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Zobmondo Entertainment
Year: 1998
Players: 3 - 8
Time: 60 - 120 minutes
Ages: 16 and up
Weight: 1,355 grams
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Average Rating: 2.5 in 4 reviews
I bought the original version of Zobmondo! which came with a proper gameboard, but the core mechanic stayed the same in the new version.
This game has been a hit with the parties I've brought it to. Guests' original contributions were even more hideous than the cards in some cases.
You don't have to be a potty-minded boor to enjoy this game. You just need a healthy funny bone.
The point of a party game is to socialize; in that regard, this offering is a mild success. In reading the cards (would you rather eat a live cockroach or dive into a pool of phlegm), much discussion usually ensues. And that's a good thing.
Otherwise, there's nothing to the game. Predicting what others will do is anticlimactic at best, a bore at worst. This game tries to do what Personal Preference does, only with grosser material. Just play Personal Preference by allowing the guests to make up the topics. It'll be more appropriate to the crowd and much more interesting.
This game provides minimal entertainment value. The best aspect of this game is that the questions were devised by comedians, and the 'best' of the questions were used for the making of this game. If you still insist on buying this game (and the only reason it gets 2 stars instead of 1), use it for the cards only for conversations pieces. My friends could laugh all night just reading the cards out loud to each other. As a game, this one is horrible. Save yourself the headache. For a great party game, look at [page scan/se=0551/sf=category/fi=stockall.asc/ml=20]Apples to Apples, Balderdash, or my favorite, 25 words or less.
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COOLVILLE - Community members celebrated the history of Coolville on Saturday during the annual Community Founders Day with food, entertainment, activities and other attractions.
Hundreds of people came and went throughout the day, which began with a parade on Main Street in Coolville and concluded Saturday night with a concert by local group South of the River Band.
Daniel Mollohan, president of the Coolville Lions Club, said the club began organizing the event 20 years ago as a way to bring the community together and to celebrate the founding of Coolville. The one-day festival included a variety of activities for all ages, from inflatables to a tractor show to a cruise-in.
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Organizers of Coolville Founders Day are working to make the event more family-oriented, with activities and attractions for children, including inflatables. (Photo by Wayne Towner)
"We're trying to make it more family-oriented, having more things for the kids to do as well as the adults," Mollohan said of the festival, citing the inflatables brought in this year.
He was pleased with the turnout for Saturday morning's parade and said people would come and go throughout the day to enjoy the music, food and vendors set up along Coolville's Main Street.
Mark and Tammy Little, of Hockingport, were in Coolville on Saturday to enjoy the festival, something they like to do every year.
"It's a tradition," Tammy Little said.
"We come to see our friends and people we know, and the car show and things of that nature," Mark Little said, adding the car show is his favorite part.
"And the ice cream," Tammy Little said with a laugh, adding their grandchildren loved the parade
Coolville resident John Knicely attended Founders Day on Saturday with his wife and daughter, Jamie and Sydney, 6.
"So far, it's great," he said Saturday afternoon. "There's delicious food over in the (Coolville United Methodist) church with homemade ice cream and wonderful peanut butter pie."
Knicely said the family comes to Founders Day every year it can, adding that it's a tossup between which part is their favorite, the food or the entertainment.


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"I met with David Gill last week and he did not give me any of the assurances I was seeking about the future squad.
"I then told him that I would not be signing a new contract.
"I was interested to hear what Sir Alex had to say yesterday and surprised by some of it.
"It is absolutely true, as he said, that my agent and I have had a number of meetings with the club about a new contract. During those meetings in August I asked for assurances about the continued ability of the club to attract the top players in the world.
"I have never had anything but complete respect for Manchester United How could I not have done, given its fantastic history and especially the last six years in which I have been lucky to play a part?
"For me its all about winning trophies – as the club has always done under Sir Alex. Because of that I think the questions I was asking were justified.
"Despite recent difficulties, I know I will always owe Sir Alex Ferguson a huge debt. He is a great manager and mentor who has helped and supported me from the day he signed me from Everton when I was only 18. "For Manchester United's sake I wish he could go on forever because he's a one-off and a genius."
That, in its entirety, is what Wayne Rooney had to say on October 20, 2010 when he announced his decision to part way with Manchester United, a club which, according to him, was not ambitious enough at the time.
Since he handed in his first transfer request, United have won two league titles, lost one on goal difference and got beaten by arguably the greatest team of the last decade in a Champions League final, while Chelsea, the club closer to signing Rooney, have won the Champions League and the Europa League in successive season, but only lifted one league title in the last seven years and the less said about Arsenal's record, the better.
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An officer with the Mohawk Police Department is facing charges after he allegedly choked his wife during a recent domestic incident in Whitestown, authorities said.
Edwin Marrero, 37, was charged Feb. 26 with second-degree unlawful imprisonment, criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation and second-degree harassment after his wife reported the late-night incident the next morning, Whitestown police Sgt. Mark Sojda said.
Because the domestic incident involved a police officer, Marrero's supervisor, Mohawk police Chief Joseph Malone, was notified, Sojda said. Malone then responded to the Whitestown Police Department during the investigation.
Malone could not immediately be reached for comment, so it is unclear if Marrero remains on duty.
An order of protection was issued against Marrero requiring him to avoid contact with his wife while the charges are pending, Sojda said. Marrero's department-issued weapons and any personal firearms were seized and are currently secured at the Mohawk Police Department, Sojda said.
According to the police report, Marrero's wife said the domestic incident began about 10 p.m. Feb. 25 and continued until about 5 a.m. the next morning, Sojda said.
"Basically she's saying there was a domestic dispute, he held her in the residence and wouldn't let her leave for a certain number of hours," Sojda said. "During that, it's alleged that he choked her and harassed her by pulling her hair. It was minor physical altercation."
As far as what the couple was arguing about, Sojda said that remains unclear.
"It was a domestic issue, and I don't think there was one thing that sparked this," Sojda said.
Marrero was arraigned in Oriskany Village Court and released on $5,500 bail.
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COMBANK exists because of the thousands of osteopathic students, colleagues, and faculty who embrace our mission to better advocate for the osteopathic community. Although the COMLEX-USA exam series was not created to serve as a selection tool for residencies, it remains the as the number one factor (along with USMLE Step 1) for selecting applicants to interview for residency positions nationwide. We realize this is a reality and have made it our mission to better advocate for osteopathic students and residents by helping individuals to perform to their absolute highest potential on their COMLEX-USA exams. By using active learning methods to establish effective problem-solving methods, we believe that all students can increase their level of performance on licensing exams. It is our mission to serve the osteopathic community by helping every individual to realize their own learning potential.
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For years, osteopathic students have been forced to prepare for COMLEX-USA exams using USMLE-based resources. Companies specializing in USMLE test preparation often have little-to-no familiarity with the COMLEX-USA, however recognize the opportunity to market their materials to a growing market of osteopathic students. Often these materials are not consistent in any way with current osteopathic practice, and therefore can place osteopathic students at a disadvantage when preparing for COMLEX-USA exams. The reality is that the COMLEX-USA and the USMLE are two very distinct tests written by two very different organizations. Any student who has taken both exams will echo this statement. As the level of competitiveness within medicine continues to rise at a rapid rate, it is more important now, than ever, for osteopathic students to perform to their highest potential to maximize opportunity for success in "The Match."
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COMBANK was founded in 2007 by Joshua Courtney, DO. While on rotations as a medical student, Dr. Courtney had the unique honor of sitting for one of the first-ever computer-based COMLEX-USA exams when he sat for his COMLEX Level 2 CE. Before testing was shown to be a superior way of learning, Dr. Courtney intuitively built his own study schedule around taking practice questions. At the time, osteopathic students were forced to use USMLE-based resources to study for their COMLEX-USA exams. The only practice questions available were geared toward the USMLE. When Dr. Courtney sat for both the COMLEX Level 2 CE and the USMLE Step 2, he recognized the drastic differences between both tests, particularly in the way in which test items were written. Everything from timing, to question syntax, to the testing interface was very different between the two exams. On that day, Dr. Courtney vowed to unite a talented team of osteopathic physicians to build a Qbank specifically geared for students to use in preparation for their COMLEX-USA exams. After its initial launch, COMBANK was quickly embraced within the osteopathic community and soon became engrained by both students and faculty as the most trusted resource for COMLEX-USA preparation.
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Sofia Coppola Wins in Venice
Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival.
"Somewhere" tells the story of a Hollywood star (Stephen Dorff) who struggles to bond with his young daughter (played by Elle Fanning).
Jury president Quentin Tarantino presented the award to Coppola with an emotional embrace.
"This was a film that enchanted us from our first screening," Tarantino said from the stage of the Sala Grande. "Yet from that first enchanting screening, it grew and grew and grew in … our hearts, in our analysis, in our minds and in our affections."
Alex de la Iglesia won the Silver Lion award for best director for his Spanish civil war drama "Balada Triste de Trompeta" (A Sad Trumpet Ballad).
"Essential Killing," from Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival on Saturday night, and American Vincent Gallo won the best actor award for his role in the film.
The story follows an Afghan man named Mohammed (Gallo) who is captured by American troops. He later is sent to an undisclosed location in Eastern Europe, where he escapes and fights to survive in the snowy wilderness. It's never made clear whether he's a terrorist or innocent civilian.
In his notes for the film, Skolimowski explained: "I did not want the politics to extend beyond the immediate life or death struggle. The film is not a commentary on America or Afghanistan. … My interest was in the chase."
Still, the film will almost certainly draw controversy, including its depictions of waterboarding.
Ariane Labed, star of "Attenberg" was honored as best actress. Mila Kunis ("That '70s Show" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall") received the Marcello Mastroianni award for best young actor or actress for her role as a sexually liberated dancer in "Black Swan," director Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller set in the world of ballet.
Here's a list of the winners at the festival, which ended today:
Golden Lion for best film: "Somewhere"
Silver Lion for best director: Alex de la Iglesia, "Balada Triste de Trompeta."
Special Jury Prize: "Essential Killing," directed by Jerzy Skolimowski.
Best actor: Vincent Gallo, "Essential Killing."
Best actress: Ariane Labed, "Attenberg."
Marcello Mastroianni Award for best young actor or actress: Mila Kunis, "Black Swan."
Best screenplay: Alex de la Iglesia, "Balada Triste de Trompeta."
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A U.S. tax code overhaul should be bipartisan, prevent a net revenue increase and avoid shifting the tax burden across income groups, said Representative Dave Camp, who will design the Republicans' proposal.
Camp, who wants to cut the top individual and corporate tax rates to 25 percent from 35 percent, said he doesn't plan to release a bill before the Nov. 6 election showing what tax breaks he would limit or end to offset the rate reduction. Camp was interviewed on Bloomberg Television's "Political Capital With Al Hunt," airing this weekend.
"It's not just me issuing a bill and pronouncing from on top of a mountain what we're going to do," said Camp, the Michigan Republican who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. "We're not going to probably put out a bill."
Camp's guidelines for a tax overhaul present him with a series of challenges as he makes plans to write a bill and his panel continues a series of hearings.
He is seeking bipartisanship, which is complicated by his opposition to using the overhaul of the tax code to raise more revenue. Democrats, including President Barack Obama, say that long-term deficit reduction must include higher taxes, particularly for top earners.
Camp also wants to avoid major changes in the distribution of the U.S. tax burden while expressing concern about raising tax rates on capital gains and dividends, which tend to benefit the highest-income taxpayers.
Tax Breaks
Camp's rate reduction targets would require lawmakers to consider curtailing popular tax breaks for mortgage interest and state and local taxes.
Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, told reporters yesterday that "Republican budget plans would raise taxes on every middle-class family to give every millionaire and billionaire a $250,000 tax cut."
"There is simply no way to achieve the revenue-neutral promise that has been made on that expensive, many-trillion-dollar tax cut unless middle-class Americans get hit hard," Carney said.
In the interview, Camp wouldn't endorse specific proposals for offsetting rate reductions, such as raising taxes on capital gains and dividends.
"We have to look at where the rest of the world is," said Camp, who has released a draft of changes to the international tax system. "The rest of the world has much lower investment taxes than we do in the United States."
'Very Close'
Camp also said the code would be "very close to where we are currently" in terms of how progressive it is.
Any revenue increases, he said, would come through economic growth generated from a simpler tax code with lower rates.
"We can raise revenue through pro-growth policies," he said. "And that's the real message that people are missing."
Camp, 58, served on Obama's bipartisan fiscal commission in 2010 and the congressional deficit-reduction supercommittee in 2011.
On the fiscal commission, Camp voted against the recommendations by its co-chairmen, Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Alan Simpson, which called for tax increases as part of a deficit-reduction effort.
In July, the Republicans who control the House have said they will vote to extend for one year the tax cuts that expire at the end of 2012, preserving current rates on income, capital gains, dividends and estates.
Overhaul Process
Camp wants to pair that bill with a process for expediting a tax overhaul in 2013.
He said the process will be similar to the fast-track system used for expediting congressional approval of trade agreements. Under that framework, Congress had a set of deadlines and an up-or-down vote on a proposal coming from the president.
Camp said lawmakers haven't determined exactly how that process would work for taxes.
Camp's committee also has jurisdiction over the health care law, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28. The House Republicans have scheduled a vote July 11 to repeal the law, repeating a vote from last year.
"I'd like to repeal the bill and I'd like to do it however we can," he said, showing openness to using a procedure called reconciliation that allows Senate passage with a simple majority. "Imposing the federal government between individuals and their doctors is still wrong. Just because something's constitutional doesn't make it a good law."
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Camp distinguished between the federal health care law and the Massachusetts law signed by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, which included a mandate to purchase health insurance and penalties for noncompliance. He said the Supreme Court's ruling expands the federal government's taxing power beyond what the country's founders envisioned.
Asked whether Romney can be an effective political messenger on health care, Camp said: "I think there's a lot of people messaging against this whole federal, one-size-fits-all health care plan that really imposes the federal government between doctors and patients."


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Renew your energy: November 2011 Archives
Deserts get a lot of sunlight and there is currently something of a race to develop and deploy the best technology to exploit this free energy.
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems with mirrors, dishes or parabolic troughs focussing the sunlight to raise steam to run a turbines are currently in the lead. There have been some major developments in Spain and the USA, but also now in N Africa and the Middle East, with new projects opening in Morocco (the 470 MW Ain Beni Mathar hybrid project) and Egypt (the 150 MW Kuraymat hybrid project). And more are planned. For example, the UAE is planning a 100MW project, and the Egyptian National Plan for 2012 -17 includes a 100MW CSP plant in South Egypt, while the follow-up National Plan for 2018-2022 has 2,550 MW of CSP. The German-led Desertec project seeks to build on the CSP option, making supergrid links back to the EU. It has plans for a €600m 150MW CSP plant in Morocco as a first stage. www.desertec.org/
It's hard to know what the impact of the recent political convulsions in North Africa may be, but CSP does seem likely to continue to move ahead in the region, as well as elsewhere- the largest CSP array so far planned is the 1 GW Blythe project, being developed in California by Solar Millennium LLC, on which more later.
A solar industry roadmap, as outlined in a study by A.T. Kearney and the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, ESTELA, sees solar thermal reaching 12 GW of installed capacity globally by 2015, 30 GW by 2020 and between 60 and 100 GW by 2025. But that may prove to be pessimistic- CSP is not just limited to desert areas. For example, South Africa has a plan for a 5GW solar park, with the initial 1000MW phase, aimed for 2012, incorporating an already planned Eskom 100 MW CSP plant, which has received part funding from the World Bank. The Indian Ministry of New & Renewable Energy's National Solar Mission aims to generate 20GW of grid linked solar power by 2022, 50% CSP. And in Australia a new 'Zero Carbon Australia 2020' report has 42.5 GW of CSP supplying 60% of total electricity there by 2020! http://beyondzeroemissions.org/zero-carbon-australia-2020
However a rival technology - Concentrating Photo Voltaic (CPV) power - may challenge CSP. CPV uses conventional solar cells but with large arrays and sunlight focussing arrangements, as with CSP. The crucial point is that mirrors are cheaper than solar cells. There are already some very large projects in existence, 20 MW or more globally, including the 4MW array in Springerville Arizona, and the 10MW Masdar project in the UAE. And costs are falling- some say faster than for CSP.
A GTM Research study claims that the growing market for CSP is being seriously challenged by the rapidly falling price of solar photovoltaics. GTM predicted that, although the CSP market will grow by around US$7 billion over the next two years, it will then tail off, due to the dramatic decrease in the cost of solar PV panels. So although CSP project costs are set to decline between 3% and 7% per year from 2010 to 2020, PV costs will also continue their own substantial declines, with PV expected to maintain a cost advantage (on both a cost-per-watt and cost-per-kWh basis).
In fact, some utility companies are already choosing PV over CSP for future solar plants. For example, Masdar, the Abu Dhabi government backed renewables company, had been backing CSP. Its $600m, 100 MW Shams 1 CSP unit should be completed in 2012. But the newly proposed 100MW Noor solar PV plant will cost less than Shams 1, because of improving efficiency and "the normal learning curve for the industry," according to Frank Wouters, director of Masdar Power.
The cost battle is also evidently having an impact in the USA. According to an report carried by Renewable Energy World, conventional residential rooftop solar PV system in Los Angeles can deliver lower electricity at less cost per kilowatt-hour than the most cost effective, utility- scale concentrating solar power plant. It noted that CSP had higher operations costs and a higher cost of capital than for the residential rooftop system, and there were also transmission infrastructure and efficiency losses, which would increase the cost of power from the CSP plant further.
It may be too early to make longer-term policies on the basis of calculations like this, but PV and CSP do seem to be rivals. CSP has the major advantage of being able to store heat in molten salt heat stores, so that power production can be continued after the sun goes down, while most PV cell performance falls with time and rising temperature. But then CSP plants have to have some form of cooling as with any steam raising system- air cooling is less efficient than water cooling, but one thing deserts don't have is water, so it would have to be piped in, adding to the cost. And with cell cost falling, PV may increasingly have the edge. After all, its not just domestic roof top PV systems or simply arrays that are in contention, new ideas for very large-scale CPV systems, including energy storage, are also emerging
Earthscans 'Energy from the Desert' three-volume book set edited By Kosuke Kurokawa et al , details the background and concept of Very Large Scale Photovoltaics (VLS-PC). Overall the authors are very optimistic- they say VLS-PV can be competitive with fossil fuel-fired plants assuming economic energy storage is available- they look to Vanadium flow batteries. And longer term they see large scale PV solar are becoming a dominant energy option.
CSP and CPV both have similar environmental impacts in terms of their land use footprint, with some projects in the USA falling foul of local concerns about desert wildlife, and CSP's need for water. http://solar.ehclients.com/images/uploads/envimpactsoflg-scalesolar_projects.pdf
But there should be plenty of desert areas around the world where there are minimal land use conflicts, and some North African CSP projects have been seen as being used partly for desalination- with sea water piped in over perhaps long distances from the Mediterranean, possibly linked to Solar greenhouses projects. www.seawatergreenhouse.com. www.saharaforestproject.com
New ideas may also emerge. It's conceivable that CSP and CPV or PV arrays could be combined. There are some small-scale hybrid solar thermal-PV systems for domestic uses, the big advantage being that the solar heat absorbers keep the PV cells cooler, so they operate more efficiently, in tandem, with heat collectors in wafers in a sandwich with PV cells. Although it's harder to see how this could be achieved with large scale focussing systems, it could be worth exploring in hot desert environments.
Hybrid CSP/PV systems were mentioned as a future option by the developer of the 1GW Blythe solar project in California mentioned earlier. Reflecting the changing fortunes of CSP and PV, it has now decided that the first 500-MW phase will be switched from CSP to PV technology because they say market conditions in the US now favour PV. But they also noted that CSP was a valuable 'grid-stabilizing renewable energy source with storage capabilities,' so a combination might prove to be the best option. www.powermag.com/POWERnews/3985.html?hqe=el&hqm=2269044&hql=45&hqv=0c00b9b673
For more: Peter van der Vleuten, Free Energy International: www.energyfromthedesert.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=31
Since their output is variable, wind turbines have to be backed up, usually by fossil fuel plants, so some say that the carbon savings from having wind power on the grid are undermined. This issue has been the subject of sometimes heated debated for some time.
Back in 2008, the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs report on 'The Economics of Renewable Energy' referred to an argument made to the Committee by a witness from the Renewable Energy Foundation (Campbell Dunford) who claimed that any carbon savings from wind power were offset by the need to run conventional (and flexible) fossil fuel plant at part load to balance the fluctuations in wind output (e.g. to balance supply and demand when the wind is blowing less). Part loading means that the backup plants are run inefficiently, so producing more CO2 per kWh of output than they otherwise would.
Based on other inputs to their review, the Committee disagreed with this argument. They concluded that 'The need to part-load conventional plant to balance the fluctuations in wind output does not have a significant impact on the net carbon savings from wind generation'.
In its response to the Select Committee, the government agreed with this statement and estimated the net saving from raising the share of renewable electricity to 32% to be about 45-50 million tonnes of carbon dioxide-- about 8-9% of total CO2 emissions--after taking account of the cost of part- loading plant.
Certainly it is usually argued that the extra cost of fuel/ and the extra CO2 produced is only of the order of 2-3%. The issue is explored in Godfrey Boyle's 'Renewable Energy and the Grid: The Challenge of Variability' (Earthscan, 2007).
However, some critics point to new real time data from the USA and elsewhere, which they claim indicates otherwise: http://theenergycollective.com/willem-post/64492/wind-energy-reduces-co2-emissions-few-percent
For example, one analysis of recent US data suggests emission savings from wind plant are as low as 0.1 tons of CO2/MWh in California, compared to an average figure for the US as a whole of 0.6 and a figure of 0.8 attributed to the American Wind Energy Association. http://www.bentekenergy.com/documents/BENTEKTheWindPowerParadox071911_Sample.pdf
But it rather depends on what fuel is being displaced. In California it's mostly (low carbon) gas and (zero carbon) hydro, whereas in the Mid West it's mostly (high carbon) coal- so the figure there is 1ton/Mwh saved.
The carbon saving benefits from wind are also undermined in the US by the fact that, when wind availability is high, much of the potential output from wind projects has to be curtailed- i.e. not used. This is mainly due to there being weak grid links, which are unable to take it all and distribute it to where it is needed. The same thing has happened recently in Scotland. Having large inflexible 'must run' nuclear power plants on the grid also doesn't help.
Better grid links can clearly help reduce the need for wind curtailment, so of course could electricity storage, which will also help when wind availability is low, although energy storage is expensive (see my earlier Blogs). Interactive load management to reduce (or shift) demand peaks can help reduce the need for back up when there is less wind available, so can imports of energy from wind generators elsewhere, where it is more windy, via a long distance supergrid, balanced by exports when wind is available and demand locally is low. See http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2010/Cambridge/EE/EE-29.pdf
So there could be solutions, and they may not add too much extra cost. Certainly the recent European Wind Integration Study, produced by the European Transmission System Operators, says the benefits of wind energy in terms of fuel and CO2 saving greatly exceed grid balancing and reinforcement costs, put at 0.21-0.26 p/kWh and 0.4p/kWh respectively, for 181 GW of wind; and extra grid reinforcement could reduce the former to 0.17p/kWh. www.wind-integration.eu/downloads/library/EWISStandaloneExecutive_Summary.pdf
And beyond that, the EWEA Tradewind study and Greenpeace's various [R]evolution reports suggested that pan-EU supergrids could offer major benefits in terms of reducing the impact of local variability- for example perhaps doubling wind power's capacity credit. http://www.erec.org/fileadmin/erec_docs/Documents/Publications/global%20energy%20grid%20scenario.pdf and www.trade-wind.eu
However perhaps inevitably not every one agrees. For example , Pöyry's North European Wind and Solar Intermittency Study (NEWSIS) has found that 'The creation of an offshore 'super grid' and a major upgrade of energy interconnections are not the silver bullet solutions to Europe's energy needs'.
It says that the introduction of improved connectivity would only partially alleviate the volatility of increased renewable energy generation. Basically it claims that wind and solar output will be highly variable and will not 'average out', even over wide areas- it looks at the NW of Europe- and concludes that 'heavy reinforcement of interconnection doesn't appear to offset the need for very much backup plant'. So it claims that 'inter-connectors are not a complete solution'. Pöyry study summary: www.poyry. com/linked/en/press/NEWSIS.pdf
Actually no one has said that inter-connectors were 'a complete solution'- there would also be a need for backup, storage, and demand side management and so on. Moreover, unlike the earlier EWEA 'Tradewind' study and Greenpeace reports, which looked across the whole of Europe, Pöyry only looked at the North West. Assuming a wider footprint- including the sunny south, and the windy east, and possibly also North Africa, then the situation would be very different- as has been explored in Gregor Czich's seminal study 'Scenarios for a Future Electricity Supply', now published by the IET. www.theiet.org/publishing/books/renewable/scenarios.cfm
However the debate on wind balancing continues, with some inputs being quite dramatic. For example, a study of the influence of wind energy on the CO2 output of fossil-fired generation of electricity in Ireland claims that, in absence of hydro buffer storage, the CO2 production of the conventional generators increases with wind energy penetration, and that the reduction of CO2 emissions is at most 'a few percent', if gas fired generation is used for balancing a 30% share of wind energy. www.clepair.net/IerlandUdo.html http://www.clepair.net/IerlandUdo.html
Even if only partly true, it looks like a good case for a supergrid link- Ireland's grid is too small.
A recent input to the debate is a new EU "Offshore Grid" project analysis, co-financed by the European Commission, which looks at the benefits of building a meshed European grid offshore, which it says will significantly increase security of electricity supply across the EU. www.ewea.org/fileadmin/eweadocuments/documents/publications/reports/OffshoreGrid_report.pdf.
The House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change has also recently backed the supergrid: the IET had told the Committee, a supergrid could provide a much wider range of opportunities to export excess electricity when the wind is blowing and new routes to import electricity at times of low-supply. www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmenergy/1040/104003.htm
Supergrids are not the only or complete answer to variability, but along with other measures, they should be able to help. For an extensive, authoritative, report on the variability issue see the IEA's 'Harnessing -Variable Renewables.' http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/display.asp?sf1=identifiers&st1=612011171P1&LANG=EN
The German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) has produced a very detailed report setting out pathways for a transition to renewable electricity. It concludes that is possible to get to 100% by 2050, as against the current German government target of only 80% by then.
The SRU comments 'In our view, the prospects for this transition are far brighter than the government would have us believe; and we are far less persuaded than the government appears to be concerning the compatibility of nuclear power and renewables. But many of the recommendations and concepts in the present report are relevant regardless of whether the goal is to achieve 80 or 100% renewable electricity'.
However, rather than going it alone, it suggest that an alliance with Denmark and Norway could be the best arrangement for generation, grid balancing and storage, for example integrating in the regions hydro for pumped storage. That was seen as possibly preferable to reliance on importing power (e.g. from Concentrating Solar Power projects) from North Africa.
Some of the scenarios rely heavily on wind power, both offshore and on-land, and also on solar photovoltaics (PV), which, on one scenario, make up a large proportion of the 2050 mix (with around 100GW of PV installed by then). However SRU claims that this is not the only option and that if demand could be reduced from 700TWh by 2050 to 500TWh, then much less PV would be needed.
It sees this as a preferable option and is critical of the way PV has been supported so far in Germany, arguing that it was expanding too rapidly and imposing unsustainable costs. The current high rate of expansion 'would result in half the capacity that is needed for a wholly renewable electricity supply in 2050 in the high electricity demand scenarios to be already installed in 2020. This means that unnecessary capacity would be installed prematurely, which in turn would increase long-term renewable electricity costs and jeopardise acceptance of a wholly renewable electricity supply'. Consequently, it says that 'Photovoltaic support should be drastically reduced so as to rectify mismanagement in this domain, whose current expansion rate far exceeds that deemed necessary'.
Exit from PV?
Why the change of heart on PV? Germany has been at the forefront of PV with around 19GW now in place. That, SRU says, is the problem- it's boomed too fast, partly due to cost reductions, so that the high FiT tariffs impose too much cost on consumers. This same argument has been heard across the EU- in Spain, Italy, France, and now in the UK, all of whom, like Germany, have imposed Feed In Tariff (FiT) cut backs or capacity caps for PV. The latest German cuts range from 3-15%. Some see this as just a failure of political nerve- they say we should leave FITs alone, since PV prices will then fall, as the market builds, and the cost pass through to consumers can also then be reduced.
SRU evidently doesn't agree and also has more fundamental problems with PV. While they note that some think PV 'will be competitive once grid parity is achieved, with solar electricity generation costs on a par with household electricity rates, they say that 'this assumption fails to reckon with the fact that household electricity demand and solar energy production are highly asynchronous. Households with solar panels need to be able to draw energy from the grid at times, which would significantly reduce the economic benefit of home PV installations in the (likely) event that some household electricity needs to be drawn from the grid during high rate periods. Hence the achievement of electricity generation costs that can compete with the prices charged by power companies by no means indicates that photovoltaics deserve a place in the future energy mix'.
Some might see throwing PV out of the mix as an odd idea. Economically it's almost certain to get very much cheaper. And SRU's technical case against PV is not that strong- PV can make a lot of sense for day-time occupancy buildings, for summer air-conditioning and for topping up night time storage heaters. More generally, although load factors are low, we are going to have to get used to balancing variable supplies, as we have more renewables on the grid. SRU may be right that PV will make it harder, but it's a huge resource well suited to access via roof tops, easy to install and run-with no moving parts to go wrong. It may have been unwise to try to use FiTs to get its initial very high price down rapidly, but that doesn't means the technology is rubbish. Or that FiTs are no use, if well designed, with effective price degression mechanisms.
However, it is true that, in the worsening economic climate, the FiT for PV have been seen as provocatively high and hard to defend. SRU says that further support in Germany is 'no longer justifiable on the grounds of learning curve effects, for the market for PV installations has grown considerably and is now international in scope. Even if Germany stopped promoting photovoltaic energy, the remaining PV installation market would be large enough to allow for further cost reductions'. So, in effect, SRU is saying that, although it has cost a lot, the FiT has done its job and no more support is needed. More pragmatically they say that since the national alternative energy programme cost apportionment 'cannot be increased without meeting political opposition, perpetuating the current photovoltaic support framework would deprive renewables of funding that have the capacity to produce electricity far more efficiently'.
In fact through, SRU doesn't suggest abandoning PV entirely. They say that 'in the interest of political credibility and preserving the relevant technical skills and know-how, PV capacity expansion should not be discontinued altogether'. Instead it suggests that 'the scope of PV expansion should be kept at a low level that however still ensures that installed capacity can be adjusted to potential changes in demand. Only if a rise in electricity demand appears highly probable, PV capacity expansion should be promoted accordingly.'
So PV should in effect be kept in reserve. SRU says 'The planning period for such a capacity expansion - which ideally would be realised as late as possible -should be keyed to the relationship between the capacity needed and the possible annual expansion rate.' It adds 'If projections of large decreases in PV installation manufacturing costs are accurate, this would be yet another reason to rein in photovoltaic energy support. The later PV installations are installed the lower their social cost will be'.
Some might see SRUs conclusion that 'PV support urgently needs to be reined in' as a capitulation to right-wing free-market enthusiasts, equally it might be seen as a sensible recognition of the limits of PV and FiTs in the current context. Most observer now agree that FiT tariff levels for PV need cutting, but the debate over how much continues- in the UK, focusing on the proposed very drastic 50% cut, with the resistance campaign's slogan being 'Cut don't Kill'.
- 'Pathways towards a 100 % renewable electricity system', SRU www.umweltrat.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/02SpecialReports/201110SpecialReportPathways_renewables.html
The full Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) review of the 'Clean Energy Cashback' Feed In Tariff (FiT) for photovoltaic (PV) solar installations resulted in further cuts to support - following on from the 72% cut in the tariff for PV projects over 50kW that had emerged from the earlier 'fast track' review.
The new cuts were prefigured in a speech at the end of October by Energy Minister Greg Barker, who, while welcoming the successful installation so far of over 100,000 PV arrays (around 300MW), said: 'Much of the growth in PV has been as much about consumers accessing the Government backed tariff as accessing the technology. High net worth individuals chasing returns which are now easily reaching double figures at a time when interest rates for savers have collapsed to an historic low. That can't be right.'
So DECC is planning to more than halve feed in tariff incentives for solar PV projects of 4kW or less from, in effect, December this year- reducing the tariff from 43p/kWh to 21p/kWh, which it says should yield a 4.5% rate of return. They also proposed reductions to the tariffs for PV installations between 4kW and 250kW, 'to ensure those schemes receive a consistent rate of return'.
There's also a proposal to introduce an energy efficiency requirement for FITs for solar PV. If the building does not meet the energy efficiency criteria the installation would receive a lower FIT rate of 9p/kWh. In addition there's a proposal for new multi-installation tariff rates, set at 80% of the standard tariffs for individual installations, for 'aggregated' PV schemes- where an individual or organisation gets FIT payments from more than one PV installation, located on different sites, as in 'rent a roof' schemes.
Launching a consultation on the proposals, Barker said that the existing tariffs led to 'returns for investors in solar PV that are simply not sustainable and, without action, could result in the spending envelope for the scheme rapidly being breached' He explained that 'If the Government took no action, by 2014-15 FITs for solar PV would be costing consumers £980m a year, adding around £26 (2010 prices) to annual domestic electricity bills in 2020. Our proposals will restrict FITs PV costs to between £250-280 m in 2014-15, reducing the impacts of FITs expenditure on PV on domestic electricity bills by around £23 (2010 prices) in 2020.'
DECC is to publish a separate consultation 'around the end of 2011' on 'other aspects of the scheme including the tariffs for other FIT technologies. As part of its review of the FITs, DECC will also consider 'whether more could be done to enable genuine community projects to be able to fully benefit from FITs.'
In a fact sheet it evidently released prematurely, the Energy Saving Trust gave an early warning of the scale of the cuts and said that under the proposed changes payback time would be 18 years for a 2.9kW system, eight years longer than at the current levels. But it said that the new rate of return, which it put 4%, was more "appropriate" than the original 5-8% rate, due to the changes in the investment market that has seen interest rates slashed.
Dave Sowden of the Micropower Council agreed that 'they needed to recalibrate it....but if you go below five per cent then you completely wipe out free solar and social housing schemes. It just becomes a rich man's game.' Friends of the Earth concurred: 'The proposals will pretty much exclude everyone who does not own their own home and have significant savings to hand from installing solar'. The proposal to backdate the changes to December also caused concern - e.g. it could impact on those half way through installation negotiations. Overall, the timing of the cuts was a big problem for developers.
However, the idea of linking supply schemes to efficiency was widely seen as making sense- it's foolish not to sort building energy losses out first. Barker had said he wanted a new 'whole-house approach', including new measures to ensure that all new domestic solar PV sites meet minimum energy-efficiency standards: 'It cannot be right to encourage consumers to rush to install what are still expensive electricity-generating systems in their homes before they have thoroughly explored all of the sensible options for reducing their energy consumption first. Frankly, such a standard should have been a pre-requisite for accessing the FiT subsidy from day one'.
He also, maybe sensibly, urged developers to move into the solar thermal market, which has seen slower deployment rates under the pilot Renewable Heat Premium Payment Scheme than those experienced by the PV under the FiT. While that may be an option for some developers, there were predictions of massive job losses in the PV sector, and a lot of resentment about the cuts. Surely if the FiT system was allowed to work, the cost would reduce as the market built, with FiT prices being 'degressed' continually, so consumers wouldn't be hit hard.
The DECC report suggests otherwise- PV had boomed too fast. The consultation report notes that, as at September 2011 ' 255MW of solar PV had been registered for FITs. This compares to the 94MW that was originally projected for this point in time', driven mainly by 'the reduction in the cost of PV systems'. Barker claimed that 'The cost of an average domestic PV installation has fallen by at least 30% since the start of the scheme - from around £13,000 in April 2010 to £9,000 now'. In addition, DECC noted, there were increased returns available from solar PV due to the '13% increase in retail electricity prices since April 2010, which has increased the savings from avoided consumption of imported electricity'. It added that multiple installation schemes had also played role in the uptake of FITs.
All of this threatened to push the cost passed on to consumers up rapidly- although that has to be put in perspective- DECCs impact report indicates that, at present, the FiT added just £1.40 p.a. to typical household bills. But what about the benefits, not just the cost savings for those on the scheme, but the climate benefits, which all share, and the indirect cost saving since less fuel has to be used nationally?
More specifically, there were social benefits. As DECC admitted, some multiple installations schemes enabled 'those who cannot afford the upfront capital costs of purchasing a PV installation, including the fuel poor, to share in some of the benefits', as in 'free solar', rent a roof schemes.
However DECC noted that some felt that for these, 'the principal beneficiaries are generally the third parties rather than the hosts of the generating equipment.' DECC say that 'the returns available to such schemes are higher than in the case of individual installations. We therefore consider there is a strong case for adopting a different approach and tariff for multi-site generators of FITs'.
So it's cuts across the board. It may be true that the UK FiTs were quite generous to PV. But then the FiT system was a new venture for the UK. DECC says that the new PV Tariffs are now similar to those in Germany. That's not quite true. Despite recent cuts, most of the German tariffs are still larger, and the German FiTs have been running for many years, so that PV has a well-developed market. Here it is still in its infancy. And now it could stay that way.
DECCs consultation report is at: www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/consultations/fitscomprev1/fitscomprev1.aspx
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children Theme of Time
Midnight's Children is definitely a time warp. Forget Universal Studios and Back to the Future, this is the real Time Machine. Time goes forwards and backwards, up and down, slantways and sideways. The story only follows the linear narrative for moments at a time. At the same time, the characters are inescapably bound by time. Their lives are intimately connected to it, and even when they try to escape, they can't. That leaves us with a question: If time is so flexible, how can it be so constraining? Well that's up to you to answer, because Midnight's Children isn't giving any hints.
Questions About Time
- How does time work in Midnight's Children? Does it control people, or do people control it?
- How are the lives of Saleem's family connected to history and time in the novel? Why are they connected?
- Which characters in the novel are focused on the past? The present? The future? What are the differences between these characters?
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In Midnight's Children, time is inescapable. It controls everyone.
Time is extremely flexible in Midnight's Children. It can go forward, backward, speed up, and slow down.


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CSDL Home IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence 1981 vol.3 Issue No.04 - April
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Joel Quinqueton , INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.
Marc Berthod , INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.
This paper describes an algorithm which builds a ``Peano scanning,'' i.e., the reciprocal mapping, from [0, 1]n to [0, 1], of the well-known ``Peano curve.'' This Peano scanning is applied to a set of points in [0, 1]n and gives a one-dimensional image of it. Several applications of this technique have already been developed and are presented in this paper.
Joel Quinqueton, Marc Berthod, "A Locally Adaptive Peano Scanning Algorithm", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol.3, no. 4, pp. 403-412, April 1981, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.1981.4767126


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LG's Heart Rate Earphones, revealed as part of the company's fitness wearable push back at CES 2014 last month, have hit the FCC, ahead of what we'd assume is a near-at-hand launch in the US. The headphones, which use pulse-tracking technology built into the buds to monitor heart activity and send it to a nearby smartphone, plugs into a clip-on Bluetooth dongle and can optionally be paired with LG's other new wearable, the Life Band Touch.
The technology is supplied by PerformTek, and uses tiny changes in blood flow activity in the ears to measure pulse rate. PerformTek's system can also be used to figure out other metrics, like VO2 max, distance, speed, cadence, and pace, though it's unclear if LG will ever be utilizing any of those other aspects.
Taking care of data transmission - and of most interest to the FCC thanks to the wireless component - is the companion Bluetooth dongle, which clips to the sleeve or waistband. That funnels heart activity information to either the LG Fitness app or one of various third-party titles available for iOS and Android.
LG has said those include MyFitnessPal, MapMyFitness, and RunKeeper. The headphones also work as a hands-free kit for calls, and can control music; battery life is around two days.
Meanwhile, the LG Life Band Touch is a wrist-worn bracelet that tracks number of steps taken and calorific burn. Both wearables can feed data wirelessly to the LG Fitness app, which then builds a health profile.
LG had confirmed its plans to launch the Life Band Touch and Heart Rate Earphones in the US market sometime in the first half of this year, but hadn't been any more specific than a six month window. Pricing is yet to be announced.
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One of the common forms of cancer is skin cancer. And as many of us look towards spring, medical experts at the Anderson Regional Cancer Center say it's important you take care of your skin.
WTOK staff members, Nick Adam, Angie Barker, and myself, are joining news director John Johnson in his Run for Cancer, to benefit the Anderson Cancer Patient Benevolence Fund
Most of our marathon training has been done outside. Even on cloudy days, the sun's rays beat down on our skin. And over time, oncologist Dr. John Voss says this could turn into skin cancer.
"It's definitely serious," said Dr. Voss.
Dr. Voss knows all too well that many people are looking forward to tan beach bodies, but he urges people to think twice about overdoing it.
"We know that blistering sun burns," said Voss. "The more they happen, then later in life, that is one of the biggest risk factors for melanoma. There are really three types of skin cancer, as you have melanoma, which is most aggressive, then you have what is called squamous cell and basal cell carcinoma. And most of the last two kind are not life-threatening; they are mostly cosmetic.'
So, this cancer expert is sending a friendly reminder to lather up with sunblock. The higher the SPF the better. He says you need a minimum of 15 and much higher for young children.
For those people who are starting to see issues with their skin, there are things to look for.
"In common language, you are looking for moles. Now a lot of people have moles," said Voss. "Things that make me think of melanomas are if the edges are zigzag. Most moles are plain circles. If the mole is changing, if it is bleeding, growing, if the color is changing from dark brown to black, you need to get it checked."
You can help assist cancer patients by supporting John's Run for Cancer by donating online. A link is provided below. Note: There is a line where you will need to specify that you are donating to John's run.
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By Bill Miller • Tuesday, May 22, 2007 - 10:59
Gary Dunham, a retired graphic designer from Sugar Land, Texas, has become operations director for The Climate Project, an international campaign to popularize the fight against global warming and promote grass-roots initiatives.
The program, begun by Gore, has more than 1,000 participants worldwide. These volunteer ambassadors include students, professors, musicians, scientists, and retirees – even a beauty queen. They make presentations at home shows, churches, schools and other locations.
Dunham, 71, and Gore were in San Diego County yesterday – Gore for speaking at UC San Diego and Dunham to kick off more than a week of presentations to students in the Sweetwater Union High School District.
Dunham's unlikely saga started last July in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., where he was watching television while waiting for the conclusion of a conference his wife was attending.
When "The Oprah Winfrey Show" came on, he wanted to change the channel but couldn't find the remote control. Winfrey's guest was actor and avid environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, who talked about global warming. Dunham disliked Winfrey and DiCaprio, but a scientist on the show kept his attention. Gore's movie was discussed; he later went to the nearest theater and watched the documentary. Next, he bought the book version of "An Inconvenient Truth."
Then, he persuaded his wife to let him share Gore's warning with her ultra-conservative civic group, Daughters of the American Revolution. Cribbing sections of Gore's book, he used graphic design to dress them up and gave about three dozen presentations before wondering if he was saying the right things.
After fruitless attempts to contact global-warming experts, Dunham dialed directory assistance in Nashville and asked for Al Gore. Within a few days, Dunham was invited to Gore's first training session at his family farm, where he and other participants were led them down to the river on hay wagons. Dunham said he got more skeptical as they rode along.
"This looks like an old-fashioned revival," he recalled. "I thought, 'I really hope he doesn't stand up and start preaching to us.' But that man started talking and he knocked my lights out again. I thought he was going to levitate at the end."
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Dunham Duped!
I presume when Mr Dunham visited Al Gores farm that he wasn't shown the Zinc mine on the property or when Mr Dunham went down to the river in a wagon that he didn't drink from the Zinc Mine polluted waters or wasn't shown the toxic waste dump on the property???
Here's Al Gore endorsing a power grid being built as big as Americas and Europe combined which Al Gore proposes (maybe on a comssion basis) should be built by BP in India.
I'm really sorry Mr Dunham is so easily led/duped. He surely has his heart in the right place even if the people he looks up to haven't! Wonder if Mr Gore tried to sell him carbon-con credits too from his London company?


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OAKLAND -- Parents gave interim Montera Middle School Principal Tina Tranzor a vote of confidence in a meeting to decide the fate of the school's leadership for the coming year.
Montera Regional Executive Officer Sondra Aguilera met with some 50 parents Feb. 20 to get their feedback about Tranzor and to discuss whether they wanted keep her and bypass the principal selection process.
"The window is open for you to make a recommendation of whether you want to go through this process," Aguilera said.
Aguilera stressed that "you are not voting; you are giving your recommendation."
The process would also take into account the recommendation of Montera's teachers. The parents' recommendation now goes to the Oakland school board and Superintendent Tony Smith for a final decision.
Tranzor served for a year as Montera's assistant principal before becoming the principal for the current school year. The majority of the parents felt Tranzor had made gains in the job.
"I'm impressed with her willingness to take feedback, internalize it and execute," said Debe Rapson, the co-president of the school's parent-teacher organization and a parent of a sixth-grader. "It gives me confidence moving forward."
Josi Levy, a parent of a sixth-grader, had concerns about the restructuring of the math program.
"She got back to me right away and addressed my concerns," Levy said.
Denise Lombard, parent of a seventh-grader and one of the organization's board members, liked Tranzor's focus on community building.
"She went through every yearbook to figure out what it took to make this school a community," Lombard said.
Sam Foresman, the organization's executive vice president, reported that feedback from the teaching staff is also positive.
"One teacher had tears of joy," Foresman said. "It was the first time she felt respected and supported by a principal."
Parents shared that they have been through the principal selection process at other schools and said the outcome has not always been favorable.
"I went through this at the elementary school level, and it was catastrophic," said Andrew Shear, a parent of a sixth- and an eighth-grader and a board member of the parent-teacher organization. "You don't know what the pool looks like. This kind of thing could be damaging for Montera. Thinking that you can shop around and then choose Tranzor is a dangerous assumption."
"We need to understand that we would have to draw someone from one of the top educational institutions in the country to satisfy our community," said John Wade, a parent of a seventh-grader and the organization's co-president. "With the condition of Oakland Unified School District financially, our chances of developing a star internally is much better."
"Embarking on the principal selection process would be a perceived vote of no confidence," Foresman said. "She (Tranzor) would look for another job. It's the only smart thing to do.
"We will lose traction on the programs we have already implemented," he continued. "She is really thinking outside the box for creative solutions."
"The loss of a year personally concerns me, unless people are convinced that she really isn't the right person for the school," Rapson said. "She has basically been interviewing with us for four-and-a-half months. That's about as good as it gets."
The meeting was the last of four meetings with parents to obtain feedback. Each meeting has had fewer than 50 attendees. More than 900 students attend the school.


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A Quote by Osho Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on moment, fighting, fuss, violence, ambition, conflict, hatred, struggle, anger, train, politics, and gone
One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make! How much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred, just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate - all that politics. And then the train comes and you are gone forever.
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Antibodies are widely employed in the quantification of antigens in complex biological samples. Using techniques such as Western blotting, ELISA, and immunohistochemistry researchers are able to measure a single antigen, or perhaps a limited number of antigens, in each sample. In the post-genomics era, advances in multiplex immunoassay technologies now allow scores or even hundreds of antigens to be measured simultaneously.
While almost all antibody-based detection techniques require a label of some description, which confers measurability, the vast majority of commercially available antibodies are not labeled. Only antibodies with the greatest commercial value might be offered in conjugate form by suppliers, and then perhaps only with a few key labels.
In order to use unlabeled antibodies it is necessary to adopt an indirect detection method. In this approach, the primary antibody binds to its target antigen and is then detected with a secondary reagent, commonly another antibody that bears the required label. In multiplex assays it becomes increasingly difficult to create a panel of secondary reagents with the desired selectivity and lack of unwanted cross-reactions if there are more than two or three primary antibodies.
By covalently attaching the label directly to the primary antibody it is possible to overcome these difficulties and to reduce the complexity of immunoassays. Historically, antibody conjugation has been conducted by those with specialist knowledge of chemical-modification techniques. Most strategies for conjugating two molecules, A and B, involve chemical modification of each entity to introduce reactive groups.
The resulting derivatives of A and B are separated from excess chemical reagents by column chromatography and then mixed, with the aim of creating soluble AB conjugates. One difficulty is that the introduction of too many reactive groups can lead to the formation of polymers and insoluble aggregates. Today, because of significant advances in conjugation technology, the production of labeled antibodies is one of the simplest procedures performed in a research lab.
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A $25,000 reward is now being offered in the death of a 28-year-old man found fatally shot outside of a west Oak Cliff strip mall in May.
Authorities say Robert Salas was in his car in the Marshalls Store parking lot in the 3400 block of West Illinois Avenue near Westmoreland Road when he was shot by an unidentified suspect about 11:40 p.m. on May 18. He was waiting for his mother to get off work.
"There was absolutely no motive that we have for this needless shooting," said Deputy Chief Sherryl Scott. "The leads on this case have been exhausted."
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