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NASCAR: Brad Keselowski capitalizes on Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s fuel shortage in Las Vegas
And that's exactly what happened.
After pulling away slightly from race winner Brad Keselowski during a dramatic battle over the last 15 of 267 laps, Earnhardt ran out of fuel on the backstretch, a half-lap from the finish, and coasted home in second place, 1.531 seconds behind the driver of the No. 2 Team Penske Ford.
Following a scrape with the outside wall and an off-sequence pit strategy, Keselowski took the checkered flag for the first time this season, the first time at LVMS and the 11th time in his Sprint Cup career.
The winner of Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series race, Keselowski completed the first weekend sweep by a Ford driver since Carl Edwards won both races at Phoenix in 2010.
Earnhardt, the Daytona 500 winner, was runner-up for the second-straight race. Paul Menard ran third, followed by pole winner Joey Logano and Carl Edwards, as Fords grabbed three of the top five positions.
Six-time series champion Jimmie Johnson, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Jeff Gordon and Matt Kenseth completed the top 10.
With a victory, all but guaranteeing a spot in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Keselowski wasn't surprised that Earnhardt and Letarte were willing to gamble.
"It's such a [relief] for myself and everyone on the team to get that win in early and being able to enjoy the racing opportunities that we have, rather than being stressed out about it," Keselowski said. "The chance that Dale and Stevie took with the 88 car was way out there.
"It was a good, risky move on their part, because they had nothing to lose because of this [new Chase] format. I think that shows some of the opportunities that come (from having) stress-free days, and I'm looking forward to being able to take those same opportunities, because I'm not scared to take 'em, and I know (crew chief) Paul (Wolfe) is not, so look out."
Committed to a fuel-mileage gamble, a luxury he earned with the Daytona 500 win, Earnhardt stayed on track during Lap 222 pit stops under the fourth caution of the afternoon for debris on the front stretch.
It was that same caution that gave Keselowski a welcome opportunity to refuel, a move that put him back on sequence with the rest of the lead-lap drivers other than Earnhardt, Edwards and 12th-place finisher Denny Hamlin.
Keselowski restarted seventh but quickly rocketed past all but Earnhardt and Carl Edwards, who also stayed out under the yellow. More than two seconds behind Earnhardt, Keselowski slipped past Edwards on Lap 245 and drew a bead on the leader.
With three laps left, Keselowski had narrowed the interval to .296 seconds, the closest he would get before Earnhardt's car slowed on the backstretch halfway through the final lap.
"I ran two real hard laps right after that restart (on Lap 226), and we got about a 20-car-length lead, and I started lifting real early into both corners and seeing whether they were going to catch me," Earnhardt said. "So I was being pretty cautious and lifting pretty early, and when I saw Brad pass the 99 (Edwards), I knew Brad in clean air would be quicker than us, potentially -- he had been all day -- and I just continued to save fuel and hope that once he got behind me and got into dirty air I could keep him there.
"I continued to save until he got within about eight car lengths, and then I started running hard, and we were fast enough to keep him behind us. As soon as I got to the top of Turns 1 and 2 the last several laps, I was real comfortable that he wasn't going to get to me, felt fine about, if we had enough gas, we weren't going to have a problem, but we didn't have enough gas."
Using a contrarian fuel-mileage strategy, Keselowski stayed on track when the rest of the lead-lap cars came to pit road on Lap 156, under the third caution of the race for debris on the backstretch.
Keselowski's No. 2 Team Penske Ford took off on old tires and built a lead of more than 2.5 seconds over Kevin Harvick, whose strong run was spoiled by a brake failure as he chased Keselowski.
Harvick, last week's winner at Phoenix, brought his car to pit road on Lap 194 and ultimately lost 30 laps as his team went about repairs in the garage.
Keselowski gave up the lead when he came to pit road on Lap 196 and regained it briefly during the subsequent green-flag pit stop cycle. But Earnhardt took the point by staying out for a Lap 226 restart and held the top spot until Keselowski passed him on the final lap.


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I am so excited I love Mary maxim patterns and have been looking for this one for a while MM had it selling as akit for close to $200 of course I could not aford that . but I have found that with a lot of the Mary Maxim patterns you can find them in old magazines and that is where I fouund and got the whole magazine for about $8 So I thought there might be a few others out there that would like to know where they can get it. below is the link
this same artest made another one very much the same and I found that pattern for $4 at this site
here is where you can get the noahs ark one that some have been wanting.
on that same web site it has MM cats meow afghan in the NOv 2008 issue.
and the frolicking frog afghan pattern can be found at
I just wanted to share what I finaly found. Now I am off the see if I can find the MM hummingbird afghan pattern or that lovely dream catcher one. If anyone knows where just the patterns can bee found please let me know.
Here is a link that might be useful: marys sheep afghan
Sorry I see my links above are not all working right the active link for marys sheep does not show the picture of the afghan but is in the description content sorry but it is the one mary maxim had offered as a kit.
the below link will take you to another afghan very much like marys and is by the same artist
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1 Recap, Episode 13: 'T.R.A.C.K.S.'
Welcome, fellow traveller, to the ComicsAlliance recap of the February episode of Agents of SHIELD. Yes, we're only getting one episode this month. Weep or cheer, depending on your established bias.
The title of this month's episode is T.R.A.C.K.S., which doesn't appear to stand for anything, and if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything, which reminds me, maybe this is the episode when everything turns around? Spoilers follow!


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Rediscover your healthy glow! This body treatment provides a deep cleansing and an exfoliation of the body with our new seasonal scrub. You will be amazed at the results.
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This treatment will take you into a very deep state of relaxation. Includes light exfoliation, application of your choice of aromatherapy oil blends, full blanket wrap, and foot massage.
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A beautiful combination of fragrances awaits you when you settle into this refreshing wrap. After exfoliation, a refreshing mist is applied followed by aloe and tea tree gel. You will receive a brief foot massage while in the blanket wrap. The session concludes with an application of hydrating lotion. The ultimate treatment for sunburned or dry skin.
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Official Rules
- To enter, you must submit a photo of what volunteering means to you. This may take the form of a photo of you volunteering, something creative that you make that represents volunteering to you, or anything you can think of that you think best communicates the meaning of volunteering. Be creative!
- To be eligible, you must like our Facebook page and follow us on Instagram. You must also be a current Binghamton University student.
- Facebook photo submissions must be submitted as a comment on the official Facebook post announcing the start of the contest on March 9.
- Instagram photo submissions must be posted on Instagram and tagged with @ccebinghamton and #Snaps4Service.
- Submissions are open on Monday, March 9 at 12 PM. Photos may be submitted until the end of the contest, but the earlier you submit, the more time you have to accumulate likes! The contest will end on Monday, March 16 at 12 PM.
- You may post your photo to Facebook (facebook.com/ccebinghamton) or Instagram or both. You may only submit one photo per site to the contest.
- Voters may vote for as many photos as they like on both Facebook and Instagram. Contestants may vote for any photos they like, including their own. On Facebook, voters must navigate to the original post on the CCE Timeline and like the appropriate comment there in order for their vote to count.
- At the end of the contest, on March 16 at 12 PM, contestants who submitted the photos that received the most likes on each site will be selected as the winners. Therefore, share the post and tell all of your friends! One person may not win a prize on both Facebook and Instagram. Contestants are limited to winning a total of one prize, regardless of the social media medium used. However, each photo will have two chances to win the first place prize, using both Instagram and Facebook. For example, if someone wins first place on Facebook and wins second place on Instagram, they may only receive the first place prize. If someone wins first place on both Facebook and Instagram, they may only receive one first place prize.
- The first place prize winner will receive a $25 Amazon gift card. The second place prize winner will receive a $10 Amazon gift card. First and second place winners will be chosen on Facebook and Instagram, for a total of two first and two second place winners.
- Winners will be announced through Facebook and Instagram so look out for those posts! Prizes must be claimed within a week. To claim your prize, you must email firstname.lastname@example.com within one week, letting them know when you will pick up your prize. If you do not claim your prize within a week, or do not pick your prize up at the date you specified, the Center for Civic Engagement will consider this as you forfeiting your prize and will select another winner. In the event of a tie, the Center for Civic Engagement staff will choose a winner, based on creativity and the photo most representative of volunteering.
- Each person who enters the contest as a contestant will receive a FREE CCE t-shirt. Come to UU 137 (located across from the Marketplace) to pick it up any time!
- The #Snaps4Service contest is sponsored the Center for Civic Engagement. By participating in the contest, each entrant agrees to abide by these Official Rules, including all eligibility requirements, and understands that the results of the contest, as determined by Sponsor and its agents, are final in all respects. The contest is subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited by law. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. Any questions, comments or complaints regarding the promotion will be directed to CCE, not Facebook.
Overcoming Food Insecurity: Challenges & Solutions
Despite being the world's wealthiest nation, food insecurity is a growing problem in the United States. Food insecurity is the social and economic condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate and healthy food. In 2013, an estimated 14.3% of American Households were food insecure at some point (USDA). In Broome County, over 21% of children live in food insecure households (Foodbank of the Southern Tier). Discuss and learn more about this topic on March 16, 2015, 7:00-8:30pm in FA-212. A short 30-minute television segment, Hunger in America, will be followed by Q & A and a discussion led by Sean Cummings, manager of BU Acres, who will explore possible solutions to food insecurity in Broome County and on a national level. Information about opportunities to volunteer and take action will also be provided.
Alternative Spring Break
April 7-8, 2015
Attention international students: Take some time out of your Spring Break this year to make a difference in the greater Binghamton Community! Join the CCE and ISSS for two days of volunteering at local nonprofits. This is a great opportunity to learn about the local area, make a difference, meet new people, and explore new areas of interest. Transportation, breakfast and lunch will be provided on both days.
Bridging the Digital Divide Program
- Curriculum and activities provided
- Learn from the CCE staff
- Work with other committed students
- Teach a group of community members who meet at a local nonprofit organization
- Teach computer literacy to help bridge the digital divide!
- Teach computer literacy using a tested, pre-developed curriculum.
- Learn new skills from a computer refurbishment expert and retired electrical engineer with years of experience
- Work in an ON CAMPUS workshop
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How long does seroquel stay in your system?
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The half life of Seroquel is around 6 hours.
This means that every 6 hours, half of the previous amount of Seroquel in the body disappears.
For example, if you took 10mg of Seroquel at 12AM (midnight), at 6AM 5mg of Seroquel will be left in your body. At 12PM (noon), 2.5mg will be left, and so forth until there is 0mg left in your body.
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I explore things, all the things. Currently, I am exploring drawing, digital painting, pondering learning tango, taking voice lessons, pure math (Topology, Abstract Algebra), and an interesting programming language called clojure. If the outdoor sort of adventures are more you type I am into hiking, kayaking, bouldering (which according to the spell checker is not a word...), and yoga.
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|Product Type: Tote diaper bag
|Exterior Color: 1: Blue
|Exterior Color: 2: Multicolored
|Exterior Color: 3: Pink
|Pattern: Floral
|Exterior Material: Cotton
|Interior Material: Cotton
|Handle/Strap Material: Cotton
|Number of Items Included: 2
|Non Toxic: Yes
|Mildew Resistant: Yes
|Waterproof Interior: No
|Number of Interior Compartments: 5
|Closure: Clasp/Snap
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M3 Accounting + Analytics Celebrates Fifteen Years of Consecutive Growth
GAINESVILLE, GA -- M3 Accounting + Analytics, the national leader in hotel-specific accounting software, operations reporting and business analytics, has closed out its fifteenth year in the industry with another successful year of growth in 2013.
In December, M3's flagship hotel accounting platform, AccKnowledge, crested the 3,000 threshold of active hotels online. In addition, the company's business intelligence and analytics solution, M3 Link, experienced continued growth in 2013; and M3 RightTime, M3's new tablet-deployed labor and payroll management suite (launched in Q4 of 2013) continues to gain momentum. Overall, nearly 500 hotel management companies in North America are using M3's products at over 3,250 hotels, processing over $10 billion in payables annually.
To put the exponential growth of the company over the last few years into perspective, Scott Watson, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, explains, "M3 was created to fill a void for hotel companies seeking industry-specific back office tools. It took 9 years to grow to 1,000 properties served; just 4 years to grow to 2,000, and in the last two years, we have jumped to over 3,000 hotels online."
Because the AccKnowledge platform is a private, cloud-based application that can be accessed anywhere, any time, the 3000+ properties have over 12,000 users on the system at any given moment, ranging from corporate team members to property level users, field managers and outsourced accountants. The robust system handles approximately 12,500 transactions daily.
M3 President and COO, Allen Read, explains, "AccKnowledge is truly becoming the industry standard accounting platform. Through our continued relationships with some of the most distinguished hotel management companies in the business and our partnership with several leading hospitality schools throughout the US, we are ensuring that AccKnowledge and M3's other web-based products are the tools of choice for hospitality leaders of today and tomorrow."
Last year, M3 founder and Chief Executive Officer John McKibbon established the M3 Center for Hospitality Technology and Innovation at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee's College of Hospitality and Technology Leadership (CHTL). The Center will serve as a hub for research, teaching and learning for both undergraduate and master's level hospitality students, and will provide a test bed for more advanced research in hospitality benchmarking and accounting.
M3's integrated suite of hospitality accounting products includes: AccKnowledge, M3 Link, M3 RightTime, and document imaging– all designed to help provide hotel operators, owners and managers unsurpassed access to the information they need in the most integrated and cost effective manner. M3 has certification by all leading industry associations, offers CPE credit training, and is the only hotel accounting and analytics software provider that is SSAE-16 SOC II certified.
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M3 is the national leader in hotel-specific accounting software, operations reporting, business intelligence and analytics, processing more than $10 billion in financial transactions for more than 3,000 properties. M3"s integrated suite of hospitality accounting products includes: AccKnowledge, M3 Link, M3 RightTime payroll and labor management services, and document imaging and retrieval – all designed to help provide hotel operators, owners and managers unsurpassed access to the information they need in the most integrated and cost-effective manner. More information is available at www.M3AS.com.
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Reser's Fine Foods Inc. has voluntarily expanded a recall of packaged salads from its factory in Topeka, Kan. The company said it took the step because the products distributed nationwide and in Canada may be contaminated with listeria, which can cause serious illness.
Listeria include fever, headache, abdominal pain and diarrhea. People with weak immune systems, such as young children, elderly people and others, can die. Pregnant woman can suffer miscarriage or stillbirth.
The company said on its website that there have been no confirmed illnesses linked to the products. Consumers were advised they could throw away recalled products or take it back where they bought it for a refund. The products include potato, pasta, tuna and egg salads and others sold under the Reser's name and others.
Reser's said the packages are marked with a plant identifier code of 20 next to the best-by-date. About 450 products are listed at Resers.com and were sold under names that include Walmart and many others. The expiration dates range from Oct. 11 to Feb. 6, 2014.
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Dive computers
About 1,000 Hollis DG03 dive computers made by Pelagic Pressure Systems. They have serial numbers 100-1142 that may be used with integrated transmitters that monitor tank pressure. The round, black 2.5-inch diameter computer has a digital screen and is worn on the diver's wrist like a watch. The name of the product, Hollis DG03, is on the front of the unit and the serial number is printed on the back. These computers allow scuba divers to measure the time and depth of a dive. Only dive computers with software labeled Revision 1A, viewed on the computer's display, are included in the recall. They were sold July 2011-May 2013.
The dive computer, when used with an optional integrated transmitter, can malfunction and display an incorrect tank-pressure reading to the diver. A diver could deplete their air supply based on the reading, resulting in drowning. There have been two reports of dive computers malfunctioning. No injuries have been reported.
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International Conference on Aeronautical, Robotics and Manufacturing Engineering (ARME'2015) Bangkok
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2015 7th International Conference on Mechanical and Electrical Technology (ICMET 2015)
1st July 2015
Bali, Indonesia
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The 2nd International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICROM 2015)
20th July 2015
Madrid, Spain
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2015 2nd International Conference on Control and Robotics Engineering (ICCRE 2015)
23rd July 2015
Chengdu, China
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2015 1st Journal Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (JCMLC 2015 1st)
29th July 2015
Shanghai, China
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Someone gave me a cutting off of their 4-o-clock plant today, but as I research the internet, I see no articles on propagating from cuttings. Will it work on the four-o-clock?
I also took some lantana cuttings, will that propagate that way?
Thanks! The 2 cuttings I took have a couple of unopened buds on them. Can I get the seed from that? Or do I need to go back to the place and get spent flowerheads? I have never propagated from seed, I am a newbie. Can you tell me what to do? THANKS SO MUCH!!!
I don't know if four-o-clock cuttings will root. I've always grown them from seed. You won't be able to get seeds from the buds and you need to trim them off for rooting anyway. Go get the seeds from the spent blooms. They are quite big and will be dark brown or black when ripe. The lantana is easy to root. I don't even bother with rooting hormones. I strip the leaves from the bottom of the stem and any buds from the tip and set the cutting into moist potting mix so that at least one node is under the soil. I put the pot in a baggie, seal it and place it in a shady area. I open the bag every so often to give it some air so it doesn't rot.
Yellow????? Can I send you an envelope? The one I took a cutting from is maroon, or pink....but yellow is one of my favorite colors for a flower.....I have nothing to trade right now but as my knowledge grows, I hope to have something in the spring....
For anybody who might be interested, a friend of ours has some of her Four O'Clock seeds for sale on craigslist. This is not a commercial operation, just a little backyard garden. Four O'clocks are wonderful!
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'Hotel Transylvania 2' Trailer: Things Get Batty in This Adam Sandler Sequel
Adam Sandler's live-action comedies have been underperforming lately (so much so that he recently signed a deal to make his next movies for Netflix), but 2012's Hotel Transylvania was one of Sandler's best performing films in years. Because of that success, a new sequel is on the way with the whole "Drac Pack" returning for a spooky adventure.
'Minions' Trailer: Doesn't It Feel So Good to Be Bad?
A 'Minions' movie shouldn't work. They were undoubtedly the best part of the 'Despicable Me' movies, and a very large part of why those films were successful. But, could they actually support their own movie? That would be like giving Kramer his own 'Seinfeld' spinoff. Yet, watching this new 'Minions' trailer has us totally hooked. This could actually work.
Pixar Reveals First 'Inside Out' Footage Online!
2014 has been a long year. It's the first time since 2005 that we haven't had a Pixar movie and we're feeling a little withdrawal. The good news is that 2015 brings us two new Pixar movies, including 'Inside Out', the next film from Oscar-winning director Pete Docter ('Up'). While some were lucky enough to see the opening five minutes at a Pixar preview earlier this year, the first public release 'Inside Out' footage was made available today on the Disney Anywhere app. And, maybe it's the Pixar withdrawal speaking, but we're starting to get really excited.
Pixar's 'The Good Dinosaur' Has Been Completely "Dismantled and Reimagined"
Just about a year ago, Pixar announced that their planned 2014 movie 'The Good Dinosaur' would be moved to November 25, 2015 following the departure of director Bob Peterson. This is not necessarily unusual at Pixar with both 'Ratato
'Godzilla' Trailer: God Help Us All!
We've seen tantalizing glimpses of 'Godzilla' in the previous two teaser trailers, but with the new film set to hit theaters in just over two months, it's time for a full 'Godzilla' trailer and a really good look at the big lizard. That time is now as a new 'Godzilla' trailer has arrived that finally shows us the King of the Monsters in all his massive glory.
'Need For Speed' Super Bowl Trailer: What Drives You?
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Rumor Buster: Microsoft is Not Working on a New 'Halo' Movie
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2014 Super Bowl Trailers: What to Expect During the Big Game
Football fans are no doubt excited for the 2014 Super Bowl, but even non-sports fans can find something to enjoy. No, we're not talking about Bruno Mars, we're talking about the Super Bowl movie trailers that will be airing during the commercial breaks. With the 2014 Super Bowl set to air on FOX at 6pm on February 2, we thought now would be the perfect time to run through what we know is going to debut during the big game and what surprises could still be in store.
J.K. Rowling Has Complete Creative Control Over the 'Harry Potter' Spinoff
While J.K. Rowling is one of the biggest selling (and richest) authors in the world, she has never written a movie screenplay. But, when you're the creator of the billion dollar 'Harry Potter' franchise, even a first time writer can make some creative demands.
Rowling will write the screenplay for the forthcoming 'Harry Potter' spinoff 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' and her contract with Warner Bros. stipulates that her script cannot be rewritten, doctored or polished without her explicit permission.
This 4-Year-Old Girl Knows More About Marvel Superheroes Than You Do
"Where does the Dark Surfer trap Thanos and Captain Marvel?" If you can't answer that question, you just got beat by a 4-year-old girl in Marvel superhero trivia. Don't feel bad though, this girl really knows her stuff. Watch this adorable video below and see if you can keep up.
Real Life Sci-Fi: Meteor Explodes Over Russia, Hundreds Injured
You've seen it a hundred times in countless sci-fi movies: an object from space comes hurtling towards Earth leaving a trail of thick smoke behind it as curious onlookers turn their heads to the sky, mouths agape. Only this time, it's real.
Over 500 people were injured in Chelyabinsk, Russia last night when a meteor came blazing into the atmosphere, exploded and sent fireballs raining down as citizens caught all the action on camera.
2013 Oscar Nominations: Biggest Snubs
The 2013 Oscar nominations were announced this morning and there were plenty of surprises this year. While there were plenty of Oscar nominations we expected - Daniel Day Lewis for 'Lincoln' or Anne Hathaway for 'Les Miserables' - there were also plenty of Oscar snubs. So who were the most notable names that got snubbed when the 2013 Oscar nominations were announced?


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I Have a question: I have made 2 different projects to try some stuff out and to learn about programming in Java for android. But I want now to make those 2 projects 1.
I have made a music application and a sliding menu and now i want to implement the sliding menu in the music player application. I have an idea about how to do it, but to make sure i don't mess things up, I just want your help. So i have a bit of an idea about where i should place all the files. But what should i do with the MainActivity.xml? Better said, how could i combine those mainactivity files?
In a nuttshell i want to combine 2 android projects.
Oh, About the other files that aren't the MainActivity.xml, should i put them in the folder where they are in now? for example the files that are in the res folder (Sliding Menu) can i put those files also in the res but then in the (Music App)
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Broadband Briefs for 3/24/08
* MobiTV names new VP of technical operations
By Traci Patterson
MobiTV Inc. [1] has named David Turner as the company's new VP of technical operations, effective March 3.
Prior to MobiTV, Turner was the VP of operations at DemandTec. He also served as the VP of operations for Liberate Technologies, an interactive television (iTV) software firm that was acquired by Comcast [2] and Cox Communications [3] (story here [4]).
* Gemstar-TV Guide signs licensing agreement with Humax
By Mike Robuck
Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. [5] announced today that it has signed a patent license agreement with Humax Co. [6]
The multi-year agreement includes a patent license that allows Humax to incorporate interactive program guides (IPGs) in retail digital set-top boxes (STBs) that are distributed throughout Europe. The patent license also extends to digital TVs and digital recording devices deployed by Humax.
Financial terms of the agreement were not available. Founded in 1989 in Korea, Humax manufactures digital STBs.
* Verizon's FiOS Internet expanding in NYC buildings
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Verizon's [7] FiOS Internet service will soon launch in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, two large apartment complexes in New York City.
Currently, Verizon offers FiOS Internet service in many parts of the five boroughs of New York, as well as in other communities throughout the state. Meanwhile, Verizon's FiOS TV service is looking to enter New York City (story here [8]).
FiOS delivers Internet access with maximum downstream connection speeds of up to 50 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 20 Mbps.
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• Broadband Briefs for 3/24/08 [15]


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Advanced satellite on-board baseband switching processors have time-space-time (T-S-T) structures which are similar to the terrestrial switching networks (Sw-Nw). Generally, the satellite systems require higher reliability than ground equipment because of more severe environment and lack of repair. This paper proposes fault-tolerant satellite on-board T-S-T Sw-Nw with multiple separated space switches instead of a single spare switch. The authors analyze the mean time to unreliable operation (MTUO), as a performance and reliability index for the T-S-T systems with multiple separated space switches as well as conventional T-S-T systems. The MTUO varies depending on the threshold level of blocking-probability and the offered traffic. In general, T-S-T Sw-Nw with multiple space switches have better performance and reliability than those with the single space switch, and their performabilities are appreciably improved, especially for one additional spare space switch. This study can be extended to analyze the performance and reliability of entire satellite communication systems including the on-board baseband Sw-Nw, Rx interfaces, and Tx interfaces
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ART; Wim Wenders and the Landscape of Desire
By VICKI GOLDBERG
Published: November 30, 2003
WIM WENDERS says he is the only filmmaker in history to have been awarded an honorary doctorate in theology, a doctorate that had to be approved by the pope himself. The Catholic Church decided (agreeing with some critics) that films like ''Wings of Desire'' (1987), ''Paris, Texas'' (1984), ''The American Friend'' (1977), ''Kings of the Road'' (1976) and ''Alice in the Cities'' (1974), movies that deal with alienation, disengagement and a lack of identity, represented a spiritual quest. (In a recent interview at his New York gallery, he said he owes this to a conspiracy of monks who were movie freaks.) Though his films of the 1990's continued to win awards internationally, none measured up to the work that had made him a great hero of art-film audiences everywhere, nor did they attract much attention in America until ''Buena Vista Social Club'' in 1999.
Mr. Wenders, 58, takes still photographs, too. In 1986 the Pompidou Center in Paris showed his work, and since then it has appeared at the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Bilbao and museums and galleries from Australia to Japan to America. Some of his photographs, large and beautiful, are on view at the James Cohan Gallery in Chelsea through Dec. 20 and in a book, ''Pictures From the Surface of the Earth: Photographs by Wim Wenders'' (Schirmer Art Books). There are landscapes and abandoned cities in the American West, landscapes bound up with religion in Israel, decaying houses in Cuba, all basking in brilliant light and color or sprawling under foreboding yellow skies.
Mr. Wenders's life and work are a series of journeys, spiritual and otherwise. ''Travel is my main profession,'' he said, laughing. ''It's a state of grace, which is being on the way to somewhere and not necessarily knowing where that somewhere is, but knowing why it's worth trying to find it.'' Born in 1945 in Düsseldorf, Germany, a city that had been 80 percent flattened during World War II, he said that travel was a necessity in postwar Germany. Some place might exist that looked better.
The many travelers in his films are rootless men seeking self-knowledge and a way to live in a time that offers too few signposts. In some of his movies they search for a way to cope in a world dissolving into images. Mr. Wenders searched for himself in a lot of places when he was young: he briefly studied medicine, then psychology, then romance languages and after that philosophy. Mostly he painted, though for a while he devoted himself to the saxophone. (He once said that rock 'n' roll had saved his life. Most of his films' scores have been issued as CD's and several have been more profitable than the films themselves.)
Eventually he went to film school while writing film criticism. He first picked up a film camera as a possible tool for a painter, encouraged by the example of some American painters, and film simply eclipsed painting.
Mr. Wenders said that although he owes a lot to Walker Evans's attitude of modestly ''stepping back to let the object be all it is about,'' and although Robert Adams is a giant to him, he does not think he has been influenced by any photographers, only by painters. The influence of painting is evident in his photographs (as it is in his movies). Some of his landscapes have the grand sweep of Dutch 17th-century landscape or of Caspar David Friedrich. One is called ''Wyeth Landscape,'' and a couple of silent streetfronts bring to mind Edward Hopper, who, Mr. Wenders said, was a ''total film nut'' and whose paintings are cinematically pregnant with something about to happen in the next frame.
Mr. Wenders considers his still photography a kind of spiritual quest, much as his movies are, but seeking the spirit of places and the stories each one has to tell. The photographs are large enough to walk across -- several panoramics are almost 15 feet long. They are printed by the same woman who works with Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth and Thomas Ruff.
''Place is the driving force of my filmmaking,'' he said, ''to let places tell the story instead of impose a story on a place.'' Most of his movies start with a location; narrative, which he finds much harder, almost an obstacle, comes afterward. ''Wings of Desire,'' a film about melancholy angels in Berlin who yearn to be human, grew out of an urge to portray that city. He said that if a film is inspired by a landscape or city, ''the story and its characters then become what it's about.''
''They take center stage,'' he continued, ''and then the landscape that initiated it sort of steps into the background. In photography, finally, I found a tool where I could really honor those landscapes and keep them center stage and not be overwhelmed by characters and stories.'' There's no danger of characters overwhelming his photographs, which are mostly deserted. Sometimes he waits a long time for people to leave the scene before he'll take a picture.
Mr. Wenders toured the American West in the early 1970's, taking his first color pictures, because he wanted to make ''Paris, Texas,'' a movie set in the Southwest, and he needed to ''exorcise'' American film images of the West from his mind. As a teenager, he mentally traveled to America each day through comics, music and movies that struck him as the only authentic expressions in the inauthentic culture of postwar Germany. His movies are strongly influenced by American filmmakers, especially John Ford, Nicholas Ray, Sam Fuller and Anthony Mann, a director he calls ''one of the great painters of the American West.''


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It's because I'm stubbornly still on XP (I am NOT moving to Vista, 7 or 8 any time in the future!) so I needed an update to enable SDXC cards, otherwise it just gets stuck saying "card isn't formatted, do you want to format it? (yes) Oh, formatting failed" etc.
In case anyone else has problems like this the update is KB955704, available from link below.
This means I can now just pull the card from my Z2 and stick my music etc. on from there, and pull the photos etc off from there.
It seems even when connecting to PC via the phone's USB lead there are problems until this update is in - I could see the files but not edit them, move, copy, etc etc which is what was REALLY confusing me.
Sorry if I seemed a bit noobie about that. I've actually been flashing my phones, tinkering etc for years and years but I guess I've not had an SDXC card before so didn't realise it wouldn't play ball.
MUCH better now - I don't really care what the KitKat limitations are now I can just transfer files "properly".
Cheers for the explanation about KitKat though, that is very useful.
So I wasted a day transferring files via Dropbox when a poxy Windows update would have solved it. You live and learn. I hope I can save someone else the hassle!
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I am debugging GUI app on windows and I want to find out who is the sender of some message. On linux, I can run app in synchronized mode and find the sender in call stack. Is there any equivalent mode in windows?
AFAIK there's no built-in ability to do this.
But let's first investigate the problem. You want to know who's the sender of the message. You should know however that windows message processing can be classified by the following criterias:
You may trace directly the sender only when the message is sent (not posted) to a window, whereas the call to the
In case the message was sent from another thread - you will not see it in the call stack. Simply because the call stack shows the call chain that belongs to the current thread only. When a message is sent from another thread the system performs the following:
In such a case you may try to identify the caller indirectly. Interrupt your program with the breakpoint, and try to search for suspended threads, which are blocked in a call to
Finally, messages that are posted are impossible to trace by the above method. You may try to put a conditional breakpoint on a call to
valdo is correct. Calls to SendMessage call your applications wndproc directly. Calls to PostMessage posts the message to the message que and your application then recives the message via the message pump (the loop, getmessage, translatemessage, dispatchmessage). So , like he said, if the messages were sent via a SendMessage then the callee of the function will show in the call stack. If it was sent via PostMessage , it will not.


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These teens are 'hairy, stinky, violent'
THE teenagers in Annette Lapointe's rural Saskatchewan in the '80s are nothing like the jock/nerd/princess stereotypes that fill John Hughes' classic movies such The Breakfast Club or Pretty in Pink.
Lapointe's characters into hairy, stinky, violent beasts. The teen-idol werewolf hunks from Twilight probably wouldn't survive a hockey initiation in this novel.
Lapointe earned a PhD in Canadian literature from the University of Manitoba and now teaches in Grande Prairie, Alta. She was long-listed for a Giller Prize in 2006 for her first novel, Stolen. In this, her followup, she revisits the underbelly of rural life outside Saskatoon.
The teen world in Whitetail Shooting Gallery will make you squirm. It's dark and gritty, but it's also pretty funny.
Jennifer is an overweight teen who is "smart the way few people will ever be in a town that brews fetal alcohol syndrome like gestational moonshine."
She lives in a world of pregnant teens, hockey fights and a principal who won't come out of his office because the kids are all "cannibals."
Jennifer has always had a vaguely incestuous relationship with her cousin Jason. But they grow apart as Jason explores his homosexuality in the hockey arena and Jennifer goes under the covers with her best friend Donna, another overweight "freak."
Then one day Jennifer gets shot in the face in a supposed hunting accident, and the fallout affects all three of them into adulthood.
In Whitetail Shooting Gallery, Lapointe gives us an animalistic view of the teen world. This is not small-town rural life as idyllic or pastoral. Lapointe's world reflects the turmoil, raging emotions and hormones brewing inside adolescents.
Here's a brief sample of Lapointe's prose: "Glittering, athletic girls fight skanked-out, neglected children, who fight the odd, stillcloseted lesbians with their hair spikes and boys' clothes that are obvious to everyone but them. Guys crack ribs and fingers. Girls take off skin and leave deep bruises. One of those chicks takes you one, and you'll be infertile for years and septic everywhere she scratched you."
Her writing is strong, sharp and visceral. Lapointe finds the beauty and, equally importantly, the humour in this ugly, carnal world. Here is Jason describing Ginger, one of the girls. "If her ragged edges ever start to show, no one in town will survive," Lapointe writes. "The dust will settle, the morning after her rampage, and there will be this bloody, big girl perched on the water tower like a flying monkey, chewing on bits of human bone while she studies the wreckage."
The plot of Whitetail Shooting Gallery can be confusing. Lapointe jumps back and forth between the perspectives of Jennifer and Jason. She jumps timelines as well.
But the plot is almost secondary to Lapointe's vivid, powerful voice and her beautifully savage view of rural prairie life.
Joanne Kelly teaches journalism at Red River College. To join her book club at McNally Robinson, contact her on Twitter@joannemkelly.
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MADISON, Wis. -- No, Wisconsin didn't win a Big Ten tournament championship and capture a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament this weekend. But for all the Badgers' work this season, they earned a nice consolation prize anyway.
Wisconsin (26-7) garnered a No. 2 seed in the West Region and will play No. 15 seed American (20-12) at 11:40 a.m. CT on Thursday in the NCAA tournament. More importantly for Badgers fans and many of the team's players, they'll play that game -- and a potential Round of 32 matchup with either No. 7 Oregon or No. 10 BYU -- in Milwaukee, which is one of the region sites.
"We're just excited to be in the tournament, first of all," Badgers guard Josh Gasser said. "Being a two seed in Milwaukee, it's great to be playing close to home. And it just means you did something good this year. You get rewarded for what you've done."
Gasser's family is from Port Washington, which is roughly 30 minutes from Milwaukee. And with six Badgers hailing from Wisconsin, three from Illinois, two from Minnesota and one from Iowa, plenty of family members should be in attendance.
That fact was not lost on Gasser, Badgers guard Ben Brust and Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan on Sunday night after the NCAA tournament pairings were announced. A year ago, Wisconsin played in Kansas City, Mo., in the opening round, which is nearly 500 miles from Madison. In 2011-12, the Badgers were in Albuquerque, N.M., and they were in Tucson, Ariz., in 2010-11.
"The thing I'm really excited about is all the money on travel that our parents have spent, we're fortunate enough to have made the tournament, like in Ben's case, what the parents have shelled out to go see him play in the NCAA tournament," Ryan said. "Now the expense won't be quite as much. Won't be anywhere near as much. It's really neat for the families. ...
"For us, it's less expense. Great opponent. Run good stuff. Play tough defense. Just the way the tournament should be."
Added Brust, a senior: "I went to a couple of the freshmen right away, something I'm getting used to. You using your tickets? Because I just want to make sure I can get my whole family there, which is fun to have them there for this March run."
Wisconsin's players acknowledged they knew little about their opening-round opponent in the minutes immediately following the selection show -- "We've been scrolling through our phones a little bit," Gasser said -- but American will present a stern challenge, even as a No. 15 seed.
American won the Patriot League postseason tournament, 55-36, against Boston University on Wednesday. The Eagles rank No. 7 nationally in scoring defense (58.6 points allowed per game) and didn't allow more than 50 points in any of their three conference tournament games. Wisconsin, meanwhile, ranks 44th nationally in scoring defense (64.2 points per game).
Four players are scoring in double figures for American, led by sophomore guard Jesse Reed (13.9 points). Senior Tony Wroblicky, a 6-foot-10 center, averages 12.2 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. Junior guards Darius Gardner (11.5 points) and John Schoof (11.4 points) also average double digits in scoring.
The Eagles succeed by doing many of the things well that Wisconsin does, particularly dictating pace of play and playing solid defense. American runs a Princeton-style offense under first-year coach Mike Brennan, the Patriot League's coach of the year.
Wisconsin will have to regroup after suffering an 83-75 loss to Michigan State on Saturday in the Big Ten tournament semifinals. The Badgers fell behind by 21 points and trailed by 17 at halftime before mounting a comeback that fell short.
Had Wisconsin beaten Michigan State and Michigan in the championship, the Badgers could have had an opportunity for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. Michigan State defeated Michigan, 69-55, to take the conference tournament title.
"We're upset we didn't come out with a win, obviously," Gasser said. "That was one of our goals is win the Big Ten tournament. We didn't come out with enough firepower there early on. You dig yourself that big of a hole, it's hard to get out of.
"Today, we looked some stuff over of what we need to improve on and now it's a brand new season. So we've got to keep looking forward. What happened in the past you've got to learn from. But at the same time, it's in the past."
There have only been seven teams seeded No. 15 to upset a No. 2 seed since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. But three of those 15-2 upsets have occurred in the past two NCAA tournaments. Last year, Florida Gulf Coast defeated Georgetown and became the first 15 seed ever to reach the Sweet 16. In 2012, C.J. McCollum's Lehigh team knocked off Duke, and Norfolk State narrowly edged Missouri.
Of course, the Badgers recognize past results have no bearing on Thursday's game. And Ryan will make sure his players are focused on the task at hand.
"They wont hear it from me that we're a two," Ryan said. "They wont hear it from me that we're playing a 15. They won't hear it from me that we're in Milwaukee. My guys are pretty smart. I think they know where we're going. I think they know what's at stake, and you have to win more than one game. But you can't win two without winning one.
"It's all the same cliches that come out all the time. It won't be because anybody is overlooked. It won't be because they're not prepared for it. It's just going to be who plays the best that 40 minutes."
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National Cancer Institute The Cancer Genome Atlas: Navigating the Data Portal http://cancergenome.nih.gov/dataportal/data/about The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pilot Project The Cancer Genome Atlas, a pilot project of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), is a large-scale collaborative effort to understand the molecular basis of cancer through the application of genome analysis technologies, including but not limited to identifying mutations in DNA sequence, copy number variation and alterations in methylation status. The pilot project is focused on three types of cancers: glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), squamous carcinoma of the lung, and serous cystadenocarcinoma of the ovary. TCGA is unique in the manner in which it collaborates with a broad cross-section of the cancer research community, including basic and clinical researchers, oncologists, nurses, bioethicists, cancer patients, and advocates. Approximately two dozen public and private institutions in the United States and across the globe are involved in the TCGA Research Network. The network is actively engaged in data generation, characterization and analysis and is enabling integrated exploration of these cancer genome data sets by the entire cancer research community. Through this coordinated and collaborative effort, TCGA is providing insights that will accelerate the development of next-generation diagnostic biomarkers and targeted therapies. The discoveries made as a result of TCGA will lay the foundation for a more personalized approach to cancer prevention, diagnostics, and treatment. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND To read more about TCGA, its goals, and its discoveries, please HUMAN SERVICES visit: http://cancergenome.nih.gov/ National Institutes of Health TCGA Data Portal – What is It? How does the Data Portal Work? How to Access and Analyze TCGA Data: TCGA Data Portal is a Web-based platform for cancer researchers to search, download, and analyze data Providing access to advanced analysis tools, the portal sets generated by TCGA. The portal contains all TCGA data sets pertaining to clinical information, genomic Access TCGA Data Portal: allows the user to select individual samples from multiple characterization, and high-throughput sequencing analysis of the tumor genomes. centers, platforms, and data types to create a customized http://cancergenome.nih.gov/dataportal/data/ data set. In addition, users can search and download about Data currently available through the portal include molecular characterization data sets for ovarian cancer, and complete data archives as submitted by TCGA research Analyze TCGA Data: molecular characterization, high-throughput sequencing, and clinical data for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) centers for clinical, characterization, and sequencing data http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/docs/related/ tumors. New data are derived on an ongoing basis from TCGA analyses and are deposited into databases for of the tumor genomes. analytical_views.html download in the portal. To download the Data Request Form and Data Use Certification, Tools Featured in the TCGA Data Portal please visit: http://tcga.cancer.gov/ • Cancer Molecular Analysis (CMA) Portal: A component of the National Cancer Institute's caBIG® initiative, dataportal/data/access/closed the CMA enables researchers to integrate, visualize, and explore genomic characterization data from translational studies, including TCGA. • Cancer Genome Workbench (CGWB): A computational platform, CGWB integrates tumor mutation profiles with multidimensional molecular and clinical data. • Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV): A fast, flexible visualization tool for genomic data that integrates datasets from various platforms and sources, including genetic variation, gene/microRNA expression, epigenetic data, RNAi screens, genomic features, and annotation of samples. • MSKCC CancerGenomics Analysis: This tool provides detailed analysis results and analysis tools in the areas of signaling pathways, mutations, and copy number alterations. The National Cancer Institute continues to support the development of novel tools for Data Portal users to assist in overcoming the limitations of current methods for analyzing large, complex data sets. http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcga/homepage.htm Responsible Data Use Learn more about TCGA patient With large volumes of genomic information derived from human tumor specimens collected from patient In promoting the responsible dissemination of TCGA dataset analyses, protection policies and data use populations, the aggregated data generated from TCGA are available in two tiers: Open-Access Data tier – a TCGA follows a stringent informed consent and patient protection process. guidelines at: publicly accessible tier of data that cannot be used to identify a specific individual; and Controlled-Access Data TCGA approved data users are strongly encouraged to visit the data use http://cancergenome.nih.gov/ tier – a controlled, password-protected tier containing information such as clinical data that could be used to policy and publications guidelines for information and guidance on how to policies/index.asp identify patient participants. To access the protected data, a user must complete a Data Access Request (DAR) use TCGA data in publications. form and Data Use Certification (DUC); and access is granted on a case-by-case basis. Researchers are able to apply the data available from TCGA Data Portal to further clinical advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. How Will TCGA Benefit Cancer Research and Patients? Data from the TCGA Pilot Project provide researchers and clinicians with an early glimpse of what promises to become an unprecedented, comprehensive "atlas" of molecular information describing genomic changes associated with specific cancers. TCGA will ultimately enable researchers to analyze and employ the data in their own research to advance the molecular understanding of cancer and pave the way for a more targeted, personalized approach to cancer prevention and treatment. TCGA data are already generating promising research findings with the publication of its first large-scale, comprehensive study on glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). TCGA identified many gene mutations involved in GBM, including three previously unrecognized mutations that occur with significant frequency and the delineation of core pathways disrupted in this type of brain cancer. Among the most exciting results is an unexpected observation that points to a potential mechanism of resistance to a standard chemotherapy drug, temozolomide, used to treat glioblastoma patients. These findings demonstrate TCGA's promise in generating further discoveries as users integrate more and more large-scale data sets generated by TCGA. Find Out More About TCGA For more information about The Cancer Genome Atlas Pilot Project, please contact: The Cancer Genome Atlas Project National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Building 31, Room 10A07 31 Center Drive, MSC 2580 Bethesda, MD 20892-2580 301-451-8027 For additional information about the sponsoring institutes, please visit the following websites: National Cancer Institute http://cancer.gov National Human Genome Research Institute http://genome.gov
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