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32 Monkeys Baked to Death at Charles River Labs
Charles River Laboratories has finally had to own up to killing 32 monkeys under their "care." The monkeys were baked alive when a thermostat malfunctioned; no alarm system was in place to alert staff to save the monkeys. Nobody even knew about the deaths until the following morning.
Charles River's announcement follows a string of contact with PETA from a whistleblower claiming to be a Charles River employee, who was concerned about what appeared to be gross negligence. We immediately followed up with a formal complaint to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (the body charged with enforcing the minimal standards of the Animal Welfare Act), which subsequently opened an inquiry into the lab.
"This is a terrible and unfortunate tragedy," the company said in a statement released to the media. The monkeys were slated to be used in preclinical drug experiments, so Charles River's concern is quite curious. The deaths were written off as the result of "several human errors"—unlike the frequent and intentional monkey murders that preclinical testing laboratories voluntarily participate in.
This accident is only one disgusting incident among many for Charles River's abysmal record. They were cited for 22 violations of the ever-so-minimal standards of the pitifully limited Animal Welfare Act in 2005 alone, and they netted 20 violations (as reported to federal officials) in 2006 and 2007.
Stay tuned to this spot. More's afoot on this front.
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TO I: "It might be considered cruelty to humans to put those you love through the emotional physical or financial pain in order to support your choice." SO YOU THINK PEOPLE HAVING TO CHANGE THEIR MEAL PLANS IS CRUEL, BUT YOU DON'T THINK EXPERIMENTING ON ANIMALS IS CRUEL? HOW OLD ARE YOU?
It is sad such bad things happen,We need to protect our own species
Good, They would taste like a roasted chicken. Roast a lot more monkeys
according to ppl's religious pt of view, animals r made to be eaten by man. okay but answer this : is it religiously and ethically right to 'use animals for exploitative purposes like these? being a religious person myself i have never read any allowance but very cruel punishment for such behavior
I've been reading some blog posts about PETA since the McCruelty campaign. I'm not a vegetarian or an animal activist. I'm just wondering if people who have posted here and on other sites in support of PETA have a balanced view of human life and animal life. I don't think animals deserve to die but I guess if I were stranded on a desert island with an ocean of fish around me I'd be eating fish for dinner. Does that count as animal cruelty? In response to the post by vegan4animals I think that it's courageous to live your life for your ideals. However that is not just a decision you are making for yourself. I can only assume that everyone who knows and loves you agrees with your views. It might be considered cruelty to humans to put those you love through the emotional physical or financial pain in order to support your choice. One last question for vegans. Are all vegans prolife? If not what is the difference between a chicken egg and a human embryo used in stem cell research? Not looking for a fight just an intelligent response addressing the points I've raised. Thanks.
This is awful! Why were they even in a place where they could bake anyway??? This is just…GRAHHH!!!! There aren't any words I can think of to describe it. I think that this is gross neglegence and that the college should be shut down or some sort of legal action should take place.
It is pathetic when the researchers care more about the money that they are pocketing then the safety of the aniamls. But when it all come down to it if they really cared about the aniamls then they would not be performing experinmnets on them. This is a very cruel and mean thing i think that the scientists should have to go through some of the things that they put these poor animals through!!!!!!!
I think that this is very irresponsible on the labratories part. but when you really think about it they rpobably dont even care because if they care then they would not be performing experiments on them in the first place.
Ughhhhh…….Ass wipes!!!!!!!!
The animal researchers care more about their paychecks and getting their research published in their medical journals than showing care for their research subjects.If they actually cared about the research they were doing their research animals would be better taken care of treated humanelyput down humanelyetc.They know that nothing will happen to them like lose their job research grants would go to another company or universityetc. SO keep putting pressure on these peopleuniversities and research companies! It will be a great day when ALL animal tests are replaced with more applicable and realistic tests.
Getting involved by openning eyes and hearts through publishing this info everywhere calls attention to those who act in cruel and deranged ways. Pity their families! I wonder if their children know? They would have nightmares!
There is hardly any need for animal testing anymore. Surely scientists can rely more on computer programs VR petri dishes or human volunteers who can be compensated. God knows drug companies can afford it.
So sad. There was no need for this…
I agree with Christina can you imagine the outrage if these were humans? Is it any wonder Peta has to grab headlines to draw attention to animal cruelty when this kind of atrocity gets hardly a mention in the media?
I completely agree. How can we be expected to trust the word and compentence of doctors who can't even show compassion..or common sense…enough to take care of these beautiful animals. They should not even be using the animals for testing since the differences between us biologically does not give conclusive and safe evidence. They test the poor monkeys to destruction…and STILL have to test on humans before they're allowed to release their crap. It's a JOKE. It's simply a way for sadistic people to live out their desire to cause pain…and hide it under a false patina of "science". Everyone working in the building who knew of the monkeys should be prosecuted to the highest extent of the law for cruelty and neglect. My god the presidential candidates should stop worrying about their false campaign images and take a true stand against this senseless and hidden violence. They sure would get MY vote then!
I have rheumatoid arthritis in my spine. Often people who know about my condition and the fact I'm an animal activist ask me if there was a drug that was tested on animals could cure my disease would I take it. I always answer that I would rather endure a life of pain and stiffness than cause a second of fear or pain to an animal. I wish those "researchers" could go through what they are doing to those primates.
this is not okay. it is not okay to treat monkeys cats humans this way. if it is not okay to treat a human this way it is not okay to treat any animal this way. …all of this torture for them to make $$$ and still all of the drugs they make are either useless or even more destructive long or even short term. they torture animals with tax dollars they get PAID to torture animals. all of this HORRENDOUS cruelty and killing and yet the truth prevails…we're all going to die from something so why not just die without taking others down with you like a heartless scab? They must switch to cruelty free research. They can still rip humans off with useless dangerous toxic drugs but at least animals will not be involved.
dam corporate welfare tax getting leeches who think that using animals to save a human life is viable. NO NOT ANY MORE…time to stop time for this company and all others to pay for their crimes agaisnt the animal world.hen will the us government take action against these companies who blatantly ignore laws that protect these animals from dying needlessly
This horror event shows us once more the ugly criminal face of vivisection laboratories! I'm bleeding together with these innocent creatures until the last judgement day and then we shall see who shall burn at last!
this is disgusting… it's not enough that they intentionally harm these poor creatures they leave them to bake to death!!! what needs to happen to stop this senseless shit!!! the research is not necessary its cruel and it is a total waste of money.
This is absurd!!! The monkeys already suffer with the experiments and now they died because of negligence??? OMG! This is disgusting!
If they can't even handle caring for animals can you imagine how they are screwing up their DRUG TRIALS and putting millions of people at risk? These drugs that supposedly "pass" animal tests are killing and hurting people and getting pulled from the market Charles River is made up of incompetent con artists What a scam Charles River is running. Hurting people and animals and getting rich.
Wow this is messed up. So not only was there no alarm system which would be valuable for them i mean they kinda need those monkeys for testing right? And then agian why were they testing on the poor monkeys in the first place? They wrote it off as an "accident" if that was 32 humans who died this would be a completely larger story and everyone would know about it. Theyve had 42 violations in the last 3 years shouldnt that alone require they stop this madness?

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a. Minimalist African dance so named by Dutch settlers because of the elaborate costumes displayed. (From Dutch: costuum + pleyen)
b. a dual screen display monitor often used by designers. One screen showing the whole layout, the other used to zoom in to details. Now used to describe any multi-screen display, such as those seen at pop concerts.
c. verb coh splay To produce a two or more splay-trees simulataneously for several topics or sub-topics of a single subject.
d. part of the mating dance of large birds, during which they stand on the ground facing each other, spread their wings widely and flap them intermittently
e. event where fans dress up as characters from favourite TV shows, the costumes used at such events [from costume + display]
f. a field planted in lettuce
g. game similar to charades invented by Lewis Carroll for the entertainment of his young friends
Definitions were submitted by: bingley, coffeebean, consuelo, dxb, RhubarbCommando, and wofahulicodoc
#100236 - 04/06/03 11:55 PM Re: Dirty pig definitions
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What's the deadline for voting on cosplay?
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Monday 14 April 9:00 a.m. WIB = 2:00 a.m. GMT
#100238 - 04/07/03 07:17 AM Re: Dirty pig definitions
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Gimme a B!
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Seems to me that a), e) and g) are all pretty much the same. Obviously the other definitions are a lot of nonsense. I guess I'll be a good sheep and follow the flock so, for no other reason than that I'm easily led, I'll pick the middle one of those and go for e).
#100240 - 04/07/03 07:43 AM Re: Dirty pig definitions
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B definitely. If it's not correct, it should be. We need such a term for such displays.
#100241 - 04/07/03 08:50 AM Re: Dirty pig definitions
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We need such a term for such displays.
yah, but cosplay wouldn't be it.
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I like D
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B please!
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Well, Bingley, I'll have you know you are responsible for me missing out for the first time ever on Hoggywashery! Mebbe I looked at it fast and didn't realize what it was, or sumptin'??? I dunno...anyway... I, the definitionless, have no choice but to vote for the horny birds...D.
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Would the disable device ability be worth it on a non-rogue or bard archeologist character? Having a 14 dex, would your DC's ever be high enough to be effecient at it? I am considering taking the Goldfinger trait so its a class skill on an Inquisitor (in case there is no Rogue at the table during PFS events), but I dont know if the skill will be high enough to be efficient wihout rogue bonuses to it at later levels.
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Depends on your gm. I'm playing a Zen Archer who acts as the party trapbuster, and it works quite well. Traps are mechanical for a long while. I plan to eventually dabble in Trapper ranger so I can bust magic traps, but not until 7 or so...
finding traps is more important than disabling them. once they're known they can be triggered by something summoned or conjured. get a wand of unseen servant, it will last an hour and is immune to any trap that cannot do area damage.
Unseen servant can only exert 20 lbs of pressure, which means it will be unable to affect a great number of traps. Being able to defeat traps the old fashioned way is never a bad idea.
Yeah, I recommend a wand of Mount over Unseen Servant for trap triggering.
Mounts last an hour, too, have plenty of weight to trigger traps, can carry quite a lot when they're not being sacrificed to the trap gods, and they can exert much more force for other things like kicking open doors or whatever. Hey, they can even survive low levels of area damage!
Oh, and don't worry, they should be able to fit anywhere the PCs can, because you can summon a large horse or a medium pony with it.
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I wouldn't worry about it too much. Taking the trait should be plenty.
Traps are somewhat rare in PFS and many of the ones that do exist can't practically be disabled. Most of the rest can be triggered by a long pole or an unseen servant or just healed through with wands.
As for locked doors, knock and silence are both on your spell list. They don't always work, though. Knock can fail and silence requires a BSF who doesn't mind getting his axe blade nicked.
Edit: The problem with Mount as a trap detector is that fact that if you're not riding it or telling it to come, heel, or stay it's a DC 25 Handle Animal check to push it to kick in a door or go walk over where you're pointing. (That's assuming they're trained for riding, as the spell does not mentioned combat. Combat training still probably doesn't cover triggering traps.)
Yeah, I recommend a wand of Mount over Unseen Servant for trap triggering.
Mounts last an hour, too, have plenty of weight to trigger traps, can carry quite a lot when they're not being sacrificed to the trap gods, and they can exert much more force for other things like kicking open doors or whatever. Hey, they can even survive low levels of area damage!
Oh, and don't worry, they should be able to fit anywhere the PCs can, because you can summon a large horse or a medium pony with it.
Only problem there being the lack of opposable digits. =p Maybe your gm is cool with you cheesing traps with level 1 spells (Seems like a lot of people use that tactic on the boards). I know mine would just alter the traps so as to not be triggerable by those critters...
I know mine would just alter the traps so as to not be triggerable by those critters...
That is outright metagaming, and GMs shouldn't do that anymore than players should.
That said, for what it's worth, I suggest it, but I've never done it. It feels silly and traps have never been that big a deal. I mean, what else is the Rogue going to do to feel useful?
"What's that Lassy? Timmy is stuck in the old, inexplicably trapped well? Here are some thumbs and lock picks. I've a date, I'm sure you can handle it."
That is all.
Vestrial wrote:I know mine would just alter the traps so as to not be triggerable by those critters...
That is outright metagaming, and GMs shouldn't do that anymore than players should.
That said, for what it's worth, I suggest it, but I've never done it. It feels silly and traps have never been that big a deal. I mean, what else is the Rogue going to do to feel useful?
Erm, it's the GMs job to metagame. Without adjusting encounters to the party's relative strengths and weaknesses, encounters can become totally trivial, or impossible. Traps are meant to provide a challenge, or else they just shouldn't be in the game. May as well just have the party pay a $200gp tax at the entrance of the dungeon to deactivate them all. If the players find a cheesy/easy way to get around traps, then it's the gms duty to find a way to keep them challenging/interesting. Having a summoned horse run around the dungeon setting off traps definitely qualifies as 'cheesy' in my book, and I'm sure in my gms as well. In my world, I would just rule that summoned mounts don't exert as much weight as a normal horse would. They aren't weightless, per se, (no walking on water) but they definitely don't set off pressure plates and the like...
Well, I guess the metagaming might get out of hand when it keeps getting extremely specific because your party is very creative. After some point, EVERY single dungeon trap is always designed not to activate if you do not have enough pressure, life force, intelligence, not being a summoned outsider, invisible, great invisible, etc? Really? No one decided to call it a day and go to the tavern after they covered 99 contingencies?
Maybe just make a table and randomly role which of the known techniques work, randomly roll, and let them either waste their time trying each one every time or come up with some new techniques. Of course some of the more reasonable triggers, effects, and such can be seen as just basic for that trap level though. It is all a fine balance of our sense of disbelief I suppose. GM's have a hard job, especially since every gamer is looking for ways to beat the system.
unseen servant has opposable thumbs. or force effects that recreate them. they can do anything a str 2 character can.
if you look at most traps they are almost always triggered by 2 things. opening something, or standing in a location. unseen servant triggers all the opening door/chest/container traps, mount triggers all weight traps.
if your GM likes to screw you out of imaginative uses to get around traps, put some rocks on that mount to make it weigh enough. use a metamagic reach - open cantrip to open that trapped container/door.
there will always be ways to get around traps. if you as a gm have to just say it doesn't work (completely ignoring spell descriptions), then you are a bad gm. the players create imaginative ways to trigger traps without being personally harmed, you should come up with imaginative ways to HIDE them. the difficulty should be in FINDING them. if you create clever adaptations of the rules yourself to make traps HARD TO FIND and not HARD TO TRIGGER, there are lots of illusions or just clever uses of mundane items to keep people from finding your traps. you can do the same thing your players do, find creative ways to use the rules as written. making a spell not do what it is supposed to do because you don't like it is bad form.
and btw, having the magical lineage trait for open/close cantrip then applying a metamagic reach to it to do it from 100+ feet away would let you still do it as a cantrip to every door or chest you come across.
Unseen servant can only exert 20 pounds of force. That's not enough to trigger a trap on a heavy iron door that's stuck shut, nor to lift the lid of an ancient, rusted chest.
And none of the ideas you've mentioned are 'creative or interesting' in the least. Nor are they original. They are all ideas that have been tossed around the boards for years and involve an irrelevant expenditure of gold to completely negate a rather central aspect of dungeoneering.
Coming up with truly creative ideas on the spot... figuring out interesting, one-time uses of gear and/or spells to negate a particular trap based on it's particular design or environment, absolutely. Defeating every trap in the dungeon with a couple hundred gold? Not so much.
Now, if nobody in the party has any interest in playing a trapbuster, then just ask the DM to leave out traps. That's a LEGITIMATE way of negating traps that doesn't stink of gouda.
|Darigaaz the Igniter
Automatically resetting traps. Go ahead and summon all the sacrificial horses you want. That thing will still get you. And if you try to time it to get past, well there's another trap beyond it that you didn't trigger yet.
Or if you don't like that, falling boulder trap. Great, you set it off. Now there's a 10 ton rock blocking the passageway, genius. Alternatively, pit trap with safe stepping spots. Step on the wrong spot, the whole thing falls away into a pit of horrible death.
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As many people have said without trap finding you can't disarm magical traps with disable device. While this is true you are also playing an inquisitor which is a full caster level class with dispel magic on its spell list. That combination should allow you to deal with any traps you find. Use the disable device for mundane traps and opening locks and simply dispel any magical traps you find. The only problem you may run into is having to search for traps. Both the rogue and the archeologist bard can pick up the rogue talent trap spotter so automatically get a roll even if they are not searching.
Yeah, I was originally talking about the traps you come across in PFS, and since you are not always going to have a rogue at the table, I decided to pick up disable device. I like the idea of an inquisitor rogue type, but just wasn't sure how the DC's worked on traps and if having the skill as a class skill without rogue bonuses would be enough. Thanks everyone for the info.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Yamaha Motor Corp. U.S.A., of Cypress, Calif., is announcing a free repair program to address safety issues with all Rhino 450, 660, and 700 model off-highway recreational vehicles. Yamaha has also agreed to voluntarily suspend sale of these models immediately until repaired. Consumers should immediately stop using these popular recreational vehicles until the repair is installed by a dealer.
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#4 – Speaking of begging, this former B+ television actress who does nothing now, asks her pro dancer out everyday. And by out I mean to have sex with her.
Kirstie Alley
Hi everybody!ReplyCancel
Good lord Kirstie, poor bastard probably never even saw you on Cheers, when you were hot.ReplyCancel
I read that as Kirstie had become a lesbian.
Anyway, in less/more mundane news, TTM, I went to post on the book blog my YP recipe, but can't access it via your blogger. Hope recent events haven't forced an issue. Let me remind you about how good my YP recipe is.ReplyCancel
Welcome back, Robot!ReplyCancel
was this obese Kirstie? Or slimmed down Kirstie? Anyway saludos to the partner's extremely sensible judgemnent.ReplyCancel
Good morning! Ido, hi!!
Sorry, Violet. Kinda had to do a lockdown but it shouldn't affect the Book Club. At the risk of drawing ire for OT AND the book club, I'll post the link again. Because I love Yorkshire pudding like almost no other.
Man, I wish we could add photos!ReplyCancel
Morning, TTM. Afternoon, Violet.
I can't wait to try your YP recipe Violet. Also, if others are bored or irritated by OT… Fuck 'em.ReplyCancel
No its the same one, I just had to lock my profile out as a psycho got all hackyReplyCancel
I'm so sorry TTM. Hopefully THIS might cheer you up?ReplyCancel
Celebrities need to think back to when they were under 35, and how people over 60 seemed. Even if you are in relatively good shape and still good looking, you still seem ANCIENT to those younger people.
I remember being 27 and finding out that a guy I was dating was about to turn 40, and I almost felt nauseous, I mean, that seemed so old to me. So now that I'm 51, I would never for a moment try to fool myself that any man under, say 45 would be sincerely interested. Okay, a few, but it's rare.
And same with older men and younger women. Don't flatter yourselves guys…most of those young women are holding their noses because you have money.ReplyCancel
i think kirstie did this for the shock valueReplyCancel
Thanks, Lady H! That McAvoy is adorableReplyCancel
No way be did though.ReplyCancel
Just a disagreement that got psychotic. I don't wanna stir it up again (Sugar! Eye on you) but suffice to say, some people have a lot of time on their hands. And this coming from someone who posts far too much on a gossip blogReplyCancel
And Kirstie told him to bring pies, in all flavors… (Does anyone remember that old rumor about the paps catching Kirstie outside some famous Hollywood pie shop eating a whole pie in her car?)
I'd love a YP recipe, thanks Violet. My nephew's father is from England and he's obsessed with all things British.
Hi, Robot!!ReplyCancel
Heeeyyyy, Robot!!
After Kirstie's little snit fit on Twitter over Leah Remini, I just look at her as another $cio whack job. Hopefully the dancer dude dodged the bullet.ReplyCancel
for awhile she was begging Jamie Foxx to fuck her on twitter.
I guess her Xenu vibrator doesn't do it for her anymore.
Agree with @figgy, if you are an old fart (man or woman) and want young skin on you, you need to bust out the gifts, I think Kristie thought she could get something for nothing and Maks was holding out for a new Mercedes.
No pay, no play.
Mango!! <3ReplyCancel
Kirstie is delusional so this doesn't surprise me at all. She is always saying in interviews that she won't be happy until she weighs 120 lbs because that's what she weighed when she was in her 20s (as in years). Anyone who is 60+ and thinks she should have the same body she did when she was 20 is living in fantasyland. I bet she called this poor guy every day for like a damn year.ReplyCancel


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Sundown in the City 2010 lineup announced
Here it is! The announcement of this year's Sundown in the City lineup. Remember — it's still on Thursdays, starting April 22, but will be every other week. Same location — Market Square in downtown Knoxville — and still free, but because of burgeoning crowds, organizers hope to ease the strain on downtown merchants.
What: Regal Entertainment Group presents Sundown in the City 2010
When: Thursdays April 22, May 6, May 20, June 3 and June 17, 6-10 p.m.
Where: Market Square in downtown Knoxville
How much: Absolutely free! With free parking after 6 p.m. at the Locust Street, Market Square and State Street garages.
Starting this year, fans of Sundown will be able to receive text alerts to their mobile phones. To receive text alerts about Sundown, fans should text the word SUN to 68572. Standard texting rates apply.
This year's line-up:
April 22 — Trombone Shorty with opener to be announced
May 6 — The Eli Young Band with Jill Andrews
May 20 — Tonic with Aftah Party
June 3 — Blues Traveler with The Dirty Guv'nahs
June 17 — Drive-By Truckers with Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves


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The pool will be closed on Wednesdays. Admission will be $2 per person regardless of whether they swim or not. Summer season passes can be purchased for $35 for individual or $75 for family.
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- Title
- A fluid approach to large volume job shop scheduling
- Author(s)
- Nazarathy, Yoni; Weiss, Gideon
- Abstract
- We consider large volume job shop scheduling problems, in which there is a fixed number of machines, a bounded number of activities per job, and a large number of jobs. In large volume job shops it makes sense to solve a fluid problem and to schedule the jobs in such a way as to track the fluid solution. There have been several papers which used this idea to propose approximate solutions which are asymptotically optimal as the volume increases. We survey some of these results here. In most of these papers it is assumed that the problem consists of many identical copies of a fixed set of jobs. Our contribution in this paper is to extend the results to the far more general situation in which the many jobs are all different. We propose a very simple heuristic which can schedule such problems. We discuss asymptotic optimality of this heuristic, under a wide range of previously unexplored situations. We provide a software package to explore the performance of our policy, and present extensive computational evidence for its effectiveness.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Journal of Scheduling: incorporating selected papers from the 'New challenges in scheduling theory' workshop, Marseille, France, 12-16 May 2008 / Michael Bender, Jacek Blazewicz, Erwin Pesch, Denis Trystram and Guochuan Zhang (eds.), Vol. 13, no. 5 (Oct 2010), pp. 509-529
- Publication year
- 2010
- FOR Code(s)
- 0102 Applied Mathematics; 0103 Numerical and Computational Mathematics
- Keyword(s)
- Approximate solution; Asymptotic analysis; Asymptotic optimality; Asymptotically optimal; Fixed numbers; Fluid approximation; Fluid problem; Fluid solutions; Fluid tracking policy; Fluids; General situation; Job shop scheduling problems; Makespan; Stochastic scheduling; Scheduling; Scheduling algorithms; Stochastic systems
- Publisher
- Springer
- 1094-6136
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010.
- Peer reviewed


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ZenUI Dialer & Contacts v126.96.36.199_161123
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GO SMS Pro v7.18 build 378 [Premium]
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Holiday shopping spree not for everyoneBy ANNE DINNOCENZIO
and CANDICE CHOI
the associated press | December 13,2013Ap file photo
Shoppers rest on chairs in the Fashion Show mall in Las Vegas on Black Friday, Nov. 29.NEW YORK Many Americans are watching the annual holiday spending ritual from the sidelines this year.
Money is still tight for some. Others are fed up with commercialism of the holidays. Still others are waiting for bigger bargains.
And people like Lark-Marie Anton Menchini are more thoughtful about their purchases. The New York public relations executive says in the past shed buy her children up to eight Christmas gifts each, but this year theyre getting three apiece. The leftover money is going toward their college savings.
We told them Santa is ... being very conscious of how many gifts he puts on his sleigh, Menchini, 36, says.
Despite an improving economy, most workers are not seeing meaningful wage increases. And those who can splurge say the brash commercialism around the holidays many more stores are opening for business on Thanksgiving is a turnoff.
But perhaps the biggest factor is that shoppers are less motivated than ever by holiday sales. Since the Great Recession, retailers have been dangling more discounts throughout the year, so Americans have learned to hold out for even deeper holiday savings on clothes, electronics and more. To stay competitive and boost sales, retailers are slashing prices further during their busiest season of the year, which is cutting into their own profit margins.
There arent reliable figures on how many people plan to shop during the holidays. But early data points to a shift in holiday spending.
The National Retail Federation estimates that sales during the start to the official start to the season the four-day weekend that began on Thanksgiving Day dropped 2.9 percent from last year to $57.4 billion. That would mark the first decline in the seven years the trade group has tracked spending.
And during the week afterward which ended on Sunday sales fell another 2.9 percent compared with a year ago, according to data tracker ShopperTrak, which did not give dollar amounts. Meanwhile, the number of shoppers in stores plunged nearly 22 percent.
The numbers are sobering for retailers, which depend on making up to 40 percent of their revenue in the last two months of the year. They suggest shifts in the attitudes of U.S. shoppers that could force stores to reshape their strategies.
Stores slashed prices during the recession to get financially-strapped shoppers in stores and to better compete with the cheaper prices of online retailers like Amazon. But shoppers got used to those deals and now wont buy without them. The constant discounting has blunted the wow factor of sales during the holidays.
For instance, some retailers were offering discounts of 40 percent or more on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday. But Jennifer Ambrosh, 40, was unimpressed with the deals she saw on that day. Theres a lot of hype, but ... the deals arent that good, Ambrosh, an accountant, says.
Overall, the retail federation expects spending in November and December to rise 3.9 percent to $602.1 billion. But to get that growth, analysts say retailers will need to discount heavily, which eats away profits.
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Reply All Lite: for people too lazy busy to read a whole strip
Reply All highlights those moments in today's information-overloaded environment when you forget your adult-self and toss the megaphone to your fifth-grade inner child.
Its main character, Lizzie is a busy-single-woman-with-successful-career-in-the-big-city who has a lot of those moments. Cartoonist Donna A. Lewis, an attorney at Homeland Security, admits she "clearly needs an outlet for the stress of working in the nation's capital." Lewis taught herself to draw in law school (where doodling was the only escape from reality) and to write punch lines in the courtroom (no disrespect to judges, attorneys, plaintiffs or defendants intended).
Lewis comes from "an annoyingly funny family" that provides material faster than she can "translate it into a written product." Now, she says, "The years of listening to their absurd notions about the world are finally providing value to my life." Lewis states that no family members were harmed in the creation of this strip, and some names were left unchanged in order to incriminate those deserving of such.
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It's like something out of "The Twilight Zone."
A swarm of black birds keeps circling and invading the home of a California woman -- at the same time every night.
It started last Friday, when Exeter resident Shirley Brown came home and found hundreds of Black Swift birds in her home.
They were in the kitchen, under the couch and even on the ceiling fan, Fresno TV station KMPH reported.
"I think the most horrifying was how they got in and the mess that they were making while they were here because birds are scared and they are pooping," Brown said.
She scared them out by running the vacuum.
But the birds came back around the same time -- 8 p.m. -- the next night.
And they have returned every night since.
Black Swifts can be found all over the world, but they do typically migrate to the California coast and mountains in the summer for mating, KMPH reported.
"I am thinking that with the weather change they will go away ... I hope," Brown said.
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Bella is a red werewolf, sole survivor of the fire that killed her entire pack.
Devlyn is a beta male werewolf in a pack of grays.
Forced to flee her adopted gray pack when the alpha male becomes a vicious threat, she struggles to live as a lone wolf, until Devlyn, the gray male who rescued her as a pup, comes to bring her home.
When a local red werewolf goes on a killing spree, Bella and Devlyn must flee the murderer, the police and their vengeful pack leader. With the full moon rising, and her heat upon her, Bella can't resist the pull to her destined mate, even if means Devlyn will have to face the wicked alpha male in a fight to the death...
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Add to that, his sister arrives, who wants to play, too. And their mother, the queen of the Denkar, will want Alicia's head, once she learns what Alicia can do.
And all because Alicia was attempting to rescue her friend, Cassie, on their beach excursion at South Padre Island, from the wicked fae. Now, Alicia has really gone and done it--and she's thinking she should have let the fae have his fun. Her friend's broken heart would be a lot easier to deal with, than Alicia losing her life.
But it is too late for regrets. As soon as she threw the soda at the dark fae's chest, she had declared war on the fae. And he is happy to take up the challenge.


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Apple's Stock Falls, Pulling Down Component Makers (Update1)
(Updates share prices of Apple and its component partners.)
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Apple(AAPL) and some of its key partners slipped on Monday following a media report that the tech company has cut iPhone component orders.
The Wall Street Journal on Sunday said Apple reduced component orders for its iPhone 5 because of "weaker-than-expected" demand during its January-to-March quarter.
Apple has not yet responded to TheStreet's request for comment. The company's shares fell 3.2% to $503.86 as of 12:35 p.m. New York time.
The rumor also weighed on Apple iPhone component suppliers Skyworks Solutions(SWKS) and Cirrus Logic(CRUS) , pushing their shares down 0.84% and 8.5%, to $21.19 and $28.89, respectively.
Avago(AVGO) , which has a power amplifier module and a duplexer module within the iPhone 5, was down 0.55% to $34.15, while TriQuint(TQNT) was down 1.46% to $5.07.
Launched in a blaze of publicity in September, the iPhone 5 shattered the company's pre-order records, and was lauded by the Cupertino, Calif.-based firm as the fastest-selling phone in history.
Apple sold a total of 26.9 million iPhones, including the newly launched iPhone 5, during its fiscal fourth quarter ending in September, up from 17.1 million a year earlier.
In November, tech research firm Strategy Analytics estimated that Apple sold 6 million iPhone 5s during the September quarter and predicted that the device would out-ship Samsung's Galaxy S3 during the fourth quarter to become the world's most popular smartphone model.
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A burnt-out soccer star tries to win back his family but gets distracted by his wandering eye in the romantic comedy "Playing for Keeps" starring Gerard Butler.
His bank account drained and his libido fatigued, professional soccer player George (Butler) hangs up his cleats and heads back to Virginia. Determined to do right in the eyes of his ex-wife (Jessica Biel) and their lonely son (Noah Lomax), George takes a job coaching a local soccer team and begins working to form the young players into true athletes.
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Humane society celebrates 50thFebruary 13,2014
EAST MONTPELIER The Central Vermont Humane Society will recognize its 50-year anniversary by holding its fourth annual Adoption Center Birthday Party on Feb. 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The celebration will kick off a year of fundraising events for CVHS, which relies heavily on support from local organizations, businesses and individuals to help it care for more than 1,200 animals each year.
All are invited to the event, which will be held at the humane society on Route 14 in East Montpelier. Those in attendance will enjoy free refreshments and raffles as well as dog training demos and visits with animals up for adoption. CVHS is always grateful for donations of canned food, cat litter, litter pans, blankets, towels, dog enrichment toys, cat toys and pet-safe ice melt in addition to any monetary gifts.
CVHS was founded 50 years ago after a highly publicized animal abuse case in central Vermont.
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- Title
- Scaling relations of star-forming regions: from kpc-sized clumps to Hii regions
- Author(s)
- Wisnioski, Emily; Glazebrook, Karl; Blake, Chris; Poole, Gregory B.; Green, Andrew W.; Wyder, Ted; Martin, Chris
- Abstract
- We present the properties of eight star-forming regions, or 'clumps,' in three galaxies at z∼ 1.3 from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey, which are resolved with the OH Suppressing InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (OSIRIS) integral field spectrograph. Within turbulent discs, σ∼ 90 km s−1, clumps are measured with average sizes of 1.5 kpc and average Jeans masses of 4.2 × 109 M⊙, in total accounting for 40–60 per cent of the stellar mass of the discs. These findings lend observational support to models that predict larger clumps will form as a result of higher disc velocity dispersions driven-up by cosmological gas accretion. As a consequence of the changes in global environment, it may be predicted that star-forming regions at high redshift should not resemble star-forming regions locally. Yet despite the increased sizes and dispersions, clumps and H ii regions are found to follow tight scaling relations over the range z= 0–2 for Hα size, velocity dispersion, luminosity and mass when comparing >2000 H ii regions locally and 30 clumps at z > 1 (σ∝r0.42 ± 0.03, LHα∝r2.72 ± 0.04, LHα∝σ4.18 ± 0.21 and ). We discuss these results in the context of the existing simulations of clump formation and evolution, with an emphasis on the processes that drive-up the turbulent motions in the interstellar medium. Our results indicate that while the turbulence of discs may have important implications for the size and luminosity of regions which form within them, the same processes govern their formation from high redshift to the current epoch.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 422, no. 4 (Jun 2012), pp. 3339-3355
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
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- Dynamics; Galaxy formation; High-redshift; Hii regions; Kinematics; Star clusters
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Farberware Electric Percolator
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In this age of fancy coffee makers, the enticing sound of percolating coffee and the unmistakable flavor that comes from real fresh-perked joe has become something a rarity. So we brought back this classic electric percolator from Farberware to the delight of many. Constructed from stainless steel, it brews fresh coffee in just minutes and then automatically switches to "keep warm" mode to ensure the last cup tastes as good as the first. The coffee pot also features a stay-cool handle and knob and a detachable 26" cord. In 2-4 cups (approx. 9"tall) or 2-8 cups (approx. 11" tall). UL listed.
- Percolator with stainless steel construction
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The Eastern New Mexico Youth Connection is looking for 1,000 volunteers by the end of July.
Some might say that's a lofty goal and many have expressed that to the chair of the volunteer committee, Christina Martinez-Guajardo, but she's not phased.
"If bigger cities can do it, we can do it. We're more close knit. We're nicer. We care about each other," Martinez-Guajardo said.
The volunteers will work in kindergarten through third grade to help teach more children to read.
In Curry County, Adequate Yearly Progress reports show that in 2010-2011, 61 percent of students are not proficient in reading in elementary school. That number is 43 percent in Roosevelt County.
Martinez-Guajardo said research has shown that if students don't learn to read by the end of the third grade, they're more at risk for things like gang involvement, drugs, violence, teen pregnancy and dropping out of school. Those are the behaviors that the ENMYC was created to combat.
The ENMYC is a coalition between Curry County, Matt 25 Hope Center, ENMR-Plateau, Cannon Air Force Base, Clovis Police Department, Teambuilders Counseling, Curry County Juvenile Justice, United Way of Eastern New Mexico, Clovis Municipal Schools, La Casa Family Health Center, Juvenile Probation and Big Brothers Big Sisters.
The ENMYC was created in January 2010 by Amelia Sandoval, a family services specialist. She attended a gang workshop and learned about gang dynamics and how gangs are evolving and becoming more sophisticated.
Having lived in Clovis for several years, the thought of gang involvement wasn't new, but Sandoval said the workshop opened her eyes and made her realize that Clovis needed to do something about gangs now rather than later.
"I had seen gang involvement in the middle schools," Sandoval said. "The workshop is how I realized that if we don't do something in Clovis, it's going to get progressively worse. It is becoming a danger."
Sandoval called a meeting between as many youth-oriented organizations as she could and they didn't stop meeting. They created a strategic plan and began getting donations for their ventures.
The ventures early on included painting murals over graffiti around town, the most obvious sign of gang presence in a community.
"We're making out own positive graffiti," Martinez-Guajardo said.
The ENMYC has constantly evolved, Sandoval said, and is improving. The program is now divided into four committees focusing on education, youth, non-profits and government. Each committee focuses on how each of those groups can help youth.
• Government — The Clovis police and juvenile probation officers have gone into schools to show their civilian side to the students.
• Non-profits — Focusing on working with volunteers.
• Youth — Gathering youth who see the troubles their peers deal with and can help ENMYC deal with the issues.
• Education — Providing volunteer opportunities in the schools including developing reading programs.
Another goal of the ENMYC is to provide activities for youth in the area. Sandoval said this goal is achieved by each organization supporting each other's events, such as the Cops and Kids Basketball event that took place June 4.
Donations have also paid for sports equipment for youth to play sports together. Sandoval said more volunteers are needed to support such activities.
"We need more people to get involved just for the fact that when there are greater numbers, more support, we can do a lot more and can affect more people," Sandoval said.
TeamBuilders Director Tony Bustos said the organization has been involved in much of the ENMYC planning. They led a renovation of the basement at Matt 25, complete with a mural painted by teens and children.
"It's important for us to work together in our community," Bustos said. "This is us trying to be very proactive in finding things for our kids to do instead of sitting at a table saying there's nothing for our kids to do."
Bustos said Teambuilders targets youth with behavioral health issues and providing the youth with opportunities in the community is an important part of preparing them for their future.
"They may never have had anyone be interested in them or anyone to relate to," he said. "These programs can be very positive."
Sandoval said that many children have siblings or parents who are involved in gangs and the children are never provided a different opportunity.
"We've spoken to children who say that all it took was one adult that was interested in them and their success and that made them want to change. That's why volunteers are so important. It doesn't take a lot for them to affect someone's life."