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From the forests of Sweden to the Waikato town of Cambridge, Scott Kara reviews the latest batch of rock releases from around the world.
They may look like a bunch of hippies who have sloped out of a delta swamp somewhere. And though there are a few swampy riffs in Graveyard's throwback heavy rock sound, they actually come sauntering out of the forests of Gothenburg, Sweden.
After two albums, including last year's excellent Hisingen Blues, Lights Out is a more varied and smouldering beast. Not that opener An Industry of Murder is any indication of that; it keeps up Graveyard's trademark mix of 70s psychedelic rock heaviness, a thudding Sabbath stomp and fuzz, with singer Joakim Nilsson's crispy crackling voice hollering over the top.
But by second track Slow Motion Countdown they have moved into swooning and crooning soul rock mode, which initially comes across as soppy, but escalates beautifully into a throatie torch song.
That's the beauty of Graveyard, they can move from ragged and unhinged on the chest-beating Goliath, to an eloquent and poised chugger like on The Suits, The Law, & the Uniforms, and then the simmering, Swedish Doors' mantra of 20/20 (Tunnel Vision).
Kiwi rock stalwarts the Datsuns are fans of Graveyard, and it's not just because ex-Cambridge lad and frontman Dolf de Borst lives in Sweden these days. They have much in common with the Swedes retro rock approach. And similar to Graveyard's more expansive sound on Lights Out, the Datsuns' fifth album, Death Rattle Boogie, is also their most diverse and interesting yet. While not having the wild and raw thrill of their 2002 debut, it's their best album to date too. Because let's face it, they've always been better live than on record. But on Death Rattle Boogie they sound ambitious and self-assured, while still keen to cut loose, so it takes in the hair-flailing, helicopter-guitar riffs of Gold Halo ("There's blood on the tracks, from your heart it's a fact"), the thigh-slapping Colour of the Moon (think good time Lynyrd Skynyrd), and best of all, the trippy, smoking and scorching Wander the Night. The latter song is a sure sign the Datsuns are showing their age, but they are also sounding wiser.
Though on a different sonic rock path, another standout local release is the debut album from New Way Home. The Auckland band - formed out of the ashes of bands like Sommerset and Day One - have been around for a number of years, releasing an EP in 2005 and making a racket on the live hardcore and metal scene. On Mirrors they retain the nice nastiness that gives them a solid base of grit and mongrel, but move effortlessly into a more sweeping, mainstream rock direction on the beautiful Tides (that recalls Blindspott but with a breathy and dynamic Deftones edge) and expansive swooning epic Saturn. But, and this is the key, they are never far from launching full tilt back into deathly and mangled tracks like Atrophy and scything slammer Black Eyes. But the standout is Paper Hearts, a relentless thumper that conjures up the spirit of Swedish titans Meshuggah, but thankfully not so maniacal as it swoops and soars with a melodic metal power.
A band pushing an even more commercial heavy agenda is Stone Sour - the other band of Corey Taylor who is perhaps best known as the singer in masked Iowa metallers Slipknot. It's all swerving and careering guitar solos, slabs of chest-puffing rawk, and pure rock singing mixed with occasional growls and roars.
Taylor formed Stone Sour before Slipknot, way back in the early 90s. However, they went on hiatus for five years until reconvening in 2002 and House of Gold & Bones Pt. 1 (the second instalment is out mid next year) is the band's fourth album.
While it's solid modern rock, there are moments where it lapses into bog standard territory akin to mainstream metallers Disturbed. And yes, while there is much to be said for breaking up the heavy riffage and rage with something more subtle, The Travellers Pt. 1 is a weak, acoustic, strings-soaked interlude. Although all is forgiven as the strings morph into scary horror film mode as they lead in to Tired, and the combination of glowering riffs and haunting Nine Inch Nails-style piano on Travellers Pt. 2 is inspired. But it's frighteningly fierce finale The Last of the Real that proves just how devastating Stone Sour can be.
And finally, plant your feet and ready yourself for Texan throwback metallers the Sword. They create a sound that pays tribute to greats like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Metallica (who the Sword supported in Christchurch in 2010), but put their own southern fried swagger into it with singer and guitarist J.D. Cronise's menacing and trebly Ozzy Osbourne-like voice leading the way.
And also like the masters of old, there is no mucking around with the Sword, and right from the start of first track The Veil of Isis they settle into a giant groove and go about the business of playing rock 'n' roll. Which makes Apocryphon a tough, good-time heavy metal boogie. The summer of rock starts here.
Graveyard - Lights Out
Stars: 4/5
Verdict: All aboard the Swedish psyche rock time machine
New Way Home - Mirrors
Stars: 4/5
Verdict: Locals hard and heavy push into the mainstream
Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones Pt. 1
Stars: 3.5/5
Verdict: Slipknot singer's spit polished and solid other bandssss
The Sword - Apocryphon
Verdict: Texans make retro modern metal
The Datsuns - Death Rattle Boogie
Stars: 4/5
Verdict: Their best album yet


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Thanks Barry,
That link makes more sense but still not the person I met. Any reason not to post the pic in this thread?
Thanks Barry,
That link makes more sense but still not the person I met. Any reason not to post the pic in this thread?
" I am going to keep a positive but sceptical attitude about this situation. Not much else I can do. As previously stated on Feb 11 they promised delivery end of March, beg of April."
Al, alll I can say is, I sure hope you get your nuc...... even through all this... good luck....keep us posted if you do.
Do a search for Robert Russell, not Rob Hughes. The person who is Robert Russell presented himself as Rob Hughes.
Hopefully, after a conviction, the only bees he works with from here on out will be fighting yellow jackets when hes out weedeating ditches on work release.
Specialkayme, I did meet Rob Hughes/Robert Russell in person. I traveled to MS last Fall to get my nucs. I tried to establish a pick up time for weeks, but received no response. So I just arrived at his place on Fanin Landing Circle and introduced myself. They (Rob and a helper) pulled my nucs from 10 frame hives at that site and let me take them. Not the bulging overwintered nucs that were advertised, but I got my bees. Rob was cordial and convincing, and his face is memorable to me. I met other beeks there who had traveled to get their nucs also. Yes, others have seen the face of Rob/Robert.
How did the bees do?
I went to this site and filed. I would encourage others to file here too if you have had direct dealing with RA in the last year. I wasn't victimized too badly, but I'm certainly a first hand witness to the process having been a customer when the communication stopped, and the aliases stepped in. RR solicited and received payment from multiple states, via PayPal, for products and services he could not supply. He developed an internet facade of a multi-state enterprise. He apparently has used multiple aliases to shield himself from exposure and criticism. He has defrauded many people in several states. Sounds like an interstate fraud scheme to me. It may not be the way it started our to be, but...
Sad. The first lie is always to yourself. Thanks for hanging with this Barry and weathering the criticism.
SideYardBees and Specialkayme.
Is the person you met the same that can be found by using the link in post 140?
Horseshoe Point Honey -- http://localvahoney.com/
Who were they SideYard? Did they give you names? Or tell you what state they were from?
There was a thread a couple of weeks ago started bu someone WHO siad their hives went missing after being housed on Russell's property. Link below shows photos of those bees marked BHS (or BSH?...sorry, my tablet makes it difficult to hop between links without losing something...).
Wonder what happened with those missing hives and the investigation? Does anyone remember the title of that thread?
if you follow the links in post 140 that is the guy that introduced himself as rob hughes on both occasions that I met him.
> There was a thread a couple of weeks ago started by someone WHO siad their hives went missing after being housed on Russell's property.
Here's the thread you are referring to:
Last post was on 2/20
USDA Zone 7A Elevation 1400 ft
yes, I was wondering about all the nucs being made and picked up in the yard last fall if any had the BSH labels on them?? Wouldn't be too hard to make some assumptions!! Especially all the folks arriving unannounced, duh, let's try these....
I believe the pic you are talking about is the original poster off loading his bees from his truck. I understand there where no RA people in the picture
Some of us who have lighter wallets because of this incestuous group would really like to know what, when, who, where, why.I don't believe this is a forum for investigation of one another. Lets not go down that road like before Special.
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UTSA hosts Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
By Ashley Harris
Public Affairs Specialist
(Nov. 1, 2007)--The UTSA Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will host the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium Nov. 1-4 at the Downtown Campus. The symposium features prominent scholars and researchers from Spain, Mexico and the United States whose specialties include Hispanic linguistics, second and first language acquisition, language and technology.
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The sessions open Friday with Professor Amando de Miguel of Spain speaking on "La Sociedad Española Actual: Empresa, Nuevas Tecnologías y Estilos de Vida" at 8:30 a.m. Professor Rafael Salaberry and Professor Milton Azevedo will speak Saturday, Nov. 3. Salaberry's lecture, "Conceptualización del Pasado en Español Como L2" and Azevedo's talk will focus on literary linguistics in the context of a language department.
Friday through Sunday, the general sessions will feature linguists from the United States and abroad who research Spanish and the other languages of the Iberian Peninsula, such as Catalan, Basque and Portuguese.
"This will be the most comprehensive conference in Hispanic Linguistics this year," said Maryellen Garcia, conference organizer and UTSA associate professor. "I believe that San Antonio is the reason for the good turnout, as it offers a truly Hispanic city in which our Spanish speaking guests will feel right at home."
Conference co-organizer, UTSA Professor Francisco Marcos-Marín, secured co-sponsorship for the conference from organizations in Spain including Telefónica and the AECI, in addition to UTSA and UNAM.
For more information, visit the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium Web site.


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Last Modified: Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:41 PM
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
Just a wild stab here, but I'm guessing LSU will somehow figure it out and still manage to field a varsity football team next season.
But the Tigers could definitely have some problems on defense.
An unexpected outbreak of senioritis won't be one of them.
Presumably the dust has cleared, the body count concluded, and a whirlwind post-bowl week has ended with 10 LSU juniors declaring for early entry into April's NFL draft.
Research is ongoing, but it is believed to be the biggest hit of junior defections any college team has ever suffered. LSU, for instance, had never lost more than four in one year.
Bottom line?
LSU, which had one senior starter on defense, will open spring practice having to replace the entire front four (plus the top two backup ends, productive seniors Lavar Edwards and Chancey Aghayere) along with half the secondary and the team's leading tackler and MVP at linebacker.
Gone are seven starters in all, six of them juniors.
In an apparent unrelated transaction, backup offensive lineman Chris Davenport has declared him eligible for Tulane and has already transferred.
But anybody who bothered to glance at a depth chart during the season could see it coming, even if it still seems a bit of a shock when you start crossing off so many familiar names from the starting lineup.
So, of course, it didn't take long for panic and finger-pointing to set in among the fandom.
What in the world is going on over there? All these guys jumping ship? What's Les Miles' problem that everybody wants to desert the place? Something's wrong!
Well, I guess if LSU is able to take young men and, after three years of college, send them directly to the top of their chosen profession to become millionaires, then, yes, LSU has a problem.
It's a problem a lot of places would like to have.
LSU just has to explain how that NFL defense ever gave up a touchdown, especially in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
The mass exodus, anticipated or not, certainly does complicate matters for next year's team, but it doesn't really hurt the program long term.
Given the inflated egos and career expectations of your average high school football hotshot, a school getting a reputation as a fast-track factory to the NFL isn't exactly a hindrance to recruiting.
It may well be a headline screaming across the top of next year's media (i.e., recruiting) guide:
"Come to LSU — Your contraflow lane to the NFL."
Not that all 10 of LSU's eager beavers will make it. The NFL's law of averages dictates that.
Still, while some made better decisions than others, none made a really bad choice.
Defensive ends KeKe Mingo and Sam Montgomery are dead-solid cinch first-rounders, and safety Eric Reid and defensive tackle Bennie Logan are high probables for it — certainly no worse than early second round.
With juniors like that, you don't try to talk them out of it. You run them off campus and disarm their pass code to the football operations building.
Wish them well. The served LSU well. Replacing them is the coaches' problem.
The most productive Tiger, linebacker Kevin Minter, may not light up the NFL's measurables — second round at best, probably third or fourth — but he can't have a much better send-off season than this. If you're concerned about his backup plan, although he had a year of eligibility remaining, he has already graduated from the often overlooked academic side of the university.
Tharold Simon could probably use another year of seasoning at cornerback after an up-and-down year, and his bowl-game torching while chasing Clemson wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins won't be at the top of his résumé. But he might light up the combine.
Running backs Spencer Ware and Michael Ford are in odd spots in that they might be more attractive to the NFL than they were to LSU now that Jeremy Hill has distanced himself from the rest of that deep stable.
But they're both versatile NFL-style backs who will get a chance somewhere in the later rounds. Staying at LSU another year with Hill around wasn't likely to change that much. Might as well get on with it.
Brad Wing will probably be the first punter drafted (not very high; he's still a punter) and, judging by Jamie Keehn's bowl performance, he'll be missed more by his legions of loyal Twitter followers than by the football team.
Oddly, the only one of the 10 who was a real surprise, offensive tackle Chris Faulk, was the one who should have had the easiest choice to make.
He was projected as a first-rounder in the summer, but that's not happening now after he missed all but the season opener with a severe knee injury and reconstructive surgery.
What round he goes in now depends on how healthy that knee is by the draft, but at least he'll be in, and the NFL's entry-level pay, even in the late rounds, isn't exactly minimum wage.
He could have gone back to LSU, prove himself fit as a base fiddle, and be back up to the first round next year for the really big money.
But he could also get hurt again and never see a dime.
LSU will find somebody to take his place.
The others, too.
That's the reality of the game. When you recruit like LSU has, it's going to more and more of a three-year cycle.
The Tigers supposedly have plenty more waiting in the wings, but that's all speculation until we see it.
The embarrassing wealth of depth the Tigers are accustomed to up front in the trenches will instead be at linebacker next year.
LSU always seems to manage to find suitable defensive backs.
But it will be an interesting spring, that's for sure.
• • •Scooter Hobbs covers LSU athletics. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Title: Juniors?
Why do you keep calling it a 3 year cycle. Mingo and Montgomery have played for 2 years. They will be juniors, but most of these have only played for two years on campus. And don't forget the infamous Honey Badger too. I think it comes to a dozen by now.


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What is your attitude to beekeeping? I took up beekeeping to try and regain my sanity, so I was surprised when I discovered, how many beekeepers were frustrated and fed up with it.
So, with this in mind I thought it would be interesting to run a Beekeeper Attitude Survey to see how people are feeling about beekeeping.
Please vote. It will only take a few seonds. Ill write up some conclusions when I have the results.
Many, many thanks for your input.


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Top 10 questions Music Artists & Songs
- Why does Bradley Nowell of Sublime sing songs in almost perfect Spanish when he is clearly White?
- how tall is blaze ya dead homie
- Did Roger Moore die?
- At what point in the movie Happy Gilmore does the song carry on my wayward song play?
- Was chris cornell in stone temple pilots
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- who does the remake of simple man by lynard skynard is it shinedown or chris cornell
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As the title suggests I'm new and would like to know if I am the right height and size for boba fett. I apologize in advance if this in the wrong section.
I am 5 ft 9.5 inches and a muscular 155 pounds, regular build though. Why the obsession with the height? Well I had a little misguided adventure trying to put a vader suit together. Boy that was ugly....
I'm well aware of the time commitment, research, and cost needed to do a good job on Boba Fett so I'd like to ask for your opinion first before I dive into this project. Thanks in advance


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Queen for the Day - Thursday, 7 June 2012
Museum visitor Coral Williams will be crowned queen for the day (today, Thursday) as the Royal Armouries launches Royal Week to mark the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Leeds.
Coral will wear a crown from part of the Royal Armouries' collection of replica Crown Jewels, normally housed in the Tower of London but currently in Leeds for a limited period. The collection will be on show to the public at special sessions throughout Royal Week at the museum.
The replica crown jewels – made from white base metal and set with imitation stones – will form a centrepiece at Britain's oldest museum during Royal Week (June 2 to 10).
Previously used by the Department of Trade for display purposes, there are 22 replica pieces in this collection. Five exhibits are now in Leeds – for more details, please see the editor's notes.
As part of her special day, Carol will be served tea by a knight in shining armour – and enjoy patriotic cupcakes donated by Leeds' company Exquisite Handmade Cakes.
Royal Week runs from June 2 to 10, as follows. Museum admission is free but charges apply to some events. Free parking is also available for a week, from June 2, in the multi-storey car park at Clarence Dock, to mark the Jubilee.
Free Diamond Jubilee Party – Come and join us for a right royal knees-up on Tuesday, June 5, from 10am – 5pm, with music, dancing, games and free treats including tea, coffee, juice, scones and biscuits, provided by the private sector corporate hospitality business, Royal Armouries (International) Plc.
Enjoy entertainment from majorette groups and dance to live music, courtesy of the band Anything Goes between 12.30 and 3pm. Visitors can also view the Jubilee Celebrations in London as they are screened live in the Royal Armouries Hall on large TV screens all day – and see the whole museum bedecked in red, white and blue.
Royal Treasure Trail – Explore the galleries and find the royal treasures.
Free trail and puzzle sheet, plus prize draw for all correct entries. Daily.
Falconry – Experience the thrill of watching magnificent birds of prey in live flying demonstrations on Saturday, June 2, and Tuesday, June 5, at 1pm and 3pm. Adults £4, children £2.
Falconry Experience – Get up close and personal with the magnificent birds. These unforgettable experiences are provided in small groups and supervised throughout by expert falconers on June 2 and 5, at 1.45pm and 3.45pm. Adults £8, children £6 – to include entry to the show. Maximum 20 places per session.
Horse Shows – A breathtaking charge through history featuring some of the best stunt-riders in the business, on Sunday, June 3, and Monday, June 4, at 12 noon and 3pm. Atkinson's Horses in Action regularly perform on prime-time television and in blockbuster films. Recent credits include The King's Speech, Russell Crowe's Robin Hood and Steven Spielberg's War Horse. Adults £5, children £3.
Talks & Tours – Explore the Museum on a guided tour or listen in at one of our fascinating talks. See the daily What's On guide for more information.
Jesters' Yard Play Area – Create a colourful crown – plus lots more fun activities for the under 10s. £2.50 per child.
The Diamond Jubilee activities are just part of the Royal Armouries' Dangerously Entertaining events programme for 2012.
For more information and the latest news about the Royal Armouries:
Royal Armouries website
Royal Armouries newsletter
Follow us on Twitter
Find us on Facebook
Notes to editors
- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
- Admission to the museum is free. However, there may be a small charge for some special events.
- Open all year daily, 10am-5pm. Closed 24-25 December
- Information Line: 0113 220 1999
- Website: www.royalarmouries.org
- The Royal Armouries Museum should not be confused with Royal Armouries International plc, the private sector corporate hospitality business.
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CDC Reports 14 New Cases of Zika Possibly Spread by Sex »
"Although the Zika virus spreads primarily through mosquito bites, "these new reports suggest sexual transmission may be a more likely means of transmission…than previously thought," the CDC said.
Accordingly, the agency issued an advi"...
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Patients should be counseled that antibacterial drugs including CLAFORAN should only be used to treat bacterial infections. They do not treat viral infections (e.g., the common cold). When CLAFORAN is prescribed to treat a bacterial infection, patients should be told that although it is common to feel better early in the course of therapy, the medication should be taken exactly as directed. Skipping doses or not completing the full course of therapy may (1) decrease the effectiveness of the immediate treatment and (2) increase the likelihood that bacteria will develop resistance and will not be treatable by CLAFORAN or other antibacterial drugs in the future.
Diarrhea is a common problem caused by antibiotics which usually ends when the antibiotic is discontinued. Sometimes after starting treatment with antibiotics, patients can develop watery and bloody stools (with or without stomach cramps and fever) even as late as two or more months after having taken the last dose of the antibiotic. If this occurs, patients should contact their physician as soon as possible.
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It was registered by park dong seob , who can be reached at . The site is owned by park dong seob. Registration details show that it was registered on 08 Jan 2016 through whoisnetworks co., ltd. and will expire on 08 Jan 2017.
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Operators of cantaloupe farm linked to deadly 2011 Listeria outbreak arrested
DENVER, Colo. - Two men are facing federal charges linked to a deadly 2011 Listeria outbreak that originated in southern Colorado.
Eric Jensen, 37, and Ryan Jensen, 33, owned and operated Jensen Farms when the outbreak was linked to cantaloupes produced at the facility near Holly.
The Jensen brothers turned themselves over to U.S. Marshals in Denver on Thursday, September 26, 2013, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The six-count indictment and related court records allege that Eric and Ryan Jensen introduced adulterated cantaloupe into interstate commerce. Specifically, the cantaloupe bore a poisonous bacteria, Listeria monocytogenes. The documents also allege that the cantaloupe was prepared, packed and held under conditions which rendered it unsafe to eat.
Court documents allege that the Jensen brothers set up and maintained a processing center where cantaloupes were taken from the field and transferred to a conveyor system for cleaning, cooling and packaging. The documents go on to say that the equipment should have worked in such a way that the cantaloupe would be washed with sufficient anti-bacterial solutions so that the fruit was cleaned of bacteria in the process.
Prosecutors allege that the chlorine spray was never used and that the Jensen's were aware that their cantaloupes could be contaminated with harmful bacteria if not sufficiently washed.
The Department of Justice says that an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control found that the Jensens failed to adequately clean their cantaloupe.
Their actions allegedly resulted in at least six shipments of cantaloupe contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes being sent to 28 different states. The CDC tracked the outbreak-associated illness and determined that people living in 28 states consumed contaminated cantaloupe, resulting in 33 deaths and 147 hospitalizations. One miscarriage was also attributed to the outbreak.
Both defendants have been charged with six counts of adulteration of a food and aiding and abetting. If convicted, each faces not more than one year in federal prison, and a fine of up to $250,000 per charge.
The Jensen brothers were advised of their rights and the charges they are facing at a hearing at 2 p.m. on Thursday, September 26, 2013. They were then released on $100,000 bond.


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Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
What is a urinary tract infection
The urinary tract has four parts:
Kidneys–collect waste from blood to make urine.
Ureters (YOOR-uh-turz)– two tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
Bladder–sack-like organ that stores urine.
Urethra (yoo-REE-thruh)–a tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body.
A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection in part of the urinary tract.
A UTI in the bladder can be annoying or painful.
If a UTI spreads to the kidneys, it can be a serious problem.
Download Urinary Tract Infection Fact Sheet
What causes a urinary tract infection?
- Bacteria (bak-TIHR-ee-uh) are a type of germ.
- Normally, urine does not contain any bacteria.
- A UTI occurs when bacteria get into the urinary tract.
- Most often, UTIs are caused by bacteria from the digestive tract.
- The bacteria first travel to the urethra.
- Infection in the urethra is called urethritis.
- Bacteria can move to the bladder and cause a bladder infection.
- Bladder infections are also called cystitis.
- If the bacteria pass through the ureters up to the kidney, they can cause a kidney infection.
- Another name for kidney infection is pyelonephritis (pi-LO-nef-rite-is).
- Pyelonephritis can be serious. Sometimes people with pyelonephritis need to stay in the hospital for several days.
How is a urinary tract infection treated?
- UTIs are treated with antibiotics (an-tuh-beye-OT-iks).
- Antibiotics are medicines that kill bacteria.
- A health care provider must write a prescription for antibiotics.
- It is important to take all the medicine, even if the symptoms go away before the medicine is gone.
- Many people feel better in one or two days.
- Small infections need three days of medicine. Larger infections need seven days or more of medicine.
- It is important to tell the health care provider about any allergies to medicines.
Are there tests for urinary tract infections?
Usually two tests are done to check for a UTI.
- Urinalysis—this test looks for cells and certain chemicals in the urine.
- Urine culture—this test checks for bacteria in the urine.
What are the symptoms of a urinary tract infection?
Some common symptoms of UTI are:
- Pain or burning when passing urine.
- A strong urge to pass urine.
- Pressure in the lower belly.
- Urine that smells bad.
- Urine that looks milky, cloudy, or reddish in color. If you see blood in your urine, tell a doctor right away.
- Feeling tired or shaky.
- Fever.
Is there a way to avoid urinary tract infections?
Sometimes changing daily habits can prevent UTIs.
If you get UTIs a lot, try these ideas:
- Drink lots of fluid. Water is best. Try to drink 6 to 8 glasses a day. Fluid can wash the bacteria from your system.
- Drink cranberry juice or take vitamin C.
- Urinate frequently. Go to the bathroom when you first feel the urge.
- Urinate soon after sex. This can wash away bacteria that might have gotten into the urethra during sex.
- After using the toilet, always wipe from front to back. This is very important after a bowel movement.
- Wear cotton underwear and loose-fitting clothes. This helps keep the area dry.
- Don't use the diaphragm or spermicides for birth control.
- Choose lubricated condoms without spermicides. Or use a lubricant (without spermicides).
National Institutes of Health:
- Urinary tract infection in adults
- What I need to know about urinary tract infections
- Urinary tract infections
US Department of Health and Human Services
Content last reviewed on August 17, 2016


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Tyler S. Ralston
So you are finishing your degree, and you need to decide what to do with your life. Some science grads simplify this into a decision between academia or industry. However, there is a third option—a national laboratory.
In the United States, many national labs are federally funded research and development centers (FFRDC) that are operated and staffed by private corporations or academic universities under contract to the government. In several ways, these labs straddle the gap between academia and industry.
Broadening your professional pursuitsWhen Ph.D.s finish their degrees, they often feel they are so specialized that they have few options. Fortunately, in a national lab, there is room to expand and diversify. National labs generally have several thousand people with several groups working on projects. They have seminars that allow you to see what other projects are being developed around the lab. This is a great way to survey many projects and find new opportunities to apply your specialty.
Publish or patent?While a national lab doesn't necessarily subscribe to the "publish or perish" adage from academia, there is value ascribed to publishing research articles (albeit sometimes classified ones). Similarly, patent writing skills are a valuable skill to have in a national lab. The onus is on you to complete the paper or patent while pushing forward your project's objectives.
Research and developmentNational labs differ from industry in that there are generally few projects with manufactured deliverable systems. The deliverables tend to be technical analysis, system research and development, and proof-of-concept prototypes.
The types of funding agencies can vary, but it's safe to say that a majority of the financial support comes from defense- and energy-related grants. In academia, on the other hand, funding derives from a variety of sources, both government and private. Having grant ideas to push forward the lab's mission areas are important. For ideas that need preliminary investigation, there are generally opportunities within the labs to apply for internal funding.
For each funding cycle, the labs have a budget for laboratory-directed R&D, which is used to promote highly innovative and exploratory research that supports the lab's mission. Generally, an advanced concepts committee reviews proposals and funds research that supports the strategic initiatives of the lab. Beyond this, other opportunities for funding include funds set aside for collaboration with associated campus laboratories.
Reputation-buildingMany FFRDCs operate by way of a technical meritocracy. That is, employees advance on the basis of their talent and achievements. For that reason, the first several months can be very critical in your career development; it's the time when you'll set the course for your career at the institution.
The more you can hit the ground running, the more opportunities you'll have to demonstrate your skills and build achievements. It's important to find a mentor and a project so that you can see your contributions flower.
I was once given excellent advice that I will now pass on to you: Select the people and projects that best suit your vision of your career direction. National labs give you a unique opportunity to get a lay of the land entering a job. Don't be afraid to survey your appointment after a trial period and apply yourself within the groups that best suit your abilities.
Career rolesThere are four main career roles at a national lab:
Technical Guru: a field expert who may be well renowned for publications, leadership, and participation in professional societies. He or she may bridge gaps between universities and the lab for collaborative research.
Capability Leader: This person is involved in lab review committees and programmatic strategic planning opportunities, which build the lab capabilities.
Program Developer: Someone who often responds to proposal calls. He or she has broad knowledge of the lab's programs and the sponsors' needs.
Project Manager: A specialist at organizing tasks and projects. This role involves managing finances, scheduling, and subject matter experts.
Any member of the lab staff may take on multiple roles throughout their career. A technical staff position is often thought of as secure and stable employment. In my opinion, a national lab is the best place to grow and learn skills rapidly.
Tyler Ralston (firstname.lastname@example.com) has worked at Battelle Memorial institute, the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, MIT/LL and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is currently partnered with an advanced technology startup.
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Discussion in 'Great Skate Debate' started by japanice, Nov 21, 2012.
I am happy to hear that she is being smart in using it only when she needs it. She does not need it at NHK, and I hope she continues to improve her jump technique.
I admire that she wants to go with the most difficult jump.
But I think she will gain more points with working on complete the rotations of Flip and Loop.
I don't think she needs 3Axel this season if her other jumps are complete.
her loop was fully rotated at JO and COC so her flip is the only thing that she has to make sure of, I just watched her recent practice clips and her 3A looked good, and i am happy to hear that she only will include it when she feels it's ready!
She is already working on the other jumps. It does not mean she has to completely give up what she was doing well earlier. I always admire skaters who try to push themselves to do more difficult things, instead of taking the easy way out. I just hope she has not lost the 3A while working on the other jumps.
I doubt she's not been working on it in the meantime. Skaters train all sorts of jumps in practice, even if they never get them up to competition standard. I don't doubt that Mao has continued training the 3A even though it hasn't yet made an appearence in her competitive programmes this season.
Probably, since she landed it yesterday in practice at for the NHK Trophy
Skaters are stronger in certain jumps and not so strong in others. For example, the 3A was easy for Petrenko, but he was inconsistent with the 3f and 3R. Kristi Y. was a very consistent jumper but always struggled with the salchow. Mao's strong jump is the 3A, and it is a high point getter, so she should include it in her programs, as long as it does not become a distraction from completing rotations on the other jumps. I believe that when she gets more comfortable/confident with her flip and salchow, she could bring back the 3A.
I just don't understand the point in bold - Mao has shown that she can and does rotate all of her triple jumps, it's not like she's only allowed to rotate a finite number and she's chosing some over others. Why would working on a triple axel be a distraction from completing rotations on other jumps? The mechanics of the axel are completely different to the flip, and with the salchow, most people say the mechanics of the jumps are very similar. Given that the triple axel has three and half rotations, to the flip and salchows three (or slightly less with the salchow), why would you think working on the triple axel would be anything but a help in rotating triples which have less rotation?
I was beginning to think she had abandoned the 3A.
Akira Andrea has translated a new article in which Mao Asada states she hopes to add the 3A back into her programs: http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/sho...-amp-updates&p=3786615&viewfull=1#post3786615
I love Mao, I love her perseverance in the face of adversity, her strength, her smile, her soul, her humility.
BUT, as a skating fan I have to be honest and say "too little, too late". I fear it won't be enough to dethrone Yuna, just as her guinness books of world records three 3axels at the last Olympics wasn't either, even though it remains as my favorite performance. To this day I can recall the total RUSH I got when she hit both in the FS. I honest to God wanted to run outside around the block a hundred times, lol. Oh, memories, beautiful cherished memories...
Here's hoping she didn't wait too long, though I know other tragic circumstances interferred with her 4-year preparation for the next Olympics, namely the loss of her beloved mother. *tears*
My wish for Mao is that she can somehow regain her old phenomenal technical capabilities of old, sigh, but my ULTIMATE wish is that she will let herself go, forgot the marks, forgot the judges, forget the audience, skate from the soul, transform the way Michelle did with Salome. Ultimately, skate as if she was skating before God...
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If I were her I would not worry about doing it in the short. She could really lose a lot of points if she pops it and she has popped it a number of times in her career. Go for it in the LP, or heck, go for 2 if you feel good enough. I wouldn't want to be trying to come from behind with the likes of Yu Na, Carolina, Ashley, etc.
I am very happy to hear that she plans to use it. I hope it also inspires other women to start including their more difficult jumps. Although the women were my favorite discipline almost my whole life, I have found that the lack of technical content the last few years has made women's skating boring. It's not the skaters' fault - it's the numerous scoring problems with the COP that entices women skaters to leave out 3-3s and the like because they can actually score higher without them!
So cheers to Mao for pushing up the tecnical content among the women. Now if they would just value the 3A more, to properly reflect its difficulty. Ditto triple-triples.
This^ Rock on, Mao!
I fear this will disastrous, although she may need it considering Yu-na's program.
Oh please, when was the last time she landed a fully rotated one in competition with positive goes?
The free skate at 2010 Worlds. She was credited with the full rotation of one at 2010-2011 Japanese Nats, but received negative GOE.
Various fairly reliable sources on twitter have just reported that Mao Asada performed her short program at Nagoya Skating Festival today and that she included the triple axel (albeit 2-footed)
This is a TV news topic in the morning of 7th January in Japan.
Translating to English from Japanese.
7th January 2013.
Next, it is sports topics by announcer Sugiura.
It is as for Mao Asada, isn't it?
Yes, please look this panel.
Mao Asada won the championship in all 4 competitions, such as 'Cup of China' ,NHK Trophy, GP Final and Japan Nationals, which she participated to in this season.
As for her, it seems that the strength came back, isn't it?
Yes, it seems so. But, in her heart, in fact, Mao Asada has a wish which she can never abandon.
In 2013, In 2013, she starts to challenge for achieving that wish.
Asada: "There is no end, but I think that I must always continue to improve for aiming to be better."
Asada showed the remarkable activities in this season. Fascinating the audience with bright and comical performance, she won the championship in all events one by one and won the championship in GP Final after 4 years interval, too.
Asada: "Before the season starts, I had worried what degree I would be able to do with and what degree I would be able to recover to previous level till. When I was in such thinking, the season started, but I could get better results which I was worried about. Because it seems that I have been able to make the bridgehead at last, I think that I can connect it to the future."
What gave her the good results was the training which she had continued to do for recovering her original performance. The improvement of skating skill and the practice of ballet, etc. which had been taken in for improving the expression ability, bore fruits.
Asada: "I feel that I became to be able to use switching the various performances, such as the smooth skating, the powerful skating and the various look. I feel what I had corrected for 2 years became my power finally. I feel that all became a part of my ability although I detoured.
I feel that all became a part of my ability although I made a detour."
While getting the skating skill and the expression ability high evaluation, Asada felt unsatisfying. It is her feeling to the triple Axel jump which may be able to say as her pronoun.
Asada is going to start the new challenge for recovering her triple Axel which she has frozen so far in this season.
Asada: "Although I didn't miss almost in GP Final, I felt unsatisfying somewhat because there is consciousness to be lacking something. So, my pleasure is about half, too."
Asada: "For getting true pleasure, I think that I need to recover the skill of the jump which I had ever been able to jump. For that, I think that I would like to confirm the skill of triple Axel jump and to improve the reliability of triple-triple combination jump. As for the season of 2013, it starts from the 4 Continents, but I would like to do my best aiming at perfect comeback."
I was impressed from her feeling but she seems to be not able to satisfy herself if she can't jump the triple-Axel even if she repeats a victory, doesn't she?
She will be thinking about it so deeply, won't she?
We also have the feeling that we would like to see that, haven't we?
Asada plans to participate to the 4 Continents next month and to the Worlds in March.
That's all, it was sports.
"Mao Asada aims at perfect comeback."
Thank you for the translation, good luck Mao!
She'd better start with rotating easier triples first.
If she wants to add it I hope she does it just for the LP. In the past she'd mess up in the SP and would be completely out of the running going into the LP. She should play it smart and add it to the LP only.
So much focus on the 3A...does she ever plan to include a 3-3 in her program?
Very nasty, Ziggy! +
But I definitly think there is a grain of truth in it. Mao has my deep for working on the triple axel again, but I think it will only make sense, if her other jumps have vastly improved since the GP-series. If not, I can hardly imagine how she will fully rotate a triple axel and another downgraded jump certainly won't help her. Unless Mao nails that triple axel 90 % in practice, so she'd know it should work out in competition, I think it's only worth going for it, if you have a solid basis on the other jumps. Otherwise I'd say it's too risky.
In all those wins she really didn't display the jumping talent that would indicate a 3a is realistic.
That's my first instinct as well. Every time she over focuses on the 3axel she misses the easier stuff and that 3axel doesn't even materialize.
she will be more motivated to succeed this time around. she was so at the Olympics and following Worlds as she believed the jump was her biggest weapon against Yuna. apparently she is back in that mindset and Yuna's success is lighting a fire in her. I will not be surprised if she comes close to fully rotate it at Worlds, but with UR's or pops in one of the flips or others.
this time we're also close to the Olympics.
I don't think she will - she has shown that she prefers 3-3s that end with 3lp. Because of IJS I don't think anyone is going to do a triple anything-3lp and get that 3Lp called fully rotated, so what's the point in trying? Both Asada and Ando have done great 3Lps on the back half of a combination and yet had them downgraded.
I think 3something-3T is probably a bigger risk than the 3A at this point for her, so i can see why she's chosing to try the 3A in the SP. 2A with +1 GOE average is worth 3.8. 3A< with -2GOE is worth 4points, even with -3GOE is't worth 3....seems like a no brainer in terms of a gamble if she's close enough on the rotation.
At this point 3F+2Lp is 6.6 compared to most ladies favoured 3T+3T which is 8.2 base value so she needs to make up at least the BV difference. If she lands the 3A then the 4.8 points difference more than makes up for it....though it barely closes the gap on 3Lz+3T.
From the second interview translated by Akira Andrea:
Just for info Mao Asada did a 3A yesterday during her short program in exhib yesterday although it was cheated and double-footed:
Still, if she wants to land it at some point in competition, she has to start somewhere....


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Kimber Desert Warrior.
But of the two, I would wager that the Colt was first as they were submitted to the Marine Corps in the fall of 2011 for testing. Colt started dabbling in the Cerakote in 2011 with the Rail Gun being offered in "Armoers Black" or something like that, I think Sig didn't start with it until this year.
If I were to choose from the two, I'd take the Colt. I like the Cocking serrations better and the tradidtional rail system will be easier to find a holster for (with no light attached) not to mention that the Colt Rail Guns have Natioanl match barrels. I also like the grips of the Colt better and don't care for the blued accents of the Sig. I also like Colts' thumb safety and grip safety a little better...And I like that it's magwell free. I think the only thing the Sig really has going for it is the flat trigger.


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Julie Gustafson is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has recently returned to the Boston area where she grew up. Her most recent project, Desire, was filmed collaboratively with teenage girls over a 10-year period in New Orleans. Completed shortly before Hurricane Katrina, the feature documentary was released by Women Make Movies, broadcast on Free Speech TV, and has won many accolades and honors, including Al and Tipper Gore's Reel Current Award for Best Documentary at the 2006 Nashville Film Festival.
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Wow! 6 days and I had one hive with three bars of comb drawn out! beautiful stuff! they chose the bars right next to the division feeder (furthest from the entrance, this was the hive in which i put the entrance at one end.) I had suspended the queen cage from the 3rd bar from the feeder, and they had built comb all around it. The queen had been eaten out but the cage was "combed in"!
Other hives had comb too, but this one was real impressive. Frankly I didn't stick my head in there on the other two, just enough to see there was comb, but not sure how many bars full... reason I got wrapped up on this one was I was checking on the queen and the cage was wrapped right up in it. Give me another week and I will be gettin my head right in there!


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Does anyone know how much bees utilize hazelnut catskins or flowers. I am planting 100 bushes this spring. Thanks,
Does anyone know how much bees utilize hazelnut catskins or flowers. I am planting 100 bushes this spring. Thanks,
"The true meaning of life is to plant tree's, which under whose shade you do not expect to sit" Nelson Henderson
Hazelnut is our first major pollen source here in western Oregon, in bloom right now. The wind-pollinated catkins have no nectar. If the weather cooperates the bees will be all over them. Yesterday all five of my hives were bee-lining to four big flowering hazelnuts 1/3 mile away and returning with baskets full of lemon-yellow pollen. The trees themselves were abuzz with bees, almost like a basswood in bloom.
I've heard it's a poor source of pollen, but it is pollen all the same and will stimulate your hives. I hope you don't plant bushes, all the ones I bought were trees. The Catkins are not actually the flowers. The flowers themselves are very very small when looking at the tree you have to know what to look for. This year most of the bees went south before they could take advantage of the trees on the surrounding properties. Just my 2 cents worth.
The catkins are the male flowers and the sole source of pollen for the bees. The female flowers are tiny and to my knowledge have nothing of bee-value.
Wind-pollinated plants tend to produce low-nutrient pollen, but when it's all that is available the bees will collect it with a vengeance.
I read the flower is very small and I knew the catskin was the pollinator by wind for the flower but wasn't sure if there was enough pollin for the bees to utilize. I am planting for the deer, cover and food and was hoping a benifit for my bees. Thank you all.
"The true meaning of life is to plant tree's, which under whose shade you do not expect to sit" Nelson Henderson
Hazelnuts are wind pollinated, so they make quite a bit of pollen. Probably not nutritionally complete, but there will be other pollen available soon. Hazelnuts pollinate very early as a rule, along with things like birch and pussywillow, and the bees will collect all they can.
The male flowers are in a catkin, the female are at the tip of a twig, I think, and hard to see. Since they are wind pollinated, there will be no nectar.


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The Giants' rookie pool number for 2013, according to Jason from overthecap.com, is estimated to be $4,614,587.
Here are his estimated rookie pool salary cap numbers for the Giants in 2013. Those of the rest of the NFL clubs in 2013 can be found listed on the link below. Please keep in mind that all of these numbers are merely estimates at this point in time and do not include compensatory picks (which are awarded at the end of March):
The Giants rank 20th out of all clubs in this category, ranging from biggest rookie pool allocation to smallest, with their total of $4,614,587.
The total range is from approximately $7.84 M to $2.92 M.
The Eagles have the biggest rookie pool allocation estimate, with $7,836,357.
The Colts have the smallest rookie pool allocation estimate, with $2,917,155.
Estimates will change after compensatory picks are awarded, and according to the amount of picks that teams have.
Changes in estimates will of course be made to reflect trades and transactions involving draft picks prior to the draft, during it, and after its conclusion, at which point speculation will cease, since the numbers will be concrete at that point.
Click on the link below for the rest of NFL clubs.
The Giants have to clear more money for the rookies and their RFAs who include Cruz, S. Brown, and A. Brown.
1.) Cruz would cost $2.879 M against the cap, if tendered at the 1st round tender rate, which he undoubtedly will be.
2.) S. Brown would cost $2.023 M against the cap, if tendered at the 2nd round tender rate, which he most likely will be.
3.) A. Brown would cost $1.323 M against the cap, if tendered at the original round tender rate, which he most likely will be.
**On a sidenote, A. Browns original round was the 4th round of the 2009 draft, so that's what any team that would agree to sign him would have to be willing to give up to the Giants to keep him, which is VERY unlikely since RBs are a dime a dozen.
The Giants will need another $6.225 million in cap space to make room for their Restricted Free Agents (RFAs).
If you add that amount to the rookie pool money $4,614,587, then the Giants will need to be $10,839,587 under the cap.
Right now they're supposedly a little over about $4 million under the cap. This means that they need to clear close to about another $7 million in cap space. This means more players have to agree to paycuts, and some more who have to be released if they don't do so, thereby creating the requisite room under the cap.
The good news is that the timetable works out for the Giants well with respect to the draft, since it's a little over 2 months from now, giving them plenty of time to make the necessary room under the cap. The problem lies with the RFAs. They'll need to clear a little more than 2 million bucks more to sign Cruz, S. Brown, & A. Brown, at the RFA tender rates mentioned above. They will need to do this within the next calendar month, which gives them time, but the clock is definitely clicking.
I didn't even count the money that the Giants need to make under the cap for re-signing their own players in Unrestricted Free Agency (UFA), which include: Beatty, Bennett, Boothe, Hixon, Carr, and maybe even guys like a Chase Blackburn and Keith Rivers to fortify the LB corps--God knows that they're short on bodies at that particular position.
With the cap being tight like it is, the Giants may have to re-sign guys like Blackburn and Rivers because of circumstances due to the salary cap and lack of depth at the Linebacker position. Those 2 would not cost much, and the Giants are know what they can do (which is rather be limited, unfortunately). I didn't even bother to mention Osi, Phillips, or Tynes because it's widely assumed that they're gone, and would cost too much to keep.
Don't forget that the Giants need money to sign other players too, if they would like, so that means guys on the roster whose performances don't match their high cap numbers, like a Diehl or a Webster, or even a Tuck or a Snee (although unlikely for these latter two), could be targets for paycuts or being released. The option to restructured some deals for guys on the team, not in danger of of being released in order to create more cap room this year--although at expense of creating more in later years--is also there. Ideal candidates for that include guys like Eli and Rolle.
All in all, the Giants will be forced into making more hard decisions with respect to the cap in order to make room for the RFAs (Cruz and the 2 Browns), rookies, and in order to re-sign their own UFAs. They'll have room to probably a select couple of guys from other teams in UFA, but it won't be many. Don't bank on any splurges for a FA RT if they re-sign Beatty to play OLT, or another similar player at that position to take his place, like a B. Albert. Like many years past, the Giants will be up against the cap, and won't be splurging on FAs.


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Noun: a person who steals bacon from the pockets or handbags of others in public places. In most cases bacon is secretly planted into the victims person so as to persuade the public to the opinion that the victim was a Bacon Hoarder.
Bacon Hoarder One: What about that guy, man?"
Bacon Hoarder Two: "I don't trust him, I heard that he is a damn Pigpocket!"
Bacon Hoarder Two: "I don't trust him, I heard that he is a damn Pigpocket!"
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a girl that a heterosexual male can basically carry around in his pocket to perform sexual favours on command. If she does a poor job you scream "SOOEYYY" at her until she leaves, and then she is no longer your PigPocket and you have to find a new PigPocket who will suck n' fuck better.
I was unsuccessful in trapping a girl into fucking me tonight, I guess ill call upon the PigPocket to do what she does best!
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Philly Cheesesteak
The signature Philly sandwich from the city's legendary sandwich shop, Pat's King of Steaks.
24 ounces boneless rib-eye steaks (freeze and use meat slicer to get thinnest cut)
4 crusty submarine-shaped Italian rolls
1 large Spanish onion, diced
4 tablespoons soy oil
Cheez Whiz
Mixed red and green peppers (optional)
Heat iron skillet or nonstick pan over medium heat. Add three tablespoons of oil to the pan and sauté the onions (and peppers, if you wish) to desired doneness. Remove the vegetables and add the remaining oil and sauté slices of meat quickly on both sides. Melt the Cheez Whiz in a pot or in the microwave.
Place six ounces of meat into each roll and push the meat onto one side of the roll and deposit the toppings next to it.
Use a butter knife or chopstick to smear the whiz next to the meat. This is important because if you put the toppings on the meat, they will not be in the bottom of the sandwich. You should get meat, toppings and cheese in every bite.
Servings: Serves four
Lime Rub Shrub
The colonials used whatever fruit juice was handy, including lemonade, for this Early American cocktail.
1 quart rum
1 1/2 cup sugar
8 ounces lime juice
Pour everything into a punch bowl, mix until sugar dissolves, and serve over ice.
Servings: Serves ten (five-ounce servings)
Orange Water Ice
Water ice is Philadelphia-style Italian ice. It's served at a higher temperature than other frozen dessert ices, making it softer, smoother, and easier to eat.
1 quart water
2 cups orange juice
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice
Shaved rind of two oranges
Scrape the rind off the oranges, avoiding the bitter white part. Combine water, sugar, and rind over medium heat to make a syrup. Strain syrup through cheesecloth and add to the fruit juices.
Chill in the freezer. Serve at a slushy consistency.
Servings: Serves eight (eight-ounce servings)
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Sample Project Proposals: Product Design
System to Track Athletes's Position Using Video
Trak Performance software allows a user to track where an athlete or official (hereafter will just refer to players) moves around a field/rink/court (field for short), thereby providing tactical information on how the player uses the field, and their velocity (which translates into work rate), both of great interest to coaches. The Trak Performance software assists the user in tracking players, one player at a time, by providing a diagram of the field on screen, and recording the user's mouse movements as the user follows the player's movements around the field, watching a separate video. The user can also setup hot keys to hit when various events occur, like a shot.
There are systems that track player movements, such as ProZone, but they require a major, permanent system installation at the stadium, and cost on the order of $10,000/game and require sending the video out to a processing center.
When we saw a demonstration of ProQueSys, it seemed that the technique used in the goldfish example could potentially be applied to the problem of tracking players as they moved around a field.
To determine the feasibility and, if feasible, the computational requirements to semi-automatically track entire team(s) of athletes as they move about a field using a single camera angle and the ProQueSys software system. We define 'tracking' an athlete as knowing where they are on a field at every instance of time, thereby not only knowing their location, but thereby being able to calculate their velocity, and thus determine running speed, work rate etc.
- Familiarize with the ProQueSys (PQS) tracking platform.
- Create interfacing specifications.
- Develop tracking system using PQS tools—includes tracking players, tracking field boundaries as camera pans back and forth following the ball, registering players as they enter or leave the field.
- Tracking strategy may depend on using one or multiple PQS tracking instances to initially track the field boundaries. This way the tracking models can reasonably accurately determine the viewing angle of the camera, and feed this information back into the tracking models. Knowing approximate field boundaries improves the accuracy of player tracking.
- Second development stage will focus on producing one or more player tracking models. One model will be able to track dozens of players at once, since the ProQueSys core can apply the same model to multiple objects in the tracked environment. ProQueSys currently uses several image processing strategies, a selection of which will determine the best tracking performance, given the player models. Tracking targets include players, referee(s) and the ball.
- Test models on selected test video(s). We will pick a sport on which to focus all initial development, likely candidates are soccer and field hockey.
- Effectiveness evaluation will depend on human scoring of the resulting tracked players. Measures will include players missed, players mis-identified, system losing track of a player, or the system tracking a single player multiple times.
- Trak Performance software, which uses a manual tracking technique, may be used to provide current standard of accuracy for comparison with PQS models created in this project.
- Later in the project the focus will be on improving the human interaction with the tracking system to allow an operator to correct tracking mistakes and mix-ups.
- The team will deliver the results of their feasibility study, as well as all software, user interface, PQS models, etc.
Required Facilities
All development must be on the Macintosh OS X platform as that is how we deliver all of our software.
Knowledge Areas Needed for Project
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Proprietary Information and Confidentiality Requirements
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- Intellectual property ownership rights retained by sponsor
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The Super Intelligent Earplug
It goes without saying that classical music is dramatically different from all other musical styles. It may be less obvious to many people, though, that some of those differences are:
- The music is almost always performed purely acoustically, without any amplification whatsoever (except when performing in outdoor venues) and
- The music is often extremely flexible, and the musicians are continuously adjusting to each other (and the conductor) in order to stay together, and
- The music vacillates frequently and rapidly between volume extremes and furthermore often has different instruments playing simultaneously both very loud and very soft.
In order for the classical music performer to be able to perform at their peak they need to be able to hear well both themselves and their colleagues at all times.
As the symphony orchestra has evolved over the last 200 years the number of instruments has increased dramatically, and the volume of many of those instruments has also increased. For many orchestral musicians it is now imperative that they wear ear protection if they expect to retain their hearing throughout their career. (The major symphony orchestras have experimented with sound baffles, meant to protect the more downstage musicians from the louder sounds of the more upstage players, with mixed results. There is, however, general agreement that they are unsightly to the audience.)
Unfortunately, any ear protection yet devised causes a significant loss of clarity of the ambient sounds, often making it difficult or impossible for the musicians to hear themselves. Additionally, the musicians are forced to insert and remove earplugs often during a performance, a distraction to themselves, their colleagues and the audience. The classical musician needs to be able to continue to hear clearly and well, yet have the total volume stay at manageable, non-damaging levels.
The Intelligent Earplug will enable the performing musician to hear well and clearly at all times by passing through to the ear-canal all safe sounds at a very high level of audio fidelity. For obvious reasons this needs to be accomplished without any noticeable latency. Those sounds that exceed the user-selectable threshold for loudness comfort will be reduced to the threshold level. The Intelligent Earplug will be as small, discrete and comfortable as conventional earplugs in order that its use will be transparent to the concert-going audience. It will operate with its own self-contained power source in order that it not require any wires, even if that means that it will need to be charged between uses.
Performers on some of the lower volume and lower pitched instruments (e.g. the cellos and basses) often find that they cannot monitor their own sound well at low volume, even when the overall volume of the orchestra is below the threshold for damage. In this situation one is often instinctively tempted to play slightly louder, resulting in a lack of blend within the section.
The Super-Intelligent Earplug will additionally allow the performer to mix into the ambient sound a small user-controllable amount of his/her own sound. The Super-Intelligent Earplug will add a wireless pickup, discretely mounted on the instrument, with the ability to transmit wirelessly to the Intelligent Earplug. In order that many musicians might simultaneously use this technology, it is important that the wireless transmitter and receiver be paired in a way that they can only communicate with each other.
Determine the best hardware and software configuration to maximize audio fidelity while minimizing power requirements for each of the three components.
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The culinary result of throwing a party, making a special salsa, then bums wander in off the street to dip fingers in said salsa, lick them clean, and submerge them again for an extra licking. More deplorable than double dipping, it is truly an unfortunate creation.
Stephanie: Frank, you're not eating that leftover salsa, are you? Bums were dipping their fingers in it!
Frank: You mean I ingested... bumfinger salsa? (vomits)
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Having sex with a frat boy and then having sex with his little (his new member) It's similar to having sex with a dad and his son
Kari was talking to Jake, they had sex. Now she thinks his little is hotter, thats about to be a Big Little Beatdown.
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