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Largely because early detection is rare, pancreatic cancer is the deadliest of all the major cancers. The survival rate has not improved in over 40 years, and while the incidence rates are declining for many cancers, pancreatic cancer continues to increase. But there is hope, thanks to cutting edge research that seeks to improve detection, treatment, prevention, and to ultimately cure this deadly disease.
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Buzzfeed and the contributors are overrated. Thanks for trying to be "edgy".
Buzzfeed and the contributors are overrated. Thanks for trying to be "edgy".
Love the comment on #23 "*CHECK FLICKR MAIL FOR PERMISSION*" Probably didn't get it….
Buzzfeed, recycling lists and pictures since 2012.
Really? First the onslaught of sloths, now 7th grade science tricks? I think Buzzfeed has jumped the shark.
Why were there no women cheering for Algeria during the World Cup game today? Do they not allow them out of the house?
Seriously… A Buzzfeed post about a boring Reddit thread. Yippee. Way to go! You got me to click.
I remember getting breakfast at Taco Bell in the early 90's on the way to work. They stopped a few years later. This is not new.
Geez, Can we focus on something more important for a while? Like the entire economy, getting people back to work, help for the unemployed, food for those who are hungry. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for nondiscrimination, but we have bigger fish to fry right now.
Such ignorance is astounding. They are called 'vaporizers' for a reason. Water vapor. If they are illegal, then fog machines should be illegal as well.
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Original post made on Jul 18, 2013
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on Jul 18, 2013 at 4:44 pm
Hoping for the best, but sure wish they had hired someone who had real experience as a Superintendent and had worked in/with a community like Portola Valley..
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On the morning of November 14th, 2012, the North of Australia will witness a total solar eclipse. Panasonic, using its HIT(R) solar panels and lithium ion batteries for storage, will produce a live broadcast of this spectacular astronomical phenomenon via USTREAM.
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Broadcasting from Two Bases The main camera at the seashore in Port Douglas and the sub camera at Fitzroy Island will shoot the total eclipse. Both cameras and broadcast systems will work on power generated by the solar panels and stored in the batteries. The videos will be available to view on the following pages.
Dual Screen of the Main and the Sub *Available on PC only. https://www.facebook.com/PanasonicEclipseLiveBySolarPower/app_435671416492320 The Main Channel on Ustream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/panasonic-eclipse-live-by-solar-power-1 The Sub Channel on Ustream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/panasonic-eclipse-live-by-solar-power-2
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Thank you for this Frederick!
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This is one of those plugin's that I will gladly spend money on when my agency picks up.
I'm not a web developer but I am an ex IT admin, so I know that page speed means a lot to google placement and seo and while I'm annoyed that my theme doesn't put their scripting in the body of the page rather than in the header and I still have 36 requests.... I don't think a person can complain about 890ms 931ms and 1.25 second page speed tests.
As for those complaining about the complexity of this plugin... if you would just take the time to read the documentation and play around a little this plugin - while advanced, is not that difficult.
If you want easy, give up the respectability of your own domain and go to wordpress.com and quit your Whining!
Geesh these people work their butts off for the love of helping people and sharing their hard work and give you something you didn't have before and you whine about it. I can't believe you people.
Thanks again Frederick!
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In the 1st part of a 2 part blog series, we reflect on the Year of the Horse and 2014. In the second installment, we look ahead to 2015 and the Year of the Goat. Read more
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Sri Lanka's mineral-extraction industries include mining of gemstones and graphite; excavation of beach sands containing ilmenite and monazite; and quarrying kaolin, apatite, quartz sand, clay, and salt. Among them, gem mining is the most important, producing high-value gemstones such as sapphire, ruby, and topaz, in addition to a variety of semiprecious stones, most of which reach foreign markets. Graphite, ilmenite, and monazite, exported in semiprocessed form, contribute on a small scale to Sri Lanka's foreign earnings. The other minerals are used locally as raw materials in the manufacturing and construction industries.
Until the late 1970s, manufacturing in Sri Lanka was dominated by several large-scale enterprises developed within the state sector to produce goods such as cement, fabricated steel, ceramics, fuel and lubricant oils, paper, leather, tires, textiles, sugar, and liquor. Only a few factory-based industries, most of them producing light consumer goods, were in private hands.
The liberalization policies adopted in 1977 brought significant changes. Some state-owned industrial enterprises were privatized. Fiscal and other concessions were offered to prospective private investors, particularly to attract foreign investments. These included a package of incentives provided at several investment promotion zones. The low wage rates prevalent in the country were an added attraction to the industrial ventures that responded to these incentives. By the early 1990s new industries employed a work force of more than 70,000 and had nearly equaled tea in gross export earnings. Many of them, however, depend on imported inputs and involve considerable repatriation of profits. Hence, they generate relatively low net returns to the economy.
Among the industries that flourished under the liberalization policies was tourism, which, however, remains highly sensitive to political instability. The expansion of tourism, along with the massive irrigation and housing projects undertaken since 1978, have contributed substantially to the growth of the construction industry.
The rivers that cascade down the Central Highlands offer prospects for hydropower development. Some of it is being harnessed at large power stations, including those established under the Mahaweli Development Program. Hydropower provides nearly three-fourths of the country's electricity supply. Imported crude oil is being converted to gasoline and other petroleum products at the state-owned refinery. Some of these products are reexported. Fuelwood continues to be the major source of energy in rural areas.
Banking and the issue of currency are controlled by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. Until the late 1970s, commercial banking was the near-exclusive monopoly of two state-run banks, the Bank of Ceylon and the People's Bank. The postliberalization period allowed the establishment of several private commercial banks and an overall expansion in banking, particularly with the government's decision in 1979 to allow foreign banks to open branches in Sri Lanka. These same trends were replicated in other spheres of commerce such as insurance and wholesale trade in imported goods. The increased participation of the private sector in industry and commerce has led to the emergence of a small but vibrant stock market in Colombo.
Changes in agriculture and industry have brought about a decline in the relative importance of plantation products among the exports and of food commodities among the imports. This, however, has not reduced the adverse balance in foreign trade from which the economy continues to suffer. Most of the trade deficit results from transactions with the industrialized countries of East Asia from which the bulk of imported manufactured goods originate. Usually, small surpluses are generated in the transactions with other major trading partners—France, Germany, the United States, and Saudi Arabia.
Road and rail transport accounts for an overwhelmingly large share of the movement of people and commodities within Sri Lanka. In rail transport the government holds a monopoly. Passenger transport by road is shared by the government and the private sector. The private automobile remains a luxury that only the affluent can afford. The bicycle and the bullock cart are important modes of conveyance, especially in rual areas.
Air Lanka, the national airline, operates regularly between its base at Colombo and several major cities in Asia and Europe. Other airlines that frequent Colombo include the national carriers of Singapore, Thailand, India, the Netherlands, and Britain. The seaport of Colombo handles the bulk of Sri Lanka's shipping, including some transshipments of the Indian ports. International cargo is also handled by the ports at Trincomalee and Galle.
Administration and social conditions
A representative, democratic system of government has existed in Sri Lanka since the termination of British rule in 1948. Elections are regularly held, and citizens over 18 years of age may vote. Fairly contested elections have resulted in several orderly changes of government since independence.
As provided for by the constitution of 1978, the government is headed by an executive president elected directly by popular vote from a national electorate. The president selects a cabinet of ministers and other noncabinet ministers from the parliament. The president is also the commander in chief of the armed forces—army, navy, and air force.
The national parliament consists of more than 200 members. The system of proportional representation that operates at these elections ensures that the number of parliamentary seats secured by each party is roughly proportional to the number of votes received by the party at the polls.
Among the political parties in Sri Lanka, the conservative United National Party and the more liberal Sri Lanka Freedom Party have dominated the political arena since independence. Successive governments have been led by one or the other of these two parties, which, at times, formed coalitions with the smaller parties.
Sri Lanka's constitution provides for certain functions of government to be devolved to provincial councils (palāth sabhā). In addition, the country has a system of local government comprising municipal councils and urban councils.
The independence of Sri Lanka's judiciary is protected by the constitution. The Supreme Court is the highest appellate court and the final arbiter in constitutional disputes. The Court of Appeal, High Court, district courts, magistrate's courts, and primary courts occupy, successively, the lower levels of the hierarchy. The common law of Sri Lanka is based largely on Roman-Dutch law. Principles drawn from indigenous legal traditions are applied to aspects of civil law concerning certain communities.
1English has official status as "the link language" between Sinhala and Tamil. 2Buddhism has special recognition. | |
Official name | Sri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajavadi Janarajaya (Sinhala); Ilangai Jananayaka Socialisa Kudiarasu (Tamil) (Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka) |
Form of government | unitary multiparty republic with one legislative house (Parliament [225]) |
Head of state and government | President: Maithripala Sirisena, assisted by Prime Minister: Ranil Wickremesinghe |
Capitals | Colombo (executive and judicial); Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (Colombo suburb; legislative) |
Official languages | Sinhala; Tamil1 |
Official religion | none2 |
Monetary unit | Sri Lankan rupee (LKR) |
Population | (2013 est.) 20,463,000 Expand |
Total area (sq mi) | 25,332 |
Total area (sq km) | 65,610 |
Urban-rural population | Urban: (2012) 18.2% Rural: (2012) 81.8% |
Life expectancy at birth | Male: (2009) 70.6 years Female: (2009) 78.1 years |
Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literate | Male: (2009) 92.8% Female: (2009) 90% |
GNI per capita (U.S.$) | (2012) 2,920 |


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US 4949348 A Abstract A blue-green laser (450-550 nm) uses a host crystal doped with Tm3+. The Tm+ is excited through upconversion by a red pumping laser and an IR pumping laser to a state which transitions to a relatively lower energy level through emissions in the blue-green band, e.g., 450.20 nm at 75 K. The exciting laser may be tunable dye lasers or may be solid-state semiconductor laser, e.g., GaAlAs and InGaAlP.
Claims(6) 1. A blue-green laser comprising:
a. a laser rod having a host crystal doped with Tm3+ ; b. a first pumping laser to excite said Tm3+ from a ground state to a first excited in the 3 H4 manifold; and c. a second pumping laser effective to excite said Tm3+ from said first state to a second excited state in the 1 D2 manifold for transition to a relatively low state in the 3 H6 manifold at a wavelength in said blue-green range. 2. A blue-green laser according to claim 1, wherein said first and second pumping lasers are dye lasers.
3. A blue-green laser according to claim 2, wherein said first pumping laser is at about 781 nm and said second pumping laser is at about 649 nm.
4. A blue-green laser according to claim 1, wherein said first pumping laser is a GaAlAs laser diode and said second pumping laser is an InGaAlP laser diode.
5. A method for generating coherent blue-green light from a host crystal doped with Tm3+, including the steps of:
a. irradiating said Tm3+ at a first wavelength effective to excite said Tm3+ to a first state in the 3 H4 manifold; and irradiating said Tm3+ at a second wavelength effective to excite said Tm3+ from said first state to a second state in the 1 D2 manifold effective to transition to a relatively low state in the 3 H6 manifold at a wavelength in said blue-green range. 6. A method according to claim 5, wherein said first wavelength is about 781 nm and said second wavelength is about 649 nm.
Description This invention relates to solid-state lasers and, more particularly, to upconversion lasers for operating in the blue-green wavelength range. This invention is the result of a contract with the Department of Energy (Contract No. W-7405-ENG-36). Blue-green lasers, i.e., lasers operating in the wavelength range of 450-550 nm, are needed for low loss transmission through ocean water. The short wavelength also has potential application to increasing the storage density of compact disks. However, present devices require complex activating lasers or fragile nonlinear frequency conversion. Direct pumping of rare earth doped host materials has obtained blue-green lasing emission. U.S. Pat. No. 4,058,852, "Solid State Blue-Green Laser with High Efficiency Laser Pump," issued Oct. 18, 1977, to Nicolai teaches trivalent rare earth ions (e.g., Praseodymium (Pr3+), Holium (Ho3+)) doped in crystals (e.g., YLiF4, LaF3, CaF2) and directly excited to a lasing state by an excimer laser. Pr3+ and Ho3+ in YLF are taught to lase at 479.3 and 491 nm, respectively, when pumped at 450 nm. U.S. Pat. No. 4,347,485, "Excimer-Pumped Blue-Green Laser," issued Aug. 31, 1982, to Esterowitz et al. teaches a sensitizer ion Yb2+ doped in a host material with a trivalent rare earth activator ion (Pr, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm). The sensitizer ion is activated by a XeF laser at 352 nm and transfers energy to an activator ion for subsequent radiation in the blue-green range. In yet another approach, Tm doped in YLF has been directly excited by a UV source to produce lasing action at 453 nm. Trivalent rare earth ions have also been excited to produce light at visible wavelengths using upconversion pumping schemes. In one approach, taught in A.J. Silversmith et al., "Green Infrared-Pumped Erbium Upconversion Laser," 51 Appl. Phys. Lett. No. 24, pp. 1977-1979 (Dec. 1987), YAlO3 doped with Er3+ is pumped at 792.1 nm and 839.8 nm to obtain laser action at 549.8 nm. Er3+ is first excited from the 4 I15/2 state to the 4 I9/2 level, then excited to a state above the 4 S3/2 state, which relaxes to the 4 S3/2 state. Lasing action is then obtained through decay to the 4 I15/2 level, 218 cm-1, emitting light at 549.8 nm. It is suggested that pumping might be achieved using a near-infrared GaAlAs semiconductor diode laser operating at the above wavelength. It would be desirable to have a blue-green laser with solid state components. However, a lasing medium having excitation wavelengths compatible with solid-state laser output wavelengths has not been identified. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an upconversion laser medium for operating in the blue-green wavelength range. Another object of the present invention is to provide a solid-state lasing medium having excitation levels effective for excitation by solid-state semiconductor diode lasers. Additional objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned by practice of the invention. The objects and advantages of the invention may be realized and attained by means of the instrumentalities and combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims. To achieve the foregoing and other objects, and in accordance with the purposes of the present invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, the apparatus of this invention may comprise a blue-green laser having a laser rod with a host material doped with Tm3+. A first pumping laser excites the Tm3+ from the ground state to a first state. A second pumping laser is then effective to excite the Tm3+ from the first state to a second state for transition to a relatively low state at a wavelength in said blue-green range. The first and second pumping lasers are preferably solid-state semiconductor lasers. In another characterization of the present invention, a method is provided for generating coherent blue-green light from a host material doped with Tm3+. The Tm3+ is irradiated at a first wavelength effective to excite the Tm3+ to a first state and then irradiated at a second wavelength effective to excite the Tm3+ from the first state to a second state effective to transition to a relatively low state at a wavelength in the blue-green range. In a preferred embodiment, the first and second wavelengths are available from solid-state semiconductor lasers. The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and form a part of the specification, illustrate an embodiment of the present invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings: FIG. 1 is a schematic of one embodiment of a blue-green laser system according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is an excitation state diagram for Tm3+. FIG. 3 is the fluorescence spectra for Tm3+ at 75 K and at room temperature. In accordance with the present invention, a novel upconversion lasing medium is provided that can be pumped at two wavelengths, one red and one near-infrared, to emit directly in the blue-green region (450-550 nm). In one embodiment, solid-state semiconductor lasers provide the required pumping wavelengths so that the entire laser may be formed of solid-state components. More particularly, it is taught, herein that Tm3+ ions have excitation states that enable solid-state semiconductor pumping to result in an excited state that transitions to a lower state level at a frequency in the blue-green region. Referring first to FIG. 1, there is shown a schematic of a blue-green laser system 10 according to one embodiment of the present invention. Laser rod 12 includes a host material, such as ytrrium lithium fluoride (YLF), with a 1% doping of Tm3+ Laser rod 12 is excited by laser system 14 containing lasers having wavelengths effective to excite the Tm3+ to a state for blue-green lasing. As described below, one wavelength in the red and one wavelength in the near-infrared are required. Dye lasers have been used as pump sources since dye lasers are readily available with the desired wavelengths, but solid-state semiconductor lasers with the requisite wavelengths are also available. Pumping light from lasers 14 is focused through lens 16, which may have a 250 mm focal length, through resonator mirror 18 into laser rod 12. Resonator mirror 18 has a 10 cm radius as herein described, is totally reflective at 450 nm, and is substantially transparent to exciting light from lasers 14. Thus, the mirror is reflective to light emitted from laser rod 12. Second resonator mirror 22 also has an exemplary radius of 10 cm and has a 90% reflectance at 450 nm to function as an outcoupling mirror for 10% of the incident radiation and is spaced about 12 cm from input mirror 18. In one embodiment, liquid nitrogen coolant 24 is provided to maintain laser rod 12 at about 75 K in order to increase Tm3+ peak absorption and stimulated emission cross-sections so that efficient pumping can be achieved with narrow band dye lasers. Referring now to FIG. 2, there is shown a energy level diagram for Tm3+. Under pi-polarized excitation at 780.78 nm, the Tm3+ ion is excited from the 3 H6 ground state to the 3 H4 intermediate level. Following a rapid relaxation to the lower levels of the 3 H4 manifold, the ion is again excited to the 1 D2 upper laser level by a second laser, also pi-polarized, at 648.77 nm. At a 1% dopant, concentration and at 75 K, the 1 D2 upper laser level has a 50 microsecond lifetime. Most of the Tm ions in the 1 D2 level decay radiatively to the lowest excited energy level 3 F4, emitting intense blue-green fluorescence at around 450 nm. With the system shown in FIG. 1, an intense blue-green coherent light was emitted at a wavelength of 450.20 nm. The initial performance of the system shown in FIG. 1 provided a 1.3% overall efficiency with unoptimized mode matching. Pump pulse energies of 10 mJ at 781 nm and 3.5 mJ at 649 nm produced an output energy of 0.180 mJ in a 10 ns pulse at 450.20 nm from a 1 cm long crystal. The laser threshold fluence for this unoptimized resonator, as measured at the center of laser rod 12 is 1 J/cm2 for the 781 nm pump and 4 J/cm2 for the 649 nm pump. At higher temperatures, the laser threshold increases and approaches the threshold of optical damage of YLF (about 10 J/cm2) at 150 K. This optical damage threshold is, however, due to the artificially short 10 ns pulses used in the demonstration and should increase with pulse length. It should also be noted that the 1 D2 to 3 F4 transition is a self-terminating transition because the lower laser level lifetime of 12 ms is longer than the upper laser level lifetime so that a pulsed operation is required for this system. FIG. 3 graphically depicts the fluorescence spectra of Tm3+ at 75 K and at room temperature. The large peak in spectra (b) at 75 K corresponds to the observed blue-green wavelength at 450.2 nm. Room temperature lasing is expected at the most intense transition line at 452.6 nm on the room temperature spectrum (a). A blue-green laser output at 452.6 nm corresponds to a transition from the same manifold levels as the 450.2 nm output, but it occurs from different levels within the 1 D2 and 3 F4 manifolds. The absorption scheme herein described offers advantages over the direct UV pumping scheme for Tm3+ described above. First, the pumping can be implemented with solid-state semiconductor lasers rather than dye laser or other complex chemical lasers. For example, GaAlAs laser diodes have an output at 781 nm and InGaAlP diodes have an output at 649 nm, corresponding to the upconversion wavelengths, for Tm3+ herein taught. Secondly, the use of low energy red and infrared photons instead of high energy ultraviolet photons for pumping avoids problems associated with excited state absorption in the host conduction band where color centers would be created. It is also expected that with the appropriate choice of the pump laser bandwidths and pulse lengths, pumping efficiency can be increased to overcome the reduction in peak absorption and stimulated emission cross-section at higher temperatures. Laser pumping with solid-state semiconductor lasers is generally discussed in Fan et al., "Diode Laser-Pumped Solid-State Lasers," 24 IEEE J. Quantum Electron., No. 6, pp. 895-912 (June 1988), incorporated herein by reference. A single step pumping of Tm3+ by an IR laser is shown with possible emitting transitions at 1.5, 1.8, and 2.3 μm. However, no upconversion pumping is suggested. The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the invention have been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed, and obviously many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and its practical application to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the invention in various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated. It is intended that the scope of the invention be defined by the claims appended hereto. Patent Citations
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NHL suspends avery indefinitely for comments made, pending hearing
sucks they had to suspend him immediately following his comments, i would've love to have seen dion hospitalize this embarrassment |
I think this may just be the first "Protective Suspension" in the history of the League.
I get it he was trash talking for attention etc. But, he did go beyond when insulting a person not playing in the game tonight. It should not be open season on wives and girlfriends and families.....
It had to be done, he should have kept it for the game.
Hell, Elisha Cuthbert is hot no matter who did her first. She's on Dion now - he wins. A win is two points. A suspension is none.
Game to Phaneuf, sloppy or not. |
I love how Hicks said the Stars would have suspended him anyways... and hwo Turco called him out for never backing up his big mouth
Avery is on a roll today. His big mouth goes and gets him suspended for some classless comments, immediately after his coach vouched for him in the media, in which he manages to piss off the Dallas Stars organization and in the end screws over his team tonight who already have significant injuries in the lineup. Way to go, clown. Easily the worst signing of the off-season.
From Boston with love....... Merry Christmas from us to u!:naughty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJY_PCehN0 What a joke! As for you guys ....kick some Dallas arse! And Avery is just jelous he got his butt dumped for someone MUCH better!:D |
I wanted to see Phaneuf slam that ****, Oh well, money or pain? I personally would've love to see some pain inflicted but thats just me.
is their anywhere you can hear this or hear exactly what he said? too bad, between Iggy and Phaneuf, he was toast anyways, would have been fun to watch :handclap:
As much as I dislike Avery what is NHL doing in people's bedrooms? Are they going to start policing people's private lives? Absolutely ridiculous suspension from that point of view. Gary Battmanello must be stuck with a woman he hates, so he spills his jealousy on the players. The ultimate bad ass. :shakehead
You guys seriously have no sense of humour. Are you actually mad at Avery's comments? Hell, I would be much more pissed off at the shots he took at Iginla, than what this clown had to say about that Dim-witted frankenstien Dion.
Wow, Calgary fans don't know how to take a joke:shakehead. Ps: The league is garbage for that suspension, totally unwarranted. Makes me sad to be a hockey fan really. |
Alot of good comments here;
- Families should be kept out of the Media - Probably was the first suspension as a preventative measure - Avery is a Moron - League should keep out of it and shouldn't have suspended him, a fine would have been better.....and the game would have been WAY more exciting. |
I guess you and I have a different view on humour, and judging by comments made on the main board by fans of other teams, it appears it's not a "Calgary fans" thing. I don't want to speak for everyone else, but as far as I'm concerned - No, I'm not "mad" at his comments. I'm just voicing my opinion on comments made by a player I don't like or respect (or find to be funny). Like I said on the GDT, I expected Avery to bring up Phaneuf's girlfriend in trash talking on the ice. But I never thought even he'd be as low as to call the cameras over to make those kind of comments to the media. I'm sure some people liked it because they like his WWE-approach to marketing himself, or some just don't like Phaneuf and found it hilarious, or whatever the case may be, to each his own. There is no middle ground with Avery. People either love him or hate him. |
Personally, I am mad and disgusted. I understand that players say things on the ice. That was were this should have been said between Sean and Dion, not to the National Media. The term "Sloppy Seconds" is sexist and/or degrading take your pick.
The NHL had absolutely no choice in how to handle this and the fact that so many here think otherwise is scary and sad to honest. |
too bad avery couldnt play tonight and disrupt the stars dressing room
I think that Nucks fan only came over and posted because they saw an opportunity to bash Phaneuf. As you said people may like it because they dislike Phaneuf. I find it extremely stupid to, as you also said, call the cameras over to make that comment. He must of been up half the night thinking it up :shakehead Any word on what Phaneuf or other Flames thought of it? |
Sorry, but the NHL did the right thing. While last night's game would have been extremely fun to watch if Avery were, indeed, playing, he shot himself in the foot with his pre-meditated attack on an issue that trancends the rink and into the lives of people un-related to the NHL.
You DO NOT make sexist / derogatory remarks like that when you clearly HAVE NO REASON TO DO SO... ESPECIALLY TO THE MEDIA. The NHL looks like a class organization for protecting the dignity and respect of someone who cannot defend themself properly after being attacked by a someone beakin' off because they think it's funny. There is no place for that in sports, let alone hockey. If people want to beak off, by all means... do it on the ice. Avery has no business commenting on the personal lives of other people. Keep your freakin' trap shut. Seems like the NHL, the Dallas Stars organization and Avery's teammates all agree with me here. |
The nhl's head office made the right call on this one. |
If only the NHL was as effective in getting rid of hits to the head as they are when it comes to comments about ex-girlfriends.
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"but an outright collision is neither necessary nor encouraged — the cox of the boat being bumped can concede as soon as slight physical contact occurs or even once it is inevitable."
Whilst this is true most of the time, once you get to a certain stage in Cambridge bumps (onto 'the reach' I think) you can't concede a bump before contact is made.
If no one objects I'll change it to something suggesting this is usually the case. TomGibb (talk) 15:45, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- At Oxford (at least in the late 1980s!) there's no such rule. However, a bump is awarded if the chasing boat rows clean past the boat ahead (how, in practice, this works without the bumped boat conceding I don't know). TrulyBlue (talk) 17:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- Having done umpiring at Cambridge in recent times, I can definitely confirm that a cox can conceed at any point during the race, and that will count as a bump, even if there's clear water between the two crews. Most coxes do not conceed before contact once on the Long Reach, because it's usually entirely possible to escape, even if there is significant overlap of anything up to half a length. I have seen crews conceed 'early', even late on in the race, when a crew member has gotten into difficulty, e.g. caught a boat-stopping crab, with a chasing crew half a length away. In a couple of occasions, the cox of the crew has been publicly praised for avoiding a potentially dangerous situation, and sometimes given a monetary credit as well. Richard B (talk) 21:29, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Fair enough. I always thought it was as Richard B described it anyway until my cox told our crew that for the last set of bumps(2008 lents)he was told at the coxes' meeting he couldn't conceed on the reach. As no-one else has heard of it, and it always seemed a bit strange anyway he must have got it wrong. ThanksTomGibb (talk) 15:17, 26 March 2008 (UTC)


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Precious is a German design consultancy for strategic design and visual languages. In their early years, they were involved in website and desktop software design. Today, they specialize in smartphone apps, prototypes for TV interfaces, and applications for tablet devices. Here, we've invited them to share what they've learned about interactivity within this emerging ecosystem of screens.
precious: Working with all of those devices was interesting and challenging, not just because of the diverse number of screen sizes and input methods, but because, through user research, we learned about how different the contexts are in which these gadgets are used.
Even more interesting, however, is how those devices relate to each other. What does it mean for the digital products and services we are designing when laptops, smartphones, TVs and other electronic devices are connected? What are the implications for interfaces if people are interacting within an "ecosystem of screens"?
We looked at many projects and studies that involved experiences across multiple screens вҖ" from biblical stories laid out on multiple cathedral windows and the first computer-basedВ multi-screenВ installations to current examples, which are popping up everywhere. We also observed ourselves and others using and shifting between different devices.
To make these scenarios more tangible for ourselves and to communicate them better to our clients, we started documenting patterns we noticed. These patterns and associated examples were the core of many workshops we did in various constellations: with brand managers, advertising professionals and design students.
Today we'd like to share this part of our research work: patterns forВ multi-screenВ strategies. It's been a handy reference when discussing solutions for digital products and services. We hope you'll find them useful too.
1. The Pop Up City – Getting Closer…
"RecentВ research has amounted more than 6,000 location-based apps to be currently available for the iPhone alone. Here [Jeroen] would like to draw your attention to two new kids on the block that offer a new take on physical proximity:В Ditto andВ Yobongo."
2.В GetGlue Passes 1M Users; 100M Data Points
"The GetGlue network is now averaging over 1 check-in every second with as many as 10 check-ins per second during primetime. On an average day 500,000 new unique data points enter the GetGlue database."
"Just as if someone is trying to give up smoking or lose weight they tell their friends to gain support in their efforts – and relentless mocking if they fail – Reebok has enlisted its paid athletes to add a personal twist to the idea and to help spread news of the app."
4.В JBL ships AirPlay-enabled On Air Speaker dock
"The system lets customers stream music from their AirPlay-enabled devices, like Macs, iPhones, iPod touches and iPads… Other nifty features include a color LCD display, FM radio tuner and an alarm clock."
5.В How Smartphones Can Improve Public Transit
"The point is for transit agencies to provide enough information to put riders in control of their experience and have greater choice in when and where to ride. People donвҖҷt want to feel they are at the mercy of paper schedules, even if they are, and thereвҖҷs nothing worse than waiting for buses that may or may not be on time."
6.В Postagram Transforms Any Instagram Into a Postcard
"The service, launching today, allows you to take any picture youвҖҷve captured on the hot photo-sharing serviceВ Instagram and send it in postcard form for a mere $0.99."
7.В Nokia's Ring That Can Control Your Mobile Phone
"Researchers at Nokia have created a magnetic ring that works as an input device from which you can control your mobile phone. The ring is called Nenya, the name of GaladrielвҖҷs ring inВ The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and it is tracked by a wrist-worn вҖҳbaseletвҖҷ, which connects to the users phone via Bluetooth."
8. ShowYou Will Change How You View Videos on Your iPad
"The comparison to Flipboard is pretty apt here, because ShowYou takes the video content from all your friends and social networks and presents them in one place but in an entirely new way. This isn't a feed, and this isn't a chronological presentation of videos."
9. Tweet Land – A set of games that play with reality
"What would happen if what people share in their social networks became real? And best of all, if you could play with that? Well, if you like the idea of the twittersphere becoming a virtual universe, this is for you."
10. Fearsquare: If You Knew the Crime Stats, Would You Still Go There?
"Fearsquare uses public data to showВ Foursquare users in the U.K. how many crimes have been committed in the places they check in and is part of a study looking at how this sort of personalized data could change user behavior."
Tweetworthy is a weekly roundup of the most shared tweets from @MobileBehavior. You can follow us on TwitterВ here.
]]>1. Too Lazy To Count Calories? Now You Can Just Take A Picture Of Your Meal
"While the company chalks it up to 'magic', weвҖҷre assuming theyвҖҷve got a handful of people (be it through AmazonвҖҷsВ Mechanical Turk, or a room full of dudes promised free Internet in exchange for calorie counting) breaking down the meal in your picture item by item. Snap a shot of a chicken salad? They punch in some chicken, some lettuce, maybe some dressing вҖ" and bam, theyвҖҷve got a rough estimate."
2.В Designing for second screens: The Autumnwatch Companion
"We were interested to see how much of the existing online content could be reused, which was easy for the species and habitat information drawn from theВ BBC Wildlife Finder, but articles and blog posts had to be simplified. This gave us the opportunity to experiment with presentation formats and interactions, including diagrams, image galleries and animations."
3.В Unofficial app store Cydia lands advertising from Toyota
"This is the first major corporation we have seen put direct positive attention into the jailbreak scene, developing specifically for it and addressing this large userbase. Could this be a turning of the tide for the previously 'outlaw' jailbreak community?"
4.В Did I mention how much I love Instagram?
"You see something, you whip out your iPhone. You take a shot and then you send it directly to someone else's brain. It's over in seconds (most of the time). It's sharing at the speed of thought, almost. Flickr isn't like that.В In fact, I think Instagram makes it easier and quicker than it'sВ ever been to think of an image and send it into someone else's brain. This is a huge deal, since we are primarily visual creatures."
5.В What a Provider's Mobile Phone Logs Reveal about You
"German politician Malte Spitz sued his mobile provider to receive his personal phone data of over 6 months, to prove how this information, combined with other publicly available facts, such as from Twitter feeds, blog entries and website stories, can reveal much more than one wishes for. German newspaper 'Die Zeit' and computational journalism companyВ OpenDataCity then rendered this data on an animated map with interactive timeline."
"The iAd Gallery is a celebration of advertising, featuring iAd campaigns from some of the world's best brands and their advertising agencies. The iAd Gallery gives you easy access to a selection of the fun and informative ads that have run in some of your favorite apps."
7. Facebook For iPhone Gets Event Check-Ins
"To be able to check-in to an event you have to (obviously) be invited and RSVPвҖҷd 'yes' to attending. Your location also has to match the location of the listed event venue, and it has to be the correct time of the event. All of this will presumably help dissuade gaming."
8. In a New Web World, No Application Is an Island
"'Right now, weвҖҷre in a native apps world,' says John Lilly, a venture partner at Greylock Partners, aВ venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. 'But people are underestimating the power of the Web. I think weвҖҷre going to see an explosion of Web-based apps over the next couple of years.'"
9. TV-Tagging App IntoNow Tries to Kickstart Discussions With New Release
"The startup is accommodating users with a discuss button they can hit to start public discussions with everyone; they can also use the button to initiate more private chats with just friends. Users can strike up conversations around series, movies and single episodes. While not as fluid as instant messaging, the discussions feature is real-time; and users are notified as new comments pour in."
10. Shall I Buy
"Shall I Buy is a mobile application that allows users to log and share their purchase intentions and get instant feedback from friends."
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вҖңAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,вҖқ Arthur C. Clarke once said. With recent developments in mobile computing, his analogy is increasingly relevant. Sensor-enabled apps like Color have implications on a broad scale.
Behind the scenes, Color makes use of every phone sensor it can access. It hijacks the iPhone's camera to check lighting conditions and the microphone to вҖңlistenвҖқ to a user's surroundings. Through this, Color triangulates location in relation to others and generates вҖңelastic networksвҖқ for photo sharing. It's the secret sauce that has sparked fascination among the tech elite. No one really understands it, but Color demonstrates how mobile could eventually change the way we interact in the world.
According to McKinsey, вҖңClosing this loop from data to automated applications can raise productivity, as systems that adjust automatically to complex situations make many human interventions unnecessary.вҖқ Mobile apps offer us вҖңmicro-efficiencies,вҖқ shortcuts that can make our lives easier.
Ever more impressive mobile applications are on their way. Computer vision, for example, has inspired an entire field of study that looks at the way computers see and extract information from images, information that can in turn be used to perform a certain task. Microsoft Kinect demonstrates this well; hackers have manipulated it to do everything from simulating invisibility to recognizing sign language.
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Mobile services that take in the world and enable decision making are already available in rudimentary form. In retail, ShopWell is able to scan product barcodes and personalize recommendations based on a user's diet and nutritional needs. Walgreens' new app overrides the need to manually input prescription codes with its ability to recognize images. It can just take a picture of the pill bottle instead. Google Shopper searches for online prices and Meal Snap identifies calorie counts at the tap of a button.
These applications do get a little more serious. Miami University's Augmented Reality Research Group developed an Android app that вҖңreadsвҖқ a bookshelf in order to flag books that are misplaced. Marmota, a prototype developed by FBK researchers, analyses and overlays mountains with names, distance, and altitudes. Similarly, Augmented Driving watches the road while detecting lanes for change warnings.
All of this leads to what Google's Eric Schmidt calls an вҖңAge of Augmented Humanity.вҖқ Mobile technologies are dissolving into behavior. For organizations, this could mean a couple of things. Brands will be able to provide their consumers with utility that not only makes things easier, but changes behavior. For example, Chase's mobile app now lets users deposit checks with two camera clicks, vastly reducing a customer's need to stop at the bank. Brands can harness these technologies to sell with the magic that Clarke suggested. A service like Color invokes delight and emotion, which in today's experience economy could be just as impactful on a brand's positioning as utilitarian applications.
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"Google is moving away from barcodes and towards NFC (near field communication) if a pair of stories about the search company are tied together. Yesterday,В news broke outВ about Google's decision to officially end support for the use of QR codes, the 2D barcodes readable by camera-equipped mobile phones, in its business listings service Google Places."
2.В Pets Win When You Check-In on Foursquare
"The marketing team for Granata dog food in Germany, has designed a unique collaboration with Foursquare that will make both owners and pets howl with delight. Every time you and your furry friend pass a bowl-equipped billboard for Granata food, you can check in on Foursquare and the billboard will dispense a free sample of the kibble into the attached dish."
3.В Street photography has undergone a revolution
"Since everyone with a cellphone tucked in pocket or purse today seems ready to start snapping away on its built-in digital camera, one might say we are all street photographers now. Even though issues of meaning and quality will always remain for individual images, that ubiquity means street photography as a distinctive formal genre is pretty much over."
4.В Augmented Reality App Could Save Librarians Hours
"Miami University's Augmented Reality Research Group, led by Professor Bo Brinkman, has developed an Android app that could save librarians a lot of time and hassle. Using the Android's camera, the app "reads" a bookshelf, and with an AR overlay, quickly flags those books that are misplaced. It will also point to the correct place on the bookshelf so the book can easily be re-shelved correctly."
5.В When Twittering Gets in the Way of Real Life
"Whether it's a dad joining conference calls by cellphone during the family vacation, teenagers texting under the table or moms checking Facebook from the soccer sidelines, technology intrudes upon family life in most American homes. And it's only going to get worse as technology becomes even more accessible."
6. Hashtags on programmes – It's the bat signal!
"The вҖҳhashtag bat signalвҖҷ and the programmes page are not the only way of introducing the idea of a hashtag for the programme (and there are some examples of specific calls to action in programmes which involve hashtags: #askRhod, #bbcFilm2010 etc) but it is an elegant one."
7. The history and the future of the Windows Phone Metro design
"Metro isnвҖҷt a new style designed for the sake of being different. ItвҖҷs a foundation to build on for a long time to come. ItвҖҷs our starting point for what we believe is the next era of user interface design, one that is focused on content over metaphors, information over tools, and movement over static pages. ItвҖҷs a language designed to clearly augment the information around you, by removing the clutter around it."
"With the addition of FitBit and Zeo devices to the Runkeeper store, the company is signaling their longer term strategy to be the connecting tissue between personal sensors and the health and fitness data theyвҖҷre collecting, All of the current devices in the store and all future devices will be integrated via the Runkeeper Body API."
9. The first musical album that's also a location aware iPhone app
"When the album is released this spring, users will be able to download the album over the MallвҖҷs WiFi. The phoneвҖҷs geolocation will sync up with an impressionistic map rendering created for the app. Hit play and as users create their own path through the Mall, theyвҖҷre creating their own special listening experience."
10. Real Racing 2 HD – 1080p Video Out Demo
"With full support for high-definition, 1080p output – a first for any iOS game – in the next major update, Real Racing 2 HD will be the perfect title to see the full potential of Apple's latest hardware."
Tweetworthy is a weekly roundup of the most shared tweets from @MobileBehavior. You can follow us on TwitterВ here.
Television, as we know it, is dying. According to the Wall Street Journal,В the average age of prime-time viewers hit 50 this year. Kids would rather play Xbox or watch Hulu. Fortunately, television still has something going for it, and weвҖҷre not talking about iPad apps or mobile streaming. Rather, weвҖҷd like to discuss the emergence of a new hybrid medium.
Traditional TV is where hundreds of thousands or millions of people gather for a shared experience. Enter Facebook and Twitter. These social networks collide with TV to result in something even bigger. Viewers are now participants; participants are now connected, which has implications for the actual content. When we frame the situation as a battle between the Internet and TV, or a zero-sum game, we are calling it from a blind spot. Instead, what we should see is that both live TV and real-time information are converging to reinforce each other and in the process are creating something new.
In the following document, weвҖҷve outlined emerging themes bubbling up around event TV. This is not the future, this is happeningВ now. For those willing to break yesterdayвҖҷs rules, some long overdue, fresh new opportunities await. As WIRED magazine recently stated, TV isВ moving from a вҖңvast wastelandвҖқ to a вҖңvast garden". Today, вҖңTV is a crazy, weed-filled, wonderful, out-of-control garden.вҖқ It is time to rethink TV. It is time to imagine what it could be and redefine it for the participatory culture of tomorrow.
1. SXSW 2011: The internet is over
"We've been hearing about this moment in digital history since at least 1988, when the Xerox technologist Mark Weiser coined the term'ubiquitous computing', referring to the point at which devices and systems would become so numerous and pervasive that 'technology recedes into the background of our lives'."
2.В Google Search app for iPhone–a new name and a new look
"YouвҖҷll see that there are now more ways to interact with the app. When browsing through search results or looking at a webpage, you can swipe down to see the search bar or change your settings. For those who use other Google apps, thereвҖҷs an Apps button at the bottom of the screen for rapid access to the mobile versions of our products."
3.В The Next Wave in Social Content Aggregation
"BroadFeed is a great test bed for [Organic] to try out various relevance algorithms for content, as well as to gather observations about how users interact with stream content on the iPad."
4.В Mobile service connects users with help during emergencies
"When trouble arises, the app immediately alerts and connects the user's personal safety network via voice conference, sms and email, thereby speeding the arrival of help. Guardly's LocationAssure technology pinpoints the user's precise GPS location and provides information about what resources are nearby."
5.В MIT Media Lab: Junkyard Jumbotron
"Junkyard Jumbotron is a project from the MIT Center for Future Civic Media. Essentially, it has created software so that laptops or phones can be ganged together to form a large display. Anyone can take part, and participants can email their own pictures to become part of the virtual screen."
6.В FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and Social Media
"'FOMO' stands for 'Fear of Missing Out' and itвҖҷs what happens everywhere on a typical Saturday night, when youвҖҷre trying to decide if you should stay in, or muster the energy to go to the party. At SxSW I see people wondering if theyвҖҷre at the wrong partyвҖ"the party where they are is lame, feels uncool, has too much brand advertising or doesnвҖҷt have anyone there theyвҖҷd want to hook up withвҖ"and so they move on to the next party where they have to wait in line too long, canвҖҷt get a beer, or donвҖҷt find their friends, and so move on to the next venue whereвҖҰand so on."
7.В 26% of Mobile Application Users are Fickle — or Loyal
"With over 10 billion downloads from just AppleвҖҷs App Store, itвҖҷs clear that people are very willing to try new apps. ItвҖҷs equally clear that app developers and publishers need to look beyond downloads and focus marketing resources on attracting and retaining the quarter of customers who tend to become loyal users."
8. How to Hack Video Screens in Times Square
"What do you think: viral ad for the newest iPhone, CNN, and NYC tourism; or an exciting new development in the world of culture jamming?"
9. Foursquare: The importance of platforms, and how we're extending ours
"Today, through the foursquareВ Venue Project, weвҖҷre breaking out the Venues API, making it available at high rate limits (so even the most popular apps can use it without worrying about hitting a limit), with simple вҖңuserlessвҖқ authentication, new endpoints, and with clear guidelines for use."
10. GroupMe Won the SXSW Group Messaging Wars
"SXSW isnвҖҷt about hanging out with the same groups of people all the time, but rather about having variety of exclusive options. In practice group messaging is kind of weak on the exclusivity thing, because youвҖҷre almost always roped into groups with at least one person you donвҖҷt like, which prevents you from sharing potentially useful information regarding your whereabouts."
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Lazaroo – Wednesday, June 26, 2013
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Pray the words of this Lazaroo aloud, with a heart eager for the fullness of God:
"When Arioch, the commander of the king's guard, had gone out to put to death the wise men of Babylon, Daniel spoke to him with wisdom and tact."
(Daniel 2:14)
It's a challenge for me to speak with wisdom and tact at any time, Jesus…
but this was no ordinary occasion for Daniel.
He was one of the wise men
the commander had been sent to kill.
Some people would have responded with terror
been paralyzed
gone into shock.
Others would have been livid with anger
screaming over the unfairness of this edict
demanding their rights.
Still others, upon learning they were moments away from death
would have sunk to their knees, unable to walk
blubbering like babies.
Not Daniel.
He responded with wisdom and tact.
That's who I want to be!
How do I get there, Father?
Probably not overnight, huh?
Daniel's relationship with You was
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