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I have found out that my new husband has several financial debts, including taxes owed. I want to be sure that my property that I owned before the wedding is not subjected to community property
Missouri is what is called a modified no fault state. Further, Missouri does not have what is called community property, we term it as separate and marital property. Any property or debt you had prior to marriage is separate. Whatever property or debt you accumulate during marriage is marital. Issues start to arise when you "comingle" the funds, or use separate property to pay for marital items, or vice versa.See question
She had to take her ex to court for back child support. He was ordered to pay about $400 per month for about 1 year. He made the first few payments but is now about 5 months behind. The judge warned him that if he did not make the payments on ti...
Your wife will need to see an attorney, experience in these matters, to help her best address how to deal with the back child support. If she is receiving child support through the State of Missouri, they will have an accurate printout of how much is owed, and if there is a current garnishment in place. Also, if the amount progresses above a certain level, it becomes a criminal matter. If your wife wishes to proceed in the Family Court, she will need to file a Motion for Contempt and Order to Show Cause.See question
there is me,child,and 2 men in my case.
If you have done your DNA test through the State of Missouri, they usually pay for the DNA testing. If they will not, the biological Father and Mother generally have an obligation to pay the bill. If you are unable, you will probably have to have your attorney bring this issue up to your Judge.See question
My wife and I were informed that our 15 year old daughter is pregnant. We talked with her and the father and his parents. It was agreed upon that my wife and I should take guardianship of the child untill my daughter and her boyfriend are able too...
I would also suggest talking to a family law attorney and get the paperwork started. Please remember that a guardianship will allow you to have rights with the unborn child. It does not terminate your daughter's or the father's rights.See question
I live in Missouri my son's father lives in Kansas. He was added to my sons birth certificate at the age of two because paternity was established. My son has his last name. His dad pays child support but late and not in the full amount. He rarely ...
In the State of Missouri, paternity can be established through a court order that establishes paternity, child custody and child support. Child Support can be estabished through a separate action through Child Support Enforcement. Do you have an order from a Circuit Judge? If so that is the one you need to be following. If you do not have a court order, then you as the mother are presumed to have sole legal and physical custody of your son.See question
We have no children, or joint property.
In the State of Missouri, you have the right to a default divorce. You can personally serve him by sheriff or process server. Then wait thirty days. If he has not done anything or entered an answer, you can ask the Court to set your case for default. They will give you a court date, you will have a hearing on the record, and the Court will enter your divorce.See question
I saved for a retainer and got the best attorney in our area. He never met my husband and was nice the first day demanding $3000 down, I gave him the money and then when we went to court he would not let me in the courtroom and only communicated ...
You don't say if your case is final yet. If your case is not final, you still have the chance to find a different attorney to represent you. If you have alleged abuse or neglect in your pleadings the Court has to appoint a Guardian ad Litem to represent your daughter. This could help your case in protecting your daughter.See question
My son is 12. His biological father has never met him or attempted until now. I was separated from my husband when I got pregnant by a man that was very physically abusive. I have medical records from my many visits to the hospital. After leaving ...
In the State of Missouri, you only have to make your son available for a DNA test unless you agree or you are ordered to by the Court. The biological father must file a Paternity action and request a DNA test which he will be required to pay for at the time it is administered.See question
My 14 year old daughter and 12 year old daughter have both expressed a desire to not return to their father's house for visitation. My 14 year old expressed this to him to which her father stated he would contact his lawyer if she was not at his ...
In the State of Missouri, judges have the ultimate discretion. The statues state that children have a say when they get older, usually around 14. If your daughters' have expressed a strong preference, when you file your Motion to Modity the Judge will appoint a Guardian ad Litem. Your daughters will have to express their preference to the Guardian ad Litem.See question
I was told I would get the money back after they have a hearing on my son after court costs and so on I dont see how they can take my money for back pay on child support
Yes, your money could be used for back child support. Did you pay the money to the prosecutor or Department of Child Support Enforcement so the warrant would be dismissed? Or did you pay it through a bail bondsman? If it was through the prosecutor or DCSE it is likely the money would go for the back support.See question


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As it is quite necessary that Club have funds, the members decide to hold a rummage sale.
"I should call it a rummage sale, and things are rather rubbishy," said Irma.
"It's not a rummage sale, so we mustn't send rubbish," decreed Lorraine.
Nobody buys books at a rummage sale except the people who would buy them anyway.
And now they were at a rummage sale, and the managers did not know what to do with them.
A rummage sale of toys added quite a large sum to the general fund.
The discarded uniforms of the Garde Civique were piled high along one side, as if for a rummage sale.
When I went to see about a job on the railway she sent a lot of my things to a rummage sale.
She arose to go, then sat down again and said, "I hope you will be able to attend our rummage sale."

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text: mrfill July 17, 2013 5:16 PM So what have we learnt from this in-depth interview? - Vettel goes to the factory occasionally - Newey is a brilliant engineer - F1 is expensive - Webber can drive sports cars. - Overspending by teams is all the fault of the FIA Hardly Wikileaks standard.. Reply Report abuse 5 agree 2 disagree


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by Staff Writers
Norwich, UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2012
With buds bursting early, only for a mild winter to turn Arctic and wipe them out, we are witnessing how warm weather can trigger flowering, even out of season, and how important it is for plants to blossom at the right time of year.
BBSRC-funded scientists have unpicked why temperature has such a powerful affect on how plants flower. In research to be published in the journal Nature, scientists from the John Innes Centre on the Norwich Research Park have identified the switch that accelerates flowering time in response to temperature.
With warm air, a control gene, called PIF4, activates the flowering pathway, but at lower temperatures the gene is unable to act.
"What is striking is that temperature alone is able to exert such specific and precise control on the activity of PIF4," said Dr Phil Wigge, the lead scientist in the study.
Previously, it has been shown that PIF4 is vital for controlling other aspects of plant responses to warmth, for example growth, but this is the first time that the gene has been shown to be necessary for the activation of flowering by temperature.
Flowering is activated by a special molecule, called Florigen. Florigen is activated by many signals, including the longer days of spring. Some plants rely more on temperature, others more on daylength to control key stages in their life cycle such as leaf emergence and flowering. This is reflected in the old saying "Ash before Oak, you're in for a soak; Oak before Ash, you're in for a splash."
While the pathway that activates florigen in response to daylength has been known for many years, how temperature activates Florigen has been a mystery until now.
At lower temperatures, plants do still flower eventually but via other pathways. Any acceleration triggered by PIF4 is lost as it does not bind to and switch on the Florigen gene. As temperatures increase, PIF4 is able to bind the Florigen gene and trigger flowering.
"Our findings explain at the molecular level what we observe in our gardens as the warmer temperatures of spring arrive," said Wigge.
"It also explains why plants are flowering earlier as a result of climate change."
Wigge and colleagues hope their research will eventually allow temperature-resilient crops to be developed. Crops plants often respond very strongly to warmer temperatures, reducing yields. By understanding at the molecular levels how plants sense temperature, the team hopes to breed crops which are more resilient to climate change.
"Knowing the key players in the temperature response pathways will be a valuable tool for safeguarding food security in an era of climate change," said Wigge.
With all seven of the warmest years on record in the UK having occurred in the past decade, the race is on to help crops cope with the effects of higher temperatures caused by climate change.
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The first day of spring brought record high temperatures across the northern part of the United States, while much of the Southwest was digging out from a record-breaking spring snowstorm. The weather, it seems, has gone topsy-turvy. Are the phenomena related? Are climate changes in one part of the world felt half a world away? To understand the present, scientists look for ways to unlock ... read more
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Demi Lovato Talks Sexiness, Her Best Feature in 'Maxim Hot 100'
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By Kathleen Perricone
Demi Lovato has been named one of Maxim magazine's Hot 100 … but she sees beauty in what she has on the inside.
"To me, sexiness stems from being confident and comfortable in your own skin," the "Neon Lights" singer — who came in at No. 40 on the list — told the magazine, adding that her best feature is her "butt."
"The ability to work at bettering myself — I'm not perfect, no one is, but I'm working at becoming better everyday. Everyday I can look back and say I'm in a better place than I was yesterday."
Demi, 21, also shed some light on what it takes for a guy to catch her eye.
"To get my attention a guy must be genuine, supportive, real and have the ability to make me laugh," explained the singer, who has been seeing Wilmer Valderrama on and off since 2010.
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is the latest anime from
writer-director Satoshi Kon. Adapted from the
futuristic sci-fi thriller about a laboratory that
is developing an experimental treatment for
psychiatric patients. The "DC MINI" allows a
doctor to enter into the dreams of another
person with the idea of better identifying the
patient's problems.
The film opens with a set piece that jumps
from a circus setting to an homage to Tarzan
to a
film noir
to a corridor where a detective is
investigating a murder. The patient is
Detective Konakawa (Akio Ohtsuka) who is
struggling with a particular difficult case.
Assisting him in his dreams is the title
character, a spunky, red-haired teenager who is
the alter ego for the older, buttoned down
doctor Atsuko Chiba (Megumi Hayashibara).
When she returns to the lab after her
meeting with the policeman, Dr. Chiba learns
that one of the prototypes of the device is
missing. Soon, doctors and patients are saying
and doing crazy things because they are being
influenced by the "dream terrorist."
It is up to Dr. Chiba, the "DC MINI"'s creator,
the oversized Tokita (Toru Furuya) and the
elfin lab chief Torataro Shima (Katsunosuke
Hori) to track down the culprits and save the
Kon utilizes the fluidity between the worlds to
create a mesmerizing and magical dreamscape
of images from a parade led by appliances to a
stoic doll to a large-scale robot. Eventually
there's a battle for the very existence of
Tokyo that is breathtaking to see.
(In some ways, this movie is a companion
piece to Richard Linklater's lucid dreaming opus
only even stranger.)
adds quite a dash of spice to the
anime genre and offers a fun ride. It may not
be on par with Kon's masterful
, but it definitely is worth checking
Running time:
90 mins.
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Quite in the way of a portable version of Bioware's ME series, this game combines RPG touches like experience points, dialogue options and romance with strategic options as trade routes and commerce. Of course, sometimes diplomacy won't be a feasible option and the the pew-pew bang-boom action will start, though you won't last for much unless you have done your homework and equipped your ship accordingly. Storyline is deep as a wormhole, 'cause no one knows where it will get you to (oooh, a pun!)
On the other hand, there are a few glitches here and there (check options menu to adjust your detail level) and the automated translation does more for evil rather than for good. UI can be improved with smaller screens on mind. Lastly, it's a pity that casual players will surely ignore this jewel of mobile gaming because it's management options, namely ammo, cargo and skills can overwhelm anyone not used to games more complex than sticking three balls of the same color or throwing shrieking colorful stuff onto chuckling green stuff. The lack of customization options will always be a major flaw in a RPG, and this won't be an exception.
Even when not all is a bowl of cherries, we feel like if we had found a precious antiquity hidden in the middle of a flea market. A four out of five for a game which worst sin is to be far from mobile gaming standards, as if it was designed to be played in the comfort of your sofa only.
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The antioxidant and antimicrobial potential of the ethanolic extract of
Edible mushrooms grow spontaneously on tree trunks or on decaying woody debris, in places with high humidity. Shiitake mushrooms such as
In the present study, the influence of an inorganic nitrogen source (ammonium sulfate) and of three organic sources (peptone, yeast extract, and corn extract) on the production of mycelium and on its functional properties was evaluated by determining the antioxidant activity, the reduction power, the inhibition of free radicals, and the antimicrobial activity. The antimicrobial activity was highlighted against some potentially pathogenic strains of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, as well as against two strains of the genus
Use of an inorganic nitrogen source, ammonium sulfate, led to the best results,
Effect of nitrogen source on mycelia growth of the
Edible mushroom mycelium possesses a high antioxidant capacity. Current research is focused on determining the conditions for advantageous cultivation in order to obtain a mycelium possessing significant biological and pharmacological activities. The study performed on PQMZ91109 mycelium growing in submerged conditions is supported by other previous studies that were conducted under similar conditions, with special reference to the nitrogen source [
Stable DPPH radicals are widely used to evaluate the antioxidant activities of proton-donating substances according to their hydrogen-donating ability. DPPH radicals accept electrons or hydrogen radicals to form stable diamagnetic molecules. The antioxidant activity of substances can be expressed as the reduction capability of DPPH radicals at 517 nm [
Scavenging activity of extracts from the
In the case of
Polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as linoleic acid, are easily oxidized by oxygen in air. This auto-oxidation leads to the occurrence of chain reactions with the formation of coupled double bonds, and at a later stage also obtaining secondary products such as aldehydes, ketones, and alcohols [
Antioxidant activity against β-carotene-linoleic acid of ethanolic extracts from
In the reducing power assay, most antioxidant compounds convert the oxidized form of iron (Fe3+) in ferric chloride to ferrous (Fe2+) [
The results of this research showed that the reducing power of lyophilized mycelium obtained in the presence of ammonium sulfate yielded the best results (
Reducing power of ethanolic extracts from the mycelium of
The hydroxyl radical is the most reactive of the reactive oxygen species, and it induces severe damage in adjacent biomolecules. The hydroxyl radical can cause oxidative damage to DNA, lipids, and proteins [
EC50 values for radical scavenging effect and bioactive compounds obtained from different mycelium extracts of
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|Yeast extract
|Ammonium sulfate
|Corn extract
|8.81 ± 0.06
|14.47 ± 0.11
|6.54 ± 0.04
|8.54 ± 0.02
|2.81 ± 0.18
|4.71 ± 0.2
|1.27 ± 0.86
|1.65 ± 0.61
|1.34 ± 0.4
|3.78 ± 0.59
|0.77 ± 0.47
|1.22 ± 0.85
|19.34 ± 0.1
|17.8 ± 0.05
|20 ± 0.07
|21 ± 0.02
|80 ± 0.12
|66 ± 0.43
|83 ± 0.1
|71 ± 0.51
|450 ± 0.79
|387 ± 0.41
|531 ± 0.54
|477 ± 0.3
|0.048 ± 0.02
|0.27 ± 0.02
|0.32 ± 0.06
|0.32 ± 0.12
|0.44 ± 0.1
|1.57 ± 0.58
|1.8 ± 0.22
|18.76 ± 1.07
|28.59 ± 0.61
Scavenging effect on superoxide radicals is important because it plays a significant role in the generation of other reactive oxygen species such as hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl radical, or singlet oxygen in living systems [
A high concentration of nitric oxide is associated with many diseases. Oxygen can react with nitric oxide leading to the appearance of nitrite and proxy nitrite anions which are other categories of free radicals [
The antimicrobial susceptibility testing conducted against target microorganisms is presented in
Antimicrobial activity of mycelia extracts obtained by using four different nitrogen sources. Values are mean ± SD of 3 separate determinations, each in triplicate.
|Nitrogen source
|MIC (mg/mL)
The results were recorded as presence or absence of inhibition zones. The inhibitory zones indicated the absence of bacterial growth reported as positive, and the absence of the inhibitory zone reported as negative [
Thus, the amount of ascorbic acid ranged from 17.8 to 21 mg/100 g of freeze-dried extract. The obtained amount was significant for this genus, in which a maximum of 25 mg/100 g was achieved [
Phenolic compounds derived from plants are a favorite research target because of their possible use as dietary supplements or food preservatives [
The amount of flavonoids in the mycelium extracts obtained in the presence of four different nitrogen sources, confirmed that the inorganic source, ammonium sulfate, provided the best results. For the organic source, the order was: corn extract > peptone > yeast extract (
Carotenoids represent a major category of antioxidants, being known to bestow health benefits. Carotenoids are important because they have an active role in the protection process of human body cells, serving to balance and offset the destructive effects of free radicals. They are also natural colorants and stabilizers [
α-Tocopherol is a classical and important antioxidant, well known as a scavenger of free radicals. It possesses anti- and pro-oxidant properties that act against low density lipoproteins, ensuring protection of the blood vessels and prevention of cardiovascular diseases [
Owing to the increasing demand for natural bioactive compounds in the pharmaceutical and food industries, the interest in fungi has risen steadily in recent years. Since the fungus mycelium contains a significant amount of vitamins, fibers, phenolic compounds, and carotenoids, research interests focused on the determination of antioxidant capacity [
The correlation between antioxidant compounds and freeze-dried PQMZ91109 mycelia was also evaluated. The
The highest content of bioactive compounds of the mycelium extracts could explain the measured MIC values. A direct correlation between phenol content and antimicrobial properties was observed for all four nitrogen sources. Ammonium sulfate showed better results than organic nitrogen sources, expressed by lower values of MICs, which was in agreement with the higher content of bioactive compounds found. Because of its lower content in bioactive compounds, the mycelium cultivated in the presence of yeast extract was the less effective (higher MICs), not showing activity against
All chemicals and reagents were purchased from Sigma Aldrich GmbH (Sternheim, Germany). All other unlabelled chemicals and reagents were of analytical grade.
The mushroom
The fungi were initially grown on PDA medium for 10 days at 25 °C. The inoculum was prepared by growing mycelium on a LabTech rotary shaker at 150 rpm for 5 days and at 25 °C in 500 mL Erlenmeyer flasks containing 250 mL of the following synthetic medium (per liter): 6.0 g glucose, 100.0 g malt extract, 20.0 g yeast extract, 1.0 g KH2PO4, and 0.5g MgSO4 × 7H2O. The medium was adjusted to pH 5.5 with 0.2 M NaOH [
Submerged fermentation was carried out in 1,000 mL Erlenmeyer flasks, containing 700 mL of liquid medium (KH2PO4 0.2%, CaSO4 0.5%, MgSO4 0.05%, and Na2HPO4 0.01% in 5% extract solution of corn flour) and was performed with 4 different nitrogen sources: corn extract (dry substance 40%), peptone, yeast extract, and ammonium sulfate. The nitrogen sources were added as 10 g/L. The inoculated flasks were maintained on a LabTech rotary shaker at 150 rpm and 25 °C. After 7 days of growth, the mycelium was recovered from the liquid medium by centrifugation at 3,500× g for 10 min. Next, the obtained mycelia were washed 3 times with distilled water and freeze-dried in an Alpha 1-2 LD freeze-dryer in the absence of a cryoprotective agent [
The extract was obtained by ethanol extraction of freeze-dried mushroom mycelia. Ethanol extraction of the mycelia was accomplished by stirring at 150 rpm for 24 h at 20 °C, with a ratio of 1 g of freeze-dried biomass per 10 mL solvent. The broth was centrifuged at 3,500× g for 10 min and the supernatant was filtered using Whatman No. 1 filter paper. The ethanol extract was freeze-dried. The freeze-dried extract was then re-dissolved in 80% ethanol (v/v) to yield solutions containing 1.0, 2.5, 5.0, 10.0, 15.0, and 20.0 mg of extract per mL.
The standard agar dilution protocol with doubling dilution was used. The extract was incorporated into nutrient agar at concentrations ranging from 0.39 mg/mL to 25 mg/mL. A control without the extract was also prepared. Ten μL of each test organisms, previously diluted to 106 CFU/mL, were used to inoculate the plates. These were incubated at 37 °C for 24 h in the first instance, and for another 24 h before the growth was observed and recorded. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of the extract for each test microorganism were considered the agar plate with the lowest concentrations without growth [
The reaction mixture contained 50 μL of test samples (or 80% EtOH as a blank) and 5 mL of a 0.04% (w/v) solution of DPPH in ethanol. Discoloration was measured at 517 nm after incubation for 30 min. DPPH radical concentration was calculated using the following equation: DPPH scavenging effect (%) = (A0 − AP)/A0 × 100, where A0 was the absorbance of the control and AP was the absorbance in the sample. The actual decrease in absorption induced by the test compounds was compared with the positive controls. Ascorbic acid was used for comparison and as a positive control. The extract concentration providing 50% of free radical scavenging activity (EC50) was calculated from the graph of the radical scavenging activity (RSA) percentage against extract concentration [
The antioxidant activity was determined with slight modifications of the procedure previously described by Sokmen
Reducing power was determined according to the method described by Gulcin
The scavenging activity on superoxide radicals was evaluated according to the methods described by Chou
Hydroxyl radical scavenging was assayed as described by Varshneya
Nitric oxide scavenging activity was measured spectrophotometrically. Sodium nitroprusside (5 mmol/L) in phosphate buffered saline, pH 7.4, was mixed with different concentrations of the extract prepared in ethanol and incubated at 25 °C for 30 min. A control without the test compound, but with an equivalent amount of ethanol, was also used. After 30 min, 1.5 mL of the incubated solution was removed and diluted with 1.5 mL of Griess reagent (1% sulphanilamide, 2% phosphoric acid and 0.1%
The content of total phenols was determined by spectrophotometry, using gallic acid as standard, according to the method described by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14502-1. Briefly, an aliquot of the diluted sample extract (1.0 mL) was transferred in duplicate to separate tubes containing a 1/10 dilution of Folin-Ciocalteu's reagent in water (5.0 mL). Then, a sodium carbonate solution (4.0 mL, 7.5% w/v) were added. The tubes were then allowed to stand at room temperature for 60 min before absorbance at 765 nm was measured against water. The content of total phenols was expressed as gallic acid equivalents in g/100 g extract. The concentration of polyphenols in samples was derived from a standard curve of gallic acid ranging from 10 to 50 μg/mL (Pearson's correlation coefficient:
Sample (0.25 mL of different concentrations of the extracts) was added to a tube containing distilled water (1 mL). Next, 5% NaNO2 (0.075 mL), 10% AlCl3 (0.075 mL) and 1 M NaOH (0.5 mL) were added sequentially at 0, 5 and 6 min. Finally, the volume of the reacting solution was adjusted to 2.5 mL with double-distilled water. The absorbance of the solution at a wavelength of 410 nm was detected using the Helios λ spectrophotometers. Quercetin is a ubiquitous flavonoid, present in many natural extracts, used as standard to quantify the total flavonoid content. Results were expressed in microgram quercetin equivalents/100 g extract [
For β-carotene and lycopene determination, the dried ethanolic extract (100 mg) was vigorously shaken with an acetone-hexane mixture (4:6, 10 mL) for 1 min and filtered through Whatman No. 1 filter paper. The absorbance of the filtrate was measured at 453, 505, and 663 nm. β-Carotene and lycopene content were calculated according to the following equations:
lycopene (mg/100 mL) = −0.0458 × A663 + 0.372 × A505 − 0.0806 × A453
β-carotene (mg/100 mL) = 0.216 × A663 − 0.304 × A505 + 0.452 × A453
The results are expressed as mg of carotenoid/g of extract [
The content was determined spectrophotometrically according to the method of Kivcak and Akay. The α-tocopherol content in the extracts was calculated from the regression equation of the standard curve [
All parameters for antimicrobial and antioxidant activity were assessed in triplicate, and the results were expressed as mean ± SD values of 3 observations. The mean values and standard deviation were calculated with the EXCEL program from Microsoft Office 2010 package.
The extract of an oyster mushroom mycelium (
This research was financed through the project PNCDI II CNCSIS—Human Resources, Theme 9/2010.
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Nuclear Space Rockets and the Most Fascinating NASA Man You've Never Heard Of
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Atomic detontation impluse is one form of propulsion, for use in interplanetary space travel.
Another is building a Giga Watt class nuclear fission reactor into a space craft in LEO and using the giga-watt electrical energy output to power ION-Drive propulsion.
The only bad thing is getting the enriched uranium or plutonium up to LEO. One can imagine nuclear reactor fuel rods being scattered all over the place on a launch failure.
But if Uranium is found on the Moon, which the Lunar Prospector probes says that it is there, then the possibility remains of mining the uranium on the Moon, and processing it there into enriched uranium or using breeders to go for the plutonium, and manufacturing the fuel rods on the Moon, lauch failure there would not have the same level of consequences for those on Earth.
What we really needed to have been doing is taking all the remaining US Space Shuttles, and parking them in LEO or boosting them into orbital shuttle trajectories to do a constant Earth/Lunar shuttle orbit. Of just send them 'robotically' into a high Lunar Orbit, to be eventually used for Lunar 'space stations', and stop over points for future manned Lunar missions.
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Nuclear Fusion rather than Fission is an even better way to go, provided we really got serious about getting nuclear fusion online -- and quit canceling those projects every time they are nearly ready for real world real time production and application.
WE absolutely have to stop spending money and resources on dumb stupid unwarrented wars.
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It amazes me that no one taps the natural thermodynamic differences that any object in solar orbit suffers from.
Consider, for example, the International Space Station (ISS).
Without thermal controls, the temperature of the orbiting Space Station's Sun-facing side would soar to 250 degrees F (121 C), while thermometers on the dark side would plunge to minus 250 degrees F (-157 C).
Why is no space vehicle tapping into that difference?
Imagine if you will a spacecraft with pipes running down either side. Through those pipes flows the vessels atmosphere and water.
On the shadow side the temperature of the atmosphere drops.
As the temperature dips below 32F (0C) the water will crystallize and form snow - thus you are removing the water content from the air.
As the temperature drops to around -109 °F (-78 °C) Carbon dioxide begins to solidify, condensing into 'snow'.
This would be a good way to remove Carbons out of the atmosphere, super chill it and cause the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. You can also regulate the humidity, we humans expel water vapor in each breath, even just sitting idle water vapor escapes from the skin.
Pumping water through pipes on the sun side would lead to super heated steam, water boils at 100C (212F). A nuclear power plant, an oil burning power plant, a coal power plant a natural gas power plant - all of these convert water to steam to run turbines. We know how to generate power from steam, we do it every day.
People have been heating water on their roofs for decades now, we know how to tap the thermal energy of the sun here on earth to heat water. In space, without an insulating atmosphere we could readily boil water convert it to steam on the sun side of any space craft. One can generate huge amounts of electricity with a closed steam system using the sun's heat to produce steam and using the shadow side to swiftly cool the water back to a liquid.
Use that electricity to power an ion engine.
[link to www.ask.com] lists ion engines and their propulsion fuels. Theoretically nearly any element can be used as a 'fuel', gasses like oxygen, nitrogen, xenon are used most often due to their natural ability to be charged and 'shot' out the back of an ion engine.
However Hydrogen can be used.
Density of hydrogen in the solar system is on the order of 10^6 particles per cm cubed. Yes I know, that is a very, very low number.
1 cubic meter is 1 million cubic centimeters, this is an area 3.28 feet by 3.28 feet by 3.28 feet.
A 'small' scoop being only 10 meters (32.8 feet) in diameter has an area of 314 meters.
The viking space craft that went to Mars had a maximum velocity of 900 kilometers per hour (about 600 Miles per hour) that means it was traveling 0.25 kilometers per second.
Every second it traveled 250 meters, thus your 10 meter 'scoop' travels through 78,500 cubic meters, or 78,500,000,000 cm^3
Meaning 78,500,000,000,000,000 molecules of hydrogen per second is being collected. While that may seem like a small amount, in conjunction with an ion propulsion unit the return on your collection is huge.
In theory a space craft with a decent collection unit can traverse the inner solar system under constant acceleration all the time, collecting ALL of its fuel from the solar medium.
Such a spacecraft could readily travel to any body within the orbit of Saturn, even able to reach Saturn and its moons.
It could push further out using 'low energy' trajectories relying on more conventional rocketry coupled with water steam produced electricity.
However considering that the temperature of space near Saturn is, in the sun, reaching temperatures of -125F and in the shade temperatures cold enough to liquify nitrogen at 1 atmosphere of pressure, it is only simply a matter of switching from water to nitrogen to power your turbines.
One could travel as far as Neptune using a Nitrogen steam turbine to power it with electricity and still collect enough hydrogen way out there to make the trip back to home.
There is no need what so ever to rely on nuclear power (fusion or fission) to travel in the inner solar system. We could mine the moons of Jupiter, the Rings of Saturn, the Asteroid belt and establish a permanent colony on Mars with Ion space craft tapping into the 'free' solar energy that the sun provides. Heat alone could power our spacecraft without having to collect the solar wind. Collecting the solar wind with a 'scoop' would make the ship totally independent from 'refueling' from the earth.
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Books have been written about the wild enthusiasm with which the architectural community approached the possibilities presented by cars in the twentieth-century (1, 2, 3). None though have mentioned a gaping hole in one piece of their logic, that just doesn't tally with their espoused claims about rationalisation. Whether designing a town plan, a house, or any of the daily use items they would overhaul too, Modernists boasted of stripping everything back to essentials. Proceeding like Descartes from watertight axioms, they would build for us the post-enlightenment world.
One axiom was to spread out. Given the wildfire transmission of influenza in 1918, especially in cities, we can understand our forebears' hunger for green space, fresh air and sunlight.
But another was to make that all happen using the car. It is true that the car can help people spread out. However, it is not irreducible. As clever an invention as the car seems, it does not capitalise on its drivers' own body for use as an engine. Instead, it has a heat and noise-making lump of cast metal on board. If you were to pair back the design of the car until no part was redundant, it would weigh less than its live payload, and use that payload's legs for propulsion. A rationalised car, would be a bike, or maybe a trike, or a velomobile.
The enlightenment project of redesigning civilisation along uber rational lines, was knocked off course by an axiomatic assumption that Socrates could have turned into mincemeat. Sure, attach a horse or a motor to your carriage if you want to move hay bales, but if your aim is to move flesh and blood engines—engines that last longer the more they are used—then reason dictates that those flesh and blood engines be put to good use.
A century of sports-led advances in bicycle technology, coupled with practical innovations from bike transport nations like Denmark and the Netherlands, mean we can now get across town more quickly by our own steam than we can if relying on privately owned machines that have motors. Break downs, traffic snarls and car parking woes always made driving a crapshoot. High-pressure tires, ergonomic design, and smoother transmissions have recently turned biking into a breeze.
Yet we go on designing cities with cars as the centrepiece. Urban fringe subdivisions, retail warehouses out beside highways, internal lock-up garages, mountaintop getaways, junior soccer leagues that require away matches—decade by decade, car dependence underpins every design decision we make as a species, from highway investment, to institutional structures, to the lengths of our raincoats.
Have you noticed how raincoats have become shorter? They used to come down past the knees. Our houses had more hooks than bedrooms, right at the front door, so every member of the household could still go to school, shops and work when it was raining. These days, if we own a raincoat at all, it will most likely come to the waist and have been bought from a specialised camp store. Raincoats have become the kind of accoutrement we associate with going hiking, from car parks to mountaintops, to satisfy ourselves that a world of internal access garaging has not made us soft.
Critics of sterile Modernist architecture—Charles Jencks, Tom Wolfe, Brent Brolin, Peter Blake, etc.—blamed the failures of Modernism on the logic employed. Cold rationality, they argued, left no room for the kinds of whimsical yearnings that in fact make us human. But a whimsical yearning, for motorised transport, was at the heart of Modernist planning and the buildings, products and systems born of that planning approach. Modernism gave a surface appearance of being rational, but deep down it was giggling with excitement for whatever Henry Ford or Gabriel Voisin had in their showrooms. Look at the futurist poet Marinetti crashing his car then punching the air. Then see how Sant'Elia, the futurist architect "endowed his imaginary machine-made metropolis with mythical attributes of speed", because, as Esther da Costa Meyer has written, "a certain naive technological determinism" pervaded Sant'Elia's text.
How can we say cold rationality is to blame for the failures of Modernism, when its avant-garde leaders were silly for cars? At a deep level, cold rationality was never really given a chance.
If we look at some of Modernism's most famous failures, we will find auto-centric planning there in the background. The social disasters that occurred at Pruit-Igoe and Hulme Crescent are commonly attributed to aerial streets cut off from the ground. But for the poor people living on those aerial streets, being cut off from the ground was not as bad as being cut off from opportunities available to wealthier citizens of their increasingly car-centric cities. The geographical isolation of those projects for the non-driving poor was as much to blame for the muggings as the cockeyed reasoning behind the floor planning.
Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House stands now as a cautionary lesson to any architect who would strip a building of everything they thought was superfluous to need, like curtains or fly screens. However, what narratives of Howard Roark branded arrogance completely ignore, is that the house itself was superfluous to the needs of the client, Edith Farnsworth. She already had an abode. It was in the city, and it probably had curtains and fly screens.
The idea that every professional should also have a rural retreat is an idea that was being instilled, in those times, by car manufacturers, like General Motors. They funded the Futurama pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair, a giant diorama showing freeways designed for 150mph jaunts to the country and back, just for the fun. Whatever Mies designed for Dr. Farnsworth in that broader context, would really not need to have sun screens, fly screens, insulation, curtains, or perhaps not even a roof. Viewed in the context of recreational car use, it was less of a house than a marker, there to show a driver where to turn around and head back.
If only we could turn back the clock to the mid twentieth-century! We would warn Le Corbusier about propagandising for cars with his Villa Savoye, planned around the turning circle of his favourite Voisin. We would tell him to plan it around the turning circle of a Dutch bakfiets. We would tell Buckminster Fuller to build a Dymaxion bike. We would tell the whole avant-garde that their vision of a good life with cars was steering the world toward poorer health, congestion, wars and greenhouse emissions.
It's too late for that though. It would be easier now to get the whole world to speak Esperanto, than to untangle our civilisation from cars. Too many choices we make, about trivial things such as whether or not to let our children join soccer leagues, to things so profound as where we build housing, can be traced to a machine with two engines. The engine that wears out from use is the one that runs hot. The engine that lasts longer the more it is used, is the one that sits idle. We're stuck with cars, just as we're stuck using English, with all its absurdities, as the world's lingua franca.
But what if our cities had pockets of resistance, where cars were not the lingua franca of planning decisions? What if there could be urban districts where the default mode of transport was cycling, and design thinking proceeded accordingly? Albeit on a much smaller scale, the Modernist axiom that it's good to spread out, might live again, only coupled this time to a properly rationalised personally mobility device. I'm imagining zones within cities that, to enter, felt like entering China Town. From the way they structured their lives and their built environment, to the way they all dressed, everyone would be thinking in Bike.
Thanks for reading right to the end. I'm interested to know if any blog readers are able to join me in imagining purpose-built bicycling districts, using a purely rationalistic epistemology.


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Susan Difrancesco: Taking wellness into her own hands, with a little help from Columbus State
Sitting on the couch, surfing TV channels, smoking cigarettes, and eating ice cream used to be a way of life for Susan Difrancesco, accountant II in Business Affairs. Throughout life she could always eat what she wanted with no worries. In her 40s, her metabolism slowed down and she noticed a difference in her energy and fitness level. When she turned 43 last September, she got fed up and decided to do something about it.
For people who don't know her and see her around campus, they might think, it's easy for her to talk about getting healthy and fit, she's thin. In fact, in the last year she's lost 23 pounds while participating in Columbus State's wellness courses of Active Living and Healthy Eating Every Day, wellness seminars, the Human Performance Center, and smoking cessation classes.
"I never used to eat properly, let alone exercise. I've also been a smoker since I was in sixth grade."
In order to succeed, she started out slowly by taking the Active Living I and II courses. "Active Living is for everyone," Susan says. "I now look at life and exercise differently."
"I used to think that to exercise, I had to set aside one hour a day to work out. Now I know that every five minutes of activity counts," she says. While Susan used to classify sweeping carpets as a chore, she now knows it counts as part of the recommended 30 minutes a day of exercise, as does playing with a dog or gardening.
After becoming more active, she decided she needed to work on her eating habits as well and signed up for Healthy Eating I and II.
"I never used to eat the correct foods. I didn't eat breakfast or vegetables, and my eating habits were heavy on meat," Susan comments. "After taking the Healthy Eating courses, I learned all about portion distortion. I now know what 2,200 calories of food looks like, that a portion of meat is the same size of a deck of cards, and that iceberg lettuce has no food value."
She also learned that there is no such thing as a bad food, but that some things like Italian bread, French food, and ice cream need to be eaten in moderation.
Since taking the Healthy Eating classes, she now "grazes" throughout the day, eating at least three meals and drinking mostly water.
After having a fitness assessment as part of her Active Living class, she realized she wasn't as in shape as she thought. Spring quarter she ventured down to the Human Performance Center to sign up for a personal trainer. She met with a personal trainer once a week to learn how to exercise correctly and has adapted those exercises to fit in her routine at home.
This summer, she decided it was time to try to kick her smoking habit and she joined the smoking cessation class. While Susan says she's wearing a patch until she can get over the habit, she hasn't smoked a cigarette in over three weeks and will quit using the patch in about two weeks.
"There's never a good time to stop smoking. You have to want to do it," Susan says. Since she's stopped, she "feels better and breaths better." "I've got allergy induced asthma, and I haven't had to use my inhaler in five-and-a-half weeks."
"The Wellness programs are the best things that Columbus State has ever done for its employees," says Susan. "The programs are for everyone regardless of your job or education. Where else can you work out in a gym for free or have a personal trainer for $5 a session?"
What is her advice for anyone wanting to participate in the programs? "Pick one thing and start off slow. Don't try to change everything at once," Susan says. "You need to take baby steps and track your changes."
Are you looking to make a change?
The Active Living or Healthy Eating Every Day classes are being offered fall quarter. The course numbers are: SES 299A Active Living I, SES 299B Active Living 2, SES 299C Healthy Eating I, SES 299D Healthy Eating II. For more information on the courses, contact David Litt, coordinator in Sport and Exercise Studies, at 287-3681.
To sign up for a fitness assessment or a personal trainer, contact Don Laubenthal, coordinator of the Human Performance Center, at 287-3627. For employees, assessments range from $10-$20 depending on the assessment type and $5 per session for a personal trainer.
For more information on the smoking cessation classes, contact Human Resources at 287-2408.
Forums planned to meet the candidates for dean of Career and Technical Programs
The search for the dean of Career and Technical Programs has been narrowed down to two candidates: Dr. Polly Owen and Dr. Al Barringer.
Dr. Owen is the chair of Columbus State's Nursing and Related Services. Her forum will be held Monday, August 28, at 3 p.m. in Nestor Hall Seminar D.
Dr. Barringer is the former chair for the Public Safety Careers Division of the Northeast College-Houston Community College in Texas. His forum will be held Wednesday, August 30, at 3 p.m. in Nestor Hall Seminar Room D.
During their forums, the candidates have been asked to address the approaches, techniques, and strategies they would use to: attract high school graduates to Columbus State's career and technical programs; connect the college to businesses and industries in our service district; and remain current in curricular content and state-of-the art equipment to meet business and industry standards.
AQIP needs you
Don't forget to have your say in the future of the college. The AQIP accreditation survey is still available. Take the survey today by going to www.cscc.edu/aqip, click on the survey link, and use cscc as the login.
Make sure to print out your survey ticket number in order to win prizes including two tickets to Taste the Future to be drawn on August 31.
If you don't have time to complete the entire survey at one time, you can complete it later by logging in again with your ticket number.
To take a paper version of the survey, contact Sunday Zidonis at 287-5987.
Adkins named to United Way board
Kay Adkins, provost, was recently named to the Board of Trustees of the United Way of Delaware County.
Proposed Curriculum Change Policy and Procedure Forums
The Curriculum Committee of Shared Governance will hold two forums to discuss the revisions to Policies 5-04 : Degrees and Diplomas, 5-05 : Academic Courses and Credits, 5-06 : Degree Program Requirements, and 5-07 : Approval of Degrees and Degree Programs, and Procedure 5-07.
The forums will be held:
The revised Policy and Procedure may be found at http://www.cscc.edu/Governance/committeeInfo.asp?CommitteeID=5. Look under Documents for links to "Degrees & Diplomas Policy 5-04 Revised," "Policy 5-05 and Procedure 5-05(C) Revised," and "Curriculum Handbook Final Draft."
If you are unable to attend one of the forums, you can send your feedback to Mary Insabella or Jim Hamberg.
Get a massage and relax
Thirteen graduates of Columbus State's Massage Therapy Program recently passed the State of Ohio Medical Board exam granting them the license to practice massage therapy in Ohio. The exam scores for our students continue to be well above the state average of all massage schools in Ohio.
Faculty and staff are encouraged to visit the Massage Therapy Student Clinic located in Union Hall 319 and experience a full body massage. The cost is only $10, and coupons may be purchased in the Cashier's Office.
The student clinic will open September 26 for autumn quarter. To schedule an appointment for next quarter, call 287-5943.
Employees bowl for kids
Jennifer Snider, office associate in Instructional Services, and her daughter Blake hit the lanes at the Staff Advisory Council's (SAC) annual Bowling for Kids event August 22 at the Palace Lanes. SAC raised $111 for Holidays Are for Kids.
Gearing up for Governance
On Friday new and returning Shared Governance members gathered to train for the upcoming year. This year, Governance has over 85 members, who will be working on issues from updating records managment policy and procedures to energy use on campus.
Leadership Institute extends deadline
The Leadership Institute has extended its deadline until August 31 to sign up for this year's class. For more information, contact Human Resources at 287-2408.


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ADNAN OKTAR: Teachers Day should be on every day, Mother's Day should be on every day, Father's Day should be on every day. But well, nice. An image has been trying to be given that they are remembered once a year, I'm surprised by that a little. It constitutes a sourness in humans. Imagine a teacher being remembered once a year; only once a year she has been asked how she is doing, has been recognized. It would be very painful for her, it would be very strange. Is that okay? If you have a favorite teacher you should call them every day, every week, every month, if needed. He should be visiting constantly, and conciliate her. Logic is supposed to be in this way.
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Why did Dropbox kill the Public folder?
Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:22 AM by Dave Winer.
First, I know they aren't
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for current users, at least not at this time. And I know I can share any file in any folder. Of course this is deliberately misleading, because the sharing isn't the same. We're all smart, so I don't have to explain how. And sharing is the one feature that makes a difference if other people have it or don't have it.
So why? I don't know. But I can take an educated guess. 1. A small number of people were using the feature to store graphics or audio or video files that were getting a ton of traffic. 2. They're getting a lot of takedown notices as people use the feature to share movies and music owned by the entertainment industry. Net-net, the feature is expensive both in terms of bandwidth and human cost.
I'd bet their plan is to limit the damage by not giving the feature to new users, and then weed out the abusers, to try to contain the problem. If they can't, they'll just shut down the feature for everyone. They'll say they're sorry, but it can't be avoided, and you can use the new sharing feature, that doesn't have these problems (for them).
It sucks, because it was a uniquely valuable feature for people who were just using it to store documents. It was especially useful for outlines containing feeds, templates, stylesheets, reading lists, data to be consumed by our apps. The user can specify a URL of a feed and we can read the feed. Updating the data, for the user, is as simple as opening the file and saving it. Now, they'll say we can use their API. But that's more work, and I probably won't do it, because that's the beginning of a long trail of changes, deprecations, and new limits, and strategy taxes. Your work is never done when building on corporate APIs. So I don't go that way.
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Awesome colour :DReplyDelete
Bi kar mela tvojo enormno zalogo čudovitih lakcov, I must say :DReplyDelete
Oh, ne želi si. Pravkar se odločam za odprodajo... ker tako ne gre več. Vsepovsod so stekleničke lakov, jaz pa skoraj nimam več prostora.Delete
Tiste vrste odtenek, ki se ga nikakor ne morem naveličati. Spominja me na enega Kikota, pa na Essie School of Hard Rocks ... perfekcija od odtenka, res.ReplyDelete
Mene je tudi spomnil na Essie, čeprav ga nimam. =) Sem si ga pa pred časom želela.Delete
This is a really pretty modern color. Goes well with all the blues/emeralds/turquoises in the Pantone colors for spring 2013 :)ReplyDelete
Res čudovit odtenek. <3ReplyDelete
"long johns", hehe.
Precej zanimiva barva.
Hecno in prav nič privlačno ime, ane? =DDelete
It looks gorgeous! Surprised how much I like this shade! :)ReplyDelete
This is soooo my color! I love it!ReplyDelete
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Organised by DJ Richard Spencer, the fundraiser takes place at the Yew Tree Inn from 7.30pm on Saturday, April 26.
Some tickets may become available nearer the time and anyone interested should check at the bar.
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Stone, W.W., and Gilliom, R.J., 2009, Update of watershed regressions for pesticides (WARP) for predicting atrazine concentration in streams: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1122, 22 p. Available Online
Van Metre, P.C., and Fuller, C.C., 2009, Dual-core mass-balance approach for evaluating mercury and 210Pb atmospheric fallout and focusing to lakes: Environmental Science and Technology, 43(1), p. 26-32. doi: 10.1021/es801490c Available Online
Feaster, T.D., Golden, H.E., Odom, K.R., Lowery, M.A., Conrads, P.A., and Bradley, P.M., 2010, Simulation of streamflow in the McTier Creek watershed, South Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5202, 61 p. Available Online
Green, C.T., Böhlke, J.K., Bekins, B.A., and Phillips, S.P., 2010, Mixing effects on apparent reaction rates and isotope fractionation during denitrification in a heterogeneous aquifer: Water Resources Research, vol. 46, W08525, 19 p. doi: 10.1029/2009WR008903 Available Online
Kashuba, Roxolana, Cha, YoonKyung, Alameddine, Ibrahim, Lee, Boknam, and Cuffney, T.F., 2010, Multilevel hierarchical modeling of benthic macroinvertebrate responses to urbanization in nine metropolitan regions across the conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5243, 88 p. Available Online
Krutz, L.J., Shaner, D.L., Weaver, M.A., Webb, R.M., Zablotowicz, R.M., Reddy, K.N., Huang, Y., Thomson, S.J., 2010, Agronomic and Environmental Implications of Enhanced s-Triazine Degradation: Pest Management Science, vol. 66, p. 461-481. doi:10.1002/ps.1909 Available Online
Nolan, Bernard T., Puckett, Larry J., Ma, Liwang, Green, Christopher T., Bayless, Randall, and Malone, Robert W., 2010, Predicting unsaturated zone nitrogen mass balances in agricultural settings of the United States: Journal of Environmental Quality, vol. 39, no. 3, p. 1051-1065. doi: 10.2134/jeq2009.0310 Available Online
Qian, S.S., Cuffney, T.F., Alameddine, Ibrahim, McMahon, Gerard, and Reckhow, K.H., 2010, On the application of multilevel modeling in environmental and ecological studies: Ecology, vol. 91, no. 2, p. 355-361, published on-line. Available Online
Shih, Jhih-Shyang, Alexander, R.B., Smith, R.A., Boyer, E.W., Schwarz, G.E., and Chung, Susie, 2010, An initial SPARROW model of land use and in-stream controls on total organic carbon in streams of the conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1276, 22 p. Available Online
Spahr, N.E., Mueller, D.K., and Wolock, D.W., Hitt, K.J., and Gronberg, J.M., 2010, Development and application of regression models for estimating nutrient concentrations in streams of the conterminous United States, 1992-2001: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5199, 22 p. Available Online
Starn, J.J., Bagtzoglou, A.C., and Robbins, G.A., 2010, Using atmospheric tracers to reduce uncertainty in groundwater recharge areas: Ground Water, vol. 48, no. 6, p. 858-868. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00674.x Available Online
Terziotti, Silvia, Hoos, A.B., Harned, D.A., and Garcia, A.M., 2010, Mapping watershed potential to contribute phosphorus from geologic materials to receiving streams, southeastern United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3102, 1 p. Available Online
Thiros, S.A., Bexfield, L.M., Anning, D.W., and Huntington, J.M., eds., 2010, Conceptual understanding and groundwater quality of selected basin-fill aquifers in the Southwestern United States: U.S. Geological Professional Paper 1781, 288 p. Available Online
Waite, Ian R., Brown, Larry R., Kennen, Jonathan G., May, Jason T., Cuffney, Thomas F., Orlando, James L., and Jones, Kimberly A., 2010, Comparison of watershed disturbance predictive models for stream benthic macroinvertebrates for three distinct ecoregions in western US: Ecological Indicators, vol. 10, no. 6, p. 1125-1136. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.03.011 Available Online
Warner, K.L., and Arnold, T.L., 2010, Relations that affect the probability and prediction of nitrate concentration in private wells in the glacial aquifer system in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5100, 55 p., plus appendixes. Available Online
Wieczorek, M.E., and LaMotte, A.E., 2010, Attributes for MRB_E2RF1 catchments for the conterminous United States: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series reports DS-491, . Available Online
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Anning, David W., 2011, Modeled sources, transport, and accumulation of dissolved solids in water resources of the Southwestern United States: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, online 22Aug2011 in advance of print, 23 p. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00579.x Available Online
Ator, S.W., Brakebill, J.W., and Blomquist, J.D., 2011, Sources, fate, and transport of nitrogen and phosphorus in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed - An empirical model: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5167, 27 p. Available Online
Bexfield, L.M., Thiros, S.A., Anning, D.W., Huntington, J.M., and McKinney, T.S., 2011, Effects of natural and human factors on groundwater quality of basin-fill aquifers in the southwestern United States-conceptual models for selected contaminants: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5020, 90 p. Available Online
Bexfield, Laura M., Heywood Charles E., Kauffman, Leon J., Rattray, Gordon W., and Vogler, Eric T., 2011, Hydrogeologic setting and groundwater flow simulation of the middle Rio Grande Basin regional study area, New Mexico, Section 2 in Eberts, Sandra M., ed., Hydrogeologic settings and groundwater-flow simulations for regional investigations of the transport of anthropogenic and natural contaminants to public-supply wells--Investigations begun in 2004: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1737-B, Section 2, p. 2-1 to 2-61. Available Online
Brakebill, J.W., Wolock, D.M., and Terziotti, S.E., 2011, Digital hydrologic networks supporting applications related to spatially referenced regression modeling: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, online 22Aug2011 in advance of print, 17 p. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00578.x Available Online
Brown, J.B., Sprague, L.A., and Dupree, J.A., 2011, Nutrient sources and transport in the Missouri River Basin, with emphasis on the effects of irrigation and reservoirs: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, online 22Aug2011 in advance of print, 27 p. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00584.x Available Online
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- The title of this article should be alt.* hierarchy. The initial letter is capitalized due to technical restrictions.
The alt.* hierarchy is a major class of newsgroups in Usenet, containing all newsgroups whose name begins with "alt.", organized hierarchically. The alt.* hierarchy is not confined to newsgroups of any specific subject or type, although in practice more formally organised groups tend not to occur in alt.
Unlike most of the other hierarchies, there is no centralised control of the hierarchy and anyone who is technically capable of creating a newsgroup can do so. In practice, however, most newsgroups follow an informal procedure involving a public discussion in alt.config before being created. This procedure is designed to help the potential creator better understand what factors contribute to a newsgroup's success.
It is up to each individual news administrator whether to add a new newsgroup, and some will not do so if the group has not been discussed in alt.config. As a result groups that do not follow this procedure are usually not well-propagated. News group removal in theory occurs in much the same way as newsgroup creation, however as a matter of practice most news administrators do not remove newsgroups.
The birth of the alt.* hierarchy is tied to a drastic transformation of the Usenet, the Great Renaming of 1987. The "backbone carriers", or the backbone cabal as they have been referred to by some users of the Usenet, were vital hubs in the distribution chain of most of the newsgroup postings. Their effort to change the way newsgroups are organized led to objections from some vocal Usenet users.
In particular, the creation of the talk.* hierarchy for discussions of controversial or sensitive issues by the renaming did not go well. The alt.* hierarchy was suggested as an alternative to talk.* by Brian Reid. It would be a network without the backbones, thereby free from backbones' influences on creating or not creating a new newsgroup. Some suggest that Brian Reid was also interested in starting a recipe group outside the major hierarchies. The first newsgroup on alt hierarchy was his alt.gourmand.
The name alt was said to refer humorously to "anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists", but is understood by most people today as an abbreviation of "alternative".
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Alt has since become home for a wide variety of things that did not fit elsewhere. In particular, there are many alt.fan newsgroups, mostly devoted to discussions of the work and life of famous people: writers, musicians, actors and athletes have alt.fan groups. This sub-hierarchy has also been used for self-promotion by otherwise unknown people. During the notorious trial of Karla Homolka, alt.fan.karla-homolka was created to get around the Canadian news blackout on the case.
Two major sections of the alt.* hierarchy, the alt.sex.* and alt.binaries.* hierarchies, have been found to fit better in the alt.* hierarchy than the Big Seven. Because of the inevitably lurid and sometimes offensive subjects that it would cover, newsgroup administrators objected to the inclusion of one or more newsgroups covering sexual topics in the Big Seven (including the existing rec.arts.erotica), fearing that they may prevent the major news hierarchies from being widely distributed. News administrators are free to add any or all of the alt.sex.* newsgroups without having to worry about conflicting with the Big Seven. Likewise, any and all of the alt.binaries.* newsgroups can be accepted or rejected by administrators if they choose. Binaries are often of extremely large size, which is why administrators may choose to exclude them.
Several extensions of the alt.* hierarchy have become quite successful on their own. A number of newsgroups have taken advantage of the freedom of the alt.* hierarchy to create a number of newsgroups that specialize on certain topics, as opposed to the broader "generic" discussions of the Big Seven hierarchy. For instance, the rec.* hierarchy may be home to the movie discussion newsgroups rec.arts.movies.current-films, rec.arts.movies.past-films, and rec.arts.movies.reviews; but the alt.movies.* hierarchy contains more focused discussion groups including alt.movies.silent, alt.movies.hitchcock, alt.movies.kubrick, and alt.movies.visual-effects.
The language of preference in the "original" usenet hierarchies, including alt.*, is English. Other language hierarchies have later been created in parallel to the existing English ones, for example de.* for German, fr.* for French, etc. Some access providers also created their own versions, prefixing the newsgroups names with their own name in a similar way. Messages posted in these "private" groups are generally not passed to other providers or the internet in general.
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- Comparison of Alt.* Usenet Providers
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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 336. Friday, 28 May 1993.
Date: Thursday, 27 May 93 14:43:20 PDT
Subject: Which Edition(s) to Use?
While we all love our battered and much annotated edition of whichever version
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Shakespeare: A User's Guide to Editions* ed. Ann Thompson (Open University
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Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury is sporting some new jewelry to go along with the Stanley Cup ring he won in 2009.
The former Cape Breton Screaming Eagle married longtime girlfriend Véronique Larosée in a lavish ceremony last Saturday at Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, the same church at which international singing superstar Celine Dion married Rene Angelil in 1994.
Fleury, who will be 29 in November, has been with Larosée since he was 15, the age when he arrived in Cape Breton to play for the Screaming Eagles.
Fleury's Cape Breton billets, Bob and Angela Hawkins, their son Jeffrey and daughter Janelle, were among the 250 or so guests who attended the wedding. Fleury's billet family from the year he left his home in Sorel, Que., to play bantam hockey also attended.
Also among the guests were Fleury's Pittsburgh teammates — past and present — including Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang, Jordan Staal, Chris Kunitz, Pascal Dupuis, James Neal, Colby Amstrong, Hal Gill and Max Talbot, who showed up in a black suit with a bright red bowtie and bright red shoes to match.
Fleury and Larosée arrived at the church in a chauffeur-driven white Rolls Royce while family and wedding attendants arrived in white Cadillac Escalades.
After the ceremony guests were treated to a five-course meal at the Montreal Science Centre in historic Old Port Montreal. There was also a 45-minute fireworks show over the Port of Montreal during the reception.
Wedding planners arranged to have guests shuttled from their hotel to the wedding and reception and back to their hotel in white charter buses.
The morning after the wedding, Fleury invited the Hawkins family to a family brunch. Although Fleury requested no gifts, the Hawkins family presented him with a framed Warren Gordon print of the Sydney Marine Terminal featuring the popular Big Fiddle to remind him of his time in Cape Breton.
You can view some of the wedding photos at http://25stanley.com/mariage-marc-andre-fleury-blonde-veronique.html.
• Congratulations to Glace Bay native James Proctor. He placed first in the above elbow division at the 2012 Canadian Amputee Golf Open in Woodstock, Ont., July 15-18. Proctor carded scores of 89, 91 and 92 for a three-day total of 272. His team also placed fourth in the Inter-Provincial Challenge Cup.
• Cape Breton is the hottest island in golf, according to Forbes magazine.
A pair of articles by Larry Olmsted chronicles both Highlands Links in Ingonish and the newly-opened Cabot Links in Inverness. The first article talks about the Ingonish course's highlights, while the second is all about Cabot Links and its arrival on the scene.
You can check out the two articles by visiting forbes.com and do a search for "hottest island in golf."
• Cape Breton courses are also getting some love from ScoreGolf TV. An episode entitled "Captivating Cape Breton" will be shown on the program Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Atlantic time on TSN.
The program will be repeated Monday at 4:30 p.m. Atlantic on TSN2, Wednesday at 3 p.m. Atlantic on TSN, Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Atlantic on TSN2 and Friday at 7 p.m. Atlantic on TSN2.
• Congrats to a group of Cape Breton runners who put in strong showings at the 42nd annual Nova Scotia Marathon/Half Marathon in Barrington Passage, July 22.
Florence Gillis took first in the women's half marathon and was eighth overall in a time of one hour, 34 minutes and 24 seconds. Daniel MacNeil was first in the men's half marathon in a new course record time of 1:10:22.
The full marathon saw Donnie MacIntyre finish in third place and first in the master's male division in a time of 3:00:22. Lauchie McKinnon finished in fourth place and first in the senior masters male division at 3:10:13, while Joey Tetford finished fifth and third in the open male division in 3:15:55.
• Best of luck to the Alexandra Street White Sox. They're heading to Guysborough this weekend for the Billy Kennedy Memorial Fastball Tournament at the Drysdale Field. The five-team tournament also features the Antigonish A's, Trenton, East Hants and the host Guysborough Broadhorns. The top two teams will play in the championship Sunday at 1 p.m.
• On the hole-in-one front, Kenny Peters scored his sixth career ace on the par 3, 154-yard, No. 17 hole using a 7 iron at Lingan Golf and Country Club during the Caper Auto Sales Invitational on July 22. The shot was witnessed by Peters' playing partners Ryan Boutilier and Minnow Bourgeois.
On July 24, Aaron Lee made a hole-in-one on the 169 yard, No. 4 hole at Dundee Resort and Golf Club. Lee used a 6 iron as playing partners Curtis White and Ian MacIntyre looked on.
Guest of Seaview, Brian Ferguson, aced the 170-yard, No. 11 with a 3 hybrid. The shot was witnessed by Gus Ryan, Jack Erickson and Gerrald Barron.
During Dominion Seaside Days, Ann Steven carded a hole-in-one on the 125 yard, par 3, No. 6 hole at Lionel's Golf Centre, while witnesses Toni MacNeil and Hilda and Mike Bourneau looked on.
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Case Conclusion Date: 09.09.2003
Practice Area: Criminal defense
Outcome: Suspended sentence and probation
Description: C. A. suffers from schizophrenia. During a period of decompensation he took an axe to a gas main resulting in a house fire. Later, he had another psychotic episode during which he assaulted an elderly person. C. A. was charged with felony arson and assault on an an elderly person. The later offense is also a felony and has a mandatory 2 year sentence. While hospitalized after the offenses, C. A. came under the care of a caring and talented psychiatrist who was able to determine a medication protocol that enabled C. A. to function in a normal manner. There was a defense based on his mental state, but it seemed inappropriate to force him to be held in an institution for people with mental illnesses when with the new medication he was able to function without significant symptoms of his mental illness. Similarly, it seemed wrong for him to be incarcerated, when he had no intent to commit the crimes he was involved in. After several pretrial conferences, two of which were attended by the psychiatrist, C. A. plead guilty to lesser charges and was given a suspended sentence, a period of probation and was released with the condition that he attend treatment, remain medication compliant and follow the doctor's therapeutic recommendations. C. A. and his family were greatly relieved that he was not incarcerated or institutionalized, particularly because those outcomes would have likely worsened his condition.


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The Crap We Missed – Monday 7.8.13
I suppose this is a healthy way to deal with the pent up energy while your wife is pregnant…
Star-lord, Guardian of the Galaxy.
No beer for 6 months!
I thought only girls posted pix like that…
How did my picture end up here?
Doesn't even look like the same guy – I suppose MouseRat is sure to get a record deal now.
I think you mean Instagram, not Twitter…? Mmmm he's so freaking hot :-). I love him on Parks and Rec but he's even hotter all jacked mmmmm.
This is a nice change from all the boobs. Moobs!! Yeah!
Let's see them deny me that Dirty Dance-off crown THIS year!
HGH is a hell of a drug!
"Would you fuck me…??? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me real hard!"


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July 19, 2012 | TCF Financial's PAC has given away $105,500 in this election cycle, mostly to the usual assortment of candidates and other committees. But $25,000 -- nearly a quarter of its donations -- went to Americans for Prosperity, the Koch brothers' very conservative nonprofit that spent millions targeting Democrats in 2010.
Dozens of Congressmen File for Extension on Financial Disclosure Documents
June 15, 2011 | Instead of today, 76 House representatives will sometime this summer release reports on their stock, bond and mutual fund holdings, as well as investments in real estate, ownership interests in private companies and cash, according to a tally by the Center for Responsive Politics.
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January 27, 2011 | Many political candidates in Washington and on the campaign trail had plenty to say about oil company villainy during the 2010 election cycle. But some campaigns and political committees had little problem padding the profits of two embattled companies in particular -- BP and Citgo.
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