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(project log) Arachnid - 02 november
hello and welcome to my first ever mod/build
well where to begin i was bored one night and decided to see what i could do to help with the boredom and somehow i came up with building a computer case after several ideas came through my head i saw this on the internet http://pcper.com/images/reviews/992/icon1.jpg which inspired me to create this monster.
its probably not the most sensible design to start modding with and i know i cant build this case exactly how i have it planned in my mind (very little money) so this is going to be a working model of the planned case i.e instead of black acrylic ille be using plywood and paint
so after several hours on sketchup i have finally come up with a design i like the look of (keeping that a secret)
i started the build Wednesday night (31st October) laying out the components robed from an old computer onto the hitec chassi
on thursday i started by cutting out "armour" for the case
and this is what i got done today
that's the computer running on the screen in the background unfortunately im locked out
next up im going to start work on the main shell covering the motherboard and seeing if i can rob any leds from somewhere
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main body
last night i decided to base the main body around three case fans i had lying around and again i used more of that lovely plywood to build up the cases main carapace
im really happy with the way this is turning out but tbh it friggin huge
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This is a great start, some of the best case mods on this site are made using wood. It also makes a great template to start from if you do decide to use acrylic in the future. Interested in seeing more progress on this build.
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sorry about taking so long to give an update i haven't worked on this as much as i would like too and unfortunately i dropped the build a few weeks ago while tidying (proof no good comes from tidying up) and i broke the top of the shell so I've decided to rebuild it out of steel
so i popped round to a friends shop to pick at his scrap machines and decided to "borrow" this.
so this is what I used to build the new chassis for some reason i was sure I'd taken pictures of marking and cutting them out but someone stole them
fortunately i didn't get too far into bending the metal before i remembered to take a photo
drilled some holes and made sure the cd drive fits
cut out and finished bending the rest of the steel
it was far too flexible so using a piece of off cut i made a nice support marked drilled and riveted it to the frame
now i need to create another support for the other side
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woop woop, I've found myself a dremel 395. I will start testing it out tomorrow but it seams to cut through this stuff fairly easily
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Thier is also the possibility we draft a DE in the first like Okafor. And if we do select him in the first he'll play limited snaps like JPP his rookie season..Really wanna see Ojomo, seen his preseason highlights, the guy is fast and high motor.
Quite honestly, Reese should see if he can reach a deal in concept for Dumervil, if that happens he then asks Eli to restructure and signs Dumervil.
not Ojomo again, he will probably be sitting on the bench once again regardless of what he does in preseason.


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Sasha was absolutely exquisite, and even with the fall at the end, she was light years ahead of Mao as far as presentation, and it was NOT reflected in the score. Paul Wylie commented on that fact and said he didn't understand it (that she should have been 6 or 8? points higher than MAO in the PCS). She skated with more passion and added some new moves to the program. Paul Wylie said she was exquisite and he was absoultely right. It was simply one of the most beautiful skates I have ever seen. Shizuka was wonderful as well and skated the footwork section beautifully. Her speed was fabulous. Mao was the jumping bean of the night but I would have placed her after Sasha. Sasha's program was mature, elegant and difficult. The same can be said of Shizuka's. Mao had the jumps and a Bielman and that's it. Her PCS should have been much lower than Sasha's.
Umm, did they show Kimmie's program? Because I swear they cut it off! I only got Mao Asada and onwards (minus Rochette's scores) on my computer. But I don't see Kimmie...
I found it VERY amusing, with all the Kimmie hype and Kimmie fluff....they don't show Kimmie! Hehehe.
I thought Sasha was rather tentative, markedly slower looking than Arakawa, and a few scratchy and two-footed jump landings. It is another ironic amusement, how Wylie points out Arakawa's "lip", but blithely let's Sasha's egregious "flutz" go by unnoted.
And again, comparing Arakawa's spiral sequence to Sasha's, saying how much inferior it was....but Arakawa's sure had better speed and edging.
Asada's 3axel looked at least 1/4 cheated on the landing, but also pre-rotated...no commentary on that. Oh well.
I have to agree with Kyla (and Paul, LOL). The New Judging System stinks. Bad performances can still amass lots of points. Sasha was the only performer that held my interest at all.
If the purpose of the NJS was to make figure skating "more like other sports," congratulations, it has succeeded.
I was going hunh??? after seeing the skates. From the results, I figured Sasha had skated poorly. Now I do think that Mao was terrific, and that she definitely deserved the silver, but Sasha was so clearly head and shoulders above her -- even with Mao's 3axel. I wonder if the PCS scores wouldn't have been vastly different if Mao had skated after Sasha, because that would have very starkly shown the maturity differences.Originally Posted by kyla2
Also, why didn't Mao get a deduction for the touch down on her last spin? AFAIK, if you have to put your hand(s) down to keep yourself from falling, it's considered a fall. Without that hand down on that spin, she would have been on her backside. Wouldn't have effected the outcome, but I wonder why she didn't get it.
You know what's the worst thing about the New Judging System? The spins. Everyone is going around really slow sticking out their arms in weird positions hoping that this will count as a "change of position" to get a higher level. A spin can be a pretty element and actually add something of artistic value to a program. Now...ptttt!
I hope Michelle retires and leaves figure skating to lie in the bed it has made for itself.
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First time I've ever heard a Kwaniac say thatOriginally Posted by Mathman
Michelle transcends the sport. It is time for her to spread her wings and leave Speedy and company behind, eating her ice chips!
The "lip" comment was aimed at Sokolova, not Arakawa. Elena does a true lutz, and Paul just pointed out that she does the opposite of the ladies that flutz. She turns a flip into a lutz, instead of a lutz into a flip. Everyone knows about all the ladies who flutz. Why mention it again when it's been done to death? Sokolova's "lip" is something that had never been commented on before.
Also, got to agree. Sasha was exquisitely beautiful in the LP. She was clearly cheated on the PCS scores. They should have been in the 70's, IMO.
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I stand corrected. The "lip" was about Sokolova. But, it's not a matter of not pointing out the flutz because it has been mentioned multiple times. It's the fact that they were bringing up a jump entry error on one skater, but not pointing out a worse jump entry error on "their" skater.
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I have always believed it wasn't the judging previously that was the problem...rather the judges.. but no one wanted to points fingers and ban judges for life... so instead of 'fixing' the problem, they created another one. case in point: sasha's finish at TEB. just a joke. sasha should have been so far ahead of the others in PCS that she ought to have won. exquisite... really was.. she wants it badly this season and i hope she can achieve her dreams.
Outside of the fall at the end, I thought Sasha's LP was breathtaking.. She looked very strong to me.. What I don't understand is are her PCS scores?
International have always given Sasha huge PCS scores. MAybe the are trying to tell her something? It's her first time out, so let's give her a message to go home, keep working and improve that program more..Then we will give you that silver medal in Torino.. I have to say that I have never really cared for Sasha's attitude, but she is such a marvelous skater.. No one has her posture and can hit positions like her..
I think you have a good point about skate order possibly affecting the PCS scores. Jumps and non-jump element levels, I don't think so, though anything is possible given the proclivities of the Caller.Originally Posted by sk8er1984
US commentators tend to "see" fewer problems in US skaters (don't know if this happens in other countries). Even though I don't like it, I can understand it as human nature.Originally Posted by Kasey
As for the commentator's saying Mao was overmarked on her PCS, it's difficult for me to tell not being there live. However, even if Mao's scores were right on the money, again I think it's human nature for the US commentators, who've only seen Mao compete twice but who have watched Sasha and Shizuka fight through the tough times over the past four years, to go against the hype--at least for right now--and point out some very valid weaknesses in Asada's skating. I do wish, however, that the commentator's had been more generous in talking about the things she does incredibly well, at any age.
Also, re Sasha, after Campbell's, her injury, her SP, and what I'd read on the forum, I expected Sasha to basically drag herself through this performance. Boy, was I wrong! Not only did she light up the arena just skating out to her position, but this skate was better than Campbell's by leap years. I hadn't thought of it before since I also love Irina and Shizuka a lot--Michelle, too, but sadly she'd been in limbo lately. But when either Paul or Suzie said that they realized how much they'd missed Sasha and what she brings to the ice (at her best or close to it, I assume), I realized, "Yeah, watching her now I realize I have missed watching her skate, especially when she skates like she did here."
Of course Sasha has a lot of work to do, especially on her speed. edges, jumps, and overall timing of her LP. But last night, I must say I was really proud and excited that Sasha Cohen may represent the US at the Olympics. Except for the year she was injured, she's come in second at Nationals every year since '99 except the one year, IIRC, she came in third. Since '02 Worlds she's finished no lower than 4th and has two silver medals to show for the last two years. Also, except for '04, she's gone through every GPS season winning most or all of her events and has also won a couple of GPFs. Of course she tanked a lot during GPS in '01.
As Sasha said in another interview, she has skated through all kinds of ups and downs, but since her first performance at the '02 Olympics, she's never finished lower than fourth and has won silver at the last two Worlds. But what made me feel proud of her is how she's been from the beginning, both on and off the ice. Call me crazy--everybody does, lol--but I like a young woman with hutzpuh. She doesn't always do the right thing, sit the right way, swallow instead of spit (I can relate), and certainly doesn't always say the right thing, though (sigh) as they grow up they do tend to watch what they say and sound more "spun." Nice girls have never been my thing, no offense to nice people. When Sasha spit the infamous "spit," I caught her face as she was turning away from the camera and she had what I interpreted as a wry smile, as if to laugh as she was thinking, "Of course the camera's on you when there's no where to spit but on the floor. What can you do except laugh and go out and skate?!" Three years ago I think it would have been a moment full of tension and would have negatively affected her performance. As she said in her interview, "I do feel pressure because it's the Olympics. Last time I had something to prove, to make the team, just to get out and compete at the World level for the first time. And I've done that, I've competed at Worlds, so this will be different."
It's highly unlikely that Sasha will make Bartlett's Quotations--we'll leave that to Dick Button. I just liked her whole demeanor both in the interview and while she skated. I still wish she had used cuts from Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet," but this program has a lot more depth than it did at Campbell's and I just hope things keep going in that diirection for "R/J." OT, but, boy howdy! What Edmond Martin was able to do with the Muzak/Rota version of "R/J" for Totmianina and Marinin! Now that's music for figger skatin' BIG TIME!
Okay, on to the actual ladies competition and specifically how the LP was judged. Recently we started a thread based on Joe's signature: "Do you believe the Technical Assistant (the Caller) is the most important official in the competition? I do." Many expressed that by increasing or decreasing the levels for non-jump elements or by downgrading a jump from a triple to a double, the Caller could have the real power in the NJS since s/he can chip away at a winning performance, especially if second place is close, in order to affect the podium standings, or how many skaters a country gets to send to the next Worlds or Olympics.
For example, did you notice Paul Wylie's comment that Shizuka kept getting her 3/3 downgraded to a 3/2 that she, or more likely Tarasova, decided, "What's the point in risking a 3/3 if it's just going to end up a 3/2?" Thus last night, where Shizza usually did her 3/3, she just a 3/2. How many of us have had the opportunity to really look at Shizza's 3/3s and see if they were really more than a quarter turn underrotated or prerotated? I'm not automatically impugning the Callers, but their position does give them a lot of power.
At TEB, I think the Caller was tough on certain elements. For example, s/he (where does one find the names of the Technical Specialists?) gave every one of the eight LP skaters except the one who finished last a Level 3 on her Spiral Step sequence. Of course we who saw the ESPN TV version in the US, saw only five skaters--hey, a whoppin' number for ESPN! But even just out of those five, no way could I give all their Spirals a Level 3. I thought Sokolova deserved a 2, yet she received a 3, the same as Arawakawa, who I thought deserved a 4. And I haven't been able to face the spins yet.
Fortunately with a good Caller and unfortunately with a bad or cheating Caller, this is something we're just going to have to get used to, at least for this season. However, at the season's final Cheesefest when we give half the audience cards that when turned over spell out, "THE CALLERS IN THE NJS SUCK! ISU, FIX THIS NOW, YOU WEENIES!" I think we can be hopeful that next season there may be three Callers. If all 3, or 2 of 3 agree on the non-jump levels or that a jump is what the skater intended it to be, ie, a 3/3 rather than a 3/2, then majority rules. If all three disagree, eg, a level 2, 3, and 4 for the same spin, then I say use either the mean or the score closest to the mean. Right now, under the right circumstances, which so far have happened pretty often, the Caller alone can decide who is where on the podium and even who is on or off the podium, especially for the bronze.
IMO, since flutzes and lips aren't being counted by the Callers as a deduction, I'm fine with the commentators pointing them out as long as they also point out that, at least this season, there is no deduction for doing one. If I were Sasha, Elena, or any other flutzer or lipper, I wouldn't worry about mine until the day after Worlds, then when I started training again, I'd work on my flutz or lip like gangbusters.
As for Sasha's Spiral, I would have given her a Level 3, as the Caller did. Of course the Caller has to make a pretty quick call, but given that I have my VCR and can take as long as I want to determin the levels of various Spiral Step sequences, I decided to mess around. Here's what I would use to determine the level of a given Spiral Step sequence: Edges, speed, and positions.
I know this isn't the ISU wording, but it seems like what the Callers are mainly looking at and since I'm too tired (lazy) to try to find the ISU wording, if anybody has it, I'd appreciate it and I'm sure others would, too.
Specifically for Sasha, here's how I evaluated her Spiral Step sequence based on edges, speed, and difficulty/quality of positions:
(a) The FIE on her 180-degree arabesque before the change/edge isn't deep at all, but it's there nonetheless and the 180-degree free leg is directly behind her, thus making a deep edge especially difficult because the center is so far forward and moving the left free leg to the right, providing more balance, is virtually impossible when it's amplitude is 180 degrees. I'd give that FIE a 2.
The FOE after the C/E is good, but only good, not great. However considering again that the free leg is directly behind and not held out to the left for balance--from what I could see--I'd give Sasha's FOE on the 180-degree arabesque after the C/E a 3.
(b) Sasha's best edges are on the catch-foot up to the head, a BOE, just before going into the "fan" or "front-side" free leg position. She leans back well and has a good BOE on the curve. I give both BOEs for this section a 3.
(c) Her Charlotte is supposed to be a FIE but it's even less barely there than her FIE during her 180-degree arabesque before the C/E. Caller Rgirl gave Sasha's Charlotte FIE barely a 1.
(d) Speed: I gave Sasha a 2 for speed throughout her Spiral Step sequence.
(e) Number and difficulty of positions. Number of positions: 4. Difficulty of positions, looking at control, amplitude, extension, stillness, and "wholeness" of entire position on each one, I gave Sasha a 4 for what I'll call "high quality difficulty."
Sasha received from Caller Rgirl two 4s, three 3s, two 2s and one 1.
I would think the Callers wouldn't have time to do this kind of doo-doo, but doing it has been helpful to me in breaking down what makes a poor, okay, good, and great spiral. When I get the time--in another life--I'll try doing it for some of the spins, as well as elements in other disciplines. Anyway, in a case like this in which you, the Caller, feel the skater is somewhat all over the place, I would make my decision based on which aspects I felt were most important and how well the skater did them. Did she do a number of positions but was her speed slow? Did she do difficult positions but did the difficulty show with strain, or did she have relatively shallow edges? In Sasha's case, she has good control over her edges, ie, the change/edge and the foot-to-head into fan position with an especially high free leg, but her speed is slow and her edges shallow. Thus Caller Rgirl feels that Sasha did not do the most important aspects of the spiral as well as she should have, although she did others extremely well.
Thus, Caller Rgirl agrees with the TEB Caller for giving Sasha's spiral sequence a Level 3.
If I were advising Sasha, I'd suggest that she work like a mofo on her speed and edges, since I think those two things drag down not just her spirals, but also her whole LP as well as her SP. I'd also change that last Charlotte--we already know you can get your leg up there Sasha, show us something else. Hmm, what gets lots of points and would be easy as pie for Sasha to do? Big surprise! A Biellman or variation thereof, going backwards, preferably using a BIE, since good ones are rare. If her BIE really stinks even after a lot of work, then a BOE. Just as long as it's backwards and not the Charlotte.
If Sasha really digs the Charlotte, use it as choreography with a nifty pull-out not unlike Emily Hughes's swirl or something even groovier.
Let's take Elena, same criteria: Edges, speed, positions.
(a) On the crossed Biellman C/E, I'd give her FIE a 2 and her FOE a 3. On the backward arabesque spiral held up at the knee with it slightly bent, I don't know if it was the camera angle but couldn't tell if there was an edge at all. I think it was supposed to be a BIE, so I'll say it was and give Elena the benefit of the doubt for going backwards. I say 2.
(b) On her overall speed, a 3.
(c) Her positions included two. The first was the crossed-hand Biellman. The second was the backward arabesque spiral held up at the knee. I don't know if you can give a 0, but for number of positions, I'll again give Elena the benefit and a 1 on Number of Positions. As for Difficulty/Quality of Positions, also a 1.
Now here's a question: Do you count only the number of positions the skater does or do you compare it to skaters who do more positions? I'd say you should base it on the number of positions a skater does, as well as their quality. If those 3 positions blow the roof off the arena, give the girl Level 4. But if they're run-of-the-mill positions, I'd take off for only 3 positions, especially when there are skaters doing 6 and 7 positions that are absolutely exquisite. In other words, a lower Level for three positions done poorly; a high level for 6 or 7 positions done exquisitely, but also vice versa.
Elena's received two 3s, two 2s, and two 1s. Elena gets a Level 2 for her Spst from Caller Rgirl. From the TEB Caller, Elena's Spiral sequence received Level 3.
Now Shizuka, same critera:
(a) Edges on cross-arm Biellman with C/E: FIE 4, FOE 3. Edge on arabesque with upper body twist--missed a lot on her edge because the boards got in the way, but BofD, FOE 3. Cross-arm Biellman going backwards, tough to tell with camera angle, but with BofD BIE 2. Catch-foot to head into "fan" spiral. Catch-foot BOE 3. Fan spiral on curve BOE 4.
(b) Overall Speed: 4.
(c) Number and Difficulty/Quality of Positions: Shizza did seven different positions, including the arabesque with the twist and a cross-arm Biellman going backwards. Definite Level 4. Difficulty/Quality of Positions: Paul Wylie said he saw a big difference in the quality between Sasha and Shizuka's positions, with his opinion that Sasha's were far superior. I disagree. I gave the higher level to the Difficulty/Quality of Positions to Shizuka over Sasha. It all came down to edges and speed for these two skaters. Shizza had great edges and speed as well as excellent positions. Sasha may have won on positions by some, but she lost by a lot in terms of edges and speed, IMO.
Shizza had five 4s; three 3s; and one 2. Shizza gets Level 4, no question about it, from Caller Rgirl. The TEB Caller gave Shizza Level 3.
I was only going to do three skaters, but Caller Rgirl just noticed something. Mao's entire Spiral Step sequence consisted of two cross-foot Biellmans.
1. The first a FOE C/E to a FIE. The second a cross-foot Biellman on a curving BOE. Caller Rgirl, the FOE gets a 3; the FIE a 1; and the BOE a 3.
2. Speed is a 2.
3. Number of Positions is one, the cross-foot Biellman. I give Number of Positions a 1. Difficulty/Quality of Position: 1.
Mao does 3 edges, a 3, 1, and 3. Speed, 2. Number of Positions, 1. Difficulty/Quality of Positions, 1. Caller Rgirl would give Asada a Level 2 for what she did. However, with only two positions that I gave the Difficulty/Quality of a 1, IMO, I'd have no problem giving her entire Spiral Step sequence a Level 1.
The TEB Caller gave Mao's Spiral Step sequence a Level 3.
So Caller Rgirl feels the TEB Caller undermarked Shizuka on her spiral, got Sasha just right, and overmarked Sokolova one level and Asada 1 to 2 levels on her spiral. Anybody care to figure out if a difference on the podium might have been made with different Levels of Spirals and Spins for the top three skaters?
Since most of the Callers tend to consider edge and speed more than number and difficulty of positions, with which I agree for the reasons stated above, If I were Sasha, I'd either lower the free leg or let it go slightly to one side or the other in order to balance and get a deeper FIE and FOE, but more importantly, learn to use her arms to balance as well as strengthen her ankles. plus work on my other suggestions. Or, heck, just hire me and I'll fix all Sasha's programs--if I can remember what they are when I get there, LOL.
BTW, nothing against Asada. I love a lot of things about her. She's just not all the way there yet.
Seriously, the spiral Levels at TEB were a joke. I don't even want to think about what the Caller did with the Spin Levels--but I probably torture myself and do with the top three skaters' spins what I did with their spirals.
Once again, sorry this is sooooooo long.
Last edited by Rgirl; 11-29-2005 at 12:30 PM.
Here's something I never thought I'd say.... Sasha was robbed... Diva was robbed... and to a certain extent, Mao was robbed... Generally, when I don't understand a judging result, I just chalk it up to not understanding the new system & wait for the CoP crowd to break it down in the forums and then going back and re-watching it via Tivo (best invention since the coffee pot!)
But last night.... whew.... what a mess... For me skating is a visual sport ~ you see what's presented & judge from there. But the ISU is turning it into a mess with this whole "are you gonna believe what you see or what we tell you?" approach... I'm sorry, I'm done. I used to contemplate what skating would be like after Michelle retired in relation to my interest, but MK could skate for another 20 years within the competitive ranks, and I'd still be done.
I'm with Mathman on this one...


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(a) Faculty seeking to supervise independent studies may do so only with the prior approval of the department chair and appropriate dean/director (and graduate dean for graduate students).
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Vienna: Brian Jungen
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Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
Brian Jungen (b. 1970) ingeniously repurposes found objects, disassembling and reassembling them into spectacular sculptures, which often reference Aboriginal traditions and cultures. Vienna, thethird in a series of whale sculptures created by the artist since 2000, is a comment on consumerism and disposable culture as well as preservation and museum displays. It is an exploration of sculptural form generated by plastic lawn chairs and the cross-cultural intersections of Aboriginal and Western cultures.
Brian Jungen was the winner of the inaugural Sobey Art Award in 2002 and the 2010 Gershon Iskowitz Prize.
Brian Jungen Vienna, 2003 white polypropylene plastic chairs, 125 x 850 x 130 cm Purchased 2004 with the Joy Thomson Fund for the Acquisition of Art by Young Canadian Artists, National Gallery of Canada Foundation National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Photo © National Gallery of Canada


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EcoMotors revs up engine operations with M&A
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EcoMotors Inc. is using M&A activity to commercialize its engine concept on two continents.
The Allen Park-based engine startup acquired Clinton Township-based Katech Inc. last week. In April 2013, it signed a $200 million deal to build the engines in China through a joint venture.
Terms of the Katech deal were not disclosed. However, the two deals were executed to give EcoMotors stronger capabilities in North America and Asia.
Katech, which develops high performance engines for the Corvette Racing Team and others, will also provide significant research and development expertise, Amit Soman, EcoMotors COO, said in a news release.
EcoMotors' joint venture partner, Zhongding Power, will build a plant in China's Anhui province and will sell EcoMotors' opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder engines to its customers.
The plant will have capacity to build 150,000 engines a year, with high-volume production scheduled to begin this year.
The engine technology was designed by founder Peter Hofbauer, former head of powertrain development at Volkswagen AG.
The reciprocating internal combustion engine, where each cylinder has a piston at both ends, and no valves or camshafts, among other parts, is designed to produce about 30 percent fuel economy gains over current engine designs.
The engine isn't limited to automobiles; it could be used in engines for generators, marine technology or for just about any other purpose, the company told Crain's in a previous interview.
EcoMotor's customers include Illinois-based Navistar, a manufacturer of diesel engines and medium and heavy trucks; Wisconsin-based Generac, a manufacturer of generators; and Chinese auto company Jiangling Motors Co., which is investigating the engine for use in passenger cars.
Since 2008, the Khosla Ventures-, Bill Gates- and Braemar Energy Ventures-invested company has raised $66 million in three funding rounds.
In a previous version of this article, the name of EcoMotors founder was misspelled. The current version is accurate.


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SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (January 20, 2006) í¢â'¬" SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. today announced 2006's most highly anticipated PC title, Medieval 2: Total War. The Total War franchise is unmatched in ambition and scope, receiving widespread critical acclaim and a multitude of awards across the globe while selling a staggering 3.5 million units. The fourth installment of the franchise takes the strategy genre to a whole new level with the most epic and cinematic 3D battles ever seen on PC.
Medieval 2: Total War is the latest release from the highly acclaimed developer, The Creative Assembly, an award-winning studio that made headline news when acquired by SEGA in 2005. The game boasts an impressive array of new graphical and gameplay enhancements, including the capability for a massive 10,000 dynamic characters to be taken into battle at any one time. On top of this, The Creative Assembly has implemented a fully redesigned multiplayer mode that offers a dynamic multi-battle campaign bolstered by an unprecedented level of visceral combat choreography that reflects the brutalism of medieval warfare.
"Medieval 2: Total War is the result of seven years continuous development of the Total War series and has been designed to appeal to all gamers, not just hardcore strategy fans," said Mike Simpson, Studio Director at Creative Assembly. "Each game in the series has outshone the previous one and Medieval 2: Total War is no exception."
Set in the most turbulent and bloody era in European history, Medieval 2: Total War will allow gamers to lead their armies across the battlefields of Europe and the Holy Land before discovering the Americas and doing battle with the fearsome Aztecs. The game's exciting medieval setting will bring to life the spirit of discovery and brutal warfare that characterized the era from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, when great leaders such as King Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, and Joan of Arc moved nations to war and built Europe into a power that would drive the history of the western world for the next 1000 years.
Medieval 2: Total War offers a vastly enhanced terrain model to create new graphically rich environments portraying breathtaking cliff top castles and enhanced settlement features that are unique to each civilization. Over 200 new units, greater depth in siege warfare, new weaponry and a highly detailed building damage model all combine to make Medieval 2: Total War the best version of the critically acclaimed PC strategy franchise.
Medieval 2: Total War will be charging its way onto streets in winter 2006.


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Double/Triple Room near St.Peter's and Vatican Museums
Maximální počet hostů4
Počet místností1
Velikost17 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
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|via seneca, 00136 Roma, Itálie
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5 minutes from metro A stop CIPRO
6 minutes from metro FM3 stop St.Peter's
10 minutes from the Vatican Museums
15 minutes from St.Angel's Castle
20 minutes from Piazza Navona, Piazza del Popolo, Piazza di Spagna with the Spanish Steps.
The Zodiaco panoramic terrace is nearby with one of the most beautiful views in Rome.
Our B&B hasd 3 confortable rooms all of them with private bathroom. There's a confortable lounge/ dining room where we normally serve continental breakfast, but, on request, we can also offer a real English one. Also we can serve dinner with typical Roman specialities cooked by us,
but you'll have to give a 24 hours notice.
This is a very spacious triple room with 3 single beds or a double bed and a single one. This room has large windows and is equipped with heating, air conditioning, hairdryer, TV set, WI-FI. On request a fourth bed or a cot can be added.
The FM3 Balduina station is only 5 minutes away and this train will take you to St Peter's, the Vatican City and Porta Portese flee market which is held every Sunday morning. 2 minutes only are needed to get to Viale Medaglie d'oro where a taxi rank and bus lines are available.
The same FM3 train reaches Rome from Fiumicino (Leonardo da Vinci) airport.
Domovní řádRules are very simple and obvious: please do not disturb other guest's rest, smoking is only allowed on the lounge balcony, inform your hosts about late/early arrival. And, please, smile and be happy, you are on holiday in a wonderful city.
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Daniela and Max are really nice persons and help you with everything!
The rooms are really clean and comfortable, there is a supermarket 3 minutes away and its really easy to go in the city centre by bus or by metro.
Thanks for everything! :)
My son and I would like to express our gratitude to our hosts for this wonderful stay in Rome. In so many ways it was just fabulous to get the opportunity to be allowed to stay at your place.
Thank you very much for your kind and considerate approach to us and not the least, the information provided by you in regards to our endeavours and adventures in Rome. A huge contribution and help for me.
We didn't quite finish our experiences in Rome and the both of us want to return again one day, and the one thing that is certain is, that we again will choose to stay with you if it will be possible. So in short; See you again :-)
Warm and lovely greetings to the both of you
Betinna & Sol Emil
Very warm and welcoming people, give lots of help if you need and they allow you to enjoy the best of Roma
Max made us feel very much at home. As we arrived late in the evening, it was so great to be picked up in the airport by him, who made us feel very welcome from the very first moment! He and Daniela are great hosts and the room was perfect for the two of us and our child.
There is a fine view from the big windows (which means a lot to us) and there is a fridge and a cooker. The bath room was not very nice, though. A bit warn out and not enough warm water.
None the less: a big reckommendation for this place!
Daniela and Max have been very nice to us. They are very helpful and we felt really well at there place. The room are very clean and nice. It was a pleasure and we will recommend them in an way. Thanks to you!!
Bonjour chambre vraiment proche du Vatican dans un quartier calme, très agréable, propre, conviviale, avec un très bon accueil de Max, bon rapport qualité prix, un seul petit regret que les toilettes ne soient pas séparé de la salle de bain, se qui pose un léger désagrément lorsque l'heure de la douche arrive le soir pour les trois chambres...Par contre une literie extraordinaire, on a dormi comme des bébé, ( d'ailleurs si Max et Daniela veulent bien nous donner la marque et les références des matelas nous serions vraiment intéressés ... Encore merci pour ces nuits réparatrices surtout lorsque vous marchez entre 12 et 16 kms à pied par jour à la découverte de cette magnifique ville de ROME.)
Nous le recommandons chaleureusement ainsi que 2 restaurant , le premier à 150 mètres " IL CHIODO FISSO " et le second via crencsenzio 56 , "PORTO" un excellent fish & chips raffiné avec ambiance piano-jazz le mardi soir, ambiance so sweet !!!! . Cordialement Stéphanie & Benoît .
Die Unterkunft bei Daniela in Rom war super, und die Gastgeber, Max und Daniela, einfach wunderbare und sehr hilfreiche Leute. Zudem eine gute Lage mit Busanschluss direkt ins Zentrum. Exzellentes Preis-/Leistungsverhältnis.
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You will find Max to be affable and charming, and equally so, Daniela. The small single room I occupied with them was more than adequate - the bed is comfortable and there is a small fridge outside your door in which to store your food purchases from the two local supermarkets, one literally around the corner from your accommodation. I recommend the local Sicilian bakery, and there is another excellent place where you can buy pizza by the slice if you are budget conscious.
My sense of proximity had to be adjusted however as, when I made the booking because it was listed as close to the Vatican and St Peter's, this was a general indication. The Vatican may not be a walkable jaunt for some (elderly?) visitors, and several times I went wrong on the connecting bus [913] from Lepanto metro stop, and the directions sent to me were not as clear at they might be: the stop you want is Piazza Carlo Mazzaresi - all the busses do not internally display the stops so you may need to rely on your GPS or the assistance of locals.
Here are things emailed to me by Daniele once I had made the booking, which you may wish to take into consideration:
"Please read carefully the following notes:
* BREAKFAST ( continental or English) is NOT included in the price.
* TOURIST TAX, compulsory since Jan 2011, which amounts to 3.50 euro per day per person, has to be added to the price shown on our website and will have to be paid in cash upon arrival, together with the balance, if due.
* CHECK-IN TIME is up to 12 noon: or after 7.30 pm unless otherwise agreed.
However, guests are kindly requested TO GET IN TOUCH WITH US AT LEAST 48 hours in advance so that we can make an appointment to hand the keys.
* IMPORTANT! Check-ins between 10 pm and 7 am will be charged 20.00 euro extra.
* Upon request we provide transfer service from airports at cheap rates.
* In case you wish to use public transport, please let us know which airport or station you will be arriving to so that we may give adequate instructions to reach us, bearing in mind that it will take you about 2 hours to get here as Rome airports are about 40 km away from the city.
Please feel free to ask anything you feel you need to know".
Our stay at Daniela´s and Max´s place was very great! They are both very friendly, helpfull, accomodating and charming. Our room in their flat was clean, cozy and well furnished. The geografic situation was okay, there is a bus stop nearby (the bus comes every 10 minutes) and we needed 20 min to Vatican City by feet.
The contact to Daniela and Max was very fine. They answered all our questions within a very short time.
If we would visit Rome another time, we would love to stay at Daniela´s and Max´s place again.
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New business innovation institute will be named after the late Sir Paul Callaghan.
One of the Government's key initiatives for driving economic growth has been formally named Callaghan Innovation - after the late New Zealand physicist Sir Paul Callaghan.
Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce said the project previously known as the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) would be named after Callaghan "in recognition of his passion for commercialising scientific research".
"Sir Paul was one of New Zealand's greatest scientists," Joyce said.
"He believed that science was not only about great ideas but about getting value from those ideas through innovation and commercialisation.
"His views reflect the ambition of the ATI and we are grateful to the Callaghan family for allowing us to name the new institute in his honour." Callaghan, regarded as a world leader in his field, died in March this year after a long struggle with bowel cancer.
The project will be based in Auckland, Lower Hutt and Canterbury and aims to bring science and business closer together.
"Callaghan Innovation will be a one-stop shop for business innovation support whether it be in science, engineering, design or technology. It will be a high-tech HQ for New Zealand businesses," Joyce said.
It has yet to be announced where Callaghan Innovation will have its headquarters and the Herald understands there is concern among some in Auckland that the project will be hamstrung by bureaucracy if run out of Wellington.
Joyce said yesterday that the initiative, which was flagged before the last election, was preparing for a February 1 launch.
But some business commentators said this week that details about how the initiative would work were scant.
Technology Innovation Network (Tin) managing director Greg Shanahan said companies wanted clarity on how it would operate.
"The feedback that I'm getting from companies that I'm exposed to [within Tin] is that information is slow in coming out," Shanahan said.
Business New Zealand's manager of manufacturers and exporters, Catherine Beard, said it was fair to say there was "a vacuum of information".
"I think understandably there is a vacuum because when something's not set up it's not entirely clear exactly how it's going to operate," she said.
Beard said she understood why high-tech businesses felt there had been a hiatus.
"There's probably a desire to just see it get up and running and make a difference. I think we'd support that sentiment," she said.
Chief executive of business incubator The Icehouse Andy Hamilton said it would probably appear to some ATI was not moving quickly.
"Probably if [the Government] went out publicly and said all the things they were doing people would be critical. They need to get a few ducks in a row and get some people in place. While it might be frustrating to some, these things are normal," Hamilton said.
A submission clarifying the role of the ATI, its vision and the results it hopes to achieve is due to go to the Cabinet in January.
Callaghan Innovation
* The initiative will connect high-tech business with the skills and facilities at the country's Crown Research Institutes (CRIs), universities and research centres.
* It is set to absorb and extend the functions of an existing CRI, Industrial Research Ltd, that the Government believed was not designed to meet the vast business needs of a diverse manufacturing and services sector.
* These parts of the economy account for almost 30 per cent ($37.5 billion) of the country's gross domestic product but have the potential to be worth more.
* The Government has flagged $166 million of taxpayer money for Callaghan Innovation over the next four years.


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Don't link to your Facebook brand page from your B2B corporate home page just to show your CMO you know what Facebook is.
Forrester has long-viewed our POST — people, objectives, strategy, and tools/technology, in that order — methodology as a primary tool for social marketers to use when developing a social strategy. This requires thinking about your audience and their social behaviors first (people), then your business objectives that you are using social to meet, then what your strategy should be, and finally, what tools, technology, and platforms will help you reach your goals. Yet I'm having more and more conversations with B2B marketers who haven't articulated their audience's business social behaviors about social platforms they maintain a corporate presence on and link to on their corporate home pages.
Your customers' and prospects' use of social is exceedingly context dependent — and you only care what they are doing in a business context in relation to your solution. Forrester's data consistently shows that Facebook is not very influential in the B2B purchase process. For this reason, before you decide to put a link to your Facebook group (or page) on your B2B corporate home page because your peers in other organizations have done so, or your CMO requested it, consider the following questions:


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PR-B Community Education classes offered
Pine River-Backus Community Education offers the following in April:
• Adult Volleyball: 6:30-9 p.m. Wednesdays through May 22; $25 for the season or $3 to drop in.
There's no need to have a team; just stop in. League coordinators are Mark and Heather Schmidtke.
• Simple Sewing Denim Bag: Grades 5-8, 3-5 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, Room 46. Fee is $5.
Design and hand sew a stylish denim bag. Bring a pair of old jeans. This is a fun and simple hand sewing project.
• Psychedelic Tie Dyeing: Grades 7-9, 3-5 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, Room 107. Fee is $5.
Bring up to three items to tie-dye. Tie-dying instructions and washing care will be provided.
• Natural Beauty & Beyond: Adults ages 15 and older, 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, at the Hunt Utilities Group Campus on Highway 2 west of Pine River. Fee is $10.
Do you know what's in your shampoo? Is your toothpaste safe to swallow? Learn about natural alternatives to toxic personal care products. Try products and take home samples and handouts.
You will learn how to better understand ingredients and read labels to discover differences between safe and toxic products.
Instructors are Kris Kayser of Stone Women Herbals and Barb Beck of Happy Dancing Turtle.
• Ultimate Martial Arts Karate and Self-Defense
Martial arts provide a positive way to burn calories, learn loyalty and honor and build self-confidence while socializing with quality friends. Ultimate Martial Arts & Fitness is dedicated to providing the highest quality training and a varied curriculum in a courteous and professional manner.
Instructors are Rob Nelson, master instructor and 6th degree black belt, and Monica Volz, 2nd degree black belt.
Children ages 4-5, 6-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays, $25 for four weeks.
Juniors ages 6-12, 6:30-7:15 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, $49 for four weeks.
Adult ages 13 and older, 7:15-8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, $49 for four weeks.
Family discounts are available (10 percent). Testing and uniforms are available for an extra fee.
Session 1 started April 2. Session 2 starts May 2.
• Fit Club Mondays: 3:15-4:30 p.m. through May 22, elementary music room. Classes are free.
Work with a team beachbody coach for free weekly workouts. Experience beachbody workouts seen on TV, like P90X, Insanity, Slim6 and Turbo Jam. There's no pressure and always a modifier to follow. Go at your own pace.
Bring water and a towel or mat (if you have one). Kids are welcome, too!
Call Community Education at 587-2080.
• Fruit Trees and Shrubs: 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, Sunshine Gardens. Fee is $5.
Participants will learn what fruiting trees and shrubs will grow in this area and how to plant them. Learn hardiness zones, planting location, directional planting, maintenance, planting necessities, protection and pruning.
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Homeless Count helps get grant money for those in need
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - Volunteers and members of local organizations were in Johnson City on Thursday for their annual Point-In-Time Count, also referred to as the Homeless Count.
In red vests, more than 100 volunteers and members of the organization ARCH counted the homeless across eight counties in Northeast Tennessee. They counted the homeless in Washington, Sullivan, Cater, Greene, Johnson, Unicoi, Hawkins and Hancock counties.
The event helps get grant money for aiding the homeless. The number of homeless people in this area determines how many federal and private dollars will come to this region.
Michael Lewis was out with the group, surveying the homeless at the Johnson City Salvation Army. He's a case manager at ARCH. ARCH keeps track of the homeless in this area and manages the grants.
"It's very important that we have an accurate count so that the funds can be spread out among the homeless," said Lewis.
The volunteers use surveys to find out if people at shelters and on the streets are homeless, or staying with friends and family.
We're told due to the economy, the number of homeless people in Johnson City is on the rise.
"There's been a spike in the last year or so," said Lewis.
Lewis told us that almost 30 percent of the homeless people in Johnson City are veterans.
We're told the number of homeless children has also gone up in the last 12 months.
"We have about 15 families that do qualify for this Point-In-Time Count that are either living on the streets, or in a shelter, or in a hotel," said Bonnie White, an ARCH volunteer.
White is also the homeless coordinator with Johnson City Schools.
We talked to her at another counting spot, the Melting Pot in Johnson City.She told us the federal funds will help struggling families get back on their feet.
"Grants that will help pay light bills, that will help pay first month's rent and deposit," White explained.
Each person who filled out a survey on Thursday was given a fleece blanket and gloves.
The Homeless Count is a 24-hour event so the volunteers will be out all night collecting data.
"We started at around 10:50 a.m. today at this location so we'll end at 10:50 a.m. tomorrow," said White.
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St. John's scores a pair of OT win for 3-1 series lead, can close out best-of-seven on Tuesday
Published on May 7, 2012
Brendan McCarthy, The Telegram
Apparently, the towels in their dressing room are the only things the St. John's IceCaps have that even remotely resemble a white flag.
The never-surrender IceCaps won their second straight overtime game in as many days Sunday, defeating the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 3-2, a result that moves St. John's to within one win of taking their best-of-seven American Hockey League second-round playoff series.
The IceCaps lead the Eastern Conference semifinal 3-1, with Game 5 set for Tuesday night in Wilkes-Barre.
For second straight day, the IceCaps had to come up with a gritty effort to claim a victory.
Ben Maxwell's goal 27 seconds into extra time completed a 54-minute comeback for St. John's, which trailed 2-0 less than seven minutes into the first period. The Penguins, clearly motivated to make up for a 2-1 overtime loss on Saturday, came out hard, getting goals from Colin McDonald and Eric Tangradi on their first two shots.
But the IceCaps never looked that shaken or rattled — "We held our composure, held our focus," said St. John's head coach Keith McCambridge — and then they began a slow roll to victory.
"It's not a 10-minute game, it's not a one-period game, we had time to work with to chip away and get a win," added the St. John's coach.
His team needed all that regulation time and then about half a minute more.
The IceCaps got through the first period, and owned the second, getting a power-play goal from Derek Meech and a game-tying tally from Maxime Macenaeur, the latter's first goal as an IceCap.
The third was the best period of the best game of the series. It featured no scoring, but just about everything else — hits, great plays, small mistakes, big saves, lucky stops and long stretches of action.
"That was intense," said St. John's defenceman Paul Postma, who came up with his best showing of the playoffs Sunday. "Once we got those two goals, we were good to go and we put a lot pressure on them."
"That was definitely a playoff game with that back-and-forth mentality and guys sacrificing themselves and then willing to go out and sacrifice themselves again," added fellow IceCaps rearguard Brett Festerling.
"It was tough and it was fun, especially fun to win because it would have been exhausting to lose that one."
Festerling was part of the reason they did not lose. On their second shift of overtime, the IceCaps got a faceoff win, with the puck winding up on the stick of the veteran defenceman, who fed it back towards the crease.
"I didn't really get a good shot, " said Festerling. "but it got there, stayed there and even though it probably was only for a second, it seemed liked it stayed three minutes, with Kinger (Jason King) right there and finally he got to it and got it over to Maxy and he put it in.
"When he did, there was lot of relief."
On Saturday, the IceCaps got a first-period goal from Brock Trotter and thanks mainly to outstanding work by Eddie Pasquale, made a 1-0 lead hold up until just before the final minute of regulation. That's when Tangradi tallied with Wilkes-Barre netminder Brad Thiessen on the bench for an extra attacker.
At the time, it seemed like a body-shot set-up to a knockout punch, but it was the IceCaps who made the most of overtime, with Trotter scoring the winner midway through the frame after a rush that started at the centre-ice line.
"It stems from the personnel in that room," answered McCambridge when asked why this IceCaps team could endure in situations that would do in other clubs. "One, they know they have a good team and the depth and the firepower to dig themselves out of (holes) and two, they have the character and the will to push through that deficit."
He's counting on that character to keep the IceCaps from being too pleased with themselves heading into Game 5
"It is a concern and we have to make sure that doesn't happen Tuesday." he said.
According to Festerling, putting the limits on self-satisfaction should simply be a matter of realizing how easily the situation could be reversed.
"That's a real good team with a lot of proud guys over there and you know they're going to show it," he said, nodding his head towards the Penguins' dressing room .
"As happy as we are, we have to realize that's two OT wins. A couple of breaks for them or bad bounces for us and it could be the other way and we're down 3-1.
"I'm glad we're not,. I'm glad we're the ones with the (series) lead, but that doesn't mean we've finished the job."
Shots on goal Sunday were 29-16 in favour of St. John's, which had four shots in the 27 seconds of overtime … The Coors Light three stars of Game 4 were the three St. John's goal scorers: 1. Ben Maxwell 2. Maxime Macenauer 3. Derek Meech … Paul Postma was the choice as the Mary Brown's hardest-working IceCap … Defenceman Arturs Kulda limped to the bench after a third-period collison with the Penguins' Geoff Walker and was still limping after the game, but St. John's head coach Keith McCambridge expects Kulda to be good for Game 5 … Kevin Cheveldayoff, general manager of the Winnipeg Jets, the IceCaps' NHL parent, took in the weekend games, as did IceCaps president Danny Williams, St. John's GM Craig Heisinger and IceCaps chief operating officer Glenn Stanford … The announced attendance Sunday was 3,449, not even half the capacity at the Mohegan Sun Centre … Maxwell (G,A) and Jason King (2A) each had two point games for the IceCaps…. The IceCaps' Brock Trotter was held pointless ending his seven-game playoff scoring streak …The biggest star in the building: 84-year-old "Mr. Hockey," Gordie Howe. His son and fellow Hockey Hall of Famer Mark is the director of pro scouting for the Detroit Red Wings and regularly takes in AHL games in Wilkes-Barre


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I like that guys comments but want to understand something.
He states that clipping a queen doesn't prevent swarming as the bees will just wait for a virgin and run off with her instead anyway. (Paraphrase)
My question is, isn't it still a strong benefit to clipping a queen? I mean, if you're going to have a queen depart, wouldn't you rather have an instantly viable hive with your mated queen ready to go instead of losing ( potentially if you can't capture) your mated queen AND your bees, you'd just lose your bees?
It seems like clipping would save at least 28 days of precious productivity at minimum, maybe 38 days maximum, until a Virginia hatches, breeds and gets laying?
I don't clip currently but this seems like a sound reason to clip.
This year I started two hives. At present I have 3 hives. NONE of my purchased queens are with me anymore because they all got rolled or swarmed. Hence, this clipping would seem to have helped me get a modest harvest instead of none because I'd have gained another month of hive productivity.


text: With the hawks signing earl thomas to 10 mil a year and sherman to a soon to be 10-12 mil a year and RW3 to soon to be (at least) 18 mil a year thats $40 mil to 3 plays. Many of fans assume that's a huge problem. However, the seahawks realize that the salary cap is likely to break $150 mil in 2 years. resulting in an additional 17 million to sign their depth players. I think teams like the giants should look to lock up some young players now, so when the cap expands we'll have the young guys locked up at a below market rate which will allow us to sign other players. Had the hawks waited to do these extensions till all the contracts expired and the cap was at $150 they'd be paying earl thomas 12-14 mil a year, sherman 15 mil a year and RW3 23 mil year (at least). Point is the cap is going to create an additional 17 mil in space over 2 years...time to lock guys up so we can use that cash on oter players


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More dairy tales from Tasmania from Washington State University student, Anna Gibson.
"Washington State University has been making award-winning cheese and ice cream since the 1930s!" I said in my best Glenn Johnson, "Voice of the cougars," voice I could do.
"Right to mate! Is that from your checking or savings account?" said the women working the front desk at Ashgrove Farm Cheese. Clearly she was not as interested in Cougar Gold (WSU's cheese) as I am, but we both have an interest in cheese and dairy products.
This past week on my way to Hobart, Tasmania's capital city, I visited Ashgrove. What enticed me there were the "art cows", fun-colored cow statutes that lined the property, but what made me stay was the cheese. Ashgrove is Australia's producer of award-winning cheese. In its shop Grand Champion Cheddar Cheese, and Silver DIAA awards filled the walls. They focus on their Cheddar, but do offer hard or semi-hard cheeses, too.
When I first pulled up, I saw many colorful cows cows as dragons, as the famous Tasmanian Tiger, and my personal favorite - a cow with the word "Moo" written all over her. These famous cows were painted by local school children in 2008. I thought to myself, "what a great way to advertise for the dairy industry and spread information about the great nutritional value of milk!"
What made this factory great was the tour. As I munched on some amazing ice cream, I walked through the building and saw people mixing, churning, cheddaring, and pasteurizing. I saw the beneficial bacteria being added to the milk, and the curds and whey being separated. This process came as no surprise to me, thanks to Ferdinand's, the creamery at my university, but it was a treat to see so many young faces pressed up against the window in pure delight. "Mummy, that cheese!" I overheard a very young boy say to his mother. After I watched the cheese being made, the tour group walked to the maturing room where the cheese waits until it is aged to perfection!
The best part came once the tour was over - the taste testing! I tried many different cheese flavors, such as "wild wasabi and lavender." Ashgrove focuses on creating cheeses with a local Tasmanian connection and so are always requesting new flavor ideas. The cheeses were beautiful: their color, texture, and taste!
I walked away a very happy customer, and more educated about the cheese industry in Tasmania. Cougar Gold will always hold a special place in my heart, but Ashgrove just snuggled right next to Cougar Gold!
Until next time my friends!


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Anyone who has ever struggled to fold a roadmap should have an extra measure of respect for protein molecules, which fold up all on their own and practically put themselves away in the glove box. Protein folding is so remarkably efficient that it has been called a paradox. Thirty years ago Cyrus Levinthal pointed out that a typical protein molecule has so many possible configurations that it would need eons to explore all of them and find the best shape; yet proteins fold in seconds.
Looking at the tangled loops and coils of a folded protein, you might imagine that the arrangement is haphazard—like a randomly crumpled map rather than a properly folded one—but in fact every twist and turn is precisely specified. Chemically, a protein is a linear polymer, a sequence of the smaller molecules called amino acids, which are joined end to end like pop-beads. The sequence of amino acids is the only information about the protein encoded in the genes, but the protein can do its job only if the one-dimensional chain of amino acids folds into the correct three-dimensional structure. Apparently the sequence alone is enough to guide the folding. If two protein molecules have the same sequence, they fold up into the same shape.
One way to gain a better appreciation of the protein molecule's knack for folding is to simulate it with a computer program. The most detailed simulations track the motion of every atom and try to reproduce all the chemistry and physics going on in the system. The ultimate goal is to predict the native structure of the protein based on nothing more than the sequence of amino acids. Unfortunately, that goal is a distant one. The models require hours of computer time just to simulate a few picoseconds of molecular dynamics.
I have been exploring a protein model at the other end of the complexity scale—a minimalist model, where every aspect of the simulation is reduced to its simplest possible form. A model so abstract cannot reveal anything about the structure of particular protein molecules—it cannot show how insulin or myoglobin folds—but it may offer clues to some general principles of protein folding. For example, one might hope to learn what kinds of amino acid sequences lead to a stable and compact molecule.
The great advantage of a really simple model is that you can solve it exactly, at least for short chains of amino acids. You can examine every possible folding of every possible sequence, picking out the ones of interest. You can know with certainty which configurations have the most favorable properties.
Another advantage of a minimalist model is that you don't have to be an expert in protein chemistry or molecular dynamics to play with it. A curious amateur can write a rudimentary program in a few days or weeks, and run it on commonly available machinery. Indeed, the simplified protein structures are so well suited to the needs of the amateur that I am tempted to call them amteins—they're not quite ready to turn pro yet. However, I have been persuaded to choose a name slightly less facetious, and so I shall call them prototeins.
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Mobile game development is arguably one of the sectors achieving the highest growth today. With the explosive adoption of smart phones and app stores, independent developers and game studios are flocking to the various mobile phone platforms to carve out a slice of the action.
This is reflected at the Imagine Cup with a change in the Game Design category, which is now divided into three tracts, mobile, web and Xbox/PC games. The Windows Phone 7 platform launched less than a year ago, and I was curious to see the types of games these student teams would create for the platform.
The challenge for all these teams is integrating the United Nations Millennial Development goals into their games while keeping them fun. The easiest path is to educate about world problems. But that's not the only path represented here.
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Vaticano - Gregorio VII
Size50 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Kitchen
- Balcony/terrace
- Internet/WiFi
- Air conditioning
- Elevator in building
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|Via A. Richelmy, 00165 Roma, Italy
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|Property ID
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The apartment is recently renovated and it is composed of 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom, 1-living room, a kitchen and a wide private garden area. The bedroom is small and simple, but pleasant, with a queen bed.
The living room has a sofa that can fold out into a queen-sized bed in case of 3 or 4 people staying. A set of glass doors lead out onto a large patio/garden area, which is decorated with green plants and flowers, and a small table and chairs to relax out in summer evenings.
The kitchen, next to the living room, also has a door leading directly out onto the patio and it's newly renovated with all the necessities - stove, oven, fridge, teapot, coffee maker, and cooking and eating utensils.
The bathroom (with shower, no tub) is in the main hallway next to the bedroom and it's newly renovated as well. The apartment, which has air-conditioning, is near a busy street, but set in the back part of the building so that you don't get any traffic noise. You can hear the traffic a bit while you're on the patio, but not enough to be bothersome.
The location is central enough so that it's easy to get around the city by bus or metro and even on foot.
You can reach S. Peter ( the Vatican ) in 20 minutes walking and when you are there you are in the center and continue to walk!!!!!
Anyway many and frequent buses ( 98 -46B - 881 - 916 . 571 ) run in the parallel street Via Gregorio VII at a short distance from the apartment. Buses 98 - 881 - 46B have their terminal just beyond the river at the boundary of the historical centre. From there you can walk to visit Piazza Navona, Pantheon and all the historical center. Bus 916 has its terminal in Piazza Venezia, close to the Capitolium and Roman Forum. Bus 571 is comparable to a turistic bus as it crosses the city ( Corso Vittorio - piazza Venezia - Roman Forum - Colosseum - S. Giovanni - Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ).
At the other end of the street -in Via Aurelia -you will find the bus stop of bus 49 which in 5 ninutes reaches the Vatican Museum and leaves you just in front of the main entrance.
You can also reach metro A in a few minutes taking bus 31, 33, 247.
In the immediate neighborhood of the apartment you'll find plenty of supermarkets, shops, restaurants, and coffee bars.
The area is very safe at any time. Very close to the apartment there is a big bar-restaurant open day and night.
House rulesPlease, have care of everything in the apartment and do not smoke inside.
You can smoke ouside in the patio.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|Price for > 2 guests
|R 229 ZAR per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
We really enjoyed our stay in Rome and at Rosa's apartment. Rosa and her husband received us warmly and told us everything we needed to know. The apartment has everything you could wish for.
In August 2016 i stayed in Rosa´s flat with my daughter and my son. The flat is very nice and clean, you find everything like you see it on the fotos. Very good is the Aircondition. Near the flat are two supermarkets and the bus line to the historic centre. It´s only 20 minutes by feet to the st. peters cathedral. Rosa and her husband picked us up at the Metro Station when we arrived at roma. The two are very friendly and polite. We had a great time in roma.
Thank you.
when we arrived, Sandro, Rosa's husband welcomed us and explained everything we needed to know. then he showed us the area, and a very nice bar near the flat, where we all had a coffee together. he adviced us about shops, transport etc., which was very helpful. we immediately felt like home:)
the flat is completely renovated and the look is very nice. 4 people have enough space. the bed and sofa are very comfortable.if you like to cook, everything is there.
an extra plus of the flat is the terrace, with lots of plants. we definetely would like to come back and recommend this flat to everybody who likes to have some comfort, and wants to stay close to the Vatikan and the center of Rome.
It was a pleasureable journey in Rome. The apartment was the ideal place to start excursion and for a rest after exploring the city. It is lovely. Nearby are a lot of bus stations from where you can reach the Vatican museums, Piazza Cafour or Piazza Venetia. Thank you for a very good stay.
Rosa and Sandro are great hosts, likeable and ready to help. They live not far way from the apartment and both are speaking English, Sandro speaks French as well.
The apartment is well kept and quiet. We ( grand parents and 18 year old grandson) slept very well during our 6-day stay in Rome.In the evenings we prepared delicious meals in the small but well equipped kitchen (food bought in the nearby supermarket) and enjoyed iur meals in the nice living room.
The Vatican City and the Centre of Rome with all its famous sights can comfortably and quickly be reached , either by walking ( we did this on the first day) or by bus (several bus lines are running close 'round the corner', one even throughout the night , and the tickets are not expensive).
At our arrival we took a taxi at the airport, sent Sandro a sms and when we arrived he was waiting in front of the house. In case we had decided for the Sitbusshuttle , he had picked us up with his car at the bus station.Very helpful!
First we got a detailed introduction into everything concerning the apartment and then Sandro showed and explained us the bus stops, shops and restaurants in the neighbourhood.
We really enjoyed staying in the apartment and send again many thanks to Rosa and Sandro for the nice tour by car to places we had not found ourselves and for the aperitif at their home afterwards.
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Rosa und Sandro sind sehr sympathische und hilfsbereite Gastgeber. Sie wohnen in der Nähe des Apartments ; beide sprechen englisch, Sandro auch französisch.
Die Wohnung ist sehr gepflegt und ruhig. Wir (Großeltetn und Enkel. 18) haben während unseres 6-tägigen Aufenthaltes gut geschlafen und in der kleinen aber gut ausgestatteten Küche schmackhafte Abendessen zubereitet (gekauft im nahegelegenen Supermarkt) und im gemütlichen Wohnzimmer genossen.
Der Vatikan und das Zentrum von Rom mit all seinen Sehenswürdigkeiten sind bequem und schnell zu erreichen: entweder zu Fuß (was wir am ersten Tag gemacht haben) oder mit dem Bus. Mehrere Buslinien, auch eine Nachtlinie, sind ganz in der Nähe und die Tickets sind nicht teuer.
Bei unserer Ankunft am Flughafen nahmen wir eun Taxi, schickten Sandro eine sms und wurden von ihm vor dem Haus empfangen.Wenn wir den Sitbusshuttle genommen hätten, hätte uns Sandro mit dem Auto an der Bushaltestelle abgeholt. Sehr hilfsbereit!
Wir erhielten eine ausführliche Einführung in die Wohnung und danach zeigte und erklärte uns Sandro die Bushaltestelken. Geschäfte und Restaurants in der Umgebung.
Wir haben uns in der Wohnung sehr wohl gefühlt und danken noch einmal Rosa und Sandro für die wunderbare Autotour zu Plätzen, die wir alleine nicht gefunden hätten und für die Einladung zum anschließenden Aperitif in ihrer Wohnung.
This comfortable, clean and individually equipped apartment with a large,
wonderful and mostly shady terrace makes you feel at home at once. A supermarket, a restaurant and bus stops are just around the corner. And whenever you have got a question just call the owners, one of them will give you the
information you need or even show you around. Thanks to Sandro who took
us to wonderful places we probably wouldn't have found easily, we spent a gorgeous evening sightseeing, talking and enjoying his company.
Thank you for the lovely apartment. We felt very comfortable. The care and introduction by Sandro was great. A dream would have been a sun lounger on the terrace. The location was ideal and easy to reach by bus. Many greetings to Rosa
Vielen Dank für die schöne Wohnung. Wir haben uns sehr wohlgefühlt. Die Betreuung und Einführung durch Sandro war super. Ein Traum wäre eine Sonneliege auf der Terrasse gewesen. Die Lage war ideal und mit Busse gut zu erreichen. Viele Grüße an Rosa
A week spent in Rome. Very pleasant stay. The apartment is very clean with a beautiful terrace. The owner is very attentive. The niece of the owner met us at the metro station to take us to the apartment.
Une semaine passée à Rome. Séjour très agréable. L'appartement est très propre avec une très belle terrasse. La propriétaire est très à l'écoute. La nièce de la propriétaire est venue nous chercher à la station de métro pour nous amener à l'appartement.
During our trip to Rome in early April, we lived in an apartment located at the Vaticano - Gregorio VII. The owners of the apartment, Rosa and Alessandro, was very nice and helpful all the time. They met us the first day and showed how everything worked in the apartment and explained how we could use to transport (bus, subway, etc.). The apartment was clean and pleasant. In addition, we had access to the internet which we appreciated.
Under vår resa till Rom i början av april bodde vi på en lägenhet som ligger vid Vaticano - Gregorio VII. Ägarna till lägenheten, Rosa och Sandro, var mycket trevliga och hjälpsamma hela tiden. De mötte oss första dagen och visade hur allt fungerade i lägenheten och förklarade hur vi kunde använda transporten (bussar, tunnelbanan, etc.). Lägenheten var ren och trevlig. Dessutom hade vi tillgång till internet vilket vi uppskattade.
The hosts, Rosa and her husband, are very kind. They picked us up at the Vaticano bus station (saving us a trip into the center of Rome) and showed us around the neighborhood to get us oriented. They showed us the bus stops, but we are serious walkers and so the 18 minute walk to the Vatican, plus 5-10 minutes to get into the center of town was not a problem for us.
The apartment is clean, pleasant, and equipped with iron and hair dryer.
It has two beds. The sofa bed is as confortable as a regular bed.
The kitchen is kind of narrow, but has oil and spices (and a useful shopping bag).
There's Wifi.
BTW while there is a bus to the metro, the two times we took the metro, we just walked up the street Via Richelmy, crossed Via Aurelia, continued straight forward (one soon comes to stairs), and were at the subway in ten minutes. Alternately one can go up Richelmy, cross the short bridge at Via Aurelia, and then immediately go left (one then sees a gas station ahead of one). This way one has a wider sidewalk to walk to the subway, and it's the better choice if you have luggage with wheels.
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Binghamton University to host National Lab Day
BINGHAMTON, NY – Area children in kindergarten through 12th grade are invited to visit Binghamton University on May 12 for National Lab Day. The event is part of a new grassroots initiative designed to reinvigorate science and math education in the nation's schools and after-school programs and lead to increased U.S. competitiveness.
At Binghamton, the event will include a morning of demonstrations, tours and hands-on activities in disciplines ranging from chemistry to archaeology and from computer science to physics. The University will also provide faculty and student speakers to visit classrooms as part of the initiative.
Teachers who would like to participate should contact Rachel Coker, director of research advancement, at email@example.com or 607-777-6135 to make arrangements for visiting the University or inviting a guest speaker. For more information about National Lab Day, visit www.nationallabday.org.


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A live show from Grizzly Bear comes with high expectations.
They create beautiful complex webs of music, that somehow still bend the ear, with strong hooks lingering in the mind.
Their love of unusual time signatures, colourful vocal harmonies, instrumental virtuosity, and a wide palette of timbres have made the Brooklyn four-piece indie favourites.
And on Wednesday night, which was the last performance of their three month international tour, they came armed with all the right ingredients for a wonderful show - an impressive, creative light display, a sold-out audience who were appreciative and respectful, a great venue (Bruce Mason Centre), and a setlist that balanced their four album back catalogue elegantly between well known hits and their more avant garde material.
But the overall result was less than the sum of its parts, and felt a little flat.
They're not a band known for their audience interactions (front man Ed Droste is endearingly awkward with the crowd banter) but the five (including extra live keyboardist Aaron Arntz) seemed somewhat stiff on stage at times, or perhaps simply a bit tired.
They did pull out impressive performances on a number of tracks of course, it was more the overall impression that suffered.
Early on Sleeping Ute shined with its psychedelic 70s prog-rock leanings. Lullabye with its poignant waltz-like opening and lovely gentle singing that descends into a bright cacophony of flute, autoharp, xylophone, and eventually a sort of drum n bass melange was another impressive display.
It could've been even better (like much of the set) if the sound was more balanced, and less over-driven - the volume level was unnecessary in the Bruce Mason where the natural acoustics are so strong, and muddied their more emotional peaks.
The first goosebump inducing moment came with Yet Again. A stunning song of yearning, a dreamy web of rising melodies and shifting rhythms where the vocals really stood out for the first time.
The excellent whistling and clarinet on the lovely soft Shift was a wonderful display too - and showed they can sound just as complex when they're quiet and reflective.
A Simple Answer started with a sense of jubilation, but somehow became a bit tedious over the course of it's six minutes. The same with Gun-Shy, which has a great sensual, dark vibe, but the groove never really locked in.
And then, well, they sort of got stuck in a sequence of songs which felt a bit meaningless and wandering, and it wasn't until they reached While You Wait For The Others that they reconnected with the audience.
In fact Arntz even attempted a stage dive into the audience, but unfortunately the security guy got a bit confused in the dark, thought he was an audience member, and hauled the poor guy off to the side leaving the band waiting for him to be let back on stage.
They were then able to begin their final run home in the 100 minute set, which included a solid performance of their best known track Two Weeks, a brilliant, intense, driving version of Half Gate, and a relatively energetic go at Sun In Your Eyes.
Sadly the encore felt a little bit lacklustre with a slightly phoned-in performance of Knife, and an acoustic version of All We Ask, on which the vocal harmonies didn't quite melt the way they do on Veckatimest.
They're a band that write ambitious songs, stretching the ears and the mind, but on their first visit to Auckland, they fell a little short of expectations, and while one never expects perfection in a live setting, they lacked an overall sense of soul or enthusiasm that would've forgiven some of their flaws.


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Northwoods Wild Rice
Makes 6-8 servings
1 1/2 cups uncooked wild rice, rinsed
4 cups water
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter, cubed
4 slices bacon, diced
1 small onion, chopped
1/2 cup celery, sliced
1/2 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
Seasoned salt to taste
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup salted cashews
Place rice, water and salt in a heavy saucepan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer; cook 45 minutes or until tender. Uncover and fluff with a fork. Simmer for 5 additional minutes. Drain any liquid. While rice is cooking, fry bacon until crisp. Drain on paper towels. In a skillet, melt butter and saute onion, celery and mushrooms until tender. Add rice, seasoned salt and pepper. Heat through. Just before serving, top with cashews and reserved bacon.
For a make-ahead dish, place cooked rice mixture in a 2-quart casserole; top with cashews and bacon. Refrigerate until ready to reheat. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes.


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This a pair of Lennon's owned and worn long john pants. John & Yoko went to Denmark in late December 1969 to see Yoko's daughter, Kyoko who was living in a farmhouse with her father..(Yoko's ex Tony Cox..and his girlfriend,Melinda).It was one of the coldest winters in recent years in Denmark...and with the farmhouse being a bit drafty..John and Yoko went shopping for some warm clothes. John purchased a pair of long john's...pants and shirt..which he wore during his stay.When J&Y left to return to London on January 25, 1970...they left all of their items at the farmhouse.Tony Cox collected and sold all of John's items...including these pants. I had them framed. John & Yoko are pictured at the house in Denmark in January 1970...before and after their famous haircuts...