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Scott White January 13, 2010 at 4:07pm
Brooke, I second Mike's advice. I tape the LED and battery together first with clear packing tape Then I tape that to the disc with clear duct tape AT ROOM TEMPERATURE. I've never had a light fall off yet with this method. If you buy the batteries (2025 or 2032) and LEDs (2.3V-3V) in bulk online the cost per disc can get as low as $1.50.
Daemon Stahlin January 13, 2010 at 2:27pm
what tees tonight?
Mike Fortunato January 13, 2010 at 2:11pm
Radio Shack can hook you up. Get an assorted LED pack and 3 volt round batteries. They look like watch batteries. Make sure you apply some clear duct tape when both tape and discs are at room temp.
Brooke Plantz January 13, 2010 at 1:07pm
Are we playing tonight? After last week of looking for my discs this week I want to use led's. Who can hook me up and who has the best system for keeping them on your discs?
Garrett Graham 4G's December 24, 2009 at 6:19pm
Mike Railey found a flashlight out at brown this morning get a hold of him if its yours
Brooke Plantz December 24, 2009 at 2:42pm
Thanks Garrett for doing a great job running the doubles. Had lots of fun as usual. I won $1.00 on the lottery ticket! Heading home to Oregon for the holidays Hope everyone has a great Christmas!
Garrett Graham 4G's December 24, 2009 at 5:13am
nice turn out Merry Christmas everyone
Garrett Graham 4G's December 21, 2009 at 4:07pm
all of them
Scott White December 21, 2009 at 4:02pm
So, what are the problem holes at Brown? IE, when I am waiting to throw which holes do I need to keep and eye out for incoming drives?
Garrett Graham 4G's December 18, 2009 at 12:51pm
Scott White December 17, 2009 at 2:24pm
Had a great time last night.
Garrett, thanks again for making this league exist, and for picking up my bag caw!
BROWN PARK next week 12/23. We voted and it will be so. 7:15 tee time to allow the NE siders extra time to get there.
Garrett Graham 4G's December 16, 2009 at 10:06pm
yes there will be double points tonight with wind chill it wont reach 15 till 4am
Garrett Graham 4G's December 16, 2009 at 10:04pm
tee off is at 7 joe
Joe Anttila December 16, 2009 at 8:44pm
what time is tee tonight?
Daemon Stahlin December 16, 2009 at 8:29pm
blue/blue it is
Scott White December 16, 2009 at 8:04pm
Double Points tonight fooooo shoooo
Scott White December 16, 2009 at 6:54pm
To all: if you can't tape your LEDs prior to arrival at Bandemer I highly suggest you find somewhere warm to affix your tape to properly allow it to adhere to the plastic. I will be doing it at home.
G Lane, Raby, et al: If you guys can meet at Casey's tavern at 6:30 we could kick each other then affix tape to polyethelene.
Daemon Stahlin December 16, 2009 at 6:43pm
also, what tees?


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HYDE PARK, Friday—I am again going to talk to you about a piece of pending legislation, not for any partisan reason, but because in talking to people and in hearing from them, I am convinced that the point of the neutrality legislation now pending is not understood by many of our citizens.
It is not that I dread the passage of the bill as it now stands, but it is just that I feel that all of us ought to understand clearly what we mean by a desire for neutrality. We have certainly not been neutral under the present neutrality bill.
It seems to me that the whole of our history points to the fact that whatever legislation we have, and whatever government is in power, is we hope to stay at peace ourselves, we must try to prevent war anywhere else. If we exert no influence to prevent war until it has begun, it really matters little where the place may be, we are definitely affected by a condition of war anywhere in the world in our social and economic life, we may be able to keep ourselves out of the actual conflict, but even that is not so very certain once war has begun, for a war spirit spreads and all the neutrality laws in the world are not proof against human nature.
In addition to this I think we should look back over the 150 years of our history, for never has a President deliberately, because of his constitutional powers in foreign affairs, involved this country in a war. All of our wars have resulted from the constitutional action taken by the Congress itself. This seems to me perfectly understandable, for no one individual feeling the weight of responsibility that a war carries with it, cares to carry it alone. You do not send people to be killed and hold yourself the only one to blame if you can possibily share that responsibility with somebody else. That is a very good reason why we may be sure that the President will continue in the future, as in the past, to let Congress share the burden of declaring war.
This being the case, it seems to me, that real neutrality can be achieved more successfully by considering each case on its merits as it comes up, and leaving as much latitude as possible to the Chief Executive and the State Department in the hope that wars may be prevented and thereby make our own position safer.
Between the printing press and the typewriter, both of which occasionally seem to work by themselves, there appeared in the column which I wrote the other day, and in an article in the New York Times, a strange misstatement! The Danish Minister and Mme. Wadsted were metamorphosed into the Norwegian Minister and Mme. de Morgenstierne. I, for one, wish to make it clear that our picnic guests who were leaving for a new post in Italy, were the Danish Minister and Mme. Wadsted. I talked to them both and since I talked about Denmark they must of thought I had taken leave of my senses when they found themselves transformed into the Norwegian Minister and his wife, let alone what that gentleman must have felt when he found he had been at a picnic which he never attended!


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Degradation of oxalic acid by transgenic oilseed rape plants expressing oxalate oxidase
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- Thompson, C., Dunwell, J.M., Johnstone, C.E. et al. Euphytica (1995) 85: 169. doi:10.1007/BF00023945
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Oxalic acid is thought to have a primary role in the pathogenicity of several plant pathogens, notably Sclerotinia selerotiorum. A gene coding for the enzyme oxalate oxidase was isolated from barley roots and introduced into oilseed rape as a means of degrading oxalic acid in vivo. This report describes the production of several transgenic plants of oilseed rape and the characterisation of these plants by Southern, Western and enzyme activity assays. Plants were shown to contain an active oxalate oxidase enzyme and were tolerant of exogenously supplied oxalic acid.
Key wordsBrassica napus disease tolerance oxalic acid oxalate oxidase Sclerotinia sclerotiorum transformation
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VIDEO: Afriyie Acquah speaks after Ghana's 2-2 draw with Germany
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Watch unused substitute Afriyie Acquah talk about Ghana's 2-2 draw with Germany last Saturday which gave the Black Stars a glimmer of hope of progressing at the World Cup.
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CommentsThis article has 9 comment(s), give your comment
Kwabena says:June 23, 2014 10:21 pmAA is the greatest thing that has happened to GFA.
Selfmade says:June 23, 2014 09:18 amWe've big mouths talking rubbish all the time but we can't perform. Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Algeria are the true giants of Africa while Ghana are simply Black Dogs (BD's).
Onyx says:June 23, 2014 09:24 amOnly dogs can see other dogs, no wonder fools are always ignored.
Benny says:June 23, 2014 09:35 amWe were praying for Portugal to beat USA,now that Portugal drew with USA,what do we do.Anything is possible but in reality you don't jump from1000 feet with umbrella . We had our destiny in our hands,quality and hungry players yet thanks to AA who is more interested in doing favours to individuals than glory to the nation is making it seems that we will be jumping 1000 feet with umbrella and hope angels of heaven will guard our feet against stones. AA has shown absolute nativity and stupidity. Look at How Klinsmann has moulded mediocre players.What was the reason of Adomah in the USA game? After all those hoping from man city to Anfield what came out? I could sleep last night when Portugal drew with USA,all because of AA. He wanted every opportunity to use Dauda and couldn't wait for the opportunity. We would never be in this mess if we had impartial coach. I never say never until it's never.impossibility is only a word,hope some how a miracle unveil. Having said that AA needs the sacking after the World Cup,he can't be trusted with the emotions of 25million people.Football is a multi-billion dollar business and should not be entrusted with a novice, Two years in a job but could not assemble his best eleven and a strategic game plan.
abia says:June 23, 2014 09:38 am@Selfmade u dnt knw w@ u believe in anymore. I pity u...
Navy seal USA says:June 23, 2014 10:13 amKwasia bi nti.........AA is a disappointed fool.
Gye di says:June 23, 2014 10:28 amI keep wondering why AA always used his second eleven whenever Kwarasey is between the poles? Is it a gimmick? A way to proof that Kwarasey is not up to the task. Look at the two goals Kwarasey conceived and those that Dauda conceived and draw your own conclusions.
Mumbi says:June 23, 2014 10:47 amFrogs crying. Accusing USA & Germany of match fixing when they have not yet played.
edward says:June 23, 2014 06:26 pmSome pple always wanna prove beyond doubt of their immaturity in the game of football. Always pointing their dirty fingers at AA... So u expected A A to tell Jordan Ayew to pass the ball to Asamoah gyan , against Germany ... If u have nothing encouraging to say, just save your useless comments in your heads.... If AA was your father, or uncle , u won't be calling him a fool....


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1. There is no ODF requirement that namespace binding be with a prefix. The binding can be with a default namespace (no prefix).
1.1 There is no problem with any of the ODF RNG Schemas with how [xml-names] is supported.
1.2 Although prefixes are always used in the ODF Specification, neither the particular name for the prefix or the use of a prefix are required. (However, a prefix is required if attributes are defined in a namespace. There is no default namespace for attributes.) The namespace binding can be by any means that [xml-names] provides for.
For example, the NameSpaceResilience-01- and -02- ODF Text documents at
are valid. (Note that prefix bindings are still used with the attribute names.)
1.3 The W3C DSig XML Schema allows namespace binding by default and that is what all of the examples do. Also, the W3C DSig XML Schema does not assume namespace bindings on attributes of DSig-defined elements, so having a prefix on those is inappropriate.
1.4 One problem that we have is some ODF 1.2 META-INF/documentsignatures.xml consumers *expect* that a default namespace binding is used. That appears to be a defect.
1.5 The proposed workaround should provide the greatest interoperability. See (previously copied to odf-dev).
2. I have no explanation for the duplicate X.509 certificates. I have seen them in some documents. I have no idea why they are produced. I was asking what implementation and version is producing them. I don't see them all the time. Is it possible simply to ignore the duplication?
- Dennis
PS: Your attachment did not come through on the list.
-----Original Message-----
From: Biao Han [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 20:48
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Re: FW: Status of the Simple Java API for ODF and ODFDOM - 08/10/2011
"Dennis E. Hamilton" wrote on 2011-08-16 01:59:01:
> From: "Dennis E. Hamilton"
> To: "odf-dev ODF Toolkit Incubator"
> Date: 2011-08-16 01:58
> Subject: FW: Status of the Simple Java API for ODF and ODFDOM - 08/10/2011
> Now that the list exists, ...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 08:42
> To: 'Biao Han'
> Subject: RE: Status of the Simple Java API for ODF and ODFDOM - 08/10/2011
> Nicely done. Thanks for being so visible.
> Another thing you can do is set up an ODFtoolkit blog at Apache.
> Ideally, the mailing lists will appear soon.
> Two Questions:
> 1. My impression is that the signatures from OO.o are correct.
> They do specify namespaces, but use default namespace declarations
> instead of prefixes.
> In what way is the signature document incorrect?
The signature document always work. The question is the realization detail. Duplicate X.509 certificate info and without namespace prefix.
> Also, what versions of OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice are you checking
> signatures against?
> I have signatures from LibreOffice 3.4 that do not appear to
> duplicate X.509 certificates and that seem to use namespaces
> correctly, although dsig namespace is
> declared with default xmlns declaration.
I attach a sample file. I am sure there are duplicate X.509 certificate info in it.
You can also reference http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66276, they face the same issue.
> 2. Does ODFDOM fail because of namespace being declared as
> default or because of something to do with canonicalization? If the
> XML Digital Signature specification requires default namespace, it
> may be that ODF specification is incorrect.
> Have you found expert appraisal of what XML Digital Signature requires?
ODFDOM fails, because the signature file without namespace prefix. This maybe considered as a bug of ODFDOM.
But all of the other xml files, content.xml, styles.xml. meta.xml, settings.xml and manifest.xml have namespace prefix. Even the schema of documentsingature.xml has namespace prefix. But the OpenOffice generated file doesn't have. I suggest OpenOffice should follow this.
> - Dennis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Biao Han [mailto:email@example.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 08:14
> To: firstname.lastname@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com;
> firstname.lastname@example.com
> Cc: email@example.com
> Subject: Status of the Simple Java API for ODF and ODFDOM - 08/10/2011
> [ ... ]
> 1. Working on data signature. There are two issues caused by OpenOffice
> block the process.
> (1) OpenOffice.org generate a Namespace unaware signature document.
> ODFDOM loads it fails.
> (2) OpenOffice.org creates multiple X509Certificates instead of the
> correct certification chain under ds:KeyInfo.
> see also:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39657 (ds namespace
> in LibreOffice)
> http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107864 (ds
> namespace in OOo)
> http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66276 (multiple
> X509Certificate in OOo)
> http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108286
> We have to supply two modes to fix it. One follows ODF
> specification, the other follows Open Office. The question is which is
> the default?
> [ ... ]
> Regards
> Biao Han (Devin)
> SOA Standards Growth, Emerging Technology Institute(ETI), IBM China
> Software Development Laboratory
> Tel:(86-10)82450541
> Email: email@example.com
> Address: 3/F Ring Building, No.28 Building, Zhong Guan Cun Software Park,
> No. 8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, ShangDi, Haidian District, Beijing,
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Date of Stay: October, 2008
Sites were large concrete pads and level!! Stayed 4 nights and was only going to stay 1. Daily garbage pickup,quiet area with local traffic, very safe and secure. Was followed into park every night by security- Great!! Showers had keypad on doors for extra security. Very much appreciated
Date of Stay: October, 2008
Ok for an overnight stay. Did get a discount on fuel with receipt. Site was difficulty to find at night and site not well drained. Was raining heavily and site was flooded. Had to wade through 5 inches of water to get to electric. Was not told internet was available. Easy access to highway/interstate. ?? if would stay again
Date of Stay: October, 2008
Park was nice, with 2 nice fishing ponds and lots of ducks. Enjoyed feeding ducks. Nicely kept, management extremely friendly and took to site. Very quiet. Conveniently located to major interstate. Would have stayed longer if not passing through.
Date of Stay: August, 2008
I was here on a work contract. This was the niceset park around, but it was awful. They stated that there was wireless internet... That stunk! Couldnt even get on at the office. I asked for a site away from the playground and kid areas, and was put next to a house trailer with kids!! Trying to sleep in the day was a real chore. I was close to the dog park which was nice for me and the dog. There was supposed to be a rule against 4 wheelers, well there was one in the park for about 2 weeks. Then there were power surges that made everything shut off and the owners said it was our fault (the rv owners). The hot tub wasn't working most of my stay, and one of the co-owners/grounds keeper was extremely rude and carried a beer can around constantly. He would even stare at me while I was trying to do rv maintance. If I wasn't gone most of the time I would have left. If it weren't for some of my neighbors I would have left a long time ago. As a single female I really didnt feel safe esp with one of the grounds keepers around. I only recommend a brief 1 or 2 day stay not extended stay.
Date of Stay: June, 2008
The campground was beautiful. Had a wonderful view of the lake. The site they put me in was horrible. Took me 45 minutes to get into the site. It was actually too small for my 5th wheel rig and my truck. Really wasn't sure I was going to get out either. Someone else across from me also had trouble and actually left. They need to re-assess the sites and what size rig they will actually accommodate, otherwise had a nice vacation.
Date of Stay: April, 2008
1st night after driving 10 hours was rough. Was given a spot that I could not get my RV level. Next am asked to move. Stayed there for 3 months. Needed some place cheap to stay. Was okay. Staff extra friendly and helpful, no dog run. Great walk out on a ranch. Where I was parked had no wireless internet. Had to go to the office to get signal. Was placed in a quiet area that I asked for.
Date of Stay: March, 2008
The owners have been very accommodating for my needs when ever I come home. Unfortunately I've only gotten to stay in the winter months, and a couple of days during the summer. They go out of their way to help out. From what I've seen the laundry and rest rooms are clean and the grounds are very well kept. On weekends there are lots of activities. I would recommend this park to anyone.
Date of Stay: January, 2008
This is a nice park that is fairly new. It met my needs, but its not really for the family. Mostly for the working person and passer by's. Clean well kept grounds, great Wi-Fi internet service, quiet and not real busy. Has a little fishing pond they call a lake. Sites were grassy and sand. Owner checks in frequently to see how all is going. Draw back, at time I stayed there was no office and I had to find my own site. Owner was making improvements the entire time I stayed and when I was leaving. I would stay there again


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Through the viewfinder : using multimedia techniques to engage Latino youth in community planning
Cushing, Debra Flanders, Wexler Love, Emily, & van Vliet, Willem (2012) Through the viewfinder : using multimedia techniques to engage Latino youth in community planning. In Rios, Michael & Vazquez, Leonardo (Eds.) Dialogos : Placemaking in Lationo Communities. Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), New York, pp. 172-185.
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This chapter reviews common barriers to community engagement for Latino youth and suggests ways to move beyond those barriers by empowering them to communicate their experiences, address the challenges they face, and develop recommendations for making their community more youth-friendly. As a case study, this chapter describes a program called Youth FACE IT (Youth Fostering Active Community Engagement for Integration and Transformation)in Boulder County, Colorado. The program enables Latino youth to engage in critical dialogue and participate in a community-based initiative. The chapter concludes by explaining specific strategies that planners can use to support active community engagement and develop a future generation of planners and engaged community members that reflects emerging demographics.
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Marijuana Smuggling Attempt Off Southern California Coastline
Panga Boast First Spotted 95 Miles Off San Diego Coast
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - There have been empty panga boats found all over the California coast suspected of being used to help smuggle drugs. The latest find was just off the coast of San Diego.
Agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped a panga boat Tuesday that agents said was being used to smuggle approximately 1,500 pounds of marijuana. Most of the panga boats that have been found on the Central Coast were already abandoned when they are found by law enforcement.
Agents spotted the boat approximately 95 miles west of San Diego. There was three people on board, multiple fuel cans, and a tarp covering much of the open hull on the fiberglass fishing boat, said customs agents involved in the bust.
Marine Interdiction Agents arrested arrested all three people on board. In total, officials seized 33 bundles of marijuana from the panga, with an estimated street value of $675,000, they said


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"My Brown degree gave me an excellent preparation for my Ph.D. work, followed by a long career in industrial research as an individual researcher, a research manager and a director of research. I finished off my career branching off into biophysics (my previous areas of research were optics, fiber optic sensing, smart structures, complex adaptive structures and adaptive computational techniques) as the director of the Applied Biosciences Center at Virginia Tech. I am now retired, but found that a physics degree prepares me both for research and for management of engineering teams, since a physicist is willing to step outside the box and consider problems from first principles, something even good engineers are not generally trained to do." - William B. Spillman Jr.
"I worked for AT&T-Bell Labs. Initially I modeled neutron damage in Si. After four years I moved to a job providing technical support toa facility manufacturing printed circuits. This was a broad generalist job requiring a knowledge of many technical disciplines. The work on neutron damage was a direct extension of my PhD research. The later work on printed circuits required the approach used in physics for problem solving." - Robert R Holmes
"Training in physics allowed me to participate in many technical areas including: Elastic yarn manufacturing, Helicopter manufacturing.Nuclear power for submarines, space power systems &electric power generation.Water purification by reverse osmoses. Laser holography for visualization of complex stress patters and laser printing. Fiber wound structures to increase energy storage in high speed flywheels. Fuel cell technology and development for underwater applications, marine power sysems, and for the Space shuttle. Small town planning: land use, water supplies, liquid and solid waste disposal & cell phone tower siting." - Ben Gitlow
"The Brown physics program provided a solid base for my career in solar physics. You can read about my work at http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/FlareGenesis/Team/Dave/David_M_Rust.html"- David Rust
"I got a Ph.D. degree on Elementary Particle Physics from Cornell in 1984. I now do Biophysics and study biomolecular systems by computer simulations." - Yuko Okamoto
"Technology ScB in Physics was an excellent foundation for a career in high tech managment. Was able to understand the technical operation of the various products or concepts I delt with, while the strong mathematical background helped understand the financials of the business. An MBA from Harvard helped resolve the personnel administration and expression issues." - Frank J. Wezniak
"Currently teaching in Bioengineering division. My degree in Physics of course was a tremendous help in my research area, which is biomedical imaging." - Kijoon Lee
"I returned to Brown in 1959 and got a PhD in Physics with Leon Cooper on the superconducting proximity effect. I taught Physics at U. Michigan, Case Western Reserve U., U. of Kansas and finally Dalhousie U. before moving to the Dalhousie Oceanography Department in 1975 and then working for the Canadian government from 1978 to 2000 as a marine ecologist. Leon Cooper told me once abut my thesis topic that if could solve this problem, I could solve anything. Basically he was right. Although none of the work I do in ecology looks anything like physics, the intellectual skills I acquired at Brown were the basic tools that I needed and used. What mattered was not that I learned physics, but rather that I learned how to do science." - Bill Silvert
"My Physics degree has thoroughly prepared me for my career even though I am not pursuing science. Studying Physics at Brown taught me to think analytically, and that has been invaluable." - Kenli Okada
"I teach high school physics. It's really fun.." - Lieva Whitbeck
"I am a practicing medical physicist whose graduate work at Brown has been essential for my career. I use my scientific skills directly to assist the care of patients. In over thirty years I don't think that any two days have ever been alike, and I have the luck to get paid for pursuing a hobby. " - David L. North
"I am a partner at a management consulting company and I serve the Aerospace & Defense industry. After receiving my ScB in Physics at Brown, I got my PhD in theoretical nuclear physics at MIT. Both degrees really help me in my profession. First, they give me great credibility with my clients who usually have technical backgrounds themselves. Second, physics education is great training for the analytical problem solving required for effective consulting. " - Eric Kronenberg
"Currently advise information technology and information companies on mergers acquisitions and financings. My undergraduate Physics education helps me everyday solve problems, screen BS and tell my kids how much there is still left to understand about how the universe works." - David Heinemann
"My ScB(P) gave me a broad understanding of physics/engineering and superb analytical skills able to solve the problem of RADAR backscattering from ocean waves and other problems. After working at Martin for three years, Sanders for eleven years, I worked at DEC for 22 years. At DEC I was the engineering manager for DECsystem 10 software and CPU hardware development for the 11/70, 11/55, and 11/60 and the FP11C." - Alton Ryder
"Over the years I have been working on research in solid state physics. But in the latter part of my career, I have been focused on infrared technology for both industry and the department of Defense. Currently I am retired but still "working", consulting for a company that produces infrared detector materials for IR focal plane arrays. The principal IR material is a II-VI alloy, HgCdTe. We are pursuing growing this material on Si substrates that will afford extremely large arrays consisting of up to 16 million pixels. The company is also pursuing II-VI solar arrays using materials from the II-VI columns of the periodic table. These include compounds and alloys such as CdTe, CdZnTe, etc. Besides consulting on a wide variety of device issues for EPIR, I am also developing for them a design tool allowing the detector designer to predict performance of a given detector design as well as aid in analyzing failure. This involves the numerical solution of the semiconductor equations, a set of non-linear, second order partial differential equations. While the bulk of my career has been spent in IR physics and technology, Right after Brown, I worked in nuclear power reactor design physics. This involved extensive numerical computation. Therefore most of my research career involved numerical solutions for my research areas which included transport and optical properties of IR materials as well as development of computer-based design tools for engineers and technologists. I have always worked in industry for companies. At times, I have also supported DoD IR technology groups. One exception was course I taught one semester on IR Device Physics at the Microphysics Lab at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Thirty years ago, I along with the late Professor William E. Spicer founded a specialty conference now called the the II-VI conference called the US Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials. I remain on the Program Committee. This Workshop established an international community on IR materials the underlying physics and chemistry processes as well as the technology of IR focal plane arrays In summary, my Brown degree required me to take in addition to physics and math courses, a series of liberal arts courses form Sociology to Biblical Literature. In doing so, it gave me insight into how the world works and how people interact. This was critical in easing my way through the myriad political problems one faces in jousting with fellow researchers as well as management for dollars as well as programs." - Thomas Casselman


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Rachel Hunter says she's looking forward to travelling south today to film the heats for the TVNZ reality show New Zealand's Got Talent.
Hunter is a judge on the show alongside Kiwi musician Jason Kerrison and former UB40 frontman Ali Campbell, who jetted into Auckland on Wednesday. "I'm really excited to be joining forces with Jason and Ali," Hunter told The Diary.
The trio will judge more than 60 acts from around the South Island in a two-day filming session in front of a live audience at Dunedin's Regent Theatre over the weekend.
The acts were selected from open auditions which were held around the country in May and June. More than 5000 acts took part
"I've been told the array of talent in Dunedin will be extensive," Hunter said with some trepidation.
She should be prepared for anything. I'm told the South Island acts are wide and varied, including singers, gymnasts, dancers, bands, animals, beat boxers and musicians.
Campbell, who had an acrimonious split from UB40 four years ago and forged a new band, said he is a fan of Salmonella Dub and Herbs. "I know them well," he said of the Kiwi reggae band.
However, the Brit appears to know less about his fellow judges. "I know Rachel Hunter is a famous Kiwi ... very beautiful and was married to Rod Stewart, but that's about all. And she's an actress," he told Breakfast.
He knows Kerrison is a musician, but doesn't believe he's heard any of his music. He cringed when told Kerrison's first cassette was by UB40. "That makes me feel a bit embarrassed and a bit old."
Campbell is looking forward to travelling the country for the show.
"I am excited about going to Dunedin. I have been there before, but I'm still very excited," he told The Diary.
"This [being a judge] is way out of my comfort zone ... When I was asked, I thought it will let me be in New Zealand for quite a while. I thought, a couple of months in New Zealand, that will do me."
The judges will travel to Wellington and Auckland over the coming weeks to film the other heats. An on-air date for the 13-episode show is yet to be scheduled.
NZGT host Tamati Coffey led a powhiri welcoming the judges at TVNZ yesterday, which is understood to have been filmed for the show.
He is the public face of a state-owned asset, but Jeremy Wells is dipping his toe back in the comedy scene. The king of deadpan joins satirists Leigh Hart and Jason Hoyte in three shows which will screen on Comedy Central next month about the Olympic Games, called Olympico.
"We will be in London bringing you all the relevant action and, in most cases, not-so-relevant action and personalities," Hart told The Diary.
The follicly challenged funny man is no stranger to the Olympics.
"I covered the Sydney Games using a packet of felt-tip pens as accreditation, and I covered the Athens Games from Rome and Venice, and then the Beijing Games from Los Angeles and Disneyland - but this time we want to get closer." As in being in the right city.
Outspoken sports jock Martin Devlin confirmed to The Diary he is leaving MediaWorks Radio for rival The Radio Network to front his own breakfast show on Hauraki.
"I'm champing at the bit to start ... Hauraki has real history and I'm keen to raise the bar and restore it to some of its former glory," he said.
Hauraki content director Mike McClung told The Diary a start date had not been confirmed yet, largely due to Devlin's restraint-of-trade contractual obligations.
The transition from sports broadcasting to a rock music station won't be a problem for Devlin and Hauraki listeners, McClung said. "He used to work at The Edge in Hamilton and he always has an opinion and broad appeal for our audience, which is mostly males."
Hauraki is aggressively pursuing a different strategy from its competitor, The Rock, which presents a multi-person on-air breakfast panel. The Martin Devlin Breakfast Show, a working title, will centre around the host and a newsreader.
Meanwhile, The Diary understands there's no shortage of names being touted to replace Devlin at RadioLive. A well-informed insider at the station suggested a list of stars, including Mark Richardson, Clint Brown, Firstline journalist Sam Ackerman, and television comedians Dai Henwood and Ben Hurley from TV3's 7 Days, "who are both pretty handy when it comes to sports knowledge."
Kiwi actress Rose McIver has been cast in a new television pilot for American network MTV. The star of Sir Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones will play a 22-year-old Hollywood lawyer looking for the perfect man.
The young Kiwi beat a number of American actresses to the part. Her agent, Imogen Johnson, says McIver competed against some of the world's best young actors. "Booking a highly sought-after and pivotal lead role like this one means she will be in demand in the US in the future," Johnson said.
The Hollywood Reporter this week described McIver as "the next big thing", but the young star is taking the attention in her stride. She says she is looking forward to filming starting.
"It's exciting to take on such a dark and funny role," she told The Diary.
Cassandra French's Finishing School For Boys is one of a series of television pilots commissioned by MTV, including the upcoming adaptation of UK hit show The Inbetweeners directed by Kiwi Taika Waititi.
Olympic greats Sir Murray Halberg, Sir Peter Snell and Sir John Walker host the Countdown Breakfast of Champions at SkyCity on August 8 to raise money for Walker's Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation and youth sport. Tickets $85 from Ticketek.


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At the end of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," Sarah vanquished the Terminator sent from the future to kill her teenage son, John. Sarah and John now find themselves alone in a very dangerous, complicated world. Fugitives from the law, they are confronted with the reality that still more enemies from the future, and the present, could attack at any moment.
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In last year's Tour of Britain there was a certain amount of smugness among the opposition as Team Sky struggled at the end of their first season in cycling, with poor tactical choices and low morale limiting their haul to a single stage win. Twelve months on, the British team return with six potential winners, buoyed by a series of breakthroughs which include their first Tour de France stage wins, and a Tour of Spain in which they were one of the dominant forces.
One of the team's leaders will be the Welshman Geraint Thomas, who has finally begun to fulfil the potential that saw him finish the Tour de France at just 21, and follow that with an Olympic gold medal at 22. Thomas will be particularly closely watched on Wednesday's Welsh stage, which finishes in Caerphilly, one of his old stamping grounds in his days riding as a junior in Cardiff.
In the Tour de France, although it was Thomas's daily presence in the early sprint finishes, and his breakaway on the first Pyrenean stage that caught the eye, the Welshman also rode strongly in the Alps in the final week, which has prompted him to think he could have finished higher than his eventual 31st place overall.
In the future, he says, he may emulate fellow Olympic gold-medallist Bradley Wiggins and tilt for a high placing overall. "After Brad fell off some of the riders in the team were saying I should try and get in the top 20 but I just laughed. I ended up 31st but there were times when I sat up, so I could maybe have made the top 20. I would love to be able to do it. It's definitely something to look at in future. I'd love to go for it 100%. Having said that, there's a big difference between top 20 and podium."
There is no doubting Thomas's credentials, or his desire, the big issue will be how much is left in the tank. He admits he is "quite tired" after a season that began in January with the Tour Down Under in Australia and has taken in one-day Classics in April, build-up races to the Tour de France, the Tour itself and a number of races since then.
He acknowledges that such is the strength in depth of Sky's squad that he could find himself restricted to team duties. The final time trial in London next Sunday will suit him: "If I'm within 20sec of the lead, then there will be a chance, but it's not long enough to take any more."
Of the other Sky riders, Alex Dowsett will be another favourite for next Sunday morning's contre la montre and Ben Swift and Peter Kennaugh are strong young all-rounders, while the Australian Mick Rogers, a former time trial world champion, has vast experience and is coming off a year in which he has been hit by illness. Sky's chances were strengthened by the late withdrawal of Scotland's David Millar, who became a father for the first time on Friday.
Sky's breakthrough this year has been mirrored in Thomas's fortunes: as well as his fine showing in France, in late May he won his first stage race as a professional, the Bayern Rundfahrt – the Tour of Bavaria – after riding well in the spring one-day Classics. "I feel a lot more confident this year, it's results like 10th in the Tour of Flanders that make a difference.
"In the last three kilometres I was in there with Fabian Cancellara and Tom Boonen going for the win. From that day on, I felt I was on a roll. It all snowballs, the thing with Sky is now, we expect to be winning." Unlike last year, there is no reason why this week's British Tour should be any different.


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FL YES Epicness: How FL students are taking a stand against dirty energy
This past weekend students from all over Florida converged at the University of Florida for a three day summit hosted by the FL YES Coalition. Six universities had representation at the summit which will surely benefit our respective campuses as we move forward, fighting the good fight. We learned the importance of networking, base building, leadership, campaign planning and so much more.
Students from USF, UWF, Eckerd College, FGCU, FSU, and UF were able to network, learn from one another, and grow in this movement. Gainesville treated us well. Every day began with yoga on the lawn and ended with fun social activities and lots of bonding time.
Saturday started with an introduction to the FL Youth Environmental Sustainability Coalition which gave us an enormous sense of place in the youth environmental movement. Saturday's agenda was focused on general skill building, like leadership development, building effective teams and working with the media. Our attendees had previous skill and experience levels that varied from group to group so this day allowed us all to get on the same page, while giving us the opportunity to remember certain strategies we might have forgotten.
I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say that our Skype chat with Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, was a definite high point. He got us pumped for the upcoming rally in DC on President's Day, saying, "Getting arrested isn't the end of the world. The end of the world is the end of the world". I had asked him what he could say to give us hope as we move forward in the uphill battle of addressing climate change. I was very moved by what he said. He replied by reminding us that we are not alone:
If you're ever feeling a little daunted you just remember the brothers and sisters you have all over the place who are absolutely in the same place as you. They may speak a different language, they may belong to a different religion, they may have entirely different prospects for their lives… but their hearts are in the same place. They're not thinking about themselves. They're thinking about the future. They're thinking about other people. They're thinking about the rest of creation. And that's an awful good way to spend your life.
We ended the day on a very high note as we slowly got past our star struck reactions to hearing from such an influential leader.
Sunday was focused more on campus-specific issues, such as campaign building, action planning and building effective networks. The Student Green Energy Fund was discussed in depth which allowed several university groups to begin the planning stages of implementing this policy on their campuses. I can't wait for my group to host a kickoff party for this campaign and get the ball rolling to make real change on my campus.
That night we heard from Jason Fults and Mandy Hancock from Gainesville Loves Mountains, an organization working in solidarity with Mountain Justice to promote local awareness of the connection between mountaintop removal and the very flat state of Florida, since we still get much of our energy from coal. It's important for us to remember that all these environmental injustices are linked to one another and geography doesn't separate us.
Monday was quite memorable for me. Being that it was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and President Obama's inauguration, I couldn't think of a better place in the world to be than with this group of committed organizers, working for environmental and social justice. In fact, we listened to the inauguration speech through NPR on the radio while we were taking a "toxic tour" of Gainesville. The president was speaking directly to us when he mentioned the need for action on climate change. Right at that moment we were caravanning around Gainesville learning about the controversial biomass plant. I'll never forget that moment. We also took a short tour of a local co-op farm, complete with an impressive composting system. What an incredible day!
The FL YES summit was memorable for me in so many ways: it was my first time as a trainer, I gained dozens of inspiring friends and I have so much knowledge and passion to bring back to my campus. I am so glad I went and I encourage everyone reading this to consider attending a similar life changing weekend when they have the opportunity. It was epic!
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Shaved-Fennel Salad with Anchovy Vinaigrette
For a New York City-inspired dinner at City Grit, Sarah Simmons created this crisp salad to represent Staten Island. "In my mind," she says, "that borough is all Italian. Or at least I think it is." Dried cherries, toasted pine nuts, endive and radicchio give the salad sweet, savory and bitter flavors.
Recipe from Food & Wine America's Greatest New Cooks
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- 1/2 cup pine nuts
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons minced shallot
- 3 anchovy fillets, chopped
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- Salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 2 large fennel bulbs—halved lengthwise, cored and very thinly sliced crosswise
- 1 Belgian endive—halved lengthwise, cored and thinly sliced crosswise
- 1 small head of radicchio (6 ounces)—halved lengthwise, cored and thinly sliced crosswise
- 1/2 cup dried cherries
- Freshly shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, for garnish
How to make this recipe
In a small skillet, toast the pine nuts over moderate heat, shaking the pan, until the nuts are lightly golden, about 4 minutes.
In a blender, combine the vinegar with the shallot, anchovies, mustard and garlic and puree until smooth. With the blender on, drizzle in the olive oil until the vinaigrette is emulsified. Season with salt and pepper.
In a large bowl, toss the fennel slices with the endive and radicchio. Add the anchovy vinaigrette, pine nuts and cherries and toss to coat. Season the salad with salt and pepper, garnish with cheese shavings and serve right away.


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replacing RR tie retaining wall with blocks
We have a 2' high RR tie retaining wall surrounded by a 50" wide concrete sidewalk than a pool. We want to replace the ties with blocks, but are not sure how to go about it. When we take the ties out, will the dirt stay in place? Also, since the blocks are wider than the ties, how do we skim off enough of the soil to make up for the difference? Thanks!
I am not real experienced with this but I have built a couple walls. Unfortunately it will not be as easy as taking out the ties and stacking the blocks. With retaining walls, it is important to do it right or the mistakes will be very noticeable and annoying.
If you have room to bring the wall out a couple feet, the easiest approach would be to dig a channel about 12 inches deep. Fill and compact the channel with packer gravel and lay your first row of blocks. Make sure that they are perfectly level across at least 3 blocks. If you don't, the unevenness will increase as you stack vertically. Stack you wall to the height that you want and remove the railroad ties. In the space that is left, fill with gravel and compact as you go up. you don't need gravel all the way up but I would go at least half way up a 2 foot wall. You can top it off with dirt and grass or mulch or whatever you choose.
If you don't have room to bring the wall out, You will need to excavate some of the dirt behind the wall because it will probably collapse. Even if it doesn't collapse, you will still need to dig your footer for the blocks.
Again, I am not an expert on this but hopefully someone else will chime in.
The dirt will likely NOT stay in place. Take the time and little extra $ now to do it right or you'll be doing this process all over again in 5 years...
Although they share common ground (pun intended, or not, as you wish), you actually have two projects; the first being demolition of the existing wall, and the second being the construction of the new wall. As AG said, the dirt around the ties is probably not going to stay in place, but because, as Andy mentioned, the blocks will require proper soil preparation, which very unlikely took place before the ties were put in place, you cannot simply remove one and immediately start on the next. Rip the old ties out, haul them off, and you're done with with "phase one". Then lay out what you want, set some grade stakes, and you're ready to start removing soil for the bed that you will lay for the blocks, some of which will be easier to dig, as it will be the previously disturbed soil that was around the ties.
More than likely the soil will move. You will have to shore it, the same way they do when digging an excavation for a foundation.
Remove the top two railway ties for the first 16 ft. section. Excavate the soil under the existing concrete slab/walk for an 8 inch depth. Even out the soil under the concrete slab so that it is vertical. Set in place 2 x 6, 2 x 8, or 2 x 10 lumber so that it holds the soil under the concrete slab in place. Where the shoring lumber joins, nail a small piece of lumber over top that overlaps the two pieces. You can further support it, if need be, by installing 2 x 4's vertically every 4 ft.
Continue doing this until you have removed all of the wood ties. The result will be that all the soil under the concrete slab is kept in place by the shoring lumber. - and it will be recessed by approx. 4-6 inches.
Now dig down for the new concrete block retaining wall. Whatever product you choose will have specs for how far below grade you should lay your first course - for a 2 ft. wall it will likely be 1 ft, but check the manufacturer's website. Lay the concrete block in place and then backfill up to the top of each course as you go. Don't forget to remove the shoring, starting from the bottom and working up. If you are laying a perforated PVC pipe for drainage, that should be done before removing the shoring. Continue placing the concrete wall, installing backfill and removing shoring until the top level. If you are in an area subject to freeze and thaw, you should put expansion joint material between the coping stone for the retaining wall and the concrete slab - you can get it from a building supply store.
I don't know what the soil condition is on your site, but you may want to have it analyzed before you begin as a precaution. On the other hand, if there were no structual problems with the retaining wall you are replacing, then you are probably good to go.
Hope this helps
Thank you for all the replies. We're replacing the ties since they are basically rotting away! Our soil is mostly clay and rocks and usually does freeze here on occasion. Drainage is a must I assume since we have a sprinkler system that runs though the garden bed there. I think after reading all the emails, we can handle the project. It wiull be nice to finally not have dirt oozing from the bottom of the ties after it rains! If we run into snags, we know where to come!! Now to find some inexpensive blocks will be our first step.
I am going to refer you to my thread from when I did mine.
Long story short, if its only two feet, you don't need to worry about the Geogrid that I did in that thread, but you do need have a vertical layer of drainage gravel behind the wall, along with a drainpipe for water to exit. You are probably going to end up with some extra dirt, i recommend craigslist, its easy to give stuff away for free.
I would find a reputable landscape company in your area, and work with the salesperson there. They will help you pick out a block, and the block manufacturer will give you all the specs on how you should do your wall. I had an excellent experience with versalok, both the company and the product, but I believe they are pricey.
Don't do a crappy job, because otherwise you will be doing it all over again in a few years.
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The 2012 MVP Global Summit is just weeks away, and we can't wait to see all of the MVPs here in the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond area! I grew up around here, so I decided to take our camera and show everyone some of my favorite places around town. I've included some great places to grab a bite to eat, places to hang out, pubs and bars to get a drink, the Hyatt and more in this video.
I really can't wait to meet all of the MVPs who are traveling near and far to join us for this year's Summit, and I hope you all enjoy the area as much as I do!
Also, don't forget to stay connected with all things MVP Summit on our MVP Global Summit 2011 blog and by joining the twitter conversation at #mvp12.


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Updated 11:35 a.m., May 1
Rocket technology isn't the only thing the Stalinist hermit kingdom of North Korea sucks at. It's not exactly investing in web design, either.
Propagandists for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has a Flash-heavy "official" webpage in English, to instruct the curious about the peculiar ways of Pyongyang's homebrewed "Juche" ideology ("…the masters of the revolution and construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and construction…"). Not a bad look — functional, elegant — and certainly a step up from the GeoCities-esque design of its official news agency.
But, as it turns out, it's an amateurish look. The Korea Friendship Association is using a webpage template that costs $15.
Take a look at the source code. A keyword search for "envatowebdesign" will turn up a prompt comment from the site's theme seller telling the person who bought it how to customize. Only whomever built the thing for Pyongyang didn't bother. It's a bit like leaving the plastic overlay on your fancy new TV telling you about the screen size. A quick check on the source code of the IgniteThemes "Blender" template confirms that it's what North Korea built. Price check? $15.
Not exactly a web presence that screams, "We're an elite nuclear power that must be respected." In fact, it took a Fordham University computer science undergrad a couple minutes' sleuthing to determine the embarrassing origins of the site design.
Michael DiTanna, a junior at Fordham, got an assignment in his Korean history/political science course to browse North Korean official media and analyze its content. He quickly checked out the webpage — and decided to check under the hood.
"Immediately after visiting the site I noticed the website used some common open source web elements — specifically the main image banner," DiTanna tells Danger Room. Noticing the "envatowebdesign" marker "gave away the template's source." It was a few short steps for him to locate the correct template and note its price. In fact, it took him about 15 minutes — one for each dollar charged for the Korea Friendship Association's favored template.
"I had to present on this in class and everyone was pretty shocked," DiTanna says via email.
North Korea's propaganda website may be as amateurish as its consistent inability to boost a satellite into space. But maybe there's wisdom in North Korea's online thrift. Pyongyang's facing a new round of international sanctions after last week's rocket launch.
Update, May 1: As this blogger points out, this actually isn't an "official" North Korean website, although the site quite clearly leaves that impression. It's a website for the Korea Friendship Association, which claims to be the "first DPR Korea Government webpage in the Internet." I've updated the headline and the text of the post to make that distinction crystal clear.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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By Annie Reuter
While her husband Garth Brooks has been busy planning his comeback, Trisha Yearwood has also been busy in the studio.
Yesterday, (Aug. 19) she revealed that her 12th studio album will be called PrizeFighter and will be released via Sony Music Nashville.
While a release date remains to be announced, Yearwood will be giving fans a preview of that music this fall as she'll be a part of Brooks' world tour with her longtime backing band.
"I can't even find the right words to express how excited I am to be releasing new music," Yearwood said at an event last night that celebrated her Food Network series Trisha's Southern Kitchen. "I chose the title PrizeFighter because it feels like an anthem for all of us. It's about fighting for what you believe in, and never giving up, even when it's hard. It's a message we all need to hear. I'm so looking forward to working with the amazing staff at Sony. Music is what feeds my soul, and I'm grateful to them for giving me the chance to share what I love."
Related: Trisha Yearwood Promises New Music Is On the Way
In an interview with Billboard earlier this year, Yearwood said she's in the early stages of looking for tracks to cut.
"Next on my list is to really sit down and figure out which of these songs to keep," she told Billboard. "There are a couple of things in there that really do stand out. My window is now probably between April and September to really get in and get it done. I don't know exactly what it's going to look like. I'm listening to a lot of songs right now and I'm really loving what I'm hearing."
Yearwood explained how she started a record back in 2011, right before her mother got sick but put it aside to focus on her family. After her mother's death on Oct. 1, 2011, she said she didn't have any desire to finish it. While she has recorded six tracks, Yearwood said the album itself is disjointed because it has been done over the course of two and a half years. But, now she's ready to get back into the studio.
The Garth Brooks World Tour with Trisha Yearwood will kick off Sept. 4 at the Allstate Arena in Chicago.


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One of Paramount's prestige pictures in 1943, when Katina Paxinou won an Oscar for best supporting actress, and the film picked up nominations in virtually every major category - but not in writing and in direction, and that's the tell. As an American fighting with the partisans in the Spanish Civil War, Cooper makes a perfect Hemingway hero, robust and romantic in equal measures. Falling in love with Ingrid Bergman's peasant guerilla makes a lot of sense too, but the film's a mess dramatically. Wood approaches the material with kid gloves, when Hemingway was always a bare-knuckle fighter. Most later prints were tightened dramatically by being reduced to 130 minutes.
Release details
|168 mins
Cast and crew
|Sam Wood
|Dudley Nichols
|Gary Cooper
Ingrid Bergman
Akim Tamiroff
Katina Paxinou
Joseph Calleia
Arturo de Cordova
Vladimir Sokoloff
Mikhail Rasumny
Fortunio Bonanova


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Donut Shop Worker Viciously Attacked Over Coffee Mistake
A Florida man is in hot water over accusations he beat up a Dunkin' Donuts employee because his order was wrong.
A Florida man is in hot water over accusations he beat up a Dunkin' Donuts employee because his order was wrong.
It seems not everybody agrees that America runs on Dunkin'.
In a scene we haven't seen since Judge Reinhold fought off a robber in 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' an employee at a Dunkin' Donuts in West Haven, Connecticut broke up a robbery by tossing coffee on the would-be thief.
In one corner, we have Starbucks, the coffee conglomerate that brought the urban coffee shop vibe to people all around the world. All people have to do is look for that green, wavy-haired mermaid to get their caffeine fix.
In the other, we have Dunkin' Donuts, the coffee brand that "America runs on" and has been around since the first Massachusetts location opened in 1950. It's not just the location for great coffee, but great donuts, too!
Three theifs in Hyannis, Massachusetts didn't get the kind of dough they were looking for while robbing a 'Dunkin Donuts' chain.
Three guys looking to make some quick cash fled after stealing a bag of doughnuts they thought was filled with a bunch of money.


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The Selectmen on Wednesday approved $63,000 in reserve fund transfers to make repairs and state-mandated updates to the wastewater treatment plant.
Town Administrator Tony Mazzucco said the funds would fix neglected maintenance projects and leaks at the plant as well as get the its second clarifier up and running.
The Selectmen approved a fiscal 2017 budget of $14,567,135 that includes state-mandated tweaks to the wastewater treatment plant.
After the joint Selectmen and Finance Committee budget sessions last week, the Selectmen voted Wednesday to accept the budget with the addition of a $63,950 state Department of Environmental Protection-mandated position at the wastewater treatment plant.
"I cannot understand why all of the sudden white is black and black is white." — James Fassell
"I don't want to be pressured by DEP and I don't want to pressured by anyone else." — Corey Bishop
"To me it would make life far less complicated if the reservoir was removed from the DEP's radar." — Mark Webber
"They are just looking for information and they got that report form 1997 and they are holding us to that." — Francis Waterman
"I like it, I just didn't know what it was." — Carol Francesconi


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MUMBAI: According to Indian media reports, United Kingdom has rejected Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's visa without giving any reason for the denial.
The shooting of Sajid Nadiadwala's new film "Kick" is underway in Glasgow and Salman was supposed to be there from last week but as his visa got cancelled, he is unable to fly to UK.
There are speculations that the likely reason are the cases against Khan. Khan has two cases of poaching against him and his involvement in a hit-and-run case is still awaiting verdict.
Eleven years after he allegedly killed one person in a hit and run case, Khan was formally charged by a court with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The actor has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Khan had appeared in court on July 24 but the final verdict was not taken. The court then framed the charges and adjourned the case till August 19.
The rules of acquiring a visa has also become more stringent now and that may also be a reason for UK denying Khan a visa, said an Indian media report.


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Arsene Wenger watched on at Stamford Bridge as his charges suffered the worst possible start to the Frenchman's 1,000th game as Arsenal manager.
Kieran Gibbs was sent from the field inside 20 minutes in a bizarre case of mistaken identity.
With just 15 minutes gone, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain used his arm to tip a strike around the post and referee Andre Marriner pointed to the spot.
But the game spiralled into further disarray when Marriner gave a stunned Gibbs his marching orders. The Stunned Gunners man pointed to himself in disbelief.
Race for the title: Strengths and weaknesses
Race for the title: Strengths and weaknesses
1/4 Chelsea
Strengths: Jose Mourinho's attempts to heap pressure on rivals and deflect from his team's performance will help ease pressure on the run-in. There are few players performing at the level Eden Hazard has sustained throughout a hugely impressive season, while Chelsea boast the best defensive record and are still unbeaten at home under Mourinho. Weaknesses: Samuel Eto'o has emerged as the man for the big occasion but it remains to be seen whether he can deliver consistently enough aged 33. Chelsea have defied the lack of a world-class striker to top the League with eight games to go but the firepower of their rivals is more compelling in the run-in.
2/4 Liverpool
Strengths: Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge are the most potent strikeforce around. Steven Gerrard is playing with great authority while Jordan Henderson's admirers grow by the week. Brendan Rodgers has displayed a tactical versatility that makes them difficult to play against while the absence of involvement in other competitions ensures they will remain fresh for the challenges ahead. Weaknesses: Liverpool have not gone this close for years. There are lingering doubts about their defensive solidity while they also face key games against Spurs, Man City and Chelsea. Their squad looks less able to cope with injuries to key players.
3/4 Arsenal
Strengths: Aside from the odd aberration, Arsenal's defending has improved dramatically this season. Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker are among the best pairings in the League. Upcoming matches against Chelsea, Man City and Everton will be the ultimate test of their resilience. If they can stay in contention, the final five matches look winnable. Weaknesses: Injuries. Mesut Ozil, Jack Wilshere, Theo Walcott and Abou Diaby are all unavailable while Aaron Ramsey has been sidelined since Boxing Day but is hopeful of returning soon. Olivier Giroud has struggled in recent matches and the lack of an in-form centre-forward could prove costly.
4/4 Manchester City
Strengths: Manuel Pellegrini boasts the best squad and at their peak City have played with a swagger that perhaps only Liverpool have sporadically matched. They have lost only once at home and can rely on the experience of a tense run-in, when successful two years ago. Vincent Kompany and Yaya Toure have no superiors in their positions. Weaknesses: Sergio Aguero's absence is a huge blow. Alvaro Negredo's form has dipped while Edin Dzeko's goal against Hull last weekend was his first since January. Pellegrini has no experience of a Premier League title run-in, while their three games in hand could be viewed as a positive or a negative.
Oxlade-Chamberlain tried to ensure the correct decision was made by making the official aware of his error, but an all-at-sea Marriner stuck to his guns and Gibbs, arms flung aloft, trudged off the Stamford Bridge pitch.
Samuel Eto'o opened the scoring inside five minutes, curling a well-placed effort into Wojciech Szczesny's far corner.
And Chelsea again made the most of some lapse defending down Arsenal's left-hand side, as Andre Shurrle exposed Gibbs before thundering a low effort beyond Szczesny to send the home crowd into raptures.
But Wenger's misery grew worse as travelling Arsenal supporters feared a re-run of the Anfield mauling they suffered just last month.
BT Sport presenter Jake Humphreys later confirmed the strike was heading wide.
He tweeted: "Daft thing is, it wasn't a sending off anyway! Rule states it's a red for handball if you 'deny a goalscoring chance'...ball was going wide!"
After much ado, Eden Hazard composed himself to hand Chelsea a three-goal lead from the spot inside 17 minutes.
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