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Electrodeposition of Diamond-like Carbon Films
Date: August 2002
Creator: Chen, Minhua
Description: Electrodeposition of diamond-like carbon (DLC) films was studied on different substrates using two different electrochemical methods. The first electrochemical method using a three-electrode system was studied to successfully deposit hydrogenated DLC films on Nickel, Copper and Brass substrates. The as-deposited films were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and cyclic voltammetry (CV). A variety of experimental parameters were shown to affect the deposition process. The second electrochemical method was developed for the first time to deposit hydrogen free DLC films on Ni substrates through a two-electrode system. The as-deposited films were characterized by Raman spectroscopy and FTIR. According to Raman spectra, a high fraction of diamond nanocrystals were found to form in the films. Several possible mechanisms were discussed for each deposition method. An electrochemical method was proposed to deposit boron-doped diamond films for future work.
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Hydrogen terminated silicon surfaces: Development of sensors to detect metallic contaminants and stability studies under different environments
Date: August 2002
Creator: Ponnuswamy, Thomas Anand
Description: Hydrogen terminated silicon surfaces have been utilized to develop sensors for semiconductor and environmental applications. The interaction of these surfaces with different environments has also been studied in detail. The sensor assembly relevant to the semiconductor industry utilizes a silicon-based sensor to detect trace levels of metallic contaminants in hydrofluoric acid. The sensor performance with respect to two non-contaminating reference electrode systems was evaluated. In the first case, conductive diamond was used as a reference electrode. In the second case, a dual silicon electrode system was used with one of the silicon-based electrodes protected with an anion permeable membrane behaving as the quasi reference electrode. Though both systems could function well as a suitable reference system, the dual silicon electrode design showed greater compatibility for the on-line detection of metallic impurities in HF etching baths. The silicon-based sensor assembly was able to detect parts- per-trillion to parts-per-billion levels of metal ion impurities in HF. The sensor assembly developed for the environmental application makes use of a novel method for the detection of Ni2+using attenuated total reflection (ATR) technique. The nickel infrared sensor was prepared on a silicon ATR crystal uniformly coated by a 1.5 micron Nafion film embedded with dimethylglyoxime ...
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Interfacial Electrochemistry of Metal Nanoparticles Formation on Diamond and Copper Electroplating on Ruthenium Surface
Date: May 2003
Creator: Arunagiri, Tiruchirapalli Natarajan
Description: An extremely facile and novel method called spontaneous deposition, to deposit noble metal nanoparticles on a most stable form of carbon (C) i.e. diamond is presented. Nanometer sized particles of such metals as platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), gold (Au), copper (Cu) and silver (Ag) could be deposited on boron-doped (B-doped) polycrystalline diamond films grown on silicon (Si) substrates, by simply immersing the diamond/Si sample in hydrofluoric acid (HF) solution containing ions of the corresponding metal. The electrons for the reduction of metal ions came from the Si back substrate. The diamond/Si interfacial ohmic contact was of paramount importance to the observation of the spontaneous deposition process. The metal/diamond (M/C) surfaces were investigated using Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and x-ray diffractometry (XRD). The morphology (i.e. size and distribution) of metal nanoparticles deposits could be controlled by adjusting the metal ion concentration, HF concentration and deposition time. XRD data indicate the presence of textured and strained crystal lattices of Pd for different Pd/C morphologies, which seem to influence the electrocatalytic oxidation of formaldehyde (HCHO). The sensitivity of electrocatalytic reactions to surface crystal structure implies that M/C could be fabricated for specific electrocatalytic applications. The research also ...
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Copper Electrodeposition on Iridium, Ruthenium and Its Conductive Oxide Substrate
Date: December 2003
Creator: Huang, Long
Description: The aim of this thesis was to investigate the physical and electrochemical properties of sub monolayer and monolayer of copper deposition on the polycrystalline iridium, ruthenium and its conductive oxide. The electrochemical methods cyclic voltammetry (CV) and chronocoulometry were used to study the under potential deposition. The electrochemical methods to oxidize the ruthenium metal are presented, and the electrochemical properties of the oxide ruthenium are studied. The full range of CV is presented in this thesis, and the distances between the stripping bulk peak and stripping UPD peak in various concentration of CuSO4 on iridium, ruthenium and its conductive oxide are shown, which yields thermodynamic data on relative difference of bonding strength between Cu-Ru/Ir atoms and Cu-Cu atoms. The monolayer of UPD on ruthenium is about 0.5mL, and on oxidized ruthenium is around 0.9mL to 1.0mL. The conductive oxide ruthenium presents the similar properties of ruthenium metal. The pH effect of stripping bulk peak and stripping UPD peak of copper deposition on ruthenium and oxide ruthenium was investigated. The stripping UPD peak and stripping bulk peak disappeared after the pH ≥ 3 on oxidized ruthenium electrode, and a new peak appeared, which means the condition of pH is very important. ...
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Fabrication and light scattering study of multi-responsive nanostructured hydrogels and water-soluble polymers.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Xia, Xiaohu
Description: Monodispersed microgels composed of poly-acrylic acid (PAAc) and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) interpenetrating networks were synthesized by 2-step method with first preparing PNIPAM microgel and then polymerizing acrylic acid that interpenetrates into the PNIPAM network. The semi-dilute aqueous solutions of the PNIPAM-PAAc IPN microgels exhibit an inverse thermo-reversible gelation. Furthermore, IPN microgels undergo the reversible volume phase transitions in response to both pH and temperature changes associated to PAAc and PNIPAM, respectively. Three applications based on this novel hydrogel system are presented: a rich phase diagram that opens a door for fundamental study of phase behavior of colloidal systems, a thermally induced viscosity change, and in situ hydrogel formation for controlled drug release. Clay-polymer hydrogel composites have been synthesized based on PNIPAM gels containing 0.25 to 4 wt% of the expandable smectic clay Na-montmorillonite layered silicates (Na-MLS). For Na-MLS concentrations ranging from 2.0 to 3.2 wt%, the composite gels have larger swelling ratio and stronger mechanical strength than those for a pure PNIPAM. The presence of Na-MLS does not affect the value of the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of the PNIPAM. Surfactant-free hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) microgels have been synthesized in salt solution. In a narrow sodium chloride concentration range from 1.3 ...
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Interfacial Electrochemistry and Surface Characterization: Hydrogen Terminated Silicon, Electrolessly Deposited Palladium & Platinum on Pyrolyzed Photoresist Films and Electrodeposited Copper on Iridium
Date: December 2003
Creator: Chan, Raymond
Description: Hydrogen terminated silicon surfaces play an important role in the integrated circuit (IC) industry. Ultra-pure water is extensively used for the cleaning and surface preparation of silicon surfaces. This work studies the effects of ultra-pure water on hydrogen passivated silicon surfaces in a short time frame of 120 minutes using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy – attenuated total reflection techniques. Varying conditions of ultra-pure water are used. This includes dissolved oxygen poor media after nitrogen bubbling and equilibration under nitrogen atmosphere, as well as metal contaminated solutions. Both microscopically rough and ideal monohydride terminated surfaces are examined. Hydrogen terminated silicon is also used as the sensing electrode for a potentiometric sensor for ultra-trace amounts of metal contaminants. Previous studies show the use of this potentiometric electrode sensor in hydrofluoric acid solution. This work is able to shows sensor function in ultra-pure water media without the need for further addition of hydrofluoric acid. This is considered a boon for the sensor due to the hazardous nature of hydrofluoric acid. Thin carbon films can be formed by spin coating photoresist onto silicon substrates and pyrolyzing at 1000 degrees C under reducing conditions. This work also shows that the electroless deposition of palladium and ...
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Study of Interactions Between Diffusion Barrier Layers and Low-k Dielectric Materials for Copper/Low-k Integration
Date: December 2003
Creator: Tong, Jinhong
Description: The shift to the Cu/low-k interconnect scheme requires the development of diffusion barrier/adhesion promoter materials that provide excellent performance in preventing the diffusion and intermixing of Cu into the adjacent dielectrics. The integration of Cu with low-k materials may decrease RC delays in signal propagation but pose additional problems because such materials are often porous and contain significant amounts of carbon. Therefore barrier metal diffusion into the dielectric and the formation of interfacial carbides and oxides are of significant concern. The objective of the present research is to investigate the fundamental surface interactions between diffusion barriers and various low-k dielectric materials. Two major diffusion barriers¾ tatalum (Ta) and titanium nitride (TiN) are prepared by DC magnetron sputtering and metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), respectively. Surface analytical techniques, such as X-ray photoelectronic spectroscopy (XPS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM) are employed. Ta sputter-deposited onto a Si-O-C low dielectric constant substrate forms a reaction layer composed of Ta oxide and TaC. The composition of the reaction layer varies with deposition rate (1 Å-min-1 vs. 2 Å-sec-1), but in both cases, the thickness of the TaC layer is found to be at least 30 Å on the basis of ...
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Adherence/Diffusion Barrier Layers for Copper Metallization: Amorphous Carbon:Silicon Polymerized Films
Date: May 2004
Creator: Pritchett, Merry
Description: Semiconductor circuitry feature miniaturization continues in response to Moore 's Law pushing the limits of aluminum and forcing the transition to Cu due to its lower resistivity and electromigration. Copper diffuses into silicon dioxide under thermal and electrical stresses, requiring the use of barriers to inhibit diffusion, adding to the insulator thickness and delay time, or replacement of SiO2 with new insulator materials that can inhibit diffusion while enabling Cu wetting. This study proposes modified amorphous silicon carbon hydrogen (a-Si:C:H) films as possible diffusion barriers and replacements for SiO2 between metal levels, interlevel dielectric (ILD), or between metal lines (IMD), based upon the diffusion inhibition of previous a-Si:C:H species expected lower dielectric constants, acceptable thermal conductivity. Vinyltrimethylsilane (VTMS) precursor was condensed on a titanium substrate at 90 K and bombarded with electron beams to induce crosslinking and form polymerized a-Si:C:H films. Modifications of the films with hydroxyl and nitrogen was accomplished by dosing the condensed VTMS with water or ammonia before electron bombardment producing a-Si:C:H/OH and a-Si:C:H/N and a-Si:C:H/OH/N polymerized films in expectation of developing films that would inhibit copper diffusion and promote Cu adherence, wetting, on the film surface. X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy was used to characterize Cu metallization of ...
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Electrodeposition of adherent copper film on unmodified tungsten.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Wang, Chen
Description: Adherent Cu films were electrodeposited onto polycrystalline W foils from purged solutions of 0.05 M CuSO4 in H2SO4 supporting electrolyte and 0.025 M CuCO3∙Cu(OH)2 in 0.32 M H3BO3 and corresponding HBF4 supporting electrolyte, both at pH = 1. Films were deposited under constant potential conditions at voltages between -0.6 V and -0.2 V vs Ag/AgCl. All films produced by pulses of 10 s duration were visible to the eye, copper colored, and survived a crude test called "the Scotch tape test", which stick the scotch tape on the sample, then peel off the tape and see if the copper film peels off or not. Characterization by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) and X-ray photon spectroscopy (XPS) confirmed the presence of metallic Cu, with apparent dendritic growth. No sulfur impurity was observable by XPS or EDX. Kinetics measurements indicate that the Cu nucleation process in the sulfuric bath is slower than in the borate bath. In both baths, nucleation kinetics do not correspond to either instantaneous or progressive nucleation. Films deposited from 0.05 M CuSO4/H2SO4 solution at pH > 1 at -0.2 V exhibited poor adhesion and decreased Cu reduction current. In both borate and sulfate baths, small ...
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Passivation effects of surface iodine layer on tantalum for the electroless copper deposition.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Liu, Jian
Description: The ability to passivate metallic surfaces under non-UHV conditions is not only of fundamental interests, but also of growing practical importance in catalysis and microelectronics. In this work, the passivation effect of a surface iodine layer on air-exposed Ta for the copper electroless deposition was investigated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Although the passivation effect was seriously weakened by the prolonged air exposure, iodine passivates the Ta substrate under brief air exposure conditions so that enhanced copper wetting and adhesion are observed on I-passivated Ta relative to the untreated surface.
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The murder "trial of the century" officially got underway on March 3 in Pretoria, South Africa when former Olympic and Paralympic star and double amputee, Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius, entered a packed courtroom in the pre-meditated murder trial of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Steenkamp was shot to death in Pistorius' home on Valentine's Day, 2013, according to Reuters.
As expected, Pistorius pleaded not guilty to the murder charge.
He also pleaded not guilty to several other firearms charges, including one of discharging a pistol under the table of a swanky Johannesburg restaurant and another of putting a bullet through the sun-roof of a former girlfriend's car.
Prosecutors in the case will attempt to prove that Pistorius deliberately killed Steenkamp when he fired four shots through the bathroom door in his home, killing Steenkamp.
Steenkamp was hit three times, in the head, arm and hip. She was declared dead at the scene.
Pistorius had previously testified that he thought Steenkamp was an intruder when he shot her, and that her death was a tragic accident.
Witnesses are already taking the stand. The first witness called today, a neighbor, said that she could hear a female's "bloodcurdling screams" followed by the sound of gunfire ringing out.
A neighbor, Michelle Burger, who testified that she was awoken in the middle of the night by the sounds of a woman screaming for help, said "I was still sitting in the bed and I heard her screams."
"She screamed terribly and she yelled for help. Then I also heard a man screaming for help. Three times he yelled for help," she said.
Burger also testified that she thought the screams and gunfire were the result of a break-in at one of the neighboring estates. Burger's husband called the private security firm responsible for guarding the homes in the area.
Then, Burger and her husband heard even more screams for help.
"I heard the screams again. It was worse. It was more intense," Burger told the court, her voice cracking with emotion. "She was very scared."
"Just after her screams, I heard four shots. Four gun-shots," she said. "Bang ... bang, bang, bang."
"It was very traumatic for me. You could hear that it was bloodcurdling screams."
Throughout her testimony, the 27-year-old Pistorius sat impassively, staring at the floor.
The Pistorius murder trial is being broadcast live on television. You can see the live telecast along with regular updates, here.
If convicted and found guilty of Steenkamp's murder, Pistorius could be sentenced to life in prison.
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I found myself, due to some sickness, listening to more games than I watched this weekend.
Do you ever do that anymore? In this day and age, I wonder how many of us do, whether because you have to or because you want to.
I listen to a few every weekend, in part because I miss my Direct TV Sunday Ticket and in part because sometimes the announcing is much better. Or at least more entertaining – radio seems to make it ok to be a homer doing play-by-play and that always makes for hysterical radio.
For the Jets game, I split it 50/50. It was tough either way, although it provided my favorite line of the weekend, spoken by my eight year old son.
He walked in, looked at the score and asked where the grave was. I asked him what he was talking about and he told me there should be a grave, since the Pats were killing the Jets.
What happened to the Jets? Was it hubris, a little too much buying into their own hype? Has it been bad luck? Were they always an 8-8 team with airs?
Well, as a matter of fact, yes. I'll admit I got sucked into the hype after a ridiculous 3-0 start, but looking back on that you have to wonder if the shine on the team was merely a reflection of lowered expectations.
The simple truth is, the Jets suffer both from bad current play and the remaining ills from last season.
For today's Late Hits, let's look a little more closely at both.
First, it's really early to call Mark Sanchez a bust. Almost like it was too early to call him Rookie of the Year after three games. At times, he looks very sharp. More often than not, he just looks like every other rookie quarterback – lost.
A perfect example of Sanchez's problems are evident in the interception by Brandon Merriweather.
Sanchez, on his own seven yard line, takes the snap and does a five step drop. He scans the field.
So far so good, but there's nothing out there for Sanchez. As was the case much of the day, great coverage by New England.
After about three of four seconds, the offensive line gives and the Pats flood towards Sanchez. The rookie breaks to his left, outside the hash marks where he is met by linebackers Banta-Cain and Guyton (with Leigh Bodden closing in as well).
Sanchez does what any quarterback does in that situation – he gets rid of the ball.
Here's where Sanchez struggles though. Instead of throwing it out of bounds, as a veteran might do, Sanchez forces the ball towards a receiver – and right into Meriweather's hands.
He's off balance, panicked and desperate to make something happen – that's an awful combination for any quarterback, much less a rookie who as we all know had limited game experiance in college.
Looking at various replay angles, it's hard to say exactly what he saw that said 'Yes Mark, this is a great idea'. Meriweather has a very good angle on wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery. Maybe at field level, Sanchez couldn't see Meriweather. Maybe any quarterback might have made that mistake.
The fact is though, that it was only second down – as much as yo hate to have a 3-10, you would prefer that over throwing a pick.
Sanchez just flat out does not make smart plays. He needs someone – anyone – to sit him down and explain how in situations like that you toss the ball out of bounds.
You'd think the way Sanchez throws picks that perhaps the Jets need to run the ball more. Maybe they do, but statwise, they already run a bunch.
Out of 634 plays, the Jets have run the ball 350 times and thrown just 267. So more than half the time, they dial up the run.
Maybe it's the play-calling. There have been times I – and many Jet fans – has looked at some of the play calling in the last month and wondered if some of the pass selections were a little too much to ask of a rookie.
Still, at the end of the day, it's Sanchez's job to throw or not depending upon what he sees and he's not seeing what he needs to or at least seems unable to process what he sees.
Again, too early to say bust and it will take time. I wonder if this staff (OC Brian Schottenheimer in particular) is the right group to shepherd him.
The other major issue is the defense. You can't lose guys like Kris Jenkins for the season and not get hurt.
However another glaring weakness was highlighted yesterday in the loss to the Patriots and that is the strength of the secondary – or lack thereof.
Darelle Revis is a shutdown, top shelf, high end cornerback. One of the best in the league. Sure, Moss scored yesterday but aside from that he had an incredibly quiet afternoon. That was because of Revis who was on him like a comfy blanket all day.
The other side of the field – in fact any other portion of the field – not so much.
Dwight Lowery has been ok when not hurt but nothing exciting. Lito Sheppard is servicable and no more. Jim Leonhard is pretty solid, but makes some large mistakes. Kerry Rhodes talks a much better game than he is playing right now.
The simple fact is, Revis is just one man. He cannot stop everyone – and with a team like the Patriots you can't just shut one man down.
In other words, great you shut down Randy Moss. But Wes Welker lit you up for 15 catches for 192 yards (and 11 rushing just because he can).
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Go ahead and double up on Welker – someone else usually steps up.
Put aside the Patriots (and after that beating, who wouldn't) though and look at some of the issues the Jets have had in the secondary this year. Revis is having a phenomenal year. The rest?
Well….uh… they sure do… look good in green!
You can still argue the merits of drafting just three players in April's draft. Especially given concerns about the depth of both lines and the secondary. I said then and I still say it was ballsy and I like it – despite guys like Christopher Owens and Jarron Gilbert who the Jets and Rex Ryan spent a lot of time looking at in the spring.
It'll be years before most of the second or third rounders pan out or don't.
But you have to wonder how hard it will continue to be for the Jets to hang in games when so much of the field is underperforming.
At some point the team needs to address the secondary further.
There are other issues. Schottenheimer makes some odd play calls going back to last year. We were told it was Mangini holding Schotty back but it seems like more of the same in some respects this year. The running backs are good enough but one more injury to Jones or Greene and the Jets are in soem real trouble. Losing Leon Washington was bad enough.
That's not even get into the lack of depth of at least two positions, the bust that appears to be Vernon Gholston or the critical drops players like Dustin Keller and Braylon Edwards have had. The trash talking without end.
All have had an impact this season, all have contributed to a pretty egregious drop in play. The two items detailed above are just the biggest and most obvious (although not loudest if you include the chest beating early on).
The wreck that was the loss to the Patriots was bad, no doubt about it. The reasons for it was nothing new though, and will be at the root of more losses of the Jets don't do something to account for them – and soon.
Some other NFL thoughts -
What's more outstanding – Stafford's five TDs (albeit against a cruddy Browns team) or the fact that he apparently pushed past team medical officials to go back out on the field with a bad wing?
I can't think of a team or city that NEEDED a guy to do something like that, the way Detroit does. It's a great story, a great moment and even if the season is another filled with struggles and losses this is a moment to build off of.
What's black and gold and undefeated, but nobody gives a damn about it?
Apparently the New Orleans Saints.
I know I'm not the only one, but for the LOVE OF GOD CAN NEW ORLEANS GET SOME LOVE? Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like for every one article on a National level which talks about how good the Saints are playing, there are 45 others about how awesome the Colts are.
What's up with Jay Cutler you ask? Well, nothing. This is the same Cutler who played in Denver – the exact same one. He's not doing anything new.
He's just doing it with a bad oline, mediocre wide receivers and a stuttering, stammering rushing attack.
I guess that's up with Cutler then.
I'd have to look – and I've talked to multiple people on multiple shows including with Dan Levy of onthedlpodcast last Wednesday – but Steven Jackson has really impressed me this year. If only he played on a good team.
Nice job AFC North – not only did you all lose, but a pair of you lost to two of the worst teams in the league. Oakland? OAKLAND? Come on Bengals. YOu want us to take you seriously, don't cough ten points up in the fourth quarter.
Not to take anything away from a win by a shattered Oakland team, but come on.
Don't you laugh, Steelers. The Chiefs? For real? 17 points in the second half? At least you can give the excuse that Polamalu is out (NFL.com says they are 2-3 without him).
Still, weren't you guys the top defense in the NFL? Weren't they the 30th ranked offense?
It's not the apocalpse but damn.
Plenty of great stuff on Sunday as always. Hope you got to see a bunch of it. If I missed something you really think should be talked about, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com – maybe we'll do a Thanksgiving weekend column with the best of your best.


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Facebook to build innovative Data Center Concept in Lulea, Sweden
Borrowing bits and pieces of technology from the automobile industry, Facebook hopes to construct a radical new second building in the city of Luleå, Sweden. This new structure proposes to be the hallmark of new-age production, using modular and lean construction principles. Facebook calls it Rapid Deployment Data Center Concept (RDDC).


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After his presentation earlier in the day, Hrant offered up his idea of joining other buskers on 3rd St Promanade. "I'm taking my laptop, putting down a hat, and making fonts until the battery dies."
Eben answered the call and we followed the two to their places across from each other on the busy pedestrian walkway. Several passersby stopped and showed interest. Some officials questioned the legality of their setup but eventually left them alone. Two cops paused to ask what they were up to. Jackson told them: "I think they are making fonts."
"Somebody's gotta do it," the cop said as be took a sip of his coffee and walked away.
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Fun resetting my CMOS
Image by John "Pathfinder" Lester
1 hour before I was scheduled to give a demo of Second Life, the CMOS in my laptop got corrupted and prevented me from booting. Here I am ripping my laptop apart to yank the CMOS battery and temporary reverse polarity to reset the memory. Worked like a charm.
I love it when things like this happen…no pressure.
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Shane (Mike Hatton) was living a good life in the Midwest until his Uncle leaves him an inheritance. Now Shane wasn't very close with his Uncle and was not expecting anything from his Uncle's death. Well what do you do when you inherit a Gentleman's Club in Los Angeles? You move and thank god for family. Shane arrives in Los Angeles and checks out his gold mine. Problem is that the club is close to going bankrupt and the person who is running it is a drunk. He is actually what you would call a booze hound. Dave Foley plays the drunken manager which lends a nice comedic feature to the film.
Now let's take a look at the girls so to speak. Bree Olson and Tera Patrick make their mainstream debuts and they do add a special flavor to this comedy. Yes, all the girls add a special something to this film.
Shane has to figure out a way to save the club otherwise he is out all his inheritance as well all the money he puts into the venture to keep the club open. Andy Dick also plays a supporting role. This movie brings Foley and Dick back together from their days on 'News Radio'.
This movie has a lot of laughs and also a lot if skin as you would think when you see the title. It is a very easy and enjoyable look at strip clubs or if you prefer a Gentleman's Club. Asa Akira and MissyMartinez are also part of this comedic journey.
Screen Media Films is bringing us the comedy on August 26, 2014 The DVD is of the highest quality and the visual and sound are the best. This was the late director Jay Leggett's final film and us definitely a film that you will want to include in your personal library. So get ready to laugh and enjoy all the sights as you watch 'Live Nude Girls'. Enjoy.


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LG G Pad 8.3 officially launching in the UK and Ireland soon
LG has announced that its G Pad 8.3 would be available in the UK and Ireland "in the run-up to Christmas."
It looks like the tablet will be released in Ireland first, where customers should be able to find it starting the end of October. As previously reported, the G Pad 8.3 won't be expensive. It will cost £259.99. The tablet will be offered exclusively via Micro P in the UK, and via Harvey Norman in Ireland.
As its name suggests, the G Pad 8.3 comes with an 8.3 inch display (Full HD, 1920 x 1200 pixels). Other features include Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, 5MP rear camera, 1.3MP front-facing camera, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, MicroSD card support (up to 64GB), a 4,600 mAh battery, and a 1.7 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor (the same that's powering HTC's newly-announced One Max phablet).
Before the end of the year, LG intends to launch the G Pad 8.3 in up to 30 markets around the world.
Via LG UK Blog


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Old Colorado City Library will be closed Sat., July 2 - Wed., July 6 while their floors are refinished.
Watch 2011 History Symposium live
The 2011 Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium, "Film & Photography on the Front Range," has no more seating available. However, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy this great program live from the comfort of your own home.
On Saturday, June 11 starting at 9 a.m., you can view this event live on PPLD TV (Comcast 17 and Falcon Broadband 75) or streaming online at www.ustream.tv/user/PPLD.
You can click here for more information about the speakers and the schedule of presentations.
You can view previews of several Symposium presentations below:
Interesting and inspiring Colorado history
I visited a photography museum a year ago and enjoyed very much the black & white photos displayed which helped portray how hard Americans have worked over the years in developing a better society. Farming, small store fronts, train tracks and tamed wilderness with cozy homesteads are an inspiration for us today since in spite of limited resources individuals managed to actively participate in the dialogue for a better life. I sure will enjoy learning more about the history through images of the Colorado front range.
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In our continuing efforts to explore the wild and wonderful world of Kanye West's sartorial choices, we'd like to spotlight the pants that West wore out to a Versace event this week. Which pants? These pants:
There's a lot to take in here, so let's run down those patches one by one:
"METAL." Slightly juvenile, but harmless.
This one just says "EXIT." A Sartre reference? Eh, probably a clothing label and not a philosophical statement. So far, these pants are pretty innocent, as far as pants go. What's all the fuss about? Let's look at the other leg:
What's that star?
That sure looks to us a lot like a Satanic pentagram to us. Uh oh!
And that's not all:
Yes, you guessed right. That's the head of the Satanic hermaphroditic goat-god Baphomet!
Does this all mean that Kanye West is a Satanist? At least one guy seems to think so.
Personally, we are less convinced. Can't a guy go out wearing the head of Baphomet for fun, without everybody thinking he's a Satanist all of a sudden? If you're buying it, though, feel free to dig through Kanye's recent freestyle for references to the works of Aleister Crowley.


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|CASE SENSITIVE: Sergeant Dan Wojcik and Lt. Kimberly Stratman have been through the program to help deal with the mentally ill.
photography by Jeremy Sharp
"One of the most common statements we get is from the guys who've been around the longest," says Senior Corporal Herb Cotner, who is in charge of the training. "They say, 'We should've received this level of training a long time ago.'"
The training is a 40-hour course in conjunction with Mental Health America of Greater Dallas. It teaches cops to spot the signs of mental illness. Talking to oneself. Hearing a voice that isn't there. Extreme agitation. The psychosis, even if it is drug induced, is treated the same: instead of a trip to the jail, a trip to Parkland Hospital or Green Oaks mental health facility. Cotner hopes to have instructed 800 officers, more than one-fourth the total force, by the end of the year. One day, every officer will have completed training.
Statistics for the number of people hospitalized rather than imprisoned aren't yet available. But Tim Simmons, president of Mental Health America of Greater Dallas, says it's refreshing to deal with a police department that accepts his core belief. "People with mental illness shouldn't be put in prison for their illness," he says.


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Feeling short of inspiration? You could take a look at Sundog Scale Studio - Windows XP software designed to get rid of writer's block once and for all.
Sundog Scale Studio is described as a MIDI chords and melodies laboratory that lets you experiment with new scales, harmonies, and melodies easily. A spokesperson told us, "Use Sundog to play around with chords and basenotes like a breeze. Go from calm, smooth, chill out styles to energetic upbeat tunes in a matter of seconds. Promised."
Here's feelyoursound.com's description of how it works:
Sundog is designed to work with all major DAWs. All note output happens via MIDI (so you may also call it a MIDI performer, or MIDI sequencer). As long as you set up a virtual MIDI cable between Sundog and your DAW you are ready to go.
The first thing you do is choosing a scale and a basenote. Take C Major for example if you want to compose a happy song, or E Minor if you write a sad ballad. Just choose a scale and play some notes. You will quickly get a feeling for the mood of the scale.
In a second step you switch over to a special chords view. You can listen to chords by just clicking buttons - and they will all fit your chosen scale! Click on dark buttons for strong, commonly used chords or on light buttons if you want to experiment a bit.
Once you have found some nice chords you can create a chord progression. This will be the harmonic base of your song.
Back in the main view the real magic starts. You can use your MIDI keyboard, computer keyboard, or your mouse to create new melodies. All your input can either be mapped to scale notes - great for leads! - or to the current chord notes.
This way your melodies will always sound harmonic! Now if you go back to the chords view and change some chords all your melodies will get updated at once.
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All that money spent on music lessons...wasted!
19-Feb-14 08:26 AM
Pathetic in the extreme. What will be next from this company: software to find you the perfect partner - no need for you to bother, if you're single, our software will save you the effort by sending you weekly pictures, audio clips and such of other couples - but it promises to be Just as fulfilling as if you were in the relationship. Roll up - all for just $29 ( with infinite picture updates of other couples!!!) What pathetic looser would buy software to actually write 'music' for you? Just how much ambition and future prospect does such a 'musician' hope to have. If you feel inclined to buy this software and think it'll help you. Go ahead - give the scammer behind this your money! Depressing in the extreme.
19-Feb-14 02:09 PM
I can see how this might actually be educational for someone who is an absolute beginner musician, but based on what I heard in the video, I hope that someone writes software that will listen to the crappy 'music' this program spits out, because I sure don't want to!
19-Feb-14 07:22 PM
I think it has a lot of possibility as a creative tool. it won't replace a true musician but it can certainly help beginners understand some music fundamentals.
19-Feb-14 09:59 PM
A truly scaleable synthesizer and sequencing platform


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Advent, Providence Open China Offices
Lingering uncertainty about the pace of economic growth in China isn't deterring Advent International and Providence Equity from expanding in the country.
Both Advent, a global private equity investor based in Boston that recently raised an 8.5 billion euro buyout fund, and Providence Equity, a U.S.-based private equity firm, recently announced new offices in China. Advent said Tuesday that it is opening a branch in Shanghai, its first in China, extending its reach to 17 countries. Providence Equity has said it is opening an office in Beijing, five years after establishing a Hong Kong office.
Providence is also adopting the Chinese name "Pu Wei Investment" for its Greater China operations. The two Chinese characters sound like "Providence" but also carry the meaning of "broadness and profoundness," according to a statement.
Industry experts say that China is in the midst of a private equity shake out. China's securities regulator has maintained a tightened grip on approvals for mainland listings, greatly limiting exit options for private equity investors. Private equity fund managers that bet heavily on firms they thought could quickly go public on one of the mainland stock exchanges will see smaller returns, they say.
The number of foreign private equity funds launched this year to invest in China has dropped to four this year, compared with nine in the whole of 2011, according to data by research firm Preqin. These private equity funds have raised $600 million year to date, compared to $1.6 billion for the entire 2011.
Still, Providence Equity says it sees "huge potential" in the media, communication, education and information sectors in China. The firm, which manages $27 billion, has invested $1.6 billion in investments in seven companies in Asia. Managing Director Sun Tao, who is a former partner with private equity firm Actis, will head up Providence Equity's China investments from Beijing.


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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State defensive end Xavier Cooper was named the Defensive Lineman of the Week, the College Football Performance Awards announced Monday.
Cooper, a redshirt-sophomore, tallied a career-high eight tackles including 1.5 sacks, forced one fumble and recovered another fumble which he returned 29 yards for a touchdown at No. 2 Oregon this past Saturday. It was the first fumble returned for a touchdown by the Cougar defense since Will Derting did so in the 2004 Apple Cup.
For the season, the Tacoma, Wash. native owns 29 tackles including a team-high 8.5 tackles-for-loss and is tied for the team lead with 3.0 sacks.


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Before he was "Lance Armstrong, king of the cycling world/pariah of the cycling world," he was "Lancey Armstrongy, kid from Plano." (That's how you make up nicknames, right?) Anyway, in some unseen footage, Armstrong sang Radiohead's "Creep" during an unaired portion of his two-part interview with Oprah Winfrey. He nails the chorus.
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If you've been itching to get a Nokia Lumia phone, now is the best time as T-Mobile is offering the smartphone contract-free for only $59.99. The Windows Phone was offered with no contract last year October by the mobile carrier but price is now even lower. This promo is until March 19 only which means you only have four days from today to avail of the offer.
This is one sweet deal because the Windows Phone 8 device from the former Finnish giant is one of the most popular among all Windows Phone today. Microsoft may not rival Apple and Samsung yet when it comes to the mobile market but it has a few bestsellers like this Nokia Lumia 521. Together with the Lumia 520, the entry-level Lumia 521 brought the Windows Phone OS to the masses, thanks to their affordable prices.
To review, specs of the Nokia Lumia 521 include a 4.0-inch touch screen display, 5 megapixel camera, camcorder, built-in digital lens, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, 1.0GHz CPU processor, 4GB internal memory, MicroSD card slot, 4G, and of course, Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system.
Being an Apple fan girl and a believer of Android, I can't say the smartphone is the best but it's a reliable Windows Phone device. I highly recommend this for those contemplating on getting a new phone but doesn't want iOS or Android.
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TC TO MARGARET A. CARLYLE ; 12 July 1845; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18450712-TC-MAC-01; CL 19: 96-97
CHELSEA, 12th July, 1845.
MY DEAR MOTHER,—My hurry is indeed great, but it ought to be greater than it is before I neglect writing you a little word this week as I did last. I am whipt about from post to pillar at a strange rate in these weeks.
Jack's visit to you was a welcome piece of news here. The good account he gave of you was much wanted. We are very sorry indeed to hear of poor Isabella. It seems as if nothing could be done for her, and her own weakness and suffering must be very great. Jamie is kind and patient, you may assure him of our sympathies.1 A sudden turn for the better may take place, I understand, as of its own accord all at once. Let us keep hoping the best.
The back of this sorrowful Book is now broken. I think another month of stiff labour will see it well through. They are printing away at the second volume—about half done. I have to go along amid endless confusions, the way one has to do in all work whatsoever. The Book will, on the whole, be better than I hoped, and I have had some honest thoughts in the writing of it which make me the more careless what kind of reception the world gives it. The world had better try to understand it, I think, and to like it as well as it can! Here is another leaf of a proof sheet to be a token to you of our progress. So soon as ever it is over I am off for Annandale. The heat has never been very oppressive to me, never violent beyond a day or two at a time, then rain comes and cools it again. I get considerable benefit of my horse, which is a very darling article, black, high, very good natured, very swift—and takes me out into the green country for a taste of that almost every day. I sometimes think of riding it up into Annandale, but that will be too lengthy an operation.2
Jane is going to Liverpool to her Uncle's in a fortnight. She will stay with them a week, then another week with some country friends in that quarter. I wished her to go to Scotland and see old friends there at Haddington and elsewhere, but she is rather reluctant to that. She is not very strong and has many sorrows of her own, poor little thing, being very solitary in the world now. In summer however she is always better.
I have heard nothing from Jack of late days. I suppose him to be still at Mr. Raine's.3 Perhaps uncertain whitherward he will go next. At any rate country is better than town at present,—free quarter than board-wages. I expect he will come back to you again before the season end.
We were out at a place called Addiscombe last week among great people, very kind to us, but poor Jane could sleep only about an hour each night—three hours in all. I stayed but one night, came home on my black horse again. Some peace and rest among green things would be very welcome to me—and it is coming soon, I hope. Adieu, dear Mother—my kind love to you and to all of them. I am in great haste and can speak but a few words to mean much by them. My blessings with you.
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|A nonconventional local limit theorem
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|Local limit theorems have their origin in the classical De Moivre– Laplace theorem and they study the asymptotic behavior as N → ∞ of probabilities having the form P {S_N = k} where S_N = \sum^N_{n=1} F (ξ_n ) is a sum of an integer valued function F taken on i.i.d. or Markov dependent sequence of random variables {ξ_j}. Corresponding results for lattice valued and general functions F were obtained, as well. We extend here this type of results to nonconventional sums of the form S_N = \sum^N_{n=1} F (ξ_n , ξ_{2n} , ..., ξ_{ln} ) and corresponding versions of such results can be obtained for some dynamical systems, as well. This continues the recent line of research studying various limit theorems for such expressions.
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Indiana's state auditor says a new feature on the state's website is making government more transparent.
Local News
State Government Website Now Lists Nearly All Assets
Blasts Continue At Jefferson Proving Ground
More booms may be felt throughout southeast Indiana Friday, September 12.
T-Shirt Printing Company Bringing New Jobs To Hebron
Nearly 300 new jobs at a t-shirt manufacturer ought to be a nice fit in Boone County.
NKU Staffer Suspected Of D-68; Hospitals Limiting Visitors
Enterovirus D-68 may have arrived in the tri-state.
Son Believes Missing Elderly Couple May Be In SEI
A missing Ohio couple could be in southeast Indiana.
Lawrenceburg's 2015 Budget Request Is $18.8M Less
A public hearing on the City of Lawrenceburg's proposed 2015 budget will take place Monday.
United Community Bank Versailles Branch Holding Open House
United Community Bank and the Ripley County Chamber of Commerce are extending an invitation to attend an open house at the UCB branch in Versailles on Friday.
Rising Sun Medical Center Open House Oct. 9
Individuals will have the opportunity to meet Family Medicine Physicians Dr. Christopher Walcott and Dr. Phumeza Msikinya, in addition to Family Nurse Practitioner Vanessa Longacre and the entire staff of the Rising Sun Medical Center.
College Success Coalition Announces Dearborn County Launch
Community organizations from Dearborn County are invited to participate in a statewide effort designed to help Hoosier students and adults enter and succeed in college.
Local Representatives React To President's ISIS Plan
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TripAdvisor held its second annual Travelers' Choice Attractions Awards, awarding Machu Picchu the main honor of Top World Landmark.
Currently, the famous Incan ruins of Peru have over 3,500 "Excellent" ratings at TripAdvisor, compared to the significantly low number of 10 "Terrible" ratings.
Machu Picchu has also been named one of the New7Wonders of the World, and it's not the only one to make both lists. The Taj Mahal in India came in third, currently boasting over 5,000 "Excellent" reviews. Although the Colosseum didn't make the list, its Roman neighbor in the Vatican, St. Peter's Basilica, did, earning the fifth spot. It has over 6,000 "Excellent" reviews.
Other international sites that earned top honors are the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque of Abu Dhabi, the Great Cathedral and Mosque of Cordoba in Spain, two ancient Cambodian sites (Angkor Wat and the Bayon Temple), the Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, and the Ancient City Walls of Croatia.
One American locale made the list as well — Gettysburg National Military Park. It didn't just crack the world's top 10; it was named the number 1 U.S. landmark.
The Top World and U.S. Landmarks were also accompanied by ratings for the Top World and U.S. Parks. The U.S. managed to dominate both categories, stealing four of the top ten spots in the world.
Canada came away with the crown, however, with Stanley Park in Vancouver being named the Top World Park. Spain came away with two awards, and France, Brazil, and Australia each earned one.
All awards were determined based on the number of reviews landmarks received, plus the quality of those reviews, over a 12-month period.


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Anniversaries are very important for people and corporate as well. If you can remember the wedding anniversary of employees and customers than items such as digital photo frames, cosmetics or other wellness products would be ideal for the occasion.
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Custom-made bags have gained popularity in the recent years and are available in a variety of colors, sizes, designs and each bag has its own special use. Tote-bags have become fashion accessories and so are largely in demand. Conference bags too have become popular and are a good way of advertising your event. Travel agents and airlines have adopted these items and many are gifting Custom Duffle Bags to travelers who book all-inclusive packages to various destinations around the world. Airlines use them as giveaways for their first and business class passengers as well as members of their frequent flyer program.
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PhD Working Title: Re-remembered: the collaborative creation of a digital catalogue
2008 - 2011
This study will take as a basis emergent questions brought about by political changes (i.e. repatriation) and changes in technology (i.e. digitisation and the internet), in relationship to material culture as held in cultural heritage institution collections, to consider what impact these changes might have in changing visual cannons of representation. Working with indigenous communities in the American North East Woodlands, a corpus of images will be brought together from the British Museum Pictorial Collection to create a digital catalogue of images; the mediations involved in this process being the focus of the research.
Interests and Publications:
For the last 20 some years I have been working in various museums in the United States, Germany and the UK, and my particular interest in museums is in ethnographic collections, with a specific focus in North America.
Although I have done a variety of work with a variety of collections, currently my interest is in photograph collections, correlating with my interest in material and visual culture in anthropology - having conceptualised and co-curated a photograph exhibit for the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian in 2002: Booming out: Mohawk Ironworkers Build New York.
I also have interests in issues of ownership and copyright as well as cultural transmission and identity work as these issues are manifest in cultural heritage institutions. Bread, I should mention bread - I have a particular interest in food anthropology, that had it's beginnings in my general interest in bread.
Recent publications:
(Title TBC) Essay on the BM Melanesian Photography Collection, B M Publications (2009)
"Touch and the value of object handling: Final conclusions for a new sensory museology", with B. Lynch, in: Chatterjee, H., Touch in Museums: Policy and Practice in Object Handling, London: Berg (2008)
"Digital Curation: Theorising Reflexivity"; ICOM/CIDOC 'The Digital Curation of Cultural Heritage' Conference, Benaki Museum, Athens, September (2008)
"Defining access: factors and variables", with R. Peters, 22nd International Inst. for Conservation Congress, London, September (2008); Published in pre-prints.
"Australia in London; a snapshot of the British Museum's Australian photographic collection", with A. Clark and E. Herdman, King's College Seminar, October (2008)
"Diaspora Identities: Jewish Bakeries and Baked Goods in London and Berlin"; 'Cultures in Transit' Conference, Liverpool Hope University, July (2008)
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San Francisco, California
Secret Tiled Staircase
An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San FranciscoEdit Place
The 16th Avenue Staircase is 163 steps of mosaic tiles, a colorful staircase hidden in the quiet Sunset district of San Francisco. This neighborhood has few other tourist draws, but those who find the staircase will be rewarded with sweeping views of the city, and a beautiful succulent garden design framing it.
The project began in 2003 and was completed in 2005, with the help of artists and many neighborhood volunteers, and was inspired by the Selarón staircase in Rio de Janeiro, a brightly colored tiled staircase and popular tourist destination.
All the mosaics are donated by the community.. At the very top is the moon (the stairs ascend from "sea Level" to the moon--get it?). There's also another garden at the bottom and one of the last crops of Franciscan formation at the top (it has its own biozone!).
The artists for this stairway are Collette Crutcher and Eileen Barr.


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We review studies claiming that fish feel pain and find deficiencies in the methods used for pain identification, particularly for distinguishing unconscious detection of injurious stimuli (nociception) from conscious pain. Results were also frequently misinterpreted and not replicable, so claims th...
Tuna are unusual among fish in that they are warm bodied. It is agreed that one adaptive advantage to being warm is that the warmth increases the rate of delivery of oxygen from the cell boundary to the mitochondria by myoglobin. Tuna have extremely high rates of oxygen uptake, much higher than othe...
Rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, were injected with an adrenergic agonist. an adrenergic antagonist, or a cholinergic antagonist, via a dorsal aorta cannula. Spleen size and haemoglobin content were measured at rest and, for antagonists, following an air exposure stress. Injection of phentolamine...
Growth hormone transgenic coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch fed at the same ration level as non-transgenic controls (Tc) had the same growth rate as non-transgenic controls (Nt). In contrast, growth hormone transgenic coho salmon (Tf) fed ad libitum ate about twice as much and had much higher growth ...
We examined the effects of midline and off midline incision locations, acid incisions closed with monofilament or silk suture on spontaneous swimming behaviour in fish. Each fish had a dummy transmitter surgically implanted into its peritoneal cavity. The behaviour of fish in each treatment was esti...
Specific activity and kinetic constants of trypsin from the pyloric caeca of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were estimated. Although one group was fed more than twice as much as the other (1.8 compared with 0.7% body weight daily), there was no significant difference in the weight of the pyloric ca...


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This patriotic-themed cake makes a stunningly delicious centerpiece on any summer celebration table. To honor our troops, pass it along to all your family and friends! —Taste of Home Test Kitchen
- 1 package French vanilla cake mix (regular size)
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 4 eggs
- 1 package (3 ounces) berry blue gelatin
- 1-1/2 cups boiling water, divided
- 1 cup cold water, divided
- Ice cubes
- 1 package (3 ounces) strawberry gelatin
- 2/3 cup finely chopped fresh strawberries
- 1/4 cup fresh blueberries
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon 2% milk
- 1 jar (7 ounces) marshmallow creme
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 13x9-in. baking pan with waxed paper and grease the paper; set aside. In a large bowl, combine first four ingredients; beat on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium 2 minutes. Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Transfer cake to a covered cake board. Using a small knife, cut out a 5x4-in. rectangle (1/2 in. deep) in the top left corner of cake, leaving a 1/2-in. border along edges of cake. For red stripes, cut out 1/2-in. wide rows (1/2 in. deep), leaving a 1/2-in. border. Using a fork, carefully remove cut-out cake pieces.
- In a small bowl, dissolve berry blue gelatin in 3/4 cup boiling water. Pour 1/2 cup cold water into a 2-cup measuring cup; add enough ice cubes to measure 1-1/4 cups. Stir into gelatin until slightly thickened. Scoop out and discard any remaining ice cubes. Repeat, making strawberry gelatin.
- In a small bowl, combine strawberries and 1 cup strawberry gelatin. In another bowl, combine blueberries and 1 cup blue gelatin. Refrigerate 20 minutes or just until soft-set. (Save remaining gelatin for another use.)
- Stir gelatin mixtures. Slowly pour blueberry mixture into rectangle; spoon strawberry mixture into stripes.
- In a large bowl, beat butter until fluffy; beat in confectioners' sugar and milk until smooth. Add marshmallow creme; beat well until light and fluffy. Spread 1 cup over sides and top edge of cake. Refrigerate remaining frosting 20 minutes.
- Cut a small hole in the corner of pastry or plastic bag; insert a large star tip. Fill the bag with remaining frosting. Pipe frosting in between rows of strawberry gelatin and around edges of cake. Refrigerate 1-2 hours or until gelatin is set. Yield: 15 servings.
Originally published as Flag Cake in Taste of Home USO Flag Cake Campaign 2011
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The Grafton Little League has shelved plans to build a $2.5 million playing facility.
League President Mark Koehler told the Village Board on Monday that his organization will be unable to meet a Dec. 31, 2011, deadline to begin building a state-of-the-art baseball complex on 20 acres at the northeast corner of Lakefield and River Bend roads.The deadline is part of a 30-year lease the league signed with the village in 2009, paving the way for the project. Plans called for construction of four lighted playing fields, two practice fields, indoor and outdoor batting cages, a restrooms/concessions building, playground and parking areas for nearly 300 vehicles.The project site is on the west side of a village-owned parcel, the east side of which is used for municipal yard-waste collection and other public works operations.Koehler told the board the league has been unable to raise enough money to start construction and decided not to ask the village for another extension of the Dec. 31 deadline. The league received a one-year extension in 2010."We have raised a substantial amount of money, but not enough," he said, noting that the economic downturn was the biggest obstacle in fundraising efforts."It comes down to cold, hard cash."Koehler said league officials agreed to ask donors if they want their money back or if it should be used to improve existing playing facilities.Dropping the project at this time "doesn't solve our long-term problems, we know that," he added.The village has approved all plans for the complex, which the league originally intended to begin building in phases last year. League officials said the complex is needed to meet a growing demand for youth baseball facilities in Grafton, where the program has expanded to more than 400 children on more than 30 teams.Late last year, league officials reported having raised more than $100,000 in donations and pledges for the project, plus $40,000 in other funds. Donations of supplies and labor from businesses and groups were also expected to defray the cost.An initial fundraising goal of $1.5 million was expected to cover the cost of the first phase: four playing fields, an equipment shed, the restrooms/concessions stand and parking.Koehler said the league worked with a fundraising group to meet its goal but struggled to attract major contributors."It's not a donation, but an investment. That's the feeling in the corporate world right now," he told the board.Village President Jim Brunnquell said he was sorry to see the league drop the project."We applaud the efforts you did put forward. It's understandable how you came to your decision," he said.Because the village has no alternative use for the project site, the land could be available for some time, Brunnquell added."The village doesn't have any plans for it except for some nursery space," he said.Trustee Jim Grant voiced support for the league and suggested the board should give the league a right of first refusal if someone else comes forward with another project for the site. He asked the board to consider that option at its next meeting"It would give you the option of coming back," Grant told Koehler and other league officials in attendance.Grant also said he appreciates the league's fundraising problems."You've got a great cause but a lousy time to do it," he said.


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I think most of expats in Cilegon are Korean and Japanese.
i am living in cilegon anybody else please let me know
I think most of expats in Cilegon are Korean and Japanese.
Indian here born In London but soth jkt
@Gaganmisra: There are some peoples from India ... working as a contractor in PLTU Suralaya, Cilegon, Banten. Some of them come over my workshop to do repair or make another parts.
Also you may find another in a contractor office in Bojonegara Yard Area, PT Cakra ... owned by India's people.
Thanks for the information
There are a lot Indian live in Cilegon. Some of them work for ONGC. They are bulding offshore platform
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hi ..
i would like to know that how many indians are there in Indonesia and specially in Cilegon..
how is culture over there for staying with family in cilegon?? I am also worried about education of my five year old daughter
can anyone guide me about my doubts for settling in Indonesia from India???
how is life over there?
how is work culture??
how much one can save in normal life??
how much one should expect package?
please reply
Last edited by chiragjani; 03-10-11 at 01:26.
Well your questions are pretty broad, but for sure there mustn't be many Indians or ethnic Indian in Cilegon.
Btw what do you mean with a package of USD 2,500?
Should be able to eat pretty good But that'll depend on your expected standard of living of course...


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Whenever I think of strong women my mind goes straight to skirt suits and up-dos, modestly put-together but quick witted politicians, and feminist activists down in the trenches — all exuding power, a touch of femininity, and strength. It's easy to admire women who work to make a difference by standing up for their ideals or using their influence to create change. There's also something captivating about career women who are seemingly complete and content within themselves and their work. Often it's the hard-working low-income women, the ones who stand strong despite adversity and harassment, or the single working mothers who fight fatigue and poverty just to provide for their children who I forget about.
Though we recognize how strong our mothers are and what they've done for us, we still seem to link strength and feminism to a "Rosie the Riveter" persona — females rising from the "stepford wife" stereotype with a baby in one arm and a nail gun in the other. In reality, I know that strength is more than killing yourself by staying up all night working, with a cappuccino in one hand staring into a computer screen. It's more than the ability to do it all. It's really about the choices that we make.
As the Program Assistant for Creative Services and Marketing (aka a volunteer eager to learn as much as possible with extra time on her hands), I was able to review all of the interviews, photographs, and video clips collected from Jonathan Ernst, a photographer who recently visited Dadaab on LWR's behalf. Ambiya's story was just a paragraph in an email hidden between the stories of other East Africans that Jonathan had met; but when I read through all of the stories from Dadaab, hers was the one that I fell in love with. Looking at it now, it's highlighted in two different colors with stars around the title and "MUST write about her" inked in the margin. As a 23 year old female fresh out of the world of undergrad, Ambiya's story still jolts me back to the realization of all the first world privileges I've grown up with, and my biased perception of what an "average life" includes.
Ambiya lived in Somalia with her daughter, mother, and grandmother. Due to an increasing drought situation and famine spreading throughout her country, it was time to flee to a safer location. She was in no state to leave however; and after eating little to nothing for 18 days, 20-year-old Ambiya gave birth to her son Hamza.
While many of us can barely imagine childbirth without a sterile room and an epidural, Ambiya — likely in a weakened state from her lack of food — gives birth. Being a new mother isn't easy; making sure your baby is healthy, safe and that his or her needs are met is a full time responsibility. While this is stressful enough, imagine leaving your home country, walking by foot for at least a week, losing every one of your material possessions to a drought, and arriving to a new place in order to start a new life with nothing but the clothes on your back.
Without delay, the day after she gave birth, Ambiya left with her newborn, daughter, mother and grandmother on a long trek from Somalia to Kenya. This on-foot venture likely lasted several weeks of intensive traveling with little sustenance and an incredibly strong will. Most people's only goal is to survive the journey — a lofty, and in many cases, unobtainable hope. For Ambiya, her goal was to get her whole family to Dadaab alive, especially her one-day-old newborn.
Coming from a middle-class American background, it's hard to not look at this story abstractly. We put distance between Ambiya and ourselves saying, "No, I could never do that, I'm not that strong." Or, "What an amazing, almost-super-human act — seems impossible." In one sense, rightly so, this was an incredible action made out of love. The problem with distancing ourselves from her story and her feat is that we tend to fictionalize her. Ambiya is a real person who persevered during what was probably the most difficult experience of her life. She represents pure strength. Her action was real and it was emblematic of how the love and strength of a mother extends beyond logic and self-preservation far into love and self-sacrifice.
Many are not as lucky as Ambiya has been; she arrived in Dadaab with her family and her healthy baby boy Hamza. She recounts, "I was very much worried about the baby because he was only one day old. The chance of him dying along the way was very real." Upon registration, they were given food, soap, supplies, and an LWR Baby Care Kit. Most importantly, Ambiya has been given a chance to start a new life with her family.
The magnitude of her actions never ceases to amaze me. When I thought of strong women, I tended to visualize powerful, Americanized, smart, strong, outspoken women. Ambiya helped me see the beauty and power in self-reliance and perseverance. She is absolutely the strongest woman I've ever known about with characteristics I aspire to also have.
I look at the photographs of Ambiya and think of her story often, and all I can see is strength from love.


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- Flights To Jakarta (Indonesia) Now Under Way
- The Anatolian Guests of CeBIT Bilişim Eurasia Will Fly With Turkish Airlines
- World's Fencing Championship Is In Turkey
- Fashionable Istanbul In Turkey With Turkish Airlines
- Tourism And Documentary Channel To Broadcast In Four Languages
- Free Istanbul Tours For Transit Passengers
Only the breeziest of hills become home to windmills, where grains are ground into flour. When the winds rouse enough might to turn their large wheels, the crushing stone begins to do its work.
Morsels of grain, now turned into fine powders, replenish markets and tables alike. Though Anatolia's tradition of many a century has been replaced by more contemporary processes, windmills still firmly exist all around Turkey. Let us go where the wind takes us...
By far, the Bodrum peninsula houses the highest number of windmills in Turkey. Nearly all villages connected to the county have remnants of the abandoned ground-grain tradition. About eighty windmills, the oldest being nearly four hundred years old, reside on the various windy peaks of the peninsula. The mills sitting atop Gümüşlük bay resemble lions with their tails cut off -- grand yet solemn. Their blades are broken, draped in pieces of torn cloth, while their interiors are in ruin. In Gümbet village, the roofs as well as the blades of many mills have disappeared completely. One gets the feeling that those beautiful cylindrical bodies will crumble at any moment. Where once they created a formation resembling a string of pearls gracing the land, some of them now serve as barns, others as storage for hay. Is it not ironic that nearly all touristic Bodrum market souvenirs feature grander semblances of these actually shattered monuments? Only the Windmill Museum in Yalıkavak can help us reimagine their full, original charms. As Yalıkavak's symbol, the windmill housing the museum was repaired and put into use again as a touristic cafe by a private business owner. The pleasure of sipping tea in the shade of this old windmill, at the peak of a breezy hill, is hard to match, especially in the dead heat of summer. The picture need not be so melancholic though – help is on the way for the mills. The Bodrum Peninsula Promotion Foundation is currently dedicating its efforts to the restoration of all the mills in the country as well as their integration to cultural tourism.
If you are in serious pursuit of windmills, you will surely be a visitor of Alaçatı, renowned for its strong gusts. Most of Alaçatı' stone-bodied mills, also symbols of fertility in the area, now serve as restaurants. The white silhouettes of the electricity-producing modern mill-variety turbines set a pleasant backdrop for surfers along the Alaçatı coastline. Tens of them stand tall all day long, as if silently working and waiting for the wind. When the wind stops in Alaçatı, life as well as the mills seems to come to a halt. Travelling down along the Aegean coast, your next stop for windmills should be Datça. 19 mills are currently being restored, remaining true to their original forms, through the municipality initiative. When the project is completed, handcrafts made by villagers and world-famous Datça almonds will be sold at the entrance to the mills, rejuvenating the area's tourism. The most striking difference Datça's windmills bear is that they are three-storied. Back in the day, the top storey of a traditional Datça mill was used for the actual grinding while the middle storey served as storage and the entry level was a place for welcoming buyers and delivering goods. Grains carried to the mills by donkeys would be ground and poured into sacks in turn. They say that the miller faces the wind just as the fisherman faces the sea. When the winds stopped blowing by the wayside, the miller would sing folk songs to make the wait less mundane. For generations the mills would pass down through the families, their blades turning century after century...
Yeldeğirmeni, the Turkish word for windmill, is also a neighborhood in Istanbul named after the mills that stand huddled between its towering apartment buildings. Their white bodies, once welcoming the arrival of spring and its multi-colored flowers, now lie in ruin, not with the least semblance to their original forms. Speaking of original forms, we must not forget Turkey's other windmill-rich locations, including Bozcaada Island, Göynük, Ayvalık and Şamlı in Balıkesir. The Şamlı windmills stand out from the classic stone forms as their bodies are comprised of wooden cabins rather than smooth cylinders.
With their broken wooden wings and crumbling bodies, these towers of stone now only bring loneliness to mind as they wait for their final vanishing act in the hands of mankind. No longer do their faces smile at the winds atop hills, while a city sprawls below. No one knocks upon their wooden doors, which used to close at the end of a joyful yet tiring day. If their walls could talk, they would speak of countless loves and separations, but now only the faintest whispers of the wind echo off of them...
The first windmills in history have been found in Egypt and China, dating from around 2800 BC. The earliest windmills to be documented in written form were built in Seistan, near the Iran-Afghani border in 644 AD. The first wind turbine, or the modern-day windmill, was produced in 1890 in Denmark to convert wind power into electrical energy. As the 20th century introduced mankind to steampower and widespread electricity in cities, the traditional role of windmills began to settle into the dust.


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DivaCup, Natural Menstrual SolutionProduct Rating: Product Review (submitted on June 30, 2010):
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The DivaCup allows me to go longer hours before needing to refresh; great for overnight or when in public washrooms. I can pee and swim without worry and an immediate change, because nothing gets wicked/absorbed. I don't have to carry anything around with me (pads, tampons, liners) in noisy packaging and there's no garbage. There is no smell, no need to mask odours. You can even use it when you are expecting your period to start, because you don't have to worry about TSS (toxic shock syndrome). It is easy to insert, and with a little practice it will be quicker than using a tampon/pad. You don't feel it when it's in place (or if you do it's not uncomfortable). It is very sanitary, simply wash and reinsert.
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In reviewing my algebra class material, I "discovered" a strange phenomenon, that the direct product of injective modules is injective, while if $R$ is not noetherian then the direct sum is not necessarily injective. This made me felt very surprised. In fact, this is only true if $R$ is noetherian.
Because it is trivial to prove that the direct summand of an injective module is injective, one is tempted to prove the direct sum of injective modules is injective by regarding it as the direct summand of the direct product. But this cannot be done. Similarly there are examples like $\displaystyle\prod^{\infty}_{i=1}\mathbb{Z}$ which is the direct product of projective modules, but nevertheless not projective itself because it is not free.
My question is, is there something deeper behind this seemingly bizarre dichotomy? Homological algebra is not my specialization field and my knowledge is quite superficial, so I cannot answer it satisfactory myself other than saying it is a reverse of arrows, etc.
There is a post which provides most of the background.


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Plaid is everywhere this summer, a trend that is likely to extend into fall. We don't know about you, but we're kind of digging this laid back, comfy sort of look. Here we have former OC cutie Rachel Bilson stepping out in a casual Madwell Lake House top. Rachel's cutoff shorts dress down the shirt, but according to the Madewell website, all we'd need to dress it back up is a smart jacket and a nice pair of slacks. With the cut of this shirt, we can definitely see its potential.
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To proficiently establish an environment for learning in the public school system, elected board members (and candidates) must possess or should possess a "fire in the belly" for education to execute the successful delivery of students prepared to lead our country socially and economically at home and on the global stage with integrity.
Current Indian River County School Board Members
1990 25th Street
Vero Beach, FL 32960
Phone: 772-564-3200
Website www.indianriverschools.org
Dr. Fran Adams, Superintendent
District 1- Karen Disney- Brombach 2010-2014*
District 2- Dale Simchick 2013-2014*
District 3- Matthew McCain 2012-2016
District 4- Carol Johnson, Chairman 2010-2014*
District 5- Claudia L. Jimenez Vice- Chairman 2012-2016
*Term Expires
2014 Candidates to date per Indian River Supervisor of Elections' website:
School Board - Dist 1 Karen Disney-Brombach ( Active-)
School Board - Dist 2 Ruben Bermudez (Active- Filed)
Vero Beach
School Board - Dist 2 Dale Simchick (Active- Filed)
School Board - Dist 4 Randy Heimler (Active- Filed)
Vero Beach
School Board - Dist 4 Jorge D. Lugo (Active- Withdrawn)
Vero Beach
School Board - Dist 4 Richard D. SR Marini (Active- Filed)
Vero Beach
A dictionary definition of education is the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. A more prolific and profound expression of education could be that "Education is the torch that brightens the future". Whether individual views on education are prolific, profound or just practical, one undisputable fact is that there must be leadership for direction in the educational process.
A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or higher administrative level. The elected council helps determine educational policy in a small regional area, such as a city, county, state or province. It usually shares power with a larger institution, such as the government's department of education. The name of the board is also often used to refer to the school system under the board's control.
Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of others, but may also be autodidactic (self-educated). Any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. Education is commonly divided into stages such as preschool, primary school, secondary school and then college, university or apprenticeship.
A right to education has been recognized by some governments. At the global level, Article 13 of the United Nations' 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognizes the right of everyone to an education. Although education is compulsory in most places up to a certain age, attendance at school often isn't, and a minority of parents choose home-schooling, e-learning or similar for their children.
REF: Indian River County Supervisor of Elections
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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Did Tom cheat on Kristen with Ariana in Las Vegas on Vanderpump Rules, and do Tom and Kristen break up? Tonight the whole Tom cheating storyline gets new ammunition. After a season of guessing if Stassi is still dating Jax, Bravo is trying a new storyline this season. And tonight, that conflict reaches a head while in Cabo. Stassi claims that Jax told her that Tom cheated on Kristen with Ariana in Las Vegas, but a long time ago, and that they two are no longer together. But was Jax lying yet again? Last season fans wondered what is Jax's real name. Tonight Bravo pushes to learn if the Tom – Ariana rumor from Jax is a lie or not. And if you wondered if Tom and Kristen are still together, you can ask them yourself. They are appearing on WWHL after tonight's episode.
Kristen still believes that Tom cheated on her with Ariana, after being told that Tom is not, at least currently, sleeping with Ariana. And then Kristen, Lisa Vanderpump's protagonist this season, telephones her boss from Cabo to tell Lisa to fire Ariana. The reaction is classic Vanderpump.
"You got to forget that. Ariana's not there", Lisa says. "Enjoy Stassi's birthday." Kristen replies "I would love to. But Jax is ruining that with his big mouth because he is telling Stassi last night that there is truth to the [Tom] cheating rumor."
Lisa replies "I don't know anything about that Kristen." Kirsten remarks "I would like Ariana to not work at Sur anymore… otherwise it is me or Ariana." Lisa fumes "Kristen is out of her mind … I am her boss. Is she giving me an ultimatum?" Kristen says "I am moving out."
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I have watched this show and come to the conclusion that there is too much of people trying to decide who is a liar and who is not I can settle it with one word JAX the man does not know the meaning of truth. Get a life and stop trying to stick to Stassi even if it means lying on your so called friend.
break up so Kristen can find something else to be distraught and emotional about.
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'SNL' Takes On New Year's Resolutions With "Resolution Revolution"
Few jokes are as tired as "New Year's resolutions are hard!", but at least the latest episode of 'SNL' presented a joke as creaky as this in the form of a music video, which gives it far more life than it deserves. We don't know if "Resolution Revolution" will be a viral sensation like some of the show's past video sketches (probably not), but it's pretty funny and pretty darn catchy.


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