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moreBINGEN, Wash., Jan. 13, 2014 – Insitu is pleased to announce that employees Judith Schwader (manager, engineering process improvement) and Amber Timblin (depot maintenance group supervisor) will be honored with The Manufacturing Institute's prestigious Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Awards. The STEP Awards celebrate women who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in manufacturing, and are part of the larger STEP Ahead initiative, which promotes the role of women in the manufacturing industry.


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BHUBANESWAR: The state capital continues to be a den of mosquitoes. Health authorities have been lax in getting the city rid of mosquitoes even as 96 cases of malaria and 17 cases of dengue were reported this year here.
The city health office has been short of manpower to undertake fogging in breeding prone zones like low-lying areas, overflowing drains and bushes. City health officer Chandrika Prasad Dash said there are two dedicated persons per ward in the city to spray anti-larva chemical Temefos, while there is a need of at least four persons. "We have 120 persons for 60 wards to spray the anti-larva chemical to stop further breeding of mosquitoes. The filarial section in our office has engaged about 174 personnel," said Dash. He, however, said almost all the city drains have been sprinkled with Temefos.
Sources at the health directorate, which is implementing the National vector Borne Diseases Control Programme (NVBDCP), said cases of malaria have increased in the city this year. While 66 cases were reported last year, this year 96 cases have been reported in the city area. No death has been reported due to malaria this year though.
'King fog', which is sprayed to kill mosquitoes on a large scale, should be used twice a year but is being used only once. "It is a short term process to check density of mosquitoes. After survey done by insect collectors to check whether the mosquito density has exceeded 60, we go for king fog. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) contributes 50% of the chemical, while NVBDCP supplies the rest," said Dash.
Last year, BMC earmarked about Rs 18 lakh to check the mosquito menace. This year it has added Rs 2 lakh to the budget. "We have our own funds to check the mosquito menace. The Rs 20 lakh, which we have earmarked, will be spent for purchasing malathion oil and baytexopher oil for fogging. We don't get funds from the state government or any central government schemes for the purpose," said Labanya Sabar, chief finance officer, BMC.
Sources also revealed that the Biological Vector Control (BVC) method, introduced four years ago in the city, has failed to produce the desired result. Gambushia, a typical fish of small size is used for BVC. The small fish is spread in the water bodies to prevent breeding of mosquitoes as the fish eat larva. "We had spread the gambushia fish in about hundred water bodies and drains within the city. There has not been further assessment whether they have worked," said Dash.
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I've just planted out the basil I sowed indoors in April, and it seems to be taking off in the garden. Cilantro is already starting to bolt.
For later crops, I'd like to get a new batch started every couple of weeks. Of course, the danger of frost has now passed. I'm reluctant to sow directly into the garden because a hot spell might dry out the seeds or seedlings, but I don't want a flat of plants to bake indoors either. (Since I'm away sometimes for several days at a time, I can't check on them daily.) I suppose I could have the drip irrigation system come on for a few minutes each morning to moisten the seed bed (and the rest of the garden), and/or leave the air conditioning on while I'm away to keep the seedlings at a steady temperature. Suggestions? |
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NYGardener: I always sow my basil late to avoid having to mess with it indoors. Take a discarded empty flat that is used to house 4-pack or 6-pack bedding containers. The open mesh ones will work the best, but if you can't find one of them, just make sure the one you use has plenty of drainage holes ... if not, make some. Entrench the flat into an empty place in your garden that is not exposed to long hours of direct drying sun. You need some sun, obviously, since we are dealing with basil ... just not long long hours of intense drying sun. Mound dirt up around the tray so that it encases the tray and will help retain moisture in the potting soil. Fill the flat with potting soil that has a good measure of spagnum moss and vermiculite incorporated to retain moisture. Pack the potting medium very firmly into the flat. Saturate the potting soil. Sow the basil seeds with an inch or so of space between the seeds and cover the seeds with very little potting mixture ... say twice the diameter of a seed. Gently tamp the covering soils to hold the basil seeds where you placed them. Water your makeshift sprouter daily, adding some Miracle Grow type fertilizer at about 1/4 to 1/2 the rate recommended about once a week. While you're gone, the seedlings will send roots down through the mesh to get moisture if you happen to get a meshed container, which works best for this. When you're ready to transplant, use an old dining tablespoon to scoop out the small seedlings. I usually transplant when the seedlings are very young ... with about two or three sets of leaves (not counting the seed pedals)... since basil sends down such a long tap root so quickly. I use this method through June and would still plant seeds this way today if I weren't already the proud foster parent of dozens of orphaned basils awaiting adoption. Regards, Bill |
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Those are good ideas, Bill. Sowing into flats and leaving them outdoors in a moist, semi-shady spot should let them sprout without baking, and once they're up and have put down roots managing moisture is much easier. Thanks! |
Thanks for the tips. Do you know if it's a good idea to mound dirt around the base of basil to give the stem more support? Or will this rot the stem? What herbs are safe to mound dirt around the stem? |
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I have been told that when I get new windows to specify in the contract that low expansion foam is to be used in all cracks when the windows are installed. Is this the right way to go? |
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Yes it is. Our installers used low expansion foam and did it as a matter of course. |
I wouldn't use any expansion foam, but if you are going to use it definetly you want to use low expansion, DAP make a decent product in a blue can, DO NOT use the red can. Also make sure you read the manufactures installation info many with recomend not using it, some will even void their warranty because of its use. |
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A pioneer of Latin music and a leading force in Latin jazz for half a century, conguero and Grammy-winning bandleader Ray Barretto passed away in February, leaving a rich musical legacy and the distinction of being the first US-born percussionist to integrate the African-based conga drum into jazz music. On Saturday, October 7, 2006, at 8pm, Lehman Center for the Performing Arts will honor this great musical innovator with a one-time-only event: "A Tribute to Ray Barretto" featuring the Ray Barretto Orchestra and the Machito Orchestra, led by Mario Grillo. Latin music greats who played on Barretto's original recording sessions in the '60s and '70s will come to Lehman Center to pay tribute to this music icon. Performing with the Ray Barretto Orchestra will be vocalists Adalberto Santiago, Tito Allen, and Ray De La Paz; bassist Andy Gonzalez; timbalero Orestes Vilato; percussionists Giovanni Hidalgo and Johnny "Dandy" Rodriguez, Jr.; and pianist/arrangers Luis Cruz, Gil Lopez, and Oscar Hernandez, the musical director for the evening. Also performing will be Barretto's son, saxophonist Chris Barretto. Conga virtuoso Ray Barretto was one of the first Latino artists to record and perform with mainstream jazz musicians. As a master percussionist, he can be heard on over 100 albums, including more than 30 under his own name, in a career spanning five decades. Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is on the campus of Lehman College at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Lehman Center box office at (718) 960-8833, or through 24-hour online access at www.LehmanCenter.org


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Dan Deacon: Yeah, he contacted me through e-mail and invited me out to Napa. We sort of chilled and chatted for a while. Over the course of a couple of weeks, he asked me to score the film. We dialogued quite a bit. We exchanged music back and forth in what we were going for. He has a knowledgeable background in classical music. His father was a composer who scored his early films.
He sent me the script, and I sent him stuff I thought would be cool to emulate or replicate, and we sort of went down that road. What I remember sticking out is "Black Angels," by George Crumb, which is a string quartet I really love, that I sent to him. Most of the stuff I did was more atmospheric. I haven't seen the final cut of the film, so I have no idea what made it in and what didn't.
On the August 2012 cover of Under the Radar, you hold a sign that says "YOUR APATHY IS THEIR REWARD." Was that statement your idea? What did you mean by those words, and what does that statement signify for you?
It was my idea. I just think we're designed to be apathetic toward the government, or the corporate takeover of the government. [We're] designed to be apathetic toward the military, to almost distance ourselves from what our country and culture is so it's easier for them to co-opt it, take it away and destroy it. I think it's especially true within youth and underground. They play right into it unknowingly.
There are so many people out there who think, "Voting is a joke; I'm not going to vote." That's the point: They don't want you to vote. They do everything they can to disenfranchise the demographics they don't want involved. By doing that, you're doing exactly what plays into their plan, their whole system. It's very easy when you live a counterculture lifestyle that you're not part of the culture, but if anything, it's more important that you rep that, because it shows that America isn't just a homogenized monoculture. It does have radical ideals and ideologies.
On March 26th of this year, you played at Carnegie Hall and did a tribute to John Cage on the occasion of the year of his 100th birthday. What would you say is the significance of John Cage to you as a musician, and what do you believe are his major contributions to music in general?
I feel like five hundred years from now, if our society still exists, Cage will definitely be seen in the same league as Beethoven, Mozart or Bach. He had a mind that changed the game and created a paradigm of what music can be and liberated a whole world of sound and silence. Without Cage, I don't think we'd have performance art in the capacity we do today.
There wouldn't be Fluxus, and I don't think minimalism would have come about. There's just a huge, massive influence from him. What he did helped propagate so many other artists that wouldn't have made to the forefront. The fact that he was always experimenting was a massive influence. It's impossible to think of the world without him. It would be like trying to imagine what society would be like without the steam engine or something.
Even if you despised his music -- which, as a composer, I think would be difficult to do -- his ideas and the conceptual value of his work are endless. There were people who were doing what he was doing at the time like prepared piano, but Cage brought it to such another level. Thinking about sound, for lack of a better term, formats and realizing all sounds were cool and valuable.
There is no such thing as a silent performance; there is always going to be incidental sound. Those things revolutionized the way that people interpreted work and interacted with it and what it meant to be a performer, what it meant to be a participant -- all those things were completely flipped and recontextualized. His conceptual work, his theories and his ideas permeated all levels of art and continues to this day.
Why did you root the music for America in "triadic harmony set to a fixed pulse" and what effect do you feel that has on listeners?
Ultimately it's music that's made for movement. I like working within major scales, major chords -- they're beautiful. I love dissonance as well. In regard to the music that I currently write, especially with America, that's what I framed it as. I guess what I was trying to say is that while it's rhythmically and harmonically all over the place, I still find it to be just not regular pop music even though it's framed within what pop music is.
Pop music sticks to a pulse and most of the chords are chords that you can hear in just about every song. Even though it falls under the realm of experimental pop music or whatever it's still ultimately pop music and should be listened to as such.
"USA I - Is a Monster" will remind some people of the name of the late experimental rock band. But musically it isn't necessarily related. Why did you want to draw on the imagery of the USA as a monster for that part of the tetralogy?
When I started writing the piece, it was just a track I saved as "usaisamonster" because I was working on this drum riff that reminds me of them. The played a show at my house that was an epic, hour-and-a-half-long performance, and it was totally sick. When I wrote that piece, it was longer piece, and I kept thinking of that concert that they did in my old place, Wham City.
Eventually it drifted very far from that original idea. Plus the filename became so inordinately long because my computer would crash every fifteen minutes. I would constantly save new versions in case I made a wrong turn and go back to an earlier version. So I had hundreds of different files called "usaisamonster" dash, the date and a brief description. Then it got too long to read, so I just started shortening to just "USA."
I think that subconsciously worked into the influence, and I started thinking about geography and where the influence is coming from, and it morphed from there.
When I was titling the individual parts, I decided to keep the "usaisamonster" reference. The lyrics in that part of the first section: "Nothing lives long, only the earth and the mountains." It's a Native American saying. Usaisamonster uses a lot of Native American imagery in their work, and it seemed to come full circle, so I decided to keep the title that.
"The Great American Desert," as a title, evokes a certain part of the USA well. What about those parts of America spoke to you, and is there a metaphorical significance of the title in a more general sense?
It's just such a psychedelic part of the world. I grew up on the East Coast, and I really love the East Coast. A lot of people have a desire to go west, and it's ingrained in American culture to go coast to coast and see the country. When you get into the desert, you start realizing how vastly huge the country is and how crazy and psychedelic the landscape is. It has a mystical quality to it, especially at night.
I've lived in suburbs and cities my whole life so when you get into the desert in the middle of the night and there's no lights on the highway and you go off a little bit, there's more stars than you could ever imagine in the sky. That couples with the canyons, the valleys and the insane desert plants that almost look like aliens in their own right. Such a psychedelic environment.
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Social and Mobile Bring Customers to the Fore
The Dreamforce conference this week showcased a host of technologies that are disrupting legacy players and processes in almost every industry. It was exciting to see social and mobile at the forefront of what Salesforce is calling the Internet of Customers. Salesforce customers and partners are extremely customer focused in their businesses, making this an exciting time to be in marketing and technology.
Tech trends and companies catalyzing customer centricity include:
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Ibanez TS-808 reissue, love it.
I have quite a few OD pedals. My long-time favorite is my Zendrive 2. I've been reading up and watching videos on the various Tonebender clones. I'm going to try one of those before long.
I've been going through many OD's. Got a green Timmy today! But nothing is topping my Analogman Silver Mod OD9 + Lovepedal Amp Eleven combo.
Still want to try Zendrive, Dumkudo, and the KOT.
I have been favoring my Lovepedal Kanji as of late. I also use a Fulltone Fulldrive 2 every now and then
Ethos Overdrive with classic/tle switch, Ibanez TS808, Hughes and kettner MKII Rotosphere, and an Octavian.
Keeley TS-8 Mod Plus w/ tru bypass and a Lovepedal Kalamazoo gold. Melds well with both my Boogie and Super Dallas.
OCD and a Lovepedal Kalamazoo Gold. I have a Fuchs Plush Drive as well, but haven't really bonded with it yet.
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On Friday, September 14, at 6:30 p.m., the Virginia Museum of Radio Entertainment is pleased to present classic rock band Foreigner at Pocahontas State Park.
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With a catalog of multi-platinum gems including "Cold As Ice," "Feels Like the First Time," "Juke Box Hero," "I Want To Know What Love Is," and critically-acclaimed wonders from the 2009 Can't Slow Down album, Foreigner is a band continually forging new musical peaks. At Foreigner's core is founder Mick Jones, the visionary maestro whose stylistic songwriting, indelible guitar hooks and multi-layered talents continue to escalate Foreigner's influence more than 30 years into the game.
Foreigner has 14 (and counting) Top 20 hits – some of them the most enduring songs in rock history – as well as 10 multi-platinum albums. Can't Slow Down entered the Billboard chart in the Top 30 and had great success on radio with two Top 20 singles.
The James River High School Senior Choir, from Chesterfield County, will join Foreigner to sing their No. 1 hit, "I Want to Know What Love Is." Foreigner is known for partnering with the Grammy Foundation charity that helps support needy high school music programs nationwide. The VMRE is pleased to join Foreigner in providing this unforgettable experience for these Virginia students, their school and their families.


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Welcome, 2013: A poetic salute to the times ahead
Let's welcome in the coming year
it seems we have a lot to cheer:
The solstice came, the solstice went;
the End of Days? A non-event.
The Mayans couldn't have been wronger;
we'll be here a little longer.
No one knows what lies in store;
right now it looks like 12 months more.
Of course, we're still not certain if
we'll stay atop the fiscal cliff.
But even if our taxes rise,
the government has to down-size,
the Pentagon gives out pink slips,
it isn't quite apocalypse.
We'll see Obama two-point-oh
but who knows where this term will go?
The grid remains securely locked
and pork will once again be socked
away in bills too long to read
by folks with pensions guaranteed.
Will GOP big spenders face
the isolation of their "base,"
or give Mitt's failure so much spin
it's almost kinda like a win,
embrace a world that used to be,
and pour themselves a spot of Tea?
We've all heard their refrain before,
but let's repeat it just once more:
Don't tax the rich at higher rates,
dump social programs on the states,
toss out those federal regulators,
pander to Obama-haters;
winning concepts down the line —
perhaps in twenty-ninety-nine.
Across the pond, austerity
won't gain in popularity
while gratitude toward Germany
is no more than than it used to be.
Though Angela will get few thanks,
everybody needs her banks.
Will Britain exit the EU?
Will Catalans depart it, too?
(If they say adios to Spain,
the EU won't let them remain.)
By year's end will Assad have fled?
Will half his people go instead?
And if he goes, we'll have to see
what happens to democracy:
Will rebel groups remain united,
keep the goals that some once cited
or pick some new religious fights
and massacre the Alawites?
In Qum the centrifuges spin.
Do ayatollahs think they'll win?
Will they traverse a red line soon?
Will Bibi blow them to the moon?
One must assume the drones will fly
across the Middle Eastern sky
erasing terrorists galore
and anyone who lives next door.
John Kerry is about to be
the nation's brand-new Hillary,
while her ambition, safe to say,
is not to be the new John K.
Will Jay as Gov stick to his pledge
for no new tax, or will he hedge?
He'll multiply those loaves and fishes,
satisfy the high court's wishes:
raise a billion more for schooling
sans new taxes — he's not fooling.
After all that cash is found,
he'll walk on waves across the Sound.
It's legal to light up at last
unless the feds say not so fast.
(This state which so despises smoking
won't object to people toking.)
Obama says he won't pursue
the folks who smoke a joint or two
but Justice may not greet with shrugs
apostates from the war on drugs.
The Liquor Board, which can't sell booze
will now have just a year to choose
a system for dispensing pot
which may be hard, but maybe not:
let's hope the Board can work out how;
some high school dropouts do it now.
We'll vote — as if there's any doubt —
to say we should be told about
— assuming anybody knows —
our food is laced with GMOs
which may be harmless, cheaper, too,
but if they were, why wouldn't you
start labeling the food with pride
and let the marketplace decide?
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Golo Mann Lectureship Series
Hugo Vickers
"Cecil Beaton: His Biography & His Biographer"
March 6, 2007
Cecil Beaton (1904-80) was a man of many parts: photographer, designer of sets and costumes, illustrator, diarist, author of many books, creator of some of the finest images of the Royal Family, a man of style, and arbiter of taste and fashion. There were few distinguished or glamorous people of the twentieth century who eluded his lens. He even succeeded in luring Greta Garbo before his camera, and beyond that, enjoyed a curious romance with her.
A renowned biographer and historian, Hugo Vickers has written biographies of many twentieth century figures, including the Queen Mother; Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough; Cecil Beaton; Vivien Leigh; Greta Garbo; Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece; and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. A frequent broadcaster, Vickers is in high demand for royal occasions. He was an ITN studio guest for the Royal Wedding of 1981 and for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. He appears regularly on CNN's Larry King Live, and has also appeared on Fox TV, NSNBC, and a great number of programs in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
His book, The Kiss: The Story of an Obsession, won the 1996 Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction. His latest work, Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (2005), is the first major biography since her death, was much reprinted and is now in paperback. At present he is writing a book on St George's Chapel, Windsor, and weekly profiles for Hello! magazine.
The Gould Center for Humanistic Studies named Hugo Vickers the Golo Mann Distinguished Lecturer for Academic Year 2006-07. This lecture was made possible through the generosity of CMC alumnus Eugene Wolver '51.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Minority Team Up With Nilo Rodis To Help Redesign Their Monster In Papo & Yo
Minority's Creative Director, Vander Caballero, has revealed that Minority have teamed up with Nilo Rodis to help design the monster in Papo & Yo. the final design of the monster has now been changed by Nilo to make him big, powerful, and scary whilst also having something that attracts you to him. Vander reveals that Nilo thought the original version of Monster looked too much like a puppy. As Monster represents Vanders father, a puppy was inappropriate so they went for a new look.
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Does the U.S. Open always fall on the same weekend as Father's Day because of the stereotype that if you have fathered a child, you automatically love golf? It's a strange confluence of events, but it seems to work for some people, as no fewer than 27 million dads will get some sort of lame golf-related gift this weekend.
But let's face it: Golf is boring. Strike that—golf is deadly boring. The most boring.
But forget all that, because the one silver lining to all this golf talk is that it's an excellent excuse to talk about Caddyshack one more time. A lot of comedies from that era have not aged particularly well, but Caddyshack holds up, partially because golf will always seem sort of silly, and partially because of the commitment from both Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray, all of whom turn in instant-classic performances. Not only that, but it established them all as bankable movie stars, all of whom would have major studio pictures built around them in the coming years.
To celebrate the greatness of Caddyshack, the folks over at YEAH! have put together a cool infographic that runs down Caddyshack by the numbers. Highlights include: Six (the number of days Murray actually worked on the film), 10,000 (the number of gallons of water used during the famous scene where Murray's Carl Spackler floods the gopher hole), and $117,613,400 (the domestic box office in today's dollars).
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New System May Let You Appear Someplace You Have Never Been
Posted by admin on December 15th, 2010 at 12:05am
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.
A hologram is a three-dimensional image — an image that appears to have height, width and depth.
More than thirty years ago, Princess Leia gave her famous holographic plea for help in the original "Star Wars" movie. Since then, holograms have become bigger, better and more widely used.
Now, researchers have developed a holographic telepresence system. Traditional telepresence systems are used in video conferencing. They present two-dimensional images.
But the new system might be able to send a moving 3-D image of a person over great distances — and show it in close to real time.
Nasser Peyghambarian is the lead researcher for the project at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He says holographic technology can make people appear in places where they have never been.
Nasser Peyghambarian: "People can see you just the way you are as if you've been there."
With the new system, the image is refreshed so often that it seems to look like a person's natural movement. An important part of the system is a screen that can refresh the holographic image every two seconds. The screen is made from a special photorefractive material.
In experiments, the researchers placed sixteen cameras in a half-circle. They took pictures of people from different positions. Then the researchers sent the images to a different place over the Internet.
Lasers at the other end received the pictures and produced holographs on the screen. Mr. Peyghambarian says the new material permits the images to be continually written, erased and replaced.
Nasser Peyghambarian: "Every image that you want to show only takes two seconds to write it. And therefore the next image comes in after that. And this capability allows this system to be used for, for example, telepresence — that an object in one location now can be [virtually] transferred or can be shown in another location in 3-D."
He says the more cameras and the more pictures that are used, the more realistic the holographic image appears.
The researchers imagine their technology being used for things like 3-D maps and movies requiring no special glasses. Doctors could use it for telemedicine. But the researchers say their holographic telepresence system is still years away from completion.
A report on the system appeared in the journal Nature.
And that's the VOA Special English Technology Report, written by June Simms with Jessica Berman. You can learn about other new uses for 3-D technology at voaspecialenglish.com. You can also join us on Facebook and Twitter at VOA Learning English. We'll talk more about telepresence systems next week. I'm Mario Ritter.
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1. candlelight | December 15th, 2010 at 8:37 am
i dont knowt about technology a lot.even exactly is i dont like it.but itts application i really like.send to thanks to scientists very much.we are really happy if i have this comfortable.it is wonderful
2. tranphuthanh | December 16th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Amazing, It same in science fiction film, I love it but present I not yet approach new develop science. It very funny when my image can appear every where which 3-D image and I can she my relation at Ha Noi or other province in my country. Thank you scientits.
3. kyokoren | December 22nd, 2010 at 9:45 am
I don't know about technology in hologram but i think it is very attractive because it like natural.


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This Week in Sports
Aug 06, 2010A new segment has begun at Kidzworld where we will be updating you on the major events happening in the Sportzworld throughout the week. So why don't we start things off with the biggest man in the Sportzworld… SHAQ
Losing Lebron
Jul 29, 2010Ebay is showing record sales for #6 Miami Heat jersies. Meanwhile dumpsters in Cleveland are overflowing with #23 Cavalier jersies. If you haven't heard the biggest basketball news of the summer, Lebron James (aka. King James) was traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Miami Heat.
Iroquois Left Without Lacrosse
Jul 16, 2010It is a sad day in the World of Lacrosse as the Iroquois team was denied entry into England for the World Lacrosse Championships held in Mancester from July 15th to the 24th. Germany will take the place of the Iroquois (First Nations) team, as the Iroquois were not able to travel from the USA without an American passport
World Cup 2010: Reign in Spain
Jul 12, 2010After 80 years of World Cup Soccer and only 7 winners, Spain has finally been added to the list of champions. Spain beat the Netherlands 1-0 with a goal only 4 minutes before a penalty shootout, and now they are World Cup champions.
World Cup 2010: The Final
Jul 08, 2010The World Cup final is all set for Sunday, July 11th in South Africa. It's going to be the Netherlands and Spain that will meet for the very first time as neither country has ever won a World Cup.
World Cup 2010: Don't Cry for me Argentina
Jul 03, 2010With Brazil gone, the World had looked to Argentina to come out on top in the World Cup in South Africa. But it was Germany that looked like a bunch of gladiators straight out of the movie "400" as they completely dismantled the favorite Argentina
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Jul 02, 2010It's hard to say something tragic happened at a soccer game when nobody has died or been hurt… but today there is an exception. The tragedy was NOT that Ghana lost to Uruguay in a penalty shootout
World Cup 2010: South American Secret
Jun 30, 2010Only 8 teams are left in the 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa, and 4 of them are from South America. Now that is amazing considering there were only 5 South American teams allowed to enter the World Cup tournament.
World Cup 2010: No Goal England
Jun 27, 2010The "Goal-that-did-not-count" will be the most talked about incident at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. England is now eliminated after losing 4-1 to Germany in what could be the most controversial game ever.
World Cup 2010: Dives and Disgust
Jun 25, 2010Soccer players… they're quite the enigma. I always wonder what their girlfriends think of them. I know they all make millions of dollars and soccer fans everywhere treat them like Gods, but deep down inside I bet they have a voice telling them just how ridiculous they actually are.
World Cup 2010: Day 13
Jun 24, 20102006 World Cup Champions, the Italians are out! The referees are making life difficult for the Americans. Argentina looks impossible to beat. Portugal scored 7 goals in one game. Have you been watching the World Cup in South Africa???
World Cup 2010: Landon to Round 2
Jun 23, 2010Seconds away from being eliminated, Landon Donovan scores a dramatic goal, and USA is advancing to the next round at the World Cup in South Africa
World Cup 2010: Irish Pizza Party
Jun 22, 2010There's free pizza today in Ireland! After France unfairly beat Ireland to get into the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Pizza Hut restaurants in Ireland promised free pizza to Irish fans every time France lets in a goal.
World Cup 2010: Way Too Serious!
Jun 20, 2010Have you noticed how CRAZY it is getting at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa? Now this is one serious event, and it may be getting out of control.
World Cup 2010: USA Robbed!
Jun 18, 2010If you're an American, the World Cup in South Africa might leave you a little bitter today. The Americans were robbed by a disallowed goal called by the referee in a crucial match against Slovenia, the group leader.
NBA Finals 2010 - Lakers Beat Celtics!
Jun 17, 2010As predicted, it was rough… it was low-scoring… and would you believe it came down to two perfect free throws by Slovenian Sasha Vujacic at the end of game 7 to secure back-to-back NBA Final Championships for the Los Angeles Lakers
World Cup 2010: Day 6 Recap
Jun 16, 2010Day 6 ended the first round of the World Cup in South Africa. There was a shocking upset, a silencing of the vuvuzelas, and another game full of chances but little goals to show for it.
World Cup 2010: The Act of Murder
Jun 16, 2010It was the first time you heard complete silence at the World Cup. The vuvuzela horn, which had previously been a non-stopping sound of South Africa, had stopped. And you could have guessed someone had been murdered on the soccer field to stun the fans… and quite frankly it was murder… murder of the Bafana Bafana
NBA Finals 2010 - One More Game!
Jun 16, 2010Game 7 here we come! It's the most exciting possible scenario and the LA Lakers and Boston Celtics are headed for it. It could come down to one last shot at the buzzer that could decide who will get to raise the Larry O'Brien trophy in celebration of these NBA Finals.
World Cup 2010: Day 5
Jun 16, 2010The group of death was in action during Day 5 of the World Cup in South Africa. The games were all pretty close. Brazil narrowly beat North Korea, and there were no goals in the tie between Portugal and the Ivory Coast.


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Rotherham Town Hall Tyrants – Where Are They Now?
- Shaun Wright: Still PCC, just. Resigned from Labour.
- Joyce 'Ukip foster parents' Thacker: still in post at Social Services.
- Ged Fitzgerald: Now chief executive of Liverpool City Council.
- Paul Lakin: remains Labour deputy leader of the council.
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Rome's Vatican Museum Brings Headset Operation in House
October 23, 2012 on 12:16 pm | In Museums, Rome | Comments OffAfter Jan. 2, 2013, groups touring the Vatican Museum will no longer be permitted to provide their won headphones, according to the European Tour Operators Association. The Vatican will require visitors to use headsets supplied by the Vatican Museums, which are Antenna Audio International.
The admission fee to the museum will also increase on that date. ETOA said it does not know if there will be an extra charge for the use of the headsets. The association said it had scheduled a meeting with the Vatican Museums at the end of September, but the meeting was canceled and no rescheduling has yet taken place.
ETOA said it does not know whether their headsets are to be compulsory only within the Vatican Museums or whether this condition extends to St Peter's Basilica.
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Between sets last Thursday night at Dazzle, the heartthrob (man, you should've seen the way he made some of the ladies swoon) with the King Buzzo haircut stopped by my table -- completely oblivious to my identity -- and graciously thanked me and my stunt double for coming out to his songwriters' circle. And then, not an hour after the show had ended but by now tipped off to my presence, he sent an e-mail cordially thanking me again and expressing regret that we hadn't met. That, of course, only made me feel worse, particularly since at that very moment I was ruminating about how I'd had the same reaction to seeing him live as I'd had each time I'd listened to his disc.
Which is to say, I found his music as stimulating as watching paint dry.
So, yeah, I felt horrible, and still do. But as someone far more clever than I once pointed out, this thing of ours, it's not called show friends, but show business. And that's just the way it goes. There have been times when I've felt compelled to lavish praise on people whom I'd pay not to be in the same room with, and other times when I've taken decent folks to task, people whom I truly admire. As people -- just not as musicians.
People like Drabkin. It's not that the guy lacks talent; he's both a nimble-fingered guitarist and beyond serviceable as a vocalist. And it's not that his songs are inherently bad; they just strike me as soulless. He offers plenty of sizzle, just not enough steak for my tastes. If you're the type whose heart races every time you hear Dave Matthews, this is your guy. The resemblance is uncanny. Drabkin's meandering melodies, punctuated by histrionic falsetto runs, a percussive playing style and unorthodox chord voicings, are Matthews personified.
To be fair, Drabkin might not have seemed as lackluster had the three other singers alternating songs in the Dazzle songwriters' circle not been so, well, dazzling. They all sounded like somebody else, too, but managed to be intriguing nonetheless. Reed Foehl channeled Heartbreaker-era Ryan Adams so convincingly that a retina scan would be required to distinguish the two; Kevin Mileski paraphrased David Wilcox with grand efficiency; and Gregory Alan Isakov summoned a rootsier Glen Phillips covering the best Kelly Joe Phelps songs never written.
So why the double standard? I operate under the general presumption that everybody is derivative. Show me a truly original artist working in the past two decades, and I'll show you music that tests the limits of listenability. So originality isn't a prerequisite for an artist to resonate. A lack of inventiveness can be overlooked, provided an artist either a) transcends his influences by adding his own spin to craft something unique, or b) presents music that's so damn gripping, it renders any thoughts of its origin completely moot. And all three of these guys succeeded.
Although Mileski, with his deft finger-picking style and supple vocals, was clearly the most accomplished player of the bunch, what won me over was his witty, engaging presence and incredible melodic sensibility. He introduced songs such as "Breakdown on the Side of the Road" by regaling us with entertaining anecdotes about having written the tune after inexplicably breaking down in the middle of Oklahoma (again!) and hoping to thwart the jinx. Other cuts like "Cafe Brioche" didn't need an introduction; Mileski's John Gorka-like narrative style spoke for itself.
Foehl sucked me in first with his evocative vocals, and then with incisive lyrics on songs such as "Chances Are," which boasts the lines: "Stripped of his clothes and cursing the cancer/God's only got so many prayers he can answer/With millions of bodies and millions of souls, somebody's bound to be left in the cold." The words stung a little more when I realized that Foehl -- who once upon a time fronted Acoustic Junction -- was perhaps singing about his father. (During a brief conversation, he'd mentioned that he'd moved back home at one point to help care for him.)
I'd admired Isakov's work from afar since late last summer, when I stumbled across his MySpace page and reached out to him. He responded by sending copies of his discs, which I dug immediately. As good as his pastoral songs sound on record, they're even more endearing live. Part rustic troubadour and part backwoods shaman, Isakov had us all spellbound, hanging on to every last note.
Mileski, a masterful performer in his own right, verbalized the thoughts of everyone in the room. "I never sighed so much in a show," he said, shaking his head in disbelief. "This is like the world's best open mike. I had no idea what I was walking into."
Me, neither.
At the end of the night, at the behest of a few members of the audience who couldn't get enough, the four musicians joined together for a poignant rendition of "Hallelujah," the Leonard Cohen tune popularized by Jeff Buckley and countless others. I wouldn't quite call it a religious experience, but it was certainly magical -- even if they had difficulty remembering the third verse.


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Third Grade Curriculum
Third Grade Language Arts
Students understand the basic features of reading. They select letter patterns and know how to translate them into spoken language by using phonics, syllabication, and word parts. They apply this knowledge to achieve fluent oral and silent reading.
- Know and use complex word families when reading (e.g., -ight) to decode unfamiliar words.
- Read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately and with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.
- Use knowledge of antonyms, synonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine the meanings of words.
- Use a dictionary to learn the meaning and other features of unknown words.
- Use knowledge of prefixes (e.g., un-, re-, pre-, bi-, mis-, dis-) and suffixes (e.g., -er, -est, -ful) to determine the meaning of words.
Reading Comprehension
Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They draw upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed (e.g., generating and responding to essential questions, making predictions, comparing information from several sources).
- Use titles, tables of contents, chapter headings, glossaries, and indexes to locate information in text.
- Ask questions and support answers by connecting prior knowledge with literal information found in, and inferred from, the text.
- Demonstrate comprehension by identifying answers in the text.
- Recall major points in the text and make and modify predictions about forthcoming information.
- Distinguish the main idea and supporting details in expository text.
- Extract appropriate and significant information from the text, including problems and solutions.
Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Their writing shows they consider the audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the writing process (e.g., prewriting, drafting, revising, editing successive versions). Write legibly in cursive or joined italic, allowing margins and correct spacing between letters in a word and words in a sentence. Revise drafts to improve the coherence and logical progression of ideas by using an established rubric.
Writing Applications
Students write compositions that describe and explain familiar objects, events, and experiences. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the drafting, research, and organizational strategies outlined by teacher. Write descriptions that use concrete sensory details to present and support unified impressions of people, places, things, or experiences. Write personal and formal letters, thank-you notes, and invitations.
Sentence Structure and Grammar
- Understand and be able to use complete and correct declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in writing and speaking.
- Identify subjects and verbs that are in agreement and identify and use pronouns, adjectives, compound words, and articles correctly in writing and speaking.
- Identify and use past, present, and future verb tenses properly in writing and speaking.
- Identify and use subjects and verbs correctly in speaking and writing simple sentences.
- Punctuate dates, city and state, and titles of books correctly.
- Use commas in dates, locations, and addresses and for items in a series.
Capitalize geographical names, holidays, historical periods, and special events correctly.
- Spell correctly one-syllable words that have blends, contractions, compounds, orthographic patterns (e.g., qu, consonant doubling, changing the ending of a word from -y to -ies when forming the plural), and common homophones (e.g., hair-hare).
- Arrange words in alphabetic order.
Thrid Grade Mathematics
Number Sense
- Count, read, and write whole numbers to 10,000.
- Compare and order whole numbers to 10,000.
- Identify the place value for each digit in numbers to 10,000.
- Round off numbers to 10,000 to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand.
- Use expanded notation to represent numbers (e.g., 3,206 = 3,000 + 200 + 6). Find the sum or difference of two whole numbers between 0 and 10,000.
- Memorize to automaticity the multiplication table for numbers between 1 and 10.
- Use the inverse relationship of multiplication and division to compute and check results.
- Solve simple problems involving multiplication of multidigit numbers by one-digit numbers (3,671 x 3 = __).
- Solve division problems in which a multidigit number is evenly divided by a one-digit number (135 ÷ 5 = __).
- Understand the special properties of 0 and 1 in multiplication and division.
- Determine the unit cost when given the total cost and number of units.
- Compare fractions represented by drawings or concrete materials to show equivalency and to add and subtract simple fractions in context (e.g., 1/2 of a pizza is the same amount as 2/4 of another pizza that is the same size; show that 3/8 is larger than 1/4).
- Add and subtract simple fractions (e.g., determine that 1/8 + 3/8 is the same as 1/2).
- Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of money amounts in decimal notation and multiply and divide money amounts in decimal notation by using whole-number multipliers and divisors.
- Know and understand that fractions and decimals are two different representations of the same concept (e.g., 50 cents is 1/2 of a dollar, 75 cents is 3/4 of a dollar).
Algebra and Functions
- Represent relationships of quantities in the form of mathematical expressions, equations, or inequalities.
- Solve problems involving numeric equations or inequalities.
- Select appropriate operational and relational symbols to make an expression true (e.g., if 4 __ 3 = 12, what operational symbol goes in the blank?).
- Express simple unit conversions in symbolic form (e.g., __ inches = __ feet x 12).
- Recognize and use the commutative and associative properties of multiplication (e.g., if 5 x 7 = 35, then what is 7 x 5? and if 5 x 7 x 3 = 105, then what is 7 x 3 x 5?).
- Solve simple problems involving a functional relationship between two quantities (e.g., find the total cost of multiple items given the cost per unit).
- Extend and recognize a linear pattern by its rules (e.g., the number of legs on a given number of horses may be calculated by counting by 4s or by multiplying the number of horses by 4).
Measurement and Geometry
- Choose the appropriate tools and units (metric and U.S.) and estimate and measure the length, liquid volume, and weight/mass of given objects.
- Estimate or determine the area and volume of solid figures by covering them with squares or by counting the number of cubes that would fill them.
- Find the perimeter of a polygon with integer sides.
- Carry out simple unit conversions within a system of measurement (e.g., centimeters and meters, hours and minutes).
- Identify, describe, and classify polygons (including pentagons, hexagons, and octagons).
- Identify attributes of triangles (e.g., two equal sides for the isosceles triangle, three equal sides for the equilateral triangle, right angle for the right triangle).
- Identify attributes of quadrilaterals (e.g., parallel sides for the parallelogram, right angles for the rectangle, equal sides and right angles for the square).
- Identify right angles in geometric figures or in appropriate objects and determine whether other angles are greater or less than a right angle.
- Identify, describe, and classify common three-dimensional geometric objects (e.g., cube, rectangular solid, sphere, prism, pyramid, cone, cylinder).
- Identify common solid objects that are the components needed to make a more complex solid object.
Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability
- Identify whether common events are certain, likely, unlikely, or improbable.
- Record the possible outcomes for a simple event (e.g., tossing a coin) and systematically keep track of the outcomes when the event is repeated many times.
- Summarize and display the results of probability experiments in a clear and organized way (e.g., use a bar graph or a line plot).
- Use the results of probability experiments to predict future events (e.g., use a line plot to predict the temperature forecast for the next day).
Mathematical Reasoning
- Analyze problems by identifying relationships, distinguishing relevant from irrelevant information, sequencing and prioritizing information, and observing patterns.
- Determine when and how to break a problem into simpler parts.
- Students use strategies, skills, and concepts in finding solutions.
- Use estimation to verify the reasonableness of calculated results.
- Apply strategies and results from simpler problems to more complex problems.
- Use a variety of methods, such as words, numbers, symbols, charts, graphs, tables, diagrams, and models, to explain mathematical reasoning.
- Express the solution clearly and logically by using the appropriate mathematical notation and terms and clear language; support solutions with evidence in both verbal and symbolic work.
- Indicate the relative advantages of exact and approximate solutions to problems and give answers to a specified degree of accuracy.


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Have a question concerning the poly., Verdun. I bought this rose 4 yrs ago and it has always bloomed medium red to hot pink/red, depending on the weather. Good grower with nice full sprays. Now someone who is in the "know" has told me that it is a medium mauve. If I exhibit this at a show I don't need any problems. Any thought's on this?? |
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It is classed as a medium/carmine red. I have it too and mine has always been the HOT pink color. It may be a slightly blue toned pink but never mauve. |
A deeply saturated purple with strong deep pink undertones. Mauve? No. Mine's in full sun and is from Sequoia. |
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That's what I thought. Thank you ;) |
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Most foot races take place early in the morning or at sunset, when temperatures start to lower — but not this race. The first-ever Beat the Heat race will begin at 2:47 p.m., the time when, on June 26, 1990, temperatures reached 122 degrees, the hottest recorded temperature the Valley has ever endured.
Temperatures were so high that day that 22 flights were canceled, two-thirds of the city's bus fleet broke down and the soles of an airline worker's shoes melted.
Scottsdale is giving runners the chance to prove they can beat Arizona's scorching temperatures Saturday, June 22, 2013, at Westworld of Scottsdale with the 11.22-kilometer Beat the Heat race. A 5k will also be offered.
Jason Rose, co-founder and producer of the race, thought of the idea while attending a Scottsdale tourism meeting. During the meeting, people were discussing how to market Scottsdale during the summer, because most tourists are afraid of the high temperatures.
Looking to start a signature event for the season, Rose thought of using the heat to attract tourism to Scottsdale.
"Instead of making heat a deterrent, let's make it inspiring," he said.
The event came together when they thought of applying moments in Phoenix and racing history to the race.
The grand prize will be $1,990, referencing the year thermometers hit 122 degrees. Second prize is $1,957, referencing the year Scottsdale became a city, and third prize is $1,949, the year Olympic decathlete Bruce Jenner was born.
First place will also include a two-night all-inclusive stay at Hidden Meadow Ranch in Greer, which is valued at $1,200. Fourth through tenth places will also have prizes, from $826 — to recognize the date when the 10k world record was set in 2005 — to $92, the average number of 100-degree or higher days in Phoenix.
Response has been so positive, Rose said, that runners from four different states have signed up already, including famous athletes and world record holders David Goggins, Perry Edinger, Andrew Lemoncelle, Christopher Rutz and Keith Rieger.
Goggins, 33, was a Navy Seal and is now an ultramarathoner who holds the world record for most pull-ups, stopping at 4,021. He said the theme of the race interested him, and he knows how high temperatures can get in the Valley from previous visits to Arizona. One of the ways he is preparing is by doing light exercises in a sauna.
Rose recommends that people who want to participate consult with their doctor first.
Professional Medical Transport, the main sponsor of the race, will have ambulances and personnel on hand to provide medical assistance if needed.
Hydration stations will be located throughout the course every half-mile instead of the usual 2 miles.
Runners will start indoors in the Tony Nelssen Equestrian Center at WestWorld, then are going to be briefly taken outside before passing through the large tent used for the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction. After that, runners will go through the arenas and fields of WestWorld, pass through McDowell Mountain Golf Club and return to WestWorld to finish and be cooled down by sprinklers.
There will be entertainment and refreshments, a bar, music and, for the children, a large inflatable water slide.
The entry fee for the race is $62.60 per person. A VIP package is available for $122. For information, visit ScottsdaleBeattheHeat.com.
What: Beat the Heat race
When: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 2:47 p.m. (the same minute temps hit 122 degrees in 1990!)
Where: WestWorld, 16601 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale
Information: www.ScottsdaleBeattheHeat.com
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