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PNMS was jointly established by Neusoft Medical and Philips in 2004
Singapore: Neusoft, an IT solution and service provider in China with operations across the globe, has signed a term sheet with Philips on the proposed transaction of shares and assets in Philips and Neusoft Medical Systems. According to the term sheet, Neusoft's wholly-owned subsidiary Neusoft Medical System and its overseas associates intend to acquire 51 percent equities in PNMS held by Philips.
PNMS was jointly established by Neusoft Medical and Philips in 2004 with a registered capital of $29.6 million. Philips and Neusoft Medical held 51 percent and 49 percent equities, respectively. PNMS is specialized in R&D and production of medical systems such as CT scanners, MRI, ultrasound and X-ray equipments that are branded with Neusoft and Philips respectively and put into the market through their respective marketing networks for global markets.
Upon the completion of the proposed transaction, all intellectual property rights of PNMS will be shared by both Neusoft and Philips. In addition, a team of approximately 100 to 150 computed tomography (CT) system and component engineers and supporting staff will transfer from the joint venture to Philips.
According to Neusoft, the joint venture had fulfilled its mission over the past years, as evidenced by a large number of competitive products and intellectual property rights. The successful performance of PNMS has built solid foundation for both sides to further optimize their respective global deployment and improve their competitiveness. With this transaction, Neusoft and Philips will be able to develop new products based on their previous achievements in a more flexible manner in line with their respective strategies, which will further support their long-term strategic targets and plans and better help them cope with new opportunities and challenges in the global market.
Based on Neusoft Medical and Philips' best practices in medical systems, PNMS has been committed to technology innovation and development of new products, achieving many technical breakthroughs and patents. Its product portfolio includes four categories, 10 series and 20 models, with 17 FDA certificates and 17 CE certificates. These products are widely used in approximately 70 countries and regions around the world. Over the past years since its establishment, PNMS has provided premium products for Neusoft to expand global market, and enriched Philips' product portfolio, making great contribution to promoting Neusoft and Philips' competitiveness in the global arena.
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Family: Cactaceae, Cactus view all from this family
Description A very spiny cactus, commonly a shrub, occasionally a small tree with short trunk. The stout, jointed, cylindrical, irregular spreading to slightly drooping branches are leafless except when young.
Habit: native perennial shrub or tree; upright with spreading crown, much-branched, with twisting stems.
Height: 3-10 ft (1-3 m) or more;
Trunk diameter: 6 in (15 cm).
Bark: blackish-brown, becoming scaly and rough, spineless.
Twig: segmented, braided, gray-green; each pad 2.5-6.5 in (6-16 cm) long or more, 0.8-1.4 in (2-3.5 cm) diameter.
Leaf: barbed spine, silvery-yellow becoming gray, to 1.2 in (3 cm) long; in cluster of 0-18 per areole; on young segments, spines are plentiful and almost obscure the stem; older segments have fewer, shorter spines.
Flower: pink to magenta, 1 in (25 mm) wide; borne at end of joints, and on fruit.
Fruit: oval to pear- or barrel-shaped, bumpy and wrinkled, persistent, pale green becoming gray-green, to 2 in (5 cm) long 1-1.75 in (25-45 mm) diameter; may persist for years; held in long branching chain.
Warning These cacti have sharp spines with tiny barbed hairs called glochids that can cause painful wounds and are difficult to remove from the skin.
Flower April to September.
Habitat Dry, sandy soil: Sonoran desert scrub, sandy flats, rocky slopes, rolling hillsides, forming dense "cactus forests" in deserts; 1000-3600 ft (300-1100 m); also cultivated as an ornamental.
Range Native to the desert Southwest, from California east to New Mexico, into northwestern Mexico.
Discussion Recently reclassified as Cylindropuntia fulgida var. fulgida. Also known as chain-fruit cholla, jumping chain-fruit cholla, hanging chain cholla. Collection restricted in Arizona.
The common name Cholla (pronounced CHAW-ya or CHO-ya), meaning skull or head in Spanish, is applied to various shrubby cacti with jointed branches, of which this species is the largest. Its segments or joints, easily detached by touching, adhere to clothing and skin. They are fancifully said to jump out and attack passersby, especially when ones back is turned, as the common name implies. The dead, weathered, woody skeletons of the stems, forming hollow cylinders with many holes, are used in making novelties. Fruit and seeds of cacti are consumed in great quantities by wildlife of many kinds, especially rodents. Detached branches will root and start new plants, spreading on some rangelands.


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I am continuing my thread series, but to stay up-to-date with current events, am switching the forum that will host it.
It seems fitting, as this might be the last ROTJ vehicle poll.
This thread will discuss primarily the vehicle in the title of the thread (in this case an Updated TIE Interceptor from ROTJ).
I will cover several unmade vehicles for the action figures per week, choosing them from a rotating schedule through the movies and the Expanded Universe.
I'll order it TPM, AOTC, ROTS, ANH, ESB, ROTJ, EU, and then keep going back through the order in that manner.
So here I'm only asking you if you'd buy an Updated TIE Interceptor Vehicle from ROTJ.
The latest re-release of this vehicle started is still in stores, however it hasn't been made with larger wings. I'm not even sure that a correctly scaled TIE Interceptor has larger wings. Please feel free to discuss that too.
Brian @ Hasbro has updated so many fighter cockpits and made improvements to the ships that I'm not even sure what cockpit mold to use for this one.
Another update to the wings (besides launching off to simulate battle damage) would be to have HIDDEN launching missiles that shoot out of them (either on the wing tips, or in the central connection area).
You could place slide-out guns that hide themselves well on the underside of the cockpit, too - similar to the Darth Vader TIE Fighter mold that's out there, to keep this being even more fun for the kids.
I have longed for a TIE Fighter with Ben Burt's Oscar-Award-Winning Sound Effects (the rattlesnake blaster cannons and the lion-roar fly-bye noise of the ion engines). Green light-ups on the laser cannons would be great, too!
So do you want the TIE Interceptor updated?
What other features would you want on it?
Why would you NOT want it?
What price range is fair, and what is predictable for this to be retailed for?
How do you think it would sell if produced?
IN ADDITION TO DISCUSSING THIS VEHICLE, I'd like your recommendations for any other ROTJ vehicle poll we might do. Otherwise, I think this is the last one from ROTJ.
Our ROTJ results are as follows:
No - Imperial Shuttle
Yes - Tatooine Skiff
Yes - Jabba's Sailbarge
No - Mon Calamari Star Cruiser
Yes - new speederbikes
?? - TIE Interceptor
There are no other vehicles strictly indiginous to ROTJ except for:
Neither of which really need any update and have had recent releases, too.
But the poll series will go on with TPM, AOTC, ROTS, ANH, ESB, and the EU regardless of whether we stop with the category of ROTJ.
Let me know if that's OK with you, and please discuss the TIE Interceptor.
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Bishop EW Jackson calling on Christians to leave the dems. I am not much on religious politics, but thought it interesting that the Bishop was once a great supporter...
Bishop EW Jackson calling on Christians to leave the dems. I am not much on religious politics, but thought it interesting that the Bishop was once a great supporter...
"I'm gonna lean up against you, and you lean up against me. That way we don't hafta sleep with our heads in the mud"Forrest Gump, 1994
You will not see any response from the liberals on this site towards this article. The Bishop spoke the truth and it is impossible to spin the truth when it is so glaring. The Dems are turning their back on God and our Christian way of life.
Good article
My opinion
Here's the way I see it, anyone of these self proclaimed Bishops, Popes or whatever they call themselves are not worth even discussing, so I don't think either party needs to defend themselves against any arguments by them. If the Grand Monk of the KKK comes out in favor of the Dem. or Reb. party its best to let it go, these retards don't speak for any party, no use embellishing them.
How credible!...and so typical. Another atheist marxist proffers his view..."and By God...that's the way we should all believe!!!" Talk about 'retards'...how about sycophantic toads?
The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but the citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency.
It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency, than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president.
The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us.
Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.
The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those that made him their President.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
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There is a reason that the founding fathers (most deist) wanted seperation of church and state. Man should not tell another man how to worship their God. Bill just look back in history at the agendas the so called men of god had and ask yourself how godlike they were.


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Who rules Egypt, and who will rule it tomorrow? After 30 years the Hosni Mubarak period is coming to a close, but how the period ends—in violence and turmoil, or on a stable path to democracy—remains unclear. Mubarak's insistence on staying in office until the bitter end may sacrifice the opportunity for a peaceful transition. His defiance is bringing Egypt's Army closer and closer to the fateful decision to turn against the people—the only alternative to throwing Mubarak out.
Mubarak's fatal mistakes in recent years, the products of aging, his wife's dynastic ambitions, and the distance from the people that three decades in office made almost inevitable, were to refuse even minimal reforms and to leave his son Gamal as his potential successor. This presented Egyptians with a nightmare vision after last November's parliamentary elections were stolen: thirty more years of Mubaraks, without a scintilla of change or reform. That was the dry tinder; Tunisia was the spark that set it off.
The Army did not immediately take sides. It was initially smart enough to say it would not fire on the demonstrators and turn Tahrir Square into an Egyptian Tiananmen, but the institution waited to see whether Mubarak's hard line would pay off and the demonstrations would flag. The military was complicit in the worst day of significant violence, when it withdrew so that thugs could attack the crowds in Tahrir Square. That violence did not cow the protesters and taught the Army a lesson: Mubarak and his crowd were mishandling things and could be dangerous for the institution. So when Mubarak lost the bet that a whiff of regime violence would clear the streets, he was forced to step back. He appointed a vice president and announced that he would not run again (nor would his son run) for president—a concession that would have avoided this entire historic confrontation had it been made a few months earlier. The Army waited to see if the protests petered out.
When labor unions, lawyers' associations, and finally even government employees joined the defiant demonstrators early last week, it seemed the people were not abandoning the struggle and Mubarak would have to go. But the old man refused: when he spoke on Thursday night he claimed that some of his powers would be delegated to Omar Suleiman, his new vice president, but he refused to step down. Put another way, even in the face of gigantic public opposition, the Army refused to push him out. Instead, Suleiman spoke right after Mubarak and told the protesters to leave the Square and go back to work. Their demands would be met, he promised, through a national dialogue and free elections in the fall. Hours later the Army high command weighed in, backing the Mubarak/Suleiman plan and repeating Suleiman's call for all demonstrations to end. The Army communiqué added that the emergency law would be lifted as soon as the demonstrations did, and free elections would be held.
It is already clear that neither these promises nor these commands will cool the desire for real change and for Mubarak's departure. The Mubarak and Suleiman speeches were re-runs of "Father Knows Best" and might have been designed to incite the opposition: full of paternalistic claptrap about their love for Egypt and its youth, blaming all problems on foreigners and satellite networks, and bathed in the mawkish patriotism that for a half century has been used to justify the military dictatorship. The public is unlikely to accept Mubarakism without Mubarak, especially when that bargain is offered by Mubarak himself, clinging to his post. Egyptians appear to want what in essence Tunisians have won: genuine change. Tunisians mocked and raged when such change was promised by Ben Ali; Egyptians are rejecting Mubarak's poisoned offer.
So the Egyptian Army will still face the binary choice it has sought to avoid: to back Mubarak and use force to suppress the populace, or present itself as the savior of the people and the state and throw him out. As the days go by the chances for a good outcome diminish—an outcome where a united military delivers the country from Mubarak to a far more open system. Omar Suleiman might have played the leading role in that happy drama, but has squandered his prestige on saving Mubarak. Instead, it is increasingly likely that the military will split. After regime thugs used violence in Tahrir Square two weeks ago, the new prime minister—Gen. Ahmed Shafiq, a former Air Force commander—let it be known that he disapproved and might resign. Perhaps this was disingenuous, but it is a very small taste of what may come. One danger is that the 70 year old generals who have feathered nests and who are personally loyal to Mubarak may want to stick with him far longer than 40 or 50 year old officers who want long careers after Mubarak is gone. If the Army uses violence against the populace, some general or colonel may refuse orders to fire and turn the tanks around. Last week an assassination attempt on Suleiman was reported; additional attempts against him and even against Mubarak are not impossible.
If the demonstrations grow and grow, it is still likely that the Army will in the end reverse itself and turn against Mubarak. The institution that is the ultimate guard against an Islamist effort to seize power, or against sheer anarchy, is threatened by Mubarak's insistence that he must follow the Constitution and cannot resign. Few Egyptians will miss the irony: this man who for decades violated the rights their constitution guarantees them now seeks to hide behind it in order to protect his position. But if the military stays absolutely united behind Mubarak and Suleiman and suppresses the movement for democracy, it is sowing the seeds for a real and bloody revolution just a few years down the road.
All this is Hosni Mubarak's disastrous legacy. For thirty years he ruled under an emergency law that he used to crush all moderate and centrist parties. Not a single significant step toward democracy was taken during all those years of quiet. He will leave behind a Muslim Brotherhood stronger now than when he came to power. Under him, Egypt's prestige and influence in the Arab League and throughout the region have declined to an historic low. To hang on these extra months he has thrust the country into chaos. The longer it continues the harder it will be for Egypt to find a path to real democracy. And the easier it will be for extremists to seize the opportunities that chaos always presents.
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The Impact of the February Cuts
The Jets were clearly very active Monday night and began the purging of the roster as they gear up for the 2011 season, whenever it may be, and the free agents they need to sign. Some of the moves, such as the release of RT Damien Woody, seemed a bit shortsighted since they had no payments due until deep in the 2011 season, but I have been told that the NFL is accelerating all money of players into the 2010 league year and no dead money will be carried into 2011. Just like everything that I put on the site I will not say with 100% certainty that is the case, but considering the timing of these moves it seems like a logical assumption and the one I will be going with until told otherwise. So that was why the team rushed into those moves tonight rather than waiting until the season resumes and a new CBA is reached. Lets look at the players and what the team saved:
Vernon Gholston
With the exception of the Raiders JaMarcus Russell, Gholston will go down as the worst draft choice of the decade. He is probably the worst draft choice the Jets have made in over 20 years and a total black eye on the front office, which is why they tried to push the story that he was the pick of Eric Mangini. Gholston ended his Jets career with as many sacks as I have and the same amount as almost everyone reading this. If there was some solace to be found in the pick it is that he was so bad that he could not earn the impossible to not earn bonuses and escalators in his rookie deal that would have made him impossible to cut. Russell earned his and cost the Raiders a fortune in cash when they dumped him.
The Jets had already reworked his deal once and apparently banked on this as being an out. He was scheduled to earn $555,000 in salary and a $250,000 workout bonus in 2011. He also had a roster bonus on the books for $2,565,000 that likely had already accelerated to $9,195,000 for participation in over 20% of the defensive snaps. His prorated money tied into salary advances and signing bonuses totaled over $2.9 million for the year and $5.8 million over the course of the year. By cutting him before the new league year began the Jets will shave at least $6,273,333 from the books as well as $2.9 million of prorated money that would have accelerated had he been cut from the team in March. If the Jets would like to bring him back for a look he would likely earn $555,000 with a small workout bonus.
Kris Jenkins
Jenkins is a victim of the uncapped year in the same way that Alan Faneca was a big winner in the uncapped year. The Jets could not release Faneca due to cap rules, allowing Faneca to earn over $5 million from the Jets despite never playing a down for them in 2010. This is the exact opposite as Jenkins would have had an opportunity to renegotiate his contract in a normal year, but labor uncertainty gave that no chance. Jenkins is no longer able to stay healthy and the Jets have paid him nicely for what has amounted to just a handful of games played since 2008. With a one million dollar bonus looming early in March there was no way the Jets could keep him on the roster.
Jenkins also made some negative comments in the past week about the Jets strength and training regimen which likely did not help his position and probably foreshadowed what he knew was coming. It was clear during the season that Jenkins was preparing for his post NFL career and the Jets did not want to pay him anything only to have him walk away in August or even worse see him get injured in camp and then owe him a years worth of salary. The Jets will save $5.5 million in cash, $6.4 million in cap space, and an additional $900,000 in future dead money with the release. Jenkins would never come back for the minimum so if he was to return it would be on an incentive laden deal with a split salary of sorts if he got injured.
Damien Woody
Woody tried to play through a seemingly endless barrage of injuries this year, before he finally had to shut it down. Like Jenkins, he has been around for a long time and seemed to be preparing for a post NFL career after he was shut down for good. This was a pure cap dump as the Jets will shave $510,000 in dead money for 2011 and another $510,000 in potential dead money in 2012 by making the move now. I think it was well known that Woody had no chance of seeing the contracted money when he signed with the Jets in 2008 and clearly there were no bitter feelings on his part based on his Twitter interaction with the fans. That probably means the door is open for a return and at this stage of his career, where he would probably be an emergency backup if Vladimir Ducasse can not play in the NFL, he would probably go for the veterans minimum type contract which carries a minimal cap charge and would likely pay him around $900,000. The Jets will save $3,750,000 in cash and $4,260,000 in cap room with Woody's release.
Jason Taylor
There is really no savings in this move unless Taylor earned a $10,000,000 roster bonus last season, which does not seem possible. Taylor seemed to enjoy his year with the Jets far more than his time with the Redskins, but he is a Dolphin at heart and as soon as Bill Parcells left that organization I think the wheels began turning in Taylor's mind that maybe he could go back there one final time. There is also the fact that Taylor hired a second agency last year to represent him for non-football endeavors which is a sign that he is seriously considering hanging things up. Between those factors and the fact that he never participates in any offseason programs it made little sense to have him tying up cap space while contemplating his future. Dumping him now leaves the sides on good terms if he decides come July that he wants to play football. The Jets will save $2,275,000 in both cash and cap space.
So where does the team stand after all these moves?
In terms of budgeting they have now chopped $14,895,000 off the books, a significant chunk of change to use to re-sign Braylon Edwards and Santonio Holmes. They should chop off about $19,208,333 off the cap figure in 2011. If the information I have about the money being accelerated is wrong then the figure will be $10,581,666 in cap room created by the moves. Once you factor in David Harris' franchise number the Jets cap figure should be around $110 million when the free agency period begins. That is about $13 million lower than where the 2009 cap would have been had it been a regular NFL season. In the worst case scenario they would be at $119 million if there is dead money brought forward from these cuts.
The team still has significant leeway with their cap in 2011 with QB Mark Sanchez carrying a cap charge of over $17 million, a number that can easily be reduced by converting salary into signing bonus. In addition, Bryan Thomas would give the Jets another $3.2 million in room if released. So the bottom line is the Jets should have a tremendous amount of flexibility with what they decide to do in 2011.


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Mr T's I Pity The Fowl (T) six months old 06/03/13.
great pictures
I ignore stupidity unless you bring it to my attention!
Crystal Coast Labradors
CCL Return To Sender
N Sana Te
Awesome! Love the name
Great Ballz of Fire QAA (Maverick)
Nice pics. What camera did you use?
Wetsel's HWR West Texas Gal - "Baylee"
"If you train a young dog for momentum, precision will arrive. If you train for precision, demanding perfection, momentum will depart" - Rex Carr
"Dogs are like savings accounts, you only get out of em' what you put into em'"
The Manitowoc grounds look great.... so does the pup!
FC Tribute to Justice, JH "Honor"
FC AFC Contempt of Court "Ruckus"
Medal Of Honor, QAA "Valor"
HRCH Kirby's High Sierra, SH, QAA "Kirby" Feb. 19, 2002 - Aug. 14, 2014
HRCH Niki Snowbird, SH, QAA "Niki" July 22, 2001 - May 11, 2015
Southland Order In the Court, QAA "Gavel" July 17, 2002- March 24, 2013
Southland Rusty Nail - derby points, qual placements "Rusty"
Disoderly Conduct "Chaos" -qual placements
Lookin' good!
Sharon Potter
Chesapeake Bay Retrievers...too many to list.
Team Huntsmith
I guess I'm too dumb to make the connection between the title and the dogs name. I couldn't understand why it wasn't a dog running single T or something.
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An investiture ceremony for author, chef and television presenter Peta Mathias will be held at Government House in Auckland today.
Mathias, who is well known for her culinary work, was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in last year's Queen's Birthday honours.
The ceremony, to be hosted by Governor-General Lieutenant General Sir Jerry Mateparae, is being held early because Mathias will be overseas at the time of the investiture ceremonies in May and September.


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70kg Eight Man Tournament on Mar. 24 with Henri van Opstal, Armen Petrosyan
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The month of March this year is insanely stacked for kickboxing and Muay Thai. Another event to look forward to in March takes place on the 24th at Haarlem Fight Night in Haarlem, Holland.
The event will feature an eight man tournament at 70kg. Armen Petrosyan and Henri van Opstal are the biggest names in the tournament, which also features veterans like Anthony Kane and William Diender, as well as up and comers like Robbie Hageman. The full tournament lineup is as follows:
Henri van Opstal
Armen Petrosyan
Anthony Kane
William Diender
Robbie Hageman
Kevin Hessling
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Lake Bonney is a saline lake with permanent ice cover at the western end of Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is 7 km long and up to 900 meters wide. A narrow channel only 50 meters wide (Lake Bonney at Narrows) separates the lake into East Lake Bonney (3.32 km²) and West Lake Bonney (0.99 km²). To the north and south of the lake lie peaks that are over 1500 m above sea level, and the Taylor Glacier is positioned to the west of the lake. It is 130 feet (40 m) deep and is perpetually trapped under 12 feet (3.7 m) to 15 feet (4.6 m) of ice. It was first visited by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. It was named by the Scott expedition of 1910-1913, for Thomas George Bonney, professor of geology at University College London, England from 1877 to 1901. after wikipedia, more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Bonney_ (Antarctica)


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Danica Patrick vs Anna Kournikova
Posted on 1 Sep 2011 by Steven Keys.
She was the Danica Patrick of her day. In the late 90s it was Anna Kournikova who was turning heads. She did this as much with her strong court play as the ease with which she made a tennis skirt look so damn nice. Though at first blush Patrick and Kournikova might seem worlds apart. One, a Soviet born, blonde tennis pro; the other, a raven-haired, Midwestern race-car driver. But apples 'n or...


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Huge Show This Friday At Lumpini Stadium
- Written by Dave Walsh
This Friday Lumpini Stadium will host the biggest Muay Thai show of the year thus far. The card features some of the best Muay Thai fighters in the world, and a handful of titles will be on the line. There are four fights on the card that should get any fight fan excited.
The first being 2002 fighter of the year Singdam Kiatmoo9 vs. Petchboonchu F.A Group who was the 2008 fighter of the year runner up. This fight will be for the World Muay Thai Council Lightweight Championship. Petchboonchu is a very limited fighter, but he is great at what he knows, and that is moving forward on his opponent to tie them up and throw knees to the body. Singdam is a more well rounded fighter, but his beat weapon is his right kick to the body. The type of fighters who give Singdam the most trouble are fighters who move forward, and throw kicks and punches. Petchboonchu does not do that. Singdam should be able to land his kicks, and when it does go to the clinch he'll be good enough to land his share of knee's, and get out without taking too many shots. This bout has decision written all over it, and the more well rounded fighter Singdam Kiatmoo9 will take home the points wins.
The next fight is for Lumpini's Super Bantamweight championship. Thong Puideenaidee takes on Sam-A Kaiyanghadaogym, who is known for taking on the name Sam-A Thor. Ratonakiat in the past. Thong is a very talented fighter, but sometimes leaves you scratching your head, meaning he can be inconsistent. It's not good to be inconsistent against a fighter like Sam-A, who is the epitome of consistency. Either Thong puts it all together and takes the wins via points in a close fight, or Sam-A does his thing and takes home a a late stoppage or a clear cut decision win. Smart bet would be Sam-A on points.
In the co main event you have Sagetdao Petpaiyathai vs. Saenchai Sinbimuaythai. This is for Sagetdao's Lumpini LW title. These guys have met in the past on several occasions with each taking wins from the other. I'd normally favor Saenchai to take this fight even though he will be the smaller fighter, but there are some questions about his health. He was scheduled to fight last month against Petchboonchu F.A Group but had to pull out due to illness. Also there are reports that one of his knee's is in bad shape. If he's not close to 100% in this fight he will lose a decision. Saenchai will likely be the betting favorite, but I'd put my money on Sagetdao to take the mild upset.
The main event pits current fighter of the year Kongsak Sitboonmee vs. 2005 fighter of the year, Nong-O Kaiyanghadaogym, who recently switched from his more well known name of Nong-O Sit Or. This is for Nong-O's Lumpini Super Featherweight strap. It is about as close of a fight as you could ask for. Nong-O has lost 4 in a row, but all of those losses were close, or highly controversial. Kongsak on the other hand hasn't lost in well over a year, with his most recent bout being a controversial draw against Sam-A. Both of these fighters are highly skilled, and have very little weakness. If I had to give the edge to one of them it would be Kongsak based on his ability to not let other fighters dictate the fight. If he delivers one of his elbow barrages he can stop Nong-O and his questionable chin. If not, this will go 5 competitive rounds. 55/45 edge to Kongsak, but either way, this should be a master class display of Muay Thai.


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Tutorial Details: Introduction to Biomolecular Simulation Using CHARMM
|Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
|402 Walter
|Assistant Professor Yuk Y Sham PhD, Center for Drug Design
CHARMM (Chemistry at HARvard Macromolecular Mechanics) is an academically and commercially distributed software for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.
It is used extensively to simulate the dynamic behavior of molecular and biomolecular systems as well as free energy calculations. This tutorial will cover the basic fundamental theory to MD simulation and how an MD simulation can be used to study the conformational dynamics of a biomolecular system. This tutorial will also show you how to write simple command files for doing a simple MD simulation and carry out a typical analysis in CHARMM.
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Man kills father in Wyoming bow-and-arrow attack
WYOMING (AP) — Police released more details Saturday of a grisly murder-suicide at a Wyoming community college, saying a man shot his father in the head with a bow and arrow in front of a computer science class not long after fatally stabbing his father's live-in girlfriend at their home a couple of miles away.
Computer science instructor James Krumm, 56, may have saved some of his students' lives Friday by giving them time to flee while trying to fend off his son, Christopher Krumm, 25, of Vernon, Connecticut, Casper Police Chief Chris Walsh said.
"I can tell you the courage that was demonstrated by Mr Krumm was absolutely without equal," he said, adding that his actions could offer some measure of comfort to those affected by the killings.
Walsh said police still were trying to figure out what motivated Christopher Krumm to attack his father and girlfriend, 42-year-old Heidi Arnold, a math instructor at the college. Arnold was found stabbed to death in front of the home she shared with James Krumm.
After shooting his father with the arrow, Christopher Krumm stabbed himself, then fatally stabbed his father in the chest in a struggle in the classroom, Walsh said.
Police arrived to find James Krumm dead and Christopher Krumm barely living; the younger Krumm died soon after students fled in a panic. Authorities locked down the campus for two hours.
Police began getting reports about the attack on Arnold soon after they responded by the dozen to the campus attack.
Christopher Krumm had smuggled the compound bow — a type much more powerful and effective for hunting than a simple, wooden bow — onto campus beneath a blanket, Walsh said.
He said Christopher Krumm also had two knives with him, and the knife used was "very large."
"It's one of those situations you don't think is going to come home. It's not going to happen here," Walsh said.
Arnold died of multiple stab wounds. Her body was found in the gutter of her street, and evidence suggested much of the attack occurred outside the home, Walsh said.
Heather Meier, who lives across the street, said she came home from work Friday afternoon after picking up her 7-year-old daughter from school, and the two saw Arnold's body still lying in the street.
"As soon as we got home, we just shut the curtains," she said. "You know, tried to just watch some TV, have some snacks, mind our own business."
Meier, who has lived in the neighbourhood for two years, said she met Arnold and James Krumm only once a few months ago and described the couple as very private.
"They were kind of different. Really quiet. Nothing really to say to anybody," she said Saturday. Outside her home, crime tape cordoned off Krumm and Arnold's faded blue and yellow home and part of the street.
Christopher Krumm, who had no significant history of encounters with police, had recently driven to Casper from Connecticut and had been staying at a local hotel.
Police were uncertain what went awry in Christopher Krumm's relationship with his father.
"It's difficult to say. I don't think it was very close," Walsh said.
Meanwhile in Vernon, Conn., police Sgt. Timothy O'Connor said officers executed a search warrant at Christopher Krumm's last known address Friday to help investigators in Casper. He didn't know what investigators were looking for or may have found at the residence.
"Whatever was recovered will be turned over to Wyoming because it is an active investigation," O'Connor said.
Christopher Krumm's previous addresses include one in the western Massachusetts city of Springfield and others in the Colorado cities of Golden, Fort Collins and Lakewood.
Casper, population 56,000, is about 250 miles northwest of Denver and Wyoming's second-largest city after the state capital, Cheyenne. Wyomingites refer to Casper as the "Oil City" because it is a hub of the state's oil industry.


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Right, I can subscribe to /articles.xml to get a RSS feed of the articles, but /recentlogs.xml doesn't exist.
Is there a way to get a RSS feed of the recent logs from Advogato?
Hmm, I've been lacking in updating the diary a bit... Oh well. Today I am at home nursing a yucky cold, so I thought I'd write an entry.
Work is getting better recently - less assembler, low-level C and debugging, and more Java interface coding. I used to like Swing, but after using GTK+ 2, Swing has some really annoying features. A total lack of a single decent layout component, for starters. To help in the future I am planning on writing a clone of libglade for Swing, so I can design a UI using Glade, and then load it at runtime in Java. I'm not entirely sure how all this would work though, but I will at least need to write clones of the GTK+ layout components.
Book wise - I finished the The Return of the King, The Time Machine, started to read War of the Worlds (which bought back many memories of listening to the vinyl when I was 10). I'm currently re-reading Use of Weapons, and have Iain Bank's latest, Dead Air, sitting on my desk. I hope it's good, The Business didn't really do anything for me.
The best news I've seen for a long time is that Babylon 5 series 1 DVDs are being released in England, contatry to some people. I found play.com does them, with a very respectable discount.
Web Site
I finally uploaded the new layout (stolen from MovableType) to burtonini.com. All I need to do now is find a suitable smalll PHP based content server, which also does URL re-writing. I'd like to use AxKit but my hosting side doesn't run mod_perl. This looks interesting though, so I'll wait for mglazer to unveil the demo site.
URL re-writing is an essential part of the system, as the most annoying part of the dynamic web for me is seing URLs such as http://www.foo.com/page.pl?content=welcome. Totally uncachable by any proxy servers on web browsers, as the content could change every second. Of course, the appropriate cache control headers could be added as well, but then my objection is the vile URL.
Want Pie Now!
http://www.weebl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ is just damn cool. The best stuff is in the Weebl and Bob section.
I really like Ray of Light by Madonna, the semi-electric sound and heavy beats are really cool. The producer is William Orbit, and I've been listening to some more of his work, but nothing I've found has the same feel. Any one know some similar artists? (I've already got some Massive Attack and Portishead albums)
Discovered the blogChalking web site today, seems like a good idea — let Google handle the strain of searching the web for bloggers in certain areas. Anyway, my (slightly inconsistant) blogchalk is:
English, United Kingdom, Bishops Stortford, London, Ross, Male, 21-25
So there you go.
Tube Strikes
Yet another tube strike for London, apparently one of the best (or worse, depending on your point of view) with zero trains running during the rush hour. I'll all for the tube strikes — I don't want to be in a tube crash or fire and die — but I'd really have appreciated it if they had waited two weeks so the major deadline at work had past... :(
However, I survived the strikes and walked from Liverpool Street straight down to London Bridge (took 15 minutes) and jumped on a train to Croydon, so I wasn't too late to work. One person at work who lives in Highbury left his house at 0600 and was in the office at 0700, which is just plain silly!
Digital TV
As you may or may not know, the digital TV licenses were awarded to the BBC, who are going to broadcast 24 free digital channels. This is really good news (the government plans to turn off analolgue is 2010 IIRC) but for mass-adoption of digital to actually happen, the decoders need to be cheap. At the moment, they are selling for around £150, so I believe. I was talking to my girlfriend about this and we agreed that a small decoder which only handled the free channels, and only cost £50, is all that is required to 'make' digital TV.
So, you can imagine I was quite happy when I found out that they will be £50. :)
One problem however: my "local" transmiter is at Crystal Palace, where I moved from four months ago, and now is on the wrong side of London... They make no promises about the quality of reception... This is silly — I live on the Herts/Essex border, in a highly populated area, and there is no local digital transmitter?
Working and working and...
10 more days and I finally get to have some time off from work! It has been totally manic recently, with major deadlines flying past. That is bad, but when it's due to the suppliers of the hardware/software that we are trying to use... it's maddening. Compilers for which the documentation does not match the manual, which is also wrong. Useless support staff. Simulators which randomly crash unless you set a breakpoint on the first instruction. Incomplete documentation, which arrives over time with the phrase "don't you have this?". GAR!
So at the end of the month I get to have a week off, and sleep. Once I've slept for a few days, I think I'll sit in the garden [looks out of window and watches the sun disappear], go and see Cambridge, do some shopping, and release gnome-games 2.0.2.
Is it me, or has #gnome really gone down-hill since 2.0.0 was released? Before the release it was a nice and generally friendly place to be, but now... I don't know. Maybe it is new users joining and just being vocal about things they don't like, and not quitting...
Freeze Dried Testicles!
I hate crappy C compilers, and I hate writing math libraries, and I hate it when I have to write math libraries with crappy compilers. For some obscure reason our perfect 64-bit math library totally fails on the 16-bit embedded processor we're targetting. Arse.
Today I discovered the joy of apt-get source -b package, as I rebuilt some of hadess's PPC packages from source for the i386 with minimum hassle. And I thought rpm-build -tb was easy...
Matching Windows
Sawfish (and Enlightenment so I am told) has a wonderful feature called matched windows. For people who have never used this before, they are a set of conditions and actions which are applied when a window is created.
I normally used matched windows to tell X-Chat to be sticky on all workspaces, and Gkrellm not to appear in the window list. Some people make Evolution appear mazimised on a certain desktop.
With the advent of GNOME 2 and the "crack-free" mindset, matched windows were not implemented in Metacity. Havoc's argument against them was that they were used to fix bugs in software, which is often the case &mdashl as in removing Gkrellm from the window list. Gkrellm should do that and is using the wrong hint (fixed in Gkrellm 2 by the way).
However, there are still some instances where matched windows are usefull. I always want X-Chat to appear on all desktops and I can't expect the application to be modified to do this. So I am writing a small window matching program, called Devil's Pie at the moment, using the wonderfully-named libwnck (the Window Navigator Constructor Toolkit I think).
At the moment a prototype works: X-Chat is made sticky as the window is created. I'm currently re-working the design to use GObjects via gob, as hand-coding GObjects with virtual methods is rather mind-numbing. The design is looking good, however, thought the interface will be fun to design. Copying the Sawfish configuration pane is not an option...
Counting Crows
Okay, I've listened to the album more and I think I like it. Some of the songs sound like singles, but the slower moody songs are much better. And anyone out there who was going to get the UK edition on import as it's "special" — don't. The two extra songs suck in a big way.
Thanks to lots of stress at work, my back is in a right state. The ache starts just above my arse and doesn't stop until the top of my neck. This is not good. Just what is the best position to sleep in with an sore back? At the moment I am trying to lay on my back, stretched out, but thats not very comfortable, so I'm tired as well... :(
Just to make it worse, my "asthma" is getting bad again for the first time in three years. I hope it doesn't carry on getting worse...
Scribe is the provisional name for my Dublin Core metadata editor. Python + GTK 2 + pluggable DC sources sounds like a good plan. There are specifications on embedding Dublin Core into HTML, and examples of into PNG, so I don't have to do too much thinking for the primary targets. All I have to do now is think up the architecture, and then start coding. If anyone is interested, please shout.
Counting Crows
Today I bought Hard Candy, their 4th album. Not a bad album, but still nowhere near as good as August and Everything After, which was just sublime. Shame.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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text: You are in the right part of the country,lot of RTF'ers in WI. If I was new and lived as close as you I would go and meet as many people as possible dog or not. The contacts you will make and knowledge will be a big plus down the road for you and fido. good luck with the new pup.


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By NEMS Daily Journal
The Lee County Board of Supervisors' authorization Monday to issue up to $8.5 million in bonds for a new E-911 communications system reflects the costs of high technology to keep all the necessary parties in touch when disaster strikes. Such situations require certainty in linking the 1,328 official radios using the emergency services operating in Lee County, plus the statewide system called MSWIN – Mississippi Wireless Integrated Network.
Yes, it's expensive, and will require a small tax increase, but the system to be replaced is 20 years old, 10 years past life expectancy. The new system, a Motorola product, will provide emergency coverage for all parts of Lee County and link into the statewide system. The new system will eliminate what's called "shadows" where coverage is patchy and unreliable.
Lee County Administrator Sean Thompson, who is a commissioner on the board overseeing E-911 in Lee County, said discussions started 12 years ago about a new system, two years before the normal life expectancy of the current system elapsed. Thompson said the new system is designed to meet county needs for 10 years.
Urgency was added to establishing and completing MSWIN when, in 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal Mississippi and stretched far inland, in the process destroying emergency communications.
So far, $140 million has been invested by federal sources in building the new statewide system, starting on the coast, moving into central Mississippi, and now into the northern third of the state.
"Hurricane Katrina taught us valuable lessons, one of the most important being the need for emergency responders to be able to communicate with each other," U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Jackson, said in a 2010 news conference.
The third phase will include 47 tower sites in northern Mississippi.
Thompson said it is probable that the advanced radios for the new system will be purchased first because they are operable on the existing system, then "flip a switch" to activate and use the new system's equipment when it is fully installed. Training, as needed, is included in the purchase price, which is expected to be somewhat less than $8 million.
Hurricane Katrina proved the necessity of a reliable, durable and compatible statewide emergency system. As then Gov. Haley Barbour noted, after Katrina it was not possible to communicate with some areas hit by the storm, requiring eyewitness checks even before the storm fully exited Mississippi.
MSWIN should meet Mississippi's need for the next decade.


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John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque
April 23 – July 18 2004
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Art Exhibitions Australia
Media release
15 April 2004
John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque is a major exhibition featuring 100 paintings, watercolours, drawings and sketches of Regency Britain and colonial Tasmania by John Glover that includes some of the earliest oil paintings of the Australian landscape.
The son of a Leicestershire farmer, John Glover achieved success as an artist in Britain from the 1790 to 1820 creating images with poetic appeal of the mountains and lakes of Europe. At the age of 63, he migrated with his wife and elder son to Van Diemen's Land to join his three younger sons who had settled in the new colony.
Glover was immediately struck by the vast beauty and the striking sunlight of the region. He unleashed his new-found inspiration with deliberate care and relentless attention to detail, creating images of the Tasmanian landscape and of the Aboriginal people that inhabited this ancient land.
In the last twenty years Glover's art has been reassessed as giving us a strong insight into our colonial beginnings. This exhibition is the largest collection of Glover's works ever assembled.
David Hansen, Senior Curator at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has dedicated six years to passionate research of Glover's work and life, retracing the artist steps through the fields and paddocks that Glover would have painted.
David Hansen said 'I am delighted the exhibition is coming to the National Gallery of Australia. Not only does the NGA hold a superb collection of early 19th-century paintings and drawings, but over the years its curators have contributed substantially to the re-evaluation of many colonial artists, Glover included.'
A major catalogue, accompanying the exhibition, features essays by David Hansen, John McPhee, Ian McLean, Erica Burgess, Max Staples and Roger Butler. This impressive catalogue is now available at the National Gallery of Australia Shop or online ngashop.gov.au.
Media Launch Details: 11am Thursday 22 April
Media contacts
Jenny Blake Head of Communications and Marketing +61 2 6240 6700
Alix Fiveash +61 2 6240 643


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Puerto Colombia, Colombia, South America. It was the main port during the end of the 19th century and early 20th century in Colombia and third largest port in the world for a period of time after it was built.
It stopped working as a port in 1947 when all operations moved to the nearest city of Barranquilla, in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. My grandfather, a german photographer, arrived to this port in 1933 on board the vessel "Codillera". This is the only know panorama of this magnificent bay before the pier collapsed during a storm on March 7, 2009. It survived 116 years after designed by Cuban Civil Engineer and Architect Francisco Javier Cisneros. This pier was the pride of Colombia for a period of time, since at a point it was considered the 3rd largest pier in the world. A true piece of engineering accomplishment for a the young South American nation.
It is little known fact that many immigrants looking for oportunities and a new life in the new continent, saw land for the very first time at this spot, after spending weeks crossing the ocean. Through this port came: Germans, Americans, Jews, Lebanese, French, Brits, Dutch, Spaniards, Italians and many other nationalities whose citizens helped develop the country and left an unforgettable memory by destining part of their lives, traditions and cultural baggage in this magic part of the world.
I was thinking about every single one of them when doing this project and this is my visual tribute...
~Rodrigo Blanco
This image was shot with a Nikon D2X RAW Format, using a 17-55mm Nikon ED ƒ2.8 lens, with a focal length of 40.0mm, ISO 200, ƒ/16, 1/160" on Sunday May 27, 2007, at 11:28 AM GMT-5:00. There are 10 images stitched using Photoshop CS4 Photo Merging.


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Graduate, professional school fair set, Nov. 9
Posted October 31, 2007; 05:55 p.m.
The Office of Career Services is hosting a graduate and professional school fair from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, in Dillon Gymnasium.
Representatives from more than 130 graduate, law, business, medical and other professional schools will be in attendance. A list of participating schools is available on the career services website.


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Description:Interface (Product) : StorageWorks FCA2404DC 2Gbps Fiber Channel Host Bus Adapter - For 32-bit Windows - Dual channel short wave 64-bit 133MHz PCI-X - Has LC connectorsPart Number(s)
Option Part# 323264-B21
Overview:The HP StorageWorks FCA2404DC is a dual port 2 Gb 133 MHz PCI-X to Fiber Channel HBA that supports Windows operating system connectivity between HP ProLiant servers to HP StorageWorks Disk Arrays. The operating systems versions supported are Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 32-bit connecting EVA V2 V3 EVA Lite HSG80 XP and VA storage arrays. PRODUCT FEATURES: high-performance: supports the latest 2 Gb PCI-X Fiber Channel interconnects with speeds of 400 MB/s; reliable: end to end parity protection; manageable: enables easier administration and remote management through SCSI Enclosure Services; open: supports multiple operating systems including Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003; flexible: supports ProLiant server connects to EVA HSG80 MSA1000 XP and VA arrays; upgradeable: offers investment protection with an upgrade path from 1 Gb to 2 Gb; scalable: automatic topology detection and automatic speed negotiation.


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Place Values: Comparing and Ordering Overview
Place Values: Compare and Order Numbers expands the concept of place values to comparing and ordering of the numbers.
With Place Values: Compare and Order Numbers students will:
- learn to apply mathematical symbols for less than, greater than, and equal
- learn to compare and order large numbers using place value concept
Interactive lesson is followed by interactive practice exercises and printable worksheets.
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Interactive Lesson
Practice Exercise
Printable Worksheet
Place Values: Comparing and Ordering is a fully integrated and interactive learning environment. The features of the course include:
- Aural and visual enhanced learning via the use of multi-media based INTERACTIVE LESSONS designed for independent self-paced learning.
- INTERACTIVE PRACTICE EXERCISES designed for a self-paced review and evaluation
- Thorough review and practice exercises through re-usable and printable WORKSHEETS


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Quick intro to myself - I'm an engineer at a big Unix company during the day (working on vaguely Open Source stuff), and I've written a couple of small PalmOS utilities in my spare time, which I released under the GPL. I haven't bothered adding them in here because they're really only small one-developer utilities, so there doesn't seem to be much point. Is this wrong?
Anyway, I've started a long-term experiment alongside my free software work. When I originally started the experiment, I didn't mean it as such - I meant it for real, but my life has changed in such a way since then that the goal is no longer 'real'. The experiment is, approximately, as follows:
- I have put some significant time and effort, and some small but real amounts of money into my PalmOS development, in order to produce free software. I am (so far) strictly a spare time free software developer, so this stuff is, in effect, my hobby.
- I have no intention (again, so far) of founding a free software company or moving from my nice new job to a risky job at a free software company.
- How can I make some money with this? Not serious money, but it would be nice to make enough that my 'investment' is repaid with more than a nice ego-boost and a lot of e-mails from people who haven't read my documentation. When I started this, I wasn't earning very much in my day-job, and I wasn paying quite a lot of rent, so it was a serious thing to try to get some return on my investment. Since then, I have moved job and house and I no longer have the kind of money pressure I had before. In some ways, that makes the experiment 'purer' according to the rules I would like to apply.
- I do not want to do anything as serious as moving job to a free software company or trying to found my own, or anything like that. I want some way, with minimum effort beyond that I already put into my coding, to make some money back from it. All I'm really after is covering my costs, particularly since my employer would probably be a bit worried if I was making real money from free software outside my job.
- Once the experiment has produced some serious results, I would like to document it, since I would imagine there are hundreds if not thousands of free software developers out there who are in a similar position (although they may need the money) who would appreciate an easy way to get some.
I have no problem with putting an effort into this. My problem is that I want to put the effort into the coding (and the support that goes with it) and find some low-maintainence way of covering my costs along with it. There are a couple of things which make my situation atypical and which therefore may affect the experiment: I'm in the UK, which has a couple of effects - there are quite a few money generation methods which are not available to me, like PayPal, and there are extra costs I have over US hackers like bandwidth - almost every 'net user in the UK is still paying per minute for access, and there is significant on-line time associated with this kind of activity. I'm also writing for PalmOS, which has some different dynamics from (for example) Linux as a platform - as an example, most PalmOS software is shareware or outright payware, so users may be more willing to pay voluntary donations since they are used to paying for software anyway.
So far, I would pick a figure of about £150 as my accrued costs which I'd like to cover. This is made up of attending a PalmOS developers conference last year (which I took a day off work to attend) for which I paid around £120, although I did win £250 worth of palmtop at the conference, and buying a copy of the O'Reilly book 'Palm Programming: The Developers Guide', plus incidental bits. I have been lucky that for most of the last year (since I released my first PalmOS program) I have managed to get home Internet access without paying for it by the minute, so I can't count that in, but for many non-US developers that would be added.
I've got two ways to earn money set up at the moment - voluntary donations and banner ads on my website. Although I set up the donation system a couple of months ago I only 'announced' it a few days ago. Since then, I've had around 15 views of the page on which I explain the system, and no payments - I do wonder how many payments I may have received if I'd have set this up a year ago, since I reckon I have had over 10,000 downloads of my software since then. The way I've set up the system, I have registered one of my programs with PalmGear which is, as far as I know, the biggest third-party Palm site on the web. The software is still marked as freeware in their database, but it is also in their shareware database with a $5 value. Unfortunately, they take a cut and there is a minimum payment threshold ($100), but that really doesn't matter unless I actual receive any payments :-)
The banner ads have so far earned me less than $10 - I am using Contentzone, almost at random, to serve the ads (remember - minimum effort), and although my site generates an average of about 4000 page views per month, the payout isn't huge. I'm sure there are better ways of doing it, but I do not want to manage the individual banners myself, and I don't quite get enough hits to use a more serious agency - most seem to want 5000 hits minimum per month, and although I got over that in August (and I'm not sure why) my average remains around 4000 hits per month.
The other thing I've come up with, but not set up yet, is Amazon (or Amazon-style) associates stuff on my website. One thing I like about that kind of thing (which also applies, although less 'purely', to the banner ads) is that users/supporters can give me money directly without it costing them anything. They can make a conscious decision to support me by clicking through on my page and buying something they would have bought anyway. On the other hand, Amazon is kind of out-of-favour right now, but I'd really prefer to do this kind of thing with sites in the UK (or at least sites which ship to the UK as a local ship). Unfortunately, most UK-native sites are pretty behind on that kind of thing, so they're mainly not of much use to me.
I've had a look through the 7 models presented by Eric Raymond in The Magic Cauldron and while most of them seem to apply to companies rather than spare-time developers, here are my responses to the suggested models:
- I don't have any commercial software to make money from.
- I don't have any hardware to make money from. I don't have anything but my free software.
- The software I have is pretty small (but useful) and there is no way for me to sell a service based on it.
- Too much non-coding work - and who the hell is going to buy an accessory for a PalmOS phone dialler?
- I only have free software - I have no intention of actually selling software.
- No brand to a collection of utilities - and nothing to sell on top of that brand anyway.
- No content in utilities.
So, what do y'all think about this? Is it worth my trying, or am I going over to the dark side by trying to cover my costs on this stuff? Is it possible for me to succeed? Got any good suggestions? Is it worth my writing this up for other spare-time developers? Is this long enough to be written up as an article rather than a diary entry? Does anyone really care?


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Top photo (from left): Dr. Harriet Romo, Mr. UTSA Daniel Bernal Jr.,
Ms. UTSA Jessica Beamer and UTSA President Ricardo Romo
Bottom photo: Winners of the "Where's Rowdy?" contest
Winners: Mr. and Ms. UTSA, 'Where's Rowdy?' contests
By Anne Englert
Assistant Director of Student Relations, Office of Alumni Programs
(March 12, 2008)--After an online vote during homecoming week by UTSA students, Daniel Bernal Jr. and Jessica Beamer were named Mr. and Ms. UTSA 2008 during halftime at the homecoming men's basketball game March 1. The UTSA Alumni Association and the UTSA Student Alumni Association sponsor the contest.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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Daniel Bernal Jr. is a junior communication major sponsored by Maggie Floyd and Bonita De Leon. Bernal serves as the UTSA mascot Rowdy Roadrunner and is a supplemental instructor and a University Oaks resident assistant. He worked at the Mr. Roadrunner Camp 2005 and was named in 2007 to the President's List for Outstanding Academics.
Bernal plans to be a pharmaceutical representative and a real estate agent. According to Bernal, his qualifications to serve as Mr. UTSA are his academic success, moral standards and that he tries to help others as much as possible.
Jessica Beemer is a senior political science major who will graduate in May. She was sponsored by Sigma Kappa Sorority. Beemer is a consultant member for Be A Responsible Roadrunner. Her community service includes participating in the Alzheimer's Golf Classic, Memory Walk, Patriot Heights Assisted Living volunteer and Race for the Cure.
Her career goals are to attend law school with a concentration in international law and human rights issues. Beemer said her qualifications for Ms. UTSA are that she is a dedicated, hard-working young woman who strives to be a role model for others by staying active in campus activities and holding leadership positions.
All candidates for Mr. and Ms. UTSA were outstanding student leaders. The first runners-up were Michael Lopez and Whitney Ellis. The second runners-up were Mark Esté and Jacy Grantham.
Additionally, the UTSA Student Alumni Association hosted the UTSA tradition, "Where's Rowdy?" The homecoming contest for UTSA students, student organizations, their friends and alumni involves playing games to receive clues and prizes that lead them to find UTSA Rowdy Roadrunner somewhere on campus. This year's champs were the Orientation Leaders Association. The orientation leaders are Ashley Spain, Stephanie Dodson, Laura Zamzow, Megan Cassles and Tommy Morgan. Second-place winners were Campus Activities Board; third-place winners were Council of Business Scholars.


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Tycho --stop playing sports!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unleash the true power of the force!!!!!!!!!!
Tycho --stop playing sports!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unleash the true power of the force!!!!!!!!!!
Hit a few TRU's this morning & ran into a fellow board member, Dark Knight you out there?
We found one case of EU at TRU #1, strange that an incomplete set was put out. I think one of the twins are Shaak Ti were missing. Found one more case of EU at TRU #2. Was fortunate enough to get one of each Trooper thanks to Dark Knight. So happy about that because those are gonna be my openers!!!
Downtown today so I thought I'd stop at Costco on the way home, around 3pm. Of course had to go to TRU but didn't expect to find anything. Saw a couple sets of the EU remnants. I carried the 5 figs around for a bit so I could buy them since they were BOGO1/2 just so I could get the Jabba Build a droid. The 6th extra piece is with the Wing Guard who was of course gone.
Before I checked out I thought I'd ask if there were any more. The guy new what I was looking for and said he thought there was another case in back, just hadn't put them out cause the pegs were full with CW and Legends. He really new his stuff which was refreshing.
Ended up getting a complete set of 7 figs!
I think his name was Ramily? Awesome guy. I usually feel bad for asking for stuff, as the responses can be rude sometimes, but I'm glad I did. I hope they keep shipping our stores these cases everyone can get what we want.
He said they had TFU sets earlier, but were gone.
I guess I am done with legacy!
Sux that 7 new figs are 1 per case. There will be a glut of Legacy leftovers that no one wants. Most of the repacks were in the 2 packs!
Ran into crunchy like he said at porter ranch tru just stocked what seemed to be a partial case of eu missing both females they also had the force unleashed packs just my luck for grabing them online the day before. Thats how it always happens i guess. Ran to Woodland hills tru with crunchy next and scored another case far in the back from other collectors thanks to a honorable tru employee. Split it with crunchy now i think were both good till august.
will do man. yeah i agree with you on pulls, thats why i try not to do them unless its an emergency. I actually had no problem waiting till may but with everyone doing pulls for these i was contemplating doing it soon on these. Luckly i didnt have to the first place they were out when we arrived and the other i caught the employee on his way to stock the boys section. But ill keep an eye out and let you know if i see them again.
Los Feliz TRU had a single Utris M'Toc on pegs. I recognized this when some dude walked right up and picked it out 3 minutes after I had scanned the pegs for figures. I saw a few leftovers from the case (Jedi Luke), but missed that one completely for no reason. I did pick up CW Cmdr Stone and Thire/Rys at least though.
I could really use a stash of the 2 Force Unleashed 5-packs tonight or tomorrow morning. I super want these and like an idiot, let them slip through my fingers on the TRU website.
Why is it that TRU Burbank and Los Feliz, the 2 closest to me, have consistently sucked for as long as I've been going there? It's not just the crap selection, the employees actively run up to you asking if you want help, and when you tell them what you want they blow you off like you just asked them to scrape the bottom of your shoe with their tongues. That and the crap selection.
For all you Iron Man line fans, Burbank TRU had 4 new figures, 27-31, Ditko Iron Man (same classic body, new helmet, looks weird), a regular comic Iron Man I didn't quite recognize (both of these had no name beyond "Iron Man" and "Comic Series"), Guardsman, and Titanium Man, which is different from the first movie Titanium Man. I bought Titanium Man, had to choose the best visor paint I could find, they were all a little off.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Crunchy --i'm givin u grief, but i'm just kiddin man. U & Snags are the Jordan & Pippen of LA collecting!!!!
JT: LF TRU is probably the best stocked TRU in the area, besides the Torrance store, so I have faith in them. However, i'm really crossing my fingers that they'll have EU this sat. Total crapshoot, as with most hunts. Otherwise, i'll make an early prediction -these will be as htf if not harder than TAC wave 5. And that really *(%&#%^% sux. Bigtime.


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Olson's lecture, which is open to the public, will focus on black and white women who participated in the civil rights movement. It is sponsored by Dialogue@Princeton , the Pace Center for Community Service , the Program in African-American Studies , the Women's Center and the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding .
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As already stated in the subject, I got my February issue of Turkey & Turkey Hunting magazine and really enjoyed it. I'm not done with it yet, but what I have already read is very good.
There are two very good articles that are somewhat contradictive of each other. The article "Busted" by Greg Lobas takes a relaxed look at turkey hunting that is very funny. He really has a sense of humor that I like. He also makes turkey hunting look like fun. Jim Spencer's article, "Yarak" is a very serious look at turkey hunting and he makes it look more like a job. He expects a lot of flak about his approach and probably will have some nay sayers, but he will also have a lot of people that agree with him, even if they won't admit it. These are the type of people that have to get their turkey to even have fun. I would be willing to bet that there are more like this than the previous article.
In case you can't tell yet, I'm more in Greg Lobas' camp, but it's everybody to their own thing and I would not criticize Jim Spencer's followers. I have a lot of fun turkey hunting just like everybody else, but in my own way.
It would be interesting for me to see which article tickles the fancy of everybody else. Above all, though, I don't want this to start a debate. There is no right or wrong here! Just give me your opinion. please!
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Designed to ensure the wad tracks the shot cloud
Notched helical wad petals stabilize the wad
Helps you see your misses, helping with training
Uniquely colored hulls for easy identification
Winchester AA TrAAcker shotshells feature a specially designed wad that captures a small amount of shot to ensure the wad tracks the shot cloud down range. Notched helical wad petals stabilize the wad forcing it to travel in the center of the shot cloud. This allows the shooter to better understand misses and is an excellent training aid. Winchester AA TrAAcker shotshells are available with either a black or bright orange wad. The black wad is perfect when used in bright light conditions while the orange wad is best when used in low light conditions such as cloudy days. Uniquely colored hulls allow you to easily identify and differentiate TrAAcker shotshells in your field bag. Box of 25 shells.


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Marty Note
Watching Joey Sargent speak about Social Media Marketing at Raleigh Internet Summit (http://www.internetsummit.com/ ) and she just shared an excellent list of how to make sure your Social Media Marketing is strategic and generating ROI:
5 Critical Success Factors (CSFs) FOr SMM
* Think of SMM as Core (operational integration)
* Cross functional teams (CSR, marketing, sales, product, pr,everyone)
* Centers of excellence
* C Suite Support
* KPIs and Analytics
Centers of Excellence
This is a viral enterprise concept. Here is how Joey defined CoE:
* Offer SMM training
* Monitor team performance.
* Feedback coaching.
* Make recommendations.
* Establish policies and procedures.
* Creates KPIs.
Joey is also touching on SoLoMo, Content Marketing and integrating traditional with social.
LIkes Sports Illustrated's tablet integration with socail: http://ismashphone.com/2009/12/time-inc-demos-sports-illustrated-magazine-tablet.html .
Likes Mercedes-Benz interactive commercials.
Social In Email
Social in employee signature.
Welcome Messages with social.
Thank you with SMM.
Customer Service with SMM.
Include SMM icons on Contact Page on your website.
Personals and Segmentation
Joey is touching on social and segmentation.
Social and Search
"Social does drive SEO." Will see more of your social content influencings the SERPs and driving traffic to your owned properties.
Joey recommends #Scoutmob http://scoutmob.com/ as a SMM success story.
Joey has white papers including Social In The Mix
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A weekend of remembrance for Japan tsunami victims also marked the start of an international partnership aimed at averting future tragedies.
The one-year anniversary of the Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster was commemorated in Sendai, Japan, during a March 10, 2012 event attended by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Chancellor Virginia S. Hinshaw, representing the UH system and the people of Hawai'i. UH Mānoa was joined at the Tohoku University event by two other U.S. invitees, Harvard and UCLA.
On Sunday morning, March 11, Chancellor Hinshaw attended the Forum for International Research Collaboration event at the Hotel Metropolitan Sendai. At the forum's conclusion, attendees signed a Joint Statement that encourages collaboration on behalf of academia around the world in identifying issues and developing science and technology to mitigate disasters and build a resilient world.
Accompanying Chancellor Hinshaw from UH Mānoa were husband Bill Hinshaw and Dean of the College of Social Sciences Denise Konan. Also invited were representatives of Japan universities including Tohoku, Nagoya, Kyoto, Fukushima, Tokyo, Niigata and Kobe. Other international entities that participated were the German Aerospace Center (Germany), Tsinghua University (China), University of Florence (Italy), University College London (United Kingdom), and Istanbul Technical University (Turkey).
Also that Sunday afternoon, a one-year memorial service was held at Sendai Trust City in honor of those who perished in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami disaster. Chancellor Hinshaw characterizes the day's experiences as tremendously moving, including an impromptu ceremony at Sendai Airport as the Hinshaws were departing Japan. "There was a concert about recovery followed by several minutes of total silence to honor those who had lost their lives," she recalls. "Everyone stood in place, in line, stopped everything and took those few moments of silence to remember—it was very touching. And, believe me, there was not a sound."
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Okay, everybody, we're going to give this contest a shot. Everybody that wants to participate in the contest should sign-up under this thread. The final day for signing up will be February 28th. Teams will be determined shortly thereafter. Total number of teams and team members per team will be based on the total number of participants we end up with.
First thing....Every entrant must agree to participate within the spirit of the contest by agreeing to the oath as follows:
Oath of Ethics and Participation: I understand that this contest is completely on the honor system. I agree to compete fairly and ethically in the contest. Further, I pledge to participate fully in the contest and accurately and truly report the results of my hunting this spring . By signing up for the contest, I agree to abide by the Oath.
Sign-up information needed: (the information will be used to aid in placement of team members so that each team has a similar composition of members)
1) Your forum name
2) Your location and subspecies of turkey you will be hunting this spring
3) Your estimation of your hunting experience: beginner, some experience, very experienced (choose one)
4) Your estimation as to how many gobblers you think you will harvest this spring: 0, 1, 2-3, 4 or more (choose one)
I will use my own sign-up as an example:
New Mexico
Merriams, Easterns, Rio Grandes
very experienced
predicted gobbler harvest: 4 or more


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Family: Cyprinidae, Carps and Minnows view all from this family
Description The golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas) is a cyprinid fish native to eastern North America. It is the sole member of its genus. Much used as a bait fish, it is probably the most widely pond-cultured fish in the United States.
Though it has been known to reach lengths of 30 cm (12 in), in the wild the golden shiner is usually between 7.5 and 12.5 cm (3 to 5 inches) long. The body is laterally compressed (deep-bodied). The back is dark green or olive, and the belly is a silvery white. The sides are silver in smaller individuals, but golden in larger ones. There can be a faint dusky stripe along the sides. The anal fin is large and has 8-19 rays, while the dorsal fin comprises almost always 8 rays. Scales are relatively large and easily lost when the fish is handled. The mouth is small and upturned. Two characteristics can distinguish the golden shiner from all other minnows: (1) the lateral line has a pronounced downward curve, with its lowest point just above the pelvic fins; and (2) there is a fleshy keel lacking scales on the belly between the pelvic fins and the base of the anal fin.
Dimensions Up to 12" (30 cm).
Habitat Lakes & ponds, Rivers & streams.
Range Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Florida, Texas, Eastern Canada.


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I must say that this thread has take a very interesting turn for the better with some deeply insightful thoughts.
I always follow posts by both Eug & Colonel Milner as I find them to be very well thought out & interesting. I also happen to appreciate the traits the British gun dogs are evaluated for and wish that our Hunt Test programs reflected some of them more. Since I agree w/ them on so many issues, I'm intrigued by their statements on this one.
If the dog does not have the capability to disobey a known command, doesnt he also lack the ability to obey one? Do you ascribe to the theory that all organisms (us included) are merely responding to a stimulus and therefore aren't responsible for our actions?
Ive considered B.F. Skinners Radical Behaviorism theory but it simply does not match up with my own experiences with dogs (or humans). I know that I see dogs make decisions very often in training. Of course, training sessions should be designed to utilize the tools of Operant Conditioning to thoroughly teach a concept before you can hold them accountable, but I just dont believe its all there is to it. I think the conditioned response to a "whistle sit" for example accounts for a large percentage of the reason the dog's butt moves toward the ground, but it is clear to me that there is often a "decision process" going on that keeps him there. (or not)
If I believed my dogs were merely predictable responders to stimuli, and all I need to do is build a big enough Skinner box to train in, I wouldnt have pissed away all the time & money I have over the last 30+ years being fascinated by them.


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Old Country Buffet is apparently the same company as Hometown Buffet, as well as "Fire Mountain" which sounded a wee bit gay. Aside from one unfortunate trip to my local Shakeys for lunch buffet (also my sister's idea, now that I think about it) I hadn't been to a true buffet in years before yesterday, and to be honest, although Hometown certainly ain't great, they're better than the ones from when I was a kid.
"Royal Fork" and "King's Table" are awesome buffet names, although I'm betting they were called "smorgasbords" back in the day. That's what we had here, it was a big term in the '70s and '80s, and they had cooler names than buffets lately.