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"Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites". ----Thomas Jefferson
"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God". --Henry Kissinger
The cost of one Tomahawk missile $1.4 million dollars. There were 160 launched in the first week of the Libyan offensive. ---U.S. Department of Defense
Lightning Executive Decisions or Pre-existing Contingency Plans?
American's are still awed by the speed in which the Obama administration has dispatched U.S. forces to Libya. Recent news reports and have dealt with the topic of American apathy to the whole situation in Libya pointing out that many voters still don't know that once again: we are at war. Yet this seemingly frantic diplomacy and military action is not without method.
As far back as 2009 'think-tanks' and government intelligence officials have anticipated the need of the U.S. to increase its presence on the African continent. Unfortunately for the politicians and special interest groups, with two waning conflicts on two different continents the American public, traumatized by post 9-11 headlines, are hardly in the mood for another conflict.
In the name of human rights however, Obama can take pride in the fact that not since the Cold War has any President juggled so many intense conflicts in so many regions of the world at the same time. Ironically, after castigating the Republican party during the '08 elections over their 'hawkish', unilateral, and un-American policies, Obama has acted very much in line with his previous administration creating little distinction in his use of the Executive powers, or regard of Congressional and public opinion. His cabinet probably applauds him every morning over donuts and coffee. The American people however, remain unconvinced.
As the White House continues to emphasize its 'Non-active'/supportive role emphasizing that U.S. goals are "strictly humanitarian", the Associated Press recently reported that the CIA is actively working on Libyan soil to aid in building up the new rebel movement attempting to overthrow Qaddafi.
While these actions run counter to the administration's stated goals, and the UN mandate under which it acts, the fact that U.S. forces are attempting to organize an effort to remove the dictator has not escaped the U.S. Congress or American taxpayers as several polls demonstrate a confused and divided public generally opposed to the action in Libya called: Operation Odyssey Dawn.
According to one CNN report the start up costs alone run between 400-600 million dollars. To maintain the 'No-Fly Zone' costs between $30-100 million per week. The fuel for each plane costs $10,000 per hour, this zone is maintained 24 hours a day. In Iraq the No-Fly zone lasted for almost a decade, while the Libyan "no-fly zone" covers twice the land mass. This is only the tip of the iceberg as the Mediterranean is now home to over 11 U.S. battleships as well as an assortment of NATO forces. The idea that NATO will pull this off without U.S. aid is mere 'smoke and mirrors', an assertion which is hardly credible.
As it stands the U.S. cannot extricate itself at this point without great loss of prestige, and strategic influence. As NATO has few examples of winning a war without U.S. aid the proposition that NATO has the manpower, money or national will to invade Libya and topple Qaddafi on their own is weak. If for no other reason than rarely in history have Americans sent their sons to die under the command of a foreign nation. If we are there, we will run the war, publicly or not.
For the the public this action causes great concern and anxiety. Normally supportive of any action associated with the "war on terror", or "mum" on actions which are cloaked with catch phrases of "economic and global stability" , recent events have left the public stunned, confused and divided.
In the face of rising inflation and budget cuts, public opinion is hardly ripe for war. Plagued by budget deficits, rising energy costs, stagnant employment and waves of foreclosures the public has rejected these recent moves by the administration. By the numbers alone, the sheer cost of this military action has not resonated well with either the U.S. Congress or voters.
The American Public Is Not the Audience Anymore
In Obama's recent speech given March 28, he stated that the U.S. had a 'responsibility to act' due to the fact that potentially thousands of Libyans would be slaughtered by the military in an attempt to suppress political dissent. By his reasoning however one would be compelled to conclude that the U.S. should not single out Libya alone for military action as revolutions and corresponding violent state suppression is taking place throughout the middle east and in southern Africa.
So, who was he talking to? Apparently not American voters, as his administration, moving at lightning speed has demonstrated that the opinion of "global allies" and organizations trumps the opinions of the U.S. Congress and the voting public. When assertions regarding the need to protect civilians are made only in relation to oil producing countries, it inspires cynicism rather than patriotism.
Major news networks have reported that in Saudi Arabia mass demonstrations have been violently suppressed by the Saudi security forces. These forces have used the entire catalog of strong arm tactics against unarmed civilians including mass arrests, torture, killings and imprisonment. The Obama administration is silent.
Instead they furiously lobby for Saudi and Arab backing of the Libyan campaign. Ironically the Saudi's and other dictatorial regimes are quite aware that their positions are in jeopardy. With this in mind it is hard to grasp the administrations reasoning, as when it's all said and done many dictators in power may find their fates at the end of a palm fibre rope, therefore it is easy to see how self preservation will dictate the degree of participation (so far only Qatar has sent a token fleet of 5 jets to aid in the region].
In Palestine demonstrations against the Israeli military presence and a resulting violent crackdown go unmentioned by the administration. This story is being repeated almost verbatim across the middle eastern and African map: Yemen, Oman, Iraq, Afghanistan, and a host of sub-Saharan African nations have become daily scenes of public displays of discontent and violent governmental suppression.
This leads to some basic questions raised by one Congressional official in a letter to Obama. One of the questions raised was regarding the threshold for action in these other regions? Are we not also obligated to intervene in these far flung regions of the world, or does the UN decide for America which conflicts to engage in according to its whim?
A brief exerpt of the resolution is says a lot about whose interests will be served by this intervention and why we are there:
"Adopting resolution 1973 (2011) by a vote of 10 in favour to none against, with 5 abstentions (Brazil, China, Germany, India, Russian Federation), the Council authorized Member States, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, to take all necessary measures to protect civilians under threat of attack in the country, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory — requesting them to immediately inform the Secretary-General of such measures" ----UN Security Resolution 1973
- The countries which favored action included:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (remember them??)
- Gabon (U.S. aid recipient)
- Lebanon (remember them??)
- Nigeria
- Portugal (currently requesting an EU economic bailout)
- South Africa (remember them???)
- UK and U.S.
What makes this list interesting is that, outside of the U.K. not one major world power has come forward to openly support military action, including some our closest economic allies such as India, and Brazil. This highlights the statement made at a conference of the Center for Strategic and International Studies regarding the need for the U.S. to counter balance the growing influence of other world powers in the region.
"The United States faces a far more competitive environment in Africa than in previous decades, with "emerging powers"—most notably China, India, Brazil, and a number of smaller Asian states—making major political and economic plays, and with regional organizations, transnational influences, and African civil societies asserting themselves more and more in national affairs."
CSIS January 2010
Coincidentally the "emerging powers" named in their 2010 report are the same powers which have abstained on the UN council, and in whose interest declining U.S. economic/political clout serves. The UN vote underlines the fact that American's are once again being governed by the rules of a global game to ensure strategic dominance over growing economies, and major resources, ultimately serving the interests of a few very powerful interests within our government, while the public at large experiences a huge decline in public services, and simultaneous rise in commodities.
One is left to wonder exactly how much more of this we will take before popular uprisings in our own nation begin to fill world headlines? Recent events in Wisconsin and California signal greater discontent in months to come, as prices rise and patience wanes here at home. In the meantime however the administration is making a long term investment in another foreign country. [Newsflash: the Taliban are gearing up for a new spring offensive....]
An Obama Blitzkrieg??
The German term for "lightning war" Blitzkrieg was more than just a battlefield tactic. Often when one thinks of the term, images of black and white war footage come to mind. Blitzkrieg however was only one component of a larger theory that if an state acted with enough speed it could overwhelm the entire political playing field before the enemy had a chance to counter strike.
The military component used tanks. The political component used "pre-fabricated" governments consisting of local and foreign agents which it would install upon toppling the regime. And the domestic component included a constant barrage of propaganda intended to galvanize public support. Churned out by state sponsored media the German public was barraged with images and reports from the war-front touting the legitimacy of the German invasions. Consequently the Nazi's regime was subject to very little public discontent for their apparent illegal acts of aggression on foreign soil.
Similarly, the U.S. public is numb to war. And even less interested. A San Diego news reporter for KTSU [ref. 3/29/2011] randomly questioned people off the street regarding their opinions about events in Libya and U.S. involvement. After watching the clip one could draw two basic conclusions about public opinions in this matter: 'we can't tell you much about geography or geo-politics, but we certainly know we are not interested in another war'! [emphasis mine]
Unfortunately no one is listening. So I asked myself: can we win in Libya? And the answer that comes back is: No, because success has yet to be defined. In the face of an Ad Hoc strategy the Obama Administration almost admits that it is not prepared for what is happening in Libya. In fact preparation and planning seem to be, in the words of the Secretary of Defense Bob Gates "kind of on-the-fly".
The obvious lack of strategic planning becomes evident when one considers the speed in which the administration entered into this conflict making it any man's game. If I were an advisor to Mr. Obama I would explain to him that Libya will not be like Iraq or Afghanistan. In fact Libya will not be like any other war we have fought in the past decade, particularly because it is in Africa.
Watching the administration ratchet up public opinion for another regional conflict one cannot help but feel a sense of concern. Slowly but surely old euphemisms are pulled out of the closet dusted off: "war on terror", "Islamic extremists" and of course "Bin Laden/Al Qeada" imagery have all been used as they continue to inspire fear in a public largely detached from the problem and its causes. Our collective heads are in the sand.
Despite his convoluted reasoning over the past few weeks not only has Obama failed to provide convincing arguments to the Congress and American public regarding our commitments in the region, he has refused to explain how we will pay for this new adventure and even more importantly, how he plans to win it. While the implication is that the spoils of war will eventually find their way into U.S. and NATO coffers, we all know that the U.S. taxpayer, already under severe economic pressures, will be left to foot the bill and provide the soldiers.
Qaddafi is not another Saddam
While most American's could hardly explain the relevance of Libya to U.S. interests even fewer understand the logistics and demands of this undertaking. In a world where overthrowing "evil" dictators has become acceptable, the U.S. public has become somewhat apathetic to the consequences of being the global police.
This is not, however, without a degree of self interest. In a world where economies are interwoven and resources are rapidly dwindling, the stakes in Africa are very high. So too however, is the cost. Whether the administration has the will to endure a prolonged military engagement remains subject to debate. History however is not so vague.
Over the past few decades the U.S. has directly or indirectly removed several regimes, some criminal, other not, all of which we once did business, some more recent examples include: Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, Idi Amin, Slobodon Milosovec, and Manuel Noriega.
Each of these conflicts were relatively brief, had specific goals and for the most part voter support. While some parallels can be drawn which indicate this conflict may be quick, there are some huge red flags which suggest that this conflict will go south. This includes statements by current and former defense officials.
This implies that the U.S. may be required to send in ground troops, build bases, create a government from scratch, and commit long term resources to the region. In the words of one CIA official a civil war in Africa is a "nightmare" scenario for U.S. forces as it differs greatly from past conflicts. Some examples of contrasts between the current Afghan and Iraqi conflicts are as follows:
- Unlike Saddam and Milosovec's regimes the Qaddaffi regime has not been worn down by years of internal civil war and conflict. The public is largely divided along tribal lines and his support base in his region remains largely intact. As his tribe holds the most vital economic, military and political structures removing Qaddafi alone will not turn the tide as the other members of his clan, many of who will be hunted down and tried for war crimes, have little incentive to lay down their arms.
- Unlike Iraq Libya is not financially broke. The Qaddafi regime has huge reserves of solid gold, precious stones and other hard currencies which it has, and will continue to use in hiring, paying off and recruiting mercenary armies to its cause; Weapons in this region are plentiful as are Mujahideen fighting in other local conflicts including: Somalia, Yemen, Egypt, Chad, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Niger, Nigeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Several actors, tribes and governments in these regions have long histories of political alliances with Qaddafi, unlike Saddam who was hated by most of his neighbors, Qaddafi being an exception.
- Unlike Iraq, Libya is in Africa and is not geographically isolated. It is far more pourous, has a very long coastline and is larger than Texas and New Mexico put together. It has huge expanses of territory through which fighters can infiltrate and exfiltrate the country with little to no detection. Essentially Qaddafi is in his element.
- Unlike Saddam Qaddafi is not hated in the region. In spite of what Westerners may think of him Qaddafi has investments in the governments and economies of over 22 African nations. Qaddafi is seen in many respects as a hero and certainly in light of the huge Western alliance devoid of African or Arab support this theme will play out much in the same way as in the past: Christian invaders v. Muslim defenders, thus the call to Jihad will be made across a region where U.S. military has little recent experience, and even fewer past victories (think "Black Hawk Down");
- Unlike Iraq the Libyan economy has not been dismembered by over a decade of economic sanctions and in fact up to this recent popular revolution it has been considered one of the healthier and more stable economies in the African region (hence the reason America has not attempted to uproot the dictator until now); While Qaddafi will most likely hunker down, civil wars in this region have lasted some times for decades. Without U.S. troops on the ground it is very likely that Qaddafi will remain in power.
- Unlike Saddam Qaddafi and his regime have not been convicted as war criminals, arrested, or prosecuted in world court in spite of a long history of war crimes, allegations and widely held knowledge that they possession of weapons of mass destruction; Qaddafi's checkered history has not prevented the UN, EU and NATO countries from making him a member of world organizations, thus he is no more evil than a slew of other dictators with whom we do business. Demonizing him in the eyes of the West will not win over the African public, as is demonstrated by the African Union and Arab Union's unwillingness to participate in military operations, except on a token level.
- Unlike Iraqi oil, Libyan oil is extremely important to the EU economy (and therefore the global economy). In addition, Libya is a contributor to the overall global supply chain. An interruption of these flows has already sent reverberations throughout the global oil market;
- The Libyan rebels are not the Northern Alliance. Unlike the Norther Alliance which was already organized, had a defined leadership and command structure the rebels are disparate, unorganized and inexperienced. Recent history shows that the Afghan conflict was initially successful because we were able to organize, arm and support an already organized army, this was done with a relatively small group of Special Operations soldiers and the CIA. In contrast the Iraqi invasion was far more difficult exactly because there was no pre-existing and definable political opposition or corresponding military arm. In the case of Libya, the "rebels" did not exist prior to February. Even the most positive assessments find little hope in their winning without foreign military aid. Even if its a U.S. "private security" firm which does it.
Few countries in recent history have embarked on as many foreign conflicts as America. We accept this as a given and often find many reasons to defend, or validify our countries actions. This is not abnormal. What is abnormal however is when intelligent people recognize unintelligent behavior and rather than object to it, they ignore it.
Pre-War Nazi Germany was very similar. Considered a "modern democracy" in it's time, Germany boasted of some of the greatest minds. It was considered the height of European culture and no one would have anticipated that within years it would lay in smoldering ruins, decimated as a result of its leaders exercise of military might over sovereign nations throughout the world. Behavior which the regime and many citizens considered legal, just and proper. Ultimately the perpetrators of these acts were brought to some form of justice, however the people also paid the cost. Ethnic cleansing, economic chaos, political strife, cultural decay, invasion... this became the legacy of unmitigated power misused and uncensored.
Wars of aggression by any other name are still wars of aggression. President Obama who came to office on a popular "can't we all just get along" platform, has morphed into a "war hawk". While individuals like John McCain, Bush I&II, Newt Gengrich are all admitted war hawks, President Obama has become far more hawkish, but unlike his predecessors who anticipated and planned their invasion Obama was suckered into Libya within weeks on an Ad hoc strategy betting Qaddafi will fall within days. The arguments he has put forth ring of political finagling rather than candid and clear "open government" responsive to the public.
Worse than that, they don't match up with the reality in which a great deal of the American public see ourselves and the state of our country. Particularly the reality that our government is broke. Not withstanding the merits of Obama's arguments, one finds it difficult to reconcile the contradiction between cutting spending and starting wars. When a government claims that it is so broke it can scarcely pay to keep the lights on and important programs like FEMA, Social Security, Medicare, education, etc. are slashed we can only wonder where the money is coming from??? Maybe China?
So once again the public is left with a foreign conflict without end. Obama will come and go, as presidents eventually do, however the conflict in Libya will stain American history for decades to come. As we have allowed our military to be sent into harms way in a war which we were neither targeted, nor attacked. A war which could have been dealt with in the same manner as other equally culpable regimes such as Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen and Iraq. A war that has made us less safe, and which the American people did not ask for, and do not support.
"This attack [on Libya] implies a setback in the current international order"..."The remedy is much worse than the illness. This business of saving lives by bombing is an inexplicable contradiction." -----IPS quoting Uruguayan President José Mujica


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[1]A report showing lower-than-expected U.S. job growth during October bolstered investor optimism that the Federal Reserve would maintain its economic stimulus efforts, pushing gold up in Wednesday trading.
According to Automatic Data Processing (ADP[2]), private payrolls rose by just 130,000 this month — well below the 150,000 expected and the weakest hiring since April. ADP also lowered September numbers from 166,000 to 145,000.
Gold futures for December delivery rose 0.3% to $1,349.30 per ounce on Wednesday, according to CME Group[3]. Gold traded as high as $1,359.60 and as low as $1,338.30. Bullion closed in London at $1,345, according to BullionVault[4].
Silver futures for December climbed 2.2% to $22.98 per ounce. Wednesday's high for silver was $23.10, while the low was $22.39.
Metal funds were mixed in Wednesday trading.
Mining ETFs advanced during the day.
Gold stocks improved on Wednesday.
Silver mining shares gained during the day.
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- Bill what an amazing attitude you have and may I say, wow you are one
tough pilgram. Way to kick that cancers butt.
jamie d
--- In email@example.com, Bill Fornshell
<bfornshell@y...> wrote:
> Hi Dave, I have had 2 kinds of cancer a total of 9
> times over the past 10 years but I would never want a
> trail name like "cancer man" or anything else
> associated with cancer. If you have hiked as much as
> you say then you must be dealing with your "fake leg"
> very well, your word for it not mine. I would think a
> trail name that celebrates your trail mileage or
> personality would be more appropriate. However, it
> seems that most trail names are given to us by others
> and not selected by us. A trail name that is
> something up-beat and not one that might seem
> self-serving. Other hiker are going to ask you how
> you got your trail name.
> The way our life situation plays out is something we
> seldom have any control over. We just have to pick
> ourselves up, see what is left and move on with that.
> Dwell on your situation to long and you are lost.
> I am having surgery this Monday to clean-up the last
> "dead" stuff from my most recent cancer treatment.
> After about 10 months I hope to get out for a hike in
> June or July. Many of my side effects are still with
> me but I will be happy with what ever time on a trail
> I have. I will do what I can and go from there.
> Bill
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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 63,
November 2011 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Chicago, Illinois November 4-9, 2011.
Genome-Wide Association Scan of Antigenic Epitopes of Lupus Specific Autoantibodies in European Americans.
Lin1, Chee Paul, Adrianto1, Indra, Hale1, Jessica J., Kelly1, Jennifer A., Glenn1, Stuart B., Anderson1, Jourdan, Kaufman2, Kenneth M.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OK
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
King's College London, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC
David Geffen School of Medicine University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by multi-organ-system involvement and the production of autoantibodies that can lead to tissue inflammation, destruction of cells and even end-organ damage. Susceptibility to SLE is likely to arise from a complex network of gene-environment interactions. Several studies support these contributions of environmental exposure to the development of disease. A temporal sequence of specific immune targets of select autoantibodies is observed in patients prior to disease classification and in phases of early pathogenesis. Curiously these autoantibodies are closely related to the antibodies that emerge in some lupus patients in response to viral infection, specifically Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). In this study, we conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of the three initial humoral antigenic epitopes of Sm B' (PPPGMRPP), Sm D1 (a Gly-Arg repeat) and 60kD Ro (amino acids 169180) to evaluate the genetic influence on the production of these early autoimmune antigenic structures in SLE cases.
A sample of 703 independent SLE patients of European descent was recruited from multiple institutions and their genotypes were obtained from several large-scale genetic studies. Sera of these patients were tested for antibodies directed against early humoral epitopes of Sm B' (PPPGMRPP), Sm D1 (GRGRGRGR) and 60kD Ro (TKYKQRNWSHK) constructed on poly-lysine backbones. We used enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) to quantify levels of autoantibody response directed against each epitope. Box and Cox transformation was applied to epitope variables that did not fulfill the normality assumption. Genome-wide imputation was performed using IMPUTE2 and the phase III Hapmap panel for 659,676 observed single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). After quality control, the final genotype sample comprised 581,509 SNPs. We tested for association between the epitopes as quantitative traits and the genetic variants using multiple linear regression under an additive model, adjusting for gender and global ancestry.
After performing stringent quality control, no effects met the Bonferroni corrected threshold of p < 8.60×10-8. However, several regions were significant at a suggestive level (p< 1×10-4) in RYR2 (p=1.95×10-6), GTDC1 (p=1.06×10-5) and NAALADL2 (p=1.72×10-6) for anti-Sm B', anti-Sm D1 and anti-60kD Ro epitopes, respectively. Genes previously shown to be associated with SLE were also evident in the study, particularly JAZF1 (p=0.000456) for anti-Sm B', KIAA1542 (p=0.000204) and XKR6 (p=0.0001) for anti-Sm D1 and PXK (p=0.00058) for anti-60kD Ro epitopes.
Our results demonstrate the potential power gained by examining more precise phenotypes and refines the association of previously reported SLE genes to the production of these antigenic responses. Overall, our study presents the first evidence of genetic associations with early lupus autoimmunity. It also highlights the importance of examining sub-phenotypes of a complex disease and further supports the involvement of gene by environment interactions toward initiating specific lupus autoimmune responses.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Lin, Chee Paul, Adrianto, Indra, Hale, Jessica J., Kelly, Jennifer A., Glenn, Stuart B., Anderson, Jourdan, et al; Genome-Wide Association Scan of Antigenic Epitopes of Lupus Specific Autoantibodies in European Americans. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2011;63 Suppl 10 :649


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A&O's Frankfurt office was contacted for the first time by Wella last October. Wella's management called the firm in to advise on a possible divestment by the descendants of the founding Wella family of their controlling interest in the company.
This week, Wella's descendant family Stroher, which has a 78 per cent shareholding, agreed to sell to US conglomerate P&G. As the takeover is friendly, A&O's role under the new Germany takeover code is relatively small.
Wella considered several other major firms for the corporate work before settling on A&O. The company also has a relationship with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, which it has retained for antitrust work on the deal.
A&O also benefited from rivals' conflicts. Hengeler Mueller, for instance, has a relationship with Henkel, another possible suitor for Wella.
A&O was not the obvious choice for the instruction and the appointment reflects the firm's growing reputation for corporate work.
It is relatively unusual in Germany for the corporate and antitrust work to be split on an M&A transaction, but A&O's antitrust practice is minnow compared with that of Freshfields.
A&O partner Hans-Christoph Ihrig, who co-led the deal alongside German managing partner Arndt Overlack, also pointed out that Freshfields had advised the company on antitrust issues in the past and could offer continuity.
Although A&O is traditionally viewed as a banks' firm, it has successfully targeted German corporates this year. In January, the finance practice attracted three new mandates from E.ON, TUI and Bertelsmann to advise on loans worth a combined €20m (£13.6m).
Gleiss Lutz partner Gerhard Wirth advised long-term client P&G on the acquisition. The Stroher family was advised by Shearman & Sterling and Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek.


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DJ Linderman
Record: 13-4-0 (W-L-D)
Cage Warriors Record: 2-0-0 (W-L-D)
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- Team Name: Dosomthin MMA
- Nationality: American
- Age: 28
- Height: 6'2"
- Weight: 230lbs
- Total Fights: 17
- Record: 13-4-0 (W-L-D)
- Cage Warriors Record: 2-0-0 (W-L-D)
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Make Giant Dice!
Dice are a main feature of lots of "grownup" games, but guess what? They're a big part of kindergarten, too, and they can be great for learning. In early grades, kids often use dice as they learn both to count and to read number words. The dots on each side of the die give a clear visual picture of what each number represents, and kids can easily see the "one to one correspondence" between abstract numbers and the concrete things they show. At the same time, kids also need to match numbers to words, so that if they see "one," or "two," they can instantly recognize what they're seeing. Here's a great activity to put it all together—and create a marvelous game piece for outdoor play while you're at it.
What You Need:
- Clean, empty ½ gallon milk cartons
- Hobby knife, such as an X-Acto knife
- Tape
- Round white stickers (available at office supply stores)
- Black permanent marker
- Craft glue
- Clear contact paper
- Construction paper
What You Do:
- First, use the knife to cut off the bottom of your milk carton to create a cube that is exactly as high as it is wide.
- Cut the slanted top off the remaining part of the milk carton, and cut a slit in one corner of the four-sided column that remains. Flatten the sides, and cut a long strip.
- Wrap the strip around the open top of your milk carton, and tape it securely on all exposed sides.
- Now measure and cut your construction paper into two strips that are three "squares" long and one square high.
- Glue the strips onto the cubes.
- Now, you have a blank die. Have your kindergartener help you write the word for each number along a corresponding side of the die, from "one" to "six." Then have her paste on the corresponding number of stickers.
- Cover the whole cube with clear contact paper, and make sure you reinforce all seams. You will have an all-weather, all-fun die that you can use for all sorts of games, and all sorts of math and reading, too.


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The former Liverpool chief executive says the Football Association has failed to progress since the inception of England's top tier but hopes Greg Dyke can have a positive impact
The 58-year-old has made accusations against the FA, saying they have failed to tackle important issues in today's game, and believes that the Premier League has left the governing body in the dust as it continues to grow.
Parry spoke of the expectation in 1992 for the FA to develop and modernise, but claims that has not been the case.
"When we formed the Premier League, we had all sorts of dialogue about reforming the FA, but the FA did not change and I think they just got completely left behind," Parry told The Sun.
"The FA is not fit for purpose. The Premier League has raced ahead and succeeded, and in areas where you might expect the governing body to take a lead."
However, Parry was supportive of the recent appointment of Greg Dyke as FA chairman, insisting the former manager could help bring the Football Association up to speed.
He added: "You need a governing body that has balance and that is what Greg Dyke will bring."


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Game of Thrones Gets A New Director For The Season 5 Premiere
Winter is...well, you know.
Just ten months to go, guys.
Production prep for Game of Thrones' fifth season is in full swing, and the director's chair will be receiving some new blood. As was reported by Winter Is Coming, director Michael Slovis will be taking on the first two episodes of season five. Slovis has an impressive resume of cinematography work, but has shifted more toward directing in recent years. His directing credits include Breaking Bad, Law and Order: SVU, Elementary, Chicago Fire, and CSI.
It may seem like a bold move to give the season opener to someone new to the series, but looking through Slovis' past work, I think the premiere's in good hands. I recall one of his episodes of Breaking Bad ("Confessions") as being particularly good. I'm intrigued to see what he brings to the screen.
Granted, Westeros is a rather different world than the contemporary settings Slovis has typically worked with. He was asked about this during a recent Q&A at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and responded that his approach to directing is equally applicable to fantasy.
The methodology, the method is the same, it really is. You're looking for an honest, not precious, not put-upon way of portraying the scene. The way that every one of the film sets that I direct runs is…You come in, and you read the material, as a group. Then we put it on its feet and […] you just guide actors, you don't tell them what you want and very often if you trust them, you'll get something better than what you ever imagined in your head beforehand. So if you listen and work together — it's the most collaborative part of the film-making process, is the director and the actor relationship.
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Someone Messed with The Beef
Shia LaBeouf was apparently involved in a drunken altercation that keeps going back and forth between him getting punched in the face and simply not liking to be called a faggot. At any rate, the third party has already sold his side of the story to RadarOnline and, even then, there are literally no winners. This Mark Mastro fellow admits to sitting down at Shia's table uninvited to ask to have his picture taken with him, only to have The Beef tell him he just wants to chill. It then dovetailed into this:
Some time later, Mastro and a friend were out on the tavern's front patio — basically just a fenced off area off the sidewalk — and Shia walked out.
"My friend said, 'what's up Shia'?" Mastro says. "Shia told him to 'get the f**k out of my way.' He was slurring his words.
"That's when I said to my buddy, 'don't worry, he's just a f**king fa**ot anyway'," Mastro says. "He turned around, cursed me out, and I started laughing."
Mastro explains that the actor then jumped in his black truck which was parked directly in front of Mad Bull's.
"All of a sudden, he jumped out, and ran back towards the bar. He charged at me! I jumped over the patio fence onto the sidewalk to get away from him. But he kept coming after me. He was getting in my face. He was talking sh*t. He was chest-bumping me."
That's when the bouncer jumped in, Mastro says.
"A bouncer put Shia in a head lock. A cop just happened to be driving by and saw the commotion. He pulled up the bouncer literally handed LeBeouf over to him.
So basically a bunch of people got drunk, called each other faggots because that's the only insult their decelerated minds could process at the time and the cops broke it up with no arrests. Normally, I wouldn't defend The Beef because he has a history of bullshit stunts like this, but c'mon, this is pretty much any night at any bar, regardless of who you are. I'm not condoning gay slurs or anything, but one time I even saw the Queen of England call Prince Charles a "Dumbo-looking dick-eater" before she squatted and pissed in the wine cellar. It was surprisingly regal.
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T'lana --> T'Lana, what Vulcan naming conventions are those? I don't recall any being explicitly stated, or even inferred.... --Alan 04:22, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
- Well, I was looking over Category:Vulcans and every instance of a name with T - ' - Something has the letter after the apostrophe capitalized, so I thought this should be consistent with that. -- Kingfisher 04:25, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
- From the script:
- QUARK: "And I'll call you T'lana -- you know, from "Vulcan Love Slave" Volume Three."
- Therefore I am moving it back to T'lana. --OuroborosCobra talk 04:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
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Mark Philippoussis has suffered further frustration in his attempt to get his tennis career back on track.
Unable to secure a wildcard for this week's Mercedes Benz Cup, the 205-ranked Philippoussis entered the weekend qualifying tournament.
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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/)
In this paper, the least-mean-squares (LMS) algorithm was used to eliminate noise corrupting the important information coming from a piezoresisitive accelerometer for automotive applications. This kind of accelerometer is designed to be easily mounted in hard to reach places on vehicles under test, and they usually feature ranges from 50 to 2,000 g (where is the gravitational acceleration, 9.81 m/s2) and frequency responses to 3,000 Hz or higher, with DC response, durable cables, reliable performance and relatively low cost. However, here we show that the response of the sensor under test had a lot of noise and we carried out the signal processing stage by using both conventional and optimal adaptive filtering. Usually, designers have to build their specific analog and digital signal processing circuits, and this fact increases considerably the cost of the entire sensor system and the results are not always satisfactory, because the relevant signal is sometimes buried in a broad-band noise background where the unwanted information and the relevant signal sometimes share a very similar frequency band. Thus, in order to deal with this problem, here we used the LMS adaptive filtering algorithm and compare it with others based on the kind of filters that are typically used for automotive applications. The experimental results are satisfactory.
When designing a sensor system, one of the most difficult parts is to carry out high quality filtering of any unwanted information. In practice, we cannot eliminate totally this unwanted information, but what we can do is to make use of the advances in technology to build intelligent sensor systems able to diminish the noise corrupting the relevant information coming from sensors down to noise levels at which their negative effect on the important signal is negligible. Recent applications of several advanced filtering techniques have shown that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) can be increased by using appropriate filtering techniques [
In this context, in the scientific literature there is wide range of filtering algorithms to be implemented by using either analog electronics or digital one; and such algorithms can be either optimal with respect to some index of performance or robust with respect to structured and unstructured uncertainties [
Very often, when designing sensor systems, designers tend to build the signal treatment stages using the classical approach to filtering [
However, the above statement also brings about two problems. First, as a custom-built sensor system is designed to solve only one specific problem with some constraints, if the working conditions change, the system is not adapted to deal with those changes. Second, custom-built sensor systems are far from being inexpensive. Therefore, both the cost and the ability of the system for adapting itself to new, unpredictable changes and for adjusting its own parameters automatically in an active interaction with the environment are of paramount importance.
For this reason, in this paper we present a comparative analysis between the results of the traditional way of filtering and the ones of using easy, inexpensive adaptive filtering [
The principles of accelerometers are described in several references on sensors and actuators [
In this paper, we are interested in measuring steady-state accelerations and the DC accelerometer 1,201 F of Measurement Specialties was tested under laboratory conditions for future use in automotive applications. Basically, the schematic diagram of this accelerometer consists of a configuration of the well-known Wheatstone bridge circuit like the one shown in
The features of the 1,201 F accelerometer are the following: 2nd generation MEMS sensing element; 1,000 g Full Scale Range; 2–10 VDC Excitation for Maximum Flexibility; 0–50 °C Temperature Compensation; ± 40 mV Zero Measurand Output; Gas Damping; Connector Options; Mechanical Overload Stops; and Designed for Screw Mounting. In addition, its applications are the following: Crash Testing, Impact Testing; Off-Road Testing; and Road Testing. More information about the model 1201F accelerometer can be found on the website of the manufacturer:
In spite of the fact that sensor manufacturers are working hard to adapt processes used to manufacture advanced semiconductor technologies to the manufacturing of sensors, and improve the performance of sensors by using integrated circuit technologies [
For instance, according to [
Then, in order to prevent the system from activating the airbag when the excitation is below certain levels, other electronic circuits are used. Thus, the filtering problem does not rely completely on the low-pass filter they use.
Therefore, in practical accelerometer architectures, in order to avoid that the output be a false representation of the original signal, the signal is redistributed. Nevertheless, this redistribution of gain requires knowledge of the worst-case signals to be applied and an acceptance of noise in the output signal [
Taking into consideration the above statements it cannot be said that using conventional filters is the best option we have to develop a solution that meets the performance objectives. To be more specific, as mentioned in [
On the other hand, one of the advantages of adaptive filters is that they have a mechanism for adjusting its own parameters automatically by using a recursive algorithm, at the same time that the filter is in active interaction with the environment. Therefore, they can perform satisfactorily in environments in which we have little knowledge of the noise characteristics, and the SNR improvement achieved with these filters is several times better than the one achieved by using the conventional ones [
The practical implementation of the LMS algorithm is very simple and it is well documented in [
First, the
Second, the
Third, the conjugate error signal, the tap-input vector, the tap-weight vector and the (constant) step-size parameter
Then, repeat all the steps again starting from the first one for
In the experiment, the accelerometer 1201F-1000-10-240X (Model 1201F, 1,000 g Full Scale Range, 10 VDC excitation, 240 inches cable, and no options), was tested under laboratory conditions by using the calibration system CS18 TF from SPEKTRA. This system can carry out calibrations of sensors with/without amplifiers in the frequency range 3 Hz to 5 kHz, with a repeatability of the calibration under identical conditions up to 5 kHz better than 0.5%.
Here, the 1201F-1000-10-240X accelerometer was tested at 50 Hz, 100 Hz, 200 Hz, 500 Hz and 1 kHz, with a sinusoidal acceleration excitation of amplitude 2 g. Furthermore, the National Instruments Data Acquisition Card NI DAQCard-6062E was used for the laboratory experiments. In addition, for the experiments at 50 Hz and 100 Hz the sampling frequency was 30 kHz, and for the experiments at 200 Hz, 500 Hz and 1 kHz the sampling frequency was 100 kHz.
Finally, Overload Channel 1 or 2 (red) indicates that the input voltage of the AD converter exceeds the permissible maximum value, Overload Generator (red) indicates that the controller is unable to establish the required amplitude, and box Valid is for indicating whether the result is valid (target acceleration established).
The response of the sensor to the above excitations shown in
Thus, we had two options: the first one was to use a low-pass filter with
The second one was to use a band-pass filter with
However, in spite of the fact that the first option was not a bad idea, we would have the problem of allowing low-frequency noise and disturbances to pass through the sensor system. For this reason, that option was discarded. Therefore, in order to accomplish the task of filtering, we used five 4-order band-pass digital Butterworth filters with center frequencies at 50 Hz, 100 Hz, 200 Hz, 500 Hz and 1 kHz, respectively. Furthermore, in order to follow the same design criterion, the
At this point, it is important to mention that the performance of the sensor system based on the five 4-order band-pass digital Butterworth filters can be considered satisfactory. However, in real automotive applications the designer does not know exactly the frequency of the relevant signal.
Therefore, the designer cannot design a bank of band-pass filters to cope with the noise/disturbance rejection problem, because he/she does not know what are the center frequencies of his/her filters. What is more, even in the case of knowing the frequencies of the excitation signals, if there were several of them, then the bank of filters would consist of several filters. Such a bank of filter would be expensive if it were implemented by using analog electronics, and would have problems due to numerical properties of the filters if it were implemented by using digital electronics.
Thus, in order to diminish the noise that corrupts the relevant signal coming from the sensors in a more efficient and cheaper manner, we used an adaptive filter. A filter that placed in an ANC device (see
In this sense, as automotive applications require robust, easy to implement devices, because they have to work for long periods of time and make decisions in situations that involve safety-related problems, for the case under study we solved the noise rejection problem by using an LMS adaptive filter.
The parameters of the LMS adaptive filter (see Section 3) were the following: a tap-weight vector of length
If we compare the experimental results shown in
In this paper, an LMS adaptive filter was used to cancel the noise that corrupts the relevant information coming from an accelerometer under laboratory tests. The results of the experiment were satisfactory. Also, in order to show that the performance of the LMS adaptive filter was better than the one of the kind of filters used for automotive applications, the adaptive filter was compared with five 4-order band-pass digital Butterworth filters. The results of the experiment showed that the adaptive filter was superior to the band-pass digital Butterworth filters.
This work has been partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) of Spain under the research project TEC2007-63121, and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
The Wheatstone bridge circuit.
Schematic diagram of the ANC.
Response of the sensor system before filtering for a sinusoidal excitation of 2 g of amplitude at 50 Hz: Acceleration (or output signal) (g) and Power spectrum magnitude (dB).
Current values of the calibration run: 50 Hz.
Response of the sensor system before filtering for a sinusoidal excitation of 2 g of amplitude at 100 Hz: Acceleration (or output signal) (g) and Power spectrum magnitude (dB).
Current values of the calibration run: 100 Hz.
Response of the sensor system before filtering for a sinusoidal excitation of 2 g of amplitude at 200 Hz: Acceleration (or output signal) (g) and Power spectrum magnitude (dB).
Current values of the calibration run: 200 Hz.
Response of the sensor system before filtering for a sinusoidal excitation of 2 g of amplitude at 500 Hz: Acceleration (or output signal) (g) and Power spectrum magnitude (dB).
Current values of the calibration run: 500 Hz.
Response of the sensor system before filtering for a sinusoidal excitation of 2 g of amplitude at 1 kHz: Acceleration (or output signal) (g) and Power spectrum magnitude (dB).
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Power spectrum magnitude (dB) of the output signals after filtering by using the corresponding five 4-order band-pass digital Butterworth filters.
Power spectrum magnitude (dB) of the output signals after filtering by using the LMS adaptive filter.
Learning curves of the LMS adaptive filter for the cases under test: EASE is the ensemble-average squared error (logarithmic scale).
Time waveforms of the output signal for the five cases under test: Green—output signal (g) before filtering; Blue—output signal (g) after filtering by using the 4-order band-pass digital Butterworth filters; and Red—output signal (g) after filtering by using the LMS adaptive filter.
Approximate system functions of the five 4-order band-pass digital Butterworth filters.
Approximate locations of the zeros and poles of the five 4-order band-pass digital Butterworth filters.
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Not so shining star: Norwegian Star Cruise Review by pdponyx
Overall Member Rating
Not so shining star
Destination: Mexican Riviera
Embarkation: Los Angeles
The ship disembarked from San Pedro/LA port. Parking is $12.00 a day. Read the signs as you come in to make sure you are headed in the right direction. I'd much rather sail out of San Diego because the set up of San Pedro is not great. The people first are not very friendly. When we found out where we were supposed to enter, the porters were only in one area. You had to go to them and wait in line because all they had were dollies to take your luggage.
When we came inside the person directed us to the wrong line. There are two steps, first to get your room key, and then the second line to take your photo. They had four different lines to choose from, but all of them were slow.
We arrived around 11 am and it took us almost 1 1/2 hours to finish the process. Once we entered the ship they had champagne and orange juice to greet us. That was More a nice treat. Our rooms were not ready yet so we headed to Versailles, one of the free dining rooms.
I don't remember what we ate for lunch, but it was not tasty. I thought maybe it's the first day and it will get better. The food never got better in the dining room. I am not a food snob by any means, however the food on Carnival blew Norwegian's food out of the water.
Because it's freestyle dining you do not have the same waiter/waitress every night. Some were friendly, and others were plain rude. Anything with gravy on it was salty. Almost all the different types of fish were dry. The only good fish they knew how to make was talapia. They had lobster two nights. The first time they made it, it was decent. The second time it was dry and tough. The desserts were sometimes the same desserts that were in the buffet. One of the appetizers, vegeterian spring rolls were the same things they had for the kids at the children's buffet. I would give the food a 3 out of 5, almost a 2 out of 5. Believe the reviews when they say the food is bad. One night never stood out for us. We just always said the food was okay. Oh how I missed Carnival's food and their service!
Eating in the dining room also took forever. It was always at least 1 1/2 hours. There were times when we'd wait 5-10 minutes for dessert to come. I know it's pre-made so I never understood the reason for the wait. Our water was not always filled, the bread they had was never fresh. On the very last night I found a piece of hair in my won ton soup.
The free dining rooms are Versailles and Aqua. Versailles has the better decor, however I found service to be quicker in Aqua because less people frequent that location. The menu was the same each night at both locations, so it just depends on the atmosphere you wanted. They posted the menu up each day. We only ate dinner in the dining rooms, evertyhing else was at the buffet. Some of my family skipped the food in the dining room and opted for the buffet. When you decide that buffet food is better than the dining room, that basically says it all.
They do have their specialty dining which is why I believe their food is so poor. I never went into any of them. I already paid to get on the cruise, I expect there to be decent food. The prices do range, and hardly anybody was ever eating in any of those dining rooms.
The one place my family enjoyed was the Blue Lagoon. This is open 24 hours, and after 11:30 is when they serve their lunch. My parents enjoyed the buffalo wings. They have a set menu, but you can get a hamburger, hot dog, chicken burger, hot wings, and some other grilled items. I do not recommend the artichoke dip, it was too watery. I asked for extra celery, they gave me one extra.
If you like to swim, be prepared to share the tiny pool with many people. There is only one community pool which is small. There are two water slides that lead into a tiny wading area. My sister went on the water slide and there usually is not enough water pressure for you to slide down well. The ship does have 6 hot tubs, and there are two hot tubs by the children's pool area.
There is a movie theater. The movies that are shown in the theater are the same ones that you can view in your room. When I was there it was The Proposal, Girlfriend's Past, Angels and Demons, Chronicles of Narnia, and a few other ones. It's not a huge theater, and the screen seemed blury to me. They only showed movies during the evenings. Sometimes during the day I wished they would show a movie because there was not much for me to do.
If you want free popcorn or a pretzel head into the Red Lion pub. They have a small popcorn and pretzel machine. Sometimes the bags of popcorn will be out for you, other times you will have to ask for it.
In terms of the activities on the ship, there were few. Many of the activities were seminars. They were basically trying to have you buy things. It was learning about emeralds and diamonds. Other activities you had to pay for. During the day when we were at sea I would work out in the gym or just walk around. Everything was packed into the evening. They did have some trivia games here and there.
The gym is nice. I liked that it is open 24 hours. They do have a screen, so bring headphones if you want to listen to whatever they have playing. There is an ice cream bar right outside of the gym that leads towards the kids pool area. If you want ice cream instead of the frozen yogurt head right outside. There were 4 different flavors each day.
Our ship just finished its stint to Alaska. Let me just say that on this cruise there were many older people. 75% of the passengers were probably over the age of 50. It was much different than Carnival.
I was looking for the night life. The night life did not exist. Most of the evening events occur in the Stardust Theater, or the Spinnaker Lounge. The Stardust Theater is a beautiful theater. The shows I would have given a 4 out of 5. We had a tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cirque de Pacific, and a tribute to the 70's. There was also a juggling comedy show, The Second City Tour (improv group), and the Blackstreet Boyz. In the Spinnaker they had Dancing with the Stars, Karaoke Idol, Newleywed Game, and the Not So Newlywed Game.
The music for the evening was mostly 70's and 80's music. It's not my style, and about 20 people were usually dancing the night away. There was a Mexican deck party, however they played Caribbean music. It made no sense to me.
The pool deck is not laid out well. There is little room to call a deck. Norwegian likes to put up windows all around the ship so you do not get a clear view out to the ocean. Only on deck 7 can you eat outside, however there are only about 5 tables.
There is a jogging and running track. The running track is very narrow, so if a person is trying to pass you by good luck. They do have two putting areas, a basketball court, however the net on top is low so you cannot throw the ball to high, a big chess area, two ping pong tables, and shuffleboard.
Everything is intermixed starting from floor six and above. You'll have some floors with the staterooms and then a dining room. The Internet cafe is on deck 9. The rest of deck 9 is the staterooms. We were on deck 5 with an oceanview, but the hallway is above us so all we heard was running.
I did like the staterooms. They have plenty of drawers, and ample closet space. If somebody is in the bathroom make sure they do not open the door and hit you. There is a mini fridge stocked with items. We asked our steward to take out the items so we could put our drinks in there. Many people brought a case of water, or case of coke with them. If you want to save money, bring your own. It's $2.00 a can for soda. There is a light in the closet, and the safe requires you to punch in a code instead of using some type of card.
They also have chairs and a little vanity area for you. We had four people in the room. I do not like how they manuever four people. There were two beds, a pull out bed, and the bunk bed. Carnival is better because they had two bunk beds which saved space. I slept on the pull out bed, and that was hard as a rock. I brought my own pillow, but I heard those were hard as a rock as well. I looked at one of the pillows and it had hair on it which did not belong to any of us.
The pull out bed is a different height than the other beds. They put it in the middle of the two other ones, so we rearranged it ourselves. We put some luggage underneath the beds, and also two small tables they had.
The bathrooms are nice because they have a glass sliding door to separate the shower and the kamode. It is tiny in there, so be careful. I hit my arm a couple of times in the shower. The only amenity they gave us was one bottle of lotion and a hair cap.
When we docked into Cabo there was an issue so we were given an extra hour to hang out there. When we were ready for disembarkation something occurred so everything was pushed back an hour. People with flights were going a little frantic.
They do give you the option to leave between 8-10 off the ship if you can carry your luggage off yourself.
One other thing. We did not go on the shore excursions through the ship. They are overpriced. In Cabo we took a water taxi ($8 each) which took us to Land's End, dropped us off at the beach, and picked us back up.
We did a city tour in Mazatlan through an outside vendor. It was $25.00 for us but my other friends got it for $20.00. They had drinks in teh van as well, and would stop at different places for us to take photos.
In Puerto Vallarta we also took a city tour. When you get off of the ship there are not that many taxi drivers. Inside is only for certain taxis, so we had to walk otuside and then somebody offered us a tour. He was a more a taxi driver than a tour guide, but we were with him for 6 hours and the cost was $17 per person.
Next time I might do a canopy tour or somethng adventerous, but they were all safe, and less than half the cost of the shore excursion.
i know I am missing some things, but that is the gist of my review. I would give Norwegian a 3 out of 5 overall. I would not go back to Norwegian because I did not like the food, the layout of the ship was odd, there weren't that many activities, and the older crowd. I would go back to Carnival any day. Less
Published 10/17/09
Cabin review:
We were in an ocean view. The closet had ample space, and there were lots of drawers. We were under a walk way so it was quite noisy. The pull out bed is hard as a rock, so are the pillows. There are not a lot of amenities. The ocean view was a decent size. Lots of storage space.
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North Dakota oil rig explosion kills 2
WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA (BNO NEWS) -- The death toll after Wednesday's oil rig explosion in North Dakota has risen to two while two others remain hospitalized, local media reported Friday.
The oil well, which is operated by Oasis Petroleum of Texas, exploded on Wednesday in the town of Williston, located in North Dakota's McKenzie County. County Sheriff Ron Rankin told the Bismarck Tribune that a second person has died.
The second fatal victim was identified as Ray Hardy, of Mohall, who succumbed to his wound on Thursday after being airlifted from Mercy Medical Center in Williston to Region's Hospital Burn Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Brendan Wegner, 21, of Montello, Wisconsin, was previously killed at the scene of the explosion as rescue workers arrived and found his burnt body at the scene. Two others who remain hospitalized - Doug Hysjulien, of Williston, and Michael Twinn, of Tioga - were reported in critical condition in St. Paul's burn center.
Emergency operations were stalled due to construction on Highway 85, forcing company personnel to transport the three initial survivors by car to Williston ambulances which had responded to the incident.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched an investigation into the accident, as oil rig deaths have been increasing with seven deaths in the past year.
OSHA area manager Tim Deutscher told the media outlet that one of the first questions authorities look into is whether the victims were wearing fire retardant clothing, as not all companies have shown adequate responsibility in assessing fire risk, failing to require the proper clothing at job sites.
Oasis Petroleum of Texas chief operating officer Taylor Reid is cooperating with the on-site probe by OSHA officials, as authorities continue to investigate the reason of the incident.
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how do I cut out a stencil?
Then using a sharp arts & craft type blade, carefully cut away all the areas that are to be etched. Ensure you don't press too hard to scratch the mirror surface. You'll need to be patient and cut as cleanly as possible.
Once you have completed cutting out the design you'll need to clean the surface again with rubbing alcohol and dry with a lint free cloth. If you have any oils from your hands, or fingerprints on the mirror, they will show up after etching.
Once you have cleaned and dried the mirror, you will be ready to complete your project.
I hope this helps. I have done a few projects like this in the past, and this method works very well.
Having done the same kind of thing, this was the easiest, fastest way, which produced the best results.
Good luck
print the pattern on adhesive backed cardstock, or vinyl, or the like
Use a sharp razor knife to carefully cut along all the white/black boundaries inside the birds, but not the outside of the birds, leaving only the black skeleton inside the birds.
adhere the sheet to the mirror
spray on your fake etch stuff...
if you used vinyl from the start, acid etch the glass.
you can make these lands thinner with care and a sharp craft knife.
To be truly successful as a stencil either make it from thin plastic or get soem real stencil paper from an art shop.


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First-year offensive coordinator Kurt Roper wants to stretch the field and give his offense a chance to make big plays. To make that more likely, he worked with the mindset of the quarterbacks while throwing the deep ball.
Roper wanted the quarterbacks to put more air under the ball when they throw it deep.
"His thing is more air equals more forgiveness," Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel said. "It gives the receiver more time to adjust and receivers are just naturally better at locating the ball than DBs are, so just putting more air under it gives those guys more time to adjust to the ball."
With the new coaching on throwing the deep balls, Driskel took it to the practice field this summer. He orchestrated player-run practices, getting the skill players and quarterbacks on the field at the same time to face the Florida defense. They wanted to work on timing and make sure the work from spring practice wasn't wasted when the Gators got into fall camp.
That timing is also important on the deep connections. Whether it's Quinton Dunbar, Ahmad Fulwood or Demarcus Robinson, Driskel has hit multiple different players for deep completions and expects that to be an important part of the offense this fall.
"It's just putting the time in during the summer with the guys," Driskel said. "You can't get better at something if you just expect it to happen without working at it. With the defenses in our league, you're going to have to make big plays in order to score a lot of points, so that's something that I really try to emphasize in hitting big plays when they're there."
The addition of Roper to the coaching staff has been an important part in revitalizing the offense. Will Muschamp fired Brent Pease last season because he saw the players lose confidence in what was happening on the offensive side of the ball. Roper has given the offense life, installing an up-tempo spread that utilizies playmakers in space.
"Coach Roper has been great since he's gotten here," Driskel said. "He's a guy that's going to be really positive and just hearing good words about myself from him is awesome. Coach Roper has been a big help to our offense and our team."
Every success in practice brings the offense more on board with what its doing this year.
"I think that our confidence is higher now than it was before just because we've done some things to boost our confidence up," Driskel said. "We've made a lot of big plays against a really good defense. When that happens, you start to feel a little bit more excited and a little bit more confident. I think that we have a good thing going on offense and we just have to keep getting better."
Driskel has missed on practice this season, and it came on Saturday because he was walking across the stage at the O'Connell Center during graduation. He had family and friends in town for the event, providing a nice break from the intensity of fall camp.
He'll start his Master's program in management this fall and will leave Gainesville with a Master's degree in the field.
For now, the focus remains on the field in Gainesville. Driskel has another shot to bring the Florida offense back to the normal expectation level. The installation is now behind them and they continue to focus on the fundamentals.
"I think having the spring with Coach Roper really helped and carrying that into the summer with the guys," Driskel said. "I don't think we've had nearly as many busted assignments, even from the younger guys as I'd thought we would. I think we're doing a really good job just putting everything together and know it's executing, not just knowing what to do. It's executing as well."


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Programming Questions? Ask a Programmer for Answers ASAP
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thanks hah
The items and values thing was a chart, so 1 goes with 239.99 and 2 goes with 129.75, and so on
Any idea how long you think it would take?
The question says "There is no limit to the number of items that can be sold by a salesperson. "
First of all do we have to get the value of items from the user via console entry or can we hard code it in the code?
hmm, im not sure
Have you introduced to Collections like List etc?
I think hard coding in the code would be fine
would have it ready soon
no not yet
ok thank you!
hows it coming?
going good
give me 2 mins
Answer Link
program works great, but i needed it as Sales.java and SalesTest.java is that a big problem to fix?
It would take some time as would have to do it quite differently
Would appreciate if you can raise a separate question and start with "For ATLProg" and i would be happy to post the modified program
Well i would but I needed it rather soon
I dont think half hour is enough time
would be done sonner
what is sooner?
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I have reinstalled the patch you submitted from a clean version of htdig
3.0.8b2. I found that with a small database (3 pages) the -n option for htdig dug
the new web pages fine. I used this command to do so.
htdig -n -c ${CONF_DIR}/htdig.conf -s I had this in a shell program to use
another config file other than the one we have in production. When I tried this
on a larger sample the time to dig was 45 minutes. I then dug
with the -i option and it took only 15 minutes. With the -n output I dug
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The news of Savita Halappanavar's tragic death after being denied an abortion has been heard around the world by now. Protesters have gathered in her honor, vigils will continue to be held and, perhaps, the end of her life will be a wake-up call. Women's lives matter and laws should protect them — not cost them their lives.
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Sky Treasure Upsets in Nassau Stakes
John C. Oxley's Sky Treasure became a graded winner May 23, when she rallied from far off the pace to upset in the $200,000 Nassau Stakes (Can-II) at Woodbine.
John C. Oxley's Sky Treasure became a graded winner May 23, when she rallied from far off the pace to upset in the $200,000 Nassau Stakes (Can-II) at Woodbine.
Lightly raced Deceptive Vision, a close third last time in her stakes debut, is the favorite among eight older fillies and mares expected to start in the $200,000 Dance Smartly Stakes (Can-IIT) July 6 on the Woodbine turf.
Solid Appeal returns to her favorite turf course to defend her title in the $200,000 Nassau Stakes (Can-IIT) May 25 at Woodbine against a field that includes the mare that she lost to last time out, Sisterly Love.
Front-running Smartyfly put away favored Spring in the Air past mid-stretch to win the $240,652 Wonder Where Stakes on the Woodbine turf Aug. 4 in the final leg of the Triple Tiara for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.
Nipissing and Spring in the Air, two fillies that failed to make much impact facing males in the Queen's Plate one month ago, are back with their own sex in the $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes Aug. 4 at Woodbine.
Yvonne Schwabe's Surtsey, sent to post as the longest shot on the board at 41-1, scored an upset win in the $144,256 Ontario Damsel Stakes July 14 at Woodbine.
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|Omar Moreno
|Yvonne Schwabe
|Yvonne Schwabe Thoroughbreds
|Surtsey View Five-Cross Pedigree
|Heatseeker (IRE)
|Giant's Causeway
|Rusty Back
|Kick'em Jenny
|Bold Executive
|Desert Radiance
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Hip 2304
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Healthy Asian Peanut Noodle Recipe
A Reader Recipe: Asian Peanut Noodle Salad
We love healthy versions of our favorite takeout foods, and so does FitSugar reader For The Love of Fiber, who posted this recipe for Asian peanut noodle salad in our Healthy Recipe group.
Here's a nice vegetarian entrée with a healthy dose of fiber and tons of antioxidant-rich veggies! Inspired by a recipe I found in Shape Magazine a few years back, it's really tasty and makes great leftovers for lunch. If you're on a budget, peanuts can be substituted for macadamia nuts – no one will think any less of you. And if your preference is meat, swap out the tofu for some chicken breast. Serve with steamed broccoli and you have yourself a taste of the Far East in the comfort of your own home, minus the MSG. And I made this with Mara's Pasta — quite possibly the best-tasting whole wheat pasta on the planet. It's brand new and doesn't taste like cardboard. Pretty awesome.
Use organic ingredients when possible, particularly if you're going meat-free with the tofu. Look for a quality brand that is organic and GMO-free. It's worth the extra money.
Read on for the recipe.
2 tbsp. creamy peanut butter *
2 tbsp. coconut milk
1/2 tsp. sesame oil
1 tbsp. freshly grated ginger
1/2 tsp. chopped garlic
Juice of 2 limes
1-2 tbsp. reduced sodium soy sauce
1 tsp. Tabasco sauce (to taste)
1/4 cup hot water
1 block extra-firm organic tofu, diced into ½-inch pieces *
2 tsp. coconut oil, divided *
1 cup broccoli florets *
1/2 cup snow peas, ends trimmed and cut into thirds *
1/2 cup cut carrots cut into matchstick pieces *
1/2 lb. whole wheat cooked linguine/spaghetti, such as Mara's Pasta, rinsed in cool water *
1 tbsp. chopped macadamia nuts *
* = good source of fiber
- To make the peanut sauce, puree ingredients in blender until smooth. Place in covered container and refrigerate to thicken.
- In a large, nonstick pan, stir-fry diced tofu in 1 tsp. of coconut oil until golden brown on all sides, about 3-4 minutes. Remove tofu and set aside.
- Add the other tsp. of coconut oil to pan and add broccoli, stir-frying for 3-4 minutes. Add snow peas and carrots and stir-fry an additional 3-4 minutes. Vegetables should be crunchy.
- In a large bowl, toss cooked linguine, tofu, and vegetables with peanut sauce until all are well-coated. Transfer to a platter and garnish with macadamia nuts.
For this and other fiberlicious recipes, visit www.fortheloveoffiber.com.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1/4 recipe
- Calories: 399
- Total Fat: 16 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
- Sodium: 276 mg
- Total Carbohydrate: 54 g
- Dietary Fiber: 10 g
- Sugars: 3 g
- Protein: 23 g
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On 8/6/07, Manuel Kasper <mk at neon1 dot net> wrote:
> On 06.08.2007, at 17:38, Harald Sauff wrote:
> > But: Shouldn't this then be considered a bug?
> > Explanation: The standard speed of the Soekris 4501 serial port is
> > 19200
> > bps. In 1.231 one could just connect to the serial port with 19200 bps
> > and then read the BIOS output as well as the m0n0wall boot output. Now
> > in 1.3b3 I have to choose: either listen to the BIOS with 19200
> > bps, OR
> > listen to the m0n0wall boot with 9600 bps.
> ...or set the ComBIOS to 9600 bps too.
Unfortunately the 5501 doesn't appear to have the option of changing
the ComBIOS speed. In fact I don't see any opportunity to change any
setting on the 5501 other than the boot media.
Of course I could be out to lunch. The 5501 is my first soekris so
admittedly the options may be there and I'm not seeing them.