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Twitter's Political Engagement Map. Each candidates tweets are represented by a bar. The size of the bar indicates the level of engagement (retweets, responses, favorites) with the tweet.
With the election looming on Tuesday, the polls are coming fast and furious. Something we learned from Nate Silver a few weeks back: Social media and the Internet is playing a larger roll in polling all the time, partly because so many of us are dropping our regular phone lines and using only cell phones in our households, and partly because online is just where we spend our time now. Twitter, which earlier this year rolled out the Twindex, is hoping to use some of its giant amounts of data to give us an interesting look at how candidates' tweets are playing around the country. It's called the Political Engagement Map, and it shows you how users are interacting with certain tweets on certain topics, state by state. At this point, a curiosity, but I'd be interested to see some of the comparisons of candidates' tweets after the election. There might be some interesting parallels when we know the winner.


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The rand had hardly moved in late trade on Wednesday in the absence of fresh news to drive market sentiment.
At 4.05pm the rand was bid at R8.1808 to the dollar from Tuesday's close of R8.1618. It was bid at R10.0930 to the euro from its previous close of R10.1160 and at R12.7875 against sterling from R12.7452 before.
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RMB analysts said in a note that the eurozone stresses remained acute and were likely to keep the rand weak and volatile over the next few months.
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"All of the flavors that we use in our gelato are completely natural, and they're sourced within a five kilometer radius of where we're standing." Her posh British accent turned mischievous as Anne Zwack added another scoop to the already precariously stacked cup. "You simply must try the hazelnut chocolate gianduja," as yet another scoop topped the leaning tower of ice cream.
Caffé della Posta is the bustling nerve center of the small village of Bolgheri, and Anne and Peter Zwack are the neurons that sparked it back to life. Once an abandoned and shuttered post office, the café has become the spot where visitors and locals alike -- some on horseback -- stop in for their daily espresso, light lunch, gossip, newspapers and, of course, delicious homemade gelato.
Bolgheri should really be called Super Tuscany: It is, after all, home to the Super Tuscans (which are made with international grape varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah) and unlike its better-known neighbor to the east, where the only red wine you are likely to find is Sangiovese, Bolgheri is a five-minute drive away from the beaches of the Mediterranean. Two of the best-known Super Tuscans are Ornellaia and Sassicaia. Tenuta San Guido, the home of Sassicaia, guards the entrance to the Via Bolgherese, also known locally as the Cypress Avenue for the stately trees which guide visitors to the ancient town gates. Tenuta Dell'Ornellaia is a short distance away from this famed road, and most discussions of Super Tuscans begin and end with these two well-known names.
Still under the same sun but a bit to the west, we recently shared a gorgeously renovated but charmingly rustic villa in the "other Tuscany" with our friends Chris and Latice. Known to lovers of fine Italian wine, the coastal region of the Maremma is studded with amazing wineries. Normally, Tuscany is overrun with tourists in the summer, and some of them do venture towards the sea, but now that September is upon us, the restaurants, wine bars, wineries and winding roads of D.O.C. Bolgheri will belong only to you and to small trucks bringing grapes from vineyard to winery. If you're the kind of person who can't relax on vacation unless you soak up some culture, you can rest easy knowing that the treasures of Florence are a 90 minute drive away.
The high stone medieval walls of this tiny village contain many treasures of their own, such as Entoteca Tognoni, where you can pass an entire afternoon sampling a few glasses of the local wines served with an overfilled board of local salami and prosciutto. In this case, "local wines" translates as the aforementioned Ornellaia and Sassicaia, along with other standouts such as Folonari's Campo al Mare, Antinori's Solaia and Tenuta Argentieri's Bolgheri Superiore -- whose name pretty much sums up residents feelings about the place.
Plan to eat dinner in town at least two nights, as you will be hard pressed to choose between Restaurant Osvaldo, where we enjoyed delicate spiedini alla rosmarino that we are still raving about, and neighboring Osteria Magona. The chefs here buy their meat from Dario Cecchini, the famed Tuscan butcher who recites Dante while working, and locals swear that you can actually taste his poetry in the meat. Although this and every restaurant in town has a sensational winelist, Cinzia Merli, the owner of Le Macchiole, was right when she told us to bring along the extra open bottles of her Messorio and Scrio to enjoy alongside our bistecca.
Be sure to save time -- and room -- for lunch at Osteria San Guido, where fresh pappardelle with wild boar ragu is a delight to the taste buds, and slices of grilled porterhouse with just a sprinkling of sea salt are a carnivore's dream. Whatever your budget, Tenuta San Guido has a perfect wine for you, from the entry level Le Difese, the midrange Guidalberto and the top end Sassicaia, which we enjoyed so much with our porterhouse that we made room in our luggage to squeeze in a few bottles of the 2009 to savor for years to come.
One of the joys of traveling through Italy is the availability of rental villas, and if you're lucky you can wrangle a few like-minded friends to go in on one. Besides dining in high end restaurants set in centuries-old stone buildings, you can enjoy the bounty of local vegetable stalls, butchers, fish markets and wine shops and enjoy communal meals together at home. Load a couple of your favorite cookbooks and cooking magazines onto your iPad before you go, or get your inspiration while shopping and search for recipes on the fly.
When you're ready to relax on the beach, head for La Pineta, named for the vast pine forest that stops at the sand's edge. If you need to burn off some of those excess carbs, grab a bicycle and get there under your own power -- there's hardly anybody else on the road anyway, and these world-class vineyards are best appreciated as you glide along through gently rolling hills somewhere between Super Tuscany and the post-summer Mediterranean.
The Via Bolgherese, or Cypress Avenue, leads to the tiny village with a big reputation for wine.
Culinary and vinuous treasures wait within the turreted walls of Bolgheri.
Sip an espresso, enjoy house-made gelato, and catch up on local gossip on the welcoming terrace of Caffe Della Posta.
A light lunch of fresh tomato, basil, and buffalo mozzarella will keep your palate fresh for wine tasting.
Location, location, location...the world's finest wines are made from grapes with a sea view.
Classic Tuscan architecture houses the state of the art winery at Tenuta San Guido.
"Happily Ever After," an outdoor art installation on the beautiful grounds at Tenuta dell Ornellaia.
Axel Heinz, winemaker at Ornellaia, samples from a barrel using a "wine thief."
By the bottle or the glass, Enoteca Tognoni offers a wide range of Super Tuscans and other Italian wine.
Delicate spiedini alla rosmarino with tomato terrine will delight your taste buds at Ristorante Osvaldo.
The owner of Le Macchiole, Cinzia Merli, proudly presents her exquisite lineup of wines.
Save some room in your stomach for a delectable three course lunch, and some room in your luggage for a few bottles of Sassicaia on the way out!
Beautifully manicured vineyards of D.O.C. Bolgheri.
Stop at the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, cook a dinner you and your friends will always remember, and eat under the stars at your rented villa.
No interest in pedaling under your own power? Rent a Vespa and arrive in style!
Even under stormy skies, there's no denying the beauty of the beach at La Pineta.
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Anyone ever used a tarp (homemade or not) as a sunshade on a supported tour? I am borrowing my brother's Noah's Tarp 12 for GRABWAAR in Wisconsin in two weeks and am looking for ideas. (He's still trying to locate the poles) He's only used it camping with loads of trees nearby...not as much of a biker as I.
1. What setup will work best and be quickly set up? We'll be camped out on football/baseball/soccer fields so nearby trees will not necessarily always be available. However, chain link fences will...if that helps? This will be set up and taken down daily. I'm looking to provide shade for several of out group of 11 sitting in those "folding bag chairs".
2. How many poles should I use? Two, per the suggestion (pic below)? I definitely would get the collapsible ones. I am considering trekking poles but I'm trying to keep the cost down and I wouldn't use trekking poles otherwise. Obviously don't want this thing to turn into a kite
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NEW YORK: Standard Chartered Plc has agreed to pay $340 million to settle allegations that it hid transactions with Iran from regulators, the New York Department of Financial Services said on Tuesday.
In addition to the civil penalty, the bank agreed to install a monitor for at least two years to evaluate the bank's money-laundering risk controls in its New York branch, the department said in a statement.
The department also said it had adjourned a hearing set for Wednesday at which it had called on Standard Chartered to demonstrate why its New York state banking license should not be revoked.
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The final Algerian military push to retake the gas field added at least some to the death toll, with reports that the militants executed at least seven hostages when it became clear the military was moving in.
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The Algerian effort to oust the colonial French from their bloody occupation a generation ago is one of the few incontestible instances of "terrorism". Re-read Franz Fanon's revolutionary book on the subject. The Algerian resistance targeted kids in pizza parlors in France in order to convince the French to relinquish their grip on Algeria. Today "terrorism" is more weakly defined to describe anyone who objects to US domination of their native region. These would be more correctly defined as resistance fighters. So far, none of our Mideastern foes have bombed pizza parlors in Cincinatti in an effort to break the will of our occupying forces. However, if the US does not change course, anything is possible.
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lol looks ace to me bro. i noticed infrequent training works for me, last time i actually pulled heavy max deads i got 545 then i got hurt for a while, didnt do much squats or deads maybe one heavy per week, had the meet and made huge PRs lol.
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lol looks ace to me bro. i noticed infrequent training works for me, last time i actually pulled heavy max deads i got 545 then i got hurt for a while, didnt do much squats or deads maybe one heavy per week, had the meet and made huge PRs lol.
Solid session bro. My back feels like I'm going to break in half. Its a good thing I won't need to use it till tuesday.
its addicting though, it really is.
Pshh I'm coming for your PR Chris.
i still cant get over a 575sq at 148lbs. that number is unreal, i wanna be hitting 405 on my SDL by this summer.
i saw something in here about ironisle, you boys lift there?
They did. We lift in patchogue though.
Are you from oceanside?
yeah im from right over there, i know a few boys that lift there. i lift at the nysc when im home though.
That is a session and a half. Nice pulling bro.
a couple of dudes i worked with at the beach, and a few from my town...both of the guys i am thinking about are pretty big, i dont know what style lifting they were into tho...on dude jerry and one jim.
Hmmm, I'm not sure. I'm sure they know who Chris Taylor is.
Today I skipped heavy bench to hopefully enable me to kick this cold. I felt a lot better at the gym, but I made myself not lift. Hopefully I will wake up tomorrow and feel better as I already committed to squatting with bands, lol. My back is still a bit sore though.
I did however help Paul with his first shirt session and do some light band stuff.
Band pressdowns- 100 total reps w/ 2 minis
Band face pulls- 75 total reps w/ 2 minis
Heavy squat
Squat(Ace briefs)
(All sets done with 2 sets of blue"strong" bands....~320 or so at lockout)
1@235x1(added DD briefs instead of using my canvas)
From here I add chains...
1@235+080 lbs CHx1
1@235+160 lbs CHx1(added belt)
1@235+200 lbs CHx1(added knee wraps)
No more chains...added a mini band doubled off of the blue band...ghetto-setup...prob another 60-80 at lockout)
1@235+200 lbs CH+MDx1(no clue but must be damn near 800 at lockout!) :eek:
Comp. stance pause squats(loose briefs/no belt)
Tried something new with those...I'll try them every other week and bump them up slowly)
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Nasty workout tonight. After feeling sick for 5 days I finally felt good to train. I think the extra rest helped me. My goal tonight was to pile as much band/chain weight on me as I possibly could. Those last few sets felt like a ton, but I actually handled them well. The deload was sick because it was ~70% or so of band/chain weight at the top on the last set. I know my top end can handle a **** ton of weight...I have to bring my bottom end up to speed now. I'll post some vids later.
Hopefully I will be able to train again by Thursday...as I may be in a coma, lol. :alcoholic
Just plain sick bro.
yes, i agree, just plain SICK!
CR how are the Ace briefs? I'm currently using the Vikings, which are awesome, only my large ass makes the briefs ride lower in the back.
holy jesus that's some serious squatting. Awesome effort for just having recovered from a sickness! keep it up
Almost 3 times BW for reps??? Dang Chris those are some powerful tree trunks you have!!
Keep it hard and Heavy...
My squat vids from tonight:
235+2 blues+160 lbs CH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK4oA9nSlH8
235+2 blues+200 lbs CH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=312RIpPJvY0
235+2 blues+200 lbs CH+ dbl minis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpR8KLjgWcA
As I've said before this is my heavy top end day. I realize I did not break parallel. I'm not worried. :burger:
You do realize that you're not human....right?
monster band/chain lifts there. what are you tipping the scales at right now?


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If you, like millions of parents, routinely give your child Miralax for constipation, recent reports that the Food and Drug Administration is studying a possible link between the common laxative and neuropsychiatric problems probably sounded scary.
After years of complaints from activists, two Children's Hospital of Philadelphia researchers are now leading an FDA study of the ingredient — polyethylene glycol 3350, or PEG 3350 — to see how it affects children.
"We're pleased that they're going to be looking at behavior changes because that's never been done before," said Carol Chittenden, co-director of The Empire State Consumer Project, a nonprofit consumer group in Rochester, New York, that pushed the FDA to embark on the study. "Parents are feeling anxious but also validated because they've been telling their doctors for years about these symptoms."
Just because the FDA is doing a study, doesn't make it dangerous.
Miralax is sold over the counter as an adult laxative, but pediatricians and gastroenterologists routinely prescribe it to infants, toddlers and older children. And they often prescribe it for long-term daily use for chronic constipation, even though the label says it should be used for no more than seven days "unless advised by your doctor."
Dr. Samuel Nurko, director of the Center for Motility and Functional and Gastrointestinal Disorders at Boston Children's Hospital, said parents have little reason to worry. Dr. Nurko, who was involved in previous studies of Miralax, some partially funded by the drug company that used to own Miralax, argues that the drug isn't approved for children because of the technicalities surrounding the FDA study process. He believes Miralax is safe for children.
"Just because the FDA is doing a study, doesn't make it dangerous," Dr. Nurko said. "From my perspective, the risk of not treating constipation is worse. Do you think the FDA would leave it on the market if it were dangerous? I think it's an overreaction but I'm glad that they are studying it."
About 5 percent of children suffer from constipation, according to the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, which has guidelines for long-term use of Miralax among other constipation treatments.
FDA spokesperson Andrea Fischer said in an email that the agency is funding the $325,000 study to explore pediatric safety concerns even though "the FDA has not determined that there is enough data to warrant additional warnings regarding these products, or to issue specific warnings about pediatric use of the drugs at this time."
The FDA first tested Miralax in 2008 and found small amounts of ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol, toxic ingredients also found in antifreeze. In subsequent tests in 2013, it found no detectable levels of those ingredients.
Chittenden says any hint that PEG can lead to side effects known to be associated with ethylene glycol or diethylene glycol toxicity is disturbing. According to a 2009 FDA drug oversight report, neuropsychiatric side effects "may include seizures, tremors, tics, headache, anxiety, lethargy, sedation, aggression, rages, obsessive-compulsive behaviors including repetitive chewing and sucking, paranoia and mood swings."
Diethylene glycol toxicity can also cause "metabolic acidosis," or too much acid in the blood, which, in severe cases, can lead to shock or death.
But Fischer emphasized that the link between these side effects and Miralax is so far unproven. Continue reading


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Persuading federal IT managers that continuous diagnostics and monitoring is a boon for their agencies is one of the most challenging elements of implementing the cybersecurity technology, according to IT chiefs at the forefront of spreading the CDM message across government.
While federal agencies are beginning to grasp what CDM can do for their organizations, risk-averse IT managers who treasure the status quo and are reluctant to shift from old practices still have to be won over, say IT leaders at GSA and the departments of Homeland Security and Energy.
In a discussion during a March 19 forum on managing information security risks with CDM, Robert Brese, chief information officer at DOE, said his department, which includes Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories, presents a complex test for spreading the CDM gospel.
The national labs, with their complement of world-class technology researchers, can operate "like independent city-states" that require more than a standardized solution. CDM, set up through DHS and supported through blanket purchasing agreements offered through GSA, offers uniformity, but also flexibility, he said. "It's a huge challenge to change the culture. I'm frustrated at the support of the status quo."
Despite the reluctance, "CDM is making good progress. It's been accepted at the labs," said Brese. DOE, he said, has moved from the initial compliance mode to "press the 'I believe' button."
"We're not in the evangelist stage yet," he said. "We're still trying to figure out how to best put this to use and how to handle the data."
It is still early in the adoption cycle for the technology, which provides a steady flow of security data that enables agencies to identify and mitigate cyber threats quickly and efficiently.
In January, the GSA rolled out the first $60 million in task orders under the agency's $6 billion CDM contract. Under the program, which DHS and GSA jointly administer for other federal agencies, data will be fed into an agency-level dashboard that will alert cybersecurity managers to potential risks.
DHS has become an "evangelist" for CDM, according to Jeff Eisensmith, chief information security officer at the department, which is charged with facilitating other agencies' installation and implementation of CDM technology. Before CDM, agencies were "getting picked off like zebras on the Serengeti" by cyber attackers, he said.
The standardized set of hardware, software and capabilities that GSA is rolling out, allows a more efficient, team-oriented approach to attacking problems, Eisensmith said.
Brese said the technology can free agencies from hide-bound, rote security practices to take a longer, enterprise-wide view of their cybersecurity needs. Threats, he said, are not all the same, and counting them isn't enough. IT managers must be able to weigh them against the agency's mission, an ability that CDM provides.
"Not all vulnerabilities are equal. Say you have three bald tires. One is on your car, the other is tied onto a frayed rope on a tree-swing in your front yard your three-year-old child is using and the last is stored in the garage. The threats are there, but they aren't the same," Brese said.
CDM, said Eisensmith, will enable managers to differentiate among threats and prioritize them. That prioritization can be hammered into more business-oriented decisions aimed more accurately at the agency's mission. "Nine-tenths of my job is explaining the business side of security ... building business cases for the C-suite. It's a cost-avoidance discussion."
The dashboard GSA is in the process of developing will go a long way in helping agencies quantify CDM's impact more accurately, Eisensmith said.
Jim Piche, civilian group manager at GSA's Federal Systems Integration and Management Center said his agency will get the most specific look at what kinds of information the dashboard will entail before the end of the year.
GSA issued a task order March 3 to Metrica Team Venture, for the agency- and federal-level CDM dashboards. Piche said the vendor has to report back to GSA by Thanksgiving with initial operational capabilities, which includes details on what the dashboard will show.
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I hear the word "media" used a great deal these days, more so than in my younger and more impressionable days. When talking of marketing in the past, there didn't seem to be an obsession with what type of media a particular organization represented. There weren't groups, subgroups, and subgroups of subgroups of media. There was just THE media, as in the press, and the one general word was sufficient for describing most of it.
Now, there's mainstream media, alternative media, online media, etc. Media has broken off into more specialized forms. When you're trying to market a book, it might be useful to identify the types of media that are available to you. Here, I've focused on three types of media you can pursue to get coverage for you and your books:
Getting the attention of the media is something you should be trying to do as part of your indie author marketing plan. It can be hard work, but with all the different types of media out there today, you have more opportunities than ever before to reach new audiences.
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At about this time last year, I provided in this blog a list of five daytime talk shows that you should check out to promote your book, film, or music. You can click here, Finding a Daytime Talk Show, to see the shows on that list. You'll find that I've provided a link to the shows' websites so you can poke around and see which shows might be the right fit for you. Since there seems to be a never-ending supply of TV talk shows, I decided to put together a new list for you. Like last year's list, these are shows that cater to a national TV audience. Some are general-interest programs, and some shows stick to a single topic like health or crafts.
The Tyra Show - I must admit I have never watched a single frame of this show hosted by Tyra Banks, but there is no denying its wild popularity with women and young people. The show hits on topics ranging from body image to the totally outlandish and bizarre. If you have a book or film that veers from the mainstream, this might be the perfect show for you.
Rachael Ray Show - Rachael was cut from the cloth of the master herself, Oprah. She's adorable. She's vibrant. She's destined for daytime TV stardom. She specializes in cooking and crafts, but she also branches out into general-interest topics from time to time.
The Doctors - Think of this show as The View for medical and health issues. It's a panel of honest-to-goodness doctors discussing topics that cover the health spectrum. If you've got a book or even a documentary that falls within this realm, give them a shot.
The View - Speaking of The View...They seem to love topics that are either controversial or centered on women's issues. If you have a book or film that pushes the envelope and can get the hosts worked up into an all out chat-fest, they may welcome you with open arms.
When you get to these websites, look for a message board where you can participate and showcase your credentials. The producers do scout their own boards for show ideas and potential guests. A lot of the shows will also list needs for upcoming shows. You may be a guest that can fit their needs perfectly, perhaps to provide an expert opinion or to otherwise weigh in on the topic of the day. It can be somewhat challenging to land a spot on a national TV show, but you never know until you try. Hey, maybe you could get your big break on daytime TV!
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Just a quick FYI that Hotfix Package 5 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 2 (App-V 4.6 SP2) has been published and is now available for download.
The article below describes the hotfix package that contains the latest hotfixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 2 (App-V 4.6 SP2). It has all of the details of the issue and the prerequisite of the hotfix package.
KB2971989 - Hotfix Package 5 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 2 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2971989)
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Publishing Refresh does not work on the Clients i tested this Hotfix on. (Neither did Hotfix 4)
Which means i don't get any Applications. When i look at the Logs it doesnt even show the Publishing Refresh. Not even if i run it manually.
Only starts working again after an Uninstall and fresh Install of Hotfix 2.
No idea how to find the problem, if there's nothing in the logs.
Have you tried to increase to loglevel for more information? It isn't a general bug, I've tried this Hotfix, too. It works fine, Streaming all applications well.
I have also problems with this HF5. With HF 4 everything is working fine. Does anyone have also the following error or can someone give me a hint. In the analytic logs i can't find the source of the problem.
Sync-AppvPublishingServer : There were errors encountered when trying to
publish packages from the server.
Operation attempted: RefreshPublishingServer.
AppV Error Code: 070000000B.
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Hello RG,
Do you have a Policy in our GPO to define Powerhsell execution Policy...
If this gpo is enabled or disabled, put to undefined...
HF4 and HF5 will not have more problem with publishing...
Sorry my previous post concern only App-V 5 SP2 HF4 or HF5
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Najib told CNN in an interview late on Thursday that although based on the evidence the Beijing-bound MH370 had crashed into the sea, killing all on board, he would not make the deaths official.
"Right now I think I need to take into account the feeling of the next of kin and some of them have said publicly that they are not willing to accept it until they find hard evidence," Najib said.
Najib said that he had also found it difficult to believe when international aviation experts told him the missing aircraft ended up in the Indian Ocean.
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Najib said he asked aviation experts from the US and Britain several times if they were sure about the plane's presumed fate.
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When you are doing laundry, it's always best to separate colors... that is, unless you're accidentally washing your film in your pants pocket! Here is the tale of how "Keren Fedida":http://www.flickr.com/photos/yummiliondragon/sets/72157603493183389/ went to "Phagwa":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi 2008 with her Holga, and accidentally washed her film.
When you are doing laundry, it's always best to separate colors… that is, unless you're accidentally washing your film in your pants pocket! Here is the tale of how Keren Fedida went to Phagwa 2008 with her Holga, and accidentally washed her film.
Phagwa 2008, since it is a messy event I decided to take my holga with me… all that color powder and baby powder would have cost me in one bad digital SLR…. so I shot a roll and put it in my pants pocket and the rest is history….
So first thing I did was to put the roll of film in my pants untaped! Yes, i untaped the roll, but kept it kinda tight where i put it in my pocket, which has a zipper and kept the film nice and secure inside the pants.
Part II… laundry time!
Use powder detergent. put in dryer for an hour. make sure the clothes are really dry too. you know.. wet clothes… not good. Then when you look at the roll don't panic. its kinda warped. yes. but it will be ok.
Don't open the roll! make sure the lab guy develops it anyway if it looks bad.
The film was fujichrome 100 and i used an off camera flash with a synch chord.
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LAHORE: Iraqi ambassador Dr Rushdi Al-Ani has invited Pakistani businessmen to enter into joint ventures with their Iraqi counterparts and avail themselves of the abundant opportunities of investment and business his country has to offer.
He was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Friday.
The ambassador said that Iraq was in dire need of Pakistani manpower to help complete its projects for construction, manufacturing and agriculture.
He said that his country also required Pakistan's help in education, health and engineering sectors. Therefore, Pakistani educationists, doctors and engineers should avail themselves of the opportunities on offer in his oil-rich country, he added.
Mr Al-Ani said that Pakistani prime minister would soon visit Iraq and sign a number of trade and economy agreements.
He urged the LCCI president to arrange a sector-specific delegation for Iraq to help businessmen get first hand knowledge of facilities being offered by Iraqi government.
LCCI President Irfan Sheikh said that Pakistan and Iraq were members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation which had close friendly ties since 1947 but their ties failed to reflect in the area of trade and commerce.
He said the LCCI was ready to play a major role in promoting trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.
Pakistan was capable of exporting textile products, auto spare parts, marble, medicines, surgical items, footwear, edibles, wheat and rice, he informed. Pakistani construction companies could evaluate Iraq as a potential market if they were provided proper information, he said.
Likewise, Iraq could benefit from low-cost and abundant labour available in Pakistan who had earned good name across the world for their hard work and skill, he said.
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Open-Xchange joins the Business Server and the Security Gateway as the third Collax server product to run on the Linux kernel 2.6. The Collax product combines Collax's own Linux platform with Open-Xchange groupware. According to the vendor, the upgrade can be handled remotely without needing to completely reinstall.
Besides the basic system, critical services such as the directory, fax, and mail servers were updated. The web interface is more ergonomic use thanks to Ajax technology. The Oxtender extension gives users the ability to access the groupware server via Microsoft Outlook clients.
The Collax Open-Xchange server is available as an appliance or as a software only version. The software costs 690 euros incl. VAT for an annual subscription. The price includes the Outlook and Palm extension, Oxtender. For more information and pricing, a test version, and a free license key for private use, visit the Collax website.
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Open to meeting Narendra Modi: David Cameron
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New Delhi: British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is on a-day long trip to India, said that he was open to meeting all elected leaders, including Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, reports said Thursday.
Britain ended the decade-old boycott of the Gujarat CM last year in October, when UK High Commissioner James Bevan came to India and met Modi.
In wake of 2002 Gujarat riots, the UK, US and some European nations had imposed a travel ban on Modi.
On being asked if Cameron would like to meet the BJP`s prime ministerial candidate Modi, the British PM replied in affirmative, saying he was open to meeting all elected leaders including Narendra Modi.
"In time, yes. It`s good to meet. We have an approach of meeting all politicians and leaders. In the end, it will be for the people of India whom to elect. But I`m open to meeting elected leaders," Cameron said.
"We have started a proper engagement with Gujarat and with the First (Chief) Minister there. Our Foreign Office Minister has met with him... The connection is there, the engagement is there. I think the engagement should continue," he added.
Cameron who arrived in New Delhi today ahead of Commonwealth Summit in Colombo, met PM Manmohan Singh and held talks focussed on improving the bilateral trade ties.
Later, he is scheduled to visit Kolkata and meet West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.
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Cooper's plan went like this: He would set up a fake marijuana grow house and get the Odessa police to raid it illegally. Inside he'd put a single grow light over a couple of tiny Christmas trees—Cooper's idea of a punch line. He'd invite local reporters along to catch the police looking like fools when they busted in. Madden spent more than $30,000 setting this all up. Cooper rented a house, wired it with four cameras, bought laptops to watch the video streaming live, hired a crew and a lawyer and put them all up in hotels while they set the trap. To bait the police, Cooper's crew arranged for an anonymous letter to be sent to a local church, where they knew it would be promptly given to the police. The letter promised a house full of pot plants and $19,000 in drug money that would be gone by the next day. An anonymous tip alone is not enough for a search warrant; the police have to have hard evidence that something illegal is going on. Cooper was hoping they'd search the house illegally while he filmed everything. –"Gone Rogue," Michael May, Texas Observer
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The Space Debris Problem
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Near-Earth orbits are becoming congested as a result of an increase in the number of objects in space-operational satellites as well as orbital space debris. The risk of collisions between satellites and space debris is also growing. Controlling the production of debris is crucial to the sustainable use of space. This article presents background information on space debris, including number, size, spatial distribution, source, and the threat to satellites. It also discusses international efforts to control the debris population, including the development of debris mitigation measurements, active removal of space debris, and space traffic management. KEYWORDS: space debris, collision risk, debris mitigation.
SINCE THE LAUNCH OF THE FIRST ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE, SPUTNIK 1, ON October 4, 1957, over four thousand rockets have sent more than six thousand payloads into orbit, greatly improving the world's capacity to retrieve, transmit, and share information. Unfortunately, space activities have produced large quantities of discarded equipment, rocket upper stages, defunct satellites, bolts, and other hardware released during the deployment of satellites, as well as fragments from the breakup of satellites and rocket upper stages. These objects are moving at high speed at different altitudes and inclination of orbit.As a result, the impact risk to existing space systems is increasing.
Space debris is a growing concern, as even small particles can be very destructive in a collision due to their high orbital speed. Objects in orbit must travel at extremely high speeds in order to resist the pull of gravity and remain in space. Orbital speeds in low-Earth orbit (LEO, defined as the region between altitudes of 200 and 2,000 km), are greater than 7 km/second (km/s), and the average relative speed of a piece of debris and a satellite in a collision is 10 km/s. The damage from such a hypervelocity impact has been widely studied through tests and numerical simulations. Shielding has been designed to protect some critical devices on satellites, but can only protect against small debris (<1 cm) and greatly increases the cost. In a catastrophic collision, enormous pieces of debris are produced, posing short-term and long-term threats to satellites in nearby orbits. Recent studies have shown that at some altitudes in LEO, collisions will become the dominant debris generation mechanism, and the debris generated would then feed back to the environment and induce more collisions (Kessler 2000; Kessler and Anz-Meador 2001; Liou and Johnson 2007). Space debris is a global problem that all spacefaring nations should take seriously.
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The consequences of debris impacts on spacecraft can range from small surface pits due to micrometer-size impactors, via clear hole penetrations for millimeter-size objects, to mission-critical damage for projectiles larger than 1 cm.Any impact of a 10-cm catalog object on a spacecraft or orbital stage will most likely entail a catastrophic disintegration of the target. Figure 1 shows the results of a laboratory test impact between a small sphere of aluminum travelling at approximately 6.8 km/s and a block of aluminum 18 cm thick. This destructive energy is a consequence of high-impact velocities that are greater than 7 km/s in LEO, and the average relative speed of a piece of debris and a satellite in a collision is 10 km/s. For the extremely high relative velocity, the impact between space debris and spacecraft could be classified as hypervelocity impact, which is much different in physical phenomena compared to low-velocity and high-velocity impact.
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Hip Disk
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Hip Disk
The hipDisk is a self-contained wearable system that augments the body with instrumental capabilities. By placing the hip and torso in extreme opposition the wearer of hipDisk can trigger simple tones within a one-octave chromatic scale, so as to play tunes or melodies.
Key features include two disks, attached to the wearers body one above the waist, one below; twelve custom made soft contact switches that represent twelve notes on a chromatic scale, spread evenly around the perimeter of the inner face of each of the disks; and microcontroller generated audio tones, output through a speaker discretely positioned in the upper garment of the wearer.
About the Inventor
Danielle Wilde is an artist researcher based in Melbourne, Australia, investigating how technology might be paired with the body to poeticise experience. She creates wearable interfaces and body extensions that inspire people to move. The aim is to illicit deep emotional responses and to prod people to consider their relationships to their bodies and technology in society.
Wilde has an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in London and a large body of work that encompasses wearable interactive interfaces, performance, installation, still and moving image, design for theatre and architecture, documentary film research, large and small scale project management, and interaction design.
Born in Wollongong Australia, Danielle lived from 1994 to 2006 in Paris, New York, San Francisco, London, Marseille and Wallau (Lahn), Germany. Danielles work has been shown in galleries, museums, festivals, conferences and performance venues around the world.
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Hipdisk was developed for a wearable technologies lab that Danielle was a part of. While considering what she was going to make Danielle went for a swim. Like many people, she has a personal, somewhat idiosyncratic swimming style. As she extends her arms forward, when swimming freestyle, and turns her head to breathe, she rolls her hips and torso in opposition and support of the rotation of her head. This motion is technically unrefined but is particularly pleasing kinaesthetically to Danielle. While counting laps and vaguely considering the conundrum with which she was faced, she found herself focusing on the physical pleasure she was experiencing through this extended rotation of hip and torso. This raised the question: If a single-axis exploration was inappropriate for the intended presentation context, and it seemed only natural to shift the focus to an investigation of a more fundamental, dynamic and fuller-body movement, why not shift the focus to the changing relationship between hip and torso?
Different parts of our bodies have varying degrees of freedom. The relationship between the hip and torso is particularly dynamic, as this area of the body allows movement on its axes in a relatively unconstrained fashion. It also provides a fundamental reflection of core strength and flexibility. Danielles ongoing research aim is to explore how technology might be paired with the body to poeticise experience. To explore this idea Danielle tries to create wearable interactive interfaces that inspire people to move and that by doing so trigger and stimulate different emotions.
By the inventors own admission the hipDisk is an undignified musical instrument.
hipDisk was designed to inspire people to swing their hips and explore and extend the full range of movement available to them through a simultaneous, interdependent exploration of sound. In creating hipDisk, the objective was to move beyond limb and digit-triggered switches and explore full-body movement for actuation. The resulting body instrument interconnects choreography and composition in a fundamental way.
hipDisk sits within a broader research framework that explores the role of a poetic approach in the design of interactive interfaces, ranging from abstracted prosthetics through to invisible, virtual systems. This broader research targets not only sound output systems but also systems for the output of changes in colour, light and shape.
The hipDisk creates a link between body motion and sound production, which cannot be ignored when composing or performing. The interface also raises questions about the role of physical affordance, extension and abstraction in the development of wearable elements and systems, and suggests that a focus on these issues can lead to novel yet meaningful applications of technology.
In order to explore the changing dynamic between hip and torso, a pair of disks one attached to the hip and one attached to the torso above the waist, were created. The aim was to make this dynamic relationship highly visible and so provide an input that was easy for the viewer to read. Twelve simple, soft, digital switches were then
positioned at equidistant intervals around the perimeter of the disks one part of each switch on the upper disk, the complementary part of the switch on the lower.
The switches could then be activated when the corresponding parts of the upper and lower disks connected, as achieved through bending the body at the waist.
Danielles wanted to create a system that could be played by a novice, yet through mastery, allow greater complexity. It is Danielles impression that this quality is intrinsic to many musical instruments comparing it to that of a recorder. Novices can play simple tunes on a recorder yet an entire canon of highly complex and beautiful music exists for the same instrument.
The sounds output by hipDisk are simple tones created digitally by the Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller, triggered by a series of twelve custom-built soft switches, amplified, and then output through a simple speaker mounted into the bodice of the costume of the wearer. The entire system is self-contained.
Rhythm of desired output is also closely linked to core strength and flexibility the tempo of the produced melodies are limited only by the wearers ability to move from one position to another.
Though hipDisk was designed specifically to inspire people to swing their hips and explore and extend the full range of movement available to them, the physical repercussions of this were not fully understood in advance. It was only after public presentation of the interface that this became apparent.
Despite the fact that hipDisk does not appear as an exercise interface, the performers focus on doing whatever is necessary to achieve the desired sound output seems to extend, over time, the bodys capabilities to do so. As a result, core strength and flexibility are positively affected through an extension of the outer limits of the wearers physical capabilities. The hipDisk thus provides surprising, yet not undesirable health enhancing aspects for the wearer.
In addition, use of the interface seems to be highly compelling for audiences.
The ungainly manner of physical input necessary to achieve what could only be considered quite primitive audio output seems humorous and compelling. The fact that, when wearing the interface, the wearer is compelled to smile broadly, continuously, throughout their performance as if experiencing unrestrained enjoyment captures peoples attention and prompts them to smile in return. Finally, the rings, and the associated movement, are reminiscent of a hula hoop a device common to many from their childhood or from going to the circus. While this does not necessarily compel people to want to use the hipDisk, it certainly seems to trigger deep-seated memories of times past and physical immersion that are pleasurable to revisit even if only vicariously.
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Warp Records and OXFAM are very proud to announce today the release of Kinshasa One
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The album was recorded in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo over 5 days this past July. DRC Music is a
collective of producers gathered by Damon Albarn, and they set out to make an album with contemporary
Congolese musicians, working with more than 50 local artists and performers over the 5 days, including Jupiter and
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