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San Francisco sees heightened home prices, increased demand in early 201426 Mar 2014 1:04 PM
Following the substantial growth observed within California housing markets during the final months of 2013, it came of no surprise to many that Golden State home values continued to tick higher throughout the first couple months of 2014. So far this year, a significant amount of real estate transactions have been completed across the state, and sale prices for these properties have risen considerably.
One residential segment in particular - San Francisco - has seen the bulk of recent housing activity, as this upscale metropolitan area is home to some of the country's most successful business leaders, luxurious estates and affluent individuals. If you currently own a home within the City by the Bay, or are planning to acquire one in the coming months, time may be of the essence, as current conditions are largely favorable and could see even more sizable increases in the near future.
San Francisco home prices continue to rise
At the start of the year, the Bay Area's housing market was poised to resume the upward trajectory that had been observed in previous months. During January, the city's sales exhibited notable price increases on both monthly and yearly bases, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. Within its most recent S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, the organization reported that San Francisco's residential sector was once again the site of significant improvement during the recent month, showing an uptick of 0.5 percent from December's level. This marked a year-over-year gain of 23.1 percent and pointed toward the potential for even higher figures to be recorded in subsequent months.
David M. Blitzer, chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, proposed that these recent numbers suggest future increases in the following months, as such significant annual growth is likely to have lasting effects on the housing market.
"Expectations and recent data point to continued home price gains for 2014," Blitzer said. "Although most analysts do not expect the same rapid increases we saw last year, the consensus is for moderating gains. From the bottom in 2012, prices are up 23 percent and the housing market is showing signs of moving forward with more normal price increases."
Not only are home prices up throughout the City by the Bay, but many listings are well above the million-dollar mark - in fact, there are more here than any other high-end housing market nationwide. According to Trulia, single-family properties priced at or above $1,000,000 account for 43.5 percent of the area's residential sector. However, much of these prices can be attributed to homes' locations, various features and quality, as the median size of these manses is just 1,774 square feet.
City's condominium market remains hot through February
Though some individuals prefer to purchase lavish single-family homes in residential neighborhoods outside of the city's center, others choose to buy sophisticated condominiums that afford them all the luxuries of a private residence, but the convenience and cosmopolitan charm of living within a metropolitan area. Due to San Francisco's coastal location, prime weather patterns and high-end offerings, this segment has seen a sizable uptick in activity during past months.
According to a recent report from The Mark Company, a local real estate marketing and sales firm, sale prices for newly built condominiums in the City by the Bay climbed 15 percent year-over-year to an average of $1,027 per square foot during February. Prices for existing condominiums also showed growth, as the average price per square foot for units being resold was $864, up 21 percent on an annual basis.
These developments in buyer demand have served to substantially reduce the amount of available properties that are listed on the local market, the report showed. At the end of February, San Francisco had a condominium inventory supply of just one month.
Statewide housing sector also showing signs of strength
In addition to the City by the Bay, the entire state of California exhibited substantial housing gains in early 2014.
According to the latest Home Price Index report released by CoreLogic, the Golden State's market for upscale single-family homes recently experienced considerable increases both month-over-month and year-over-year. Earlier this year, single-family homes within the West Coast state rose 1 percent from prices logged at the end of 2013, which pointed toward an annual rise of 20.3 percent. This pushed Californian housing markets to within 20.6 percent of the peak amounts recorded during May 2006, adding to the growing sentiment among residents and homeowners that the state is still on the right path toward recovery and the notion that higher sale amounts will be seen in the coming months.
"Home prices continued to march higher in January and we expect to see more increases as the market comes out of hibernation for the spring buying season," said Anand Nallathambi, president and chief executive officer of CoreLogic. "Excluding distressed sales, all 50 states and the District of Columbia showed year-over-year home price appreciation for January."

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The developmental and evolutionary mechanisms behind the emergence of human-specific brain features remain largely unknown. However, the recent ability to compare our genome to that of our closest relative, the chimpanzee, provides new avenues to link genetic and phenotypic changes in the evolution of the human brain. We devised a ranking of regions in the human genome that show significant evolutionary acceleration. Here we report that the most dramatic of these 'human accelerated regions', HAR1, is part of a novel RNA gene (HAR1F) that is expressed specifically in Cajal–Retzius neurons in the developing human neocortex from 7 to 19 gestational weeks, a crucial period for cortical neuron specification and migration. HAR1F is co-expressed with reelin, a product of Cajal–Retzius neurons that is of fundamental importance in specifying the six-layer structure of the human cortex. HAR1 and the other human accelerated regions provide new candidates in the search for uniquely human biology.
Source : http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05113.html
Scientists say they have discovered a gene sequence which appears to play a central role in giving humans their unique brain capacity.
The area, called HAR1, has undergone accelerated evolutionary change in humans and is active during a critical stage in brain development.
The researchers compared genes from humans, chimpanzees and other animals to try to see which set man apart.
The Nature study was led by the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Something caused our brains to evolve to be much larger and have more functions than the brains of other mammals
Dr David Haussler
The researchers say they have yet to determine the precise function of the gene.
But they say the evidence suggests it may play a role in the development of the cerebral cortex – and may help explain the dramatic expansion of this part of the brain during human evolution.
They used a sophisticated computer analysis technique to compare genes from various species and pinpoint those which have undergone accelerated evolutionary changes in humans.
This highlighted the HAR1 region of the human genome.
Specialised nerve cells
The researchers examined this area more closely in the lab to pin down its structure, the tissues in which it is active, and to try to better understand its function.
They found HAR1 was part of two overlapping genes, of which one – HAR1F – was active in special nerve cells called Cajal-Retzius neurons.
These cells appear early in embryonic development and play a critical role in the formation of the layered structure of the human cerebral cortex.
Cajal-Retzius neurons release a protein called reelin that guides the growth of neurons and the formation of connections among them.
HAR1F was found to be active at the same time as the reelin gene.
Lead researcher Dr David Haussler said: "We don't know what it does and we don't know if it interacts with reelin.
"But the evidence is very suggestive that this gene is important in the development of the cerebral cortex and that's exciting because the human cortex is three times as large as it was in our predecessors.
"Something caused our brains to evolve to be much larger and have more functions than the brains of other mammals."
The analysis showed that HAR1 is essentially the same in all mammals except humans. There were just two differences between the versions found in chickens and chimps.
However, there were 18 differences between the chimp version and the one found in humans – which scientists say is an incredible amount of change to take place in a few million years.
The researchers believe the key gene does not control the production of specific proteins as most genes do, but instead plays a role in modifying the function of other genes.
Professor Chris Ponting, of the University of Oxford, said this suggested that the rapid evolution of the human brain might be due to subtle fine-tuning of genetic function.
His colleague, Dr Gerton Lunter, said: "What is really interesting is that this is a special type of gene.
"It seems likely that it changes the way the brain is wired in some way."
Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4797257.stm
From 5 minutes 21 seconds in the History Channel movie above, they also talk about the HAR1


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NEW YORK (AP) — The mayor of New York City will sing "I Love LA" on Jimmy Kimmel Live to settle a Stanley Cup bet.
The Kimmel show says Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih-BLAH'-zee-oh) will also treat a studio audience in Los Angeles to New York City hot dogs on Monday night.
He made the hockey bet with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (gahr-SEHT'-ee).
De Blasio will appear via satellite from Times Square. He'll be joined by New York City's 52nd Street Project student chorus.
Garcetti will be alongside the late night host in his Los Angeles studio.
The LA Kings won the title on home ice with a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers on Friday night.
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LichThrall at about 10:30 pm the storm had mostly passed, though there was still some residual cloud cover and light rain. my husband and i went onto the carport to smoke and we both heard a very steady, low rumble that sounded more like a machine than thunder. i honestly believe i heard the "sky hum" last night.
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i've been aware of the sky hum for a couple of years now and because of that, i've been keeping my ears
edit: here's the video. you can hear the noise best between the sound of traffic @ 0:11 - 0:15, 0:23 - 0:39 and 0:53 - 1:10. wear headphones and crank it up!
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|Mega-trials: is meta-analysis an alternative?
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 8834929 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Large scale placebo-controlled trials with clinical end-points are not possible when other compounds with proven efficacy are already available. Hence, the question arises whether the available experience from placebo-controlled phase III trials can be analysed jointly to assess whether an effect on clinical end-points exists. This question was answered for the new ACE inhibitor ramipril, with which five exercise capacity trials were done in similar patients with heart failure. Meta-analysis showed that ramipril reduced the occurrence of the combined event death or hospitalisation by 32% (P = 0.05), based on the customary 'intention-to-treat' comparison for large scale trials. From this analysis, the lesson has been learnt that a drug development programme must be carefully planned to allow for this type of meta-analysis.
|J Lubsen
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Publication Detail:
|Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal Detail:
|Title: European journal of clinical pharmacology Volume: 49 Suppl 1 ISSN: 0031-6970 ISO Abbreviation: Eur. J. Clin. Pharmacol. Publication Date: 1996
Date Detail:
|Created Date: 1996-12-05 Completed Date: 1996-12-05 Revised Date: 2007-11-15
Medline Journal Info:
|Nlm Unique ID: 1256165 Medline TA: Eur J Clin Pharmacol Country: GERMANY
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|Languages: eng Pagination: S29-33 Citation Subset: IM
|SOCAR Research SA, Givrins, Switzerland.
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Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
therapeutic use*
Heart Failure / drug therapy*
Meta-Analysis as Topic*
Ramipril / therapeutic use*
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|0/Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; 87333-19-5/Ramipril
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The purpose of this guideline is to streamline involvement of water users in the management of drinking water for functional and sus-tainable rural water supply services in Rwanda
This guideline defines the relationship between water users, their communities, local authorities and operators who construct and more importantly manage and maintain the water supply systems. It de-fines the roles and responsibilities of the water users in the manage-ment of installed Infrastructure. The guideline will support all actors involved in rural water supply and sanitation to play their roles better.
The success or failure of any biodigester depends mainly upon the suitability of the design, site for construction and quality of construction works (including quality of construction materials and workmanship involved during construction). This booklet highlights the methods for selecting appropriate size and sites for construction, as well as steps of construction works related to the Modified GGC Model of Biogas Plant -2007, for Rwanda. This manual is prepared to assist the masons to successfully carry out their anticipated roles in constructing quality biodigesters.
Further, the report elaborates on masons' responsibilities. The components of a biogas plant and the installation steps of biogas plants follow, including the selection of the correct size and construction site, the collection of construction materials and appliances, and the proper construction of the plant. The finishing work and users' instructions are then described, followed by a thorough conclusion.
Building of a quality biodigester not only requires good knowledge and skills on the part of the constructor and the mason, but also effective supervision of installation and post-installation activities on behalf of a supervisor. To safeguard the quality, it is important that effective quality control mechanisms are formulated and properly enforced.
In the process of building the capacity of local artisans (especially the masons and supervisors) by teaching them detail technical knowledge and skills on the construction methods and supervisions of the household Biogas Plant, a Training of Trainers (TOT) emerged as a needed component. The participants of this TOT are expected to organise and conduct technical training programs to masons and supervisors in the future.
The overall objective of the TOT is to build capacity within KIST/CITT and ETO Gitarama to conduct quality training courses on construction and supervision of modified GGC model biogas plants and within selected private construction companies to construct and supervise modified GGC model biogas plants in Rwanda, according to the quality standards of the NDBP.
This manual envisages helping the participants in imparting effective technical training programmes and preparing the participants as multi-skilled persons to construct/supervise the construction of biodigester as well as to promote the technology at the grass-roots level.


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At only 20 months old, Miss Avery is the most stylish jet setter out there! After a trip to the Bahamas and California, Avery spent her first Spring break in Palm Beach for some much needed R&R. However, all she did was run and run! She loved feeding the turtles in the lake, putting around the golf course and swimming in the pool. The only way to get her to stand still for this adorable photo, were some M&M's…ahhh, the power of chocolate!
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This Mini's got pizazz! Juliet knows how to put together an outfit, from her boots to her Big Apple Red nail polish (just like her Mommy)! Her Siaomimi cotton dress is the sweetest thing around, but don't let the flowers fool you! Even when the dress comes off, the boots stay on. This Mini means business!


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The first part of this seminar is a survey of several major theories and approaches to jurisprudence in the 20th century, theories such as those of H.L.A. Hart, Lon Fuller, John Rawls, and Ronald Dworkin, plus other related topics. We will then turn to some contemporary issues that bear on jurisprudence in a broader sense: Dworkin's recent attempt to resolve conflicts over human rights and terrorism, religion and the state, and redistributive justice, based on principles of human dignity; and Cass Sunstein's warnings about the dangers of "radical judges" and the legal theories they and other judges follow, comparing and contrasting Fundamentalism (originalism), Perfectionism, Minimalism, and Majoritarianism as competing models for court decisions. Other short readings may be assigned.Credits: 3
Type: SEM
Does this course satisfy the writing requirement? No
Does this course satisfy the skills requirement? No
Enrollment Cap: 20
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Thought we couldn't top 2012 for comic book films? In the coming year, Superman, Tony Stark and Mark Millar's preternaturally profane Kick Ass are all back on the big screen. Plus, there's the comeback of Ryan Gosling (Tumblr rejoice!), Sherlock's Star Trek debut and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's pub crawl to end all pub crawls in The World's End. That's before we even get on to awards season shoe-ins like Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and Martin Scorsese's Wolf Of Wall Street. Make your seat reservations now: here's our most anticipated movies of 2013.


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Fundraising by presidential campaign committees, both Democrat and Republican are significantly behind 2007 levels, which was the last time there was an open race for the Presidency. By the third quarter in 2007 all candidates for president has raised a combined $420 million dollars, $245 million for Democrats and $175 million for Republicans. This year the combined total is $273 million, 35% down from eight years ago (see Table 1).
Small Donors
Super PACs
We all know by now that the presidential campaigns raised early money from mega-donors at an unprecedented clip, with most of the money during the first half of 2015 going into legally independent Super PACs.
Super PACs
With Presidential campaign committee reports now in covering through June 30th we have a better picture of the presidential fundraising landscape. Although the increasingly important Super PACs will not file reports until July 31st, the campaign's reports are an important indicator.
This July the first reports from 2016 presidential campaigns will be filed providing our first look at how candidates have been doing raising early money. As the information for 2015 becomes available, journalists and others my want to gain some perspective by looking at some information from the recent past.
Now available on CFI's website are updated versions of tables covering historical statistics on campaign finance through 2014. These cover activity for full federal election cycles, in some cases dating back to 1974. Newly added this year are duplicate versions in nominal dollars and constant 2014 dollars.
Campaign Spending
Party Spending
The Campaign Finance Institute today is releasing its analysis of President Barack Obama's and Gov. Mitt Romney's fundraising through the two candidates' post-election reports filed December 2012. The analysis strengthens the impression of an election in which the Obama campaign used fundraising as tool for money and mobilization, while for the Romney campaign it was just about money.
Small Donors
President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign began in August to show some of the benefits that come from his long-term strategy of cultivating and mobilizing a massive base of small donors. According to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on September 20, the Obama campaign received almost as much from unitemized donors who gave $200 or less during the month of August ($25.1 million) as Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign raised directly from all donors ($26.9 million. The rest of the Romney campaign's receipts in August came in $39.2 million transferred from his joint fundraising committee and a $20 million loan.)
Small Donors
President Obama and Mitt Romney each raised more money in June than in previous months of 2012, according to detailed reports the campaigns filed with the Federal Election Commission on July 20. Both campaigns also increased the amount they raised from small donors. Romney's success with small donors was new. Obama's still greater success was a continuation of past patterns.
Small Donors
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Independent Expenditures
Mitt Romney's fundraisers had a good fundraising month in May but (contrary to some early press accounts) Barack Obama's did even better. Romney's $23.4 million in receipts doubled his campaign's $11.7 million of the previous month. But Obama's $39.8 million was 70% higher than Romney's
Spokespersons for the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been talking in public about how well their candidates have been doing raising money for the general election campaign. Privately, however, they must know that the fundraising numbers for April showed each of the candidates to have vulnerabilities the campaigns will want to address quickly. In some respects, they have already begun to do so.
Super PACs
Independent Expenditures
With the presidential nomination contests now all but formally settled, the two presumptive nominees each had their best fundraising months of the 2012 election season. The Obama campaign's $32.3 million in primary election receipts was by far the President's best financial haul since 2008. The month's receipts included $7.7 million through his joint fundraising committee with the Democratic National Committee.
Small Donors
Super PACs
The presidential fundraising field showed some deep seated personality differences during February, according to the Campaign Finance Institute's analysis
of the reports that were filed with the Federal election Commission on March 20.
Small Donors
Super PACs
Independent Expenditures
Nine government watchdog organizations today asked Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich, as well as President Barack Obama, to reveal more details about fundraisers for their presidential campaigns who "bundle" contributions in amounts greatly exceeding what they're permitted to contribute on their own.
President Obama and Mitt Romney continued to lead the presidential campaign fundraising field in January 2012, despite a slowdown their fundraising pace. Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul for the first time raised almost as much as Romney, although Romney remained ahead of them in cash on hand.
Small Donors
President Obama campaign committee today released its monthly report to the Federal Election Commission. While there has not yet been time to analyze the report in depth, one important point can be noted from the summary page. The campaign is reporting receipts of $11.9 million during the month of January. This is about one-third the $36 million the campaign reported in January 2008.
President Barack Obama's small donor fundraising in 2011 outpaced all of his Republican opponents combined ($56.7 million to $38.1 million). In fact, Obama's haul from small donors (ones whose contributions aggregated to $200 or less) was more than the $56.3 million that Mitt Romney, the leading GOP fundraiser, received from all donors combined
The important role played so far by Super PACs during the Republican presidential nomination contests has been well documented and widely analyzed. This release will focus on the two leading fundraisers of 2011 – President Barack Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney. The financial fortunes of the other candidates and their related Super PACs are detailed in the tables available below.
Super PACs
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The Republican presidential field has separated into two tiers – perhaps two and a half. Mitt Romney and Rick Perry sit clearly on top, with about $15 million each in cash on hand to take on the early primaries and caucuses. Ron Paul is in a middle range, with $8.3 million in receipts between July 1 and Sept. 30, 2011 and $3.7 million in hand. Then there is a big gap to all of the others.
On September 30, the presidential candidates of 2012 will close their financial books for the third quarter of 2011. Their official reports are not due to be filed at the Federal Election Commission until October 15, but we can be sure there will be a great deal of press coverage of whatever information the candidates choose to make available on September 30.
On Friday July 15, presidential hopefuls filed what for many was their first official campaign finance reports as candidates for the 2012 campaign season. While major story lines were reported quickly in news accounts, the Campaign Finance Institute has delayed reporting until we were able to put the filings through CFI's standardized procedures. This lets us compare the candidates of 2012 not only with each other, but with their predecessors in 2008.
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The digital era has not been kind to the music industry, as evidenced in this year's Grammys, where the visual components readily obscured what little musical merit existed (with the exception of Stevie Wonder, Carole King and Sara Bareilles). They even paraded the celebrated Lang Lang as a diminished avatar of the late Liberace.
I wouldn't be surprised to see him CGI-edited into reruns of "Bay Watch" wearing Pamela Anderson's swimsuit!
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(November 19, 2013) As part of the Texas Department of Transportation's widening project, traffic patterns will be modified at the intersection of Hillcrest Road and Main Street beginning today. Traffic on Hillcrest Road will be switched so that north and southbound traffic will share the west half of the road at the intersection.
Motorists should pay special attention to the new location of stop lines and turn lanes at the intersection and are urged to use caution in the construction zone as people become accustomed to the new traffic patterns.


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PIKEVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) - The Kentucky Board of Education and The Kentucky Department of Education recognized eight school districts across the Commonwealth as 'Districts of Distinction'.
Two of those districts are in our viewing area with Corbin Independent Schools and Pikeville Independent Schools being honored.
Pikeville Superintendent Jerry Green says this achievement happened through hard work and dedication from the students and staff along with support from the community. Green says, "We are fortunate to have a board of education that ensures that excellence is a continuing practice or a habit."
Officials say this is a huge honor to have been selected out of 174 school districts in the state.


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It began when police pulled over another driver at Lakeview and Superior avenues. According to a police report, a van driven by Edward Henderson, 40, of Cleveland, drove by at a close distance, nearly hitting the officers.
Police said they ordered Henderson to pull over, but he ignored their orders and took off, leading them on a high-speed chase.
The department's helicopter was called in to pursue Henderson and recorded video of the arrest. The chief's office won't release the video because of the internal investigation, but two officers, who said they saw the video, said they were appalled at what they saw.
Henderson was injured and had to be hospitalized. It's not clear how he suffered the injuries. Police charged him with assault and failure to obey police orders.
Police sources say internal affairs is not only looking at the alleged beating, but also examining whether other officers stood by and watched.
The Chief's office and the Safety Director declined comment, but confirmed an internal investigation is underway.


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This is a DVD extra that is included on the second disk for "Sergeant
York". It consists of interviews with surviving cast members Joan
Leslie and June Lockhart as well as film historians. In addition, film
clips and clips of various happenings around the country are used.
The first portion of the film is background for the Gary Cooper, the real life Alvin York as well as the production itself. It's full of interesting tidbits. However, the second portion I appreciated more because it put everything in historic context. There were lots of surprises about the reaction to the film when it debuted. I had no idea that still in 1941 there was THAT MUCH public support for isolationism. I knew this was true through the 1930s but had no idea it still was that strong. Additionally, I had no idea that there were Congressional efforts to silence the film. In other words, because of some 'Neutrality Act', they wanted to stop the film makers' First Amendment rights to express opinions that might have seemed pro-war!! Crazy!! Overall a very enjoyable extra. My only reservation is how the film tended to whitewash Gary Cooper a bit. The film described him as being almost exactly like the real life York other than York was quite loquacious. However, Cooper's libido (i.e., his off-screen conquests) are rather legendary and saying he was like the ultra-religious York is a bit ridiculous. A very fine actor...but also a legendary 'player'.
I am used to just fast-forwarding through extras on DVD double-discs,
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This will mean drastic changes to energy production, transport and potentially domestic life as the government seeks to move to low-carbon electricity sources and invest in new technology to reduce energy usage.
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Last week, a £38m wind turbine tower factory was opened in South Wales by bridge-building firm Mabey Bridge, an example of a long-established UK engineering company benefiting from the burgeoning renewables sector.
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Oh dear, once again we hear ministers believe that nuclear could play a key role in keeping the lights on, and meeting our climate change targets.
"Without Hot Air" shows that nuclear power at present provides 2.6kWh per day per person in the UK, whereas we consume 125kWh per day per person in the UK from all sources of energy.
So how can Nuclear's 2.1% of the total energy we use POSSIBLY be called a key role?
When are politicians going to get real about these numbers?
In my industry we are already being challenged to design for lowest embodied carbon.
Making an early switch to low carbon industries may be difficult in the short term and perhaps may need government help but in the medium to longer term this could provide a significant competitive advantage.
If the government puts increasing pressure on companies to reduce carbon emissions are they going to push more of them into the decision to take their business elsewhere. What safeguards are in place to prevent this?
All renewables are highly expensive. Watt-for-watt, Wind Power is 3 times and Solar PV 15 times more expensive than nuclear. Also, Wind Power is only available 34% of the time and Solar PV 25% of the time; for the other 66% and 75% of the time, greenhouse gas emitting Combined Cycle Gas Turbines (CCGTs) are switched on - what's the point?
These crazy Governmental decisions will leech funds away from - the NHS, Education, Law and Order, Defence, etc.. Which services would you choose to degrade, to pay for renewables?
If you're worried about nuclear safety or green forms of energy, you should research sustainable Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRs), which are hundreds of times safer, 300 times more efficient than and half the price of equivalent Light Water Reactors (LWRs), which are the ones selected for the UK's new-build.
Alvin Weinberg invented and patented concepts of the LWR and railed against their use for civil purposes, because of their safety frailties, in terms of loss of coolant and meltdown accidents. He did however, believe that LFTRs would be able to supply all of the energy requirements of every person on the planet (at developed-world standards) forever - from inexhaustible and ubiquitous sources of thorium.
For those who deplore ecosystem destruction and species extinction, relationships are simple: Cost = Labour + Resource Use = Ecosystem Destruction + Species Extinction.
Should it be good news to deliberately engineer the wipe-out of the UK economy by artificially increasing the cost of energy and introducing unreliable windy supplied?
The issue of energy supply needs to be looked at globally. Nearly 50% of the worlds population, 3 billion people, dont have access to the decent energy they need. I see it as an issue of poverty, technology and injustice. Others could see it as a huge business opportunity - an untapped market. If we are to ramp up renewable energy options and markets we need new thinking. There will be a growing and massive base of the pyramid; opportunities for those organisations that are prepared to widen their horizons.
The renewable debate centres on wind, wave, tidal and solar which are portrayed as the only viable non-polluting alternatives to nuclear. Iceland has shown that shallow geothermal is a cost effective and viable technology. Deep hole geothermal is an immature technology with massive potential that is being largely ignored. If the government is serious about changing our energy supply mix, why is geothermal not on the agenda?
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And the nuclear reactors at Fukushima at the moment are available none of the time.
The six Fukushima nuclear reactors have operated reliably enough for 40 years.
They were seriously damaged by a tsunami that damaged or destroyed over 125,000 buildings and would have similarly destroyed any other power plant in that location: coal, oil, gas, solar, wind, wave, tidal, whatever.
If the tsunami had hit a 4.7GWe marine energy installation, the immediate death toll of offshore and dockside workers would have been much higher.
But in cases of destruction of the other forms of the generators that you cite, there would not be thousands of displaced persons, homeless due to the fear of radiation poisoning. Nuclear delivers big, but when things go wrong it gets hit big. As the reporter said on this morning's Today; things are still going badly at Fukushima, it's just that we have grown tired of the story, so they are not being reported. I'll take my chance at being hit on the head from a falling solar panel against the problems coming from nuclear power.
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Mendocino County law enforcement officials have taken a child and more than 100 animals from a woman with a history of collecting more animals than she can manage.
Patrice Elizabeth Phillips, 59, was arrested Tuesday on her rural property south of Ukiah for resisting a peace officer while officials were serving a search warrant at her home, Mendocino County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Poma said.
Poma said Phillips had refused to open the door for deputies serving the warrant on her McNab Ranch Road home, where she kept cows, chickens, sheep, rabbits, dogs and other animals. According to the Secretary of State's Office, Phillips registered her operation under the name Calf and Carrot Farms LLC.
County animal control officials have been dealing with problems at Phillips' property for about a month, said Poma, who oversees the enforcement arm of the department.
Phillips previously had animal-related troubles in Marin County, where she generated nuisance complaints from neighbors in Fairfax for several years before she moved her animals away in 2009, according to Poma and Bay Area news reports. Mendocino County records show she purchased the McNab Ranch Road property in November 2009.
Mendocino County officials initially responded to complaints that, as in Fairfax, Phillips failed to keep her menagerie on her own property, Poma said.
Two weeks ago, county officials seized 10 Great Pyrenees puppies and Phillips was charged with dozens of criminal counts, primarily nuisance-related, according to the District Attorney's Office.
She's now expected to be charged with multiple animal cruelty and neglect charges for failing to provide adequate water, food and facilities to the animals, Poma said.
County officials said Phillips' animals were kept in unclean conditions, were out of water and they were forced to compete for the food put out for them on three barren, fenced acres, Poma said.
Some were well fed and others underfed, he said. Many were dehydrated.


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This kind of cheerful nihilism—flat-souled Nietzscheism—is chilling and suggests how little Boyle seems to care about anything that he can't chew down into story fodder. His narrator genuflects toward the sadness of it all ("I was devastated, and the thought of the radical transformation of everything I'd ever known gnawed at me day and night"), but who can believe that when it's clear he really digs the new dispensation, which lets him browse through empty stores to pick up bottles of Dom Perignon, tool around in abandoned Rolls Royces, and hook up with the female survivors drifting about? The story, in fact, dwindles to nothing more than an ingenious, "entertaining" romantic triangle that, in the end, doesn't require the apocalyptic setting at all. So, you think, Boyle killed off six billion people for this? Hey, anything for a story. Who knows: maybe Boyle had just rented the video of The Omega Man and got inspired.
Everything about Boyle's work suggests the smooth technique and high flourish of the goateed, shiny-manicured magician, but the wonder he inspires is self-directed—wow, Boyle sure pulled that off, didn't he? He's a fop, finally, his work imploding in narcissistic self-regard, convinced that the only thing that really matters is pulling the next rabbit out of the next hat. But his greatest trick may have been to make the promise of his own extraordinary talent disappear into thin air. Voila.
After the Plague and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle; Viking, 2001. Hardcover, 303 pages, $25.95.
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The innkeepers at Pinehurst Inn are dedicated to sourcing the best local and organic ingredients for the breakfasts whenever possible. Bayfield orchards and area farms provide wonderful opportunity to "buy local." Fresh organic, free-range eggs are delivered weekly to our door. Coffee roasted right in Bayfield is freshly ground each morning. Fresh vegetables or herbs grown in the Pinehurst gardens often make their way into our breakfasts. The breakfast preparation is yet one more example of our sustainable approach to business.
Pinehurst Inn's breakfasts are served in the Main House for all guests, serving from 8:00 – 9:30am. Early "lighter fare" breakfasts are offered for those leaving early for a day of kayaking or dog sledding. The coffee is brewing early, and set out for guest enjoyment in both the Main House and Garden House from 7:00am through breakfast.
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Pirates in the playoffs is hot commodity for North Shore businesses
Minus the lopsided score and untimely downpour, this was how it was always supposed to be.
Twelve years since PNC Park opened, North Shore businesses say they finally are realizing what they always suspected: Winning baseball is good for business.
"I've worked AFC Championship games, All-Star games, and I've never seen anything like this," said Harrison Spyke, manager at North Shore Saloon on Federal Street. "It's just insane. We're all saying the same thing over here. Every place is just trying not to run out of everything."
Many North Shore businesses reported record or near-record profits on Tuesday night when the Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds, 6-2, in the Wild Card playoff game.
They got another windfall on Thursday when the Pirates threw a block party on Federal Street and showed Game One of the National League Division Series against the St. Louis Cardinals on a big screen. Hundreds of fans showed up.
The Pirates lost 9-1 in a game that was over early. A thunderstorm scattered the remaining fans when it rolled through around 7:30 p.m.
Yet, North Shore business owners remained giddy. After years of losing and irrelevance, 2013 is unchartered ground.
Jonathan Erhart, manager of Soho Restaurant, said he tried to figure out in advance of Tuesday's game how many beers the bar would sell that night. He badly underestimated. Before the first pitch, he had to send a van to the beer distributorship on Federal Street and buy an additional 30 cases.
"And by the time the game was over, we were nearly out of that, too," Erhart said. "If they keep this up, we're going to have to hire more staff. We're already trying to figure out if maybe we can start selling outside, because the bar inside is just packed."
Across the street at The Pittsburgh Fan sports souvenir shop, Pirates merchandise is flying off the racks, said manager Michael Romano.
"Oh, my God, let's put it this way: I'm taking all my Steeler stuff down. It's all Pirates," he said. "We've been through Super Bowls, we've been through Stanley Cups — I've never seen anything like this. This is what we've all been waiting for."
Fans arrived early, in some cases setting up chairs in front of the 15-by-20-foot projection screen more than four hours before game time.
"St. Louis has home field, but the Pirates will know we're out here," said John Rozell, 24, of Crafton.
"Everybody's been waiting for this for 20 years," his brother, Mike, 26, said.
Christine Serkoch, Pirates' special events coordinator, said the club wanted to give fans a similar atmosphere as they experienced on Tuesday. She said a team of Pirates employees pitched in, including workers who collected garbage in 15 large bins, then wheeled it inside the stadium to sort for recyclables.
Team officials were trying to determine whether they would set up the big screen for Friday's game, which is scheduled to start at 1 p.m., she said.
If they do, businesses will be ready.
"It's awesome when the Steelers are doing great, but that's just eight home games a year without the playoffs," Erhart said. "On one (Pirates') home stand this year, we had 11 games in a row. And next year, the excitement is going to be there again. This is huge."
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World's First Flash Based MPC Player
World's First Flash Based MPC Player
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ARMv4 MPC Decoder developer
Group: Developer
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From: Fuzhou Fujian
Member No.: 406
Our new design Flash Base Player will release June or July in China.
1.Play mp3,wma,mpc,ogg vorbis(limited)
2.32 bit ARM decoder + good DAC, 100db SNR
3.5 band EQ
4.USB Mass Storage
5.FM 76-108MHz
6.Voice and FM recorder
7.LRC or lyrics3 v2
8.Text reader
9.Multi Task
1.directory play and custom playlist
2.mpc and ogg vorbis seek
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Well, I wouldn't like to disappoint all of you, but this news was posted on June the 10th, 2 months ago.
Given that I can read Chinese, here's what it says. Apparently, its a successor to the N128 model, manufactured by the company MSC. MSC's website ( after some googling ) can be found here. ( Warning - All chinese! ).
No where does it mention any support of Vorbis / MPC - if so, it really isn't a selling point. Also, sadly to say, the product catalog webpage for MSC doesn't list the N128+. It lists its predecessor, the N128 however....
A brief gooling for the MSC N128+ also turns up this thread, one which seems to be asking for MSC customer's opinions on features that should be added. There doesn't seem to be any site selling it as of now, however, towards the end of the thread, there appears to be a response from an MSC representative stating the ideas/suggestions in the thread will be taken into consideration. That last post seemed to have been dated 2003-7-28.
Hope that was of use to those who are interested in the product!
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Time Bandit
Harry Blake had had a plan, a master plan. Spent hours casing the joint. Pawed over his scheme in fine detail. The movement of staff, camera points. Tools to break in and ways to escape. Everything was set in place. Getting in and get away. Timed to perfection. He had lifted a stopwatch from the jewellery store three weeks before, the same place that he was going to hit. And with the watch he had meticulously paced every step, picked every lock and turned every latch. Ninja black suit and balaclava he felt every inch the international jewel thief. Alibi set, Harry had been ready. He had done an Italian Job an Ocean's Eleven, when it came to detailed planning Harry was a confident man. As he had left to head for the shop Harry truly believed the success of the heist was a fore gone conclusion. Timing was the essence of success and time he had off to a 'T'. If there was one thing Harry understood it was the importance of time!
Even when the Old Bill* has pulled up, lights whooping and flashing Harry had checked his stopwatch and half denied the fact the police had arrived so soon. With all his attention to time he could not fathom what had gone wrong. Harry knew exactly how long it took to walk from A to B before blocking a camera and moving on to C, It was exactly fifty seconds to jemmy the door and twelve and a half to cross the back storeroom floor. The length of time to commit the crime was of absolute importance, it was paramount to success. Harry had driven the distance from the station to the Jewellers twenty times. He knew that the fastest it could be done was in Thirteen minutes and ten seconds. That was a bone fide certainty, an absolute minimum. Harry had blown the safe in five seconds less than his best trial run. He had scooped all the trays and boxes into his bag, not slowing for a second to gloat at what he had. He was at the driver's door of the car he had borrowed for the occasion when the police had turned into the road. A quick glance at the watch confirmed eleven minutes, seven and one eight of a second gone. By his calculations Harry new he had been ahead of himself. He had had time on his side. Time to spare. He had wondered how on earth did the police get there so quickly? It wasn't till later back at the station when Sargent McGregor had with some glee, has told Harry that the stopwatch he has so cleverly lifted was a fault one returned to the jewellers for repair. Harry had been obsessed with time; it was an ultimate irony that time had betrayed him. His one mistake was to take the time of the drive, station to shop, from the dashboard clock not the slow watch.
*English name for the police, after William Peel, who founded the Metropolitan police in London. Another name used for the police are the Peelers
Harry's obsession with time had a deep and painful relevance to him. From the time of his arrest to the time he was sent down, it was forty eight days, fourteen hours and thirty two minutes exactly. Five years the judge had said as the gabble went down. Five years of getting out of your pit at 6am. Five years of completing your ablutions by seven. Five years of Breakfast 7.45am sharp, lunch at 12.30pm and dinner at its allotted time. The time as dictated by measurement was set in stone; he had no control over this, when to eat and when to sleep. When to stay silent and when to speak. Harry could not help himself; he timed everything, how long it took to walk from one side of the cell door to the bars on the window, how long it took to take a dump, how long it took for his cell mate to speak for the first time. Harry was in prison, incarcerated by time. Five years, one thousand, eight hundred and twenty six days, five hours and four minutes. Eight thousand, seven hundred and sixty five hours and four minutes. Over half a million minutes. Harry knew it all; at first it was all he thought about. Doing time!
After a while Harry adjusted to his regimented world, not orchestrated by him, but by prison rules and timetables. He discovered a silent pleasure whilst mopping the floors. Harry mopped like a clock a dip of the mop five seconds long, a further five for the squeeze, flowed by ten swishes left to right, right to left, a second each half movement. Like clockwork he mopped two sets of dunks, squeezes and swishes per minute. So automated the action was, Harry begin to think and wonder above his counting.
He mused as thus: Take away the clock and time is open ended. He knew when time began, when he came into conscious existence. What he could never know is when it will end. Five years of his life they had removed. At least that is how it was meant to be. The punishment for crime being the removal of time. He thought about the justness of this. They had given him five years, he might live till a hundred, or until he was fifty. The shorter the life the harsher the punishment. With this revelation Harry found that he was adjusting his thinking on time. If he did not relate it to the measurement of time, then how could he gauge it? As Harry swung the mop from left to right and back again, second on second, pendulum like. Barely aware of time passing a profound realization struck him. He had been mopping for nigh on an hour, but with his mind arrested in deep thought the hour had felt like a mere moment. Time is not measured by the clock. A stopwatch slow or fast is of no consequence to the reality of time. Time speeds up and slows down dependent of how you used it. There mopping floors in prison he was not doing time, he was using time. The time that was taken was time given too. He chuckled to himself as he spent time mopping. Spending time, saving time, making time, losing time. It was all down to perspective. Time is a reflection of an emotional state. Time well used is quick time the best time, positive time. Slow time, grinds and pulls into black moods. A man has a choice of how he spends the time he is allotted. Quick or slow time the clock time is the same. True time is measured in highs and lows. The quest was to sustain the highs and diminish the lows.
So for the remainder of the one thousand, eight hundred and twenty six days, five hours and four minutes that Harry had been diverted from the course he had imagined, Harry embraced the time he owned. Immersed himself in scholarly pursuits, reading, writing and debating. Harry recorded his past, made tales of his life good and bad. Time taken from him was now time given which he did not waste idly or resentfully. No, Harry was a wiser man now.
On leaving prison Harry looked up at the sun arching above, nibbling at the day. Harry had a new master plan. He would be the perpetrator of the most daring of crimes; he was going to help himself to a most valuable of commodities. Harry Blake was going to steal time. His target would be the tired and the young. At least to begin with they would be his quarry. I guess you may be gasping at the audacity of the man? But I can tell you he is sat down right now his dastardly scheme in full flow, telling a tale about a man and a crime, about a man and time, embellished and exaggerated and made magical, crafted in word by his hand, acted and put in to rhyme for a captivating time. A group of spell bound kids who had had 'nothing to do' hanging on every one of his words and every theatrical move. What they will not see is Harry stealing their time. And when he stops telling the story the children will have not cottoned on where the time has gone, but Harry Knows, he will have squirrelled it away and slip to the time needy unnoticed by them as they put their feet up an sip on their coffee.
Harry will smile in smug satisfaction to himself undetected again, as he commits the perfect crime.
Harry Blake the greatest Time Bandit alive! So if you're sat twiddling your thumbs, if your favourite saying is 'I have nothing to do', if you utter the words 'I'm bored' then you better watch out. Harry will sneak up on you and whisk time from under your nose and give it away to those who are inclined to sigh when they have run out of time, when the task is left nearly done but they have had to run.
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"Luxury challenge", this is how I feel of this game: Splice:Tree of Life. Produced by Cipher Prime, it's an experimental and artistic puzzle game which can surely make puzzle fiends excited.
As the name states, Splice is a puzzle game about the microbial world. On every level(or strand), there are several cells requiring you to rearrange into a target structure in several moves. A limited number of moves are available, encouraging plenty of experimentation and determining just how everything works. To make it more complicated, the cells react in certain ways to each other with mutation possible, which requires the ability to visualize sequential series of shapes over time. With a simple UI, there is not adequate notice information. Even you go to the help menu, the info offered is blur which makes me doubt whether it helps. So errors and Trial is the only way to push forward.
Do not feel good if you pass the early stages. The coming stages with more kinds of cells and new characters get the thing more challenging. It requires more preciseness on predicting how the sequential series changes in one move. Plus, the limit of number of moves surely adds the difficulty.
The Splice features unique UI and impressive music style. The background resembles the real scene under the microscope. The ultra simple menu style may make you uncomfortable at first. But once you adapt to it, you will love it. So does the piano background music. You will like its artistic style.
Kindly note this game is only available for iPad and has no skip button, which means you have to face the risk to get thoroughly stuck on a particular level. This game is designed for ones who love to experiment and puzzles. Actually it 's the same style with SpaceChem, guys who like it should also try splice.


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I have a little story to tell about the home I grew up in as a child. I was born to 2 very good people. Very mormon people, it's worth mentioning. My mother, in fact, is not just mormon, but has a mind and heart that is kind of stuck in the victorian era. She is a tad fanatical about modesty, champions repressed sexuality, and just looooooooves the 'establishment'. I think she should marry it. I digress.
My parents still live in the same house they moved into when they got married. I'd like to introduce you to the bathroom – specifically, the bath tub area, in which I spent time every day of my upbringing…. naked, wet, and alone with my thoughts…
More on that in a second. Let's first take a look at the bath tub area:
Here we have an antique porcelain claw foot bath tub. On the walls that the tub faces, we have some wall paper that is worth examining a bit closer… (It's worth noting that this wall paper has been on that wall for all 34.5 years of my life. )
Here are some detail shots:
Hmmm… let's see. Here we have a man playing the piano, with 2 very sexy ladies standing there, adoring his musical talents. A musician getting chicks… veeeeeery interesting.
To the right, we have a scupture of a nude female. Naked women = art. Another noteworthy lesson. Moving along…
On the left, We have what appears to be a barber shop trio. Where is the 4th man? It's supposed to be a quartet, is it not? I'm sure he's off with one of the barber shop groupies, having relations behind the bar. To the right, we have a painting of a show girl on a swing, furthering the notion that pretty girls are valuable decorations in a naked, wet man's life. What else is a hot girl on a swing good for, anyway?
This may be my favorite set of frames in the montage. On the right, we have the trusty bar tender. He's a man of solid build and solid character. You can, and have, told him all your troubles. He knows exactly what elixir to serve you on any given day, and any given mood. As you can see in the paintings behind him, he, too, appreciates the finer points of feminine beauty.
To the left, we have a lovely portrayal of a naked woman. She's strategically covered up by a sheet. Now that I'm a more experienced man, I recognize this as a classic post-sex semi-covered up pose. As a young boy, I simply marveled at the mystery of this naked lady in waiting. Who is she? What pleasures is she about to experience? What shape are her breasts, that the artist has deftly left to my imagination to decide?
One does not need to understand Pavlovian conditioning to be affected by it. Naked women – musicians – booze – sexily dressed women. All there for my daily contemplation as a naked, wet, curious young boy, beginning from the time I was a baby.
Is it any wonder that I've turned out the way I am?
Thanks mom!


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