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Russia's elections are not intended to produce surprises, just as its streets are not meant to heave with protesters and its political leaders are not supposed to be publicly booed. The country's "managed democracy", with the media muzzled, only tame opposition candidates allowed and widespread vote-rigging, is designed to hand big victories to
Putin's power has rested on two foundations. One is that, despite his government's contempt for human rights and his tolerance of the kleptocracy around him, Putin had legitimacy because he was personally extremely popular. The other is that thanks largely to ever higher oil prices, he was able to ensure steadily rising living standards for Russians.
Both foundations now look fragile. That does not portend an imminent end for Putinism; but for the first time, the prospect of a post-Putin Russia no longer seems fantastical. That should be a wake-up call for Russia's leader to embrace reform.
Putin starts with certain strengths. His people are hardly yearning for liberalism: in a recent poll by the Pew Foundation, Russians, by a margin of 57 per cent to 32 per cent, preferred to rely on strong leadership rather than democracy to deliver good government. And by the standards of leaders elsewhere, Putin still seems pretty popular, with approval ratings of about 40 per cent. Nothing is likely to stop him winning the presidency in March.
But opinion is clearly moving against him. Putin, who is now Prime Minister, saw his popularity start to fall the moment in September when he announced his plan to swap jobs with
He cancelled further public appearances but the substitutes he sent were booed in his stead. This may not be a "Ceausescu moment", when a coddled dictator wakes up to popular fury. But it is still a big shock.
A bigger problem for Putin is that the demands of the economy and of his political operation are increasingly in conflict. In order to hold on to power, he has kept a tight grip on the economy. As a result both Russia and the regime's patronage system remain heavily dependent on oil and gas. Corruption and inefficiency mean that the budget will not balance unless oil prices stay around $US110 a barrel, which, given the grim global outlook, they are not likely to.
Capital and talent are fleeing an economy that offers few opportunities. Growth rates are likely to come down. Without rising living standards, resentment against the government is likely to swell. Twenty years ago, a similar contradiction between politics and economics brought down the Soviet Union. Weirdly, Putin seems to welcome comparison with this period. He touts as his new foreign policy priority a "Eurasian Union" of former Soviet republics, and he lets his supporters praise the Brezhnev years, another period in which stability turned to stagnation. Yet he must fear the possibility that resistance to his regime, too, will grow. Can he avoid it?
Putin presents himself, first and foremost, as a strong-minded patriot. If he has his country's interests at heart, he will respond to rising discontent by opening up the economy and curbing corruption. The criminal justice system has become a tool of the Kremlin and its commercial allies. Russians of all sorts loathe such cronyism.
Both Putin and Medvedev have talked about tackling graft but done nothing. If they took action, they would lose some power but win kudos. The alternative is more repression. The decision to call in the troops suggests this is Putin's chosen route.
He may entrench his hold in other ways, perhaps by distancing himself from United Russia, widely derided as "the party of crooks and thieves", or by dumping Medvedev as Prime Minister. Seasoned observers also expect imagined threats to the state, to which the government reacts by cracking down. For a model, Putin needs only to look next door to Belarus, where Alyaksandr Lukashenka clings on as Europe's last dictator.
Such an approach may work, for a while. His regime has a tight enough grip on the security services to suppress dissent for some time. Yet as the old Soviet Union found (and today's Belarus is finding), economic problems make repression harder to sustain.
With the internet watching, it is also difficult to keep engineering large-scale voting fraud. There is a growing risk of a social and political explosion in Russia, even if it is too early and the opposition is too disjointed for there to be much hope of a Russian spring.
The idea has taken hold abroad that Putin's regime, though mildly distasteful, provides stability. That has proved wrong. As many Western companies have found, Putin has failed to build the rules-based system that provides the economic security foreign investors need. Nor, as recent events suggest, has he delivered a political equilibrium. It is not just this week's protests that are a reason for concern: rising lawlessness in the north Caucasus may cause problems not just for Russia, but for the entire region.
Russia is not stable. It is rigid. Unless its tsar moves to reform his realm, it will become more dangerous, both for its neighbours and for Putin himself.
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Marine Debris
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Monofilament Recovery and Recycling Program (MRRP)
The Monofilament Recovery & Recycling Program (MRRP) is a statewide effort to educate the public on the problems caused by monofilament line left in the environment, to encourage recycling through a network of line recycling bins and drop-off locations, and to conduct volunteer monofilament line cleanup events.
In Northeast Florida, the program is coordinated by Maia McGuire, Sea Grant Extension Agent. Discarded monofilament can cause an environmental hazard for fish, turtles and birds which become entangled in the line. Boat motors and people can also become entangled. Monofilament can be recycled—melted down and used to manufacture fish habitats.
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Coastal pollution is a growing problem. In the United States, the average person throws away 5 lbs of garbage each day, about 1/4 of which is non-biodegradable—it will last for a very long time. When non-biodegradable products like tin cans (which last about 50 years), styrofoam cups (75 years), aluminum cans (200 years), plastic bottles (450 years), monofilament line (600 years) and glass jars (undetermined) end up in the marine and coastal environment, the results can be deadly.
Clear plastics (such as bags and balloons) are often mistaken for jellyfish by animals such as the endangered leatherback sea turtle. When they eat plastic, these animals will often starve to death as the plastic clogs their intestines and they can no longer digest food.
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What can you do? In addition to recycling as much as possible and discarding your garbage in proper (closed) containers, do your part to help clean up the coast. Participate in organized cleanup events (contact your local solid waste department to find out when one is scheduled), or simply pick up trash when you visit a public area.
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The table below shows the length of time that it takes for various items to degrade in the ocean (from Mote Marine Lab).
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Marine Debris Curriculum
"The Educator's Guide to Marine Debris : Southeast and Gulf of Mexico" (2009) was produced by the COSEE Southeast Program. You can view the online version here, or can request a printed copy from Maia McGuire by e-mail or at 386-437-7464.
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Los Angeles – Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak said Friday that a new film about the late Steve Jobs is factually "wrong," judging by a recently released clip of the movie.
Wozniak, who quit Apple in 1987 after 12 years, said a scene depicted in the clip from "jOBS," which was set to debut at the Sundance Film Festival later in the day, had no basis in reality.
"Not close. . . . We never had such interaction and roles. . . . I'm not even sure what it's getting at. . . . Personalities are very wrong, although mine is closer," he told the tech blog Gizmodo.
"The ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs. They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club," he added, referring to the group of enthusiasts to which they belonged.
The film, one of two about the iconic Apple leader who died in 2011, is due for full release in the United States in April. Another movie is being made from the biography written by Walter Isaacson, which was published shortly after Jobs' death.
"Steve came back from Oregon and came to a club meeting and didn't start talking about this great social impact," said Wozniak, referring to a period in the 1970s before Silicon Valley rose to prominence.
"His idea was to make a $20 PC board and sell it for $40 to help people at the club build the computer I'd given away. Steve came from selling surplus parts at HalTed — he always saw a way to make a quick buck off my designs (this was the 5th time).
"The lofty talk came much further down the line. . . . I never looked like a professional. We were both kids," said the famously geeky-looking cofounder.
But he stressed that inaccuracies in one clip don't necessarily mean the entire film is bad.
"The movie should be very popular and I hope it's entertaining. It may be very correct, as well. This is only one clip. But you'll see the direction they are slanting the movie in, just by the dialogue style of this script," he said.
"Our relationship was so different than what was portrayed. I'm embarrassed but if the movie is fun and entertaining, all the better. Anyone who reads my book 'iWoz' can get a clearer picture."


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I wrote: > I tried to do a bit of testing of this, but it does not work on current > Fedora 8, because the policy module doesn't build: I got past that by commenting out the last few lines of sepostgresql.te, which apparently are intended for some SELinux feature that's not shipped yet in F8. After that, and a whole bunch of foolery with manually putting the right security labels on files (because the contrib module is unhelpful for test installations with nonstandard PREFIXes), I managed to get a version that worked well enough to test. What I found out: * It does not come close to passing the regression tests. I saw a lot of ! ERROR: unrecognized node type: 903 which suggests that something's been screwed up about parse analysis (903 = T_A_Const, which shouldn't get further than parse analysis), and it dumps core in the TRUNCATE test. * pgbench shows a relatively marginal speed difference, which is not too surprising since it pushes only a few tuples around per query. The worst case for sepostgres is likely to be bulk operations. I tried "select count(*) from accounts" (at scale factor 20, so this is 2000000 tuples) and got about 550 msec from CVS HEAD, about 1340 msec from HEAD plus patch. That's with no actual useful policy loaded, mind you. So the overhead is indeed pretty bad, but it seems reasonable to think that with some optimization effort it could be brought down to where it'd be acceptable for people who really need the feature. AFAICS the only thing left that really needs to be discussed more during this commit-fest is the business about whether it's sane to be trying to apply selinux restrictions in simple_heap_update and friends. The more I think about that the more I think it's simply a bad idea. Those functions are used primarily (if not solely) for system-initiated catalog updates, and I fail to see any plausible reason to let user-written policy be applied at that level. For instance, it would be a completely bad move to allow such policy to prevent autovacuum from updating relfrozenxid values. Furthermore, those functions are much too low-level to have any idea of the reason for the change they are being asked to make, so they can't apply any intelligence to the allow-or-not decision. Lastly, I don't see any use-case for policy there that wouldn't be served as well or better by the standard SQL privilege mechanism. So I think that really all needs to be ripped out, and do enforcement in the executor instead. regards, tom lane
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"What's he doing? Not more studying!" MSNBC host Chris Matthews asked Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) about the administration's response to the Veterans Affairs (VA) scandal on Hardball yesterday. The days when Obama gave Matthews a "thrill going up my leg" appear to be in the past.
Matthews questioned why President Obama appears more concerned about appearances, than about actually doing something to help the veterans.
Obama shouldn't be worried about the "PR of himself or the credentials of an administrator," Matthews said. "But, the person out there who served this country who's got a real problem - enough to go to a doctor - but, no doctor will see him... these people aren't even being looked at, let alone treated..."
"Sen. Brown, what is the answer here, besides waiting? [Waiting] for the President to do something. What do you want him to do?" Matthews asked.
"Well, I want him to understand what's wrong. I want him to look at some context here of ...of the job...." Brown stumbled.
"[Obama] got an IG report yesterday that said this is systemic," Matthews interrupts. "He said 'If it's systemic, I'm doing something.' What's he doing?"
"Not more study!" Matthews said, becoming indignant. "[Obama] wants to hear from Rob Nabors, his staff guy. He wants to hear Shinseki's own report. These are two more reports, he wants. How long is this going to go on? We have a waiting list to hear from the president now. We have a waiting time."
"What's the waiting time to hear from Obama now? Is it going to be as long as the waiting time to see a doctor?" Matthews asked Sen. Brown (D-Ohio.)
"No, of course it can't be," Brown said. "And replacing Shinseki or not... I mean, I don't have strong feelings whether he should step down, whether he should be fired, whether he should be kept, I have strong feelings on how you deal with the backlog and the waiting time."
"Eleven Democratic senators have strong feelings, sir, and they said so," Matthews responded.
Brown tried to deflect attention from Matthew's questions about the administration's handling of the V.A. and Shinseki to treatment of veterans that he's personally seen and repeated that the situation with the V.A. is "more complicated."
Matthews told Brown that, if his office got a call from a veteran who had been waiting four months to be seen by a doctor, "You'd fire off a letter to the V.A., and you'd be on that guy's tail right now. So you say, you don't know what you'd do. You know what you'd do if it was someone in your state."
"So why are you so deliberative here in the sense of you don't have a strong feeling?" Matthews shouted. "You'd have a damn strong feeling if it was one of your constituents that complained, wouldn't you?"
Protesting that he has strong feelings on what to do about the V.A., Brown deflected saying: "...As I said, I just don't have strong feelings on what you'd do with Shinseki."
"I get a feeling you'd have a feeling stronger than that, if he was working for you," Matthews said. "I tell you, if he was working for you in your Senate office, and this kind of calamity occurred under that person's watch, what would you do to them?"
The Ohio senator continued to respond weakly, despite Matthew's pressing him on the issue.
Chris Matthews' feelings here seem to represent a departure, as he has been an unapologetic supporter of the President. Matthews' feelings are shared by Montel Williams, who gave an impassioned interview Wednesday denouncing the administration's handling of the V.A., saying that it's equivalent to giving veterans the middle finger.


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Examing the effect of hospital mergers on HMO hospital costs and premiums, 1995-2001
The Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization program was designed to support research, demonstration, and evaluation projects examining major changes in health care financing. This grant provides support for researchers to examine the extent to which hospital consolidation was responsible for the resurgence of health care inflation in the late 1990s. They will identify the degree to which hospital consolidation has increased HMO hospital prices and HMO premiums, as well as the degree to which hospital consolidation is a function of HMO consolidation. The researchers will address the following questions: (1) how much hospital consolidation occurred from 1994 to 2001, why it occurred, and what was the effect of managed care organizations (MCOs) market structure on hospital consolidation; (2) how much of the increase in hospital per diem charges for MCO enrollees from 1994 to 2001 can be attributed to hospital consolidation; and (3) how much of MCO premium increases from 1994 to 2001 can be attributed to hospital consolidation? The researchers will link hospital data from the American Hospital Association and HMO data from InterStudy for the years from 1994 to 2001 across all health care markets in the United States. In addition, they will use HMO financial data from the Health Care Investment Analysts-HMO Database, Diskette Series, User's Manual. The objective of the study is to provide increased knowledge about the impact of market consolidation on federal and state agencies responsible for antitrust enforcement.
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Rosenbaum, Chiefs shut out Bats
Left-hander strikes out six in 5-0 win
By Syracuse Chiefs | August 1, 2013 5:44 PM ET
The Syracuse Chiefs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals, shut out the Louisville Bats, 5-0, on Thursday night. Left-hander Danny Rosenbaum pitched into the seventh inning to earn the win, giving Syracuse a sixth victory in seven games on its 10-game road trip.
Josh Johnson started the third inning for Syracuse (51-60) with a double to left field against Bats left-hander Ryan Dennick. After a Jhonatan Solano fly out advanced Johnson to third base, Rosenbaum stepped up to bat with the infield in. He grounded a ball toward center field and off the glove of shortstop Kristopher Negron, who made a leaping attempt, to score Johnson and give the Chiefs a 1-0 lead. The play was ruled an error against Negron.
The Chiefs opened the floodgates against Dennick in the fourth inning. Tyler Moore doubled to begin the frame, and Chris Marrero's groundout to second base advanced Moore to third. Third baseman Zach Walters, next up, bounced a ball to third baseman Neftali Soto, whose throw to the plate was mishandled by catcher Nevin Ashley. Moore slid in safely to put the Chiefs ahead by a 2-0 score. After a Johnson walk, Solano smashed a double down the left-field line, scoring both Walters and Johnson for a 4-0 Syracuse advantage.
Those runs were more than enough for Rosenbaum, who held Louisville (55-59) in check throughout six-and-two-thirds scoreless innings. He allowed eight hits and one walk while striking out six batters in the game.
Syracuse picked up an extra run in the eighth inning. Danny Espinosa singled on Nick Christiani's first pitch of the frame and advanced to third base on a fielder's-choice ground ball to third base that Soto tossed into right field for a throwing error. Later in the frame, Espinosa raced home from third base on a wild pitch.
Syracuse aims for a series win in the last of a four-game set on Friday night at 7:05. Chiefs right-hander Tanner Roark and Bats right-hander Chad Reineke are the scheduled starters.
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Englewood, N.J. • Sheila MacRae , a veteran stage, film and TV performer best known for playing Alice Kramden in the 1960s re-creation of "The Honeymooners," has died. She was 92.
The actress died Thursday at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J., MacRae's granddaughter, Allison Mullavey, told The Associated Press on Friday.
"She had a great life, my mom, she really did. She was quite a broad," said her daughter, actress Heather MacRae. "Fascinating, almost like an Autie Mame character."
Shirley Jones, in a statement released by MacRae's family, called Sheila MacRae "a great lady" with extraordinary talent who "helped me to be a better mother."


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The Old Woman, Manchester
Russian avant garde author Daniil Kharms has inspired work by Simon McBurney and Complicite, and a young generation of theatre artists, too; Clout Theatre's How A Man Crumbled looked at the life and absurdist work of a man who was a victim of Stalinism and who died in the gulags aged 36. Now Robert Wilson, the much lauded director whose work includes Einstein On The Beach and The Life And Death Of Marina Abramovic, returns to the Manchester international festival to stage Kharms's political novella about a struggling writer. The show has been developed with the former ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and actor Willem Dafoe.
Palace Theatre, Thu to 7 Jul
The Color Purple, London
It's been a book, an Oscar-winning film, and now it's a musical, too. The Color Purple, the uplifting and moving story of one girl's struggle to escape extreme poverty and abuse in rural Georgia in the 1930s, made Alice Walker (pictured) the first black woman to receive a Pulitzer prize; the 1985 film made a star out of Whoopi Goldberg. Now the musical version gets its European premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory with Cynthia Erivo, who's been in Sister Act and The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, as Celie. The production is directed and designed by John Doyle; his credits include Sondheim's Passion in New York, Road Show at the MCF, and an award-winning Sweeney Todd in the West End and on Broadway.
The Menier Chocolate Factory, SE1, Fri to 14 Sep
Memory Point(s), Winchester
The result of a four-year collaboration between theatre company Platform 4 and the Alzheimer Society's Connections Club, which supports people with early onset dementia, this show takes small audiences at a time on a site-specific sensory journey around the backstage areas of the theatre. Taking its title from those moments such as birthdays, family celebrations and anniversaries that we all experience, and which often act as a catalyst to remembering previous similar events, the show uses headphones to guide the audience around the space. There are installations or memory points along the way, using film, song and mementos to help lost and buried memories rise to the surface. The show tours to Poole, Brighton and London's South Bank this autumn.
Theatre Royal Winchester, to 6 Jul
The Dyas Sisters, Manchester
Grace and Victoria Dyas are theatre-making sisters whose lives are put under the microscope in this latest show from Quarantine, the Manchester-based company which often works with ordinary people rather than performers. Grace and Victoria will be endeavouring to remember everything that has happened in their lifetimes and make a book out of it. They will be given a helping hand by five local performers, who will appear onstage beside the Dyas sisters as if auditioning to play them in a staging of the book. If it sounds a little complex, don't worry. All will be revealed in a show created by a company responsible for some of the UK's most moving and accessible theatre.
Contact Theatre, Wed to 6 Jul
The American Plan, London
American writer Richard Greenberg has had two successful plays here: Take Me Out and Three Days Of Rain, both of which were staged at the Donmar, the latter again in the West End with James McAvoy. The American Plan is an early work, from 1990, which was revived in the US by Brit director David Grindley (Journey's End, Our Boys) four years ago and now finds its way to the St James Theatre via the Theatre Royal Bath. Set in the Catskills of New York state in the 1960s, on the cusp of great social change, a damaged young woman tries to assert her independence while being manipulated by an overbearing German Jewish mother (who made it out of Germany on the "last boat" and who sings "The Nazis haven't found us/But darling they're all around us"), played by Diana Quick. Expect Greenberg's customary deftness of dialogue and emotion.
St James Theatre, SW1, Tue to 3 Aug
Candida, Bath
Plays get written in many different places, but probably very few come to life on the top deck of a London bus. But that's where Shaw claimed he wrote this 1895 romantic comedy, which he called his "mother play". The title refers to the woman who is the wife of the Reverend James Morell, a vicar who is adored by his parishioners, curate and parish secretary, but whose success might have more to do with his wife Candida's talents than his own. But his charmed life is turned upside down when a young poet, Eugene Marchbanks, declares his love for her.
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Obama's meaningless small-business vow
A week after his re-election, President Obama held a news conference to push for a spending and tax agreement — and to talk about small business.
He began by saying, "Our top priority has to be jobs and growth."
With job creation as a top priority, that puts small business at center stage.
The U.S. Small Business Administration reports that small business "generated 65 percent of net new jobs over the past 17 years."
The small-business sector of the American economy "employs half of all private-sector employees," says the federal government's official count, with the Small Business Administration defining a small business as "an independent business having fewer than 500 employees."
Obama also said he wants a budget deal, "but what I'm not going to do is extend Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent" — defined as individuals earning $200,000 or more per year and couples filing jointly making $250,000 or more.
"When it comes to the top 2 percent," he continued, "what I'm not going to do is extend further a tax cut for folks who don't need it."
That "need" part is a novel concept, one that puts us on a slippery slope. If politicians get the power to determine how much of our earned income we actually "need," a Bureau of Asset Counters might be on the way.
If a classic car aficionado owns a dozen Chevy and Ford convertibles from the 1960s, will a government committee be empowered to determine that he doesn't "need" more and raise his taxes?
If a successful businesswoman has three homes, four cars, a yacht and $10 million in the market and wants to expand her retail clothing business, should her taxes go up — and business/job expansion be abandoned — because she doesn't "need" more business, more income or more employees?
In any case, Obama is advocating several things simultaneously that can't be synchronized.
He wants more jobs, a growing small-business sector — the section of the economy that creates the majority of new jobs — and more income redistributed from the "top 2 percent" to the government.
Attempting to show that those positions aren't, in fact, incompatible and represent instead a feasible plan for job creation, Obama injected the same misleading statement into his news conference at four different points.
With tax hikes on incomes of $200,000 and $250,000, "97 percent of small businesses are not going to see their taxes go up a dime," he repeatedly stated.
That sounds like the vast majority of jobs in small businesses won't be threatened by his proposed tax hikes. But the Treasury Department reports that 30 million of the 35 million small businesses in America employ no workers.
Additionally, just 1.2 million of America's 35 million small businesses earn 91 percent of all small-business income, and that 3 percent of all small businesses "employ a stunning 54 percent of the total private U.S. workforce," reports Investor's Business Daily. "They are, in short, the nation's job creators."
And they are directly in the cross hairs of Obama's proposed tax increase.
Ralph R. Reiland is an associate professor of economics at Robert Morris University and a local restaurateur. His email: email@example.com


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EXCLUSIVE: After a fierce bidding war between NBC and ABC followed by a lengthy negotiation, NBC has nabbed a mocumentary-style comedy from Mastermind writers Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simons, Sony Pictures TV and Will Gluck's Sony-based production company. The project, which received interest from all four major broadcast networks, has been given a pilot production commitment. The untitled project, previously known as The Yard, presents the life lessons of elementary school as seen through the lens of an Office-like documentary. The similarity in style between The Yard and NBC's The Office made NBC a natural choice for the project from the get-go. This is the second mega deal for Sony TV this week. The studios also scored a script with penalty commitment from Fox for a highly sought-after 1980s comedy from Breaking In co-creator Adam F. Goldberg while also securing the 13-episode second-season pickup of the previously canceled Breaking In.
NBC Nabs Comedy Project From Will Gluck With Production Commitment
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Well done to Will. He's a top talent and an all around great guy!!
Those guys are great writers and teaming them with the guy who made EASY A and FWB seems like genius. ABC missed out.
Is this the remake of that HBO Canada series The Yard? Both concepts sound eerily similar. Except the HBO Canada series framed itself more like an Office meets The Sopranos with Kids. If it is… it needs to be on pay cable. It just does.
Maybe that's why they're changing the title? ("previously known as the yard.")
They're both mock-docs comedies set in an elementary school yard — how different can they be? The Canadian one just stared this summer, too. weird.
Wowza. I wonder if nbc knew that they were buying something that's a ripoff. I bet somebody puts a stop to this. It even has the same title. WOWZA!
When they say this is a "mega-deal"…..how much money are we talking about?
How many "Mocumentaries" can one Network have?
But then again, that might be like asking, "How many police procedurals with the same Main Title can one network have?"
Good luck to them. It sounds like a fun idea.
Sony also received a script penalty with THE SINGLES at ABC, I believe.
alan and brent are crazy funny and hugely talented and also really nice (if anyone cares).
Is this entire cast going to be kids…does anyone out there know? Clearly the writers are excellent and Will Gluck is brilliant, I can not wait to see this show! When was the last time an all kid cast was aimed for adults, The Little Rascals?


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New York Post reporter Susan Edelman, who discovered the trail of racial and hate filled tweets that derailed a few careers in FDNY EMS (including FDNY Commissioner Sal Cassano's son), has been focusing her reporting efforts on classes at the FDNY Academy. Edelman's recent reports were on a female probationary firefighter who was dubbed the "Teflon probie" because of the many chances she had been given to complete a running test. Today, Edelman tells us about the 35-year-old ex-rapper Trilain Smith, a probie who has been punished by Commissioner Cassano for his postings about FDNY.
According to Edelman, the 35-year-old Smith had been previously warned about violating the department's social-media policy for postings of sexually suggestive pictures dressed in firefighter gear. Then the Facebook post seen above occurred which included the line, "These n- – -as try to kill you start to finish!". Smith was not fired by Cassano but he was barred from the graduation ceremony for his class, lost 90-days pay and had his probationary period stretched from 18 months to five years.
On Aug. 1, three days after his training started on Randalls Island, Smith posted several selfies under the name "King Alex" — including one of him bare-chested in his FDNY helmet and bunker gear and another showing his nude torso over an FDNY patch.
"S- -t is REALLLL!! Body OD sore!" he wrote of the drills. "no real lunch break and mfkaz screaming at you all day long."
A top officer displayed Smith's photos and obscenity-laced remarks in a blistering speech to the entire class. He admonished each probie to avoid posting anything that could shame the FDNY.
Using the name "Kieon Ibeast," Smith posted the N-word diatribe to Facebook on Nov. 19. The repeat offense infuriated brass, who wanted him fired, insiders said.
Smith is part of a class that was hailed Thursday as the most racially diverse in FDNY history. Of the 242 firefighters, 24 percent is black, 36 percent is Hispanic.
Of the grads, he is one of 76 "priority hires," minorities who took the FDNY entrance exam in 1999 and 2000 but were passed over.
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Update 2 : Julia Seymore, writing for Business and Media Institute, wrote this: "..."Ethanol burns hotter than gasoline, causing catalytic converters, which help clean engine emissions, to break down faster." Consumer Reports has said that fuel economy drops for cars running on ethanol and Popular Mechanics has detailed the problems of gasohol (gasoline/ethanol mixtures like E10 or E15) for cars' fuel systems... In 2008, the Business & Media Institute analyzed network coverage of ethanol and found that more than 82 percent of the coverage that connected ethanol to rising food prices neglected to mention the government's role in creating the problem . "
Natural Gas for OTR trucks, massive development of our own petroleum resources and coal for electricity are the answer. During that development, we can afford to wait for battery technology to mature and perhaps find a way to make fuel cell technology cost effective. Windmills and solar will never be more than niche solutions, serving areas currently off the grid.
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Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, told a top aide that she hated "this damn job" not long before she resigned from office barely halfway through her elected term, according to a leaked draft of an unauthorised biography that also accuses her of breaking state election laws.
The revelations in the book, written by a former aide and confidant and tentatively called In Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years, threaten to sully the former governor's image as she ponders whether to seek the presidency.
Former aide's book claims Palin breached election laws. By David Usborne, US Editor. Wednesday, 23 February 2011
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text: Perhaps it was the satisfaction of controlling Kanye West for once in her life or maybe Kim Kardashian likes violence or maybe she had no idea what she was doing, but while the 18 year old who earlier had called Kim a N lover was pummeled more than 30 times in the face and body Kim didn't do anything to stop Kanye or put a stop to the beating and just stared at the scene unfolding before her and smiled. While others rushed to the aid of the teen and tried to pull Kanye off Kim just stood there taking it all in. When the story first broke and it was believed that Kanye only hit the guy once it was easier to sympathize with Kanye but, to hit a guy 30 times and have to be dragged off the guy when he ends up curled on the floor after a savage beating makes him look really bad. He still won't do any jail time and will probably end up writing a check for a million bucks or so, but eventually his temper is going to get him some jail time especially if Kim is there silenetly encouraging him.


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Richard Justice, who joined MLB.com as an executive correspondent in 2011, has covered Major League Baseball for more than three decades and offers his insight on MLB.com.
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|Everyone is looking for bargains as Monday's non-waiver Trade Deadline approaches. Nothing wrong with that approach. For the sake of argument, let's consider a totally different approach. Rather than hunt for bargains, let's hunt for big-name players.
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|We've seen this movie before with the Kansas City Royals. We don't know if they're going to change the ending, but here's what we do know: You do not want to play this baseball team right now.
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|To understand why this long-awaited trade for veteran left-hander Jaime Garcia makes so much sense for the Twins, check out the standings. There's a postseason berth there to be won. It's beginning to be won.
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|At least the Dodgers and Nationals have a few days to sort through their options in the wake of injuries to Clayton Kershaw and Stephen Strasburg. That sentence will make fans of those two franchises shudder. On the other hand, there is a silver lining in all of this. Had these issues come up after the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline, reasonable options might be slim to none.
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|Two and a half years after he retired and Rob Manfred became Commissioner, Bud Selig is preparing for the highest honor a baseball lifer can receive when he'll be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 30, his 83rd birthday.
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text: You might remember a few months back when we posted some pics of Kate Upton doing a photoshoot in Antarctica on the deck of an ice-covered boat. The images bundled with those photos seemed to suggest that this was some sort of Oreo-themed photo shoot she was doing, but it turns out that was just a clever cover for what it really was - the photo shoot for her 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover. Someone over at TMZ managed to get a pic of the new edition, apparently as it was being shipped to stores, featuring Kate and her two best friends draped in an winter coat with glaciers and shit behind her. Well played, Sports Illustrated. I think most people had forgotten all about this. This will be Kate's second-in-a-row cover for the swimsuit issue, which is a pretty good feat. This time around they're apparently spanning the globe for T&A backgrounds, rather than just limiting themselves to equatorial paradises. I still think it's kind of a goofy setting though. One of the coldest, most uninhabitable places on Earth is the backdrop for hot women in bikinis? Maybe if you're one of those Polar Bear Club psychos. Me, I'm just fine with beaches and palm trees.


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'Breathtakingly beautiful' trip to Nepal's Himalayas
Updated 10:13 am, Friday, June 27, 2014
Just Back From: Nepal
Michael Williams, Oakland
Why I went: A gift for my 50th birthday from my wife.
Don't miss: Trekking throughout the Himalayas. Lots of different options and breathtakingly beautiful. I would also recommend the mountain flight out of Kathmandu to see the entire Eastern Himalaya range (including Everest).
Don't bother: Bringing everything for your trek. One can rent or buy anything for very little money at one of the ubiquitous trekking shops.
Coolest souvenir: The jewelry and beads I bought for my wife and kids from the monks at the Tibetan refugee settlement outside Pokhara are special because they have a story behind them.
Worth a splurge: One of the many great restaurants in the Lakeside area of Pokhara. Well worth it after being on the trail for days.
Wish I'd packed: A little bit less. I would have had more room to bring stuff back.
Other comments: Kathmandu is worth visiting for the temples and markets, but two to three days is enough.
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Want a spring trend that you can try now? How about an easy one that requires little "know how"? Try stripes!!! This adorable striped sweater from Old Navy is inexpensive and easy to wear. Come on spring!
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Get your 80s sporty vibe on this season with this great black and neon watch. An easy way to update your wardrobe without spending a ton of cash.Tags: watches, women, neon, sporty, women's fashion, 80s, spring trends, women's watches, womens accessoriesAdded 7 Years Ago from Inexpensivewatches
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It seems like this much color wouldn't be able to go with a lot of my wardrobe, but these actually can be paired with almost anything. I love the grommet details on the side and the vibrant straps!
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Cookie Download –> Time Of My Life by David Cook.
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I need to reduce my COOKIES intake! Anyone wanna take this COOKIE off my hands?
Cookie Download –> Time Of My Life by David Cook.
To my fellow classmates / course mates, tomorrow's Fidah's paper! God, help us all!!!!!!!!!
I went to Karamunsing with my friend on Saturday. She wanted to buy a Mother's Day present for her mother. When she was paying for the presents the sales lady looked at me and asked "Don't you want to buy anything for your mother?" and I was like "No, thanks…" – She probably thought I was broke or something.
My uncle threw a Mother's Day party for my grandmother last night. I couldn't join them because I had to sit for an exam yesterday evening. I cried myself to sleep last night because I was so JEALOUS. I wanted to attend the party more than anything.
Mother's Day is weird when you no longer have a mother.
I have to say this, when I was writing the my Forbidden Kingdom reviews last month I forgot to give any consideration to those who actually enjoyed the movie tremendously. I must have hurt the feelings of quite a few people when I ranted about how stupid the movie was. Honestly, I sometimes forgot that some people do enjoy having stupidity as entertainment and this is really, my bad.
Due to my lack of sensitivity I seem to have provoked an underage flamer to leave a very distasteful comment here. Apparently I am an imbecile when it comes to rating movies! What a revelation! Here I thought that I've always been very sensible when it comes to reviewing movies! I must be very ignorant. Thank you for pointing that particular flaw in my character, honestly, it's my bad. I am sorry that I am such a movie snob. I am sorry that I didn't like the stupid movie. I am sorry that I didn't get multiple spontaneous orgasm while watching the stupid movie… I am sorry to think that the "Gate of No Gate" is the stupidest name I've ever heard in a movie EVER- I am sorry to feel that the movie was made to make fun of us Asians! I am so damn sorry!
But don't call me a retard. I am 100 percent sure that my IQ level is higher that yours!
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Okay, I am flipping out because of one stupid comment. Do laugh and enjoy this rare moment while you can because I don't stoop to this level very often. I blame all the sleepless nights and the studying. I am so ready to bite-off the head of anyone who dares to mess with my head. I mean it. Don't mess with a busy Bee!


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Possible Sinkhole In Dunedin
DUNEDIN, Fla. (970 WFLA) – Dunedin firefighters said a 10' x 10' hole found Thursday on the 1300 block of Powderpuff Drive is believed to be a sinkhole.
They also said the hole does not seem to be increasing and no homes were evacuated.
Officials said city crews checked some underground pipes and found they were intact and city crews plan to fill in the hole.
No one was injured.


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Volume % Change: 422%
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From a technical perspective, ALR is bouncing hard here right off some near-term support at $19.15 with massive upside volume. This move is quickly pushing ALR within range of triggering a major breakout trade. That trade will hit once ALR takes out its 200-day moving average of $21.53, and then once it clears some more past resistance at $22.68 with high volume.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in ALR as long as it's trending above $19.15, and then once it sustains a move or close above those breakout levels with volume that hits near or above 558,288 shares. If that breakout triggers soon, then look for ALR to possibly re-test or take out its next major overhead resistance level at $26.50.
Novadaq Technologies
Novadaq Technologies (NVDQ) develops and markets medical imaging and treatment systems for use in the operating room. This stock is trading up 8.8% at $11.39 in recent trading.
Today's Volume: 170,000
Average Volume: 101,255
Volume % Change: 215%
>>5 Rocket Stocks to Buy Ahead of Earnings Season
From a technical perspective, NVDQ is skyrocketing here off some near-term support at $10.50 with above-average volume. This move today is capping off a run for NVDQ over the last three months from $5.27 to its intraday high of $10.70. This move has also now pushed NVDQ into extremely overbought territory, since its relative strength index is now 89.
Overbought can always get mover overbought, so traders should continue to look for long-biased trades in NVDQ as long as its trending above today's low of $10.42 with strong upside volume flows. I would consider any upside volume day that registers near or above its three-month average action of 101,255 shares as bullish. If we continue to see NVDQ maintain that trend, then look for the stock to trade well north of $12 in the near future. Emeritus
Emeritus (ESC) owns and operates a portfolio of communities providing services to its residents, including independent living, assisted living, specialized memory care, and, to a lesser extent, skilled nursing care. This stock is trading up 7.5% at $22.64 in recent trading.
Today's Volume: 985,000
Average Volume: 124,480
Volume % Change: 1415%
Shares of ESC are ripping to the upside today after Deutsche Bank started coverage on the stock with a buy rating.
From a technical perspective, ESC is bouncing strong here right off some near-term support at $21 with monster upside volume. This move has started to push ESC into breakout territory, since the stock has moved above some near-term overhead resistance at $21.99.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in ESC once it manages to trigger its next major breakout trade. That trade will hit once ESC clears some past overhead resistance at $22.88 with high volume. Look for a sustained move or close above $22.88 with volume that hits near or above 124,480 shares. If that breakout triggers soon, then look for ESC to re-test or possibly take out its next major overhead resistance levels at $24 to $26. Bio-Reference Laboratories
Bio-Reference Laboratories (BRLI) is engaged in providing laboratory testing services to customers in the greater New York metropolitan area, as well as to customers in other states. This stock is trading up 3.3% at $30.80 in recent trading.
Today's Volume: 281,000
Average Volume: 234,122
Volume % Change: 160%
From a technical perspective, BRLI is moving notably higher here with above-average volume. This move has started to push BRLI into breakout territory, since it's taken out some past overhead resistance at $30.15. At last check, BRLI has hit an intraday high of $31 and volume is well above its three-month average action of 234,122 shares.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in BRLI as long as it's trending above today's low of $29.84, and then once it sustains a move or close above $30.15 with volume that's near or above 234,122 shares. If we continue to see BRLI maintain that trend, then this stock has an excellent chance to tag $35 to $40 in the near future.
Keep in mind that BRLI is now trading in new 52-week-high territory, which is bullish technical price action.
To see more stocks rising on unusual volume, check out the Stocks Rising On Unusual Volume portfolio on Stockpickr.
-- Written by Roberto Pedone in Winderemere, Fla.
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I have had breasts since I was 8 years old. I was a D cup at 13. I have never really been overweight, but regardless of whether I gain or lose a few lbs., my breasts don't change. I am now 33 years old, 5'6" 145lbs and a 34H. This is something I have wanted for 20 years. I remember when I was in junior high and high school and I used to use packing tape to tape them down. I was only a size 4, but had to buy up to a 10 in dresses just to fit my boobs. Sigh.
I have always been active and athletic, and as they have grown, they have become more of a nuisance in this area. Especially when I have to hold them to run, otherwise it is extremely painful (even with a sports bra or two). I have been saying all my life that I wanted to have a reduction 'someday'. I guess I never really thought it would ever happen, nor did I have any idea of how I might pay for it. After my consultation this week with the plastic surgeon, it finally became real for the first time.
Like most of you, I have the standard back, neck, and shoulder pain, shoulder grooving, poor posture, but worst of all for me are the headaches. I have tension headaches in the back of my head nearly every day. I have been to the doctor numerous times to find the root cause, and I am convinced it is from carrying all this weight around every day. When I go to sleep, I pray that I will wake up and they have found a home on someone else. It hasn't happened yet.
SO, I was referred to a plastic surgeon by my doctor, and met with him last week. He was very knowledgeable and patient with me. We went through the basics of the procedure, looked at pictures of women with breasts my size, and those that have been reduced to where I want to be (the dreamy C cup). I asked about techniques, asked to see pictures of his work etc etc. Now I wait. They said it will take 1-2 weeks to submit the request to my insurance. After that, they said it typically takes 4-6 weeks to hear back. They said my chances of them covering it are about 50/50. However, they did say that if the insurance denies it, they will appeal, and continue to fight for me until they say yes. Keeping my fingers crossed until I hear back...


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A β-cyclodextrin (β-Cyd) inclusion complex containing azomethine as a guest was prepared by kneading method with aliquot addition of ethanol. The product was characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer, 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1H NMR) and Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA), which proves the formation of the inclusion complex where the benzyl part of azomethine has been encapsulated by the hydrophobic cavity of β-Cyd. The interaction of β-Cyd and azomethine was also analyzed by means of spectrometry by UV-Vis spectrophotometer to determine the formation constant. The formation constant was calculated by using a modified Benesi-Hildebrand equation at 25 °C. The apparent formation constant obtained was 1.29 × 104 L/mol. Besides that, the stoichiometry ratio was also determined to be 1:1 for the inclusion complex of β-Cyd with azomethine.
The studies on supramolecular chemistry give a broad idea of intermolecular interactions where covalent bonds are not likely to form between the interacting species. Thus, most of this interaction has been performed by host-guest interaction. Among the host molecules, cyclodextrin seems to be the most promising to form inclusion complexes, especially with various guest molecules with suitable polarity and dimensions [
Cyclodextrin molecules are cyclic oligosaccharides made up of six to twelve α-
So far, various kinds of guest molecules such as drugs, steroids, ionic liquids and dyes were used as host-guest interaction to change the properties of the guest molecules into the desired form. Schiff bases are compound with a functional group that contains a carbon nitrogen double bond with the nitrogen atom connected to an aryl or alkyl group. Azomethine is one examples of a Schiff based compound (
In this study, we have synthesized a novel inclusion complex of β-cyclodextrin and azomethine, which was not reported elsewhere. We believe this work would be the initial step to investigate the interaction feasibility of β-cyclodextrin and azomethine. Thus, we have chosen simple, highly sensitive and selective methods for the characterization of inclusion complexes such as Fourier transform-infrared (FTIR) spectrometry, proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) spectrometry, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectrometry [
FTIR is a very useful tool to prove the existence of both guest and host molecules in their inclusion complexes [
The frequencies for β-Cyd observed at 3370.72 cm−1, 2928.53 cm−1, 1157.84 cm−1, and 1029.24 cm−1 which corresponds to the symmetric and antisymmetric stretching of ν[OH], ν[CH2], ν[C–C] and bending vibration of ν[O–H] respectively. Meanwhile the frequencies for azomethine were recorded at 3449.28 cm−1, 1608.52 cm−1 and 681.39 cm−1 for the respective functional groups such as ν[OH], ν[C=C] and vibrational stretching of ν[=C–H].
Both tables show some increase and decrease in intensity changes, Δδ. The increment is due to the insertion of the benzene part ring into the electron rich cavity of β-cyclodextrin and will increase the density of electron cloud, which will lead to the increase in frequency [
Insertion of a guest molecule into the hydrophobic cavity of the β-cyclodextrin will result in the chemical shift of guest and host molecules in the NMR spectra. In general, large chemical shifts will be observed at H3 and H5, which are located in the inner cavity of cyclodextrin due to the inclusion phenomena [
Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) will be done on samples to identify the changes in weight percent with respect to temperature change. TGA was performed on pure β-Cyd, azomethine and their inclusion complex. TGA results plotted in
The effect of pH has been studied to determine the optimum pH for inclusion formation between β-Cyd and azomethine. pH 7 was chosen to be the optimum pH for this inclusion complex due to the highest absorbance at 236 nm. This is a common phenomena as observed by Cesla
Absorption spectra used to confirm the formation of inclusion complex. In this study, absorption spectra of β-Cyd, azomethine, physical mixture and inclusion complex were taken into consideration [
To determine the apparent formation constant for the inclusion complex of azomethine and β-Cyd, the concentration of azomethine was held constant at 9 × 10−3 M. Meanwhile concentrations of β-Cyd has been manipulated as 0 M, 3 × 10−5 M, 4 × 10−5 M, 5 × 10−5 M and 6 × 10−5 M. The absorbance of solutions were measured at 236 nm against a reagent blank which were prepared with identical reagent concentration but without azomethine. The absorption spectra of inclusion complex at different concentrations range of β-Cyd is shown in
It is observed that, the absorbance value increased with increasing β-Cyd concentration while the concentration of azomethine remains the same. It indicates the solubility of guest molecule (azomethine) increases upon forming the inclusion complex [
The apparent formation constant was determined based on the reciprocal plot from
Azomethine (Sigma Aldrich, 95%) and β-cyclodextrin (Acros Organics, 99%) were used as received without further purification. Other chemicals such as DMSO, buffer solutions with pH 2, pH 7 and pH 12 were purchased from R & M Chemicals and distilled water was used throughout the research.
The inclusion complex of β-Cyd and azomethine was synthesized by using kneading method. Both compounds were mixed in 1:1 mol ratio and grinded thoroughly in a mortar for 30 min and ethanol has been added throughout the grinding process. The precipitate formed was left in oven for drying at temperature of 50 °C for 5 days. Then the precipitate was taken out from the mortar and placed in a vial and kept in a desiccator.
The physical mixture of β-Cyd and azomethine was prepared according to Wang
Characterization measurements were done with 1H NMR, FTIR and TGA. D2O was used as solvent for 1H NMR (Lambda JEOL 400 Mhz, JEOL (Malaysia), Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) sample preparation. FTIR samples were prepared as KBr pellets, and its spectra determined by Perkin Elmer RX1 FT-IR spectrometer. The thermal analysis was studied by TGA (TA Instruments Q 500, Research Instruments Sdn Bhd, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia).
A UV–Visible spectrophotometer (Shimadzu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) with 1 cm quartz cells was used for all the following spectroscopic studies. Absorption spectra were determined between 190 nm and 400 nm.
Effect of pH for inclusion complex formed was determined by using three different pH buffers. Buffer solutions with pH 2, pH 7 and pH 12 have been used to determine the optimum pH. Subsequently the optimum pH has been used for the absorption spectra and the formation constant.
Absorption spectra were recorded for β-Cyd, azomethine, the inclusion complex and physical mixture.
The concentrations of β-Cyd were varied in the range of 0–0.0006 M while the concentration of azomethine was held constant at 9 × 10−3 M. The data obtained were used to illustrate reciprocal plot for azomethine-β-cyclodextrin inclusion complex with 1/A
A novel azomethine-β-Cydinclusion complex was successfully synthesized, and characterized using FTIR, 1H NMR and TGA. Azomethine-β-Cydinclusion complex has performed 1:1 host-guest interaction at pH 7 with an apparent formation constant of 1.29 × 104 L/mol which was calculated by Hildebrand-Benesi equation.
The authors would like to thank University of Malaya for the University of Malaya Research Grant (RG169/12SUS and RG176-11AFR) High Impact Research–Ministry of Higher Education (HIR MoHE (faculty) F0004-21001) and MoHEscholarship for the financial supports.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Chemical structure azomethine.
The Fourier transform-infrared (FTIR) spectra of (
1H NMR spectra of (
TGA for (
Absorption spectra of (
Absorption spectra of azomethine with various concentration of β-Cyd. (
Reciprocal plot for 1/A against 1/[β-Cyd] of azomethine-β-Cyd inclusion complex.
Comparison between the intensity of β-Cyd and the inclusion complex.
|Functional Group
|Wavenumber (cm−1)
|Changes Δδ
|Inclusion complex
|ν[OH] symmetric and antisymmetric
|ν[O–H] bending vibration
Comparison between the intensity of azomethine and the inclusion complex.
|Functional Group
|Wavenumber (cm−1)
|Changes Δδ
|Inclusion complex
|ν[C=N] stretching vibration
Chemical shifts (ppm) for the protons of β-cyclodextrin and inclusion complex.
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Re: About UnitStep and ZeroValue
in principal you can unprotect UnitStep and redefine it. However, I
would not advice this, but roll my onw by defining a new function with
the desired features.
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solidifire wrote:
> In Mathematica 3.0, UnitStep is defined in package
> Calculus`DiracDelta`
> and there is an option named ZeroValue, which enables the user to
> define
> the value of UnitStep[0].
> http://documents.wolfram.com/v3/AddOns/Calc_DiracDelta-.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/35rtl7
> In Mathematica 5.0, UnitStep is a built-in function and the default
> value of UnitStep[0] is 1. It seems that ZeroValue is no longer
> accessible. Is there any method of changing this default value?
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J. -- AT&T is fulfilling a promise it made last year to begin managing LANs as well as WANs. In the process, the carrier is winning outsourcing contracts at a more rapid pace than its rivals.
The latest win for the telecom giant's AT&T Solutions managed-network unit is AlliedSignal, which last month awarded AT&T Solutions a $400 million-plus contract for most of its network architecture.
Under the contract, AT&T will manage not only AlliedSignal's routers, but also its LAN hubs and switches using the Global Enterprise Management System (GEMS), a collection of off-the-shelf and proprietary management tools installed in AT&T's customer support centers.
With Version 6.0 of GEMS, AT&T began incorporating tools such as Microsoft's Systems Management Server (SMS) and Novell's ManageWise to bore down to the server level in outsourced networks.
In AlliedSignal's case, AT&T is tacking on other new capabilities, such as the local business telephone service it began providing after taking over competitive local exchange carrier Teleport last year.
AT&T Solutions president Rick Roscitt emphasizes that in these contracts, AT&T is not simply performing fault management for client companies. Rather, using the GEMS package, AT&T technicians set thresholds for CPU utilization and other network-element factors and can flag performance over a period of days to try to prevent network degradation before it happens.
GEMS is not a package that AT&T ordinarily offers directly to customers, and its capabilities are generally limited to users who sign large network management contracts. But analysts do credit AT&T Solutions with building momentum while rival carriers revamp their outsourcing strategies -- such as MCI WorldCom transferring its Systemhouse unit to EDS.
"We're winning most of the large engagements," Roscitt says, pointing to other recent wins with Citibank, Bank One, McGraw-Hill and United HealthCare.
Ironically, one of the things that is less settled with the AlliedSignal contract may be on the WAN side, AT&T's traditional area of expertise.
AT&T will begin by managing AlliedSignal's frame relay and private-line networks spanning 400 sites in 19 countries, but during the course of the contract, the company will consider a more IP-centric architecture. According to Roscitt, AT&T and AlliedSignal have yet to decide whether to run IP applications over a high-speed ATM network, or move directly to an IP-over-SONET infrastructure.
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The close proximity of the Indian Point (IP) nuclear plant to the heavily populated New York City area has raised questions relating to the economic effects that would likely result if the plant were closed.
GAO found that: (1) IP nuclear power is generated at about one-fourth the cost of that generated by comparable oil-fired units in the Con Edison (CE) system; (2) IP units provide nearly one-third of the electric energy needed for the CE franchise area customers, but currently available non-nuclear generating capacity is sufficient to meet normal demands on the system; (3) continued reliability of service without IP will depend on the successful completion of planned generating facilities and transmission line improvements; (4) the loss of IP could increase residual oil comsumption in New York by about 20 million barrels the first year with declining amounts thereafter; (5) use of high cost low-sulfur oil to generate replacement energy could cost Con Edison and Power Authority of New York customers over $600 million during the first year; (6) incremental revenue requirements for CE to cover all costs resulting from closing IP could amount to over $18 billion during the next 15 years and as much as $600 million annually for the Power Authority of New York; and (7) there are few, if any, options available to reduce oil consumption and costs that are not already being undertaken by the utility companies and included in revenue requirements forecasts.
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Ben Vincent Cole, 73, of Little Rock passed away Oct. 6 in North Little Rock. He was born April 5, 1933 in Cotton Plant, to the late Jack and Emeline Morris Cole. He attended schools there and was saved and baptized at First Baptist Church of Cotton Plant. He served in the Air Force.
Later, he worked as superintendent of heavy equipment maintenance in many foreign countries.
He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Linh T. Cole, and first cousins, Bonnie Bean Hutson, W.A. Morris, Billy Morris, Gene Morris and Dorothy Rooks.
Special thanks to Towbin Hospice at Fort Roots and the excellent nursing staff. Arrangements were by Moores Jacksonville Funeral Home.
Jerry Dale Erwin, Sr., 72, of Jacksonville passed away on Oct. 6, after a brave battle with cancer at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Fort Roots in North Little Rock. He served his country in the U.S. Navy and retired after many years as a paint contractor.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Jimmy Earl and Violet Bennett Erwin; a brother, Herschel Wayne Erwin, and a sister, Jimmie Earl Roberts-Silverman. He is survived by his wife, Lillie May Sissy Erwin of Jacksonville; three sons, Gary Wayne and wife Toni Lyne of Cabot, Tony Lynn of Jacksonville and Jerry Dale and wife, Jennifer of Vilonia. He also has four grandchildren, Jessica, Wade and Jordan Erwin and Whitney Brown.
The family would like to express their many thanks to Arkansas Hospice for their wonderful care. Graveside services were in Sumner Cemetery Oct. 9. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Moores Jacksonville Funeral Home.
Jackie Wayne Aiken, 65, of England answered his Saviors call to heaven Oct. 8. He was born on March 27, 1941 in Crossett, to Johnnie and Lillian Jones Aiken.
He was preceded in death by his father; brothers, Bobby Joe and Robert Lee Conville Jr.; and sister Dot Carpenter.
He is survived by his wife, Dianna; his mother, Lillian Aiken; his girls, Diana and husband Terry Harrison and Patricia and husband Danny Reed; sister, Pat Lochala; sister-in-law, Terry Con-ville and brother-in-law, John C. Carpenter Jr.; grandchildren, Georgia and husband Trey Bechtel, Robyn and husband Brad Hodges, Terry Wayne and wife Lauren Harrison, Katelyn Dianne Harrison, Patricia Funderburg, Ava Conville, and Dori and husband Dan Woerheide; great-grandchildren, Brooklyn and Dakota, and 14 nieces and nephews.
Memorial services will be held at a later date. Arrangements are by Moores Jacksonville Funeral Home.
Johnny L. Thompson, 87, of Jacksonville died Oct. 7, at Woodland Hills Nursing Home in Jacksonville. She was born Sept. 8, 1919 in Fordyce to Charles and Florence Wardlaw Kellogg. She graduated from Fordyce High School in 1938.In 1944 she entered nurses training at Baptist State Hospital, graduating in 1947. She worked at an Indian Hospital in Tacoma, Wash..
She married Eldon D. Thomp-son in Batesville. They moved to Jacksonville in 1963.
She was a member of Military Road Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by a sister, Jackie Easterling.
She is survived by her husband, Eldon D. Thompson; two sons and a daughter in law, Stanley and Pamela Thompson of Longview, Texas, and Charlie Thompson of Jacksonville; three grandchildren, Andrea Boos, Becky and Jonathan Thompson; two great-grandchildren, Emily and Kaitlyn Boos; and sister, Opal Morgan of Fordyce.
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When I think of Iraq and Afghanistan, I often think of the photographs that are shown on television or the newspaper of the most recent deaths. The deaths have exceeded 6000. In addition, there are tens of thousands that have been wounded in mind and body who have come home. And finally, there are the loved ones of those who have died or have been injured. These too bear the burdens of war in the loss of a loved one or the ongoing care giving to one who has suffered the wounds of the wars.
And so for this month's non-profit of the month, I'm supporting Hope for the Warriors.
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Thank you so much for choosing Hope For The Warriors as your nonprofit for the month of November. We stand firm to our mission that no sacrifice is forgotten, nor need unmet.
Merry Christmas!
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