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University Medical Center at Princeton's Cancer Program and the Princeton HealthCare System Foundation invite patients who have been treated for cancer and their loved ones to attend a morning program dedicated to wellness, celebration and support on Sunday, June 6, 2010. The event, Celebrating Strength, will be held from 8 to 11:45 a.m. in Ground Floor Conference Rooms A & B at University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP), 253 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. Patients who have been treated for cancer through Princeton HealthCare System and their loved ones are invited to attend. A continental breakfast will be served, and information will be provided on a variety of topics related to cancer recovery. This free event is being held in conjunction with National Cancer Survivors Day.
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Blogs. Twitter lists. Biologist wants to 'make the world a better place' US evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson was in the UK last month to talk about the field study he has been running for six years in his home town of Binghamton, New York State, in economic decline.
"There are things that are natural to a field biologist, and one of them is to study species in their natural environment," explains Wilson. "Jane Goodall [famous for her studies of chimpanzees] has the Gombe Stream Park [Tanzania] and Darwin's finches are studied in the Galápagos, so why don't we study humans in the context of their everyday life? " In 2006, Wilson decided to study the 47,000 residents of Binghamton.
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The Six Epochs of Life — a mural by Nick Mayer inspired by Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near. The Six Epochs of Life mural was commissioned by Martine and Bina Rothblatt in the summer of 2008 to be painted on a bare concrete wall at Estate Marbina Abenaki's Terasem Center of Critical Consciousness.
The primary wish that the Rothblatts had for the mural was that it illustrate the Six Epochs of Life described in chapter one of Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near. Use the viewer below to pan across and zoom in on the mural panorama. Scientists document first consumption of abundant life form, Archaea. CORVALLIS, Ore. – A team of scientists has documented for the first time that animals can and do consume Archaea – a type of single-celled microorganism thought to be among the most abundant life forms on Earth.
Archaea that consume the greenhouse gas methane were in turn eaten by worms living at deep-sea cold seeps off Costa Rica and the West Coast of the United States. Archaea perform many key ecosystem services including being involved with nitrogen cycling, and they are known to be the main mechanism by which marine methane is kept out of the atmosphere. The finding of this new study adds a wrinkle to scientific understanding of greenhouse gas cycles. Results of the study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, have been published online in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal, a subsidiary of the journal Nature. Home. How Life Evolved on Earth, Alien Life Evolution.
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The caves in question are called "blue holes," so-named because from the air, their entrances appear circular in shape, with different shades of blue water in and around them. There are estimated to be more than 1,000 such caves in the Bahamas, the greatest concentration of blue holes in the world. "It's really incredible to be swimming down a passage that no one has ever been in before, to experience that thrill of discovery," said researcher Tom Iliffe, a marine biologist at Texas A&M University at Galveston.
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Ridgewater travels to Fergus Falls today for hoops twinbill
Ridgewater College is at Fergus Falls today to play the Spartans at 6 p.m. (women) and 8 p.m. (men) in MCAC Southern Division basketball.
The Lady Warriors (2-6, 7-13) will attempt to avenge a 72-62 loss to the Spartans (4-5, 9-14) at Willmar on Jan. 17.
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The Chicago Cubs now welcome the Pittsburgh Pirates. If a series with the Pirates doesn't cure what ails the Cubs, nothing will. Hmm. Seems I've tried that one before. A refresher on the series preview here at Bleacher Nation:
The idea is to hook you up with the bare minimum of what you need to know about every series this year. That way you can look like a genius, hardcore fan in front of all your friends, with minimum effort. Oh, and there will be pictures of hot chicks, too.
We're Going Streaking
The Cubs were just swept by the Philadelphia Phillies – in ugly fashion – after having lost three of four to the Rockies. Simply put: the Cubs have looked terrible, and have fallen four and a half back in the NL Central. But that was against winning teams. Hooray Pirates!
The Pirates are hugging the bottom of the NL Central, and are 1-9 in their last 10. Can you say cripple fight?
Game Times and Broadcasts
- Friday, August 14 at 1:20 CT on WGN.
- Saturday, August 15 at 12:05 CT on CSN.
- Sunday, August 16 at 1:20 CT on WGN.
Expected Starters and Lineups
These lineups are likely to be, well, wrong. But they'll be close.
Starters: Randy Wells (8-5, 3.01), Tom Gorzelanny (4-2, 6.23), Rich Harden (7-7, 4.30)
- Fukudome, CF
- Bradley, RF (DO IT LOU) Theriot, SS
- Lee, 1B
- Ramirez, 3B
- Soriano, LF
- Soto, C
- Fontenot/Baker, 2B
- Theriot, SS
- Pitcher
Starters: Charlie Morton (3-5, 3.81), Zach Duke (9-10, 3.40), Ross Ohlendorf (10-8, 4.30)
- Andrew McCutchen, CF
- Lastings Milledge, LF
- Garrett Jones, RF (who?)
- Ryan Doumit, C
- Steve Pearce, 1B (who?)
- Delwyn Young, 2B
- Andy LaRoche, 3B
- Ronny Cedeno, SS (holy crap, it's that guy!)
- Pitcher
Hot or Not and Whom to Watch
It's hard to pinpoint a particularly effective Chicago Cub of late. I would recommend watching none of them. Just kidding, they're playing the Pirates. They should all bounce back.
If I expected the pitching to play a critical role in this series, I'd say get excited to see Tom Gorzelanny and John Grabow face their old team. But I won't ask of you what I wouldn't ask of myself.
As for the Pirates, how can you not watch our old friend Ronny Cedeno? There are several other new faces to watch on the Pirates, and don't sleep on Ross "Cy" Ohlendorf. He dominated the Cubs last time out, and has actually been streaking since then – the Pirates' best pitcher in the last month.
Series She-View
And now the best part of the preview: if the teams were represented by beautiful women, who would they be, and what would the match up look like. I thought long and hard about who would represent the Cubs this year. Given the fact that she's thrown out the first pitch, sung the Seventh Inning Stretch, probably likes the Cubs – oh, and the fact that she is a level of hot commensurate with the Chicago Cubs' ability, I've chosen supermodel Marisa Miller. You're welcome.
For the Pittsburgh Pirates, the choice was surprisingly easy. Not because Pittsburgh is hemmoraging hot chicks, rife for inclusion here.
No, it's not the Pittsburgh part that made it easy. It's the Pirate part. And when I think of hot pirate chicks, only one woman comes to mind: the beautiful Keira Knightley.
That makes this a pretty tough matchup for the Cubs – not unlike real life, where the current losing ways makes what would otherwise look like an easy series look nearly insurmountable. And with that word, we come full circle back to Keira Knightley and Marisa Miller.
So who you got in this series? Pretty tough one, I must say. We'll go with a class, modely, sexy match up.


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Spherical geometry
Spherical geometry is the geometry of the two-dimensional surface of a sphere. It is an example of a geometry that is not Euclidean. Two practical applications of the principles of spherical geometry are to navigation and astronomy.
In plane geometry the basic concepts are points and (straight) lines. On the sphere, points are defined in the usual sense. The equivalents of lines are not defined in the usual sense of "straight line" in Euclidean geometry but in the sense of "the shortest paths between points," which are called geodesics. On the sphere the geodesics are the great circles; other geometric concepts are defined as in plane geometry but with straight lines replaced by great circles. Thus, in spherical geometry angles are defined between great circles, resulting in a spherical trigonometry that differs from ordinary trigonometry in many respects; for example, the sum of the interior angles of a triangle exceeds 180 degrees.
Spherical geometry is not elliptic geometry but shares with that geometry the property that a line has no parallels through a given point. Contrast this with Euclidean geometry, in which a line has one parallel through a given point, and hyperbolic geometry, in which a line has two parallels and an infinite number of ultraparallels through a given point.
An important geometry related to that of the sphere is that of the real projective plane; it is obtained by identifying antipodal points (pairs of opposite points) on the sphere. (This is elliptic geometry.) Locally, the projective plane has all the properties of spherical geometry, but it has different global properties. In particular, it is non-orientable, or one-sided.
Concepts of spherical geometry may also be applied to the oblong sphere, though minor modifications must be implemented on certain formulas.
Higher-dimensional spherical geometries exist; see elliptic geometry.
Spherical trigonometry was studied by early Greek mathematicians such as Menelaus of Alexandria, who wrote a book on spherical trigonometry called Sphaerica and developed Menelaus' theorem.[1]
Islamic world[edit]
The book of unknown arcs of a sphere written by Islamic mathematician Al-Jayyani is considered to be the first treatise on spherical trigonometry. The book contains formulae for right-handed triangles, the general law of sines, and the solution of a spherical triangle by means of the polar triangle.[2]
The book On Triangles by Regiomontanus, written around 1463, is the first pure trigonometrical work in Europe. However, Gerolamo Cardano noted a century later that much of the material there on spherical trigonometry was taken from the twelfth-century work of the Andalusi scholar Jabir ibn Aflah.[3]
With points defined as the points on a sphere and lines as the great circles of that sphere, a spherical geometry has the following properties:[4]
- Any two lines intersect in two diametrically opposite points, called antipodal points.
- Any two points that are not antipodal points determine a unique line.
- There is a natural unit of angle measurement (based on a revolution), a natural unit of length (based on the circumference of a great circle) and a natural unit of area (based on the area of the sphere).
- Each line is associated with a pair of antipodal points, called the poles of the line, which are the common intersections of the set of lines perpendicular to the given line.
- Each point is associated with a unique line, called the polar line of the point, which is the line on the plane through the center of the sphere and perpendicular to the diameter of the sphere through the given point.
As there are two arcs (line segments) determined by a pair of points, which are not antipodal, on the line they determine, three non-collinear points do not determine a unique triangle. However, if we only consider triangles whose sides are minor arcs of great circles, we have the following properties:
- The angle sum of a triangle is greater than 180° and less than 540°.
- The area of a triangle is proportional to the excess of its angle sum over 180°.
- Two triangles with the same angle sum are equal in area.
- There is an upper bound for the area of triangles.
- The composition (product) of two (orthogonal) line reflections may be considered as a rotation about either of the points of intersection of their axes.
- Two triangles are congruent if and only if they correspond under a finite product of line reflections.
- Two triangles with corresponding angles equal are congruent (i.e., all similar triangles are congruent).
Relation to Euclid's postulates[edit]
Spherical geometry obeys two of Euclid's postulates: the second postulate ("to produce [extend] a finite straight line continuously in a straight line") and the fourth postulate ("that all right angles are equal to one another"). However, it violates the other three: contrary to the first postulate, there is not a unique shortest route between any two points (antipodal points such as the north and south poles on a spherical globe are counterexamples); contrary to the third postulate, a sphere does not contain circles of arbitrarily great radius; and contrary to the fifth (parallel) postulate, there is no point through which a line can be drawn that never intersects a given line.[5]
A statement that is logically equivalent to the parallel postulate is that there exists a triangle whose angles add up to 180°. Since spherical geometry violates the parallel postulate, there exists no such triangle on the surface of a sphere. The sum of the angles of a triangle on a sphere is 180°(1 + 4f), where f is the fraction of the sphere's surface that is enclosed by the triangle. For any positive value of f, this exceeds 180°.
See also[edit]
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Menelaus of Alexandria", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- ^ School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences University of St Andrews
- ^ Victor J. Katz-Princeton University Press
- ^ Merserve, pp. 281-282
- ^ Gowers, Timothy, Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2002: pp. 94 and 98.
- Meserve, Bruce E. (1983) [1959], Fundamental Concepts of Geometry, Dover, ISBN 0-486-63415-9
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Desperados 2: Coopers Revenge
Desperados 2 is the sequel of the successful wild west title �Desperados � Wanted Dead or Alive??.
The gameplay is based on its predecessor but with brand new tactical possibilities in a beautiful 3D environment. The player is able to switch from an isometric view to a third person view whenever he wants, for example for duels, brawls and shoot-outs. There will be a great variety of setting for example dusty canyons, ghost towns, Indian villages and forts creating a breathtaking atmosphere.
Take on the role of up to 6 heroes including the famous bounty hunter John Cooper and experience in a thrilling story with surprising turns.
Game features:
- Real-time-strategy and tactic involved in an exciting story and a thrilling
- Western atmosphere Varied settings including towns, Indian villages, dusty canyons, forts, wagon convoys and ghost towns
- Double 3D view: pivotable isometric view and 3rd person view for fights and very close action
- Several levels of difficulty and a new A.I. with more tactical opponent behaviour and more interaction with allies
- 6 individual actions per hero and overall 20 new actions e.g. swimming, sedative injection and handcuffs
- A new hero: Hawkeyes, the Indian
- 5 actions per hero planable in advance with headword overview (Quick Actions)
- More interaction with the environment due to full 3D interior views of buildings and movements like climbing, sneaking, jumping and hiding
- Brawls with destroyable objects create movie-like stunt situations
Installation instructions:
Burn with Blindwrite 4.5.7, 4x speed, dao pw. Hit yes to include
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System requirements:
- MS Windows XP, 2000, ME
- Pentium 1.5 GHz or higher
- Video card with 128 MB RAM
Release name: Desperados.2.Coopers.Revenge.BWClone-Unleashed
Size: 4 CD, 2.42 GB, 198�15 MB
Protection: Securom 7
Genre: strategy / action
File names: unl-d2cr1, unl-d2cr2, unl-d2cr3, unl-d2cr4
Reviews, info: Gamespy, 3DGamers
NFO: N/A yet
Homepage: here
Developer, distributor: Spellbound, Atari
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Xavier F. Amador, PhD, a clinical and research psychologist, is the new director of the just-established Center for Education, Research and Practice of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. The goal of the center is to identify the best evidence-based practices for helping people with serious mental illnesses to recover.
Before his appointment, Amador was director of psychology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City and associate professor in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. An expert on anosognosia, he is author of books focusing on helping to optimize recovery for people with serious mental illnesses and their families.
Elena Grigorenko, PhD, a research scientist at Yale University and associate professor of psychology at Moscow State University in Russia, was awarded the 2001 Div. 24 (Theoretical and Philosophical) Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, given to scholars making substantial contributions to the division's areas.
Grigorenko is the first person in Yale University's history to receive PhDs simultaneously in the natural and social sciences: She received her PhDs in genetics and psychology. She studies the genetics of reading disability and has performed numerous cross-cultural studies of intelligence and related skills as well as other instructional studies.
Carolyn Mazure, PhD, professor in the department of psychiatry at Yale University's Medical School and director of Yale's women's health research program, is now the medical school's newest associate dean for faculty affairs.
Mazure, who has had a 20-year career as a clinical psychologist at Yale, is eager to work for the interests of the faculty, which she considers to be an extraordinary group of scientists, clinicians and educators. "Faculty are the foundation on which everything else is built," she says.
The possibility of working within the medical school's system to enhance the academic lives of faculty was the reason she was attracted to the position. Mazure also plans to continue directing women's health research at Yale, which is the largest interdisciplinary women's health research program in the country. The program supports basic and clinical science studies with behavioral variables as a crucial part of this effort. Topics range from breast and ovarian cancer, to cardiovascular disease, to depression and domestic violence. The program's goal is to encourage innovative scientists to consider gender and sex as variables in their domain of study. "Research that factors in sex and gender provides a tremendous opportunity to improve the health of women while broadening the scope of knowledge on human health," says Mazure.
Gavriel Salvendy, PhD, a professor of industrial engineering at Purdue University and honorary fellow of APA, is the chair professor and head of the newly founded department of industrial engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing. This appointment represents the first time since the People's Republic of China was established in 1949 that a Westerner has been named a chair professor and head of a university department in China. Salvendy will continue, concurrently, his position as professor of industrial engineering at Purdue University.
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Wednesday Gov. Mike Easley weighed in on last week's expulsion of Rep. Thomas Wright.
The governor said he's glad the house stepped up and took control of the issue.
Wright served in the state House, representing the Wilmington area for eight terms before being expelled last Thursday for alleged ethical and criminal misconduct.
He's also facing six felony counts and is expected to go to trial March 31.
With fellow legislators denouncing Wright's actions the governor questioned Wright's ability to be an effective voice for the people of New Hanover and Pender Counties.
Easley said, "Ever since Rep. Wright got in all of this trouble, the rest of the legislature has kept a distance from him so he has been ineffective, couldn't help the area, can't help the area in the legislature. And I think the expulsion is appropriate."
On Monday Wright's lawyers filed an appeal to have the expulsion overturned, claiming the proceedings were legally deficient.
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PEGylated dendrimer polystyrene support: synthesis, characterisation and evaluation of biologically active peptides
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Poly(N,N-bisethylamine) dendrimers with high content of poly(ethylene glycol) were synthesized on 3-(Acryloyloxy)-2-hydroxypropylmethacrylate-crosslinked polystyrene (PS-AHMA) resin and tested in various conditions of solid phase peptide synthesis. The dendritic templates were generated to the second generation on cross-linker active site of 3-(Acryloyloxy)-2-hydroxypropylmethacrylate (AHMA). First generation dendrimer was designed by series of four-stage reactions, such as Schiff base incorporation, acidolytic cleavage, diazotization and thionyl chloride treatment and same synthetic routes were followed for second generation also. Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG1000) has been grafted to second-generation dendrimer and used to check various physico-chemical parameters in Fmoc/Boc peptide synthetic conditions. The utility of PEGylated dendrimer support was demonstrated by synthesizing biologically potent linear as well as disulfide-bonded peptide by Fmoc method.
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- PEGylated dendrimer polystyrene support: synthesis, characterisation and evaluation of biologically active peptides
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Amino Acids
Volume 44, Issue 3 , pp 947-959
- Cover Date
- 2013-03-01
- 10.1007/s00726-012-1424-6
- Print ISSN
- 0939-4451
- Online ISSN
- 1438-2199
- Publisher
- Springer Vienna
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Dendrimer
- Solid phase synthesis
- Poly(ethylene glycol)
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- Authors
- M. A. Siyad (1)
- G. S. Vinod Kumar (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Chemical Biology, Molecular Medicine Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram, 695 014, Kerala, India


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Welcome to the
National Standards Board for Therapeutic Musicians
The National Standards Board for Therapeutic Musicians (NSBTM) consists of leaders in the therapeutic music field who have joined together to develop and maintain standards for therapeutic musician training programs and their graduates. The NSBTM does not lobby or pay money for any lobbying.
The practice of the therapeutic musician is to use the intrinsic healing elements of live music and sound to provide an environment conducive to the human healing process.
The practice of a therapeutic musician is not to be confused with the practice of a music therapist. This page contains more information on Music Therapy.
The NSBTM defines the Courses of Study, Scope of Practice, Code of Ethics and other rules of conduct for the certified therapeutic musician.
Mission Statement
To define a body of knowledge, and application of that knowledge, that represents competent practice for therapeutic musicians.
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Meet the M Family! Are they not just the most gorgeous foursome ever? We had a great time last weekend for our session and I am so happy they were the winners of my raffle from December's holiday bazaar on Camp Pendleton. I couldn't have asked for a more laid back, fun, happy family
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How to Add New Tropical Fish to Your Tank
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1Choose some healthy fish from your local pet shop or aquarium center. Make sure the breeds of fish that you have got all get along: e.g. Beta fish kill and attack other fish such as guppies, as they have long tails.
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4Open the bag. Being very careful not to spill any of the water into the tank, get a clean cup and put some tank water into the bag (so the amount of water in the bag is now doubled).
5Allow the bag to float for 15 more minutes.
6Take the bag out of the tank. Open it.
7Put your net inside the bag with your tropical fish in and scoop up the fish.
8Pull out the net from the bag gently and hold the net inside the water in the tank, until the fish swims out of the net and into the tank. Do this for all the fish you bought, until they're all safely in the tank.
9Pour the water out of the bag down the drain or into the sink and dispose of the plastic bag. It is important that you do not pour the water from the bag into your tank, as this water may contain germs or diseases and they will then be put into your tank. This may result in a deaths or illness to your fish.Ad
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Agony: The first defiance
10/06/05 || Lord K Philipson
Released: 1988
Agony is without the shadow of a fucken doubt the best offering, thrash metal wise, to ever come out of Sweden. I remember seeing these guys live with Candlemass (the very gig when fatso Messiah Marcolin put his foot thru the floor during his butt-fucken-ugly doomdance) and girl-band Ice Age (they were better-looking than great-sounding but managed to create some decent thrash metal) back in 1988, just before this album was released. What I heard live floored me and I counted the days until I could get my hands on the actual LP. When I finally got it, they put every other band to shame at the time. Their first defiance ended up being their last as well, but at least they managed to create something that no Swedish thrash band could ever come close to, not even to this day.
9. We are talking thrash metal hits here people. Not a bad song on the whole album. These fuckers knew what they were doing. And they did it best. As mentioned, no Swedish thrash band's been able to beat this monumental recording. "The first defiance" is a giant in terms of thrash and it's a fucken bad miracle that it's not considered that by a larger audience.
6. Well, being recorded in 1988 the sound isn't all that fucken awesome, but I still love it for what it is. There's not exactly much of a punch in this one, but the music itself makes up for it by far. It works, not more, not less. If this album was recorded today, with the technology that can even make sucky bands sound decent, Agony would be the reigning kings considering they sound as awesome as they do with this thin production.
9. Tighter than the asses of Manowar.. Eh, wait here… Manowar are gay so that doesn't make any sense… It's tighter than a Stanley Cup final. Wow, that was almost good. These guys throw up some excellent riffage and I love it. Even the solos makes sense. Every one of them. Just listen to the opener "Storm of the apocalypse" or "Deadly legacy". If that's not genius riffage going on, I am a fucken fisherman's hat.
8. Pete's vocals are… original. Nothing close to a growl, nothing close to John Connelly of Nuclear Assault, nothing like the ass-vocals of Sean Killian of Vio-lence. Basically they are nothing close to anything but Pete himself. Either you like it or you don't. I dig them. Alot. I wonder where the hell this guy went after Agony split up… I think it might be time to get a hold of him and ask him to do some guest vocals for some recording of mine. Let's not forget that he had a horrible, horrible haircut though. We are very lucky it's not the hair that represents his voice, that's for sure.
3. It's there but I can't hear much of it, nonetheless rate his playing.
7. Competent but nothing flashy whatsoever. I also remember this guy being lefthanded. Or maybe he wasn't, who fucken cares? He does his job real good but it's not groundbreaking in any way, shape or form. And I also wish I could hear the bassdrums a bit better. Besides that he pulls off his thrashy moves with no flaws.
I never read them as the LP didn't include them, at least not on my copy. But Agony's spawned the greatest title of all times, the mentioned "Storm of the Apocalypse". I even stole that and changed "storm" to "disciples" for the second The Project Hate album. That, if anything, should tell you they rule. They get an 8 for cool titles though. I'm sure the lyrics are killer too. They must be, we are talking Agony, fuckos.
Cover art
7. Well, it's red/orange and shows some kind of apocalypse, I guess. Definitely works for me. Lots of details in this one. I dig it. It won't go down in history as the best cover ever made, but it's far from bad.
3. I wouldn't call it a classic by far, but it's right there, taking up half the cover. I guess no one will miss the fact their name is Agony. The cover would actually do a hella lot better without this logo on it. But hey, at least it looks better than their original one.
3. Fuck you, fuck your booklets. I own the LP. Lots of photos and shit. Pretty boring actually.
Overall and ending rant
9. It's weird that this album is not mentioned more often when it comes to naming Sweden's best thrash bands ever. Agony came, Agony saw and Agony conquered. And they did it with one album and one album only. If you claim to be a thrash metal fan and haven't heard this album, I must hand you a severe facial reconstruction. Agony was king. Rest in peace. You have deserved it.


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@titans62 - It sounds like what you are describing is called a trench roller.
I just helped with building a new baseball diamond for my son's young league. Before the final dirt was put on the infield, we had to go over the ground several times with one of those machines. It basically works the same as the tandem roller, but is usually used for dirt. They also have the vibratory rollers.
When we were renting the machine, it looked like there were other versions, too, that someone might be able to use when paving a driveway or parking lot.


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Sir Jackie Stewart has no doubt Jenson Button's mental toughness will see him through the loss of his father ahead of the new F1 season.
John Button passed away on Sunday, at the age of 70, after suffering a suspected heart attack.
Button snr was an inspirational figure on his son's life and career, missing only one of the 34-year-old's 249 grands prix over the past 14 years.
The early weeks back in the paddock when the season resumes later this month, initially with the first test in Jerez and the opening grand prix in Australia in mid-March, are certain to be tough on the younger Button.
Three-times world champion Stewart, however, feels racing drivers over the years have proven themselves to be a tough breed and know how to adapt and survive.
"A racing driver is a peculiar animal," said Stewart.
"Look at all the deaths we had (during Stewart's time in the sport in the 1960s and early 1970s), yet for whatever reason we all raced.
"We had our wives with us, and with everything that went on on the circuit, many of them had to go to the track medical centre - which at that time was just a dirty concrete floor - to find their husband dead, or severely injured and going to die.
"Think about that, and then going to a funeral and meeting their mom and dad, brothers and sisters, and not just at the grave, but at the house afterwards. They were ridiculous circumstances.
"So when you think of John, naturally his son will miss him terribly, but a racing driver's mentality is a peculiar one.
"And the human is an amazing being to overcome those things, including grieving, with racing drivers tougher than most people."
Stewart, meanwhile, feels the time is right for the sport to usher in a new champion this year.
Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull have dominated the past four seasons, claiming both drivers' and constructors' championships, and with the German notably winning the last nine grands prix of last year.
"We've had domination before and the sport still survived, which was before the television era when there were bigger crowds," said the 74-year-old Scot.
"But it would be better, liven things up (if there was a different champion). It would be refreshing."
Stewart added with a smile: "And four times is a bit greedy.
"But nobody is up there forever, whether it's Sebastian or Adrian Newey (Red Bull's chief technical officer), whether it was Michael Schumacher or Ross Brawn.
"The world moves on and I'm sure that will be the case, although I don't know if it will be this year because Red Bull have been so impressive."


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Sparrow "BOP-ish" glider
I saw these plans: ( http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showa...2&d=1325607728 ) on another thread and it immediately caught my attention. Rather than hijack that thread though I'm starting a separate one (ain't I sweet? ).
I have been looking for a pure glider to use for windier conditions and perhaps sloping. I decided a flying wing would be the best choice and I want to build it as a woody (no offense, but ARF's and foam just don't do it for me). The fact that this is not only a built up wing, but a fore-swept wing - a'la Bird of Prey - makes it all that much more titillating. My question is does anybody here know anything about this bird? How difficult is it to build? To fly? I will be using balsa, it will be RC and what I'm interested in is casual flight, no DS'ing or aerodynamcs. Any info, leads to build instructions or tips y'all could give are appreciated. TIA |
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Also what's with the hook? Just to protect the slat? Stuart |
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On the control surfaces.
There's nothing wrong with using ailerons but because of the sweep you'll want to use separate inboard elevators and outboard ailerons instead of mixed elevons. The reason being you want the elevator function at the rear most point of the wing and the aileron function at the most outboard. On a swept BACK flying wing these two points happen to both be at the tips of the wing so elevons work. On a swept forward wing these two points are not at the same spot. Hence the separation of the controls. And no offense intended to the guy that did the plans but the fin on the plans simply does not match the picture. The fin in the picture has a far more elegant look. Achieving a stable design in this case will be a fun challenge. Either there needs to be a trifle of washIN on the tips or the center area elevators will need some up trim. A cheap and dirty small scale chuck glider with flat wings will soon answer a few questions on how best to trim the model. Try some elevator to see if it can be stabilized. Then try another with some washin on the tips and see how it works out for stall response. The only thing with a washin trim is that it reverses when inverted. So just adding some center section reflex with a bit of elevator trim would seem to be the better option so it can just as easily be switched to the proper position when inverted with a bit of forward stick pressure. |
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As this bird is intended for Windier conditions and slope I can see the sence of a rudder for yaw control; however since the wings do have a slight dihedral (3.375" over span length) how would the rudder affect flight? Edit: I don't plan on areobatics, so how the washout or in applies to inverted flight would be moot. I have saved the .pdf plans, so I can wait and ponder as long as I like before starting such a prodject |
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Andravida Horse
Also called the Eleia, Ilia, or Greek, the Andravida which is a very rare & mysterious light draft breed found in the region of Ilia, Greece.
Their ancestors were cavalry horses used by the Athenians in the fourth century BC. Later, in the seventh century BC the Greek cavalry again used the Andravida for war. During times of peace the animals continued to be useful as a light draft for transport & carrying goods.
During the 13th to 15th centuries Arabian blood was used to refine the stock, which created the lighter animal known today.
Modern Andravida
Early in the 20th century the breed saw an influx of Anglo-Norman breeds, but since they have not traditionally been bred outside of Ilia, which part of the reason they are so rare today.
In the 1990′s an Andravida stud sired around 50 healthy colts which were sent to breeders throughout Greece. This one animal may have saved the breed from extinction & became the foundation for the official studbook established in 1995. Their numbers remain very low & they are rarely found anywhere outside of Ilia even today.
Average height 14 – 16 hands
Large, strong horse
Unremarkable head
Chest is deep & muscular
Legs are stocky & powerful
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Step 1: Use a blending brush to apply a nude shadow primer on eyelids to create a smooth surface and allow shadow colors to vibrantly pop.
Step 2: Press a loose mineral eyeshadow in Hemlock with a blending brush. This technique provides maximum color coverage and allows you to soften edges for ethereal look.
Step 3: With a detail brush, apply a pressed mineral eyeshadow in Paloma into the crease of the eye, then diffuse the edges with a clean blending brush.
Step 4: Using a detail brush, apply the Paloma shadow as an eyeliner on the lower lash line.
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Step 9: Use a lip brush to line and fill lips with watermelon-shaded lipstick. Add pink lip gloss to the center of lips to create a perfect pout.
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WINDERMERE, Fla. ( Stockpickr) -- Trading stocks that trigger major breakouts can lead to massive profits. Once a stock trends to a new high or takes out a prior overhead resistance point, then it's free to find new buyers and momentum players that can ultimately push the stock significantly higher.
An example of a recent successful breakout trade is specialty financial services player Life Partners (LPHI), which I featured in Feb. 7's " 5 Stocks Under $10 Ready to Soar Higher" at around $3.11 a share. I mentioned in that piece that shares of LPHI had been trading inside of a consolidation pattern for the last two months and the stock was just starting to move within range of triggering a major breakout trade above the upper-end of that sideways pattern. That breakout was set to trigger once LPHI manage to take out some near-term overhead resistance levels at $2.90 to $3.16 a share with high volume.
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Guess what happened? Shares of LPHI triggered that move on the following trading session with heavy upside volume. This stock has exploded higher since it took out those key resistance levels, with shares hitting a recent high of $4.02 a share. That's a big gain for anyone who bought the stock in anticipation of the move. Shares of LPHI could still be setting up for higher prices, if the stock can hold some near-term support levels at $3.80 to $3.70 a share and then once it takes out its recent high at $4.02 a share with high volume.
Breakout candidates are something that I tweet about on a daily basis. I frequently tweet out high-probability setups, breakout plays and stocks that are acting technically bullish. These are the stocks that often go on to make monster moves to the upside. What's great about breakout trading is that you focus on trend, price and volume. You don't have to concern yourself with anything else. The charts do all the talking. >>5 Stocks Under $10 Set to Explode Trading breakouts is not a new game on Wall Street. This strategy has been mastered by legendary traders such as William O'Neal, Stan Weinstein and Nicolas Darvas. These pros know that once a stock starts to break out above past resistance levels, and hold above those breakout prices, then it can easily trend significantly higher. With that in mind, here's a look at five stocks that are setting up to break out and trade higher from current levels. >>4 Reasons to Buy Stocks in 2013Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Provo Utah-based Progress Mfg. Inc. announced the launch of its newly rebuilt Equal-i-zer hitch website.
"We redesigned the EqualizerHitch.com website in a way that makes the content easier for our customers to find and use," said Progress CEO Jed Anderson. "The new site is designed to help our two main customer groups – potential buyers considering the purchase of an Equal-i-zer hitch, and those who are already owners. They can quickly access the information they are looking for, and then easily locate one of our dealers to help them get what they need."
The new site boasts several upgrades including an improved menu layout, simplified page layout, calculators to help with the selection of hitch sizes and specialty shanks, and a more robust dealer locater powered by Google maps.
"Customer reaction has already been great," said Dave Lewis, Progress Mfg. Inc.'s marketing manager. "The new site went live Friday, and we have already received several customer comments with glowing reviews. We are excited about the change and expect it to be very beneficial for both our end users and our dealerships."
The new site can be visited at www.EqualizerHitch.com.
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Man Pleads Not Guilty to Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns
Reno, Nev. – A man charged with filing 10 fraudulent federal income tax returns in the names of others and receiving over $100,000 in refunds from the IRS, has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has been temporarily detained pending trial, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
Edward David Simon, 52, of Reno, is charged in a criminal indictment with 10 counts of false claim fraud, 10 counts of unlawful use of a means of identification, 10 counts of mail fraud, and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft. Simon was arrested in Reno on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, and was arraigned yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge William G. Cobb. The indictment was returned on Oct. 24, 2012, and unsealed yesterday at the arraignment and plea hearing. A detention hearing is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today.
According to the indictment, between Feb. 10 and May 3, 2010, Simon allegedly filed nine false and fraudulent tax returns using the names and social security numbers of others. On each return, Simon claimed refunds of about $5,200. As part of the scheme, Simon allegedly submitted forged W-2 forms showing earned income for the individuals and then had another person file the tax forms by mailing them to the appropriate IRS processing center. As a result of the filing of these fraudulent tax returns, Simon allegedly received over $100,000.
If convicted, Simon faces up to five years in prison on each false claim count, up to 15 years in prison on each unlawful use of identification count, up to 20 years in prison on each mail fraud count, and at least two years in prison on each aggravated identity theft count, as well as fines of up to $10 million.
The case is being investigated by IRS Criminal Investigation and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Rachow.
Today's announcement is part of efforts underway by President Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (FFETF) which was created in November 2009 to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. With more than 20 federal agencies, 94 U.S. attorneys' offices and state and local partners, it's the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to combat fraud. Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations. Over the past three fiscal years, the Justice Department has filed more than 10,000 financial fraud cases against nearly 15,000 defendants including more than 2,700 mortgage fraud defendants. For more information on the task force, visit www.stopfraud.gov.
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Is the Healthcare Act Constitutional?
Does the Commerce Clause empower Congress to require all Americans to purchase health insurance? Should suits brought by states challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act be allowed to proceed?
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- How did a U.S. District Court recently rule on a constitutional challenge to the Affordable Health Care Act brought by four Michigan residents?
- How could the Commerce Clause be interpreted to permit Congress to require everyone to buy insurance? How could it be interpreted to deny Congress this power? Which interpretation do you find more persuasive?
- How did a U.S. District Court recently rule on the federal government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the health care reform law?
- In response to the Florida ruling, the White House stated in part: "Having failed in the legislative arena, opponents of reform are now turning to the courts in an attempt to overturn the work of the democratically elected branches of government." The opponents the White House refers to include the governors of twenty U.S. states. Is it significant that two-fifths of the states argue that Congress had exceeded its power? Why or why not? What do YOU think?
A. The Florida Court ruling will also allow the states to challenge the Affordable Health Care Act's requirement that states extend Medicaid to cover not just the very poor but also low-income individuals. Medicaid is a federal/state partnership and states can opt in or out. If states do not agree to extend coverage to more people, however, they will then lose out on the federal contributions to Medicare. Does this requirement, as the states claim, infringe on state sovereignty?
B. A federal judge in Virginia heard arguments on October 18 on the constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act. What were the arguments on each side? How do these arguments compare to those made in Michigan? Which were more persuasive?


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Minneapolis Architecture Critic Cut
With new buildings by Jean Nouvel and Herzog & de Meuron, as well as a dynamic regional design community, the architecture scene in Minneapolis is definitely heating up—but it will no longer be receiving consistent review in the local newspaper. The Minneapolis Star Tribune announced earlier this month that it is eliminating the position of its architecture critic and reporter, Linda Mack.
In addition to reporting on architecture, planning, and landscape design, Mack had covered the urban landscape in a weekly features column for 20 years. Her position was one of 50 newsroom jobs cut—part of a larger effort to trim the paper's staff by seven percent, or 145 jobs—affecting arts, classical music, and film coverage.
Janet Abrams, director of the Design Institute at the University of Minnesota, is among many observers who think that these cuts are ill-timed, if not ill-advised—particularly when it comes to architecture writing. "It's a shame if there isn't going to be consistent coverage at precisely the time when the Twin Cities are in an ascendant position."
But the Star Tribune is hardly alone in shrinking the size of its staff. Despite healthy profit margins, industry watchers are concerned that declining print subscriptions and anemic ad revenue growth signal a potential decline. In response to these fears, newspapers nationwide have been slashing headcounts to reduce costs.
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For their part, managers at the Star Tribune say that layoffs will enable the paper to strengthen coverage in other areas. "We'll be putting more resources into local daily reporting, as well as in-depth reporting, and we're putting more resources into online. Those will be our three priorities," the paper's editor, Nancy Barnes, told Minnesota Public Radio. "There are some other things that we'll be giving up in order to make that happen."
Mack, meanwhile, plans to continue writing as well as getting more directly involved in local planning and design issues. "I've been telling people how to design urban environments for a long time," she says, "it's time for me to get my hands dirty and I'm looking forward to that."Get Architectural Record digital with free bonus content not found in the magazine!
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I'm not the most experienced with a bivy tarp combo, but have run a tarp for years on end. So far I prefer the tarp without the bivy, it just feels less restrictive and is a bit less weight usually.
Nothing inherently wrong with the bivy per se, but for most of my uses it is not needed.


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Before the wide spread availability of Perl, I would script ftp transfers with .netrc, ksh scripts and other clumsy ways. None of those methods are fun, flexible or easy. On the other hand, Perl's Net::FTP module is all of that.
With Net::FTP, you have total control. You know when there are errors, timeouts, whatever. It's not at all difficult: anyone with basic scripting skills can understand and use this.
I'm going to present two programs here. One is very simple; you can probably understand it even if you know no Perl at all. It just logs into my ftp site, gets a listing, and displays it. The other is a fairly complicated program that goes out to a list of hosts and gets files with a date equal to or newer than what you specify. Even with the extra complexity, you should be able to follow it, and perhaps modify it for your own needs.
Here's the first:
#!/usr/bin/perl use Net::FTP; my $host="aplawrence.com"; my $directory="pub"; $ftp=Net::FTP->new($host,Timeout=>240) or $newerr=1; push @ERRORS, "Can't ftp to $host: $!\n" if $newerr; myerr() if $newerr; print "Connected\n"; $ftp->login("ftp","apl\@") or $newerr=1; print "Getting file list"; push @ERRORS, "Can't login to $host: $!\n" if $newerr; $ftp->quit if $newerr; myerr() if $newerr; print "Logged in\n"; $ftp->cwd($directory) or $newerr=1; push @ERRORS, "Can't cd $!\n" if $newerr; myerr() if $newerr; $ftp->quit if $newerr; @files=$ftp->dir or $newerr=1; push @ERRORS, "Can't get file list $!\n" if $newerr; myerr() if $newerr; print "Got file list\n"; foreach(@files) { print "$_\n"; } $ftp->quit; sub myerr { print "Error: \n"; print @ERRORS; exit 0; }
Here's another. This watches a directory for files, ftps them somewhere and deletes them.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Net::FTP; # # Following variables are needed my $directory="/usr/ftpdir"; my $logfile="/tmp/xfer.log"; my $destination="xyz.com"; my $login="ftplogin"; my $password="ftppassword"; my $putdir="/pub"; my $delay=60; # # program starts here # my $ftp; my $newerr; my @files; my $file; my $filecount; my $line; my $date; chdir($directory) or die("$! Can't cd to $directory"); while (1) { @files=(); $newerr=0; logit("Starting new loop"); foreach(<*>) { push @files,$_; } my $filecount=@files; logit("$filecount files to transfer"); if (not $filecount) { logit("Nothing to do"); sleep $delay; next; } $ftp=Net::FTP->new($destination,Timeout=>240) or $newerr=1; if ($newerr) { logit("Can't connect to $destination"); sleep $delay; next; } $ftp->login("$login","$password") or $newerr=1; if ($newerr) { logit("Can't login $destination with $login,$password"); $ftp->quit; sleep $delay; next; } $ftp->binary(); # set binary mode $ftp->cwd($putdir) or $newerr=1; if ($newerr) { logit("Can't cd to $putdir on $destination"); $ftp->quit; sleep $delay; next; } foreach(@files) { $file=$_; $newerr=0; $ftp->put($file,$file) or $newerr=1; if ($newerr) { logit("Error transferring $file"); next; } unlink($file) or logit("$! can't unlink $file");; } # delay for next loop sleep $delay; } sub logit { $line=shift; $date=gmtime(time); open(LOG,">>$logfile") or die("$! Can't open $logfile"); print LOG "$date: $line\n"; print "$date: $line\n"; close LOG; }
Pretty simple, right? Net::FTP makes it all so easy, so let's do something that would absolutely drive me batty without it.
#!/usr/bin/perl use Net::FTP; $date=shift @ARGV; @months=qw(null Jan Feb Mar Apr My Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec); @hosts=qw(pcunix.org pcunix.com xyz.com); @dirs=qw(pub pub pub); @logins=qw(ftp anonymous fred); @passwords=qw(tony\@ apl\@ fxdfed); $x=0; foreach(@months) { $months{$_}=$x++; } # we need this hash later if (not $date) { $now=time(); $now -= (24 * 3600 ); # yesterday ($nowsec,$nowmin,$nowhr,$nowday,$nowmon,$nowyr,$nowdow,$nowdoy,$nowdst)=localtime($now); $nowyr+=1900;$nowmon++; $date=sprintf("%.2d/%.2d/%.4d",$nowmon,$nowday,$nowyr); print "Using $date\n"; } $now=time(); ($nowsec,$nowmin,$nowhr,$nowday,$nowmon,$nowyr,$nowdow,$nowdoy,$nowdst)=localtime($now); $nowyr+=1900; # need $nowyr later ($month,$day,$year)=split /\//,$date; # # broken next century - blame me then # $year+=2000 if $year < 100; $x=0; foreach (@hosts) { $newerr=0; $ftp=Net::FTP->new($_,Timeout=>240) or $newerr=1; push @ERRORS, "Can't ftp to $_: $!\n" if $newerr; next if $newerr; print "Connected $_\n"; $ftp->login($logins[$x],$passwords[$x]) or $newerr=1; push @ERRORS, "Can't login to $_: $!\n" if $newerr; $ftp->quit if $newerr; next if $newerr; print "Logged in $_\n"; $ftp->cwd($dirs[$x]) or $newerr=1; push @ERRORS, "Can't cd $dirs[$x] on $_ $!\n" if $newerr; $ftp->quit if $newerr; next if $newerr; print "Getting file list $_\n"; @files=$ftp->dir or $newerr=1; push @ERRORS, "Can't get file list on $_ $!\n" if $newerr; $ftp->quit if $newerr; next if $newerr; print "Got list $_\n"; print "Looking for $date $time\n"; foreach(@files) { $_=substr($_,41); s/ */ /g; s/^ *//g; chomp; @stuff=split / /; # if it's today, the year slot will have time instead # so make it this year $stuff[2]=$nowyr if /:/; $ftp->quit if ($stuff[2] < $year); next if ($stuff[2] < $year); $ftp->quit if ($months{$stuff[0]} < $month and $stuff[2] == $year); next if ($months{$stuff[0]} < $month and $stuff[2] == $year); $ftp->quit if ($stuff[0] < $day and $stuff[2] == $year and $months{$stuff[0]} == $month); next if ($stuff[1] < $day and $stuff[2] == $year and $months{$stuff[0]} == $month); print "Getting $_\n"; $ftp->get($stuff[3],$stuff[3]) or $newerr=1; push @ERRORS, "Couldn't get $stuff[3] $!\n" if $newerr; } $ftp->quit; } print @ERRORS; exit 0;
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$ cat t.pl
use Net::FTP;
my $host="aplawrence.com";
my $directory="pub";
$ftp=Net::FTP->new($host,Timeout=>60) or die "Can't connect";
print "Connected\n";
$ftp->login("dxftp","apl\@") or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;
$ ./t.pl
Cannot login Login incorrect.
$ftp->login("dxftp","apl\@") or $err= $ftp->message;
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Late last month, Canon announced its two newest additions to the Pixma photo all-in-one family: the Pixma iP4920 premium photo inkjet and the star of this review, the Pixma MG5320. The MG5320 has print, scan, and copy functionalities and can be hooked up to a wireless network. It is an update to last year's Pixma photo printer in this class, the MG5220.
Along with its 3-in-1 functionality, the Canon Pixma MG5320 has a 3.0-inch adjustable LCD with many features such as disc labeling, PDF file print, quiet print, and advanced photo copy. This AIO also has two-way paper feeding and duplex printing, a five-ink system, Full HD Movie Print, and many more notable capabilities.
This review will cover its print speeds, photo and text print quality, energy usage, and much more. Keep reading to find out if this is the photo printer that could land a spot in your household.
The Pixma MG5320's specialty is quality photo printing, and users should expect quality--especially with its higher maxmium resolution, up to 9600 x 2400 dpi. This device also offers Canon's new CloudLink software, which allows users to print from a photo album or location stored on Canon iMAGE GATEWAY or Picasa web albums.
The MG5320 is covered in a glossy black design and has silver lettering for featuring the Canon and Pixma logos. Keep in mind that while the glossy exterior may appear stylish, it will attract fingerprints easily and may prove to be high maintenance. The device measures in at 14.5 x 17.8 x 6.6 inches and weighs in at 18 lbs.
The device has a 48-bit flatbed scanner which can be accessed by lifting the lid directly under the top control panel. The scanner has an optical max. resolution of 2400 x 4800 dpi. Its features include an auto scan mode with auto fix, gutter shadow correction, push scan, and scan to memory. The scanner can fit up to 8.5 x 11.7-inch (wide-sized) documents.
The top control panel that covers more than half of the lid features an adjustable 3.0-inch color LCD in the very center with a scroll wheel for easy navigation. The scroll wheel can also be utilized by pressing the arrows to sift through the functions. The disc labeler, PDF file print, advanced copy and photo options, setup, eco settings, and other options can be found on the LCD. From left to right, the buttons on the control panel are: on/off, home, return, function keys, scroll wheel, +- copies, start black or color copy, and stop. Below these buttons are three blue LED indicators, including Wi-Fi and power.
The main paper feeder is located in the back of the device and can fit a variety of paper sizes. These sizes include 8 x 10-inch, 4 x 6, 5 x 7, legal and letter, and US #10 envelopes. The media types it supports are plain paper, high res, super high gloss: photo paper pro platinum, photo paper plus glossy II, regular glossy, photo paper plus semi-gloss, matte photo paper, and U.S. #10 envelopes. The main feed tray fits a maximum of 150 sheets and the cassette fits an additional 150 sheets. The cassette is found on the very bottom of the device.
The MG5320 excels in media compatibility. The media card reader slots can be accessed by opening the door flap on the front-right side. The first slot is an MS Duo and SD/MS slot, which is compatible with a number of storage devices, including SD card, SDHC, MultiMediaCard MultiMediaCard Plus, miniSD Card, miniSDHC Card, microSD Card, microSDHC Card, RS-MMC, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo, and Memory Stick Micro. Below this slot is the USB flash memory and PictBridge slot.
Under the flatbed scanner lies the 5-ink tank system to help sustain those higher-quality photo prints. The MG5320 comes with four dye-based inks, the CLI-226 Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, as well as one pigment-based black ink tank, the PGI-225.
The connections are located in the back of the device, including the power and the USB cable slot. There are also hand grips for easy handling on the bottom of both sides.
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