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Richie Kotzen Talks New Album, 'Salting Earth'
When working on Salting Earth, his 21st solo effort, triple-threat songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Richie Kotzen tossed convention on its ear by taking one step back in order to move two steps...
It's "Judgement Day" for DragonForce
DragonForce have premiered a new song, "Judgement Day." The track is from their new album, Reaching Into Infinity, which will be released May 19 via Metal Blade Records in the U.S.
Hear Anthrax Cover Kansas
If you happen to be in the mood to hear Anthrax cover a classic song by Kansas, you're in luck.
Angus Young Plays "High Voltage" on Acoustic Guitar
Below, check out a very interesting clip of AC/DC's Angus Young—sitting with an acoustic guitar—as he discusses the roots of "High Voltage."
20 Bygone Guitar Brands Worth Checking Out
Gear companies come and go all the time. And with the new equipment that's always coming to market, it's easy to forget those who are gone.
Steve Vai: "Zappa's Advice Saved Me Millions"
Steve Vai was all of about 20 years old when he began performing with Frank Zappa in 1980.
Watch Angus Young Deal with a Heckler
Warning: There's nothing timely about the video below. The action took place about 17 years ago during an AC/DC show in Phoenix, Arizona.
Paul Riario Tries to Break Ernie Ball's Strings
Guitar World's Paul Riario got his hands on a set of Ernie Ball's new Paradigm break-resistant guitar strings, so did what any guitarist would–bend the living hell out of them.
Dan Auerbach Teams Up with Mark Knopfler
The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach will release Waiting on a Song, his second solo album, June 2 via his new label, Easy Eye Sound.
That Time Vai Played "Highway to Hell" at Guitar Center
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DX11: Unigine Heaven 2.1
The Unigine "Heaven 2.1" benchmark is a free publicly available tool that grants the power to unleash the graphics capabilities in DirectX-11 for Windows 7 or updated Vista Operating Systems. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. With the interactive mode, emerging experience of exploring the intricate world is within reach. Through its advanced renderer, Unigine is one of the first to set precedence in showcasing the art assets with tessellation, bringing compelling visual finesse, utilizing the technology to the full extend and exhibiting the possibilities of enriching 3D gaming.
The distinguishing feature in the Unigine Heaven benchmark is a hardware tessellation that is a scalable technology aimed for automatic subdivision of polygons into smaller and finer pieces, so that developers can gain a more detailed look of their games almost free of charge in terms of performance. Thanks to this procedure, the elaboration of the rendered image finally approaches the boundary of veridical visual perception: the virtual reality transcends conjured by your hand. The "Heaven" benchmark excels at providing the following key features:
Although Heaven-2.1 was recently released and used for our DirectX-11 tests, the benchmark results were extremely close to those obtained with Heaven-1.0 testing. Since only DX11-compliant video cards will properly test on the Heaven benchmark, only those products that meet the requirements have been included.
Cost Analysis: Unigine Heaven (1680x1050)
Test Summary: Our test results with the Unigine Heaven benchmark tool appear to deliver fair comparisons of DirectX-11 graphics cards. Reviewers like to say "Nobody plays a benchmark", but it seems evident that we can expect to see great things come from a graphics tool this detailed. For now though, those details only come by way of DirectX-11 video cards.
While the reference 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 clears past the Radeon HD 5830 by nearly 8-FPS, as well as the GeForce GTX 465, it's the PNY GTX 460 XLR8 that steals the thunder away from all of the graphics solutions tested. In this test, the GTX460-OC even surpassed the GeForce GTX 470 by a solid margin. If there was a cost involved with Unigine's Heaven benchmark, the GeForce GTX 460 would cost $1.81 less per frame than the Radeon HD 5830, and the PNY GTX 460 XLR8 would cost $4.45 less per frame than the Radeon HD 5850 while still offering a better value than all other DirectX-11 video cards.
How do they compare in performance and noise?
In terms of noise, there's almost none... as in no audible sound. Even with the fan turned to 100% power, the PNY cooler is extremely quiet.
Also, PNY has a RMA graphics card promotion specifically for BFG customers. Send in your BFG card, whether it works or not, and you'll receive a 25 percent discount on select PNY video cards. They'll also throw-in "Just Cause 2" from Square Enix by way of an online download redemption code. So those of you left holding the bag with BFG cards that malfunctioned, can get a better deal than the rest of us with PNY, and a free game. Visit PNY.com or call PNY directly at 1-888-316-1193. The promotion runs until October 31, 2010.
The GTX 460 Hawk review will be posted soon.
You're right though, I haven't been making mention of the sound levels. I'll update my articles to make note of this. Thanks.
In Metro 2033, the two results are 1920x1200 and 1680x1050. I've since replaced the chart with an updated image.
People mention noise a lot with cards, I don't mind noise, i want the fan speed. Any help would be appreciated.
Yeah. EVGA and Gigabyte have released BIOS for their respective cards. Their BIOS allow the cards to go to "maximum" speed (theirs is stuck at 70% before the update)while PNY hasn't. Initially my card would stay about 68C before. Even while the card was overclocked. But for a couple of days now, even with my same overclock settings, the card will get to 80C and crash the game out. I purchased the card the Friday after Thanksgiving. So I got them recently.
Note, when not overclocked the temps get about 70C under a full load.
So the moral of the story is don't purchase these cards to replace your 9800GTs in SLI unless you are sure you have enough connectors from your existing PS, or unless you are replacining your PS as well.


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But by the early 1990s, Cuba was struggling to take care of them without Soviet aid. The Sudan People's Liberation Army was riven with factions and its leaders seemed more concerned with preserving their power than with the children they had sent abroad. It was also around this time that the tectonic plates of global politics shifted, and it was now the United States and its Western allies that backed the SPLA, while Russia and China lined up with the government in Khartoum.
"We had sometimes to share shoes with classmates," said Daniel Thon Duop, 35, who had fought for the rebels until he left at the age of 13.
After 10 years, they'd finished medical school, but Cuba could no longer support grand projects like the Island of Youth and there was no place for them.
Finally, in 1995, Cuba enlisted the help of the United Nations, which gave the students refugee status and looked for someone else to take them. Some went to Europe, and a few to the United States. Canada took in the doctors.
Canada offered more opportunity than Cuba, but not in the field the doctors wanted. While they had completed medical school, they had not finished an internship or a residency, and Canadian institutions would not accept their credentials. They spoke Arabic, Spanish, some Portuguese and the language of their ethnicities - Dinka, Nuer, Anuak - but not English or French.
They also had families back home in south Sudan to support. Many could only find minimum-wage jobs working at meat-packing plants in Brooks, Alta., and in Winnipeg. Dr. Deng sold contracts for Direct Energy. Dr. Tut Pur worked as a physical therapist. Okony Simon Mori, 36, tried to volunteer in a hospital, but couldn't find anyone to take him. He worked with disabled children instead and at a meat-packing plant.
In 2005, after the civil war finally ended, Dr. Thon Duop caught word of Samaritan's Purse, an evangelical Christian group led by Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham, that declares on its website "first-class treatment in the Name of the Great Physician."
Samaritan's Purse has worked in south Sudan since 1993. Dr. Thon Duop decided that he would ask the charity to train all those doctors well enough to complete their mission and go home.
"He kept mentioning this word mission, that they were on a mission," recalls John Clayton, projects director for Samaritan's Purse Canada. "They've been living with that sense of destiny and calling in their lives ever since."
Samaritan's Purse approached the medical school at the University of Calgary in 2005. The plan was for a refresher course before the group returned home. It lasted for nine months, but did not go as planned.
The doctors had been out of medical school for as long as seven years and some were still struggling with English. They needed to be trained in basic techniques - scrubbing themselves down before surgery, for example.
For the past year, the doctors have been in Kenya completing the equivalent of the residency program that they never received after medical school in Cuba.
It has been another difficult time. Some of the doctors were struggling with alcohol abuse, and some still do.
"Everybody's hoping and wishing for the best ... but not taking quite as much stock of how really degraded their knowledge and skills were from all those years. Which is nothing against them," said Scott Shannon, an American doctor who is running their training program in Kenya.
One of the original 15, one of two women in the group, decided not to continue. Another went on to south Sudan without finishing the Kenya program because Dr. Shannon ultimately decided he would never be ready to be a doctor. The first three of the remaining 13 are finally returning home this month to fulfill Mr. Garang's commandment. The remaining 10 will return home early next year.Report Typo/Error
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Arsenal have announced a partnership with African mobile network operator Airtel.
The Gunners have signed a three-year deal with Airtel which will see the company given the opportunity to utilise the Club's merchandising, hospitality and content rights in five markets: Nigeria, Zambia, Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda.
"I am delighted to welcome Airtel into our family of Commercial Partners," said Arsenal's Head of Global Partnerships Vinai Venkatesham.
"This is the second long-term partnership arrangement to arise from the continent and we look forward to developing a number of exciting initiatives with Airtel, starting with our forthcoming tour to Nigeria in August. This underlines the depth of our following in Africa and how the profile of the Club continues to grow internationally."
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First, thank you to all the contributors to these forums. I learn a lot by reading your posts.
I am starting a Warre hive this year just for fun. I had already ordered a 5 frame Lang nuc when I made the decision, so now I am thinking about how to transfer the nuc. I may convert an available 10 frame Lang deep into a five frame nuc by adding some inner walls and then creating a top with a large cutout that would allow me to place the Warre boxes above and let the bees work up into them over the season. Ill remove the nuc box some time in the summer. Has anyone tried this? Other suggestions to fitting a square peg in a round hole?
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The point of the matter is the Bearcats do not have anyone established at the point. Is it Cashmere Wright? Jaquon Parker? Lance Stephenson? Larry Davis? Rashad Bishop? Or, back to Deonta Vaughn?
This year, it's been pretty much "all of the above".
Early on this season, the job belonged to Cashmere Wright. When he faltered, several Bearcats had the chance to step in. Just over a week ago, it looked like Jaquon Parker had stepped to the forefront.
Then, Cashmere Wright comes roaring back with a decent game at Louisville.
The latest solution appears to be a "platoon" system. This coming off Parker having a 15-point, five assist game against South Florida, with Wright coming back with a 12-point effort against Pitino's Cardinals (matching the career-high he'd had twice before).
"They're doing well," said Cronin when asked about the rotation. "Both those guys have really maintained a good work ethic throughout the season. Fortunately, it looks like they finally got to a point where they're both playing well and playing confident--to a point where if Deonta needs a rest they may both play together."
Vaughn himself has take a few turns at the point, but the game plan this season was to let him play at the "two" so that he'd get more shots. He feels the two freshman are finally getting a grasp on how hard it is to play the point in the Big East.
Looking at numbers, Wright is slightly the better scorer per game (4.8 compared to Parker's 4.3).
However, Wright's played 317 minutes this season compared to Parker's 184, to put it in better perspective. In terms of shooting, Parker's 50 percent from the field, 36 on threes, while Wright's hitting 35 and 34 percent respectively.
"Right now, they're probably our second and third-best perimeter shooters," said Cronin.
Breaking down the tandem is tough, as they both can bring positive aspects to the game. Deonta Vaughn has observed each player in practice and in games.
"Cash shoots it better, Park is strong for a guard," he said. "Jaquon's more vocal than Cash and is a better rebounder."
Different players, different games. Wright appears to be "quicker to the hole" (he just needs to convert the lay-ups). Parker looks like the better defender. Neither can be pinned down as the reason for the loss at Louisville.
"They weren't the culprits," said Cronin. "Our turnovers were more from Rashad (Bishop) and Dion (Dixon) and Deonta really. Cash and Park really weren't the cause of any of our turnovers. Against Louisville's pressure they didn't turn it over one time all day."
That's a key stat. Road turnovers can kill you as the Bearcats have experienced a time or two this season.
"Those guys are doing a pretty good job right now," said Cronin of Wright and Parker.
" We've got to get our interior defense shored up and we've got to get our pick and roll defense cleaned up."
Oh yeah, and they've got to get ready for another Big East foe that'll be far from a cupcake in Providence. The Friars play a different brand of ball and Mick Cronin has yet to have a team beat them.
"One thing about Providence, they can score (and they beat UConn Wednesday night)," said Cronin. "They'll shoot it quick, they shoot it early in the shot clock more so than most of the teams we play. They're a lot different that some of the teams they play. They play a match-up zone which no one else in the conference plays."
Whether or not the starting point guard will be Jaquon Parker or Cashmere Wright probably won't be decided 'til Saturday night. They've won with both and they've lost with both. The long-term look is that both of these guys are going to be around three more years after this season.
While it continues to be a "crutch", the fact is the Bearcats have at times started just one senior (Vaughn) with another upperclassman that's really only played organized ball for about four years (Thomas). From there, it's two freshmen (Stephenson and Wright/Parker) and a sophomore (Gates).
For those pounding their head and grinding their teeth at night, you get tired of hearing it, but better days ARE ahead. It's just that most of us would just as soon see those days begin with this Saturday.


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The Mystery Of The Hacienda
Dick Bracy gazed again at the Hacienda de los Osos, and hesitated. There it lay—its low
whitewashed walls looking like a quartz outcrop of the long lazy hillside—unmistakably
hot, treeless, and staring broadly in the uninterrupted Californian sunlight. Yet he knew
that behind those blistering walls was a reposeful patio, surrounded by low-pitched
verandas; that the casa was full of roomy corridors, nooks, and recesses, in which lurked
the shadows of a century, and that hidden by the further wall was a lonely old garden,
hoary with gnarled pear-trees, and smothered in the spice and dropping leaves of its
baking roses. He knew that, although the unwinking sun might glitter on its red tiles, and
the unresting trade winds whistle around its angles, it always kept one unvarying
temperature and untroubled calm, as if the dignity of years had triumphed over the
changes of ephemeral seasons. But would others see it with his eyes? Would his practical,
housekeeping aunt, and his pretty modern cousin—
"Well, what do you say? Speak the word, and you can go into it with your folks to-
morrow. And I reckon you won't want to take anything either, for you'll find everything
there—just as the old Don left it. I don't want it; the land is good enough for me; I shall
have my vaqueros and rancheros to look after the crops and the cattle, and they won't
trouble you, for their sheds and barns will be two miles away. You can stay there as long
as you like, and go when you choose. You might like to try it for a spell; it's all the same
to me. But I should think it the sort of thing a man like you would fancy, and it seems the
right thing to have you there. Well,—what shall it be? Is it a go?"
Dick knew that the speaker was sincere. It was an offer perfectly characteristic of his
friend, the Western millionaire, who had halted by his side. And he knew also that the
slow lifting of his bridle-rein, preparatory to starting forward again, was the business-like
gesture of a man who wasted no time even over his acts of impulsive liberality. In
another moment he would dismiss the unaccepted offer from his mind—without concern
and without resentment.
"Thank you—it is a go," said Dick gratefully.
Nevertheless, when he reached his own little home in the outskirts of San Francisco that
night, he was a trifle nervous in confiding to the lady, who was at once his aunt and
housekeeper, the fact that he was now the possessor of a huge mansion in whose patio
alone the little eight-roomed villa where they had lived contentedly might be casually
dropped. "You see, Aunt Viney," he hurriedly explained, "it would have been so
ungrateful to have refused him—and it really was an offer as spontaneous as it was
liberal. And then, you see, we need occupy only a part of the casa."
"And who will look after the other part?" said Aunt Viney grimly. "That will have to be
kept tidy, too; and the servants for such a house, where in heaven are they to come from?
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Definition of idea
1a : a transcendent entity that is a real pattern of which existing things are imperfect representationsb : a standard of perfection : idealc : a plan for action : design
2 archaic : a visible representation of a conception : a replica of a pattern
3a obsolete : an image recalled by memoryb : an indefinite or unformed conceptionc : an entity (such as a thought, concept, sensation, or image) actually or potentially present to consciousness
4 : a formulated thought or opinion
5 : whatever is known or supposed about something a child's idea of time
6 : the central meaning or chief end of a particular action or situation
7 Christian Science : an image in Mind
idealessplay \ī-ˈdē-ə-ləs, -ˈdēə- also ˈī-(ˌ)dē-ə- or ˈī-dē-\ adjective
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My idea is to study law.
Starting her own business seemed like a good idea at the time, but it turned out badly.
Whose idea was it to leave so early?
My idea was that if we left early we could beat the crowd.
Buying the car was a bad idea.
I have some ideas for redecorating the room.
He has an idea for a movie.
I'm not sure what to do next. Do you have any ideas?
She's always full of new ideas.
It's a good idea to talk to people who have actually been there.
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Middle English, from Latin, from Greek, from idein to see — more at wit
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2 : something imagined or pictured in the mind I had an idea of what the town was like.
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8 Key Nutrients Vegetarians Need (Page 8)
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Vitamin D, which helps the body absorb calcium, is important for bone health; it also plays a role in the nervous, muscular and immune systems. The body makes vitamin D when skin is exposed to sunlight, but northern climates don't get enough sun year-round for adequate formation. Foods like cow's milk and soymilk are fortified with D. Some mushrooms that have been exposed to UV light are also good sources.


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Bryson, Alex, Cappellari, Lorenzo and Lucifora, Claudio (2004) Do job security guarantees work? CEPDP, 661. Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 0753017911
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We investigate the effect of employer job security guarantees on employee perceptions of job security. Using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey, we find job security guarantees reduce employee perceptions of job insecurity. This finding is robust to endogenous selection of job security guarantees by employers engaging in organisational change and workforce reductions. Furthermore, there is no evidence that increased job security through job guarantees results in greater work intensification, stress, or lower job satisfaction.
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The webinar will discuss the basics of various non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods and their applications for investigating dam, spillway and conduit conditions such as freeze-thaw cracking, void, seepage, corrosion of reinforcing, anchor bolts, strength/moduli, and stability. Guidance will be provided as to which NDE methods are useful for diagnosing various conditions of concrete, masonry, earthen and steel materials. The webinar will highlight the important aspects of each phase from planning of NDE investigations and the basics of the NDE methods in terms of testing and analysis.
Larry D. Olson, P.E., President and Principal Engineer, Olson Engineering, Inc., and Olson Instruments, Inc.
Larry D. Olson, P.E., is nationally and internationally known for his expertise in nondestructive evaluation and performance monitoring of civil infrastructure including dams, bridges, buildings, foundations, pavements, tunnels, etc. He is a member of several committees including: ASCE's Geophysics Committee, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee AFF40 on Field Testing and Nondestructive Evaluation of Transportation Structures and its Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) subcommittee as well as the Earth Exploration Committee AFP20 and its Geophysical subcommittee. He has been an instructor in the American Society of Civil Engineers seminar on "Structural Condition Assessment of Existing Structure" since 1997 and in 2009 developed a new ASCE seminar "Bridge Condition Assessment and Performance Monitoring". He was the primary instructor in an Engineering Education of Australia seminar series on Nondestructive Evaluation of Concrete, Asphalt and Wood in Sydney and Melbourne in 2010. He is a member of the American Concrete Institute Committees 228 Nondestructive Testing, 309 Consolidation and 342 Bridge Evaluation and a technical affiliate of the Association of Drilled Shaft Contractors. Mr. Olson is past Chairman of the Evaluation Committee of the International Concrete Repair Institute (2002-2009) and a past ICRI board of directors member. He has over 31 years of consulting experience in structural condition assessment and monitoring, materials, pavement, geotechnical, geophysical, and vibration engineering. He holds BS and MS Geotechnical Engineering degrees from the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Texas at Austin which honored him as a distinguished alumnus in 2006. Olson Engineering has its main office in Wheat Ridge CO with branch offices in Manassas VA, Rutherford NJ and Socorro NM.
Webinar Agenda
- Introduction to Dams and NDE Methods
- Dam conditions to be diagnosed with NDE
- Concrete/Masonry Cracking, Thickness and Integrity
- Subgrade support of spillways and conduits
- Steel reinforcing and anchors corrosion/integrity/location
- Seismic property determination for earthquake analyses
- Slope stability monitoring
- NDE Method Basics
- Stress Waves (Ultrasonic, Sonic and Seismic)
- Electromagnetic Waves (Radar)
- Electro-chemical (Corrosion)
- NDE References
- International Concrete Repair Institute NDE Guideline Document
- American Concrete Institute 228 Nondestructive Testing Strength and Evaluation documents
- Dam conditions to be diagnosed with NDE
- Case Histories - Concrete and Masonry Dam Condition Assessment with NDE
- NDE for Cracking Damage in Dams and Spillways
- Impact Echo for near-surface cracking including corrosion damage
- Surface Waves for distributed cracking (freeze-thaw, ASR)
- Cross Dam Sonic Tomography for imaging joints/cracking damage
- NDE for Evaluation of Spillway and Conduit Conditions
- Impact Echo for thickness/integrity
- Surface Waves for concrete/rock/subgrade velocity/modulus
- Slab Impulse Response for void/subgrade support
- Ground Penetrating Radar for void/subgrade support and rebar maps
- NDE for Cracking Damage in Dams and Spillways
- NDE for Steel Conduit/Steel Reinforcement Corrosion
- Ultrasonic Testing (Pulse Echo) for Steel Conduits and Anchor Bolts
- Reinforcement Corrosion Assessment with Half-Cell, Concrete Resistance and Galvanostatic Pulse methods
- Geophysical Methods for Seismic Analyses and Embankement/Dam Monitoring
- Seismic Methods for Earthquake Analyses
- Radar for displacement monitoring of concrete/earthen dam stability
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I Fell in love with Rick Owens' Biker Mixed Materials Vest (bottom photo), so I decided to hack it.
This is a knitting-sewing combination project, involving a lot of both.
The front is made from several fabrics.
I hesitated a lot about the "wing" at the back. At the end I decided to do it, but toned it down a bit, for less drama…
I'm flying solo on this one, writing my own pattern.
I started by drafting a sewing pattern on paper, based on a jersey shirt I did.I calculated the numbers for knitting the back and sleeves according to the paper measurements, measuring them against the paper pattern as I knit.
I want a structured jacket, so the pieces are knitted separately then seamed.
Back and sleeves both knit flat, bottom-up, in bulky 100% wool, on 7mm needles.
The back has darts-like waist shaping, positioned approximately at a 1/3 distance from the side seams.
To give the fronts some structure, I built them on a layer of black suiting material, that serves both as a lining and as a stabilizer. This is because the blue wool fabric and the velvet are both stretchy.
All fabric-to-knit seams were done by machine.
All knit-to-knit seams were done manually.
The back wing was also attached manually, in case I ever regret and want to take it apart.


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Consumers who engage with finance content and ads on their mobile devices ("mobile finance users") are disproportionately young and male, and place a high value on brands, finds Millennial Media [download page] in a May 2012 study conducted in partnership with comScore. While 25-34-year-olds make up only 17% of the mobile audience, they account for 32% of mobile finance users. Similarly, 18-24-year-olds, who make up 13% of the mobile audience, represent 21% share of those using mobile finance. Overall, mobile finance users are also more likely to be male (55%) than female (45%).
A March 2012 report from the Federal Reserve found a similar trend, showing that mobile banking skews young: those aged 18-29 made up 43.5% of users, relative to 22% of mobile phone users, while those 60 and older represented just 6% of mobile banking users, while holding 24% share of all mobile phone users.
Data from "Mobile Insights for Finance Brands" indicates that mobile finance users appear to place a higher value on brands than the general mobile audience. For example, they are 21% more likely to say they buy brands that reflect their style (51% vs. 42%), 37.5% more likely to say they will pay more for a company they trust (44% vs. 32%), and 27% more likely to say that brand names reflect quality (38% vs. 30%). Nevertheless, they are also 33% more likely to say they would change brands just for change (20% vs. 15%).
The report also looks at how finance advertisers compare to other advertisers on the Millennial Media platform when it comes to campaign goals, highlighting some interesting divergences. The top campaign goal for mobile finance advertisers in 2011 was lead generation and registrations, accounting for 70% of all campaigns. By comparison, lead gen/registrations was the campaign goal for just 25% of advertisers overall. Advertisers overall were much more focused on other goals such as sustained in-market presence (31% vs. 16% of finance advertisers) and brand awareness (12% vs. 4%). Given the importance that mobile finance users ascribe to brands, this suggests that finance advertisers should focus more on brand awareness goals.
Overall, 6 different sub-categories contributed to the overall finance mix on the Millennial Media platform in 2011, led by insurance (42%), banking (28%), and financial services (16%).
About the Data: The data is based on various comScore studies including: MobiLens survey (13+ years old, November 2011, n=40,000); Mobile Metrix (18+ years old, November 2011, n=4,500); Plan Metrix Mobile (18+ years old active mobile users overlaid with offline and psychographic information, November 2011, n=15,000); and ad Metrix Mobile (mobile display share of voice and ad creative analysis through November 2011). The 2011 Millennial Media data featured is based on actual campaign and platform data.
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Michael Peter Charwenske, age 60, of Summerland Key, Fla., passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. He was born June 3, 1953, the son of Jackie and Arthur Charwenske.
He is survived by his wife Linda; daughter Holly Alvarado; sisters Carol (Tom) Jensen and Joyce (Bob) Heaton; and nieces and nephews.
A time of remembrance for family and friends will be held at 3 p.m. today, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013, at Lazy Lakes RV Resort, 311 Johnson Road, Mile Marker 20, Sugarloaf Key, FL 33042.


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mortgageman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 23 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Eyecatching logo needed for use on web, signs, shirts, etc...
Desired Color Scheme:
similar to Carolina Blue, but can be darker
Accepted File Formats:
The name is CarolinaFSBO.com. The name should be in the logo but it doesn't need (.com) in it. This service will cover the states of North and South Carolina. Something with the state's outline in the background may be nice. We help home owners sell their homes without the services of a real estate agent. There should be something in the logo that gives the impression of real estate. The color must be blue and white.


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disconnect the 3 blue wires and the 2 pink wire connector from the motor control. run the diagnostics
--if still f-70 continue on to see if the interface or ccu is bad.
--if f-28 then most likely, your mcu is bad.
reconnect your motor control. check for 5 volts DC on the user interface wires at the user interface. its labeled UIP on the right side interface board. disconnect UIP and measure between the outer most pins.
if you have 5 or -5 volts with the mcu connected
--then most likely its the ccu or right side interface.
if you do not have 5 volts, check again with the motor control disconnected.
--if 5 volts, replace motor control.
It is never a bad thing to leave it to the professionals. Inexperience can lead to more damage or risk of injury. You can always call A&E Factory Service (1-800-905-9505), Sears(1-800-469-4663), or local service man you can trust (servicemagic.com).


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The story of how a bad random number generator can result in 3 hour announcement list delays.
Some of you may use our Announcement List feature to send e-mailing to a happy group of subscribers (happy because they all opted-in)!
Some of you may have noticed that recently it was taking a long time to send out announcements.. they'd generally go two to three hours after the time you'd scheduled them for.
Some of you may have been getting angry about this..
Please be happy, it's fixed now!
The first few times people reported this we thought it was just a temporary problem, like maybe there were just a lot of messages going out and the servers couldn't keep up. We weren't able to reproduce the problem and generally if you can't reproduce the problem it's going to be too hard to find and fix to make it worth the effort.
Finally yesterday, we were able to reproduce the problem.. right in front of our eyes the mailing lists were going out two hours behind schedule! Hooray! Well, actually BOO! that's bad … but also, Hooray! now we can maybe fix it!
It turned out the root of the problem was not the sending of the mailing list itself, but actually another thing the same mailing list sender script did.. send out confirmation emails to addresses people have manually added to the list from our web panel.
But first let me give you a little "Announcement List History"…
It used to be whenever somebody wanted to subscribe a bunch of people to their list from our panel, our panel would immediately attempt to send out the confirmation emails. This was fine when people were subscribing less than say, 20 addresses.. but if you tried sending hundreds of email addresses right there in real time it would take so long that the panel would usually time out in the listmaster's web browser!
This was no good because A. it looked bad, B. not all emails would always go out, and C. people would generally get scared and re-submit their confirmation list, thereby possibly "spamming" the very people we're trying to make sure don't get spammed!
Soon we implemented a better way. Instead of sending all the emails immediately, we'd just INSERT them into a database and then when our script ran to send announcements it'd also send the confrimation emails based on that table!
And everything was great for a few months!
Then, strangely we started getting reports the panel was timing out AGAIN! Why, God, why?! Well, it turned out even INSERTing thousands of emails into the database was too slow for the panel (which is a bit strange, but I guess not unreasonable).
So, to fix it this time, we created a temporary table that would just immediately store the whole list of addresses in just one INSERT. Then later (during the sending) we'd break that list into it's thousands of individual components and INSERT them into the main table. (The reason we need that table at all is to track the unique "goop" … something like 005lcw1grDw5jA … for when subscribers verify their email by clicking the link in the email they get).
Back to the present.
As it turns out, the sending of actual announcements has been getting held up by the thousands of INSERTs the script was doing to send confirmations to people being added from the web panel!
Well, the first thing we did was separate these two scripts.. there's no reason announcements need to wait on confirmation emails! That's just dumb. So that fixed it.. but why were these INSERTs taking so long?
After some poking around, it turned out the problem was actually that "goop" stuff! You see, we need them all to be unique, and so this is the code we were using:
do {
## create the goop!
srand(time() ^ ($$ + ($$ << 15)) ); #gets a nice random seed. my $p = rand(); my @chars = ('a'..'z', 'A'..'Z', '0'..'9'); my ($salt) = $chars[rand($#chars)] . $chars[rand($#chars)]; ($goop) = crypt($p, $salt); } until ($db->Insert('mailinglist_approve',
Basically, we'd get some random goop, try and INSERT it into the table, and if that goop was already in there, it'd fail. Then we'd just create a new random goop and try again. Given the number of potential goops and the number of entries in the table at any given time, we should basically NEVER have to INSERT more than once. This is nice and good except for one part:
srand(time() ^ ($$ + ($$ << 15)) ); #gets a nice random seed. my $p = rand();
It turns out that because the seed is based on the current time, we were not getting a "nice random seed" every time we ran it. The time only updated once a second, and so our goop would only change once a second! That meant we would do dozens of failing INSERTs over and over and over each second until the goop finally changed. And those dozens (hundreds?) of INSERTs were making the table slowww...
After a little bit of research on better random number generating techniques, we changed that code to be:
my $p = rand(`head -1 /dev/urandom');
Which actually gives you a good random seed ALL the time. Immediately the number of INSERTs we were doing dropped exponentially and everything is now fast and happy!
And that's how a bad random number generator can result in 3 hour announcement list delays.


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Exactly a year after a missed call cost him a perfect game, there was no reunion between pitcher Armando Galarraga and umpire Jim Joyce.
There won't ever be one, in fact, on a big league field while they're both still active.
Major League Baseball put a rule into effect this season that Joyce cannot umpire any games in which Galarraga's team plays. The edict came after Galarraga and Joyce co-authored a book about that game in Detroit last June 2.
Joyce called Cleveland's Jason Donald safe at first base on what would've been the final out. After the Tigers won, Joyce apologized to Galarraga for getting it wrong.
Galarraga was traded from the Tigers to Arizona in the offseason. He was sent down to Triple-A last month.


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In a year of major milestones for Georgia State University, the Distinguished Alumni Award is celebrating a milestone of its own.
Media Contact
Andrea Jones
Associate Vice President for Public Relations and Marketing Communications
Associate Vice President for Public Relations and Marketing Communications
"The Distinguished Alumni Awards is celebrating its 50th year along with the university's Centennial celebration, so this year has special significance," says Christina Million, associate vice president for alumni affairs. "The four honorees are absolutely incredible, and they all truly exemplify Georgia State through their professional accomplishments, community involvement and love for their alma mater."
The Distinguished Alumni Award recipients for 2013 are:
- Ahmet Bozer (M.S., '83), executive vice president and president of Coca-Cola International, which manages the company's operations in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific islands. He is a founding member of the Coca-Cola Turkey Life Plus Foundation, a member of Coca-Cola's Public Policy and Corporate Reputation Council and a former board member of the Coca-Cola Foundation.
- Ronald Freeman Sr. (J.D., '85), founding partner of Union City, Ga., law firm Johnson & Freeman LLC. As an attorney, he has developed a lengthy track record in the field of business and construction litigation and dispute resolution in both the public and private sectors. He has also served as a judge in the Magistrate Court of Fulton County and the City of Riverdale Municipal Court.
- Lee Armstrong Lumpkin (B.A., '68), former vice president and general manager of Charlotte, N.C.-area ABC affiliates WSOC and WAXN. Lumpkin established the John William Armstrong Jr. Endowment for the Communications Department in honor of her father.
- Alicia Philipp (M.B.A., '82), president of the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta, a non-profit organization managing more than $740 million in assets. Alicia has served on numerous boards and committees, including the advisory committee of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, and received the 2010 John H. Allen Humanitarian Award from Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters.
The four were honored at the annual awards dinner Friday, Oct. 11 in the GSU Student Center Ballroom.


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Dragon Invades Seaside This Weekend
Viking Hiccup and his loyal dragon, Toothless, are back again on another adventure – and they're taking over Seaside Heights this weekend!
The Dreamworks team is in town, toting a 90-foot dragon-shaped kite that will soar over the Boardwalk all weekend to promote "How To Train Your Dragon 2."
This time, Hiccup and friends explore an ice cave that holds many new and wild dragons, including a mysterious Dragon Rider. The inseparable duo must protect future men and their dragons from the rising, power-hungry dragon, Drago.
Your kids probably won't want to miss the sequel when it reaches theaters. Right now in Seaside, they can get a taste of the adventures ahead.


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HYDE PARK, Monday—Both the Republican and Democratic conventions are now behind us and we will have a lull before the campaigning really begins.
I think the people of the United States can be congratulated, for they have two candidates from which to choose, each of whom represents the progressive wing of his party. I think we can also feel that this campaign will be conducted on a very high level. This is characteristic of the two principal candidates, General Eisenhower and Governor Stevenson.
We can really expect to hear issues discussed. We can make up our minds on the statements of the candidates so far as what the platforms mean to them and how they intend to carry them out.
I think it would be an admirable idea if we could have a series of debates such as Lincoln and Douglas had. With television and radio the two top candidates could reach every corner of this country, for in even the smallest village there is usually one radio where everyone can gather. This would mean we would have, perhaps, the most intelligent voting that has ever occurred in the U.S. because even in our early days only a few people could be reached in comparison to the number that can be reached today.
I am very pleased with the outcome of the Democratic convention and feel sure that Governor Stevenson will fill that office with distinction if he is elected in November, as I think he will be. His running mate, Senator Sparkman, also is a fine man.
I recognize that on the civil rights question, the Alabama Senator will not be able to advocate some of the measures which we, in the North, think should be accepted by both North and South. But I feel it is the forward-looking new generation of young Southerners who are going to bring about, more quickly than some of us think, real equality in education and in economic opportunity for all in the South.
Those are the most important steps to start with. In addition, however, full enjoyment of political rights must also be achieved, for it cannot be denied to any citizen of whatever race in a true democracy.
Equality before the law is equally important, but here again I think the South is moving rapidly toward bringing this equality about through the interest taken principally by its churchwomen. I have always objected to the attitude that reflected greater consideration being given in the South to a colored man in a court of law because he was not the equal of the white man. It always seemed to me that this was a denial of real justice and hurt the dignity of all concerned. One should be treated without condescension and with even-handed justice.
I can wholeheartedly wish the Democratic candidates success not only in their campaign, but during their administration, and may they have the guidance and protection which they have already asked from the Almighty.


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Princess Sofia
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|Princess Sofia
|Princess Sofia
|Other Names
|8-9 (season 1) 9-10 (season 2 & 3)
|Kingdom of Enchancia
|Ruby, Jade, Vivian, Lucinda, Clio, Hildegard, Jun, Zandar, Cedric (at times), Baileywick, Gnarly, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, Desmond, Prince Hugo (possible love interest), her clone (formerly), Princess Elena, Princess Isabel, Francisco, Luisa
|King Roland II (stepfather)
Queen Miranda (mother)
Princess Amber (stepsister)
Prince James (stepbrother) Aunt Matilda (step-aunt)
King Roland I (step-grandfather)
Grand Mum (step-grandmother)
|Prince Hugo (formerly), Miss Nettle, Boswell, Cedric (at times), Wormwood (at times), Baby Griffin (at times), her clone, Princess Ivy, Shuriki
|First Appeared
|Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess
|Voice Actor
|Ariel Winter (U.S.)
Keiko Yokozawa (Japanese)
Lưu Ái Phương (Vietnamese)
Princess Sofia is the protagonist of the series and a girl of humble origins who lives with her mother Miranda. She becomes royalty after her mother's remarriage to King Roland II. Being new to the entire princess legacy, she had hard times understanding other princesses, and act like one. As Sofia becomes a student at the Royal Prep Academy under the guidances of the Headmistresses: Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, she has been taught about what being a princess is all about.
Despite her cuteness and sweetness, Sofia is rather clumsy, but has a pure heart and though she was originally a mere commoner, she retains a very carefree personality, and was once seen to enjoy sliding down the rails of the staircase. Her behavior often puts her at wits with her stepsister Amber, who's apparently jealous of Sofia. Often times Hildegard is a little thrown off by her personality. A mermaid named Oona became good friends with Sofia because of her kindness. However, occasionally Sofia becomes discouraged or frustrated, and can't get things right the first time. This is when her friends, such as Clover, help encourage her to do her best.
It is revealed in "The Tale of the Noble Knight" that Sofia is ticklish, as when Willawing the Dragon stroked her chin with her claw, Sofia is shown to be laughing and even giggles "That tickles".
Physical Appearance
Sofia has fairly light skin, short, wavy auburn hair, and large, slightly almond-shaped sea blue eyes. Sofia's princess gown has a lilac color and come with a crystal, amethyst, and pearl-inlaid tiara. Around her neck she wears the royal family's amulet called the Amulet of Avalor, which allows her to talk to animals, shrink, and transform into a mermaid and back, but temporarily ruins her voice when she boasts of her singing. The Amulet of Avalor also summons princesses from the past, present, and future to help her in her darkest hours.
Queen Miranda
Queen Miranda is Sofia's lovely mother and also a warm and caring woman. She deeply loves her daughter Sofia, was happy to become a new mother for James and Amber, and she truly loves her husband, King Roland. Queen Miranda is encouraging and supportive of Sofia, always there to lift her spirits when she's feeling down or nervous concerning the expectations she has to meet as a princess. She gives her motherly advice concerning whatever Sofia is striving to accomplish and she's always proud of her. She also taught Sofia the importance of keeping one's promises. And she has a clue that Sofia can talk to animals (The Shy Princess) when she said that mothers know everything about their kids. Miranda teaches Sofia to embrace herself, but also to obey her.
King Roland II
King Roland II is Sofia's stepfather. He is regal, imposing yet kind and welcoming. He cares not for background but rather for character, seeing as he married Miranda (a cobbler) for true love, and he was happy that Sofia accepted him as her new father. He also has a sense of humor, when he suggested Sofia calls him "Roland" or "Hey! You with the crown!" He left "Dad" for last, as he didn't want Sofia to feel obligated to do so, and his "Welcome to the Family" present to her was the Amulet of Avalor so that it would shield and guide her as a princess. Roland can be commanding and authoritative. Often times his orders are given in an impassive manner, which makes Sofia get worried or angry and look like she's the mature one. Roland was overprotective of Sofia, but now has given her freedom.
Prince James
James is Sofia's stepbrother and unlike his sister Amber, James is not at all vain and is very helpful towards Sofia. He is rather easygoing for a prince, sometimes displaying behavior not normally seen in royalty. He has a normal brother-sister bond with Amber, teasing her that "she wasn't gonna be the fairest in the land" anymore once Sofia came along but out of good-natured humor. He also has a bad habit of disobeying rules and trying to cover up his messes so as not to get punished, though when he ruined a stained-glass window and Sofia took the blame for him, he felt guilty and told his parents the truth, showing he has a sense of honesty. James isn't the best in terms of courtesy, being a bad sport once, playing rough, and having bad table manners.
Princess Amber
Originally, Princess Amber is cold, spoiled and envious. When Sofia becomes a princess, Amber takes an immediate dislike to her. She acts mean to her and hates being called out on it. When the other children act friendly to Sofia, this makes Amber more jealous. Amber is also manipulative, able to trick James into humiliating Sofia. She likes looking prettier than other people, wearing the best dresses and tiaras. But after she rips her ball-gown and is too upset to attend Sofia's ball, and finds out Sofia made a mistake with a spell to be a better dancer that put everyone in the ballroom into an enchanted sleep, Amber apologizes to Sofia, who tells her she was happy to be getting a stepsister. Then, Amber corrects her, saying, "Sofia, we're sisters!" She reveals that she was scared that Sofia would be loved more than her, while Sofia herself automatically assumed the opposite due to inexperience and being unusual. She was also jealous, however, because to her, the Amulet of Avalor was simply a precious piece of her grandmother's jewelry-one that was going to someone that Amber had then deemed unfit for its wear(Sofia). It was later revealed that King Roland did pass his daughter on purpose because the stone flashed when Sofia arrived, forcing Roland to give Sofia the amulet since it had picked her as the new bearer. Amber later becomes a lot more open towards Sofia and the two have many more adventures. Amber was delighted to meet Jasmine and eventually learns lessons from Sofia, just as she teaches Sofia to be more mature and stick to her guns, though that lesson came about indirectly due to Amber's peer pressure. When Amber got turned into a butterfly after being jealous of her sister's skill as a seamstress, she learned how much Sofia cared for her when Sofia was willing to give up her amulet for her. However, the two still have completely different value systems. Amber does not understand the hardworking, thrifty life that Sofia has brought with her, and thinks it will be harmful, though in fact Sofia's lifestyle has proved to be a key for success, unlike Amber's luxurious lifestyle, which frequently creates disaster. Sofia does not understand the need for glamour due to her simple outlook, but tries to act like Amber, tripping herself up in the process. Thanks to her facing consequences for selfishness in the form of Princess Ivy, Amber has begun appreciating Sofia, and has become a better friend overall. After she saved James, Jin, Roland, and Quon, Amber became more open to taking risks.
Princess Vivian
Princess Vivian is a shy girl who has trouble talking to other people, and as a result had no friends. There were also many false stories made up about her, that she was never able to say weren't true because she wasn't brave enough to say so. But after being partnered with Sofia for a project for art class, the two of them eventually became friends and Sofia helped Vivian become more confident, and overcome her fear of being around and talking to others.
Ruby is one of Sofia's best friends from before she became a princess, along with Jade. Despite this major change, they all remain close friends. Ruby is slightly kinder than Jade, and is the daughter of Helen Hanshaw, the leader of Sofia's Buttercup Troop. Sofia and Ruby are best friends
Jade is one of Sofia's friends from before she became a princess, along with Ruby. Despite this major change, they remain close friends. Jade and Ruby both have crushes on James. Jade is also very stubborn, sometimes even unforgiving. She is also farsighted.
Clover is the best friend of Sofia and he helps make her living in the kingdom much easier. He encourages Sofia as she tries to be a good princess. While he looks cute, he hates to cuddle, but he does love snacks. The two have been challenged in terms of friendship, but have beaten the odds so far due to each being malleable.
Oona is Sofia's mermaid friend, whom she helped when Sofia her fin was caught in a net. For this act, Sofia was awarded the power to turn into a mermaid, which helped her save Oona from Cedric. Oona, like Sofia, is the bearer of an enchanted object enticing to Cedric. For her, it is the Mermaid Comb, a comb that can control the ocean. Oona also has similar domestic trouble to Sofia of not being listened to or taken seriously because of her youth and size in the form of a stern mother and older sister who combat with her curiosity around humans.
Prince Hugo
When Sofia and Prince Hugo first met in Just One of the Princes, they got off to a bad start because Sofia wanted to try out for the flying derby team, and Hugo was furious especially when he and everybody else told her that it's only for princes. He always took the opportunity to make fun of her and James, and he even knocked her off her horse at the tryout race. InThe Flying Crown, Sofia and Hugo were paired to ride in a prestigious flying derby race for Royal Prep, and despite Hugo being stubborn, Sofia was dedicated to work with him and to help him. During the race, they both worked together very well. After they won the race, Hugo happily showed that he's now friends with Sofia, which restored his bond with Amber, a bond that broke due to his cruelty towards Sofia. Sofia blushed when Hugo admitted that he's accepting her as a friend, showing that she has gained a crush on him now that he's much kinder to her. The pair seem to have a lot in common: they both have older brothers and are great flying derby riders, and their families worry about them whenever something bad is going on. It's also implied that Sofia and Hugo have crushes on each other.


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It could also dramatically lighten the load for people who can't connect to a power grid, including soldiers who now must carry many pounds of batteries for a three-day mission -- all at a reasonable price.
The researchers say that in the long term, mass-production could bring the per-unit cost of power from microengines close to that for power from today's large gas-turbine power plants.
Making things tiny is all the rage. The field -- called microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS -- grew out of the computer industry's stunning success in developing and using micro technologies. "Forty years ago, a computer filled up a whole building," said Professor Alan Epstein of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. "Now we all have microcomputers on our desks and inside our thermostats and our watches."
While others are making miniature devices ranging from biological sensors to chemical processors, Epstein and a team of 20 faculty, staff and students are looking to make power -- personal power. "Big gas-turbine engines can power a city, but a little one could 'power' a person," said Epstein, whose colleagues are spread among MIT's Gas Turbine Laboratory, Microsystems Technology Laboratories, and Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems.
How can one make a tiny fuel-burning engine? An engine needs a compressor, a combustion chamber, a spinning turbine and so on. Making millimeter-scale versions of those components from welded and riveted pieces of metal isn't feasible. So, like computer-chip makers, the MIT researchers turned to etched silicon wafers.
Their microengine is made of six silicon wafers, piled up like pancakes and bonded together. Each wafer is a single crystal with its atoms perfectly aligned, so it is extremely strong. To achieve the necessary components, the wafers are individually prepared using an advanced etching process to eat away selected material. When the wafers are piled up, the surfaces and the spaces in between produce the needed features and functions.
Making microengines one at a time would be prohibitively expensive, so the researchers again followed the lead of computer-chip makers. They make 60 to 100 components on a large wafer that they then (very carefully) cut apart into single units.
The MIT team has now used this process to make all the components needed for their engine, and each part works. Inside a tiny combustion chamber, fuel and air quickly mix and burn at the melting point of steel. Turbine blades, made of low-defect, high-strength microfabricated materials, spin at 20,000 revolutions per second -- 100 times faster than those in jet engines. A mini-generator produces 10 watts of power. A little compressor raises the pressure of air in preparation for combustion. And cooling (always a challenge in hot microdevices) appears manageable by sending the compression air around the outside of the combustor.
"So all the parts work…. We're now trying to get them all to work on the same day on the same lab bench," Epstein said. Ultimately, of course, hot gases from the combustion chamber need to turn the turbine blades, which must then power the generator, and so on. "That turns out to be a hard thing to do," he said. Their goal is to have it done by the end of this year.
Predicting how quickly they can move ahead is itself a bit of a challenge. If the bonding process is done well, each microengine is a monolithic piece of silicon, atomically perfect and inseparable. As a result, even a tiny mistake in a single component will necessitate starting from scratch. And if one component needs changing -- say, the compressor should be a micron smaller -- the microfabrication team will have to rethink the entire design process.
For all the difficulties, Epstein said the project is "an astonishing amount of fun" -- and MIT is the ideal place for it. "Within 300 feet of my office, I could find the world's experts on each of the technologies needed to make the complete system," he said.
In addition, the project provides an excellent opportunity for teaching. "No matter what your specialty is -- combustion or bearings or microfabrication -- it's equally hard," he said. "As an educational tool, it's enormously useful because the students realize that their success is dependent upon other people's success. They can't make their part easier by making somebody else's part harder, because then as a team we don't succeed."
This research was funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.
Other Headlines from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... - Toward faster transistors - New sensor developed by MIT chemical engineers can detect tiny traces of explosives - Catching cancer with carbon nanotubes - Seeing below the surface - Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research dedicated at MIT
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They've giggled at bare bottoms, swung cricket bats, raced yachts and met the young, the old, the infirm and the high-powered.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge leave New Zealand on Wednesday after nine days of carefully balanced duties, from competitive sports to charitable visits. When they arrive in Sydney that afternoon, a finely tuned Australian schedule kicks in that will take the royals, on their first official tour as a family, from our national monuments to a skate park, to the red centre and back.
Sydney will host four days of royal duties. They include visits to the Sydney Opera House, fire-affected communities in the Blue Mountains, the Royal Easter Show, a children's hospice, a life-saving display on Manly beach, an Easter Sunday church service and a trip to Taronga Zoo.
The schedule does not make way for a tiara and gown moment, nor does it include any more play dates for Prince George.
Narelle Martin is the nursing unit manager at Bear Cottage Hospice, which will host the couple on Friday.
''It's absolutely incredible,'' she said. ''This is a pinnacle for us and anyone who's had anything to do with Bear Cottage.''
She hopes the visit will be relaxed, and that William will be able to spend time with the nine children and seven families he will be meeting as patron of Britain's Child Bereavement Trust.
Royal Easter Show councillor Alison Renwick says organisers are ''thrilled'' the couple will continue the royal family tradition of visiting the show.
But while royal visits were once a bonanza for schoolchildren - three out of four New Zealand children were said to have seen the Queen when she visited in 1953 - thanks to a media contingent numbering more than 200, children from St Andrew's Cathedral School junior school will no longer have a secure viewing area from which to see the special visitors at the Easter Sunday service.
Security is tight across all events, says a NSW Police spokeswoman, who confirms a police operation is in place with the Protection Operations Unit.
''We're expecting bigger crowd numbers than other royal tours,'' she said. ''Every detail has been planned. This is a little bit out of the ordinary because of who they are.''
The family - and attached media circus - will head to Brisbane on Saturday, and be back in Sydney in time for church on Sunday. They fly to Uluru on Tuesday, followed by a day in Adelaide and a final two days in Canberra for Anzac Day commemorations.
And, to keep the sodden weather theme running from across the ditch, rain is predicted in Sydney on Wednesday.


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MoRuf Releases 'Homie.Lover.Friend' Feat. Jesse Boykins III
Up-and-coming rhymer MoRuf (aka "Moo") has been making some noise with his guest appearances on songs by indie artists Jesse Boykins III, Chris Turner, Black Spade, among others. The New Jersey-born rapper of Nigerian descent makes his solo debut with his new single, 'Homie.Lover.Friend.'


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The Roundhouse Wedding Venue – The Roundhouse has a rich and fascinating history. For this reason, we see the Roundhouse as an opportunity that extends far beyond the individual people bringing it to life.
Since its establishment in 1756, the heritage of The Roundhouse has been a large part of South African history, and our overriding objective is to revive the culture and legacy embodied in this building.
There are four major areas of focus at The Roundhouse; exceptional service, the finest rare wines and spirits, uncomplicated contemporary French cuisine inspired by the seasons, and lastly, the history and nostalgia of the grand old Cape.
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Once in a lifetime occasion deserves a once in a lifetime location. This spectacular setting steeped in South African history boasts breathtaking views overlooking the Twelve Apostles and Camps Bay.
On such special days there is a need for careful and considered choices that can come together to create a lasting and memorable occasion, your wedding.
With personal consultations from our executive chef and sommelier, The Roundhouse can create your perfect menu with wine pairing. This, along with efficient and discrete service, will ensure a relaxed and worry free gathering for you and your closest.
Whether it is an intimate affair in The Roundhouse itself for fifty guests or a lavish marquee party underneath the stars on The Rumbullion lawns for two hundred guests, we can accommodate your every need on your momentous day.
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Obama's "Noble Lies"by Will Grigg
Nov. 11, 2013
British Taxpayers Financed Manchester Terror Attack: Police
Fake Black Guy Shaun King Attacks Sheriff Clarke For 'Dressing Like He's In The Military'
NY Times Reporter Takes Local Reporter's Photo Of Gianforte Citation & Passes It Off As His Own
Body-Slammed Reporter Ben Jacobs Fantasized About Punching 16-Year-Old Conservative
Poll: 59% Of Democrats Believe Russia Changed Vote Tallies To Elect Trump
President Obama's repeated assurances that Americans would be able to retain their current health care plans under the ObamaCare program were conscious, deliberate lies. NBC News, tardily performing the kind of journalistic due diligence that should have been done years ago, reports that administration officials were aware that two-thirds – or more – of those currently insured would have their plans cancelled, and most of them will face huge price increases in health coverage under the government-administered system.
Syndicated columnist Clarence Page, a tireless defender of ObamaCare, has conceded that the president has repeatedly lied, while minimizing the importance of a deception that will have immense consequences for millions of Americans. Mr. Obama, according to Page, lied about his program "repeatedly in a campaign that he won" – which means, apparently, that his deliberate dishonesty was ratified by the voters and sanctified by political victory.
This is exactly the same excuse used by George W. Bush and his defenders regarding the deliberate lies used to manipulate the public into the Iraq War. From their perspective, Bush's re-election in 2004 was an "accountability moment" that transmuted his documented lies into settled policy.
In a democracy, the people are held accountable for the lies their rulers tell them – while those exalted liars claim to be exempt.


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Latvia upsets Switzerland 3-1 in men's Olympic hockey; will next face Canada
Latvia forward Lauris Darzinsm, centre, celebrates with teammates after Latvia beat Switzerland 3-1 to advance to the quarterfinals of the men's ice hockey tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP / Julio Cortez)
Greg Beacham, The Associated Press
Published Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:34PM EST
Last Updated Tuesday, February 18, 2014 7:55PM EST
SOCHI, Russia -- Oskars Bartulis and Lauris Darzins scored in the first period, and Latvia reached the Olympic men's hockey quarterfinals for the first time with a 3-1 victory over Switzerland on Tuesday night.
Edgars Masalskis made 32 saves and Darzins added an empty-net goal in the surprising Latvians' first Olympic victory since 2002, when they returned to the games after a 66-year absence.
Latvia went winless in preliminary-round play in Sochi, losing 1-0 to the Swiss in its opener.
Latvia and its Canadian coach, Buffalo's Ted Nolan, advanced to face defending champion Canada in the quarterfinals on Wednesday night.
Martin Pluss scored and Jonas Hiller stopped 19 shots for the Swiss, who are out despite allowing just four goals in four games. Switzerland managed just three Olympic goals of its own.
Hiller hadn't allowed a goal in Sochi, posting two shutouts in the preliminary round, until Bartulis beat the Anaheim Ducks goalie through a screen 8:38 in.
Masalskis, the Latvians' four-time Olympian, was a 21-year-old backup goalie when Latvia got its previous Olympic victory over Austria in Salt Lake City. He was the difference against the Swiss, repeatedly shutting down their scoring chances in spectacular fashion.
Latvia has only one NHL player, Buffalo forward Zemgus Girgensons, along with 41-year-old defenceman Sandis Ozolinsh as its captain. But its team effort shut down a Swiss lineup with nine NHL players.
The result is a bitter disappointment for the Swiss, who won twice in the preliminary round while allowing just one goal in three games. They allowed that many again in a 2:41 span of the first period against Latvia.
Switzerland beat Latvia in both teams' Olympic debuts last week on a last-minute deflection goal by Simon Moser after both teams played cautiously throughout. Latvia demonstrated the rematch would be different just 8:38 in when Bartulis wired a long shot just inside the far post of Hiller, who was completely screened by two players in front.
Darzins then scored on a sharp-angled shot on the power play, and Switzerland faced its first two-goal deficit of the tournament.
Switzerland opened up its attack in the second period, but Masalskis was both solid and spectacular on a glove save against Andres Ambuhl. Hiller was equally sharp for Switzerland, turning away a handful of point-blank chances.
The Swiss finally connected for their third goal of the Olympics late in the second period, with Pluss converting a one-timer from Reto Suri.
Players on both teams' benches stood to watch much of the third period. Suri had an unobstructed chance with 2:12 left, but put it straight into Masalskis' midsection.


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Lawmakers consider extending school speed zones
Right now, you only have to slow down in school zones on certain days, during special hours. This would broaden it to any time a child is near a school.
Tammy Banspach patrols these crosswalks daily. She sees firsthand just how dangerous the combination of kids and cars can be.
"A lot of people do not pay attention to the stop signs. They'll coast through. I've seen a little old lady drive right through it at the same speed. Didn't even notice the stop sign or anything else."
She says all of that happens right in front of her, during school days when drivers are supposed to be on high alert for kids.
"I hate to be brutally honest, but most people aren't paying attention to what they're doing."
In 2011, there were 54 school zone crashes around the state. Published reports show even more happen in school zones when class isn't in session like on weekends or during after school events. They're times when kids are around, but drivers don't have to slow down.
"It's very easy to hit the kids. I think they need a new system."
Some lawmakers agree. A new proposal means you'd have to slow down every time you see a child near a school. It's an idea parents support.
"It would make you stop and think about slowing down for children and pedestrians, period."
But, they say they have a hard time believing it will make the roads any safer for their kids.
"Not unless you have law enforcement or someone standing there. People aren't paying attention. They're answering their cellphones, they're messing with their texts. They're doing everything other than paying attention to the roads."
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According to September 4 announcements by Apple, the Mac giant will be holding a special iPhone 5 event in San Francisco tomorrow.
Rumor mills has not stopped rolling tough the event is almost here. The new iPhone is expected to be thinner with a larger screen. As revealed by the leaked images of the cases, it will come with a 19-pin connector port at the bottom instead of the proprietary 30-pin port "to make room for the earphone moving to the bottom", said a Reuters report last month.
Plans for the show have yet not leaked but according to some latest media reports the launch may shift to 21st September.
Here is an attempt to figure out what all one can expect tomorrow from Apple.
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A total of 850 staff employed in these sectors now face an uncertain future although Boots said it would "re-deploy as many people as possible".
It will cost £55m to exit the services, but Boots will be keeping its opticians.
The firm has recently been targeted by supermarket chains hoping to take away traditional Boots custom.
Following the announcement shares in Boots Group were up slightly, just over 1%, in London trade.
Patient pledges
The services being shut down were set up in 1999 and 2000, and Boots said that the closures would improve future profits.
Boots Opticians will now be managed as
part of Boots The Chemists.
The axed businesses take up 15,000 square metres in Boots' stores, and it hopes to convert most of the space to retail trading by 2006.
Boots said it would have a better idea in October, when interim results were released, about how many jobs may be lost.
There are 54 Boots dental practices, and the majority will be closed by the end of 2004, although the company pledged to fulfil commitments to existing patients during that time.
Similarly, it is expected to close the nine laser eye surgeries by the end of the year, with those already undergoing treatment having it continued.
No date has been fixed for the closure of the 52 chiropody and 14 laser hair businesses, but "alternative arrangements" will be made for patients.
Supermarket squeeze
In the last financial year, the dentistry, chiropody and laser hair removal businesses made losses of £16.3m, with a deficit of £3.8m for laser eye correction work.
"Despite improvements in productivity there is no prospect of the businesses making acceptable returns for the group going forward," the company said in a
statement explaining its closure move.
In July, Boots said first-quarter sales at its chemist stores - which account for about 85% of Boots' profits - grew 5.4%, or 4.4% on a like-for-like basis.
At the same time it announced price cuts and extended opening hours to counter competition from supermarkets over toiletries and pharmaceutical products.
Back in January the firm said it would be axing 900 jobs at its head office in Nottingham in an attempt to cut costs, as part of a programme called Getting Into Shape.
It aims to make £100m worth of savings by early 2007 through the programme.


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STOPAIDS condemn pharmagate plot
Merck walking all over South Africans for profit
STOPAIDS today urged the multinational pharma company to drop their opposition to South Africa's plans to improve access to affordable medicines.
A strategy document, leaked last month, revealed Merck as the ringleaders of a secret big-money plot to derail a South African government plan to overhaul the nation's patent laws. The plot – largely financed with big pharma cash from the US – detailed a sophisticated series of actions designed to resemble a political campaign aimed at stopping the reforms from going through. It was described by SA Health Minister Aaron Motsloaledi as "genocide".
Drug companies have described the battle to block the reforms as "ground zero" in their global battle to tighten intellectual property law. Across the developing world tighter IP laws have led to higher prices and worsening health outcomes, whereas the pro-health reforms opposed by big pharma have reduced prices and increased access in places like India, Thailand and South America.
The current laws massively prioritise patents and profits over health and prevent millions of people in South African from accessing affordable treatment. Antibiotic Linezolid, for example, is priced at £37 per pill in South Africa, but is available for just £1.37 in India. Diarmaid McDonald from STOPAIDS said,
"Merck and over a dozen other big pharma companies tried to hijack the democratic process in South Africa by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a myth-pedalling campaign to protect their profits at the cost of the lives of people who need access to affordable medicines.
"We demand that they drop this attack on South African's right to health. We call on the South African government to press ahead with these lifesaving reforms. Merck and big pharma must stop trying to walk all over South Africans in order to turn a profit.
"We also call on the UK government to defend South Africa's right to reform their laws for the benefit of their people. This is a perfectly legal move, well within rules agreed by the WHO and WTO, designed to increase access to medicines. With DFID pulling out of South Africa it is even more important the UK defends South Africa when it tries to make these pro-health reforms."
South Africa does not currently review patent applications, leading to more patents being granted there than in either the US or EU. In 2008 alone, 2442 pharmaceutical patents were granted – almost ten times the number granted by Brazil over five years. Many companies make small changes to their drugs and file new patents in order to maintain their South African monopoly in a practice known as 'ever-greening'. By reforming the law South Africa can increase access to affordable medicines in the country where over 5 million people are living with HIV and costs of 2nd and 3rd line treatments which are increasingly needed are still prohibitively high.
The 'Fix the Patent Laws' campaign in South Africa is run by MSF and the Treatment Action Campaign and states: South Africa's current patent laws put the rights of patent-holders before the rights of patients. The law includes all the worst parts from the international TRIPS agreement on trade and intellectual property, but does not include the parts that we can use to make medicines more affordable. The campaign aims to secure reforms so South Africa fully utilises legal flexibilities in the agreement to improve access to medicines there.
Contact: Diarmaid McDonald 07894455781


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Like a duck to water, after an instructional hour, guests are free to roam the Kennet and Avon Canal aboard their own narrowboat. The hire can be used for four nights, Monday to Friday, or a three-night weekend adventure, Friday to Monday (usually between £528 and £978). The boats can be picked up at 2.30pm, and returned by 9.30am, and can sleep up to ten people. A kitchen unit aboard can be equipped for self-catering ease, and plenty of pubs can be pointed out en route for canalside jollies.
Choose from the following options for narrowboat hire for up to four nights:
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Sally Narrowboats makes a splash on the canal boat rental market with a fleet of 13 boats. The company is moored in Bradford-on-Avon's Marina and steers water-bound holiday makers in the directions of Bristol or Reading along the Kennet and Avon Canal. All boats feature radio and colour TV along with full-sized cookers and hot showers.
Though Sally Narrowboars has yet to be widely reviewed, it has over 530 Likes on Facebook.
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I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "wow, Pam, didn't you show us this salad last summer, and maybe even the summer before that?" Please people, life can't be all about the bright shiny new and untried! Just stop and think for a moment about the daily repetition. The day-in-day-out drudge. Think how many times you have loaded your dishwasher, think how many times you have mowed the lawn. Kind of makes my once a year Caprese salad look pretty good now, doesn't it?!?!
There are as many versions of Caprese salad as there are grains of sand. Actually, I have no idea if that is true, but I was feeling all zen like after my yoga practice and tend to use phrases like "grains of sand" when I'm in the zen zone.
So, anyway, my Caprese salad is just fresh from the garden tomatoes (a must), fresh mozzarella cheese, basil, olive oil, salt and pepper. That's it. I slice the tomatoes, layer them all fancy with the cheese and the basil. Drizzle with a good quality extra virgin olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
This will be my entry for Foodie Friday at Designs by Gollum!
And I'm submitting it for Souper Sundays (Soup, Salad, or Sammie) hosted by Deb at Kahakai Kitchen.


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The past 12 months have been interesting, to say the least. To help us break down everything that happened in 2011 (and look forward to 2012), we're bringing in an expert.
Laquon Treadwell, a junior receiver at Crete-Monee, is one of the best football players in the state. He caught 75 passes for 1,391 yards and 18 touchdowns this season. We asked him about the best of 2011, and he gave us the answers.
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Best High School Team
Treadwell: Simeon basketball because they've won state so many times in a row. They've got some of the best players in the nation on their team in Jabari Parker and Kendrick Nunn.
Best High School Athlete
Treadwell: I think it was me! I did a lot for my team. But if not me, then I have to go with Jordan Westerkamp or Ty Isaac, one of those two.
Your Best Moment of 2011 (On the field)
Treadwell: Probably going undefeated in the regular season.
Your Best Moment of 2011 (Off the field)
Treadwell: Getting offers from four universities.
Most Memorable Game
Treadwell: The basketball game between Bloom and Homewood-Flossmoor around Thanksgiving. It went into two overtimes and it was just crazy.
Pro Athlete of the Year
Treadwell: Derrick Rose, because I think he's the best athlete in the NBA and he's from Chicago. He went to Simeon. And he's just a playmaker and fun to watch.
Best Pro Championship Team
Treadwell: The Packers, because they have a great offense. I like their offense. It's kind of like the Crete offense, with everything spread. They have great passing and great receivers just like us.
Your New Year's Resolution (On the field)
Treadwell: Getting bigger, faster and stronger. Just getting better all-around in both sports, football and basketball.
Your New Year's Resolution (Off the field)
Treadwell: Improve academically and do well on my ACT.
The one story you want to leave in 2011
Treadwell: How LeBron isn't as good as Kobe or how the Heat will never win.
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text: SO today I begin my commute get to a stoplight and look down at my gauge cluster and notice the check engine light on obviously not a good way to start the day. The engine and tranny felt and sounded fine (although the CR-V engine does not make the prettiest noise I have heard, its more like a diesel burning cement mixture) there wasn't a change in 60 mph RPM so I took it to auto zone for a free check the thing comes up with a P1457 and says the possible causes are either a Loose fuel cap, Vapor canister saturated, failed vent solenoid, and failed purge solenoid. I tightened the fuel cap restarted the vehicle multiple times and the light stayed on so I figure it has to be the other things on the list first off what repair costs am I looking at and should I get the problem diagnosed or first replace the solenoids, I figure the solenoids cant be a ton to replace what am I looking at in repair costs. I see this is a common issue the guy gave me a receipt with the codes which had every car he scanned that day most of them had an EVAP problem. Also how much am I looking at to repair a Saturated Vapor canister. Finally will this cause the car to fail inspection, hurt the vehicle's performance and MPG or cause damage or just does it mean I am polluting a little more. Thanks I know its kind of unorganized but I am a little tiffed about this just glad it's not the throttle body gotta think positive


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While letter-of-intent signing day was pretty much focused on football at the national level, Menlo-Atherton had its share of athletes announcing their college commitments on Wednesday.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 2:47 PM
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Please add the photo credit that you cropped out: Luis Martinez, a digital photography student at M-A. Being published as a photographer is like playing time for athletes. Thank you.
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Crines, Andrew (2012) The London Mayoral election will be won by the most effective orator – and this currently favours Boris Johnson. British Politics and Policy at LSE (26 Apr 2012) Blog Entry.
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Electoral success depends on the delivery of political messages and analysing the comparative oratorical skills of Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson provides an insight into who will emerge as the victor in the upcoming mayoral election. Andrew Crines argues that Boris has the edge, but Ken still has cards to play.
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