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If nature-lovers are tree-huggers, how to describe people who love the sky? Air heads? Plane-huggers? There isn't much else up there you can wrap your arms around. But you can always express your affection through song.
Hence at the Sora Matsuri (Sky Festival), scheduled for Aug. 17 at Kokukinen Park in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, a host of young musicians and performers will come together to serenade the celestial realm.
Hiroaki Kato, a singer in his 20s, is both one of the performers and also the event's organizer. It was his experience of the 2006 earthquake in Java that opened his eyes to the power of nature and the need for people to come together in a spirit of cooperation. "The sky is a symbol of unity. It connects the whole world," he said.
Kato will be joined on stage between 1 and 7 p.m. by a host of performers including Shigeki Maruyama, an acoustic guitar, shamisen and Irish bouzouki virtuoso, the female singer and "slow-life" advocate yae (who describes herself as "half singer, half farmer"), tap dancer Suji Tap (who gained some notoriety by his performance in director Takeshi Kitano's "Zatoichi") and marching-music specialists, the Percussion Performance Players.
Asked how the performers would attract the attention of their distant muse, Kato explained that "all the fans, and all the musicians and everyone else will come together to send a message out into the sky."
"Any message is OK," he added. "It just needs to be from their heart."
Speaking of the sky, the event is being held in an auspicious location. The kokukinen in the park's name means "commemoration of aviation" — a nod to the Tokorozawa Aviation Museum, which is located in the park just near the outdoor stage where the festival will be held. So if there are any plane-huggers out there, there's something for them, too.
The Saitama festival will be followed by similarly themed events in Nishiwaki, Hyogo Prefecture (Sept. 14), Miyazaki (Sept. 20) and Kobe (Oct. 4).
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The Old Ship Aground is an historic edwardian pub located on the harbour in Minehead. Spectacular views across the harbour to the Quantocks and Wales, the location is idyllic. You can be sure to find a variety of Real Ales and Ciders in the pub to accompany our traditional pub meals and 'river cottage style' dishes.
Parties for up to 100 can be catered for in a private dining room. Glorious summer evenings can be spent in our outside areas and for the winter the roaring fire attracts a locals and visitors alike. It's 12 bedrooms are all individually decorated and offer a variety of single, double, twin and superking size beds. All rooms have flatscreen freeview TV, are ensuite and have tea and coffee making facilities. Minehead is the gateway to Exmoor, the first of Britains national parks to gain the Dark Skies reserve status. Days can be spent exploring the moor, seeing the wild Exmoor Ponies and Red deer and when the sun sets the night skies are spectacular. There are a number of attractions easily accessible from the pub, The West Somerset Railway is within walking distance as is Minehead Golf Course. A short distance away is the medieval village of Dunster which has a magnicent castle and is a fine day out for all the family. Bossington and Selworthy are charming National Trust Villages and Porlock is another popular village closeby.
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It is a browser type game where the emphasis is on building a player and/or a team. You as a player get a team to pick you up for a contract or as an owner search out players to fill your team out. Players have a lot of stats and skill plus you set your personal strat for each game, while the owners set the team strats and hopefully everyone is communicating and on the same page.
I listen to the podcast all the time and am a lurker/reader on the site but I seen no mention of GLB and it has gotten popular on a couple other sites I frequent. I just started a player there this week which is free then paid to get a couple more after my first game. It may be just dots and numbers but there is a complexion level that calls out to the football fan in me. If your interested check it out here:
If you use that link then I get some points for the referral. So once in and if your interested then I suggest you post your own referral links too. Take care folks and maybe this will pop my bubble and get me off the lurker bench here.
Kind of a weird situation which forum this should go in. Fun game even if you don't really watch football.


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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1971
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Rock Harbor Grill is a seafood restaurant that serves the most mouth-watering seafood, steak, chicken, and vegetarian dishes in the entire Apex community.
Our menu is eclectic and features a fusion of some of the finest flavors from all over the world. Our classically trained head chef blows the competition out of the water with his unique culinary creations!
A Casual Atmosphere
When you dine at Rock Harbor Grill, you can always look forward to a relaxing evening in a comfortable environment.
Our bar is painted fire berry red, our upstairs dining room is painted purple, and our main dining area is painted a deep red. We also use eccentric tableware to top off your experience. The color scheme contributes to the casual yet intimate atmosphere that our restaurant is known for.
Delicious Food at Affordable Prices
Our food is priced right for any budget. We are not just a "special occasion" restaurant—you can stop by anytime to enjoy a plate of delicious food and a refreshing beverage. We also cater for outside events.
Enjoy an evening of casual dining when you stop by the Rock Harbor Grill in Apex, North Carolina. Our seafood restaurant featuring certified angus beef steaks, duck, chicken and vegetarian dishes and a full-service bar stocked with some of the best wines available. To learn more about our friendly neighborhood bar and grill, contact us to speak with a member of our team.
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The ever prodigious Porcupine Tree main man Steven Wilson talks at length with PopMatters about the problems with download culture, the inferiority of the MP3, his strong work ethic and the mysteries of the creative process.
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According to Center Square, two things stood in Lynde's way: alcoholism and homosexuality. Of course, neither of those are necessarily a barrier to success in Hollywood.


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(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Nov. 9, 2012) California Lutheran University students and staff will join with community members to re-enact the Christmas story in the Mexican tradition of Las Posadas from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2.
In the university's annual tradition, students representing Mary and Joseph will travel by donkey through campus seeking shelter for the birth of their son. Other students, staff and visitors holding candles will walk with them from the Multicultural Programs office to the Lundring Events Center in the Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center. The evening will conclude with a piñata and refreshments of hot chocolate and pan dulce (sweet bread). This festive Mexican tradition dates back to the 16th century.
The Multicultural Programs office is located in Multicultural Modular Unit C between the Swenson Center for the Social and Behavioral Sciences and F Building. It is near the corner of Faculty and Pioneer streets on the Thousand Oaks campus.
CLU's Office of Multicultural Programs and International Student Services, the Latin American Student Organization and the Department of Languages and Cultures are sponsoring the free event. For more information, call Multicultural Programs at 805-493-3489.


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Two years ago I blogged about a substantial, known, problem with SQL Server Authentication. As a recap, some of the key highlights covered in that post were:
And that last bullet point is the salient bit—in the sense that if hackers are trying to brute force their way to a password, there's nothing in place that will initiate an account lock-out operation—regardless of whether the login is tried 2 times a second, or 200 times a second.
As such, my previous post outlined some of the things you can do to help protect against this problem, including:
Recently, I needed to expose a SQL Server to the 'Internet' for a while from my lab. I was doing a bit of testing from an application, and therefore opened the server up on port 1433—after making sure I had strong passwords in place. Over the period of a few days I periodically checked my SQL Server Logs and was able to detect different IP addresses detecting huge numbers of brute-force attacks against the sa account. As such, within the space of a few days I ended up blocking 12 different IP addresses (manually) via the Windows Firewall.
I then, basically, let things run for a while. After a month of letting the server run like this (and after blocking 12 IPs initially, but doing nothing afterwards) I checked on the logs by running the following:
CREATE TABLE #Entries (
LogDate datetime,
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SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #Entries e
WHERE e.Text LIKE 'Login failed for user ''sa''%';
Which returned a count of 268, 112—over the last 30 days. Which equates to an average of 8,937 attempts against the sa account daily (or around 372 attempts, on average, per hour).
At this point, with app-testing done, rather than just 'removing' my test SQL Server from being internet facing, I switched it to a different port, then let it run for three days—at which I point I rechecked and found no attempts against the sa account.
Stated differently, if you've got a SQL Server that's publicly facing, make sure you've done everything outlined here to make it as secure as possible—including putting it on a different port if at all possible.


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This system started a lot of things. Mainly the mainstream gaming industry. Before this system, games had little meaning and quite frankly.... Sucked. This system has stood the test of time and is still impressive to me today. Zelda, Mario, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, Metriod, Donkey Kong. This system was THE System. Nintendo, surely started an amazing thing here. I still whip out the old NES and play Final Fantasy, Both Zelda games, Mega Man, the all time classic Duck Hunt. I've probably clocked over 100 hours on this system. This system really started to get me into gaming in general, as it had amazing RPG and Adventure games, as well as fun games like Mario. Why does Nintendo beat out it's inferior competitor the Atari? The Atari just plain didn't do it, until Nintendo made the NES. I have SERIOUS nostalgia with this system and the games involved, as I grew up on it and played it with my father. He helped me along with the really hard games that the NES had to offer, as well as things I simply couldn't figure out, such as the amazing Zelda puzzles, or the tricky Mario Brothers levels. Hours of countless fun and enjoyment come from this good old system that started it all.
Graphics 9/10
At the time, it was unlike anything I have ever seen. Nintendo blew the other competition out of the water in terms of graphical advances. 8 whole bits! Sounds horrible today, as we have 128 bit processors at our disposal, but everyone loves the good old NES. The system is a timeless masterpiece. You STILL play these games today and enjoy them.
Sound 9/10
Stereo? No way! Really? Yes, thats right. Stereo. This system not only looked amazing, it had amazing sound. This is just fantastic for its time. The sound on any NES cart is just really great. Instead of the Mono one sound beeps, you get music. Sometimes even a soundtrack. Like in such games as The Legend of Zelda, Mario, Final Fantasy. This was a great addition to the video gaming industry, and to video games as well. Granted, its not Dolby Digital, but it may have been for its time.
Gameplay 10/10
This is where the NES really gets me here. The gameplay is just simply amazing. There really is not much else to it. You have fun exciting games such as Duck Hunt where you have to shoot some 8-Bit ducks on the screen while your Dog catches the body. Thats rip roaring good times. Get your buddies together, grab a Pizza, and shoot the Ducks! I will never forget the good times I've had with this good old system. Games that were made extremely hard such as Castle Dragon. It still is my opinion today that if you can master NES games, you are a true gamer. Especially games like Final Fantasy and Zelda II: Adventure of Link. These games were HARD. No GameFAQ's either, just Nintendo Power and a hot line. I remember playing Mega Man for about 6 hours straight figuring about bosses, and techniques to beat the game. You feel really accomplished when you beat these games, and it was just an overall amazing gaming experience.
Replay Value 10/10
I've said it many times before in this review, this system is really amazing, and has the best replay values of any system I have played. With over 700 games to choose from, how on Earth do get bored of this? That should keep you busy for a while. More like 20 years? This system has really stood the test of time and come out to be a true hero among gaming and systems. Not to mention the genius of Nintendo here, it really shows. I have carts (Final Fantasy I, II, Zelda I , II) more then 20 years old, and guess what? My original battery that was in the cart when I bought it still works today. Yes! Thats right, still works today. I find this to be amazing, and should show that Nintendo knows what it's doing.
Overall 10/10
This system is a must have for a gamer, even if you haven't played it yet. You really should try to get your hands on it. It works amazing, and still is playable today. It's so much fun and deserves its place in gaming history.
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When coming in from the cold on a bitter winter night there is nothing better than some traditional hot comfort food for your supper ..... but this is supposed to be summer! Nevertheless a few days ago, a mid July evening found me battling through drenching rain and gale force winds which nearly knocked me off my feet and eventually arriving home cold and miserable. Once a little drier and slightly warmer, I found the courage to plunge one arm into the freezer in order to retrieve this unusual variety of Cumberland Pie which is not traditional but can be quite soothing at such times.
This is billed as containing pieces of chicken in a creamy sauce with broccoli topped with mashed potato with 30% extra chicken but by what criterion "extra" is judged is not clear! Of course, Tesco are using poetic licence in naming this dish because Cumberland pie is normally made with minced beef but maybe this is a slightly healthier alternative. It comes in the usual plastic dish, covered with clear film and wrapped around with a recyclable cardboard sleeve. (There is no indication as to whether the dish can be recycled)
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This does seem to be quite nutritionally balanced but there are no claims to it being a healthy option. The salt content is quite high being nearly one third of the recommended maximum daily amount and it is certainly not for those who are trying to slim. Per 500g pack there are 535 calories , 0.5g sugar, 25.4g fat, 14g saturated fat, 1.9g salt, and 13.4g fibre.
Many allergy sufferers will have to avoid it as it contains milk, wheat , gluten and celeriac and, whilst not containing nuts, it cant be guaranteed nut free.
There is a further warning that it may contain bones although I have eaten it several times and not discovered one.
This is an adequate portion for one person (500g) if teamed with some vegetables and the cost of £1.97 makes it one of Tescos more reasonably priced ready meals
This is simplicity itself, just unpack, remove the film lid and pop in a oven preheated to 190C or gas mark 5, for 25-30 minutes (ten minutes longer if cooking from frozen). I would recommend oven cooking as the potato browns more satisfactorily and the slower method seems to bring out the delicate flavours. However, it can be also be micro-waved straight from the freezer in a maximum of 14½ minutes
There is ample chicken which tastes like and has the consistency of breast meat but is probably a reconstituted variety. In fact I found there was a chicken piece in every mouthful. Chicken in ready made meals can sometimes end up tasting like flavoured sawdust but this is chunky and satisfyingly chewable. The really creamy white sauce is slightly buttery and flavoured with vegetable concentrate and white wine making it very palatable but not overpowering. The broccoli is the long stem variety and provides a slight al dente crunchiness which is a satisfying contrast to the tenderness of the chicken.
My real criticism relates to the mashed potato topping. Maybe I have an unusually healthy appetite or piggish tendencies but I could eat a far more generous helping. Its prettily piped but I doubt it is much more than a centimetre thick. It also has the consistency and taste of a powdery, reconstituted (Smash type) offering which really bears little resemblance to the proper fluffy variety. However its saviour is the cheddar cheese crumb topping which is wonderfully crunchy and tasty and serves to distract the diners attention from the mediocre mash!
This wouldnt be sufficient to satisfy my appetite as a complete meal but I usually serve it with generous portions of carrots and green vegetables. Alternatively a separate tomato salad can be quite an acceptable accompaniment, if a little unorthodox. Although tasty the flavours are delicate and, on occasions when I have felt in need of a little more piquancy and spice, I have added some pickle on the side or a dash or two of Lea Perrins sauce but maybe I have unusual tastes.
I know that ready meals have their critics but sometimes they can be very handy especially when you live alone and dont find much satisfaction in cooking for one or you need something sustaining in a hurry. For me this is one of the better varieties available being tasty, acceptably nutritious, versatile and reasonably priced. As it can be cooked from frozen it is also a good quick standby. I am very critical of many of Tescos ready meals but this is one of their better efforts although I have to remove a couple of stars for the mashed potato which disappointed both in quantity and quality. Keep trying harder Tesco every little helps.
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Whetstone is a place in the London Borough of Barnet, bearing the postcode N20. It is to the east of Totteridge, and these areas are known together as Totteridge & Whetstone. This combined area is the 63rd richest area in the UK - an acclamation which can be credited to Totteridge Lane, a long road home to many multi-millionaires. The High Road, the main road in the area, is the A1000 and part of the traditional Great North Road from London to Edinburgh.
Whetstone originated in medieval times. It was an important staging post for stagecoaches going north from London. There has been an inn on the site of the present Griffin pub for centuries, though the present building dates from 1928. The buildings to the left of the pub (viewed from the High Road) are late 15th century.
There were early 19th century buildings opposite the Griffin pub [1] on the corner of Totteridge Lane, but they were demolished in 2001 and replaced by a new Boots the Chemist.
It is thought that Whetstone was named after the whetstone used to sharpen knives and other tools, a chunk of which is located on the High Road, on the pavement outside the Griffin pub (see picture). Some question this and suggest the stone was placed there as a mounting block for climbing on to horses as the Griffin was a coaching inn. It is also said that the name Whestone is merely a corruption of an old Anglo-Saxon name. Legend has it that it was used by soldiers about to fight in the Battle of Barnet.
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Yes, but those blocks in RAID 10 are largely irrelevant as they are to independant disks. In RAID 5 you have to write parity to an 'active' drive that is part of the stripe. (They are irrelevant unless of course you are maxing out your SCSI bus - yet another reason why SATA can be faster than SCSI, particularly in RAID 10, every channel is independant). Sorry - my math for RAID 5 was a bit off - I don't know why I was considering only a three dirve situation - which is the worst. It's n+1 you are right. still, for small arrays thats a big penalty. Still, there is definately a penatly contrary to the assertion of the orignal poster. I agree totally that the read+parity-calc+write in the worst case is totaly bad, which is why I alway recommend people should _never ever_ use RAID 5. In this day and age of large capacity chassis, and large capacity SATA drives, RAID 5 is totally inapropriate IMHO for _any_ application least of all databases. In reality I have yet to benchmark a system where RAID 5 on the same number of drives with 8 drives or less in a single array beat a RAID 10 with the same number of drives. I would definately be interested in a SCSI card that could actualy achieve the theoretical performance of RAID 5 especially under Linux. With RAID 5 you get to watch you system crumble and fail when a drive fails and the array goes into a failed state. It's just not worth it. Alex. On 12/26/05, David Lang <dlang(at)invendra(dot)net> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Alex Turner wrote: > > > It's irrelavent what controller, you still have to actualy write the > > parity blocks, which slows down your write speed because you have to > > write n+n/2 blocks. instead of just n blocks making the system write > > 50% more data. > > > > RAID 5 must write 50% more data to disk therefore it will always be slower. > > raid5 writes n+1 blocks not n+n/2 (unless n=2 for a 3-disk raid). you can > have a 15+1 disk raid5 array for example > > however raid1 (and raid10) have to write 2*n blocks to disk. so if you are > talking about pure I/O needed raid5 wins hands down. (the same 16 drives > would be a 8+8 array) > > what slows down raid 5 is that to modify a block you have to read blocks > from all your drives to re-calculate the parity. this interleaving of > reads and writes when all you are logicly doing is writes can really hurt. > (this is why I asked the question that got us off on this tangent, when > doing new writes to an array you don't have to read the blocks as they are > blank, assuming your cacheing is enough so that you can write blocksize*n > before the system starts actually writing the data) > > David Lang > > > Alex. > > > > On 12/25/05, Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us> wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:45:20PM -0500, Ron wrote: > >>> Caches help, and the bigger the cache the better, but once you are > >>> doing enough writes fast enough (and that doesn't take much even with > >>> a few GBs of cache) the recalculate-checksums-and-write-new-ones > >>> overhead will decrease the write speed of real data. Bear in mind > >>> that the HD's _raw_ write speed hasn't been decreased. Those HD's > >>> are pounding away as fast as they can for you. Your _effective_ or > >>> _data level_ write speed is what decreases due to overhead. > >> > >> You're overgeneralizing. Assuming a large cache and a sequential write, > >> there's need be no penalty for raid 5. (For random writes you may > >> need to read unrelated blocks in order to calculate parity, but for > >> large sequential writes the parity blocks should all be read from > >> cache.) A modern cpu can calculate parity for raid 5 on the order of > >> gigabytes per second, and even crummy embedded processors can do > >> hundreds of megabytes per second. You may have run into some lousy > >> implementations, but you should be much more specific about what > >> hardware you're talking about instead of making sweeping > >> generalizations. > >> > >>> Side Note: people often forget the other big reason to use RAID 10 > >>> over RAID 5. RAID 5 is always only 2 HD failures from data > >>> loss. RAID 10 can lose up to 1/2 the HD's in the array w/o data loss > >>> unless you get unlucky and lose both members of a RAID 1 set. > >> > >> IOW, your RAID 10 is only 2 HD failures from data loss also. If that's > >> an issue you need to go with RAID 6 or add another disk to each mirror. > >> > >> Mike Stone > >> > >> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > >> TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend > >> > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > > > http://archives.postgresql.org > > >
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Teachers, textbooks, students, concrete, cars, computers, offices, libraries, printers and classrooms — these are things the average Binghamton student really pays attention to during any regular school day.
Between deadlines and projects, tests and papers, lectures and homework, school surrounds us. Yet there is a place so far removed from this otherwise inescapable reality that it makes all of the daily activities seem irrelevant or, even better, nonexistent. Welcome to the Nature Preserve; she has been waiting for you.
In the Nature Preserve, there is nothing and nobody. The quietude of it all strikes you like a gust of wind. Even the clock tower rings silent if one goes in far enough. It's amazing how tranquil everything is without all those people, cars and buildings.
And when it snows, it's like putting on a pair of $600 headphones and pressing the mute button. It is the sound of complete and utter silence, something virtually unheard of on campus grounds.
In all this serenity, it is easy to lose track of time, especially if one has the courage to be momentarily detached from technology. There is nothing else to do besides walk. It is the only way in and the only way out. All the useless information that gets crammed into our heads every day can be released by a simple stroll across the bridge.
It is a place to think, but, at the same time, it is a place to not think. It is difficult and rewarding to be able to totally clear the head for a little while. Academia demands so much from our minds on a daily basis, but because we are surrounded by everything that is school, the sight of nothing but nature becomes that much more stunning.
And then there is the preserve itself. Besides being hands down the most romantic place in Binghamton, it is also the most private. From an overcrowded fraternity party to 100-person lecture halls, from busy dinning halls to loud roommates, suitemates and housemates, where is it ever that you are absolutely alone? Some people cannot be happy unless they are with other people. But one's privacy, besides being an essential human right, is valuable in and of itself. It can be liberating and even enjoyable to let it all go and just unplug for a while.
Although a walk alone can be boring, there are ways to spice it up. It helps to think of a question, any nonfactual query about yourself, that you hold high in your mind as you walk a trail. Perhaps it will be answered when you are traveling, perhaps not. Either way, it never hurts to ask.
There is also the cathartic experience of screaming at the top of your lungs without anyone thinking you are crazy. Always a great time. There are no cameras (yet) or microphones in the preserve, and we all know there are times that just make you want to shout.
Just as many outside the Northeast fail to recognize the academic excellence and relative affordability of this University, many fellow Binghamton students have yet to discover the reflective glimmer on the crown jewel of the SUNY system that is our Nature Preserve. This school is not know for its elegant architecture or picturesque location, but for all those willing to adventure and explore, there are truly beautiful aspects of the University waiting to be discovered.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 8:00pm
Professor Jetro da Silva pays tribute to the late Whitney Houston. Da Silva served as band member, arranger and a friend of Houston's for 13 years.
This evening will feature performances from Berklee College students and special guests.
Admission: $8 in advance (discount applied at checkout), $12 day of show, general admission
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Mountbatten, Nehru, Ambedkar and the Independence of India
Thu, April 4, 2013 | Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118)
a talk by Professor Sir Christopher Bayly, St. Catherine's College, University of Cambridge
Professor Sir Christopher Bayly, the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge University, will be the guest of the Institute for Historical Studies in early April and will present a series of talks and seminars during his weeklong stay at UT Austin.
A renowned British historian specializing in British imperial history in India, Bayly has published extensively on the Empire, and especially on India. Most recently, his Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire (2011) considers the role of liberalism in colonial India. In Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (2004) and its sequel, Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia (2007), both with Dr. Tim Harper, he explored the aftermath of the Second World War in Asia.The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (2004) sketched the ripple effects of world crises in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and showed how events in Asia, Africa, and South America impacted the world as a whole. Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780-1830 (1989) surveyed the rise, apogee, and decline of the Second British Empire. Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India (2000) recreated the network of spying that colonial authorities created in India while Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (1988) reassessed the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism.
In addition to serving as the Vere Harmsworth professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Bayly is also a trustee of the British Museum and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has also been honored for his distinguished service to the field of history: in 2004, he was awarded the prestigious Wolfson History Prize and, in 2007 he was knighted during the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Professor Sir Bayly served as President of St. Catherine's College at Cambridge from 2008 until 2011, and is Director of Cambridge's Center of South Asian Studies. He is also the co-editor of The New Cambridge History of India and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals.
His visit is kindly sponsored by the Institute for Historical Studies, British Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts,Center for European Studies, South Asia Institute, History Department, and LBJ School for Public Affairs.
Click here for a complete schedule of talks by Professor Sir Bayly.
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This year, UDOT's Zero Fatalities program hopes we will all get not only a little older, but a little bit wiser too. At the Safe Kid's Fair this Saturday, you'll get to participate in some fun activities designed to teach your family how to make it home safely every day.
At the Zero Fatalities booth, your child can strike a pose and take a personal photo next to banners showcasing road safety signs. Whether walking, biking, or driving in a vehicle, these signs, installed by UDOT, teach road safety to all ages. And of course we will give out our popular backpacks to kids who promise to always buckle up!
Come visit us at the Safe Kids Fair this Saturday, March 2, from 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. at the South Towne Exposition Center, located at 9575 South State Street in Sandy. Bring a camera to snap a photo, take home a backpack in this year's new color and leave a bit wiser than when you arrived. Admission is free!


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While dinosaurs ruled the world some 200 million years ago, a group of nocturnal, shrewlike proto-mammals unwittingly sniffed out a strategy for survival that eventually led to the evolution of larger brains. Fossil skulls of two ancient, mammal-like reptiles suggest that natural selection for a keener sense of smell was the initial spur behind bigger brains in early mammals, according to a report online today in Science. "Mammals didn't get our larger brains for thinking," says co-author Zhe-Xi Luo, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "We got it for a more urgent and more basic need—our sense of smell was far more important."
Birds and mammals have brains that are up to 10 times larger, relative to body size, than those of reptiles and other animals. Why? Some researchers have proposed that the early, nocturnal mammals evolved larger brains to boost their hearing, because sight was less important at night. Others have suggested that mammals' brains are proportionately larger because as many early mammals evolved smaller bodies, their brains failed to shrink to scale.
By reconstructing the two oldest known skulls of proto-mammals—fossils of Morganucodon and Hadrocodium discovered in the famed Lufeng Formation in Yunnan, China, in 1986—Luo and colleagues found clues to how the mammalian brain began to enlarge. The researchers scanned the skulls with computed tomography (CT) scans, creating three-dimensional, virtual endocasts of the brain, based on the impressions brain tissue and spaces left on the inside of the skull. That gave them a detailed view of the surface of the brain and the nasal cavities.
Then they compared the two endocasts with those for seven fossils of early cynodonts—carnivorous reptiles that are close relatives of the first mammals—as well as with endocasts for 27 other primitive mammals that lived between 65 million and 190 million years ago and with the brains of 270 living mammals.
They found that the size of the mammalian brain evolved in three major stages. First, by the time Morganucodon was alive 190 million years ago, the brain was almost 50% larger than in cynodonts, and areas that process smell, such as the olfactory bulb, were distinctly larger. Then, a short time later in Hadrocodium, the closest known relative of living mammals, the brain had expanded another 50%, with parts involved in smell accounting for most of the increase. And third, by 65 million years ago when modern types of "crown" mammals arose, regions of the brain that control neuromuscular coordination by integrating different senses had enlarged.
The paper "provides the first evidence of the relative size of the brains and which parts were initially enlarging during critical stages in the evolution of modern mammalian brains," says biologist R. Glenn Northcutt of the University of California (UC), San Diego. "Until now, we could only speculate what changes were occurring and at what rate. Now we have data and can infer what selective pressures were driving brain evolution in the radiation that led to mammals." Biological anthropologist Terrence Deacon of UC Berkeley also praises the descriptive work that shows the olfactory bulb was "unambiguously enlarged" compared with the structure in reptiles. But he warns that just because it was larger when the brain began to expand doesn't mean that the sense of smell drove the size increase—it could just correlate with enlargement caused by another adaptation.
Regardless of the trigger, though, the fossils show that a "mammalian pattern of brain organization is apparent at this very early stage of proto-mammalian evolution," Deacon says.


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Ecuador's Banco Pichincha has been busy expanding within and beyond the country's borders. At the same time, it has been able to keep its financial indicators in line with or better than that of the banking system as a whole.
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continue. "In 2010 we expect Ecuadors GDP to grow between
2%-3% and in 2011 it should expand around 4%, which will
certainly help Pichincha grow," says vice president Jorge
Chiriboga. He adds that higher GDP growth could also translate
into more demand for credit.
Ecuadors biggest bank is also spreading its wings. In
2010, Pichincha closed the acquisition of Inversora Pichincha
and Interdinco, which comprised troubled insurance conglomerate
AIGs consumer finance operations in Colombia. Inversora
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M1 garand
Have a m1 garand with a forties receiver on a 52 barrel. My question for garand owners is other then military surplus and horandy's garand ammunition, what 30.06 ammunition can be used?
I like shooting ppu through my Mauser that is chambered in an 30.06, but they don't fit well in the garand clips.
I have a Schuster adjustable gas plug, you can adjust it to shoot any loads. I would get one.
I shoot 90% Federal Walmart stuff, so I have it set for that. Works well. Worth every penny.
Thanks. I'm really excited to take it out and shoot it.
Congrats BTW, I love to shoot mine, but i rarely do as ammo is about $.80 a round.
Yeah. Which is why the Mauser stays in the safe most of the time. I'd rather take my little 10 22 out and shoot .22 all day. But every once in a while I like knowing that I'm shooting a gun.
I had a chance to buy a German 7mm Mauser, Kreigsmarine rifle, used on a U-boat. It was only $60.
The whole rifle was pitted terribly and looked like trash, had a clean bore though.:rolleyes:
The CMP sells really great Greek HXP .30-06 for .50 a round. Good brass for reloading, get it while it's available.
I also use a Schuster plug, @40$, if you can find them.
You can then adjust for any 30.06 ammo, without
tearing up the gas system.
I've also found that, without the plug ,the
Garand shoots pretty much any standard
150 grain 30.06 ammo fine.
What you want to avoid is lighter rounds, with "barrel burner" loads,
and the hot loads with 180+ grains, for dangerous game, and such.
I gave my M 1, M 2 Carbine, and M 14 to my son for his collection......I reached the age where the recoil is just too much for me after several shots.......He soon will get My Colt C 4 and two AK 47s for the same reasons.
I have gone over to the dark side and am using 22 cal military look a likes.:eek:
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Ricky Gervais lost a bunch of weight, too
While most of us are still reeling from Drew Carey's stunning weight loss, The Office creator Ricky Gervais and his girlfriend Jane Fallon teamed up to drop about 40 combined pounds and counting. Don't worry, they'll catch up to Drew's 70 in due time.
"It wasn't so much about the weight. It was more that I was a fat, lazy, out of shape slob, to be honest," the Brit told People, noting he dropped about 22 pounds and Fallon, his partner of more than 25 years, shed 18. There was no big secret as to how he did it, either: Gervais would jog around his London neighborhood and quit eating garbage so late, not to mention Fallon making meals with lower calorie counts. " I didn't eat differently. I probably just stopped having that second meal at 11:30 at night," he added.
This is great for Ricky's health, but his career will be taking the biggest hit. "Now I've got to stop making jokes about fat people, which is annoying," he said. "When I was fat, it was okay." Well, now he'll just have to make fun of normal-sized people.
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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart reunited at the same bar they rekindled their romance following Stewart's cheating scandal with director Rupert Sanders, as rumours surrounding their alleged split have been rumbling since Rob left to shoot his latest movie earlier this year.
The Twilight stars were spotted at Ye Rustic Inn after over two months apart, with both wearing their signature dress-down style. Rob rocking his shaved head, while Kristen wore and over-sized bomber jacket.
They hung out at the LA bar together and even posed for pictures with fans, according to an eyewitness.
"It was a mellow night. They were just hanging out with a few friends at a booth," the onlooker said, according to Life & Style.
With them adding that the couple were "super nice... just normal people at a bar".
Robert and Kristen together at a bowling alley in Berlin last year. Photo: Wenn.com
Rob, 26, was sporting the new buzzcut he got for his latest film, The Rover, which kept him away from Kristen as it was filmed in Australia.
Apparently the 22-year-old actress is still eager to save the relationship despite the recent break-up.
Earlier this month, Kristen's rumoured plans to welcome Rob home came to light, as she was reportedly planning a super romantic reunion for his return.
The 22-year-old, who has been pictured partying with their Twilight co-star Taylor Lautner, was said to have split up with Rob and was allegedly banned from visiting him Down Under.
Rob and Kristen put on a united front for the cameras at the Breaking Dawn premieres (Wenn)
Now the actress is said to have planned a "very special night" for when he comes back from Australia, and was set to pick him up from the airport.
A source close to the couple has told OK! Magazine that Kristen warned off his friends so that she can keep the British heartthrob all to herself.
"Kristen's got a very special night planned for Rob when he gets back. She wants to surprise him by waiting in the backseat of a limo at the airport," the insider revealed.
"It's rare for celeb couples to do that because it doubles the chances of a security issue. So he'll be really surprised when he gets in that limo."
Kristen, who admitted to having an affair with her Snow White And The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders last year, is said to have wanted to pull out all the stops and wanting their reunion to be just the two of them.
"Rob has a huge group of friends who are all dying to take him out, but Kristen's told them to back off until she's had some time alone," the source added.
"Kristen told him she wants him all to herself in the first 24 hours he's back," the insider said. "He'll be jet-lagged of course, but she's got a relaxing night planned with a bottle of wine, pizza, and the two of them. That's all they both want."
Looks like the friends might have won then.
Kristen has been spotted out enjoying herself while Rob's been away
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Scottish retail sales could be turning the corner after months of patchy performance, according to new indicators published this week by the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC).
One or at most two of the three indicators published by the SRC have, at any one time over the last two years, pointed in a positive direction at the same time.
But this is the first time that all three sectoral indicators - which measure footfall, shop vacancy rates and sales - are all pointing in the right direction simultaneously.
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Footfall rose 5.2% in April compared to a year ago, the shop vacancy rate dropped to 10.7% and total Scottish retail sales in Scotland rose by 1.9% in April compared to a year ago.
However, the upbeat news was tempered by the fact that growth in Scottish retail sales in April was just one-third of like-for-like UK average sales growth of 5.7%. In addition, the number of empty retail premises in Scotland remains slightly higher than the UK average.
So far as sales are concerned the monthly SRC KPMG Retail Sales Monitor found that clothing and footwear enjoyed their highest growth rate in more than three years. The uplift is believed to have been driven by shoppers replacing their wardrobes with items for the new season and buying children's clothing.
Food sales were 1.1% higher and non-food sales rose by 2.6% compared with April 2013. Big-ticket items such as furniture, gardening, DIY and materials for revamping the home also did well.
SRC director David Lonsdale described the fact that a broad range of retail indictors have started to point in a favourable direction at the same time as "promising". Retailers would, though, have to work hard to sustain this by improving their offer.
Lonsdale said: "The UK and Scottish governments and local authorities can assist by channelling their collective energies into ensuring that the retail industry, which is Scotland's largest private-sector employer providing 255,000 jobs, is even better placed to be able to invest, expand and create employment.
"Policies which put money into people's pockets, keep down the cost of doing business, and facilitate retail investment and expansion should be prioritised."


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The forming of a synergistic relationship between two or more people depends on an acknowledgement of the distinctions of each alongside shared hopes and ambitions. Kering and London College of Fashion, through CSF, have made a five year commitment together to explore and expand the contribution that fashion can make to individual lives, to communities and our wider cultures and societies through design led educational and business practices for sustainability.
Since commencing our partnership in 2014, we have been finding new ways of working across a diverse and rich network of BA & MA students, with expert colleagues at Kering and with many of their luxury fashion brands. This partnership is challenging what we at the CSF know of how fashion deals with the unstable terrain of sustainability. We have established a level of communication with our partners based on trust and openness, co-creation and innovation, and this is playing out in multiple guises through our collaborative projects: The Kering Award for Sustainability; and the Kering masters level curriculum module Empowering Imagination. These projects are underpinned by our developing research framework for Fashion Design for Sustainability, led by Professor Dilys Williams.
The ambition of our collaboration is to offer space for the development of ideas that might, in the words of François-Henri Pinault, 'change the way we do business'. We have the pleasure of connecting with esteemed alumni from LCF who are forging new roles within the luxury fashion sector, and hope that we continue to challenge industry with students and graduates equipped with new skills and perspectives for a future subject to great change.
We hope that this partnership will contribute, through those involved, to fashion's artistic and business practices being a means to fulfil our unique potential as human beings through an understanding of nature, ourselves and each other.
The plan with Kering is three-fold: an annual lecture – The Kering Talk; The Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion; and a co-created masters level curriculum – Empowering Imagination.
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Vientiane, the capital city of Laos, is the political, economic and cultural centre of Laos. Vientiane has a total area of 13 square kilometers and it's the largest industrial and commercial city in Laos. Vientiane is located on the river valley plain in the middle reach of Mekong and it's one of the few capital cities situated on the border. Laotian is their main language and Buddhism is their main religion. Vientiane is an ancient city with a long history dating back to the 4th century BC. Vientiane has been the capital city of Laos for over 500 years. In Vientiane, various temples and the ancient pagodas can be seen everywhere. Vientiane enjoys a tropical and subtropical monsoon climate with annual average temperature of 26℃ and it's hot and rainy throughout the year. Thus, the trees are dense and evergreen there. The rainy seasons are from May to October and the dry seasons are from November to the following April.
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GLibC 2.5 emerge: seg. fault?
Hey all, geeks of LQ. i'm having a bit of a problem with updating from glibc 2.3.6-r5 to 2.5
I'm using linux 2.6.19-r5
# uname -a
i'll see if i can get a tail of the error report as soon as possible.
btw: i'm using gentoo linux, mainly stable.
so, here are a last few lines of the emerge action:
.././scripts/mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.5/work/build-default-i386-pc-linux-gnu-linuxthreads/sunrpc/rpcsvc
I was just about to say I upgraded to 2.5 fine when I realized you were upgrading from 2.3. This is going to require some special attention [can't give you exact details, I've only recently (3 days) switched to gentoo]. The Gentoo forums or freenode channel might have details. You might also find some glibc upgrading docs on gentoo.org
Also looks like you have downloaded wrong stage tarball, I hardly believe you are running it on an i386.
so, i tried to switch to 2.4. didn't work out, because (as said below) i'm using i386 for compiling. and 2.4 requires nptl, which requires i386
THX for all help!
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New AHRQ report on women at risk for diabetes is available
Research Activities, April 2011, No. 368
AHRQ has released a new report titled Women at High Risk for Diabetes: Access and Quality of Health Care, 2003-2006. Women account for nearly half of all cases of diabetes in this country, and projections indicate that that percentage will increase between 2010 and 2050. Yet, many studies do not stratify by sex, so it is difficult to determine the quality of care received by women with diabetes or who are at risk of developing the condition.
This report uses national datasets to provide information about the quality of care among women at high risk for being diagnosed with diabetes compared with women not at high risk. It presents measures in several areas, such as access to care, general well-being, and evidence-based diabetes-specific preventive care.
You can access the report at Women at High Risk for Diabetes: Access and Quality of Health Care, 2003-2006 .


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Dispute Resolution in Ottoman Courts: A Quantitative Analysis of Litigations in Eighteenth Century Kastamonu
Since the emergence of the Weberian notion of "kadijustiz" scholars have debated the ability of Islamic courts to resolve disputes fairly and predictably. For a quantitative analysis of how these courts resolved disputes, we use data from the court records (sicils) of the Ottoman town of Kastamonu and examine whether the judges' decision followed systematic patterns and whether the patterns were logical. The results show that the trial outcome was influenced by the gender, elite status, religion, and religious markers of litigants. Using the tools and concepts of modern scholarship on dispute resolution, we argue that in resolving disputes Kastamonu courts displayed logical patterns that are consistent with those identified by quantitative analysis of court outcomes in modern societies. JEL Classification: H1, K, N45 Key words: court, litigation, trial, dispute resolution, selection effect, Ottoman Empire
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The CUA Law Alumni Association invites all alumni to attend the inaugural meeting of the CUA Law Alumni Association. Come learn about the law school's newly formed Alumni Association, how it can benefit you, and how you can get involved. Though this event is part of Reunion Weekend 2013, you do not have to be a member of a reunion class to attend.
Saturday, September 28, 201310:30 a.m.
Columbus School of Law Room 211
Click the button below and select Inaugural Meeting of the Law Alumni Assoc. to register.
3600 John McCormack Road, NE, Suite 339 Washington, DC 20064
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pasto a base di pesce/fish dinner
Back to the Feast of the Seven Fishes…
While stuffed shells are a must-have at Christmas time, so are seven plates of seafood greatness. Entirely too many fish dishes, so little time, time being part of the reason I am doubling up on recipes. As I move forward this week, I wish I could tell you there was a method to my madness with how I am presenting the seven plates. But, that would entail entirely too much forethought, something that is flown out the window with juggling too many tasks. So instead, the fish choices are random, and can fit on your table wherever you feel is best.
As guests trickle in, conversations flow and stomachs begin to growl, I like to offer additional nibbles, besides an antipasti platter and crudite of vegetables. Adding a crab dip can help belly rumblings until the other courses begin. This crab-pear combo happened quite by accident. While I love adding fruit to savory dishes, a jam-packed cabinet and an oblivious
cook me caused an avalanche as the cabinet door opened. Like a bad slo-mo in a low-budget movie, the plastic Dekalk Farmer's Market container filled with curry powder spun in a somewhat counter clockwise motion, bounced across the counter, tore open with restless abandon and released a curry haze resembling a culinary atomic cloud. With a whisper, the curry powder then settled in a sweet slumber on top of my lump crab.
Rather than start over, with the price of crab more than I want to think about, and after releasing a few choice expletives, I decided to add ginger to balance flavor and heat levels. All worked out, and the spices with the crab and pear made for a clever twist classic.
Crab & Pear Dip
3 large, firm pears, peeled and thinly sliced
¾ cup mayonnaise (1 cup less 1 Tablespoon)
4 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
6 ounces of jumbo lump crab meat
2 tsp. curry powder
1 tsp. ground ginger
¼ tsp. fine sea salt
Juice of 1 lemon
Pinch of pepper
Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, toss the pear and lemon juice; set juice. In a bowl, mix the mayonnaise, cream cheese, curry powder, ginger, salt and pepper. Carefully fold in crab, as not to break the crab meat. Drain pears and add to the crab mixture. Transfer into a small, ovenproof bowl and bake until crab starts to brown on top, about 25 minutes. Serve with crackers.
So, you have the appetizers down. But, does the task of whipping up specific fish dishes freak you out a bit? If you're not trying to go full-out and make seven actual dishes, adding multiple fish in one recipe helps manage one's time. Case in point? Seafood Marinara. Not only is it pretty quick to make, but its ingedients bring it to the front of the line with omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins and minerals.
Seafood Marinara
3-4 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
¼ tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
1 Tbsp. fresh basil, finely chopped (5 or 6 large leaves)
1 ½ Tbsp. Italian seasoning
2 tablespoons olive oil
3-4 cups preferred Marinara sauce
1 lb. uncooked shrimp, peeled and deveined
½ lb fresh bay scallops or sea scallops (if necessary, cut to bite-sized pieces)
½ lb squid tubes, cleaned and cut into 1/4″ circles
1lb. spaghetti, cooked, drained and kept warm
Shaved Parmesan for garnish
In a large, deep skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Sauté the garlic until it begins to brown. Add the seafood and seasoning, stirring constantly to mix completely. Add marinara sauces. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat slightly, constantly stirring until the shrimp it cooked through. (Approx. 5 minutes, depending on the size). Add cooked pasta and stir to coat. Serve immediately with Parmesan. Serves 4
Cook's Notes:
- The pasta shown here is the same gluten-free quinoa pasta I served with the Oven Roasted Vine-Ripened Tomato Sauce. Not your thing? Go full-on gluten; have at it.
- I quartered large sea scallops I had bought from my fish monger, then frozen. But, smaller bay scallops would work as well.


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