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Trainer Jamie Osborne has been hired by Goffs to serve as the United Kingdom agent for the Ireland-based auction firm and to promote this year's Orby yearling sale.
Trainer Jamie Osborne has been hired by Goffs to serve as the United Kingdom agent for the Ireland-based auction firm and to promote this year's Orby yearling sale.
Tattersalls Ireland has restructured its November breeders' flat sale to change its focus to yearlings. This year's edition of the auction, which will be known as the November yearling sale, is scheduled for Nov. 17-18.
Irish champion Henrythenavigator sired his first winner when his daughter Infanta Branca won April 22 at the Curragh.
Coolmore is planning to develop, along with the Irish government, a Thoroughbred industry in China. The project involves racetracks, a training center, and the export of 100 mares from Ireland to China.
The Goffs ready to run sale at Kempton in Ireland April 3 enjoyed a 10% increase in gross from a year ago and had a clearance rate of 83%. But the average price and median price declined 6.8% and 10%, respectively.
Montjeu, a Cartier Award winner and an outstanding sire at John Magnier and partners' Coolmore Stud in Ireland, died March 29 after a short illness due to complications from septicemia, an infection in the bloodstream.
Two-time Cartier Award winner New Approach was represented by his first winner when his son Dawn Approach won at the Curragh March 25 in his initial start.
Coolmore Stud's world-class stallion Royal Academy, who has been represented by more than 160 stakes winners, died Feb. 22 at Coolmore Australia due to the infirmities of old age. He was 25.
Teo's Sister became the most expensive horse ever sold at the Goffs February mixed sale when she brought 500,000 euros ($656,290 in U.S. funds) during the second and final session of the auction.
The Goffs February mixed sale in Ireland got off to a rousing start, enjoying some big increases from a year ago in its key business figures.
Cape Blanco won the champion male turf title by making three transatlantic trips to America and winning not only three grade I stakes, but three of the most prestigious turf stakes in America.
The series of November sales conducted by Goffs ended a five-day run in Ireland Nov. 19 with increases for the combined figures of 42% in gross, 31% in average price, and 25% in median price from a year ago.
Members of the first crop of 2009 European Horse of the Year Sea The Stars made a big splash at the Goffs November foal sale, which ended its three-day run Nov. 17 in Ireland.
An Exceed and Excel colt topped the second session of the Goffs November foal sale, bringing €90,000 ($122,201 in U.S. funds). Julie Wood purchased the chestnut weanling from Oghill House Stud Nov. 16 in Ireland.
The Goffs November foal sale got off to a roaring start in Ireland Nov. 15. The number sold and gross during the opening session were up 47% and 121.7% from a year ago.
Dream Ahead, who beat Goldikova in the Qatar Prix de la Foret (Fr-I) Oct. 2 in what was his final start, has been retired for stallion duty in 2012 at Ballylinch Stud near Thomastown, Ireland.
The Goffs Orby yearling sale ended its three-session run Sept. 29 in Ireland with a 3.4% increase from a year ago in its median price, a gross that remained about the same, and an increased clearance rate.
Three horses brought prices of 300,000 euros ($406,722 in U.S. funds) or more during the second session of the Goffs Orby yearling sale in Ireland Sept. 28. All three were fillies.
A Montjeu colt, which brought 300,000 euros ($403,893 in U.S. funds), was the most expensive horse sold Sept. 27 during the opening session of the Goffs Orby yearling sale in Ireland.
Marju, an English group I winner and a prominent Irish stallion, has been pensioned at Derrinstown Stud in Ireland because of advanced age.
The Aidan O'Brien-trained So You Think beats five rivals going 10 furlongs at Leopardstown in the Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes Ire-I).
Tattersalls Ireland has cataloged 542 horses for its September yearling sale. The auction will be held Sept. 20 and 21 near Ratoath in County Meath.
Irish stallion King's Theatre, who finished third on the 2010/2011 English/Irish jumps sires' list, was euthanized following colic surgery performed June 13.
Simon Burgess talks with Colm O'Donoghue, jockey for Treasure Beach who won the Irish Derby on June 26. Watch Video
Irish stallion Montjeu became the first son of the great Irish stallion Sadler's Wells to reach the 100 mark by number of stakes winners when his 3-year-old son Pour Moi won the Prix Greffulhe (Fr-II) May 7.
The leading international sire died of natural causes at Coolmore Stud in Ireland.
Sean Collins, founder and president of the Irish Equine Centre, died March 5 of a brain hemorrhage.
Old Vic, England's 1989 Horse of the Year who went on to become a prominent National Hunt stallion, was euthanized Feb. 21 from complications from colic at Sunnyhill Stud in Co. Kildare, Ireland.
While most of the key economic indicators within the Irish racing industry fell in 2010, the annual report from Horse Racing Ireland shows favorable trends within racecourse attendance and bloodstock sales.
Irish stallion Invincible Spirit closed out 2010 with a record but it was a record for the number of 2-year-old winners in a single year for a stallion standing in either North America or Europe.
Irish stallion Iffraaj set a European freshman sire record of 36 2-year-old winners when his son Dixlesio won Nov. 21 at Madrid in Spain.
The Goffs November breeding stock sale ended its two-day run Nov. 20 in Ireland with decreases in gross, average price, and median price from the previous year.
Blas Ceoil, who is in foal to 2009 Horse of the Year Sea The Stars, topped the opening session of the Goffs November breeding stock sale, bringing 300,000 euros ($407,946 in U.S. funds) Nov. 19 in Ireland.
The Goffs November foal sale ended its three-day run in Ireland Nov. 18 with a gross of €10,134,900 ($13,687,600 in U.S. funds) for the 399 horses that were sold.
He purchases a Dubawi colt that tops Part 2 of the auction in Ireland.
The filly and colt each bring 300,000 euros ($404,034 in U.S. funds) during the Ireland-based yearling auction.
The Tattersalls Ireland September yearling sale posted increases of 6.8% in the number of horses sold and 10.6% in gross revenue from a year ago during its two-day run, which ended Sept. 22.
On the eve of his 100th birthday on Sept. 13, Moyglare Stud's Walter Haefner will have two horses running at The Curragh with chances to add to his long list of group I winners.
At The Races and SIS won the exclusive right to license betting operations in Great Britain and Ireland for pari-mutuel wagering on the Nov. 5-6 Breeders' Cup World Championships.
Keeneland has successfully developed the September sale into the largest international marketplace for Thoroughbred yearlings. But will the sale continue offering the kinds of horses European buyers want? Read Blog
The England-based company will expand Craven sale and replace the Guineas auction with a new sale in Ireland.
Ivan Denisovich, an English group II winner and a grade I stakes performer in the United States, was represented by his initial winner when his son Premier Clarets won May 20 at Haydock in England.
Liam Cashman, owner of Rathbarry Stud in Ireland and breeder of leading filly Finsceal Beo, has died.
First-crop stallion Holy Roman Emperor, a French champion and Irish group I winner, sired his first winner when his son High Award won the first race for 2-year-olds in England and Ireland this year.
Gross rises 14% while average price increases 11.1% in Ireland.
Daylami, a Cartier Horse of the Year and winner of the 1999 Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT), has been relocated to stand at Coolagown Stud in Co. Cork, Ireland.
Horse Racing Ireland has announced a series of budget cuts, including a reduction in purses for 2010 of 10.2%, from 53.1 million euros to 47.7 million euros.
Fourpenny Lane, a 4-year-old stakes-winning daughter of Efisio, brought the top price of 100,000 euros ($148,700 in U.S. funds) as the Goffs November breeding stock sale ended its two-day run in Ireland Nov. 22. She was the most expensive horse sold during the entire auction.
Bon Nuit, a stakes-winning daughter of Night Shift, topped the opening session of the Goffs November breeding stock sale, bringing 230,000 euros ($342,339 in U.S. funds) Nov. 21 in Ireland. Clive Gardner purchased the 7-year-old bay mare from Ballincurrig House Stud.
The Goffs November foal sale, which ended its four-day run in Ireland, posted increases of 5% in gross revenue, 11.1% in average price, and 30% in median price.


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Where Does NYC Stand in Achieving Universal Access to Early Education?
Last week in his state of the union address, President Obama made the case for universal access to high-quality early childhood education. He noted that while we know that early education improves outcomes for children, financial and other barriers prevent many children from accessing these services.
The most recent Census data show that nationwide more than half (52.6 percent) of three- and four-year-olds are not enrolled in a pre-school program.
For New York City, the same Census data show that about half of three- and four-year olds are enrolled in public or private pre-school or nursery school programs. With an additional 8.5% already enrolled in kindergarten, about 40 percent of three- and four-year-olds – more than 87,000 – are not enrolled in an early education program.[1]
While the city compares rather favorably to the nation, there are certain communities and populations in the five boroughs where young children are less likely to be enrolled in early education programs:
This last point is particularly troubling, since we know that early childhood education goes a long way toward leveling the playing field for low-income children who often face multiple barriers to success and well-being.
We also know that investments in early childhood education are cost-effective. The President mentioned a return on investment of $7 for every $1 spent on early childhood education. This was likely a reference to a seminal study known as the HighScope Perry Preschool study, in which 123 low-income children were randomly split into two groups – one group receiving a high-quality early education program and the other group receiving no such intervention. The original study was conducted in the mid-1960s and the children have been tracked ever since into adulthood. The results of several follow-up studies show a number of long-term benefits, including higher graduation rates, higher earnings, lower arrest rates, and total returns-on-investment upwards of $17 for every $1 spent on program costs.[2]
With these demonstrated benefits and potential savings, it seems unfathomable that the Mayor proposes to cut early childhood education in his preliminary budget. Rather than reducing resources for these critical programs, we should be looking at ways to expand access to the programs that support early childhood development, so that all New York City children have the opportunity to develop the proper foundation for academic achievement and success.
[1] U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates (2011), Summary Table C14003 and Public Use Microdata Sample File; retrieved from American FactFinder; http://factfinder2.census.gov/; (20 February 2012). See also Citizens' Committee for Children (2013), Keeping Track of New York City's Children Tenth Edition.
[2] Schweinhart, LJ, et al. (2004); Lifetime Effects: The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 40; High Scope Educational Research Foundation; retrieved from http://www.highscope.org/file/Research/PerryProject/specialsummary_rev2011_02_2.pdf; (20 February 2012).
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Why do so many people think that boxers only know how to punch?
Tyson assaulted someone in a traffic accident...by kicking him in the *****.
Watch the scuffle between haye and chisora. Haye throws one punch...
The rest is pulling chisoras head down and elbowing the back of his head.
Alot of boxers were streetfighters, and streetfighting is neither mma nor boxing.
Its grabbing someone by their collar and butting the **** out of the opponents
Face, for instance. Fedor can do that but so can foreman. It depends on who starts
First, who is more lucky, physical strength, technique, scruples etc. No way to predict anything. And even if one guy wins, chances are he loses in a rematch. Everyone calm down.
What you say may well be true as long as the fight remains standing but fedor would take Foreman down. Groundfighting is what Fedor does best. No way he makes the mistake of slugging it out with one of the (if not THE) hardest punchers of all time. Fedor is the MMA GOAT for a reason. He is not stupid.
On the ground Foreman would be helpless I'm afraid.
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not worth it
I could open it with a small pry bar in a few mins
Gun safes are a you get what you pay for deal
This is a discussion on new gun safe within the Related Gear & Equipment forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Has any one seen or bought the gun safes at Walmart. They are nice for the price. They are made by Sentry and hold 10 ...
Has any one seen or bought the gun safes at Walmart. They are nice for the price. They are made by Sentry and hold 10 long guns and has a shelf for hand guns. The price was 185.00 on sale. The door has three large pins to lock it and a combination lock. IT would be nice for some one looking for a cheaper or smaller safe.
not worth it
I could open it with a small pry bar in a few mins
Gun safes are a you get what you pay for deal
I have 1, but I live in a low crime area. Also , the safe is more for easy access for me, no access for my kids. Once I move into a perminant house , I will look for a bigger, better safe.
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Don't get it they are junk. Be prepared to invest some good cash in a safe. It will be worth it. Mine cost me about $700, can hold up to 24 long guns, has shelves, 30 minute 1200 degree firerating, and weighs in at about 500 pounds empty. I absolutely love it. A good gunsafe is well worth the money spent.
I will support gun control when you can guarantee all guns are removed from this planet. That includes military and law enforcement. When you can accomplish that, then I will be the last person to lay down my gun. Then I will carry the weapon that replaces the gun.
Depends on what you want it for. If you just want something to keep the kids away from your guns the Sentry will do the job.
If you want to deter determined thieves and protect against fire, save your $$$
I'm a child of the 60's, but I got over it.
Great for storage of ammo. Better than nothing (how much is obviously up for debate) if you don't have a safe.
For the price of a quality factory gun, you can purchase a safe that will protect what you have. Spend the $$$$.
Just got it to keep the kids out. I have a good alarm system and good neighbors close by. The safe may not be Fancey but will slow the crooks down. I don't store all my guns in it . I have a better place for them. I keep frequently used items and my ammo and ccw auto in it. its small and handy to have even if its not state of the art.
I use mine to store black powder, and it is so labled...
or is it??
it is labled as such though, no open flame etc...
Money invested in a safe is proportional to the amount of delay you wish to cause a thief. Determined thieves with the right skills will bust open any safe. Determined thieves with the right skills are not as common as some would have you believe. Any safe is better than no safe at all (unless you have a good homeowner's policy and no kids).
I once had my entire gun collection stolen from a storage unit in Florida while I was deployed to Kuwait. I had renter's insurance at the time. I gave State Farm (and the police) my inventory list complete with serial numbers and pictures. They cut me a check for the current retail prices for each one. For my guns that were not replaceable, they gave me the choice of an equivalent replacement and paid me accordingly.
Moral of the story is to have a safe if you want, and spend what you feel is appropriate, but definitely have a good inventory and have an insurance policy.
Whatever doesn't kill you postpones the inevitable.
One is a short (30") safe which cost me about $400 and a small, but tall, version of the same Browning safe which cost me $1300...
Either, when filled with guns and ammo, would require 'two men and a truck' to move.
Can a real thief get in? Probably, but the regular BG's will be discouraged.
You get what you pay for...
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Through three gifts to Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS), investor and philanthropist Foster Stanback and his wife, Coco, aim to help the Institute advance innovation in space exploration, with the attendant benefits of an educated workforce, skilled jobs, and spinoff technologies.
The suite of gifts totals $7.8 million: $3 million to create an endowment for space innovation, $3 million for a fund that will support four graduate student fellowships, and $1.8 million to launch a new outreach program.
According to Foster Stanback, these contributions represent "the equivalent of what investing in big sailing ships was many years ago." He explains: "When Portugal made those investments and Vasco de Gama rounded the coast of Africa with that first load of pepper from India, the world changed.
"There are opportunities waiting out there that are going to advance civilization. We've got to do the hard work, the science, in order to make that possible. It's not going to be as easy as building ships out of wood, but Caltech has the people who can do this, working with nanotechnology and advanced materials science, new propulsion systems, atomic energy, and more."
Caltech President Thomas Rosenbaum, holder of the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and a professor of physics, anticipates that the impact of the Stanbacks' gifts will be substantial.
"Foster and Coco's insightful philanthropy is empowering Caltech to make world-changing discoveries," he says, noting that the Stanbacks have advanced an array of Institute priorities with more than $24 million in support over the past decade. "Through this new gift to EAS, they are positioning the Institute to attract the most outstanding scholars and to educate future generations of leaders, on campus and off. We are deeply grateful for their remarkable vision."
Stanback was inspired to make the gifts after participating in the inaugural meeting of Caltech's Space Innovation Council in April 2014. The group, chaired by filmmaker James Cameron and Charles Elachi, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a professor of electrical engineering and planetary science at Caltech, aims to advance space science and promote technological creativity.
Stanback established the space innovation fund to help novel technical projects get off the ground. One example: electrically powered aircraft that can be recharged in flight by energy beamed from space. "This sounds like not just science fiction, but crazy science fiction," Stanback says, "but they're working on it!"
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The innovation fund will give EAS additional resources to do just that, and the new fellowships will strengthen the division's ability to offer financial assistance to top graduate students.
"Fellowships are dear to my heart," says Ravi Ravichandran, the John E. Goode, Jr., Professor of Aerospace and a professor of mechanical engineering. Ravichandran directs the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT), which will be the primary program to benefit from the new fellowships.
"We want to produce critical thinkers who can transform academia and industry, and define future directions in aerospace," Ravichandran adds. "For the nation to continue to provide leadership in this area, we need to train extraordinary people. The new fellowships will help us attract the best people in the world."
The outreach program will engage these extraordinary young scientists in training the next-generation workforce. Caltech will collaborate with a network of community colleges to identify students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have high technical aptitude and interest. These young people will team up with GALCIT students who will mentor them and teach them topics in aerospace engineering. Stanback envisions this program inspiring students from community colleges to pursue education and careers in aerospace.
For his part, Ravichandran is excited to offer GALCIT students systematic opportunities for outreach. "This will make them better able to teach, to convey the excitement of aerospace, and to work in teams," he says.
Teamwork is already a strength for Caltech, in Stanback's view. "Caltech has something unique—I think there's a community and a culture that leads to interaction and sharing of ideas. The students have an idea and they share it with the professor, and oftentimes the professor says, 'Well, let's do it.' Then the administration says, 'Well, let's figure out how to support this.' Everyone is working together to support the mission."
"Caltech is a place where the sky is the limit," Ravichandran explains. "When we recruit students, what I tell them is that this is the place where you can imagine anything and you can do anything. Coco and Foster Stanback's transformative gifts will certainly help us in achieving this."
Fredric ("Fred") Raichlen, professor emeritus of civil and mechanical engineering in Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science, passed away on December 13, 2014. He was 82 years old. Raichlen was an expert in coastal engineering whose pioneering studies of tsunami mechanics have led to standards for designing tsunami-resistant structures that have saved lives around the world.
Ordinary waves are wind-driven and propagate at and just below the ocean's surface. A tsunami, however, is driven by a displacement in the earth's crust, such as an underwater earthquake or a volcanic eruption. The entire depth of the water column is set in motion from seafloor to surface. In the open ocean, the waves are hardly noticeable—the peaks are a few feet high at most, and the interval between successive waves can be several hours. But as the tsunami approaches land, the transition to shallow water concentrates the wave's energy. This rising wall of water, focused by local topography, can flood many miles inland.
That much was known when Raichlen entered the field, says his graduate student Costas Synolakis (BS '78, MS '79, PhD '86), now a professor of civil and environmental engineering at USC and the director of USC's Tsunami Research Center. But, as Synolakis says, "There were several theories and hypotheses, but there was no laboratory validation of any of them. Further, there were very few field observations. Scientists did not even know what a tsunami looked like."
This was at least partly because funding for tsunami research was hard to come by. Tsunamis were seen as a threat to other shorelines, not American ones. "Tsunamis were not trendy," Synolakis says, "and their study was considered humdrum. For almost a decade, Fred was the only professor in the U.S. working on tsunami hydrodynamics. But the students he trained, trained others. And by the time it was realized how important tsunamis are, there were knowledgeable scientists who could rise to the challenge."
Upon arriving at Caltech in 1962, Raichlen built a set of wave tanks to analyze how tsunamis originate, how they propagate through the open ocean, and what happens when they run up on shore. The data from these experiments enabled him to develop a comprehensive, three-dimensional computer model of tsunami behavior. The first part of the model described the waves' motions through the deep sea, while the second part of the model described the waves' behavior within the harbor. The two models were fused at the harbor's entrance, with the connecting region modifying the incoming tsunami's waves as they entered the harbor.
"The work he supervised remains the world standard," Synolakis says. "Nobody else before or since has done laboratory experiments of such precision and quality. Fred believed that answers could only be mined in the laboratory and that the only numerical models that could be trusted were the ones that had been benchmarked with laboratory experiments."
Previous models had represented harbors as simple geometric shapes. This model, however, re-created the harbor's interior in great detail, rendering its basins, jetties, islands, and channels as collections of line segments. The waves' reflections off of each line segment were easy to calculate when each segment was handled individually, and the tsunami's actual behavior was derived by superimposing all the reflected waves on the incoming ones to map out where they would reinforce one another and where they would damp each other out. This approach reduced the computation to a straightforward exercise in matrix algebra that could be solved on Caltech's IBM 360/75 mainframe computer—the fastest, most sophisticated machine of its day.
In 1965, Raichlen built a 31-by-15-foot wave tank instrumented to measure wave heights and water velocities anywhere within its walls. Graduate student Jiin-Jen Lee (PhD '70), also now a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Southern California and the director of USC's Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research, used the tank to verify the model's predictions of wave behavior in idealized circular and rectangular harbors. He then built a scale model of the east and west basins of the port of Long Beach, California, out of 15 sheets of quarter-inch-thick Lucite. The waves created by Lee's physical model in the wave tank were well described by the mathematical model in the computer. Says Lee, "Fred wanted a theory and the numerical analysis to go with it, but he also wanted them verified against a physical model. A lot of people would just say, 'OK, I did this, and now I'll move on.' Fred was very careful to make sure that the theory could actually be checked out."
Raichlen continued to refine and expand the model. A third section was added to reproduce the different types of seabed motions that could give a wave its initial impetus. Other experiments considered a tsunami's interactions with objects floating in the harbor, such as ships and mooring platforms, or measured how fast different regions within a wave moved as the wave broke, which allowed the force of the wave's impact to be calculated.
Raichlen's model also provided the first mathematically sound explanation of how seiches, also known as "harbor waves," are created. Seiches can persist for days and are extremely damaging due to their height. They occur because every harbor has a set of resonant frequencies. Any waves of those frequencies will reverberate, amplifying themselves. Typical tsunamis have a frequency of one wave every several hours. Raichlen's model showed that many harbors also have a fundamental resonant frequency of one wave every several hours—an unfortunate frequency match that enables such a harbor to amplify a tsunami into a seiche. The model also resolved a long-standing paradox: Harbors with narrow mouths usually offer the best shelter, but those same harbors suffer the worst seiches. The model showed that as the harbor's mouth got narrower, the wave energy trapped within the harbor had less and less chance of escaping. The only way to dissipate the energy was by friction as the water sloshed back and forth.
Raichlen's commitment to his work was matched by his commitment to his students. Lee's thesis was published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, an unusual periodical for a civil engineer and one read by a much wider community. Says Lee, "Normally the professor and the student are coauthors, but Fred took his name out. He said, 'This is very important for your career. You should publish it as the sole author.' At first I thought that meant maybe the paper was not so good, and he didn't want his name on it. But he wanted that study to be identified with me, so he gave me all the credit. I was really moved, because it was a pretty important study. We could have published a hundred papers, each with a different-shaped harbor."
Raichlen was a hands-on adviser, spending time with each of his students every day, says Synolakis. "I will forever treasure how he trained me in the laboratory. I was a complete novice, and for several months, he stayed with me, making sure that I didn't run into trouble. He was always eager to explain what we were seeing. His attention to detail was legendary, and he could see things that nobody else could or can."
Raichlen earned his bachelor's degree in engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 1953 and his master's and doctoral degrees at MIT in 1955 and 1962. He also served in the Air Force as an environmental health officer from 1956 to 1959. He came to Caltech as an assistant professor of civil engineering in 1962; he was promoted to associate professor in 1967 and to professor in 1972. In 1969, he became one of the founding faculty members of Caltech's doctoral program in environmental engineering science. He was appointed professor of civil and mechanical engineering in 1997 and professor emeritus in 2001.
Raichlen was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 1993, and in 1994 he received the John G. Moffatt–Frank E. Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In 2003, he was given the ASCE's International Coastal Engineering Award, the most prestigious honor in the international coastal engineering community.
In his retirement, Raichlen devoted his time to writing a book, Waves (MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, 2012). He also became an avid and prolific watercolor painter.
Raichlen is survived by his wife, Judy; his sons, Robert and David; their wives, Amy and Sarah (respectively); his sister, Linda Millison; his brother, Sonny; and two grandchildren.
Strong materials, such as concrete, are usually heavy, and lightweight materials, such as rubber (for latex gloves) and paper, are usually weak and susceptible to tearing and damage. Julia R. Greer, professor of materials science and mechanics in Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science, is helping to break that linkage. In Caltech's Beckman Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, January 21, Greer will explain how we can give ordinary materials superpowers. Admission is free.
Q: What do you do?
A: I'm a materials scientist, and I work with materials whose dimensions are at the nanoscale. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, or about one-hundred-thousandth the diameter of a hair. At those dimensions, ordinary materials such as metals, ceramics, and glasses take on properties quite unlike their bulk-scale counterparts. Many materials become 10 or more times stronger. Some become damage-tolerant. Glass shatters very easily in our world, for example, but at the nanoscale, some glasses become deformable and less breakable. We're trying to harness these so-called size effects to create "meta-materials" that display these properties at scales we can see.
We can fabricate essentially any structure we like with the help of a special instrument that is like a tabletop microprinter, but uses laser pulses to "write" a three-dimensional structure into a tiny droplet of a polymer. The laser "sets" the polymer into our three-dimensional design, creating a minuscule plastic scaffold. We rinse away the unset polymer and put our scaffold in another machine that essentially wraps it in a very thin, nanometers-thick ribbon of the stuff we're actually interested in—a metal, a semiconductor, or a biocompatible material. Then we get rid of the plastic, leaving just the interwoven hollow tubular structure. The final structure is hollow, and it weighs nothing. It's 99.9 percent air.
We can even make structures nested within other structures. We recently started making hierarchical nanotrusses—trusses built from smaller trusses, like a fractal.
Q: How big can you make these things, and where might that lead us?
A: Right now, most of them are about 100 by 100 by 100 microns cubed. A micron is a millionth of a meter, so that is very small. And the unit cells, the individual building blocks, are very, very small—a few microns each. I recently asked my graduate students to create a demo big enough to be visible, so I could show it at seminars. They wrote me an object about 6 millimeters by 6 millimeters by about 100 microns tall. It took them about a week just to write the polymer, never mind the ribbon deposition and all the other steps.
The demo piece looks like a little white square from the top, until you hold it up to the light. Then a rainbow of colors play across its surface, and it looks like a fine opal. That's because the nanolattices and the opals are both photonic crystals, which means that their unit cells are the right size to interact with light. Synthetic three-dimensional photonic crystals are relatively hard to make, but they could be extremely useful as high-speed switches for fiber-optic networks.
Our goal is to figure out a way to mass produce nanostructures that are big enough to see. The possibilities are endless. You could make a soft contact lens that can't be torn, for example. Or a very lightweight, very safe biocompatible material that could go into someone's body as a scaffold on which to grow cells. Or you could use semiconductors to build 3-D logic circuits. We're working with Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science Andrei Faraon [BS '04] to try to figure out how to simultaneously write a whole bunch of things that are all 1 centimeter by 1 centimeter.
Q: How did you get into this line of work? What got you started?
A: When I first got to Caltech, I was working on metallic nanopillars. That was my bread and butter. Nanopillars are about 50 nanometers to 1 micron in diameter, and about three times taller than their width. They were what we used to demonstrate, for example, that smaller becomes stronger—the pillars were stronger than the bulk metal by an order of magnitude, which is nothing to laugh at.
Nanopillars are awesome, but you can't build anything out of them. And so I always wondered if I could use something like them as nano-LEGOs and construct larger objects, like a nano-Eiffel Tower. The question I asked myself was if each individual component had that very, very high strength, would the whole structure be incredibly strong? That was always in the back of my mind. Then I met some people at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) at HRL (formerly Hughes Research Laboratories) who were interested in some similar questions, specifically about using architecture in material design. My HRL colleagues were making microscale structures called micro-trusses, so we started a very successful DARPA-funded collaboration to make even smaller trusses with unit cells in the micron range. These structures were still far too big for my purposes, but they brought this work closer to reality.
Named for the late Caltech professor Earnest C. Watson, who founded the series in 1922, the Watson Lectures present Caltech and JPL researchers describing their work to the public. Many past Watson Lectures are available online at Caltech's iTunes U site.
Guruswami (Ravi) Ravichandran, the John E. Goode Jr. Professor of aerospace and professor of mechanical engineering, has received the Warner T. Koiter Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
The award, established in 1996, is given annually to individuals who make distinguished contributions to the field of solid mechanics.
Ravichandran, who is also the director of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT), was noted for his "outstanding scientific, engineering, and mentoring contributions in the areas of ultra-high strain rate mechanics of ceramics and metals, and pioneering and innovative experiments to advance our understanding of coupled phenomena in the fields of smart materials and cellular mechanics."
"I am greatly honored to receive the Warner T. Koiter Medal from the ASME. I am pleased that my work is being recognized, but this would not be possible without the contributions of many talented students and postdoctoral scholars in my group," says Ravichandran. "I have also been very fortunate to collaborate with a number of colleagues on campus who have given me impetus to investigate interdisciplinary problems."
Ravichandran works to discover fundamental insights into the way that materials deform, are damaged, and fail. His primary aim is to develop new experimental methods to study these and other phenomena in solid mechanics.
Ravichandran received the award at the 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Montreal, in November. There he gave his 2014 Koiter Lecture, titled "Peeling of Heterogeneous Adhesive Tapes."
Caltech professors Frances Arnold, David Baltimore, Carver Mead, and Axel Scherer have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Election as an NAI fellow is an honor bestowed upon academic innovators and inventors who have "demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions and innovations that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society." Fellows are named inventors on U.S. patents and were each nominated by their peers for their contributions to innovation.
According to its website, the NAI "was founded in 2010 to recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual property, educate and mentor innovative students, and translate the inventions of its members to benefit society."
Frances Arnold is the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, and director of the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center at Caltech. Her group has pioneered methods of "directed evolution" to engineer new proteins in the lab. The method is now widely used to create catalysts for use in industrial processes, including the production of fuels and chemicals from renewable resources. The Arnold group also uses the results of laboratory evolution experiments to elucidate principles of biological design. Arnold is a coinventor on more than 40 U.S. patents. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014 and received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2013.
David Baltimore is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology, and President Emeritus of Caltech. His research group focuses on two major areas: investigation of the development and functioning of the mammalian immune system, and translational studies of the viral transfer of genes into immune cells to increase their ability to fight disease and resist cancer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975.
Carver Mead (BS '56, MS '57, PhD '60) is the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus, in computation and neural systems. Mead has significantly advanced the technology of integrated circuits by developing a method called very-large-scale integration (VSLI) that allows engineers to combine thousands of transistors onto a single microchip, thus exponentially expanding computer processing power. He received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2002.
Axel Scherer is the Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Medical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics, and the director of the Caltech Global Health Initiative. Holding more than 100 patents in the area of nanofabrication and device design, Scherer has most recently developed ways to integrate optics, electronics, and fluidics into sensor systems. Much of his work is currently focused on systems for medical diagnosis and health monitoring through molecular pathology and wireless implants. Over the past decades, technology from his group has been commercialized through several start-up ventures in telecommunications and health care devices.
Arnold, Baltimore, Mead, and Scherer will join Vice Provost Morteza Gharib, the Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering, and Robert H. Grubbs, the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, as Caltech's Fellows of the NAI. They will be inducted during the fourth annual conference of the National Academy of Inventors, which will be held at Caltech on March 20, 2015.
Fredric ("Fred") Raichlen, professor emeritus of civil and mechanical engineering at Caltech, passed away on December 13, 2014. He was 82 years old. Raichlen was an expert on the mechanics of tsunamis, the waves created by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other geologic events.
Most waves propagate through the water at and just below the surface. A tsunami is fundamentally different. Because it is driven by a movement in the earth's crust, the wave extends from the seafloor all the way up to the surface. As the tsunami approaches land, the transition from deep to shallow water concentrates the wave's energy. The local topography off- and onshore focuses the onrushing wall of water, and utter devastation can follow. (The tsunami caused by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake reached six miles inland in some places and killed more than 18,000 people.)
Raichlen's wave-tank experiments enabled him to develop three-dimensional computer models of how tsunamis originate, propagate through the open ocean, and eventually run up on land. He simulated the run-up in a tank 31 feet long by 15 feet wide that was big enough to hold a scale model of an entire harbor. These experiments allowed him to design features such as breakwaters to protect a specific port or to determine where not to site vulnerable structures such as railroad tracks and oil tanks. In other experiments he determined how fast different regions within a wave move as the wave breaks, which in turn allowed him to calculate the force of the wave's impact. He also investigated the effects of the waves on floating structures such as ships moored in the harbor.
Raichlen earned his bachelor's degree in engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 1953, and his master's and doctoral degrees at MIT in 1955 and 1962. He came to Caltech as an assistant professor of civil engineering in 1962, and he was promoted to associate professor in 1967 and to professor in 1972. In 1969, he became one of the founding faculty members of Caltech's doctoral program in environmental engineering science. He was appointed professor of civil and mechanical engineering in 1997 and professor emeritus in 2001.
Raichlen was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and in 1994 he received the American Society of Civil Engineers' John G. Moffatt–Frank E. Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award.
The funeral will be Thursday, December 18th at 11:30 a.m. at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park, 5950 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles.
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This study assessed the effects of exposure to IGRs on the long-term development of the honeybee colony, viability of queens and sperm production in drones and integrated the data into a honeybee population model. Colonies treated with diflubenzuron resulted in a short-term reduction in the numbers of adult bees and brood. Colonies treated with fenoxycarb declined during the season earlier and started the season slower. The number of queens that successfully mated and laid eggs was affected in the fenoxycarb treatment group but there were no significant differences in the drone sperm counts between the colonies. An existing honeybee population model was modified to include exposure to IGRs. In the model, fenoxycarb reduced the winter size of the colony, with the greatest effects following a June or an August application. Assuming a 'larvae per nurse bee' ratio of 1.5 for brood rearing capability, the reduction in winter size of a colony following a fenoxycarb application was at its worst about 8%. However, even if only those bees reared within 2 weeks of the IGR being applied are subject to premature ageing, this might significantly reduce the size of over-wintering colonies, and increase the chance of the bee population dwindling and dying in late winter or early spring.
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- The Effects of Four Insect Growth-Regulating (IGR) Insecticides on Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Colony Development, Queen Rearing and Drone Sperm Production
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Volume 14, Issue 7 , pp 757-769
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Hibernate is an Object Relational Mapping tool, an alternative to Sun's Entity Beans 2.0. Hibernate has become over the years a "de facto standard" for object persistence in Java and today's JPA API is highly inspired by Hibernate (which can be used as JPA implementation).
Spring is a dependency injection framework which allows you to wire components and to benefits from additional services like declarative transaction management, declarative security, integration with many other frameworks, abstraction layers etc. Spring has been created to ease Enterprise Java applications development and to make it possible without EJBs and a "heavyweight" container. With Spring and Hibernate and e.g. Tomcat, you get a nice Enterprise stack. Spring is a "lightweight" container.
Spring and Hibernate have heavily influenced the way we build Java application and their adoption are the proof of the need for simplification. Despite, I see Java EE 5 as Sun's answer to these "non standard" solutions to simplify Java Enterprise development.
So yes, Spring Hibernate are widely used together and Spring offers Hibernate (and JPA) integration but Spring and Hibernate are two different projects with separated board and governance. They have mutual interests but IMO the Hibernate Team manages Hibernate, the Spring Team manages Spring.
The Spring Framework (http://www.springframework.org) is a development stack for Java EE-based application. What started as a dependency injection container has evolved into a POJO-based programming model for enterprise applications, providing commonly used services and abstractions (transaction management, caching, batch processing, etc.) out of the box.
There's no direct relationship to Hibernate (which is a object-relational mapping framework), but within its ORM module, Spring provides an integration layer for it. Among the benefits of using it in conjunction with Hibernate are:
So while Spring does not actually contribute to Hibernate (as far as I know), it works very well with Hibernate and provides some convenient benefits.
Here are some links that ought to help you out:
Spring and Hibernate are two separate frameworks that can be used together but other than that have nothing to do with each other.
Hibernate is an Object-Relational mapping tool. It helps developers that want to work with Domain Objects that are tied in to relational database tables. If you use Hibernate, the complexity of tasks such as programmatically connecting to a database or parsing result sets is greatly minimized.
The Spring Framework is one that provides several tools, all based around a small number of core concepts. The most famous of these concepts is dependency injection, which allows for loose coupling of objects which can help make development and testing easier.
Out of the box, Spring provides several tools to help play nicely with other frameworks - and Hibernate is one of them. Although Hibernate is a great tool there is some degree of complexity in regards to writing code that performs Database operations, as well as Exception handling. Spring's Hibernate Template attempts to solve this problem. This is probably what you mean by their "contribution", although from what I've seen the people behind Hibernate are not big fans of this support.
You can use Spring without Hibernate or Hibernate without Spring. You can even have a project that uses Hibernate and Spring but doesn't use the Spring Hibernate Template.
Spring is a light weight container (and framework) that makes J2EE development easier, faster, and scalable. It has a nice integration features with Hibernate.


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89 seconds? That's an outrage!!!
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I guess I was lucky I couldn't find my TV remote and had to stream it on my laptop.
Each time Ron Paul took a question he had standing ovations. You can't say that for the others. While Cain and Bauchman where over there arguing to bring back Gitmo and torture of prisoners as US operating policy he and Huntsman where the only two voices of reason. But they where both ignored by the moderators.
Ron Paul owned them when he tossed down the gauntlet with his comment to the effect that we don't even trust Obama to run our health care, how can we trust him to be judge, jury and executioner for American Citizens in reference to the three Americans assassinated without due process by drones in Yemen…
Ron Paul was allowed to debate more after the debate went off the air. CBS knew exactly what they were doing. They make me sick, crooks crooks crooks
The VA has over 400 acres in Los Angeles given to them to be used exclusively for HOMELESS VET HOUSING and the VA refuses to provide housing. There are over 100,000 homeless Vet in America OVER 8k in Los Angles alone. Its sad the VA has to be sued to do the job they are getting pad to do by Vets. With all the bull-crap Obama his supporters and the Democrats like to feed us about what they think to do for Vets, why are VETS still homeless when give billions to foreigners & hostile nations who kill Americans??
CBS failed on the debate. How could they not televise the whole debate? The should not be allowed to hold any more debates.
PS taxation without representation is a form of bond slavery to a debt they are creating every minute. Usury is against God's Law Period and anyone who practices it better check yourself.
Sorry, After last night it is official, I will still write him in no matter what and everyone should check their states rules on write in candidate. I really think they are so afraid that he will win Dems and Repubs together and win the whole show. As for my family our votes will be write in if he does not get nominated. I will personally not vote for more wars and break the backs of the American people under tax slavery.
These debates and the entire election process is rigged!
The CBS poll at the moment: Who do you want to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012?
Haley Barbour
Newt Gingrich
Bobby Jindal
Sarah Palin
Ron Paul
Tim Pawlenty
Mike Pence
Mitt Romney
Rick Santorum
Michael Steele
Someone Else
He needs to buy a half hour of time on cbs or nbc and just talk about the issues. If the media won't give him the time we need to donate so he can buy the time!! And we need celebrity and political endorsements! Donate to the moneybomb today!!!
yep i seen where cbs pulled the poll…wake up america!ron paul CAN SAVE US!
4 minutes 39 seconds, great clip. Paul is exactly right. The rule of law comes first. Un-declared wars are illegal and leading us down a nasty path. Ron Paul 2012 !!!
89 seconds? That is deplorable. Every candidate should have the same amount if time. I am sick and tired of the media picking our candidates for us. And I am also sick of uninformed voters.
Some of you may have noticed a poll on CBS during the latter portion of the debate. It was quickly disabled and pulled from the site once Ron Paul established a major lead.
Ok, i'm going to watch the clip now, I bet it's really short 🙁
Now is the time to start calling etc Jim DEMINT and telling him to back Ron Paul now and dont stop calling until he does it IT IS THE WILL OF THE PROPLE NOT TO HAVE ANOTHER WAR MONGER IN OFFICE ANOTHER CHEAT AND LIER ANOTHER PUPPET !!! WILL YOU SERVE ?? WILL YOU CALL TILL WE GET OUR MAN? DO YOU WANT THE PEOPLES CANDIDATE? START CALLING MONDAY AND HAVE EVERY ONE YOU KNOW CALL JIM DE MINT MUST BACK RON PAUL NOW
Ron Paul can say more in 89 seconds than all of the other candidates put together! it's a joke really… lol… Readem and weep
CBS' handling of airtime this debate was unconscionable, and borderline immoral. Given the e-mail posted by Bachman that ties airtime to polling numbers, Ron Paul should have been given 5-6 minutes of airtime in the first hour and 2-3 in the second half hour.
Of course, the idea that airtime should be based on polling numbers is patently ridiculous. Those ahead in the polls already get additional free publicity in news coverage. Election events should not allow them to capitalize further on their poll lead. Rather than help level the playing field and create more opportunity for greater variety in the discourse on american foreign and domestic policy, this format increases the advantage of monied and popular candidates, making a mockery of American "democracy." CBS has torn the veil and revealed the extent to which American elections are 1) popularity contests and 2) opportunities for media outlets to increase profits–in this case without even maintaining the appearance of unbiased journalism.
Thanks CBS for restricting the discourse.
@David C. Maybe many supporters should e-mail CBS and give bad blog reviews to them regarding yet another blackout by the host of these Presidental Debates. Do you think that publically they would even acknowlege this unfair inbalance? Probably not.
@Liberty I think that Ron Paul supporters are already doing this, but yeah, basically it won't move the needle.
Thank you David. I watched the political debate tonight with a completely open mind, curious to know about each of the candidates running for office. I felt that Jon Huntsman made some very good points as he concluded that "The future of America should not be over in Afghanistan, or in Iraq" but rather "At home with educational and economic improvement". Ron Paul though, did an extremely superb job, especially when juxtaposed against both the Ricks (Perry and Santorum) who seemed to have had far to many beers and violent video-games under their belts. Both Newt and Buchmann were frighteningly out of touch with reality. Thus Ron Paul's ethical opinions and sensible words came like a breath of fresh air. Thank heavens for Ron Paul!
I was quite impressed with Ron Paul's arguments in the debate this evening. I found his views to be sensible, courageous, moral and unlike the other candidates, not driven by unrealistic fear or excessive aggression. After carefully watching the presentation of each candidate I found that Ron Paul was superior in views and in character.
@Si_Wang_Mu Vote here in this cbs poll. Ron Paul 2012 !!!
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Ablynx regained worldwide rights from Pfizer to develop and commercialize Nanobodies targeting TNF-alpha. These rights include Phase II-stage ATN-103 for treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Phase II-ready PF-05230905. Ablynx has not yet decided how to proceed with these candidates and expects to first undertake a detailed review of the programs.
Pfizer obtained these Nanobodies in 2009 when paid about $68 billion to acquire Wyeth, which had inked a deal with Ablynx in 2006. With the termination of the agreement, Pfizer returned all licensed rights including intellectual property (IP) and is also handing over to Ablynx certain Pfizer IP and know-how relating to the anti-TNF-alpha programs. Additionally, Ablynx will have access to Pfizer's existing clinical trial supplies of ATN-103 and PF-05230905 as well as assay methods and manufacturing processes for use in future development activities.
In return for these rights and assets, if an anti-TNF-alpha Nanobody is approved, Ablynx will share milestone payments it receives from any third party licensee with Pfizer, up to a capped amount of $50 million, as well as pay a royalty on sales of such products.
Since 2009, a total of 456 subjects have reportedly been recruited in clinical trials with ATN-103 to evaluate the safety, pharmacology, and clinical effectiveness in single- and multiple-ascending dose studies. Two single-dose studies in healthy volunteers have been completed in Japan and the U.S., and two multiple-dose studies in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis adding ATN-103 or placebo to a methotrexate background were conducted in Japan and North America/rest of the world.
First clinical proof-of-concept was generated for ATN-103 in May 2011. A dose of 80 mg administered as a single subcutaneous injection every four weeks to patients with active RA on a stable background of methotrexate resulted at week 16 in a statistically significant improvement of disease scores.
This study recruited 253 patients in North America/rest of the world. No dose-limiting toxicity was observed and clinical side effects did not increase significantly upon increased dosing, according to Ablynx. Two percent of subjects treated with ATN-103 were positive for neutralizing antidrug-antibodies, and there were no additional observed effects on PK/PD.
In February 2010, Pfizer started a long-term safety study for ATN-103, which is an open-label extension study of the Phase II trials, that is currently ongoing at 67 centers worldwide. This trial is expected to complete during the first half of 2012.
In November 2010, Ablynx recieved a $3 million milestone fee with Pfizer's start of a Phase I study with PF-05230905. Ablynx says the trial has been completed, but results have not been reported.
Ablynx also received milestones for ATN-103 from Wyeth, totaling $7 million: $3 million for the start of Phase I and $4 million for the start of Phase II. At the time Ablynx inked the deal with Wyeth, in November 2009, it stood to make up to $212.5 million for the succesful development and commercialization of multiple products.
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Everyone was bragging about this mascara, so i had pretty high expectations.. I was SO dissapointed. It creases though out the day, and it is kinda hard to work with if you're not so good at makeup(i had both my mum and my lil' sis try it, and they were struggeling to get it nice). I'd rather buy the pink one. Will NOT buy again, EVER. It gets two stars for being organic.
It's nice but nothing more than that
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It runs and smears all the time
Liked it at first
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I tried this mascara because my eyelashes had become fragile and were falling out from other brands that I had tried. This product helped with that problem but unfortunately it flakes off during the day and really irritates my eyes.
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Nice result
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It works really well, and it make my lashes long and beautiful. It was my favorite until I found out about the ingredients, while searching on goodguide.com. Will NEVER buy again
runs too easliy
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I wanted to love this mascara because I wanted a more natural mascara that had less chemicals in it. Alas, I cannot use it because it runs too easily. I do have sensitive eyes and I cycle everywhere so I often have the wind in my face but I found that as soon as I left the house wearing this mascara it would be all under my eyes.
Doesn't last long
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Very nice that it is safety to use but it doesn't last long. This mascara smeared under my eyes in a couple of hours. Still looking for ecological and long lasting mascara ;)
Muy mal
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De verdad, una pena lo de las máscaras de pestañas de Physician's. De momento no me gusta ninguna y tampoco encuentro ninguna otra natural que me parezca realmente buena. Más información sobre éste y otros muchos productos de iHerb en mi blog !
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After having read the reviews I decided to give it a shot. I didn't expect any miracles but I didn't expect to be disappointed either. It smudges very quickly especially if it's humid. Doesn't give you much of a volume as well. That's a big minus for me. The design is really attractive, and it comes off easyly. You don't need to rub your eyes a lot. But that's the only good thing that I can say about the mascara. Won't buy it again for sure. Waste of money.
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2. In a frying pan, pour half & half,add pimento and four cheese, mix well to incorporate all ingredients, cook on medium heat until the sauce thickens.
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Total Fat 17 g25.7%
Saturated Fat 9.3 g46.6%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 44.8 mg14.9%
Sodium 779.9 mg32.5%
Total Carbohydrates 57 g19%
Dietary Fiber 4.6 g18.2%
Sugars 6.6 g
Protein 13 g26.6%
Vitamin A 63.2% Vitamin C 138.6%
Calcium 17.3% Iron 20.7%
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I have a really annoying problem.
I have an application (.net 3.5) running within IIS7.5.
Normally when I recycle an application it takes some time the first time you surf to the application. I'm used to this behaviour so I don't mind. I think that IIS then caches the dll's needed within the application, no?
Well I have one application that runs on IIS7.5 that doesn't show this behaviour. In fact when I recycle my application the first page loads really really fast (less than a second). So does every page in the application, except for one.
After some research (about 2 days) I've found that it is due to one particulary 3rd party dll that appearantly doesn't get cached on the first load of the application. So the first time I surf to this particulary page that dll (17 mb big) is loaded, which off course takes some time (the time usually needed on first load). After this first time that page is going really fast, it's really the loading of that dll that causes the performance issue.
How can I make IIS 7.5 load all my dll's on application start?
I hope I explained it well.
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Just when you thought the college football conference realignment talk was about to die down for at least a little while, it has officially started to heat up once again with the news that the Big 12 has invited TCU to join the conference.
The Horned Frogs were expected to become a member of the Big East before the start of the 2012 season. But now that all has changed, and it's set up another domino effect that is surely set to change the college football landscape.
Once again, we're left with a ton of unanswered questions concerning the future structure of major college athletics.
Will the Big East survive?
Will the Big 12 be satisfied with just adding TCU?
Is Missouri headed to the SEC?
What role will the ACC play in all of this?
While the talk of full blown college superconferences has subsided, that hasn't changed the fact that there are still substantial shifts shaking up the foundation of college athletics right now.
TCU is expected to announce that the school has accepted the Big 12's offer to join, and after that, we're going to have to just take it from there.
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You've changed ram, removed batteries, and unplugged USB things. Laptops are simple things. That is you can make a list of the parts we can change on a very small piece of paper. The next part to change is the motherboard.
But first, did you tear it down to the motherboard then clean off the heatsink, CPU and put fresh heat sink compound and build it back up. Cleaning as you go of course.
My Toshiba laptop (Satellite M45-S331, OS is XP) locks up seconds after booting up. This started recently for no apparent reason. The only change in the laptop prior to its starting to lock up was use of a Sprint mobile data card. I am no longer using the card and have removed the associated software; however, it still locks up.
I set past restored points a couple times to no avail. I also installed a new hard drive and ran the systems? recovery disk but the laptop continues to lock up with the new hard drive. I removed the battery to start up only with the power cord and vice-versa (startup only with the battery), but it still locked up. I removed the 1GB memory chip and started up with the remaining memory chip of 512 ram and also removed the 512 ram and started it with the 1GB ram, but it still locked up. If it means anything, there are no ?restore points? shown in ?safe mode? (anybody know why?). Also, in safe mode, the system does not lock up nearly as often.
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