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Actor films scene hanging from a plane about 5,000Ft in the air
Cruise is back on set and driving fans on the franchise wild
More mixed reaction from the latest Zack Snyder character reveal as leather-clad Gal Gadot is compared to Warrior Princess
Ben Affleck will have his work cut out to fill the huge suit with muscle
Dark Knight is ready for his close up in the moody shot - and DC promise there's more to come
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Clark Kent looks ready to save the world in the upcoming superhero flick
Man of Steel actor on the set of Dawn of Justice, but shouldn't he have his glasses on?
Filming begins in Michigan on Zack Snyder's highly anticipated film starring Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck
An Australian newspaper thinks Neighbours' Harold Bishop is set to be the next United manager - but he's not the first to have a case of mistaken identity
RoboCop actor states: "We don't all look alike"
From 24: Live Another Day to a cool Matrix spoof, this year's biggest ads in one spot
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Laurence Fishburne and Tom Hiddleston star alongside finger-licking weirdness and twerking M&Ms
The Cheers star is a lighter Gil Grissom-style supervisor as he replaces Laurence Fishburne - but the cases are just crazy
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Despite being lauded at the Venice Film Festival last month, Steven Soderberg's latest is more likely to cause an outbreak of yawning, heavy eyelids and a compulsion to keep checking the time.
A deadly virus is spreading around the world
LaUrence Fishburne has a unique way of making sure we don't forget he starred in the Matrix movies – he wears a padded 'Matrix Reloaded' jacket when he wanders around LA.
For the first time ever CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 10 is out to buy in one complete DVD boxset and I have TEN copies to give away (each worth £59.99).
Despicable Me has topped the US box office in its opening week with an estimated US 60.1 million dollars (£49m).
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This Kevin Spacey gambling tale may be set in Las Vegas, but no amount of pizzazz can pull a rather dull drama out of the doldrums.
FIVE years after the murder of JFK, his younger brother Robert was shot dead in an LA hotel, an event that led to the first mutterings about a Kennedy curse and prompted an outpouring of national grief.
THE assassination of Robert F Kennedy in June 1968 acts as a catalyst for a series of interlinked stories set at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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The Effect of Giving Class Time for Reading on the Reading Achievement of Fourth Graders and the Effect of Using a Computer-Based Reading Management Program on the Reading Achievement of Fifth Graders
Date: May 1998
Creator: Peters, Rochelle
Description: This study investigated the problem that educators have throughout the state of Texas. The problem educators have is that reading scores continue to fall short of state expectations. This study investigated the effectiveness of 90 minutes of class time given for reading to students who use the Electronic Bookshelf Program and the effectiveness of the Electronic Bookshelf Program, which is being sold to school districts throughout the nation. The literature review focused on the effectiveness of independent reading on reading achievement, and the effectiveness of using computer-based reading programs to increase reading achievement.
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Perceived Barriers to the Implementation of Site Based Management
Date: August 1998
Creator: Hancock, Don G. (Don Gaylon)
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Mentoring in Family Firms : A Reflective Analysis of Senior Executives' Perceptions
Date: May 1998
Creator: Boyd, John Hillyer
Description: This study is a reflective analysis of the perceptions of senior executives in family businesses that relate to their personal experiences of having been mentored. The study presents an overview of the topic of mentoring, defines key terms, and identifies questions addressed in the research. The rationale for this study rested on two facts. First, mentoring in non-family businesses constitutes the majority of the literature. That literature supports the importance of mentoring. Secondly, mentoring in family businesses has not been researched.
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An Analysis of How Interest Groups Influence the Policy-making Process for the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act of 1997
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Creator: Price, Laura Black
Description: This study examined the policy letters and verbal testimony transcripts submitted by interest groups to the United States Department of Education (USDE) in response to the proposed regulations pertaining to the implementation of the 1997 reauthorization of P. L. 105-17, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Specifically, this study analyzed the emerging themes in the area of discipline. Responses were received from the following interest groups: (a) school administrators, (b) parents, (c) teachers, (d) state educational agencies (SEAs), (e) national educational organizations, and (f) members of the United States Congress. In addition to analyzing the emerging themes, the study compared these themes to ones found in the current literature and court cases.
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An Experimental Investigation on the Effects of Learning Style and Presentation Methods on Knowledge Acquisition in a University Classroom Environment
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Endogenous Constructivist Implications for Methodology : Focus on Young Children with Developmental Delay in the Social and Emotional Domains
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Description: The Ecologically-Based Activity Plan (EBAP) is proposed as a method to create a transition between special education and general education. It serves as a tool to help classroom teachers assess the environment of the class and as a method for embedding instruction within the naturally occurring context of the endogenous constructivist classroom. In this study the EBAP was used to reduce aggressive behavior and increase prosocial behavior among five children who displayed developmental delays in the social and emotional domains.
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Predicting Workers' Compensation Claims and On-the-Job Injuries Using Four Psychological Measures
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Description: This study assessed the predictive validity of four independent factors (Rotter Locus of Control Scale, Safety Locus of Control, Organizational Attribution Style Questionnaire, and Rosenburg Self-Esteem Scale) in the establishment of a measure of safety consciousness in predicting on-the-job injuries and the filing of workers' compensation claims. A 125-item questionnaire was designed and administered to assess participants' disposition on each of the four psychological dimensions, demographic data and on-the-job injury information.
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Measurement Disturbance Effects on Rasch Fit Statistics and the Logit Residual Index
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Creator: Mount, Robert E. (Robert Earl)
Description: The effects of random guessing as a measurement disturbance on Rasch fit statistics (unweighted total, weighted total, and unweighted ability between) and the Logit Residual Index (LRI) were examined through simulated data sets of varying sample sizes, test lengths, and distribution types. Three test lengths (25, 50, and 100), three sample sizes (25, 50, and 100), two item difficulty distributions (normal and uniform), and three levels of guessing (no guessing (0%), 25%, and 50%) were used in the simulations, resulting in 54 experimental conditions. The mean logit person ability for each experiment was +1. Each experimental condition was simulated once in an effort to approximate what could happen on the single administration of a four option per item multiple choice test to a group of relatively high ability persons. Previous research has shown that varying item and person parameters have no effect on Rasch fit statistics. Consequently, these parameters were used in the present study to establish realistic test conditions, but were not interpreted as effect factors in determining the results of this study.
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Reliability of Authentic Assessment in Fourth-Grade Narrative and Descriptive Written Language for Students with and without Learning Disabilities
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Creator: Herron, Shelley R. (Shelley Rene)
Description: The purpose of this study was to determine reliability estimates of authentic assessment for fourth-grade narrative and descriptive writing samples for students with and without learning disabilities. Three types of reliability estimates were established: (a) inter-rater, (b) score stability, and (c) alternate-form. The research design involved 40 teachers, trained in holistic scoring by Education Service Centers 10 and 11 in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, who scored 16 writing samples. Approximately 2 weeks later the teachers rescored 8 of the same writing samples. In addition to scoring the writing samples, the teachers also completed a demographic questionnaire. The writing samples, which consisted of eight narrative and eight descriptive writings, were selected based upon teachers' holistic scores and scores from 1993 writing sample of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. Based upon these scores, two narrative and descriptive writings of above-average, average, and below-average writings were selected. In addition, two narrative and descriptive writing samples of students with learning disabilities in written language were selected.
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- NASCAR chairman Brian France said Friday it's wrong to blame the Chase format for failing to produce a closer championship battle at a time when Jimmie Johnson is dominating Sprint Cup and going for an unprecedented fourth consecutive title.
"Any [computer] models we ever did on how it likely would play out never included somebody so dominant," France said. "The only way fair to look at it is not to pick apart the format, but recognize excellence.
"I don't think historians could have predicted how good they are. What I wouldn't want to do is take away from the accomplishment of Jimmie and his team. In this format, dominating four straight years is incredibly difficult to do. No one could have predicted this, which has taken away some of the things the Chase will deliver in normal circumstances."
Johnson has a 108-point lead over Mark Martin entering the season finale Ford 400 Sunday at Homestead Miami Speedway.
France's comments were part of his annual state-of-the-sport talk at the HMS media center. He acknowledged 2009 was a difficult year for NASCAR, but he believes the season was a positive overall.
"On balance, we have had a very good season," he said. "It hasn't been without our ups and downs. But we're really pleased with some of the things we have accomplished in what remains a very difficult economy."
Attendance, sponsorship and television ratings were down this season, but France emphasized some of NASCAR's accomplishments through the year.
"We're certainly happy all the car companies have stabilized," France said. "We worked carefully to make sure all those companies stayed in NASCAR. That was achieved, no small thing on everyone's part."
France said NASCAR has done its best to become more inclusive with fan forums and town hall meetings with the teams. One of the big questions is the new car (previously known as the Car of Tomorrow) and whether changes are coming to make the car race better.
"Most of the teams and drivers have figured the car out and then some," France said. "Of course, the racing always can be better. We will take a look at a couple of things in the offseason. But if we change too much too fast, we never would get to the point where everybody was comfortable with what we have.
"Absent of passing every three seconds and [a] photo finish every race, which we would love to see, we will keep pushing forward to get between the great racing we have now and Utopia."
France also was asked if NASCAR would consider shortening the Cup season, which is the longest in professional sports with 38 weekends of racing.
"We don't have the volume other leagues have with 30 or 40 games a week," France said. "We have one big event a week per series. There's great value for us having one event a week to keep the interest level where it is."
One thing that might increase interest in 2010 is IndyCar driver Danica Patrick coming to NASCAR. She is considering a deal with JR Motorsports to race a partial Nationwide schedule next season.
"I don't know how well she would do here," France said. "That's why you play the game. But she would be good for NASCAR and we would welcome her. I told her that myself and I know others have also."
France also commented on the new NASCAR drug policy, which came under scrutiny this year with the suspension of driver Jeremy Mayfield.
"We believe we made the right decision to make an already tough policy even tougher," France said. "We felt we had to do that with the circumstances in the country today and sports in general, and the fact that we have 200-mile-per-hour race cars.
"We thought it was imperative to improve our policy, which we did, and we stand behind that very clearly."
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Wow! I'm sure the folks at Starbucks will be thrilled with how you [who?] spelled their name. Who is the contact person for this event? What is their name? Email address? Phone number?
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This paper deals with the Bayesian method of choosing the best model for a given one-dimensional series among a finite number of candidates belonging to autoregressive (AR), moving average (MA), ARMA, and other families. The series could be either a sequence of observations in time as in speech applications, or a sequence of pixel intensities of a two-dimensional image. The observation set is not restricted to be Gaussian. We first derive an optimum decision rule for assigning the given observation set to one of the candidate models so as to minimize the average probability of error in the decision. We also derive an optimal decision rule so as to minimize the average value of the loss function. Then we simplify the decision rule when the candidate models are different Gaussian ARMA models of different orders. We discuss the consistency of the optimal decision rule and compare it with the other decision rules in the literature for comparing dynamical models.
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hmm really awesome works indeed - I like the mesh-like stolons in particular, and flowers and leaves are also impressing - the skull and the ice-like swords seem to express the "death", in contrast with the flowers, leaves and the vacant-minded young woman - the symbols of "life" - a great expression of the anxiety for the future life that young women feel in the depth of their mind, I suppose
There's such a lot of lovely detail in this picture, it's hard to take in the overall picture all at once. Gorgeous.
This is sooo great!
I like this darkness and all this details!
I like this darkness and all this details!
Wow... i love the details!
Wow, these details...! Amazing, stunning work. It reminds me of the sea, birds, a secret garden and some magical objects [like the crystals] in one "patchwork". Though this rotten and sad face...really fascinating!
Wow, beautiful I love the intense detail! Awesome style ^^
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Exquisitely detailed and designed. I love the motifs and atmosphere. Intricate and brilliant.
Wow, great atmosphere. Love it!
Beautiful tonal depth.
Great work and details!!!
There is a sense of becoming and separation from the all. It gives me a very strong feeling of shamanism.
This is beautiful!! Excellent work.
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You know the rules, right? Well, if you don't, there's the link.
Today's selection: a somewhat lousy comic book that works surprisingly well if you're a first-time reader!
The Sensational She-Hulk #58 ("Shock the Shulkie") by Sholly Fisch, Dennis Jansen, and Barb Kaalberg. Published by Marvel, October 1993.
First off, as a long-time comic book reader, I think those creators' names are made up. I have never heard of any of them. Have you? I think this was really written by … let's say Chuck Dixon, and drawn by … Rick Leonardi, and inked by … Barbara Kesel, but none of them wanted their names on it!!!!! (Okay, it's nothing like Leonardi's art, and it's nothing like Dixon's writing. They were experimenting, people!)
But let's attack this sucker as if we were first-time comic book readers. I'm of two minds about this comic, as you can tell. For a long-time reader, this book is awful. Really. But if it was your first comic book, it might lure you in. It tells a complete story, it isn't incomprehensible, it features a big fight, and it is kind of fun, even though the jokes are lame. There are a few minor things that only a Marvel zombie would know, but they don't interfere with the story too much, except for a bit at the end. So it's a strange comic that doesn't really work, but might inspire someone to check out more.
We start with the little text piece that used to run across the top of Marvel comics (before they replaced it with the whole page, which is nice but always seems a bit excessive), in which we learn that Jennifer Walters got a blood transfusion from her cousin, the Incredible Hulk, which turned her into She-Hulk. Let's just assume people reading their first comic at least know who the Hulk is. I mean, Bill Bixby, man! And, um, Eric Bana! We also find out that she's a lawyer who battles for her clients' personal injury claims! I have wondered about her focus before, as it seems that Slott was doing different things with her, but I guess in 1993, she was an ambulance chaser! Good to know.
Jen is having breakfast with a blond woman who is a fellow lawyer but whose name we never learn. As they eat, a strangely-garbed superhero-looking fellow leaps from the building above onto Jen's table. His costume is purple and orange, which leads us to believe this book isn't entirely serious (if the cover didn't give it away) and as he's leaping, Jen mentions that she has been fighting Spagoom, the Toaster That Walks Like a Man. Okay, not serious. On the splash page, the strange man lands on the table (without injury, it should be noted, although he doesn't appear to have any powers, just "finely-honed acrobatic skills," which still shouldn't allow him to drop at least three floors straight down) and announces himself as the "Sensational Character Find of 1993!! Tommy the Gopher!" This is, of course, a reference to the first appearance of Robin the Boy Wonder, who was the Sensational Character Find of 1940. Tommy the Gopher is not as impressive.
She-Hulk grabs him and asks who he is. He reminds her that they've met before (a footnote tells us it was in issue #51) and that he's going to be her sidekick. She asks why he wants to be, and he mentions that Ghost Rider said no. This is one of the in-jokes in this book, because the idea of Ghost Rider with this kind of sidekick is laughable. A newbie, however, might recall Nicolas Cage's wacky sense of humor in the new advertisements for the movie and might think that Ghost Rider is a bit campy. They would not know that he always seems kind of moody when he shows up in the comics. Jen tells him that she doesn't need a sidekick, and he says he will reveal her secret identity to the world, whereupon all the people in the street yell out who she is, and Jen tells him she doesn't have a secret identity. He looks at the audience and says, "It worked for Bucky …" A first-timer would not know that one of the in-jokes of this comic is that Jen knows she's in a comic book, so Tommy is addressing us. A first-timer would also not get the joke. Hell, I've been reading comics for almost twenty years and I don't get the joke – I assume he's talking about Captain America's sidekick, but I didn't know that was how Bucky got Cap to take him on. If so, ha ha. (Yes, my comics knowledge has big gaps in it. So sue me.)
Jen has to go to ConMax (Consolidated Maxwell, a riff on ConEd) to pay her electric bill, and as she goes in, we see a bigwig at the company showing off their newest doohickey – a nuclear reactor the size of a microwave oven, which will revolutionize … energy, I guess. There's a dude in the crowd wearing a trenchcoat and a purple wool hat that is hiding something strange on his head. Given the cover, I wonder who that could be? Jen takes a taxi and calls the cabbie "Lockley." This is another in-joke, as the cab driver is Moon Knight in one of his guises, that of Jake Lockley. As Jen enters the building, the bigwig (whose name is Fred) runs out crying for an Avenger. Luckily She-Hulk is there!
Electro (whose name we don't actually learn until page 29, when Tommy mentions it) is inside, feeding off the electricity the reactor is producing and going a bit nutty with power. He calls himself an "electricity elemental," which She-Hulk points out is impossible, but that only makes him mad. He smacks her around and says stuff like "Consider this a warning, mortal" and "Before my epiphany, my human self was genuinely frightened of your kind." As Jen prepares to attack again. Tommy the Gopher shows up, but she tells him to stay out of it. Electro smacks her around some more, and she decides to destroy the generator, but Fred shows up and tells her that the generator is nuclear, and if she messes with it, it will melt down and kill millions of people. Jen is more than a little pissed about the nuclear reactor in the heart of Manhattan, but she doesn't have time to yell at Fred because she has figured out to stop Electro – wrap her fists in insulation and beat away! It's works for a second, but it really pisses him off, and he goes even nuttier, saying, "I am Zeus the Thunderer! I am the storm and the fury! You expect me to abandon my power? To renounce my godhood?!" He hits her with everything he has, and she's down for the count! As he's about to fry her permanent-like, his power shuts off. Jen smiles and pops him one, knocking him clear into next week (which would probably have killed him, but hey! it's a comic book!). Tommy shows up and says he never stood a chance against "us," and when Jen questions him, he tells her that Electro can only store about 100,000 volts without an outside power source, and he was going to use that up soon. He knew this nugget because he read it in The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, which he shows to Jen. Tommy tells her that once he read that, he simply turned the generator off. He begs her again to be her sidekick, but she rebuffs him. Finally she tells him "When your parents get murdered by criminals and you're caught in a bizarre accident that gives you the powers of a seven-foot, green termite with tentacles … then you can be my sidekick! Okay?!" Tommy cheerfully says okay and runs out the door. Jen isn't sure why he takes it so well, but then she realizes that she's in a comic book, and stuff like happens all the time! She runs after him as the curtain comes down!
There's not much to like about this comic book – the story is dumb, the characters are dumb, and the art is just standard superhero art. But let's just say you're picking this up as your first comic. No, it won't make you believe comics are great literature, but that's not the point. All comics should do for a first-timer is make them come back, and She-Hulk #58 works remarkably well in that regard. We get a clear sense of the character of Jennifer Walters – she's a lawyer, she's got a sense of humor, she likes hitting bad guys. The idea of her knowing she's in a comic book, which stretches back to the first issues of this series, is touched upon but isn't a major part of the book – it's obvious that Jen has accepted it, and although a first-time reader might be put off by the weirdness of the idea, it's not anything that is too off-putting. Electro is fine as a villain. He is obviously unhinged, so Fisch can write some ridiculously over-the-top villian dialogue and Jen can comment on how nutty it is. If this were a book that took itself seriously, a first-time reader with no experience with how, say, Victor von Doom talks all the time might wonder why all these people are speaking with such grand vocabulary. But because Jen deflates the idiocy of Electro's ranting, we still get old-fashioned bombast but in a lighter vein than "Doom must crush Reed Richards with his iron boots! No man can threaten Doom!" Jen's fight with Electro is vibrant and dynamic, and the solution is perfectly reasonable even though we know it's coming the whole time. Tommy is an inane character, but he does figure out to stop Electro, so we have to give him that!
All in all, this is a reasonably forgettable issue from the tail end of the series (it only lasted two more issues), but there is nothing in here that would drive away a first-time reader and there's a lot that could bring them back. For that, it passes the test. Of course, if you did come back to comics after reading this, you would soon learn that there's a lot better than this out there. But it's all about baby steps, people!
You might be being a little hard on this from the sound of it. Honestly, it sounds like a cute kid's comic to me. Most of the 'gateway' books that got us started were about this good. It wouldn't be something I'd pick up for myself, but I'd give it to one of my students with a clear conscience. Especially considering what ELSE was competing on the stands in '93, the miracle is that something harmless and cute made it to print at all.
I'm with Hatcher.
And also, at the very least, the cover's great. And the first page you scanned was really nicely designed. The camera zooms up, but you can still hear the characters who are no longer on screen, but we see the villain full on.
That's nice work. At least for one page.
I didn't THINK I was being hard on it! I thought it was kind of dumb, but I did write that if this was the first comic you would ever pick up, it does its job nicely. It probably would appeal to kids, too – it's goofy that way. All in all, not a great comic, but nothing that would actively turn people AWAY from them!
Wasn't the whole point of this blog being started to crusade against settling for comics that are "good enough"?
This column is not to find "GREAT" comics, but to figure out if these books would be good for first-time readers. This does the job, even though it's not a great comic. If a first-time book reader doesn't happen to read [insert the greatest book ever here] the first time they pick up a book, should they stop reading? Is this a comic that might bring people back for more? Yes. That's "good enough."
Yeah, I don't mind the qualified statement.
It's when you start seeing stuff like just a flat-out "It wasn't THAT good, but it was good enough," that I think you begin to get into the antithesis of this blog.
Okay, so the point of this column is to find out if random comics are accessible or not.
What does that tell us?
Just that.
But so long as it's clear that that is all it is trying to accomplish, you can certainly say, "Yeah, I'm not interested in reading these columns," but I do not think it impacts upon the task of recommending good comics (and not recommending comics that aren't good).
Now if Greg were to recommend the comic, even though it was not good, then I would totally agree – that would be lame.
Today, I went to the beachfront with my kids. I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said "You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear." She placed the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is totally off topic but I had to tell someone!
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Scrambled Eggs with Smoked Salmon
The Illustrated Kitchen Bible
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This is the ultimate feel-good Sunday brunch recipe.
Makes4 servings
Preparation Time10 min
Preparation Time - Text10 mins
Cooking Time10 min
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Total Timeunder 30 minutes
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Recipe Coursemain course
Taste and Texturesavory, smoky
- 6 large eggs
- 2 tbsp whole milk
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tbsp butter
- 8 oz (225g) smoked salmon, cut into thin strips, or hot smoked salmon, flaked
- 2 tbsp finely chopped chives
- 4 English muffins, split and toasted
Beat the eggs with the milk, and season with salt and pepper.
Heat the butter in a medium nonstick frying pan over medium heat until foaming. Add the eggs and stir with a wooden spoon until almost set. Stir in the smoked salmon and cook until just set.
Sprinkle with the chives. Spoon over the toasted muffin halves and serve hot.
Scrambled Eggs with Mushrooms
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Titan #5: Over a Torrent Sea
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Publication Date: February 24, 2009
As the Federation recovers from the devastating events of Star Trek: Destiny, Captain William Riker and the crew of the U.S.S. Titan are ordered to resume their deep-space assignment, reaffirming Starfleet's core principles of peaceful exploration. But even far from home on a mission of hope, the scars of the recent cataclysm remain with them as they slowly rebuild their lives.
The planet Droplet is a world made mostly of water without a speck of solid ground. Life should not exist here, yet it thrives. Aili Lavena, Titan's aquatic navigator, spearheads the exploration of this mysterious world, facing the dangers of the vast, wild ocean. When one native species proves to be sentient, Lavena finds herself immersed in a delicate contact situation, and Riker is called away from Deanna Troi at a critical moment in their marriage.
But when good intentions bring calamity, Lavena and Riker are cut off from the crew and feared lost. Troi must face a life-changing event without her husband, while the crew must brave the crushing pressures of the deep to undo the global chaos they have triggered. Stranded with her injured captain, Lavena must win the trust of the beings who control their fate -- but the price for Riker's survival may be the loss of everything he holds dear.
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Today I gave DD some cheese to munch on... it was Taleggio, a semi-soft sort of cheese. This isn't the first time she's had cheese, but it's the first time she fed it to herself. She had it once before in a pasta dish I made which contained both blue cheese and parmesan. Today, after about 10-15 minutes of eating the Taleggio, her face broke out in hives everywhere the cheese had touched her face. I didn't notice a reaction when she had the pasta, but then I was largely feeding it to her with a spoon (though I'm sure some got on her face) and she didn't have much.
Is it common to have a reaction to a specific cheese? Should I "test" by giving her another type of cheese just plain?


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What is this plugin with no specific description other than "style"?
How does a plugin with nearly zero details make it to the "newest" plugins page? This is really bogus.
What is this plugin with no specific description other than "style"?
How does a plugin with nearly zero details make it to the "newest" plugins page? This is really bogus.
As far as I can tell, getting on the "newest" or "recently updated" pages is purely automatic.
There is some kind of process for approving plugins for the directory, but I don't know how much checking is actually done.
I'd have to agree that this one is severely under documented.
i updated the description, it was the default one when applying for the plugin, I forgot to enter one in the readme.txt which parses to the extend directory, sorry about the confusion.
Fristopher, want to upload a few screenshots as well? I can't really be bothered to install it and test it myself to see whether it is any better than predecessors - and I want to know what the 'style' is like.
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i've been using Video Quick tag plugin [great plugin with many features and options] but this is better for my...show only the video not other stuff of youtube video player...and the current skin is perfect for my theme..so now i'm using it..
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For future versions, you can include more skins/colors and more text/images in the plugin page... people need read and see nice descriptions to feel free to use the plugin
congrats, This is great product.congrats. i have some quaries abt this player like is this player was devolped under youtube and google terms and conditinons. can i use this player in my cumercial site? if possible can u send the reference sites.
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Weather Extremes Provoked By Trapping Of Giant Waves In The Atmosphere, Likely Boosted By Global Warming
In October, a NOAA-led study found that "Warming-Driven Arctic Ice Loss Is Boosting Chance of Extreme U.S. Weather." A new study offers another mechanism for warming to drive extreme weather — JR
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research news release
The world has suffered from severe regional weather extremes in recent years, such as the heat wave in the United States in 2011 or the one in Russia 2010 coinciding with the unprecedented Pakistan flood. Behind these devastating individual events there is a common physical cause, propose scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The study will be published this week in the US Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and suggests that man-made climate change repeatedly disturbs the patterns of atmospheric flow around the globe's Northern hemisphere through a subtle resonance mechanism.
"An important part of the global air motion in the mid-latitudes of the Earth normally takes the form of waves wandering around the planet, oscillating between the tropical and the Arctic regions. So when they swing up, these waves suck warm air from the tropics to Europe, Russia, or the US, and when they swing down, they do the same thing with cold air from the Arctic," explains lead author Vladimir Petoukhov.
"What we found is that during several recent extreme weather events these planetary waves almost freeze in their tracks for weeks. So instead of bringing in cool air after having brought warm air in before, the heat just stays. In fact, we observe a strong amplification of the usually weak, slowly moving component of these waves," says Petoukhov. Time is critical here: two or three days of 30 degrees Celsius are no problem, but twenty or more days lead to extreme heat stress. Since many ecosystems and cities are not adapted to this, prolonged hot periods can result in a high death toll, forest fires, and dramatic harvest losses.
Anomalous surface temperatures are disturbing the air flows
Climate change caused by greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning does not mean uniform global warming – in the Arctic, the relative increase of temperatures, amplified by the loss of snow and ice, is higher than on average. This in turn reduces the temperature difference between the Arctic and, for example, Europe, yet temperature differences are a main driver of air flow. Additionally, continents generally warm and cool more readily than the oceans. "These two factors are crucial for the mechanism we detected," says Petoukhov. "They result in an unnatural pattern of the mid-latitude air flow, so that for extended periods the slow synoptic waves get trapped."
The authors of the study developed equations that describe the wave motions in the extra-tropical atmosphere and show under what conditions those waves can grind to a halt and get amplified. They tested their assumptions using standard daily weather data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). During recent periods in which several major weather extremes occurred, the trapping and strong amplification of particular waves – like "wave seven" (which has seven troughs and crests spanning the globe) – was indeed observed. The data show an increase in the occurrence of these specific atmospheric patterns, which is statistically significant at the 90 percent confidence level.
The probability of extremes increases – but other factors come in as well
"Our dynamical analysis helps to explain the increasing number of novel weather extremes. It complements previous research that already linked such phenomena to climate change, but did not yet identify a mechanism behind it," says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of PIK and co-author of the study. "This is quite a breakthrough, even though things are not at all simple – the suggested physical process increases the probability of weather extremes, but additional factors certainly play a role as well, including natural variability." Also, the 32-year period studied in the project provides a good indication of the mechanism involved, yet is too short for definite conclusions.
Nevertheless, the study significantly advances the understanding of the relation between weather extremes and man-made climate change. Scientists were surprised by how far outside past experience some of the recent extremes have been. The new data show that the emergence of extraordinary weather is not just a linear response to the mean warming trend, and the proposed mechanism could explain that.
— Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research news release
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How is this different from previous research showing the effect of loss of polar ice on the polar vortex and jet stream? That work showed, as I understood it, that with slowing of the vortex you get slowing and amplification of the waves of the jet stream. Same idea, right? Anybody want to clarify?
One might want to read the history of climate events before drawing definitive conclusions about short term observations.
There is a very strong relationship between ozone, which is created by UV rays in the stratosphere, and placement of the jet streams.
This recent finding shows Antarctica. There have been similar findings for the Arctic as well.
MIT delayer Lindzen is an expert in Rossby waves.
He is able to formulate one failed hypotheses after another about tropical heat losses. But he's unable to discern the influence & importance of AGW upon his favored area of study.
Although famous now for the wrong reasons, history may well find him truly worthless.
Except that what you pointed us to is not a history of climate but rather a rambling history of some weather events. And your point, I presume, is that sometimes weather get nasty? Yes it does. And it's getting nastier as we add more energy to the system by trapping heat. Stick around. More nastiness to come.
nastiness like the earth hasn't seen in a long time…
I'm not qualified to clarify, but I think you're right. I certainly had this impression from reading I've done, especially about the work of Jennifer Francis at Rutgers. Maybe it's just a case of two different research teams coming to more or less the same conclusion — but in this case, it would be hard to imagine that they are not aware or each other's work.
How is subpontine life, these days?
Can't open the link (would you mind posting it again or writing out the source?). However, the link's title "…trumps greenhouse gas increase" certainly sounds like denier nonsense.
Everything I've read states that the jet stream is driven by the difference in temperature between the cold poles ant the temperate zones. Why would ozone, or lack thereof, effect the movement of air, unless it effects temperatures. And if temperatures are the issue, why wouldn't anthropogenic global warming be part of that picture?
Going to get wet
Camburn seems to be one of the few 'skeptics' here on CP. Most of his recent posts seems to be…ahhhh….lacking in substance. Still, it's good to have a fox in the henhouse- keeps us hens good and alert!
Could these waves be trying to form bands like we see on other planets?
Where are the similar findings for the Arctic, given that there isn't an ozone hole up there? Quote from the article, though: Depletion of Antarctic ozone is a more important factor than increasing greenhouse gases in shifting the Southern Hemisphere jet stream in a southward direction, according to researchers at Penn State.
And this interesting bit: "The jet stream is expected to shift back toward the north as ozone is replenished, yet the greenhouse-gas effect could negate this."
On a side note, the popups on this site are getting a bit annoying.
Or should I say generally not as much depletion in the Arctic (which is associated at least partly with stratospheric cooling from the amplified greenhouse effect)?
The link is from Penn State.
I am re-posting it. It opened for me.
The fluctuation in the ozone levels is primarily driven by the changes in UV from the sun.
This occurs at both poles.
Actually, most of my posts are backed up by published literature.
Is why I provide links.
I have the paper this article references.
The article does talk a bit about solar influence on the blocking.
"The researchers suggest that the anomaly in Northern Europe's winter temperatures could be to do with a phenomenon called 'blocking'.
'Blocking' is related to the jet stream which brings winds from the west, over the Atlantic, and into Northern Europe but, over the past couple of winters, could have lost its way, for weeks at a time, in an 'anticyclone' before it reaches Europe.
The researchers have found strong correlations between weak solar activity and the occurrences of 'blocking'. As the temperature is affected by a weak Sun so the wind's patterns also change and, as the warmer westerly winds fail to arrive, the UK is hit by north-easterlies from the Arctic."
"We conclude that the intense 2010 Russian heat wave was mainly due to natural internal atmospheric variability. Slowly varying boundary conditions that could have provided predictability and the potential for early warning did not appear to play an appreciable role in this event."
The above Published paper has been cited 33 times. Due to the amount of citation, the validity of the paper is confirmed.
This cherry-picking of data is not a refutation of the CO2 hypothesis anymore than the fact that the first two people I knew who died of lung cancer were non-smokers refutes the link between lung cancer and tobacco.
What is the counter-hypothesis that ties together the shrinking ice cap, the retreating glaciers, the migration of species to higher latitudes and altitudes, the precession of the growing season, the earlier ice-out on lakes, the increased 100-year weather events, and ocean de-alkalinization?
The CO2 hypothesis accounts for all of the above.
This is wishful thinking disguised as analysis.
Holy Cow! When did the number of citations get to determine validity? I'm sure that 'Lord' Monckton and Mr Watts get a goodly few too, ME
We already have bands, for example the trade winds. But the atmosphere is shallow enough and the Earth small enough that they don't develop to the extent they do on the gas giant planets.
ME, I agree. We are all (most of us) amateur 'scientists' when it comes to AGW. But, we shouldn't prove that point. 33 Citations! Arrrgh.
I guess if you don't want to acknowledge the scientists at NOAA that is ok.
What scientists do you think are ok?
I gave you the paper in ref. The above is the press release about the paper.
It is slightly different in that the polar vortex is part of it, but they are quantifying more clearly the larger pattern resulting from heat transfer change.
When we look at the upper atmosphere, one of the things we do is look at the 500mb pattern and try to determine if there is a wave pattern (the "wave seven" they used in this piece). 3-5- or 7-wave patterns are stable configurations that tend to keep lows off of Iberia and Gulf of Alaska ("Pineapple Express" in US is one manifestation).
This paper is related to the amplitude of the waves and their placement.
As with climate, there is a difference between fluctuation and a trend.
David, I would have thought you a rooster, old chap. As for Camburn, he's a capital F Fox, no doubt about it.


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When in the admin panel and creating a new post, if NHL.com embedded video code is entered into a wordpress post after clicking the 'HTML' tab and the following code is entered into the body of the post:
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IS there much difference between MySQL and PostgreSQL for a beginner like me, using basic select statements and the like, or are the main differences with using more advanced queries?
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The reason why I usually suggest PostgreSQL before MySQL is because MySQL is far from the standards (SQL-wise). It does not support the use of window functions (8.4 version), common table expressions (8.4), CHECK constraints, EXCEPT/MINUS operator, even FULL OUTER JOINs... Even though you may have never heard of these words, you'll have to use those concepts at some point.
I strongly suggest you to start with PostgreSQL, then you can learn what "real" SQL is. Then, you can decide if MySQL is sufficient or not.
P.S. I started with MySQL and I regretted it. I now use PostgreSQL and I love it.
There have already been a lot of great points in favor of PostgreSQL, but I am going to add 1 more:
PostgreSQL has the best documentation of any database product I have worked with.
This is why the documentation stands out:
Other vendors should be ashamed of what they try and a pass off as documentation.
While you're just starting out I think you'll appreciate PostgreSQL's pgadminIII GUI tool more than you would those that I've tried for MySQL. This may just be my preference, however.
When you get past the basics you will definitely want to take advantage of PostgreSQL's support of window functions starting in version 8.4
I'd actually recommend PostgreSQL over MySQL for the window functions alone. Note that there are ways to emulate window functions in MySQL.
I would recommend PostgreSQL for a beginner as it has far fewer surprises than MySQL.
Here are some of the things that people run into with MySQL:
Meanwhile, PostgreSQL does exactly what you expect it to do in most situations, and usually has a very good reason when it does something unexpected.
You often hear PostgreSQL enthusiasts argue that it's a "real" RDBMS, while MySQL is not. This kind of snobbery is dangerous for newcomers, because it comes after years of specific experiences that rub a certain way against a certain personality type. If you want to approach it in terms of what knowledge would benefit a beginner the most - you're far more likely to find people using MySQL out in the wild than PostgreSQL. Big sites built around open source software choose MySQL over PostgreSQL by a wide margin.
Personally, I like MySQL because it fits my development style - it just gets stuff done. I don't use foreign keys. I definitely don't use stored procedures. But what MySQL does, it does well and it does fast and it does it while giving me a happy "okay, that makes sense" feeling that I don't get with PostgreSQL (I've used both extensively). There's good community support for MySQL and excellent documentation. And if you need to do replication (and who doesn't?) MySQL is the clear winner, no questions asked.
There are some things that MySQL lets you do that could possibly lead to bad habits if you switch to less-forgiving databases. But that's the thing - there's all this talk of how you need to be prepared to jump from RDBMS X to RDBMS Y at a moment's notice. In my experience, this happens rarely, and when it does there are always quirky differences from one database to the next. MySQL is different from PostgreSQL, which is different from Oracle, which is different from SQL Server, which is different from sqlite, etc, etc. I've used all the dbs I listed above, but the one I keep coming back to, the one that gets things done most easily and flexibly for me, is MySQL.
DBAs love to put down MySQL the same way programming language aficionados love to bash PHP - and yet they survive and thrive. There are reasons for this - they just work, they just get stuff done. But at the end of the day you should play around with all of it and make up your own mind.
PostgreSQL supports more advanced queries, it performs better on complicated queries, but is harder to manage.
MySQL is fast, easy to manage, but you can run into it's limitations on advanced queries, stored procedures and the like.
They are sufficiently similar that I'd recommend starting with MySQL but learning PostgreSQL as well.


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New York's highest court has decided to review a recent ruling that says salerooms in the state must reveal consignors' names to buyers.
In September the Supreme Court rejected the claim that New York's auctioneers follow common practice when preserving the anonymity of their clients and said that a binding auction contract in the state must include the name of both buyer and seller.
The surprise ruling followed a legal action brought by Chester, New York saleroom William J. Jenack against a buyer who declined to pay his bill. Lawyers for Albert Rabizadeh, a Long Island-based dealer in Russian works of art, argued that the auction house had lacked the proper documents to demand payment of $400,000 ($460,000 including premium) for a silver and enamel box by Ivan Petrovich Khlebnikov.
Their argument was based on the letter of the General Obligations Law, the statute covering contracts between buyers and sellers in New York, which says a legally recognised contract must include the names of both parties. Justice Peter B. Skelos (with three other justices concurring) agreed that a simple consignment number was not enough.
Legal opinion has been split on the ruling and its implications for New York auctioneers. "As of now you can back out of any transaction where the name of the seller is not provided," said Peter Stern of Manhattan art lawyers McLaughlin & Stern. Others, such as Jonathan Olsoff of Sotheby's, have argued the significance of the ruling has been overstated as it related only to cases when a purchaser defaults.
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Jess wore J Brand's Love Story Flares in Cosmic with a MiH Tails Shirt in Mini Leo and navy blazer. I've always thought that she was a woman who can pull off any denim fit going and I'm not wrong. Jess looks fantastic in every pair of jeans she wears! It's really good to see more flares out and about now. Buy J Brand online at Singer22.com.
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Body movements of flying insects change their effective wing kinematics and, therefore, influence aerodynamic force and torque production. It was found that substantial aerodynamic damping is produced by flapping wings through a passive mechanism termed "flapping countertorque" during fast yaw turns. We expand this study to include the aerodynamic damping that is produced by flapping wings during body translations and rotations with respect to all its six principal axes-roll, pitch, yaw, forward/backward, sideways, and heave. Analytical models were derived by the use of a quasi-steady aerodynamic model and blade-element analysis by the incorporation of the effective changes of wing kinematics that are caused by body motion. We found that aerodynamic damping, in all these cases, is linearly dependent on the body translational and angular velocities and increases with wing-stroke amplitude and frequency. Based on these analytical models, we calculated the stability derivatives that are associated with the linearized flight dynamics at hover and derived a complete 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) dynamic model. The model was then used to estimate the flight dynamics and stability of four different species of flying insects as case studies. The analytical model that is developed in this paper is important to study the flight dynamics and passive stability of flying animals, as well as to develop flapping-wing micro air vehicles (MAVs) with stable and maneuverable flight, which is achieved through passive dynamic stability and active flight control.
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imo, this would be the best tandem ever, atleast on paper.
Green was too old when he paired up with Champ.
The closest one was Deion and E. Davis but I still think Revis/Nnamdi is better.
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AbstractMany fungal and bacterial pathogens produce proteolytic enzymes that facilitate penetration into fish skin or eggshells. These diseases are a major and growing challenge to sustainable aquaculture in the United States. Our Phase I research results demonstrated the feasibility of new, non-toxic, disease prevention and treatment strategies. The key is our focus on safe, natural materials combined with innovative delivery systems. We propose to enhance the efficacy of the treatments identified in Phase I by applying recent advances in particle chemistry and nanotechnology. First, we will examine the efficacy of our latest formulation discoveries against an array of pathogenic Saprolegnia fungi from diverse geographic areas to validate their widespread applicability. Second, we will examine unique enzyme systems and test for anti-fungal activity. Third, we will work to magnify the therapeutic potency of our formulations by combining them to non-toxic micro- or nanoparticles. Fourth, these treatment systems will be tested in catfish and trout for safety and efficacy. Lastly, this agriculturally-related manufacturing technology will be commercialized by developing initial prototype products and field testing them in conjunction with ProFishent's Phase III collaborator, AquaTactics, LLC. These treatments should promote an expansion of the number of cultured species, make the harvest volume more predictable, and increase the productivity of private and public sector aquaculture in the U.S.A.
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Veneza water park is a giant aquatic park [1] located in the beach of Maria farinha in Paulista, Pernambuco, north-eastern Brazil. It contains the largest artificially slow river of Brazil, called "Amazon river". It is one of the largest water parks in South America providing a superstructure of entertainment and cuisine. Is named Veneza as reference to Recife capital of the state, which has the nickname of "Brazilian Venice". The water park is located 10 km south of Olinda and 20 km south of Recife.
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- Anaconda - Water slide in a form of a snake that falls from a tree 15 meters tall.The user fall into the pool and continues to travel slowly navigating the "Amazon river".
- Toboaguas. It consists of 7 tracks of water that starts with sinuous channels providing after a drop of 25 meters tall with the 80 km/h speedy, almost in free fall.
- Amazon river - It is the longest artificially slow river of the country with 6 meters wide, 1.10 m deep and 350 m in length; through caves, waterfalls and bridges.
- Oahu wave pool - Large pool of waves in one of the most beautiful areas of the park.
- Kids land - Open space with water toys.
- Bumba - Radical decline in water ramp.
- Rapids - Track of water with 25 m tall and 230 meters of road.
- Square Mermaid - Provides a shower of rain.
- Pools - Recreational swimming pools with small toboaguas (water slides).
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Good thing the hill wasn't sloped the other way!
And now we can resume this peaceful relaxing game.
Well after staring at this for 5 minutes I still don't know what happened other than Clumsy turning around.
Good Morning, Fellow Cave Dwellers.
@Grog - Sorry, I don't know the character names. Clumsy took the pegleg and shoved it into the grass to level the golfer.
Shorter leg peg, Grog.
I find the humor sub par today.
Good Morning Pamlicorat, Lonewolf, Grog and all the BC chip shotters.
The one who thought of today's strip should join a "club" for "putts".
Thank you, converses. That would be Wiley.
I agree, Gweedo!
Wiley has different length 'legs' for Clumsy to adjust for the course. I waiting to see him on the 9th… I hear it's a dog leg.
Took me a while to get it, but then I saw Clumsy with the bag o' legs and got a chuckle.
However, it still looks like he's going to hit the ball right into the hill.
Ha, ha, ha, ah, ha. That is so funny.
cdward, I thought they were clubs.
But look at what Clumsy is carrying back to the bag!
Yeah, those are definitely legs in the bag. He needs one with a wheel on it. That'd be fun!
Good morning, BCers
It took me a while to figure it out.
Wiley needs an adjustable prosthesis. I'm sure they're available at most Walgreens and Medical Supply Stores.
lightenup: The one with the wheel could turn out to be the first golf cart!
Do not use the one with the wheel on this hill!!!!
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The program includes the Tuesday night premiere of a documentary featuring President Barack Obama, singer Kelly Clarkson and basketball star LeBron James. It will air on all of Viacom's U.S. networks, including MTV and VH1.
Earlier in the day, Obama gave a speech challenging America's students to take pride in their education.
Gates is following with the announcement of his "Get Schooled Initiative," a five-year plan to create awareness of the U.S. school system.
The Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is partnering with education leaders, Viacom and other corporate firms to launch the program.
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AbstractThermoelectrics, a technology for the direct conversion of heat into electrical energy, is a mature technology that is; however, undergoing a revolution in capability and applicability with the introduction of nanotechnology. Recent results with nanocomposite films have shown that Figures of Merit (ZT) much greater than 1.0 are possible at laboratory-scale; however a technology road map with the view towards large-volume and low-cost manufacturing processes of such TE devices has not previously been envisioned. These demonstrated results must now be transitioned into commercial applications. SMI has teamed with a leading thermoelectric (TE) research group in order to optimize and convert high-performance solid state TE materials developed at laboratory-scale into economically producible products for DOE desired products, military needs, and commercial applications in general. We propose to develop a scalable manufacturing process of large-volume and cost-effective nanocomposite TE device films with ZT values exceeding 2.0.Commercial Applications and other Benefits as described by the awardee: Conversion of heat directly to electrical energy is needed for many DOE programs and, following solar energy, will be an important part of many energy generation needs. The realization of high volume production of rugged, high-efficiency, and low-cost thermoelectric devices will have substantial positive impacts on reducing instrument size, weight and cost
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