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WELLINGTON: Gautam Gambhir, on the third day of the third Test here at the Basin Reserve, continued to mine his rich run-scoring seam, which — including Sunday's 167 — has yielded five Test centuries in six months and 13 innings.
The left-handed opener's controlled knock, which featured vibrant strokeplay, safe defence, and industrious working of the ones and twos, helped India set an elaborate table. By stumps on the third day (hastened by bad light), India had made 349 for five in the second innings for a gargantuan overall lead of 531. Already ahead 1-0, a thoroughly deserved and historic series win in New Zealand is now only a matter of time.
A significant member
Gambhir did everything asked of him on a day which might have turned moderately tricky — and in so doing proved again that he isn't merely a bit-part player in a side of batting luminaries, but a significant member.
He has shown he can dictate terms to quality bowlers of both pace and spin; he has shown he has the defensive technique and the concentration needed to bat time in a rescue act; on Sunday he showed he can further a game that needs advancing, securely, calmly, firmly.
The day began overcast, with the Indian second innings in Gambhir and Rahul Dravid's care. India resumed on 51 for one, 233 ahead, but mindful that an ambush could still make a contest of the third Test.
Undeniable grace
Dravid, who survived a couple of anxious moments, didn't make a run in the first half-hour. Gambhir, at the other end, began with a beautiful straight drive, hit on the up off Tim Southee, everything about it utterly measured.
The left-hander is sometimes accused of unsightly strokeplay, but he is a difficult batsman to pigeon-hole in terms of style, for although not given to languid ball-striking, the balance and poise during a lot of his driving, and his working to leg, contain undeniable grace.
Dravid broke free by cutting and pulling Southee, settling into a nice batting rhythm. The conditions, in any case, weren't unduly difficult: a stiff, whippy wind that wailed around the old grandstand like a miserable banshee might have made it difficult to control the bat-swing and added and detracted from the bowlers speeds further hindering timing, but it didn't bring much swing. The strip had bounce, but although Chris Martin and Iain O'Brien attempted the odd short-pitched attack, it had little success.
By lunch, India led by 352, Gambhir and Dravid still together. New Zealand had its best moments in the hour after lunch.
Fine anticipation
First, Brendon McCullum pulled off a wonderful bit of opportunistic wicket-keeping. Dravid (60) had paddled Daniel Vettori fine, and McCullum had hurried across, but the moment passed without incident. Dravid attempted the stroke again off a ball on middle. This time McCullum was across in a flash, his anticipation allowing him to advance so far that he could actually see the ball off the bat from behind the batsman. McCullum's left foot was outside the cut strip when he completed the catch, the ball lodging between his glove and the side of his body.
Sachin Tendulkar, after hitting Vettori for a glorious six over long-off, got one that dipped and turned to evade the bat's middle. Ross Taylor dived low at first slip to take the ball millimetres from the turf. But V.V.S. Laxman joined Gambhir, as the pair built India's second substantial partnership (106) after Gambhir and Dravid had added 170.
Gambhir treated O'Brien with contempt, leaping to upper-cut him for six, driving and cutting him either side of point; but most destroying to the bowler's psyche was how he played the angle, moving across the stumps to take balls from the off-stump and send them past square leg for two.
Gambhir brought up his century by dancing down the track, simultaneously withdrawing from the line to make room, and slicing though cover-point for four. But the pursuit of the double century fell 33 short: in playing O'Brien across the line, he missed the (second new) ball to be found in front of his stumps.
O'Brien also pierced a Laxman off-drive with a superb break-back, ending another fine half-century (61) from the right-hander. Yuvraj Singh and M.S. Dhoni managed five fours between them before taking the umpires' offer of light in the gathering gloom.
India — 1st innings: 379.
New Zealand —1st innings: 197.
India — 2nd innings: G. Gambhir lbw b O'Brien 167 (257b, 16x4, 2x6); V. Sehwag c Taylor b Martin 12 (7b, 3x4); R. Dravid c McCullum b Vettori 60 (145b, 10x4); S. Tendulkar c Taylor b Vettori 9 (20b, 1x6); V.V.S. Laxman b O'Brien 61 (109b, 9x4); Yuvraj (batting) 15 (27b, 2x4); M.S. Dhoni (batting) 16 (26b, 3x4); Extras (lb-5, nb-4) 9; Total (for five wkts. in 97.5 overs) 349.
Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Sehwag), 2-184 (Dravid), 3-208 (Tendulkar), 4-314 (Gambhir), 5-319 (Laxman).
New Zealand bowling: Southee 12-2-58-0, Martin 15.5-5-50-1, O'Brien 22-6-77-2, Franklin 13-3-50-0, Ryder 6-1-21-0, Vettori 29-4-88-2.


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In recent months, Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker, the reigning U.S. pairs champions, and Rena Inoue and John Baldwin, themselves two-time national champions, have shared the rink at Aliso Viejo's Ice Palace.
They have shared the same dream even longer.
In the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Spokane, Wash. (Jan. 14-24), McLaughlin and Brubaker, Inoue and Baldwin will battle for the two pairs spots on the U.S. team for the 2010 Games. It is a showdown that has been months in the making at a quiet Orange County rink that, despite its low profile tucked into a hillside business park, has captured American skating's attention.
"It starts here on a daily basis," Brubaker said.
It is a rivalry that has developed under the watch of coaches intertwined through decades. John Nicks, the dean of American skating coaches, tutors McLaughlin, 17, and Brubaker, 23. If the pair reaches Vancouver, it will be Nicks' 12th Olympic Games as a coach. Nicks' eighth and ninth trips to the Olympics were with the pairs team of Jenni Meno and Todd Sand. While Nicks watches his current team each morning, a few feet away, Meno and Sand, now married, train Inoue, 33, and Baldwin, 36, who are engaged.
Between them, the two teams have won four of the last six U.S. pairs titles. McLaughlin and Brubaker are the favorites, but Inoue and Baldwin also are among the top contenders vying for the team. It is more than titles, however, that makes the rivalry compelling. Each morning, skating in the same circles, they play out a story line as old as sports: the up-and-coming youngsters vs. the veteran team trying to hang on, each of them reaching for five universal rings.
Yet despite what's at stake and the close proximity of their preparations, the rivalry is marked by a mutual respect.
"It's not like we're looking at each other and saying, 'OK, I hope that person doesn't do well,'" Baldwin said. "I think we both hope that we both do our best, and we'll see what happens. That would be great."
McLaughlin and Brubaker are the faces of American skating's next generation, coming soon to a grocery aisle near you. They are the first skaters to sign an endorsement deal with Nike. They are featured in advertising for Coca-Cola. They've even done a public service video for the U.S. Homeland Security Homeland Security Department.
On the ice, McLaughlin and Brubaker, the 2007 World Junior champions, are seen by many in American skating as the United States' best hope for the Olympic pairs medal that has eluded Team USA since 1988.
"I think we both know and understand that we have the opportunity to do something with U.S. pairs skating and take it to a level it hasn't been at in a while," Brubaker said.
Inoue and Baldwin have assumed their familiar role as underdogs. Despite finishing seventh at the 2006 Olympic Games and fourth at the 2006 World Championships, only the second Top 4 U.S. pairs finish in the 2000s, Inoue and Baldwin said they never felt embraced by a U.S. Figure Skating organization that they now say has dismissed their bid to compete in a second Olympics.
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Thanks to Twitter Counter to keep track of all of this!
Over the years, I have not yet grown my number of Twitter Followers over 1,000. But I managed to get two reasonable bumps in number of followers. How? I used a guest post on a Twitter blog to go from 140 to 600, and this year, an Interview on a well read blog pushed me over 700.
Guest Blogging to Gain Followers
Too many blogpost and video's have been written how well guest posting works to build your brand, get more followers or RSS readers or get more comments on your own blog. I will not expand on the existing materials from better experts than me. I will just link to some great resources out there at the bottom of this blog. No, what I would like to highlight here, are just my own experiences with guest blogging, and how it helped me to get more Twitter followers.
I wrote one guest post only at the end of 2009. I didn't wrote my post for a blog focused on anything I usually write on. No, I wrote a guest post for a blog focused on Twitter. As Twitter was about to break into the mainstream media and for the bigger public, I wrote a post on Why Twitter will go mainstream in 2009.
The whole purpose of my guest post were three fold:
After the post was published, I logged in to my email account, and was stunned about what I saw:
The Interview Effect
Over Christmas last year, I did an email interview with Aaron Wall. He asked me if I would be interested to do this, to get my perspective on working on a large site like eBay. As I'm a long time reader of SEObook, I was honored I would be featured on SEObook.com.
I got a lot of nice comments from people about the content, and obviously I also was interested in the effects on the number of Twitter followers. Now using Twittercounter, I could see the number jump up right after the interview was published.
The good news from this jump is, most of the new followers are working in the same industry as myself. This creates new opportunities to ask or give feedback on certain tests I would like to conduct, or changes in the search landscape that I see.
Presentation for Influential Mom Bloggers
Although the two biggest jumps in the number of followers came from the guest post on Twitip and the interview on SEObook, I also got a smaller jump just recently by doing a presentation for a number of highly influential Mom Bloggers.
These ladies have it going on, and Twitter is definitely not new for them. As I was checking out their blogs, Twitter and Foursquare updates, I made sure I had my Twitter handle in the last slide. I saw a small jump in the numbers as you can see from the graph above here.
There are a number of ways you can gain followers on Twitter. The key, however, is to keep them, and get value out of the conversations you have.
As promised, here are some resources I highly recommend on guest blogging:
Wow, how can you piss me off more than sending me a direct spam message on Twitter directly after I returned the favor of following you. Resulting in being followed and un-followed within 5 minutes. New record for me! Follow Un-Follow Within 5 Minutes.
Today all of a sudden I encountered some problems whenever I tried to load my website. See screenshot below.
I didn't change anything to the set up of plug ins which were installed and activated. So I was wondering if others would see the same thing as I was seeing. The only problem when you are working in the middle of the night is that you cannot call anybody, as they probably are sleeping.
So what do you do… you post a message on Twitter…
anybody seeing a error message popping up when loading my site? http://thenextcorner.net/ message
It didn't even take 2 minutes or I already had 5 replies back, with the first one within 30 seconds reporting nothing was wrong.
After the fast feedback I realized it could be the updated Y!slow Firefox plugin which was causing trouble. I immediately de-activated the plugin and tried again. Result: Error gone!
Nice, now can I go to sleep. Thanks to @Cifip, @cianW, @astrid0210, @suzannepronk and @martijndevrieze
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And once again, a social media scam is breaking out. I now get messages from Twitter profiles that only include a short URL with a sexy looking girl as a profile picture.
I'm not going to click on the link, as I suspect it will either take me to a Made for Adsense site, or to a site that will install some malware.
Let those friends or family members know you're coming and your plane is on time. A cool innovation and usage of social media by Lufthansa. The German airline has just launched their new Twitter/Facebook application called: MySkyStatus.
If you are planning to take a flight with Lufthansa, you might as well try out this new service.
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Automatic updates to your network of followers where you are, or updating your family what your expected arrival time will be.
An interesting analytical view on Twitter today on Techcrunch by Robert J. Moore of RJmetrics. Most interesting graph, at least when my brains started to work again… hey give me a break, it's already midnight, was the cumulative twitter users per month.
Finally I can say for once that I've been an early adopter, maybe even an innovator…
Other stats on my Twitter usage and number of followers puts me clearly in the corner of heavy users, or maybe even addicts…
The number of followers I have:
The number of Tweets:
How many click bots are present on Twitter?
Today I shared a link through su.pr; the new StumbleUpon URL shortner, which is awesome btw! You can easily track the number of clicks your shared link generated through the people who follow you.
However, today I checked immediately after I shared a link. It struck me that within 16 seconds the link already generated 7 clicks!
So I wonder how many of the clicks are generated by bots automatically click on these links. Anybody an idea?
How do you call Spam on Twitter? Right Spit. And how do you call a Spammer on Twitter, right a Spitter.
Spit is becoming worse on Twitter the more popular Twitter is becoming. Just check the Tweet below here, your typical form of Spit.
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the longest ones you can find with wings. I had so much bleeding an they fill up so fast. also a squirt bottle for water, so when you use the restroom you can clean up a little after. i know tmi, but I have never bleed that much in my life.
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Uh I know this sounds crazy but my last midwife had XL depends for me last time around and they were GREAT (I was about a size 24 then, and they fit me fine)
It was nice cuz you didn't have to worry about the pad shifting and staining anything, I used them for the first 4-5 days then switched to big bulky pads (always maxis)
Haven't tried them yet, but we are going with Always Maxi Overnight Extra Heavy Flow with Wings. Opened one just to see what it looked like, and couldn't believe the size. It is like a foot long... o.O Hope they work.
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I'm also going to look at the Tena pads... the hige overnight Always Infinity were the best for my heavy periods before, but if I could beed though those I'm guessing after birth I might be a heck of a bleeder.
Bleck. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst! If the hospital pads are good I'll totally hold on to my own until I get home :)


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Get lost in endless ocean sunsets and gorgeous rainforest views. Feel the soft volcanic black sand beaches of Jaco, Costa Rica underneath your feet with a romantic walk down the beach, or take your family and friends on an unforgettable adventure through the rainforest. Jaco has all of the charm of a small beach town and all of the adventure that one expects from an exotic Costa Rican getaway. You can swim with dolphins, zipline through the rainforest canopy, or feed crocodiles in their natural habitat. Rent ATV's and explore the town of Jaco and its gorgeous surroundings. Try your hand at surfing with lessons from the local pros, or charter a boat for a day of deep-sea fishing. The local culture, wildlife, and cuisine is sure to make an impression and have you counting the days until you can experience it all over again.
If you crave adventure and still want all of the comfort and luxury of home then this 5th floor 2bd/2.5 bath beachfront condo is perfect for your Costa Rican vacation. The complex of Diamante del Sol is centrally located in the heart of Jaco Beach, Costa Rica and within walking distance to all of Jaco's attractions. In your condo you will find Plush leather seating, a flat screen TV, floor to ceiling windows, huge wrap around balconies, private dining area, and a fully equipped modern kitchen with everything you could need to make this your home away from home. The Master bedroom comes with a king size bed, it's own Flat screen TV, in suite bathroom, and glass doors to access your private beach view balcony. The second bedroom also comes with a king size bed and private in suite bathroom. There is a full size washer and dryer in the unit so you don't have to worry about wet towels piling up from all your visits to the beach and community swimming pool. Our goal is to make sure everything is taken care of well in advance so you not only get to enjoy the luxury of the unit, but also the luxury of a carefree mind.
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• Beautiful beachfront infinity pool with prime ocean views, and 5 cascading waterfalls
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Diamante Del Sol is a luxurious high-end beachfront condominium complex that offers a fantastic location, ideal for groups and families with some of the most amazing oceanfront and pool views. Situated right on the coastline of Jaco Beach and only an hour and a half drive from Juan Santamaria International Airport it is a perfect spot for a vacation and modern style living. Set amid a backdrop of pristine rainforest and looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, this beachfront vacation community offers stunning 1, 2, 3 and 4-bedroom condos right on the beach.
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If you have any questions during your stay, Lost Beach offers exceptional concierge service and we are just a phone call away at extension 400 from the phone in your unit. We can also help book all the best tours in Costa Rica while visiting Jaco such as jungle adventures, Zipline canopy tours, horseback riding, ATV tours, world class sport fishing, feeding the crocodiles, Tortuga island tours and surfing the best waves in the world.
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About: Lost Beach Properties is the largest provider of luxurious beachfront vacation condo rentals in Jaco Beach, Costa Rica. Jaco is the largest and closest beach town from San Jose airport. It is by far one of the most popular vacation destinations in Central America and a great spot for a vacation in paradise. Why stay in a hotel when you can enjoy a home away from home in one of Lost Beach's luxurious vacation condo rentals for about the same rate as a 5 star hotel. Featuring 2, 3, and 4 bedroom condos, as well as penthouses, these properties each offer breathtaking ocean views, private terraces, rooftop gardens, spacious living areas, state of the art kitchen appliances and more. Lost beach's commitment to exemplary customer service is unparalleled, and our distinct luxury properties are widely considered the most beautiful in the Jaco Beach area. You'll love our prime beachfront locations, all within walking distance of downtown Jaco Beach. The best part is we are located right here in Jaco Beach and are truly in-country experts who can help you in planning every step of your adventure.Whatever your pleasure is, the Lost Beach Properties concierge team will set it up for you and at the end of the day, you'll be well rested from that afternoon massage on your balcony and can hit the town for a great dinner, drinks and dancing; the nightlife in Jaco Beach is plentiful.
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Right on the beach, great location to restaurants, great beach front pool and we are located right here in Jaco for anything at all you may need. Go horseback riding on the beach, visit a nearby waterfall, laze by the pool with a good book, feed crocodiles in the wild, race over trails in your rented ATV, ride the rapids when you go white water rafting or zip through the forest canopy on a zip line and harness. It's all up to you. Are you a surfer? Jaco Beach has some of the best breaks on the entire pacific coast. Maybe you'd enjoy a day of world class sport fishing or snorkeling off the island of Tortuga.
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Middle English loth loathsome, from Old English lāth; akin to Old High German leid loathsome, Old Irish lius loathing
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If you know a bit about the castles of the western Scottish Highlands then you know there's a little something that needs clearing up: the matter of two Inverlochy Castles. It's quite simple actually. Just up the road is the deeply historic 13th-century Inverlochy Castle — which happens to be in ruins, albeit quite well-preserved. The Inverlochy Castle you can stay at, by contrast, is anything but ruined — and while it dates back scarcely a century and a half, it's as fantastically, opulently historic as any hotel in Scotland.
In our opinion one of the best things about unrenovated historic properties is the fact that there's a limited number of rooms — not to be greedy, but it's a fine thing not having to share the house with too many fellow travelers. And of course it means they remain spacious, when the suites in particular could well have each been split into two or more contemporary-sized rooms.
Of course the place isn't entirely untouched by modernity. Amenities have been updated where it really counts, which is essentially just in matters of electronics and plumbing. Otherwise it's as it would have been on its founding in the 1860s: such country pursuits as shooting and fishing by day, and a lavish dinner in one of two dining rooms by night. Change, we think you'll agree, is highly overrated.
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Final Regents Meeting Addresses Tuition Hikes, Divestment, Food Security
The UC Board of Regents met Thursday at UC San Francisco Mission Bay for their final meeting of the 2014-2015 academic year to discuss planned tuition increases, the current status of the UC Global Food Initiative and the university budget for fiscal year 2015-2016.
The Campus Advocacy Resources & Education office hosted a lecture on military sexual trauma (MST) by assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work Kristen Zalesky in the Flying A room Thursday morning.
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This year's New Venture Competition (NVC) Finals awarded its annual $10,000 grand prize to student tech start up Milo, a business projected to create a device that proactively monitors the blood alcohol content (BAC) of individual consumers.
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In the Eliasberg catalog, this beauty was presented as "possibly a presentation striking" and "far and away the finest known." Original 1835 proof half dollars are extremely rare, as most proofs of this date are technically restrikes with the edge lettering crushed. The restrikes were made a short time later, perhaps in 1836.
This Superb Gem has incredible surfaces with fully prooflike fields, save for tiny areas of mint frost in the left obverse field. While clearly not a proof, this beautiful example was carefully produced, and is an attractive representative of the 1835 coinage issues that approached the end of an era, before steam power was introduced late the next year. Easily the finest known example, this piece is one of half a dozen MS63 or finer examples of the variety known to us.
Both sides have an amazing strike with all details boldly defined, a few stars at the left being the only exception. The obverse has brilliant gold toning with incredible rose, lilac, and blue peripheries. The reverse is deeper in appearance but similarly toned. Census: 1 in 67 , 0 finer (3/09).
Ex: Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr.; Eliasberg Estate (Bowers and Merena, 4/1997), lot 1899.
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Influence of the long-term operation of 12Kh1M1F steel from different zones of a bend of steam pipeline of a thermal power plant on its mechanical characteristics
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We estimate the characteristics of strength, ductility, and static crack resistance of 12Kh1MF steel taken from the stretched, compressed, and neutral zones of a vertical bend and a straight part of the main steam pipeline of a thermal power plant after ~ 1.3 ⋅105 h of operation. The anisotropy of the mechanical char acteristics in the diametric and axial sections of the pipe and their gradients across the thickness of the pipe wall in fracture are discovered.
Translated from Fizyko-Khimichna Mekhanika Materialiv, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 111–118, March–April, 2012.
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- Introduction
- General considerations
- Absolute dating
- Principal cosmogenic and uranium-thorium series radioisotopes
Technical advances
The ability to add a single artificial mass to the spectrum in a known amount and to determine the abundances of other isotopes with respect to this provides a powerful analytical tool. By means of this process known as isotope dilution, invisibly small amounts of material can be analyzed, and because only ratios are involved, a loss of part of the sample during preparation has no effect on the result. Spike solutions can be calibrated simply by obtaining a highly purified form of the element being calibrated. After carefully removing surface contamination, a precisely weighted portion of the element is dissolved in highly purified acid and diluted to the desired level in a weighed quantity of water. What is required is dilution of one cubic centimetre to a litre from which a second cubic centimetre is again diluted to a litre to approach the range of parts per million or parts per billion typically encountered in samples. In this way, a known number of natural isotopes can be mixed with a known amount of spike and the concentration in the spike solution determined from the ratio of the masses. Once the calibration has been completed, the process is reversed and a weighed amount of spike is mixed with the parent and daughter elements from a mineral or rock. The ratio of the masses then gives the number of naturally produced atoms in the sample. The use of calibrated enriched isotopic tracers facilitates checks for contamination, even though the process is time-consuming. A small but known amount of tracer added to a beaker of water can be evaporated under clean-room conditions. Once loaded in a mass spectrometer, the contamination from the beaker and the water is easily assessed with respect to the amount of spike added. Contamination as small as 10−12 gram can be detected by this method.
The materials analyzed during isotopic investigations vary from microgram quantities of highly purified mineral grains to gram-sized quantities of rock powders. In all cases, the material must be dissolved without significant contamination. The spike should be added before dissolution. Most of the minerals in rocks can be dissolved in a day or so at a temperature near 100° C. Certain minerals that are highly refractory both in nature and in the laboratory (e.g., zircon) may require five days or more at temperatures near 220° C. In this case, the sample is confined in a solid Teflon (trade name for a synthetic resin composed of polytetrafluoroethylene), metal-clad pressure vessel, introduced by the Canadian geochronologist Thomas E. Krogh in 1973.
The method just described proved to be a major technical breakthrough as it resulted in a reduction in lead-background contamination by a factor of between 10,000 and nearly 1,000,000. This means that a single grain can now be analyzed with a lower contamination level (or background correction) than was possible before with 100,000 similar grains. Advances in high-sensitivity mass spectrometry of course were essential to this development.
Once dissolved, the sample is ready for the chemical separation of the dating elements. This is generally achieved by using the methods of ion-exchange chromatography. In this process, ions are variously adsorbed from solution onto materials with ionic charges on their surface and separated from the rest of the sample. After the dating elements have been isolated, they are loaded into a mass spectrometer and their relative isotopic abundances determined.
The abundance of certain isotopes used for dating is determined by counting the number of disintegrations per minute (i.e., emission activity). The rate is related to the number of such atoms present through the half-life. For example, a certain amount of carbon-14 (14C) is present in all biological components at the Earth's surface. This radioactive carbon is continually formed when nitrogen atoms of the upper atmosphere collide with neutrons produced by the interaction of high-energy cosmic rays with the atmosphere. An organism takes in small amounts of carbon-14, together with the stable (nonradioactive) isotopes carbon-12 (12C) and carbon-13 (13C), as long as it is alive. Once it dies, however, no additional carbon-14 is acquired and the level of radiocarbon in the organism's tissue decreases progressively as a function of half-life. The time that has passed since the organism was alive can be determined by counting the beta emissions from a tissue sample. The number of emissions in a given time period is proportional to the amount of residual carbon-14.
The introduction of an instrument called an accelerator mass spectrometer has brought about a major advance in radiocarbon dating. Unlike the old detector (e.g., the Geiger counter) that counts the few decay particles emitted from a large amount of carbon, the new instrument counts directly all of the carbon-14 atoms in a sample. This increase in instrument sensitivity has made it possible to reduce the sample size by as much as 10,000 times and at the same time improve the precision of ages measured. (For a detailed discussion of radiocarbon age determination, see below Carbon-14 dating and other cosmogenic methods.)
In a similar development, the use of highly sensitive thermal ionization mass spectrometers is replacing the counting techniques employed in some disequilibrium dating (see below). Not only has this led to a reduction in sample size and measurement errors but it also has permitted a whole new range of problems to be investigated. Certain parent–daughter isotopes are extremely refractory and do not ionize in a conventional mass spectrometer. To solve this problem, researchers are developing new instruments in which a small amount of material can be evaporated from the surface with a pulse of energy and ionized with a pulse of laser light. A major trend anticipated in geochronology and isotope geochemistry involves the analysis of mineral grains in place without chemical dissolution and mass spectrometry. This type of analysis requires expensive equipment in which a focused beam of ions is directed at a spot on a mineral sample. This causes atoms to evaporate from the surface, and the ions produced are extracted and measured in a mass spectrometer. Uranium–lead dating of zircon by this method has been pioneered by William Compston at the Australian National University.


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Earlier this year the SHRP 2 Program and the Transportation Research Board issued a report entitled "The Effect of Public-Private Partnerships and Non-Traditional Procurement Processes on Highway Planning, Environmental Review and Collaborative Decision Making," which is available on the TRB website.
Public-private partnerships ("P3s") have become an important tool in developing and financing infrastructure improvements, and are being used by transportation agencies across the nation. One issue faced by agencies wishing to explore the use of P3s concerns how P3 strategies interrelate with programming and planning efforts. In an effort to promote a better understanding of these interrelationships, the SHRP2 Program asked a team that included Parsons Brinckerhoff, HS Public Affairs and Nossaman LLP to conduct a study on the subject.
The report produced by this team documents the nature, timing and implementation of P3 projects in the United States, focusing on the different points in time during which the private sector may become involved in project development, private sector investment interest, and how P3s may be integrated into the collaborative decision-making tool developed under SHRP 2 C01 (the TCAPP Decision Guide). Other topics addressed in the report include legal and financial issues affecting P3 implementation, management of challenges in implementing P3s, timing and implementation of P3s, and encouraging early consideration of P3s. The report provides the results of interviews with state transportation departments and private investors, which, among other things, confirm the widely-held belief that the private sector gravitates toward larger, higher visibility projects than smaller projects, and prefers projects with NEPA approval over those awaiting clearance.
This report will provide a useful roadmap for transportation agencies in deciding how to integrate P3s into the programming and planning process.
Thanks to Jaya Velamakanni for her assistance with this entry.
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So you say there's nothing to do in Lima?
You could've seen country star Sara Evans entertain a crowd at the Civic Center on Saturday night. Or you could've made the short 30-minute trek to Van Wert to have Bob Eubanks entertain you with the "Not So Newlywed Show." Or hit one of a number of local establishments inside Lima, offering live music, comedy or theater.
The only way there's nothing to do here is if you're not trying.
I got to thinking about this earlier this week when Toby Keith, a household name, announced this week his 2014 tour includes a stop in Lima for the final day of the Allen County Fair.
That's just a few weeks after Scotty McCreery, a Nashville up-and-comer who won over the country on American Idol, announced he'd perform at the Civic Center in April for a St. Jude Children's Hospital benefit concert.
And Trace Adkins was just in Van Wert a few months ago at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center. And never mind the superstar circus that will come with Country Concert in Fort Loramie in July.
This area's starting to become a bit of a country music concert hotbed. If you like country music but none of the names Adkins, Evans, Keith or McCreery get you excited, then maybe you don't really like country music.
The refrain is always, though: There's nothing to do in Lima. We're "Lost In Middle America," as the documentary claimed. Yet we have these enviable entertainment options.
I laugh when I hear people say driving to Niswonger in Van Wert is "too far." It's a Northwestern Ohio perspective, I suppose. I recall driving about 35 miles out of my way once in rural Virginia looking for a gas station, much less top-notch entertainment.
I also chuckle when people claim the tickets are overpriced. The cheapest tickets for Evans' concert at the Civic Center on Saturday started at $29. When she's in Aurora, Ill., on April 11, the cheapest tickets start at $33.50.
When Keith's tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. March 8 on allencofair.com for his performance at the Allen County Fairgrounds, the lowest price is $42 for grandstand and bleachers. That's for a Saturday night show. When he sings on a Monday night at Blossom Music Center near Cleveland, tickets start at $43. When he's in Cincinnati's Riverbend Music Center for a Friday night, tickets start at $45.
McCreery's tickets are in line too, at $36 and up for a Friday night show on April 18, available on limaciviccenter.com. Sure, you can see him in Nashville on Tuesday for $29, if you don't mind driving to Nashville to sit in balcony seats on a Tuesday.
I'm not saying those tickets are cheap by any means. That's a fair amount of money for a night out, listening to someone sing to you. But these shows are so much more than a man on stage singing. They've become multimedia spectacles.
I'm not sure I could tell you much about how the singing was when Big and Rich were at the Allen County Fairgrounds in 2006. But I can tell you it was a great time and quite a spectacle. And that's what these kinds of events are, a spectacle.
This year gives our region an opportunity to step up and show it can support these types of events.
I recognize we're not showing a great diversity of events here. Country music isn't for everyone. Some people prefer hard rocking music. Some people would rather see a pop act. Others would rather see classic rock, or folk, or bluegrass. That's the challenge of putting these kinds of events on, to find someone who overlaps with enough personal tastes to make it a successful venture. After all, the promoters don't want to lose money, and the artist doesn't want to perform to a half-empty, apathetic crowd.
But it's a good start. It's our chance to show this city and this region can support big entertainment options. If we let the opportunity pass, then the shows will continue to go elsewhere. Then we'll be back to driving to Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus for big-name entertainment.
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Here I am with Jerry Hahn and Jimmy the Groundhog X!
Sorry to report… six more weeks of winter is coming. Happy to report it was a terrific event in Sun Prairie this morning!
Outside of Beans & Cream in Cannery Row, Jimmy stands guard…
Jimmy tells the Mayor to let the citizens know more winter is on the way!
Jimmy nibbles on his favorite treat, broccoli!
These cookies look too good to eat! Market Street Diner.
My sister's faithful companion on The Long Pink Ribbon Road sees her shadow too!
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The annual Groundhog Ball will be held on Groundhog Eve, February 1. The Knights of Columbus will sponsor the 40th annual ball at The Round Table from 7-11 pm. Music will be provided by the Carl Laack Band. Tickets are $7.00, proceeds going to Sun Prairie Little League! Come join the fun, see old friends and enjoy some great music!
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It's that time again! Layer up and meet Jimmy at Cannery Square bright and early Sunday morning! Prognostication will happen at 7:12 am! Enjoy breakfast at Market Street Diner or Beans and Cream! What will a Jimmy say? Early Spring? Much more winter? Be there to hear it first!
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