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It's fast becoming one of Australia's feel-good stories from the London Olympics.
Kim Crow, the one-time aspiring 400-metre hurdler, is closing in on two gold medals – not on the track, but in the Thames as a rower.
The story starts at the Victorian Institute of Sport in 2004, where she was recovering from injury. Working out at the gym, Crow was punching out some minutes on the rowing machine while coaches were working with the institute's rowers.
From just a few minutes on the machines, Crow's ability was recognised and her track career ended, replaced by one in the boat.
Tonight, she will race the semi-final of the single sculls before chasing gold in the double sculls just an hour later.
While her story is unique, it isn't necessarily new. And it's a road well-travelled by many successful Australian athletes.
It's the world of talent identification and talent transfer programs – a concept that started more than 20 years ago at the Australian Institute of Sport, when Professor Alan Hahn created a pilot program to identify young talent and turn them into world-conquering rowers.
Since then talent identification has developed and changed, but the end-goal remains the same: producing elite athletes.
AIS senior talent identification and development specialist Jason Gulbin said talent ID was responsible for a huge amount of success since Hahn's pioneer program.
"You don't always know how people have got into the sport," he said.
"But it's contributed to many thousands of national medals at a senior level, and obviously many, many more medals at a junior level.
"Certainly senior world championships and Olympic medals, too."
But what exactly makes a good athlete? And how do you identify one?
An expert in talent ID for more than 13 years, Gulbin said it's not quite as simple as using a tape measure and some weights.
"I suppose everyone thinks in talent ID you run a tape measure across, and they've got a big armspan, a big height, they've got a big engine . . . but that's the very easy bit – you can pick talent for certain sports just by your eye," he said.
"The real sophistication comes in how you can increase the probability of selection by knowing more about the biopsychosocial elements together.
"Yeah, you have good biology, some good physical attributes – your height, arm span, leg length, your physiology. It's also about the psychological elements. How mentally tough are you? How resilient are you? How dogged and determined are you? Are you coachable?
"All of those qualities are very important.
"And then there is the social element – the quality of the coaching, the quality of the cohort you train with – that you are training in a good-quality group that is pushing you. And then the other social aspect is the network of support you might have."
That's not to say physical requirements mean nothing.
ACT Academy of Sport sports program manager Andrew Stainlay said the academy held try-outs for sports in an effort to identify talent.
"We advertise for kids, and then have a whole battery of tests, invite people in, and from there go through all the stats and data," Stainlay said.
We've got to be smart with talent identification in Australia – we don't have the population base, so we have to be smart with what we've got.
"We've got the know-how from a sports science point of view and we've got quality coaches."
It's a far cry from 1990, when a 16-year-old Queanbeyan girl tried out for Hahn's program.
Megan Marcks (nee Still) teamed up with Kate Slatter, and with victory at Atlanta in 1996 became the first Australian female rowing crew to win gold.
"It's amazing how one day can change your whole life, and that day did exactly that – I mean I wasn't even a water sports kind of person," Marcks said.
"It was only that I heard the words 'Australian Institute of Sport' and thought, that's the place you want to be if you wanted to be successful in sport."


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Extending site-specific audience experience via multi-platform communication design
Watkins, Jerry J. & Russo, Angelina (2005) Extending site-specific audience experience via multi-platform communication design. In Hamza, H.M. (Ed.) Ninth IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA) 2005, August 2005, Honolulu.
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Across much of the Australian cultural sector, the principal mission of curatorship remains wedded to the production of site-specific physical exhibitions. This mission is entirely understandable when viewed through the tradition of ongoing cultural exhibition in well-populated urban locations, yet sits less comfortably within the wide geographic distribution of the Australian population. Although a growing desire to reach wider audiences via an expanded online presence is evident, such initiatives are tempered by the prohibitive cost of digitising existing collections optimised for physical exhibition. Significant amounts - if not the majority - of compelling cultural content remain inaccessible to communities and the general public.
Multi-Platform Communication Design is a design method which repurposes existing content across multiple communication channels in order to extend an audience experience across multiple target segments. Applied to the cultural institution sector, MPCD takes existing platform- or site-specific artefacts to new, distributed audiences in a cost-effective manner. In so doing, MPCD can extend and increase the audience experience beyond current curatorial and audience expectations. The rationale behind MPCD lies neither in a technological orientation nor blue skies research. Rather, it is firmly focused in providing a tool whereby cultural institutions can reach a wider audience cost-effectively, and communities can not only access content more readily, they may also contribute to the creation of digital collections. This paper acknowledges the exciting potential of synchronous iTV/web broadcast and contributes to the developing multi-platform debate by defining outcomes for both consumers and producers and links this debate to the emerging concept of a "cultural consumer" within this sector.
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Words of wisdom-never eat a peanut-butter covered banana on a construction site ever again
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@ 3:59 Who the hell gags from PB? Can you even give head? Or would the gagging only be a problem if the dick was covered in PB?
3:06 HELL YES! let's get together and eat some of those sandwiches.
4:19 that's no way to talk about Japanese pussy!
I work construction and if anyone ever eats a cockular-shaped food item, someone has to crack a joke... man law...
2:45 you nailed it
when doesnt a construction worker hoot and holler at a woman when they walk by?
shit, ive been gettin whistled at since i was 12 years old
a banana, covered in PB or not just makes it way worse
did they call you a homo? Guess you must have been eating that banana reeeaaall good huh?
...said the actress to the bishop.
why WOULDN"T you eat a peanut butter covered banana?
why would you eat a peanut butter covered banana?
ever haqd peanut butter and jelly 5:39? when you eat it the pb gets stuck to the roof of your mouth dumbass everyone knows that
harry potter dies at the end.
I totally first read this thinking it was a girl getting hollered at. Still think so.
everyone, call 330-261 6301 his name is joe. pleae fuck with him.. he is 22 and needs a girlfriend, please leave him messages, his voicemail says " this is joe potkanowicz" so please
Or lick mayo off a hotdog.
why would you eat a peanut-butter covered banana anywhere? how do you cover a banana with peanut butter? i call fake.
You know what kinds of foods are shaped like dicks? The best kind!
this is my number 330-261 6301 please do call me
1:54, what the hell is wrong with Nutella!!?!!? I must know how you find fault in it.
Did you eat it in one bite?
Craving doritos,peanut butter, nutella, andbanamad Noe damnnn
you looked like you were gobbling a shit covered cock, didn't you?
3:59 maybe your dog chokes one peanut butter.....
well most construction workers are mexican
You got Peanut Butter on my Banana, You got Banana in my Peanut Butter
I personally like the wisdom-never covered bananas myself.
Nutella is disgusting, you freak.
hahahaha. i've ben laughing for the last 5 minutes.
who walks around with a peanut butter covered banana?? how messy would that be...fake.
they have street vendors with PB covered bananas?? i have been out of the country WAY too long!! all i get is squid on a stick!!
I'll be the 1st to call the person at the construction site was a woman. She was eating her snack and all the guys started whooping and hollering. And she learned her lesson.
yeah, how did no one figure out what 2:45 said before that? like people saying maybe it was a worker who got sawdust on his lunch...seriously? lol, this was clearly a girl who got cat-called for eating that while walking by or something.
4:09, you're right, which is why when i read this i thought of the frozen bananas. perhaps it was one of those that she bought on the street.
sawdust. g to the r to the o to the s to the s.
Or a NUTELLA covered banana sounds good!
yeah i'm trying to figure out why this is a bad idea? my first thought was what 1:38 said but then pictured a bunch of Mexicans getting stuck to it like flies.... why is this bad again?
2:19 like 1:41 is still here
peanut butter + banana = good... i am assuming the construction site made it bad??
please call 1-800-imafuckindoucheandipostotherpeoplesnumbersbecauseilovesuckingcockandhavingitrammedinmyanusuntilibleed because you are a douche and love sucking cock and having it rammed in your anus until you bleed.thanks. fuckin retard
Well, aren't those the little ice -breakers?!!
i think itscuz peanut butter makes you gag/choke....choking on a banana...construction workers are always so sexual yelling out things at women
Peanut butter, nutella and banana sandwich. SO GOOD.
1:41...not everyone working in construction is Mexican so think before you open you mouth (or type) something stupid.
so does that mean never eat a banana on a construction site becuase then you look like your eating Asian dick?
yeah it's like 1:38 said - he got made fun of by the construction workers b/c he looked like he was eating a shit covered dick
I think this is a construction worker who brought the PB and banana as part of his lunch and his co-workers are giving him shit for eating a phallic symbol. I didn't realize it was so hard to figure out.
Nutella has the same texture as peanut butter.....
1:57 their a shit eater, shit>nutella for texture alone.
yeah why is everyone having so much difficulty understanding this?
well 1:37,
1) peel banana
2) open peanut butter
3) Put PB on a Knife
4) spread PB on banana,
is it really that difficult, I bet you have trouble wiping your own ass too don't you?
who knew taco flavored doritos we so freakin spicey!! seriously it kinda hurts!!!! need more mango kitkats!!!
nutella covered bananas are amazing!!
Sawdust maybe? Personally, I think a PB banana sounds awesome
I didnt think that peount butter was that portable. squeeze tube perhaps?
why do we give a shit about Joe what-the-fuck? dumb ass
didnt eat it, just sucked and licked the peanut butter off
2:05, not your personal army. Fuck off.
construction workers make fun of others because their life sucks
2:17, Harry Potter does NOT die. He kills Voldemort. Take it, take it hard.
Banana-covered banana.


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Thousand Arms is a role playing/dating sim that charmed its way onto the North American shores on October 13th, 1999. Thousand Arms is recognized as the first legitimate dating sim to break into the mainstream gaming market in North America. Mixing dating simulation with role playing trappings was probably the best combination of both worlds.
While Thousand Arms is not the first RPG to mix, at least some, basic dating elements (Phantasy Star III anyone?) it is the first to take it to this level of depth. There was not much bad press about Thousand Arms when it was released (I remember reading about it in an old issue of Gamefan, myself) where it was lauded as different and fun.
Today, we salute Atlus for trying something different and unique, and taking one hell of a chance with their future in doing so. Thank you.


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The year in 3D Printing
For the longest time I have resisted putting a category on TreeHugger called 3D Printing. Since we started covering the topic in 2007, additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, was only one of a number of technologies that did the key function of taking an image or drawing from a computer and turning it into an object. So it might be CNC machines that created flatpack furniture and even houses, laser cutting equipment, automated lathes, as long as they fulfilled the key principle that I called dematerialization, or downloadable design:
It is like the music for our iPod; dematerialized bits and bytes put together again where we need it, without the waste of a physical intermediary. In a world where we watch our carbon as closely as our waistline we don't want to be driving to stores; in a world where everything can be digitized, why move material when we are interested in ideas, creativity and talent?
© Hot Pop Factory
It was about a process, not a piece of equipment. But I have given up. 3D printing as a term has become so trendy; it is applied to almost everything, including a lot of technologies that it isn't really at all. And this year, it was everywhere. Our friends at the Hot Pop Factory even designed and printed a crack pipe in the shape of Rob Ford.
Déjà vu All Over Again: A 2013 Home 3D Printer Is Like a 1983 Dot Matrix PrinterDot Matrix Printers Were So Futuristic!/Screen capture
We started the year with a look at how 3D printers today are pretty much like dot-matrix printers and computers were in 1983: very lo-res and used to replace things that we already had, such as slide rules and typewriters. It was before people really started figuring out what computers could do that was different and new. As far as the resolution went, it took a full 25 years to go from dot matrix to full color laser printing at home. Yet people's expectations of 3D printing are wildly compressed.
More: Déjà vu All Over Again: A 2013 Home 3D Printer Is Like a 1983 Dot Matrix Printer
3D Printing in the Home: Fad, Fantasy, or the Future?XKCD/CC BY 2.0
That post sparked a remarkable debate in comments between commenter Joseph Adair and former TreeHugger contributor Ruben Anderson, a dialogue that went on for pages. With some editing I reprinted it as a post;
More: 3D Printing in the Home: Fad, Fantasy, or the Future?
Watch Out, IKEA, Here Comes The Robotic ChainsawEchtwaldshop/Screen capture
Not all digital design is additive; this one is decidedly subtractive.
No more cutting down trees and shipping them to mills and turning them into lumber and making the wood into furniture, this machine skips all the middle steps and goes straight from tree to furniture, taking a chainsaw to the entire supply chain with digital design.
More: Watch Out, IKEA, Here Comes The Robotic Chainsaw
More cold water on the idea of 3D printing in your living roomMasaki Ishitani/CC BY-NC 2.0
Here is a guy I agree with.
Michal Zalewski concludes that we shouldn't be so focused on today's primitive tech. "It pays to focus on the process, not on this week's most-hyped tool." He's right; what is fascinating isn't the squirting of ABS plastic, but the process of digital design and relocalized manufacturing, whatever the technology.
More: More cold water on the idea of 3D printing in your living room
Softkill Design joins race to build the first 3D printed houseLloyd Alter/CC BY 2.0 There is evidently a race on to build the first 3D printed house, but I would make the case that the digital house has already been done, and that matters more than the technology. This one is clever, built up from little pieces that snap together, all individually designed and produced.
More: Softkill Design joins race to build the first 3D printed house
The best present ever: A 3D printed gummy version of yourself© Fab Cafe
Meanwhile, at the Fab Café in Tokyo, they are doing really useful stuff in 3D printing, namely making personalized gummi people. You get scanned, a mould is printed and a gummi you is cast. Just what you always needed.
More, The best present ever: A 3D printed gummy version of yourself
Just what we needed Dept: The 3D printed gunDEFCAD/Promo image
It doesn't take a lot to make a zip gun, people did it for years before real guns got so accessible and affordable. The basic principle is simple: figure out how to hold a bullet in place and drive a nail into the back of it. It's not news, unless it's 3D printed. Then it's news everywhere. Sigh.
More: Just what we needed Dept: The 3D printed gun
AtFAB launches flatpack furniture made through "networked distributed manufacturing"© AtFAB
When Makerbot, the manufacturer of 3D printers for the home, designed their offices, they did it with atFAB out of flatpacked plywood digital designs. They didn't try to print little pieces in their printers and snap them together. They recognized that different technologies are suited to different ends and purposes, even if they all start digital.
More: AtFAB launches flatpack furniture made through "networked distributed manufacturing"
CT scanned 3D printed monster homes hit hermit crab real estate market© Aki Inomata via Designboom
And again, all those designers racing to build the first 3D printed home, since when did they get so speciesist? It's been done for hermit crabs, why doesn't that count?
More: CT scanned 3D printed monster homes hit hermit crab real estate market
The "perfect sweater": Appalatch launching 3D printed wool sweaters (Video)© Appalatch
This is where it gets silly. Its a computerized knitting machine, not a 3D printer. It's not local, it is at their factory and shipped to you. It is digital design, totally customized, that's part of the total picture here, but let's call it what it is.
More: The "perfect sweater": Appalatch launching 3D printed wool sweaters (Video)
NASA working on first 3D printer for space© Made in Space
This is not silly, FEDEX doesn't deliver to the International Space Station. It makes a lot of sense to have a high quality printer to make parts there.
The ability to 3-D print parts and tools on demand greatly increases the reliability and safety of space missions while also dropping the cost by orders of magnitude. The first printers will start by building test items, such as computer component boards, and will then build a broad range of parts, such as tools and science equipment.
More: NASA working on first 3D printer for space
3D print your pizza with the Foodini home printer© Natural Machines via Designboom
This is interesting, because it is not just about pushbutton food, it is about bringing back into the home those things, like fresh pasta, that people gave up on years ago, happy to buy the dried stuff, sacrificing flavor for convenience. But curmudgeon Ruben in comments goes "Hmph. I think cooking is more than heating up food. Cooking involves, chopping, stirring, rolling, measuring. This is just a more wasteful-of-energy-and-resources way of eating pasta that is probably less good than the fresh pasta you can buy at the deli."
The inventor disagrees with Ruben, noting that "The machine is simply doing the "assembly" bit of taking your pasta dough and shaping it the way you want."
More: 3D print your pizza with the Foodini home printer
10 ways 3D printers are advancing science© Foster + Partners
There are so many more, but I am running out of 2013, so will leave the last word to Megan who notes that "ne of the areas that 3D printing has had its biggest impact is in the science field where the ability to customize and instantly create a tool or new medical device has proven to be quite powerful. From small labs to NASA, researchers are using the technology to advance their knowledge and perform their jobs more easily."


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New La Quinta Inn to open on March 24
Rochester's latest hotel is slated to open its doors on March 24.
The $4 million La Quinta Inn & Suites has been under construction in the Shoppes on Maine area, since early 2013.
The new 83-room, 50,212-square-foot hotel is a project of Fargo, N.D.-based PLC Inc. PLC is also on the early stages of working on an 86-room Microtel Inn & Suites in the same area.
The four-story La Quinta is located at at 4353 Canal Place S.E., near the Rochester Toyota car dealership. Andy Thilges, a well-known and active member in the Rochester business community, is the general manager of the new hotel.
The hotel's amenities include a salt water pool with a slide as well as a kiddie pool and hot tub. It also features a fitness center plus all of the rooms come with microwaves, refrigerators and coffee makers.
Chuck Hayes, the president of Fargo, N.D.-based PLC Inc., talked about the La Quinta and Microtel hotels in January.
"I like the economics of Rochester. I like what's going on there," he said to explain why he decided to add 169 hotel rooms to the Med City's offerings. "I like the uniqueness of the (Shoppes on Maine) development. It's well managed. Everything's new and fresh. Its access to downtown and Mayo Clinic is convenient."
Hayes' Microtel and La Quinta are just two of many new hotels expected to check into Rochester soon.
A 108-room Homewood Suites on Second Street Southwest is currently wrapping up construction. A 91-room Fairfield Inn & Suites is mapped up to be built near the Miracle Mile Shopping Center. Two other hotels – a 77-room Comfort Inn and Suites and a 109-room Staybridge Suites – are slated to be built in early 2014 along West Circle Drive in front of Costco. Those four projects alone will add 385 rooms to the city.


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Bun B, OutKast and More Remember the "International Player's Anthem" Video Five Years Later
Bryan Barber: With the pimps, it's almost like they were using the wedding to have a meeting point to talk about what their business was for the year. And then the wedding party, they're gossiping on the table. Some of the guys are talking about women they want to fuck with. And then the women are actually saying, you know she's been cheating on him. Those were real conversations. They're in characters so the expressions are really kind of going along with what's happening in that environment.
Khujo: You had pimps in there, then you had players in there. You had Gs then you had gangstas. It was just a mesh. Black men that came together to make an anthem. Whether people want to agree with it or not. Wasn't nobody fighting. Didn't nobody get shot or none of that. Overall, except for my brother, R.I.P., he gone, you know, Pimp C. But, we can always pull that video up and see him in his prime when he damn near just got out. I remember seeing him back there in the trailer with the white suit on with the white fur and the white hat on. That boy was in character right there, man. That boy was in character all day that day, bro. All day.
Bun B: It was ridiculously hot, you got to keep in mind it was even worse for Pimp because he was in a full-length mink coat. That was his thing. He loved to wear mink coats in the summertime. We asked him this when we shot "Big Pimpin'" 'cause he had on a mink coat and Gloria Velez had on a mink coat. It was hot as hell and everybody asked, "Pimp how can you stand out there and rap in a mink coat?" In a life full of classic one liners, this is my favorite thing that he had ever said, "Man, TV ain't got no temperature." He said, "You'll see mink coats in the summer and bikinis in the winter 'cause TV ain't got no temperature." If you ever read these Sports Illustrated the models are always saying they are on the beach and it's 50 degrees and freezing.
Fonzworth Bentley: First of all, it was so disrespectfully luxurious. It was hot, it wasn't one of those mild L.A. days, it was like hot and this negro had on a white…well he had several minks, first of all. I remember when I first saw him before there were giving me the shoot downstairs and it's him, Bishop Don Juan, you know all of the players and he had on this mink with the mink hat,
André 3000: I don't know if I was there for that shot. I honestly can't remember. I do remember seeing the coat later on. It was a mean-ass piece. Who cares what the weather was? Ha. If you're cool, you're just cool.
Bryan Barber: I don't think he was outside that much. But the funny thing about it was, he showed up with this polar bear white mink. I mean, how iconic is that? I think that's an image that nobody will ever forget about him. It was so devastated that he passed after the video. He really branded himself in that video. He really branded that image. And, he owned it. As iconic as it was to see all those Southern rappers in the movie, in the pimp world it was iconic to see Don Juan, Pimpin Ken.
Pimpin Ken: All the players that came, Bishop Juan and all those guys that were invited, I was the guy who was given an opportunity to get all those players in. Bishop was cool with Pimp too. When we all sit down in the Pimp section of the video, I was the one who told everybody where to sit at, so I kind of facilitated the whole thing. I wanted to put Bishop upfront because I'm the type of brother, I believe in honor and honoring my elders. We put him front and center and then I kind of sat close to Pimp and the rest of the players, they just scattered all about.
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text: Would love to have this guy on my team. The knock on him last year was that he dropped alot of easy passes and caught the tough ones but it was revealed at the end of the season that he had broken a finger in one of the early games and played through it. This year he was the college equivalent of Terrell Owens--just physically overmatching college corners. He owns the U of M TD reception record; he is one of the 4 fastest players on the team, and he is a team leader who is very mature--unlike a previous UM wide receiver(David Terrell) What I like most about him this year was the public support he gave the freshman QB Henne. Not once did he complain about not getting the ball enough or in the right spot. He talked Henne up through the growing pains of a freshman QB and is one of the main reasons that Henne progressed so rapidly. His father keeps his feet grounded and he seems like an exceptional man as well as player.The problem is- he will probably be gone in the first 5-7 picks


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A Skylit Drive Vocalist Michael Jagmin Discusses Latest Album 'Rise,' Touring + More
A Skylit Drive kicked off their year by touring with Memphis May Fire and the Word Alive on the 'Unconditional' tour and now they're gearing up for this summer's Warped Tour. We had the chance to talk to frontman Michael "Jag" Jagmin about their latest album, 'Rise,' as well as the evolution of the band. The vocalist also spoke about touring and why baby wipes are essential on the road. Check out our interview with Michael Jagmin of A Skylit Drive below:


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- I got this. 24 hours--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 21:06, July 2, 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry, something came up, so anybody can review this--If you're 555 then I'm Talk What's it like to be a heretic? 22:35, July 3, 2010 (UTC)
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|...what about the score? Anyways, it was quite humorous, i mean it could have been way funnier but it does give some laughs. The irony is that a seemingly straight guy wants to get it up the butt from an alien...
|Good concept, with one like this it really can't go wrong.
|Prose and formatting:
|Here's what screwed you man (haha screwed...talking bout anal...o.k not funny). The thing is your supposed to be writing journals. There are many things you could have done to make this article really awesome. 1. Lay off the swearing a bit, a little adds emphasis, too much just kills it. 2. Add a creative font. ITS A JOURNAL! You could have used a non-wiki font or at least have put it on a slant like this. 3. Make it a book. It's hard to do, but if you did it would be perfect. Something along the lines of this, with one page per...page. Again way harder but way better.
|This one also hurt you. Nothing interesting. Of course, thank you for not showing a swore butt-hole, that would have been disturbing.
|I do like how you put the date's and times and took advantage. I do not however, like the deformed pet rat joke...it was simply too obvious
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|Good work, it's funny and you can tell you put some time into it. I'm not gonna say "it has potential" because
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Balangir, March 18: Doctors practising alternative medicine at various primary and community health centres across the state have demanded that their appointments be regularised and their salaries revised.
Speaking at a media conference on Thursday evening, members of the Balangir District Ayush Doctors Association said they were disappointed with the apathy of the state government towards ayurveda, yoga, unani, siddha and homoeopathy (Ayush) doctors.
The members alleged that even though ayurveda, yoga, unani, siddha and homoeopathy were recognised systems of medicine and have been integrated into the national health delivery system, the state government had not regularised the jobs of Ayush doctors posted at various primary and community health centres in the state set up under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).
Association president Dr Tarakanta Sahu said Ayush doctors had been working for a consolidated pay of Rs 8,000 per month since 2006-07.
He said the government did not pay heed to their demands even though many Ayush doctors had been working in remote areas under difficult circumstances.
Ayush doctors are serving in Maoist-hit poverty stricken backward areas of the state, yet their well being is not taken into consideration, he added.
He said while the central government was providing Rs 25,000 as salary for each Ayush doctor under NRHM, the state government paid only Rs 8,000.
We are denied the stipulated salary we should get as the state government pays us only Rs 8,000 per month. We get an incentive of only Rs 2,000 for working in the infamous Koraput-Balangir-Kalahandi (KBK) districts while other doctors get incentives as high as Rs 8,000-14,000 per month.
General secretary of the association Dr Lalit Lumar Sahu said: While the salaries of state and central government employees have increased as per the Sixth Pay Commission, the state government has done nothing for Ayush practitioners.


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I Am
a Modern Conservative
April 1, 2002
By Neuvocat
I am a modern conservative.
I'm an insecure white person who is afraid of change. My
history is full of conquest and treachery. I have made my
way to the top of the food chain, so to speak, by foregoing
any sort of morality and restraint, though I have often used
talk of such things in order to sway those who believe in
such nonsense to do what I want them to do. And if something
as cumbersome as my conscience gets in the way, I will use
the Lord Almighty Himself as a justification to just do the
same thing that I've always done.
After all it was imperialist white people who executed Christ.
Not Jews, Africans, Latinos, or Asians. Why should His teachings
stop me?
I have come across the world using famine and pestilence
to conquer lands and turn people into slaves while purging
their gold-laced hillsides. I have always used technology
to gain an unfair advantage over my enemies because I have
always known that if I would play by the rules I would lose.
And yet guilt shadows wicked people like me. I try to hide
from it by condemning others for not being enough like myself.
I would spit into the hand that reaches out for my help and
ignore the starving while trying to laugh at those without
This instinct of self-preservation is what fuels my hatred
not only for those unlike me but also those who are less than
able-bodied or able minded. I do not wish to be burdened by
such a responsibility of caring for someone in such a state.
I don't want responsibility, just the rewards of this fleeting
life, so what can you expect from me now?
I have much to pay for, that much is certain. But I will
find others just like me and we would find safety in numbers
from the punishment that starts to cave in. No one else can
be trusted because of this. And together we have come together
to form more crusades and waged war on those who had as much
right as we did to what the world has offered.
You may call it tyranny if you like while we call it thinning
the herd, getting rid of all those who oppose us or are too
And now it is a new age but things are still the same. We
are no different, we modern conservatives. We have taken advantage
of modern technology just as we have always to forward our
agendas, to beat down those who would dare think.
We hide behind this modern medium and try as we might to
damage the psyche, to scar the feelings of others if it suits
our whims, to try to intimidate or harrass others with threats
we couldn't possibly begin to stand behind in the outside
Our lives have been wasted pursuing wealth and we are in
many ways a sickly breed unlike other human beings or creatures
that walk this temporal plane.
I am ruthless, selfish, and spineless.
I am a coward.
I am a Modern Conservative.
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(CNSNews.com) - Recent research at the University of Minnesota, demonstrating that adult stem cells might offer the same medical promise as embryonic stem cells in fighting diseases like arthritis and muscular dystrophy, could also provide conservatives with the ammunition they need during the upcoming cloning debate in the Senate.
The House approved a ban on the cloning of human embryos last July. The Senate is expected to take up legislation on the issue next month.
Catherine Verfaillie, M.D., the director of the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute, found that adult stem cells have the same abilities as embryonic stem cells to be transformed into other types of cells with less genetic manipulation. The discovery means that people may one day be able to use stem cells from their own bodies to repair damaged body parts.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is hopeful that this latest scientific discovery will persuade the Senate to oppose embryonic stem cell research.
Richard Doerflinger, associate director for policy development at the conference of bishops, said it could also block the progress of a bill sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that would permit embryos to be cloned for stem cell research.
"If adult patients can get stem cells from their own bodies to treat disease, [then] we simply don't need cloned embryos to provide genetically matched tissue," Doerflinger said.
The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation is skeptical of Verfaillie's findings, saying that they need to be verified by further scientific research and that they have no appreciable impact on the embryonic stem cell debate.
"Until somebody actually comes forward and demonstrates consistently that you can do these things, it doesn't change any part of the debate," said Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Chief Scientific Officer Robert Goldstein. "We said that we think you need both kinds of research to go forward; this hasn't shown that this isn't the only way to go and this is the only answer.
"This is just another example of research progress," Goldstein said. "I don't see how one particular piece of evidence would influence the debate in any way, shape or form."
Sara Howard, press secretary to Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) believes the discovery will have minimal impact on how senators eventually vote on the embryonic cloning issue.
"It's certainly interesting, but I don't know it will have [an impact on the debate]," Howard said. "I am sure that people will try to use the findings for their own particular agenda, but that seems kind of difficult because the very person who ran the study doesn't believe that it should have any relevance on whether there is a ban on embryo research."
In fact, Verfaillie did indicate "it's too soon to say [adult stem cells] have the same potential and capabilities as embryo cells." She added that she is against a ban on embryo research.
Howard said Dayton favors banning the use of cloning for "reproductive purposes," but thinks all research avenues need to be kept open.
"[Dayton] opposes a ban on cloning for research purposes, as it may close the door on important research discoveries," Howard said.
Still, Senate forces opposed to embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning have found new confidence from the study.
"Science continues to prove that destructive embryonic stem cell research is unnecessary," Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) said in a statement. "This latest finding is of enormous importance. It shows, once again, that we can find cures for the many diseases that plague humanity."
A spokesperson from Feinstein's office said they were not familiar enough with the research to comment.
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According to the latest ROA Group report, the number of mobile WiMAX users in South Korea will increase to more than 2.5 million by 2011. The market revenues are also expected to increase to KRW65 billion (US$627 million) by 2011. Mobile WiMAX, called WiBro in Korea, was commercially launched in the country two years ago, on June 30, 2006, but due to insufficient CAPEX investment, resulting in poor service coverage and device line-up, the subscriber growth was slow, until KT started strong marketing strategies to attract subscribers in early 2007. The subscribers increased 5,600 in April 2007 to 106,000 in December 2007. In 2008, the subscribers are increasing by about 10,000 per month. In addition, KT and SKT, the two mobile WiMAX operators in Korea, have decided to expand their investment from 2008, and the mobile WiMAX market is expected to grow faster.
Moreover, the availability of VoIP will have a significant influence on subscriber addition. Currently, the biggest disadvantage with WiBro service is that it fails to provide a killer application. To become a 4G mobile technology, voice support is a must for WiBro and a necessary element for competing with HSDPA and its next generation version, LTE in 3G/4G mobile market, says Ku Kang, analyst at ROA Group.
To improve the service expansion, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Korea is developing NeMA (New Mobile Access), an upgraded version of WiBro. NeMA is a technology for the users who move at a high speed; at 100Mbps while moving at the maximum of 120km/h. In 2007 ETRI developed NoLA, which is LAN-based technology for the users who move at low speeds. ETRI plans to combine these two technologies and if it succeeds, the Korean market could witness next year a service that allows the users to use Internet in a moving vehicle on the highway.
Source: Cellular News.
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If Wreck-It Ralph star Jack McBrayer could play only one video game for the rest of his life, the man best known as the charmingly innocent Kenneth on 30 Rock would opt for Dig Dug, the Atari classic from 1982.
"It's a little more advanced than a Frogger. It's a little more edgy than a BurgerTime," he says during a recent stop in Toronto to promote the movie, in which he plays Fix It Felix Jr., a beloved video-game character who can fix anything with his magic hammer.
If he was a character in Street Fighter, what would his fighting style be? "I'd be some OCD guy – all I'd do is straighten up the world we were in until [opponents said], 'I can't do this any more.'"
And if he could use Fix It Felix Jr.'s hammer to fix any part of his life, past or present, what would it be? "We grew up poor. Could I fix my impoverished childhood?"
Um, awkward. If we were in a video game right now, the "wa wa waaaaa" sound effect you hear when a character dies would be ringing loud and clear.
Growing up with two siblings in Georgia, the son of two teachers, "we had some lean times," McBrayer says. After studying theatre administration at a small university in Indiana, he found himself on a path to comedy driven by a desire to move from the South. "I had moved to Chicago because I knew I wanted the big city that wasn't Atlanta," he says.
"I knew that I was drawn to comedy, but it wasn't until I went to Chicago after college and saw [Second City's] Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Scott Adsit, Adam McKay – I saw all these people up there and that was their job," McBrayer says. "That was kind of my epiphany."
He signed up for the Second City training centre and then auditioned for the touring company, eventually travelling with it for about a year and a half before landing on one of the resident stages. It was there that McBrayer honed the persona for which he has become famous – the gosh-darn-golly country boy as lovable as he is clueless.
In real life, McBrayer, 39, is hardly clueless, but he clearly shares much of the genetic makeup of his best-known characters: He is exceedingly polite and decorous to a tee, and that big toothy smile is genuine.
They are the qualities he brings to his character in Wreck-It Ralph. Fix It Felix Jr., star of the eponymous game, is loved by all for his unwavering commitment to do right and always be the nice guy, cleaning up someone else's mess with that smile on his face.
It's possible that McBrayer secretly wishes to play some deep, dark dramatic role, but he seems pretty happy with his career so far. And really, how unhappy could you be when part of your last gig involved conversing with Q*bert? Which, by the way, wasn't the easiest thing to do, from a technical standpoint.
"We were trying to figure out the best way to do it. Was it just, like, I record random syllables and play them really fast? We tried a version where I said actual words in English and played them in reverse," McBrayer says. "The way we went with it is just the nonsense. It sounds like you're choking on your own tongue. But it was fun."Report Typo/Error
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Atlas Powered Gets $700K
Los Angeles-based
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, a developer of software for managing calendar, task, and contact data on iOS and Android, has raised $700,000 in a funding round, the firm said today. The round was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and also included the Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and angel Clark Landry. The investment in Atlas Powered by the TCA was led by Yuri Pikover. According to Atlas Powered, the funding will go towards development and commercialization of its app for iOS and Android. The firm said its app currently includes such features as automatic appointment scheduling and similar tools. The startup was founded by Hunter Gray and Michel Bayan.
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Results for the six months ended December 2000
A stunning half-year performance by Implats, that beats the records of the previous financial year in just six months, would mean a cash bonanza for shareholders, Implats CEO John Smithies said today (8 February 2001).
On top of an interim dividend of 1 420 cents per share (four times more than the previous interim dividend) and equivalent to a R950 million payout, Implats declared a 3 000 cents per share special dividend on the eve of the release of these results. Together the interim dividend and the special dividend (amounting to R2 billion) would mean a total payout to shareholders in the first six months of the year of R3 billion. Smithies said that this was in line with Implats' ongoing philosophy of returning excess cash to shareholders.
Attributable income and headline earnings per share for the six months both almost tripled to R2 245.1 million (US$305 million) and 3 398 cps (US462 cps) respectively, on the back of a 70% rise in sales revenue, Smithies said. Taking into account the impact of International Accounting Standards 10 (revised)on the income statement (in terms of which STC on the interim dividend is not reflected), attributable income increased by 177% to R2 159.1 million (US$293 million).
Driving sales revenue higher to a record R4.3 billion (US$584 billion), Smithies said, were the substantially higher dollar prices for platinum (up 52%), palladium (up 99%) and rhodium (up 130%).
Operations continue apace
Total platinum production rose by 11% to 673 000 ounces during the period. This includes metals sourced from concentrates purchased from third parties, which is in line with Implats' overall growth strategy. Platinum production from the mine decreased by 3.5% to 516 000 ounces, mainly as a result of an attempt to treat the stockpile which resulted in unacceptably low recoveries. Cash operating costs increased by 10% to R1 550 million (US$210 million) primarily as a result of the 9% wage increase and the cost of implementing the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, while unit costs rose by 13.9% as a result of a 3.5% decrease in platinum production from the Impala lease area. Nonetheless, cost per ton was maintained to a creditable 9.5% rise. The Refineries continued to produce an excellent cost performance with a gross costs decrease of 1.3% and unit costs per ounce of platinum refined down by 3%.
Production efficiencies were back on an upward trend at 42m2 per employee during the six months. The Fixco process is now targeting three major areas - productivity, metallurgical recoveries and head grade.
The processing expansion projects are well advanced with the UG2 upgrade to increase capacity by 30% and recoveries by 5% on track for commissioning in March 2001.
Impala's growth initiatives in both mining and refining had surged ahead, Smithies said.
Reinforcing the company's strategy of leveraging surface assets, Impala Refining Services (IRS) continued to deliver "phenomenal" growth, both in contribution to income (a record R178 million - US$24 million) and in the increase in total ounces of pgms produced. IRS platinum production more than doubled from 71 000 ounces to 157 000 ounces, of which 90 000 ounces were returned to toll-refining customers.
The Crocodile River Mine was brought into production on time and under budget during December. Some 31 000 tons of reef had been mined by end December and, on completion of the concentrator plant refurbishment during January, milling operations at 75 000 tons per month had begun.
The acquisition of Platexco, owner of the Winnaarshoek property, together with the acquisition of mineral rights to the adjacent properties, cleared the way for the establishment of a new mine within the next financial year. An innovative mine plan should ensure full production of 200 000 ounces of platinum per annum is achieved by 2003.
Negotiations with a black economic empowerment partner had progressed well. The result would be the purchase by a broadly based consortium of a significant minority share in the Winnaarshoek project and representation at project board and executive committee level.
The market
Continuing uncertainty about Russian pgm supply, coupled with "robust" demand had seen the platinum price rise to a 13-year high and palladium to an all-time high, according to Implats' Derek Engelbrecht.
Demand for platinum as substitution for palladium in autocatalysts had been somewhat offset by a leveling off of demand in the Chinese jewellery market which had been adversely affected by higher prices and tax investigations into the manufacturing sector. Consumer demand remains robust.
While prices were unlikely to be sustainable indefinitely at these high levels, Engelbrecht said, Implats believed that they would remain firm in the medium term and that platinum prices over the next three years would trade in excess of US$500.
Looking ahead, Smithies said Implats had already achieved record profits for the full year. Based both on medium-term forecasts that platinum prices will remain firm and on the expectation that there would be no substantial strengthening of the Rand, the second half result should be similar to the first half.
In line with Implats' dividend policy (of maintaining a cover of 1.9), Smithies advised that shareholders could expect a spectacular cash payout for the full year.
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Back in early April, Springfield, Illinois' popular 40-year old Donnie Beecher, a four time Indy 500 veteran, rode one of A.J. Foyt's Indy cars into a wall at the IRL season opener in Homestead, Florida, suffered a concussion, and spent a night ...
Back in early April, Springfield, Illinois' popular 40-year old Donnie Beecher, a four time Indy 500 veteran, rode one of A.J. Foyt's Indy cars into a wall at the IRL season opener in Homestead, Florida, suffered a concussion, and spent a night under hospital observation. The mishap ruined a Florida vacation for himself, his wife and two young children, and popped his racing career into neutral.
Beechler, not surprisingly, plays his head injuries down, averring that he could have strapped back in a racing car that same day. Instead, he drove the family motor home 1500 miles back to Illinois and the next day hammered a new roof on an apartment building he owns. Foyt, in the meantime, had hired replacement driver Airton Dare, a 23-year-old Brazilian jet skier.
To exacerbate matters further, Beechler received a telephone call from IRL head physician Henry Bock, explaining that Beecher would have to refrain from racing for two weeks. Beechler then telephoned Foyt to see whether he could mitigate the two week precautionary sit-out. Foyt responded by saying that Beechler was no longer employed full time, but that there was a car at Indianapolis waiting for him. Beecher elected to turn it down. The contract that he had signed with Foyt in Phoenix earlier in the season says Beecher, "was for him, not me. I didn't make much money driving for him last year. I made more money with Larry Cahill than I did with A. J. Foyt. Since I left Cahill, my career has been a roller coaster ride." Not withstanding, he adds, "I like A.J. We're still good friends."
Meanwhile, Beecher who has checked into the Speedway's own Brickyard Crossing motel for several days, is running out of car owners with whom to cut a 2002 Indy deal. "There's just nobody to talk to, " he says. "I don't want to cut myself short. I'm not a rookie begging for a ride. I've proven myself. Do I have to bring any money to get back into this race? I thought I might have a shot with a Menard car. I thought that sounded pretty promising. Then PJ (Jones) got the ride. After PJ got hurt I thought I might have a chance at it.
"I'm discouraged and disappointed right now. It isn't worth the $4,000 to park my motorhome in the infield." A standout midget car driver, Beechler feels that phase of his career is probably over. "I love the dirt on the Silver Crown (circuit)," he continues. "I don't think now is my best shot here at Indy."


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Top Dirt of the Day - Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
CRAIG FERGUSON might have been upset that he didn't get DAVID LETTERMAN'S timeslot after all . . . because he just announced that he's leaving CBS when his contract is up later this year.
Craig joked, quote, "CBS and I are not getting divorced, we are 'consciously uncoupling,' but we'll still spend holidays together and share custody of the fake horse and robot skeleton, both of whom we love very much."
Craig has hosted the show since taking over for CRAIG KILBORN in 2005.
CBS executives have been hinting that the future of Craig hosting "The Late Late Show" was up in the air, but it's unclear whether they just KNEW Craig would want to leave if they passed him over for STEPHEN COLBERT . . . or, if it was THEIR decision to go in a different direction.
Regardless, Craig's show will continue through the end of the year. CBS has not named a replacement yet. Ordinarily, we wouldn't expect anything right away, but they did move quickly in naming Colbert as Letterman's successor.
(Here's a clip of Ferguson from his show last night. And for what it's worth, here again is video of Craig congratulating Colbert.)


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MANAGER Eddie Howe is preparing to make crucial appointments as he looks to replace Shaun Brooks and Paul Groves in the Cherries youth ranks.
Howe, who has made several changes to his backroom staff since returning to the club, has described the department as "arguably the most important" at Dean Court.
Chief executive Neill Blake tonight confirmed the departures of head of youth Brooks and Groves, who had been youth team manager and head of coaching.
The pair, whose exits had been predicted by the Daily Echo on Monday, had been absorbed in the youth ranks after being relieved of their duties with the first team in October 2012.
Former Cherries star Mattie Holmes, currently technical development centre manager at the club, has been placed in temporary charge while Howe sources replacements.
Howe, a product of the club's youth ranks under Sean O'Driscoll, told the Daily Echo: "We are planning to find the right people to lead the department forward and that is the key thing to focus on now.
"The department is the lifeblood of the club and the next generation of AFC Bournemouth players are going to come through it so our job is to find the right people to move things forward to the benefit of the young players we have.
"Every club needs a flourishing youth system. All the top clubs in England want to bring through their own players, get them in young and educate them on how they play. Then, when they are 18 or 19, you have a player who has been with you for a number of years, knows the demands you place on them and exactly how you want to play.
"We are desperate to bring through our own players but we have to make the process better in order to do that and that is what we are looking to do."
Howe said neither Holmes nor development squad coach Stephen Purches were being considered for the positions, adding he would be looking to fill them "as quickly as possible".
"Mattie's forte is very much with the younger players and making sure we get them technically sound," said Howe. "By his own admission, that is his real strength so we will be looking to keep him with the younger age group.
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The departure of Brooks and Groves could pave the way for a sensational return for Joe Roach, who was controversially axed from the position in June 2011.
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Regiment suisse de Diesbach
1733 - 1798
Le Roi Charles Emmanuel III signa, le 14 novembre 1733, une convention avec le Colonel Albert Louis Roquin de Suerdon to raise a swiss infantry regiment called Roquin. The men are assembled from the country around the City of Berne. In 1734 the Regiment is ready in Turin with a force of two battalions.
Service during the Polish Succession War
Roquin, after garrison duties, in september 1735 is present on the west side of lake of Garda supporting the french action on the East side. At the end of the action, the 8 november, Roquin takes winter quarters in the country around Cremona and Brescia.
In 1737 the regiment changes its commander; since 17 may 1737 the new Colonel is Jean Rodolfe de Diesbach. The regiment changes its old name in Diesbach. This unit is not disbanded but the capitulation between the King and Jean Diebach is renewed for other twelve years. At the end of 1742 a 3rd battalion is raised. Each battallion has 4 companies.
Service during the Austrian Succession War
In 1742 Diesbach is campaigning in north-east Italy in the Po plains. During the spring of that year we find Diesbach in the City of Piacenza. In September the regiment is divided; the 1st and the 2nd battalions stay in garrison in Po cities, such as Modena, while the 3rd battalion marches on the Alps; from the camp of Novalesa in Susa Valley the Regiment pass the Mount Cenise gap an it takes action in Savoy during the counter-offensive against the invading Spanish army. In jenuary 1743 3rd Diesbach returns again in Piedmont. The 1st and 2nd battalions fight at Camposanto (8 february 1742). The whole regiment is reunify and marches to the west front. Behind the trenches in Varaita Valley Diesbach is waiting for the main french-spanish invasion of Piedmont. During the combats of Chateau Dauphin (8 october 1743) Diesbach is entrenched around the village of Chateau. The follow year its principal task is the control of the Alpine frontiers. The 10 april Colonel Agustine Roquin is the new commander of the regiment renamed Roquin. The Prince Conti's action reaches again the Varaita Valley. This regiment is one of the units that fight at the redoubt of Mount Cavallo during the battle of Pierre Longue (17 july 1744). During the hard combat, the 1st and 2nd battalion make a fierce defence inside the redoubt but at the end they are drived out during the last successful french attack losing 372 men. The brave Colonel Roquin, while defending with his officier's spontoon the palissade, is shot down hit at the head. Yet the 22 july the regiment has a new colonel, Charles Antoine Roy, and a new name, Roy. After the defeat the whole piedmontese army is concentrated in south west Piedmont in order to break the siege of the Place Fort of Cuneo. So the three battalions of the regiment are present at Madonna dell'Olmo (30 september 1744). Roy is situated on the right wing, first line. In 1745 the great Maillebois' offensive gives no match to the Piedmontese hope to stop it. After the battle of Bassignana (27 september 1745) Roy leaves its 3rd battalion to defend the new bult powerful Citadel of Alessandria. It helds the block of the fortess for six month (11 november 1745 &endash; 11 march 1746). The other two battalions of Roy are in the order of battle of Leutrum's army in the well planned counter offensive that clear the piedmontese landscape. Then the regiment marches in the south-west in the mediterranean theatre. But in 1747 the regiment is urgently recalled on the Alpine front. Again the 3rd battalion takes a day of glory. The battalion helds the redoubt of Gran Serin, defending it against the extremely dangerous french assault of the Marquise de Villemur's right column. The trench were defended by two battalion of Kalbermatten and the 3rd Roy against 14 enemy battalions. The defence is successful and the day is saved.
In 1751 the capitulation is extended for other twelve year. In 1760 the Regiment becomes Regiment Tscharner. In 1763 the previous capitulation is confiermed.
Commanders of Regiment Fusiliers under Charles Emmanuel III
1730-1750: Dark blue coat with white laces, red
lining, cuffs, collar, dark bluewaistcoat with white laces, breeches. White
gaiters for fusilier, black for grenadiers. Eight tinned buttons on each
side of the coat, four ranks of two, four with lances on the cuffs. Horizontal
pockets. Tricorne with dark blue cockade on the left brim and white hem
for fusiliers, bearskin cap for grenadiers.
1750-1773 (only principal differences from the
previous issue):Dark blue coat, red lapels, lining and collar. Seven tinned
buttons on lapels, in ranks of two and one on the top. Tricorne with white
hem and black and white pompon. Bearskin cap with black tail, white hem
and black and white pompon.
Colonel's Colour:
Blue with black eagle in the centre decorated with the Savoy's cross and overhanged by royal crown.
Regimental Colour:
Diesbach - White cross with
black, red and yellow flames.
Roy - White cross over blue,
yellow, black, red flames. Coat of armes of the City of Berne in the first
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i'm having 2 variables Y1 & Y2 which i need to plot them against X
but as i plot everyone separately it works fine
only when i plot them together, i get wierd output
see the picture here ....
the two figures are plotted using the same data table shown in the figure, no change
the red line which is the Threshold (Y2), becomes a straight line which its + points are exactly the same values of X .... see the table in the image
here is my Code
Y = [Y1 Y2]; % size 4x2
X =AttacksValue.Value;
X=X'; % size 4x1
% plotting Y1 & Y2 Against X
title ('Gaussain Attack');
xlabel ('Gaussian Noise Variance');
ylabel ('Response Detector');
legend('Image Response','Threshold');
% that for plotting only the Threshold Against X
title ('Gaussain Attack');
xlabel ('Gaussian Noise Variance');
ylabel ('Response Detector');
why do i get this weird plot ?
thanx for your responses
Because they're different scales. Y1 goes up to 2*10^13 and Y2 is
like .003 so of course it shows up as a flat line when you plot them
both with the same vertical axis scale.
You want to use plotyy() instead so that the two curves are plotted
each with their own Y scale.
Thank you so much yes i got it ... i appreciate it
but can you help me in this too ... it's regarding the Y1 & Y2 values ....
it seems the that Image response value isn't supposed to be that big
here is my Code ... in how i get Y1 & Y2
i have a watermarked image, and i add additive gaussian noise with zero mean & variance value is the X value & on it ...
so i get Y1 & Y2 which are the Image Response & the threshold respectively
side info is the Watermark image
% initalize message to all ones
[cA1,cH1,cV1,cD1] = dwt2(watermarked_image,'haar');
cH1 = reshape(cH1,1,256*256);
cV1 = reshape(cV1,1,256*256);
% The computed detection value ( Correlation between the watermark image & the subbands which i actually embedded the watermark in them )
ccH1= zeros(1,256*256);
ccV1= zeros(1,256*256);
for (KK=1:length(message_vector))
P= (1/3*256*256)*(ccH1+ccV1);
Ptotal =abs(sum(P));
P_img = reshape(P,256,256);
title('Image Correlation')
% Other Method to perform correlation between Watermark & watermarked Image
% nearly the same value as Ptotal
cross_correlation_h = xcorr(cH1,sideinfo_h)
cross_correlation_v = xcorr(cV1,sideinfo_v)
cross_correlation = (1/3*256*256)*((cross_correlation_h+cross_correlation_h)/2);
cross_correlation = sum(cross_correlation);
so now that's how i calculate the threshold too
% The computed Threshold value value
ccHThr= zeros(1,256*256);
ccVThr= zeros(1,256*256);
for (KK=1:length(message_vector))
T1=(1/(3*256*256)^2) *sum(ccHThr+ccVThr)
T = 3.97*sqrt(2*T1)
here is a link to the equations implement here ....
what i need to know is it normal to have way far values between threshold & the Image Response ??
am i correctly interpreting those equations ?
they are simple but i'm just beginner i may have not put them correct
i appreciate your guidance through this
Sorry, no. I see dwt2 being called and I don't have the wavelet
toolbox, so I know I shouldn't even try. It shouldn't be difficult to
figure out, assuming you know how to use the debugger.
thank you
i dont have an error
i'm just asking about the output of those two equations ... are they correctly implemented ... or i mis-understood implementing them
you could consider the Wavelet coefficient is another image not decomposed image
but anyway thanx :)
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Once you know on how to share and map a drive on a local Network and on how to connect to the Internet, you can also share and map via the Internet.
On the system making the disk available: "Sharing":
|Make sure, that in the Network
"File and Print Sharing for
Microsoft Networks" is installed.
|Verify in the properties of the TCP/IP
properties, that TCP/IP has a Binding
to the "File and Print Sharing"
(this is usually NOT done to prevent
unauthorized access to your disk)
|On the disk/directory, to which you
like to give access, call up the
context menu (right-mouse click)
and select : "Sharing"
|Select the radio button :"Shared as..",
define your "Access Type", but since
you open up your system to EVERYBODY
on the Internet, it is now a MUST to
define a Password!
|Confirm the password
(Windows like to make sure, you
know it yourself and did NOT make
a typing mistake)
|Your drive is ready !
There is only one more item to overcome, to allow others on the Internet to get to your disk:
They need to know your IP-address !
While companies have often an Internet connection with a fixed IP-address, most home-users dial into the Internet and get during the connection the IP-address assigned via DHCP.
So, once you have connected, find out your IP-address using "winipcfg":
Inform your friend (the user of the system trying to connect to your disk) about your IP-address (warning: it is most probably different each time you dial-in/connect to the Internet)
On the system accessing the disk:
in preparation (before connecting to the Internet):
|Find/create your LMHOSTS-file.
Windows95 TCP/IP installation
puts a sample-file as "LMHOSTS.SAM"
in your Windows-directory, rename (or
better) copy it to LMHOSTS.
Once the system sharing its disk has connected to the Internet and you have found out the IP-address of that system, enter it with the name of that computer into "LMHOSTS" together with the Computer-name of the system:
(do NOT use the file HOSTS: HOSTS is used for Internet utilities, like PING, while LMHOSTS is used by Microsoft Network software for NetBIOS-name resolution):
|add at the end of the file:
- the IP-address, some blanks, the Computer-name
- you MUST press the RETURN-key at the end of the line !
make now the connection to the Internet:
and test with the TCP/IP-utility PING, that the system sharing its disk is also connected to the Internet:
Use now Find / Computer (from your Windows Start-Menu) to locate on the network the computer, defining the Computer-name (using "LMHOSTS", your system is now able to find the IP-address and to contact via the Internet the other system):
If the other system is NOT found, you need to map the drive manually.
if the computer is found, double-click on it to display its shared resources:
|You should now see that shared disk-drive.
call the context menu (right-mouse button) and
select "Map Network-drive"
The system shows the URL of the drive. Select/accept the drive-character (in this example: F:) and OK to continue:
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you will now be prompted to
enter the password.
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the shared disk or "Find"/"Computer"
did not locate the sytem, you need
to map manually:
make on "Network Neighborhood" a
right-click to call up the context menu
and select here:"Map Network drive"
|Now, you need to enter yourself the
URL of the shared disk.
But the result is the same: You have now a network drive, accessing a disk via the Internet:
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The political writer and democrat Thomas Paine (1737-1809) turned his interests to scientific experiment in the 1780s, partly through his longstanding acquaintance with Benjamin Franklin. Paine's most important project was the design and modelling of a single span iron arch with which he intended to bridge the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania. Unable to finance the scheme, Paine took his idea to France, where he enlisted the aid of the American Minister Thomas Jefferson in promoting his design, potentially as a bridge across the Seine.
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First impressions count and Indonesia's new President appears to be off to a good start. In his speech after being sworn in on Wednesday night Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, or SBY as he is he is now known across Indonesia, said all the right things.
He graciously praised outgoing president Megawati Soekarnoputri, even though she could not find it within herself to attend the ceremony, and affirmed his belief in the people of Indonesia and in democracy.
Yudhoyono spoke sagely about the challenges ahead: "The greatest challenge is to free our people from poverty, ignorance, backwardness . . . more specifically, the challenge of our era is to consolidate our democracy and accomplish our agenda of reform." He boldly named those things that represent Indonesia's greatest challenges: "Corruption, collusion and nepotism are still rampant and continue to be a systemic problem . . . the imminent threats of terrorism and other forms of transnational crime continue to haunt us."
Hours later the new President faced a second challenge: the formation of his new cabinet. This appears to have been an even tougher task than Yudhoyono had predicted.
Having outpolled his rival by 21 per cent in the final round of the presidential election, his popular mandate meant he could have assembled a team entirely of his choosing. On the other hand, with his new Democrat Party holding only 10 per cent of the seats in parliament, Yudhoyono needs the support of Soeharto's old party, Golkar, together with the support of three or four smaller parties, if he is to have any hope of getting legislation passed.
With this in mind he sensibly declared that while 60 per cent of positions in his cabinet would be professional appointments, the remaining 40 per cent would be decided on the basis of political support.
With this formula in place, it was inevitable that Yudhoyono's cabinet was going to disappoint many of his more idealistic supporters. Had he selected a team that pleased the idealists, however, he would have been doing no one any favours. Yudhoyono can reasonably argue that he was elected not simply to say the right things and make a good impression but to do the right things and maintain the momentum for reform.
Democrats and reformists everywhere hope Yudhoyono shares the idealism of Indonesia's first democratically elected president, Abdurrahman Wahid, but they also wish him much greater success than Wahid in dealing with Indonesia's wilful legislature.
Wahid's big mistakes were failing to convert moral capital into political capital, and failing to ensure he had the numbers in parliament. Yudhoyono's position is more promising: being directly elected by the people and winning by such an overwhelming margin has given him more moral capital.
Yudhoyono's cabinet line-up reflects what we can expect of his presidency in general - it falls well short of perfection but it is probably good enough to do what is required.
The appointment of controversial businessman Aburizal Bakrie as Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy will disappoint the markets but in the end will be accepted - especially since the respected Mari Pangestu is on board as Minister of Trade, together with a team of credible expert advisers serving in the President's new West Wing- style command centre.
Some political appointments, such as Golkar's Fahmi Idris as Minister of Manpower and Transmigration, will be welcomed as evidence that Yudhoyono is taking seriously the need to establish support in parliament.
Others, such as the retention of radical Islamist former justice and human rights minister Yusril Izha Mahendra in the new cabinet in the potentially strategic position of State Secretary, will be much more controversial.
There will be much disappointment that tough guy Marsillam Simandjuntak was not made attorney-general, but the appointment of the incorruptible Supreme Court judge Abdurrahman Saleh to the position will be seen as a fair compromise.
Saleh was the sole dissenting judge who spoke out against the Supreme Court's acquittal of Golkar chairman Akbar Tandjung in February this year. The acquittal opened the way for Tandjung to contest the presidency, but in the end he was out-manoeuvred (or out-bid) by Wiranto and failed to receive his party's endorsement.
Tandjung, who only weeks ago was boasting of leading a permanent parliamentary opposition against Yudhoyono's new Government, was another conspicuous absence at Wednesday's inauguration, further reinforcing the impression that his chairmanship of Golkar will end with next month's Golkar convention.
As unlikely as it might sound, Yudhoyono's best hope of becoming an effective president lies with him receiving consistent support from a Golkar keen to reinvent itself.
While it is hardly the sort of thing that most were dreaming of when they took to the streets to topple Soeharto 61/2 years ago, it has to be said that post-Soeharto Indonesia is doing much better than any could have dared hope seven years ago.
Yudhoyono, and the people of Indonesia, deserve an even break. Let's hope that they get it.
Dr Greg Barton is a senior lecturer in politics at Deakin
His book, Indonesia's Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and the soul of Islam, was published by UNSW Press this week.


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Bacon Garlic Bread
- 1 pkg. bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1 tsp. vegetable oil
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 3/4 cup green pepper, chopped
- 3/4 cup green onion, chopped
- 1 1/2 cans jumbo buttermilk biscuits
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- Cook bacon until crisp; drain, crumble and set aside.
- Saute' garlic, green pepper, and green onion in vegetable oil over medium heat until tender.
- Cut biscuits into eights and place in large mixing bowl.
- Add sauteed vegetables, bacon, butter, and cheese; toss until thoroughly mixed.
- Place in 10 inch tube pan coated with cooking spray. Bake 30-35 minutes at 350 degrees. Immediately invert onto large serving plate. Serve warm.