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Back in April we learned of a report that claims that singer Adele will release a new album in October. In May, Adele herself suggested that the title of her next album will be titled 25. Today, courtesy of the World Music Awards, we learn that Adele's album is "confirmed" with a world tour to follow in 2015. The WMAs tweeted this Adele news with the claim that she has "confirmed" the information but there is no record of her confirming anything, anywhere … at least, not yet. Click below to read the tweet and see what you think of this report of new Adele music.
#adele confirms 2015 Tour After The Release Of Her New Album '25'!
Obvs this is very exciting news for Adele fans and considering the reports and hints that we've been getting thus far, I think it's a pretty safe bet that this information may turn out to be valid. That being said, it's probably a great idea to keep one's excitement in check until the news is officially confirmed. Stay tuned, if Adele is really releasing an album in October, we should be hearing something official very soon.
UPDATE: An executive at Adele's record label says there is "no truth" to this new album report:
Aside from her initial "25" tease on Twitter, Adele has confirmed nothing of the sort. And Chairman Martin Mills of Beggars Group, the parent company to Adele's XL Recordings, tells Billboard there is "no truth in this."
My guess is that there is truth here but the record company is not ready to confirm the news. Adele will release a new album at some point, it will likely be titled 25 and she will probably tour after the album is out. The fact that this record exec says there is "no truth" just cannot be correct. The tweet that is quoted above never mentions a release date so … I guess we'll know soon enough if Adele will be releasing a new album this year or not.


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Its pretty good once it gets started. it kinda takes a min to drop i think you could have let it build up a lil more progressive it really sounds like it could use a few more instruments to liven it up a bit. I know its a relax type track but it need to jump a lil bit more but its not bad
Thanks man....appreciate that a lot. I will try it out.
I'm gonna have to agree with YoungThrillz... but its not a bad beat at all.
Not a bad beat as said before. Would love to hear what a singer could do with this beat.
This beat is mellow enough to call vybe at the beginning but when it drops is more underground. Like some dmx stuff. The string that comes in on the 3rd part is a bit timid and really needs a better mix. The entire mix really needs work though. Still not a bad beat. "7 out of 10"
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this beat goes pretty hard especially with the buildup at the beginning it kicks in dope yo...
yo this beat is sick, i like wat you did with it
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MMm pretty wavy track but it needs lil bit more work imo.nice intro also,lean back thang.Drums are little cheap they need work too.Try to change kick and snare and put in more soned,piano,brass,sax or smoething! Peace keep em up


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All's well that ends well in Columbus
In the end it worked out about as well for the Penguins as they could have imagined.
Six grinding games.
Six re-introductions to playoff hockey and all that it annually demands individually and collectively.
Six examples of the price that must be paid in the postseason and of the cost players and teams unwilling to pay it must endure.
It would have been easier had the Penguins beaten the Blue Jackets in four or five games. But the Penguins, likewise, may not have emerged as battle tested and as educated as they claimed to be after surviving Columbus in Game 6, 4-3, and after winning the series, four games to two.
"They showed everybody how desperate a hockey team can be," defenseman Matt Niskanen told Dan Potash of ROOT Sports on the ice at Nationwide Arena regarding the Blue Jackets.
Added goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury in the locker room: "This team came hard at us for six games. I think they showed us how we have to play to win games.
"I think we did the last two games. We played very well, very hard and found ways to get the win."
The Penguins had actually done that often enough to have deserved a "W" in Game 4, but that one got away due to "Fleury's Folly."
In the aftermath of the Penguins' loss in overtime, the conclusions reached by the coaching staff included the following:
-The Penguins could have/should have won Game 4 and could have/should have been up three games to one in the series. But had that been the case it might not have been in the Penguins' best interest in the long run because their play through the first four games against Columbus hadn't consistently achieved and maintained the level that would be required to keep advancing in subsequent rounds.
-At 2-2 in the series and faced with a best-of-three to decide it, the Penguins' position was less than secure. But to respond the way they would need to if they hoped to regain control and eventually win the series, the Penguins would have no choice but to elevate their level of play. And that, in turn, would forge a team better prepared to meet the challenges ahead.
It wasn't that the Penguins were looking past the Blue Jackets; that was never an issue.
But the necessary discipline, desperation, urgency, resiliency and relentless dedication to detail were all traits that had to be acquired, particularly for a team as talented as the Penguins.
This was at least as much about mindset as it was matchups.
The Blue Jackets series, thus, can be looked upon as having provided the perfect postseason blueprint, particularly now that the Penguins have survived it and advanced to the second round.
"I thought we found our game a lot more the last two games, played the way we need to," captain Sidney Crosby maintained. "We were on our toes.
"It's one thing to say it. It's another thing to go out there and see it and to play that way. We did that here the last couple (games), that's good. We have to build off of it. I think in the playoffs you have to get better as they go along. I think we did that here."
Despite a few uncomfortable twists and turns, the Pens' growth throughout the series was evident.
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Do pocket carry with a good leather pocket holster.
Also, I like the Don Hume JIT belt holster for my j frame.
This is a discussion on IWB or other holster for my S&W J Frame within the Defensive Carry Holsters & Carry Options forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I will be getting my hammerless Cenntennial J Frame soon and I'm looking for gun leather. I currently carry my Glock in a Crossbreed IWB ...
I will be getting my hammerless Cenntennial J Frame soon and I'm looking for gun leather. I currently carry my Glock in a Crossbreed IWB Super Tuck, however the Smith is a different thing all togeather. So...reccomendations?
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"It's time to nut up or shut up" - Woody Harrelson, "Tallahassee" in "Zombieland"
Do pocket carry with a good leather pocket holster.
Also, I like the Don Hume JIT belt holster for my j frame.
For a lot of people, being a victim is a way of Life. That's a Life I choose NOT to live.
A Shepherd must tend to his Flock. And at times........fight off the wolves.
I prefer aiwb. I carry my 642 in a sideguard quicksnap that I had him lower. I like for the grip to ride just above the belt. I couldn't be happier and its economical. If you need something quick I find the highnoon holsters hard to beat. The highnoon I have is a little high for appendix but great for iwb in say the 3-4 posistion.
Crossbreed for IWB or Mika for in the pocket.
...T. Ray
I have ordered a Side Guard Tuck Clip for my ordered but as yet not received 632 centennial.
I like the High Noon Bare Asset or Mr Softy, I think theey are excellent for the j-frame.
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+1 on the Mika holster for pocket carry. Excellent, comfortable, well-made holster at a very reasonable price. That said, I'm also considering getting an AIWB for my 640, so I'm glad you posted this thread. I may put up another question thread on the advantages/disadvantages of clip vs. snaps for an IWB holster.
Pure Kustom Black Ops Pro for IWB/OWB in leather or Kholster for IWB only in a leather/Kydex rig
"I've noticed that everyone that is pro-abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan
"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." Thomas Jefferson
You are only paranoid until you are right - then you are a visionary.
Simple, effective, quality, reasonably priced, fairly quick delivery, easy on/off, easy one-handed reholstering... http://www.fist-inc.com/holsters/holster/1A.htm
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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FIST #20 adjustable is what I use most of the time. It is not tuckable. I have three other J frame IWB holsters. The FIST #20 is my favorite. Carry about 3:30.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around laws. Plato
I have really enjoyed my RKBA pocket holster. $38
The FIST #20 has the best features for IWB carry. Note it uses snap straps fore and aft the gun. More secure than spring clips, adds no bulk. Spring clip holsters do come out with the gun occasionally - often enough we banned them. (Remember Murphy's Law) Either a spring clip or a snap strap placed over the cylinder adds bulk which is counter to the purpose of IWB carry.
What ever brand you choose these features plus a reinforced mouth - available at FIST as an option - are what to look for.
I have a OWB holster for it although I have never carried it in it (outside my house). If i'm packing my J-frame, its in the pocket. My theory is that if I can hip carry my j-frame, I can do the same with my M&P.
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I use either a Mika pocket holster, or a Remora No-Clip holster.
The Mika works well in all of my pants, except for my slacks. A bit loose, there.
The Remora works well as a pocket holster, too. But beware the Remora website shows a size 8C for the j-frames, but it's not accurate. You need the 8UC, I believe.
Trust in God and keep your powder dry
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I can't imagine anyone wanting to shoot a Kahr 6000 times.
They are great concealed carry pistols, but not something to shoot for fun, on any kind of regular basis. I have an old K-9 that has had a lot of rounds through it, and it is still accurate and dependable. I shoot it only occasionally, because it's a little too short in the trigger reach department, but it's a fine little pistol, and I don't hesitate to carry it when it fits the situation.


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In this experiment, students will learn whether eating a hearty breakfast before and exam will get them better test scores. For this specific experiment, a simple memory test will be used in attempts to keep other factors that affect test scores out.
Research Questions:
Which part of the brain controls memory? Is there a specific part?
Memory is controlled by the brain and is intangible. It is a person's ability to store, retain, and recall information and experiences. It is said that a person's memory significantly gets poorer with age. That is why the elderly tend to not remember things very well.
- Number memory test
- Overhead projector & transparencies for the memory test
- Paper for your test subjects to write on
- Test subjects (at least 10, the more you have, the more accurate your results will be!)
- Pen/pencil for notes
Experimental Procedure
- Separate your test subjects evenly into 2 groups, randomly. One of these groups will have a hearty breakfast in the morning before taking the memory test and the other group will not have breakfast (make sure of this).
- Have all your test subjects gather in a classroom to prepare for the test.
- Project random numbers on the overhead projector for 30 seconds.
- Take the transparency off the projector and ask your test subjects to write down all the numbers in order that they can remember in space #1.
- Continue projecting numbers until you reach 10 sets of numbers (or however many you wish.)
- Repeat the above at least twice weekly. One thing to remember is to alternate which group has breakfast and which group does not, but keep the members in the groups the same throughout.
- Evaluate the performance of the group members. How many did they get correct? Is there a dramatic difference between groups?
- Record your results.
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Hearty Breakfast
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Terms/Concepts: Memory; Sensory memory; Short term memory; Long term memory
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Despite exhausting almost all funds, Odisha has not been able to provide 100 days employment as guaranteed by Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to more than 90% of the state's rural poor who demanded jobs under the scheme in the last five years, an audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has revealed.
This speaks poorly on the implementation of scheme meant to alleviate poverty in a state that finds itself at the bottom of major states of the country on all development indices.
The CAG report, which was tabled on the last day of the budget session of Odisha Assembly on Saturday, said the state, which had a total fund availability of Rs 5160.26 crore between 2007-08 and 2011-12, spent Rs 4864.36 crore, or 94% of it.
In the same period, an average of 54.54 lakh persons registered for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), out of which 14.62 lakh or just 27% demanded work and a meagre 82,929 persons or 5.2 % were provided with 100 days of employment.
The CAG report said it clearly indicated poor response by registered workers in seeking employment under the scheme. "However, the reason for the poor response was not analysed by (the state panchayati raj) department," it said.
The CAG said the state government could not ensure effective, efficient and economical utilization of funds under the scheme that resulted in gross financial irregularities of diversion of scheme fund, misappropriation and tampering of muster rolls. "There were gross irregularities in the execution of works with poor maintenance of work records, use of machines in the execution of works, which made the scheme skeptical in providing the intended benefits," the report said.
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act enacted in September 2005 and renamed Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in October 2009 ensures livelihood security to the rural poor by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every registered household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
MGNREGA was launched in the state on February 2 2006 initially in 19 districts of the state. It was extended to five more districts on April 1, 2007 and to all 30 districts exactly a year later.


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i wish everyone would stop using the fuckin german track names
Album Rating: 3.5Great review. Very descriptive but it works I guess.
And yeah, as many have said it, the last track was basically him trying to recreate Tomhet without the same success.
EDIT: cool review, and I love the half hour thing towards to end. Fucking amazing if you ask me
Album Rating: 4.5Nice review. Only sentence that irks me a bit is "For the better or for the worst..."
I feel if you take out both uses of "the" and change "worst" to "worse", it will flow better and be a bit more grammatically correct, as it would be "better" and "worse" being compared, not "best" and "worst".
Album Rating: 4.5Also, did you mean to say, "No, it is NOT very thought provoking," or was it intended to say it is?
Album Rating: 4.0This review sucks.
go make another alt why dont you
Album Rating: 4.0better than all the oltna reviews put together pos
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Album Rating: 4.0wow i was just kidding
really got ur underpants in a twist tho
really nice review ˇωˇ
Album Rating: 4.5chainsaw guitars \m/
boring review im not gonna read all of this
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Album Rating: 4.0better than all the sixdegrees reviews put together pos
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off "i wish everyone would stop using the ****** german track names"
I just used the names that were on Spotify and in the description of the album on Sput. I didn't
really think anyone would mind, my apologies.
"the last track was basically him trying to recreate Tomhet without the same success."
Yeah, I figured that much. Tomhet is just a wonderful song, and it simply can't be recreated in my
cool review, and I love the half hour thing towards to end. ******* amazing if you ask
Thanks man. I don't think I could ever enjoy "Rungang..." unfortunately. It just seems like a
complete waste of time to me. Still, I could see why someone might like it.
"Nice review. Only sentence that irks me a bit is "For the better or for the worst...""
Yeah, that sentenced seemed weird to me too. I'll edit that immediately.
"Also, did you mean to say, "No, it is NOT very thought provoking," or was it intended to
say it is?"
Yet another typo I failed to notice. I really appreciate you pointing that out to me, I'll get right
to fixing that.
"This review sucks."
I know...
"really nice review"
Thanks Brendan! Means a lot!
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Album Rating: 4.0Very good review, pos
someone say something about twist
Album Rating: 4.5this world needs more twisting chainsaw guitar onsloughts, such as this \m/
also, life's pretty straight without twisties
Album Rating: 4.5oh, you were ah... referring to oltna's comment, where he HAD mentioned twist....
... i see...
Album Rating: 4.0very lame.
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The thermophysical properties of biofuels are required for the efficient design of every step in their production, distribution, and utilization. We provide an overview of properties research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). We are expanding two Standard Reference Databases to include the biofuels. The ThermoData Engine (TDE), will collect and evaluate all published property data on biofuel components. The NIST REFPROP database is a calculational database providing properties of biofuel components and blends based on thermodynamic and transport models. The property models in the databases implement an equation of state approach based on well-defined reference fluids. Complex mixtures, including blends of biofuels with conventional fuels, are modeled as "surrogate blends," i.e., a blend of perhaps a dozen components that captures the essential characteristics of a complex fuel. Surrogate blends are formulated from a "suite" of well-characterized pure compounds. Property measurements for the pure compounds in the surrogate suite include density, speed of sound, viscosity, etc. We have also carried out measurements on actual biofuel samples. A recent extension of the distillation curve that we have developed at NIST is proving very valuable in characterizing fuels. This "advanced distillation curve method" includes much more quantitative information compared to the traditional method, including chemical characterization of the different "cuts" as the distillation proceeds. We present examples of our measurements and models completed to date and outline future plans.
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Monterey Peninsula College back open after lockdown
Report of armed robbery prompted lockdown
MONTEREY, Calif. - Monterey Peninsula College is back open Friday afternoon after a lockdown on campus around 11:30 a.m. Classes, however, have been canceled for the remainder of the day, according to school officials. Athletic practices will continue as scheduled.
According to the Monterey Police Department, a 65-year-old Santa Cruz man reported an armed robbery to officers around 11 a.m. The man told officers he'd been robbed while sitting in his car in the area of Fishnet and Iris Canyon by two Latino males wearing red shirts. The suspects left the area, either on foot or in a car.
Due to the close proximity of the Monterey Peninsula College campus, police notified school officials of the possible suspects' description. Campus administrators placed the school on lockdown, and students and staff were advised to stay inside and lock all entrances.
Monterey Police Lt. Leslie Sonne said that around 11:45 a.m. as officers were investigating the alleged robbery, the Monterey County Emergency Communications Center began getting text messages from students and employees on campus indicating there was an armed subject on the grounds. Four separate people reported information ranging from someone being held at gunpoint to shots being fired.
Multiple public agencies assisted, with more than 20 officers helping search the campus. Officers also interviewed the four people who had sent the text messages to their friends and family that prompted the calls to 911. Police determined the information relayed to dispatchers was inaccurate, and that no one had actually seen someone with a gun or heard shots.
There was no evidence of a shooting and no one was injured. Officials carefully searched each building on campus before declaring it safe. The lockdown was lifted around 1 p.m.
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BeschreibungA mind-bending excursion to the limits of science and mathematicsAre some scientific problems insoluble? In Beyond Reason, internationally acclaimed math and science author A. K. Dewdney answers this question by examining eight insurmountable mathematical and scientific roadblocks that have stumped thinkers across the centuries, from ancient mathematical conundrums such as "squaring the circle," first attempted by the Pythagoreans, to G?del's vexing theorem, from perpetual motion to the upredictable behavior of chaotic systems such as the weather.A. K. Dewdney, PhD (Ontario, Canada), was the author of Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" column for eight years. He has written several critically acclaimed popular math and science books, including A Mathematical Mystery Tour (0-471-40734-8); Yes, We Have No Neutrons (0-471-29586-8); and 200% of Nothing (0-471-14574-2).
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Math in the Cosmos.
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2. The Cosmic Limit: Unreachable Speeds.
3. The Quantum Curtain: Unknowable Particles.
4. The Edge of Chaos: Unpredictable Systems.
Math in the Holos.
5. The Circular Crypt: Unconstructable Figures.
6. The Chains of Reason: Unprovable Theorems.
7. The Computer Treadmill: Impossible Programs.
8. The Big-O Bottleneck: Intractable Problems.
Further Reading.
PortraitA.K. DEWDNEY, PH.D., is the author of several critically acclaimed math and science books, including A Mathematical Mystery Tour; Yes, We have No Neutrons; and 200% of Nothing, all from Wiley. He was a member of the computer science department at the university of Western Ontario and at the university of Waterloo for a combined period of thirty years before retiring. In 1996, he became an adjunct professor of biology at UWO. For eight years, Dewdney was the computer Recreations columnist for Scientific American magazine.
Pressestimmen"...appropriate for general readership...should prove as popular as his other books..." (Short Book Reviews, Vol.24, No.3, December 2004) "...an intelligent book with considerable enthusiasm..." (Materials World, Vol.13, No.1) "...one of the most rewarding science reads I have had the pleasure of in a long time..."(Chemistry & Industry, 17 January 2005) "...fascinating...keeps firmly to the areas of science where the impossibility is demonstrable." (Fortean Times, No 189, November 2004) "...looks closely at eight great problems that reveal the limits of science..." (Materials World, September 2004)
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I recently dug into the world of online sweepers in episode 16 of TLDR.
Today OTM colleague Chris Neary sent me this story about a woman, @letsgolakerso86, who won not just one, but two, trips to the Final Four, from a Twitter contest. At first look it just seems like she was incredibly lucky. Winning fully-paid first class travel, accommodations, and a cool $1,600 in spending money, two years in a row! But sweepstakes aren't the lottery. It's not pure luck. I found out, from digging into the sweepers community, that to play to win, it takes commitment, organization, and pure stick-to-itiveness.
And what stick-to-itiveness @letsgolakers086 has. A quick look at her public Twitter timeline reveals just a small amount of the deluge of Tweets she sends out in order to be so successful at winning contests on Twitter.
Sandra Grauschopf, About.com's resident Contest and Sweepstakes Expert, told me that, to be a successful sweeper, means not giving up, even in the face of consistent losses. Devote 20 minutes a day, everyday, and you could come away with big prizes. Don Cruz, another person I spoke to for TLDR #16, managed to win a multi-million dollar mansion through persistent sweepstakes entering. There's more to that story, too, but you'll have to listen to the podcast to hear it.


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Whether or not John Farrell leaves Toronto to become the Red Sox manager — at a time when he has a season remaining on the three-year contract he received to manage the Blue Jays after the 2010 season — could well hinge on whether the team teams can agree on what comprises fair value when it comes to the skipper.
As explored ad nauseum last offseason, there are few comparisons when it comes to trades involving decision-makers (either baseball executives or managers) for players. But the two deals that got done last year, at least, suggest that the cost of such a "trade" does not include an elite prospect.
The Red Sox, of course, received two relievers from the Cubs for Theo Epstein, who left Boston to become president of baseball operations with the Cubs. The Sox got right-hander Chris Carpenter — a pitcher with a big arm who projected as a near-major league-ready bullpen contributor — as well as right-hander Aaron Kurcz — a small reliever who likewise has a big arm with impressive strikeout rates in the minors. The Sox parted with Jair Bogaerts, the twin brother of Xander Bogaerts, who was subsequently released by the Cubs.
Meanwhile, the Marlins sent a pair of prospects to the White Sox in order to secure the services of manager Ozzie Guillen. Florida sent right-hander Jhan Marinez and infielder Osvaldo Martinez to Chicago.
Baseball America ranked Marinez as the fourth-best prospect in the Marlins system entering the 2011 season while Martinez ranked fifth, leading to suggestions that equivalent compensation from the Red Sox to the Blue Jays might feature right-hander Anthony Ranaudo and outfielder Bryce Brentz, who ranked fourth and fifth in the Sox' system in Baseball America's pre-2012 rankings. But the comparison rings false.
"You've got to look at the quality of the players the Marlins gave up and not the ranks," said Baseball America executive editor Jim Callis.
The reality of Martinez and Marinez is that their ranks reflected the absence of talent in the Marlins system. Marinez ranked fourth in the Marlins system and sixth in the White Sox' system prior to this season because Baseball America viewed both farm systems as ranking among the worst in the game. Marinez' likely upside is as a setup reliever. He has a high-octane fastball that can touch the high-90s, a slider and command issues. At the time that he went to Chicago, he was coming off a year in which he put up impressive strikeout numbers (11.5 per nine innings) and ugly walks totals (6.5 per nine).
Similarly, Martinez ranked as high as fifth prior to the 2011 season because he was coming off a strong year in Double-A, and he was in a farm system that had a few impressive prospects at the top but little below that surface. At the time that he went to Chicago, he was coming off a bad year in which he hit .245/.296/.322/.618 in the offense-inflating Triple-A Pacific Coast League and then was even worse in the majors, going 3-for-23 with neither a walk nor an extra-base hit at the end of the year. His strong defensive credentials pegged Martinez as little more than a utility player, unless he surprised by bouncing back to a 2010 season in which he performed at a level — .302/.372/.401/.773 in Double-A, .326/.383/.465/.848 in 14 big league games — that is an extreme outlier at this point in his career.
Who would be equivalent players in the Red Sox' system?
For Marinez, the Sox have a few power arms that are close to big league ready, among them: Carpenter (and yes, everyone thinks it would be fascinating if he became the first player ever traded multiple times for non-players), right-hander Alex Wilson (who spent all of 2011 in Pawtucket) and right-hander Josh Fields (who finished his year with 13 2/3 scoreless innings in Triple-A Pawtucket, striking out 19 and walking two in the process).
For Martinez, the Sox have a pair of comparable players in Pedro Ciriaco (who hit .293/.315/.390/.705 with 16 steals in 76 games for the Sox) and Ivan De Jesus Jr., who went 0-for-8 with six strikeouts with the Sox in the majors at the end of the year. De Jesus Jr., who came to the Sox from the Dodgers in the August blockbuster deal, has hit for average and posted good OBPs in his minor league career (.298 average, .370 OBP), though his range is not equivalent to that of Martinez.
That's not to suggest that a deal will be formulated between the Sox and Blue Jays involving a combination of the players mentioned. However, it does suggest that recent precedent is not in favor of the Sox parting with someone like Brentz — one of the Sox' top power-hitting prospects with a chance to be an everyday outfielder in the big leagues by 2014 — or a player with a high probability of being a starting pitcher in exchange for a manager.
Of course, the Blue Jays will likely seek a more impactful package than Carpenter and Kurcz or Marinez and Martinez brought to their respective clubs — particularly given that Farrell would be moving to a division rival. For instance, if the Sox wanted to explore a young reliever construct for a deal, the Jays would likely ask (and almost immediately receive a vociferous "no") about Junichi Tazawa. Or Toronto could target a player with a higher ceiling than a reliever about whom industry opinion is divided.
One such Red Sox prospect, in Double-A this year, was Drake Britton, a power lefty who had some terrific stretches in a breakthrough season as a starter in High-A Salem and Double-A Portland. Some scouts view him as a future power lefty out of the bullpen, others see the diversity of his repertoire (mid-90s fastball, slider, curve, change) and believe that, with time, he could improve upon his pitch inefficiency to become a starter. Britton will likely rank in the second half of Baseball America's Red Sox top 10 this year.
Ranaudo, meanwhile, went through a year that was derailed by injury, in which his velocity and stuff suffered when he returned from a spring training groin injury, and in which he was shut down with a dead arm in the first week of July. He recently pitched in the fall instructional league, and while his stuff wasn't back where it had been in spring training, it was superior to what it had been this year in Double-A Portland (where Ranaudo had a 6.69 ERA in nine starts). Last week, Ranaudo was throwing 92-93 mph with a power curveball.
At a time when the Sox' system is deeper in potential starters than it has been in years, it would be interesting to see if the Sox would be willing to consider moving a potential starting pitcher or everyday position player. If the Sox do so, however, it would be a steeper price than either the Marlins or Cubs paid last year.
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An exciting doubleheader is set for this Saturday night at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif. featuring a battle between unbeaten Ronny Rios and the exciting "Dangerous" David Rodela in the 10 round junior lightweight main event and former World Champion Julio Diaz's return to the ring to take on Henry Aurad in the 10 round welterweight co-feature on TeleFutura's "Sólo Boxeo Tecate." Ronny Rios (18-0, 8 KO's) cleaned up as an amateur, winning two United States titles and one National Golden Gloves Championship before turning professional in October of 2008 with a first round knockout of Fermin Perez. Since then, no one has come close to beating the 22-year-old from Santa Ana, Calif. who has defeated Roger Gonzalez, Jeremy McLaurin and Guillermo Sanchez in his last three fights. On July 28, he'll look to keep that streak going against his Southern California rival Rodela. Oxnard's "Dangerous" David Rodela (16-6-3, 7 KO's) is a popular Southern California...
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The Wave received a few calls in the past two weeks saying that large chunks of concrete are falling from the bottom of the elevated subway line around Beach 91 Street. We have noticed similar deterioration in many places along the peninsula for the past year or so. Perhaps it is time for the Transit Authority to take a good look at the structure before a large piece comes down and kills a motorist driving along the Freeway.
It's practically unthinkable. No more Cracker Jacks at Yankee Stadium. You would think that Steinbrenner would not tinker with the traditional snack that is even part of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game," which is sung during the seventh inning stretch in each game. The Yankees say they are moving to "Crunch 'n Munch" because Cracker Jacks is no longer sold in boxes and boxes sell better than bags. So much for tradition. The Mets will continue to sell Cracker Jacks at Shea Stadium.
Marlene Fenster Willard, who lived in Wavecrest Gardens as a teenager and went on to become a long-time teacher at Far Rockaway High School got some nice ink from Newsday this weekend. Seems that Willard, who now lives in Oceanside, and a group of five other retired women walk on the Long Beach Boardwalk each morning. We would invite Marlene to come back to Rockaway and walk our boardwalk.
One of the NYPD officers who was in the North Tower of the World Trade Center when the South Tower came down and whose testimony was shown at the recent 9/11 hearings, was Dave Norman, an Emergency Service Unit (ESU) cop who was once a beat cop in the 100 Precinct in Rockaway Park. Norman says that he was told by his command post operator that the tower had come down and to evacuate. He questioned the command post, not able to believe that the building had collapsed. "He explained to us that there was no south tower," Norman said, "It was absolutely gone."
The American Flags have been raised once again the length of Beach 129 Street, thanks to resident Susan Brady and the Knights of Columbus, which donated some more flags to the effort. The majority of flags were donated by the residents who live on the street as well as by many of the businesses on Beach 129 Street. The flags give the street a nice look and we would urge other streets to do the hold fundraisers of their own to place American Flags on their streets. In fact, some have already done so.
A year ago, Rockaway resident Ben Lambert called us to say that some sort of rare bird has washed up on the beach at Beach 146 Street. We went and took a picture, which wound up in the paper. Lambert called us again this week to say that and identical bird had once again washed up on that street. Strange!
The last Concorde flight took off over Rockaway just six months ago. The last flight got a lot of attention, as did the barge ride that one Concorde took from JFK to the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan. Just recently, The Wave got email from the National Museum of Scotland asking for permission to use its front-page picture of the Concorde taking off on its last flight. The Concorde exhibit will soon open at the Intrepid on June 26. By the way, the plane is too large for the carrier's flight deck and will be exhibited on a 210-foot barge attached to the museum complex.
Local environmentalist Bernie Blum says that he caught the first mosquito of the season at Dubos Point in Arverne. Blum says that it is early for mosquitoes to be in the area and urges that the Parks Department fill in all the ponds at the point this month. By June, he argues, it will be too late.
Reading the May 16 New York Times article "The Ballad of Sonny Payne" it seems as though the most respected newspaper in the city is beginning to romanticize homelessness. Referring to the elderly Sonny as "an old friend" and a "small, sweet-hearted old panhandler," who owes his success in begging to the fact that he does his job with "care and resolve," the article's author, Steven Kurutz, misses the mark in his story. The newspaper of record is exhibiting a liberal bias. The piece continues to say that Payne "may be the most beloved panhandler in New York." That's about as ridiculous as calling someone "the friendliest prostitute" or a "sensible arson." There is nothing noble or sentimental about illegally panhandling on the subway.
According to Mayor Bloomberg, more than 44,000 people have applied for the 7,000 public schools teaching jobs that will be available next September. There is no word, however as to how many of those are actually certified to teach and how many will stay around when they see what the actual job entails and what support they get from the Department of Education.
Local State Senators Malcolm Smith and Ada Smith (who represents Broad Channel), joined union officials at a Jamaica Duane Reade last week to protest the way the pharmacy chain treats minority customers. This is an ongoing battle between the pharmacy giant and the union that represents its workers. The pols and the union call the company a "bad neighbor."


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Demi's troubles are actually bringing Ashton closer to her, an insider tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively.
Demi Moore's reportedly drug-related hospitalization could help mend her relationship with Ashton Kutcher, HollywoodLife has learned.
"This recent episode with Demi could turn her relationship with Ashton around," a source explains to HollywoodLife.com exclusively. "They will both benefit emotionally from Demi's recent battles and form a new bond and may even rekindle their relationship.
"They have been apart emotionally and physically for quite a while and the seriousness of Demi's problem seems to be bringing them together rather then drifting them apart much more. It took something this serious to get them out of the rut that they were in together as a couple," the insider adds.
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NEW YORK — Few Googlers understand the online advertising business as well as Susan Wojcicki.
After all, she's been a a key leader on Google's advertising products for almost a decade. Today, Wojcicki is senior vice president of advertising at Google responsible for the design and engineering of all of Google's advertising products, including AdWords, AdSense, and DoubleClick.
In a conversation with Wired's Steven Levy at the Wired Business Conference, Wojcicki touched on a number of topics, from the challenges of creating compelling display advertising to why she chose to make a commitment to stay at Google for the foreseeable future.
Wojcicki's basic message? There is more work to be done, she said, borrowing a metaphor from the literary world — and teasing her interviewer. Asked by Levy why, with nothing in particular left to prove, she stays on the job, Wojcicki turned the tables. "Why did you write your book?" she asked Levy, a reference to newly-published In the Plex, an inside look at the place Wojcicki works.
"Google is fascinating," Wojcicki relented, "and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters."
In an interview with Wired.com prior to her appearance, Wojcicki outlined a few of her goals for Google's advertising business over the next year.
"Even though search advertising works and we've had a lot of success, we think we can innovate a lot in that space," Wojcicki said. "We're always thinking about what the perfect ad is. And one of the things we're realizing is that for certain segments of advertisers, we need different kinds of experiences."
"So if you're a retail vendor and you're selling products, we want to include the pictures and the prices and be able to connect to the feed of your products," she continued. "If you're a movie company, we want to show a video in your ad, a trailer."
Wojcicki described Google's display ad business as a "very important" component of the company's overall strategy and said the company is investing heavily in that area. She said the company is also "investing heavily" in contextual and audience targeting, as part of its display ad push.
Addressing another hot topic for Google, Levy asked whether "social" is in Google's DNA, given the company's stumbles in the social space, and the ascent of Facebook, which now dominates the social networking market.
Wojcicki didn't mince words.
"People used to say that advertising wasn't in Google's DNA, and that's obviously not true anymore," Wojcicki said. "They used to say that display advertising isn't in Google's DNA, and that's not true any more."
Clearly, though, Google has yet to find a formula for social commensurate with its astonishing success in the online advertising market.
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MEKA G-Unit Illuminated Detailed Features
Let's take a closer look at some of the detailed features of the MEKA G-Unit Illuminated mechanical keyboard.
This keyboard includes two USB 2.0 ports along with the upstream mini-USB for connecting the keyboard itself. The audio headphone/mic jacks are standard 3.5mm ports, and appear to use a USB audio driver to pass their signals through the lone detachable USB cable. It's definitely a solution that cuts down on cable clutter, but some may not want to add another audio device to their system – either way, in use they are relatively free of the electronic noise that plagues most integratedkeyboard jacks. During playback I didn't notice any "hiss," only after the system was idle for a short period of time would some noise creep in to my headphones. Overall, it was one of the better experiences I've had using the built-in audio jacks, as most keyboards I've used struggle with additional noise.
As with most keyboards, the MEKA G-Unit Illuminated has built-in risers to increase the angle of the keyboard for those that prefer a different angle. Unlike most keyboards, they keep a rubber pad in contact with your desk surface in both their raised and lowered positions.
I am mystified that more companies don't do this, as it seems to be the exception rather than the rule (almost every keyboard I've owned will begin sliding around in a raised position). This is a wonderful (albeit small) detail that Thermaltake should be commended for.
The MEKA G-Unit Illuminated uses Cherry MX Black switches under all of the keys. With an actuation force of 60 cN (centiNewtons, or ~60 grams of force) and an actuation distance of 2mm (bottoming out at 4mm), the linear action of Blacks are commonly quoted as ideal for gaming. Unlike the Cherry Blue variety (and to a lesser extent Cherry Brown switches) there isn't much of a "reset" point in the travel, so linear switches like Cherry Reds and Blacks are easier to "double-tap" with. There isn't any tactile bump or click here, which tends to make the keys a little quieter as well. Of course, if you're heavy handed you can still get some awesome "clickety-clack" that mechanical keyboards are notorious for if you bottom out the keys while typing, but due to the stiffer actuation force of the Cherry MX Blacks and a little practice it is pretty easy to hit each key softly and consistently at its actuation point.
The illumination is nice and even, with each key containing a red LED. The Caps Lock, Scroll Lock and Num Lock keys illuminate when active, which is an elegant solution instead of the common "notification" LEDs in the upper right corner. Note that the keys with additional characters on them only light the main legend, while the text or special characters are indirectly lit (the number row, Shifts, Backspace and the Home/PgUp/PgDn/End/Ins/Del keys on the number pad).
The 12 Macro keys (T-Keys) are located on the left and are separated into three groups of four, allowing for a nice physical organization for whatever you'd like to program them for.
The profile and mode switch keys are in the top left corner, along with the media keys in the top right. While these obviously do not use Cherry MX Black switches, they all have a pleasant tactile click to them and don't feel out of place. If anything, they could be a little taller or easier to find, since they aren't back-lit like the other keys and are a little tough to actuate without hitting the ESC / F-keys or volume controls.


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BATON ROUGE - After years of work at the state and local level, the Baton Rouge area is meeting a federal standard for ozone pollution.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Ascension, Iberville and Livingston parishes meet the standard. The determination was made after a review of air monitoring information from 2011-2013.
Louisiana environmental officials say the state is working on a plan to show how the five-parish area can maintain compliance with the ozone standard for the next 10 years.
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CHICAGO - Three men's soccer Tar Heels are headed to Puebla, Mexico this week for the 2013 U-20 CONCACAF Championship set to run Feb. 18 through March 3.
Current Tar Heels Boyd Okwuonu and Danny Garcia will be joined at the tournament by recent first round MLS SuperDraft selection Mikey Lopez.
Head Coach Tab Ramos named the trio among the 18-man squad that will look to qualify for the 2013 U-20 World Cup. The top four teams from the CONCACAF U-20 Championship advance to the U-20 World Cup that will be held in Turkey from June 21 through July 13.
The U.S. is grouped with Costa Rica and Haiti in Group A and opens the tournament against Haiti on Feb. 18 at 5:30 p.m. CT at Estadio Olímpico Universitario Lobos BUAP in Puebla. The USA then faces Costa Rica at 5:30 p.m. CT on Feb. 22 at Estadio Olímpico. Should the USA advance to the quarterfinals, its match would take place on Feb. 26. The semifinal stage is set for March 1 and the championship and third-place games on March 3.
2013 CONCACAF Championship Group Pairings:
Group A: Costa Rica, Haiti, United States
Group B: Canada, Cuba, Nicaragua
Group C: Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico
Group D: Curaçao, El Salvador, Mexico
U.S. U-20 Men's National Team Roster by Position:
GOALKEEPERS (3) : Cody Cropper (Southampton FC; Maple Grove, Minn.), Kendall McIntosh (Santa Clara; Santa Rosa, Calif.), Zackary Steffen (FC DELCO Academy; Downington, Pa.)
DEFENDERS (5) : Eric Miller (Creighton; Woodbury, Minn.), Juan Pablo Ocegueda (C.D. Guadalajara; Riverside, Calif.), Boyd Okwuonu (North Carolina; Edmond, Okla.), Shane O'Neill (Colorado Rapids; Boulder, Colo.), Javan Torre (UCLA; Santa Monica, Calif.)
MIDFIELDERS (5) : Luis Gil (Real Salt Lake; Garden Grove, Calif.), Benji Joya (Santos Laguna; San Jose, Calif.), Mikey Lopez (Sporting Kansas City; Mission, Texas), Caleb Stanko (SC Freiburg; Holly, Mich.), Wil Trapp (Columbus Crew; Gahanna, Ohio)
FORWARDS (5) : Brandon Allen (Georgetown; Old Bridge, N.J.), Daniel Cuevas (Santos Laguna; Sacramento, Calif.), Danny Garcia (North Carolina; Dallas, Texas), Mario Rodriguez (1. FC Kaiserslautern; North Hollywood, Calif.) Jose Villarreal (LA Galaxy; Inglewood, Calif.)


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After weeks of rumors and days of teases, Russ Martin has confirmed that he will return to KEGL/97.1 FM "The Eagle," the station he left more than 10 years ago, with a morning show that will begin July 12.
Martin, who became one of the most popular personalities in Dallas-Fort Worth during his tenure at KLLI/105.3 FM, says the show will air from 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays on Clear Channel-owned KEGL and will have the same sort of rowdy "boys in the clubhouse" feel as his show on 105.3 FM. Although The Eagle is a hard-rock station, Martin says his show will be all talk.
Martin, who did afternoons during most of his time at 105.3 FM, hasn't done a morning show since late 2000, and he previously told the Star-Telegram and others that he would never do mornings again. But he has reasons for changing his mind.
"I wanted to go back on the air," Martin said in a phone interview Thursday. "That's really the long and short of it. ... I think mornings this go-round will be easier than when I did mornings back in the late '90s, because that was my first entry into talk radio. It's like the first season of any sitcom: People are finding the development of the characters, and then you go back and look at the sitcom three years into it, and everything's a lot more natural."
Martin had also indicated that he wouldn't return to Clear Channel, the company that owns KEGL, but he has reasons for changing his mind there, too.
"It's funny, the general manager of The Eagle is the same general manager that was there in the late '90s," Martin said, referring to J.D. Freeman, president and market manager of Clear Channel Radio Dallas-Fort Worth. "I always liked J.D. a lot. ... It was upper management I had issues with." (At press time, Freeman had yet to return a phone call seeking comment.)
The move brings full circle a saga involving both Martin and KEGL. When KEGL dropped The Howard Stern Show in 1997, Martin was moved into the morning slot, where he maintained and even increased ratings despite the station's dropping Stern at the peak of his popularity. In March 2000, Martin left KEGL and almost immediately joined 105.3 FM as it launched a "hot talk" format. Martin began by doing mornings, but when the CBS-owned station began airing Stern in 2001, he moved to afternoons, and that's when his ratings really began to take off.
While Martin was working at 105.3, which eventually became known as KLLI, KEGL underwent two format changes -- first to a soft-oldies format, then to Spanish -- before Clear Channel revived the hard-rock format and the "Eagle" nickname in late 2007. Former Eagle personalities Chris Ryan and Cindy Scull rejoined the station and are still with KEGL.
In July 2008, Martin was arrested at his Southlake home (he has since moved) and charged with assaulting his fiancee. The case stretched out for nearly a year before Martin pleaded no contest and was sentenced to two years' probation. Martin has maintained his innocence all along and has said he has been frustrated by his inability to talk about it on the air because of legal issues. He's not certain whether he'll address it now.
"It really depends on if there's any interest," he says. "If there is, I'll address it; if there isn't, there's no reason to bring it up, because if there's no interest, the only person that's going to be fascinated with it is me."
Months after Martin's arrest, CBS flipped 105.3 FM from the talk format to a sports format, redubbing the station KRLD/105.3 FM "The Fan." Martin was taken off the air -- at the time, CBS executives said his benching had nothing to do with his arrest -- but remained under contract to CBS. If the KEGL deal hadn't been negotiated, Martin would have remained under contract to CBS till next year.


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The belt, (in dialect "Maakin'" belt) is used to enable one-handed knitting, or to use three pins for "in the round" Fair Isle patterns.
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By ALAN CHARLES KORS; Alan Charles Kors is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books on 17th- and 18th-century European history.
Published: September 10, 1989
MACHINES AS THE MEASURE OF MEN Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. By Michael Adas. Illustrated. 430 pp. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. $29.95.
The meetings of different cultures have always been extraordinary affairs. Peoples have believed each other to be gods or devils, magically wise or mysteriously lost in night. In ''Machines as the Measure of Men,'' a scholarly, provocative and fascinating account of Europe's encounters with the peoples of Africa, India and China, Michael Adas, a professor of history at Rutgers University, argues that there is a pattern to the West's judgments of foreign cultures.
Although originally repelled or attracted by the various religions, governments and mores they found, Europeans came to identify scientific and technological achievement, the understanding and mastery of nature, as an objective measure of the value of a civilization. By this standard, they saw themselves as superior to the non-Europeans they came to know, justifying their right to ''civilize'' and dominate the world.
For Mr. Adas, this scientific and technological criterion was in place by the 18th century, despite some dissents. It triumphed absolutely in the 19th century, in the wake of European industrialization. World War I and Japanese mastery of Western technology shook European confidence in science as the standard of worth, although, Mr. Adas says, that confidence lives on in American models of third-world development.
In describing these attitudes of superiority, Mr. Adas persuasively argues, many recent historians have tended to confuse the West's chauvinism with racism. Europeans of the 18th and 19th centuries debated whether differences in civilizations should be explained by climate, geography, culture or, in the biological view, innate natural abilities. Mr. Adas sees a growing tendency throughout the 19th century toward the racist argument, but cautions historians against looking selectively for such evidence. Colonial educational policies were far from uniform in their assumptions about indigenous peoples' innate capabilities, differing sharply, for example, in Africa and India.
Given the political mine fields he must cross - issues of racism, ethnocentrism and imperialism are contentious ones, to say the least - Mr. Adas is refreshingly free of partisanship and cant. He is determined to allow the texts of the past priority over current moral debates. Despite a few nods to those for whom Europe is the source of all evil (he suggests that Asians who exhibit racism in Africa have adopted European perspectives), Mr. Adas seeks to understand European thought on its own terms and in its historical context.
The diverse and often ambiguous notions of cultural superiority that he identifies may not merit the rubric ''ideology of dominance'' he bestows on them. There were many who deemed the West scientifically superior, yet recoiled on moral grounds from the imperial enterprise. To justify his analysis, Mr. Adas would have to demonstrate more fully how the literature he discusses was received in Europe and how it influenced political debate.
This failing, however, does not detract unduly from the value of his work, which is far more an account of what Europeans thought than an explanation of why they thought the way they did, or to what effect. Mr. Adas's deft use of quotation gives his missionaries, travelers, explorers, administrators and teachers their authentic voices. He provides a wealth of documentation. One learns things worth knowing on every page.
Although he is sensitive to the possibility that he is overemphasizing certain kinds of evidence, Mr. Adas does write at times as if he had discovered the single key to European self-confidence and expansion. His 19th-century missionaries lose too much of their purely religious zeal. They did risk their lives, after all, for Christ, not Newton. In addition, his notion of Europe is far too often merely France and Britain. Further, while he promises a second study that will explore African, Indian and Chinese perceptions of Western science and technology (anticipating criticism that he has looked only at one side of the encounter), he has, for now, left unexplored the ways the foreign response to European machines shaped and reinforced European notions of superiority.
More generally, Mr. Adas's Western culture lacks its full and weighty array of antiscientific skeptics, irrationalists, Romantics, decriers of technology and admirers of Eastern knowledge. The appeal of Schopenhauer, for example, who drew so heavily on Indian philosophy, grew rather than diminished throughout the 19th century; and once past the 18th century, Mr. Adas minimizes the continuing influence of Rousseau's ''noble savage.'' Such instances do not disprove his thesis, but they do suggest something far less than a prevailing denigration of wisdom neither scientific nor technological. Europe, to say the least, did not consistently apply Mr. Adas's ''measure'' to itself.
Nonetheless, one leaves ''Machines as the Measure of Men'' persuaded by its essential analysis: that mastery of nature lay at the heart of Europe's comparison of itself to others. As an intellectual history of French and British assessments of Africa, China and India, the book is wonderfully informative and nuanced. It will alter the debate about the history of Europe's relationship to the rest of the world.
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A new study affirms that the 2009 H1N1 flu vaccine, developed to counter the flu pandemic, does not substantially put people at increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Guillain-Barré syndrome is a disorder in which a person's immune system damages nerves, causing weakness and in some cases paralysis.
The study, conducted at five centers throughout Europe, was published in the latest issue of BMJ.
The concern about Guillain-Barré dates back 35 years. That's when a vaccine with an added substance called an adjuvant, which stimulates the immune system, appeared to make users of the vaccine seven times more likely to develop the disease. That vaccine, developed by the United States, was withdrawn. Although adjuvanted vaccines developed after 1976 have shown no similarly heightened risk, concern about their safety has remained high.
"Even though the studies repeatedly showed risk estimates well below the sevenfold increase of 1976, they do not provide reassurance that there is no increase in risk after seasonal influenza vaccination," the authors write.
Guillain-Barré, a rare disorder that affects one to two people out of 100,000, has no known cause. However, about half of all cases occur after a viral or bacterial infection. Weakness and tingling in the legs are early symptoms of the disease. In severe cases, the disorder causes total paralysis and unassisted breathing becomes impossible. Recovery can take from a few weeks to a few years, and a small number of people with the disorder will experience a relapse.
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In a world spooked by global warming and thirsty for nonpolluting fuel, lowly algae hold a potent appeal. The plants sop up large quantities of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and produce tiny globules of fat that can be collected and turned into biodiesel fuel for trucks, cars, and trains. The oils might even be processed into aircraft fuel.
One of algae's great virtues is that the plant has so little in common with other sources of fuel. Unlike cornfields that are harvested to produce ethanol, algae farms don't require huge volumes of freshwater, nor do they tie up land that could be used for food crops. Algae flourish in saltwater or even wastewater and grow up to 40 times faster than other plants. Compared with current energy crops, algae have "the potential to deliver 10 or 100 times more energy per acre," says Ron C. Pate, a technical expert at Sandia National Labs. That's why industrial giants ranging from Chevron (CVX ) to Honeywell (HON ) to Boeing (BA ) are starting up algae business units. "In the past two years, we have changed from algae skeptics to proponents," says Dave Daggett, Boeing's technology leader for energy and emissions.
Bringing down the cost of producing algae oil in commercial volumes—billions of gallons—is still a big challenge. "The scale required to grow algae to a meaningful dimension is staggering," says Bill Green, managing partner at VantagePoint Venture Partners. But biodiesel from other plants is already a robust market. In Europe, refiners are producing 1.4 billion gallons a year from rapeseed, soy, and other plants. In all, the world consumed $1.7 billion worth of biodiesel last year. That should grow to $26 billion by 2020, says market researcher Global Insight.
In the U.S., demand for such plant-based oils is quickly outstripping supplies. That and algae's mystique have attracted the attention of energy entrepreneurs such as Martin Tobias, CEO of Imperium Renewables in Seattle, which is armed with $145 million in venture capital and private equity funding. Imperium buys practically every drop of oil U.S. algae startups are producing. So far it has sold just a few hundred gallons of finished fuel. But Tobias has dedicated a 5 million-gallon refinery to algae oil, and by 2011 he expects startups to be making 100 million gallons a year. At that point, Tobias reckons, the price per gallon will fall to $1.70, from as much as $20 today. "The only thing missing is the farms," he says. "I prefer not to operate a large-scale farm myself, but I may have to do it."
Extracting oil from algae is currently a cumbersome affair that involves drying and processing the plants. But some of the world's top genetic engineers want to create improved algae strains that will produce oil continually, eliminating the most difficult processing steps. "Farming and harvesting are both complex and expensive," says human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter, whose 2005 startup, Synthetic Genomics, is experimenting with algal genes. Rival Solazyme in South San Francisco has engineered more than a dozen specialized strains and ramped up pre-commercial production. "We can easily make thousands of gallons [of algal biodiesel] a month," says Chief Operating Officer Jonathan S. Wolfson.
Startups in the U.S. and Europe are turning to power companies and local governments to back larger trials, selling the idea that algae can offset some of the power plants' CO2 emissions. On Nov. 2, German energy group E-On Hansa said it would build a $3.2 million pilot algae farm at its Hamburg power plant with support from the city government. Portuguese biodiesel maker SGC Energia is investing in a $3 million pilot algae farm next to a power plant. It will be up and running in 2008.
Many startups still have growing pains. GreenFuel Technologies in Cambridge, Mass., founded in 2004, quickly snared $20 million to create a business around its patented algae bioreactor. But when its system was tested at a power plant outside Phoenix, the green goo grew too fast, overwhelming GreenFuel's ability to harvest the oil. Last June, after just two weeks, GreenFuel stopped the trial.
Despite the misadventure, though, the market proved forgiving. GreenFuel raised an additional $5.5 million to pursue a lower-cost approach. It expects to announce new commercial trials in the next few weeks.
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Eager to shrink its carbon footprint and wean itself from foreign oil, the U.S. aviation sector is leading the research push in biofuels made from algae oil, says an article in the Sept. 17 AviationWeek entitled "Alternative Fuels for Jet Engines." Plants such as algae that produce the fats used in biofuel not only can be grown locally but also spend most of their existence sucking up CO2. Commercial airlines, the U.S. Air Force, the Federal Aviation Administration, and NASA are all on board with the idea of algae-based biofuels.
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Police: NM man beat sleeping man with nunchucks
ARTESIA, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man is facing charges after Artesia police say he beat a sleeping man with nunchucks.
The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports (http://bit.ly/13jKzaQ) that the bizarre beating occurred [auth] Saturday when police say Steven Banda used the martial arts weapons on a man resting on Artesia home couch.
According to police, Banda told officers he attacked the man because "there was disrespect."
Police say the man, who was not named, suffered injuries to his head, left eye and right arm.
Nunchucks are two sticks connected by a short chain or rope traditionally used in martial arts.
Banda was arrested on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
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Lowin, Ana, Knapp, Martin and McCrone, Paul (2001) Alzheimer's disease in the UK: comparative evidence on cost-of-illness and volume of health services research funding. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 16 (12). pp. 1143-1148. ISSN 0885-6230
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