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Research shows oceans vital for alien lifeJuly 21, 2014 9:01 am | News | Comments
Until now, computer simulations of habitable climates on Earth-like planets have focused on their atmospheres. Mathematicians and earth sciences experts in the U.K. have recently taken the next step, creating a computer-simulated pattern of ocean circulation on a hypothetical ocean-covered Earth-like planet. They hope to learn how different planetary rotation rates would impact heat transport with the presence of oceans taken into account.
Dispersant from Deepwater Horizon spill found to persist in the environmentJuly 16, 2014 12:51 pm | News | Comments
In an attempt to prevent vast quantities of oil from fouling beaches and marshes after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP applied 1.84 million gallons of chemical dispersant. The dispersant was thought to rapidly degrade in the environment, but a new study has found that the DOSS dispersant compound remains associated with oil and can persist in the environment for up to four years.
Ironing out details of the carbon cycleJuly 7, 2014 10:02 am | by Steven Powell, Univ. of South Carolina | News | Comments
Iron is present in tiny concentrations in seawater, on the order of a few billionths of a gram in a liter. However, its availability in seawater can have a profound effect on phytoplankton growth and, consequently, the Earth's carbon cycle. In recent research, an assessment was made of the various sources of dissolved iron in the north Atlantic Ocean and surprising discoveries were made about their origins.
Study: Plastic debris widespread on ocean surfaceJuly 1, 2014 11:03 am | News | Comments
Plastic junk is floating widely on the world's oceans, but there's less of it than expected, a study says. A newly published study drew on results from an around-the-world cruise by a research ship that towed a mesh net at 141 sites, as well as other studies. Researchers estimated the total amount of floating plastic debris in open ocean at 7,000 to 35,000 tons.
Understanding the ocean's role in Greenland glacier meltJune 24, 2014 8:33 am | News | Comments
In the last 40 years, ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet increased four-fold contributing to one-quarter of global sea level rise. Some of the increased melting at the surface of the ice sheet is due to a warmer atmosphere, but the ocean's role in driving ice loss largely remains a mystery. Research by U.S. scientists sheds new light on the connection between the ocean and Greenland's outlet glaciers.
New evidence for oceans deep in the EarthJune 13, 2014 7:59 am | by Megan Fellman, Northwestern Univ. | News | Comments
Researchers report evidence for an oceans worth of water deep beneath the U.S. Though not in the familiar liquid form—the ingredients for water are bound up in rock deep in the Earth's mantle—the discovery may represent the planet's largest water reservoir. The presence of liquid water on the surface is what makes our "blue planet" habitable, and scientists have tried to figure out just how much water may be cycling between Earth's surface.
Forging new ground in oil forensicsJune 13, 2014 7:30 am | News | Comments
Years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil spill, oil continues to wash ashore as oil-soaked "sand patties," persists in salt marshes abutting the Gulf of Mexico, and questions remain about how much oil has been deposited on the seafloor. Scientists have developed a unique way to fingerprint oil, even after most of it has degraded, and to assess how it changes over time.
Solving the puzzle of ice age climatesJune 3, 2014 9:12 am | by Genevieve Wanucha, Oceans at MIT | News | Comments
The paleoclimate record for the last ice age tells of a cold Earth whose northern continents were covered by vast ice sheets. Chemical traces from plankton fossils in deep-sea sediments reveal rearranged ocean water masses, as well as extended sea ice coverage off Antarctica. Air bubbles in ice cores show that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was far below levels seen before the Industrial Revolution.
How beach microbes responded to the Deepwater Horizon oil spillMay 20, 2014 8:03 am | by Dan Krotz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | News | Comments
In June, 2010, two months after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Regina Lamendella collected samples along a hard-hit beach near Grand Isle, Louisiana. She was part of a team of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers that wanted to know how the microbes along the shoreline were responding to the spill.
Undersea warfare: Viruses hijack deep-sea bacteria at hydrothermal ventsMay 2, 2014 9:04 am | News | Comments
Microbiologists have recently studied unseen armies of viruses and bacteria as they wage war at hydrothermal vents more than a mile beneath the ocean's surface. They have found that viruses infect bacterial cells to obtain tiny globules of elemental sulfur stored inside the bacterial cells. Instead of stealing this bounty, the viruses force the bacteria to burn their valuable sulfur reserves, then use the unleashed energy to replicate.
Ocean microbes display remarkable genetic diversityApril 25, 2014 7:46 am | by Denise Brehm, Civil and Environmental Engineering MIT | News | Comments
The smallest, most abundant marine microbe, Prochlorococcus, is a photosynthetic bacteria species essential to the marine ecosystem. An estimated billion upon billion of the single-cell creatures live in the oceans, forming the base of the marine food chain and occupying a range of ecological niches based on temperature, light and chemical preferences, and interactions with other species.
Microscopic organism plays big role in ocean carbon cyclingApril 24, 2014 4:44 pm | News | Comments
It's broadly understood that the world's oceans play a crucial role in the global-scale cycling and exchange of carbon between Earth's ecosystems and atmosphere. Now scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography have taken a leap forward in understanding the microscopic underpinnings of these processes. The discovery involves "recycling" bacteria that play an important role in regulating the ocean's storage of carbon dioxide.
Fish from acidic ocean waters less able to smell predatorsApril 16, 2014 8:05 am | by Brett Israel, Georgia Institute of Technology | News | Comments
Fish living on coral reefs where carbon dioxide seeps from the ocean floor were less able to detect predator odor than fish from normal coral reefs, according to a new study. The study confirms laboratory experiments showing that the behavior of reef fishes can be seriously affected by increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the ocean.
Study: Deep ocean current may slow due to climate changeMarch 21, 2014 2:12 pm | News | Comments
Far beneath the surface of the ocean, deep currents act as conveyer belts, channeling heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the globe. A new study by the Univ. of Pennsylvania's Irina Marinov and Raffaele Bernardello and colleagues from McGill Univ. has found that recent climate change may be acting to slow down one of these conveyer belts, with potentially serious consequences for the future of the planet's climate.
New data confirms: Sea ice being lost at a rate of five days per decadeMarch 5, 2014 9:55 am | News | Comments
According to new research, the ice-free season across the Arctic is getting longer by five days per decade. New analysis of satellite data shows the Arctic Ocean absorbing ever more of the sun's energy in summer, leading to an ever later appearance of sea ice in the autumn. In some regions, autumn freeze-up is occurring up to 11 days per decade later than it used to.
Still-fresh remnants of Exxon Valdez oil protected by bouldersFebruary 27, 2014 11:21 am | News | Comments
Twenty-five years after the infamous Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, beaches on the Alaska Peninsula hundreds of kilometers from the incident still harbor small hidden pockets of surprisingly unchanged oil, according to new research being presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Hawaii this week.
Silver gone astrayFebruary 25, 2014 5:04 pm | News | Comments
It has long been known that free, ionic silver particles can be highly toxic to aquatic organisms. Yet we a lack of detailed knowledge about the doses required to trigger a response and how the organisms deal with the stress. To learn more about the cellular processes, scientists in Switzerland subjected algae to a range of silver concentrations. The results are reassuring, but the presence of other stressors could compound the problem.
Solving an evolutionary puzzleFebruary 12, 2014 4:58 pm | News | Comments
For four decades, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and heavy metals from nearby manufacturing plants flowed into New Bedford Harbor, creating one of the EPA's largest Superfund cleanup sites. It's also the site of an evolutionary puzzle: small Atlantic killifish are not only tolerating the toxic conditions in the harbor, they seem to be thriving there. In a new paper, researchers may have an explanation for their genetic resistance to PCBs.
Key photosynthetic substance present on Earth before atmospheric oxygenFebruary 7, 2014 11:19 am | News | Comments
A team of researchers led by Virginia Tech and Univ. of California, Berkeley, scientists has discovered that a regulatory process that turns on photosynthesis in plants at daybreak likely developed on Earth in ancient, methane-producing microbes 2.5 billion years ago, long before oxygen became available. The research opens new scientific areas in the fields of evolutionary biology and microbiology.
Deep-diving sub Alvin cleared to return to serviceJanuary 28, 2014 11:44 am | News | Comments
After a three-year overhaul and major upgrade, the United States' deepest-diving research submersible, Alvin, has been cleared to return to work exploring the ocean's depths. The sub has been out of service since December 2010, undergoing a major upgrade, including the replacement of its personnel sphere with a newly fabricated, larger, more capable hull.
Is there an ocean beneath our feet?January 27, 2014 9:42 am | News | Comments
Scientists at the Univ. of Liverpool have shown that deep sea fault zones could transport much larger amounts of water from the Earth's oceans to the upper mantle than previously thought. They have estimated that over the age of the Earth, the Japan subduction zone alone could transport the equivalent of up to three and a half times the water of all the Earth's oceans to its mantle.
Scientists to study Pacific Ocean's "global chimney"January 8, 2014 11:42 am | News | Comments
Although few people live in the Western tropical Pacific Ocean region, the remote waters there affect billions of people by shaping climate and air chemistry worldwide. Next week, scientists will head to the region to better understand its influence on the atmosphere—including how that influence may change in coming decades if storms over the Pacific become more powerful with rising global temperatures.
The ocean's hidden waves show their powerJanuary 8, 2014 7:52 am | by David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | Videos | Comments
Their effect on the surface of the ocean is negligible, producing a rise of just inches that is virtually imperceptible on a turbulent sea. But internal waves, which are hidden entirely within the ocean, can tower hundreds of feet, with profound effects on the Earth's climate and on ocean ecosystems.
Indonesia cave reveals history of ancient tsunamisDecember 27, 2013 10:19 am | by Margie Mason, Associated Press | News | Comments
A cave discovered near the source of Indonesia's massive earthquake-spawned tsunami contains the footprints of past gigantic waves dating up to 7,500 years ago, a rare natural record that suggests the next disaster could be centuries away, or perhaps only decades. The findings provide the longest and most detailed timeline for tsunamis that have occurred off the far western tip of Sumatra island, where deadly 100-ft waves struck in 2004.
Change in Pacific nitrogen content tied to climate changeDecember 17, 2013 2:40 pm | by Anne M. Stark, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | News | Comments
Using a new isotope technique and deep sea corals gathered near the Hawaiian Islands, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist, in collaboration with Univ. of California Santa Cruz colleagues, has determined that a long-term shift in nitrogen content in the Pacific Ocean has occurred as a result of climate change. This shift is similar to major paleoceanographic transitions in the sedimentary record.


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Powering the shoebox is a Chevrolet Performance LS2 crate engine bolted to a Tremec six-speed trans. The motor cranks out 470 horsepower with an LS6 computer tune. Wilwood binders at all four corners bring the fun to a stop and are hidden behind Billet Specialties wheels wrapped in Nitto NT-450 rubber.
All finished by early '09, the '56 was ready to hit the road. In the three years leading up to our photo shoot, Craig had racked up over 8,000 miles on the car, driving it all the way from Houston to Fort Worth for the Goodguys show three times and plenty of cruising and events in between—just the way a trick Tri-Five like this should be enjoyed.
(We especially love the special "Thriftmaster" plaque on the LS engine covers that pay homage to the utility sedan's humble beginnings.)
The crowning achievement for the car was when it was picked by the Super Chevy staff for our AMSOIL Best of the Best competition at the '11 Super Chevy Show in Houston. In our online poll, the 150 was chosen the Best of the Tri-Fives from that event. This sent it on to the end-of-the-year national eliminations, and it garnered enough support to be voted the overall champion in that category. Quite an honor for a car with such humble beginnings.

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I think people are "crying" about transparent window boarders missing in Windows 8.
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It's pretty sure that somebody will find a way to re-enable it through regedit, they probably just desactived it by default and removed the option to enable/disable it into Windows settings.
True, the Aero Glass UI might be gone in Win8, but Aero in of itself lives on.
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My complaint is about the transparency being gone, and the general ugliness of the new design. I'm well aware that the UI is still GPU accelerated, that doesn't make it any less ugly though.
"almost exactly the same" != "exactly the same" is the point people might be trying to make. Posting screenshots from the RTM will help your case immensely I would guess.
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Microsoft themselves haven't been very clear about that, sometimes talking about 'Aero' then about 'Aero glass' again.
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Microsoft themselves haven't been very clear about that, sometimes talking about 'Aero' then about 'Aero glass' again.
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I would check to see if it has the "extra" primary side FWW installed. If so, you might prefer the power w/o it. I doubt it will ever compare to the super snappy 280 though.
Dont know much about Beta, but in general if that engine isn't just rattling like hell, has good compression, rings might do something, carb setup could change how it runs.
it is new enough I think you could spend a bunch of money with parts from Beta, or rather, sell it to a new guy you have met, and get him into trials...
Nothing is baggin on beta, above, if it was a GG or whatever, you could spend a lot to refresh it, and find out, that it was the design that year, to not be as snappy as maybe the bikes that it is getting compared to?
This has to do with porting, flywheel weighting, ignition maps, carb and exhaust design...
I know my 2010 Raga 300 is "slower" than my 2011 raga 300, they change little things all the time it seems, because my 08 raga 300, seemed it was "hotter" and quicker than my 10, but less than my 11, and the 11 seems less than dad's 12 raga 300. Even though each bike was equipped the same, from flywheel weights, to carb jets...
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Egypt was the first of the Arab-speaking Muslim countries to come into close contact with modern European states. The experience was not a particularly happy one. It resulted in political and economic subjugation and in the breakdown of her traditional culture and society: but it led also to her...
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Kristen Bell: "I Refused to Worry" About Losing Baby Weight
While many actresses are sweating it out in yoga studios into their ninth month and back to signing up for SoulCycle classes before the umbilical cord is cut, it's clear from Kristen Bell's easy-going demeanor that she's not your average Hollywood star.
Kristen revealed to Redbook that following the birth of her daughter, Lincoln, shedding her pregnancy pounds was the least of her concerns, but coming to terms with her new body wasn't something that happened over night.
"I refused to worry about something I could not change, and I still refuse. Look, I'm like any other woman. All this evolved b.s. that I'm telling you is my mantra: It's not something I practice naturally. I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed, because that's just part of the journey of having a baby. I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size."
The actress, who returns to the big screen with Veronica Mars in 2014, added that while she's excited to get back to work, it's no longer her main focus.
"I still want a career," said Kristen, who is engaged to actor Dax Shepard.
"Lincoln will always be number one, but I think if you can cut that cord of obsessiveness, then you can work and be a good mother and wife."
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Martinez Doesn't Let Dyslexia Slow Him Down
Saturday, May 11, 2013
KGBT TV Channel 4 President and CEO Tom Keeler was didn't have trouble finding the words to describe Station Chief Engineer, Elias "Lee" Martinez.
"Lee's the man!" said Keeler, a 20-year veteran of the business. "He's the kind of guy that will roll up his sleeves as high as they go and jump right in."
For the last two years, Martinez has overseen all the technical operations of the station from the transmitter to IT. His duties are vast and intricate and according to Keeler, "no one does it better."
But it hasn't come easy for Martinez.
Born in Fort Hood and raised in Kingsville, Martinez moved to the Valley in the mid 1980s when he decided to attend Texas State Technical College (known then as Texas State Technical Institute). He'd spent some time at Texas A&I University in Kingsville but after meeting with a TSTC recruiter, Martinez decided to move south.
But it was while he was in college in Kingsville that Martinez first realized he might have dyslexia. When he moved to Harlingen, he was officially diagnosed by a doctor in Brownsville.
"I was reading and writing at a third-grade level," said Martinez, who graduated from the engineering technology program at TSTC. "I had a problem inverting letters. I had a problem writing out big words. Instead, I would use a bunch of small words to get my point across."
Obviously, dyslexia has been a hurdle for Martinez. But it hasn't slowed him down or stopped him from achieving goals. And he's been proving doubters wrong his whole life.
"When I was in high school, counselors told my parents that I would probably end up digging ditches or hold some other menial job," Martinez said. "They told them that college wasn't for me and I remember sitting in the corner of the room and thinking, 'I'm not dumb.' I couldn't read or write but I knew what I was doing."
Indeed he did. Martinez quickly found a passion in the technical world where he's been successful everywhere he's worked.
He was one of the first engineers hired at Telemundo Channel 40 when the station first went on air in 1999. From there, he moved to Brownsville where he was assistant chief at KVEO Channel 23 before landing in Harlingen and KGBT.
Although his work revolves mostly around the technical aspect of broadcasting, as chief engineer Martinez still has to write reports on a regular basis. His dyslexia still hinders him today but Martinez said he's learned to deal with it effectively.
"I was concerned taking this job because of my condition," Martinez admitted. "But I stopped being scared and started asking for help. If I can't read or spell a word, I just ask for help. And I've learned that everyone is willing to help. I embraced what I have and I haven't looked back."
Martinez hopes to continue his education in the near future and pursue bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering. His boss and friend, Keeler, isn't surprised about Martinez's ambition and drive.
"Lee's got heart and a great work ethic," Keeler said. "He's very intuitive and a great thinker and he's definitely an inspiration around the station."


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Bilirubin is very similar to the pigment phycobilin used by certain algae to capture light energy, and to the pigment phytochrome used by plants to sense light. All of these contain an open chain of four pyrrolic rings.
Like these other pigments, bilirubin changes its conformation when exposed to light. This is used in the phototherapy of jaundiced newborns: the isomer of bilirubin formed upon light exposure is more soluble than the unilluminated isomer.
Several textbooks and research articles show incorrect chemical structures for the two isoforms of bilirubin.
In the liver it is conjugated with glucuronic acid, making it soluble in water. Much of it goes into the bile and thus out into the small intestine. Some of the conjugated bilirubin remains in the large intestine and is metabolised by colonic bacteria to urobilinogen, which is further metabolized to stercobilinogen, and finally oxidised to stercobilin. This stercobilin gives feces its brown color. Some of the urobilinogen is reabsorbed and excreted in the urine along with an oxidized form, urobilin.
Normally, a tiny amount of bilirubin is excreted in the urine, accounting for the light yellow colour. If the liver's function is impaired or when biliary drainage is blocked, some of the conjugated bilirubin leaks out of the hepatocytes and appears in the urine, turning it dark amber. The presence of this conjugated bilirubin in the urine can be clinically analyzed, and is reported as an increase in urine bilirubin. However, in the disorder hemolytic anemia, an increased number of red blood cells are broken down, causing an increase in the amount of unconjugated bilirubin in the blood. As stated above, the unconjugated bilirubin is not water soluble, and thus one will not see an increase in bilirubin in the urine. Because there is no problem with the liver or bile systems, this excess unconjugated bilirubin will go through all of the normal processing mechanisms that occur (e.g., conjugation, excretion in bile, metabolism to urobilinogen, reabsorption) and will show up as an increase in urine urobilinogen. This difference between increased urine bilirubin and increased urine urobilinogen helps to distinguish between various disorders in those systems.
|Yes (bound to glucuronic acid)
|Reacts quickly when dyes are added to the blood specimen. Product is Azobilirubin "Direct bilirubin"
|Reacts more slowly. Still produces Azobilirubin. Ethanol makes all bilirubin react promptly. Indirect bilirubin = Total bilirubin - Direct bilirubin
Total bilirubin measures both BU and BC. Total and direct bilirubin levels can be measured from the blood, but indirect bilirubin is calculated from the total and direct bilirubin.
To further elucidate the causes of jaundice or increased bilirubin, it is usually simpler to look at other liver function tests (especially the enzymes ALT, AST, GGT, Alk Phos), blood film examination (hemolysis, etc.) or evidence of infective hepatitis (e.g., Hepatitis A, B, C, delta, E, etc).
Bilirubin is an excretion product, and the body does not control levels. Bilirubin levels reflect the balance between production and excretion. Thus, there is no "normal" level of bilirubin.
Bilirubin is broken down by light, and therefore blood collection tubes (especially serum tubes) should be protected from such exposure.
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|0.2-1.9, 0.3–1.0, 0.1-1.2
|direct bilirubin
|0-0.3, 0.1–0.3, 0.1-0.4
Mild rises in bilirubin may be caused by
Moderate rise in bilirubin may be caused by
Very high levels of bilirubin may be caused by
Cirrhosis may cause normal, moderately high or high levels of bilirubin, depending on exact features of the cirrhosis
Indirect bilirubin is fat soluble and direct bilirubin is water soluble.


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Old Vagabond: Paul Gauguin at Tate Modern
The Italian conceptual artist Alighiero Boetti, as his onetime protégé Francesco Clemente recalled, "considered that there was a big difference between people who moved north towards power, order, and control, and people who moved south, away from them." Boetti himself had moved from Turin, in Italy's industrial north, down to Rome, and then, for a while, to Kabul, Afghanistan. But historically, this southward vector has rarely been the one chosen by artists, whose profession magnetically draws them toward courts and capitals, patrons and potentates. Paul Gauguin was one of the first to take the opposite route, and he remains the most emblematic and radical of those who've tried to flee the world's metropolitan centers, submitting without resistance to what Charles Baudelaire had once diagnosed in his poem "Le Voyage" as the "Singulière fortune où le but se déplace, Et n'étant nulle part, peut être n'importe où," or, to turn French verse into English prose, the "singular fate of having a goal that keeps shifting, and being nowhere, might be anywhere."
The story is well enough known: Gauguin, grandson of a pioneer of socialist feminism, Flora Tristan, was born in Paris in the revolutionary year of 1848; he spent part of his childhood in Peru (where his grandmother had roots) and part in France, before spending much of his young manhood at sea as a merchant marine and then a naval sailor. He liked to think of his Peruvian forebears as Indians. "As you can see," he would later explain, "my life has always been very restless and uneven. In me, a great many mixtures. Coarse sailor. So be it. But there is also blue blood, or, to put it better, two kinds of blood, two races." Eventually, back in Paris, he became a stockbroker—and a successful one—but also a Sunday painter who was soon accomplished enough for his works to be accepted by the Salon; during this period he also began buying works by the most advanced painters of the time, among them Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas.
The crash of 1882 brought matters to a head. Gauguin abandoned the world of finance, now in tatters, for the full-time pursuit of art. His Danish wife, Mette, who hadn't bargained on having an artist for a husband, collected their five children and returned to Copenhagen. After a few months Gauguin followed her there, attempting to re-establish himself in business; but it took less than a year of that life to persuade him to return to France without Mette, though he kept in touch with her as a confidante for many years thereafter, addressing her, as he admitted, with "an adoration often full of bitterness." Finding Paris too expensive, he moved to Pont-Aven in Brittany, where his magnetic personality and pursuit of artistic independence helped make him chef-d'école to a group of young experimental painters. He became enamored of the landscape, saying, "I find a certain wildness and primitiveness here. When my clogs resound on this granite soil, I hear the dull, matte, powerful tone I am looking for in my painting." Likewise in the people of rural Brittany he found a primitive quality that appealed to him. "I try to put into these desolate figures the savageness I see in them," he wrote, "and that is also in me." But further travels were in the offing: wanting to reinvigorate himself "far from the company of men," he set off for Martinique and Panama. When his funds were depleted, he went to work on the digging of the new canal.
Returning to France, Gauguin was invited by Vincent van Gogh to Arles for the purpose of establishing a "Studio of the South." Their intense but intensely conflicted friendship brought them to the verge of violence; Gauguin fled to Paris, whereupon van Gogh severed his own ear. Increasingly seeing himself as a "savage" discontented with the civilization that had formed him, Gauguin began dreaming up new travels and a "Studio of the Tropics," still in collaboration with van Gogh: the Far East? Madagascar? Eventually, after the Dutchman's suicide, Gauguin settled on Tahiti, where from 1891 to 1893 and again from 1895 to 1901 he made many of his most famous works but found himself even more at odds with the French colonial authorities than he had ever been with the customs of bourgeois life in Europe. Feeling that "there are landscapes still to be discovered—in short, completely new and wilder elements," he set sail for an even more isolated spot, Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands, where he remained until his death in 1903.
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If Gauguin's fate was, in Baudelaire's word, singulière, all the more so is the tension between the incessant, restless movement of his life and the steadiness characteristic of his art. Yes, of course, as you move from painting to painting, from sculpture to woodcut, in the exhibition "Gauguin: Maker of Myth" (at the Tate Modern in London through January 16; then at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, February 27–June 5), you see his travels reflected in his imagery; you'll find depictions of Brittany, Martinique, Tahiti and the Marquesas in turn. But look at the paintings one by one and search out depictions of motion: you'll find few. More typical is a kind of uncanny stasis—not necessarily an equilibrium but a suspension of time, a caesura.
Consider even an early, still residually naturalistic painting whose subject would have lent itself to a sense of inner dynamism, Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven (1888). What gives this work its atmosphere is the way the three girls embody an inexplicable stillness, like children playing at statues rather than enjoying "a Breton gavotte at haymaking time," as Gauguin explained the picture to Theo van Gogh, his dealer at the time. Or it's as if they were not taking the next step in the dance but waiting for it to happen to them. What seems strange—though for all I know this may be typical of Breton folk dancing—is that as they form a semicircle, hand in hand, the girls face not toward the center of the circle, and therefore toward one another, but outward, away from one another and, as it were, away from the dance. The choreography contributes powerfully to the painting's paradoxical feeling of stillness. Even as the girls engage in their joint recreation, each seems caught up in herself, almost unaware of the others, and therefore unmoved by the common rhythm that the dance, we imagine, ought to signify.
Actually, though, Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven does not entirely freeze the motion it pretends to depict. There's one small detail that contradicts this suspension of movement. Look at the little dog to the right of the three girls; it's not scampering or chasing anything but just sniffing around, as dogs do, and yet the peculiar twist to its body lends it an air of carefree liveliness, of impulsive energy, that counterpoints the girls' calm solemnity. Once you've noticed this, you can't help seeing how often in his paintings Gauguin has invited the animals to wander in—deliciously observed dogs, chickens, horses, goats and pigs, not to mention the sly-faced symbolic fox of The Loss of Virginity (1890–91). They liven up the scenes in which human protagonists strike their hieratic poses. Even when the animals are shown as still, you feel they could move at any minute; even when the humans are shown in motion, they seem fixed in place. In the upper-left corner of the masterpiece of Gauguin's time in Brittany, The Vision After the Sermon (1888), there's a bull whose form so curiously echoes that of the fused wrestlers in the upper-right corner, Jacob and his angel, whom the peasant women of the painting see in their collective mind's eye. Here again, the two wrestlers locked in their struggle seem caught at a standstill, while the unconscious beast ambles by with an unaccountable vivacity. The reality/unreality of the women's vision of Jacob and the angel is like that of Degas's ballerinas in those paintings of his where we see the dancers over the heads of the audience or even the orchestra musicians. Gauguin had collected the elder artist's work when he was a successful stockbroker rather than a penniless painter—later Degas would return the compliment—and it was from him that Gauguin learned how to create off-angle compositions with seemingly arbitrary juxtapositions that nevertheless allow for a sense of classical solidity and poise.
Gauguin's propensity for compositional stasis, even when his subject matter seems to lend itself to the evocation of change and movement, reflects his urge to perceive something eternal within the momentary. If you want a more direct glimpse of the inner tumult that impelled him ceaselessly to seek ever more distant shores—"le cerveau plein de flamme, Le coeur gros de rancune et de désirs amers," in Baudelaire's words; that is, the brain aflame, the heart fat with rancor and bitter desires—you must look for his comparatively rare paintings of the sea, such as Ondine/In the Waves (1889) and The Bark (La Barque), from 1896. Not only the swirling waters themselves but the off-balance figure, neither standing nor reclining, and the boat seen at an angle that makes it seem to be spinning in the storm—all declare the disequilibrium that drove Gauguin on, seeking primeval sources of grave and joyous harmonies. Unlike the wandering protagonists of Baudelaire's poem, Gauguin never truly traveled "pour trouver du nouveau," to find something new, but rather in search of the traces of something ancient and perhaps close to vanishing. His incessant journeying was finally not in search of a more pristine, remote, incompletely colonized corner of the earth; rather, as he'd already told his fellow painter Émile Bernard in 1889, well before his first visit to Tahiti, "What I desire is a corner of myself that is still unknown."


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In this, our final post in this blog series on wage and hour issues in the 21st century, we address another frequent area of concern for employers: exempt employees.
Smartphones and electronic remote access are creating new problems for employers when it comes to exempt employees. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), white collar exempt employees must be paid a guaranteed weekly salary in excess of $455 per week. The guaranteed salary must be paid during any week in which the employee performs any compensable work, and the salary is not subject to deductions based on quality or quantity of work. The regulations to the FLSA recognize five specific situations where deductions can be made from an exempt employee's pay. Those five recognized deductions include the following:
Employers should use caution when taking deductions from exempt employees' pay under the five reasons set forth above—particularly if the exempt employee will be performing compensable work during these absences. A growing number of issues are being raised by exempt employees who are having their pay deducted while they are out on FMLA or sick days and are working remotely from home. If employers want to deduct from an exempt employee's guaranteed salary for absences caused by one or more of the five exceptions set forth above, employers need to have clear policies in place instructing exempt employees that they are prohibited from performing any work during such absence.
An employer's failure to have strong policies in place and to enforce those policies can lead to situations where employers jeopardize the exempt status through improper deductions. For example, if an employee is taking intermittent FMLA leave and is absent two days a week for chemotherapy treatment, an employer may lawfully pay the employee three fifths of the exempt employee's salary for that week. However, if the exempt employee is performing compensable work remotely from home either on their laptop computer or other device during the two days off, the employee is performing compensable work and thus is not absent from work for a full day absence. In those situations, the employer has made improper deductions from the exempt employee's pay.
This can be particularly troublesome when exempt employees are out on an FMLA block leave of absence. If an exempt employee is out on an unpaid FMLA leave but is performing work remotely from his or her home while on leave, the employee should be paid his or her guaranteed salary while on leave or the employee should be converted to hourly status during the FMLA leave, and the employee should be paid on an hourly basis for all time actually worked. If an employer does not want to have to pay exempt employees who are taking FMLA leave, the employer needs to instruct the employee that he or she is prohibited from performing any compensable work duties while on FMLA leave. One available method to ensure that this does not happen is to make it clear to the employee going out on FMLA leave that his or her job responsibilities will be handled by other employees (specifically named) during the FMLA leave. Explaining the process for coverage while the employee is out on FMLA leave along with an instruction that the employee is prohibited from performing any compensable work while on leave should help insulate an employer from a possible FLSA claim.
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René Char's provincial origins and modest lifestyle may belie the intellectual breadth and universal relevance of his poetry, written over seventy years. His early affiliation with the Surrealists, his fecund association and collaboration with artists he knew and admired, his political conscience, sharpened by his Resistance activities in World War II, confirm him as a poet and man of his times. Art, war and the precariousness of the human condition as they touched a century are matters upon which his poetry insistently dwells. Yet to that world vision he brings the wisdom of one imbued with the immutable laws of the Provence in which he was raised and which he loved so well. The circumstantial and the enduring are never far apart in …
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When it comes to heroes, I can't help but think of the heroes that braved the waters of 4E D&D when it was first released. None of us knew how to make broken characters. Everyone was enthusiastic. It was an exciting time for roleplaying. Friends were coming out of the woodwork that we hadn't seen in years. We were anything but Heroes, but all the enthusiasm and the lack of power gaming made for an amazing campaign. I still remember a moment that will live on forever as Most Memorable Character Death.
Every character was suboptimal, but one example pretty much sums it up: an eladrin warlord named Shax. Sure, you might imagine that this PC might not be too bad, but my buddy chose to make him an "Inspiring Warlord" instead of a Tactical one (charisma over intelligence). Match this with a mediocre strength (14) – and you would be betting right that things were looking a little grim for Shax. But who knew? My friend was so proud of his new creation. See this paragon of awesome warlordy power! See this flashing bolt of inspiring awe! Within two sessions – Shax was dead, but it was awesome fun for another character could be drawn up and we could try again to learn the secrets of 4E character design.
I also remember this standard, "cardboard" human paladin another buddy of mine whipped up for the game; no one expected him to meet his end so quickly either.
The party was reaching the climax of our introductory campaign and the final encounter was upon them. Deep in the lower chambers of an old temple they had finally cornered the leader of the assassin's guild, a halfling rogue (how original of me!). But—I was having so much fun with this new 4E system—I had also placed a swinging scythe pendulum trap between the Rogue and the entrance where the PCs had come in. That trap was swung over a stone bridge that spanned a pool of bubbling lava; a crack into the plane of fire. Yes, that's right, a lava pit at 3rd level—I really was a bastard. The fact that after a couple of years, I still remember the encounter speaks to its success.
I was so cruel to them. The fight started with all the players rushing across the stone bridge as fast as they could and just barely dodging the swinging trap or just barely resisting the push effect that would have knocked them into the lava. The assassin leader shifted, dodged, and ran back across the bridge to where the PCs had just come from. He did not do this only to be cruel (and force the players back across the trap), but also to go after the lone PC that remained near the entrance: the party's wizard who had planned on blasting him from a distance.
So there were the players, muttering about having to cross the treacherous bridge a second time. They were all muttering except for our wonderful lawful good human paladin. Why waste time? The paladin, turned and courageously charged back across the bridge to save the wizard. He gave all his companions the briefest boost to morale. His only position to engage the rogue was while still standing on the bridge in one of the trapped squares. The first turn everyone gasped as he was barely missed by the swinging trap. Everyone started to cheer, this guy's decisions always got his characters into trouble, and here he was again, doing just that.
The next turn proved to be the end though – with the right rolls, the pendulum trap knocked the paladin off of the bridge in a flash. SPLASH! Roast Paladin. In a lava pit. The other players sat slack-jawed in horror as the paladin and (more importantly!) all his gear were turned to molten slag. Fortunately, after another tumble or two – the party caught up with rogue and got their revenge. They survived the fight in the end, but we never did see anymore eladrin warlords or cardboard paladins for a long time afterwards.
My friends and I still laugh about that day, it is one of the moments that we fondly remember. It's funny, maybe we just have a nasty sense of humor, but almost all of the stories that we talk about and remember are the ones where characters died.
Is that true for everyone? Are the best games the ones where the heroes meet some bittersweet death?
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GRUMIO: . . . Now I begin: / Imprimis, we came down a foul hill, my master riding behind my mistress, --
CURTIS: Both of one horse?
GRUMIO: What's that to thee?
CURTIS: Why, a horse.
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Red hair (also referred to as ginger or titian) varies from a deep orange-red through burnt orange to bright copper. It is characterized by high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin and relatively low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. People with red hair are often referred to as redheads. Approximately 1% to 2% of the human population has red hair. It occurs more frequently (between 2% and 6% of the population) in northern and western Europeans, and their descendants, and at lower frequencies throughout other parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. Red hair appears in people with two copies of a recessive gene on chromosome 16 which causes a change in the MC1R protein. It is associated with fair skin color, freckles, and sensitivity to ultraviolet light, as the mutated MC1R protein is found in the skin and eyes instead of the darker melanin. Cultural reactions have varied from ridicule to admiration; many common stereotypes exist regarding redheads, and they are often portrayed as the "fiery-tempered redhead".
The Roman Tacitus commented on the "red hair and large limbs of the inhabitants of Caledonia (Scotland)", which he linked with some red haired Gaulish tribes of Germanic and Belgic relation.
Red hair has also been found in Asia, notably among the Tocharians who occupied the northwesternmost province of what is modern-day China. The 2nd millennium BC caucasian Tarim mummies in China were found with red and blonde hair and most likely were of European origin.
Redheads constitute approximately four percent of the European population. Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads, as 13 percent of the population has red hair and approximately 40 percent carries the recessive redhead gene. Ireland has the second highest percentage; as many as 10 percent of the Irish population have red, auburn, or strawberry blond hair. It is thought that up to 46 percent of the Irish population carries the recessive redhead gene. Red hair reaches frequencies of up to 10 percent in Wales. In England, the county of Cornwall, the far north, near the Scottish border, and the counties of Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire also have significant proportions of redheads.
In the United States, anywhere from two to six percent of the population is estimated to have red hair. This would give the U.S. the largest population of redheads in the world, at 6 to 18 million, compared to approximately 650,000 in Scotland and 420,000 in Ireland.
Red or reddish-tinged hair is also found in other European populations particularly in the Nordic and Baltic countries as well as parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia and Southeastern Europe.
The Berber populations of northern Algeria and Morocco have occasional redheads.
In Asia, darker or mixed tinges of red hair can be found sporadically from Northern India, northern Middle East (such as Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Jordan,) and in rare instances in Japan and the South Pacific. Red hair can be found amongst those of Iranian descent, such as the Pashtuns.
In Argentina people with red hair also make up a significant amount of the population, due to British and Irish immigration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The pigment pheomelanin gives red hair its distinctive color. Red hair has far more pheomelanin than other hair colors, but far less of the dark pigment eumelanin.
The genetics of red hair, discovered in 1997, appears to be associated with the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R), which is found on chromosome 16. Red hair is associated with fair skin color due to low concentrations of eumelanin. This lower melanin-concentration has the advantage that a sufficient concentration of important Vitamin D can be produced under low light conditions. However, when the UV-radiation is strong (like in the regions close to the equator) the lower concentration of melanin leads to several medical disadvantages - one of them is the higher rate of skin cancer.
The MC1R recessive variant gene, which gives people red hair and fair skin, is also associated with freckles, though it is not uncommon to see a redhead without freckles. Eighty percent of redheads have an MC1R gene variant, and the prevalence of these alleles is highest in Scotland and Ireland. The alleles that code for red hair occur close to the alleles that impact skin color, so it seems that the phenotypic expression for lighter skin and red hair are interrelated.
Red hair can originate from several different changes on the MC1R-gene. If one of these changes is present on both chromosomes then the respective individual is likely to have red hair. This type of inheritance is described as an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. Even if both parents do not have red hair themselves, both can be carriers for the gene and have a redheaded child. (red hair genetics).
Harding et al. (2000) proposed that red hair was not the result of positive selection but rather occurs due to a lack of negative selection. In Africa, for example, red hair is selected against because high levels of sun would be harmful to fair skin. However, in Northern Europe this does not happen, so redheads come about through genetic drift.
Estimates on the original occurrence of the currently active gene for red hair vary from 20,000 to 100,000 years ago.
A DNA study has concluded that some Neanderthals also had red hair, although the mutation responsible for this differs from that which causes red hair in modern humans.
Red hair is caused by a recessive relatively rare gene, expression of which can skip generations. It is not likely to disappear at any time in the foreseeable future.
Red hair and its relationship to UV sensitivity are of interest to many melanoma researchers. Sunshine can both be good and bad for a person's health and the different alleles on MC1R represent these adaptations. It also has been shown that individuals with pale skin are highly susceptible to a variety of skin cancers such as melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma. Due to this sensitivity many people have advised redheads to wear sunscreen. However it is becoming increasingly apparent that sunscreen protects against sunburn only and not against malignant melanoma; the FDA has proposed changing SPF to refer to "Sunburn Protection Factor" instead of "Sun Protection Factor" (page49089,49079 and 49077)(FDA proposed changes).
Two studies have demonstrated that people with red hair have differential sensitivity to pain compared to people with other hair colors, but they differ as to the direction of the effect. One study found that people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain (a natural low vitamin K level is to blame for this) while another study concluded that redheads are less sensitive to pain from electrical stimuli.
Researchers have found that people with red hair require greater amounts of anesthetic, however this is controversial and other research publications have concluded that women with naturally red hair require less of the painkiller pentazocine than do either women of other hair colors or men of any hair color. A study showed women with red hair had a greater analgesic response to that particular pain medication than men. A follow-up study by the same group showed that men and women with red hair had a greater analgesic response to morphine-6-glucuronide.
In various times and cultures, red hair has been prized, feared, and ridiculed.
During the early stages of modern medicine, red hair was thought to be a sign of a sanguine temperament. In the Indian medicinal practice of Ayurveda, redheads are seen as most likely to have a Pitta temperament.
Another belief is that redheads are highly sexed; for example, Jonathan Swift satirizes redhead stereotypes in part four of Gulliver's Travels, "A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms," when he writes that: "It is observed that the red-haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity." Swift goes on to write that: "...neither was the hair of this brute [a Yahoo] of a red color (which might have been some excuse for an appetite a little irregular) but black as a sloe...
Queen Elizabeth I of England was a redhead, and during the Elizabethan era in England, red hair was fashionable for women. In modern times, red hair is subject to fashion trends; celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Alyson Hannigan, Marcia Cross and Geri Halliwell can boost sales of red hair dye.
Sometimes, red hair darkens as people get older, becoming a more brownish color or losing some of its vividness. This leads some to associate red hair with youthfulness, a quality that is generally considered desirable. In several countries such as India, Iran, and Pakistan, henna is used on hair to give it a bright red appearance.
Many painters have exhibited a fascination with red hair. The color "titian" takes its name from Titian, who often painted women with red hair. Early Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli's famous painting The Birth of Venus depicts the mythological goddess Venus as a redhead. Other painters notable for their redheads include the Pre-Raphaelites, Edmund Leighton, Modigliani, Gustav Klimt.
In the Gothic subculture, red hair is desired, right after Black hair. The reasons are the distinctiveness of red color, its aura of drama and the contrast with black and white.
Montague Summers, in his translation of the Malleus Maleficarum, notes that red hair and green eyes were thought to be the sign of a witch, a werewolf or a vampire during the Middle Ages;
Those whose hair is red, of a certain peculiar shade, are unmistakably vampires. It is significant that in ancient Egypt, as Manetho tells us, human sacrifices were offered at the grave of Osiris, and the victims were red-haired men who were burned, their ashes being scattered far and wide by winnowing-fans. It is held by some authorities that this was done to fertilize the fields and produce a bounteous harvest, red-hair symbolizing the golden wealth of the corn. But these men were called Typhonians, and were representatives not of Osiris but of his evil rival Typhon, whose hair was red.
In modern-day UK, despite (or because of) being one of the places with the highest populations of redheads, the words "ginger" or "ginga" are sometimes derogatorily used to describe red-headed people, with terms such as "gingerphobia" (fear of redheads) or "gingerism" (prejudice against redheads) used by the media. Redheads are also sometimes referred to disparagingly as "carrot tops" and "carrot heads". "Gingerism" has been compared to racism, although this is widely disputed and bodies such as the UK Commission for Racial Equality do not monitor cases of discrimination and hate crimes against redheads.A UK woman recently won an award from a tribunal after being sexually harassed and receiving abuse because of her red hair; a family in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, was forced to move twice after being targeted for abuse and hate crime on account of their red hair; and in 2003, a 20 year old was stabbed in the back for "being ginger.
This prejudice has been satirised on a number of TV shows. The British comedian Catherine Tate (herself a redhead) appeared as a red haired character in a running sketch of her series The Catherine Tate Show. The sketch saw fictional character Sandra Kemp, who was forced to seek solace in a refuge for ginger people because they had been ostracised from society. The British comedy Bo' Selecta! (starring redhead, Leigh Francis) featured a spoof documentary which involved a caricature of red-haired "Simply Red" singer Mick Hucknall presenting a show in which celebrities (played by themselves) dyed their hair red for a day and went about daily life being insulted by people. In real life, Hucknall has commented that derogatory references to his red hair are a form of bigotry.
The pejorative use of the word "ginger", and related discrimination, was used to illustrate a point about racism and prejudice in the "Ginger Kids" episode of South Park.
Films and television programmes often portray school bullies as having red hair; for example, Scut Farkus from A Christmas Story or the O'Doyle family in the movie Billy Madison. However, children with red hair are often themselves targeted by bullies; "Somebody with ginger hair will stand out from the crowd," says anti-bullying expert Louise Burfitt-Dons.
Esau's entire body is supposed to have been covered with red hair. King David is also known for having red hair, based on the description of his physical appearance as "admoni", the Biblical Hebrew word normally interpreted to mean 'ruddy' and/or 'red-haired' (1 Samuel 16-17).
Early artistic representations of Mary Magdalene usually depict her as having long flowing red hair, although a description of her hair color was never mentioned in the Bible, and it is possible the color is an effect caused by pigment degradation in the ancient paint. This tradition is used as a plot device in the book and movie The Da Vinci Code. Thor, of Norse mythology, was generally portrayed as having red hair. Ancient Egyptians associated both red-haired humans and red-colored animals with the god Set, considering them to be favored by the powerful and temperamental deity.
There is a tradition amongst astrologers that the planet Mars ("the red planet") is more likely to be rising above the eastern horizon (on or near the astrological Ascendant, which supposedly influences a person's appearance) at the time of the birth of a red haired person than for the population in general.
The name Rhys may have been derived from the local word for red hair.
Achilles, the central character of Homer's Iliad, is described as having red hair, possibly contributing to the original myths of temperament.
The Sherlock Holmes story "The Red-Headed League" (1891) was a favourite of its author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and included a sub-plot revolving around a pseudo-society restricted to redheads. The 1840 comic play Der Talisman by Johann Nestroy is about prejudice against redheads.
In Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins, redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar. Similarly, in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, green-eyed redheads are said to be the favorite cohorts of The Devil.
In the Harry Potter series, members of the Weasley family all have red hair, as did Lily Potter, Harry Potter's late mother, and Albus Dumbledore (before his hair went white with age). J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, has stated that she is fond of redheads, despite the prejudice she observes they experience in the UK.
The hero of Time Enough For Love, by Robert A. Heinlein, observes that mutant humans with exceptional longevity tend to have "the mark of Gilgamesh", i.e. red hair.
In the DC Comics universe, Jimmy Olsen, Superman's friend and side-kick, is a redhair.
The "Darkness" fantasy series by Harry Turtledove includes Algarve, an aggressive and militaristic nation of red-haired, green-eyed people who consider themselves "racially superior" and who brutally persecute as "racially degenerate" people with blond hair and blue eyes.
Howard Roark, the controversial architect who is the main protagonist of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, is a redhead. This is part of his striking appearance, which throughout the book makes some people like him - and others, hate him - on sight. "He wore evening clothes and they looked well on his tall, thin figure, but it seemed that he did not belong in them; his orange hair seemed preposterous with formal dress" ("The Fountainhead", book 2, Ch. 6.)


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An Arkansas State Police report says Wilson was rear-ended after he braked suddenly for traffic that stopped in front of him. Police say Wilson wasn't cited and no one was injured.
Wilson has averaged 338.8 yards passing per game despite missing a game and a half with a concussion this season. The Razorbacks (2-4) face Kentucky (1-5) on Saturday.
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The Federal Government moved Tuesday , to revive the capital market with the introduction of incentives/measures to bolster the market and check abuses, which triggered the unprecedented meltdown that characterised activities since 2008.
Among the incentives is a 'forbearance' of about N22.6 billion on the margin loans of 84 stock brokers, in accordance with Section 6(5) of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON Act.
Also, stamp duties and VAT on stock market transaction fees are henceforth to be eliminated..
Besides the incentives, strong sanctions await capital market operators, who indulge in bad behaviour that characterised the past as well as excessive borrowing, which led to huge margin loans.
Coordinating Minister for the Economy (CME) and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who briefed journalists in Abuja aloingside the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms. Aruma Oteh, recalled that the capital market has been performing far below its potential in recent years.


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Can this drive be partitioned so that half could be used for time machine backups & the other half be used for external storage (moves/music etc)?
Want to know if this drive (or any drive) is capable of performing the below:
1. Time Machine Backups
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Is this even possible for an external hard drive to do?
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Yes you can use this for Time Machine backups and general storage together. Go to applications/utilities/disk utility and you can partition your G-Drive. I have my partition at 500GB for Time Machine and 1.5TB for general storage.
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Yes, it is possible to make separate partitions on any drive and use one for Time Machine. This is possibly a better way of using one drive for storage and Time Machine, because Time Machine will just keep filling up the drive until it runs out of space, so a separate partition will control its appetite.
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yep when you back it up using time machine you will see a folder with time machine backup written on it if you copy content into a different folder on the drive it will not affect the time machine backup.
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Man who posed as Marine hero sentenced to tend military graves
Reggie L. Buddle of Puyallup, standing in the khaki shirt, during the 2006 opening ceremony for the Washington State Senate.
U.S. Magistrate Kelly Arnold in U.S. District Court in Tacoma on Monday sentenced the counterfeit Vietnam vet to two years' probation and 500 hours laboring at Tahoma National Cemetery for posing as a decorated U.S. Marine captain and military chaplain in 2005 and 2006.
Buddle, who never was in the Marine Corps, pleaded guilty in April to unlawful wearing of U.S. military medals and decorations. That followed an investigation by the inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Want to know a person, place or thing? Go and see.
Sometimes, as the saying goes, seeing is believing. And, so are touching, smelling, hearing and tasting.
You and I take in things differently when we use our senses. Things we might not otherwise take in when we filter and become indirect. When we're first-hand, we're more liable to pick up on the subtle, the nuanced, the energetic and so on.
The Japanese and others inspired by W. Edwards Deming call this genchi genbutsu. Or, to go and see the source, to the place where value is added.
Case in point
I was reminded of this the other day when I saw a picture of Thomas Jefferson's spyglass.
Mr. Jefferson was a technophile. He loved gadgets. His homestead is full of devices (many of his own invention) to make farming, writing, music, architecture, sitting, sleeping, cooking, dining and a bunch of other interests of his easier, more sharable and, well, better.
Despite his love for the high tech, TJ knew that there was no substitute for first-hand observation. Provided he had the time, for example, he would make the journey to the University of Virginia under construction on the other side of Charlottesville, a couple of miles to his west. He knew the importance, as Deming would later teach us, of gemba.
Life, however, didn't always allow him to go and see for himself. That's when The Sage walked outside to where he could get a clear view to the west, put his spyglass to his eye and took a look.
True, if Jefferson had had satellite and computer and digital technology available to him, I'm sure he would have set up a Web cam or IM'ed the construction foreman. It would be better than nothing.
Yet, if filtered technology were the only way he experienced the construction of the Rotunda and its surroundings, imagine how different it would be today. I don't believe he would have been pleased. Neither would we.
So, get up. Go see a client, where they work. Take only a pen and paper (if that) with you. Ask questions. Listen carefully. Afterward, write and send your client a personal note, on paper in your own hand.
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the originals has witches so will be watching
the tomorrow people is the third version of a series i love so will be watching
despite it looking boring and too serious.
roswell meets alien nation and with that great a comparison you would think star crossed would be better than what it is. the actors are awful and cant aliens look more alien? and im just not feeling the trailer but will check out the first episode.
the 100. bunch of humans, not my cup of tea, but watched the trailer and....THAT is how you tease a show. wow what a great trailer, looks very interesting. better than the shows that i've known about and am hoping will do well and be good (though i doubt they will). im putting this up there with once upon a time in wonderland
loved it! it was so obvious Marisol was not a maid. i was suspecting that she was a cop or a relative of flora (perhaps both?) but being the waiter's son through me for a loop especially with the casting choice, i mean can you get any whiter than that kid? that aside so much potential here and this so felt like desperate housewives which is a good thing. great casting, never thought i would see all these ladies on screen at the same time. the times they are a changing and for the better. zoila and marisol's storylines are the ones i'm most fascinated with and cant wait to learn more about their past
oh how i love the last couple of episodes ending with jawdropping moments. half way through the season and it is GLORIOUS
LOVE this show. so excited to be watching a scifi series again since they refuse to do another star trek just because the last one suck but i degress. this episode was only hindered by its time frame causing it to have some slow moments (very few but still there) other than that i really enjoyed it. great cast, writing, the characters and get this network tv, DIVERSITY, ooh shocker! lol alak and his mother are my favs for now, i mean alak is just too hot. and Stahma is like a mix of Cersei Lannister and Regina (once upon a time)so devious and scandalous ooh, i love it! and that ex mayor! what a freaking twist. it was suspect that she was missing but i just thought they killed her off (i mean the lady is carrying around an oxygen tank). and was that weed she was smoking???! lol she is mess and a half. i kinda wish they released two episodes this week but alas got to wait three more days til the next episode
this is the first episode of the season that started out slow and dull so far. until dany appeared i was dozying off, daydreaming. couldnt tell you one thing that was said or done. but once dany came on the show picked up and OH MY GODDESS THAT ENDING!!! i was so shocked! i was like "this is a dream" or im imagining things cause that did not just happen. i applaud jaime for saving brienne but i still dont like the jerk. and no matter what you do game of throne writers i refuse to like him, ok?
only thing missing was daenerys but alast, cant have everything. still a solid episode. starting to like margery a little, though i am very weary of her and what she might do to sansa
@fangirl23 "when Emma said "i have to take Henry to see his grandfather"
i totally imagined Mr. Gold even though it was probably Charming" i thought the same thing. i totally forgot about charming honestly. i was thinking "taking henry to gold? you trust him like that?" p.s.: all the tamara haters step back. we finally got some color on this show, lets just bask in the glory for now. she's a villain and as we all know they never win in the long run, no matter how many minor victories they accumulate
i both liked and hated this episode. before watching this episode i saw this girl on youtube dissing once upon a time saying "its awful but it keeps trying cause it doesnt know its awful yet" and that ringed in my head all night as stupid thing after stupid things happened. the bad/stupid: a taser? really? that is so STUPID. i could give you with the dragon, we could go with the fact that he's old and has a weak heart but pinoc is made of wood, short of chopping him into a bunch of pieces (like they did in Fables the comic, read it people) i dont get how she could stop him let alone kill him with a freaking TASER. come on. just give the chick a gun and lets move on. pinoc as a kid? no no no no no nononono. if the actor had to leave/was fired then just let the man be dead, he would have died redeeming himself it works! but i guess henry needs someone his age to hang with (like that would ever happen).
the good:everything else. ok so i was wrong that tamara is from neverland but i was right about her connection to owen. i knew she was "HER". but when did they meet? why is tamara looking for magic? what did she see that made her believe in magic? i believe in magic cause its awesome and would love to be a sorceress like in the comics but im a comic geek lol doubt that tamara is. i suspect something is up with her grandmother. who is the dragon and where does he come from? does rumple have a possible new protege in tamara? she is deliciously cunning
glad to welcome Eli to the cast. the show needed some color and flavor lol. i hope she (emily) wises up and realize that eli is still the protective brother he always has been before his loyalties switch to the graysons. pushing him away is only going to ruin things for her.
it was cute deckland being jealous but oh so unwarranted. i laughed out loud at that scene. charlotte so didnt get it cause eli never crossed her mind in THAT way and the same goes for Eli. oh kids
i've said a long time ago and ill said it again: tell jack the truth even if its a half truth. they are only making him into an enemy by continuously belittling his intelligence with their lies and secrets (really nolan? a ryan brother saved him? really??!) anyways lets see what happens next
someone's after magic and her name is tamara but why? who is she? by staying in storybrooke for prolonged periods of time make kurt a victim of the spell and therefore not age or is he an even older man then he was 30 years ago. he could have died of old age honestly if regina didnt...get rid of him.
great way to keep us guessing with the name changes. so it wasnt an accident that greg ended up in storybrooke it just took him a while. cant wait to see his connection to tamara and yeah! pinnochio is back (finally, really once writers give the man his due).


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After the bulldozers go through and before the cement is poured, every construction site is a potential mud slide waiting to be washed into the nearest river or stream. Regulations call for soil stabilization with mulch and grass seed.
Richard Klein, of the Clearing Our Waters Campaign, published the results of a survey of construction sites in the Greater Baltimore area ( ES=PReport4thDraft (1).pdf). The survey was conducted to raise awareness and measure compliance (see http://ceds.org/esp.html). The survey found that compliance with regulations was low in all jurisdictions (see Baltimore Sun article, 9/19/14).
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Volunteers traveled in a van to a dozen construction sites within each of Greater Baltimore's six jurisdictions: Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties. Each volunteer answered a few easy questions regarding the quality of soil erosion control on each site visited. (See the survey instructions posted at:http://ceds.org/esp/ES=PSurveyFactsheet.pdf.) Each site was evaluated from adjoining public areas without trespassing onto private property.
Some jurisdictions are achieving a high degree of success in winning contractor compliance with State and local mud-pollution control laws. These laws require that straw mulch and grass be used to stabilize exposed soils from erosive forces. Stabilization reduces off-site mud pollution by 90% to 99% whereas perimeter measures, like black silt fences, retain only a third of the mud on the site. Only stabilization can reduce construction site impacts to a level safeguarding our streams, lakes and tidal waters.
Through this survey, Klein has increased public awareness of the importance of halting mud pollution through stabilization. Similar past efforts have produced a dramatic improvement in compliance. The publicity resulting from the Greater Baltimore survey will also motivate better compliance on the part of contractors and increase support for our erosion and sediment control enforcement agencies. This effort could also serve as a model for improving compliance with other clean water laws exhibiting poor compliance. For further details visit ceds.org/esp.


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27 Effectiveness ratings for conventional methods of delivery of college reported that health and wellness maintenance is only training were highest (mean = 6.8 out of 10). Computer-assisted one small segment of one 4-hour classroom period. instruction received the next highest rating (average = 3.8), Effectiveness ratings were highest for conventional teach- followed by e-learning (mean = 3.0). Not surprisingly, high- ing methods (mean = 7.8 out of 10), followed by e-learning fidelity simulation was rated low in effectiveness for training and computer-assisted instruction (both averaged 4.3) and the drivers in vehicle inspection and maintenance (mean = 2.4). two simulation techniques (both averaged 1.4). Noninteractive simulation was also rated low in effectiveness for this application (mean = 2.4). FITNESS FOR DUTY BUS PASSENGER SAFETY, TRUCK COUPLING Specific techniques used to provide fitness-for-duty training AND CARGO TRAINING to beginning drivers include classroom lecture, workbooks, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) Pocket- Specific techniques used by schools and carriers to pro- book, videos, and testing and logging exercises. One school vide training to beginning drivers in passenger safety and respondent reported that students fill out a log book every day security (for buses) or coupling/uncoupling and cargo loading/ in class, so that once class is completed, they know how to unloading/securement (for trucks) include hands-on practice use the log books and what the laws are. Another school and classroom lecture. One school respondent stated that respondent indicated that students spend many hours work- cargo securement training is minimal. 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Baby tears up by her mom's beautiful singing
My mom used to sing to me every day when I was young. In fact, I think she started doing it while I was still in the womb. It's where my love of music comes from, I'm sure. Hearing her sing made everything better.
Many people can relate, but I've never seen anything like this before. This adorable 10-month-old baby is so overwhelmed with emotion when she hears her mommy singing "My Heart Can't Tell You No," that she can't fight the tears. And neither can I when I watch it myself!
The mom, later identified as Amanda Leroux, uploaded the video to her YouTube page and it's since gone viral.
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August 10, 2006
The Education Department published interim final regulations in the Federal Register Wednesday to carry out changes in the student loan and other programs that were enacted as part of the Higher Education Reconciliation Act that President Bush signed in February.
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The cover of Privatization and Public Universities features a brick campus wall with a "For Sale" sign taped to it. The collection of essays arrives from Indiana University Press at a time that many fear that public universities and their values may indeed be for sale -- as states pull back from their role providing both funds and leadership for public higher education. Two scholars of higher education -- Edward P. St. John of the University of Michigan and Douglas M.
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