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Don't forget your dog while gift shopping
They're our dependents who rely on us for food, shelter and good health care. They're not just our best friends; they may be our heads of household, our consiglieri (cue "The Godfather" theme) or our reasons for getting out of bed in the morning -- long before we're ready.
In short, our dogs are our family.
So this holiday season, why not go the extra mile? Give your four-legged kinfolk a holiday basket he'll be sure to not re-gift.
You can customize this basket to suit your buddy's lifestyle. For the road tripper, Muttropolis carries dog car seats, travel bowls, and other clever transportable items. If she treks high-altitude trails, REI offers products for the extreme outdoors dog.
But what are basic items that every dog can use? Let's start with what keeps them coming back: the treats ...
No. 5: The treats
Nothing says Happy Holidays in dog speak better than special treats. Doctors Foster and Smith offer a colorful holiday tub of Claudia's Canine Cuisine gourmet cookies for $9.99 that will fit perfectly into your basket. Thanks to home-style ingredients, the aromas of vanilla- and peanut butter-flavored biscuits and wafers will bring drool to your pooch's jowls.
Your nearest Petco carries its own line of holiday treats such as tasty biscuits and cookies with red and green sprinkles for $5.99. Its paw-shaped container adds a nice touch, making it ready for presentation in your gift basket.
PetSmart also offers a variety of Holiday-themed rawhide treats, everything from candy canes and snow men to reindeer and gingerbread men -- all of them excellent choices for healthy chewing.
But where will you put these treats after the unwrapping ceremony? After all, your pooch can't eat these treats in one sitting (or can she?)
No. 4: The treat jar
With a treat jar, you have ready access to tasty nibbles when pooch performs your favorite trick -- or when she begs until you can't stand it anymore. It also comes in handy for our pet sitters so they don't have to search for biscuits and jerky when we're at work or play.
Just about every pet store carries its own line of treat jars. Even stores that don't cater to pets offer stylish options. Crate and Barrel, for instance, offers the porcelain "Woof" treat jar, with a bone handle for $19.95.
Priced for the Real Housewives (Dogs) of Orange County, Muttropolis offers fancy options made of wood or ceramic ranging from $34 to $57. For pooches in the 99 percent, check out the Great Choice line at PetSmart. Made out of plastic, these bone print containers come in three sizes and cost between $6.79 and $8.49.
Treats. Done. Now let's talk wardrobe. How about those Dodgers (or Yankees, or Cardinals)?
No. 3: Sports gear
If you're a sports fanatic, chances are your pooch is too. After all, yelling at the TV when your team is down 13 points minutes before a game ends would rub off on any dog. Sports gear for your canine means you not only have a loyal pal, but a loyal rally dog too.
Hot Dog Collars has an entire section of sports gear for pets. Keep your pooch warm in below freezing temperatures with a jersey bearing your team's colors for between $9.99 and $15.99.
Choose from leashes, collars, dog bowls, toys and dog tags showing team logos from the NHL, MLB, NFL, NBA or your favorite collegiate team, priced at $6 to $20.
A little searching on the websites of your favorite teams might also lead you to other dog novelties. Be sure to search with keywords "dog" or "pet."
And when Mother Nature calls during a big game?
No. 2: Poop bag dispensers
Walks are the highlights of a dog's day. But rushing to find poop bags right before you leave can cause your pooch to whimper with impatience.
The Four Paws Poo-Kins Dog Waste Pickup Bag Dispenser means you're ready to walk out the door after leashing your dog and putting on your shoes.
Available at Petco.com, this fun dispenser attaches to your dog's leash so it's there when you need it. Available in three styles -- the lion, the monkey and the zebra -- each $7.99 dispenser holds rolls of bags that are durable and colorful. Refills are available for $7.99 for four rolls of 15 bags each.
Petco also carries the Bamboo Waste Bag Dispenser that also attaches to a leash. Scented companion bags contain Arm & Hammer baking soda for natural odor elimination. The large size enables easy tying.
Since this is as sexy as this topic is going to get, let's move on to toys.
No. 1: Toys that don't stand a chance
Our canines are good at convincing us that they're smarter than the average dog. They sit and shake on command and bark at strangers to show that they have our backs.
But at the end of the day, they're furry creatures who'll spend 20 minutes chewing their toys to shreds. That's why holiday toys are a must in every dog's gift basket.
Exclusively at a PetSmart and PetSmart.com: toys by Martha Stewart Pets. Pooch can show his affection for Kris Kringle by sinking his teeth into the Santa flat plush toy, which costs $8.99. After giving that toy a good thrashing, watch him demolish the Gingerbread Man squeak toy, priced at $6.99.
With many more holiday toys on the market, include a bunch of them for added décor in your pup's basket.
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Probiotics to Prevent Colic?
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..but it doesn't make it any easier for parents to cope.
Many are now trying probiotics to try to manage the condition...and prevent the inconsolable crying that accompanies it.
But, new research is mixed on whether these micro-organisms -- that may help with digestion -- help with colic.
A team in Australia reviewed 12 different trials that included more than 18-hundred infants three months or younger...the prime age for colic.
The infants were randomly assigned to receive either oral probiotics or placebo, standard medical treatment or no treatment.
Half of the trials concluded probiotics reduced crying... while the other half did not.
The results were also mixed when researchers compared data for breast-fed versus bottle-fed babies.
Since up to 20% of all infants have colic... the researchers are recommending larger studies be conducted to see if they can get consistent results on whether probiotics help.
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This article should not be considered a substitute for the well-written, thorough instructions given in the FreeBSD Handbook starting at Chapter 12: The X Window System.
Instead, it's more of a field guide from someone who's built far too many X Servers and Windows Managers and has tried countless configuration combinations on a lot of video cards.
Building an X Server is not an exact science; there are a lot of video cards out there, and some build easier than others. You'll want to have a pencil and paper handy: If you luck out, you'll be able to record which combination of monitor, mode, and color depth worked for your video card. If the first combination doesn't work, you'll want to start systematically keeping track of what you've tried until you come across a combination that does. And if you're like me, you'll be glad you've written this down when you decide to change a working configuration to see if you can get just that little extra out of your video card.
To build an X Server, you'll need to have the XFree86 distribution installed. If you're not sure whether you installed this when you installed FreeBSD, try this:
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In the resulting list, you should see a directory called X11R6, which should have a subdirectory called bin.
You also need to know the chipset of your video card. As root, run the
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SuperProbe Version 2.21 (12 October 1999) (c) Copyright 1993,1994 by David Wexelblat <firstname.lastname@example.com> (c) Copyright 1994-1998 by The XFree86 Project, Inc This work is derived from the 'vgadoc2.zip' and 'vgadoc3.zip' documentation packages produced by Finn Thoegersen, and released with all appropriate permissions having been obtained. Additional information obtained from 'Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA, 2nd ed', by Richard Ferraro, and from manufacturer's data books Bug reports are welcome, and should be sent to email@example.com. In particular, reports of chipsets that this program fails to correctly detect are appreciated. Before submitting a report, please make sure that you have the latest version of SuperProbe (see http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ). First video: Super-VGA Chipset: Trident GUI 9680 (PCI Probed) Memory: 1024 Kbytes RAMDAC: Trident Built-In 15/16/24-bit DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
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The memory information is useful in determining which color depth you will choose. Because I only have 1 MB of memory on this video card, I'm limited to 8 or 16 bits per pixel (bpp). If your video card has 2 or 4 MB, you should be able to use 24 bpp; you'll probably need 8 MB for 32 bpp.
I've had a few older video cards for which
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information; this is not a good sign of an easy X Server build. There
is a card option for Unsupported VGA compatible that will build with the
standard VGA monitor, but it looks horrible.
If you are building X Server when you install FreeBSD, you can use Alt-F4 to receive a prompt so you can run SuperProbe. Once you've recorded your information, return to Alt-F1 to continue with the setup utility.
Lastly, if you will be using the graphical X Server configuration utility,
it is easier to configure your mouse beforehand using
Conversely, if you're using the non-graphical configuration utility, it is
easier not to configure your mouse first.
If you've already installed FreeBSD, root can access the graphical X Server configuration utility by either of these methods:
and from there choose Configure, then XFree86, and then XF86Setup
cd /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup
Most video cards support the graphical setup utility, which presents you with a point and click interface. Also, if you highlight a card in the Cards screen, you can use the Read README file button to view the readme document for that chipset.
Some cards don't support the graphical utility; again, this is not a good
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to use the
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Let's assume you've started the graphical configuration utility with a
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card that
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information supplied in the readme document for your video card. For now,
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X Server.
Now comes the part that requires a bit of luck if you've never built this type of video card before: the monitor and modeselection screens. Most newer video cards will run on a combination of Extended Super VGA at 800 x 600 and 16 bpp, so I always try this combination first. If it works, I build a Windows Manager, see if it looks satisfactory, and possibly tweak my settings from there. If it doesn't work, I take a closer look at the video card's readme file for hints, and start recording which combinations I've tried til I hit one that works.
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Once you have built X Server, you'll want to start customizing your
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Matt Chapman's Window Managers site is an excellent resource that provides screenshots of the most popular
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If you like simplicity, configurability, and a clean look to a desktop, Windowmaker and XFCE are good choices. They also perform well on older video cards and computers with as little as 16MB of RAM.
If you have a new video card and lots of RAM and like a desktop with the works, KDE or Gnome was meant for you.
The hardest part of building a Window Manager is deciding which to install. I like to build a new one every month, which gives me time to become acquainted with its features so I can rate it on looks, configurability, and performance. Every Window Manager has its own unique features you'll find you can't live without, as well as some irritating glitches you wish someone would fix.
If you configured your X Server in
/stand/sysinstall, you'll be given the
option to configure your desktop with a choice of KDE, Gnome, Afterstep,
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configure the desktop for root; once it's finished, you can open another
virtual terminal, login as root, and type
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To return to your other virtual terminals, use Ctrl-Alt-Fx where x is the number of the terminal you wish to access. To return to your terminal running X Windows, use Ctrl-Alt-F9. If you have two X Windows desktops running, you'll find the second one hiding at Ctrl-Alt-F10.
The file that contains the command to execute your Windows Manager
.xinitrc. If you type:
more /root/.xinitrc
you'll see that
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i am wondering if i should be pumping at night in order to keep my supply up? it is always up and down so i am worried. I usually wake her to eat around 1 and she gets up around 5-7 on her own. Should i get up at 3 to pump?
i am wondering if i should be pumping at night in order to keep my supply up? it is always up and down so i am worried. I usually wake her to eat around 1 and she gets up around 5-7 on her own. Should i get up at 3 to pump?
Is there a reason you feel your supply is low? How old is your baby?
It's not usually necessary to wake to pump, though some moms do it to get extra milk if they can't pump enough while they are at work. If you can at all avoid it, I would. It's not fun to wake at 3am for any reason, least of all to pump. I'd be more inclined to wake the baby to nurse at that time if you were concerned about your supply. But unless you think baby isn't getting enough (not enough wet diapers, drop in weight, etc) I wouldn't even suggest doing that.
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We've talked about this in the pumping section off and on, but it bears repeating....if you don't HAVE to pump, then don't. There's no need to pump unless you have to. To quote Sarale, "there's too much pumping going on in the world." Funny, but true.
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Hey, thanks for the reply.
My angel is 4 months old yesterday. The only reason i am concerned is that she will eat for like 3-5 mins (sometimes less) and when i flow slows down (more than one suck per gulp) she wants off. I make her take one side like 5-10 times per feeding.
I am a new mom and just realized that a wet diaper is super wet (saturated) not just a little. I think she may not have been getting enough. They were not super wet. Last check up she was in the 15%. down from 24% on month 1. She has an appt tomorrow. The doc has not been worried about her. its just me. I currently dont get up but have been thinking about it. Maybe my supply would increase a little so she would stay on longer that 3 mins. I know have more than one letdown if she works at it but she does not want to. I eventually get tired and put the binky in her mouth so she does not yell.
I dont like waking her because she is not a heavy sleeper and does not like napping even when she is tired and cranky.
The best way to increase your supply, if you're concerned, is to offer your breast more frequently. And I agree with Paige and others who said don't pump unless you need to. I often had to to get enough milk for the next day, but if i hadn't had to i would have been inclined to either do a dream feed or just sleep through. My son's always been a quick eater, so i just always offered more often. Are you cosleeping? Lots of Mamas here find it more restful for themselves and baby because neither one of you really have to actually wake up to nurse at night.
Julia and Maxwell (and Dan and Haddie)
Maxwell, born January 3, 2010
A year on Mama's milk and still loving it
It's normal for babies to start sleeping a longer stretch at night, which usually doesn't cause any problems with supply or weight gain. If you're concerned about her weight, you might try offering to nurse a couple extra times during the day. She may not be interested, but it couldn't hurt!
She had an appointment today? How did it go?
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She is now up to 12lbs 6oz which is 23%. She looks great and up to 69% in length. I really love that! She is growing. I think we have been doing better than before. Guess i will just keep feeding her on demand and offer her the breast until she is mad.. than switch sides. I just dont like to make her frustrated.
She does not want to sleep with me. Will fuss until i put her in her bed than she sleeps Been trying to "train" her but it has not been working. She will not sleep until i put her back.
I'm glad that things are going better for you!
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I am pumping exclusively for my 2 month old son, and did the same for my daughter. Well, a few weeks ago my husband ran over my Medela Pump In Style with the car!!! Luckily the whole thing pulled through except for my flanges, so I went to buy new ones. I got them in a 30mm because it seemed like my 27's were making my nipples swollen at times. Now I have been using these 30mm's for a few weeks and my left areola has a big red lump on it. It does not seem like a clogged duct though. You know those tiny little red bumps that are naturally around the nipple, on the areola? Well it looks like one of those has been rubbed raw and the whole area around it is swollen to the size of a small grape. It is very painful, and shooting, burning sensations through my whole breast, and down my left arm are making it very uncomfortable. I have tried lanolin. Could it be that the flanges are too large? Please help, I am in pain. Also, I pump 8-9 times a day and get a ton of milk. With each pumping I get approx. 6-7 ozs. so as you can imagine my freezer looks like a dairy farm. I realize that fresh milk is better for the baby so I give him fresh most of the day and then try to use up 6 ozs a day of frozen. My question is this, can I lower the amount of times I pump per day or is this a bad idea? I would hate to lower my milk supply too much and not be able to keep up with my son's eating habits. If I do try to lower the number of pumping times in a day, and the milk supply is inadequate, will my supply go back up if I resume the 8-9 times per day schedule?
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Home List of Titles AB-plot assisted determination of fluorophore mixtures in a fluorescence lifetime microscope using spectra or quenchers
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/94156
- Title
- AB-plot assisted determination of fluorophore mixtures in a fluorescence lifetime microscope using spectra or quenchers
- Author(s)
- Hanley, Q. S.; Clayton, A. H. A.
- Abstract
- Most treatments of frequency domain lifetime measurements indicate that a set of measurements must be made at multiple frequencies in order to determine the lifetimes of the components in a mixture. Although this is the case in general, under special conditions, single-frequency data can resolve multiple lifetimes. Here, data are presented showing several approaches to determining fluorescence lifetimes in two-component mixtures using single-frequency data. Common to all of the procedures presented is exploitation of variations in the relative contributions of a particular fluorophore to the total fluorescence from a mixture of fluorophores. This variation can be produced intentionally by observing a number of samples which contain different relative amounts of the fluorophores. It can be produced fortuitously by observing spatial variations in a mixture of fluorophores in a specimen or set of specimens observed with a lifetime imaging system. It can also be produced by examination of the lifetime spectrum obtained from a fluorophore mixture or by varying the concentration of a quencher in a fluorophore mixture, in which the two fluorophores have different rate constants for quenching. In many instances, the set of approaches presented here will be unsuitable for examination of arbitrary samples of unknown composition for which the multifrequency approach should be used. However, measurements produced using single-frequency methods may be applied to good effect for controlled experiments having defined fluorophores or sets of fluorophores, particularly in the case of biological lifetime imaging studies.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Journal of Microscopy, Vol. 218, no. 1 (Apr 2005), pp. 62-67
- Publication year
- 2005
- FOR Code(s)
- 0204 Condensed Matter Physics; 0912 Materials Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- AB plot; FLIM; Fluorescein; Fluorescence microscopy; Global analysis; Image analysis; Multicomponent analysis; Quenching; sFLIM; rhodamine B
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- 0022-2720
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- Copyright © 2005 The Royal Microscopical Society.
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Maruti Suzuki February auto sales number is at 96650 units Vs 79190 units every month its kind of hitting the highest number of auto sold,This includes 11,885 units of exports.The company sold 84,765 units in the domestic market, This is also the highest ever domestic sales made in a month.
Bajaj Auto
February bike sales stood up 80% (YoY) at 2.35 lakh units and total sales stood up 75% to 2,70,000 units.Bajaj Auto saw 100% Motorcycle sales growth as against industry growth of 35%. Pulsar sales stood at 65,000 units in February, Discover sales stood at 90,000 units, Platina sales stood at 45,000 units and Boxer sales stood at 35,000 units.Bajaj Auto two wheeler sales stood at 2,34710 units in February 2010, up 80%.
M&M total sales stood at 27,894 units Vs 19,994 units. Auto exports stood at 1314 units Vs 300 units. Tractor sales stood at 13,920 units Vs 9,123 units. Tractor exports stood at 780 units Vs 244 units.
Hero Honda
Hero Honda February total sales stood at 3.82 lakh units Vs 3.29 lakh units (YoY).
Tata Motors
Tata Motor's domestic sales increased 56% at 66,190 vehicles compared to 42,493 sold in February 2009, while exports came in at 3,237 vehicles, up 146%. Its commercial vehicles segment recorded highest ever sales clocked by the company, which grew 67% at 39,205 units versus 23,493 units sold in February 2009. LCV sales too were up 49% at 21,764 units—highest ever for the company. Medium and heavy commercial vehicle sales stood at 17,441 units, a growth of 98% over February last year.The passenger vehicles business reported a total sale and distribution offtake of 29,241 units (26,985 Tata + 2,256 Fiat) in the domestic market in February 2010, the highest ever and a 43.7% increase compared to 20,348 units (19,039 Tata + 1,309 Fiat) in February last year.
Hyundai Motor
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Water takes on even more importance in the High Plains, where agriculture is one of the leading businesses.
By Claire Bushey
The question of how much water is left in the eastern New Mexico area has bedeviled politicians and business owners, scientists and ordinary consumers for decades. The answer is still unknown.
New Mexico-American Water Co. officials have said they are prepared to provide eastern New Mexico with water through 2040. But Clovis Mayor David Lansford said the area could be out of water in 16 years.
A report from the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer stated that in 1995 Curry County depleted the Ogallala Aquifer — the region's main water source — by 206,898 acre feet of water, or more than 67 trillion gallons.
A July 2000 regional water plan put out by the Eastern Plains Council of Governments estimated the region's water supply was good for more than 30 years, if we continue to use it at the same rate.
The plan uses information taken from the state engineer. It estimates the aquifer has about 35 years of life left in Curry County southeast of Clovis, and 33 years in Roosevelt County east of Portales.
Lansford said he based his calculations on numbers from a hydrologist hired by Duke Energy when that company was researching whether to build a plant in Clovis.
According to the Duke study, there are 725,000 acre feet of water in the Ogallala Aquifer within a 10-mile radius of New Mexico-American Water's wells. One acre foot is about 326,000 gallons, so there are more than 236 billion gallons of water in that 10-mile radius.
Between municipal and agricultural demand, the region uses 45,000 acre feet per year. Dividing the supposed supply by the current demand shows there are about 16 years of water left for the region.
"As long as current usage stays the same, water company figures are optimistic," Lansford said.
Kathy Wright, vice president and manager of New Mexico-American Water Co., said she is not familiar with the Duke study, only with its conclusion, which New Mexico-American officials dispute.
"David and I have had this conversation, and we can't say which one is right," she said.
No one debates the aquifer is being drained faster than it is being replenished.
Rainfall alone replenishes the Ogallala, said Paul Saavedra, director of water rights for New Mexico. Lee Tillman, executive director of Eastern Plains Council of Governments, said the aquifer decreases between 1 and 3 feet annually and is recharged at less than one-fourth of an inch each year.
"Just like a mine gets played out, so does an aquifer," said Associate Professor Phil King, a water resources engineer at New Mexico State University.
The water flow from New Mexico-American Water's wells has decreased since the company began providing the region with water in 1986, said Director of Communications Kevin Tilden. Thirty wells supply 17.03 million gallons of water per day to the Clovis area. But in the mid-1990s, the company only operated 24 wells to produce the same volume of water, Tilden said.
In February 2001, the water company purchased new water rights to 4,500 acres in southern Curry County, Tilden said. Company officials made the decision to buy the land because eight months of research by a hydrologist showed the water supply was shifting in that direction.
The new wells the company plans to drill on its new land will serve the area for the next 30 to 40 years, Tilden said. After that, the company and the state engineer's office will have to examine other options, including using the Ute Reservoir, a Quay County reservoir built in the early 1960s, to meet future water needs.
"A lot of it depends on the (planned pipeline from) Ute Reservoir," Tilden said. "If that comes through it solves a lot of problems. If it doesn't, we have to look at other options."
Those options may present themselves sooner than the water company anticipates if Mayor Lansford's estimate is closer to the truth.


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Home List of Titles Three-dimensional write-read-erase memory bits by femtosecond laser pulses in photorefractive LiNbO3 crystals
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- Three-dimensional write-read-erase memory bits by femtosecond laser pulses in photorefractive LiNbO3 crystals
- Author(s)
- Gamaly, Eugene G.; Juodkazis, Saulius; Mizeikis, Vygantas; Misawa, Hiroaki; Rode, Andrei V.; Krolikowski, Wieslaw Z.; Kitamura, Kenji
- Abstract
- We report on a three-dimensional single-shot optical recording by 150 fs pulses at 800 nm wavelength in Fe-doped and stoichiometric undoped LiNbO3. The highest refractive index modulation of ∼10−3 per single pulse has been achieved at close to the dielectric breakdown irradiance of ∼TW/cm2, and was found to be independent of polarization of the writing beam. The quasi-permanent and rewritable bits have been demonstrated in Fe-doped LiNbO3. Recording in undoped stoichiometric LiNbO3 was of transient nature with full optical contrast recovery on a 0.1-1 s scale. The observed refractive index modulation is explainable by the photovoltaic effect in LiNbO3.
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- Journal article
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- Current Applied Physics: proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN-3), Wellington, New Zealand, 11-16 February 2007, Vol. 8, no. 3-4 (May 2008), pp. 416-419
- Publication year
- 2008
- FOR Code(s)
- 01 Mathematical Sciences; 02 Physical Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Femtosecond laser microfabrication; Lithium niobate; Photovoltaic effect; Three-dimensional optical memory
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- Elsevier
- 1567-1739
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What's the purpose of free agency?
For different teams, it can certainly vary, but overall, the biggest purpose of free agency is to restock a team before the draft. We talk draft needs all the time, right? Well, why go into the draft with multiple urgent needs if it's going to force your hand in taking a player you need over a better player you might want?
It's like a crafty better in Vegas hedging their bets.
For teams with new coaches or personnel guys, free agency can also be a chance to bring in some of "your" guys—players who know the system and the terminology and can not only play a role, but also pitch in by teaching the rest of the team. Rest assured that any time a new coach takes over, he's looking down the available free-agent list, connecting the dot to anyone who's been connected to the same coaching tree.
Free agency also gives teams a shot at positions they might believe they can't get at a premium in the draft. Targeting a quarterback in the first round? He'll need receivers, but the receivers at the top of Round 2 might not be quite as enticing as free agents. Plus, when May rolls around, it's always possible to grab a receiver there anyway if one falls.
Free agency is an exciting time of the offseason, and the teams that manage it well year in and year out set themselves up well not only for the draft, but for seasons after. Make a mistake—especially a big-money one—and it could end up costing numerous people their jobs.
For my Top 100, I didn't just rank the "best" players. Instead, I considered long-term impact on potential new teams. For some, that means that age was a deciding factor. For others, versatility gave them a boost.
Players were also downgraded for various "red flags," like injury history (especially recent injury history), character issues, suspensions and inconsistency.
Every player acquisition in the NFL comes down to a risk/reward scenario. What I've done here is ranked players by their reward (i.e. their ability to help a team win football games), hedged against any risk they might bring to the table for a number of real or perceived reasons.
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1. Miami Heat (2-2)
Another early season championship hangover. Move along. Nothing to see here. (Photo by Issac Baldizon/NBAE via Getty Images)
2. Indiana Pacers (3-0)
Indiana is getting it done like it always does – with defense and rebounding. It also helps that Roy Hibbert is averaging almost five blocks per game. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
3. Houston Rockets (3-0)
A 26-rebound debut? Welcome to Houston, Dwight. (Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images)
4. San Antonio Spurs (2-1)
Tony Parker is averaging 18 points, eight assists and 33.3 minutes per game – all team highs. This is his team now. (Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images)
5. Los Angeles Clippers (2-1)
Through three games, Chris Paul was leading the NBA in points (27.7) and assists (12.0). He's in store for an MVP-caliber year. (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)
6. Oklahoma City Thunder (2-1)
The Thunder were last in the league in assists through two games. Russell Westbrook will change that. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
7. Golden State Warriors (2-1)
Scoring is nice, but sharing is better. The Warriors lead the league with 29.3 assists per game. (Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images)
8. Minnesota Timberwolves (3-0)
When Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio are both healthy, this is a different team. A very different team. (Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)
9. Chicago Bulls (1-2)
Derrick Rose looks rusty – he's shooting just .288 from the floor – but he'll be back to his old self soon enough. Hopefully. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)(Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
10. Brooklyn Nets (1-2)
Brooklyn beat the Heat but lost to Cleveland and Orlando. Hmm... (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
11. Dallas Mavericks (2-1)
Monta Ellis shot just 12-of-33 (.364) in back-to-back games against Memphis and Houston. Luckily, the Mavs were able to win one of them. (Photo by Glenn James/NBAE via Getty Images)
12. Memphis Grizzlies (1-2)
Where's the defense? The Grizzlies rank 27th in the league in points per game allowed (106.7). (Photo by Glenn James/NBAE via Getty Images)
13. Portland Trail Blazers (2-1)
LaMarcus Aldridge and Damian Lillard – both of whom are averaging 25+ points per game – have Portland off to a great start. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
14. New York Knicks (1-2)
The Knicks held their first two opponents – Milwaukee and Chicago – to 83 and 81 points, respectively. Then they allowed 109 to Minnesota. That's more like it. (Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)(Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)
15. Los Angeles Lakers (2-2)
The season-opening win over the Clippers may have been fool's gold, as the Lakers lost by 31 to the Warriors the very next night. Consistency will be an issue this season. (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images)
16. Toronto Raptors (2-1)
The Raptors are leading the NBA in rebounds and have four players – DeMar DeRozan, Rudy Gay, Kyle Lowry and Amir Johnson – averaging at least 12.3 points per game. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
17. Detroit Pistons (2-1)
Greg Monroe has been Detroit's best player so far. That's not good. (Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)
18. Philadelphia 76ers (3-0)
If we're not selling the Heat at 2-2, why buy the Sixers at 3-0? (Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)
19. New Orleans Pelicans (1-2)
It's only three games, but Anthony Davis leads New Orleans in points (23.7), rebounds (12.3), steals (2.7) and blocks (4.0). That's pretty impressive; it's also not necessarily a good thing. (Photo by Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images)
20. Atlanta Hawks (1-2)
Led by Jeff Teague, the Hawks have six players averaging double figures. But can this team make the playoffs? (Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images)
21. Denver Nuggets (0-2)
At 48 rebounds per game – third-best in the NBA – the Nuggets are getting it done on the glass, just not the win column. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
22. Orlando Magic (2-2)
When your top scorers are Arron Afflalo, Jameer Nelson and Nikola Vucevic, you know it's going to be a long season. (Photo by Fernando Medina/NBAE via Getty Images)
23. Phoenix Suns (2-1)
The Suns' top five scorers are Eric Bledsoe (20), Goran Dragic (15.5), Miles Plumlee (15.5), P.J. Tucker (15) and Dionte Christmas (9). This team has no chance of competing. (Photo by Layne Murdoch Jr./NBAE via Getty Images)
24. Cleveland Cavaliers (1-2)
Not a great start for Kyrie Irving, who's shooting .340 percent from the floor (17-of-50) and .125 (1-of-8) from three-point range. (Photo by Kent Smith/NBAE via Getty Images)
25. Sacramento Kings (1-2)
DeMarcus Cousins has been great so far – team-highs in points (20.7), rebounds (10.3), steals (2.7) and blocks (1.3) – but let's see how he reacts when the osses pile. (Photo by Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images)
26. Charlotte Bobcats (1-2)
Can't score (28th in the league), can't rebound (26th), can't pass (27th). Hello, lottery. (Photo by Layne Murdoch Jr./NBAE via Getty Images)
27. Milwaukee Bucks (1-2)
The Bucks, with six players averaging between 10 and 13 points, have a lot of so-so players – certainly no great ones, and very few good ones. (Photo by Mike McGinnis/Getty Images)
28. Washington Wizards (0-3)
John Wall has made three three-pointers this year. He made just three in all of 2011-12. (Photo by Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images)
29. Boston Celtics (0-3)
With Rajon Rondo (knee) out for the foreseeable future, it's going to get ugly this year. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
30. Utah Jazz (0-3)
Utah's leading scorer at 18 points per game? Alec Burks, ladies and gentlemen. Alec Burks. (Photo by Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE via Getty Images)
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Home List of Titles PSR J1856+0245: arecibo discovery of a young, energetic pulsar coincident with the TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1857+026
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- PSR J1856+0245: arecibo discovery of a young, energetic pulsar coincident with the TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1857+026
- Author(s)
- Hessels, Jason W.; Nice, David J.; Gaensler, Bryan M.; Kaspi, Victoria M.; Lorimer, Duncan R.; Champion, David J.; Lyne, Andrew G.; Kramer, Michael; Cordes, James M.; Freire, Paulo C. C.; Camilo, Fernando; Ransom, Scott M.; Deneva, Julia S.; Bhat, N. D. R.; Cognard, I.; Crawford, Fronefield; Jenet, Fredrick A.; Kasian, Laura; Lazarus, Patrick; van Leeuwen, Joeri; McLaughlin, Maura A.; Stairs, Ingrid H.; Stappers, Benjamin W.; Venkataraman, Arun
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- We present the discovery of the Vela-like radio pulsar J1856+0245 in the Arecibo PALFA survey. PSR J1856+0245 has a spin period of 81 ms, a characteristic age of 21 kyr, and a spin-down luminosity (E) over dot = 4.6 x 10(36) ergs s(-1). It is positionally coincident with the TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1857+026, which has no other known counterparts. Young, energetic pulsars create wind nebulae, and more than a dozen pulsar wind nebulae have been associated with very high energy ( 100 GeV-100 TeV) gamma-ray sources discovered with the HESS telescope. The gamma-ray emission seen from HESS J1857+026 is potentially produced by a pulsar wind nebula powered by PSR J1856+0245; faint X-ray emission detected by ASCA at the pulsar's position supports this hypothesis. The inferred gamma-ray efficiency is epsilon(gamma) = L-gamma/(E) over dot = 3.1 % (1-10 TeV, for a distance of 9 kpc), comparable to that observed in similar associations.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 682, no. 1 (Jul 2008), pp. L41-L44
- Publication year
- 2008
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; 020105 General Relativity and Gravitational Waves
- Keyword(s)
- AX J185651+0245; Emission; Galactic plane survey; Gamma rays; Individual pulsars; J1813-178; Neutron stars; Observations; PSR J1856+0245; Pulsars; Supernova remnant; Vela-x; XMM-Newton observations; X-rays; Wind nebulae
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
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- Copyright © 2008 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
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Soren Bowie is on assignment in the jungles of South America. Filling in for him today is Los Angeles based writer Joe Donatelli.
At some point, your appendix was vital to your survival. Well, not yours in particular. Yours is useless. But humanity's collective appendix was an evolutionary advancement that kept the species alive. The trouble with evolution, however, is that it's painfully slow. Sometimes long after the threat is gone the solution still lingers, wasting space and getting in the way. The following are four metaphorical appendixes we're still forced to deal with daily despite how annoying they might be. At one point each of these social evolutionary steps was the glue to our civilization, but we've come a long way since then, and now they're just sort of annoying.
4Women Take Forever to Leave Parties
Let me preface this by saying that it comes from first-hand experience. I have a lot of time to think about how women take forever to leave parties because I spend a lot of time standing in doorways watching my wife and her friends take forever to leave parties.
"Wait, there might be someone in the bathroom I haven't said goodbye to."
Women say goodbye to the host, to their friends, to people they've met that night and even to strangers. In fact, when it comes to strangers, the saying of goodbye often becomes the saying of hello, which leads to the conversation they should have had during the party, which goes on for minutes, which finally ends with a second goodbye.
With her friends, it's not enough to say goodbye. Compliments are exchanged. Promises of phone calls and emails are made. Dates are set for future rendezvous. Goodbye is not just goodbye. Goodbye is "I love you and goodbye and let's plan when we're going to see each other again and goodbye again."
"My boyfriend is already in the car. We've got another half hour of nitrous balloons until he gets pissed."
For those of you keeping track, that's two goodbyes apiece for friends and strangers, plus more planning than took place before the Yalta Conference. Finally, 20 or 30 minutes after my wife and I had the "Ready to go?" conversation that all couples have before leaving parties, we go.
When I'm at a party with my friends, I do the polite thing: I thank the host and leave. I do not say goodbye to anyone else unless they meet one of the following requirements: 1) They have been my best friend since we were 5 years old 2) They are dying and if I say goodbye now it will save me a trip to the hospital later.
I then drive home safely.
Passing out at parties is harder when you have to find couch space for a second person.
When I leave a party with my wife I get in the car and mash the pedal so hard our windshield looks like the Millennium Falcon making the jump to light speed because I was ready to leave an hour ago and want to get the hell home now. Meanwhile she's in the passenger seat on the phone calling all of the people from the party she didn't get a chance to say goodbye to.
There might be a very good scientific reason for our diametrically opposed goodbye techniques.
In research published by Daniel Balliet, Norman P. Li, Shane J. Macfarlan and Mark Van Vugt of the American Psychological Association in Psychological Bulletin, men cooperate better with other men than women cooperate with other women. Researchers reviewed 272 studies containing 31,642 participants in 18 countries. Each study contained one social dilemma. In a social dilemma experiment, two or more people must choose between short-term self-interest and long-term group interest. The research revealed that women were more likely to cooperate when men were involved and women were less cooperative than men in same-sex situations.
"We'll get right back to those Q3 numbers once Sandra closes her giant,
gaping vagina to every man in a three-block radius."
This reminds me of the BBC's Walking with Cavemen, a documentary that featured a shocking amount of caveman dong and also explained how cavemen lived. The men walked together. They hunted together. They scouted together. They fought in war together. It was in their interests to get along. The cavemen from the documentary were just like the guys from Entourage, with the main exception being that Vincent Chase is the only caveman dong on that show.
In the documentary, when a female named "Lucy" joined the group, she took a fancy to the alpha male in the group. The females, naturally, hated her guts and said things like "oog" (translation: "She's fat") and "ghuh" ("I hear she is on drugs") and "pit" ("Slut") and "pit-pit" ("Total slut").
You don't even want to know what "sloog" means.
Lucy was ostracized by the females until the alpha female took Lucy under her wing in an attempt to keep her away from the alpha male. Because things like convents and boarding schools and Cheaters had yet to be invented, the alpha female eventually discovered Lucy and the alpha male overcoming their third-date jitters next to a boulder.
Eventually Lucy would die of random bludgeoning (random bludgeoning being the No. 1 cause of death in those days), but not before she gave birth to the alpha male's baby, forcing the females in the group to choose between legitimizing the baby by raising it or leaving it to die with its slutty mother, therein providing the inspiration for the first Lifetime original movie.
Lucy would go on to have a lucrative career as a corpse.
Evolutionary psychologists believe we are at least partly who we are today because of who we were on the savannah thousands of years ago. They say men are wired to accumulate resources and procreate and women are wired to compete for men. Of course, in the civilized world, we're beyond that now. Women don't depend on men solely for resources and can have a child without one. But their internal wiring was put in back when being labeled a bitch might be a death sentence.
So why do women take forever to leave parties? Maybe it's because, deep down, they have evolutionary trust issues. A woman isn't just saying goodbye at parties. She's subconsciously saying, "We're cool, right?" "We don't hate each other, right?" She's covering her bases because she knows that if she slights even one woman in the room, that woman could spend the rest of the party calling her a "pit-pit."
3Men Throw Money at Sex, But Not the Way You're Thinking
Have you ever wondered why cocktail waitresses wear skimpy outfits? It's not because we all want to see some old showgirl's muffin top. It's because men are more likely to risk money when they're thinking about mating. This doesn't just happen in Las Vegas. Pharmaceutical companies hire former college cheerleaders as sales reps. High-end restaurants hire good-looking waitresses. Fitness centers are managed by gorgeous women. Sex sells. It sells because, when it comes to money, men normally exhibit a behavior called "loss aversion."
"I'll buy the house, but only if it comes with tits."
Loss aversion is the tendency to choose avoiding losses over acquiring gains. Loss aversion in men is reduced, according to researchers led by Arizona State professor Douglas Kenrick, when a man is looking for a mate.
Said one author of the study, "For men in a mating frame of mind, loss aversion completely disappeared and they became more focused on wins than losses. For women, on the other hand, mating motivation led them to be even more loss averse, to focus less on possible gains and even more on the pain of loss."
Of course. Reproductive decisions are more costly for females; they pay the higher costs of pregnancy and nursing.
We're not sure what's going on here, but we know it's easier than a C-section.
When researchers put subjects in a more "self-protective" frame of mind, men and women became more loss averse. This could explain why so many people do not spend money in a bad economy even when they have money to spend.
According to evolutionary researchers, natural selection has endowed modern humans with a psychology that encourages us to make decisions that increase the likelihood that our genes will survive, thrive and replicate.
Which is why you don't see so many pocket protectors these days.
What does that mean, in terms of money? It means men are more likely to spend money when sex is on the mind. Women are less loss averse when mating is not a factor; think of the older, married woman on a shopping spree. Fewer people invest in the stock market during hard times, even though that's when they should. Also, all of the hot young staffers chasing congressmen around Capitol Hill could explain why the country is broke.


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This week's "Photo of the Week" comes to us from Eric Bridiers with U.S. Mission Geneva and shows participants in the roundtable on non-communicable disease (NCDs) targets and indicators.
The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), U.S. Mission Geneva, and the Mission of Panama co-hosted this roundtable to discuss the development of targets and indicators for the prevention and control of NCDs. U.S. Ambassador Betty E. King delivered opening remarks where she pointed out that the United States is "strongly committed to raising profile of NCDs as a major global public health concern" as NCDs account for 70 percent of U.S. deaths and limits the daily activities of nearly 10 percent of the U.S. population. She reminded the audience, which included civil society, private sector representatives, and fellow UN diplomats, that "NCDs are truly a global problem and will require action from each of us to turn the tide." The audience also heard from Dr. John Seffrin, CEO of the American Cancer Society; Mr. Michel Rudolphie, CEO of the Dutch Cancer Society; Ambassador Jessie Solano de Marach of Panama; and Dr. Oleg Chestnov, Assistant Director-General for NCDs and Mental Health at the World Health Organization.
Ambassador King went on to say, "Communities, civil society organizations and the private sector each have important roles to play, collaborating with governments, in a clear and transparent manner, to identify and implement solutions to NCDs. The United States continues to be strongly committed to raising the profile of NCDs as a major global public health concern. We look forward to completing the important work of establishing the global monitoring framework and global action plan, and together to reach the global targets on NCDs."
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I can glimpse that mural everyday. And that picture you took? When I
close my eyes and imagine it, that's exactly what I see.
A huge shame -- because I'm normally scrambling in the mornings, I've
never stopped to take the time and talk to anybody and get the story
behind the mural. Clearly, somebody knows something about it
(probably the sentinel you caught in your photo). Someday, I will get
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- Title
- An imaging study of the globular cluster systems of NGC 1407 and 1400
- Author(s)
- Forbes, Duncan A.; Sanchez-Blazquez, Patricia; Phan, Anna T. T.; Brodie, Jean P.; Strader, Jay; Spitler, Lee R.
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- We present wide-field Keck telescope imaging of the globular cluster (GC) systems around NGC 1407 and 1400 in the Eridanus galaxy cloud. This is complemented by Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images from the Advanced Camera for Surveys of NGC 1407 and Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 images of NGC 1400. We clearly detect bimodality in the GC colour distribution of NGC 1407. The blue GC subpopulation has a mean colour of B - I = 1.61 and a relative contribution of around 40 per cent, whereas the red subpopulation with B - I = 2.06 contributes 60 per cent to the overall GC system. Assuming old ages, this corresponds to [Fe/H] = -1.45 and -0.19. Both subpopulations are intrinsically broad in colour (indicating a range in ages and/or metallicities), with the red subpopulation being broader than the blue. The GC colour distribution for NGC 1400 is less clear cut than for NGC 1407, however, we also find evidence for a bimodal distribution. We find the NGC 1407 red GCs to be 20 per cent smaller in size than the blue ones. This is consistent with the expectations of mass segregation in an old coeval GC system. Half a dozen large objects (20-40 pc), with GC-like colours are identified, which are probably background galaxies. The HST data sets allow us to probe to small galactocentric radii. Here we find both GC systems to possess a GC surface density distribution which is largely constant in these inner galaxy regions. We fit isothermal-like profiles and derive GC system core radii of 9.4 kpc for NGC 1407 and 5.8 kpc for NGC 1400. For NGC 1407 we are able to separate the surface density distribution into blue and red subpopulations, giving 17.8 and 7.6 kpc, respectively. Outside this central region, the radial profile of the GC surface density is similar to that of the galaxy light for NGC 1407 but it is flatter for NGC 1400. The mean GC magnitude appears to be constant with galactocentric radius. We find that for both galaxies, the GC systems have a similar ellipticity and azimuthal distribution as the underlying galaxy starlight. A fit to the GC luminosity function gives a distance modulus of 31.6, which is in good agreement with distances based on the Faber-Jackson relation and the Virgo infall corrected velocity.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 366, no. 4 (2006), p. 1230-1242
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- 2006
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- Galaxy evolution; Galaxies; M104; Galaxy star clusters
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Bummer: New Science Shows Greenland Ice Loss Much Less Than Warmists Computer Models Show
One of the foundation talking points from Disciples of Gore is that Greenland's ice will melt and all of mankind will die (which is an interesting talking point of hysteria since Warmists also want the human population of Earth to be vastly reduced). Warmists always refuse to remember and talk about Vikings having settled Greenland and become an agrarian society during the warm period that preceded the Little Ice Age. But, you know, science
(The Register) A new analysis of data from dedicated satellites shows that one of the main factors predicted to drive rising sea levels in future has been seriously overestimated, with major implications for climate talks currently underway in Doha.
Using that new method, the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE), we find
According to a Princeton statement highlighting the new research:
While overall ice loss on Greenland consistently increased between 2003 and 2010, Harig and Simons found that it was in fact very patchy from region to region.
In addition, the enhanced detail of where and how much ice melted allowed the researchers to estimate that the annual acceleration in ice loss is much lower than previous research has suggested, roughly increasing by 8 billion tons every year. Previous estimates were as high as 30 billion tons more per year.
Wait, Warmists were exaggerating? They'd never do that, right? Or was it that they were just making it up as they went along?
In other words the possible acceleration in ice losses is barely perceptible: it may not really be happening at all. Similar results were seen not long ago in GRACE data for central Asian mountain glaciers, another suggested source for sea-level rises.
But, just in case it is happening, Warmists really need to make their lives "carbon neutral". Act like it's a crisis. More from the study
At current melt rates, the Greenland ice sheet would take about 13,000 years to melt completely, which would result in a global sea-level rise of more than 21 feet (6.5 meters).
Everybody pani……oh. Anyhow, Warmists should immediately cut their fossil fuel usage in half. Bike to work. Walk. No, I don't care if it's 30 miles. We're talking about saving Gaia.
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By Tom Philpott: PNT columnist
It was higher oil prices last year that led to the largest annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to federal entitlements since 1982. Good thing, too.
Lowered oil prices since then are almost certain to block any COLA this year for military retirees, federal civilian retirees, Social Security recipients, survivor benefit annuitants or disabled veterans.
The expected COLA "goose egg" will be the first since Congress began to adjust federal entitlements automatically using inflation rates as tracked by Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
This year the cost of goods and services nationwide has fallen. No inflation means no COLA. What happened?
"Gas prices," said Malik Crawford, an economist at BLS headquarters in Washington D.C.
The federal COLA is based each year on the average change in the cost of a market basket of goods and services from the third quarter (July through September) one year to the third quarter of the next year. Through July, the cost of living for U.S. wage earners has fallen by 2.7 percent.
"That's huge," said Crawford.
Though fuel prices are just one item given "small official weight" in the entire market basket tracked by BLS, Crawford said, "they have an outrageous impact" on prices overall because transportation costs affect the cost of everything else needing transport to market.
"It's not like gas prices are great" now for consumers, said Crawford. "They are almost back up to $3 (a gallon). But they are still a full dollar below where they were last year. To go from $4 to $3 is a 25 percent fall. You go 25 percent down (in gas prices) and you're down 2.7 percent (overall). … That's how the math plays out."
If prices climb sharply, is a COLA still possible? Unlikely, said Crawford. Price data are in already for most of August, he explained. Only a spectacular spike in September, which is highly unlikely, could trigger a COLA effective Dec. 1 and payable in January.
"Israel would literally have to attack Saudi Arabia for that to happen," Crawford said. "And I mean like bomb them, not just threaten."
The COLA last December was 5.8 percent, largest in nearly three decades. To get that, Crawford said, federal retirees and social security recipients "really lucked out. … Gas prices peaked in the third quarter last year."
If no COLA is paid to Social Security recipients, said Dan Moraski, spokesman for the Social Security Administration, the law would protect many of them from an increase in Medicare Part B premiums in January.
He said a "hold harmless" provision in the Medicare law would exempt about 75 percent from paying higher Part B premiums in any year in which Social Security pay is unchanged. The 25 percent not eligible for premium protection are individuals with modified adjusted gross incomes above $85,000 or couples with adjusted gross incomes of $170,000.


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In the last four games, they have managed to rack up a 3-1 record, with that single loss coming off an exciting overtime thriller that saw the 'Horns come from behind, and their opponent, San Diego, make a last-second three-point shot to send the game into overtime.
Since that loss on Jan. 28, the 'Horns upped their play and avenged an earlier district loss to Odem to handily beat them at home, 57-47 on Jan. 31.
They traveled to Skidmore-Tynan Feb. 4 and were again victorious, 71-53. Scoring was as follows: J. Blevens with 18, K. Mircovich with 15, M. Moore & M. Martinez with eight each, J. Ferrell with seven, G. Feist with six, D. Rhodes with four, W. Wasicek with two, and M. Ellett with one.
Next up, the team hosted Taft, who holds sole possession of first place in the district, on Feb. 7.
The 'Horns knew the importance of this game and came out ready to play. After two quarters, the 'Horns were up, 30-18. Although Taft attempted a comeback by outscoring GW in the last quarter, it wasn't enough and the 'Horns walked away with the win, 60-52.
Coach Alvarez was satisfied with the intensity his players brought and he was very proud of the team effort.
The high scorer was Josey Blevens with 24 points. Other players contributing were Jeremiah Ferrell with 14, Kody Mircovich with 10, Matt Martinez, Mason Moore and Hunter Pipkin with four each, and Darren Rhodes with two. The 'Horns will close out their regular season in Freer on Feb. 11.
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Hoekstra is First Monday speaker November 1
October 22, 2010
Dr. Erik Hoekstra, provost at Dordt College, will speak on the topic, "Leading as Serving—Not a Contradiction in Terms," Monday, Nov. 1, at 11 a.m. in Dordt's B.J. Haan Auditorium. This First Monday speaker presentation is open to the public.
Dr. Hoekstra has co-authored several publications on coaching, delegation, servant leadership, and change management, and his professional background includes roles in leadership development, executive coaching, organizational consulting, industrial construction, wholesale distribution and retail management, as well as teaching business courses at Dordt.
"Learning to lead as a Christian can be a dangerous and confusing business," says Hoekstra. "What we've assumed all along about how best to lead and why we seek to lead can often move us away from following Christ."
He notes that leading isn't only for presidents and CEO's, but that it is "about creating an environment where those who are being led are being served, whether that leading be in a family, among a group of friends, within a community, a business, or in government."
Given that most people spend one-third to one-half of their waking hours working in organizations, he is passionate about bringing joy and meaning to places of work as an important opportunity for Christians and a significant responsibility of senior leaders.
Hoekstra holds a Bachelor Degree in history and philosophy from Trinity Christian College, a Master's Degree in International Management from The Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Learning and Human Resource Development from Iowa State University. His research interests include corporate culture, servant leadership, and organizational effectiveness. He and his wife, Barb, have four children, including two international adopted children.
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Our appreciation of athletics comes with many layers beyond just the skill of the players and the enjoyment of the sport. Included among those layers are often the men and women who announce the games, or add color to the descriptions of various plays. We "get to know" these folks and hearing their voices becomes part of the experience.
For forty years the experience of University of Wisconsin hockey has included the voice of Paul Braun. Currently doing the games for Fox Sports, Braun has called UW hockey for local radio stations and Wisconsin Public Television. He is as identified with UW hockey as the Johnson Family and is one of the most respected hockey announcers in America. And he wears his love of UW hockey on his sleeve.
As a special anniversary tribute, Braun is reuniting with old broadcasting partner and former UW goaltending coach Bill Howard to call Friday's game on WIBA. We're looking forward to it and wish to recognize this truly good guy's loyalty, tenure and commitment to the sport and the people who listen to it.


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Despite trying economic times, an unprecedented decline in hard disk drive (HDD) terabyte shipments for enterprise applications in 2009 and the emergence of relatively affordable solid-state drives (SSDs) on the market, HDD vendors forged ahead by introducing new HDD products that address both current and future enterprise storage market requirements. As a result, International Data Corporation believes that enterprise HDDs will prosper for years to come.
According to new research from IDC, HDD shipments for enterprise applications will increase from 40.5 million units in 2009 to 52.6 million units in 2014. Moreover, the hard disk drive industry will ship more Petabytes for enterprise applications in the next two years than it did in the preceding 20 years. IDC found that growing interest in new storage delivery models such as storage as a service, or storage in the cloud is likely to put greater storage capacity growth demands on Internet datacenters. Therefore, the demand towards hard drives will also grow.
Several ongoing trends will continue to impact enterprise hard drive market revenue over the forecast period, including a continued shift away from higher cost performance-optimized HDDs to lower cost capacity-optimized solutions and solid state drives (SSDs) to complement HDDs in storage systems. Hard drive revenue derived from enterprise markets will grow at only a 1.7% CAGR during this time. Additionally, there will be an increased effort among end users to better utilize existing storage system assets.
"We're definitely seeing intensive cost cutting measures among end users striving to bring more efficiency to current solutions. The employment of technologies such as data deduplication, thin provisioning, storage multitiering, and storage virtualization are all contributing to reducing end-user costs," said John Rydning, research director for storage mechanisms: disk.
IDC also claims that the transition from 3.5" to 2.5" performance-optimized form-factor HDDs will be complete by 2012. Hence, at least, in the enterprise space there will be no high-performance 3.5" hard drives. Still, the price per gigabyte of performance-optimized HDD storage will continue to decline at a rate of approximately 25% to 30% per year.


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Unfortunately, even this latest incident with the Secretary of State won't quell the vicious innuendos and lies coming from the right-wing fringe which includes Fox News and right wing talk radio…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was admitted to a New York City hospital on Sunday after doctors discovered that a blood clot had formed, the State Department said in a statement.
Philippe Reines of the State Department said in the statement that the clot stems from a concussion Clinton sustained several weeks ago.
Reines said that Clinton, 65, is being treated with anti-coagulants at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She will be monitored there for the next 48 hours, he said.
"Her doctors will continue to assess her condition, including other issues associated with her concussion," he said. "They will determine if any further action is required."
Clinton sustained the concussion from fainting earlier in December. She had been sick for several days with the flu and had canceled a trip to Morocco where she was to officially recognize the Syrian rebels.
Days after she fainted, the State Department said she was at home recovering. Officials also issued a statement from Dr. Lisa Bardack of Mount Kisco Medical Group and Dr. Gigi El-Bayoumi of George Washington University that provided more information about the secretary's condition:
"Secretary Clinton developed a stomach virus, leading to extreme dehydration, and subsequently fainted. Over the course of this week we evaluated her and ultimately determined she had also sustained a concussion. We recommended that the Secretary continue to rest and avoid any strenuous activity, and strongly advised her to cancel all work events for the coming week. We will continue to monitor her progress as she makes a full recovery."
It wasn't the first time Clinton passed out while sick with a stomach bug. As a U.S. senator representing New York, Clinton fainted in 2005 during a speech in Buffalo after complaining of a stomach virus.
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There was late word from the health department Wednesday night that it will issue an order on Thursday preventing retails outlets from selling OxyELITE Pro, a dietary supplement suspected in dozens of cases of acute hepatitis and liver failure around the state.
In gyms, the product is known as the "purple pill."
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Fitness trainers say everyone's always looking for that magic pill. The one that will help them lose fat and gain muscle fast. They say OxyELITE Pro, the dietary supplement that comes in powdered form but also as purple pills, has been known in the gym for a while as that supplement that can take your workout to the next level.
"At the time probably a year ago, it was the most popular thermogenetic at the time. I was referred to by another trainer so I gave it a shot. It worked pretty well, I didn't feel any weird side effects," said physical trainer Jordan Workes.
But some fitness trainers say there were side effects. Cesar Soto, who's used supplements for several decades, says OxyELITE Pro is the first dietary supplement he thought was too strong.
"I was feeling too hyper as far as energy, so I kind of knew from experience this supplement has a lot of energy, it's very strong and not too safe. I wouldn't suggest it to anyone," said Soto.
From May through October of this year, there were 29 confirmed cases of acute hepatitis and liver failure in Hawaii. Two patients received liver transplants and one died. Almost all of them reported using the dietary supplement before they got sick.
"A lot of people don't get well-informed and some of those supplements have ingredients that people don't even know about," said Soto.
Now, the department of health is alerting local retailers to stop selling the product. GNC stores initially refused to remove the product but released a statement saying, "GNC will voluntarily remove the OxyELITE Pro product from sale in its Hawaii stores during this investigation."
State health officials are advising people to stop using the product at this time. Both trainers say, for now, they'll be staying away from OxyELITE Pro.
The state health director has the authority to embargo a product if she feels there is a risk involved. A department spokeswoman says inspectors will be sent out on Thursday and if they find the products on stores shelves, they will order the stores to remove them.


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Dave Keine, a pitcher who recently signed with the Pecos League's Las Cruces Vaqueros, was named the winning designer in the league's Clovis Pioneer logo submission contest.
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When the Clovis Pioneers take the field, they'll be doing it in hats and jerseys designed by the friendly opposition.
Dave Keine, a pitcher who recently signed with the Pecos League's Las Cruces Vaqueros, was named the winning designer in the league's Clovis Pioneer logo submission contest.
The logo, now prominently displayed on clovispioneers.com, features the face of a pioneer man with a raccoon hat, shadowed by a baseball.
"They said they wanted a Pioneer, so the first thing I looked for was a Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett type," said Keine, who tried out for the Vaqueros last year but was derailed by an arm injury. "I tried to go with the interlocking logo. I tried to go for a clean look on that."
Clovis will wear black hats with the interlocking "C" and "P" in white, outlined in purple and orange. The home jerseys will be white, and the road jerseys orange with purple as a complementary color.
"We need to be different," Pecos League Commissioner Andrew Dunn said. "Everything in Clovis is purple, and we need purple in the uniforms, but another color gives the Pioneers their own identity."
Dunn said merchandise will soon be available for the Pioneers, with hats available Jan. 15 and jerseys Jan. 20 on the team website.
The Clovis Pioneers will play in the newly-formed Pecos League of Professional Baseball Clubs, an independent league with play expected to be in the "Rookie" level of minor league baseball.
"I'm thrilled," said Keine, a 6-foot-3, 165-pound righthander who played at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. "I've still got to go through the spring training process, but I'm confident. I've got the itch."
Other Pecos League teams include the Vaqueros, Alpine Cowboys, Carlsbad Bats, Roswell Invaders, and White Sands (Alamogordo) Pupfish.
The Pecos League season begins May 10, when the Pioneers host the Roswell Invaders in a 7:05 p.m. game at Bell Park. May 11 will feature another Pioneers-Invaders game, along with Carlsbad visiting Alpine and White Sands visiting Las Cruces.
The league originally planned for eight teams and a 74-game schedule, but complications derailed a Del Rio, Texas franchise and a traveling team was eliminated to keep the number of teams even.