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Genetic PollutionIntroduction to Genetic Modification The DNA molecule itself is rather simple in structure, consisting of two chains twisting around each other in the form of an anti parallel double helix.5 The key to the discovery of DNA was the idea of a DNA sequence, a code that confers to the central dogma of biology. If you can imagine a DNA molecule that has phosphate and sugar bases acting as helical scaffolds, extending towards the center of the helix are nitrogenous bases called pyramidines and purines.6 Without getting overly technical, these bases are arranged in a specific sequence in the DNA molecule to create a code, and this code is translated into a protein in the cell as part of the central dogma of biology.7 DNA can be thought of as the smallest unit of inheritance, but there are much larger units, some even large enough to be seen under a regular light microscope, such as chromosomes. One of such larger units is the gene, or a functional unit of inheritance that codes for a specific product.8 You can imagine that a smaller sequence out of the large sequence within DNA can be translated into a protein product, and this small subset of the sequence can be thought of as a gene since it is coding for some product protein under a very simple framework. An analogy to this scheme would be like reading a paragraph from an entire book, in that the paragraph sufficiently conveys a specific idea out of a collection of ideas in the entire book. So the gene is the paragraph, and the book is the human genome. In fact, most of the DNA sequence in eukaryotic organisms such as humans does not code for anything and is rather extraneous. While current research is revealing regulatory functions of such sequences, a very small proportion of the DNA sequence in eukaryotes do not produce a tangible product.9 In the context of GMOs , the main objective is to find functionally useful genes within organisms and somehow transmit these genes into target organisms to produce modified organisms. For example, if there was a gene in a fungus that coded for a red colored protein and if being red protects a cotton crop from predation, my task as a geneticist would be to isolate the gene that codes for the red protein and somehow transfer it to a plant. Therefore, not only would I have to find the gene within the entire sequence of DNA code, but figure out how to transfer this gene and thereby ensure that the plant is reading this code and producing proteins that would turn it red. The enormity of the task, as a result, has not been conducive in producing science fiction style hybrids between crocodiles and goats. The process of transferring genes into organisms of interest and changing their fundamental behavior forms part of the central argument against GMOs, as there are overarching concerns of opening Pandora s Box by interfering with something in nature that is so fundamental. But nature has proved to be much more difficult to manipulate from a genetic standpoint, and this microscopic concern within the realms of genetic pollution is best introduced by speaking of the macroscopic effects of pollution. Invasive Species A variety of ecosystems10 around the world support an even wider variety of wildlife that spans from exquisite florescent fish in the reefs of Hawaii to the putrid, fly pollinated Rafflesia arnoldii11 flower in the rainforest of Indonesia. An ecosystem consists of all the living and non-living factors within an environment in an intricately designed equilibrium that consists of primary consumers, such as plants, and levels of secondary and tertiary consumers that establish a sort of shrinking pyramid of predators and prey. These relationships are held in a very complex and sensitive balance, and one can easily presume how a new predator or even prey may alter the balance of the ecosystem to an often devastating degree. Invasive species are on the rise, and once again we can comfortably point the finger on human actions. As the world increasingly becomes flat, transatlantic trade coupled with human migration has prompted many companies as well as individuals to bring their biological baggage with them. It may be a seed, a pet, or even a bacterium and it would seem that these minor transfers of organisms, often inadvertent, would have little effect on the overall ecosystem. Invasive species,12 however, tend to disrupt the ecosystem quite severely for several notable reasons. First, as invasive species, the environment no longer has any natural predators to keep their population in control and this issue is further exacerbated by the organisms natural tendency to quickly grow and reproduce. Additionally, they are tolerant of various environmental conditions and due to their large numbers they tend to compete aggressively for limited resources in the environment. The net effect13 of competitive invasive species is displacement of native species that may occupy the same niche as the organism, and consequently reduce the native habitat and reduce biodiversity of the local environment. As organisms adapted to other ecosystems, invasive species may confer evolutionary advantages over native species and in genetic terms, such organisms may possess certain advantageous physical traits that manifest from novel genes that were not previously present in the environment. For example, a gene that may provide resistance to natural plant poisons will enable invasive species to proliferate more than native species, which are unable to consume this poisonous plant, and potentially decimate the native plant species and the native predator. An invasive species essentially introduces a new set of genes into the population that is typically kept in some sort of equilibrium in an ecosystem. In this case, pollution involves hundreds and thousands of genes by definition. According the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, estimates place the cost of invasive species at $120 billion in damages each year in the United States alone. In fact, in 2011 the U.S. Department of the Interior spent $100 million on invasive species prevention efforts, rapid response, management, international cooperation, and habitat restoration.14 It is no wonder that U.S. customs places great restrictions on agricultural items and foods brought from abroad. And dont think this is merely an issue of the nature enthusiast, since this issue takes on a more micro-economic role. In one case study, Vermont and Wisconsin lake property devaluated by 16% and 13% respectively due to an invasive plant called Eurasian Watermilfoil.15 Furthermore, invasive species could increase the price of certain foods such as grain, meats, and fish. Some invasive species go as far as to effect energy production by clogging up hydroelectric turbines in the Columbia River . The issue is quite far reaching, particularly because it has turned out to be relatively easy to introduce invasive species into environments, as demonstrated by the case study of the Lionfish . Current studies suggest that the lionfish invasion in Florida began from the release of a few organisms that quickly multiplied in large numbers. Unfortunately, there are only a few effective methods of controlling invasive species once they have populated an environment. Therefore, the best cure comes in the form of prevention as educated consumers. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offers a range of guidelines for pet owners, agriculturists, and business owners to prevent the accidental spread of invasive species that range from small plants to bigger pets.16 Some of the general recommendations include self education through consultation with local nurseries, as well as sanitary measures such as cleaning construction equipment. In some cases it is difficult to identify whether a species is invasive in the first place, and therefore there must be educational programs in place that are more accessible and perhaps legislative efforts that adapt to the changing landscape of invasive species. Legislation such as The Alien Species Prevention and Enforcement Act17 actually make it illegal to mail invasive species through the U.S. postal service, and progressive legislation such as that introduced by the Plant Protection Act18 works to modernize major statuses pertaining to plant protection and quarantine. The best prevention, however, is awareness through education. Therefore, the control of invasive species is very much in our own hands. GMOs and Genetic Pollution Instead of considering thousands of genes in the form of an entire organism invading an ecosystem, another form of genetic pollution comes in the form of an ideological fear that has spawned out of the wonders of genetic engineering. The microscopic consideration, however, is not mutually exclusive from the idea of invasive species as many concerns are along the same lines. Scientists design food crop that are better able to cope with their environment through genetic modifications that confer a type of advantage. These advantaged crops are able to better proliferate and use up the resources of their habitat than do what agriculturalists define as pests. Therefore, it seems that the act of creating GMOs is analogous to introducing invasive species to human controlled environments. Ironically, humans are employing the same strategy that is also responsible for negative environmental impact. But while the strategy is similar, it is arguable whether the effect is really the same. If not GMOs, then certainly pesticide usage would have to make up for extensive crop damage by pests and the potential damage from this act has already been measured to a devastating degree. Many of the concerns surrounding genetic pollution in the context of manmade GMOs are centered on a scientifically unfound ability for GMOs to somehow hybridize with native species19 and create dangerous super organisms. Given that these organisms are novel and not well understood in terms of their long term impact, several environmental groups such as Greenpeace are expressing a great deal of concern over the use of GMOs. From a technical standpoint, humans are introducing novel genes into alternate environments but it is questionable whether such genes are truly a form of pollution. Some GMOs can be created with very minor genetic alterations and with lifesaving consequences such as golden rice.20 In the case of golden rice, scientists were able to turn on vitamin-A production pathways in rice that is typically turned off during development. In countries where famine causes unprecedented cases of malnutrition, golden rice has prevented vision loss linked to vitamin-A deficiency. It is hard to imagine how vitamin-A in rice can devastate the ecosystem, but in other cases the level of modification does become a real concern. Glyphosate , marketed as Roundup®, is one of the most popular broad spectrum herbicides used in the United States.21 As a broad spectrum herbicide, glyphosate is also prone to killing agricultural crop as well, and the answer to this problem came in the form of RoundUp Ready® corn and soybean.22 Scientists at Monsanto® were able to create a variety of corn and soybean that is resistant to the herbicide Roundup®, such that a farmer can use the pesticide as indiscriminately as he wants without worrying about killing edible crop. One of the problems with this action is evolution, since unregulated use of such pesticide could create resistant pests much quicker than anticipated. In this case, the resistance genes may very well be a source of pollution indirectly by promoting deleterious environmental behavior. The concerns of genes being a source of pollution are very much an important consideration for the future regulation of genetically modified crop. At the moment, however, some dramatic concerns of supernatural animal and plant morphing through genetic engineering can be well ignored. We have already discussed how difficult the process of isolating, transferring, and expressing these genes may be in GMOs. Just because I can isolate a gene coding for a glowing protein does not automatically imply that I am able to create a glow in the dark Zebra. Nature has many biochemical controls in place that prevents indiscriminate genetic catastrophes, and so far genetic manipulation has revolutionized treatments of diseases such as cancer and HIV with many other positive impacts on society. The genetic consideration of life, which has widely begun to dominate the outlook of life sciences, has put forth numerous considerations regarding the outlook of human behavior into the mystique realms of DNA and genes. Genetic engineering has revolutionized the ways in which the human being has been able to survive in a world rife with population growth and wealth disparity, but has also underscored numerous unanswered questions that express much human concern. As a chapter in Biology that is still incomplete, science may not have all the answers in regards to risk assessment of GMOs and the macroscopic evolutionary landscape of invasive species. While there is still much mystery about this field, the necessity to exert reasonable caution should be an idea that is universally affirmed such that there is benefit, rather than consequence derived from the study of genetics as a means of deciphering our origins and function as a species. 1 http://www.nongmoproject.org/learn-more/ 2 http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/workspace/sect008/s8g5/history.htm 3 http://www.biography.com/people/gregor-mendel-39282 4 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do53dn.html 5 http://www.blc.arizona.edu/molecular_graphics/dna_structure/dna_tutorial.html 6 Id. 7 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/MLACourse/Modules/MolBioReview/central_dogma.html 8 http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/basics/gene 9 http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/PUBLICATIONS/jtb_07.pdf 10 http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/whatsa_habitat.htm 11 http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/flower.html 12 http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/invasives/ 13 Id. 14 http://www.fws.gov/home/feature/2012/pdfs/CostofInvasivesFactSheet.pdf 15 Id. 16 http://www.fws.gov/invasives/what-you-can-do.html 17 http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/aliensp.html 18 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-106publ224/pdf/PLAW-106publ224.pdf 19 http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/agriculture/problem/ genetic-engineering/ge-agriculture-and-genetic-pol/ 20 http://www.goldenrice.org/ 21 http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/dienochlor-glyphosate/glyphosate-ext.html 22 http://web.mit.edu/demoscience/Monsanto/players.html i http://geopolicraticus.wordpress.com/tag/francis-crick/ ii https://onecollectivepeace.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/gene_splicing-ashz-0903101.gif iii http://www.lostgirlsworld.com/2010/09/visit-the-florida-keys-eco-discovery-center/
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The mid tower, Rebel9 Pro Economy, is built from steel and uses plastic and steel mesh for the front bezel construction. The chassis is painted black, both inside and out, something I didn't expect in an economy chassis. Inside the chassis Sharkoon offers nine 5.25" bays, six of which have corresponding, removable covers in the front bezel. For 3.5" drives, Sharkoon offers 3.5" to 5.15" adapters. These adapters are held in with screws, both to the drive itself and to the drive bays when securing it. The rest of the 5.25" drive bays can benefit from the included tool-less clips for both sides of the bays. In the middle of the chassis you will find wire management and CPU access holes around the mounting for Full ATX, ATX, and m-ATX motherboards. In the rear of the case, you will find seven expansion slots and covers held into place with screws.
Cooling inside the Rebel9 PE is completely customizable. By this I mean not that you can put the included fans anywhere you need to, but that there are no fans, so it is up to you to make it perform the way you desire. The plan with the Economy case was to offer a great budget platform that the end user can finish to suit their own personal desires. Not everyone Likes LEDs, and if noise isn't an issue, air flow can make or break a build for some. With the slate being left blank, the options are truly endless for customizing the air cooling system.
Sharkoon has released these chassis' on paper, but they have yet to make it over the pond to retailers in the US. I have read rumors that it is showing up on UK sites, but even then I couldn't locate it in stock. I wasn't able to lock down a specific date to when the cases will be hitting shelves, but it will be very soon. Sharkoon has set an MSRP on the Rebel9 Pro Economy, and that pricing was given to me at 45.99 Euros. With a quick online conversion, that makes the pricing roughly $56 USD. Not all that bad of a price, but let's see just what we actually get for our money.

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In November my son and I took our end-of-season canoe trip through Ontario's North Frontenac Park Lands. Located just east of Bon Echo Provincial Park, about a 3 hr drive from Toronto. This 70 km loop can be done in 2 or 3 days in the summer, but due to the reduced daylight in late fall we took a liesurly 4 days, 3 nights to complete the route. Warm days but cold nights resulted in some ice build up in shelterd areas. All around, a great trip to end the season. We shot a short video that highlights our adventure. If you'd like to take a look, here's the YouTube link:
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71.5 percent of respondents to Vault's 2011 Office Betting Survey admitted to taking part in some kind of office pool. Of those, some 65 percent said that their workplace gambling had included an NCAA bracket. That figure trumps all other forms of workplace betting, including Super Bowl boxes (58 percent) and Oscars pools (just 13 percent of respondents had gambled on any kind of awards show). Regardless of what activity they're choosing to bet a portion of their hard-earned cash on, workers need to be careful not to spend too much of their on-the-clock time making or obsessing over their picks. While 77 percent of employees claim to spend less than half an hour of work time a day on their picks (with many spending no time at all), any perception that you're shirking your duties in favor of gambling is likely to be viewed dimly by at least some colleagues.
"The next time I see [colleagues using work time to focus on office pools], I'm going to put an anonymous note on all the bosses desks to make them aware" warns one respondent.
Do you know this man or woman? Do you know what happened to him or her in childhood that made him feel the need to act on the behalf of management (which is probably filling out pools as well)? Do you know if the threat just includes people filling out paper brackets or if he/she will be peering over people's shoulders and checking browser history?
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It's probably the grade-changing kid from Nevada-Reno. He's just steamed he picked "Our Lady of the Oblates" to win last year's tournament.
Please make me aware of coworkers leaving shoes under their desk.
–Rex Ryan
The guy behind me is running the pool. Managers and directors are in on said pool.
Think I know who the snitch is, and suspect lack of sex with "hot" (HA!) manager is her underlying problem.
Greg Michaels
I can report that the insufferable prick is not a member of the energy trading and marketing community. While that community is full of insufferable pricks, none of them interfere with such office betting pools.
This was the same kid that got picked last in dodge ball, got into Piper Jaffray by the skin of his teeth but was still the worst performing in his analyst class, and generally loves the rules
I knew who this prick was before the article was published.
Too tires from stupid hour thing to make lame UBS associate joke.
This person should meet me at Minetta's. Put a sticky note on my back so I know its you and then we can discuss this, and by discuss this I mean hit you, and by hit you I mean drop kick you in the vulva.
-Riley Freeman
Dildo with ears.
From our ad hoc analysis of the action you proposed, we believe it would be pretty difficult to "drop kick" any thing in the confines of a Swedish made automobile.
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Obviously Sally Krawcheck has taken a 30 minute break from writing "garden-leave" memos.
Like in the back of a Volkswagon?
UBS quant
This really is not a big deal, the kid actually works in the athletic office at Ohio State. He sent an email telling Tressel about all the staff gambling and Tressel told him he would "get on it ASAP" so, problem solved.
This really is not a big deal, the kid actually works in the athletic office at Ohio State. He sent an email telling Tressel about all the staff gambling and Tressel told him he would "get on it ASAP" so, problem solved.
Concur—anyone who's ever had half an afternoon interrupted by "garbage bag full of dollars" can attest to this.
Kid used to work for Raj; just pissed he wouldn't let him on the inside scoop from his friends on the NCAA selection committee
Kid used to work for Raj; just pissed he wouldn't let him on the inside scoop from his friends on the NCAA selection committee
Now, you are aware that our Board of Directors has been indicted, myself included, and we're prohibited from doing business until the investigation is completed. So, obviously we would have no use for you.
I guess the don't ask don't tell policy must still ride at his office, otherwise he wouldn't have to remain anonymous.
You're both retarded the. It's located right next to the mars in the Gaussian Copula see. That is my next problem to solve before sending out my resume again the.
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Matt Taibbi
No, it was Matt Taibbi.
He also had a problem with me pounding my secretary in the ass. The Dude needs to lighten up.
Where was this prick when someone was putting semen in my water bottle?
I hope you are taking advantage of the DE Shaw "Laid Off Genius Outplacement Services" opportunities.
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Putting semen in your water bottle
Laces out!
Laces out!
Don't we have bigger things to worry about than some office pools?
–Miyagi Prefecture
Don't we have bigger things to worry about than some office pools?
–Miyagi Prefecture
Duke is gonna win the NCAAs again. That's all you need to know. Blue Devils rule on the court and on wall st for that matter.
No shit!!
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If anyone is interested, I have some trading strategies that might be immediately accretive to your book during the post-earthquake situation…..
-Nick Leeson
and for hiring strippers for their parties
and for long and profitable NBA careers.
and raping them
and raping them
Everybody in North Carolina is a rapist. Kansas is the NKI.
Everybody in North Carolina is a rapist. Kansas is the NKI.
I leave anonymous notes on my employees' desks also hoping that someone will find the smell of Xylene as intoxicating as I do.
I'm curious who it is. I'm not going to do anything, I just want to talk to him
– Meyer Lansky
this is cool! Fantastic luck to everyone.
A2vh0h I really liked your article.Really thank you! Will read on…
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Do you have any clear idea of what Canada's economy looks like? In terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) what are the percentages from oil and gas, forestry, financial, manufacturing etc.? What portion of Canadian GDP do imports and exports make up? What products does Canada Import and Export? Which countries are important trading partners of Canada? The actual figures would likely surprise most Canadians. http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a33?lang=eng&spMode=master&themeID=1130&RT=TABLE What is Canada's GDP by industry or sector? Canadian Economy Annualized GDP sorted by Industry or Sector as of January 2014 Data Source: Statistics Canada
From reading the financial news you may have been under the strong impression that Canada's GDP is dominated by the commodities including particularly oil, gas, and various minerals. You may have also heard that manufacturing is no longer such an important component of Canada's economy. (And that therefore we should not worry much about any manufacturing job losses that we hear about). The actual figures show that "Real estate and rental and leasing" is the largest segment of Canada's economy. Manufacturing, while it may be lower than in years past, is still a very large portion of GDP and is the second largest component at 10%. (We understand that manufacturing includes refining industries). Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction is third at 8% of GDP. Overall, goods producing industries account for 30% of GDP while services account for 70%. Review the rest of the list and you will at least be more knowledgeable about the actual composition of the Canadian economy and the percent contribution of different segments. See the link to the latest available source data just above to see the raw data and you can calculate the precise percentage figures if desired. Who Consumes Canada's GDP? Canada's 2013 GDP was consumed in the following fashion: Personal Consumption
56% http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/gdps04a-eng.htm When you hear that Consumers "account" for about 56% of Canada's GDP, that does not mean that business accounts for little. In fact Business and (yes) government create the GDP and Consumers consume the largest share. This should not be considered surprising or alarming. Why else should things be produced except for consumption? (and for some investment to fuel future consumption). A surprisingly large 24% of Canada's GDP consists of investment in longer lasting assets such as buildings (including houses) and equipment rather than being consumed for immediate gratification. This includes replacing worn out buildings and assets which may account for it being so high. What does Canada Export? GOODS Canadian Economy Goods Exports by Category in 2013 Data Source: Statistics Canada The largest category of goods exports is Energy Products (oil, natural gas and other) at 24% of total exports. While manufactured goods including vehicles are important it appears that the majority of Canada's exports are in the form of raw materials. Goods exports amount to 30% of GDP. SERVICES Data Source: Statistics Canada The largest category of service exports (revenue received) is travel, followed by transportation. Service exports are about 5% of GDP. Together goods exports plus services exports amount to 35% of GDP. This indicates that 65% of what is produced in Canada is consumed in Canada. To Which Countries Does Canada Export? Data Source, Statistics Canada We hear a lot of talk about global trade. We hear about China buying our commodities. But the statistics for 2013 show that the United States still accounted for the vast majority of Canadian exports at 75%. Things may be changing and China may quickly start to be an important "customer" country for Canada. But the fact is, for now, when it comes to Canadian exports, the United States remains our number one destination by far. What Does Canada Import? Canadian Economy Goods Imports by Category GOODS Data Source, Statistics Canada Canada's goods imports in 2012 were about 29% as large as GDP. SERVICES Canada's service imports in 2013 amounted to 7% of the GDP figure. In total Canada's goods and services imports are about 36% as large as the GDP figure. From Which Countries Does the Canada Import Goods? Data Source, Statistics Canada The United States accounts for 65% of Canada's imports. The remainder appears to be spread widely around the globe. END Shawn Allen InvestorsFriend Inc. Originally created November 3, 2007, last updated April 4, 2014. |
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We've practiced this routine for years. Perhaps not exactly as performed, but we've spent years slowing building to this precipice. I know my partner is standing on the platform. I know my pole awaits. I am as prepared as I'll ever be as I climb the steep set of narrow stairs one after another.
My feet dangle on the narrow step, my heels hanging off abrupt edges. If there was wind in the arena, I would feel it brushing the bottoms of my feet as I walk higher than air.
I dare not glance down. I dare not look up.
The lights dim and I take my place. My partner smiles on the other side of the wire, on his own platform. We lock eyes. It is time.
They hand me my pole, I steady myself as I've been taught. I find a balancing point, slide my foot forward and regroup. I re-balance. I hear a gasp from the audience as I waver, only a moment, only once. I am solid. I visualize all the times I made it across the tiny wire. I visualize my feet gripping to stabilize. I lock eyes with my partner as he is handed his own pole, his own weights, his own balance.
We begin to move together.
More weights are giving to us, one at a time, to one side and then another. We rebalance, we lock eyes, we smile. People are amazed, or I imagine them being so. We tune out the music, we tune out the lights. We focus, straining, to stay in tune. Balancing, wavering, steady.. steady…
It is at this point in the performance I reach my limit. I realize one more spec, one more twinge, one more slight breeze would knock me down. I dare not look down. I dare not think. Instead I repeat in a mantra, "I am grateful, I am steady, I am whole." Forward I inch. Forward he moves. We near the middle and then…
One small expectation unmet, one tiny negative thought, the hug from a friend when my eyes began to mist. One tiny brush of wind and I'm down. I hear a collective gasp, I see the pole fall to the right as I tip to the left. It is only a moment but time slows and I fall, fall, out of my partners gaze out of my routine. I fool nobody as I grasp for my last location, reaching, scrambling, unable to go back.
The net, thank god for the net, bends under my weight magnified by gravity. It recoils twice and I'm back in a small bounce.
The show must go on.
I climb the narrow steps, my heels hanging off abrupt edges. If there was wind in the arena, I would feel it brushing the bottoms of my feet as I walk higher than air.
I dare not glance down. I dare not look up.
I'll be part of the net, k?
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Advocatus Diaboli sends this excerpt from an article about the data collection capabilities of the Nest Protect 'smart' smoke alarms, and how they could become a privacy concern:
Consider that each Protect is packed full of sensors, some of which are capable of much more than they're doing right now: From heat and light sensors to motion sensors and ultrasonic wave sensors. This simple little device could scrape an incredible amount of data about your life if Nest asked it to: From when you get home, to when you go to bed, to your daily routine, to when you cook dinner. Now imagine how a device like that would interlock with another that you keep on your wrist, like the forthcoming Android Wear. Together, they would create a seamless mesh of connectivity where every detail of what you do and where you go is recorded into a living, breathing algorithm based on your life.
Neither Nest nor Google has stated any intention to turn Nest's hardware into more than it is right now. Protect is an alarm, the Thermostat is a thermostat. But as Google ramps up its vision to connect every aspect of our world, from Android Wear to its acquisition of a company that specializes in high-res, near-instantaneous satellite imagery of Earth, it's easier than ever to see why it would cough up billions for a company that has installed hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi connected devices in the homes of Google users."


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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Botha, C P URN etd-07032006-113100 Document Title Simulation of a building heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system Degree MSc (Mechanical Engineering) Department Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Prof E H Mathews Keywords
- heating and ventilation systems simulation methods
- air conditioning systems simulation methods
- commercial buildings air conditioning systems
- commercial buildings -- heating and ventilation sy
Date 2001-04-01 Availability unrestricted Abstract Simulation is one of the oldest and also among the most important tools available to engineers. In the building Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) community the availability and/or functionality of simulation tools is limited and it is difficult to determine whether the simulation models accurately represent reality. The purpose of this study was to accurately verify one such a simulation model and then to extend the study to two unique applications.Comprehensive structural, comfort and energy audits were performed to construct a suitable simulation model with the aid of the control simulation package: QUICK Control. The model was then verified against measured building data to ensure an accurate representation of the actual dynamic building response. For the first application various control retrofits were evaluated and the highest potential for energy saving was found. Thereafter the model was implemented to investigate the change in indoor air conditions due to failure of HVAC equipment.
Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning in buildings consume a significant portion of the available electrical energy in South Africa. Of this energy up to 30% can be saved by improving the HVAC systems currently installed in the buildings. This could result in savings of up to R400 million. For the building used in this study it was found that up to 66% of the HVAC system's electrical energy consumption could be saved with a payback period of only 9 months. These savings could be achieved by implementing a setback control strategy with an improved time management procedure.
Predicting the impact of failing equipment is a difficult task because of the integrated dynamic effect every HVAC component has on the next. With the aid of a comprehensive integrated simulation model the implications of failing can be determined and necessary assessments and precautions can be taken. The results of this study showed that the air-conditioning system under investigation was approximately 100% over designed. Failure of up to 50% was allowable in the cooling equipment before any noticeable impact could be observed in the indoor climate. With further failure the required comfort conditions could not be sustained.
© 2000, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria
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Google's Grand Android Plan
Re:What about GPL? (190 comments)
Android does distribute the GPL portion early, they don't do that for the non-GPL real Android stuff.
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Re:What about GPL? (190 comments)
Android does distribute the GPL portion early, they don't do that for the non-GPL real Android stuff.
Re:"FOR ANIME FANS" (299 comments)
Subtitle support was already great back in $a_date_long_ago_in_computer_years. Dunno what 2.0 improves on, fluff support was already pretty good, probably it's about doing that on soft subs.
Anyway, the thing with anime fansub subtitles is that they go beyond normal subtitling, adding karaoke with characters(and images) glowing, fading, changing colors and jumping around the screen; typesetting floating objects translations right into a precise place in a timed frame, along resizing, translating and rotating that object if the background image requires it.
It usually isn't that bad, but then Akiyuki Shinbo happens.
Re:Screen size/resolution lock? (407 comments)
I believe there's a market for each product, but they should be categorized strictly:
Anything north from that is not intended for handheld usage.
Read the chart above as "You will be uncomfortable if you use X to do Y."
Like Java frameworks (157 comments)
Please correct me if I'm wrong in this analogy, Are _KDE_ Frameworks 5.0 is to QT the same as _Apache_'s many frameworks are to the Java SE/EE platforms? Really no major coupling at all?
Re:To Quote Obi-Wan (1027 comments)
I expect Apple stakeholders to be crying out in terror by tomorrow. I'm amused how he did that right after the market closed.
Re:Do these developers include Android developers? (338 comments)
Since current Java SE code isn't expected to run and have the very same behavior in Android without modification in previous versions, I don't think it the current version would be any different. BTW, are Android developers considered to be Java developers by Oracle?
What really happened (140 comments)
Robot tries to copy move, gets out-FALCON PAWNCHED by the original.
It won't be always online (591 comments)
The issue is about cheating, Blizzard cannot verify if during your offline quests you didn't cheat, sou you can't go online with the same character and play with other players under the same rules.
The answer is simple, when you want to play offline, you can either start anew, or load a copy of your online character in cache in your computer. The Battle.net version of the character and its progress will remain frozen. When you choose to play online, you just continue with this online version; offline "tainted" characters won't ever be able to play in Battle.net.
This way you can have multiple "saved games" offline.
Re:BSNES is perfect (227 comments)
Well, bsnes is actually libsnes + qt gui(perhaps qt also handles the input, dunno), so you can easily build another UI as the emulation part is externalized.
Re:C++ to Java? (194 comments)
Usually when one asks if language X has pointers, the person wants to know if it can do pointer arithmetic, and that's a resound NO in JVM based languages. Which is why we say Java has references, not pointers.
Re:We're working hard on the technology... (321 comments)
Yeah, they might also be able to perfectly predict earthquakes, tsunamis, gamma ray bursts and sudden influx of users in your site/internet-based product.
Re:This is news? Anyone else run a NES emulator? (325 comments)
Yeah, they are dolphins wearing swimming masks, from Super Mario World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W94OrZU4-aw&t=428
Re:Why does everything have to be monetized? (157 comments)
Yeah, ARIN should take all the unused blocks back, that would give us a lot of more time to complete the transition. Another two months should be enough, right? Right?
Re:Here's Oracle's Example (675 comments)
I've been paying my bills for 3 years developing in Java, and many more years programming at all, I don't know if this counts as an expert analysis or not, I don't care.
You could argue that the class design is really trivial, and how two different implementation could be identical under the KISS principle, but it's really hard to believe it's a clean room implementation. It's a bastardized version of Sun's code.
Re:Informative article (201 comments)
From TFA:
An add-on called "Mozilla Sniffer" was uploaded on June 6th to addons.mozilla.org. It was discovered that this add-on contains code that intercepts login data submitted to any website, and sends this data to a remote location. Upon discovery on July 12th, the add-on was disabled and added to the blocklist, which will prompt the add-on to be uninstalled for all current users.
Re:Actually... (142 comments)
Sci-fi weapons agains Croczilla? Meh.
The only one who can save Australia from monster crocodiles is a 131 feet tall Crocodile Dundee!
Re:WebM/VP8 patent risk for software developers (312 comments)
Software developers already live taking patent risks just by doing their work, developing software. Media encoding isn't the only patent elephant stomping in our lawn, we're pretty much surrounded by thousands, specially ye ol' $PATENT which just now happened to be implemented on the internet or on a smartphone/tablet/portable device of the week.
If you are afraid of software patents, I'm afraid you have to look for a job in another area where you don't even come close to inventing/designing anything.
Re:This has to be a bad joke... (138 comments)
You would be right if they were aiming for the name in english. Íkaros is his name in latin.
At least its easier to write than greek: , which Slashdot can't even parse...
SETI is HARD (147 comments)
If you take decades to find a reflector in the nearest astral body, it quite puts in perspective the whole difficulty of searching for extraterrestrial life light-years away.
Re:Wrong Platform (297 comments)
Perhaps they could spend a supranonimillenary amount of money to make such aquatic plataform airborne, along with some anguineous lifeforms aboard, for massive damage.
According to the [Kyoto-based] High-Tech Crime Task Force, the Okayama police, and the Saga police, the Osaka-based suspect uploaded about a thousand files, including anime. The suspect admitted that he thought he would not get caught because he was using Perfect Dark.
Perfect Dark is the third generation of japanese anonymous P2P network clients, developed with the intent to fix the security flaws found in its predecessors Winny and Share, in spite of also adopting a "Secure through Obscurity" closed-source model. In 2004, Winny's developer, Isamu Kaneo, was charged 1.5 million yen for assisting in copyright infringement, but he was acquited last October. Since 2008, at least 15 people were arrested in Japan suspect of uploading copyrighted material to those "secure" networks."
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Any code completion or live template operation ends up with a suggestion list, from which you have to select the desired option. PyCharm provides handy ways to make your selection, complete the source code, sort entries, and view reference information without leaving the suggestion list.
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Pumpkin patch: I had the unfortunate experience of visiting Aurora's annual Pumpkin Launch (Eric Dexheimer's "Going for the Gourd," October 26). The few thousand people who attended were directed to park directly on top of active prairie-dog fields. (And they wonder where all the eagles have gone.) I asked the officer directing traffic about this and received a "Gee, I don't know" look from him, complemented with a giggle. There was a school bus shuttling attendees right past what must have been an arduous quarter-mile walk to the event. All this while thousands of parking spaces sat idle two blocks away at the mall. Brilliant planning, folks, and a great lesson for the kids on what is important in life (not to mention the glorious waste of edible nutrition).
If this type of event is what the city puts on in order to evoke civic pride, they may as well run rush-hour car tours of the beautiful new cracker-shack housing developments. Wake up, Aurora, you hideous cancer! You could still save your rapidly decreasing endowment of aesthetics if you were not so hopelessly devoid of a progressive sense of planning.
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The blight stuff: If Aurora really wants to enhance its neighborhoods' visual appeal (Megan Hall's "Don't Fence Me In," October 19), a first step would be to eliminate the advertising signs on RTD benches. It's interesting that you don't see such blight in Cherry Hills!
With regard to privacy fences, Aurora might also consider using surfaces that don't invite graffiti, unlike the unpractical design used in Eastridge.
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Light makes right: I am always impressed when a media outlet can make light of being used itself. However, Michael Roberts's November 2 Message on Jon "Steppin' Stone" Caldara, "Lighting a Fire," did not point out one obvious feature of his use of the media: Somehow, Caldara has become an "expert" commentator. What has he done to get this role? Not much other than be available when the press wants a quote, whether he is knowledgeable or not. Most interesting, however, is the lack of acknowledgment by such outlets as 9News of his relationship to an ultra-conservative "think" (oxymoron) tank. Instead they play him as some impartial, intelligent talking head. It's the worst and most irresponsible form of journalism, and what really sinks in is how lazy the reporters really are.
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Horsing around: I always enjoy the horse laugh I get whenever someone with a gored ox starts bleating, "Not me!" Media man Michael Roberts's assurances in "Lighting a Fire" that individual media personalities never -- no sirree, Bob, ever, ever, ever! -- let their own biases show in their reporting is, let's just say, somewhat less than convincing. No, wait. Let's call a spade a spade, shall we? It's horseshit.
It's pretty clear that lefties in the print and broadcast media (and they are legion) were actively and overtly campaigning for their favorites also -- coincidentally! -- on the left. What I saw amounted to a cynical and un-American attempt by the Democrat's Fifth Columnists of the column-inch and the pixel dot to get out the vote -- in reverse. The plan? Simple: Through the incessant drum-beating of polls of questionable parentage and treble-headed offspring, they hoped to convince as many undecideds as possible (who typically end up voting Republican) that since this thing was all but in the bag for their boy, why bother getting out of the La-Z Boy at all on Election Day? Sort of like VW vanloads of eager, bright-eyed Young Democrats going out into the neighborhoods, but instead of driving voters to the polling places, giving them a forty of Schlitz and a TV Guide. Once real pollsters began showing that this thing was whisker-close and, in fact, Bush was ahead, the media bongo-bangers started tapping a different dance. Suddenly they were telling us to pay no attention to the pollster behind the curtain.
Regardless of the outcome, if nothing else, this year's presidential election should put to rest any lingering doubts -- if you were stupid enough to still have any -- that individual media personalities have any intention of being objective in their political reporting.
JM Schell
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Funny money: Oh, what an ugly web we leave when a very big platitude we do weave. I was quite offended by Kyle Wagner's statement in the November 2 "Overload" that "nowadays Morton's is for nearly everyone, because nearly everyone has money." While I'm aware that Kyle did qualify her statement with the adverb "nearly," and that the economy of Denver is much healthier now than it was when Morton's first came to Denver in 1984, I still think this is a very big overstatement.
In my own case, after returning to Denver in late August this year after two years in the Peace Corps, I was able to procure a part-time job working weekday mornings as an English as a Second Language tutor at the Community College of Denver. While the wages I earn from this job are acceptable, I could not live on them, and I receive no benefits. For this reason, I went shopping around for a retail job that would allow me to work evenings and take my days off on Tuesdays and Thursdays. As the cost of renting an apartment in Denver has increased quite a bit over the last sixteen years, I had hoped to find a job that would pay me $8 an hour. Several unacknowledged applications later, I was only too happy to accept a full-time job at a local bookstore.


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I am new to these forum. I usually hang out in the growing tomato forum. I am a photographer who loves to photograph children playing in the flowers looking natural. I have 3 acres and would like to devote a nice size patch to flowers. I need some suggestions on the type of flower that would bloom from June-October, if there is such a thing. A flower that is at least one foot tall but not taller than 2 1/2 feet. Of course, I would love a flower that keeps on reseeding for the following year. I love purple flowers. I am in Michigan in zone 6. Also if anyone has some suggestions on a hayfield etc. Thanks, Deb |
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Sorry, nature doesn't provide for what you wish. But you might want to consider the creation of a prairie with 10 - 20 species of flowers. Check the websites of prairie suppliers. The planting of a prairie, however, is not merely the sprinkling of a few cans of seeds on an old field. The area must first be completely cleared of all living plants, usually by planting a season of Roundup Ready soybeans, followed by proper planting of the prairie after the beans are harvested. Planting (on this scale) requires a prairie grass seeder, not easy to find. |
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I like mine and use it a lot. I haven't used any other panini pans to compare it too, though. The one thing I've had trouble with is sticking, if the bread is not firm enough, but I've solved that by using foil sprayed with non-stick spray. I use the pan for quesedillas too. Jen |
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