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Flight pioneer Bertrand Piccard, an aeronaut who made the first nonstop round the world balloon flight, recently unveiled a prototype of an incredible solar-powered airplane that will one day circle the globe. Dubbed the Solar Impulse, the plane first caught our attention when it was being developed, and we're thrilled to see a working prototype of the vehicle. Is the age of the solar powered airplane upon us?
The first test of the HB-SIA, (the technical name for the Solar Impulse), will take place at the end of 2009. The Solar Impulse team is aiming for a flight sequence that will last for two days and one night, propelled only by solar energy. Once that test is completed, they plan on traveling around the world.
The Solar Impulse is made out of carbon fibre concentrate, looks like a glider, and has a wingspan of over 60 meters. The wings are covered in almost 12,000 solar cells which store excess power in over 400 kilograms worth of batteries. These solar cells power four ten horsepower electric motors, which propel the plane into flight.
"If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled solely by solar energy, let no one come and claim that it is impossible to do the same thing for motor vehicles, heating and air conditioning systems and computers." said Bertrand Piccard. Sounds like history in the making.
Via Physorg
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turtleairships July 1, 2009 at 10:19 pm
A solar powered, single place airplane is nice; but, how does it bring anything to the masses? It cannot. No airplane can be constructed large enough to carry sufficient solar cells to do MEANINGFUL work; that is…they cannot carry many passengers or cargo. Airplanes such as the Solar Impulse are merely novelties.
However, true, viable solar flight is coming.
How? On board giant, rigid shelled airships. Only airships have the room needed for immense solar cell arrays which are needed to supply power for real workhorse aircraft.
However, these cannot be "blimps", or "dirigibles"; but must be constructed in a new, much stronger manner than ever before. WE ARE TOTALLY COMMITTED TO DOING THIS, and have been working towards this for many years.We are: TURTLE AIRSHIPS
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Milieunet June 30, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Great plane, see some nice videos http://www.stichtingmilieunet.nl/andersbekekenblog/?p=412


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Income to be protected from welfare reform
Changes to welfare payments for housing costs will not damage the income streams of social landlords, the government has promised.
Today's housing strategy states the universal credit welfare system that is replacing other forms of benefit will be constructed so it does not harm housing association finances.
Registered providers have raised concerns that plans to switch payments so they go direct to tenants rather than landlords would lead to an increase in arrears and make lenders more cautious about investing in the sector.
The paper notes there are advantages to paying benefits direct to tenants, but also states: 'We will… design universal credit so that it contains safeguards to help protect social landlords' income streams, and ensure that sufficient support mechanisms are in place for those who need help managing their finances.'
It adds that these safeguards are likely to include 'tenant support' and 'mechanisms to switch payment back to landlords where necessary and arrangements to recoup any arrears'.
Grounds for eviction to be widened
Housing strategy receives mixed reaction
Government launches mortgage guarantee scheme
High-earners will 'pay to stay' in social housing
Cash for communities that approve development
Private firms welcomed into social housing sector
Strategy: private landlord regulation 'unnecessary'
Review to examine bars to institutional investment
Further £50 million to address empty homes
Government sets out right to buy plans
Elderly to be given more control of care
Income to be protected from welfare reform
Landlord wants right to buy extended to RSLs
Self builders to benefit from £30m investment
Housing bodies issue warnings over strategy
CLG reveals details of mortgage indemnity scheme
Councils face compulsory early section 106 reviews
Dromey fears strategy will hurt housing sector
Planning blow risks 16,000 affordable homes
Housing strategy dismissed as 'nonsense'
Shapps defends timing of housing strategy
Housing strategy to be backed by £400m fund
Landlords await their fate ahead of strategy
Who will build them?
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The detail will be very interesting considering Chris Grayling says this ---
Whilst I can appreciate the concerns of.. ..we believe that Universal Credit should, as far as possible, replicate a wage, so the way in which it is paid is of critical importance. We want to see very many more people handle their own benefit and rent payments. The Second Reading of the Welfare Reform Bill in the House of Lords on 13 September marked the next step in the legislative process. Last November's Welfare Reform White Paper noted that there are advantages in paying the housing component to working-age tenants in the social rented sector, rather than the current system of payment direct to landlords. This would encourage people to manage their own budget in the same way as other households.
Tenants of working age who are likely to run into financial difficulties managing their own rent will continue to have their housing support paid directly to their landlord. This will also be the case for current State Pension-age tenants.Sadly the Universal credit sounds like another benefit cut,as
for example a claimant might get a one off weekly payment
of say £100pw,whereas seperate payments of JSA/ HB / CTB
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So for 2011, my goal was to really build my TEOTWAWKI AR. So far that hasn't happened one iota. (I do own a stock A2) Here's what HAS happened though:
Had a friend who needed to pay some bills sell me his 1961 Savage Model 24 over/under. .22 mag top barrel, .410 bottom barrel. Wonderful varmint hunting gun.
Bought a Mosin Nagant 91/30 because Cabela's was selling them cheap. FUN to shoot!
In honor of my first elk hunt, had my hunting mentor give me a SWEET 1980 Marlin lever action .30-30. Beautiful gun, and brand new never fired condition.
Had a deacon from our church give my son a Ruger 10/22 that needs cleaning up, but hey my son loves it. :) It has both the wood stock (pretty beat up) and the synthetic pistol grip model with the folding stock.
Same guy gave me an AWESOME 1988 Ruger Super Single Six with both the .22lr and .22 mag cylinders. (pretty gun...)
And today, to top it off, I had a friend who wants to fund another project sell me his Taurus model 44 .44mag revolver. It has had 30 rounds through it, immaculate. And he let me practically steal it from him.
So the safe is a whole lot more full, though I still haven't gotten my AR built. Think I should still pursue that and try to slip it past my wife?


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July 25 & August 29
Who doesn't love a great outdoor movie in the summer? The Downtown Park will be host to two movies this year. Under the stars on a Friday night, a great event the whole family will love. This year we will be showing The Lego Movie on July 25, and Frozen on August 29. Movies will start at approximately 9PM.
Other 2014 Events
In addition to working with property and business owners and the Town to bring life back to downtown Christiansburg, DCI will be continuing our "Get Down Downtown" event series. All our events are family-friendly, free of charge, and are aimed at fostering a sense of community.
May 17 & September 26
Our inaugural Food Truck Rodeo in 2013 was wildly successful and drew an estimated crowd of over 2000 to downtown Christiansburg to enjoy great street food on a wonderful evening! This year, we are expanding on that success and having not one, but TWO bigger and better Food Truck Rodeos. We are the only town in our region currently holding an event like this, and people come from miles around. Visit our Food Truck Rodeo page for more info.


text: Celine Dion has premiered her new show at Caesars Palace but some people still find her fabulous success a mystery. One of those people was the music critic at the Globe and Mail, Carl Wilson. He set out to explain his own dread of Celine Dion and discovered that he really could understand why her music was so popular.


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210 x 297 mm, 80 pages, colour and b/w photos, maps, 9781907677380, £16.95, Paperback, Helion and Company 15 November 2011
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"Undoubtedly one of the most, if not the most, effective counter-insurgency units in the history of warfare" - Lt-Col Robert Brown, Soldier of Fortune Magazine "Its members consisted of some of the finest guerrilla-fighting men in the western world, unconventional in many ways, disregardful of parade-ground discipline, unorthodox in their dress, yet a force so tightly knit in the face of danger that those who knew anything about them could only marvel" – The Citizen. Formed in 1973 by the legendary Lieutenant-Colonel Ron Reid-Daly at the behest of Rhodesian military supremo General Peter Walls, the Selous Scouts were to write their name into the annals of military history as one of the finest counterinsurgency units of all time, through their innovative pseudo-guerrilla tactics, brilliant reconnaissance operations into Zambia and Botswana and daring flying-column raids into Mozambique. Feared and hated by the liberation movements ZIPRA and ZANLA, the Scouts wreaked untold havoc and destruction on their Soviet- and Chinese-backed enemies, accounting for 68% of guerrilla casualties within Rhodesia alone during the bitter bush war of the 1970s. Uniquely ahead of its time, the regiment, a brotherhood of men that traversed cultural and racial barriers with their Shona motto of "Pamwe Chete" (together only), was to produce the type of soldier that earned for the unit one Grand Cross of Valour, nine Silver Crosses and 22 Bronze Crosses of Rhodesia.About the AuthorPeter Baxter is an author, amateur historian and African field, mountain and heritage travel guide. Born in Kenya, Peter has lived and travelled over much of southern and central Africa and has guided in all the major mountain ranges south of the equator. Peter lives in the United States, working on the marketing of African heritage travel as well as a variety of book projects. He is married with three children.
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5 Excellent.davo66adam | 05/07/2009 | See all davo66adam's reviews (1)Bought this TV for my mum (don't normally spend so much, but she loves tennis and had a tiny 19" rubbish LCD) and she loves it. I was worried she would think it was too big, but to be honest it's ok. For small to medium rooms it's ok, if your room is any bigger maybe think of a 42".Colours are very neutral and look natural, not saturated or over-done on contrast. We just did the auto set-up of digital channels only. Picture quality and sharpness is excellent.The Electronic Programme Guide is good too, ok for my 'techno-phobe' mum. Remote is well laid out too and not over complicated.Only one thing i noticed - the stated composite inputs on the rear panel are actually component. Composite inputs are on the side panel.Composite are yellow (vid), with red+white (stereo sound), Component is red/green/blue (vid) phono plugs (YPbPr) - also required are the audio (red+white) leads.Everything else is as stated, bargain really. Mum likes the little tune it plays when putting it on standby from the remote. (little things)You can allocate the extra inputs a name, so instead of EXTL or AV2, etc, you can name them DVD, VCR, etc.Play delivered within 4 days via courier. Not too heavy, one person can manage.Hope this helps. Thanks Play.
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5 Great!!Jfftoh444 | 24/04/2010 | See all Jfftoh444's reviews (8)Cheapest place to get it. The main use was for gaming on the PS3. Great look, the black surface does show up dirt and fingermarks like hell though, not a huge problem as your given a nice cloth in the box to wipe it down :) lolHad to connect an ariel to get freeview, picture is pretty good with freeview. Obvisouly not as good as if your gonna hook up some Sky HD to it ectWhen we finally connected the ps3 up to the tv in HD. my eyes melted. The difference was amazing, when i now go to a friends i cry, it just looks rubbish if its not in HD!My main complaint is the control. It looked... nasty.... felt like crap.When trying to navigate the menu's (which there are alot of, so you can easily customise all your settings) it was laggy and unresponsive, the menu's are easy to read, good layout and simple. Just that selecting what you want is slow and annoying.Overall, Stylish, Cheap, Great picture, Great sound, Beautiful to look at when in HD, Easy to navigate, Horrible remote, Unresponsive Remote, Dust collected is easy to see.
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Wednesday night at 10:00pm (9:00pm Central), ABC's Primetime Nightline will air a one-hour special on psychic abilities. James Randi, along with JREF President D.J. Grothe, JREF's Million Dollar Challenge Director Banachek, and advisor Jamy Ian Swiss, worked with Nightline producers on two of the segments and participated in three days of taping, including the JREF's first-ever open Million Dollar Challenge event where hundreds of New York City psychics were invited to take our tests. You can watch ABC's 30-second teaser for the show and see behind-the-scenes photos at Randi.org. Make sure to watch Wednesday night!
The James Randi Educational Foundation was a proud co-sponsor of this year's Camp Inquiry, help August 1-6 in Holland, New York. Nearly fifty campers, aged 7 to 17, enjoyed roasted marshmallows, nature hikes, singalongs, and new friends — all while using reason and evidence to explore life's questions. JREF Director of Education Michael Blanford created original programming for the campers, and the highlight for many was Randi's visit on the final day of Camp. Read the full story.
Our new Field Coordinator Brian Thompson has set great plans for the rest of the year, and we'll be resourcing grassroots groups more than ever with speakers, sponsorship, training, and networking and promotional support. The JREF is developing a comprehensive set of free resources for anyone looking to create, join, or maintain a grassroots skeptical organization, including pamphlets, manuals, and interactive workshops on how to execute an effective skeptical activism campaign. These resources will be made available on our new Web site when we launch it this fall. We're also working on several online features that will make it easier for skeptics to find each other and for local groups to recruit new members. In September, we're participating in a speaking tour across nine cities in Canada in coordination with Centre for Inquiry Canada, where Randi will inform and energize local skeptics with his unique presentations. This fall, the JREF will be collaborating with the National Capital Area Skeptics and the University of Maryland Society of Inquiry to conduct an educational workshop on Dowsing and the Ideomotor Effect in Washington, D.C. This is just one of several educational workshops the JREF is bringing to grassroots groups. If you want to start a local group or get your organization connected to the JREF's grassroots resources, email Brian Thompson at email@example.com.
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National Steering Committee on Peacebuilding and Conflict Management (NSC) was established in 2001 within the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government in the Office of the President, and became operational in November 2002 with the placement of a Secretariat.
NSC is an interagency committee that seeks to strengthen, co-ordinate, and integrate various conflict management initiatives, the government and civil society organizations (CSOs).
As an interagency, NSC brings together in a bid to co-ordinate and consolidate efforts geared towards peace building and conflict management in Kenya as well as cross-border peace stakeholders, representatives from relevant Government Ministries and Departments, umbrella civil society organizations, development partners, and UN agencies.


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We worked with the team at Instructables to create 3D prints of a muscle in the horse that is important in locomotion. The deep digital flexor muscle and tendon unit acts like a spring--it stores large amounts of energy so that horses can gallop at high speeds in an energetically efficient manner. Like our horse bone 3D print, our goal was to visualize internal structures--in this case, the tendons within the muscle. We first obtained an MRI scan of a horse's hindlimb (see region labeled in photograph), then created 3D models for the muscle and tendon from the images. We used the the Instructables' 3D printer to print a two-material model, with the muscle printed in a clear resin and the tendon printed in opaque white material.
Step 1: Materials and tools
3D printer
ImageJ or other image segmentation software that can import medical images
Meshlab - surface model editor
There are a number of options for image segmentation and model editing software, some with quite sophisticated algorithms that might be needed for challenging image sets. We describe the open source options in this Instructable (ImageJ, Meshlab, Blender), though some processes may be done more easily with proprietary software packages (e.g. Mimicis, Simpleware).
Step 2: Get an MRI scan of a muscle
Step 3: Segment the region of interest from the scan
(Alternatively, there are software packages that specialize in segmentation and model creation from medical images such as MRI and CT scans that are costly but are useful for this step, e.g. Mimics, Simpleware, Amira. 3D slicer is a free alternative to ImageJ.)
This was done manually on each of the 196 slices by painting our desired region using the selection brush. Our region is surrounded by similar looking muscle, and in some slices they blend together, so there was not an easy, automated method of identifying our region. This process would not be efficient or practical if we had to segment many MRI scans, but for a single scan it was a reasonable method. In the image above, the red region identifies the region that we want to model.
Step 4: Isolate the segmented region for further segmentation
Step 5: Segment the tendon region within the ROI
Note that the ease of segmentation is highly dependent on the quality of the image scan! For example, an artifact such as a background gradient may require more sophisticated segmentation algorithms than basic thresholding.
Step 6: Create surfaces from segmentations
Once we had the whole muscle-tendon STL and the tendon STL, we used Meshlab to clean and smooth the surface models. The tendon model is jagged-looking when first exported because of the voxels in the original MRI scan; the smoothing algorithm gets rid of the rough appearance and also eliminates small islands of the model that are not connected to the main Then we used Blender to subtract the tendon model from the whole muscle-tendon model using a boolean modifier. Finally we have a model for the muscle region excluding the tendon--this surface model was export as an STL.
We were interested in visualizing how the branches of the tendons were oriented within the muscle, so we divided the model further by creating sections--this was also done using boolean operations within Blender.


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Since taking office, Kenyan has worked to provide meaningful representation for Ward 5. He has worked diligently with residents and public officials to introduce legislation, coordinate resources, and deliver services in order to improve the quality of life for all Ward 5 residents.
Kenyan's story is deeply rooted in Ward 5. A third-generation Washingtonian and native of Ward 5, Kenyan was raised in a working-class family of six in the Stronghold neighborhood of Northeast, Kenyan is the third of four children. Raised by an electrician and a library technician, he learned early on the importance of family, hard work, education, perseverance and public service.
As an experienced attorney and civil rights advocate, Kenyan is a proven community leader. For more than a decade, Kenyan has dedicated himself to improving the lives of Ward 5 residents and the collective life of the community. In addition to serving as president of his neighborhood's civic association, Kenyan has held leadership positions in numerous local community organizations. Throughout his career, Kenyan has developed a comprehensive understanding of the inner workings of the District of Columbia and federal governments, and has worked extensively with members of area civic associations, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners, and government officials to solve problems, improve services, and to achieve successes for Ward 5 residents.
Kenyan's ability to positively transform the future of Ward 5 and its residents is exemplified both by his achievements in public service and in his own life. Educated in the District of Columbia, Kenyan attended Shaed Elementary in Edgewood and graduated from St. Anthony Grade School in Brookland. He went on to graduate from Woodrow Wilson High School, where he played varsity basketball. After graduating from high school, Kenyan worked for several years as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. He eventually found the courage to resign from his position with the Postal Service in order to attend college. Kenyan enrolled at the University of the District of Columbia, eventually graduating summa cum laude from Howard University with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Community Development and becoming the first male in his family ever to graduate from college.
After college, Kenyan began a career in public service, working on the staff of Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. Armed with a passion for public service as well as a strong desire to make positive changes in his community, Kenyan enrolled in law school. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he served as an editor of the University of Maryland Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class.
Prior to being elected Councilmember, Kenyan worked as a policy advisor to the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice, helping to shape policy and legislation concerning public safety in the District of Columbia. Prior to joining the Deputy Mayor's office, he served as a trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he conducted investigations and managed cases throughout the United States regarding enforcement of key federal civil rights statutes—including defending the rights of the mentally ill, nursing home residents, persons with disabilities, and also working to reform the policies and procedures of police departments throughout the country. Before serving in the Justice Department, he worked as an Assistant State's Attorney in Prince George's County, where he prosecuted misdemeanor and felony cases in District Court and on appeal in Circuit Court. He also served as a judicial law clerk for an Associate Judge on the 7th Judicial Circuit of Maryland.
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With $20 bucks, the force can be strong with you.It seems like Lucas Arts has begun to kick the tires on the original Bioware hit, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, by making it, and its sequel, available as a re-release on PC .
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a critical success game. Known as Bioware's first big hit, it featured an aspiring Force attunement system, which allowed you to make conversation decisions that could make you more Light side or Dark side depending of your choice. This is also one of the first games to make you feel like you could be a jedi. KOTOR II was made by Obsidian. It cribbed a lot from the first game, but it had its own flaws.
Making the discs available again is a good move. This makes it possible for people who can't download the games due to internet issues able to get the games. Although it's ten dollars for games that rang from ten years to eight years old respectively, it is definitely worth it.
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The Microsoft Internet Explorer may still be the most widely used Internet browser but it's certainly not the most favored. Microsoft has resorted to a few gimmicks including giving away gifts to anyone who would download the Internet Explorer 9.
This time though, Internet Explorer is copying Chrome by silently updating the web browser. Without you knowing, your current IE browser will be upgraded to the next version. This will begin in January on all Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP machines. This new effort will roll out in Brazil and Australia first.
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VID (30/06): Have you ever wanted to watch Martin Jol dance to the Macarena and the Birdie Song? No? I'm afraid we're going to show it to you anyway. (courtesy of the excellent OffThePost)
VID (30/06): It is nine years today since the 2002 World Cup final between Germany and Brazil in South Korea. Scary. Here's the highlights from Spanish TV, with a commentator who has the lung capacity of a synchronised swimmer. 'Goooooooooooooooooooooooooollllll!'
VID (29/06): Andre Villas-Boas denied it at this morning's press conference, but the spectre of Jose Mourinho will follow him around the Stamford Bridge corridors as he settles in to the Chelsea hotseat. This video proves it. 'They are trying to get my job,' he complains.
VID (28/06): Former Manchester City captain Mike Doyle passes away at the age of 64, re-live one of his goals against old foes United when pitches were muddy and a referee had their own secret hand movements. The good old days.
VID (27/06): This one isn't for the squeamish. Anderlecht's Jan Leckjak falls on his own arm, bending it at a sickening, freakish angle, during the Euro U21s third-place play-off (unearthed by Who Ate All The Pies). Ouch.
VID (27/06): Hartlepool fans can buy a season ticket for £100, which, coincidentally, seems to have been the budget for this shocking promotional video.
VID (25/06): Forget Becks and Thierry, this is why we love the MLS. After robbing the ball from New York goalkeeper Greg Sutton, Seattle's Roger Levesque celebrates his tap-in with a scuba dive off the advertising board. Genius.
STORY (25/06): Criminals, crooks, thieves and the mafia. Read this bizarre statement released on Hearts' official website.
VIDEO (23/06): Nothing, surely, can compete with this for the title of 'most bizarre sending off ever'? Aaron Ecclestone of Melbourne side Old Hill Wanderers Reserves is dismissed for having his penis pierced - something the referee insists upon inspecting in the dressing room - before hauling him back on the pitch to issue the red card. The full story is here.
TWITTER (22/06): Yeovil manager Terry Skiverton is using Twitter to help him uncover a few gems. Skint Skiverton can't afford any scouts so wants help from his 2,000 followers. Submit your suggestions here.
STORY (22/06): Zenit St. Petersburg goal-machine Danko Lazovic gives a fan his shirt after his team's 2-0 victory over FC Volga. Nice touch. But the Russian police don't like it and zap Lazovic with a taser - before denying using the electroshock weapon.
VID (22/06): Here's a Chinese pitch invader swinging for the referee who shows neat footwork to dodge his attacker. And what happened to Respect the Referee? With the exception of the No.5, the players just watch on like nothing's happening.
PIC (21/06): This pic has been doing the rounds today. It 'shows' Stewart Downing holding up a Liverpool scarf alongside Andy Carroll (nice to see him sticking by his booze promise to Capello, by the way). However, the eagle-eyed amongst you may spot the giveaway that this is a fake. There are four left hands in the photo - three on the scarf and one on the lovely barmaid's left shoulder.
STORY (19/06): Random. That's the only description for this story. Smiths frontman Morrissey apparently wants to hook up with Joey Barton at Glastonbury. Told you.
STORY (18/06): Stickers featuring the world's finest female players have proved so popular that Panini have been forced to print a million more to cope with high demand. We'll swap you Birgit Prinz for Abby Wambach. Deal?
VID (18/06): They may have failed to win their first two games at the Euro U21 Champs, but Psycho's young Three Lions are looking like world-beaters in training. Pass and move.
VID (17/06): The play-off draw for the right to play in the Spanish third tier was made this week. The president of one of the clubs involved drew the balls for his side's half of the draw - a strange choice, no? We at The Pulse would never allege wrongdoing, but look at the POINTING into the bowl by the drawmaster! And the GRINNING! And the PUNCHING OF THE AIR!
STORY (16/06): The denim-style shirt donned by the USA when they hosted the 1994 World Cup was awful, but a lucky escape compared to the tie-dye number they nearly chose.
VID (14/06): After threatening to tear Gary Neville's moustache out with his teeth for tweeting Oasis lyrics, what will Noel Gallagher make of Wayne Rooney's slightly-worse-for-wear karaoke rendition of Wonderwall? There's some Beatles at the start of the clip, just to make it worse.
STORY (13/06): Tragedy struck at the family home of former Aston Villa misfit striker Savo Milosevic over the weekend when the former Serbia international's father was shot dead by his own dad.
PICS (13/06): This is what Dirk Kuyt and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar got up to when they went clubbing together while on holiday in Rio. Footballers? Brazilian girls? What else were you expecting?
STORY (12/06): Kenny Dalglish's spending habits are lurching out of control, reports The Daily Mash.
VID (12/06): We're not fond of quoting Paul Merson, but the The Pulse can only descrbe this goal by Eric Hassli of Vancouver Whitecaps as 'a worldy'.
VID (11/06): Losing any penalty shootout is devastating. But to lose one in this fashion really must be hideous. Check out the most bizarre winning spot kick for Termeno in a promotion play-off against Dro in the seventh tier of the Italian league.
VID (10/06): The recently retired Gary Neville is looking to carve out a new career in baseball. But he'll have to improve his pitching technique if he wants to join the Chicago White Sox roster. Take cover!
STORY (10/06): Arsenal fans will be horrified to learn what goes on behind closed doors at Abou Diaby's digs after the midfielder blabbed about his wardrobe secrets.
VID (09/06): Could Usain Bolt be Fergie's secret weapon to stop Barcelona ruling Europe? According to the fastest man on the planet, he reckons he's good enough to play for Manchester United when he hangs up his running spikes. And we think he's actually being serious.
PIC (09/06): Did you hear the one about Wayne Rooney, Andy Carroll and erm, Gary McAllister, going on holiday together in Barbados...
STORY (08/06): If you are one of Rio Ferdinand's 1.15m followers on Twitter, or indeed one of Mirror hack Oliver Holt's 40,000 disciples, you'll know all about their rather nasty spat that got the football Twittersphere raging overnight. After a jibe about Rio's 2003 missed drugs test in his paper, Ferdinand sent a profane private message to the journalist, calling him a 'fat prick'. Holt made this public. Rio was furious. Here's Holt's column this morning, explaining, but not exactly calming, the furore.
STORY (07/06): New Fulham boss Martin Jol has two brothers. One is Dick, a Fifa-accredited international referee. The other is Cock, his former assistant at Hamburg. And you thought Danny Shittu had it bad.
STORY (07/06): Newcastle are a step closer to a team full of Taylors, with Swansea left-back Neil set to join Steven and Ryan at St James' Park. Mike Ashley might have his heart set on this bizarre record set by an Italian amateur side where all the players, and even the doctor and club secretary, shared the surname 'De Feo'.
VID (07/06): More evidence that we need goal-line technology - and competent officials - after this 'goal' is remarkably disallowed in Argentina.
VID (06/06): In the wake of the weekend's further allegations about Ryan Giggs and his brother's missus, he may well look back on this video and cringe at the bitter irony of it all. Then again, he's probably got bigger things to fret about.
TWEET (06/06): "Little Jack Warner, backed in a corner, threatened to pipe up & squeal. Along came Blatter, with used bills from Qatar, and cut him into the deal." 'BeardedGenius' lives up to his name with an inspired and much-retweeted Fifa limerick on Twitter.
STORY (06/06): OK, sorry, it's not football, but this is superb.
VID (05/06): La Liga side Valencia don't seem to have grasped the concept of marketing in an advert for their new kit launch. You'll notice a distinct lack of product placement as the players of Los Che decide to bare all.
VID (05/06): Is your team struggling to sell season tickets? Well take a leaf out of Getafe's book and create the most depressing advert ever which includes a suicidal koala bear. That will shift them...
PIC (04/06): Man City striker Edin Dzeko is trapped in a Romanian sandwich after being studded in the face and crotch simultaneously during Bosnia's Euro 2012 qualifying defeat.
STORY (04/06): Not keen on following in the headsteps of Sir Bobby's famous comb-over, Wayne Rooney is having secret treatment to grow his hair back.
TWITTER (02/06): Catfight! Imogen Thomas is copping flak from all sides, including the Lady of the Manor of Frodsham. Judy Cisse, wife of Djibril who now plays for Panathinaikos, took time out from shopping for Christian Louboutins and pruning her begonias to give her two penneth on the whole sorry affair, prompting a furious response from the Welsh WAG-worrier.
TWITTER (02/06): Meanwhile Michael Owen and Piers Morgan are also having a ding-dong, after the Man Utd striker admitted he preferred "playing less often in a top team than every game in a poor team." Actually that quote has made a lot of twitter users very very angry.
VID (01/06): Marco Materazzi sets an example by celebrating Inter's Cup win over Palermo by throwing ice cold water over this unsuspecting presenter and analyst.
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Do You Want to Be on the Food Network Star Finale? — Find Out How
by Sarah De Heer in Community, July 11, 2014Food Network Star fans will have a chance to ask Alton, Bobby, Giada and all 12 finalists questions during the final episode, which airs August 10 at 9|8c. Before the winner is revealed, everyone will gather at Food Network headquarters on August 6 to tell all and view never-before-seen footage from the season. Bobby, Alton and Giada will also share their favorite moments during an emotional look back at the remaining finalists' journey to the finale.
Is there something you've been dying to know from the season? Do you want to be on the Food Network Star finale?
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All that is left om my old nokia phone is a backup in the nbf format. It seems I cannot restore the backup without the phone using pc suite . Surely there must be some other way to at least browse the content of the backup, such as an nbf reader?
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[Linux] Htop is a terminal-based process monitor. It is like 'top', but better.
Posted By Derrik On April 16, 2013 @ 1:46 AM In Linux | 1 Comment
[1]When you're on a Linux system, there's a ton of resource management programs to choose from, but few are any good. That's where Htop comes in. Htop is a terminal-based process monitor. It can tell you almost everything there is to know about your computer in a fast and responsive way.
Main Functionality
Htop is a resource monitor for Linux. More specifically, it shows information about running processes, such as CPU and RAM usage.
[2]Htop is like the 'top' command but better:
>>In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes and complete command lines.
>>In 'top' you are subject to a delay for each unassigned key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape sequences are triggered by accident).
>>'htop' starts faster ('top' seems to collect data for a while before displaying anything).
>>In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number to kill a process, in 'top' you do.
>>In 'htop' you don't need to type the process number or the priority value to renice a process, in 'top' you do.
>>'htop' supports mouse operation, 'top' doesn't
>>'top' is older, hence, more used and tested.
Htop is my go-to resource viewer for my systems. It's a wonderful tool, one with a ton of options and one that is very easy to use. I tend to gravitate towards command line based tools for one reason. Configuration. I love that I can just type in Htop with a few switches and have it run exactly the way I want, and I could even automate that with a bash script. Almost all the GUI resource managers have similar if not identical features, but the reason I like Htop is because of the terminal emulator I use. With Terminator, I have a tiled terminal setup. That means if I'm doing some major work I can just split the terminal into as many windows as I need and just run Htop in one of the windows.
Now, I just use Htop as a regular resource viewer, but my sysadmin friends tell me that this is a wonderful tool. From what I've seen Htop do, I can agree. Everything is just right there and it's all so configurable. About the only negative thing I can say about Htop is the fact that there's only two color schemes. I'm usually a big fan of skinning my applications as well as color coding things to the way I want, so I was a bit bummed that there really wasn't too much along the line of personalization.
A lot of desktop environments have their own gui resource manager, and they usually are pretty decent, but I am almost never impressed with any of them. They're usually so compacted and poorly designed. Htop is not in the least disorganized. Everything is so neat and tidy, color coded, and you have a decent amount of options right in the terminal. This program is my obvious favorite and I use it very often. I don't plan on switching any time soon. Nothing else comes even close.
If you're into terminal programs or you're a sysadmin that lives under a rock, you need to check out Htop. There's just no way around it. It's a must have. This program tells you everything you'll need to inspect your Linux system in regards to running processes. Htop is easily one of the best ways to view your processes, CPU load, and memory usage on Linux.
Price: Free
Version reviewed: 1.0.1
Supported OS: Any Linux distro
Download size: 428.1 KB
Is it portable? No
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Instead we spent most of our time strolling around the less hostile meat and seafood sections in the back. We knew we were in a good place when we saw fresh cow brains awaiting us. MMMMMM!
Hungry in Vietnam
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Abandoned Building Pho
Pho Bo Dac Biet
Hanoi Street Market on Pho Gia Ngu
The Road to Sapa
Sapa Market
Sapa Eats
Goodbye Sapa
Street Cart Banh Mi
Street Mollusks
Pho 24
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The Best Women's Swimwear for Every Budget
We put a slew of suits through 11 tests to find these 5 picks
Best Body Shaping
The more Lycra content, the smoother your shape. At 55 percent, the top-scoring Miraclesuit one-piece packs it in. The foam underwire cups are a highlight of its superb construction. Shopping details: Front-drape one-piece, style #61966 in blue (five other colors available), $128, Miraclesuit; 888-997-5030, miraclesuit.com; sizes 8-16.
Best Coverage
Jantzens stylish bandeau kept its form best in stretch tests. The bra and lining are the same color as the suit no beige to peek out. Front draping hides figure flaws, with one downside: All that fabric took over six hours to dry. Shopping details: Front-drape bandeau, style #Q8SS1080 in red (two other colors available, $100. Jantzen; beachbliss.com; sizes 6-16.
Sexy, Not Showy
Our consumers loved the hint-of-cleavage look of Mossimo for Targets halter one-piece. While the fabric performance was average on our tests, the full, color-matched lining is a plus for modesty rarely seen at this low price. Shopping details: Halter one-piece, style #ABF21 in turquoise (five other colors available), $35, Mossimo for Target; Target, target.com; sizes S-XL.
Size Wise
The two pieces of JCPenneys Bisou Bisou bandini are sold separately perfect if you need different sizes. Side boning and bra inserts give the top some shape for smaller busts. The fabric did well on all tests save UV light, so prepare for fading. Shopping details: Two-piece color-block bandini separates, #288-7482 in blue only, $38 each, Bisou Bisou for JCPenney; JCPenney. jcpenney.com; sizes S-XL.
Best Value
The basic tank from Catalina for Wal-Mart costs less than $20, and the fabric looked great after multiple washes, had minimal pilling, faded little, and dried in just over 1 1/2 hours. Drawback: The suit doesnt offer much shaping or bra support. Shopping details: Basic tank, style #95012H8 in black (14 other colors available), $14.86 (plus sizes, $16.86), Catalina for Wal-mart; Wal-Mart, walmart.com; sizes S-L, 1X-3X.
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GHRI rated suits for:
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10th Inning preview: Mark Grace
JUL 19, 2013 4:06p ET
The complete episode debuts Sunday, immediately following the Diamondbacks- Giants game. This month's 10th Inning also includes segments on Patrick Corbin's and Paul Goldschmidt's trip to the MLB All-Star Game and an in-home visit with veteran Eric Chavez.
If you miss the debut, the show is scheduled to re-air at the following times.
Sunday, July 21: 10 p.m.
Monday, July 22: 6:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 23: 5:30 p.m.
Friday, July 26: 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 27: 11 p.m.
Sunday, July 28: 10 p.m.
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Tuesday, January 12
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Sacramento, CA (Sports Network) - Dwight Howard filled the stat sheet with 30 points, 16 rebounds, five assists, three steals and three blocks, and Orlando dominated the fourth quarter in a 109-88 victory over the Kings.
"We came out with a great defensive effort as a team," Howard said.
Mickael Pietrus donated 18 points and 10 boards for the Magic, who have won two straight on the heels of a season-high four-game slide. Jason Williams and Ryan Anderson each chipped in 12 points for the victors.
Tyreke Evans scored 18 points and Beno Udrih 15 for Sacramento, which has dropped six of its last seven. Omri Casspi logged 11 points, 11 boards and five helpers in the loss.
Orlando trailed 78-76 heading to the fourth but proceeded to outscore the Kings, 33-10, in the final 12 minutes.
"That fourth quarter put a damper on a game where we did so many good things against another top team in basketball," Kings head coach Paul Westphal said.
Anderson got the final frame started with a three-pointer, and Pietrus added a three-point play for an 88-80 lead three minutes in.
Howard's putback dunk two minutes later made it 92-82, and the big man capped the clinching 13-2 run with a free throw for a 101-84 lead at the 2:32 mark.
After playing to a 24-24 score in the first quarter, Sacramento led, 55-51, at the break before an evenly-match third frame ended with the Kings still clinging to a two-point edge.
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BATON ROUGE, LA (FOX44) — The Louisiana State Police reports that Russell W. Vaughn, 32, carried a riffle to the top of the steps on Wednesday, June 19 at roughly 11:15 a.m. When security approached him, he refused to drop the weapon and eventually fled the area.
A security officer was able to get the rifle before he ran away. They determined that it was actually a BB pellet gun.
Vaughn was taken into custody this morning on unrelated charges. Reports indicate that those charges were for Simple Assault and Disturbing the Peace. He was arrested by the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office.
State Police received a tip that Vaughn was connected to the incident at the Capitol. He was questioned about the incident and he made "incriminating statements to investigators."
Vaughn was charged with Resisting Arrest. He was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the indictment of MICHAEL TORRES, 29, on charges of Predatory Sexual Assault, Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree, Attempted Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree, Attempted Rape in the First Degree, Reckless Endangerment in the First Degree, Sexual Abuse in the First Degree, for attacking a victim on the platform at the J subway train at the Bowery Street Station. [1]
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Worried councils are reporting huge backlogs in their benefits departments due to problems with a new IT system vital to the government's flagship benefit reforms.
Councils have seen backlogs of thousands of files, in some cases upwards of 10,000, build up under the automated transfers to local authority systems project, or ATLAS.
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David Ponton-Brown, revenues and benefits manager at Scarborough Council, said: 'This has caused severe delays during the past year.'
Breckland Council wrote to the Department for Work and Pensions, which runs ATLAS, earlier in the year because of 'problems including wrong, out of date and duplicate information being sent'.
The backlogs are particularly worrying because ATLAS forms an integral part of the DWP's benefit cap, which comes into force in April 2013. And the DWP committee warned, in a report published yesterday, that the efficient transfer of data between DWP systems and ATLAS is vital 'to the successful implementation of universal credit'.
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However, a DWP spokesperson said ATLAS is forecast to save £750 million in overpayments and will cut down on administrative time.
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Oh dear, it isn't going wonderfully well at all.
From 12 days to 10 days and all for the cost of how many millions. The projected savings of £750 million will just be more claptrap and never materialise.
they could have it down to 1 day if they only realised that the solution is NOT in an IT system.sorry to change the subject.
I came across this on NHF site
How will the bedroom tax operate under Universal Credit?
FROM APRIL 13 joint tenancy cases the bedroom tax can still apply.
Under UC Bedroom tax not applied in joint- tenancy cases.
Does this mean that because my husband & I are joint tenants, we will be exempt from the bedroom tax, under UCnow there's a surprise!!
My belly hurts from laughting
Patatwirra - unless you have unearthed something that nobody has seen before the bedroom tax will apply to joint tenancies and will come under UC. There is no difference whether its a single or joint tenancy as it is still a single HB claim.
Back to article one point to add is that all this added workload comes at a time of reducing HB staff which is also part of UC plans as the uber-efficient IT system UCIT (often prefixed with a 'F') ...you know the one that has cost in excess of £2bn to link in the tax and benefit system..means in the minds of the colaition that they are not needed.
Yes thats the same IT system we are told will deal with 5000 successful cases per day (thats 1.86m per year when running 24/7 and 365.25 days per year) ....with each case involving welfare benefit and housing benefit determinations....you know HB ....yes that one that has over 5m claimants and has to be be checked at least once every year....
Now hang on, how can an IT system with a capacity of 1.86m cases per year cope with determining 5m+ HB cases alone in a year? You see why the 'F' is needed now?There would have been problems with the previous IT systems but that's no reason not to bring new systems in. If the naysayers had their way we'd all still be using paper instead of computers...
All the councils need to do is employ more staff to meet the massive extra demand of administering the Ununiversal Benefit - but of course those Councils still need to factor in 20% cuts in staffing costs, as well as cuts in national funding of local benefit support costs.
Couldn't the numbskull Tories see why this might prove to be a problem - stand by for the blame machine going into overdrive.The blame machine has been in overdrive for a long time -- 'tis always the fault of social sector tenants.
A couple of quick additions to add to some of the comments received so far. While the average time taken to process changes of circumstance for HB claimants was 10 calendar days for the first quarter of 2012/13, compared to 11 calendar days in the 1st quarter of 2011/12 a breakdown of the figures might be instructive. In April (2012/13) the average speed of processing changes of circumstances was nine days. This rose to 10 days in May and 11 days in June. So the next quarter's figures are probably important in terms of judging the cumulative impact of ATLAS.
And in reply to 'P Righteousness' it is fair to say that none of the councils I spoke to were against ATLAS - most were broadly in favour. They were just unhappy with its impact so far and the amount of errors in the system which meant they felt they had to manually process much of the information rather than uploading it automatically.
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Let's look at some positives of ad campaigns starting with Uncharted 3. Recently a video came out showing Harrison Ford playing this highly anticipated title. While watching big name stars playing video games is nothing new, this video highlighted the excitement and enjoyment with nothing more than having Mr. Ford play the game while the camera caught his childlike expressions as he gamed. By the end of the video viewers got a sense that he was having a genuinely good time and that increased excitement levels for the game. They may not have plastered the screen with review scores and quotes from articles produced by big name reviewers, but it is effective nonetheless.
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