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Here you go, your definitive lists of the best photo sharing sites available today. You don't need to have a lists with 40 or 50 of these sites. Ten is enough to help you decide which photo sharing site to use if you haven't done so in the past. Or if your current photosharing site is not enough for your needs, you might want to check out other sites on this list.
UPDATE: Check Out Our New List for 2013
In terms of popularity, audience, and features Flickr is still the top photo sharing sites, used by varied types of users. Despite the limitation in storage capacity for free account, many users continue to use Flickr as their top photo sharing site. Flickr users continues to grow everyday. Interestingly, when users are not discouraged to get a paid account when ever they've used up their free storage allocations. I myself was prompted to get a paid unlimited storage account and has been maintaining it for two years now. Meaning paying Flickr around $30+ a year. And it's not a bad price to pay for unlimited storage, unlimited categories, sets and collections. This business model continues to work for Flickr. And it has made the site the top photo sharing site.
I got a free unlimited storage account from Zooomr when it was still starting out. But I never really get to used it that much. Well, primarily because I have a paid Flickr account. Don't get me wrong, Zooomr is a very robust and feature-rich photo sharing site, but it lacks the appeal and charisma of Flickr to users. And last time I checked, Zooomr has removed the storage limit for free accounts, so you can upload as much photos as you want.
Picasa Web Albums
Despite donning the Google Brand, Picasa Web Album can't seem to get the same popularity and usage as the other Google products. It's a robust photo sharing and uploading site, no doubt about that. But still, I rarely get to encounter people who share photos using Picasa. Anyway, Picasa Web Albums offers free 1GB of storage, a robuts photo search engine, photo tagging, and a companion desktop photo organization tool. And it works well with Blogspot.com, so you can easily blog any photos you upload on your Picasa Web Album.
Photobucket was a popular photo sharing site for online community forums. It offers free 1GB of storage and up to 25GB of monthly bandwith. You'd also get up to 10 custom URLS for your photo albums. It still is a top destination for users who want to share their photos and videos as well.
Photoshop Express
Photoshop Express is a fairly new photo sharing site but it certainly has great features that you would certainly enjoy. Officially it's an online version of the top image editing software Photoshop. But it offers a cool 3D gallery for sharing photos that you've enhanced using the online image editor. The only problem with Photoshop Express is the bandwith demand that it requires to run the site smoothly. It was built on Adobe AIR so it definitely requires fast Internet connection. But if this is not your problem, you'd definitely enjoy using Photoshop Express.
Additional, Trial-Based Photosharing Sites
These photo sharing sites offer great features but limited storage capacity on a trial-basis.
Fotki – offers limited storage capacity while its premium account offers a 30-day trial after which you are prompted to upgrade to a paid account.
Pbase – like Fotki, Pbase also offers a limited-time trial but do not erase your free account. So you can upload photos and share it with your friends for as long as you want. But you can't upload some more photos if you're trial account has expired.


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BALDWIN PARK >> Raise taxes or eliminate the Police Department — that is the choice city staff has given the City Council if it wants to financially survive the next decade.
Baldwin Park finally released its much-delayed fiscal 2013-2014 budget this week and with it a comprehensive 10-year financial plan for the city. Without dramatic changes, the numbers aren't optimistic.
If Baldwin Park wants to maintain even a basic level of service and begin addressing its long-term financial obligations, like pensions, it faces a $3.6 million budget deficit this year — 13 percent of total proposed spending — and larger deficits in the years to come, according to the budget.
The 400-plus page document aims to provide a true outlook of how the city can survive over the next decade given its revenues and expenses, according to staff.
The proposed budget includes restoring some levels of service and staff that have been cut or left vacant in recent years. It proposes initially adding six full-time staff positions, including a city clerk and an economic development department, neither of which currently exist, and increasing the number of sworn police officers to 77, five more than are currently budgeted.
The proposal also calls for increasing spending on maintenance and equipment replacement, funding for which has been insufficient in recent years, according to city staff, and increased funding for special events like concerts in the park and the Christmas parade.
Since 2006, the number of non-police city staff has been nearly cut in half, from 119 in 2006 to 63 this year. Some city leaders say Baldwin Park has been operating under an unsustainable survival mode.
"We want to be reasonable, we aren't adding a whole bunch of staff. In our opinion, these are the most basic needs that haven't been met," Baldwin Park CEO Vijay Singhal said.
"Over the last 10 years we have been trying to identify efficiencies and we have gotten leaner and leaner every year. Now we are on a skeletal crew and the question we have to ask ourselves is, at one point do we stop providing the quality of life through vital city services are our residents rely on. I think we are at that point," Councilwoman Monica Garcia added.
But Councilman Ricardo Pacheco isn't buying it.
He says city staff has created a budget that makes the financial situation seem worse than it is to justify Baldwin Park eliminating its Police Department and instead contracting policing services with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. According to estimates in the new budget, the switch would save the city $3.9 million.
"This all seems artificially padded," Pacheco said. "He wants to give the appearance there is a huge deficit."
Pacheco said Baldwin Park can increase spending and restore funding for some positions and needs that were cut, but it should do so over time, as revenues in the city increase.
"The state has balanced its budget because the economy is improving, our revenue will increase too. The economy is getting better," Pacheco said. "I don't support this idea it's dire straights out there. It's ridiculous."
But Singhal says Baldwin Park shouldn't expect an economic boon, even as the economy improves.
"When you talk about the economy, yes it could improve, but how? We don't have any vacant land, we are not going to have a Costco come in tomorrow. So it's not reasonable for us to just say tomorrow we are going to get $5 million more in sales tax. And property tax can only go up so much," he said. "It's just not a reasonable projection."
Baldwin Park draws in significantly lower tax revenues per capita than surrounding cities. While other nearby cities draw an average of $584 per resident annually, Baldwin Park receives $316 — 46 percent less, according to the budget. The next lowest city, El Monte, pulls in $421.
The reason? Though Baldwin Park has major big box retailers like Target, Home Depot and Walmart, it lacks car dealerships and shopping malls.
Increased staffing and maintenance is only partially to blame for the deficit in the proposed budget.
Like most cities, the other large and growing expense for Baldwin Park is pensions and retiree health care costs. Because the recession hit investments in CalPERS hard, cities are being asked to contribute more. Pension costs in Baldwin Park have increased 55 percent, from $3.6 million in fiscal 2005 to $5.5 million in fiscal 2013. And retiree medical costs are also rising according to the budget. The city has largely ignored the latter, according to staff, and unless it begins making payments into a trust fund, it could cost millions more later.
While staff recommends a new tax or policing switch, the council could cut its way out of the deficit created by growing pension costs. That would mean cutting 12-15 sworn officers from the Police Department in addition to other cuts and using some of the city's $4.6 million reserve, according to the budget.
Pacheco says that is an option worth considering.
"We have been operating with 60 officers right now, do we really need 77?" he asked.
Though budgeted for 72 officers, the department currently has several vacancies.
If the council goes the tax increase route, it has three choices: a parcel tax, a sales tax or a utility users tax.
A half cent sales tax increase would bring the sales tax in Baldwin Park up to 9.75 percent, similar to El Monte and South El Monte, and raise an estimated $3.2 million, according to the budget. A full cent sales tax increase would bring it up to 10.25 percent, similar to Pico Rivera and South Gate, and raise an estimated $6.4 million.
A parcel tax would be the same for any parcel in the city, regardless of size. A $150 parcel tax would generate $2.1 million while a $290 parcel tax would generate $4.15 million, according to budget estimates.
Finally, a utility users tax increase, paid by residents and businesses based on their utility bills, would generate $1.5 million if it is increased from the current 3 percent to 5 percent, and $2.2 million if it is raised to 6 percent, according to budget estimates.
The City Council could place a tax increase on the ballot in a special election April 8 or June 3. The deadline for the April election would be Jan. 14 and for the June election would be March 4.
The City Council is already taking steps to put a measure on the ballot asking if residents want to maintain the police depart or contract with the sheriff's department.
While the budget offers preliminary estimates of contracting with the sheriff's department, it does not include potential start up costs of the switch, such as facilities improvements and retirement costs. These figures are expected to come in a Phase II study of the potential switch.
But the Phase II study was halted in April, when the Baldwin Park Police Association sought, and was granted, a court injunction requiring the city to "meet and confer" with the association.
That negotiation process continues.
The council is expected to begin discussions of the budget at a study session tentatively scheduled for Sept. 25.

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|Case ID: 10540
|Classification: Unlawful Trade/Smuggling
|Animal: captive exotic
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Disposition: Convicted
» Richard Czimer, Jr
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Case Updates: 2 update(s) available
On December 18, 2003, Richard Czimer, Jr., owner of the wholesale exotic meat business known as Czimer's Game and Sea Foods, Inc., in Lockport, IL, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Blanche Manning, Northern District of Illinois for his role in the wildlife trafficking case that involved the killing and selling of exotic cats, including endangered tigers and leopards. Czimer, along with his business, had previously pled guilty to felony Lacey Act counts for purchasing meat of endangered species and later selling the uninspected meat to the public for human consumption. The investigation known as Operation Snow Plow was led by Resident Agent in Charge (RAC) Timothy Santel.
Judge Manning sentenced Czimer to six (6) months in federal prison, two (2) years supervised probation upon release, 300 hours of community service, and fined $5,000. In addition, Czimer's Game and Sea Foods, Inc., was fined $24,000 and ordered to pay $116,000 to the Save the Tiger Fund. The business is on probation for five (5) years.
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|Czimer entered his plea before Judge Blanche Manning at the U.S. District Court in Chicago. Czimer admitted that between August 1997 and October 31, 1998, he also purchased the carcasses of 16 federally protected tigers, four lions, two mountain lions and one liger - a tiger-lion hybrid.
The animals were then skinned, butchered and sold as "lion meat" at Czimer's Meat and Seafood, realizing a profit of more than $38,000. Czimer said he purchased the carcasses from co-defendants William Kapp of Tinley Park, Illinois, Steven Galecki of Crete, Illinois, and Kevin Ramsey formerly of Oak Forest, Illinois, and now living in Wisconsin
|Source: Environment News Service - March 4, 2003
Update posted on Jan 15, 2007 - 10:14PM
|Richard Czimer, owner of a suburban Chicago exotic meat market was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Chicago to serve six months in federal prison, pay a $5,000 fine and perform 300 hours of community service for his role in a Midwest exotic animal trafficking operation that illegally bought and sold the hides, parts and meat of federally protected tigers and leopards. Czimer is the sole proprietor of Czimer's Game and Seafoods, Inc., in Lockport, Ill., which was also sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay a $24,000 fine.
In addition to the fines, Czimer and his business were ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Blanche Manning to share in the payment of $116,000 in restitution to the Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Save the Tiger Fund. Czimer and his business will also pay a total of $500 in special court assessments. As an individual, Czimer will serve two years probation upon his release from prison.
In a February 2003 plea agreement with the government, Czimer pleaded guilty to purchasing the meat of a federally-protected black spotted leopard in August 1997, a felony violation of the Lacey Act, a federal wildlife protection law. In his plea, Czimer admitted that between August 1997 and October 31, 1998, he also purchased the carcasses of 16 federally-protected tigers, four lions, two mountain lions and one liger (a tiger-lion hybrid). The animals were then skinned, butchered and sold as ?lion meat? at Czimer's Meat and Seafoods, Inc., realizing a profit of more than $38,000. The restitution of $116,000 was also part of his plea agreement with the government.
During sentencing, Judge Manning said she was disturbed by the fact that Czimer had endangered the public by selling meat that was not inspected.
Czimer, is the last of seven Chicago area men to be sentenced as a result of ?Operation Snow Plow? a lengthy investigation of the illegal exotic animal trade by special agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Beginning in 1997, Service investigators, working closely with U.S. Attorney's Offices in Illinois, Missouri and Michigan, uncovered a group of individuals and small business owners in the Midwest that bought and killed exotic tigers, leopards, snow leopards, lions, mountain lions, cougars, mixed breed cats and black bears with the intention of introducing the meat, skins and parts into the lucrative animal parts trade. A total of 17 defendants in seven states have been charged and convicted as a result of the investigation.
In November, William Kapp of Tinley Park, Ill., was sentenced to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $6,700 in fines and special assessments. Prosecutors showed that Kapp was the central figure in the trafficking operation, brokering the sale of 18 captive-bred tigers and leopards obtained from animal dealers and exhibitors in Missouri, Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma. The cats and other animals were killed while confined in trailers or cages. Their hides, mounts and meats fetched thousands of dollars from buyers in Illinois and Michigan
|Source: Fish and Wildlife Journal - December 18, 2003
Update posted on Jan 15, 2007 - 10:07PM
- Federal Wildlife Officer Association - December 2003
- U.S. vs Kapp - August 19, 2005
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|Florence Graham, daughter of John Graham, Sr., was born about the year 1744, though we have not the exact date. True to the traditions of her Scottish ancestors, she accepted a proffered offer for lifes companionship from one of her clan, and married on the 17th day of February, 1762, her cousin, James Graham, She, with her husband, settled in the vicinity of her parental home on the Little Calf Pasture River and lived there some eight or ten years. The records of the Clerks Office of Augusta County show that James Graham owned land in that county about this time, which was disposed of by deed by him and his wife, Florence, a few years later. About [41] the year 1770 or possibly a little later, James Graham with his family moved to Greenbrier River and settled in what is now Summers County, W. Va., on the opposite side of the river from where the village of Lowell now stands. The house in which he lived is the same house, together with the farm now owned and occupied by Bunyan L. Kesler. This substantially constructed old log house was built nearly a century and a quarter ago. Its peculiar and strong construction shows conclusively that it was built with a view of security to its inmates from the assault of Indian foes, who less than a decade previous had attacked and killed a portion of the Graham family.
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How can a person know what to believe? Repeatedly I have heard this question through the years but never more often than in recent weeks. The same radio and television stations that broadcast my messages also have been featuring individuals with doctorates (and others) who flatly, often adamantly, contradict me. These scholarly individuals assert, for example, that the Big Bang has been disproven, that new discoveries indicate dinosaurs and human beings coexisted, that geological and paleontological data prove that the entire fossil record and all oil and coal reserves were formed during the Genesis Flood, that science establishes the age of both the universe and the earth as younger than ten thousand years, and that the only valid interpretation of Genesis places creation of the sun, moon, and stars after creation of the plants and that all life on Earth was created within the six twenty-four hour days of one week. Their words sound as authoritative and convincing as mine, and the hosts interviewing them obviously are persuaded. Short of picking up advanced degrees in astronomy, geophysics, geology, paleontology, and theology -- or receiving a telegram directly from heaven -- how can we tell who is credible and who is not? Sincerity is not the issue.
First, I am encouraged that so many have taken the trouble to ask either in person or in writing. The easy thing to do would be to forget about science apologetics altogether or to decide what to believe on a superficial or subjective basis. Scripture exhorts us to do neither but to "test everything." Christianity must not promote or exalt "blind" faith. As Scripture records, God Himself offered substantiating evidence when His servants and spokesmen needed reassurance of His word's trustworthiness. God showed people He had the power to fulfill His promises. Those who needed a "reality check" received it. We see examples stretching from Genesis to Revelation, including Moses' "multipurpose" rod and Jesus' raising of the dead. We must not seek tests yielding absolute proof. Such proof is neither possible nor essential. God always leaves room for faith's exercise. But we are called to test matters that are testable, and the certainty of the results should determine the certainty of our assertions and of our decisions based on them.
Determining what kind of tests to apply may not be easy. Sometimes we can see a clearly relevant biblical test case, and sometimes we cannot. In matters that involve both biblical data and scientific or historical facts, the academic community, Christian and non-Christian alike, has developed over the past few centuries demonstrably effective and widely accepted truth-guards.
The primary approach is best summed up in the phrase "peer review." Peers are fellow scholars and practitioners in the discipline to which a particular claim (or test) belongs. Peers must include those who share some of the perspectives and presuppositions of a claimant and those who do not. For example, in testing the claim that the entire fossil record was deposited during a global deluge a few thousand years ago, a good question to ask would be how many paleontologists, both Christians and non-Christians, conclude based on research data that Noah's Flood is responsible for all prehistoric fossils. Are there some from both theological perspectives who accept this conclusion, or is there a noticeable unanimity in one direction or the other?
Another key question is this: How often have the claimants delivered their message to professional paleontologists (regardless of their theology), and what has been the response of the paleontologists to the message? The answers to these questions will be telling. They will indicate what level, if any, of scientific support exists for a claimant's assertions.
If the support from a cross section of scientists is either weak, one-sided, or nonexistent, the reason may be that a claimant's conclusions are rooted more solidly in ideology than in evidence. Some might say the lack of scientific support may just as strongly suggest that scientists are rooted in ideology more than in evidence. However, the false assumption behind this generalization is that scientists "all think alike" or share the same worldview or ideology.
For practicality's sake, we cannot conduct a survey of all the world's scientists for each question or claim that arises. However, a phone call to the relevant department(s) of a local university, to NASA's public information office, or to some other large government research facility, usually suffices. If these sources cannot help, they can usually direct us to other researchers or sources who can. Through today's communications technology, a scientist can make contact with virtually every other scientist in the world working in his or her specific discipline.
The situation is a little more difficult when the response from scientists is mixed. On some issues, such as whether the value of the Hubble constant (a measure of how fast the universe is expanding) is 50 kilometers per second per megaparsec, 80, or some value between 50 and 80, researchers are divided fairly evenly. This kind of split suggests much more study is needed before conclusions can be drawn with certainty. In other cases, where the split is extremely lopsided, the split may suggest something else.
For example, if we ask scientists about evidence for the big bang, about a tenth of a percent of researchers in nonsectarian institutions may respond negatively. A little further digging reveals that ideology sometimes interferes on the science side, too. The handful of astronomers who resist the big bang willingly tip their hand both in interviews and in writing that they have an aversion to any theory that demands a Creator and that makes the universe too young (only a dozen or so billions of years old) to support any hope of a nontheistic interpretation for life's origin. In other words, astronomers opposing the big bang reject it for ideological reasons. One also discovers that the most recent scientific paper opposing the big bang was published with a black border surrounding it and the word "hypothesis" printed all along that border.
Demeanor of a claimant and the content of the message may give additional credibility clues. Oratorical skill and emotional fervor prove nothing. However, a person whose message is based more solidly on evidence than on ideology tends to express less emotion and to present more information in his or her talk. Emotionally expressive or not, this individual will typically present, with some respect, an overview of differing interpretations of the data and the basis for each of these differing views. This individual can be expected to make reference to the familiar scientific journals. If the talk or paper offers more opinion and rhetorical devices than information, we have reason to beware.
Another way to test a person's science-related claims is to look up at least some of the sources to which he or she refers. Those who misrepresent the truth either accidentally or deliberately often misunderstand or distort the source materials they quote. Testers with limited time and access may wish to enlist the help of a student, teacher, or librarian friend to do some checking.
A claimant's response to mistakes, his or her own and others', may give additional hints about credibility. Every speaker or writer makes at least an occasional mistake, misstatement, or misinterpretation. An individual to whom discernment of truth has higher value than being right or protecting an ideology is more likely to respond with some equanimity when an error comes to his or her attention. Heated emotion, either in defending or accusing, tends to suggest the opposite priority.
Because science has become so complex and technical, explaining various findings to a lay audience severely tests a speaker's or writer's grasp of the information. A claimant who cannot make clear how he or she arrived at certain conclusions may not have sound basis for those conclusions. Anyone whose goal is to impress and to persuade with technical jargon rather than to clarify should raise our suspicions. So should anyone who quotes only secondary material, interpretations of sources we are unlikely to examine for ourselves.
According to Luke in the book of Acts, "The Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." Checking and asking questions are commendable, not condemnable. The church will be strengthened as the number of Berean-type believers grows. For one, benefit by their challenges -- your challenges. No one but God stands above the need for review. Christians have everything to gain and nothing to lose in being reminded, as I often am, that our communication of data and of reasoning from data needs clarification. Think how many people have been turned away from Christ by churches and leaders who disallow testing and how many people may be turned back to Him when we demonstrate a willingness, even an appreciation of, challenges to our claims.


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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote: > On 30 March 2012 09:06, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Dobes Vandermeer <dobesv(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: >>> I cannot log into the wiki on this page: >>> >>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main_Page >>> >>> My username is dobes_vandermeer. The error I get is: >>> >>> Login error >>> >>> There is no user by the name "dobes_vandermeer". Check your spelling. >>> >>> >>> I am able to log into the community page here: >>> >>> https://www.postgresql.org/account/ >> >> It looks like mediaWiki doesn't like underscores in usernames for some >> reason. I would suggest using dots instead for now until we can figure >> out a fix. > > My account on Wikipedia (i.e. mediawiki) uses an underscore, which > automatically gets converted to a space, so either it's some plugin > that does it, or a later version.... or hackery on their part. It may be a bug in our auth plugin. I've opened a ticket and assigned it to Magnus as he recently rewrote that and thus knows it best, but feel free to take a look if you have time. Ping me if you need access to anything. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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DENVER, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- AspirinWorks(R), a division of Creative Clinical Concepts, Inc., has announced that Diagnostyx Labs, Limited of Atlanta, GA, has joined its network of affiliated laboratories that offers its new aspirin resistance test. AspirinWorks is a simple urine test that measures an individual's response to aspirin dosage and allows physicians to adjust the dosage or recommend alternative therapy.
"This test is important to the health of millions of Americans currently on aspirin therapy," said Gordon Ens, President of Creative Clinical Concepts, Inc. "However, it is equally imperative that we find the highest caliber laboratories, such as Diagnostyx Labs, to provide the test and meet the needs of patients and physicians around the country."
Millions of Americans are prescribed an aspirin a day as a preventive measure against a heart attack, but recent studies indicate that up to 25 percent of those patients may be non-responsive to aspirin's benefits because they are aspirin resistant or the aspirin dosage they are taking is not effective. In fact, research has shown that aspirin resistant patients are also more than 3 times likely to die from heart disease than their non-aspirin resistant counterparts.
"AspirinWorks is a simple, scientific test that provides intra-laboratory standardization and correlation to the original outcomes data," said Richard Mullins, Ph.D., Laboratory Director of Diagnostyx Labs. "This test helps both patients and healthcare providers make effective treatment decisions."
AspirinWorks is the only aspirin resistance test based on an outcomes study using controls to ensure standardization between laboratories.
The AspirinWorks test works by measuring the level of thromboxane in urine. This chemical indicates the "stickiness" of platelets. Platelets are cells that play a key role in initiating blood clot formation; when platelets stick together they help form blood clots that can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Aspirin therapy can prevent this by making the platelets less "sticky." By measuring one of the chemicals that makes platelets "sticky," the AspirinWorks test measures a patient's response to aspirin. Once a physician has this test result, a patient's aspirin dosage can be adjusted, or alternative platelet therapy can be recommended.
About AspirinWorks
AspirinWorks is a division of Creative Clinical Concepts, Inc., an innovative company providing unique products that enhance patient care and management. AspirinWorks was formed to meet the need for a standardized way to measure aspirin resistance and achieve clinically relevant results. Presently, AspirinWorks is establishing a network of laboratories across the U.S. that performs the test by the same method, utilizing a unique set of controls. The company's goal is to ultimately standardize aspirin therapy resistance testing in the U.S., in order to help improve patient outcomes and reduce morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease. For more information on AspirinWorks and the AspirinWorks Test, visit http://www.aspirinworks.com/.
About Diagnostyx Labs
Diagnostyx Labs is a full service clinical reference laboratory based in Atlanta, Ga. We have over 60 years of experience in our medical, scientific professional staff. While operating as a regional reference site we are focused on serving the global reference laboratory market place. We offer a full spectrum of clinical laboratory testing designed to provide physicians and their patients with accurate and diagnostically meaningful results. For more information, contact Diagnostyx Labs toll free at 1-866-408-7670 or 404-728-9004, visit our Web site at http://www.dxlabs.biz/ or visit our offices at 2910 N. Druid Hills Rd, Suite D Atlanta, GA 30324.
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By Aditya Nair The United States Government is currently $11.6 trillion in debt. That's $36,653 per citizen, and represents more than a fifth of the debt held by every government in the entire world combined. Congress and the President constantly struggle to agree to even approve enough funding to prevent default or maintain government operations. This is a crisis, … Continue reading
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Computational Chemists Awarded the Nobel Prize By the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
By Erik Schiferle With the developments of Electron Microscopy, X-ray Crystallography, and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, scientists are beginning to determine the sequence and structures of molecules, cells, and proteins. For example, in recent decades, scientists have determined the sequence of scaffolding proteins as well as the sequence and structure of RNA and DNA. The … Continue reading
Real Time MRI Advances for Gene Therapy
By Alexander Bernstein For years, one of the greatest drawbacks to chemotherapy has been its potentially devastating side effects. Indeed, many individuals are unable to complete their treatment, or even be treated with a potentially more effective drug because of severe side effects that the body cannot bear. Finally, a group of researchers at the … Continue reading
Suppressing Satisfaction: GLP-1's Potential in the Treatment of Addiction
By Ian MacArthur Consuming a meal when hungry is often accompanied by a profound sense of satisfaction. This state of feeling full and satisfied is induced by the release of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a hormone that binds to receptors when a particular craving is quenched. Now, researchers believe that GLP-1 and other compounds that mimic its … Continue reading
"World's Happiest Animal" Faces Extinction: A Story of Climate Change and Quokkas
By Alexandra DeCandia With an ever-increasing frequency, one pudgy little macropod marsupial is making headlines. Proclaimed the "Happiest Animal in the World" by Huffington Post some ten months ago, the quokka has since bundled into millions of hearts with its teddy-bear frame, cheeky grin, and characteristically social nature. Despite its near constant appearance on internet forums … Continue reading
Syria: A Chemical Catastrophe in Progress
By Kellie Lu With Syria's not-so-clandestine arsenal of chemical weapons debated over the table of the UN Security Council, chemical weapons, particularly nerve gases, have once again been thrust into the global attention. The power of these macroscopically undetectable molecules is not to be underestimated; within seconds, a mere milligram dose of sarin can kill … Continue reading


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The long crack on the right-hand side of the wall is enjoyable. It gives bridging and jamming with a tough crux and steep finish.
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Diana Karazon ambassador for weight control
The winner of the first "Star Academy" Jordanian singer Diana Karazon had a press conference in Dubai along with Lebanese fashion designer Walid Ata Allah to announce that Karazon will be the designer's ambassador for his new line of clothing for the years 2007 and 2008.
The contract between the two was not previously planned. Since the Jordanian singer's body went under major changes. Karazon went from a heavy weight singer to a skinny and beautiful young and healthy singer.
According to the Qatari daily Al Raya, with all the major changes Walid Ata Allah found his chance into using the singer with her new look into advertising his line. The fashion designer made sure that what attracted him to Karazon was her beautiful voice and her personality.
In the past, Ata Allah always was confused between the two singers Diana Haddad and Diana Karazon.


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Computer/Technology Classes
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text: We took our first trip to Disney World in September and LOVE it, and want to go back soon! I'm considering another Disney World trip for my family, possibly October or December of this year... or somewhere around then. What I'm wondering is... is it better to book ASAP, or to wait? Some things I want to take into consideration are things like: Are plane tickets going to likely be cheaper farther from the date, or closer to? (I'm in Canada.) Am I going to have a better chance of getting the resort I want (will be first time at a Disney Resort, as we stayed at the Hilton Downtown Disney last year) if I book sooner? Will I run the risk of not getting rooms later on? If I wait, is it possible that promotions or room discounts will become available later on and closer to the date of the trip? Is it good to wait until closer to decide which resort to book into, in order to review current client comments on places like Trip Advisor, etc? How soon do things like character breakfasts get booked up? (if we should decide to do any.) Is there extreme weather in Orlando or things that can be predicted closer to the date that make it preferable to wait? Are there other things I should consider when deciding when to book sooner or later and what are they? So, how far in advance do you book your Disney World vacation, and why? Thanks in advance!!


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Sarah Ann Rector married Merritt Jackson McAlister on 6 Jan 1870, in Neosho Rapids, Lyon Co, KS.
Sarah was born 9 Nov 1849, in St. Joseph Co, IN. She died 7 Jan 1946, in Miami, Gila Co, AZ (age 96), and is buried at the Pinal Cem, Miami, Gila Co, AZ.
Merritt was born in 1843, and died before 1900.
Children of Sarah and Merritt:
1. Joseph Henderson McAlister (b. 1873; d. aft 1930) married Martha Dunagan
2. Merritt Jackson McAlister, Jr. (b. 1874, Lyon Co, KS; d. 1916) married Mary Cannon Olney. They had a son, "Jack" McAlister, born in 1902, in Graham Co, AZ. He died in 1975, in Pima Co, Arizona.
3. Ida Belle McAlister (1876-1915) married John Clay
4. Sarah Jane (Sadie) McAlister (1878-1959) married twice.
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Graduate seminar, Fall 2012
GEOG8280: The impact of decadal climate variability on terrestrial ecosystems
Instructor: Scott St. George
Wed, 2 to 5PM
The field of decadal prediction has emerged as a priority area for climate research, largely because the upcoming ten to thirty years are often a critical period for planning, resource management and public policy. The oceans are the main source of low-frequency behavior in the global climate system, and a growing body of evidence suggests that such long-memory behavior has a discernible influence on the hydroclimate of North America and the frequency and spatial pattern of drought across the continent. Several recent studies have further argued that low-frequency behavior in the climate system, through its influence on drought, acts to synchronize the behavior of wildfire, insect outbreaks and other aspects of terrestrial ecology on timescales that range from one to several decades. Despite the potential utility of this behavior to long-term planning and management, the specific physical mechanisms that allow decadal signals produced by the surface oceans to be transmitted remotely through the atmosphere to influence landscape-scale processes are often poorly understood.
This course will examine decadal and multidecadal variability in the global climate system and investigate how this behavior might plausibly influence the dynamics of terrestrial ecology and landscape-scale disturbances. Weekly readings and discussions will review the physical processes believed to give rise to decadal climate variability, the empirical evidence for interconnections between low-frequency aspects of the surface ocean and terrestrial systems, and potential solutions to the 'decadal problem' that afflicts observational, paleoclimate and modeling studies alike. Students will be challenged to conduct their own analysis of decadal variability in climate or ecology through the semester, either working on their own or as part of a small team.
This course may appeal to students interested in climate dynamics, disturbance ecology, statistical climatology, paleoclimatology/paleoecology, or hydrology. Prior coursework in one or more of these topics at the graduate or senior undergraduate level would be very helpful. For more information, please contact Scott St. George at email@example.com.
Representative readings
Hessl, A. E., D. E. McKenzie, and R. Schellhaas (2004), Drought and Pacific Decadal Oscillation linked to fire occurrence in the inland Pacific Northwest, Ecol. Appl., 14(2), 425–442.
Huybers, P., and W. Curry, 2006: Links between annual, Milakonvitch and continuum temperature variability. Nature, 441, 329–332.
Kipfmueller, K.F., Larson, E. R and St. George, S. 2012. Does uncertainty in proxy reconstructions affect the relations inferred between the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and wildfire activity in the western United States? Geophysical Research Letters. 39, L04703, doi:10.1029/2011GL05064.
Kitzberger, T., P. M. Brown, E. K. Heyerdahl, T. W. Swetnam, and T. T. Veblen (2007), Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 104(2), 543–548, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606078104.
Klemes, V., 2000: Drought prediction: A hydrological perspective. Common Sense and Other Heresies: Selected Papers on Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering, Canadian Water Resources Association, 163–176.
MacDonald, G. M., and R. A. Case (2005), Variations in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation over the past millennium, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L08703, doi:10.1029/2005GL022478.
Manabe, S., and T. Delworth (1990), The temporal variability of soil wetness and its impact on climate, Clim. Change, 16, 185–192.
McCabe, G. J., M. A. Palecki, and J. L. Betancourt (2004), Pacific and Atlantic Ocean influences on multidecadal drought frequency in the United States, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 101(12), 4136–4141.
Meehl, M. A., et al. (2009), Decadal prediction: Can it be skillful?, Bull. Ame. Meteorol. Soc., 90, 1467–1485.
Newman, M., G. P. Compo, and M. A. Alexander (2003), ENSO‐forced variability of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, J. Clim., 16, 3853–3857.
St. George, S., and Ault, T. R. 2011. Is energetic decadal variability a stable feature of the central Pacific Coast's winter climate? Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 116, D12102, doi:10.1029/2010JD015325.
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A non-profit organization which helps trains workers to strengthen local business has received a $250,000 plus state grant for its programs.
The Economic Development Collaborative-Ventura County received the funding to partner with the Workforce Investment Board of Ventura County, and the Ventura County Community College District to connect businesses with local training resources.
The funding will allow the collaborative to provide assistance to more than a dozen businesses, and about 250 workers in Ventura County.
The grant came from the California Employment Training Panel.


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Haroon Siddiqui is the Star's editorial page editor emeritus and a member of the Order of Canada.
Amid the uproars in the U.S. let's not lose sight of how to counter bigotry at home lest the Leitches and Lisées have their way.
In this excerpt from his chapter in The Relevance of Islamic Identity in Canada, Haroon Siddiqui argues that Stephen Harper's policies constituted an extensive, deliberate strategy to malign Muslims.
The more Canadians saw of Harper's nasty character and endless dirty tactics, the more they were repulsed.
Insights on election issues from so-called ordinary Canadians.
The Conservative leader likes to emphasize what a thrifty leader he is, but he's thriftiest when it comes to the facts.
As Liberal leader, Trudeau has shown he has a vision of Canada, grounded in the innate decency of Canadians.
Stephen Harper's biggest problem is not that he is a right-wing ideologue. It is how he has governed.
When it comes to being on welfare, people in Ontario do not receive enough income to survive, let alone live in dignity, Ken Gallinger says.


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The image above is of the Deaths page from the Family Records
section of the Arvilla Ames West bible. I'm posting this page
because it's the most easily readable one of the four records
pages and because it also shows the change of handwriting in
the entries.
So I have these images with important family genealogy
information on them from a family bible. How do I cite this
In her "Evidence: Citation and Analysis for the Family
Historian" (1) , Elizabeth Shown Mills gives some criteria to
establish the credibility of information recorded in a family bible.
Paraphrasing her, they include:
What is the bible's publication date, and does it match the date
of the first event recorded, or has someone entered events that
occurred before the bible was published?
occurred before the bible was published?
The bible was published in 1859, and while there are earlier
events recorded, they are the birth dates of the owner, Arvilla
Ames West and her husband, John Cutter West and their
children. This would be logical for a wife to make in
recording her family's history in a newly aquired bible.
Are the ink and handwriting for entries the same throughout,
which would indicate that they were all entered at the same
time, or are the entries made with different style or quality of
handwriting (which would mean they might have been written
by several writers or by one over the course of their lifetime)?
As the image above shows, entries were made by more than one
person, starting about 1900. Arvilla Ames West was 90 years old
then and the entry for Clarinda B.(ritton)Goodwin's death in
1900 is in a different hand than the previous entries.
Since I haven't seen the actual pages I can't comment on the ink
used on the entries. But I had no doubt as to the authenticity of
the bible to begin with. I wanted to show how it can be proven
to someone else.
So, how to cite the source?
Back to Evidence! The example given is for a Family Bible
with provenance (p65) but while I know it was Arvilla's
in 1859 and I know who had it before they passed it on to
Aunt Dot, there is still a question on who had it in between
the two. I think it was Arvilla's eldest daughter, Ann Matilda
West Marston, but I need to confirm that. So, without
provenance, my citation for the above image would be (I think):
Image File "Arvilla Ames West Bible Deaths" scanned
1/10/2008 by William West from a photoimage provided by
Dorothy____ in December 2007 of the Arvilla Ames West
Bible, "The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ" (New York: American Bible Society, 1859) original
owned in 2007 by Dorothy ___. Image has been retouched by
West but he attests that no information has been altered."
Phew! That's a mouthful, isn't it? I left my Aunt's last name
blank here for reasons of her privacy. And when I have the exact
provenance established I'll post an update.
Of course, since it's a bible it would have to be divine provenance!
Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the
Family Historian , 17th printing (Baltimore: Genealogical
Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the
Family Historian , 17th printing (Baltimore: Genealogical
Publishing Company, 2007) p.54


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Goodlatte Says Ag Negotiations in Trouble
March 9, 2005
Cites Trade Barriers and Obstacles in Meeting with WTO Director General
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Members of the House Committee on Agriculture met today with Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Ambassador Stuart Harbinson, Chief of Staff to the Director General of the WTO to discuss the ongoing trade negotiations of the Doha Development Round. Committee Members met with the Director General a year ago to discuss the WTO agricultural negotiations.
The recent ruling by the WTO Appellate Body regarding the case brought by Brazil against the U.S. may hold significant ramifications for agricultural programs in the U.S. Chairman Goodlatte noted the problematic nature of employing "constructive ambiguity" during WTO negotiations. "In the WTO, countries seem to reach decisions in the course of negotiations or in other matters that reflect a general, yet ambiguous, consensus. Later, these general agreements come under scrutiny and are found to violate WTO rules, such as the recent decision by the WTO Appellate Body in the case brought by Brazil against the U.S. The Appellate Body's decisions concerning export credit guarantees, declaring them to be export subsidies, and domestic support for cotton, declaring them to suppress world prices and thereby requiring the removal of the subsidy or the adverse effect of the subsidy, take the common understanding of the Uruguay Round and turn it on its head. This seems to me to be a classic case of bait and switch," said the Chairman.
Chairman Goodlatte reminded Dr. Supachai that non-tariff trade barriers continue to present roadblocks beyond the negotiations. With non-tariff trade barriers in place-such as those barring U.S. beef and biotechnology products-the terms of any trade agreement are essentially worthless. "Even if all agricultural subsidies are reduced to zero, some countries will still ban U.S. agricultural products based on these non-scientific barriers. These matters must be considered as well," said Chairman Goodlatte.
The same principle applies in the WTO case on Internet gambling brought against the U.S. Decisions reached during negotiations made clear that social issues such as this are left to individual countries and a WTO ruling requiring access to gambling on the Internet would violate the agreement. Members of the Committee voiced their concerns about maintaining free and fair trade policies, including eliminating non-tariff trade barriers, to the Director General.


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Top 10 IP Litigation Battles of 2011
An article on Law.com's Corporate Counsel provides a great breakdown of the biggest Intellectual Property litigation wins of 2011. Not surprisingly, there is a predominance of patent litigation on the list. The article references a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers that concludes patent holders brought 2,892 U.S. infringement lawsuits in 2010—an increase of more than 5 percent over the year before. From the list of the biggest Intellectual Property litigation wins, below are the patent based cases. For the list in its entirety, click here.
1. Jobs's Job One . . .
The smartphone market moves fast, so a court order forcing a manufacturer to sit out a product cycle can be devastating. That's part of the reason the International Trade Commission has become a red-hot forum for smartphone patent disputes. The trade body can't award money damages, but it can impose costly "import bans" on foreign products sold in the United States. Smartphone manufacturers have brought a slew of ITC actions in hopes of securing such bans against rivals.
In November, Apple and its outside lawyers at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe scored a major defense win in one of the first smartphone disputes on the ITC's docket. S3 Graphics, Inc., a Fremont, California–based graphic chipmaker, had filed an ITC action against Apple in May 2010, claiming Apple's iPhone infringed four of its patents. In July an administrative judge ruled for S3 Graphics. But in November, a six-judge panel reversed, ruling that Apple did not infringe any of the asserted patents.
The loss for S3 Graphics was also a loss for Taiwan-based HTC Corporation, the leading maker of Android phones. It announced in July that it would acquire S3 Graphics for $300 million in a bid to bolster its ammunition in patent fights. HTC told The Wall Street Journal in November 2011 that it was considering canceling the acquisition in light of the ITC's ruling. (more…)
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text: > There are other ways of adding Haskell as a scripting language - bundling ghc is not necessary. Even the program which is to run the scripts is compiled with GHC? I am interested to know how you do that. 2010/11/4 Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace at me.com> > ehm. I missed something and ghc api is well documented and stable ? >> > > There are other ways of adding Haskell as a scripting language - bundling > ghc is not necessary. > > > It is inacceptable for scripting language, faced to no-programmers. Such >> languages must be as plain and regular, as possible. >> > > We give Haskell as a embedded scripting language to non-programmers, and > they love it. They especially like the strong typing, which finds their > bugs before they ever get the chance to run their script. The terseness and > lack of similarity to other programming languages is another benefit. > > Regards, > Malcolm > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20101104/f8d21c68/attachment.html


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Cigar Tobacco
Even though cigars and cigarettes are both tobacco products, the similarities between cigars essentially begin and end there. Because a cigar can be shaped very differently than a cigarette, and because it can measure up to 7 inches in length, it can contain between 5 and 17 grams of tobacco. This is enormous difference compared to the typical 1 gram of tobacco found in a cigarette.
People new to cigar smoking often wonder just how many different kinds of cigar tobaccos there are. That is something of a complex question. If by kind you mean what the tobacco is like, there is only one true kind, and that is air-cured or dried-burley tobacco.
If by kind you actually mean blend or cultivar, as in the type of tobacco, or the region of the world from which it originates, there are hundreds. Once could argue that cigar tobacco grown in one field of Honduras is a different cultivar of tobacco than cigar tobacco grown 50 miles away in the same country.
The ability to mix cigar tobaccos together to create different flavors and aromas accounts for the multitudinous variety of cigars that one can find in the world today.
The way that cigar tobacco burns is also radically different from cigarette tobacco. If you are new to cigar smoking, forget about the whole idea of a quick smoke break with most brands. A very large cigar can take 1 to 2 hours to smoke. The average cigarette takes less than 10 minutes to smoke.
Cigar tobacco is carefully chosen and meticulously sorted and inspected before ever being used to make cigars. The process of selecting the blends for each brand according to its own recipe begins long before the bales reach the factory.
The preparation of cigar tobacco is never rushed. It consists of several specific steps that will ensure the best draw and maximum flavor.
1. Tobacco leaves are harvested.
2. The leaves are hung in hot, shady barns.
3. The combination of heat and shade lowers sugar and water content in tobacco leaves.
4. This process takes about 24-25 days to finish.
5. Cigar tobacco is fermented by letting it die slowly under strictly controlled temperature and humidity.
6. The aroma, burn, and flavor of cigar tobacco are developed at this time.
7. Once the leaves have aged, they should then separate for intended use, which will be either as filler or wrapper.
8. Quality and appearance determines which leaves become fillers and which become wrappers.
9. Tobacco leaves are moistened during this time to ensure that each leaf is used for its best purpose.
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The faculty member does not have much Debian experience. Neither do I. Is the process involved in rebuilding the kernel pretty straight forward, or full of problems and "gotchas"?


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US must pay careful attention to expanding Chinese naval forces
While China has a seafaring past, in modern times, it has not been known for its navy. The ground forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) — the collective name for China 's armed forces — has long been the dominant military service in the People's Republic of China.
In fact, it has been said anecdotally that the country's founder, Mao Zedong, was so focused on the army after taking power in 1949 that it was not until 1953 that he made his first tour of the Chinese navy, spending a few days, possibly reluctantly, visiting some rust-bucket frigates. But that has changed.
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is applying some spit and polish, taking in the lines, and going to sea like never before. And as such, recent developments in Chinese naval weapons systems and policies demand that we sit up and take notice of Asia's largest maritime force.
Beijing has made sovereign claims over the East China, South China, and Yellow Seas, assertions that defy widely held views of freedom of navigation. These claims have led to some near-clashes with U.S. forces operating in these areas in international waters.
The reported development and initial operating capability of an anti-ship ballistic missile capable of scuttling a U.S. aircraft carrier is also a concern. Some defense experts have called the weapon a "game changer."
China is also involved in a significant naval modernization and building program. According to some analysis, China has added as many as 30 submarines to its fleet in the past decade, dwarfing the number of new submarines added to that of other major sea powers. And since the early 1990s, China has deployed at least nine new destroyer and frigate classes.
Strategically, it is sending its nuclear deterrent to sea aboard its new Jin-class (or Type 094) fleet ballistic missile submarines (SSBN), which will carry 12 of the new JL-2 intercontinental-range sea-launched ballistic missiles. China's follow-on SSBN, the Type 096, is estimated to carry 24 JL-2s.
In defiance of the prognosticators who said China would never go in this direction, it is also expected that Beijing will send a prototype aircraft carrier to sea this year, portending that the U.S. may no longer be the only flat-top navy in the Pacific.
In the end, while the Pacific has long been considered an American lake that idea can no longer be taken for granted with the rise of China's navy. It is certainly something we must keep in mind as we look at the future of U.S. defense budgets and naval shipbuilding programs.
Peter Brookes is a Heritage Foundation senior fellow and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense.
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I want to know a way to get a layer where I select any pin in.
If a pin is through type and I select the pin at internal layer named Layer2, I want to get ths Layer2.
and If I select the pin at layer named Layer3, I want to get Layer3.
How to do get this?
Thansk in advance.
Dave Elder, Tait Communications
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Thansk Dave,
You are correct exactly.
But It is difficult to detect the layer if the visibility of serveral layers are ON.
For example)
There are 4 layers, TOP, Layer2, Layer3 and Bottom. and the visibility for Layer2 and Layer3 are ON.
and then I selected Pin on Layer3.
In this case, I just want to know a pad in Layer3, but it is difficult now.
Do you know other way to get the layer?
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The command axlPadOnLayer should do the job if you are on 16.6. Otherwise you will need to use axlDBGetPad and do some analysis.
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This is a look back at some of the people and teams making news in the St. Croix Valley 10 years ago, as reported in the Stillwater Gazette.
Baseball — Eric Carlson allows just three hits and strikes out 14 as the Stillwater baseball team defeats Forest Lake 8-2 to complete a rare three-game regular season sweep. The extra game with the Rangers is set up when White Bear Lake is forced to forfeit two conference games as the result of sanctions from a spring break trip. The victory, combined with a Mounds View victory over Park, earns the Ponies a three-way tie for the conference championship.
Girls golf — Whitney Windmiller shoots and 80 to repeat as medalist at the Section 4AA Meet at Les Bolstad Golf Course as the Ponies tie for third in the tea standings. Junior teammate Paige Bromen cards an 87 to join Windmiller in earning an individual bid to the state tournament.
Softball — Kari Boughten throws a five-inning perfect game as Stillwater dumps Spring Lake Park 10-0 at SAHS and then the Ponies climb on a bus for McKnight Fields where they rally from a four-run deficit with two runs in the sixth and three more in the seventh to pull out a 5-4 victory over Hill-Murray in the Section 4AAA tournament. Down to her final strike with two outs in the seventh, Mallory Olson drills a liner down the left-field line to score the tying and winning runs for the Ponies.
Colleges — Ben Goodman, a 1999 Stillwater graduate, helps lead the St. John's University men's golf team to a third-place finish at the NCAA Division III Championships at Dornoch Golf Club in Delaware, Ohio. Goodman finishes 102nd overall in the tournament with a four-round total of 319.


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Boeing said its Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) demonstrator, a modified Bombardier Challenger 604, completed its first flight on February 28 from Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Subcontractor Field Aviation conducted the four-hour test flight.
"We accomplished everything we set out to achieve," stated pilot Craig Tylski. "The aerodynamic performance was right on the money and even with the additional aerodynamic shapes, such as the radome, the demonstrator performed like a normal aircraft. The control and handling were excellent."
In November, Boeing selected the Challenger 605 as the platform for the MSA, which takes advantage of technologies developed for the larger Boeing 737-based P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft the U.S. and Indian navies use. The Royal Australian Air Force has also ordered P-8s. The MSA's baseline configuration features an active electronically scanned array multi-mode radar, an electro-optical/infrared sensor, electronic support measures, a communications intelligence sensor and automated identification system, Boeing said. Field Aviation will modify the Challenger 605 structure and systems for the MSA configuration.
The MSA is designed for search-and-rescue, anti-piracy, coastal and border security missions. "Not everyone is going to need a full P-8 capability," Jim Armington, Boeing vice president for East Asia and Pacific international business development, said during the Singapore Airshow in February. "The MSA will bring about 80 percent of the capability at a much lower price."
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Diadectes, extinct genus of tetrapods closely related to the first amniotes (mammals, birds, reptiles, and their relatives). Members of this genus have been found as fossils in Carboniferous and Lower Permian rocks in North America (360 million to 270 million years ago). Diadectes shares a mixture of features from both amniotes and primitive tetrapods, but it did not possess an amnion, which is a protective membrane surrounding the developing embryo and a defining characteristic of reptiles. Its classification—along with that of other related forms such as Seymouria—has been long controversial. Diadectes grew to be about 6 feet (2 m) long. The skeleton was heavily constructed, with massive limbs, limb girdles, backbone, and ribs. The skull was relatively high and short; it was broad in the back and featured a constricted snout. The teeth were blunt and peglike; Diadectes was probably one of the earliest terrestrial herbivores. The front teeth were longer than the cheek teeth and probably served to nip off plant material. The cheek teeth probably served to grind the plant material. See also Seymouria.
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Updated 10:18 pm, Saturday, December 8, 2012
After a sluggish start, the UTSA Roadrunners elected to push the pace.
As a result, they eventually outran the UNLV Lady Rebels 61-46 on Saturday at the Convocation Center.
In snapping a three-game losing streak, UTSA also notched its best win of the year leading into a 12-day break in the schedule.
"You want to come out (in coming days) and have good practices," coach Rae Rippetoe-Blair said. "So, to beat a great team like UNLV, it's huge for us."
After UTSA lost to Houston, San Francisco and TCU, guard Simone Young said she felt the Roadrunners would play well against the Lady Rebels.
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"We needed a win, and I felt like we had two really good practices to get ready," Young said.
Young scored a career-high 29 points against TCU, then followed it with a standout defensive performance against Lady Rebels leading scorer Kelli Thompson.
Thompson, averaging 17.9 points, was held to 12 points.
"I kind of got in her game," Young said. "I tried to stay up on her and pressure her."
UTSA (6-4) registered its first victory over a Mountain West Conference team in four years.
UNLV dropped to 3-6.
After falling behind 6-2 early, the Roadrunners scored 18 of the next 21 points to take charge.
Guard Kamra King capped the run with a 3-pointer off the wing. King finished with 13 points, and Young had 11.
Leading by six at the half, UTSA withstood an early second-half push.
Alana Cesarz wheeled inside for a 3-point play, cutting the UTSA lead to 30-29.
From there, the Roadrunners responded with a 14-2 run. Cori Cooper and Mannasha Bell contributed steals that led to baskets on the other end.
Rippetoe-Blair was happy to see an improvement in the UTSA offense, which shot 44.4 percent after hitting only 34.8 percent during the losing streak.
"I hope this gives us some confidence," Rippetoe-Blair said. "We had been playing great on defense but we haven't been able to put enough points on the board."