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EU Agrees to Cut Greenhouse Emissions and Boost Clean Energy by 2020
March 14, 2007
The European Union (EU) agreed on March 9th to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The agreement is the first major commitment for GHG reductions beyond the time frame of the Kyoto Protocol, which requires the EU to reduce its GHG emissions to 8 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. While committing unilaterally to cut its emissions, the EU intends to enter international negotiations with a target of cutting the GHG emissions of industrialized countries to 30 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and to further cut global GHG emissions to 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. See the press release from the European Commission, and see the Web site for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for information on the Kyoto Protocol.
The EU heads of state also agreed to aggressive clean energy targets as part of their commitment to cut GHG emissions. The EU agreed to cut its global primary energy use by 20 percent by 2020. "Global primary" energy use counts all the energy consumed worldwide caused by any action in the EU, including, for instance, the energy used to produce any fuels, electricity, or products that are imported into the EU. The European Commission estimates that this will include a 13 percent cut in energy consumption within the EU. And although the EU already expects to fall short of its goal of using renewable energy for 12 percent of its energy by 2010, the EU heads of state have agreed to set a binding target of using renewable energy to meet 20 percent of the EU's total energy needs by 2020. As part of that target, the EU agreed to replace at least 10 percent of its vehicle fuel with biofuels by 2020. See the European Commission document, "An Energy Policy for Europe," on which the new agreement is based.


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The Boeing 777 has provided new opportunities by allowing customers to fly long stretches non-stop and at a shorter travelling time. Not only does the aircraft go the distance, it is also equipped with high-tech engines that reduce fuel burn, keeping the environment in mind. Qatar Airways proudly took the first batch of B777 delivery in 2007 and has more than 30 aircrafts flying across the globe today.
Our B777 cabin is wide, with a high ceiling and a lot of natural lighting. Economy Class is spacious with ample legroom, so you have enough space to stretch, rest and sleep. While Business Class features one of the most comfortable and high-tech, fully-flat beds with 78 inches of legroom.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - As a kid I remember it didn't bother me when, in tale of Cinderella, the fairy godmother turns a pumpkin into a carriage, but it later morphs to a pumpkin. I must have been a pumpkin (a gourd-like squash) in a past life or tended a pumpkin patch. So, when autumn arrives I have an unforgettable pumpkin affair.
Pumpkin muffins to pumpkin pie are goodies that I can't pass on. Come the first sign of fall, I begin the hunt for pumpkin ice cream. It's good at ice cream parlors and good in the carton from a grocery store. This year I purchased a premium brand. I was going to make a pumpkin fruit parfait. But then, I ended up thinking "pumpkin milkshake." If you Google this concoction, you'll see, like I did, that it's nothing new. It's been done. However, I put my own spin on it and on Monday night I whipped a cold, creamy pumpkin milkshake.
As I gathered the ingredients it brought me back in time to fall a few years back. I will always cherish my lone wolf swims at Harveys Resort and Casino. In the late morning during snow flurries, swimming laps with the steam rising from the warm water is a memory to love. Sometimes I swam with an older man who didn't mind the wind chill. And after a hot tub soak I was energized. To top off the experience I often treated myself to those gigantic pumpkin muffins at Starbucks. It doesn't get much better than that until the other day.
I got a pumpkin to carve into a jack-o'-lantern and put a lit candle inside to celebrate Halloween. Hearing the heater kick on at night and putting covers on the windows for extra warmth in my cabin, I decided to go for the big chill in a different way. While it seems a bit crazy to make a cold milkshake when it's cold outdoors, there's something about the ordeal that is untraditional and exciting like swimming in choppy water outdoors during an oncoming snowstorm.
Pumpkin Pie Milkshake
11⁄2 cups all natural gourmet pumpkin ice cream
1⁄4 cup organic half and half
2 small ice cubes
1⁄2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1⁄2 - 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice
Whipped cream
A dash of cinnamon and/or pumpkin spice
Combine ice cream, milk, ice cube in blender. Blend till thick and creamy. Add vanilla and pumpkin spice and blend quickly. Pour into a milkshake or parfait glass. Garnish with whipped cream and spice. Add a piece of dark chocolate for an orange and black Halloween effect. Serves one or two.
So, while I felt the chill in the cabin air it was a forbidden treat sipping and scooping this pretty, light orange shake that tastes like pumpkin pie-mousse. The spices of pumpkin ice cream are welcoming and warm. It's the flavor of fall and feel of pumpkins that makes this milkshake do its magic. It's like going to pumpkin heaven.
Motto: Fall is the season of pumpkins. Enjoy the chill and try something new to feel the season.
- Cal Orey is an accomplished author and journalist. Her books include The Healing Powers series (Vinegar, Olive Oil, Chocolate and Honey) published by Kensington. Her website is www.calorey.com.


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- Sour Creamy Apple Pie takes 1st in Apple Recipe Contest
- Seventh Ave. farmers' market keeps it healthy
- Governor to honor Hendersonville businessman Jeff Miller
- Cyclists back on road for charity
- NC DMV to offer services during Apple Festival
- Apple Festival fun
- Entertainment, from big band to bluegrass
- 5 with Appeal for Aug. 30
- Apple pie takes the cake in Apple Recipe Contest
- Festival draws large crowd for first day
- Ornithopter draws a crowd at annual festival
- Rain not expected to drench Apple Festival
- Main Street will be open in time for festival
- King Apple Parade lineup released
- Recipe contest showcases Apple Festival's star fruit
- Apple Festival President Tonya Cochran
- Kiddie Carnival expanded this year
- Farmers expect bumper apple crop this year
- Seventh Avenue District plans farmers' market
- Apple Ambassador Madison Vaughn
- King Apple Parade
- What's New This Year?
- Getting to the Festival
- 67th NC Apple Festival schedule of events
- Music is in the air at the festival
- Special Apple Festival Breakfasts
- The Mighty Kicks! to headline Apple Festival
- It's almost time for the NC Apple Festival
- Apple festival organizers unveil 2013 artwork
- County sees boost in tourism dollars
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Taj 51 Buckingham Gate Suites and Residences
Located minutes from Buckingham Palace, Taj 51 Buckingham Gate Suites and Residences comprises three Victorian Townhouses - Kings, Minsters and Falconers, featuring signatures of excellence.
It features the world's only Jaguar Suite and a breathtaking Cinema Suite. Each suite has a separate living room, fully-equipped kitchens and luxurious bathrooms.
An ideal home away from home experience for the discerning traveller that perfectly caters for families with children's amenities.
Delight in fine dining at the Kona restaurant or experience the Michelin starred Quilon Restaurant, award-winning Courtyard garden and a Wellness Centre.
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- Address
51 Buckingham GateLondonSW1E 6AF
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)20 7963 8400
- Public transport:
- St James Park Underground 3 min walk Exit station turn left to Petty France St. Continue down the st till crossroads, turn left to Buckingham Gate. The entrance is adjacent to Quilon Restaurant.
- Accessible Bathroom Facilities
- Bathrooms available with emergency call system
- Bathrooms available with separate shower unit
- Bathrooms available with shower seating
- Baths with handrails
- Designated wheelchair accessible public toilet
- Some toilets with handrails
- Accessible Venue Facilities
- Level access, ramp or lift to dining area
- Level access, ramp or lift to restaurant or cafe
- Level access, ramp or lift to the bar
- Level access, ramp or lift to the lounge
- Level access, ramp or lift to the shop
- Accessible Communication Facilities
- Audible alarm system
- Clear signage (colour contrast, large letters or pictograms)
- Information available in large print
- Sign language used
- Visual alarm system
- Accessible Venue Facilities
- Assistance dogs welcome
- Emergency evacuation procedures for guests with disabilities
- Special dietary requirements catered for
- Staff available to assist
- Staff available twenty four hours
- Staff disability awareness trained
- Access into the Building
- Assisted wheelchair access
- Ramps from parking area to entrance
- Ramps with handrails to entrance
- Steps from parking area to entrance
- Steps with handrails to entrance
- Additional Accessible Facilities
- Level access, ramp or lift from entrance to reception
- Level access, ramp or lift to garden
- Accessible Bedroom Facilities
- Adapted kitchen
- Bedroom furniture can be re-arranged on request
- Non-allergenic bedding available
- Wheelchair accessible bedroom
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- Accessible lift
- All routes suitable for pushchairs or prams
- Lift with spoken announcements on arrival at each floor
- Ramps with handrail within building
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- Advance booking only
- Cancellation policy
- Coach parties accepted
- Group bookings accepted
- Stag or hen parties accepted
- Catering Facilities
- Bar
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- Halal options on menu
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- Outdoor dining / Beer garden
- Restaurant
- Vegetarian options on menu
- Children Facilities
- Children welcome
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- In house AV available
- Available for wedding receptions
- Breakout Rooms
- Business centre
- Offers charity rates
- Conference rooms / Meeting rooms
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- Licenced for civil marriages
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- Raked or tiered seating offered
- Trade vehicle access
- Venue can display vehicles inside
- Wedding service
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- Guest lounge
- Internet access
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- Credit cards accepted
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- Group rates available
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- Air conditioning
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- Fridge
- Ground floor accommodation available
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An exhibit of recent works by DCCA studio artists Lynda Johnson and Anne Oldach. Each artist works in a series and pursues their unique expression in an exploration of color, form and light. Lynda Johnson's encaustics investigate a unique language of reoccurring shapes and lines and Anne Oldach manipulates suggestions of space and narrative in mixed media assemblage and wax, with overlays of imagery and tonal rhythms.
- Lynda Johnson and Anne Oldach
Anne Oldach Artist Statement
The body of work represented here combines the elements of collage and pigment in bees wax (encaustic.) An attached, individual, 3D object sometimes ornaments them. The collage elements come from magazines and newspapers and I especially like vintage images from old posters, magazines etc. I am pleased when the images create the sensation of spatial depths with elements moving forward and receding in space.
I am attracted to both images of nature and stories that reflect a specific cultural context. My collages can be organized around relatively logical thoughts, but often, I find I am drawn to juxtapose quite disparate images and to accept a certain element of chance connections that will spark different responses depending on the viewers' own experiences. My feeling is that various Surrealists and artists such as composer John Cage came prepared with all their own aesthetic chops but invited the serendipity of the randomness of the universe "in" to have its voice. Some of my images are quite layered and in the layering things emerge which are a welcome surprise even to me.


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A new state-of-the-art triathlon/time trial bike called Triestina Blade has been released by Wilier Bikes for 2012. Along with the manufacturing mold of this innovative bike is a standard fork and a unique
carbon composition. Its frame weighs in at 1.32kg only.
In order to optimize aerodynamics, the Triestina Blade is built with internally routed brake and cable housing. While taking advantage of its concealed Twinfoil V-style rear brake solution, this triathlon/time trial bike uses a customary front brake.
Featuring impressive components and spec at a low price, the 2012 Wilier Triestina Blade Triathlon/Time Trial Bike, comes with a Wilier FSA Gossamer crank set, Ultegra 6700 group set, and a Shimano RS30 wheel set.


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OAKLAND -- More than three years have passed since The Parkway Speakeasy Theater shut down, ending 12 years of pizza, beer and eclectic movies on Park Boulevard.
Fans fought to reopen the cinema and came close in 2010, but it just didn't happen. Instead, the Parkway is being reincarnated in an old glass-sheet factory on 24th Street in the Uptown district.
"I had hoped to be open by tonight," the new owner, J. Moses Caesar, said Wednesday. "But it's nice to do something that feels like a super-soft opening."
Caesar and other 24th Street merchants were holding a mini food and film fair called "24th on 24th" that night. A small crowd gathered in front of what will be the entrance of the Parkway. A surf band played on a makeshift stage.
"This will get you and your lovely wife into two classic movie series," said Cassady Toles, the host of classic movie night at the Alameda Theatre and Cineplex.
He handed two tickets to impresario Will "the Thrill" Viharo, the only fixture so far guaranteed to make the transition from old to new Parkway.
The two men were dressed alike, in shimmery smoking jackets.
Viharo broke away from Toles to take up his duties as impresario for the evening. He read off the list of movies showing that night at the 24th Street businesses.
The film "Ghost World" was shown at the Creative Growth Art Center (brisket biscuits, cookies and candied bacon caramel corn).
"American Graffiti" played at ER Transmissions (salsa and chips, ice cream sandwiches).
"Enter the Dragon" was at Soja Martial Arts (Brazilian cheese rolls, pies and cupcakes).
Kitchener Oakland had lamb poutine on the menu and "Night of the Living Dead" on their screen.
"That culinary classic," Viharo joked. He meant the movie.
Kitchener Oakland's founder Sophia Chang was holding Caesar's white dog when a woman on a bike looking for free food walked up to her. Chang explained that Kitchener is not a restaurant but a food business incubator and that "24th on 24th" was her idea.
The Parkway ironically was the one that didn't show a film, but the theater did have food: two boxes of pizza arrived around 6:45 p.m.
"We also have lots of food down the street at the Sweet Bar Bakery," Caesar said. The bakery was showing "Concession Stand."
The Parkway's grand reopening is Nov. 30. The opening night movie is "still up in the air," Caesar said. There will be two floors, two theaters and a cafe.
"The new Parkway is taking all the lovely things from the old Parkway and replicating them the best we can," Caesar said. "Food and beer on the couch will be standard."
They also want the reincarnation to be a quirky community space as it was at the original location and show the same kind of offbeat movies.
About 80 percent of the movies will be second run films -- "Hollywood stuff" three to five weeks old, Caesar said. The rest of the films will be local, art house, documentaries and the like.
"The old Parkway was rarely the place people went to for blockbusters," Caesar said.
The only hitch is the parking, although it was never overly abundant on Park Boulevard.
"We are an urban theater," Caesar said.
The location is close to bus lines and BART and people who come by car should be able to find a spot within a five-minute walk, he said. Some of the nearby lots may stay open evenings once the theater launches.
But the new owner does plan to improve the quality and speed of the food, offer cleaner sofas and bathrooms, and hire, as Caesar put it, a "dourless staff."


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An exhibit of Wanda Gag's art will open at the Brown County Historical Society (BCHS) on Friday, March 8.
An open house will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, March 8. A short program will be held at 6 pm. Mrs. Gary Harm, executor of the Gag Estate will be at the museum to meet with visitors. For more information please call the Brown County Historical Society at 507-233-2616.
The exhibit celebrates the 120th anniversary of Wanda's birth. This exhibit is co-sponsored by the City of New Ulm Gag Collection Committee, the BCHS and the Wanda Gag House Association.
Pieces on exhibit will be from the City of New Ulm's Collection, the BCHS, the Wanda Gag House Association and the Gag Estate through the courtesy of Dolly Harm and other private donors.
There will be over 30 framed prints, complemented with smaller childhood drawings, books, commercial art pieces, and exhibition announcements. The exhibition will run from March -November of 2013.
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Blacktip Reef Shark, Maldives
Photograph by Paul Wilkinson, Your Shot
Smaller fish keep their distance when a blacktip reef shark swims amongst them in shallow water in the Maldives.
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
Blue-Tongued Lizard, Australia
Photograph by Kathy Parker, Your Shot
Australian blue-tongued lizards are widespread over our great country. This particular species is a "common" or "Eastern" blue-tongued lizard, found in the eastern parts of Australia. Living on a farm in the South East of South Australia, we find many of these lizards lazily crawling around our yard, especially during the warmer months. This lizard was courtesy of our hunter-gatherer cat, which is brave enough to bring all sorts of amazing creatures to our back door for inspection and approval!
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
Seagull and Boats
Photograph by Diane Jones
Walking the line
(This photo and caption were submitted to the 2011 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest).
Caiman and Turtles, Guatemala
Photograph by Anthony Davis, Your Shot
A caiman rescued by the ARCAS organization in Guatemala gets the eye from a ring of turtles. Founded in 1989, ARCAS strives to rehabilitate animals seized from poachers and illegal pet traders, eventually releasing most back into the wild. As one of hundreds of travelers fortunate enough to volunteer at ARCAS each year, I spent long, hot, but enjoyable days cleaning and feeding parrots, scarlet macaws, spider monkeys, howler monkeys, and other species under pressure in Central America.
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
Parrotfish, Great Barrier Reef
Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic
The clownish grin of a bridled parrotfish reveals its power tools: grinding teeth used to scrape algae from rock. Though sometimes destructive to individual corals, the fish's efforts are mostly beneficial. Without them, algal growth could smother the reef. Scarus frenatus
See more pictures from the May 2011 feature story "A Fragile Empire."
Hawaiian Green Turtle, Maui
Photograph by Jose Cardona
At a Maui aquarium a Hawaiian green turtle makes a guest appearance. Members of this threatened species are unique among sea turtles for their herbivorous diet, thought to imbue their fat with a greenish hue.
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Gecko and Palm Frond
Photograph by Lorenzo Menendez, Your Shot
A small gecko pokes his head out from between the ridges of a palm leaf. How I ever saw him I will never know.
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
Blue Heeler, San Miguel de Allende
Photograph by Jay Koppelman, Your Shot
I grabbed this shot of a blue heeler dog in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Sometimes it seems that there are two completely separate worlds that are in existence: that of the humans and the other, which belongs to the animals. In this photo the humans are definitely unaware of all the interaction that goes on in the animal world just feet away. I wonder what's going through this dog's mind.
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
Deer, Japan
Photograph by Angie Sin, Your Shot
Deer in Nara, Japan, are revered as holy messengers of God and are allowed to roam freely. They are well known for their bowing gestures for food.
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Horses, Wales
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This photograph was taken near Pitt's Head in Snowdonia National Park. The sun was setting and the backlighting created this dramatic picture.
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Friday, November 29, 2013
I Love You a Hundred Times Over
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From Roberto Coin's flair for beauty and excellence comes an astounding gem – the Cento Diamond. Taking the brilliance of this beautiful gem to a higher level, the Cento has twice as many facets as the traditional 57-facet diamond. Boasting of 37 facets on the table and an astounding 63 facets around its pavillion, Cento dazzles with its brilliance and fire. Its facets create a symmetrical floral pattern at the heart of the gem. Made from flawless to nearly-flawless stones, this cut is applied to diamonds over 0.07 carats. Roberto Coin chooses only colorless diamonds to bring out the Cento's ultimate beauty. Seeming to say "I Love You" a hundred times over, the Cento C-profile Solitaire Ring is made of platinum with a 4-prong C-profile setting that securely holds the centerstone, which is often accented by smaller diamonds. Roberto's signature ruby on the inside of the band completes this fabulous piece.
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Why do we love O'Reilly so much? It's not just new, high quality books like Linux System Administration by Tom Adelstein and Bill Lubanovic (coming out in April). It's also the fact that they have generously offered to send the first 10 copies off the press of Linux System Administration to 10 of our lucky readers! So not only will ten of our readers receive a copy of this book, they will receive the first ten copies of this book! Go on, get in the running to be the envy of your friends!
Interested? You should be! Here is what you do. If want a chance to get your hands on this book, we want you to log in and post a comment (in 100 words or less) describing why your favorite piece of free software beats the alternatives hands down.
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If this article hadn't specified 'free' software I would have nominated the M$ OS as my favourite software on the grounds of the old bar line;
"How dare you criticise the man/woman who drove me to drink!"
Certainly, one has to experience the expensive horrors of an OS written by a bunch of corporate shysters, before they can truly appreciate the joys of free operating systems written by proper code hackers.
My favourite free software at present is Kubuntu, of course. It is an ideally placed OS at a time when most computer users have been given a multitude of good reasons to wish to escape the abortionate corporate creation M$ call Vista.
Whenever an alarmed M$ user complains that they are going to have to buy a new high-end machine, with four gig of ram, just so they can 'update' to Vista, I simply burn off a Kubuntu install CD and say,
"Boot up your machine with this in the slot, and your modem running, then press the 'install' icon. In fourty minutes you'll have a free operating system that will beat Vista hands down, complete with a first-class office suite, and everything else that you can imagine. It will be automatically configured to your broadband connection and ready to go. YOU WON'T HAVE TO UPDATE ANY HARDWARE OR PAY OUT ONE SINGLE CENT. It even allows you to keep your current M$ OS, as a partition, if the change makes you feel nervous. It'll work straight out of the box, and anyone who has ever used M$ will have no trouble using it straight away."
What other free software OS could you confidently give to someone and make a claim like that?
Can I call "gentoo" a piece of software?
My favorite "piece of free software" is called Gentoo (I mean: the Portage system) :)
It beats others "software" 'cause it forces you to really learn how Linux works and, once you get it, you got the power to rule all Linux distributions!
Using Portage is really fast and simple IMHO! It let's you decide what and how install and fine tune all of the software your system will run (compiling options, package dependences and software options)!
Why OpenOffice.org?
1-) PDF Export!
2-) Presentations in Flash!
3-) ODF support!
4-) Opens all that pesky .DOC, .XLS and .PPT!
5-) It's free (as in speech and as in beer).
6-) Linux, Windows, Mac, all of 'em runs OpenOffice.org
7-) Shooting Microsoft where hurts more!
OpenOffice & Firefox
I don't think any piece of software will do/has done more to help the "digital divide" than OpenOffice. It allows family's who could just barely afford last year's e-Machine model to create documents for school, professional looking resumes, etc. without spending a month's salary. I have family members that are educators that are jubilant that students have a low-cost alternative to MS Works.
My second pick would be Firefox. What more of an explanation do you need than: it's not IE. Safer browsing with plenty of customizations.
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Openoffice & Fire Fox
OpenOffice is one of the most useful open source software followed by firefox. I didn't use IE much after I started using firefox. Tabbed browsing is such a nice feature alongwith the popup blocker. Although both of these softwares are little more resource hungry, especially in windows environment but they are worth it. I am using Openoffice in workplace for more than a year now. There is hardly anything which I am not able to do.
Favorite Free Software?
It's really hard to decide what I would call my favorite free software in Linux. OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Thunderbird are great pieces of software. But then I cannot forget Amarok, K3B and Easytag which I use just about daily. The simple ability to change desktops is also another great feature. KDE, Gnome and Xfce give users the ability to configure their desktop to their needs, try that in Windows.
Could I call SabayonLinux a piece of software? It uses the power of Gentoo without confusing a new user (to Gentoo), and the Beryl desktop running off a Live CD is proof of Linux' superiority.
I really can't choose one package as my favorite. I prefer Linux because it simply works, no fuss no muss. When was the last time you installed Windows on a machine and everything worked right out of the box? PCLinuxOS installed on my old laptop and everything worked right away, including the wireless card.
I guess my favorite software (if you can it that) is: Linux
copy/paste with mouse
Copy/paste with mouse only by selecting text is definitely my favorite when it comes to compare features of free vs. proprietary software. I believe that the X window system is the one that makes this possible.
It's faster than doing things with keyboard shortcuts - so it increases productivity when copying some text around. And it does not interfere with the usual
ctrl+c/ctrl+v actions.
Just used it to paste the text here. :)
The one true editor
I'd like to say that Emacs is better than the proprietary alternative, but I can't think of one!
As an interface to LaTeX and BibTeX it produces more beautiful documents than Word. With R and ESS it is a more flexible statistics package than SAS. Shell mode offers more power for managing files than the limited options available in Windows Explorer, and you can save a log of your work as a text file. I use Emacs in place of at least ten MS programs, and in every case it provides more features, more power, and more stability.
CentOS - LTSP
If CentOS can be classified as a "Software" then I think it is my favourite. As an enterprise level server OS it has given me the opportunity to introduce Linux where I work knowing I am offering a stable and reliable product, and when it comes to $$$ free is always considered a good alternative. CentOS because thanks to their knowledgeable community and to the LTSP project, I will finally see some Linux on the desktops in my company.
Your compositor's free choice
You know: I'm definitely a TeX and friends' advocate, when I do promote a typesetting system. In fact it was our EIC's first choice, instead of, i.e., Scribus.
Why? It's fully programmable; its macro packages are "CSS-like driven"; every OSs all over the world have a TeX porting. Moreover, it helped defining a de facto standard for (multilanguage, and very large, too) document interchange; it's daily improved in its capabilities by thousands of users everywhere; it produces the best typeset PostScript/PDF documents, slide presentation, and so on, you've ever seen.
A lot of programs export plots, drawings and charts so that their fonts exactly match, and change accordingly, to those used in your documents. And, at last, try to typeset some math with TeX and with XPress, Word, or AcmeSetter, and then compare the result. Peace.
For people who a really cool media player that does not implement DRM I would recomend Songbird; you can check out the site at http://www.songbirdnest.com. The player lets you download media files off websites. You can search for media using sarch engines like google and dogpile, as well as buy media. You can also import your iTunes files and manage you iPod as well. I love it!
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My Top 2 Free Software
I'm sure that these will probable be a common answer, but Open Office and Firefox are very good open source free software.
With Firefox, the immediate advantage I found once I started using it was the tabbed browsing. Not having to have multiple browser windows open was a godsend. Free up space on my task bar (yes, semi-windows user here). The next great thing is the extensions. There are so many of them available. You can get them to check email, assist w/ web design/development, run custom scripts, view link/page in IE (as a last resort, hee hee). A wonderful piece of software. Oh, and of course, it's multi-platform.
With Open Office, you get a free version of Microsoft Office. While it's true that there can be some formatting issues, when opening an M.Office document with O.Office, but for the most part I don't have too many problems. Oh, and did you catch that last statement? You can open M.Office documents in O.Office, and save in the formats of M.Office too. Great for if you have to work with Clients still use M.Office. Exporting to PDF as well, out of the box, is also great. This software also being multi-platform gives it another leg up on being a great piece of free software.
Those are the two big ones for me, I use them everyday and home and at work. At work I also use Thunderbird, a free email application (from the makers of Firefox), and have been getting around to learning The GIMP (like Photoship). And of course, finally, there's linux. I've been also messing around w/ various distro's and it's great as well.
Thank you so much to all of the developers (et al) who put so much hard work and effort into building and maintaining these pieces of software.
Freemind is a mind mapping software package licenced under the GPL. It's an awesome program that allows you to map out ideas and connections between them in various ways with graphics and colours. More than just being an awesome program at what it does, it also does with your data what you want to do with your data - i.e. it's got a ".mm" mind map format but can export to really impressive javascripted XHTML, to PNGs and OpenOffice.org writer. GPLed, cross-platform, open formats, awesome program - once you have those, what else is there to say?
As I'm preparing this comment in OpenOffice, I choose the two features that I think make Blender much better than Maya and 3ds Max: It is free of charge and easy to use. This helps young students in two ways: They don't have to cough up the last bit of their savings, and more importantly, they can be totally self-taught and still create amazing animations with Blender. No more waiting to afford the next texturing course, but hands on experience so we can contribute sooner.
Not only is Blender free software, it is free education.


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Coretta Scott King became a symbol in her own right of her husband's struggle for peace. And from everyone News 12 spoke to who knew her, they say she did that in a quiet, yet stoic and forceful way.
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And like many others who survived the Civil Rights era, she lived with a special hope, challenging future generations to dream big.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say two people were killed and a third was injured in three separate accidents on California mountain slopes.
The owner of China Peak Mountain Resort northeast of Fresno says a 30-year-old snowboarder was killed Sunday afternoon after falling head first in an open ski area. Tim Cohee said about 5 feet of snow fell in the Sierra National Forest over the weekend.
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Ridgecrest Police Department saturation patrols and sobriety/drivers-license checkpoint resulted in one arrest for driving under the influence.
The department conducted patrols Friday and Saturday and the checkpoint New Year's Eve. The department conducted the checkpoint in the 200 block of West Ridgecrest Boulevard.
Traffic Sgt. Mike Myers said officers contacted 31 drivers Friday, conducted six field-sobriety tests and arrested one person for DUI.
Officers contacted 24 drivers Saturday, conducted eight field-sobriety tests, but made no DUI arrests. Officers arrested one person for a misdemeanor charge.
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St. Petersburg, Florida- August 24, 2012
Progress Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, is preparing to mobilize more than 1200 off-system line and tree personnel to assist company crews if Tropical Storm Isaac affects its service territory.
This weekend, crews will be traveling to staging sites across the areas expected to be affected by the storm. The storm is currently forecast to make landfall early next week, possibly as a hurricane, along the northern Gulf Coast. Winds and rains may impact the entire Gulf Coast of Florida starting as early as Sunday evening.
"We are prepared to respond to potential power outages caused by Tropical Storm Isaac," said Jason Cutliffe, storm director for Progress Energy Florida. "We make continual improvements to our power restoration efforts based on the lessons we have learned from other storms such as Tropical Storm Debby back in June. Now we are able to leverage Duke Energy's experience as well."
Progress Energy recently merged with Duke Energy to become the largest electric company in the country. The combined company expands the utility's ability to quickly plan and decisively respond to major storms such as this. The company's storm plan includes mobilizing employees to handle increased customer calls, quickly evaluate storm damage, coordinate line crew and equipment mobilization, coordinate materials required for repairs, and arrange meals and lodging for out-of-town workers.
After severe weather, Progress Energy Florida takes specific steps to restore power. Crews first assess damage and determine what personnel, equipment and supplies will be needed to make repairs.
With the Republican National Convention (RNC) beginning Sunday in the Tampa Bay area, Progress Energy Florida is coordinating with the Secret Service, local emergency management organizations, and others to help monitor the event that is bringing more than 50,000 visitors to the area.
In the event the storm interrupts service, customers can call Progress Energy Florida's automated outage reporting line at 1.800.228.8485. The automated outage reporting system is capable of handling more than 120,000 calls per hour.
In addition to its automated outage reporting phone line, the utility has online resources to allow customers to report outages using computers and compatible mobile devices.
Progress Energy encourages customers interested in using mobile devices or computers to report outages to register before a storm hits. Customers will need their account number, located on their bill, to register. For information on all of the utility's outage reporting options, visit progress-energy.com/storm.
To keep customers informed following a storm, the company has developed an online outage map showing up-to-date information about current outages and estimated restoration times.
The outage map can be viewed at:
Progress Energy Florida also sends updates on storm-related outage restorations via Twitter and Facebook. Customers can follow the utility at www.twitter.com/ProgEnergyFL and www.facebook.com/ProgressEnergyFlorida.
Progress Energy Florida offers the following storm safety tips
When the storm threatens:
Progress Energy Florida has a storm information website for customers. The site, www.progress- energy.com/storm, has information for customers on how to prepare for major storms and what they can do if a power outage occurs as a result of a storm. Customers should log on before the storm hits and print information they can reference during the storm.
Check supplies and make sure you have the following items: portable radio with fresh batteries, flashlights, first-aid kit, canned or packaged food that can be prepared without cooking or refrigeration, several days' supply of drinking water (one gallon per person, per day), a full tank of gas in your car and cash.
Unplug major non-vital appliances. Advanced surge-protection systems will protect your home from most power surges, but will not prevent damage from a direct lightning strike.
Pay attention to local television and radio broadcasts for storm position, intensity and expected landfall.
Prepare for high winds by boarding up windows and other glass, anchoring objects outside and bracing garage door.
Secure boats and trailers on land and check mooring lines of boats in the water.
Put important papers in watertight containers (take them if you evacuate) and move valuables to upper stories of your home. Fill your bathtub with water for sanitary purposes.
Because water conducts electricity, it is not safe to run water during a storm. If you know someone who relies on electric-powered life-support equipment, be prepared to move that person to a facility outside of the storm's projected path to avoid the risk of an extended power outage.
When the storm hits:
Stay indoors in an inside room away from doors and windows, electrical outlets and water pipes. Don't go out in the brief calm during the eye of the storm.
Keep television and radio tuned for information from official sources. Be prepared to evacuate at a moment's notice.
If you evacuate, shut off gas, water and electricity (electricity can be shut off at the breaker box). Take blankets, first-aid supplies and other essential items with you to the nearest shelter.
After the storm has passed:
Never go near downed power lines. Always assume they are energized and extremely dangerous. If someone suffers an electric shock, call 911 or your local rescue squad immediately. Even minor shocks may cause serious health problems later.
Check for electrical damage inside your home, such as frayed wires, sparks or the smell of burning insulation. If you find damage, don't turn your power on until an electrician inspects your system and makes necessary repairs.
Walk and drive cautiously. Watch out for debris-filled streets and weakened bridges. Snakes and insects can be a problem after storms.
Use your emergency water supply or boil water before drinking it until local officials deem the water supply safe. Report broken sewer or water mains.
Make temporary repairs to protect property from further damage or looting.
Beware of unscrupulous contractors.
If the power goes out:
Call Progress Energy Florida at (800) 228-8485 to report a power outage. You can expedite the process by using this automated outage reporting system. Entering your phone number or Progress Energy account number in the system ensures that
we know about your outage and will capture that information in the company's restoration plans. Once restoration time estimates are developed, those estimates will also be available to you through the automated system.
Keep refrigerator and freezer doors closed. Food usually stays frozen about 48 hours. A refrigerator can keep food cold for about four hours. Remember, when in doubt, throw it out.
Do not connect a generator directly to your home's electrical system. It is dangerous to you, your neighbors and utility workers. Follow manufacturer's directions regarding connecting appliances directly to your generator.
In any power outage, utility crews restore service as quickly as possible, starting with the largest lines serving the most people.
For additional storm information and safety tips, visit www.progress-energy.com/storm.
Progress Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), provides electricity and related services to more than 1.6 million customers in Florida. The company is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Fla., and serves a territory encompassing more than 20,000 square miles including the cities of St. Petersburg and Clearwater, as well as the Central Florida area surrounding Orlando. Progress Energy Florida is pursuing a balanced approach to meeting the future energy needs of the region. That balance includes increased energy-efficiency programs, investments in renewable energy technologies and a state-of-the-art electricity system. More information is available at www.progress-energy.com.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 250 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company is available at: www.duke-energy.com.
St. Petersburg, Florida- August 23, 2012
Progress Energy Florida is monitoring the movement and expected track of Tropical Storm Isaac, which is currently forecast to make landfall in Florida early next week, possibly as a hurricane.
Progress Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, has a detailed storm plan in place and has begun preliminary preparations to ensure quick power restoration if the storm affects the company's service territory. The plan enables the company to mobilize equipment, vehicles and thousands of employees and supplemental contractors who train outside their normal jobs for storm-specific duties in support of restoration efforts.
"We prepare for every scenario," said Jason Cutliffe, storm director for Progress Energy Florida. "We're prepared to respond in the event that Isaac or any other storm damages the electric system. We know our customers rely on us to keep them informed and restore service safely and quickly after storms."
Progress Energy Florida works year-round to maintain the company's 20,000 square-mile service area. Progress Energy invests thousands of staff hours and more than $150 million each year to strengthen its 35-county Florida system against storms. This includes the replacement of poles and other equipment upgrades to minimize the likelihood of outages when storms strike. This companywide focus has enabled Progress Energy to reduce outage times and speed restoration significantly over the years.


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Just when Eagle County Open Space Director Toby Sprunk was ready to take a break, he saw some opportunities and is back at the drawing board.
He's preparing two Great Outdoors Colorado grant applications for a project at the Duck Pond Open Space in Gypsum and a long-shot project in Red Canyon.
Sprunk is still wrapping up the final details of several big deals that were made last year, for which the county landed a $4.5 million GOCO grant.
"I don't write grants just for fun, but when there's money available, you have to strike while the iron is hot," Sprunk said. "It seems like whenever I think I'll finally be able to slow down another project comes up."
The GOCO application for the Duck Pond project was submitted yesterday (March 6). Sprunk is asking for $140,000 for the $280,000 project that would install a boat ramp, picnic area and bathrooms, and improve parking at the "West Duck Pond." The 55 acres of that area has about 4,000 feet of Eagle River frontage.
"We see this as a project with multiple benefits for anglers, river tubers and boaters," Sprunk said. "We have multiple partners that have expressed support."
He said Trout Unlimited, Ducks Unlimited, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, American Rivers, Eagle River Watershed Council, Eagle Valley Land Trust and the town of Gypsum have all sent letters of support.
The new boat ramp might make the upstream stretch of river more popular for floaters.
"The Duck Pond provides a suitable takeout above a rapid that has jagged lava rocks," Sprunk said. "Or people might want to put in there to run the rapid."
Depending on how fast permits are approved through the Army Corps of Engineers, work could start this fall. More likely, construction will finish in the spring of 2014.
The other GOCO application is for $600,000. That project is speculative at this point, however.
"We don't have a deal under contract," Sprunk said. "We just have some vague conceptual agreements. This one could take a while to materialize but I talked to GOCO and was encouraged to apply for the grant."
After the county partnered with the town of Minturn to win a bid on a 4.39-acre parcel called the Boneyard for $2.3 million, Sprunk said the open space fund is nearly depleted.
"The open space fund started with $20 million, now we're starting to run out of money," Sprunk said. The program has had a busy year of buying land while prices have been drastically reduced from four years ago when the economy was at its peak.
The Eagle County Open Space program was initiated from a dedicated tax approved by voters in 2002. The bulk of those collections remained untouched until recently.
"We have gotten very close to zero dollars, it's amazing," Sprunk said.
With $4.1 million in property tax revenue expected to come in this year, $2.5 million that GOCO still owes from grants awarded last year and the money left in the bank, the program has about $6.7 million available for projects.
"When we close on the Boneyard (March 14), we're not going to hit the ground but we'll come close," Sprunk said.


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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — An armed man pursued onto the campus of North Carolina Central University was shot and killed in nearby woods after challenging campus officers, police said Tuesday.
Durham police tracked the suspect to the campus late Monday, prompting university officials to lock down the school for several hours. It was not immediately clear why Durham police had pursued the man.
Campus officers subsequently located the man in some woods southeast of the university complex before midnight, authorities said. The man challenged three campus officers with a gun and they fired in response, campus Police Chief Timothy Bellamy said.
The man's name was not immediately released. University police said he was not a student.
A Durham police spokeswoman referred questions to the school and the State Bureau of Investigation, which is reviewing the shooting. A spokeswoman for the SBI did not immediately return messages Tuesday.
A university spokeswoman said the school would release more information later in the day.
There were no injuries reported to others and a campus lockdown that began at 10:15 p.m. Monday was lifted shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday.
The officers have been placed on administrative leave while the SBI investigates.
University Chancellor Debra Saunders-White said in an email to students, faculty and staff that the school would hold a town hall meeting later Tuesday morning about the matter.
North Carolina Central is part of the University of North Carolina system with an enrollment of more than 8,000 students. The historically black school opened in 1910.
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Neosho area residents will have the chance to attend a traditional Christmas service this Sunday evening, when the Crowder College Community Chorus holds their ninth annual "A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols."
The show is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Neosho United Methodist Church, 224 S. Wood St., and will also feature a performance from the Wesley Ringers Handbell Choir.
In between the popular Christmas hymns and carols, Neosho residents will take the stage to read scriptures to the crowd.
Past musical performances have included traditional pieces such as "O Holy Night" and "Infant Holy, Infant Lowly."
Though the performance has become a holiday tradition in Neosho, it is not unique to the area.
The show is modeled after the traditional service held since 1918 at King's College in Cambridge, England.
The Neosho performance has drawn large crowds in the past, reaching as many as 200 people.
The show was brought to Neosho by Crowder music instructor Robert Ensor, when he began teaching at the college nine years ago.
"It's not really a long service, it's just a beautiful service," Ensor said when describing last year's event.
The event usually runs about one hour and is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Ensor at 455- 5634.
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LEGO Shop Home Themes Creator Seaside House
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Take the building to the beach with 3 super seaside homes featuring awesome accessories and realistic details for endless fun in the sun!
Build your 3-in-1 dream seaside home!
Enjoy life by the sea in your very own 3-in-1 Seaside House – made to minifigure scale! Go surfing on the surfboard, use the outdoor shower and then grill a feast on the beach. Just watch out for the pesky seagull sitting in the palm tree – he's hungry too! This detailed Seaside House also includes an opening roof and removable top floor for easy access. When you're ready for a different seaside building, use the supplied alternative building steps to rebuild it into a house with a beach hut or cute vacation apartment. Includes surfer minifigure.
• Features 2-story interior with opening roof, removable top floor, double doors, veranda and shower
• Includes surfer minifigure, seagull, crab and fish
• Packed with accessories including life ring, surfboard, grill, sand castle and even a wave in the sea!
• A great 3-in-1 building experience – rebuild into a house with beach hut or vacation apartment!
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Women in the MPD
Women play important roles in nearly every aspect of the Minneapolis Police Department, from high-ranking supervisory positions to officers in specialized units.
Here are the stories of just a few of the women who serve with the Minneapolis Police Department:
- Chief Janeé Harteau
- Deputy Chief Kristine Arneson
- Sgt. Tammy Diedrich
- Sgt. Aimee Hawes
- Sgt. Ann Kjos
- Officer Lisa Davis
- Officer Bonnie Edwards
- Officer Vicki Karnik
- Officer Laurarose Turner
- Officer Stephanie Weibye
Last updated Mar 28, 2013


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PiTiVi 0.13.4 Release
March 16, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments
Missing the announcement again by a few days, we see that this week open source video editing tool PiTiVi has just released version 0.13.4.
PiTiVi has been on the scene for a few years, and development has been a little slow. It's around 6 months since the last fresh release. Built using Python, and relying on the GStreamer Multimedia Framework, PiTiVi used to be included in Ubuntu Studio a few versions previously.
It's good to see a new release of this tool, which includes the following enhancements:
- video mixing/transparency support
- icon view in source list
- smoother scrolling
- modeless splitting
- seek on click
- faster waveforms
- zoom slider
- UI beautifications
- Speed optimisations
- dbus/hal dependency now optional
- translated in 30 languages
More information and a fresh download are available on the PiTiVi website.


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More about the 10,000 hours thing Apr 21 2011
The article about Dan McLaughlin's quest to go from zero-to-PGA Tour through 10,000 hours of deliberate practice got linked around a bunch yesterday. Several people who pointed to it made a typical mistake. Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the 10,000 hours theory in his book, he did not come up with it. It is not "Gladwell's theory" and McLaughlin is not "testing Gladwell". The 10,000 hours theory was developed and popularized by Dr. Anders Ericsson (here for instance) -- who you may have heard of from this Freakonomics piece in the NY Times Magazine -- before it became a pop culture tidbit by Gladwell's inclusion of Ericsson's work in Outliers.


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Eric Wohlford
Eric studied the effects of malaria on B cells in Kenya. Read More...
Major Research Areas
Sijun Zhu, MD, PhD
Current Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology
Hospital Campus
Research Programs and Affiliations
- Biomedical Sciences Program
- Neuroscience Program
- Neuroscience and Physiology
Education & Fellowships
- Postdoctoral Fellow: University of California at San Francisco, 2012
- PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005, Developmental Neurobiology
Research Interests
Genetic mechanisms of Drosophila neural stem cell self-renewal and specification.
In my lab, we are particularly interested in the genetic control of the maintenance of neural stem cells (NSCs) and the generation of intermediate neural progenitor (INP). These two cell populations produce the diverse types of neurons and glia needed for the proper formation and homeostasis of the nervous system. NSCs self-renew to maintain their own population and they also produce the transient amplifying INP, which boosts the production of neurons and glia. Defects in NSC self-renewal or the generation of INP cells can lead to neurodevelopmental disorders or neurodegenerative diseases, whereas unrestricted proliferation of NSCs or INP cells can result in brain tumor formation. Deciphering how NSCs maintain self-renewal and produce INP cells will not only help us understand pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental disorders or brain tumor formation, but may also provide important information for designing new strategies to induce NSCs to produce neurons for brain repair. However, the underlying mechanisms that regulate NSC self-renewal and the generation of INP cells are still not well understood. In my lab, we study the recently identified type II neuroblasts (NBs, the Drosophila NSCs) in Drosophila larval brains as a model system. The Drosophila type II NBs produce neurons indirectly by generating transient amplifying INP cells like mammalian NSCs, thus provide a nice model system for studying neural stem cell self-renewal and the generation of INP cells. Our research goals are to uncover the gene regulatory network that control NSC self-renewal and INP production and to understand how dis-regulation of the gene regulatory network may lead to brain tumor formation using various genetic, molecular and cell biological approaches.
Research Support:
- March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award (2014 - 2016)
- National Institutes of Health R01NS085232 (2014 - 2019)
- Upstate Medical University Start-up funds
Selected Publications:
- Xie Y., Li X., Zhang X., Mei S., Li H., Urso A., Zhu S. (2014). The Drosophila Sp8 Transcription Factor Buttonhead Prevents Premature Differentiation of Intermediate Neural Progenitors. eLife, 10.7554/elife.03596
- Rumpf S., Bagley J.A., Thompson-Peer K.L., Zhu S., Gorczyca D., Beckstead R.B., Jan LY, Jan Y.N. (2014). Drosophila Valosin-Containing Protein is required for dendrite pruning through a regulatory role in mRNA metabolism. PNAS 111: 7331-6
- Zhu S.1*, Barshow S.*, Wildonger J.*, Younger S., Huang Y., Lee T. (2012). The bHLH Repressor Deadpan Regulates the Self-renewal and Specification of Drosophila Larval Neural Stem Cells Independently of Notch. PLoS ONE 2012;7(10):e46724 (1, corresponding author; *, equal contribution)
- Zhu S., Barshow S., Wildonger J., Jan L.Y., Jan Y.N. (2012). The Ets transcription factor Pointed promotes the generation of intermediate neural progenitors in Drosophila larval brains. PNAS 108(51):20615-20
- Han C., Wang D., Soba P., Zhu S., Lin X., Jan L.Y., Jan Y.N. (2011). Integrins Regulate Repulsion-mediated Dendritic Patterning of Drosophila Sensory Neurons by Restricting Dendrites in a Two-dimensional Space. Neuron 73(1):64-78
- Soba P.*, Zhu S.*, Emoto K., Younger S., Yang S.-J., Yu H.-H., Lee T., Jan LY, Jan Y.-N. (2007). Drosophila Sensory Neurons Require Dscam for Dendritic Self Avoidance and Proper Dendritic Field Organization. Neuron 54:403-16 (*equal contribution)
- Kuo C., Zhu S., Younger S., Jan L.Y., Jan Y.N. (2006). Identification of E2/E3 ubiquitinating enzymes and caspase activity regulating Drosophila sensory neuron dendrite pruning. Neuron 51:283-290
- Zhu S., Lin S., Kao C.-F., Awasaki T, Chiang A.-S., and Lee T. (2006). Gradients of the Drosophila Chinmo BTB-Zinc finger protein govern neuronal temporal identity. Cell 127: 409-422
- Zhu S., Perez R., Pen M., Lee T. (2005): Requirement of Cul3 for axonal arborization and dendritic elaboration in Drosophila mushroom body neurons. J Neurosci 25, 4189-4197
- Zhu S., Chiang A.-S., Lee T. (2003). Development of the Drosophila mushroom bodies: elaboration, remodeling and spatial organization of dendrites in the calyx. Development 130, 2603-2610.
- Zhu S., Li H., Wang, Y.L., Xiao Z.J., Vinhko P., Piao Y.S. (2002). Retinoic acids promote the action of aromatase and 17b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type1 on the biosynthesis of 17b-estradiol in placental cells. J Endocrinology 172, 31-43.


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The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's basketball team will play host to McNeese State in its annual Homecoming game on Saturday on Stripes Court at the American Bank Center. The game will be the culmination of Homecoming week, with the Court being announced at halftime. There will also be an alumni game featuring former members of both the men's and women's basketball teams at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.
• The Islanders have one of the youngest teams in Division I, with an average age of 20 years, five months, seven days heading into today's matchup.
• Joy Williamson returned against Lamar after missing the previous three games, and delivered 12 points, including a 5-for-5 performance at the line.
• The Islanders have held a second-half lead in six of their 10 league contests this season, including three straight.
• Johnathan Jordan is the only player in the Southland – and one of just four nationally – to average 10-plus points, 5-plus rebounds, and 5-plus assists on the year. He has three double-doubles this season.
• Texas A&M - Corpus Christi is shooting .701 at the line this year, .101 higher at the line this year than they did a year ago. They rank second in the conference.
• Texas A&M - Corpus Christi is ineligible for the postseason because of poor results in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate. No Islander who has played under Wilson had anything to do with the subpar score.
The Islanders will face the Cowboys for the ninth time since the program ascended to Division I for the 1999-2000 season. McNeese State has a 5-3 lead in the all-time series, but are just 1-2 in games played in Corpus Christi against the Islanders. McNeese State has won four straight games over the Islanders, including a 75-71 win earlier this year. As of late, the two teams have played some incredibly tight contests, as four of the last five games have been decided by four points or fewer.
In the first game this season, Will Nelson scored 24 points and Johnathan Jordan had 17, but DeSharick Guidry's 16 points led McNeese to the four-point victory. The Islanders had it down to a one-score game with two minutes left, but couldn't finish the comeback. For a full recap and a box score of the game, turn to page 2.
McNeese State is coming off a momentous overtime victory over Sam Houston State on Thursday night. Dontae Cannon sunk a floater with 1.2 seconds remaining in overtime to lift McNeese to a 59-58 win. Cannon also sent the game into extra time with a layup with 2.9 seconds left in regulation. The victory snapped a four-game losing string for the Cowboys, who started their skid when Jarvis Garner's heroics led Central Arkansas to a 103-98, triple-overtime win.
Cannon leads MSU with his 12.0 points per game, while Desharick Guidry just behind at 11.8. Guidry is also averaging 7.8 boards, while Kevin Hardy is just behind with 6.4 boards to go with his 9.6 points. The game will feature the two least turnover-prone teams in the conference, as McNeese averages a league-best 12.1 per game.
He's only a sophomore, but Houston native Johnathan Jordan has been thrust into the role of leader on the young Islanders squad. Jordan led the Southland in assists per game in 2011-12, and was also among the leaders in minutes per game.
Jordan was outstanding as a distributor a season ago, but his growth as a scorer is notable. After averaging 6.5 points last year, the point guard has contributed 12.8 points per game, largely on his ability to get to the rim and the free-throw line. Despite his 5-foot-10 frame, he leads the team with 128 points in the paint and has hit a team-best 95 free throws, including a 12-for-13 performance at the line against McNeese. His 12 free throws are tied for fourth-most in a game in Islanders history and he is just one free throw away from cracking the single-season top 10.
Perhaps more impressive is Jordan's all-around game. His distribution is what he is most known for, and with 5.1 assists per game this year, he sits third in the Southland. On Jan. 12 at Lamar, he posted 11 assists, matching the school record, and had his second career double-double. In league play, he has 58 assists to 27 turnovers.
Jordan is also strong on the glass, having topped double-digit rebounds in two of his last three games. He snared 11 caroms against SHSU for his third double-double of the season. He is the only league player averaging at least 10 points, five rebounds and five assists. He shows high on the stamina scale as well, where he is second in the Southland at 35.9 minutes per game.
The diminutive guard is one of the most athletic Islanders, as evidenced by his two slam-dunk contest championships, thanks to his 48-inch running vertical leap. His 138 assists last season set a school record.
Among the Islanders, there is no personality quite like that of the appropriately-named Joy Williamson. The junior transfer's ebullient and energetic personality is matched only by his intensity and pace on the basketball court.
After missing three games due to injury, Williamson rebounded nicely against Lamar, scoring 12 points and hitting all five of his free-throw attempts. The Oklahoma City native has been remarkably consistent on the year, posting nine games on the year with between 10 and 14 points.
He finally broke the 15-point barrier with his career-best performance against UCA. He went 5-for-9 from the field, knocking down a pair of threes in a losing effort. That snapped a string where he failed to reach double figures in four straight contests.
After struggling to the tune of 2-for-16 in the games against UTSA and SFA, Williamson bounced back in his return to his home state at Oklahoma. Williamson matched his career high with 14 points, going 5-for-13 from the field to go along with a 3-for-4 performance at the line. He is fourth in the league in free-throw shooting (.778).
His finest game came against Houston, as the guard's offensive ability shined brightly. He went 6-for-9 from the field for 13 points, filling the stat sheet in all other aspects of his game as well. Williamson snared seven rebounds, dished out four assists to no turnovers and registered three steals.
Williamson played two seasons at Redlands Community College, where he was coached by current Islanders assistant Yaphett King. The Oklahoma City native scored 18.7 points and grabbed 8.2 rebounds at Redlands.
Despite the Islanders' struggles in the win column and with offensive fouls, the team has been surprisingly efficient when it comes to turnovers. A&M - Corpus Christi is averaging 12.2 per game – fewer than their opponents' 12.7 – and ranked 67th in the nation entering this week. The Islanders have posted 10 turnovers or fewer in four of the last six games, including nine at Southeastern. They have seven games this season with 10 turns or fewer.
Earlier in the year, the Islanders took care of the ball like no other time in program history. After posting six turnovers at Utah State – the second lowest total in school lore – the Islanders matched the school record with only five turns against Houston.
Jan. 24 was a distinct exception, as the Islanders turned the ball over 20 times with Nicholls tallying just three steals. It marked just the fourth game this season that the Islanders had more than 15 turnovers (19 against TLU, 18 against Oklahoma, 16 at Toledo).
Nonetheless, it is a marked improvement from the ball control for the team from last season. A&M - Corpus Christi averaged 15.2 turnovers per game and ranked 291st in the country out of 338 teams. The Islanders had 14 games with 15 turnovers or more last year, and just three with 10 or fewer.


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Men's Nike Runners Just Do It Longer T-Shirt
Turn heads while telling it like it is in the Men's Nike Runners Just Do It Longer T-Shirt. Featuring an attention-grabbing message above a classic Nike Swoosh, this comfy shirt is a must-have for runners who want to stand out from the crowd.
Don't say we didn't warn you? this T is about to be in heavy rotation in your closet. Ultra-lightweight, breathable Dri-FIT wicks sweat away from you faster than you make it, so you'll be dry and sittin' (or shall we say running?) pretty. Short sleeves and a relaxed fit only further your cool comfort, while bright graphics will impress onlookers as you speed by (if they can catch a glimpse).
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United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station, Ames, Iowa
1a.Objectives (from AD-416)
Evaluate GEM breeding crosses and develop germplasm for abiotic (drought and heat) and biotic stress (CEW and aflatoxin) tolerance; select, advance and release inbred lines from breeding crosses containing GEM germplasm.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
GEM germplasm will be evaluated for abiotic and biotic stress tolerance under controlled irrigation management. Top crosses will be made with the most tolerant inbreds and yield trials conducted. Evaluation will be conducted for CEW, and aflatoxin level, and the most resistant sources advanced by inbreeding. New exotic breeding crosses will be evaluated to identify and prioritize for future breeding under abiotic and biotic stress conditions.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Even when the Mountain View boys soccer team doesn't score in bunches, it isn't for lack of trying.
As a steady rain and wind whipped around the team's field on a recent afternoon, the Spartans hit the post not once but twice.
They also were stopped on a breakaway. A potential four-goal outburst ended with a 2-1 loss to rival Los Altos.
But as Mountain View aims for a fourth consecutive Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division title -- and fifth division title in a row overall -- it's clear that bad luck usually isn't on its side.
The Spartans are one of the Central Coast Section's top scoring teams, having found the net 39 times in 15 games. Guillermo Burger has scored 10 goals and assisted on 12. Brad Bumgarner has 10 goals and 10 assists.
They are the leading scorers on a team that sits near the top of the De Anza standings with five games to play and will most likely be a factor again in the section playoffs.
The Spartans reached the CCS Division I final two years ago, losing to Bellarmine College Prep 3-2 in overtime. They were beaten in the semifinals last season, falling 3-0 to Watsonville.
Mountain View returned only three starters from last season, but it has continued to flourish behind the likes of Burger, Bumgarner and midfielder Gabe Quintela, a team captain who missed the Los Altos game because of a strained calf.
"We've definitely been good and the goal of this team is to keep that tradition going," Quintela said.
The Spartans (10-2-3, 4-1-2) aren't a physical team, choosing instead to play an open brand of soccer.
Their style has generated an offense that has produced at least a goal in every game but one -- a 1-0 loss to Serra in late December.
"We like to move it around and try to get it to our players up top," coach Jim McGuirk said.
When that happens, Mountain View has done a good job putting pressure on the goalkeeper. In addition to contributions from Burger and Bumgarner, the Spartans have gotten five goals and eight assists from Chris Barnes.
"We definitely have a lot of potential," Quintela said. "We have great forwards, and it's just a matter of cleaning up the midfield a little bit and finding that transition from the back to the front."
Bumgarner, a junior, said he is "very surprised" the team has scored so many goals, given the talent it lost from last season. But he said the expectations for the program remain high despite the challenges.
"This league is going to be very hard for us to win," Bumgarner said. "It's definitely going to be a lot of determination."
After the loss to Los Altos on Jan. 9, Mountain View scored 10 goals in its next four games, beating Santa Clara, Homestead and Los Gatos and tying Gunn.
Thirteen of the team's goals came in two games. In December, the Spartans scored eight in a shutout victory over San Benito. A month later, they scored five in a shutout win over Saratoga.
"We've been producing," Quintela said. "The idea is to get the ball to three guys up top. That's the strength of our team."
And if the Spartans continue to play to their strength -- and avoid unlucky bounces -- they just might achieve their mission.
"I think the goal," McGuirk said, "is to defend the league championship."
For more on high school sports, see the After School blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/highschools. Follow Darrrn Sabedra on Twitter at twitter.com/DarrenSabedra.


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Visual Design for Any Enterprise User Interface (Art School in a Box)
By Karen Scipi on Jul 10, 2013
"What color is Facebook?" Without thinking, you know it's blue. This isn't by accident. So, what is the science behind visual design in enterprise user interfaces?
Visual design is an essential part of the user experience. A well-designed user interface starts to become invisible to the user. It's naturally pleasing, and it doesn't create tension or roadblocks. It starts to feel like a comfortable shirt; you don't notice it. A poorly designed user interface feels like an ill-fitting shirt with a scratchy tag on the neck; you're going to notice it, and it's going to annoy you.
We've all seen visual designs that have made us cringe. And we've all seen visual designs that have made us feel good. Have you ever thought about what the differences are between these types of experiences, or why one resonates with you more than the other?
Any number of key elements affect visual design and users' responses to the design. We offer one that we consider key to users wanting to use an application or website that goes beyond usability and appeals to their emotional side: branding. Of course, you should also consider other aspects when designing a user interface for an enterprise application. All of these elements add up to helping "delight and excite" users, which results in productivity—for them and their businesses.
Why branding? Because branding is the "hook." A well-considered brand gets noticed, so does consistency across a user interface. Branding is more than a logo. Branding represents the overall "personality" or impression of the design, and it is supported by these next few key design elements.
Color impacts the brain. A user draws conclusions from the ways that color is applied. Color can work to your advantage if you understand how color works and is perceived by users. However, applying colors that violate this understanding can work to your disadvantage. For example, a color may have different meanings in different parts of the world. A good practice for controlling colors is applying a product coding strategy.
Examples of color usages
- Good contrast is central to the legibility of text.
- The highest contrast is black text on a white background, such as those used in books, newspapers, and dense online text.
- Poor contrast can cause eye strain for users, even for those users with good vision.
- Poor contrast can render a page illegible, especially for users with compromised vision.
- Accessibility standards require a minimum level of contrast.
Examples of text on color contrasts
Layout focuses on how components and content are arranged on a page. A layout should optimize the natural way that content is read and scanned by a user. A page layout should consider and complement the reading order of a language (left-to-right or right-to-left). The content should be grouped and arranged logically and should establish relationships among objects that appear on that page.
Eye tracking enables user experience designers to determine where users' visual attention is focused. The data that we collect from our eye-tracking usability studies helps inform layout and other design aspects that we've proven might better accommodate users' natural reading tendencies.
You might wonder why even small changes in layout and where you position components and content on a page are important. Changes can be interpreted as swimming upstream: you are fighting the natural order of things when you don't conform to established and proven practices, such as reading order. Even tiny spurts of lost user productivity can turn into death-by-a-thousand-cuts for an enterprise, as proven by Oracle Applications User Experience and industry science.
Examples of left-to-right and right-to-left language reading order
Spacing, such as white space and padding, is a powerful design element. When used deliberately, blank areas on a page can be used to break up the density of content on the page and to give the eye a place to rest or focus.
Examples that show how padding creates resting places for the eyes
Font choice reflects the personality of the site, for example, the brand. Conservative fonts, such as sans serif ones, are generally more easily read. Eclectic fonts, such as serif fonts or script, offer a trendier impression.
- A color change within a block of text draws the eye to it and makes the user think that the text is different in some way, for example, a link, which is set in a different color from the text that surrounds it.
- Bold text draws the eye to it and should be used to emphasize a word or a block of text.
- Italic text can be difficult to read online. It becomes either blurry or jagged, depending on the quality of the font and users' screens.
Examples of sans serif and serif fonts
Icons are small images that powerfully impact comprehension. The eye is drawn immediately to an icon on a page rather than to a text button that contains the same information. When used, icons should differ enough in shape and color so that the user can identify the differences by simply scanning the page.
Icons draw the eye to them, so they should be used judiciously. Too many icons on a page can add a lot of visual noise. When overused, users' eyes will bounce around the page from icon to icon.
- Use fallback fonts to control the appearance of the user interface if the device uses different system fonts.
- Test our CSS in different browsers and on different operating systems.
- Avoid relying on images to colorize elements or add curves or gradients because they require manual image editing to revise.
The visual design aspect of any enterprise application can be quite complex. While we didn't cover every aspect of visual design in this blog entry, we hope you walk away with an understanding of what we consider the key element of visual design to be as well as its supporting visual elements for our enterprise applications.
Interested in learning more?


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January 13, 2005
In 2005 for almost every couple that said "I do" to marriage, there was another couple saying "we quit" and opting for divorce. Some Georgia lawmakers think this should change. News 12 has more on a bill that would change the rules for splitting up.
Some Georgia lawmakers want couples to give their marriage more time, but Denise Wingate says her divorce couldn't have happened soon enough.
"The longer you wait, sometimes it adds fuel to the fire," Wingage said.
Representative Barry Fleming says the current thirty-day waiting period in Georgia is too short, especially if kids are involved.
"The parents who are normally looking out for the children become so taken over by their own disputes, the children are also left to suffer," Fleming said.
He supports a bill that would require an estranged couple to wait roughly four months. The bill could make getting married much easier than getting divorced in Georgia. The license becomes official as soon as the officiant signs it.
"There's no waiting period in Georgia anymore," Said Judge Isaac Jolles.
Almost sixteen hundred couple got married last year, and close to thirteen hundred got divorced. Marriage counselor John Hill says the extended waiting period could cause problems. But counseling can prevent couples from cutting ties too soon.
"Many times people can put a relationship back together and can reconcile even when difficult circumstances happen," Hill said.
That's why mandatory counseling for most couples is another item on the bill. Counseling wasn't an option in Denise Wingate's marriage.
"He cheated, and when you cheat that's it, it's over. There are no second chances, and counseling won't rectify that," Wingate said.
The original bill began in the senate last year but never passed. Lawmakers added the counseling requirement this year. The bill could be debated on the house floor in the next few weeks.