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Ho-hum. Just your basic "penguin goes solo shopping in Japan" story.
I love this little guy! Lala, a ten-year-old King penguin in Japan, walks to the fish store every day with his backpack to shop for fresh fish. Then he waddles back home, where a custom-designed air-conditioned room awaits him.
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REMOTE island populations and tribal peoples may be the surprise beneficiaries of a proposed global treaty to stamp out abuses of genetic knowledge. The draft International Convention on the Human Genome, unveiled last week in Berlin at the annual meeting of the International Bar Association (IBA), hints that tribal peoples should receive a share of the rewards if studies of their unusual genetics leads to lucrative commercial products.
Researchers have already made great strides in understanding asthma, for example, by studying genes of the highly inbred population of Tristan da Cunha. One-third of the population of the tiny Atlantic island has asthma. The convention could give them a share in any money made from anti-asthma drugs developed with the help of studies of their genes.
"This is the first time that their right to receive commercial rewards from this type of research has been recognised," says Martine Rothblatt, who chairs ...
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Jamar Wilson provided the early steam before his American teammate Shane Edwards tore the roof off the Cairns Convention Centre with a remarkable final quarter to give the Taipans a much-needed 85-71 win against the Melbourne Tigers on Friday night.
Wilson had 19 points before he was rested on his fourth foul with the game still in the balance in the final quarter.
But enter Edwards, who strung together some of the most entertaining play the Cairns club has seen in years.
A left-handed tip in jam gave them an eight-point lead to equal their biggest margin of the night, but that was just the beginning.
It was the first of a quick 11 points from the import, who raised the roof with another massive jam and smooth jumper to extend the lead to 12.
Still not happy, and obviously still hot despite the time-out, Edwards then drained a three from the corner to complete a dream 90 seconds for the Snakes.
And just when the crowd thought they had seen it all, he muscled to the rim for another massive dunk to seal the win with two minutes left on the clock.
It was a game not short of highlights and Taipans coach Aaron Fearne said they did their best to exploit them.
"I am (a believer in key points). I think one play can turn a game. One big three, a missed shot, a stop," he said.
"The momentum can turn very quickly. Shane had some big plays, then knocked down that big three from the corner and good for him.
"Inspired plays inspire the team, the player, the crowd and we had a few of them tonight."
While Tigers stars Jonny Flynn (14 points), Chris Goulding (15 points) and Seth Scott (13) had kept the Tigers within range all night, they had no answer to Edwards' onslaught.
The Taipans had committed just three turnovers heading into the final break, led by their guard Wilson who won his much-hyped battle with Flynn with some amazing drives to the basket.
"Jamar kicked our asses tonight," Tigers coach Chris Anstey said.
"He kept it ticking over at a high rate and his energy was contagious with the rest of the group and they started rolling."
But the lead was just four in the final term, and should have been two when Lucas Walker attacked the hoop.
His spectacular dunk attempt fell out, and Cameron Tragardh (18 points) made his mid-ranger to give the Taipans some breathing room before Edwards stole the show.
"Hanging around isn't enough. Our effort was poor all night. It felt like we were losing when we were right in that ball game," Anstey said, describing his team's energy as not "at an NBL level".
For the Taipans it was the win they needed to keep their finals hopes alive despite starting the round at the bottom of the ladder.
Cairns Taipans 85 (Wilson 19, Tragardh 18, Edwards 13)
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FrameForge Previz Studio 3, Stereo Edition
The International 3D Society's Technology Awards honor technological achievement in the stereoscopic medium and are given to recognize individuals and organizations that have made a significant impact on the advancement of stereoscopic arts and technologies.
"The 3D Technology Awards Show celebrates the impact and innovation of the organizations and individuals whose advancements are leading this industry," said Jim Chabin, President of the International 3D Society. The organization is a professional community dedicated to advancing the arts and technologies of Stereoscopic 3D.
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FrameForge Previz Studio, Stereo Edition is "worth its weight in gold in informing you where to put your cameras, how the shot's going to look, previewing the stereo and also in addition to that it's got a whole library of objects and characters and props so that you can build your scene as well very easily."
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Things To Check Before Launching A Website
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After creating a website, depending on several factors (like whether it is a personal or a corporate project), you may choose to instantly launch it or test it deeply to make sure that it is ready.
Box UK is sharing an Ultimate Website Launch Checklist that makes sure the website is ready for being online.
The checklist covers topics like:
- Content and Style
- Standards and Validation
- Security/Risk
- Performance & more
Besides the pre-launchitems there are also several post-launch ones like "submitting to search engines" & "updating the content".
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Huge but really interesting check list.
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Potash producer K+S AG has rejected a $10.9 billion takeover offer by Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (TSX:POT), saying the bid is too low and not in its interest.
Two former victims of Graham James say they will be on hand as the next chapter in the disgraced junior hockey coach's sexual abuse case opens in a Saskatchewan courtroom today.
A former Saskatchewan hockey coach has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting young boys.
His voice shaking with emotion, the father of a six-year-old boy who was beaten to death by another child while in the protection of the Ministry of Social Services told an inquest the child welfare system has many flaws.
The Saskatchewan government says it will now provide new drug coverage for hepatitis C — a viral disease that affects the liver.
The Staples customer service call centre at 221 Winnipeg St. N. in Regina is downsizing later this year, which will put about 200 employees out of work, the company confirmed Wednesday.
In an effort to make it easier and more efficient for immigrants to set up businesses in the province, changes have been introduced to the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP).
REGINA - Shares in Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. (TSX:POT) and other potash producers were under pressure Thursday, a day after Saskatchewan announced budget changes that will collect an additional $150 million from the industry.
Veteran Leader-Post reporter Barb Pacholik has been nominated for a National Newspaper Award.
Saskatchewan's finance minister is sporting brown leather shoes that he says represent the provincial budget's break from tradition.
Saskatchewan's Opposition is calling for the government to prioritize education and front-line health care in the upcoming budget.
Home Depot said Thursday that 56 million payment cards used at its American and Canadian stores between April and September were compromised by a type of criminal software that hadn't previously been seen in other attacks.
OTTAWA - The federal government says it is investigating a Saskatchewan restaurant where two waitresses say they lost their jobs to temporary foreign workers.
A cloud of uncertainty is hanging over the global potash industry, but demand from developing countries is expected to grow in line with historical trends, a report by TD Bank says.
Two more flu-related deaths are being reported in Saskatchewan, bringing the total to 18.
The Saskatchewan government says the province's oil patch is pumping out production like never before.
Olympic gold-medal favourite Mark McMorris of Regina fractured a rib during a crash in the Winter X Games slopestyle finals Saturday.
Regina's Mark McMorris was unable to pull off his third slopestyle gold medal at the X Games on Saturday - but he still rode away with silver in Aspen.
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Discussion in 'Fly Swaps' started by Thomas Williams, Jan 8, 2013.
The Glowronomid....
Not quite sure but what with all the yellow you may have a liver condition.
Half done. It might not show in the picture but the body is blood red. Thorax is white ostrich herl twisted into a rope with peacock.
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Its my lamp. I doubt anything is wrong with my liver haha. I don't even drink.
Looks good Gary. It will definitley catch fish!
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Finished mine up this morning. It is a new pattern to me, but a really fun tie and I like the way that it turned out. I'll ship them off Monday.
Did you take a picture of those sitting on toilet paper?
I absolutely did....I use TP instead of kleenex so I always have a roll on my desk. It was the only white background I had handy. I'm impressed by you recognition of it based on the embossing. I'll send you a 5 pack of those flies if you guess the brand correctly.
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Charmin' or.... Costco's cheapest brand.
Yeah, I'm going with Kirkland!
Kirkland Signature it is! PM me your address and I'll drop some in the mail this week.
Got all mine finished in a homebrewed beer-fueled tying session at Ira's house on Saturday night . I'll get them toe-tagged and out tomorrow.
Mine are finished as well.
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Dropped mine in the mailbox this morning.
I will keep an eye out and post when I receive each persons.
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I'll be tying mine this weekend. Decided to go with a different pattern - epoxy bodied for a translucent shine.
I should be shipping mine somewhere between Friday-Monday depending on free time.
I received troutpockets flies today. I'm gonna assemble the envelopes.
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I mailed my flies earlier today along with my "vintage" snoose can.
I'm done tying my pornomids. Will be sending them out Monday. Well actually Tuesday with the holiday coming up. Matt
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Your favorite vinegars?
Somehow, my stock of various vinegars has been exhausted all at about the same time - balsamic vinegar, a really nice banyuls red wine vinegar (a gift) and rice vinegar.
As I stood in the oil and vinegar aisle at the supermarket today, I was wondering if there are any new standbys I should adopt.
So, I'm turning to you SE friends, what are your standard bottles? I'm thinking of trying champagne and/or sherry vinegar. Would I need bottles of both? Your thoughts please!
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Academic calendars are approved by the Faculty Senate. In January 2008 meeting, Faculty Senate approved a system of calendar generation based on formulas, number of days, etc. Beginning with the 2009-10 academic year, Rice's academic calendar has followed this methodology.
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HURLBURT FIELD – "I have created fire!"
The statement was echoed by many of the 49 JROTC cadets who learned how to start a fire, as well as first aid and survival skills on Thursday afternoon.
The training was part of a week long summer leadership school.
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"It's hard, but once you get past the P.T. and exercise, it is great," said Cordell Weeks, an incoming sophomore at Pensacola High School.
He said his favorite part was learning how to handcuff someone.
"I was born into a military family. I just want to carry on that legacy," Weeks said.
Weeks and the other cadets started out Thursday learning self-aid buddy care.
After lunch, they broke into teams and used their new skills to assess volunteers prepared as victims.
The cadets had to assess the victims, apply emergency bandages and tourniquets and then carry the victims on a portable stretcher to a waiting medical vehicle. They also did survival training.
Major Eddie Ford, an instructor at Pensacola High School, was in charge for the day. Ford said for some, the week-long school was the "highlight of their year."
The cadets were from the Navy and Air Force JROTC programs at Navarre, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, Choctawhatchee and Pensacola high schools.
In addition to Thursday's training, the cadets gained experience with a rappelling wall, firing an M4 and riding in a zodiac.
Niceville JROTC member David Hatcher wanted the experience.
"I had planned on being in the military," he said.
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Dish paves way for last-minute ad buys
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Dish Network Corp., the second-largest U.S. satellite provider, is developing a feature that will let advertisers see what subscribers are watching in real time, setting the stage for last-minute auctions of advertising time.
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Background: A2: Governance; B1: New Suburban Forms; B5: Regional Governance and Suburbanization; C5: China Research Cluster (Team Lead).
Background: Fulong Wu is the Bartlett Chair of Planning at The Bartlett School of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London. His research interests include spatial structure, housing and land development, China's urbanism and urban development, urban and regional governance, urban poverty, and social spatial differentiation. He has an extensive record of publications including being co-editor (with Laurence Ma) of Restructuring the Chinese City (Routledge, 2005), editor of Globalization and the Chinese City (Routledge, 2006), editor of China's Emerging Cities: The Making of New Urbanism (Routledge, 2007), and co-author (with Jiang Xu and Anthony Gar-On Yeh) of Urban Development in Post-Reform China: State, Market, and Space (Routledge, 2007), co-author (with Chris Webster, Shenjing He, and Yuting Liu) of Urban Poverty in China (Edward Elgar, 2010), co-editor (with Chris Webster) of Marginalization in Urban China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and co-editor (with Nick Phelps) of Comparative Suburbanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and recently co-editor (with Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster, Routledge, 2013) of Rural Migrants in Urban China.
Research Interests: urban China, governance, land and housing.
Selected Publications:
Shen, J. & F. Wu. (2012). The development of master-planned communities in Chinese suburbs: A case study of Shanghai's Thames Town. Urban Geography, 33(2), pp. 183-203.
Nick Phelps and Fulong Wu (2011) (editors) International perspectives on Suburbanization: A post-suburban world? Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave-MacMillan (in press).
Fulong Wu and Nick Phelps, 2011, "(Post-)suburban development and state entrepreneurialism in Beijing's outer suburbs". Environment and Planning A 43: 410-430.
Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang. 2010. "China's emerging city-region governance: towards a research framework". Progress in Planning, 73(1): 60-63.
Fulong Wu. 2009. "Neo-urbanism in the making under China's market transition". City 13(4): 414-427
Fulong Wu and Nick Phelps. 2008. "From suburbia to post-suburbia in China? aspects of the transformation of the Beijing and Shanghai Global City Regions". Built Environment 34(4): 464-481.
Fulong Wu and Fangzhu Zhang. 2008. "Planning the Chinese city: governance and development in the mid of transition". Town Planning Review 79(2-3): 149-156.
Jian Feng, Yixing Zhou, and Fulong Wu 2008. "New trends of suburbanization in Beijing since 1990: from government-led to market-oriented". Regional Studies 42(1): 83-99.
Fulong Wu and Jingxiang Zhang. 2007. "Planning the competitive city-region: The emergence of strategic development plan in China". Urban Affairs Review 42(5): 714-740 (re-printed in The Blackwell City Reader, 2nd ed. Edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, 2010, Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 428-432).
Zhang, Jingxiang and Fulong Wu. 2006. "China's changing economic governance: administrative annexation and the reorganization of local governments in the Yangtze River Delta". Regional Studies 40(1): 3-21.


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New Program: Spring 2013 Tropical Biology and Sustainability in Kenya
In partnership with Princeton University, Columbia has developed a new field semester abroad program in Kenya on Tropical Biology and Sustainability. Operating during the spring semester, this global immersion experience will give students the opportunity to study ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation biology, environmental engineering, and sustainable development in the environmental hub of East Africa. Based at Princeton's Mpala Research Centre in central Kenya, and with support from Columbia's Global Center Africa in Nairobi, students will also travel across Kenya to places such as the forested slopes of Mt. Kenya, the wildlife-rich savannas of Laikipia, and the coffee and tea plantations of western Kenya.
Students will take the following four 3-week course modules taught by Princeton and Columbia faculty who work in Kenya and other parts of East Africa.
EEEB W3920: Biology of African Animals and Ecosystems. 4 points.
EEEB W3922: Field Ecohydrology. 4 points.
EEEB W3923: Ecology and Conservation of African Landscapes. 4 points.
EEEB W3921: Tropical Agriculture. 4 points.
Students must have completed Environmental Biology I-II or the equivalent. For more information, please contact Professor Dustin Rubenstein at email@example.com.
For more information about the program, please visit the website at http://ogp.columbia.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10572.
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Your #1 Source for GM Muscle Car Parts & Services
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about Rusty Nutz & Rodz, LLC. The restoration and preservation of classic muscle cars is more than just a business for us. Having grown up in families of automobile enthusiasts with deep industry roots, it's a way of life.
Our goal is simple – We want to become your most valued restoration and performance resource by providing you, our customer and fellow enthusiast, with the best value.
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We offer only the highest quality parts and services available in the restoration and performance market at competitive prices. There is often more than one manufacturer for a part, and we refuse to cut corners for sake of profit over customer satisfaction. We have more than 21 years of experience restoring classics and building performance vehicles, so we can address your questions regarding installation, fitment, quality, and accuracy.
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This section is dedicated to helping our customers to understand how Rusty Nutz & Rodz, LLC. operates. Whether you need help placing an order, or if you want to know how we stand behind our service, this comprehensive resource will address your questions. Can't find the topic you need help with? We are here to serve you, and our Customer Service team is just a few clicks away on the Contact page.
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Orders can be cancelled until processed for shipment. Once shipped, the order is subject to the terms of our Return policy, below. Special order items must be prepaid in full and cannot be cancelled.
Ensuring the highest levels of customer satisfaction is our top priority. Products may be returned for a full refund of the purchase price, store credit, or exchange within 30 days of receipt. All returns beyond 30 days are subject to a 25% restocking fee.
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Deutsche Bank analyst Mark Wilson reckons global packaging group Amcor could get busy on the M&A front, given its estimated balance sheet capacity of 1.7 billion Australian dollars (US$1.67 billion).
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Zambian president collapses at Women's Day event
Zambian President Edgar Lungu collapsed on the podium while presiding over a Women's Day celebration in Lusaka over the weekend.
Zambian President Edgar Lungu collapsed on the podium while presiding over a Women's Day celebration in Lusaka over the weekend.
Following the death of President Michael Sata in October, the ruling Patriotic Front candidate Edgar Lungu has received 48.3% of the vote.
The Patriotic Front has taken a small lead over the opposition United Party for National Development, with 80 of the 150 constituencies counted.
Opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema said some remote parts of the country had not received ballot papers halfway through the polling day.
Zambia's copper industry has been at the heart of campaigning for Tuesday's presidential election and poses a big headache for the next leader.
Zambia's ex-president Rupiah Banda has joined the opposition Patriotic Front party after failing to win his party's backing.
Mulenga, son of late Zambian president Michael Sata, has withdrawn his candidature for presidency of the Patriotic Front.
Zambia's high court is to decide on issuing a licence for a copper mine in a game reserve bordering Zimbabwe's Mana Pools world heritage site.
It's a family affair - Christine Kaseba, widow of former Zambian president Michael Sata, joins three other family members in a race for the top job.
African leaders joined thousands of Zambians as they bid farewell to late president Michael Sata on Tuesday.
Sean Christie recalls a 2011 interview with new Zambian Interim President Guy Scott, a self-proclaimed do-gooder.
In a move to defuse anger in Zambia, acting president Guy Scott reversed his decision to remove Edgar Lungu as head of the ruling party.
Following the dismissal of Edgar Lungu as chief of the ruling party, protesters took to the streets to express anger at acting president Guy Scott.
The story is not that Zambia now has a white acting president, the real and tragic story is why do Zambian presidents choose to die abroad?
Zambia's vice-president will lead the country after the death of Michael Sata until presidential elections are held, in line with the Constitution.
The Zambian president has died in London, where he had been receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness, according to reports.
Greenpop plants trees, but there is something else going on. Its wider strategy has seen the movement outgrow the bounds of its humble beginnings.
As Zambia celebrates 50 years of freedom, its old laws against gays and lesbians are tightened.
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Zambia's Parliament has been adjourned until June after it refused to publish its new draft constitution, which took three years to produce.


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Financial Assistant II (UCP V)
Office of Financial Management
School of Nursing
University of Connecticut
Job Summary:
The University of Connecticut School of Nursing Office of Financial Management seeks applicants for a full-time position as a Financial Assistant II (UCP V). Under the direction of the Fiscal Manager, the position is responsible for specialized administrative and fiscal services that assist with the financial operations of the School. The Financial Assistant II must be capable of working independently, but also have the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Duties: Provide post grant account management; manage and reconcile School travel; maintain and monitor financial records and accounts for the department; review, code and track purchase requisitions, approve payment requests in the Kuali financial system; resolve problems related to departmental purchasing, accounts payable, and accounts receivable; utilize financial data mart to prepare regular statements for departmental revenues, expenditures, and encumbrances; prepare reports as appropriate to meet University, State, federal and department requirements; may supervise and/or train staff as needed; perform related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications: Five to ten years progressively responsible experience in financial record keeping, supervision, and reporting; sound knowledge of budget preparation and fiscal control methods; knowledge of accounting practices and procedures; ability to analyze and modify fiscal procedures; ability to work independently and exercise sound judgment; excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; familiarity with Microsoft Office with proficiency using Excel.
Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in accounting or other business related field with 2-4 years related experience; experience working in a higher education setting; demonstrated customer service; experience with University financial and reporting systems such as Kuali Financial Services, Webfocus, and Peoplesoft, .
Appointment Terms: This is a full-time, 12 month position. Salary is commensurate with experience. Work hours will be 8:00am to 4:00pm, with one hour lunch. Work location is Storrs, CT.
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Through all the relationships, divorces and drama, the Kardashian clan is bound to have feuds. From the Rob Kardashian's fight with both Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner to Khloe Kardashian's ongoing divorce drama with ex-husband Lamar Odom, the Kardashians can fight like pros. Check out our gallery of the top Kardashian feuds and then vote for which one you think is the biggest!
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As promised, last week Terry got out and did some test riding to see what the BMSK doees when you disconnect an O2 sensor.
Because he rides an R1200GSA which also uses a BMSK, as does the F800, but with two O2 sensors, he was able to directly compare the fueling delivered from side by side cylinders operating under the same conditions. And because he has dual LC-1s he was able to log detailed AFR information in realtime.
In my Wideband O2 thread in the Boxer forum I'm going to post a lot of additional detail. But here is a chart that shows the AFR differences between his left and right cylinders, one running Closed Loop (purple) with an O2 sensor connected, the other running Open Loop (black).
At the beginning of the chart on the left side the motorcycle is idling. Looking at the Black Line #2 with the disconnected O2 sensor, it appears that it is running steady (and after a BMSK reset) but a lot richer. However, as he drives off you can see that the black line fluctuates about 12-15% while that #1 cylinder with its O2 connected holds tightly to the target AFR and varies +/-3% (6% total).
(You can see the black and purple cylinders start to converge as the BMSK with twin O2 sensors pulls off a clever feat: it uses data from the connected cylinder to bring the disconnected cylinder into a partial alignment. When Terry and I first saw this, it was a big, WOW!)
The large fluctuation of the black line is consistent with my measurements on the R1150 in Open Loop and should be representative of the fueling data being sent to the Power Commander connected to the BMSK of the F800. I can't think of a reason why it would be different.
The thing I wondered since there appears to be multiple AFRs for any given RPM on the disconnected cylinder (the fluctuation being seen) how does the PC V figure out which AFR it puts into the Trim table? It seems likely that this varies depending on the exact moment the data is taken.
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A brand-new jailbreak tweak called iOS 86 allows jailbreakers to give their iOS device a retro, pixilated 1980s makeover.
As you can see in the lead image (which shows my iPhone running iOS 86), the package can make your iPhone's display look like one of those first-gen, brick-sized Game Boys.
To enable the theme on your iOS device, here's what you need to do.
First, head on over to Cydia and download Jay Freeman's WinterBoard package (if you haven't already). This is a free jailbreak app, and can be used to handle, enable and disable multiple themes quickly and easily. You can find it via Cydia's default repositories by searching for "WinterBoard."
Next, in the Cydia app, add the below source (you can do this by going to "Manage" > "Sources" > "Edit" > "Add").
The Cydia app will warn you that the above repository has been reported for reproducing copyrighted materials – it's currently the only place to get the iOS 86 package, so we would recommend users download the iOS 86 package only and nothing else via this repository.
Now, in Cydia you should be able to find and download iOS 86. Do this, then head out of the Cydia app and launch WinterBoard. Enable the iOS 86 theme, respring your iPhone handset and the new, retro theme should be enabled.
There are, admittedly, a few shortcomings – for example, the theme doesn't support every icon out there (not even Game Center, we're disappointed to report), and doesn't support open applications, either. This means the theme will only really look good if your iPhone is unlocked, at its first screen, and the Game Center app has been moved somewhere else.
However, we can't complain too much, because the tweak (like WinterBoard) is available for free. Hopefully iOS 86′s developer will add support for additional app icons in the near future – we'll be sure to let you know if this happens.


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Canalization of the evolutionary trajectory of the human influenza virus
1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
3 Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK
4 Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
BMC Biology 2012, 10:38 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-10-38Published: 30 April 2012
Since its emergence in 1968, influenza A (H3N2) has evolved extensively in genotype and antigenic phenotype. However, despite strong pressure to evolve away from human immunity and to diversify in antigenic phenotype, H3N2 influenza shows paradoxically limited genetic and antigenic diversity present at any one time. Here, we propose a simple model of antigenic evolution in the influenza virus that accounts for this apparent discrepancy.
In this model, antigenic phenotype is represented by a N-dimensional vector, and virus mutations perturb phenotype within this continuous Euclidean space. We implement this model in a large-scale individual-based simulation, and in doing so, we find a remarkable correspondence between model behavior and observed influenza dynamics. This model displays rapid evolution but low standing diversity and simultaneously accounts for the epidemiological, genetic, antigenic, and geographical patterns displayed by the virus. We find that evolution away from existing human immunity results in rapid population turnover in the influenza virus and that this population turnover occurs primarily along a single antigenic axis.
Selective dynamics induce a canalized evolutionary trajectory, in which the evolutionary fate of the influenza population is surprisingly repeatable. In the model, the influenza population shows a 1- to 2-year timescale of repeatability, suggesting a window in which evolutionary dynamics could be, in theory, predictable.


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Didcot A Power Station
Didcot A Power Station was a 2,000MW dual-fired power station, which generated electricity using coal, gas and biomass. In September 2012 we announced the closure of the plant and therefore, after 42 years of service, it will stop generating electricity on 31st March 2013.
In 2008 Didcot A opted out of the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD) regulation which is aimed at reducing emissions across Europe; the station was therefore required to cease generation at the point at which 20,000 hours of generation were completed, or, at the latest, by the end of December 2015. In September 2012 we announced the closure of the plant and therefore, after 42 years of service, it stopped generating electricity on 31st March 2013.
Didcot A has helped thousands of students from schools, colleges, universities and community groups over the years to learn first hand about how we generate electricity. We would like to thank the local community who has supported us throughout the years of operations at Didcot.
Please find below other ways in which your students can benefit from learning outside the classroom, through the partnerships we have with Earth Trust (formerly Northmoor Trust) and Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Earth Trust
Didcot Power Stations have enjoyed a partnership with the Earth Trust for over 10 years and have supported various projects at the Earth Trust Centre, including the Energy Bus and Wild Waste Shows and joint educational programmes. Click here to read more about the Earth Trust.
If you are from a school and looking for local energy/environmental education visits for your pupils, please contact the Earth Trust's Education Manager, Oliver Rathmill, on 01865 409404 or see the 'Learn' pages the Earth Trust website. The Earth Trust has stunning locations for outdoor learning in South Oxfordshire, and can provide a range of learning opportunities for primary and secondary school children around a number of areas of the curriculum.
Since 2009, the Earth Trust has managed Thrupp Lake at Radley, close to Abingdon, which is owned by npower. Funding from npower and other grants have enabled visitors to access the lake and, over the last few years, the Earth Trust has established a circular walk, a 'Lily Shelter' for visitors and a bird hide. Thrupp Lake is one of the top bird sites in the county and is much loved and visited by local people. Click here to read more about Thrupp Lake.
In 2012, npower contributed to the creation of new ponds within the Little Wittenham Wood Nature Reserve. Of international importance, because of its Great Crested Newt population, the Earth Trust embarked on an ambitious project to help these newt populations withstand fluctuating weather conditions resulting from climate change. Two new ponds have been established and already Great Crested Newts are inhabiting their new habitat. Click here to read more about the new ponds created for wildlife.
Sutton Courtenay Environmental Education Centre
Schools can visit Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust's exciting Sutton Courtenay Environmental Education Centre, situated right next door to the power station. The programme is suitable for Key Stage 2 to 3 pupils, who become "Eco-warriors" and find out how to live more sustainably. Key Stage 4 pupils can visit for a tour of its Green Flag award winning building. To find out more, visit the Wildlife Trust's website or contact the centre's Education Officers on 01235 862024.


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Why should I take courses on information technology and cyber security?
Much of our nation depends on infrastructure that is controlled by computers and many of our daily activities are affected by computers. Computer security is not an individual concern. Our networks depend on the flow of information and on the integrity of the information we get from others. Addressing information assurance within a community helps ensure continued operations and minimal impact from cyber attacks.
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Register using this website. Navigate to the course or track listing of your choice and look for a registration link near the bottom of the page. On most courses, you will have the ability to see multiple course offerings by date. As the course draws near, you will receive an email containing logistical, parking, and driving directions.
How do I request a course for my community through FEMA (TEI/TO)? How much will it cost?
TEI/TO training partners provide training at low or no cost to the individual or the individual's agency. Please contact CIAS directly by calling 210.458.2185 or email email@example.com for more information.
Do you have group or military discounts?
Yes, we do! Please select the military discount as a fee option during your registration process.
How do I find logistic information on my course?
Each registered participant will receive an email containing the logistics of each class. Also, a link from our web page will also provide you with all necessary information regarding that class (e.g., dates, location of facility, directions, parking instructions, dress code, etc.)
What if I have to cancel?
Please notify us as soon as possible if you need to cancel a class. You must cancel by contacting us in writing to withdraw from the course. Upon receiving your withdrawal, we will refund your tuition, minus a $10 processing fee. Failure to attend the course without prior notification will be considered a no show and will result in forfeiture of the full tuition of the class.
If the CIAS is forced to cancel any class for any reason, refunds for the class will either be granted at 100% of the tuition or applied to a future class offering.
Will any of these IT Security Professional courses apply to a degree program?
No. CIAS classes are non-traditional classes. For traditional University classes, please see the UTSA Undergraduate Course Catalog or the UTSA Graduate Course Catalog.
Who can enroll in your courses?
CIAS classes are non-academic courses and are open to the public, including UTSA students, current professionals, etc.
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Sometimes it is difficult to choose from the four options given, but there is usually one that fits better than the rest, or at least one that you could see yourself as more so than the others. If you're still unsure, try asking someone who knows you well, such as a parent or sibling. They can give clarity on areas of your personality that you may not notice.


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Obama Talks CFB Playoff With Simmons
President Barack Obama took 25 minutes out of his busy day to visit the popular podcast of ESPN's Bill Simmons. The two talked sports and Obama gave his opinion on a college football playoff system, which he suggested is long overdue.
Obama, who noted that there has been recent talk about a move toward some sort of playoff, said that he would prefer an eight-team playoff for the sport. He admitted that a four-team set-up - which seems more likely if there is change - would be a good start.
"Nothing is more frustrating than, at the end of the season, nobody knows who won," the President told Simmons.
"And there's some poll ... coaches make a decision. Nobody knows what that means. Because part of what makes sports great, part of what makes March Madness great, the NFL playoffs great, is every once in a while something happens during the playoffs that shows the character of a team."
Obama smartly went on to cite the Super Bowl champion New York Giants, who struggled just to qualify for the playoffs before eventually getting hot and winning it all. The POTUS said that they would not have been deemed atop any sort of coaches poll at the end of the NFL regular season.
We love that Obama has supported the idea of a playoff for a while now. If anyone can penetrate college football power brokers - mostly, conference commissioners - who for years have refused to budge on the issue, it's the leader of the free world.
Click on the link below for Grantland's BS Report page, where you can download the podcast, read the transcript and watch YouTube clips of Simmons' interview. The portion of the clip in which Obama talks about a possible college football playoff system is below.


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Steven Spielberg is one of the seminal Hollywood filmmaker who remade Hollywood in his own image and personified the very term "blockbuster" with hits like Jaws, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park among the many. He's also garnered Oscars for Best Director for the films Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.
Now the 65 year-old director and movie mogul releases his most ambitious film of his career, Lincoln, that portrays none other than the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
Spielberg talks about what has made doing a film about Abraham Lincoln a lifelong dream.
"Look, I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln," Steven says, "And, once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype. Lincoln has been reduced to statuary over the last 60 years or more. Because there's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him."
"He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium," he adds, "You have to go back to the 1930's to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. So I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to moviegoers, and that's how this whole fascination began."
Playing Lincoln himself is British actor Daniel Day-Lewis, who has won Best Actor Oscars for his roles in films like My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood. But Steven says landing the notoriously selective actor wasn't easy, mainly because he was not confident enough that he could play such an important figure in American history.
"It was hard to get him to say yes," he recalls, "But I felt he was. And I stayed. I tried really hard. I met Daniel eight years ago, and, and couldn't get him to agree to come down the road with me. And a couple years ago when [screenwriter] Tony Kushner, you remember he was not the first person to attempt to tell a story about Abraham Lincoln for me to direct. But, that was the only exposure Daniel had our Lincoln was really more about the Civil War and all the battles than it was about the Presidency."
"But when Tony had written his draft that was sort of the first shoe in the door that really got us together in Ireland for the first time to talk about it, it was almost like a feasibility study," Spielberg adds, "Daniel was like a feasibility study to see whether he would allow himself to go near a script that was clearly on the verge of brilliance. And I was just at that point without putting any extra pressure on Daniel, because I didn't say this to anybody, but if he had finally and ultimately said no, um, I would never had made the movie Abraham Lincoln. It would never have just been in my life anymore. It'd be gone."
Spielberg was asked about having considered actor Liam Neeson at one point for the role and whether there is fortuitist time to make a film even though he has been working on it for many years.
"Yes, and that's not up to me," Steven answers, "Whether it's fortuitist is something you realize after you're done. So, I think that a lot of planets lined up in a good position, but that was out of my control, and that was not even on my mind at that the time. At that point, I had just accepted the fact that I would make Lincoln if Daniel decided to play him," he adds, "And I would not make Lincoln had Daniel decided not to play him. It was as simple as that. It had gotten to that point with me."
"So, the timeline was simply, I approached Daniel first to play Lincoln," he adds, "He turned me down. That was about eight, nine years ago. And then, and then Liam, Liam and I had a, had a very healthy flirt about possibly doing this together. And then we both decided to do other things. And then, I came back to Daniel. So, that's the timeline."
In the past, Steven has said that the 1:85 widescreen format approximates how we see. It was asked what made him shoot the film in that format."
"The number of characters," Spielberg replies, with a laugh, "I had to fit them all in, and I'm not being facetious."
Spielberg talks about the surprises he uncovered during his many years of research into the actual person Abraham Lincoln was in his life.
"There are so many things I didn't know about Lincoln, and there are so many different points of view about Lincoln," Steven says, "With over 7,000 books written to any find any five books that agree on every single facet of his life is difficult. But the thing that, that really surprised me about Lincoln was that with the weight of his responsibility, his oath he took, a constitutional oath to preserve the union, and he's the only President that had the union ripped out from under him and torn in half."
"And the fact that the weight of the war that began over slavery and that he did not himself suffer beyond all the writings that we've read about how deeply low he could get in his psyche, how depressed he could get," he adds, "I don't know if some of that depression wasn't just deep thought, going very, very deep into the cold depths of himself to make discoveries that would bring this war to a close and abolish slavery. And but beyond that how he just didn't crack up in the middle of his first term with the Civil War raging around him, with over 600,000 lives lost revised recently upward to 750,000 lives lost, just in the last five months that was figure was revised. And with his wife on the edge of herself, the loss of his son two years before our film begins, Willy, a son lost in infancy before that, um, the fact that he came through this with a steady, moral compass and an even keel just amazes me."
Steven talks about how he decided at what parts of the President's life to film for Lincoln.
"Well, there was," he recalls, "It was very, very important that, that we felt that Lincoln was able to ride across the battlefield outside of Petersburg, it was almost the epilogue, between he and Grant, which happened. And, and the fact that there was some kind of reconciliation in the very often-written-about carriage rides that the President and his wife took. We needed all those moments I think to really equip his story of Abraham Lincoln, but I would not have been able to, and Tony Kushner would not, have been able, he tried and we tried to write Doris's [Kearns Goodwin's] book [Team Of Rivals]. His first draft was 550 pages long."
"We needed to focus it in on a working President and a father and a husband," Spielberg adds, "You couldn't do that if that was the greatest hit list of the life of Abraham Lincoln. It couldn't just be the golden oldies compilation of his entire life, because we would've been dilatants as filmmakers and as actors. We would've just been hitting all the high points and just giving you the headlines and not giving you any sense of the depth of this character, this man."
Spielberg was asked about why he chose right now to make Lincoln.
"Well, I would have been very to have made Lincoln in the year 2000, the year after I met Doris Kearns Goodwin," he says, "It took her a couple years to write the book. It took us more than a couple years to get the screenplay written. So, I wasn't waiting for a certain time. At one point, I flirted with coming out on the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, but we weren't ready to make the picture then."
"People say oh, you made it, because of what's happening in politics today," Steven continues, "No, we were ready to make it during the Bush administration. It had nothing to do current politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way, you know, we, you know, we conduct our business on Capitol Hill today. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait, if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time."
Steven was also asked why historical dramas, which seemed so commonplace in Hollywood film in the 1930's, have fallen out of favor since then.
"I don't know," Spielberg replies, "I think that that there have been historical dramas. I mean not too long ago, we had something called The King's Speech. A lot of people that I know didn't even know there was a king before Elizabeth, and that opened a lot of windows, and people said, 'Oh, I learned something I didn't know before.' There's no bad time or good time. For me, when I find a story that I'm ready to tell and the script is right that's the time to tell it."
Lincoln headlines an impressive cast, which includes not only Daniel Day-Lewis, but Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and others. It was asked whether there was any concern during the casting process of all the big names together distracting from the story and the titular character.
"I think that the people who are in the story, the actors who are in the story, some of them with long filmographies and very well known to the American public, disappear into their characters within seconds of coming on the screen," Steven believes, "By the time this film is five, six minutes in, they're all anonymous and they're all their characters, and that's the great thing about hiring talented actors. Their job is to convince you of who they are, and that's what I'm so proud of with this cast."
Steven talks about how he had to deconstruct Lincoln's mythological image in the story and how he often had to do things that would have been certainly questionable at the time to abolish slavery, as well as the message that arises from that.
"Just desperate times require desperate measures," he explains, "What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment of himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky, but nothing they did was really illegal.
"And by the way, what they did to gain favor to get people to persuade people to vote, not to vote their conscience is not uncommon in this day and age either," Spielberg says, "To make a movie about a squeaky-clean person whose moral principles hold him so far beyond mortal man and woman would not be interesting to me. I like the fact that there is a bit of murkiness in the politics of the 19th century to do something that was necessary and long lasting."
Spielberg was asked why he ultimately chose not to delve into the three attempts to assassinate Lincoln and the one that finally claimed his life a very short time after the Civil War had end.
"The decision I think was pretty easy one to make," Steven states, "Because I think had we taken it right up to the assassination, I think the film would've for the first time become exploitation, and I didn't want to go anywhere near that. That's a very scary word, especially when you're dealing with the history. And I think that nothing could be gained by showing that, and it was more profound for me to see what actually happened. It had nothing to do with cinema. It just had to do with I did not want to exploit the assassination, which has been depicted by the way in other films ad nauseam."
It was asked whether, despite the fact that Steven did not intend to make a political statement in releasing Lincoln during a time of great political turmoil, he would be fascinated by how people would interpret the film's allegorical meaning in the context of this current era.
"Of course," he answers, "And by the way, here's the good news. The good news is the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, put together the principles of a democratic government are so sound and unsinkable that the process from 150 years ago is not that much different than the process of today."
"I think that really is one of the values of holding up a mirror to all of us who only experience what we experience and have no frame of reference except what we read or what we view in documentaries about that time, that there are tremendous similarities between the politics then and the politics today," Spielberg adds, "And I'm really excited to see how deeply people will reach to contemporize our film far beyond how it deserves to be contemporized."
Spielberg talks about a pivotal scene early on in Lincoln where the Jollys visit Lincoln.
"Well, the Jolly scene is an interesting scene," Steven says, "Because it became it became an example of Seward's political brilliance that he would use these two seekers to illustrate a problem that he was not able to illustrate to the President himself. So, through these people he illustrated a problem of, are the people going to want to abolish slavery through the passage of a 13th Amendment?"
"And when push came to shove and it came right down to it the people spoke," he adds, "And they said, well, if abolishing slavery will end the war we'll accept slaves going free if it really puts an end to this war, but if it doesn't put an end to the war and it's not going to serve that purpose we don't want, uh, somebody — uh, a former slave coming up and taking our jobs after at the war's end. And Seward walks over to Lincoln and says well, there it is. There's the voice of the people. So, the entire conundrum that became the entire issue of, do you end the war first and then attempt to pass slavery or vice versa, is illustrated in that single sequence."
Steven talks about why he waited a week after the election to release the film and if it was intentionally so.
"Well, no, what it was very simply is because there's a lot of confusion about the political ideologies of both parties have switched 180 degrees in 150 years," he says, "It just too confusing. Everybody is claiming Lincoln as their own, and everybody should claim Lincoln as their own, because he represents all of us, and what he did basically provided the opportunities that, that all of us are enjoying today."
"So I just wanted people to talk about the film, not talk about the election cycle," Spielberg says, "So I thought it was safer to let people talk about film during the election cycle in this run-up with ads on TV and posters going up and all that, but the actual debut of the film should happen after the election's been decided. That was my feeling."


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Farming difficulty rises a levelYears ago, back in the day, I tried out a new computer strategy game. After playing for an hour or so, I beat the computer and won the game.
By: Jonathan Knutson, Agweek
Years ago, back in the day, I tried out a new computer strategy game. After playing for an hour or so, I beat the computer and won the game.
Trouble was, I'd set the game to the "easy" level. The computer had played poorly, making it relatively simple for me (or anyone else who played at that setting). I won even though I made mistakes.
So I reset the game to its "medium" level of difficulty and tried again. This time, the computer played much smarter. Eventually, however, I limited my mistakes and managed to win.
Finally, I reset the game to its highest setting, the "expert" level. The computer now played flawlessly and with the intelligence of Einstein. I lost again and again. Victory was possible, but only by investing many hours to master the game and eliminate my mistakes. Life is too short for that big a commitment, so I quit and never played again.
The 'easy' setting
Don't send me angry emails. I'm not suggesting that farming is like a computer game. Nor am I suggesting that farming, even in the best of times, is easy. There's too much to learn and too much that can go wrong for farming to ever be easy.
But it's fair to say that most Upper Midwest farmers (the ones not hammered by drought or excess moisture, anyway) faced the "easy" level the past few years. High crop prices allowed producers to generate healthy profits even if they didn't make ideal decisions. As one ag official once told me, "These high prices cover up a lot. You can make mistakes and still make money."
Now, declining crop prices have reset Upper Midwest farming to the "medium" level. Profits are still possible, but only for farmers who limit their mistakes. That means holding down expenses, planting the best mix of crops and developing a good marketing plan.
Talk with your agronomist, your banker, your accountant, your extension service specialist, your farm business management consultant. Talk with whoever can give you expert advice that will help you limit mistakes and make better decisions.
Young farmers may face the biggest adjustment. Agriculture's recent prosperity has encouraged many young adults to enter farming in recent years, and some of the newcomers have farmed only on the easy setting. The young farmers are smart, educated and determined (I know; I've talked with many of them), and their intelligence and education told them the good times weren't permanent. Even so, there's no substitute for personal experience.
Could be worse
Farming on the medium setting isn't the worst thing in the world. There have been long stretches when Upper Midwest agriculture was set on the "expert" level. Even the most skilled, determined farmers — the ones who do just about everything right — struggle on the expert setting. There's no sign, at least for the foreseeable future, that we'll reset to that level of difficulty.
For now, we're on the medium setting. No, that isn't as profitable or as much fun as the easy level. But medium, though more demanding, is winnable, too. I'm confident that most area farmers are up to the challenge.


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What a day!
We were honored to work with Lauren and Jimmy a short time back on their wedding day photography and I think we experienced an absolutely wild day.
Family, friends, romance, beautiful setting, beautiful ceremony and — of course — gale force winds with a bit of a wind chill. Okay, the last two were not that significant but did make the ceremony even more memorable.
We visited Metamora Fields Golf Club for their special day — with a late afternoon wedding ceremony near the club house and followed by a spectacular reception inside.
We actually started the night before, at the rehearsal where the couple and everyone else planned out the ceremony with their minister and had lots of laughter and fun to capture. Krystal, as in her usual role, took on a bit of a wedding coordinator stance to make sure events would look good.
And the next morning we started off again — this time at the Sleep Inn and Suites in nearby Washington, Illinois. where Lauren and her gals spent the morning primping and prepping for the day's affairs. Lauren's flowers, created by Georgette Flowers, arrived and were gorgeous. Hair was done by and make-up done by.
Then, off to Metamora Fields!
We met up with Jimmy where he was eagerly (major understatement!) for his bride to arrive. We set up their first look near the front of the building — and let the love flow! Almost every wedding we shoot these days has the couple meeting each other before the wedding ceremony — and this was the perfect reason why. Tears on both sides, talking and talking about the big day finally being here. And — finally, the suspense was ended. Jimmy saw her in her beautiful wedding gown. And she saw him all decked out in his finest attire. So cool!
We left them alone for a bit to just talk. Lots of photos, lots of special memories.
The ceremony went beautifully and we were able to get some amazing shots of the couple and their guests. And off to the cocktail hour where guests were served a special electric blue concoction called "The Washout" just for the couple.
The couple were formally announced and welcomed into the main area via a tunnel from their wedding party . . . and the party began!
Top Hat Productions DJ Mark McIntire put the couple and their guests through lots of dancing and a few special events — garter toss, flower toss, cake cutting and some teary-eyed toasts for the young pair. And, have to mention the cakes — two of them, their wedding day cake (beautiful) and one for the groom in the shape of a bowling ball created by Cake Crumbs Limited's Tammy Woodmancy.
Beautiful day.


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Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent for NBC News, and his two-man crew narrowly escaped from five days of captivity at gunpoint in Syria.
Engel was working in Syria with photographer John Kooistra and producer Gazi Balkeez when they were kidnapped with their Syrian rebel escorts by government loyalist forces aligned with Hezbollah. One of their rebel escorts was executed and the reporters were thrown into a waiting container truck.
Engel and his crew, who were working in what they thought was a rebel-controlled area when they were taken, were held for five days. They were blindfolded and taken from location to location while being told to choose which of the three of them would be executed first.
The journalists said during an interview with NBC that they tried to keep each others' spirits up by joking and encouraging one another when out of earshot of their captors.
All three men are now safely in Turkey.