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Space is a big place. And things move, fast. So imagine if you're a spaceship on a decade-long journey to reach a tiny world billions of miles away. Sure, orbital dynamicists have a very accurate view about where the planets will be at any given time, but it helps to have a precision lock on a celestial body's location so you don't miss your flyby encounter... or even hit it.
As NASA's New Horizons mission is set to make its historic flyby mission of Pluto on July 14, 2015, a powerful ground-based observatory is currently refining the dwarf planet's location. Why? Well, as it orbits so far away (at least 40 times the distance the Earth orbits the sun) and its orbital period is so long (it takes 248 Earth years for Pluto to complete one orbit), astronomers' best measurements of Pluto's location could still be thousands of miles out.
ANALYSIS: This Time Next Year We'll Meet Mysterious Pluto
"With these limited observational data, our knowledge of Pluto's position could be wrong by several thousand kilometers, which compromises our ability to calculate efficient targeting maneuvers for the New Horizons spacecraft," said New Horizons Project Scientist Hal Weaver, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., in an NRAO press release.
A margin for error this large could become problematic for a space probe that is currently flying through interplanetary space at 10 miles per second (36,000 miles per hour), so it needs to make fine adjustments as it gets closer to its target.
To provide a more precise view on Pluto's location ahead of a scheduled New Horizons course correction in July, mission scientists have enlisted the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), located in Chile.
ANALYSIS: Hubble Survey Spots Two New Objects Beyond Pluto
To measure distances throughout the Cosmos, astronomers traditionally use the method of astrometry to track the motions of the planets, for example, relative to the "fixed" stars many light-years beyond. But when we're talking about threading an interplanetary needle 40 AU away, a more precise form of astrometry is needed as even stars drift regardless of their distance from us.
Using quasars - ancient active galaxies that can be spied over 10 billion light-years away by the most sensitive radio observatories on the planet - ALMA can provide this mindblowing precision (as these objects are truly fixed in the Universal landscape), adding a new dimension of positioning data to back up decades of optical observations of the distant world.
"The ALMA astrometry used a bright quasar named J1911-2006 with the goal to cut in half the uncertainty of Pluto's position," said Ed Fomalont, an astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia.
ANALYSIS: Dwarf Planet Ahoy! Spacecraft Spies Pluto and Charon
During this campaign, ALMA has been able to detect the radio emissions being generated by the frozen Pluto and moon Charon and has recorded the pair's orbital locations several times since November 2013. As these observations occurred at different times in the Earth's orbit around the sun, the tried and tested method of parallax can be applied to this high-precision method of observation.
"By taking multiple observations at different dates, we allow Earth to move along its orbit, offering different vantage points in relation to the sun," said Fomalont. "Astronomers can then better determine Pluto's distance and orbit."
It's nice to know that even when you're a spacecraft barreling through the solar system, when communications take 4 hours to traverse interplanetary space, telescopes back on Earth have your back, making sure you arrive in the right place at the right time.
The cold surface of Pluto and its largest moon Charon as seen with ALMA on July 15, 2014.
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, or ALMA, is nearing completion after over 30 years of planning and collaborating among astronomers and engineers from several nations. The completed array will consist of 66 antennas and two supercomputers, called correlators, at the backend to collect the signals and make the array function as one large telescope.
On March 12th and 13th, 2013, over a hundred journalists descended upon the array along with politicians, scientists, engineers, and other VIPs to celebrate the official inauguration of the array and tour its facilities. I was there along with 11 other journalists from around North America as guests of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Overview of the telescope's technical capabilities, science goals, and history were given by (from left to right) Michael Thorburn, Head of the ALMA Department of Engineering, Pierre Cox, incoming ALMA director, Thijs de Graauw, current ALMA director, Al Wootten, ALMA Program Scientist for North America, and Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor at Leiden University and former ALMA board member.
The ALMA control room is the hub of activity at the "low site" or Operations Support Facility. From here, telescope operators manage and control all array operations and conduct observing runs. Astronomers who win time on the telescope through a merit-based proposal process do not actually travel to the site or control the telescope in real time. Instead, as with other radio interferometers, they prepare observing scripts based on what science they want to achieve, and their scripts are then scheduled and run by ALMA staff. The data is then made available to the astronomer for a proprietary period of one year, when it is then released to the public.
Everyone gets into the spirit of ALMA, which in Spanish actually means "soul," as an art contest was held for local children. Featured here are some of the submissions and several winners in the six to nine year old group.
54 of the final 66 antennas were at the "high site" or Array Operations Site, at an altitude of 16,500 feet. The 12-meter dishes are contributed by partners in Europe, North America, and East Asia, whereas several smaller, 7-meter dishes from East Asia make up a compact array in the center. The completed array will eventually have the capability of expansion by moving the antennas to different concrete "pads" spread around the Chajnantor Plateau. With a baseline, or distance between antennas, of up to 14 kilometers, ALMA will be able to obtain resolution ten times better than that of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Reporters were allowed a peek at the massive correlator behind glass in the second highest building in the world. The correlator is the computer that brings together signals from all the antennas so that the astronomer can make an image using the full array. We received a thorough explanation of its working from correlator engineer Alejandro Saez who has spent time constructing in in Charlottesville, Virginia, and at the high site in Chile. The correlator has the processing power of 3 million laptops as it has to make calculations for up to 1,125 antenna pairs billions of times per second.
The antennas actually put on a show for us during our three hour tour of the high site, slewing, or moving, back and forth. These antennas are built for perfection, or as close to it as one can come. These sturdy, yet flexible machines must maintain a dish surface accuracy of the width of a human hair and pivot back and forth between a target source and calibrator source on the sky every ten seconds.
Taking a hundred or so journalists to a site at 16,500 feet (5000 meters) altitude is quite risky business. Everyone must pass a basic fitness exam to be cleared for access, though employees must endure a much more rigorous process involving a stress test and heart monitoring to work on site. A team of diligent paramedics were there to hand out oxygen bottles and check for signs of altitude sickness. Here, I got my pulse checked in an ambulance after running around like an excited child a bit too much.
The "front end" of a radio telescope is the place where radio light that is collected by the dish is received, amplified, and transferred to the next stage for digital processing. The large blue drum is a cryostat and holds the most sensitive electronics in the telescope at a cold 4 Kelvin using liquid helium. The silver circles are the actual windows into the feedhorms, the first stage where radio light passes into the front end. Don't think those metal plates are transparent? They are to the radio light that ALMA receives.
Just one of ten sets of electronics that can fit inside those blue drums are on display here. Various stages of the system are cooled to difference temperatures, and engineers needs to wear special gloves and shirts when handling these so that they do not impart a spark of static electricity that could ruin a sensitive (and expensive) piece of equipment. The superconducting receivers used by ALMA are state-of-the-art and were developed specifically for this purpose.
How do you move a giant antenna? You build a giant antenna mover. The on-site guests were treated to an amazing site when one of the two antenna crawlers rumbled down a huge dirt road to pick up one of the dishes that is still under testing. Otto and Lore, as the crawlers are named, have to pick up each 100-ton antenna and place them down on their pads with millimeter accuracy. They move the antennas from the Operations Support Facility up to the high site and back and will be used to change array configurations to change the telescopes resolving power.


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Annual to shrubs, generally glandular, some green root-parasites
Stem generally round
Leaves generally alternate, simple, generally ± entire; stipules generally 0
Inflorescence: spike to panicle, generally bracted, or flowers 12 in axils
Flower bisexual; calyx lobes generally 5; corolla generally strongly bilateral, generally 2-lipped (upper lip generally 2-lobed, lower lip generally 3-lobed); stamens generally 4 in 2 pairs, generally included, a 5th (generally uppermost) sometimes present as a staminode; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 2, placentas axile, style 1, stigma lobes generally 2
Fruit: capsule, generally ± ovoid, loculicidal or septicidal
Seed: coat sculpture often characteristic
Genera in family: ± 200 genera, 3000 species: ± worldwide; some cultivated as ornamental (e.g., Antirrhinum, Mimulus, Penstemon ) or medicinal (Digitalis )
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include only Buddleja, Scrophularia, and Verbascum in CA; other genera moved to Orobanchaceae (Castilleja, Cordylanthus, Orthocarpus, Pedicularis, Triphysaria), Phrymaceae (Mimulus), and Plantaginaceae (= Veronicaceae sensu Olmstead et al.)
Key to genera by Elizabeth Chase Neese & Margriet Wetherwax.
Annual to shrub, glabrous to hairy
Stem generally erect
Leaves opposite, generally ± sessile, generally toothed or generally entire, reddish or generally green
Inflorescence: raceme, bracted, or flowers generally 2 per axil
Flower sometimes cleistogamous; calyx generally green, lobes 5, generally << tube, equal or not, generally uppermost largest; corolla generally deciduous, white to red, maroon, purple, gold or yellow, limb width measured at widest point looking into flower, lower lip base sometimes swollen, ± closing mouth, tube-throat floor generally with 2 longitudinal folds; pollen chambers spreading; placentas 2, axile or parietal; stigma lobes generally leaf-like, generally included
Fruit generally ovoid to fusiform, generally upcurved if elongate, generally ± fragile, loculicidal near tip (sometimes hard, indehiscent); chambers 12
Seeds many, generally < 1 mm, ovoid, yellowish to dark brown
Species in genus: ± 100 species: w North America, Chile, eastern Asia, s Africa, New Zealand, Australia
Etymology: (Latin: little mime or comic actor, from face-like corolla limb of some)
Reference: [Grant 1924 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 11:99388]
Annual, 324 cm, densely puberulent to hairySee the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Leaves 1545 mm, ovate to obovate, at least upper leaves sharply acuminate
Flower: pedicel 13 mm; calyx 1017 mm, densely puberulent, lobes ± unequal, 1.55 mm, acuminate; corolla persistent, magenta with throat floor folds gold at mouth, tube-throat 2028 mm; stigma and generally lower anthers exserted; placentas parietal
Fruit 1017 mm
Chromosomes: n=8
Ecology: Steep, unstable canyon slopes, scree
Elevation: generally 6001600 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Warner Mountains
Distribution outside California: to Washington, Idaho
Horticultural information: TRY.

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The most read post on my blog to date is my piece on Dumpling Story. It's funny because that was such a quick post. I'd just been to this place which had just opened and loved it and really wanted to get my experience out there as quick as possible, so I don't think it's the best thing I've ever written, but it seems you guys loved it. So I want to deliver some more posts about places around Newcastle. I use to work as the Freelance Blog and Social Media Representative for Urban Walkabout, Newcastle. Each week I would go out to businesses in Newcastle, meet the owners and have a chat about their place of work and the awesome city of Newcastle. I wanted to share these blogs with you to give you more insight into the awesome places you can check out here in Newcastle. Also, as a side note, all the photos included with these posts are ones I did take myself while working for Urban Walkabout.
WHO: Cirque Café WHERE: 8 Bolton St, Newcastle NSW 2300
WHEN: Open now
The Essence: Pop into the Bolton street venue to enjoy the hustle and bustle of Newcastle while witnessing the performance of food creation.
The Facts: Cirque Café is the latest Modern Australia Cuisine establishment to grace Newcastle's streets.
The name itself shows you're in experienced hands, with owner and head chef, Keith Murray, taking inspiration from his 18 years in the business.
"When you work in kitchens for a long time, chefs are like it's a circus basically. From what I remember when I was younger, people in the kitchen would always sing the circus song theme," says Keith.
While behind the scenes things may get a bit crazy, customers will experience nothing but organised service. The classic dinner menu of the previously Hatted restaurant may no longer be around, but the quality food (whether it's a light Fluffy Buttermilk Scone, or a hearty Big Breakfast) – made with a focus on locally sourced produce - makes Cirque a popular high-end café with locals.
Every visit can bring something new, with a constantly changing menu. "I change the menu quite a bit. It evolves around what customers want. I'll take dishes off and put dishes on; you might come in one day and have something and come in the next day and it's changed; hopefully its for the better," explains Keith.
With an open kitchen as a focal point of the cafe, Keith invites you to "come to the circus and watch the show"
The Find: Try the gnocchi, the head chef's favourite dish. "It's simple but complicated."
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A Shortage of Butter: Sounds Like Good News for Dairy Farmers, It's Not
This is a classic case of a loophole, big business capitalizing on any chance to improve the bottom line, and serious unintended consequences. The impact of what appeared to be a minor bureaucratic decision is being felt in Canadian kitchens, food processing plants, and could do serious economic damage to Canada's dairy farmers.
A few years ago Federal officials were trying to decide where so called "protein isolates" would fit into the stiff tariff schedule that limits imports of cheaper dairy products like yogurt and cheese. These high tariffs maintain the integrity of Canada's supply management system that tailors milk supply to Canadian demand using quotas, while assuring farmers a fair price. Protein isolates are essentially raw protein, like the whey protein used as a dietary supplement. Think of whole milk with the fat and minerals stripped out. The bureaucrats decided the isolates are a protein "substitute", not necessarily a dairy product, so they come into Canada tariff-free. No one paid too much attention then, but slowly, over time, a trickle of cheaper protein isolates, almost all from the United States, has become a tidal wave. Now Canada's largest dairy processors like Parmalat, Saputo, and Agropur, are helping their bottom line by using the cheaper protein in their cheeses and other dairy products. But it doesn't end there. The processors still need the fat from whole milk to mix with the raw imported protein to produce their cheeses. This is happening at the same time that dieticians and doctors are telling Canadians it's OK to eat butter again. So over the last year butter, and butterfat, have been in big demand, and for some, short supply. Farmers nationally have stepped up production by more than 7% on a butterfat basis to meet the shortfall, but because there's no additional demand for the protein in the whole milk (usually made into skim milk powder), farmers aren't paid the full cost of production price for this additional milk, and a lot of the surplus skim milk is being dumped or fed to livestock.
That's unfortunate, but the more serious impact I think is that it's given the business media a fresh opportunity to attack supply management. "Supply management falls butter-side down" in the Globe and Mail, and "Supply management is expensive, irrational — and doomed" in i-Politics amongst others. What especially irritates me about these articles is that they blame dairy farmers (and always the articles are accompanied by shots of Holsteins) for lobbying to protect a "broken" system, when it's large multi-national dairy processors that have created the problem. There's no benefit flowing back to dairy farmers or consumers from the importation of this cheaper protein. The only exception: Quebec farmer-owned Agropur, shame on it, is one of 3 dairy processors who've publically stated they use the imported protein. Parmalat, owned by a large Italian dairy, and Saputo by a Montreal family are the others. Most in the dairy industry say other big processors are probably using the imports as well.
Here's some better news. As Islanders, we can celebrate the fact that PEI's dairies, ADL and Purity, do not use this imported protein. And let's also enjoy the world recognition ADL cheeses have received recently: ADL, using a recipe from Cows, produces the Avonlea Clothbound Cheddar that won SuperGold at the World Cheese Awards in England in late November. And ADL's own labeled cheddars won several awards at the British Empire Cheese Show in Ontario in mid-November. I'm not an expert, but maybe the fact that only PEI whole milk, rather than a tasteless imported protein isolate, is used to make these cheeses had something to do with these successes.
One more thing for consumers to watch for: this symbol:
that says 100% Canadian milk. That's your guarantee too that there's no imported protein.
Unfortunately for farmers the trade in protein isolates won't end quickly or easily. The U.S. dairy industry would launch a trade investigation before the ink was dry on any new government regulation trying to control it. The big multi-national dairies themselves are playing a game of economic chicken saying they'll stop only if the others do. As well they're getting ready for more competition from cheaper European cheeses if the big EU trade agreement is ever ratified. Consumers really are the only economic force that could convince the big dairies to do away with these cheaper imports and stick with all-Canadian milk. On PEI at least that's easily done, we just have to buy local.
The Oregon Militia Is Picking the Wrong Beef With the Feds
Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum guards the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Tuesday, January 5, 2016, near Burns, Oregon. Photo by: Rick Bowmer/AP
For all the slapstick comedy on display at the still-occupied government complex—rival militias arriving to "de-escalate" the situation, public pleas for donated supplies including "French Vanilla Creamer"—the armed and angry men behind the fiasco are pointing their rifles at a real problem. In short, the ranchers who supply the United States with beef operate under razor-thin, often negative profit margins.
It's not hard to see why grazing rights are an issue. Ranchers' struggle for profitability gives them strong incentive to expand their operations to increase overall volume and gain economies of scale. A 2011 paper by the US Department of Agriculture found that the average cost per cow for small (20-49 head) operations exceeded $1,600, while for large ranches (500 or more head), the average cost stood at less than $400. Large operations are more efficient at deploying investments in labor and infrastructure (think fencing), the USDA reported.
To scale up, ranchers need access to sufficient land. And in the West, land access often means obtaining grazing rights to public land through the Bureau of Land Management. Hence the bitter dispute playing out in Burns, Oregon: The ranchers accuse the federal government of ruining their businesses through overzealous environmental regulation of that public land.
Now, it's clear that what the Malheur militiamen appear to be demanding—essentially laissez-faire land management based on private ownership and overseen by local politicians—is a recipe for ecological ruin. In a recent New York Times op-ed, environmental historian Nancy Langston described what happened last time such a policy regime prevailed in the area: "By the 1930s, after four decades of overgrazing, irrigation withdrawals, grain agriculture, dredging and channelization, followed by several years of drought, Malheur had become a dust bowl."
But the real beef that struggling ranchers should take up with the federal government involves not zealous federal regulation, but rather its opposite: the way the feds have watched idly as giant meat-packing companies came to dominate the US beef production chain. Ranchers run what are known as cow-calf operations—they raise cows up to a certain weight on pasture, sell them to a feedlots to be fattened on corn and soybeans (and other stuff), and from there the cows are sold to companies known as beef packers that slaughter and prep the meat for consumers. As the University of Missouri rural sociologist Mary Hendrickson points out, after a decade of mergers and acquisitions, just four companies slaughtered and packed 69 percent of US-grown cows in 1990. By 2011—after another spasm of mergers—the four-company market share had risen to 82 percent, Hendrickson reports.
Such consolidation at the top of the value chain gives farmers less leverage to get a decent price for their cows. A market dominated by a few buyers is a buyer's market. The Colorado rancher and rural advocate Mike Callicrate has been making this point tirelessly for years. Callicrate thinks the Bureau of Land Management has been overly burdensome for ranchers in the West, he tells me, but there's a bigger problem that is "rarely mentioned" either by the gun-toting ranchers or the media covering them: "the historically low, below break-even market prices for livestock."
As the big beef packers scaled up and consolidated their market share in the 1980s and '90s, giant retailers led by Walmart did the same. The result has been steady downward pressure on the beef supply chain: The retail giants pressured the beef packers to deliver lower prices, and the beef packers in turn pressured ranchers. The result has been a big squeeze.
In the chart below that Callicrate created for a 2013 blog post, drawn from USDA data, the trend is clear: Compared with 40 years ago, nearly a third less of every dollar you spend on beef goes into the pocket of the rancher who raised the cow.
Chart by Mike Callicrate
Chart: USDA
During the 2008 election, Barack Obama vowed to challenge the big meat packers and defend independent farmers and ranchers from their heft. As Lina Khan showed in a 2012 Washington Monthly piece, President Obama actually made a valiant effort to do just that—before surrendering to a harsh counterattack from the industry's friends in Congress.
The current presidential election would be an ideal time for beleaguered ranchers to bring corporate domination of meat markets back into the public conversation. Armed occupations of bird refuge visitor centers won't help with that struggle.


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Have you ever gone on vacation and were so excited to discover the place you were staying was so much more than you were expecting?? That's what happened when we got to our condo "A Sight to Sea" in Seaside, Florida! I found it on VRBO and had seen photos and reviews, but was still blown away. It was absolutely adorable, so bright and cheery....and huge!! These photos really don't do the size justice. It was two floors, the master bedroom with huge vaulted ceilings, views of the ocean, a private breezeway that led to a second bedroom...with an outdoor jacuzzi! And there was a washer and dryer! (Super awesome when traveling with a 3 month-old!) We also loved the bathroom–hello steam shower! Then there was a full kitchen, totally stocked with everything we needed, another half bath, and a beautiful balcony overlooking Seaside's famous Central Square. And talk about the perfect location...right across from the beach, right next door and above restaurants and shops. It really was the perfect home away from home for our little family! And since we went during off-season, we got a great deal too! For more pics and to read all about it, visit Sandpiper Vacation Rentals or check out its profile on VRBO. If you missed my other post about Seaside and all its cute, colorful houses, see that here!
You know what though?? As amazing as all this was, the best part of the trip? Taking Wesley to the beach and letting him feel sand in his toes for the very first time.
That's a moment I'll never forget.
Have a great weekend everyone! :)
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We had another awesome weekend of events, as always! Here's a brief recap and some photos of the events.
For our first event, we provided a DJ and photo booth for a wedding. Friday night, at Palazzo Lavaca, in downtown Austin. Congratulations to our couple, Jake and Lindsey, on their big day! Wow, their guests came ready to party! Everyone had a blast taking pictures at the photo booth, and dancing to a variety of music, all night! Below is a picture of the dance floor!
On Saturday, we had the pleasure of working at the New Worlds 2016 S.T.E.A.M Space Education Fundraiser and Costume Ball, at The Rennaisance Hotel, in Austin! It was great to see everyone dressed up in costumes and the space theme was equally awesome! Here are a few pictures from this event, below!
Sunday, we were back at Palazzo Lavaca for a great evening wedding! We provided a DJ for the ceremony and cocktail hour. A pianist played music for the reception, while we provided the MC. We LOVED the cake look-alike bobble heads and their unique "Meatloaf" sign! :) Here are a few pictures from that event, below.
Our other Sunday wedding was held at Thurman's Mansion, in Driftwood. This was a great celebration and we loved the couple's second dance, with their son! Overall, we love being able to help our clients celebrate their special moments and events, every weekend in Austin and Central Texas! Thank you Austin!
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Published: 07th August 2017
GITAM played host to a conference based on Towards Risk-Based Solvency
The conference, sponsored by ICICI Prudential, had eminent speakers speaking on the topic
GITAM School of International Business, GITAM University organised a conference on 'Towards Risk-Based Solvency (RBS) Approach in Insurance – Status check on Asia Pacific' on July 29. It was sponsored by ICICI Prudential. Sanjeeb Kumar, President of the Institute of Actuaries of India (IAI) and Appointed Actuary, AVIVA India Life Insurance Co Ltd explained the interaction of the trinity concept — Risk, Solvency and Capital, and its significance in India's soft power strategy, while delivering the presidential address. Prof V K Kumar, Director, GITAM School of International Business (GSIB), in his welcome address said that RBS is the need of the hour and the conference was an opportunity to learn best practices from professionals.
Prof K K Narayanan, Joint Director, GSIB and Conference Director explained that Risk Based capital (RBC) approaches adoption has seen much progress across geographies and is a very important theme even for Indian Insurers in the current juncture
The inaugural session was followed by three technical sessions and panel discussion moderated by Prof K K Narayanan. The speeches and discussions provided holistic insights on the theme of the conference. The speakers included - Kailash Mittal, Director - KPMG (Actuarial Practice). He gave insights on 'Adoption of RBC in Asia Pacific Countries'. Abhishek Chadha, Senior Consultant, Willis Towers Watson, India, highlighted the 'RBC implementation Challenges' faced by the insurance industry. Himanshu Garg, Vice President, Marsh India, spoke on 'RBC Challenges for Insurance Brokerages'. The conference ended with Vote of Thanks by Conference Director. The conference was attended by professionals, participants from industry, academia and students.


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I got so many "Ang Pau"Posted by Everyday Healy on February 16, 2010
Chinese New Year is great! I have "gong gong & poh poh","Si Yee Poh", so many uncles, aunties and "ko ko", "jie jie" in my house. I love to play with them. And, I get to sleep so late. Also, I have 3 "ah Choh", you know? Then, I got so… many Ang Pau with so much money in it. Hahahahahaha……
Also, I have daddy and "gong gong" to bathe for me almost everyday. I quickly bathe every morning once I woke up. As I enjoyed wearing all the beautiful new clothes. 😉
Besides, I get to try lots of cookies which I never tried before. Initially, Mummy was kind of worried as I ate so much groundnuts, chocolates, cookies and sweet beverages. Eventually, mummy felt so relieved as I still "pooh pooh"consistently even without taking colon cleansing products. God Bless! It's such a happy new year. 😛


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Received Pronunciation Phonology
The Vowel Sounds of RP
The table below lists all the vowel sounds in an RP accent according to lexical set. The phonetician John Wells introduced in his book, Accents of English (1982), the concept of using a single word to refer to the pronunciation of a particular group of English words. He calls these word-groups lexical sets and uses a key word, such as KIT, to identify them.
The second column lists possible spellings for words in each group, while the third gives the symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA) to represent the vowel sound. You will find the IPA symbols in a dictionary where pronunciations of words are included.
Click on a sound file to hear an RP speaker using the target vowel. As with any accent of English, RP encompasses a wide variety of speakers and should not be confused with the notion of 'posh' speech. The table includes examples of lexical sets where pronunciation differs. Conservative RP refers to pronunciations associated with older RP speakers and contemporary RP refers to newer, innovative pronunciations common among younger RP speakers, but not yet accepted as 'the definitive' RP vowel.
Vowel variations
Vowels are far more useful than consonants when comparing regional accents. Every English accent can be compared to RP, or indeed to any other accent, by establishing the type of vowel used for any given set. For example, people from outside the North East find it difficult to distinguish between speakers on Teesside and speakers on Tyneside, but there are a number of crucial differences, most noticeably perhaps the pronunciation of words in the NURSE set - words such as bird, work, herd, church and earn, and START and PALM sets - words such as car, sharp and large or half, father and drama. It is easier to distinguish between someone from Tyneside and an RP speaker, because the number of lexical sets for which different vowel sounds are used by each group is far greater. Use the right-hand column and return to the home map to hear recordings of speakers who use different vowels in certain sets.
The Pronunciation of Weak Syllables in RP
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|Recordings where pronunciation differs
conservative RPhappY
happy, beautiful, valley, coffee, bodies
note also yesterday and days of the week such as Monday
and he liked it very much and he decided to spend some money on doing it up, particularly the front part of the house which was then unoccupied
happy, beautiful, valley, coffee, bodies
note also yesterday and days of the week such as Monday
paper, centre, leisure, colour, doctor, sugar, martyr, zebra
3rd person suffix in verbs such as pushes and plural suffix in nouns such as foxes and daisies
on the seven-o-seven there were six of us: three stewards and three stewardesses
past tense marker in verbs such as landed and participial adjectives such as excited
|North Elmham
|longEST, chickEN, servICE, mallET, villAGE, massIVE etc.
the suffix in superlatives such as biggest and adjectives such as active and the final syllable of nouns such as surface, office, pocket, college, sausage, forest and biscuit
but I don't think that means it's a global village
when the time came for the meal service, all the trays went out by hand
conservative RPprivATE, problEM, toilET, countLESS, kindNESS etc.
the suffix in adjectives such as useless and fairness and the final syllable of nouns such as system, purchase, business and place-names such as Hampstead and Athens
I wouldn't like to say how many times I'd been into that chapel, but I must've heard countless sermons
|privATE, problEM, toilET, countLESS, kindNESS etc.
the suffix in adjectives such as useless and fairness and the final syllable of nouns such as <<em class="speech">strong>system, purchase, business and place-names such as Hampstead and Athens
and so then they decided to try and solve this problem
|CONtinue, COMputer etc.
the prefix in verbs such as complain and confirm, adjectives such as complete and contented and nouns such as component and container
oh, it's just we're jolly lucky, that's really, it's a marvellous part of the world, I'm very lucky to, to live here and continue to do so


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This is so sad Larry it is hard to productively comment. Is it so "Emperors New Clothes" to point out that he (Abbott) does not have any coherent, constructive, articulate or intelligent policies ? Why is the media so blind to the actuality of this? Are they themselves such narcisistic products of thier own hype that they are driven by these same poles? I am staggered by the base self-interest, fear and loathing, stupidity and greed of Abbott's positions or lack of them. Sad and saddened.ReplyDelete
Harsh words about our compatriots, my friend. If you see my letter in Saturday's SMH about Peter Gray and Howard, you will understand that I am slightly more sanguine about the people's values. After all, a million of us tried to stop Howard invading Iraq in March 2003.ReplyDelete
Sad indeed, Lyndon. And Brendan, sorry, missed your letter... it's good you can remain sanguine about the apathetic, self-interestedly ignorant Australian electorate. A fine thing so many marched against Howard's war... but then more of them voted for him too. Four times.ReplyDelete
We need a Fuhrer.ReplyDelete
I cheer that I have finally found someone who so skilfully articulates my views on Abbott. I was (almost) beginning to think I was a sourpuss in the glowering, slavering froth of mindless Abbott-lovers - the only friggin condom in the harem...ReplyDelete
The thing that strikes me again, and again, and again about Tony Abbott is his derision for and brushing aside of so many Australians and the issues we care about. My impression is that there's a significant number of 'ordinary' Australians he doesn't understand at all.ReplyDelete


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Alongside Uppsala's student nations you can find everything from small bars and cosy pubs to modern nightclubs and classic restaurants.
If you are looking for a genuine brewery experience, visit Bryggeriet Ångkvarn. While you enjoy something to drink, you can watch the head brewer at work on the next but one batch of beer to be served in the pub. Beer doesn't come much fresher and more locally-produced than this!
For beer and whisky fans, there are also several British pubs that offer a wide range of drinks and excellent classic pub food. Some of them have up a thousand sorts of beer, twenty beer pumps and several brands of whisky.
Two tips are O'Connor's and the Churchill Arms.
If you're looking for hot modern pulsing nightclubs, you have quite a few to choose from. Drop in at the Plock or Tilltugg tapas bars, where you can order a well-mixed drink, combine your own menu of small dishes and watch people.
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March 25
Tampa, Florida
Alex entered the Starbucks at ten minutes before two. He wanted to get there a few minutes early so he could see Jack Goodman arrive. Still curious about how the man disappeared so quickly the previous day, he ordered a decaf latte and took a seat by the window facing the parking lot. It was early afternoon on a Sunday, so there were few patrons in the coffee shop and only four cars in the parking lot. Alex figured that he would easily see the man arrive.
At a couple of minutes before two, Alex got a text message from Kate.
Going to see Miss Carol's new horse.
He sent a quick response, and looked up from the cell phone. Jack Goodman was standing beside the table, preparing to take the chair opposite him. Alex quickly glanced to the parking lot, where he saw the same four cars as before.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Clark," Jack Goodman said.
"Good afternoon," Alex responded. He must have walked here, Alex thought. There were plenty of neighborhoods and hotels nearby. On the other hand, maybe he had been in the restroom when Alex arrived. However he had managed it, he was standing there now.
"I'm glad you decided to come today. I know it was a difficult decision, but I am sure you will be glad you came," Goodman said, as he sat down.
"OK," Alex said. "Tell me why this is so critical. And why me? There are plenty of people working hard to stop climate change, working a lot harder than me, in fact. People like Al Gore, for instance. Why not go to someone like him?"
"Excellent point, Mr. Clark," Goodman responded, "Mr. Gore is a very strong advocate for our cause. The problem is, of course, that he is a prominent Democrat, and Republicans will automatically be opposed to anything he favors. That's just the way it is in your political system. You, on the other hand, are completely unknown, and they won't dismiss you automatically."
"I certainly am unknown," Alex quipped.
"Mr. Clark, do you believe that humans on Earth are alone in the universe, or do you believe there are intelligent beings on other planets?" Jack Goodman asked.
"Well, it seems probable," Alex replied. "Just based on the numbers. I mean, there are billions of stars and planets out there, so I think it's very likely some of them have life on them. But we've tried for decades to communicate with anyone who might be out there, and we haven't found anyone yet."
"So, if I told you that I came here from one of those planets, would you believe that?" Jack Goodman asked.
"No," Alex replied. "Even if they're out there, I believe they're too far away to travel here."
"I didn't think you would," he said, "but I would like to tell my whole story, and then you can decide whether to believe me or not. It's a long story, so you may want to get another latte."
"Do you want something too?" Alex asked.
"No," he replied.
"First of all, I am not a living thing," Jack Goodman said when Alex returned with his fresh latte. "What I am is difficult to explain to humans because your technology is so primitive. The best explanation I can give you is to think of me as a hologram, but imagine how that technology might advance in ten thousand years. You could say that I am an atomic hologram. Obviously, I have mass and I have enormous computing power, but I can shrink the mass to subatomic size, and I can travel great distances virtually instantaneously. I use the name Jack Goodman, but the people who made me refer to me as G2801."
Alex's immediate reaction to this statement was disbelief along with a sizable portion of apprehension. The guy might be crazy, and he might be dangerous.
"I can see that you are having difficulty with this idea, so I must provide you with a demonstration," Goodman said. "Tell me about some object in your apartment and where in the apartment it can be found."
Alex wondered if the calmness of the man's demeanor should be reassuring or frightening. He wanted to get up and run away, but at the same time, he wanted to know more.
"There's a black, hardcover notebook on my desk. It's in the office." Alex used the apartment's second bedroom as an office. There was a daybed for the times that Kate spent the night.
At that moment, the lights in the coffee shop blinked slightly. It was just for a split second, and it seemed that no one else in the place noticed it. Then Alex saw that Jack Goodman was pushing something across the table to him. He looked down and saw that it was his black hardcover notebook. The ballpoint pen he left clipped inside was still in place. He flipped open the notebook and saw the notes he had written just before leaving for Starbucks. He didn't know if this guy was from outer space or not, but he certainly had some good tricks.
"Actually, the notebook is only a holographic image," Goodman said. "I can't transport physical objects. The original is still on your desk where you left it. Now should I continue my story?"
"Yes," Alex replied in a soft, puzzled tone.
"I arrived on this planet a little over 50,000 years ago. I came from a planet called Uor, which is almost a thousand light-years from Earth. Uor is in an area of the galaxy where star formation took place millions of years before your own star formed, so Uor is quite a bit older than Earth. I was sent here as part of an experiment the Uorians were conducting. They called it 'The Garden Project'. They chose that name because they were 'seeding' other planets with humans like themselves. They studied the nearby universe looking for planets that would support human life, and they eventually found six such planets. They built spaceships that could travel across the great distances, and they created machines like me to be caretakers on the distant planets. They referred to us as Gardeners, and our function was to assist the human populations as they developed on the Garden Project planets."
"They sent humans to Earth?" Alex asked. "Are you saying that humans came here from some other planet?"
"Yes," Goodman responded. "But they weren't mature humans. They were frozen embryos. The length of the trip would have been very difficult for mature humans."
"Wait a minute," Alex said. "You are saying that there are humans like us on this other planet."
"It would be more correct to say that you are like them," Jack Goodman said.
"How long did the trip take?" he asked. Alex still didn't believe the story, but he wanted to hear it all.
"In Earth time, the trip took about 1,375 years," he responded. "Four vessels were launched, but one was lost on the way. The other three all arrived safely 51,433 years ago, and the human population on Earth today is descended from the 9,000 embryos that were on board those three vessels."
"Why would they colonize planets and not provide them with the technology and knowledge they already had?" Alex asked.
"That was the point of the study," Jack explained. "They wanted to observe how human populations developed such things as agriculture and science."
"So, we're just some science experiment for aliens?" Alex asked.
"Not any longer," Goodman responded. "The study ended thousands of years ago as the Uorians lost interest in such things."
"So why are you still here?" Alex asked.
"Oh, I can never leave," Goodman replied. "I am programmed to stay in this place forever. Anyway, I still have duties here. You see, when the experiment ended, the Uorian government sold off the rights to the various planets, including this one, to private investors. So now I work for the individual owners of this planet, which they call Eden."
"The Garden of Eden, that's clever," Alex said. "So you're saying that Earth is owned by some rich fat cats on this planet something?"
"Uor," Jack Goodman said.
"Uor, OK," Alex added sarcastically. "And now this fat cat wants to protect his investment against climate change?"
"Not exactly," Goodman responded. "The owners have no expectation of financial gain from ownership of Eden. It's mainly for entertainment. The fat cat, as you call him, was a very wealthy Uorian nobleman named Zeus, and he bought Eden to entertain his two young sons, Apollo and Ares."
"Wait a minute," Alex protested. "Are you telling me that the ancient Greek gods are real?"
"Apollo and Ares are certainly real, but they are not gods. Zeus committed suicide long ago, but he was not a god either," Goodman added. "But I can certainly see why the Greeks were confused. Zeus and Apollo were very interested in what they were doing and probably interfered more than they should have."
"Interfered?" Alex questioned. "What do you mean?"
"They, through me, participated in their affairs somewhat — gave them bits of information about mathematics and science, ideas about laws and governance."
"I see," Alex said. "What happened after Zeus died?"
"Apollo and Ares inherited Eden. That was in 212 BC by your calendar." Goodman stated.
"And they're still alive?" Alex asked in astonishment.
"Very much so," Goodman responded. "Uorian Noblers, that's the class to which Apollo and Ares belong, can live for thousands of years. Apollo and Ares are 3,120 years old now, and they are in their prime."
"Uor must be a fantastic place," Alex said. "Tell me about it."
"In many ways, Uor isn't so different from Earth," Goodman said. "There are continents and oceans, big cities and small towns. There are industries of many kinds, and farms and ranches, also."
"Interesting," Alex mused. "So if money isn't the reason, why do these guys care about climate change on Earth?"
"Very simple. It's a contest, a game between Apollo and Ares with certain events on Eden to determine the winner," Jack Goodman explained.
"A game!" Alex said in astonishment. "You're kidding?"
"I assure you I am not kidding," Goodman said. "And I can also assure you the stakes in this game will have a huge impact for life on this planet."
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KEYBOARD CONVERSATIONS | Für Elise | PBS
Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Jeffrey Siegel explores the fascinating history behind Beethoven's timeless composition "Für Elise" and then performs the piece in this excerpt from the new PBS special KEYBOARD CONVERSATIONS. Premiering in November 2010 and airing throughout December on PBS (check local listings at http://pbs.org/tvschedules ), KEYBOARD CONVERSATIONS presents some of the most familiar and beloved melodies of all time, tunes we know and love, along with the interesting and touching human stories behind them. Support your local PBS station now — you make it possible for your PBS station to offer amazing performances and the opportunity to discover something new every day, whether on TV or online. To donate to your local PBS station, visit http://pbs.org/support


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"G. Thaxton, 114; Oldest Resident of Kentucky"
From a staff writer, Los Angeles Times,
p. B16
July 9, 2005; Grace Thaxton, the oldest living Kentuckian, who recently celebrated her 114th
birthday, has died. She died Wednesday at a hospital in Winchester, KY, after contracting an
infection last week Thaxton, whose mother died at the age of 109, was the fourth-oldest person in
the United States and the sixth-oldest in the world, according to The Gerontology Research Group based at UCLA. The group, at http://www.grg.org
, tracks people 110 and older.
Born on June 19, 1891, in Rockland, NY, Thaxton left her home in the Catskill Mountains in 1910 to attend college in Washington, D.C. She moved to Kentucky in 1913 to teach at Millersburg Female College in Bourbon County. A year later, she married Andrew Jackson Thaxton and lived on their farm for 81 years. Her husband died in 1959. Thaxton, whose only bout with a serious illness came during the Flu Epidemic of 1918, drove a car until she was 95 and hooked rugs until she was 103. "She wanted to maintain her independence for as long as she possibly could," Carolyn Wadsworth, one of Thaxton's four granddaughters, told the Lexington Herald-Leader. Thaxton reportedly did not feel old until her only son, Robert, turned 80 in 1995. At 104, Thaxton moved into the Winchester Center for Health and Rehabilitation, where a wing was named for her when she turned 114. "We feel blessed to have had her with us all these years," Wadsworth said.


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Thursday, May 29, 2008
$15 Billion Is A Modest Valuation
If you're over 30 and single, Facebook can introduce you to 19-yr-old girls on perpetual spring break who want to triple-team you in your home town.
That's worth a lot more than $15 billion. That's the Holy Grail.
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|WFRN Welcomes FM 102.5 Benton Harbor
See also: Michigan City
Praise the Lord!
Friends of Christian Radio has placed it's fourth translator on the air! Joining their previous three translators (101.1 Coldwater, 100.3 Kalamazoo and 107.7 Marion) is 102.5 in Benton Harbor Michigan. The pictures on this page show the antennas being installed.
Friends of Christian Radio is reaching out to listeners who cannot clearly receive full family Christian radio by rebroadcasting the signal of WFRN. The project in Benton Harbor reaches over 38,000 people.
Keep watching for more projects to be completed by Friends of Christian Radio!
One of the mounting arms is taken up the tower.
The transmit antenna has been placed and the cable is being tied down.
Here the receive antenna is being bolted in place and pointed toward Elkhart.
On the ground a cabinet holds the equipment needed to receive the signal from 104.7 in Elkhart and retransmit it on 102.5 in Benton Harbor.
Do you hear 102.5 in Benton Harbor? Tell us about it on our Comments Form or leave us a message about how the addition of this station touches your life on our listener line at 800-434-9104.


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Travel Inspired by Holiday Movies 2013
In this season's hottest film releases, the settings nearly upstage the stars.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Headliners: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
Backdrop: Another dystopian tournament, another paradisiacal setting (this time it's Hawaii).
Scene Stealer: Katniss and her rivals battle it out by Kawela Bay, on Oahu's North Shore.
Inspired? Stay where the cast reportedly did: Turtle Bay Resort ($$).
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (pictured)
Headliners: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris
Backdrop: The biopic, which features Elba (The Wire) in the title role, was filmed on location throughout South Africa.
Scene Stealer: Idyllic KwaZulu-Natal, where the activist's wedding to Winnie Madikizela was shot.
Inspired? Visit Robben Island, where Mandela spent 18 years.
Inside Llewyn Davis
Headliners: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake
Backdrop: Joel and Ethan Coen evoke Greenwich Village in the 1960's through the story of a folksinger's struggles.
Scene Stealer: NYC's landmark Caffe Reggio ($$) stands in for a Chicago club.
Inspired? Go on a downtown bar-hop on the Greenwich Village Rock Tour.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Headliners: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott
Backdrop: Stiller directs a remake of the 1947 classic about a hapless dreamer who realizes his life of adventure in Iceland.
Scene Stealer: The star skateboards at breakneck speed in the lunar Snæfellsnes Peninsula.
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nce a year appears VINETA on Barther Bodden
Our town is certainly worth a journey at any season of the year.
You will find Barth on the southern shore of the Bodden chain, which
is separated from the Baltic Sea by the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula.
This exceptional geographic location and the equable climate make our town
an interesting point of departure for water sports lovers and tourists from near
and far. Town houses that have been renovated with loving care, medieval alley-
ways and venerable buildings such as the cloister-like Aristocratic Ladies'
Convent and St. Marien Church (St. Mary's) in the Gothic brick style let the past
come alive again.
Let us invite you to our town, which is picturesquely located between the sea
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text: I posted this question in another thread but did not want to go too far off topic. What are the chances that Tesla will produce a Home Super charger or Home Mini Supercharger. Say a Super charger the same as a normal one with 10 chargers or a Mini with 5 chargers that could go DC right into the car ? What power requirements would such an animal have and could a typical home handle those requirements ? What charging improvements would that allow and would the cost be worth it ? Any other thoughts ?


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Today I am sharing another layout
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Love Always Collection.
I think this might actually be my
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There are so many things to play with.
This is a pic of myself and my boys.
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Edward T. Bowman. 18 years old. Enlisted on 2/8/1864 at Troy, NY as a private. On 2/13/1864 he mustered into "I" Co. NY 169th Infantry. He was mustered out on 7/19/1865 at Raleigh, NC. Promotions: Corp. 6/20/1865. Source: New York: Report of the Adjutant-General.
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...sometimes we can only imagine what it would've been like to be 12 forever and living in a place without grown-ups. Candy stores would replace butcheries and delicatessens would replace boring grocery store...hot chocolate for coffee and Nutella for milk. Mental freedom allows you all of everything you want, beauty of being part of the LiiqeRiish lifestyle's that there's no need to conform with the rest of everyone at school work or at home. We're pretty much special people and to be frank we have quite the special lifestyle too. *turns up The Band Perry*
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Apple News & Reviews - Page 7
More Apple News
Problems incorporating fingerprint sensors with the OLED displays mean that supplies of the handsets may run short for the holidays.
The new additions, which extend to Apple Watch, are designed to help enterprises connect previously siloed data stores, cloud services and mobile management platforms.
News reports say Apple has set Sept. 12 as the date for to introduce its latest iPhone models and updated Apple smartwatches.
NEWS ANALYSIS: The world's largest social network, which has been envious of YouTube, Netflix, Vimeo and other video providers for years, has set the table for its own online television network.
DAILY VIDEO: Apple bounces back with a solid quarter, hints at an iPhone 8 launch; Google tracks ransomware payments at scale with machine learning; Google releases an API for offline peer-to-peer Android communications; and there's more.
Company sold 41 million iPhones in the quarter, but iPads were newsier; Apple shipped a whopping 11.4 million tablets, its biggest non-holiday quarter for the tablet in more than two years.
Conference call provider streamlines user administration and sign-in, boosts security in its latest version.
VIDEO: Alex Radocea, founder of Longterm Security, explains how he was able to intercept Apple iCloud Keychain with a vulnerability that could have exposed users to risk.
Foxconn, which makes Apple's iPhone and other products in China, won't make connected devices, at least at first. It will make flat-screen displays.
Adobe said it made this decision--which has been expected for a few years--in collaboration with several of its technology partners, including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla.
Among the updates issued by Apple this month is one for the Broadpwn bug that was already patched by Google in the July Android update.
NEWS ANALYSIS: A blogger's prediction that Apple plans to price the new iPhone 8 at nearly double the base price of current iPhones would place the new devices out of reach of most customers.


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IN JULY 2013 in Raqqa, the first city liberated from regime control in northeastern Syria, a Muslim schoolteacher named Soaad Nofal marched daily to ISIS headquarters. She carried a cardboard sign with messages challenging the behaviors of members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria as un-Islamic after the kidnapping of nonviolent activists. After Nofal was joined by hundreds of other protesters, a small number of activists were released. It is a small achievement, but an indication of what communities supported in responsible ways from the outside could achieve on a larger scale in areas controlled or threatened by ISIS.
In the fight against ISIS, unarmed civilians would seem to be powerless. How can collective nonviolent action stand a chance against a heavily armed, well-financed, and highly organized extremist group that engages in public beheadings, kidnappings, and forced recruitment of child soldiers and sex slaves? One whose ideology sanctions the killing of "infidels" and the creation of a caliphate?
Nonviolent resistance alone cannot defeat this radical scourge. The global response must be multifaceted. Still, as the international anti-ISIS coalition led by the United States considers nonmilitary options to "degrade and ultimately destroy" ISIS, it should focus on empowering local civil society in Syria and Iraq with targeted resources, technologies, and knowledge to build resilience and deny ISIS the moral and material support it needs to wield effective control. Public and private investments in independent media and local self-organization initiatives, including those led by women, are two key ways to counter ISIS influence.


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Lahore : The newly constituted Economic Advisory Council (EAC) met here on Thursday. Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired the meeting. In his opening remarks, the Prime Minister said the Council had been reconstituted and assigned the task to suggest possible measures for improvement in the economy, especially in the ... Read More »
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Can Anyone Hold a Patent over Human Genes?
The case challenging whether anyone can hold patents on human genes has broad implications for the biotechnology industry and genetics-based medical research.
Last March, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation sued Myriad Genetics Inc., the University of Utah Research Foundation and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The ACLU and the patent foundation say Myriad's refusal to license the patents broadly has meant that women who fear they may be at risk of breast or ovarian cancer are prevented from having anyone but Myriad look at the genes in question.
During a lengthy hearing in a packed courtroom, U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet was asked by lawyers for the plaintiffs to strike down the validity of the patents, while a lawyer for the defendants called for the lawsuit to be tossed toss out. The judge did not immediately rule.
Christopher Hansen, an ACLU lawyer, told Sweet that researchers deserved praise but not patents for winning the race to isolate an important part of the body.
He said important medical research was being hampered because the patents for "BRCA1" and "BRCA2" genes prohibit the study of the genes by others.
"New forms and testing and new ways of using the gene have been inhibited," Hansen said. "That's not good for women's health."
Hansen argued that the patents were awarded for the discovery of an "ancient secret of nature."
He added: "A patent is not a reward for effort."
Attorney Brian Poissant said Myriad Genetics, based in Salt Lake City, and the University of Utah Research Foundation have a right to the patents, especially since they pertain to the process that was developed to isolate chemical composition.
He said to disallow the patents would wreck the foundation of the entire biotechnology industry. Court precedent, he added, is on their side.
"But the information is not new?" the judge asked at one point.
Poissant responded that every invention in the history of man involves something to do with nature.
Poissant said a ruling against the company could lead to the invalidity of thousands of gene patents.
"This would unravel the foundation of the entire biotechnology industry," he said.
U.S. government attorneys have defended the patents, saying the groups do not have the right to even challenge them.


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Point of View
Fresh ideas for pursuing a life well planned.
Paul Puryear, Director of Real Estate Research, analyzes the current state of the U.S. housing market.
To read the full article, see the full Investment Strategy Quarterly publication linked below.
The housing market continues to track our expectation of 1.2-1.3 million starts, although recent reports indicate some softness in new and existing home sales. We are not concerned about the speed or strength of the housing recovery at this juncture and view these data points as a somewhat normal reaction following the 65 basis point spike in mortgage rates from 4.00% to 4.65% at the beginning of the year.
More importantly, U.S. household formation rates have been consistently below the long-term average (1.2 million) this entire housing upcycle following the peak levels reached in 2005. Structurally decelerating rates of population growth in individuals aged 26 to 64, the prime household formation years, portend below-average household formation for years to come and that scenario continues to play out.
Unless influenced by economic recessions, we believe a strong correlation exists between annual new home sales (single-family permits and starts), household formation, and population growth in individuals aged 26 to 64. The period from 1972-2000 represents the strongest workforce population growth in U.S. history. However, after 2017, annual population growth amongst individuals aged 26 to 64 is not projected to reach 0.7% again until 2041. The post-war Baby Boom was an unprecedented historical event shaping U.S. society. We believe 'reversion to the mean' in U.S. household formation, and consequently new home demand, is a flawed assumption validated by the population growth outlook. Further, we don't expect our economy to reap benefits from new housing construction in this upcycle at the levels realized in the past two upcycles.
With regard to the most recent data points in housing sales, we note that listed inventory for sale (new and re-sale) measured as a percentage of total housing stock is tracking its lowest recorded level in over 30 years. Consequently, there is very little for the consumer/ buyer to choose from. In addition, due to outsized inflation in the cost to build new housing and the slower growth in household income over the past few years, the affordability index has dropped below the 30-year average, despite the relatively low mortgage rate environment. Labor shortages and escalating costs continue to plague builders and have driven costs to build housing up two to three times higher than the broader CPI inflation rate. The Constant Quality (Laspeyres) Price Index1 of new single-family houses sold has inflated at a 5.6% compounded annual growth rate since early 2012. Cumulatively, the cost to build a like-kind single family home has increased 31% over the past six years. Trade wars are not helping as materials costs are now spiking. In some cases, they are surpassing the increasing labor and permitting costs that have been rising since the construction recovery began in 2012.
In addition to the population-driven demographic shift and affordability issues impacting housing demand this upcycle, lifestyle preferences are shifting as millennials are replacing baby boomers as the major home-buying age cohort. Millennials have very different preferences with regard to becoming home owners versus renting, along with lifestyle changes regarding marriage (more single heads of households and delaying marriage), and family formation (birth rates plummeting and fewer families with children). College graduates are entering the workforce at unprecedented levels, but with more student debt and weak credit scores that delay home ownership. For the first time among post-war American generations, living with parents is the most common household arrangement among young adults. As a result, noticeably absent this upcycle is the construction and purchase of entry-level housing, and we don't expect that to change as more and more 'new families' are opting to rent their first home.
On a more positive note, with the first of the millennials now in their early 30s and ʻpeak millennials' hitting age 27, there is some renewed demand in single family housing, which will create a shift in demand from apartments to both owned and for-rent single family houses. This shift will continue to drive single family starts higher in the mid-to single-digit range and multifamily starts flat to down, and we have seen an increase in household formations over the past two quarters. Data points like this, which are driven by some positive shifts in buyer behavior, pent up demand, and a strong economy, continue to drive our more positive view on the housing recovery, but we don't see starts spiking up to the historical 1.5 million in the near to intermediate term.
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Judge signs de facto eviction notice against PCMR
The 3rd District Court judge presiding over the lawsuit between Park City Mountain Resort and its landlord, Talisker Land Holdings, LLC, signed a de facto eviction notice against the resort early Tuesday evening.
Ryan Harris put a seal on a document known as an order of restitution at 5:40 p.m. Harris had been expected to sign the document since indicating he would do so at a June 19 hearing. He ordered the sides into mediation during the hearing in an effort to resolve the dispute.
Harris stayed the enforcement of the order of restitution until at least Aug. 27. It gives PCMR 60 days after the Aug. 27 hearing to vacate the premises if an agreement is not reached during mediation and an eviction proceeds. The judge says he could change the 60-day period to vacate at the Aug. 27 hearing or keep the stay intact at that hearing.
The order of restitution gives the Summit County Sheriff's Office or a constable the ability to enter the land "by force using the least destructive means possible to remove" PCMR from the acreage.
The judge also put a seal on an order in favor of Talisker Land Holdings, LLC indicating that he had sided with the firm in a claim against PCMR that the resort is unlawfully occupying the land. Harris previously made that ruling.
The disputed acreage underlies most of the resort's terrain. Land just uphill from the base area, the base area itself and the parking lots are not involved in the case.
Alan Sullivan, PCMR's lead attorney, said in a statement the sides continue to attempt to reach an agreement.
"The stay should help ensure minimal disruption to the Park City community while the parties try to resolve the case and surrounding issues so that the 2014-2015 season will proceed business as usual," Sullivan said. "PCMR has been trying to resolve this dispute for over two years and PCMR remains committed to finding a resolution that works for both parties and the community. PCMR supports the Court's order to mediate, and hopes Vail will now come to the table with a concrete offer so that this dispute can move towards a prompt resolution."
Editor's note: This article was updated on July 3, 2014, to include Alan Sullivan's statement.
Deer Valley Resort hires new director of lodging
Deer Valley Resort hired Jamo O'Reilly as the director of lodging operations to oversee its more than 450 residences.


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Hypothyroidism in mothers tied to heightened risk of developing autism in children
Maternal hypothyroidism contributes to an increased risk of developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children in a manner dependent on race–ethnicity, according to a retrospective US cohort study.
The study included 397,201 children who were delivered from 1991 to 2011 and remained Kaiser Permanente Southern California health plan members from 1993 to 2014. During the study period, the prevalence of chronic hypothyroidism in mothers was 2.2 percent. There were 6,475 children who developed ASD. Mothers of children with ASD were older, better educated, at lower parity and received prenatal care earlier, and their children were born earlier and more often males of white race.
ASD rates were higher in children born to hypothyroid mothers than in children born to those without the diagnosis (2.14 vs 1.62/1,000 person-years). In Cox proportional hazards models, maternal hypothyroidism, whether diagnosed before or during pregnancy, increased the risk of ASD in offspring by about 30 percent (adjusted hazard ratio [HR], 1.31; 95 percent CI, 1.13–1.53).
The association between maternal hypothyroidism and ASD was seen among both boys (3.93 vs 2.62/1,000 person-years; adjusted HR, 1.27; 1.07–1.50) and girls (1.10 vs 0.61/1,000 person-years; adjusted HR, 1.51; 1.10–2.08). Among women diagnosed with hypothyroidism during pregnancy, normal thyroid-stimulating hormone and free thyroxine levels were not associated with an increased risk of ASD in children.
Prenatal hypothyroidism was associated with an increased risk of ASD in children of Hispanics (adjusted HR, 1.09; 1.01–1.17) and women of other/mixed race–ethnicity (adjusted HR, 1.08; 1.00–1.16) than in children of white women.
According to researchers, management of maternal hypothyroidism may help ameliorate the risk of ASD.


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You might currently use the local newspaper's web site to obtain recent elevation data for the reservoir you are fishing or the river you are canoeing. Or if you fish or float on a number of water bodies, you might have to browse a number of controlling authorities sites (including the US Geological Survey) to get gauge data. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has packaged all of the Observed River Conditions data into RSS feeds so you have real-time gauge data delivered to your inbox. You can subscribe to gauge observations, forecasts, or alerts (handy if you live in the flood plain). The national home page for this service is at http://www.weather.gov/ahps/rss/observed.php, with links to break down data by state, county, or gauge.
NOAA includes a Product Description Document (PDD) titled "Experimental Use of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) for Distribution of Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS) Information" that includes this description:
The National Weather Service is responsible for making its weather, water and climate information widely available to taxpayers using commonly accepted standards and techniques. One of the most widely accepted, available, and cost effective means of accomplishing this objective is the use of web services via the internet. The NWS has implemented Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS) as a corporate-wide HTTP-based web service for disseminating hydrologic information. This service has allowed users instant access to current NWS hydrologic information via Internet connections to personal computers equipped with industry standard browsers.
A rapidly evolving technology across the United States is the ability to access internet content via portable wireless devices. The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) format of AHPS information, will allow for a means of a user-driven public notification of AHPS products to cellular telephones or personal digital assistant (PDA). The RSS format will be provided for: 1) AHPS observations, 2) AHPS routine forecasts and 3) AHPS observations and forecasts that reach "alert" thresholds. The "alert" threshold is determined by the Weather Forecast Offices and is based on locally appropriate action stage that is always a stage below flood stage. This "alert" capability can be used to trigger further review of hydrological and meteorological conditions.
The AHPS RSS products will include the most recent observations, and when appropriate the greatest forecast value and the last forecast value from an individual AHPS time series file (in xml format). The AHPS RSS product will also include the internet address to the AHPS hydrograph page. A null AHPS RSS "alert" product will be available to indicate non-alert conditions – if/when non-alert conditions exist.


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Many westerners had the pleasure of bargening in many countries for differnet products they buy. It's ALWAYS part of the trip.
When arriving here I started my bargening as follows:
seller: qoutes a price
me: "Tai Gui Le" ( too expensive) – offer a price 30%-40% precent less
seller: nodding his head for no…and offer some other price…etc'…
eventually the price would be 25% off the original one. Whenever I finished bargeinig I felt that I paid to much….My family always gave me the feeligng that I padi to much also…
Then, Fiannally I got it. Bargening in this country should go like this:
seller: qouting a price
me: me: "Tai Gui Le" ( too expensive) – offer a price 80%-90% less
We would finish with 60%-70% off the original price!
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Pickerington high school students and their parents next week can get a jump on the upcoming school year during upcoming "Welcome Days."
Pickerington high school students and their parents next week can get a jump on the upcoming school year during upcoming "Welcome Days."
Parents and students can take care of most -- if not all -- first semester fees, class scheduling issues, school pictures and emergency medical notifications during Welcome Days, to be held Aug. 8 and 9 at Pickerington High School Central and Pickerington High School North.
"This is now the fourth year we've been doing this," said Central Principal Zack Howard.
"First and foremost, we get the opportunity to collect every medical authorization form we need so we can start the school year off a little safer.
"All students also are eager to get their schedules," Howard said.
"This provides the opportunity to get their schedules and make any last-minutes changes that are needed."
Classes in the Pickerington Local School District begin Aug. 19.
All students attending the high schools in 2013-14 must submit emergency medical authorization forms signed by their parents or guardians prior to being permitted to pick up their schedules.
In addition to crossing that task off the list and getting their class schedules, students can have class pictures taken during Welcome Days, and they can walk the high schools to familiarize themselves with the buildings and where their classes will be.
Additionally, students can obtain their identification cards, collect class books and learn about opportunities to join various clubs and other school-related organizations.
"It takes that first week of school and allows us to be a little more academic," said North Principal Kiya Hunt. "It takes care of some of that bookkeeping."
Central's Welcome Days schedule is:
* 12th grade, 8 to 11 a.m.
* 11th grade, noon to 3 p.m.
* 10th grade, 8 to 11 a.m.
* Ninth grade, noon to 3 p.m.
North's Welcome Days schedule is:
* All seniors, and freshmen with birthdays January through March, 8 to 11 a.m.
* All juniors, and freshmen with birthdays April through June, noon to 3 p.m.
* Freshman Opportunity to Grow (FOG) will be held for all ninth-grade students from 8 to 11 a.m. with lunch provided.
* All sophomores, and freshmen with birthdays July through September.
* All freshmen with birthdays October through December.
North also will host a new student and freshman informational meeting for students and parents at 6 p.m. Aug. 15 in the school's Performing Arts Center.
"This will be a brief presentation by the administration and school counselors regarding various aspects of student life at PHSN," Hunt said.
Additionally, North will host an open house for parents from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 21.
"That will allow parents to come in and meet their students' teachers," Hunt said.
Central will hold open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 22
Central's freshmen and new student orientation will take place at 6 p.m. Aug. 22 at the high school.
"We will have an open house where all our teachers will be back," Howard said.


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Mostly about dogs, but books as well. And sometimes I have other stuff on my mind. And now: a blog about my ovarian cancer.
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Move to home not working
Each day we get less and less reaction from her which I guess is the way it goes. A few days ago she stopped speaking French although she still appears to understand the nurses. Today she hardly said a word. Most of my interaction with her has been by holding hands and touch with naps in between. I keep wondering what else I could be saying or doing.
I have received many e-mails from friends from Margot's various on-line communities offering prayers and messages of support. I am not sure how many of these messages are registering with her but they all mean a great deal to me. Thank you.
10 comments:
- Anonymous16 December 2010 at 10:34:00 CET
Dear Nick, we regularly of course continue to read news you write concerning Margot and thank you for the time taken for that despite all problems you encounter. You can be assured we think to Margot very often. We can also imagine how the situation is difficult for you every day. You are very courageous.ReplyDelete
Avec toute notre amitié Agnès et Max
- Anonymous16 December 2010 at 12:05:00 CET
Still here and still regularly checking in. It sounds great what you are doing, I'm sure she is aware of you and what you are doing for her and your lovexx Someone told me a person's favourite smell can be good when they are this weak? I thank you both for your courage to write and continue this blog at this time, it is a very special gift you give us. I am thinking of you both. Peace and strength to you both and the dogsxx Jane/Celticseahorse in CornwallReplyDelete
- Cheryl (who usually posts as valrico canine)16 December 2010 at 14:48:00 CET
Nick - I wasn't sure if you were reading the lists, so I always post here. It's too bad Margot can't go home yet. Hopefully when the GP comes back, she can.ReplyDelete
I know it's hard, but I don't know if there is anything you can really say to her - other than talking about memories. That might also get her stimulated so she talks more, or, if she is that weak that it's tiring to talk, at least, with you talking about some fun times you've had together, it will brighten her day. I bet it would make her feel really good to know that you remember special times and fun times.
It doesn't matter if she doesn't seem to register the messages - that you bring them to her shows her that you and everyone else cares and is thinking of her - that's all that needs to register. On the chance that things ARE registering with her, but she has slipped into depression because of her condition, you should keep talking to her about things you've done and, if you feel like it, passing on the messages. She just might be so depressed that she gives off the impression that it's not registering, when she might really be too down to respond properly.
I would be afraid that if you stopped talking to her about all that is familiar to her, it would worsen her condition.
Tell her stories about the dogs, the neighbors, what people online are writing, what happened to you when you were home, describe the snow, remember the trips to Spain and other places, remember a tender moment after you guys got married, all kinds of stuff to help keep her spirits up as much as is possible under these conditions.
Will they let you bring one of the dogs to visit? That might cheer her up a tad - as much as a person who is that sick can be cheered up. Dogs do wonders for really sick people.
Tell her I still have the candles lit for both of you and I think about you both every day.
Sir, it's agonizing reading your words... much more so for you to write them as I imagine you are choosing them carefully. From experience, say the words you wish her to hear before she passes. Now is the time.ReplyDelete
Tell her I enjoyed all of our debates. I appreciated more than words can express how she counseled, advised, and downright harangued me during my worst times. Tell her I'll always treasure the pictures of C that she edited. Tell her I love her and I will miss her on this earth.
She is one of a kind. So are you. Please make sure you have people around you to help you through this.
You're a good man, an honorable man - I'm not surprised because Margot chose you. Peace, my friends, and all the love in the world.
Doobie and Caitlin
To Margot: Find peace dear friend. To Nick: Be strong, be with her and know you are loved. I don't know what else to say at this point.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 December 2010 at 16:41:00 CET
Nick, she knows you're there, and that is what matters to her, and what she needs.ReplyDelete
Please tell her how much we miss her, and that we are thinking about her, and you.
Margot is a truly exceptional woman and friend. More than once she offered advice and wisdom that changed me, for the better. I love and miss her.ReplyDelete
Nick, I want to thank you for being so strong for Margot and for all of us. She knows how much you love her and I am sure that means the world to her.
I wish you both continued strength and peace.
Nick -ReplyDelete
Your presence speaks volumes to her. Others have said it much better than I can. I have no words to express the gratitude and love I have for you both.
...and Zazou, and Danza, and Waldeaux too!
- Anonymous16 December 2010 at 19:55:00 CET
Thank you so much for continuing to blog in addition to being there for Margot. Please let her know that all the shar-pei are wishing they could come visit her and snuggle with her and let her know how loved she is. They know the Chows dont snuggle or give kisses, but they have been doggy-whispering to them that Margot might like it. I ditto all that everyone has said. You are a gem. Margot is a gift to all who know her. Peace be with you both.
Much love, Joleen, Rachelle and all the pei.
Margot is the most amazing person who has touched the lives of so many people and helped them in so many ways. Like Lindsey said, Margot has changed my life as well. Please tell her how much she is loved and cherished now, and how much she will be missed if the time comes. I will miss our very long email pen pal sessions, I've missed them for awhile. She's given me so much good advice over the years, there will be a huge void in my life with no Margot.
Please keep giving her everyone's thoughts and prayers. Even if she doesn't remember or understand them all some of it has to stay with her and comfort her. Above all, know that you are being thought of as well. This can't be easy for you, please be sure you are taking care of yourself as well as Margot. I do like Cheryl's suggestion, take one of the dogs if you are allowed. Our dogs visit the nursing home here and the smiles on some of the residents faces when they see the dogs is priceless.
Thank you Nick for keeping us all updated.
I have created a Facebook group open to anyone who knows Margot.... it's to help anyone who is having a tough tiime deal with Margot's illness. We are able to share with each other that way. It can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_183279548364340&id=183279961697632 All are welcome.
Kim Peters, Scott, Kyle, Duncan, Kacey, Skye and Joey.