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Rethinking Grand Central's Crowded Second Century
Amid the festivities marking the centennial of Grand Central Terminal, neighbors of the celebrated station are embroiled in a debate with the city and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that will shape the landmark's next century.
On the streets of Midtown East, the burning questions are about Mayor Michael Bloomberg's rezoning proposals intended to spur investment, redevelopment and growth among the neighborhood's prewar buildings, most of which are more than 70 years old. Inside Grand Central, meanwhile, planners are already debating ways to ensure that the station will be capable of handling a growing burden of pedestrians, commuters, gawkers and passersby.
Among the options being considered:
- A new stairway down to the Lexington Avenue subway, across the corridor from the existing escalators at 42nd Street, to help relieve a persistent problem with crowding at rush hour.
- Reconfigured platforms for the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 trains, shrinking the footprint of staircases and providing greater breathing room on the system's most crowded line.
- A new connection from the existing lower-level tracks that would link the future station concourse of the Long Island Railroad to Metro-North, around an out-of-use underground track and directly into the mezzanine of the subway station (shown in the drawing above).
None of those proposals are underway yet. As with other items on the MTA's wish list, they are dependent on a battle that is at its earliest stages. A new capital plan for the agency will eventually set out what projects get built over the next five years and how much the MTA devotes to each of them.
But Metro-North officials, who are in charge of Grand Central, are eager to press ahead with improvements to their prized station if they can find a way to pay for them.
The new 42nd Street stairway and the possible lower-level connection to the subway would help to solve "one of the major bottlenecks of the terminal," Metro-North President Howard Permut said — a reference to the perennial jam-up at the top of the stairs and escalators that lead down to the Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7 and Times Square Shuttle trains near Grand Central's southeast corner.
The new demands on the station will grow with the city, which is expected to add 1 million residents by 2030, and with the approval of the Bloomberg zoning proposal, which could add thousands of new office workers to the neighborhood.
By 2019, meanwhile, the MTA is hoping to finish East Side Access, a subterranean expansion that would add an additional 162,000 passengers to the daily load at Grand Central by providing a connection to the terminal from the Long Island Rail Road.
But beginning work on those future projects — should the MTA even decide to undertake them — will require money.
The Department of City Planning's studies of potential rezoning envision a new pool of "district improvement" funds — money paid by developers who want to build higher, which would be earmarked for pedestrian network improvements. In its most recent review of the zoning plan, the department explicitly cites the reconfigured subway mezzanine and new "connections between Grand Central Terminal and subway station" as possible enhancements.
The local community has responded with skepticism about the pace and planning of such improvements. Neighbors want to see immediate infrastructure improvements to accommodate existing conditions at the station, said Raju Mann, the transportation committee chairman of Community Board 5. He doesn't want to wait until "after the buildings get built."
But for the MTA to act on its own, it would need funding for new capital work. One official said the lower-level connection from LIRR and Metro-North to the subway could cost between $50 million and $100 million.
That's a problem right now, the official added, because "there's no money."


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My first set of wind chimes - recorded with Zoom H4n. The file is a high quality FLAC, which you can open with Audacity. No processing, but the last 10 seconds is pure line noise in case you want to do noise reduction.
I am a hopeless lover of melodic windchimes. Lovely! Guess I'll have to put some of mine up, too. :)
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Seized: Planes were taken by the Allies from Europe and shipped to the airbase, where they were pulled apart
In the battle to stay ahead of the enemy in World War II, American engineers were willing to employ any trick – including stealing the ideas from their Nazi counterparts.
So they shipped hundreds of German aircraft to a field in Seymour, Indiana, where they proceeded to take apart the machines to learn how they were built – and then buried any evidence of doing so.
Now recovery teams at Freeman Field are unearthing hundreds of plane parts and piecing them back together, much like their ancestors attempted to nearly seven decades ago.
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As Chair, I would like to welcome you to the Department of History at UC San Diego. Comprised of 40 full-time faculty, we offer excellent undergraduate and graduate programs in a number of geographic and thematic areas. Our faculty have earned national and international recognition for their scholarship as well for teaching.
At the undergraduate level, we emphasize the traditional humanistic skills of critical reading, good writing, and analysis of historical texts, and allow majors to take a broad range of courses across regional and temporal boundaries. For highly motivated majors, we have an honors program that allows students to research and write a thesis under the supervision of an adviser.
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Major teaching and research fields include the history of the United States, Europe, Africa, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, the History of Science, and Judaic Studies, both ancient and modern. Across these geographic boundaries, we offer teaching and research strengths in thematic areas such as the history of gender, sexuality, nationalism, race and ethnicity among others.
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JAL's Stock Sale Finds Fans Overseas
As Japan Airlines Co. prepares to start trading Wednesday, one question will be whether it can keep its droves of international investors happy.
Airline stocks are often shunned globally for their volatile nature, so many analysts were predicting that foreign investors wouldn't be big fans of the carrier's $8.5 billion initial public offering. When All Nippon Airways Co. carried out a $2.6 billion secondary offering in August, foreign investors only took up 14% of the stock available, while ANA had hoped they would buy more than 30%.
But as JAL executives traveled around the world to sell the deal, their story of the carrier's rare, speedy rise from a 2010 bankruptcy turned out to be a surprise hit with non-Japanese investors, especially those based in the U.S. and Asia.
The international tranche of the IPO, the world's biggest this year after Facebook Inc's May deal, was oversubscribed six times, according to Daiwa Securities Group Inc., the main underwriter. The international tranche made up 25% of the offering.
In contrast, in Japan, the IPO was 3.5 times oversubscribed by Japanese institutional investors and 1.5 times by retail investors.
Analysts said Japanese retail and institutional investors, who bought 75% of the stock on offer, were less keen on JAL's IPO. Many of them remained bitter because their shares became worthless when the stock was delisted after the government decided to bail out the airline. Banks were asked to forgive ¥521.5 billion ($6.6 billion) of JAL's debt.
While the oversubscription doesn't necessarily mean that shares will rise when JAL's stock starts trading on Wednesday, signs so far are good. Traders say that as of Friday, JAL shares were priced above ¥4,100 in the grey market, where shares can be unofficially traded ahead of listings, compared with the ¥3,790 IPO price set on Sept. 10.
Before JAL filed for bankruptcy protection under a debt load of $25 billion in 2010, foreign investors had just 5% of the stock. Now they will have 24%. (JAL's IPO included only the 175 million shares held by the government bailout fund. Existing shareholders, such as electronics firm Kyocera Corp., which bought stock after the bankruptcy, continue to hold 3.5%.
The airline industry, vulnerable to shocks like economic downturns and fuel-price fluctuations, tends to be unpopular among investors. But JAL President Yoshiharu Ueki and other executives visited 17 cities world-wide, including Boston and London,and gave presentations to as many as 400 potential investors, trying to convince the skeptics to invest in the company with a long-term horizon, bankers say.
One attraction is that the airline is returning to the market with a clean balance sheet, following the injection of taxpayer money, debt waivers and a broad restructuring of jobs, routes, the jet fleet and pensions. As of March, its operating profit margin was 17%, as much as three times that of rivals worldwide.
JAL's valuation also helped lure foreign investors. JAL's IPO was priced at about five times projected earnings, compared with about 13 times for ANA, Japan's largest carrier by revenue. JAL's dividend yield was also estimated to be around 3%, above ANA's 2.2%.
Bankers say foreign investors focused on quizzing the JAL executives on whether the carrier had really changed and whether Mr. Ueki can maintain the lower cost structure and remain profitable even after veteran entrepreneur and chairman Kazuo Inamori retires early next year. Costs crept up prior to the bankruptcy, but Mr. Ueki told investors, "We will never repeat the same mistake again," according to a person who heard Mr Ueki's 60-minute presentation in New York.
Some analysts have questioned whether JAL can stay profitable after the benefits of the cost cuts work their way through and tax breaks expire in a few years. While JAL's strong balance sheet and valuations were attractive, they also say long-term growth is less certain, given price competition from new budget carriers.
"JAL's stock might be temporarily popular, but it's unclear whether that popularity will last," said Ryota Himeno, an analyst at Barclays Securities Japan Ltd.
-Brad Frischkorn contributed to this article.


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Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
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The Salvation Army Carolina Divisional Band will play a brass band concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at the First Church of the Nazarene, 111 N. Washington St. The 27-member band is led by Bandmaster Jamie Hood, former Houston Symphony Orchestra member. An offering will be taken. Info: 693-4181.
Lost Playwrights perform
The Lost Playwrights of Western North Carolina presents "Evening of Short Plays" with a dash of Halloween at 7 p.m. Saturday at Doc's Deli, Grove Street. The performance includes rehearsed staged readings of original plays, monologues and short stories, presented in cabaret style. $5. Reservations are recommended but not required. Call Doc's at 693-0121.
Anyone interested in acting, directing, play-writing and reading original scripts can contact Sam Stone at 692-5001 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Music at the Back Room
FLAT ROCK -- The Back Room of the Flat Rock Wine Shoppe, 2702 Greenville Highway will offer a variety of music this week:
u Tonight, 9 p.m. -- Pond Water Experiment transplanted to our area from Florida, produces experimental music with roots that grow deep in reggae, bluegrass, funk, blues, jazz and world fusion.
u Saturday, 9 p.m. -- Mark Bumgarner, a native of Western North Carolina, has influences spanning the American landscape, from the sounds of his Appalachian mountains to the West Coast country and folk rock.
u Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. -- Keith Davis, jazz pianist, composer and educator who toured with Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw and others.
u Thursday, 9 p.m. -- Paco Shipp and Bill Cardine. Shipp is a harmonica player and singer-songwriter whose debut CD, "Tip of the Tongue," culminates decades of musical study, road experience and studio sessions.
u Friday, 9 p.m. -- Galen Kipar Project plays folk-rock, blues, classical and world beat.
Info: 697-6828.
Medieval feast brunch
FLAT ROCK -- Season's Restaurant at Highland Lake Inn is celebrating fall with an Olde World Medieval Feast Brunch Buffet from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. It will feature soups, salads, meats, vegetables and dessert items indicative of the Middle Ages (Juniper Berry, Clove and Brown Sugar Brined Whole Suckling Pig and Crown Roast of Pork with Dried Fruit and Corn Bread Stuffing Picked to Order with Fresh Fig Conserve and more).
To make a reservation call 696-9094 or 877-394-4945. To see the menu, visit www.HLInn.com/Seasons.
Wine tasting class
Blue Water Seafood and Wine Cellar is offering a Wine Tasting Class and Tasting, "Rhone Valley Wines 101," at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre, Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne are but a few of the grapes that are native to the region. Light food will be offered to accompany the wines. Cost: $20. Call 697-0503 to reserve a space.
Halloween puppets
The Arts Council of Henderson County ushers in the Halloween season with a display of puppets from the Eberle Puppet Players. Children and adults will experience the craftsmanship and "personalities" of Wizard Minifax, Pippidonk, Malacock the Mountain Man, Scraggy the Wood Ghost and many others.
The Arts Council is at 538 N. Main St., second floor, downtown Hendersonville. Gallery hours are 1-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturdays. Info: 693-8504.
The Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center will present "Pianopalooza," four nights of piano concerts.
Here's the schedule:
u Tuesday: Classical pianists Daniel Weiser and Karen Sams, Mozart to Gershwin.
u Wednesday: Don von Veiser, playing Ludwig van Beethoven "Ludwig."
u Thursday: Scott Joiner, jazz piano standards with singer Colette Boudreaux.
u Oct. 30: Boone-based pianist Jeff Little, Appalachian music.
Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 per concert or $50 for all four concerts. Single tickets may be purchased at the box office, Flat Rock Cinema or online. Info: 693-0087 or visit the box office, Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. or online at www.brpac.org. The Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center is at the corner of Sixth and Main streets.
Gourd art
BREVARD -- Five of Brevard's gourd artists will host an exhibit and sale on the decks of Two Friends gift shop, on U.S. 276 between Brevard and Cedar Mountain, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Info: 885-2103.
Book reading
BREVARD -- The White Squirrel Shoppe will host local author Nancy Purcell, reading and signing the new "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Women" from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Heritage Museum
BREVARD -- A mystery party for kids will kick off this year's Halloween events at the Transylvania Heritage Museum, 40 W. Jordan St. The mystery party is from 5:45 to 7 p.m. Saturday. Limit: 20 participants. Reservations: 862-8228.
Cemetery tours are scheduled at 5 and 6:30 p.m. Oct. 30 and 31 at the museum. Limit: 15 participants. Reservations required. Two one-hour tours by lantern light include facts on some of the "residents" of the cemetery and a few local ghost stories.
Heart of Brevard's Halloweenfest runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 31. Special treats at the Heritage Museum. Info: 862-8228 or www.transylvaniaheritage.org.
FENCE anniversary gala
TRYON -- Foothills Equestrian Nature Center, 3381 Hunting County Road, will host its 25th anniversary gala from 6 to 10 tonight. The theme: "Top Hats and High Boots." Enjoy dining and dancing under the covered area at the Equestrian Center. Tickets: $100 per person ($55 tax deductible). Info: www.fence.org.
Soul of Stone
ASHEVILLE -- Internationally known stone sculptor and artist DJ Garrity will offer a lecture, "Sculpture: The Soul of Hardscape" from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at the N.C. Arboretum,100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way.
Garrity will also offer "The Rhythms of Stone Workshop" from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today through Sunday, covering basic stone carving.
Registration for the workshop is $285 for members, $320 for the public. Register by calling 828-665-2492, Ext. 317, or visit www.ncarboretum.org.
Animal Fiber Fair
FLETCHER -- The 16th annual Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair is this weekend at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center, Fanning Bridge Road. Hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. today and Saturday, and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. SAFF celebrates the animals that produce usable fiber: sheep, llamas, Angora goats and rabbits, and alpacas. For workshop schedules, animal shows, demonstrations, and vendors carrying fiber art supplies and finished products, visit www.saffsite.org.
Admission: $3 for 13 and older. Info: 891-6045.
Violin concert
ASHEVILLE -- Violinist Daniel Bernard Rouman will perform his blend of funk, rock, hip-hop and classical music in "etudes4violin&electronix" at 8 p.m. Saturday in the University of North Carolina at Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for faculty and staff and $6 for students. Info: 251-6991.
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text: Raytheon EKV Sensor Flies In NMD Test. Aerospace Daily, Jan 20, 1998, p 85A BMDO tested a candidate exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) sensor for possible use in a national missile defense system. The purpose of the test was to determine whether the EKV could identify and track a target. New Problems With THAAD Missile Further Delay Flight Test. Aerospace Daily, Jan 22, 1998, pp 99, 102 Due to malfunctioning parts, the THAAD missile flight test has been delayed. This was a critical test for the interceptor which has had four failed attempts in the past. After a review of the missile, it was determined that a malfunctioning communications transponder and a possible malfunction with THAAD's thrust vector control hardware were the sources of the delayed test flight. PAC-3 Flight Prep Checkout Delays Upcoming Flight Test. Aerospace Daily, Jan 23, 1998, p 108 The delay in the PAC-3 test is not due to software or missile hardware but to lengthy flight preparations, according to the Army. Yeltsin Gives Russian Space Agency Control Of Missile Industry. Aerospace Daily, Jan 23, 1998, pp 107, 109A President Yeltsin has assigned the responsibility of all strategic missile developments in Russia to the civilian Russian Space Agency. Long-Lead Time Buys May Be Needed Before NMD Deployment Decision. Aerospace Daily, Jan 23, 1998, pp 107-108 Some long-lead procurement decisions may need to be made a few months before the Clinton Administration is slated to make a decision in the year 2000 on whether or not to deploy a national missile defense. Washington Outlook: Skimping On Tests. Aviation Week & Space Technology. James R. Asker, Jan 19, 1998, p 21 A congressional watchdog report renews warnings that too few tests are planned for the NMD system. Of three flight intercepts slated before a fiscal 2000 deployment decision, only one will be an integrated system exercise, a GAO report cautioned. Even that one will not test some elements of the system. Nor will the integrated test evaluate the system's performance against multiple warheads and sophisticated countermeasures that might have to be defended against in wartime, or after an accidental launch. Turkey, Israel Deepen Industrial, Defense Ties. Aviation Week & Space Technology. John D. Morrocco, Metehan Demir, Jan 19, 1998, p 26 Turkey is pressing to become a cooperative partner on Israel's Arrow anti-tactical ballistic missile program as defense ties between the two countries continue to deepen. The blossoming partnership is a boon to the Israeli defense industry and government, whose right wing coalition is suffering the repercussions of worsening relations with the Arab world - while Turkey, which shares borders with Iran, Iraq and Syria, can now draw on Israeli military technology to bolster its strategic position. Israel's Arrow would be a major asset in Turkey's arsenal. Pentagon Calls NMD Sensor Test Flight Successful. Defense Daily, Jan 20, 1998, pp 4-5 BMDO, the Army, and the Air Force successfully flight tested a key NMD component last week. During the flight test, Raytheon's EKV sensor was able to identify and track a series of dummy warheads and target balloons in space. The EKV was launched aboard a reconfigured Minuteman II ballistic missile, called the PLV, from the Kwajalein Missile Range. A second reconfigured Minuteman II missile carrying the dummy warheads and target balloons launched from Vandenberg AFB about 20 minutes before the EKV sensor was launched from Kwajalein Atoll. Technical Problems Delay Next THAAD, PAC-3 Flights. Defense Daily. Greg Caires and Brian Shannon, Jan 22, 1998, pp 1-2 Two key BMDO programs are experiencing technical problems that will delay critical test flights. The THAAD missile's next test flight, originally scheduled for the week of March 23 has been delayed, as has the third test flight of the PAC-3 missile, until sometime in the third quarter of FY98. MEADS Highlights Rocky Path Of International Programs. Defense News. Eugene Fox; Stanley Orman, Jan 22, 1998, p 15 The authors of this article suggest that MEADS is a prime example of how the United States should not do business internationally. MEADS a trinational program has had funding problems that may affect other BMD programs, a structural pattern that allows the European nations with "a major say in its development, and guaranteed industrial participation with comparatively small financial commitment." The authors conclude that the US needs to find a better way to institute and maintain international development programs. Reporters Notebook: 'High Risk'. Defense Week, Jan 20, 1998, p 4 The General Accounting Office, GAO, released a report that concluded that the National Missile Defense, (NMD) program's schedule and technical risk is high. Pentagon Report Backs GAO Critique Of Airborne Laser. Defense Week. John Donnelly, Jan 20, 1998, pp 1, 6 A new study by the Defense Department's top weapons analysts "calls into question the operational effectiveness" of the Air Force's $11b Airborne Laser (ABL) system. Fifth Intercept Attempt For THAAD Program May Be Delayed Again. Inside the Pentagon. Daniel G. Dupont, Jan 22, 1998, p 6 The critical test of THAAD's interceptor has been pushed back to the end of March after some pre-flight checks turned up cause for concern. Naval TBM Defense Natures. Jane's International Defense Review. David Foxwell, Joris Janssen Lok, Jan 01, 1998, pp 28-30, 32-34 The USN's TBMD initiative - among several funded by the BMDO - have their critics. The USN's area TBMD capability, designed to counter TBMs such as the Scud and SS-21, will not be deployed until early next century and is only, some say, as capable as the Patriot system deployed during the Gulf War. The more capable but currently underfunded Navy Theater Wide (NTW) system yet to be developed, is designed to counter medium and long range TBMs, but cannot be properly tested without breaking the ABM Treaty.


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North Carolina Central University was locked down Thursday after multiple shots were fired on campus, Durham police said.
The lockdown was initiated around 2:40 p.m. and was lifted about 35 minutes later. No injuries were reported.
WNCN, citing Durham police, reported 3 or 4 shots were fired at a person on the west side of campus. That person was able to run inside a building.
Police identified the suspect as Crandall Ingram, who had previously been banned from campus. Ingram hadn't been found as of 4:15 p.m. Thursday, and police are conducting a citywide search.


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Welcome to the Cedar Rapids John F. Kennedy High School women's swimming and diving team website. We are proud of our long, rich tradition of team-oriented success and are looking forward to another great season this year. Our athletes are fortunate to practice and compete in one of the best swimming and diving facilities in the state of Iowa. Led by head coach John Ross and a talented group of assistants, the Cougars are returning 14 varsity letter winners from last year's 2014 Regional Team Champions.
Be sure to visit this site often for the latest meet results, photos, team records, and calendar updates. We also invite you to look at our competition schedule and then come cheer on the Lady Cougars at our meets and invitationals this fall!
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Pour the champagne cocktails, pull out the fondue pot and get your best Eurotrash on. It's Eurovision time! If you're a devotee there are the semi-finals (SBS1, Fri-Sat May 25-27, 8:30pm) and The Road to Azerbaijan with Julia Zemiro (SBS1, Fri-Sat May 25-27, 7:30pm). But the Eurovision Final (SBS1, Sun May 27, 7:30pm) where you get to hear them say '[Small European nation ending in -stan] – no points', is definitely the main event. This year the entry du jour is the emotional ballad and host nation Azerbaijan has led the charge. As always there's a good share of trashy dance tracks and novelty entries from countries trying not to make it through. The UK has sent Englebert Humperdink; the token hard rock track comes from Slovakia who have opened a portal to the late '80s; and Austria look like an industrial version of the Revenge of the Nerds finale. Sweden's Loreen may be the favourite but Blackbox points go to Montenegro's Rambo Amadeus. There's a donkey in the film clip. You have to give points for a donkey.
Elsewhere it's all about bikies: Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms (SCTEN, Tue, 8:30pm) continues and Sons of Anarchy (One, Wed May 23, 9:40pm) has a start date. Insight (SBS1, Tue Jun 5, 8:30pm) is getting into the act and there's even a bikie-themed episode of CSI (GEM, Sat May 26, 10:30pm).
New shows this week include Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell (ABC1, Fri May 25, 8pm) a round up of the week's news Micallef-style, the most inventive talent show Bollywood Star (SBS1, Sat Jun 9, 7:30pm) with the prize of Bollywood stardom, Archer (ABC2, Tue, 9pm) an animated spy comedy, new Fringe (Go!, Mon May 28, 10:30pm), Sanctuary (ABC2, Tue Jun 5, 9:25pm) and Downton Abbey (Prime, Sun, 8:30pm).
Docos to check out include Sunday Best: We Were Here (ABC2, Sun Jun 3, 8:30pm) about AIDS in the '80s, The Truth About Child Brides (ABC2, Wed May 30, 9:30pm) and The Story of Wales (SBS1, Fri Jun 1, 8:30pm). There are some great shows airing in the US at the moment starting with the jaw-dropping second season of Game of Thrones on Fox. There are also a couple of newbies that will hopefully get some free-to-air investment. Girls is an enthralling drama about four twenty-somethings in NYC. It straddles the timeline between Gossip Girl and Sex and the City (11, Fri, 9:40pm) but is grittier and pushes more boundaries. Veep is a US adaptation of The Thick of It starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the Vice President.
The new season US shows were announced last week and include comedies The Neighbours about a gated community where aliens reside and dramas 666 Park Avenue about a haunted NYC apartment building, Zero Hour, starring Anthony Edwards as the editor of a skeptics mag, and Arrow, based on DC Comics character.
New Australian projects include Aunty's This Christmas, a six-part comedy about an anti-Christmas family to air (you guessed it) in the lead up to Christmas, Mr &Mrs Murder a 13-part comedy crime series starring Shaun Micallef and Kat Stewart for SCTEN which has just been funded by Screen Australia and a telemovie of Peter Temple's The Broken Shore.
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Let's face it: the one thing Aussie TV has honed in recent years is producing stories of important characters or events in our recent past. Think Ita, the soon to be released Packer biopic, Bastard Boys, the original Underbelly, Hawke and Keating (who fittingly got a musical instead). These were stories filled with characters we knew well.
Mabo (ABC1, Sun Jun 10, 8.30pm) is something else altogether. Despite his name being synonymous with the struggle for Indigenous land rights, this beautifully shot and detailed story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo is an informative tale of a determined man, a tender love story and a revealing look at Australia's recent past.
Dollhouse (ELEVEN, Mon Jun 11, 9.30pm) is almost the complete opposite of Mabo and has slid quietly into the TV guide without a peep. Penned by the revered Joss Whedon (Buffy, Firefly and The Avengers), the sci-fi series is about a corporation programming 'actives' with temporary personalities and skills for wealthy clients. Like Firefly, it was cancelled while airing, this time during the second season.
Myf Warhurst's Nice (ABC1, Wed Jun 13, 8pm) is a personal trip through the '70s, '80s and '90s looking at music food, fashion, photography, art and design. It's Australian pop culture through a Gen-X lens. By the time you're done you'll recognise the girl in the Chico Roll ads and be singing love duets with the best of them. The first episode features Kenny Rogers and Paul Gray from Wa Wa Nee. And it gets better from there.
Jennifer Byrne has been busy of late. When not appearing on hubby Andrew Denton's Randling (ABC1, Wed, 8.30pm), she's been compiling a series of bookworm specials for winter shut-ins: Jennifer Byrne Presents: Punchlines (ABC1, Tue Jun 12, 10pm); Erotica (ABC1, Tue Jun 12, 10.05pm) and Books That Changed The World (ABC1, Tue Jun 26, 10.15pm).
There's heaps of other new stuff hitting screens this fortnight, including Ricky Gervais' mockumentary Life's Too Short (ABC1, Wed Jun 13, 9.05pm), amateur photo comp Photo Finish (ABC1, Thu Jun 14, 8pm), HBO comedy Bored To Death (ABC2, Mon 9.30pm), BBC dramedy Death In Paradise (ABC1, Sat Jun 9, 7.30pm), Hamish and Andy's Euro Gap Year (WIN, Thu Jun 14, 8.30pm), new Man vs Wild (SBS1, Mon Jun 18, 8.30pm) and reruns of The Wonder Years (ABC1 Sat Jun 9 5pm) and Kojak (7TWO, Mon-Fri 12pm & 3.30am).
Docos include Dumb, Drunk and Racist (ABC2, Wed Jun 20, 9.30pm), in which Joe Hildebrand gives Indians a look at Australian culture, Utopia Girls (ABC1, Thu Jun 14, 9.30pm) on how women won the vote, Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters (ABC2, Thu Jun 7, 9.30pm), Ross Kemp: Extreme World (ABC1 Wed Jun 20 10pm), Death Unexplained (SBS1, Jun 19, 8.40pm) and Foreign Correspondent Presents: 20 Years (ABC1, Tue Jun 19, 8.30pm).
Plenty for the foodies too, including Nigel Slater's Simple Cooking (ABC1, Sat Jun 9, 6pm) and Island Feast with Peter Kuruvita (SBS1, Thu 8pm).
There's a raft of '80s films including Mystic Pizza (ABC2, Sat Jun 9, 8.30pm), Pretty in Pink (WIN, Sun Jun 10, 8.35pm) and Teen Wolf (ABC2, Sat Jun 16, 8.30pm).
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Bad Odors Inspire Condom Use
Is it permissible to believe that a study touches on a worthwhile subject while also laughing at it? That's a question inspired by "Smells Like Safe Sex: Olfactory Pathogen Primes Increase Intentions to Use Condoms" [paywall], forthcoming in Psychological Science.
Ninety-nine undergraduates were asked a few basic questions about their sexual behavior. In passing, they were told that there happened to be a plumbing problem in the building where the study was being done, and that pipes were sporadically emitting unpleasant odors. They were then sent out of the room, to get a drink of water (in anticipation of giving a saliva sample). When they came back, they encountered one of two situations:
In the pathogen-prime condition, while participants were
out of the room, the experimenter sprayed the wall of the room
with a single pump of "Liquid A**," a novelty odor liquid that
smells strongly of common bacterial threats (e.g., feces). In
the control condition, the experimenter did not administer the
In these environments, the students then answered questions about their dedication to condom use. The students in the olfactorily unsatisfactory room rated their intention to use condoms 4.48, on a 1-to-7 scale. Those answering in an odor-free room gave a rating of 3.74. Based on a survey, the students' moods were not affected by the odor, though they noticed it.
In short, olfactory awareness of potential pathogens made the students warier of the kind of pathogen transmitted through sexual activity.
The authors did not suggest how this finding might be deployed to increase condom use in the real world.


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Indonesia, Thailand Ask U.S. About Allegations of Spying
By I Made Sentana, Nopparat Chaichalearmmongkol and Abhrajit Gangopadhyay
Indonesia and Thailand said Wednesday that they are asking the U.S. about allegations it used its embassies for telephone eavesdropping and other spying, expressing alarm should the reports be accurate.
Meanwhile, the opposition leader in Malaysia urged the government to demand answers from the U.S.
Scattered media outlets reported that the U.S. allegedly used many of its embassies – including in Indonesia and Thailand – as monitoring stations, including for alleged phone tapping. The Wall Street Journal has not confirmed the allegations. The U.S. embassies in Jakarta and Bangkok could not be reached for comment.
However, a State Department spokesperson said, "We are not going to comment publicly on every specific alleged intelligence activity, and as a matter of policy we have made clear that the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations.
"At President Obama's direction, we've begun to review the way that we gather intelligence, so that we properly balance the legitimate security concerns of our citizens and allies with the privacy concerns that all people share. The United States takes the concerns of the international community seriously and has been regularly consulting with affected partners."
The media reports about alleged snooping out of some U.S. embassies in Southeast Asia surfaced as the U.S. is embroiled in controversy for spying on dozens of world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The acknowledgement of the practice has caused friction between the U.S. and some of its allies and sparked outrage on social media about the extent of the U.S. intelligence-gathering around the world. In a new development, France and Spain were drawn into the uproar after U.S. officials said that the European countries had collected millions of phone records and then handed them over to its National Security Agency.
Thailand's National Security Council secretary-general, Paradorn Pattanatabut, said it hasn't helped U.S. intelligence agencies with electronic eavesdropping.
"That will be against Thai laws related to the protection of rights," said the security-general said, adding that he had no independent confirmation of U.S. spying on the Thai government. He said Thai national security-related agencies have been put on alert about the possibility.
"We will have to communicate with the U.S. that such an act is really the violation of rights and a crime under Thai laws," he said. "Thailand does have strict control over right violations while being careful about international relations. Anyhow, we believe that Thailand the U.S. still enjoy good and cordial relations."
Thai Deputy government spokesperson Sunisa Lertpakawat called the allegations "sensitive."
She added, "[N] ational security-related agencies are looking into the matter. While this should not really affect Thailand's national security directly, phone-tapping [spying] is not right and should never be implemented. Every country has their own sovereignty and the world community should respect that."
The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it has called the U.S. asking whether the media reports of alleged snooping are accurate.
"[We] have sought official explanation from [the] U.S. through its charge d'affaires in Jakarta and [lodged] strong protest," Minister of Foreign Affairs Marty Natalegawa told The Wall Street Journal. "If confirmed, [alleged telephone eavesdropping and other spying] would constitute an unacceptable and serious breach of trust and confidence, [c]ertainly not in keeping with friendly ties and relations."
In Malaysia, Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim seized the media reports to bash Prime Minister Najib Razak, who did not publicly address the allegations.
"I think the Malaysian intelligence, in particular the prime minister, should not be seen to be so submissive and not prepared to say anything," Mr. Anwar said. "They must lodge a protest. [T] here is no reason for any country, foreign country, whether it's United States or any other country to be involved in any internal espionage in any country."


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Ninth Annual Meeting of the American College of Business Court Judges
Event Date: Sunday, September 15 to Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Location: Mason Inn Conference Center and Hotel 4352 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030
Program Description: The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law is pleased to host the Ninth Annual Meeting of the American College of Business Court Judges.
In October 2005, a group of judges working with complex business cases founded the American College of Business Court Judges (ACBCJ). With the assistance of the Law & Economics Center at the George Mason University School of Law, the ACBCJ develops programs and seminars to equip business court judges around the county with the knowledge and skills necessary to deal efficiently and professionally with the increasingly complex issues they confront.
The ACBCJ offers:
Disparate Impact Analysis Beyond Mortgages
D. Jean Veta, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
John P. Relman, Managing Partner, Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC
Mark A. Cohen, Justin Potter Professor of American Competitive Enterprise and Professor of Law, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
Moderator: Ronald R. Glancz, Partner, Venable LLP
Privacy, Data Breach & State Enforcement
James C. Cooper, Director, Research, Law & Economics Center and Lecturer in Law, George Mason University School of Law
Eric Helland, PhD, Robert J. Lowe Professor of Economics, Claremont-McKenna College
Stephen M. Ruckman, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland
Moderator: Daniel W. Caprio, Jr., Senior Strategic Advisor and Independent Consultant, McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP
Federal Rules Committee and E-Discovery
William H. J. Hubbard, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
John J. Rosenthal, Partner, Winston & Strawn
William P. Butterfield, Partner, Hausfeld LLP
Moderator: Richard O. Faulk, Senior Director, Energy & the Environment, Law & Economics Center and Partner, Hollingsworth LLP
Economics of Reverse Mortgages
Christopher J. Mayer, Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate and Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School
Multi-Jurisdictional Case Management
Coordinating Multi-Jurisdictional Complex Litigation
The Honorable Myron T. Steele, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware
The Honorable Gregory E. Mize, Judicial Fellow, National Center for State Courts
The Honorable Carol E. Higbee, Presiding Judge, Civil Division, Superior Court of New Jersey
Litigation Being Pursued in Multiple Forms
The Honorable Myron T. Steele, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware
The Honorable Christine A. Ward, Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania
The Honorable Betsy Gonzalez, Eighth Judicial District, Clark County, Nevada
Moderator: The Honorable Donald F. Parsons, Jr., Court of Chancery, New Castle County Courthouse, Delaware
Class Action Reform
Jessica D. Miller, Partner, Skadden Arps
The Honorable Adele Hedges (Ret.), Chief Justice, Fourteenth Court of Appeals, Houston, Texas
Patent Issues
Class Actions
David Olson, Associate Professor of Law, Boston College of Law
Mark Moller, Associate Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
Patent Licensing Entities
Jorge L. Contreras, Professor of Law, American University
Adam Mossoff, Co-Director of Academic Programs and Senior Scholar, Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property, George Mason University School of Law
Bifurcated Patent Trials
Anthony W. Shaw, Counsel, Arent Fox LLP
Bruce T. Wieder, Member, Dow Lohnes
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Could you be Enron-ed?
SEATTLE – The final leg of the AFL-CIO sponsored tour, "Could you be 'Enron-ed'?" was kicked off at the Seattle Labor Temple on June 19.
House passes bonanza for drug companies
Seldom has the naked power of money been so effective as it was in the early morning hours of June 28 when the GOP-controlled House of Representatives made a cash deal with the pharmaceutical industry.
Labor leaders arrested
WORCESTER, Mass. – Arrests are becoming common at the Shaw's Supermarkets in the Worcester area as Local 1445 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) try to enforce a collective bargaining agreement between the local union and the supermarket chain.
Calif. unions rally for the right to organize
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – "We're under attack, not in Afghanistan but in San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Central Valley and across California. We're being intimidated from within," said Art Pulaski, secretary-treasurer of the California Federation of Labor. International watchdog groups have found that U.S. labor laws are not protecting workers' rights, he told a rally at the Capitol here June 25.
Harrisburg rally demands money for schools
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Over 100 members of two coalitions, Philadelphians United to Support Public Schools and the Coalition to Keep Public Schools Public, boarded buses on June 25 to lobby for the $75 million promised to Philadelphia schools last December by Governor Mark Schweiker during the state takeover of the school district.
Saving Amtrak: profits vs. public interest
It is not yet clear what will be the final outcome of the latest funding crisis to hit the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), the federally supported intercity railroad passenger service.
Union members serving public interest
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The AFL-CIO has projected electing 5,000 union members to public office between now and the end of the 2004 election cycle as part of their "people-powered" political campaigns. Here, one of the trail-blazers for such a movement is Kenny Jones.
International notes
100,000 rally for Chavez/Demand to free jailed S. Korean unionists/Protest foreign investment in India's media/Argentina police killings draw big protest/Georgian workers say TNCs flout standards/German phone workers win pay hike
Drivers have grievances with UPS
OAKLAND, Calif. – Interviews by the People's Weekly World with two UPS drivers at the company's Oakland terminal brought out an accumulation of grievances that lie behind the union's fight to get a new contract.
Machinist union, Boeing begin talks
Facing company threats to move more jobs and production overseas, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) opened talks with Boeing on June 25 in Kansas City. The union represents 25,000-26,000 Boeing workers. The present contract expires at 12:01 a.m., Monday, September 2.


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Table of Contents - August 2012 - Volume 139, Special Issue 09 (Symposia of the British Society for Parasitology Volume 48 Proteomic insights into parasite biology)
a1 Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, UK
a2 Laboratories of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
a3 Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Trypanosomatids represent the causative agents of major diseases in humans, livestock and plants, with inevitable suffering and economic hardship as a result. They are also evolutionarily highly divergent organisms, and the many unique aspects of trypanosome biology provide opportunities in terms of identification of drug targets, the challenge of exploiting these putative targets and, at the same time, significant scope for exploration of novel and divergent cell biology. We can estimate from genome sequences that the degree of divergence of trypanosomes from animals and fungi is extreme, with perhaps one third to one half of predicted trypanosome proteins having no known function based on homology or recognizable protein domains/architecture. Two highly important aspects of trypanosome biology are the flagellar pocket and the nuclear envelope, where in silico analysis clearly suggests great potential divergence in the proteome. The flagellar pocket is the sole site of endo- and exocytosis in trypanosomes and plays important roles in immune evasion via variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) trafficking and providing a location for sequestration of various invariant receptors. The trypanosome nuclear envelope has been largely unexplored but, by analogy with higher eukaryotes, roles in the regulation of chromatin and most significantly, in controlling VSG gene expression are expected. Here we discuss recent successful proteomics-based approaches towards characterization of the nuclear envelope and the endocytic apparatus, the identification of conserved and novel trypanosomatid-specific features, and the implications of these findings.
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(Revised October 31 2011)
(Accepted November 03 2011)
(Online publication February 06 2012)
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Alexander's Music Service was formed in 1990 with the purpose of specializing in weddings. Alexander serves Victoria, Duncan, Nanaimo and all points throughout Vancouver Island and travels to Vancouver on occasion. Alexander's philosophy, as a Victoria wedding DJ, extends well beyond providing music. It's providing an experience for the entire reception.
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You may be cutting this achievement close toward the end of the game, so I would suggest putting quite a few points into your Speech skill early so you can work on it the entire time. While speaking with characters, you may be presented with dialogue choices that say "[Speech] %" with a number being in there for your success chance. The higher the speech skill, the better the chance you'll get away with whatever you're going to say. There are quite a few in the Underworld (at least five just after accepting the quest from Crowley, speak with other ghouls in the city), as well as at least one or two per quest. Speak with everyone possible as even some non-quest related people can have challenges.
I was able to find an infinite loop in Little Lamplight. You need high Intelligence for it though. Talk with Knock Knock and ask her what her job is. She will explain her role in helping morale and offer to tell a joke. Agree to hear it, but then you will have the option of interrupting the joke with an "[Intelligence]" dialogue choice. She will think your joke is funnier but tell you what hers would have been. You now have an option to lie and say her joke would have been funny too. Once you win that speech challenge, you will still be able to ask her about her job and repeat the entire dialogue over and over.
There is an infinite speech challenge in Big Town to exploit. When you arrive, speak with Bittercup and agree with her that no one understands you. Once she talks about her dating Pappy, end the conversation and go talk to Pappy. Begin with "You came here with Bittercup, right?" and if he doesn't get upset you will win the challenge. Be warned though, if you do lose this challenge the loop will disappear. Try to make sure you have 100% success chance before using it. This method was patched in version 1.1 unless you clear your cache and remove the patches.
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A type of cress that is usually grown as a sprouting vegetable, often mixed with sprouting mustard, and used in salads.
- Lepidium sativum, family Cruciferae.
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In a recent interview with MMA Today, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton Jackson shed light on monetary negoitations that took place before his debut fight in PRIDE against Kazushi Sakuraba in 2001. Jackson is claiming that PRIDE officials offered him a $2000 bonus if he would allow Sakuraba to knock him out or submit him without Jackson tapping.
"I'm never the type of fighter that would lose for money," Jackson said. "I don't do that. But they told me, 'If you win this fight, you get $10,000.' But they told me—these are like the two people from PRIDE who got fired recently, I don't know if the president of PRIDE knew about it—but they told me themselves: 'If you lose by knockout or submission and you don't tap, you get $12,000.'
"I said, 'But what if I knock him out?' and they said 'You get $10,000.' Then I understood what was going on. This was my first time fighting in the big show in Japan and I learned sometimes they wanted the other guy to win. I knew it was going to be tough for me to win that fight, so I went out there and gave it my best anyways to get my $10,000," Jackson said.
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FO: NOOK nifty features
Husband and I were at the Barnes and Noble this evening after dinner at Appleby's with my brother and his wife!
B&N had a table filled with Nook readers, ready to go. It was fun to turn them on and play with them. A B&N rep came by and shared a couple of 'nifty' features:
1) if you purchase an e-book from B&N for your Nook...you can "loan" the book to a Nook enabled friend for up to 2 weeks, no cost! During the 2 weeks, you will not have access to the book. It is just as if you loaned a literal book to them. But after 2 weeks, the Nook software whisks the book out of their Nook and sends it back to your Nook!
2) You have a free 3G wi-fi network with which to add e-books to your Nook.
3) You can "send" your Nook books to your computer and to your cellphone, thereby enabling you to read your book(s) on either of the 3 pieces of equipment: computer, cell phone, or Nook
4) You do not have to sign up for a cell phone service to use your Nook downloadable features.
5) You can upgrade your internal SD memory card to add more books, however, it hold 1500 books.
6) There is a full color homepage strip under the reading part of the Nook. Your features, etc are in full color.
Sounds cool! I love my Kindle and wouldn't part with it for the world.
I have heard that Kindle will soon allow you to "loan" books to friends with Kindles. That is the only feature the Nook has that the Kindle doesn't.
My hubby has the Sony E-Reader... the major drawback is that he cannot read Nook or Kindle formats. However, it can read PDFs, .doc, and .lit quite easily. Which is good because I have over 10K books in .lit form that I have to reformat to .mobi to read on my Kindle and sometimes that conversion does not make it easy to read.
I thought Nook was the way to go till I saw this posted in the other thread.
They all sound awesome when you read about them, but I think what it comes down to is there isn't one perfect reader yet. They all have something lacking so it's like buying a house.. figure out what flaws you can live with and what you can't. ;)
I too LOVE my Kindle!! It's the best gift I've gotten in a long time! I read at least an hour every day, so it's gotten a good bit of use since Christmas! I Love it dearly!
I'm holding off for a year or two. Gonna wait and see how the e-readers evolve.
I'm especially turned off by the incompatibility issues. Can't read Amazon e-books with Nook, can't read Nook books with Sony e-Reader...etc. etc. If I own a darn e-book...I should be able to use any e-reader to read it. Until that happens, I feel e-books are very limiting. I don't like it.
Well, at least MY EYES can read any ole darn book! :thumbsup:
I don't think bookstores will be going out of business any time soon!
Or, I could go with a Sony reader, and then I can't buy ebooks from Amazon or B&N, which is 90% of my book purchases.
I'm also waiting on the i-Pad to evolve. Waiting to see if it, or another similar, will be more of a universally useful device.
I read an article in the Sunday paper, about e-readers. The main point that stood out was the growing pains of this new device.
The article said that the market will never be able to sustain so many versions. So, after all the cards are on the table, there will be a "last man standing". One that has weathered the fire storm of innovation, and remains as the best, the baddest, and hopefully, the most affordable.
The article said that e-readers will never become mainstream until they lower to $99 for a decent reader.
Few analysts believe the current number of e-reader devices on the market is sustainable, especially with more tablet devices on the way. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Google all have them in development.
Amazon will benefit from having its Kindle app available on the iPad, especially because its own e-reader doesn't have a color display. A IDG analyst said that 'we don't think it's sufficient for Amazon to go with only a bl/wh display Kindle.
I love my iPod Touch so the large iPad is a natural progression/interest for me, too. We'll have to see how it all pans out in a few years. :thumbsup:
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Relax Helper Japanese Edition リラックスヘルパー is out now
√ This is the stable edition. We recommend that all old users update to this version.
√ The ripple effect fully supported OS3.0 or later, improved the efficiency.
√ Fixed the bug may freeze the app when user start it
√ Using Headset to Get More Professional Sound Effects
√ 'Virtual scene set' allow users more intuitively and effectively deploy the scene and sound effect, and following are ways to use it:
1. When dragging the sound icon on the left and right of ears, you can control the balance attribute
2. Drag the sound icon up and down, and it will change into high pass or low pass when beyond the broken line
3. Support two kinds of operations to work simultaneously
Relax Helper Free is the free version of Relax Helper. It classifies 33 different scenes and 64 ambient sounds into 5 Categories. For instance, nature species contain Beach, Jungle, Garden, and so on. You can get them from the list of all present relax themes. It is designed to ease your mind and help you sleep in minutes. You can keep playing sounds when iPhone or iPod Touch goes into sleep mode.
Sometimes the surrounding noise effect can be damaging while you are at work. White Noise in the Society category can be chosen to obscure it. You can enhance it by creating a simulative ambiance atmosphere such as Train Travel, Airplane and Rainy Day Driving.
Moreover, you can control the mode in your own relaxation world by mixing several ambient sounds and configuring some options. We have made it easy to switch between worlds.
What you should pay attention to is that you can't set the sound in between categories. Only the Favorite category contains all the ambient sounds of the above four categories.
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Taylor is the midst of the greatest single season in Sacramento State history. The junior is currently averaging 71.94 strokes in his 36 rounds this season. That mark easily places him ahead of the current record of 72.69 which was set by Ryan Williams last season. This year, Taylor was the medalist at the UCSB Invitational and also lost in a playoff at the Lone Star Invitational. The San Juan Capistrano, Calif., native also tied for second at the Folino Invitational and tied for third at the Itani Quality Homes Collegiate. Overall, he placed among the top 15 in 11 of his 12 events and had six finishes in the top six.
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Making a Windsor Bowback Side Chair - Part 8comments (0) September 22nd, 2013 in blogs
In the last session, I modified the bow by tapering the end and extending the tenon through to the bottom face of the seat. In the process of making the bow, I also created the bow steam bending profile full size template.
In this session and video shown below, I'll complete the Windsor Chair by placing all the remaining spindles into proper position with respect to the bow. Here is a picture of the completed Windsor Chair model (that is, without seat sculpturing).
The first thing in positioning the new bows is to create the face or plane of rotation for the spindles. These reference faces are made by drawing small triangles along the sight lines and blue axis as shown here.
Then pick the Protractor Tool and hover over the triangle face. And raise a guideline to intersect in the center of the bow. Repeat this process for each of the spindle locations. Then do an inspection of the spindle alignment and spacing. Orbit around for a front view. Check for any adjustment required for spindle spacing.
Now I can place copies of the spindle component and rotate them into place. I turn on X-ray to use the previous guidepoint to precisely connect to the seat. Copy the spindle over to the other sockets on the seat. All of these spindle copies are positioned in alignment with the Blue axis.
To rotate them into the bow, select the spindle and pick the Rotate tool. Hover over the triangle face and hold the Shift Key. Click at the center of rotation, then click again at the endpoint of the centerline. Rotate over to the guideline and click to stop the rotation.
You've probably noticed that I've used one spindle component (full length) for all locations. Obviously this creates some excessively long spindles. We can create additional spindle lengths by using the Scale Tool. Also, be sure to select Make Unique so that each spindle becomes a separate component definition.
One more thing needs to be checked - the actual as-built angles for the spindles. I suspect they are a degree or so off of those specified in the Magazine article.
It's taken about 8 blogs or 16 weeks to demonstrate SketchUp for the Windsor Bowback. That represents about 160 minutes of video - less than 3 hours. So about 3 hours work in SketchUp gets you a model, but there is still important work in creating the dimensioned scenes that result in shop drawings and full-size templates.
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The Skinny: Bruins 4, Islanders 1
Game 20
Boston 4, Isles 1
Brad Marchand broke a 1-1 tie with a goal in the opening minute of the second period and Tuukka Rask made a season-high 36 saves as the Boston Bruins defeated the Islanders 4-1 before 12,788 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Bruins improve to 12-2-2 overall and 8-1-1 on the road while the Isles fall to 2-8-0 on home ice this season.
The Scoring:
1st Period
06:43 BOS A. McQuaid (1) Slap - ASST: T. Seguin (8) AND P. Bergeron (9) 1 - 0 BOS
15:49 NYI C. Cizikas (2) Tip-In - ASST: J. Bailey (3) AND A. MacDonald (2) 1 - 1 TIE
2nd Period
00:38 BOS B. Marchand (10) Backhand - ASST: A. Ference (4) AND P. Bergeron (10) 2 - 1 BOS
05:16 BOS D. Krejci (5) Snap - ASST: M. Lucic (6) AND N. Horton (4) 3 - 1 BOS
3rd Period
18:55 BOS EN - G. Campbell (2) Wrist - ASST: T. Seguin (9) AND D. Seidenberg (5) 4 - 1 BOS
The Skinny: Adam McQuaid's goal, his first since January 21, 2012, ended a 101:25 shutout streak for Evgeni Nabokov … The Isles have scored three goals in the first periods of their last two games after scoring only seven first period goals in their first 18 games …The Isles have allowed an NHL-leading 30 third period goals, including an NHL-high six into empty nets … Moulson, Tavares and Boyes all saw three game point streaks come to an end …The Isles are 0-7-0 when John Tavares is held without a point …Tyler Seguin's first period assist was his 100th NHL point … Both of Casey Cizikas' NHL goals have come in nationally televised games.
The Shots:
Isles 11-12-14=37
Bruins 10-12-12=34
The 37 shots are the most against Boston this season. Every Islander but Marty Reasoner and Radek Martinek had at least one shot on goal.
The Isles have had 37 shots or more in three games in February, but are 0-3-0 in those games.
Home and Road
The Islanders are 8-11-1 overall, 2-8-0 at home and 6-3-1 on the road.
It's only the second time in 40 seasons that the Isles have earned four or fewer points in the first ten home games:
• 1989-90 (1-7-2, 4 points)
• 2012-13 (2-8-0, 4 points)
The Bruins are 12-2-2 overall, 4-1-1 at home and 8-1-1 on the road. The Bruins complete their five-game road trip with a 4-1-0 record, winning the last four. It's their best overall start since 1976-77 (12-3-1) and their best road start since going 10-1 in their first 11 games in 1929-30.
In the Nets
Evgeni Nabokov made 30 saves but falls to 8-7-1.
Tuukka Rask made 36 saves for Boston. He is 10-1-2 on the season and sports a 1.89 GAA. He is 6-0-0 in his last six road games, allowing only seven goals.
Power Plays
The Isles went 0-for-3 on the power play while the Bruins were 0-for-4.
The Isles are 7-2-1 when they score at least one power play goal and 1-9-0 when they do not.
The Bruins have killed 26 straight over the last eight-plus games.
They Said It
Patrice Bergeron: "This was a great road game. We never stopped working and we were fortunate to have a couple of bounces go our way."
They Tweeted It
CSN- New England's @HackswithHaggs: "Boy is Mark Streit fun to watch on the power play. So much skill and offensive ability with the puck"
The Coach
"We competed hard. That's one of the best teams that we're going to play and I give our guys credit. We did a lot of good things. A couple breakdowns cost us some goals.
5-on-5 Woes
The Isles were outscored 3-1 in 5-on-5 play. The Isles have allowed an NHL-high 49 goals at 5-on-5.
What a Pair!
John Tavares and Matt Moulson were held scoreless but have combined for an NHL-leading 23 goals among teammates.
Moulson has assisted on 10-of-13 Tavares goals this season after assisting on 12 of his 31 goals last season.
13 in 20 Games
John Tavares has 13 goals in 20 games, matching Derek King's (1991-92) and Mark Parrish's (2001-02) totals. No Islander has scored more goals in the first 20 games since Pat LaFontaine tallied 15 in 1990-91.
Head of the Class
John Tavares has 227 career points; he is 60 points ahead of Matt Duchene for most among 2009 draft picks. No other player in that draft is anywhere close. Tavares also has more goals and more assists than any other player in that draft.
Friends, Friends, Friends
Matt Moulson has 10 goals this season; John Tavares has earned an assist on seven of them. Tavares has now been on ice for 39 consecutive Moulson goals, earning assists on 25 of them, dating back to a Moulson goal on November 26, 2011 against New Jersey. Since November 2010, Tavares has been on ice for 69-of-70 Moulson goals, earning 47 assists.
113 NHL Goals
Moulson has 113 career goals (107 as an Islander). While 262 players were selected before the Penguins chose Moulson in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, only 17 have more goals. Moulson is two goals behind Nikolai Zherdev for 16th place.
Leading Ice Men
Andrew MacDonald played 23:50 to lead the Isles … Dennis Seidenberg led Boston with 22:40.
In the Circle
The Islanders won 27 draws; the Bruins won 36 … John Tavares won 12-of-24 for the Isles; Patrice Bergeron won 16-of-26 for Boston.
Heavy Hitters
The Islanders out-hit Boston 21-16; Matt Martin led the Isles with six hits; he remains second in the NHL with 84. There were no fights, leaving the season total at 10.
Giving Up the Body
The Isles were credited with 15 blocked shots. Andrew MacDonald led the Isles with three; he now has 52 blocks on the season, which ties him for second in the NHL.
Under .500
The Islanders once again fall one game under all-time .500 (1355-1356-433 in 3144 games). The Isles have been one game below .500 twice last season and three times this season. Prior to that, they had not been below .500 since they were 177-178-83 prior to their victory on January 16, 1978.
3 Usually Enough
The Isles are 8-1-1 when scoring at least three goals and 0-10-0 when scoring two or less. Dating back to last year, the Isles have lost 15 straight (0-15-0) and 21-of-22 (1-20-1) when scoring two or fewer goals.
A Tale of Two Months
The Isles were 4-2-1 in January, outscoring their opponents 27-23. The Isles are 4-9-0 in February, and have been outscored 45-29.
Battling the Northeast
This was the fifth game in an eight game stretch that the Islanders play seven Northeast opponents. The Isles are 2-2-0 against their first four Northeast opponents, with Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal upcoming.
Nobody Beats the Viz
Lubomir Visnovsky has been on ice for 19 of the 26 Islander goals in his nine games with the team. Being on the ice when is team scores is nothing new for Visnovsky; he led the entire NHL in 2010-11 when he was on-ice for 146 Anaheim goals (13 more than Henrik Sedin).
Lots of Home Cooking
This was the first game of a seven-game home stand, which matches the club record.
• October 7- October 28, 1972 (1-5-1 in the first seven games in club history)
• December 19, 2000- January 2, 2001 (2-5-0)
• November 21-December 4, 2001 (3-2-2)
• October 14-October 31, 2006 (4-1-2)
• February 15-March 1, 2007 (5-1-1)
• February 24-March 9, 2013 (0-2-0 with five games to play)
Matt Moulson, the Isles' reigning ironman, has played in all 266 games since joining the team. Moulson's streak is the longest for an Islander in the Post-Cup era. Billy Harris played in the first 576 games in Islander history; that figure still stands as the club record.
Three other Islanders (Frans Nielsen, John Tavares and Mark Streit) also played in every game last season. Tavares extended his streak to 179 consecutive games, while Nielsen and Streit have each played in 102.
Longest Consecutive Game Streaks, Islander History
1. Billy Harris 576
2. Bob Nystrom 301
3. Matt Moulson 266
3. Denis Potvin 262
Century Club
Mark Streit is the ninth defenseman in Islanders history to play at least 100 consecutive games.
1. Denis Potvin 11/29/1975-1/17/1979 262
2. Bryan McCabe 10/7/95-2/4/98 220
3. Gerry Hart 3/1/75-11/22/77 198
4. Janne Niinimaa 3/13/2004-1/7/2006 136
5. Ken Morrow 3/1/1980-12/29/1981 134
6. Travis Hamonic 11/24/10 – 2/4/12 113
7. Jean Potvin 10/23/75-1/2/77 110
8. Kenny Jonsson 12/26/96-2/4/98 104
9. Mark Streit 10/8/11-CURRENT 102
Hamonic, McCabe and Morrow's streaks came at the start of their NHL careers. Both Niinimaa's streak and McCabe's streak encompassed their entire Islander careers.
Missing Men
David Ullstrom replaced Keith Aucoin in the lineup. Joe Finley and Eric Boulton were also scratched. Matt Carkner and Brian Strait are on Injured Reserve. Jesse Joensuu remains suspended after suffering an injury in Europe.
The Isles have scored 36 goals in their eight wins (4.50 per game) and 20 goals in their other 12 games (0-11-1; 1.67 per game). In their 11 regulation losses, the Isles have scored 16 goals (1.45 per game).
Career Wins, Active Goalies
1. Martin Brodeur 664
2. Roberto Luongo 344
3. Nikolai Khabibulin 330
4. Evgeni Nabokov 320
5. Miikka Kiprusoff 313
Career Wins
21. Sean Burke 324
22. Evgeni Nabokov 320
23. Miikka Kiprusoff 313
Career Shutouts, Active Goalies
1. Martin Brodeur 120
2. Roberto Luongo 62
3. Evgeni Nabokov 53
4. Tomas Vokoun 49
5. Nikolai Khabibulin 45
6. Miikka Kiprusoff 44
Career Shutouts
19 Bernie Parent 54
19 Ed Giacomin 54
21 Evgeni Nabokov 53
22 Rogie Vachon 51
22 Dave Kerr 51
22 Curtis Joseph 51
Career Goals as an Islander
21 Ray Ferraro 116
22 Matt Moulson 107
23 Benoit Hogue 105
23 Ed Westfall 105
25 Anders Kallur 101
26 Trent Hunter 99
27 John Tavares 97
28 Mikko Makela 95
28 David Volek 95
Career Assists as an Islander
28 Jason Blake 131
29 John Tavares 130
29 Trent Hunter 130
31 Mark Streit 124
31 Benoit Hogue 124
31 Mikko Makela 124
34 Ray Ferraro 122
35 Frans Nielsen 121
36 Garry Howatt 120
Career Games as an Islander (skaters)
26 Mariusz Czerkawski 470
27 Trent Hunter 459
28 Radek Martinek 455
29 Scott Lachance 450
39 Dave Scatchard 347
40 Alexei Yashin 346
41 Mark Parrish 345
42 Frans Nielsen 339
43 Marty McInnis 337
58 Gord Lane 304
59 Josh Bailey 301
60 Arron Asham 300
60 Roman Hamrlik 300
62 Kyle Okposo 291
63 Gord Dineen 287
64 Jeff Norton 282
65 Steve Thomas 275
66 Matt Moulson 266
67 John Tavares 263
68 Blake Comeau 261
68 Andre St. Laurant 261
70 Brad Lauer 259
71 Mark Streit 258
71 Benoit Hogue 258
73 Pierre Turgeon 255
Career Points as an Islander
28 Benoit Hogue 229
28 Trent Hunter 229
30 John Tavares 227
31 Mikko Makela 219
38 Butch Goring 195
39 Matt Moulson 193
40 Jeff Norton 188
41 Lorne Henning 184
42 Frans Nielsen 177
43 Randy Wood 172
44 Claude Lapointe 171
44 Jean-Paul Parise 171
46 Shawn Bates 170
47 Jude Drouin 169
48 Dave Scatchard 168
49 Kyle Okposo 166
49 Miroslav Satan 166
51 Mark Streit 161
52 Oleg Kvasha 158
Season Series Stats
The Bruins lead the season series two games to none (four points to zero). The final meeting of the season will come on April 11 at Boston.
Happy Anniversary
26 years ago today (February 26, 1987): Dale Henry and Neal Coulter were two of the lesser-known Isles who scored goals in a 5-4 Islander win over Pittsburgh. Mike Bossy and Pat Lafontaine also tallied; it was the 567th goal out of 573 career goals for Bossy.
All-time, the Isles are 2-11-5 on this date, including a 0-7-3 record since the 1987 win over Pittsburgh.
On The Farm
Bridgeport, 22-23-3-4 on the season, is off until Friday when they travel to Hartford to face the Connecticut Whale. Rick DiPietro practiced with the Sound Tigers for the first time Tuesday.
Up Next
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The Islanders continue the seven-game home stand as they entertain the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Isles won the first meeting 7-4 in Toronto in late January. The Isles have done well against Toronto at home in recent years, going 4-2-2 in their last eight Coliseum meetings.
Eric Hornick has been the statistician on Islander home game telecasts since 1982. Information contained in "The Skinny" has been gathered from various sources. Follow Eric @ehornick on Twitter.


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Austin, Texas (AP) A 27-year-old Texas teacher is facing charges for having a relationship with a 17-year-old student he planned to marry.
Randy Arias could get 20 years in prison if convicted under a 2003 Texas law that makes it a crime for a teacher to have sexual contact with a student in the same school, no matter how old.
The girl in this case was old enough to legally consent but because arias was a teacher at her school, the relationship was illegal.
The teacher was charged even though the girl's mother had already given her blessing to their marriage, going with them when they applied for a license.
The law has proven difficult to prosecute in the past. An official of the Texas district and county attorneys office says if there is a conviction, the result is typically probation "if the two parties are still in a relationship."


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Germany, 2012, 76 Minute Running Time
Language: English, Swedish English Sub-Titles
Saturday August 10th, 4:00pm To promote their book Bosnian Flat Dog, Swedish comics creators Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson tour the countries of former Yugoslavia with a mummified Marshal Tito in a refrigerator.
They encounter a number of artists, musicians, publishers and other characters populating the post-Yugoslav indie cultural scene. A picture emerges of how cultural diversity and independent initiatives fall short as new economic and military structures enter the post-Yugoslav arena. As the journey continues through increasingly improbable surroundings, the protagonists begin to question themselves and the reality they find themselves in. Watching border controls turn into improvised snapshot sessions, admiring mutant iron-curtain Disney toys, buying souvenir grenade shell handicrafts and discovering sniper art in blown-out apartments, they find that truth may indeed be stranger than fiction.
A combination of stop-motion animation and documentary scenes, the film turns into a roller coaster ride through a parallel universe where all borders are disintegrating – at the same time tragic, poetic and hilariously funny.
DIRECTOR: Helena Ahonen, Max Andersson
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