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The Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys are playing Sunday for more than their fast-fading playoff hopes. This game has the potential to effect drastic change, especially for the losing team.
Eagles coach Andy Reid and Cowboys coach Jason Garrett are under immense pressure from their owners to turn around their teams' fortunes this season. Both teams are 3-5 and on the brink of slipping into irrelevance in terms of the playoffs.
Stories are surfacing about the Eagles pursuing Jon Gruden as a replacement for Reid and the Cowboys making a run at suspended New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton.
Two people close to Gruden said he is itching to get back into coaching, but only if he can find a team with a top-notch quarterback and an owner who will let him have a strong hand in all football-related decisions, something he didn't have during his four seasons with the Raiders.
At this rate, it is conceivable that Reid and Garrett could be ousted at season's end.
Reid was put on notice by owner Jeffrey Lurie before the season after Lurie deemed last season's 8-8 finish "unacceptable." And Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has a history of being impatient when it comes to his coaches.
Gruden was the Eagles' offensive coordinator from 1995-97 before he joined the Raiders in 1998. He hasn't coached since 2008, when he was fired by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
He has said that he envisions coaching in the NFL again. For now, he is content raking in millions from ESPN as an in-studio and "Monday Night Football" analyst.
You can bet Gruden would love a chance to inherit a talent-laden roster and see if he can help the Eagles go from playing "fantasy football," as former Philadelphia cornerback Asante Samuel termed the team's current approach, to realizing their vast potential.
In light of recent news that Payton's contract might be voided, there is speculation that he could wind up in Dallas.
This makes sense, on many levels. Payton's family lives in Dallas, and he coached there before taking over the Saints' top spot. Also, Jones is one of the few owners with the gumption to pay the kind of money Payton could command.
Lurie also might make a play for Payton, who once coached for the Eagles, as a means of ditching Reid, the league's longest-tenured head coach, and preventing Payton from landing with Philadelphia's NFC East rival.
Martin, who attended Saint Mary's High in Stockton, rushed for 251 yards and four touchdowns against the Raiders last Sunday, joining Mike Anderson as the only players in league history with 250 yards rushing and four touchdowns in a game.
Also, Martin -- a k a the "Muscle Hamster" -- is the first player in league history with touchdown runs of at least 45, 65 and 70 yards in the same game and the fourth rookie (along with Eric Dickerson, Billy Sims and Anderson) with 200 yards or more from scrimmage in back-to-back games.
Tillman has 36 forced fumbles during his 10-year NFL career. Four of those came last Sunday against the Tennessee Titans, with four players victimized by Tillman's ultra-effective method of punching the ball in a violent manner.
The Indianapolis Colts are 6-3 (2-14 in 2011), the Minnesota Vikings are 5-4 (3-13), the St. Louis Rams are 3-5 (2-14), and the Buccaneers are 4-4 (4-12).
Shanahan, of course, backtracked on his comments. But, hey, what's another year without success for the man once regarded as the league's best coach?
The Redskins are 3-6 this season, dropping Shanahan-coached teams to 106-100 -- including 1-4 in the playoffs -- since quarterback John Elway retired after the 1998 season.
Worse, in Shanahan's final three seasons with the Denver Broncos and his first three with the Redskins, his record is 38-51 without any playoff appearances, this season pending this season. The Broncos won seven consecutive postseason games and back-to-back Super Bowl titles in Elway's final two seasons as Shanahan's quarterback.


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Today I am feeling pain at the loss of my Dearest inspiration who saved the Aboriginal and Islanders including the Torres Strait peoples Tent Embassy in Canberra over many years. Our Sister demonstrated to us all thate we all need to have guts and stand up for our peoples rights. Isabel at all times stayed strong and told us all not to get in bed with the Government at any level. Isabel believed that Government would never give us or leave us alone to protect this land that we all belong to. I hope everyone contributes to honouring the Mother of the Tent Embassy in Canberra, should our Canberra family conduct a Memorial Service at the Embassy. RIP Sister…Love you Forever!
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- Students of The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC) are partnering with Scranton Primary Health Care Center and the National Health Service Corps scholars to host a free community health fair on Sunday, Oct.14 from noon - 3 p.m. at TCMC, 525 Pine Street, Scranton.
Nearly 20 local vendors will be onsite to provide health, nutrition and counseling information. Free blood pressure screenings and health information will be available throughout the afternoon. The family-friendly event is free and open to the public. Participants can also enjoy a bake sale and basket raffle.
Vendors participating to date include UNO Fitness, Northeastern Pennsylvania Memory and Alzheimer Center, The Wright Center, Scranton Primary Health Care Center, The Giving Stable/Marley's Mission, Geisinger/Kohl's Cares for Kids, Oakwood Terrace Memory Care Community, Cooney Medical Inc., Maxim Healthcare Services, Epilepsy Foundation, Bayada Home Health Services, Lutheran Home Care & Hospice, VNA Hospice & Home Health, Cancertacular, PA Tourette Syndrome Alliance, Telespond, and many more.
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The girls of St. James have 'leagues of their own' when it comes to playing a sport with a bat and ball - and that's softball. The young ladies of St. James also get the chance to play a sport they love on summer afternoons out at the Watonwan County Fairground.
The leagues starting with girls age ten and under allow the young athletes to learn the game and give each St. James girl the chance to get better at it.
The young athletes also learn the importance of teamwork.
No doubt the skills they learned this summer can help them in the future.
St. James graduated a lot of good softball players this spring and the Saints will need to find many good replacement softball players over the next several years.
Keep practicing and keep playing girls. Softball is a lot of fun and the Saints will need some good players by the time your in high school.
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Volume 54, Issue 7, July 2013
We consider a polyharmonic operator in dimension two with l ⩾ 2, l being an integer, and a quasi-periodic potential . We prove that the absolutely continuous spectrum of H contains a semiaxis and there is a family of generalized eigenfunctions at every point of this semiaxis with the following properties. First, the eigenfunctions are close to plane waves at the high energy region. Second, the isoenergetic curves in the space of momenta corresponding to these eigenfunctions have a form of slightly distorted circles with holes (Cantor type structure). A new method of multiscale analysis in the momentum space is developed to prove these results.
- Partial Differential Equations
Chemically reacting mixtures in terms of degenerated parabolic setting54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4811564View Description Hide Description
The paper analyzes basic mathematical questions for a model of chemically reacting mixtures. We derive a model of several (finite) component compressible gas taking rigorously into account the thermodynamical regime. Mathematical description of the model leads to a degenerate parabolic equation with hyperbolic deviation. The thermodynamics implies that the diffusion terms are non-symmetric, not positively defined, and cross-diffusion effects must be strongly marked. The mathematical goal is to establish the existence of weak solutions globally in time for arbitrary number of reacting species. A key point is an entropy-like estimate showing possible renormalization of the system.
Soliton solutions for quasilinear Schrödinger equations54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4811394View Description Hide Description
It is established the existence of nontrivial solutions for quasilinear Schrödinger equations with subcritical or critical exponents, which appear from plasma physics as well as high-power ultrashort laser in matter.
Riemann problems and exact solutions to a traffic flow model54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4813473View Description Hide Description
Within the theoretical framework of differential constraints method a nonhomogeneous model describing traffic flows is considered. Classes of exact solutions to the governing equations under interest are determined. Furthermore, Riemann problems and generalized Riemann problems which model situations of interest for traffic flows are solved.
On one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosity and constant state at far fields54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4816126View Description Hide Description
In this paper, we are concerned with the Cauchy problem for one-dimensional compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity μ(ρ) = ρα(α > 0) and pressure P(ρ) = ργ (γ > 1). We will establish the global existence and asymptotic behavior of weak solutions for any α > 0 and γ > 1 under the assumption that the density function keeps a constant state at far fields. In particular, in the case that , we obtain the large time behavior of the strong solution obtained by Mellet and Vasseur when the solution has a lower bound (no vacuum).
- Representation Theory and Algebraic Methods
Subsingular vectors in Verma modules, and tensor product of weight modules over the twisted Heisenberg-Virasoro algebra and W(2, 2) algebra54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4813439View Description Hide Description
We show that subsingular vectors may exist in Verma modules over W(2, 2), and present the subquotient structure of these modules. We prove conditions for irreducibility of the tensor product of intermediate series module with a highest weight module. Relation to intertwining operators over vertex operator algebra associated with W(2, 2) is discussed. Also, we study the tensor product of intermediate series and a highest weight module over the twisted Heisenberg-Virasoro algebra, and present series of irreducible modules with infinite-dimensional weight spaces.
Quartic Poisson algebras and quartic associative algebras and realizations as deformed oscillator algebras54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4816086View Description Hide Description
We introduce the most general quartic Poisson algebra generated by a second and a fourth order integral of motion of a 2D superintegrable classical system. We obtain the corresponding quartic (associative) algebra for the quantum analog, extend Daskaloyannis construction obtained in context of quadratic algebras, and also obtain the realizations as deformed oscillator algebras for this quartic algebra. We obtain the Casimir operator and discuss how these realizations allow to obtain the finite-dimensional unitary irreducible representations of quartic algebras and obtain algebraically the degenerate energy spectrum of superintegrable systems. We apply the construction and the formula obtained for the structure function on a superintegrable system related to type I Laguerre exceptional orthogonal polynomials introduced recently.
- Quantum Mechanics
On a solution of the Schrödinger equation with a hyperbolic double-well potential54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4811855View Description Hide Description
We report a solution of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with a hyperbolic double-well confining potential via a transformation to the so-called confluent Heun equation. We discuss the requirements on the parameters of the system in which a reduction to confluent Heun polynomials is possible, representing the wavefunctions of bound states.
Topologies on quantum topoi induced by quantization54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4813960View Description Hide Description
In the present paper, we consider effects of quantization in a topos approach of quantum theory. A quantum system is assumed to be coded in a quantum topos, by which we mean the topos of presheaves on the context category of commutative subalgebras of a von Neumann algebra of bounded operators on a Hilbert space. A classical system is modeled by a Lie algebra of classical observables. It is shown that a quantization map from the classical observables to self-adjoint operators on the Hilbert space naturally induces geometric morphisms from presheaf topoi related to the classical system to the quantum topos. By means of the geometric morphisms, we give Lawvere-Tierney topologies on the quantum topos (and their equivalent Grothendieck topologies on the context category). We show that, among them, there exists a canonical one which we call a quantization topology. We furthermore give an explicit expression of a sheafification functor associated with the quantization topology.
Lévy flights and nonlocal quantum dynamics54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4814049View Description Hide Description
We develop a fully fledged theory of quantum dynamical patterns of behavior that are nonlocally induced. To this end we generalize the standard Laplacian-based framework of the Schrödinger picture quantum evolution to that employing nonlocal (pseudodifferential) operators. Special attention is paid to the Salpeter (here, m ⩾ 0) quasirelativistic equation and the evolution of various wave packets, in particular to their radial expansion in 3D. Foldy's synthesis of "covariant particle equations" is extended to encompass free Maxwell theory, which however is devoid of any "particle" content. Links with the photon wave mechanics are explored.
- Quantum Information and Computation
Complete positivity of the map from a basis to its dual basis54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4812329View Description Hide Description
The dual of a matrix ordered space has a natural matrix ordering that makes the dual space matrix ordered as well. The purpose of these notes is to give a condition that describes when the linear map taking a basis of M n to its dual basis is a complete order isomorphism. We exhibit "natural" orthonormal bases for M n such that this map is an order isomorphism, but not a complete order isomorphism. Included among such bases is the Pauli basis. Our results generalize the Choi matrix by giving conditions under which the role of the standard basis {E ij } can be replaced by other bases.
Exclusivity structures and graph representatives of local complementation orbits54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4813438View Description Hide Description
We describe a construction that maps any connected graph G on three or more vertices into a larger graph, H(G), whose independence number is strictly smaller than its Lovász number which is equal to its fractional packing number. The vertices of H(G) represent all possible events consistent with the stabilizer group of the graph state associated with G, and exclusive events are adjacent. Mathematically, the graph H(G) corresponds to the orbit of G under local complementation. Physically, the construction translates into graph-theoretic terms the connection between a graph state and a Bell inequality maximally violated by quantum mechanics. In the context of zero-error information theory, the construction suggests a protocol achieving the maximum rate of entanglement-assisted capacity, a quantum mechanical analogue of the Shannon capacity, for each H(G). The violation of the Bell inequality is expressed by the one-shot version of this capacity being strictly larger than the independence number. Finally, given the correspondence between graphs and exclusivity structures, we are able to compute the independence number for certain infinite families of graphs with the use of quantum non-locality, therefore highlighting an application of quantum theory in the proof of a purely combinatorial statement.
- Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, and String Theory
Groenewold-Moyal product, α*-cohomology, and classification of translation-invariant non-commutative structures54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4809939View Description Hide Description
The theory of α*-cohomology is studied thoroughly and it is shown that in each cohomology class there exists a unique 2-cocycle, the harmonic form, which generates a particular Groenewold-Moyal star product. This leads to an algebraic classification of translation-invariant non-commutative structures and shows that any general translation-invariant non-commutative quantum field theory is physically equivalent to a Groenewold-Moyal non-commutative quantum field theory.
Operator product expansion algebra54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4810780View Description Hide Description
We establish conceptually important properties of the operator product expansion (OPE) in the context of perturbative, Euclidean φ4-quantum field theory. First, we demonstrate, generalizing earlier results and techniques of hep-th/1105.3375, that the 3-point OPE, , usually interpreted only as an asymptotic short distance expansion, actually converges at finite, and even large, distances. We further show that the factorization identity is satisfied for suitable configurations of the spacetime arguments. Again, the infinite sum is shown to be convergent. Our proofs rely on explicit bounds on the remainders of these expansions, obtained using refined versions, mostly due to Kopper et al., of the renormalization group flow equation method. These bounds also establish that each OPE coefficient is a real analytic function in the spacetime arguments for non-coinciding points. Our results hold for arbitrary but finite loop orders. They lend support to proposals for a general axiomatic framework of quantum field theory, based on such "consistency conditions" and akin to vertex operator algebras, wherein the OPE is promoted to the defining structure of the theory.
Point-form dynamics of quasistable states54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4811563View Description Hide Description
We present a field theoretical model of point-form dynamics which exhibits resonance scattering. In particular, we construct point-form Poincaré generators explicitly from field operators and show that in the vector spaces for the in-states and out-states (endowed with certain analyticity and topological properties suggested by the structure of the S-matrix) these operators integrate to furnish differentiable representations of the causal Poincaré semigroup, the semidirect product of the semigroup of spacetime translations into the forward lightcone and the group of Lorentz transformations. We also show that there exists a class of irreducible representations of the Poincaré semigroup defined by a complex mass and a half-integer spin. The complex mass characterizing the representation naturally appears in the construction as the square root of the pole position of the propagator. These representations provide a description of resonances in the same vein as Wigner's unitary irreducible representations of the Poincaré group provide a description of stable particles.
(Pre-)Hilbert spaces in twistor quantization54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4813476View Description Hide Description
In twistor theory, the canonical quantization procedure, called twistor quantization, is performed with the twistor operators represented as and . However, it has not been clarified what kind of function spaces this representation is valid in. In the present paper, we intend to find appropriate (pre-)Hilbert spaces in which the above representation is realized as an adjoint pair of operators. To this end, we define an inner product for the helicity eigenfunctions by an integral over the product space of the circular space S 1 and the upper half of projective twistor space. Using this inner product, we define a Hilbert space in some particular case and indefinite-metric pre-Hilbert spaces in other particular cases, showing that the above-mentioned representation is valid in these spaces. It is also shown that only the Penrose transform in the first particular case yields positive-frequency massless fields without singularities, while the Penrose transforms in the other particular cases yield positive-frequency massless fields with singularities.
- General Relativity and Gravitation
Collineations of a symmetric 2-covariant tensor: Ricci collineations54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4813475View Description Hide Description
The infinitesimal transformations that leave invariant a two-covariant symmetric tensor are studied. The interest of these symmetry transformations lays in the fact that this class of tensors includes the energy-momentum and Ricci tensors. We find that in most cases the class of infinitesimal generators of these transformations is a finite dimensional Lie algebra, but in some cases exhibiting a higher degree of degeneracy, this class is infinite dimensional and may fail to be a Lie algebra. As an application, we study the Ricci collineations of a type B warped spacetime.
- Dynamical Systems
On the relaxation dynamics of the Kuramoto oscillators with small inertia54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4809943View Description Hide Description
For the Kuramoto oscillators with small inertia, we present several quantitative estimates on the relaxation dynamics and formational structure of a phase-locked state (PLS) for some classes of initial configurations. In a super-critical regime where the coupling strength is strictly larger than the diameter of natural frequencies, we present quantitative relaxation dynamics on the collision numbers and the structure of PLS. In a critical coupling regime where the coupling strength is exactly the diameter of natural frequencies, we provide a sufficient condition for an asymptotically PLS solution. In particular, we show the existence of slow relaxation to a PLS, when there are exactly two natural frequencies. This generalizes the earlier results of Choi et al. ["Asymptotic formation and orbital stability of phase locked states for the Kuramoto model," Physica D241, 735–754 (Year: 2012)10.1016/j.physd.2011.11.011; Choi et al. "Complete synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators with finite inertia," Physica D240, 32–44 (Year: 2011)]10.1016/j.physd.2010.08.004
On the formulation of new explicit conditions for steepness from a former result of N.N. Nekhoroshev54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4813059View Description Hide Description
The application of the Nekhoroshev theorem to many problems arising in different fields of Physics and Astronomy depends on a non-degeneracy property, called steepness, that a suitable Hamiltonian approximation must satisfy. Since steepness is implicitly defined, we have the problem of recognizing whether a given function is steep or not. For this purpose, we here consider some sufficient conditions for steepness provided by Nekhoroshev in 1979, based on the solvability of a collection of systems depending on the number n of degrees of freedom, the derivatives of the function up to a certain order r, and some auxiliary parameters. These conditions are really explicit only for r = 2, corresponding to quasi-convexity , and for r = 3. Instead, for r ⩾ 4, the conditions are implicit, since they require an elaborate computation of the closure of a certain set. In this paper, we first revisit Nekhoroshev's result and we show that the number of parameters in the collections of systems can be suitably reduced. Then, we show that for r = 4 Nekhoroshev's result is interesting only for n = 2, 3, and 4, and in these cases we find explicit conditions for steepness which are formulated in a purely algebraic form.
The 4-body problem in a (1+1)-dimensional self-gravitating system54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4815834View Description Hide Description
We report on the results of a study of the motion of a four particle non-relativistic one-dimensional self-gravitating system. We show that the system can be visualized in terms of a single particle moving within a potential whose equipotential surfaces are shaped like a box of pyramid-shaped sides. As such this is the largest N-body system that can be visualized in this way. We describe how to classify possible states of motion in terms of Braid Group operators, generalizing this to N bodies. We find that the structure of the phase space of each of these systems yields a large variety of interesting dynamics, containing regions of quasiperiodicity and chaos. Lyapunov exponents are calculated for many trajectories to measure stochasticity and previously unseen phenomena in the Lyapunov graphs are observed.
The free rigid body dynamics: Generalized versus classic54(2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4816550View Description Hide Description
In this paper we analyze some normal forms of a general quadratic Hamiltonian system defined on the dual of the Lie algebra of real K-skew-symmetric matrices, where K is an arbitrary 3×3 real symmetric matrix. A consequence of the main results is that any first-order autonomous three-dimensional differential equation possessing two independent quadratic constants of motion, which admit a positive/negative definite linear combination, is affinely equivalent to the classical "relaxed" free rigid body dynamics with linear control parameters.


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Recipe spotlight: blackberry cobbler
Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 9:52 a.m.
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Blackberry Cobbler
1/2 cup sugar
2 pounds blackberries, frozen
1 stick butter
2 cups milk
2 cups sugar
2 cups self-rising flour
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Sprinkle 1/2 cup sugar over berries, stir and set aside. Place butter in an 8-by-13-inch baking pan and place in oven to melt.
Mix milk, 2 cups sugar and flour together.
When butter is melted, spread flour mixture into baking pan, and then pour blackberries on top.
Bake for one hour until golden brown.
Makes six servings.
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I am Duluth, Minnesota born and raised. Early on I was fed only organic foods, having only the finest oils ritualistically applied to my skin......once I realized I was being raised for either trade or consumption I quickly found a new, more stable home environment -- but still in Duluth! My only surviving schools are Grant Elementary (Go Grizzlies!) and UMD (Go Bulldogs!), having attended both Washington Junior HS (Go artsty apartment building!) and Duluth Central HS (Go...Condos?! ). After a brief move to Minneapolis after college, I came back to the area I love and have been here ever since. I grew up in radio, with my dad programing WGGR and later doing The David John & Granny Show for WDSM. My first job in radio was in college with John Michaels and a fun crew at KZIO, where I learned a lot, and I have stayed in it ever since. Working with the amazing staff at B105 is only topped by all the cool listeners I get to meet along the way. Now a few things about me... Pet Peeve: People who create drama for attention....chill. Favorite Drink: Depends on the mood, but lately been trying different rums. I also love Tequila and trying different seasonal microbrews. Favorite Movie: I am a HUGE movie buff so this is impossible. A few all time favorites are JAWS, Field Of Dreams, Almost Famous and City Slickers. Who I'd like to meet: I grew up secretly listening to Steve Martin stand up (my mom thought I was too young, she was probably right) and loved his energy and insanity. It, for better or worse, shaped my sense of humor. I'd love to meet him -- oh, and Meagan Fox or Reese Witherspoon. Hobbies: I love summer sports like softball and volleyball. Although I don't think I'm a runner, I have run 9 Gary Bjorklund Half Marathons and every Gobble Gallop 5k so I guess it's a hobby. In the fall I bowl a little—even managed to bowl a 300 game, much to my surprise. I also swear at the TV on Sundays in the Fall (Fantasy Football). Favorite Country Artists: Where do I start? Keith Urban and Brad Paisley are two favorites as I appreciate their guitar skills and song writing. I also have to mention Lady Antebellum not just because they are talented, but because we shared drinks in Memphis and they were very cool --and picked up the tab!


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Dr Sagacious wrote: I also don't like this song.
Sage Francis wrote: Dr Sagacious wrote: I also don't like this song.
Man, I wouldn't have known that even though you said it about four other times in the previous remix threads. But this time it has finally CLICKED! Hahah...dude. I love ya but you've made your opinion about the song abundantly clear. Your response to this thread is probably one of the only responses I was *not* looking for. No disrespect but I already know you don't like the song, you couldn't make your beat work with his rhythms and yada yada. Next time I expect you to give it a whirl anyway. Pick the artist you'd like to remix and we'll make it happen.
That being said, Leif's remix was not my favorite beat-wise. But it was a hell of a remix and he continues to show his strengths as a producer.
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Jesse Custer wrote: It took this post to realise that the name linked to the track. It wasn't obvious.


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Tide Turns for Private Equity in India
The rupee's slump to a record low is adding to the woes of foreign private-equity firms invested in India even as they deal with slowing economic growth and a big drop in initial public offerings this year.
Those firms piled into the country in 2007 and 2008, when the economy was expanding at 8% to 9%. Since then, growth has fallen, sliding to a 10-year low of 5% in the fiscal year that ended in March.
The rupee has fallen by around 52% since hitting a multiyear high in late 2007. It reached a record low of 61.20 to the dollar this month before strengthening to trade at around 59.40 on Wednesday.
The rupee's decline has eroded the dollar value of investments made by private-equity firms five to seven years ago, their typical investment horizon. That makes it more difficult to sell out of investments with a profit.
"In dollar terms, almost every investor is down 30% to 40%" since 2008, said Nikhil Raghavan, principal at private-equity firm Bain Capital LLC in Mumbai.
Private-equity firms also face more difficulty in cashing out via an IPO. India is on pace for its worst year for IPOs since the global financial crisis, mostly because both the Indian public and foreign investors have shunned new offerings even as an influx of foreign funds has helped push the benchmark stock index to near a record high.
During the first half of this year, India has had 17 IPOs, raising a total of $259 million, the lowest sum for any half year since 2009, according to Dealogic.
The total included listings on a platform for small and medium-size companies that was launched less than a year ago.
Sales of stock, including secondary offerings, by companies backed by private-equity or venture-capital firms tumbled during the first half of the year to $936 million, barely more than a third of the amount seen during the same period a year ago, according to Dealogic. Companies backed by private equity or venture capital had only two IPOS, raising $215 million, Dealogic data show.
It is a "terrible time" to try to exit an investment in India, said Neeraj Bhargava, chief executive of technology investor Zodius Capital Advisors Pvt. in New York. "India was looking fantastic four years back when the U.S. looked the opposite. The situation has reversed dramatically," he said.
"People have got trapped in the market when they invested during the heyday," he said.
Consider the case of General Atlantic LLC, a private-equity firm. It invested $68 million in Mumbai software firm Hexaware Technologies in 2006 and has yet to sell out, according to Venture Intelligence, an Indian research firm.
Hexaware's shares on the Bombay Stock Exchange have risen by around 41.5% since General Atlantic's investment was announced in March 2006, but the rupee has fallen by roughly 34% since that time.
"Our average investment period is five years, which means many of our holdings are longer than that," General Atlantic spokesman Pat Hedley said in an email. "Our investors are long-term focused so we have this flexibility."
To be sure, some investors have made profitable exits this year. A unit of U.S. private-equity firm TPG Capital, for example, sold 10% stakes in Shriram Transport Finance, an Indian commercial-vehicle lender, in February and May, for around $300 million both times. The latter sale marked nearly a complete exit from TPG's investment, which was made in 2006 and expanded in 2008.
A TPG spokesman said in May that the company had achieved a return of 6.5 times its investment in rupee terms.
Still, the return could have been bigger in dollar terms. As of May, the rupee had lost roughly a quarter of its value since TPG bought into Shriram Transport in February 2006.


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Who doesn't want a salty snack every once in a while? And let's be honest, we all get that craving for something crispy that we just can't resist! But who has time or energy to burn all those calories that common store bought snacks have? Well, here's a recipe for a guilt less pleasure that you can indulge with getting a bulge.
Half a Bag of Fresh Kale
1/2 C Extra Virgin Olive Oil
3 T Sea Salt
1 T Garlic Powder
1/2 T Curry Powder
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Place all of the kale on a baking sheet and drizzle with the olive oil
Then sprinkle all of the spices over the kale and mix with your hands until every leaf is covered (this part gets a little messy!)
Place in the oven and cook for about 10-15 mins or until kale turns a dark green color and is super crispy
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1) Follow Experimental Use Program for Corn once approved by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency..2)Experimental course initiated in 2006 will continue. .3)The natural distribution of the atoxigenic strain within each treatment area in Texas will be determined as well as incidence of the high aflatoxin producing S strain. .4)In new treatment areas, the behavior of soil applied wheat seed colonized by an atoxigenic strain of A. flavus will be determined.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
1) Follow Experimental Use Program for Corn once approved by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. .2)Treatment of cotton in several Texas areas and monitoring fungal communities on the treated cotton crop as well as on corn rotated to the cotton. .3)The potential importance of the S strain to aflatoxin contamination of corn in Texas will be assessed. .4)Influences of timing of application on efficacy of treatments will be sought. Producers will be asked about preferred application methods and timing and the practicality of atoxigenic strain use in the test areas will be assessed.
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Trey Anastasio Band,
Sunday, 06/23/2002
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
Set 1: Push On 'Til the Day, Money, Love and Change, Cayman Review, Mozambique, Sand, Drifting, Last Tube
Set 2: Night Speaks to a Woman, At the Gazebo, Mr. Completely
Encore: Wilson[1], Bathtub Gin[1], Alive Again
[1] Trey solo acoustic.
Notes: This performance closed the main stage the final night of the 1st annual Bonnaroo Music Festival. "Wilson" and "Bathtub Gin" were performed by Trey solo, acoustic. The rendition of "Last Tube" from this gig appears on the Live from Bonnaroo 2002 CD.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Dave Grippo, Peter Apfelbaum, Jennifer Hartswick, Russ Lawton, Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis, Ray Paczkowski, Cyro Baptista, Andy Moroz


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Talk about protecting your Lego-cy.
Not long ago, Josh Stearns, a father of two young sons living in western Massachusetts, posted photos of a set of LEGO stickers on his Tumblr account. Stearns, who had just begun introducing the "diminutive building blocks" to his 4-year-old son, was appalled by the image of a hard-hatted construction worker waving at an unseen passersby, shouting "HEY BABE!".
"I was so disappointed to see the brand affiliated with a product that normalized street harassment and cat-calling," he wrote.
The Internet chattered. Bloggers weighed in; people began posting negative reviews of the product on Amazon, as The Consumerist noted. "It was so ridiculous that they would be putting this out there for kids," Stearns, 35, told ABC News.
LEGOs took note; last week Stearns logged onto his computer and found an email from Charlotte Simonsen, senior director at LEGOs corporate communications office in Denmark. Simonsen explained that the stickers had been licensed by a company called Creative Imagination, and had been discontinued in the summer of 2010. Creative Imagination stopped operations in December of 2012.
She added that LEGOs typically uses humor "to communicate the Lego experience." "We are sorry that you were unhappy with the way a mini-figure was portrayed here," she wrote.
Stearns was unmoved. "Clearly, a lot of people didn't see the humor here," he said.
He wrote Simonsen questions about LEGO's licensing guidelines and how the product had made it through their review process in the first place. And to his surprise, he received a response from Andrea Ryder, the head of the LEGO's Outbound Licensing Department.
"I am truly sorry that you had a negative experience with one of our products," Ryder wrote, adding that the product was no longer available and that "we would not approve such a product again."
While Ryder did not reveal specifics of LEGO's licensing guidelines, she told Stearns that the company tries to make sure all its licensing deals are "fully aligned with the LEGO values." "We choose our partners very carefully" she went on to say, adding that it can take more than two years in many cases, and that LEGO expects their licensees to "live up to the highest standards." (Stearns posted her entire response here).
"I was happy to see they saw the severity of this," he said. But he pointed out, "It wasn't their initial response."


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NOVATO -- The Encinal High football team's offense was held out of the end zone for four quarters. But the Jets needed just one play in overtime to score, then got a blocked extra point from their special teams in the extra session to pull out a 22-21 victory over host Novato on Saturday in the first round of the North Coast Section Division III football playoffs.
Austin Ve'e, who earlier had a 62-yard fumble return for a touchdown to help the Jets tie the score in the fourth quarter, bolted 10 yards up the middle in overtime to give Encinal a 21-15 lead. Emily Rentschler's extra point gave the Jets a seven-point lead.
"Oh, yeah," Rentschler said when asked if she was nervous before her kick. "I try to separate the feelings from the kick because when you get really nervous, I don't kick very well. ... You definitely feel the pressure."
The PAT kick became important when Novato countered with a 10-yard touchdown run by Herve Changeux. The Hornets' attempt to second the game to a second overtime was stymied when Abraham Hill blocked the PAT attempt.
"I had to get through and put an arm up," Hill said. "It was a grind and I'm proud of my team. But we've got a lot of work to do."
The 11th-seeded Jets (6-5) fell behind 9-0 in the first quarter, but an 87-yard kickoff return by Corey Sails pulled them closer in the first quarter.
No. 6 Novato (7-4) pushed its lead to 15-7 late in the third quarter on a 1-yard run by Changeux but the Jets got even as Ve'e scooped up a fumbled snap and returned the ball to the end zone and Hill added the two-point conversion catch.
That -- and a Novato penalty that erased a potential winning field goal with 5.8 seconds left -- sent the game to overtime.
Encinal coach Joe Tenorio said his team will need a better effort Friday when the Jets travel to Santa Rosa to face No. 3 Cardinal Newman (10-1).
"Our offense played horrible," Tenorio said. "We played horrible on special teams, turning the ball over. We've got to play better or we're going to lose by a lot."


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Hi All,
DH and I have our first gp appt on Wed to discuss that we can't seem to get pg again (18 months TTC so far) despite falling quite quickly with DD and having no problems. I have followed a lot of your posts on here and seen how long everything seems to take on NHS to get referrals, gynae appts etc. so it got me thinking about doing it privately. I know there has to be some time between tests because of the timing of cycles but I'm not a very good patient at the best of times and feel like the whole waiting thing might push me over the edge. I also know we wouldn't be eligible for IVF on the NHS as we already have a child so I guess I was thinking that if it turns out we need to pay privately for hat then why not speed up the whole thing and go private from the start?
Has anyone got any experience of this? What turnaround time we could expect, how much it would cost etc?
Thanks x
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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is still digging out from all this snow. It's like we're living in a mountainous high-alpine environment here or something.
Oh, wait ...
But seriously, Ullr, we have to say, WTF? All season we wait for this mouthwatering storm of Facebook-posting-proportions. We dance, pray and toast in your name with dubious brands of peppermint schnapps, begging you to dump some powder on our humble hills. And all season long, you send the good stuff to Vail. And Denver (seriously, what a waste). We've been shredding their blow-over for months, just patiently waiting for our turn.
And now, just as things are wrapping up, you suddenly seem to remember how to host a real storm in Summit County. Bad form, sir. Bad form. We'll expect you to express your remorse with an apology note and at least six more big powder days at A-Basin.
That is all.
Right then. Moving along and speaking of things you never knew existed, here's a note from a dude who wins our Notorious Name of the Day Award regarding the, um, underground yoyo scene in Colorado. Like we said ...
Nate Nease writes thusly:
"The underground yoyo scene is ever increasing in popularity. Yoyofactory, one of the driving forces in modern day yo-yoing, is holding two contests this month in eh state of Colorado. The first is in Fort Collins this weekend on 4/13 and the second is in Colorado Springs next week on 4/20. I'm writing because two of the other large modern yoyo manufacturers, Caribou Lodge and One Drop, recently combined forces to create an amazing Yoyo called The Summit. A snowy picture of my brand new Summit yoyo in Summit County this morning seemed very appropriate."
Well, Nate, we certainly appreciate the proliferation of any and all things bearing the word "Summit" as it is really the theme around these parts, but we have to ask - why is the yoyo scene underground? Other pastimes, we understand. Dog fighting? Sure. Arms running? Yup. Human trafficking? Absolutely. Underground makes sense. But yoyoing? Please explain further.
Switching gears once more, we have a some news to pass along from Jennifer Kay Connors of Breckenridge. Connors had this to say:
"Our dear friend James 'Shamus' O'Toole a longtime business owner of O'Toole's Saloon in Breckenridge, now living in Florida, suffered a minor stroke at the end of last week. We spoke with him at home this morning and he's in good Irish Spirits! Please send flowers and/or get well wishes to him. It will brighten his day and make his recovery quicker. His address is: 4209 SE 8th Place, Cape Coral, Florida, 33904. Thank you friends and family from the Kingdom of Breckenridge and Summit County!"
That's all we've got for you today, folks.
Tune in again tomorrow for more of the same.
We out.


text: This is a time of year when a lot of lawyers (and other professionals) cram in their end of the year educational credits. (except not in Massachusetts, the sole state that doesn't require continuing education of the bar) As part of my educational obligations in my other jurisdictions, I found myself in the middle of twelve way brawl about the constitutionality of the judges now being rammed through the Senate on a partisan vote by Senate Democrats. The question is whether these confirmations are legitimate, as even Reid admitted this morning that he views the role of Senate Democrats to rubber stamp nominees as his definition of advise and consent. If these confirmations aren't legal, what are the consequences of what they are doing? Well, a handful of constitutional law professors were suggesting that orders they issue, decisions they render, verdicts they certify, lack certainty. Very quickly, we could end up with two classes of judges–those who legitimacy, and those without, with the very real and interesting question of what would happen, the shoe shifting to the other foot, if a Republican President in 2017 and a Republican Senate in 2017 deem those judgments as fraudulent, and appoint their own judges. Who's going to sort that out. As another prof pointed out, the effect of the nuclear option extending to judges is almost certainly unconstitutional, as it threatens the independence of the judiciary. What's going to happen the first time someone appeals a criminal conviction on the grounds that the judge wasn't properly confirmed, and it gets decided by a partisan Republican bench? Or when someone appeals a property decision on the grounds that a judge's signature is not valid? We may be heading for a constitutional crisis in which we have two judiciaries, side by side, leaving the Supreme Court, maybe, maybe not, to sort it out. Point is, the nuclear option may have seemed like a good idea to Reid, but now we have a whole new front in the culture war to fight about. nice job.


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Brookline's beginnings were rural; its land was originally parceled out to citizens of Boston as allotment farmlands in the 1630′s. As allotment holders found it convenient to live close to their crops and livestock, a settlement grew up around the "Muddy River Hamlet". By the end of the seventeenth century, its inhabitants had built a school house, laid out three major roads, obtained exemption from paying taxes to Boston, and were petitioning the Massachusetts General Court for independence.
After three attempts, a petition to be a separate town, signed by 32 freeholders, was granted on November 13, 1705. The Muddy River hamlet was formally incorporated as the Town of Brookline. Samuel Sewall, son of Judge Sewall of Salem Witch Trials fame, lent the community his services as the first Town Clerk and, it is thought, the name of his family's "Brooklin" lands, which lay between the Charles and Muddy Rivers. A Town Meeting and Selectmen governed the Town, then, and still do today.
The residents of Brookline in the early eighteenth century were almost all farmers, many cultivating lands inherited from their fathers or acquired through marriage. Some of their names, such as Heath, Winchester, Clark, Aspinwall, and Devotion, remain with us today as street and neighborhood identifications. Zabdiel Boylston of Brookline, a physician, and uncle of John Adams, earned initial notoriety and enduring fame by introducing inoculation against smallpox to the American colonies in 1721.


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Taft College softball players and coaches will host a spring break softball camp March 27-29.
The fee is $40 per player (includes T-shirt and lunch) with registration taking place at the West Side Recreation Center.
The deadline is Thursday. Late registrations are not guaranteed a T-shirt.
For more information call 763-4246.
The camp is open to softball players from 6 to 15.
Lunch will be provided daily.
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Definition of commandeer in English:
verb[with object]
1Officially take possession or control of (something), especially for military purposes: a nearby house had been commandeered by the army
More example sentences
- It reopened to the public… after it was commandeered two years ago for a US military base.
- Chandler and his control team were commandeering juggernauts to block off the dock piers one at a time.
- These laws already give police sweeping powers to take control of services and commandeer buildings and equipment.
seize, take, take possession of, take away, requisition, appropriate, expropriate, sequestrate, sequester, confiscate, annex, take over, claim, lay claim to, pre-empt, secure;
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1.1Take possession of (something) by force: the truck was commandeered by a mob
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- So, after some plotting, the pair commandeer an ice cream truck and hit the road with granny chilling in the freezer.
- On January 8, 1880, a group of over 150 miners commandeered a train and forced the conductor to take them to Hawks Nest without pay.
- The second incident occurred on the same day when a vehicle was commandeered by a group of nine refugees who forced their way into the vehicle.
1.2 [with object and infinitive] Enlist (someone) to help in a task: he commandeered the men to find a table
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- But her enthusiastic account of the local food scene made such an impression on programme producer David Pritchard that he commandeered her for part of the film.
- But after I told Neil I had been a volunteer at the Commonwealth Games and done boxing reporting he immediately commandeered me to do more work.
- The limousine driver was exactly where we left him, and I commandeered him to drive us to my place.
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The industrious Cragsters are a tribe of miners who have made their home in a network of tunnels and caverns dug deep under the surface of the world. SEISMO is a quiet and shy Cragster, and just a nervous tap of this Mixel's huge feet can cause an earthquake. This can be useful when Nixels attack because SEISMO's stomp can cause an avalanche to bury them!
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"As a result of employee furloughs due to sequestration, the FAA is implementing traffic management initiatives at airports and facilities around the country. Travelers can expect to see a wide range of delays that will change throughout the day depending on staffing and weather related issues."
FAA Statement - 4/25
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress has easily approved legislation ending furloughs of air traffic controllers that have delayed hundreds of flights daily.
The House approved the measure Friday on a 361-41 vote, one day after the Senate agreed to the bill. The action came with lawmakers streaming toward the doors for a week-long spring recess.
The Federal Aviation Administration has furloughed the controllers as part of the government-wide, $85 billion spending cuts called the sequester.
Republicans are accusing the Obama administration of using the controller furloughs to put political pressure on Congress to roll back all the cuts. Airline delays have infuriated travelers and caused headaches for lawmakers.
Democrats largely went along with the bill but said all the cuts should be lifted.


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Raymond (Buzzy) Earl Vollmer, 86, of Willow City, N.D. passed away Monday, March 18, 2013 at Trinity Hospital, Minot.
Funeral will be held on Friday, March 22 at 2 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Willow City. Visitation will be Thursday from 10 am until 9 pm with a prayer service at 7 p.m. at the Nero Funeral Home in Bottineau, N.D. Burial will be at the memorial Park Cemetery at Willow City.
Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau, will be in charge of arrangements.
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Mailboxes and mail service are provided to resident students of Lindenwood University. The student mailroom is student operated and staffed and provides a minimal amount of service. Students who require a more complete offering are encouraged to contact the St. Charles Post Office or one of the local mail handlers for a mailbox which can be rented for a minimal charge; Lindenwood has no affiliation with any mail carrier/post office. The university is not responsible for lost mail packages.
Location: Lindenwood University operates two mailrooms. One is located on the 3rd floor of the Spellmann Center and is for university faculty, the other, the student mailroom, is located on the Evans Commons Building. Both are operated by university students.
Delivery: Mail is delivered to the Evans Commons shipping dock on a daily basis. After faculty mail is separated out, student mail is delivered to the main floor of the Evans Commons. FEDEX, UPS, USPS, and other delivery services deliver to this shipping dock; mail dropped off at Evans Commons after the mail is dispersed will not be available until the following day. We do not provide same-day or next-day delivery. Mail is brought to the student mailroom once a day. UPS, FEDEX, and USPS do not deliver to the dormitories or houses, only to the university mailroom. Standard sized mail is delivered to the mailboxes; oversized mail is kept separate in the mailroom, and is picked up separately from standard-size ail.
Services: The University only provides a mailbox to students who request one. Other mail services are located at the St Charles Post Office, located on 5th Street (approximately 1 mile from the university); there is also a UPS facility located on 5th Street.
Hours of Operation: Mail is delivered to individual mail boxes each week day; student mailboxes are available to be checked each day the Evans Commons Building is open. Mail that is delivered on Saturdays will not be available until the following Monday. Oversize/accountable mail may be picked up anytime between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday when mailroom workers are present. Identification must be shown to obtain mail.
Oversize Mail: Students will be notified of any oversize mail (mail that won't fit into the student mailbox) by email sent out by the mailroom. Students are responsible for checking in at the student mailroom periodically, especially if they are expecting a package. Packages that are not claimed by the addressee after two weeks will be returned to the sender.
Letter/Normal size mail: This mail will be placed into the student's mailbox. Students are expected to check and empty their mailbox on a regular basis; mail that accumulates over a period of time, to the point the box cannot hold it, will be returned to sender as undeliverable.
Magazines/periodicals: Students who receive this class of mail should check their mailbox on a daily basis. The mailboxes are small and can only hold a small amount of mail; overflow mail is stored with oversize mail, and returned to sender after two weeks as undeliverable mail.
Mailboxes: Students living on campus are issued a mailbox only if they request one. Mailboxes are a privilege. Do not throw away mail that is not addressed to you! Instead, return it to the mailroom to verify the correct delivery. If you have a campus mailbox you will receive campus mail (grades, news from the Business Office, Registrars Office, Housing Office, and any office that needs to contact you).
Students are expected to know their mailbox combination and be able to operate the mailbox; we will provide assistance as needed, but are not available to check and open each student's mailbox. If you have an inoperative mailbox, inform the mailroom workers to have it repaired so you may open it.
After the mailroom personnel receive the form, they will email (to the email you give) your Mailbox and the Combination to open your Mailbox for the School Year.
End of Year: At the end of the school year any mail remaining will be returned to sender; we do not hold mail over the summer. It is the student's responsibility to ensure their mail gets forwarded to the correct address (this can be done by giving the Mailroom a change of address). Any mail received over the summer will also be returned to sender or forwarded to the addressee's forwarding address. Students remaining on-campus over the summer must notify the mailroom to avoid loss of mail privileges.
Flowers: The University receives numerous amounts of flowers; not all are delivered to the mailroom. If flowers are sent, and are not at the mailroom, please try to determine where they were delivered. The mail room will attempt to contact persons receiving flowers telephonically when they are received at the mailroom; we do not deliver flowers, they are the students' responsibility to pick- up.
Student responsibilities: Check your mailbox on a regular basis, ensure your correspondents have, and use, your correct mailing address (to include your name); ensure the mailroom has your correct name (and any names you may receive mail under). We cannot deliver mail to a student that is not addressed to them; mail can only be delivered to the individual on the address line (other names: parents/relatives names, children's names may not be delivered to you without written authorization). Mail is only given when individuals provide identification showing they are the proper recipient. The university is not responsible for lost mail packages.
Students Mailing Address is:
Students' Name
Mailbox ###
Lindenwood University
209 S. Kingshighway
St. Charles, MO 63301
Mailroom Contact Information:
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (636) 627-2501
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Undergraduate Admissions (636) 949-4949
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AppDynamics, a San Francisco startup that helps companies manage their Web applications in the cloud, is expected on Wednesday to announce $50 million in new venture funding.
The company, founded in 2008, counts Cornell University, Hotels.com and Netflix (NFLX) among its customers. Clients credit its software with helping their own apps run faster and making it easier to track down website problems.
"A lot of our portfolio companies were using AppDynamics, and that brought it to our attention," said Steve Harrick of Menlo Park's Institutional Venture Partners, which led the funding round. Other investors include Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
The company said it monitors more than 51 billion online transactions each day on behalf of its customers.
Greylock's Asheem Chandna, whose firm was the first investor in AppDynamics, noted that in the early days of the Web, apps typically ran on a single server behind a firewall. "If you look at large websites today, these different components tend to be much more distributed," he said. "The underlying infrastructure is much more complex, and the monitoring framework has to have the same attributes."
Although Harrick's firm typically invests in "late-stage" technology companies rather than startup seedlings, he said the investment isn't necessarily a sign that AppDynamics is poised to go public this year.
"They've got a lot of hiring and development to do," he said, while adding that the startup's 400 percent annual growth rate tops those of several high-profile enterprise software companies that went public last year, including ServiceNow and Palo Alto Networks.
CEO Jyoti Bansal said in a statement that he plans to also use the financing to expand into new overseas markets and ramp up research and development.
Contact Peter Delevett at 408-271-3638. Follow him at Twitter.com/mercwiretap.


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Hit-and-run victim dies
Published: Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 1:36 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 1:36 p.m.
Brian Capps of Fletcher, who was struck by a pickup truck while walking home along Souther Road at about 2:30 a.m. Aug. 3, died Wednesday evening, according to N.C. Highway Patrol Sgt. B.E. Hipp.
Michael Anthony Waycaster, 40, of Fletcher has been charged with felony hit and run. Hipp said Waycaster, 40, turned himself in on Aug. 5 and is currently out on bond.
Representatives of the Highway Patrol met with the district attorney Thursday afternoon and Hipp said no additional charges will be filed.
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Nautilus pompilius
The chambered nautilus lives in tropical waters extending from the Andaman Sea east to Fiji and from southern Japan to the Great Barrier Reef. This animal usually lives where the slopes of coral reefs descend into deep waters. During the day, it resides in dark cool waters at depths from 900 to 2,000 feet and ascends to shallower waters (300 to 500 feet deep) at night to feed.
Chocolatey-brown zebra stripes adorn the nautilus's smooth, white shell. It expands its living space as it grows, adding internal chambers in a perfect logarithmic spiral coated in mother of pearl. The body is situated in the last chamber, and about 90 slim tentacles and a large eye peer out. The tentacles, which bear little anatomical resemblance to the suckered tentacles of squid, function mainly in smelling and manipulating food. When imperiled by predators, the nautilus withdraws into its armor and seals the door with a tough, leathery hood.
The nautilus has an unusually long life span for a cephalopod. It takes several years to reach sexual maturity and may live more than 15 years.
Octopus, sharks, triggerfish, and turtles can penetrate the nautilus shell.
At night, nautiluses ascend to shallower waters to scavenge for hermit crabs, fish, and the exoskeletons of molting crustaceans. They locate food by smelling the ocean currents for traces of dead or dying prey.
Nautiluses will reproduce annually once they've reached sexual maturity. Four modified, fused tentacles form the male sexual organ, the spadix. The spadix passes sperm to the female during mating, which can last up to 24 hours. The female fertilizes about a dozen eggs and deposits them one at a time or in small groups throughout the year. The eggs measure more than an inch in length, making them among the largest of invertebrate eggs. They have an exceptionally long incubation time, ranging from nine months to over a year. No one has ever seen nautilus eggs in the wild so little is known about the environment in which they are laid.
The nautilus's graceful shell has made it an attractive commodity for the commercial shell trade, and Nautilus pompilius is the most commonly sold species. Traders from Indonesia, Fiji, and the Philippines capture nautiluses using baited traps. Conservation concerns have been raised due to nautiluses' slow rate of reproduction. In Indonesia, it is illegal to export nautiluses.
Nautiluses first appeared about 500 million years ago during the Cambrian Explosion—they were jet-propelling themselves through ancient seas 265 million years before dinosaurs inhabited the Earth. Nautiluses are described as living fossils because they have remained virtually unchanged for millions of years. The horseshoe crab, which has been around for 300 million years, is another example of a living fossil.


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Breda Blackout recipe
1 oz Passoa® liqueur
1 oz Pisang Ambon® liqueur
1 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
1 oz Bols® Gold Strike cinnamon liqueur
4 oz Red Bull® energy drink
Combine ingredients with ice in a highball glass. Stir and serve.
15% (30 proof)
Serve in: Highball Glass
Lani recipe
30 ml Passoa® liqueur
45 ml grapefruit juice
tonic water
Pour passoa and grapefruit juice into a glass over ice cubes and fill with tonic water, stir, and serve.
Serve in: Collins Glass
Padas Passoa recipe
1/2 oz Passoa® liqueur
1/2 oz apricot brandy
2 1/2 oz orange juice
2 1/2 oz grape soda
1/4 oz 7-Up® soda
Pour all ingredients into an old-fashioned glass filled with cracked ice. Stir well, and serve.
4% (8 proof)
Serve in: Old-Fashioned Glass
Passoa Recovery recipe
6 cl Passoa® liqueur
2 cl lemon juice
soda water
Pour passoa and lemon juice over ice in a highball glass. Fill with soda water, and serve.
Serve in: Highball Glass
The Admiral's Passion recipe
1 part Passoa® liqueur
1 part Sprite® soda
1 part orange juice
3 ice cubes
Add the Passoa first, mix the Sprite & juice separately. Add 3 cubes of ice to top it off. Serve cold.
6% (12 proof)
Serve in: Cocktail Glass
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FRENCH CAMP - The San Joaquin County Coroner's Office on Thursday identified a teenage girl who died as a result of a single-vehicle collision that occurred early Monday in central Stockton.
Samantha Roman, 17, of Stockton died Tuesday, hours after the vehicle she was riding in crashed into a tree near West March Lane and North Pershing Avenue, authorities said. Three other people were injured in the 1:15 a.m. accident, two of them critically, police said.
Police said they believe drugs or alcohol may have been a contributing factor. An investigation into the crash is ongoing, authorities said.
STOCKTON - A Stockton man who reported his vehicle stolen in August 2012 called police again Wednesday to report that he had located the vehicle, authorities said.
The man discovered his vehicle, with different license plates, in the 2800 block of Deborah Lane in southeast Stockton about 5:40 p.m. Officers responded to the location and arrested Enrique Salcedo, 35, on suspicion of auto theft and possession of stolen property, police said. Salcedo also was arrested on two outstanding warrants.
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It used to be that a refrigerator stood alone. It jutted out from the wall, and it hummed loudly as it kept the food cool. It neither made ice nor dispensed water. Those days are over.
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Marshmallow Bench With Table
Inspire a whimsical retro atmosphere in any setting with the ever so stylish Marshmallow Bench. A perfect conversation piece, this bench is suitable for any space that is seeking a unique and fun look, inspired by the classic design of the original, this seat is infuses style and pizzazz. The Marshmallow is available with the option of a movable side table (taking the place of 4 cushions) or with cushions, which include 12 all the way across. This seat is perfect for an office or a home setting, ideal when placed at the end of a bed or in a hallway. The bench is available in a variety of cushion fabrics and vinyl coverings, custom fabrics and leather. Call for custom colors.
Overall: 58" L x 19" W x 19" H
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