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Implementation Assistance Application for Advanced Travel Analysis Tools for Integrated Travel Demand Modeling (C10/C04/C05/C16)
The SHRP2 Capacity Advanced Travel Analysis Tools provide approaches for developing integrated travel analysis models that include traveler decision inputs to better align the outcomes with real-world conditions. Transportation models that have been used for the past 50 years deal with average conditions and treat travel as a series of sequential decisions. As such, they have difficulty addressing a number of areas including the following:
- Feedback between supply, demand and land use.
- Variable road pricing, ramp metering, reversible lanes, variable speed limits, and other dynamic transportation management strategies.
- Policies affecting travel scheduling such as parking pricing, transit pricing and flexible work schedules, reversible lanes, HOV lanes, and HOT lanes.
- Trip chains and joint trip making within a household.
The products in this bundle are designed to improve the state of practice in travel supply and demand modeling. The Partnership to Develop an Integrated, Advanced Travel Demand Model and a Fine-Grained, Time-Sensitive Network (C10) introduces an integrated dynamic travel model methodology for linking advanced activity-based demand models (ABM) with fine-grained time sensitive networks using dynamic traffic and transit assignment (DTA). Improving our Understanding of How Highway Congestion and Price Affect Travel Demand (C04) is a set of mathematical descriptions of highway user responses to congestion, travel time reliability, and pricing. It can be used to make existing planning models more sensitive to these aspects of transportation. Understanding the Contribution of Operations, Technology and Design to Meeting Highway Capacity Needs (C05) provides analytical link, corridor and network tools to assess the impacts of operational improvement strategies on highway capacity. The C16 policy assessment tool (Effect of Smart Growth Policies on Travel Demand) is a stand-alone desktop program that can quickly assess the impacts of integrated transportation and land-development scenarios on systems-level usage and operational conditions.
An Implementation Planning Workshop was held in February, 2014. Participants collaboratively identified goals for the implementation of Advanced Travel Analysis Tools. The implementation goals reflect IPW participants' vision for success at the organizational, procedural, and project levels over the course of three to five years:
- State DOTs, MPOs, and other public transportation agencies use advanced travel analysis models to help inform many levels of agency decision-making.
- Agencies can make effective use of modeling systems at lower cost, due to improved usability.
- Use of advanced travel analysis models is more widespread among agencies.
- Advanced travel analysis models are developed for the "long run," with agencies taking ownership.
- Modeling staff have an increased knowledge of advanced travel analysis models, including how to calibrate, validate, and run the models.
Applications that describe a technical approach that responds to these goal areas will receive stronger consideration for funding. In evaluating applications, FHWA and AASHTO will also consider:
- Whether the proposal makes appropriate use of the applicable SHRP2 products and methods.
- Whether the agency can complete the proposed work with available resources.
- The level of agency commitment to the use of advanced travel analysis methods.
- The extent to which the proposed work will broaden the user community for advanced travel modeling.
Leadership Endorsement
Each application submitted from an organization or agency must have the endorsement of the Chief Executive Officer or designee. The letter of endorsement is submitted as an attachment to the application. Guidance for creating an endorsement letter appears in the application below.
Priority Ranking
When an organization or agency submits multiple applications, it must designate priority. Please rank each application in a single grouping, including all product submissions from your agency. Do not separate your organization's applications into categories for individual products, or levels of incentives (i.e., Lead Adopter or User Incentive).
For example, if your agency submits four applications (one for C02/C08/C09/C12/C15, one for R01A, one for R16, and one for R07), your agency must rank each application in priority order from 1 to 4, with 1 as the highest priority and 4 as the lowest priority. For your convenience, you will find a box later in this application to designate the priority ranking. FHWA and AASHTO will take into consideration the agency's rankings when reviewing and evaluating the applications for implementation assistance. Your priority ranking should be expressed as "X of Y," as in "1 of 4."
Available Implementation Assistance
Proof of Concept Pilots for a Partnership to Develop an Integrated, Advanced Travel Demand Model and a Fine-Grained, Time-Sensitive Network (C10)
Proof of Concept pilots to demonstrate the integration of activity-based demand models with a dynamic supply model, such as DTA.
- Demonstrate ABM / DTA integration, using dynamic traffic assignment for a large area and time-dependent routing to address a problem that is difficult to address with static methods.
- Document how use of advanced tools can fit into the planning process.
- Advance the state of practice, as evidenced by
- Integration of methods from C04 or C05, or
- Application to a problem that cannot be addressed via static methods, or
- Delivered product addresses outstanding issues with C10: run time, convergence, calibration, validation, or
- Use of tools, such as data hubs, to improve model integration.
Up to $700,000, with period of performance of 24 months
Lead Adopter Incentives for Improving our Understanding of How Highway Congestion and Price Affect Travel Demand (C04), and Understanding the Contribution of Operations, Technology, and Design to Meeting Highway Capacity Needs (C05)
Lead Adopter Incentive to demonstrate the integration of the concepts from C04 or C05 into an existing dynamic modeling framework
- Demonstrate integration of the concepts from C04 or C05 into an existing dynamic modeling framework.
- Leverage new data sources that provide information on travel time reliability (SHRP2 Reliability Projects).
Up to 2 awards total
Up to $150,000, with period of performance of 18 months
User Incentives for the Effect of Smart Growth Policies on Travel Demand (C16)
User Incentives to demonstrate specific applications of the C16 planning and policy assessment tool.
- Demonstrate tool effectiveness across a variety of application examples, including land use, impacts on underserved populations, climate change, pricing, safety, public health (non-motorized trip making) and transit.
- Demonstrate tool effectiveness for evaluating planning scenarios across a variety of application areas, as described above.
- Document how outputs correlate with local studies and travel demand models.
- Document how results were used to inform the agency's decision-making process.
- Verify the reasonableness and usability of performance metrics with other source of independent estimates, such as a travel demand model or observed data.
- Validate model results using retrospective studies with before and after data.
- Develop procedures for translating national and local data sources for customizing model inputs.
Up to $50,000, with period of performance of 12 months
Who can apply
Applications will be accepted from State departments of transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs).
- Application of at least one of the products to a significant problem that calls for the use of advanced modeling methods.
- Commitment to publish data and methodology, in enough detail to enable reproduction of the results.
- Commitment of State DOT and/or MPO leadership to test, and (if the test is successful) to adopt these methods.
- Participation in product evaluation activities including a qualitative, organizational, and/or before/after assessment conducted by an independent consultant for FHWA.
- Willingness to share knowledge with other organizations interested in implementing advanced travel analysis tools.
- Willingness to participate in regional or national knowledge-sharing events to promote the product.
Application Form
Follow these steps to apply for implementation assistance:
- Review all background information located on this product's application page.
- Download the form you wish to submit with this application:
- Proof of Concept Pilots for a Partnership to Develop an Integrated, Advanced Travel Demand Model and a Fine-Grained, Time-Sensitive Network (C10)
- Improving our Understanding of How Highway Congestion and Price Affect Travel Demand (C04)
- Lead Adopter Incentive for Understanding the Contribution of Operations, Technology, and Design to Meeting Highway Capacity Needs (C05)
- User Incentives for the Effect of Smart Growth Policies on Travel Demand (C16)
- Please submit separate applications if applying for assistance for multiple products within this bundle.
- Iterate, revise, and secure approvals before uploading the final application and Leadership Endorsement Letter to this site.
- Once you have completed this form and secured the required Leadership Endorsement Letter(s), return to application page and complete the contact information fields.
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Deadly attack on court in Pakistani capital Islamabad
At least 11 people have been killed in an attack at a court in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, officials say.
Gunmen burst into the court complex and opened fire before at least two suicide bombers detonated explosives, at a time of the morning when crowds gather.
A judge and several lawyers are reported to be among those killed and at least 24 people were wounded.
A group called Ahrarul Hind said it carried out the attack - one of the deadliest in the capital for years.
At the scene
As we walked through the alleyways, pools of blood spilled out of different offices where gunmen had indiscriminately opened fire on lawyers and their clients, according to witnesses.
Commandos and paramilitary troops cleared the area, going from room to room looking for victims and assailants.
Shattered glass from broken windows were strewn along the cobblestone alleys. Forensic officers examined the remains of a suicide bomber outside a court where a judge was killed.
The stench of burnt flesh lingered as drizzle began washing away the blood that had collected under the rubble.
It comes after a weekend in which the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) pledged a month-long ceasefire and the government said it would suspend air strikes against militants.
Both are moves aimed at reviving the stalled peace process.
The TTP have denied having anything to do with this attack, but the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad points out that it sits at the helm of a loose network of territorially independent militant groups who have different agendas. Not all of them will favour peace talks.
However, a spokesman for the little-known Ahrarul Hind group, Asad Mansoor, told BBC Urdu that his group had carried out the attack.
Mansoor said his group was never part of the TTP and hence not part of any ceasefire with the government.
Police officials have described this as a complex attack.
Officials say an unknown number of gunmen, thought to be armed with grenades as well as AK47 assault rifles, stormed the area where judges' chambers and lawyers' offices are located, a convoluted maze of corridors and walkways.
Islamabad police chief Sikandar Hayat told reporters that two of the attackers blew themselves up when surrounded by police.
Schools evacuatedPakistani TV showed footage of the area with windows blown out, walls broken and people carrying the dead and wounded from the buildings.
Policemen with weapons raised were seen running into the area. It is unclear if any of the attackers have been captured by police.
The area has been cordoned off and local schools evacuated.
Correspondents say the attack has shocked many in the city, which has not seen violence on this scale since 2008 when an attack on the Marriott hotel left 40 dead.
Islamabad has largely been spared the militancy that has beset other areas of Pakistan in recent years.

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Morning everyone?
Wow it was a warm night last night.
Hard work trying to get to sleep.
You know when you wake up feeling like you have a hangover?
Without having an alcoholic drink though?
Well that is how I feel today!!
I read this morning a heat wave is coming...
Best get them old jeans I am planning to up cycle into shorts done!!
Does everybody has a favourite item of clothing they love and wear time and time again?
This is mine.
A maxi dress I picked up in the sale from ASDA around 6 ish years ago.
I love this dress as it always looks nice on, does not need ironing and you can even keep it screwed you as the more messy it is, the better it look.
Teamed up with a brown pair of leopard print shoes with a kitten heel, a scarf necklace and a Cath Kidston London print bag ...
Dress ~ ASDA
Scarf necklace ~ c/o BHS
Shoes ~ Ethel Austin
Bag ~ Cath KIdston
In other news my husband found me some new Converse on-line and they arrived yesterday. They are florescent Yellow and look fabulous...
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Meiosis is unique to germ cells and essential for reproduction. During the first meiotic division, homologous chromosomes pair, recombine, and form chiasmata. The homologues connect via axial elements and numerous transverse filaments to form the synaptonemal complex. The synaptonemal complex is a critical component for chromosome pairing, segregation, and recombination. We previously identified a novel germ cell-specific HORMA domain encoding gene, Hormad1, a member of the synaptonemal complex and a mammalian counterpart to the yeast meiotic HORMA domain protein Hop1. Hormad1 is essential for mammalian gametogenesis as knockout male and female mice are infertile. Hormad1 deficient (Hormad1(-/) (-)) testes exhibit meiotic arrest in the early pachytene stage, and synaptonemal complexes cannot be visualized by electron microscopy. Hormad1 deficiency does not affect localization of other synaptonemal complex proteins, SYCP2 and SYCP3, but disrupts homologous chromosome pairing. Double stranded break formation and early recombination events are disrupted in Hormad1(-/) (-) testes and ovaries as shown by the drastic decrease in the γH2AX, DMC1, RAD51, and RPA foci. HORMAD1 co-localizes with γH2AX to the sex body during pachytene. BRCA1, ATR, and γH2AX co-localize to the sex body and participate in meiotic sex chromosome inactivation and transcriptional silencing. Hormad1 deficiency abolishes γH2AX, ATR, and BRCA1 localization to the sex chromosomes and causes transcriptional de-repression on the X chromosome. Unlike testes, Hormad1(-/) (-) ovaries have seemingly normal ovarian folliculogenesis after puberty. However, embryos generated from Hormad1(-/) (-) oocytes are hyper- and hypodiploid at the 2 cell and 8 cell stage, and they arrest at the blastocyst stage. HORMAD1 is therefore a critical component of the synaptonemal complex that affects synapsis, recombination, and meiotic sex chromosome inactivation and transcriptional silencing.
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Acute stress provokes lethal cardiac arrhythmias in the hereditary long QT syndrome. Here we provide a novel molecular mechanism linking beta-adrenergic signaling and altered human ether-a-go-go related gene (HERG) channel activity. Stress stimulates beta-adrenergic receptors, leading to cAMP elevations that can regulate HERG K+ channels both directly and via phosphorylation by cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA). We show that HERG associates with 14-3-3epsilon to potentiate cAMP/PKA effects upon HERG. The binding of 14-3-3 occurs simultaneously at the N- and C-termini of the HERG channel. 14-3-3 accelerates and enhances HERG activation, an effect that requires PKA phosphorylation of HERG and dimerization of 14-3-3. The interaction also stabilizes the lifetime of the PKA-phosphorylated state of the channel by shielding the phosphates from cellular phosphatases. The net result is a prolongation of the effect of adrenergic stimulation upon HERG activity. Thus, 14-3-3 interactions with HERG may provide a unique mechanism for plasticity in the control of membrane excitability and cardiac rhythm.
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Inequality watch. October 25, 2012 - TV Studios of SRF / tpc. TEDxZurich: Who Controls The World - OlsenBlog's blog. Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:04:20 GMT James B. Glattfelder – a researcher and trading model developer at Olsen Ltd – had the chance to speak at the TEDxZurich. Read more about James on the TEDxZurich website. Home / FisheadMovie. Dependency theory. Dependency theory is the notion that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former.
It is a central contention of dependency theory that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system. " The theory arose as a reaction to modernization theory, an earlier theory of development which held that all societies progress through similar stages of development, that today's underdeveloped areas are thus in a similar situation to that of today's developed areas at some time in the past, and that therefore the task in helping the underdeveloped areas out of poverty is to accelerate them along this supposed common path of development, by various means such as investment, technology transfers, and closer integration into the world market. Corporation : Clinical Diagnosis (PCLR)
Test for Psychopathy. The List of Psychopathy Symptoms: Hervey Cleckley and Robert Hare. "I knew in my heart something was wrong with him (or with her)".
This is what nearly every victim of a psychopath has felt, usually early on in the relationship. The over-the-top flattery. The quick pace of the relationship and demands for instant commitment. How to spot a sociopath. (Extracted from an article by Robert Matthews in the Sunday Telegraph Review, May 4th 1997) While such personality disorders as psychopathy, paranoia and obsession/compulsion all have strictly defined criteria, psychiatrists are still struggling to decide precisely what constitutes a socialised psychopath.
One of the more obvious characteristics of socialised psychopaths is that they give the impression of talking "at" you. Prof Jeremy Coid describes it as like being regarded as a cardboard cut-out. "Even in a sexual relationship with them, you are still just an object for their personal gratification," he says. Are there too many psychopaths in Corporate America. Profit motive has no conscience. No-coment. Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes. The Experiment 2010. Utopian Formula. The Corporation- sous titre : français. The Corporation (film) The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott.
The documentary examines the modern-day corporation. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary. The documentary shows the development of the contemporary business corporation, from a legal entity that originated as a government-chartered institution meant to affect specific public functions, to the rise of the modern commercial institution entitled to most of the legal rights of a person. The documentary concentrates mostly upon North American corporations, especially those in the United States. One theme is its assessment as a "personality", as a result of an 1886 case in the United States Supreme Court in which a statement by Chief Justice Morrison R. La violence des riches. The Corporation and the psychopath economy.
Originally published: Corporate Rule, March 2011 Using the World Health Organisation's diagnostic check list for personality disorders, film examines the 'personality' of the dominant economic form of our times: the transnational corporation. Established in law as an individual person, freed from regulation and enjoying many of the 'rights' we ascribe to real human individuals, the corporation, as "the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism", pursues its singular purpose of achieving ever greater profits with ruthless efficiency.
Impacts on the 'third parties' - communities, the environment, its own workers - of a corporation's activities are relegated to the status of 'externalities'. The Corporation Film: Welcome. THE CORPORATION [6/23] The Pathology of Commerce. The Corporation (complete, chapters 1 to 23) Welcome to YouTube! The location filter shows you popular videos from the selected country or region on lists like Most Viewed and in search results.To change your location filter, please use the links in the footer at the bottom of the page. Click "OK" to accept this setting, or click "Cancel" to set your location filter to "Worldwide". The location filter shows you popular videos from the selected country or region on lists like Most Viewed and in search results.
The 5 Most Horrifying Things Corporations Are Taking Over. It's true that a part of us dies every time we see Dr.
Dre doing Dr. Pepper commercials, but in reality we've pretty much accepted that "selling out" is a part of life. Panic of the Plutocrats. And this reaction tells you something important — namely, that the extremists threatening American values are what F.D.R. called "economic royalists," not the people camping in Zuccotti Park.
Consider first how Republican politicians have portrayed the modest-sized if growing demonstrations, which have involved some confrontations with the police — confrontations that seem to have involved a lot of police overreaction — but nothing one could call a riot. And there has in fact been nothing so far to match the behavior of Tea Party crowds in the summer of 2009. 5 Things to Know About How Corporations Block Access to Everything from Miracle Drugs to Science Research. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com April 19, 2014 | Like this article?
Wall Street Follies - Financial Cartoons. Wall Street Mocks Protesters by Drinking Champagne. Published: Friday 30 September 2011 Wall Street has shown Americans how they feel about protests: This video shows unidentified occupants watching protests from the balconies of Wall Street in amusement while sipping champagne.
Resize Text + | - | R Demonstrations began on September 17 to show U.S. citizens anger over a financial system that favors the rich over all other American citizens. Adidasit4.jpg. Leaked documents reveal US diplomats actually work for Monsanto. (NaturalNews) Biotech giant Monsanto has been genetically modifying the world's food supply and subsequently breeding environmental devastation for years, but leaked documents now reveal that Monsanto has also deeply infiltrated the United States government.
With leaked reports revealing how U.S. diplomats are actually working for Monsanto to push their agenda along with other key government officials, Monsanto's grasp on international politics has never been clearer. Amazingly, the information reveals that the massive corporation is also intensely involved in the passing and regulations concerning the very GM ingredients they are responsible for. In fact, the information released by WikiLeaks reveals just how much power Monsanto has thanks to key positions within the United States government and elsewhere. Going Rogue: Share Traders More Reckless Than Psychopaths, Study Shows - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. Two weeks ago, yet another case of rogue trading shocked the financial world when UBS trader Kweku Adoboli was arrested for allegedly squandering some $2.3 billion with a risky and unauthorized investment scheme.
The 31-year-old, who had been based in London for the Swiss bank, remains in jail. The bank's chief executive Oswald Grübel, meanwhile, has resigned over the scandal -- the third major embarrassment to rattle the institution in just a few years. The situation mirrors a similar scandal at French bank Société Générale, where another young "rogue trader," Jérôme Kerviel, gambled away billions in 2007 and 2008. Wallstreetscandals.gif (Image GIF, 1000x750 pixels) One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath, Say Researchers. An article that appeared on The Huffington Post on February 28, 2012, "One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath, Say Researchers," was incorrect and has been removed.
The article drew on a previously published piece by Sherree DeCovny, "The Financial Psychopath Next Door," which ran in CFA Magazine [subscription required]. DeCovny's article contained the following passage: Sociétés : Les traders seraient plus fous que les psychopathes. Inégalités et discriminations. The Cassiopaean Experiment.
How Will the 99% Deal with 70 Million Psychopaths? Did you know that roughly one person in a hundred is clinically a psychopath? These individuals are either born with an emotional deficiency that keeps them from feeling bad about hurting others or they are traumatized early in life in a manner that causes them to become this way. With more than 7 billion people on the planet that means there are as many as 70,000,000 psychopaths alive today. These people are more likely to be risk takers, opportunists motivated by self-interest and greed, and inclined to dominate or subjugate those around them through manipulative means. Last year, the Occupy Movement drew a distinction between the top 1% and the remaining 99% — as distinguished by measures of wealth and income.
'Extreme Money' Destroying America, Says Author UBS - TheStreet TV. The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand. Top 5 Most Evil Corporations. La preuve en chiffres de l'indécence des grands patrons ~ <b>A Perdre La Raison</b> Paul Piff: Does money make you mean? Paul Piff Media. New Study, Old News: Stock Traders Are Psychopaths.
Corporate Social Responsibility. Cash ISAs: How banks can pinch 92% of your savings income, and the Office of Fair Trading says it's ok. A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100. Learning & Environment Aprendizado & Ambiente - THE CORPORATION: Social & Economic Psychopath ? (Outlining the FILM) How Wealth Reduces Compassion. Dotées d'un degré d'empathie zéro, les compagnies sont psychopathes. Empathy. Isolated and Under-Exposed: Why the Rich Don't Give - Neighborhoods. L'influence de l'argent sur le comportement. -Le syndrome d' hubris : la maladie du pouvoir. L'art d'ignorer les pauvres. Corporation as Psychopath. Essential reading on corporate rule in general.
Inverted totalitarianism. CNN.com - 'Corporate psychopaths' at large - Aug 26, 2004. Gina Rinehart is a Bubble. Speech patterns give away psychopaths.


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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — If you want to enjoy the beach at the island, it's not going to cost you any more than what you pay for now to enter the parks. County commissioners tabled the decision to raise fees for using the county parks and beaches. The parks and beaches that would affected by the hike in fees include Isla Blanca and Bowie Park along with beach access number five and six on South Padre Island.


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The Next Big Thing In STAR WARS Bathroom Fixtures: The Sarlacc Toilet
By Lenny Pierce on March 8, 2014
It all started with a poop joke, and in a way that's kind of where it ended up as well. After one of his buddies said he was off to "toss Boba Fett in the sarlacc", Robbie Rane was struck with inspiration.
Rane has since created a sticker set that you can put on the inside of your toilet bowl to make it look like a real life Pit of Carkoon. The sticker set comes complete with all the players of the famous pivotal scene where our favorite rebel scum nearly met their doom. This invention is great for those of us who don't want to just flush our waste into a septic system but would rather see it "find a new definition of pain and suffering as [it is] slowly digested over a… thousand years."
The sticker set also features items that can be applied to the underside of the upturned lid such as the twin suns of Tatooine and Jabba's hovering sail barge. What could this mean for the future of Star Wars-themed appliances? Will Rane create a sticker set that lets us doll up our AC units like AT-ATs?
What you'd have to say every time you went #2. (LucasFilm)
Rane is not necessarily intending this to be his next great business venture, but he does say on his website that he printed a few extra sticker sets. Those interested parties can contact Rane directly at firstname.lastname@example.com. Can't believe that email address was available.
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Who installs that?
So…how does it hold up to scrubbing?
So I take it this is the Star Wars non-special edition Pit of Sarlac toilet, the one without Audrey 2 in it.
"Lando I'm going to crap on". "No wait I thought you were blind". "It's okay trust me".
I thought it smelled bad . . . on the outside!
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I always thought Jabba looked like a talking pile of poop anyway!
I feel like there's a turd grabbing you penis to launch himself out of the Sarlac pit joke in there somewhere.
Banta poodoo!
Next one needs to be of the Death Star exhaust port. To, you know, drop a torpedo into….
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I think that whoever buys this isn't really scrubbing toilets on a regular basis.
He better be careful, he might get sued by George Lucas.
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One of my goals this year is to try a new restaurant every week if we can. Just one of those little things that keep life exciting and the relationship fresh, y'know?
And then I want to share some of my favorite finds - and favorite go-to's in LA - with you.
This week, I'm talking about a forgotten fave - The Village Bakery & Cafe in Atwater Village. It has a nice low key and neighborhood bakery feel, with an amazing bread and baked goods (including mini pies!) selection. It also has delicious egg breakfasts served all day and tons of lunch options. Kind of wish this were walking distance from me - but it's the perfect place for an unpretentious weekend brunch.


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September 8th 2011 – A New Direction or More of the Same?
On September 8th President Obama is going to make a speech. The content of that speech is going to have a profound effect on all of us, one way or the other.
If it's a new direction then we have some hope.
If it's "more of the same" we pass the tipping point.
This essay tries to explain why "more of the same" should not be an option.
This means writing about the dreaded 'K' word — KEYNESIANISM!
But please! Don't stop reading at this point. I promise I won't launch into economic-speak. I'll keep it descriptive and only use one simple formula.
Right — here goes.
Keynesian economics has been with us for a long time.
A question comes to mind immediately. How could something so fundamentally flawed have lasted for so long?
It's an interesting question.
It's not as if it didn't have its critics. It did. But up until a few years ago they were few and far between.
Now it's rampant.
"One of the greatest naiveties upheld throughout [the current] episode consisted in the thinking that reckless spending and budget deficits, when they occurred in third-world countries, were a sign of irresponsible government, but that somehow when adopted by developed countries it became "fiscal stimulus."
We are now witnessing the failure of Keynesianism on a grander scale than has ever been experienced — never before has the impotence of Keynesian policy been demonstrated so comprehensively. … [I]t is clear that the undoing of Keynesian economic theory is now complete and unequivocal, and one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on the public under the guise of economic science has finally been put to rest." David Lee.
Strong stuff.
Its popularity was probably due to the fact that it was, on an intuitive level anyway, so accessable. The circular flow of income, with its injections and leakages etc., all seemed so straight-forward, so simple and so obvious.
Almost seductive.
You can even sum it up in a formula.
For the purposes of this essay let's dispense with the pesky (X – M).
Which leaves us with this little minx:
It's just a tease really — it shows a bit of leg but that's all — it flatters to deceive.
So what does it say?
Well, in plain English: Y represents total spending in the economy. The higher this figure the more people who should be employed.
It's value is determined by adding three other totals together: consumer spending (C), investment spending (I) and government spending (G).
So how does the thing work?
Well, let's use an example. Assume the economy is in a position where everyone who wants a job, and is able to get a job, has got a job.
Economically speaking everything is hunky dory.
Now assume that, for whatever reason, spending by the great unwashed, C, falls. This means less demand for goods and services, which means less people are needed to provide them, which in turn means jobs are lost. If C falls then Y must also fall.
Things are no longer hunky dory.
So what can be done to remedy the situation as quickly as possible?
Step forward the government.
According to the formula they have to increase G by enough to compensate for the fall in C.
So all the government has to do is replace the money which has leaked out by shoveling an equivalent amount back in!
Once this is done Y is restored to where it was before, jobs are restored and everyone is happy.
Job done?
Not quite … in fact, not at all.
This kind of economic thinking is not just naive and ignorant in the extreme – it is absurd!
Yet this, in essence, is what is meant by "stimulus spending".
Which brings us to the first major flaw in Keynesian economics. It ignores the incredible and unbelievable complexity that makes up an economy.
No one person, group or organization can ever effectively plan an economy — it is an impossibility.
In his classic essay, I Pencil, Leonard Read takes the simplest object he can think of to illustrate this point. And he does so brilliantly.
Keynesian economists treat an economy as if it were a machine of some kind. All you have to do is "fix" the bit that's broken. There's no time dimension. Their analysis is static, like pieces in a jigsaw — sunk in concrete.
They think everything can be reduced to Y = C + I + G !
By contrast, Austrian economists regard it as being more like an ecosystem. It is dynamic — left alone it evolves over time — it finds its own balance. Interfere with it and a series of chain-reactions are set off. How long, how far, how wide and how deep they go is simply unknowable.
"In the real world the question may come down to whether we should accept a couple of years of painful market adjustments or decades of recession caused by the blunt instrument of politics. Devastating unintended consequences and unseen effects will follow government attempts to clean up a mess made in great measure by its own hand. Why? Because no one possesses a God's-eye view of the economy. Government intervenes within the system as part of it, not from outside of it. Nor is the economy an instrument to be manipulated to positive effect—at least not over the long term. That is why Keynes got it so terribly wrong and why the economy must heal itself from within in a distributed, holistic way." Max Borders.
In other words, there's no "quick fix".
Which brings us to the second major flaw in Keynesian economics.
It focuses its attention on consumer spending, C.
Because they tell us that C is the largest component of total spending — about 70 percent — and as such this is what drives an economy.
"The truth is that consumer spending is not the mainstay of the U. S. economy. Investment is. Business spending on capital goods, new technology, entrepreneurship, and productivity is more significant than consumer spending in sustaining the economy and a higher standard of living. In the business cycle, production and investment lead the economy into and out of a recession; retail demand is the most stable component of economic activity." Mark Skousen.
To return to the machine analogy, it's like trying to fix the thing by repairing the wrong part!
Skousen continues:
"Granted, the ultimate function of business activity and entrepreneurship is to fulfill the needs of consumers, and the most successful firms are those that satisfy their customers. But more important, who discovers the new, improved products that consumers desire? Who is the catalyst that determines the quantity, quality, and variety of goods and services? Did the consumer come up with the idea of personal computers, SUVs, fax machines, cell phones, the Internet, and the iPhone? No, these technological breakthroughs came from the genius of creative entrepreneurs and the savers/capitalists who funded their inventions."
He puts it very well.
Instead of "more of the same" the government needs to get out of the way and let the private sector do what the government cannot do — create real jobs.
We await with trepidation the words of the President on September 8th.
Chris Clancy lived in China for seven years. Most of this time was spent as associate professor of financial accounting at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. He now lives in Thailand where he spends his time reading, writing, lecturing and, whenever he gets the chance, doing his level best to spread Austrian economics.
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ModalPopup with Multiple Cancel Buttons
I recently stumbled across the following post. In the entry, the author describes a simple modal popup he has created for his hotel reservation ASP.NET AJAX web application. While developing the popup control, he ran into a problem when trying to include both a 'Close' button at the bottom of the dialog as well as a close 'X' button in the top right corner:
I ran into a bit of a stumbling block because I wanted to have multiple buttons close the popup. I had the OK button and the cancel button centered and vertically aligned at the bottom of the window, but I also wanted a cancel button in the top right (ie "Cancel [X]") - with the familiar [X] that we know and love for closing something. The problem is, I couldn't figure out how to assign more than one control to the CancelControlID.
[Update 10/3/2007]: As Koen points out, the sample modal dialog doesn't look as nice in IE6 (it looks fine in FF and IE7)
Thankfully Dave found a solution that he found to be workable. He wrapped the MoalPopupExtender in an UpdatePanel and explicitly called the Hide method from the server side button event handler. It sounds like this approach has worked him, but I thought I would provide a quick example of how you can dismiss the dialog without roundtripping to the web server.
To close the popup without having to leave the client, all you have to do is call the hide function of the ModalPopup's client-side JavaScript behavior. Here is a quick example of the easiest way to accomplish this. Below is the markup for a modal popup that contains a message, an OK button and 6 Cancel buttons. Notice the two area's outlined in red. In the first outlined area I assigned the BehaviorID attribute of the ModalPopupExtender to a unique id ('mdlPopup' in this example). Then, in the OnClientClick of each of my Cancel buttons I pass this BehaviorID to the ASP.NET AJAX $find JavaScript shortcut function. The $find function will fetch the JavaScript behavior for the modal popup. Once I have a reference to the popup's behavior I invoke the hide function - which will hide my dialog.
There are a few things to note about this example:
- After calling the hide function, I return false to avoid the post back
- BehaviorID's do not have naming container information added to them, so it is safe to use the assigned ID directly from your JavaScript code
- A similar technique could be used for multiple OK buttons
- You would probably want to move the OnClientClick JavaScript into it's own function
- I have set the display style attribute value to none on the Panel to avoid that initial popup flicker
While I think the above sample shows this technique pretty well, I thought it might be nice to actually implement a dialog similar to the one Dave had originally described. I use technorati quite regularly and I happen to like their sign-in dialog. It is simple and professional.
So I used this design for a delete confirm dialog (live demo) ...
The markup for this control is almost identical to the above sample, except it only uses 2 cancel buttons instead of 6. All of the real work is handled by the stylesheet. As usual, all of the code for this sample can be downloaded.
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Year of the Artist, Day 139: Mike Deodato, Part 1 – Wonder Woman #85
Every day this year, I will be examining the artwork on a single comic book story. Today's artist is Mike Deodato, and the issue is Wonder Woman #85, which was published by DC and is cover dated April 1994. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 84: Gambit and the X-Ternals #2
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. Today's page is from Gambit and the X-Ternals #2, which was published by Marvel and is cover dated April 1995. Enjoy!
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Into the back issue box #49
Today: A comic you might think would be as painful as some of the ones I've read in the past, but is surprisingly not. What could it be????
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 10:34am
Before calling it a night and staying warm you may want to check around the house and make sure your pipes and plants are protected from the cold. Erin Murray tells us how the oncoming winter storm can damage your water pipes and plants and cost you money.
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Regardless of how much of an Android fanboy you may be, there are things where iOS is still undisputed. One of these things is gaming. Gaming on iOS has been perfect since day one. It has the largest gaming library compared to other mobile operating systems. The platform always gets the game first if it does come out in other platforms, while many games remain to be strictly iOS only. Gaming is fluid, sharp, and usually much less buggy compared to their Android counterparts.
When it comes to gaming on mobile devices, there are two areas where Android excels over iOS. One is native controller support, while the other is a larger capacity for rendered objects. The latter means that in a game such as the "Amazing Spiderman", the Android variant has more people littering the streets as "extras" while the iOS variant focused more on the actual enemies and the main character with a much more deserted city. Of course, it is only important in immersion, but not in the actual game experiences itself.
Unfortunately, Android is about to lose its biggest gaming advantage over iOS: controller support. With the new iOS7, Apple is also introducing native controller support that games and controller manufacturers can hook up into. This means that we will now be able to see universal controller accessories for the most accessorized platform in the business.
Some would contest that controllers existed for iOS before. While that may be true, it is in a very limited sense. The setup before required the developer of the game to specifically code their games to support a controller. Unfortunately, since it was a free for all at the time, a developer would have to code support for several different controllers to be able to support them all. That is a huge hassle for the developer. They usually end up endorsing one specific controller, or in most cases, no controller support at all.
This time, the operating system itself dictates a native controller API. Game developers will now only need to modify their code to support the native controller settings of iOS7. New controllers will now hook up to iOS7′s controller API, which will allow all controllers to interact with the game.
What do these changes mean? This means that game ports will now be even more prominent and easy to play on iOS7. Games like Grand Theft Auto, Sonic, and other games that were so easy to play on controllers back then and yet so difficult to play on a touch screen interface can now be played with a controller, making the experience even more immersive. There are games out there that just don't work with touch. Many games really need a physical controller for the player to really enjoy the game. Lookout, a new gaming standard will start brewing for iOS, and it will definitely make portable gaming systems shake in their boots.


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Joel Osteen | |
Osteen at Lakewood Church, December 8, 2007 | |
Born | Joel Scott Osteen March 5, 1963 Houston, Texas |
Religion | Non-denominational Christianity, Charismatic Christianity, Evangelical, Word of Faith |
Spouse(s) | Victoria Osteen (m. 1987) |
Children | Jonathan, Alexandra |
Parents | John Osteen (father) Dolores Pilgrim Osteen (mother)[1] |
Church(es) | Lakewood Church |
Offices held | Senior pastor (1999 – present) |
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Joel Osteen | |
Osteen at Lakewood Church, December 8, 2007 | |
Born | Joel Scott Osteen March 5, 1963 Houston, Texas |
Religion | Non-denominational Christianity, Charismatic Christianity, Evangelical, Word of Faith |
Spouse(s) | Victoria Osteen (m. 1987) |
Children | Jonathan, Alexandra |
Parents | John Osteen (father) Dolores Pilgrim Osteen (mother)[1] |
Church(es) | Lakewood Church |
Offices held | Senior pastor (1999 – present) |
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Joel Scott Osteen (born March 5, 1963)[2] is an American preacher, televangelist, author, and the Senior Pastor of Lakewood Church, the largest Protestant church in the United States, in Houston, Texas. His televised sermons are seen by over 7 million viewers weekly and over 20 million monthly in over 100 countries.[3][4] Osteen has written five New York Times Bestselling books. He has been widely nicknamed "The Smiling Preacher".[5]
In 2004, his first book, Your Best Life Now, was released by Time Warner and debuted at the top of the The New York Times Best Seller list. The book remained a The New York Times Best Seller for more than 200 weeks.[6]
Osteen was born in Houston, Texas, and is one of six children of John Osteen and Dolores ("Dodie") Pilgrim. His father, a former Southern Baptist pastor, founded Lakewood Church, of which Osteen is the current senior pastor, in the back of an old feed store.[7] Osteen attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he studied radio and television communications, but did not graduate and did not receive a degree from a divinity school.[4][8] In 1982, he returned to Houston and founded Lakewood's television program, where he produced his father's televised sermons for 17 years until January 1999, when his father died unexpectedly from a heart attack.[4][9]
John Osteen encouraged Joel to preach for many years, but he declined, preferring to work behind the scenes until January 17, 1999, when he accepted his father's suggestion and he preached his first sermon. John Osteen died six days later of a heart attack. Two weeks later, Joel began preaching regularly and, later that year, was installed as the new Senior Pastor of Lakewood Church on October 3, 1999.[10] Under Joel Osteen, Lakewood's attendance grew from 5,000 to 43,000.[6]
In 2003, Lakewood Church acquired the Compaq Center, former home of the NBA Houston Rockets. Renovations cost $105 million.[11] The renovations took over 15 months to complete, and included the addition of five stories to add more capacity.[12] Lakewood's 2005 grand opening was attended by an estimated 56,000 people, including Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry and Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.[13]
Lakewood Church services, led by Pastor Joel Osteen, are seen in over 100 countries.[14] Osteen was selected by Barbara Walters as one of her 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006.[15][15][16] Former presidential candidate John McCain has described Osteen as his favorite inspirational author.[17] The Osteen family attended Easter breakfast hosted by President Barack Obama at the White House in 2010.[18]
Osteen and several other Lakewood Church personnel have presented a travelling series of programs in large arenas. The series is titled "A Night of Hope" and includes worship music led by the church's music ministry, a sermon from Osteen and a testimony by his mother, Dodie. In 2007, the tour expanded to include stops in several other countries, including Canada, England, Northern Ireland and Israel.[19] Osteen preached at Yankee Stadium in 2009, selling-out the stadium.[20]
In the first few months after he took over for his father as senior pastor, Joel Osteen tried to emulate his father's preaching style, but soon developed his own approach. His sermon preparation involves memorizing his remarks and listening to himself on tape. During sermons he has said he avoids making eye contact with individuals when manning the pulpit to avoid getting distracted.[21]
Osteen says that he chooses to focus more on the goodness of God and on living an obedient life than on sin.[22] Osteen says that he tries to teach Biblical principles in a simple way, emphasizing the power of love and a positive attitude.[23] When asked why he does not focus more on sin, the devil and Hell in detail, Osteen stated in an interview with CBN News, "When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the enemy can be our own thoughts. We've trained ourselves the wrong way. Or the enemy can be our own lack of discipline. Some people preach about Hell like you're already going there, and to me the Gospel means 'Good News.' I'd rather say God is a God of mercy. So I think the people already know what they're doing wrong, and I certainly believe in Hell. But to me, when I see thousands of people before me, it just doesn't come out of me to say, 'You guys are terrible, and you're going to Hell.' I'd rather say that God is a God of mercy. You've got to live an obedient life, but for every mistake you've made, there's mercy there, and I believe we can do better."[9]
Osteen's first book, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential, was released in October 2004, and reached the number 1 position on The New York Times Best Seller list.
He released his second book, titled Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day, in October 2007. It also topped the The New York Times Best Seller list and had a first printing of four million copies.[24][25] Osteen has said that the book focuses more on relationships and not getting stuck where we are in life.[26]
He married Lakewood Church co-pastor Victoria Iloff on April 4, 1987. They have a son, Jonathan, and daughter, Alexandra.[27] His older siblings, Paul, Lisa, and Tamara, and his younger sister, April, are also involved in full-time ministry.[28] His half-brother Justin does missionary work out of New York.[10] As of 2012, his net worth is reportedly $56,508,500,[29] and he lives with his family in a $10,500,000 mansion.[30]
Osteen has generally avoided discussing controversial issues such as gay marriage, abortion, and politics.[15][31] When asked, Osteen said that he is opposed to same-sex marriage.[32][33][34][35] Osteen refuses to preach about homosexuality due to his belief that God likes, accepts, and approves of all people.[36] When asked if he thought God approves of homosexuality, Osteen said that homosexuality is a sin according to the scripture, but that gay people are welcome in his church. He has said that sin is human nature, nobody's perfect, and that he is not judging but that God is the judge. Osteen has also stated that he believes a person can be freed from a lifestyle of homosexuality; that it is a process and that God can free anyone of any sin or addiction.[34] Osteen has also stressed that he does not approve of "homophobia," but that his faith is based on his reading of the scriptures.[34][37] He has said that the church has a tendency to become overly focused on single issues (such as homosexuality) to the point of neglecting others.[15][34]
In an interview on Fox News in 2008 during the U.S. presidential primary race, when discussing whether he thought that Mormons were Christians, Osteen indicated that he believed that they were. He further noted that he had not studied the religion.[38]
Osteen's sermons and writings are sometimes criticized for promoting prosperity theology, or the prosperity gospel, a belief that material gain is a reward for pious Christians.[39][40] On October 14, 2007, 60 Minutes ran a twelve-minute segment on Osteen, titled "Joel Osteen Answers his Critics", during which Reformed theologian Michael Horton told CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts that Osteen's method of teaching is heresy. Horton stated that the problem with Osteen's message is that it makes religion about us instead of about God.[41]
When asked if he's a prosperity teacher, Osteen responded that if prosperity means God wants people to be blessed and healthy and have good relationships, then yes, he considers himself a prosperity teacher, but if it's about money, he does not. He has specifically stated he never preaches about money, because of the reputation of televangelists.[9]
John F. MacArthur and Paul Washer have also criticized Osteen's preaching methods.[42]
In an interview with The Christian Post on April 21, 2013, Joel Osteen expressed his sentiments on being perceived as being part of the prosperity gospel. "I get grouped into the prosperity gospel and I never think it's fair, but it's just what it is. I think prosperity, and I've said it 1,000 times, it's being healthy, it's having great children, it's having peace of mind. Money is part of it; and yes, I believe God wants us to excel...to be blessed so we can be a bigger blessing to others. I feel very rewarded. I wrote a book and sold millions of copies; and Victoria and I were able to help more people than we ever dreamed of. But when I hear the term prosperity gospel, I think people are sometimes saying, "well, he's just asking for money."[21]
Joel Osteen has been the target of several internet hoaxes.[43] One hoax that circulated in April 2013 was a website that declared that Osteen had resigned from his position as pastor of Lakewood and that he had "rejected Christ" and begun to doubt his faith. The hoax website was supported by a YouTube video and other social media which have since been taken down.[44][45] A Lakewood Church spokesperson sent out a Twitter message assuring followers the pastor had not resigned.[46] The story was widely covered and debunked by newspapers, websites, and television news programs.[47][48][49]


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A geometric design and platinum shine give these earrings a modern look. A platinum bead link bar gently dangles from a small platinum cube in these earrings for pierced ears.
Although they are very delicate looking they are just as described
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Canon PowerShot Elph 500 HS review: Good, but not S95 good
The touch-screen controls keep the Canon PowerShot Elph 500 HS from being a lower-cost PowerShot S95 alternative for enthusiasts, but it's otherwise a very good ultracompact.
The Canon PowerShot Elph 500 HS is the more stylish Elph version of the PowerShot S95 enthusiast compact . The 500 HS has a similar lens with a bright f2.0 maximum aperture and semimanual shooting modes. It also has the company's HS (high-sensitivity) system for improved low-light photos. However, the S95 uses a 10-megapixel CMOS sensor that's larger than the 500 HS's small 1/2.3-inch backside-illuminated CMOS. There's also a $100 difference in price, and while the photos from the S95 are better, they won't be $100 better for a lot of snapshooters.
On the other hand, I'd pay the $100 to get the physical controls of the S95 over the touch-screen operation of the 500 HS. Those considering this camera as a lower-cost way to get the f2.0 lens and aperture and shutter speed controls might be disappointed by the experience of using the touch screen for everything. Snapshooters who only plan to use these things occasionally and don't do a lot of fiddling with settings probably won't mind the loss of physical controls. Plus, the 500 HS is capable of turning out some excellent photos.


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Mac File Recovery Software 1.0
Recover Data for Macintosh file recovery software is proficient mac file recovery utility to recover Mac files & restore Mac OS x data from corrupted Mac hard drive. Mac disk recovery tool & Mac partition recovery software supports all types of corruptions. Mac disk recovery software is affordable HFS file recovery software to recover Mac files form damaged or corrupted Mac volumes and initialized disks having MAC OS 9 and OS X.
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Last night a "Newbie Mixer" kicked off BlogHer 2008 at the top of the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, CA. There was a lot of newbies in the room, and for the first time in a long time, I hardly new a soul in the room, what an overwhelming feeling. I did get to meet a few new people introducing myself, since this time - I'm the newbie, and can't expect people to just come up to me. I had forgotten just how overwhelming that can be.
Then Lisa Barone appeared and it was like "Wow, someone I know, yeah!" It made me feel a bit more at ease. Then Lorna Harris of Boudica.com joined our little group. She totally rocks, btw, and she's the one who gave me the goods on "Danny's New Pimpin' Ride." So here's the Search Engine Industry representing at BlogHer 2008!
If you like this photo of Lorna Harris, Shannon Hall & Lisa Barone, the Newbies at BlogHer 2008, feel free to comment and favorite it on Flickr, Sphinn or Fetch this photo as that's how we'll be judging the photos at the end of the year! Check out the rest of the fun at BlogHer 2008 Conference, there's only a few photos to view, right now, more to come!.


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Back to Step Siblings main page. The event was a lot of fun really cool people having fun but I was already a little tired, I wanted to go home but Emily said she does not know what to do with me and wants me to help her I was very happy because I knew what that meant. about 4 we were in the house at Emily. She was self-conscious garments so I set off first and kissed her on the lips she returned the kiss so muj żuciłam her bed, Emilia was very neat blonde a small but firm breasts. If you are 18+ check StepSiblings videos I started kissing her neck and down to the modulus shiver as they pass her while she was becoming wet, undid her bra and pulled it then appeared mixtures are two jewels I started to kiss them suck and bite gently Emilia began to writhe on the bed what excite me even more. |
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RFID and GSM based Intelligent Mail Box ECE Project
This is a nice Electronics and telecommunication project report on RFID and GSM based Intelligent Mail Box. In this project microcontroller is used which acts as a medium of communication between the RF reader and the GSM modem. The major advantage of this system is the presence of the GSM modem enables the device to communicate with the receiver no matter where ever he was present on the globe. You can also Subscribe to FINAL YEAR PROJECT'S by Email for more such projects and seminar.
In this project we used GSM module to intimate the courier office as well as addressed person about the arrival of mail. The system has been designed for assured delivery of mails. It doesn't allows the wrong mails. GPRS can be used to further enhance this project. This report contains full microcontroller source code for your help.


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FDA Sued On Nano
by Gwyneth K. Shaw | Dec 21, 2011 4:16 pm
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A coalition of consumer advocacy groups filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Wednesday, the latest move in a long effort to force the agency to regulate sunscreens, cosmetics and other products containing super-small particles.
The suit, filed in federal court in California, accuses the agency of failing to answer a petition filed by the same groups in 2006. The petition called on the FDA to enact new rules on products using nanotechnology, amid questions about the safety of people, animals and the environment.
The International Center for Technology Assessment, or CTA, is the leader of an assortment of not-for-profit groups, including Friends of the Earth, the Center for Environmental Health and Food and Water Watch.
While the suit filed Wednesday is a procedural one, the ultimate goal is to force the government's hand on an issue that's fraught with uncertainty.
"We've brought this case because, in our view, they have a duty to respond to us, and they haven't," said George Kimbrell, senior attorney for the CTA. "This lawsuit ... will require the agency to respond to our petition, which they have failed to do for five and a half years."
A spokesperson for the FDA did not respond to a request for comment. The agency has 60 days to file its initial response to the lawsuit.
Products that use nanotechnology are proliferating, and evidence is growing that at least some of them might be harmful to people, animals and the environment. Yet, as with so many other issues involving ongoing research, the federal government has been reluctant to weigh in without overwhelming scientific proof, instead funding efforts to get at these difficult questions.
By leveraging the often-amazing properties of these ultra-tiny materials, nanotechnology can make airplane wings stronger and help cancer treatments ruthlessly target the bad cells. As nano-enabled products proliferate, however, there's a big gap between what's possible and what's been tested for safety. Growing evidence suggests that shrinking these materials can sometimes change the way they interact with the world around them, raising serious questions about their impact on health and the environment.
Take sunscreens, for example. Many creams and lotions now contain nano-sized titanium dioxide or zinc oxide (and sometimes both) and are marketed as "mineral-based" or "chemical-free." The ingredients are mainstays of the sunblock industry, but the ultra-tiny size allows the formulations to go on clear, instead of showing up as a white blaze.
The smaller size, however, raises questions about whether the nano-sunscreens can penetrate the skin, or cause problems once humans wash it off. The result is a fairly fierce debate about safety—an increasingly common battle when it comes to nano-enabled products.
FDA researchers found that nano-sized titanium dioxide didn't get into the bloodstream of laboratory pigs when they were slathered with sunscreen. A scientist in Australia, however, found that mini-particles of zinc oxide did get into the blood, albeit at minuscule levels.
"The science has shown that there are some specific red flags" that the agency needs to address, Kimbrell said.
When the FDA released long-awaited changes to its sunscreen guidelines last summer, however, the agency basically sidestepped the debate, which frustrated advocates.
"That gave them a golden opportunity to address this pressing issue of nano-sunscreens ... and they took no action whatsoever," Kimbrell said. "They didn't even address the issue, which underscores their failure more broadly on this issue of nanomaterials."
"If they had addressed this on their own, we wouldn't have filed this suit," he said.
The goal is to get the agency to respond to the concerns addressed in the 2006 petition, then go on from there. But the silence is unacceptable. Kimbrell said.
The CTA, along with several of the groups in this coalition, is also pressuring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to tighten restrictions on the use of nanosilver as an antimicrobial agent. While the EPA recently gave conditional approval to the first nanopesticide that contains nanosilver—and has hinted that stricter rules may be coming—the number of consumer products containing the material continues to grow.
The EPA won't touch a company that's not explicitly claiming to kill germs. But even a quick Amazon search turns up products from humidifiers to hair dryers touting their nanosilver advantage.
It's time, KImbrell said, for the FDA and other federal agencies to deal with the questions nano-enabled products raise.
"Nanomaterials are in so many things now," he said. "There are a number of things the agency can do that we call on them to do more generally with regard to nanomaterials."
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I thought it was just another ecchi action but..... got an economics lecture instead....
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I thought it was just another ecchi action but..... got an economics lecture instead....
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Still don't know jack sh*t.
Another "and they died happily ever after, the end." shoved in my face........
not really.....
either that or my sub-conscious have been picking that kinda show for me.
It's just an assumption. Nothing that I've said there is a major revelation to the whole plot. I don't know what might happen next, I could be all wrong. And also, it's quite easy to see even before episode 11 that Makishima has a sort of evangelist personality. Calm, thoughtful, intelligent and so on. It's no wonder why people don't see him as a threat. And we already know that he's capable of killing. What I said is nothing new, well apart the Crime Coefficient being different than other killers. If you insist, I'll spoiler it.
Just started Xam'd
Is it just me being extremely sick minded or does this look like a condom....
first thing that came in my head when I saw it =_=
This seriously reminds me of Tenkuu no Shiro: Laputa...
with the style, art, and opening with
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than cut to a normal guy going normal stuff.. lol
I just noticed that I passed 2x headphone supremus a long time ago.
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Hope I don't stay up all night.... I have school tomorrow....
I might need to rewatch it then, there were some hiatus breaks while it was airing. It was an ONA, that's why.


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Diesel fuel prices have backed off from last fall's record-breaking levels. But the effects of the big price surge on hay transportation and marketing could linger.
"It's really a mess out there," says Don Kieffer, executive director of the National Hay Association. "A lot of our members really have to scramble to line up freight. Everything has turned upside down."
Tom Creech of Creech Hay, Inc., Lexington, KY, speculates that higher fuel costs forced many owner-operators to park their rigs and take jobs driving for larger freight companies.
"There just aren't as many trucks around willing to haul a load of hay as there were before," says Creech.
He sells hay produced in the Northwest to 100 or so small horse farms in the Lexington area. "We're spending a lot more of our time on the phone trying to line up truckers."
The rapid rate at which fuel prices rose during one stretch last fall led Creech to make basic changes in how he conducts day-to-day operations. During the height of the price run-up, some truckers would show up with a load at Creech's warehouse and demand to be paid a fuel surcharge.
"The price they were paying for fuel on the road was going up wildly between the time they left out there and arrived here (typically a three-day run)," he says. "They wanted to try to offset those increases by tacking on a surcharge. Our position was that the terms had been set before they left and we shouldn't have to pay it. It led to a lot of arguments."
Now when Creech contacts dispatchers to arrange shipments, he stresses that he's interested in discussing flat rates only — no surcharges.
"As soon as we hang up, we fax them a sheet spelling out the terms we've just agreed to," he explains. "We have them sign it and fax it back to us before the truck leaves. You have to spend more time now making sure you've dotted the Is and crossed the Ts."
Barb Kinnan, executive director of the Nebraska Alfalfa Marketing Association, says freight-related problems are leading more hay producers to consider buying their own trucks.
"They see it as a way to get a little more control over their operations," she says. "It's a very competitive business. You can't run the risk of losing customers because you're not able to line up hauling when you need it."
That kind of thinking led John Granstrom and his son, J.J., to set up a trucking business as a companion enterprise to their haying operation two years ago. The Granstroms grow hay on 4,500 acres near Holstein, NE. Most of their hay is marketed to dairy producers in East Coast states.
"It was getting harder and harder to find truckers willing to haul hay out that way," says John Granstrom. "When you could find them, they usually charged a premium. We finally decided we'd be better off doing it ourselves."
With fuel costs skyrocketing last fall, the Granstroms, who now keep three trucks on the road, reluctantly began tacking fuel surcharges onto their billings. To help customers absorb the higher freight costs, they adjusted hay prices downward.
"There has to be some give and take," says Granstrom. "Our customers are buying fuel, too. They understand that a lot of things related to fuel prices are beyond our control. For the most part, they're willing to pay a little more to help offset higher freight costs. They just don't want to get gouged."
Ron Tombaugh, another grower hauling his own product, says his customers have also accepted higher costs related to fuel-price increases.
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Others, though, wonder if current volatility in transportation could lead to fundamental changes in how hay is marketed nationally.
"Our customers have gotten used to hay coming out of the Northwest," says Kentuckian Tom Creech. "But there could be an upper limit on how much they're able and willing to pay for hay. If prices go up too much because of higher freight costs, it could increase the demand for Eastern hay around here."
That may already be happening in some areas, says Purdue University market analyst Dave Petritz. He notes that prices at tested hay auctions in Indiana this past fall were running significantly above year-earlier levels, even though local hay was plentiful.
"Dairy producers are starting to question whether they really need to go very far west to find the hay they need," he says. "They're starting to ask themselves, 'What can I get closer to home so I don't have to pay those freight costs?'"
Dairy producers are also rethinking how much hay they need to incorporate into rations.
"They look around and see that corn and soybeans are pretty cheap right now," says Petritz. "That has many of them rethinking the whole ration structure. It all boils down to making the ration work at the lowest cost possible."


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WBUR's Radio Boston aired a story about Leonard Nash yesterday as part of their "Remembrance Project," which tells the stories of "ordinary people who lived extraordinary lives."� (Philosophical question: Are there "extraordinary" people who live "ordinary" lives? What definitions are we working with here?)
Leonard Nash was a retired Harvard chemistry professor and, judging from Radio Boston's story, a lovable, eccentric, blood-drinking genius with a heart of gold. He died in Brookline last November at 94, which is why I bring this up. Maybe you knew him? If so, WBUR would like to know.
He didn't really drink blood (that we know of), he just pretended to. Why? "In order to make a scientific point." Perhaps having to do with the velocity of stomach contents as they are forced up the esophagus and expelled out the mouth? Dunno.
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Sarah Nicholls is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment between the Departments of Community, Agriculture, Recreation & Resource Studies (CARRS, 75%) and Geography (25%).
She received her B.Sc. (Hons) in Geography from University College London, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Recreation, Park & Tourism Sciences from Texas A&M University.
Sarah's interests focus on two main areas:
- International tourism, planning and development, with a special emphasis on tourism on islands and in small nation states
- Urban park issues, including the accessibility and equity of urban park distributions, and the impacts of green spaces on surrounding property values.
More specific interests and areas of expertise include:
- Interactions between tourism and climate change
- Youth and student travel
- Agri-tourism
- Applications of GPS and GIS in parks, recreation, and tourism
Sarah teaches four different classes at present, one graduate and three undergraduate:
- GEO 259 - Geography of Recreation and Tourism (Fall semesters)
- GEO 459 - Tourism in Regional Development (Springs of even years)
- PRR 214 - Introduction to Travel and Tourism (Spring semesters)
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- Overcoming Impediments to Smart Growth: Finding Ways for Land Development Professionals to Help Achieve Sustainability. With colleagues from the Dept of CARRS and Planning & Zoning Center, Inc. Funded by the People and Land Funding Program, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Measuring the Impact of Community Design on Health in Michigan. With colleagues from the Depts of CARRS, Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Urban and Regional Planning. Funded by MSU Land Policy Program
- Improving the Utility of Regional Climate Change Information from a Stakeholder Perspective. With colleagues from the Depts of CARRS, Geography and Ag Econ. Funded by EPA
- The Impacts of Climate Change on Ecotourism in Tobago: Stakeholder Perspectives. With colleagues from the Universities of East Anglia, and Oxford, UK
- Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? An Exploratory Analysis of the Canadian Snowbird Phenomenon. Funded by the Foreign Affairs Canada Canadian Studies Grant Program
- Sustainable Agri-Tourism Enterprises in Western Michigan: An Inventory and Analysis of Motivations and Challenges. With colleagues from the Dept of CARRS
- Assessments of the accessibility and equity of parks in Lansing and Grand Rapids
Professional Memberships
- Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers
- Association of American Geographers
- National Recreation and Park Association
- Society of Park and Recreation Educators
- National Association of Recreation and Resource Planners
- International Society of Biometeorology, Commission on Climate, Tourism and Recreation
- Michigan Lodging and Tourism Association
Sarah Nicholls' Curriculum Vitae
Color Figures for the Journal of Travel Research - Implications of Global Climate Change for Tourism Flows and Seasonality
Color Figures for Tourism Analysis - Climate Change and Tourism in North-Western Europe: Impacts and Adaptation.