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It didn't take long for the Republicans in the state senate to show their true colors: Chicken$#!t yellow.
I'm lookin' at you, Sen. Scott Beason, R of Gardendale. You sponsored a watered-down substitute ethics bill to replace Governor Riley's comprehensive ethics reform bill.
Gov. Riley's bill was written to loosen the lobbyists' grip on state lawmakers. Riley's bill was written in ink.
Your substitute bill, Mr. Beason, should have been written in chicken feces.
It opens up a loophole big enough for a hummer full of corporate money to drive into.
Alabama is among the nation's worst in campaign finance corruption. We can go from worst to first in this special session, unless the newly elected Republican majority turns out to be all hat and no cattle.
Or we can continue to flap our wings and make breakfast for the foxes in the henhouse.
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Need a Bra Fitting? There's An App For ThatCecily Kellogg
A month or so before my wedding I went to THE place to get a fitting for the massive bra-type contraption I'd be wearing under my wedding dress. It was a tiny hole-in-the-wall shop that was staffed entirely by women over sixty, and as I walked in, I was stunned by the sheer number of bras jammed into every corner of the shop.
Once I explained my need, the saleswoman stood back, looked at me critically for less than five seconds, reached onto a shelf and shoved a bra into my hand. She then pushed me into a dressing room, demanding I put it on immediately.
It was a perfect fit. She hadn't even touched me, and it was a PERFECT fit.
Third Love, an online bra store that claims to offer "twice the size options of a regular store," thinks they've solved the bra fitting problem with a photo app. Yep, a bra fitting app.
Basically, it works like this. You use the app to take a couple of photos of yourself, and the app then calculates the right size for your bra and populates a shopping screen with a wide variety of bras to choose from.
Pretty cool, right?
I will say, however, that Third Love doesn't a) tell you what size you are, unlike the nice ladies at the store where I got my wedding bra, or b) know what the heck to do with a plus size body. It really was confounded by me. However, this lovely (and slender) woman at Fast Company used the app and found that the bra did, indeed, fit.
But me? I'll be sticking with the old ladies that use their eyes to measure my bra size instead of an app.


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Employment in electric services industry drops in 1990s
November 22, 1999
Employment in the electric services industry fell from a peak of 454,400 in 1990 to 368,300 in 1997. During this period, the industry saw both increases in output and, beginning in 1992, significant deregulation.
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Employment declines in electric services occurred each year in the 1991-97 period, despite steady growth in employment for the economy as a whole. The U.S. Congress passed legislation in both 1992 and 1996 that deregulated certain aspects of the industry.
At the same time that employment in the electric services industry was falling, the Nation's output of electricity was rising. Total output grew 14 percent from 1991 to 1996, while employment in electric services fell 14 percent over the same period.
These employment data are a product of the BLS Covered Employment and Wages program. Also, these employment data pertain to SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) 4911, electric services. Although electric power generation and distribution are also provided by combination utilities (classified in SIC 493), employment data presented here refer only to SIC 4911. Find out more in "Employment and other trends in the electric services industry," by David McDermott, Monthly Labor Review, September 1999.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Employment in electric services industry drops in 1990s on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/nov/wk4/art01.htm (visited September 30, 2016).
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Let's get one thing straight right off the bat. I will always want more feedback on my work. Always. I don't think there's anything wrong with asking for comments.
Oh, I also want everyone to be my best friend, and we can't do that if you don't contact me via reviews or private messaging, right?
Follow me on tumblr and talk to me about my work. hearthiskittyroar.tumblr.com. We're having fun over there. I'm giving up spoilers and everything. Come join us.
Pierce, Stitch, Scar: It's official. I do not know what I'm doing haha. But you know what...I think that works for me. Working on chapter 3. Hopefully soon?
Out of It All: I thought the last chapter would draw in a big response, but it didn't, and I'm sad about that. But I'm sort of working very slowly on the next chapter. It could be a while though haha.
Shaken, But Never Stirred: Pretty disappointed, about the lack of feedback for the new chapter I just posted. Right now I have zero interest in continuing, but I might change my mind after I give myself a bit of time to cool off haha.
Sand: Won't be finishing this one unless some major inspiration strikes.
Warmonger: Did some work with this and chapter three is in progress. But again, I'm not particularly motivated, so I'm not putting much effort into getting anything done in a timely manner.
Just Out of Reach: Being rewritten under the title Pierce, Stitch, Scar.
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Hey folks, guess what this Sunday, Sept. 15 is? It's my birthday! Yay! It's been a tradition for me to have a pretend birthday party on my blog, so I'll do the same thing this year! In the comments section, if you like, you can give me a pretend birthday present! Pretend birthday presents are great because they can be anything you want, and they won't cost you any money! It's the thought that counts…literally! And if you give me a pretend birthday present, you can have a piece of my pretend birthday cake. Heck, if you like, you can have a million slices, since it's pretend. My pretend birthday cake has no calories and can be any flavor you want! Plus, if you eat my pretend birthday cake, you'll get pretend super powers like super strength and laser eyes! So have fun!
A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog about a Bravoman cartoon. Bravoman was an old and obscure 2-D platformer by Namco about a super hero who could stretch his limbs. Shifty Look, a Web comic site, made some comics about Bravoman and other Namco characters, and they even made a high quality Web cartoon about Bravoman! I wanted to update you all on that and talk about their new Web cartoon about Mappy, too!
Last week, Shifty Look announced an app for iOS devices, and it's a new Bravoman game! It's called Bravoman: Binja Bash, and it's a continuously running platformer where you can tap anywhere on screen to punch bad guys with Bravoman's stretchy limbs. It's based on the new Web comic and cartoon, but unfortunately, it's not very good. Play control is awful and the loading times are atrocious. In fact, when you first start the game, the loading is so long that they give you a bunch of Bravoman Web comics to read. The loading times were so bad there that I could've read the comics three times frontward and backward! Plus it has nearly all my pet peeves about free-to-play games. You can only play a few times before having to wait another hour, plus power-ups and secret characters have to be bought. You can collect robot parts in the game to unlock the characters, but you have to collect so much that you'd be playing the game for a long time. And why would you want to do that? It's a shame that the game is so bad since the Web cartoon and comic are pretty good. You can check out a trailer for the game here.
So we won't see new Bravoman cartoons until this winter, which is OK since it's such a high quality show that it probably takes a while to produce. But in the meantime, Shifty Look is doing another Web cartoon instead. This one stars Mappy, a police mouse from an old Namco arcade game (I won't talk about it here, but you can look it up, it's really fun). In the new cartoon, Mappy is now a security guard working for the company owned by his nemesis, the cat gangster Goro (Nyamco in the Japanese version of the game). Re-occurring characters appear in each episode, like Dig Dug and Sky Kid. But most episodes feature a new character from a different Namco game, like the guys from Muscle March, Albatross from Rolling Thunder, the guys from Time Crisis, the Katamari Prince, and more.
Unlike the Bravoman cartoon, the animation in Mappy is VERY limited. Really more of what I would imagine a Web cartoon would be like. But since I'm such a crazy classic Namco fan, I still like it somewhat anyway. Kind of reminds me of a mix of The Office and Regular Show, but written by a fellow crazed classic Namco fanboy. One thing to note is that it's a little bit less family friendly than the Bravoman cartoon was. But it's not too bad. Usually just one curse word in an episode. While I'd give a TV rating of Y7 to the Bravoman cartoon, Mappy would probably get a PG rating. Here is the first episode, to kind of get you started.
They have other episodes, too, but I'm only going to show you just one more, because it's my favorite one so far.
Anyway, that's all for now! In the comments section, tell me what Namco characters you'd like to see in the Mappy cartoon? I'd like to see Klonoa or Mr. Driller (Susumu Hori), or maybe Reiko Nagase or Valkyrie. Later! --Cary


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Ray Edward Barry, 33, was arrested Monday in connection with the death of Chris Green, whose body was found in a ditch in Geneva Township Dec. 9, 2002.
Barry, who is currently serving a prison term on a previous unarmed robbery charge in Kalamazoo, was arraigned Tuesday in Van Buren County Court on an open murder charge, according to Michigan State Police Lt. Chuck Christensen.
Green is believed to have been stabbed and beaten in the head, Christensen said. Barry and Green lived in the same Bangor neighborhood, he said.
Barry has been on the radar for investigators since the early stages of the investigation, Christensen said, but his name resurfaced in 2009 when Trooper Investigator Kyle Gorham took up the case.
Christensen said some key interviews led to the arrest.
"Allegiances change as time goes by, and that's what happened here. We were able to develop information based on several statements," he said.
Christensen credited Gorham and Det. Sgt. Kevin Conklin, who spearheaded the investigation.
Barry is currently serving an 8-year prison sentence on the unarmed robbery charge that took place in 2003.
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This report provides details of the construction of a warm mix asphalt (WMA) test section on Interstate 90 in Washington State. The test section consists of 7,813 tons of hot mix asphalt (HMA) and 4,724 tons of WMA produced using Sasobit®. Placement of the WMA used the same equipment and procedures as the HMA and attained the same level of density. Temperature reductions of 30-50°F were achieved using Sasobit®. A final report detailing the performance of the HMA will be prepared five years after completion of the construction.
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As a national builder, David Weekley Homes frames upscale homes in neighborhoods across close to 20 markets including metro Charleston.
But the focus on constructing its own communities or in other planned villages raises a few points.
Some buyers may be intrigued by the company's designs but are looking at another neighborhood. They may live in a part of town without a David Weekley subdivision. Maybe, a shopper has picked out just the right lot but wants a ready-made high-end floor plan.
Those are some of the buyer preferences that the Houston home builder wants to capture with its "Build on Your Lot" program.
One advantage, the company says, is its design center stands centrally located off Interstate 526 in westernmost Mount Pleasant.
David Weekley Homes promotes what it calls "five great reasons to let us build on your lot."
Those perks are the "experience" of a 33-year-old company; "award-winning" floor plans with "thousands of options" and the builder's exclusive Flexspace; "buying power" via volume pricing; "lower financing costs" through a preferred lender; and "customer service" that the builder says is #1.
The handful of homes that the company has broken ground on or built are on Daniel Island, Park West, Dunes West, Darrell Creek, Isle of Palms and in Rivertowne Country Club. Other areas that the builder intends to look at include Moncks Corner and Goose Creek.
"We are just trying to get traction," says Bryan Booth, president of David Weekley Homes' Charleston division. "We feel this (could end up as) 10-20 percent of the total market."
The company has sold 14 of the "build on your lot" homes since offering the program two-and-a-half years ago, he says.
Among the builder's local custom-like houses is a new home for sale at 2433 Bending Oak Loop in Rivertowne east of the Cooper. The four-bedroom, 2,758-square-foot house, a Champlain model, is priced at $599,107.
"This (price) includes the lot" as well as standard features such as upper end appliances and open deck and extras such as hardwood floors, gas fireplace, screened-in porch and shower upgrades, says Bubba Reynolds, project manager for David Weekley Homes in the Charleston area. Two bedrooms open to and from a balcony. There's space for a fifth bedroom. The sky blue undercoating on the deck cover keeps bugs away, he says.
Buyer demographics show families, move ups, retirees and downsizers are all interested, he says.
The home is in The Pointe section of Rivertowne, which includes amenities such as a community dock and boat launch.
In the case of Rivertowne, "A variety of people bought a lot a long time ago. There's not a lot of new construction here," Booth says.
"We do some custom builds (but) our preference is they (customers) choose one of our 50 plans," says Sarah Kemp, marketing director at David Weekley Homes Charleston. "We will build on their lot."
Prices run from the $200,000s to $800,000-$900,000, Booth says. According to Reynolds, the homes are sized from 1,500 to 4,400 square feet.
The sales models can drive interest. "Entrepreneurial sales people" call Realtors who go to open houses at the properties or otherwise promote them, Kemp says. "Build on your lots get the most traffic," she says.
"We get leads from our communities" such as Carolina Park in Mount Pleasant, Booth says.
In moving forward with construction, "It's kind of a one-stop shop," Booth says. "You can pick everything at the design center. It's all upfront pricing. They know up front what's going in."
The company's promoting its Build on Your Lot program as "the market's heating up," Booth says. "We are lower priced, higher end."
For more information, visit David Weekley Homes at www.davidweekleyhomes.com.
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A formal dining room at 2433 Bending Oak Loop is on the front right entering the house. Leroy Burnell/Staff 5/19/2014×
The kitchen of David Weekleys plan in Rivertowne showcases wood floors, distressed-looking cabinets, stainless steel appliances and a large pantry. Leroy Burnell/Staff 5/19/2014×
The living-dining room includes a fireplace and opens onto the back porch. Leroy Burnell/Staff 5/19/2014×
Tile floors, garden tub and double vanity sinks accentuates this customized bathroom at 2433 Bending Oak Loop in Mount Pleasant. Leroy Burnell/Staff 5/19/2014×
The carpeted master bedroom from David Weekley Homes showcases crown molding. Leroy Burnell/Staff 5/19/2014×
Views from the top porch at 2433 Bending Oak Loop include stairs leading into the house. Leroy Burnell/Staff 5/19/2014×
The second floor porch overlooks the Rivertowne neighborhood. Leroy Burnell/Staff 5/19/2014×
A loft area highlights the Champlain model house at Rivertowne in Mount Pleasant. It is part of David Weekley Homes program to offer home plans and custom work for people looking to build around town. Leroy Burnell/Staff 5/19/2014×
The back porch is marked by wood floors and a light blue roof, a traditional style in Charleston area homes. Leroy Burnell/Staff 5/19/2014×
Stairs lead to the second floor at of the Champlain floor plan from David Weekley Homes. Leroy Burnell/Staff 5/19/2014×
Off the back porch at 2433 Bending Oak Loop are stairs to the backyard. David Weekley Homes has started building houses for customers on their lots in various neighborhoods in the Charleston area. Leroy Burnell/Staff 5/19/2014×


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Nallatech has announced two new PCI Express accelerator products featuring Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs. The PCIe-280 and PCIe-180 are the latest products to be introduced to Nallatech's Embedded PCI Series of FPGA COTS solutions. PCIe-280 next generation FPGA accelerator card features 8-lane PCI Express 2.0 host interface, up to 5GBytes/sec sustained host bandwidth, and Xilinx Virtex-5 user FPGA (up to LX330T-2). The PCIe-180 low profile network accelerator card features half length, half height card, XFP module supporting 10GbEthernet and OC192 SONET via PCI backplate, and an 8-lane PCI Express 1.1 host interface. Both the PCIe-280 and PCIe-180 products are designed to be compatible with high density server and blade centre platforms from leading OEMs. Optimized memory controller IP cores and reference designs are included as part of the product deliverables along with VHDL source code and API for 64-bit Linux.
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Bio-Rad Laboratories has released two new spectral databases and updated two others. The Sadtler ATR of Controlled & Prescription Drugs database contains 1,161 ATR-IR spectra of controlled and prescription drugs and steroids. The Sadtler HNMR Chemical Shifts database enables Bio-Rad's HaveItAll NMR to include chemical shift data of 20,391 more compounds. Each record in this database is identified by chemical name, solvent used in the analysis, instrument name, chemical structure, molecular formula, and molecular weight. The NMR Metabolites database has been updated and now includes 532 compounds with 1,055 spectra from the BioMagResBank (BMRB) data, which doubles the number of spectra previously in this collection. The HaveItAll UV-Vis database has grown by 4,200 spectra to a current total of 13,930 spectra—the world's largest UV-Vis spectra collection.
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Interphase Systems has launched Ready-IT BioPharma, the industry's first fully managed IT platform built specifically for biopharma and life sciences companies. Ready-IT includes a complete IT systems infrastructure and application suite, combined with embedded regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Early and mid-stage biopharma, biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device and other life sciences companies that sign up for Ready-IT BioPharma will have access to a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, which includes the same enterprise technologies that big pharma relies on from companies such as Microsoft and VMware. Components of the platform include document management, contract management, online training services and information security services. Related applications and support services, including email, PC/laptop provisioning, asset management, ERP, CRM, VOIP-based telephony and voicemail, are also available as add-on options to Ready-IT.
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The National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT) has released Version 2.0 of the caBIG Clinical Trials Suite. The Suite is a comprehensive set of open-source software tools that facilitates electronic management of clinical trials and associated data, and enables comprehensive sharing and integration of clinical research information—not only in cancer clinical trials, but in all clinical trials. Supported clinical trials activities include registering and tracking patients, managing patient activities and calendars, reporting and tracking adverse events, reviewing laboratory data, capturing and cleaning the clinical data, transferring clinical data between applications, and analyzing and reporting on collected data. The 2.0 bundle includes: Clinical Participant Registry (C3PR), Patient Study Calendar (PSC), Adverse Event Reporting System (caAERS), Integration Hub (caXchange), Lab Viewer, and Clinical Connector (formerly C3D Connector).
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There are a lot of hurdles for Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA ) , Ford (NYSE: F ) , Nissan, and other automakers trying to sell electric vehicles, or EVs. One of those challenges may be a lot closer to home than we realize. It may be nothing more than your garage's electric car plug-in, which probably doesn't exist.
As it stands today, not only do electric-vehicle buyers have to fork over thousands of dollars more than for buying a conventional vehicle, they must also spend at least $1,000 for an electric charger at home. Condo owners and apartment renters face a greater challenge even getting a charger installed.
At least one town is trying to eliminate the home plug-in challenge. The city of Palo Alto, Calif., is requiring new homes to come with electric vehicle chargers. The city is already a hotbed for electric vehicles, and as Tesla Motors' hometown it also has incentive to go electric.
Electric vehicles face many adoption hurdles
The home plug-in isn't the only challenge the EV industry faces, but it's one that's largely out of the industry's hands. Tesla Motors has already done a lot to dent the range anxiety electric vehicles present to new buyers. The Model S has a range up to 265 miles, enough to take a three-hour drive on the highway. Of course, Tesla is way ahead in the range game. The Nissan Leaf has an average range of 75 miles and the Ford Focus Electric has an estimated range of 76 miles, or 100 miles in the city. Expect these ranges to pick up as the industry matures.
The next big challenge is the charging infrastructure, on the road and at home. So far, the industry has focused much of its attention on the nationwide charging network. Tesla is building its own supercharger network, which will give a Model S an 80% charge in 40 minutes and a full charge in 75 minutes.
AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV ) is building some of the "West Coast Electric Highway," a network of stations that will run from the Mexican to Canadian borders along Interstate 5. Washington and Oregon selected the company to build their portions of the highway. But home charging is up to homeowners or EV buyers, adding another headache in the buying process.
Ford and Nissan are partnering with AeroVironment to offer one-day turnkey charger installation, while Tesla Motors has partnered with SolarCity, CEO Elon Musk's residential solar installer. Both are decent solutions but they reaffirm that there's work to be done even after you make the decision to buy an electric vehicle. Unless you buy a new home in Palo Alto.
Vehicle charging will be big business
The potential for a company like AeroVironment -- which has become an industry standard charger manufacturer -- is tremendous. A standard home charger costs about $1,000 and, while EVs are counted in the thousands right now, the vision is to sell them by the millions. There are about 114 million homes in the U.S., all of which could take an EV charger -- or two -- meaning a potential market north of $150 billion. That's before we get to commercial or work chargers.
Adoption is going slowly and AeroVironment generated just $8.9 million from charger sales last quarter, but you can see the potential. Even a 10%-20% share of this future market could make this stock a hit.
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Electric vehicles have challenges, one of them being the lack of charging stations at homes around the country. The city of Palo Alto is trying to address that, and if its effort starts a trend I can see AeroVironment as a huge winner.
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Tesla doesn't just have its sights set on the U.S. market, China is a huge opportunity for the company. As Chinese consumers grow richer and buy more cars, savvy investors can take advantage of this trend by buying car companies set to exploit the Chinese opportunity. A brand-new Motley Fool report identifies two automakers to buy for a surging Chinese market. It's completely free -- just click here to gain access.


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Plainsman Four-Ball Championship Golf Tournament to be held May 2-3
Saturday, May 2: The Plainsman Four-Ball Championship will be held May 2-3 at BREC's Beaver Creek Golf Course, located at 1100 Plains-Port Hudson Road.
The tournament format will consist of two person teams playing in a 36-hole, four-ball stroke play event. The field will be flighted after the first round and one pro is allowed per team. The entry fee for this tournament is $125 per player, which includes one practice round with cart, two tournament rounds with cart, prizes, tournament gift and lunch after both rounds. Contestants may register at any BREC golf course. Tee times will run from 7 a.m. - 1 p.m. off of hole one both days. Tee times are required for the practice round. Pairings and tee times may be requested for Saturday's first round only. Sunday's tee times and pairings will be based upon flights with the highest flights teeing off first. The field will be limited to the first 64 paid teams and tee times will not be reserved until tournament fees are paid.
The Plainsman Four-Ball champions will receive two first place gift cards, two replica trophies and their names will be engraved on the Plainsman Four-Ball Championship Trophy for permanent display in the Beaver Creek clubhouse. The number of places and the amounts to be paid will be based on the size of the field.
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TIBCO Software Inc. (TIBX), a leader in the application integration and SOA infrastructure market, today announced the latest version of its flagship extreme low-latency messaging platform, TIBCO FTL® 3.1, which introduces the power of in-memory technology to bring new levels of reliability to persistent messaging. Drawing from over two decades of experience in providing communication and messaging solutions to the financial services industry, TIBCO FTL 3.1 provides a powerful messaging platform that delivers unmatched performance to any industry, where time is crucial to remaining competitive. In addition to the financial services industry, TIBCO FTL 3.1 can be leveraged by any industry facing ever-increasing data volumes, including logistics and transportation companies, government, power and utilities companies and the high-tech manufacturing industry, to name a few.
To capitalise on business opportunities or threats that lie within big data, companies must address greater volumes and more varieties of information at higher velocity. TIBCO FTL is optimised to leverage the latest advancements in hardware and networking to handle higher message throughput with lower latency, and a greater number of concurrent connections, than traditional messaging approaches. TIBCO FTL 3.1 includes a new distributed in-memory persistence engine that maximises performance, with guaranteed message delivery and a messaging throughput of over 850,000 messages per second (1). With this new approach, organisations no longer need to deploy multiple servers or have to deal with the complexity of splitting the traffic between the multiple systems within their application logic. This new, in-memory-based approach broadens the appeal of TIBCO FTL to use cases outside of capital markets.
"TIBCO FTL was designed to address the needs of extreme low latent environments such as financial markets, where trades are increasingly performed by high-performance algorithms and where microseconds make a vast difference in delivering results," said Denny Page, Chief Engineer, TIBCO. "With the introduction of the in-memory persistence engine for guaranteed delivery, TIBCO FTL 3.1 is now also ideally suited to address high performance use cases in any industry where extremely fast environments are required to track billions of data points a day."
Originally launched in November 2010 as the first messaging middleware solution to break the microsecond barrier in end-to-end application latency, TIBCO FTL 3.1 is optimised to leverage the latest advancements like multi-core processors, in-memory architectures and networking technologies like Infiniband and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
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DNR Forestry has experienced two consecutive years of poor red pine plantation establishment due, in part, to a disease caused by Sphaeropsis sapinea. You may already be familiar with this fungus, it was formerly known as Diplodia pinea. It is best known for causing shoot blight on young red pines planted under older, overstory pines in the Lake States. In other parts of the world, Sphaeropsis causes other types of diseases, notably, collar rot. In August of 2002, we found that collar rot was a problem in our red pine seedlings produced in our state Nurseries.
Collar rot is an infection of the bark, cortical and wood tissues of the root collar. Collar rot infections girdle the seedlings which results in the sudden death of the seedlings during the summer. It is common for infected seedlings not to candle out after they are planted. Symptoms at the root collar include: loose bark, blackened cortical tissues, black/dark blue staining of woody tissues, presence of dark resins and presence of fruiting bodies in bark above the root collar.
Red pine seedlings can become infected as 1-0, 2-0 or 3-0 seedlings while still in the nursery. The main sources of infection in the nursery are pine windbreaks. (Windbreak trees become infected as insects carry spores from nearby pines.) Sphaeropsis spores are produced in infected cones and on blighted shoots. Then, wind-driven raindrops carry the spores down onto the bed of seedlings. Shoot blight data from the 1980's show that seedlings more than 600 feet away from a windbreak can become infected. Within the seedbed, dead or blighted seedlings produce spores that can be water-splashed onto adjacent seedlings. This is the main source of infection for a 2-0 and 3-0 seedlings. US Forest Service researchers, Palmer and Nichols, showed that nearby dead seedlings supplied 10,000 times more spores that nearby windbreak pines.
Dr. Glen Stanosz, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, has been working on Sphaeropsis diseases of pines since 1991. He recently found that he fungus can persist in live seedlings without producing any disease symptoms. In other words, Sphaeropsis is a latent pathogen. The fungus passively exists in the bark of the root collar. As long as the seedling is vigorous, the fungus cannot produce the disease of disease symptoms. Only when the seedlings are stressed, by having an internal water deficit, does the fungus become activated. Internal water deficits could be instigated by poor stock handling or storage, transplant shock, J-rooting, drought, hail damage or deer browse.
Before the DNR ships seedlings, they are inspected and sorted. Only live, healthy-looking seedlings make it out of the Nurseries. Unfortunately, latent infections cause no symptoms so they cannot be detected and discarded prior to shipment.
Both 2002 and 2003 were droughty years, providing more than adequate drought stress which activated the latent Sphaeropsis infections in red pine seedlings. In new plantations, the effect of Sphaeropsis can be distinguished from the effect of drought when red pine seedlings are planted side by side with other conifer seedlings. In 2002, average losses in red pine were 67% ,while in other conifers, losses averaged 12%. Sphaeropsis caused 55% of the losses. The data is not in for the plantation losses during 2003, but results seem to look similar to last year. The DNR is currently assaying the red pine seedlings that would be shippable in 2004 for the incidence of latent infections. DNR Nurseries may purchase red pine seedlings from other nurseries is studies show that the stock has more than 5% latent infections.
To control Sphaeropsis shoot blight and collar rot, seedling infection needs to be prevented in the nursery and seedling vigor needs to be maintained during handling and planting. The best course of action is to completely remove overstory pines in the nursery thus eliminating the possibility of disease spread from infected overstory pines down to seedlings. That is exactly what the DNR Nurseries did last winter. Additional courses of action to deal with existing young stock are: use systemic fungicides to prevent infection, decreased seedbed density, rogue dead and blighted seedlings, and, avoid heavy nitrogen fertilization of seedbeds. When lifting seedlings, nurseries cull all dead, blighted or wounded seedlings then cool down spring-lifted seedlings prior to shipping. All these management actions are being done in our state Nurseries. At the consumer end, seedlings need to be properly transported, stored and handled. Land managers should avoid drought-prone sites for red pine plantations and reduce weed and grass competition. They should also supervise planting crews so that stock is handled to minimize root drying and J-rooting.
Why now? Why Minnesota? Actually, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan state nurseries are currently struggling with this problem. One theory has it that our native "Lake States" Sphaeropsis strain had been ecologically replaced by the more aggressive (and deadly) "World Wide" Sphaeropsis strain. A little forensic pathology work on older plantation survival and lots of research on Sphaeropsis strains and ecology may shed some light on this epidemic.


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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Former Charleston Southern golfer Olivia Jordan-Higgins took a step toward claiming her LPGA Tour card Sunday when she won the Symetra Tour's Credit Union Classic with a final round 1-over 72 at Drumlins Country Club.
The 2010 CSU graduate's first pro victory moved her into sixth place in the Symetra Tour standings. With only four events left this season, Jordan-Higgins is in position to be one of 10 Symetra Tour players to graduate to the LPGA Tour.
A native of Great Britain, Jordan-Higgins led the Bucs to Big South women's golf championships in 2008 and 2010 and was a four-time member of the all-conference team.
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Bitbucket is a new social code hosting site for Mercurial (Hg) users, allowing them to view and interact with one another's distributed revision control repositories. It's no stretch to say that it's inspired by the excellent GitHub site for the Git SCM. Being a fan of the simplicity and elegance of Hg, I've been waiting for someone to do this for awhile.
Bitbucket is quite young and still in public beta, and they're working rapidly to make improvements and squash bugs, but they already have plenty of novel features working. One of the coolest ones that caught my eye is support for patch queues a lá Mercurial Queues. I had a little trouble figuring out how Bitbucket handles patch queues at first, at it's not documented in their help yet, but with the help of developer Jesper Noehr I was able to work it out. So until those official docs are published, I hope this guide can help some folks.
Briefly, What's a Patch Queue?
I should write an article on mq itself, but the basic idea is that you can maintain a stack of patches against a main repository. This means that you could, for example, work on a few features that build on one another in concise patches instead of a giant one that isn't cohesive (commit early and often!). If you find while working on UI that there's a problem with the core feature, you refresh your current UI patch, then pop patches until you're at the core patch. Fix the problem, refresh the core patch, and push the stack back up to the UI to continue working. In a sense, the patches are like "floating" commits that don't have to truly committed until you know they're working, or that you're not chasing an experimental path. This keeps others on a project from having to sift through excessive, confusing changesets in the version history.
Another case is in projects where patches may be maintained against a changing code base until they can be reviewed (or just finished!). Mercurial's patch queues allow you to pop all patches, pull in new changes to the underlying repository, and push all the patches back on, with the option to merge them if adjustments are needed. This is called rebasing.
By default, Mercurial Queues just works with a set of patches locally, but it's possible to actually version control it so others can contribute to work-in-progress patches.
All of this begs for some examples, but I'm going to save that for another article or for the book. From here on, we'll be looking at how to use patch queues on Bitbucket, assuming you've gotten acquainted with mq already.
The Quick Way
Whether you have an existing patch queue to import or you're starting afresh, this is the shortest path to having your queue set up in Bitbucket:
- Set up your main project repository, if you haven't already. See Bb's docs if you need help with that. If you have an existing Mercurial repository, the docs don't cover that yet. It's very simple: create a repo on Bitbucket, and push your local repository to its URI. We'll refer to this main repo as
project-repofor this example.
- Click the 'patch queue' button on your project repo.
- Complete the form to create a patch queue. You'll probably want to name it something like
project-repo-patches. Be sure to check the 'Omit Series' box if you already have an existing set of patches you plan to start tracking revisions on.
- Now, all you need to do is
hg qclonethe URL of the new patch repo, something like this:
$ hg qclone https://user [at] bitbucket [dot] org/user/project-repo-patches
qclonecommand checks out a repository and it's versioned patch queue. If you've worked with this before, though, you might be thinking this is backward: normally you'd
project-repo, not the patch queue repo! More on that in a bit.
- If you're not adding existing patches, you're done. Just
`hg qnew`and start working on a patch.
`hg qref`when finished with the patch for now, and
`hg qcommit -m "your message"`to commit the work on your patches. To push out your changes for others,
`cd .hg/patches`from the root of the repo you
qclone'd and
`hg push`. You should see your changesets and patches show up when browsing the patch queue on Bitbucket.
If you want to use an existing set of patches,
`cd .hg/patches`while in
project-repo-patchesand copy your patches and
seriesfile in from the same location in the branch repo you've worked on locally. You should not copy the
statusfile that lives in the
patchesdirectory — it can cause mq to get confused about which patches have been applied, and it will be regenerated when you apply the newly copied patches to
project-repo-patchesas you work with it. Now just run
`hg add`in the
patchesdirectory, and you're ready to commit and push. From now on, you can use mq normally:
`hg qnew`will take care of
`hg add`'ing new patches, and you can use
qcommitinstead of changing to the
patchesdirectory to commit.
You might notice that the
patches directory has an
.hgignore file pre-defined that will keep some files, like
status, from being pushed out to your shared patch queue repo. This is exactly what gets set up if you run
`hg qinit -c` to start a versioned patch queue on a local repo — Bitbucket has taken these steps for you, as well as setting the path in the patch queue's
hgrc that Bb needs, so you're ready to push right out of the box. Note: the
.hgignore isn't actually being generated right now, which I believe to be a bug and have reported it.
For the Tinkerers: More Detail and an Alternative Approach
If you've worked with Mercurial Queues and versioned patch queues before, some things about using them on Bitbucket may seem a little odd at first. I'll try to explain a little bit about what's going on. Keep in mind that Bitbucket is still very new and it's possible that things could change, so do a little poking before following me blindly.
The departures from normal behavior — like the fact that to get a full
project-repo checkout and its versioned patch queue, you
qclone the patch repo instead of the
project-repo — stem from the fact that Bitbucket allows multiple patch queues to be associated with the
project-repo, a feature with tremendous coolness potential. Because of this, Bb doesn't actually store your patch queue inside of the main project repo as you might do normally for sharing a single patch queue. So, if you were to
qclone the
project-repo, how is Hg going to know which patch queue you want to pull in with it?
Bitbucket approaches this with a little bit of magic, and we can get some insight into it by peeking at
hgrc files after
qclone'ing a patch repo. So continuing with our example, if we
qclone project-repo-patches, you'd see something like this in
default = https://bitbucket.org/user/project-repo-patches/.hg/patches
Interesting. Instead of pushing your patches to the root of a patch queue's repo like you might expect, Bitbucket puts them in
.hg/patches, which seems kind of like a patch queue within a patch queue. Why? Let's take a look at
project-repo-patches/.hg/hgrc, the main repo's config file:
default = https://bitbucket.org/user/project-repo-patches/
So pushing the project repo is going to send to the root of the patch repository. But, if you do some work in the main repo of
project-repo-patches, commit, and push, you'll find that the changes end up correctly in the main repo,
project-repo, on Bitbucket. Bb is doing some magic to redirect pushes to the root of a patch repo to the "parent" project repo. So, that's why the patch repo pushes to
.hg/patches. Whew. Sorry if you have to read that a few times.
What About SSH?
So far I've been using HTTP in the examples, and there's a good reason for that. Part of my confusion in intially trying to use patch queues on Bitbucket stemmed from my use of SSH, and Jesper realized that was the problem: the magic described above for
qclone'ing a patch repo to get a full repo and the patches, and having pushes go back to the main repo, is not implemented yet for SSH on Bitbucket. This would lead to a lot of confusion if, like me, you were trying to figure all this out on your own before it's documented. Thanks to Jesper for his enthusiastic help with this.
SSH is nice because once you've given Bitbucket your public key, you don't need to type your password all the time. It can also be speedier because of compression in the SSH protocol. Armed with the information above, we might try steps like these expecting everything to work over SSH (please note that this does not currently work in my experience):
- Create a new project repository on Bitbucket. Again we'll call it
- Create a patch queue for it, again
- Now, clone the main repo over SSH (note that you always use the 'hg' user for SSH):
$ hg clone ssh://hg [at] bitbucket [dot] org/user/project-repo
- Change to the
.hgdirectory and clone from your patch repository's special structure:
$ cd .hg $ hg clone ssh://hg [at] bitbucket [dot] org/user/project-repo-patches/.hg/patches
This basically leaves you with a main repo and patch queue with their
hgrc files set up for the same paths that you'd get from the workflow described previously, except this time using SSH. You also get the main repo in a directory named
project-repo as you'd expect, instead of
project-repo-patches after the
qclone approach, which is a bit counter-intuitive. In fairness, there's no reason you can't rename the top project directory after the
qclone, once you understand what's going on.
At least for now, this does not work. You'll probably get a permissions error when trying to push your patch queue over SSH after setting this up. Jesper noted that he'll try to get the magic fixed for SSH so that it will work just like HTTP. Hopefully this will one day work as an alternative approach, since SSH is nice, and to me this feels more like a natural Mercurial way to handle multiple patch queues for a project repository than the backwards
Bitbucket Rocks
All in all, I'm finding Bitbucket really cool so far, and I can see that they're working hard to improve it every day. A wiki system is in the works (driven by what else but Mercurial versioning), so alongside the already present issue tracker, it should soon provide a worthy and trouble-free alternative for teams thinking about setting up a server to host Trac and a shared Mercurial repository.
Of course, Github has already shown how the social nature of forking and pulling with the help of a web app can make distributed version control more powerful and more fun for individuals, as well as facilitating community in the open source world. It's fantastic to see the same opportunities come along for Mercurial fans, and I wish the Bitbucket folks best of luck.
By the way, you can find me here on Bitbucket!


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Posted 02 December 2010 - 08:55 AM
"We got a good team. Jimmy realizes that. He doesnt have to steal games a lot of times like he did last year"
Why not aim to steal games every game you play? He realize he can let in a softie or two because wings will come out and score more goals.. is that really a sound way to think?
Posted 02 December 2010 - 09:04 AM
I don't really think that's what he meant. I think Jimmy had a lot of pressure on him last year because we were so injured that every goal against us hurt. This year we are healthy and scoring more, so on the chance that a soft goal does happen, it's not the end of the world.
Why does osgood say:
"We got a good team. Jimmy realizes that. He doesnt have to steal games a lot of times like he did last year"
Why not aim to steal games every game you play? He realize he can let in a softie or two because wings will come out and score more goals.. is that really a sound way to think?
Thanks Offsides
"If I could sum up my career in Detroit, I was a perfect goalie for the team at the perfect time. I just wanted to be a Red Wing, that's it." Chris Osgood, July 19, 2011
Posted 02 December 2010 - 09:48 AM
What he is getting at is that Jimmy can be more relaxed in net and not press so hard to win.
The team can pick the win up, sure he will have to steal a game or two, but if he is playing every game like he (Howie) has to be the best player on the ice he puts a lot of pressure on himself.
Most goaltenders are better when they are relaxed, just like sometimes it seems like a player is gripping his stick to tight. He needs to relax a little more.
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"When I was looking for a captain, I wanted a guy with the Red Wings crest tattooed on his chest," said former Detroit coach Jacques Demers, who named Yzerman captain in 1986. "Steve Yzerman was that guy."
Posted 02 December 2010 - 09:49 AM
Sounds good... Jimmy needs a break soon
I kind of wish we'd start Osgood against Anaheim on Friday, and Howie against LA.
Oh well. Hope for the Back2Back win, but I think LA is going to beat us. No reason really. Osgood is probably going to be a bit rusty, we'll be a bit exhausted from the night before (Anaheim loves goonery). LA has sucked lately though. Lost 4 straight, after being one of the best teams for the first part of the season. Their offense has sucked, which I imagine is why they're playing Osgood against them. Best way to come back after an injury is to play a team that can't score.
LA has been good at Home though, 8-2 I think.
*Shrug* Ozzie is a pro. He'll figure it out
I hate losing to the Kings. I like that team, but their fans are among the worst. I went to a game in LA once, wearing my Redwings Jersey. Had people throw cigarettes at me, someone tossed a full beer at me, and Security had to escort me to, in, and from the smoking area :-p This was years ago, but I imagine the fans still suck.
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Posted 02 December 2010 - 11:21 AM
Edited by St. Michael (the Red Wing), 02 December 2010 - 11:21 AM.
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Residents of the Texas Panhandle and southwest Oklahoma area can tune to 162.525 MHz on NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards for the broadcasts from NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Forecast Office in Lubbock, TX. Operational broadcasts began on Thursday, December 14, 2006. NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards, known as "The Voice of the National Weather Service," is a continuous 24-hour source of the latest weather forecasts and warnings broadcast directly from the NWS Forecast Office in Lubbock, TX.
"This radio broadcast has been made possible through a partnership between NOAA/NWS and the City of Childress, TX with site facilities provided by Station Owner and Management of KCTX Radio in Childress, TX," said Justin Weaver, Meteorologist-in-Charge of the Lubbock NWS Forecast Office. "Together these partners now help us bring the National Weather Service's vital information to people across this area."
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"NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards allows us to send weather statements, forecasts and warnings straight from the forecaster to the public in an effort to save lives and property," said Brian LaMarre, Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the Lubbock NWS Forecast Office. "It's been a true team effort in bringing NOAA Weather Radio to Childress and the surrounding communities – an area heavily impacted by severe weather and other hazards. We are entering a very exciting time in providing information to the public when they need it most", LaMarre added.
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In 2007 NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department, celebrates 200 years of science and service to the nation. Starting with the establishment of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1807 by Thomas Jefferson, much of America's scientific heritage is rooted in NOAA. The agency is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and information service delivery for transportation, and by providing environmental stewardship of our nation's coastal and marine resources. Through the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with its federal partners, more than 60 countries and the European Commission to develop a global monitoring network that is as integrated as the planet it observes, predicts and protects.
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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, November 7, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include Obama, the open source president, what follows the death of Windows, an Android cracked, what keeps Microsoft up at night, and HP rolls its own . . . Linux, that is.
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Obama: Open source president? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-4afdMalVA
If Windows is dead, what's next? http://www.pcworld.com/article/153292/windows_what_is_next.html
Jailbreak for an Android : http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/65074.html
Root access to the Android : http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/linux_magazine_com/online/news/hackers_f...
Why Microsoft fears Linux : http://blogs.computerworld.com/why_microsoft_fears_linux
SugarCRM wants to be the Linux of the CRM world : http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=325
HP eyes custom Linux for netbooks : http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10613
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Hi Marcel,
Great show (as always)
I see you are feeling a little better, in your last broadcast you did not appear as "chirpy" as usual so I assume you were really suffering with the cold!
Full kudos to you for battling with cold and still giving us a show!
I also look forward to you doing an article on MS's Oslo (if indeed you are planning to) and I expect to see your press hats getting more festive as we approach Xmas!!!!
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An innovative, revolutionary system which analyses the consumption and emissions of cars in real time, on the basis of driving style, and provides advice for reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
The Blue&Me™ system lets you communicate and keep yourself entertained in your car in complete safety and complete compliance with legal requirements, because you can use it without ever taking your hands off the wheel.
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Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Abarth and Jeep will be starring in the event from June 11 to 14. In addition to the motor show in Italy's first public park, an extraordinary selection of classic cars will be parading to the gardens of the Reggia di Venaria on Sunday.
On the occasion of the World Environment Day, FCA - the Official Global Partner of Expo Milano 2015 - is organising a round table on the topic of "The Environment: driving change and innovation". Speakers include experts from the environment and energy world and high-ranking academics. At this event, FCA is set to present its tablet and smartphone application dedicated to sustainability, the first in its kind for the automotive sector. It contains a fun game that measures the owner's responsible use of our planet's resources.
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The Cross version of the Freemont is a cut above the rest, a model designed to meet the needs of modern families, who are looking especially for space and practicality. At the same time it also satisfies those customers that do not want to give up an elegant and distinctive look.
The successful positioning of the Freemont as "All the cars you want", which has led it to win over new customer types from other segments by combining flexibility and functionality with a modern, original style, is confirmed with the Cross. The Freemont combines all the strengths of an SUV - such as the innovative on-demand all-wheel drive, as effective in the city as when off-road - with the best features of an MPV, like the 7 seats, 32 seat configurations, 25 storage compartments and huge luggage space on board (up to a maximum of 1,500 litres, with second and third row seats folded down).
It's a spacious, convenient and versatile vehicle for hectic everyday life, but also suitable for leisure time and the requirements of customers with an active, sporty life. These are the keys to the commercial success of the Fiat Freemont - the best-selling 7-seater in Italy and leader in its segment for 35 months running - which in the new top-of-the-range version perfectly expresses the category-defying spirit that defines the concept of Cross developed by Fiat.
New and exclusive interior and exterior
The new Fiat Freemont Cross offers a fresh look that makes it highly distinct within the range. This is thanks to the new front bumper with Platinum Chrome colour inserts, the glossy black front grille and fog light frames, Platinum Chrome colour side skirts and roof rails in the same colour, as well as the black frames for the front and rear light clusters, and the rear bumper with Platinum Chrome colour under-body protective insert. The Freemont Cross also has brand-new 19" burnished "Hyper Black" five-spoke alloy wheels.
The Fiat Freemont Cross passenger compartment features unique details, like the new black leather seats with sports mesh inserts and light ardesian grey top stitching, also on the central armrest and door panels. Furthermore, a new Liquid Graphite colour finish highlights the dashboard, instrumentation, central console, door panel and steering wheel. The steering wheel and gear knob offered in leather as standard lend the finishing touch to the interior fittings.
Engine versions
The new version is offered with the 140 HP 2.0 MultiJet II engine, with a 6-speed manual gearbox and front-wheel drive, and the 170 HP 2.0 MultiJet II, both in a 4×2 version with manual gearbox and an active AWD version teamed exclusively with a 6-speed automatic transmission that ensures excellent performance together with precise and quiet operation for ultimate comfort and satisfaction at the wheel.
Standard equipment and options
With its strong, decisive look and full equipment, the Cross trim level offers the cream of state-of-the-art infotainment devices as standard. There's an 8.4" touch screen satellite navigation system with maps, DVD player and SD slot, Bluetooth connection, rear parking camera and an Alpine Premium sound system with 6 speakers, 368 W amplifier and subwoofer. All of this certainly makes for a unique and exclusive version.
The new Cross trim level offers a superior level of versatility and refinement among crossovers. For example, the driver's seat features 10-way electric adjustment, the front passenger seat can be completely folded down, with a large storage compartment under the cushion, and the second and third rows of seats can be folded down, permitting the creation of a nearly 1.5 m³ load volume. What's more, the second row of seats reclines and features exclusive integrated child boosters, permitting the transport of children weighing 15 to 36 kg, without using a child restraint system.
There are a total of 32 seat configurations, making the Freemont the most versatile crossover and permitting customers to organise the interior space with surprising flexibility. There are also more than 20 storage compartments, with a total capacity of about 140 litres - comparable to a city car's luggage compartment - such as, for example, the spacious compartments in the floor between the first and second row of seats, where valuable items such as cameras, portable computers and bags can be hidden. Thanks to the fold-down seats, uniform load platform and total capacity of the many storage compartments, the Freemont Cross offers surprising flexibility.
Finally, standard features also include electric heated and folding door mirrors, six airbags, illuminated cup holders, Keyless Enter 'n Go with starting button as well as audio and driving speed regulation controls on the steering wheel.
Active All-Wheel Drive (AWD)
The active All-Wheel-Drive (AWD) system takes care of backing up the Fiat Freemont Cross's tough appearance. This is available with the 170 HP 2.0 MultiJet II 16v engine version, teamed with a 6-speed automatic transmission.
The Fiat Freemont active all-wheel drive system is on-demand and it is equipped with an electronic control unit which uses sensors to detect the grip of the four wheels and decides when to transmit traction to the rear wheels. The system intervenes on surfaces where the wheels may not have good grip (for example: mud, snow, ice) to ensure greater traction and no limits to the routes the vehicle can take, or in the case of asphalt surfaces, to ensure additional traction and greater safety on bends.
The rear-wheel drive also activates on dry surfaces - at a speed of between 40 and 100 km/h - improving handling when driving and allowing it to take curves more easily, with more neutral dynamic behaviour.
In particular, the electronic system modulates torque transfer through the use of the ECC (Electronically Controlled Coupling) and, operating only on request, contributes to greatly limiting fuel consumption. The ECC on the AWD system is more flexible and accurate than a viscous coupling.
The control unit also interfaces with the Electronic Stability Control (ESC) system and the traction control system (ASR), which help to keep the crossover firmly glued to the ground, whatever the weather or the road surface. Other features include the anti-wheel-locking system (ABS) and the Electronic Rollover Mitigation (ERM) system as standard.
In terms of safety, the Fiat Freemont Cross is at the top level as proven by the prestigious five-star Euro NCAP and more than 50 safety devices available. These include the front passenger advanced multistage airbags, active headrests, electronic stability control with traction control system at all speeds and the Brake Assist system. What's more, side window airbags for all three rows of seats, airbags in the front seats, disc brakes on all four wheels, Isofix child restraint system attachment are also available as well as the Active Hood system, which uses sensors to detect the presence of pedestrians in frontal impacts, raising the rear part of the bonnet to reduce the impact force.
The Electronic Rollover Mitigation (ERM) system and Trailer Sway Control (TSC) are also available. The ERM uses data received from the ESC sensors to detect potential rollover risks and intervenes by varying the braking power supplied to individual wheels and adjusting the position of the throttle valve. The Freemont also has an intelligent system which takes care of your trailer, Trailer Sway Control (TSC). Once its sensors detect that the trailer is swaying, the system intervenes automatically applying the correct braking action to the wheels in order to keep the trailer under control and avoid dangerous oscillations. With this system, drivers can feel safe and confident when transporting their own loads.
Exclusive Mopar®-branded services and accessories
Transforming your car into a unique, personalised item: that's the aim behind the wide, extensive range of accessories and services created by Mopar®, the reference brand for services, customer care, original spare parts and accessories for the Fiat-Chrysler brands in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). As well as offering more than 450,000 original spare parts, Mopar also provides the Group's customers, in over 130 countries, with a catalogue that includes nearly 25,000 high-quality accessories.
In particular, the specific accessories for the Freemont model - which can also be chosen by customers for the new Cross version - blend perfectly with the technical and stylistic characteristics of the vehicle, for extensive, complete customisation. Specific examples are the roof bars, the 'soft bag' for mounting on the roof, the anti-theft wheel bolts for the tyres, the kick plate with Freemont logo, the specific mats and a luggage protection box. Developed in collaboration with the Freemont model design team, original Mopar-branded accessories make it possible to retain the characteristics of reliability, comfort and performance over time that the vehicles can guarantee the moment they leave the factory.
Freemont Cross customers can also count on the wide range of "Mopar® Vehicle Protection" maintenance and assistance services - the only ones guaranteed by Fiat Group Automobiles - available throughout the European network of Dealerships and FGA authorised workshops. Maintenance and repair work is performed by highly specialised Company-trained technicians always using original spare parts specifically designed for each vehicle.
FGA Capital financial solutions
FGA Capital - a financial company specialised in the automotive industry - will support the commercial launch of the new Fiat Freemont Cross with dedicated financial solutions, in line with the model features and with the reference target.
For instance, the importance given by the customer to the actual value of the vehicle, with reference to the completeness of its content, inspired the choice of FGA Capital to offer "EASY LEASE". This is new-generation, premium leasing, which allows substantial concessions to be obtained, such as low monthly payment levels, and above all the extreme flexibility for the customer, who at the end of the contract will be able to choose whether to keep, return or replace their Freemont Cross with a new one.
The particular care for the customer that is reflected by the equipment of the vehicle is also paralleled by the financial offer, thanks to the extreme variety of the insurance services that can be combined with the financing, in a completely customisable way, in order to let the customer choose the coverage most suitable for their mobility requirements: from Fire & Theft, to Warranty extension, up to Credit Protection.
Standard equipment and options (Italian Market)
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Chrome-plated exhaust pipe
17" alloy wheels
Leather steering wheel and gear lever knob
Tinted rear windows
Black longitudinal roof bars
Chrome-plated longitudinal roof bars/handles
Longitudinal roof bars in Platinum Chrome colour
Painted handles in matching body colour
Front grille, door mirror covers, front light frames and skid plate in glossy black
Front grille, and fog light frames in glossy black Front/rear light frames in glossy black/black Front/rear bumper with inserts in Platinum Chrome colour Side skirts in Platinum Chrome colour
19" alloy wheels (not suitable for snow chains with M+S all weather tyres)
19" satin-finish alloy wheels (not suitable for snow chains with M+S all weather tyres)
19" glossy black alloy wheels (not suitable for snow chains with M+S all weather tyres)
19" Hyper Black alloy wheels (not suitable for snow chains with M+S all weather tyres)
Metallic paintwork
Three-coat paintwork
Leather interiors (including heated front seats)
Leather interiors with sports mesh fabric inserts and light slate grey top stitching (including heated front seats)
Comfort and functionality
Automatic three-zone climate control
Illuminated cup holders
12 V socket in the front armrest compartment
Cruise Control
Keyless entry (automatic door opening system)
Keyless go (automatic keyless starting system)
Door locking/unlocking remote control
Trip computer with compass
Electric, heated door mirrors
Electric, heated and folding door mirrors
Electrochromic rear view mirror
7-seat configuration (includes fold-away third row with individual seat folding and adjustable, sliding second row)
Foldable passenger seat with storage compartment
Electrically operated driver's seat adjustable in 6 directions
Electric driver's seat lumbar adjustment in 4 directions
Light sensor and rear parking sensors
Electric sun roof
Smokers' kit
Space-saver wheel
Fog lights
ESC + Hill Holder (BPS) + Rollover Mitigation
Side bags
Side window bags
Active Hood (pedestrian impact protection system)
Child restraint system attachments (ISOFIX)
Front anti-whiplash head restraints
Child Boosters (integrated boosters in the 2nd row of seats)
Alarm (with anti-intrusion system)
Sound/infotainment systems
4.3" touch-screen CD/MP3 radio
Audio controls on the steering wheel
USB and AUX-IN input
Bluetooth® (on the Freemont trim level with leather steering wheel and electrochromic rear view mirror)
8.4" touch-screen CD/MP3 radio with DVD/SD player
Satellite navigator with maps on 8.4" touch-screen
Alpine audio system with subwoofer and 368 W amplifier
Rear parking assistance camera
Sensor Pack (rear parking sensors, light sensor, electrically operated, heated and folding door mirrors)
Style Pack (black longitudinal roof bars, tinted rear windows)
Video Pack (rear video with 9" screen - wireless headphones)
Fiat at the 2016 Paris International Motor Show
FCA at the first edition of 'Parco Valentino - Motor Show & Grand Prix' in Turin
FCA at Expo Milano 2015 - The Environment: driving change
Mopar® Vehicle Protection celebrates three years of success
Istanbul Motor Show: world première of the Fiat Ægea project
Istanbul Autoshow 2015: world preview for the new compact sedan from Fiat
FCA welcomes all the Countries attending Expo Milano 2015
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Also comparing him to Big Ben is confusing to me, when was Crosby ever accused of raping women? Or hell when has Crosby ever been in legal trouble?
Okay, bad example. I meant it that I hate certain players no matter what and that's just the way it is. Crosby is a very love/hate kind of guy. I would never say "He needs to be injured and never play again", I simply don't like him. In Ben's case it's because he's a scumbag, for Crosby he's just not my sort of guy. The fact that Crosby is a good player isn't argueable, he is. Just, there's something about him that makes me dislike him.
Basically, a player is always gonna be love/hate on some level, so really there's no point in arguing it. You can argue if he's as good as someone else or if he's really that much of an asset to his team, but you can't argue that he doesn't deserve to play in the NHL when he can. If he could mature some and stop the diving (Which he admittedly has receny) I may one day be able to tolerate him. It's just so hard to. Especially for Wings fans, it's never going to feel like we weren't cheated out of that Cup. So of course the player that ESPN and all the media said basically singlehandedly beat us is gonna make Wings fans sore. Crosby gets way too much credit sometimes, I get that "Please just stop talking already" when he gets brought up, which leads to my dislike.
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The participants are: Prof. Jutta Scherrer (Paris-Berlin), Prof. Wladimir Berelowitch (Paris), Prof. Manfred Hildermeier (Goettingen), D. A. Sdvizkov (Moscow, Institute of Universal History), J. L. Rudnickaja (Moscow, Institute of Russian History). A. A. Levandovskij (Moscow, Moscow State University), B. I. Kolonitskij (S.-Petersburg, Institute of History), A. S. Tumanova (Tambov), A. A. Danilov (Ivanovo) etc.


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Phillipsburg Mayor Harry L. Wyant presented a proclamation to the Friends of Phillipsburg Free Public Library on Oct. 12, declaring that the week of Oct. 21-27, as "Friends of Libraries Week" in recognition of the work the Friends do for the library.
"The library has always been an important part of our community," said Mayor Wyant. "People use our library for educational programs, news, and career information. We recognize the critical role of the Friends and salute their efforts in supporting the library."
The Phillipsburg Library will be spending the entire week celebrating its Friends of the Library group as part of the sixth annual celebration of National Friends of Libraries Week.
Celebration activities include a special appearance by Eliot the SuperHero MagicMan on Sunday, Oct. 21, for children and their families.
"Our Friends are volunteers who help enhance the library's services with programs such as SuperHero Magic Man," said library director Ann De Renzis. "I think most patrons would be surprised to learn how many of the services and programs they enjoy are supported by the Friends."
Contact the library at 908-454-3712 to learn more about the week's activities or visit FPFPL.org.
The Friends of Phillipsburg Free Public Library is a nonprofit organization of volunteers and advocates that supports the library's mission to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge and strengthen the community. The group's executive board for 2013 are Sean Gornell, president; Sue Campnest, vice president; Rosita Parker, secretary; Nancy Makowski, treasurer; Sue Flad, director; Barbara Hull, director; and David Walker, director.


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Being Active Is Key to Healthy Aging
Simple Steps for Physical Activity, Step 1
Download or view our Start Where You Are brochure to increase your physical activity.
If you believe what you see, you might think that becoming less physically active is inevitable with age. But that couldn't be farther from the truth.
While national surveys consistently show that older adults (i.e., people 65+ years old) are the least active age group among Americans, research suggests that maintaining a physically active lifestyle as we age is one of the most important things we must and can do to maintain both our physical and mental health.
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Regular physical activity is essential for healthy aging. Not only does it help to combat several of the physical changes that come with age, such as loss of muscle mass and bone density, it also improves the overall quality of life for older adults, including:
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Avoiding Inactivity
According to the US Department of Health and Human Service's (HHS) Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, all older adults should avoid inactivity. Some activity is better than none; older adults who participate in any amount of activity gain some health benefits.
In general, physical activity recommendations do not change based on age; both HHS and the American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR) call for at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity every day for all adults. Muscle strengthening (e.g., weight training, yoga, calisthenics) and balance activities are also important to include 2-3 times each week.
Getting Started
Knowing where to start with physical activity routine depends on what you've been doing and how ready you are to make changes.
If you haven't been active at all, start small and build on your success. Strive to move just a little more every day as you work toward AICR's recommendation to be active for at least 30 minutes every day. Here are some thoughts on how you might get started:
- Skip the elevator and take the stairs when you can.
- Join a weekly dance class at your local senior center.
- Set an alarm in your house to go off periodically during the day as a reminder to stop sitting and move for a few minutes.
If you're already active, add some variety to your routine. Aim to include aerobic, strength, and balance training in your routine every week. Consider:
- Picking up the pace for 30 seconds every few minutes during your usual activity.
- Trying a yoga or tai-chi workout at the gym or on YouTube.
- Do a series of calisthenic exercises during the commercials while watching your favorite TV program.
For more information and descriptions of specific exercises, check out the National Institutes on Aging.
Always keep in mind that the most important thing is to move whenever you can. Some activity is always better than none.
A Super Easy Exercise: Wall Push-Up
- Face a wall, standing a little farther than arm's length away, feet shoulder-width apart.
- Lean your body forward and put your palms flat against the wall at shoulder height and shoulder-width apart.
- Slowly breathe in as you bend your elbows and lower your upper body toward the wall in a slow, controlled motion. Keep your feet flat on the floor.
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As all canvas developers for Facebook are using a new payment system to support local currency, Facebook's Yongyan Liú gave them advice on monetizing their apps.
The post, Platform Updates: Monetization Tips & PMD Innovation Competition, highlights three effective ways to monetize:
1. Encourage first time purchases. The payer promotions API is designed to help you convert people that haven't previously purchased virtual goods on Facebook. Facebook sponsors this feature, which lets you offer these people a discount on your game's virtual currency.
2. Monetize through offers. You can enable users to earn virtual currency by directly integrating with TrialPay for offers. A direct integration with TrialPay will allow for quicker load times, more specific reporting, and easier troubleshooting than before. For more information about offering reward based advertising, please visit TrialPay's Facebook Developer Center.
3. Streamline gift card redemption. You can now implement the Gift Card Dialog directly, to make it easy for people to buy your game's in-app currency. Facebook Gift Cards are available in over 20 countries and in approximately 130,000 retail locations worldwide.
While all three are great methods, number 2, monetize through offers, is obviously our specialty. Earlier this year, we highlighted the benefits of a direct integration with TrialPay, which include new features on our offer wall, more video inventory and an overall enhanced performance. For more information on the value of offers to both you and your users, please read our piece on the value exchange economy.
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