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The Frontier District serves Scouting units in the following school districts in Berks County: Antietam, Boyertown Area, Brandywine Heights Area, Berks Catholic, Daniel Boone, Exeter Township, Oley Valley, Twin Valley, Upper Perkiomen
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We'll be listing links to people, places, and things discussed at Roundtable in case you weren't there or didn't write them down. You can also find an archive of past year's Roundtable resources.
BS - Scoutbook
BS - Youth Leadership Training - Eric Silva (1.4 MB PDF)
CS - Cub Scout Songs - Geoff Price (30 KB PDF)
BS/CS - BSA Internet Rechartering - Eric Silva & Geoff Price (847 KB PDF)
Internet Rechartering: Step 1 video
BS - BSA National Programs - Eric Silva (1.5 MB PDF)
BS - Cub Scouts and Boy Scout Advancement - Eric Silva (492 KB PDF)
BS - Crew 575 Venturing Promotion - Kasey H. and Danielle S. (646 KB PDF)
BS - Journey to Excellence - Eric Silva (912 KB PDF)
Unit Showcase Form - Use this form as a guide for your own unit showcase at Roundtable. Each month we highlight one Pack and one Troop in the District with a 3 minute max summary of your unit, it's history, membership, strengths and challenges, and what makes it unique. If you would like to volunteer your unit to be showcased, please contact your Roundtable Commissioner, Eric Silva.
Each calendar year the Frontier district recognizes volunteers that go above and beyond to provide leadership, dedication, and invaluable service to the youth in their units, the district, and the council.
You can find a list of previous award winners here. We are working to update and maintain this list more accurately. If you can help provide and/or correct information please contact us.
The Frontiersman Award is presented yearly to recognize worthy adults. Any adult registered and serving at the unit level is eligible to receive the award. Every Frontier District (Pack, Troop, or Crew) is entitled to select ONE adult per year to receive the award. The unit committee should screen, select, and forward the response form to the Frontier District, Hawk Mountain Council, BSA. You can download a nomination form.
Available to registered Scouters who render service of an outstanding nature at the district level. You can download a nomination form.
Recipients of this award are registered adult leaders who have made an impact on the lives of youth through service given to the council. The Silver Beaver is an award given to those who implement the Scouting program and perform community service through hard work, self-sacrifice, dedication, and many years of service. It is given to those who do not actively seek it.
You can download a nomination form.


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Video editing tutorials, tips, tricks and updates for Apple Final Cut Pro.
FCP X: Is the lack of forward compatibility a deal breaker for editors?
With the recent release of Final Cut Pro X, many editors are scrambling to figure out if they should upgrade or not. With a lack of forward compatibility (which doesn't allow you to bring projects forward from previous versions of the software), many are wary. I asked several of my editor acquaintances what they thought. Here's what they had to say.
How To Export A High Resolution Movie Out of Final Cut Pro X
Learn how to export a high-resolution QuickTime Movie out of Final Cut Pro X, and explore the best shortcuts to expedite this process.
Final Cut Pro Timeline Navigation Shortcuts
It's important to be able to move quickly through the Timeline while editing in Final Cut Pro. Get comfortable with these quick navigation techniques!
Apple Discontinues Final Cut Express and Final Cut Server
Hot off the heels of the market debut of Final Cut Pro X, Apple will discontinue production of Final Cut Express and Final Cut Server.
Final Cut Pro X: The Missing Features
Although Final Cut Pro X is packed with lots of exciting updates, many editors have already begun scrutinizing the application for leaving out important features that were present in earlier FCP versions. In this post, we'll take a look at what's missing from FCP X and what we can anticipate seeing in future updates.
Apple Formally Announces Major Update To FCP — Introducing Final Cut Pro X!
Apple has released Final Cut Pro X, the highly anticipated update to it's popular video editing application. Get all the details about the application including the major updates to the editing interface, audio and color correction tools and improvements in metadata and project organization.
15 Amazing Color Correction Tutorials for Final Cut Pro
We've rounded up 15 of the best online tutorials for color correction in Final Cut Pro. Learn how to optimally use the 3-way color corrector to emulate popular color grades! These posts and videos from some of the industry's leading professionals will teach you how to effectively correct and grade your video projects from directly within Final Cut Pro!
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In this post, we'll take a look at Final Cut Pro's built-in gain adjustment tool — a quick way to raise or lower all of the audio in your FCP sequences!
Adding Metadata Comments and Notes to Media in Final Cut Pro
Keep your Final Cut Pro projects more organized and speed up your post workflow by tagging your media with short comments and keywords. Adding this metadata to your media will allow you to search your FCP project to quickly find the shot you're looking for!
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Roundup of interesting videos and blog posts about Final Cut Pro X. Get the scoop on Apple's new video editing application including new features, speculation and rumors surrounding the software and early criticism of FCP X.
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Buying a TV can be very confusing these days, especially with several different types of TV technology to choose from. Gone are the bulky CRT (picture tube) and rear projection sets that dominated living rooms in the second half of the 20th century. Now that we are well into 21st century, the long awaited wall-mountable TV is now common.

However, I get a lot of questions as to how newer TV technologies (Plasma, LCD, DLP, an OLED) actually work to produce images. Here is an overview that should shed some light on the difference between CRT, DLP, and current TV technologies.

CRT Technology

Although you can't find new CRT TVs on store shelves anymore, there are still a lot of those old sets operating in consumer households. Here is how they work.

A CRT TV employs an electron beam that scans rows of phosphors on a line-by-line basis in order to produce an image. The electron beam originates from the neck of a picture tube (essentially a large vacuum tube). The beam is deflected on a continuous basis that so it moves across the rows of phosphors in a sequential manner.

Depending on the type of signal, the phosphor rows can be scanned alternately, which is referred to as interlaced scanning or sequentially, which is referred to as progressive scan. For more details on the difference between interlaced and progressive scanning, check out my article: Progressive Scan - What You Need To Know

DLP Technology

Another technology that has been used in TVs (rear projection televisions, that is) is DLP (Digital Light Processing), which was invented, developed, and licensed by Texas Instruments. Although no longer available for sale in TV form since late 2012, DLP technology is alive and well in video projectors. However, there are still some DLP sets being used in homes.

The key to DLP technology is the DMD (Digital Micro-mirror Device), in which every chip is made up of tiny tiltable mirrors. This means that every pixel on a DMD chip is a reflective mirror.

The video image is displayed on the DMD chip. The micromirrors on the chip (remember: each micromirror represents one pixel) then tilt very rapidly as the image changes.

This process produces the grayscale foundation for the image. Then, color is added as light passes through a high-speed color wheel and is reflected off of the micromirrors on the DLP chip as they rapidly tilt towards or away from the light source. The degree of tilt of each micromirror coupled with the rapidly spinning color wheel determines the color structure of the projected image. As the amplified light bounces off the micromirrors, it is sent through the lens, reflected off a large single mirror, and onto the screen.

Plasma Technology

Plasma TVs, the first TVs to have a thin flat "hang-on-wall" form factor, have been in use since the earlier 2000's, but in late 2014, the last remaining Plasma TV makers (Panasonic, Samsung, and LG) discontinued manufacturing them for consumer use - However, you may still be able find one used or on clearance.

Plasma TVs, employ an interesting technology. Similar to a CRT TV, a Plasma TV produces images by lighting phosphors. However, the phosphors are not lit by a scanning electron beam. Instead, the phosphors in a Plasma TV are lit by super-heated charged gas (similar to a Fluorescent light). All the phosphor picture elements (pixels) can be lit at once, rather than having to be scanned by an electron beam as is the case with CRTs. Also, since a scanning electron beam is not necessary, the need for a bulky picture tube (CRT) is eliminated, resulting in a thin cabinet profile.

For more info, check out our Guide to Plasma TVs.

Also, if you want dig even deeper into Plasma TV technology, check out How Plasma TV Works (How Stuff Works).

LCD Technology

Taking another approach, which also results in a thin cabinet profile, unlike a traditional CRT TVs, the images on an LCD TV are also not "scanned" by an electron beam. The picture elements (pixels) of an LCD Television are merely turned off or on at a specific refresh rate.

In other words, the entire image is displayed (or refreshed) all at once every 24th, 30th, 60th, or 120th of a second. Actually, with LCD you can engineer refresh rates of 24, 25, 30, 50, 60, 72, 100, 120, 240, or 480 (so far). However, the most commonly used refresh rates used in LCD TVs is 60 or 120. Keep in mind that refresh rate is not the same as frame rate.

For more specifics on what refresh rate is, how it works, and how it is different that frame rate, check out my article: Video Frame Rate vs Screen Refresh Rate.

It must also be noted that LCD pixels do not produce there own light. In order for an LCD television to produce a visible image the LCD's pixels have to be "backlit". The backlight, in most cases is constant. What happens in this process is that the pixels are rapidly turned on and off depending on the requirements of the image. If the pixels are off, they don't let the backlight through, when they are on, they let the backlight through.

For a more technical look at how this process works, check out: How LCD Works (How Stuff Works).

It is important to note that there are new backlight technologies which enhance the pixel on/off process, such as Global Dimming and Local Dimming. These dimming technologies employ an LED-based backlight (either full array or edge light system) rather than traditional Fluorescent backlighting.

Global Dimming can vary the amount of backlight hitting all of the pixels for dark or bright scenes, while Local Dimming is designed to hit specific groups of pixels depending on which areas of the image need to be darker or lighter than the rest of the image. For a detailed look at Local Dimming and LED use in LCD TVs, check out an informative article from Home Theater Magazine.

For more LCD TVs, including buying suggestions, also check out our Guide to LCD TVs.

OLED

OLED is the newest TV technology available for consumers. It has been used in cell phones, tablets, and other small screen applications for a while - but beginning in 2013 it has been successfully applied to large screen consumer TV applications.

OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode. To keep it simple, the screen is made of pixel-sized, organically-based elements (no, they are not actually alive). OLED has some of the characteristics of both LCD and Plasma TVs.

What OLED has in common with LCD is that OLED can be laid out in very thin layers, enabling thin TV frame design and energy efficient power consumption. However, just like LCD, OLED is subject to dead pixel defects.

What OLED has in common with Plasma is that the pixels are self-emitting (no backlight, no edge-light, or local dimming is required), very deep black levels can be produced (in fact OLED can produce absolute black), provides a wide undistorted viewing angle, and compares well in terms of smooth motion response. However, like Plasma, OLED is subject to burn-in.

Also, indications are that OLED screens have a shorter lifespan than LCD or Plasma - especially in the blue part of the color spectrum. In addition, current OLED panel production costs for the large screen sizes need for TVs are very high in comparison to all other existing TV technologies.

However, going with both the positives and the negatives, OLED is capable of displaying the best images seen so far in a TV technology. Also, one stand out physical characteristic of OLED TV technology is that the panels are so thin that they can be made flexible - resulting in the manufacturing of curved screen TVs (Note: Some LCD TVs have been made with curved screens as well).

OLED technology can be implemented in several ways for TVs. So far, LG employs a process, referred as WRGB, with combines white OLED self-emitting sub pixels with Red, Green, and Blue color filters, whereas Samsung employs Red, Green, and Blue sub pixels with no added color filters. LG's approach is intended to limit the effect of premature Blue color degradation that seems to occur with Blue self-emitting OLED pixels.

Fixed Pixel Displays

Despite the differences between Plasma, LCD, DLP, and OLED televisions, there is one thing they share in common.

Plasma, LCD, DLP, and OLED TVs have a finite number of screen pixels, thus they are "fixed-pixel" displays. Input signals that have higher resolutions must be scaled to fit the pixel field count of the particular Plasma, LCD, DLP, or OLED display. For example, a typical 1080i HDTV broadcast signal needs a native display of 1920x1080 pixels for a one-to-one point display of the HDTV image.

However, since Plasma, LCD, DLP, and OLED televisions can only display progressive images, 1080i source signals are always either deinterlaced to 1080p for display on a 1080p TV, or deinterlaced and scaled down to 768p, 720p, or 480p depending on the native pixel resolution of the specific TV. Technically, there is no such thing as a 1080i LCD, Plasma, DLP, or OLED TV.

Digging Deeper

If this overview has wet your appetite for more details on TV tech, read Display Myths Shattered: How Monitor & HDTV Companies Cook Their Specs.


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- If you are interested in translating some of our articles into Spanish, I think that would be great and something worth exploring. It is my opinion that we'd need to find an admin who is fluent in both English and Spanish to oversee the Spanish content.
- Since our Manual of Style doesn't speak of grammar and language, the same concepts in the Manual of Style would apply to any other language. I believe it is an assumed guideline that correct grammar, spelling and proper language be used, regardless of the language in question. --BoneGnawer 21:46, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
- Understanding and mastery are a bit different. I can read Spanish too, but I wouldn't attempt to place myself in an editorial position over Spanish writers. We may have to wait until we can nominate an admin who is a native speaker or has a high level of fluency. This person would also have to have fair English skills so he or she could participate in discussions amongst the existing admins. --BoneGnawer 19:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
- I meant that I can understand Spanish to a point of recognizing quality writing; but yeah, I wouldn't be able to improve the articles per se, and I guess that was what you were going for... I suppose we'll have to wait for someone like you described, but unfortunately, we have few English editors as it is ― I don't foresee many foreign ones turning up... ― Thailog 19:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


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PILI, Camarines Sur, April 14 (PNA) -- There is a bright future for the local milk industry, a top industry official told leaders of the dairy cooperatives in the region engaged in the production and processing of dairy milk.
The meeting was convened by the Bicol Dairy Council in the first-ever Dairy Congress in Bicol at the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture on April 11-12, organizers said this weekend.
Juan Lozano, Batangas Dairy Coop chair and the concurrent National chair of the Dairy Confederation of the Philippines who served as the key note speaker, made the claim, "especially as there is now an effort to distinguish between the real 'fresh milk' from the UHT milk (milk that has been heated to a very high temperature so that it can stay fresh for six months)."
"Putting an expiry date of six months in the milk labels is the best proof of misbranding being done by multinational companies that dominate our market today," Lozano said.
He urged the dairy cooperatives to support the pending bill of Congresswoman Margarita Cojuangco on the regulation of the use of the word "Fresh Milk."
"If there is a big support from the grassroots, we can convince the lawmakers to pass this bill. Only then will our local dairy processors have great chances in the market," he added.
Lawyer Marito Bernales, CBSUA president, underscored the importance of dairy production as part of the government's food sufficiency program, particularly in the Bicol region which ranks third among the poorest regions in the country, according to NEDA reports.
Bernales also expressed the university's unwavering support to the management of the Bicol Dairy Council headed by its chair, Santiago Cervantes.
Cervantes also heads the Bicol Federation of Dairy Cooperatives, which was established by the CBSUA and Land O'Lakes in 2006 and is composed of seven dairy cooperatives,
Dr. Edgar R. Madrid, Department of Agriculture Bicol regional technical director for Research and Regulations, said the establishment of the three DA-operated dairy plants--the Sorsogon Dairy Farm, Sorsogon Dairy Processing Plant and Albay Dairy Plant--in 1960 paved the way for the birth of the dairy cattle program in the Bicol region.
There is also the dairy processing plant in Albay Breeding Station in Camalig town serving as show window for farmers.
All these DA-managed facilities have a total of 170 heads of dairy cattle of all ages.
He also identified the major issues besetting the industry--which are lack of dairy animals, poor marketing strategy, underutilized processing facilities, high mortality in animals and low repaying rate.
Cervantes, meanwhile, disclosed the sad state of the dairy industry in Bicol which has a total of 541 animals but is only producing 600-700 liters raw milk daily.
The BFDC chair said Bicol is producing only 270 liters of milk daily.
Cervantes said that much needs to be done to accelerate the development of the dairy industry here.
This year, he said, they acquired 10 heads of cattle imported from New Zealand through the assistance of the National Dairy Authority under the Dairy Multiplyer Farm Scheme.
This addition, he added, could bring about 80-100 liters of additional raw milk production per day.
Cervantes is optimistic that with the present partnership with CBSUA and the strong support of the DA regional office, they will attain a high level of productivity and stability in the coming years.
Jose Canaria of the Philippine Carabao Center discussed the Carabao Development Program.
The PCC has 13 centers nationwide and focuses on genetic improvement of carabaos through gene pool, carabao upgrading and artificial insemination in the rural areas.
Canaria encouraged the participants to invest in dairying as he says "Sa Dairy, ang Kita ay Daily."
He said the PCC is offering training on carabao breeding to organize dairy co-ops that have shown good track record.
He added that Bicol is rich in forage grasses so there is no reason why dairy will not prosper here.
Also present during the congress were Dr. Jaime Lopez, NDA operations manager, and lawyer Ma. Lourdes Pacao, regional director of Cooperative Development Authority.(PNA)


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I had lipo to legs by a board certified P.S. at 45. 10 years later I am healthy and fit but my skin is hanging as in the picture. Last year another board certified P.S assured me that smart lipo would firm the skin and get rid of cellulite. He did not suction the fat. There is absolutely no improvement. I eat healthy and exercise. I would rather not have inner thigh lift because of the scars. Would bodytite or anything else help when smartlipo did not?
Would BodyTite Help my Sagging Inner Thigh Skin?
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Inner thigh issue
The skintyte or bodytightening lasers can only give about 20% improvement. It will not probably give you what you want. You may need a thigh lift, but an exam would be critical.
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Can BodyTite fix sagging inner thigh skin?
Thanks for you question. BodyTite is the best technology that we have in 2017 to tighten loose skin of the inner thigh. It uses Radio Frequency Assisted Liposuction to tighten skin and decrease fat. But, it will not work for everybody. I would recommend you see a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon in your area who performs thigh lifts and BodyTite and have an in person consultation. A lot of people do not like the scars of a thigh lift and for them the BodyTite may be the best option.
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Thigh cellulite
Your posted photo shows severe cellulite of the inner and front thighs. It is hard to say if this is just due to aging, just due to your previous surgery or both. If the indents disappear when you pinch the area above the thigh covered by the garment in your photo and pull the thigh skin up you may be a candidate for a thigh lift procedure. I personally though would not recommend it unless you are having the procedure to remove redundant skin as well i.e. not just to treat cellulite. That is because the cellulite is caused by laxity in the SFS membrane that separates deep and superficial layers of fat. Even when you tighten that membrane by pulling the skin fat layer up as a whole it tends to stretch out again in my experience. That apparently has not been the experience of some other surgeons.
Unfortunately I am unaware of any non-surgical treatment that can correct this.
I hope you realize that this format of posting questions and receiving answers lacks the face to face direct communication required for you to make an informed decision regarding your surgery.
My response to your question/post does not represent formal medical advice or constitute a doctor patient relationship. You need to consult with i.e. personally see a board certified plastic surgeon in order to receive a formal evaluation and develop a doctor patient relationship.
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Snowboarder OK after going missing Tuesday at Squaw Valley
February 23, 2013
OLYMPIC VALLEY — A snowboarder who went missing Tuesday afternoon at Squaw Valley was found later that evening in good condition, officials said.
The 44-year-old Bay area man was reported missing by a friend at around 3:40 p.m. Tuesday, and Squaw Valley Ski Patrol "immediately" began a search, focusing on the mountain's Shirley Canyon area, according to a resort press release Wednesday.
At approximately 4:25 p.m., Squaw Valley Dispatch made contact with the snowboarder, who confirmed he was lost, according to the release.
Due to whiteout conditions from Tuesday's snowstorm, the man became disorientated, and instead of heading toward Shirley Canyon — as he thought he was — he ended up going in the wrong direction, said John Lasagna, detective for the Placer County Sheriff's Office.
Squaw Valley Ski Patrol concluded the snowboarder had departed the ski area, heading into the backcountry toward Pole Creek Canyon, according to the release. PCSO was contacted at 5:30 p.m. to initiate a backcountry search.
Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue members found the snowboarder at about 8:15 p.m. on the top of Pole Creek Canyon in good condition, Lasagna said. He was cold and his ribs were sore from an earlier fall, but no medical treatment was needed, Lasagna said.
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Medical Definition of Cryoglobulin
Cryoglobulin: An abnormal blood protein that has the unusual properties of precipitating from the blood serum when it is chilled (hence the "cryo-") and redissolving when it is rewarmed. Cryoglobulins are gamma globulins with a molecular weight of approximately 200,000.
Cryoglobulins can cause problems by causing the blood to be abnormally "thick" which increases the risk of blood clots forming in the brain (stroke), eyes, and heart. Cryoglobulins are also associated with inflammation of blood vessels (vasculitis) which increases the risk of blockage of arteries.
Cryoglobulins are a key part of a condition called essential mixed cryoglobulinemia. Cryoglobulins can also accompany diseases such as multiple myeloma, dermatomyositis, and lymphoma. Sometimes small amounts of cryoglobulin are discovered by accident in the lab in a serum sample from someone with no apparent symptoms.
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For four years, Barack Obama has rarely been challenged and he handled it poorly last night. He was ill prepared, flustered easily, and came off as petulant. At some point we should expect the empty chair to ask Barack Obama to take a vacation day and let it debate instead.
I think the explanation for Obama's performance is pretty simple. Gods in the cult of personality do not like to come off Olympus to be challenged by mere mortals.
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Create an HTML file in NotePad++
You can skip this page if you're already using NotePad++. It's just a short practice to show you some of the features of the editor.
Open NotePad++ and type the web page listed below into the blank document that appears.
<!-- This is my first web page -->
<title> My first web page </title>
This text will appear on the page.
NotePad++ will colour-code your program as soon as it knows what language you're writing. Save the file with an html extension and NotePad++ will realise that you are typing HTML. It will colour-code your text like this:
<!-- This is my first web page -->
<title> My first web page </title>
This text will appear on the page.
The text to be displayed stays black but the tags become blue and the comments become green.
Colour-coding may sound a childish feature but it is very useful. If you type a tag and it stays black then you know you've made a mistake. If you forget to close a comment then the rest of the page will go green. Try it. You need to know what NotePad++ will do when you make mistakes later.
Later on you will see that NotePad++ will also colour code JavaScript in a similar way.
If you experiment with the text in the editor you will find that matching HTML tags are highlighted automatically. Click on the <body> tag and both it and the </body> tag will be highlighted in blue. This too is trivial in a simple program but becomes invaluable when you have dozens of tags nested inside one another.
The lines of HTML in this example have been indented to show how they fit into the structure of the page. This is not compulsory, just a matter of programming style to make the page easier to understand. Indents are straightforward in NotePad++, you write the lines as normal, select all the lines you want to indent then press Tab. Use Shift+Tab to unindent blocks of lines.


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Oak Ridge, TN (SPX) Jan 16, 2014
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have pioneered a new technique for forming a two-dimensional, single-atom sheet of two different materials with a seamless boundary.
The study, published in the journal Science, could enable the use of new types of 2-D hybrid materials in technological applications and fundamental research.
By rethinking a traditional method of growing materials, the researchers combined two compounds -- graphene and boron nitride -- into a single layer only one atom thick. Graphene, which consists of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal, honeycomb-like rings, has attracted waves of attention because of its high strength and electronic properties.
"People call graphene a wonder material that could revolutionize the landscape of nanotechnology and electronics," ORNL's An-Ping Li said. "Indeed, graphene has a lot of potential, but it has limits. To make use of graphene in applications or devices, we need to integrate graphene with other materials."
One method to combine differing materials into heterostructures is epitaxy, in which one material is grown on top of another such that both have the same crystalline structure. To grow the 2-D materials, the ORNL-UT research team directed the growth process horizontally instead of vertically.
The researchers first grew graphene on a copper foil, etched the graphene to create clean edges, and then grew boron nitride through chemical vapor deposition. Instead of conforming to the structure of the copper base layer as in conventional epitaxy, the boron nitride atoms took on the crystallography of the graphene.
"The graphene piece acted as a seed for the epitaxial growth in two-dimensional space, so that the crystallography of the boron nitride is solely determined by the graphene," UT's Gong Gu said.
Not only did the team's technique combine the two materials, it also produced an atomically sharp boundary, a one-dimensional interface, between the two materials. The ability to carefully control this interface, or "heterojunction," is important from an applied and fundamental perspective, says Gu.
"If we want to harness graphene in an application, we have to make use of the interface properties, since as Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer once said 'the interface is the device,'" Li said. "By creating this clean, coherent, 1-D interface, our technique provides us with the opportunity to fabricate graphene-based devices for real applications."
The new technique also allows researchers to experimentally investigate the scientifically intriguing graphene-boron nitride boundary for the first time.
"There is a vast body of theoretical literature predicting wonderful physical properties of this peculiar boundary, in absence of any experimental validation so far," said Li, who leads an ORNL effort to study atomic-level structure-transport relationships using the lab's unique four-probe scanning tunneling microscopy facility. "Now we have a platform to explore these properties."
The research team anticipates that its method can be applied to other combinations of 2-D materials, assuming that the different crystalline structures are similar enough to match one another.
The study, titled "Heteroepitaxial Growth of Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride Templated by Graphene Edges," is available online.
Coauthors are the University of Tennessee's Gong Gu, Lei Liu, and Wan Deng; ORNL's Jewook Park, Kendal Clark, Juan Carlos Idrobo, Leonardo Basile and An-Ping Li; and Sandia National Laboratories' David Siegel and Kevin McCarty.
This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation of Ecuador. Work at Sandia was supported by DOE's Office of Science.
Part of this research was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is sponsored at ORNL by the Scientific User Facilities Division in DOE's Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
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Minister must ensure threats like monorail are never repeated
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird is welcoming Conservation Minister Nick Smith's reported decision not to allow a 29 kilometre swathe to be cut through Southland's Snowdon Forest for a monorail and service road.
"This is great news for this World Heritage Area, which is home to a host of endangered species including the highly threatened mohua/yellowhead and long-tailed bats," says Forest and Bird Otago Southland Field Officer Sue Maturin.
"The monorail plans were unrealistic from the beginning, as there is no way the applicant could have restored the old growth forest, tussock grasslands or wetlands the project would have destroyed. It could also have been catastrophic for the bat population.
"Now we need the Department of Conservation to officially recognise the area's natural values and upgrade the protective status of the Snowdon Forest, along with many other areas of publicly-owned conservation land that are still designated as stewardship lands.
This whole episode shows it is high time that DOC did the job it started years ago, and classified all stewardship land," says Sue Maturin.
"If it had done, the monorail developer would have been saved the cost of getting his proposal this far. And it would have saved community groups likes Forest & Bird the time and expense of advocating for the protection of the Snowdon Forest.
"There's a clear parallel to the Denniston Plateau. That is also stewardship land. If it was shifted from the stewardship holding pen and was classified as a better-protected category of conservation land, it is very unlikely that it would be under threat from an open-cast coal mine.
"It is very fortunate the Snowdon Forest is now safe from this proposal. The minister must now properly fund DOC so it can finish the job of classifying stewardship land, and save us all from many of these sorts of expensive and time-consuming fights in the future," Sue Maturin says.


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Charges against adventurer Aron Ralston, who was jailed Sunday after a domestic dispute, have been dismissed at the request of the Denver city attorney.
"It is my understanding that the city attorney decided there was not a case," his father Larry Ralston said outside the Denver courtroom where Aron Ralston and his girlfriend, Vita Shannon, were to appear Monday afternoon.
Denver police arrested both Ralston and Shannon, at 642 Corona St. late Saturday night. Shannon owns the single-family home, according to property records.
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Taft football coach Chris Rizzo has resigned after two seasons with the Toreadors.
Rizzo, a 1996 Taft graduate, was a walk-on coach who is currently teaching at L.A.Jordan High.
"I just couldn't do the off-campus commute anymore. I hoped to get back on (Taft's) campus, but couldn't get a full-time teaching position," Rizzo said.
Rizzo served as defensive coordinator at Taft before taking the head coaching job in 2011 following the resignation of Matt Kerstetter, who left for Florida following four consecutive winning seasons.
Rizzo's record was 8-14, including City Section playoff appearances in both seasons. He leaves behind a team that should compete for the West Valley League title.
-- Jacob H. Pollon
Legacy captures two titles at Volleyball Festival
Legacy Volleyball Club won 16- and 17-under girls titles and nearly added a third crown in the 18-under division at the recent Volleyball Festival in Phoenix.
Legacy's 17-under team completed an unbeaten 11-match run to the championship with a 25-19, 25-23 victory over Idaho Falls' Bonneville Volleyball Club.
Notre Dame's Kyra Auten and Jackie Lopez, West Ranch's Alexis Clewis, Sierra Canyon's Brianna LaCroix, Paraclete's Brittni Dorsey, Louisville's Emily Greene, Flintridge Sacred Heart's Katie Conley, Quartz Hill's Lyndsay Mylnar, Santa Clarita Christian's Allie Acosta and Saugus' Amy Buffham lifted Legacy - which dropped one game in the tournament - to a third straight 17-under Festival title.
Legacy's 16-under team also went undefeated in 11matches, dropping only two games, including a 21-25, 25-19, 15-9 victory over Ho'opa Hawaii in the final.
Hart's Corrine Holloway, Erin Indermill, Shelly Peer and Chase Tengberg, Valencia's Danielle Erickson, Kaity Uythoven and Teresa Cernosek, West Ranch's Alexa Hesseldenz, Hannah Williams and Hunter Zeleznik, Saugus' Nicole Spooner and Quartz Hill's Ashley Sargent contributed for Legacy.
Legacy suffered a 25-15, 25-19 loss to Alaska's Midnight Sun in the 18-under final.
Notre Dame takes second at Watts Games golf event
Led by Janet Yeo and Lauren Crittenden both shooting 79, Notre Dame took second at the inaugural L.A. Watts Summer Games girls golf tournament at Chester Washington Golf Course.
Alyssa Buzzello and Paige Hollingsworth also contributed to Notre Dame's runner-up effort.
The Knights, who open their season Sept. 4 against reigning Tri-Valley League champion Oaks Christian, also return Katelyn Reynolds and Sammy Winchester from their back-to-back Southern Section Northern Divisional championship roster.
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ANTZ. Remember Woody Allen? Well, he's back--in ant form! Woody plays himself, only with more chitin, in this perverted children's story about an ant who is emotionally unable to support his colony's collective consciousness. He accidentally becomes a war hero, kidnaps a princess, leads a Marxist revolution, and has a fulfilling relationship with his wife's adopted daughter. Well, three out of those four, anyway. I'm not really sure at what audience this movie is aimed, since its "G" rating and the fact that its animated seems to direct it toward kids; but Allen, as Z the Ant, makes comments like "Just for that I'm no longer including you in my wild, erotic fantasies," which I'm not sure is kid stuff. (I haven't been a kid for a while so I could be off-base here). Still, this is the most Woody Allen-like Woody Allen film since Manhattan, so maybe it's for that next generation of self-obsessed neurotic pre-schoolers who've been looking for a voice for their generation. Still, there's something a bit unnerving about this project--do we want Woody Allen attracting underage fans? --DiGiovanna
FIRELIGHT. This hilarious sci-fi/comedy/period romance is what PBS will look like in the future, when all the other channels offer nothing but pornography and live executions. Andrea Dworkin would love the plot: It's about a woman (Sophie Marceau) who contracts out as a prostitute/baby machine for an anonymous rich man, with whom she instantly falls in love. After their three-day affair ends, she's never to see him again, though she must surrender the child they have conceived to his agents. Seven years later, she inexplicably becomes her own daughter's governess. I really cannot express how funny this film is: When Marceau finds her daughter, the daughter says, "Why did you give me away?"; and Marceau replies "I didn't--I sold you." I haven't heard so many guffaws in a movie theater since the death scene in Rocky IV. --DiGiovanna
PERMANENT MIDNIGHT. If you hate Ben Stiller's acting, you'll want to avoid Permanent Midnight like it was a weekend with Richard Simmons. If not, this is definitely worth checking out. Although not long on originality, this true story of Jerry Stahl, the heroin-addicted writer for the TV series Alf, has some creative and engaging moments, including the best crack-smoking scene ever filmed. In the role of Stahl, Stiller does his entire quivering, double-talking, hyper-active shtick here, and it works well in conveying the excited desperation of someone on the edge of fame. Still, I know a good number of people who find Stiller unbearable, and this is him at his most intense. Maria Bello (of ER) turns in a creditable performance as the anonymous woman who finds him working at a drive-through burger stand after his rehabilitation; and Elizabeth Hurley plays her standard role as Stahl's beautiful green-card wife, but really it's Stiller's show. Even if you can't stand him, at least slip in for the last few minutes where, as Stahl, he goes on all the talk shows for the obligatory post-modern, post-addiction, post-recovery, public self-flagellation. --DiGiovanna
RUSH HOUR. Although this is the first Jackie Chan movie to score big at the box office in its opening weekend in America, it's probably his worst film. Other than the five jokes that have been spread out over the 90 minutes of this films length, all the dialogue is incredibly painful. When asked why he's so gung-ho about capturing the villain, Chan is even forced to utter the line, "He killed my partner." There's a couple of good acrobatics/martial arts sequences, but not enough to make this worth sitting through. On the other hand, if you think you'd like to watch Chris Tucker do an exaggerated impression of an Asian while Chan tries to get "funky" and "down" to some soul music, then this film's for you. --DiGiovanna
URBAN LEGEND. Did you ever hear the one about the Hollywood movie that was actually satisfying? A friend of my second cousin's friend heard about it, and it's true! Several of those scary stories you believed as a kid are compiled here for a by-the-book but nonetheless clever horror film. The tortured female this time is Natalie (Alicia Witt), a coed with a past that includes the death of a teenage boy because of her enactment of an urban legend. Well, somebody knows what she did last summer and is playing out other terrifying tales on her friends, such as hiding in the back of a car with an ax and killing her roommate while she sleeps in the next bed. Robert Englund (best known as Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street series) plays one of the main suspects, Professor Wexler, and doe-eyed Jared Leto and clean-skinned Rebecca Gayheart offer lots of frightening cuteness. --Higgins
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME. Hamlet fretted over what dreams may come when we shuffle off this mortal coil, but Robin Williams doesn't have to worry, because he's already been to heaven. And Annabella Sciorra has been to hell. This well-intentioned but stupid mutation of the Orpheus story (based on the novel by Richard Matheson) concerns a very happy couple who like each other a lot. In fact, Christy and Annie Nielsen (Williams and Sciorra) are soulmates. They have it all: an upscale life, a nanny, expensive objects, until their kids die in a car crash, and then Christy dies in one, too. Eventually he ends up in heaven, and his wife ends up in hell--Max Von Sydow plays the shrink-turned-ferryman who navigates between the two. The special effects are pretty darn nifty here, and as a welcome relief, they don't involve any shooting or blowing up. But the freshman-level philosophy ("You know who you are because you think you do!" ) and tons of painful psychoblather shove this movie into the fiery depths of banality. There is one good part: We get to hear Robin Williams called "Christy" for two hours, evoking images of a freshly scrubbed teenage girl in a tennis skirt. --Richter
WILDE. As in Oscar. This is another film by Brian Gilbert, who brought us Tom and Viv and seems quite fascinated by the secret bodice-ripping lives of literary figures. Though Wilde's life is anything but secret. The usual high points are visited here--his marriage, the discovery of his "true nature" with the help of a young relative, his Platonic love for boys, in particular Lord Alfred Douglas (Jude Law), who led to his downfall and eventual imprisonment for immoral behavior or debauchery or whatever they called sex between men then. As always when visiting the 19th century, there's lots of transgressive sex. Here we have "buggering" in soft focus and some hot, deep, man-on-boy mouth kissing. Nothing else stands out in this movie; I found Stephen Fry's Wilde a bit too trembly and vulnerable for the great wit who loved irony. Still, Wilde will do for evenings when Masterpiece Theater has been preempted; though you have to agree, if it were really good, they would have thought of a better title. --Richter
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Wikileaks likes to say it's concerned with truth. Its media cheerleaders like to take that claim at face value. So we have to ask, why is Wikileaks lying about the Tucson massacre?
And it is lying. In a press release today, the organization claimed that Saturday's shooting was the result of "incitement" akin to threats against Julian Assange and other Wikileaks staffers from American political figures. But to date not a single piece of evidence exists that Jared Lee Loughner, the shooter, was driven to violence by political rhetoric of any kind.
But that didn't stop Wikileaks from trying to make the connection:
"WikiLeaks: treat incitement seriously or expect more Gabrielle Gifford killing sprees."
Wikileaks today offered sympathy and condolences to the victims of the Tucson shooting together with best wishes for the recovery of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords, a democrat from Arizona's 8th district, was the target of a shooting spree at a Jan 8 political event in which six others were killed.
Tucson Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, leading the investigation into the Gifford shooting, said that "vitriolic rhetoric" intended to "inflame the public on a daily basis ... has [an] impact on people, especially who are unbalanced personalities to begin with." Dupnik also observed that officials and media personalities engaging in violent rhetoric "have to consider that they have some responsibility when incidents like this occur and may occur in the future."
The release went on to cite all the American political figures supposedly inciting violence against Wikileaks and its staff (remember, violence brought against Assange or his organization has nothing to do with their admitted goal: to undermine American foreign policy). It claims that Wikileaks staff "have also been the target of unprecedented violent rhetoric from prominent media personalities." The "also" in that sentence implies that Wikileaks is like Giffords in that regard.
The fact that the release implied that connection, rather than stating it outright, does not make the connection any less untrue. Neither does quoting Sheriff Dupnik absolve Wikileaks of the responsibility to back up these charges with evidence.
But they can't provide evidence, since to date it does not exist, as Charles Krauthammer noted in his Washington Post column Wednesday:
As killers go, Jared Loughner is not reticent. Yet among all his writings, postings, videos and other ravings - and in all the testimony from all the people who knew him - there is not a single reference to any of these supposed accessories to murder.
Not only is there no evidence that Loughner was impelled to violence by any of those upon whom Paul Krugman, Keith Olbermann, the New York Times, the Tucson sheriff and other rabid partisans are fixated. There is no evidence that he was responding to anything, political or otherwise, outside of his own head.
The notion that Loughner was incited to violence is simply, in light of all existing evidence, a lie. Granted, the release never actually states that Loughner was incited to violence by any American political rhetoric, it just heavily implies that assertion, and lets another, Sheriff Dupnik, make the dubious connections. In that sense, Wikileaks' lie is a form of Ace's Underpants Gnomes strategy:
Suppose I want to say "Jared Loughner was inspired by a steady diet of Rush Limbaugh, episodes of Sarah Palin's Alaska, and Tea Party rallies."
What is the defect in that? Well, if you're a leftist, it's perfect in every single way: It connects a shooting to your political enemies and gives you an advantage you can't get via your policies. But the one problem with it -- which isn't a problem so much as an obstacle -- is that it's simply not true…
But you can't write it. Because of that one little problem obstacle. If you write it, you will immediately have it fact-checked, and facts being stupid things, you will be forced to state it is not, in fact, true.
This is a symptom of what I mentioned yesterday, the lack of any "Phase 2" (in South Park Gnome terminology) to connect Phase 1, steal underpants/complain about rhetoric of violence from the right, with Phase 3, Profit!!! Two out of three ain't bad, liberals figure, and so what if there is nothing to connect 1 to 3? We'll just talk up 1 and 3 until we're blue in the face and assume 2.
See, assumptions and implications can't be fact-checked. You didn't actually say them, so no one can claim you said something untrue. You didn't say it; you just implied the living fuck out of it. But there's no such thing as an implication-check, now is there?
The Underpants Gnomes strategy purports to prove a point even while omitting an essential step in the argument. In this case, political rhetoric did exist, and Loughner was driven to violence. But Wikileaks didn't bother with step two - demonstrating that it was the rhetoric that drove Loughner to violence and not one of a host of other (much more likely, given existing evidence) factors.
Wikileaks knew it couldn't flatly say that political rhetoric is responsible for the shooting, so it just heavily implied that it is, and quoted another politically-interested party who likewise provided no evidence to back up his claims.
Regardless of Wikileaks' rationale for lying about the Giffords shooting, the fact that it did lie should undercut any claims that the organization is interested in truth for its own sake. As Assange has written, his goal is purely political - he says his endgame "justice," a politically-loaded term if there ever was one.
Assange's disregard for facts that impede his agenda should concern all those eager to bestow upon him the label of "journalist." Though, if the actions of so much of America's media establishment since Saturday are the measure of a journalist, perhaps Assange does deserve the title.


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While talking to a leading daily, Varun Dhawan narrated an incident, when he was just 12-years-old. The junior Dhawan said that he had once accompanied his director father David Dhawan on the sets of Biwi No 1, that featured Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor and Sushmita Sen in the leads.
Varun said that there was a shot, that took place on the San Francisco Bridge, and since it was very cold, he and his elder brother Rohit went and sat inside Salman Khan's car along with the actor. "Suddenly, Salman asked us if we want to listen to mass hysteria." Dhawan said. Then, Sallu simply stuck his feet out of the van and "that's all it took for the fans waiting to catch a glimpse of their star to go crazy". Salman's fans started screaming on top of their voices and that was the time when Varun first got the taste about how and what stardom is.


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[WWD] Kate Middleton Issa Dress now in maternity: Consider it perfect timing.
Joan attempts to adjust to maternity leave and the demands of raising a baby while her husband, Greg, is away at war.
Berman urges pork producers to call them "maternity pens" instead.
Kate was spotted browsing the maternity racks at in London today, with the news spreading on twitter.
The regular anchor was out on maternity leave, so the woman with the title "newsreader" was conducting the interview.
Be Frank and True to your husbands on the subject of maternity, and the relation that leads to it.
The eldest early assumed the burdens of wifehood and maternity.
She sees that the glory of maternity is still left her; she may still be a mother!
He was consulted on such matters as maternity and pregnancy.
She receives careful attention and is soon cured of the disease of maternity.
1610s, "quality or condition of being a mother," from French maternité "motherhood" (15c.), from Medieval Latin maternitatem (nominative maternitas) "motherhood," from Latin maternus (see maternal). Used from 1893 as a quasi-adjective in reference to garments designed for pregnant women.
maternity ma·ter·ni·ty (mə-tûr'nĭ-tē)
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UP: Cop killed in crude bomb attack
September 18, 2006 13:00 IST
Last Updated: September 18, 2006 15:45 IST
A police constable was killed in a crude bomb attack in Allahabad on Monday.
A police team soon shot dead one of the assailants and arrested the other, a senior official said.
During a routine check, head constable Ashok Pandey stopped two youngsters on motorcycles at the Civil Lines, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Akhilesh Mehrotra said.
He said the two tried to escape after hurling a crude bomb that killed Pandey.
One of them fell off his motorcycle and was arrested. He has been taken to a hospital.
The other attacker was shot dead a few hundred metres from the crossing, the DIG said.
Mehrotra said the identity of the assailants could be established only after the statement of the injured attacker was recorded.


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The Sydney Swans have come to play when it counted and beaten Carlton by 24 points in the first semi at a dodgy ANZ Stadium.
Just over 37k witnessed the Swans tear Carlton apart in the third term, booting six goals while keeping Carlton scoreless.
The Swans were dormant in the Blues could only manage four goals -- six too few.
Sydney will play a rested Fremantle in Saturday's preliminary final, while the Cats will play the Hawks on Friday night.
If the favourites win, it will be a Hawthorn vs Fremantle grand final -- but the Swans and Cats will have plenty to say about that.
Injuries -- possibly influenced by a suspect surface after the NRL match at ANZ last night -- marred this final with a number of players finding themselves in the casualty ward.
But not everyone found fault with the surface.
"I thought it was better than usual after two rugby games," Sydney's Luke Parker said on radio after the game.
"I didn't find it too bad out there."
Kurt Tippett was subbed off early in the first term with a knee injury and faces a race against the clock to be fit for Fremantle on Saturday night.
Tom Mitchell rolled his ankle and was on ice for three quarters.
Add to that list: Dane Rampe, Ryan O'Keefe (in last 10 seconds) and Ed Curnow and the injury list is double what you would normally see.
The Blues will anxiously await the outcome of Michael Jamison's knock to the head in the last five minutes. He was stretchered off and appeared in a spot of bother (to put it lightly).
Jarrad McVeigh was best-on-ground with 42 disposals, while Ted Richards held his own in defence.
Dan Hannebery and Ryan O'Keefe were busy in the midfield while Carlton had few winners on the night.
That wraps up our coverage for tonight. As always, thanks for following the coverage. This is Lee Crossley signing off.
Good to see the ANZ Stadium staff are still in good spirits.
AN incredible performance & victory. Congratulations @sydneyswans #AFLSWANSBLUES pic.twitter.com/uUYfE8E25r— ANZ Stadium (@ANZStadium) September 14, 2013
GOALS: SYDNEY: Parker 3, Cunningham 2, McVeigh 2, Jack 2, Jetta, O'Keefe, Kennedy, Bolton. CARLTON: Waite 3, Betts 2, Robinson, Gibbs, Armfield.
- Jarrad McVeigh 42 disposals, nine marks, five tackles, two goals.
- Ted Richards gives Jarrad Waite a hiding (two of Waite's goals came in junk time)
- injuries galore and questions raised over dodgy surface... Curnow, Tippett, Mitchell, Rampe, O'Keefe and Jamison hurt
- Nick Malceski chaired off after 150 games
- Kade Simpson's 200th ends with a loss
- Blues have more scoring shots but lose
- Blues scoreless in third term; Swans scoreless in last
- Lewis Jetta proves he could be the finals x-factor for the Swans
Just because he is on the stretcher mobile does not mean Jamison is out of the woods... the stretcher car has to now negotiate its way off this slippery surface.Back to top
41 disposals to Jarrad McVeigh... as the host broadcaster goes around the ground displaying the age of Blues who could be considering their future... Scotland's bio just came up... I reckon he'll go round again... surely.
28mins gone... Jamison has copped a knock to the head (nothing in it)... stretcher on the field...
Murphy behind... another mongrel punt.
Yarran hits the post... as the crowd is put on the screen... 37,980... poor result for the AFL.
As Waite pops through his third. Swans haven't scored this term. That won't bother them. They have stopped, which may bother the Dockers.Back to top
So the Swans lead by 32 points with less than five mins remaining in this match. It's a lot more respectable than it was but you can say 'respectable' and 'believe' and 'they had a go' but the bottom line is Sydney's season will still be alive in five minutes and Carlton players will be Googling 'Mad Monday costumes' by night's end.
Gibbs bangs it goalward... Swans back and they punch it through... Swans lead 86-54, 19mins last term.
Carlton go forward through Walker but the ball falls into a sea of red and white...
16mins gone in this last term... ball is up the Swans' end.
Robinson soccer off the ground lands on the chest of Rampe on the last line of defence.Back to top
A couple of chances for Carlton in the last minute... Sydney's hard heads standing up... O'Keefe, Richards ... the usual... tough Bloods
Waite's shot is a behind... headline goes back up.
Gibbs to Waite and he marks. Tight angle but will have a shot... they have had to remove the 'BLOODBATH' headline here at The Sunday Age...
Waite jumps early but marks spectacularly... slight angle... GOAL... three in nine mins. 86-52... let's not get excited just yet.
Blues get another chance through Armfield... he panics... misses what he should have kicked... 86-46.Back to top
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Smith was lame from his ride, and Joan gathered that kells would have left camp but for the fact that Smith needed rest.
But no one in the village or from any of the camps ever admitted having seen this kells.
Bate Wood had raised a warning hand to kells, who stood up, facing the door.
"Well, Roberts, if you've no objection we'll camp here with you," continued kells.
kells is the only man I've seen who can throw a gun quicker than I. Gulden is a big bull.
kells was tightening the cinch on her saddle while he spoke.
kells dragged the rude door into position, and then, mounting, he called to Joan to follow.
It struck her forcibly that she had lost some of her fear of kells and she did not know why.
Then, resolutely, she got up and crossed over to where kells was unpacking.
kells suddenly came to her, treading noiselessly, and he leaned over her.


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Art Basel Lights Up Hong Kong
This post originally appeared on Scene Asia.
The old adage goes something like this: The best thing about Kowloon is the view of Hong Kong, a smug observation about the urban peninsula that enjoys panoramic views of Hong Kong island's dramatic skyline.
But for several days this month, the opposite view across Victoria Harbour will be grabbing the attention. Two artists are taking over major landmark buildings in Kowloon, using them as backdrops for large-scale light installations.
The first began Thursday with British artist Tracy Emin's work "My Heart Is With You Always" emblazoning the 30-story tower of the Peninsula Hotel, which is sponsoring the piece. Inspired by her series of works rendering her own handwriting in neon, the installation is splashing the title's words with laser lights on the building for 10 days from 7 p.m. to midnight.
And next week, German artist Carsten Nicolai, whose specialty is light and sound installations, will take control of the International Commerce Centre, the city's tallest building. About two kilometers from the Peninsula in West Kowloon, it is visible from most points around the harbor. Mr. Nicolai's work, commissioned by Art Basel Hong Kong, will make use of the lighted facade of the 118-story, 490-meter building—commonly called the ICC—during next week's fair.
In an interview from his Berlin studio, Mr. Nicolai called the ICC the city's "most striking and impressive tower."
While the Peninsula sought out Ms. Emin, Mr. Nicolai and the Art Basel team pitched their art idea to the ICC's management (the building is owned by Sun Hung Kai Properties ), who proved keen on the idea of surrendering control of the lights that line the tower's length. Typically, they are programmed with seasonal displays and text to promote the observation deck.
Mr. Nicolai's installation, "alpha pulse," will flash for two hours over three nights, starting May 15. Rather than installing his own lights, the artist said he will simply reprogram the existing ones to pulse rhythmically. A student of the effect of frequencies on humans, Mr. Nicolai said the lights are programmed to pulse at a low frequency to elicit "more relaxing stimulations" among viewers.
The artist's trademark is minimalist plays of light and sound. To accompany his Hong Kong installation, he designed a phone app that acts as the soundtrack. It will allow viewers to synchronize the pulsing lights with Mr. Nicolai's hourlong electronic track simply by holding their phones up toward the tower. (The app works via the camera.)
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Mr. Nicolai said he has never worked with a screen as large as the ICC, but the building—designed by American architecture firm Kohn Pederson Fox—didn't pose problems. "The biggest challenge was the synchronicity with the sound and light," he said. "The app was quite technical. We had a long time to brainstorm."
Magnus Renfrew, the director of Art Basel Hong Kong, said he long thought the tower, with its rectangular face, would be an ideal canvas and targeted Mr. Nicolai as the artist for the gig. "We were looking to use the tower as a platform," Mr. Renfrew said. "Carsten jumped out as the person for the job."
Mr. Nicolai's work comes just a year after Hong Kong was smitten by its last major public-art installation. "Rubber Duck," a large inflated yellow duck by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, sat in the harbor for six weeks, stirring a frenzy among tourists and locals, who packed the site daily to take photos.
"It's not catchy like that big duck, but it can still have a sublime interaction with the city," Mr. Nicolai said. "I hope to stimulate people. This work isn't for Art Basel—it is for all of Hong Kong."
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Rome (AFP) Nov 29, 2012
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti hosted talks on Thursday on the future of the giant ILVA steelworks in southern Italy, which have been shut down as part of a long-running dispute over pollution levels.
Thousands of workers face losing their jobs at the Taranto plant, the biggest steel mill in western Europe, which was shut down this week after prosecutors seized its production and issued arrest warrants for its managers.
The company also shut down other facilities dependent on the Taranto plant.
"Italy's industrial and manufacturing future is at stake," Giorgio Squinzi, head of the Confindustria big business association, was quoted as saying at the talks with ministers, trade union leaders and local officials.
Participants quoted Monti as saying: "This is a real test for our country."
Around 300 workers from other ILVA facilities around Italy protested in Rome during the government meeting, with many accusing the company's owners Riva Group of neglecting environmental standards for the sake of money.
"Riva only wanted to make a profit without spending a cent on safety and the environment," said Saverio Eletto, 46, from the Novi Ligure facility, as he rallied outside parliament despite heavy rain in the Italian capital.
Moreno Vacchina, 46, also from the Novi Ligure plant, said: "We are here to ask the government to speed up a decree to save ILVA in Taranto."
Tonio Anselmo, 46, said: "Riva made money and poisoned the city."
The Taranto plant, which was struck by a tornado on Wednesday, had already been running at reduced capacity since magistrates ordered parts of it closed in July after an inquiry into damning reports of high cancer rates.
The company has denied any link between its activities and the cancers.
The dispute has pitted workers fighting to keep their jobs amid high unemployment despite possible health hazards against environmentalists and prosecutors who want the site cleaned up immediately.
The environment ministry is also in a stand-off with local prosecutors as it tries to find a middle ground that would keep jobs and ensure a clean-up.
"It is crucial to resolve the ILVA case in order to avoid worse situations," said Stefano Fassina, chief economic expert at the main centre-left Democratic Party, a lawmaker who came to support the demonstration in Rome.
"While the agenda is being dictated by conservative governments, the situation can only worsen and social tensions can only increase," he said.
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