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Three things happen each and every year in February.
On Feb. 2, the country's attention is drawn to Punxsutawney for the groundhog's annual weather forecast. On Feb. 14, couples across the Commonwealth celebrate romance on Valentine's Day.
Usually somewhere between these two holidays is a third, less exciting annual event. In early February, the governor delivers his annual budget proposal to the General Assembly.
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This year's budget address will be unique, because last year's budget process was much longer than usual. While the state fiscal year began on July 1, Gov. Ed Rendell didn't sign the state budget into law until Oct. 9. That means that, when the governor delivers his new budget proposal on Feb. 9, the current budget will be only four months old.
I believe these unusual circumstances offer a unique opportunity for the governor and General Assembly. Instead of rolling out a bold new budget proposal with tax increases and fancy new programs, I would encourage the governor to keep it simple. This could help to avoid months filled with protracted budget battles and legislative stalemate.
Instead, Pennsylvania should take the current four-month-old budget and simply extend it, making tweaks and modifications where necessary to ensure spending does not outpace revenues. Doing so would empower the governor and Legislature to refocus their attention on the pressing issues facing our Commonwealth, including the economy, health care reform and investments in infrastructure.
By the time Rendell signed the current budget into law in October, Pennsylvania's unemployment rate had jumped to 8.9 percent. Despite billions of dollars in federal "stimulus" spending, the national job market and our local economy have failed to return to previous heights.
Ronald Reagan once said, "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." We have seen that this approach is not working. Now, it's time to try something new.
Pennsylvania must reform its current business climate to encourage job creation. Instead of punishing successful job creators with higher taxes and more regulations, we should promote pro-growth policies.
While national politicians continue to squabble over a possible federal takeover of America's health care system, there are things we can do at the state level to make health insurance more accessible and affordable.
First and foremost, we can implement lawsuit abuse reforms to help drive down the cost of health care. All too often, doctors are targeted in lawsuits because they are believed to have "deep pockets." Every time an ambulance-chasing trial lawyer drags a doctor or hospital into a frivolous lawsuit, it drives up the cost of health care. We can end this practice and bring down costs by enacting commonsense lawsuit abuse reforms.
Finally, Pennsylvania must make a commitment to invest in our aging transportation infrastructure. Our pothole-ridden highways and crumbling bridges require significant and sustained investments. Repairing these assets will create jobs. In addition, Pennsylvania's vast network of roads and highways serve as the veins and arteries of our economy, helping to transfer goods and deliver services across our Commonwealth. It is an essential part of a well-functioning and growing economy.
Pennsylvania can tackle these important issues, but they will likely be ignored if the governor and Legislature get bogged down in another protracted budget battle. For the sake of our Commonwealth and its future, I encourage the governor to refocus on jobs, health care and infrastructure and avoid the quagmire of another drawn-out budget fiasco.
State Rep. Kerry Benninghoff, R-Bellefonte, represents the 171st Legislative District, which includes part of Mifflin County.


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Direct probabilistic seismic analysis: Implementing non-linear dynamic assessments
A formal probabilistic framework for seismic assessment of a structural system can be built around the expression for the probability of exceeding a limit state capacity, a measure of the reliability of system under seismic excitations. Common probabilistic tools are implemented in order to derive a simplified closed-form expression for the probability of exceeding a limit state capacity. This closed-from expression is particularly useful for seismic assessment and design of structures, taking into account the uncertainty in the generic variables, structural "demand" and "capacity" as well as the uncertainty in seismic excitations.
This framework implements non linear dynamic analysis procedures in order to estimate variability in the response of the structure ("demand") to seismic excitations. Alternative methods for designing a program of nonlinear analyses and for applying the results of dynamic analysis, particularly as it relates to displacement-based "demand" and "capacity" estimation, are discussed. These alternative methods are presented through a comprehensive case study of an existing 7-story moment-resisting frame structure in Los Angeles. This structure represents an older reinforced concrete structure with degrading behavior in nonlinear range.
The onset of global dynamic instability in the structure is used to define the system "capacity" in this study. The probabilistic model describing the structural demand in the vicinity of system capacity is modified in order to explicitly account for the large displacement demands particular to a system close to the onset of global instability. This leads to an alternative presentation of the probabilistic framework in the range of global instability in the structure.
Ground motion record selection is potentially significant in implementing a program of nonlinear dynamic analyses. However, it is demonstrated that even under the most extreme cases, namely structures with very short and very long first-mode periods, the structural response is conditionally statistically independent of the ground motion characteristics such as magnitude and source to site distance for a given seismic intensity level. This conclusion may justify "random" record selection taking into consideration the site's soil condition and its position with respect to the major faults around it.

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How will the children of the future learn about science? And how will the scientists of the future expand our thinking? The answer is Jupyter Notebooks, says Safia Abdalla.
IT publishing veteran Phil Branon explains the difference between communities and audiences—and tells us what happened the day his team ignored that important distinction.
The documentation journey starts at the mailing list and never ends. In this article, Greg Pittman explains how he started writing documentation for Scribus, an open source desktop publishing application.
PressForward is a multi-user, collaborative RSS feed reader that integrates with WordPress's publication workflow and provides users with the ability to curate content for a target audience.
Amnesty International produces a 400+ page print report each year, which is released in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic simultaneously and then translated into 12 other languages. Last year the organization deployed Booktype 2.0, a Django application developed for book sprints. Daniel James... Read more
Open source and Creative Commons licensing has opened the door for everyone to inexpensively and easily find a new and authentic audience for their work.
Once you've written an ebook and published it as an EPUB, you're work's not over. There are a few things that you still need to do. This article looks at how to validate your EPUB and how to convert it to the format that the Kindle ebook reader expects.
We live in an age of ever-expanding copyright law. The length of time that elapses before a creative work enters the public domain is now so long that many items published early last century are still protected by copyright.
Understandably, software developers might wonder how a bunch of historians ended up shepherding an open source content management system into the world, but in the case of Omeka the trajectory is a logical one that stems from years of work in open access public history and cultural heritage... Read more
Whether the big media producers like it or not, digital technologies have made it easier than ever for popular culture fans to create remixes or derivative works from their favorite movies, TV shows, books, and other media. And the participatory nature of the Internet has arguably helped broaden... Read more


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Empowering communities to protect children
16 October 2006
Through volunteers help, a project in South Africa's coastal Western Cape Province is trying to empower communities to protect their children from violence and substance abuse.
Children aged between five and nine years in the wine-growing region of the Western Cape have the world's highest incidence of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), the group of physical and mental defects caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
According to the US-based National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 40 out of every 1,000 children in the province have a severe form of the syndrome; by comparison, surveys in the USA indicate a rate of 1 or 2 per 1,000 births.
The province has also seen rapid growth in methamphetamine use, a highly addictive illegal drug commonly known as 'tik'. But a unique cooperative project between local officials and social workers, "Eye on a Child", is trying to make a difference.
The initiative is being sponsored by Helderberg Child Welfare, a small nongovernmental organisation (NGO) serving the 70,000 residents in the mostly impoverished townships of Macassar, Sir Lowry's Pass and Firgrove, 70km to 80km east of the provincial capital, Cape Town.
Volunteers are "sworn in" by the local magistrate and granted certain rights to intervene in cases where a child is perceived at risk. Now in its fourth year, the project is expanding and may become a model for community mobilisation.
Last week, 16 members of the Macassar community donned academic gowns and received certificates giving them official status as volunteers. Each had received about 30 hours of HIV/AIDS education, training in parenting skills and their role in terms of the law, and how to handle family violence, before passing a test conducted by the local court.
Among the graduating volunteers was Mariana Samson, mother of one and a Macassar resident who said she was fed up with children roaming the streets. "I saw a deep need. I saw a lot of children were at home during school time, and I saw youngsters from the age of six smoking cigarettes, using alcohol and using drugs," said Samson.
"Sometimes, they are sitting with their parents, having beers, and when you speak to the parents, they say, 'Oh, it's fine, we're just having a good time'. Afterwards, when I explain to them the danger, usually the parents get angry because they feel that no one has the right to teach them how to raise their children."
Family violence, substance abuse and parental neglect occur around the world, but in South Africa they have become commonplace in many communities. Unemployment tops 40 percent, and the abuse of alcohol and tik can be seen in all generations, while HIV/AIDS continues to take a toll on family structures - more than one in five adults are estimated to be HIV positive, and AIDS-affected children sometimes struggle to survive without caregivers.
Social workers play a vital role in South African communities, but are often spread thin. According to Heather Philander, manager of Helderberg Child Welfare, based in the neighbouring town of Somerset West, there is only one social worker for every 7,000 residents in communities such as Macassar. The need for additional eyes and ears is particularly acute after hours.
"Social workers are on the job from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, but there is a lot of abuse on the weekends and at night, when social workers aren't there," Philander told IRIN/PlusNews. Police work hand in hand with the volunteers and social workers to respond to reports of abuse.
Only social workers and police are authorised to remove a child from danger, but Cape Town Child Welfare discovered in 1997 that the National Child Care Act made provision for an "authorised person" to remove a child at risk and asked Burton Slabbert, head magistrate the Somserset West district court, whether they could train volunteers to act as "authorised persons" under their supervision.
"It [Eye on a Child] empowers people at the level of their community," Slabbert said. "From the state level, the programme provides resources to monitor and eliminate child abuse, and from a general perspective it's a monitoring system, like putting a camera in the middle of a community. There's 24-hour guardianship taking place." So far, the project has been "a model operation".
In the crowded neighbourhood of Sir Lowry's Pass, volunteer Helena Olifant offered her modest home as a safe house after she saw "a lot of children who needed loving care". She and her husband now foster three children between the ages of seven years and four months.
"Training from the Eye on a Child project taught me how to discipline, and how to stay calm and handle conflict," Olifant said. "Now others are learning from us as role models. We are setting an example and we can see the difference."
Sustainability remains a challenge
Eye on a Child has been received enthusiastically by community leaders, but Philander said the annual budget of US$225,000 was only partially subsidised by government and grants from the national lottery.
It costs US$1,300 to organise and run the 10-module training course every year, with another $250 per month for reimbursing volunteers for transport costs and provide ongoing training.
"Abuse is a social issue ... social workers won't be able to tackle child abuse on their own. They need the community and parents to tackle it, too," she said. Community-based projects such as Eye on a Child were the only hope for systemic change to prevent child abuse in South Africa.
For some volunteers, the authority to intervene on behalf of a child at risk is its own reward. "This project gave me a lot more boldness," Samson said. "I'm not shy to speak out any more, or to come forward with a problem ... so that children can see there is love."


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Rick wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:53:34 -0500, Sgt. Friday wrote:
>> Rick wrote:
>>> On Thu, 22 May 2008 20:33:31 -0700, George Graves wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 22 May 2008 18:06:37 -0700, Rick wrote (in article
>>>>> On Thu, 22 May 2008 17:58:35 -0700, George Graves wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 22 May 2008 17:38:29 -0700, Tim Smith wrote (in article
>>>>>>> In article
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>>>>>>>> Appil Asstroturfer Tim Smith wrote on behalf of Appil Corporation:
>>>>>>>>> In article
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>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/25results.html fiscal
>>>>>>>>>>> 2007 second quarter ended March 31, 2007 Apple shipped
>>>>>>>>>>> 1,517,000 Macintosh® computers
>>>>>>>>>> While Linux has improved its position to 1 million+ desktop
>>>>>>>>>> installations per week and sales of 1 million+ embedded Linux
>>>>>>>>>> gadgets PER DAY.
>>>>>>>>> 1.5 million actual Mac sales are a lot more interesting than your
>>>>>>>>> imaginary 13 million Linux desktops.
>>>>>>>> Doh!
>>>>>>>> Shows what appil asstroturfer know about counting!!!
>>>>>>>> =====
>>>>>>>> While Linux has improved its position to 1 million+ desktop
>>>>>>>> installations per week and sales of 1 million+ embedded Linux
>>>>>>>> gadgets PER DAY.
>>>>>>> 1 million per week == 13 million per quarter, so your claim is that
>>>>>>> Linux is beating Mac over 8 to 1 each quarter.
>>>>>>> Yet the Mac users are visible. You can go stand outside an Apple
>>>>>>> store and see people walking out with Macs. You can go to
>>>>>>> airports, and see people working on Macs while waiting for their
>>>>>>> flights. You can go to coffee shops and see people on Macs. They
>>>>>>> are showing up in web logs. They are buying books about Macs. They
>>>>>>> are showing up in Mac software sales and downloads. You can go to
>>>>>>> professional conferences, and see more and more Macs in the
>>>>>>> audience. You can attend talks by Steve Ballmer, and find Mac
>>>>>>> users sitting next to egg throwers. :-)
>>>>>>> Your 13+ million Linux desktops per quarter seem to have fallen
>>>>>>> into a black hole.
>>>>>>> You could arguably dismiss any one or two of the areas where Macs
>>>>>>> are showing up as a fluke (e.g., Macs are known to be popular among
>>>>>>> arty types, and arty types hang out in coffee shops more than
>>>>>>> average people do, so you might expect more Macs there), but taken
>>>>>>> all together, there are a lot more Macs out there. Apple reports
>>>>>>> 1.5 million Macs in a quarter, and we see Macs show up.
>>>>>>> That simply does not happen with Linux. You claim over 8 times the
>>>>>>> installs each quarter as Macs, yet in nearly everyplace one looks
>>>>>>> outside of server rooms and embedded devices, there are far more
>>>>>>> Macs than Linux desktops. Hence, your Linux numbers are clearly a
>>>>>>> complete fantasy.
>>>>>> If Linux was growing as fast as these Linuxheads are fantasizing
>>>>>> that that it is, you would be seeing announcements in the computer
>>>>>> press fairly regularly, that Microsoft is porting Office to Linux,
>>>>>> that Adobe is porting CS3 to linux, that Quicken and Quickbooks were
>>>>>> being ported to Linux. But you don't. That's because these 13
>>>>>> million desktops/quarter are imaginary desktops.
>>>>>> Open source software is the reason why the major developers aren't
>>>>>> porting their software to Linux, you say? Well, much of it is
>>>>>> available for Mac as well, and I've GIMP installed, Inkscape, and
>>>>>> Scribus installed and I have Open Office installed. They vary in
>>>>>> usefulness from not very to merely OK. The best of the lot is OO,
>>>>>> and it's a decent competitor to MS Office, but it has a way to go
>>>>>> before its Office's equal. It also needs to maintain 100%
>>>>>> compatibility with Office to replace it in the enterprise, and
>>>>>> that's nowhere near "there". Believe me, Linux usage would go up
>>>>>> considerably if there were some professional grade apps to go with
>>>>>> it.
>>>>> It may needs to maintain 100% compatibility with Office to replace it
>>>>> in the enterprise, but it doesn't need to maintain 100% compatibility
>>>>> with Office to compete with it.
>>>> You just repeated what I said.
>>> I will rephrase: Open Office is a very good replacement for a large
>>> number of people right now.
>> Which people are you going to replace with Open Office?
>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
> .. and you think you have any credibility posting from teranews, and with
> the handle of Sgt. Friday?
What kind of credibility do you want for me to post a joke?
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76ers (15-45, 7-22 road) vs. Thunder (45-15, 25-6 home)
TV: FS Oklahoma
Stream: Click here
Radio: WWLS The Sports Animal (98.1 FM, 640 AM, 1300 AM The Buzz Tulsa)
Time: 7:00 CT
Offensive Rating: Thunder – 110.0 (6th), 76ers – 98.7 (30th)
Defensive Rating: Thunder – 103.2 (5th), 76ers – 109.3 (26th)
Pace: Thunder – 95.2 (11th), 76ers – 100.1 (1st)
Welcome Caron Butler! Now enjoy playing the 76ers. Here was the Sixers' last starting five: Michael Carter-Williams, Thaddeus Young, Henry Sims, Hollis Thompson and James Anderson. That's not a very good starting five in the NBA. But hey! You gotta play the game and you've got to finish with more points than your opponent, so you can't take it for granted.
The interesting part about tonight's game is Butler's debut, and the question of if he'll be the temporary starter until Thabo Sefolosha returns. This might not be the best game to get a sense of the rotation, because things aren't likely to be very close late, but we'll certainly see how everyone plays together.
Oh, and if you're dreaming about KD going for 60 tonight, he'll probably have to do it by halftime. Because as we know, he doesn't play during blowouts.
Three Big Things
1. Remember how to dribble.
2. Remember how to pass.
3. Remember how to shoot.
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Hope to see you there,
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Due to an unfortunate event, I will be unable to make the trip to Maryland and Virginia this week. My apologies to al who had plans to come out. I will reschedule this trip as soon as I can!
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Isn't it a reference to, "an apple a day..." like? I think that it's clever.
"Ah, those endless forests, and their horror-haunted gloom! For what eternities have I wandered through them, a timid, hunted creature, starting at the least sound, frightened of my own shadow, keyed-up, ever alert and vigilant, ready on the instant to dash away in mad flight for my life. For I was the prey of all manner of fierce life that dwelt in the forest, and it was in ecstasies of fear that I fled before the hunting monsters."
Jack london, "Before Adam"
Of course, commercial scrapple has cornmeal in it, and traditionally I think buckwheat was sometimes used. I would eat it if it had rice meal in it. I might in fact make it with rice grits in it. Soon. I have a pork shoulder...
Don't worry chima, I giggled.
It also contains saliva glands and whatnot.
I'd forgotten about the cornmeal.


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Jimmy Choo + UGG = Fashion Atrocity
In January, Australian ugly footwear company UGG announced a collaboration with Jimmy Choo for a limited edition range of co-branded "UGG® & Jimmy Choo" women's sheepskin footwear products. The news sent shockwaves across the fashion industry, leaving most people asking, "Seriously?"
It was a dumbfounding announcement, because master shoemakers like Jimmy Choo, who command enviable respect among high fashionistas, had no business working with companies like Ugg whose sartorial reputation borders on outright disrespect for the fundamentals of style.
It would be one of the most unlikely collaborative projects ever to be undertaken in the history of fashion. It would be blasphemy, if fashion were a religion.
Fast forward seven months to yesterday, Nicky Hilton gave her Twitter followers a sneak peek into the collection by posting a photo of a fringe-detailed, star-studded boot captioned "Love my new Jimmy Choo Uggs!"
After the release of Jimmy Choo's sneakers for commoners, which are more like a joke than anything else, this is the second faux pas the British high fashion house has committed this year.
And it is indeed a blasphemous offence against everything that fashion represents. The fact that these are going to hit the shelves with price tags ranging from $495 to $795 further adds insult to the injury – like sprinkling rock salt and a dash of lemon juice on an open wound.
We sincerely hope Nicky Hilton was just pulling a prank on her followers, because the contrary would be just so frustrating. And so wrong.
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Scotty McCreery had a potentially career-altering moment during a ballgame last week. Scotty was on the mound for North Carolina's Garner High School when a batter hit a grounder that took an odd bounce and nailed him in the throat. According to the Raleigh, North Carolina, News Observer, he snatched up the ball, threw the batter out and continued to pitch.
Scotty turned in just over four innings and struck out six, but East Wake went on to beat Garner three to two.


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"Until a few years ago, "says research horticulturist Merle Jensen, "I never told anybody what I did because they'd conjure up an image of a farmer in overalls with chickens around the house and a pet hog. Now," he adds, "I don't tell anyone because all they want to talk about is hydroponics." Hydroponics (growing plants without soil in nutrient solutions) is only one aspect of the revolution in farming techniques for which the 41-year-old Jensen can claim partial responsibility. These new methods have turned horticulture into a new glamor science. Jensen was born and raised on an 80-acre dairy-and-poultry farm near Lynden, Wash., and earned his Ph.D. in horticulture from Rutgers before joining the faculty of the University of Arizona. There he helped found its Environmental Research Laboratory, a pioneer in using technology to meet the food demands of a growing world population. Recently Jensen shared his views on the future of agriculture with Sarah Moore Hall of PEOPLE:
Why do we need radical changes in farming techniques?
Because the globe is getting crowded. The current population of 4.5 billion by the year 2000 will be at least six billion—the pessimists say eight billion. The growth in food production will not keep pace unless we extend agriculture into new areas. The day will come when the world's deserts must be cultivated, including nearly 20,000 miles of desert coastline.
You envision farms on the beaches?
Yes, one of our main purposes is to learn to grow crops there. On coastlines there's an abundance of water available, but it's salt water. So we're working on halophytes, crops which can tolerate irrigation with salt water. We're experimenting mainly with members of the atriplex family, salt-tolerant bushes which have potential as animal forage and seed crops.
What about desalination of the sea water?
The technology for removing salt already exists, of course, but we're trying to make it more efficient. It's an important challenge when you consider that 99 percent of the world's water is unusable in its natural state because it's salty or frozen, or both.
What is controlled-environment agriculture?
It amounts to a kind of intensive greenhouse farming never seen before. We use diesel engines to pump in available water; it doesn't matter if it's salty or brackish. The heat from the engines warms the water and partially evaporates it, which raises the humidity in the greenhouse. This lessens some plants' need for irrigation with fresh water.
How does this differ from regular greenhouse agriculture?
You can't sustain such high humidity in a regular greenhouse. You have to let in outside air now and then to keep the nitrogen level high enough for plants to thrive. But with CEA, the diesel engines throw off enough nitrogen and carbon dioxide for the system to stay closed.
Doesn't high humidity create problems?
Yes, it makes many plants more susceptible to disease. A major part of our lab's work is developing strains that can take the wetness. For instance, the University of Hawaii cultivated a high-humidity tomato and we've had good results working with it.
What is trickle irrigation?
That's another feature of a CEA greenhouse. Measured amounts of a water-and-nutrient mix are trickled directly onto the plants from a narrow hose running the length of the furrow. This conserves precious water and you can stock the greenhouse with whatever soil is on the scene—even if it's mostly sand—and still get results. In Iran, Morocco, Israel, Jordan and the American Southwest, trickle irrigation is being used successfully in outdoor farming, too.
Aside from water conservation, what makes the new greenhouses unique?
Their efficiency. Year-round growth gives yields 10 to 40 times greater than open-field production. It is a high-density operation. We use every cubic foot of space, not just ground level.
What would a visitor see?
Well, we have one system in which we raise catfish in long tanks of nutrient-treated water. On the surface of the water we float thin sheets of Styrofoam into which Bibb lettuce plants have been inserted. On trellises straddling the tanks we grow cantaloupe. While the melons ripen, we can harvest three or four crops of lettuce. When the melons are ready, we just shake the trellises and they drop into the water and float.
What other match-ups have you devised?
We've learned to grow pole beans so that they wrap themselves around corn stalks. That way the land produces two crops at once. Another advantage to such a pairing is that the bean, because it's a legume, takes nitrogen from the air to produce its own fertilizer. It is also used by the corn, which requires extra fertilizer. This is called intercropping.
What about food for outer space?
Boeing once estimated that it would cost $500 per pound to rocket meals into space, so it will be cheaper for future colonists to grow their own. It's impractical to ship soil into space, so we're experimenting with a huge drum that revolves, creating artificial gravity. Lettuce plants inserted in the wall of the drum send leaves toward a light source at the drum's center, while their roots grow through the wall toward a nutrient mix sprayed from the outside.
Are you creating new plant types?
No, we are busy enough reviving the obscure ones. There are more than 110,000 species of plants in the world, of which about 80,000 are edible. Yet over the centuries people have used only about 3,000 species for food. Today over 95 percent of all our calories and protein come from just 30 species. Wheat, rice and corn alone account for more than half of our food energy. It's obviously foolish to rely on so few when there are so many others remarkably packed with nutrients. It's a shame they've been forgotten.
Which of these foods are most promising?
One is the winged bean from New Guinea. We call it the soybean of the tropics. Its roots have 10 times the protein of the potato, and every part of it is tasty. The beans yield polyunsaturated oil, the leaves are like spinach and the flowers, when cooked, taste like mushrooms. It's a remarkable plant, and it has now been introduced to more than 70 countries with tropical and semitropical climates.
What are some others?
The marama bean from Africa is as nutritious as the peanut, and it thrives in dry areas. The roasted beans are said to taste like cashews, and it makes a sweet vegetable. Yet it is virtually unknown and has never been cultivated. Then there are exciting nonfood plants like the guayule, which produces an excellent substitute for rubber; the jojoba, whose nut contains an oil that can be used as an industrial lubricant, and the euphorbia, also known as the gasoline plant, which produces a milky hydrocarbon that can replace some petroleum products.
What success has your environmental lab's methods had in the Third World?
Our first and probably best-known project is an air-inflated greenhouse in Abu Dhabi raising vegetables in sand with desalted water. We opened it in 1968 and within two years were growing 400 tons of vegetables a year, the highest food productivity of any desert region in the world. It took some ingenuity, though. Once, when we were trying to introduce a new long cucumber, we had the ruler, Sheik Zayed, eat one on TV. Almost the next day it was popular all over the country.
What are your hopes for your lab's exhibit at Disney World's Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, scheduled to open in two years in Orlando, Fla.?
That it will give people new optimism. We'll have a six-acre pavilion demonstrating farming techniques of today as well as the methods we've been talking about. It'll include a boat ride through a simulated rain forest, a desert and an American prairie. I hope it'll inspire people to encourage legislators to support further research. We've heard for so long about doom and gloom in the world that people should know how hopeful the future is.
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Invest AD Buys Saudi Stocks During Dip to Tap Consumer Boom
Invest AD, an Abu Dhabi-based asset manager, increased stakes in Saudi Arabian stocks during recent price swings on expectation consumer-related businesses are set to benefit from a young and increasingly wealthy population.
"We used the volatility to buy," Sachin Mohindra, who manages Invest AD's $27 million GCC Focus Fund, said in an interview in Abu Dhabi yesterday, referring to recent price swings caused by concern over the king's health. "We look at valuation closely. Unless there is a fundamental deterioration in the company and the stock has come down, we would buy."
Saudi Arabian equities make up about 63 percent of its GCC Focus Fund, Mohindra said. About 70 percent of the country's population is under 30 and per capita income is rising amid economic growth spurred by $500 billion of investment plans, buoying demand for consumer goods from food to televisions. United Electronics, an electronics retailer, and food company Savola Group will benefit from increased consumption and are among the fund's top picks, he said. The GCC Focus Fund bought more shares of United Electronics Co. recently, Mohindra said.
The largest Arab economy will likely grow 5.1 percent this year, the second-fastest pace in the Gulf Cooperation Council after Qatar, according to the median forecast of 15 economists compiled by Bloomberg. The benchmark Saudi Arabian stock index fell 3.8 percent last month.
Iraqi Fund
Invest AD also manages an Iraqi equities fund and its manager Sherif Salem said he expects interest in stocks in that country to increase once international custodians are licensed. Currently, custody of shares is managed by a division within the stock exchange, he said.
"We've had a number of interested investors that would invest in our fund right there and then but they've been held back because of this custody issue," Salem said in an interview in Abu Dhabi yesterday.
The initial public offering of Asiacell, the Iraqi telecom operator majority owned by Qatar Telecom QSC, will also attract interest from foreign investors when it starts trading next year, he said. Two thirds of Invest AD's $18 million Iraq Opportunity Fund is made up of banks, according to its October fact sheet. At the end of October, the fund's value had decreased 7.4 percent year-to-date.
"The banking sector is the one that is operating closest to normal," Salem said. "They are able to lend, take deposits but they are doing little finance. The potential is there."


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Ricky Hatton is ready to take out his frustrations on Vyacheslav Senchenko when he returns to a boxing ring for the first time in more than three-and-a-half years next Saturday.
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After leaving you at the train station, I ran into another traveler from Texas looking for a place to stay. We checked out a few hostels and found private room for 60 euro, so we split the bill. Worked out well, we went to a few bar's and I had enough sleep to make the transition back home ok. Just a suggestion if you are back in Munich, the trains and airports are way to crazy and loud to get any sort of sleep in.
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LAST FOOD CONSUMED: Half a roll, cheese and salami I bought at a Turkish store this afternoon. The package of meat actually says "Islami Salami." Great band name, if I were Muslim. I also had a Brezen mit Kase (pretzel with cheese baked onto it) and some Evian that I bought at the rail station just before getting on board, none of which I would have bought if I had remembered to ask Andrea at the Kost Bar where I had a glass of Rielsling to fill my water bottle. Oh well, it was a good pretzel.
I'm slouched up on this top bunk, having just met my berth mate Maoru from Brazil
I arrived in Munich the night of Saturday the 23rd, having taken the 4pm train from Vienna. I met Ed from Philly on the platform and we sat together for part of the journey. He and some friends started out in Ireland and made their way to Oktoberfest, so it was two weeks straight of beer consumption for Ed. Nice guy, except his Phillies are neck-and-neck with my Dodgers for the NL Wild Card. Since my next time in Philly will be when the Dodgers are in town, hopefully he and I will make it to a game.
The night before taking that train I had done some hand wash at the hostel, and my underwear wasn't yet dry. So, not wanting my skivvies to mildew, I stuffed them in the zipper of my back pack, which I had up on a top rack above the seats where Ed and I were. After Ed and I stopped conversating and he drifted off to sleep, I moved back a couple of rows to stretch my legs out and write. Later on, I needed to get into my pack, and I noticed that my underwear and towel weren't quite where I had left them. It turned out that they had shifted and fallen on he lap of an older woman sitting below my pack.
She gestured to me while smiling (thank God), explaining that the fell right on her lap, so she was embarrassed and put them back up. I covered my face with my hands and said, "Enshuldegong, enshuldegong, enshuldegong." (Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.) She touched my arm softly and indicated for me not to worry, and I was relieved
Upon arriving at Munich station, I was greeted by Oktoberfest in full swing. I mean, there weren't 10 steps between my getting off the train and total insanity. First of all, all I really knew about Oktoberfest were beer tents and carnival rides. I didn't know about the Bavarian costumes that went along with it. Everywhere I looked there were men in vintage shorts with suspenders, and women in very pretty traditional dresses. And this wasn't just for the nighttime -- people were wearing these clothes all day every day while I was in Munich. Young, old, little kids, college kids... it was great. It was such a great thing to see, and I just love the tradition of it.
And then there's the heart-shaped cookies that people wear around their necks with messages in white frosting that say "I love you" or "You're my sweetheart," or what have you. Very charming.
Right when I got off the train I saw this woman carrying three tall cans of beer, and she was with a guy and two policemen
It's nigh-impossible to land a bed in Munich during Oktoberfest, but I got absolutely lucky. (Deep breath) My ex-girlfriend Megan's parents' exchange student for a year from Munich Simon agreed to put me up as his roommate was visiting Cuba during this time, so I could have his room. Simon sent me instructions to take the 58 bus to his home, and the bus was easily found right outside the station. I got off at the stop he told me to go to, but when I called, he said that I was supposed to meet him at his work. Fortunately, the same bus went there as well, and I found the bar he works at fairly easily. (I actually misheard the name of the stop that Simon said to get off at, but spotted the bar from the bus and quickly jumped off.) At the bar I avoided Simon's extended hand and hugged him (which I think embarrassed him) and he gave me the key to his place with instructions on how to get there.
Finding his address was no problem, but I forgot what he had said about entering through the driveway. Instead, I went through a doorway, which turned out to be a bunch of offices. After trying the key on a bunch of wrong doors, I reluctantly called Simon and he set me straight and I found the door, though it still took me some time to get it open.
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I held a door open for this group of girls one time. None said "Thank you", one called me a "Fat Tramp", and the other girls laughed. Don't you love how people have turned out?
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you should have farted on them excessively, thats what my Grandad says
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It's cool, eventually it bites back. Should've used the trip rule, though.
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I hope I can explain this right as to what I am after here and so do hope that someone here will be kind enough to help me with this request?
I am trying to pull results from different search engine affiliate programs that I belong to but none of them seem to know how to help me to create there xml feed for my search engine script.
So here goes, I run a search engine and I need to install my own xml feeds from various other search engines, I have there code or some of it, but the search engine script I use requires that a plugin be used to install these feeds for my visitors to use and search with if this makes sense thus far. So I need to make a plugin from this xml coding to work right. Usually the code is wrapped into PHP as well for the script to pull the results with.
So I need to know if anyone here has any knowledge on how I could make one simple XML feed and just simply put that certain URL to pull there xml feed into my own search engine to show the results with?
Below is a example of how one feed explains it but I am lost here on how to do it in simple terms:
to retrieve search results from our affiliate XML Feed you will need to issue an HTTP Get request as described below.
The required parameters are:
Terms :The search term that is being searched for. Please separate multi-worded search terms with a "+".
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1. Affiliate "ME" wants to obtain 10 results for the search term "web hosting"
[URL...] OF THE SITE.com/cgi-bin/search/mxml.fcgi?Terms=web+hosting&affiliate=#*$!#*$!XX&subid=YOURSUBID&ip=126.96.36.199&Hits_Per_Page=10
As you can see from the above example I am have tried several attempts to get there xml feed to work with another one of my feeds plugins but I am doing something wrong here becuase it does not pull there results when I install it.
Please if anyone here can understand what I am after and can at least shed some light as to where I can look if not here in this forum for a simple step guide to get this to work I would forever be greatful
thank you all in advance who will look into this for me and help me out I greatly appreciate all suggestions on what I might try to get this feed to work with my search engine. I will await some much needed help with this request.
sincerely yours
When you have your rendered HTML, print [php.net] it to the output stream.
Here's a function that might help get you started:
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I thank you for the response back into this help request, but this is all greek to me I am afraid, let me try to further explain what I need some help with here for this issue if I may:
I run a jomoscript search engine right, and in order for any feeds from say like search feed or revenue pilot to work I have to have a plugin, but that plugin is actually the xml info that the search feed program provides but it is wrapped into a php file so that it will work when I put it into my libs section of my script here.
Trouble is that I have tried to duplicate another plugin code that I had here and just simply try to change out the URL of the feed like say it was called ABC search and I swapped it out for say revenue pilot well that does not work that way as I found out the hard way,
so I have all these affiliate programs that I belong to and they all say use our feed but again I really could use some simple to follow steps here if you can further assist me as to how I can create a xml feed plug-in for my search engine script.
I can post the plugin in code here for one of the feeds that I have if that is allowed here on this forum?, but I wanted to ask before I just post it here so that maybe that will better help me to explain what I need some really desperate help here with to achieve this,
I no it can't be that hard to achieve but I must be simply missing just one piece or 2 that would make the search feed plug-in work and pull the search results for my visitors when they perform a search using my search engine script that is what is needed to work with this certain search engine script here of mine?
thanks a lot and I will await a much needed reply back further into this post and thread topic, I am so hoping that someone here who has the knowledge and expertise will share it here with me so that I can try to proceed with this.
You subscribe to several affiliate programs, all of which offer their data in an XML feed. You'd like to aggregate those feeds into one "search engine" - allowing the user to type in a keyword, and get results back, from the whole collection of search feeds and affiliate programs.
Am I close?
On that assumption, I'm assuming each of these affiliate feeds deliver XML in a different schema. It's trivial to request the feed and get the results back - the function above will do that (PHP5). But since most feeds deliver their results in a different schema, you'll need a customized parser for each.
For example, some feeds might wrap their data in <item id="123">widget</item>, another will wrap it up in <widget name="item" id="123"/>, another may look like <item type="widget"><id>123</id></item>. Writing those parsers is going to be a special challenge.
The PHP function I pasted in above does one simple thing: it makes an HTTP request to a URL, and returns the response. for instance you would do this:
$xml = getXML($URL_of_your_feed);
then the variable $xml will be a string which contains all the XML.
Once you have that, you'll need to parse it - extract the data into a meaningful structure that can be displayed on your web page.
When you put this URL (with values substituted in appropriately) into the address bar of a browser, do you get XML back?
http://www.URL OF THE SITE.com/cgi-bin/search/mxml.fcgi?Terms=web+hosting&affiliate=#*$!#*$!XX&subid=YOURSUBID&ip=220.127.116.11&Hits_Per_Page=10
Getting down to brass tacks:
assist me as to how I can create a xml feed plug-in for my search engine script
By the way, I saw that you asked this same question 2 years ago, but didn't get a response. So I presume this is a project you've been working on intermittently for a long time?
thank you for the reply back once again to this topic, yes you assumed right there that is exactly what I am needing the help with for this topic
Yes I did post this 2 years back but at that time I never did get a reply back as at that time the script owner was still around and thus did help with some of the plugins, but they have closed shop so to speak as did some of those plugins that he created for me at that time have also closed shop. And no one really understands how to create these plugin xml feeds any longer?
so yes indeed I have been working on this for that long, not just this feed mind you, I have been able to get one feed to work as I already had a plugin for another search feed here and since the other affiliate program used the same type of script I was able to duplicate that one and get it to work.
The one that you used in your example there was the one that I seem to be having the most trouble with as yes they wrapped there xml feed in the mxml.fcgi? type and so to just copy there xml string into the plug in that I have here wont read it right, as I have tried several of the ones that I had here up to now.
I have tried as well to ask the search engine feed to help me create it to pull there results as some of the other search engine feeds that I work with have helped me as this jomoscript again is not being worked on any longer by the owners of the script.
SO I saw this thread here and once again thought just maybe some one here now could better assist me with this issue as it has been 2 years gone by and that maybe someone here now would better understand how to create these so that I could follow along and get one working.
If you could be so kind as to provide me with some simple steps I could try since you now better understand what I was trying to explain I sure would very much appreciate it.
Again I could provide the xml coding here from the xml plugin that I currently have if you think it would better help you or maybe another member here help me to shed some light on how I could get the xml feed to work or to create one from the coding I already have here and thus does work to pull the results from another feed just not the one that is using .mxml.fcgi? format.
I thank you once again and hope that you can further assist me with trying to create this
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I guess you must have followed the pointer to my calculation in the Guide to Beginners thread by now. I did try to repost it, but it didn't survive the filter. Briefly -
$42,000,000 - estimated total dollar value of the index tracker fund holdings in 2011.
$182,107,500 - free-float-adjusted market cap in 2011.
$403,003,750 - free-float-adjusted market cap in 2013.
$42,000,000 divided by $182,107,500 multiplied by 403,003,750 equals -
$92,945,963 - estimated total dollar value of the index tracker fund holdings in 2013.
Clearly there are likely to be differences between now and then in the combined markets caps of all funds within the index which will throw the calculation out to some degree.
It would be useful if you would post some info supporting your estimate of a weight for INSM of around 3bps.
Fud, are you saying that about 25% shares are usually own by index funds. Looks too high to me, but I do not have any better estimates. Where did you get yout $42mil number from 2011..that will answer that 25% number
On the evening of our 2012 delistment over 7 million shares were traded.
My assumption at the time was that the shares were double-counted - once for the sale from the tracker fund to the agent, and once from the agent to a pre-arranged buyer.
But for all I know something more complex than that may have occurred.
Probably worth making the point here that over the course of the next two weeks or so the float will be effectively be REDUCED by however many shares are required for the tracker funds.
Anybody selling shares cannot expect to be able to buy them back in a few weeks. They will either have to extract them from a much smaller float - perhaps as small as a few million shares, unless the prearranged tracker fund purchase price is a lot higher than the current price - or hope to grab some via the next share offer, which one assumes will occur around the end of this year as the Company gets closer to breaking into the cash raised via the offer late last year.
Barring some sort of future catastrophe it's likely to be a very long time before the shares sold this month will once again see the light of day.
Re your -
"this is just an ignorant post the funds buying will have minimal effect on the stock"
- I appreciate the correction. Nobody wants ignorant posts in this forum.
Do you have any reason to believe that the tracker funds will need to acquire less than $90 million worth of INSM shares by the end of this month?
If not - your expectation that the funds will acquire their shares for not much more than $13 a share suggests you expect the float to be reduced by around 7 million shares over the next two weeks or so.
Here's the current breakdown of the float -
Approximately 9 million shares with retail investors.
Approximately 21 million unrestricted shares with institutional investors.
How are you expecting the float to look after 7 million shares have been taken out?
p.s. If you're expecting any of the last-reported Short position of almost 2 million shares to be covered during that period by all means factor that in.
this is just an ignorant post the funds buying will have minimal effect on the stock
Btw - that doesn't include whatever proportion of the last-reported Short position of two million shares is covered during that period.
If the prearranged purchase price for the tracker funds is $15 - and if the entire Short position is covered - a dollar value of $90 million would require 8 million shares to be purchased by June 28.
I personally believe far fewer shares will be needed, because the prearranged purchase price is likely to be far higher than $15.
odds are the funds buying won't have half the impact everyone here writing about it says.. the only thing that should matter are the results and they are probably a month away
Happily for the rest of us, you don't have several million shares to sell.
Doubtless you are correct in predicting that a few retail investors will choose to bank a double or treble over their purchase price. But the serious investors (shareholders or Shorts) who will need to supply the bulk of those millions of shares over the next two weeks will not be valuing the shares on the basis of historic share price. They'll be using valuation models based upon revenue projections - applying discounts to factor in the uncertainties.
The mistake you're making is one which will have haunted numerous HGSI investors. Had they also had a 10:1 reverse split, the low point in March 2009 would have seen a share price of $4.50 (it was actually 45 cents, and the market cap was in a similar range to ours at that point).
There was no Russell 3000 entry for them that year. After encouraging Phase III results (the first of two ongoing studies) arrived in July the share price was seven times the March low. The high point in December that year was seventy times the March low.
And the Phase III results really weren't all that great. Even I could see that at the time. The FDA actually responded to the New Drug Application supported by those results with a Complete Response Letter. From memory the drug wasn't approved for another couple of years.
I keep hearing that argument. But how can you defend it?
Who in their right mind is going to sell several million shares in June without having one eye on their likely value just weeks later should the Phase III results be strong?
If the seller thinks his shares are likely to be worth more than $50 with strong Phase III results he isn't going to sell for $20 now.
It did amuse me when Terry reposted Hubby's comment about professional investors not giving money away.
A completely valid point - which neither of the two of them was capable of applying correctly to the current position.


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You've probably heard about the dirt-cheap gas prices in places like Venezuela, where citizens can fill up for mere cents a gallon. While it might frustrate Americans to know that gasoline is so cheap in some countries, they can take comfort in the fact that there are places where gas is much more expensive. I remember how expensive gas was 13 years ago when I was an exchange student in Europe. What some consumers pay at the pump in other countries far exceeds what we pay here.
But why the discrepancy? It is generally acknowledged that the biggest reason that gas prices vary so widely at the pump is to do with taxes. Many countries impose an excise tax on fuel sales, and, in countries that contain provinces and states, there might be additional taxes imposed at a more local level. Kiplinger recently compiled a list of gas prices around the world, and the top price on their list is Turkey, where consumers pay $9.96 per gallon. The lowest price on the list is Venezuela, where gas is $0.08 per gallon.
Taxes, Subsidies and Government Decrees
Fuel prices around the world are almost universally decided by governments. Sure, supply and demand have something to do with what we pay. But taxes, subsidies and government decrees can affect the price more than other factors. According to NACS, in the United States, as of the beginning of 2011, the federal excise tax on gasoline was 18.4 cents per gallon. Of course, states can add their own taxes to that; the January 2011 average was 48.1 cents per gallon for gasoline taxes. (Diesel carries a federal tax of 24.4 cents a gallon, and an average fuel tax of 53.1 cents per gallon, once state taxes are added in.) Some states even charge a sales tax on fuel sales, further boosting the price consumers pay at the pump.
No matter how much we complain about fuel taxes, though, other countries have it worse. With the exception of some countries in the Middle East and some South American countries, nearly everyone pays more than we do at the pump. Indeed, Canadians living in Ontario pay about 38% of the cost of their gasoline ($5.56 according to Kiplinger) in taxes. When you consider that Canada is a major oil producing country, providing the U.S. a great deal of the commodity, it seems strange that Canadians don't pay less for gas than we do.
And, of course, European countries are known for their huge taxes fuel. Countries like Germany levy a fuel tax, and then require the payment of a value-added tax on the fuel itself, as well as the fuel tax. Norway, another country with a large oil export industry, taxes fuel heavily, with gasoline taxes accounting for more than 60% of the price. Sweden levies carbon and energy taxes on gasoline, and a VAT. Kiplinger reports that the French pay $4.50 a gallon in taxes — accounting for more than half the $8.29 per gallon price.
Subsidies from some governments mean that consumers get access to lower fuel costs. Rather that taxing gasoline at high rates, governments in Iran, Venezuela, India, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and a few others subsidize it to help keep prices relatively low. (Although it is worth noting that, even with subsidies, consumers in China, India and some other countries still pay more for gas than Americans.)
In some cases, the government sets gas prices. Saudi Arabia subsidizes, and it sets prices by royal decree. The Chinese government changes gas prices when there is a large enough shift in oil prices over a limited period of time. However, many of these regimes are wary of allowing prices to rise too far, since it could result in protests and discontent among the populace.
Other impacts on gasoline prices around the world include how far the gas has to travel, as well as demand for oil (including the rising demand for gasoline by a growing middle class in China and India), and political upheaval in oil producing regions. Because the U.S. taxes its gasoline less than most other developed countries, and because the U.S. gets a great deal of its oil from Canada and Mexico (#1 and #2 sources of oil imports to the U.S.), we are actually quite fortunate when you think of the price many others pay for gasoline.
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