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Cradle Mountain with snow and Cradle Mountain a day later without much snow.
The Dove Lake hike has a boardwalk in some places, today it happen to be covered in snow.
A snowy slope near Dove Lake.
A icy stream with snow on the banks.
The snow began to melt in the afternoon and the waterfalls began to flow everywhere.
The snow on the palms look out of place to me.
Honeymoon islands, within Dove Lake.
Dove Lake, a crystal clear lake.
This is a pedemelon, a member of the marsupial family, it is smaller than a wallaby.
Wombats were a common sight at the campground near Cradle Mountain.
The boardwalk trail between the Visitors Center and Dove Lake, a dry forest, Tasmania Devil country.
A clear mountain stream, maybe a platypus lives near by.
This boardwalk leads to Ronny Creek.
An icy lake called Wombat Pool, nope we did not see any Wombats near here.
Wombat pool, near Dove Lake.
Cradle Mountain is in the background.
Wombat pool.
Cindie in a mossy rain forest, just after this photo, I happen to find a leech crawling up my leg. Yuke.
Mossy Tree.
Mossy log.
Close up of the moss.
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Summer is here. We are out in the yard.
In the sandbox.
Eating freezer pops and blowing bubbles. Growing sunflowers. And hydrangeas.It's been slim pickings around these parts, I know. Things slowing around La Fence have an inverse correlation with things ramping up to hyper-speed here around La Casa...
We'll be around. xoxo

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1st day
Spring rain.
A tossed-out missive
blows. Who wrote it?
It starts to get dark.
Today also is over.
I go in.
Here's the bathroom mirror.
Old owl!
Change your expression
in the spring rain
before it's too late!
| 12th daySpring windloosened her kimono from her legs. Nature no respecter of persons in the spring wind, has opened her shop. The spring wind blows through the balustrade. |
| 15th day A sound from far away. |
| 19th day Today also, |
| 26th day A long day. |
| 27th day The morning expedition. |
| 30th day When I felt the spring rain |


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- ITV Report
Liverpool announce return of Steven Gerrard
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Gerrard critical of Liverpool manager over Chelsea game
Steven Gerrard has criticised Brendan Rodgers' "over-confident" approach to the fateful game against Chelsea that derailed their title bid
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Gerrard would have stayed at Liverpool for coach job
Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has admitted he would have stayed at the club if they offered him a coaching role.
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Gerrard plays LA Galaxy game with Liverpool shin pads
Steven Gerrard has proved he still loves Liverpool by playing for LA Galaxy in shin pads with the Reds' crest on.
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Gerrard inspired his new side to victory as he marked his MLS debut with a goal as former England captain and LA Galaxy star David Beckham watched on.
The 34-year-old also had a role in two of Robbie Keane's three goals as Galaxy came from behind to beat San Jose Earthquakes 5-2.
Gerrard left Liverpool in May, admitting he had lost the "buzz" of playing for his boyhood club when his game time diminished under Brendan Rodgers last season.
Gerrard scores on MLS debut
Steven Gerrard marked his Major League Soccer debut with a goal as he inspired the Los Angeles Galaxy to a come-from-behind 5-2 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes.
Watched by former Galaxy star David Beckham at StubHub Center, the ex-Liverpool and England captain scored one and had a hand in two of Robbie Keane's three goals to help the hosts win the 'California Clasico' and go top of the Western Conference.
Ex-Liverpool skipper Gerrard enjoys first Galaxy outing
Steven Gerrard said it was a "great feeling" to make his LA Galaxy debut in the 2-1 friendly victory over Club America but admits it will take a while before his new fans get to see the best of him after a two-month break.
Gerrard was named in the Galaxy starting line-up for the opening match of the International Champions Cup clash against the Mexican outfit and played the first 45 minutes before being one of a raft of changes made by the MLS side at the interval.
He also admitted, though, that he found it tough physically and pledged to get "better and better" the longer he spends with his new club.
Gerrard said on www.lagalaxy.com: "It was a great feeling. It was a difficult game and I thought [Club America] were very good.
"I thought after 15 or 20 minutes that the team settled really well, we played some good football and we got our deserved equaliser. For me personally, it was good to get 45 minutes under my belt and I'll keep getting better and better and the more I get used to my team-mates, I'll improve."
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Gerrard fears for Sterling if he leaves Liverpool
Steven Gerrard has warned Raheem Sterling he risks stagnating as a squad player if he succeeds in forcing a move from Liverpool
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Gerrard vows to make future Liverpool return
Departing Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard says he will come back to come back to the club in the future.
Gerrard, who wrote an open letter to fans, has previously spoken about becoming a coach at Liverpool.
"I've been a supporter all my life and that will continue," he wrote in an open letter to fans in the Liverpool Echo.
"I hope to get the opportunity to come back and serve the club again one day.
"I feel that I can make a contribution in some role in the future."
GOAL! Stoke 5-1 Liverpool (Gerrard)
GOAL! Steven Gerrard. It had to be him. Huge ovation from the Stoke fans.
Gerrard plays final Liverpool match at Stoke
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard led out his side for the final time before their clash with Stoke, ahead of moving to LA Galaxy in the summer.
Gerrard ready for Liverpool farewell - Rodgers
Headlines about Raheem Sterling's contract issues and the prospect of Liverpool losing a star player this summer have deflected attention from the departure of one of the club's true greats.
There was, quite correctly, great fanfare surrounding Steven Gerrard's final match at Anfield last week but Sunday's trip to Stoke will be the midfielder's 710th and final appearance for the Reds.
He'll be very able.
I'm sure for Steven it's been a huge relief. Leading into your last game at Anfield, which has been his home for 17 years, there was probably a whole load of emotion.
Unfortunately our performance level wasn't what we expected (they suffered a 3-1 defeat to Crystal Palace) but I think the crowd and the supporters recognised the moment and gave him a great send-off.
So I'm sure for him it's a huge sigh of relief and he has worked well this week concentrating on Sunday's game.


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Revitalize your worn-out complexion with these 6 natural spring skin facial recipes. Give a vitamin-boost to your skin with organic fruit-, veggie, natural oil- and herb-treatments.
Homemade beauty treatments will eliminate dead skin cells and
dirt from the depth of pores. This is the solution to rejuvenate
your complexion and banish the tired and worn-out look of your
face. The 6 natural spring skin facial recipes below should be
definitely embedded into your beauty regime. Let your skin cells
absorb the vitamins and antioxidants from these organic
1. Walnut and Yogurt Facial
Provide your skin cells with loads of vitamins using the following facial recipe. Mix ½ cup of yogurt with 2 tsp of ground walnut. Apply the beauty mask on your face and leave it on for 15 minutes. Finally wash it off with tepid water. Dry your face with a gentle towel and enjoy the smooth and silky texture of your complexion.
2. Squash and Apple Facial
Combine various vitamin-rich ingredients to reinvigorate your
plain complexion. Use a blender to mix 2 medium sized apples
chopped into tiny pieces with 1 medium sized squash cut into 1-inch
cubes and 3 tbs of honey.
After you've obtained a fine paste apply the treatment on your
cleansed complexion. Leave the face pack on for 15-20 minutes then
wash it off with lukewarm water.
3. Rice and Parsley Facial
The secret of a revitalized and radiant complexion is out!
Incorporate this beauty facial into your skin care regime to make
sure your skin cells benefit from the vitamin-content of these
organic ingredients.
First boil 2 cups of white rice then use a blender to mix it with a
handful of parsley, 5 tbsp of cream and a few celery leaves. Make
sure you get a solid paste you can apply on your face. Leave the
facial on for 15 minutes then wipe it off with a damp
4. Strawberry and Cream Facial
Use this simple spring facial if you're tired of your worn-out complexion. In a bowl mash 5-6 strawberries and add a tiny amount of cream to prepare a fine paste. Spread the mixture uniformly all over your face and leave the treatment on for 15 minutes. Rinse off the mask with tepid water and notice the smooth texture of your skin.
5. Red Grapes and Cucumber Facial
These ingredients are packed with vitamins, therefore, it is a must to use them in your green skin care routine. Use a blender to mix 2 small cups of red grapes and a medium sized cucumber. Apply the fine paste on your complexion and make sure you leave out the sensitive areas around the eyes. After 20 minutes wash off the treatment with lukewarm water.
6. Apple and Wheatgerm Facial
Update your skin care regime with this simple organic facial. The first step towards preparing this vitamin-rich treatment is to grate a medium-sized apple in a bowl. Then add 2 tbs of wheatgerm to the apple and apply it on your cleansed face. Leave at least 15 minutes for the antioxidants to exercise their healing and revitalizing effect. Finally rinse off the facial with tepid water.
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Jewel Legends: Tree of Life
Average Rating 11 player reviews ( 4.2 out of 5.0 )
Revive the Hods' homeland.
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The Hods, magical beings and pure of heart, once lived in harmony with the holy Tree of Life. In its fold, time had no meaning. This peace was shattered when the endless greed of a dark demon forced the Hods into hiding! Now, eons later, the demon finally defeated, new hope springs eternal. Rebuild the world of the Hods and restore the Tree of Life to its former strength. Collect building materials by matching jewels, and build marvelous structures to revive the Hods' homeland!
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I liked the game, music was okay and the graphics are splendid. I'll probably buy it. See more See less
long game was fun putting village back together. I enjoy this type of game between HO's See more See less
I love the music in this game. I would like to see more levels. Tournament is boring should be able to play others and not just friends. Like a real tournament. i would like to see more of this game. Like different versions or more leveles. See more See less
Nice game for some but not for me. Thought it was kind of boring after awhile. Even after you clear the board, you still have to match to fill the test tubes. Graphics are really beautiful. Didn't have sound on. Not my kind of game but others might really like it. See more See less
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Donaji & the Magical Poncho
This is the story of a fearless girl and her encounter with the wicked cold wind god
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*UPDATE* Medals! You can now earn medals for completing the interactive battles!
**Front page! Thanks guys! My mind is blown! And after all the times I complained that only adult sprite flashes make FP. Insert foot in mouth.**
Okay, here is Episode 8! I did a little better this time with around 3 months of production time versus the 7 for the last episode. I did the audio a bit differently this time to cut back on file size and I clean up the code a bit more each episode. The movie controls in the top-right corner now contain a menu button and quality controls. The quality controls will also be available during the battle segments in case the flash starts to lag.
This episode contains the second of my gym leader contest winners, "Amira" the dark-type gym leader by Lea Bastian. Special thanks to Rina-chan and Potnyx for some superb voice acting. And also EASTBEAST for some extra artwork and Budge007 for testing.
As always, I like getting reviews so please leave one. If you liked it, what did you like? And if you didn't like it, what didn't you like?
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Runtime: about 19 minutes.
Cast list:
Me - me.
Rina-Chan - Gardevoir
Potnyx - Amira
Megaman 20555 - Nightwatcher, Ace Trainer
This is the best Pokemon sprite animation I've ever seen! Fantastic voice acting, superb plot and character development, and great interaction between characters, and Pokemon battles!
Most TV shows don't have the kind of quality i'm seeing here! Also, i'm quite enjoying the funny yet entirely realistic outplay that Gardevoir is coming onto TJ. It's good to see that you aren't downplaying poke-human relationships.
I find this story an absolute BLAST to watch and interact with, and cannot WAIT to see the next installation in this series ^.^
Keep up the good work man!
Alright so I've just gotten all caught up with the series and I definitely want to be constructive with my criticism so I've divided up my review.
The Good: The story actually is pretty compelling. It's got standard tropes, but that's a good thing. I look forward to seeing the hero's journey to the Elite Four. Like I've said before, I really like how seamlessly this series blends the style of the anime with the style of the games. I especially enjoy the battles and how accurate the moves are so far. Playing the battle is what keeps me watching this series the most.
Criticism 1: One thing I definitely did not like was the flash art part. It really did not match the sprite art style of the series at all. I still find it weird that a talking Pokemon is coming onto TJ but it does seem to be played for laughs which is fine. You should just have it all exactly like it is in the game, including how phone calls work. The more it seems like a "mostly movie except for the major battles" version of the game, the better it will be in my opinion.
Criticism 2: In fact, while it is nice to have voice acting the fact that the voice acting of the main character is weak (no offense) takes away from the series. Maybe hire a professional voice actor to voice the main character? Listening to him in the same scene as someone like Rina really emphasizes the difference in voice acting ability. It sounds more like acting than talking and that's a potential problem. It's something that can be worked on of course if you really want to voice TJ. As long as both of the lead characters sound good, no-one else matters.
Keep up the good work, this series is almost perfect for what it is after a few minor tweaks.
I'm glad you like the battles. I'm making a minor change to the series starting with ep 9 that some people will love and some will hate but I plan to keep the battles.
I agree mixing drawn sprites and animation is wierd, so I prob won't do it anymore. And seriously a human and Gardevoir is no more sick then a Gardevoir being with other species of Pokemon, like a Muk for example.
I will continue to voice myself, be it good or bad. But what was wrong? Was my mic quality bad or was my character not emotional enough or what?
If you need a deep or dark voice actor, let me know. I'd love to be a part of this series. Just a thought, but for a new charater, what about a hybrid, half pokemon, half human, made in a experiment by Team Rocket (like Mewtwo, but with many legendary pokemon DNA), again JUST a thought, but I know some people have thought about it. Anywho, great work on Gardevoir, ALL HAIL Rina-chan!!!


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I'll take the driver side kidney grill assembly. If you're concerned about selling them together, i believe there was someone else looking for the passenger side grill.
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Today's shoppers have a myriad of choices when it comes to shopping for food in Indonesia. From the neighborhood gathering of vegetable sellers, to traditional markets, to mom and pop grocery stores to modern supermarkets ... and best of all ... the hypermarkets which have been opened with investment from foreign grocery store chains. Today, shoppers in Indonesia, both expatriate and local, have a good choice of pleasant, hygienic surroundings in which to shop for food. The largest national supermarket chain in Indonesia is Hero. It has particular stores (Kemang, Terogong, Pondok Indah) that cater more to its expatriate customers that the other Hero stores. These stores feature a wider variety of imported foodstuffs. In Jakarta we have, in addition, Kem Chicks, Food Hall Supermarket, Ranch Market as well as some small chain or family-owned neighborhood supermarkets. Hypermarkets include Carrefour, Makro, Lotte Mart, and the Grand Lucky. Most neighborhoods have small convenience stores such as Indomaret, Alfamart, and 7 Eleven that sell basic food stuffs and snacks. Most major malls in Jakarta have a Hero supermarket on the premises, which is very convenient. Ethnic Grocery StoresWith the increasing amount of expats, shop owners have started to cater to specific ethnic groups. For example, many ingredients that would be used to make Japanese dishes can be found at Daiso, Mall Artha Kelapa Gading, Papaya and Kamome in Blok M, and Cosmo in Wijaya Grand Center. Indians can find many spices and food needs that they require in "Little India" or Supermarket Mustafa or India Papadam, all located in Sunter. Korean expats can find Korean ingredients at Mu Gung Hwa in the Senayan area. Most of these establishments are run by people of the same ethnic background that understand what fellow patriots will be looking for and need. Whatever style of shopping you enjoy - there is a choice for you! A World of ChoiceToday's modern Indonesian supermarket and hypermarket features a selection of local and imported canned goods, fruit, vegetables, fresh milk, dairy products, meat, household and cleaning items. The better stores feature cash registers with optic scanners for quick check out services. Full service stores have baggers, using plastic bags or recycled boxes. Some stores are encouraging their customers to bring their own cloth bags in an attempt to cut back on the amount of garbage generated by plastic bags. You can ask the baggers to help you take your groceries to your car. Some shoppers choose to give them a small tip as a thank you. Perhaps unusual for foreign shoppers are the use of Deposit Counters in the supermarkets. Bringing bags from outside into the store premises is discouraged or not allowed. You 'deposit' these goods at a counter near the entrance, where it is safely held until you're ready to depart. Laptops or electronic items of higher value are not allowed to be left at the deposit counters as the stores do not want to be responsible for them. You are given a tag with a number when you drop off the goods and you surrender this tag to reclaim your goods upon leaving. In some stores, small distributors open counters within the premises. When you purchase an item from them, you may be required to wait until they write up a bill listing the items and their prices, called a nota. Take the nota to the cash register and pay for these items along with your other goods. The items may be given to you, with the nota attached, or you may need to retrieve them from the deposit counter after payment has been made. Fresh fruit is weighed in the fruit section by an employee and a label with the price is affixed to the plastic bag. Many supermarkets offer additional services on their premises, including shoe repair, dry cleaning, pharmacy or small restaurants. This benefits the shopper in a hurry and helps makes one-step shopping possible. A little history ...The last few decades have seen enormous development in retail supermarkets throughout large cities in Indonesia. Prior to the development of modern supermarkets, in the cities food was sold through local traditional markets (pasar) or from carts that were peddled around neighborhoods. With industrialization, and the availability of packaged foodstuffs, Mom and Pop food outlets grew in the cities and towns. In the 70s, consumers saw the beginning of supermarket development when Hero Supermarkets opened their first outlet in 1971. By the end of the decade, Kem Chicks (which started out selling eggs in the early 70s) and Gelael had also opened small stores in Jakarta. Duty Free stores in Jakarta supplied hard-to-find imported food items and alcoholic beverages for expatriates. Small ethnic food stores imported food items from India, Korea and Japan. In the late 80s and early 90s, scores of new supermarkets opened. Some succeeded and opened small chains in major urban centers, others opened just a few stores in Jakarta only. Controversies arose over how the supermarkets were putting the traditional markets out of business. Supermarkets in close proximity to traditional markets were not allowed to sell fruits, vegetables and meat. In urban areas, the public had a choice and many were choosing the new modern supermarkets in which to shop. In the 90s, wholesalers began operations: Makro (SHV Holdings of Holland). Carrefour and and Lotte Mart continue to open an ever growing number of store locations in Jakarta. During the economic boom of the early 90s, there was a huge upswing in the importation of foodstuffs and household goods. The expatriate community, and those Indonesians who had lived overseas, were pleased to find many food items that had not been available in Indonesia previously. Prior to this period, expatriates utilized their baggage allowances to the max on home leave or trips to Singapore in order to bring in food treats from home for special meals or occasions. In December of 2008 there was a incident in which contaminated milk and snacks from China was consumed by Indonesians which resulted in many children falling ill, being hospitalized, and some deaths. Since this incident the Food and Health Commission of Indonesia has required that all food products must be approved by their agency. This is a very timely and costly process, so some importers have opted to discontinue many items that they were previously importing. This has made the previously abundant imported items become extremely scare. If they are available, they are quite costly. The 90s also saw the start-up of home delivery services oriented to the busy expatriate with little time to shop and to those frustrated by Jakarta traffic and long lines. Some stores continue to offer this service. The availability of so many imported products changed drastically in early 1998 as the devaluation of the rupiah against foreign currency put the skids on importation of many items. Stock disappeared from grocery store shelves during the initial panic buying, not to be seen for a long time. Consumers soon discovered that 50% of the items produced in Indonesia were also dependent on imported ingredients, so their prices soared or production stopped. Fortunately the market has settled since that time and although imported items are noticeably higher priced than local, the prices and supply has stabilized. Most expats are presently surprised at the variety of produce that they find in supermarkets in Jakarta. Of course you do not have the vast selection of certain items that your might find in the North American 'super stores' but a wide selection of good produce is available for consumers. 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The handling of electronic retailer returns is one of the most serious problems currently facing e-tailers and catalog merchants. E-returns not only are expensive, time consuming, and labor intensive for retailers to process, but the potential hassles to consumers impair sales and slow customer growth. As a result, pure-play e-tailers and catalog merchants are at a significant disadvantage to brick-and-mortar and click-and-mortar retailers that allow customers to return purchases made online to their physical store locations. QuickReturns fills the role of an outsourced solution provider, as it is the first company to provide consumers with a no-hassle and cost-free method to return and exchange merchandise ordered from virtual stores, while saving retailers money on returns handling.
QuickReturns will provide its retailer partners with physical points of presence at which their customers can return unwanted or defective merchandise. To minimize capital expenditures, operating costs, and scalability time, QuickReturns will utilize a distribution partner model. Retailer partners will pay annual membership fees and transaction-based return and exchange fees. The latter two fees will be shared with the QuickReturns distribution partners.
By partnering with QuickReturns, retailers will benefit from reduced return handling costs, increased sales, and improved customer service. Distribution centers will benefit by adding a low-cost revenue stream that will also drive desired, but otherwise inaccessible, customers into their stores. Finally, consumers will enjoy saving time and efforts with the product return process and instant refunds.
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Magellan Creates Specimen-Tracking SystemThe 13.56 MHz RFID system has been designed to enable hospitals and laboratories to quickly identify hundreds of specimen-carrying glass slides stored closely together.
Feb 06, 2008—Magellan Technology, an Australian manufacturer of 13.56 MHz RFID systems, has unveiled a system designed to catalogue and track thousands of medical specimen slides.
The system was created specifically for laboratories, hospitals and other organizations that need to store and track thousands of tiny glass slides containing lab samples and other biological material. Labs and other health-care institutions must accurately label and track specimens throughout processing and storage to avoid—in a worst-case scenario—mix-ups between patients. Being able to track the specimens, particularly during the development and production of new pharmaceuticals, can help companies comply with regulations issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other agencies, says Ken Laing, Magellan Technology's VP of sales and marketing. "As you can imagine, there can be up to 10,000 slides produced during the development process of a drug," he says, "and each of these slides must be stored and easily accessible in the case of a recall or FDA query." But tracking the slides isn't easy. According to Laing, specimen slides typically measure either 20 by 15 millimeters or 20 by 10 millimeters, and are generally tracked using bar codes, or typed or hand-written labels. Slides are generally stored very close to or touching each other, in specially designed boxes. Magellan's system leverages the company's Phase Jitter Modulation (PJM) StackTag technology. In 2007, the firm incorporated the technology in a document-tracking application designed to identify, read and encode passive tags, even if the documents to which they are attached are buried at the bottom of a deep stack of other tagged documents (see Magellan Technology Releases RFID Products for Document Tracking). PJM StackTag employs Magellan's PJM technology, which complies with the ISO 18000 Part 3 Mode 2 standard, to enable tags to be encoded at a data rate of up to 424 kilobits per second, and read at a rate of 106 kilobits per second. The system for tracking specimen slides uses a newly designed boxlike antenna, Laing says, and can read the tags on up to 1,000 slides in about two seconds, even if they are stacked one on top of the other. Not only can the interrogator read the tags, but it can also be used to write to the tags, though that process takes slightly longer than two seconds. Login and post your comment!Not a member? Signup for an account now to access all of the features of RFIDJournal.com! |
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Defit, Sarjon and Md. Sap, Mohd. Noor (2000) Data Mining : A Preview. Jurnal Teknologi Maklumat, 12 (1). 57--. ISSN 0128-3790
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Today's databases contain large amount of data. It is almost impossible to manually analyze valuable decision data from large databases. There are many techniques that can be used to automatically extract the knowledge from data stored in the database. One of the techniques is data mining. This paper discusses the importance of data mining, the process of knowledge discovery in database, the kind of data to be mined, the data mining task, data mining prototype and discussion about data mining today and the next future.
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | predictive data mining, knowledge discovery in database, data mining task, data mining prototype |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
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Amber update brings stereo recording to Nokia Lumia 920
0. phoneArena 10 Aug 2013, 18:21 posted on
Besides the always-on clock and tap-to-unlock wake up capabilities that the Amber update will bring to the Nokia Lumia 920, the update will also allow the handset to record audio in stereo; a YouTube subscriber uploaded a coupler of videos showing off this feature. To hear the difference between the mono and stereo sound, you might want to use a headset...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. Whodaboss (Posts: 176; Member since: 18 Nov 2011)
Nokia just get better every day!
3. papss (unregistered)
Hmm I wonder if my l1020 will get stereo recording. ;) anyone else experiencing bad charge time with their l1020? I went to an amusement park and I used it pretty heavy but only got 6 1/2 hours of use.. Now that's not with my camera grip so I'm sure I would get more since it has a battery pack. Kind of a let down. Maybe I need to turn off some things that are working in the background..
8. muhsen (Posts: 281; Member since: 07 Jun 2012)
that's normal for a smartphone battery life....with heavy usage.
stereo recording is by default on the lumia 1020...u need to use nokia pro cam
14. DontHateOnS60 (Posts: 870; Member since: 20 Apr 2009)
You take 50+ pics in a short amount of time it will have an impact on battery life. Mine goes all day with minimal stuff going on. 20 min of web, 20 texts, 90 minutes of bluetooth audio through my car, 1 email account on constant sync, 1 on 15 min sync. Off the charger at 6:15 AM and its around 35-40% at 9PM that night.
16. papss (unregistered)
That's good to know and yes I took around that many photos. It just worries me because I'm using it on vacation to Disney. I'm going to test it with the grip to see how it holds up. I used it today at a race and the zoom was pretty amazing tbh. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the camera.
4. GeekMovement (unregistered)
No Windows Phone if not for Nokia.
5. bugsbunny00 (Posts: 2173; Member since: 07 Jun 2013)
nothing for 925 why...
7. rms.max (Posts: 95; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)
"The stereo recording feature could end up activated on all Nokia Lumia 92x models."
9. muhsen (Posts: 281; Member since: 07 Jun 2012)
u need to use nokia pro cam (which still isn't available to 92x phones yet) to make use of the stereo recording.
6. mew7946510 (Posts: 55; Member since: 10 Nov 2010)
I can't believe that there are actually many features that Symbian had that Windows Phone didn't. Microsoft is way too slow.
10. papss (unregistered)
Lets get this straight.. There are features that Symbian had that all os's don't have.. Not just Microsoft. Microsoft isn't symbian
11. Juuden95 (Posts: 2; Member since: 11 Aug 2013)
And how can I upgrade it?
13. papss (unregistered)
I just got 38 Mb download speed on att this am before my race (running). Can't complain about those lte speeds.
on another note other than battery this phone is great BUT battery is huge


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Despite the fact that 2010 heavy hitters 'Ancova' and 'Gold' are still going strong, as evidenced by Boys Noize's Sahara Tent headlining Coachella set last month where he dropped both, it regrettably has been quite some time since the Belgian buds from Mumbai Science dropped some new originals on us. Well forget about that, break out the calendars and champagne because on June 6th two new heaters will be available for you to get the summer season started off right.
Mumbai Science – Lotus EP (preview) by lektroluvrecords
The B-side is actually what I'm really excited for. When the fellas played at the new Dim Mak Studios: Loft Series two months back they dropped this tune about four tracks in and I just had to know what it was. When I asked about it they were thrilled with the positive feedback as it's definitely a departure from their typical sound and they weren't fully convinced about releasing it. With a frenetic intro that gives way to a euphoric build with a certain 'Music Sounds Better With You' vibe the track is truly top-notch and is sure to get the bodies moving in the coming months.


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Bears Eat Beer-Filled Boozer
August 21, 2007
Beer festival reveller dies after taking a short cutA DRUNK staggering home from a beer festival took a short cut through a zoo's bear cage - and was found half-eaten next day.
Amazingly, Branko Jovanovic, 22, was still alive when zoo staff discovered him - despite having a leg torn off and half his face chewed away.
But he died later on his way to hospital in Belgrade, Serbia, after keepers battled to prise him from the jaws of the Tibetan black bears.
Zoo director Vuk Bojovic said: "I will never forget what I saw. The bears had taken him to a corner to eat him, and torn off his leg and most of his face, but he was still alive.
"The bears were really aggressive - they obviously regarded him as food and fought to hang on to their meal. It took ages to get them away from him."
Ghoulish visitors have made the two bears - Masha and Misha - an overnight hit with double the usual number of people coming to see them.
Officials now plan to make it harder to get into the bear enclosure - even though the wall Jovanovic climbed was 18ft high.
And they also hit out at the beer festival organisers.
Bojovic said: "We had warned the organisers to stage it further away.
"We have had all sorts of problems from revellers although we did not think anyone would be stupid enough to enter the cage.
"The area where the beer festival takes place is up on a hill while the zoo is downhill, and the bears' cage has no roof so the drinkers were always throwing things in there.
"Keepers have found beer cans, mobile phones and even used condoms in the cage.
"We warned the organisers that they needed to control their guests better.
"We want it moved to a new location far from the zoo next year."


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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba said on Wednesday that jailed U.S. contractor Alan Gross is in "normal" health, despite his wife's claims to the contrary, as it reiterated its willingness to talk with the U.S. government about resolving the case.
Gross, arrested in Havana in December 2009 for illegally bringing in Internet equipment and setting up wi-fi networks under a controversial U.S. program, is serving a 15-year sentence handed down in an April 2011 trial. The case halted a brief warming in relations between Washington and Havana.
Wife Judy Gross said in a statement on Tuesday she had just visited her husband and found him to be in deteriorating health.
"I am devastated by his appearance," she said. "While his spirit remains strong, I fear he is not going to survive this terrible ordeal." She said her husband, 63, has lost 105 pounds (48 kg), has degenerative arthritis and a "mass" behind his right shoulder blade.
On Wednesday, Cuba refuted her allegations.
"The state of health of Mr. Gross continues being normal and he regularly does intense physical exercises," Foreign Ministry official Josefina Vidal said in a statement.
She said Judy Gross had visited her husband three times at the end of last week for which "the best conditions were created."
Gross was working semi-covertly in Cuba under a U.S. program promoting political change on the island.
The U.S. government has said he was only setting up Internet connections for Cuba's Jewish community, but Cuba viewed his actions as part of the United States' longstanding campaign to topple the island's communist system.
Gross' arrest ended a short-lived thaw in relations between Havana and Washington under President Barack Obama, who had eased the 50-year-long U.S. trade embargo against the island and allowed Cuban Americans to freely travel and send remittances to their homeland.
Cuban officials have previously suggested the two countries could do a prisoner swap - Gross for four Cuban agents jailed in the United States on spying charges.
Tuesday was the 14th anniversary of the arrest and incarceration of the agents, who the Cuban government says have been treated unjustly.
The United States has rejected the idea of a prisoner swap but did offer last year to send one of the four convicted Cuban spies home in exchange for Gross, a deal Cuba rejected.
Gross recently hired a new lawyer, Jared Genser, a Washington-based international human rights attorney whose clients have included Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar.
Genser told Reuters that Cuba had violated Gross' rights to freedom of expression and had given him an unfair trial.
He said he had filed a petition to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention seeking a finding against Cuba. The U.N. group has no power to enforce such a ruling, but its decision could place pressure on the Cuban government.
"A government detaining a person wrongly typically only lets them out when the costs substantially outweigh the benefits of detaining them," Genser said. "I've seen how an opinion from the United Nations is a very effective tool, when combined with the appropriate political and public relations advocacy efforts."
Genser also urged Cuba to allow Gross to be examined by an independent doctor. The true state of his health could not be assessed by the physicians who were also "Cuban government agents" who have seen Gross so far, he said.
The U.N. petition and Genser's blunt statements appeared to signal new, more aggressive tactics as part of Judy Gross' long battle to free her husband, a veteran development worker.
Previously, she had taken a more conciliatory approach. But in June, Judy Gross complained publicly about her husband's condition, which prompted an angry denial from Cuba and a cryptic reminder that Gross could be in prison instead of the Havana military hospital where he is being held.
(Reporting by Jeff Franks; Additional reporting by Tom Brown in Miami; Editing by Tom Brown and Philip Barbara)


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It wasn't just five years ago, the percentage of Linux being used in business was around 1%. When you made claims of growth, not one person in IT would listen. But as everyone knows, the landscape of IT changes faster than most. One minute you're staring down the barrel of extinction and the next you're being hoisted atop the shoulders of business claiming you a hero.
I wouldn't exactly say that Linux and open source has been lifted on top of every shoulder — but the last five years have certainly seen some major expansion. Let's take a look at some of the signposts that herald this growth.
Social networking
Let's face it — eight million active users on a platform run by open source software cannot be denied as growth. That's Facebook. The front-end of Facebook is served up on a LAMP server using the Big-IP product suite. Although many would deny this as a direct sign of growth (the vast majority of users use the site with the Windows platform), but without open source and Linux, Facebook wouldn't exist.
Blogging is another element of "social networking" that highlights growth in Linux. Wordpress is one of the most wide-spread blogging software platforms available. It's open source and, more often than not, runs on LAMP servers.
At this moment, there are 58,453,045 Wordpress-driven blogs in the blogosphere. Another fact that cannot be denied.
Even Twitter is run using Ruby on Rails (another open source stack) on Linux servers).
Enterprises "get it"
Take a look at the list below to see who makes use of Linux and open source (specific Linux distributions where noted):
- Amazon
- Google — Goobuntu
- McDonalds
- Ernie Ball
- Reddit — Debian
- London Stock Exchange
- Audi — SLED
- New York Stock Exchange
- Wikipedia — Ubuntu
- Union Bank
- Peugeot — SLED
- Virgin America — Red Hat
- Dreamworks
- Novell
- Burlington — Red Hat
- Facebook — Based on CentOS
- Nav Canada — Red Hat
Large enterprise business gets Linux and open source. They understand that reliability and security are key to keeping their businesses up and running. Now that is not to say Enterprise snubs it's nose at Windows — it doesn't. In fact, the enterprise desktop is still dominated by Windows 7 and XP — but up until recently, it was unheard of that any company would consider adopting Linux for the desktop. Now... there is no certainty in that statement. Anything is possible. And with Microsoft trying to force the hand of the desktop over to the multi-touch environment, the future of possibility for Linux on the enterprise desktop looks bright.
Game on!
Everyone should be aware by now that Valve has ported Steam to Linux. The beta of the software officially arrived November 7, 2012. This is BIG news. What this means is games will finally begin arriving on the Linux platform. Because of this move on Valve's part, NVIDIA doubled up on the work for Linux NVIDIA drivers. The recent release of the official NVIDIA drivers (GeForce R310) actually doubles the performance and drastically reduces game load times on Linux.With Steam, Linux users will be able to get their game on and, as usage spreads, more and more games will come to the Linux version of Steam. I would predict, within two years, the whole of the Steam library will be playable on Steam for Linux.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 is one of the fastest selling smartphones in the world. It is estimated that Samsung sold 56-58 million smartphones in July-September 2012. These are all powered by open source software. Once again, these numbers tell a very powerful tale. At a recent Motorola press event, Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt, said nearly 1.3 million Android devices were activated daily, and of those, 70,000 were tablets. So even the Android tablet market is growing significantly.The future is looking good
There is no doubt that Linux and open source are plowing their way up the food chain of technology. What was once little more than a hacker's platform is now the platform of choice for businesses and even home users. It's only a matter of time before SMBs realize the power and benefit to be found in open source on the desktop. Once that begins, the trickle down to home users will be fast and furious.
I expect the next couple of years will be crucial to an even wider acceptance of Linux. Thanks to distributions like Ubuntu, Linux has been made incredibly user-friendly for the desktop. But for now, it's impossible to deny Linux has, in fact, arrived and significant growth is no longer a dream of the trench coat mafia.
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Gambling Law No IX-325 currently regulates gambling in the Republic of Lithuania. However, it fails to take account of which entities are permitted to provide gambling services and through which means of communication. In a move to protect the incumbent local operators and remove any ambiguity as to the interpretation of the Gambling Law, the Lithuania government has submitted a draft law to the European Commission in accordance with Directive 98/34/EC.
The draft law provides that licences shall be available to both public and private limited companies established in Lithuania providing the share capital of any applicant is at least 4 million litas (circa. £1 million). The draft law also sets out enforcement measures to be taken against illegal operators as well as software and technical requirements. Once the three month standstill period is over, the Gaming Control Authority must then approve the regulations before licences will become available.
It will be interesting to see how the Commission responds to the draft law given it made an official request for information from Lithuania for having national legislation which restricts the supply of gambling services.
The draft law (in Lithuanian) can be accessed here.
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The evaluation is not always left to right. There are some cases that it goes from right to left, and it SHOULD do so. L2R evaluation {Print[a], Print[b], Print[c]}; results with a b c R2L evaluation Print[d] & /@ {Print[e]} & /@ {Print[f]} and get f e d {{Null}} For your specific case (and others as well) of x=0;{x++,x++,x++} you can use Trace to follow the evaluation order x=0;Trace[{x++,x++,x++}] and get {{x++, {x, 0}, {x = 1, 1}, 0}, {x++, {x, 1}, {x = 2, 2}, 1}, { x++, {x, 2}, {x = 3, 3}, 2}, {0, 1, 2}} or Trace[{a=1,b=2,c=3}] and get {{a = 1, 1}, {b = 2, 2}, {c = 3, 3}, {1, 2, 3}} yehuda Ray Koopman wrote: >When I first started using Mathematica (v2), one of the features that >I found rather surprising is its sequential evaluation of lists, as in > >In[1]:= x = 0; {x++,x++,x++} >Out[1]= {0,1,2} > >I had expected a warning that such code should be avoided because >it presumed sequential evaluation, which could not be guaranteed, >and a recommendation to treat list elements as being evaluated in >parallel -- if not simultaneously then in no particular order. >However, so far I have found no exception to sequential evaluation >and no mention of it in any documentation. Have I missed something? > > >


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After several rounds of testing for the correct choice in consoles, studio engineers discovered the DSP processing abilities of Soundcraft, which boasts 30 years of experience in the technology. Shanghai Media Group has been working with DSP processing for years, through an older Soundcraft B400 analog mixer. Soundcraft's 40bit floating processing technology easily overpowered the competition in the testing rounds.
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Kilimanjaro climb I did for an important local and national organization called NAMI. I just want to add, "Grateful Thanks" to your entire staff at Trail Creek Outfitters who were extremely helpful and went out of their way to give me the right advise in selecting all of the mountaineering gear and clothing I needed for a successful climb.
Nikolas is a local nine-year-old taking one million steps (about the number of steps it takes to complete seven marathons) to raise one dollar for each step, to help children in need. His campaign will raise money for a non-profit organization called Operation Warm whose mission is to provide new winter coats to children living in need so that every child wearing a new winter coat feels warm, valued and able to attend school on even the coldest of winter days, healthy, full of pride, and ready to learn.
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You don't have to be a pro athlete to do something extraordinary. Check out Beth Friedman: you've probably seen her running on RT 52, or at one of the local races. Beth's your neighbor with a vision that turned a dream into a reality. TCO talked with Beth about her running life and how she tackled running a marathon on 7 continents. Here's what she had to say about staying motivated, wearing the right gear, and enjoying your life.
TCO: When did you start running competitively?
BF: In high school I was a 2-miler. Actually, I was one of the first girls allowed to run a track meet at that distance to compete (before 1978 the longest distance girls competed in was the one mile).
TCO: Then, after high school?
BF: In my early 20's I ran for fun/fitness in college. After college I'd run the local races. When I met my husband—also a runner–we began running the race circuits every weekend. Our first dates were the races. It was a fun, social scene where for $5 you could run, get a free t-shirt and drink free beer. We had lots of friends that ran with us.
TCO: How old where you when you ran your first marathon?
BF: I was 24. I ran the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C.
TCO: How was it?
BF: It was really hard! I was much slower than I thought I'd be. This is typical for first marathons. I was in good shape, but so much of running a marathon is mental…especially at the end. I went back the next year and ran my best PR (personal record) at 3:13, which still stands as my personal best today.
TCO: What's motivated you to keep running throughout the years?
I think of my running in terms of the time in my life: Before Kids and After Kids. Before kids it was all about my PR, after kids my focus changed. I didn't care so much about my running time as the focus wasn't just on me anymore. So, I ran for fun/fitness, "me time." I stopped running marathons for about 10 years while I was working and raising my kids, though I did run some half-marathons and I never stopped running.
When did you decide to run 7 continents?
By the time my kids were ages 6 and 9, I started training for a marathon. In 1997, I ran the Marine Corps Marathon again. It was great! And I qualified for Boston, which I ran in 1999. In 1997 at the Marine Corps Marathon, it poured rain the entire time but my kids were there to cheer me on at the finish line. It was so cool.
After D.C. and Boston I wanted to try somewhere different and in 2001 ran the London marathon. Later that year I was running with a group of friends when someone suggested since I'd already run two continents, why not try for all seven? Yeah, sure, is what I thought. But then…
TCO: What came after London?
BF: In 2003 I ran Antarctica.
TCO: How old were you?
TCO: Was it…really cold?
BF: I swear, I was so prepared! Ed and Sarah took great care of me before I left. Every time I walk in the store and see that sign that reads: There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing," I think of my experience in Antarctica.
TCO: What was the hardest part?
BF: It was windy and cold, and we had a freak snowstorm, but the hardest part was running up a glacier.
TCO: How'd you do?
BF: I placed third woman overall.
TCO: Wow! Congratulations! What came next?
BF: In August, 2004 I ran Australia. My two kids joined me for that trip. We stayed a month..it was great. I was on antibiotics for strep throat and didn't feel well, but there was no way I wasn't going to run. I did ok. In December that year I ran Chile, and February, 2005 I ran Africa.
TCO: How was Africa?
BF: We ran at the base of Mnt. Kilimanjaro in 100 degrees heat. I came in 5th for my age group. The next day I began an 8 day climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro with the four friends that traveled with me.
TCO: Amazing. The day after your race. How was that?
BF: Really hard! I was in great shape, but the altitude is what prevents a lot of people from summiting. I had no idea it would take so much out of me.
TCO: And your last continent?
BF: In May, 2005 I ran the Great Wall Marathon in China. This one was physically the hardest. We ran up 600-700 steps, then down, and all along rolling hills.
TCO: Do you have a favorite race?
BF: No favorite. Each one has an incredible experience associated with it. I traveled with different people and each race was so different.
TCO: Was 2005 the last marathon?
BF: Yes. I ran some half-marathons, but, again, my focus changed. I began spending more time with my older kids, looking for colleges, attending sporting events.
TCO: What are you doing these days to stay fit?
BF: I continue to run for fitness and fun, and for the social part of it. But I have no goals. Instead I just enjoy the experience and roll with it. Running is what I do for fun, my stress-reliever. Also I am doing more cross-training…spinning, hiking. I'm giving my feet a break. This fall I have a multi-sport trip planned…
TCO: Do you have any advice for someone interested in setting new fitness goals?
BF: I'd say do a little at a time to avoid injuries that will set you back. Increase slowly so you can stay healthy…keep a long view of your goals.
And, remember that glacier in Antarctica? I had no idea how I'd get up that mountain of ice. So I asked a fellow runner who had run the race in the past how she had managed. Her advice: "Maintain a forward motion." I'll never forget her comment.
Today, that's my mantra. In different stages of your life, you have different goals, so enjoy that ebb and flow. And always maintain a forward motion.


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This is the view that you get on the way to Mt. Cook. It was my first time going there… and I was so happy to see the amazing color of the water! I don't know if it is like this all the time, but I figure it is. I'm about to go for a second trip, so I will report back soon!
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Syria's opposition leader on Friday rejected an invitation from Russia for peace talks, instead asking that Moscow apologise for supporting President Bashar al-Assad. Russia is one of the few countries to not recognise the opposition coalition.
Syria's opposition leader has rejected an invitation from Russia for peace talks, dealing another blow to international hopes that diplomacy can be resurrected to end a 21-month civil war.
Russia, President Bashar al-Assad's main international protector, said on Friday it had sent an invitation for a visit to Moaz Alkhatib, whose six-week-old National Coalition opposition group has been recognised by most Western and Arab states as the legitimate voice of the Syrian people.
"This invitation isn't new," Monzer Makhous, an ambassador for the Syria National Council, told FRANCE 24. "Two weeks ago the Russian Foreign Ministry invited Moaz Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib… but he refused to go at the time to Moscow."
But in an interview on Al Jazeera television Friday, Alkhatib said he had already ruled out such a trip and wanted an apology from Moscow for its support for Assad.
"We have clearly said we will not go to Moscow. We could meet in an Arab country if there was a clear agenda," he said.
"We are categorically opposed to Bashar al-Assad staying in power"
"Now we also want an apology from (Russian Foreign Minister Sergei) Lavrov because all this time he said that the people will decide their destiny, without foreign intervention. Russia is intervening and meanwhile all these massacres of the Syrian people have happened, treated as if they were a picnic."
"If we don't represent the Syrian people, why do they invite us?" Alkhatib said. "And if we do represent the Syrian people why doesn't Russia respond and issue a clear condemnation of the barbarity of the regime and make a clear call for Assad to step down? This is the basic condition for any negotiations."
With the rebels advancing steadily over the second half of 2012, diplomats have been searching for months for signs that Moscow's willingness to protect Assad is faltering.
So far Russia has stuck to its position that rebels must negotiate with Assad's government, which has ruled since his father seized power in a coup 42 years ago.
"I think a realistic and detailed assessment of the situation inside Syria will prompt reasonable opposition members to seek ways to start a political dialogue," Lavrov said on Friday.
That was immediately dismissed by the opposition: "The coalition is ready for political talks with anyone ... but it will not negotiate with the Assad regime," spokesman Walid al-Bunni told Reuters. "Everything can happen after the Assad regime and all its foundations have gone. After that we can sit down with all Syrians to set out the future."
Brahimi to Moscow
Russia says it is behind the efforts of U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, fresh from a five-day trip to Damascus where he met Assad. Brahimi, due in Moscow for talks on Saturday, is touting a months-old peace plan for a transitional government.
That U.N. plan was long seen as a dead letter, foundering from the outset over the question of whether the transitional body would include Assad or his allies. Brahimi's predecessor, Kofi Annan, quit in frustration shortly after negotiating it.
Russia's Middle East envoy, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, who announced the invitation to Alkhatib, said Russian officials were ready to meet him in another country. He said further talks were scheduled between the "three Bs" - himself, Brahimi and U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns.
Speaking in Damascus on Thursday, Brahimi called for a transitional government with "all the powers of the state", a phrase interpreted by the opposition as potentially signalling tolerance of Assad remaining in some ceremonial role.
The United Nations press office in New York said Brahimi had not specifically said Assad should remain in office until the end of his presidential term in 2014.
Brahimi had said the transition "should start as soon as possible, that a government should be established as soon as possible, and that he hopes that the crisis can be solved in 2013 because it cannot wait until 2014", it said in a statement.
But such a plan is anathema to the surging rebels, who now believe they can drive Assad out with a military victory, despite long being outgunned by his forces.
"We do not agree at all with Brahimi's initiative. We do not agree with anything Brahimi says," Colonel Abdel-Jabbar Oqaidi, who heads the rebels' military council in Aleppo province, told reporters at his headquarters there.
Oqaidi said the rebels want Assad and his allies tried in Syria for crimes. Assad says he will stay on and fight to the death if necessary.
In the rebel-held town of Kafranbel, demonstrators held up cartoons showing Brahimi speaking to a news conference with toilet bowls in front of him, in place of microphones. Banners denounced the U.N. envoy with obscenities in English.
Diplomats impotent
Diplomacy has largely been irrelevant to the conflict so far, with Western states ruling out military intervention like the NATO bombing that helped topple Libya's Muammar Gaddafi last year, and Russia and China blocking U.N. action against Assad.
Meanwhile, the fighting has grown fiercer and more sectarian, with rebels mainly from the Sunni Muslim majority battling Assad's government and allied militia dominated by his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.
Still, Western diplomats repeatedly have touted signs of a change in policy from Russia, which they hope could prove decisive, much as Moscow's withdrawal of support for Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic heralded his downfall a decade ago.
Bogdanov said earlier this month that Assad's forces were losing ground and rebels might win the war, but Russia has since rowed back, with Lavrov last week reiterating Moscow's position that neither side could win through force.
Still, some Moscow-based analysts see the Kremlin coming to accept it must adapt to the possibility of rebel victory.
"As the situation changes on the battlefield, more incentives emerge for seeking a way to stop the military action and move to a phase of political regulation," said Dmitry Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center.
Activists said at least 13 people, including seven children aged five under, were killed in an air strike on the town of Safira southeast of Aleppo city. Video footage released by the activists showed several collapsed concrete buildings and at least 20 people searching through the rubble for survivors.
Government war planes bombarded the town of Assal al-Ward in the Qalamoun district of Damascus province for the first time, killing one person and wounding dozens, the observatory said.
In Aleppo, Syria's northern commercial hub, clashes took place between rebel fighters and army forces around an air force intelligence building in the Zahra quarter, a neighbourhood that has been surrounded by rebels for weeks.
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If you are me (and maybe be glad that you are not me right now), you have put in a lot of time making sure your wedding isn't cheesy, flouncy, covered in offensive roses, invaded by pink items, free of hearts intertwining until they explode, etc. Also, if you are me, you will have put so much time into this project that you will begin to wonder about the absolute corniest wedding stuffings. And then, as a distraction from doing what you should be doing, you will begin to thumb through the Internetz, searching for wedding cheese, flounce, roses, pink items, and exploding hearts.
I now gift to you a project dubbed 'They Didn't…They Couldn't Have!' or 'One Word: Why?'
Boy Wonder and I opted not to have a weddin' cake. Which is just as well as ALL THE CAKE IN THE WORLD seemed to go into creating this.
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Years/decades ago, when the 'America, @$%* yeah!' mentality was just beginning to stumble across the States, I thought beach towels featuring the US flag were the most sacrilegious items bred. Currently, wedding bouquet-wise, it appears the offensive theme lives on.
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I am grateful not to include children in our ceremony. Dressing children as adults is not cute, it is stupid.
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I am grateful not to include children in our ceremony. Dressing children as adults is not cute, it is stupid.
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I once read that women used to draw pictures of their bums for their war-bound soldiers. Apparently, the romantic bum image resembled, and eventually turned into, a heart image. Now, when I see hearts representing Kay Jewelers, Valentine's Day, and weddings I giggle and think, 'Stick it to ya, Ladies!'
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I had some reservations in poking fun at stupid wedding presents until I saw this. While this Baby Bouncer is definitely one of the stupider from a 15 Awesomely Stupid Wedding Gifts for Guys Getting Hitched list, I'm pretty sure the preceding Bacon of the Month Club would make a near perfect wedding gift for Boy Wonder.
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One thing I have always been pretty good at is choosing locations, locations, locations. Not everyone else is.
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And, finally, for those who think it horrifically untraditional that Boy Wonder and I put the kibosh on a wedding cake, have a gander at this:
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With that, I shall return to nailing down our cheesy, flouncy, rosy, pink itemized, and exploded heart reception dinner…a peacock, stuffed with a goose, stuffed with a pigeon, stuffed with a quail, stuffed with a single, teeny-tiny canary egg, of the rare blue canary, of Sion!


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CAXE3702T3 | 2TB | 32MB Cache |
CAXE3701T3 | 1TB | 32MB Cache |
One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes. One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. The total accessible capacity may be less and actual capacity depends on the operating environment and formatting.
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CAXA Series | silver
CAXB Series | black
CAXM Series | black with eSATA kit
eSATA + USB 2.0
External Hard Drive w/ eSATA kit
This hard drive delivers reliable storage expansion and the incredible 3 Gbit/s transfer speed of eSATA, all in one sleek, black aluminum package. The transfer speed, at six times faster than USB 2.0, will blow you away.
The solid aluminum enclosure boasts exceptional heat dissipation for near-silent, fan-less operation. It is remarkably durable, offering state-of-the art shock absorption and superior all-around performance, and its stackable design gives you a streamlined, uncluttered workplace.