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Gardenland Garden Centres Inc. Gardenland specializes in fresh, high quality plants-everything from annuals, pond plants, patio tropics, perennials to a great selection of shrubs and evergreens, plus glazed pots, soils, mulches, and fertilizers and all other gardening needs. Website: www.gardenland.ca Locations: 334 Dundas Street West Waterdown Ontario zoom (905) 690-4961 |
Harper's Garden Centre On our 10-acre farm, we produce over 3000 varieties of hardy perennials. In additional to all of the traditional selections, we are known for growing the rare and unusual, a true collector's haven! See them at Harper's Garden Centre. Website: www.harpersgardencentre.com Locations: 1039 Wilson Street E Ancaster Ontario zoom (905) 648-2157 |
Satellite Garden Centre Satellite Garden Centre has been in business for over 15 years+ and is family owned. When the garden centre opened they operated out of a trailer. At that time there were open fields around them, but now the city grows around us. Website: www.satellitegardencentre.com Locations: 1167 Rymal Road Hamilton Ontario zoom (905) 574-8188 |
Cole's Florist & Garden Centre Cole's Florist & Garden Centre is located in Stoney Creek and is listed under Florists. Website: www.colesflorist.ca Locations: 147 Main Street Grimsby Ontario zoom (905) 945-2219 184 Queenston Road Stoney Creek Ontario zoom (905) 664-2810 |
Connon Nurseries Connon Nurseries has been providing quality nursery stock and products to the landscape gardener for over 100 years! We are open to the public. Website: www.connon.ca Locations: 383 Dundas Street East Waterdown Ontario zoom (905) 689-5481 |
Ciccarelli Group Landscape Contractors The Ciccarelli Group was started in 1961 by Ottavio Ciccarelli as a landscape firm. It has since evolved into a award winning'Landscape Contractor'servicing both our residential and commercial sectors. Website: www.ciccarelligroup.com Locations: 807 Garner Road East Ancaster Ontario zoom (905) 545-2313 |
Cedar Springs Landcape Group [Contact :: Contact List] For over 20 years, Cedar Springs Landscaping have been striving to serve our customers with the finest in Landscape design, construction and grounds care. Website: www.cedarsprings.net Locations: 1326 Butter Road West Ancaster Ontario zoom (905) 648-7949 |
Heritage Green Landscape Contractors Heritage Green Landscape Contractors has grown into one of the largest full service landscape contractors in the area, offering a wide range of services including all aspects of landscape construction. Website: www.heritagegreen.ca Locations: 992 Garner Road East Ancaster Ontario zoom (905) 648-4777 |
Nutri-Turf Landscaping Contractors Nutri-Turf Landscaping Co are large enough to handle the big jobs yet small enough to still be personal. We specialize in large rockwork and engage in all aspects of hard landscaping. Website: www.ntilandscaping.com |
Evergreen Landscaping & Lawn Maintenance From innovative landscape design through to the finishing touches and follow-up maintenance, Evergreen Landscaping & Lawn Maintenance will make sure your project will be handled with care and pride by the experienced Evergreen team. Website: www.evergreenlandscaping.on.ca Locations: 17 Chateau Court Hamilton Ontario zoom (905) 575-4322 |
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An updated version of the very popular original Ti S5. Same specifications, same light feel (8.5oz. strung) and open string pattern for excellent spin control. Add increased dampening for added comfort and an enlarged sweetspot, with Head's new ComfortZone Technology, and you have a nicely improved option for all court beginner to intermediate players with compact to medium swing types.
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ProKennex Ionic Ki 30 The most powerful Ki racquet, the Ki 30 is a good fit for beginners to intermediate players who also seek comfort and maneuverability. Headsize: 117 in². Length: 27.5". Strung weight: 9.6 oz. | Wilson K Factor KZero A great choice for beginners seeking a game improvement racquet. The KZero is the lightest racquet in the K Factor line. Impressive power and control. Super oversize head: 118 in². Length: 27.5 inches. |

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quote:Just making the statement that this "game changing" discovery may not be a game changer
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Breakfast Topic: Presenting the ever-accessible auction house!
Now, I don't know about you, but I find that all kinds of awesome. I love playing the auction house (it's oddly satisfying...don't ask), and have many times in the past simply logged on to check my auctions to see how they were doing. Personally, I find this to be an amazingly convenient ability for the armory. Unfortunately, the dreaded 'p-word' has reared its ugly head:
Most of us know that 'premium features' will usually equal 'if you want it, let's see some green.' I have to say that I wasn't super impressed with the idea of paying for yet another feature, but in today's world of micro-transactions and the like, would you pay extra money for that kind of convenience? Take the iPhone app, for example. Say the 'freemium' version is, well, free, and the premium armory--complete with auction house tracking--is...an extra five dollars. As far as micro-transactions go, that's not too shabby. Honestly? I'd pay it.
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Small purchases (up to $5000) may be done by departments without going to a Vice Chancellor (or designee) for approval, as long as there is no formal purchase order or written contract or agreement involved. (See Basic Purchasing Information webpage)
Purchases between $5,000 and $500,000 are normally executed through a purchase order issue from the NC State Purchasing Department. Bids are sought and standard Terms and Conditions are used in lieu of obtaining a Vice Chancellor's signature.
Where should you go for information on purchasing procedures?
For more information, the NC State Purchasing Department has a webpage with Purchasing Procedures and Other Information and the NCSU Administrative Procedures Manual, Section K, Purchasing.
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Does the Office of General Counsel have recommendations about what types of contract terms to accept and what types to modify?
Yes. The first recommendation is that you review the list of standard university agreements to determine if there is a standard agreement that fits your situation.
The second recommendation is that you read the other party's contract terms closely and understand the business risks they pose. If you don't understand certain terms, ask Purchasing or the Office of General Counsel what they mean.
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How We Should Program GPGPUs
Current approaches to programming GPUs still are relatively immature. It's much better than it was a few years ago, when programmers had to cast their algorithms into OpenGL or something similar, but it's still unnecessarily difficult.
Programmers must manage (allocate and deallocate) the device, deal with the separate host and device memories, allocate and free device memory, and move data from and to the host, manage (upload) the kernel code, pack up the arguments, initiate the kernel, wait for completion and free the code space when done. All this is in addition to writing the kernel in the first place, exposing the parallelism, optimizing the data access patterns and a host of other machine-specific items, testing and tuning. A matrix multiplication takes a few lines in FORTRAN or C. Converting this to CUDA or Brook takes a page or more of code, even when making simplifying assumptions. One might question whether there is a better way.
Listing 1. Simplified Matrix Multiplication in CUDA, Using Tiled Algorithm
__global__ void matmulKernel( float* C, float* A, float* B, int N2, int N3 ){ int bx = blockIdx.x, by = blockIdx.y; int tx = threadIdx.x, ty = threadIdx.y; int aFirst = 16 * by * N2; int bFirst = 16 * bx; float Csub = 0; for( int j = 0; j < N2; j += 16 ) { __shared__ float Atile[16][16], Btile[16][16]; Atile[ty][tx] = A[aFirst + j + N2 * ty + tx]; Btile[ty][tx] = B[bFirst + j*N3 + b + N3 * ty + tx]; __syncthreads(); for( int k = 0; k < 16; ++k ) Csub += Atile[ty][k] * Btile[k][tx]; __syncthreads(); } int c = N3 * 16 * by + 16 * bx; C[c + N3 * ty + tx] = Csub; } void matmul( float* A, float* B, float* C, size_t N1, size_t N2, size_t N3 ){ void *devA, *devB, *devC; cudaSetDevice(0); cudaMalloc( &devA, N1*N2*sizeof(float) ); cudaMalloc( &devB, N2*N3*sizeof(float) ); cudaMalloc( &devC, N1*N3*sizeof(float) ); cudaMemcpy( devA, A, N1*N2*sizeof(float), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice ); cudaMemcpy( devB, B, N2*N3*sizeof(float), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice ); dim3 threads( 16, 16 ); dim3 grid( N1 / threads.x, N3 / threads.y); matmulKernel<<< grid, threads >>>( devC, devA, devB, N2, N3 ); cudaMemcpy( C, devC, N1*N3*sizeof(float), cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost ); cudaFree( devA ); cudaFree( devB ); cudaFree( devC ); }
Listing 2. Simplified Matrix Multiplication in Brook
kernel void matmulKernel( float N2, float A[][], float B[][], out float result<> ){ float2 ik = indexof(result).xy; float4 ijjk = float4( ik.x, 0.0f, 0.0f, ik.y ); float4 jp1 = float4( 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f ); float C = 0.0f; float n2 = N2; while( n2 > 0 ) { C += A[ijjk.zw]*B[ijjk.xy]; ijjk += jp1; n2 -= 1.0f; } result = C; } void matmul( float* A, float* B, float* C, size_t N1, size_t N2, size_t N3 ){ float Astream<N1, N2>; float Bstream<N2, N3>; float Cstream<N1, N3>; streamRead( Astream, A ); streamRead( Bstream, B ); matmulKernel( (float)N2, Astream, Bstream, Cstream ); streamWrite( Cstream, C ); }
Compilers are good at keeping track of details and should be taken advantage of for that as much as possible. Is there anything specific to a GPU that makes it a more difficult compiler target than vector computers or attached processors, both of which had very successful, aggressive compilers? Could a compiler be created that would generate both host and GPU or accelerator code from a single source file, using standard C or FORTRAN, without language extensions?
I think it's feasible (though nontrivial), and a good idea. Here, I discuss what such a compiler might look like and what steps it would have to take. Two overriding goals are that the compiler operates just like a host compiler, except perhaps with a command-line flag to enable or disable the GPU code generator, and that no changes are needed to the other system tools (such as a linker and library archiver).
A significant difference between such a compiler and one for a vector computer has to do with the cost of failure. If a compiler fails to vectorize a specific loop, the performance cost can be a factor of five or ten, which is enough that a programmer will pay attention to messages from the compiler. If a compiler does a bad job of code generation for a GPU, the cost can be a slowdown (relative to host code) of a factor of ten or 100. This is enough that a fully hands-off, automatic approach just isn't feasible, at least not yet. At all steps, a programmer must be able to understand what the compiler has done and, if necessary, to override it.
The first, and perhaps most important step is to select what part or parts of the program should be converted to a kernel. Currently, that is done explicitly by a programmer who rips out that part of the program, replaces it with the code to manage the GPU, writes a kernel to execute on the GPU and combines it all into a single program.
Abstractly, we can use compute intensity to determine the parts of the program that are attractive for GPU acceleration. Compute intensity for a function, loop or block of code is the ratio of the number of operations to the amount of data that needs to be moved. For GPU computing, we are most limited by the host-GPU bandwidth, so the critical ratio is the amount of data that needs to be moved from the host to GPU and back, divided into the number of operations that the GPU will execute. If the ratio is high enough, it's worth the cost of the data movement to get the high compute bandwidth of the GPU, assuming the computation has enough parallelism.
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In a post on Thursday, I documented an investigation into a large number of real estate transactions centering around Terry Jones and Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. More information has now emerged in my study of publicly available information. In this post, I will show that a large mortgage taken out on the Dove World Outreach property in 2006 was mis-represented in the Form 990 that was filed with the IRS for that reporting period. The executed mortgage agreement on file with the Alachua County Clerk of Court website indicates that the mortgage was for $285,000, while a mortgage with the same agreement date and from the same bank was reported on the Form 990 as being only for $113,885.
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Bloomberg Terminal Now Tracks Bitcoin
The plucky virtual currency is gaining a lot of credibility as Bloomberg offers to track the controversial Bitcoin market
Bitcoin has been both praised and slandered by everyone with an opinion on the virtual…
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May 1, 2014
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RIM has recently announced that their Secure Element Manager (SEM) for NFC based mobile payments has been approved by Visa. The approval of what is known as a very strict process opens the door for secure mobile payments for all future NFC enabled BlackBerry devices. Continue reading 'RIM Gets Approved by Visa for NFC Mobile Payments'
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Truphone is a widely popular VoIP provider that plans to offer a single SIM card allowing local call rates while roaming in a host of countries. The SIM, called Truphone Local Anywhere, will hopefully reduce roaming rates and overall costs of traveling with your smartphone.
There aren't exact details regarding pricing, but it's likely that a flat rate fee will be charged for calls outside of your resident nation. The company also promises to chop mobile roaming charges – a major complaint for users of conventional mobile networks – by up to 80 percent.
"Until now, the only way to avoid the massive cost of mobile roaming is to carry multiple phones and multiple SIM cards, one for each country you frequent," said Truphone CEO Geraldine Wilson. "This means juggling multiple devices and phone numbers to avoid paying the high roaming rates traditionally associated with travel.
This new chip will hopefully help businesses cut down on their mobile bills and help the bottom line during these tough economic times. Good timing Truphone!
Once upon a time, VIP Communications sold GSM gateways. These magical gateways enabled extra-cheap calling by shunting the calls over the cell network, and saved the poor landline callers precious pennies and nickels every day. That's when the big bad magenta monster, T-Mobile, came along and stomped VIP Communications into a legal pulp for overloading the wireless network in the areas around the gateways. VIP crawled away wounded and went to sell cheap cell time to enterprise through other means, but was still bitter about the situation.
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Now that the BlackBerry 8830 has hit Sprint's shelves we can see the unlocked SIM card was no joke, meaning you can swap out local SIM cards willy-nilly. Price is confirmed at $199.99 with a two-year plan. Most noticeably is the nondescript Qualcomm 3G logo on the back of the device, which is pretty interesting to see since the ban on some 3G Qualcomm chips. Might we be seeing more Qualcomm chips on BlackBerrys while they try to reposition themselves around Broadcom, let alone Nokia? Probaby, if this ban holds up.
Magmic's main BlackBerry man, Jeff Bacon, is back with another piece for us. This time, however, Jeff isn't answering your BlackBerry questions, but giving you the straight deal on the Pearl. You see, as a trusted BlackBerry developer, Jeff has had his hand on the Pearl for some time, but hasn't been able to talk about it to anyone until it was officially announced (which was today, duh). So take a look at this little pearl of wisdom Jeff sent to our inbox this morning — one that might change your mind on how effective a multimedia device the Pearl will be.
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Google opens online boutique
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SAN FRANCISCO: Google sauntered into the world of haute couture on Wednesday with the launch of boutiques.com, an online shop that matches hot fashions to women's tastes. Style-conscious US women can create their own online boutiques or browse collections "curated by taste-makers" such as celebrities, designers, and fashion bloggers, according to Google product management director Munjal Shah. Boutiques uses computer vision and machine learning technologies to match a woman's...
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?Ambika Hinduja Macker talks to ET's Nilima David about her passion for design, her boutique company Impeccable Imagination and her creative core. A walk-in closet for Bollywood actor Preity Zinta , a hangout area for Mumbai fashion designer Surily Goel at home, an upmarket salon and more difficult, the interiors of her father's bungalow in New Delhi. Ambika Hinduja Macker , the daughter of the youngest...
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Ajay Garg, 32, is a former DSP Merrill investment banker, who quit his job along with two other colleagues to start his own consulting outfit. His MAPE Advisory focuses on the mid-market segment and has a client list that boasts of names like Dr Reddy's, ING Vysya and Larsen & Toubro. The boutique investment bank has completed 15 deals over the last two years, with the latest being the acquisition of Stewarts & Lloyds of India, a subsidiary of Tata Steel, by Indian Oil Tanking, a joint...
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KOLKATA: The country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has launched a financing scheme for women fashion boutique owners . Labelled 'boutique financing', the scheme is designed to offer working capital expenses as well as term loan to boutique owners. Chief General Manager of SBI (Bengal Circle) Sunil Srivastava said the bank has identified the growth potential of the segment. He said the bank would give loans at concessional interest rates and the...
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NEW DELHI: Swiss luxury watch brand Longines expects India to figure among its top 10 markets in the next 5-6 years as it taps into the increasing spending by middle class on luxury products. "India is one of the priority countries. It is developing nicely but it is not as big as say China, but bigger than Brazil. We expect India to become top 10 market in the next 5-6 years as the middle class increases spending on luxury products," Longines...
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SALT LAKE: The residents of Salt Lake are spoilt for choice when it comes to designer wear. More than 35 designer boutiques have come up in the area and are reaping rich profits. According to the owners of the boutiques, the area presents a good opportunity of business that has helped them clock growth rates in excess of 25 percent to even 40 percent. Salt Lake with its high residential pool has a huge chunk of housewives who have cashed in on the opportunity and have ventured...
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I asked Steve if he?d appreciate a Twitter conversation on the topic from someone who wasn?t, as KBox admitted, deliberately trying to annoy him. So we had at it. I?m not sure if I had any success but I think I had a revelation along the way.The Man Who Stole Spider-Man #700. And The Man Who Stopped Him.
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That, all that and much more, too, will make an honest side table of zakuski. Anything that follows is incidental, obviously…although at Eastertime, in Russian households all over the world and of whatever political hue, it is obligatory to stay upright, if not completely sober, for the main table of baked ham and ducks and suckling pigs, and the high koulitch and the cone-shaped pashka, and the painted eggs all nested in their grass and blossoms.
A man I know who was a boy in St. Petersburg has told me that never in his life, nowhere else in the world, has he seen such Gargantuan, near-insane gourmandizing as at his home, on Easter, when he was about twelve. He cannot forget it, nor how the still merry people fell back like walruses into their chairs, after the gentlemen had visited several other houses for a nibble of the special zakuski and a nip of vodka, and then had met with their women and children at his parents' house for the rest of the traditional celebration. He shakes his head now, with a half-incredulous, half-envious look in his eyes that says, too recognizably—There were giants in those days.
I have never seen such a rite, raised as I was prosaically, if with less digestive danger, in a small California town, but I remember the first time I ever went to the Brasserie Universelle in Paris, which was notable then for its hors-d'oeuvre varies, a great favorite with provincials like me. I was young and hungry, with a commensurate capacity and sturdy bodily functions. I had never beheld so many tempting dishes in my life, and the waiters who came in a seemingly endless procession, bringing hot, cold, spiced, bland, scarlet, green, black things to set before me, apparently enjoyed my naive pleasure.
"Hold back," one would advise tensely. "Wait! There will soon come a truffled pâté one must taste!"
Or another would say, "Now just a tiny little morsel of this, it is not too distinguished, to save place for the cèpes which are next!"
And so it went, I sitting back in happy helplessness, like a queen ant being nourished by her husbands, feeling myself grow great with sensuality.
As I remember, this happened several times, only by virtue of my youth and general good health, and at the end of each meal I toyed languidly with a coupe Jacques. I could face neither the hors-d'oeuvre nor the dessert today, but it is somehow pleasant and reassuring to feel that I was not always thus ascetic…and also that I have known more exciting things than the tray of canapés which is considered the American equivalent of zakuski, in whatever language it is said.
What emasculation they have undergone, these pretty and minuscular appetizers! What a far cry, no matter how artfully made and served, they are from the generous bowls and tubs and boats of a buffet russe, a smörgåsbord, a table of hors-d'oeuvre variés! And for that matter, how far from the straightforward and tonic thrust of vodka or aquavit is the genteel stimulation of no matter how fine a Sidecar or Manhattan, the vulgar wallop of even the best Martini!
I cannot ponder upon a Gargantuan Easter in St. Petersburg, but I can succor my hungry memory with thought of pâté and mushrooms and suchlike in an upstairs restaurant in Paris…and perhaps better than any of this with thoughts of the simplest zakuska ever eaten, when Boris Chaliapin are it too, and touched his tumbler to my little glass.…
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DuPont Packaging Graphics today announced publication of results from two peer-reviewed environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies indicating significant non-renewable energy and greenhouse gas emission reductions from use of its Cyrel® flexographic print and thermal platemaking processes. The full report, Life Cycle Assessment: Flexographic and Rotogravure Printing Comparison & Flexographic Plate Imaging Technologies, is available at www.cyrel.com.
The two LCAs compared the environmental footprints of flexographic printing to gravure printing, and the footprint of thermal platemaking to solvent platemaking for flexography.
Data comparing flexo and gravure printing indicate that use of the flexo process alone results in significant reductions in both non-renewable energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 50 percent when converting flexible packaging plastic films. In simple terms, for every 1 million square meters (~10 million square feet) of printed plastic substrate switched from gravure to flexo, the resulting savings in non-renewable energy would be equivalent to approximately 25,000 gallons of gasoline and savings in greenhouse gas emissions would be equivalent to removing approximately 40 typical U.S. passenger cars from the road for one year.1 To put that in perspective, there are more than 200 billion square meters of printed plastic substrate in the European and North American flexible packaging markets alone.2
The results of the second study comparing thermal platemaking to solvent platemaking for flexo indicate that thermal imaging results in a reduction in non-renewable energy of approximately 60 percent and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 51 percent. Or, for every 10,000 square meters (~100,000 square feet) of flexo plates imaged, the resulting non-renewable energy savings would be equivalent to approximately 8,800 gallons of gasoline and the savings in greenhouse gas emissions would be equivalent to removing approximately 16 typical U.S. passenger cars from the road for one year.1
"DuPont has a long heritage of developing sustainable products for the packaging industry, and a Life Cycle Assessment is one of the most rigorous ways to examine our business' environmental footprint," said Lisa DiGate, global business director -- DuPont Packaging Graphics. "We chose to use the LCA process, which is based on ISO standards, because of its broad industry acceptance and the rigor and objectivity of its external peer review requirement."
The report, a comprehensive summary of the LCA findings reviewed by an external panel under the direction of Five Winds International (www.fivewindsinternational.com) – global experts in sustainable development, states that the users that participated in the studies were representative of the industry and that the depth and rigor of the data collection process made the study "a fair indication of the principle differences between the different technology (platemaking and printing) options." DuPont Packaging Graphics used the LCA as a research process to evaluate the environmental footprint and energy consumption of its products and processes. Results from the LCA include data from both suppliers and customers and takes into account raw materials, energy, waste and emissions from image carrier manufacturing to the printed packaging substrate at the end of the press. The LCAs were conducted in accordance with ISO 14040 and 14044 guidelines and peer-reviewed by a panel of five independent experts coordinated by Five Winds International ( www.fivewinds.com ), a global consultancy recognized for its expertise in sustainable development.
DuPont Packaging Graphics is the world's leading supplier of flexographic printing systems in digital and conventional formats; including DuPont™ Cyrel® brand photopolymer plates, Cyrel® FAST processing equipment, Cyrel® round sleeves, mounting and finishing products.
DuPont is a science-based products and services company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 70 countries, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services for markets including agriculture and food, building and construction, communications, and transportation.
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Pulmonary Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 797495, 6 pages
Clinical Study
Concave Pattern of a Maximal Expiratory Flow-Volume Curve: A Sign of Airflow Limitation in Adult Bronchial Asthma
1Ohwada Clinic, 4-7-13 Minamiyawata, Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0023, Japan
2Department of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
Received 9 August 2012; Revised 12 October 2012; Accepted 29 October 2012
Academic Editor: Roberto Walter Dal Negro
Copyright © 2012 Akihiko Ohwada and Kazuhisa Takahashi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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4.5 Very good gunsnmikey | 25/07/2011 | See all gunsnmikey's reviews (1) Really handy. Have the White one of this but doesn't look right on the black controller
4.5 A must have for the serious gamer. Parvez86 | 15/08/2010 | See all Parvez86's reviews (7) You have to have these kits if you own a 360. I always buy the official charge kits as they are of better quality and last longer. The cheaper unofficial kits will have shorter leads and cheaply made cable which splits at the pressure points.A full charge gives hours of gaming and no more buying expensive batteries!
4.5 Great product, bad fitting. UKFX21 | 19/02/2009 | See all UKFX21's reviews (4) The product is great. It may take many hours of charging the first few times to get the full capacity of the battery (which it says in the mini-manual of the Play & Charge Kit). But the battery life is great.You can also use a USB port from a PC which will then install the drivers (TO WINDOWS) and allow you to charge it. This helps part you from the wires.The length is helpful for those playing far from their TV's or using larger TV sets. But there is a risk that if someone hits that wire your Xbox is going to get pulled of knocked over - with a disc running it will most likely be fatal.There are as I've seen no Quick Charge Kit Docks in Black but only the black rechargeable battery packs so the problem here is matching colours. If you want it all in black get a Play and Charge, if you have all white hardware and prefer the convenience of staying completely wireless 100% of the time get the quick charge kit. The battery times are similar. The actual battery life from full charge from this product is 25 hours. (See Manual)The snug fit is a little too snug and requires a flat-head screw driver to get the play and charge kit off the top of the controller, but eventually it will loosing up. Those who are lucky may not have any problems with it fitting too tightly.Overall, the product is good. If you prefer to stay wireless completely then go play and charge kit, but if your doing clan games and you run low then play & charge is very handy. Again it is down to preference and colour matching.Peace
4.5 Money Saver 00rick | 05/10/2008 | See all 00rick's reviews (7) Goodbye Batteries! Save your Money and buy one of these!
4.5 black charge kit LukeSimpson123 | 13/09/2008 | See all LukeSimpson123's reviews (1) You have to realise that the black version is not only for the elite controller. It can also be for the limited edition halo 3 controller.But all the other reviews are right, it is much better than buying ordinary batteries that die after about half a days play.I know how ennoying that is especially if your in the middle of a game.
4.5 An Elite Must Have Skullamania | 16/08/2008 | See all Skullamania's reviews (2) I haven't even owned it that long but already it has saved me a load of money on batteries.At first, you will notice a very slight change in weight of your controller, but you soon get used it.The lead is very long and fits snuggly on to of the controller; you will hardly notice it when you play. It's easy to attach; so rather than panicking, trying to find new batteries, you can easily plug it in and continue to play. Worth every penny.And of course, I bought it in black - Didn't want to look a fool now; you spend so much on an Elite console, might as well finish it off for just £2.
4.5 matchin colours just1guy | 11/04/2008 | See all just1guy's reviews (4) if u got the black controller buy black if u got the white controller buy white dont look a fool with a multi coloured controller
4.5 An Extra £2 for a black one? No Thanks adamtux | 20/01/2008 | See all adamtux's reviews (7) All play and change kits work for all Xbox's, don't bother paying the premium unless your matching colors are THAT important. Seriously.
4.5 reply to below SoloJarre | 21/12/2007 | See all SoloJarre's reviews (6) Yes indeed, this does work the all of the Xbox's. This is a real money saver. Pay 15quid for a few years or spend loads on batteries a year, its up to you! Hope this helps.


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24 year-old lesbian activist Noxolo Nogwaza , was stoned, gang-raped, and stabbed with broken glass in KwaThema, Johannesburg over Easter weekend last month.
The act is called "corrective rape". It's an increasing atrocity where males rape lesbians to "correct" or "fix" their sexual orientation.
Ndumi Funda, founder of gay rights organization Luleki Sizwe, took action when she felt they local authorities weren't doing enough to capture those responsible for Noxolo Nogwaza's death. She created a petition at Change.org of which 170,000 people from around the world rallied for the authorities to take "corrective rape" seriously.
The justice and constitutional development ministry says a national task team is to tackle hate crimes against lesbians and gays.
BBC News Reports: That Justice ministry spokesman Tlali Tlali said the the task team would begin its work in July and include six representatives from the judiciary, police and department of social development and six representatives from the gay community.
"The team will be charged with developing a legislative intervention plan, a public awareness strategy, and LGBTI-sensitive shelters," Tlali said.
Change.org representative Benjamin Joffe-Walt said what was accomplished through the campaign was "remarkable".
"In less than six months, a tiny group of township activists has mobilised more than 170 000 people from 163 countries and gotten the highest levels of government to address their basic demand, that the sadistic crime of 'corrective rape' be taken seriously."
Ndumie Funda is encouraged by the government's task team, but says the fight is not over. "It shows that they are willing to work with the gay community, but we continue to fight for LGBTI rights until the last drops of blood are spilled."


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A first hand account: Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bomb
In 1945, Ploughshares Fund supporter Reid Dennis was sent by the Navy to Japan. While there he visited both Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after their bombing. Reid has kindly shared his remembrances of that visit with us, below.
I volunteered for the U.S. Navy in May 1944, just before my 18th birthday. I had been accepted for a training program to become a radio or radar technician. In June, literally the day after graduating from high school, I was on a troop train headed for Great Lakes Naval Training Base near Chicago. Basic training together with the technical training program kept me busy for the next thirteen months with the last month being devoted to LORAN, a new Long Range Navigation system that was highly classified.
After training, I was based at the Naval Repair Station in San Diego. One or two days after "VJ" Day in August 1945, I received orders to report on board the U.S.S. Baltimore, a Heavy Cruiser, in Long Beach harbor. They needed a LORAN technician. I went on board one evening, and we sailed for Japan early the next morning! We did not stop en-route and were refueled at sea. We went straight to Japan, into the Inland Sea and on to Kure which was about 20 miles from Hiroshima. Kure, at some point, had been the largest operational naval base in the world, but it was now completely devastated.
In October, the Navy began sending voluntary "sight-seeing" trips down to Hiroshima in landing craft. No one knew anything about residual radiation. We were free to roam about in the rubble and pick up anything that looked interesting. I remember climbing over blocks of fallen masonry inside the steel frame of a building that has now been turned into a shrine.They had cleared the rubble out of some of the main streets, but all of the cross streets were still blocked. The devastation was horrific, but so was the devastation in Kure and other nearby communities. We were used to devastation. The only big difference was that Hiroshima was the result of one "big" bomb.
Our reaction to our visit to Nagasaki some weeks later was much the same. "One bomb did all of this?"
What is incomprehensible today is that the nuclear bombs of today are 1,000 times more powerful than the ones that were used in 1945. If that is true, then the world cannot afford to have even one more such device explode. It would be the beginning of the end of the world as we know it.
Reid and his wife Peggy became involved with Ploughshares Fund in 1983 at the gentle persistence of founder Sally Lilienthal. According to Reid, they "take satisfaction from having supported the organization from the very early days when relatively modest contributions were nevertheless very important."
Check out Reid's photos from his visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in our slideshow, above. Then, help Ploughshares Fund commemorate the 67th anniversary of the bombings by folding a paper crane for peace.
the a bomb
what do we exspect now the bombs are 100 times more powerful we are so dumb
i learnt this in school
back in my college days, i had taken up a topic on social studies and the chapter on WWII was hard to digest (not talking about the factual accounts here). it is really sad that the US had to resort to the 2 bombs before the japanese could surrender.. also included in our textbooks were pictures of newly born (deformed) babies who had suffered from the after-effects of the bomb. extremely heartwrenching..
here's to peace.
This reminds me of the facts
This reminds me of the facts I've watched in NatGeo channel.
The A bomb
To need to drop the A bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese were ready to surrender according to Russian reports at the time. We dropped the bombs to let the world know we possessed nuclear devices.
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaasaki
I served in the 505 Heavy Bomb Group on the island of Tinian prior to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There was no need to drop the A bomb on these two cities. The Japanese were ready to surrender according to Russians. We dropped them to make Russia aware that we had the nuclear device.
Decontaminating Fukushima with Mother Nature in 10-15 years
Fukushima is not an isolated problem, but affects the whole world, especially the US, which is "the next stop" in the jet stream and ocean currents. A complete Harley Davidson motorcycle from Sendai washed up in Canada. Cesium 137 showed up in seaweed at the California coast and ground beef from grass-fed cattle in Nebraska. Therefore, nobody can say that it is NOT their problem, it effects you and your children as well; so please listen and if you can afford to donate some dollars for this project, please do that. You can start with one dollar.
People all over Japan are taking part in the activities of NPOs like http://www.sunflower-fukushima.com/ and multiply sunflower seeds. They want to plant 120 million. We have started to become engaged in this "phyto-remediation" program for reducing the cesium in the soil of Fukushima.
The Japanese government had belittled the efforts of the NGOs in Fukushima and stated that sunflowers were not efficient in collecting cesium. However, research in the US by Prof. Leon Kochian's team, with whom we are already in contact, the primary limitation to removing cesium from soils with plants was its bioavailability. The form of the element made it unavailable to the plants for uptake. He has shown that it is possible to "super-charge" specific plants to become hyperaccumulators. In a series of soil extraction studies, Kochian's team found the ammonium ion (in form of ammonium nitrate) was most effective in dissolving cesium-137 in soils. This treatment increased the availability of cesium-137 for root uptake and significantly stimulated radioactive cesium accumulation in plant shoots. One species, Amaranthus retroflexus, was up to 40 times (!) more effective than others tested in removing radiocesium from soil. It was possible to remove 3 percent of the total amount in just one 3-month growing season. With two or three yearly crops, the plant could clean up the contaminated site in less than 15 years! (http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/ar/archive/jun00/soil0600.htm)
In other words, using his methods could reduce the radiation in the soil within five years to about 50% of the current level.
That still leaves the question, what to do with the biomass. With the BOC system, proposed by us, we can efficiently separate the cesium from the biomass and contain it in radiation-tight containers made from TALBOR, which can completely shield the environment from radiation.
As the BOC process produces renewable diesel fuel or heating oil, another problem can be resolved - financing. It is estimated that cleaning up the soil with phytoremediation costs about $100 per ton of decontaminated soil. An acre has about 120 tons of contaminated soil (at 2.5 inch depth), which means $12,000 costs per acre.
If we assume 50 tons of bone-dry biomass per annum, the BOC process can produce about 6 tons (or 1900 gallons) of diesel per annum. This will reduce the cost dramatically and make it much more feasible to use phytoremediation.
With our combined efforts, we can make Fukushima livable again, for the sake of the children.
We therefore ask you to support this important demonstration. Like the tiny town of Schoenau in Germany bought out the grid from the unwilling utility company with donations from the anti-nuclear community, switched completely to renewable energy and received last year the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize from President Obama (http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/awards-season-for-environmenta...), we appeal to the anti-nuclear community to not let the activists in Japan alone and help with small contributions. A bucket full of water is made up from drops.
Please consider feeding this information to your social or professional network.
Best regards,
Hans-Henning Judek
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
As a veteran of World War II and someone who lived through that entire period, I am deeply offended by the statement that the U.S. and its president knew about the bombing of Pearl Harbor before it happened and more-or-less welcomed it. I wonder what school taught such stuff to this anonymous young man.
what many americans still don't know, something i learned in college history, is that the US knew about the japanese planes long before they reached hawaii...it was NOT a surprise attack. the president could have saved many lives.
but in order to get americans 'behind' getting involved in the war, something was allowed to take place. then americans were gung ho.
it has happened again, and again through american history: gulf of tongken, the maine, and yes, even the attacks of 9/11. all to get the people to buy into the wars.
in the case of japan all those years ago, a conditional surrender was already on the president's desk. the japanese were already beaten. but the bombs flew. unnecessarily! except to showcase the horror that US scientists had been covertly developing.
ours is a nightmarish culture, and is beginning to reap the awful seeds it has sown. no big surprise when our young soldiers are brainwashed, turned into monsters that kill innocent people halfway cross the globe, then are ignored and cast away...who cares about ptsd, homeless vets etc.
the mass killings wrought here in our own land pale in comparison to the kill-list peace prize winner president's drone murders of people in there own countries...or americans he deems fit to bomb.
we must say NO. to nukes, to war, to drone strikes, to corporate controlled congress and politics dictating policy to better line their coffers!
we must embrace peace! before it's too late
I hate to say this but it looks like we're going down...
Amen, brother/sister, amen... just like Gore Vidal said before his recent death "America is rotting away, and don't expect President Obama to save it."
War is horror and death. Spiritual sickness feeds it.
Thank you for telling us that the bombs now are 1000 times more powerful and deadly. I had been in denial of the fact that our military, as other militaries are doing, continues to expand the capabilities of its war machine. How horrific to understand the devastation that is possible. Mankind has the choice of total self-destruction or peace.
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Vad ropar de? Jävla neger? Något med gardiner? Kanske "Ta av dig din gardin!"? The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method. On September 18, 2007, a few dozen neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and drug-company executives gathered in a hotel conference room in Brussels to hear some startling news.
It had to do with a class of drugs known as atypical or second-generation antipsychotics, which came on the market in the early nineties. The drugs, sold under brand names such as Abilify, Seroquel, and Zyprexa, had been tested on schizophrenics in several large clinical trials, all of which had demonstrated a dramatic decrease in the subjects' psychiatric symptoms. As a result, second-generation antipsychotics had become one of the fastest-growing and most profitable pharmaceutical classes.
Liminality. In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold"[1]) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete.
During a ritual's liminal stage, participants "stand at the threshold" between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way, which the ritual establishes. Réel symbolique imaginaire. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Réel, symbolique et imaginaire sont trois registres distingués par Jacques Lacan et repris par les psychanalystes d'orientation lacanienne. Ces trois registres sont regroupés dans le schéma RSI proposé par Lacan. Introducing Lacan (9781840466690): Darian Leader, Judy Groves.


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CSREES Awards $4.4 Million in Weedy and Invasive Species Grants
Media Contact: Jennifer Martin, (202) 720-8188
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2009 – USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) today announced $4.4 million in grants to 14 universities to conduct research aimed at developing ecologically and economically rational strategies for management, control or elimination of weedy or invasive species.
"Developing research-based information on controlling and managing weedy and invasive species is critical for America's farmers and ranchers," said Katherine Smith, USDA Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics. "Exotic, invasive species are a particularly prevalent feature of agroecosystems and a major threat to food and fiber production."
Approximately 50,000 species of plants and animals have been introduced into the United States resulting in more than $100 billion in losses and damage each year. Invasive species threaten biodiversity, habitat quality and ecosystems. Exotic, invasive species are a major threat to food and fiber production. Increased globalization and climate change will likely increase the introduction, spread and impact of invasive species.
The awards are administered through the CSREES National Research Initiative (NRI) Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in Agroecosystems competitive grant program.
The grant program has awarded more than $20 million in grants over the past five years. Funded projects include work at Colorado State University to develop ecological and economic risk assessment decision tools for management of cheatgrass invasions. Scientists at the University of Central Florida will study the biological and economic impacts of two invasive mussels on oyster populations. University of Washington researchers will study the indirect impacts of the invasive brown tree snake on forests and agriculture in Guam.
The fiscal year 2008 grants are being awarded to:
- University of Arkansas, $399,963
- University of California - Berkeley, $350,514
- Colorado State University, $497,496
- University of Colorado, $499,851
- University of Central Florida, $370,239
- Boise State University, $99,929
- University of Idaho, $499,997
- Montana State University, $490,987
- University of Nevada $99,988
- North Carolina State University, $10,000
- Clemson University, $318,476
- South Dakota State University, $158,303
- Trinity University, $205,000
- University of Washington, $399,294
CSREES' NRI program is the largest peer reviewed, competitive grants program at USDA. Its purpose is to support research, extension and education grants that address key problems of national, regional and multi-state importance in sustaining all components of agriculture. The 2008 Farm Bill did not renew the NRI, but did authorize the creation of the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). More information about AFRI can be found online at www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/afri/pdfs/
Through federal funding and leadership for research, education and extension programs, CSREES focuses on investing in science and solving critical issues impacting people's daily lives and the nation's future. For more information, visit www.csrees.usda.gov.


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We'll admit, the presence of Mott the Hoople and The Clash do make it significantly more tempting, as does the complete absence of "Don't Want to Miss a Thing," but we think about all that Aerosmith and we're right back at square one. Check out the full list after the break and let us know if you feel the same way.
Tier 1: "Getting the Band Together" (Nipmuc High School)
- "All the Young Dudes" by Mott the Hoople (cover)
- "Draw the Line" by Aerosmith
- "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick
- "Make It" by Aerosmith (re-recorded)
- "Uncle Salty" by Aerosmith
Tier 2: "First Taste of Success" (Max's Kansas City)
- "All Day and All of the Night" by The Kinks (cover)
- "I Hate Myself for Loving You" by Joan Jett
- "Movin' Out" by Aerosmith (re-recorded)
- "No Surprize" by Aerosmith
- "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith
Tier 3: "The Triumphant Return" (The Orpheum)
- "Complete Control" by The Clash
- "Livin' on the Edge" by Aerosmith
- "Love in an Elevator" by Aerosmith
- "Personality Crisis" by New York Dolls (cover)
- "Rag Doll" by Aerosmith
Tier 4: "International Superstars" (Moscow)
- "Bright Light Fright" by Aerosmith
- "King of Rock" by Run-D.M.C.
- "Nobody's Fault" by Aerosmith
- "She Sells Sanctuary" by The Cult
- "Walk This Way" by Run-D.M.C. featuring Aerosmith
Tier 5: "The Great American Band" (Half Time Show)
- "Always on the Run" by Lenny Kravitz
- "Back in the Saddle" by Aerosmith
- "Beyond Beautiful" by Aerosmith
- "Dream On" by Aerosmith (re-recorded)
- "Hard to Handle" by The Black Crowes (cover)
Tier 6: "Rock N Roll Legends" (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
- "Cat Scratch Fever" by Ted Nugent
- "Mama Kin" by Aerosmith (re-recorded)
- "Sex Type Thing" by Stone Temple Pilots
- "Toys In The Attic" by Aerosmith
- "Train Kept A Rollin" by Aerosmith
- "Guitar Battle vs Joe Perry" by Joe Perry
Bonus Songs (The Vault)
- "Combination" by Aerosmith
- "Kings and Queens" by Aerosmith
- "Let The Music Do The Talking" by Aerosmith
- "Mercy" by Joe Perry
- "Pandora's Box" by Aerosmith
- "Pink" by Aerosmith
- "Rats In The Cellar" by Aerosmith
- "Shakin' My Cage" by Joe Perry
- "Talk Talkin" by Joe Perry
- "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith


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Insanely lifelike Morgan Freeman portrait painted on an iPad
A talented artist can get a lot of mileage out of the various art apps available for the iPad, but we ain't never seen anything like this. Digital artist Kyle Lambert has created a portrait of actor Morgan Freeman that's so lifelike we wouldn't have believed he'd painted it at all -- never mind on an iPad.
Luckily, he shot a time-lapse of the process so we can see exactly how it was done. About 200 hours and 285,000 brushstrokes have been condensed down to just three minutes so that you can see, stroke by stroke, how the picture was put together. … Read more