of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) were procured, up from 158 million in 2009, and just 11 million in 2005. ACTs are recommended as the first-line treatment for malaria caused by the most deadly malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.
Projected shortfall in funding
Despite significant progress in 2010, the projected shortfall in malaria funding threatens the hard-earned gains of the last decade.
International funds for malaria control reached US$ 1.7 billion in 2010 and US$ 2 billion in 2011, but remained significantly below the US$ 5-6 billion that would be needed annually to achieve global malaria targets. According to projections in the report, despite increased support from the United Kingdom, malaria funding will slightly decrease in 2012 and 2013, and will likely drop further to an annual US$ 1.5 billion by 2015.
Triggered primarily by the reduction in available funding within the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, this decrease will considerably alter the malaria control landscape and threaten the sustainability of the multipronged approach to fight the disease, which relies heavily on investments in bed nets, indoor residual spraying, diagnostic testing, treatment, research and innovation.
"We need a fully-resourced Global Fund, new donors, and endemic countries to join forces and address the vast challenges that lie ahead. Millions of bed nets will need replacement in the coming years, and the goal of universal access to diagnostic testing and effective treatment must be realized," says Dr Robert Newman, Director of WHO's Global Malaria Programme. "We need to act with urgency and resolve to ensure that no-one dies from malaria for lack of a 5 dollar bed net, 1 dollar antimalarial drug and a 50 cent diagnostic test."
Emerging threats
Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinins, which was confirmed on the Cambodia-Thailand border in 2009, has now also been identified at additional sites in Myanmar and Viet Nam. WHO has recommended that all countries ban the marketing of oral artemisinin-based monotherapies, which have been one of the major factors fostering the emergence and spread of resistance. Despite continued international pressure, 25 countries still allow the marketing of oral artemisinin-based monotherapies and 28 pharmaceutical companies continue to market these products (down from 39 in 2010).
The problem of mosquito resistance to insecticides also appears to be growing, although to date has not been linked to widespread failure of malaria vector control efforts. According to the World Malaria Report 2011, which includes data on insecticide resistance for the first time - 45 countries around the world have identified resistance to at least one of the four classes of insecticides used for malaria vector control; 27 of these are in sub-Saharan Africa. Resistance has been reported from all WHO Regions except the WHO European Region. India and malaria-endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa are of greatest concern due to widespread reports of resistance - in some areas to all classes of insecticides - combined with a high malaria burden.
Current malaria control efforts are heavily reliant on a single class of insecticides, the pyrethroids, which are the most commonly used compounds for indoor residual spraying, and the only insecticide class recommended - and currently used - on long-lasting insecticidal nets. In response to this emerging threat, WHO is currently working with a broad group of stakeholders to develop a Global Plan for Insecticide Resistance Management in malaria vectors, which will be released in early 2012.
Notes to editors
The World Malaria Report 2011 is an annual publication from WHO. It summarizes information received from malaria-endemic countries and malaria control partners, and analyses prevention and control measures according to a comprehensive set of indicators. This year's report builds primarily on data received from countries for the year 2010. For the first time, the report contains individual profiles for 99 countries with ongoing malaria transmission.
* The total number of estimated malaria deaths presented in World Malaria Report 2011 (655 000 deaths) is substantially lower than the number presented in the World Malaria Report 2010 (781 000 deaths). This is partly because of an actual decrease in the number of malaria deaths (36 000), and partly because of a downward revision of child mortality estimates for all causes and diseases - for the past decade - by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. This revision reduced malaria mortality estimates in the WHO African Region by approximately 11%.
The full report, including all annexes, is available at http://who.int/malaria/world_malaria_report_2011/en/index.html.


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A jury has determined that Recology, San Francisco's garbage collection contractor, was not honest with the city when it collected a bonus payment of $1.36 million for successfully diverting waste from the landfill.
Brought by a former employee, the lawsuit claims that Recology misrepresented the amount of diverted waste in order to qualify for the bonus money. This is especially significant because San Francisco is recognized nationwide as a leader in its quest to send zero waste to the landfill as an environmental goal.
Jurors deliberated for more than a week before issuing their determination, and ultimately found on June 17 that the waste management company had made a false claim and therefore must pay the city $1.36 million to compensate for the amount it improperly received.
The False Claims Act, the California law under which the suit was filed, provides that violators can be made to pay three times the amount collected under false pretenses, with interest tacked on to boot. That means Recology could ultimately wind up paying out an amount closer to $5.5 million.
Under an incentive program set up by the city, Recology may reap additional bonus profits above what it normally earns from the business of collecting and processing San Francisco customers' trash if it effectively meets targets for keeping the trash out of the landfill, the most environmentally harmful waste disposal method. Under the program structure, Recology may withdraw this extra money from an account it maintains, containing funds derived from rates paid by garbage customers, if it meets the city's established waste diversion targets.
The lawsuit, filed in 2010, claims Recology used several schemes to manipulate waste diversion records when it submitted records the San Francisco Department of the Environment in 2008, in order to be granted permission to withdraw the bonus money. The suit claimed this happened in three other years, too, but the jury only ruled against Recology for this one year.
The primary way this occurred, according to attorney David Anton, involved misclassifying demolition and construction waste. Under state law, ground up raw construction material that is labeled as "fines" can legally be used to cover up the top of a landfill – in order to prevent pests, fires, and odors, for example. When construction waste is ground up and used this way, it counts as "alternative daily cover" – like a layer of frosting on a giant cake of garbage – and strangely enough, the state allows waste disposal companies to count that frosting as "diverted waste" even though it's actually part of the landfill.
The lawsuit claimed that Recology tried to count a great many tons of its construction and demolition waste as "fines" when in reality it should have been labeled just plain garbage, because the tons of stuff that they were shipping to the Solano County landfill wasn't being processed to a fine enough grade to comply with state requirements for what constitutes "fines."
The difference between "fines" and regular old construction and demolition waste is that for the latter, the company would have had to pay a fee to dispose of it – and would have had to count it as waste sent to the landfill, rather than waste diverted from the landfill. Had it been counted as plain old garbage, Recology would have missed its diversion targets in 2008, thus losing out on the $1.36 million bonus payment.
"The construction material that they were sending – they were telling SF was qualified to be used for this beneficial purpose at the landfill," said Anton, "when in fact, the county and the state had said it was not qualified for it, it can't be used that way, and it can't be accounted that way." He added, "Recology kept this completely secret from San Francisco."
Recology spokesperson Eric Potashner told us the company plans to appeal this finding, because the violation Recology received in regard to the "fines" was only the start of a lengthy process. "The local enforcement agency in Solano County had questions about that material," he said, noting that Recology went through a formal process of challenging an inspector's assessment of the material. He said that at the end of the day Recology was never issued a cease-and-desist, nor was it made to revise company records to count it as anything other than "alternative daily cover."
Another problem uncovered in the trial, Anton said, had to do with Recology misrepresenting tons of garbage generated in San Francisco as having originated in a different county, so that it could be counted outside the parameters of the waste diversion program. Potashner called that "an oversight" that had since been corrected, and added that it would not amount to enough to "move the needle" on hitting the diversion goals.
Finally, Anton noted, it came out in the course of the trial that somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of what residential customers chuck into their green compost bins actually winds up in the landfill at the end of the day.
Where happens to the stuff that goes in the green bin? "What we found out in this trial," Anton said, "is that it's sent to a place where they can compost it, but this place doesn't necessarily make it into compost. Recology owns the composting place. And the composting place happens to be at a landfill. And it happens to be the law that a landfill has to cover the garbage that it gets every day. It's got to cover it with dirt – six inches of dirt. Every day. A lot of landfills buy dirt to cover it – but the state allows you to … take mulch or green waste, if it's chopped up fine, and cover a landfill with it. Well, Recology decided that they made more money and did better if they took a bunch of your green bin material, and put it on their landfill, rather than buying dirt." As a result, he said, some of that green-bin waste "gets put in a landfill every night."
Which really isn't what most people would expect would happen after they've chucked some yard clippings into a compost bin.
When San Francisco set up the green-bin composting program, Anton said, a specific policy was created against this sort of practice. Nevertheless, "San Francisco knew that the company was doing that," he said, and permitted it despite the formal policy because "they wanted to help out the company."
Potashner said it is perfectly legitimate under state law for green waste to be used as alternative daily cover. "The Department of the Environment watches this, and knows we're doing this," Potashner said.
All of which underscores a point that Anton said he found to be somewhat confusing, or perhaps telling: "It was a very strange thing," he said, "to be pursuing this lawsuit, trying to get money to the city, and the city's representatives are saying, 'we don't want it.'"
He said he found it odd that a representitive from the San Francisco Department of the Environment, which oversees the city's Zero Waste program, even made a statement in the course of the trial suggesting that he hoped the suit wasn't successful.
Anton guessed that the city remained on the sidelines of this case because its "relationships with Recology are so close and tight."
The Department of the Environment did not return the Bay Guardian's request for comment.


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This nebula measures a whopping 250 light-years across, and it's close enough to Earth that its relative size in the sky is equivalent to that of four full Moons. But it's so faint in the wavelengths our eyes can actually see that it's generally been ignored until now. As this gorgeous new image from the European Southern Observatory reveals, that's been a mistake on our part.
Taken by the VLT Survey Telescope at Chile's Paranal Observatory, the ESO says this is likely the sharpest image ever taken of the nebula. In their announcement — which just happens to be their 1000th such release — the astronomers reveal the lowdown on the Prawn Nebula:
Located around 6000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion), the nebula formally known as IC 4628 is a huge region filled with gas and clumps of dark dust. These gas clouds are star-forming regions, producing brilliant hot young stars. In visible light, these stars appear as a blue-white colour, but they also emit intense radiation in other parts of the spectrum — most notably in the ultraviolet.
It is this ultraviolet light from the stars that causes the gas clouds to glow. This radiation strips electrons from hydrogen atoms, which then later recombine and release energy in the form of light. Each chemical element emits light at characteristic colours when this process occurs, and for hydrogen the predominant colour is red. IC 4628 is an example of an HII region.
For more information as well as some even higher-resolution images, check out the ESO website.


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This is not a joke. Instead of writing crossover, MotorWeek wrote 'xover.' This'll be a good one.
The MDX has gotten the new LED headlights from RLX, which makes it look like the old MDX, just kind of insane. Or sleeker, if you ask John Davis.
A new MDX has a lot of features, it's big, and it's no longer based on an Odyssey. It also has a great energy impact score, so that's a win there.
Unfortunately, we don't get to find out how it does in the slalom. I wish we did, because that's relevant to all MDX buyers.
MotorWeek Theater is our showcase of some of our favorite classic reviews from public television's finest motoring program. How does this video only have 11,089 views on YouTube? It's 10 headlights of wonder.


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Virtual worlds are driving people to suicide — and making them fall in love. A new documentary, opening this weekend, follows seven people who are devoted to virtual worlds, and finds them struggling with addiction and discovering romance. Second Skin, which debuts at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, showcases players' devotion to worlds like Second Life, and soon the science fiction wonderment addiction that is Starcraft 2). Click through to view the trailer.
You don't think of virtual worlds like Second LIfe as sensual — after all, there's no sense of touch at all — but watching the lush footage in Second Skin and hearing people talk about their hunger for Worlds of Warcraft may change your mind. Immersive virtual reality might never live up to the hype, but already more and more people are pouring so much of their hearts and minds into virtual worlds that they seem to "feel" their experiences in them.
Director Juan Carlos calls it "An Inconvenient Truth meets Errol Morris," which sounds like he's swinging for the fences. If Carlos was on death row, he'd pick Weird Science as his last movie to watch:
I've always really loved that comedy. I mean John Hughes is great, and he's made a bunch of good movies, but Weird Science to me gets the fan favorite award. The idea behind that movie was so inventive and hilarious. Plus there is just something awesome when aliens come to crash a party in the middle of a teen comedy. So I'd laugh to start, and then get a little Zen.
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Commencement Speeches by Vernon Jordan '57 & Barbara Kingsolver '77 Among NPR's 'Best Ever'
May 20, 2014
Addresses by two graduates of DePauw University -- Vernon Jordan '57 and Barbara Kingsolver '77 -- are listed among NPR's "The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever." A total of 315 addresses dating back to 1774 make up the list.
Jordan is cited for his 2013 appearance at Columbia University, while Kingsolver's 2008 address at Duke University warrants an entry.
Access the complete list of speeches at NPR's website.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an attorney and legendary civil rights leader. He served as an adviser to President Bill Clinton and is the former president of the National Urban League and has also served as executive director of the United Negro College Fund, Inc.; director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council; attorney-consultant, U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity; assistant to the executive director of the Southern Regional Council; Georgia Field Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and an attorney in private practice in Arkansas and Georgia. A political science major as an undergraduate, he is a former member of DePauw's Board of Trustees.
Jordan has twice presented the commencement address at DePauw, in 1973 and 1993. Video of the latter address is embedded below.
Barbara Kingsolver, a bestselling author, majored in zoology (biological science) at DePauw. She had her first novel, The Bean Trees, published by HarperCollins in 1988. Her other books include Animal Dreams; Pigs in Heaven; Small Wonder; The Lacuna; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life; and The Bean Trees. She received the National Humanities Medal in 2000 and the 2010 Orange Prize. Flight Behavior was on the shortlist for the 2013 Women's Prize and was a finalist for the 2013 Orion Book Award.
In 1994, Kingsolver gave "As Little Advice as Possible" in a commencement speech at DePauw. You can see and hear it below.Back


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SAO PAULO, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Tommy Haas and Brazilian wild card Thomaz Bellucci each landed the in the semifinals of the Brasil Open Friday after notching wins in Sao Paulo.
Haas needed a strong third set to get past Argentina's Horacio Zeballos 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 in one of the day's quarterfinal matchups.
His next opponent will be Italian Paolo Lorenzi, who logged a 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (4-7), 6-4 upset of fourth-seeded Juan Monaco.
Also advancing was crowd favorite Bellucci, who breezed past Slovakia's Martin Klizan 6-3, 6-3.
Joining him in Saturday's other semifinal will be Federico Delbonis. The Argentine dismissed Spain's Albert Montanes 6-4, 6-3.


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The unique design of the Jagger Softy metal ballpoint pen truly sets this item in a class of its own. The clip functions as a plunger, adding to the sleekness of this click-action pen, while the premium high-capacity ink cartridge adds to the weight of the pen. Featuring the increasingly popular soft-touch rubberized finish, and an all-black barrel, clip and trim, this pen is the definition of modern style.
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NOTE: Asterisk is being replaced by service from Zoom.us. The service will be shutdown Jan 5th, 2018
What is Asterisk?
Asterisk is an open source, free soft switch/soft PBX system for managing all manner of telephony needs. The Eclipse Foundation is currently using it for a voice-conferencing solution.
The system was implemented in 2012 to reduce costs and offer greater flexibility.
Eclipse projects can request a dedicated bridge by opening a bug against Community/Servers.
How do I access it?
We have numbers in Canada, North America (toll-free), Germany, France, and the UK (toll-free). The European numbers are a local call anywhere in that country. Calling these numbers from any phone or VoIP phone will enable you to join a conference call.
See a list of Phone Numbers.
Your project or IWG leader will provide the bridge and passcode as part of the invitation to a meeting.
SIP is a popular VoIP protocol. We allow incoming SIP calls from around the world. These calls are free although they do require Internet access. To call an extension, you would use the following syntax in your SIP client:
(replace extension with the extension you wish to reach)
Some clients require you to register/authenticate against a system. If you don't already have voip, you may need an account somewhere such as iptel.org - iptel.org is completely free of charge and has successfully been used with Jitsi on Windows (account comes preconfigured).
SIP clients we've used successfully:
- Windows, Linux, MacOS: Jitsi
- Linux twinkle - it doesn't require you authenticate against some VoIP system like many other clients which is handy.
- Android: sipdroid
- iPhone: 3cx
- Hardware VOIP phones: SNOM, Digium
Conference commands
The following commands are available when connected to a conference call.
*1 to mute/unmute yourself *2 lock/unlock the conference (moderator only) *3 eject the last person to join (moderator only) *4 decrease conference volume *6 increase conference volume *7 decrease your volume volume *9 increase your volume volume *8 exit the conference
Should you detect any issues with Asterisk, please raise a bug in Bugzilla to Community/Servers.
If you need a bridge for your project, please request it via the same Bugzilla coordinates.


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LIBERIA: Hunting for Liberia's Missing Millions
How much money did Charles G.
Taylor, the deposed president of Liberia, siphon out of his
destitute, war-shattered country, and where is it?
Pool photo by Robin van Lonkhuijsen
For almost seven years, since an international warrant was issued for
his arrest, the search has stretched from the mangrove swamps and
diamond fields of West Africa to Swiss banks and shell corporations - a
state-of-the-art version of the sweeping asset hunts that have
accompanied the fall of autocrats since the shah of Iran's demise in the
Investigators have crawled in the dirt under porches and buildings in
this impoverished capital to seek out financial records. They have
confronted bankers and government officials on four continents. They
have cross-referenced mazes of documents charting the transfer of
millions of dollars into and out of dozens of accounts.
But they have come up dry for any money in Mr. Taylor's name. In fact,
four years ago, Mr. Taylor was classified as "partially indigent" by the
Special Court for Sierra Leone at The Hague, where he is charged with
instigating murder, mutilation, rape and sexual slavery during
intertwined wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone that claimed more than
250,000 victims from 1989 to 2003.
That has left donor nations - the United States being the largest - to
cover his monthly $100,000 legal bill and the broader costs of his $20
million trial.
But the investigators push on, and a review by the International Herald
Tribune of court transcripts, bank records, and newly available
government receipts and confidential prosecution memos indicates why
they are reluctant to give up the hunt.
Some of the records show how the country's largest timber company sent
tax payments to Mr. Taylor's private account rather than the national
treasury. Others trace huge payments made by the dominant cellphone
company to people suspected of being Taylor cronies. Others depict a web
of front companies and banks from Hong Kong to New York involved in the
movement of millions of dollars into Mr. Taylor's accounts in Liberia.
"Money would go to an arms dealer or an ally and from there to a money
management firm and then back to Liberia, then cashed out and moved to
another bank account," said Thomas R. Creal, an accountant from Chicago
who for five years has led the search for the United Nations.
Retained by Liberia, he and three law firms are developing a new
strategy involving filing civil damage claims against companies,
governments and international banks that they contend aided Mr. Taylor
in illegal transactions. The goal, after investigators have succeeded in
freezing only about $8 million held by Taylor relatives and associates,
is to win judgments for Liberia even if Taylor accounts cannot be
The estimates of hidden wealth - believed to have been extracted from
Liberia's timber and diamond trades, its international merchant shipping
registry, tax coffers and the government of Taiwan - run from as high
as $3 billion to a middling range of $280 million. Mr. Taylor's own
estimate is zero.
Last year, the flamboyant former warlord taunted prosecutors in court,
dismissing the financial investigations as efforts to demonize him. "I
challenge any human being or organization in this world - I mean this
planet - to bring one bank account that Charles Taylor has money in," he
said. "I have heard the prosecutor blatantly lie, saying, 'We found
millions.' Bring the millions here."
Stephen Rapp, the U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes issues and a
former chief prosecutor on the case, said the hunt could continue for
years. "You will never find an account listed under Charles Taylor," he
said. "In all of these asset recovery cases of former leaders who have
been accused of corruption or worse, it has taken a long time to achieve
recovery. So this is not going to end."
High-level targets
In the banking world, investigators call high-profile targets, like
deposed heads of state or military officials, P.E.P.'s - "politically
exposed persons." Financially speaking, Mr. Taylor is one of the most
The list has included Slobodan
Milosevic of Yugoslavia, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines and Sani Abacha,
the Nigerian military dictator who pocketed as much as $5 billion
through front companies and Swiss bank accounts, Swiss investigators
Since 1999, the Nigerian government has recovered more than $700 million
with Switzerland's assistance.
The Taylor hunt has gone on as he has been imprisoned for four years in a
Dutch detention center - a long way down from when he ruled with a
showman's flair, dressing in traditional African robes, cream safari
suits or white vestments at a mass "Liberia for Jesus" prayer rally in
Mr. Taylor, who favors pinstripe suits in court and is a recent convert
to Judaism, vehemently dismisses the criminal charges as based on
"lies." The grisliest accusations came from an admitted former death
squad commander, Joseph Marzah, known as Zigzag, who described orders
from Mr. Taylor to engage in cannibalism and ritualistic eating of
enemies. U.N. peacekeepers
in Sierra Leone were also targets, he testified, saying Mr. Taylor
urged his fighters to eat "them as pork."
Financial suspicions about him go back to 1983, when he was fired for
embezzling nearly a million dollars while a government administrator. As
a renegade warlord in the '90s, he controlled diamond-rich regions,
timber concessions, rubber plantations and iron ore deposits. As
president, he directed large timber companies to wire as much as $2
million of their taxes to a personal account with the Liberian Bank for
Development and Investment, according to Liberian bank records.
His defense is that the money did not go to him personally but to buying
black-market weapons to thwart a U.N. weapons embargo aimed at quelling
his brutal wars with insurgent warlords and, through other warlords,
Sierra Leone.
Liberian legislators, said Mr. Taylor's family spokesman, Sando Johnson,
authorized Mr. Taylor "to put money into a special account to fight the
In court testimony, Mr. Taylor said bluntly, "The country is at war.
This is our remedy."
The Taylor account
Mr. Taylor holds an asset any P.E.P. would envy.
"He has a very common name," said Daniel Thelesklaf, director of the
International Center for Asset Recovery in Switzerland. "One English
bank made a search of his name and found about 16,000 hits. It's really
like finding the needle in the haystack."
One place Mr. Taylor used his name was at the Liberian Bank for
Development and Investment in Monrovia. From 2000 to 2003, when his
presidential salary was $24,000, records obtained by Mr. Creal show more
than $24 million moving into and out of the account, passed from
foreign banks, with Citibank in New York acting as the clearinghouse and
processing the transfers.
Most of the money came from the government of Taiwan - more than $20
million in eight payments made while it was jockeying to maintain
Liberia's diplomatic recognition against fierce competition from China.
In a statement, the Taiwan Foreign Ministry said that the money was
earmarked for AIDS medicine, a children's center, vocational training
and charity contributions. In court, though, Mr. Taylor said the funds
covered military salaries, Balkan arms deals and the airlift of wounded
bombing victims.
Michel Lu, a Taiwan diplomat, said in an interview that his government
offered "deep regret" for a "humiliating" turn of events. He said that,
internationally isolated, it was under tremendous pressure from Mr.
Taylor, who "threatened to cut off relations," and that it had since
discarded checkbook-style diplomacy.
Citibank, which has been criticized for its role in the clearinghouse
transactions involving Liberia, has defended its activities. The bank
"fully complied with all applicable laws and U.S. and international best
practices in place at the time," said a bank spokesman, Adam
Castellani. He said the bank, which processes thousands of transfers
daily, "works continually to strengthen its own correspondent banking
due diligence processes."
What happened to the money is not clear. By the time of Mr. Taylor's
indictment in 2003, his Liberian bank accounts were largely drained,
sometimes with groups of men taking out as much as $1.3 million in cash
in a single withdrawal, Mr. Creal said.
"Frankly speaking," said Mr. Lu of Taiwan, "nobody can tell you where it
The price of monopoly
U.N. investigators said they believed that Mr. Taylor also extracted
money from companies that operated in Liberia and needed his good will.
They have pressed in Liberian courts for information about the entwined
companies PLC Investments and Lonestar Communications, suspecting they
could be a continuing source of income for Mr. Taylor. Lonestar, the
nation's leading cellphone company, was essentially a monopoly for four
years, controlled by two Taylor financial advisers through PLC, a
holding company, a U.N. report says. They sold 60 percent of Lonestar to
a Lebanese group, Investcom, which in turn was acquired by a South
African cellphone company, MTN Group, in 2006.
Mr. Taylor's former vice president, Moses Blah, and other former
ministers testified before the government's Truth and Reconciliation
Commission that Mr. Taylor became a secret part owner in Lonestar and
granted it an exclusive license to run a mobile network, dismissing
officials who urged an open market.
Since then, Mr. Creal has found records of huge Lonestar checks issued
to junior employees whom he suspects were allies of Mr. Taylor.
Low-level PLC employees who earned less than $5,000 a year received
enormous checks in 2007 and 2008, a U.N. report says. One of them, who
earned about $1,800 yearly, received checks for $1.22 million. Others
received more than $2 million in checks until 2008.
A search warrant turned up bank statements that showed checks deposited
by the employees in another Liberian bank, Ecobank, and the money being
drawn out immediately in cash.
In an e-mail message, Frans Joubert, chief executive of Lonestar, said,
"Lonestar cannot comment on issues regarding shareholders and
shareholding companies."
Mr. Taylor's spokesman, Mr. Johnson, asserted there was no hidden
Lonestar investment. "Complete foolishness," he said.
A 'personal fiefdom'
This year, the impoverished Liberian government retained Mr. Creal and
other legal advisers on a contingency basis to explore civil suits
against more than a score of companies and banks, on the premise that
they were "aiders and abettors" who helped Mr. Taylor move money
illegally or without following banking regulations.
The strategy is, in part, an acknowledgement that they may never find
money attached to Mr. Taylor himself, which many of them believe is
hidden in offshore accounts outside their grasp.
Mr. Taylor's trial, in its second year, is slowly proceeding toward a
verdict. He faces an unspecified sentence in a British prison if
Liberia's president, Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf, a Taylor supporter turned harsh critic, said that
recovering money will be hard. "Mr. Taylor ran this country like it was
his personal fiefdom," she said in an interview. "Resources were given
to people in a manner that pleased him, and there were no systems or
Regardless of the outcome, the money hunt will continue. "There were
guns, diamonds, cash, timber and gold moving around West Africa for the
individual personal gain of heads of state, boy generals, international
terrorists, diamond dealers and gunrunners," said David M. Crane, a
former prosecutor on Mr. Taylor's case and a professor at Syracuse
University College of Law in New York.
"The saga isn't over."
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You can perform full or incremental backups using the ufsdump command. This procedure backs up the zone /export/my-zone to /backup/my-zone.ufsdump, where my-zone is replaced with the name of a zone on your system. You might want to have a separate file system, for example, a file system mounted on /backup, to hold the backups.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
(Optional) Shut down the zone to put the zone in a quiescent state and to avoid creating backups of shared file systems.
global# zlogin -S my-zone init 0
Check the zone's status.
global# zoneadm list -cv
You will see a display similar to the following:
ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP 0 global running / native shared - my-zone installed /export/home/my-zone native shared
Perform the backup.
global# ufsdump 0f /backup/my-zone.ufsdump /export/my-zone
You will see a display similar to the following:
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Aug 10 16:13:52 2005 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 (bird:/) to /backup/my-zone.ufsdump. DUMP: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: Mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: Writing 63 Kilobyte records DUMP: Estimated 363468 blocks (174.47MB). DUMP: Dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: Dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: 369934 blocks (180.63MB) on 1 volume at 432 KB/sec DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
Boot the zone.
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Now, before you think this post is going to be some hateful rant, calm yourself and read on. My brother was diagnosed in 1995 at the age of 3 with Autism, and I've been an advocate for the rights of special needs children ever since. However, about a week ago I found myself re-evaluating how I react to those with special needs.
Long story short, my brother has been participating in the Special Olympics for the past couple of years, and every year I try to attend his regional competition, which is located at one of our local high schools. This year, as my family and I sat down in the school's cafeteria to relax before heading to the gym, a young, special needs athlete named Cole from one of the other teams walked up to our table, introduced himself, and started carrying on a conversation with me and my parents. Cole was hilarious, but at the same time he was very nosy and kept apologizing for asking questions. After awhile, he began to solely ask me personal questions, and it seemed he wanted to be friends (or something more) and know every detail of my life. I can't lie, even though I spend a lot of my time around individuals with special needs, I was uncomfortable around Cole. Hell, I'm uncomfortable around all strangers! Finally, Cole's dad realized that his son was talking our ears off and came over to our table to introduce himself and redirected his son to the gym.
The weird and sad part of all this was I felt a sense of relief and a burden lifted off my shoulders when he walked away. Phew, don't have to deal with him again, I thought. But, I was actually wrong…Turns out, as luck would have it, Cole's group ended up sitting next to my brothers, so I had to pass him on my way into the gym. Once Cole saw me, he immediately stood up and rushed to my side.
"How are you doing, ma'am?" he said as wrapped his arm around my shoulder.
"Great!" I said, mustering up every ounce of pep I had.
"Would you mind if I sat with you for awhile?" he proceeded.
"Um, I think we're supposed to sit with our teams," I replied.
"Well, I don't have to sit with mine, that's the point I'm trying to make," he shot back.
Thankfully, before the moment got any more awkward, one of Cole's coaches called him over to sit with his team. And, of course, the fun didn't stop there. After the opening ceremonies, I noticed Cole coming over to my brother's team. To avoid another uncomfortable encounter, I used my brother's larger build as a barricade and hid behind him until Cole was finished talking to my brother's teammates. Seriously, this kid would not let up. He seemed to be doing everything to try and get my attention.
And, of course, once I thought I was free of him, it turned out he was competing against my brother under the same division…that meant I was going to have to run into him again at the awards ceremony after the competition.
Flash forward to the awards ceremony and my brother took first place (of course he did, we're related). So, after all of the pictures are taken and everyone disappears, Cole came running up to my family, and that's when I decided to make a break for it. I grabbed my things and briskly walked down the hall to hide in the women's restroom. Cole saw that I was busting my ass to getaway and yelled after me, "DON'T YOU WALK AWAY FROM ME YOUNG LADY!" And then..he proceeded to ask my dad what my name was. Of course, my father thought this whole thing was hilarious and told Cole…who ended up screaming my name down the hallway until I disappeared.
Just at the point where I thought I had gotten rid of him, I realized that the exit door was at the other end of the building, which meant I would have to walk past the cafeteria where I last saw Cole. After a few minutes, I stuck my head out of the bathroom only to find him talking to someone right outside of the cafeteria. Well, eventually Cole's new found friend decided to head back towards the gym and get some popcorn, which prompted Cole to follow him. I realized then and there that it was now or never. I swiped up my stuff and RAN towards the exit. FREEDOM! I thought as I reached the parking lot. And as my family and I drove away, all I could think was, I'm safe now…
As I reflect back on the day that I had with Cole at regionals, of course I feel awful, but I've realized that even if he didn't have special needs, I would have treated him the same way. With this situation, I'm reminded of the VERY FEW TIMES I've ever been "hit on" at bars while I was in college by guys that I had absolutely no interest in getting to know. And, what did I do in those situations? I politely blew them off, just like I did with Cole. I had no interest in hanging out with Cole that day. I was there to watch my brother kick ass and take names. And, I have a boyfriend. I'm not looking for any more male companions. And, did Cole suffer? Of course not! Being the friendly guy that he is, when I wasn't around him he ended up talking to so many more people who were willing to engage in a bit of a conversation with him.
Personally, I think there's this argument out there that we have to treat individuals with special needs as a "special case," or be nicer to them than we would someone who doesn't have special needs because they "unfortunately can't be normal functioning adults in today's society." And most days, I think that's a bunch of crap. With all of the special needs individuals that I've gotten to know through my years of volunteering and meeting my brother's friends, people with special needs don't want to be treated as "special cases," they want to be seen and treated as though they don't have a disability. They want to be treated how we want to be treated…like a human being. So, if you're not interested in forming a connection with them, don't! They rather have a genuine connection than put up with something that is forced….and wow, what does that sound like? Hmmmm, how about something that everyone wants, no matter age, race, gender, etc. So, at the end of the day I'm not advocating for everyone to go out there and treat individuals with special needs like shit. Of course not! Treat them as they are, human beings, and form a genuine connection that the both of you will benefit from.
Granny Smith – over and out


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Valkyria Chronicles is a truly interesting video game franchise, which, for one reason or another, has been sold short by Sega in recent years.
The Tokyo-based game company is relegating the PS3 franchise to the PSP, which doesn't quite give the Valkyria Chronicles the epic vibe it deserves. There is an anime, however, and it's now in its third season.
Sega roped in singer-slash-voice-actress Minami Kuribayashi (pictured) to sing the anime's new ending song. "I've like Valkyria from before," Kuribayashi tweeted, "and I'm really happy to be connected to the series."
"I'd also like to check out the game," she added. Yes, we're getting to the point where Valkyria Chronicles, a game originally noted for its unique art style and Gears of War influences, is now just an anime.
Oh, there's also a video game. Wait what, you haven't played it?
戦場のヴァルキュリア3 誰がための銃瘡 公式サイト [Sega] [Pic]


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You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
If the -u option was used, you must also zlogin to the zone console and perform system configuration as described in Performing the Initial Internal Zone Configuration.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
Use the zoneadm command with the -z option, the name of the zone, which is s-zone, and the boot subcommand to boot the zone.
global# zoneadm -z s-zone boot
When the boot completes, use the list subcommand with the -v option to verify the status.
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However, according to Bradley D. Brown at TUSC, Oracle has now (re-) confirmed that they are still working on it.
For some time now the ACE Director community has been asking Mark Townsend (product manager for the Oracle DB) when the 11g version of Express was going to be available. He was consistent in saying that they wouldn't even consider releasing it until 11gR2 was available. Well...it's available now! So the ACED community said "OK, Mark..." and he responded with - it's already in the works and should be out...when asked "when..." we got the standard answer. The good news is that it's coming! Another piece of good news is that they raised the DB size limit from 4GB to 10GB. That makes for a nice free DB engine.
This is good news, since it has been a very long time since XE 10g was released. With Microsoft releasing updates to its free version of SQL Server at the same time as the full version, I think Oracle should do the same.
But hey, it's good, it's free, and it's coming eventually, so I'm not complaining! :-)


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Life at the Alfred W. Bowers W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology (AWBLA) is progressing into the summer months with its usual stately grace. The frantic pace of the semester has grudgingly given way to long hours in overwarm rooms. Staff members work determinedly to impose order on our many collections while finding creative excuses to work in the climate controlled Repository. The AWBLA is located on the University of Idaho campus in Moscow, Idaho. The Laboratory also serves as the Archaeological Survey of Idaho, Northern Repository and holds 748 collections unique to that function. The Laboratory also houses several other collections unaffiliated with the Repository, most notable among them being: the Asian American Comparative Collection, the Donald E. Crabtree Lithic Comparative Collection, and Pacific Northwest Anthropological Archive. These collections are well recognized and undeniably among the most prestigious elements of our facility. Although highly prized, these resources have a seemingly endless list of needs that must be met as new artifacts are added, technology advances, curatorial practices shift, or even as the Laboratory redefines its purpose. As a result, Collection Managers at this Laboratory have been accessioning, rehousing, or modifying these collections for decades. As the years pass and our work on the collections continues, part of my brain whispers "It's like deja vu all over again." So, on this hot day in July, the amazing staff members of the Laboratory of Anthropology log in and settle down to do some serious work that few will ever appreciate. Over the course of a day, the dedication of the morning starts to fray a bit and the radio stations get a little louder, some people have disappeared into audio books, while others have mysterious means that involve laughing aloud to something no one else can hear. No one says anything about someone else's coping mechanism. Here again, part of my brain starts whispering. This time it says, hang in there and remember "90% of the game is half mental." The extreme tedium and almost hypnotic quality of the work is soothing for some and meditative for others. However, there are those days where the silent susurration of papers or the repetitive activity of cataloguing feels like a slow crawl toward madness. As all archaeologists, curators, preservationists, and related professionals know – this job is not for the faint of heart or undisciplined mind. Projects can take months, years, and for one of the collections we recently finished rehabilitating, a solid decade. People assume that because of the work we do that archaeologists are patient and calm people but that isn't always the case. I for one can be marvelously impatient and often have the attitude of a caged animal. Yet I understand it isn't about what my brain can tolerate, it is about the stack of papers that needs to be preserved for people I have never met, or the organization of a collection of Fire-Affected-Rock for a researcher that hasn't been born yet. A determined mind and a belief that what we do serves some kind of purpose is what keeps our hands moving when our ability to focus is being lured away by a gloriously sunny day. Year in and year out we may work on the same project with good days and hard days thrown in the mix but eventually, we get to the point where we slide a box on a shelf and say "It ain't over till it's over."
This archaeological collection consists of approximately 75 cubic feet and contains well over 16000 artifacts. Given the size and complexity of the collection, nearly inscrutable field records, and vagaries of funding, it took ten years to bring to completion. After working on it for so long, I doubt it will be ever be "over".
Leah K. Evans-Janke, Ph.D.
Collections Manager, Archaeological Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology University of Idaho
A portion of the Pacific Northwest Anthropological Archive. By December of this year, some of these books will be made available to the public, students, staff, and other interested researchers through the University of Idaho Library as non-circulating resources. The project is slated to be completed in the next few years as more than 15,000 items go online.
Alyssa Griffith
Laboratory Technician
As an employee of the Alfred Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology, I get to work on different projects throughout the year. My current project is working to integrate the Pacific Northwest Archaeological Archives (PNWAA), housed here at the lab, into the existing University of Idaho library system. The goal of this project is to make the archives more accessible, visible, and searchable so that they can be utilized by researchers, students and members of the public. In order to integrate the PNWAA into the U of I library system, I am tasked with finding Library of Congress (LOCs) numbers for each book in the archive. The library uses these LOCs to electronically catalogue and shelve books. At first glance, it seems like a simple task. In books recently published (the last 20-30 years), the LOC is usually located on the copyright page along with the publisher's information. The challenge comes from trying to find LOCs for older books, obscure periodicals and foreign publications, of which the archive has many. The Library of Congress has an online search engine to assist in finding the LOC numbers for these kinds of archival materials but it is hardly ever a straightforward query. In fact, it's more akin to an electronic scavenger hunt at times, requiring multiple search engines and websites to find the information I'm looking for. Never a dull moment here at the lab!
Overview of Michelle's desk. Each staff member, or "Labbie", spends so much time here that we get a bit attached to our space and make it into a home-away-from-home. Michelle, like all Labbies, has nestled her work in and among the artifacts of her life.
Michelle Sing
Laboratory Technician
On this fine and glorious eleventh of July, I find myself numbering endless documents that once belonged to the much esteemed Don Crabtree. Since my fellow Bower's labbie Dakota Wallen will explain most of the project, I will refrain from detailing more. For my own experience on this Day of Archaeology, I find myself wondering what project I was working on one year ago to compare it to my tedious, though important, work of today. Last July, I was cataloging items from a well located during the Cyrus-Jacobs Uberuaga project from the 2012 summer field season in Boise. I remember how excited I was to spend hours piecing together old mason jars, perfume bottles, and ceramics. Basically, it was one big puzzle that was conveniently labeled as archaeology (or, more specifically, lab work). Today, I spend endless hours numbering Crabtree documents Ce.10.1.4… Ce.10.1.5…Ce.10.1.6…Ce.10.1.4…Oops, got distracted by a hang nail. Ce.10.1.7…..). Clearly, my work last year was about 1000 pieces of glass better, but I have found that all archaeological work has its perks and importance. Working with the Crabtree collection has shown me quite a bit of the evolution of flintknapping and archaeology (I count myself lucky to be working in the field when it is less sexist). The knowledge we have since found from Crabtree's time has painted a more complete picture of lithics in Idaho and beyond. And there is still more to learn. As I continue to number my documents (while longing to be outside in the lovely Idaho summer), I know none of that knowledge is possible without me cataloging and analyzing away. So, this summer I will continue to preserve the work of Don Crabtree and know I am contributing to a long line of knowledge in my field.
Overview of Dakota's desk. One of Dakota's strategies for dealing with the tedium of numbering papers is to obsessively collect every piece of metal he removes the documents prior to their scanning and eventual long term storage. The pile in the left hand corner of the image has been growing steadily over the past seven months and has become a fixture in the Laboratory.
Dakota Wallen
Laboratory Technician
A graduate student in archaeology, I work as a Laboratory Technician for the Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology at the University of Idaho. I have been processing the Donald E. Crabtree Lithic Technology Collection for 7 months now. Crabtree donated his library, most of his documents, replicas, and artifacts that he made to the University of Idaho when he died. Crabtree is very famous in lithic technology because he was a flintknapper extraordinaire who taught himself how to replicate the stone tools and projectile points found so often at archaeological sites. After teaching himself he began flintknapping field schools and taught the first generation of flintknapping archaeologists. He also made educational films about making stone tools, gave flintknapping demonstrations at the Smithsonian and consulted on projects as small as local Idaho surveys to the Leakey's projects in East Africa. Crabtree's artifacts have been well cared for and catalogued, however his documents and library have not. The entire collection was catalogued with no particular order; articles were mixed in with wedding announcements, correspondence, rough drafts of publications, and other miscellany. It remained that way for 30 years and now it is organized so anyone wishing to do research on the collection can actually find relevant materials and look through specific documents and categories. With the collection reorganized the remaining work is quite menial. I arrive at the Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology at 8:00am. The work room is already uncomfortably warm, so I turn on our little old air conditioning unit, which will struggle all day to keep the room a not so comfortable 80 degrees. I open a gray archival quality box and dive right into work . . . numbering pieces of paper. Okay so maybe it is not quite that bad, the papers are documents from the Donald E. Crabtree Lithic Technology Collection after all. I grab a folder of alphabetized and chronologically ordered correspondence and begin assigning catalog numbers so that we can keep track of documents. If people came and did research with the collection it is important to be able to know how many documents were there before and after the collection was used, in case anything was stolen, removed or misplaced. After numbering a few hundred pages of correspondence I take a break to check some thesis research related emails. Budgets have finally been approved; they have been pending since February but get finalized in July. After learning this I also find out that the project deadline is actually August 1st. There was 6 months to do the project, but the funds were not yet available so now there is only a month to complete the project. I consult with my major professor and he suggests telling them when it will realistically be completed, our plans to do so and that I should say he said to do it because in his words "he is pretty famous." After this good news I head back to work, more page numbering. If I come across any staples, paperclips or any other metal objects they need to be removed to protect the longevity of the collection from rust and other problems metal implements can cause to documents. After numbering all of the pages they will eventually be entered into a database, many of the documents will also be scanned so that they can be accessed digitally, which will prevent damage to many of the more fragile documents. It sounds awful numbering papers all day, but it's not so bad. Working with the great group of employees at the Bowers Lab makes work enjoyable, and if no one else is around there are always audiobooks to fill the void!
The completely reliable, if somewhat contrary, copier/scanner that Samantha has lovingly nicknamed "Satan".
Samantha Widner
Laboratory Technician
I am a senior at the University of Idaho working towards my BS in Anthropology. I have been working here at the Laboratory of Anthropology for a year and a half. I have spent the last 4 months working on the Don Crabtree Collection with Dakota Wallen. My specific job is digitize all correspondence and other donated material. On a typical day, I arrive at the lab around 10:00am and go directly to scanning. Unfortunately our scanner is located in a separate room from the main lab so I spend most of the day by myself. At first I struggled with the isolation of the scanning, but as time has passed I have adapted to it, while racking up some impressive Pandora hours. Scanning for 8 hours a day is as exciting as it sounds, but I occasionally come across some interesting finds in my work. I've found mentions of the Leakeys and their work in Africa, amusing stamps and cards, and what might be my favorite find to date. In a correspondence to his French associate Dr. Crabtree opened his letter by stating "How about that Apollo 11". When the scanner is in an agreeable mood I can scan a thousand or more pages a week, however, any of my coworkers would tell you that the struggle with the scanner is real, and finding it in an agreeable mood is a rare. Overall I enjoy working at the lab, both for the opportunities it provides, and because of the people who work here with me.


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First off, I would like to apologize for my absence. I have not posted anything in a long while because I was preoccupied with practicum at BCIT. It got a little crazy at times but I powered through like everyone else.
To celebrate the end of my first year of Broadcast Journalism, I went on a little trip down to Sasquatch Music Festival in George, Washington.
Fellow colleague Mitch Pollock and I were supposed to get media passes to cover the event but we were refused only weeks before the festival.
This little set back did not keep me from bringing my camera and taking some good shots.
In total, I took over 2000 photographs. These were some of the better pictures I shot over the four day festival. There may be some new additions to upload later but these will do for now.


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Promotion features seat prices from $5-15, youth autograph sessions
The White Sox will also hold special autograph sessions for youths with current and former players on Sundays, including a run around the bases after the game -- weather permitting.
"For many years, we have worked hard to create one of the very best family environments in all of baseball," White Sox senior vice president of sales and marketing Brooks Boyer said in a release. "As we continue to closely listen to fans regarding the cost of the ballpark experience, the Family Sunday promotion is our next move in creating affordable seating options in both the lower and upper levels of the park. Welcoming fans of all ages on a day that is traditionally dedicated to family time, we hope Family Sundays become a popular way for fans to share a baseball experience together."
There are 13 home Sunday dates scheduled for 2013. Bleacher, Outfield Reserved, Lower Corner and Premium Upper Box sections will be $15. Upper Box and Upper Reserved Seats will be available for $10, and Upper Corner tickets will be only $5. Parking on Family Sundays will be available for $10. Prices are for fans of all ages.
Overall, the team is lowering or holding prices for more than 87 percent of all full season tickets.


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I read this thread about energy What Is Energy? Where did it come from?
EDIT: after some sleep I tried to read the answers again and found better questions to ask. so here you go
- As most guys have replied in the other thread that energy should be considered mathematical rather than conceptual.
"Energy is any quantity which can be conserved, or rather A number which remains fixed no matter what happens to a physical sys' or Energy although being a mathematical quantity is helpful to us as it gives us useful info about the system at a particular time without knowing the mechanicsm.
As I have a kinda weak Brain this is all I could deduce from that thread. So am I right?
- What does it mean or rather What should I visualize when someone says that energy was transferred from object' x' to object 'y'(With respect to the my above definition)
I would have asked in that thread if I could but its closed I believe AND I hope this time I have asked the right physics question.
Edit : Mods u can close the thread. Thanx for all your help :)


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Juan Jesus has insisted that Inter are still in the race for the Champions League places and added that the Nerazzurri never give up.
The Giuseppe Meazza side currently sit fourth in the Serie A table with 39 points from 21 games, trailing leaders Juventus by nine points, but only four points off joint-second-placed Lazio and Napoli.
"We're still in there, just four points off Napoli and Lazio. We need to win and stay close to them," the defender told Sportmediaset.
"How far can we go? I never give up. We still have all to play for. If we string a few wins together, we can do it."
The Brazilian defender then went on to praise Fredy Guarin following his good performances in recent weeks.
"He's a great player and a great man. We joined Inter at the same time. At the start he didn't play much, but we were always together because we basically speak the same language.
"I hope we can both stay here as long as possible so the team can keep improving."
Juan Jesus has made 16 Serie A appearances so far this term.


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The Best Mexican Chowder Recipe Ever!
Oh my gosh! I made Mexican Chowder from Lindsay Nixon's Everyday Happy Herbivore cookbook. It is amazing-hot or cold! So cheesy-like, thick and great.
TIPS: As you know, Happy Herbivore cookbooks are my go-to favorites. I usually have what I need in my pantry, and if I don't, I can just substitute. Like I always say, "Use what you have." For example, I doubled this recipe and did not have two green peppers, so I threw in two packages of sliced mushrooms that I was getting antsy about going bad in my fridge. I also only had brown miso, not the yellow type called for. This dish turned out fantastic.
Also, I only use organic corn due to all other corn being GMO–same with soy (and NEVER soy protein isolate). I always portion out the servings into separate bowls and refrigerate the extras for the next day's meal. That way, I don't overeat.
Mexican Chowder
Serves 3
• 1 small sweet onion, finely diced
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 red bell pepper, seeded and diced
• 1 green bell pepper, seeded and diced
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon paprika
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1⁄4 cup nutritional yeast
• 1 cup nondairy milk
• 2 tablespoons ketchup
• 1 tablespoon yellow miso
• 1 cup yellow corn
• 1 cup canned black beans
• Juice of 1 or more lime wedges
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• Corn chips (optional)
• Garnishes: chopped cilantro or sliced green onion
Line a large pot with a thin layer of water and bring to a boil.
Add onion and garlic and sauté until onion becomes translucent, about 2 minutes.
Add bell peppers and spices and reduce heat to medium, continuing to cook.
Meanwhile, whisk 1⁄4 cup of nutritional yeast with nondairy milk and ketchup, then pour over bell peppers, stirring to combine everything.
Add miso, corn, and black beans and stir in.
Squeeze the juice out of a lime wedge and stir.
Taste, adding more lime as desired plus salt and pepper to taste.
For a stronger cheese flavor, whisk in 1 to 2 more tablespoons of nutritional yeast.
Serve with corn chips. You can garnish with sliced green onion or chopped cilantro, if desired.
Chef's Note: If your liquid is too thin, add tomato sauce, broth, or more nondairy milk.


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