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Here in Darlington we have already asked officers on a number of occasions to consider this. One area where this is perhaps more urgently required, however, is at the Duke Street exit of the Pedestrian Heart. Here, cyclists who leave the town centre are confronted with a particularly narrow road outside the Coop Bank, a road that is designed to be one-way for motorised traffic.
This picture shows the view from outside the town centre. This evening, on my way home from the station, I was cycling out of the town centre on this stretch when I noticed a car accelerating towards me and beeping his horn (at 8pm in the evening). He seemed in a great hurry. The reason soon became clear. He screeched to a halt before I was able to exit the narrow road into Duke Street to tell me off for cycling "the wrong way down a one way street".


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This weekend saw the sixth annual Shopping With Friends, a retail extravaganza that earmarks 10% of sales conducted in scores of area businesses on one set day for Lowcountry AIDS Services. Friday night found fashionistas dodging raindrops and flocking to Saks for the kickoff cocktail soiree that was one part lip gloss and two parts cupcake (check out the tower-o-sweets in the photo gallery). Cash registers rang up a 15% discount on purchases made during the party, while make-up wizards wielded magic with the flick of eyeshadow brushes and mascara wands. Intrepid Top Model wannabes underwent ultra glam transformations and struck poses for a shoot staged in the middle of the store, where the white catalogue-style backdrop, flashing lights, and whir of the camera drew a lot of spectator attention.
De facto host Andrew Petersen, an internationally noted make-up artist with the Trish McEvoy line, greeted guests as they breezed past his perch adjacent to the front door. Peterson's work with Lowcountry AIDS Services inspired McEvoy to create a one-of-a-kind red lipstick, Gorgeous Red, which was released in the Charleston market last month. It's available at Saks and Gwynn's, and $3.50 of each sale is donated to LAS. Scores of women stopped by his counter to try the new hue. As our Style Editor Ayoka Lucas says, "A red lip is hot this holiday season!" Check out her recent interview with McEvoy: http://tinyurl.com/y8e3882
Many familiar faces turned up the following morning for the official Shopping With Friends brunch, which was held in a ballroom at Charleston Place. Overnight, the weather had delivered a rainy, windy mess, but a record number still arrived for the sticky buns and midmorning fun. A bloody mary bar (or the make-it-yourself mimosa station) was the first stop for most arrivees, while the eggs and sausage buffet drew a respectable crowd (who says fashion folk don't eat?).
New this year was the Vintage Village, a carefully curated collection of wares selected from the inventory five local purveyors—Candy Shop Vintage, Cavortress, Lori Wyatt Vintage, Love Me Again, and Library: Archives of Fashion. The magpie cache of glittering paste baubles, luxe alligator handbags, and frothy tulle dresses was a standout success, and I hope it returns next year!
By the time the auction wound down—after a fierce bidding war erupted over the botox-for-a-year package—the rain had subsided, and LAS supporters were able to make haste for King Street with hands free of umbrellas and able to clutch shopping bags. To view this list of stores that donated 10% of Saturday's sales to LAS, click here: http://www.aids-services.com/events/shopping_with_friends/


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A California couple spotted the edge of an old can on a path they had hiked many times before. Poking at the can was the first step in uncovering a buried treasure of rare coins estimated to be worth $10 million.
"It was like finding a hot potato," the couple told coin expert Dr. Don Kagan from Kagin's, Inc. The couple hired the president of Kagin's, Inc. and Holabird-Kagin Americana, a western Americana dealer and auctioneer, to represent them.
"Since 1981, people have been coming to us with one or two coins they find worth a few thousand dollars, but this is the first time we get someone with a whole cache of buried coins… It is a million to one chance, even harder than winning the lottery," Kagan told ABCNews.com.
The couple is trying to remain anonymous after finding the five cans of coins last spring on their Tiburon property in northern California and conducted an interview with Kagin.
"I never would have thought we would have found something like this. However, in a weird way I feel like I have been preparing my whole life for it," the couple said.
It was the first of five cans to be unearthed, each packed with gold coins.
"Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition," said Kagan told ABCNews.com.
He said Tuesday that the couple plan to sell most of the coins, but before they do, they are "loaning some to the American Numismatic Association for its National Money Show, which opens Thursday in Atlanta."
"Some of the rarest coins could fetch as much as $1 million apiece," said Kagan. He also said that they wish to sell 90 percent of the collection through Amazon.com and on the company's website.
"We'd like to help other people with some of this money. There are people in our community who are hungry and don't have enough to eat. We'll also donate to the arts and other overlooked causes. In a way it has been good to have time between finding the coins and being able to sell them in order to prepare and adjust. It's given us an opportunity to think about how to give back," said the couple.
Kagan and his colleague David McCarthy, senior numismatist and researcher at Kagin's, met with the couple last April, two months after the hoard was found.
Credit: Saddle Ridge Hoard discoverers via Kagin's, Inc./AP Photo


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SEE ALSO: Territorial Commander's Message | PiM Resources | Fundraising Ideas | PiM Articles | Ressources en français
When we look at our world, we need to see the faces behind the news reports and statistics. God actively cares about all of his creation, but he chooses to work through his people who have been charged to carry out his mission of hope, healing and transformation. We are God's hands to comfort a hurting world.
Salvation Army congregations have an important role in supporting Partners in Mission. This fundraising campaign provides the necessary money to carry out the ministry of The Salvation Army worldwide. These funds ensure that the Army continues to be a beacon of hope in countries devastated by poverty, illness and natural disasters – countries where much of the population lives on less than $2 a day.
All Salvation Army territories and commands, whether financially independent or grant aided, contribute to the International Self-Denial Appeal (which we term Partners in Mission). This serves as an example of what it means to be partners in mission and ministry – standing shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand.
The Canada and Bermuda Territory is partnered with: Germany, Lithuania and Poland; Latin America North; Liberia; Malawi; and Zimbabwe. While our territory responds to needs in many other countries, we have a special responsibility to support these five territories/commands financially and prayerfully.
The money raised during the Partners in Mission Appeal provides the essential funding needed for the ongoing ministry of the Army in each of these countries. This funding is necessary to keep the infrastructure in place so that communities can focus on specific needs and concerns, such as education, health, clean water, income generation or human-trafficking issues.
The mission of The Salvation Army worldwide can continue only with your prayerful and practical support
The support between partner territories goes both ways. While our mission partners may not be in a position to provide funding for our programs, they can teach us new and creative approaches to the common issues and problems we face. And we have their support in prayer, something of greater value than money.
In countries where life is so tenuous, prayer is not a last but a first resort. They have experienced God's faithfulness as they have learned to depend on him in the midst of desperate poverty and persecution. As they pray for us, let us be faithful in upholding them in our prayers.
We have developed Partners in Mission resources to help promote this important fundraising campaign. Focus for 2017 is the Sri Lanka Territory and the Germany, Lithuania and Poland Terriotry. Other resources include videos, photos, printable materials, children & teen resources & more!
In 2016, Salvationists across the Canada and Bermuda Territory responded with heartfelt generosity to the suffering of others. Thank you for your kindness and practical expression of Christian love that enabled us to be Christ's presence to those in need. The mission of The Salvation Army world-wide can continue only with your prayerful and practical support. It is a mission that continues to grow as The Salvation Army is welcomed into additional countries. We thank the Lord for these new opportunities, understanding the need to ensure that the finances are available to nurture these young churches.
Please give generously so that the territorial goal of $2.25 million will be reached.


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Statement by President Obama on Afghanistan
Remarks by Secretary Kerry: The Way Forward in Afghanistan
Fact Sheet
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry gave statements on May 27, 2014, on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan after 2014. They outline the number of staff and troops that will be involved in upholding security commitments and assisting in political and economic transitions. President Obama also spoke on May 28, 2014, at the graduation ceremony at the West Point Academy, to discuss how Afghanistan fits into the broader military strategy.
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Commitment to the U.S.-Afghanistan Partnership
In May 2012, the President signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement between the United States and Afghanistan that defined a future in which Afghans are responsible for the security of their nation. The two countries pledged to build an equal partnership between two sovereign states premised on mutual respect and shared interests. U.S. commitments to support Afghanistan's social and economic development, security, and institutions and to promote regional cooperation are matched by Afghan commitments to strengthen accountability, transparency, and oversight and to protect the human rights of all Afghans –- men and women. The Strategic Partnership Agreement includes mutual commitments in the areas of: protecting and promoting shared democratic values; advancing long-term security; reinforcing regional security and cooperation; social and economic development; and strengthening Afghan institutions and governance.
The United States continues to support a sovereign, stable, unified, and democratic Afghanistan and will continue our partnership based on the principles of mutual respect and mutual accountability. We remain fully supportive of our partners in the Afghan security forces, and we continue to proudly work side-by-side with the many Afghans who work to ensure the stability and prosperity of their fellow citizens.


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Painter to give lecture, lead workshops, April 4-6
Posted March 30, 2006; 10:27 p.m.
Conceptual realist painter Peter Dreher will give an illustrated
talk on his work at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, in Room 219 of 185
Nassau St. He also will conduct workshops from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday
and Thursday, April 5-6, in Room 220.
Dreher, who has been professor of painting at Freiburg University in
Germany since 1968, is known worldwide for his series, "Day by Day Is a
Good Day" ("The Glass"). He began the conceptual experiment in paint in
the early '70s and continues it to this day: the same glass in the same
environment in the same position -- only the painter's subjectivity is
variable. He has some 4,000 pictures of the glass to his credit.
The events are sponsored by the Program in Visual Arts. The workshops are open only to the University community; to sign up, call (609) 258-8560 or e-mail email@example.com.


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"How People Make Things" is an NSF funded traveling exhibition produced by the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh in collaboration with UPCLOSE upclose.lrdc.pitt.edu / and Family Communications, the producers of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Through hands-on interactive exhibits, demonstrations, and factory tour vi...
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Formative Evaluation: From Prototype to Final Exhibit The HMPT project team used an iterative formative evaluation and prototyping process to ensure that the final exhibit experiences would be engaging, comprehensible, and relevant to visitors. To guide that process, the team created a shared set of learning objectives to focus exhibit development. Prototyping sessions assessed the potential of exhibit activities and mediation (i.e. signage, videos, etc.) to enhance visitors' comfort with manufacturing topics. The design team and UPCLOSE researchers observed, recorded, and interviewed families regarding their interactions, conversations, and understanding of specific exhibit concepts. Findings from these prototyping sessions were shared in follow-up meetings. Short formative evaluation reports were used to provide the exhibit team with examples of visitor behavior and conversation using visitors' own voices to help stimulate discussion, and assist the designers in moving forward with the conceptualization and refinement of exhibit experiences. For details about the formative design process go to: www.informalscience.org/project/sp otlight/hpmt


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Perspectives about Occupational Justice
Imagine what it might feel like to be unable to participate in many of the day to day activities that most of us take for granted. Brushing our teeth in the morning, making breakfast, engaging in a job or classroom, taking care of our home, family and pets, enjoying a book or newspaper, preparing meals, preparing a place to sleep. These sample just a few of the life activities in which humans typically participate....referred to as occupations in the field of occupational science. Occupations vary substantially from culture to culture and also depend on access to material and political resources. Occupations in which people engage contribute to their health, identity, and sense of purpose. Occupation in its purest form can be simply termed as the purposeful act of doing something or conceptually defined as the performance of meaningful activities with a set goal in mind. In this paper we will explore the concept of occupational justice, a term that describes a basic human right to have the opportunities and rights to participate in those activities and occupations that define us as individuals, family and community members by providing meaning and purpose to our lives. Conditions of poverty preclude the ability to participate in a wide range of activities and occupations that support well-being. An anticipated outcome of this presentation is to explore how poverty negatively influences engagement in those activities and occupations that support health, productivity and life satisfaction. This program was developed as a part of the University Dialog Program.


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[Updated with reasons why you most likely would want to use the Compaq's data sets over Advogato's. This update came as a result of pvg's diary entry implying there was little reason to use Compaq's data sets.]
Ankh mentions using the correlation between evaluation from various people to find out what to present.
This is a field that has seen some study; it is known as "Collaborative Filtering" (or just "Personalization" when the marketeers have been there), have implementations available from Firefly (now purchased by Microsoft, IIRC - their website is down, so I can't check), Net Perceptions (the commericalized aspect of Grouplens, and probably a couple of other companies.
If you are going to experiment with this, picking up a book on multi-variate analysis is probably not a bad idea. You can get free datasets from Compaq for research use. These measure how well a bunch of people have liked films (from EachMovie, while that still ran). They are probably better to use than the Master/Journeyer/Apprentice ratings from Advogato, as I expect "How well did you like that film?" to be more likely to evaluate the same criterion in each person than the various Advogato ratings. Apart from that, I expect the data sets to be much larger - EachMovie was mass-targeted and seemed quite popular.
Not that this is terribly relevant as a form of diary for me, but given the restrictions of the communications medium... *grin*


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Vol. 18, No. 8 02/25/11
Last week, H.R. 822, was introduced in the U.S. House by Representatives Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and Heath Schuler (D-N.C.). The measure would allow any person with a valid state-issued concealed carry permit to carry a concealed firearm in any state that issues concealed firearm permits, or that does not prohibit the carrying of concealed firearms. A state's laws governing where concealed firearms may be carried would apply within its borders. The bill also applies to Washington , D.C. , Puerto Rico and U.S. territories.
H.R. 822 would not create a federal licensing system. Rather, it would require the states to recognize each others' carry permits, just as they recognize drivers' licenses and carry permits held by armored car guards. Rep. Stearns has introduced such legislation since 1995.
Please be sure to contact your U.S. Representative at (202) 225-3121 and urge him or her to cosponsor and support H.R. 822.
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Body fungus on new Betta
This may end up being a longer post, but I am a bit frustrated and upset at well. I have a 6 gal filtered tank and it has completely cycled. Just checked the parameters with the API Master Freshwater kit this evening and the values are 0/0/5. Tank temp is 76-78. I have had an Oto for just over a month now and am currently on my 3rd betta fish... The first two got a horrible case of body fungus within 24-48hrs after being in the tank. The first one passed but I was able to bring the second back and exchange for a new fish. I don't mind treating a fish, but getting that sick within 2 days is a little crazy and I don't want to spend $$ on a brand new fish... maybe that's wrong thinking... but still a newbie...
I got Melafix which was recommended to me by a co-worker (she's the aquarist at my job) and I have been dosing my tank since I introduced my 3rd and current betta every morning per the directions. He was a bit lethargic this morning and when I got home from work I looked and sure enough he has body fungus, it's not as bad as the last two.. but I am just so frustrated... how come my oto, which is supposed to be super sensitive to water quality and blah blah is fat, super active and healthy.. and yet the bettas have all gotten ill...
Should I keep dosing the water and hope he gets better? Or I feel like giving up.. I have gotten the bettas from 2 different stores, hoping it was the store, but what else could I have done? All the plants in the tank are real so it wouldn't be an injury caused infection... I suppose their immune systems are not very strong...
Sorry for the rant.. just upset and really like this fish, and now I am pretty bummed out. Thanks for the input.
Mela-fix is a pretty bad treatment, especially for a Betta. Discontinue its use. It forms an oil slick on the surface, making it difficult for the Betta to breathe. Because of the Oto, you can't use salt, which would have been my first suggestion.
The tank is too cold. The temp for a Betta should be 82 constant. Lower temps can spur illnesses.
Keep the water at temp, and do water changes every other day to keep the water super clean. It could be, if you are getting your Betta from the same store, their stock is less than optimal, and maybe already infected with fungus before they are placed in their cups. There are many fungus medications on the market geared specifically for the ailment, you will have to check the labels of them to find out what would also be safe for your Oto.
I used to house Oto's with my Betta, but removed them, after I realized the fresh food placed in the tank for them seemed to be causing dissolved organics in the water, and causing fin rot.2 10 gallon tanks, 1 20 gallon tank, 1 Fluval Edge, 1 29 gallon tank, and one backyard pond.


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Binghamton University to host former White House and United Nations official
BINGHAMTON, NY – Binghamton University will host a presentation by Eric Schwartz at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 30, in the Anderson Center Watters Theater. Swartz, a public policy expert and former White House and United Nations advisor, earned his bachelor's degree in political science from Binghamton University in 1979. This event is free and open to the public.
During his 25-year career in public service, his positions have included U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; UN Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery; and Senior Director and Special Assistant to the President for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs. In 2011, he was named Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Policy at the University of Minnesota.
This event is co-sponsored by Dorm Room Diplomacy, the Binghamton University Alumni Association and the Department of Political Science. Dorm Room Diplomacy is a campus-based organization that fosters intercultural dialogue between students in the United States, Middle East and North Africa.
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Word of warning: Eee PC Linux Recovery DVD
New Toys:
A coworker bought himself an Asus Eee PC 700 for a modest €300. After the initial surprise of how small and light it is I got to play around with it for a while.
The custom version of Xandros (née Corel Linux) provided by Asus could hardly look more like Windows XP. The choice of this less popular distribution made life that little bit more awkward when I was struggling to get Citrix installed. When 3rd party software fails I'd be inclined to blame the 3rd party namely Citrix but since it works in Windows my coworker is more inclined to blame Linux and he threatened to buy the Eee PC with Windows next time since his children were already monopolising his new toy.
The very small tight keyboard layout with an undersized shift key got annoying fast, kept inadvertently hitting the up button. The smaller return key (or should I say "enter") is annoying but to be fair I'm used to it being two rows high and it isn't an unusual design choice (seen it on American keyboards layouts). I'm left wondering as to why designers do not elminate the Caps Lock key and the Function keys (F1, F2, etc.) and why it has both a Delete and Backspace key if space is at a premium.
Word of Warning:
In the limited time I had to play around with the Eee PC it was fun but I wanted to play with it more so I tried using the Linux Recovery DVD on a spare computer. I was hoping perhaps it was a Live DVD and I'd be able to setup a test Eee PC playground. I'm glad I used a spare machine since the *Recovery* disc overwrote something on the local hard drive. Don't try this at home. Having read the documentation further the smarter move would have been to get the Software Developer Kit (SDK) from the Asus website http://support.asus.com.tw/download/
and instructions are provided explaining how to setup the Eee PC inside VMWare. Although I didn't find it in my brief search I wouldn't be surprised to soon find a VMWare Player with all this already setup for you.
The Asus Eee PC has really grabbed a lot of attention (or was it the OLPC that started it all) and sparked a whole line of so-called "netbooks" but it will be interesting to see if they can capitalise on their first mover advantage, or hold on to a prestige position like Apple do. It is an impressive machine and I was almost tempted but little annoyances soon focussed my thoughts to more fun things I could do with the money.
In any case the software is what grabs me and I'm pleasantly surprised to see Linux in the mainstream.


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Been a pretty good week in California. Mostly sorted out the hand-over to my new position. Get back home
tomorrow, and find out just how badly confused my life has become in my absence.
Managed to even get a few hours in at the LinuxWorld. The best part was definately the BSD BOF. Finally had a chance to put some faces and voices to a bunch of people. Also had an interesting (but short) chat with Jordan H. He had to run away a little early because of other commitments, but while he was there it was worth while. Talked to a few other people. All in all, pretty good time. The exhibitors area was mostly interesting, although I only had a couple of hours to wander about. There were a bunch of exhibits I wanted to catch, but I just ran out of time. Oh well, maybe next time.
Still sorting out my distributed architecture problem, but in the interim, I'm putting together a single point system to get the bigger pieces debugged. Should have something we can play with internally in a week or three, and available to anybody who wants it about a month after that. Stay tuned to this space ;)


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Your physician has ordered a PET/CT (Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography) scan to assist in managing your care.
Orange Regional Medical Center now offers the latest technology to aid in the diagnosis of cancer and various neurological diseases. Positron Emission Tomography and Computerized Tomography (PET/CT) are both state-of-the-art imaging tools that allow physicians to pinpoint the location of a disease within the body before making treatment recommendations. The highly precise PET scan illustrates the biology of disorders at the molecular level. A CT scan provides a detailed picture of the body's internal framework providing the ability to detect and specifically locate abnormal growths and or changes in the body structure, such as the size and shape of a tumor. The PET/CT scan combines the strengths of these two state-of-the-art imaging tools into a single scan.
PET/CT is commonly used to diagnose cancer as well as neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, dementia, stroke, brain tumors and seizures. PET/CT imaging provides valuable information regarding a patient's condition that assists in the appropriate planning and management of their treatment.
This latest imaging technology provides physicians the proper tools to detect and care for specific diseases at a faster pace. With the ability to diagnose neurological disorders, make an earlier cancer diagnosis, determine the stage of cancer and plan the right course of precise treatment, these enhanced scans can improve the quality of life for each patient and ultimately increase the chance of recovery.
By assisting in identifying the location and severity of a tumor's growth, PET/CT is a powerful imaging technique that helps physicians more accurately diagnose and treat.
When scheduling your PET/CT scan, inform the imaging staff if:
No food or drink (except for water) for at least 6 hours prior to your appointment Avoid strenuous activity and exercise 24 hours prior to your appointment Arrive on time for the PET/CT procedure Bring the following:
Wear warm, comfortable, metal-free clothing (no underwire bras) Plan to spend two to three hours at the PET/CT imaging facility. Exam times and procedures vary with each patient.
Medical history and any prior PET/CT exams will be reviewed Blood sugar will be checked, and an imaging tracer called Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a radioactive sugar, will be administered by way of injection. A 90 minute resting period will be required before the scanning begins. This resting period is necessary for the FDG to travel and be distributed throughout the body.
You will be positioned on the scan table The table will be moved into a large opening in the PET/CT scanner You will be asked to lie still while the PET/CT scanner acquires the images. The time of the scan varies, but will typically range from 30 - 45 minutes
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Comment Re:Re-inventing the wheel (Score 4, Informative) 616
Seriously, 20 years later and you are STILL fixed width with no direct copy/past? WTF?
Are you kidding? I've been doing copy/paste from the Windows command line (cmd.exe) since Windows NT 4.0. (Not to mention setting the width and the scroll back buffer size among many other options.) And all of that is available in PowerShell as well.
If you right-click anywhere in the title bar, you'll get a context menu, and at the bottom of that menu is properties. In there you'll find, on the options tab, a box labeled Edit Options that contains two check boxes: Insert Mode and QuickEdit Mode. These two check boxes are essential for doing copy/paste operations in cmd and PowerShell. Now if you go over to the Layout tab, you'll find you can tweak the height, width, and under "Screen Buffer Size", the "Height" setting there actually the scroll back buffer length. All very handy stuff.
Now once you have everything setup correctly, pasting into the terminal is done by right-clicking in the window and choosing paste. Now copying from the terminal is a little different. Generally, you just highlight what you want to copy with the mouse, then just right-click on top of the selected text. Your highlighting will disappear, but the text was put on your clipboard. If you paste into Notepad (or other app) you should get whatever you copied from the terminal.


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Should Hasbro add a modern version of Romba to our collections?
With the long wait for many fans to get another Ewok action figure, TEEBO's break through into the early 2002 POTJ lineup was highly acclaimed by just about all of our readers!
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I have lived and fishing in Ireland for the past 35 years, fishing a fair few of the Irish Loughs for wild brown Trout, also a number of the rivers for Brown Trout, Dollaghan, Sea Trout and Salmon. My first love is fly dressing and tying traditional Irish Lough flies. Last year I finished developing my range of woven nymph patterns, CDC Wulff's and the new range of Dabblers. You will see a sampling of them here.
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A Wellspring of Romance in Napa Valley
The Ink House Bed & Breakfast • St. Helena, CA
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Enjoy a two-night stay for two in a Standard Queen or Midsize King ($299) or a Deluxe King or Small Suite ($399) at this award-winning boutique inn in St. Helena, about 65 miles north of San Francisco.
You'll get a daily breakfast for two with Champagne, complimentary use of bicycles (as available), complimentary evening port wine, and six VIP wine tasting passes to area wineries.
This 1884 Victorian, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was selected by Gayot as one of Northern California's top 10 best B&Bs of 2011, and by TripAdvisor for an Award of Excellence.
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Bubble - Blowing Stars Seen in the Thousands by Public
|1:20:19 AM, Friday, January 13, 2012
"A project to spot the "bubbles" that young, massive stars blow in the gas surrounding them has come up trumps, finding more than 5,000 of the objects.
That increases the known catalogue of bubbles by more than a factor of 10.
The discoveries were made by citizen scientists studying images from the Spitzer space telescope, as part of the Milky Way Project.
The much-improved catalogue has been submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
One of the great remaining mysteries of how our Universe works is how stars themselves form in vast clouds of swirling gas.
Astronomers are keen to find star-forming regions, hoping to catch the process at various stages to better understand it.
Groups of stars form in clusters near particularly large stars, and one good hint of these stellar nurseries is the "bubble" that they blow into the surrounding gas - a bubble that can be seen in pictures taken by Spitzer's infrared camera.
Human intervention
But the task to find and list all the bubbles in existing high-resolution images taken by Spitzer is a daunting one.
The largest previous cataloguing effort was carried out in 2007 by a handful of US astronomers poring through the images with their own eyes; it came up with 269 bubbles.
Automating the process with a computer algorithm is not an option, said Eli Bressert of the European Southern Observatory.
"To have an algorithm that can identify that kind of structure, no one can do it a the moment - it's way too complex," he told BBC News.
"You need two things: pattern recognition and the ability to judge, based on the other data that you've seen, what's good and what's bad - and that's what humans are good at."
Enter the Milky Way Project, which grew from the riotously successful citizen science project to classify and describe types of galaxies, Galaxy Zoo…"
Old Genes Make New, Giant - Headed Ants
|2:33:20 AM, Thursday, January 12, 2012
"Every animal carries a record of its past in its genes -- sometimes teeth show up in birds and vestigial limbs on snakes and whales. Ants are no exception. What if that potential could be tapped? And what brings it out?
That's what a group of scientists at McGill University thought when they ran into a colony of ants on Long Island. A colony of ants known as Pheidole morrisi (more commonly called big-headed ants) had members we call soldiers with really outsized heads and bodies. These were called "super soldiers."
Pheidole, like many other ant species, are divided into castes, such as workers, queens and soldiers. Different foods are given to them when they are larvae, which triggers hormones that determine which caste the ant grows up to be.
Super soldiers occur naturally in some species of Pheidole in the southwestern United States and Mexico. But those living in upstate New York aren't supposed to have the big heads. Ants are a pretty diverse lot and there are more than 1,100 species within even the Pheidole genus. But only eight of them naturally produce the super soldiers.
Biology professor Ehab Abouheif and PhD student Rajee Rajakumar wondered if the genes that build super soldiers were present in the Long Island ants all along, but were just waiting for some environmental factor to bring them out. The scientists first went to Arizona and collected two other species of ant in the same genus, Pheidole rhea andPheidole obtusospinosa, which both have a subclass of super soldiers. They then observed how those two species developed their super soliders.
Next, the scientists gave the young Long Island ants juvenile hormones at certain specific points in their development. In the Pheidole morrisi they got the super-soldier ants, which showed that the potential was always there. It just needed something to bring it out. One interesting phenomenon was the super soldiers had wing buds, which their cousins from Arizona did not. Many ant species develop wings as part of their development and ants and wasps share a common ancestor. The procedure worked in three different species of Pheidole, even though all three were separated by thousands of miles and millions of years of evolution.
Previously, few biologists thought such ancestral traits were important. They were just leftovers like the stuff in your attic. This shows that when necessary, nature has a "tool kit" that it can use to create big morphological changes -- some of them new."
'Tatooine' Planet With Two Suns Could Host Habitable Moon?
|3:11:13 AM, Wednesday, January 11, 2012
"A new planet found last fall may be orbiting two stars, but it's far from a real-life Tatooine. Dubbed Kepler-16b, the world is a cold, Saturn-size gas giant with little chance of hosting desert farmers like the fictional Star Wars world.
But according to new computer simulations, the Kepler-16 stars may still shine on a world fit for life—a hypothetical Earthlike moon orbiting Kepler-16b.
Kepler-16b was discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which looks for dips in starlight as a planet transits—or passes in front of—a star, as seen from Earth.
For the new study, Billy Quarles, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Arlington, and colleagues simulated several possible configurations for a theoretical Earth-mass world in the Kepler-16 system.
The team started by drawing up a "laundry list of parameters" for defining the habitable zone—the region around a star where a planet gets enough heat to host liquid water, essential for life as we know it—Quarles said Monday during ameeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
The researchers assumed that the brighter of the two Kepler-16 stars is the main source of heat and light for any orbiting worlds.
Based on that star's size and temperature, the team determined that the main habitable zone possible around the Kepler-16 stars would extend from about 34 million to 66 million miles (55 to 106 million kilometers) out.
Capturing a Habitable Moon
With a roughly circular orbit about 65 million miles from the stars, the Saturn-like planet is on the outer edge of this main habitable zone. And while this "Tatooine" is uninhabitable, an Earthlike moon in Kepler-16b's orbit could sustain life, the researchers said.
The group isn't yet ready to say whether a moon could have formed alongside the planet. But their simulations suggest a moon could have arrived, fully formed, later in Kepler-16b's life.
According to the new models, a planet closer to the brighter star, squarely in the habitable zone, could have long ago been ejected from its orbit due to gravitational interactions with the other objects in the system.
Kepler-16b's gravitational pull could have attracted the Earthlike planet during its journey outward, turning the world from planet to moon.
Such a moon would technically be in the main habitable zone of the Kepler-16 system and—unlike Mars, on the outer edge of the habitable zone in our solar system—the moon would be massive enough to retain an Earthlike atmosphere, the team said.
First to Find an Alien Moon?
If astronomers were to discover an Earthlike satellite orbiting Kepler-16b—a bigif—it would be a major first.
More than 700 alien planets have been confirmed so far, and Kepler has identified more than 2,000 more potential planets.
As of yet, though, no moons have been detected outside our solar system.
With the new study, "we can say there are exomoons possible around Kepler-16b, and what's important about this is that they are detectable ... down to 0.2 Earth masses," Quarles said.
To do so would require looking for subtle irregularities in the gas giant's orbit that could be caused by a moon's gravitational pull—something Kepler is equipped to do…"
Worm-Eating Plant Found - Kills via Underground Leaves
|2:26:21 AM, Wednesday, January 11, 2012
"Scientists have solved an underground mystery: Why does a plant that survives on sunlight grow leaves beneath the earth?
Flowering plants of the genusPhilcoxia are the only known plants with the "awkward" feature of subterranean leave, said Rafael Oliveira, a plant biologist at the State University of Campinas in Brazil.
Oliveira's new research sheds new light on the oddity, showing that the leaves act as traps for tiny roundworms, or nematodes. This worm food is vital for the plant's survival in the nutrient-deprived savannas of central Brazil.
Plants may seem "boring for some people, because they don't move or actively hunt for their food," Oliveira said by email.
But "they have evolved a number of fascinating solutions to solve common problems, such as the lack of readily available nutrients or water."
Feeding Worms to Plants
Oliveira and colleagues had suspected that Philcoxia plants may be carnivorous, because their sandy habitats and their physical features—such as poorly developed root systems—resemble those of known carnivorous plants. The team had also recently observed roundworms on the plants' subterranean leaves.
To test their hypothesis, the researchers bred nematodes in nitrogen, a marker that would allow the scientists to know if the plant indeed digests worms.
The team then "fed" the nematodes to plants in the lab, and harvested their leaves 24 and 48 days later. A chemical analysis revealed nitrogen from the worms had been incorporated into the plant's leaves.
The results add up to the first evidence of a carnivorous plant with specific adaptations for trapping and eating roundworms, he added.
More Killer Plants Out There?
Only 0.2 percent of flowering plant species are known to digest meat.
But "if we start to look closer at microorganisms [such as nematodes] as a prey type," Oliveira predicted, "we might find more carnivorous plants."
Many plant behaviors, he added, "operate hidden from our view.""
Hackers Plot DIY Sputniks for Internet Freedom
|10:01:08 PM, Monday, January 02, 2012
"(BBC) Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit.
The scheme was outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.
The project's organisers said the Hackerspace Global Grid will also involve developing a grid of ground stations to track and communicate with the satellites.
Longer term they hope to help put an amateur astronaut on the moon.
Hobbyists have already put a few small satellites into orbit - usually only for brief periods of time - but tracking the devices has proved difficult for low-budget projects.
The hacker activist Nick Farr first put out calls for people to contribute to the project in August. He said that the increasing threat of internet censorship had motivated the project.
"The first goal is an uncensorable internet in space. Let's take the internet out of the control of terrestrial entities," Mr Farr said.
Beyond balloons
He cited the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) in the United States as an example of the kind of threat facing online freedom. If passed, the act would allow for some sites to be blocked on copyright grounds.
Whereas past space missions have almost all been the preserve of national agencies and large companies, amateur enthusiasts have in recent years sent a few payloads into orbit.
These devices have mostly been sent up using balloons and are tricky to pinpoint precisely from the ground.
According to Armin Bauer, a 26-year-old enthusiast from Stuttgart who is working on the Hackerspace Global Grid, this is largely due to lack of funding.
"Professionals can track satellites from ground stations, but usually they don't have to because, if you pay a large sum [to send the satellite up on a rocket], they put it in an exact place," Mr Bauer said.
In the long run, a wider hacker aerospace project aims to put an amateur astronaut onto the moon within the next 23 years.
"It is very ambitious so we said let's try something smaller first," Mr Bauer added.
Ground network
The Berlin conference was the latest meeting held by the Chaos Computer Club, a decades-old German hacker group that has proven influential not only for those interested in exploiting or improving computer security, but also for people who enjoy tinkering with hardware and software.
When Mr Farr called for contributions to Hackerspace, Mr Bauer and others decided to concentrate on the communications infrastructure aspect of the scheme…"
Nasa's Gravity Twins Now Circling Moon
|9:51:47 PM, Monday, January 02, 2012
"The US space agency (Nasa) has succeeded in placing two new satellites in orbit around the Moon.
Both spacecraft were put in elliptical paths around the lunar body over the weekend after performing braking manoeuvres following their more than 100-day journey from Earth.
The identical Grail twins are to map gravity variations across the lunar body in unprecedented detail.
This will help scientists refine our theories for how the Moon formed.
It will also enable them to test new ideas, such as the provocative suggestion made earlier this year that there were probably two moons in the sky above Earth billions of years ago.
Lead scientist Dr Maria Zuber is certainly hoping for some dramatic discoveries.
"Grail is a journey to the centre of the Moon and it will use exceedingly precise measurements of gravity to reveal what the inside of the Moon is like," the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher said.
"This information will be combined with the plethora of remarkable observations of the Moon that have been taken by other satellites before, and together they will enable us to reconstruct the Moon's early evolution."
The 300kg Grail spacecraft were launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, last September, and took a long spiral out to their destination.
This weekend, they approached the Moon over the south pole, 25 hours apart. Each satellite in turn fired its main engine to slow it and put it in an elliptical orbit around the lunar sphere.
This orbit has a period of 11.5 hours and must now gradually be reduced in size and circularised before any science can begin.
A series of further burns on each spacecraft should achieve this goal by March.
The twins will then map the small variations in gravity across the lunar surface from an altitude of 55km.
These gravity differences are the result of an uneven distribution of mass. Obvious examples at the Moon's surface include big mountain ranges or deep impact basins, but even inside the lunar body the rock will be arranged in an irregular fashion, with some regions being denser than others.
All this will have a subtle influence on the pull of gravity sensed by the over-flying spacecraft.
The Grail twins will make their measurements by carrying out a carefully calibrated pursuit of each other.
As the lead spacecraft flies through the uneven gravity field, it will experience small accelerations or decelerations. The second spacecraft, following some 100-200km behind, will detect these disturbances as very slight changes in the separation between the pair - deviations that are not much more than the width of a human red blood cell.
When the gravity map is combined with comparable-resolution topographical information showing the surface highs and lows, scientists should be able to deduce the Moon's probable internal structure and composition. This is fundamental knowledge that will play into theories of how the lunar body formed and how it has changed through time…"
LHC Reports Discovery of its First New Particle
|12:03:27 AM, Friday, December 23, 2011
"(BBC) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Franco-Swiss border has made its first clear observation of a new particle since opening in 2009.
It is called Chi_b (3P) and will help scientists understand better the forces that hold matter together.
The as-yet unpublished discovery is reported on the Arxiv pre-print server.
The LHC is exploring some of the fundamental questions in "big physics" by colliding proton particles together in a huge underground facility.
Detail in the sub-atomic wreckage from these impacts is expected to yield new information about the way the Universe is constructed.
The Chi_b (3P) is a more excited state of Chi particles already seen in previous collision experiments, explained Prof Roger Jones, who works on the Atlas detector at the LHC.
"The new particle is made up of a 'beauty quark' and a 'beauty anti-quark', which are then bound together," he told BBC News.
"People have thought this more excited state should exist for years but nobody has managed to see it until now.
"It's also interesting for what it tells us about the forces that hold the quark and the anti-quark together - the strong nuclear force. And that's the same force that holds, for instance, the atomic nucleus together with its protons and the neutrons."
The LHC is designed to fill in gaps in the Standard Model - the current framework devised to explain the interactions of sub-atomic particles - and also to look for any new physics beyond it.
In particular, it is using the collisions to try to pin down the famous Higgs particle, which physicists hypothesize can explain why matter has mass.
Discoveries such as Chi_b (3P) are an important part of this quest because they add to the wider background knowledge, says Prof Jones, from Lancaster University, UK.
"The better we understand the strong force, the more we understand a large part of the data that we see, which is quite often the background to the more exciting things we are looking for, like the Higgs.
"So, it's helping put together that basic understanding that we have and need to do the new physics."
Prof Paul Newman, from the University of Birmingham, added: "This is the first time such a new particle has been found at the LHC. Its discovery is a testament to the very successful running of the collider in 2011 and to the superb understanding of our detector which has been achieved by the Atlas collaboration already."
And Andy Chisholm, a PhD student from Birmingham who worked on the analysis, said: "Analysing the billions of particle collisions at the LHC is fascinating. There are potentially all kinds of interesting things buried in the data, and we were lucky to look in the right place at the right time.""
NASA's Kepler Finds Two Earth-Size Planets Around Sunlike Star
|4:36:03 AM, Wednesday, December 21, 2011
"Two new planets found orbiting a sunlike star are the first truly Earth-size worlds discovered by NASA's Kepler mission, scientists announced today.
The find comes on the heels of Kepler's first potentially Earthlike planet orbiting squarely within its star's water-friendly "Goldilocks zone"—the region that's not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to exist on a planet's surface.
Designated Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, the two new planets are comparable in size to Earth and Venus: At 0.87 times the size of Earth, Kepler-20e is slightly smaller than Venus, while Kepler-20f is 1.03 times Earth's radius.
But both new extrasolar planets—or exoplanets—orbit their star much too closely to be within the habitable zone.
In fact, the entire Kepler-20 system is believed to contain at least five planets all orbiting their star within a distance smaller than that between Mercury and the sun.
This orbital distance makes the planets very hot. For instance, Kepler-20e is estimated to have an average surface temperature of 1,400şF (760şC), while Kepler-20f is a "cooler" 800şF (427şC).
By contrast, Earth's average surface temperature is 57.2şF (14°C).
Still, this is the first confirmation of truly Earth-size planets by the Kepler team—a key goal of the overall mission.
"December 2011 may be remembered as the first time humanity was able to discover an Earth-size planet in orbit around another star," lead author Francois Fressin, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said today during a NASA teleconference.
The discovery "demonstrates for the first time that Earth-size planets exist around other stars, and that we are able to detect them."
New Planets a Tight-Knit Group
Previously discovered exoplanets have all been considerably larger than Earth.
Even the just announced Goldilocks world, Kepler-22b, was estimated to be 2.4 times Earth's radius and is thought to have a fairly low density, meaning it could have a thick atmosphere and a surface quite unlike Earth's.
With the new Kepler discovery, we now have confirmation of planets that "are exactly the right size [to be Earthlike] ... but are too hot" for life as we know it, team member David Charbonneau, also with the CfA, told National Geographic News…"
In Memoriam: Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies, 1949-2011
|1:03:49 AM, Friday, December 16, 2011
-- An intellectual champion among us lowly primates. Below is a very recent video that sums it all up really well. I raise my glass to you, Hitch! Thank you.
Baby Seal Breaks Into House and Curls Up on Sofa
|9:04:44 PM, Thursday, December 15, 2011
"New Zealander Annette Swoffer got the surprise of her life when she found a baby seal in her kitchen, who later began to snooze on her couch, the New Zealand Herald reports.
According to the report, the seal wandered from the bay waterfront, through a residential area, across busy roads, under a gate, through a cat door, and up some stairs before he was found at around 9:30 p.m.
"I thought 'I'm hallucinating, this is just wrong,'" Swoffer told the paper. "Then it looks at me with those huge brown eyes. It was so cute..."
Swoffer then called the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), who called the Department of Conservation. According to a report by Stuff.co.nz, the department was already looking for the pup.
When biodiversity program manager Chris Clark came to pick up the animal, he told Swoffer he'd been looking for the seal all afternoon and that it had likely just been weaned from its mother.
Department of Conservation's Katrina Knill elaborated on the state of the New Zealand fur seal population in an email to The Huffington Post:
"NZ fur seal populations are starting to recover in the western Bay of Plenty, and are believed to be breeding on Motuanau (Plate) Island, which is approximately 12km offshore.
At this time of year, young seals are dispersing from the rookeries. Seal pups may often spend days at a time alone, whilst the mother is away foraging for food.
Seals usually occupy rocky shores in places that have some protection from heavy seas and are often found resting on Bay of Plenty beaches.
Occasionally they travel inland (usually via estuaries and waterways). When on land they can become disoriented and have been found on previous occasions in unexpected places such as backyards, drains and streets.
Seals are wild animals and the Department's policy is to return them to the care of their natural habitat."
Knill went on to write that seals can carry infectious diseases and injure humans, so members of the public should contact authorities (0800DOCHOT in NZ) if they see a seal in trouble or in an odd location. Click here to learn more about New Zealand's fur seals."
Supermassive black hole will 'eat' gas cloud
|4:06:08 AM, Thursday, December 15, 2011
"Researchers have spotted a giant gas cloud spiralling into the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's centre.
Though it is known that black holes draw in everything nearby, it will be the first chance to see one consume such a cloud.
As it is torn apart, the turbulent area around the black hole will become unusually bright, giving astronomers a chance to learn more about it.
The cloud, which is described in Nature, should meet its end in 2013.
Researchers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope estimate that despite its size, the cloud has a total mass of only about three times that of Earth.
They have plotted the cloud's squashed, oval-shaped path and estimate it has doubled its speed in the last seven years - to 2,350km per second.
It should spiral in to within about 40 billion kilometres of the black hole in the middle of 2013.
Our local supermassive black hole, dubbed Sagittarius A*, lies about 27,000 light-years away, and has a mass about four million times that of our Sun.
As the name implies, beyond a certain threshold point - the event horizon - nothing can escape its pull, not even light itself.
But outside that regime is a swirling mass of material, not unlike water circling a drain. In astronomical terms, is a relatively quiet zone about which little is known.
That looks set to change, though, as the gas cloud approaches.
Spaghetti tester
It does not comprise enough matter to hold itself together under its own gravity, as a star might, so the cloud will begin to elongate as it meets its doom.
"The idea of an astronaut close to a black hole being stretched out to resemble spaghetti is familiar from science fiction," said lead author of the study Stefan Gillessen, from Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany.
"But we can now see this happening for real to the newly discovered cloud. It is not going to survive the experience."
It is likely that about half of the cloud will be swallowed up, with the remainder flung back out into space.
But this violent process will literally shed light on the closest example we have of an enigmatic celestial object.
The acceleration of the cloud's constituent material will create a shower of X-rays that will help astronomers learn more about our local black hole.
As astronomer Mark Morris of the University of California Los Angeles put it in an accompanying article in Nature, "many telescopes are likely to be watching"."
Atom Smasher's Higgs Particle Findings: Physicists React
|12:35:32 AM, Wednesday, December 14, 2011
"Scientists at the world's largest particle accelerator announced today (Dec. 13) that they'd narrowed down the possibilities for the existence of the elusive Higgs boson particle. This particle, long theorized but not yet detected, is thought to explain why particles have mass.
The data so far from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) indicate that if it exists at all, the Higgs must weigh between 115 and 130 times the mass of a proton (a unit denoted by gigaelectronvolts, or GeV). Two experiments at LHC, called ATLAS and CMS, also show hints that they've seen a particle weighing about 124 or 125 GeV that could be the Higgs boson.
Though it's too soon for physicists to declare a definite discovery of the Higgs, experts said the findings so far represent an important step forward. Here's what some leading physicists have to say about today's announcement:
"This is not the end, but the beginning. The Higgs was just the last missing piece of the Standard Model of particles. But that theory is ugly; it is a theory only a mother can love. The real breakthrough is when the LHC discovers dark matter or strings. That would be spectacular. So there is a whole new universe beyond the Higgs."
—Michio Kaku, City College of New York theoretical physicist, told LiveScience
"Both experiments showed a very impressive turnaround in processing the data and very good understanding of their detectors. It is unprecedented to have full data samples from such complex experiments to be analyzed in a fairly sophisticated way in just one month since the end of the proton-proton run.
—Greg Landsberg, Brown University physicist, CMS physics coordinator at the LHC, told LiveScience
"ATLAS data, just like CMS ones contain interesting excesses. Whether what we both see is a real signal or just a funny game [that] statistics often play with us, remains to be seen.
"This looks to me like a lot more than 'intriguing hints': it's about what you would expect if a Higgs was there at 125 GeV, highly unlikely to see if there is no Higgs there."
— Peter Woit, Columbia University mathematician, from his blog "Not Even Wrong"
"Essentials: what we're seeing is pretty consistent with the existence of a Higgs boson around 123-126 GeV. The data aren't nearly conclusive enough to say that it's definitely there. But the LHC is purring along, and a year from now we'll know a lot more.
"It's like rushing to the tree on Christmas morning, ripping open a giant box, and finding a small note that says 'Santa is on his way! Hang in there!' The LHC is real and Santa is not, but you know what I mean."
—Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology physicist, from his blog "Cosmic Variance," hosted by Discover Magazine
"All in all, it's a definite maybe. Putting the results together in the way only a frequentist can the result is a 2.4 sigma detection. In other words, nothing any serious scientist would call convincing."
—Pete Coles, Cardiff University theoretical astrophysicist, from his blog "In The Dark"
"Two independent (and highly competitive) research teams, involving thousands of scientists, using each of these detectors have seen moderately convincing evidence that the elusive Higgs particle has been created in some of the proton–proton collisions.
"This is a challenging experiment as the detectors can't see the Higgs particle directly — it is a short-lived particle that quickly falls apart (decays) — but, rather, they infer its presence by seeing its decay products."
—Brian Greene, Columbia University physicist, on the "World Science Festival" blog
"The proof will come in the next year. The spectacularly successful LHC accelerator (which the Europeans built when the U.S. killed the superconducting super collider in Texas) will produce 4 times more Higgs particles in the next year. The significance of the hints reported today could turn into proof beyond a doubt come next October..."
Meteor Crater Helps Unlock Planetary History
|11:20:50 PM, Thursday, December 08, 2011
"The Barringer meteorite crater — known popularly as "Meteor Crater" — near Winslow, Ariz., was formed some 50,000 years ago in the flat-lying sedimentary rocks of the Southern Colorado Plateau in Arizona. Now, scientists are using the crater to study mysteries near and far.
This out-of-the-blue geological feature is considered a prime example of a young, well-preserved and well-documented simple impact crater.
That means it represents one of the most common morphological features on planetary surfaces, both on Earth, and elsewhere in our solar system. Scientists are using this crater to probe not just our own planetary history, but the mechanics of space rock impacts throughout the universe.
Meteor Crater is one of very few impact sites on our planet where the geologic details of crater excavation and ejecta emplacement are preserved. While the outline of most simple craters is circular, the shape of Arizona's Meteor Crater strongly deviates from a circle and resembles a quadrangle.
"Hole Earth" catalog
The bowl-shape crater is surprisingly well preserved by terrestrial standards. That makes it a "kiss and tell" terrestrial feature that is being plumbed by researchers far and wide.
The crater is roughly 0.75 miles (1.2 kilometers) in diameter. That giant hole in the ground sports a rim that rises up to 196 feet (60 meters) above the surrounding landscape. The crater floor falls to a depth of 590 feet (180 meters).
The upper crater walls have average slopes of 40 to 50 degrees, although they also include vertical to near-vertical cliffs. The rock ejected from the crater forms a debris blanket that slopes away from the crater rim out to a distance of 0.6 miles (1 km).
This impact crater is viewed as a treasured scientific site, not only here on Earth but in shaping future moon and Mars exploration plans. It has become a training ground for astronauts and robot hardware as well as a learning lab for planetary geologists who are investigating impact cratered terrains on other planets.
Indeed, it's a "hole Earth catalog" of processes that keeps on giving.
Honing exploration skills
When a cosmic interloper slammed into Earth tens of thousands of years ago, more than 175 million metric tons of rock were excavated and deposited on the crater rim and the surrounding terrain in a matter of a few seconds, said David Kring, a senior staff scientist and geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.
Kring has been engaged in studies of the crater for decades. He uses the site as a teaching tool for students, as well as a locale for honing the exploration skills to lunge beyond Earth.
"Those rocks and the processes they record remain the focus of our studies next year," Kring told SPACE.com. "At the same time, we will conduct training activities that are designed to enhance the success of exploration of the moon and planetary surfaces throughout the solar system."
There are a lot of activities at the crater, Kring said. He made two trips there in October alone, he added..."
Halliburton 'Destroyed' Gulf of Mexico Spill Evidence
|2:05:22 AM, Thursday, December 08, 2011
"(BBC) Oil giant BP has accused oilfields services firm Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence relating to last year's oil well blast in the Gulf of Mexico in which 11 people were killed.
At a hearing in a New Orleans' court, BP said Halliburton had "intentionally" destroyed test results on its cement product used at the Macondo well.
Halliburton denied this, saying the claims were "without merit".
Cement was a key factor in causing America's worst offshore oil spill.
The blast that followed at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April led to the release of 780m litres (206m gallons) of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP and Halliburton are locked in a legal battle ahead of a trial on damages early next year.
Through their lawyers, the former partners in the venture are seeking maximum pre-trial advantage, the BBC's Steve Kingstone in Washington reports.
Trading allegations
BP made its accusations in a court filing on Monday.
It said that after reviewing the test results, Halliburton "destroyed records of the testing as well as the physical cement samples used in the testing".
The company also said that Halliburton had failed to produce computer modelling evidence, which showed how the cement performed.
In its motion, BP asked for sanctions against Halliburton, claiming that the company's cement slurry was "unstable".
In its turn, Halliburton rejected the claim, saying it would contest it in court.
The world's second-largest oilfields services provider also accused BP of fraud and defamation in the investigation.
The contractor alleged that BP had ordered last-minute changes to the cement.
The two companies traded allegations ahead of the trial over the spill disaster in February.
The trial is expected to apportion blame and quantify damages arising from the spill.
There will also be other phases of the case over clean-up costs and other claims."
500 Million-Year-Old Super Predator Had Remarkable Vision
|1:20:00 AM, Thursday, December 08, 2011
"South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, have found eyes belonging to a giant 500 million-year-old marine predator that sat at the top of the earth's first food chain.
This important discovery will be accompanied by an artist's impression of the super predator on the front cover of the 8 December 2011 issue of Nature.
Palaeontologists have discovered exceptionally preserved fossil eyes of the top predator in the Cambrian ocean from over 500 million years ago: the fearsome metre-long Anomalocaris.
The scientists show that the world's first apex predator had highly acute vision, rivalling or exceeding that of most living insects and crustaceans.
The international team behind this discovery includes two Adelaide researchers, Dr Michael Lee (SA Museum and University of Adelaide) and Dr Jim Jago (SA Museum and UniSA), and was led by Dr John Paterson (University of New England).
The World's Oldest Apex Predator
Anomalocaris is the stuff of nightmares and sci-fi movies. It is considered to be at the top of the earliest food chains because of its large body size, formidable grasping claws at the front of its head and a circular mouth with razor-sharp serrations.
Supporting evidence of this predator's dominance includes damage to contemporaneous trilobites, and even its fossilised poo (or coprolites) containing the remains of its prey.
The discovery of its stalked eyes - showing astonishing details of its optical design - from a 515 million-year-old deposit on Kangaroo Island in South Australia now confirms it had superb vision to support its predatory lifestyle.
All The Better To See You With…
The fossils represent compound eyes - the multi-faceted variety seen in arthropods such as flies, crabs and kin - and are amongst the largest to have ever existed, with each eye up to 3 cm in length and containing over 16,000 lenses.
The number of lenses and other aspects of their optical design suggest that Anomalocaris would have seen its world with exceptional clarity whilst hunting in well-lit waters. Only a few arthropods, such as modern predatory dragonflies, have similar resolution.
The existence of highly sophisticated, visual hunters within Cambrian communities would have accelerated the predator-prey 'arms race' that began during this important phase in early animal evolution over half a billion years ago.
The discovery of powerful compound eyes in Anomalocaris confirms it is a close relative of arthropods, and has other far-reaching evolutionary implications. It demonstrates that this particular type of visual organ appeared and was elaborated upon very early during arthropod evolution, originating before other characteristic anatomical structures of this group, such as a hardened exoskeleton and walking legs."
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I like it!
Since I already had the spray paint, it cost under $15.
And the best part: I've reclaimed my entry table! Doesn't this look just a bit more inviting?
it's so cute!!! i love both the former-window and your entry table now!
have a great day!
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Your table looks beautiful now!
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yep, I like it too! Every entry way needs hooks IMO. Cute blog!
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What a awesome looking coat rack you have here...now the beauty of your table shows...thanks for sharing.
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I'm so glad you found a use for that beautiful window in your home...the coatrack turned out great....the entry table looks nice for halloween too!
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Wonderful repurposing of that gorgeous window. That entry table looks great!ReplyDelete
Came from BNOTP and I love the window/coathook idea!!! I wish I had a proper foyer for this but I am still thinking!!
Thanks for all the nice comments!
I figure if I keep my entryway table filled with decorative stuff, my family won't be able to go back to their old ways! ;)
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I knew you were going to put hooks there!
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This project is exactly what I'd do - great taste :-)
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Your entryway table is really done up for autumn. Love your coat rack!ReplyDelete
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This study traced a sub-prime loan back to Countrywide Mortgage that started the chain of domino's falling. It wasn't the CRA (Community Reinvesment Act) as I and others thought. The company started by Anthony Mozilo made a subprime loan that borrower defaulted on the loans payments.
What bothered me is Mr. Mozilo was able to sell his company and walk away with 120 million in sold stock as the economy collaped aroud him.


text: Nearly came to blows with Charlie Utter this morning after his mail & freight delivery service lost my case of Wave 5 I ordered from back East. Says he loses more mail than he delivers! Like that's some comfort! And my figs are most likely in the hands of the ****in' dirt worshippers by now; probably trading 'em for infected blankets and Winchesters an' such.


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CBF volunteers staff a table at a local event. Photo by CBF Staff
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is very fortunate to have the help and support of thousands of citizens who volunteer their time and who have demonstrated their commitment to a cleaner, healthier, Chesapeake Bay. Every year, volunteers donate more than 25,000 hours to CBF programs that advance the Bay's health. The immediate results of their work are impressive. But the value of their undertaking for future generations is priceless. We salute our volunteers for their contribution to a better community and a restored Bay.
Following are just a sampling of the many ways that you, too, can get involved.
If you would like to become involved and have not volunteered before or would like more information, please complete our Volunteer Information Form. If you are already a CBF volunteer and would like more information about current or specific opportunities, contact our office at 804-780-1392.
Planting native trees and shurbs along the banks of waterways in one of the most effective ways to keep polluted runoff out of streams. Creating living shorelines with native wetland plants and grasses helps restore habitat for wildlife, preventerosion, capture sediment, and filter pollution.
Check our calendar for current volunteer opportunities.
To help restore the Chesapeake's disappearing underwater grasses, which are stressed by murky water, CBF volunteers grow grasses in their own homes. When the grasses are ready to transplant, volunteers wade in and plant the underwater vegetation. Underwater grasses help oxygenate the water and provide vital habitat for fish and crabs.
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Since 2000, CBF has sponsored one of Virginia's most effective clean-up efforts. Clean the Bay Day, held annually the first Saturday in June, now elnlists more than 7,000 volunteers to remove litter and debris from the state's waterways. From the the Shenandoah Valley to Virginia's Eastern Shore and from Northern Virginia to the North Carolina border, this impressive effort pulls more than 100 tons of trash from the Bay and its tributaries each year.
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text: Thought I would let everyone know that I'm going to be sharing a booth with Clark Bush at the NWTF convention in Nashville, February 13-16. I hope everyone who's coming down has a chance to stop by and introduce themselves, talk a little turkey, buy a book, or bring one purchased elsewhere to have me sign it. The booth number is 1340, and it is primarily focused on Clark's allaboutshooting business. But, we will also have a banner promoting gobblernation.com, and my book, "Turkey Tails and Tales from Across the USA." Hope to see y'all there!


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In Part 2 of Benefits of Membership, one of the items was Members Corner. Under this there are two items. The first of these is "Databases & Browsable Lists".
These pages are for the exclusive use of members of the Society and are updated on a continuous basis
They contain many searchable databases including
- West London Synagogue Birth Register 1 (1842-1905)
- Central Foundation Girls School
- Congregation of Jacob Synagogue
- Jews' Hospital
- Death & Stone Setting Announcements from the Jewish Chronicle 1993-2004
- Rabbi Rabinowitz Memorial Publication Fund
- US Seatholders Lists
- Boer War – 1899-1902
- Society of Hebrew Literature
and browsable lists including
- 1933 United Synagogue Seatholders List
- Palace Gardens / Kensington Palace Gardens. Jewish inhabitants from the 1881/1891/1901/1911 Census
- Fitzjohns Avenue (Hampstead). Jewish inhabitants from the 1881/1891/1901/1911 Census
- Bevis Marks (St Katherine Cree & All Hallow on the Wall) Middlesex/London E. Jewish Inhabitants from the 1851/1871/1881/1891 Census
- Black Lion Yard (Whitechapel) London E. Jewish Inhabitants from the 1901 and 1911 Census
- Albert Square (Ratcliff) London E. Jewish Inhabitants from the 1901 and 1911 Census
- Jewish Branch of the Children's Country Holidays Fund (1921)
- Tottenham Synagogue Marriage Registers
- List of Early Jewish Clock and Watchmakers
- Report of the Jewish Lads Brigade 1900-1901
- The Jewish Regiment Committee Subscriptions
- Jewish Board of Guardians' Book of Remembrance
- Jewish officers in the Navy, Army and Territorial Forces, 1912
- Brothers Who Died in Service in the British and Commonwealth Forces in the Second World War
- List of additions to Roll of Honour in the British Jewry Book of Honour
- 1888 Liverpool Subscription list
- Jewish Board of Guardians' Book of Remembrance
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Family: Aceraceae, Maple view all from this family
Description Relatively fast-growing deciduous tree. Bark gray and shaggy. Leaves palmate, 8–16 cm. long and 6–12 cm. broad, with deep angular notches between the five lobes. Slender stalks of the leaves mean that even a light breeze can produce a striking effect as the silver undersides of the leaves are exposed. Flowers in small panicles, produced before the leaves in early spring, with the seeds maturing in early summer. Seeds winged, in pairs, small (5–10 mm. diameter), wing about 3–5 cm. long. Wings provide for some transport by air, the seeds are heavy and also transported by water.
Dimensions Height: 15-24 m. (50-80 ft.)
Diameter: 0.9 m. (3 ft.).
Habitat Swamps (fresh & salt), Watersides (fresh).
Range Plains, Mid-Atlantic, Florida, Southeast, Great Lakes, Northwest, New England.
Discussion Large rounded buds of the silver maple one of the primary food sources for squirrels during the spring, after many acorns and nuts have sprouted and the squirrels' food is scarce. Seeds, the largest of any native maple, also a food source for wildlife.
Comments Silver maple is fast growing, flood tolerant and very susceptible to wind and ice damage. Its vigorous root system can cause sidewalks to buckle and drain tiles to clog. It is susceptible to a wide range of disease and insect problems and chlorosis in high pH. Seeds can be messy; where this is objectionable, seedless male selections may be used. Attention must be given young trees to corrective pruning for a strong branching system, because of the species' inherant weak crown structure.
Exposure Preference Sun to partial shade.
Native Distribution New Brunswick to e. Ontario & Minnesota, s. to n.w. Florida, e. Oklahoma & e. Nebraska
Site Preference Rich bottomlands; moist hillsides; river banks
Soil Preference Rich, wet to moist, slightly acid soils.


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I have been fiddling with PHP some more today and looked into Cookies in more detail, mail ahnding and LDAP.
Work on the Question API for usability.kde.org has been been continuing, and I have found that it is teaching me lots more about web development - all good fun.
Band practice tonight...last one before the gig. :)
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I could not have said it better.
This is Baxter Black, my kinda guy… Just a guy in love with America just like me.
Learn more about Mr. Black at his website. www.baxterblack.com
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Weekly Poll Results
- Written by Dave Walsh
Last week's results: After his loss at Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Silva, what now for Ray Sefo?
55% - Focus on being a trainer, not a fighter
26% - Stop MMA and focus on kickboxing for one final run
11% - Keep doing what he's doing
8% - Stop kickboxing and focus full time on MMA
This week - a pretty straight forward question:
Who is K-1's Greatest of All Time?
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