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The service was prompt when our TV remote did not work and trouble with connecting to internet access We did not like looking out over a building site and had concerns we would be disturbed early morning by machinery. We were moved to the other side of hotel promptly and offered a choice of 2 rooms Strange shower/bath. The bath was very slippery and the shower head is at a difficult height The mirror swung open to reveal years of dust, etc This hotel is showing its age and more No flat screen TV Advertised King beds are 2 singles pushed together, quite hard Web site did not warn of current renovations and building site next door Room was dimly lit by overhead light
It had old-fashioned charm and comfort; it was also hassle-free and quiet. Within walking distance to the War Memorial and restaurants. Staff willingly gave advice about attractions of Canberra,especially about the current Masterpieces from Paris exhibition. Would stay there again.
Welcoming to motorcycle riders
Good but will be a top option when renovations and upgrade of rooms completed a bit tired
Beautiful "old world charm" without seeming run down Girl in dining room was absolutely delightful. One particular person on reception was quite arrogant and treated questions with disdain
Excellent continental breakfasts. Male staff member was very good to allow very early room service breakfast at noo charge so we could get to early hit-off for golf. Late check-out good too.
Have stayed at Hotel many times and it's an older place with character. Most rooms are being updated along with extensions over time. Location is great, near CBD but quiet area. We had some problems which were pleasantly managed by one deputy manage, yet unpleasantly by a senior manager.
Staff very accommodating. Room was changed to allow better access for injured party. Parking too far from rooms.
Very nice hotel to stay at. Pleasant staff, clean rooms and relaxing atmosphere. CBD close by.
The room was clean, spacious and well equipped. Plenty of parking was available and was close to the room. Continental breakfast was very good and being included in the price made it even better. Being unable to turn off basin taps was a little annoying and a very big waste of water, but did not detract from a pleasant stay.
comfortable and central a trek from carpark to reception
The hotel was quiet. No wine glasses in the room. Prefer soap to the drying shower gel option.
Staff and service were excellent. Lovely venue - amazing to walk inside to find an 'oasis'. Food was excellent. Bathroom just a little in need of attention.
No toaster in room. No DVD player in room (available for hire).
It's brevity The outrageous charging of $58 for a 30 minute local call. The room hadn't been refurbished since the last King died.
The comfort and cleanliness of the amenities. Goood quality soaps and shampoos.
bath rooms quite old
The decor was very soothing and dinner and wine was very nice indeed. The room spacious and comfortable. We had a reaally good time and did not feel the need to go elsewhere for breakfast or dinner.
The position, access to transport, cleanliness, No problems
It was clean, easy to find, close to the city no undercover parking
Convenience to visiting family in Canberra & courtesy of staff n/a
Visit relatives and do shopping.
Good location. Very large room. Only one comfortable seat in a very large room. The 2nd person needs to stay in bed for a comfortable seat. Poor bathroom not in accordance with a 4* hotel. No separate shower.
Easy access to shops and restaurants, did not have to use the car could access everything on foot. The $15 parking fee per day and we had dinner at the Casino restaurant and became ill from the steak I ordered.
the proximity to the canberra city walk and nightlife having to pay $15 per day for parking
Room design - excellent layout for working and comfort
Leaving Overpriced and poor service
The evening meal at the in house restaurant and the comfort of the bed. The room rate did not reflect the standard of the room. The rate was commensurate with a well appointed multi room suite, possible even 4.5 star when in fact the room was no better than any accommodation better than 50-60% cheaper in price probably 3 star. The mantra of this particular hotel appeared to be charge the guest for everything yet the room rate possibly should have been inclusive of a bit more, I mean I was being charged $470/night for the priviledge of sleeping and nothing more.
Easy to access, good parking, superb facilities, private and secure. I would certainly plan to stay again. I should have stayed longer!!
Convenient location & nice place to stay. Rooms got too cold in the morning. Thought it was on central heating so heater in lounge room was turned off.
What I most enjoyed was the space in the apartment and the comfy beds.Undercover parking and its proximity to the city was a bonus.The heated bathroom tiles were great underfoot. Maybe more glasses/crockery in the kitchen. Larger sofa or another one so 4 people can sit comfortably.
Convenient location. Spacious appartment and very clean. Stayed for two years running now and look forward to knowing we have a great place to stay!! Not enough bedding - woke up cold every night even with an extra blanket on
Good reception staff and nice to be able to park so easily. The suite itself was excellent. Very comfortable and, despite the groups staying there, surprisingly quiet. The buffet breakfast was disappointing. The offer $17 seems a bargain but the quality just isn't there. Its convenient but on our 2nd day we went elsewhere.
Large spacious room, grate facilities within The cleanliness was a little disappointing.
I was upgraded to a massive two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment which was very comfortable. The location of the hotel is very convenient.
The frinedly and organised receptin staff. Nothing seemed too much trouble All good, our schdeule at a sporting comp took up too much of our time and we couldn't enjoy the many facilities available at the hotel
Location. Access was good in regards to airport and could walk into city centre. Close to shops and restaurants. Beds & pillows comfortable - very important. No heating in the bedrooms. First night was cold, but then put on other blanket and was ok. Would be nice to have heating in the rooms.
The location of the hotel was fantastic, close to shopping and attractions. Great parking facilities. It would have been good if there was a double bed and a single bed instead of 1 king bed as there were 2 adults and a child under 2yrs old.
Location Too much construction going on around the appartments, very noisy, We were unable to use the restaurant (couldn't fit a table for 2 in apparently), No room service (i.e no change of bedding or cleaning occoured during the stay)
I was only there very briefly arriving at about 4.oo in the afternoon and leaving at 5 the following morning. The room was very comfortable, clean and had all Ineeded. Stff were friendly and helpful.
it was close to all facilities. 'walking distance to shops and close to the city
The room is clean, check-in process is smooth,staff is friendly, location is convenient Tiled floor is a bit cold for chilly days. kettle did not stop automatically when water is boiled - safety concern.
good location-close to city and particularly close to manaka A little noisy at night -(there was a wedding on next door.)Still it was happy noise.
The bed was comfortable. This hotel is good if you just need a place to sleep - thats it. We did not like the restaurant. The food was poor quality. The soap in the bathroom was awful also.
Great room, excellent food, good gym
The service was excellent, the rooms were well equiped, and the hotel offered a very relaxing environment.
excellent service from staff
The staff were very helpful. the location is excellent. the food was very good and well priced
liked the shower too old, carpet is like a 2 star hotel. the room is very noisy with the out of date aircon.
well-trained courteous staff and spacious layout booking.com seemed to hav ebooked the day prior to the one on my reservation printout. the hotel advised us that we were a no show for our evening and luckily I had a printout of our booking with me
staff were very helpful and efficient, bed was comfortable sink in the bathroom had taps in odd position and water got everywhere
Wonderful views, comfortable and easy access to city centre Slow getting anything sorted out. Drainage system unsatisfactory
The staff were very nice. The hotel was very clean and is located in very close to Canberra's central 'Civic' area. There was some smoking in a neighbouring room, but putting the air-con on gave us clean air. The hotel must be getting a bit old, as some of the surfaces and bathroom areas are cracked.
Comfortable room; good bed; reasonably good outlook/view; good value. Bathroom was Ok but getting dated. Afternoon sun quickly heats up the west-facing rooms. Needs double-glazing.
It was friendly and helpful - location was great - parking external was very close - the bar next to the reception was very welcoming and the staff very friendly and helpful - room was very clean and rest ful - would have taken room service instead of restaurant - did not like the set menu and the set price - next will take room service - cheaper and if you want to choose what to eat and if only want one meal - for the cost in the restaurant not good value - The tv broke down during my stay took nearly three hours for tech to arrive - and the security card did not work - so could not get into my room and had to take all my luggage back to reception for another card - under ground car park was took few parkes and very difficult even in a small car - decided to risk parking across the road - the bed in the room gave me a bit of a start when I sat on the bed it moved. - but over all no real complaints - these are just little annoyances -
Seriously old place... Tiles in bathroom broken, paint chipped, furniture broken from the 60
It was handy to everything, the room was clean and compact and the view from the wondow was amazing. The price was competitive and the service was friendly and efficient. I found the room very hot and couldn't seem to adjust the air conditoning.
The helpfulness of the staff -particularly when responding to the unexpected ( a fire alarm on Friday night) My room needs minor repairs - lights,television. It is also not fully sound proofed against the noise of the lifts.
Close to Floriade & Civic. Good views to Mt Ainslie. Clean & comfortable.
Comfortable bed and bedding, interesting views to the east, good tv, good lift service, basement parking.
Loved the decor, loved the service, loved the fact they didn't hesitate to discount our room rate when we complained that we specifically booked a room with a bath in it but couldn't take a bath as the tap was broken. We will be returning to Canberra just so we can stay in the hotel again!!!
Great design mixing old and new. loved the staff and their approach. Excellent bathroom. Comfortable. Like not complain unless really bad and nothing was bad at all.
We loved the trendy decor in the entrance area and quietness of horel room. We gave the hotel 5start rating and we have stayed at most other 4 or 5 star hotels in Canberra because we visit every 6 weeks. The carpet in the rooms was super trendy but not good on the eyes. Wish it was not quite so zig zag.
Recommend Urban Food for breakfast just round the corner - big serves and great coffee. The suite bath was great to relax in after a full day. Parlour Wine Room great food and beverages and attentive service.
Elegant comfort, good location Buffet breakfast was very average, bar was crowded in the evening, also did not do mixed drinks.
Our room was amazing and the staff were very friendly and helpful. I would definately recommend it
the layout and style of the room staff advised me that no food was available anymore .... however we rang the day before to check till what time the restaurant was open ... they said till 10 pm ... and I was there 9pm ....
Reception staff where helpful with locating offices I had to visit using Google Maps etc The room was cold on first entry and took some time to heat up
was awesome staying there....The receptionist was nice...cant rememberher name tho....lost a pink camera. called back but the staff havent gotten back to me...
blackout curtain were good. great interior design
The Hotel is new so everything looked and felt clean and very modern. Access from foyer up to rooms was quick and easy via the lifts. The room was styled as apartment as a 1 bedroom apartment with the bed located in a separate bedroom from the main living area and kitchen. The living area and room was also furnished with modern furniture and other décor giving it all a very sophisticated look. Access to the restuarant facilities of the sister hotel next door was also appreciated. The Hotel backs onto what looks like the ABC TV broadcasting studio. At night a generator could be heard from this adjoining property and the noise could only be reduced to tolerable levels by keeping the bedroom window closed.
Good price, very helpful staff Sounds silly, but the pillow was big and I had trouble sleeping with it.
Clean, modern and fresh accommodation. Car parking availability. Easy access to everything if driving. Walking distance from Dickson offices and restaurants.
it was new and everythign was fresh nothing
Lack of onsite dining facilities
The location was convenient and the staff were friendly and helpful. The restaurant could benefit from upgrading the menu; though prices were high and quality rather poor. The additional fee for parking was not appreciated!!!!
Sleeping, ease of access, very personable staff. Price (mediocre quality at relatively high cost). For this price I was expecting a much higher quality hotel.
Having booked the two bedroom apartment - aided in privacy and personal space when travelling with an elderly mother-in-law. We also appreciated the location - central to ANU (we were visiting our son), shops, resurants etc. I cannot think of anything that I disliked - only would have liked to stay longer!!
Able to order room service breakfast late at night The rate charged ($350) was ridiculously high for the standard of the room, and the hotel smelt bad
Reception were pleasant and helpful and staff were courteous Lack of storage space
we could walk to eating venues
Very convenient location to the centre of Canberra The shared parking facility menat we had nowhere to park the car as the car park was full of casual parkers at the adjacent restaurants and night clubs. We had to walk from a long way away late at night.
Location is good, easy walk to City Centre restaurants. Rooms, including bathroom, very basic. Bed and furniture are cheap goods. They also have expensive charge to park under hotel in very narrow spots.


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So here it is: "Stand Up And Fight," the third album from Turisas, those mighty Finnish warriors who first made their mark on the world of epic metal back in 2004.
If Vangelis had a man-baby with Basil Poledouris, their kid would grow up to write music like this - big epic choruses, sweeping orchestration, epically cheesy lyrics, strains of indigenous European music, and some medieval history lessons all crammed into 45 minutes of awesome - precisely what we've come to expect from Turisas.
First, a warning - if you only like the grittier, doomier or angstier styles of metal, don't even bother with this album. It's uplifting, glorious, and full of might and majesty: exactly what you love to hate. For the rest of us with less limited tastes, this album is a worthy listen, and will probably make you want to go out and swing an axe at somebody while swigging vodka.
The album opens with "The March Of The Varangian Guard", a thematic continuation of their last album, "The Varangian Way". The track sounds a lot like the first track of that album, clearly a deliberate reference to set the stage. We are instantly taken back to 9th century eastern Europe, where elite Norsemen are employed as mercenaries by the Byzantine emperor. The second track, "Take The Day!", departs a little bit from the band's earlier style, with slow tempo and a sort of 80s rock feel. In fact, the very opening of that track sounds a lot like the Rocky theme! After that comes "Hunting Pirates", which is a pretty fun song, probably the cheesiest on the album, so if you're lactose intolerant watch out!
Other notable tracks include "Stand Up And Fight", the single for the album, which is pretty good - but at the beginning it's all angsty and sounds a bit too much like recent Opeth for my liking - and "The Great Escape" This is one of the stronger songs on the album, especially the last minute or so, which sounds like it could be the tragic refrain from some big budget Hollywood soundtrack. Tracks 7 and 8 are decent, but pretty weak compared to the rest of the album. And finally, a wistful outro. The limited edition has two covers on it as well: "Broadsword" by Jethro Tull and "Supernaut" by Black Sabbath. Both are good covers, but I won't go into detail on them here.
Overall, this album is really quite enjoyable, with excellent melodies and rousing medieval machismo, but let's try to be objective here: it does have some notable faults, which I will elaborate on.
In context, "Stand Up And Fight" comes out in a period when the genre we like to call "folk metal" has become pretty mainstream - with (relatively) major metal labels picking up bands such as Finntroll, Eluveitie, Ensiferum and Korpiklaani - and in many cases these bands have lost a lot of the imagination and vitality that first made them great. For a band such as Turisas, with a distinctive and hybrid style, it seems only natural that old fans will find some reason to hate their new release, no matter what they do. A lot of people I know who have been fans of Turisas since the beginning will be disappointed with anything they do if it doesn't sound exactly like "Battle Metal" (their first release). When "The Varangian Way" came out, everyone seemed to be complaining about the fact that it was a concept album that sort of flowed together and told a story, instead of just a bunch of (really really good!) songs jumbled together like "Battle Metal".
The complaints I anticipate for "Stand Up And Fight" are that it's "too different" from Turisas' earlier stuff. What, exactly is "so different" about this album, exactly? I would say the opposite. If anything, I would have liked to see MORE of a change from their original style. Let's face it, as much as I love folk/viking metal, there's really just too many Ensiferum/Eluveitie clone bands out there now. "Stand Up..." gives us a somewhat fresh return from Turisas, but I would have liked this album more if it had come out say, two or three years ago. Now it just doesn't stand out as much. As much as I like this album, nothing on it really surprised me.
On the other hand, it is nice that Turisas only releases albums every four years or whatever, because it gives them time to focus on quality and originality. Sorry, Korpiklaani - you guys are rad and all, but seriously - stop releasing the same album again every year!
So to conclude: "Stand Up And Fight" is a brilliant but slightly flawed masterpiece. It has neither the sing-along feel of "Battle Metal" nor the thematic unity of the concept album, "The Varangian Way", but it still has a lot to offer. I'd say it's Turisas' least-good album, but that still means it's awesome and worth your time. If you want a good album to lift weights to and you've already listened to the Manowar discography a zillion times, this one's for you. I swear, I can lift about 20 or 30 more pounds when I'm listening to "The March Of The Varangian Guard" on my headphones than when I'm listening to the watered-down bubblegum shit they play at the gym!

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Pleasant little piano piece may be Beethoven's last work
The handwritten sheet music.
IS THIS Beethoven's last work for piano? The Sydney musicologist Peter McCallum believes it is.
The 32 bars of handwritten musical notation caught his eye when he was studying the composer's last sketchbook in Berlin a couple of years ago. But it has required some detective work to determine what the great composer - whose handwriting was famously chaotic - intended.
"I didn't know it was a piano piece until I actually sat down and tried to write it out," says McCallum. "Beethoven almost never used clefs or key signatures so you have to think about it but once you do crack the code it's clear."
McCallum, who is associate professor in musicology at the University of Sydney and the Herald's classical music critic, believes the piece was written about October 1826, just a few months before the composer died in March 1827.
"Beethoven always jotted down ideas, it was almost compulsive," he says. "The amount of paper he covered in the last three years of his life was quite amazing. There are a lot of little ideas that crop up that don't go anywhere. But this was more than a little idea. It actually has a right hand and a left hand and it's got phrasing marks and staccato marks in a few places. So it's quite clear it was a complete piece."
Now the pianist Stephanie McCallum has used her husband's transcription to make the first recording of the piece. Bagatelle in F minor is just 54 seconds long and is the final piece on her CD Fur Elise, Bagatelles For Piano By Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Although most of Beethoven's sketchbooks have been studied in detail, the final sketchbook - housed in Berlin's State Library - has attracted little attention.
Although his later works are often seen as spiritual, the fragment has a different quality, says Peter McCallum. "It's slightly melancholy. But it's a pleasant little thing and it's quite easy to play. What I like about it is that a child could enjoy playing it. We could give Fur Elise a rest for a while."
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This should answer your question Carribean....
Base on November 12, 1988 — it was a Saturday. He said that the smallest was somewhat bell-shaped. They were all identical in shape and proportion, except that there were three different sizes. The smallest, at its widest part, was flat on the bottom, somewhat bell-shaped, and had a dome or a half of a sphere on top. The sides were sloping at about a 35-degree angle from pure vertical.
The panels that were around the skirt had been removed, so he could see one of these big oxygen tanks inside. He was very specific in describing the oxygen tanks as being about 16 to 18 inches in diameter, about 6 feet long, and they were all radially-oriented, like the spokes of a wheel. This dome that was visible on the top was actually the upper half of a big sphere-shaped crew compartment that was in the middle of the vehicle, and around the middle of this vehicle was actually a large plastic casting that had this big set of copper coils in it. He said it was about 18 inches wide at the top, and about 8 to 9 inches thick. It had maybe 15 to 20 stacked layers of copper coils inside of it.
The bottom of the vehicle was about 11 or 12 inches thick. In both cases, the coil and this large disc at the bottom were like a big plastic casting — sort of a greenish-blue, clear plastic, or it might have been glass. I determined, using my conceptual artist skills, that there were exactly 48 sections like thin slices of pizza pie, and each section within this casting probably weighed four or five tons, judging by the thickness and the diameter. It must have been monstrous in weight. It was full of half-inch-thick copper plates, and each of the 48 sections had 8 copper plates.
So, here we are back to the plate capacitors again, and the prospect of someone finding a way to use the Biefield-Brown effect — this levitation effect where you charge a capacitor to lift towards a positive plate. Now, when you've got eight plates stacked up in there, they alternate. It goes: negative positive, negative, positive, negative, positive — four times, so you ultimately wind up with the positive plates always being above a set of negative plates as you go up.
On the inside of the crew compartment was a big column that ran down through the middle, and there were four ejection seats mounted back-to-back on the upper half of this column. Then, right in the middle of the column, was a large flywheel of some kind.
Well, this craft was what they called the Alien Reproduction Vehicle; it was also nicknamed the Flux Liner. This antigravity propulsion system — this flying saucer — was one of three that were in this hangar at Norton Air Force Base. [Its] synthetic vision system [used] the same kind of technology as the gun slaving system they have in the Apache helicopter: if [the pilot] wants to look behind him, he can pick a view in that direction, and the cameras slew in pairs. [The pilot] has a little screen in front of his helmet, and it gives him an alternating view. He [also] has a little set of glasses that he wears — in fact, you can actually buy a 3-D viewing system for your video camera now that does this same thing — so when he looks around, he has a perfect 3-D view of the outside, but no windows. So, why do they have no windows? Well, it's probably because the voltages that we're talking about [being] used in this system were probably something between, say, half a million and a million volts of electricity.
Now, he said there were three vehicles. The first one — the smallest, the one that was partially taken apart, the one that was shown in the video that was running in this hangar November 12, 1988 at Norton Air Force Base — was about 24 feet in diameter at its widest part, right at the base. The next biggest one was 60 feet in diameter at the base.
Now, I started looking at the design of this thing, and it occurred to me that what I was looking at was a huge Tesla coil, which is kind of like an open-air transformer. What happens is that when you pass electricity through this large diameter coil, it creates a field.
That's what this system does: it takes electricity, using two large 24-volt marine-style batteries. You basically use that to somehow put an alternating current through these windings. [Then], you step up that electricity through the secondary coil, which is on the column in the middle, and you get this extremely high voltage. You can selectively put the voltage on any of these 48 capacitor sections.
Well, why would you want to do that? If you're using just a normal Tesla coil, you usually have maybe one or two capacitors in the whole system. But, you're talking about a different type of capacitor here — you're talking about capacitors that are made up of plates — plates that are shaped like long, thin triangles, and they are all radially-oriented just like the spokes of a wheel, just like the oxygen tanks, just like the field lines from that large diameter coil. As you look at this system, if you're an electrician or just somebody who knows a little bit about Tesla coils and the way they are set up, you begin to realize that the orientation of components is really the key to making the system work.
Why so many different capacitor sections? If you just have one big disc like Mark Stambough did with his experiment at the University of [Arizona] — which, by the way, was confiscated by men claiming to be from the government and claiming privilege under the National Security Act. They took all this stuff, interviewed all the people that saw the experiments, and told everybody to keep their mouths shut and not talk about it. But, I heard about it from his roommate who knew what had happened. [Anyway], in that case, you have levitation, but you don't get any control. You have this thing floating around, and it's just sort of floating on whatever this field is that it's producing, but you don't have any control.
So, what happens? You break that disc up into 48 different sections, and then you can decide how much electricity you want to put on this side or over there on that side, so you can control the amount of electricity and the amount of thrust and vectoring that you get. You can make it go straight up, you can make it bank and turn and pitch — whatever you want to, by virtue of the fact that you can control where the electricity goes in those 48 different sections. If you ever take a circle and divide it up into 48 equal sections, you'll find that those are really thin little slices. So, you have these 48 individual capacitors, and you have one big Tesla coil. You've got to have some kind of a rotating spark gap, just like the distributor in your car, that sends the electricity out to each of those sections. Then, you have to have some way of controlling how much electricity goes to each one.
[A disc-shaped craft like this has omnidirectional movement — it isn't limited to moving in one direction like a jet with a nose and a tail. LW, after talking to McCandlish.]
Now, when Brad described the control system, he said that on the one side there was this big high-voltage potentiometer — it's like a rheostat, a big controller. It allows you to put progressively more electricity through the system as you push the lever. On the other side of the control system, there was a sort of a metallic bar that came up like a stork's neck, and right at the very tip of it was a sort of metallic-looking ball. Attached to that ball was a kind of a bowl that seemed to just hang off the bottom of the ball, almost like it was magnetically attached to it. He said the whole thing would just sit there, and it would kind of rock and list, almost like a large ship at anchor in a harbor on the ocean, floating on the water. It was literally on a sea of energy.
Dr. John Moray did experiments with different kinds of energy — something that may have been scalar energy — back in the early 1920s or the 1930s, I believe it was. He wrote a book called The Sea of Energy, and he describes this type of energy. Brad said that when this thing was moving around, the system wasn't energized to its full strength, so components inside the ship were still subject to some influence by gravity. He [said] as it would start to list in one direction, the bowl, because of the influence of gravity, would swing in the same direction. As it started to tilt, it would slide over and it would power up the system on that side, and it would bring it back to a righted position all by itself. Completely unmanned, it would sit there, and it would correct itself just while it was sitting there.
It was all linked fiber-optically. Well, why would that make any difference? Why would you want to have a system that's all linked fiber-optically? The reason is that if you find a way to control gravity, you reduce the mass of it. If you are able to do that, what are the other side benefits? What if you somehow found a way of tapping into this scalar field, this zero-point energy? If what the scientists believe is true, then the zero-point energy is actually what keeps the electrons around the atomic structure of everything in our universe. It keeps them energized — it keeps those little electrons spinning in their different clouds around the nucleus of every atom in our world. It keeps them going, keeps them from crashing into the nucleus like a satellite orbiting the Earth gets pulled into the atmosphere by gravitational drag. Well, if you have a way of interfering with that interaction, that absorption of zero-point energy by those electrons, they begin to slow down.
Every atom in the universe is just like a little gyroscope: it's got all these electrons spinning around the nucleus, and they have a gyroscopic effect, which is the effect we call inertia and mass. We have one nucleus with a proton and a neutron and one electron — hydrogen — spinning around like that: not very much mass, not too much inertia. If you take uranium 235, [with] 235 electrons all spinning around in their different clouds, there is a lot of mass; there is a lot of inertia, because it's like a bigger gyroscope, in a way. At least, that's the analogy that I've kind of picked up here. But, if you have a way of interfering with that absorption of zero-point energy so those electrons become de-energized, they begin to slow down. The effect of that inertia, that gyroscopic effect, begins to drop off, and the mass drops off too, even though the atomic structure is intact; and it's still there — it's still uranium, but it's not as heavy.
One of the things Einstein said was that you could never accelerate anything up to and past the speed of light. If you did, you would have to have all the energy in the universe, because as you accelerate through space, mass increases. One of the old films showing this concept shows a train going faster and faster towards the speed of light, but the train keeps getting bigger and bigger until the engine just can't pull it, so it can never pass the speed of light.
But, what if you have a system, a device, that absorbs that zero-point energy and prevents it from interacting with the atomic structure of the vehicle? And at the same time, it's providing additional power to the capacitor section — this whole electrical system that is going on in the vehicle, that's running. In effect, the faster you go, the easier it becomes to go up to and exceed the speed of light.
Brad said that in this exhibit at Norton Air Force Base, a three star general said that these vehicles were capable of doing light speed or better. Oh, by the way, the largest of these vehicles was about 120 to 130 feet in diameter. I mean, that's massive when you think about it — it's just huge.
There is a scientist in Utah by the name of Moray B. King — he wrote a book called Tapping the Zero Point Energy. What he maintains is that this energy is embedded in space-time all around us; it's in everything we see. I think it was James Clerk Maxwell who speculated that there's enough of this flux, this electrical charge, in the nothingness of space, that if you could capture all the energy that was embedded in just a cubic yard of space, you'd have enough energy to boil the oceans of the entire world. That's how much energy is sitting there waiting to be tapped. Now, one of the things that Moray B. King said was that the best way to tap that energy is by driving it out of equilibrium. It's just like a bunch of cigarette smoke in a box, but if you somehow send a shockwave through it, you can get force — you can get ripples through it. Then, if you have a way of collecting that energy at the other end, you have a way of tapping into it and using it.
This Alien Reproduction Vehicle, this Flux Liner, has a way of doing that somehow, electronically. Now, Brad had described the fact that this central column has a kind of vacuum chamber in it. The vacuum chamber is one of the things that all of these scientists describe in these over-unity or free energy devices they build. They all have some kind of vacuum tubes, vacuum technology.
Brad maintained that inside this big vacuum chamber in the central column that's inside everything else — inside the flywheel, inside the secondary coils of the Tesla coil, inside the crew compartment — there is mercury vapor. Mercury vapor will conduct electricity, but it produces all kinds of ionic effects. These little molecules of mercury become charged in unusual ways, and if you fire a tremendous amount of electricity through mercury vapor that's in a partial vacuum, there is something special, something unusual that happens in that process.
I believe it's the process that Moray [King] came to describe when he [proposed] driving the energy in the vacuum out of equilibrium, putting some kind of a shockwave through it.
Now, the other thing that I believe happens here, is that as this system begins to tap into this zero-point energy and is drawing it away from the local environment, the whole craft becomes lighter in weight — it becomes partially mass-canceled, if you will, which is one of the reasons why just a little bit of energy in the capacitors could shoot it all over the place.
One of the things that I believe happens, is when you take a system like this and you fire it up, everything in the system starts to become mass-canceled. The next thing that happens is that the electrons that are flowing through the system also become mass-canceled. What does that mean? It means as that system and all the electrons flowing through that big Tesla coil become mass-canceled, it also becomes the perfect super-conductor, which means the efficiency of the systems goes right through the ceiling. You get dramatic efficiency, just like the whole thing was dunked into liquid nitrogen or made out of pure silver or pure gold, which at certain temperatures are perfect conductors — it becomes lighter and can accelerate at incredible speeds.
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Norwegian Army CV90 AV Upgradesposted by Kevin Kostiner | 21.06.2012
BAE Systems are to deliver the next generation of CV90 Armored Vehicles for the Norwegian Army
The Norwegian Army's CV90 armored vehicles are to receive an upgrade. Defence and Aerospace firm BAE Systems will lead on the £500 million project that will see the trusted CV90 AV bought up to modern military standards.
In one of the largest investments ever made by the Norwegian army's history, 15 AVs for command, 16 engineering and 74 infantry models will be prepared for a variety of combat scenarios.
BAE Systems' Tommy Gustafasson-Rask acknowledged the trust that the Norwegian Army place in the CV90 AV and outlined BAE's comittment to delivering the next generation vehicle.
Norwegian CV90 AV Upgrades
"We continue to invest in the CV90 system and develop the vehicle to keep it at the forefront of technology and, in particular, to incorporate improvements in protection and digitisation so that it remains the world's most advanced vehicle of its kind."
The CV90 is equipped with a 40mm Bofors Autocannon, which has been a longstanding signature primary weapon since WW2. Depending on the vehicle model, the CV90 AV also sports a 30mm Bushmaster Cannon or a 35mm/ 50 version. It also benefits from 7.62mm Browning machine gun, which can act as an anti-aircraft weapon.
With good stopping power and a top speed of 70 km/h it is the Norwegian Army's AV of choice for a diverse range of missions. The vehicle has seen action in Afghanistan, responding to Taliban attacks in the Ghowrmach region and successfully repelled enemy forces. More recently, the unit was deployed in Liberia and the Danish Army have also used the vehicle in Afghanistan to support troops in Helmand Province.
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.V. -- The 11th annual Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) Financial Performance Report conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP found that the consumer packaged goods industry's median total shareholder return once again achieved historically strong levels in 2006 and outperformed the broader market.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.V. -- The 11th annual Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) Financial Performance Report conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP found that the consumer packaged goods industry's median total shareholder return once again achieved historically strong levels in 2006 and outperformed the broader market.
CPG manufacturers and retailers are responding to industry challenges with new and innovative ways of working together, according to the report, which highlights trends, issues, and data that illustrate the financial performance of this sector, and how companies can best address emerging challenges to stay ahead of the competition.
By collaborating across the value chain, creating more agile organizations, and enhancing its understanding of consumer needs, the industry continues to generate significant financial returns, according to the study. Median net sales grew more than 6.1 percent between 2005 and 2006, and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) growth was strong.
"Consumers have more options today than ever," noted Stephen Sibert, GMA s.v.p. for industry affairs. "Manufacturers and retailers are becoming more consumer-centric and differentiating themselves to grow the top line as they compete for shoppers' discretionary income."
The study found that over the past several years, retailers and manufacturers have become more entwined. Companies are finding that targeted collaboration is increasingly important to provide consumers with products and services that meet their changing needs, while simultaneously achieving efficiencies and ultimately increasing net sales and profitability.
Retailers are focusing on product category growth, leveraging private labels, sharing data efficiency effectively, and customizing products and services to support their diverse formats and consumers. In support of retailers' efforts, there are collaboration opportunities for retailers and manufacturers around planning of product mixes, new product launches, advertising and digital media, data sharing, and data analysis.
Median net sales growth for retailers has slowed between 2003-2004 and 2005-2006.
Long-term trends that are affecting the retailer and consumer landscape include changing age demographics, strategic outsourcing of non-core competencies, the growing importance of digital technology, and an increased need for data security and customer privacy.
The study examines several key trends that have potential for long-term impact on the CPG industry, including volatility in commodity pricing.
"There is no silver bullet for manufacturers to manage risks associated with commodity price volatility, but two methods certainly can help," said John Maxwell, partner and global consumer packaged goods industry leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers. "First, an integrated approach to risk management involving an understanding of the interdependence of risks and their impact across the value chain, and second, organizational agility and responsiveness that promotes innovation, product differentiation, and substitution, along with effective supply chain management."
After uncharacteristically low one-year shareholder returns in 2005, CPG retailers and manufacturers have exhibited impressive returns in 2006, the study found. Manufacturers posted a healthy 11.8 percent median shareholder return, and retailers posted an impressive 16.2 percent median shareholder return. Five-year median shareholder returns for both manufacturers and retailers were approximately 10 percent, although retailers have experienced relatively more variable returns than manufacturers.
Manufacturers generated free cash flow at a median rate of 6.3 percent of net sales in 2006, with larger companies generating significantly more free cash flow as a percentage of sales than their smaller brethren.
The report was presented to senior executives attending the annual GMA Executive Conference at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.V. from June 8 through June 11.
For an electronic copy of the complete report compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers, "Insights Into the Food, Beverage, and Consumer Products Industry: GMA/FPA Overview of Industry Financial Performance and Trends," visit www.pwc.com/us/retailandconsumer or www.gmabrands.com/publications/index.cfm.


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The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced today (April 4) that Rirkrit Tiravanija is the third annual winner of the Lucelia Artist Award, established by the museum in 2001 to encourage leading contemporary American artists. This award is part of the museum's commitment to contemporary art and artists through awards and acquisitions.
"I am honored to receive the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," said Tiravanija. "The prize comes as a great surprise and will help me realize future projects."
"Rirkrit Tiravanija's global outlook is representative of the dissolving boundaries for contemporary art in the 21st century," said Elizabeth Broun, the museum's Margaret and Terry Stent Director. "We are delighted that such an exciting young artist has been selected as this year's Lucelia award winner."
Tiravanija's art focuses on the interactions created by visitors moving in the space and situations he constructs and the social community that is created by these interactions, including eating, sleeping and cooking. His role as an artist is as a developer of a dialogue, not as a creator of an object.
An independent panel of jurors chose Tiravanija for the award in recognition of his pioneering approach to the creation and presentation of art and its relationship to viewers, art institutions and contemporary culture. The five jurors who selected the winner were: Richard Flood, chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Vicki Goldberg, author and critic; Laura Hoptman, curator of contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh; Cindy Sherman, artist; and Robert Storr, professor of modern art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Sidra Stich is the Lucelia Artist Award executive director and director of artSITES, a series of contemporary art, architecture and design handbooks.
"[Tiravanija's] welcoming, generous and optimistic approach to art set forth a telling shift away from prevailing trends in the art world, ushering in a new humanism," wrote the Lucelia Artist Award jurors in their statement.
Tiravanija was born in Argentina in 1961 and was raised in Thailand and Ethiopia. He attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York City, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Banff Center School of Fine Arts and the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. Tiravanija divides his time between New York City, Berlin and Bangkok. Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York City represents Tiravanija in the United States.
Tiravanija's work has been widely shown in the United States, Europe and Asia. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He has been awarded a Gordon Matta-Clark Foundation Award; The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award; a National Endowment for the Arts/Visual Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship and the Central Kunstpreis. Currently, he is an associate professor of professional practice of visual arts at Columbia University and is one of the curators of the 2003 Venice Biennale.
The Lucelia Artist Award was established to recognize annually an American artist under the age of 50 who has produced a significant body of artwork that demonstrates exceptional creativity. The $25,000 award is intended to encourage the artist's future development and experimentation. Previous winners were Jorge Pardo (2001) and Liz Larner (2002).
The award winner is determined each year by a panel of five jurors selected from across the United States, each with a wide knowledge of contemporary American art through experience as an artist, critic, author, curator or collector. Jurors each nominate five artists and remain anonymous until the winner is announced. Applications are not accepted for this award.
The New York-based Lucelia Foundation, which funds the award, supports the visual arts, specifically 19th-century American and contemporary art.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum collection began with gifts of art donated to the federal government in 1829 and has evolved into the world's most important American art holdings with approximately 40,000 artworks in all media spanning more than three centuries.


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|Rossini/ Giulini, cond., Philharmonia Orchestra
|"Overture to "The Thieving Magpie"
|Rossini Overtures
|Paganini/ Gil Shaham, violin, Solscher, guitar
|Sonata Concertata
|Pavarotti, tenor
|"O Marenariello", "Fenestra Vascia"
|Favorite Neopolitan Songs
|Crusell/ Vavilov, clarinet
|Adagio and Allegro from Clarinet Quartet in E-flat Major
|Scarlatti/ Barbossa-Lima, guitar
|Sonata in G, L. 23
|Chopin/ Friere, piano
|Marche Funebre
|Paganini/ Leung Kim Fung, violin, Peony Ying Chang, piano
|Cantabile for violin and piano
|Scarlatti/ Horowitz, piano
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|Mozart/ Pavarotti, tenor
|"Un aura amorosa" from "Cosi Fan Tutte"
|Di Capua/ Pavarotti, tenor
|"O Sole Mio"
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|Chopin/ Horowitz, piano
|Polonaises in A flat Major, and A major, #2 in A-flat major of Trois Nouvelles Etudes
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GP2 title contender and Caterham F1 Team's reserve driver Alexander Rossi will step into the cockpit of the LMP2 for his first 24 Hours of Le Mans challenge.
Change to Le Mans driver line up for Greaves Motorsport
It is with regret that Greaves Motorsport announces that Christian Zugel has been forced to withdraw from the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours, due to family and business commitments. He plans to rejoin the team later in the season.
The team is able to confirm that a replacement has been signed at this late stage. Alexander Rossi, a reserve driver for Caterham F1 Team this season, will join Tom Kimber-Smith and Eric Lux in the #41 Greaves Motorsport Zytek Z11SN Nissan, running in the LM P2 class. Rossi is a front runner in the highly competitive 2013 GP2 Series, also with Caterham Racing. He has been a race winner in every single seater category that he competed in and was the 2008 Formula BMW World Champion.
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Regan Smith is returning to Sprint Cup Series racing this weekend at Martinsville Speedway. He's hopping behind the wheel of the No. 51 Hendrickcars.com Chevy fielded by Phoenix Racing for Sunday's STP Gas Booster 500. It will mark his first Cup Series start since the Daytona 500, when he piloted the No. 51 car to a seventh-place finish. Smith hopes his reunion with Phoenix Racing leads to another prosperous run. Smith has eight Cup Series starts at the half-mile, paperclip-shaped oval. He's finished inside the top 20 three times and scored top-15s in two events. His best finish is 13th place, which he achieved in 2011. Phoenix Racing is hanging strong inside the top-10 of the Sprint Cup owner point standings. The team is currently ninth, only 12 points outside of the top five. Smith comments on racing the Hendrickcars.com Chevy this weekend at Martinsville Speedway: "My last race with Phoenix Racing was pretty awesome. We got a top-10 at Daytona, and they've been doing a great job since then. I'm really excited about working with them again and hopping into the Hendrickcars.com Chevy. I'm looking forward to another great race together. "Martinsville is definitely a track that reminds me of my old short-track racing days. There's lots of close racing, lots of beating and banging. You might even see a few spins along the way. Aero means almost nothing at Martinsville. A lot of this race is in the driver's hands, but you've got to have a car that turns through the center of the corners. You've got to be able to get off the corners and back on the gas before you hit the long straightaways. "Track position is huge there. The closer you get towards the end of the race, the more gambles you start seeing with two-tire or fuel-only stops. Tires are pretty important there, so you're really taking a gamble when you sacrifice tires, but there have been a few teams that have made it work the last few races. "I've had two of my best finishes at Martinsville in my last two starts. Hopefully that's a trend that we can keep going this weekend." The green flag for the STP Gas Booster 400 will wave on Sunday, April 7 at 1:00. FOX, MRN and Sirius Satellite Radio will broadcast the event.
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Domestic Dispute Leads To Three Stabbings
(Liberty Township) The Butler County Sheriff's Office is investigating a domestic stabbing in Liberty Township. Deputies in Butler County haven't said who started the domestic dispute, but they did take 57-year-old Sharon Grove into custody. She is facing a domestic violence charges. Investigators say she has a history of domestic violence. Officers were called out to Grove's home in the 5000 block of Rockdale Road in Liberty Township just after 5 a.m. Thursday. They found Sharon, her 64-year-old husband, Richard Grove, and their 23-year-old son, Matthew Grove, with stab wounds. All three were all taken to local hospitals for treatment of serious but non-life threatening injuries.


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Mcbess and Simon Add "Havana Heat" to Good Books
Charity-focused online book retailer Good Books scored a major hit with their first animated Great Writers promo, the tripped-out "Metamorphosis" from Buck. This second film, a steamy bodice-ripper from New Zealand creative agency String Theory and The Mill directors mcbess and Simon takes a new direction but retains the humor and excellent production values.
Luke Colson, Head of Mill Studio: "After String Theory had and approved the treatment, we embarked on three months of illustration, Flash and After Effects work – not forgetting 3D Matte paintings and background work – but this was for such a great cause, everyone involved was more than happy to donate their time and talents to get the results everyone wanted".


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My most recent discovery came courtesy of the Booth Library. I was walking by the new book section on the third floor when one of the biographies caught my attention -- "A Futile and Stupid Gesture" by Josh Karp.
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Lipid nanocapsules (LNC) based on a core-shell structure consisting of an oil-filled core with a surrounding polymer layer are known to be promising vehicles for the delivery of hydrophobic drugs in the new therapeutic strategies in anti-cancer treatments. The present work has been designed as basic research about different LNC systems. We have synthesized—and physico-chemically characterized—three different LNC systems in which the core was constituted by olive oil and the shell by different phospholipids (phosphatidyl-serine or lecithin) and other biocompatible molecules such as Pluronic® F68 or chitosan. It is notable that the olive-oil-phosphatidyl-serine LCN is a novel formulation presented in this work and was designed to generate an enriched carboxylic surface. This carboxylic layer is meant to link specific antibodies, which could facilitate the specific nanocapsule uptake by cancer cells. This is why nanoparticles with phosphatidyl-serine in their shell have also been used in this work to form immuno-nanocapsules containing a polyclonal IgG against a model antigen (C-reactive protein) covalently bounded by means of a simple and reproducible carbodiimide method. An immunological study was made to verify that these IgG-LNC complexes showed the expected specific immune response. Finally, a preliminary
Nanomedicine, an emerging new field created by the fusion of nanotechnology and medicine, has become one of the most promising pathways for developing effective targeted therapies with particular impact on oncology. This is because these new therapeutic strategies could supply the tools necessary to improve inherent limitations of classical pharmacotherapy [
The shell of LNC can be formed by a wide variety of polymers/surfactants with hydrophilic segments such as polyethylene glycol (PEG), polyethylene oxide, poloxamers, poloxamines, polysorbates, chitosan,
On the other hand, although LNC represent an important class of nanocarriers capable of efficiently encapsulating and delivering a variety of drugs, their typical pathway to act on cancer tissues is through the so-called enhanced permeability and retention effect. This means passive targeting with non-specific delivery and the inability to cross several biological barriers based on molecular recognition processes [
Within this scenario, the main objective of the present work focuses on developing a simple, reproducible and non-expensive procedure to synthesize LNCs systems, paying special attention to designing nanocapsules in which antibody molecules can be covalently attached on the surface. Thus, several lipidic nanosystems with different surface characteristics have been obtained and analyzed in order to acquire a fuller knowledge concerning the physicochemical properties of these colloidal particles, closely examining the role played by the components. Thus, a thorough characterization was made, including size, electrokinetic behavior, and colloidal stability. Specifically, we have synthesized three different core-shell lipid nanosystems by using a simple process with commercially available biocompatible components. In all cases, the hydrophobic core was constituted by olive oil, while the hydrophilic shell nature was varied by adding different molecules in order to generate different (and desirable) surface properties. The molecules used in the surface modification were phospholipidic molecules, a poloxamer, and chitosan. Thus, we have two typical reference systems previously reported [
The work finishes with an
The first part of this work includes a complete physicochemical and morphological characterization of our colloidal systems. Their synthesis procedures are shown in experimental section. The shell of the simplest system (referred to as
Given the size differences among the EPI and PhS nanoparticles, the "epikuron-poloxamer" pair appears to be a better emulsifier than the "PhS-poloxamer" one, in that the former produces particles with a smaller diameter than the latter. Previous results have shown that the presence of poloxamer together with lecithin increases the particle size in comparison to the case in which lecithin was the only component of the shell [
With regard to the immuno-nanocapsules, we will firstly explain why our PhS-LNCs were sensitized with a partial coating of IgG. It is well known that the presence of polyclonal IgG molecules linked onto colloidal particles causes a significant alteration of their surface properties, changing the electrokinetic behavior and reducing significantly the colloidal stability at neutral pH [
Prior any further physico-chemical characterization of the immuno-complexes, it was necessary to test whether the immobilized IgG maintained its antigenic activity. Previous results working with hard nanospheres in which IgG was covalently linked with the CDI method showed good immuno-activity [
The next set of experiments was focused on determining the electrical state of the nanocapsules at different pH values. A magnitude commonly used to gain information about the surface state of charge of colloidal particles is electrophoretic mobility (μe). This is an experimental parameter directly related with the zeta potential existing in the shear plane of the particles [
On the other hand, the μe behavior of the CS nanocapsules becomes radically different. These CS-LNC show mobility data very similar to those found with pure chitosan nanogels [
Usually, the presence of IgG molecules on the surface of colloidal particles causes a significant alteration of the μe values in comparison with the same bare surfaces. Therefore, the electrokinetic behavior of our immuno-nanocapsules can also be useful to determine the presence of such active material (IgG) linked on the LNC surface.
In the next set of experiments, the colloidal stability was studied at a pH value which matched that of culture media (7.4) used in the
Next, we examine the results found for bare nanocapsules. The CCC and CSC data gathered for the EPI nanocapsules are similar to those previously obtained for nanocapsules formulated with the same shell composition [
When we analyzed the colloidal stability of PhS nanocapsules, a completely stable system was found, since it was impossible to coagulate at any NaCl or CaCl2 salt concentration. This feature, characteristic of sterically stabilized colloids, clearly indicates a higher incorporation of Pluronic® F68 molecules into the PhS system in contrast to the EPI case. Furthermore, this result agrees with previous electrokinetic data, in which a reduction in μe values has been related to the incorporation of PEO chains on the surface shell, which (consequently) shifted the shear plane where the zeta potential is defined outward.
Performing the experimental study of the stability of the CS system was a difficult task, because these LNC coagulated—even before adding any salt concentration—as soon as the nanocapsules were immersed in the buffer at pH 7.4. This high instability at neutral pH is consistent with the isoelectric point shown in the μe experiments (see
In summary, the stability patterns of our systems comes from a combination of the destabilizing power exerted by salinity (which screens the electrical repulsion existing in low-ionic-strength media), and the stabilizing effect given by hydration forces in hydrophilic surfaces when salinity increases. When the electrolyte concentration is not too high (and hydration forces can be neglected), the CCC values correlate with the μe data in the less hydrophilic systems (EPI and CS), the stability being governed mainly by the surface electrical charge (which in turn depends on the nature of the shell molecules). For high-salinity conditions or for highly hydrophilic surfaces (
With regard to the colloidal stability of our immuno-complexes,
Once the stability was evaluated in simple pH 7.4 media, it was analyzed in the cell-culture medium (DMEM) supplemented with FBS, used to develop the
The final experiments were focused on analyzing the uptake of our different nanocapsules by a cancer-cell line (MCF-7). To quantify this cell uptake, we worked with nanocapsules loaded by Nile Red. The presence of Nile Red in the oily core of our nanoparticles was previously checked by means of fluorescent measurements. It should be noted that Nile Red presents a very different emission fluorescent spectrum as a function of the medium in which it is dissolved [
The cell uptake of these fluorescent nanocapsules was analyzed by flow cytometric assays.
Olive oil, poloxamer 188 (Pluronic® F68), Nile Red and phosphatidyl-L-serine were obtained from Sigma Aldrich. The olive oil was purified with activated magnesium silicate (Florisil, Fluka) in order to eliminate free fatty acids. Epikuron 145 V, which is a deoiled, wax-like, phosphatidyl-choline-enriched fraction of soybean lecithin, was kindly provided by CargilIbérica SL. Protasan® Cl 113, and medium-molecular-weight chitosan chloride salt with a deacetylation degree of 85%, was supplied from FMC Biopolymer Novamatrix (Norway). For the study of the electrophoretic mobility and colloidal stability at different pH values, several buffered solutions with a low ionic strength (I = 0.002 M) were prepared: pH 4 and 5 were buffered with acetate, pH 6 and 7 with phosphate, and pH 8 and 9 with borate. Additionally, in some cases, stability was evaluated in phosphate buffer saline (PBS) and different culture mediums: Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium (DMEM) supplemented with fetal bovine serum. Other chemicals and electrolytes used were of analytical grade and purchased from Sigma, Merck, and Scharlau. Deionized Milli-Q water was used throughout.
The nanosystems studied were prepared by a solvent-displacement technique following the procedure of Prego
Fluorescent LNCs were formulated by dissolving Nile Red in the olive oil phase at a concentration of 0.025% (w/w). The encapsulation of this fluorescent molecule was confirmed by using a SPEX Fluoromax-2 spectrofluorometer. The emission fluorescence spectra were determined from 550 to 700 nm previous excitation of the sample at a wavelength of 485 nm, with a scanning speed of 100 nm/min and a wavelength accuracy of ±1 nm.
The average size of the nanosystems was determined by combining a high-performance-particle-sizer technology with a non-invasive-backscattering method, where the measurement is taken at an angle of 173°. This technique minimizes multiple scattering [
A Zetasizer-nano (Malvern Instruments, UK) was used to measure the electrophoretic mobility (μe). The study was focused on measuring the μe as a function of pH while maintaining a constant low-ionic-strength value (0.002 M). Each μe mobility datum was the average of 6 individual measurements.
Colloidal stability was spectrophotometrically studied (Beckman DU 7400 spectrophotometer) working at physiological pH in simple saline media. The salts used in these stability studies were NaCl and CaCl2. As described in detail in reference [
C-reactive protein (CRP) and polyclonal immunoglobulin G-anti-CRP (aCRP-IgG) from rabbit were obtained, purified, and kindly donated by Biokit S.A. (Spain). The covalent attachment of aCRP-IgG to the PhS nanoparticles was performed according to the well-established carbodiimide method [
The immunoassays were performed in saline BSA borate buffer: pH 8, borate (15 mM), NaCl (150 mM), NaN3 as preservative (1 mg/mL), and bovine serum albumin from Sigma-Aldrich (1 mg/mL). The immuno-nanoparticles were diluted in this solution to provide a working LNC reagent. A series of CRP solutions was prepared in the saline BSA medium, the antigen concentration ranging from 0.25 μg/mL to 40 μg/mL. Turbidimetric curves of absorbance
A breast-carcinoma cell line (MCF-7) was supplied by the Scientific Instrumentation Centre, Granada University (Spain). Cells were grown at 37 °C in an atmosphere containing 5% CO2, with DMEM (Gibco, Grand Island, NY, USA) supplemented with 10% (v/v) heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS), 2% L-glutamine, 2.7% sodium bicarbonate, 1% Hepes buffer, and 1% of penicillin/streptomycin solution. The intracellular uptake of fluorescence-labeled nanoparticles was performed as follows. MCF-7 cells (3 × 104) were seeded into 6-well plates under the culture conditions detailed above. After 24 h, cells were fed with fresh medium and treated with Nile-Red-nanocapsules. After incubation for 30 min and 2 h with particles labeled with Red Nile the cells were washed with PBS to remove free nanocapsules. Then the cells were harvested by PBS-ethylenediamine-tetraacetid acid (PBS-EDTA), washed twice with cold PBS, and pelleted by centrifugation at 1500 rpm for 5 min. Living cells were resuspended in PBS and analyzed for red fluorescence by flow cytometry in a FACScan (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, CA, USA). The fluorescent pulses were analyzed by BD CellQuest Pro software [
The present work constitutes basic research aimed mainly at analyzing certain surface characteristics (
The authors wish to express their appreciation for the financial support granted by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC, Spain), projects MAT2010-20370 (European FEDER support included), the Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Tecnología de la Junta de Andalucía (Spain), projects of excellence P07-FQM-2496 and P07-FQM03099, and PI10/02295 (Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria, Spain). Also we wish to express our gratitude to JosepPuig from Biokit S.A. for the kindly donation of antibody samples.
Transmission electron microscopy photography of the EPI nanocapsules.
Absorbance change after 300 s (λ = 570 nm) due to aggregation induced by different C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations: (○) PhS-1 mgIgG/m2; (□) PhS-2.5 mgIgG/m2. Reaction medium: 13 mM borate (pH 8.0), 150 mM NaCl, 1 mg/mL NaN3, 1 mg/mL BSA. The starting point of optical absorbance for all experiments was 0.5.
Electrophoretic mobility
Electrophoretic mobility
Stability factor
Aggregation kinetics of the (□) EPI; (○) CS; (▵) PhS; (■) PhS-1 mg/m2 IgG; and (●) PhS-2.5 mg/m2 IgG nanocapsules when immersed in DMEM medium supplemented with fetal bovine serum (FBS).
Emission spectrum of Red Nile in olive oil and water, and inside different nanoparticles. (black line) EPI; (dashed line) CS; (dotted line) PhS; (dash-dot line) Olive oil; (gray line) water.
Relative fluorescent intensity of the MCF7 cell line when incubated with Nile-Red-loaded nanocapsules for 30 min and 2 h. Control refers to that incubation performed only with cells.
Scheme detailing the preparation of the particles.
Particle size of the different lipid nanocapsule and immuno-nanocapsule systems.
|Diameter (nm)
|170 ± 20
|340 ± 30
|210 ± 20
|200 ± 20
|204 ± 14
Critical coagulation concentration (CCC) and critical stabilization concentration (CSC) data (in mM units), at pH 7.4, using NaCl and CaCl2 as aggregating salts.
|pH 7.4
|PhS-IgG (1 mgm-2)
|PhS-IgG (2.5 mgm-2)


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Unlike most children who either go to the park or play video games on weekends, Annie Vodarick, 7, spent her Saturday morning inside the Harker Heights Activities Center thinking up a fairy tale that involved a little girl and her mom in a magical kingdom.
"I wrote a story about a king that said, 'a dragon should get out of their village,'" she said. "Instead, the king was eaten by the dragon, and a little girl was screaming like crazy just because the dragon ate the king."
Her story became part of the stack of several other working ideas that nearly 35 grade school students drafted during the Young Authors and Illustrators Conference hosted by the Heights library.
Children's librarian Jeanine Madden said this is the first year the conference was held in Heights.
"This is a really good opportunity for kids not only to get excited about illustrating and writing, but to take part in something that's like an adult program with a conference style setting," she said.
Library clerk Rose Ramon, one of the presenters, led a portion of the breakout group sessions and exercises on humorous writing.
"I had to do a lot of research," she said. "Something that might be funny to me might not be funny to you and there's just different levels, and with children especially it's a lot more difficult."
The kids also learned the steps to develop a story from scratch by first creating a storyboard
"It was really fun," said Hannah Gessner, 9. "Before you write a book you can draw boxes and put pictures and the text underneath to create the books."
Aside from writing independent short stories that include humor, adventure and mystery, the children also got the chance to meet two published book authors and learn how each got their big breaks.
"I've been getting a lot of positive feedback from the stories … they become really engaged in what they want in the story with the art process," said Jazmine L. Swanson, author of "Angel Whisper."
Melanie Chrismer, author of Phobe Clappsaddle and the Tumbleweed Gang, taught the young participants that every story has three parts - a beginning, a middle and an end.
"They have a lot of good ideas in those kiddoes who are future readers and writers, no matter what they do," said. "But they listened really well, and they gave me ideas and we created a story right here."
Madden said the library plans to make the youth conference an annual event.


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Maya's first trip to RMNP.
The People of Mountain Proj... : Brad Brandewie : Personal Photos
Jul 20, 2013
Exiting the gash on pitch seven.
California : Sequoia & Kings Canyon NP : ... : Timex Route (5.9)
Sep 1, 2012
Jason on the second pitch.
The Timex Route.
Jason Ivanic halfway up the Timex Route.
Keep an eye out for valley locals on the approach.
California : Sequoia & Kings Canyon NP : The Watchtower
Near the top of the Timex Route.
Morning light on the Watchtower.
"WAIT!... what's your plan???"
Utah : Moab Area : Lockhart Basin
Aug 14, 2011
Good times on the White Rim...
Utah : Moab Area
The last rap to the base of the west face of Moro Rock. (This is the second rappel off of Condor Watch Ledge.)
California : Sequoia & Kings Canyon NP : Moro Rock (SEKI)
This photo shows the Offramp and Aerial Boundaries.
California : Sequoia & Kings Canyon NP : ... : Aerial Boundaries (5.10)
Leaving the belay on pitch three.
Turning the corner at the top of pitch one. This proved to be the crux of the route and was a bit more difficult than Jason makes it look in this photo.
Jason Ivanic leading the first pitch of Aerial Boundaries.
Jason Ivanic on Condor Watch Ledge.
Here is a wider view of the tower. This photo shows the whole route, including the crack and roof on pitch one.
Utah : Moab Area : ... : Desert Siren (Tower) (5.11 PG13)
Apr 14, 2010
Ian Allison and Eric Dixon on the FA of Desert Siren. The face climbing on the second pitch (which Ian is bolting on lead in this photo) is quite fun. I would say it's on par with the second pitch
Nearing the wide, soft section on pitch one.
Utah : Moab Area : ... : Moonlight Spire (5.9 C2)
Nov 19, 2009
Watch our for loose blocks and sandy rock below the pendulum point. This is my pack at the base after a 6" ledge crumbled under my feet and exploded on the ground. Fortunately I was holding onto
Wondering if the blocks that I'm touching are as loose as they sound... This shot shows most of the route.
Getting started on Moonlight Spire. As you can see in the background, there is no shortage of interesting formations in the Jackson Hole area.
Looking back at Canyonlands Overlook and the rappel point from the summit of Attila's Thumb. The overlook is on the left edge of the mesa and the rappels are at the point closest to the camera.
Utah : Moab Area : ... : Mogul Emperor (5.11- PG13)
Nov 12, 2009
The Mitten Butte and Attila's Thumb casting shadows.
Looking down at Jeff Widen on the third pitch of Mogul Emperor.


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They were thrashed 92-0 last outing, forfeited their next match and the club's very existence was being questioned.
But Easts put the most tumultous week in their history behind them by shocking Wests 28-26 in front of a jubilant Griffith Oval crowd on Saturday. The foundation club celebrated the victory like it was a grand final after ACT Brumbies centre Andrew Smith's last-gasp try secured their first win of the season.
Just 10 days ago the club was on its knees after competition heavyweight Tuggeranong racked up a cricket score against them. A huge injury toll forced it to forfeit its next game against the Vikings just days afterwards, the first time in recent history a first XV has failed to take the field.
After being clapped off by Wests, the Easts players released weeks of frustration by belting out their team song in the sheds for the first time this year.
They had three Brumbies in Smith, Ruan Smith and Jordan Smiler, but the win was made more admirable by former Wallaby fullback Jesse Mogg's presence for Wests.
Easts fly-half Darcy Eason also didn't play most of the second half after he was stretchered off and taken to hospital with a heavy concussion.
Easts coach Phil Hopkins took over from Jeremy Osborne two weeks ago and has urged his side to emerge from their slump by backing themselves. They played attacking rugby and were rewarded with Smith's 50-metre effort in the dying stages.
"The boys were definitely putting in 100 per cent today, which is something we haven't been able to do for a long time," Hopkins said. "We've been training really well with a lot of enthusiasm and that's how we played. It was exciting rugby and we showed a lot of flair and composure.''
Easts led 13-0 in the first half and 23-12 midway through the second, but looked to have let their chance slip after Wests scored two converted tries to take the lead. Easts survived a mountain of late pressure from Wests before finding the killer punch.
"I'm pleased for the boys and very pleased for the club,'' Hopkins said. "We've just tweaked things really the last couple of weeks and spoken about how important it is for the club to build momentum.''
Smith said he was happy to help the team off the canvas.
"These things can sometimes build a team and build a season,'' he said. "If we can string a few more wins together and get more numbers to training, we can build something.''
Mogg scored a try and set up another in his first outing since he was left out of Australia's squad to play France.
EASTS 28 (Timi Taipara, Andrew Smith, GP Pretorius, Marcus Lawdenbach tries; Laudenbach, Eason pen goals; Josh Monroe conv); beat WESTS 26 (Alex Giucci, Fergus Piekalns, Jesse Mogg, BJ Sione tries; Simon Uphill three conv)
Other matches:Queanbeyan 33 bt Uni-Norths 10; Tuggeranong 29 bt Royals 8.


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At 07:11 AM 12/4/00 +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote: >We are offering our services and expertise to a community outside >-hackers, as a business formed in a way that this new community expects >to see. Nothing special or sinister here. Other than it seems to have >raised the point that you expected each of us to be working for you, >gratis, on projects you find compelling, using all of our available >time, far into the future just as each of us has over the last five >years. No, not at all. Working gratis is not the issue, as I made clear. There are - despite your rather condescending statement implying otherwise - business models that lead to revenue without abandoning open source. I'm making a decent living following such a business model, thank you very much. I'm living proof that it is possible. ... >A recent example of non-sinister change in another area is the work done >to release 7.0.3. This is a release which would not have happened in >previous cycles, since we are so close to beta on 7.1. But GB paid Tom >Lane to work on it as part of *their* business plan, and he sheparded it >through the cycle. There was no outcry from you at this presumption, and >on this diversion of community resources for this effort. Not sure why, >other than you chose to pick some other fight. There's a vast difference between releasing 7.0.3 in open source form TODAY and eRServer, which may not be released in open source form for up to two years after it enters the market on a closed source, proprietary footing. To suggest there is no difference, as you seem to be doing, is a hopelessly unconvincing argument. The fact that you seem blind to the difference is one reason why PG, Inc worries me (since you are a principle in the company). The reason you heard no outcry from me in the PG 7.0.3 case is because there *is* a difference between it and a semi-proprietary product like eRServer. If GB had held Tom's work on PG 7.0.3 and released it only in (say) a packaged release for purchase, saying "we'll release it to the CVS tree after we recoup our investment", there would've been an outcry from me, bet on it. Probably others, too... >And no matter which fight you chose, you're wasting the time of others >as you fight your demons. Well, I guess I'll have to stay off my medication, otherwise my demons might disappear. I'm a regular miracle of medical science until I forget to take them. - Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> Nature photos, on-line guides, Pacific Northwest Rare Bird Alert Service and other goodies at http://donb.photo.net.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 14)
A total of $9,443,186 was raised by Hadassah during the past year, it was revealed today at the 35th annual convention of the women's Zionist organization of America by Mrs. Abraham Tulin, national treasurer. The sum represents an increase of more than $500,000 over the sum obtained during the previous year.
Israel Consul-General for the West Coast Reuven Dafni, addressing the delegates, said: "With the aid of Jewish communities in all parts of the world in the absorption of newly-arrived immigrants, we can be on our feet in record time and will become a living example for all mankind of what can be done in the way of progress when modern technology and the prophetic belief of the possibility of achieving justice and peace in our time join lands."


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|06 Jun 2011
BSoD once a day
Hi there,
I have a Toshiba Satellite L500D. It came with Vista and an upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. I recently had a harddrive failure and had the company fix the computer. Ever since it's back, I've been getting a BSoD almost every time the computer boots. This is what I managed to write down:
Gebietsschema-ID 1031
That's all. Sorry the last part is in German.
So, I have no clue if it has something to do with the Service pack as many have written before. Or if it's something else. Toshiba put in a new harddrive, cleaned the cooler and reset the operating system to said version 7/Home Premium/64bit.
The laptop runs normally almost every time, but not before it restarts itself (!) after the Blue Screen.
I'm not much of an expert, so please be kind and help me.
|My System Specs
|06 Jun 2011
Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.11.0001.404 AMD64 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Loading Dump File [C:\Users\richc46\AppData\Local\Temp\Temp1_reparaturversuch.zip\Windows_NT6_BSOD_jcgriff2\052811-20233-01.dmp] Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available Symbol search path is: SRV*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols Executable search path is: Windows 7 Kernel Version 7600 MP (2 procs) Free x64 Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS Personal Built by: 7600.16792.amd64fre.win7_gdr.110408-1633 Machine Name: Kernel base = 0xfffff800`03214000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0xfffff800`03451e50 Debug session time: Sat May 28 09:43:33.668 2011 (GMT-4) System Uptime: 0 days 0:02:22.352 Loading Kernel Symbols ............................................................... ................................................................ .......................... Loading User Symbols Loading unloaded module list .... ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information. BugCheck A, {0, 2, 0, fffff800032888b6} Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\pgeffect.sys, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for pgeffect.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for pgeffect.sys Probably caused by : pgeffect.sys ( pgeffect+cdc ) Followup: MachineOwner --------- 1: kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (a) An attempt was made to access a pageable (or completely invalid) address at an interrupt request level (IRQL) that is too high. This is usually caused by drivers using improper addresses. If a kernel debugger is available get the stack backtrace. Arguments: Arg1: 0000000000000000, memory referenced Arg2: 0000000000000002, IRQL Arg3: 0000000000000000, bitfield : bit 0 : value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation bit 3 : value 0 = not an execute operation, 1 = execute operation (only on chips which support this level of status) Arg4: fffff800032888b6, address which referenced memory Debugging Details: ------------------ READ_ADDRESS: GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from fffff800034bc0e0 0000000000000000 CURRENT_IRQL: 2
A driver (pgeffect.sys) in this software is the cause of your problem
TOSHIBA Universal Camera Filter Driver
Description:TOSHIBA Universal Camera Filter Driver
Company:TOSHIBA Corporation
Either uninstall the camera or update the driver by going to the Toshiba website.
|My System Specs
|06 Jun 2011
Booted three times, still no blue screen. May have worked, so thanks in advance. I'll get back to you if it's still there.
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|06 Jun 2011
I think that you will be ok. Sometimes the reports are not clear, yours pointed right at that driver. Good luck
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Christmas came late this year for Premier Pauline Marois and her Parti Québécois government.
Usually, the holidays begin for a government when the National Assembly goes into winter recess and attention turns away from politics.
But in the week since the Assembly adjourned on Dec. 7, the three-month-old government was again embarrassed by disclosures that some of its members have failed to live up to the standards of ethical and administrative rigour that the government has promised.
It has got to the point that this week, Deputy Premier François Gendron stepped up in Marois's place and publicly rebuked two of his cabinet colleagues.
One was Culture Minister Maka Kotto, who was responsible for spending a total of $64,000, against the advice of civil servants, to summon his department's representatives posted abroad to an unnecessary meeting in Montreal.
The other was International Relations Minister Jean-François Lisée, who had been receiving an outside income from the Université de Montréal.
Gendron was irked because Kotto's squandering public funds and Lisée's collecting $8,667 a month from a publicly financed university were disclosed the week after the government announced spending cutbacks bound to affect public services.
Among them were $124 million in budget cuts that the universities must absorb over the next four months.
Lisée announced that he would give up the second salary, which he was to receive from the university until next February under a severance agreement, a day after Le Journal de Montréal disclosed it.
He would do so even though he had been assured by the Assembly's ethics commissioner that the second income did not violate the code of ethics for MNAs.
That is, he had done nothing wrong, and he would stop doing it.
Actually, Lisée will continue to collect from the university, but turn the money over to charity. This, as Le Journal reported, could entitle him to a tax credit allowing him to keep half the amount of the salary.
Lisée had reason to know that his double-dipping would become a political problem if it became public knowledge.
That's because he was an adviser to former PQ premier Lucien Bouchard when the latter was forced to give up a second income in the form of his pension as a former member of Parliament.
It was the second time in as many weeks that the former journalist had been found lacking in transparency.
The week before, Lisée had to apologize for first concealing a deal giving former PQ leader André Boisclair an income for life starting at $170,000 a year and indexed to the cost of living, and then misleading the Assembly about it.
In its first three months in office, the Marois government has become known for first saying one thing, then doing another.
In addition to failing to live up to the standards promised by the PQ, it has reneged on campaign commitments and retreated from hastily improvised policy announcements.
And if political images are shaped by editorial cartoons, then the PQ should be concerned by a couple that were published on Thursday in the French-language press.
One, in sovereignty-friendly Le Devoir, essentially called Lisée a cheat and showed him carrying briefcases overflowing with cash — like Bonhomme Carnaval in a controversial 2010 Maclean's magazine cover illustration on Quebec corruption.
The other, in Le Journal de Montréal, was a parody of Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper.
It showed Marois, Lisée, Kotto, Boisclair and other members and friends of the government at a table marked "buffet" and laden with banknotes and moneybags bearing the PQ logo.
For Marois and her government, Christmas this year can't come soon enough.


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Free Gift Packaging
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Child's 4mm Cultured Freshwater Pearl Stud Earrings in 14K Gold
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A special treat for her, these child's pearl stud earrings are the perfect anytime choice. Crafted with a 14K gold post, each 4mm cultured freshwater pearl earring is a lustrous look. Buffed to a brilliant luster, these earrings secure comfortably with friction backs.
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Wait, this picture is not a Saturn V - This is a Saturn 1B. The Saturn V has three stages. This picture has two. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 184.108.40.206 (talk).
- Actually, it looks like an Atlas-Agena to me. --OuroborosCobra talk 03:44, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, yes, it's the Atlas-Agena launch depicting the "Ranger Ascent Sequence". --Alan 20:14, 26 December 2008 (UTC)


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I took this picture by a river with some friends. i like the composition and think for a picture of rocks it looks nice.
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
GB> I'll check better but, as far as I know, the code doesn't assume the
GB> Content-Length header is always given. Indeed, more often, server answer by
GB> giving you a chunked-body with dynamic size. The new code supports this as
GB> the RFC of HTTP 1.1 says (not completely, because I think there's a part of
GB> the response we can ignore). In this case Content-Length is not given ...
GB> and I forgot to set the document size of the response in the
GB> ReadChunkedBody() function. In fact, I had the content-length set properly,
GB> but not the document size ... Yesterday I committed the change and now,
GB> chunked bodies response have a right size (as far as I tested).
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 1)
Adherents of George Rockwell's American Nazi party, which maintains a so-called "Stormtroop" unit, have been reported among elements fighting Federal forces in the University of Mississippi area. One Rockwell follower, Melvin Bruce, 24, of Decatur, Ga., was arrested on the university campus, accused of sniping with a rifle from a campus building at Federal forces. He was seized by troops and brought to military headquarters.


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Lucas, Norman and Brookes, Judith (2004) The School Sixth Form and the Growth of Vocational Qualifications. In: Starting to Teach in the Secondary School: A Companion for the Newly Qualified Teacher. Routledge, London, pp. 205-217. ISBN 978-0-415-33817-2 (Print); 978-0-203-33894-0 (electronic)Full text not available from this repository.
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32See, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice. 2Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land. 3Then the eyes of those who have sight will not be closed, and the ears of those who have hearing will listen. 4The minds of the rash will have good judgment, and the tongues of stammerers will speak readily and distinctly. 5A fool will no longer be called noble, nor a villain said to be honorable. 6For fools speak folly, and their minds plot iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink. 7The villainies of villains are evil; they devise wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right. 8But those who are noble plan noble things, and by noble things they stand.
The New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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William Tell" "Book Of Knowledge" Mechanical Bank
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This is cast iron "Book Of Knowledge" made by "John Wright" mechanical bank of "William Tell". This measures 10 1/4" long , and it is in near mint condition ( I can not find anything wrong with this bank ). William shoots coin which knocks apple from son's head and rings a bell.* This is the real made in the U.S.A. bank that was made in the 60's to early 70's,not the low quality reproduction.