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Journal Journal: /. Resurgent: On Stemming Audience Decline and Rebuilding that Good Ol' Brand 13
I'd like to talk about Slashdot. We all remember that old troll, Netcraft confirms it, only these days you don't need pagerank to see the decline in comments and community involvement. It's a problem. And facing that truth is the first step in finding solutions. But before I begin, a bit of meta about this journal entry:
First of all, while I've submitted to the editorial queue I don't expect front page placement. I know this kind of navel gazing isn't FP worthy. The intended readership is editors and those interested in
Secondly, this journal is not a bitch session. I don't want to talk about which editors suck, why the beta should or shouldn't be tossed, or how much better things were when Malda ran the shop. All that is gazing into a rear view mirror. And you can't drive a car based on what's already passed by. Success requires looking out the front window at oncoming obstacles and steering clear. Otherwise, you tumble off-road and crash and burn.
Thirdly, I like Slashdot. I want it to succeed. And I think there are exploitable opportunities to regain audience. So this diary is about grasping opportunity for renewed success. I want to offer hopeful suggestions. For there is no point in promoting defeatism and failure.
To begin, let's look at what's wrong. Most of it is inertia following an old model that was once wildly successful. The editorial policy still focuses on short blurbs about off site articles. Yet these days a well written subject line conveys everything one needs. That's why Twitter is so successful.
The next problem is slow turn-around for material already publiziced by competitors. It might take a half-day to a day between submission to front page. Which were editors carefully selecting from a vast deluge of stories might make sense, particularly if most of them were somehow folded within the Slashdot umbrella and not already publicized. But right now, that's not the case.
There's a competitor that's taken over link aggregation. We all know who it is. Reddit. The once Smiling Alien has become a Ravenous Gorilla, eating everything and everyone in its path. Reddit has already eaten Slashdot's lunch. Now it's taking seconds and thirds from the nerd site's breakfast and dinner plates.
In particular,
Combine these two, redundant write ups of old news already popular elsewhere and you get decline. In link aggregation, Reddit won and Slashdot lost. Get over it. Because Slashdot lost that war long before Reddit even came on the scene. The question is why. Answer that and it's a first step toward putting Alien Kong on a much needed diet.
Sometimes examining history is a helpful lens through which to understand the present. Slashdot has always been a community driven site. That is, back in its founding, Malda et all took users seriously and tried to meet their needs. On occasion this led to site editorial policy contorting itself around conflicting community demands. And was that community demanding. It's as if Slashdot's success seemed to have knit together too many groups with differing interests. It seemed impossible to please everyone.
By the end of the 1990s, there was recognition the site couldn't rely entirely on externally generated content. That link aggregation was only a partial means to drive audience. Should the site promote user submitted content or hire professional writers? On the one hand, community submissions engage the core audience. On the other hand, professional writers produce professional content. Some users expected professionally copyedited submissions given the site dominated 'Net tech discussion. Others wanted to retain its amateur community charm.
The downfall of Jon Katz as Slashdot professional writer and editorial staffer said more about this community divide than it did about his competence. Even if he did screw up. A real editorial process would have caught his mistakes before publication. And he is a good writer. Even if only marginally competent with tech news. But that community breach - not Jon Katz but the divide between amateur community and professional - provided opportunity for competition.
One dev took advantage of dissatisfaction on Slashdot and developed a community driven competitor, Kuro5hin. Its unique claim was that users could vote on story submissions rather than the site's press being controlled by a central editorial body. It offered a private submission queue where community members could propose editorial changes prior to publication. Then a story 'election' stage where voting would decide success or failure. Those stories that succeeded made it to the front page. A community voting model was tried many times before Reddit took the reigns as self-proclaimed "Front Page of the Internet."
This led to a debate on Slashdot over whether community managed or centrally managed models should win out. Slashdot was the market gorilla then and Kuro5hin a semi-popular upstart. Slashdot continued their traditional editorial approach, with editors who selected community submitted content. They continued publishing Jon Katz. And ran on the inertia of success.
Kuro5hin challenged Slashdot by letting the community write, edit, and choose stories by popularity. And in this challenge the site became very popular very quickly. Not as big as Slashdot, but big enough to gain real attention. And Kuro5hin did this by at first slicing away a noticeable portion of the Slashdot community. But people stayed because the system allowed successful contributors to build notoriety, creating a symbiosis between writers, community, and publisher. Something Slashdot only partially embraced with open submissions.
But there's a reason why few remember Kuro5hin today. It had a slow-burn downfall. The more popular it became the more valuable was front page real estate. Just like with Slashdot, community members began to split off into different groups each with their own vested interest. And here was where the story voting queue transitioned from an enticing unique feature to its Achilles Heel.
Soon the queue became gamed by those groups, organized around parochial interests particular to each. Some were trolls, others political ideologues, and still others wanted a pure focus on tech. None could share a communal printing press. And the owner, in his infinite folly, decided to step away and not interfere with community choice. It was a community driven site, right? Let the community decide! Idiot.
People began to leave. Over a couple years that trickle of departures became a rush. Then a scandal or two and a huge migration cleaved the community in two. The site imploded. Finally, a focus on trolling for click-throughs left it publishing such insightful fare as Fuck Natalee Holloway, attracting eyeballs by impugning some girl who'd disappeared and became a media sensation.
Controversial stories like that can generate lots of short-term clickthroughs by an angry and indignant public. Hey, it's an advertising model. Click-bait. Before Gawker there was Kuro5hin. But it didn't last. Because it tarnished the brand for a bit of short-term gain. Kuro5hin lived off googlesearch results to old controversial stories for a time. But now it's a ghost town of 'Net-tumbleweeds and World Wide Cobwebs where a once vibrant community once stood.
The decline of Kuro5hin might have convinced Slashdot's editors they had made the right choice. It's demise is instructive. Centralized editors can prevent organized trolls and political insurgencies from taking control of a site's press. But as Kuro5hin devolved to infighting over an increasingly less relevant front page, another community driven site emerged. And this one would beat Slashdot at its own game in every way imaginable.
Digg. For those who remember its spectacular implosion the name evokes sneers of derision. But there was a time when Digg overtook not just scrappy media startup Slashdot with its little focus on 'news for nerds'. Using Slashdot's link aggregation model, Digg took over 'Net everywhere. Newspapers, magazines, music, film, television... promoting everything media. It became a powerhouse portal relevant to every press outlet and publisher, discussed on television, courted by public relations specialists, ultimately becoming worth billions of dollars on paper.
Contrasting Kuro5hin and Digg against Slashdot, one might call the founding of Kuro5hin a writer's dream of what community publishing could be; content, written by local authors and democratically selected for promotion by the community itself. Digg, on the other hand, represented a marketeer's fantasy of how to aggregate audience without doing the hard work of content creation. While Slashdot sat somewhere in the middle, promoting a little bit of community content on the front page and a whole lot of professional content published elsewhere.
Digg won. Its devs took Slashdot's model, transformed their editorial focus away from nerds to the general public, and reaped vast rewards in audience share. Then, like a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, it spectacularly died in a bloody 'Net mess. And, curiously, for much the same reason as Kuro5hin before it. Internal infighting. Corrupt vote rigging. A public scandal that destroyed credibility.
For a site that had prided itself on community content selection, ultimately a kind of payola system infected Digg. Perhaps not with money changing hands, but the power over a vast audience engendered a corrupt system of power users who self-coordinated to rig the selection process. Digg became Rigg, so to speak. Thereby undermining its entire raison d'etre for existence. Goodbye Digg.
Digg has changed hands and - like Kuro5hin - exists as a shell of its former self. They've even transitioned to a centrally managed editorial model, just like Slashdot. But it mostly remains dead. Reddit reaped their userbase and walked away with The Grand Prize. And to this day Reddit remains Alien King Kong, a giant gorilla eating everything off of everyone else's plate. Including Slashdot's.
So now we've seen two examples of site implosion by internal corruption. Perhaps there's a cyclic lesson to be learned here. A point I'll return to after discussing what I think is wrong with Slashdot's community partnership model. Now, I want to shift focus away from link aggregation to content production. Because today original content is king. There is no link aggregation without content. And what was once a vast diversity of publication houses and outlets has consolidated into a paltry few. Forcing content creators to either partner with corporate leaches or else die in obscurity.
Let's start with an old-timer, Dailykos. It's been around since Kuro5hin. Almost as long as Slashdot. And it's still highly popular with large audience share.
Forget about Dailykos' political leanings. The site is openly partisan, left leaning, and exists to promote Democratic candidates. And that's not why Dailykos is interesting. The site is interesting because it's old and yet still successful. Therefore Kos is doing something worth learning from. However, partisanship is not the lesson here. That's never been a viable model for Slashdot.
Instead, the lesson to learn is how a central editorial body sustains audience through community content generation. That's what Slashdot needs to foster. Because in this era, as long as Slashdot is focused on promoting material produced elsewhere the Giant Alien Gorilla will eat its lunch.
Diaries, not comments, are what drive community involvement at Dkos. That diary system creates a symbiosis between community and publisher. True, most diaries suck. But that's the case with all content. Most everything sucks. So what matters is not that sucky diaries are published but that quality filters exist to pick out diamonds in the rough.
There are two levels. Dkos has a voting system that publicizes the titles of popular diaries in a side box to the main page. If someone writes a recommended diary, it can generate thousands of page views and hundreds of "Recommended" upvotes. From there some diaries are chosen for promotion to the main page. Now you're talking tens or hundreds of thousands of page views for a story. That's real name recognition for a writer. And very well received diarists might get an offer to write for the front page regularly. Talk about incentive.
This mix of content by official site writers and promoted diary entries creates a path of upward mobility for lower ranks of creators and contributors to aspire to. It is these aspirations that sustain a community. Because getting noticed isn't merely some popularity content. Several writers have wound up landing professional gigs. What dkos gets from in content by diarists the site returns to writers with increased notoriety and even potential employment opportunities. Symbiosis.
All while the site publisher retains control over their press. Kos doesn't let trolls and other organized groups direct editorial policy. Slashdot editors should take note.
This model has been copied with more recent successful web startups. For example, Medium and Vice are sites that attract high quality content by providing an easy means for new contributors to get a foothold while retaining editorial control to weed out crap. The 1% rule is relevant here. The trick with a viable community model is to pair the interests of creators and contributors with the publisher. Rob Malda knew this from the beginning. But somewhere along the line that symbiosis between contributor and publisher on Slashdot broke down.
It's not as if Slashdot didn't try. There's a Journal system that was intended to replicate diaries on dkos. But it doesn't work. The place is a ghetto. Mostly because the promotion system is broken. On the one hand, only friends see new journal entries. On the other, journal entries can be submitted as stories to the Slashdot submission queue. But this creates a dead area in between. Journals on their own can't be used to build audience.
If you want to submit, there's little reason to write a journal entry. If you want to write a long form journal entry, there's cultural baggage opposing self-promotion. You might as well publish on your own blog and find some way to pass it around competitors and Slashdot. Which only diminishes its value as a potential Slashdot submission. You've got a negative feedback loop going here with Slashdot's most important potential community asset.
Earlier, after finishing up the history of Kuro5hin's and Digg's respective implosions, I said I'd discuss a special opportunity emerging that Slashdot could perhaps exploit. Implying that such an event might happen again. And I definitely think that's the case. However, there is a big difference between then and today.
When Kuro5hin died it wasn't even a leader in its field. There was significant competition not just from Slashdot but numerous other sites as well. Similarly, Digg imploded with Reddit standing by ready to fill that market gap. But today Reddit is a last site standing. They hold an effective monopoly on link aggregation. As they say, they're the "Front Page of the Internet." And these days they are. This makes Reddit sticky in a way prior sites weren't.
However, like Kuro5hin and Digg, there are serious problems with a perception of submission queue rigging and censorship by Reddit moderators. And it's pervasive across the large subreddits.
For example, back in October of last year it became clear that moderators in
Then, a few months later in February 2014, a new scandal emerged whereby the mods in
Just recently, a web developer was banned from for submitting a project of his own. He created a video, asking:
Has Reddit become a place for celebrities and big brands benefit from free advertising while the average Redditor who wants to share a personal project gets shoed away?
In the video he then spoke to why this is a bad thing for community relations and how this experience has impacted his trust in the site. At least discussion of his experience hasn't been censored on
Regardless, the issue here isn't about this guy's trouble. There have been so many other examples of this kind of manipulation a pervasive expectation of community exploitation by Reddit admins and mods has developed. The community knows - or at least believes - they're being actively censored for Public Relations purposes. Which is exactly what happened at Digg right before implosion. And Kuro5hin before it, for slightly different reasons.
That means there's market pressure building for a free-as-in-speech competitor to appear. That's called opportunity.
Slashdot? This situation is exploitable. The publisher and editors should take this opportunity to punch that Alien Gorilla in the face and give Reddit a well deserved bloody nose. You can't get everything. But if you're aggressive you could cleave off a chunk of audience at
This is YOUR OLD NERD AUDIENCE. Bring these people back to the fold by offering them what they want. An open community portal.
After these messes at Reddit and before that Digg perhaps they'll remember you fondly. Slashdot may have been incompetent but it was never corrupt. Not like that. At least nobody thought so. In contrast, that Big Bad Alien Gorilla wants it all so badly they've grown complacent to competition and arrogant to their community. Reclaim your community by promoting Slashdot as the free speech alternative to a now corrupt competitor. Just like Reddit did to Digg.
Combine that with fresh community content creation and you've got a strong means to rebuild your brand anew. With real community involvement and original content hosted locally. You'll know you're hitting them hard when Slashdot comment forums begin competing with Reddit in new comment numbers and page views. You'll know you're winning when Slashdot stories starts popping up in the Reddit new submissions queue.
In summary, it's my belief that Slashdot should change focus away from link aggregation to publishing professional and semi-professional original content. It should do this with community involvement by tweaking journal promotion to focus on community-publisher symbiosis. Dailykos is a model for process, Medium and Vice standards of quality. But most of all, you've got to change direction. The old model doesn't work any more. And recognizing that truth is the first step to change for the better.
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Goodson has a lot of potential and the price would be right but he has some trouble staying healthy and out on the field... THat would be my biggest worry with him and we would really need to have a viable third behind him and Miller...
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Goodson has a lot of potential and the price would be right but he has some trouble staying healthy and out on the field... THat would be my biggest worry with him and we would really need to have a viable third behind him and Miller...
I'm not that excited about Goodson, I remember following Oakland RB situation cuz I ended up with Run DMC on my team.. So I was getting constant updates about the RB situation in Oakland..well Goodson didn't do anything to earn that job even though he had multiple opportunities to do so. McFadden was injured as always and Oaklands running game struggled, Oakland actually played Reese(sp?) on 3rd downs and he's a FB. All I'm saying you can play that stuck behind good RB card only so many times, the opportunity was there for Goodson to separate himself and he didn't do that
So you followed a stream of fantasy tweets and text updates and that totally substitutes for watching him play football? M'kay.
Goodson has been a secret weapon of mine in Madden since he was 3rd on the depth chart in Carolina. If I used them, I'd put him in as the 2nd wide receiver. His overall was like 73 or something as a WR and legitimately the next best option after Steve. Obviously, using Madden to judge players is a terrible thing, but it's not like theyre always totally ********, his receiving stats were excellent, which makes me think he at least has some skill receiving coming out of the backfield. (btw if you put Reggie in at WR, he's like 87 lol)
But if he's improved his pass protection as you say ck, I'd be all aboard to bring him on at 2 mill or so. I like the idea of him being the 3rd down back letting Lamar focus on running. Hopefully Jonas Gray emerges and kick DT to the curb though, I'm starting to hate him as our "power back"
quick edit - We could've had Demarco Murray instead like 10 picks later, or even Randall Cobb 2 picks after us! Richard Sherman also went in the 5th round..
[QUOTE=ckparrothead;1064579167]So you followed a stream of fantasy tweets and text updates and that totally substitutes for watching him play football? M'kay.[/QUOT
okay, I could've told you that supposedly I watched hours of tape like so many so called experts on here do... I'm just going by common sense here that he didn't do anything when the job was given to him in Oakland. You really think he could steal carries from miller and Thomas? Seems unlikely to me.. And yes, I did watch 4-5 Oakland games, not impressed with him. Again, just an opinion that's all
Fact is running back is not a need. I think for 1.5-2 maybe Miami takes a flyer but Miami might have their Reggie bush replacement in Marcus thigpen. Playmakers are always needed and especially after what you've promoted about Goodson it would be A welcomed addition. We need help on the oline, what are some players you wecommend for our zone scheme?
i wish we could just hand the keys to the franchise over to CK, his marklars are wise and true.
Goodson could be had for a couple million and is young. He may be a similar back to Miller but he has the experience to take over the 3rd down role, as CK clearly elaborated upon. He ran a 4.46 at the combine and hits the hole with authority.
Also consider that the 3 million we save on Goodson vs. Bush could be funneled over to another FA signing; could be the difference between a guy like Levitre or Vollmer and the turn-style middle-of-the-road offensive linemen Ireland has shown a proclivity for.
Love Mike Goodson. His tape at A&M was unreal....always seemed to be going at a different speed.
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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – Continuous growth, a bolstered partnership with Germany and the graduation of better than 3,000 students from a range of programs mark the departure of the director of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies here.
Dr. John P. Rose and his wife Barbara depart tomorrow for Maryland after his having served as director of the Marshall Center since 2002. Dr. Rose said he hadn't shored up plans for the future, but was considering a run for Congress in Maryland.
"It has been a great honor to serve you for the past eight years," he told center staff today. "Continue to follow your dreams and my dream of reaching that 'tipping point' that will lead to a fundamental change in thinking and attitudes."
The number of annual participants attending Marshall Center resident programs grew from 467 in 2002 to nearly 1,000 in 2010. Among that increase are students from 80 countries who hadn't previously attended center programs, including the participation from many African nations as well as Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, which helped support the efforts of the newly-formed African Command. Of those alumni, roughly 270 are considered "distinguished alumni" – ministers, deputy ministers, chiefs and deputy chiefs of defense, parliamentarians, and ambassadors of their countries.
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At the Marshall Center staff farewell Nov. 4, Dr. James MacDougall, the center's U.S. Deputy Director, talked about Dr. Rose's time as director.
"John Rose has put his heart and his soul into his work at the Marshall center. It's not something that I simply alone see, it's a fact," Dr. MacDougall said. "He's touched thousands of people in the process, and all of those thousands of people have been positively affected by his boundless energy and his enthusiasm."
As director, he's had the responsibility to manage a $37 million annual budget , an increase of $10 million since taking the job. He also led the development and execution of three new resident courses at the Marshall Center.
"Three new courses, three new approaches, three new issues that we've taken on that he has personally directed the development, implementation and now the teaching," Dr. MacDougall, who now serves as interim director, said.
Dr. Rose oversaw and led multiple infrastructure projects including the development and building of the a small garden park inside the post, renovations to major facilities, and an extensive upgrade to lodging rooms for resident course participants.
"In each of our areas we can find numbers to quantify how much the center has grown during the tenure of John Rose. But, it only tells part of the story," Dr. MacDougall said. "The work that we all do here is very highly regarded and in large measure we can thank our director for that."
During the farewell, German Deputy Director retired Maj. Gen. Hermann Wachter commented on Dr. Rose's view of the bilateral German-American partnership that leads the center.
"The American-German partnership is one of the outstanding hallmarks of this institution. And as we all know, partnerships are a delicate things by nature," General Wachter said. "You never allowed any doubts that it is both of our nations who are running this organization and that we are partners on equal footing. It is particularly this equal footing principal which you not only upheld so strongly, but you filled with life day by day in your actions."
Dr. Rose's commitment to the partnership extended to the community, and included his forming a close friendship and working relationship with Garmisch-Partenkirchen Lord Mayor Thomas Schmid. He also opened the doors of the center to the local community with his "Bring your German friend to the Marshall Center" event that for more than 6 years has informed and educated neighbors to the center about its mission and scope.
The director said that it wasn't just his leadership that made the center what it is today.
"It's no one individual that does this – don't think that for a second. It's what each and every one of you does that makes this happen, that makes this so unique and such an inspiration," he said. "Barbara and I believe this has been the best 8 years of our lives, no question about it, and I will always and forever believe that because it has been so special."


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QuotePSU running through 3x LM350 to step voltage down to something like 7V for Red & 10V for Green and Blue LED's.No need to use a voltage regulator let alone three of them. That is the job of the constant current supply. However, the heat will be dissipated in the circuit's FET so you need to look at the power dissipation. This depends on your input voltage.
I have decided on the component values I want to use and have revised the drawing to add R1 as suggested in one post but is it really needed? Won't it just default to turn the LED on if no PWM signal present?
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A pull-up to 12V will exceed max voltage for the PWM pin and you don't want that (eliminate R1 from your circuit).
Question is will it work okay without R1.
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LOWER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. - Could it be a second wind for the proposed Hamilton Crossings development in Lehigh County?
This summer, developers asked for a tax incremental financing designation to pay $7 million of the $140 million dollar price tag.
That would mean a portion of the property taxes from the shopping center in Lower Macungie Township would be waived for 20 years.
The caveat is that Lower Macungie Township, the East Penn School District and Lehigh County all have to agree to the TIF, but the county commissioners have said no.
Even so, developers continue to plan the project, which would include a Costco, a Target and a Whole Foods.
"We have been talking to some county commissioners over the last couple of months with the hope that some of the information they were requesting would allow then to re-evaluate the TIF," said one of the developers, Jeremy Fogel, executive vice president of the Goldenberg Group.
After the no vote, county Commissioner Brad Osborne said he was asked by the developers to take a second look at the TIF.
Osborne said he didn't like the fact that Lower Macungie wasn't participating financially because it doesn't currently have property taxes, so the second look didn't change his mind.
Commissioner Michael Schware also voted no because he said it would give the development an unfair advantage, but he said there is a scenario in which he would vote yes.
"I could support it if it didn't involve any county tax dollars, if the school district and the township could come up with an amount that is satisfactory to the developer," said Schware.
Fogel said the financing issue needs to be resolved soon.
"We have gotten to the point in the project where the successes we are having elsewhere in terms of leasing and the design is starting to become more tenuous," said Fogel.
Fogel wouldn't say which county commissioners he is talking with, and most of the commissioners were unavailable for comment.
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The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of the most dangerous heart attack risk factors: diabetes and prediabetes, abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.
- A quarter of the world's adults have metabolic syndrome
- People with metabolic syndrome are twice as likely to die from, and three times as likely to have a heart attack or stroke compared with people without the syndrome
- People with metabolic syndrome have a five-fold greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes
- Up to 80% of the 200 million people with diabetes globally will die of cardiovascular disease
- This puts metabolic syndrome and diabetes way ahead of HIV/AIDS in morbidity and mortality terms yet the problem is not as well recognised
Earlier diagnosis is needed to stop this global time bomb. The new International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Worldwide Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome provides physicians with the tools to quickly identify those at risk and also to compare the impact across nations and ethnic groups. The new IDF worldwide definition was developed during a unique consensus workshop.
- IDF Consensus Worldwide Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome [2](24-page booklet, pdf 745KB)
- IDF worldwide definition of the metabolic syndrome [3](pdf, 131KB)
- IDF consensus definition of metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents [4]
Documents related to the IDF consensus worldwide definition of the metabolic syndrome (adults):
- Rationale behind the IDF definition [5](pdf, 81KB)
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- A new IDF worldwide definition of the metabolic syndrome: the rationale and the results [12] - Diabetes Voice Vol. 50 Issue 3
- Download [13] 'The Metabolic Syndrome: Perhaps an Etiologic Mystery but Far From a Myth - Where Does the International Diabetes Federation Stand'*, first published on Medscape.
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08-21-2013, 11:57 PM #1Member Goldfish
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New tank from CL, how good of a deal is this? And stocking.....
I recently just moved into a new house and have a completely empty room to house tanks. I had a 40g and a 75g and rehomed the few fish i had and wanted to start from scratch when I moved. I think I'm gonna sell my other two tanks after seeing this deal on Craigslist. He says its a 125 Gallon Tank at 72 inches long- 22 inches wide- and 26 inches tall with a stand and lid for $200. I did the volume calculator and with those dimensions it says its a 178 gallon tank. Is that right or am I doing something wrong here?
I have the space and some equipment, and I have the money to invest in better stuff, especially after selling off some things I have. But now the question is what to do with it if I get it. my 70g was a brackish with some F8 Puffers, and I'm thinking about getting a Fahaka Puffer and that's it. The idea of a super community tank also sounds pretty awesome with that much space.
My 38 gallon community was pretty basic, a few platys and mollys and some dojo loaches. I want to do something exotic and different and i have a blank canvas and an open budget.
Let the suggestions roll in please!
There is a standard 125 gallon aquarium that is 72"x18"x24". The dimensions he gives are not standard, and, as you found, not equal to 125 gallons. So you'll definitely want to get that straightened out. I've dealt with craigslist sellers that do not know what size their own tanks are.
A rule of thumb I've used for used tanks is that $1/gallon is a decent deal. That's just for the tank itself, so if the tank truly is the dimensions he's listing, and the stand that comes with it is acceptable to you, then you've got a pretty good deal.
Is it glass or acrylic?300 gallon mega tank: sailfin pleco, clown loaches, silver dollars, roseline sharks, congo tetras, new world cichlids
125 gallon office tank: Africian cichlids, synodontis catfih
75 gallon community tank: bolivian rams, black skirt tetras, dwarf neon rainbowfish, corys, harlequin rasboras, otos, bristlenose and bulldog plecos, assassin snails, various shrimp
60 gallon goldfish tank: fancy goldfish
08-22-2013, 03:02 AM #3Member Goldfish
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The tank is glass, I don't have anyway of moving it, and he said for an extra $50 he'd deliver it the roughly 60 miles round trip. The stand was somewhat basic with no doors or anything but I can make some improvements to it. From all the picture is seems to be in very good condition and relatively new and clean at least.
based on those dimensions it still seems like a steal even with the extra $50 for delivery into my house and the guy helping move it.
Now that I'm a homeowner and know I'll be here a while, I really want to go all out on this. I've seen a lot of people really love oscars/severums and other cichilds and I havent owned something that gets so big before. Any suggestions on stocking with an oscar(s?) being the centerpiece?
That's a good deal to me. For O"s I'd do 2x and a 1 sev, if you get little, then I canister filter is a must and some hang on backs as well. Then weekly 50% water changes. In the end the Os may bully the sev and you may have to rehome him
I would take the delivery fee of $50 for a 60 mile round trip. Gas is pretty expensive out here. I would ask before you bought it for a remeasure of the tank though, because you can get screwed on CL. Also I would suggest against having just the one puffer, it could get pretty boring.
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I will be going to the sellers house to help him load it in his truck and I will inspect/remeasure there. I will gladly help the guy out even with the fee.
I'm thinking about starting an aquarium journal for this tank.....
What would you guys recommend for filtration for a super community in the 180g? I don't have anything currently that could handle something this massive on its own.
Are you set on doing a freshwater tank? Want to try and venture into SW?Think with logic and rationality more than emotion. Act with moderation and consideration. Contemplate ideals and realistic goals and weigh out possibilities and options. Temper not with personal delusions or false hope but learn to accept and move on.
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In my mind I seem somewhat set on FW as I still only have a couple years experience in FW under my belt. The massive costs of SW initially are what's turning me off. I have the $$ but it doesnt mean I want to spend it.
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Celebrity nutrition and fitness expert JJ Virgin specializes in weight loss resistance related to food intolerance and has helped thousands create fast and lasting weight loss. She is an author, speaker and media personality. She speaks at major integrative medical conferences, appears regularly in the media, including on The TODAY Show, Dr. Phil and Access Hollywood, and blogs for the Huffington Post. She is the bestselling author of Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy, creator of the 4X4 Burst Training Workout and co-star of TLC's Freaky Eaters and Discovery Fit & Health'sTransformation Diaries. Her next book, The Virgin Diet, will be released in December 2012.


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An amateur sweep in the open!! Way to go!!
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Woke up with a hangover. Hangovers generally kill creativity - they're only good for eating junk, watching sport on the tv and laying on the sofa browsing the web. Ouch.
Woke up with a hangover. Hangovers generally kill creativity - they're only good for eating junk, watching sport on the tv and laying on the sofa browsing the web. Ouch.
I'm living in a MFC serializing hell. We're soon going to release the final version of the software I'm working on at work - and I got plently to do before the FAT. One of the tasks assigned to me, is to implement a
set of features, in order to enable distributed planning (it's a planning tool)... because of this, I'll have to tear the damn data model apart, pull out the objects I want to export, and stick them into a file, or a "packet" as my project manager likes to call it.
The problem is, the data model resides only in memory, ie. it's not based on a relational database - so I have to sort out all the relationships at export/import time - and that's not an easy task at all. Hopefully, the bugs will be smoked out before the weekend.
While pondering about a solution for a completly different problem, I came up with a possible design for a project I've been thinking about for a long time now;
A system to organize my bookmarks and other resources. The idea is to implement a peer-to-peer-alike system, so that it's possible to share information with friends/co-workers etc.
Since I'm usually use MS Windows as my desktop OS (and Linux in different flavors on my servers), I first want to implement a win32 version of the client - and a Linux (Un*x) version of the server - if I want to implement a server application at all.
The win32 API contains a couple of methods that can be used to monitor changes on a NTFS partition. Because the Internet Explorer Favorites (bookmarks) are file-based, I can use this functionality in an utility application to get a notification when new favorites are added/changed/removed.
Why not use the import/export features that exists in Internet Explorer allready, you might ask. The answer to this is 'no' - simply because it doesn't produce valid (X)HTML or XML (Why the *fsck* can't the guys in Redmond realize that the importExportFavorites() method should export/import XML !?), and that it must be used manually. I want to implement a transparent system, that will enable you to add a new bookmark, and the bookmark will be pushed to 0..n subscribers. If the subscribers isn't logged on to the system, it will store the new bookmarks until the user returns.
And yes, this solution is IE-only. But it could be possible to at least make a Opera bookmark generator (And probably Netscape/Mozilla - I haven't looked in to it - they're not my cup of tea).
Updates will be posted later. Ideas/feature requests etc. can be mailed to me; lars at sral dot org
I'm following an advanced course at the department of Informatics, University of Oslo, this semester. It's named (nearly) Compiler Construction, and I've allready read most of the curriculum book, Compiler Construction, Principles and Practice by Kenneth C. Louden.
To organize my studying, I thought about setting up a World Wide Wiki. Mostly for myself, but also for other students following the same course. I got plenty of places to put the Wiki, but this one I wanted to run on my old IBM Thinkpad 365X (Running Debian Gnu Linux (testing) @ 133mhz/40mb/1gb hdd), residing under a bureau in the entrance hall of our appartment. While searching for a good Wiki clone, I came across AwkiAwki, a small wiki written entirely in Awk. The really good thing about this is that only consist of a couple of files, that the number of code lines is ~300, and that it's really *fast*. So I installed it - took me about 3 minutes - and entered the url into my web browser. Looking at the generated source, I found out that it didn't generate valid XHTML, so no I've started rewriting it to do so. Looked at the TODO at the project site, and found out that it missed a feature for generating tables, so if I got some time, I'm considering to write a patch for it.
Open source is really great.
Saves my day - every day ;-)
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Nice car 10/10! I love this car because the most modders making big expensive end fast cars end i hate that
Posted on August 21, 2009 1:20PM by GTA Modificator
Nice job! I agree with Modificator. If you're thinking of more not-awesome cars to model, try a 1981 Honda Accord.
Posted on August 30, 2009 3:26AM by CottonStorm
I luv it too, cuz in my country are only classic cars... :)
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Beautifull,working with 18.104.22.168 (unpatched) version of game ??
Posted on February 16, 2010 1:59PM by markos807
Can you make this car please
Can you make this car please
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best golf ever
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can you male a Golf 2 G60 Please
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The car itself is oversized, too bad because I love it and would've replaced the Blista with this.
File size is ok though, no taxi bug to worry about.
File size is ok though, no taxi bug to worry about.
Posted on October 6, 2010 9:07AM by Guybrush
can you make original?
Posted on February 20, 2011 11:49AM by topgearpwns
jippee i can finally drive my own car in game :-p
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Lovely, i like normal cars in the game =)
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Very nice =)
Posted on September 1, 2011 12:35PM by THB
Hi!!! I'm making a Volkswagen Golf/GTI/R/R32 pack and I was wondering if I could use your car... I'll give full credit to you for the car and everything. Thanks!!
Posted on October 29, 2012 10:48AM by carsrule1444
10/10 Perfect. Just what this game needs. More NORMAL cars. Way too many high end things that we never see in real life. Keep up the good work.
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We can "steer" the punishment to what we want to punish, by timing, situation, communication, etc. But, ultimately the dog decides "where" the +P "went". And we can't tell where that was, until we recognize the change in behavior.
The fact remains, that when you apply an aversive, there is ALWAYS punishment applied to something.
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I could try to anticipate the instant the dog makes the decision to not get in. It could be on the line, or in route. Rather than give the dog a freebee cast, I could stop, correct while the sit is in progress, then cast. Or, call back with or without pressure and resend.
I will add that in the past I have created hot spots the dog learned to avoid. That does not always work so well when you try to generalize the behavior to new locations. I ended up with a dog out of balance to the watery side.
I try to give the dog the benefit of the doubt and err on the side of no pressure if I am not sure. Learning as I go...
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Testing Dogs and 'Trialling' Dogs are two different things (in my world)!...Maybe that IS! the difference between Pavlov and Skinner?...and a few more besides?
I'm off' you guy's now,and leave you to your 'games'!...Shame!...
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I'd say that if you got the same cast refusal, it wasn't effective at changing the behavior that you were trying to change.
If there was a "don't cheat" command, we could apply direct pressure to reinforce that. And I'm sure that we would all love to be able to do that.
Even if you accomplish that by making "hotspots" with I/P.
As long as the dog eventually generalizes it as meaning "the shoreline over there is hot", and that thinking results in the dog being "right", you have achieved the trained behavior that you desire.
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@ Steve B. Hi! All I am referring to there in terms of "new methods" is that I'm now of the mindset to avoid collar pressure in all but the most clear cut situations. Go/stop/come, for instance. As you mentioned, sometimes pressure can be interpreted incorrectly, thus, I would rather avoid it unless I'm pretty sure the dog is going to understand it 100%.
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By Tim Wildmon
Do you know the favorite Bible verse of those who don't believe in the Bible's authority? It's not hard. The favorite is, "Judge not, that you be not judged."
These folks cannot tell you where this verse is in the Bible, or the context, because they don't read it. But they have heard it is in the scriptures somewhere, so if they don't like something you say when you pronounce something right or wrong, they whip out Matthew 7:1 and that is supposed to be the end of the discussion. One of the problems is if you tell someone they have no right to judge someone else you have thereby judged them for judging. That makes you a hypocrite. But that then begs the question – why is it wrong to be a hypocrite? Presuppositions need a foundation to be authoritative. For example, the teachings of Jesus Christ are authoritative for those who believe he is the son of God.
Each one of us has a worldview on which we base our lives – presuppositions we operate under. Because of our country's Christian heritage most Americans, either consciously or subconsciously, derive their presuppositions about life and morality from the Bible. Ask a man on the streets of Tupelo if lying is right or wrong behavior and he is going to tell you it's wrong. Ask who decided lying was wrong they will either say, "It just is," or, "My parents taught me it was wrong," or "The Bible says so." However, "It just is," is not an answer to the question; it is an opinion. "The Bible says so," is a legitimate answer because if you believe the Bible is God's word, then you want to obey God so you don't fall into disfavor with a supreme being who can control your eternal destiny.
A lot of Americans will say they subscribe to the idea that a person should be free to do whatever he wishes "as long as it does not hurt anyone else." This view again is based on the presupposition that freedom is "good" and it is morally wrong to hurt someone else. Who made these rules? Who says freedom is morally superior to bondage? And why is it wrong to hurt someone else? Who says? To injure or hurt someone else goes against biblical teaching. The "Golden Rule" was given to us by Jesus Christ.
Some other cultures in the world use the atheistic state government as the agent for defining what is right or wrong behavior. It's called totalitarianism. In Muslim countries, Islamic law and teaching dominate behavior. Most European countries have what's left of their Christian heritage although the continent itself today is mostly secular, with Islam rising as a possible replacement.
It is a healthy exercise to ask ourselves where we get our moral values that govern our lives. Is it each person for himself, or do we acknowledge a higher power with authority to declare such?
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By Shuli Ren
Wal-Mart de Mexico, or Walmex, of which Wal-Mart (WMT) has a stake, reported third-quarter similar to the last.
Here is Barclays analyst Benjamin M. Theurer reporting the numbers:
Consolidated sales in the quarter grew 2% YoY, mainly dragged down by a weak SSS [same-store sales] performance in Mexico (-2.9%), again like in 2Q13 due to weakness in the Sam's Club format. On the positive side, the company's Central American operations continued the positive trend with a total sales growth of 6.4% (in local currency terms), which was partially driven by the 2% SSS growth during the quarter.
Despite weak sales numbers, Wal-Mart managed to expand its Ebitda margin in Mexico by 0.2%, purely because of operational discipline – higher labor productivity in logistics and lower energy consumption.
But how far can you go with cost savings?
Barclays and UBS have a Neutral on Walmex.
UBS analysts Gustavo Piras Oliveira, Alfonso Martinez, and Thais Pinho think Walmex may disappoint again in the fourth quarter:
It is possible that SSS might have reached the bottom and a gradual improvement could be expected over the next few quarters. We remind investors, however, that Walmex had very strong results in 4Q12 (driven primarily by El Buen Fin campaign) and that the comparison basis is not so easy, especially under more challenging macro conditions.
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fallhunt wrote:This hunt is going to take place in the fall and in MO. It will be in the timber where shots will be close,25 yrds. or less. I won't have to worry about taking down a big ol longbeard becouse I am not going to spend the time to scout and I can count on one hand ,with fingers left over, the amount of times I have seen longbeards on this public land we have been hunting the last 8 years. Calling in birds to this range is easy.I do it every year,Spring and Fall, and kill them with my bow. I sure wouldn't want to be shot in the face with a .410 at 25 yrds. Allaboutshooting,can you tell me about the classic double?I checked on Hevi-shots web site and it says soft like lead.Will it perform better that lead?Have you shot it yourself. Thanks for the help.
I love the fall for hunting turkeys. It's a time when you can see and hear turkeys, up close and personal. I've learned more about how turkeys act in the fall than any other time.
Classic doubles shot was originally designed for older guns, with softer barrel material, for situations in which non-toxic shot is required. It is a cast product that is much softer than original Hevi-Shot or Hevi-13. I have shot a good bit of it in 12 gauge guns and performance is very good. As I recall, it has the same approximate density as most lead shot. They do use high quality components, so you might see better performance from it than less expensive lead shotshells but the price is correspondingly higher. It would be interesting to see if you had better patterns with it than from your other lead shells and since you intend to use it for turkeys, you would not be firing scores of rounds.


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Act 10: A look back
Circuit Court ruling means story of historic legislation continues
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was in Minnesota over the weekend, meeting with other governors and potential foreign investors.
But Gov. Walker also addressed the recent news that a judge had struck down his collective bargaining law.
Gov. Walker said that he will request a stay from the court later in the week.
"If it's ultimately upheld, which we believe it will be, it doesn't make any logical sense to have school boards and local governments go back, change everything, and then come back after short order and go back to the way it was," said Gov. Walker.
Friday's development means that the much-debated, much-protested, and much-scrutinized "Act 10" is again right back in the headlines.16627330
So how did we get here? Let's take a look back.
It all started just before Valentine's Day in 2011, when Gov. Scott Walker, sworn into office just a month before, announced his "Budget Repair Bill."
"I identify the problem, I tell you what the solution is, and then I do it," announced Gov. Walker at the time.
Gov. Walker proposed deep cuts, effectively eliminating collective bargaining rights for most public workers, and increasing pension and insurance contributions.
Workers responded by holding historic protests at the State Capitol.
After weeks of stalemate, including the unprecedented act of 14 Democratic State Senators leaving Wisconsin for three weeks in order to delay a vote, Act 10 passed controversially in in March of 2011.
Several legal battles and one stop at the State Supreme Court later, Act 10 became law in June 2011.
In the fall, Democrats shifted their focus on recalling Gov. Walker.
In that election, Gov. Walker's challenger was a familiar one: Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, whom walker had bested in the 2010 gubernatorial election.
After months of recall campaigning, Gov. Walker kept his title, beating Barrett by seven points in June 2012.
The election made Walker the first U.S. governor to survive a recall election.
Now, nearly 18 months after it all started, the collective bargaining battle is back after a Dane County Circuit Court judge ruled that parts of Act 10 violate the U.S. and Wisconsin constitutions.
Union lawyers say unions for municipal workers are back in business.
Meanwhile, Gov. Walker vows to appeal the ruling.
"Ultimately, we're confident when it comes to the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court, the law will be upheld," said Gov. Walker.
With an appeal all but certain, the story of this historic legislation will undoubtedly continue.
Stay tuned.
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I know my friend Chazz has. He created Legend of Zelda: TCG. I own it now, but chazz madeit happen and I've only managed to find time to do a few cards (sorry Chazz, I know I suck :cry: ).
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PLANTERSVILLE – A former Plantersville police chief filed suit Wednesday in federal court, alleging he was fired because he is white.
Maury Schuh, through his Tupelo attorneys, Shane McLaughlin and Nicole McLaughlin, seeks financial damages, his job back, and other payments.
Schuh says he was chief between May 2010 until July 17, 2012.
He claims that beginning in late 2011, black members of the Board of Aldermen began to criticize him and treat him differently because he is white.
He insists the town's mayor and board decided to get rid of him and replace him with a black chief.
Plantersville officials have not yet responded to his lawsuit allegations.
His six-page lawsuit lays out four main allegations that he was wronged by his firing – two counts of racial discrimination, retaliation for public remarks and violation of his protection against termination because of military service obligations.
In the lawsuit, Schuh claims one alderman demanded Schuh remove his shirt so another alderman could see "racist tattoos," which Schuh reportedly showed did not exist.
He also notes that in about November 2011 he spoke to the board about adopting a more "multicultural Christmas parade and Christmas displays," and that city retaliations increased after the speech in which he denounced racism within the city government.
He terms the reasons for his termination false to hide another reason.
Schuh was replaced by Shirley Moon, a black female, who was interim chief until the December 2012 hiring of Mark Covington, a white man, a city spokesman said.


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Malkiel, Botstein, Felten discuss entrepreneurship, Nov. 8
Posted October 31, 2007; 01:23 p.m.
Princeton administrators Nancy Malkiel, David Botstein and Edward Felten will participate in a panel discussion Thursday, Nov. 8, to explore how entrepreneurial practices apply to the realm of higher education. The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Bowen Hall auditorium.
The panel is the fourth workshop in the "Harnessing the Power of Entrepreneurship" series. Moderated by Julian Lange, who is the inaugural Dean's Professor in Entrepreneurship in Princeton's Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, the series explores entrepreneurship in a number of settings other than startup businesses.
During their tenures at the University, Malkiel, Botstein and Felten have enacted change in many areas by putting their forward-looking ideas into action. Malkiel, dean of the college, has been one of the architects of the new four-year residential college system and has been instrumental in establishing successful policies to combat grade inflation. Botstein, director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, is one of the creators of Princeton's three-year-old Integrated Science Curriculum, which aims to prepare next-generation scientists to work closely on interdisciplinary teams. Felten, director of the Center for Information Technology Policy, is working to forge ties between technologists and public policy experts to address societal issues connected to advances in computer technology, such as privacy and security. All three also are members of the faculty.
Lange earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton in 1965 and also holds an MBA and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the founder and president of the Chatham Associates management consulting firm. Previously, he served as president and CEO of Software Arts Inc., which created VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet. His research interests include financing high-growth entrepreneurial ventures and the entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities presented by the Internet.
The final workshop of the series will take place at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, and will feature Walter Skowronski, president of the Boeing Capital Corp. and senior vice president of the Boeing Co. Skowronski will speak in the Friend Center Convocation Room on the topic of corporate entrepreneurship. More details are available on the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education website.


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Titre : Anno's Counting House, In Japanese
Éditeur : Kuso-Kobo, 1988/1981, publisher's or author's card included, white boards with half-timbered house on front and the brick house next door on the back, grey endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, written in Japanese; 261x215mm; np.
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CONDITION: Fine in Very Good jacket; jacket is a little rumpled along the edges, one inch tear at back of spine, tiny tears to spine bottom; cost 1,200. Picture Book Hardcover. Ten children move to the house next door. Open the book: the old house with children working is on the left, the outside of the new house with cut out windows is on the right. Turn the page: the outside of the old house with cut-out windows is on the left; on the right, the rest of the ten children are moving in to the new house. The children move in one by one, until all ten children have moved. A wonderful math book! ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /MA, illustrator. N° de réf. du libraire 17470
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Graduate student wins award from cancer research center
Posted March 25, 2002; 09:43 a.m.
Melissa Miller, a Princeton graduate student in molecular biology, has been awarded a 2002 Harold Weintraub Graduate Student Award from the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Miller, who works in the lab of Associate Professor Bonnie Bassler, was one of 17 graduate students from North America and Europe chosen for the award. The recipients, selected for the quality, originality and significance of their work, will participate in a scientific symposium in May in Seattle.
Princeton honored Miller earlier this year with its Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, the University's highest award for graduate students. Miller also has received an award for the best talk by a graduate student at Princeton as well as the Department of Molecular Biology's outstanding teaching award.
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Top it off! These dessert bars are just as delicious when topped with toasted coconut, sliced strawberries, or drizzled white chocolate.
Slice it right! Refrigerate your bars before slicing. This allows the cake and frosting to firm and allows you to make nice, clean cuts. Also helpful: try wetting a sharp knife slightly with water before running it through your cooled bars.
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Freshman seminar applications due Aug. 12
Posted August 8, 2002; 12:31 a.m.
Applications for fall-semester freshman seminars are due Monday, Aug. 12.
Incoming freshmen can find descriptions of the seminars and an easy online application at the Program of Freshman Seminars Web site.
Although members of the Class of 2006 were mailed copies of the program booklet in early July, there have been a significant number of returned pieces of mail due to incorrect or incomplete addresses. Freshmen who have not received the mailing at their home or summer address may still review the selection of seminars online and apply electronically by the deadline.
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This is the oldest living tree in Alberta. This Limber Pine (Pinus flexilus) wraps itself around the bare rocks on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River near the Banff Park boundary and has been there for more than 3000 years. A small seedling has started to grow near the base of the tree and will eventually repla...


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Baking | Apple, Oats and Walnut Skillet Crumble … warm, fun and gluten free comfort food
"It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man."
Henry David Thoreau
Apple, Oats and Walnut Skillet Crumble … true comfort food and ever so simple. It's one I make often, a crumble I mean. This year began in a special way. I had a surprise visitor and she brought me something I have longed for forever! A cast iron skillet, straight from the kiln, well almost, unseasoned and raw!
Thankfully Sangeeta has a world of knowledge about this stuff. This looked raw, rustic and a little scary to tell you the truth. Man Friday was happy as ever to see it and went on to tell me how much cast iron was cooked in when he was young, and that the benefits are tremendous. How times have changed, and healthy practices have been buried under the sands of time!
Well he scrubbed it well with a piece of brick, removed the dusty coating etc. I dried it well, seasoned it with some cold pressed mustard oil. Then baked it in a hot oven for 30 minutes. It came out looking moorish. Can you fall in love with a skillet? I did! The great thing about cast iron utensils are that they can go from the stove top into the oven, and back again! The other huge benefit of course is that they gently seep iron into your food adding additional iron into your diet.
I was quite over the moon this morning and since I had just apples on hand, I set out to make an Apple, Oats and Walnut Skillet Crumble. { …for those who noticed, I meant to use thyme, but sans glasses, I think I used oregano from the fridge instead! Oops! }. Simple, basic, easy apple pie, something that comforts and warms, especially in these cold winter days. Baking it in the skillet took this up a few notches for me. I loved using the skillet, built an emotional connect with it, and want to use it all the time.
Past the crumble, I grilled a cheese and tomato sandwich for the daughter in it . Crisp, beautiful, comforting! Fried eggs and roasted tomatoes too. I can't get enough of it. You'll see a lot more of it popping up all over the place. Thank you Sangeeta, and thank you too for the coloured glasses! It's been an inspiring beginning to the new year!
Summary: Simple, basic, easy apple pie, something that comforts and warms, especially in these cold winter days. Baking it in the skillet takes it up a few rustic notches! Enjoy this gluten free version of the Apple, Oats and Walnut Skillet Crumble .
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
- Apple filling
- 450g apples, cored, peeled, diced
- juice of 1 lime
- 20g brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder 30g walnuts
- 25g craisins
- 15g rolled oats
- 15g butter
- 15g brown sugar
- Few sprigs of thyme, leaves only
- Topping
- 25g oat flour
- 40g unsalted butter
- 25g walnuts
- 30g rolled oats
- 15g brown sugar
- Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly grease a 6-7″ round pie dish, or use a 6″ skillet.
- In a large bowl toss the apples in lime juice. Then add 20g brown sugar, cinnamon powder, walnuts, craisins, rolled oats and thyme leaves if using.
- Mix well. Reserve.
- Heat 15g unsalted butter in the skillet over low heat. Add 15g brown sugar and allow to bubble and dissolve. Mix well to cover bottom of skillet.
- Turn the apple mix into the skillet, and mix well to combine. Take off heat.
- Push into place gently, top with crumble, press firmly.
- Bake at 180C for 25-30 minutes.
- Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and or warm salted butter caramel sauce.
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Bet she voted for Da Prez, wait till she calls 911 to report that her CHECK Ain't in da box!
Can't Fix Stupid but CAN VOTE.
Bet she voted for Da Prez, wait till she calls 911 to report that her CHECK Ain't in da box!
Can't Fix Stupid but CAN VOTE.
I actually sympathise with the woman. She paid money for something and did not get it and they refused to refund her money. In my mind that's stealing.
Lets use another example I go to the car dealer and pay for a new red corvette and and when i pick it up they want to give me 2 caprices.
Either way the you should get your money back and if not in my case they may be getting a 911 call about some body that wont leave the premises or worse.
"Communism only works in Heaven, where they don't need it, and in Hell, where they already have it" Ronald Reagan
Sounds to me like two real brain surgeons got into an argument.
Obviously McD's would give her a refund just the genius behind the counter ouldn't figure it out.
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"Five in the hole is better then 250 circling overhead." - Jase Robertson
I think an Amber Alert to people on hte lookout for mcnuggets would be more appropiate......
somebody in the city must have the mcnuggets....
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I've been producing these 30-second "audio postcards" for a segment on Atlanta Public Radio, WABE. Each story highlights a person participating in a cultural event, a hobby, their own job, or telling the oral history of an Atlantan landmark. In this "Atlanta Sounds," my editor, Dave Barasoain, visited Smoke Rise Elementary in Stone Mountain, GA and asked some 3rd and 4th grade students about the right and wrong way to wash your hands. By "right way" and "wrong way," the kids refer to the amount of water being going down the drain.
When I was a kid, Nickelodeon's "Big (Green) Help" turned me onto water conservation. I'm not sure where these kids are hearing the message today, but they clearly get it. Recently I've been visiting a few Clean Air Campaign-affiliated schools and speaking with students just like the ones you hear here. Can't wait.
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I did not want to hijack another column on Derby Marks, so here we are
Here is a photo we used in setting up Open Marks. Again, I have not been to the field, so distances are arbitrary and for illustration purposes.
Some assumptions for illustration:
- We are pointing North, so that we have reduced sun issues
- Wind is at our back, so we have reduced wind issues
- This is our field for first and second series, so you need to leave room for two sets of marks
- We have two days and less than 30 dogs, so that time is not an issue
As a Derby judge, don't forget that your dogs are:
- Young, and full of piss and vinegar
- May have traveled one day to get to trial
- Have probably sat in truck for a day at the trial
So, when they come to the line, they want to RUN.
So, in my first series, I like:
1) Longer marks, so that the dogs can run
2) Wider marks, so that the dogs do not switch, or hunt old falls
I can't tell you how many derbies I have run where the first series was short and tight - Maddening!
I want enough difficulty to get separation.
Not so much difficulty to get elimination
If someone gets us a new photo, we can set up marks with a clean field.


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