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Company Azermarka LLC of the Ministry of Communications and High Technologies has issued a new postage stamp.
The new postage stamp is dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Jamshid Nakhchivanski, one of the prominent military figures of Azerbaijan.
The postage stamp depicts the image of Jamshid Nakhchivanski.
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We would remind you that on April 2 this year Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order on holding the 120th anniversary of Jamshid Nakhchivanski.

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It's amazing what you can stumble upon at garage sales and the like. This programme cost me a whopping $0.20, incredible when you consider that I've dated it to circa 1907. That might not be a massive date, all things considered, but for a disposable paper item such as this, printed on not the best paper stock around, it's very impressive indeed.
The programme details a full night's entertainment, ranging from what I believe was the debut of Marshall Crosby, through to a motion picture, with the entire evening being hosted by Leslie Harris. I've managed to tie the date down to August, 17, 1907, by virtue of this entry in Marshall's bio. "Although he had sung at school and won at an eisteddfod, Crosby had no thoughts of a theatrical career until he auditioned as a baritone and joined Leslie Harris's company as 'Marshall' Crosby. He appeared at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide, in August 1907 before touring with Henry Clay and Harry Rickards in vaudeville." A bit of research and the date is revealed. I am impressed with the quality of the programme, it's in excellent condition, no tears, no writing and just a slight bit of general wear. Indeed I've seen programmes from the 1990s that have suffered more than this one. It's been well looked after, and it'll remain as part of my own collection of theatre and movie memorabilia for the time being. But here's some lovely, high res scans for all to enjoy. Now, the question is, does anyone know anything about the movie shown, Living Paris? I can't find a reference to it anywhere. And who was Sudholz? I love a mystery or three.
The Theatre Royal, located on Hindley Street, according to the Morlock Library here in Adelaide, was built on 1878 and eventually demolished in 1962 when it was replaced by a car park. Such is the price of progress. History was lost that day. For those who keep score, many, many famous people and outright legends performed there, including Mark Twain, who did his bit there in October, 1895. Legend also has it that the first motion picture shown in Adelaide was at the Royal, back in 1898. Now, it's just memories and photographs. We really don't value our heritage here in Australia, well, nowhere near as well as we should.
The poster, from the year before, comes courtesy of the State Library Of Tasmania.


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Years ago, when I got my first allotment, friends and acquaintances used to vie and jostle for invitations to dinner, or a barbeque, especially during the summer or autumn. I am a good cook, it's true — keen and solid rather than flamboyant — but that was not the attraction. It was the veg that would invariably accompany the meal. That's what they wanted, and who wouldn't? 'I've never had a carrot that tasted so much like …a carrot,' one friend exclaimed; 'I'd pay good money for this meal in any restaurant,' said another.
Back then, my obsession with growing-to-eat was considered quirky, eccentric, even old-fashioned. But that didn't stop them wanting dinner, and the fruits of glut and overplanting to take home too, thank you very much.
These days, of course, it's the height of fashion. For the first, and perhaps only time in my life, I feel ultra-trendy, in the moment, with the zeitgeist. Homegrown vegetables must be today's ultimate in luxury goods. Even better, I think, than organic boxes; with homegrown you grow and eat exactly what you want, not whatever they give you, and its provenance and organic authenticity is guaranteed.
Now that I have a full-time, and quite stressful, job, I have had to abandon my allotment (with a little encouragement from the council). It is a universal truth that no person can manage an allotment single-handedly unless they are a) unemployed, b) retired, c) obsessed and without a life, d) a television presenter (gardening obviously) or, like a Polish bloke I once knew who had three plots on one site, e) a farmer. So now I have to rely on my kitchen garden and, as Sarah Raven wrote in last week's garden supplement, you have to be very careful, and a tad ruthless, with what you plant.
So onions have had to go and potatoes (almost) too. Being stubborn and set in my ways, I couldn't resist two rows of second earlies — mostly because of the sheer joy of digging buried treasure. In goes your fork, then a momentary frisson of fear (did I fork one?) and anticipation (how many? big or small? perfect or …not?) and then the scrabbling around in the rich dark earth for every last gift of the gods. Bliss.
I love shallots. As the first thing you plant in a gardening year, they hold a special place in every gardener's heart — the beginning. (Garlic doesn't count as you can plant it virtually all year round.) Shallots provide an excellent yield even in a relatively small space; they're versatile and taste great and, most importantly of all, they make the best pickled onions, bar none — a great ritual in my house come the harvest at midsummer. The only trouble being that you have to peel the bloody things, having once separated the bulbs and set the babies aside for cooking with.
This is an arduous process, so I usually pick Open Championship weekend so that I can justify spending two invariably glorious summer days glued to the television. Otherwise I invite close friends to a garden party of wine and nibbles and guilt-trip them into peeling in exchange for two jars of the end product. Careful peeling must be strictly enforced — you mustn't disturb the nodule (or stem) at the bottom of the bulb. Once peeled, wash the shallots and place in a plastic colander, salt generously with free-running salt and leave for two days (48 hours), salting further at intervals of 12 hours. After two days, place the shallots in salted water and soak for 24 to 48 hours, then wash and bottle in the normal way. (Try not to touch the onions with your hands, and never use metal utensils — only wooden.) In my jars I put peppercorns, dill seed, coriander seed, a chilli, a bay leaf and a sprig of rosemary; also a healthy pinch of sugar, salt and a vinegar/water ratio of two to one. The crunch is the critical factor — nothing less will do.
Runner beans are another vegetable I eschew. I simply don't like them, and their indecent cropping is simply a wind-up. No, I grow broad beans (yum!), dwarf French beans and, in another defiance of the space-to-yield ratio, peas. Well, who in their right mind can resist fresh peas? — mine are lucky to make it the ten yards from garden to kitchen! Peas cooked in butter with lettuce and a touch of cream — divine.
Broad beans can be used in almost any vegetarian meal, and are always a delight. For accompaniment, I blanch them (about two minutes depending on how young they are) and sauté them with shallots and fresh mint. When they get a bit long in the tooth I boil them thoroughly and make humous — olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, salt and pepper — a real revelation. And the great thing about broad beans is that their early harvest time leaves the space available for courgettes and butternut squash.
Deborah Ross once asked in these pages, what is the point of cucumber? Well, homegrown makes all the difference, and where is a tzatziki without cucumber? — peeled and deseeded with yogurt, garlic, mint (optional), garnished with chilli powder. I also make a hearty summer salad of cucumber (deseeded and chunkily chopped), al dente French beans (chopped to one inch), grated carrot and lots of finely chopped raw garlic. Prosciutto or even bacon are optional, if so, I reduce the garlic content. But to really impress your guests (especially those on a diet!), finely slice your cucumber and place it in a single layer on the largest plate you can spare, squeeze on the juice of one lemon, then cover the lot with freshly ground black pepper and sea salt. So simple, and it takes your breath away.
When the tomatoes come, it's time for homegrown salsa. I use yellow and red tomatoes, roughly chopped, garlic, onion, chilli (a cinch to grow), green pepper (I can't manage to grow them actually, but this year I've bought a cold frame to try to crack it), salt, pepper, sugar, a dash of tomato paste dissolved in water, and coriander (something else that defeats me…). Delicious with those potatoes big enough to bake — always wash and salt the entire skin surface before baking and serve with tzatziki too — as a dip or with any Mexican dish.
I grow only two courgette plants, and it's always more than enough as they're such heavy croppers. You can't avoid the later fruits turning into marrows, especially if you go on holiday, but fear not — here's a recipe for stuffed marrow that you, your family and guests will eat every morsel of. Cut the marrows lengthwise and scoop out the seeds and stringy bits. Oil the marrow halves inside and out with olive oil and place in a baking tray in the oven on medium heat while you prepare the stuffing. Cook onion, garlic, diced carrots and add any other veg you have to hand — peas, broad bean, French beans, broccoli (all blanched first), spinach, anything you like. Prepare one cup of bulgar wheat (not couscous) with dried herbs, salt and pepper, mix this into the veg, add chopped tomatoes (a tin is acceptable) and season with fresh herbs from your garden. Prepare a cheese sauce with fresh parsley. Spoon the veg mixture into the half-cooked marrow shells, cover with cheese sauce and bake until golden brown — 45 minutes to an hour. You can't beat it.
Anyway, must go, must sow — and get into the kitchen.


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I always love it when the operating system I run finds new ways to absolutely delight me.
Yesterday, due to a stupid pilot error, I accidentally deleted all the music and pictures from my machine at work (8G of pictures and 30G of music). This wasn't actually the end of the world, since all the data's backed up at home (thrice, see yesterday's post about single points of failure). But my data's gone from my machine at work, which means I didn't get to annoy my neighbors by playing Avenue Q at full volume.
Well, I was poking around, trying to figure out what had gone wrong with my machine, and I noticed the "Restore Previous Versions" tab when I navigated to the users\larryo directory.
Just for grins, I clicked on it and guess what showed up? Yup, the previous version of my music and photos directory!
Wow, that's cool – so I selected the appropriate version of the folder and selected "Restore", it asked me if I wanted to restore the pictures, and like Magic, the system restored my files from my volume shadow store.
Of course, the magic that made all this work is the Volume Shadow Copy Service which has been in Windows since XP. In Vista, the VSS guys enabled it for most user data (by default only the system drive is managed). This Technet article has some information about how to enable it and demo it.
Ultimately, I don't care – my data's back and all is well and I didn't need to bring in one of my backup drives. And Vista's a bit more magic to me.
I love it when that happens.


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Falcon peers into the dark, trying to discern anything in the blackness. A voice echoes from the shadows and Falcon's head whips around, trying to pinpoint it. He can hear Rosemary and Alaric whimpering quietly, and the breathing of his companions, but nothing else. Then the light from the shadow-things swords catches his eye.
"What are you doing in our domain? Answer me!" snaps one of the shapes.
"We were merely passing through," replies Thunder, raising his hands in a gesture of surrender. "We mean you no harm!"
"Then why are you armed?" the shadow replies. "And who are these people with you?"
"They are friends," says Thunder. "My people are merely escorting them back to the surface. We did not mean to intrude, but the overland way is impassable."
The shadow snorts, and Thunder hisses at Falcon to sheath his sword. He does so reluctantly, still watching the shadows, trying to count their number. Then again, they move so fluidly and so fast it's hard to even see where one starts and one begins. Even by the light of their blades, they seem as liquid as the darkness they came from. The lead figure turns back to its companions and they begin to mutter amongst themselves. Goosebumps rise on the back of Falcon's neck and he sees Life and Helena step closer to Eternal. Something tells him this isn't going as well as Thunder had hoped...


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Beep... Beep... Beep.
Cold. Demanding. Unforgiving. It nestles in his breast pocket, like a silver bullet next to his heart, like a bomb with a timer that's forever ready to go off.
No, Solo tells himself. A bomb is more merciful. Even when you can't see the readout, you can at least hear it ticking down.
Not so with an U.N.C.L.E. communicator. It sits, silent and deadly. Ready to snap to sudden life when the average person would least expect it. But of course, Solo is not an average person. No U.N.C.L.E. agent is, and so he has leaned the hard way to expect the worst. Indeed, he spends every minute of every day, either awake or not, in expectation.
Some Innocents he's met over the years have commented that what separates him from them — from the casual flow of their own, mundane existence — is his gun. But he knows it isn't. Lots of folks own guns, but only U.N.C.L.E. field agents carry communicators.
"You're like a fireman," Mandy has teased him. But then, firemen don't stuff the siren in their breast pockets. "Mobile communications are the wave of the future," George has informed him sagely. "Someday, everyone will carry his own personal telephone." To which Solo can only respond, "God forbid."
To be fair, Solo knows that the communicator has saved his life countless times. Still, while he's come to terms with his U.N.C.L.E. Special, he has yet to call a truce with the communicator. It's an invisible, electronic lifeline that tethers him, anchors him, even as it slowly strangles him. So, he likes to play with it, juggle it like a toy, as if to deny its importance, its significance, in his life. He needs it, surely, and yet, even in dire circumstances, he's experienced a certain perverse pleasure watching the enemy grind it under foot.
For, when the syncopated chirp sounds, it's nearly always unwelcome news. More than unwelcome. Bad. More than bad. It usually means that the world is, once more, teetering on the brink of destruction — the end of life as we know it — and he's been chosen to throw himself in harm's way and sideswipe the apocalypse.
So, one doesn't order pizza over an U.N.C.L.E. communicator. Or exchange pleasantries or small talk, or gab about trivialities like the weather. Or talk dirty or impolitely or unprofessionally because even on a secure channel, Section IV is listening, and perhaps others, even less friendly and forgiving, are, too.
No gossip, then, no purposeless, idle chitchat —that's the rule. And Solo breaks it often, out of defiance and repressed resentment of the power that this single, slim, silver pen has over his life. Screw it, he thinks, determined to humanize an inhuman channel with a few precious snippets of conversation, let them listen.
Tonight, that channel is on standby, and even though it's silent, Solo imagines that it's alive, humming at a pitch too high to hear, like a dog whistle. He's "on call," which makes him laugh. The words have no meaning. Sick. Drunk. Sleeping. In bed. In the bathroom. On the toilet. On vacation. Unconscious. He's always on call. If it were up to Alexander Waverly, Solo observes to himself ruefully, he'd be on call even if he were dead, that infernal beep...beep...beeping echoing into all eternity. (And then, of course, follows the predictable joke: If a communicator goes off and no agent hears it, does it make a sound?) So, before a field agent is buried, his fellow agents ritually disable his communicator — to make doubly damn sure that he will finally rest in peace.
Because the truth is, Solo, like every other field agent, lives for those calls. Once the communicator sounds, there is no more reluctance, no more resentment. He's off and running, like a racehorse, skittish at the gate but slavishly responsive to the bell. He doesn't need a whip or a jockey. He'll keep going, obeying Newton's First Law, the law of inertia — an object in motion until he runs, head-on, into a stronger force.
Or his heart bursts, whichever comes first.
It's in his blood, this compulsion, this need that drives him, and even if he wasn't born with it, they gave him a transfusion in Survival School so it's there now.
It's the reason that field agents are retired at forty. By that time, they've become perpetual motion machines that can only be stopped by deliberate intervention. And even then, retired agents have been known to start at the sound of a communicator or any similarly pitched chime. A dark-humored story around HQ goes that one ex-agent even responded to his wife's egg timer, but everyone knows that's a joke.
But Solo is not retired yet — far from it — and so, tonight, he is on call as usual. Earlier that evening, he sat in Waverly's office and listened to his partner's voice crackle over the channel as Kuryakin winged his way homeward in a charter plane over the Sudan, Thrush's precious triad code safely captured on microfilm, mission accomplished. Everything was "all right."
All right — an insidious misnomer like "off duty."
But for the time being, there is nothing to be done, so Solo's gone out with Evelyn Whittaker to see a movie he cares little about, and to eat a dinner he hardly tastes and won't remember in the morning. Evelyn is a safe date, a neighbor who knows what he does for a living and won't be annoyed or upset if he's called off to do it.
They talk companionably over a late dinner, and he tries to concentrate, though his attention is largely elsewhere. She tells him about her life — the ex-husband and the alimony payments that are three months overdue, the boss who gives dictation like a drill sergeant and boasts the management skills of Caligula. She's a decent sort, attractive enough, but too mature and world- weary to be condescended to and called "pretty," with limited reserves of time, money, and energy. As she talks, he commiserates, doing his best to make the evening feel like more than the mere distraction they both know it is. Long divorced with a daughter, Evelyn has learned to deny her own needs, but the daughter is out tonight, a sleepover at a friend's house, so they end up back at her apartment. In bed, they both try hard to forget their respective responsibilities, and he coaxes and nudges and teases and soon, she's crying out his name between unmotherly exclamations and groaning like a squeezebox with lusty abandon.
Which is just fine with Solo — more than fine — because truth be told, he can't abide an unresponsive woman. He wants to hear sounds, lots of sounds, or otherwise his mind will wander, drifting back to the communicator and its imagined hum — the communicator that lurks nearby, like a Peeping Tom, like the worst sort of P.I. hired by a jealous spouse.
But tonight, it's okay. Better than okay. He kisses her in unexpected places — shoulder, hip bones, the small of her back, the inside of her knee — and draws one fingertip across her skin, following the contours, savoring each inch. Both are strategies he's learned long ago which not only charm his bed partners, but also keep him focused and grounded in the here and now. It's also a ritual that requires time, something he seldom has. But tonight, he makes the time, mentally holding the communicator at bay, warding off its signal like a priest holding up a crucifix to a vampire.
Be still, be quiet, he pleads with the pen which nests, hidden, in his folded suit jacket as he relishes the silent stolen moments like a guilty pleasure. And uncharacteristically, this time it deigns to obey, allowing him to progress from arousal to satisfaction uninterrupted.
Finally, inevitably, in the wee hours of the morning, the familiar beep breaks through the stillness of the bedroom, slicing like a sharp knife through soft, buttery dreams. He grabs the pen, muffling it in his fist, before it can disturb the other side of the bed, and pads, barefoot, to a nearby bathroom to take the call.
"Solo here."
"Napoleon?" It's Connie's voice. She sounds like she always does at four a.m. "Illya's plane crashed near Casablanca, but no one was aboard, and he's nowhere to be found. Mr. Waverly wants you in his office right away."
Solo yawns sleepily, but the yawn belies his actual state of alertness. Already the adrenaline is surging and his mind is moving ahead of his body, assessing probabilities, making plans for travel.
"I'm on my way," he says — for, really, what else is there to say? — and signs off, capping the communicator with a mixture of apprehension and anticipation, relief and regret.


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Many citizens of Tribal Nations in Arizona live in remote locations that are not easy to access. Counting people who live in the 22 Tribal Nations that cover almost 30 percent of the land in Arizona is a challenge, and there is a concurrent lack of analysis that interprets the data.
"Tribal-level census data is not analyzed by any entity in the United States," said Pat Mariella, director of the American Indian Policy Institute at ASU. "In addition, there is no center in any agency specifically devoted to information on the American Indian population in Arizona. Tribes are often forced to contact a range of agencies to gather information on their own populations that is important to planning for the future."


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By Brent Schlenker
I've published a few blog posts at Litmos.com/blog over the last 3 months. Most of the conversations around those posts occur in other places other than the blog, like Twitter, or Google+, or LinkedIn, etc. I started responding to someone in the comments today and realized it was getting very long and it would be better to share this thought as a blog post.
The following is in response to my blog post The Two Paths to Mobile Learning:
I love academic journals…at times. But after 20+ years in the corporate world I've learned to take it in with a healthy dose of skepticism. Actually, that's not true. I'm not skeptical of the research or the authors, but I do question the practical applications of these learning theories, models, and frameworks. And it bothers me that we put the technology as the focus point.
Despite the technology being the catalyst for changing everything, 21st Century Learning is about People, NOT technology. It's about the shift in power and control.
Pedagogy is defined (according to a quick Googling) as a method or practice of teaching. Mobile learning is not about teaching. Mobile learning is about…well…learning. What's the word for "a method or practice of learning"? Most of what the world learns via mobile devices is not created by people who studied pedagogical theories of mobile learning. It's just common citizens sharing their knowledge with others. Do we have a fancy word for that?
It may be important for some people to understand pedagogy, but in the corporate world employees and customers just want convenient access to the information they need to be productive: No pedagogy required.
And in my experiences what you end up with then are two options: 1) existing content capable of being delivered via mobile devices, and 2) Specific learning content/experiences created with mobile device delivery in mind. In either case, no academic understanding of pedagogy is required…despite our best efforts to make it so.
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Nor do the visuals help. As you can see from the screenshots, SBK-08 does two things well, and those are the bike and the rider. MotoGP 07 did both slightly better, but it's still hard to fault their modelling, texturing or animation - at least until you see the rider's face up close.
Everything else, from the lighting to the background scenery, is horrifically flat and bland. We all know that real race courses are low on spectacular scenery, but even the grass textures, stands and trees look artificial. In fact, the last appear to have been rendered using the old two flat triangles in a cross technique that should have died out in the PS2 era.
Stands full of inanimate spectators should also have died a death by now, and while it seems like a good idea to show the 'umbrella girls' adding glamour to the start of the race, it's not such a good idea when they look as graceful and lifelike as department store dummies. At times SBK-08 looks less like an Xbox 360 racing game, and more like an upscaled original Xbox effort.
Even the online play is less than perfect. After a field of 22 in the single player game the track looks a little empty with just eight players participating, and while the unpredictability of human opponents gives the game some much needed energy, players are already thin on the ground. What games there are seem to be dominated by hardcore players with a yen for enforcing manual gear changes or higher realism levels. It's not the most newbie friendly online racer.
Now, fans of the Superbike championships with the time and dedication to master the handling may be willing to turn a blind eye to all this. If they do they can happily concentrate on the genuine strengths of the game: a solid handling model and all the courses, teams and riders of the real championship.
The rest of us will be left nonplussed, and wondering why Black Bean didn't follow MotoGP's lead and build in alternative game modes, like MotoGP's excellent Extreme mode, to keep a wider audience happy. SBK-08 just about has what it takes to please the serious fans, but anyone just looking for a two-wheeled racer would still be better off with MotoGP 07. Anyone just looking for a decent racing game, meanwhile, should definitely look elsewhere.
With its low calibre visuals and poor AI, SBK-08 offers little to anyone outside of the hardcore Superbike audience. MotoGP remains the king of two-wheeled racers.
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As more and more investor education and information is freely available online… investors now have an important choice to make. Should you go it alone, stick with your financial advisor, or fire him and find another, perhaps this time a fee-only planner? Words: 740
So says Emily Lambert (blogs.forbes.com/emilylambert/) in excerpts from her original article*.
Lorimer Wilson, editor of www.munKNEE.com (It's all about Money!), has edited ([ ]), abridged (…) and reformatted the article below for the sake of clarity and brevity to ensure a fast and easy read. Please note that this paragraph must be included in any article re-posting to avoid copyright infringement.
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Most financial advisors are really not trained as to be skilled investment experts. They are trained to gather assets and keep their customers happy. They are salespeople. If you are lucky, the firms they work for will instruct them to create a sound investment plan for you.
It's perfectly normal for your financial advisor to lose money some of the time. The stock market is a great humbler and everyone, even Warren Buffett, makes investment mistakes. During 2008, for example, even the top pros lost over 40% on their stock portfolios. [In fact, the average billion dollar plus pension fund in Canada lost almost 17%!]
Remember, the only professional investor who made money for his clients all the time was convicted Ponzi scheme artist Bernie Madoff. He's now serving a 150 year sentence in federal prison. You want to be sure that your financial advisor understands you, the market and, of course, [a wide assortment of] financial products… So how can you tell if your advisor is competent or should be fired?
Forbes asked some advisors, who said that clients should be on the look-out for the following:
Your advisor is MIA. Many advisors didn't return calls during the credit crisis… a lot of clients…couldn't get advice when they needed it…their advisors were MIA.
Your advisor is clueless. Just because your advisor has an office and a secretary and a few letters after his/her name doesn't mean he/she has a good understanding of the products he/she is recommending or, more importantly, he/she may not be aware of better products in the marketplace. Don't fall for the product du jour, but if you read about a new product being offered and want to learn more, call your advisor and ask if it's appropriate for you. Test his knowledge.
Your advisor seems to have lost interest. Your advisor should remember you, your investment objectives, and your risk tolerance. Otherwise this sounds like a one-way relationship. Oftentimes the amount of attention your advisor pays to you is directly correlated to how much money you have placed with him/her or how active you are as an investor. It is not uncommon for advisors to ignore their smaller clients.
Your advisor perks up around payday. A red flag is waving if he/she only seems interested in your account just before it's time to be paid, which could be the end of the year if your advisor is a broker working on commission, meeting sales quotas.
Your advisor is selling you things. Watch out if your advisor is constantly pushing expensive products such as annuities or proprietary products…if he/she recommends investments with high fees, that's also a red flag. He/she could be more interested in his/her commission than your investment.
Your advisor job hops. If you're with a company and the advisor changes, you could be left with a different advisor who has to re-learn your situation. If your advisor has job hopped a lot (one or two switches is fine), that could be a sign that he/she has money, people or even compliance problems of his own. Check his/her job history and regulatory record by going to online databases like Brightscope.com, which shows data collected about financial advisors.
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Based on 128-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption, the Outbacker hard drive from Memory Experts activates only after a fingerprint is authenticated, said Mike Kieran, director of sales and marketing. Access to the hard drive is restricted to users whose fingerprints are registered in the hard drive.
The hard drive will come in 20Gbyte and 40Gbyte capacities and has been ruggedised to withstand a three-metre drop.
After plugging the hard drive into a USB port for the first time, a user can store up to 10 prints. In addition to fingerprint authentication, users can access the hard drive by entering a nine-digit pin on a pad accompanying the device.
An LED on the device turns green once the hard drive is connected a desktop or a notebook USB port, indicating it is ready to use. After a fingerprint is authenticated, the LED turns blue, signalling that the fingerprint has been verified and the hard drive is ready to use. The hard drive shuts down after it is disconnected from the USB port.
An administrator can erase or add fingerprints to the device, said Kieran, who recommended that each user register at least two fingerprints. "If you scratch your finger while working in a garden, there will be no way to get in."
The hard drive is USB 2.0 backward-compatible, and works only on computers running Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 98 Second Edition. The company is working on the hard drive's compatibility with Macintosh and Linux.
Priced at $450 for the 20Gbyte model and $650 for the 40Gbyte model, the device is available next Monday at US retailers. It will be available internationally in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia shortly after.
An optional external power supply is offered for the hard drive, as it uses 500 milliamps on a PC or notebook's USB drive. Some low-end notebooks provide only 250 milliamps of power to the USB port, in which case the external power supply would be needed.
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Wendell Adjetey and Akwasi Owusu-Bempah connected the first time they met on the Mississauga transit six years ago.
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From as far back as the American Revolution in the late 1770s to the Korean War that ended in 1953, Black soldiers have bled and died for Canada. Yet their war service that helped create this country is diminished and sometimes totally ignored.
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In a discovery that could have profound implications for future energy policy, Columbia scientists have demonstrated it is possible to manufacture solar cells that are far more efficient than existing silicon energy cells by using a new kind of material, a development that could help reduce fossil fuel consumption.
The team, led by Xiaoyang Zhu, a professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, focused its efforts on a new class of solar cell ingredients known as Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites (HOIPs). Their results, reported in the prestigious journal Science, also explain why these new materials are so much more efficient than traditional solar cells—solving a mystery that will likely prompt scientists and engineers to begin inventing new solar materials with similar properties in the years ahead.
"The need for renewable energy has motivated extensive research into solar cell technologies that are economically competitive with burning fossil fuel," Zhu says. "Among the materials being explored for next generation solar cells, HOIPs have emerged a superstar. Until now no one has been able to explain why they work so well, and how much better we might make them. We now know it's possible to make HOIP-based solar cells even more efficient than anyone thought possible."
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Solar cells are what turn sunlight into electricity. Also known as photovoltaic cells, these semiconductors are most frequently made from thin layers of silicon that transmit energy across its structure, turning it into DC current.
Silicon panels, which currently dominate the market for solar panels, must have a purity of 99.999 percent and are notoriously fragile and expensive to manufacture. Even a microscopic defect—such as misplaced, missing or extra ions—in this crystalline structure can exert a powerful pull on the charges the cells generate when they absorb sunlight, dissipating those charges before they can be transformed into electrical current.
In 2009, Japanese scientists demonstrated it was possible to build solar cells out of HOIPs, and that these cells could harvest energy from sunlight even when the crystals had a significant number of defects. Because they don't need to be pristine, HOIPs can be produced on a large scale and at low cost. The Columbia team has been investigating HOIPs since 2014. Their findings could help boost the use of solar power, a priority in the age of global warming.
Over the last seven years, scientists have managed to increase the efficiency with which HOIPs can convert solar energy into electricity, to 22 percent from 4 percent. By contrast, it took researchers more than six decades to create silicon cells and bring them to their current level, and even now silicon cells can convert no more than about 25 percent of the sun's energy into electrical current.
This discovery, Zhu said, meant that "scientists have only just begun to tap the potential of HOIPs to convert the sun's energy into electricity."
Theorists long ago demonstrated that the maximum efficiency silicon solar cells might ever reach— the percentage of energy in sunlight that might be converted to electricity we can use—is roughly 33 percent. It takes hundreds of nanoseconds for energized electrons to move from the part of a solar cell that infuses them with the sun's energy, to the part of the cell that harvests the energy and converts it into electricity that can ultimately be fed into a power grid. During this migration across the solar cell, the energized electrons quickly dissipate their excess energy. But those calculations assume a specific rate of energy loss. The Columbia team discovered that the rate of energy loss is slowed down by over three-orders of magnitude in HOIPs – making it possible for the harvesting of excess electronic energy to increase the efficiency of solar cells.
Related: Columbia Scientists Unlock Big Perovskite Solar Cell Mystery, Clean Technica, Sept 22, 2016
"We're talking about potentially doubling the efficiency of solar cells," says Prakriti P. Joshi, a Ph.D. student in Zhu's lab who is a coauthor on the paper. "That's really exciting because it opens up a big, big field in engineering." Adds Zhu, "This shows we can push the efficiencies of solar cells much higher than many people thought possible."
After demonstrating this, the team then turned to the next question: what is it about the molecular structure of HOIPs that gives them their unique properties? How do electrons avoid defects? They discovered that the same mechanism that slows down the cooling of electron energy also protects the electrons from bumping into defects. This "protection" makes the HOIPs turn a blind eye to the ubiquitous defects in a material developed from room-temperature and solution processing, thus allowing an imperfect material to behave like a perfect semiconductor.
HOIPs contain lead, and are also water soluble, meaning the solar cells could begin to dissolve and leach lead into the environment around them if not carefully protected from the elements.
With the explanation of the mysterious mechanisms that give HOIPs their remarkable efficiencies, Zhu knew, material scientists would likely be able to mimic them with more environmentally-friendly materials.
"Now we can go back and design materials which are environmentally benign and really solve this problem everybody is worried about," Zhu says. "This principle will allow people to start to design new materials for solar energy."
Learn more: Columbia Chemists Find Key to Manufacturing More Efficient Solar Cells
"Promising" and "remarkable" are two words U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory scientist Javier Vela uses to describe recent research results on organolead mixed-halide perovskites.
Perovskites are optically active, semiconducting compounds that are known to display intriguing electronic, light-emitting and chemical properties. Over the last few years, lead-halide perovskites have become one of the most promising semiconductors for solar cells due to their low cost, easier processability and high power conversion efficiencies. Photovoltaics made of these materials now reach power conversion efficiencies of more than 20 percent.
Vela's research has focused on mixed-halide perovskites. Halides are simple and abundant, negatively charged compounds, such as iodide, bromide and chloride. Mixed-halide perovskites are of interest over single-halide perovskites for a variety of reasons. Mixed-halide perovskites appear to benefit from enhanced thermal and moisture stability, which makes them degrade less quickly than single-halide perovskites, Vela said. He added they can be fine-tuned to absorb sunlight at specific wavelengths, which makes them useful for tandem solar cells and many other applications, including light emitting diodes (LEDs).Using these compounds, scientists can control the color and efficiency of such energy conversion devices.
Speculating that these enhancements had something to do with the internal structure of mixed-halide perovskites, Vela, who is also an associate professor of chemistry at Iowa State University (ISU), worked with scientists with expertise in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) at both Ames Laboratory and ISU. NMR is an analytical chemistry technique that provides scientists with physical, chemical, structural and electronic information about complex samples.
"Our basic question was what it is about these materials in terms of their chemistry, composition, and structure that can affect their behavior," said Vela.
Scientists found that depending on how the material is made there can be significant nonstoichiometric impurities or "dopants" permeating the material, which could significantly affect the material's chemistry, moisture stability and transport properties.
The answers came via the combination of the use of optical absorption spectroscopy, powder X-ray diffraction and for the first time, the advanced probing capabilities of lead solid-state NMR.
"We were only able to see these dopants, along with other semicrystalline impurities, through the use of lead solid-state NMR," said Vela.
Another major discovery scientists made was that solid state synthesis is far superior to solution-phase synthesis in making mixed-halide perovskites. According to Vela, the advanced spectroscopy and materials capabilities of Ames Laboratory and ISU were critical in understanding how various synthetic procedures affect the true composition, speciation, stability and optoelectronic properties of these materials.
"We found you can make clean mixed halide perovskites without semi-crystalline impurities if you make them in the absence of a solvent," Vela said.
According to Vela, the significance of their findings is multifold and they are only beginning to grasp the implications of those findings.
"One obvious implication is that our understanding of the amazing opto-electronic properties of these semiconductors was incomplete," said Vela. "We're dealing with a compound that is not inherently as simple as people thought."


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A schematic drawing of the pressurized vessel setup. Microscope (Nikon Instech, Kanagawa, Japan); micrometer, platform, and pressure servomechanism (Living Systems Instrumentation, Burlington, Vt).
Percentage of loss in basal tone of each group compared with control samples. ET indicates endotoxin.
Normalized vessel diameter vs time during endotoxin (ET) exposure.
Campbell M, Britt LD. Endotoxin Has an Indirect Vasodilatory Effect on Isolated Human Skeletal Muscle Arterioles. Arch Surg. 2004;139(6):652-654. doi:10.1001/archsurg.139.6.652
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Septic shock and its effects are a major cause of mortality in the intensive care environment. The exact effect and mechanism of endotoxin has yet to be fully described. With a better understanding of this process, better clinical tools could be developed to treat these patients.
Endotoxin has no direct effect on human skeletal muscle microvasculature and requires the release of an endothelial-derived factor to produce the vasodilation seen in gram-negative sepsis.
Benchtop research using an isolated arteriole model with controlled exposure to endotoxin.
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First-order arterioles (approximately 150-µm diameter) were isolated from human cremasteric muscles and pressurized to physiologic levels before exposure to an endotoxin-rich effluent with and without an upstream conduit vessel (superficial epigastric vein). The vasodilatory effect was measured with videomicroscopy and compared with control samples.
Main Outcome Measures
Mean vessel diameter and percentage of loss in tone.
When compared with controls, the isolated arteriole had no significant response when exposed to endotoxin alone (3.5% change in basal tone). When the endotoxin was allowed to pass over an upstream conduit vessel, the arteriole showed marked dilation (14.2% loss of basal tone).
This study demonstrates that endotoxin has no direct vasodilatory effect on human skeletal muscle arterioles, but it is the release of an endothelial factor from the upstream conduit vessels that produces the loss of tone in the microvasculature. Further research is ongoing to characterize the factors involved (nuclear factor-κB, tumor necrosis factor α, and interleuklin 6) for possible clinical intervention (antioxidants, cyclosporine, and nitric oxdide synthase inhibitors).
Even in the face of substantial technological advancements in the critical care setting, sepsis is still the major cause of morbidity and mortality. Septic shock syndrome is characterized by organ hypoperfusion, cardiac dysfunction, increased vascular (venule) permeability, and hypotension caused by a profound reduction in systemic vascular resistance. It is believed that the initiating event in the patient with septicemia is the release of lipopolysaccharide from the cell membranes of gram-negative organisms.
Previous studies using an isolated arteriole model to limit confounding factors have shown that endotoxin has an indirect vasodilatory effect on skeletal muscle arterioles in a rat model.1- 3 Specifically, these studies have shown that an unknown factor, released from an upstream conduit, causes a vasodilation of the peripheral vascular resistance vessels.1- 4
The goals of this study are to evaluate this model in the human setting and to investigate this indirect effect of endotoxin on the peripheral microvasculature in a comparable human model. By demonstrating this indirect phenomenon in a human model, it is our hope to be able to further classify this substance and delineate the true mechanism of endotoxin-induced circulatory dysfunction.
Protocols were approved by the investigational review board at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, as protocol IRB 00-08-EX-0384. Necessary patient consents were already in use that included experimentation on any discarded tissue.
Discarded cremaster muscle from inguinal surgery was used for arteriole harvesting. Harvested inferior superficial epigastric vein was used as an upstream conduit vessel. Consent was included in the standard consent form describing experimental use of discarded tissue.
Discarded cremaster muscle and vein were harvested at the time of the operation and stored in cold (4°C) Krebs-HEPES [bicarbonate-4-(2-hydroxyethyl)]-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid (10µM) buffer solution (pH 7.4). The cremaster muscle was then flattened out and an appropriate-sized arteriole with no branch points was removed by microdissection. The dissection lasted, on average, 15 minutes. The vessel was quickly transferred to a vessel chamber (Living Systems Instrumentation, Burlington, Vt), cannulated with micropipettes, and secured with a 10-0 monofilament suture. The vessel chamber was then moved to the platform of an inverted microscope (Nikon Instech, Kanagawa, Japan) that was connected to a charged-coupled device video camera and high-resolution monitor. A calibrated pressure servomechanism (Living Systems Instrumentation) was used to gradually pressurize the vessel to 90 mm Hg in the absence of intraluminal flow (Figure 1). The vessel was slowly warmed to 34°C by continual infusion of warmed Krebs-HEPES buffer solution at a rate of 4 mL/min. The buffer was bubbled with a gas mixture (95% nitrogen/5% carbon dioxide) within the reservoir, resulting in a PO2 of no less than 60 mm Hg at the level of the vessel. A total of 60 minutes was allowed for the vessel to achieve spontaneous basal tone under these conditions. For inclusion in the experiment, the vessel had to be free of all leaks and demonstrate spontaneous tone of a minimum amount of 12% when compared with 3µM acetylcholine-induced maximal dilation as well as transient reactivity to 1µM phenylephrine solution.
The harvested vein was opened up along its long axis and secured with monofilament in a small flow-through chamber connected in series to the arteriolar setup such that superfusate (buffer with or without endotoxin) flowed over the vein segment and then onto the arteriole in the tissue bath of the vessel chamber. Internal diameters of the cannulated arterioles were measured with videomicroscopy and videocalipers (Living Systems Instrumentation).
After adequate equilibration time, 2.5 µg/mL of Salmonella enteridis endotoxin (BACTO lipopolysaccharides; Difco Labs, Detroit, Mich) was added to the buffer for 120 minutes and vessel diameters were recorded every 15 minutes for a total of 120 minutes. The 2-hour time limit was a value observed during previous vein conduit experiments done at this facility. Group 1 (n = 6) samples were a control group exposed to plain buffer only, group 2 (n = 6) samples were arterioles exposed to endotoxin in the absence of the upstream vein, and group 3 (n = 6) samples were endotoxin exposure to both vein and arteriole in series. After adequate plain buffer washout, reactivity to 1 µM of phenylephrine followed by 3 µM acetylcholine was confirmed, demonstrating the viability of the vessel and it is inherent ability to constrict and dilate as well as its baseline maximal dilation.
Results are expressed as diameter at 120 minutes and mean (SEM) percentage of tone. Basal tone was calculated as the percentage of the maximal diameter of the vessel achieved following the 3µM acetylcholine treatment described in the "Endotoxin Exposure" subsection of the "Methods" section to show endothelial independent dilation. Statistical significance was determined by analysis of variance analysis expressed as the F ratio with significance presumed at P<.05.
Under basal conditions, the isolated, cannulated arterioles had a mean (SEM) luminal diameter of 172 to 190 (3) µm. Addition of endotoxin (2.5 µg/mL) for 2 hours to the superfusate caused no significant loss in the basal tone (4.2% [1.3%]; F = 1.1, P>.05). Following this, application of a maximally effective concentration of the endothelial-dependent vasodilator acetylcholine (3 µM) to the isolated arteriole resulted in dilation to 214 to 246 (3) µm on which the basal tone was calculated.
The conduit vein was placed upstream in series with the cannulated arteriole so that the Krebs-HEPES buffer was passed over it then continued on to bathe the arteriole in effluent. After 2 hours of superfusant, the control series showed no significant loss in basal tone (5.4% [1.8%]; F = 1.1, P>.05, n = 6) (Figure 2).
Following the stabilization period of 1 hour, endotoxin (2.5 µg/mL) was added to the superfusate. Vessel diameter started increasing after 45 minutes to a cutoff of 120 minutes. At 60 minutes, there was a 3.7% (0.8%) loss in basal tone (201-210 [3] µm). This difference became statistically significant at the 2-hour mark which was chosen as a cutoff based on previous vein conduit experiments, with average diameters of 228 µm resulting in a basal tone loss of 13.4% (1.4%) (F = 20.2, P<.01, n = 6) (Figure 2 and Figure 3). The effect continued for longer than 20 minutes despite the removal of the vein from the system.
Septic shock remains a complex process of high morbidity and mortality. Endotoxin plays a significant role in the pathogenesis of many processes associated with sepsis, particularly hypotension.5 This study is an extension of the previous work in animal physiology that demonstrated an indirect effect of endotoxin on the skeletal muscle arteriolar system.1- 4 What has been documented in the rat model is demonstrated in a human model.
To our knowledge, this is the first successful attempt at illustrating the physiologic effects of endotoxin on the resistance vasculature of the human patient. Samples from pericardium (connective tissue by nature) along with a segment of internal mammary artery were harvested during standard coronary artery bypass grafting procedures showing no vasodilatory effect using this model. Skeletal muscle was used because a major portion of total peripheral vasculature resistance resides in this tissue of enormous surface area. It is apparent from these data that the toxin itself does not directly induce vasodilation in the microvasculature, but rather it requires a conduit vessel to possibly release factors that, in turn, will dilate the arteriolar bed.
The isolated arteriolar setup allows for system integrity reliability and the control of outside effects. Also, it allows for a level of basal tone, albeit less than the rat model, that is impossible in studies using larger conduit vessels such as aortic rings or femoral vessel preparations requiring preconstriction. In comparison to the rat model, which uses an identical method, the human vessels gain less inherent tone (18%-24% [1.9%] compared with 35%-42% [4.3%]). This effect is likely because of the excessive handling of tissue during the hernia dissection and subsequent prolonged transport times. Overall, the average arteriole diameter is larger in this human model, secondary to the inconsistency of tissue samples and technical limitations of the dissection when compared with the rat model.
Continued research using the rat isolated vessel model is warranted to specifically identify the exact mediators that produce the profound vasodilation and pressor resistance seen in the hypotension in the endotoxic shock patient. Possible inhibitors, such as nitric oxide and nuclear factor-κB, are actively being investigated in this laboratory.
To our knowledge, this study is the first of its kind to reproduce the results of a rat model of endotoxin's indirect effect on the peripheral microvasculature in the human. The vasodilatory factor(s) produced by the upstream conduit vessel in significant quantities is capable of eliciting arteriolar vasodilation that is reflected as loss of peripheral vascular resistance in the critical care patient afflicted with endotoxic sepsis. Further work is being carried out to isolate the responsible factors that are being released from the upstream conduit vessel.
Accepted for publication November 18, 2003.
Corresponding author and reprints: L. D. Britt, MD, MPH, Department of Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 825 Fairfax Ave, Suite 610, Norfolk, VA 23507-1912 (e-mail: email@example.com).


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