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FIght Nights - Battle at Moscow 9: Mineev, Stetsurenko, Ramazanov
- Written by Rian Scalia
Fight Nights has become one of the biggest and most successful promotions in Russia, drawing big crowds for events featuring kickboxing and MMA. Their main stars in kickboxing are Batu Khasikov, who actually helps run the promotion as a producer, and Vladimir Mineev, a 22 year old Russian with a ton of potential that right now could already hang with the top 95kg fighters in kickboxing. The promotion is back in Moscow on this Sunday, December 16 with a nice fight card on the kickboxing end.
Khasikov won't be on the card, but Mineev will and he'll face his toughest test to date in Ali Cenik. Cenik fights for GLORY and recently fought the It's Showtime 95kg champion Danyo Ilunga, dropping a decision but landing a ton of punches in the process. Cenik has a high work rate at times and this should be an interesting fight to see how Mineev deals with a volume fighter who will try to establish his own pace.
Also on the card is Alexander Stetsurenko, one of the top light heavyweights in kickboxing, who comes off winning the 2012 Tatneft Cup tournament with a decision victory over fellow top light heavyweight Hicham El Gaoui. Stetsurenko will face Karapet Karapetyan, who sufferred some losses earlier this year to Nieky Holzken and Joe Schilling, but rebounded and looked much improved in August with a KO win in Greece over Alexandros Chatzichronoglou.
Ramazan Ramazanov has found himself featured on Fight Nights as well, splitting fights with Mamadou Keta this year. Ramazanov will fight Fabian Gondorf from the Netherlands. Gondorf will be facing the highest level of competition he's ever faced here.


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Do you just make this stuff up and expect everyone to buy into your propaganda.
Of course there are more republican appointed judges. There has only been 2 democratic Presidents in the last 40 years ( Carter/Clinton) Yet the figures you quote are fairly evenly matched considering only 12 of those 40 were controlled by the dems.
The dems blocked bushes nominees and would not allow an up or down vote.
Thats are system, the president gets to pick the judges. So when the left continues to win elections the courts will also turn to the left. I doubt this will happen because the American public is smarter then the left gives them credit for.

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Nov. 2 update issued on safety and security measures
Posted November 3, 2001; 03:10 p.m.
The following memo was sent to all students, faculty and staff on Nov. 2 from Vice President for Finance and Administration Richard Spies, who chairs the University's emergency response and emergency preparedness task forces.
Earlier this week, an e-mail was distributed to all students, faculty and staff encouraging them to regularly check the University home page , the crisis response Web site and the Web site of the emergency preparedness task force for frequently updated information on steps being taken to address concerns about recent developments regarding anthrax and other possible terrorist threats. This email summarizes some of the steps that have been taken and refers you to other helpful information. Please continue to check these three Web sites regularly.
Click here to read the rest of the statment, which includes the latest details about mail, health and safety issues.
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Brian Confer, a contributing photographer for Michigan Travel Ideas, shares his zip lining adventure at Boyne Mountain.
Sometimes it seems like the whole world has turned upside down. On the Zipline Adventure Tour at Boyne Mountain, it really does.
On a wintry blue-sky day, my 13-year-old son, Jackson, and I journey to Boyne Mountain to capture photography of their Zipline Adventure Tour. Jackson zip-lined at camp this past year and assures me it's exciting, fun and easy to go upside down.
Not for me, I assure him.
Jackson and I have a bit of time before we meet our group, so we don our harnesses and head to the Twin Zip Ride. With the Grand Mountain Lodge as a backdrop, we warm up by descending side-by-side.
Well, I warm up.
Jackson jumps off the platform and immediately flips upside down, descending at a high rate of speed, arms spread wide, laughing. We zip over the fountain, and I'm guided onto the landing platform—upright—and wait for my stomach to catch up.
Once all my parts are reacquainted, we join a group for the nine-line adventure. This group is more my speed—a gaggle of children, ages 6–12, chaperoned by three dads. Surely there are no daredevil showboaters like my son here.
Ha! First up, a smiling 6-year-old girl dressed in pink. There she goes, upside down over the heads of skiers on the Cold Spring run. Next up, a 7-year-old boy who has our guide turn him upside down before he leaves the launch pad. Older brother, upside down. His friend from down the road, upside down. One father, two fathers, three fathers, all upside down. Obviously, I'm missing out on something that my camera gear regrettably (thankfully) prevents me from trying.
Over the next six lines, our guides demonstrate how to ride in every position imaginable and show us how to do a flip off the platform. Cheers erupt when every participant but me attempts the maneuver. "Too bad you have that camera gear! You should try it," I hear repeatedly, until, finally on zip line No. 7, I decide they're right.
I hand my camera gear to our guide and jump from the platform. I swing my legs forward, use the momentum to carry my feet over my head and then lock them around the supporting lanyard. I settle in, spread my arms and over the head of a skier below, the skier looking up at me, following my arc and hearing me laugh the entire way into the landing.
More Winter Zip Lines:
- Snow Snake Zip Line, Harrison
- Boyne Highlands, Harbor Springs
Brian Confer lives in northern Michigan with his wife and two sons. In addition to contributing to Michigan Travel Ideas, he focuses on fine art photography and other freelance work.


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By Ben Levisohn
The Department of Justice shocked the airline industry when it sued to block the merger of AMR Corp. (AAMRQ) and U.S. Airways (LCC), causing both stocks to plummet. JPMorgan's Jamie Baker and Mark Streeter believe the odds are even that the two airlines prevail in court. They write:
The industry dialogue has crescendoed, with airlines, pundits, bloggers, former CEOs, etc, all extolling the folly of DOJ's suit and certainty of an airline win (we frequently hear 75% probability). But when it comes to antitrust experts, we have yet to find any that believe the airlines face anything but a steep, uphill battle, with most citing probabilities below 40%. We agree with the former, but we simply cannot ignore the latter, so let's call it 50/50.
Baker and Streeter also propose an option if the airlines lose the case:
LCC begins the process of extracting itself from the Star Alliance in favor of OneWorld. Senior management changes occur at stand-alone AMR, satisfying labor's desire for executive changes and assuaging investor concerns over excessive growth. AMR and LCC then pursue a high degree of domestic codesharing, with [Alaska Air (ALK)] potentially dropped as an AMR partner over time. Zero cost synergies, though LCC pilots don't get marked to market so costs remain intact. And oh, DOJ doesn't have jurisdiction. Call it a near-beer, synthetic merger scenario. It's not great – not by a long shot – but it beats the two airlines sulking and retreating into separate corners, in our view.
Either way, U.S. Airways is worth taking a look at, as the analysts upgraded it to Overweight from Neutral. Baker and Streeter explain why:
Delta is trading at roughly 10x 2014E earnings, LCC at 5x. Delta trades at a 16% premium on EV/EBITDAR. Granted, Delta is deploying capital to shareholders, joined the S&P 500, and appears to hold particular appeal for first-time airline investors. We get all that. But LCC makes money, consensus looks low, and the market's tendency to portray it as a handicapped network wannabe is highly misguided, in our view. We are raising our price target from $18 to $26 and rating from Neutral to Overweight.
Delta got an upgrade to Overweight as well.
Shares of AMR have dropped 2.1% to $3.73, while U.S. Airways has gained 3.2% to $18.64. Delta has gained 0.2% to $23.20 and Alaska Air has gained 0.9% to $62.17. Southwest Airlines (LUV) has advanced 0.6% to $14.19.


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Student-made environmental films and podcasts to debut
Friday, July 11, 2008, 3:30 p.m. · 302 Frist Campus Center
Posted June 26, 2008; 05:27 p.m.
The Princeton Student Environmental Communication Network will present short documentary films and podcasts on environmental topics made by Princeton undergraduates at 3:30 p.m. Friday, July 11, in 302 Frist Campus Center.
The seven students have been participating in a four-week program, "Communicating Sustainability -- Summer Film and Radio Training." The goal of the program, offered by the University's Office of Sustainability, is to train undergraduates in the variety of skills needed to produce pieces intended for placement on radio, television and the Web.
The students will debut and discuss their completed projects, which focus on sustainability efforts both on and off campus. The event is open to the public and will be followed by an ice cream reception at 4:30 p.m.
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kygobbler wrote:Im starting to be concerned about some of you. I get cutting the craw open and seeing whats inside but to go as far as taking pictures of it.
I appreciate your concern kygobbler, & that thought occurred to me too when I saw that guys actually had crop photos to respond with. I just expected stories.
In my defense I had a motive when I took the crop photo ... firing up the farmer friend when he saw how much of his wheat was in that turkey.
As an extreme example of photos that shouldn't have been taken ... I have some color photos from my colonoscopy. Yup, the glorious inside of it. The doc seemed so proud of his work that I couldn't refuse them.


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Part 12: Glassfish V3 Pet Catalog sample DEMO in VM Template - Clean and Convert
By natiku on Jan 15, 2010
OpenSolaris 200906 JeOS Prototype was designed as PURE CLI enviroment providing main building stone for creation of Virtual Appliances or VM Templates
In this example I will DEMOnstrate creation of Evaluation type Virtual Appliance / VM Template which will leveradge OpenSolaris 200906 JeOS prototype and just in Dec/09 released Glassfish v3, Java EE 6 and Netbeans 6.8 with simple Java EE 6 demo. This entry is part of Virtual Appliances & OVF workshop.
New Glassfish V3 introduce an unique network repository based modular structure, so we can more easily create really simple initial DEMO setup which user can extend by installation more samples right from Glassfish V3 repository or from Netbeans GUI.
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Mathematics Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
The ICSU ROLAC Science Plan on Mathematics Education stresses that, although mathematics and sciences are primary sources of lifelong learning and important for the progress of civilization, Latin American and Caribbean children are not being taught at an adequate level. Compared to international education standards, Latin American and Caribbean countries on average score very low, especially in assessments of children's abilities to make practical use of their mathematical knowledge. Thus, there is an urgent need to improve the education of students, which needs to be based on a better education of teachers.
The document argues that the success in achieving this goal is closely linked to an efficient communication between stakeholders on a national and also on a regional level. The folllowing detailed objectives are recommended:
Reinforce the link between research mathematicians and school teachers;
Develop suitable data for the evaluation of performance;
Define sets of minimum standards throughout the region for the primary and secondary school levels;
Use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to make more resources available to teachers and students;
Find strategies to improve mathematics and language literacy at the same time;
Continue the involvement of the mathematics education faculty in supporting mathematics teachers in pedagogy and didactics.
The document concludes by arguing that mathematics education should no longer be seen as a privilege for some, but as a right of all students.
The Science Plan for Mathematics Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Reality to be Transformed is available in English and Spanish.
Authors: Carlos Bosch, Lilliam Álvarez Díaz, Suely Druck, Raymond McEachin
Click here to download the English version.
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Well, I can't sleep right now. My kidney transplant is in almost exactly 27 hours!
Of course I'm nervous and scared. But I have to do this. It's the only way I'll recover my time, my life, and not just whither and die.
There will be more information about everything that went down in the days following and I'll either get online after I'm feeling better following the surgery, or I'll call people from the site for whom I have their phone numbers.


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Kit 0.9.6. Two bugs fixed and a feature.
Kit 0.9.6. Two bugs fixed and a feature.
I'm trying to install LiveJournal server next, but one of the early steps is to make sure one's CPAN module is up to date, and it caught me using the perl 5.005 that came with Debian 2.2. Yadda yadda, now I'm trying to find a server from which I can just apt-get it.
I talked more about my Linux-reinstalling experience here, here, here, and here.
Yeah, I've not mentioned it yet, but suddenly several articles herd my thinking thataway.
Adam Vandenberg discusses XHTML (look for See, there's this Web, and it has these "standards"). His argument is eminently reasonable, though I've done my share of rah-rahing for XHTML and whatnot.
Here's the slightly-snuck assumption:
Well, people are people and computers are computers, and Webpages are primarily meant for communicating with other people and not communication with machines.
Web pages have been for people to communicate with people, but the whole point of XML, CSS, and XHTML is that web documents should be communicable to machines. For example, if I only had to specify particular paths along the DOMs of XHTML documents, Stapler would be much simpler software (an alarm clock, database, web fetcher, and the path walker). Also, machines have to communicate this content to people; that's all well and good if you have a standard way of doing that, such as the visual web browser, but what if the human can't see? The machine needs to be able to understand enough about the content to convert it between different media--so that's how the accessibility argument relates.
It's a good argument and certainly nothing to ignore, but the important part is:
The web browser as a universal client is still a very powerful idea. ... [N]on-HTML Internet APIs... are going to complement web browsing, not replace it.
I certainly don't read all the web in RSS. Even if I could add everything in there, would I? Probably not, though I would read more there than most people.
So, first off, HTML isn't going away any time soon. Meanwhile, this week's Disenchanted article is specifically on Google's SOAP API... by way of construction toys:
Where have all the young and amateur engineers gone? Apparently to computers, where the philosophy of olde-time Lego, Meccano and Heathkit is in super-overdrive.
This philosophy is all about building personal projects with easily understandable, easily connectable, pre-made parts, and the world of software is now awash with hundreds of thousands of them.
The article is a comprehensive guide to where the Google SOAP API came from, and while not explicitly saying this is only throwing the doors open to the web services world, it's so. Here I unveil my cynicism (or, perhaps, optimism): specifically I agree with Aaron Straup Cope in that the Google API isn't earth-shattering in and of itself. Gee, people can put "top-ten Google hits for <dfn>foo</dfn>" search boxen on their Radio pages. Couldn't you do that before?
Yeah, but it's qualitatively easier now. After all the moaning about how no one is deploying web services, this throws the door wide open to them, full stop. Now that Google's done it, will Dictionary.com do it? Aaron's weblog yields an example of the utility of such a service, even though you could do that with a more complex API too.
(Aside: probably not, since the revenue model remains to be seen. Might they start selling product placement in example usage text?)
I'd like to think this is, as I said, optimism. Maybe I'm a victim of the hype, but if this is only the beginning of web services, there are going to be so many even more amazing services, and they're all in the future, awaiting invention.
Stapler grousing
Should I be bitter that RssDistiller gets more noise than Stapler? (I am, at times.) Should I have chosen a better name, one that more obviously screams "I TURN STUFF INTO RSS!"? Is it a design and documentation issue? Is it because Stapler isn't pretty like RssDistiller, with its tabbed interface and eVectors' bumblebee colors?
Am I wrong that it's difficult to specify what one wants out of a page (ie, how hard is that in RssDistiller)? Was I wrong to have a feeds concept that aggregate sources? Should I reimplement feeds as a special source scraper?
Obviously I should figure how to share sources, since RssDistiller does that. I should probably make Stapler not autonumber new feeds and sources. I haven't worked on the refined interface yet (and if I make a radical change to the feeds thing, I shouldn't, yet).
Also, I need to reinstall Linux on my under-the-desk routerbox. This is difficult because a) I don't know that much about installing and configuring Linux (hence its relegation to under-the-desk and routing), and b) the under-the-desk routerbox no longer has a functional CD-ROM drive.
So likely, I should arrange to take it somewhere someone else can help me install Linux on it. Or something. I'll probably just mail our LUG list about it.
I want to reinstall Linux (or any PC UNIX, for that matter) so I can:
"Instant Outlining" is the interesting thing in the Radio space right now. Since I have really old hardware (P233, 64MB, 4GB) Radio runs a bit slow, especially the app UI. That makes it inconvenient for Instant Outlining--so I'd like to write an outliner capable of Instant Outlining, in Python/Tk. Meanwhile I use Radio to manage my instant outline, in which I plan that.
I'd like to redo Stapler's interface, so it's a bit more usable... though still not grandmaware, since it's pretty hard to specify parts of an HTML document, especially with the non-compliant, pragmatic HTML browsers accept and display.
I'm posting this (and the last two empty items, for testing--guh) with another Radio tool, Footbridge, which is an abstraction of the gadget I mentioned in my first Advogato diary. The configuration interface is going to be a tough nut to crack; I'd like to just leave it at manual editing of the FootbridgeData table, but that's not very friendly to any potential users. Except me, of course.
Kit is another Radio tool, which is actually a bundle of lots of little gadgets. One of them is a replacement News Aggregator page that does more than just list items: you can give a timespan for which items you want, and search by key words. I need to do a new interface for it, too, since I'd like to be able to show news by channel category, and that's a non-trivial shift in concept model thingy.
Jeweler, I haven't even started on. Eh.
Hello, nice persons of discerning discernment!
I anticipate publishing more here, now that I can post from Radio UserLand with XML-RPC. Of course, I don't really know anyone else here, and I tend to fall behind on the hardcore technical topics, so perhaps not.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
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What are the possible side effects of this vaccine (Je-Vax)?
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text: Beginning April 20th, Family Guy will air on Sunday-Thursday nights at 11:30 PM on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. I know the dvd is coming out for it here stateside for a lot of the episodes, but I thought I might as well inform those who don't have access to the dvd set. It's good news for me, it'll give me something to do at 11:30 from now on.


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See article below. Sorry Bess fans, he would be a huge upgrade.
See article below. Sorry Bess fans, he would be a huge upgrade.
welker can suck a DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
No way he comes back here.
Bringing Welker back would be like dating an old girlfriend...they're never as good as you remember !
"I'll read anything Dolphin, even the crap Omar writes"
too expensive for the slot
he trashed this team when he left. the fans don't forget things like that.
I don't want him, period.
All he would be is a developmental stopper for our drafted WR's.
Dont want someone on the sideline who's dreaming of playing for the other team
With that said, I don't want him back. He's a heck of a receiver but unless it's Greg Jennings we need young players to grow with Tannehill. I say Jennings because he can play every WR position on the field, he's an outstanding route runner, knows the offense and he can teach the younger receivers how to play in this offense. I don't think Welker brings all that to the table.


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just want to chime in, if one names himself 'The Prophet', then Observer status is quite fitting, wouldn't you think? I also wonder if 'The Prophet' is singular or can there be an 'average' prophet?
just want to chime in, if one names himself 'The Prophet', then Observer status is quite fitting, wouldn't you think? I also wonder if 'The Prophet' is singular or can there be an 'average' prophet?
I fired up my old junkie computers from basement. The one hardware enclosure I ordered from Canada and later installed DEC Unix is still humming... The first laptop I bought in 1995(?) is a Montego Fujitsu laptop for over $2000 + $200 for extra 8M RAM. I forgot when I bought an extra battery. I can replace the floppy disk module with two battery. It runs RedHat 6.2 Zoot. Last login Feb 6, 2006.
I'm reading this old diary on project management endorsed by nixnut.
"only people who have extremely good memories and are not overloaded with work or spam are capable of successfully utilising email for communications of complex issues. "
I don't think I am quite agree with that. Yes, it is very hard to transport one's state of mind to another. To design a complex AI system, it is always going to be modulated by somewhat uneven human intelligence.
It's been a year. I feel more or less alive.
I'd like to tour Spain in memory of Walter Benjamin's leaving of this world.
I also would like to buy up more property in US. War and Peace, it's never ending...
Three wise men and PyEphem
what to think and what to do after Sandy Hook elementary school shooting? St. Nicolais is coming to town or NOT ?
it's time of the year to donate to wiki foundation.
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trying to wrap my mind around Prof. Foster's paper and catch-words:'alpha spending, alpha investing, Bonferroni method, FDR, mFDR, FWER', drawing my own idea expressed in this article critical examination of recruitment/promotion process. A creative person should initiate many human interactions in workplace to control his own mFDR, and not to be dragged or drugged into any delusional 'self-righteous' paths.
"When enough people share a delusion, it loses its status as a psychosis and gets a religious tax exemption instead." - Ronald DeSousa
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Sierra GameKing Bullets, 6mm cal, .243" dia., 100-gr., Spitzer BT
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Boat tail design gives high ballistic coefficient
Streamlined, tapered base greatly reduces drag
Delivers flatter trajectories
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GameKing bullets are designed for hunting at long range, where their extra margin of performance can make the critical difference. These bullets feature a boat tail design that brings hunters the high ballistic advantage of match bullets. The streamlined, tapered base greatly reduces drag, resulting in higher retained velocity, greater striking energy, a flatter trajectory, and less wind drift than comparable flat base bullets. The Sierra brand adheres to strict quality standards to uphold their deserved reputation for extreme accuracy.
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Medical calendars
I wish there was a common online calendar service that various NHS trusts used. Then a) I could set my email/SMS reminders globally; b) it could export live calendars so I could integrate it into Google Calendar or my phone and have new appointments just appear; c) it could check for clashes where two different medical services want me at the same time. I know how it would work at a technical level, but how it would be managed and paid for is beyond my comprehension, so I suppose I can't make it happen.


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Reward someone with a tasty home-baked dessert. No one needs to know it was so quick and easy.
Strawberry and raspberry pie fillings are great stand-ins for the cherry pie filling.
Take this easy crisp to your next potluck. Double the recipe and bake in a 13x9-inch pan for a real crowd pleaser.
A scoop of ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream is a natural topper for fruit crisps.
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What is WIC and Who Can It Help?
The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Supplemental Nutrition Program is a federally-funded health and nutrition program for:
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WIC has local offices all over California. Call 1-888-WIC-WORKS (1-888-942-9675) or use our online search feature (opens a new browser window). Outside California please call (1-916-928-8500).
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Binghamton University, Broome Community College to host financial aid workshop
Binghamton University and Broome Community College will host a financial aid workshop at 10 a.m. Saturday, February 7, in room 110 of the Thomas J. Watson Engineering and Applied Science building on the Binghamton University campus. The workshop is free and open to the public.
The workshop is being held in support of SUNY Statewide Financial Aid Day. BU and BCC join over 32 campuses in participating in the event.
"This is a great opportunity for students and families to learn first-hand how they can take advantage of the financial aid that is available to help them pay for college," said State University of New York Chancellor Robert L. King.
Financial aid experts from BU and BCC will be on hand to answer questions and provide assistance with applications, types of aid available and the award process. Representatives from the Educational Talent Search, a federally funded educational opportunities program, will provide tips on completing the 2004 –2005 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), a form required for all financial aid. They will also present information about the New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP). Families planning to attend should bring their 2003 or 2002 tax returns, bank statements and 2003 untaxed income statements.
For more information, contact the Binghamton University Financial Aid Office at 607-777-2428.


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The perfect gift for any art enthusiast:Memberships start at just $85.
NARRATOR: One day, while traveling first class on an ocean liner, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz went for a stroll. He found himself looking down at the low class deck, called The Steerage. It was full of immigrants.ALFRED STIEGLITZ: There were men and women and children on the lower deck of the steerage. I longed to escape from my surroundings and join them. The round straw hat, the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right, round shapes of iron machinery. I saw a picture of shapes and underlying that, the feeling I had about life.NARRATOR: This famous picture has become an icon, representing the poignancy and hardships of the immigration experience. Your eye is tempted to pick out people in the crowd. For instance the woman in a shawl in the lower right-hand corner and then wonder who they were and what would become of them in the new world. Ironically, Stieglitz's ship was not heading for Ellis Island. It was actually going to Germany and the immigrants were leaving the US, not arriving. For one reason or another they had failed to make a life in America. The literal truth of this photograph is the opposite of the meaning we usually read into it.


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Looking for a delicious dessert using Betty Crocker® oatmeal chocolate chip cookie mix? Then check out this German cookie recipe.
"My grandmother happened to be German and she had the biggest sweet tooth of anyone I have ever known. She especially loved cookies. Every time I would visit, she always had a German Chocolate cake waiting for my arrival. I came up with this recipe for my love of my Oma and memories of her German Chocolate cake. If she were still with us, I know she would love these cookies!" Doreen Howarth
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Episode 1044 of 1715 episodes
EU proposes reforms to asylum rules, Pfizer scraps $160bn Allergan deal, Film to celebrate Indian maths genius.
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Scar revision is surgery to improve or reduce the appearance of scars. It also restores function, and corrects skin changes (disfigurement) caused by an injury, wound, or previous surgery.
Keloid revision; Hypertrophic scar revision; Scar repair; Z-plasty
Scar tissue forms as skin heals after an injury (such as an accident) or surgery. The amount of scarring may be determined by the wound size, depth, and location; the person's age; heredity; and skin characteristics, including color (pigmentation). Not all the factors that affect a scar are completely understood.
Depending on the extent of the surgery, scar revision can be done while you are awake (local anesthesia), sleeping (sedated), or deep asleep and pain-free (general anesthesia).
Medications (topical corticosteroids, anesthetic ointments, and antihistamine creams) can reduce the symptoms of itching and tenderness. A treatment called silicone gel sheeting or ointment has been shown to benefit swollen, hypertrophic scars and may help flatten them or make them less painful. There is no evidence showing that any other topical (applied directly to the scar) treatment works. In fact, Vitamin E applied directly to the skin may actually cause the wound to heal more slowly and may cause irritation.
When to have scar revision done is not always clear. Scars shrink and become less noticeable as they age. You may be able to wait for surgical revision until the scar lightens in color, which can be several months or even a year after the wound has healed. For some scars, however, it is best to have revision surgery 60 to 90 days after the scar matures. Each scar is different.
There are several ways to improve the appearance of scars:
Dermabrasion involves removing the upper layers of the skin with a special wire brush called a burr or fraise. New skin grows over this area. Dermabrasion can be used to soften the surface of the skin or reduce irregularities.
Problems that may indicate a need for scar revision include:
Risks of anesthesia are:
Risks of scar revision surgery are:
Exposing the scar to too much sun may cause it to darken, which could interfere with future revision.
For keloid revision, a pressure or elastic dressing may be placed over the area after the operation to prevent the keloid from coming back.
For other types of scar revision, a light dressing is applied. Stitches are usually removed after 3 to 4 days for the facial area, and after 5 to 7 days for incisions on other parts of the body.
When you return to normal activities and work depends on the type, degree, and location of the surgery. Most people can resume normal activities soon after surgery. Your doctor will likely tell you to avoid activities that stretch and may widen the new scar.
If you have long-term stiffening of the joint, you may need physical therapy after surgery.
Avoid exposure to the sun for several months after treatment. Use sunblock or an adhesive bandage to keep the sun from permanently tanning the healing scar.
Whenever there is a cut through the skin, a scar results. No scar can be removed completely. How much the scar improves depends on the direction and size of the scar, the person's age, skin type and color, and hereditary factors that may affect the healing process.
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As seen on The Rachel Ray Show and Ellen!! Click on Video tab to see more!
The Puj tub Infant Bath Tub is a soft tub you can use in a standard bathroom sink, making bath-time a lot more enjoyable (and drier!). Designed to make bath-time quick and easy, the Puj tub stores flat, cradles baby and dries quickly.
Perfect for new mom to have on hand when she brings your little bundle home from the hospital. Plus, it's Patent Pending design allows for easy set up, bathing, clean up, and storage.
Here's how it works:
Cradles and Protects.
Bathing a slippery baby in a traditional baby bath tub can be extremely challenging. You're forced to hold the baby with just one arm and use the other arm to bathe. Using the Puj Tub, your baby is supported in an upright position, allowing you to bathe using both hands--with no help from your spouse!
Comforts and Calms.
The super soft flexible material wraps around their delicate body, protecting their skin from any cold surface.
Not only does the Puj Tub protect your baby, but it also keeps them insulated and warm. It is even approved by the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.
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Two Colorado sheriffs, John Cooke of Weld County and Terry Maketa of El Paso County, have vowed not to enforce the new gun bills that were recently passed by the Colorado legislature and that are about to be signed into law by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper. Said Cooke, "They're just feel-good, knee-jerk reactions that are unenforceable," and will have no impact on limiting crime or criminals. Such laws only "give a false sense of security" he added. "Criminals are still going to get their guns."
One bill about to become law will require background checks on all transfers of firearms, including those between private citizens. The other limits magazine capacities to 15 rounds. Cooke said that under the new law, all magazines that can carry more than 15 rounds, or can be modified to do so, will be banned. Because "all magazines can be altered to a higher capacity," in effect the law bans all magazines and tracking down all owners of magazines in his county would be impossible.
El Paso County Sheriff Maketa concurs, saying that it would be impossible to separate which magazines would be legal — those sold before the July 1 enforcement date of the laws — from those sold afterwards. At a packed-house meeting in Colorado Springs Tuesday evening, Maketa said, "I can't tell you when those were sold, bought and purchased. As far as I'm concerned, they are all pre-July 1."


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Northgate Country Club is a place where casual elegance combines with family friendly fun to create an environment for all occasions, where everyone feels welcome.
Walden on Lake Conroe Golf Club is a private club, open for Memberships to residents and non-residents. Since its inception in 1976, Walden has enjoyed the reputation as one of the premier courses in the state of Texas.


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Thursday, September 6, 2012
The Happening Poppy Parker
Remember when I mentioned the rain of Poppy dolls last month? Well, I'm totally behind in showing off these beauties but here's one of them. I was a bit disappointed the first time I opened The Happening Poppy's box. Her eyes were sleepier looking than I had expected that I actually thought she was defective. I had to comb the internet for comparative photos. Of course, she quickly grew on me when I took a picture and she just didn't know how to take a bad one! I love her long hair on that high ponytail. So sultry.
Happy Thursday!
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Hello from Spain: you're right that this doll is very sensual. She is one of my favorite Poppys. I also really like the dress she wears. We keep in touch.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think she's becoming one of my favorites too...I really love that hair!Delete
She's a lovely doll and photographs well. Congrats on your purchase.ReplyDeleteReplies
I was surprised how nicely she photographed because I hated her eyes when I first glimpsed her out of the box. Thanks for stopping by!Delete
She is stunning. Her earrings and dress are marvelous.ReplyDelete
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Splash into Summer with these adorable applique mermaid designs. Magical Mermaids Applique is a collection of 12 applique designs coming in both the 4x4 and 5x7 sizes. PCS and SEW users please note that as your machines do not support a 5x7 hoop, the 5x7 size is not available in your format and PES has been provided instead.
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Some dairy farmers may be sleeping fitfully. So says the Ministry for Primary Industries' pastoral farm monitoring report, which reports rural debt has risen from $46 billion to $50 billion with dairy farmers owing $33 billion of that.
Farmers of NZ spokesman Bill Guest says it is estimated that "hard core" debt of about $20 billion is owed by 2200 farmers, an average of $10 million a farm, who are already highly vulnerable given Fonterra's final payout prediction of $5.25 per kg of milk solids.
Even that figure now looks unrealistic, he says, and half the country's dairy farmers could fail to break even after paying farm working costs and interest. On-farm costs average $3.80 per kg.
Mr Guest recalled that 500 farmers "went to the wall" during the free market reforms of the 1980s, losing their farms in mortgagee sales. Farmers marched on Parliament and picketed banks, and there was outrage over interest rates of 20 per cent-plus. However, it is debt rather than high interest rates that is behind the financial crisis now facing farmers.
"One has to question the banks' responsibility for this farm crisis.
The old Rural Bank guidelines - that you borrowed no more than four times your gross income - debt servicing was limited to 25 per cent of your gross income and the number of farms you could own were monitored by the Land Aggregation Act.
"What were the bank risk managers thinking when bank lending has put 2200 dairy farmers at risk?"
The Government had given New Zealand banks financial guarantees, but not direct Government assistance to farmers now facing foreclosure.
"It is clear that the Government does not view itself as the people's safety net," Guest added. "However, those farmers who believe their banks have not treated them fairly should complain to the Banking Ombudsman and seek professional advice."
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Bake this wonderful double chocolate cake that's glazed with raspberries and topped with whipping cream - perfect dessert to treat your guests.
White chocolate isn't true chocolate; it contains no chocolate liquor, the essence of chocolate flavor and color. Instead, white chocolate gets its mellow flavor from vanilla. White chocolate does contain cocoa butter, which is derived from cocoa beans. Choose high quality white chocolate, that which lists cocoa butter as the first or second ingredient.
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Here are two kinds of political demonstrations.
First, the Iranian Republican Guards Corps test-firing a
ballistic missile with a range sufficient to hit Israel, Moscow, parts of Europe and US military targets
as a way to break the ice for an upcoming meeting in Geneva on Thursday with
U.N. Security council members to discuss its nuclear program.
A couple of days ago, as
reported in the "New York Times,"
Mahmoud Ahmadenijad proclaimed to the UN that the Iranian "people
entrusted me once more with a large majority" in a ballot he described as
"glorious and fully democratic." Wordlessly and
far more elequently earlier this month the great Iranian filmmaker Jafar
Panahi challenged that claim when he and the other members of the jury for the Montreal Film
Festival took the stage wearing green scarves -
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Serves 6-8
oil for cooking
1.5 kilogram topside beef
1 onion, chopped
2 cups water
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons beef stock powder
bouquet garni of 1 bay leaf, 2 sprigs of thyme and a few parsley stalks or ½ teaspoon dried mixed herbs
soft butter and flour for thickening juices
1 Place a dash of oil in a large saucepan over a high heat and brown the piece of meat on all sides. Set aside on a plate.
2 Lower the heat, add the onion and cook until lightly golden, about 10 minutes.
3 Return the meat to the saucepan, add onion, water, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, beef stock powder and bouquet garni and cover with the saucepan lid.Cook on a very low simmer for 5-6 hours until the meat is tender and falling apart. You can also cook this in the oven at 150°C, or in a slow cooker.
4 Remove the meat from the saucepan and keep warm. You should be able to pull the meat apart with 2 forks to serve.
5 Thicken the juices with a paste made from equal quantities of soft butter and flour. Whisk into the juices.
6 Serve with plenty of mashed potato, vegetables and the meat sauce.
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Normally the due IO pins only can stand 3.3 V, but what about the I2C? Can i use the bus with 5V? i cannot find a good documentation about the I2c specification for the due.
Why do say DS1307 is 5V only? Datasheet indicates it will work much lower:Logic 1 Input, VIH: 2.2 to VCC + 0.3VLogic 0 Input, VIL: -0.3 to +0.8VLooks like a 3.3V capable part to me.
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Binghamton University again among
Binghamton University is one of the nation's best-value undergraduate institutions according to The Princeton Review, which features Binghamton in the new 2008 edition of its book, "America's Best Value Colleges."
The guide profiles 165 colleges chosen for their excellent academics, generous financial aid packages and/or relatively low costs of attendance. Binghamton's "value not only comes in the form of the average need-based and grant/scholarship packages of more than $11,000 but also in student opportunities for experiential education through research, study abroad, and internships along with the third-highest four-year graduation rate in the nation for public institutions," write the editors.
Schools were selected based on student surveys and data obtained from administrators at more than 650 colleges during the 2005-06 academic year. "We considered over 30 factors to identify our best-value colleges," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review vice president, covering academics, tuition GPA (the sticker price minus average amount students receive in scholarships and grants), financial aid (how well colleges meet students' financial need) and student borrowing. The 90 public and 75 private colleges chosen "offer a terrific education, plus they have impressive records of meeting students' needs for financial aid," Franek added. "We highly recommend them as America's best college education deals for 2007."
"America's Best Value Colleges" has three-page profiles. Schools are not ranked numerically. The book also has advice about applying for college admission and financial aid. It is available on newsstands now. For more information visit, www.PrincetonReview.com.


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Monday, April 13, 2009
Roasted tomatoes
Look ma! I made something healthy again! I made these to go along with some delicious parsley and garlic lamb that I made for Easter. Yeah, I know, I'm Jewish, but we grew up with all the holidays. Not religiously, but you know, Easter baskets and egg hunts. I've been thinking about roasted tomatoes lately, and unlike my Snickers craving, I don't know where this craving is coming from. I found some nice looking grape tomatoes at the grocery store today and picked them up. I didn't have time to slow roast them, so I sped it up. Also, I tossed mine with garlic and herbs and olive oil, and ooooh. The sugar in the tomatoes comes out, and the herbs and garlic help them taste like little sweet bites of the best tomato sauce. I could eat a thousand of these. (Someone please make me a thousand, so I can prove it).
Roasted tomatoes
1 pint grape or cherry tomatoes
4-6 cloves garlic
2 T olive oil
salt and pepper
1 t thyme
1/2 t minced parsley
1 t basil, minced if fresh
Preheat oven to 350. Wash and dry your tomatoes, then slice them in half and put them in a bowl. Smoosh your garlic with a garlic press into the bowl with tomatoes, drizzle oil over and sprinkle with salt and pepper, thyme, parsley and basil. Toss a few times, then dump everything into a roasting pan. Turn all the tomatoes so the cut side is up, then roast about half an hour, until the garlic just starts to brown and the tomatoes are a little shrivelley. Yes, I made that word up. Serve however you want, on crusty bread if you eat that kind of thing, with some goat cheese or fresh mozzarella, maybe tossed in a salad, or just eat them plain, set out on a platter with some olives and marinated cheese.
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Hurrah, I'm $37 richer!
Just a quick post to note that Growstuff (my open source project for food gardeners) was selected as one of the winners of Pinboard's satirical startup incubator program. I get $37 in funding, woohoo!
While the $37 won't pay for much of anything — that's the point, after all — I'm looking forward to Maciej's advice and help with getting our name out there, and to getting to know the other winners. I'm pleased to see another food startup on the list (home baked goods via the Internet!), would love to be able to use the pre-hardened machine images for AWS, and can't help but be excited that a sailing-related startup is amongst the winners. While I don't play board games much, nor have a kid in school, both those projects sound useful and likely to succeed, too. Congrats to my co-selectees!


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The All-American Rejects Invite You to Submit your Kids in the Street StoryKids in the Street is not just the name of the album. It's lyrically and musically nostalgic. It takes you back to an innocent state of mind. Our music has been a great escape. We want you to be a part of it. Be a KID IN THE STREET. Submit your favorite moments in life. Paintings, photos, videos, interpretive dances, whatever expresses who you are, will do. Show us anything you can that captures a moment in your life or reflection on your life. Your submitted art, videos and memories will appear on this site. We're then going to take a cluster of the best submissions and invite the winning creators to a very special event where you will hang out with us and tell us your story about what inspires you.
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Kim Jackson
Photo: Courtesy of Kim Jackson
Web Stories
Jackson selected as director of parking and transportation
Posted December 10, 2007; 08:00 a.m.
Kim Jackson, an administrator with nearly 20 years of experience in the field, has been named director of parking and transportation at Princeton University. Her appointment is effective Jan. 1.
She has been executive director of the International Parking Institute, a professional trade organization based in Fredericksburg, Va., that provides leadership, information and education to parking professionals. She also previously worked as director of parking and transportation at Rutgers University.
"Kim is a dynamic and experienced parking and transportation professional manager and a national leader in the field," said Paul Breitman, general manager for University Services, to whom Jackson will report. "She will bring vision and energy to her new position here at Princeton."
The position was created when it became apparent, during the University's recent campus planning process, that a comprehensive and integrated approach should be developed and implemented for University parking and transportation to support the overall campus plan for the next 10 years and beyond.
Jackson is expected to use a customer-focused approach to handle tasks ranging from meeting the parking needs of University constituencies to determining an appropriate commercial transportation service provider for the campus shuttle system. In addition, she will be responsible for producing a campus transportation demand management (TDM) program that uses strategies to promote sustainability and effectively reduce campus traffic and the University's carbon footprint by encouraging the use of mass transit, bicycles and walking and by establishing vanpools and carpools.
She will work closely with other departments within University Services and with other key units at the University, such as the facilities and public safety departments and the Office of Information Technology.
Jackson has been executive director of the International Parking Institute since 2005; she previously served as its director of professional development for eight years. She earned designation as a certified administrator of public parking (CAPP) through the institute and the University of Virginia.
A graduate of Rutgers University, Jackson worked there as assistant director for administration in University Parking Services from 1988 to 1993. She served as director of parking and transportation in 1993-94.


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This one, with Maggie and Homer, was actually kind of sweet. Moe's normal self-loathing turned into genuine pity and sympathy, I think. I'm glad they didn't use a guest star for Moe's love interest (made it seem less gimmicky).
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There are many ways to spend a relaxing spring evening. Sipping suds in New York City's oldest beer garden is one of the most refreshing options.
Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden, 29-19 24th Ave. in Astoria, boasts a huge outdoor beer garden, refreshing beer pitchers and authentic Czech food. While no beer games are allowed, competitive souls can meet at the ping pong tables in the back of the beer hall.
Those who prefer sitting can plop down at a picnic table outside, where we enjoyed some Friday night jazz. My companion and I both ordered the baked palacinka, baked crepes with melted munster cheese, spinach and mushrooms. You have the option of chicken or vegetable, and I went for the chicken. We paired the meal with an ice-cold pitcher of Staropramen, a crisp and light Czech beer.
I wanted to try something completely different from what I normally eat, and achieved that by ordering this dish. It was creamy and rich, covered in a light, gravy-type sauce.
A downside of the dish was the lack of mushrooms; it only had two and would've been really tasty with more. The spinach was very flavorful throughout, so the dish is ideal for spinach fans.
The other drawback was it wasn't that filling.
It would definitely be fun to go back and share some foods to get a variety of tastes. I'd especially like to try the schnitzel and pierogi, which I loved as a kid in Pittsburgh.
For the beer, you can get a half-liter mug for $5, but it's more worthwhile to split a pitcher for $15. Beer options include choices from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belgium, Germany and the U.S. There are also Czech cocktails and drinks, such as Slivovice, the traditional Czech plum brandy.
The garden celebrates its 100-year anniversary this year. The beer hall hosts a variety of events reflecting Astoria's diverse ethnicities, and it's a great place to hang out with friends when the weather is nice. It got a bit too cold after a while, but I can't wait to go back to chill out once the warm weather returns.


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Talks set on Chinese history, Oct. 23-24
Posted October 18, 2007; 03:43 p.m.
Chinese history scholar Nicola DiCosmo of the Institute for Advanced Study will give a pair of talks in the second annual Frederick Mote Memorial Lecture Series at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 23-24, in 202 Jones Hall.
DiCosmo is the Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at the institute. He specializes in the cultural, political and military history of China's northern frontiers and in the traditions of inner Asian peoples, in particular the ancient nomad Mongols and Manchus.
DiCosmo's Oct. 23 lecture is titled "Writing Alien History: 'Barbarian' Historiography in Ancient China." The next day, he will speak on "Before the Manchu Conquest of China: The Great Enterprise Reconsidered."
The lecture series was established last year in honor of Mote, a longtime Princeton professor of East Asian studies who died in 2005. It is sponsored by the Mote Memorial Lecture Fund and the Program in East Asian Studies.


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An interest in the origins of Polynesia impelled University of Hawai'i at Manoa archaeologist Barry Rolett to dig deep into the Earth's core at one of China's famous hot springs: Fuzhou Basin. What was the quest of the Department of Anthropology professor so far from home? To prove the theory that colonization of Polynesian and all Austronesian cultures can be traced to Taiwan. Rolett and his team found convincing evidence that not only strengthens this belief, but also showed that seafaring played a huge role in shaping both Taiwan and the nearby coast of China.
Their research, reported in the April 2011 issue of Quaternary Science Reviews, indicates that rapid sea level rise in Fuzhou Basin on the southeast coast of the Fujian Province in China 9,000 years ago made it impossible for villagers to make a living from growing rice, the primary agricultural crop harvested by farmers in most other regions. Since the lack of land needed for rice paddies in Fuzhou Basin prevented this type of food production, villagers took to open-sea voyaging—a type of seafaring associated with Austronesian origins. They eventually made contact with Taiwan, located about 80 miles across the coast from the Fuzhou Basin.
This presumption contests the popular view by scientists that villagers in northern China spread the popularity of rice farming southward to the Fuzhou Basin. Sediment cores collected by Rolett and his team near the Tanshishan archaeological site, the center of a Neolithic culture that inhabited the Fuzhou Basin between 5,000 and 4,300 years ago, showed that sea-level change has dramatically transformed the landscape since then. The sites are located today on hills that are 50 miles from the coast, which once were little islands in the upper estuary.
Large amounts of shellfish remains indicate that the Tanshishan people relied heavily on maritime resources for their livelihood. "They may have been the greatest navigators of their day," said Rolett. Artifacts that were found, such as pottery and stone tools, were also discovered in Taiwan, suggesting that people from the Fuzhou Basin may have crossed the Taiwan Strait and ultimately established farming villages in Taiwan.
In combination with other genetic, linguistic and archaeological evidence found throughout the years, Rolett's research also boosts the belief by experts that seafaring originating in the Taiwan Strait may be linked with the earliest Austronesians, whose populations include the people of Polynesia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Robert Blust, a UH Mānoa professor of linguistics who also studies the origins of Austronesians, agrees that Taiwan was likely first settled by speakers of Austronesian languages. "The archaeology of Neolithic settlement in insular Southeast Asia has supported this scenario completely, since pottery, animal domestication and agriculture make their appearance in Taiwan about a millennium earlier than they do in areas further to the south where Austronesian languages are spoken today," said Blust.
Rolett's research team members included Zhuo Zheng of the Department of Earth Sciences at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China, and Yuanfu Yue of the Institut de Sciences de l'Evolution at the Université Montpellier in France. "This research helps us learn more about China's rich history and culture, and also to understand how sea level change can transform our coastline," said Rolett. "As our team had discovered, this can have a dramatic impact on the way we live in the future."
For more information, contact Barry Rolett at (808) 956-7546 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Top photo: A drilling rig was used to collect sediment cores documenting 10,000 years in the evolution of the Fuzhou Basin in Fujian, China. UH Mānoa Anthropology Professor Barry Rolett, at right, prepares to hand off one of the drill bits.


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I posted this same thing in the "Writing for Game" section, to get the writers perspective, but I think that a designer's perspective will also apply and be helpful here:
I am working on an Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy game. I'm toying with the idea of individual stories to follow players.
1) They will start out building up a city, technologies and troops. The city is safe.
2) They will deploy troops to other planets, and manage them directly in a Real Time Tactical Strategy.
3) Planets will be won and lost, which affect large numbers of players.
4) The battles for planets will continue until one side wins the entire planet, could be hours, could be months (actual time), with players regularly adding troops to fuel the battles with dozens of other players.
I've worked on Dynamic content generators before, but I was hoping some of you might have helpful insights that could make this better than my initial thoughts. (I'm not posting my initial thoughts, and welcome complete flexibility for suggesting dynamic content.)
I may not use stories/plots at all. At the moment, I'm just considering my options, and if a good idea can be done without a lot of work. Suggest away!


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Columbus made four voyages to America, during which he explored an astonishingly large area of the Caribbean and a part of the northern coast of South America. At every island the first thing he inquired about was gold, taking heart from every trace of it he found. And at Haiti he found enough to convince him that this was Ophir, the country to which Solomon and Jehosophat had sent for gold and silver. Since its lush vegetation reminded him of Castile, he renamed it Española, the Spanish island, which was later Latinized as Hispaniola.
Española appealed to Columbus from his first glimpse of it. From aboard ship it was possible to make out rich fields waving with grass. There were good harbors, lovely sand beaches and fruit-laden trees. The people were shy and fled whenever the caravels approached the shore, but Columbus gave orders "that they should take some, treat them well and make them lose their fear, that some gain might be made, since, considering the beauty of the land, it could not be but that there was gain to be got." And indeed there was. Although the amount of gold worn by the natives was even less than the amount of clothing, it gradually became apparent that there was gold to be had. One man possessed some that had been pounded into gold leaf. Another appeared with a gold belt. Some produced nuggets for the admiral. Española accordingly became the first European colony in America. Although Columbus had formally taken possession of every island he found, the act was mere ritual until he reached Española. Here he began the European occupation of the New World, and here his European ideas and attitudes began their transformation of land and people.
The Arawak Indians of Española were the handsomest people that Columbus had encountered in the New World and so attractive in character that he found it hard to praise them enough. "They are the best people in the world," he said, "and beyond all the mildest." They cultivated a bit of cassava for bread and made a bit of cottonlike cloth from the fibers of the gossampine tree. But they spent most of the day like children idling away their time from morning to night, seemingly without a care in the world. Once they saw that Columbus meant them no harm, they outdid one another in bringing him anything he wanted. It was impossible to believe, he reported, "that anyone has seen a people with such kind hearts and so ready to give the Christians all that they possess, and when the Christians arrive, they run at once to bring them everything."
To Columbus the Arawaks seemed like relics of the golden age. On the basis of what he told Peter Martyr, who recorded his voyages, Martyr wrote, "they seeme to live in that golden worlde of the which olde writers speake so much, wherein menne lived simply and innocently without enforcement of lawes, without quarreling, judges and libelles, content onely to satisfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of things to come."
As the idyllic Arawaks conformed to one ancient picture, their enemies the Caribs conformed to another that Columbus had read of, the anthropophagi. According to the Arawaks, the Caribs, or Cannibals, were man-eaters, and as such their name eventually entered the English language. (This was at best a misrepresentation, which Columbus would soon exploit.) The Caribs lived on islands of their own and met every European approach with poisoned arrows, which men and women together fired in showers. They were not only fierce but, by comparison with the Arawaks, also seemed more energetic, more industrious and, it might even be said, sadly enough, more civil. After Columbus succeeded in entering one of their settlements on his second voyage, a member of the expedition reported, "This people seemed to us to be more civil than those who were in the other islands we have visited, although they all have dwellings of straw, but these have them better made and better provided with supplies, and in them were more signs of industry."
Columbus had no doubts about how to proceed, either with the lovable but lazy Arawaks or with the hateful but industrious Caribs. He had come to take possession and to establish dominion. In almost the same breath, he described the Arawaks' gentleness and innocence and then went on to assure the king and queen of Spain, "They have no arms and are all naked and without any knowledge of war, and very cowardly, so that a thousand of them would not face three. And they are also fitted to be ruled and to be set to work, to cultivate the land and to do all else that may be necessary, and you may build towns and teach them to go clothed and adopt our customs."
So much for the golden age. Columbus had not yet prescribed the method by which the Arawaks would be set to work, but he had a pretty clear idea of how to handle the Caribs. On his second voyage, after capturing a few of them, he sent them in slavery to Spain, as samples of what he hoped would be a regular trade. They were obviously intelligent, and in Spain they might "be led to abandon that inhuman custom which they have of eating men, and there in Castile, learning the language, they will much more readily receive baptism and secure the welfare of their souls." The way to handle the slave trade, Columbus suggested, was to send ships from Spain loaded with cattle (there were no native domestic animals on Española), and he would return the ships loaded with supposed Cannibals. This plan was never put into operation, partly because the Spanish sovereigns did not approve it and partly because the Cannibals did not approve it. They defended themselves so well with their poisoned arrows that the Spaniards decided to withhold the blessings of civilization from them and to concentrate their efforts on the seemingly more amenable Arawaks.
The process of civilizing the Arawaks got underway in earnest after the Santa Maria ran aground on Christmas Day, 1492, off Caracol Bay. The local leader in that part of Española, Guacanagari, rushed to the scene and with his people helped the Spaniards to salvage everything aboard. Once again Columbus was overjoyed with the remarkable natives. They are, he wrote, "so full of love and without greed, and suitable for every purpose, that I assure your Highnesses that I believe there is no better land in the world, and they are always smiling." While the salvage operations were going on, canoes full of Arawaks from other parts of the island came in bearing gold. Guacanagari "was greatly delighted to see the admiral joyful and understood that he desired much gold." Thereafter it arrived in amounts calculated to console the admiral for the loss of the Santa Maria, which had to be scuttled. He decided to make his permanent headquarters on the spot and accordingly ordered a fortress to be built, with a tower and a large moat.


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Will new CEO accelerate Hopkins' pace in D.C.?
It's been a year since Johns Hopkins Medicine acquired Sibley Memorial Hospital in D.C., and more than two years since it added Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. But by most accounts in the local health care world, the Baltimore-based system has made relatively few waves since joining the Washington-area market.
That might change in 2012, when at least two key leadership changes are coming. We already knew that Edward Miller, CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Sibley's longtime CEO, Robert Sloan, are both retiring in July.
But on Monday, Hopkins unveiled Miller's replacement: Dr. Paul Rothman, currently dean of Carver School of Medicine in Iowa. Rothman will take over in July, around the time Sloan's replacement comes on as well.
Whether these changes will actually trigger any sudden strategic moves is purely speculative.
But the looming transition is one possible explanation for why Suburban and Sibley still largely operate the way they always have. Sure, the Hopkins blue-and-yellow branding is in place, and Johns Hopkins Community Physicians is opening a few new clinics, but doctors, vendors and other community members say they see little evidence of any strategic shifts or real changes in day-to-day business.
A new man at the top could open the spigot for more Hopkins action around here. But Rothman will have plenty to occupy his attention, much more than just day-to-day health care in Montgomery County and the District.
As CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Rothman will oversee a $5 billion enterprise that includes its research efforts, international ventures and comparatively straightforward network of hospitals.
That hospital network — known as Johns Hopkins Health System — is directly overseen by President Ronald Peterson, who reports directly to the CEO. Both Peterson and Suburban Hospital CEO Brian Gragnolati, who is senior vice president for the system, will remain in place.
For his part, Gragnolati has declined several interview requests this year seeking an update on Hopkins' activity in Washington. Another such request is pending.


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Quite a day
I haven't been peripherally involved in a terrorist attack in nearly twenty years.
That time I was in a school bus outside of Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany, sitting for several hours because a car-bomb had gone off in front of Headquarters USAFE (United States Allied Forces Europe). I was twelve.
For the next five years every day my school bus stopped at the gate to the base, and a dour looking armed military policeman would enter at the front of the bus, walk down the aisle, and exit at the rear of the bus.
This time I was in a plane bound for Minneapolis, MN, to catch a flight from there to San Jose, CA to do a week and a bit of on-site time for the company I contract with---a trip I make roughly once a month.
The captain had just gotten off the intercom saying we were about an hour out of Minneapolis ten minutes before when we obviously started to descent, and the captain came back on and told the passengers that we were being grounded in Milwaukee, something had happened at the World Trade Center. I couldn't imagine what difference a bomb at the world trade center could make to our flight---at least, what could warrant making an early landing.
The first call I made was to my father, the ex-Air Force back-seater to find out what happened---but I wasn't able to complete the call, and when I heard something about a plane hitting the WTC, and I called my wife and left her a message that I was OK, still thinking that it was some sort of air traffic control problem. So I called my father back, and that's when he told me what all had happened.
I don't think I knew anyone who was hurt or killed. My sister's parents-in-law both work in the Pentagon, but they were OK. I don't have any real ties with anyone in NY. I guess in a way I escaped unscathed.
While I feel badly for the people who died, and the people who were hurt, I have to wonder, though, what possible response we can make that isn't just going to continue the odious cycle of hatred and death.


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2.7: Telescopes
WWGD? What would Galileo do (if he could see the things we can see through a telescope)?
If you think oceans are inhospitable, try space! Humans have been to our Moon and many have orbited Earth in spacecraft, even staying for months at a time in a space station. Much of what has been learned about space since Galileo has been through a telescope. Although astronomers use very large telescopes, many of which pick up wavelengths of energy other than visible light, there is still much to be gained from looking at the planets and stars on a clear night. If you haven't ever looked at the night sky through a telescope you should try to soon!
Electromagnetic Radiation
Electromagnetic (EM) radiation is energy that is transmitted through space as a wave. Light is one type of EM wave. An EM wave has two components: an electric field and a magnetic field. Each of these components oscillates between positive and negative values. The distance between two adjacent oscillations is called a wavelength. Frequency measures the number of wavelengths that pass a given point every second. Wavelength and frequency are reciprocal, which means that as one increases, the other decreases.
Visible light — the light that human eyes can see — comes in a variety of colors. The color of visible light is determined by its wavelength. Visible light ranges from wavelengths of 400 nm to 700 nm, corresponding to the colors violet through red. EM radiation with wavelengths shorter than 400 nm or longer than 700 nm exists all around you — you just can't see it. The full range of electromagnetic radiation, or the electromagnetic spectrum, is shown in Figure below.
(a) Visible light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, which ranges from gamma rays with very short wavelengths, to radio waves with very long wavelengths. (b) These are images of the same scene. In the top, only the wavelengths of visible light show. In the bottom, a layer of thick clouds appears in the infrared wavelengths.
Like our Sun, every star emits light at a wide range of wavelengths, all across the visible spectrum and even outside the visible spectrum. Astronomers can learn a lot from studying the details of the spectrum of light from a star.
Types of Telescopes
The term "telescope" was coined by the Italian scientist and mathematician Galileo Galilei (1564–1642). Galileo built the first telescope in 1608 and subsequently made many improvements to telescope design.
Optical Telescopes
Telescopes that rely on the refraction, or bending, of light by lenses are called refracting telescopes, or simply "refractors." Galileo's and other early telescopes were all refractors. Many of the small telescopes used by amateur astronomers today are refractors. Refractors, including this one at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, are particularly good for viewing details within our solar system, such as the surface of Earth's moon or the rings around Saturn.
Around 1670, Sir Isaac Newton created the first reflecting telescopes, or "reflectors." The mirrors in a reflecting telescope are much lighter than the heavy glass lenses in a refractor. This is significant, because:
- To support the thick glass lenses, a refractor must be strong and heavy.
- Mirrors are easier to make precisely than it is to make glass lenses.
- Because they do not need to be as heavy to support the same size lens, reflectors can be made larger than refractors.
Larger telescopes can collect more light and so they can study dimmer or more distant objects. The largest optical telescopes in the world today are reflectors. Several large reflecting telescopes are located at the summit of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, shown in Figure below.
Using sound and laser technology, researchers have begun to reveal the secrets of the ocean floor from the Sonoma Coast to Monterey Bay. By creating complex 3-D maps, they're hoping to learn more about waves and achieve ambitious conservation goals.
Find out more by watching this video at http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/amateur-astronomers.
Telescopes on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Radio Telescopes
Even larger telescopes are built to collect light at longer wavelengths — radio waves. Radio telescopes collect and focus radio waves or microwaves, the waves with the shortest wavelength, from space.
The largest single telescope in the world is at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico (Figure below). This telescope is located in a naturally occurring hole so that it does not collapse under its own weight. Since the telescope is set into the ground, it cannot be aimed to different parts of the sky and so can only observe the part of the sky that happens to be overhead at a given time.
The radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory has a diameter of 305 m.
A group of radio telescopes can be linked together with a computer so that they are all observing the same object (Figure below). The computer combines the data, making the group function like one single telescope.
Radio telescopes at the Very Large Array, the National Radio Observatory in New Mexico.
Scientists have upped their search for extraterrestrial intelligence with the Allen Telescope Array, a string of 350 radio telescopes, located 300 miles north of San Francisco. Find out why SETI scientists now say we might be hearing from ET sooner than you think.
See more at http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/seti-the-new-search-for-et/.
SETI listens for signs of other civilization's technology. Dr. Jill Tartar explains the program: What it's looking for; what the problems are; what the potential benefits are.
See more at http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/interview-with-astronomer-jill-tarter-part-i-web-only/.
SETI listens for signs of other civilization's technology. Dr. Jill Tartar explains the Allen Telescope Array and its role in SETI.
See more at http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/interview-with-astronomer-jill-tarter-part-ii-web-only/.
Space Telescopes
Earth's atmosphere not only blocks radiation in some parts of the EM spectrum, but also distorts light. Observatories built on high mountains lessen these problems, but space telescopes avoid such problems completely because they orbit outside Earth's atmosphere. Space telescopes can carry instruments to observe objects emitting various types of electromagnetic radiation, such as visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light; gamma rays; or x-rays.
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), shown in Figure below, has orbited Earth for more than 20 years, sending back the most amazing images and helping to answer many of the biggest questions in astronomy. The James Webb Space Telescope, designed to replace the aging Hubble, is targeted for launch in 2018.
Find out more by visiting the Hubble Space Telescope website at http://hubblesite.org.
(a) The Hubble Space Telescope orbits Earth at an altitude of 589 km (366 mi). It collects data in visible, infrared, and ultraviolet wavelengths. (b) This starburst cluster is one of the many fantastic images taken by the HST over the past two decades.
- Electromagnetic radiation is energy transmitted as waves with different wavelengths, which appear in the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Refracting and reflecting telescopes are optical telescopes that use lenses to gather light.
- Radio telescopes collect radio waves and are sometimes used in large arrays.
- Space telescopes can see much more than Earth-bound telescopes since the atmosphere doesn't affect their information.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
1. Where were telescopes developed?
2. What did Galileo do for the telescope?
3. What was the old belief about the Moon and other celestial bodies?
4. List Galileo's discoveries with the telescope.
5. What book did Galileo publish?
6. What did Galileo learn from Venus?
7. Explain Galileo's conflict with the Roman Catholic Church.
8. Which planet remains a mystery to scientists? Why?
1. Describe each of the types of telescopes discussed here: reflecting, refracting, radio, and space.
2. What are the limitations of each type of telescope discussed here?
3. Look at the electromagnetic spectrum. Do you think other types of telescopes could get other types of information if they gathered different wavelengths?
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