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Many applications of animal cloning and genetic modification are
controversial for environmental, health, animal welfare, and social
At least eighteen animal species have been cloned since 1996, when scientists produced Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal. Then and now, only a tiny percentage of cloning attempts produce live offspring. Many of these clones are unhealthy, and some leading scientists believe that none are "normal."
Nonetheless, animal cloning efforts continue. Some are justified as scientific experiments. Others are commercial ventures, either to produce pets for consumers or breeding animals for the livestock industry. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the inclusion of meat and milk from cloned animals (without labels) in the food supply.
Like cloning, genetic modification of animals is remarkably inefficient. It is being pursued for several purposes. Genetically modified (or transgenic) animals are commonly used in research. Efforts are underway to produce transgenic pigs as a source of organ transplants, transgenic fish for food, and transgenic livestock that resist animal diseases. In a practice sometimes called pharming, several mammalian species (cattle, sheep, and goats) have been genetically engineered to produce commercially useful human proteins in their milk. Fish engineered to glow in the dark have been developed and marketed as pets. Proposals to clone extinct species, particularly mammoths and neanderthals, regularly appear in the news media.


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TUPELO – A war of legal documents continues in Calvin Ellis' civil lawsuit against Tupelo Public School District.
Ellis, a former TPSD choral director, sued in late 2012, claiming he was wrongfully fired after a 2011 parent's complaint about an alleged prank on a student's car during a pre-show event for choir members supervised by Ellis and his wife.
Most recently, Ellis and the district traded jabs over calls for sanctions and to dismiss the lawsuit.
Tuesday, the federal court set an April 30 deadline for Ellis to respond to the district's motion to find in its favor.
March 23, Ellis' attorney David Butts of Tupelo contends TPSD should be sanctioned, not his side, whom the district insists lied that its witnesses at his termination hearing testified falsely or that its attorneys should have known THEY did so.
He terms the original TPSD motion for sanctions "blatantly frivolous, vexatious, harassing and burdensome," saying it's a "method of intimidation."
Five days later, the district's attorneys asked the court to find in its favor, saying Ellis did not appeal his termination to chancery court, as required by state law, and that his breach-of-contract claims should be discounted.
Ellis cannot sidestep the appeal requirement and go to federal court, TPSD's filing insists.
He also should not be allowed to "re-litigate" the issues decided by the TPSD school board when he was properly terminated, the district claims.

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A story in the Philadelphia Inquirer (June 5, 2006) discusses the campaign of Judge John E.
There are signs that the impasse over South Carolina's science standards is nearing its end. As previously reported, the state board of education voted in March 2006 to reject a proposal from the state's Education Oversight Committee that would have significantly expanded the "critical analysis" language already present in the section of the new state science standards that deal with evolution.
Writing for the editorial board of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (May 31, 2006), Mike King reacted to the recent ruling by a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals which vacated the decision in Selman v. Cobb County and remanded the case to the trial court for further evidential proceedings.
In a commencement address at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore on May 25, 2006, New York City's mayor Michael R. Bloomberg decried the political manipulation of science to further ideological ends, saying, "Today, we are seeing hundreds of years of scientific discovery being challenged by people who simply disregard facts that don't happen to agree with their agenda ... Some call it pseudoscience, others call it faith-based science, but when you notice where this negligence tends to take place, you might as well call it 'political science.'"
The ruling in the appeal of Selman et al. v. Cobb County School District et al. -- the case in which a federal district court ruled that textbook stickers describing evolution as "a theory, not a fact" violate the First Amendment -- was issued by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on May 25, 2006. The three-judge panel vacated the district court's judgment and remanded the case for further evidential proceedings.
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Your Parent & Family Association welcomes you to Montana State University!
Welcome to the Montana State University Parent & Family Association! The Association supports parents and families as their students navigate the campus of MSU. We provide programs and activities, develop resources, communicate with university administration and raise funds for scholarships and other functions which directly support student success. You are a member of the PFA by virtue of having a student in attendance here, and we invite you to enjoy all the benefits.
Parent Advisory Board
Founded in 1992, the PFA is governed by an advisory board consisting of volunteer parents from around the country. The board makes decisions regarding Parent/Family Weekend, the Parent's Fund, and goals and initiatives which support families. The board has a direct ear to President Cruzado and other university administration and works hard to provide a strong service for all families.
The board meets twice yearly to conduct the business of the association, once during Fall Weekend and once during spring semester. The time commitment is what you want it to be. We encourage you to volunteer for this opportunity at some point during your student's MSU career.
To develop and support a closer relationship between families and MSU.
To keep families informed about university activities, policies and plans.
To ensure families have the opportunity to share their ideas, opinions and concerns with university administration.
To familiarize families with the physical campus, the community and with student life.
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Executive Director, Malaysia Airports Consultancy Services Middle East LLC (MACS ME)
Ahmad Tarmizi is the General Manager for Malaysia Airports Consultancy Services Sdn. Bhd. (MACS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia Airports.
He holds an MBA from Keele University, UK and a postgraduate diploma in Airport Management from the International Aviation Management Training Institute (IAMTI), Canada.
Prior to his appointment as MACS's General Manager, he was Malaysia Airports' Technical Director and Senior Airport Consultant.
He started his career with the Department of Civil Aviation as an Air Traffic Controller. When the KLIA project was announced, Tarmizi was selected to be a project manager in the KLIA Shadow Management Group.
Prior to joining Malaysia Airports, Tarmizi was in Montreal, Canada, heading International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Airport Development and Terminal Design.
In IATA, he expanded his credentials to include Airport Master Planning, Airport Certification, Airport Benchmarking, Airport Operational Readiness and Transfer, Airport Capacity Studies and much more.
Throughout his career, Tarmizi has been involved in more than 30 airport projects, the most notable being; KLIA (Malaysia), Incheon (Korea), Ataturk Istanbul (Turkey), Harare (Zimbabwe), Wilmington (USA), and Sheremetyevo Moscow (Russia).


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President Barack Obama's address to the nation from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan may have lasted less than 11 minutes, but it has big implications.
The most obvious was to reassure Main Street Americans that he was committed to honoring his administration's promise to remove combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
This was certainly not the most dramatic or the most debated aspect of his address, but with nearly 70 percent of the nation opposed to a continued presence there, it should not be discounted.
Obama was speaking from a position of strength. In four years, his administration has done more to rip the guts out of Al Qaeda's command structure than his predecessor, George W. Bush, could claim in seven.
The Obama-ordered killing of Osama bin Laden gives the president unchallengeable credibility in these matters.
And while the Phoenix still questions the wisdom of the troop surge that Obama endorsed two years ago, we take perverse pleasure in watching the Republican peanut gallery squirm as it tries to convince the nation that bin Laden's death was devoid of political implications.
Republican leaders have been misrepresenting their foreign policy expertise for so many years now that they have reached a point where they now believe their own lies.
The most worrisome part of Obama's speech was his pledge to maintain some sort of presence in Afghanistan for the next decade.
Even if Obama wins re-election, that provision would be subject to review by future presidents. But for the time being, it quiets critics such as Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
It is hard to think of a Muslim country that McCain and Graham are not in favor of invading. But for the time being — and hopefully through the November election — Obama's latest policy should muffle right-wing nutjobs.
At the moment, Obama's most vocal naysayers are in the center and on the left. A New York Times editorial, headlined "Missed Chance," criticized Obama's speech for being "frustratingly weak."
"Vague" would be a better word; and "understandably vague" would be even more appropriate.
What Obama, in effect, said was that the United States would stick to its troop reduction timeline and continue with the task of helping the corrupt, ungrateful, and duplicitous Karzai regime to build a military force. But we're winding down the nation-building game and segueing to a more focused strategy of hunting down the region's remaining terrorists.
War, of course, is never that cut- and-dried.
But between now and the November election, Obama hopes to maximize American leverage in Afghanistan.
It is relatively easy to read between Obama's lines. After 2014, America's role will be calibrated to its rate of success.
As time goes on, Afghanistan is becoming less important as a center of terrorist conspiracy. The dispersal and decentralization of Islamic fanatics may, in the long run, make the job of protecting this nation more difficult.
But it also changes the rules of engagement. Large concentrations of troops will not be the answer. Good intelligence and flexible, mobile firepower will be.
All of this should leave the presumptive Republican presidential challenger, Mitt Romney, scratching his well-coiffed head.
By throwing a big juicy bone to neo-conservative warmongers like McCain, and by reminding the vast majority of middle-of-the-road voters that the US is still getting out, Obama more or less invites Romney to call for massive escalation.
In political terms, Obama's Afghanistan move was well played. But shortly after he finished his address, the Taliban staged an impromptu attack.
In the wake of the car-bomb blast and the ensuing battle with police, 18 Afghans lay dead and almost 40 were wounded.
It was a grim reminder that the bottom line in Afghanistan is about blood, not politics.
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Sherman Electronics FilterBank 2
The FilterBank is an excellent musical processing device for creating filter sweeps and effects or damaging your sound for even cooler effects! It's a 12 or 24dB/octave 4-pole dual filter module with one signal input and two audio outputs. The filters can be dual mono or linked, with crossfading from hi-pass to low-pass filtering with LFO and ADSR modulation. The filter is genuine analog circuitry with serious overdrive for the grungiest of sounds! What's new in the Filterbank 2 are five three-way toggle switches which have been added to the front panel as well as an optional foot controller jack in the back for controlling filter cutoff or bypass switching. The new toggles offer hi-frequency boost/cut for the input, the Sensitrig envelope follower, variable sine or sawtooth LFO shape, and pitch-tracking.
Running a few dance loops through the FilterBank for your next dance hit or live in a DJ set will most certainly get your heart pumping and the creative juices flowing! It's very hands-on like most analog equipment, yet it does not feature memory storage for your favorite settings. The Sherman FilterBank 2 shines when it comes to producing the famous sound of filtered loops and has been used by William Ørbit, Fluke, Fatboy Slim, Stereolab, The Grid, Leftfield, U2, Apollo 440, and The Chemical Brothers.
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Audio Clip 1 - Here are two filtered loops, a drum and a synth loop. Just a taste of some realtime filtering.
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- Multitimbral - Dual 12dB/oct filters, Single 24dB/oct filter
- LFO - Modulates filter or envelope, triangle or sawtooth waveforms
- Filter - Dual 12 dB/oct analog multimode (lowpass, bandpass, highpass, notch); combines both for 24dB/oct cutoff slope. ADSR envelope, cutoff, resonance. Filter 2 sync to Filter 1.
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Zoomobile Programs for Community Groups
Contact Andrea Stein at firstname.lastname@example.com or 401-785-3510, x359.
Our Zoomobile programs reach thousands of children, community groups and families all around New England every year. Through interactive educational presentations and live "animals interviews," the Zoomobile carries a message of compassion for all living things and a greater understanding of our wonder-filled living planet. All of our Zoomobile programs can be presented at the Zoo, or at your location.
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Who is Living in Your Backyard?
Animals are a very important part of a habitat... even our own. What kinds of animals live in your habitat? We'll help you interpret different clues from local wildlife and learn how to observe the animals around you.
Rainforest Adaptations
Every habitat offers challenges to wildlife that must be overcome, and the rainforest is no different. We'll explore the layers of the rainforest and identify the animals that live in each layer. Different adaptations that help these unique creatures survive in this habitat will also be discussed.
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What makes a mammal a mammal and a bird a bird? Learn how scientists classify animals and how to distinguish different classes of vertebrates.
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From freezing tundra to arid deserts, animals have managed to make their homes everywhere. Explore various habitats and the animals that call them home. Scouts will demonstrate examples of the adaptations living things use to survive in their habitats.
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Just as we are going to sleep at night, a whole new world of animals is waking up. Find out how animals like owls, bats, and raccoons find their way around in the world after dark.
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Ever wonder what a snake's favorite food is? Learn what keeps an animal's stomach from rumbling to other fun facts about various animals' favorite foods.
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For Retirement Communities
Our Zoomobile programs for retirement communities include a one hour presentation, led by a docent, with 3-4 animals and biofacts. Pricing is $75 per program (mileage fee may apply).
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Have the Zoomobile at your next festival to get the crowd "wildly" engaged. There are two options available for hosting the Zoomobile at your festival; each is $175 for the 1st hour, $125 for each additional hour (mileage fee may apply).
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We will educate to a seated audience (30/max) during timed presentations.
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We can set up an Animal / Biofact table, but this cannot be near any high traffic area, including the food stations or musical performances.
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Community Group Zoomobiles can be booked at your location, or can be hosted for your group at the Zoo. Each program includes a 45-minute presentation to a seated audience (30 max.) followed by 15 minutes of questions and an up-close look at the animals used in the program.
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Trinidad and Tobago Red Force will be going into tonights game against Barbados looking to maintain their unbeaten run in the Caribbean T20 ... AND to also assure themselves of an automatic qualification to Sunday's Final .... Yesterday ... Trinidad and Tobago were at their dominant best ... They took care of the Windward Islands by 8 wickets.
Windwards made 125 for 6... With Keddy Lesporis top scored with 31.
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Thinking of a 2011 or 2012 Sonata GLS or SE - why are there so many used 2011s on lots already?
For not much more the SE offers one of the best looks in the mid-size segment. It comes with foglights, very nice 18 in rims, paddle shifters, cloth/leather seats, 200 hp, the same 35 mpg hwy and dual exhaust. Haven't seen any used SEs though.
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Just seeing a lot of 2011s on various classified sections - Yahoo, Automobile Magazine, etc. - many with 20,000 or fewer miles so that has me curious as to why with so little mileage they are being given up. Guess I am a nervous nellie about buying a new car (drive a 2000 Camry LE - bought new).Thanks :}
I'm not seeing many SEs or Limited on the used list. GLS yes but the difference between the GLSs and other trim levels are like night and day(style and feature wise).
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they are all ex rentals
Amazing Feature with lots of variation........
Made in the USA to boot!!!
The rental comment is correct. That's why you see more of the base cars. When a new model or drastically redesigned vehicle enters the market(of course not luxury or exotics but mainstream)the best way to give it alot of exposure is to offer it to rental fleets. But you don't want these vehicles to stay there for long because it diminishes resale value. That's why you see the mileage around the same on these base vehicles. Remember they still have their factory warranties in tact.


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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a progressive, debilitating, and deadly brain disorder related to measles (rubeola) infection.
SSPE; Subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis; Dawson's encephalitis
Ordinarily, the measles virus does not cause brain damage. But an abnormal immune response to measles or, possibly, certain mutant forms of the virus may cause severe illness and death. This response leads to brain inflammation (swelling and irritation) that may last for years.
SSPE has been reported in all parts of the world, but in western countries it is considered a rare disease.
Fewer than 10 cases per year are reported in the United States. This dramatic decrease followed the nationwide measles immunization program. However, in some countries like India, over 20 cases of SSPE per million people are reported each year.
SSPE tends to occur several years after an individual has measles, even though the person seems to have fully recovered from the illness. Males are more often affected than females. The disease generally occurs in children and adolescents.
Symptoms may include:
There may be a history of measles in an unvaccinated child. A physical examination may reveal:
The following tests may be performed:
No cure for SSPE exists. However, certain antiviral drugs may slow the progression of the disease.
People with this disease frequently die 1 to 2 years after diagnosis, but some may survive for longer periods. The condition is always deadly.
Prior to death, there may be:
Call your health care provider if your child has not completed their scheduled vaccines. The measles vaccine is included in the MMR vaccine.
Immunization against measles is the only known prevention for SSPE. The measles vaccine has been highly effective in reducing the numbers of affected children.
Measles immunization should be done according to the recommended American Academy of Pediatrics and Centers for Disease Control schedule.
Maldonado YA. Rubeola virus (measles and subacute sclerosing panencephalitis). In: Long SS, ed. Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 227.
Ropper AH, Samuels MA. Viral infections of the nervous system, chronic meningitis, and prion diseases. In: Ropper AH, Samuels MA, eds. Adams & Victor's Principles of Neurology. 10th ed. New York, NY: McGraw Hill; 2014:chap 33.
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Melting moments cookies
- 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup corn starch
- 2 tbs confectioners sugar
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature(I used " I can't believe its not butter")
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla extract. To this add flour mixture and beat until incorporated. Cover and refrigerate the dough till firm. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Make small 1 inch sized balls out of the cookie dough or use Cookie Press (I used pastry bag with star tip) and place on the cookie sheet spacing about 1 inch apart. Bake for about 12 to 14 minutes.Coat with icing sugar and enjoy.


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In mid-November I drove to the Spirit of the Suwanee Music Park, outside the bustling metropolis of Live Oak, FL, for the Paralounge Drum gathering.
It's a fact of life that on any trip, you inevitably forget something. Last time I, I forgot shampoo. This time, I forgot my Djembe, so I resigned myself to walking around the park with my camera, taking nearly 1200 photos during the three-day event. Unusually, I ended up with more good photos than bad. I must be getting better!
This one is the best photo of the lot. It just exudes cuteness, and aside from the trash can visible in the background, is perfect:
This one is another favorite. This young lady had a particular grace about her. It's hard to capture the essence of graceful motion in a still photograph, but I think it works here:
In other news, I'm going to try and do a picture-of-the-day from now on. Consider it an early new year's resolution or something.
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Can we do this walking? I think better on my feet, as do most people, I beleive.
It's 25 degrees outside.
Oh, is it? I hadn't noticed. I wouldn't want to impose. Speaking of impositions, may I ask a favor?
I have a discursive mind and am liable to wander off the mental tracks, so to speak. Frankly, I'll often continue to wander until I can no longer see the tracks. If you wouldn't mind sending up a flare at the appropriate times, I'd appreciate that.
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You know how in school you might have a boy who's the class clown, and always needs to be the center of attention? And if someone else in the class starts getting attention the boy feels threatened, and does the most outrageous thing he can think of, to get the attention back?
I bring this up because, just since Sarah Palin began her new gig as FOX News contributor, first Rush Limbaugh and now Glenn Beck have made obviously outrageous, attention-grabbing comments about the news item of the week, Haiti.
Don't look at her, everybody! Lok at me! Look at me!!!


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This is a continuation of the thread: Stupid Battledroids !
Stillakid, that is a good point about Maul being an outsider in a time of war, and Panaka should have fired on the guy, he even made a move!
As for Panaka's line about the Droids being "battle hardened", you're absolutely right, they were neither hardened to the emotional scars of war, nor were they even in a battle previous to the occupation of Naboo to work out the bugs in the systems, at least according to the EU source material. I guess at BEST, they could have had mock-battles against each other (which might explain their shabby condition), but even then, how would Panaka know they were battle-hardened? I think he was just afraid and jumping to conclusions, but I guess the problem is it's a poor scene.


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Long time no see.
Just want to note that I've found ALEX.
First hit was at ftp.icm.edu/pl
And someone else has archived it at www.anarres.org.
And I still want a handheld with a good scripting interface.
Long time no see.
Just want to note that I've found ALEX.
First hit was at ftp.icm.edu/pl
And someone else has archived it at www.anarres.org.
And I still want a handheld with a good scripting interface.
I still want a handheld computer with a cool scripting interface. I'm not sure a web browser is necessary, but it's something people are familiar with and it'd automatically let you integrate local and remote resources when you were online.
Personal IE comes with quite a lot of Javascript support, but it doesn't seem to have any hooks into the local databases. Oh well.
Javascript is looking better and better to me these days. Is that a bad sign? Should I take this to Badvogato?
Microsoft had the right idea, they just haven't figured out where it makes sense yet.
I'm talking about their whole web browser == the OS thing. You don't want to do that on the desktop, your applications are too heavy-duty, they break the browser metaphor, and the security issues are horrid.
But where it does make sense, is in a handheld computer. The applications you run in one of those things are, mostly, well suited to the model of filling out forms and following links.
Then add a copy of Apache with a server-side scripting language. Maybe a bunch. I like tcl (NeoWebScript, that is), but something like REXX or Perl or even a VB clone or Javascript would be useful for people who like those.
Build in your address book applications and the like using the web server. As much as possible your user interface for EVERYTHING is through http://localhost/....
You'd want a few extensions to HTML. A mechanism to edit using rich text in entry fields (using an SGML/XML markup, of course, behind the scenes), for example, and a way to deal with large graphical objects that's better than the way things like Terraserver or Mapquest manage it. But mostly you'd do things through the browser.
It just seems like an automatic match. And with cross-database links (and look at critlink for an idea of how to synthesize them if there's not a good anchor already there... perhaps have a special tag in the URL to signify 'search the document for this string'?) you'd get some nifty epiphenomena.
It's almost worth picking up an iPaq running Linux to experiment with the idea...
What some people would consider "the ideal hacking environment" I'd consider a bare minimum. It's been a long time since I worked some place that didn't have 24 hour access, 24 hour A/C, decent lighting, and so on.
A controlled auditory environment. I can't work when the guy in the next cubicle is yelling at a vendor on the phone, and I can't work if I can't occasionally yell at a stupid vendor. Same with music. I need it sometimes, but I don't want to hear anyone else's.
Headphones are a no-go... I can't get up and move around. Maybe bluetooth headphones would solve the problem.
Lots of bookshelves. All the way to the ceiling, at least on one wall. Places to put up my posters and pictures. An expectation that *good* artwork won't get pilfered. No hassles about work-area toys.
Couch, preferably a variety of couches.
Offices have plusses and minuses. Plus: you can get away from people. Minus: people can get away from you. Cubicles really do seem more efficient, but we need get-away-from-people space. Maybe a couple of quiet rooms with couch/desktop/workstation/closed door/sound system... and a timer?
Plenty of ethernet. At least 4 ports per office VLANnable to whatever test lans you need them to be on. And as many hubs and switches as you want for in-office things.
Room for at least 3 workstations in the office, per person. Sometimes you really need to have an end-user system for end users.
A real electronic workbench you can take stuff to beat up on hardware on, including good lighting and magnifiers and soldering iron and lots of little boxes full of stuff like solder and sockets and common parts.
A full size arcade Tempest machine, in good shape.
I was looking for the ALEX global file system by Vince Cate. It was his thesis project, and it provided a really nifty way to access random FTP servers via an NFS proxy. It seems to have died a horrible death, though... the related Gecko project is rolling on, but it's really FTP land I want to get to. Anyone know whether ALEX is still alive anywhere?
Why would someone want the March issue of Upside magazine?
(Apparently, if you're mentioned in it)
I get it for free. It goes straight to File 13.
(Though I'd keep a copy or two if they had my name in it. I'm not that blazé yet... it always freaks me out when someone unexpected like the bouncer at the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans goes "You're at Neosoft, right? Peter da Silva!"... that was when I realised that the Internet had won.)
Got my replacement GoType keyboard, and work just ordered a Handspring modem for me. Just add a digital cellphone and pretty soon I'll never need to be offline.
An interesting idea floated (at least) by maphew.
The stage beyond Master.
Inigo Montoya. The Dread Pirate Roberts. The Corsican Wizard.
Yes. It's fitting.
I'm sitting at the table in this fast food mexican place eating fajita tacos (and skimming Salon or something on my Visor thanks to Sitescooper) in a bit of a hurry, when I see this old guy in the corner. Looks like your stereotypical career homeless guy, stringy grey hair, weathered face, carrying a bundle and a bedroll.
But he's sitting there typing on this honking laptop with a 13" TFT screen (plugged into the wall... he'd found himself a table where he could borrow a bit of fast food electricity), and now and then he'd go outside and walk back and forth, smoking a cigarette, talking on a cellphone, gesticulating like some hot executive making a deal. Reminded me of Chad Mulligan in Stand on Zanzibar. Working on the Hipcrime Manifesto, maybe... boy he'll be pissed when he finds some spammer in India has ripped off the name.
Never did find out what was going on. If anyone else has seen this apparition (Taco Cabana, corner of Bissonet and Kirkwood, Houston, Texas) fill me in...
In article <email@example.com>,
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> I think this is the first significant Malbolge program.
I sort of feel like I'm in the presence of something out of one of Vernor Vinge's Singularity stories. It's like running into an algorithm that only makes sense in a higher Zone of the galaxy. It's like Willi Wachendon discovering the difference between himself and an enhanced human. The Singularity suddenly feels very close indeed... no unaided human could have written that program, and somehow this feels more important than anything else wetware and software can do better together, because this is applied to the genetic material of the software itself.
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Team Sky score quinella in debut race
Team Sky lived up to expectations today delivering a quinella across the line in the Cancer Counci Helpline Classic, the curtain raiser to the Santos Tour Down Under which gets underway on Tuesday.
New Zealand's Greg Henderson, 33, claimed the win in the 30 lap, 51 kilometre, hit out at Rymill Park in Adelaide in front of an estimated 108,000 fans who turned up to cheer on one of the best ever fields assembled in Australia.
"It does not get any better than that," said Henderson. "We were joking about winning today and putting ourselves out there on the map for the new sponsor."
And Sky Broadcasting must certainly be impressed with the finely tuned team work of their riders who took over from HTC-Columbia on the front and controlled the race for the final two laps.
"It does not get any better
than that, they are an unbelieveable team, I don't think I have ever been on a lead out that was as fast as that," said Henderson. "In the end my job was pretty easy, I just followed Chris Sutton and the rest of the fella's.
"Wow what a feeling!"
Sutton, who hails from Sydney, was the final carriage in the lead out train and managed to hang on for second place with HTC-Columbia's Andre Greipel (GER) pipping Australian Robbie McEwen (Katusha) for third place.
"I was on the back and I just yelled yes, and it went down the line, yes, yes, yes, like we had practiced in training," explained Henderson. "When the boys sped up, I though 'wow!, where are you going', it was just so fast.
"The other teams tried to challenge us down the back straight and Matt Goss (HTC-Columbia) snuck in the middle but it actually helped us in our lead out. I just came off CJ (Sutton) before the finish," said Henderson. "It was unbelieveable."
The crowd was treated to a spectacle of cycling which began from the minute the riders lined up for the start. Seven time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong shook hands with reigning road race World Champion Cadel Evans while three time time trial World Champion Michael Rogers looked on. 2009 Vuelta a Espana winner, Alejandro Valverde and 2007 Tour de France Champion, Oscar Pereiro were close by as was local boy and 2008 Paris-Roubaix winner, Stuart O'Grady. Another hometown hero in 2009 U23 time trial World Champion, Jack Bobridge also lined up with three time Tour de France green jersey champion Robbie McEwen and 2003 Tour de France sprint champion, Baden Cooke among what was a veritable who's who of cycling stars.
Armstrong, making his debut with RadioShack for the team's first race together continued to endear himself to his Adelaide fans featuring prominently in the later stages of the race as part of a break away group of five that was only caught three laps out from the finish.
"I felt like I tested them a little bit," said Armstrong. "We had a few good weeks in Hawaii so I know I've got a bit of power, but sometimes it's better to be up on those small groups than to be back fighting with 100 guys for every wheel and every corner.
"I had a small desire to be in a group like that, but that one stayed away longer than we all expected and longer than I saw last year," said Armstrong. "It ended up being tough - I want to go back and look at the effort on the computer, it was a tough half hour.
"Everybody was completely going for it, no talking and only a little bit of looking around after the corners to see how close they were," he added. "You get inside 10 (laps to go) and then to seven and six and you think 'uh oh' ... if there's a crash in the field, if two teams can't get together or don't get together, you just never know."
But Armstrong was pleased to finish the race 'feeling swell'.
"I don't know, I certainly felt better today than last year - but last year in this event I felt a little like a monkey screwing a football, too," he said. "It was not pretty last year, this year was a little more comfortable."
The riders will enjoy a day's break tomorrow ahead of Stage 1 of the Santos Tour Down Under which will cover a 141km course from Clare to Tanunda across two of the world's premium wine producing regions.
The 2010 Santos Tour Down Under will be held in Adelaide and regional South Australia from 17-24 January 2010. For more information, race routes and results visit the official website at www.tourdownunder.com.au


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Hey Stan, the National media is not giving us much... what's going on up there?
Hey Stan, the National media is not giving us much... what's going on up there?
Bill Davis
4 of the "Flee Baggers" have been filed against.
That's why you ain't hearing about it.
3 other of the Republicans they want to recall they couldn't get enough signatures for yet.
In my district they are trying to recall Mary Lazich, ain't happenin'.
The Democrats brought in workers who didn't even know her name.
Pretty funny really.
We are hearing the Obama is adament about winning WI in '12.
Ain't happenin'.
Also Jaonne Kloppenberg has started a move to clean up elections and see to it they are fair.
She has demanded a recount on the election she lost by over 7,000 votes!
(BTW---no recount in Dane Cty)
Walker stepped up and agreed with her.........voter ID and no same day registration is on the table!!
Stan b & Elvis
There was no voter fraud when she quickly declared victory at 204 votes. But now that she got it handed to her now theres a problem. So the best thing to do is have a recount on the tax payers dime. I would call that being a sore loser. When all is said and done do you think she will say sorry for wasteing the time and the money of the tax payers. My bet is no.
RK where did you get those numbers?
Today's AP story states 5 GOP and 3 Democrat recall petitions have been filed.
What its prominence suggest, and what all science confirms is that the dog is a creature of the nose- A. Horowitz.
5 GOP are NOT filed, only 2 are.
4 Dems are not filed, only 2 are.
They have time to get the signatures yet.
I am listening to WISN radio in MIlwaukee (admittedly right leaning), they don't match AP's story.
But I don't have time to dig through all of it.
We will know for sure next week.
I found this, my numbers were not correct, they reflected this article I think, not the totals.
(I hope I didn't ruin anyone's day!!)RKWisconsin: Senate Recall List Grows
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 21, 2011
Recall organizers on Thursday added three Democratic state senators and one Republican to the list of lawmakers in line for recall elections over their stands on the Republican Gov. Scott Walkers law curtailing union rights for public employees. Committees to recall the Democratic senators Dave Hansen, Jim Holperin and Robert Wirch filed the signatures needed with the Government Accountability Board. Hours later, the committee to recall the Republican senator, Alberta Darling, submitted signatures to set off her recall election. Ms. Darling and the three Democrats join four Republican senators who have had recall petitions filed against them. Petitions still are being circulated against five other Democrats and three other Republicans.
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Stan b & Elvis
What is sad is what will happen during that recount. The Dems will GAIN votes...you can count on it. The corruption of those folks knows no limits. All the unionistas have too much at stake. They will enter into this phoney show, discarding any semblence of propriety, all in an effort to overturn the peoples decision.
Watch it closely, Stan. We had a similar thing on the res a few years ago. It was amazing the 'cemetary names' that showed up as voters. When you have a county with a lower number of people, including the children, than the number of votes cast...it get suspicious. I believe back then it was the AIM folks that "got out the vote"...similar to todays ACORN crowd.
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Stan, where is the conservative base out there? Why aren't they filing recall petitions against every one of the Flee Baggers? What were there, 14 of them?
Bill Davis
Shots for signatures anyone?
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For Immediate Release: Contact: Kelly Huff September 18, 1998 Ron Harris Sharon Snyder Ian Stirton
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RESPONDENTS: American Crop Protection Association Political Action Committee, Jay J. Vroom, treasurer (DC)
COMPLAINANT: FEC Initiated (RAD)
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DISPOSITION: Conciliation Agreement: $5,500 civil penalty*
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RESPONDENTS: Thurston County Democratic Central Committee, Sandra M. Groves, treasurer (WA)
COMPLAINANT: FEC Initiated (RAD)
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Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Festival of Trees is partnering with the business community to provide great exposure of what Spencer has to offer. Instead of the festive displays being in one location, many area businesses are either putting up their own display within their business or hosting a display created by a local organization or individual. We're pleased to have approximately 30 different locations with Festival displays and a few of those displays have multiple trees.
Tree Locations:
North Spencer
HyVee Wine and Spirits— 819 Grand Ave.
HyVee Wine and Spirits offers a great selection of wine and spirits to compliment every occasion. Stop in to find a wine or spirit perfect for you holiday event and to view our tree.
HyVee Floral - 819 Grand Ave.
"Christmas All Around"
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Spencer Hospital - 1200 1st Ave. East
"Care You Trust. From People You Know."
Providing the citizens of our region with high-tech, professional and compassionate care close to home.
Community State Bank - 1812 Highway Boulevard
"A Holly Jolly Christmas"
We are a designated non-perishable food drop area.
West Spencer
Spencer YMCA - 1001 11th Avenue West
"Have a Healthy, Happy Holiday Season"
We are now the Y. Our mission is the same but our look has changed and so have our focus areas. We are focusing on Youth Development, Healthy Living and Social Responsibilities.
Iowa Great Lakes Lutheran School hosted by:
Clay County Regional Events Center— 800 W. 18th St.
"Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord"
Iowa Great Lakes Lutheran Christian School offers a well-rounded Christian education in Spencer, Iowa, for students in grades kindergarten through sixth grade. Our goal is to develop the whole child -- spirit, mind, and body -- in a quality, Christ-centered, learning environment. The IGLLS students have become well-known throughout the community for their musical performances, therefore this year's tree is decorated with a music motif reminding us that we are to celebrate the Lord for all He has done, for he has redeemed us by sending his only Son to cover our sins.
United Methodist Church - 311 2nd Ave. W.
"An Old-Fashioned Christmas"
Grace United Methodist Church
Southpark Mall Participants - 901 11th St. SW
Southpark Mall - The Reindeer Room
"A Coke a Cola Christmas"
Stop by during the Festival of Trees weekend to visit our festive Reindeer Room.
First Christian Church—The Reindeer Room
"The Angel Tree" - Winnie Schoenewe
Hospice of Spencer Hospital
"Comfort and Care"
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Shout 4 Joy Christian Book Store
"The Reason for the Season"
Come celebrate the many joys of CHRISTmas!
M. Martin Jewelers
Decorate this holiday season with a little extra sparkle.
People for Pets
"Paws-itively Festive Fun"
South Spencer
Del's Garden Center - 1808 11th St. SE
"Spriral of White"
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Info Dog Security, LLC - 411 11th Street
"Shred into Christmas"
Decorated with pink & purple paper shreds as well as hard drive shreds. November 1-16 Bring your documents and computer hard drives to the IDS office and 100% of the sale will benefit the SRHF.
Downtown Spencer
The Bear Coffehouse & Wine Bar - 24 West Park Street
"Wine, Beer & Christmas Cheer"
The Bear Coffeehouse and Wine Bar will donate $1.00 of each glass of wine sold Thursday, November 15th - Saturday, November 17th to the Spencer Regional Healthcare Foundation.
Parker Historical Society of Clay County
"An Antique Christmas"
The Clay County Heritage Center's tree celebrates the memories and comfort of the handcrafted quilts on exhibit at the CCHC November 24-December 2. Admission is not necessary to view CCHC's FOT display.
MaeB - 640 1st St. SE
"Santa MaeB"
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Carey's Electronics—220 Grand Ave.
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree "
Stop in to enjoy a 1950's theme Christmas and browse our full line of electronics for "everything that will turn you on."
Main Street Mall Antiques - 303 Grand Avenue
"An Antique Christmas"
The south window of Main Street Mall Antiques will be decorated with trees, ornaments and decorations of Christmas past.
The Hen House - 403 Grand Avenue
"Winter Wonderland of Trees"
The entire store will be magically transformed into a winter wonderland. Sample some of their wonderful mixes for easy, delicious holiday treats.
Nelson Jewelry - 409 Grand Avenue
"Hope for the Holidays"
Purchase a specially marked piece of Sarah's Hope Jewelry and we will donate 15% of purchased piece(s) to SRHF - Women's Health. Offer good Nov. 15-18, 2012.
Goal Kick - Hosting Positively Spencer Youth
411 Grand Ave.
"A Spencer Tiger Christmas"
Positively Spencer Youth and Goal Kick have teamed up to support the Spencer Tigers as we begin the holiday season. .
Spencer Area Activity Center - 104 East 4th Street
"Card Party Celebration"
SACC currently offers active adults over age 60 an opportunity to enjoy a nutritious meal five days a week, participate in games and social opportunities.
BrendLee's Hallmark - 414 Grand Avenue
"Trees, Trees, Trees"
BrendLee's has several lovely trees to get your creativity flowing this holiday season.
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Beginnings Birth Place - 414 Grand Ave.
"Bun in the Oven"
Whether your first bun or your tenth, the OB nurses at
Spencer Hospital are cooking up a fun festive tree.
On Eagles Wings - 423 Grand Ave
"Jesus is the Gift"
Farmers Trust & Savings Bank - 125 W. Fourth St.
"Silver and White"
Find your "Silver Lining" at Farmers Trust and Savings Bank.
Midwest Piano & Music Center Hosting Festival of Trees
501 Grand Ave
"Everything Festival of Trees"
Thank you to all of our sponsors and Festival Participants.
Midwest Piano & Music Center Hosting Spencer Hospital's Planet Heart
To schedule an appointment or learn more about Planet Heart screening programs, please call 264-6500.
Northwest Bank - 101 W. Fifth St
Commitment you can bank on.
Kari's - 513 Grand Ave
"Accessorizing the Holidays"
Stop in to enjoy this fun tree decked out in bling!
Terrazzo Coffeehouse - 605 N Grand Ave
"Season of Giving"
We are a designated area to drop off new toys during the month of November.
State Bank - 728 N Grand Ave.
"Deck the Halls"
State Bank will have two beautifully decorated trees: one in the lobby for visitors to view and one in the second floor window to be enjoyed by anyone traveling down Grand Avenue.
Sherwin Williams Hosting Cub Scouts - 704 N. Grand Ave
"Scout for Joy"
Sherwin Williams will host a tree decorated with ornaments hand crafted by the local Cub Scout Pack 123.
Spencer Municipal Utilities - 712 N. Grand Avenue
Our tree is decorated with a communication theme - celebrating our 15 year anniversary of Spencer's entry into the municipal communications business.
Design Masters - 407 First Ave. E.
"Every Bad Hair Day has a Silver Lining"
At Design Masters, every bad hair day has a silver lining.
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To test fish for doneness, place a fork in the thickest part and gently twist. The fish will flake easily when done.
You can make your own foil packet by placing food on half of an 18x12-inch piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil. Fold other half of foil so edges meet. Seal edges, making a tight 1/2-inch fold; fold again. Allow space on sides for heat circulation and expansion.
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Tanker truck overturned while navigating roundabout
Ethanol spilled onto highway following crash
MILTON, Wis. - A rollover crash that sent thousands of gallons of ethanol onto a highway in Rock County is still under investigation.
A stretch of State Highway 59 in Milton reopened nearly 24 hours after a tanker truck tipped, sending an estimated 8,000 gallons of ethanol onto the roadway.
The Milton Police Department said the truck and trailer overturned while driving through a roundabout.
It's no secret many Rock County residents aren't big fans of roundabouts.
"I think there's too many. I don't mind them but not when there are several in a row," said Milton resident Wendy Ritacco.
"Around here, there's not much traffic, and they seem to be more confusing than anything" said Rock County resident Greg Coyle.
In a statement, Wisconsin Department of Transportation spokesman Michael Bie said, "The DOT designed the roundabouts in the area to ensure they could safely accommodate the freight traffic associated with the ethanol plant, and they were built to those standards."17586968
Milton city workers returned to the scene Wednesday to finish cleaning up.
According to the Department of Natural Resources, the 8,000 gallons of ethanol slowly leaked into a retention pond.
"It was a direct line to this settling pond, this retention pond. The pond itself is contained. It's not connected to any ground water supplies," said Robert Manwell, DNR regional public affairs manager.
Manwell said the owner of the trucking company will continue to monitor the pond.
"(We'll) monitor the water in the pond a couple of times a week for a month so that we can tell if the ethanol is dispersing and degrading naturally as we expect it will," Manwell said.
Drivers in the area aren't surprised that roundabouts may have contributed to the crash.
"I've never seen anybody having trouble, but I've never been behind a big rig like that, either, so I couldn't speak for them," Ritacco said.
"You can look at it and see where the trucks have jumped over the edges and are chewing it up already," Coyle said.
The driver of the tanker truck wasn't injured in the crash. The Wisconsin State Patrol is investigating the incident and its final crash report is expected to be completed in the next few weeks.
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Rylee Castner's mom celebrating her hero son's short life
SPOKANE, Wash. - The mother of a Spokane toddler who died on Easter Sunday is both grieving his death, but also calling him a hero for saving three other people's lives.
Rylee Castner was just 18 months old when he died. The medical examiner's office has ruled his death a homicide.
Rylee's mother, Cassie Castner, said her boyfriend was watching Rylee as she was cooking breakfast. A little while later, Cassie took Rylee to a barbecue and that's when her family noticed blood coming from Rylee's mouth and bruising on his cheeks.Rylee Castner's mom
At this point, Cassie isn't saying her boyfriend is responsible, but she did say they haven't talked since he failed a lie detector test.
Now, many question remain unanswered about what happened. Cassie said on March 30 Rylee was fine when he woke up. Later that morning, Cassie said her boyfriend watched Rylee and her other son downstairs while she took a shower and made breakfast.
"I heard some crying but it wasn't like painful crying, it just sounded like he was being cranky," Cassie said, adding it only lasted a few minutes.
When she came downstairs a little while later, Rylee was asleep in his crib. She took the sleeping toddler to a barbecue, but when she tried to get him out of the car, Cassie said Rylee was heavy and limp like a rag doll.
"We took him to the barbecue and immediately went and talked to my mom and had her check him out. When we started seeing the bad signs and bruising we called 911," she said.
Rylee was rushed to Sacred Heart where he died the next day.
The tragic story of Rylee Castner does bring some hope to others lives. Rylee's organs helped saved three other people's lives.
"He should be known as a hero because he saved people," Cassie said.
Rylee's funeral is set for tomorrow.
Authorities said Wednesday afternoon their investigation into Rylee Castner's death is ongoing. So far they have not made any arrests in the case.


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For all the turmoil Arkansas has been through this year, it's still been able to count on Tyler Wilson.
The senior quarterback is missing some big weapons in the receiving corps, namely Joe Adams and Jarius Wright, who are now in the NFL. And yet Wilson remains one of the SEC's elite QBs.
His Razorbacks (4-6, 2-4 SEC) head into Starkville on Saturday to take on MSU (7-3, 3-3).
In nine games – he missed the 52-0 loss to Alabama due to a concussion – Wilson has completed 61 percent of his passes for 2,803 yards, 18 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Those numbers are a little of last year's pace, but all things considered, he's performed well in the eyes of both his coach and this week's foe.
"He's done a much better job this year than even a year ago because of the fact he has not had that group to throw to," said Arkansas coach John L. Smith, who took over after Bobby Petrino was fired for his off-field behavior.
"Losing Joe Adams and Jarius Wright, that changed it a lot, two really good NFL football players," MSU cornerback Johnthan Banks said. "They've got some young guys filling that role. If you don't go out to play, no matter who you put out there, you're going to get beat."
Banks knows of what he speaks. Last season in Little Rock, Wilson lit up the Bulldogs for 365 yards and three touchdowns, completing a school-record 32 passes in a 44-17 trouncing.
"We didn't go out and do what we had game-planned," Banks said. "This year I think it'll be a whole lot different. We've got older guys in the secondary."
Wilson's top target this season has been Cobi Hamilton, who leads the SEC with 1,149 yards on 73 receptions. The second-leading ball-catcher is tight end Chris Gragg (22 catches, 289 yards), and he's missed five games with injury.
Last season, Arkansas had four players with 500-plus receiving yards. The Hogs hoped that the loss of Adams and Wright would be eased by a better rushing attack, because tailback Knile Davis was returning from an ankle injury.
Davis rushed for 1,322 yards in 2010, but this season he's had only 340 yards on 100 carries.
While some weapons are missing, there's nothing wrong with Wilson's skill level. He had four games of 300-plus yards passing; he has three this year with two games left.
NFL Draft analyst Mel Kiper of ESPN.com ranks Wilson as the third-best senior quarterback in the country.
"They have very solid receivers, and he's going to put the ball where it needs to be to be caught," MSU coach Dan Mullen said. "He makes great decisions, he gets the ball out of his hands, and he's very accurate getting the ball to those receivers."


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Alajuela Tropical Hostel , High Above San Jose!
Trip Start Jan 21, 2013
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Alonso had moved his hostel from near the airport in Alajuela to way up high above the Central Valley to the upscale San Antonio de Escazu, and also near a small town called, all things, El Llano. This was interesting to us in that our camp house in is in Llano, TX.
Also very Interesting to us that we had actually stayed at a B & B in San Antonio de Escazu the last night on our first trip to Costa Rica back in the 80's ! So here we were, back in a little visited but beautiful part of Costa Rica!
Hiking with Alonso
After a nice night of rest, Alonso was very interested in getting us out walking to show off the area. We were a little foggy and not as excited about it as he but we knew the hike would do us good and help work out some of the kinks from the long day flight day.
Note to self -- sooner or later on this trip, I will get my act totally together before we set out for a walk. Did not carry any kind of snack which of course is something I should never do but oh well.
Alonso told us we were going to hike part of the way up to the Cerros de Cedral Escazu preserve along the Agres River. There is a large nature preserve there and this was where we set out for but Alonso kept us along the cleared area along its lower perimeter.
As you leave the hostel the road drops VERY steeply down the hill. Alonso said on weekends this is a very popular place to mountain bike. We did see two people actually biking UP the road and we were impressed. The road went up and down until we left the road onto a gravel street and then finally headed into what appeared to be semi forested farm land.
Santa Fe's elevation is higher than San Antonio de Escazu but we have not been very active for the last month since we were traveling the long drive down from New Mexico, with more driving and visiting around in TX, etc .
We were winded pretty quickly and had to stop and rest far more often than Alonso would have. Fortunately, it was in the 60's and at an elevation of about 5500
ft. mas y menos.
Cerro Rabo de Mico
He pointed out the metal cross and said that Costa Ricans often say they are hiking to the Cross. The peak is also called Cerro Rabo de Mico or 'tail of the monkey.'
If you use your imagination you can get to a point where it actually does look like the head, back and tail of the monkey. Alonso says that the area is montaine cloud forest, and It looks very lush up on the sides of the peaks. There are also some cliff looking areas that almost look like there had been fortifications there at one time.
We could hear the beautiful Montezuma Orependulas, saw them flying overhead, but never got a clear shot of them like we have on previous trip to Costa Rica. Alonso pointed out native wild orchids that had not ever been grafted or hybridized and as a result were very prized by international collectors.
The hike began with a very steep walk downhill on the street from his new location. We crossed the little rio (more like a creek). We got to an open area with the river tumbling down the hill and large trees and rocks dotted farmland. Although there is a prohibition to future development this area is still being farmed. At several point we had to get down on our hands and knees to crawl under the barbed wire.
Alonso had brought his bathing suit and wanted us to take some pics for him to show potential customers activities available in the neighborhood. While he climbed down into a manmade pool in the creek we took a break and birdwatch. Laura had hear spotting scope and was sitting under one of the big trees while Robert took photos. We were rewarded with a rare sighting of one of the biggest hummingbirds in the world, the violet sabre wing hummingbird stopping to enjoy one of the flowers in the tree above where Laura was sitting.. What a treat. Robert was able to get a few shots which is difficult to do with hummingbirds !!
We also saw some very nice butterflies but were not quite as successful in identifying them. Alonso had a reference book back a the house so of course we gave it a try.
There was an interesting footbridge across the creek and a horse came up to eat some of the same fruits that many birds seemed interested in.
Alonso saw that we were tiring so he took us a more flat return route past some houses in his neighborhood that allowed us to miss some of the steepest part of the street in front of his
This was good, as we had been traveling for 12 hours to get to Costa Rica, stayed up drinking wine and visiting with Alonso/enjoying the view, and we needed to avoid overdoing on our first day.
As we walked along enjoying the beautiful tropical plant landscaping in the neighborhood
Alonso said we should have planned to stay with him a couple of more days and attempted hike on up to the Cerro Rabo de Mico. The trail through the preserve to the summit is steep and takes takes about 2 and 1/2 hours. Alonso says is a very popular hike for many Costa Ricans who come up from San Jose every weekend. Maybe at the end of our trip.....
Cerro Rabo de MicoElevation2,428 m (7,966 ft)[1]LocationLocationCosta RicaRangeCerros de Escaz�Coordinates9�51′N 84�08′WCoordinates: 9�51′N 84�08′W[2]ClimbingEasiest routeHike
The Cerro Rabo de Mico is the highest mountain of the Cerros de Escaz�, Costa Rica with 2,428 m (7,966 ft).[1] Rabo de mico means literally 'monkey tail' although this denomination probably comes from a tree fern that is locally called like that.
Locally, this mountain is known as "La Cruz," because of the large
cross that has been built at the very peak. There are three crosses in
total. The first one is made from concrete; the second one is a steel
cross set atop a concrete pyramid. The third, which is at the peak, is
the tallest of the three and is made of steel. From the top vantage, it
is possible to see almost the entire Central Valley including the city
of San Jos�.
Alonso kept us on a fairly level trail. We stayed low since it was our
first day in the country and we were pretty tired.
A Nap and an Earthquake !
After Alonso took us to a mall to try and find camping gas for our stove, an upscale grocery store to get some food to fix for dinner, and also.to get our cell phone working, we came back to the hostel and were in serious need of a nap. After eating a small lunch of tasty meat filled pastries , decided to take a short rest. I was awakened by what I thought was someone slamming the door that shook the house. I told that to Robert and he laughed and said that it was an earthquake. I thought he was wrong, but Alonso was on the computer when we got down stairs and said that it was actually a 4.1 earthquake. There were no aftershocks that we felt.
This was only our second earthquake, the first being in Japan with David Butts some years ago.
Dinner Above the Clouds
Robert had found out more info on the internet about the station where the bus left to Montezuma and Alonso called and confirmed the time and location for us. He suggested that we get up at 4:30, drink coffee. He loaded our bags after dinner into the back of his antique Land Rover .
We combined dinner fixings with Alonso and went to bed early.


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Arturia CS-80V
There once was a 200 pound beast of a classic analog synthesizer used and coveted by some of music's greatest players and synthesists since the 1970's. That synth, almost impossible to find and afford in stable working condition these days, is known as the Yamaha CS-80. It was Yamaha's flagship polyphonic analog synthesizer during it's hey-day, and now it can be yours thanks to Arturia. Arturia has developed "TAE" - "True Analog Emulation" which they have employed in their Minimoog V and Moog Modular V software synthesizers and now, in the CS-80V as well. The CS-80V is available for Mac or PC and is compatible with all major formats (VST, DXi, Audio Units, MAS, RTAS, HTDM, and more).
The CS-80V is a brilliant and faithful recreation of the original CS-80 in looks and sound, with a few welcome additions that make the CS-80V even better than the original, and at only a mere fraction of the CS-80's original and current second-hand prices! Some of these new features include additional LFO's, an Arpeggiator, Stereo Delay, a flexible Modulation Matrix, and most importantly - MIDI Sync options! Arturia's "TAE" sounds wonderful and the CS-80V sounds very warm and analog. Visually, the CS-80V is very large (1024x768 resolution needed) but beautifully recreates the front panel of the original CS-80, complete with 61-note keyboard, ribbon controller; it even has virtual built-in spinning fans which are an instant turn-on for any software synth freak!
The original CS-80 had a unique synth architecture in that it was basically two discrete 8-voice polyphonic synths. A quick glance at the front panel shows two rows of identical sets of controls and sliders for Signal Paths I & II. Each Signal Path has a single oscillator, high and lowpass filters, a VCA section and keyboard velocity/aftertouch response controls. Each Path also features independent noise generators and LFO mode selectors. The two Signal Paths can be layered or played individually. A few basic effects including Ring Modulation, Tremolo, and Chorus can be applied globally to both Signal Paths.
The Oscillator (VCO) section offers six waveforms (sine, saw up, saw down, square, noise, and random) and adjustable Pulse-Width Modulation and Noise level. The Oscillator can be modulated by the LFO in one of three modes: free, triggered, or mono. The LFO triggering can also be sync'd to MIDI for each Signal Path. The two oscillator sections can be "Linked" so adjusting one's settings affects both the same, and they can be sync'd together as in the traditional sense of oscillator sync.
The VCF (filter) section is unique and very rich. There are switchable 12 or 24dB/oct highpass and lowpass filters available in series (one after the other) with adjustable Cutoff and Resonance controls. The Highpass and Lowpass filters can be individually turned on and off. There are also Level, Attack, Decay, and Release envelope controls for the filter. The VCA section offers standard Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release envelope controls as well as VCF and VCA Level sliders.
Then we get to the global controls that affect both Signal Paths. For an LFO, the original CS-80 had just a simple triangle wave sub-oscillator. The new CS-80V employs an LFO with the same waveform shapes as the VCO's (note: the LFO is labelled as the Sub-Oscillator on both the CS-80 and CS-80V). The LFO is simultaneously assignable to the VCO, VCF and VCA sections! The Ring Modulator section offers adjustable Attack, Decay, Depth, Speed, and Mod controls. To the left of the keyboard is the effects section: Chorus and Tremolo as well as performance effects such as Portamento and Glissando are all here. The new addition of a stereo Delay with MIDI sync capability is a great enhancement. An Arpeggiator has also been added to the CS-80V (similar to that in the Minimoog V) with MIDI sync as well as adjustable speed and Up, Down, Up/Down, Random, and Notes played patterns adjustable over a 4-octave range and with up to 4 repeats (# of repeats before moving pattern to next octave). There are also Transpose sliders for each oscillator, global "Brilliance" and "Resonance" and Osc 1+2 Mix controls, keyboard touch response controls, and the original's cool Ribbon Controller for pitch bending.
Under the hood are a few major upgrades that really bring the CS-80 into the 21st century! The original CS-80 had its VCO-VCF-VCA signal flow diagramed on it's front panel where it housed its preset programming section. Pop it open on the CS-80V to reveal the Modulation Matrix. Here you can route up to 10 different sources (LFOs, Envelope Generators, Ribbon Controller, etc.) to modulate almost any of the CS-80V's synth parameters. This just gives you tremendous flexibility that the original never offered. Speaking of upgrades, the memory on the original was severely limited, but the CS-80V has virtually unlimited patch storage, and ships with over 400 patches designed by famous artists (Bass, EFX, Leads, Pads, Horns, Ambient, Sequences, Percussion, Keyboards, Guitars, Organs, Strings, and more).
Finally, a Voice Control section allows you to control each of it's eight voices independently! Each voice can be assigned to 1 of 4 keyboard zones or turned off, transposed, de-tuned, panned, mixed, and more! They can also be assigned to up to 4 different MIDI channels for multitimbral use, and even different patches can be assigned to each voice so you can cycle through patches as you play! All of these flexible and functional new features integrate seamlessly into the CS-80V's design, and are simple enough to navigate and use.
Arturia's CS-80V is a must have software synth for anyone looking for a very warm and very classic analog sound. Everything about the original CS-80, even its quirks are recreated here with stunning detail and sonic quality. Few software synthesizers offer such warm analog sounds as well as the chance to learn about the unique and classic instrument that put Yamaha on the map of analog synthesizers.
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- Specifications
- Polyphony - Polyphonic (8 voices)
- Oscillators - 2 oscillators plus 1 sub-oscillator (for vibrato)
"TAE" - No aliasing from 0.1 Hz to 16 kHz, 64-bit floating point precision, Sampling rate: up to 96 kHz
- Modulation - 2 LFOs plus Modulation matrix: a choice of 12 sources and 38 destinations
- Filter - 4 filters: 1 Highpass + 1 Lowpass in series per Signal Path, each with Frequency Cutoff and Resonance controls. 12 or 24 dB/oct modes for each Signal Path. Attack, Decay, Sustain controls for each Signal Path.
- VCA/Envelopes - 2 VCAs (one for each Signal Path): Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release, VCA, and VCF level controls.
- Arpeg/Seq - 1 arpeggiator with Up, Down, Up/Down, Random, Notes played patterns; 1-4 Octave range; 1-4 repeats; MIDI Sync On/Off.
- Keyboard - 61-key virtual keyboard with Ribbon controller, Polyphonic after touch and Expression and sustain pedals
- Effects - 1 stereo delay (with MIDI sync), 1 chorus, 1 tremolo, 1 ring modulator
- Memory - More than 400 presets, made by professionals (Bass, EFX, Leads, Pads, Horns, Ambient, Sequences, Percussion, Keyboards, Guitars, Organs, Strings, and more)
- Interfaces - Runs stand-alone with ASIO, DirectX, Sound Manager and Core Audio, or as a plug-in using VST-2.0, Audio Units, RTAS, HTDM, MAS, and DXi.
- Macintosh - G3 500 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, MacOS 9.x, Mac OS X 10.2
- Windows/PC - Pentium II 500 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, Windows 9x/2000/ME/XP
- Date Produced - 2003
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