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Instead of "Kiss me I'm Irish" next time try "Pog mo thon"
What famous Irish sayings really mean.
May the road rise to meet you -
From the Gaelic, "Go N-eiri an bothar leat", which means may success be with you.
Top of the morning -
Hollywood invention, never used in Ireland.
And the rest of the day to yourself -
Also Hollywood.
Slainte -
Meaing good health. Slainte is the Gaelic word for health.
Slan -
Meaning farewell. Slan is the Gaelic word for safe so it means keep safe.
Erin go Bragh -
Meaning "Ireland forever" in Gaelic.
A hundred thousand welcomes -
From the Gaelic "Cead Mile Failte" which means literally that.
Dia is Muire Dhuit -
Meaning hello in Gaelic. The phrase literally means "God and Mary with you."
Dia is Mhuire Duit agus Padraig -
How the person responds,"God and Mary and St. Patrick with you."
Pog Mo Thoin -
Yes it means what you think it does, Gaelic for kiss my a**.
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Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack visited the "Open Source Fest" at Mix 11 in Las Vegas just a few months ago. One of the projects that really stood out - amongst the dozens of great projects shown - was Glimpse.
Glimpse is a server-side NuGet package that plugs into ASP.NET (and other technologies soon) and adds a client-side almost "Firebug"-style UI that gives you amazing insights into your web application. It's gotta be seen to be understood and appreciated.
This is raw footage, to be clear, but it's fun. We start talking at the beginning and are a little silly, but we quickly move out into the hallway and can hopefully be better heard over the din.
Learn more about Glimpse at http://getglimpse.com and follow Anthony van der Hoorn (@anthony_vdh) and Nik Molnar (@nikmd23) on Twitter!
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LOCKPORT – Three Niagara Falls police officers testified in Niagara County Court Thursday in a hearing on the admissibility of Tyler S. Best's confession to police that he helped stash the body of a 5-year-old Cheektowaga girl in a stolen garbage tote Aug. 26.
Best, 18, of Barnard Street, Buffalo, is charged with evidence tampering and hindering prosecution in the death of Isabella S. Tennant. The girl allegedly was strangled by babysitter John R. Freeman Jr., 17, of Sixth Street, Niagara Falls. Freeman is charged with second-degree murder, a crime that allegedly occurred in the Falls home of the girl's great-grandparents.
Officer Jack Miljour said he was the first to encounter Best at Police Headquarters on the morning of Aug. 27. He testifed that Best "seemed very remorseful" as he told his story.
The content of what Detective William Smith said was a 33-minute interview was not discussed during Thursday's hearing, but the tape of the interview was submitted to Judge Matthew J. Murphy III for his review.
Smith said Best also gave a DNA sample, and Deputy District Attorney Doreen M. Hoffmann told Murphy that Best's clothing also was confiscated.


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Gymnastics Team Suffers Loss at Ohio State
Ball State's gymnastics team suffered a 196.60 to 192.35 loss at 24th-ranked Ohio State Saturday night.
The Cardinals managed a 47.75 on the vault, a 47.175 on the bars, a 48.675 on the beam and a 48.75 on the floor.
Leah Wilson tied for second on the beam with a 9.850, while Denasiha Christian tied for second on the floor with a 9.900 mark. The 9.85 for Wilson was a career high.
Samantha Santos was fourth on the beam with a 9.825, which tied her career high.
Brooke Evans was Ball State's top competitor on the vault with a 9.700, while Brooklyn Schumacher led the Cardinals on the bars with a 9.725.
Ball State will host Eastern Michigan Friday night as it honors its seniors in a 7 p.m. meet in Irving Gym in Ball State's Student Recreation and Wellness Center.


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December 9, 2011
David P. Rupprecht, junior biology and theology major of St. Mary's has been named to the 2011 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges and was recognized as an outstanding campus leader during the annual Saint Vincent College Founders' Day Vespers and Honors Convocation Thursday, November 17 in the Archabbey Basilica. Mr. Rupprecht, son of Paul and Rita Rupprecht, is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta and a member of the Dean's List. He won the Biology Alumni and Friends Scholarship and tutors freshman biology majors. Mr. Rupprecht is in the honors program and a member of Campus Ministry. He is a 2009 graduate of Elk County Catholic High School. The Who's Who students are selected by campus nominating committees and editors of the annual directory on the basis of their academic achievement, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and potential for continued success. They join an elite group of students selected from more than 2,300 institutions of higher learning in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and several foreign nations. Outstanding students have been honored in the annual directory since it was first published in 1934.
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A Colorado lawmaker is sponsoring a bill that will make it more difficult for attorneys to prove their clients are not guilty by reason of insanity.
The legislation, introduced by Rep. Frank McNulty (R), is aimed at shifting the burden of proof on defense attorneys who attempt to use the insanity defense for those accused of high-profile crimes. Currently, Colorado law requires that prosecutors prove that suspects are competent to stand trial when the insanity defense is submitted on behalf of a client.
The new law would require the defense to provide clear and compelling evidence that their clients are mentally deficient. The bill is scheduled to be voted on by a House committee on Wednesday.
The introduction of the new bill comes in the wake the July 20 mass shooting that took place in an Aurora movie theater that killed 12 and injured another 58 people. James Holmes, a 25-year-old former Ph.D. student, is accused of the shooting. Holmes' attorneys have said that he is mentally ill.
Holmes is set to appear in court on March 12 for arraignment.
The purpose and intent of this new legislation is clear. By placing the burden of proof on the defense, this means that attorneys will now have to provide reasonable proof that a defendant is mentally incapable of knowing right from wrong or at least that the defendant suffered some kind of episode that rendered them deficient at the time a crime was committed.
Whether changing this standard is a good idea is questionable for several reasons. For instance, placing the burden of proof on the defense would mean that the defendant would have to be able to provide the necessary mental health examinations and evaluations to prove insanity. This would certainly present a problem to a defendant who doesn't have the resources to obtain these vital examinations.
Another question concerning this law is necessity. Insanity defenses are already extremely difficult to mount. One study on insanity defenses revealed that they accounted for only 1 percent of the total cases tried in the US. The study also showed that it was successful in only 26 percent of those cases.
Obviously, a defense that is only successful slightly over one-quarter of each time it is employed is not the greatest odds for a defendant attempting to use such a defense. However, the outlook only gets bleaker. Out of that 26 percent success rate, a whopping 90 percent of these involved individuals that already had previously documented cases of bouts with mental illness.
We now see that in cases like those of Holmes where there is little or no evidence of prior mental deficiency, an insanity defense, even in a case like this one, is virtually an uphill battle. The greatest concern, however, is if the requirements to prove insanity are tightened further, it could lead to the possibility of convicting someone who is actually mentally ill.
In capital offenses like the Holmes case, this could prove disastrous. The Supreme Court has already ruled that the execution of mentally ill offenders is unconstitutional, but if the bar is raised to establish mental deficiency we will certainly be at risk of executing more mentally ill people than those who may already have slipped through the cracks in the system.
This dilemma brings up yet another question: What should we do with the mentally ill who commit heinous crimes? Do we put them in hospitals and hope that they get better so that we can release them to possibly kill again? Or, should they, in fact, be allowed to be put down like rabid animals because they suffer from some incurable, untreatable mental disorder?
To most rational people it would seem that in order to commit some of the terrible crimes that we have seen, there would have to be a degree of insanity involved. But we also realize that there is apparently no limit to the depths of depravity that some human beings can sink to.
Can anyone really distinguish true insanity from pure evil? If so, what was the difference between Aurora, Columbine, Sandy Hook and so many other incidents seemingly committed by deranged individuals and say, the Sept. 11 attacks? Although the Sept.11 attacks were, by all indications, carried out by individuals with purposeful intent, could we apply the insanity defense to them as well? Certainly not! That would likely be the answer from most of you reading this. However, was the intent of those 19 men any more or less purposeful than that of those accused of these other crimes?
One may argue that the wholesale, random killing of innocent people should automatically mean that the offender is insane. On the other hand it could also be argued that committing suicide in order to kill hundreds or thousands is equally unreasonable. So where do we draw the line between insanity and evil? Is evil the product of insanity? Is it the other way around? Or, are evil and insanity one and the same?
Some say that good and evil are abstract concepts, that they are relative to the purposes of those they serve. If so, then insanity must be just as abstract and relative. If not, then good and evil must be just as real.
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LOCKPORT – The Common Council is considering a speeded-up process for fining property owners for violating city ordinances on sidewalk snow shoveling, lawn mowing, garbage placement and unlicensed dogs.
Alderman Patrick W. Schrader, D-4th Ward, proposed Wednesday that the city should use the same procedure as it does for parking tickets: print the fines right on the tickets and have people who don't want to contest them simply pay the fine at the City Clerk's Office.
At present, violators of the property upkeep rules are given appearance tickets, which means they have to go to City Court and face a judge.
Schrader said, "I want Rob [Turner, the enforcement officer] to have the ability to write a ticket: 'Hey, pal, you're guilty.' "
"Your way would free up a lot of court time," said Alderman John Lombardi III, R-1st Ward.
Mayor Michael W. Tucker said, "You can plead guilty and pay at the window, or go to court."
Alderwoman Kathryn J. Fogle, R-3rd Ward, said the summonses to court often don't result in fines, because by the time the case goes to court, "They shoveled their sidewalk in that amount of time, or they moved the mattress in that amount of time."
Corporation Counsel John J. Ottaviano said for this plan to function, the Council would have to come up with a fine schedule to print on the tickets, instead of leaving penalties up to the judge's discretion. Lockport parking tickets list the fines for the various types of violations.
Ottaviano said the plan will be drafted into a proposed local law for the Council to vote on at a future meeting.
On another topic Wednesday, Ottaviano said the city received four bids to buy the Sprint cellphone lease on the Outwater Park water tower.
He said only two are going to be considered: the ones that envisioned simply buying the lease and collecting money from Sprint, allowing the city to lease additional antenna space on the water tower, if it can. Two other bidders sought to buy rights to all the space on the tower.
Ottaviano said the bids were within $20,000 of each other, so it wasn't financially worthwhile to give up all the rights. "If we could lease the rest of the tower, why wouldn't we?" he asked.
In 2000, the Council approved a 25-year deal with Sprint, in which the company agreed to pay $15,408 per year for the use of the tower. The city would collect $184,896 over the next 12 years if it kept the lease. However, in December, Landmark Dividend of El Segundo, Calif., offered to buy the lease for a slightly larger lump sum, and the city then sought other proposals.
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For Bedford's Ryan Easter, Claysburg-Kimmel's Josh Brown, Chestnut Ridge's Tyler Dibert and Moshannon Valley's James Stodart, stepping onto a mat at the Giant Center this morning for the PIAA Class AA Championships will give them mixed emotions.
They will feel like they're home again, but not everyting goes well at home.
For Easter, Brown and Dibert, this is their third time in the state tournament, and it's Stodart's second visit. They all want what Easter has already experienced twice, placing at a tournament with very deep weight classes filled with wrestlers good enough to make it to the ultimate destination of everybody like them.
They know what to expect. They know the pressure they'll be feeling. They know earning a medal at this tournament is a lot harder than some would think.
"I think experience should help a great deal," C-K coach Dave Marko said of Brown, who is 1-4 in two appearances. "Sometimes even the best wrestlers will wrestle all over the country, but when they step on that floor, they realize it's a whole new world. Even the strongest of stomachs will get queasy."
"The kids we're supposed to wrestle have all been there also," Bedford coach Brian Creps said of Easter's 120-pound weight class. "We feel confident he's ready to go, and he's been excited. He's been through the pressure cooker before, and he has a good idea of what he's going to run into."
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What: PIAA Class AA Championships
Where: Giant Center in Hershey
Times: Thursday, Friday 9 a.m.; Saturday consolation finals, championship finals, 2 p.m.
What's at stake: Top eight at each weight earn medals
The tournament begins at 9 this morning. A win will assure of them of a berth in Friday's quarterfinals. A loss means they'll have to wrestle again at 12:15 p.m. and face an intimidating route through the consolations to get a medal.
The 11-wrestler area contingent - one of the smaller groups that's qualified from the rugged Southwest Regional - will be competing with the state's best, and seven of them are first-time state qualifiers who will find out about the pressure cooker.
That list includes Bedford's Tanner Williams (152) and Caleb Grimes (170), Chestnut Ridge's Dan Albright (195) and Austin Buttry (285), Huntingdon's Collin Glorioso (106), Mo Valley's Jake Ludwig (220) and Tussey Mountain's Mitchell Hall (285).
"We're excited," Ridge coach Greg Lazor said. "I think all three guys can have some success down there. I'd like us to bring home three medals."
For the Ridge wrestlers and coaches, this is their second trip to Hershey in a month after wrestling in the PIAA Duals, where the Lions finished fourth.
"It's a tough tournament," Lazor said. "The best wrestlers in the state are there, but we've seen tough competition through the year. It's a grind. Those who keep themselves in check are the most successful."
Dibert, a regional third-placer, has run into some buzzsaws at states, and the outcome has been an 0-4 record there. He opens with South Williamsport's Northeast runner-up Justin Knee (32-8). Brandywine Heights' returning state runner-up Pete Renda (38-0) is a possible opponent in the semifinals.
"He seems ready to go," Lazor said. "I like his setup in the bracket. "I think he'll be in competition to get a medal. We've all been in that facility wrestling. He knows what to expect. Hopefully, he can relay that knowledge to our other guys."
Williams and Grimes, who were third and fourth, respectively, in Johnstown, also have some experience at the Giant Center from the Bisons wrestling in the PIAA Duals in 2012 and 2011. In fact, it's where Williams suffered a compound fracture in the middle of his right hand in the semifinals against Boiling Springs. Guess that would be filed under bad experience.
"We were talking in the room today, and they kids are excited," Creps said. "Ryan has had a smile on his face all week. Tanner has wrestled a lot of really good kids, and this is his opportunity to get down there and show he belongs. He was at the caliber last year, and he wants to make the most of his opportunity.
"Caleb is pretty excited too. He has a chip on his shoulder because everybody things he doesn't belong there. He wants to show he's a pretty good wrestler and he defintely belongs there. I expect him to wrestle well."
Stodart, a Southwest third-placer who is tied with Ryan Jacoby atop the school's career win list with 117 wins, went 1-2 in last year's tournament, losing his preliminary bout, winning his consolation bout and then running into Saucon Valley's Ray O'Donnell, who beat him, 12-1, en route to a third-place finish.
O'Donnell is one of the favorites to win the 220-pound weight class, and he just happens to be Ludwig's first opponent. Ludwig, a regional fifth-placer this season, didn't wrestle in last year's tournament, but coach Justin Fye took him along so he would get used to the atmosphere.
"I think the guys are really excited," Fye said. "We've had two really good workouts, and they're excited to get on the mat. They didn't accomplish their goals at regionals. They thought they could have placed higher than what they did.
"For the kids, the approach is taking it match by match. It's the same thing we've been doing since the postseason started. You have to have a short-term memory. We as coaches will look at the brackets, but it's up to the guys to go out and wrestle."
One advantage the area kids have is they are the survivors from wrestling in the toughes Class AA regional in the state.
"We just went through a tournament that was just as tough," Fye said. "They're going to be battle tested win or lose. You have to be good to get to this point. We've talked about not getting too high or too low for these matches."


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As long as she stays out of trouble, Lindsay Lohan's days in criminal court have finally come to an end.
Nearly five years after the first of her two DUI arrests – and after multiple stints in rehab, at least five trips to jail and a necklace theft case – Lohan, 25, has satisfied her probation terms in her drunk driving case. She is no longer required to appear in court or report to a probation officer.
"She has done everything this court has asked of her," Judge Stephanie Sautner said Thursday.
Since November, Lohan has completed more than 50 days of janitorial duty at the L.A. County morgue and 18 therapy sessions.
But the judge did give the actress a final warning, albeit in a warm and supportive tone of voice: "You need to live your life in a more mature way," Sautner said. "Stop the nightclubbing and focus on your work. I don't expect to see you again."
"I just want to say thank you for being fair," Lohan, who wore a teal-colored suit with her hair in a bun, told the judge. "It's opened a lot of doors for me, so I really appreciate it."
For the necklace theft case, Lohan will now serve informal probation until May 24, 2014, but her only requirement, the judge said, will be to obey all laws. If she slips up in the next two and a half years, the judge could sentence her to 245 days in jail.
"It's not that hard [to stay out of trouble]," Sautner added. "I know it's hard when you have people following you all over the place, but that's the life you chose."
The actress, who is attempting a career comeback, is slated to appear on an upcoming episode of Glee, her rep confirmed Wednesday. Lohan has also signed on to play Elizabeth Taylor in an upcoming Lifetime movie Liz and Dick.
"Lindsay is ending one chapter and getting ready to start the next," her rep Steve Honig said. "She is very eager to get back on set and jump into her next few projects."
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The act of a man having sex with a woman, then cutting off his own "stinger", leaving it inside her. The man then dies from blood loss, as a bee does to defend its territory.
"Did you hear how Bobby died?"
Yeah he pulled off the bee sting with his girlfriend"
Yeah he pulled off the bee sting with his girlfriend"
po nvj26 Јул 23, 2010
A type of breast that droops low, then quickly curves outward at the nipple. Usually found on skinny women, where the rib cage is clearly visible.
All the stuffing in the world couldn't hide the fact that Trish has sickly bee stings.
po Bento Март 6, 2003
A bee sting is a difficult sexualy manoeuvre for even the most experienced sex addicts.It requires the female to be pressed hard against her neck with legs and back pointing directly up, from the advantage position you dip your stinger in and out.
Not only is there a bee-sting but also a reverse bee sting, with practice, one can become a BEE STING MASTER.
po Jamiestinnnnng Октобар 1, 2008
When you are doing her Doggie Style and you pull it out of her puss and shove it in her ass without easing it in.
Man I was doing the fly girl and gave her a bee sting I thought she was going to break my cock off she turned around so fast.
po Shurett Септембар 2, 2003
The act of urinating in a person's anus during sexual intercourse.
"With devout concentration after penetration, as my balls slapped against her thighs, I gave her the bee sting."
po The Brewhole Септембар 19, 2008
you start with a blowjob, followed by a teabag, whereon you hum "i'm bringing home a baby bumblebee", and on the word "ouch!", you bite his taint, with vigor.
i actually know a guy who requests the occasional bee sting. pervert.
po raina, jonny, sick, cain fiddlekiller.com Октобар 29, 2006
Having Sexual Intercourse with a girl and after you cum with a condom on. You leave the condom in her vagina.
I gave that girl the bee sting. I hope she doesn't get pregnant.
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Eggberge – Rietlig – Biel – Äbnet – Heidmanegg - KlausenpassThe Schächentaler highland path commences at Eggberge, leading past Rietlig, Biel and the Heidmanegg on your way up to the Klausen Pass. To reach the Eggberge starting point of this scenic hike, you have first to cover an approximately 1000-meter climb in altitude, but as luck would have it, a cable car is there to help you do so and the valley station lies just outside of Flüelen on the Flüelen – Altdorf main road. Views from Eggberge couldn't be better, with Lake Uri presenting all colours of the rainbow. The Eggberge trail leads firstly downhill direction Fleschsee lake – and on arriving at the lake the tour continues on a pretty even keel until Rietlig, where you can shorten the route with a ride on the small Ratzi and Tristel cableway down to Spiringen. Hardened hikers are however likely to continue along the highland path as far as the Klausen Pass – and this particular hike is equally enjoyable done back to front as well.
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Low Power Blackfin Processor with Advanced Peripherals
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- Lockbox™ Secure Technology: Hardware-enabled security for code and content protection.
- Blackfin Processor Core with up to 600 MHz (1200 MMACS) performance
- 2 dual-channel, full-duplex synchronous serial ports supporting 8 stereo I2S channels
- 12 peripheral DMA channels supporting one- and two-dimensional data transfers
- NAND Flash Controller with 8-Bit interface for commands, addresses and data.
- Connectivity: Host DMA Port, UART's, SPORT's, SPI and TWI.
- Memory controller providing glue-less connection to multiple banks of external SDRAM, SRAM, Flash, or ROM
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Configured as a co-processor in applications where flexibility is required to support a variety of multimedia applications, the ADSP-BF523 offers the processing performance along with scaleable power management that provides developers that flexibility in their design. For battery powered applications that either enhance the multimedia experience or deliver a full Mobile TV implementation, the ADSP-BF523 represents the ideal solution to release design innovation.
IP protection has become a necessary part of today's embedded computing applications. The ADSP-BF523 provides a security scheme which balances flexibility and upgradeability with performance through the inclusion of a firmware-based solution including OTP (One Time Programmable) memory to enable users to implement private keys for secure access to program code.
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At least one model within this product family is in production and available for purchase. The product is appropriate for new designs but newer alternatives may exist.
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New debug feature added for the ICE-1000/ICE-2000:
- Coresight Serial Wire Debug (SWD)
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- JTAG/SWD support for Blackfin, Blackfin+, SHARC and multi-core SHARC+ with ARM
- Plug-n-Play, USB 2.0 compliant
- USB bus-powered device
- Windows® 8.1, Window 7 compatible
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- Multi-colored LED for enhanced status indication
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- Background Telemetry Channel (BTC) support enabling non-intrusive data exchange at up to 2.0 MB/sec (ADZS-HPUSB-ICE only)
- 1.8V, 2.5V, and 3.3V compliant and tolerant
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Blackfin Evaluation Kits
EZ-KIT Lite evaluation kits provide developers with a cost-effective method for initial evaluation of a Blackfin Processor via a USB-based PC-hosted tool set.
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The EZ-KIT Lite includes an ADSP-BF527 Blackfin Processor desktop evaluation board along with an evaluation suite of the VisualDSP++® development and debugging environment, including the C/C++ compiler, assembler, and linker. The evaluation suite of VisualDSP++ is designed to be used with the EZ-KIT Lite only.
The EZ-KIT Lite ships with with a landscape, Low Power QVGA Touch Screen LCD panel, a set of Stereo Headphones and all of the necessary supplemental cables (USB, Ethernet, etc.).
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- ADSP-BF527 Processor: 289 Ball mBGA, 600MHz; LFBGA-SS2, 12mmX12mm/0.5 pitch, 4L, (A02)
- SDRAM: 64 MB, 32M x 16; Micron MT48LC32M16A2 3.3V
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- NAND FLASH: 4 Gb Numonyx NAND04; NAND04GW3B2B 3.3V
- SPI FLASH: 16 Mb Numonyx M25P16-VMW6G 3.3V
- Thumbwheel: CTS Corp, Rotary Encoder, 2 Bit Binary, CT2999-ND
- Keypad: ACT-07-30008-000-R
- UART: ADM3202 RS-232 line driver/receiver; DB9 female connector
- RTC Battery: 3.0 Volt Li-ION
- LCD Display: Varitronix - Landscape QVGA, 5 in, 320x240, Touch Screen
- Selectable Boot Mode
- Audio I/O: Mic in, Line In, Headphone Out, Line Out
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Blackfin Evaluation Kits
EZ-KIT Lite evaluation kits provide developers with a cost-effective method for initial evaluation of a Blackfin Processor via a USB-based PC-hosted tool set.
ADSP-BF527 EZ-KIT Lite® Evaluation System Manual
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The Compiler and Library Manual for Blackfin Processors describes how to use the Compiler for processors with Blackfin and Blackfin+ cores (ADSP-BFxxx processors). It covers command-line switches, language compliance, language extensions, built-in function and optimization, among other topics. It provides reference material for the functions in the accompanying C and C++ standard libraries, and the DSP library.
CrossCore® Embedded Studio 2.4.0 Loader and Utilities Manual (Rev. 1.8) PDF
The Loader and Utilities manual describes the command-line utilities for converting executable files into images that can be programmed into flash memory, and executed on the target processor as a standalone application without debugger involvement. The manual covers all Blackfin and SHARC processors supported by CrossCore Embedded Studio. The utilities described include ELF conversion utilities and utilities for encryption and cryptographic signing.
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The Linker and Utilities manual describes the command-line linker utility, which assembles ELF executable files from previously-compiled object files. The manual covers the syntax and semantics of the Linker Description Files (LDFs) which guide this process, and gives examples for Blackfin and SHARC processors. Related utilities covered in this manual are the archiver elfar, for library (.dlb) creation and management, the memory initializer meminit, and the utilities elfdump, elfpatch and elfsyms.
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The Assembler and Preprocessor manual covers the assemblers for the Blackfin and SHARC processors supported by CrossCore Embedded Studio. It gives the syntax for the directives supported by the assemblers and the standalone preprocessor, and covers their command-line switches.
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The Micriµm µC/USB Device™ Stack for CrossCore Embedded Studio (CCES) provides a user-friendly programming environment for embedded applications requiring USB device connectivity.
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The royals were joined by their cousins, Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice, who are friends of the bride, hotel heiress Elizabeth "Lizzy" Wilson, for the lavish celebration at the Memphis Hunt and Polo Club.
William and Harry attended the 6 p.m. wedding ceremony, during which Wilson walked down the aisle as the Memphis Boys choir sang. The couple paid tribute to Memphis's most famous resident, Elvis Presley, by wearing blue kicks – pumps for the bride and suede shoes for the groom, a source tells PEOPLE.
After the couple said "I do," about 400 guests let their hair down at the reception in large white tents on the club's grounds, PEOPLE has learned. According to a wedding worker, the party was extremely private and guests were asked not to bring their cell phones inside the reception area, which featured plenty of sofas and tables for a lounge feel.
Too bad, because there were probably some Instagram-worthy moments inside: The wedding cake was six tiers high spice cake topped with two white birds, whose edible feathers decorated the layers, and the grooms cake was made out to be the bust of a fox wearing a red riding coat, the worker says. Another source adds that guests dined on risotto, meat from carving stations and plenty of seafood, including fried oysters, catfish and shrimp. Along with the cake, attendees were treated to a dessert of chocolate cups filled with homemade ice cream.
William, 31, was the life of the party, hitting the dance floor all night and even jumping on stage during the Jimmy Church Band's rendition of "Shout," the group's frontman tells PEOPLE. While Harry, 29, spent most of the reception in a corner "enjoying the music," William loved the rhythm and blues band's soulful style so much that he invited Church across the pond for a performance.
"William had so much fun, he told me he wanted to bring the band to England," Church says. "I was surprised with how humble he was, how kind. He thanked me just for giving him my card so he could call us up and have us out."
Onlookers expecting Harry to be in full-on party mode – he infamously was caught playing strip billiards during a 2012 trip to Las Vegas – were surprised to see William living it up instead.
"He loved to dance in a group with all his British friends, but Harry stayed mostly at the bar, very low-key," says a source. "He was quietly talking to pals, but it was his brother that was really having fun on the dance floor. People had speculated that Harry might get into some trouble, but the bride's father said something to the effect of 'not on my watch,' but it was all in good fun."
Weekend In the StatesIt's been an action-packed few days for the royals, who began their visit to the United States on Wednesday, when a newly single Harry celebrated Pelly's bachelor party with a group of friends in Miami. They dined on Chinese food before hitting a nightclub, where Harry "danced and seemed to have a rousing time" but didn't do anything outrageous, a source says.
The following day, Harry recovered from the previous night's festivities by sunning shirtless at the Soho Beach House before flying to Memphis. A source says Harry was low-key and pleasant while he was there, and though he chatted with various groups throughout the day, he "wasn't seen hanging out with just one woman."
William flew in from England via Chicago and snacked on nachos at O'Hare International Airport. He caught up with Harry on Thursday night when they hit up one of Memphis's best known barbecue spots, Rendezvous.
And because no trip to Memphis is complete without visiting the home of the King of Rock 'n' Roll, the wedding party toured Graceland on Friday, rocking Elvis Presley's trademark oversized gold shades.
That night, the princes joined guests at the Memphis Country Club, where the rehearsal dinner was taking place, a source tells PEOPLE. William and Harry hung out with the group on the club's patio, enjoying cocktails.
Nightclub entrepreneur Pelly, 32, and the royals have been close for years, and he was even reportedly in the running to be one of Prince George's godparents. Although he didn't end up making the cut, Pelly told the Daily Mail in September that he wasn't nixed because he is a "party animal." "I love babies and have calmed down quite a bit socially now," he told the paper. "I think I will be a very, very good godfather – one day, at least. But it is their choice."
Pelly's bride hails from Memphis and is an heiress to the Holiday Inn fortune. She attended both the University of Virginia and Georgetown University before moving to London full time.
Reporting by JENNIFER BRADLEY FRANKLIN, ALICIA DENNIS, LINDA MARX and SIMON PERRY


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It was just after the Boston Marathon bombing.
Residents around Greeley noticed the yellow boxes, with cables, strategically placed along the north-south avenues of downtown Greeley.
Shortly thereafter, the massive trucks with the 60-inch wheels began rumbling through neighborhoods with a police escort, and men in orange vests were roaming from house to house along the routes with handheld meters and clipboards.
As these strange scenes unfolded, the earthquakes came, sending some into a panic. Others just enjoyed the ride.
"It was like, everyone stopped eating for a moment, you know," said Mike Webb, who recently opened a Subway franchise downtown at 1011 9th Ave.
About 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, the freshly painted walls of the new downtown eatery shook for about a minute.
"Everyone was like, 'What was that?' So we all had to go outside and look," Webb said. "It got everyone's attention. They all had big eyes, like something disastrous was happening."
But it is just the latest technology that residents unfamiliar with oil and gas exploration must endure through mid-May in a continued effort by a company to maximize chances to find those resources beneath the ground.
In a scene almost reminiscent of the Transformers, the three military-type trucks rise slowly as they stamp the ground with large metal plates beneath them. The operation involves bouncing sound waves in six, 12-second sweeps through those plates. The vibrations rumble through the ground and shake walls; Wednesday morning, in the nearby No. 3 ditch, it sent ripples off the concrete sides as the water rushed eastward.
After their "sweep," the trucks move a few feet west, and the process starts all over again in their search for a 3D image of the subsurface geologic formations.
"We know it's down there, we're looking for structural (formations) so if there's a huge fault (for example), we can plan around it," said Tyler Richardson, of Mineral Resources Inc., the Greeley-based company spending in excess of $2 million on this month-long operation.
The idea is to map the subsurface of 22.5 square miles, essentially around much of Greeley and Evans city limits, west to 71st Avenue. The information will be used not only by Mineral Resources, which has drilling plans at sites throughout Greeley, but many other oil and gas exploration companies who may need it in the future. That means this block-by-block ground thumping only has to happen once, Richardson said.
The convoy of trucks will amble along from east to west, sending vibrations into the ground. The sound bounces off the geophones placed 165 feet apart on the north-west streets throughout the city in small but curious piles of plastic boxes, cables and sandbags, which at first prompted many calls to the police after the Boston bombing.
The operation is being carried out by Houston-based Geokinetics, with the help of Urban Seismic Specialists, also from Texas. It's the same operation they've run throughout Weld County and even Los Angeles.
During its Wednesday morning sweep along 13th Street, few nearby residents even noticed the convoy or resulting vibrations.
For Webb and his customers on Tuesday, however, it was a bit more obvious.
"My first impression was some bulldozer was driving by outside, and then it felt a little like an earthquake," Web said of the minute-long event. "I enjoyed it."
Bob Smith, project manager for Geokinetics, said that is the most common reaction to their work. Typically, crews drag the geophones along the ground along a string of cables in more rural settings. But in more urban areas, their equipment is wireless, all radioed live to control trucks at Mineral Resources' headquarters at 5200 20th St., in Greeley.
"This is the latest technology," Smith said. "This recording system we have now is completely wireless. It's perfect for this environment."


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PITTSBURGH - Allen Roberts and Tim Frazier are proving they can play whatever role each is needed in to make Penn State be successful.
Roberts had 15 points off the bench, Tim Frazier had a career-high 13 assists along with 11 points and the Nittany Lions won for the sixth time in its past eight games, 68-59 against Duquesne on Wednesday night.
D.J. Newbill added 13 points for Penn State (8-3), which won despite having only 10 free-throw attempts as compared to the Dukes' 34.
Frazier, an all-Big Ten point guard, was held well below the 18.6-point average he entered the game with. Roberts was the leading scorer for Miami (Ohio) last season but had scored in double digits just once before leading the Lions in scoring for the first time on Wednesday.
"I'm enjoying my role now," Roberts said. "It's just its so much different than my role last year, when I had a lot on my shoulders and. I had to do the majority of the work. When you do that and put all the effort in and don't come out victorious, it feels pointless.
But with this team, it's just such a solid unit."
Frazier and Newbill are among the nation's most experienced backcourt starting mates. Penn State forward Donovon Jack added nine points, 12 rebounds and six blocks.
Ovie Soko had 19 points to lead the Dukes (3-4), who shot 27 percent from the field and made just four of 23 attempts from 3-point range.
Soko, who made 12 of 14 free throws, played just 22 minutes before fouling out.
Duquesne has lost four of its past six and fell to the Nittany Lions for the second consecutive season.
The game wasn't played on Duquesne's campus but at Consol Energy Center, the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team. Dukes coach Jim Ferry indicated the change in venue affected his team's shooting.
Duquesne regularly plays a handful of home games at the arena, which sits a block from its on-campus home arena, the A.J. Palumbo Center.
"If we play this game at Palumbo, I think it's a little different story," Ferry said. "Five-thousand people in there, it's rocking. But I wouldn't trade it. It's great for us to play here, it helps with recruiting. We've just got to make shots."
Playing its second game in the city of Pittsburgh over a nine-day span, Penn State fared better than it did in a nine-point loss at Pitt on Dec. 3. Counting a 90-77 win over Marshall in between, the Lions have combined to hold their past three opponents to 27.8 percent first-half field goal shooting.
Unlike they did against Pitt (which shot 58.5 percent in the second half), however, Penn State continued to stifle the Dukes through the final buzzer. Other than a stretch of about seven minutes midway through the second half, Duquesne's shooting was cold from all over the court.
"That's what we want our identity to be - defending and rebounding," Frazier said. "Just in case our shots aren't falling - sometimes they're not going to fall - but as long as we get rebounding and defense, we will be successful. A lot of times you get a stop, and that leads to rebounds and easy buckets."
That happened numerous times against Duquesne, which had its worst shooting day in the two-year tenure of Ferry. The Dukes entered shooting 47.2 percent for the season.
Only one Dukes player - junior forward Dominique McKoy - made more shots than he missed. McKoy finished with 12 points on five of six shooting. Jeremiah Jones also had 12 points for Duquesne.
Penn State began the second half on an 8-2 run to open up a 15-point lead. The Dukes answered by scoring 14 of the next 18 points of the game to pull within five - but that would be the closest the Dukes would get.
Minutes later, Duquesne was within 50-44 after a pair of free throws by Soko with 8:40 left. But Penn State answered with an 8-0 run that all but put the game away. They led by as many as 19 in the second half.
Duquesne shot 25 percent from the field - including two of 12 from 3-point range - in the first half. The Dukes also missed seven of 17 free throw attempts.
Jack, a former verbal commitment to Duquesne who switched to Penn State after the Dukes fired former coach Ron Everhart, had a career-high 11 rebounds. He has combined for 13 blocks over the past two games.
Through the first 37 minutes of the game, Penn State went to the foul line just six times. Duquesne had nearly six times that many free throw attempts.
"That's just Coach Ferry style of basketball with how aggressive he is," Soko said. "He encourages us to aggressive, so we're going to get fouled. But I feel like that bit us from behind this time; we were so aggressive, we took some bad shots, which led to easy (Penn State) points."


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The Bank of Akron named Ashley Beeman credit analyst. Beeman is a recent graduate of Hilbert College. The bank also named Jennifer Smith assistant vice president and branch manager for its Lancaster location. Smith held positions at Bank of America.
Phillips Lytle partner John G. Schmidt recently joined the Upstate New York Transplant Services Donate Life Foundation board of directors. Schmidt is the co-leader of the law firm's Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Team.
Aspire of WNY appointed Jamie Batt and Jennifer Burton and reappointed Erica Reger to its board of directors. Batt is a law associate at the law firm of Rupp, Baase, Pfalzgraf, Cunningham & Coppola. Burton is a senior sales executive for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Reger currently serves as director of staff development and operational improvement at the Center for Hospice & Palliative Care. Aspire of WNY offers services for adults and children with developmental disabilities.
Timothy Ireland, Niagara University professor of criminology and criminal justice, co-authored an article with four colleagues titled "Intergenerational continuities and discontinuities in intimate partner violence: A two-generational prospective study," it was selected as one of the 10 best violence-research publications of 2011 by the Psychology of Violence multidisciplinary research journal. The list appeared in the July 2012 edition of Psychology of Violence.
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The Irish Classical Theatre recently launched its redesigned website at irishclassical.com. Manzella Marketing Group, a marketing agency in Buffalo, designed and developed the site.
Pantano & Associates, a Buffalo public relations and strategic communication agency, has moved its offices to 651 Delaware Ave. in downtown Buffalo.
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5 Bizarre Inspirations Behind Famous Movie Scenes
As a creative type, I find myself watching a movie and wondering what inspired the filmmakers to tell this specific story in this specific way. Not just the plot, but characters, props, and the decision to let Sylvester Stallone speak. As you'll see, sometimes those inspirations are weird as shit ...
#5. "Slow-Mo" Scenes in Dredd Were Inspired by a Slowed Down Justin Bieber Song
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2012's Dredd was a man-trapped-in-a-building action movie that was equal parts science fiction and footage of a dead whale's stomach exploding. A lot of the movie's goriest, most violent moments happen after characters take a drug called Slo-Mo that slows down the user's perception of time and makes his surroundings glimmer with a diamond-like radiance ... and then Dredd busts into the room and kills everyone and we get to see bullets tear people's faces apart in vivid, stomach-turning detail. All the Slo-Mo hyper-violence was set to a beautiful, majestic musical score. If you were floating to heaven, the music from Dredd's Slo-Mo scenes is what you would expect to hear as chubby naked cherubs escort your dead ass into eternity.
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If there's one complaint about Dredd, it's that it didn't have enough angelic baby penis.
It was a brilliant musical choice that offset the ghastly violence, so of course it was inspired by Justin Bieber. Yeah, that bratty Canadian pop star we all try really hard to ignore (news of his shitty escapades is as persistent as an itchy butthole) is indirectly responsible for some of the best shootout scenes in recent memory.
Dredd's composer, Paul Leonard-Morgan, showed an early cut of the movie to his friend and massive Judge Dredd fan Geoff Barrow, an original member of the trip-hop band Portishead. The Slo-Mo scenes reminded Barrow of a cool thing he had seen on the Internet where someone slowed down a Justin Bieber song by 800 percent and the result was an entirely different song that felt ethereal, otherworldly, and much more dramatic. Beautiful, even. Did I mention it was a goddamn Justin Bieber song? Because it was. It was a goddamn Justin Bieber song.
Leonard-Morgan used the track above as the temp track for Slo-Mo scenes on an early cut of the film, then made his own version of it for the final score by recording a track and slowing it down.
Finally, and without being too libelous, I can say that Justin Bieber can be linked to a slew of brutal murders. Speaking of brutal murders ...
#4. Christian Bale Used Tom Cruise's Vapid Eyes as Inspiration for Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
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If you ever want to genuinely question your sanity, watch the entirety of American Psycho at 2 a.m. while standing in front of your TV, naked. No sitting or even putting on socks -- just stand there like a somewhat disturbing Michelangelo statue for an hour and 46 minutes. That's what I did sometime last year. I walked by the TV after a shower, glanced over at the movie, and before I knew it, credits were rolling.
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Which in hindsight makes this scene a little weird for anyone looking in my windows.
During that worrisome viewing session in which I assure you no murder-boners were popped, I noticed how creepy Christian Bale's eyes were. I will neither confirm nor deny creepy eye-related boners. Bale plays a 1980s Wall Street yuppie who, in his off time, is a brutal serial killer who works very hard on crafting a human-like persona to mask his insanity. It's basically an adaptation of his off-screen persona during the filming of the Dark Knight trilogy.
For Bale, finding the Patrick Bateman within him meant venturing into the darkest, vilest pits of human pain and suffering: Tom Cruise's eyes. Bale and the director of American Psycho, Mary Harron, discussed "how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was," and how he was always "watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave." Eventually, Bale found exactly that while watching David Letterman when Tom Cruise happened to be the guest. A strange thing Bale noticed about Tom Cruise was his "intense friendliness" that had "nothing behind the eyes." Which is the nice way of saying, "Look at that creepy motherfucker. That guy is a goddamn corpse factory, I just know it. A perfect model for my serial killer character."
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The hollow-eyed gaze of a perpetually deadening husk.
With that fortuitous viewing of a Letterman interview, Christian Bale had a real example he could use to create one of the craziest characters in film. That means Christian Bale had the same experience watching Tom Cruise pretend to be human as I did watching Christian Bale pretend he was pretending to be human. Was Christian Bale also naked at the time? Goddamn it, for the sake of my sanity, I really hope so.
#3. You Can Thank an Inflamed Bowel for the Chest-Burster Scene in Alien
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Alien screenwriter Dan O'Bannon had been working on two scripts: The first was about a space crew investigating a signal from a nearby planetoid, and the second was about gremlins being a pain in the ass on a World War II-era B-17 bomber. Since each of those sounds stupid enough to star Corey Feldman and a talking dog, he combined them into one, but now he needed a way to get the alien on the ship to bridge the ideas. This is where real life intervened.
O'Bannon had spent decades struggling with Crohn's disease, a painful inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract that made it feel like an alien was about to rip out of his stomach. So he wrote a scene where a baby alien ripped through someone's stomach. When you see John Hurt flopping and flailing as an alien tears out of him, that's really a reflection of a guy screaming while taking a painful dump. Gap filled. Iconic movie scene created. Worth it? Well, Crohn's killed O'Bannon in 2009, so probably not.
On the bright side, we can be thankful O'Bannon wasn't suffering from some terrible penis ailment. Who knows how phallic that movie could have been?
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Dynamics Duo: Composition with Third-Party Web Services
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In this episode we talk about a variety of topics including using Silverlight for UI, composing using 3rd party web services and storing complex information in Dynamics CRM.
We spend most of our time on the flight booking page. This page was built using Silverlight to demonstrate some of the simple experiences that can be designed. In this case the UI was built in Expression Blend. Designers and developers work together closely on projects. In fact, developers and designers work on the exact same project files but stay in their own environments; Developers stay in Visual Studio, Designers stay in Expression. We'll talk a lot more time about Silverlight in the final episode of this series tomorrow.
In our example we use a third party web service run by ezGDS to present the conference attendee with a list of flight options. ezGDS takes care behind the scenes to retrieve that flight fare information from various global distribution systems including Amadeus, Worldspan, Sabre and others. The attendee sees none of that complexity since we've built all of that directly into our system. Even though the information coming back can be very complex, including ticket information and various inbound and outbound flight segments, Dynamics CRM easily handles storing this information in a custom entity.
This episode is part of a 5-part series. In this series we've tried to explain how you can combine the Microsoft Web Platform with Dynamics CRM to quickly build and deploy self-service solutions. The full set of videos include:
Both Girish and I enjoyed recording this series. We hope you enjoyed them as well. If you have comments or suggestions for other topics, feel free to add comments below or email Girish or me (Ben) directly.
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Repair of volvulus - discharge; Reduction of intussusception - discharge; Release of adhesions - discharge; Hernia repair - discharge; Tumor resection - discharge
You were in the hospital because you had a blockage in your bowel (intestine). While in the hospital, you received intravenous fluids. You also may have had a tube placed through your nose and into your stomach. You may have received antibiotics.
If you did not have surgery, your doctor and nurses slowly began to give you liquids, and then food.
If you needed surgery, you may have had part of your large or small intestine removed. Your surgeon may have been able to sew the healthy ends of your intestines back together. You may also have had ileostomy or a colostomy.
If a tumor or cancer caused the blockage in your intestine, the surgeon may have removed it. Or, it may have been bypassed by routing your intestine around it.
If you had surgery:
The outcome is usually good if the obstruction is treated before tissue damage or death occurs in the bowel. Some people may have more bowel obstruction in the future.
If you did not have surgery:
Your symptoms may be completely gone. Or, you may still have some discomfort, and your stomach may still feel bloated. There is a chance your intestine may become blocked again.
Be sure to follow the diet advice given to you by your doctor or nurse.
Eat small amounts of food 5 to 8 times a day. Do not eat 3 large meals.
Some foods may cause gas, loose stools, or constipation as you recover. Avoid foods that cause these problems.
If you become sick to your stomach or have diarrhea, avoid solid foods for a while and try drinking only clear fluids.
Do not lift anything or do intense exercise for at least 4 - 6 weeks, or until your doctor says it is okay.
If you have had an ileostomy or a colostomy, a nurse will tell you how to care for it.
Call your doctor or nurse if you have:
Turnage RH, Heldmann M., Cole P. Intestinal obstruction. and illeus. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Sleisenger MHIn: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 119.
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couldn't resist a gif of the kids at the gate, grand rapids
More stuff by me this week...
- Amazing Resemblances! Babies Who Look Like Celebrities Will Make You Laugh Out Loud
- I totally forgot to move our Elf on the Shelf on the VERY FIRST NIGHT OMG
- I finally put up our Christmas tree, what about you?
- And picked out our holiday cards
- Most inspiring mom blogs- what tops your list?
And for the record, I'm still embarrassed.
P.S. for "as seen on ivy" - linking up late with Small Style, Ivy's "wallpaper" dress is misha lulu, tee is tea collection, legwarmers by me!, glitter shoes via zulily


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VIENNA, 22 July 2011 – Ways to properly diagnose industrial value chains in preparation for a combined and more successful project implementation is the focus of a new publication released today by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
The guide, Diagnostics for Industrial Value Chain Development, has been developed by a group of international value chain experts from UNIDO and outside after many years of experience in analyzing value chains in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
"The guide will help look at value chains from the processor's perspective and bring together very important pieces in value chain development," said Frank Hartwich, Project Manager in UNIDO's Agribusiness Development Branch.
"As it looks at the entire value chain cycle and not just one part, it has the potential to increase coordinated efforts between implementers in value chain development and promotion," said Hartwich.
Value chain development is essential to creating wealth and promoting equitable economic growth in developing countries and is currently a top priority for many Governments, private companies and development agencies.
The guide is available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
For printed copies in English, please email: email@example.com
For further information about the guide and UNIDO's programmes in agribusiness, please contact:
Frank Hartwich
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Philippe Scholtès
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Patrick Kormawa
UNIDO Representative and Director, Regional Office
For more information about UNIDO, please contact:
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Use our search function, browse the complete software collection or click on one of the software categories listed below:
Genetic Analysis: GWAS Genetic Variation Linkage Analysis Gene Expression
Sequence Analysis: Assembly Annotation Alignment RNAi RNA-seq Primer Design Next Generation Tools Phylogenetic Analysis Gene Structure Viral
The Argo Genome Browser is a production tool for visualizing and manually annotating whole genomes.
Broad-Novartis Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE)
The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) project is a collaboration between the Broad Institute, and the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and its Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation to conduct a detailed genetic and pharmacologic characterization of a large panel of human cancer models, to develop integrated computational analyses that link distinct pharmacologic vulnerabilities to genomic patterns and to translate cell line integrative genomics into cancer patient stratification. The CCLE provides public access analysis and visualization of DNA copy number, mRNA expression and mutation data for about 1000 cell lines.
GENE-E is a matrix visualization and analysis platform designed to support visual data exploration. It includes heat map, clustering, filtering, charting, marker selection, and many other tools. In addition to supporting generic matrices, GENE-E also contains tools that are designed specifically for RNAi and gene expression data.
GenomeSpace is a cloud-based interoperability framework to support integrative genomics analysis through an easy-to-use Web interface. GenomeSpace provides access to a diverse range of bioinformatics tools, and bridges the gaps between the tools, making it easy to leverage the available analyses and visualizations in each of them. The tools retain their native look and feel, with GenomeSpace providing frictionless conduits between them through a lightweight interoperability layer. GenomeSpace does not perform any analyses itself; these are done within the member tools wherever they live – desktop, Web service, cloud, in-house server, etc. Rather, GenomeSpace provides tool selection and launch capabilities, and acts as a data highway automatically reformatting data as required when results move from the output of one tool to input for the next.
Haploview is designed to facilitate the process of haplotype analysis by providing a common interface to several tasks relating to such analyses.
ICBP Data & Analysis Portal
The ICBP Data and Analysis Portal serves as an information hub of the ICBP program enabling resource sharing, annotation, and data integration and analysis. The portal provides access to datasets, analysis tools, visualizations, and other resources produced by the ICBP Centers for Cancer Systems Biology.
Integrative Genomics Portal (IGP)
The Broad Integrative Genomics Portal allows the sharing (both private and public) of annotated and integrated genomic datasets. Funded by the Starr consortium, the portal provides both data analyses and visualizations.
Integrative Genomics Viewer
The Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) is a visualization tool to simultaneously integrate and analyze multiple types of genomic data.
LocusView is a program for generating images of chromosomal regions annotated with genomic features, experimental data, and analysis results.
MEDEA is a suite of Adobe® Flash® based comparative genomic visualization tools including a Circular Genome Viewer, parallel Genome Map, Synteny Map, and Dot Plot.


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Congress has taken an interest in a doctor-payment model for Medicare, pioneered here by Independent Health, designed to control the growth of health care costs while improving quality of care.
Dr. Thomas J. Foels, Independent Health's chief medical officer, recently testified before a House subcommittee in Washington on new ways to pay doctors under Medicare. Foels talked with The Buffalo News' Brian Meyer about the insurer's effort to help guide innovation. Here is a summary of issues in an interview that is part of the weekly "In Focus" series.
Meyer: Can we really control costs without diminishing the quality?
Foels: I think that's the great question. I agree that we're really interested in the sustainability of health care in the long term. So addressing the cost is a major issue. But we firmly believe that there are ways to reduce the costs and at the same time increase quality and accessibility.
Meyer: You've said that reforms in Medicare are best implemented locally. Tell us what you're doing.
Foels: Congress is very, very interested in innovations that seem to be working. They want to use those as models to reform Medicare payment. So our program in particular is focused on primary care physicians as the centerpiece of that, and then builds off that with a very innovative alternative payment system.
Meyer: A lot of folks have said that a fee-based payment system is really the root of the problem.
Foels: Fee-based payments are basically a reward for ... things getting done. But it doesn't address in any way, shape or form the value or the quality of the service. It tends to promote tests; it doesn't promote coordination. It's very easy in a fee-for-service world to have what we call silos
It doesn't create teamwork across disciplines – primary to specialty, specialty to hospital.
Meyer: When we talk about delivering health care, we don't often think about incentives for different types of care. Some might wonder if that doesn't cheapen or in some way undermine the process.
Foels: That's why I think Congress is very interested in our model, because it's very balanced. There are only a handful of different payment models, and each has pros and cons. So we took several of those and emphasized the pro part, and created what we call a hybrid. It still retains a little bit of the fee-for-service for things that we would like to drive more of: preventive care visits, immunizations, in-office laboratories.
There is also a very robust recognition of the quality and outcomes that they achieve. ... A shared savings component rewards work that physicians have always done, but it has never been rewarded or recognized before. The work that they would be doing to coordinate care with specialists or working to create home-based services for patients who might otherwise wind up in the hospital. So the bundle of these things is a very nice balance, and I think it was very attractive for Congress to hear what's actually been done and is working here in Western New York.
Meyer: Another question is whether or not the physician community is embracing this type of sea change.
Foels: We've had the benefit at Independent Health of working very closely with physicians in our community for years. And even then, it took some time. They wanted to really understand all the moving parts and actually be involved in the design of the program. And when that happened, they were on board.


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Stetson's Jonathan Mendoza recently played with Orlando City of the USL Pro League in a friendly against A.S. Roma, a professional club out of Italy, and a three-time Serie A champion.
Orlando City fell to Roma by a score of 5-0 in front of a sellout crowd of over 700 in Winter Park as the squad began its 2013 preseason, but Mendoza gained valuable experience as he continues to prepare for a professional soccer career.
Mendoza subbed in for Jamie Watson in the 57th minute of the contest, playing the final 33 for Orlando City. "We were impressed with Jonny's performance against A.S. Roma," Orlando City head coach Adrian Heath said. "We know what he's capable of as he's been a part of the U23 system for a few years and we wish him the best of luck in the draft."
The draft in which Coach Heath alluded to is, of course, the Major League Soccer SuperDraft scheduled for Jan. 17 in Indianapolis. Mendoza will take part in the MLS Player Combine Jan. 11-15 in Ft. Lauderdale prior to the Draft.
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I had my usual Christmas-meltdown today.
It's not the one where Mom is stressed out because she has so much to do to make Christmas happen.
It's the one where I freak out because I am the gift consultant in my family. I not only have to come up with ideas for me to give my kids and husband and siblings and parents but also end up making lists of presents for other family members to buy them as well.
And because our family is spread out and often travels for Christmas, we often end up giving each other money with directions to purchase this or that item for someone so that we can save on shipping costs. It's all very practical, especially with gifts for kids that may be big and bulky, making shipping costs absurd. For the majority of the Christmas season, I am totally OK with this arrangement, but one day per year I lose my perspective.
Perhaps it is for this reason that I feel entitled to get a good gift. That's right, I said it out loud. I parade around like a good person, but deep inside I am selfish. And the part of me that has the yearly breakdown hopes that someone put some thought into a present for me.
Unfortunately, when I am asked what I want for Christmas, one of two things happens. Either I can't think of a thing to ask for or I am too busy trying to think of an appropriate present for them to give me. (How much money do they want to spend? What if they don't want to buy that?)
Then there are the communication issues. Fortunately, I have a husband who can translate for me. We recently had this conversation:
Him: "What do you want for Christmas?"
Me: "New ski gloves."
Him: "Gloves or mittens?"
Me: "Mittens - gloves are not warm enough."
Him: "That's what I thought."
Not everyone is so lucky.
Anyway, I'm guessing that there are women out there like me who freeze up when they are asked for a Christmas list. We are moms; we spend most of our energy on others and we file our wants and needs so far under those of the rest of the family that we have a difficult time recovering them on demand.
For that reason, I have assembled a list of ideas for you gleaned from some of the best gifts that I have received.
Momventure: Moms often put themselves in a box. "That sounds fun, but you, know - the kids." Or, "I used to like that but......" Truth is, we all need some adventure. It renews our spirit and makes us more fun to be around. One year, when I was feeling bad about turning 36, my husband surprised me with a skydiving certificate. That may not be on your list but there are other options out there. Maybe you want to hike a 14er, go snowboarding, or take up rock-climbing and you'd like some equipment or time to accomplish it.
New skills: Is there something that you've always wanted to learn? Or maybe you'd like to add knowledge about a burgeoning hobby? The City of Greeley, NCMC, hobby stores and AIMS are all good places to seek out lessons or classes.
Time alone: When my girls were 3 and 5, the only thing I wanted was time to myself, so I asked for a night alone in a hotel room. My husband, who spends lots of time by himself in hotel rooms, thought I was crazy but happily obliged. There was nothing fancy about it - I stayed in Greeley at a place that I found an online deal for. I picked up take out, bought myself a magazine, watched whatever I wanted on TV, took an uninterrupted shower and slept until I woke up. It was bliss.
Spa treatments: There is something especially lovely about being pampered when you are a mom. Spa services can be expensive but there are some places in town where you pay a reduced rate for student services and still have a relaxing experience.
I'd love to hear ideas from the rest of you so be sure to add to this list over on the Greeley Moms Facebook page.
May the balance of your Christmas season be meltdown free.
Jaymi Anderson is married with two children. Read her Fridays on Greeley Moms.
Unfortunately, when I am asked what I want for Christmas, one of two things happens. Either I can\'t think of a thing to ask for or I am too busy trying to think of an appropriate present for them to give me.


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Ashlee Simpson joined boyfriend Evan Ross at his mother Diana Ross's Los Angeles concert after-party at Hollywood hotspot Aventine Trattoria, where the new couple was spotted "dancing and kissing" throughout the night.
"She was nice and said hello to Diana," says a source. "Everyone was in a good mood and Ashlee just blended in as Diana's son's girlfriend."
Later in the evening, Simpson spent some time bonding with Ross's sisters while he ordered a special plate of food just for her.
"[Ashlee] was talking about traveling soon with Evan," adds the source. "They were very affectionate."
While Diana Ross played hostess until midnight, the new couple partied until 1:45 a.m., leaving the venue together.
incredible night last night at #bowl thank you to everyone that came out and showed love. And thank you mom for always being so awesome!— evan ross (@realevanross) August 4, 2013
– Melody Chiu
Spot a celebrity? Tweet us your sighting— People magazine (@peoplemag) August 7, 2012
@peoplemag with #CITA and it could appear on PEOPLE.com!