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Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q893 TruBrite 18.4-Inch Laptop (Black)
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- Intel Core i5-460M Processor 2.53 GHz (2.80 GHz with Turbo Boost Technology), 3MB L3 Cache
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- 500GB (7200 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive with TOSHIBA Hard Drive Impact Sensor (3D sensor), DVD SuperMulti drive supporting 11 formats
- 18.4" diagonal widescreen TruBrite TFT display at 1680 x 945 native resolution (HD) with native support for 720p content, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M with 1.5GB GDDR5 discrete graphics memory
- Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit with a 12 cell/48Wh Lithium Ion battery pack; Battery Life (measured by MobileMark 2007): 3 hours, 47 minutes
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This laptop has been an absolute pleasure to use. Its extremely responsive and the graphics that it churns out are stunning. The laptop is very quiet while running and the heat that is kicked out by the fan is a lot less than other gaming laptops I have used.
For an example of what the system can handle. I am able to run World of Warcraft at the native resolution, 1680 x 945, with the Ultra graphics setting and still manage 60 fps in crowded areas.
this machine rocks. the HD screen is just amazin along with the 460M graphics. i do wonder if 1.5gb of discrete graphics really has much of a difference with 1.0gb when gaming on an intel I5. i sont think the extra 512mb does anything. but its cool to have i guess.
bootup time is around 18-22 seconds. i play CODMW2, L4D, L4D2, FALLOUT3, BOISHOCK, BAD COMPANY2, HALF LIFE2, STARCRAFT 2, and CRISYS and they all play without a hickup on high or greater. this is a perfect take along gaming machine for those uf you on the go who want the power from home. love it.
This bad boy didn't even hiccup. I travel to play alongside others for raiding when i do play so mobility was important and wow this guy definately shows up their laptops and desktops. Nobody could believe such a creature existed :-D. Sooo basically I love the power and look it has.
As for the negatives so far... Not too much bloatware... Two major gripes.. The keyboard setup can get annoying... It has volume/media buttons directly to the left side of the keyboard and my hand has hit them MANY times so far interuppting whatever I was doing at the time. I would have much rather they positioned these buttons above the keyboard like most other laptops have...
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The illuminated keyboard is a nice touch. I was also surprised to find how good the speakers were and the are the best in a laptop that I have heard. To me it feels like the laptop is of good construction and I feel I got a good deal because it has the same chassis as much more expensive Qosimo models. I feel they did a great job designing the chassis/outside of the x505 series. It is easy to upgrade components like ram and hard drive by removing a few screws from the bottom of the laptop. Some people complain that shiny laptops like this show finger prints but as a personal preference that is a non-issue as I would prefer it to be glossy. The textured touch pad is a nice touch to use and makes that easier to use. Sleep and Charge is a neat feature I have not seen by other manufacturers and it is convenient because these days some devices come only with a usb cable for charging.Read more ›
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4 years passed already, and I am doing this review from it. Still a competetive hardware, battery needs replacing but lasted a normal period. Read morePublished 20 months ago by Javier Garcia
Love the computer BUT Toshiba did me wrong with it. Mother board went out on it 4 times in 1 1/2 years. They wouldn't replace it the next time, wanted me to buy a warranty. Read morePublished 23 months ago by Pamela A Brown
Battery did not last much over a year. Would think the battery would last longer when you pay this much for a laptop.Published on September 8, 2012 by Scott A. Luckenbill
Unless you replacing your desktop - go with smaller laptop. This one is HUGE and HEAVY. The charger is HUGE also. Otherwise it's great. Runs all my games, great for movies. Read morePublished on September 23, 2011 by mobo
Ya cant go wrong with a Toshiba... they were there in the beginning when the laptop story begun and still here now... Read morePublished on March 30, 2011 by Maurice Henry
Having purchashed this on Black Friday like most other folks here (I suspect), wanted to give it some time before I reviewed it. Read morePublished on March 25, 2011 by D. Brown
First purchase of a computer online and all went better than imagined. Arrived very fast with standard shipping and setup went very smooth. Read morePublished on March 12, 2011 by Allen E. Unruh
First this thing is a monster! I have usually had 17.3" laptops, so I didn't think this would be that big of a difference, boy was I wrong. Read morePublished on February 10, 2011 by BjasonD
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RALEIGH, N.C. – William Peace University (http://www.peace.edu), a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that Nancy Eaton Welch will serve as registrar. In her role, Welch will be responsible for compiling and maintaining all student records in compliance with federal, state and accreditation laws. Additionally, she will work closely with faculty and staff in preparation for graduation, perform degree audits, and collaborate with faculty and the academic affairs department on how to improve processes that best accommodate the needs of the university's students.
With 30 years of professional experience in higher education, Welch has worked with a diverse population of students in undergraduate and graduate programs in technical schools, private, for-profit and most recently at an Ivy League school in New England. During her career, she has progressed from counselor to assistant, associate and ultimately director of the office of financial aid and registrar.
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Don't let the name put you off
We had a great short stay at the hotel. Clean, safe, good staff and very helpful. The area feels very safe and has some good cafes too. The Rue Cler (nearby) is always worth a visit. Just be careful if you're booking for a group of friends as there is more than one Splendid Hotel in Paris.
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A great hotel - Fantastic views of the Eiffel Tower from the room (even on the first floor!), exceptionally helpful and friendly staff, excellent location right by a Metro station, and reasonably priced.
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my wife & i stayed in early January. we booked on the strength of previous reviews on this site and we were not disappointed. the hotel is very close to a metro stop, and the rooms are quiet. our room was a tad small, and the tv was placed quite high up on the wall but we had extremely friendly service from reception which is really all we wanted. there is a good indian restaraunt across the road as well.
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Home > Press > Rice University takes the measure of nanotubes: New technique takes the tedium out of analyzing batches of single-walled carbon nanotubes
A Rice University laboratory has come up with a one-size-fits-almost-all way to measure batches of single-walled nanotubes that promises to help researchers and industry make more efficient use of the wondrous carbon material.
This video shows single-walled carbon nanotubes undergoing Brownian motion in solution. Image analysis software developed at Rice University tracks each individual nanotube's movement and relates that movement to the tube's length. The colors represent different individual nanotubes and the lines show each nanotube's trajectory.
(Credit: Jason Streit/Rice University)
Nanotubes grown in a single batch can range in length from a few to thousands of nanometers (billionths of a meter). Until now, the only practical method for measuring them was by imaging with an expensive atomic force microscope (AFM).
But with the new technique from the Rice lab of chemist Bruce Weisman, revealed this month in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano, researchers will be able to carry out these analyses more quickly and with less manual labor.
The end product is a histogram that shows the distribution of lengths in a batch of nanotubes that, individually, are 50,000 times thinner than a human hair
This is just the kind of thing researchers want to know because, even at that scale, the details loom large. When used to deliver strands of DNA or drugs, for example, single-walled carbon nanotubes 200-300 nanometers long seem easiest for cells to absorb. Other applications require longer nanotubes, for example in high-tech composite materials for air- and spacecraft that need the strength and load transfer efficiency offered by longer tubes.
Jason Streit, a graduate student and lead author of the paper, spent two years developing an experimental method and image processing algorithm able to pick out and track batches of nanotubes floating in solution in a tiny well, about a millimeter across and a little less than two micrometers deep.
The highly automated technique allows him to analyze batches of about 800 nanotubes in two hours. "The main way to measure lengths until now has been with AFM," he said. "For that, you have to prepare a sample, look at it under a microscope, make sure that contaminants have been removed, record images and then measure the lengths. It can take hours and hours for most workers."
The new process, called length analysis by nanotube diffusion (LAND), is much simpler. Although it
only observes semiconducting single-walled nanotubes, which are naturally fluorescent at near-infrared wavelengths, it should help researchers simplify the characterization of nanotube batches.
"Different lengths have different utilities and functions in applications," said Weisman, a professor of chemistry and a pioneer in the science of nanotube fluorescence. "Some applications need a certain short length, while there are others where longer is better. And currently, nanotube length distributions are poorly controlled.
"So one goal is to get more control over the lengths of your nanotubes, and to do that you need to develop separation methods. To develop separation methods, you need good characterization tools."
Co-author Sergei Bachilo, a research scientist at Rice, compared the need for different-size nanotubes to a shoe store, where one size definitely does not fit all. "It wouldn't work very well if the store only had shoes in the average size," he said.
Like dust in a shaft of light, nanotubes in a liquid environment move around due to Brownian motion. It's that inherent movement that reveals their lengths. So Streit takes video. The resulting movies look like a field of stars blinking and wandering in the night sky, but from those frames he is able to extract trajectories that tell him how long each individually tracked nanotube is. The software also automatically compiles the statistical data to make the histogram.
Some special computations are necessary to account for nanotubes that show "fragmented trajectories," when a tube disappears behind another or leaves the field of view for a few frames.
The shorter nanotubes (below a few dozen nanometers in length) are hard to capture on video. "They're dimmer and they move faster, so sometimes they're just a blur," Weisman said. "One of the tricks Jason uses is to make the liquid in which they're moving more viscous," simply by adding a special sugar. "That slows them down enough to give us a better view.
"We hope that this will be a valuable tool for basic and applied research," Weisman said. "Right in our laboratory, we're already doing basic photophysical studies in which this method plays a crucial part.
"Diagnostics that are slow and cumbersome just don't get used," he said. "That's simply the truth. And when you convert to a method that's fast and easy, people will use it a lot more. It not only speeds things up, it leads scientists into activities they never would have undertaken before.
"This is going to be an important method for a lot of what we do around here, and hopefully for other labs as well," Weisman said.
The paper's co-authors include Anton V. Naumov of Ensysce Biosciences, who earned his doctorate at Rice in 2011 and has a complimentary appointment at the university; and Constantine Khripin and Ming Zheng of the polymers division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The research was supported by the Welch Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
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I finished grade school at St. Helen's in Riverside (formerly Mad River Twp.), then graduated from Carroll High School. I later earned my Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcasting from the University of Cincinnati. While in the Queen City, my roommate and I would often hop on the bus for a trip down to Riverfront Stadium to watch the Big Red Machine play! My senior year at U.C., I was fortunate to get an internship at WKRC radio where I learned to really apply what I was learning in college. I worked in radio news for three years, with stints at WING radio in Dayton and WCKY in Cincinnati, before landing a job as a reporter at WHIO-TV in August of 1981.
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From 1991 through August of 2009, I anchored News Center 7's evening newscasts with my good friend and colleague, Jim Baldridge. He is now enjoying a well-deserved retirement. I'm fortunate that another very hardworking newsman succeeded Jim. James Brown and I are both sticklers for accuracy and grammar, and while we both like to joke around, we take very seriously our responsibility to our viewers here in the Miami Valley. Since 1987, I've co-hosted the Children's Miracle Network Telethon which benefits Children's Medical Center. I also emcee a number of events every year—including the Rae Burick Women in Sports Award, honoring local high school female athletes.
In 2007. I was fortunate to be honored as Best Anchor by the Associated Press. Later that year, I was honored with induction to the Radio/TV Broadcasters Hall of Fame of Ohio—quite a thrill! In 2008, my alma mater Carroll High School, inducted me into the inaugural class of its Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame, another very special honor. In 2010, the Society of Professional Journalists awarded me a Best Anchor honor, and recently three of my co-workers and I received a regional Edward R. Murrow award for a documentary we did in 2010 called, "Domestic Violence: Breaking the Cycle."
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What was your favorite TV show then? Probably Andy Griffith
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What was your first job in television? Anchoring morning cut-ins on WKRC-TV in Cincinnati
What do you like about your job? I love the challenge of communicating the news of the day in a clear, concise manner.
What do you not like about your job? Having to be concerned about hair, makeup, and clothing.
What might people be surprised to know about you? That I'm very athletic and that I can be very silly.
What is the hardest thing you ever did? It's something I still do every day—being a working mother.
What would be a perfect day for you? It would be a day spent doing something fun with my family, where we're all laughing and enjoying each other's company…maybe playing at a water park all day, then getting cleaned up and having a nice dinner out somewhere (any dinner's nice that I don't have to prepare and clean up!)
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If you could only keep one 5-minute tape from your career what would be on it? A combination of anchoring with Jim Baldridge, and some of my reporting for which I won Emmy awards.Favorites
Favorite book: The Five People you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.
Favorite CBS show: Survivor and 60 Minutes
Favorite food: Chocolate of any kind
Favorite hobby: Reading for pleasure, and exercising—walking, running, swimming
Favorite Miami Valley place: I love all the parks, including Carillon, John Bryan, and Cox Arboretum
Favorite movie: Big with Tom Hanks
Favorite music: Motown music from the 1970's
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RIPON – For the better part of the past two months, the Ripon Police Department's Dispatch Center has been handling service calls for Escalon on a fulltime basis.
Manteca city employees consistently score in the 80 percent range when it comes to response time, effectiveness, and courtesy.
Battle of the Bulge veteran Bill Castillo of Manteca relived the history of World War II with 30 other members of the Armed Services and paid tribute to their comrades who had given their lives in the fighting.
LATHROP – The 24-Hour Relay for Life participants won't have to worry about vacating Lathrop's premier park after the official closure time arrives.
RIPON –Robert Bockhahn did his best to serve his community as a member of the Ripon Parks and Recreation Department.
In keeping with our efforts to maintain a viable online presence, we've just given our website a new look.
The weather was foul but there was nary a frown on McKenna Konesky's fresh-scrubbed face.
RIPON – "National Night Out" is a nationwide campaign created to bring closer neighbors and communities while deterring crime and heightening awareness.
Cindy Candelas, who just graduated from Manteca High, has her eyes set on a career in the arts.
The sound of hammers and earth movers will reach a $27 million-plus crescendo sometime in the next two to four months.
Carlos Gonzales couldn't stop laughing as he dribbled his soccer ball through the grass at Woodward Park.
LATHROP – Most people wouldn't think that home sales in the South County for the last year were very strong.
For the first time in nearly half a century, Frank Vieira stepped inside the old Manteca Winery for the first time on Saturday.
St. Anthony of Padua is the patron saint of lost articles.
How can spending $12.1 million without impacting the general fund save the City of Manteca almost $600,000 a year in personnel and operational costs?
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Work is targeted to start this summer on Measure G bond projects at five more Manteca Unified campuses.
A Manteca convenience store in the 500 block of North Main Street was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday shortly before 2 a.m.
Almonds could provide a solution to combat groundwater over drafting that is dropping a tenth of the San Joaquin Valley's 10,000 square miles ...
No camping will be allowed in Manteca starting July 21 unless a permit is obtained from the city.
Dale Kuil loves farmer's markets.
In the end none of the negative attention that came San Fant's way prior to Tuesday's primary did much damage to his reputation.
The New York Diamonds jewelry store in the Wal Mart shopping center was robbed during the noon hour on Monday with an undetermined amount of ...
Overall this entire "eating healthier and being more active" campaign has been a success.
Big League Dreams' flagship complex in Manteca is looking a little less in "first-class condition" and in "good repair" as called for in the 35-year ...
Ten professionals - including the world's top female eater - are competing for $4,000 in cash prizes to see who can consume up to 12 ...
Karl Knutsen, the East Union High School JROTC instructor for the past 20 years, is stepping down on Oct. 31.
In the end, it really wouldn't have made a difference whether the Lathrop City Council voted to approve the Pilot/Flying J truck stop.
Kathy Howe - citing the need to step up communication between the school district and the community it serves - kicked off her election campaign for Manteca ...
Manteca is currently shipping FOG - the acronym for fat, oil and grease - from restaurants and such to a recycler in Oakland.
Little Mike won't panhandle you in front of your neighborhood 7-Eleven and then flip you off if you don't open your wallet.
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There are two steadfast rules every mobster must follow while beating someone to death with a baseball bat: Don't wear a white suit (things tend to get bloody), and don't allow oneself to be spotted mid-swing by passers-by. Bland baddie Eddie Kim (Byron Lawson) fails on both counts, so when an FBI agent (Samuel L. Jackson) convinces the eyewitness (Wolf Creek Ken doll Nathan Phillips) to fly from Hawaii to L.A. and testify, Kim snuggles aboard a time-release crate packed with deadly cobras, rattlers and hundreds of their hissing relatives, set to wreak havoc when the redeye flight is hovering over the Pacific. "You think I didn't exhaust every other option?" Kim simpers. Guess he was fresh out of bats and white suits.
Jackson, cruising on cool, inexplicably remains coiled for far too long. When the actor finally uncorks his long-anticipated, expletive-filled dialogue de resistance – venting his frustration with the blankety-blank snakes on the blankety-blank plane – he does so with a forked tongue-in-cheek ebullience that Snakes lamentably lacks.
So the movie didn't live up to its Internet-fueled hype. Oh well, snakes on a plane!
(starring Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips)


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The news of a fire at Berkeley's Chez Panisse restaurant sent shivers through the Bay Area's food world. Here are local restaurants run by Chez Panisse-alumni to tide you over until the great Panisse reopens.
( T. Charles Erickson )
Review: 'Satchmo' goes behind Louis Armstrong's happy facade
The solo show 'Satchmo' by Terry Teachout depicts jazz legend Louis Armstrong reflecting on his bittersweet life and music; it plays at American Conservatory Theater through Feb. 7
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Ice Cube co-producing 'Hip Hop Squares'
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Employment Law This Week: U.S. Supreme Court Nominee, California's Anti-Harassment Regulations, Oregon's Minimum Wage, Whistleblower Legislation
Polsinelli Podcast - What Your Company Needs to Know About Whistleblower Claims
Episode 155-Mara Senn on FCPA Investigations and the Decision to Self-Disclose
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 122-with Matt Kelly on Alstom, Avon and Petrobras
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 117-the Avon FCPA Enforcement Action
Thomson Reuters Session 2: Investment Management, Hedge Funds and Registered Mutual Funds: What's Happening Now?
A Price Worth Paying?
SEC Whistleblower Program: What Employers Need to Know
Is Edward Snowden a Whistleblower?
First SEC whistleblower award-6 lessons learned
Whistleblower Tax Suits on the Rise
A pair of whistleblowers is seeking discovery-related sanctions against Wells Fargo for allegedly concealing "crucial evidence" for their False Claims Act claims over fees added to government-backed mortgages....more
Chief compliance officers face an overwhelming level of risk in the healthcare sector. I do not mean to belittle the risks of corruption, AML, sanctions and other risks typically associated with global companies. Healthcare...more
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Here's a riddle: The whistleblower is a former employee of the defendant, with inside knowledge of the operations at the heart of his qui tam suit. How can that inside knowledge be a handicap in pressing his claim? A June...more
The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued a decision today in a case that has important implications for healthcare providers and other organizations that bill the U.S. government for goods or services. (Universal Health...more
Civil Investigative Demands, or CIDs, are a favorite tool of the Federal Government to get information from all types of providers who bill federal payors. This information could form the basis of a civil or criminal...more
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Good news may be in sight for businesses and health care providers.
On April 28, 2016, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice once again considered potential updates to the...more
A magistrate judge in the Northern District of Illinois recently dismissed a company's breach-of-contract counterclaim against a whistleblower for violating the company's privacy policy and confidentiality agreement....more
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Employee Who Needed To Assist Disabled Son Could Proceed With "Associational Disability Discrimination" Claim -
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently held oral arguments in the case of Universal Health Services, Inc. v. U.S. ex rel. Escobar, No. 15-7, which is set to decide the viability of implied certification under the FCA. As discussed...more
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Today, the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of False Claims Act ("FCA") claims against Wells Fargo, finding a general certification of compliance with "any laws or regulations" too broad to support an FCA action and...more
The issue of using statistical sampling in federal False Claims Act (FCA) cases has come to the fore in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, following a U.S. District Court decision denying its use in a case brought in South...more
Oral arguments were heard Tuesday, April 19th by the U.S. Supreme Court in one of the most significant False Claims Act (FCA) cases the Court has dealt with in decades on an issue with very real impact on whistleblower suits...more
Abbott Laboratories recently won a jury verdict in a high profile qui tam lawsuit alleging that Abbott "caused" health providers to submit false Medicare payment claims for off-label use of biliary stents. U.S. ex rel....more
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Today's riddle: Why would a federal court approve a medical device manufacturer's practice of persuading physicians to exaggerate the period of time Medicare patients need their devices? The answer is so simple that you'll be...more
Public discourse on "healthcare" has focused primarily on health insurance and the significant changes made by the Affordable Care Act. But what about the providers of healthcare—the doctors, nurses, hospitals, pharmaceutical...more
On April 7, 2016, after just three hours of deliberations following a three-week trial, a federal jury dismissed False Claims Act ("FCA") claims against Abbott Laboratories brought by a whistleblowing former employee. The...more
"Throughout this Administration, the Department of Education has aggressively enforced accountability and compliance laws for institutions of higher education to protect students, families, and taxpayers," US Education Under...more
Adding its voice to an issue soon to be argued before the Supreme Court, an Alabama federal court recently dismissed a False Claims Act ("FCA") complaint, holding that complying with a federal disclosure regulation was not a...more
Today's riddle: why would the government take the defendant's side against the whistleblower in a False Claims Act qui tam case? Why would the government challenge the whistleblower's claim that two defendants violated the...more
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An algebra is defined for use in problems of manipulator kinematics. With this algebra, one can program the solution to the kinematics in position problems, and use this same program to solve the kinematics problems in velocity and acceleration. The inverse kinematics part of the program can be used to obtain any order time-derivative of the joint positions. Some of the properties of the algebra are shown and functions of the elements of the algebra are defined. The solution to the forward and inverse kinematics problem is presented, and the use of the Ada programming language is discussed


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ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - Police in Roswell say a 17-year-old girl was shot inside an apartment and they have a possible suspect in custody.
KOB-TV in Albuquerque reports (http://bit.ly/1BOTiTx) that police say the teen was wounded in the abdomen around 1 p.
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - Authorities in Chaves County say a man whose body was found lying next to a pickup truck was not a victim of homicide.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A convicted felon who brought a firearm to a Roswell high school graduation last year has been sentenced to federal prison.
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CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) - An official with the U.S. Department of Energy says workers at the federal government's troubled nuclear waste repository will practice with "dummy drums" before limited operations resume next year.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A Clovis man has been sentenced for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.
A judge in Albuquerque sentenced 38-year-old Christopher Jason Kidd on Tuesday to 78 months in federal prison.
Cotton acreage is down.
Specific numbers vary depending on whom you ask, but almost everyone can agree this year will see less fluffy, white crop acreage than last year.
A heavy factor in the decline is low prices, partly due to global oversupply
In some counties with May 31 planting deadlines, weather-induced inability to meet those dates may have played another role.
Now, say 99 percent of farmers turn away from cotton. Instead, they plant sorghum, wheat or whatever else they can grow.
WHITE RIVER LAKE — Bring your bike, and your energy.
West Texas Endurance's White River Road Rally is Saturday.
The Crosby County race contains distances of 25, 50, 75 and 100 miles. The hilly courses are scenic, but they're not easy.
Park at the White River Marina. Registration starts at 7 a.m. and the races at 8 a.m.
Registration is $40.
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A lot has changed in the farming world since March 31.
When the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its planting-intentions survey just over two months ago, its farmer participants could estimate only roughly. They might have determined their intentions of what to plant based on factors such as crop prices.
A few weeks later, Mother Nature changed all those plans.
For example, some fields that were too wet to reach by cotton-planting deadlines led farmers to put sorghum or corn in them instead.
SNYDER — A shooting death last spring at a Snyder motel room is portrayed in a new HBO documentary about gun violence.
"Requiem for the dead: American spring 2014" features on a small segment about homicide victim Robert Silva.
Silva, 33, was fatally shot June 10, 2014 at the downtown Travel Inn.
Nicole Mann, 24, was initially charged with murder in the case. In April, a Scurry County jury convicted her of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced her to probation.
ROPESVILLE — Zumba classes are coming to this tiny Hockley County town three nights a week.
City Council on Tuesday night approved a request from instructor Brandy Tijerina to teach the popular dance fitness classes Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights in Ropes' community building.
"I think it would be good for this community. I'm all for it," Mayor Kenny Greenlee said.
Zumba was created in Colombia in the 1990s. Aerobics instructor Beto Perez started it when he forgot his tape of traditional aerobics music, then improvised with salsa and merengue music.
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They're delicious, but what's their story?
But which butterfly is which?
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Thanksgiving's main course, from free to $6.75 a pound
John Page Williams honored for 40 years of conservation
Local animal lovers read local Short Leash writer
From perch to rock to sea trout — this lure will get them when others won't
From asparagus to strawberries to tools, you've got a few more tasks
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Artist Bio: Maureen Whitaker
US-born Maureen Whitaker is an award-winning artist/graphic designer based on the Mornington Peninsula. She graduated with Highest Honours from Platt College of Art & Design in Colorado and was a freelance graphic designer for over 15 years before adding a paintbrush to her toolbox.
Best known for her quirky mixed-media collage pieces, her work combines interesting layers of textures with vibrant colours in an array of mediums. "My style can best be described as 'eclectic'. I love to experiment with textiles, papers, organic objects and recycled bits and pieces, and find interesting ways to incorporate and manipulate them in an array of mediums and subject matter to create complex, textured pieces. I enjoy pushing the creative envelope and finding original and unusual ways to translate the images in my head onto the canvas, giving them an 'element of surprise' that draws people in. I take much of my inspiration from the fabric of Australian life, from the natural land and beachscapes to industrial, urban cityscapes. People are often surprised by what's there in my pieces when they look closely."
Awards include:
Bay City Holden "Award of Excellence in Art", 2015 Derinya Art & Craft Exhibition
"President's Packer's Award", 2015 Flinders Art Show
Finalist, 2015 "She" Competition & Exhibition, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong
"Best 2D Artwork", 2015 33-1/3 "Colours of Our Grief" Art Exhibition
â"Best Contemporary", 2014 Bayside Art Exhibition, Sandringham
"Best Mixed", 2011 Derinya Art & Craft Exhibition
"Best in Show", 2009 Somerville Council Skatebord Design Exhibition,
Most recently, Maureen co-founded The Creative Space (www.thecreativespace.net.au), an artist co-op in Seaford offering tutored art classes, workshops and social painting days. Maureen teaches "Everything is Art" a mixed-media school holiday program for children aged 8-12, and "Art Master Class", an after-school art program for students of Derinya Primary School.
Maureen is a regular exhibitor at art shows and galleries in the Melbourne metro area and on the Mornington Peninsula. Her works are held in private collections in the USA, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan and Australia.
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