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A glimpse of Greece in Bologna
Occasionally insights into the ancient world hit you when you least expect it, and in surprising places.
I have always found those most precious ancient statues that formed the centrepiece of the grandest Greek temples extremely puzzling. I mean the kind of colossal gold and ivory ("chryselephantine" in academic jargon) creations that once dominated the inside of the Parthenon or the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
My problem is not how to understand the technical side of their construction: it was a relatively simple process of erecting a frame of wood, then arranging the sheets of gold, or gilded, "clothing" around it in a relatively life-like way and adding a white ivory face, hands and feet. My problem has always been understanding how any such object could end up being anything other than laughably vulgar.
None of these so-called "masterpieces" actually survive; gold and ivory easily falls victims to robbers or flames. But for decades now I have been failing to convince generations of students (not to mention myself) that they were really impressive, awesome works of art – the fitting focus of antiquity's most holy places. My project has not been helped, it must be said, by the available modern reconstructions, which mostly succeed in making these statues look plain silly.
But last weekend, in the Medieval Museum in Bologna, my eyes were opened.
The words "Museo Civico Medievale" don't usually bode well for me. But Bologna's version is a stunner. For a start, it's free – a hangover, I guess, from the glory days of Bolognese communism in the 1960s and 70s, when even the buses were free. Second, it was fitted out in the mid 1980s, so well that it looks fresh even now. Third, and most important, it contains some wonderful works of art.
There's a tremendous bronze sculpture by Algardi of St Michael finishing off a remarkably satyric-looking demon. There's an engaging series of tombs of professors at the medieval University of Bologna; each one shows the dead man lecturing to a group of more or less -- and often less -- attentive students (a predictable hit with me). An interesting rogue piece – for it certainly didn't come from Bologna – is a little-known Byzantine mosaic of the Virgin Mary, which makes lifelike flesh out of a thousands of tiny pieces of stone in a way you wouldn't believe possible. (Quite why an artist so good wasted his or her talent on the strange craft of mosaic-making is another question.)
But my eye-opener was a colossal, twice life-size statue of Pope Boniface VIII. Boniface (c1235-1303) has had a mixed press. He viciously destroyed the city of Palestrina and was threatened with hell by Dante; but he was also the pope who orchestrated the jubilee celebrations of the year 1300, starting the fashion for jubilees ever after.
The statue was put up in 1301 on the façade of the Palazzo Communale in Bologna, where it stood till the end of the eighteenth century. Now it is displayed so that you catch sight of it from the main entrance to the museum, brilliantly lit against a dark back ground. Massive in scale, recognizably human in form, he wears vestments of shimmering gold, with his right hand raised in benediction. It's an awesome, almost super-human sight.
Get up close, and you discover that – exactly like those ancient temple statues – he is in fact just a plank of wood, covered in clothing of gilded bronze. His face and hands are not ivory, like the ancient Greek versions, but bronze. Still, the basic principle is the same.
For me, after years of struggling with the whole idea of such statues, the penny has begun to drop.
(Sorry -- I have only been able to find a tiny image of the full figure! I don't even have a book to hand with a full length photograph. If anyone knows of something better on the web, please post a reference.)


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The fact that is all arranged into these little pieces—it feels so Proustian to me.
She equated what she felt for God with a Proustian desire, which she agreed was "the highest point of existence."
Tiny details from an image, features that would hardly have been noticed at the time, can spark memories in a Proustian rush.
So what would be the Proustian madeleine that would bring back his youthful self, Judt asks?
So one of my earliest film-going memories became a happy Proustian memory of food, film, and trains.
Twenty years ago, in his beautiful, Proustian memoir, Self-Consciousness, however, he tried to peer forward into the darkness.
For the record, I have tasted and enjoyed Doritos Locos Tacos, possibly due to Proustian effects.

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One of those people I have known for a very long time (pushing 50 years, some to think of it) is a friend who lives in SoCal and who's a very successful businessman and a ham radio operator Anyway, I walk into the office this morning and find this amazing email he's written me which brings up a damn fine question which may be related to the recent changes in earthquakes and a whole lot of other geophysical phenomena. Read it yourself and it's graceful how he takes the obvious data and asks a terribly logical question...
As you might know the earth is loosing it's magnetic strength and is changing it's magnetic position.
The BIG question is: Is our man made electrical grid all over the earth that is transmitting 50 or 60 cycles of high energy into the earth part of the problem. If you know how magnetism works you would know what I'm talking about,
The low frequency of 50 to 60 cycles per second of alternating current is a perfect field for degaussing.
That is to say, a field of alternating current that is perfect for de-magnetizing . Maybe this shouldn't be taken lightly, I don't know.
It is a proven fact and many devices take advantage of this demagnetizing field. To name just a few.. Audio tapes have routinely been erased in bulk by putting them into the alternating magnetic field, the old color picture tubes needed degaussing/(de-magnetizing) every so often, some stores use the field to disconnect their security tags, but these small applications are nothing compared to the massive word wide electrical system grids.
As civilization has expanded so has the electrical grid of alternating current all around the world. World wide we are using a great deal more electrical power and as such putting more into the ground. Think about any local city and think about all the extremities to the electrical grid as they flow through every ones house and place of business. Every wire that is under load will emit a small amount of this degaussing energy.
Have we gone to far??
This thought came to mind when I was reviewing the Coral Castle information & the gentleman there would transmit through the earth a magnetic field. Then I thought about all our power lines all over the earth and just wondering what effect they have on our planet. I guess the real question is who do you ask?? Maybe you know the answer??
My, oh my. This is a tough one, particularly since the movie "The Core" was about just some of the effects of the Earth losing its magnetic field. From Wikipedia's entry about the film's plot:
"After a series of strange events over the world connected by variances in the Earth's electromagnetic field, leading geology expert Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart), a University of Chicago professor, teams with Serge Leveque (Tchéky Karyo) and Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci) to learn that the rotation of Earth's molten core is slowing down, leading eventually to the collapse of the electromagnetic field which will expose the surface to the Sun's lethal radiation."
If you remember your history of electronics, there was a very key turning point in electronics early on when Thomas Edison was arguing for a direct current (DC) distribution system while Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse were promoting alternating current, or AC systems. This is well-described in the literature as "the War of Currents" and the Wikipedia entry here offers a lot of insight into the issues.
Humankind made a key leap - when it chose to head down the alternating current path. It would be years - about a century, in fact - before the advent of high efficient DC-DC conversion would become commonplace; a result of advances in transistors and related solid-state technology.
This leads my long-time ham radio buddy to task this horribly simple question. And if you remember your National Electrical Code, you no doubt know full well about the requirements that we have all systems "grounded" with what are typically 8-10 foot grounding rods at the service entrance of all homes. Is there a correlation between the installation of such grounds and geomagnetic field weakening?
We might be guided - or at least informed - in such matters by a quote attributed to Tesla in 1925:
"There is no thing endowed with life—from man, who is enslaving the elements, to the nimblest creature—in all this world that does not sway in its turn. Whenever action is born from force, though it be infinitesimal, the cosmic balance is upset and the universal motion results. "
Of you have a little time on your hands and want to sketch up a graph which we could kick around, here's the data sets to look for:
Set 1: The number of electrified homes and businesses by year with approximate power consumption by year, thereby tabbed and used as one data set. E.g. x number of kwHrs per year globally.
Set 2: The reciprocal of the earths magnetic field strength, again by year, such that you'd have a higher number the lower the field went. This would line up the AC kwHr data and the decline in magnetic field data.
Please send it along as an .xls or .xlsx format spreadsheet with embedded charts and we'll share the results with people.
Is it possible - I mean just wildly so - that because we took a turn down the AC path instead of DC that we somehow set up long-term conditions which are now cascading us toward a collapse of the magnetosphere and, in turn, ending life as we know it?
Sitting down with the first cup of coffee for the day, a lot of extensions of this question come to mind. For example, in answer to "Where does the magnetism come from?" one has to wonder if the north-south oceanic currents (like the slowing Gulf Stream, just to name one, m ight somehow be involved in all this. Maybe there's some ultra long-term effect of water rubbing over earth, that might slowly magnetize a planet over eons of time. Just as stroking a magnet along a steel bar tends to magnetize the bar...
Lots to think about, but a fine question indeed, and thanks to my friend Vince for asking. Maybe someone with some real expertise can line up the data and show us if there's a correlation.
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Doesn't matter what man does. The sun is way bigger. Beyond imagination bigger.
And then there's the rest of the galaxy.
Read "Not by fire, but by ice" from [link to www.IceAgeNow.com] to understand what's happening. You will be glad you did (although it's very scary).
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|Holy Shit! LOOK at the Magnetosphere!! -- Literally.
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|U.S. Department of
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SUBJECT: Reissue of P09-38 - Information on Use of Biodiesel Fuel in
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Metal and nonmetal underground mine operators, miners and miners' representatives, manufacturers of diesel-powered underground mining equipment, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Metal and Nonmetal enforcement personnel, MSHA Technical Support personnel, and other interested parties should receive this bulletin.
MSHA is issuing this Program Information Bulletin (PIB) to provide updated information to the mining community on the technological feasibility of biodiesel fuels as an effective control method for reducing miners' exposures to diesel particulate matter (DPM) pursuant to Title 30 Code of Federal Regulations (30 C.F.R.) §§ 57.5060(b)(3) and 57.5060(d) of the DPM standard.
Biodiesel is a registered fuel and fuel additive with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that meets clean diesel standards established by the California Air Resources Board and qualifies as an ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel. It is a fuel derived from vegetable oils or animal fats and meets the fuel specifications contained in the ASTM D6751 standard. Products that do not meet the ASTM D6751 standard are not biodiesel. Biodiesel may be blended in any proportion with standard petroleum-based diesel fuel. Biodiesel blends are usually referred to by the volume percentage of biodiesel in the blended product; e.g. B20 is a blend consisting of 20% biodiesel and 80% petroleum diesel by volume.
MSHA DPM compliance sampling has shown significant reductions in total carbon (TC) exposures at mines that use a high biodiesel content fuel blend. This result is consistent with previously published laboratory and in-mine data addressing particulate matter emission reductions when diesel engines are operated on these types of fuels.
MSHA further analyzed this data to separately assess the elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon (OC) emissions associated with biodiesel fuels. EC and OC combine to form TC, which is a major component of DPM and is regulated by MSHA in underground metal and nonmetal mines. MSHA found that, although the EC tended to be lowered significantly when biodiesel was used, some sampling data and research findings suggest that biodiesel could cause OC emissions to increase. MSHA became concerned that the reduction in EC emissions from use of biodiesel could be offset by a corresponding increase in OC emissions. Based on the available data, however, MSHA was unable to quantify the net effect of reduced EC emissions and increased OC emissions on TC exposures of miners.
Therefore, MSHA conducted a series of diesel emission tests to measure TC, EC, OC, and various exhaust gases resulting from the use of three different petroleum diesels, three different biodiesels, and a 50:50 blend of petroleum diesel and biodiesel. The three petroleum diesels tested included certified versions of low sulfur diesel (LSD) and ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD), representing the two fuel types currently used for engine approval testing by MSHA. Certified LSD is a diesel fuel meeting the specifications of 30 C.F.R. Part 7.86, Table E-1, with a total sulfur content of 0.03% to 0.05%. Certified ULSD is a diesel fuel meeting the specifications of EPA Title 40, Part 1065.703, Table 1, with a total sulfur content of 0.0007% to 0.0015%. A highway ULSD fuel was also tested as received from a local distributor, representing a typical fuel available commercially. The non-petroleum based fuels included two pure soy-based biodiesels and a blend of soy-based and animal fat-based biodiesels. MSHA also tested a B50 blend of soy biodiesel and ULSD.
MSHA conducted the testing at its Approval and Certification Center diesel laboratory using an Isuzu 4JG1T engine. Although MSHA's testing was limited to this single engine model, the test results are expected to be qualitatively transferable to most other EPA Tier 2 or later off-road engine makes and models because of common design features affecting emissions, such as direct injection, high injection pressures, and turbocharging. For each fuel, MSHA tested the engine with and without a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC, also known as an oxidation catalytic converter or OCC) installed in the engine's exhaust. Engine performance and emissions were measured using the procedures and criteria established by MSHA under 30 C.F.R. Part 7, Subpart E (1996) addressing engine test procedures (based on ISO-8178 C-1, 8 mode test). MSHA also included gaseous emission measurements for carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). MSHA analyzed the samples for TC (EC + OC) using NIOSH Analytical Method 5040 at its laboratory in Bruceton, Pennsylvania.
The testing demonstrated that biodiesel produced a modest reduction in TC emissions when a DOC was not used. When a DOC was used, TC emissions from biodiesel were reduced significantly compared to petroleum diesel. Significant reductions in TC were observed using both B50 blend and 100% biodiesel. The highest TC reductions observed during the tests were achieved using 100% biodiesel in combination with a DOC. Analysis of the carbon components of DPM for the tests conducted showed several significant items that explain the resulting TC emissions:
- Biodiesel produced significant reductions in EC emissions.
- Biodiesel increased OC emissions compared to petroleum diesel when a DOC was not used. This increase partially offset the EC reduction, but not enough to cause a net TC increase.
- Use of a DOC did not have a net effect on EC emissions for any fuel.
- Use of a DOC produced a significant reduction in OC emissions for all fuels.
- The significant reduction in TC when using biodiesel with a DOC results from the EC reduction produced by biodiesel in combination with the DOC eliminating a significant portion of the OC emissions.
As is typical of most catalytic converters, the testing showed that for all fuels, the DOC nearly eliminated CO emissions and increased NO2 emissions. Adequate mine ventilation can control NO2 exposures to below the ceiling limit for NO2.
The study also documented the importance of engine duty cycle in influencing TC reduction from biodiesel fuel when a DOC was not used. Under a heavy duty cycle, the increase in OC due to the use of biodiesel was at a minimum. At lighter load conditions, the resulting OC emissions increased, both as a percentage of TC and as an absolute value. Since biodiesel is effective at reducing EC significantly at all load conditions, but produces the most OC increases at light loads, biodiesel is most effective in reducing TC when the engine works hard. At both heavy and light engine load conditions, TC emissions were reduced when biodiesel was used together with a DOC, compared to petroleum-based diesel with or without a DOC.
As noted above, this testing was limited to a single engine model. However, due to design features affecting emissions common with most other makes and models of Tier 2 or later off-road engines, use of biodiesel fuel would be expected to produce qualitatively similar results with other engines. The exact percentage increases or decreases in emissions observed in this study using an Isuzu 4JG1T engine would not necessarily be expected with other engines, just as differences in fuel blend, duty cycle, or other sources of variability (see study report) would be expected to affect engine-out emissions. But similar upward and downward trends in the various emissions would be expected for most makes and models of Tier 2 or later off-road engines.
MSHA's DPM standard at 30 C.F.R. § 57.5060(b)(3) restricts an underground metal and nonmetal miner's permissible exposure limit to 160 micrograms of total carbon per cubic meter of air (160TC µg/m3). In addition, 30 C.F.R. § 57.5060(d) includes requirements for mine operators to install, use, and maintain all technologically and economically feasible controls to reduce a miner's exposure to the DPM Permissable Exposure Limit (PEL). Mine operators have the flexibility to use engineering or administrative controls, or a combination of both, to reduce a miner's exposure to or below the PEL.
Since the 1960s, underground mine operators using diesel-powered equipment have employed DOCs, either installed by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) or retrofitted at the mine to reduce concentrations of harmful gaseous emissions discharged into the mine environment, primarily CO and unburned hydrocarbons. While still used for this purpose, DOCs are now also used on diesel fleets in the underground and surface mining industries, as well as non-mining surface fleets to reduce the OC component of DPM.
DOCs are readily available to the mining industry as OEM standard or optional equipment, or for retrofitting almost any piece of diesel-powered equipment. DOC costs range from approximately $1,000 to $3,000. They are essentially maintenance free and last the life of an engine. Many equipment manufacturers routinely install a DOC as a standard exhaust system component on diesel equipment sold for underground use. Many diesel particulate filters (DPFs) also have a catalyzed coating similar to a DOC, or a DOC can be installed upstream of a DPF in the exhaust system on a piece of diesel-powered equipment to reduce both gaseous and OC emissions.
In the 2001 DPM final rule (66 Fed. Reg. 5706), MSHA concluded that engineering controls, such as increased mine ventilation, low DPM emission engines, better diesel engine maintenance, DOCs, DPFs, alternative fuels, and enclosed cabs with filtered breathing air were technologically and economically feasible. In the 2006 DPM rule, MSHA noted that the wider availability of alternative fuels, particularly biodiesel, improved DPF technology, and impending availability of the EPA compliant 2007 on-road diesel engines with integral DPFs would further reduce miners' exposure to DPM.
Use of biodiesel fuel is becoming more common in underground metal and nonmetal mines because of its wider availability and its effectiveness in significantly reducing DPM and other harmful emissions. Underground metal and nonmetal mines are currently using biodiesel fuel in blends with standard petroleum diesel ranging from B5 to B99, but blends with less than about 30 percent biodiesel do not appear to significantly reduce TC concentrations.
MSHA's Technical Support is available to assist mine operators with questions concerning the application of biodiesel fuel blends and DOCs on underground mining equipment.
The Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, as amended, 30 U.S.C. § 801 et seq.; and 30 C.F.R. §§ 57.5060(b)(3) and 57.5060(d).
Internet availability
This PIB may be viewed on the Internet by accessing the MSHA home page at (http://www.msha.gov) "Compliance Info" and "Program Information Bulletins."
The Report titled "Diesel Fuel Testing on an Isuzu 4JG1T Engine With and Without a Diesel Oxidation Catalyst," dated June 2009, is available on the Internet by accessing the MSHA home page at (http://www.msha.gov) "Diesel Particulate" "Metal/Nonmetal Mining Related."
Issuing Office and Contact Persons
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Months of campaigning by a mum-to-be from Clynderwen have paid off after the health minister announced that two cycles of IVF will now be available on the NHS.
Kara Ellard and her husband Luke spent 12 years and more than £10,000 trying to conceive, with only one attempt or cycle through the NHS.
For a number of months Kara and friend Julia Eynon have been lobbying the Welsh Assembly to provide three cycles of IVF, as recommended by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and already offered in England.
At a special event organised by AM Angela Burns at the Senedd last week, health minister Edwina Hart announced that women in Wales will now have access to two cycles of IVF on the NHS.
Kara said: "I am very, very pleased about the increase in cycles. It is going to change so many people's lives. It is fantastic news.
"We didn't expect it to happen so soon, we were all very surprised and shocked. The amount of people this is going to help is amazing.
"We still need to work towards the full three cycles but this is a step. We want the full implementation but we are very pleased with this step."
Mrs Hart said: "I have had lots of representations on this issue and I am pleased that I am in a position to go some way towards increasing the opportunities for women to try to have children within the available resources."
Kara said that the support given by Mrs Burns has been fantastic and she praised the hard work of all those who got involved with the petition, collecting thousands of signatures between them.
She added that the news meant that fellow campaigner Julia would have a second chance at IVF, along with hundreds of women across Wales.
Mrs Burns said: "This is a great victory for people power and I can't praise Kara enough for her hard work and determination in securing a fairer deal for women in Wales.
"When the Conservatives held a debate on this issue in July, the health minister ruled out changing the system so I am delighted that public pressure has made her change her mind."
Despite the change in policy, Kara, Julia and Mrs Burns are determined to continue fighting for three cycles of IVF on the NHS.


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Today is Monday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2012. There are 350 days left in the year. This is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 16, 1912, a day before reaching the South Pole, British explorer Robert Scott and his expedition were bitterly disappointed to find evidence in the form of a rock cairn and dog sled tracks showing that Roald Amundsen of Norway and his team had gotten there ahead of them. (Scott and his party perished during the return trip.)
On this date:
In 1547, Ivan IV of Russia (popularly known as "Ivan the Terrible") was crowned czar.
In 1920, Prohibition began in the United States as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect, one year to the day after its ratification. (It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.)
In 1978, NASA named 35 candidates to fly on the space shuttle, including Sally K. Ride, who became America's first woman in space, and Guion S. Bluford Jr., who became America's first black astronaut in space.
In 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
Ten years ago: Richard Reid was indicted in Boston on federal charges alleging he'd tried to blow up a U.S.-bound jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes. (Reid later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.)
Five years ago: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., launched his successful bid for the White House.
One year ago: Former Haitian strongman Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who'd been living in exile in France, made a surprise return to Haiti as the country wrestled with a political crisis, cholera outbreak and stalled reconstruction from a devastating earthquake.
Today's Birthdays: Author William Kennedy is 84. Hall of Fame auto racer A.J. Foyt is 77. Country singer Ronnie Milsap is 69. Singer Sade is 53. Rock musician Paul Webb (Talk Talk) is 50. Actress Josie Davis is 39. Model Kate Moss is 38. Rock musician Nick Valensi (The Strokes) is 31. Actress Yvonne Zima is 23.
Thought for Today: "I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them." -- E.V. Lucas, English writer and publisher (1868-1938).


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The King of Hay Bookshop
5a Castle Street
Hay-On-Wye, United Kingdom
The King of Hay Bookshop holds a mixture of used books including antiquarian and out-of-print titles, with sections for the arts, American-Indian history, military history, and fiction. We keep a small selection of Welsh language books plus a collection of old photographs and prints. Memorabilia is also available to celebrate the work of the owner, Richard Booth, Honorary Lifetime President of the International Organisation of Booktowns, and self-declared King of Hay, the world's first Booktown established over half a century ago.
We accept Paypal, International money orders, and Cash (at senders own risk)
Shipping costs are based on books weighing 1 KG, with a value of up to £20. Postage may be reduced for lighter orders at the seller's discretion; please contact us prior to ordering if you would like an accurate quotation. If your book order is heavy or oversized or of significant value, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. Please check your inbox for such a message as orders awaiting customer confirmation expire after four days. Orders usually ship within 2 business days.


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R&D Directions' Data Management For Clinical Trials Webinar Details Data Capture And Management Strategies
NEWTOWN, Pa., April 1, 2009 –– R&D Directions announces the availability of the magazine's first-ever interactive Webinar. Focusing on data management for clinical trials, the free Webinar features insight from industry experts Nick Lucas, Ph.D., VP, global data management, INC Research, and Steven P. Marra, Ph.D., senior research and design engineer, M2S Inc.
In the Webinar, Dr. Lucas discusses the strategies and challenges of managing the knowledge transfer process for electronic data capture (EDC) products. He emphasizes that implementation of EDC technology within an organization requires significant investment in scope and training and that hand-over responsibilities from the service provider to the client should be goal driven, not time driven.
"The biggest challenge for these products is the pressure to get them online to meet the timelines needed by the projects to go live," Dr. Lucas says.
According to Dr. Lucas, in an average month, contract research organization INC Research juggles 170 studies, 40% of which involve EDC. He says it is important to distinguish EDC from the broader term e-Clinical. "e-Clinical is a much more comprehensive offering. It is the integration of other operational systems. The move toward e-clinical is [still] someways away. There are other systems that we need to bring into the EDC mode."
In addition, Dr. Marra shares insight on the growing role of imaging in helping sponsors conduct more efficient and cost-effective clinical trials. He outlines several advantages electronic image management offers compared with traditional "hard media" methods, including faster data transfer to the core lab, immediate quality control, and accelerated query resolution.
"With imaging files, you are dealing with enormous amount of data," Dr. Marra says. "There are several steps involved in transferring imaging data. With hard media, the average time for a study to come off hold after query is five days. With electronic distribution, it's two days. That's a significant savings in time."
R&D Directions next Webinar, "Investigator Site Solutions for Clinical Trials," is scheduled for September 2009.
About R&D Directions
Published 10 times per year, R&D Directions provides insight into pharmaceutical research and development, from discovery through clinical trials and submission. R&D Directions is written in a non-clinical, non-technical style and focuses on pharmaceutical companies' R&D business strategies and decisions. Editorial content covers drugs, therapeutic categories, and industry segments, and imparts extensive intelligence on products in the pipeline.
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Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey knew that the first black player in major league baseball was going to go through hell.That's why the cigar-chomping, Bible-thumping Rickey set out to find a man who would keep believing -- when facing bitter, scathing racial hatred -- that the powers of heaven were on his side. As baseball writers have often noted, Rickey needed someone who could turn the other cheek, as well as turn a double play.In writer-director Brian Helgeland's new … [Read more...]
Yet another preying Presbyterian?
Once again, shocked onlookers painted from familiar palettes as they described the latest young man to march into the public square with his guns blazing.The alleged killer was a moody, quiet loner who excelled at school. He was a normal guy who loved movies and super-hero tales, only he cheered for the villains. When seen in bars, he was usually sitting alone.Journalists also quoted people who knew the family and said that James Holmes was once, as The Los Angeles Times noted, "heavily … [Read more...]
Golf as religion, spiritual discipline
If golf is a religion, then the smell of freshly mown Bermuda grass is the incense that drifts through its rituals.For golfers this is the smell of "eternal hope" that they can start over, according to the stressed-out young pro whose story drives the novel "Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days in Utopia," by sports psychologist David Cook."Each time a golfer steps to the first tee surrounded by this tantalizing fragrance he stands at even par," muses Luke Chisholm. "We all own par on the first … [Read more...]
Harry Potter wars forever?
The Harry Potter culture warriors have surged into action one last time, adding their familiar notes of discord to the fanfares greeting the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.""It's no secret that the Harry Potter storyline about both good and evil wizards has fueled global teenage increase in Wicca and the occult," according to an urgent Christian Newswire press release. "Stephanie Meyer's The Twilight Saga about good and evil vampires has done the same thing for … [Read more...]
Angels and Damon (and free will)
When searching for big ideas, a Hollywood screenwriter can't dig any deeper than "The Epic of Gilgamesh."This collection of Sumerian legends is at least 4,000 years old and is among the world's earliest known stories. Yet this Urak king wrestles with questions that haunt heroes today. Am I free? Am I doomed? Can I fight my fate?At a key moment, the "woman of the vine" tells the king: "You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him … [Read more...]
Patricia Neal and her angels
After her destructive affairs with married men, after the death of her first child, after an accident left her infant son brain-damaged, after the near-fatal strokes that struck months after her 1964 Oscar win for "Hud," actress Patricia Neal faced yet another personal crisis that left her on the verge of collapse.While her marriage to British writer Roald Dahl, the author of children's classics such as "James and Giant Peach," had long been troubled, Neal was shattered when she learned he was … [Read more...]
God, movies and cancer
Hollywood bean counters have started calling them "God films."The typical faith-based indie has a tiny budget and most of the actors are amateurs or second stringers from television. It doesn't take much money to promote one because churches are eager to hold pre-release screenings that fire up clergy and volunteers to spread the word -- on foot and online.Southern Baptist entrepreneurs in Georgia made the pro-marriage drama "Fireproof" for $500,000 and it grossed $40 million at the box … [Read more...]


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In a recent study involving LMU researchers, the desorption of oxygen molecules from a silver surface was successfully visualized for the first time. The effects account for the shortcomings of conventional models of desorption.
In heterogeneous catalytic reactions, which take place at the boundary layer between a solid and the gas phase, the products finally have to desorb from the surface of the solid. This happens, for example, in the catalytic exhaust converters in automobiles.
A research team led by Professors Joost Wintterlin (LMU Munich), Sebastian Gunther (TU Munich) and Dr. Andrea Locatelli (Syncrotron Elettra, Trieste) has now, for the first time, imaged such a desorption process in microscopic detail. As they report in "Nature Communications", their results explain why conventional calculations of desorption rates are often incorrect.
In heterogeneous catalysis, the catalyst is a solid, e.g., a metal or metal oxide, to which the reactants adsorb. The catalytic reaction takes place on the surface, and the products then spontaneously desorb.
Unlike the complicated processes that occur on the surface during the catalytic reaction itself, the process of desorption was thought to be relatively simple: The reactants gain thermal energy from the solid surface, and desorb as soon as this energy exceeds the binding energy to the surface. This picture suggests that desorption is a purely statistical process that only depends on the number of molecules.
"However, in many cases, the desorption rates calculated using this model do not agree with the experimentally determined values," says Joost Wintterlin.
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LEEM works similarly as conventional electron microscopy. The only difference is that the energetic electrons that form the beam are decelerated just before they hit the surface of the sample. With the help of this technique, the researchers were able to monitor desorption of oxygen from a silver surface.
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The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
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Release Date: 09/2/2014
"The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Le Nozze di Figaro" provides all the information you'll need to appreciate Mozart's opera, whether you're at the Met, watching it online, as a Live in HD presentation, or listening on the radio.
Today Mozart's exquisite Le Nozze di Figaro delights and moves audiences everywhere, long after its 1786 birth into tumultuous times. The original Beaumarchais play raised a firestorm in France, then on the brink of revolution, with its dangerous commentary on class relations. However, Lorenzo Da Ponte carefully omitted anything political from his opera libretto; what remained, when joined with Mozart's sublime and penetrating music, was a witty yet profound tale of infatuation, heartache, scheming, and tenderness, where complex emotions are laid bare and everyone, regardless of class, is equally vulnerable to the powers of love.
Each book in the Metropolitan Opera Presents series features the complete libretto, current and historic images from Met productions, an introductory "In Focus" feature, and the full Met program notes.
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Series: Amadeus
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
One of Mozart's most enduring masterpieces, Le Nozze di Figaro premiered in Vienna in 1786, the first of the composer's three collaborations with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte (Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte were to follow). The opera never left the repertoire and for more than two centuries has attracted many of the world's greatest singers. First seen at the Met in 1894, Figaro opens the company's 2014–15 season in a new production.
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie didn't let the recession hamper their giving. They quietly donated more than $6 million to charities last year, reports Showbiz 411's Roger Friedman. According to the 2008 tax return for the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, the amount was more than double what the Hollywood couple gave in 2007. The biggest recipients: Global Health ($2 million), Human Rights Watch ($1 million) and Brad's Make it Right Foundation ($1 million).
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A senior United Nations official today condemned a recent attack on two vehicles belonging to the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) and called for ensuring that the perpetrators are brought to justice.
Farid Zarif, the Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), condemned "in the strongest possible terms" the attack that took place on 25 April as the two vehicles travelled to Brnjak/Bërnjak.
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Along with a 24-hour business center, this smoke-free bed & breakfast has tour/ticket assistance and a garden. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include free breakfast.
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Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. A 24-hour business center is on site at this 3-star property. A complimentary breakfast is offered. This Asheville bed & breakfast also offers tour/ticket assistance and a garden. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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Alice in WonderlandDirector: Tim Burton
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway
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Director Tim Burton and screenwriter Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King) team up to deliver this visually dazzling take on the classic Lewis Carroll tale. Nineteen-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is attending party at a lavish country estate when she sees a white rabbit with a pocket watch dart into the bushes. Curious, she follows the rabbit to an enormous tree, and tumbles down a hole that takes her to Underland, a strange world inhabited by anthropomorphic creatures in search of someone to save them from the dreaded Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), who has assumed control of the kingdom by decapitating anyone who dares disagree with her. According to a scroll detailing a historical timeline of Underland -- including events that have not yet taken place -- it is Alice who will set the kingdom free by defeating the Jabberwocky, a powerful dragon-like creature under the control of the Red Queen. But is this Alice the same Alice who appears in the scroll? While some of the creatures of Underland have their doubts, the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) and his friends are certain she's the same girl who previously visited them years ago. When the Red Queen kidnaps the Mad Hatter, Alice attempts to free her friend and locate the one weapon with the power to slay the Jabberwocky, thereby restoring the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) to the throne, and bringing peace back to Underland.
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2. Miss Kingsleigh Is Distracted [:00]
3. Down The Rabbit ole [:00]
4. The Wrong Alice [:02]
5. The Red Queen [:00]
6. Cheshire, The Hare And The Hatter [:00]
7. "I Make The Path" [4:24]
8. Um From Umbradge [6:11]
9. Freeing The Vorpal Sword [7:36]
10. Escape To Marmoreal [6:29]
11. Mutiny [3:57]
12. The White Queen's Champion [8:09]
13. Frabjous Day [9:24]
14. Returning Home [6:28]
15. Alice's Decisions [11:19]
16. End Credits [5:56]
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I love this movie! I went to see it in 3D in the movie theater; that was awesome! It is scary, but the Mad Hatter makes it funny. Alice falls down the rabbit hole again, but this time she thinks she is dreaming. Everybody in Wonderland wants her to defeat the Jabberwocky, (I hope I spelled that right.;) the Red Queen's Pet Dragon. But before she can do that, she has to find the Vorpal Sword.....The only sword that can kill the Jabberwocky. To me this movie is actually more funny than scary. I love the part when the Hatter starts dancing the Flatterhagen (again, I hope I spelled that right!;). His head starts spinning around, and his legs look like spaghetti. It was soooo funny! He is definately my favorite character. I can't imagine how anyone could dislike this movie. I definitely recommend it to everyone. Whoever watches it will enjoy it. I can't wait until it comes out in stores so I can watch it over and over again at home!!!
What can I say about this movie that I have not already said in the headline. I watched this movie for the first time a couple of days ago & I was speechless after it was over. Everything from the actors & actresses to the 100% awesome graphics to the story line & everything else in-between is really awesome.
Excellent movie. I watched the cartoon version when I was younger loved it and now I love the new version. I enjoyed ever charcter and could watch it over and over again. If you are a kid at heart like me you will love it too.
What you need to understand about this movie is that it is a SEQUEL, NOT a remake. I had been waiting for this movie for about 2 years and Tim Burton did not disappoint me. The characters were perfect and stuck close to the book. But this movie is definitely dark and may be semi-scary to younger children (probably 0-5, maybe 6) so it's your call parents. The make-up and costuming was extraordinary and I had tons of fun picking apart the symbolism that was hidden in the movie. There are several famous actors in this film such as Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Michael Sheen, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry, and even the great Christopher Lee. This all-star cast definitely brings Tim's vision to life and they do a wonderful job of doing so. The film is thoroughly enjoyable and I recommend it to everyone. Fall down the rabbit hole and enter Underland!
yes i have seen this movie before and its really great for my imagination so i ordered my own so i can see it even more for myself so i can bee happy.
What can I say? I love the movie. Mia Wasikowska (as Alice) starts right in and brings the movie to life. All the recognizable characters become animated with personalities (both computer and actors). The storyline begins where the book (traditional C.S. Lewis)leaves off. It's hold-on-by-the-seat-of-your-pants suspense with a good dose of humor, largely due to Johnny Depp's character, The Mad Hatter. The Red Queen and the White Queen, ugly and beautiful, respectively, provide a good and evil symmetry to the story. The good White Queen needs the help of a reluctant Alice in order to triumph. Guidance from her companions and a wise, blue caterpillar, is the only means to convince Alice, who believes she's in a dream, of Underland's (not Wonderland, as in her childhood dreams/nightmares) reality. Will Alice be convinced in time to be a Champion for the Queen?


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If your kids were tickled with the adventures of Roddy St. James, the mouse who was Flushed Away in the Dreamworks movie, then they will probably enjoy exploring the Underworld Metropolis offered in the Flushed Away video game on the Nintendo DS.
Different from the console version, the DS version provides kids with a romp in the sewer town, lets them pilot the Jammy Dodger boat, and offers three short minigames that take advantage of the DS touch screen and built-in microphone. But, because the game is pretty easy to play and short in length, it fits best with children 6 to 12.
The game follows the storyline of the movie, but expands the play environments. It's a mission-based platformer, with some boat racing thrown in. It culminates in big "boss" fights with pompous The Toad and his cousin Le Frog. Kids play as either Roddy, the well-to-do rodent from Kensington who has been flushed down the toilet, or as Rita, a gutsy mouse whom Roddy befriends in the sewers. They can even switch between the two. Some of the missions allow kids to play as Rita's ship, the Jammy Dodger.
This game has kids running, jumping, and occasionally fighting their way through the Underworld Metropolis. Players should collect as many coins (called Quid) as they can, because several parts of the game require the player to buy Mission Maps to unlock new areas of the game.
There are several aspects of this game that make it good:
• The camera angle is special. While this is generally a 2-D side-scrolling game, at certain times, the camera angle will rotate, creating a 3-D effect. For example, if Roddy rounds a corner, so, too, will the camera, thereby creating the sense of 3-D.
• The layout is expansive — this isn't your typical linear game. As kids explore the levels, they will discover several divergent paths that eventually lead them back to completing their mission.
• The game offers frequent checkpoints and an easy save mechanism so kids won't be frustrated by losing ground when they need to quit or when their character uses up all his or her lives.
While testers missed seeing video sequences from the movie and were disappointed that the storyline was mostly told by still photos, they did enjoy watching the characters move within the game and appreciated that they resembled the winsome clay-animated look of the movie.
Within the game, kids will find three unusual minigames. Once unlocked, kids can replay them. In one, players blow on the DS microphone to release a soccer goal kick — the stronger they blow, the faster the ball rolls.
As in the movie, this game creates interesting environments by using common everyday items in clever and unusual ways. One of the quick transport methods is to use a mousetrap as a catapult. And propellers can create great wind currents for mice to use to fly up to hard-to-reach places.
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Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) is a cheap, convenient and simple technique for chemists to monitor the progress of chemical reactions.
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Electronic Arts is taking yet another step into the social realm this week with a brand new Facebook title, Spore Islands, developed by the EA studio, Maxis. Already, we have seen the efforts the console developer has put into social games, virtual goods, and so on through miscellaneous social features in a handful of its mainstream titles, virtual goods transactions, and freemium play. Now, such lessons are being applied to its Spore universe.
Spore, the PC game, not the Facebook app, already has social elements, allowing users to connect to other players' universes and incorporate their races into your worlds. This, in turn, would allow interaction with the different player species based on how each race was evolved, and it is this same concept that hinges together Spore Islands, except the Facebook app has a much more social focus.
Players begin by selecting the type of environment their island should be, followed by a simple creature creation screen that allows them to pick a different physical attributes such as mouth, eyes, body, legs, etc. Sadly, the level of customization is nowhere near as enticing as the full game, but it's still not too bad, all things considered.
Each physical feature also has survival attributes associated with it such as ferocity, speed, stamina, and so one. This makes the player choices a little deeper as the best looking creation may not be the most efficient one when it comes to Darwinism.
Once a creature is born, it appears along with two other, randomly generated, "wild" creatures, and the evolution game begins. The primary currency in Spore Islands is, well, DNA (which is generated passively every couple of hours, but is also purchasable). By clicking on the "Evolve" button, players can redistribute a creature's statistics to make it faster, sturdier, add abilities, and more. In order to discover just what stats are needed, there is actually a feature that allows you to observe how your island's residents interact.
This view actually works like a science observation, putting the player in a top down view that automatically plays out all the happenings on your island. From here, you can see how long your creature lives, how many times it gives birth, how it hunts, and so on. Each time you observe, you earn points that can be used to open new creature slots so you can make more creations, as well as move yourself up in the leaderboards.
As is to be expected of Maxis games (they are the developers behind The Sims, after all), Spore Islands really is a nice and well made app. If there is any one complaint, it is that the customization was one of the most fun elements in the original game. Nonetheless, Maxis does do their best to circumvent the limitation by adding a few new concepts such as nifty hats and animations (at the cost of DNA), in an attempt to create greater personalization.
It remains to be seen if users will want to play this lighter version of the PC game. As with any social game, the challenge now is to continue improving the game based on how users respond to it.


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Man Makes Corn Maze to Impress Wife
What a way to say 'Happy Anniversary'! Sure it may be a corny gift, but this corn maze is nothing short of amazing!
Paul Derthick surprised his wife on their 50th wedding anniversary by carving 17 acres of their Ohio farm into a giant corn maze. From an aerial view, its looks just like the couple's 1963 wedding photo.
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Cooking instructions: boil 4 quarts water. Add contents of this package to boiling water; stir gently until water boils again. Cook 5 to 7 minutes (do not overcook). Drain and rinse with cold water.
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These days you'll find a variety of options when you're looking for a regular online roulette game. With so many different casinos vying for a piece of your action, you can easily shop around to see which casino offers the best features for your demands. One of the factors we like to consider when choosing a casino to play on is whether the site offers a no-download option.
If you've gambled online before, you are probably familiar with the tedious process of downloading and installing a client application before you are able to hit the tables. While there are advantages to offering a downloadable client, this method also tethers you to a specific computer and you may often find yourself in situations where you are not able to install software on a PC at all, a prime example being when you are gambling at a public computer.
Users of both Mac computers and Linux systems may also encounter the same problem. Not having to download the casino is also advantageous to the more security conscious among us, who might feel anxious when downloading software from a casino site for fear of viruses, although it has to be said that this is highly unlikely. You might also have memory issues on your machine, not wanting the download to take up some of that precious capacity on your hard drive. This is why we prefer playing on casinos that have a no-download web-based client option.
No Download Casino Software
There are three types of software you'll use when playing directly in your browser, Java, Flash and HTML5. Many sites will often use combinations of these to render their games on different devices.
Java is a programming language, specifically designed to be able to run across multiple platforms. Java can be run on any machines that feature the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which you'll generally find is pre-installed in any modern computers. If using a custom built or a reformatted computer you'll be able to download the JRE from the Java website. Java provides a robust and stable platform for all of your casino play.
Flash is a multimedia and software platform used for creating graphics, animation, games and applications that can be viewed or played in a Flash player. Flash can be used to add streamed video or audio to a web page, although in the case of an online casino, you'll use the interactive multimedia aspect of the software. Flash casinos can offer state of the art graphics and amazing sound features. Flash is not compatible with iPhones, and is not supported directly by iPads or Apple computers. This means Apple users need to install a 3rd party emulator to get this working on their machine. The most popular way to do this is to install the Chrome browser and get a Flash emulation plug in for this.
This is the latest version of the Hypertext Markup Language protocol which most websites still use. HTML5 supports video and animation and enables games to be created which are the equivalent of Flash. The advantage of these games is compatibility (no Apple issues) and the fact that HTML5 is a public protocol – and not controlled by any one company. Many casinos which run Flash games now use HTML5 to render games on non-compatible devices.
Using a No Download Casino
If using a casino for the first time you'll have to register at the site first. This will simply be a case of filling out a form with your name, address, e-mail address and phone number and choosing a username. Some sites will let you play without actually depositing and this can be a great way to get a feel for the games before investing your cash. To play roulette you'll head for either the table games section of a casino or a dedicated roulette section and click on the game of your choice. The game will launch automatically and you'll be watching the all-important spin of the wheel within seconds.
Recommended No-Download Casinos
The best place to find roulette games without a download will depend on your location. For US players, the Bovada casino (part of the Bodog brand) offers instant play roulette games from the acclaimed Real Time Gaming software suite.
International players have a huge choice of casinos, many of which offer games from several major software houses in your browser window. I recommend Bet365 as a great starting point. You can enjoy PlayTech roulette games on all mobile and computer devices at this big-name online casino.


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Forms Data Format
From GNUpdf
FDF or Forms Data Format is a format designed by Adobe. It separates a form (the fields and the presentation) from the data that fill in the form (the FDF data). The file extension is
.fdf. It's described in ISO-3200, the PDF specification.
- you send a PDF that people fill in with the PDF reader, and they send back the data over the Internet (via POST to a web server like a classic web form, or to a mail address). Apparently proprietary PDF readers prevent the user from saving forms data, asking the user to print the forms instead (TODO: motivation?).
- you have an existing PDF template, and you can merge it with .fdf data to produce a personalized PDF without having to generate it entirely using PDF generation
Here's a simple FDF file:
%FDF-1.2 %éééé 1 0 obj << /FDF << /Fields 2 0 R >> >> endobj 2 0 obj [ << /T (field1) /V (value1) >> << /T (field2) /V (value2) >> ] endobj trailer << /Root 1 0 R >> %%EOF
Note that FDF files are composed by PDF objects in the syntactic level, and they feature a trailer dictionary. This fact makes it possible to reuse a PDF implementation to read and generate FDF data. For instance, it is possible to use the object layer functions of the GNU PDF Library to read, write and manipulate FDF files.
There's an alternative representation called xfdf (
.xfdf) which is based on XML (this is not to be confused by Mars, which is another Adobe format to represente whole PDF-like files based on XML, probably as a response to MS XPS). XFDF is referenced in ISO-32000 but is described separately, see the bottom of developer resources at adobe.com, more precisely xfdf_2.0.pdf.
Apparently Adobe introduced something newer called XFA (XML Forms Architecture) which doesn't seem standardized.
- pdftk: can extract fdf data from a pdf, and fill-in a pdf forms from fdf data. License: GPLv2+
# generate blank .fdf file pdftk example.pdf generate_fdf output out.fdf # fill in the pdf with .fdf data (fill_form) and make fields uneditable (flatten) pdftk form.pdf fill_form data.fdf output out.pdf flatten
- pdftk-php: used to present PDF forms (blank or filled with user data) through a web browser. Not a complete pdftk front-end, though, despite the name. License: mBSD


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Kent City Council is being asked to clarify the role of a city commission in the wake of concerns that the board is making the site plan review process too long and creating an unfriendly atmosphere for developers.
City Manager Lew Steinbrecher is asking council to revisit the role of the Environmental Commission, an advisory committee which makes recommendations to the planning commission.
In recent weeks, the Environmental Commission's chairman, Douglas Shaw, has been vocal in his opposition to a rezoning of property at the corner of S.R. 261 and Sunnybrook Road from residential to commercial. Shaw is a resident of Sunnybrook Road.
The commission has also called for several changes to plans for a shopping center at the corner of S.R. 43 and 261. Shaw, whose home is not far from the shopping center, moderated a discussion by the Kent Environmental Council on the development.
Steinbrecher said his concerns about how the commission operate go back several months, and he has received several questions from city staff on how comments from the commission are to be treated.
"We want to have a smooth, fair review process," he said. "We as an organization need to have a good understanding of how the environmental commission fits into that process. I'm asking these questions so we can improve the process and facilitate development as best as we can."
The board was created in 1995 to establish a set of sustainability goals. Environmental Services Manager Mary Gilbert said those goals were approved by council last year.
This fall, the commission began reviewing specific projects to see if they are consistent with the sustainability goals.
Besides Shaw, the board also includes Charles Frederick, who is vice chairman, and Ann Marie Halal. There are two vacancies on the five member panel.
None could be reached for comment.
Steinbrecher said he was concerned that the additional review creates a new additional and longer review process that developers feel obligated to go through, even though the ordinance creating the commission states that the board does not have the power to make decisions.
He also expressed concern about Shaw's unfavorable comments toward projects such as the rezoning, adding that it is unclear whether Shaw's comments were being made in his capacity on the commission or as a private citizen.
"I understand that people do not give up their rights as citizens when they sign up for a city panel," he said.
In a letter to Steinbrecher and council, Halal said she believed she and the other members of the commission have followed their duty to advise the commission on how the sustainability goals apply to various projects, a duty she said was outlined in the city's own law.
"As a citizen volunteer in a public service capacity, I take that seriously, and to ignore it could be considered irresponsible," she stated.


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"I haven't seen Queer As Folk, so it's hard to tell, but I do make love to a different man and woman in each episode," Isaak deadpans to TV Guide Online. "Actually, our show is very subdued and laid back. I play a comedian who lives in New York, and I have kind of a wacky guy who lives across the hall from me."
All joking aside, The Chris Isaak Show which is slated to debut in the spring and promises to offer viewers a behind-the-scenes peek into the rock music scene does in fact share something in common with Seinfeld: Both shows are loosely based on the life of its lead. "I play myself, except on TV I'm nicer," Isaak says. "They make me a nice, caring guy. I don't say things that are politically incorrect or flip people off while I'm driving. I want the audience to like me, so they try to write me nicer.
"It's a lot easier to be nicer than I really am," he adds. "I like it."
And for those more interested in Isaak's dreamy guitar pop than his irreverent personality, The Chris Isaak Show will feature music in every episode. "If you like my singin', there will be plenty of it," says Isaak, whose big break came in 1989 with the hit single "Wicked Game" (not to mention the super-sexy Herb Ritts-directed video that accompanied it). "And I'm getting to duet with a lot of different people. One week it's me and Lisa Loeb and the next week it's me and Mötley Crüe. I'm serious about that. It's a wide variety."
A soundtrack is a possibility, but Isaak admits "first they've got to see if anybody watches. Then they'll worry about a soundtrack."
Well, at the very least, Showtime can count on at least one loyal viewer. "I think it's the funniest half-hour on TV," Isaak admits, setting up the inevitable punchline. "Of course, it's an hour-long show. But there's a good half-hour in there if you look for it. But you've got to look, really look. Keep looking."


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Free Pattern and Directions to Sew a Tooth Fairy Pillow
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This free sewing pattern is great for kids with baby teeth to lose! Next time your child or grandchild is waiting for a visit from the tooth fairy, place the baby tooth in this cute lacy pillow. It makes a great keepsake after he or she is all grown up!
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I made these for my children at that age. I made square satin pillows trimmed with satin ruffle with smaller rectangular pocket with a tooth appliqued trimmed in lace with a snap or button closure (a couple of Velcro dots would work well). I also attached a small string and diaper pin that I pinned to their bed pillow. (I wonder if you can still get those? my babies are in their 30's and 40's) lol That new minky material would be interesting. eyelet lace would be attractive also. You have to have a creative side or you wouldn't be here. Have fun with the concept. I think you would get in trouble if you used their design for retail. Remember your customers are looking for something unique not something mass produced. It is not fair to them or the designer. I have also made several for baby shower gifts. I Include a little silica packet you get with almost everything today, and use my seal a meal bag sealer to help preserve them. I am in my 70's and still have a few of them left. Feel free to use any of my ideas. I am sure if you check online you will find lots of tooth fairy pillows check them out and have fun developing your own design.
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Ok , another question .....so can this tooth pillow be made to sell at craft sales or not ? It so deceiving to put theses patterns on and then on the bottom of the pattern it says " N.Y. Times Co, All rights reserved " . So what does that actually mean; you can make them , but not sell them ??? That's kind of silly. I'm always looking for new little projects to make for some small local craft sales I'm in. Thanks for responding !
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Broiled Garlic and Lime Shrimp
These irresistible hors d'oeuvres are chef Robert Del Grande's Thanksgiving trump card; no one says "No thank you" to garlic-infused jumbo shrimp, and everybody licks the buttery, citrusy juices off their fingers.
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- Servings: 8
- 2 pounds large shrimp in their shells
- 12 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 stick (4 ounces) unsalted butter, melted and kept warm
- 2 serrano chiles, seeded and minced
- 1/4 cup minced cilantro
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- Kosher salt
How to make this recipe
Using a paring knife, slit each shrimp down the back through the shell; remove the dark intestinal vein. Spread the shrimp open and flatten them out. Arrange the butterflied shrimp in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet, shell side down.
In a saucepan, cover the garlic with water and simmer until softened, about 20 minutes; add more water if necessary. Drain and let cool, then finely chop.
In a bowl, combine the garlic, butter, serranos, cilantro and lime juice. Brush the shrimp with the mixture; season with salt.
Preheat the broiler. Broil the shrimp for 3 to 4 minutes, or just until cooked through. Transfer the shrimp to a platter and drizzle with any remaining butter. Serve with lots of paper napkins.
Make Ahead
Prepare the shrimp through Step 3 and refrigerate overnight.