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iDEN could easily compete if all it was asked to do is carry the PTT traffic, with either Sprint's CDMA or LTE carrying all voice & data. There is no strong technical reason that Sprint could not have kept a small slice of iDEN continuing to operate strictly for PTT, as part of their Network Vision, had they chosen to. There is also no reason that Sprint could not have developed cross-carrier PTT, had they wanted to—notice that Nextel iDEN PTT customers can and routinely do DC with Sprint CDMA-based PTT customers. Can you think of any technical reasons that they could not also PTT with Verizon customers, had Sprint, the industry's PTT leader, chosen to develop cross-carrier PTT?
The PowerSource phones were not perfect, but they could have been improved with another go-around. I myself can't think of a single complicated device that got everything100% right upon initial introduction.
Nextel's implementation of PTT was untouchable in its day, and as a recent convert to Sprint Direct Connect on CDMA ("SDC"), I can say that in my area, Nextel PTT is still far & away the best performer & most reliable of the two. That said, it is also true that Sprint's new CDMA-based PTT is noticeably better than AT&T's "EPTT", and SDC is way, way better than Verizon's anemic PTT.
In some applications PTT is far & away the best tool, and of course in some situations it is totally inappropriate. Either way, PTT has largely been eclipsed by the ubiquity of texting & email capable handsets, which is expected, and it's great to have all these choices. Each mode of wireless communication (voice, PTT, texting, email) has its place, each is good in some situations and lousy in other situations. And of course every individual has his/her preferences of which suits them best.
The fact that Sprint not only failed to promote, develop & improve PTT after taking over Nextel, but the fact that Sprint's executives also apparently actively shunned Nextel & iDEN internally, is what really led to the reduction in popularity of PTT. Ask yourself this: if only 5% of all handsets available today had texting, would texting be as popular as it is today? Nope—you would think the few texters there would be are behaving weirdly. Same goes for PTT. The fact that Sprint let Nextel in particular, & PTT in general, languish, and because there is no cross-carrier interoperability of genuine radio-dispatch PTT, and because Sprint offered so few handsets with built-in PTT capability, the use of PTT could only go down. PTT's decline was also further accelerated by the introduction of & promotion of texting and the agreements between all carriers in the wireless industry that led to cross-carrier text messaging interoperability.
I'm not saying PTT is the end-all or the be-all, it is not. But PTT has inherent value, it can be used correctly & appropriately by a lot more people than use it now, and in many cases PTT is far quicker, more efficient & safer than texting, and in plenty of cases PTT is faster & safer than a regular (full-duplex) voice call. But because of the points I made in the preceding paragraph, PTT was effectively decoupled from the train & allowed to coast to a stop on a side spur of the track, the result of conscious decisions made by Sprint's executives, not due to any issues inherent to PTT.
Nextel iDEN, used strictly for PTT traffic, could easily have remained relevant, useful & profitable, had Sprint approached it intelligently.
I feel like I just read a portion of a college research report. lol
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Rift Valley lakes
The Rift Valley lakes are a group of lakes in the East African Rift which runs through the whole eastern side of the African continent from north to south. These lakes include some of the oldest, largest and deepest lakes in the world, and many are freshwater ecoregions of great biodiversity, while others are alkaline "soda lakes" supporting highly specialised organisms.
The Rift Valley lakes are well known for the evolution of at least 800 cichlid fish species that live in their waters. More species will be discovered.[1]
The World Wildlife Fund has designated the African Rift Valley lakes one of its Global 200 priority ecoregions for conservation.
In this article, the major lakes are listed, generally in order from north to south, and more detailed articles on each lake can be accessed through the linked names.
The East African Rift came into being approximately 40 million years ago as the African tectonic plate began to split. Lakes such as Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika have formed in the various valleys of the rift zone, including the huge Lake Victoria.
Although the East African Rift lakes contribute comparatively little greenhouse gas emission, nonetheless there is a need to reduce the deforestation rate of surrounding areas and restore cleared areas. These forests provide carbon sinks for greenhouse gases and therefore mitigate climatic changes.
Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes[edit]
The Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes are the northernmost of the African Rift Valley lakes. In central Ethiopia the Great Rift Valley splits the Ethiopian highlands into northern and southern halves, and the Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes occupy the floor of the rift valley between the two highlands. Most of the Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes do not have an outlet, and most are alkaline. Although the Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes are of great importance to Ethiopia's economy, as well as being essential to the survival of the local people, there were no intensive and extensive limnological studies undertaken of these lakes until recently.[2]
The major ones are
- Lake Abaya (1162 km2, elevation 1285 m), the largest Ethiopian Rift Valley lake
- Lake Chamo (551 km2, elevation 1235 m)
- Lake Zway or Dambal (485 km2, elevation 1636 m)
- Lake Shala (329 km2, elevation 1558 m), the deepest Ethiopian Rift Valley lake
- Lake Koka (250 km2, elevation 1590 m)
- Lake Langano (230 km2, elevation 1585 m)
- Lake Abijatta (205 km2, elevation 1573 m)
- Lake Hawasa (129 km2, elevation 1708 m)
Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, lies in the Ethiopian highlands north of the Rift Valley; it is not a Rift Valley lake.[3]
Eastern Rift Valley lakes (Kenya and Tanzania)[edit]
South of the Ethiopian highlands, the rift valley splits into two major troughs. The Eastern Rift is home to the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes, while most of the Central African Rift Valley lakes lie in the Western Rift. The Kenyan section of the Rift Valley is home to eight lakes, of which 3 are freshwater and the rest alkaline. Of the latter, the shallow soda lakes of the Eastern Rift Valley have crystallised salt turning the shores white, and are famous for the large flocks of flamingo that feed on crustaceans.
- Lake Turkana (6405 km², elevation 360 m, freshwater) is the largest of the Kenyan lakes, on the border of Kenya and Ethiopia.
- Lake Logipi is a shallow hot-spring fed soda lake in the Suguta Valley just south of Lake Turkana.
- Lake Baringo (80 sq miles, elevation 1000 m) freshwater, second largest of the Kenyan Rift Valley lakes,
- Lake Bogoria (34 km², elevation 990 m) shallow soda lake, a national preserve
- Lake Nakuru (40 km², elevation 1759 m) shallow soda lake, has been a national park since 1968
- Lake Elmenteita, shallow soda lake
- Lake Naivasha (160 km² – varies somewhat with rainfall, elevation 1,890 m), freshwater lake, is the highest in this group.
- Lake Magadi, shallow soda lake near the southern border with Tanzania.
The Tanzanian section of this group has alkaline lakes:
- Lake Natron, shallow soda lake which has categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the East African halophytics ecoregion.
- Lake Manyara,
- Lake Eyasi, shallow soda lake
- Lake Makati, shallow soda lake
Western or Albertine Rift Valley lakes[edit]
The lakes of the Western or Albertine Rift, with Lake Victoria, include the largest, deepest and oldest of the Rift Valley Lakes. They are also referred to as the Central African lakes. Lakes Albert, Victoria, and Edward are part of the Nile River basin.
Lake Victoria (elevation 1134 m), with an area of 68,800 km², is the largest lake in Africa. It is not in the rift valley; it occupies a depression between the eastern and western rifts, formed by the uplift of the rifts to either side. Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika, and Malawi are sometimes collectively known as the African Great Lakes.
The Western Rift Valley lakes are fresh water and home to an extraordinary number of species. Approximately 1,500 cichlid fish (Cichlidae) species live in the lakes. In addition to the cichlids, populations of Clariidae, Claroteidae, Mochokidae, Poeciliidae, Mastacembelidae, Centropomidae, Cyprinidae, Clupeidae and other fish families are found in these lakes. They are also important habitats for a number of amphibian species, including Amietophrynus kisoloensis, Bufo keringyagae, Cardioglossa cyaneospila, and Nectophryne batesii.
- Lake Albert (5300 km², elevation 615 m) is the northernmost lake in the western rift.
- Lake Edward (2325 km², elevation 912 m) drains north into Lake Albert
- Lake Kivu (2220 km², elevation 1460 m) empties into Lake Tanganyika via the Ruzizi River.
- Lake Tanganyika (32,000 km², elevation 773 m) is the largest and deepest of the Rift Valley lakes (more than 1400 m), and is the second deepest fresh water lake on the planet (after Lake Baikal).[1] Below roughly 200 m depth, its water is anoxic, and devoid of life besides anoxic bacteria.[3] It is very sensitive to climate.[4] It is part of the Congo River basin, feeding into the River Congo via the Lukuga River.
Southern Rift Valley lakes[edit]
The Southern Rift Valley lakes are like the Western Rift Valley lakes in that, with one exception, they are freshwater lakes.
- Lake Rukwa (about 5670 km² but quite variable) in Tanzania is the alkaline exception, lying south-east of Tanganyika, and has no outlet.
- Lake Malawi (30,000 km², elevation 500 m), the second largest and second deepest of the Rift Valley lakes at over 700 m, is drained by the Shire River, a tributary of the Zambezi River. Also known as Lake Nyasa.
- Lake Malombe (450 km²) is on the Shire River
- Lake Chilwa (1750 km², elevation 622 m) has no outlet but extensive wetlands. It is the southernmost of the Rift Valley lakes.
Other lakes of the Great Rift Valley[edit]
- Lake Mweru (5120 km²,[5] elevation 922 m) lies in the Lake Mweru-Luapula graben which is a branch off the Albertine rift.
- Lake Mweru Wantipa (1500 km², elevation 930 m) is a marshy lake between lakes Tanganyika and Mweru, and is endorheic but may overflow into Lake Mweru at times of very high flood.
- ^ a b "WWF Global 200 Ecoregions – Rift Valley Lakes (182)". www.worldwildlife.org. Archived from the original on 2006-10-07. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
- ^ Hynes, H.B.N. "Tudorancea, C. & Taylor W.D. (Eds) Ethiopian Rift Valley Lakes". www.euronet.nl. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
- ^ a b Smith, Anthony (1988). The Great Rift: Africa's Changing Valley. London: BBC Books. ISBN 0-8069-6906-7.
- ^ Hydrobiologia, 407: 45-58 Limnological annual cycle inferred from physical-chemical fluctuations at three stations of Lake Tanganyika. Plisnier P.-D., Chitamwebwa D., Mwape L., Tshibangu K., Langenberg V. and E. Coenen 1999.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1003762119873
- ^ Bos AR, CK Kapasa and PAM van Zwieten (2006). "Update on the bathymetry of Lake Mweru (Zambia), with notes on water level fluctuations". African Journal of Aquatic Science 31 (1): 145–150. doi:10.2989/16085910609503882.


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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a title has been in my sights ever since I stumbled onto it via trailer at IGN that I shared here. It was a flashy trailer that caught my eye with its visual style and everything I saw about the fast-paced combat intrigued me. I continued to follow it, posting about it here and there, until I finally got a chance to try the demo and share my impressions.
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Following the near-fatal clash between personnel of the Lagos State Police Command and the Western Naval Command (WNC), a fortnight ago, the Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), WNC, Rear Admiral Ibok Ibas has pledged to reinstate the synergy between both services.
The FOC made this disclosure when he paid a courtesy call to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2, Mamman Tsafe, in his office in Lagos alongside other senior naval officers.
Both naval and police personnel had engaged in a show of shame in the Area B Command in Apapa area of the state when they engaged each other in a gun duel that would have spiralled out of control but for the intervention of the top hierarchy of both forces.
According to report, some policemen on duty at Trebor roundabout had arrested the motorcycle of a naval personnel for violating the ban on commercial motorcycles in the state by the governor.
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One of the most remarkable things about Mitt Romney's run for the White House is that the presumptive Republican nominee is allowed to attack President Obama on everything from saving the automobile industry to immigration. Yet, the news media rarely point out that Romney is against many things – especially if proposed by President Obama – but is usually evasive on what he is for.
Politico recently published a story entitled, "Mitt Romney's no-policy problem." It stated, "Vague, general or downright evasive policy prescriptions on some of the most important issues facing the country are becoming the rule for Romney. Hoping to make the campaign strictly a referendum on the incumbent, the hyper-cautious challenger is open about his determination to not give any fodder to Obama aides hungry to make the race as much about Romney as the president."
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The most recent example involves President Obama's position on Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which deals with illegal immigration. After Congress failed to pass a bill, President Obama issued an executive order that incorporated many of the provisions of the bill, something Obama called "a temporary stopgap measure."
Speaking to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Romney said, "I will put in place my own long-term solution that will replace and supersede the president's temporary measure." And what is Romney's long-term solution? We don't know because he isn't saying.
Romney, with the media acting as a willing accomplice, has also lambasted Obama on gasoline prices. But everyone knows that a sitting president has about as much control over gasoline prices as a meteorologist has over the weather.
The federal Energy Information Center says the cost of crude oil accounts for 76 percent of the cost of one gallon of gas; refining expenditures and profits are responsible for another 6 percent; distribution marketing and retail costs add 6 percent; and taxes contribute 12 percent. Still, Romney was able to gain media coverage by pretending that President Obama, not market factors, dictates the price of gasoline.
The price of a gallon of regular gasoline peaked at $3.97 in April. But that figure has since fallen to $3.41, according to the AAA. Shouldn't Obama now get credit for tumbling prices?
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Finally, I don't think a candidate's religion should be fair game in most instances. That's why I objected to the media trying to 'Velcro' the outspoken Rev. Jeremiah Wright to candidate Obama.
Similarly, I have advised against focusing on Romney's Mormonism. But if the media is going to hold Obama responsible for the statements of Rev. Wright, then Romney should be asked what he did to repudiate the church's former teachings.
Although there were two Black priests under Mormon founder Joseph Smith, his successor, Brigham Young, instituted a policy of excluding males of African descent from the priesthood. In 1949, he said, "What chance is there for the redemption of the Negro? The Lord had cursed Cain's seed with blackness and prohibited them the Priesthood."
That policy remained in place until 1978.
Journalists have a responsibility to press Romney to move past his carefully studied talking points. And they can do that by forcing him to share what he plans to do beyond criticizing President Obama.
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I don't really see how you can complain about media courage of various Romney views or non-views when the media has for the last three years gone out of it's way to non-vet anything Obama has said or done, we the public know less about this man than any man who has ever been in the White House, and if we depend on the national media we never will, because they continually cover up for him. If you want to write something constructive and informative what about the paid-board positions Michelle "First Lady" Obama holds; do these conflict with her position, have other "First Ladies" held paid positions such as these, this should be a very interesting news-worthy endeavor for you, if you are what every news person should be, unbiased and non -prejudiced.
E-Verify 'The Legal Workforce Act' (H.R. 2885) although just voluntary at this time, is an electronic program operated by the Social Security Administration and Customs and Immigration Enforcement. —The last entity I would listen too is the Liberal Press, who have transferred their loyalty to hard core radical socialist George Soros? The mainstream media Editorial reeks of deceit and rhetoric, when it comes to illegal immigration. The progressives in the news media are especially dangerous. The liberals will lie and cheat, no matter the consequences to America. So it is with E-Verify, which they have demonized because, it actually flags illegal immigrants in the workplace and opens up jobs for U.S. citizens and residents. The liberals have been very predominant in using the influence of the press, to erect a barrier against Mandatory E-Verify, except they didn't reckon on the growing masses of the TEA PARTY. Unlike the two main political parties the TEA PARTY will enforce all laws and statutes pertaining to illegal immigration, whereas the Dem's and GOP tend to intentionally overlook such state ordinances as Sanctuary Cities and states like California?
Even the House Speaker John Boehner has refused to bring up compulsory E-Verify for a House vote. Obviously he and his entrenched colleagues will not allow it anywhere near the Congress, as he and his fellow conspirators are subject to the corporate donations, to keep the old school corrupting our system of government. E-Verify is just one bill that must be passed to save the jobs of millions of low income Americans mainly.
The Independents, and uncountable numbers of delusional Democrats, Republicans are recognizing that the Lib-Democrats are out to win the grand price in November, but now millions of TEA PARTY people will not fall into their political trap. This is the same with photo ID to vote, who have ruthless personages as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Kings court caterwauling 'voter Suppression', when all the TEA PARTY requests is a fair and equitable election. Surf the internet under 'Voter Fraud' and you will discover the hundreds of cases of this diabolical use of our most trusted right of American citizens, being compromised by NON CITIZENS, felons and illegal aliens. This began with inception of canvassing provided by ACORN organization, which signed up just about anybody and were eventually caught and 11 states are resolving this criminal issue.
Another law that remains quietly concealed from the public is the Rep. Steve Kings THE BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ACT (H.R.140). An astronomical amount of money is being extracted from every taxpaying American that supports the annual arrival of an estimated 400.000 smuggled babies into the United States. They are concealed in their Mother's womb and once here becomes the taxpayers charge. These females although illegal that once they set foot on American soil, their offspring receive a free delivery, free heath care and a free education, thanks to unfunded mandates handed down by the courts. The only salvation from this misjudged law is to amend the 14th amendment, which an only child with one citizen parent qualifies for instant citizenship. Illegal alien parents are well aware that if they smuggle the unborn child through an international airport terminal or past the U.S. Border Patrol, they are free and clear as the misguided law stands today.
With only four months to go before D-Day us the voter only has that one slender chance of changing the direction of our country. With the democrats cocooned with the Liberals, the only promise is uncontrolled 'Tax and Spend' so elevating the 16 Trillion dollar deficit we owe the rest of the worlds investors. Then under the Republicans, a lesser of the evils, but even so they must be controlled by the TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP.
Anybody who contradicts the writings in the U.S. Constitution, who is adverse to a real border fence, who is unconcerned about the 20 million plus illegal aliens already here or the harbinger of a further invasion from Central and South America needs to be relieved of their seats in Washington, not excluding the majority of legislators in Congress, state governors as Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, Jerry Brown of California, and Mayors as Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles—all must be replaced by TEA PARTY MEMBERS. All the pro-illegal immigrant law makers are destroying this sovereign country, as they are well aware that illegal aliens vote. That is why Americans, Hispanic, Latin, Black, White Asian and others should join one of the thousands of local chapters of the TEA PARTY. They should be ready to oversee the elections, including the rampant fraud in the absentee ballot. Around the country the election rolls are crowded with the names of the deceased, others who have moved to a different state. There are many ways our most sacred of rights have been compromised and only the citizen voter can change it.
Remember under Obama Imperial court we will be paying not only for any person who illegally ventures here, but for millions of Americans who have found it easy, to just live of the taxpayer. Beneath our feet is abundance of wealth in oil, natural gas and coal for energy that President Obama denies us. Those trillions of dollars in excess gallons of crude oil could clearly go to replenish state treasuries and the remainder could be sold to our friends in other countries. Under Obama and decades of environmental zealots, we have not been cut off from our own resources, relying on governments abroad that hate us. Even the abundance of oil from Canada is better than dealing with foreign potentates.


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Leveraging Market Power Through Tying and Bundling: Does Google Behave Anti-Competitively?
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Spontaneous combustion in nanobubblesSeptember 28th, 2011 in Nanotechnology / Nanophysics
Formation of bubbles at the electrodes during electrolysis (can be seen in a and b). Situations c, d, and e show the formation of both hydrogen and oxygen on the left, hydrogen alone in the middle and oxygen alone on the right. Situation e shows combustion taking place on the left. No bubbles can be seen on the electrodes.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanometer-sized bubbles containing the gases hydrogen and oxygen can apparently combust spontaneously, although nothing happens in larger bubbles. For the first time, researchers at the University of Twentes MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology have demonstrated this spontaneous combustion in a publication in Physical Review E. They intend to use the phenomenon to construct a compact ultrasonic loudspeaker.
The fact that a violent reaction takes place is already evident from the damage incurred by the electrodes with which the reaction is initiated. These electrodes are used to make hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis, in the usual manner, in an ultra-small reaction chamber. If the plus and minus poles are continually alternated, tiny bubbles containing both gases arise.
The frequency with which the poles are alternated determines the size of the bubbles: the higher the frequency, the smaller the bubbles. Combustion only takes place in bubbles that are smaller than 150 nanometres (a nanometre is a millionth of a millimetre); nothing happens in larger bubbles. Early experiments in microreactors also showed that nothing happened in larger bubbles; the heat can dissipate to the larger internal surface.
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Researcher Vitaly Svetovoy was working on the construction of an actuator for rapidly building pressure when he came across this phenomenon. Such actuators are, for example, used in loudspeakers for ultrasonic frequencies undetectable by the human ear in the medical world. None of the mechanical techniques currently available are suitable for making a very compact loudspeaker of this kind and still achieving a 'deflection' of metres per second on this scale. Svetovoy thought, however, that it might be possible by building up pressure with bubbles. The problem was that the bubbles could be made very rapidly but that they did not disappear quickly enough. The combustion reaction that has now been demonstrated might solve this problem. But it causes other problems too, such as the damage to the electrodes. "That is what we now have to look at", Svetovoy said.
This research was carried out by Prof. Miko Elwenspoek's Transducer Science and Technology group of the University of Twente's MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology.
The article 'Combustion of hydrogen-oxygen mixture in electrochemically generated nanobubbles' by Vitaly Svetovoy, Remko Sanders, Theo Lammerink and Miko Elwenspoek appeared in Physical Review E on 23 September 2011.
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West Bengal and Singapore governments Tuesday decided to jointly set up a business centre in Kolkata as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to discuss industry, business and trade. Mamata said the business centre will come up in 18 months. Lee has been invited to inaugurate the centre.
"The meeting with Singapore Prime Minister was positive and fruitful. We have invited Mr Lee to visit our state. We told him about the progress made by Changi Airports International in the construction of Andal airport," Mamata, who arrived in Singapore Monday on her first overseas visit after assuming office in 2011, said.
She said she told Lee that Bengal government wants to create a Chair at Calcutta University "in the name of his father and the first Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew".
According to Mamata, Lee inquired about the multi- national corporations (MNCs) working in Bengal. "We informed Mr Lee about the total scenario. We have focused on industry, business and trade. We have told the Singapore PM about our land bank, land map and power bank. Bengal is endowed with hills, forests, rivers and sea coast," Mamata said
She said she told Lee about investment opportunities in Bengal. "We have a lot of scope for tourism. Since the time difference between Kolkata and Singapore is just two and a half hours, it will be an important advantage in business. We also told him that the loss of mandays in Bengal have come down from 78 lakhs to zero. We also informed him about our GDP growth and other such statistics," Mamata said, adding she also told the Singapore PM that this was her first foreign trip in the last 15 years.
She said the Singapore PM wished her and the Bengal well and hoped that state's business meeting Wednesday would be a success. "We chose Singapore for investment destination because of geographical, historical, political and cultural reasons. We have requested Mr Lee to make Kolkata a part of the diamond jubilee celebrations of India-Singapore ties," she said.
The 'India and Singapore 50 years of Diplomatic Relations' celebrations was inaugurated by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Singapore Foreign Minister K Shanmugam last Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Bengal government is planning to set up a Focus Centre for Singapore-based investors to let them know about the laws, facilities and policies of the state. "It would act as a single-window centre, and will work in close coordination with 25-30 departments of the state government," said Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra.
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Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) Says People Who Criticize the Koch Brothers Should Be Prosecuted Under the RICO Act
The latest Republican crackpot to come out in defense of the Koch brothers and their big, big far right money: the always fully-deranged Michele Bachmann.
Bachmann advocates using the RICO Act against people who criticize the Koch brothers.
I just thank God that there's a billionaire or two on our side. All the billionaires seem to be on the radical left, so I'm glad that we have a couple on ours. I hope we get a few more that are willing that come out but realize also this is an intimidation movement, I'm sure that the donors on our side don't like to have their names vilified and that's what this is about, intimidating people from giving money to our cause, that's it. There's something called the RICO statute, the racketeering law, that should be applied against them for doing this.


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I've had my second exam yesterday, which went okay. It was English Literature — The Romantic Period to be more specific — and I had a pretty hard time doing the oral exam with all those literary terms, but I think it was sufficient to pass. But still, I didn't really give all I could while studying and that's disturbing me right now. My concentration level seems to be below zero the past few days, so I hope I'll get my shiz together for my next three exams! First one in line is...tomorrow! Wish me luck, please?
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Bruce Springsteen, in the tradition of American songwriters, uses music to express political views. Song lyrics—including (or especially) those that criticize government—are a form of expression protected by the First Amendment. Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." is a poetic work set to music. Many regard the song—and particularly its chorus—as a patriotic anthem. A closer look at the lyrics in its verses, however, reveals something far more complex than simple patriotism. In this lesson, students will analyze the song's lyrics for a variety of rhetorical devices to discover how the song is both a praise and indictment of America.
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Should the baby of an RH Neg mom have the cord clamped sooner? Does babies blood remain in Placenta? Can it be removed in anyway before encapsulation? Is it ok to consume placenta of RH Neg mom? Can it hurt baby?
Although I haven't researched it in a few years.......to my knowledge, rh neg issues are more for following pregnancies than the current baby.
I am rh neg and I don't do the shot anymore. I did it with my first two kids (hospital and birthing center birth) but have not done it for my last two UCs....and I don't plan to with this one either. I had done extensive research on it when pg with my last and the chances of ACTUALLY having an issue was soooooo insanely small that I don't see much of a reason to make a fuss about it.
But I can't answer your question with scientific research.....as I never even looked to see if the cord should be clamped sooner. Although I don't leave it on for too long anyway. But I would not *think* it would be an issue.......but I am sure you can find your answers with a quick google search =)
Thanks for your response. Did you encapsule your placenta?
I did not....and I am not the most knowledgeable person about that......but I wouldn't think it would matter??? But that is purely just a guess!
I am with BlessedOne. I am RH neg. I used to do the shot, realized that the chances of an issue are very small. However, as it turns out, all of my babies have been neg. so far too so I have had no need to wrry anyway. I did order a bood typing kit for this LO, just in case. If the birth itself gives us an y reason to believe that blood may have been mixed, we can see if the blood types would be an issue.....but a far as the placenta...I have no idea.Since my babies have turned out neg. I ave never had to think about it- but my last midwife, who was well-experienced didn't seem to think there was any reason to cut the cord any sooner bc "just in case" before doing the blood typing. Very interesting question though...I may have to go do some research myself !
Oh, I'd love more info on this. I'm Rh- and did consume my placenta last time around with an Rh+ baby, but I never thought of the risk and my midwife (who knew of my plan) never said anything. I didn't have rhogam during pregnancy but I did after the birth.
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If you are having a UC, how would you type the baby's blood after birth? I am planning one for my 3rd that I am 6 wks pg with now, but I am rh- and pretty sure that dh is rh+.
DUmb question on my part but why would you need to clamp sooner? I am also RH- and DH is +.
Just a side note to this I guess. I am rh- and hubby is rh+. I did have the shot with our first baby, but it didn't work. Turns out that can happen on very rare occasions. Now with this baby I'm isoimmunized. Guess I should have refused the shot after all. All the extra concern and testing has not been fun. Thankfully baby is fine and due in 2 weeks!
I have been told (though I don't have references for it) that consuming the placenta, either fresh or encapsulated, is not a problem because when it passes through your digestive system the problematic substances are altered. That makes sense to me.
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cord clamping makes no difference. i'm rh- and i took my encapsulated placenta with both children. one had my blood type and the other o+ like his father.
either way, consuming the placenta in this way is not going to cause you problems, it's much like eating a rare steak, in that you're not going to become sensitized to cow blood and have future reactions. eating it is much different than what happens with your immune system when you react to the + type while having subsequent pregnancies. perfectly safe.
eta: i did receive the rhogam with my first pregnancy and m/cs that i had. i didn't have it with the last child because i had my tubes tied. i encourage you to research about the rhogam. there are virtually no side effects, no really bad preservatives and it can prevent some awful heartbreak. i have never seen a reason not to get that. we don't fully vax but i believe the rhogam is pretty important if you can ever get pregnant again.
Is it getting lonely in the echo chamber yet?
for the people that indicate they don't get the rhogam, i am curious about why not? i've really never heard of a reason to not get it, and am curious about the decision to decline it..
Is it getting lonely in the echo chamber yet?
I too am Rh neg. I got the shot when I was pregnant with DS. I was oblivious to the case against at that point. He ended up being rh neg as well so it was all for naught. When I was pregnant with DD I was a bit more discerning and had read some concerning things about it so I did extensive research. I decided not to get it with her unless she ended up being Rh pos and then I would only get the shot after the birth. She was Rh pos and so I got the shot after she was born. In hind sight... I am still unsettled about having gotten in even with her being positive. We had an uncomplicated home birth, delivered the placenta in it's own time and all that so I just don't know if it was worth the risk. I will probably never know. When assessing the risk of anything that is going into your body, always ALWAYS read the package insert. I have included a link to it. If you fully read it you will get a grasp of some of the risks. It contains human blood products so they cannot totally ensure that no viruses or other infectious agents. They use donated blood plasma to make it. I used to donate plasma myself, so I know a good bit about the process. I was broke and in college and needed the 60 bucks a week they gave me for it. That is the typical plasma donor, someone who reeeeeeally needs 60 extra dollars per week. Keep that in mind. In the year and a half that I donated on a regular basis I was tested twice- TWICE! for HIV and other communicable diseases. I donated every 3 or 4 days and the only screening I went thru each time besides those two test were vitals checks and a questionnaire that the tech would speed thru so fast and you just say no no no no to all the questions in order to donate. By the looks of people who donated there, some were college students like me. A few were older adults who looked pretty clean... The rest (read: majority) were an unsavory lot of smelly, dirty looking folks who could easily have been drug users or whatever.... And just lied on the questionnaire.
Now.. Yes the plasma gets filtered.... But they say right there on the package insert that they can't guarantee that viruses aren't in it. That risk alone is reason enough for me not to get it, but there are plenty of other risks. It contains Polysorbate 80. I have provided some links about that one too. And there's more... If you do the digging to find it. But I think I have sufficiently answered the "why not" question.
Rhogam package insert: www.bdipharma.com/Package%20Insert/Ortho/RhoGam_02-2008.pdf
Polysorbate 80 info:
The article starts out about flu vaccine that contains Polysorbate 80, but he goes on to speak in detail about the ingredient itself.
And another:
~ Laura ~ wife. mommy.
DS October 2010 / DD December 2011 / February 2013 / due August 2015
Renaissance, i will ignore the classism in your post and focus upon the conversation about the rhogam.
has there ever been an instance of anyone getting a blood borne illness from rhogam? because it was my understanding that the product was extremely filtered. i couldn't find any information about anyone having ever received an illness via the injection, and i did quite a bit of research.
i also couldn't find a reliable, scholarly resource that spoke to the polysorbate 80 issue; mercola articles don't qualify, in my opinion, as reliable or scholarly research. i wouldn't let my college students use those as resources for research.
if those are the only concerns, versus the articles i was able to locate that describe both what happens in subsequent pregnancies with sensitization, including quote:
"hydrops fetalis has a high risk of mortality. Long-term problems can result from severe cases, including:
- Cognitive delays
- Movement disorders
- Hearing loss
- Seizures" (here)
and the information points to sensitization being preventable, through rhogam.
i will say again that we don't vax our child, so i understand the concerns and also how to read the insert that accompanies medication.
i just wondered if anyone else had anything about why not to do the rhogam?
eta: i guess i can't ignore the classism. are you really saying that you think that poor = drug users and "clean, college" students don't? or that older people don't use drugs? or have unprotected sex? maybe you want to use your research skills to read a little about how both drug use and potential to have contracted STD's cuts across class and income lines.
Is it getting lonely in the echo chamber yet?
First of all, there is no classism in my post. You are reading between the lines and pulling something out of my post that simply isn't there. And you're misquoting me as well. I never equated clean with college students, though you quoted that I did. I said "some were college students like me. A few were older adults who looked pretty clean..." If anything I was using "college students" as a word of caution. Many college students experiment with drugs and are notoriously promiscuous. But I thought those things went without saying. I shouldn't have assumed. Second, I specifically said the older adults "looked pretty clean" as a way of saying, they LOOKED clean- but you never can tell. I have an aunt who is way upper class. She is very clean and professional looking. But guess what? She is a user. And she's dying of Hep C. So no. I definitely was never saying that poor=drug user or that older people don't use or have unprotected sex. I know better and I don't need my "research skills" for that one, but I was posting about my decision not to use rhogam, not about social issues.
Additionally I pointed out how poor I was at the time. (for the record, I am by no means wealthy now, but considering I have a roof over my head and some food in my fridge I won't claim to be poor though we do qualify for WIC benefits) And I have never been a drug user. But when you are laying on a gurney donating your plasma 5 ft away from the next gurney where a visibly dirty (like, dirt scales on skin and clothing, matted hair, torn clothing, holes in their shoes) person is also donating and you can smell that they haven't bathed in quite some time, and they are fidgety and keeping glancing at the door, you do start to wonder if that person is fit to donate. The place employed a security officer to stand at the door and on more than one occasion I witnessed them having to escort someone out of the bldg when they became too agitated with the wait time or for having arguments with others in the waiting room (it was a busy center and the wait time was often 2 hours before being allowed to donate).
If a board certified physician isn't scholarly enough for you (talk about CLASSISM), I doubt anything I can come up with will please you, but try this one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8473002
You mentioned that you don't fully vaccinate... It's all about weighing risks and deciding what you personally believe is worth the risk for you and yours. The rhogam package insert states:
"RhoGAM and MICRhoGAM are made from human plasma and may carry a risk of
transmitting infectious agents, e.g., viruses, and theoretically the Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease (CJD) agent. The risk that such products will transmit an infectious agent has
been reduced by screening plasma donors for prior exposure to certain viruses, by
testing plasma for the presence of certain current virus infections and by using pathogen
removal and inactivation techniques during the manufacturing process. All of the above
steps are designed to increase product safety by reducing the risk of pathogen
transmission. Despite these measures, such products can still potentially transmit
disease. There is also the possibility that unknown infectious agents may be present in
such products"
For me, it's a risk I am not comfortable with based on my own personal experiences. Not classism. You stated in your post "for the people that indicate they don't get the rhogam, i am curious about why not? i've really never heard of a reason to not get it, and am curious about the decision to decline it.." And I supplied you with my reasoning. Plain and simple. If you were merely curious why not just take my answer for what it said rather than reading in malice where there is none? Your response to my post made me feel attacked for something that isn't even true about me. You were curious and I gave MY reasons for MY decisions and you attacked me for it. I didn't attack you for your decision to get the shot. I simply stated why I chose to wait in my second pregnancy to see if the child was positive and why I would hesitate in future pregnancies to get it at all. Don't tell people you are "just curious" when you then turn around and ambush someone for sharing their personal experience just because it happens to be something you don't personally agree with.
~ Laura ~ wife. mommy.
DS October 2010 / DD December 2011 / February 2013 / due August 2015
you said:
That is the typical plasma donor, someone who reeeeeeally needs 60 extra dollars per week. Keep that in mind. In the year and a half that I donated on a regular basis I was tested twice- TWICE! for HIV and other communicable diseases. I donated every 3 or 4 days and the only screening I went thru each time besides those two test were vitals checks and a questionnaire that the tech would speed thru so fast and you just say no no no no to all the questions in order to donate. By the looks of people who donated there, some were college students like me. A few were older adults who looked pretty clean... The rest (read: majority) were an unsavory lot of smelly, dirty looking folks who could easily have been drug users or whatever.... And just lied on the questionnaire.
so how other than you implying that poverty = increased drug use is a way to interpret this?
also. from the rhogam insert: A 40-year history of safety and reliability
– No documented cases of viral transmission
so the Homeless People Germs really aren't at issue here.
rhogam shots contain 0.01% polysorbate 80 (from the insert) and the cancer study you cite used 0.1 ml/rat to study the effects.
on the average a rat in a lab weighs 250–300 g for females, and 450–520 g for males (we'll just have to trust wikipedia on this one for the sake of brevity)
so a one or two time shot in a human weighing, presumably, around 100-200+ pounds and the filtering of a placenta isn't exactly the same as 1/10 of a ml of straight up polysorbate80 in an animal that weighs around 400 grams.
as for Mercola, isn't he an aids denialist? as in he believes that aids isn't real? i just can't accept anything from that website as legitimate, which is not classist in the least. it's literacy.
whereas these stats:
an rh- mama has a 10-15% chance of sensitization upon delivery, though she is more likely to deliver a non negative baby (60%)
if you are sensitized and the next baby you have is +, you are looking at amnio tests, many blood draws, and a huge risk of harm to the baby. some of that can be: (from here)
The rate of hemolysis determines whether the nature of HDN is mild, moderate, or severe. In mild cases, the small increase in the rate of hemolysis is tolerated by the fetus. At birth and during the newborn period, symptoms include a mild anemia and jaundice, both of which may resolve without treatment.
In cases where there is a greater increase in the rate of hemolysis, the level of bilirubin may still remain low during the pregnancy because of the ability of the placenta to remove bilirubin from the fetal circulation. However, after birth the neonate's immature liver is unable to metabolize the increased amount of bilirubin that instead accumulates in his or her blood. Within 24 hours of birth, the level of bilirubin may rise dramatically. If levels continue to rise, bilirubin may enter the brain to cause kernicterus, a potentially fatal condition that leaves permanent neurological damage in the babies that survive.
An even greater rapid and prolonged destruction of RBCs leads to severe anemia in the fetus. The liver, spleen, and other organs increase their production of RBCs to compensate for their loss. The drive to produce RBCs causes the liver and spleen to increase in size (hepatosplenomegaly), and liver dysfunction can occur. Immature RBCs (erythroblasts) spill into the circulation, giving rise to the alternative name of this disease, erythroblastosis fetalis. A complication of severe HDN is hydrops fetalis, in which the fetal tissues become swollen (edematous). This condition is usually fatal, either in utero or soon after birth.
Is it getting lonely in the echo chamber yet?
I believe the words I used were "could easily have been" .... I said nothing about an "increased" chance that they were users - those were YOUR words. Words you assumed I meant, which I did not.
I don't understand how literacy has anything to do with you not accepting anything Mercola says as legitimate. But that is your own personal opinion. He IS board certified so they obviously don't have an issue with him and I have no issue with him, and I know plenty of others who have no issue. Granted, I know several people who don't agree, but they leave it at that. Disagreement. They don't bash him.
As to the amount of Polysorbate 80... that is irrelevant to me personally. I have a problem with the ingedient period based on the research I have done. I wouldn't take a few micrograms of poop and put it in my food because oh well it's only a little bit... no... So no matter how small the amount, I'm not ok with putting it in my body when I don't have too. There are cumulative effects of toxins in our bodies that have little been studied. Do you know how many things have Polysorbate 80 in them? Quite a lot. The Environmental Working Group rates it as a "moderate hazard" substance. http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/search.php?query=polysorbate+80 But I'm sure you have an issue with them too. I don't. So again, for me and my family, after careful reasearch, deliberation and discussion, we have decided that is something we want to aviod whenever possible.
And when you say
Acutally, I never said anything about "homeless people germs" ... but what you are saying is that they aren't an issue FOR YOU. For me, after personally seeing and spending time around the people who donate plasma on a several days per week basis for 18 months, it IS an issue for ME. It isn't about class. It is about the lack of proper screening and testing procedure at the three donation centers I have first hand knowledge of. Again, you said you were curious why someone would refuse, I answered, you attack. You aren't simply curious. You seem far more interested in tearing me down and forcing your own views on the matter on me and telling me that my views are wrong. Who are you to judge my decisions about what I chose not to put into my own body?
I don't feel it's a good use of my time to continue this discussion with you, so I will leave it at that.
~ Laura ~ wife. mommy.
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Though most of us will recall the period as being the heyday of ponycars and musclecars, the back half of the '60s also saw the advent of personal luxury coupes-great, honkin' motherships of cars, with equally great engine displacement.
Mercury would not be denied entry into this growing market, if you'll pardon the pun, and thus was created the '69 Marauder, having the nose of a Marquis but a tail like no other. The sporty spearhead of the Marauder lineup was the X-100, seldom seen at all these days, and even a rare beast in 1969, as reportedly only 5,635 were assembled at Ford's St. Louis assembly plant-about a third of total Marauder production-this in a year when Mercury built more than 180,000 fullsize cars.
Don't be fooled: The Marauder was actually smaller than its four-door Marquis sibling, "smaller" being a relative term, of course. The Marauder rode on a 121-inch wheelbase, which was, in fact, 3 inches shorter than the Marquis' wheelbase. Its massive rear haunches-a product of the flying buttress-style roofline, what Merc called a Tunnel Roof-and fender skirts definitely add visual bulk. Yet, despite this expansiveness, the X-100's proportions were not unpleasant, in a gargantuan kind of way. Which is a conclusion our feature car's owner, Ed Zukusky, arrived at after a lengthy search for a nostalgic yet affordable replacement for the powerful road machines he had owned in the '60s and early '70s.
Back in the day, Ed's proclivity had been for cars on the large and muscular side, like his 409 Impala, Chrysler 300, Charger R/T 440, and Torino GT. But when he began his search a few years ago for something similar, he was shocked by the fiscal exclusivity of musclecar values.
Once Ed decided he liked the imposing looks of the big two-door Merc, he then had to find one. Helping him out was a longtime friend, Roger Papp, who had been restoring old cars for more than 15 years. Whenever Ed or Roger would find a Marauder for sale, they would have it professionally inspected. Many failed inspection, but then one was found with fewer than 50,000 miles, one that the seller professed "just needs the paint buffed to be ready for show." On the basis of its description and photos, they decided to skip the inspection.
Ed bought it and had it shipped to Roger in White, Georgia, where it was quickly discovered that one rear quarter-panel was done up in primer, the rest of the paint was "way beyond buffing," and one entire front fender had been scraped while taking the X-100 off the trailer. In all its ebony massiveness, Roger immediately began referring to it as the Black Widow. Ed, who at that point had heard Roger's description of its condition but still hadn't seen the less-than-pristine Merc, said, "If the car is what you say it is, my wife will be the widow after she shoots me for buying it." We kind of like that line.
On the positive side, this X-100 was solid and original (it had been a Colorado/California car), not needing major work but rather a good going-over, trim-parts acquisition, and new paint job. It was the trim parts that proved most challenging-not surprising given the rarity of the Marauder X-100 and the subsequent lack of aftermarket interest in reproducing any parts. Yet Ed and Roger persevered and got some surprising bargains along the way, apparently from people who simply wanted to see a '69 Marauder properly restored.
To Ed, an undeniably desirable part of the project was the Merc's N-code 360hp 429. Far more important than horsepower in this application is this engine's elephantine 480 lb-ft of torque at just 2,800 rpm. This is the kind of grunt needed to get an X-100 weighing in the vicinity of 4,300 pounds underway-especially if equipped with the 2.80 highway gears, as is Ed's (those same gears, however, do permit an impressive top speed). Luckily, the 429 ran extremely well, so the engine compartment was restored and detailed without pulling the big-block. This involved soda-blasting the entire underhood area; then having Roger scrupulously detail the entire compartment back to factory colors and condition. Ed has since swapped on some engine chrome, apparently to Roger's chagrin.


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Many roads, especially the newly-built highways have been stripped of road signage, UNRA has revealed.
UNRA Spokesman Dan Alinange said in a recent interview, that at least Shs 4bn had been spent in the last four years to replace the road signs.
Both UNRA and KCCA are exploring ways of curbing the escalating crime. KCCA Spokesman Peter Kaujju said the authority was considering vigorously sensitising people on the benefits of road signs and urging the public to be on the lookout for signpost thieves.
KCCA and UNRA are also exploring the use of alternative materials in making road signs. Some, Kaujju said, are already being tested in laboratories. Fibre has of recent been used to make some road signs because it is less marketable than aluminum.
UNRA is also looking at filling the stand posts of aluminum signs with concrete so that they are difficult to cut. Most of the stolen road signs end up in metal fabrication facilities where they are turned into nails or galvanised sheets.
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1. Loose the snorkel box cover.
opens up a larger aperture as seen here.
2. Toss this rubbish out.
And stick one of these in instead, available in the States from BMW Atlanta, outside of the States from Unifilter in Oz.
3. No place to grab onto the back end of the bike, get a set of handles from bm that fit the xcountry, or make your own like these.
4. It never ends, ditch the stock tyres and get Dunlop D606 on the back and a Maxxis Maxcross IT for the front, I hear good things about the Bridgestone tyres as well.
5. Stock bash plate is about as usefull as a handbrake on a canoe and offers no protection to the water pump and starter motor. As the local Touratech did not have stock, what a suprise, I got an alternative, excellent quality at $110.00 US.
6. For added daylight visibility I made one of these from perspex. $4.28.
7. Remus rulz
That will teach the neighbour to shut the yapping porch shitter dog up.
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Because then you couldn't do this:
(define (log-error msg)
(printf-to-string "The widget on %s, running %s under %s on %s barfed because\n%s"
(machine-name) (implementation-name) (os-name) (cpu-architecture) msg)))
Strings one does not inspect can still be manipulated in many very
useful ways on their way to the outside world.
~AlexeyOn Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Emmanuel Medernach <emmanuel.medernach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As this is intended to be a logging/reporting facility why
not having only output functions instead of function
returning strings ? Anyway these strings are not meant to be
mutated nor to base decisions on their values, but only to
provide helpful context to the users.
I mean for instance instead of '(implementation-name)' to
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Just my two cents (and I hope this is not far too late for comments).
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