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Things I'm Thankful For This Holiday Season
Clean slates
Around the holidays we start to think about saying goodbye to the old year and hello to the new. The New Year ushers in clean slates—an opportunity for us to change, add positive elements to our lives or remove negative energy that surrounds us daily. What if we lived in a country where any type of change was forbidden and you could never wipe the slate clean?
I'm thankful for clean slates
Little things
Unspeakable tragedy lurks all around us; a teen beaten to death in New York, a horrific hate crime in Pennsylvania, the shooting of a priest in a small town. Big things. And then I realize how truly fragile life is. I have a place to live, cars that run, heat and electricity—little things we take for granted.
I'm thankful for little things
Groaning Table
My cupboards are full and so is my refrigerator. During the holidays my table groans with platters of food, laughter of children and smiles from elderly members of our family. Did you know that one out of FOUR children in the US go to bed hungry?
I'm thankful for groaning tables
Sweet Visits
I love that my children still like to hang out with me; they like my company. Tell your children you love them every time you share a sweet visit, hug them, let them know how blessed you are they were sent to journey through life with you.
I am thankful for sweet visits
Meows and Barks
Cats have saved owners from burning buildings, dogs have rescued drowning children. Your pet in most cases will always choose you over anyone else in the world. Your furry friend gives you unconditional love, friendship, and loyalty. Give it back and you'll never be sorry.
I am thankful for meows and barks
The joy of writing
I'm horrible at math, not very good at biology or science either. But someone gave me a gift I'm sure I'm not worthy of. If you open a dictionary and choose a word, 90 percent of the time I can tell you the meaning. One thing I can always count on is the ability to string words together. I'm gonna ride this one out for as long I can and see where it takes me.
I am thankful for the joy of writing
Random acts of kindness
A random act of kindness is a selfless act performed by a person wishing to either assist or cheer up an individual. There will be no reason other than to make people smile or be happy. An oft-cited example of a random act of kindness is stopping to help someone who's out of fuel or has a flat tire. You can't leave your name and you refuse to accept money in exchange for your assistance. You merely stopped to help because help was needed. We shouldn't help people based on merit, but on need.
I am thankful for random acts of kindness
Thousands of our brave soldiers died in the Iraq war and more in Afghanistan. We must realize that giving one's life is the ultimate sacrifice. These heroic men and women have lost everything. This Holiday Season, thank them/pray for them for surrendering all they ever were or could ever hope to be to ensure our freedom.
I am thankful for freedom
Friends and family
I saved the best for last. I've made wonderful friends over the years and have been blessed with the most awesome family. At Christmas and every day of the year I'll remember to be thankful for friends and family. Remember, family and friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there for you.
I am thankful for friends and family
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Blessed Thanksgiving to you and yours,
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The Bachelor
Courtney Robertson Tweets Childhood Photo – Cute Pic of The Day
Courtney Robertson has just upped the ante on cute! The Arizona model makes a living being photogenic — and it's no surprise the camera loved her even when she was just a wee one!
Bachelor Ben's fiancee tweeted this photo of herself and her older sister, Rachel, just hanging out in the grass being adorable. The two are working a pair of flowery pink dresses like only little girls can – because let's face it, childhood is the really only time in a woman's life when white Mary Janes and ruffled ankle socks are acceptable footwear. Simply adorbs!
Source: Twitter
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As part of their ongoing strategy for combine youth with the expertise, the administration implemented the policy of inducting fresh post-graduates of Business, Marketing and Engineering qualification from top universities as Management Trainees via an open testing procedure.
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Events Calendar
July 2015
Martin Luther King Celebration
Friday, Jan 10 - 7:00PM to 8:00PM
Cache Community Connections, the valley's civic and interfaith group, invites everyone to attend the 4th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at the Logan Tabernacle on Friday, January 10, at 7 p.m. This year's celebration will connect the experiences and dreams of Utah's refugee communities to the legacy of Dr. King. Nandeng Alieu, a Dinka refugee woman from South Sudan, local refugees living in Cache Valley, and Katie Jensen of the English Language Center of Cache Valley will be the speakers. Music provided by the Martin Luther King Celebration Choir. Free admission.
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Students Alumni Faculty Staff Public
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Use fresh dill, not dried, to add tangy flavour to this manganese and folate-packed fish dish.
1 539 g can of white beans (or white kidney beans)
3 tbsp mayonnaise or whipped salad dressing cream
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar (or white wine vinegar)
1 tbsp minced oil-packed sundried tomatoes
1 tsp liquid honey
1 tsp milk
1 tsp coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley
1/2 tsp finely chopped fresh dill, or more to taste
1/2 tsp grainy mustard
1/2 stalk celery, thinly sliced
750 g smoked fish such as whitefish or rainbow trout (weight with skin and bone in)
A few paper-thin sliced rings of red or sweet white onion
2 tsp capers
Flat-leaf parsley to garnish
Fresh dill to garnish
Olive oil and black pepper to garnish
Step 1: Drain the can of beans, rinse, and drain again. Set aside.
Step 2: In a large bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, olive oil, vinegar, sundried tomatoes, honey, milk, parsley, dill, mustard and celery. Gently mix in the beans. Chill while continuing with the rest of the recipe. Mixture can be prepared a day ahead and chilled.
Step 3: Pull the skin off the smoked fish and gently remove the meat from the bones. Try to keep the meat in large pieces. Discard the skin and bones. Use the fish immediately or cover and chill up to a day ahead.
Step 4: To serve, place small mounds of the bean mixture on six serving plates. Arrange pieces of smoked fish over the beans. Top the fish with sliced onion and capers. Drizzle lightly with olive oil, sprinkle with black pepper and additional chopped parsley and dill. Serve immediately.
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columnBy Wedson Konge
IN this column today, we take a look at one of the most troublesome expenses in a business set-up -- rentals.
I have used the world troublesome because rentals in a business expense structure are prominent features, especially if the entity does not possess premises of its own.
Rentals if not handled carefully and if not projected with precision become tricky and can be a basis for pushing a business from its rails.
Because rent is one of the prominent expenses on a business expense structure as I have stated, it is the reason most of the businesses who still have this expense give it the importance that it deserves.
A friend of mine once told me that he had no business premises to operate from because he was booted out of his offices for non-payment of rentals.
I had earlier thought that the premises were not alright for the type of business he was carrying out.
When I looked at the volume of sales in relation to the rentals he was paying out, I knew that sooner or later he was going to encounter such a problem especially if the volume of the business was not going to be increased in a short term.
As a business guide, before an entrepreneur looks at premises to rent, he/she should first examine the volume of sales and work out the percentage of rentals in relation to that.
If the percentage is less than 15 per cent, it could be considered as safe but if the percentage is 50 per cent and above, it is not good.
Why go for such rentals!
The other caution is that if the cash flow of your business is problematic, think carefully of renting affordable premises because some clients where you are expecting to collect some cash from may dissapoint you.
As for the friend I earlier alluded to, he went out to rent expensive premises.
Expensive in the sense that the sales volume were not as much as expected to cater for rentals in the ratio we have talked about.
This is just one of the commonest problems most SMEs are facing.
If somebody wants to start renting business premises she/he must ensure there is a good business projection in terms of sales volumes to escape the problems associated with non-payment of rentals.
It is not good for a business outlook to show good indications only to be disturbed because of the unfavourable rentals which could have been avoided in the first place.
Have you not seen when you go round Lusaka town centre people busy moving goods out of their shops or renovating their empty shops?
The problem is that rentals are so high that some of the business owners are failing to pay because their businesses cannot support that.
It is, therefore, important that entrepreneurs try by all means to ensure that the cost that relates to rentals is reduced, thereby decreasing the total operational costs.
Another important fact that ought to be understood on renting of business premises by business owners is that this cost must be ranked among the top priorities in terms of doing business.
Most of the business owners who are careless on this cost have seen themselves thrown out, hence losing out on viable businesses.
A business that is choked by rentals should examine itself, otherwise if the cost of office accommodation becomes an issue to the business, just know that the business would be derailed.
The expenses for rentals are mostly deemed as operational costs and they are equally important, just like workers' salaries.
They are most related to volume sales but they should always be kept below 15 per cent.
That way they would not be substantial enough to worry the business owner in terms of payment.
They should always be affordable to avoid defaulting.
This is because any default may result in eviction which is disastrous to the business.


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Eight Character 5 mm Smart Alphanumeric Display
The HDSP-2534 is ideal for applications where displaying eight or more characters of dot matrix in formation in an aesthetically manner is required. This device is an eight-digit, 5x7 dot matrix, alphanumeric display. The 5.0mm (0.2inch) high charactes are packaged in a 0.300mm (7.62 inch) 30 pin DIP. The on-board CMOS IC has the ability to decode 128 ASCII characters, which are permanently stored in ROM. In addition, 16 programmable symbols may be stored in on-board RAM. Seven brightness levels provide versatility in adjusting the display intensity and power consumption. The HDSP-2534 is designed for standard microprocessor interface techniques. The display and special featurse are accessed through a bidirectional eight-bit data bus.
- XY Stackable
- 128 Character ASCII Decoder
- Programmable Functions
- 16 User Definable Characters
- Multi-Level Dimming and Blanking
- TTL Compatible CMOS IC
- Wave Solderable
- Avionics
- Computer Peripherals
- Industrial Instrumentation
- Medical Equipment
- Portable Data Entry Devices
- Telecommunication Equipment
- Test Equipment
Data Sheets & Technical Specifications
Application Notes
- Application Brief - AB D001 Designing for use 8 alphanumeric LED displays (69 KB,PDF)
- Application Brief - AB D005 Interfacing the HDSP-2XXX LED alphanumeric displays the Intel 8751H microcontroller (294 KB,PDF)
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SAFED NZ helps organisations reduce fuel and maintenance costs, reduce CO2 emissions and improve safety.
SAFED NZ has been developed and implemented by the Ministry of Transport and the NZ Transport Agency. It is also supported by the Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority, Bus and Coach Association, Contractors Federation and Road Transport Forum.
Visit www.safednz.govt.nz to find:
- more information about the SAFED NZ course
- a SAFED NZ instructor in your area
- how to become a SAFED NZ instructor
- case studies from organisations that have implemented SAFED NZ training
- tips and information on how you and your organisation can save fuel and improve the efficiency of your operation
- online calculators to estimate the savings you could achieve from undertaking a SAFED NZ course.
The New Zealand programme has been adapted from a successful scheme in the UK. The SAFED NZ programme has been running in New Zealand since 2010, and has trained more than 2000 drivers with fuel savings averaging 7.37% for trucks and 5.31% for buses.
The benefits of SAFED NZ include:
- increased fuel savings of as much as 10 percent
- lower costs for fleet operators
- reduced reliance on imported fossil fuel
- improved road safety
- increased economic productivity
- improved workforce skills.
To find out more
- Visit the SAFED NZ website (external link)
- Download the SAFED NZ brochure (external link)
- Fuel Savings case studies (external link)
- Contact a local Transport Officer at your closest regional office.


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United Airlines computer systems were down on Tuesday morning (L.A. time), leading to some flight delays and inconvenienced passengers.
When I inquired at about 10 a.m. United said in an email that the problem had been fixed.
"This morning we experienced intermittent issues with our passenger service computer system, causing some flight delays," the airline said in a statement. "With the system now restored, we are working to get our customers to their destinations as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience."
At least one passenger at LAX was taking it pretty well, according to a Tweet.
@united staff are doing a commendable job of getting us and our bags on flights, albeit the #analog way @LAX_Official #LAX #systemdown
— Tanzeel Merchant (@tanzeelio) February 18, 2014
If you get the feeling that this happens a lot, it does. And not just for United. It seems that just about every airline has this problem once or twice a year. Sometimes more.


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By Genevieve Kotz
On a warm Saturday evening, the 79 members of the class of 2014 walked across the grassy lawn of Sag Harbor's Pierson High School to receive their diplomas.
The ceremony began as the graduates—girls in white, boys in black—proceeded down the hill and to their seats as the band played "Pomp and Circumstance."
Hundreds of people filled audience, either sitting in seats reserved for families or sitting on the lawn under the shade of trees.
Salutatorian Marley Holder was the first to address the crowd. She began her speech by noting how her fellow students made her work extremely hard to obtain her position as salutatorian. In her speech, she applauded her classmates' work ethic and character.
"Most of my classmates and I have known each other since kindergarten and being in such a small school, we've gotten to know each other pretty well," she said.
She went on to describe how character, something each member of her graduating class exemplified, is defined by the way one deals with the challenges one faces.
"I want us to face our obstacles with honesty and courage," She said. "I want us to strive for goals we think are far beyond our reach, and I especially want each of us to remember the importance of preserving good character as we achieve these goals."
Valedictorian Cole Severance also had a similar theme in his speech. He began by noting the hard work he and his classmates had put in and the accomplishments they achieved. He advised his classmates to be themselves, comparing life to prom, which he said was one of the most memorable moments from high school.
"The more you let go and be yourself, the happier you will be," Cole said. He noted that the future is difficult to predict and that no one really knows where he or she will be in 10 years.
"If we all continue to be ourselves and to pursue the things that genuinely interest us, we will find our callings and lead fulfilling lives," he said.
Before Cole finished, however, he explained how he wanted to remember graduation forever, before pulling out a smartphone to snap the perfect "selfie" with first his peers and then the audience.
Principal Jeff Nichols then awarded the Principal's Award to Aaron J. Schiavoni, noting that the decision to give the award to Aaron was unanimous among the faculty. Mr. Nichols then handed out a slew of other awards, including community scholarships such as the Lance Corporal Jordan C. Haerter United States Marine Scholarship and the Sag Harbor Fire Department Scholarship.
Following the awards, Kevin O'Connor took the podium to give the 2014 commencement address. Mr. O'Connor, who is the president of the Bridgehampton National Bank, urged the students to be passionate about the decisions they make, noting that the common trait of all the successful people he knows is the passion they have for their craft.
"Passion motivates you, passion makes you work harder, passion inspires others," Mr. O'Connor explained, "Passion makes you successful."
Before concluding, he noted how many people were pessimistic about the future of the country, but he said he believed that this generation has the potential to be the next greatest generation.
"Please go out and seize this opportunity, build on the successes you've had, become the leaders this country needs, have the vision of the success," he said, "and the passion to achieve it."
Following his speech, the students thanked several teachers who had helped them the most throughout their high school careers. The senior members of the chorus then gave a rendition of the song "Keep Holding On."
Before the diplomas were distributed, interim Superintendent Dr. Carl Bonuso gave a few remarks to the class. In his talk, he compared the school to a cathedral, as the center of a community, built by and for the community. The school, he said, will always be there for them.
"What kind of cathedrals will you build? What kind of cathedrals will you be?" He asked the students.
The ceremony concluded with the awarding of diplomas. After singing the alma mater, the students filed down the aisle. In a Pierson tradition, they ran up the hill to the school, throwing their caps in the air before being joined by their families and friends.


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YIELD: Makes about 1 1/2 cups
ACTIVE TIME: 20 min
TOTAL TIME: 40 min
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 400°F. Line a small baking pan with foil.
Roast tomato in pan until tender and skin peels off easily, about 30 minutes.
While tomato is roasting, slit chile open lengthwise and discard stem and seeds, then tear chile into small pieces. Heat oil in an 8- to 10-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat until hot but not smoking, then add chile and cook, stirring, until fragrant and chile turns a brighter red, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Transfer chile with a slotted spoon to a heatproof bowl. Add hazelnuts to skillet along with almonds, bread, garlic, and red pepper flakes and cook, stirring, until bread and garlic are golden, 2 to 3 minutes. Add mixture (including oil) to chile in bowl and cool slightly.
Peel tomato, then coarsely chop and transfer (with juices) to a food processor. Add bread and chile mixture, pimientos, water, vinegar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt and purée until smooth. Thin with water if desired and season with salt.
Cooks' note: Sauce can be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature before serving. *Available at Latino markets, many supermarkets, and kitchenmarket.com.


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Would it be possible to add the following functionality to Binoculars for Arma2-OA (&)or Arma3?
Currently, when you switch to Binoculars you are immediately put into the Binoculars' optics view. If you suddenly need to look around your immediate vicinity when in this view (with TrackIR etc) you have to switch back to your primary weapon first. This very clunky and can be frustrating.
I propose that when you switch to binoculars they behave like a normal weapon. Eg:
1.Switch to Binoculars
2.The Binocular is switched to, but remains "lowered".
3.Pressing the "optics" key brings up the Binoculars and gives you the Binocular view.
4.Pressing "optics" key again lowers the Binoculars and allows you to look around without having to change weapon. Just like any other gun.
Some players might not like having to raise the Binocular after switching to it. So for the first initial switch to Binocular, you could have them come straight to the Binocular view, if the majority prefers this.
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Lyric Theatre Showstoppers! on Saturday, April 5Posted Mar. 27, 2014
Kent State University at Stark will present Lyric Theatre Showstoppers! by The Lyric Theatre Ensemble on Saturday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. in Main Hall Auditorium, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. The concert is free and open to the public; however, tickets are required. Call the Kent State Stark Fine Arts Box Office at 330-244-3262, Monday through Friday, from 1 to 5 p.m. for tickets.
The Lyric Theatre Ensemble, Kent State University at Stark's professional ensemble-in-residence, will perform favorite classics from award-winning composers, such as Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Giuseppe Verdi and more.
Ensemble members Catherine Robison, soprano; Laurel Seeds, soprano; James GraySmith, tenor; Kenneth Kramer, bass; and Kenneth Furlan on piano will theatrically present a full array of selections from Phantom of the Opera, Jekyll & Hyde, L'Elisir d'Amore, Show Boat and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, among others.
For more information, call 330-499-9600. To view a list of Kent State Stark's music events, visit www.stark.kent.edu/music.


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University of Oklahoma Heisman heroes help Red Cross with Oklahoma's blood supply
TULSA - A special blood drive with the American Red Cross kicks off Wednesday.
With blood donations at a 15-year low, three University of Oklahoma Heisman Trophy winners are coming forward to help.
Steve Owens, Billy Sims and Jason White will greet donors at the "Heismans to the Rescue" blood drive at the Tulsa donation center, located at 10151 E. 11th St.
This is the third year the Sooner standouts have partners with the Red Cross for the blood drive.
Donors will receive a commemorative " Heismans to the Rescue" T-shirt and will be automatically entered to win prizes, including a football autographed by the three Heisman winners.
Wednesday's drive begins at 10:30 a.m. An additional kickoff event is Thursday at 7 a.m.
Owens, Sims and White will appear at the drive from noon to 2 p.m.
Make an appointment to donate at 1(800) Red-Cross or visit www.redcrossblood.org .


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Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine with the chemical formula Al2SiO4(F,OH)2. It is the birthstone of the month November. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic group and its crystals are mostly prismatic terminated by pyramidal and other faces, the basal pinacoid often being present. It has an easy and perfect basal cleavage, meaning that gemstones or other fine specimens have to be handled with care to avoid developing cleavage flaws. The fracture is conchoidal to uneven. Topaz has a hardness of 8, a specific gravity of 3.4–3.6, and a vitreous luster. Pure topaz is transparent but is usually tinted by impurities; typical topaz is wine or straw-yellow. They may be made white, gray, green, blue, pink or reddish-yellow and transparent or translucent.
Many modern English translations of the Bible, including the King James Version mention topaz in Exodus 28:17 in reference to a stone in the Hoshen: "And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row." However, since these translations as topaz all derive from the Septuagint translation topazi[os], which as mentioned above referred to a yellow stone that wasn't topaz, probably chrysolite, it should be borne in mind that topaz is not meant here. The masoretic text (the Hebrew on which most modern protestant bible translations of the Old Testament are based) has pitdah as the gem the stone is made from; pitdah is of unknown meaning, though scholars think it is related to an Assyrian word meaning flashed. There is a wide range of views among traditional sources about which tribe of the Israelites the stone refers to.
Yellow topaz is the traditional November birthstone, the symbol of friendship, and the state gemstone for the US State of Utah.
Blue topaz is the Texas state gemstone, often cut with the Lone Star cut - the Texas state gemstone cut showing a star in the heart of the gem.


text: Sometimes it seems like a food or nutrition study that comes out today contradicts one that came out the day before. Consumers are confused about what to believe, and rightly so. But not all science is created equal. Find out how to look beyond the headline-grabbing claims and judge the science for yourself.


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Sukhoi is to launch a business jet version of its Superjet 100 regional aircraft but appears to be backing away from a stretched variant in the near term.
The airframer's civil aircraft division disclosed initial plans for the executive aircraft at the Paris air show but will give further details at the NBAA show in Las Vegas in October.
"We're ready to start work on a business version of the aircraft because the performance characteristics and the size of the cabin make us sure a business version will successfully enter the market," said Sukhoi Civil Aircraft chief Vladimir Prisyazhnyuk.
The aircraft's cabin could include a master bedroom, shower installations, business salon and communications equipment, he added.
Superjet International, which markets the Superjet airliner, estimated demand for the business version at 80 airframes over the next 20 years.
Chief executive Carlo Logli said the baseline price for the jet would be in the region of $50 million.
"We're impressed by the high number of requests from customers, VIP customers, who appreciated the cabin," he added.
United Aircraft chief Mikhail Pogosyan said it was a "good moment" to disclose a further development of the Superjet, and added that the company had "all the required resources" to convert the type into a business jet.
Prisyazhnyuk told Flightglobal that Sukhoi was working on a longer-range version of the Superjet, which would reduce the baseline jet's airframe weight and raise its fuel capacity, to increase the maximum take-off weight to around 49.5t.
But he admitted that, as a result of plans by United Aircraft to create a single airliner offering in each capacity sector, plans for a stretched Superjet were "too premature". The proposed 115- to 120-seat aircraft would remain as a study, he said.
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Download Exclusive Tracks From Joe Russo's Almost Dead
Joe Russo's Almost Dead is wowing crowds all over the country with their unique takes on Grateful Dead classics. Now, you can get an exclusive download of the band putting their spin on the combo of "St. Stephen" > "The Eleven" > "Casey Jones" by clicking here.
Catch JRAD on tour September 19 and 20 at the Concord Music Hall in Chicago as well as stops at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival on October 5, Boulder Theater on October 10 and Denver's Ogden Theatre on October 11. The band will also perform at the Suwannee Hulaween weekend in Live Oak, FL.
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Moderator: electrogear
Ah, I'm glad you have cornered one of SM' memory issues!trogluddite wrote:Fingers crossed, Malc will tell me that my file just got corrupted somewhere down the line - and these arrays really are a bit huge (30sec stereo audio * 8 audio loops) and plentiful (64 smaller automation loops, 8 * delays, reverb), so not a 'typical' schematic.
However, SM has had memory management problems before - so I though it best to post a warning.
rl wrote:This case could be another good reason for a new feature to export/import schematics to/from a human readable format. So at least we could use a text editor as a last resort. It is not rocket science, e.g. have a look at PD (puredata.org).
rl wrote:Does the schematic also crash when using a selector that switches off code parts?
MegaHurtz wrote:It is after all a beta testing yob youre doing
I would have to disagree. If the price for SM was $49USD or perhaps even $99, these are hobbyist prices, so we would expect a part-time programmer who would fix bugs as he can. For $300USD, I expect a professional program that is well tested & consistently fixed by a team of programmers & has staff for the forums/bug submission (eg Ableton Live, Max/MSP).trogluddite wrote:Well, we all need to face the fact that we are ALL beta testers for EVERY single piece of software we ever use. The forces of consumerism mean that version (n+1) of any software always gets released too soon (got to hit the market before your competitors get in there!). The endless stream of updates and bugfixes is the pay-back for our gnawing 'need' for ever shinier toys. OutSim are not alone in that respect!MegaHurtz wrote:It is after all a beta testing yob you're doing
infuzion wrote:I'm 90% certain your bug was reported SIX years ago:
infuzion wrote:I do not want to beta test anymore;
Yes, perhaps WinXP comparison is poor. Max/MSP comparison is spot-on though; given the price points & capabilities.trogluddite wrote:Not sure the comparison with WinXP is very fair though - 1000's of programmers writing software that is guaranteed a market of hundreds of millions vs. one guy making software that will only sell to geeks with a particularly rare DSP fetish!infuzion wrote:I do not want to beta test anymore;
infuzion wrote:I do have some fetishes; not having my VSTs crash on stage in front of 1000s of people,
Happened to MySpace; they built that crap on top of ColdFusion, which is the worst ever web platform for anything that gets more than 500 hits/day. MySpace is more or less an abondoned island now; everyone is on FaceBook or Twitter or G+. Partly because they simply work.trogluddite wrote:It' seems to have got to the point where only a major 'boycott' by consumers could ever change that, but a whole generation is growing up accepting it as normal.
Reaper is $60 or so every 2-3 years; great value IMHO. & You don't even have to pay to use it.trogluddite wrote:I'd certainly be happy to pay more for SM updates if there were some kind of guarantee of more development (or even just de-bugging) effort being put in - that model seems to have worked very well for Reaper.
I kind of feel I don't have the time to learn C++, but I still have ideas to make VSTs... but I want to publish to the biggest market possible, & not use abandon-ware to built it. That is why I joined SM the first place 6 years ago; I was using Buzz which was abandon-ware at that time, & saw there was 2-3 devs on SM.trogluddite wrote:Maybe you have a secret masochistic streak - after all, you are still here in SM land, when you surely have the skills and talent to do the full on C++ thing.
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BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri and former premier Fouad Siniora agreed Monday on the need to maintain stability and protect civil peace increasingly threatened by the reverberations of the conflict in Syria as well as by deep political divisions between rival parties over the turmoil next door. At Berri's invitation, Siniora, head of the Future parliamentary bloc, visited the speaker at his residence in Ain al-Tineh to discuss developments in Lebanon and Syria.
The meeting reflected a warming of ties between Berri and Siniora who lead rival blocs in the Hezbollah-led March 8 alliance and the opposition March 14 coalition respectively.
"The discussion, which included a luncheon, came in the framework of keenness on continued contacts amid the circumstances surrounding Lebanon and the region," according to a statement released by Siniora's media office.
It said that the meeting was designed to serve "the goals of preserving stability and protecting civil peace amid the continued political differences" between the March 8 and March 14 parties over the 18-month-old uprising in Syria.
The meeting was aimed at "boosting the state authority, implementing the law and strengthening the effective presence of official security and political institutions," the statement said.
Meanwhile, Berri and other March 8 politicians voiced support Monday for the Lebanese Army's latest security measures in response to an attack on a military post by the rebel Free Syrian Army near the border with Syria.
"We have said it over and over again ... The Army is a red line. Let it fulfill its tasks, it is just carrying out its responsibilities to the fullest [of its capabilities]," Berri said in separate interviews published by An-Nahar and Ad-Diyar newspapers Monday.
He described those opposing the Army's measures in the northeast near the border with Syria as "discordant voices that want to mar the national role of this institution."
"Such voices will not affect the Army's national role which we fervently support. The Army is above such statements anyway," Berri said.
Berri's remarks came a day after President Michel Sleiman praised the Army's measures on the outskirts of the village of Arsal, about 10 kilometers from the border with Syria, "to protect Lebanese territory and prevent it from being used by any side" following the FSA's attack.
The Army said in a statement Saturday that FSA members attacked a Lebanese military post Friday night near the northern border with Syria. No casualties were reported.
"For the second time in less than a week, a unit from the Free Syrian Army [consisting of] a large number of gunmen entered Lebanese territory overnight via the outskirts of Arsal, where it attacked one of the Lebanese Army's posts," the statement said.
Following the incident, Army reinforcements were dispatched to the area, while soldiers began pursuing the assailants who escaped toward the mountains. The Army vowed "not to allow any party to use Lebanese territory to implicate Lebanon in events in neighboring countries."
"Following the incident with the Army in Arsal, is there anyone objecting to the benefits of the dissociation policy?" Berri asked.
The Lebanese government has adopted a policy to disassociate Lebanon from developments of the 18-month-old uprising in neighboring Syria. However, this policy has come under fire by the opposition March 14 parties which accuse the government of siding with the regime of President Bashar Assad.
Asked about the recent raids carried out by the Army in Beirut's southern suburbs, Berri stressed that the operation was ongoing and signaled that it would expand to include the Bekaa region.
"The Army will keep up its plan, and no one will be able to stop it as it is no longer acceptable to allow gangs to frighten citizens and impede the country's economy," Berri said.
Lebanon, already suffering from the impact of the Syrian crisis along its borders, has witnessed a wave of kidnappings and bank robberies around the country.
The Army has arrested several members of the Meqdad clan during raids on Beirut's southern suburbs earlier this month after the clan kidnapped Syrians and a Turkish businessman to avenge the abduction of a family member Hassan Meqdad in Syria. The Army operation led to the release of all kidnap victims in the southern suburbs.
Meanwhile, Minister of State Marwan Kheireddine condemned the FSA attack on the Lebanese Army in Arsal.
"Insecurity on the Lebanese-Syrian border has become unacceptable regardless of the party that is responsible for it," he said in a statement. "The Lebanese border is a sacred border and its violation amounts to a violation of Lebanese dignity and sovereignty."
Kheireddine urged the government to provide the Army with "a political cover in order to enable it to carry out its extraordinary national duties to safeguard the stability of the Lebanese border and the security of citizens by halting the flow of arms and gunmen from and to Syria under any pretext."
Nabatieh MP Mohammad Raad, head of Hezbollah's bloc in Parliament, called on the Lebanese to support and rally behind the Lebanese Army to help it face security challenges posed by the reverberations of the turmoil in Syria.
"The Army has been playing its national role in preventing the smuggling of arms to Syria in conformity with the disassociation policy adopted by Lebanon on the Syrian crisis," Raad told a rally in the southern village of Yuhmor al-Shakif in Nabatieh. "Our Army is being attacked by gunmen who are smuggling arms."
Raad condemned any attack on the Army and security forces tasked with implementing the government's disassociation policy on the conflict in Syria.
Syria has repeatedly claimed that rebel groups are operating in Lebanon's border towns, and have asked authorities to crack down and prevent the smuggling of arms and gunmen. In line with a Cabinet decision, the Lebanese Army has deployed heavily along the border with Syria and taken necessary measures to prevent smuggling.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- At the Vatican, the Year for Priests is being marked with serious academic conferences and solemn liturgies, leading up to a huge gathering of priests from around the world in June.
Father Jeffrey F. Kirby, 34, a priest of the Diocese of Charleston, S.C., has participated in some of the big Vatican events, but he really marked the Year for Priests by co-authoring a children's book.
"Becoming Father Bob" was written by Father Kirby and Marguerite B. Wirtz, principal of St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic School in Aiken, S.C. The book is illustrated by Alice Judd, a member of the parish, and was released Feb. 1.
Because the book is aimed at children in grades 4-7, the tone obviously is not as ponderous as the Year for Priests' conferences on the theology of the priesthood and on the history, theology and spirituality of celibacy held in Rome in early March.
The fictional Father Bob's vocation story also does not include lightning bolts, strange voices or miraculous signs.
As a boy and as a teen, the character has a puppy and is involved in Boy Scouts. His palms sweat the first time he asks a girl out. He goes to school dances, to university, to parties and to Mass. He gets a job and continues questioning what is life is meant to be.
"Bobby is just living a normal life," Father Kirby said in an interview in Rome. The boy in the story is following basic advice for Christian children: "Just try to be a good kid, don't lie, treat your mom and dad well, don't harass your brothers and sisters, pray, take care of your dog."
"All he was doing was trying to be a good kid and through that he hears God's call," Father Kirby said.
The point, Father Kirby said, is that "normal people are called to the priesthood."
"Most of us, I think, just live day in and day out and most conversions happen slowly and quietly, " he said.
Standing in the sunny garden courtyard of the Casa Santa Maria, a residence for U.S. priests studying in Rome, Father Kirby insisted he's one of those "normal people" and that studying in Rome and attending or serving at papal liturgies was a blessing, not a goal.
"That could almost be a sequel," he said. "When we say 'yes' to God, we don't know where he's going to take us or what he'll ask of us."
"I would never have imagined this for my life and my formation for the priesthood. All I did was say, 'yes,' and here I am," he said.
Father Kirby finished his seminary studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome and was ordained in 2007. His first assignment was at St. Mary Help of Christians parish and school.
But he was sent back to Rome in September to finish his graduate degree in moral theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, so he and Wirtz wrote the book together using e-mails, faxes and phone calls.
Large swatches of Father Bob's story come from the life of Charleston Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone, and the puppy in the book is totally based on the bishop's dog, Mickey.
But Father Kirby said the character also includes bits and pieces of other priests' stories, including his own. In fact, the book's "Father Stan," who is preparing 7th-graders for confirmation and tells them God has "a plan for them, a vocation," is illustrated with a drawing of Father Kirby teaching at St. Mary Help of Christians.
At that point, the book says, "Bobby hoped that God's plan for him included baseball and girls."
Wirtz came up with the idea of writing the book after the school received a grant to buy children's books on vocations for the school library and couldn't find much.
Father Kirby said they plan to write at least two more children's vocations books: one on religious life for women, to be published in February 2011, and then one on "holy matrimony -- I'd like to retrieve that term to underline that it is a sacrament."
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Have you ever taken a look at your team's minor league rosters? The OF is the only position at which your team has any depth.
There's plenty of depth at several positions. Much of our depth is at the low levels of the minors...
I trust SoxProspects:
4 of our top 10 are IF'ers, 4 are SPs, and 2 are OF'ers.
4 of the next 10 are IF'ers, 2 catchers, 3 OF'ers, and 1 SP.
6 of the next 10 are pitchers, 2 are SSs, and 2 are OF'ers
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11 of our top 30 are pitchers.
10 of our op 30 are IF'ers.
7 are OF'ers
2 are Catchers.
I guess the question is, "Have you looked our team's minor league rosters?"
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just because Sox Prospects mentions 7 of the 30 prospects are OF's does not mean that they will play for the Sox.
Did I ever say they will? All you said was th only position we had any depth in the minors was OF. You nevr said ML-ready depth or ML possible depth, although I'll take SoxProspects word that their top players listed have a better chance of making the majors someday than those on the bottom of the list.
They say we have more depth at IF and pitching than OF, and I will think they are probably right. Yes, Kalish and Reddick are probably close to ML ready, but I am certain many players on their list will mke the majors.
We've called up no OF'ers yet.
Look again, Kalish at 50/50 and Reddick as a 4th or 5th OF have a chance. Lin may get some appearences as a 5th OF defensive replacement. Other than that, doesn't look good, unless you feel 23 year old players in kow A ball are on the fast track.
If you are talking ready now, you shoudl have said so. I thougt you were talking about our minor leagues.
As for ML ready, I'd say IF'ers Iglesias and Navarro are ready now and have already seen ML duty. Tejada is a strong prospect and Middlebrooks is rated #5. Ranaudo is only 21, but should make it someday. Doubront already has come up an should be back someday. I think Lavarnway may be up this year or next. Sure, some may fade away, but take a look at the SoxProspects list from 2-3-4 years ago. It's been pretty accurate.
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posted at 5/24/2011 6:49 PM EDTWould like to say RS track record under Theo at developing minor league talent is pretty good. So no matter what the age the RS farm system has talent. Iglesias/Doubront/Renaudo/Middlebrooks/Kalish/Navarro/Tejada /Cecchini all have MLB player potential.
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posted at 5/24/2011 6:54 PM EDTIn Response to Re: Changes in the Red Sox roster today:Other than that, doesn't look good, unless you feel 23 year old players in kow A ball are on the fast track
Posted by rkarpWould you mind clarifying this statement? I have no idea who you're referring to. My first thought was Brentz, but I know you know better than that since he's 22, now in High-A and is in his first full professional season. Alas, I can't find anyone worth mentioning who's in low A at the age of 23 within the Red Sox Org.
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Rabbi Shumley Boteach invited his opponent in a New Jersey congressional race to Shabbat dinner.
Boteach, the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in northern New Jersey's 9th District, made an open invitation to Rep. Bill Pascrell, a Democrat, asking the veteran lawmaker to join in "the weekly Jewish tradition of a Shabbat meal."
"Every Friday night at our Sabbath table my wife and I host all kinds of people," Boteach said in his letter, which was published in The Jewish Press. "We love having guests and it would be my honor for us to host you and your family either this coming Friday night or whenever it may suit you, although sooner would be better than later."
Pascrell's chief of staff, Ben Rich, told The Hill congressional newspaper that his boss "would gladly accept an invitation to Shabbat dinner."
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Professor Rollanda O'Connor understands the significant role reading plays in one's life. Her innovative research in special education programs and how children acquire reading skills is helping to address one of the many challenges faced by today's K-12 educators.
National research confirms that reading is the most important foundational skill for all school-based learning — yet only five percent of children learn to read effortlessly — and 10 to 15 percent of children who have difficulties learning to read will drop out of school and only two percent of these children will complete a four-year college program.
To address the needs of very poor readers, researchers and educators in the 1980s suggested that these readers might benefit from instruction in phonological manipulation skills. O'Connor discovered, however, that the knowledge base did not include information about how children in special education would fare with this type of instruction — that is when she decided to focus her studies on whether and how improving phonological skills might lessen the severity of a reading disability.
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Electro18 posted a tutorial on how to make a portable digital optical tachometer using an Arduino Uno, an instructable here:
A tachometer is a device used to measure the RPM or Revolutions Per Minute of any rotating body. Tachometers can be contact based or non-contact ones. The non-contact or contact-less optical tachometers usually use laser or Infrared beam to monitor the rotation of any body. This is done by calculating time taken for one rotation.
It can measure RPM over 20k
Sensor range extends upto 7~8 cm
Displays Maximum RPM
Measure RPM – DIY portable digital tachometer – [Link]
praveen @ circuitstoday.com writes:
Tachometer is a device used for measuring the number of revolutions of an object in a given interval of time. Usually it is expressed in revolutions per minute or RPM. Earlier tachometers purely mechanical where the revolution is transferred to the tachometer through mechanical coupling (cable or shaft) , the rpm is determined using a gear mechanism and it is displayed on a dial. With the advent of modern electronics, the tachometers have changed a lot. This article is about a contactless digital tachometer using arduino. The speed of the motor can be also controlled using the same circuit. The RPM and all the other informations are displayed on a 16×2 LCD screen. The circuit diagram of the digital tachometer using arduino is shown below.
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Chris @ PyroElectro.com writes:
A tachometer is a useful tool for counting the RPM (rotations per minute) of a wheel or basically anything that spins. The easiest way to build a tachometer is using a transmitter and receiver. When the link between them is broken, you know that something is spinning and can execute some code that calculates the current RPM of whatever is spinning to break the transmitter/receiver link.
In this article we will explore how to use an IR transmitter and receiver break-beam pair similar to the PIC Tachometer project I built a few months ago, but because of popular demand, the Arduino system will be used for all the processing and break-beam interruption counting. The end result will be a 16×2 LCD displaying the RPM of some computer fans.
Arduino Tachometer – [Link]
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I'm really very happy to present this circuit! This is a very special page, and what's special about it is that this circuit is designed NOT by me, but from a PCB Heaven reader, which happens to be also one of my students in my PIC classes. As a matter of fact, he is my first student… Well, ok, he is my only student :). So, this is the very first circuit page that i host in my site which is designed by a PCB Heaven reader. Special thanks to Panagioti Kalogeri, which you will find him trolling around my site with the id _Pike…
This circuit is the result of an exercise that i asked him to make, in order to practice with the Timer modules of the PIC. The PIC will read the tacho output of a PC fan. The rpm is then translated into a number of LEDs turned-on on the bar-graph. The minimum rpm during which only one LED is turned on is 600 rpm, and the maximum is 1200 – which is also the max speed of the fan. Panagiotis was asked to implement the rpm measurement with the Reverse Frequency Measuring as described here.
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quipped with sophisticated Enhanced Capture/Compare/PWM (ECCP) peripheral the Microchip PIC18F14K50 microcontroller could produce up to four PWM channels output. The enhanced PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) mode in ECCP peripheral is capable to drive the full bridge DC Motor circuit directly both in forward or reverse direction. It also could generate single PWM output on the selectable PIC18F14K50 pins when it configured in pulse steering mode. In this tutorial we will take advantage of PIC18F14K50 pulse steering mode to drive the DC Motor and at the same time we will build the RPM (Rotation per Minute) counter to observe the PWM effect on the DC Motor speed and display it on the 2×16 LCD.
PIC18 Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) DC Motor Speed Controller with the RPM Counter Project – [Link]
This is a very basic lesson on how to make a contact-less digital tachometer using infrared light reflection technique. It can measure RPM up to 99960 and the resolution is 60 RPM.
How to make a contact-less digital tachometer using IR-light reflection technique – [Link]
This is a small, off-the-shelf, DIY digital tachometer that uses a photo-interruptor (IR emitter/detector) to keep track of the RPM of anything. It's a simple yet very effective design that I thought you might like. The RPMs of a desktop computer fan are tracked as an example with this system.
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This article shows how to convert a servo into and geared motor.
But, you still want the RPMs of a servo without the hassle of the pulsing control. So, you hack the servo and make it a geared motor. Easy! Here's how…
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The OBDuino is an in-car real-time display of various information, like speed, RPM, instant fuel consumption or average trip fuel consumption as well as others PIDs supported by the car. It reads the data from the car's OBD-II connector, interfacing it via a MC33290 chip to the Arduino which processes the CAN data and outputs to a 2×16 LCD. [via]
OBDuino: car diagnostics with Arduino – [Link]
Tachometer is used to measure the rotational speed of any shaft or disc. The unit of the measurement is rotation per minute or just RPM. This project describes a contact-less tachometer based on PIC16F628A microcontroller. The rotation of a disc is measured through a set of IR module that converts one complete rotation into a pulse. The result is displayed in a multiplexed seven segment display.
Contact-less Tachometer using PIC16F628A Microcontroller – [Link]


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Publishers and verified users have been able to track view counts on organic tweets since last month, but Twitter is looking to make that data more widely accessible. Today, the microblogging social network revealed that this analytics feature is no longer limited to people or companies with a tiny blue check mark on their profile. The tweet activity dashboard is now also available to users who are active primarily in English, Japanese and Spanish, and have had an account for longer than two weeks. And don't worry, support for additional languages is coming — Twitter let it be known that it is working to bring its tool to everyone sometime "soon." So, there it is, now you won't have to wonder if anyone's actually reading those thoughtful (and wonderful) tweets of yours.
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If you are a parent concerned about the time their children spend online or use it to make this, you can use several utilities and tools for parental control website combines the use of the network with the protection of minors.
Most young people spend most of time browse social networks, And in some cases spend many hours engaged in this activity. Another danger of these platforms is that young people can be harassed by unwanted.
To monitor the activity of your children on Facebook can use GoGoStat, A parental control application is also available for iPhone, iPad e iPod touch.
StayFocusd is an option for Parental control consisting of a browser extension Chrome with which you block access to websites or limit the maximum time one can stay on a particular page.
Another option for browser-in this case Internet Explorer- the bar Parental Control Bar. With it you can block access to sites and implement certain various filters to protect children from sites that may have pornography, violence or any other type of content harmful to the child.
For a more rigorous control you can choose WebAllow. This software allows visit those sites that have been previously approved on a list controlled by parents.
All these resources can be useful to keep your kids safe when surfing the internet, which should be completed with adequate information on the virtues and dangers of the network.


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Smartphones are now becoming more and more powerful that they are becoming a threat to the normal computer systems. On the latest smartphones, one can take high quality pictures, get directions, browse internet and many more in addition to the actual purpose of phone – call and talk.
With more and more apps coming, the users are getting addicted to smartphones. Statistics show that a good portion of the consumers use their phone for leisure activity for the majority time.
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Below is an interesting infographic which tells how users spent their time on the smartphones.
This infographic shows the different types of smartphones used by different people. iPhone is one of the top smartphones that is being used for Games, Entertainment, Maps, Social Networking, Music and even Sports. Some users find smartphones as a relevant contribution to their academic progress as the device is handy and can be used anywhere they are. Most iPhone users cannot live without their phones and perceive themselves as optimistic with the future. They don't get upset easily compared with Android and BlackBerry. Urban and suburban dwellers are fond of smartphones compared to rural dwellers. This infographic shows how these smartphones can be a replacement for their cameras, iPod and GPS. Sports-minded individuals can also benefit from smartphone's features like what the record shows during the first 2 days of NCAA 2012. There was an overwhelming increase of 83% in sports consumption and 20% cause traffic during the tournament. These are just some of the reasons why smartphone users are devoted to their devices.
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A deluge soaked much of the D.C. metro area throughout Friday night, causing flash flooding in some areas and wet misery for almost every corner of the region.
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Atlantis and its four astronauts glided through the twilight Thursday and landed in Florida shortly before sunrise, bringing an end to NASA's 30-year shuttle journey with one last, rousing touchdown that drew cheers and tears.
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Casey Anthony trial photos: A frenzy inside and outside the courtroom
The dramatic trial of Casey Anthony came to a close Thursday when she was sentenced to four years in prison for lying to investigators, a day after she was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter. Here's a look at the trial as it happened.
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Holy haboob! A photo gallery of historic dust storms
After a haboob trailed dirt and sand all over Arizona Tuesday, many people were left agape at a weather phenomenon that seemed to have leaped across the seas from the Sahara Desert. But haboobs, or dust storms that are propelled in front of powerful low-pressure systems, have occurred throughout history in the U.S. Here's proof.
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A man angry over speed cameras went into a rage Wednesday and attacked a vehicle with a hammer.
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Dust storm blacks out sun, blankets Phoenix, Ariz.
A massive cloud of dust, called a "haboob" in weather circles, descended on Phoenix late Tuesday night, covering everything in its path with dust and debris. Dust storms are fairly common in the desert during the summer monsoon season.
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A new study in the journal Science suggests that airplanes can induce small amounts of rain and snowfall by punching "holes" in cloud cover. So what exactly do these holes look like, and how are UFOs involved?