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Submission + - What "news for nerds" sites should I use? 8
So, Slashdot, what sites can you recommend for a "maybe-ex"
what bong smoking hippie came up with "SoylentNews"... even "CrapSlosh" would be better
but a degree is a foot in the door... it's proof that you meet the minimum requirements of a programmer (that's the assumption anyway)
it's very difficult to prove your worth without one... i develop software professionally but (legally) i can't demonstrate that software to a new employer so i'm limited to verbally describing how awesome it is.
i doubt there would be any risk of flow separation around a speed skater... they're fast... but they're not that fast
Their medicinal chemists are very talented. Don't underrate them.
especially the ones imported from poorer countries
V8 supercars... at least they know how to turn the steering wheel both ways
the suits were tested... the americans are just blaming the suits because they suck at speed skating
iinet will tell them to fuck off
try clicking the X in the top right corner of the browser window
or change the URL from beta.slashdot.org to www.slashdot.org
if you're on a mobile, not sure... you may be stuffed there, but slashdot has always been pretty shit on a mobile
lol sorry apk i just realized you weren't actually replying to my comment... apparently i haven't drunk enough coffee thismorning
i'm not sure if you're the real apk or just an imposter, but you probably don't want me bringing up that old buggy python script of yours again eh?
As early as the 6th century, in the sub-Sahara, Moorish merchants routinely traded salt ounce for ounce for gold
i'm not sure how credible the article you linked is, but even your own source doesn't support your assertion that salt was more valuable than gold
you're probably too brainwashed to think of doing this yourself, but have a look at the wikipedia page on the teap party
the tea party is a wing of the republican party, but it's because the tea party represent what the republican party represented years ago. the real problem is that establishment republicans are not what the republican party used to be in the days of robert taft... the republican party has lost its way, but not because of anything the tea party has done. the tea party has brought real fiscal responsibility to the forefront of politics where it needs to be in this age of spiralling sky high debt.
why do you think so many people look at establishment republicans and democrats as being basically the same? it's because they are the same... big government spenders... with some minor token differences on social issues that government shouldn't even be involved in.
The tea party (i.e. Republicans) were responsible for shutting down the government
at least you made it abundantly clear where you get your news from... Fox and CNN
the tea party didn't shut down the government at all.... that's just stupid. the tea party doesn't control government. the democrats in the whitehouse control the government. the government shutdown was political theatre by the democrats (and even establishment republicans working together against the tea party) because they are scared shitless of the tea party taking their congressional seats in the next election. house republicans passed bill after bill to fund almost all of the government... the democrats in the sentate not passing these piecemeal funding bills because they were afraid that they wouldn't get their beloved obamacare funded was the real political theatre.
you can pretend that the tea party shut down the government, but you can't stop more and more people from waking up to the realization of that being total bullshit.
The tea party is way far removed from being libertarian at this point. There is almost nothing libertarian about it anymore.
that's just nonsense... try turning off your tv and get out more to find out what the tea party is doing. most of the tea party follows ron paul, who is as libertarian as they come. of course Fox and CNN want you to think differently, but that's because they are controlled by the very people that are threatened by the tea party.
Do they understand that freedom means *not* defining marriage to be between one man and one woman?
the majority of the tea party movement doesn't concern itself with marriage because there are much bigger fish to fry... the government shouldn't be involved in deciding who can marry and who can't. the media focus on people who claim to be tea party followers talking about marriage are likely plants, and reporting by CNN and Fox is basically all propaganda.
the tea party continually highlight fiscal responsibility, sound money, putting a stop of empire building, renewing friendly trade ties with other nations, increasing government transparency and personal privacy, etc.
Fox and CNN will do anything they can to keep voters eyes off the ball, and for many (including yourself apparently) it is working.
In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.


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MICHELLE KUO: The Liberty Bell, this has been a very long project—years in the making.
My name is Michelle Kuo, and I'm the editor of Artforum magazine. And I wrote an essay about Koons's fabrication for the show catalogue.
NARRATOR: Kuo's research offers insight into the extreme lengths that Koons will go to in the creation of his artworks.
MK: What the finished object seems to achieve is a very perfect level of replication down to even the historical materials used. So the first step, 3D scanning, this goes beyond 99% of what most artists would want to or be able to achieve in capturing the interior and exterior volumes, every nook, every crevice, every cranny of this very large (laughs) and geometrically irregular object, very old object.
The second big thing that they did is that they researched—actually in the fifties, when the Liberty Bell had to be restored, and a lot of research was done at that time into the interior structure of the bell and its support system. So the Koons studio actually did extensive historical research into the materials from this restoration. And they were able to apply that information in recreating even the hidden recesses of the bell that we would not be able to see with the naked eye.
The other body of knowledge they gleaned from that was, for instance, even the precise historical admixture of wood putty that was used. The different kinds of metal that were forged. The different kinds of wood and the treatments of the wood that were used. So they really are, to the closest degree possible, trying to recreate or even refabricate all of those constituent materials. So everything from the substance to the structure, to a degree that I think most would find maniacal (laughs), Koons is trying to re-create.

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Well, crap in a hat.
Other sites are reporting that, according to Variety, Hasbro has asked stores to send everything back. Which probably means that what's in the stores will get put out and never restocked (at least in 2012), and what's in the distribution centers will be shipped back. For sale later, to be destroyed, or to wind up at Ross? Who knows?
Hasbro also claims to not be concerned about the loss of Joe in the toy aisle until next year.
Christ on a cracker, how can they botch this line so badly? Every time we think they've bottomed out, they dig a bit further.
Rush out the frickin' Crimson Guard and Cobra Trooper in three or four different color schemes, and re-release the hell out of the most popular 30th Anniversary figures. Heck, put the damned Retaliation Red Ninja on a card; he looks the same as the classic version and the mold's been available already. They could actually throw together a stopgap line that would outsell Joe sales overall for the past three years if they cut out all potential pegwarmers, thus actually encouraging retailers to order more movie crap next year!
The lack of vision at Hasbro bugs the $%^& out of me sometimes. I get tired of saying that I want to give them money and they make it really tough to do so.


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I just brought home an "Epson WorkForce WF-2540" "all-in-one" printer/scanner to use via wifi from various Linux and Android machines in the house. Unfortunately, since Apple gave CUPS the heave-ho, specs in CUPS from manufacturers for new printers seem to be lagging. After extended experimentation (misled by anti-clues in macosix drivers), I find that telling CUPs you have an Epson "Workforce WF-845" seems to work OK. This probably is true for the new WF-2530 as well. This seems like a pretty mature device. It has a USB "device" socket and an RJ45 ethernet socket for if you don't have wifi, and a USB host connector, apparently for talking to your camera or USB memory stick. I haven't tried those, or the scanner.
This being the eve of the election, there's just one thing I'd like to hear at a debate: "If you have to lie to make your case, what does that say about your case?"
The best deal on a webcam/mic I've found lately is a "Gear Head" WC740I (or just maybe WC7401) "Plug-n-Play 1.3 MP WebCam for PC" for $15. It worked immediately when I plugged it in, using the standard UVC driver, no fooling around. I don't know how common this is, but it has a mirror ring around the lens so you can tell if it's pointed at you.


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text: I just finished reading "Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's 'Band of Brothers" by Sgt. Don Malarkey. Nothing all that new per say compared to the other BoB books out there, I'm happy to have read it, I know Buck Compton has a book that I'd like to read as well.


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By Tiernan Ray
UBS's Brent Thill this morning reiterates a Buy rating on Microsoft (MSFT) and a $33 price target after reflecting on the buzz around the company's forthcoming update to Windows 8, "Windows Blue," screen shots of which have been leaking onto the Internet, as The Verge's Tom Warren noted earlier this week.
After hosting a conference call with Microsoft expert Mary Jo Foley, Thill concludes Microsoft is pursuing a more aggressive pace of updates for Windows and its other products:
MSFT starting to issue updates more quickly vs. big bang refresh approach which is important as it more quickly improves the competiveness of MSFT's platform adding necessary new features/fixes/UI tweaks as well as deep level kernel changes that improve the MSFT experience and open-up new markets like sub-10 inch tablets. MJF expects RTM for Client and Server Blue around August '13, Office Blue (Gemini) in fall '13, Phone Blue late 2013/early 2014. The Build conference just announced for the last week of June in SF, usually MSFT needs things to show developers so perhaps we see 7 or 8 inch W8 tablet by then even if just in demo form.
Additional observations from Foley include that the Surface tablet computer is too pricey, and battery life too slim at 4 to 5 hours: "MSFT needs to cut the price on Surface RT to a couple hundred dollars."
Also, Foley believes Microsoft Office is coming for Apple's (AAPL) iOS-based devices, and Google's (GOOG) Android, this year, based on Office 365 subscriptions:
MJF believes we will see Office on iOS/Android perhaps as soon as this year. MJF believes the delivery/payment model will be as an add-on to an O365 Home/Business Premium subscription entitling you to install a localized version of Office to an iPad. MJF notes MSFT is not denying Office on iOS/Android which is telling and has heard from people that claim they've seen Office on iPad (though she hasn't seen it herself). Strategically this move makes sense as MSFT is reimagining itself as 'device and cloud services' focused so extending Office to other platforms fits that shift.
Microsoft shares today are up 18 cents, or 0.6%, at $28.55.


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Excellent performance at waterfowl hunting
Built from the ground up to be the best waterfowl load on the market Hevi-Shot's Speed Ball ammunition has several unique features that make it one of the best. Speed Ball uses existing Hevi-Shot technology and adds to it the MV2 steel shot technology to make one of the best waterfowl loads on the market. The first innovation is the elastomeric Speed Ball in the base of the shell that accelerates the pellet velocity while keeping pressures in check. Next is the MV2 steel core copper-clad pellets that are Heavier Than Steel but feature a soft outer copper layer that has been metallurgicaly fused to the steel core. Using proprietary processes a copper layer 22 times thicker than plated copper pellets allows the MV2 pellets to be denser than conventional steel pellets. The last addition is the use of layer technology from the Hevi-Metal loads, featuring a Hevi-Shot layer and a MV2 layer. This all results in the higher pellet counts and lethal pellet energy of the original Hevi-Shot loads at a lower price and higher speeds. With increased speeds and lowered pressures will result in less required lead and higher hunter success rates. It's easy to see that Speed Ball is the preferred round for serious waterfowl hunting.


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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Intel (INTC) today are down 6 cents at $23.90 despite a couple of positive notes from the Street.
RBC Capital's Doug Freedman raised his rating on the shares to Outperform from Sector Perform, and raised his price target to $29 from $24, writing that the company's gross margin is likely to improve from here, and given the lousy sentiment about PCs may have simply grown to negative to sustain itself at this point.
Freedman sees Intel's gross margin coming in ahead of expectations later this year, as start-up costs for its "Haswell" chip architecture become less onerous:
We do believe that due to the roll-off of start-up costs and bonus back of inventories, gross margins can move higher with limited revenue growth in 2HCY13. As a result, our gross margin assumption for 2013 of 60.7% is higher vs. Street at 59.2% (despite our revenues estimate of $53.49bil being lower than Street's $55.55bil).
Freedman also thinks that a wave of product designs may finally grant the company a better position in smartphones and tablets versus chips from licensees of ARM Holdings (ARMH) such as Qualcomm (QCOM), Nvidia (NVDA), and Broadcom (BRCM):
Our checks suggest that traction in mobile is upcoming, as we believe the magnitude of design wins are expected to be surprising to investors. We feel that even ahead of a more compelling leading-edge 14nm line-up in 2014, Intel is today receiving a lot of interest from OEMs. There has been chatter from the handset ecosystem suggesting that the 2014 Intel platform may be their best yet. We find this is especially encouraging given that the expectation on Intel's success in Ultramobile is very low. Even marginal upside from handset revenues would push the applied multiple higher, as it shows that Intel's bet on x86 against ARM finally would make in-roads (albeit small initially with accelerated 2014 ramp). Recall that today Intel is shipping LTE basebands and is expected to ship LTE multi-mode voice and data baseband solutions by year-end. On the CPU-side, its 32nm dual-core Clover Trail+ is gaining increasing momentum on improving GPU performance. Its newer HSPA+ platform reference design around Clover Trail+ is a positive step forward for the company as the nextleg up will be LTE.
Also, Freedman thinks the appointment last Thursday of 31-year veteran Brian Krzanich, currently COO, to replace Paul Otellini as CEO on May 16th, may produce more change than people think, despite his being a long-time insider:
We believe the selection of an insider should NOT be misconstrued with the thought that Intel does not intend to deviate from its current vision. Our view is Krzanich's appointment was awarded as a result of changes in the future direction of the company, with these changes expected to become visible over the next few quarters. We suspect part of this vision could be a shift away from being the sole source of innovation toward assisting their customers with innovation efforts. And this ambition would be likely supported by using software as an enabler for not only driving adoption, but also profitability.
The stock also got an initiation of coverage today from Suji De Silva of Topeka Capital Markets, with a Buy rating and a $28 price target, writing that the PC market may "normalize" as new products with touch capabilities come to market.
In a brief phone conversation this afternoon, De Silva tells me, "Haswell is a very real effort for them, and a part of the story that is being under-appreciated." Haswell is intended to dramatically improve the power efficiency of Intel's X86 processors compared to ARM-based chips, especially for mobile devices.
De Silva thinks that at this point, the sluggishness of Windows-based PCs is a matter of consumers waiting for better product.
"People are just getting used to Windows 8, you have to get used to the new feel" of the software, he tells me. "I think that Haswell will mandate touch capabilities for ultrabooks, and other devices, and Windows is clearly designed for touch," says De Silva, referring to the ultrabook specification Intel assigns laptop makers and developers of hybrids that incorporate notebook and tablet capabilities.
"The tablet phenomenon has been in the marketplace for quite a while now," observes De Silva. "At this point, it's not the marginal buyer who's opting for a tablet, rather, people are stalling until the notebook gets to the form factor it should be."
In related Intel news, the company today hosted a webcast to discuss "Silvermont," the new CPU "core" for its "Atom" line of low-power mobile processors. Patrick Wang of Evercore Partners, who has an Equal Weight rating on the shares, reflecting on that announcement, writes that Silvermount is important for Intel to be more competitive with ARM's technology:
Silvermont (22nm) will launch in 2013 and Airmont (14nm) in 2014. We're constructive on Silvermont as it finally adopts Out of Order (OoO) execution, a key weakness of current Atom cores (Saltwell). Silvermont will be found in SOCs for tablet (Bay Trail), handset (Merrifield), comms (Rangeley), and server (Avoton) … helping close the gap with ARM: It's unclear at this point how Silvermont will perform against ARM's Cortex-A15. That said, it's more important to see how it stacks up against Apple's new SOC (A7) and Qualcomm's Krait CPU. We think Silvermont gets closer, but our focus remains on Airmont.
Update: Freedman issued a second note to clients this evening in which he reviewed the Silvermont presentation:
The new multi-core and system fabric architecture (up to eight cores)
augments performance for higher bandwidth while reducing latency.
Intel highlighted a more efficient out-of-order execution pipeline that
drives a more balanced and responsive system. Silvermont's new
instructions and technologies drive improved performance, virtualization and security management capabilities. Intel's architecture allows for fast switching between high and low power states [...] Net/Net We believe there is still a lot of skepticism in the marketplace despite the company's ability to illustrate favorable benchmarks as the company attempts to change its perception vs. ARM. The vast end-markets that Silvermont services, suggests that Intel is giving customers increased flexibility of where to deploy Atom-cores. While we are encouraged by the Atom roadmap, we believe the market will take a 'wait and see' approach as Intel attempts to establish more serious in-roads in ARM-dominated markets.


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'Insights With Angela Creager'
Posted February 27, 2014; 12:00 p.m.
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A new book by Princeton University historian Angela Creager explains how knowledge and technology that grew out of the Manhattan Project paved the way for important breakthroughs in medicine and biology. In this video, Creager describes the great hopes for atomic research in the 1940s and '50s and how those hopes were later tempered by concerns about radiation exposure. Read more.
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ANGELA CREAGER: When both
ordinary people and scholars
have thought about the legacy
of the Manhattan Project,
we thought about the way in
which physics and engineering
were put to military use.
We thought about a destructive
legacy, the arms race, the Cold
Part of what I discovered
was that atomic energy
had just as much of a legacy
in some of the fields that we
think of as peaceable as
it did in military uses.
And specifically here, a lot of
the advances in postwar biology
and medicine that have been
really taken for granted
owe a lot to the
materials and the policies
that were part of
the Cold War US.
When the Manhattan
Project resulted
in the invention of
nuclear reactors,
many scientists working
for the Manhattan Project
understood that this would be
a tremendous source, especially
for the production of
radioactive isotopes.
NARRATOR: What
are radioisotopes?
They are merely unstable
forms of elements giving off
unseen particles, or
rays, from the nuclei
during the process of
changing to stable form.
Initially, the hope
was that radioisotopes could
be used to cure cancer.
So there was a great
hope that perhaps cancer
could be treated by finding
a magic bullet for every kind
of cancer, a different
kind of radioisotope that
might localize to
a tissue and kill
a tumor from within the body.
And there are some cancers that
are susceptible to radioisotope
treatment, although, in the
end, it was more a replacement
for radium as an
external radiation
source than a completely
revolutionary, new kind
of treatment.
So those uses were
already known.
In addition, the discovery
of stable isotopes
had already led to trace
reuses of isotopes.
Trace reuses are
when you replace
one atom of a compound with a
particular radiolabeled atom
so that you can
follow that label
through the ordinary chemical
or biological processes
that that compound goes through.
And so radiotracing
was very widely
applicable to
study biochemistry,
physiology, endocrinology,
eventually ecology.
Basically anything where a
chemical compound is in motion,
radiotracing is a way to
look at change over time
and look at chemical
There was still this great
hope that radioisotopes
were going to do great
things for humankind.
There was a story about
the medical dividends
of atomic energy that features
a very striking color image.
It shows a man,
who's in his pajamas,
having stood up from
a wheelchair, who
is encircled in this
halo of a mushroom cloud.
And the suggestion
is that he has
been healed of whatever ailment
had him in that wheelchair
by the power of the atom.
I think it captures better
than any other single image
the hopeful side.
Certainly people understood
that at high levels
radiation was very dangerous.
But it was over the course
of the 1950s and 1960s
that the hazards of
low-level radiation
came into clearer view.
And that complicated
the hope that radiation
and radioisotopes could be
beneficial for civilians,
because certainly
their use would expose
some people to low
levels of radioactivity.
So then it became
more of a calculation
of when the risk
was worth taking.
And in most cases
today, people feel
like low-level risks associated
with dental X-rays or tests
in hospitals are worth it to
get the benefits of radiation
and radioisotopes.
But people are more leery
about the risks of radiation
from nuclear power
and other kinds
of environmental contamination.


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Australia 1927 – Australia 1982
England 1951-56
Circle landscape
oil on canvas
not signed
152.4 (h) x 134.6 (w) cm
Private collection
© estate of Fred Williams
There is an intricate geometry at work in Circle landscape. The shape of the off-square canvas is carefully considered in relation to the circle and diagonal, along with delicate horizontal and vertical lines within the landscape. In this work Williams combined this precision with an immensely subtle response to his surroundings. The image is based on a hill he had seen one evening coming up from Ferntree Gully to Upwey.
It is as though we are looking at the landscape through a window and it is perhaps not surprising that the inspiration for the circle came, in part, from rose windows he had seen in the great cathedrals during his travels in England and Europe.


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The vanguard of Australian street art can be traced to a small number of artists experimenting during the late 1970s. It was not until the mid 1990s, however, that there was a voracious surge in the act of creating works of art on the street, which could be identified as the beginning of the contemporary Australian street art scene. It should also be acknowledged that the roots of Australian street art lie in the Australian graffiti subculture. Since graffiti's appearance in Australia in the early 1980s, this subculture has undergone significant aesthetic transformation. In the last three decades, Australian graffiti, as we traditionally understand it, has grown from the internally coded expressions of notorious hardcore writers into a multifaceted scene that comprises a conglomeration of artists using text, symbols and signs. The graffiti subculture has multiplied its forces of collaborating practitioners and has spawned numerous street art offshoots that have, since 2000, revolutionised creativity in public spaces. Various and complex historical influences, peak developments and new trajectories comprise the national street art scene as it stands now in 2010.
When we speak about an work of art created in or for the street today, it is usually not graffiti at all, but its descendant—neo‑graffiti, post‑graffiti or, more commonly, street art, which includes, among multiple expressions, stencils, hand‑painted posters, paste‑ups, stickers, street intervention pieces, installations and zines. While the initial raid on Australian public space was instigated by graffiti writers and political activists—bombing the urban environment with tags, wild‑style pieces, and punk and anarchist stencils—street artists have mounted a second wave of attack, successfully storming new territory, re‑colonising city streets and, most recently, penetrating the walls of numerous commercial and public galleries. Street art now functions as an elaborate national and international communication system and is currently morphing into its next phase in which the ephemeral has become the collectable.
Art galleries have also played a role in changing perceptions about street art: acquiring posters and recent examples of street art for their collections has helped legitimise practices that have often been outlawed. In the case of the National Gallery of Australia, zines and stencilled images on paper take their place alongside earlier posters and self-published books.
Roger Butler, Senior Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings, NGA.
While there would seem to be little prospect in the near future of seeing a social or legal policy on street art that wholeheartedly affirms its cultural value and fosters its existence, it should not be too much to ask the authorities to reconsider their current punitive stance. Street art need not be seen as a crime and social problem. It is worth imagining what kind of city might be produced if all the complexities and possibilities offered by street art were allowed to flourish.
Professor Alison Young, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne.


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Giving tree project
Posted December 11, 2000; 02:36 p.m.
Class of 2001 sponsored the first annual Princeton Giving Tree Project, designed to provide gifts for the holidays to children living in low to moderate income communities in the Princeton area.
The project was open to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff. On Tuesday, December 12th the Senior Class reached their goal of providing 206 presents to 103 children. Justin Browne, President of the Class of 2001, hopes "that this project will become a tradition here at Princeton and will grow and include more children in years to come."
To learn more about the project visit www.princeton.edu/2001/giving or contact Justin Browne at 256-9459 or firstname.lastname@example.com
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6/24/2010 [Brass/Woodwinds]Yamaha Brings World Class Artists and Wide Range of Top Quality Percussion Instruments to Prestigious National Music Festival
NORMAL, Ill. — For the 14th year in a row, Yamaha is proud to be a presenting sponsor of the Music For All (MFA) Summer Symposium, a yearly educational gathering of young musicians and educators from across the country. Yamaha has been a supporter of Summer Symposium since 1992, and the Yamaha Young Performing Artists Winner's Concert has been a featured event at Summer Symposium since the first year of the highly competitive young artist competition in 1988.
Yamaha has loaned over 85 brand new concert percussion instruments, including timpani, snare drums, marimbas, toms and more, for use by the students attending the weeklong clinic. These instruments are currently available for sale to schools at a generously reduced price, and will be delivered after the clinic has finished. Summer Symposium will be taking place this year from June 19th to June 26th on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal, Ill.
"Yamaha is so happy to be supporting Summer Symposium for the 18th consecutive year," said Roger Eaton, Director of Marketing, Yamaha Band and Orchestral Division. "Summer Symposium is one of the highlights of my year, seeing another class of students and educators connect for a week of music making in such a supportive and entertaining atmosphere is truly delightful. Our Yamaha Clinicians are some of the best teachers in the country, and also incredibly talented performers. Being able to connect these educators with such passionate students is one of Yamaha's foremost priorities, and we couldn't be happier to see it all come together for another year."
Yamaha will also be showcasing several of their new and popular instruments at The Yamaha Zone, a special area for students and educators to have hands on experiences with Yamaha wind, percussion and keyboard instruments, as well as the latest in electronic drums and live sound products. Yamaha artists will also be presenting Yamaha Technology Sessions as part of the Leadership Weekend Experience for educators, demonstrating the latest technological advancements in string instruments, saxophones, trumpets, trombones, woodwinds and drum sets, and how this technology can be utilized in an educational setting. Overall, 19 Yamaha Clinicians, all master teachers in their fields, will be part of Summer Symposium as both educators and performers.
Throughout the week, Yamaha will be posting live updates to the Yamaha Hub Facebook page, and tweets about Summer Symposium can be seen by following the Twitter hashtag #yamahamfa.
For more information about Yamaha Corporation of America, write Yamaha Corporation of America, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; telephone (714) 522-9011; e-mail email@example.com; or visit www.yamaha.com/press.


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Not sure if anyone still reads this thread, but just in case:
Not sure if anyone still reads this thread, but just in case:
Thanks for the heads up. I just ordered one.
So I am bringing this thread back to life!
TRU.com delivered my preorders of Marvel Legends Scarlet Witch and Captain Marvel yesterday. It's a good thing because thanks to the glut of Cap Legends figures at Target, I fear I may never see much of this wave at retail. With the GOTG legends, I never did see a Rocket out at retail so in that instance as well, online preorders saved me.
Death's Head, if one doesn't have him yet, is glorious, yes?
That's my jacket!
I got real lucky last week and found all of the Odin wave at Target. It was early and looked as if they had just been put out.The case consisted of one of each figure and a second Hawkeye.
Figrin, you reanimator, you!
I preordered a case at BBTS. It comes with two Hawkeyes, but I figure I'll need two of the bodies to make both Odin and King Thor.
It looks like Hasbro will be getting a bit of my money via Legends but whyyyyy the aversion to making Avengers movie figures available at all retailers and not just exclusives. That Amazon set with Banner, Thor, Hawkeye and Widow is a must buy for me but don't tell me that it wouldn't sell at retail!
I detest store exclusives. I can't rely on BBTS for those, but at least I can order a case of each of the waves. Searching at brick and mortar stores has not been as much a part of my toy-ing life these past few years as it once was.
The local Wal-Mart reset their action figure isle last week. They now have Avenger, Spider-man, GotG and Captain America Legend figures. Hopefully this means that Marvel Legend figures will be much easier to find in store this year. I can hardly wait to get my hands on the just announced figures. Finally I can complete my Wrecking Crew. Photos of the new figures at Bleeding Cool http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/02/...gures-get-big/


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Parents must not lose sight of why children participate in sport.
Studies show that the most popular reason for playing youth sports is to "have fun". The next most popular reasons for playing sport are to learn new skills, to be with friends and to experience the thrill of competition.
• Listen to their children's views about playing soccer
• Provide unconditional love during both successes and failures
• Help children understand that the definition of a good performance is giving one's best effort
• Encourage the players to be self-reliant and to accept responsibility for their decisions/actions
• Encourage non-sport interests
• Allow their children to set their own standards of excellence
• Provide encouragement and hopeful optimism when needed by the youngster
• Emphasize enjoyment above all!
In competition, someone always has to lose. If you win, do it gracefully, not boastfully. If you lose, do not allow yourself or your children to become negative.


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A talk on "The Science and Math of Origami" will be presented at 4
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Tom Hull, associate professor of mathematics at Merrimack College, will demonstrate how math is used to create origami models as well as describe some of the applications these techniques have had in engineering and the sciences. Those attending will have a chance to try their hands at folding origami.
The talk is being sponsored by the Cotsen library and the University's Department of Mathematics in conjunction with the "Making Waves" origami-for-tsunami fund-raising initiative that has been taking place on and off campus since early February. Hull is the creator of the origami wave model that is being used for Making Waves.
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Reporter discusses 'Fight Club Politics,' April 11
Posted April 6, 2006; 08:31 p.m.
Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin will deliver a lecture
titled "Fight Club Politics: Fear and Loathing Inside the Beltway, and
How It's Ruining Congress" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, in 16
Robertson Hall.
The lecture is based on Eilperin's new book, "Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the House of Representatives."
Eilperin joined the Post in 1998 as a congressional reporter, covering
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campaigns, among other topics. Since 2004 she has covered the
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including climate change, oceans and air quality.
Eilperin is a 1992 graduate of Princeton, where she earned a bachelor's
degree in politics with a certificate in Latin American studies. In
2004-05, she served as a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton,
teaching political reporting.
Prior to joining the Post, Eilperin wrote for the States News Service and Roll Call.
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Can you accept that you have Hashimoto's disease?
Instead of trying to worry about all that is wrong, what if you just accept that this is what it is and you will do everything in your power to feel good every day?
If soda is your energy crunch are you willing to consider giving it up?
If inflammation gets you down, are you willing to take an aspirin everyday and take steps towards reducing your symptoms without adding labels that it is all bad?
What if you are experiencing this disease because you were being called to step outside of your life and connect with more — be more, do more — and give more to the world? Especially to yourself.
Now I am not diminishing the angst that many feel in dealing with this disease, but I want to open you up to thinking about this as an opportunity to do more with you life — even if you aren't feeling well.
This is why I turn to humor to look at ways in which we can look at an autoimmune disease in a different way…maybe in a way where we allow more joy and laughter back into our lives.
Humor helps me to remember that this is journey — not a destination. I am not Hashimotos disease.
I am a loving mom, a dear friend, a trusted confidant. I love my mother. I love my garden. I love to write. There is so much more to me than a little autoimmune disease.
People deal with much worse than I.
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News Brief: Bossa Nova Develops Commercial Version of BallbotBossa Nova Robotics, a company founded by Robotics Institute Ph.D. alumnus Sarjoun Skaff, announced Oct. 23 at the RoboBusiness Leadership Summit that it is producing mObi, the first commercially available robot that uses a unique locomotion technology pioneered by the Robotics Institute's Ralph Hollis in his Ballbot robot.
Like Ballbot, mObi has no wheels or legs, but balances and moves atop a large sphere, similar in size to a bowling ball. The robot balances dynamically, enabling the robot to be made both tall and slim. Its size, combined with the ability to move omnidirectionally, makes it particularly suitable for maneuvering in human environments.
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Hollis, research professor of robotics, unveiled his Ballbot in 2006. The robot remains an active research project in his lab. Bossa Nova has licensed the technology from CMU, but the spherical-locomotion technology used in mObi is patented by the company.
"We're proud of our relationship with CMU and the engineering talent we have at our company," Skaff said. "The team has successfully developed a path to commercialization for one of the most engaging and challenging locomotion platforms. We look forward to working with a broad range of robotics researchers and HRI [human-robot interaction] specialists as we launch our research platform next year."
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CORINTH – The first liquor store to be approved under a new city ordinance opened in Corinth over the weekend.
Corinth Wine and Spirits, at 3113 Shiloh Road, opened late Friday, getting a head start on at least two other package liquor and wine stores expected to open by the end of the week.
The Twisted Cork, at 108 Highway 72 West, also has received its permit from the Mississippi Alcohol Beverage Control Board, and expects to open later this week, as has Wholesale Liquor, at 414 S. Cass St.
More than half a dozen package stores and a number of restaurants for on-premise sales have applied for ABC permits and are awaiting approval.
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Even though Grand Theft Auto 1 and Grand Theft Auto 2 are FREE from the Rockstar Classics website (also free on Steam when you purchase the Grand Theft Auto Complete Pack) the games still pose some problems on modern computers, mainly Grand Theft Auto 1 which has issues of save files corrupting almost instant when playing the game via Windows 7, causing a crash when you next boot up the game.
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The Bush White House pulled in a great quantity of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, the IGs reported.
George Bush wouldn't trample on the very same Constitution he swore an oath to protect when he took office. Would he? Naaaaa not our Georgie boy. Say it isn't so.
The inspectors general interviewed more than 200 people inside and outside the government, but five former Bush administration officials refused to be questioned. They were Ashcroft, Yoo, former CIA Director George Tenet, former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and David Addington, an aide to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Preparing most Italian dishes doesn't require the complexity of organic chemistry. Fresh ingredients, a good recipe, well-timed cooking, and ecco! Benissimo!
That said, dining in an Italian restaurant where every dish on your table is done just right will make you want to run out and find the nearest saint's day parade to march in to show your appreciation.
My latest such marching orders were inspired by Trattoria Longo in Westerly. Cafe Longo closed on Federal Hill in Providence last year, where Italian restaurants have accumulated like red pepper flakes on rigatoni. Many in Westerly have been raised on pasta and red "gravy," so high standards are set. It's a family affair here, with Jerry Longo's mother and culinary perfectionist Liliana in charge in the kitchen.
When we walked in, My Cousin Vinny was looping on a TV and the Chairman of the Board was having it his way on the sound system. We took a window seat under a black-and-white portrait of a bow-tied Sinatra looking over the place. The actual Frank wouldn't have been alone here. In recent months, celebrities Lorraine Bracco and Tony Sirico from The Sopranos and John Ratzenberger from Cheers have been sighted next to a beaming Jerry.
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It's a good sign if a menu doesn't go on for pages and pages: if the restaurant is going to rely on fresh rather than frozen ingredients and not go broke throwing out what isn't sold, they'd better restrain themselves. And after all, how much can you eat from each category? That said, since there were four of us, we chose two appetizers to share. In addition to the three specials, there were only four appetizers on the regular menu. The antipasto ($8.50) was too unadventurous and we passed on the the signature meatball ($6.50) we saw going by aside a salad, since I was the only raging carnivore there. So we opted for the fried calamari ($7) and the other signature starter, "Eggplant On the Hill" ($8.50).
The squid preparation promised "balsamic reduction," and I was hoping it would be more than a mere drizzle. This version was marvelous, the vinegar enriching a sweet pepper and tomato sauce that the pieces were tossed in. I should have asked for more of the shredded fresh basil that garnished the top, such a bright complement to the taste.
The other appetizer consisted of two eggplant sandwiches: on a bed of arugula, breaded and fried discs enclosed two thick slices of tomato and mozzarella so delicate it must have been freshly made. The temperature and texture contrast of the eggplant exemplified the solemn virtue of made-to-order.
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As we get ready for our winter camping we need to exercise the Scout motto.. Be prepared.
Camping in the winter months presents different challenges and requires more skills. Winter camping requires a camper to pay closer attention to the details. Where you can get away with somethings in the summer or when the weather is nice, tempting fate in the cold weather is dangerous and could result in someone getting hurt.
So its in the details, lets start with eating.
Planning menus for the cold weather is important, as important as the clothing you wear and the gear you take.
It is important to ensure that what you put in your body is going to give you energy, keeping you warm and will fill you up. You burn more food in the cold weather. Your body wants to keeps its core warm, food is one way that you do this.
Eating warm meals and snacking a lot is key to keeping that core warm and your spirits up.
Details like how you prepare your meals is important too. When backpacking in the winter, it is important to remember that you consume more fuel in colder weather. Plan for it.
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We will talk about gear in up coming posts, but remember that taking care of your gear will ensure it is there for you and in good repair.
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Tail biting?
Earlier this evening, I caught boyfish biting his tail. I distracted him as soon as I realized what he was doing, but it's still frustrating, especially since I thought he had just damaged his tail before on the first baffle I had in with him.
Any suggestions? I have half an IAL in the tank with him, I've added a beefier baffle and beefed it up even more... I added a bunch of tall stem plants on Saturday.
I have been battling water quality issues for a few days now. ammonia was spiking, but not above what chloramines put my tap water at so I've only added prime. Today nitrates spiked, well into the dangerous range. Did two water changes (60%, then 50%) to bring them down to a safer level. I noticed all of my plants are bubbling , so hopefully they'll handle the ammonia added from the WCs, and some of the nitrates that are still left. (Higher than I would like but at a safe level, so I figured I'd be better off just watching them than stressing him out with another WC.) I'm still not 100% happy with the baffle, but I'm leaving it alone for the moment. I am much happier since I've bumped up the light levels a touch (the sponge baffles were blocking too much light from the long, narrow CFL, so I switched it out for a spiral CFL, that also happens to use 4 more watts).1. 2. (No Picture)
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I think he's still biting. :( I'm not really sure what to do. There should be plenty of cover from plants, he has both a cave and a hidey spot behind the filter/heater if the sun is too much... I've baffled the filter as much as I can... And yet there's two wedge shaped pieces missing from his caudal fin, one deeper than the other, and much of the rest of the edge of the fin is tattered. :( His tank is warm (sometimes too warm, but I can only do so much about that), as clean as I can get it, and there's an IAL in there to add therapeutic tannins. I'm just losing my mind for what to do!1. 2. (No Picture)
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I had a tailbiter. Fought with it for a year before i gave up. Sometimes its not enough to do, sometimes its too much to do, sometimes they just do it and there is nothing you can do. That's how Reaper was. Do you have any plastic plants in the tank? Plastic plants can shred the fins too. If they are all real plants then try maybe giving him a mirror for no more than 5 minutes at a time two or three times a day and see if that stimulates him more and maybe helps. Depending on tank size (which what is it by the way?) you could try to add a cheap replaceable friend like a ghost shrimp or a snail that might give him some enjoyment as well. Reaper did best when he had some young dwarf cories and frogs to play with. I wouldn't suggest starting with either of them though if you dont know how the betta is with other fish or if the tank is under 10gal. Try the mirror and if that doesnt seem to do anything after a few weeks try a snail or shrimp. Hopefully one of those solutions can work for you.10gal Betta Tank - Skye the crowntail and Squiggles the deformed albino cory
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ekfishlover had great suggestions. bettas often get bored. try setting something colorful in front of the tank for him to ponder over - a ceramic statue, a pringles can, a colorful book - something that will give him a distraction. I often float a baby toy - like a colorful rattle or a tube with bright colored beads in it just to give my crown tail something to distract him.
my betta's tank is planted but I also have a hollow ceramic log that I got from Fosters and Smith setting on the bottom. He LOVES it. he's always swimming in and out of either end and the extra holes in the sides. It looks fairly natural and has proven to be a great distraction for him.
good luck. hope you get your water issues straightened away soon30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
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First off, I think whatever was causing him to bite has been fixed. There is no new damage and his tail looks to be healing. Whoo!
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Oh, forgot to say. It's a 5 gal tank.
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The cats might like him but he might not like the cats!
Sometimes I'll put the color sales circular next to the tank and my betta will study it for a while. Also, I try to wave at him whenever I go into the room. I have heard that bettas need outside stimulation or else they get bored. I do have some small beads from a baby toy that I might try. I have also heard of freezing a piece of food in treated water so that he can "investigate" it in the tank. You also might try a floating bottlecap that he can push around the tank.
Yeah, I don't think he likes them much. LOL
I'll come in and watch him and try to interact with him... He's very skittish, though.1. 2. (No Picture)
1: Planted Betta Tank 1, Grimsby (male betta)
2: Planted Betta Tank 2
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Cummerbund Society meets for its annual black-tie fundraiserJanuary 13, 2014 9:40 PM
In the course of its 26 years, the Cummerbund Society has grossed more than $213,000 for the neonatal unit and patient care at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC. Its members dress in black tie and meet once a year in the billiards room of the Duquesne Club, where they shoot the breeze as much as pool. Founded by Mac McIlrath, Chuck Voelker, Frank Marmion and Jim Smith, the tournament on Thursday drew a competitive bunch of 41 players, including Bob Beynon, who came in second after winner Greg Slavik. Representing Magee's neonatal unit were Drs. Jon Watchko and Gary Silverman.
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Turkish cultural festival takes place on campus, March 4-31
Posted March 7, 2002; 11:31 a.m.
"Turkiye," a festival of Turkish culture, takes place on campus March 4-31. The events are presented by the Council of International Graduate Students, the International Center and the Turkish Students' Association. The festival started with a month-long poster/photo exhibit on the 100 level of Frist, featuring the photography of Melford Bolick and Remzi Gumus.
Other events include:
On Thursday, March 7, Professor Heath Lowry, the Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at Princeton, will give a talk entitled "The Apex of Ottoman Artistic Expression: Husnuhat (Beautiful Writing)" at 4.30 p.m. in Room 302, Frist Campus Center following a reception at 4 p.m.
Raks Odalisque
, Princeton's Middle Eastern Dance Troupe, will give a performance after the lecture.
The Graduate College Coffee House will sponsor a celebration entitled "40 Days, 40 Nights" featuring Turkish music and food.
On Friday, March 8, in conjunction with the
Women's Center
, there will be a social at Cafe Vivian at 4 p.m., followed by a screening of the movie "Conversations across the Bosphorous" at 5 p.m on the large TV in Frist 100 level, both in celebration of International Women's Day. A second screening of the movie will be held at 7 p.m. in 101 McCormick.
Highlighting Turkish culture and arts for the rest of March will be a Turkish movie series, starting on March 8, with "Eskiya - the Bandit" at 8.30 pm in 185 Nassau, and continuing with movies until March 30.
- Dining Services is complementing the celebration of Turkish culture with samples of Turkey's famous cuisine at the "Food for Thought" counter in Frist this week.
For further information, contact Council for International Graduate Studies .
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601


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When I'm just going to wander around my farm, particularly when it's not hunting season, I usually carry one for varmint hunting. This could be hogs, raccoons, bobcats, opossums, armadillos, coyotes, or some snakes. The guns are light weight, accurate, low recoil, shoot a small bullet, and can rapid fire as needed. They're truly ideal for my needs.
I manage for quail and most of the varmints listed above can do a lot of damage to nesting birds.