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RE:Sage new 9140
Believe me, I want to hear about it. Hearing what the people out there are saying can help me a lot with the work I'm doing for them. On another note, I just received a new five-piece RPLXi to test in Hawaii next week, and it is a thing of beauty. Havn't cast it yet, but it looks like a winner--I will let you know what I think. Five pieces sure sounds good as I pack, though. Any input you have on Sage products, let me know. Peace.
RE:Sage new 9140
Dylan -
BTW I had a chat with Randi Swisher about the hoopla in the booth next to sage... t&t. The new DH1212-3 twohanded 12ft 12wt east coast surf rod was one of the most sought after trial cast rods at the show. Nick Curcione was the rep for Tom Dorsey. Nick made his point clear with the booming casts he made.
Anyway, for the last four years or so I have been talking with Brad Gage (local Sage rep), Kevin last year, and Randi about the trend. I think it's finally become mainstream enough so that coastal fly flingers are thinking about their left hand on the rod.
I saw the new two-handed Euro rods but not a lot of info about it. Should've cast them myself in retrospect.
Last year we were granted three euro overhand blanks for trials on the northeast coastal scene. I'll be writing up a report for Kevin to say "thanks for the blanks" and we should have all three rods done by spring. I'll CC you (and anyone else) if you are interested.
RE:Sage new 9140
Dylan -
Thanks for the great reply, I realized there was a good review of the new rod in the earlier thread as I drove to work this morning. I posted the above question in a groggy post-fly show state last night... but still remembered how good that rod felt in the hands before I finished my glass of locally brewed but brown ale (Wachusett) and hit the pillow like a rock.
I do appreciate the follow-up and am dying to try both of the new rods - it only adds to the reasons for me to get my butt back to river country in the spring or fall.
RE:Sage new 9140
Juro, I don't know if you saw my post regarding this rod in the Spey rod thread from earlier in the week, but I love this rod. Sage just sent me one to test and as I wrote earlier, it's considerably lighter, and more important, feels much more alive in the hand on the swing. I also think it helps me throw a tighter loop, so I'm a big fan. In fact, I'm currently trying to think of excuses for not sending it back! The one I have has a longer foregrip on it, and I've heard they moved it back to the original length since this particular rod was made--I like the long handle as it moves the balance point under my natural casting position. On the old rod, I move my hand up so my front two fingers are off the grip and on the blank when I fish. The length does make it tough to get back under your elbow (and around overloaded vest) after you cast. My suggestion to them was to make the handle somewhere in between the two lengths in the future, but who knows. Anyway, as I stated in the previous post, I may be biased due to the fact that I'm working for Sage now, but I think this is an awesome rod. I highly recommend it, as well as the new 7136-4, which recieved the same redesign treatment and upgrade to the higher modulus graphite IIIe. Great rods, everyone--go out, get your hands on one and let me know what you think.
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Didn't cast it (the casting pool was tiny) but played with the new 9140 today. Looked pretty sweet! Also cast the 5-pc 8wt rplxi - seemed like the ultimate ocean coho rod for those who make occasional trips to bonefish country or striper land.
Any first-hand experience with the new emerald Spey rod?
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Then rising up to the top of Mt. Nebo which is where Moses saw the Promised Land that he would never enter before he died. (Deuteronomy 34:1-4 Then Moses went us from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah which is across from Jericho, and the Lord showed him...'This is the land of which I swore to give...I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over). We too stood here and gazed across the Jordan river into Jericho, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Bethlehem and even the dome of the rock.
Then plunging down the great hillside into the dead sea planes and the river Jordan flowing along the same path it did when the Israelites crossed into the Promised Land. (Joshua
Even the great prophet Elijah passed through here and at the end of his life ascended to heaven with chariots of fire off of a little hill by the Jordan (Kings 2:14). Sodom and Gomorrah were to have been in the Dead Sea Plains...it just doesn't seem to end!
More great historical figures made this their home as well. This was the barren wilderness
Down below sea level where heat hugs the skin and the air is so fresh with enriched ozone, it's amazing to stop and think that this is the place where "The heaven was opened and the Spirit of God descended like a dove and alighted on Him [Jesus] and a voice from heaven said: 'this is my Son, whom I love, with Him I am well pleased'" (Matthew 3:16-17)
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By Tiernan Ray
Wells Fargo's Jennifer Fritzsche in a brief note to clients reflects on Coinstar's (CSTR) announcement today that its on-demand Internet video service with Verizon Communications's (VZ), called "Redbox Instant by Verizon," has inked agreements with content providers such as Warner Bros. and with device makers such as Samsung Electronics (005930KS), and will be offered in beta for $8 per month.
The service will also give customers "credits" to use for physical DVD rentals at Redbox Kiosks, the company said, for an additional $1 per month.
Fritzsche, who has an Outperform rating on Verizon, and does not formally cover Coinstar, writes that "While we do not expect this business to be material to revenue, Redbox Instant positions VZ in case the OTT [over the top] market expands and takes share from the traditional cable / IPTV market in the future, in our view."
Verizon shares today are up 33 cents, or 0.7%, at $44.77. Coinstar stock is up $1.33, or 2.6%, at $52.14. Coinstar competitor Netflix (NFLX) is up $5.20, or 6%, at $91.28 after Morgan Stanley's Scott Devitt reiterated an Overweight rating on the shares and raised his price target to $105 from $80, writing that the recent Walt Disney (DIS) content deal should boost Netflix's future negotiations with content providers.


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As she sets her sights on promotion, Kerry Healey has resurrected and even expanded her grandiose claims to criminal-justice expertise originally made during her 2002 campaign for lieutenant governor. Healey's campaign Web site says that she "enjoyed a distinguished career as a law and public safety consultant." In a press release issued this week, she claims to be a "criminologist and former consultant to the US Department of Justice in the 1990s" who "extensively researched domestic and gang-related violence." In her campaign-announcement speech last month she said, "I worked for the US Department of Justice researching crime." The state's official Web site also says that she has authored four books on criminal justice.
Those "books" are actually co-authored white papers of secondary research (pulling together previous work), written during her roughly 10-year stint as a part-time consultant for Cambridge-based Abt Associates, mostly under an Abt contract with a branch of the Justice Department. She was never a DoJ employee or consultant. She has no education or experience that qualifies her as a criminologist. And by no definition can her career be called distinguished — her reports are seldom cited, and she was never invited as a speaker or panelist in the field prior to becoming lieutenant governor. Even Abt executives have offered little praise for Healey.
Padding a résumé is not a disqualifying sin in politics. What matters is whether Healey, handed control of crime issues by a thoroughly disinterested governor, parlayed her self-proclaimed expertise into a public-safety agenda that has served the Commonwealth.
The results are mixed, at best. While she has implemented a few changes to the state's badly broken criminal-justice system, she has mostly wasted her efforts scoring easy political points and fighting unnecessary battles. Meanwhile, on her watch, violent crime has swamped cities from Fall River to Springfield. No wonder she still talks about her work in the 1990s, and has little to say about what she's done over the past three years.
While Rome Burns In most of the state's largest cities — Boston, Springfield, Brockton, New Bedford, Fall River, Lowell, Lynn, Quincy — violent-crime rates are higher than before Romney and Healey took office. In some cases, much higher. Springfield recently climbed to number 25 on an annual ranking of the most dangerous cities in America, and has had 50 homicides in the past three years, up from 30 in the previous three. Last year, Boston had its highest homicide tally in a decade. In Fall River, violent crime has doubled in five years.
Statewide, the number of gunshot-assault victims treated in hospital emergency rooms jumped 22 percent just last year, according to state figures, and are up a stunning 80 percent from 2000.
Healey was supposed to have done something about this. "Urban crime strategies" was one of the five topics she tackled in her first major undertaking as lieutenant governor, the Commission on Criminal Justice Innovation. But in the commission's report, released in April 2004, this was the weakest section, as reported by the Phoenix at the time, filled with vague platitudes and material copied out of dated NIJ materials. (See "Crime Prevention," April 9, 2004.)
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text: There was a poll awhile back on who was going to win the election. I sadly called it correctly = We as a nation have not hit bottom, yet. It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. The great divider is going to get revenge on all the people who were against him. Luckily, the map looked pretty red, so there will be a lot of revenge to go around. I'm in a very Red county in a very blue state, so I'm sure we will pay dearly. God help us, since we actually still believe in you. I have good news to report: since the Chicago thug won the election the streets will be riot free this week. I do not think New York could handle riots after dealing with Sandy.


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Budclicks patented the ability to click charms to earbuds. They allow kids, tweens, and adults to style up those bland white earbuds. The Budclick mount works on iPod and iPhone style white earbuds created by Apple. With over 150 million of these earbuds on the market Budclicks have appeal to just about everyone. Budclicks has found the largest audience in music listeners on the go. Whether on...


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Greta Marie Anderson, Director
(covers Bergen, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Sussex and Warren Counties)
100 Hamilton Plaza, 9th Floor
Paterson, NJ 07505
Regional Supervisor - Alan Machbitz
(covers Essex and Union Counties)
2 Gateway Plaza, 8th floor
Newark, NJ 07102-5002
Regional Supervisor - Genevieve Wreh
(covers Hunterdon, Mercer, Ocean, Middlesex, Monmouth and Somerset Counties)
50 East State Street, 5th Floor
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Trenton, NJ 08625
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here's something cool I wrote up this weekend. With your modern browser with WebGL enabled, visit this page: MathGeoLib live test site. It is a project consisting of a few parts:
- Uses my native C++ graphics rendering engine gfxapi. Utilizes the emscripten compiler to deploy the application to HTML5.
- Integrates Angelscript as the live scripting engine.
- Uses my MathGeoLib library for scripting primitives and geometry manipulation.
- Interop between C++ MathGeoLib classes and Angelscript is achieved using an automatic bindings generator based on juj/CodeStructure.


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Laws require motorists to move over for emergency vehicles
By Shirley Rooker, President, Call For Action
Should you move over? Is it required by law? We are talking about your behavior when passing an emergency or law enforcement vehicle with flashing lights on the side of the road.
Are there laws that govern motorist behaviour when passing police or rescue vehicles that are stopped by the roadside?
A consumer wrote asking if there was such a thing as a Move Over law because of an email she had received which states this new law carries a fine of $754. She asked if the email was true. The answer, yes and no!
In most states there are laws that specify motorist behaviour when emergency and polices vehicles are parked by the roadside and the fines that may be levied if the laws aren't obeyed. The three exceptions are Maryland, District of Columbia and Hawaii.
Move Over laws have been enacted because more than 150 law enforcement officers have been killed in the last ten years due to being struck by vehicles along our highways.
Is the current email about the law accurate?
Like many emails this one contains some truth. While the Move Over law is a fact the extremely high fines seem to be exaggerations. The amount quoted in some of the emails is $754. This amount has not been verified. However, in some states the fines can be several hundred dollars or more.
What does the law require of motorists?
You must slow down and if possible, move over a lane when there is an emergency or police vehicle with flashing lights on the side of the road you are traveling. Of course, on some roads it may not be possible to move over but you must slow down. Speed limits and the actions you must take are controlled by your states laws and may vary from state to state.
Many state laws define emergency vehicles as any vehicle displaying flashing lights.
The requirements of the law make sense because we should all be concerned about protecting emergency personnel along our highways.
Information on Move Over Laws
Virginia Move Over law
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Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster today reiterates an Overweight rating on Google (GOOG) stock, and a $935 price target, opining that self-driving cars of the sort the company has researched "will be one of the next truly game changing mass technologies," and could be a $200 billion opportunity.
Munster cites U.S. government data suggesting reduction in driver error, and consequent reduction in auto deaths, could be a strong impetus to making the technology broadly available:
We believe the combination of higher safety levels and elimination of idle time are a powerful motivator in introducing a self-driving car solution. First, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), around 32,000 deaths occurred as a result of auto accidents in 2011. We believe autonomous solutions could largely eliminate human error in driving and drastically reduce that number. Second, according to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, 5.5 billion hours were wasted by Americans sitting in traffic in 2011. The study estimates idle time in traffic cost $121 billion in productive time and fuel. Aside from freeing drivers from idle time driving, we note that self-driving cars also address smaller (but still large) problems like parking and could potentially eliminate parking from cities as cars could feasibly drop off owners and drive out of the city to wait and park. Another option could be shared vehicles, which could eliminate wasted money on under-utilized vehicles.
Munster notes self-driving cars are already legal in Nevada, California, and Florida, and he believes Google is testing upwards of 100 cars in those states. He thinks NHTSA recommendations issued on the matter suggest "government is acutely aware of self-driving cars and seems to be embracing the technology."
60 million cars were sold worldwide last year, writes Munster, according to the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, and at $3,000 to $5,000 per unit for the computer unit in a self-driving car, the automation market may be worth $240 billion annually.
He sees some semi-automated vehicles on the road by the end of the decade:
While it will likely be 10 years or more before traffic is largely automated, we believe it will be possible to own a self-driving car in the next five years, assuming legality and low cost sensitivity for the owner. We note that GM, BMW, Audi, and Nissan have all made separate comments about the high likelihood of highly automated vehicles by 2020. We believe the Level 3 vehicles, which require some human interaction will become common by the end of the decade, while the Level 4 vehicles, which assume no driver interaction is necessary, will be more common in the middle of next decade.
Google shares today are up $1.61 at $906.70.
Previously: Google: Deutsche Ups Target to $1010 on 2014 View, Sees Q2 In-Line, July 9th, 2013.


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CHICAGO (April 2, 2013) – U.S. Under-17 Men's National Team head coach Richie Williams has named 20 players to the U.S. roster for the 2013 CONCACAF U-17 Championship in Panama City, Panama.
The U.S. is looking to qualify for its 15th straight FIFA U-17 World Cup, which runs from Oct. 17 to Nov. 8 in the United Arab Emirates. The four teams that advance to the CONCACAF U-17 Championship semifinals advance to the U-17 World Cup.
"We feel like we've got a great group of guys that have been able to gain great experience at an international level," Williams said. "Now it comes down to the most important international tournament, and that's the qualifying. Obviously this is where it all counts. Either you move on to the World Cup or you come back home. We feel like they're ready and we'll go out there and do our best." (Q & A with Richie Williams)
U.S. U-17 Men's National Team Roster by Position
GOALKEEPERS (2): Jeff Caldwell (North Carolina Fusion; Todd, N.C.), Evan Louro (New York Red Bulls; South River, N.J.)
DEFENDERS (6): Conor Donovan (NC Alliance; Fuquay Varina, N.C.), Justen Glad (Real Salt Lake AZ; Tucson, Ariz.), Shaquell Moore (Unattached; Powder Springs, Ga.), Tommy Redding (FC America Premier; Oviedo, Fla.), John Requejo Jr. (Real So Cal; Carpinteria, Calif.), Peter Schropp (Omaha FC; Omaha, Neb.)
MIDFIELDERS (7): Corey Baird (San Diego Surf; Escondido, Calif.), Junior Flores (Unattached; Manassas Park, Va.), Angel Heredia (San Jose Earthquakes; San Jose, Calif.), Christopher Lema (New York Red Bulls; Ridgefield, N.J.), Elijah Martin (Unattached; Fresno, Calif.), Joel Soñora (Boca Juniors; Buenos Aires, Argentina), Tyler Turner (South Central Premier; West Haven, Conn.)
FORWARDS (5): Mukwelle Akale (Minnesota Thunder; Minneapolis, Minn.), Sebastian Elney (Boca United; Lake Worth, Fla.), Rubio Rubin (Unattached; Beaverton, Ore.), Ahinga Selemani (CSA Wolves; Ann Arbor, Mich.), Alan Winn (Solar Chelsea FC; Garland, Texas)
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I'm planning, like many of you are, to pick up the novelization of AOTC, the Art of AOTC, the new Essential Guide to Characters, and the two DK AOTC guides as soon as possible. What better way to get them, I thought, than by taking advantage of amazon.com's free shipping on orders over $99? (Even if these alone didn't qualify, there's a certain Transformers box set coming out the same day that will easily push the total over the minimum.)
So I go there and am looking around. Most of the AOTC books aren't listed! Of the ones I was looking for, I could only find the new Essential Guide. I even went so far as to find the ISBN for Salvatore's novelization and search for that. Nothing there. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
Does anyone know why this is, or if I'm just completely daft and they're right there in front of my face? I mean, they're already hitting Wal-Mart shelves early, for cryin' out loud!


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It's Showtime Brussels Full Results
- Written by Dave Walsh
Full results are in for today's It's Showtime Brussels card. In the main event, Karim Bennoui scored a mild upset, defeating Sergio Wielzen for the IS 61kg title via decision. Good, action packed bout here, and with that win Bennoui becomes the second 61kg champ. Sadly, Wielzen's run never seemed to take off - we'll see if the largely unknown Bennoui can bring some recognition to this fledgling division.
Marat Grigorian scored an impressive win over Severiano Rijssel, earning a TKO in the 2nd round. This is exactly the kind of strong showing Grigorian needed as he looks ahead to his IS 73kg title fight with Yohan Lidon in May.
In the opening bout, Evgeniy Kurovskoy was victorious via unanimous decision against Andre Grigorian. As we mentioned earlier today, Kurovskoy is entered in the huge IS 70kg tournament coming out of Russia in July. That tournament is absolutely stacked, and Kurovskoy will come in the heavy underdog, but it's good to see him get the win here against a very capable opponent.
Complete results are below, and we'll have more analysis and fall out in the coming days.
Evgeniy Kurovskoy def. Andre Grigorian, Unanimous Decision
Andy Ristie def. Nick Beljaards, KO Rd. 1
Lefterio Perego def. Sonny Dagraed, 4-1 Decision
Marat Grigorian def. Severiano Rijssel, TKO Rd. 2
Sahak Parparyan def. Marco Vlieger, 4-1 Decision
Karim Bennoui def. Sergio Wielzen, 4-1 Decision to win the It's Showtime 61kg World Title


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'Outside the classroom: Mary Adeogun's fashion design'
Posted May 10, 2013; 12:40 p.m.
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Senior Mary Adeogun is a molecular biology major who has a passion for clothing design outside of her academic studies. This video shows Adeogun at Princeton's Prospect House holding a fashion photo shoot for her portfolio. Most of the models and crew who helped with the shoot are also Princeton undergraduates from various academic departments.
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MARY ADEOGUN: Fashion is a
wonderful form of multimedia
You start from the paper and
then you draft it and use a
dress form to see what
it will look like.
And then the final outcome
is on a human.
I think it's a wonderful way
to see your artistic work
translate from paper to body.
It's almost like a sculpture.
This photo shoot was a great way
to add some substance too
my portfolio.
And I'm putting it on my website
so that people can see
the kind of work I've done
and see my aesthetic.
I thought Prospect House was
a beautiful location.
It mirrored exactly
what I wanted
to show in my clothing--
elegance, distinction,
history, culture.
And those are things that
are important to me
and my design aesthetic.
So I'm West African.
I'm Nigerian.
I was raised in a French
Nigerian community, so I'm
very aware of my culture and I
love to incorporate a lot of
the fabrics that are important
in my culture in my design
aesthetic, because I think
everybody would look beautiful
in these kinds of fabrics.
And I don't use all of these
fabrics all of the time, but I
think it's a great way to add
a little bit of modernity to
me and distinction
in my pieces.
Things like little
black dresses--
I love those.
But I like to put my twist on
it by using the fabrics that
are very unique and distinct.
So the reason it's different is
because I'll use some batik
prints, some West African
cultural prints, and throw
that into what would be an
ideal little black dress.
And so that's something you
don't usually see often.
So this is one of my
favorite looks.
Here we have a jacket that's
made with black twill and the
batik print.
It's a wax batik print, and it's
lined with some leather.
And there's also leather
on the side here.
As you can see, we
have some leather
detailing on the sleeve.
And then, the skirt is
completely made out of a
leather upholstery fabric
that I found.
It was a wonderful deal.
And this is a skater skirt--
so a classic staple skirt that
looks great with this kind of
waterfall jacket.
Well, after graduation, I
definitely want to expand in
the fashion sense.
I'm working on building my
credibility as a designer and
also as the tailor.
I want to make sure my
skills are up to par.
And also, I'm going
to supplement it
with business work.
I'm going to go to Chicago and
do a consulting job so that I
can gain more business knowledge
and hopefully apply
it in the long term future
to my fashion goals.
I think it's important that you
tap into the people that
you have here at Princeton.
A lot of the times, you don't
really know what people are
capable of, because we just
see them in classes.
We have a lot of creative people
on campus, people that
can really help and inspire
me in other areas
besides just academics.
And I think the school really
supports you going out and
being passionate about what
you're interested in.
And they make it easy to do that
kind of thing on campus.


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On Sunday night, as the 2013 National Hockey League Entry Draft was winding down, TSN's cameras scanned the stands at the Prudential Centre in Newark, N.J., catching the faces of a number of young men nervously waiting to hear if their names would be called in the last 30 or 40 picks of the seven-round draft.
One of those anxious visages belonged St. John's native Kurt Etchegary, who attended the draft with a number of family members.
Unfortunately, the 18-year-old Etchegary's name was not one of the 211 called out Sunday.
Etchegary, a centre for the QMJHL's Quebec Remparts, was the only Newfoundlander ranked by NHL Central Scouting for the draft. He had been rated 72nd overall among North American skaters, but while many players seeded much lower than that were selected Sunday, Etchegary was left to deal with disappointment.
Perhaps teams were scared off by his medical history, since the 5-11, 185-pounder missed three months of last season as he recovered from two athroscopic surgeries to repair hip joints. When he returned to action, Etchegary performed well, as he had 25 points, including nine goals, in 31 games. He also added eight points (two goals, six assists) in 10 playoff games.
However, the fact he wasn't chosen Sunday doesn't end Etchegary's pro chances. In fact, on Monday night, Etchegary (@etch19) tweeted that he will be going to camp with the Detroit Red Wings.
"Very excited to be invited and will attend the @DetroitRedWings Training Camp #blessed," read the tweet.
A number of reports Sunday night had Etchegary getting an invitation to the summer development camp of the Colorado Avalanche, whose new coach just happens to be Patrick Roy, who had been Etchegary's coach the last two years with the Remparts. Roy later told reporters he did extend Etchegary an invitation to an Avalanche camp, all the while noting that the Colorado organization was deep at centre.


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WillowRidgeCalls wrote:Wi. used to have a law posted in their regulations that stated Turkey Hunting Times ended 1/2 hour before the hunting time of the day ended. Meaning if the regs said that the closing time was 7:15pm, turkey hunting closed at 6:45pm that day. It used to be posted in the turkey regulations that way ever since they opened it up to full day hunting. I believe that law is still in effect, I didn't see it in the latest regs, but I may have missed it?
Copied from the Wis turkey regs in the small game pdf
Fall Turkey: Hunting hours are from ½ hour before sunrise to 20 minutes after sunset.
Its been that way for several years at least. Sort of follows the rest of the small game hunting hours. Spring hunting hours start the same and end at sunset.


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#1211 Mon 12 Dec 11 12:05am
Re: Nora's Kitchen
Annie! I think the movie was called; Four Christmases, when I went to the Cinema, I will have to check!
This week is going to be a busy week finalising my Xmas gifts etc! And, I've just been 'babysitting' my daughters puppy for a week! Our doggy, Rocky, is quite relieved now with his wee visitor going back home, as, he was getting quite tired being 'attacked'/puppy bitten...tho! he did enjoy her company too!
Hi Shammy, lovely to see you here at Nora's! You are a real busy lady! Great to hear all about "T" & that your'e enjoying your nature walks, except for that snake OMG!!
I just popped-in quickly sorry, as, just waiting for hubby to get home for our lunch....love to you both & all, too!
Happy New Year/2015 to you ALL! :-)
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Back again..
Thanks Kris! Not sure what is going on with Dad - he is very quiet about himself.. get most of my info from my step mother but Dad says she exagerates...
Shammy - so lucky to have someone to walk with.. I have taken up spin classes at the gym - for those not familiar it is a lead class done on stationary exercise bikes.. our trainer works us pretty hard which is good.... my fitness is improved & so is the shape of my legs & backside.
Snakes would be unavoidable on the walking tracks here I think... mostly just red belly black snakes which are pretty shy... though we have browns & copperheads here too.
Love that you are doing even more volunteering... I have taken a step back from mine this year.. and Im not doing canteen next year.. working 6 days & taking my RDO for canteen is too much.. though I have worked the BBQ at some fundraisers & spent the day running a chocolate wheel at fete as per usual.
#1213 Fri 23 Dec 11 1:41am
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Merry Christmas all you wonderful lovely ladies!! I love you all!
#1214 Fri 23 Dec 11 7:36am
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Thanks Ann and to you and yours and everyone else here a very Merry Christmas.
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Hi Frizz & thanks for your post! Sorry for my late reply. I do hope your Dad & Nakita, are both feeling much better. Christmas Eve, here in N.Z. like you guys in OZ, so, I'm just popping-in to have a catch-up & say to you & everyone....
I wish you all a....
*Joyous Merry Christmas & a happy & safe 2012 ahead*!!!
Thanks, Annie & Sandy, for your Christmas wishes!!
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Happy New Year/2015 to you ALL! :-)
#1216 Sat 24 Dec 11 7:53am
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Merry Christmas Ladies, may 2012 be a happy, safe and an amazing year for you all!
Lots of love from all of us in Tassie! xox
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Thanks so much, Shammy!!! ...wishing you a fabulous 2012 too my dear & everyone here at, Jamie's Forum!!
Happy New Year/2015 to you ALL! :-)
#1218 Wed 17 Oct 12 11:58pm
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Congratulations on becoming a grandma Kris!
Miss all of you ladies! <3
#1219 Thu 18 Oct 12 1:10pm
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Congrats Kris and welcome to the world Jack.
#1220 Thu 18 Oct 12 9:09pm
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Thank you very much lovely ladies; Ann & Sandy, for your sweet congrats & well wishes to me & my new (awww!) baby grandson; Jack!!!
To Everyone, too! My hubby & I, have just welcomed into our family a little treasured poppet - Jack is soooo tiny & adorable!!! Our youngest daughter & her fiance, are the proud parents & our eldest daughter is a 'over-the-moon' excited Aunty, as, we are both grandparents!!!
Love to you dearest, Annie & Sandy & All, from; Kris
P.s. while I think of it...The White Rabbit, I hope all is well with your pregnancy, too & All the Best to you & your family as well!
Happy New Year/2015 to you ALL! :-)


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The Hatfield musicians continue their popular archive CD series with Hattitude, a second volume of rare 1970s recordings and an excellent companion to last year's highly acclaimed first volume, Hatwise Choice.
As on Hatwise Choice, the new CD contains a mixture of live and studio tracks (including extracts from the band's radio sessions) and features some hitherto unrecorded compositions.
The CD comes in a full colour Digipak with a 20-page booklet containing archive photos and period artwork.


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Guests will grab cute cardinal cookies perched on your holiday cookie tray, especially once they taste the subtle cinnamon flavor!
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CRN Data Center News
The reshuffling of HP's server executive team, which puts the former head marketing exec in charge of the huge play HP expects from customers migrating from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012, comes as HP prepares a new major refresh of its ProLiant server line.
HP CTO Fink: HP Helion Cloud, 'The Machine' On Tap To Revolutionize ITHP CTO Martin Fink said HP is pushing hard on enterprise data center innovation with the OpenStack-based HP Helion cloud and with "The Machine," a future replacement of today's compute technology, featuring a unified memory to replace current memory and storage.
IBM Counters Falling Hardware Sales By Open-Sourcing Power Server LineIBM and its channel partners hope building an open-source business around IBM's Power-based server technology will help shore up IBM's declining hardware sales.
Dell Partners: Some Say They're Feeling The Love, Others Say They're Feeling Left OutDell has made some Texas-size promises to partners since going private, including moving some 200,000 direct accounts to the channel. How is that working out today?
Emerging Vendors 2014: Data Center VendorsCRN's Emerging Vendors list for 2014, our annual look at hot tech startups, contains a number of vendors that are making a significant impact on the data center market.
The Power Of One: New Converged Infrastructure SolutionsThe past six months have seen a wave of new solutions targeting the fast-growing converged infrastructure and hyper-converged infrastructure market, and CRN has the details of 12 of them here.
IBM Q2: Beats On Estimates, Turnaround Struggles RemainIBM reported higher-than-expected quarterly revenue. Business for the Systems and Technology Group, totaling $3.3 billion for the quarter, fell 11 percent.
Cisco VP Cites Clear Rules Of EngagementData center exec says sales engineers and reps don't push Cisco UCS Invicta into environments with heavy Vblock or FlexPod investments.
Cisco On UCS Invicta: The Target Is Our Compute Competitors, Not Our Storage PartnersDespite the market buzz surrounding the converged infrastructure market, Cisco didn't roll out the red carpet for UCS Invicta at launch. Some are wondering why.
Cisco, Microsoft Team Up On Three-Year Data Center InitiativeCisco and Microsoft are embarking on a three-year journey to drive deeper integration across their data center portfolios and to reward their mutual channel partners for going to market with joint Microsoft and Cisco solutions.
HP, Microsoft Roll Out Partner Program To Capture Windows Server 2003 End-Of-Life Upgrade OpportunityWith the HP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Migration Program, HP is putting solution providers on the front lines of its partnership with Microsoft to upgrade a big chunk of the 11.7 million servers still running the 11 year old operating system.
IBM Keeps Skin In The Hardware Game With $3B Investment In Chip R&DThe move to focus on next-generation chips and what the company calls a desire to 'push the limits' of chip technology follows chatter that cropped up earlier in the year that IBM was shopping its semiconductor factories in New York and Vermont.
HP Targets IBM, Lenovo With Free Consulting For x86 CustomersHP is going after IBM's "uncertain" x86 server future, offering a free half-day consulting session to qualified customers as IBM moves to finalize the sale of its x86 server business to Lenovo.
Lenovo's $2.3 Billion IBM Deal Inches Closer To ApprovalPartners cheer Chinese regulators' approval of Lenovo's purchase of IBM's x86 business, but are waiting to exhale when it comes to U.S. regulators and cybersecurity issues.
Dell Exec: Campaign To Go After IBM Business Is WorkingDell's 'Don't Just Transition, Transform With Dell' campaign to grab IBM partners ahead of the sale of its x86 business has been a big success, says Dell's Cheryl Cook.
Dell's Marius Haas Q&A: Channel Revenue Up, But Challenges PersistDell's Marius Haas tells CRN the channel is experiencing rapid growth, but challenges continue to dog the transfer of thousands of direct accounts to partners.
It's Official: Citrix's Mark Templeton Shuns Retirement, Will Stay On As CEOCitrix's CEO said in January he'd be stepping down from the role he's held since 2001. But now he's had a change of heart, and Citrix partners are delighted to hear it.
Cisco Prepping 'Mini-UCS' Servers To Go Low Where UCS Can't: SourcesMultiple channel sources tell CRN that Cisco will soon launch a smaller version of Cisco's UCS servers targeting remote offices/branch offices, hyper-converged infrastructure, or hyper-scale data center environments.
Partners Hail Dell's Converged Appliance Push As Big Win For ChannelPartners are bullish that Dell's approach to building midtier workload-specific appliances will accelerate their growth and help them break into new customer engagements.
Dell Unleashes 6 Breakthrough Products At Dell User ForumDell ups the ante in its bid to drive deeper into the enterprise with a blizzard of breakthrough products built in partnership with heavyweight Oracle and Fusion-io, Nutanix and Cloudera.


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A raid raises deeper press concerns in Czech Republic
When it comes to press freedom offenders, the Czech Republic is not among the countries that come to mind. So what happened to the main national television channel on March 11 left many flabbergasted. I arrived in Prague that day with a group of New York University graduate students to participate in a weeklong series of seminars with local journalists and media organizations. While we were discussing work conditions for Czech media, military police in ski masks were storming Czech Television offices.


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Florida's Lerentee McCray sacks LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger during the first half Saturday Gainesville, Fla. (Associated Press)
Last Modified: Sunday, October 07, 2012 11:00 PM
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Now that panic has officially set in, LSU can get on with the task of perhaps fixing the season.
Isn't that the traditional first sign in the eight-step road to recovery — the uncontrollable fan shrieking, the cuss-texting, the rumor-tweeting and message-board finger-pointing?
Once that settles down, you move on to step 2, admitting you have a problem.
And right now LSU has a problem.
Reality hit the Tigers in the mouth Saturday just has hard as Florida did in a 14-6 thumping.
If they needed any more sobering news, the LSU charter flight would have landed back in Baton Rouge just about the time Georgia scored a late, meaningless touchdown to pull within 35-7 of the Tigers' next opponent, South Carolina.
Yes, by all means, feel free to push the panic button now.
It won't get any easier.
There's nothing particularly shameful about losing by eight points to a good team in one of college football's toughest pits to play in.
And it's not just that panicked fans had no reference point for a regular season loss since the 2010 season.
It's just that it felt and looked so much worse, given the way Florida manhandled LSU in the second half.
It's also true that it didn't really deep-six any of the goals the Tigers had when they were widely acclaimed August's best team in the nation.
Win out, beating Alabama, and it's all still on the table since this was a non-division game and ...
But, come on, let's get real.
Watching LSU play Saturday, you wonder where another October victory is coming from before the Crimson Tide gets to Baton Rouge in November.
Even Arkansas doesn't look like such a Thanksgiving bargain anymore.
Worse than any stat sheet for LSU was its body language.
Afterwards, they looked as beaten as they ever have in a long time, maybe even more so than the BCS debacle with Alabama last year.
Once Florida took the lead, there was nothing in LSU's pep and step that suggested the Gators needed to worry about a comeback rally.
Instead, the Tigers looked like a fragile, frustrated team wondering where all the confidence and swagger from last year went.
If you want the inevitable comparison to 2010, last year's team always looked like it was having fun playing the game.
Not sure that's the case right now.
They almost look like they're hoping for the best.
LSU's biggest problem Saturday was its disjointed, anemic offense, but the most mystifying was watching a Tiger defense melt in the second half, powerless to stop a Florida team that didn't even bother throwing the ball on its last 25 offensive plays of the game.
LSU was one worn-down defense.
Yeah, it was hot and very humid, but it's not like the Tigers were snowbirds coming to Florida.
What happened to all that defensive depth?
Maybe there are limits to it.
Florida must have detected something. Head coach Will Muschamp looked at a halftime stat sheet that showed him with 16 yards rushing on 24 attempts and decided (maybe it was the five sacks) that he could run at will on the Tigers. He threw only four passes in the second half — only two of them risky enough to cross the line of scrimmage —and still pounded out 160 on the ground and outscored LSU 14-0.
Even though it worked, I'd be willing to write that off as an LSU defensive aberration.
If there is something really wrong with the Tigers' defense, the season is over anyway — because this offense is just mind-boggling.
In this new offensive age where most teams seem to hiccup and accidentally burp up 40-45 points a game, LSU is suddenly celebrating first downs and wondering what an old-fashioned touchdown felt like.
Maybe, it's time to re-think what they're doing. It can't be as simple as cleaning up those pesky mistakes (and it doesn't look like that's going to happen anyway).
But surely don't blame it all on the quarterback, always a popular knee-jerk reaction.
Earlier in the year, maybe.
But at least Zach Mettenberger has shown some progress since the start of the season, his first as a college starter. Saturday he had mostly good reads and good throws but a lot of out-and-out drops with little in the way of out of the ordinary catches.
Besides, this offense has a long way to go before it can claim it's a good team in search of a quarterback.
Mainly, LSU has to figure out a way to block somebody — anybody.
Or get fewer of them around the line of scrimmage that need attending to.
Lately, the defensive blueprint against LSU hasn't changed whether it's Towson or Florida. You stack everybody plus the tubas and glee club near the line and, when in doubt, send the house.
Remember over the summer when LSU promised the vertical passing game would force teams to back off from that kind of boorish behavior?
It hasn't.
Mettenberger is looking at a lot of team portraits, which hasn't done much for the running game either.
It probably isn't as simple as just throwing it deep more. Mettenbeger has that shot in his arsenal, but he would likely have to buy even more time.
But it's worth a shot. LSU has to so something different.
And quick.
Scooter Hobbs covers LSU sports. Email him at email@example.com


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Video: Rico Verhoeven Feels That He Can Knock Errol Zimmerman Out
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Rico Verhoeven gets a chance at redemption against Errol Zimmerman this weekend in New York City. This video interview released by Glory shows Rico talking about the upcoming bout and how he feels like Errol runs his mouth too much and that Rico has grown as a fighter since their last battle, with plans on knocking Zimmerman out.
Stranger things have happened and Zimmerman is both hot and cold at times. This could be a huge win for Verhoeven.


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About Allison Moorer
Allison Moorer was born into a musical family and raised in the small southern Alabama town of Frankville; when Moorer's father shot her mother and then turned the gun on himself, older sister Shelby Lynne -- soon to become a country singer herself -- took charge of raising Allison. After attending the University of South Alabama, Moorer moved to Nashville, hoping to get her start as a studio backing vocalist. She struck up a songwriting partnership with musician and future husband Butch Primm, and soon signed a publishing deal.
Performances of Walter Hyatt's "Tell Me Baby" at benefit shows for the late singer's family landed Moorer a contract with MCA Nashville. Moorer's big break came when "A Soft Place to Fall," a track she had co-written with Gwil Owen, was tapped for inclusion on the soundtrack of The Horse Whisperer; it garnered rave reviews, as well as an appearance in the film itself for Moorer, and set the stage for the singer's 1998 debut album, Alabama Song.
She returned with another solo effort in 2000 with The Hardest Part. Two years later, Moorer had a new deal with Universal South and released a third album, Miss Fortune, later that summer. Show, which was recorded in January 2003 at Nashville's 12th & Porter, appeared in June. Her sister and Kid Rock joined Moorer for this first-time live recording. Not slowing down, Moorer found a new label home with Sugar Hill in early 2004. The Duel, recorded with a new studio band in less than two weeks, was released in April of 2004.
Moorer married singer/songwriter Steve Earle and moved to New York in 2005, and in 2006 released Getting Somewhere. She followed it with a long tour, opening for Earle and being a featured vocalist in the Dukes. Mockingbird, her next offering, was released in early 2008. In 2009, Moorer appeared in The People Speak, a documentary, directed by Anthony Arnove and Chris Moore, based on Howard Zinn's landmark text A People's History of the United States. She also performed on the BBC television program Transatlantic Sessions and began recording a new album.
In February of 2010 she released Crows on Rykodisc, and gave birth to a son in April and diagnosed with autism 23 months later. Moorer and Steve Earle separated in 2014. Her eighth studio album, Down to Believing, was issued by E1 in the spring of 2015, produced by Kenny Greenberg. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi


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Turkeybuster wrote:Congrats. Clark to all of you and especially the youngster you probably have added another lifer to our ranks.
It was a story book hunt by the sounds of it. Good luck to you and Doris and keep us posted.
Thank you Jon. It was indeed a "story book" classic hunt. The only way it could have been better is if Granddad had scored as well but he was just as happy as if he had. From the look in his eyes, I suspect that we have added another lifer to our ranks.
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Three receive Guggenheim Fellowships
Posted May 3, 2001; 11:49 a.m.
Princeton faculty members are among the 183 artists, scholars and scientists who received a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, an honor that recognizes exceptional achievement and supports promising projects.
Each Guggenheim Fellow will receive a grant to support his or her work. The average grant for 2001 was $36,000.
The Princeton professors and their proposed projects are:
- Jeremy Adelman, professor of history, for research on "The Political Economy of Revolution in South America, 1750-1824."
- Elizabeth Lunbeck, associate professor of history, for research on "Psychoanalytic Practice in the United States Before 1920."
- Francois Morel, professor of geosciences and director of the Princeton Environmental Institute, for research on "The Biological Chemistry of Sea Water."
The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, which awards the fellowships, selected this year's recipients from among 2,728 applicants. The 183 U.S. and Canadian recipients received a total of $6,588,000.
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Princeton's IP Accelerator Fund awarded to four promising technologies
Posted January 17, 2014; 12:00 p.m.
Enhanced cybersecurity, non-scarring tattoo removal, 3-D photography and a laser-scanning device are projects selected for Princeton University's Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund, which supports discoveries that have significant potential for further development into products or services. The roughly $100,000 each researcher receives enables the prototyping and testing that technologies need to attract interest from startups or from established companies looking for innovative products.
"Transferring innovations from the University to the marketplace enables economic activity and carries the transformative potential that can lead to major improvements in the quality of our everyday lives," said Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton's dean for research and the Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, and a professor of chemical and biological engineering. "The IP Accelerator Fund offers the opportunity for the University to support innovation at a critical point in the development of a new technology, when it is just starting to show its promise."
"We are excited that Princeton is able to provide funding to help these inventors advance their technology further along the commercial development spectrum," said John Ritter, director of technology licensing at the University.
Each year, the IP Accelerator Fund is awarded to a handful of technologies through a competitive process. The four technologies receiving the award this year are listed below.
Cybersecurity: Fooling the eavesdroppers
Shopping, banking and health care management are increasingly taking place online, so finding secure ways to transmit data has become vitally important. A team led by Professor of Electrical Engineering Paul Prucnal has developed a highly secure way of transmitting data by hiding it in plain sight. The technique involves hiding the existence of the coded message within the "noise" of optical signals, such as those used in the fiber optic cables that transmit Internet data. These signals, which are carried by light particles (photons) rather than electrons, are inherently more secure because electronic signals give off radio frequencies that can be detected and decoded, Prucnal said.
Princeton University's Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund supports discoveries that have significant potential for further development into products or services. Each year, the IP Accelerator Fund is awarded to a handful of technologies through a competitive process. The four technologies receiving the award this year include a method by a team led by Professor of Electrical Engineering Paul Prucnal to hide digital data in "plain sight" using the "noise" of an optical signal. The left panel shows a typical signal while the right panel contains a message hidden in the noise of the signal. The hidden message is impossible to detect. Eavesdroppers remain unaware of the existence of the message, so they cannot decode it. (Image courtesy of Paul Prucnal, Department of Electrical Engineering)
"Once an eavesdropper knows that an encrypted message exists, he or she can eventually decrypt the data via a combination of techniques and computing power. Our strategy is to hide the existence of the message itself," Prucnal said. "Our aim is to develop a product that could be used in the health care industry, banking and other industries where clients and customers need secure data transmission."
To encode the message, a device at the sender's side converts the data into a digital signal and embeds it into the existing "noise" of the signal traveling through the fiber. A second reference version is also sent. Both versions must reach their destination at the proper time for the message to be decoded. If for some reason that doesn't happen, the message is lost.
The team includes graduate student Ben Wu and Andrew McCandless of the Louisiana-based technology services company Bascom Hunter. The funding the researchers received will go toward the design and packaging of the encryption and decryption devices.
Safe and effective tattoo removal
A new technology that uses very short pulses of low-energy laser light could enable millions of people to remove unwanted tattoos. Unlike existing tattoo-removal technologies, the new system, developed in Princeton's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, causes no damage to the skin.
Existing technologies, which use higher-energy lasers, can cause damage similar to a second-degree burn. Removal often takes a dozen or more such treatments, conducted over a year or more with time spent between each treatment to allow the skin to heal. The scars can persist for decades. Roughly 65,000 to 100,000 tattoo removal procedures are carried out in the United States each year, but the researchers say that there is a much larger untapped market: people who would like to remove their tattoos but have not done so due to cost or safety and scarring concerns.
A new tattoo-removal system could enable millions of people to remove unwanted tattoos without the scarring existing methods cause. The technology uses a femtosecond laser to deliver rapid, low-energy pulses of light to the tattoo (left), which results in tattoo removal (right) that is less painful and less scarring. (Image courtesy of Alexander Smits and Szymon Suckewer, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
The non-damaging tattoo removal is possible because of the use of extremely short laser pulses in rapid succession, said Alexander Smits, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, who pioneered the technology with Szymon Suckewer, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. The technology uses a type of laser called a femtosecond laser, which fires light pulses that are 1 million times more intense than existing tattoo-removal lasers. A single laser can remove different colors of ink, so the technique may be less expensive than existing technologies in the long term. Because little or no damage to the skin occurs, repeated treatments can be carried out over shorter periods of time.
"The energy is delivered over a very short time but at very high intensity," Smits said. "This energy can interact directly with ink molecules, breaking bonds between them with almost no heating of the skin tissue." The broken molecules of ink then either migrate out of the skin or are taken up by the bloodstream and later excreted from the body.
Smits and Suckewer worked closely on the technology with a Lawrenceville, N.J., dermatologist, Steven Hubert, who noted, "This degree of successful tattoo removal is unprecedented in effectiveness, speed and comfort."
The project received early funding from Princeton's Project X, a fund that gives faculty members in the engineering school the freedom to pursue unconventional ideas, even if those ideas are outside of a researcher's direct expertise. Prototypes have already demonstrated that the technique is effective, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must approve it. The researchers' IP Accelerator funding will go toward further testing in preparation for applying for FDA approval.
High-resolution, 3-D capability can be added to any camera using a technology in development by Jason Fleischer, an associate professor of electrical engineering. In a conventional image (top), light rays are collected by a lens onto a point, yielding high spatial detail but the loss of depth (middle). Using an array of lenslets gives different angular perspectives, much like the compound eye of an insect (bottom), but spatial resolution is greatly reduced. Fleischer's new work combines both imaging methods to create a 3-D technology that can be added to a typical camera to produce 3-D photographs. (Image courtesy of Jason Fleischer, Department of Electrical Engineering)
High-resolution 3-D photography inspired by the insect eye
We live in a three-dimensional world but our photographs reveal only two dimensions. The flattening of photos, said Jason Fleischer, associate professor of electrical engineering, leaves out a lot of information, from the true distance of that mountain in your vacation photo to important depth information for medical, scientific and military uses.
Fleischer and graduate students Chien-Hung Lu and Stefan Muenzel have developed a method for adding 3-D capability to any camera or imaging system, while preserving the resolution of the camera. Existing 3-D photography systems, such as the commercially available Lytro camera, cannot match the resolution of today's cameras, causing pictures to become pixelated or blurry when viewed in detail.
The new system takes two pictures, one with an existing camera and one with an add-on device Fleischer's team developed that provides 3-D information. The add-on device contains a matrix of small lenses, or lenslets, that function in a way that is similar to an insect eye by collecting images of the object from different perspectives. In human vision, each eye collects an image from a slightly different perspective, and our brains construct depth from the slight differences in the images. Insects integrate many such images. To date, however, researchers have struggled to incorporate lenslets into cameras without sacrificing image resolution.
Fleischer solved this problem by also creating a computer program that rapidly combines the depth information from the lenslets with information from the main camera image to create the 3-D picture. The algorithm for doing this uses techniques that are commonly used in today's cameras to combine multiple images, such as when stitching together panoramic images.
"The idea is that whatever existing camera you have, we can add something to it to give three-dimensional capability," Fleischer said. When complete, the technology will be a simple attachment that is compatible with any system, be it a simple point-and-shoot camera or an advanced microscope camera.
The technology behind the innovation is supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The IP Accelerator Fund award will go toward improving the initial prototypes and algorithms as well as creating software for the user.
Optical scanning made fast and easy
From telecommunications to biomedical imaging, many industries today rely on the movement of laser light across a surface at high speeds. A simple example is a supermarket scanner that uses a beam of laser light to read a barcode.
Many of the industrial uses of this type of optical scanning require very precise control and rapid movement of a beam of light to a desired location on a surface in a back-and-forth motion. Existing technologies, however, have limitations in speed, accuracy and the ability to accommodate different properties of the light, such as wavelength or polarization.
A team led by Professor Craig Arnold in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has invented a technology for using sound waves to shape the scanning movement of a laser, which could find many applications in industries such as telecommunications, biomedical imaging and semiconductor manufacturing. In the diagram, the outer chamber (yellow) sends sound waves through a fluid inside an optofluidic resonance chamber that steers the light beam in different directions. (Image courtesy of Craig Arnold, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
A technology developed by Professor Craig Arnold in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) could provide extremely rapid and accurate control of laser light using sound waves. The Tunable Acoustic Gradient (TAG) technology, developed by Arnold's team with funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, involves using sound waves to shift light as it passes through a liquid. A startup company, TAG Optics, has harnessed an aspect of this technology to create a rapidly focusing lens for imaging and materials processing.
Arnold's team recently demonstrated the ability of the TAG technology to move a beam of light in a rapid scanning motion on a surface. Their award will be used to support the continued development of a prototype and associated electronics with the goal of commercializing the system over the next year.
The key advantages of the TAG technology over existing laser-scanning methods include the ability to work with a wide range of wavelengths, polarizations and light intensities, as well as a faster scanning speed. The technology could be used in sensors, biomedical imaging, semiconductor manufacturing, telecommunications and other industries.
"We see a number of commercial needs for this device and have already received inquiries from potential customers," Arnold said. "We are excited by the opportunity to develop this optofluidic beam scanner and are thankful for the IP Accelerator Fund which provides the opportunity to bridge the gap from a research device to a commercial prototype, funding that is extremely valuable and difficult to come by."


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Posted/Revised October 31, 2008
This 10,000% Guaranteed, 100% Uptime Service Level Agreement (this "SLA") supplements the Terms of Service, and together such documents, and others referenced in the Terms of Service, form a binding agreement (the "Agreement") between ServePath and Customer. Terms defined in the Terms of Service will have the same meaning when used in this SLA.
This SLA covers the following elements of the Service:
- Network Performance
- Hardware Replacement
- Support Response Time
- Domain Name Services
- Power Availability & Performance
- Cooling & Environment
- Server Power Cycling
- Physical Security
- 24 x 365 Engineering Support
This SLA does not apply to any feature of the Service not specifically identified in the SLA, or to any feature ServePath identifies as "beta." If ServePath chooses to provide SLA credits for beta features, such choice will not impose any obligation on ServePath, and ServePath may reverse that choice at any time.
This SLA lists certain ServePath standards for provision of the Service, and it offers Customer a 10,000% Service Credit (as defined below) for any failure to meet those standards. This SLA also lists several additional Service standards--standards of quality ServePath strives to meet, even though they're not guaranteed or subject to credits, and even though Customer might not notice any failure to meet some of them. These additional standards are listed alongside the credit standards below, for informational purposes only, to provide a sense of ServePath's commitment to excellence. (Each listing of a standard below states whether it's a credit standard or an additional one.)
A. 10,000% Guaranteed
- If the Service does not achieve the performance levels described in Part II below ("Failure"), ServePath will provide Customer with a 10,000% Service Credit (as defined below), pursuant to the provisions, requirements, and limitations of this SLA, including Parts XI through XIII.
- A "10,000% Service Credit" is a credit equivalent to one hundred (100) times Customer's fees for the impacted Service feature for the duration of the Failure. (For example, where applicable: a Failure lasting seven (7) hours would result in credit of seven hundred (700) hours of free service for the feature in question; a Failure lasting fifteen (15) minutes would result in a 1500-minute, or 25-hour, credit.) No credit will exceed one hundred percent (100%) of Customer's fees for the Service feature in question in the Customer's then-current billing month.
- Each Service standard described below lists the fees that are subject to the 10,000% Service Credit.
As used in those listings:
- "Basic Server Fees" refers to the billing line item for Customer's physical server;
- "Transfer Fees" refers to fees for optional prepaid transfer plans; and
- "Miscellaneous Fees" refers to fees for any other Service feature (e.g., managed firewall service, managed monitoring service).
B. Contract Termination Option
Customer may terminate the Agreement, pursuant to Subsection 3(b) of the Terms of Service, without advanced notice, in the event that ServePath awards it 60 or more days of total credits during any single contract year, provided 3 or more separate instances of Failure occurred during such year. For purposes of this clause, a contract year is the 12-month period beginning on first day ServePath provides Service. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this SLA does not authorize termination of the Service if ServePath purchased telecommunications circuits or other resources for Customer's sole use.
C. Limitations & Warranty Disclaimer
The remedies set forth in this SLA are Customer's sole and exclusive remedies for any Failure or other failure of the Service, including without limitation for any breach of warranty, except as specifically set forth in the Terms of Service.
PERFORMANCE PURSUANT TO PARTS IV, V, VII, IX, and X BELOW IS NOT GUARANTEED, AND NEITHER THIS SLA NOR ANY OTHER PORTION OF THE AGREEMENT PROVIDES CREDITS OR OTHER REMEDIES FOR FAILURES TO MEET THE STANDARDS LISTED THERE.
ServePath will deliver 100% Uptime, as defined in Part II.B below. In addition, ServePath will deliver network performance meeting or exceeding the specifications listed in this Part II.
A. Network Performance Terms
- "Jitter" means variation in Latency.
- "Latency" refers to the amount of time it takes for a packet of data to travel from one point to another.
- "Maximum Jitter" means the highest permissible level of jitter within a given period when there is no Network Outage.
- "Network Outage" means an unscheduled period during which IP services are not useable due to capacity-constraints on the ServePath network or a hardware failure in the ServePath network.
- "Packet Loss" means Latency in excess of 10 seconds. All Jitter, Latency, and Packet Loss metrics below are monthly averages, unless otherwise noted in this Part II.
B. Internal Network Performance
"100% Uptime" means the following, all as described in this Part II.B:
- Network Outage: None
- Packet loss < 0.1%
- Latency < 5ms
- Jitter < 0.5ms
- Maximum Jitter: 10 milliseconds within any 15-minute period.
C. External Network Performance
At least two (2) of the specified networks in each continent will meet the performance specifications listed below at any given time, as measured by ServePath. ServePath may change the specific measured hardware devices without notice. (ServePath displays current network performance statistics online at ** NEED TO UPLOAD / REBRAND latency-graphs.php
- North American Network Performance
- Packet loss to
- West Coast of North America < 0.2%
- East Coast of North America < 0.3%
- Latency to:
- West Coast of North America < 45ms
- East Coast of North America < 90ms
- Jitter to:
- West Coast of North America < 1.0ms
- East Coast of North America < 1.2ms
- Maximum Jitter: 10 milliseconds during any 15-minute period.
- ServePath currently measures performance to the following North American networks: Verio, Level3, Above.net, UUNet.
- Packet loss to
- South American Network Performance
- Latency to South America < 220ms
- Maximum Jitter: 10 milliseconds during any 15-minute period.
- ServePath currently measures performance to the following South American networks:
- Brazil: UOL, STI
- Chile: Netline, Firstcom
- Argentina: UOL Sinectus, Sion
- European Network Performance
- Latency to Europe < 175ms
- Maximum Jitter: 10 milliseconds during any 15-minute period.
- ServePath currently measures performance to the following European networks:
- France: Tiscali, France Telecom, Neuf Telecom
- United Kingdom: NTL, Zen, Pipex
- Germany: Star 21 Networks, PJS net, T-Online
- Asian Network Performance
- Latency to Asia < 170ms
- Maximum Jitter: 10 milliseconds during any 15-minute period.
- ServePath currently measures performance to the following Asian networks:
- Japan: Singtel, Tuka, IA Japan
- Hong Kong: Uni Net, Linkage, HK Supernet
- South Korea: Kornet, Moumnet, BoraNet / SuperNet
- Australia Network Performance
- Latency to Australia < 200ms
- Maximum Jitter: 10 milliseconds during any period of 0.1% of a calendar month.
- ServePath currently measures performance to the following Australian networks:
- Optusnet
- iiNet
- Netspace
- Adam Internet
- South Africa Network Performance
- Latency to South Africa < 480ms
- Maximum Jitter: 10 milliseconds during any period of 0.1% of a calendar month.
- ServePath currently measures performance to the following South African networks:
- South Africa: Coza, XSInet, Inloco
- Zimbabwe: Mweb, Utande, Telconet
D. Limitations
This SLA does not cover (without limitation): (a) network performance to Customer's physical location
or internet access point (such as a local DSL/cable modem); or (b) failures due to denial of service attacks.
E. Credits
Credits for this Part II will be issued against Basic Transfer Fees if Customer pays on a separate line item for transfer allocation. If Customer only pay Basic Server Fees (which include a bundled transfer allotment) credits will be issued against Basic Server Fees only.
60-minute replacement of the following ServePath-provided hardware:
- Hard drive
- Memory
- Processor
- Power supply
- Network Interface Card (two per server)
- Motherboard (results in complete server replacement)
- Hardware firewall
ServePath will repair or remove and install reasonably comparable replacements if it determines, in its sole discretion, that the hardware is defective. The period listed above begins upon such determination. The period listed above refers only to the time required to physically repair or replace the failed hardware element and does not apply to any time spent: (a) addressing data, operating systems, or other software or systems corrupted or destroyed by hardware failures; or (b) communicating with Customer regarding permissions or instructions.
Credits for this Part III will be issued against either Basic Server Fees or Miscellaneous Fees for the affected managed service, depending on the Service feature subject to the Failure. If the Failure impacts both managed services and other Service features, ServePath may choose, in its sole discretion, whether to award a credit against Basic Server Fees or Miscellaneous Fees.
- EMERGENCY Cases - 30 minutes
- The following are the EMERGENCY categories:
- Server down
- Packet loss
- Routing issue
- All other Cases - 120 minutes
A tracking number will automatically be provided to Customer promptly after opening of the Case (as defined below in Part XI.A), and a human support engineer will review the support request within the timeframe listed above. ServePath may reclassify any Case misclassified as falling into one of the EMERGENCY categories listed above, and such Case will not qualify for EMERGENCY treatment. Resolution and repair times vary, and this SLA does not address them.
- Primary DNS availability: 100%
"DNS" means domain name server. A period of DNS failure is any time during which 100% of ServePath's Domain Name Servers simultaneously fail to respond to requests for name resolution. This SLA does not guarantee propagation of DNS data across the Internet or the hosting of secondary DNS service for Customer's primary domain in another location, and it does not guarantee against zone inaccuracies due to operator error.
ServePath will provide power availability sufficient to run Customer hardware 100% of the time. ServePath will also provide the power performance required below.
- Availability: 100%
- Voltage fluctuations: +/- 10%
A power Failure is a loss of electrical power or a voltage fluctuation, exceeding the limits above, in any part of the delivery system (utility company supply, on-site generation, UPS, circuit, or power strip) which causes Customer's hardware to shut down. A period of power-related Failure is measured from the time Customer opens the Case to the time that the electrical supply is restored, and does not include any time required to remedy any issues resulting from the electrical failure
Credits for this Part VI will be issued against either Basic Server Fees or Miscellaneous Fees for the affected managed service, depending on the Service feature subject to the Failure. If the Failure impacts both managed services and other Service features, ServePath may choose, in its sole discretion, whether to award a credit against Basic Server Fees or Miscellaneous Fees.
- Data Center Temperature: 67 - 74 degrees Fahrenheit
- Relative Humidity: 35% - 60%
As used in this SLA: (a) relative humidity is the ratio of water vapor density (mass per unit volume) to saturation water vapor density, expressed in a percentage; and (b) both temperature and relative humidity are averages of several measurements, each from one of the computer server hosting facility's (the "Facility's") CRAC (computer room air conditioning) units. ServePath will monitor, but is not required to report to Customer on, environmental conditions in the Facility.
- Server power cycling: < 15 minutes
The Service includes an automated system for cycling each individual power circuit. The Customer Portal allows Customer to request an immediate power cycle (a "Reboot Request"). This SLA applies only to requests for power cycling initiated through such automated system. The figure listed above is the maximum period between the time of the Reboot Request and either the actual server power cycling or notice to Customer that the power cycling failed. To qualify for a credit, Customer must open a Case requesting a manual server power cycle.
Credits for this Part VIII will be issued against Basic Server Fees only.
- 24 x 365 on-site security
ServePath will ensure the presence of a professional security guard in the Facility at all times, charged with enforcing ServePath's security policies. (Those policies require, among other things, that ServePath employees, vendors, and visitors wear a badge and that visitors who have not been issued a permanent badge leave a valid U.S. driver's license or passport with the guard while in the Facility.)
X. 24 x 365 ENGINEERING SUPPORT
- 24 x 365 Engineering Support
ServePath will maintain support engineers actively on duty 24 hours per day, every day of the year. These engineers will provide support in the Facility, by telephone, or by online chat.
The following are required for credits:
- Customer must open a support case (a "Case") during the Failure in question. Customer will open all Cases through the Customer Portal. In opening a Case, Customer will provide complete information regarding the nature of the problem, including any information reasonably necessary for diagnosis and correction, by following the Case opening procedures at the Customer Portal. However, at ServePath's sole discretion, a ServePath representative may open a Case for Customer, without use of the Customer Portal, and Customer will provide all information required in the preceding sentence to the support representative. Customer will provide the information required in this Part XI.A even if ServePath provides monitoring services.
- Customer must provide ServePath with accurate and complete designated points of contact, using the Customer Portal. Customer must provide ServePath with accurate passwords for maintenance and repair use by ServePath engineers. Delays or failures caused by Customer's failure to abide by the requirements of this Part XI.B do not constitute Failures.
- Customer must request any credits by accurately completing the automated SLA Credit Request process online at the Customer Portal within 48 hours of the start of the Failure.
- The minimum period of Failure eligible for a credit is 60 seconds, and shorter periods will not be aggregated. The maximum credit for any single Failure is one month's Service fees. In the event that multiple periods of Failure overlap in time, credits will not be aggregated, and Customer will receive credit only for the longest such period of Failure. ServePath is not required to issue multiple credits for a single incident; in the event that a single incident calls for credits pursuant to multiple Parts of this SLA, ServePath may decide, in its sole discretion, which credits to award. The maximum credit during a single calendar year, for all Service features combined, is two months' Service fees, regardless of the length of Failure or the number of occurrences. The period of Failure for Network Performance and Power Availability & Performance (Parts II and VI above)begins when Customer opens a Case and ends when the Failure is remedied.
- In the event that credits for any calendar month exceed 25% of ServePath's revenues for such period, ServePath may reduce and pro-rate the value of credits given to all Customers for such period so that the aggregate credit given to all Customers does not exceed 25% of revenues. As used in the previous sentence, "ServePath's revenues" and "all Customers" refer to revenues and customers from Internet hosting services sold under the "ServePath" brand, and not to revenues or customers from any other business unit operating under another name or providing services other than or in addition to Internet hosting. ServePath may employ such accounting procedures as it chooses in calculating revenues, in its sole discretion, and nothing herein will be construed to require that ServePath disclose non-public information about its finances to Customer or to any party.
- Credits available pursuant to this SLA apply only to future service delivery. ServePath is not required to provide refunds pursuant to this SLA. If Customer's Signup provides for a Prepayment Period, credit will apply to any renewal of such Prepayment Period, but Customer may instead elect to apply credit to any additional ServePath products or services. If Customer retains a credit balance on termination of the account in question, such credit is forfeited. Notwithstanding the foregoing, credits will not be applied against fees for professional services, bundled support, or setup fees.
- Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this SLA, the following do not constitute Failures:
- downtime during scheduled maintenance or Emergency Maintenance (as defined below) periods;
- outages caused by acts or omissions of Customer, including its applications, equipment, or facilities, or by any use or user of the Service authorized by Customer;
- outages caused by hackers, sabotage, viruses, worms, or other third party wrongful actions;
- DNS issues outside of ServePath's control;
- outages resulting from Internet anomalies outside of ServePath's control;
- outages resulting from fires, explosions, or force majeure;
- outages to the Customer Portal, and
- failures during a "beta" period.
"Emergency Maintenance" refers to any corrective action intended to remedy conditions likely to cause severe Service degradation, as designated by ServePath in its sole discretion. Emergency Maintenance may include but is not limited to actions intended to address hardware or software failures or viruses/worms. As provided in Section 6 of the Terms of Service, ServePath will exercise reasonable efforts to inform Customer in advance before interrupting the Service for Emergency Maintenance, but such notice is not guaranteed and failure thereof does not constitute Failure.
In the event of any conflict between this SLA and the Terms of Service, the Terms of Service will govern.


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as a kid Earl,can remember the big walk in cooler and Mr. Fajen telling me it was unlimited!!!!Oh and the water pressure at that kennel was amazing......Jim
as a kid Earl,can remember the big walk in cooler and Mr. Fajen telling me it was unlimited!!!!Oh and the water pressure at that kennel was amazing......Jim
.............memories ...still in the making though!!!!
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I love threads like these! Please keep them coming guys.
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"Luck is the residue of design"- Branch Rickey
Mrs Merle Carr....and the only reason I know that is because Lanse like to name dogs after people in his life...as in FC AFC Eva Ethel Proby Weber is for Mrs Eva J Proby O/H of '87 NAFC FC Westwind Jemima Super Cake and Ethel Weber, wife of Vern Weber O/H FC AFC Webshire's Honest Abe
Merle is his newest singleton pup from Eva sired by Lee (World Famous Leroy Jolley) who is a son of NFC Two Rivers Willie
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"The Greatest Obstacle to Discovery is not Ignorance -- It is the Illusion of Knowledge" ~ Daniel Boorstin
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When the game becomes less of a game
Roald Hoffmann
THG is a "designer steroid." With so many sites for substitution on that skeleton of four fused rings, there are many ways to change this structure—medicinal chemists have been doing it for years. Many of the resulting molecules will have no physiological effect at all (remember epitestosterone?), others will be poisonous, and still others will prove to be anabolic and really harmful in large doses.
How harmful? The problem is that these drugs have seldom been studied in detail (excepting testosterone, of course). When used illegally by athletes, there is no standard dosage. Anecdotal evidence indicates that athletes are reaching steroid concentrations 5 to 30 times greater than the natural level of testosterone in the body. The list of potential effects begins with acne, hirsutism, changes in body shape and voice, and increased sebaceous gland activity. The list goes on to include permanent muscle fiber damage, breast enlargement in men, breast diminution in women, effects on sexual organs, and liver damage.
Asking the question "Why would anyone risk doing that to themselves?" ignores human nature and shifts the blame away from ourselves. Our gladiatorial (spectator!) instincts and our own active glorification of athletic prowess are important parts of what makes young people do such foolish things.
It is relatively easy to make new steroids and test, in a rough way, which are anabolic. An average chemist (as you see, no Ph.D. needed) can do it. The chemistry, like that involved in the transformation of cold-medicine pseudoephedrine to street-drug methamphetamine (another dismal story), is really simple. The making of some steroids may require skillful hands. But they too can be hired.
So is this a losing battle? To the extent that we are struggling against ourselves, to the extent that our clamor for sports victory perversely encourages the formation of muscle at any cost (voilà! 300-pound football players in high school), it's hard to think that anything will change. A few will maim themselves for the dream of money or fame. The market to supply them, to think up ever more ingenious ways of subverting the doping tests, will not disappear. And chemists somewhere will do the dirty work. Of course, the institutions we create, that one might think would control unfair and illegal use, are no better. The reaction of the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association to the Mitchell report was shamefully evasive and legalistic.
The hope is that there is a strong place in the human dream for a level playing field. And a special feeling for the disastrous effect steroid use can have on children, whose aspirations are focused on athlete-heroes and heroines. The national and international anti-doping agencies can also hire good chemists, and develop tests for potential new anabolic steroids. We can relearn to see the action in our softball teams, instead of the "major" leagues (for a kid who lived on Bedford Avenue, the world ended anyway when the Dodgers left Ebbets Field). And I will keep on cycling, on my own Tour de Ithaca.
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