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What is the DVD
of DVD, digital versatile / video disc position, on behalf of the DVDR DVD burning and rewritable DVD to DVD. If you and your regular audio / music CD or ordinary DVD video discs are familiar, then you will know what is a recordable DVD looks like. recordable DVD can store 2 hours of very good quality The DVD - video, including a number of tracks, such as stereo, Dolby Digital or DTS format, also advanced menu systems, subtitles and still pictures, by the number of independent DVD player to play most computer DVD. If you choose to reduce the video quality may be stored in a recordable DVD video a few hours, the use of low bit rate and video quality, such as tape, SVHS, SVCD, and VCD of cardiovascular disease or multiple low resolution. It may also have up to 4.37 * GB of ordinary data or mix DVD - Video and DVD burning, you can be most computer DVD - ROM's.
PSP data is and what to play?
PSP, the PlayStation Portable handheld game short machine, is a production and marketing by Sony Computer Entertainment. PSP is an excellent display. It's big, wide and charming. colorful and detailed. excellent response rate, but I seem to be playing Ridge Racer. However, there is an All of these pulsating pixel faults. First of all, Sony chose a very reflective coating. This makes the image look great. graphics engine make the screen look bigger short. This makes the enjoyment.
how to convert and Top DVD DVD to PSP Video Converter PSP to great advantage?
Top DVD to PSP Converter is a small and simple DVD to PSP (MP4 function, MP3) converter to convert to play on the PSP is the DVD to the PSP. You can access the Memory Stick root directory of the PSP folder on the main DVD.
this DVD to PSP Converter not only supports converting almost all kinds of DVD to PSP (MP4 and MP3) of the , but also easy for you to sync without having to re-convert the video player. At the same time and function of converting DVD to PSP, this process allows custom file. cropping function to highlight the groups of similar products. DVD sources may have different aspect ratios (eg 4:3,16:9,2.35:1). some of the aspect ratio of 2.35:1 DVD movie contains black bars top and bottom of the order to meet the 16:9 DVD standard. for the 2.35:1 superwide movies, you you can choose your mode of personal preference shy crops.
convert DVD to PSP and DVD to PSP Converter This is a simple and easy to do. If you do not need to improve, which coincided with the video import and export video, will be . In the PSP
, create a new directory called MP_ROOT root folder, and then in a folder called 100MNV01 there.. so your MP4 files should go into E: \ MP_ROOT \ 100MNV01, where E: \ is your memory stick drive. You also need one, for the conversion software can not use Mac computers. This MP_ROOT directory structure directly cribbed Sony's UX / field thinking the Clie series of handheld computers, it also plays MPEG - 4 video.
Let us look at how to convert DVD to PSP with Top DVD to PSP Converter.
into the DVD into the DVD drive, open the program, and import the DVD file
is set:.
1. in the subtitle, select the subtitle language.
2. In the audio, select the audio language.
3. from the side, select the PSP movie ( *. The MP4).
4. in the output, set the output file destination folder.
click on the "Edit" to edit the video at your desire. A select "Zoom", "mailbox" and crops, "seven size" of the video, or directly drag the point to its framework. Click "OK" to confirm the setting.
Bay onto the button on the slide to trim the video or change the start time and end time
the value of the direct effect of angle adjustment is as follows:
Drag the brightness, contrast, slides,wmv to avi, and volume and improve the video quality.
Four browsing image files, set the transparency, position and size to create a logo watermark or enter text, click the "T" button to change the font properties, and set its transparency and location to create a text watermark.
click on the "conversion" to begin the conversion.


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Dinosaur lovers, this is your weekend.
A hands-on exhibit called "Discover the Dinosaurs" is at the Lancaster Event Center through Sunday.
Kids and families can get up close and touch some of the life–sized, moving dinosaurs on display.
Julie Brown from Bellevue says her son and his friend had a blast.
"I was actually kind of impressed, I just thought it was going to be exhibits, but there's so much for both the boys to do, so there's fun things but they're still learning about dinosaurs," Brown said.
Kids can also ride on the back of a dinosaur, dig and mine for fossils, get their face painted and more.
Admission ranges from $12 to $20 depending on your age and choice of activities.
Discover the Dinosaurs is open until 8 Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m to 7 p.m. on Sunday.

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On April 23, 1928 Shirley Temple was born at 9:00 a.m. in Santa Monica, California. Shirley was the youngest of three children. She had two older brothers who were twelve and fourteen when she was born. When she was three she went to dance school at Ethel Meglin Dance Studios in Hollywood. Then in 1931 Shirley got her first job in a film called Baby Burlesque. Three years later Shirley Temple became the youngest child to ever win an Academy Award at the age of 8. In 1934 Shirley joined the worlds top earning stars at number eight and soon topped out at number one. She filmed Little Ms. Market and she started earning $1,000 per week. Overall she was in eighty-two films. When Shirley was thirteen she retired from acting after she lost the main roll in The Wizard Of Oz to Judy Garland.
When Shirley turned seventeen she married a man in the United States Army Air Corps named John Agar. Shirley and John made two movies together. These movies were The Bachelor and the Bobby Sox and Fort Apache. They had one baby girl named Linda in 1948. Later Shirley and John got a divorce and she then remarried in 1950 to a man she met in Honolulu named Charles Alden Black. Charles was a California businessman who was nine years older than she was. They got married in December of that year and eventually had two children together. One was Charles Alden Black Jr., born in 1952, and the other was Lori, born in 1954. In 1958 Shirley made a comeback on television with her show, Shirley Temple Storybook. Then she starred in Shirley Temple Theatre in 1961. In 1967 Shirley ran for Congress, but did not win it. Then in 1969 President Nixon appointed her as the 24th representative of the General Assembly to the United Nations. In 1974 she was appointed as the U.S. ambassador to Ghana. Ten years later she was presented with an Oscar, which she dedicated to her mother Gertrude Temple. Then on August 4, 2005 her husband died from myelodyspaslic syndrome (a bone marrow disease) at the age of 86, after fifty-five years of marriage. Shirley said that she still has his voice on the answering machine and will never erase it. No child has ever won more fame and popularity than Shirley Temple achieved.


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BA Cal League Top 20
Ah, much better. I was hoping to see Thomas Neal a little higher, but you can't complain much about #9 in a strong league. Great to see Kieschnick at #11 and even Darren Ford at #20. In addition, they noted that Bumgarner would have been #1 had he qualified. It will be interesting to see where he ranks on the EL list, considering in their best tools edition a month ago, Bumgarner was behind Matusz in both best pitcher and best fastball. Another good note is that Dan Runzler, though he's not going to make any of the his league's Top 20 lists (mostly because he wasn't anywhere long enough to get on a lot of managers and scouts radars, probably) was chosen as the RP on BA's Minor League All Star team (which also included Posey and Bumgarner). On the down side, we've now seen a significant stock drop from Adrianza, Gillaspie, Villalona, and Noonan, all of whom were in their respective league's Top 10 lists last year, and failed to make the Top 20 on moving up to the next level. Alderson might well have added to that group had he stayed in the organization.


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All network switches are not created equal. While all carry Ethernet packets, there are limits to how many packets a switch can handle. Even an expensive business-class gigabit Ethernet switch may not be up to snuff.
Audio-over-IP systems use multicast streaming technology to send audio around the facility. Multicast streaming was designed for applications like videoconferencing. In a typical office where one or two conferences may happen for an hour or two at any given time, the excess load is minimal. However, in a radio station where many streams run non-stop, it does not take long to overload the network.
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Each audio device has its own private IP address, and each device is sending and receiving multiple streams of audio. Those streams are assigned Class D multicast addresses. This address range is between 220.127.116.11 to 22.214.171.124. Most of that range is reserved for WAN and Internet specific uses by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. However, there is a block between 220.127.116.11 - 18.104.22.168 reserved for organizations to use locally; this block is used by AoIP devices. Every audio stream gets its own multicast address assigned automatically by its sender, and all network switches will pass that data.
The problem is that once all of the audio devices are powered up and sending anywhere from 8 to 64 different streams out to the network the switch will dutifully pass that traffic to every port -- along with the rest of the data flowing across the network -- whether the other ports need all of that data or not. This is called flooding. Like in a denial of service attack, once you fill the pipe with enough unwanted traffic, needed packets won't get through, and the end result is clicks, pops and holes in the audio.
Unless you are building a very small AoIP system, an unmanaged switch will simply not work because the streams that are transmitting but not being used at the moment will flood out the on-air streams.
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Why don't we just amnesty him? We still have our amnesty from the CBA agreement.
No GM in their right mind would take on Barni's salary (value) without leaving us with an even worse contract. I'd rather sit him on the bench then trade him for someone similar or worse (value or contract wise).
Best bet is to amnesty his as*. I believe this frees up cap space too, no?
Agreed? Agreed. Let's be done with this already.


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Monsanto, the leading producer of genetically modified seed used in farming is closing their wheat production facility in Bozeman.
The facility researched and developed new wheat varieties. The company decided to merge its Bozeman location along with its other centers across the country in North Dakota, Arizona, Indiana and Kansas into one wheat technology center in Twin Falls, Idaho.
"The environment is very mild, irrigated and high yielding," said Jeff Koscelny, Monsanto U.S. Wheat Commercial Lead. "It's really a great location in the U.S. to do wheat breeding."
The company decided to open up a regional site in Great Falls.
"Great Falls seems to be a great location to locate that testing site because there is a tremendous amount of wheat production there," said Koscelny. "They would take the products coming out of the wheat technology center, do the research on a local level then ensure that those products are going to perform to the farmers expectations."
Montana State University does wheat seed research for Monsanto. Spokesman Tracy Ellig said he does not expect the university will be affected by the company's move out of the Gallatin Valley.
"It's been a great relationship and we except it to be moving forward in the future," said Ellig.
Koscelny said no one lost their jobs. All employees were offered the opportunity to move to their location in Idaho.
Monsanto has been located in Bozeman since 2009. In September, Congress did not renew the Monsanto Protection Act, which would have protected genetically modified crops.
Senator Jon Tester was pleased when the act did not pass. He said Congress stood up for accountability and transparency.


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An international team of scientists has shown that an antibody against the protein EphA3, found in the micro-environment of solid cancers, has anti-tumor effects. As EphA3 is present in normal organs only during embryonic development but is expressed in blood cancers and in solid tumors, this antibody-based approach may be a suitable candidate treatment for solid tumors.
New nanotech invention improves effectiveness of the 'penicillin of cancer'August 15, 2014 3:12 pm | by Jared Sagoff, Argonne National Laboratory | Comments
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have added a new weapon to oncologists' arsenal of anti-cancer therapies. By combining magnetic nanoparticles with one of the most common and effective chemotherapy drugs, Argonne researchers have created a way to deliver anti-cancer drugs directly into the nucleus of cancer cells.
Bats bolster brain hypothesis, maybe technology, tooAugust 15, 2014 2:49 pm | by EurekAlert! | Comments
Amid a neuroscience debate about how people and animals focus on distinct objects within cluttered scenes, some of the newest and best evidence comes from the way bats "see" with their ears, according to a new paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology. In fact, the perception process in question could improve sonar and radar technology.
Scientists racing to test Ebola vaccines in humansAugust 15, 2014 10:59 am | by Matthew Perrone - Associated Press | Comments
Scientists are racing to begin the first human safety tests of two experimental Ebola vaccines, but it won't be easy to prove that the shots and other potential treatments in the pipeline really work. There are no proven drugs or vaccines for Ebola, a disease so rare that it's been hard to attract investments in countermeasures. But the current outbreak in West Africa—the largest in history—is fueling new efforts to ...
New gene editing method may help correct muscular dystrophyAugust 15, 2014 10:52 am | by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Comments
Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researchers successfully used a new gene editing method to correct a mutation that leads to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in a mouse model of the condition. Researchers used a technique called CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing, which can precisely remove a mutation in DNA, allowing the body's DNA repair mechanisms to ...
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Laser physicists have found a way to make atomic-force microscope probes 20 times more sensitive and capable of detecting forces as small as the weight of an individual virus. The technique, developed by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU), hinges on ...
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Using a deceptively simple set of experiments, researchers at Johns Hopkins have learned why people learn an identical or similar task faster the second, third and subsequent time around. The reason: They are aided not only by memories of how to perform the task, but also by memories of the errors made the first time.
Scientists fold RNA origami from a single strandAugust 15, 2014 9:51 am | by EurekAlert! | Comments
RNA origami is a new method for organizing molecules on the nanoscale. Using just a single strand of RNA, many complicated shapes can be fabricated by this technique. Unlike existing methods for folding DNA molecules, RNA origamis are produced by enzymes and they simultaneously fold into pre-designed shapes. These features may allow designer RNA structures to ...
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A real-time video feed, a laptop and a computerized manikin baby are key components for a new simulation training initiative that allows UT Arlington College of Nursing educators to put Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (NNPs) and physicians through the paces of an emergency scenario from hundreds of miles away.
Coatings for Medical Devices Market Report - Global Forecasts 2020August 15, 2014 9:32 am | by The Associated Press | Comments
Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/wz6v6m/coatings_for ) has announced the addition of the "Coatings for Medical Devices - Global Strategic Business Report" report to their offering. This report analyzes...
Cook Medical Enrolls First Patient in Zilver PTX Drug Eluting Peripheral Stent Clinical Study in ChinaAugust 15, 2014 8:30 am | by The Associated Press | Comments
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 15, 2014--Cook Medical has enrolled the first patient in the clinical study in China of its Zilver® PTX® Drug Eluting Peripheral Stent. The case was performed by one of the study's principal investigators, Prof. Peng Liu, M.D., at the China-Japan Friendship...
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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 14, 2014--CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV ), a leading provider of custom chemical vapor deposition systems, today announced its financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2014. CVD reported new orders of approximately...
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Chemists led by Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have used his click chemistry to uncover unprecedented, powerful reactivity for making new drugs, diagnostics, plastics, smart materials and many other products. The new SuFEx—Sulfur Fluoride Exchange—reactions enable ...
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A new technique developed by Elisa Konofagou, professor of biomedical engineering and radiology at Columbia Engineering, has demonstrated for the first time that the size of molecules penetrating the blood-brain barrier (BBB) can be controlled using acoustic pressure—the pressure of an ultrasound beam—to let specific molecules through.
Scientists use lasers to control mouse brain switchboardAugust 14, 2014 3:21 pm | by EurekAlert! | Comments
Ever wonder why it's hard to focus after a bad night's sleep? Using mice and flashes of light, scientists show that just a few nerve cells in the brain may control the switch between internal thoughts and external distractions. The study, partly funded by the National Institutes of Health, may be a breakthrough in understanding how a critical part of the brain, called the thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN), influences consciousness.


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Pamela Smith, a longtime critic of electronic voting machines, is worried more about long lines on Tuesday, election day in the U.S.
Any kind of equipment breakdown in places like Pennsylvania and Virginia could cause problems, said Smith, president of Verified Voting, an advocacy group focused on improving voting systems. Those two states don't have polls open for early voting, and there has been a record number of new voter registrations in many parts of the country, particularly among Democrats energized by presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign.
[ For more on how technology is reshaping the race for the U.S. presidency, see InfoWorld's special report. ]
Several states have already reported long lines during early voting. "This is an election that will sort of stress-test the [election] systems," Smith said. "Any problem that's going to come up is going to be amplified."
Several states do not have adequate numbers of voting machines in place to back up malfunctioning equipment, Smith said. The problem will be most acute in states with touch-screen machines; in places with optical scan machines, voters can continue to cast ballots on paper if the scanning machine goes down.
In addition to having no early voting, Pennsylvania and Virginia do not require paper-trail backups with touch-screen electronic voting machines. Critics of e-voting say that without a paper trail, there's no way to audit the results of a touch-screen machine, often called DREs, or direct recording electronic machines.
Professor Alec Yasinsac, dean of the School of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of South Alabama, is keeping an eye on two states: Florida and Ohio. Both states have had tight elections for president in past years, and this year promises more of the same.
Florida, with its hanging chads on punch-card ballots during the 2000 election, was the inspiration for the U.S. Congress to pass legislation encouraging states to move to more modern voting technologies. Then, in 2006, in a tight race for Florida's 13th congressional seat, touch-screen voting machines didn't record a vote from more than 18,000 people who voted in other races.
Florida has since scrapped most of its touch-screen e-voting machines in favor of an optical scan system, in which voters mark paper ballots that are then scanned electronically. The state still has touch-screen machines for voters with disabilities, and it doesn't require paper-trail backups on those machines.
Ohio has also faced problems with e-voting machines, both during the 2004 presidential election and during a primary election earlier this year, when e-voting machines dropped hundreds of votes in several counties.
Since the 2006 general election, four Ohio counties have switched from touch-screen machines to optical scan systems. Voters in Cuyahoga County, the state's most populous county, will be casting ballots on their third voting system in the past three general elections, going from punch cards in 2004 to touch-screen machines in 2006 to optical-scan systems this year. During pre-voting, some voting locations have changed as well.


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His sense of fashion should have clued us in on his coaching abilities
The 2005-2006 season was a disappointing season for the Leafs (despite a decent season on the trade front). In no small part due to a horrendous stretch where we won only 3 games from the middle of January to the beginning of March (a span of 17 games no less), we missed the playoffs for the first time since 1998. The poor result cost the job of head coach Pat Quinn, leading to the hiring of Paul Maurice (who's Canes somehow beat the Leafs in the series that should not be spoken of). John Ferguson Jr. also vowed to shake up the team and bring the players who can help the Leafs not only make it back to the playoffs, but also capable of winning the Stanley Cup. Yeah, I know, no, I'm not kidding. With the benefit of hindsight, we know when JFJ tries to improve something, the opposite usually happens through sheer incompetence. So let's take a stroll and see how JFJ tried to improve the team through trades shall we?
Trade 1 - June 15th, 2006
To Toronto Maple Leafs: 2006 NHL Draft Pick - 7th Round
To Boston Bruins: Petr Tenkrat (RW)
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Raise your hands if you know who Petr Tenkrat is!
Verdict - Push
The first trade of 2006 was a trade of insignificance. Apparently we claimed Tenkrat from the Blue Jackets in 2003, but he stayed in Europe throughout that time and did not suit up for a Leafs affiliate during his time in the organization. After moving to the bruins, he actually got into 64 games for the Bruins, scoring 9 goals and 5 assists in 2006-2007, but he was also a horrendous -16 (despite the fact that +/- is never an accurate gauge of a player's effectiveness, this still paints a pretty piss poor picture of his contribution), so not sure if he actually improved the Bruins or made it worse. After 2007 he moved back to Europe and has been playing in his native Czech Republic.
The leafs received a 7th round pick for a player that never suited up for them, but the 7th round pick didn't mount to much either so... it's hard to call a winner on this one, push it is.
Interesting Fact -
Tenkrat also represented Czech Republic in the World Inline Hockey Championship in 2008. Did you know there was such a thing? Oh? It's just me that didn't know such a thing existed? Okay then.
Trade 2 - June 24th, 2006
To Toronto Maple Leafs: 2006 NHL Entry Draft - 2 4th Round Picks (James Reimer - G, Korbinian Holzer - D)
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Don't worry guys, you can resume your statue building this season (Is this my optimism talking?)
To Chicago Blackhawks: 2006 NHL Entry Draft - 3rd Round (Tony Lagerstrom - LW)
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I got drafted into the NHL?! Why didn't anyone tell me about that?
Verdict - Win (Marginal)
It's hard not to be swayed by the results of the two picks we received from Chicago. We were able to turn the two 4th round picks in the same NHL entry draft into two NHL players, while the pick we sent the other way became a player that has yet to make an appearance in North America. But on the other hand, draft picks at that point has less to do with skill and more to do with luck. We hit the jackpot with Reimer and (to a lesser degree) Holzer. However, it could have been easily the other way around. However the fact that we identified that we had no one in the 3rd round we wanted and changed that into 2 4th round picks on players we did want should rank as a win (especially with the benefit of hindsight).
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For a team with such a dismal drafting record, the 2006 NHL Entry draft was actually quite kind to the Leafs. Out of the 7 picks the Leafs had, 5 of them has played in the NHL (6, if you include Leo Komarov who by all means should break camp this season). The full list? Jiri Tlusty, Nikolai Kulemin, James Reimer, Korbinian Holzer, and Victor Stalberg. The two that didn't? Leo Komarov (who will have a chance to change that this season), and Tyler Ruegsegger. Now Tlusty and Stalberg played the majority of their NHL career elsewhere, but the fact that we were able to draft so many NHLers must count for something right?
Trade 3 - June 24th, 2006
To Toronto Maple Leafs: 2006 NHL Entry Draft - 6th Round (Victor Stalberg - LW)
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Colt 45 strikes again (that was his nickname right?)
To Phoenix Coyotes: 2006 NHL Entry Draft - 2 7th Round picks (Chris Frank - D, Benn Ferriero - C)
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Not signing with Phoenix might have been the best decision he has made thus far
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This was the only picture I can find of Chris Frank, so... yeah.
Verdict - Push
This was another trade that barely made a ripple back in 2006. After all, this was a shuffling of some low rounds between two teams. But six years from now, 2 out of the 3 players are consistent NHLers, which is something you can't really expect out of 6th/7th round draft picks. Stalberg had a better career out of the three by far, scoring 22 goals last season for the Chicago Blackhawks, while Ferriero was able to get into 33 games with the Sharks last season and had 7 goals during that span.
The reason why this is a push is because Stalberg and Ferriero did not made the impact that their original draft teams. Stalberg played a half season with the leafs, and then was traded away to Chicago for Kris Veersteg (something we will talk more about in the future), and Phoenix didn't even get to sign Ferriero, who was instead picked up by the Sharks as a free-agent in 2009. This is a push despite the better career of the Leafs draft pick.
Interesting Fact -
Despite being picked in the 7th round, Benn Ferriero wasn't even the last player to be picked in 2006 who has played in the NHL. There are three players picked later than him who has made it to the show: Arturs Kulda (Jets/Thrasher), John McCarthy (Sharks), and Erik Condra (Senators) who was picked 211 overall and the 3rd last pick. A pretty productive 7th round.
Trade 4 - June 24th, 2006
To Toronto Maple Leafs: Andrew Raycroft (G)
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After I'm done playing here, you guys won't forget the name of Andrew Raycroft
To Boston Bruins - Tuukka Rask (G)
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The face that only a blind mother can love
Verdict - Did you really have to ask?
This was the first disastrous trade since 2005, and boy, was it ever a terrible trade. Andrew Raycroft had a great rookie campaign in 2003-2004, where he won the Calder trophy and carried the Bruins. However in the first season after the lockout, Raycroft had an atrocious .879 save percentage and a 3.70 (!) GAA in 30 games. Somehow John Ferguson Jr. decided this was the man that was supposed to solve the goal-tending situation after the departure of Ed Belfour. What's worse, JFJ gave up arguably the best goalie prospect in the system for him. This is almost akin to someone trading a Cory Schneider for Steve Mason. This trade didn't really make sense then and still doesn't make sense now.
This trade represented what was wrong with the JFJ era. He had no long-term plans, but always looked for the shortcuts to fix the Leafs with no regard for the future. I don't think people would've minded in asking for Raycroft in 2006, who showed briefly he could play in the NHL, but not at the price the Bruins asked for.
I'm sure the rest of the story is well-known to all Leafs fans. But Rask is now one of the best young goaltenders in the NHL for the Bruins and is the heir apparent for Tim Thomas, while Raycroft played 72 games in that season, had a sub .900 Save percentage. He then promptly lost the #1 job to Vesa Toskala the next season. He has then played in Vancouver, Colorado, and Dallas, mostly in a backup role.
Interesting Fact -
I'm sure you are all dying to know, but Raycroft has signed for Milano Rossoblu in Italy for the 2012-2013 season. They have hockey in Italy? We should've sent him there long long ago.
Trade 5 - November 29th, 2006
To Toronto Maple Leafs: Tyson Nash (LW) and 2007 NHL Entry Draft - 4th Round (Matt Frattin - RW)
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Ho hum, looks like I just killed someone, no big deal
To Phoenix Coyotes: Mikael Tellqvist (G)
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Is that what I'm supposed to be stopping? Oh boy this explains a lot
Verdict - Push
With the signing of Raycroft, it meant that it was the end of line for one-time goalie heir apparent Mikael Tellqvist. I always liked Tellqvist when I was a kid, he was supposed to be the next great goaltender in Toronto after Joseph and Belfour. Too bad things never worked out that way.
In 2006-2007, Jean-Sebastian Aubin was entrusted with the backup role after he went on a late season 9-0-2 run in 2006 with a .921 SV% (SSS Alert!) that almost dragged the Leafs kicking and screaming into the playoffs. JFJ thought Raycroft and Aubin would make a potent 1-2 punch and felt Tellqvist was excess requirement on the team. Boy, was JFJ ever wrong: Raycroft was terrible, and Aubin was somehow even worse that season, ending with a .876 SV% and a GAA of 3.43 (wow, did we play in the 80s in that season?!). Man, doesn't that make Jonas Gustavsson seem like an all-star?
With that being said though, it is very unlikely that Tellqvist would've helped with the goaltending situation that season. In 30 games with Phoenix, he had a GAA of 3.39 (!!) and a .885 SV%, not a great number by any stretch of the imagination. In return, we got Tyson Nash who would never suit up with the big club and a fourth-round pick that turned into our favourite lawn mower enthusiast Matt Frattin. With this in mind, this trade would be best described as a push.
Interesting Fact -
Nothing really interesting here, other than the curious effect it had on my alcoholism when I was looking up our goalie situation during that time. Jesus what a shit show.
Trade 6 - February 27th, 2007
To Toronto Maple Leafs: Yanic Perreault (C), and 2007 NHL Entry Draft - 5th Round
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Yanic Perreault, NHL All-Star. Sounds weird right?
To Phoenix Coyotes: Brendan Bell (D), and 2007 NHL Entry Draft - 2nd Round
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Brendan Bell with the Sens stink on him
Verdict - Loss
Ugh. So in a sign of things of things to come, we gave up a prospect and 2nd round draft pick for a third tour of duty of Yanic Perreault. With the team on the bubble, JFJ decided to give up a useful piece of the re-building process for Yanic Perreault, a somewhat surprising all-star for the Phoenix Coyotes earlier that season, believing that he would help us get to the Playoffs. Perreault has always been one of the best faceoff man, and under the right situations, he was a good secondary scoring option (scoring 22 goals the previous season with the Preds). But this would be his last productive season in the NHL, and in the 17 games after he came over for the trade, he scored only 2 goals and 3 assists. For that, we gave up a prospect defenseman (who had one productive season with the Sens) and a second round pick. This is a over-payment by any means of the imagination.
Interesting Fact -
Now the interesting thing is that from what I can tell, the draft pick swap never happened. That season Phoenix would maintain their own 5th round pick and grabbed Maxim Goncharov, while the 2nd rounder we had was sent to San Jose as a part of the Toskala trade. What happened here? Why did those two picks revert back to their owner? Anyone remembers why or how?


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Nashville Season 1 Bloopers Part 2
There's a lot of backstage humor in Nashville.
Though it's difficult to resist, Rayna is ready to commit to her husband and two kids.
There's a lot of backstage humor in Nashville.
Watch the cutest clip from behind the scenes of Nashville.
Rayna puts her family before work and pleasure.
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Remember when we could have drafted this guy? Remember when passing on him was a huge hullabaloo? Proof of Kahn's ineptitude? (Kahn didn't need more proof of that at this point). We can trade Derrick Williams for him right now and WIIIIINNNNNNN!!!!!!!
OK, ok, so I'm just trying to be a little inflammatory. But seriously, this trade actually does work. The honest truth, however, is that if I'm the Wolves there is no way in Hades that I would even consider this trade. If you are sour on DWill, then I would expect you would be doubly as sour on Cousins. Why? DWill hasn't pout, doesn't get ejected or suspended. He's shown that he can take coaching (improved defense), and is potentially showing that he's getting better at understanding which shots to take and which ones not to.
Cousins? Well, read the article from the first link. Need more? Would you believe that Derrick Williams is the better offensive player (better Ortg)? That he's equally as good a defender? That his career ws48 is better than DMC's? And...he's younger?


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Editorial: Enforcement of stipend policy causes controversy
As a result of a recent decision made by the Associated Students of Linfield College Cabinet, students working in more than one stipend-receiving position in campus media will only be allowed a stipend for one of the positions starting next year. This has been listed in ASLC's Budgetary Policy for some time and has been enforced for ASLC Cabinet and LAB members. But ASLC has only now decided to enforce it among the student media organizations: TLR, KSLC 90.3 FM, Wildcat Productions and Camas Journal of Art & Literature.
Not only do we feel that applying this one-stipend policy to media is completely outrageous, we also feel that this is an utterly random, inappropriate time to begin to enforce this policy.
There are several students in student media who hold more than one stipend-receiving media position. Stipends for media positions amount to pennies compared to the hours these students work, but the stipends represent value and recognition to these students even if the amount is insubstantial.
This is also not the time for ASLC to begin enforcing this
policy. Hiring for stipend media positions began weeks ago, and the students who were doing the hiring and those who were hired were not aware of this rule's existence. It cannot be found in the ASLC Employment Policy that students in these jobs are required to read and sign; rather, it's written in the Budgetary Policy, which is not the appropriate document to address matters related to personnel and employment.
Students do take these positions for the learning experience, but allowing only one stipend will
likely prevent students from applying for more than one position. More and more, the skills and requirements of media professionals are crossing over medium to medium. If students in communications don't apply for positions on multiple student media outlets, they may be missing important lessons.
We understand that ASLC has a responsibility to enforce pre-established policies. But, when such policies conflict as greatly with student interest as this one does, then ASLC should examine why the policy has not been applied to student media in the past and consider the many negative impacts that it will have on students seeking knowledge and experience in mass communication.
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Night Journal #1 and Circle Graph ActivityPosted by mshgrant in Book Talks, Class Assignments, tags: assignment, holocaust, journal, night
Night Journal 1
Part I: Martin Niemoller Poem
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out–
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out–
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out–
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me–and there was no one left to speak for me.
Minimum 4 sentences–What is the theme of the poem? Do you agree/disagree with his message? Why/Why not?
Part II.
Read the article about Pope Benedict XVI. On what group(s) does the current Pope place the blame? What is his reasoning?
Group Activity: Who Is Responsible?
Directions: You will determine who was responsible for creating the Holocaust and to what extent they are guilty of crimes against humanity. Create a circle graph in which you assign the person(s) listed the percentage of responsibility you believe they should bear for the Holocaust. Remember, all percentages must add up to 100%.
NOTE: It may be helpful to first rank them 1-8 (1 being most guilty). This may help you determine the percentage of guilt.
Use the colors listed for each section of your graph. After you have made the designations of responsibility for each person(s).
__A___: Residents of Auschwitz and other towns near concentration camps who knew about the camps but did nothing to stop them.
__B__: Minor Nazi soldiers who carried out the mass extermination orders without questioning their superiors.
__C___: Hitler, the leader of the German nation who hated Jews and wanted them destroyed.
___D___: German citizens who voted for Hitler and the Nazi Party to revitalize their morally and economically depressed country.
__E__: The Jews who did not try to escape.
__F___: Top SS officers who designed and executed the "final solution" for Hitler.
__G___: Non-Jewish Europeans who turned against their Jewish friends and fellow citizens for fear that they too would be imprisoned as Jewish sympathizers
__H___: Leaders of the Allied countries (Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, etc.) who saw evidence of the Holocaust but refused to get involved or voice opposition to Hitler's plan of extermination.
NOTE: To complete circle graph, you must multiply each percentage (in decimal form) by 360 (because there are 360 degrees in a circle). This will tell you how many degrees each part of the graph should be. Start with the largest angle (measure from 0˚) and go from there.
Step II Directions: On the back, construct a well-written paragraph in which you explain the reasoning behind your decisions.
Ranking 1-8 of Person(s) with percentage ____/5
Colorful and Neat Circle Graph _____/20
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Stop and Frisk
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I normally don't comment on topical, symbolic issues like this, preferring instead to write about issues that I myself raise, issues that I know more about. And I've pretty much given up writing about solutions, because I have come to realize that solutions based on my assumptions – that everyone has equal value and the future and those who will live in it matter, for example – are not what politicians are looking for. And yet so much nonsense is being tossed around on the subject of "stop and frisk" that I feel compelled to comment, because those throwing the nonsense are in effect pretending that their pandering is cost free and will not result in losses elsewhere. This is the usual free political free shot – pander to one constituency, and blame any responsible suckers for the associated consequences.
Several facts need to be considered. According to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, New York City's overall crime rate, once well above the U.S. average, is now well below U.S. average, although the city remains above average in the one crime that it seems to specialize in – robbery. In March 2002, according the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of New York City police officers was 2.9 times the U.S. average relative to population, and in FY 2011 it was still 2.81 times the U.S. average. In 2010, according to the 2012 financial report of the New York City Police Pension fund, there were 34,600 active members working, earning an average of $100,127. And 44,630 retired members, receiving an average of $40,200, free of state and local income taxes, with automatic increases each year. In the January 2006 Financial Plan from the NYC Office of Management and Budget, FY 2006 judgments and claims against the NYPD were projected to total $101 million. In the February 2013 Financial Plan, the estimate for this fiscal year is $180 million. I'll discuss these facts and others at "Saying the Unsaid in New York."


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The U.S. Men's National Soccer Team will play a game at JELD-WEN Field this summer.
U.S. will take on Belize July 9 in Portland as part of the Gold Cup, a tournament featuring countries from North and Central America.
The Gold Cup website says the day's matchups will begin with Costa Rica vs. Cuba at JELD-WEN at 5:30 p.m. The second game of the doubleheader will be USA vs. Belize at 8 p.m.
Tickets, which will allow entry into both matches, start at $25 and
go on sale to the public Thursday, March 21, at 10 a.m. (Pacific)
through the JELD-WEN Field box office and online at
An exclusive pre-sale for Timbers season ticket holders, members of the Season Ticket Waiting List, Portland Thorns FC season ticket holders and club sponsors begins Monday, March 18.
The Gold Cup games will be played amidst the United States' World Cup qualifying campaign. While the tournament has no impact on World Cup qualifying, it is otherwise considered the top regional soccer tournament for North and Central American nations.
The Gold Cup kicks off Sunday, July 7 in Los Angeles and ends July 28 in Chicago.
For a complete schedule, visit http://www.goldcup.org/page/Splash.
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The Governor, who is a certified diver, explored a shipwreck near Alpena Tuesday morning.
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Regeneration of enamel forming ameloblasts from human non-dental epithelial cells
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Public Abstract:
Tooth defect and loss greatly diminishes the quality of individual's life, and bioengineering of teeth is an important goal in regenerative medicine. Tooth regeneration requires both ameloblasts to form enamel, and dental mesenchyme to form dentin/pulp complex. Human ameloblasts are not available in the erupted teeth. We have observed that when human developing tooth mesenchyme is combined with epithelial cells, the tooth mesenchyme can instruct the epithelial cells to differentiate into ameloblasts. We propose to de-differentiate pulp cells from extracted human teeth toward an early developmental stage that is capable of instructing epithelial cells to form ameloblasts. In a parallel effort, we will use key gene transcriptional regulators that we have identified as important for ameloblast differentiation, to directly transdifferentiate accessible human non-dental epithelial cells into an ameloblast fate. Reprogramming accessible human cells toward tooth lineage allows us to further develop cell based strategies for enamel or even whole tooth regeneration. The knowledge we gain from the epithelial-mesenchymal cells interation will benefit the goals for regeneration of other epithelial appendages, such as skin and mammary gland, which use the similar mechanism regulating organogenesis. Finally, the reprogrammed dental pulp cells can be used to regenerate or repair pulp in teeth with pulpal infection or those requiring pulp removal such as in root canal therapy.
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A full and functional dentition and intact tooth structures are critical for the health and well being of all Californians. A survey conducted in 2004 by American Public Health Association shows the rate of tooth loss for population in California is 13.3%, indicating that tooth related diseases and trauma are of significant concern for Californians. The lack of readily available cell sources for ameloblast regeneration constrains the advance of tooth bioengineering. In this proposal, we will explore two strategies to bioengineer ameloblasts. First, we will reprogram pulp cells from either fully formed permanent or primary teeth, to an earlier developmental stage, which can then instruct differentiation of epithelial cells into ameloblasts. Second, we propose to directly reprogram epithelial cells to an ameloblast phenotype, to further enhance the potential for successful tooth regeneration. These studies will allow us to move our current material based dental therapies toward a more biological approach of regenerating tooth tissues. It is also possible that de-differentiated dental pulp cells could be used to regenerate missing or infected tooth pulp cells, and may also be used for regeneration of other neural crest derivatives that comprise the periodontal ligament, alveolar bone, Schwann cells and neurons, further benefiting the health and well being of Californians.
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Teeth develop from two cellular sources, dental mesenchyme, which gives rise to dentin/pulp, and ameloblasts, an epithelial cell type that produces enamel. The immature dental mesenchyme further serves an inductive role during tooth development, directing immature epithelial cells toward the ameloblast fate. Since ameloblasts are not present in adult human teeth, the applicant proposes to generate such cells from non-dental epithelial cells, thereby enabling future tooth bioengineering efforts. In one approach, the applicant intends to generate immature dental mesenchyme cells with strong ameloblast-inducing ability by reprogramming pulp cells isolated from extracted human teeth. These will then be co-cultured with human non-dental epithelial cells to induce the latter to adopt ameloblast characteristics. In a second approach, the applicant will attempt to directly reprogram human non-dental epithelial cells into ameloblasts. Significance and Innovation - Reviewers were not convinced that there is a pressing need for bioengineered teeth. - If tooth bioengineering is to be achieved, identification of a human source of ameloblasts, as proposed here, is essential. - The applicant does not make a convincing case that the proposed approaches represent an appropriate way forward for dental practice. It is questionable whether a complex and most likely expensive approach based on co-cultures is feasible and will ever be viable as a treatment for tooth disease. - The basic approaches proposed for cell reprogramming are likely innovative within the dental field, but derive directly from work being done in many other cell lineages. Furthermore, others have generated enamel-secreting ameloblasts by recombining human keratinocytes with mouse embryonic dental mesenchyme; the significance of the current project is to achieve the same goal using exclusively cells of human origin. - The experimental system has the potential to be used for very interesting developmental biology studies, but this is not well reflected in the actual proposal. Feasibility and Experimental Design - The preliminary data are not sufficiently compelling to suggest feasibility of de-differentiating pulp cells, since the differences in transcription factor expression levels observed between immature and mature dental mesenchyme are too small to support the notion that their overexpression will promote reprogramming to the desired cell type. - Some of the preliminary data are supportive and clearly presented, but would have benefitted from providing the purity of isolated human dental cell populations and from evidence that a critical resource, a cell type specific promoter, functions properly in the desired cell populations. Principal Investigator (PI) and Research Team - The PI has a solid but not exceptional track record. - The PI has assembled a research team that has the appropriate expertise and seems capable of carrying out the proposed experiments. The collaborations will most likely contribute to the success of this project. Responsiveness to the RFA - The mechanistic work has already been completed as the transcriptional regulators to be tested as tools for cell fate change have already been identified. The proposed work is more akin to early translational studies. - Although the proposed work is somewhat responsive to RFA, it is unlikely to reveal fundamental new basic mechanisms.


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(CBS) — More and more people are sending naked pictures to their boyfriends and girlfriends. But what happens to those pictures if the relationship falls apart?
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The pictures appear on so-called "revenge porn" websites that have popped up over the past few years. Many pictures are submitted by angry ex-lovers, but often the victims are not sure how the pictures got on the websites.
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He runs the site that posted Sarah's pictures. It's based out of Colorado and claims to have pictures of 700 people.
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UFC Heavyweight champ Junior dos Santos is booked to defend his belt against Cain Velasquez at UFC 155 on December 29 in Las Vegas, Nevada and UFC president Dana White has made it clear that Alistair Overeem will be the first to challenge the winner.
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On Tuesday, Kentucky Republicans rejected the GOP establishment's choice to be their Senate candidate. Instead of Trey Grayson, the candidate endorsed by no less a Republican than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Tea Party contingent pulled off a big primary victory for Rand Paul. He'll face Democratic nominee Jack Conway in November.
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Thanks all, Your replies are really helpful.
I have this year returned to photography after a long break (1996), having given up when I bought a rally car and could not afford the film/D&P. I am learning a lot by trial and error, and some by Google, but sometimes that falls short. I did buy a point and shoot around 10 years ago, but that doesn't have the possibilities of the OM-10 and 6D.
Photonius, I am using orange filters on my OM lenses, but don't yet have any for my Canon lenses. I will give the 135/2.8 a try when we have a weekend with better weather than this one. They have been a great benefit indoors and out, especially on the 24/2.8
As pointed out above, many effects can be recreated on the computer. I have old color filters (red, green, yellow, for b&w), but have never gotten around to try them on a color dSLR. I would assume most effects can just be simulated easily in the computer. On the other hand, putting a color filter in front of the sensor does affect how the sensor records the image, so it might come out slightly different than if you just tinker with the RGB channels of a "normal" image in the computer (that's why I said above you could try a red filter, if you do black and white, to eliminate haze though I do not know if a red filter would perform differently from just using the R channel of the image - my point was that if you filter out shorter wavelengths, some of the haze goes).
Some filters are unique though, such as the CPL, as well as the Didymium filters (used as redenhances), which cannot really be imitated in photoshop, due to the way it specifically filters light.
Definitely second the opinion of doing it in software. The way I usually do it is:
Usually with those tweaks, I can get a decent-looking picture even on pretty nasty days. As always, YMMV, and the devil's in the details.
Oh, and occasionally, I bump up Lightroom's clarity slider and reduce the saturation.
- Boost the contrast as needed, then tweak the exposure to suit.
- Tweak the color balance away from blue a bit, then tweak the red-green balance as needed.
- If necessary, use split-toning to add a bit more yellow/orange in the highlights.
- Go back and push the shadows and pull back the highlights and blacks to suit.
Usually with those tweaks, I can get a decent-looking picture even on pretty nasty days. As always, YMMV, and the devil's in the details.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pirates second baseman Neil Walker is going to miss the rest of the season because of lower back soreness.
Walker visited a back specialist Friday and was advised to sit out Pittsburgh's final six games. Walker had missed the last three games and started just six times in September because of the injury.
"I don't want to portray this as me quitting on the team," Walker said before the Pirates hosted Cincinnati, the NL Central champions. "It's frustrating (because) my goal was to get back and help this team as much as I could. I tried to play through it as much as I could."
Walker finishes his season with a .280 batting average, 14 home runs and 69 RBIs in 129 games.
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Anytime the science in science-fiction films goes up to the chopping block, one of the largest issues people seem to always have is with the fact that there's sound in space. Yes clearly there's no way for sound to travel in space, but from a filmmaker's pov it has to have sound.
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Terminate the lease. The site needs to be a neighborhood school.
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