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K-State trailed the Pokes 36-30 at halftime, and used a 20-5 run to take a 9 point lead midway through the second half. But through the efforts of Le'Bryan Nash and Marcus Smart, the Cowboys answered with a 12-2 run of their own to regain the lead over K-State.
Nash was solid all night scoring 24 points, and dominated down low for the majority of the game. K-State consistently gave up easy baskets to the Pokes, including Nash who was able to get a handful of easy dunks in the paint. Oklahoma State outscored K-State 36-24 in the paint.
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Please Tell Me How To Get A Good Nights Sleep!
It is a question on many people's lips and in their minds; how on earth can I get a good night's sleep?
Trouble with getting to sleep or actually staying asleep is a massive problem. The surrounding issues are many and varied.
You lack that 'get up and go' as you constantly feel tired. Your family and social life suffer, and when it comes to the work environment things are far more challenging than they should be.
Here are just 2 things you should do to help get the sleep you so need. We will also touch on an all-natural solution that is not only highly popular, but also works effectively and comes without any unwanted side-effects.
Cut back on the caffeine
The vast majority of us love our caffeine-hit on a daily basis. Coffee and soda are the major source of this. The problem is caffeine is a stimulant. To help get yourself off to sleep avoid drinking anything containing caffeine from late afternoon onwards.
The reason for saying this is that if you continue to drink caffeine-filled drinks in the early evening, or before you go to bed your mind will be 'buzzing'. This is the last thing you want when you are looking at how to get a good nights sleep.
So, cut back on your caffeine intake and increase your water and fresh-fruit juice consumption.
Don't use alcohol as a sleep inducer!
While alcohol is a sedative you would be mistaken if you think drinking to excess will give you a good night's sleep.
In all likelihood you will fall asleep quickly; however this is not deep, quality sleep. You will also probably awake several times during the night to use the bathroom. This is another unwanted interruption to your sleeping pattern.
When you add to this the hangover effect the following morning this really is not the way to go.
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A good quality all-natural sleep supplement will work effectively and naturally to give you the sleep you are searching for. When used regularly you will find it helps relax your body and works with your serotonin levels to help you get sufficient sleep.
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BIS gets a blog
A fairly soft launch today for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills's new corporate blog: built by Steph Gray (obviously), using WordPress (naturally).
Taking a quick whizz round the Cabinet table, the departments now running formal, properly-designated corporate 'blogs' are:
- FCO (using Roller)
- MOD (Typepad)
- BIS (WordPress)
- DECC (WordPress)
- Health (WordPress)
- DFID (WordPress) and
- DCMS (Movable Type).
Additionally, of course, there are a few corporate sites which are actually running on blog technology, but choose not to present themselves as blogs - notably Number10, Defra, and the Wales Office; plus various blogs for teams and projects, too many to list here, and occasional Ministerial contributions to the Tories' Blue Blog.
BIS website grows up
There's a new website for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills - aka BIS - this weekend; and as I reported here back in November (sniff!), they're waving farewell to WordPress as their core publishing platform. The new site is built on Sitecore, and is appearing bang on the published schedule.
Visually it's really nice: a very open feel to the design, good solid navigation and a very fashionable 'carousel' slideshow at the top of the homepage. It still doesn't feel like a large site, although it's clearly much deeper than its WordPress predecessor - and that's definitely a compliment. As you might expect, given they've got some of the most web- and social-media-savvy people in Whitehall, it's a fine piece of work.
It's going to be a bumpy ride for them though. With purdah probably only 4 weeks away, with Lord Mandelson as your minister, in the wake of the Tory technology manifesto, given controversy over the Digital Britain bill, given the possibility (likelihood?) of Machinery of Government changes in a couple of months, etc etc... well, you can imagine what headlines it might prompt. But the BIS team aren't stupid; I'm sure they'll have a comms plan ready.
On the WordPress front - yes of course, it's a pity to lose a 'trophy user'. It's been great to quote the main corporate web presence of one of Whitehall's highest-profile departments as a WordPress-based site. But remember why it was on WordPress in the first place: a small-scale, stop-gap website, thrown together within (literally) a couple of days. Precisely the kind of lightweight, tactical context where we've always said WordPress excels.
And whilst WordPress might not be right for a single department-wide site, with thousands of pages and dozens of authors, I refer you to our recent work with BIS on Science and Society, and its testing of the concept of a 'network of blogs' making up a larger site. This model is already starting to happen in a few places: I know of one Whitehall departmental site which is steadily hiving off various bits to stand-alone WordPress sites. And of course, BIS have quite a few WordPress-based sites which remain live, even after the parent site 'grows up'.
Now... chances are, on 7 May, we're going to have a few new or rejigged entities keen to get web presences up and running: certainly quickly, probably cheaply. As BIS has hopefully proven beyond all doubt, WordPress is up to the task: at least in the short term, and probably longer - ask the Wales Office, now into year 3 of operation. And for the record, it ticks a good number of the boxes on BIS team leader Neil Williams's Fantasy CMS wishlist. We're ready when you are.
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Networked blogs: our latest science experiment
Over the last couple of months I've been working with Steph Gray and his BIS colleagues to build a modest little family of websites which could have far-reaching consequences.
As Steph notes on his own blog, I've long been musing openly about seeing corporate websites as clusters of smaller websites: making a virtue of the silo mentality, if you like. Give each sub-unit a full-featured website, with hands-on control of content, their own 'latest news' stream, the ability to activate and manage reader comments. Let the technology platform enforce a certain degree of consistency, and centralised control. Lay a unifying 'front end' over the top, to promote the day's most important developments, and assist with search and navigation.
It also tied in neatly to a question I've been asked quite a few times lately: what's the maximum number of pages a WordPress build can handle? In a single 'page tree', I've helped run sites with hundreds of pages - and whilst it's perfectly serviceable, it's hardly ideal. But maybe it's the single page tree that's the problem there. How about if, instead of a 100-page structure, you had 10 structures each of 10 pages?
The opportunity to test the theory arose when Steph approached me about BIS's Science and Society site - which, as it happens, had been Steph's first WordPress build (whilst still in DIUS). What better audience for such an experiment than the science community?
We replaced 'ordinary' WordPress with WordPress MU ('multi user'), and I built a more flexible MU-friendly theme, maintaining the same basic look and feel. There's a top-level 'family' navigation, representing the various individual subsites; and with a line or two of CSS, we can give subsite its own colour scheme. There's a special 'homepage' template for subsite use, driven primarily by widgets. And at the top level, we're actually aggregating the subsites' RSS feeds to produce a 'latest across the whole site' listing and RSS feed.
It's a tricky time to be doing the project, on numerous fronts. BIS are working on launching a redesigned (non-WP) site, hence the new blue branding along the top. WordPress v3.0 is on the horizon, integrating MU's multi-user aspect into the core product, with as yet unknown consequences. Oh, and in case you'd missed it, there's an election on the cards, not to mention a purdah period leading up to it - and who-knows-what afterwards. So things have been a bit quick-and-dirtier than I'd usually allow; but I saw no point getting bogged down in detail when everything could be up for grabs imminently.
Steph has used a deliberately provocative title on his post - 'One day, all of this will be blogs.' Is that an overstatement? Perhaps, but aren't we seeing blogging steadily take over other forms of communication?
If teams really do want to connect with their stakeholders (hate that word), and operate transparently, and permit two-way conversations - this model would give them the platform they need. A single WordPress MU build makes the maintenance of the network (almost) as straightforward as a single blog - and allows a degree of control to be kept at the centre. The stakeholders can have all the RSS feeds and email alerts they could desire. It doesn't resolve the human and organisational / cultural aspects: but it clears the way for those to be tackled, if we really want to.
I think it can work: it's the logical 'next step' for WordPress's journey into the corporate world, surely. Do I think it will work? I honestly don't know. I'll be watching with interest.
Time marches on
It's been formally announced that BIS (the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) is to move its corporate website over to Sitecore by March next year. Of course, it'll be a shame to see them moving away from WordPress for the 'shop window': but I can say with some certainty that there will still be plenty of WordPress-based activity after the move.
But that March launch date? As you may have noticed, there's going to have to be a general election in the first half of next year. There are local elections scheduled for 6 May, making it the obvious date to pick for a national poll; although it could be as late as 3 June, and there have been rumours of a date as early as 25 March.
Check your calendars, folks: we're now into territory where the election date is a factor in even medium-sized web projects. The Cabinet Office's election guidance isn't specific about website redesigns, but the thrust of all their advice is to reduce communication activity to a bare minimum during the 'purdah' period immediately before polling day. So in the admittedly unlikely event of them calling the election for March, the BIS Sitecore site might have to be mothballed until after Election Day - even if it's bang on schedule. And then you're into awkward questions as to whether the behemothic BIS would survive in its current form. It might never see the light of day..?
New site for National Student Forum
Today sees the launch of the latest little site we've built on behalf of - or more accurately, in collaboration with - BIS, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. It's a pretty straightforward WordPress build for something called the National Student Forum: a panel representing HE students' interests, whose latest annual report was published this morning.
It started out as a fairly simple project, to do the 'commentable document' thing around the new Annual Report. But it soon became obvious that, for various practical and structural reasons, the only sensible thing to do was to remake the Forum's entire site. (Er, all half a dozen pages of it.) And although it's still a fairly small site, it's been built with future flexibility in mind, should it ever be needed.
Credit where it's due
The BIS All-Stars have produced something relatively small-scale in support of their new consultation on credit and store cards: but it works remarkably well.
Working with plain English consultancy Simply Understand, they've boiled the classic 80-odd-page goverment consultation document down to just 10 (and done a nice design job on it too). But then they've gone a step further, and reduced it to a simple web poll asking which of five issues is most important to you. There's a short explanatory paragraph on each, hidden by Javascript thus forcing you to interact with it immediately. Concise, straightforward text which gets you clicking from the off... and makes you think a bit, but not too much. Modest in its ambitions, and all the more successful for it.
And then, when you've cast your vote, it offers you the option to send a pre-constructed tweet out on Twitter (as well as a few other sociable options)... which is how I heard of it, so at the very least, it's worked on one person. Not rocket science by any means, but a wonderful little touch I wish I'd thought of.
Oh, and it all slots perfectly into their existing website. Another good reason to be using WordPress.
It's not the only thing BIS have put out today... more later.
New sites at Defra and BIS
Two major departmental website changes (that I'm aware of?) today - a completely transformed website for Defra, and a new look for BIS's corporate site.
The Defra site feels like an incremental improvement of what went before. Gone is the blocky layout and earthy (and somewhat apt?) colour palette, replaced by the de facto standard tabs and colour gradients, and a slightly esoteric colour scheme. It's clear a lot of thought has gone into site structure, particularly at the upper levels: a friendly homepage highlighting good feature content, and meaningful tabs.
I like it. But it's a bit disappointing to learn that '[they've] had to change the web addresses for most of [their] information' - and I think they've missed a trick by not at least trying to redirect some of the key pages.
For example, when you search Google for Defra, you get a list of eight key pages as well as the site homepage - 'bringing pets to the UK', 'animal health & welfare', 'your questions answered' and so on. Only two of these eight links lead anywhere still meaningful. It should only take a minute to add a few '301 redirects' manually. And there's still no RSS on the site. Grr. These days, I have to say, I think it's a must-have. Even a reference to the feed generated by COI's NDS-generated feed would be a help, guys.
BIS meanwhile have changed the design of their 'pulled together in 3 days' corporate site: it now looks much more serious, considered, and dare I say it, conventional. I don't mean that as a criticism; but the previous incarnation felt so much more agile, innovative even, and I'm going to miss having it there as a wonderful case study. Sniff.
The great news is, it's still running on WordPress. So in fact, it's probably just as useful a case study: proof that WordPress can do 'conventional' too, if that's what you want. And with the volume of content in the new site structure, it looks like it's there to stay for a bit longer, too. Steph and Neil have a bit more to say, including details of some interesting things happening behind the scenes: and fair play again to Steph for open-sourcing his coding work.
Twitter strategies: the boring bit
Anyone who finds Neil Williams's 20-page Twitter strategy especially newsworthy clearly hasn't spent much time inside Whitehall. Then again, with Parliament having just closed for its summer holiday, I guess the Westminster hacks had to find something to keep themselves busy.
So anyway, a week ago, Neil published a template for a departmental Twitter strategy on his own personal website, and on the Cabinet Office's new Digital Engagement blog. Somebody in SW1 finally spotted it - the Guardian? Press Association? - then next thing you know, it's everywhere. Incidentally, well done to the Daily Mail for inventing some extra details - it wasn't 'commissioned', Neil chose to 'open source' the piece he produced for his own purposes for the benefit of colleagues elsewhere in government.
Yes, Neil's document is lengthy; and he admitted from the off that it would seem 'a bit over the top'. But if exciting new tools like Twitter are to make it through the middle-management swamp of the Civil Service, they need to be wrapped in boring documentation like this. Whether or not it ever gets read, mandarins need to feel that your Twitter proposal has received the same proper consideration as the other (weightier?) items on their to-do list. 'Dude! This is so cooool! We should so be doing this!' will not get you very far.
Getting government to do cool stuff is 50% actual doing, 50% creating the opportunity for things to get done. Neil's document is aimed at the latter; and it would seem to have served its purpose already. Thanks Neil.
By the way... This provides an interesting case study in how news is made. It only becomes 'news' when one journalist notices. Then everyone else writes almost identical articles, usually based on the Press Association piece. Then it makes the broadcast media - starting with the Today programme. Expect the TV channels to follow suit later today.
Puffbox's social intranet for government
Last week, we finally completed the longest-running and most ambitious WordPress-based project in Puffbox history. Back in February, with snow on the ground, we started developing the concept of a self-contained 'social intranet' platform to be used by staff across government - DFID, BERR (as was), FCO and elsewhere - involved in the many facets of trade work. And with temperatures soaring at the end of June, we finally saw the site get off the ground.
Maybe I've just been unlucky in my career, but I've never seen an intranet I didn't dislike. So the opportunity to design one, based on the experience of the 2.0 Years, was quite appealing. Inspired in particular by the work of Jenny Brown and Lloyd Davis at Justice, we based our thinking on the notion of an RSS dashboard. Since the biggest problem with most intranets is that they aren't reliably updated, we thought, why not build an intranet that updates itself? So at its heart, the site is a huge RSS archive - pulling in news releases and media commentary from UK government, international organisations, expert analysts and humble bloggers. And since it's all sitting on top of a WordPress MU installation, it's easy for us to make each item commentable - on the platform itself, rather than at the originating site.
Of course, there's a risk of information overload. So we've built a 'collaborative editing' function - along the lines of Google Reader's shared items, but done as a group thing. If you read something which you think your colleagues ought to see too, you click the star icon, and it gets promoted to a 'daily highlights' list on the site homepage. Then, at the end of each day, there's a Daily Email which rounds up all the 'starred items' - so even if you never look at the website, and we're realistic enough to accept that some won't, then you can still get the benefit from it.
We've used various WordPress plugins to add calendar functionality; to allow users to upload (non-restricted) documents; to put their faces against their contributions, making the place feel a bit more human; and even to allow senior staff to blog on the site via email. You could probably accuse us of throwing the entire 2.0 playbook at the project, and you'd be absolutely right. But apart from the core aggregation and recommendation functionality, everything else uses off-the-shelf open-source plugins, installed and configured (generally) within a few hours. So if they don't work out, what have you lost?
This project has taken up most of my time for the past four months; working with my regular co-conspirators Simon Wheatley and Jonathan Harris, we've pushed the boundaries of the technology, and tested the limits of the civil service mindset. Although many of the individual elements have been tried before in government, I believe it's the first time anyone's tried to do all of it, all together - and crucially, all on an in-house system, which opens up some very interesting possibilities. (And yes, as ever, you might be pleasantly surprised by the price tag, too.)
So is this finally an intranet I like? I'll offer a provisional yes for now, but maybe it's better to ask me again in a few months. Since it's a closed system, there's limited scope for me to demo it... but if it's something you might be interested in, ask me very nicely, and I'll see what I can do.
Innovative & skilful: it's The Business
On reflection, if you're going to put two of the most forward-thinking people in e-government into the same department, great things are probably to be expected. BERR (as was)'s Neil and DIUS (as was)'s Steph put their heads together on Monday afternoon, and on Wednesday, they launched a new corporate website for the newly-created Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. It's based on WordPress, with a bit of RSS magic, and the help of a few (free) web-based tools. And it's brilliant.
Steph documents the work with characteristic modesty:
It won't win any design awards, and the downside to Heath Robinson web development will no doubt be some quirks in reliability. But happily, we can say we haven't spent a penny on external web development or licencing costs, and we got something up within 3 days. Compared to the static, hand-coded site DIUS had for the first 18 months of its life, it's a start, and a little bit innovative too.
Actually, I like the design: it's forcibly simple, but that's no bad thing, and is something they should try to maintain in the long run. There may be quirks; but that doesn't make it any worse than some of the £multi-million CMSes in Whitehall. Yes of course it's work in progress, but isn't everything - or rather, shouldn't it be?
I can't think of a better case study for the power of open source, web tools, pretty much everything I bang on about here. And if my work for the Wales Office was any kind of inspiration, I'm delighted to have been a part of it.
Oh, and just for the record... that's now the Prime Minister's office and the Deputy Prime Minister First Secretary of State's department running their websites on WordPress. I'm just saying...


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World Cup Fever: The Race to Go Home and Take a Nice Cool Shower
As everybody knows, this past weekend, the U.S. soccer team managed to successfully beat Ghana for the privilege of going home and watching TV and maybe having a few beers in a nice air conditioned room. (Hope you continue enjoying the African heat, Ghana!)
But oddly enough, not everybody gets so excited about being excused early from this impossibly loud and remarkably slow sporting event. Some people in some countries actually get mad about being sent home. Go figure…
Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan has suspended the national soccer team from international competition for two years after their dismal performance at the World Cup.
Nigeria came bottom of their group at the tournament in South Africa, losing to Argentina and Greece before drawing with South Korea.
On the plus side, though, that's two years that Nigerians are excused from having to watch soccer. So, it's not all bad.
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The Senate's top two Republicans – both facing tea party challenges in their GOP primaries this year – provided crucial momentum after a group of Republicans were clearly reluctant to walk the plank. Several other Republicans then switched their votes in solidarity.


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12 March 2009 12:17
It's been about eight years since I took my practical for real and nearly as long since I last performed a proper feet-up u-turn, so I'm interested to see how I tackle the slow speed manoeuvres that form the off road part of the new motorcycle test. As a teenager I'd had a bunch of lessons and professional tuition on what it takes to pass. Today I've rocked up at the purpose-built centre to see what this new test is all about with no idea what to expect.
I'll be using the Honda Hornet 600 that I ride every day to take the exam. I'm very familiar with the bike, but it's a good bit heavier than a learner-friendly 125. To shave off a few kilos I craftily ran the tank nearly empty on the way to the test centre. That combined with thin summer gloves – for extra feel – should give me the edge. I hope. Let the cone-dodging commence…
Exercise 1: Wheeling the machineTo start off gently, the first part tests your ability to balance your bike's weight when pushing it around and get it safely on and off the side stand. A series of cones simulate two adjacent parking bays. You have to park facing inwards in one bay (left or right, your choice, but most people prefer right), then get off the bike and reverse it into the bay next to it.
There's a nice amount of space between them so you don't have to worry about keeping it too tight. Most learners should find it very straight-forward, especially with a light-weight 125. Riders who've spent years wheeling their bike in and out of garages won't find it a challenge either. How you do it is up to you, but I opted to keep both hands on the bars, leaning the bike on my leg slightly.
Exercise 2: Slalom and figure of eightWhen you're successfully parked in the bay and back on the bike, you'll see a line of cones laid out in front of you - 5 yellow then 2 blue. You have to slalom the bike through the yellow cones, then perform 2 figure of eights around the final 2 blue cones. The examiner is looking to see good slow speed control not full-lock gymnastics, so you can take your time. Smoothness and composure are key.
The cones are quite generously spaced so I found the slalom easy and fun, but doing the figure of eights was a little bit trickier. Day to day riding doesn't generally involve that kind of manoeuvre, so it felt odd. Learners will have been practising for it beforehand and be more prepared for the experience than I was. Having said that it was very do-able on my Hornet with a little clutch slip and a touch of back brake. It might have been a bit of a challenge on an R6 or a big tourer though.
Exercise 3: Cornering and avoidance testNext up is two tests in one. You have to take a corner and as you come out of it, accelerate up to at least 32mph then swerve to avoid an obstacle. In the test it's two cones but in real life it could be a car bonnet jutting out of a side road.
The corner needs to be taken at a minimum of 19mph (30kph). It requires a little lean but it's nothing scary. The examiner will use his judgement on whether you were doing 19mph or not, so I went into the bend doing a giddy 25mph to be safe. After you come out of the bend you need to get on the gas and hit 32mph (50kph) before you pass through a speed trap. Then you swerve around the obstacle and come to a halt in the box. The examiner has a Bluetooth handset that gives him a read out of your exact speed through the trap and it must say 50kph or over for you to pass.
Luckily you get two attempts at it, because on my first try I was doing 48kph (29.8mph). I do wonder whether years of being conditioned to ride at 30mph played a part. Either way, it's hard to fight the natural urge to roll off the throttle too early when you see those cones looming. Second time around I did it with a comfortable 53kph.
Exercise 4: U-turn and slow rideSince it's done off-road, the u-turn in the new test is actually easier than it was in the old one. The surface at the test centre is smooth and flat, rather than bumpy and cambered like a real road on an industrial estate. There's no kerbs to hit either, just two white lines spaced a generous 7.5 metres apart. Set off slowly in first, slip the clutch, cover the back brake and most importantly look where you want to go. Simple. It also helps to shift your weight slightly over to the left of the bike to aid balance.
After your u-turn you'll be asked to keep pace with the examiner as he walks slowly between two cones. This is to prove you can balance the bike at slow speed to deal with traffic and filtering. This exercise is already present on the CBT, so it's nothing new and probably the easiest part of the test.
Exercise 6: Emergency stopAs with the u-turn, the emergency stop is safer and easier in the new test. The specially surfaced test area is more grippy and confidence-inspiring than a real road. Once more you need to be doing 32mph (50kph) to pass, so the examiner will have you go around the bend again and pass through the speed trap before raising his hand to signal you to brake.
By testing it off the road learners can perform their emergency stop in a safer way and leave more time for actual riding in the on-road test.
ResultDespite no real preparation, I managed to take the test and pass. I even had fun doing it. The swerve test is especially entertaining and worthwhile too. Previously new riders were only taught one way to get out of trouble – the emergency stop – but as bikers one of our greatest assets is manoeuvrability. By highlighting that fact you give learners another option when the unexpected happens. It also teaches counter-steering and a better understanding of how to make a bike turn, which I think could even go on to help prevent high speed cornering accidents with new riders.
If you've been riding for a few years and are reasonably confident then none of the exercises in the test would pose a problem for you. For new riders it's clearly more of a challenge than some of us had to face to get a license, but nothing is too difficult or worth worrying about.
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Phase 2 Proposal Preparation: The P2PP Tool
IMPORTANT NOTE: From Period 90 onwards, users of Paranal telescopes must use P2PP 3 to prepare their observations. The legacy version of P2PP mentioned on this page is only to be used for observations on La Silla or remaining ones in P89 on UT1, UT3, UT4 or the VLTI.
What is P2PP?
The Phase 2 Proposal Preparation (P2PP) Tool is used to create and manage Observation Blocks (OBs). These OBs are used to describe observing sequences for all ESO instruments, both in Visitor Mode and in Service Mode. For further information, see the P2PP User Manual. In Service Mode P2PP is also used to submit the other elements composing the Phase 2 package, including finding charts, a Readme file, and possibly ephemerides files for moving targets.
Please note that the ID and password for the use of P2PP are your ESO User Portal username and password.
Current Version: P2PP 2.13.1 - P2PP version 2.13.1 is be used to prepare, submit, or retrieve any OBs from the ESO OB Repository. P2PP version 2.13.1 can be retrieved through our registration and download page and will work with Java 1.5 or higher.
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- P2PP 2.13.1 is identical to P2PP 2.13, except that the ESO User Portal username undergoes a case-insensitive check when used in P2PP.
- P2PP 2.13 has been modified such that it now accepts only your ESO User Portal username and password. For this version, both the ESO User Portal username and password are case-sensitive.
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- P2PP 2.12 has been ported to Java 1.5. Our P2PP download page will allow you to retrieve the appropriate version of the Java Runtime Environment, if it is not yet installed on your computer.
- Starting with this version of P2PP, the differential velocities for moving targets are to be specified directly in the target package, and not in the acquisition template anymore. Please check Section 5.5.3 of the P2PP User Manual for more details.
- The README file for Service Mode runs is now integrated within P2PP and should not be submitted separately as a plain text file. In this way, the entire Phase 2 submission now takes place from within P2PP.
- The Ephemerides files for moving targets must now be attached to their corresponding OBs, in a way analogous to the way that finding charts are attached to their OBs since Period 73.
- The P2PP-submit mechanism used to notify to ESO the completion of the Phase 2 submission process is now also integrated in P2PP. The e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com that users were requested to send at the end of their Phase 2 preparation is thus replaced now by just clicking a button in the P2PP main GUI.
- Since Period 74, the constraint set has been customized for each instrument, and is now distributed as a part of the Instrument Package. The change is transparent to the user. See the P2PP User Manual for more details.
- Since Period 73, finding charts for Service Mode runs must be produced as JPEG files, attached to the OBs, and submitted to the ESO Database as a component of the OBs using the Finding Chart facility in P2PP.
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I Woman Up by Joanna Schroeder and Victoria Zelinski
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At Students for Life, every week is Bring Your Boyfriend week. I don't think the authors of a few of last week's articles realize that there are simply so many women in the organization that it's become necessary for us slap on a witty moniker and encourage men to join the group. How can so many women be dedicated to a cause that, according to the pro-choice, would oppress women and take away our rights? My body, my choice, right? Wrong. There are countless laws that determine what we can and cannot do with our bodies. It's illegal for me to shoot my body full of heroin. It's illegal for me to sell my body. It's illegal for me to have someone assist me in killing my body. The idea that simply because I am a woman I have the right to do whatever I want with my body is unrealistic and irrational. If the government DOES determine what I can and cannot do with my body it logically can implement laws that protect a being with separate DNA that just so happens to take up residency in a woman's body for nine months. This human is created at fertilization when a new, amazing, unique in all of history, individual comes into being. It's totally complete; nothing else will be added but nutrition and oxygen for the rest of its life (Willke 34). It grows, develops and matures all while replacing its dead cells. It responds to stimuli, maintains homeostasis, has the ability to eventually reproduce, has at least one cell, and has the ability to consume and move ("Abortion Facts"). By scientific standards…it's alive. If it is alive, then who decides the value of human life? Do we give equal protection under law to every human in the nation from the beginning of one's life till natural death? Do we attach a price tag of economic or social usefulness on individual human life? Do we grant citizens the legal right to have another killed so their personal, social, or economic problem can be solved? When a mother who is pregnant is killed along with the baby, the murderer is charged with double homicide. Who and what determines the value of a life? I believe that everyone has the right to life, especially my fellow women. In fact, more females are killed by abortion ("Abortion Facts"). Where is the feminist uproar for these women who are being so discriminated against? I felt quite upset because the women authors of last week avoided reason and made arguments that were a dash of fallacies mixed with a hefty spoonful of slogan shouting. The women of Students for Life will continue to passionately fight for the rights of the unborn. However, we will do so logically and intelligently. We will remain composed and leave the emotionally charged, faulty, malicious rants to others. In the abortion debate, I have no doubt that cooler heads WILL prevail.
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text: Coffee grows wild from Abyssinia across central Africa to the West Coast of Africa. Axum, which controlled much of Abyssinia and invaded Yemen in the 6th Century, fell into decline in the 7th Century and was incorporated into Arabian Islam in the 8th Century. There is some archeological evidence that Axum cultivated coffee some time after the 3rd Century (coffee is not mentioned in the Periplus of the Eritrean Sea). Cultivation does not appear to have been exported from Abyssinia unbtil the 15th Century. Bear >I did. The National Geographic article isn't the first time I have heard >the story. I get the sense that coffee may have grown wild before being >officially cultivated around 1000 A.D. > > -----Original Message----- >> It is documented that coffee was in Asia Minor by 1000 A.D. >>http://www.nationalgeographic.com/coffee/ax/frame.html > >>>>>>>>> > > Did anyone else find this a little amusing. :) > "Goats will eat anything. Just ask Kaldi the legendary Ethiopian goatherd. > Kaldi, the story goes, noticed his herd dancing from one coffee shrub to > another, grazing on the cherry-red berries containing the beans. He copped > a > few himself and was soon frolicking with his flock." > > Another history of coffee site. > http://www.turkishcoffeeworld.com/History_of_Coffee_s/60.htm > > De


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Chemical instrumentation is increasingly important in providing so much of the data necessary for industry, health science, environment protection, food production and basic research to mention just a few areas. Instrumentation fills only part of the need, as the challenges presented often require highly developed skills and judgement of chemists using these in order for the best results to be obtained. This course develops knowledge, experience and skills related to a variety of mainstream instrumental techniques in areas of spectroscopy, separation science and electrochemistry, and builds on the foundations provided in CHEM2110.
The course forms part of the accredited degree program required for Membership of Royal Australian Chemical Institute Inc. and Chartered Chemist qualifications.
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4. to develop an understanding of the role of the chemist in measurement and problem solving in chemical analysis
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Gretchen Wetzel picked a telling way to show her dissatisfaction with Dartmouth College's response to campus sexual harassment: through donations to her alma mater.
Amherst College, one of the wealthiest U.S. liberal-arts institutions, lost its top credit rating because of an increase in debt relative to revenue, Standard & Poor's said yesterday in a report.
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'3-mile plume of toxic smoke': VC Sheriff declares emergency in wake of SCWW blasts, fires
BREAKING NEWS: Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean has declared a local emergency in the November 18 chemical explosions and fires that occurred at Santa Clara Waste Water in an unincorporated area of Santa Paula.
Explosions: Businesses to return to Mission Rock Road must be prepared
The clock was ticking Saturday for more than two-dozen businesses and about six families who were told at a multi-agency community meeting Saturday that at 4 p.m. they could return to the area they had been evacuated from since a chemical explosion Tuesday.
Northern California based recycling company buys Crown Disposal
A deal that was first reported in Kern County newspapers and revealed to employees several weeks ago has been formally announced meaning Santa Paula residents and businesses will have a new waste hauler.
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Over 100 Santa Paula veterans and family members attended the Veterans Day observance Tuesday at Veterans Park.
SPUSD board hears update on SPHS academics
Santa Paula High School Principal Elizabeth Garcia gave school board members an update on high school academics at the most recent meeting of the Santa Paula Unified School District board.
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The Santa Paula Unified School District Board has heard an update to the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP).
Wounded SP gang member
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A Santa Paula man that already had a court date related to his sentence for a domestic violence charge was arrested on suspicion of probation violations and impersonating another person after arriving at a Santa Clarita hospital with a gunshot wound.
Chamber of Commerce honors SP
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You've got to start with an idea and ambition was the message given by a panel of cutting edge business owners at the Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce Innovation/Entrepreneurship Summit held October 28.
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Blanchard Library Makes Election Night Inspirational
Dr. John Pendleton, a 1965 Santa Paula High School Alumni, inspired his audience last Tuesday night at Blanchard Community Library. His positive approach to the history of America spotlighted heroism and innovation of many well known and little known historical figures. The audience was more than captivated. Dr. Pendleton's approach to lecturing and his wonderful sense of humor made the hour pass too quickly. Everyone looks forward to his next "performance". Even more elevating was the fact that he was here on Election Day. His love of our country was so vibrant that it made the audience feel proud to be an American. He spoke of the accomplishments and the failures of our leaders, but his critique never rung with negative notes. His students are fortunate to have such a dynamic and intelligent professor. If all Americans took a class with John, our nation would definitely exude a more positive image to the world. Several people discussed how to introduce him. After witnessing this event, he definitely deserves an introduction commensurate with the introduction given to that famed entertainer, Johnny Carson. Come see for yourselves, because "Here's Johnny", another one of the elite graduates of Santa Paula High with Part 2 "Popular Culture" on December 2nd at 6:30 p.m. at Blanchard Community Library.
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Commissioners Sommer, Robinson reappointed to planning panel
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Mercer-Prieto VFW Veterans Day
Observance Tuesday, 11-11 at 11 a.m.
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Colleges visit the SPHS campus
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Searching for a happy ending…
Posted on | November 18, 2010 | 10 Comments
This year's family Christmas production at an art centre near us is an adaptation of the short story The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy (the UK's poet laureate), originally illustrated by Jane Ray. After the success we had taking M and J to see When We Lived in Uncle's Hat I thought we'd also get tickets for this magical tale. With our trip to the theatre now only a few days away The Lost Happy Endings has been our most-read book this week and definitely one I'd love to share with you today.
A young girl, Jub, lives in a dark forest. She has a terribly important job – every night she must take the sack full of Happy Endings, climb to the top a huge oak tree and then scatter the endings to the wind to ensure they find their way into homes all around the world where parents are telling bedtime stories to their children. She's good at her job, and enjoys it, spending her days reading and visiting neighbours whilst the Happy Endings fly back to the forest to hang from the ancient silver birch, ready to be collected and distributed each night.
One evening, however, a wicked witch, with "fierce red eyes like poisonous berries" steals the girl's sack. With no Happy Endings, children in bedrooms everywhere go to bed that night in tears. Cinderella's foot is too big for the glass slipper. The Big Bad Wolf gobbles up Little Red Riding Hood.
Jub is distraught. Her heart is "as sore as toothache". Exhausted by despair, she eventually falls asleep and (appears to) dream of a Golden Pen which can write on the night sky itself. She takes the pen and uses it to re-write her own story, to create her own happy ending, ensuring the witch meets her comeuppance and once again the Happy Endings can find their way into your home, my home and every home where bedtime stories are told.
Duffy has created a fairy story par excellence – mysterious, slightly menacing, with one foot in our world and another in a rather more magical world, a magical world that you nevertheless want to believe in when you read this story. The tale is beautifully told, with so many phrases where each word seems perfectly chosen, where it is hard to imagine a simpler yet more evocative way of expressing a given emotion or situation; Duffy's first calling, as a poet, really shines through.
Jane Ray's illustrations couldn't be a better match for such stunning prose. Rich, opulent colours fill many pages, and each spread is full of textures and details that reward those who linger over them. I shall be very interested to see if the theatre production makes any attempt to acknowledge the illustrations in this book – these images seem like an essential part of the story, a part every bit as lyrical and bewitching as the prose.
Charmed and beguiled by Jane Ray's illustrations we tried our own hands at creating similarly atmospheric and magical pictures, taking key elements from Ray's approach – dark, moody skies, bare black silhouettes of trees, sprinkled with highlights drawn with a golden pen.
First the girls did a graded watercolour wash on damp watercolour paper. They dipped their paintbrushes in their sky colour of choice and painted two or three strokes across their paper. Then they dipped their paintbrushes in water, without swirling them around, and made another couple of strokes across their piece of paper just touching the bottom of each preceding stroke.
They dipped their brushes in water again and once more painted several strokes across the card, gradually diluting the paint and creating a graded wash – darker at the top, and lighter at the bottom, just like the sky looks at dusk.
Once the wash was dry, the black tree silhouettes were created using ink – M sometimes use a pipette to draw the trees (a la Katie Cleminson) and sometimes used a straw to blow the ink into branch shapes.
After the ink had dried the girls used a pen with gold ink to embellish their pictures – the type of pen they used is one I fondly remember from my own childhood – with a type of pump action and capable of dropping globules of dazzling gold onto your paper. I was really pleased to see they enjoyed this type of special pen just as much as I used to!
Here are the end results…
I wonder what Jane Ray would make of them?!
The Lost Happy Endings: *** (3 stars)
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10 Responses to "Searching for a happy ending…"
Katie Fries
November 18th, 2010 @ 11:03 pm
Wow! What gorgeous pictures–both the illustrations in the book and the ones your girls created. By the way, I wanted to let you know we received our copy of Meg Goes to Bed last week. Thanks again!
November 19th, 2010 @ 6:15 am
Hi Katie, So glad Meg Goes to Bed arrived safely – Meg is a very different sort of witch to the one in the Lost Happy Endings!
November 19th, 2010 @ 5:14 pm
Wow. What an awesome book! Will keep an eye out!
And wanted to tell you that I checked our copy of The Button Box (that I picked up at the fair for 20 rupees) properly yesterday and found that it is autographed by the author!
November 19th, 2010 @ 5:39 pm
That's so exciting Choxbox – I wonder what story lies behind the book eventually making it in to your hands – who previously owned it and loved it, and what buttons were played with along the way!
Susan Stephenson, the Book Chook
November 19th, 2010 @ 7:48 pm
My godmother took me to see The Nutcracker ballet when I was six. They tell me I was entranced, and I do remember planning to be a ballerina when I grew up. Alas, chooks can't dance.
More recently, I went to see a stage version of I am Jack, a wonderful novel by Australian author, Susanne Gervay. I couldn't quite see how the multiple characters could be portrayed by one actor, but he did a brilliant job. Judging by the hush from hundreds of school kids – they thought so too.
November 20th, 2010 @ 8:26 am
Hi Susan – ahha – The Nutcracker – I'm just gearing up for a post about that, so hopefully I'll be able to transport you back when that goes live! And (I won't tell anyone) you can put the music on in the kitchen and have a dance
Am I right in thinking I am Jack has an anti bullying theme? Theater is such a great way to explore issues which can be difficult to talk about.
November 20th, 2010 @ 1:02 pm
Another unrelated comment – also got a copy of Robert Sabuda's 12 Days of Christmas – totally fab. we listened to the carol on youtube while reading it.
Have you come across any of his books? They are all amazingly crafted.
Also it triggered a discussion between my older child and her friend – when Kindle becomes popular, what will happen to pop-up books?!
November 20th, 2010 @ 8:40 pm
I know of Sabuda's work, Choxbox, but pop up stuff isn't great through the library system as it doesn't last long in working condition and I haven't yet succumbed to buying anything new. That said, all of his work that i've seen images of looks wonderful.
November 21st, 2010 @ 5:27 am
What beautiful paintings by the girls. I wouldn't have thought to use such an "uncontrollable' medium as ink but it turned out stunning.
Zoe @ Playing by the book
November 21st, 2010 @ 9:18 am
Hi Kristine, Yes the uncontrollable nature of ink is part of its joy – Katie Cleminson said something like the fact that it is uncontrollable really frees her up when she is illustrating with it and creates a much nicer line because of the lack of tension or controllability.
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Box 201: 94th Congress, Interior and Insular Affairs - International Relations
F 1-9: 94th Congress, Interior and Insular Affairs, New Rivers (Wild and Scenic Rivers Act), 1976 Mar. - 1976 Aug.
Topics include Ray J. Madden, Stephan Neal, rivers in West Virginia, New River (N.C.-W.Va), and the Blue Ridge Hydroelectric Project. Correspondents include Sam J. Ervin, Stephen Neal, Roy A. Taylor, the National Wildlife Federation, and the United States Dept. of the Interior.
F 10: 94th Congress, Interior and Insular Affairs, Oil and Gas, 1975 Mar. - 1975 Dec.
Topics include Ray J. Madden, continental shelf's economic aspects, environmental policy research, the offshore oil industry, and offshore structures. Correspondents include Dewey F. Bartlett, James A. Haley, Mike Mansfield, and John Melcher.
F 11: 94th Congress, Interior and Insular Affairs, Omnibus Wilderness Bill and Kaiser Provision, 1976 Sept. - 1976 Oct.
Correspondents include William D. Burlison.
F 12: 94th Congress, Interior and Insular Affairs, Puerto Rico, 1976 Mar. - 1976 Apr.
F 13: 94th Congress, Interior and Insular Affairs, Wildlife and Wilderness Preservation, 1975 Jan. - 1976 May.
Topics include Ray J. Madden, endangered species law and legislation, fish hatcheries, and national parks and reserves. Correspondents include Ronald Bo Ginn, Don Fuqua, James A. Haley, and Sidney R. Yates.
F 14: 94th Congress, Interior and Insular Affairs, Wildlife, 1975 Mar. - 1976 Apr.
Topics include protection of birds, game reserves, national parks and reserves, seals (animals), wild burros, wild horses, wildlife refuges, and the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act. Correspondents include James A. Haley.
F 15: 94th Congress, Internal Security, 1975 Jan. - 1975 Mar.
F 16-17: 94th Congress, International Relations, Angolan Civil War, 1975 Dec. - 1976 Mar.
Topics include Angola foreign relations, economic assistance to Angola, and military assistance to Angola. Correspondents include Don Bonker and John V. Tunney.
F 18-21: 94th Congress, International Relations, Atlantic Convention, 1975 Oct. - 1976 May.
Topics include Paul Findley, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and sovereignty.
F 22: 94th Congress, International Relations, China, 1975 Mar. - 1976 Aug.
Topics include Kai-shek Chiang, Chou En Lai, Richard M. Nixon, United States Congress travel regulations, missing in action, prisoners of war, Taiwan politics and government, and Vietnam. Correspondents include Thomas G. Corcoran.
F 23: 94th Congress, International Relations, Cuba, 1975 Mar. - 1976 Feb.
Topics include statehood (American politics.) and the Panama Canal (Panama).
F 24-26: 94th Congress, International Relations, Foreign Aid, Dignitaries and Policy, 1975 Jan. - 1976 May.
Topics include Michael J. Harrington, Roger S. Ingersoll, Georges Spenale, economic assistance, international economic relations, international relief, peaceful change (international relations), Bulgaria., Chile, Japan, Iran, Latin America, and the Union for Defense of Democracy. Correspondents include Vladimir Bonev, Donald M. Fraser, and Ardeshir Zahedi.
F 27: 94th Congress, International Relations, General, 1975 Jan. - 1976 Apr.
Topics include Henry Kissinger, peaceful change (international relations), and Dewey F. Bartlett.
F 28: 94th Congress, International Relations, Korea, 1975 Apr. - 1976 Oct.
Topics include Korean reunification question, (1945- ), Korea (North), Korea (South), Kim Dong Jo, Too Chin Paik, Chung Hee Park, and Young Hi Choi.
F 29: 94th Congress, International Relations, Latin America, 1975 Sept. - 1976 Sept.
Topics include economic assistance to Latin America, Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. Correspondents include Donald M. Fraser, John M. Murphy, and Robert L. F. Sikes.
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Kate Moss gets touched up for Ferragamo Autumn 2012 campaign
Hello Kate Moss... is that really you? It seems our favourite British supermodel has undergone some major airbrushing for the latest Autumn 2012 campaign for Salvatore Ferragamo. Kate is almost unrecognisable and so much younger in these ads which are inspired by Russian Czarist fairy tales.
Photographed by Mikael Jansson, it is clear that Kate's images have had some serious Photoshop work done to them, shaving years of her age. This aside, the ads are quite vibrant in a romantic military way. Captured at the Russian embassy in Berlin, Kate poses in flowing Ferragamo gowns on ornate furniture and in rooms decorated in traditional tapestries. She is joined by fellow models Karmen Pedaru and Sean O'Pry lounging on leather couches and wearing serious expressions.
The campaign is a reflection of the vision by Ferragamo creative director Massimiliano Giornetti. While I'm all for the dark mysteriousness of these Russian-inspired ads, a little less re-touching really wouldn't go astray. The ads are due to break worldwide in September.
What do you think? Do you believe Ferragamo have gone too far in airbrushing Kate Moss for their Autumn/Winter 2012 campaign?
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