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"Give Scottie Wilbekin a lot of credit tonight," Billy Donovan said on his postgame radio show. "He did a heck of a job on Elston Turner and made it very, very difficult for him. In the first half, our defensive coverage on their team was very good. We had a couple breakdowns here and there, but on the road, to come in like that was really impressive for our guys. It started with the job Scottie did on Elston Turner."
Turner is at his best when he catches the ball and is able to create a shot on his own. When that happens, he's always capable of having a game like he did at Kentucky. The Gators tried to take that away. Florida doubled him and tried to pin him against the sideline. During the few times he was able to get by Wilbekin, the Florida (13-2, 3-0 SEC) big men were able to step up and help.
"Our big guys did a great job on Turner because you've got to provide help," Donovan said. "Scottie did a good job getting over screens, but when Elston Turner got the ball, we were in good position to pin him on the sideline. That helped us."
The defensive performance didn't just slow Turner. The Gators clamped the entire Aggies (12-4, 2-1 SEC) offense. While Turner scored 40 against Kentucky, the entire Texas A&M team didn't break 40 points until there was 2:03 left in the game.
"We got them deep into the clock," Donovan said. "When you get a team deep into the clock, even our team, sometimes guys have to go create, make a play of take a tough shot. That's what happened quite a bit.
"It wasn't a fast paced game because we didn't press a whole lot. We pressed a little bit in the first half and got a couple turnovers."
While the defense continued to dominate, the Florida offense got into gear behind 14 first-half points from Rosario. He ended the game with 19, just one point shy of the most he has scored at Florida.
"Rosario carried us to start the game," Donovan said. "We got down 4-0 and then off to a good start from there with Rosario knocking down a couple threes. We had some good things happen to us."
The Gators closed the first half on an 18-2 run to take a 35-18 lead into the locker room.
"We got a little lucky in the first half because we gave up a couple offensive rebounds that they didn't score on," Donovan said. "Then, we had a couple bad possessions on offense."
It had a similar feel to Saturday's win over LSU. However, the Gators allowed the Tigers to fight back and make the game interesting in Baton Rouge. That didn't happen on Thursday. Florida cruised through the second half and was able to rest some key players.
Erik Murphy carried the second half and finished with 16 points and seven rebounds. Patric Young played with a new energy and posted 18 points, seven rebounds, three steals and one block. Young also went 7-for-9 from the field.
"He did a great job," Donovan said. "He made some good moves and had good low post position where he established himself."
The Gators return to action at home on Saturday against No. 17 Missouri at 2 p.m.


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When Workers Come Together, We Win: Working Families Victory Roundup
Working people scored major victories over the past several months, organizing new workplaces and winning fights to raise wages.
Here are some highlights of recent working families victories:
Texas Machinists Win Back-to-Back Organizing Drives: Union growth continues in Texas as members from the Machinists (IAM) successfully organized their second consecutive workplace in Texas this month, adding nearly 1,000 new members.
Point Park University Faculty Organize Hundreds to Gain Benefits: More than 300 part-time faculty members at Point Park University in Pittsburgh are on the road to a union voice after voting to certify with Adjunct Faculty Association-United Steelworkers (AFA-USW).
Missouri EMS Workers Win Organizing Fight: An overwhelming majority of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) professionals in Independence, Missouri, voted to join EMS Workers United-AFSCME, strengthening the local union and providing essential protections for Missouri workers.
Massachusetts Workers Help Push Minimum Wage Hike: Working people in Massachusetts scored a big win as Gov. Deval Patrick signed legislation that will increase the state's minimum wage to $11 an hour by 2017.
Newark, N.J., Paid Sick-Leave Ordinance Goes Into Effect: A new paid sick-leave law in Newark, N.J., will allow full and part-time employees to earn up to 40 hours of paid sick-leave per year. Similar paid sick-leave laws have passed in cities such as San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC.
Momentum Builds for Minimum Wage Hike in Nebraska: Workers in Nebraska put a measure on the 2014 ballot to raise the minimum wage to $9 and hour by 2016.
California Workers Benefit from Minimum Wage Increase: An increase in California's minimum wage to $9 an hour has taken effect, with the wage set to increase again in 2016 to $10 an hour. Meanwhile, efforts continue in Los Angeles to increase the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour.
Philadelphia Building Trades Go to Work with New Housing Deal: A deal between Philadelphia building-trades unions and the Philadelphia Housing Authority will put people to work in union jobs while creating new affordable housing for Pennsylvanians.
Letter Carriers Complete Successful Food Drive: Members of the Letter Carriers (NALC) completed their annual food drive, collecting more than 72 million pounds of food for families in need.
Union Volunteers Help Aspiring Americans Earn Citizenship: On June 28, at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., volunteers helped nearly 100 people through the U.S. citizenship process, enabling them to file paperwork with the help of legal and immigration experts.
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Wikipedia has locked the pages of several Republicans being mentioned as possible running mates for Mitt Romney, perhaps as a response to some shenanigans from Stephen Colbert.
The entries for Rob Portman, Tim Pawlenty, Paul Ryan and Chris Christie all have locks on them with a message that the page is either fully or partially "protected due to vandalism." The page for CIA Director David Petraeus has also been locked, because he got mentioned on the Drudge Report as a possible contender.
BLOG: Portman stumps for Romney
Micah Sifry, co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum and editor of the TechPresident blog, suggested earlier this week that clues about Romney's vice presidential pick could be found on Wikipedia, which bills itself as the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
Then last night, Colbert pretended to do some tinkering to the Pawlenty entry on his Comedy Central show. And he urged those viewing in "Colbert Nation" to "make as many edits as possible" to the entries of possible Romney running mates.
Wikipedia then added a "Colbert vandalism invitation" to the "talk" page in the Pawlenty entry and the lock appeared.
Sifry noted in a TechPresident post today that Portman's Wikipedia entry had been edited 112 times since Sunday while Rubio got 52 edits and Pawlenty 18.
"I guess we all just pushed the needle deeper into the haystack," Sifry wrote.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
USA TODAY's Jackie Kucinich (@jfkucinich) and Fredreka Schouten (@fschouten) also contribute to the OnPolitics blog.


text: As 2012 winds down it's time to look ahead to a morbid 2013. List what three celebrities/politicians/public figures you think will retire from the planet in the coming year. I don't have the 2012 thread from ACF to reference so I guess this is a free for all for repeating picks from last year. 1) Hugh Hefner. 2) Zsa Zsa Gabor. 3) Muhammad Ali.


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Make a Bootable Linux/Ubuntu USB Drive in Windows 8/8.1 in just 4 steps using Universal USB Installer. There are also other ways to install like using Command Prompt, USB Maker or using .iso file reader. But this is easiest way to make Bootable Linux/Ubuntu USB Drive in Windows 8/8.1.
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|The study group reunites after winter break and fills each other in on what they did on vacation. Jeff then shows up with a new attitude determined to be more positive then he was before. Abed compares his new outlook to the character Hawkeye from M*A*S*H. A student then tells him that he hopes he doesn't change too much. Jeff is about to respond to him before he and the group realize that a stranger has joined them at the study table. He introduces himself as Buddy from their Spanish class but Abed is the only one who recognizes him. Buddy tells him how he's familiar with all of them having seen them all grow closer last semester. He asks that they consider letting him into their group.
|Dean Pelton convinces Jeff to edit the newly resurrected Greendale Gazette Journal Mirror, Greendale's student newspaper, with the promise of a cushy office and a free English credit. The staff includes Abed as photographer and Annie whom Jeff quickly appoints her as his "ace newshound" reporter when she notices him taking advantage of his newfound authority. Annie soon finds out that Dean Pelton texted only the black students about a time change for a concert on campus. He did so, assuming they would be able to spread the word to everyone, in order to avoid additional cell phone charges. Jeff agrees to help when the Dean begs him to kill the story but Annie doesn't respond to Jeff's relaxed approach.
|Buddy persists in his desire to join the group but Jeff resists pressure from the other members to deal with the situation. Soon Buddy's constant interruptions of study time prove more than even the new laid-back Jeff can handle and the group meets to discuss membership policy. Surprisingly, a majority of the group seem inclined to let Buddy in until Jeff pretends to read a newspaper story about a student who murdered his classmates. However, nobody informs Buddy of their decision and he shows up at the next meeting and doesn't take news of the group's decision well, refusing to leave. Jeff finally snaps, physically dragging Buddy away and then returning to tell Annie she can't run her news story.
Back in the newspaper office Jeff is distraught for reverting to his old ways but Abed tells him that sometimes a leader needs to bark orders and take charge. Annie walks in to thank Jeff for making her realize how she could have hurt Dean Pelton. This newfound perspective causes Jeff to invite Buddy back and encourage the group to really give him a chance. As everyone agrees and moves in for a group hug another group walks in to tell Buddy he has been accepted in to their group. Buddy reveals to the study group that they were his second choice and leaves with the "cool group" which includes Star-Burns. When Annie laments that she wishes they could have gotten a new member, Shirley tells them that she'll contact Gary.
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Troy and Abed are interviewed by Star-Burns for possible membership in the "cool group". Pierce shows up and berates them for their disloyalty. After they walk away Pierce asks if the group has decided on his own membership.
Recurring themesEdit
- And we're back: The study group (as well as the show itself) returns picking up where the previous episode left off right after their winter break.
- Returning students: Star-Burns appears in the end tag.
- First appearance:
- The school newspaper The Gazette Journal Mirror is introduced.
- Mark Millot's first appearance is in this episode.
- Middle Eastern Magic 8 Ball: Abed mentions The Right Stuff, a novel which was made into a film that is referenced heavily in Season Two's episode Basic Rocket Science.
- Familiar faces: Actor Owen Wilson appears as the Cool study group leader. Actress Hiromi Oshima appears as the female Cool Study Group member.
- This must be the place: This is the first time we see the group have an official meeting outside the study room to discuss non-academic matters. Group Study Room F, the Spanish classroom and Dean Pelton's office are all seen.
Running gags:Edit
- Biggest laugh of the night: With one of several jump kicks Buddy accidentally connects with Jeff's nose, drawing blood. Later Buddy gets pantsed over the course of being physically ejected from the study room by Jeff.
- Fan Service: In Buddy's daydream at the beginning of the episode, Britta and Annie fight in cheerleader uniforms.
- Gasp: The Annie and Britta of Buddy's imagination oversell a shocked gasp.
- Man crush: Pelton inappropriately rubs Jeff's stomach.
- Pansexual imp: Dean Pelton is shown trying on a Dalmatian costume in his office.
Pop culture referencesEdit
- TV Guide: M*A*S*H is mentioned frequently by Abed throughout this episode. Jeff is called Hawkeye numerous times and Abed even hums the theme song. The episode ends with a freeze frame, the signature tune and the yellow closing credits, all known from M*A*S*H.
- Product placement: Dean Pelton uses free samples of Sephora as bait by to lure Jeff into the Greendale Gazette Journal Mirror.
- Shout out: Annie recalls a Toni Braxton concert held at Greendale.
- IMDb: Buddy compares himself to the main character in Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
- Well read: Abed briefly mentions Tom Wolfe's novel The Right Stuff.
Meta references:Edit
- Use your allusion: Britta mentions she thinks she spent the winter break in Amsterdam but she'll know for sure when she finds her camera. This is likely a reference to the summer hit "The Hangover" which had been released that year.
- Parody: Buddy says "I'm strong, and I can kick" just before kicking Jeff in the face. This is a clear reference to the outrageous 1987 appearance of Crispin Glover on Late Night with David Letterman, where Glover delivered the same line along with a high kick towards Letterman.
- Up against the wall: When Buddy sings about Annie's "luscious fanny" Jeff tells him that because Annie is only 18, they try not to sexualize her. In the DVD commentary Dan Harmon explained that this echoes the attitude of Community's creative team towards Alison Brie's character.
- Everyone's a critic:
- Buddy has some suggestions to improve the group dynamic. While his ideas probably aren't representative of any specific critics, this can be seen as commentary on outside entities trying to influence the show.
- Pierce is bored of Abed's frequent pop culture references.
- Jeff comments on some of the negative aspects of his behavior from the first half of the season while overtly trying to be more relaxed.
- IRL: Numerous characters comment on Buddy's chubby athleticism, one of the hallmark's of Jack Black's acting career.
- Résumé: Owen Wilson's appearance at the end of the episode reunites the two main characters from a pilot Dan Harmon co-wrote called Heat Vision and Jack.
- "This is the first desk I've seen in six months that doesn't have 'Zeppelin Rules' carved into it."— Jeff
- "No no, it's fine it's fine. Just a little...little nosebleed. I get them when it's dry and when my face get's kicked."— Jeff
- "If we're going to add a chair for every bong-ripping good-time Charlie with a song in his heart, I move we institute hazing."— Annie
- "Guys, let's take a vote."— Britta
- "Secret vote. Everybody cover your eyes."— Abed
- "We won't know the results!"— Annie
- "Well, say your vote out loud."— Pierce
- "We'll know each other's voices."— Shirley
- "Troy's got a point."— Pierce
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As the government struggles to win support for its budget, and to build consensus in parliament, Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull is out trying to get agreement among media bosses on an overhaul of ownership laws.
But any change is looking increasingly difficult.
"It's the job of government to deal with everybody, consult with everybody and then make decisions," Mr Turnbull told Channel Nine's Financial Review Sunday program in March when talking about media reform.
This week, he was still dealing and consulting with everyone. And he'll do the same next week.
The question is, will he be able to make a decision?
The two big reforms up for discussion are the "two out of three rule" which prevents any one company from owning two of a newspaper, TV station and radio licence in the same market.
And then there's the reach rule, which prevents the Nine, Ten and Seven television networks from merging with their regional affiliates, WIN, Southern Cross and Prime.
Critics say the rule is out-of-date in a world where content can be viewed online from anywhere on the planet.
Ian Robertson, a partner at Holding Redlich, told Financial Review Sunday: "The most pressing reform is the removal of the reach rule. There's really no policy justification for it. It misses the reality of what happens."
Mr Turrnbull held private meetings with media CEOs last week and will hold more meetings this week. Investors, the media and the minister – who was too busy to comment – all want to see media laws changed. However, as each day goes by, it is looking increasingly unlikely that any reforms will pass before Christmas.
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Dear Sugar,
A month ago, I broke up with my boyfriend of a year. The relationship was exhausting and left me restless and unhappy, so I ended it. Since then, we've seen each other (we share a lot of friends and frequent the same places) and have, on occasion, shared a physical connection out of momentary desire. I always regret it and stick to my word about wanting to remain broken up. He believes me, but he's still a bit too needy for my liking. I communicated that I need space, and he's starting to get the idea.
Here's where it gets hard. I've had a crush on a guy for a few years, even through my relationship with my ex. I never acted on it, but recently this guy has shown interest in me and I honestly can't get this guy out of my head. The thing is, I'm a chronic dater. When I get out of a relationship, I usually find myself in another one pretty quickly. I don't want my crush to be a continuation of this trend, but I do want to pursue it — he's intelligent, interesting, pensive, and adorable.
However, if I start dating someone else this soon, my ex will flip, and he can be violently scary when he's upset with me — he would never do anything to hurt me, but I may not hear from him for a couple of years. I'm stuck. What should I do?
—Chronic Dater Christina
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Dear Chronic Dater Christina,
You say that you're worried about your ex's emotions, but you're still sleeping with him even though you know that he has stronger feelings for you than you him. That's certainly sending mixed signals, so sure, he's going to be very hurt by your interest in another guy. Break things off with your ex; that means no more fooling around, and I'd even take a few months away from gatherings of mutual friends. If you make it clear, without any question, that it's over between you two, then while he'll still be hurt, it won't hit as close to home.
As for your tendency to hop into relationships too quickly, I don't think that means that you can't pursue a relationship with this other guy; it's just a good reason to take it very slowly. Hold off from defining your relationship with him. Resist the urge to see him every day. Make lots of time for yourself and your friends. And most important, enjoy flirting and getting to know him. It's one of the best parts of a relationship, and often the most fleeting!


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Twitter is a fast-growing micro blogging platform which allows you to send small 140 character messages over the internet to your friends and followers. As it grows, more people are becoming addicted to it and using it all day. Here are some warning signs of being a Twitter addict:
– Love it when new people 'follow' you on Twitter.
– Suffer mood swings when your Internet connection goes off, disconnecting you from Twitter. Or if the Twitter is down due to maintenance or other issues.
– You find yourself saying everything in 140 characters, in regular face-to-face meetings with people.
– You take to begging like never before – asking blog and website readers to follow you on twitter. And once they do, beg them to retweet your tweet.
– Slow down on blogging and speed up on Twitter-ing.
– Squat on Twitter all day even at the office, with the delusion that you work for your Twitter followers and not your company.
– Resort to ego surfing to see if your twitter name and tweets figure on twitter search.
– Your finger hitting Twitter's refresh button every other second.
– Mark out your Twitter ID in all your emails, blogs and even print it on your calling card.
– Get your home page to point to your Twitter login.
– Compulsively experiment with newer Twitter clients and apps both on your phone and computer. Not to mention, blogging ad infinitum on all the kinds of – Twitter apps available on the world wide web.
– Squat on Twoogle, if only to search on Google and Twitter.
– Get all your family members to open a twitter account, so they can follow all your tweets.
– Spare time every Friday, if only to follow every Tom, Dick and Harry, thanks to FollowFriday.
– Call yourself the Twitterati rather than what really are, a doctor, engineer or writer.
– Bug your friends with text messages, asking them to follow your tweets.
These are 15 symptoms of Twitter addiction. Even if you've checked off 10 of them, you are a confirmed Twitter addict. Want to kick the habit? Wait for the next post on how to kick this habit in a few easy steps.
~Zahid Javali
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text: Being Human (BBC) Series 5 Premiere "The Trinity" February 3, 2013 Being Human UK, News Being Human "The Trinity" Series 5 premiere airs tonight on BBC THREE at 10pm. Episode Synopsis: Ghost Alex is beginning to adjust to life after death with werewolf Tom but vampire Hal is in living in hell because he wants to get his marigolds on the messy house. After Tom and Alex decide to set him free, Hal is left feeling wracked by uncertainty. Having been sacked from the café, Hal and Tom find new jobs at the Barry Grand Hotel. Show Summary: Being Human is a BBC Three series about three housemates who happen to be a werewolf, vampire and a ghost, and their quest to come to terms with who they are. Click Any Photo Below To Enlarge Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)


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This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
We review the theoretical research on the influence of disorder on structure and phase behavior of condensed matter system exhibiting continuous symmetry breaking focusing on liquid crystal phase transitions. We discuss the main properties of liquid crystals as adequate systems in which several open questions with respect to the impact of disorder on universal phase and structural behavior could be explored. Main advantages of liquid crystalline materials and different experimental realizations of random field-type disorder imposed on liquid crystal phases are described.
Understanding of phase and structural behavior of various systems which are randomly perturbed by some static origin of disorder is of considerable interest for different branches of physics [
The pioneering studies have been mostly carried out in various randomly perturbed magnetic materials [
It was shown that the 1st order phase transitions become gradual as disorder exceeds the critical value [
In recent years it has been shown that randomly perturbed liquid crystal (LC) phases and structures [
LCs have several extraordinary (mechanical, electrical and optical) properties which make them indispensable in biological systems and in our daily life [
In order to study influence of random field-type disorder on phase and structural behavior one commonly enforces disorder to LCs either by mixing them with "impurities" or confining LCs to various porous matrices [
The paper is organized as follows. In Section II, we present a brief overview on liquid crystals, containing the principal characteristics and properties of the three main classes and the definition of the nematic orientational order parameter. In Section III, the basic properties of principal models of nematic-isotropic phase transition are shown. In Section IV, the influence of the random field on structural and phase transition properties is theoretically described in the framework of a mesoscopic phenomenological model. The experimental observations which support the theoretical model are also described. In the final Section V, we draw some conclusions.
Liquid crystals were discovered in 1861 by Planer, confirmed in 1888 by Reinitzer [
Liquid crystals or mesophases constitute a state of matter whose physical properties are intermediate between those of an isotropic liquid and a crystalline solid [
Liquid crystals possess many of the mechanical properties of a liquid,
The constituent organic molecules of liquid crystalline materials could be in general very different, but it is essential that they are anisotropic and rigid for at least some portion of the molecule length (since it must maintain an elongated shape in order to produce interactions that favor alignment). The liquid crystals composed from rod-like molecules are called "calamitics", while those formed by disk-shape molecules are known as "discotic" [
Two types of liquid crystals must be differentiated: (i) thermotropic and (ii) lyotropic. The transitions involving thermotropic liquid crystals are effected by changing temperature. Lyotropic liquid crystals are found in solutions and concentration is the important controllable parameter. Usually a lyotropic liquid crystal molecule combines a hydrophobic group at one end with a hydrophilic group at the other end. These amphiphilic molecules forms ordered structures (micelles, vesicle, lamellar phases or reversed phases) in both polar and non-polar solvents as in the case of soaps and various phospholipids [
Another important class of liquid crystals is derived from certain macromolecules, usually in solution but sometimes even in the pure state. These liquid crystals are known as "liquid crystal polymers" [
Based upon their symmetry, Friedel distinguishes three major classes of liquid crystals—nematics, cholesterics, and smectics.
An isotropic liquid possesses full translational and orientational symmetry
In this phase there exists no long-range positional order (between the centers of mass of the molecules). The molecules tend to be parallel to some common axis, labeled by a unit vector
The biaxial nematic phase results due to further breaking of the rotational symmetry and is characterized by three orthogonal directors, the Goldstone modes
If the liquid crystal molecules are chiral (lacking inversion symmetry), the uniaxial nematic phase is replaced by the chiral nematic phase or twisted nematic phase or cholesteric phase. Locally, a cholesteric is very similar to a nematic. Again, the centers of mass have no long-range order and the molecular orientation shows a preferred axis labeled by a director
When the crystalline order is lost in two dimensions, one obtains the two-dimensional liquids, called smectics. Smectics liquid crystals have layered structures with a well-defined interlayer spacing that can be measured by X-ray diffraction. In addition to the orientational order, the smectic molecules exhibit some correlations in their position. In most smectics the molecules are mobile in two directions and can rotate around one axis. The interlayer attractions are weak compared with the lateral forces between molecules and the layers are able to slide over one another relatively easily which gives rise to fluid property of the system with higher viscosity than nematics. When smectic and nematic phases are found in one compound, the nematic phase is almost always found at higher temperatures with the exception of reentrant nematic phase.
The observed smectic phases differ from each other in the way of layer formation and the existing order inside the layer [
As an example of compound that can be in both nematic and smectic A phases we cite the very much used octyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (8CB) with chemical formula shown in
The fundamental characteristics of a liquid crystal is the presence of long-range orientational order while the positional order is either absent (nematic phase) or limited (smectic phases). One phase differs from another by its symmetry. The transition between phases of different symmetry can be described in terms of an order parameter
The macroscopic orientational nematic order parameter is a traceless, symmetric, second rank tensor with components given by [
A uniaxial nematic state is described by the condition that two eigenvalues of
The microscopic ordered parameters
The uniaxial nematic state state is specified by only three parameters: the magnitude
If the mesogenic molecules possess cylindrical symmetry,
The experimental observations [
In the microscopic models we deal with the system at the molecular level and we start the calculations on the basis of partition function or the exact density functionals of the free energy. Accordingly, for a complete and satisfactory microscopic theory a knowledge of the intermolecular interaction is necessary. Unfortunately such a knowledge is almost entirely lacking. Even if the essentials of the intermolecular interaction are known, the successful application of the theory is very difficult due to enormous calculation problems. Owing to these difficulties the model potentials have been introduced,
The first extremely successful molecular model (of mean field type) of liquid crystal ordering was developed by Onsager [
The configurational free energy (per rod) of a system of hard rods can be expressed as
The singlet orientational distribution function can be determined by minimizing the free energy subject to the constraint ∫
Onsager obtained an approximate variational solution which is based on a trial function of the form
The Onsager model of nematic-isotropic phase transition is exact in the limit of the infinite length to width ratio
The mean-field model of Maier and Saupe [
The standard Maier–Saupe free energy difference between nematic and isotropic phases can be written as
The trial singlet orientational distribution function is chosen to be given by
The entropy change associated with the nematic orientational order is given by
The order parameter is calculated by minimizing Δ
The possible extensions of the Maier–Saupe theory have been presented
A complete molecular theory of the mesophases must include both anisotropic short range repulsive and long-range attractive forces. The vdW types theories [
The classical version and development in the present form have been discussed at length in other reviews [
The Landau–de Gennes theory of phase transitions in liquid crystals [
The most general form of the free energy
Near the nematic-isotropic transition point, in a mesoscopic approach the phenomenological Landau–de Gennes form of the homogeneous free energy density There is no term linear in If To ensure stability of the nematic phase,
There is no term linear in
To ensure stability of the nematic phase,
Using the representation
The uniaxial nematic state (with the choice of
The elastic free energy density (
The most essential surface contribution (anchoring term) of the free energy is given by
For the uniaxial ordering, using the representation
To obtain an insight into the structure and origin of the phenomenological parameters
Liquid crystals, by virtue of their fluidity, intrinsically soft elasticity and experimental accessibility, offer opportunities for the study of the structural and dynamical effects of quenched disorder, which can be introduced, for example, by confinement within appropriate random porous media [
Numerous studies [
In the following we analyze structural and phase behavior of a nematic liquid crystal experiencing quenched random anisotropy field (RAN) disorder in the simplest possible mean-field type approach. We first consider a typical domain structure in the nematic director field. We show that a domain structure is practically always expected, at least temporarily, if a lower symmetry (
The main part of the paper is concerned with phase and structural behavior of randomly perturbed systems in which domain-type patterns are assumed. For this purpose we list evidences supporting this description in phases or structures exhibiting continuous symmetry breaking, where the lower symmetry phase possesses long range order (or at least quasi long range order).
In general, at the mesoscopic continuum level the degree of ordering in the broken symmetry configuration is determined by an order parameter field (OPF). On the other hand a selected symmetry breaking state is described by a symmetry breaking field (SBF), also referred to as a gauge field [
An example of a continuous symmetry breaking in orientational ordering represents the isotropic to nematic liquid crystal phase transition. In the nematic phase ordering can be well described by the nematic director field
For illustration purposes we consider orientational ordering in the nematic phase in the remaining part of this Section. We first show that a domain-type pattern in the SBF is inevitably formed at least temporally in the lower symmetry configuration after a quench from the higher symmetry phase even in absence of disorder. Then we give evidences that such domain pattern could be stabilized by impurities, which impose a quenched random field-type of disorder. In both cases the domain patterns are well described by a single characteristic length. We determine regimes where such patterns are expected.
We consider the onset of orientational ordering in the thermotropic nematic phase which is reached via the temperature quench from the isotropic phase in absence of static disorder. Immediately after the quench in causally disconnected parts of the system, a random value of SBF is chosen depending on a local preference mediated by a fluctuation [
The coarsening dynamics following the quench evolves via three qualitatively different stages. Immediately after the quench the
The above described mechanism of domain formation is universal and is referred to as the Kibble–Zurek mechanism [
Next, we estimate characteristic size
We express the elastic free energy and the random anisotropy field density [
The Imry–Ma estimation of
For this purpose [
The interaction energy
The short range interaction
In simulations one originates either from spatially randomly distributed orientations of spins, or from a homogeneously aligned sample along a single direction. We refer to these system histories as the
A system configuration is obtained by minimizing
From obtained configurations the orientational correlation function
In order to obtain structural details from calculated dependencies
To check the validity of the Imry–Ma scaling the obtained
Results show that in the strong anchoring limit (
It was further analyzed [
The system is enclosed within a cube of volume
The orientations of unit vectors
The positions
The orientation of the
In the simulations the average domain size was monitored which is estimated from a pattern as follows. One calculates an average volume
In the following we assume that the random anisotropy field gives rise to a domain type pattern. We analyze phase expected behavior for perturbed nematic LC and nematic-non nematogen mixture.
The random anisotropy nematic type disordering field enters the expression for the free energy
For numerical purposes we introduce instead the length
Taking into account these previous considerations, the free energy density can now be written as
For convenience we introduce nondimensional quantities. The temperature is replaced by the reduced temperature
Omitting the bar notation, the dimensionless free energy density is written in the following form:
Taking the limit
The (Λ
For a weak enough disorder (Λ
The behavior of the correlation length
For low values of the order parameter
The profiles of the order parameter for two values of Λ shown in
In this section we present some results concerning the influence of a random anisotropy type disorder on the phase separation of the nematogen–non-nematogen mixture. We assume that the impurities (
The mixture is characterized by the volume fractions of the two components:
The free energy
The first term is the free energy density of the isotropic mixing for the two components [
The second term in
The elastic free energy density
Using the non-dimensional variables defined in section (4.2.) the dimensionless free energy density is given by
Note that the local ordering tendency of impurities induces a finite value of
In this case the paranematic phase is replaced by the isotropic one and
To show how the onset of nematic ordering triggers phase separation in conventional liquid crystal, we rewrite
The subscripts
To calculate the phase diagram we use the equilibrium conditions given by the
The phase diagram (
In the vicinity of
The described phenomenological RAN model roughly describes behavior of nematic LC experiencing a quenched random anisotropy field disorder. In the following we show some experimental evidences supporting this approach and discuss in which studied physical properties the influence of disorder might be significant for a temperature interval covering isotropic and nematic ordering in bulk LC samples.
In experimental studies the disorder is typically introduced geometrically by different perturbers via a varying LC–perturber interface [
All these perturbers introduce into systems a new characteristic length scale
Most studies have been performed in mixtures of LC phases and aerosil nanoparticles. The spherular aerosil particles have diameter 2
Several investigations have been also carried out in LC confined to aerogel matrices. Aerogels [
X-rays studies [
Much work focusing on the influence of disorder on LC behavior has also been carried out in Controlled-pore glasses (CPG) [
In all these samples the orientational anchoring condition at the perturber–LC interface depends on interface treatment and also on the type of LC used. However as a rule, LC–perturber interfaces tend to increase degree of LC ordering locally [
Regarding the range of ordering of the disordered phase, most studies confirm the prediction that the broken phase exhibits a domain-type short range order (SRO) in LC ordering. SRO was reported in samples using aerogels [
In randomly perturbed LCs on commonly observes a suppressed value of the paranematic-speronematic phase transition temperature
Furthermore, for small enough values of
Note that the transition from the critical to the noncritical LC temperature behavior on decreasing
We have presented typical phase and structural behavior of randomly perturbed systems exhibiting continuous symmetry breaking using nematic liquid crystal phase as a testing ground. In liquid crystalline materials several features can be experimentally probed due to relatively good experimental accessibility, which can be exposed to different strengths and types of disorder. The impact of disorder on liquid crystal ordering is pronounced due to the softness of liquid crystal phases.
We have reviewed behavior of a nematic liquid crystal experiencing quenched random anisotropy field disorder assuming domain-type orientational ordering. Typical ordering of such systems has been demonstrated using relatively simple numerical simulations based on Lebwohl–Lasher lattice type model. It has been shown that a domain-type pattern characterized by a single characteristic length in the symmetry breaking field is inevitably formed at least temporally in the lower symmetry state (nematic) after a quench from the higher symmetry phase (isotropic) even in the absence of disorder. Such domain pattern can be stabilized by impurities. If impurities impose a random field-type disorder a domain pattern again characterized by a single characteristic length obeying the Imry–Ma scaling can be formed. We have presented cases in which the Imry–Ma scaling is expected and have shown that memory effects could be pronounced.
Assuming the domain-type nematic structure, we have used the Random Anisotropy Nematic (RAN) phenomenological model to study the phase behavior of nematic (speronematic)-isotropic (paranematic) phase transition. It has been shown that the main features which such a simple approach predicts are indeed realized in several experimental systems,
The authors acknowledge financial support from Ministries of Research and Education from Slovenia and Romania.
The arrangement of molecules in the nematic phase.
The arrangement of molecules in the cholesteric phase; the plans have been drawn for convenience, but do not have any specific physical meaning.
The arrangement of molecules in the smectic A phase.
The chemical formula of octyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (8CB).
Value of
The time evolution of the characteristic domain length
The domain growth for different concentrations of impurities after sudden quench from isotropic phases or homogeneously aligned structures.
Saturated average domain length values as a function of
The phase diagram (Λ
Phase diagram for nematic – non-nematic binary mixture in the absence of disorder for Γ =
The influence of disorder on the phase separation for nematogen – non-nematogen binary mixture (see the main text).


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Expect to see a new wave of short sales in 2012 -- if all goes as planned.
The powers that be are on a mission to make short sales more attractive to lenders and borrowers. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- which guarantee or own more than half of the outstanding mortgages in the United States -- say they are working on policy changes that will make short sales easier and more efficient.
Those changes will likely include incentives to servicers to allow borrowers to sell their houses for less than what is owed, says Tracy Mooney, Freddie Mac senior vice president of single-family servicing. She spoke Wednesday at the Mortgage Bankers Association's servicing conference in Orlando, Fla. Mooney says Freddie plans to ease the rules on documents requested from borrowers during the short sale process. It wants servicers to reach out to more struggling borrowers with solicitation offers encouraging them to short-sell their homes to avoid foreclosure.
FHFA, the federal agency that oversees Fannie and Freddie, is hungry for more short sales.
Julia Gordon, manager of single-family policy at the FHFA, or Federal Housing Finance Agency, says FHFA is about to start working with Fannie and Freddie "to improve short sales."
The changes will include "clarity around timelines, eligibility criteria ... and increased incentives," she told a crowd of mortgage servicers at a Mortgage Bankers Association conference.
If (big emphasis on if) the entities succeed, it would help many borrowers who can't afford their mortgage payments and can't sell because they are underwater. It would also encourage more buyers to look into short sales as an option, once they know they won't have to wait months to close.
While I hear it has gotten much easier to close on a short sale -- compared to the days when it took lenders a year to reply to a short sale request -- it remains a frustrating process for buyers, sellers and their agents.
Any improvements are welcome. I do hope there's something for borrowers -- and not just lenders -- in the "incentives" that the FHFA is considering.
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right, I've forgotten to mention that this doesn't work neither in
active, nor in passive mode..
Every transfer, even resumed, only download a 1Kbyte portion
Every other protocol works fine
> Do You use passive mode in your ftp client?
> Alexandre BOULANGER wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > I have troubles reaching some external FTP servers from inside my LAN
> > behind my m0n0wall; some of them will correctly handle my requests (in
> > fact, transfering a >1Kbyte file) and some of them will just stall
> >
> > I've allowed all outbound ports (ie LAN -> WAN unrestricted), and even
> > tested with the 'allow frag pkts' option..
> >
> > Is it a client or server software configuration problem? Thanks you
> > enlightening me
> >
> >
Alexandre BOULANGER <a dot boulanger at askus dot fr>
Administration Linux && solutions réseaux
ASKus - Hébergement, solutions réseaux et développement sous Linux
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text: The James C. Kirkpatrick Library hides in the shadows Wednesday as sunshine lights the south side of campus. The campus was closed for a second day in a row due to the winter storm that dumped several inches of snow in the area. The Warrensburg R-6 School District is closed Thursday and has been closed since Monday. (JERRY MORRIS/digitalBURG)


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If babies could text …
Oh, the truths their tiny fingers could tell, if only babies were dexterous enough to text ...
Babies born today will never know a world in which text messaging wasn't invented. They will know how to communicate effectively using only a smartphone and their thumbs, probably well before they're actually able to spell properly.
But for now, the limitations of their semi-developed brains prevent them from being able to get their message across via text, which means that, like generations of parents before us, we have to try and guess at what's really going on in their minds.
Which is a lot of fun.
If the tiny humans among us mastered the art of texting, we think the following conversations would be pretty spot on …
If your baby could text you, what would they say?
More from Kidspot:
- Dilemmas for the digital age: 5 emoticons parents need
- Horribly embarrassing parenting moments
- Parenting fails
More related reading:
- 7 steps to enter the digital age from Body + Soul
- 18 emojis that should exist but don't from BuzzFeed
- 13 emojis that should exist from Hello Giggles


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Would you like to save as your currency permanently or for this visit only?
None Poor moteL as like poor country cheap motel. No parking lot. No oganized frontdesk & staff. Even no shampoo
Tried contacting them to add a day to my stay, nobody ever replied to my email. (Email which they requested me to send when I called)
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York & I was looking for something nice to do while I was on sick leave & Playland was perfect. Everything is so central plus the room is fun & different plus CLEAN! Staff are laid back & sweet! It was a nice getaway from city life to a laid back Hamptons/ Williamsburg vibe :) The food was my only complaint. The appetizers were okay, but it was like a 5 year old created the menu & cooked the food... Flavor & ingredient wise. Presentation of the food was perfect but tasted horribly. Don't order the jerk chicken - & also the choice of cups was also sized for children instead of adults but I saw out in the patio.
It was cheap and close to the subway stop. The rooms were interesting. We got there too late for the beach party but the area has a very hipster vibe to it. It's close to the beach. The bathrooms are not in the room. There are no TV's, but that's not a big issue for me.
Clean staff are nice good location Heat didn't work room vas very cold
Not far from subway and buses direct to Manhattan, lots of restaurants,shop, bars and parks in the direct neighborhood. Breakfast a bit disappointing but ok for the hotel price
Nothing.. I canceled after one night. they allowed hookers in paying room by the hour, the place was discusting. Nothing.. I canceled after one night. they allowed hookers in paying room by the hour, the place was discusting.
Lousy customer service. I arrived around 8pm and there were only two greasy spoon restaurants still open. Parking area access was one lane in AND out, so cars were parked on the sidewalk.
Nothing, completely awful experience The room, location, the staff!! No hospitality, they tried to charge me extra
The prices was reasonable No
It was close to the airport and Rockaway Beach The smell of smoke was unbearable. The beds were beyond uncomfortable. The rooms were not clean. The phone rang at 2:51 in the morning to ask us to take the phone off the hook because they were working on it. Doesn't look bad from outside, awful inside.


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From: "Aaron Freeman" <aaronpc at pccreations dot net>
> I have spoken to both Watchguard and Microsoft and the each point
> the finger at each other.
> I have proven that the Watchguard is the problem. How do I prove to my
> friend that m0n0wall is a valid business solution? Or am I incorrect in my
> thinking?
You don't. In cases like this, the user is actually asking "Who is
responsible, or who will support it?" I have installed m0n0 in many
commercial applications, but I never sold m0n0wall. I sold a service that
included firewall software that happened to be m0n0wall. If a customer said
"I want X firewall." my response was "OK, but I don't know it very well, and
will have to bill hourly to support it."
If you really want you friend to switch, the trick is showing that in his
current solution, no on is responsible now, and no one supports it now.
That way, they are both judged on the merits; One solution works, and one


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This product has been retired from our catalog and is no longer for sale. This page is made available for those looking for datasheets and the simply curious.
Description: Replacement:DEV-09530. This product was retired because of supplier discontinuation. OpenLog is a good replacement for the logging and directory interface that the original DOSonCHIP allowed. This page is maintained for historical purposes only. Description: The DOSonCHIP™ embedded file system and SDHC/SD/MMC controller makes it easy to add up to 32GB of storage to your project without adding software complexity (OS Not Required™). Add flash storage for data logging, configuration, audio recording, web serving, and more with this high speed, low power IC. DOSonCHIP™ is a drop-in solution with UART and SPI interfaces and included host-side ANSI C code—just fill in the appropriate definitions for your host communications port (or leverage the included bit-banged SPI code). The open source interface code provides comprehensive file system access functions that will be familiar to any C programmer. Commented sample code that demonstrates how to use all of the functionality of the DOSonCHIP™ is provided too. Adding high-capacity removable storage to an embedded project couldn't be easier! We now have ICs with v2 firmware! Compatible with SDHC (up to 32GB!) and 60 times the speed of the original version. Features: * Integrated real-time clock for current date & time and file-stamping * Low power consumption * 2.7V to 3.3V operation with 5V tolerant I/O * Active current 5mA @ 3.3V (typical) * Shutdown current < 0.1µA * 0.8mm height—small enough to mount under many SD sockets * 24-pin QFN package * Simplified pinout matches card socket layout * Minimal external passives required for low total system cost * Host Interface * UART with autobaud detection * SPI bus * I2C/SMBus (not enabled in current firmware) * FAT32 & FAT16 compatible * 4 simultaneous files open
Dimensions: 4mm x 4mm x 0.8mm
I found them for $13 dollars, before they were discontinued….now the question is, where can I buy them at? Did the DosOnChip manufacturer go out of business?
I understand that these are no longer available, but could you tell me how much you were selling them for before they were discontinued?
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Grand Pier helps out North Somerset schools
PUBLISHED: 09:58 12 April 2013 | UPDATED: 09:58 12 April 2013
The Grand Pier has sponsored the North Somerset Schools Football Asssociation when they travel to the Isle of Wight for a tournament.
SIXTEEN boys from all over North Somerset will be attending the Isle of Wight Football Festival in April, thanks to sponsorship from the Grand Pier.
The schoolboys are being taken to the festival by the North Somerset Schools Football Association. They represent a large percentage of the 10 secondary schools in the area and will play four matches over five days.
Priory school PE teacher Callum Thompson, who is leading the trip said: "We are absolutely delighted to have received sponsorship from the Grand Pier.
"The boys will experience what it is like to be a professional footballer, eating, living, training and competing together. The generous donation from the Grand Pier has meant that all the players can represent their district in a brand new kit."
Grand Pier owner Kerry Michael said: "I am delighted we have been able to support the North Somerset Schools Football Association and wish them luck on the Isle of Wight."


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The novel:
- Science Marches On: At the very least, there's no Martian civilization invading Earth, and much of the speculation about how the Martians' technology and biology works is based on outdated science. Wells does future-proof the story to some extent, though, by constantly stating that the characters' scientific speculation is just that, and they could be entirely wrong.
- In some ways that makes our technological advancement over the last 100 years or so quite scary. These machines were pretty much the most deadly things that the author could think up, and yet put them against modern weapons and they would be obliterated in seconds.
- The Martians' main advantage is that their weapon is point-and-shoot accurate, whereas artillery of the day required that the target be 'bracketed' in order to reliably place fire on the target. So the artillery would open up with their initial shots to try and find the range, and the Martian Heat-Ray would immediately and accurately destroy them. The Thunder Child was so effective because it closed to point-blank range before opening fire.
- Also because it was by no means clear to the Martians that this iron ship was anything to do with the humans, or had any aggressive intent.
- The Martians are described lacking a true digestive system, instead draining blood from other creatures and replacing their own with it, thus gaining the necessary nutrients. Needless to say, the understanding of blood transfusions hadn't developed very far when the book was written. And there's also the issue of No Biochemical Barriers, although they did all die from interaction with Earth's ecosystem...
- Technology Marches On: The awe that the humans experience upon seeing the Martian flying machine is somewhat dated, especially considering that human flight would be achieved within the next 5 years. In contrast, every other piece of technology the Martians use has aged surprisingly well, as walking machines and directed energy weapons, though beginning to appear in real life, have yet to become subject to the industrial precision and mass-production shown in the novel.
- The scene where the protagonist describes the Martians' aluminium refining technology. A modern reader may think "So what? Big deal". At the time the book was written, however, aluminium was extremely difficult and expensive to mass-produce, it was even considered to be a precious metal with a higher value than gold, so being able to mass-produce it was used as proof of the Martians' technological mastery.
- Even then, today mass production of aluminium isn't exactly cheap or easy, at least not compared to something like iron. It's cheap today in large part because we recycle it far more than we do other metals.
The 1938 radio program:
- The mass panic associated with the radio broadcast? Fake. Most people would have reacted as most probably would today: call the police or friends and find out, and while the station had unusually high calls, they were all just calling for information, praising or complaining about a particular show. And the listening audience size was six million, there were bound to be people doing stupid things anyway (though it's likely anyone that thought it was real simply tuned in late, only heard "invasion" and "poison gas" and assumed the Nazis were invading).
The 1953 Film:
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains:
- #27 Villain, Martians
- Hey, It's That Sound!: The sound effect of the green disintegrator rays would later be reused for the photon torpedoes firing in Star Trek: The Original Series.
- Science Marches On: While preparing to make the movie, producer George Pal talked to military representatives who let him know in no uncertain terms the tripods of the original novel would be cut to pieces by modern weaponry before their drivers would suffer so much as a sniffle. Hence the movie Martians came equipped with nuke-proof force fields.
- The 1953 movie opens with the narrator explaining why none of the solar system's other planets were suitable for invasion, and getting most of his information completely wrong. Which is kind of a shame, because the shot of erupting volcanoes on Jupiter is pretty well done for the time.
- What Could Have Been: Ray Harryhausen apparently always wanted to take on the story, but never got the chance to do so.


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| Remove from label for propofol (Diprivan) the warning that propofol should be administered only by trained persons
|FDA Comment Number :
|Submitter :
|Dr. Maurizio Solca
|Date & Time:
|11/01/2005 04:11:10
|Organization :
|Dr. Maurizio Solca
|Category :
|Health Professional
|Issue Areas/Comments
| The warning should remain, as propofol is an extremely potent hypnotic drug with the intrinsic potential of severely harm patients if used by professionals not adequately trained, and only anesthesia trained persons possess such a skill


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Community leaders are asking the city to create an office of immigration as the next step for the council's proclamation of Tucson being an "Immigrant Welcoming City."
"We need to strengthen this culture of acceptance, not just through a declaration but really permeate every structure of government," said Florencio Zaragoza, president of Fundación México.
The local organization, which works to strengthen the relationship between Mexico and the United States, has collected 100 signatures and earlier this year presented its proposal to Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild.
The group will hold a breakfast Saturday at Hotel Congress to discuss the idea behind the office where potentially new residents could get information on everything from civic engagement to how to start a business.
Rothschild said there's room for citizen groups in welcoming immigrants and refugees, and the city will support them as much as it can, but city lacks the funds to create an office for the integration of immigrants.
"The city just had to cut back significantly in recent years," said Rothschild. The city has been forced to focus primarily on delivering core services, he said.
"We can look at the creation of a commission but there's no funding attached to that," he said.
Rothschild said he agrees with the idea due to Tucson's proximity to the border and the specific needs of immigrants and refugees who are new to the country, "as all of us were at one time."
There are about 80,000 immigrants in Tucson, latest U.S. census figures show.
The City Council passed a resolution in August declaring Tucson an immigrant-welcoming city and created an informal task force to draft goals and policies to present to the council.
Zaragoza moved to Tucson from Sonora 25 years ago and said the integration and assimilation process would have been a lot easier if there had be an entity to guide his family through it.
Zaragoza said he understands the city is working under a tight budget and is aware it might not be able to create the office this year, but said his group wants to raise awareness for its need.
There are several groups that already provide services to immigrants and refugees in Tucson, but Zaragoza said the city's leadership is essential.
"The city is a neutral entity that can work with everybody," he said. "It has a much bigger reach."
On StarNet: Find extensive coverage of immigration issues at azstarnet.com/border
• What: Office of immigration information breakfast
• When: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday
• Where: Hotel Congress - Copper Hall, 311 E. Congress
• Cost: $15, includes breakfast, taxes and gratuity
• RSVP: firstname.lastname@example.com
ARIZONA's immigrants
• In 2011, 13.4 percent of the state's total population were immigrants, up from 7.6 percent in 1990.
• 65.3 percent are from Latin America.
• 17.8 percent from Asia.
• 10 percent from Europe.
• The top three countries of birth of immigrants are: Mexico, Canada and Philippines.
Source: Migration Policy Institute
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Leaks from pipelines are unusual, but we want you to know what to do in the unlikely event one occurs. Your senses of sight, hearing and smell are the best ways to recognize a pipeline leak.
- For a dense white cloud or fog
- Discolored or dead vegetation
- A pool of liquid on the ground
- Flames coming from the ground or an exposed pipeline valve
- A slight mist of ice or frozen area on the pipeline
- Continuous bubbling in wet, flooded area
- A rainbow or a sheen on water
- Dirt or water being blown or appearing to be thrown in the air
- The scent of gas or petroleum
- An unusual "rotten egg" or "skunk" odor
- An unusual hissing or roaring noise coming from a pipeline
- A "bubbling" sound
- These signs may not all occur at the same time.
- Exposure to natural gas liquids can cause eye irritation, coughing, sneezing, and overall respiratory discomfort
What should I do if I suspect a leak?
- Leave the area immediately. Walk into the wind, away from possible hazardous fumes.
- Do not touch, breathe or make contact with leaking liquids or gases.
- Do not light a match, start an engine, use a telephone (including a cell phone), turn light switches on/off or do anything that may create a spark. Turn off any lit gas pilot lights if immediately accessible.
- Turn off any machinery and equipment; however, if a vapor cloud has surrounded a piece of equipment, do not go into the cloud to turn it off.
- From a safe location, call 911 or your local emergency response number and the pipeline company. Call collect, if necessary, and give your name, phone number and a description of the leak and its location.
- Warn others.
- Do not drive into a leak or vapor cloud.


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The only thing the dreamer fears is having it all come true.
I have a daydream: I'm inside the cover of DJ Shadow's Endtroducing, in a hoodie, ensconced in the biggest, record shop anywhere, solely in the company of black people, with hours and money to spare. This is the finishing line in the race for the prize.
I'm free to dig through endless crates. Brazilian and Latin. The entire output of Dr Dre and related branches. Cosmic country and Levon Helm.
Post-disco 12s, immaculate. House music itemised by year and micro-genre and nation of origin. Everything Clyde Stubblefield ever drummed on in one section. Then everything John Lennon ever laid his genius on in another.
The names are interchangeable according to taste, but this is the dream - to be deep in a mythical realm of records.
Not CDs, Mp3 files or cassingles - records. Jorge Luis Borges envisaged the same thing with books in his panoptical Library of Babel, a paradise of knowledge within labyrinthine nooks, containing "the history of the future ... (and) ... the true story of your death".
Record collecting is probably a search for the justification of your own existence.
A search for the Holy Grail, preferably the first pressing of it, in gatefold. Babel was a hall of mirrors, and my daydream has caverns and antechambers and we're back to DJ Shadow again, in the hip-hop documentary Scratch, showing off his records in an underground bunker.
It was his "nirvana", as recalled online in the Crate Diggers' Union blog, piles and piles of vinyl, arcane in these days of file sharing.
Every digger has their real-life nirvana. I found mine Kangaroo Flat. I've travelled the world but here was vinyl ground zero in a tiny town on the highway going into Bendigo.
I was driving up that way and needed some car tapes. I slowed down through Kangaroo Flat and noticed a record store called High On Music in the single lonely shopping strip. Went in. And just about expired.
Mainly old vinyl, lovingly shelved and, crucially for a vinyl tragic, off the beaten track, therefore not picked over. It was all too much. Hip-hop 12s, '80s 12s, amazing 7s and a whole separate section for '60s, '70s, and, God, so much more.
The owner was like the comic-shop guy in The Simpsons. I think there were Vietnam bombs still in his ears. He was playing Creedence, I remember that. I asked him if I could listen to some stuff and he looked at me strangely, then grunted and pointed to an ancient turntable down the back with wood-panelling and a pair of headphones so old they might have had ironic appeal to those who wear headphones for appearance.
It was the store time forgot but within it were brilliant relics of the past and it's promise is a daydream that recurs. An obscure store full of obscure, dusty vinyl.
A ridiculous quest, in many ways. No more worthwhile than coin collecting. Most of these triumphant purchases get stored away out of sight.
Lately I've begun to transfer my vinyl daydreams away from retail and into shelving units.
Plus a special room with ruby-encrusted styli and extravagant hi-fi gear and a glorious couch, purpose built for this distraction from life's dramas, like some kind of indulgent, chauvinist 1950s bunker from which to escape the Cold War.
On and on it goes, the only fear being actually finding The One.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Alastair Reynolds has signed a £1m deal to deliver ten books in ten years to editor Jo Fletcher at Gollancz. "It gives me a huge amount of security for the next ten years, and writers don't have a lot of security.... To have that in place is fantastic for me."
For more details, see this story in the Guardian.
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Never Let Me Go Filming Begins posted @ 4/17/2009 03:35:00 PM PT
Filming began in London this week on the movie adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005). The novel, a Clarke Award and Booker Award finalist, is set in a dystopian Britain where clones are harvested for replacement organs. Actress Keira Knightley plays clone Kathy H, in a film written by Alex Garland and directed by Mark Romanek.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel Optioned posted @ 4/15/2009 03:09:00 PM PT
Guy Gavriel Kay's World Fantasy Award-winning novel Ysabel has been optioned for feature film development by Maryke McEwen of Kinetic Productions and Jeanne Strømberg and Alan Hausegger of StrømHaus Productions in Toronto, Ontario. Kinetic Productions is an independent production company, and StrømHaus Productions specializes in feature film adaptations of literary works. Debbie Wood of Westwood Creative Artists negotiated the deal.
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Amazonfail: Discriminatory Policy or Glitch? posted @ 4/12/2009 08:07:00 PM PT
Amazon has enraged the Twitterverse. In response to what authors and others believe is a new policy by Amazon to remove "adult" titles from its sales ranking, petitions, protests, and googlebombing are reaching online mob proportions, primarily decrying the delisting of titles of gay and lesbian titles; it appears that LGBT titles are being singled out (even some with no sexual content), while other "adult" content is unaffected.
According to PW, the director of the Erotic Authors Association, Erastes, said a number of their members "noticed their titles had been stripped of their sales rankings" on Amazon, which affects both sales and search results. One member, Mark Probst, contacted an Amazon customer service representative, later recounting on his blog that the rep told him that "'adult' material" is being excluded from appearing in "some searches and best seller lists" as a "consideration of our entire customer base."
In response to queries, an Amazon spokesperson stated that a glitch had occurred in its sales ranking feature that was in the process of being fixed, adding that there was no new adult policy.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Posthumous Crichton Novels Announced posted @ 4/06/2009 10:15:00 AM PT
According to recent announcements, the late Michael Crichton left behind a finished pirate novel and a partial techno-thriller novel, and HarperCollins plans to publish them. The completed work is a departure from his usual science-based fare; Pirate Latitudes is an adventure story set in Jamica in the 17th century. According to Jonathan Burnham, Harper publisher, "it's packed through with great detail about navigation and how pirates operated, and links between the New World and the Caribbean and Spain," adding that HarperCollins plans a print run of one million copies in the US, to be released on November 24, 2009. The publisher also said they intend to work with Crichton's agent Lynn Nesbit and the Crichton estate to choose a co-writer to finish the other work, the sequel to Next.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Greg Bear to Write Halo Trilogy posted @ 4/02/2009 04:07:00 PM PT
Greg Bear will write a trilogy set in the world of the science fiction video game franchise Halo for Tor via Richard Curtis, with the first volume to appear in 2010. The series will take place before the events of the video games, and will explore the mysterious alien "Forerunners" who built the vast artificial ring-shaped habitats central to the fictional universe. The Halo games have sold over 26 million copies worldwide.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Jordan's Series Conclusion and JordanCon posted @ 3/30/2009 09:45:00 AM PT
The Gathering Storm, the twelfth Wheel of Time book and the first episode of the series' concluding trilogy A Memory of Light, is slated to appear on shelves November 3, 2009 according to Tor Books. The conclusion was written in part by Jordan and is being completed by bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. After Jordan's death in 2007, his editor and wife Harriet McDougal chose Sanderson to finish the final book, now a trilogy since "the scope and size of the novel was such that it could not be contained in a single volume. " Plans for comics series and graphic novels of Jordan's books, as well as a film by Universal Pictures, are also in the works.
The first ever JordanCon will take place this year, April 17-19 in Alpharetta GA. Jordan's wife and editor, Harriet McDougal, Tom Doherty, Brandon Sanderson, and other "Team Jordan" members will be featured guests.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Niffenegger's Novel Goes to Scribner for $5 Million posted @ 3/12/2009 08:53:00 PM PT
Bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger sold a new novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, for nearly $5 million to Scribner, for publication in October. The auction for the manuscript was "fiercely contested," according to the NY Times, and a notably generous deal in such uncertain economic times. The UK edition will come out from Jonathan Cape.
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Monday, March 9, 2009
Orson Scott Card Signs with Pulse for YA series posted @ 3/09/2009 06:09:00 AM PT
Simon Pulse senior editor Anica Rissi acquired world English rights to the first three books in a YA fantasy series by Orson Scott Card, via Barbara Bova of the Barbara Bova Literary Agency, in what was described as a "very good" deal. The series will follow teenager Ligg on his journey to save his world from destruction. The first book is due to appear in hardcover in 2011, with the others to follow annually. Card's adult titles have been published by Tor.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Suvudu.com, the online portal for SF and fantasy from Random House, has announced their Free Book Library, offering readers free PDF downloads of the first books in assorted series.
The first five books on offer are Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb, Her Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik; Blood Engines by T.A. Pratt; Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson; and Settling Accounts: Return Invasion by Harry Turtledove. They plan to add additional books on an ongoing basis. To download, visit www.suvudu.com/freelibrary.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Charles Coleman Finlay -- writing as C.C. Finlay -- and his publisher Del Rey are giving away a free PDF of his forthcoming Revolutionary War fantasy The Patriot Witch, first in his Traitor to the Crown series, due to be published April 2009. This is the first time Del Rey has given away a free electronic version of a frontlist book. To download the DRM-free PDF, visit http://www.ccfinlay.com/.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Gaiman and Jones Talk Coraline posted @ 1/19/2009 02:52:00 PM PT
Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones had a conversation January 15 on internet radio show The Beyond about upcoming film Coraline (based on Gaiman's novel) and Coraline: A Visual Companion (written by Jones). Listen online at blogtalkradio.com.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Ellen Datlow, editor of the horror half of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror since the series began, has announced a deal with Night Shade Books to edit at least two Year's Best Horror anthologies, starting this year.
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No More Year's Best Fantasy and Horror posted @ 1/12/2009 02:46:00 PM PT
Long-running anthology series The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's Press), edited by Ellen Datlow and Gavin Grant & Kelly Link, is coming to an end after 21 years of continuous publication. There will be no 2009 edition collecting work from 2008, though "new incarnations of the book may appear." Read the announcement from Grant & Link.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
HarperCollins will publish the previously unseen The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, J.R.R. Tolkien's narrative-verse retelling of the Norse legend of Sigurd the Völsung. Tolkien wrote the poem during the '20s and '30s while teaching at Oxford, before he wrote The Lord of the Rings. The book, edited and with an introduction by the author's son Christopher Tolkien, is scheduled for a May 2009 hardcover release.
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What body can be ploughed,
Sown, and broken yearly?
But she would not die, she vowed,
But she has, nearly.
Sing, heart sing;
Call and carol clearly.
And, since she could not die,
Care would be a feather,
A film over the eye
Of two that lie together.
Fly, song, fly,
Break your little tether.
So from strength concealed
She makes her pretty boast:
Plain is a furrow healed
And she may love you most.
Cry, song, cry,
And hear your crying lost.
Poet: Louise Bogan
Poem: Chanson Un Peu Naïve
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Understanding of risk communication in high risk families
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The Music Educator Award was established last year to recognize current educators (kindergarten through college, public and private schools) who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education and who demonstrate a commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools. A joint partnership and presentation of The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Foundation, this special award will be presented at The Recording Academy's Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception honoring recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award and Technical GRAMMY® Award during GRAMMY Week 2015.
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:15:23 -0000
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The given name GILES runs through the Richersons who were in Caroline County VA in the 18th century, and continues through the family that moved to Green Co KY.
In 1765, three key "suspects" for an earlier generation of our line appeared together in a document: WILLIAM RICHERSON signed a mortgage to John Taylor, Gentleman, which was proved by GILES RICHERSON, JOSEPH RICHERSON, and Moses Penn.
Makes me think the Joseph Richerson, father of the ones who moved to KY, was connected to William and Giles. ("Our" Giles would have been in his early 20s--he could have witnessed the mortgage. I haven't seen an earlier reference to a Giles than 1765--has anyone else???
In our direct line, GILES Richerson, husband of Jane Johns, died Nov. 1804, and had nine heirs: Frances (Mrs. Benjamin Hurt), Molley, Lucy, Jane, Salley, Martha "Patsy," Elizabeth (widow of Henry Stuart, Jr.), Thomas (ours), and John.
By 1820, Thomas, John, Frances, Martha and Lucy were dead.
John Richerson of Essex Co, VA, died 1820, must be the John of the heirs--he named children Jane Johns and Giles. His daughter Julia named a son Giles; his daughter Delia named a son Giles.
Elizabeth Richerson Stuart named a son Giles, and her son James named a son Giles.
George Richerson died about 1795 in Mecklenburg Co VA. Hi is said to have married first ELIZABETH DEJARNETTE; second, a Sarah. He named a son GILES. Other minor children in 1800 still with a guardian were Elizabeth, Fanny, Sally, and George.
Does anyone know this George?
In 1793, in Caroline co, George Richerson transferred land to GILES Richerson. His own son Giles would have been a minor in 1793 (if he was still a minor in 1800). Could this transfer have been to "our" Giles? What would the relationship be between George and Giles.
A George Richerson served in the Rev. War from Caroline and was also deputy sheriff there in the 1770s.
The Richerson-Dejarnettes of Green Co KY also used the named Giles. The two brothers who moved there had a brother Giles who was still in Caroline County in 1797 and acted as attorney for his brother Thomas, already in KY.
Is this Giles the one who married Frances Pace and had 21 children?
Joseph Richerson, son of Joseph Richerson and Mary Dejarnette, named a son Giles.
Joseph Richerson's son Joseph Elza named a son Giles.
Thomas Richerson and Elizabeth Dejarnette's son John had a son William, who named a son Giles.
A Johns family researcher, Bob Newsome, believes that "our" Giles Richerson, married to Jane Johns and father of nine, was born about 1745. In Caroline County around that time were James, Nathniel, Thomas, Joseph, and William.
It is quite possible that they are ALL related!
Our own line did not carry on the Giles given name--it barely carried on at all! Our Thomas (son of Giles, proven by of all things the names of the two slaves he inherited in 1805 and then they were named in his estate in 1815)
had only one son, Reuben, who was just three when Thomas died. We believe that little Reuben grew up in the household of the grandfather he was named for, Reuben Broaddus. He may not have even known any Richerson relatives--his only Richerson uncle John died in 1820, at least three Richerson aunts died by then, too. He did name a son Thomas, after his own father, but the grandfather Giles Richerson who died before he was born was forgotten.
Is anyone related to George? William?
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BOSTON — Red Sox RHP Josh Beckett, who missed his previous start with a sprained right ankle, will return to the rotation Friday against the Rays, manager Terry Francona said.
After a pain-free long toss session Tuesday, Beckett was given the option of starting tonight or Friday. Francona picked rookie RHP Kyle Weiland to start tonight's game for the struggling AL wild-card leaders, rather than LHP Andrew Miller.
Francona told NESN he had several reasons for choosing Weiland over Miller, despite Weiland's poor outing against the Rays on Saturday.
"I think we felt that with the righty against them (it would be better). He had a real good bullpen (session)," Francona said of Weiland. "We just think he can rise to the occasion and give us a chance to win."
RIVERA'S MILESTONE: Yankees closer Mariano Rivera became the second pitcher to reach 600 career saves late Tuesday in a 3-2 win over the Mariners. Rivera went into Wednesday's late game one save shy of Trevor Hoffman's career record.
"I don't know if we'll ever see it again," New York manager Joe Girardi said. "That's how much of an accomplishment this is that he and Trevor Hoffman have done. Simply remarkable."
POSEY PROGRESSING: Buster Posey is still on schedule to catch a bullpen session in Arizona before season's end, a goal established by the Giants training staff after the reigning NL rookie of the year sustained a season-ending broken left leg in May. Posey played catch on the field for the third time.
EX-PITCHER ARRESTED: Former reliever Curtis Leskanic faces charges of driving under the influence and child neglect without harm after his arrest Sunday in Altamonte Springs. Leskanic, 44, had a blood-alcohol level of .331, according to an arrest affidavit. He was found passed out at the wheel of his pickup with his 5-year-old daughter asleep and unrestrained in the truck, according to the report.
MCCOURT DIVORCE: Dodgers owner Frank McCourt will keep paying $225,000 per month to ex-wife Jamie, but money once used toward the mortgages of six luxurious homes will come from a $1.1 million escrow account, attorneys said.
ASTROS: OF Jason Michaels is out for the season after breaking his left hand making a diving catch Tuesday night.
BRAVES: RHP Tommy Hanson, on the DL with a slight rotator cuff tear, said he felt good after throwing 44 pitches in a bullpen session and hopes to pitch in a game before the postseason.
CARDINALS: LF Matt Holliday has an inflamed tendon in his right middle finger and will be shut down for at least 4-5 days.
METS: LHP Johan Santana, trying to come back from shoulder surgery last September, was scratched from today's scheduled rehab start at Class A Savannah. He will instead will throw a simulated game this weekend.
REDS: RHP Johnny Cueto left with two outs in the fourth inning with a strained muscle in the upper right side of his back.
ROCKIES: C Eliezer Alfonzo became the first player suspended twice under Major League Baseball's drug program and will serve a 100-game suspension. Alfonzo said he was surprised by the positive test and intends to fight the penalty in arbitration.


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Kristin tweets, 'Apparently Camden is a popular name!' after learning that her son shares the same name as Nick and Vanessa Lachey's.
Kristin Cavallari has heard that Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo named their son Camden, the same name she gave to her child with Jay Cutler. The former star of "The Hills" quickly took to Twitter to share her thoughts on the matter.
"Apparently Camden is a popular name!" she tweeted on September 13. Aware that her tweet could easily be interpreted as sarcasm, she later clarified, "By the way that wasn't a b***hy tweet at all...I obviously love the name and I'm glad other people do too."
Welcoming their bundle of joy on Wednesday, September 12, the Lacheys named the newborn Camden John. Kristin, meanwhile, gave birth to her baby boy on Wednesday, August 8 morning. She and her fiance, Jay, named him Camden Jack.


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|Record prices for design at auctions in New York and Brussels and at Design Miami/
de Pury, New York
International cutting-edge
contemporary and mid-century avant-garde design, the areas of concentration
for the Phillips de Pury & Company's design department, triumphed
with record results at the department's Design sale last Thursday, December
Bergé, Bruxelles
New York
December 6 / 9, 2007
Brook Mason and Melanie Gerlis' Design Miami/ report in the The Art Newspaper:
......Of course, global strategies rely upon strong demand. Celebrities
were quick off the mark, including Donna Karan, who bought a coffee table designed by Serio Victorio, from NewYork's Magen H Gallery (20). Calvin Klein and Jerome Chazen, co-founder of the Liz Claiborne clothing label, were in the aisles and ex-Disney president Michael Ovitz was also looking to buy. The museum world was represented by curators from theMetropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts & Design and theMuseum of FineArts, Houston. As befits a design fair, some of the stands stood out from the
crowds. On R 20th Century (13), stand designer Claudia Dias took her green and yellow palette from the legendary Oscar Niemeyer as the backdrop for his 13-piece collection of furniture. Two sets were sold for around $200,000 each to private collectors. There are eight new dealers this year, although three have not returned, bringing numbers up from 21 to 26, including London's Albion Gallery, which sold several David Adjaye pieces from his "Monoforms" series, including Galilee, 2007 ($60,000) and Luxor, 2007 ($40,000) to a Parisian and American collector. It also sold a Campana Brothers' chair with table for $150,000.
Others also reported strong initial sales. Galerie Downtown (23) sold at least seven pieces by mid-century designer Jean Royère (between $25,000- $45,000) and, within minutes, Moss Gallery (21) sold two of Maarten Baas' chromed clay standing electric fans (which helped cool the stand) for
$34,000 each. One dealer's stand was literally stripped bare: Kenny Schachter Rove (3) sold his painted floorboards designed by Richard Woods, Logo 41, 2007, for $35,000. "Five years ago I only had a few collectors who would spend $350,000 a year, today it is closer to 30," said Franklin Getchell, coowner of Moss.