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I have a similar device, all in one unit built into a monitor, with a
wireless card in the pcmcia slot. I imagine a pcmcia Ethernet adapter would
As for storage, they're flashable, aren't they? I know mine is.
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Melvin wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I recently ran across some Wyse Winterm units as we were cleaning out
> some stuff at the office and immediately thought they'd make great
> firewall boxes. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried these before.
> They are WT3320SE and WT3360SE units. Specs here:
> http://wyse.vecmar.com/products/productpage.asp?pid=5549
> I'll have to add flash to them, but it appears they all have
> connections. No drives, but there is PCMCIA slot available for possible
> load device.
I see no place for a second nic. That is the problem with most of these
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Did you ever stop and look at a 1-dollar bill? It's not just a piece of paper to exchange for something of equal value; it's a whole history book setting there in your wallet. Take a 1-dollar bill out and look at it while you read this. The bill you're looking at first came off the presses in 1957 in its present design. It is made, not from paper, but is in fact a cotton and linen blend with red and blue minute silk fibers running through it. It's material not paper. And what do all the symbols stand for or mean to us?
On the front of the bill you will see the United States Treasury Seal. On the top you see the scales for the balance – a balanced budget. In the center you have a carpenter's T-square, a tool used for an even cut. Underneath is the Key to the United States Treasury. Turn the bill over and you will see two circles. Both circles together comprise the Great Seal of the United States. The First Continental Congress requested that Benjamin Franklin and a group of men come up with a Seal. It took them four years to accomplish this task and another two years to get it approved.
Look at the left hand circle; you will see a Pyramid. The face is lighted and the western side is dark. This country was just beginning. We had not begun to explore the West or decided what we could do for western Civilization. The Pyramid is uncapped, again signifying that we were not even close to being finished. Inside the capstone you have the all-seeing eye, an ancient symbol for divinity. It was Franklin's belief that one man couldn't do it alone, but a group of men, with the help of God, could do anything. "IN GOD WE TRUST" is on this currency. The Latin above the pyramid, ANNUIT COEPTIS, means "God has favored our undertaking."
The Latin below the pyramid, NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, means "a new order has begun." At the base of the pyramid is the Roman Numeral for 1776. If you look at the right-hand circle, and check it carefully, you will learn that it is on every National Cemetery in the United States. It is also on the Parade of Flags Walkway at the Bushnell Florida National Cemetery and is the centerpiece of most hero's monuments. Slightly modified, it is the seal of the President of the United States and it is always visible whenever he speaks, yet no one knows what the symbols mean.
The Bald Eagle was selected as a symbol for victory for two reasons: first, he is not afraid of a storm; he is strong and he is smart enough to soar above it. Secondly, he wears no material crown. We had just broken from the King. At the top of that shield you have a white bar signifying congress, a unifying factor. We were coming together as one nation. In the Eagle's beak you will read, "E PLURIBUS UNUM," meaning "one nation from many people."
Above the Eagle you have thirteen stars representing the thirteen original colonies, and any clouds of misunderstanding rolling away. Again, we were coming together as one. Notice what the Eagle holds in his talons. He holds an olive branch and arrows. This country wants peace, but we will never be afraid to fight to preserve peace. The Eagle always wants to face the olive branch, but in time of war, his gaze turns toward the arrows.
They say that the number 13 is an unlucky number. This is almost a worldwide belief. You will usually never see a room numbered 13, or any hotels or motels with a 13th floor. But, think about this: 13 original colonies, 13 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 13 stripes on our flag, 13 steps on the Pyramid, 13 letters in the Latin above, 13 letters in "E Pluribus Unum," 13 stars above the Eagle, 13 plumes of feathers on each span of the Eagle's wing, 13 bars on that shield, 13 leaves on the olive branch, 13 fruits, and if you look closely, 13 arrows. And for minorities: the 13th Amendment.
(Information taken from an article published in the April issue of THE FIRING LINE, the newsletter for The California Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc.)
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Lorde Let's Us Know It's OK to Have Flaws!
Lorde tweeted a pic the other day that compared a Photoshopped image and an unedited photo of her from the same performace.
We totally admire that fact that she's willing to take the bullet to show that not everything you see is real!
i find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok :-) pic.twitter.com/PuRhxt2u2O
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Los Angeles (AFP) Jan 7, 2013
An oil rig which ran aground in Alaska has been refloated and is being towed to a nearby harbor, with no signs of pollution seen, officials said Monday.
Salvage experts were on board oil giant Shell's Kulluk mobile drilling unit when it was pulled back out to sea late Sunday, and was heading for Kiliuda Bay for inspection, they said.
"The Kulluk was refloated and the vessel condition assessed. The tow is now ongoing and the vessels are in Kiliuda Bay approaching the anchorage," said incident commander Sean Churchfield, Shell Alaska's operation manager.
"Once the Kulluk arrives in Kiliuda Bay, a more detailed assessment will take place before any decisions are made regarding the forward plans for the Kulluk," he added at a briefing.
The structure had 150,000 gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel and roughly 12,000 gallons of oil and hydraulic fluid, according to media reports in the far northwestern US state.
But Alaska state coordinator Steve Russell said: "The crew of the Kulluk reported no evidence of pollution during its removal from the site," adding that an infrared survey of the spot where it was grounded also showed no spill.
The rig was being towed to Seattle when it broke free in heavy seas on New Year's Eve and washed ashore near Kodiak Island, some 300 miles (480 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage.
Environmental group Greenpeace said the grounding highlighted serious problems. "The battered rig may finally be free, but after this latest fiasco Shell's reputation is in tatters," said Greenpeace campaigner Ben Ayliffe.
"The time has come for the US government to act. It is now patently clear that it is impossible to drill for oil safely in the Arctic."
The recovery operation is being led by Smit Salvage, which has assisted in hundreds of operations around the world, including that of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Italy last year.
Kodiak Island is a few hundred miles from Prince William Sound, where the "Exxon Valdez" oil tanker spilled around 11 million gallons (40 million litres) in March 1989, in one of the world's worst environmental disasters.
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NHS Western Isles is warning people across the Western Isles about scam emails, purporting to come from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), wrongly warning people that they may have cancer.
The NHS would never send any sort of confidential information via email and NICE is not involved in cancer diagnosis.
NICE is advising people who have received the email – the subject line of which is "important blood analysis result" – to delete it without opening and not to click on any links. Doing so could compromise the security of your computer.
Sir Andrew Dillon, NICE Chief Executive said: "A spam email purporting to come from NICE is being sent to members of the public regarding cancer test results. This email is likely to cause distress to recipients since it advises that 'test results' indicate they may have cancer. This malicious email is not from NICE, and we are currently investigating its origin. We take this matter very seriously and have reported it to the police."
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The common man we're talking about here is the guy who loves his beer. The guy who has his special couch or chair he watches sports in. The guy who can get his grub on. Pro sports is a realm in this world in which the finest athletes compete. The guys who are blessed by the Gods with ability greater than the common man, and with that blessing train and keep their bodies in tip top shape. Or do they? Some of these "athletes" have slipped through the nets and you know who they are. They're famous for their tremendous ability,Ā but also for that gut that hangs over their belt…..
Prince Fielder
Prince can bang man, and until he stops we can't really say s#$t. Got to believe this gut will hurt longevity.
David Wells
Blessed with a rubber arm. Boomer got it done in the face of critics with a massive gut. No one was going to tell Boomer s#$t about his weight.
Sebastian Janikowski
Janikowski weighs 250 lbs. Brian Urlacher weighs 258 lbs. FYI
CC Sabathia
CC is probably bigger than he's ever been. Nonetheless, he keeps winning. Another one who's weight has got to catch up with him sooner than later.
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Napa County may be synonymous with Wine Country to many of its visitors, but its residents know their real treasure is represented in the "country" part of that moniker.
Since 1968, when the board of supervisors unanimously passed legislation creating the nation's first-ever agricultural preserve, Napa's official policy has been that farming—whether viticulture, cattle ranching or raising honeybees—is the "highest and best use" of the county's croplands.
Preserving its expansive rural views has brought the county fame and tourism, but it's also sparked a series of conflicts with the state, which has ordered Napa to zone for hundreds of new, affordable housing units over the next seven years. "The only can opener that could pry open the ag preserve would be for the county to fail to meet its housing allocation," says developer Keith Rogal, whose Napa Redevelopment Partners is seeking to create an ambitious new mixed-use development, including thousands of homes, on the site of the old Napa Pipe facility just outside Napa's southern city limits. "And it's a very real threat. It's a very real issue."
The county has already been sued for failing to provide enough affordable housing, and another court challenge is expected if officials can't find a way to zone for the required homes. "As long as the state is requiring the county to be responsible for its share of housing…this is a task we have to look at," says Supervisor Bill Dodd. "We want to control our own destiny." That's why the board of supervisors and county staff are taking a close look at the Napa Pipe proposal, which, if approved, could fulfill the county's housing requirements well into the future. "We asked them to come in here," Dodd says. "We said we'd look favorably at housing on the site."
The agricultural preserve and watershed now protects some 40,000 acres of Napa County from being used for anything but farming. Its creation was the result of a hard-fought battle, waged over a series of rancorous public hearings, between those who wanted to keep the rural landscape from sprouting housing developments and those who viewed the proposal as a socialistic land grab. The same year it was passed, the preserve survived a court challenge to become the cornerstone of Napa's land-use policy. County voters added another layer of protection in 1990 by approving Measure J, which requires a vote of the people—rather than of the elected supervisors—before land zoned for agriculture can be developed for any other use. Hauled back into court, the county prevailed again after years of litigation.
But after 40 years of the ag preserve and 18 of Measure J, Napa County and its five cities face increasing pressure to add housing to accommodate their growing workforces. A state law requires local communities to develop residential zones according to a complex formula that takes into account factors including job growth and the availability of transit.
What the law doesn't consider is the value of keeping land open for agriculture—and that's set the stage for a costly conflict between Napa and the California Department of Housing and Community Development, which considers the county's prized croplands to be vacant and available for development.
In 2001, county officials and residents alike were flabbergasted when Sacramento ordered Napa to zone for nearly 2,000 units of new housing, including affordable homes for low-income families, outside city limits. A private law firm, acting in the name of two farmworkers, then sued the county for failing to comply. In 2003, to resolve the deadlock, the county forged a pathbreaking pact with the cities of Napa and American Canyon (the county's youngest city, incorporated in 1992), which agreed to take on the required housing in exchange for considerations, including a sizeable contribution to Napa's new downtown parking garage and the promise of future support for infrastructure in American Canyon. The agreement solved the county's immediate housing problem, but to the tune of more than $10 million so far—an expense that's quickly growing unsustainable.
Napa County now must realign the "housing element" of its general plan to accommodate the latest round of housing allotments from the state, which has the county on the hook to zone for about 600 more homes over the next seven years. Legislation sponsored by Napa County and proposed by Assemblywoman Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) in 2006 would have let local municipalities determine their own housing needs, but according to Dodd, the cities and county couldn't come to agreement and the bill died. So if county planners can't find a place to put those 600 homes, another costly lawsuit is likely to ensue, potentially followed by a court order to build.
There's another pressing reason county and city leaders are looking harder than ever at the prospect of growth: Like it or not, Napa's workforce is increasing as new hotels, retailers and wineries open their doors. The 180-room, four-star, $100-million Westin Verasa condo-hotel, in the emerging Oxbow District near downtown Napa, opened in September; a 351-room Ritz-Carlton resort on 11 acres nearby received city approval earlier this year, after a packed council meeting that drew nearly 50 speakers and lasted more than six hours. The Ritz is expected to employ 500 people when it comes online; the neighboring Oxbow Public Market, with more than a dozen restaurants and retailers, is continuing to add tenants; and new wineries are receiving approvals from the county planning commission.
Without enough housing—particularly affordable housing—workers attracted by local jobs must continue to commute from Napa's neighboring counties, adding more traffic to already congested highways. "Out of 77,000 jobs in the county, 21,000 are being filled by people driving in," says Rogal, who cites census figures indicating that employment in Napa grew by 45 percent between 1994 and 2006, while housing increased by only 14 percent.
"We need housing more than we need jobs," says Napan Michael Haley, a grape grower and president of the Napa Valley Taxpayers Alliance. His views echo those of Barry Schuler, once chairman and CEO of America Online, who now lives in rural Napa with his family.
"Where's all the affordable housing?" asks Schuler, who now operates the Raydiance ultra-short-pulse (USP) laser firm, based in Petaluma; Orlando, Fla.; and Chevy Chase, Md. He blames an entrenched no-growth mentality for crippling Napa's ability to house its own workers. "There's a collective 'puke' reaction to building anything," says Schuler, who's also a founder of Napa's private Blue Oak School and of his family's estate winery, Meteor, in the county's Coombsville area. "We have to figure it out."
Rogal believes he may have figured it out, as far as anyone has: The 152-acre Napa Pipe property, which his group purchased for about $40 million just before Christmas in 2005, could accommodate more than enough housing—including homes affordable for moderate-, low- and very low-income families—to satisfy the state well into the future.
His Napa Redevelopment Partners is proposing far more than a housing development for the onetime Kaiser Steel facility: The group's vision is to create a new urban neighborhood, with as many as 3,200 residences in multi-story townhomes, along with 15,000 square feet of restaurant space, 25,000 square feet of retail development, 50,000 square feet of offices, a 500,000-square-foot business park, a 150-room condo-hotel and 50 acres of open space and privately funded, publicly accessible parks located along the Napa River and throughout the development.
Those numbers—especially the 3,200 housing units—caused widespread consternation among Napans when the partners applied for permission to develop Napa Pipe, which is located outside city limits. But when Rogal, who lives at the high-end Carneros Inn he developed out of a dilapidated mobile-home park in the county years ago, appeared before the supervisors in September to report on the project, only one resident rose to make a public comment: government watchdog Haley, who said he'd come to support the proposal for the sake of the housing Napa Pipe could provide.
The uneventful meeting posed a sharp contrast to this year's contentious political campaign over county ballot Measure N, which took direct aim at the Napa Pipe proposal by seeking to require voter approval for all growth of more than 1 percent per year, and for any new building taller than 35 feet. Rumors were rife that rival developers were behind the challenge, but Napa attorney Jim Marshall and a hired consultant from Omaha were the only public faces of Measure N, steadfastly refusing to identify who provided the initial funding for their Napa Coalition for Responsible Growth. Rogal's group struck back with its own campaign, called Keep Napa Napa, raising $700,000 to argue that Measure N could actually force development sprawl in the county's prized rural areas.
A county-commissioned, independent study of Measure N's potential legal and fiscal impacts found that an initiative taking the housing approval process out of the hands of county officials and placing it before voters was virtually guaranteed to land Napa back in court once again; but the ballot race was a close one. Amid a hail of political mailers and hundreds of angry posts to the Napa Valley Register website, Napa County voters in June narrowly rejected the measure, while the state's Fair Political Practices Commission said it would investigate the Coalition for Responsible Growth for violating campaign ethics laws by under-reporting its expenses.
Meanwhile, city of Napa officials have been wary at the prospect of a new neighborhood taking shape just outside their own sphere of influence. Water, traffic and the potential fiscal drain on city services are all areas of concern, and Napa Redevelopment Partners has provided more than $500,000 to fund studies on the proposal's potential impacts on all three topics. A city-county study group, as well as a subcommittee of two county supervisors and two city council members, have both been meeting regularly to talk about how Napa Pipe could provide housing and revenue to benefit both municipalities. And Rogal insists the new community won't be a burden on existing municipal resources. A Mello-Roos property tax, guaranteed by the developers, would pay for vital services.
Also, officials say, just because the partners are proposing more than 3,000 homes doesn't mean the county will approve that many. "We're talking about years of development; we're talking about city-county collaboration," says Supervisor Mark Luce. "Whether the project is 3,200 [housing units] or 1,200 is really yet to be determined. Our eyes are open to what makes sense to everyone."
Rogal, too, says his firm is open to comments and suggestions from throughout the Napa community; he began leading weekly walking tours of the site in October, through which he's met with scores of citizens and explained the proposal—to "overwhelmingly positive" response. "We're committed to hearing from everyone," he says.
One reason Napa Redevelopment Partners is proposing such high-density housing at Napa Pipe is because they'll be smaller and less expensive units than most of the county's existing residences. "We could have proposed to put in 800 high-end homes," Rogal says. "The high-end residential development idea is certainly one that can be quite profitable, and it's not a very difficult business plan to execute.
"Easiest of all would be to simply keep the present General Plan's 'industrial' designation and zoning in place, not do a major clean-up of the site and simply redevelop it as a major distribution/light industrial area with about 2 million square feet of building. But neither the high-end residential nor the industrial approach help with traffic or affordable housing needs. Actually, both would simply exacerbate current problems.
"There's a total disconnect between the housing we need and the housing we have," he explains, with 92 percent of the county's housing stock in single-family detached housing—often with multiple families or generations sharing a single address to cut costs. At the same time, high home prices are forcing many younger Napans to move out of the county, Rogal adds: "Very large numbers of working people can't find a place they can afford.
"A purely high-end subdivision development is very attractive to people from out of town," Rogal continues. "But it clearly doesn't do much of anything for the commuting workforce; it doesn't meet the needs related to Napa's younger people." Residential subdivisions also add to regional traffic woes, with each detached home generating multiple car trips a day. "There's simply nothing you can do, in those developments on the outskirts of American Canyon, without getting in your car," Rogal says. "You can't take your kid to daycare; you can't buy a loaf of bread; you can't meet your friend for a drink; you can't buy a coffee; you can't pick up your dry cleaning without getting in your car."
By comparison with this traditional model, which Rogal sees as "failing us as a society," Napa Pipe offers what he calls "a colossal opportunity to do something dramatically better." Based on the anti-sprawl principles of New Urbanism—think Seaside, Fla., the setting for "The Truman Show"—the Napa Pipe proposal aims to get residents walking, biking and riding public transit; there's even talk of a local railway with stops near major employers, though Rogal says commuter service will begin with shuttles. Shops and businesses will be located near housing; garage parking will be on secondary streets, so walkers won't have to dodge vehicles coming out of driveways. Laid out on a classic grid—no cul-de-sacs or "courts"—the streets will take about five minutes to walk from the center to the edge of the development, Rogal says. There will be river access for boaters and likely a water taxi to downtown Napa.
Locals need not fear that the entire project will erupt like a volcano out of the now-vacant property. Once Napa Redevelopment Partners has received a green light to go forward with whatever development plan it hammers out with the county (following environmental impact reports and extensive public comment), there will be some two more years of clean-up work on the heavy industrial site before anything can be built. After that, Rogal says, the partners would add housing at the rate of about 300 units per year.
The next question: Will the Napa Pipe units really be purchased by Napa Valley residents, or will they be snapped up as weekend and vacation cribs? It's a real worry for Supervisor Diane Dillon, who says in her home town of St. Helena, one in three houses is a vacation property. Supervisor Mark Luce is so concerned about this issue that he wants to create a "work proximity" housing ordinance that would offer builders incentives for imposing some restrictions on who can purchase new homes in Napa County. "We're still gathering ideas about how to accomplish this goal," says Luce.
Rogal has indicated his group is willing to work with Luce and other county leaders who are trying to craft a law that gives local workers more homebuying power.
"The idea isn't to control the price of housing," explains Luce. "Rather, it's to define the market as people who work nearby and have builders build and sell to that market without price controls." n
To learn more about the Napa Pipe site and development proposal, visit www.ahomefornapans.com.
Napa County agendas, minutes and meeting videos are posted online at www.co.napa.ca.us
Napa city agendas, minutes and videos are at www.cityofnapa.org.
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Paramount Wants Twilight Actor Taylor Lautner in Max Steel
by Alex Billington
December 4, 2009
Source: LA Times
It was first reported that Paramount had picked up rights to the Mattel's toy line Max Steel with plans of turning it into a feature film back in July. Boy, things move quick at that studio. Now, according to the LA Times, Paramount really wants 17-year-old Twilight star Taylor Lautner to play the lead character Josh McGrath, an extreme sports athlete. In the original WB Kids show (that was based on the toys), McGrath is "accidentally exposed to the unleashed power of nanotechological machines, which become part of him and give him increased strength, near-invulnerability and the ability to change his appearance." Sounds fun, eh?
According to the LA Times report, Lautner's agents want to line him up for a lead role following Twilight. He's not signed for the role yet, but Paramount wants him because "he can bring young women into theaters -- always a positive for any action picture." Of course. But do you want these screaming girls in your theater watching this with you? Well, I can already say that if he gets cast, I probably won't even be going to theaters to see this. I don't know about everyone else, but I haven't seen Lautner ever prove that he's a capable actor. Then again, he hasn't really been in much besides Twilight, give or take a role on "My Own Worst Enemy".
I don't know, I wasn't really excited for this when it was initially announced. And attaching Lautner doesn't help. In fact, it turns me off, but that's probably because I'm tired of all this Team Jacob crap. You as well?
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text: Hi all, I have been phised. The supposed apology from PM John Howard was in fact too good to be true. The Australian Government has shut down a parody website that mocked Australian Prime Minister John Howard. The website featured a satirical speech that 'apologised' for the Iraq war. The site was down for two days before a phone call from Melbourne IT advised the owner that it had been shut down 'on the advice from the Australian Government'. See below article in The Sydney Morning Herald. I will be sure to double verify my sources in the future. Best, Wilson Government orders spoof site shut By Louisa Hearn March 17, 2006 http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/government-shuts-howard-spoof-site/2006/ 03/17/1142098638843.html# A spoof John Howard website that featured a soul searching "apology" speech for the Iraq war has been shut down under orders from the Australian Government. Richard Neville, an Australian futurist and social commentator was "mystified" to discover his satirical website johnhowardpm.org had been blocked on Tuesday with no explanation from either his web hosting company, Yahoo or the domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. He said that after two days of silence, a customer service representative from Melbourne IT today informed him by telephone that the site had "been closed on the advice from the Australian Government". Mr Neville's satirical "apology" speech ran on a mocked-up version of a spoof website that resembled Mr Howard's own, and after going live on Monday, received 10,500 visits within 24 hours. Bruce Tonkin, the chief technology officer at Melbourne IT, said the site had been shut down in response to a request from the Prime Minister's office on basis that it looked too similar to its own site. "If we receive a complaint from an intellectual property basis claiming that a website directly infringes the rights of another site we would check it, and if it is a direct copy we would suspend the site," he said. He said the issue of whether or not the content was satirical was of no consequence to Melbourne IT. "To us it looks like a phishing site," he said. Mr Neville contests that there are any similarities between a satirical website and a phishing operation, which would typically carry an intent of data or financial theft. "I don't see how you can make judgements that ignore the content or intention of the site. To give the satire more impact it was important to make it look like an official speech. Obviously there was no hacking of the original site, and I did not choose to make it too close to the actual design, and my name and address were readily accessible," he said. He added that one of the reasons he had chosen Yahoo's hosting service was because it did not have any obvious policies that restricted the nature of content that could be published. "If there were objections to the content on the site, isn't there a democratic tradition that I be informed of it," he said. Mr Neville describes the parody as an act of satire and culture jamming, and is now running a link to a PDF copy of the speech on his website. He has been involved in satirical publishing since the 1960's when he edited Oz magazine, which covered contentious issues of the time. However some of the subject matter led to obsenity charges for him and his colleagues, that were later overturned. # # #


text: Jon February 09, 2012 12:10 PM TC, are you familiar with the expression 'cut off your nose to spite your face'? If the Big H get the hump and pull out of MotoGP, where will we be? It seems almost fashionable to hate Honda, even though they've fielded more bikes than anyone in the 4 stroke MotoGP era. Trust me, you'll miss them when they're gone so be nice! Reply Report abuse 4 agree 1 disagree


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CALGARY — The boom in U.S. shale oil and natural gas production threatens to cut off a key supply of skilled temporary foreign workers for Alberta companies, as more tradespeople opt to work on large infrastructure projects in the United States despite the lure of dramatically higher wages in Western Canada.
"There's going to be a battle between what goes up north versus what comes down south," said Mike Bergen, executive vice-president of Sugar Land, Tex.-based market research firm Industrial Info Resources.
Advances in drilling technology have unlocked new supplies of crude oil and natural gas from hard-to-reach reservoirs across much of the U.S. By 2025, shale gas alone could add more than one million workers to the U.S. manufacturing industry, according to a fall report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers, reducing costs for raw materials and energy by as much as US$11.6-billion annually.
"You get a big [liquefied natural gas] project that takes place and then you get several of these big refinery projects and then here comes a new ethylene plant," Mr. Bergen said. "That's going to draw a lot of labour."
Alberta's perennially tight labour market means average wages for electricians, boilermakers, plumbers and pipefitters, carpenters and structural steelworkers are anywhere from 70% to 136% higher than median U.S. wages, depending on the trade, according to a five-year outlook published Monday by Industrial Info.
The high wages contribute to an operating environment already seen as one of the most expensive regions in the world from which to extract oil, at a time Alberta's heavy blend of crude, Western Canada Select, is subject to steep price discounts in the U.S.
Larry Matychuk, business manager for the Edmonton-based Local 488 branch of the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters, said the base wage rate for members is $43.77 per hour plus benefits.
He said the union regularly turns to its U.S. affiliates for additional tradespeople during "shut down season," a four-month annual stretch when refineries and bitumen upgrading plants shut down for maintenance, exacerbating worker shortages.
"We've had 200 to 300 of them up here at a time," he said of the U.S. tradespeople. "We expect that that's going to increase. We offer jobs to Canadians first. However, there is work picking up across Canada now. There's work in Saskatchewan; there's work in Newfoundland. Work is starting to pick up in Ontario and B.C. We don't have access to as many of the Canadians as we used to have."
ExxonMobil Corp. said last week it was moving ahead with its US$14-billion Hebron development offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.
The project, designed to recover more than 700 million barrels of oil from the Jeanne d'Arc basin roughly 350 kilometres southeast of St. John's, will employ up to 3,500 people during construction, the Irving, Tex.-based energy giant said.
That could spell trouble for Alberta oil producers. The latest figures compiled by the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada suggest at least 9,500 jobs could go unfilled in the country's oil and gas industry by 2015.
Oil sands production is poised to increase 44% by then from today's levels, to 2.48 million barrels per day, according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
An influx of U.S. tradespeople could help with facility expansions needed to boost production, Mr. Matychuk said, "if the Americans are available at the time when we need them."
Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, expressed concern about Americans filling Canadian jobs in the oil sands.
"We're not talking about sharing a cup of sugar with them," he said in an interview. "We're talking about jobs that pay in excess of $100,000 a year. We should not be allowing these jobs to go to people outside of Canada without first doing everything we can to provide opportunities to Canadians."
The point may be moot, as workers in the U.S. help rejig facilities to meet new sulphur specifications in gasoline plus accommodate soaring production of U.S. shale oil fields.
Refiners are "engaging in some pretty big projects" on the Texas Gulf Coast, Mr. Bergen at Industrial Info noted. "We're anticipating some pretty decent expansion work on distillate and crude conversions for taking the shale crude," he said.


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The Wall Street Journal article also states:
3D TV sales this year have fallen
far short of expectations with the
CEA saying it could top out at just
1.1 million sold in the U.S.
However, many 3D enthusiasts, noting
that HDTV sales also lagged in the
first year, say it's just a matter
of time before the new sets take
But Shapiro says people shouldn't look at 3D as a type of TV, but rather a feature that will be available in high-end TVs.
"The truth is that every high-end TV will be 3D."
Sharpiro told TVPredictions.com that his views have not changed since early 2010. But the executive told 3DGuy.TV in a video interview at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in January that "this year will be the first year that 3D TV will be sold en masse...3D is going to be something that's out there BIG (Shapiro emphasized the word, big, in his statement.) in the marketplace in 2010."
And when asked by Dave Graveline, host of Into Tomorrow, what new products at 2010 CES had him "pumped," Shapiro mentioned 3D TV first in a list of several items that also included mobile TV, ereaders and smart phones.
One might argue that such talk could have contributed to the 'hyping' of 3D TV during 2010. But Shapiro did tell SolidSignal TV that 3D "won't be for everyone, but it will be exciting."
Some industry officials seem in recent weeks to be retreating from boasts that 3D TV would be the next big thing. For example, ESPN, which launched a 3D channel last June, said recently that it's not sure if it will keep it going in year two. And DIRECTV said last month that it believes that 3D will ultimately be a niche service.


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President Barack Obama recently said all possible U.S. resources are galvanized to determine what happened to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 aircraft. The FBI and National Transportation Safety Board are assisting in the investigation.
The agency not mentioned and likely, with Australian counterparts, the one that discovered debris off the coast of Australia, possibly the plane's wing wreckage, is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
The NGA is responsible for command, control, communications and intelligence of satellites orbiting the earth. The agency tracks and collects data and imagery in support of U.S. military, civilian and defense intelligence missions.
The satellites can read the numbers and letters of a vehicle license plate at 25,000 feet with 100 percent accuracy.
If and when the remains of the Boeing 777 are found, it will be in large part due to the efforts of the NGA working in concert with other civilian/government authorities to find the aircraft and solve the mysterious case of its disappearance.


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Economists are predicting better news in Friday's revised jobs report based on the view that everything from housing starts to retail sales suggest the Canadian economy is not as bleak as first suggested in last week's erroneous Labour Force Survey.
The agency took the highly unusual move this week of pulling its monthly job report after finding an error. The nature and size of the mistake won't be revealed until Friday morning when Statistics Canada releases its corrected report.
The report that was pulled showed Canada lost 59,700 full-time jobs in July, while 60,000 part-time jobs were created, for an overall flat market.
Economists had been projecting 20,000 overall job gains in July and were dusting off those projections ahead of Friday's release.
National Bank chief economist Stéfane Marion is among the more optimistic forecasters, with an expectation that July will actually show a net gain of 30,000 jobs. He argues the original Statistics Canada report was out of sync with the strength shown in other economic indicators.
One of the most glaring examples was that last Friday's report said the construction industry lost 42,200 jobs in July, which was at odds with a Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. report showing housing starts beat expectations in July.
"That was mind-boggling," he said. "These are numbers we don't see outside recessions. I just don't believe we're in a recession, so therefore I would expect the full-time employment numbers to be [higher]."
The Labour Force Survey is arguably the agency's most important report. It produces the national and regional unemployment rates and provides key information as to the performance of various sectors and regions of the economy.
Former agency employees say there is a detailed system of checks and balances that is meant to catch errors. Statistics Canada has said it is not aware of any previous occasion where it has pulled its Labour Force Survey. The only explanation it has provided is that the error was connected to a new processing system that was launched in July.
One issue economists are struggling with is whether to give the pulled report any weight at all or dismiss it completely.
CIBC's chief economist Avery Shenfeld put out two projections Thursday. If the pulled Statscan report is rejected out of hand, then CIBC reverts to its original expectation of a 20,000 job gain. On the other hand, with the assumption that the Statscan report was "partly" right, the bank would cut its forecast to 10,000 new jobs.
"Combining these two scenarios, then, logic suggests that we should indeed be expecting an upwards revision," wrote Mr. Shenfeld in a research note. However the economist cautioned that it is hard to make such estimates given that the agency has not provided any hint as to the magnitude of its mistake.
As a former employee of Statistics Canada, Toronto-Dominion Bank chief economist Craig Alexander expressed some sympathy for officials at the agency.
"This was my true worst nightmare when I worked there," said Mr. Alexander, who held several positions at the agency between 1992 and 1996. "I can appreciate that things things can happen. On the other hand, oh my goodness, the Labour Force Survey? It was absolutely the wrong survey to have an error on."
The mistake builds on broader frustration with the appearance of high volatility in the survey's month-to-month numbers. Part of that may be a mix of a low-growth economy and the survey's wide margin of error. The effect is that observers now focus more on trends rather than the latest monthly report.
"I find it very frustrating," Mr. Alexander said. "The volatility in the numbers is such that I don't put a lot of weight on the last data point any more. I focus on three month, six month, 12 month averages because it's too volatile."Report Typo/Error
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"I guess it was on account of the fire engine," spoke up Jimmy Norton.
Noises we hear, the warning shriek of the fire engine or the honk!
At that time there was only one fire engine in the town, and that was not in a state to work.
Who ever heard of a fire engine in the heart of the Florida Everglades?
A fire engine was considered an appropriate present for an aspirant to a borough.
"Yep; my fire engine is all right," answered the little fellow.
Here you will see them most often as mascots in fire engine houses.
These yielded to the fire engine, with leathern pipes, which was patented in 1676.
For lifeboat and fire engine purposes, as Captain Shaw pointed out at Vienna, this was of great consequence.
But if I had my fire engine here Flossie and I could have some fun.


text: Posted September 19, 2013 I just don't think that Gettleman has been the straight shooter that he purports himself to be. Granted, I am looking on the outside in (like everyone else), but what Gettleman says, and what he does is not adding up. It makes me think that there may have been a bit of credence to all the tinfoil hat talk in regards to our rookie GM. I just can't get over the fact that G-man insinuated that the team must win now, but continues to sit on his hands while veteran depth on the O-line is getting thin (Max Starks being the latest to sign with the Rams). I mean, does he really believe that he is doing Cam and the rest of the team any favors by not addressing an obvious problem that can really derail everything that we are trying to do offensively? Byron Bell's play was brutal, by most accounts, and it's not like the rest of that side has proven trustworthy either. I mean, what in the hell, is G-man just letting everything play itself out so that he doesn't really have to make tough decisions by setting up for failure? To me, it sounds a little preposterous, but, then again, what is the reason for all the relative silence as the team faces a situation that looks pretty precarious, with the Giants coming to town? I get the sense that G-man is distancing himself from not only Rivera (and possibly Cam), but that he is mentally preparing himself to clean house and effectively tank the season. And if this is the case, I ask "To what end?" Does G-man not believe that we are "close"? Does he still believe that the answers to our problems are on the roster? I give him props for bringing in Quintin Mikell and re-signing Florence, but after seeing our defensive backfield's injuries and performance, Does G-man think we can really win the game on Sunday? After evaluating the first two games, does G-man continue to believe that we have enough at the other skilled positions to really contend beyond December? I am tired of mentioning it, but would a 5th-7th round draft pick be so much to give up for Denarius Moore and/or Kenny Britt, two WRs that may have the ability to come and give us some relatively immediate help at a relatively small cost (with Britt being a 14 game tryout)? Does our rookie GM really know what he's doing from a personnel standpoint with this perceived mess, or is he over his head, much like Ron Rivera seems to be over his head? Depending on one's perspective, one might be able to see some parallels. But, alas, perhaps I am just reading too much into the situation because of Gettleman's silence? An idle mind is the Devil's workshop. But, what G-man has said just isn't quite adding up to what he's doing, unless, like I said, he's checked out. One thing I do know, the virtual "silence" is confusing, if not disconcerting. 1 person likes this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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5 Drivers Arrested at Sobriety Checkpoint in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara County - December 20th, 2013
'AVOID The 12' conducted a multi-agency DUI and driver's license checkpoint on Saturday December 21st and Sunday December 22nd between 8:00 PM and 3:00 AM in the 400 block of Chapala Street in the City of Santa Barbara. This operation was one of 17 DUI enforcement operations that will be or have been conducted throughout Santa Barbara County during the 20 Day Winter Mobilization Period which runs from Friday, December 13th through Wednesday, January 1st. Officers from the Alcohol and Beverage Control (ABC), Guadalupe, Santa Barbara, and UCSB Police Departments worked alongside deputies from the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office at the sobriety checkpoint. Here are the results of the checkpoint:
Vehicles Screened: 550
DUI Arrests: 4
Felony Arrest: 1
Driving without a Valid Driver's License: 6
Driving with a suspended driver's license: 1
Vehicles Impounded for 30 days: 1
Vehicles Impounded for 1 day: 7
Miscellaneous citations: 3
Lori Elizabeth Bates (10-12-60) of Oxnard was arrested for DUI.
Bahtia Eryon Bilow (07-30-89) of Santa Barbara was arrested for DUI.
Kristi Ann Krenta (10-04-77) of San Diego was arrested for DUI.
Marc Dohn Ritzema (06-26-77) of Pasadena was arrested for DUI.
Felip Monterosa (02-19-91) of Goleta was arrested for felony possession of a concealed knife and possession of marijuana.
'AVOID The 12" will also have a DUI Task Force in the City of Santa Barbara on Saturday December 28th between 6:00 PM and 4:00 AM.
Extra local DUI Saturation Patrols will be deployed in the cities of Goleta, Guadalupe, Lompoc, Santa Barbara, and Santa Maria through January 1st.
The national "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" crackdown is led by the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), with the California Avoid DUI Task Force Campaign combining high-visibility enforcement and heightened public awareness and impaired driving deterrence through publicity.
'AVOID the 12' refers to the number of Law Enforcement agencies in Santa Barbara County that you will avoid being in contact with should you chose to drive sober.
DUI arrest data collection will continue through New Year's Weekend, midnight Sunday, January 1, 2014.
For more information contact:
Sergeant Kevin Huddle
Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office
Office (805) 961-7516
Business Hours: (805) 681-4100


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A collection of thematically linked tales based on traditional ghost stories told to the author by her Vietnamese grandmother is updated to reflect the metaphorical shadow of the Vietnam War and the experiences of residents and displaced immigrants. - (Baker & Taylor)
A collection of thematically linked tales based on traditional ghost stories told to the author by her Vietnamese grandmother is updated to reflect the metaphorical shadow of the Vietnam War and the experiences of residents and displaced immigrants. 20,000 first printing. - (Baker & Taylor)
A collection of linked short stories about ghosts and hauntings in modern Vietnam and in the Vietnamese-American community. Some are inspired by old Vietnamese legends but reimagined in the post-1975 world--Provided by publisher. - (Baker & Taylor)
An extraordinarily compelling debut—ghost stories that grapple with the legacy of the Vietnam WarA beautiful young woman appears fully dressed in an overflowing bathtub at the Frangipani Hotel in Hanoi. A jaded teenage girl in Houston befriends an older Vietnamese gentleman she discovers naked behind a dumpster. A trucker in Saigon is asked to drive a dying young man home to his village. A plump Vietnamese-American teenager is sent to her elderly grandmother in Ho Chi Minh City to lose weight, only to be lured out of the house by the wafting aroma of freshly baked bread. In these evocative and always surprising stories, the supernatural coexists with the mundane lives of characters who struggle against the burdens of the past.Based on traditional Vietnamese folk tales told to Kupersmith by her grandmother, these fantastical, chilling, and thoroughly contemporary stories are a boldly original exploration of Vietnamese culture, addressing both the immigrant experience and the lives of those who remained behind. Lurking in the background of them all is a larger ghost—that of the Vietnam War, whose legacy continues to haunt us.Violet Kupersmith's voice is an exciting addition to the landscape of American fiction. With tremendous depth and range, her stories transcend their genre to make a wholly original statement about the postwar experience.Praise for The Frangipani Hotel"[A] subversively clever debut collection . . . These stories—playful, angry, at times legitimately scary—demonstrate a subtlety of purpose that belies [Kupersmith's] youth."—The New York Times Book Review"Magical, beautiful, modern stories, all based on traditional Vietnamese folktales, [The Frangipani Hotel] invokes the ghosts of the land that was left behind."—San Francisco Chronicle"[A] sparkling debut . . . playful and wise, an astonishing feat for a young writer."—Chicago Tribune"A series of short stories that are as fresh as they are mesmerizing, The Frangipani Hotel will haunt you long after the last words have drifted off the page."—Lisa See"Auspicious . . . wildly energetic."—Elle"Enthralling stories . . . teeming with detail and personality."—Asian Review of Books"Chilling and lovely . . . Kupersmith has combined traditional storytelling with a post-modern sense of anxiety and darkness, and the result is captivating."—Bookreporter"The stories shimmer with life. . . . Kupersmith [is] one to watch."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) - (Random House, Inc.)
Violet Kupersmith graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2011 and then spent a year in Vietnam on a Fulbright teaching fellowship. She is currently at work on a novel. - (Random House, Inc.)
Booklist Reviews
Set in Vietnam and the U.S., these stories integrate the darker elements of Vietnamese folklore and myth. The nine pieces of short fiction feature a variety of characters who come from different economic and educational backgrounds and often spotlight relations among family members. In "Reception," the slowly unfolding narrative encompasses the family running the Hotel Frangipani, an American businessman, and the beautiful manifestation of a local spirit. Internal tensions among characters propel narratives and create a suspenseful atmosphere. "Guests" features an American woman employed by the consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, her Canadian lover, and the people, local and expatriate, who surround them. Readers get to decide the outcome of several of the stories. One with an ambiguous ending, "Red Veil," begins in a Catholic convent, alternates between modern and historic Vietnam, and spotlights the tragedy of two sisters, a new stepmother, and the revenge of a human channel for the spirits of the dead. This first collection introduces a writer to watch and belongs in any library serving a short story readership. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews.
Library Journal Reviews
Fresh out of Mt. Holyoke, Kupersmith draws on stories told by her Vietnamese grandmother to offer thematically linked pieces that illuminate the consequences of the Vietnam War. She hasn't even been published yet—she first appears this fall in the Massachusetts Review with "The Red Veil"—so the in-house excitement is noteworthy.
What is most haunting in Kupersmith's nine multilayered pieces are not the specters, whose tales are revealed as stories within stories, but the lingering loss and disconnect endured by the still living. With an American father and a Vietnamese "former boat refugee" mother, the author channels her bicultural history to create contemporary, post-Vietnam War glimpses of reclamation and reinvention on both sides of East and West. In "Skin and Bones," two Houston sisters visit their Ho Chi Minh City grandmother "to rediscover their roots" but more realistically because "Vietnam Was Fat Camp." In "Guests," a pair of American expat lovers have diverging expectations. A dying youth tries to steal another's body in "Little Brother," and an insistent knock at the door demands retribution 40 years after the war in "One-Finger." In "Reception," set in the titular Frangipani Hotel, the clerk's family's past overlaps with the coming new brand of the ugly American. VERDICT The wunderkind moniker will soon enough be attached to the 1989-born Kupersmith, who wrote most of these stories as a Mt. Holyoke undergraduate. Her mature-beyond-her-years debut deserves equal shelf space with other spare, provocative collections, such as Paul Yoon's Once the Shore, Lauren Groff's Delicate Edible Birds, and Yoko Ogawa's Revenge. [See Prepub Alert, 10/14/13.]—Terry Hong, Smithsonian BookDragon, Washington, DC


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Scintillation - a flash of light, lasting only nanoseconds to microseconds, produced in a particular material when it absorbs ionizing radiation - is one of the main methods used for the detection of ionizing radiation. Scintillators are very versatile and can be used for detecting almost all types of radiation in a wide range of energy from several electron volts (eV) to tens of billion of electron volts (GeV). Scintillation is useful for sensing alpha, beta and gamma radiation as well as other nuclear particles and in some cases determining the particle type. For example, organic scintillators can sense fast neutrons emitted spontaneously from fissile isotopes of uranium and plutonium, enabling passive detection of nuclear weapons. The detection and identification of subatomic particles is not only important for nuclear nonproliferation efforts but is a wide-ranging scientific problem with implications for medical devices, radiography, biochemical analysis, particle physics, and even astrophysics. Scientists from the Sandia National Laboratories in California have now proposed that metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) could potentially offer the desired level of structural control, leading to an entirely new class of radiation detection materials.Posted: Jan 14th, 2009
Olfaction, our sense of smell, depends on the capability of specialized sensory cells in the nose to detect airborne odorant molecules. These olfactory cells contain specific protein molecules that acts as 'olfactory receptors' - they bind only to specific odorant molecules present in the air inhaled through the nose. When such a binding event occurs, the olfactory receptors change their shape and this deformation triggers chemical and electrical signals which are eventually transmitted to the brain through neurons. So, in a nutshell, this is how we smell. Human and especially some animal noses (think bomb-sniffing dogs) are very sophisticated and extremely sensitive gas sensors that can distinguish between very similar gas molecules. Researchers have been trying for a while to replicate the human olfactory sense - a concept called electronic nose (e-nose). While most nanotechnology-based efforts have focused on nanowires, new research conducted in Korea has demonstrated the detection of specific odorant molecules with a single-carbon-atomic resolution using a human olfactory receptor-functionalized carbon nanotube based sensor.Posted: Jan 8th, 2009
Miniaturizing traditional laboratory assays to automated lab-on-a-chip devices holds tremendous potential for enabling multiplex, efficient, cost-effective and accurate pathogen sensing systems for both security and medical applications. These sensors could be used to detect bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella, but also other pathogens that could be used for bioterrorism. Traditional identification methods required time intensive cell culturing processes but novel pathogen sensors based on nanomaterials are promising vastly improved and speedy detection technologies. A recent example is a label-free sensor chip assembled from peptide nanotubes that enables the electrical detection of viruses with an extremely low detection limit. This could lead to compact super-sensitive pathogen detection chips for point of care applications that have a high tolerance against false-positive signals.Posted: Dec 2nd, 2008
Genomics and proteomics, the studies of genes and proteins, provide the underlying basis for many advances in drug development and effective treatments of diseases. These studies heavily rely on unveiling the behavior of a single DNA or protein in an investigative sample. You could compare this challenge to somehow finding, then catching and monitoring a particular fish in a vast ocean. The scientific term for 'catching the fish' is 'immobilization' - a powerful technique for the study of biochemical systems that allows for the continuous observation of dynamic behavior of a chosen target. Immobilization methods anchor the to be observed molecule onto a surface in order to restrict it from escaping the observation volume. Researchers have now developed a new platform which consists of a carbon nanotube nanoneedle for capturing, isolating and measuring the activity of miniscule amounts of proteins.Posted: Oct 3rd, 2008
Artificial skin already exists that can detect pressure and recently, thanks to carbon nanotube rubber, it now even is stretchable. Then there is stretchable artificial skin that is used, for instance, to provide grafts for human burns victims, but it is insensitive to heat and pressure. Skin-like sensitivity, or the capability to recognize tactile information, will be an essential feature of future generations of robots. Of course you could also dream up some sci-fi scenarios where artificial electronic skin vastly enhances human perception and performance. The development of electronic skin requires high-performance tactile sensors that mimic human skin in terms of touch sensation over a large area, high flexibility, resolution, and sensitivity comparable to a human finger, as well as ease of signal extraction for speed and implementation. A recent review article summarizes the current state of developing artificial touch, an area where significant progress has been made over the past few years.Posted: Sep 30th, 2008
'Smart' is the key buzz word used by materials engineers when they describe the future of coatings, textiles, building structures, vehicles and just any material that you can think of. Materials are made 'smart' when they are engineered to have properties that change in a controlled manner under the influence of external stimuli such as mechanical stress, temperature, humidity, electric charge, magnetic fields etc. Smart materials have some form of sensor capability that detects a change in the material or its environment that then triggers some kind of action. Not only for use in smart materials but as general sensor materials, especially for monitoring large areas, the development of materials that act as 'chemical paints' - or coatings - by responding to a (bio)chemical parameter with a change in their optical properties has developed into an exciting new field. In a typical application, the object of interest is painted and the color or fluorescence of the paint is monitored by methods of optical imaging. This technique represents a simple but exciting new technology to monitor (bio)chemical and even physical parameters over relatively large areas and in real time without having to look at only a minute sample through a microscope.Posted: Sep 26th, 2008
Carbon nanomaterials have been extensively used in electroanalysis, and the most common forms are spherical fullerenes, cylindrical nanotubes, and carbon fibers and blacks. Since the discovery that individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can be used as nanoscale transistors, researchers have recognized their outstanding potential for electronic detection of biomolecules in solution, possibly down to single-molecule sensitivity. To detect biologically derived electronic signals, CNTs are often functionalized with linkers such as proteins and peptides to interface with soluble biologically relevant targets. Now, for the first time, scientists have tested nanometal decorated graphene (actually graphite nanoplatelets, a thickness of 10 nm would contain approximately 30 graphene sheets, considering an interlayer spacing of 0.335 nm) in biosensor application. As it turned out, this novel biosensor is among the best reported to date in both sensing performance and production cost.Posted: Sep 8th, 2008
Borrowing from nature's micro- and nanoscale propulsion systems, nanotechnology researchers have successfully used motor proteins to transport nanosized cargo in molecular sorting and nano-assembly devices. In so-called gliding assays, surface-attached motors propel cytoskeletal filaments, which in turn transport a cargo. However, cargo and motors both attach to the filament lattice and will affect each other. While an effect of cargo loading on transport speed has been described before, it has never been explained very well. To study this effect, scientists in Germany have observed single kinesin-1 molecules on streptavidin coated microtubules. They found that individual kinesin-1 motors frequently stopped upon encounters with attached streptavidin molecules. This work helps to understand the interactions of kinesin-1 and obstacles on the microtubule surface. An interesting, possibly even more important side result is that this understanding will not only help to optimize transport assays, balancing speed and cargo-loading, but can be used as a novel method for the detection of proteins as well.Posted: Sep 4th, 2008


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Columbus, OH (PRWEB) April 15, 2014
Lake Shore Cryotronics, a leading innovator in solutions for measurement over a wide range of temperature and magnetic field conditions, announced today that it will showcase cryogenic probe stations and discuss its new fully integrated system for terahertz (THz) materials characterization at the upcoming MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit in San Francisco, Calif.
Lake Shore offers a full line of cryogenic and cryogen-free probe stations, with configurations and options available for DC, RF and microwave probing of nanoscale devices and materials on full and partial wafers at variable temperatures. For attendees interested in seeing a Lake Shore probe station up close, the company will have its entry-level Model TTPX set up in booth 301 during the April 22–24 exhibit.
Attendees can also learn about Lake Shore's fully configured version of the TTPX (the Model PS-100), which is designed for cost-conscious researchers in need of a basic cryogenic probe station at an affordable price. The Model PS-100 gives users a straightforward probing solution without the complexity of choosing from multiple configuration options. It features a four-arm configuration suitable for most common probing applications.
In addition, Lake Shore will be discussing its new fully integrated Model 8501 THz system for non-contact, THz-frequency characterization of materials. This complete, turnkey hardware/software platform includes a variable-temperature, high-field cryostat for measuring spectroscopic responses across a range of frequencies, temperatures and field strengths. Using continuous wave THz transmission spectroscopy, the Model 8501 enables fully automated, high-resolution characterization for detailed profiles of material responses. Analysis of these spectral profiles can lead to discovery of interesting physical phenomena not visible with other conventional characterization techniques.
Also at MRS Spring, Lake Shore will provide information on its:
- 12-channel Model 224 temperature monitor, the soon-to-be-released Model 372 AC resistance bridge and temperature controller and other temperature instruments
- Hall effect measurement systems, including the 8400 Series HMS with optional AC field Hall measurement
- Magnetometer (VSM/AGM) systems
For more information about any of these products, visit http://www.lakeshore.com.
About Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc.
Supporting advanced research since 1968, Lake Shore (http://www.lakeshore.com) is a leading innovator in measurement and control solutions for materials characterization under extreme temperature and magnetic field conditions. High-performance product solutions from Lake Shore include cryogenic temperature sensors and instrumentation, magnetic test and measurement instruments, probe stations, and precision materials characterizations systems that explore the electronic and magnetic properties of next-generation materials. Lake Shore serves an international base of research customers at leading university, government, aerospace, and commercial research institutions and is supported by a global network of sales and service facilities.


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The enormous influence that Cuba has gained in Venezuela is one of the most underreported geopolitical developments of recent times. It is also one of the most improbable. Venezuela is nine times bigger than Cuba, three times more populous, and its economy four times larger. The country boasts the world's largest oil reserves. Yet critical functions of the Venezuelan state are either overseen or directly controlled by Cuban officials.
The relationship goes beyond subsidies and advantageous business opportunities for Cuban agencies. Cuban officers control Venezuelaメs public notaries and civil registries. Cubans oversee the computer systems of the presidency, ministries, social programmes, police and security services as well as the national oil company, according to Cristina Marcano, a journalist who has reported extensively on Cubaメs influence in Venezuela.
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Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are very lucky that the president of the nation aggrieved by their leaks is Barack Obama of the US and not Rafael Correa. Read more
Latin America's giant economy urgently needs someone like Facebook's founder and chairman. Not to disrupt business models but to disrupt its immigration policies – like Mark Zuckerberg is now doing in the US.
The Facebook chief executive has launched an organisation called FWD.US whose aim is to lobby in favour of comprehensive immigration reform. This lobbying effort is not completely disinterested: one of the group's goals is to make it easier for the companies supporting it to employ foreigners in the US. Read more
Carmen felt both exhausted and thrilled. Exhausted because her 78 years made the 15-hour bus ride too long. And thrilled because she had voted in the presidential election. To do so, she had to travel from Miami to New Orleans. The journey was caused by President Hugo Chávez' decision to close his country's consulate in Miami. So the 20,000 Venezuelans who live there (most of whom are not Chávez supporters) had to choose between not voting or going to New Orleans… Read more
The reality is that, despite many commitments by national leaders, the capacity of nation-states to coordinate their responses has dwindled. Problems may have gone global but the politics of solving them are as local as ever. It is hard for governments to devote resources to problems beyond their national borders and to work with other nations to address these challenges – while painful problems at home remain unsolved. Read more
Mitt Romney is the presidential candidate of one of the world's oldest and most powerful political machines. Henrique Capriles is the candidate of an ad hoc and inchoate amalgam of Venezuelan political groups. Yet confounding expectations, Mr Capriles has run a flawless campaign and on Sunday will confront Chavez with the strongest challenge he has ever faced at the polls. In contrast, Romney's campaign, lavishly funded and full of the best political consultants money can buy, has suffered from endless gaffes, mistakes and miscalculations. So is there anything that Mitt Romney, the 65-year-old veteran of politics and business, can learn from a 40 year-old from a backward country with a deeply flawed democracy? Quite a bit, it turns out. Read more
It is perfectly legitimate for Mr Lula to express his affection and admiration for Mr Chavez. Affects – like love – are blind and deserve respect. But it is not legitimate for Mr Lula to intervene in another country's elections. That's not what democrats do. And Mr Lula knows it. Or he should know it. Read more
Despite its president's fiery rhetoric, Argentina's decision to renationalise YPF was not part of any overarching strategy. Cronyism, rifts between rival oligarchs, political expediency, populism and the wish to please a public resentful of the privatisations of the 1990s all played into the decision – which came in the context of a rapidly deteriorating economic and political situation.
Argentina suffers from high inflation, slowing economic growth, ballooning subsidies, price controls, capital flight, decaying infrastructure and a less than welcoming environment for foreign investors. Sooner or later the situation will become unsustainable. If Ms Fernández keeps postponing reform, her last years in office will be a nightmare – and YPF will be the least of her problems.
As it begins the search for a new president of the World Bank, the Obama White House risks repeating the very same mistakes that all too often in the past have led to the wrong person being appointed. Every time this process begins, those in charge ponderously – and mendaciously – announce it will be "open, transparent and merit-based". They know this is not true, as some of the best candidates are automatically disqualified: only US citizens connected to the occupant of the White House at the time are considered and the process is closed, and only tenuously determined by merit.
So how does this flawed process work be reformed? In the past, it has led to the appointment of candidates who knew little about the bank. The consequences were confusion over its mission and obstacles in the way of providing assistance to countries in need. This is partly the result of the fact that those in charge of making – or influencing – the decision often base it on wrong notions about the ideal background of the Bank's president.
Mr Obama should look for a professional who already knows this field, its ideas, players and traps, who has a vision for the World Bank rooted in practical experience with development and who has already run successfully a global, organisation. This is not the time or the place for 'on-the-job-training'. Nor for paying back political favours. Read more
The ancient Greeks thought that "those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." For them, the surest way to destroy a person is to fill him or her with success, power, prosperity and fame. Excessive success induces inordinate self-confidence, which inevitably leads them to make disastrous mistakes and to failure. Hubris, they called it.
Many centuries later we got the Brics: poor countries whose economic and geopolitical success and influence – and hubris – is growing quickly. And its not just these countries. HSBC, reckons that if current trends continue, by 2050 the 100 largest economies in the world will include (in addition to the Brics and traditional leaders such as the US, Germany and Japan) countries such as the Philippines, Peru, Bangladesh and Colombia. Of course, the critical assumption is "if current trends continue".
Here is where it is worth mentioning the meeting hosted by the World Economic Forum in Davos. After many years of attending these meetings, I have become a great believer in the existence – and the power – of hubris. I do not know if it is the gods or human nature, but success and failure are too frequently inextricably linked and the Davos meeting offers an extraordinary laboratory to observe the phenomenon.
As I was recently talking in Davos with Turks, Brazilians, Indians, Indonesians, Russians and Chinese, the symptoms of the many fallen celebrities who no longer stalk the corridors of this Swiss mountain town seemed just below the surface. Are the gods plotting to put these new arrogant characters in their place? Could it be that a crash is in the future of these emerging countries? Could this be one of the most important warnings coming from this year's meeting on the Alps? Read more
Inequality will be the central theme of 2012, topping the agenda of voters, protesters and politicians running for office.
There is nothing new in the fact that a few people have too much and too many have too little. In the past, this has been hidden from the population (the Soviet Union), tolerated (Latin America) and even celebrated (the US). But the economic crisis made the world more aware of the extent and scope of economic inequality. In 2012, peaceful coexistence with inequality will end and demands and promises to fight it will become fiercer.
The problem is how to lower inequality without harming other goals (investment, innovation, risk-taking, hard work). The fight for a more equal society was the goal of countless experiments that resulted in even more inequality, widespread poverty and loss of freedoms.
This year, elections will take place in 12 important countries, while Spain and China will also change leadership. Inequality will become part of electoral debates that will influence the conversation even in countries where it has long been taken for granted. Read more
The elites didn't revolt and the people didn't take to the streets. What ended Silvio Berlusconi's 17-year run as Italy's most powerful man was the skyrocketing spread between Italian bonds and the German bunds. Had this stayed at under five per cent, Il Cavaliere would still be in power today.
Mr Berlusconi's fall is another manifestation of the clash between global money and local politics. George Papandreou's is another. Mixing the constrains of local politics with the demands of global money creates a witches brew whose effusions can topple governments and shape the global economy. Managing this tension is one of the major challenge of our time.
Money that moves at the speed of light, trade that moves nearby at the speed of cargo containers, governments that move at the speed of politics and labour that does not move much: this is Europe today. There are no easy solutions, no antidote to the problem. But if we are to try to avoid a repeat of the current crisis we must make local politics more attuned to global imperatives and make global finance more responsive to local needs. Read more
Being stuck in traffic is more bearable if the other lanes are moving. If all lanes are jammed for a long time, tempers flare. And if the police eventually arrive and let a few selected cars get out of their lanes and move through a special path, a riot is likely to ensue. This in short is the sentiment that propels the Occupy Wall St protests, and we should take note.
The traffic jam metaphor for the political consequences of economic mobility was originally proposed by Albert Hirschman, the noted economist, to explain changes in tolerance for income in equality in poor countries. The idea is simple: even a modicum of social mobility – sparked by economic growth – buys patience and political stability in developing countries. As people see their neighbours improve their lot they are willing to wait for their turn.
This idea is now in theory applicable to some of the world's wealthiest nations – except that the Occupy Wall Street crowds, the protesters in the City of London, or the Italian and Greek protesters are getting out of their "cars", and clashing with the police not just because they see their "traffic lane" horribly jammed. It's also because they are moving backwards. As they watch wealthy elite gets richer, they are getting increasingly angry. Read more
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday it strongly opposed North Korea's latest nuclear test and urged its ally to abide by its non-nuclear commitment and not take any actions that would worsen the situation on the Korean peninsula.
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North Korea, which is banned under U.N. Security Council resolutions from developing nuclear and missile technology, said the test "was carried out at a high level in a safe and perfect manner", according to its official KCNA news agency.
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The Springfield Armory GI Hi-Cap 1911 is a blend of old and new. It has the feel of the G.I. pistols of World War One and World War Two, but with a magazine capacity of 13 rounds for the kind of firepower many GI's wished they'd had.
It's a full size 1911, but with a slightly wider frame to accomodate a double-stack 13 round magazine. The frame and slide are forged steel, with a parkerized finish that's tougher than anodized. The 5" steel barrel is oxidized as well.
Unlike other G.I. models, the Hi-Cap has black polymer grips instead of wood. It has the same spur hammer, as well as the flat style grip safety.
The solid trigger is 100% GI-style, with a pull weight of 5-6 pounds. The magazine has a plastic extension to aid in reloading.
With all of these features, and a lifetime warranty, this is the pistol for anyone who wants extra firepower combined with a period look.
Model number: PW9701LP
Every Springfield Armory 1911 pistol is equipped with a trigger locking device. A key inserted into a hole in the rear grip strap positively locks the trigger, making it impossible for a child to accidentally discharge the gun. This system gives you a choice as to whether or not you need to lock your gun. Unlike trigger locks on other brands of guns, the keyhole is small, so that it doesn't ruin the looks of the gun.
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Reviews of the Hi-Cap G.I. 1911:
Overall Rating:
5 out of 5
"Just picked it up this week, was looking at a standard 1911, when i saw this in case, like full feel of grip, double stack i guess could come in handy, although in my past experience 1 or 2 hardballs was all that was needed, nice crisp trigger, added a small bit of white paint to front sight, easier for my "old" eyes to pickup in dim lighting...fired 50 rounds out of both mags, only had 1 hangup, i think it may need a little stiffer spring...my Marine son put it through some paces and now he wants one!"
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5 out of 5
"Bought this gun used for a song and a dance. Polished the trigger. It is real tight and dead accurate. Feeds any ammo, never jams. The weight keeps the sights on the target. It has the upgraded accessories from SA. It is a 1988 model. All my guns have polished feed ramps so I don't know if it ever had a jamming problem.Can't say enough about the hi cap. I'd buy a new one if they still made them. Well worth the $$$$"
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5 out of 5
"Great weapon, love it. Feeds all types of ammo with not one single problem. Wish I had another just like it."
Overall Rating:
5 out of 5
"Have enjoyed mine since purchase. No problems, shoots well and so far with all ammo. 500+ rounds and going strong. Good buy at a great price. Much better than the .45 I used in the Corps Viet Nam and stateside. Should have bought two!"
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1 out of 5
"Bought this gun brand new and have never had any luck with it getting to cycle without stove piping rounds or jamming on feeding. I had a armorer go through it and still jams on about the 3rd shot while feeding. I have tried many types of ammo but never have found it to make a difference. Trying to sell this weapon."
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4 out of 5
"Mine has never failed to feed/extract. It shoots ANYTHING I load it with. I did polish the feed ramp myself but it worked fine before. The only reason I didn't give it 5 Stars is the overall craftsmanship. It is made in Brazil but so is Taurus and I own several fine Taurus Pistols and Revolvers. The pistol is a bit on the "LOOSE" side. I like "tight." Also, there is an area that is not "even." The slide has a bigger gap on one area on one side in relation to the frame. Overall, it is a VERY dependable, fine shooting, acurate (But HEAVY when fully loaded)out of the box 1911 .45 ACP Double-Stack. Well worth the $$$.."
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5 out of 5
"Flawless performance with all types of rounds. Well made,sharp looking and i feel a great weapon. I would not hesitate to use this as a primary defense weapon."
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"I sent the pistol back three times for failure to feed. The feed ramp is designed for 230 gr round nose. JHP's get caught in the feed ramp."
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