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Carmen Lydia Burdell, 70, of Jacksonville went to be with her Lord on July 11 after a long illness in her home.
She was born March 25, 1936, to Bernardino Ayala and Margarita Soto Medina Morales. She was a member of Second Baptist Church in Jacksonville. She was also a member of Razorback Square Dancing Club.
She was preceded in death by her father and her first husband Billy Carroll Robberts.
She is survived by her husband Franklin Burdell; her mother Margarita Soto of Cabot; four children, Carmen Shurley and her husband Dr. Bo of Cabot, Robin Gottsponer and her husband Harry of North Little Rock, Bobby Robberts and his wife Jill of Nebraska, and Russell Robberts and his fiancé Susan Jeffery of Conway; 14 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and her best friend Loreen Wenzl.
Graveside funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. today at 16th Section Cemetery in Austin with the Rev. John Long and Bro. Harry Gottsponer officiating. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Moores Cabot Funeral Home.
The family wishes to thank Arkansas Hospice for their kind care and support. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Arkansas Hospice, 5600 W. 12th St., Little Rock, Ark., 72212. Arrangements are under the direction of Moores Cabot Funeral Home.
Jesse Maddox
Jesse Alexander Maddox, 86, of Cabot, died July 9. He was born Jan. 8, 1920, in Guin, Ala.
He was preceded in death by his parents, E.A. and Alice Foster Maddox, four brothers and two sisters.
He is survived by his loving wife, of 54 years, Betty, of Cabot; one son, Sam Maddox and his wife Sandra of Stuttgart; two daughters, Peggy Reichenbach and her husband Carl, Becky Rummel and her husband Larry, all of Cabot; a brother, Paul Maddox and his wife, Maylene of Cabot; a sister; Jean Lassiter of Cabot; six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at Victory Baptist Church of Cabot with burial at Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to Arkansas Childrens Hospital for cancer research.


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Copper and uranium floats are making a comeback after barely featuring in the initial public offering market this year. The latest,
Another float,
Rex announced this month that Hillside had contained metal of 1.2 million tonnes of copper and 1.1 million gold ounces, putting it among the more significant recent copper discoveries.
Rex shares have rallied from $1.25 in July to $2.80, capitalising the company at $420 million. Managing director Steven Olsen said the upgrade "reconfirms our original thesis that the geological terrain we are exploring . . . is Australia's most well-endowed copper belt."
Not surprisingly, Core has a similar view of the area's prospects. Managing director Stephen Biggins and non-executive chairman Greg English pegged the tenements through their private companies well before Rex's exploration success at Hillside.
As part of the float, Core will acquire two private companies that hold the tenements, by issuing shares and options worth $2.23 million. Biggins and English jointly own those companies.
The tenement package includes several uranium projects in South Australia and one in Northern Territory. Core is bullish on uranium. However, its short-term prospects depend on copper.
The timing of Rex's Hillside upgrade was good for Core. Like many small IPOs, Core is promoting its proximity to a proven resource, and using a fast-growing explorer as a benchmark. Many investors have been caught buying shares on the basis of tenement "nearology".
The Australian Financial Review understands Core has secured its $4 million minimum subscription, but, as so often happens in December, is struggling to attract enough shareholders to meet Australian Securities Exchange listing requirements. The offer is likely to extend into 2011.
An issue for prospective investors is the share-price performance of other companies Core directors have run or founded.
Biggins was founding managing director of Southern Gold, a smaller explorer with Australian and Cambodian projects that listed in 2005.
After hitting 60¢ in early 2007,
The third member of Southern Gold, non-executive director Michael Schwarz, was founding managing director of Monax Mining, a small explorer with South Australian projects.
After soaring to $1.50 in 2006, Monax shares have fallen to 6¢. Schwarz left Monax in July 2009.
Assessing the record of directors' other listed companies is important in any float. But the Core Exploration team is not alone in running small explorers that tanked during the global financial crisis.
Core's other key attribute is a tight, clean capital base, which is most likely due to Biggins and English vending the assets, and a well-structured offer.
At the maximum subscription, Core has 41.5 million 20¢ shares, capitalising it at $8.3 million. Another 8.5 million options, struck at 25¢ will be issued.
Core raised $500,000 in September by issuing 10¢ shares, half of which are escrowed for a year. Vendor shares are escrowed for two years, meaning few cheap shares can be sold at issue.
Biggins will receive an annual $216,000 salary for working three days a week though a consultancy agreement – an arrangement that might concern investors who prefer full-time managing directors focused on one company, rather than a company and private exploration projects.
Core's lower valuation reflects the early-stage nature of its projects. The Yorke copper project, the most advanced, is not ready for drilling until May. Developing a resource that complies with the Joint Ore Reserves Committee code, if Core gets that far, will probably take another 18 months.
A drilling program is scheduled for some of Core's uranium projects in the first half of 2011. The market's focus will be initial exploration results at Yorke. Core's Yorke project covers 243 square kilometres, and proximity to Rex's tenements should ensure reasonable interest in its early exploration results over 2011. Rex's exploration program will give Core a head start on approaching the geology.
As with all junior explorers, Core is extremely risky. But as far as sentiment goes, it may be in the right place at the right time, given Rex's success and more interest likely in copper and uranium in 2011. The board has plenty of experience with listed companies, and a mix of mining, legal and investment skills.
A reasonable valuation means there should be share-price leverage if exploration results go Core's way. But until drilling is well under way, it is all speculation.
The Australian Financial Review

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'The Great Race' draws on diary entries and other first-hand accounts that bring to life the colourful lives of adventurers Dampier, Tasman, Cook, Flinders, Baudin and La Pérouse. It explores the origins of some of the most fanciful castaway legends such as Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels, set against the gripping political backdrop of nineteenth century Europe in turmoil.
This is a thrilling inside account into the lives of the men whose skill and courage enabled 'Terra Australis Incognita' to become Australia.
About David Hill:
During his career, David Hill has been chairman then managing director of the ABC, chairman of the Australian Football Association, chief executive and director of the State Rail Authority NSW, chairman of Sydney Water Corpora¬tion and chairman of CREATE, a national organisation responsible for representing the interests of young people and children in institutional care.
Hill is the author of the bestsellers The Forgotten Children, 1788 and The Gold Rush.
'The Great Race', published by William Heinemann, is available from October. RRP $34.95. Also available as an ebook


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Trisomy 18 Testing
Medical Author:
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
What is trisomy 18?
Trisomy 18 occurs when an error in cell division results in three copies (instead of the normal two copies) of chromosome 18. Trisomy 18 is also known as Edwards syndrome. Fewer than 10% of affected babies survive to their first birthday, and those who do survive are affected by severe developmental delays. Prenatal diagnosis is available for trisomy 18.
Trisomy 18 screening
Screening blood tests, such as the quad screen or triple screen, are administered to pregnant women between the 15th and 20th weeks of pregnancy. These screening tests do not diagnose trisomy 18 or other conditions but instead identify women at higher risk of having an affected baby. Women who are identified as having a high risk on a screening test can undergo additional and more specific testing. A level 2 ultrasound is another type of screening test that can be done if a woman is found to be at higher risk. This ultrasound examination looks for abnormalities in the fetus that might suggest trisomy 18, but it does not definitively diagnose the condition.
Trisomy 18 definitive tests
To firmly establish the diagnosis, chromosomal tests are required. A sample of amniotic fluid can be withdrawn by amniocentesis and analyzed in the laboratory for the presence of the extra copy of chromosome 18. Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is another method to retrieve a tissue sample for chromosome analysis, but this must be performed between 10 and 12 weeks of gestation.
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The Iowa DOT will begin issuing cards with the compliant marking beginning Jan. 15, 2013.
In response to acts of terrorism committed against the United States, and in an effort to ensure the safety of citizens, Congress passed the REAL ID Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109-13, 119 Stat. 231). The Act modified federal law pertaining to security, authentication and issuance procedure standards for state driver's licenses (DLs) and identification (ID) cards, as well as various immigration issues pertaining to terrorism and border control.
Beginning Dec. 1, 2014, a federal agency may not accept for official federal purposes a DL or ID not issued in compliance with the REAL ID Act. (See below for full explanation of implementation dates.) To assure Iowans can continue to use their DLs and ID cards for federal official purposes, the Iowa Department of Transportation will begin issuing cards with the compliant marking beginning Jan. 15, 2013.
States remain free to also issue noncomplying DL and IDs, so long as they can be clearly distinguished from a REAL ID-compliant card. The State of Iowa has elected to issue both REAL ID-compliant and noncomplying DL and ID cards. Therefore, current DL and ID card holders may choose whether to obtain a REAL ID-marked card. (Successful new applicants will automatically receive one as they are already required to present documents required for REAL ID verification.)
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Smart Quote #7: Inspiration
--Chip Kidd
Best known for his book cover designs, Chip Kidd is an American graphic designer and also an author. His novel The Cheese Monkeys is an extremely fun read for any art or graphic design student, as it's based on his own experiences in school at Penn State. And while his main area of focus is book covers, any designer -- but especially editorial designers -- can take his advice above to heart.
Check out some of his work here, here and here.
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If you have been injured in a motorcycle accident caused by someone else, then you need a fighter on your side! I am Ken Nunn, The Indiana Injury Lawyer. Injury Law is all I do. I have been standing up for the rights of injured people in our communities for more than 49 years. Don't take chances with your case! The call is toll free and we believe in returning phone calls fast.
Motorcycles are very popular in Indiana, but unfortunately their small size, lack of protection and speed can make them hazardous to ride. A motorcycle accident is often one of the deadliest of any kind of auto accidents, with injuries tending to be more serious, and medical costs higher. Drivers of cars and trucks often lack the knowledge of how to handle their vehicles around motorcycles or they don't keep an eye out for them — and too often the result is catastrophic accidents.
Motorcycle operators and passengers are in a very vulnerable position and when accidents occur, the injuries they sustain are often severe. From 2011 to 2012, the number of motorcycle-related accident injuries across the U.S. increased from 81,000 to 93,000. That's a 15 percent increase. The number of related deaths increased from 4,630 to 4,957.
Most motorcycle accidents are not the fault of motorcycle operators but of negligent motor vehicle drivers. Often other motorists fail to see the motorcycle rider. This can result in a truck or car turning directly in front of the motorcycle, running a traffic signal or stop sign and causing a collision, pulling into an intersection in front of a biker, and forcing a bike off the road or into other traffic.
Brain and spinal injury, paralysis, broken bones and fractures, and loss of limbs are some of the injuries that you face in a motorcycle accident.
Bikers have the same rights as automobile operators, including the right to share the road and the right to their day in court when they have been injured by another's negligence and lack of attention. If you, or someone you love here in Indiana, has been injured in a motorcycle accident, don't wait. Contact a fighter to defend your best interests in and out of the courtroom. I, Ken Nunn, and my motorcycle accident lawyers, have more than 49 years of experience fighting for accident victims. We have handled many cases involving motorcycles and we know the Indiana motor vehicle laws. If you want the money settlement that you deserve, then you need to retain lawyers willing to fight aggressively for you. I know how to deal with the insurance companies and I will fight to get you the money compensation you deserve to cover your medical bills and expenses.
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Subject: Re: [TMG] Specific Bookmark button on toolbar?
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:30:55 EDT
In a message dated 9/10/2003 11:25:32 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> What Astrid was talking about is View->Toolbars->Bookmark. You can then
> dock the toolbar, and you can use the Bookmark Current Person button to
> add someone to the list, and the Bookmark Manager button to delete
> people from the list. The drop-down list can be used to "go to" any
> bookmarked person. I don't think there is a way to make a button for
> individual people.
Beth, I already know about the Bookmark Manager, which I use. My question is
whether there is any way to do what I do in 4.0d, going to individual people.
Apparently that is a lost convenience in 5.0. Also, using the Bookmark
Manager, the view can't be selected as far as I can tell (until after the person is
selected, of course). Thanks for confirming what I'd feared.
Fran Anderson
Olympia, Washington, USA
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The Enterprise Java Newscast, hosted by Kito D. Mann, Ian Hlavats, and Daniel Hinojosa, is a monthly podcast that covers the latest headlines, trends, and technologies in the world of enterprise software development.
In this episode, Kito and Danno discuss JSF, Polymer, BootsFaces, Java EE 8, microprofile.io, AWS S3 going down, and more.
Podcast (MP3)
PrimeReact 1.0.0-Alpha.1 Released
JSF 2.3 Released
Getting Started with BootsFaces: a Tutorial
Polymer 2.0 RC1
Java EE 8
Java EE Guardians, microprofile.io, Oracle, etc.
Oracle has committed to releasing Java EE 8 by middle of the year
MVC 1.0 Spec moving forward outside of Java EE 8
Java EE 8 Playground
Discussion: What's the new actual database for enterprise now anyway?
Docker! How cool is this stuff?
Docker 1.13 released
Java 9 to be released soon
Pirates of the JVM
IBM WebSphere architect apologizes
AWS S3 went down. Including many services. What aren't people doing right?
What are people most interested in at NFJS conferences?
No Fluff Just Stuff
Columbus April 28 - 30, 2017
Angular Summit May 9 - 11, 2017
ÜberConf July 18 - 21, 2017
ng-conf - Salt Lake City, UT, USA - April 5th-7th, 2017
Philly Emerging Tech for the Enterprise - Philadelphia, PA, USA - April 18th-19th, 2017
Fluent - San Jose, CA - June 20-22nd
In their first episode after a long hiatus, Kito, Ian, and Danno discuss a variety of topics, including Elm, Angular, JSweet, PrimeNG, Web Components, Polymer, TypeScript, and more.
Angular 2 released (Sept 2016)
Angular 4 planned - What? (Dec 2016)
Angular 2.4.5 released (Jan 2017)
Angular Universal - Isomorphic JavaScript for Angular 2
PrimeNG 2.0.1 released
Polymer 2.0 Preview
JSF 2.3 in public review
Webfaces -- integration between JSF and Web Components
Writing Angular apps with Java and JSweet
The Enterprise Java Newscast, hosted by Kito D. Mann, Ian Hlavats, and Daniel Hinojosa, is a monthly podcast that covers the latest headlines in the world of Enterprise Java development.
NOTE: For a variety of reasons, this newscast is being posted late; however it's still extremely relevant and engaging!
This episode, recorded in late March, 2016, features a lively discussion with Kito, Daniel, and special guest Java Champion Arun Gupta. They discuss a variety of topics, including Docker, Kubernetes, the future of Java EE, Couchbase, the impact of removing a popular NPM package, health and fitness, and more.
Leaving RedHat for Couchbase
Docker and Kubernetes (K8S)
Reza Rahman leaves Oracle
Google Group Posting
How one yanked JavaScript package wreaked havoc
Stackoverflow Developer Survey
Couchbase, why should it be considered for Enterprise developers.
Health Fitness for Technical Work
ArchConf April 4 - 7, 2016
St. Louis April 15 - 16, 2016
Reston April 22 - 24, 2016
Columbus Apr 29 - May 1, 2016
SyntaxCon Charleston, SC May 6-7, 2016
DevIgnition Washington, DC April 29, 2016
Devoxx UK - June 8th-10th, 2016
Devnation - June 26-29, 2016
Red Hat Summit - June 27–30, 2016
DockerCon - Seattle, WA - June 19-21, 2016
This month Kito, Danno, and special guest Cagatay Civici discuss font-end web development, Angular2, Web Components, PrimeFaces and related projects (Prime Elements, PrimeUI, and PrimeNG), Java EE MVC, Oracle dropping the Java plugin, and Oracle's commitment to Java EE and the JCP.
News / Articles
Single Page Applications with BootsFaces
Please Welcome Siwpas as a Java EE Certified Option
Latest Java 9 News
Proposed Schedule Change for Java 9
Java EE MVC - does anyone care about old-school server "MVC" frameworks anymore?
Does Oracle still care about Java EE?
Oracle drops Java plugin
Minneapolis March 4 - 6, 2016 Madison March 11 - 12, 2016 Boston March 18 - 20, 2016 ArchConf April 4 - 7, 2016
Devnexus Feb 15th-17th - Atlanta, GA
jDays Mar 8-9, 2016 - Gothenburg, Sweden
http://knowesis.io/web/webcomponents - Fresh info about web components and related technologies
Hacking HTML5 Web Components and Polymer course in London
In this episode, Kito, Daniel, Ian and special guest Venkat Subramaniam discuss a wide variety of topics including JavaOne, Java lambdas, microservices, ES2015's class syntax, and his new book, Pragmatic Scala (the second edition of Programming Scala). In fact, the discussion was so great that we skipped the new releases! They are, however, included here for your reference.
JSR 378: Portlet 3.0 Bridge for JavaServerTM Faces 2.2 Specification
X-tags Released with Microsoft Backing
PrimeFaces Elite 5.3.2 Released
PrimeFaces Elite 5.2.15 Released
PrimeTek Partners with T2 Software
Extensions Project Joins PrimeFaces
ICEfaces 4.0
AngularJS 2.x - Developer Preview Blog
RichFaces 4.5.11.Final Released
Hibernate Search 5.5.1.Final
Apache Karaf - Version 4.0.3 Beta: WAS Liberty beta with tools (December 2015) Plants by WebSphere example application Arquillian Liferay 1.0.0.Alpha2 Released HTTP/2 With JBoss EAP 7 - Tech Preview Arquillian OSGi 2.1.0.Final Released Immutant 2.1.1 Release Liferay 7 Alpha 3
Introducing the Launchpad Project (Developer Preview)
eXo Platform 4.2.1 Enterprise released
WebLogic Now Java EE 7 Compatible!
Arquillian Droidium 1.0.1.Final Released
Arquillian Recorder 1.1.0.Final Released
Microsoft open-sources Visual Studio Code, launches free Visual Studio Dev Essentials program
JavaOne Recap
Venkat's talks
Kito's talks
Microservices everywhere
Atlassian and Web Components
Graal Multilanguage Shell
Project page
Java Oracle - https://jaxenter.com/oracle-and-javas-planned-obsolescence-121144.html
Java serialization vulnerability - http://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/java-serialization-vulnerability-threatens-millions-of-applications
Devnexus Feb 15th-17th - Atlanta, GA
A few links added by Venkat:
After years of hosting the newscast on an old instance of JRoller, we have finally upgraded to a more modern platform: Liferay.
The site is pretty barebones now, but I'll be sprucing things up over time.
We will be migrating the old blog entries, but in the meantime you can find them all here.


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· Walk into a Waterstone's these days and you are likely to see special presentation shelves pushing titles from Richard & Judy's book club. The chatshow couple's passionate approach means people now read the titles in advance of each show, and the effect on sales is astonishing. Only a few weeks into the Channel 4 teatime series, eight of the 10 Richard & Judy titles have been propelled into the top 50 bestseller list.
Again the main beneficiaries are literary fiction: Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife have both racked up sales of nearly 150,000 copies. Either could have taken the number one spot, if it were not for The Da Vinci Code. As for that, far from fading away as it approaches the two million UK sales mark, Dan Brown's mystery thriller put on another surge last week, aided by trailers for Tony Robinson's Channel 4 documentary The Real Da Vinci Code. For other publishers, forced to tell their biggest authors that they have not made number one, mention of the words Dan, Brown, Da Vinci or even plain Code means looking at the carpet in something like shame.
· Children's authors might be forgiven for feeling similarly browned-off at the mention of their own top performer, the apparently indefatigable Jacqueline Wilson. Random House is holding a party next week to celebrate 20 million sales - nearly all of them since 1991 when Wilson first hit the big time with The Story of Tracy Beaker. The same week will see the release of the Public Lending Right figures for library borrowings, which are expected to show that Wilson has also held last year's position as the country's most borrowed author.
· As the brouhaha over John Sutherland's appointment as chair of this year's Man Booker continues - last time he served on the panel, fellow judges accused him of indiscretion - preparations are apace for the award of the prize's global cousin. "The Man Booker International Prize" highlights one writer's contribution to fiction on the world stage. This opens the field in terms of geography and genre, though contenders' books have to be available in English. Worth £60,000 to the winner, it will be awarded once every two years. A longlist for the prize, comprising approxmately 15 writers, will be announced early this year.
· Independent music and DVD chain Fopp has built up a loyal urban audience, who relish its selective new releases and cult classics at low prices. It has steadily added piles of books to the mix, broadening its range beyond music and film tie-ins to literary fiction and political polemics. The success inspired Fopp to open its first standalone bookshop in Cardiff last year. But the city was not impressed: where were the CDs and DVDs? Fopp has now responded to the pressure, introducing its more familiar products alongside books. That may disappoint publishers, but it should be better for Fopp's book sales in the long term.
· Foyles, the famous independent bookshop in London's Charing Cross Road, has just pulled out of the running to buy up the Blackwell's academic chain. It may surprise you that Foyles was ever in the race, but after its recent transformation it is looking to expand for the first time since the early 20th century. It has decided not to move beyond the capital for now. A more likely new location for Foyles is London's Royal Festival Hall, where an existing Books Etc branch will be forced out by redevelopment work this year.
The micro chart
SF and fantasy
1 Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday £17.99)
2 Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett (Corgi £6.99)
3 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (Virago £7.99)
4 Harry Potter and the Order... by JK Rowling (Bloomsbury £7.99)
5 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury £17.99)
6 The Dark Tower by Stephen King (Hodder £25.00)
7 Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (Scholastic £6.99)
8 White Wolf by David Gemmell (Corgi £6.99)
9 Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (Corgi £6.99)
10 The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien (HarperCollins £6.99)
· Joel Rickett is deputy editor of the Bookseller. Readers can subscribe to it at www.my-subscription.com/bsel/guard.html


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It is a truth universally acknowledged that when a book from another country wins a prize from another country the sales team of the publisher of the UK edition will ask: "Can we say the prize is the '[insert country here] Booker'?"
And in this case they certainly can. Belgian writer Peter Terrin (who writes in Flemish, or Dutch as we note on the copyright page) has won the A.K.O. Literatuurprijs 2012 for his novel Post Mortem. The A.K.O. is sponsored by the Netherlands' leading bookselling chain, is awarded on live television and is worth €50,000.
Peter Terrin's previous novel, The Guard, was the winner of a European Literature Prize, and has recently been published in English by MacLehose Press. Eileen Battersby wrote of the novel in the Irish Times:
This is a tremendous novel, often horrifically funny and always unsettling. Most emphatically, though, it is a European novel, articulating the cultural situation of a Flanders-born writer looking to Dutch literature while retaining a powerful awareness of Belgium's surrealist traditions. Kafka is an obvious influence, as are Camus, Ionesco's absurdist theatre and, at times, the American Robert Coover, but most magnificently of all, suspended over The Guard as a presiding talisman, is the presence of Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995) and his dazzling odyssey, The Darkroom of Damocles (1958), a wartime thriller set in the Netherlands that balances truth and delusion. Hermans looked to Gogol – as does Terrin, who creates the impression that his short, vivid chapters have been tossed into the air and arranged in the order in which they fell
So, congratulations Peter Terrin, and many happy returns!
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George Armstrong
Noble George Armstrong (Dodo)
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 5' 10", Weight 190 lb.
- Debut April 26, 1946
- Final Game June 23, 1946
- Born June 3, 1924 in Orange, NJ USA
- Died July 24, 1993 in Orange, NJ USA
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New jersey native George Armstrong spent nine seasons in profesional baseball from 1943 to 1951.
The stocky catcher had a strong season with the Lancaster Red Roses of the class B Interstate League in 1945, appearing in 102 games and hitting .288 with seven home runs.
This showing earned him his first and only time in the major leagues, debuting with the Philadelphia Athletics on April 26, 1946. George appeared in eight games, picked up one hit in six at-bats, ending his big league time on June 23, 1946, with a .167 average.
George spent five more years in the minors (1947-1951) with his best showing coming with the 1949 Sunbury Reds of the class B Interstate League. He hit .298 with five homers in 114 games.
He finished up his minor league career, at 27 years of age, with the 1951 York White Roses, again in the Interstate League, hitting .311 but appeared in only 12 games. Armstrong appeared in 640 games during his nine year minor league run, hitting at a .272 clip with 25 home runs.
After his baseball career, Armstrong was a firefighter for the East Orange, NJ fire department for 35 years, retiring in 1987. He died on July 24, 1993 at the East Orange Memorial Hospital.


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We decided that Wednesday was going to be the day we did a theme park. We were in complete agreement that the park in question should be Universal; between the new Harry Potter attraction and a coaster that Mr Chili really wanted to ride, it seemed that Universal was the way to go. We also found out that, because of the volume they were expecting (we're not the only ones on April vacation, you know), the park was going to open at 8:00, so we bit the proverbial bullet and decided we'd get up early and try to get there as soon as they let people in.
Nearly $500 bucks later, we four had tickets (the TwoBlueDays, Bluemoon and Newmoon got their annual passes) and were making a beeline for Hogsmead. After a bit of confusion, we figured out that we could leave the bags with Bluemoon (who'd been on the ride before) and could skip the line for the lockers (which snaked about a half a mile down the street and around the lagoon). Mr. Chili bought the little girls some butterbeers, thinking that we'd have to wait forever, but once we figured out that we could go right in, they tried to finish them up quickly.
It turns out they needn't have bothered. By the time we got up to where the bag-free line began, the attendant announced that the ride had broken down and, if we liked, we could take a self-guided walking tour of the castle I choked back my disappointment and took a stroll through the portrait hall (which was really pretty neat; the founders of the school – Helga Hufflepuff, Salazar Slitherin, Godric Griffindor, and Rowena Ravenclaw – were discussing the newest batch of students, and the effects were really well done. From there, we moved into Dumbledore's office, which was pretty well appointed (though I couldn't find the pensive). From there, we took a quick pass by the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, then past the Great Hall, then got spit out into the gift shop. The ride still wasn't running, and Gerry heard an attendant said that the attraction goes down a lot – sometimes for just a minute or two, sometimes for hours. We decided not to hang around and wait to see which it would be today.
From there, I took Bluemoon's place in line for Olivander's wand shop so she and Mr. Chili and Newmoon and Beanie could ride on the coaster formerly known as Dueling Dragons – it was renamed Dragon Challenge for the Harry Potter theme. I didn't think Bean would want to do such an adventurous coaster, but she came off grinning like a fool and was the first to say "yes!" when it was suggested that the group go back to ride the other dragon. They came back in time to get into Olivander's to see a little show about a wand choosing its wizard, then got shunted into a too-crowded gift shop from which I just wanted to escape (I'll do my souvenir shopping online, I think).
We decided, after the second coaster ride, to get the hell out of Dodge. Our first stop was a snack; I grabbed a table while Bluemoon bought a couple of baskets of chicken fingers and fries for the whole family to share. From there, it was off to Seuss Land. Gerry's got some much nicer pictures than I; go to his site and have a look around.
The girls got on One Fish, Two Fish, then I took them for a ride on the little elevated train that takes guests around the attraction. Mr. Chili and Bluemoon were going to ride on the Hulk, but they found a 90 minute wait when they got there, so they bailed. Once we got off the train, we headed to Toon Lagoon so Mr. Chili, Bluemoon, and the girls could ride the the Bilge-Rat raft ride. Yes; they all came off soaked.
From there, we headed for another snack at Margaritaville while we contemplated heading to the other park so Mr. Chili and Bluemoon could ride this stupid thing:
When we got there, though, the ride was closed. There are no words for their disappointment. The day was saved, though, when, as we were walking away, we watched some cars moving through the ride – it looked like they were testing it to start it back up again. They literally ran back to the ride while Gerry, Honey, the girls, and I made for the E.T. ride.
We got in fairly quickly and had a lovely time. I think that the ride is more fun if you've seen the movie, though, and I found out (much to my surprise) that the girls haven't yet seen E.T. I don't know how that happened – it's aired nearly every Christmas – so I'll have to rent it for them. When we finished the ride, Mr. Chili and Bluemoon were at our exit, their hair all tousled and with huge, wide grins on their faces. Not only did they get right in, but they got the first row. That score pretty much saved the entire day for Mr. Chili.
From E.T. we walked to the Men in Black ride, which was quite a bit of fun. Bluemoon got the high score in our car.
After that, we were cooked, so we made our way back to the car (after stopping at a shop to buy the promised chocolate frogs) and had a truly wonderful dinner at a Cheesecake Factory on the way home. We all slept like the dead last night.
Today was about shopping. Mr. Chili wants a new wallet, so we had some (mis)adventures looking for the Fossil outlet store We're having breakfast for dinner tonight, and we're thinking about taking in a movie tomorrow.
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Quercetin (3,3′,4′,5,7-pentahydroxyflavone) exerts multiple pharmacological effects: anti-oxidant activity, induction of apoptosis, modulation of cell cycle, anti-mutagenesis, and anti-inflammatory effect. In topical formulations quercetin inhibits oxidative skin damage and the inflammatory processes induced by solar UV radiation. In this work, quercetin (2 mg/mL) was loaded in vesicular Penetration Enhancer containing Vesicles (PEVs), prepared using a mixture of lipids (Phospholipon® 50, P50) and one of four selected hydrophilic penetration enhancers: Transcutol® P, propylene glycol, polyethylene glycol 400, and Labrasol® at the same concentration (40% of water phase). Photon Correlation Spectroscopy results showed a mean diameter of drug loaded vesicles in the range 80–220 nm. All formulations showed a negative surface charge and incorporation efficiency in the range 48–75%. Transmission Electron Microscopy confirmed that size and morphology varied as a function of the used penetration enhancer. The influence of PEVs on
Quercetin (3,3′,4′,5,7-pentahydroxyflavone, QUE) is a bioflavonoid, profuse in nature in plant food sources. It exerts multiple pharmacological effects, including potent anti-oxidant activity
In this work, novel quercetin vesicular formulations are presented for skin delivery. With the aim of incorporating quercetin into phospholipid vesicles, four different hydrophilic penetration enhancers (PEs), essential to improve quercetin solubility in water due to their high solubilizing power, were selected and used to formulate quercetin-loaded Penetration Enhancer containing Vesicles (PEVs). PEV formulations were prepared using 60 mg/mL of a mixture of soy lipids (Phospholipon 50, P50) and one of the selected PEs: Transcutol® P (Trc), propylene glycol (PG), polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG), and Labrasol® (Lab). The use of a mixture of PE/water (40% v/v) as hydrophilic phase, enabled the incorporation of 2 mg/mL of QUE in PEVs without any sign of drug precipitation during or after fabrication. Previous findings demonstrated that PEVs are powerful enhancers for dermal delivery, due to the synergistic effect of phospholipid vesicles and PE [
Soybean lecithin (Phospholipon® 50, P50, with 45% phosphatidylcholine and 10–18% phosphatidylethanolamine) was kindly supplied by AVG (Milan, Italy) and Lipoid GmbH (Ludwigshafen, Germany). 1,2-dioleoyl-
QUE (2 mg/mL) was dissolved in a PE/water solution (40% v/v) and added to the flask containing P50 (60 mg/mL). Lipids were left swelling in the solution overnight [
Each vesicle suspension was purified from the non-incorporated drug by exhaustive dialysis against distilled water at 4 °C for 1 h, using dialysis tubing (Spectra/Por® membranes: 12–14 kDa MW cut-off, 3 nm pore size; Spectrum Laboratories Inc., USA). Incorporation efficiency (E%), expressed as the percentage of the amount of QUE initially used, was determined by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) after disruption of vesicles with 0.025% non-ionic Triton X-100. QUE content was quantified at 255 and 367 nm using a chromatograph Alliance 2690 (Waters, Italy). The column was a SunFire C18 (3.5 μm, 4.6 × 150 mm). The mobile phase was a mixture of acetonitrile, water and acetic acid (94.8:5:0.2, v/v), delivered at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min.
Vesicles were characterized by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) for vesicle formation and morphology. A drop of the vesicular dispersion was applied to a carbon film-covered copper grid and stained with a 1% phosphotungstic acid. Then, samples were examined with a JEM-1010 (Jeol Europe, France) transmission electron microscope equipped with a digital camera MegaView III and Software "AnalySIS", at an accelerating voltage of 80 kV.
The average diameter and polydispersity index (P.I.) of the samples (6 replicates) were determined by Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (PCS) using a Zetasizer nano-ZS (Malvern Instrument, UK). Samples were backscattered by a helium–neon laser (633 nm) at an angle of 173° and a constant temperature of 25 °C. The P.I. was used as a measure of the width of the size distribution: P.I. less than 0.4 indicates a homogenous and monodisperse population. Zeta potential was estimated using the Zetasizer nano-ZS by means of the M3-PALS (Phase Analysis Light Scattering) technique, which measures the particle electrophoretic mobility in a thermostated cell. All the samples were analyzed 24 h after their preparation.
Steady shear tests and dynamic oscillatory tests were performed with a controlled strain and stress rheometer (Kinexus pro, Malvern Instruments, UK) equipped with a rSpace data acquisition software. Samples were allowed to rest for at least 300 seconds prior to analyses. Analyses were carried out using a double-gap concentric cylinder DG25 (also called Couette or Coaxial geometry). The test dispersion is maintained in the annulus between the cylinder surfaces. The double-gap configuration is useful for low-viscosity dispersions, as it increases the total area, and therefore the viscous drag, on the rotating inner cylinder, and increases the accuracy of the measurement.
Viscometry experiments were conducted in a shear range of 0.01–10 Pa. Frequency sweep tests were performed from 0.01 to 10 Hz, and at a shear stress of 0.5 Pa. The oscillatory parameters used to compare the viscoelastic properties of the different dispersions were the storage modulus (G&prime), which represents the elastic part of the response (where energy is stored and used for elastic recoil of the specimen when a stress is removed), the loss modulus (G″), which represents the viscous response (where energy is dissipated and the material flows) [
Experiments were performed non-occlusively using Franz diffusion vertical cells with an effective diffusion area of 0.785 cm2, and new born pig skin. One-day-old Goland–Pietrain hybrid pigs (∼1.2 kg) were provided by a local slaughterhouse. The skin, stored at −80 °C, was pre-equilibrated in physiological solution (0.9% w/v of NaCl) at 25 °C, two hours before the experiments. Skin specimens (n = 6 per formulation) were sandwiched securely between donor and receptor compartments of the Franz cells, with the stratum corneum (SC) side facing the donor compartment. The receptor compartment was filled with 5.5 mL of physiological solution, which was continuously stirred with a small magnetic bar and thermostated at 37 ± 1 °C throughout the experiments to reach the physiological skin temperature (
One hundred microliters of the tested vesicle suspensions, or coarse dispersions of P50, PE and free QUE, were placed onto the skin surface. At regular intervals, up to 8 h, the receiving solution was withdrawn and replaced with an equivalent volume of pre-thermostated (37 °C) physiological fresh solution, to ensure sink conditions. Withdrawn receiving solutions were analyzed by HPLC for drug content (as described in Section 2.2).
After 8 h, the skin surface of specimens was gently washed (3 times) with 1 mL of distilled water, then dried with filter paper. The SC was removed by stripping with adhesive tape Tesa® AG (Hamburg, Germany). Each piece of the adhesive tape was firmly pressed on the skin surface and rapidly pulled off with one fluent stroke. Ten stripping procedures were performed consecutively. The method was previously validated by histological examination of stripped skin [
PEVs were made fluorescent by adding Rhodamine-phosphoethanolamine during the preparation. This labelling allows visualizing the penetration of the lipid bilayer materials through new born pig skin. (Trans)dermal study was carried out at the same conditions reported in paragraph 2.5. After 8 h of treatment, the skin specimens were washed, the diffusion area punched out, and rapidly frozen at −80 °C. Sections of skin (7 μm thickness) were cut with a cryostat (Leica CM1950, Barcelona, Spain) orthogonally (in the z axis) to the surface, and examined to investigate the fluorescent probe distribution in the different skin strata. Analyses were carried out using a FluoView FV1000 inverted confocal microscope (Olympus, Barcelona, Spain) equipped with a Ultraviolet/Visible light laser. Using a UPlanSApo 20x objective NA 0.75, images with a field size of 1024 × 1024 μm were generated. Rhodamine was excitated at 559 nm, and detected at 578 nm. The instrument offers a revolutionary synchronized laser scanning system, called the SIM Scanner: while one laser stimulates, the second laser simultaneously provides high-resolution imaging, which enables the acquisition of images showing the distribution of the marker among skin structures.
Data analysis was carried out with the software package R, version 2.10.1. Results are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation of at least six replicates coming from different preparation batches. Multiple comparisons of means (Tukey test) were used to substantiate statistical differences between groups, while Student's
In this study, we prepared and characterized phospholipid vesicles containing high quantities of different PEs (40%) in the water phase, which is required to avoid quercetin (2 mg/mL) precipitation. Indeed, we aimed at investigating PEs capability to act as solubilizers for poorly water soluble QUE, and as penetration enhancers for improved (trans)dermal delivery of the drug, synergically with the vesicular carrier system. To this end, four different safe, biocompatible penetration enhancers, largely used in topical preparations, namely PG, PEG, Lab and Trc were used to formulate PEV dispersions, together with P50, a mixture of soy lipids.
As mentioned, owing to the extremely poor aqueous solubility of quercetin, a novel delivery approach was designed; that is the preparation of vesicular dispersions. It is noteworthy that it was not possible to obtain conventional phospholipid liposomes (
Vesicle formation in the presence of the PE was confirmed by TEM (
Mean size of PEVs, measured by PCS, was closely related to their composition (
The used PEs are characterized by a relatively high hydrophilicity and show good solvent capability for QUE. However, as a consequence of their molecular structure, the corresponding obtained PEVs exhibited somewhat different features (e.g. size, E%), presumably by virtue of specific interactions with the components of the formulations, related to peculiar properties, such as polarity, partition coefficient, and ability to interpenetrate the lipids.
Macroscopic rheological properties of samples, such as viscosity, elastic or viscous moduli, depend on the strength of particle–particle interactions that occur at supramolecular level, and reflect changes in the microstructure of lamellar vesicles. The vesicle dispersions showed the rheological features normally observed in multilamellar vesicle dispersions. The behavior of the different PEVs on the shear rate against shear stress was first examined (
In addition, we performed oscillatory frequency experiments to determine the storage (G′) and the loss (G″) response of the vesicular dispersions to the applied force. In
Further, it was evident that the loss modulus (G″) was significantly higher (by about 3 orders of magnitude) than the storage modulus (G′) throughout the employed frequency range, confirming the viscous nature of PEVs. The smaller magnitude of the elastic modulus indicates weak particle–particle interactions. Therefore, the samples showed the typical behavior of diluted spherical multilamellar vesicle dispersions, where the storage modulus is lower than the loss modulus (G′ < G″) [
These results are consistent with the nature of the tested samples: they are diluted dispersions, which behave as ideal Newtonian fluids that simply flow when subjected to a stress, as they are non-structered systems with weak vesicle interactions. On the other hand, the presence of labrasol probably makes the vesicular bilayer more deformable, resulting in an increase of the elastic component.
The skin penetration ability of quercetin loaded in PEVs was probed by
To clarify the role of the studied vesicles in (trans)dermal drug delivery, and in particular to elucidate if they act as carriers or penetration enhancers, coarse dispersions of the same composition used to produce vesicles were tested, too. As can be seen in
PEVs were labeled with Rho-PE and applied onto pig skin for 8 h. The fate of the fluorescent bilayer materials through new born pig skin was visualized using the CLSM technique. Mechanical cross-sections were made othogonally to the skin surface, to obtain a good estimation of distribution pattern of fluorescent phospholipids. These cross-sections provided on a single focal plane a simultaneous visualization of stratum corneum, viable epidermis and dermis.
In this study we used a high amount (40%) of hydrophilic PEs to facilitate QUE incorporation into phospholipid bilayer, and to avoid QUE precipitation in vesicle dispersions. Results underline the ability of PEs (propylene glycol, polyethylene glycol 400, labrasol and transcutol) to improve drug solubility in vesicle dispersion, but above all, to have a synergic effect with phospholipids as penetration enhancers, which make PEVs potent nanocarriers for QUE skin delivery.
Negative stain electron micrographs of QUE-loaded PEVs prepared with:
Linear scale plots of shear rate
Frequency sweep spectra for PEVs: storage (G′) and loss (G″) moduli against frequency are shown.
Determination of QUE deposition into pig skin layers (SC, stratum corneum; Ep, epidermis; D, dermis and RF, receptor fluid) after 8-h non-occlusive treatment:
CLSM of cross-sections of new born pig skin treated for 8 h with PEVs labeled with rhodamine-phosphoethanolamine. PG, PEG, Lab and Trc were used to formulate PEV dispersions.
Characteristics of empty and QUE-loaded PEVs: mean diameter (MD), polydispersity index (P.I.), zeta potential (ZP) and incorporation efficiency (E%). Each value represents the mean ± S.D., n = 6.
Sardegna Ricerche Scientific Park (Pula, CA, Italy) is acknowledged for free access to facilities of the Nanobiotechnology Laboratory. Authors gratefully thank Allevado (Allevatori Associati del Parteolla) Soc. Coop. A.R.L. for kindly supplying new born pig skin and Servicio Central de Soporte a la Investigación Experimental of the University of Valencia for technical support.


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It had been a pleasant enough two weeks of swimming and shopping in the Queensland sun. But when the South Melbourne Greek Women's Society bus turned for home, a Greek tragedy of sorts was about to unfold.
Pensioner Anna Perdikis and the other mostly elderly or middle-aged passengers were ready to depart early.
After the tour organiser allocated seats, Mrs Perdikis asked for another because the spot she had been given in the back of the bus had been claimed earlier by Zoe Georgiou.
"I knew she (Georgiou) would make trouble," Mrs Perdikis said. "She insisted on that seat."
When it was given to someone else, she remembers Georgiou "making a fuss" but she asked her not to make any trouble. "Let's have a pleasant trip," she suggested.
With that, according to Mrs Perdikis in evidence yesterday in Melbourne Magistrates Court, Georgiou called her a "female wanker" - to which she replied that she had a husband.
Mrs Perdikis denied she told Georgiou she was prepared to "open your legs for anyone".
The court heard yesterday that the exchanges led to Georgiou pulling Mrs Perdikis' hair and Mrs Perdikis ripping Georgiou's bikini top.
The return trip passed without further incident, until the bus arrived in South Melbourne at 6pm on February 24, 2002.
It was then, it was alleged, Georgiou announced it was time for "pay back". Mrs Perdikis claimed Georgiou, her daughters Sophia Metaxas and Anastasia Anastasiou and another person entered the bus and hit, kicked and threw her to the floor, injuring her head and back.
Georgiou, 45, and Metaxas, 27, both of Northcote, were later charged with five assault-related offences, to which they yesterday pleaded not guilty.
Mrs Perdikis denied defence lawyer Simon Woolley's suggestion that she lunged at Metaxas, put her in a head lock and that Georgiou tried to pull her off her daughter. Mrs Perdikis, who did not know Georgiou claimed the seat at the back of the bus because she suffered claustrophobia, described as lies suggestions Georgiou had protected her daughter and had not hit her.
Kyriakos Perdikis, 62, Mrs Perdikis' husband, said Georgiou warned passengers on departure that if anyone sat in her seat "there'll be hell to pay".
Hours after heading for Queensland, Georgiou was "crawling" around the bus after drinking ouzo, he claimed.
Georgiou's other daughter, Anastasia Anastasiou, 29, said in evidence there was pushing and shoving but no blows were landed on Mrs Perdikis.
Ms Anastasiou, who pleaded guilty last May to recklessly causing injury to Mrs Perdikis, told police prosecutor Sergeant Richard Bowers his summary of her involvement was "very close", but she was uncertain.
When the hearing resumes today, Sergeant Bowers will call evidence to prove the summary.
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Hello, Did you try setting derby.system.durability=test and rerunning your benchmark? >From what I understand, Derby provides hard guarantees of durability -- if there is a power outage, system crash, or disk failure anytime after your commit() call has returned, the data is guaranteed to be available when your system comes back up. To guarantee this durability, Derby needs to work around the write caching that your OS will normally perform, which reduces performance. This will cause the very long insertion period that you see. (Derby even includes support for XA (distributed) transactions, which are impossible to properly support without durability guarantees) I couldn't find any information on durability on the HSQLDB website, and from the performance results that you describe, I'm inclined to believe that HSQLDB does not make this guarantee. If you set the above property, Derby will reduce its durability guarantees and perform faster. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: DerbyNovice [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 12:39 PM To: email@example.com Subject: Derby/HSQLDB major performance difference I am using Derby as an embedded db in my swing application. Recently I decided to have a go at HSQLDB (cached tables, embedded) to see how it coped. I have written a test program which * inserts a number of records in my db with random keys * makes an index on the keys. * runs a number of select statements * updates a number of records with new random values. At the same time I measure lapse time and memory in a separate thread. I made the same run with Derby and with HSQLDB, see the two uploaded charts, with -Xmx1024m . Initially the idea was to see which db was faster, but as soon as I saw the results I realised there are other differences. The scale on the x-axis is half seconds, i 1000 is 500 seconds. The scale on the y-axis is bytes as reported by gc. Notice the difference in scale between HSQLDB and derby. I have tried to optimise the memory with HSQLDB options but it has only marginal difference and it does not change the behaviour. Observations: * HSQLDB uses a magnitude more memory than Derby. * HSQLDB does not seem to benefit from the indices. * HSQLDB is faster in total, but not to the extent the memory usage suggests. * Derby uses a very long insertion period but the select statements are very fast and memory lean * Derby manages the memory during the run, the total memory goes up AND DOWN. * Derby seems to struggle (timewise) with the inserts (the long slope initially) but breeze through the select statements which all take less than a second. The run shown uses 700000 records, but smaller runs show the same behaviour. For me this makes HSQLDB useless as it would gradually eat my applications memory. Anyone trying to weigh performance benefits between db's should be aware of these very different characteristics. I'd be pleased if anyone would care to comment on the test run and maybe shed some light on the totally different characteristics seen here. I'd be happy to upload the timing tests and my program too if there is an interest. Regards, DERBY RUN http://www.nabble.com/file/p22377140/mem.gif HSQL RUN http://www.nabble.com/file/p22377140/mem.gif -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Derby-HSQLDB-major-performance-difference-tp22377140p2 2377140.html Sent from the Apache Derby Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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The Chef's Take: Roasted Root Vegetable Breakfast from Zoe Nathanby Andrea Strong in Chefs and Restaurants, September 10, 2014
Many people who crowd into chef Zoe Nathan's Huckleberry Café in Santa Monica come for her phenomenal morning pastries and baked goods, including the likes of chocolate-almond muffins, blueberry scones and lemon-kumquat teacake. But Nathan — who is a veteran of San Francisco's cult favorite bakery, Tartine — was actually trained as a chef, not a baker, and cooked at restaurants like bld in Los Angeles and Lupa in New York City before convincing her now-husband and business partner Josh Loeb to hire her as a pastry chef at his restaurant Rustic Canyon. "I had never done desserts before," she recalls. "At Tartine, I had done breakfast breads and lots of savories, so I kind of lied and told him I had pastry chef experience, and then when I got the job, I had to go to my parent's house to teach myself how to bake!"


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Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new way to log in to apps with the social media website on Wednesday.
Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was testing an Anonymous Login feature. This new feature will allow users on the social media website to log in to apps without sharing their information with them. The Anonymous Login button is black instead of blue and the feature allows users to test out apps without giving away personal information, reports CNET.
Using the Anonymous Login feature doesn't grant users privacy from Facebook. The social media website will still be able to see everything users do that is connected to their accounts. This means that the company can better target ads based on where people use their accounts. This in turn makes the social media company more valuable as a data broker, Forbes notes.
Zuckerberg also announced a new feature for advertisers called Audience Network. Audience Network works by letting advertisers move their ads to apps that choose to sign up for the service. Advetisers using Audience Network will be able to use Facebook's targeting and measurement tools, reports CNET.
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Yes, I'd say ask to schedule the next date now, so you know when it will be. I wouldn't send any nasty messages - trying to drive her away or something?
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What you really want to know is "How is what is going on with you and Stine right now going to affect you and me" If you find yourself stressing about it a lot over the next week, maybe you ask Loop that now, and ask for her to be prepared to answer that when you see her, or before you meet so you can enjoy catching up.
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Yamashita developed a patented thermo-storage cloth in which they named the warm jacket. The Warm jacket is a cloth that responds to light of any form whether it be sunlight or artificial light from a torch or similar. The unique warm jacket cloth maintains its temperature for a much longer time frame with the ability to maintain heat similar to a natural fish or other form of prey this meaning that Yamashita Squid Jigs are top dog when it comes to choosing a squid jig as it is the best squid attracting squid jig fishing lure made and sold in the lure market today since squid have the ability to search for their pray by detecting temperature variations when they are on the hunt. The warm jacket is composed of a new innovation material named tactywarm which is weaved with a unique thread that is able to transform light into heat producing thermo energy about 0.5 to 1 degree Celsius warmer when the squid jig is in the water (depending on the actual conditions)
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"New horizons for iwi waka"
"New horizons for iwi waka"
Ngāti Kahungunu has a proud voyaging history, first landing in Aotearoa over 1000 years ago aboard the waka Takitimu. Today the iwi has set a course for new horizons for its voyaging waka Te Matau a Maui.
An agreement was signed today formalising the lease of the Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi waka Te Matau a Maui to the Te Matau a Maui Voyaging Trust. Piripi Smith the chairman of the voyaging trust said, "We are humbled and honoured by the generosity of the iwi to give us the guardianship of such a wonderful taonga", after signing an agreement to take care of Te Matau a Maui on behalf of Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi.
NKII purchased the waka 3 years ago as an investment into rejuvenating ancient voyaging practices and reinvigorating cultural values through leadership and development of rangatahi. The waka completed a Pacific and worldwide voyage returning to Ahuriri approximately 18 months ago. The Trust has been set up to operate within the Kahungunu rohe with the goal to "Develop, educate, practice and promote all aspects of waka voyaging". "We have already been delivering programmes to schools, community and corporate groups for the past six months and we hope to build on this in the future," says Piripi.
The Trust has been operating independently of NKII for the past 6 months and results have been encouraging. The NKII Board continues to be involved in the ongoing operation of the Trust through regular reports to the Board and a report to iwi members at the AGM.
NKII Board member Mike Paku is an interim Trustee on the Trust. Mike says, "We congratulate the voyaging trust for their achievements so far and wish them well as they set out on a new pathway of discovery".
For information on how to become involved with TMAM. Please contact the Chairman of the Trust Piripi Smith: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Syracuse Police ID Possible Murder Suspect
Syracuse Police have identified a possible suspect in the murder of a Syracuse Pizza Shop owner on October 1st.
38 year old Shqair Shqair was shot and killed during a robbery at Sabatino's Pizza and until now police did not have a suspect in the case.
They're now looking for 24 year old Eric Woody in connection with the murder.
Woody is still on the loose and was most recently arrested on harassment and pot possession charges back in July. He was also arrested in March of 2012 for Criminal Possession of Weapon.
Syracuse Police also claim he's a member of the Blood street gang and police have not located the murder weapon. They consider Woody to be dangerous and anyone who may know of his whereabouts is being asked to contact city police at 442-5222.


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Walhalla faces water system penalty
Walhalla's water system has run afoul of state health authorities. The state Department of Health and Environmental Control has disclosed a consent order requiring the municipality to come up with a plan to correct an unsatisfactory rating of its public water system, which arose from inspection during a two-day period last fall. DHEC wants Walhalla to submit a business plan to show how its water system will be operated and maintained—and these are DHEC's words—"as a viable entity." In addition, Walhalla is to pay a civil penalty amounting to $3 thousand dollars. According to a summary of the inspection: "The Respondent (City of Walhalla) has violated the State Primary Drinking Water Regulations as follows: the pumps and piping at the raw water pump station and the high service water pump station were showing signs of corrosion and the insulation was deteriorating; one of the pumps at the raw water pump station was spraying cooling water from the check valve; the flocculation units and equipment were showing signs of deterioration; the sedimentation basins had excessive floc carryover; the filter had not been evaluated in a number of years; the bulk storage chemical tanks at the water treatment plant were showing signs of corrosion; the chemical feed rooms were showing signs of disrepair; several backflow devices had not been tested; written inspection and maintenance procedures had not been completed; it could not be determined if all of the valves and hydrants had been exercised and maintained to ensure operability. The flushing program was not available for Department review; there was no documentation of an annual water audit; and, the distribution map and sample siting plan were not updated." The issues with Walhalla are on the agenda for Thursday's meeting in Columbia of the DHEC board. We've left callback messages this afternoon for Scott Parris, Walhalla utilities superintendent. However, Mayor Danny Edwards said the city is aware of the DHEC findings and is working to correct them. About the current quality of the water, Edwards says the water is safe to drink and the water meets the state's requirements. "Basically, what they wrote us up on," the mayor said, "is the age of our water system."


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In the wake of Gary Sheffield's 500th home run, St. Petereburg Times' writer John Romano has a different, power-hitting native son in mind:
As numbers go in baseball, it is hard to beat 500. It is large, it is round and it is historic. For as long as there have been home runs and legends, 500 was the spot where the elite all gathered. It was the dividing line between the great and the merely good.
As numbers go in baseball, it is easy to ignore 493. It is impressive but somehow feels incomplete. As if you got most of the way through a race, only to run out of gas on the final lap. There are no ovations, and no club for 493 members.
493 being the number of home runs hit by Fred McGriff, whom Romano believes to be more deserving of the Hall than Sheffield.
Is he? Romano makes some good points along these lines, particularly as it relates to the eras in which Sheffield and McGriff experienced their power hitting primes (McGriff from 1988-1994, Sheff from 1999-2005). And of course, Sheffield has some steroids associations that McGriff does not, though given the experience of recent years we probably can't say anything definitive about who took what, when, and for how long.
Based purely on numbers, Sheffield is a Hall of Famer in my eyes. Sure, there's the 500 homers, but there's also the 2,600+ hits, 1,600+ RBI, a career average near .300, and steroid-era stat inflation notwithstanding, he has a career OPS+ that places him alongside guys like Reggie Jackson, Duke Snider, Eddie Collins, Ken Griffey, Jr. and Harmon Killebrew. No, he's not as good as some of those guys -- and his defense is a liability on balance -- but he's a solid Hall of Fame candidate in my mind even if his surly reputation and steroid associations keep him from entering any time soon.
How about McGriff?
As Braves' blogger Mac Thomason concluded after a pretty thorough analysis a couple of years ago, McGriff is a guy whose stats don't pop out at you, mostly because of the relatively depressed offensive era in which he posted many of his best seasons. But despite that, he is in good company, statistically-speaking, with career numbers similar in many respects to that of Willie McCovey, Sheffield, Willie Stargell, Billy Williams, Eddie Mathews, and Ernie Banks. He was also always thought of as a good citizen and good teammate. Perhaps the biggest knock against him is that two of his biggest seasons were obscured by a trade (1993) and a strike (1994). Another fabulous season (1989) came when Robin Yount won the MVP by being just as good at a tougher defensive position. Not his fault, of course, but not having that one year in which everyone thought "OK, this guy is the best," will hurt him in Hall of Fame balloting.
My view: I think Sheffield and McGriff are both Hall of Famers. I find it interesting, however, that McGriff may very well be denied entrance because he had too low of a career profile, while Sheffield may be denied because he had one that was too high.


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Beyonce Shares Intimate Family Portraits of Jay-Z, Baby Blue Ivy (PHOTOS)
Beyonce recently took to the popular blogging site to share intimate portraits of her husband Jay-Z and their daughter Blue Ivy.
In one family photo, Jay, 42, is seen pushing a makeup-free Beyonce, 30, on a swing; while another personal snapshot shows the "Crazy In Love" singer feeding her baby girl.
However, those weren't Beyonce's only family photos to have hit web.
Beyonce also posted pictures of her sister, Solange Knowles, that were taken during their trip out into the desert.
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In February, the couple also used Tumblr to the first photos of their little girl. Flip through the pictures below to see little Blue's baby album.


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MOG recently announced that its streaming music service will soon be available on LG Electronics' Internet connected devices through LG's new SmartTV platform on HDTVs and Blu-ray Disc players. After selecting the MOG application, music lovers can search, browse and play millions of songs.
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On-demand streaming: Unlimited, ad-free listening to any artist, album, or song at any time.
Simple search and browsing designed for the remote control: MOG developed a 10-foot user interface to provide high-quality and simple navigation of albums, artists or songs for instant playing and easy browsing of charts, editor's picks and new releases.
MOG radio: Only MOG offers the patent-pending "MOG Mobius" music discovery engine, which enables users to switch between true "artist only" radio or a full mix of similar artists.
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Gov.: Hawaii 'fortunate almost beyond words' after tsunami
HONOLULU (AP) Tsunami waves swamped Hawaii beaches and brushed the U.S. western coast Friday but didn't immediately cause major damage after devastating Japan and sparking evacuations throughout the Pacific.
Water rushed up on roadways and into hotel lobbies on the Big Island and low-lying areas in Maui were flooded as 7-foot waves crashed ashore. Smaller waves hit the U.S. western coast and beaches were closed as fishermen fired up their boats and left harbors to ride out the swell.
JAPAN QUAKE: Massive quake triggers tsunami
CALIFORNIA: West Coast prepares for tsunami
PHOTOS: Tsunami hits Japan
HOW TO HELP: Victims of Japan's earthquake
Scientists warned that the first tsunami waves are not always the strongest, and officials said people in Hawaii and along the West Coast should watch for strong currents and heed calls for evacuations. The tsunami warning was downgraded to an advisory in Hawaii, and Gov. Neil Abercrombie said the islands were "fortunate almost beyond words."
"All of us had that feeling that Hawaii was just the most blessed place on the face of the Earth today," he said.
The tsunami, spawned by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan, slammed the eastern coast of Japan, sweeping away boats, cars, homes and people as widespread fires burned out of control. It raced across the Pacific at 500 mph — as fast as a jetliner — before hitting Hawaii and the West Coast.
By Eugene Tanner, AP
Hotel guests from the Moana Surfrider evacuate early Friday in Honolulu. The entire state of Hawaii was under a tsunami warning due to a large 8.9 earthquake which struck off Japan.
Sirens sounded for hours before dawn up and roadways and beaches were mostly empty as the tsunami struck. By midmorning, waves were crashing against the 30-foot bluffs in Crescent City, Calif., where a tsunami killed 11 people in 1964.
Dozens of boats were damaged as surging water knocked them from their docks, both in Crescent City and on California's central coast in Santa Cruz, where loose fishing boats crashed into one another and chunks of wooden docks broke off.
10 strongest earthquakes
The death toll of the 8.9-magnitude quake that struck Japan Friday is still changing, but for now heres how it compares to the 10 strongest quakes that have struck since 1900:
1. 9.5 on May 22, 1960, in Chile
Fatalities: 1,655
2. 9.2, on March 28, 1964, in Prince William Sound, Alaska
Fatalities: 125
3. 9.1, on Dec. 26, 2004, off the west coast of northern Sumatra
Fatalities: 227,898
4. 9.0, on Nov. 4, 1952, Kamchatka, Russia
Fatalities: NA
5. 8.9, on March 11, 2011, neart the east coast of Honshu, Japan
Fatalities: Total still changing
6. 8.8, on Feb. 27, 2010, offshore Maule, Chile
Fatalities: NA
7. 8.8, on Jan. 31, 1906, Colombia-Ecuador
Fatalities: 1,000
8. 8.7, on Feb. 4, 1965, Rat Islands, Alaska
Fatalities: NA
9. 8.6, March 28, 2005, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia
Fatalities: 1,313
10. 8.6, March 9, 1957, Andreanof Islands, Alaska
Fatalities: NA
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
President Obama said the Federal Emergency Management Agency is ready to come to the aid of any U.S. states or territories who need help. Coast Guard cutter and aircraft crews were positioning themselves to be ready to conduct response and survey missions as soon as conditions allow.
CONGRESS: 'Spare no effort' to help after quake
OBAMA: U.S. will 'stand with the people of Japan'
TRAVEL: Japan quake has far-reaching impact
TOURISTS: Hotels evacuate guests to higher floors
AIR TRAVEL: Pacific flights affected by quake, tsunami
It is the second time in a little over a year that Hawaii and the U.S. West coast faced the threat of a massive tsunami. A magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Chile spawned warnings on Feb. 27, 2010, but the waves were much smaller than predicted and did little damage.
Scientists then acknowledged they overstated the threat but defended their actions, saying they took the proper steps and learned the lessons of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami that killed thousands of people who didn't get enough warning.
This time around, the warning went out within 10 minutes of the earthquake in Japan, said Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist for the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu.
"We called this right. This evacuation was necessary," Fryer said. "There's absolutely no question, this was the right thing to do," he said.
The warnings issued by the tsunami center covered an area stretching the entire western coast of the United States and Canada from the Mexican border to Chignik Bay in Alaska.
Many islands in the Pacific evacuated, but officials later told residents to go home because the waves weren't as bad as expected.
In Guam, the waves broke two U.S. Navy submarines from their moorings, but tug boats corralled the subs and brought them back to their pier. No damage was reported to Navy ships in Hawaii.
In the Canadian pacific coast province of British Columbia, authorities evacuated marinas, beaches and other areas.
Officials in two coastal Washington counties used an automated phone alert system, phoning residents on the coast and in low-lying areas and asking them to move to higher ground.
"We certainly don't want to cry wolf," said Sheriff Scott Johnson of Washington's Pacific County. "We just have to hope we're doing the right thing based on our information. We don't want to be wrong and have people hurt or killed.
In Oregon, at least one hotel was evacuated in the northern part of the state. Restaurants, gift shops and other beachfront business stayed shuttered, and schools up and down the coast were closed.
Albert Wood of Seaside, Ore., said he and his wife decided to leave their home late Thursday night after watching news about the Japan quake. They stood with dozens of other people on a hilly area overlooking the tourist town to wait out the waves.
Surfers in California who raced to the beach to catch the waves were undeterred by the surges.
"The tides are right, the swell is good, the weather is good, the tsunami is there. We're going out," said William Hill, an off-duty California trooper.
Latin American governments ordered islanders and coastal residents to head for higher ground. First affected would be Chile's Easter Island, in the remote South Pacific, about 2,175 miles west of the capital of Santiago, where people planned to evacuate the only town. Ecuador's President Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency and ordered people on the Galapagos Islands and the coast of the mainland to seek higher ground.
The Honolulu International Airport remained open but seven or eight jets bound for Hawaii turned around, including some originating from Japan, the state Department of Transportation said. All harbors were closed and vessels were ordered to leave the harbor.
About 70% of Hawaii's 1.4 million population resides in Honolulu, and as many as 100,000 tourists are in the city on any given day.
A small 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Big Island just before 5 a.m. ET, but there were no reports of damages and the quake likely wasn't related to the much larger one in Japan, the USGS said.
The worst big wave to strike the U.S. was a 1946 tsunami caused by a magnitude of 8.1 earthquake near Unimak Islands, Alaska, that killed 165 people, mostly in Hawaii. In 1960, a magnitude 9.5 earthquake in southern Chile caused a tsunami that killed at least 1,716 people, including 61 people in Hilo. It also destroyed most of that city's downtown. On the U.S. mainland, a 1964 tsunami from a 9.2 magnitude earthquake in Prince William Sound, Alaska, struck Washington State, Oregon and California. It killed 128 people, including 11 in Crescent City, Calif.
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