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Spirit plans new flights between Vegas, East Coast
Spirit Airlines has announced new budget flights between Las Vegas and the East Coast.
The company said that it will launch daily nonstop service April 25 between McCarran International Airport and Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Maryland.
It's also starting daily nonstop flights between Las Vegas and Philadelphia International Airport.
Officials who oversee McCarran say Baltimoreand Philadelphia arealready among its top 20 feeder airports.
The two airports combined have been sending about 1,300 travelers to Las Vegas each day in recent weeks.
New Ga. tourism guide features 'Walking Dead' city
A Georgia city featured as a filming location in the TV show "The Walking Dead" is featured on the cover of the state's new tourism guide.
State tourism officials say the city of Senoia has been featured in more than25 movies and television programs, with the AMC zombie drama being the latest to shoot in its downtown area. Senoia is about 25 miles south of Atlanta.
This year's Georgia Travel Guide was unveiled Tuesday by Gov. Nathan Deal. The state is publishing 750,000 copies of the magazine-sized guidebook.
Deal praised tourism as a "main driver" of Georgia's economy. State tourism leaders presented the governor with a check for $1.263 billion - the amount of tax revenues tourists generated for the state in 2011.
Kentucky releasesnew highway map
Kentucky has released its new highway map for 2013.
The official map is now available statewide at rest areas, welcome centers, local convention and tourism offices and all state parks.
The map is published each year by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. The 2013 map reflects a number of highway improvements, such as along Kentucky 313 in Hardin and Meade counties, a widened, four-laneU.S. 27 in Garrard County and the new Kentucky 873 in Clay County, which now accesses the Hal Rogers Parkway from U.S. 421.
The map cover features horses and riders cantering along a lake shore of Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in Western Kentucky. The map's "Only One Kentucky" theme highlights the scenery, natural attractions and features unique to the bluegrass state.
Gabby Douglas donates Olympic items to Smithsonian
Olympic gymnast Gabrielle Douglas is donating personal items to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Douglas won Olympic gold at the age of 16 in the 2012 London games. She was the first African American woman to win gold in the individual all-around competition. The U.S. women's team also won gold.
The Virginia Beach, Va., native is giving the museum the leotard she wore during her first competitive season in 2003. She's also giving the wrist tape and uneven bar grips she used in the 2012 Olympics, along with her mother's ticket to the games, personal photos and her Olympic credentials.
The items are on display at the National Museum of American History. The black history museum is slated to open in 2015.
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3.7 Standard-Cell Design
Figure 3.19 shows the components of the standard cell from Figure 1.3. Each standard cell in a library is rectangular with the same height but different widths. The bounding box ( BB ) of a logic cell is the smallest rectangle that encloses all of the geometry of the cell. The cell BB is normally determined by the well layers. Cell connectors or terminals (the logical connectors ) must be placed on the cell abutment box ( AB ). The physical connector (the piece of metal to which we connect wires) must normally overlap the abutment box slightly, usually by at least 1 l , to assure connection without leaving a tiny space between the ends of two wires. The standard cells are constructed so they can all be placed next to each other horizontally with the cell ABs touching (we abut two cells).
A standard cell (a D flip-flop with clear) is shown in Figure 3.20 and illustrates the following features of standard-cell layout:
When a library developer creates a gate-array, standard-cell, or datapath library, there is a trade-off between using wide, high-drive transistors that result in large cells with high-speed performance and using smaller transistors that result in smaller cells that consume less power. A performance-optimized library with large cells might be used for ASICs in a high-performance workstation, for example. An area-optimized library might be used in an ASIC for a battery-powered portable computer.
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Rome HOSTEL review: Hostel Alessandro Palace & Bar
The Alessandro Palace (not to be confused with the Alessandro Downtown) is one of the many hostels and hotels in the area near to Termini Station. Because of this, the location is fine, when you are arriving and leaving. Not only trains run from Termini, but also Metro, and many buslines, including to the airports. From Termini it is just a couple of minutes to the Hostel. The staff was very helpful and speak several languages so getting information was really easy. The beds and the rooms are nice, and entrance secured by a batch you receive when checking in. If you arrive early (or leave you bags on the day of departure) you can use the big storage room downstairs. The only two downsides where the smell of the bathroom. As my bed was located closest to the bathroom I had to close the door a couple of times, because of this. The other small downside was the breakfast, that could have been a bit more diverse. That the coffee from a machine, I can understand for economical reasons, but in Italy with its rich coffee culture, you would not expect it. But the plusses outway the negatives by far, so I had a lovely stay. The bar is lively in the evening, and a nice place to meet other travellers. Free internet is always a plus.
Stockholm HOSTEL review: STF / IYHF Fridhemsplan
Best hostel I've stayed in. A bit expensive but worth it. Very good rooms, with not too many other people, great breakfast buffet. I would stay here again if I need to go to Stockholm again.
Helsinki HOSTEL review: Hostel Stadion
worst hostel I've stayed in.
it's far from the center, rooms were too full (they just pulled in two extra strechers to let people sleep.) ventilation is very bad, my back hurted for many days after sleeping on these beds. For the price you are paying this is very bad.
Jerez de la Frontera Hotel review: Hotel Avila
The Hotel is situated between the train and busstation and the city center. To both it's approx. a 10 minute walk.
For me a hotel is a luxury on a trip, as I tend to use hostals. The individual room I had was small and clean. The Hotel is run by friendly people. Leaving the suitcases behind the counter, at the day that I left was no problem. Breakfast was good.


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The Fortunate Island
By Max Adeler
Chapter II. The Castle of Baron
As Sir Dinadan led the Professor and Miss Baffin along the lovely path which went winding through the woods toward
the castle, the Professor lighted another cigar, and in response to Sir Dinadan, he entered upon an explanation of the
nature of tobacco, the methods and extent of its use, and its effect upon the human system.
"The Lady Tilly, of course she smokes sometimes, also?" asked Sir Dinadan.
"Oh, no," replied Miss Baffin, "ladies in my country never do."
"Of course not," added the Professor.
"And yet, if it so pleasing and so beneficial as you say," responded the youth, "why should not the
ladies attempt it?"
The Professor really could not say; Sir Dinadan was pressing him almost too closely. He compromised further discussion by yielding promptly, although with a melancholy reflection that his store of cigars was small, to a request to teach Sir
Dinadan, at the earliest opportunity, to smoke. As they neared the castle, the Professor's attention was absorbed in observing the details of the structure. It was a massive edifice of stone, having severe outlines and no ornamentation worthy of the name, but presenting, from the very grandeur of its proportions, an impressive and not unpleasing appearance. It was surrounded by a wide fosse filled with water; and the Professor was delighted to observe, as they drew near, that the entrance was protected with a portcullis and a drawbridge. The bridge was drawn up, and the iron portcullis, made of bars of huge size, was closed.
"Magnificent, isn't it, Tilly?" exclaimed the Professor gleefully. "It is probably the most perfect specimen of early English architecture now upon earth. Most fortunately I have in my trunks a photographic apparatus with which to obtain a picture of it."
Sir Dinadan seized a curved horn which hung upon the branch of a tree, and blew a blast loud and long upon it.
The Professor regarded the performance with intense interest and not a little enthusiasm.
The warder of the castle appeared at the grating, and, perceiving Sir Dinadan, saluted him; then lowering the drawbridge and lifting the portcullis, which ascended with many hideous creaks and groans from the rusty iron, Sir Dinadan and his companions entered.
Leaving the Professor and Miss Baffin comfortably seated in a great hall, the walls of which were adorned with curious tapestries dark with age, with swords and axes and trophies of the chase, Sir Dinadan went in search of the Baron.
"Little did we think, Tilly," said the Professor, looking around, "when we left New York four weeks ago--it seems more like four years--that we should find ourselves, within a month, in such a place as this."
"I can hardly believe it yet," responded Miss Baffin. "It does seem like a dream. And yet we are certainly wide awake, and we are in the hall of a real castle, waiting for real people to come to us."
"Sir Dinadan seems very real, too," said Miss Baffin, timidly.
"Very! There can be no doubt about it." "And he behaves like a real young man, too," continued Miss Baffin. "He proposed to me this morning."
"What! Proposed to you! Incredible! Why, the boy has not known you more than an hour or two."
"He is a man, pa; not a boy," said Miss Baffin, a little hurt. It was rather sudden; but, then, genuine affection sometimes manifests itself in that way."
The Professor smiled; he perceived the exact situation of things. Then he looked very serious again.
This was a contingency of which he had not taken account. "Well,
Tilly," he said, "I hardly know what to say about the matter. It is so completely unexpected. You didn't accept him?"
"No; not exactly, but--" "Very well, then. We will leave the situation as it is for the present. When we have been here longer we can better determine what we should do."
Sir Dinadan entered with the Baron. The Baron greeted his guests with warmth, making no allusion to the occurrences in the Hermit's cell, and appearing, indeed, to have forgotten them.
"It is enough, sir, and fair damsel, that misfortune has thrown you upon our shores. You shall make this your home while you live."
"A thousand thanks," responded the Professor. "I cherish the belief that I can be of service to you. By the way, may I ask how is the noble Lady
Bors?" "Suffering greatly. My son tells me that you are a wise leech, and can give her release from her pain."
"I hope I can. If you will permit my daughter, here, to see the lady and to follow my directions, we may be able to help her."
"There," said the Baron, waving his hand, "are your apartments. When you have made ready we will summon you to our banquet."
"Your property, which was upon the beach, will be placed before you very soon," said Sir
Dinadan. The Professor and Miss Baffin entered the rooms, and the Baron, withdrew with his son.
When the trunks came and were opened, the guests arrayed themselves in their finest costumes, and
Miss Baffin contrived to give her beauty a bewildering effect by an artistic arrangement of frippery, which received its consummation when she placed some lovely artificial flowers in her hair.
Then the Professor, giving her certain plasters and a soothing drug or two, requested a servant, who stood outside the door, to announce to Lady Bors that Miss Baffin was ready to give her treatment.
Sir Dinadan came forward and gallantly escorted Miss Baffin to his mother's room; where, after presenting her, he left her and returned to the Professor.
The young man led the Professor about the castle, showing him its apartments, its furniture and decorations, with an earnest purpose to try to find favor in the eyes of the father of the woman he loved.
The Professor, for his part, was charmed with his companion, and his interest in the castle and its appurtenances increased every moment.
"This," said Sir Dinadan, pausing before a large oaken door, barred with iron, "is the portal to the upper room of the south tower. In this chamber the Baron has confined
Ysolt, my sister, until she consents to think no more of Sir Bleoberis."
"Locked her up, has he? That seems hard." "Cruel, is it not?"
"You favor the suit of the Knight, do you?" inquired the Professor.
"I would let Ysolt choose for herself. He is a worthy man; but he has poverty."
"We must try to help him," said the Professor. "You would act differently in such a case; would you not?" asked Sir
Dinadan, rather eagerly. "Why, yes, of course; that is, I mean," said the Professor, suddenly recollecting himself, and what Miss Baffin had told him, "I mean, I would think about it. I would give the matter thoughtful consideration."
Sir Dinadan sighed, and asked the Professor if he would come with him to the dining-hall.
It was a noble room. As the Professor entered it with Sir Dinadan, as he looked at the vast fireplace filled with burning logs, because of the air of the castle was chilly even in summer time, at the quaint curtains and curious ornaments upon the walls, at the long table which stretched across the floor and bore upon its polished surface a multitude of vessels of strange and often fantastic shapes, he could hardly believe his senses. These things, this method of existence, he had read about myriads of times, but they had never seemed very real to him until he encountered them here face to face.
These people among whom he had come by such strange mischance actually lived and moved here, amid these scenes, and as they were as common and as prosy to them as the scenes in his own home in the little enclosure hard by the walls of the university building at
Wingohocking. It was that home and its equipment that seemed strange and incongruous to him now. As he thought about it, he felt that he would experience an actual nervous shock if he should suddenly be plumped down in his own library. Very oddly, as his mind reverted to the subject, his memory recalled with peculiarly vivid distinctness an old and faded dressing-gown in which he used to come to breakfast; and a blue cream-jug with a broken handle, which used to be placed before him at the meal.
It seemed to him that the dressing-gown and the defective jug were as far back in the misty past as such a social condition as that with which he had now been brought into contact would have seemed if he had thought of it a month ago.
As the servants entered, bearing the viands upon large dishes, the Baron made his appearance at the upper end of the room, and a moment later Lady Bors walked slowly in,
leaning upon the arm of Miss Baffin. "Your sweet daughter," she said, when the Professor had been presented to her, "has eased my pain already. I think she must be an angel sent to me by Heaven."
"She is an angel," said Sir Dinadan, emphatically, so that his mother looked at him curiously. Miss Baffin blushed.
"Angels, my lady, do not come with porous plasters," said the Professor, smiling.
"I love her already, whether she is angel or woman," replied Lady Bors, patting Miss Baffin's arm.
"So do--," Sir Dinadan did not complete the sentence. It occurred to him that he might perhaps be getting a little too demonstrative.
"The Lady Tilly," said the Baroness, "has told me something of the adventure which brought you here.
Will you be so courteous as to tell us more, and to inform us of that strange and wonderful land from which you have come?"
"Willingly, madam," replied the Professor. And so, while the meal was in progress, the Professor,--not neglecting the food, for he was really hungry,--tried in the plainest language he could command, to convey to the minds of his hearers some notion of the marvels of modern civilization. The Baron, Lady Bors, and Sir Dinadan asked many questions, and they more than once expressed the greatest astonishment at the revelations made in the Professor's narrative.
"I will show you some of these wonders," said Professor Baffin. "Most happily I have with me in my trunks quite a number of instruments, such as those I have told you of."
"In your trunks!" exclaimed the Baron. "You do not wear trunks, as we do."
The professor at once explained the misapprehension. When he had done, there was heard in the room the twanging of the strings of a rude musical instrument.
"It is the minstrel," said Sir Dinadan, as the Professor and Miss Baffin looked around.
The Professor was delighted. "He is going to sing," said the Baron.
The bard, after a few preliminary thrums upon an imbecile harp, burst into song. He occupied several moments in reciting a ballad of chivalry, and although his manner was dramatic, his voice was sadly cracked and out of tune.
"Tilly," said the Professor, "remember to note in your journal that the musical system here is constructed from a defective minor scale, with incorrect intervals. I observed precisely the same characteristics in the song that our Irish nurse, Mary, used to put you to sleep when you were a baby. I stood outside the chamber door one night, and wrote the strain down as she sang it. This proves that it is very ancient."
"You like the song, then?" asked the Baron. "It is very interesting, indeed--very!" replied the professor. "I think we shall obtain a great deal of valuable information here. No,
Tilly, you had better refuse it," said the Professor, observing that Sir
Dinadan, who appeared to be animated by a resolute purpose to stuff Miss Baffin, was pressing another dish upon her, "you will spoil your night's rest."
"Do you sing, Sir Baffin?" inquired Lady Bors. "Never in company, my lady," replied the Professor; "my vocalization would excite too much alarm."
The Baron and his wife manifestly did not comprehend the pleasantry.
"My daughter sings very nicely; but you can hear her sing without her lips being opened. Excuse me for a moment."
The Professor went to his apartment, and presently returned, bringing with him a phonograph. Placing it upon the table, he turned the crank. From the funnel at once issued a lovely soprano voice, singing, with exquisite enunciation and inflection, a song, every word of which was heard by the listeners.
Lady Bors looked scared, Sir Dinadan crossed himself, the Baron eyed the Professor doubtfully, the minstrel over in the corner laid down his harp, and relieved his overcharged feelings by bursting into tears, which he wiped away with the sleeve of his tunic.
"It must be magic," said the Baron, at last; "no mere man could hide an angelic spirit in such a place, and compel it to sing."
"Allow me to explain," said the Professor; and then he unfolded the mechanism, and showed the method of its operation. "My daughter sang up several songs for me before we left home. They were stored away here for future use.
Tilly, my love, sing something, so that our friends can perceive that is the same voice."
Miss Baffin, after some hesitation, began "The Last Rose of Summer." While she sang, Sir Dinadan looked at her with rapture depicted on his countenance. When she had done he reflected for an instant, and then, rising and walking over to the place where the minstrel sat, he seized by the ear that unfortunate operator with defective minor scales, and, leading him to the door, he kicked him into the hall.
This appeared to relieve Sir Dinadan's feelings. When he returned, the Professor persuaded him to have his voice recorded by the phonograph; and by the time the Baron and Lady Bors had also tried the experiment, the faith of the family in the powers of Professor Baffin had risen to such a pitch that the Baron would have been almost ready to lay wagers in favor of his omnipotence.
The Professor that evening accepted for himself and his daughter a very urgent invitation to make the castle their home, at least until Fate and the future should determine if they were to remain permanently upon the island. The chance that they would ever escape seemed indeed, exceedingly slender; and the Professor resolved to accept the promise with philosophical resignation.
He employed much of his time during the first weeks that he was the Baron's guest in making the Baron familiar with some of the wonders of modern discovery and invention. The Baron also was deeply interested in an exhibition given by the Professor of the powers of his patent
india-rubber life raft, which the Professor brought up from the beach folded into a small bundle. After inflating it, to the amazement of the spectators, he put it into the fosse that surrounded the castle and paddled about upon it. The raft was allowed to remain in the ditch ready for use.
The Professor often went outside the castle walls to talk with Sir Bleoberis, and to comfort him. The Professor explained the telegraph and the locomotive to the Knight; and when the Knight assured him that the armorers of the island could make the machinery that would be required, if they should receive suitable instructions, the Professor arranged to build a short railroad line and a telegraph line in partnership with Sir
Bleoberis, if the latter would obtain the necessary concession from King
Brandegore. Professor Baffin was of the opinion that the Knight, by such means, might ultimately acquire great wealth.
Meantime Sir Dagonet had been seen several times of late in the vicinity of the castle, and once he had made again a formal demand upon the Baron for Ysolt's hand. This the Baron refused, whereupon Sir Dagonet returned an insolent reply that he would have her in spite of her father's objection. The Professor sincerely pitied both Ysolt and Sir
Bleoberis, but as the Baron always became violently angry when the suffering of the lovers was alluded to, the Professor disliked to plead their cause.
It occurred to him, however, one day that there could be no possible harm in arranging to permit the
forlorn creatures to converse with each other; and so, with the help of Miss Baffin, who was allowed to enter the captive's room, he fixed up a telephone, the machinery of which he had in one of his trunks, with a wire running from Ysolt's window to a point some distance beyond the castle wall.
The battery with which the instruments were supplied was placed in an iron box furnished by Sir
Bleoberis, and hidden behind a huge oak tree. The lovers were delighted with the telephone and its performances; but the Professor's ingenious kindness caused him a great deal of serious trouble.
It seems that Miss Baffin one morning had been showing her father's umbrella to
Ysolt, and making her acquainted with its peculiarities and uses.
When Miss Baffin had withdrawn, Sir Bleoberis began to breathe through the telephone protestations of his undying love, and finally he appealed to Ysolt to fly with him. Of
course he expected nothing to come of his appeal, for he had not the slightest conception of any method by which Ysolt could escape from her prison. He merely threw it in, in a general sort of way, as an expression of the intensity of his affection.
But it suggested to the mind of Ysolt an ingenious thought; and she responded through the telephone that if Sir Bleoberis would keep out of sight and have his gallant steed ready, she would join him in a few moments. The Knight's heart beat so fiercely at this news that it fairly made his armor vibrate.
Obeying the orders of Ysolt, he went behind the oak and sat upon the iron box containing the Professor's battery and electrical apparatus.
Ysolt's window was but twenty feet from the surface of the water in the fosse. Directly beneath it, by a most fortunate chance, floated the life-raft of Professor Baffin. The brave girl, climbing upon the stone sill of the window, hoisted the umbrella, and sailing swiftly downward through the air, she alighted safely upon the raft. A single push upon the wall sent it to the further side of the ditch, whereupon Ysolt leaped ashore, unperceived by the warder or by any one in the castle.
A moment more; and seated upon the steed of her cavalier, with his strong arm around her, she would be flying to peace and happiness and love's sweet fulfillment, far far beyond the reach of the angry Baron's power.
But, alas, human life is so full of mischances! As Ysolt neared the great oak behind which her lover sat, Sir Dagonet came riding carelessly across the lawn. Seeing her he spurred his horse forward, and, right before the eyes of
Sir Bleoberis, he grasped her by the arm, tossed her to his saddle and dashed away across the country.
But why did not Sir Bleoberis leap to the rescue? Sir Bleoberis tried with all his might to do so; but he had on a full suit of armor, and the Professor's battery, by some means even yet unexplained, so charged the cover of the box with magnetism that it held the Knight close down. He could not move a muscle of his legs. He writhed and twisted and expressed his fury in language that was vehement and scandalous; but the Professor's infamous machine held him fast; and he was compelled to sit by, imbecile and raging, while the wind bore to his ears the heart-rending screams of his sweetheart as she cried to him to come and save her from an awful fate.
The shrieks of the unhappy Ysolt penetrated to the castle, and at once the Baron ran out, followed by Sir
Dinadan, Professor Baffin, and a host of the Baron's retainers, all of them armed and ready for war. The first act of the Professor was to capture his expanded umbrella, which was being blown about wildly by the wind. Furling it, he proceeded to the place where Sir Bleoberis sat, trying to explain to the infuriated Baron what had happened.
"There!" said Sir Bleoberis, savagely, pointing to the Professor, "is the vile wretch that did it all! Seize him! He, he alone is to blame."
The Professor was amazed. "Yes," exclaimed Sir
Bleoberis, "it was he who persuaded the fair Ysolt to leap from the window; it was he who notified Sir
Dagonet, and it is his wicked enchantment that held me here so that I could not fly to her succor. I cannot even get up now."
"The man," said the Professor to the Baron, "appears to be suffering from intellectual aberration. I can't imagine what he means. Why don't you rise?"
"You, foul wizard, know that I am held here by your infernal power!"
"Try to be calm," said the Professor soothingly. "Your expressions are too strong. Let me see--. Why, bless my soul, the electrical current has magnetized the box. There, now," said the Professor as he snipped a couple of the wires, "try it again."
Sir Bleoberis arose without effort. Baron Bors stepped forward and said sternly:
"What, you, Sir Bleoberis, were doing here I do not know. I suspect you of evil purposes. But it is clear you had nothing to do with the seizure of my daughter, if, indeed, she has been carried off by Sir
Dagonet, You may go. But as for you," shouted the Baron, turning to the Professor, "I perceive that your devilish arts have been used against me and my family while you have been eating my bread. The world shall no longer be burdened by such a monster. Away with him to the scaffold!"
"This," said the Professor, as the perspiration stood in beads upon his pallid face, "is painful; very painful. Allow me to explain. The fact is I--"
"Away!" said the Baron, with an impatient gesture. "Off with his head as quickly as possible!"
"But, my dear sir," contended the Professor, as the Baron's retainers seized him, "this is simply awful! No court, no jury, no trial, no chance to tell my story! It is not just. It is not fair play. Permit me, for one moment, to--"
"To the block with him!" screamed the Baron. "Have no more parley about it!"
Sir Bleoberis came forward. "Sir Bors," he said, "this, in a measure, is my quarrel. It falls to me by right to punish this wretch. Will you permit me?" and then Sir Bleoberis struck the professor in the face with his mailed gauntlet.
Professor Bafin would have assailed him upon the spot, but for the fact that he was a captive.
"He means that you shall fight him," said Sir Dinadan, who retained his faith in the Professor, remembering his own affection for Miss Baffin.
"Certainly I will," said the Professor. "Where, and when, and how? I would like to have it out right here on the spot."
It is melancholy to think what would have been the sorrow of the members of the Universal Peace Society, of which the Professor was the first vice-president, if they could have observed the eagerness with which that good man seemed to long for the fray, and the fiery rage which beamed from his eyes until the sparks almost appeared to fly from his spectacles.
Miss Baffin at this moment rushed upon the scene, and in wild affright flung her arms about her father.
"The contest shall be made," said the Baron sternly. "Unhand him!"
The Professor hurriedly explained the matter to Matilda, who sobbed piteously.
"You shall have my armor, my horse, and my lance," said Sir Dinadan in a kindly voice to the Professor. "Go and get them," he continued, speaking to some of the servants.
"Thank you," said the Professor. "I am much obliged. You are a fine young man."
"But, pa," said Miss Baffin through her tears, "surely you are not going to fight.?"
"Yes, my love" "And you a member of the Peace Society, too."
"I can't help it, my child. You may omit to note this extraordinary occurrence in your journal. The Society may as well remain in ignorance of it. But I must conform to the customs of the place."
"How can you ever do anything upon a horse, with armour and a lance? It is dreadful!"
"No, my child, it may perhaps be regarded as fortunate. For many years I have longed to observe the practices of ancient chivalry more closely; that opportunity has now come. I am about to have actual practical experience with them."
Miss Baffin wiped her eyes as Sir Dinadan came to her side and tried to comfort her. Sir
Agravaine, who had ridden up during the excitment, dismounted when he saw Miss Baffin, and pulling Sir Dinadan by the sleeve, he whispered:
"You are acquainted with that lady?" "Yes."
"Would you mind ascertaining for me if I am to understand her remarkable conduct to me as tantamount to a refusal? I don't want to trouble you, but--"
Sir Dinadan turned abruptly away, leaving Sir Agravaine still involved in doubt.
When the armor came, Sir Dinadan helped the Professor to put it on. It was a size or two too large for him, and the Professor had a considerable amount of difficulty in adjusting the pieces properly, but, with the help of Sir
Dinadan, he at last succeeded. "Bring me my lance!" he exclaimed, with a firm voice, as he stepped forward.
"It is here," said Sir Dinadan. "Farewell, my child," said the Professor to Miss Baffin, making a futile attempt to bend his elbows so that he could embrace her. "Farewell!" and the Professor tried to kiss her, but he merely succeeded in injuring her nose with the visor of his helmet.
"O pa!" said Miss Baffin, weeping, "if you should be killed."
"No danger of that love, none at all. I am perfectly safe. I feel exactly as if I were a cooking-stove, to be sure; but you may depend upon my giving a good account of myself. And now, dear, adieu! Ho, there!" exclaimed the Professor, with faint reminiscences of the tragic stage coming into his mind. "Bring me my steed!"
The determined efforts of four muscular men were required to mount the Professor upon his horse.
And when he was fairly astride, with his lance in his hand, he felt as if he weighed at least three thousand pounds, and the weapon seemed quite as large as the jib-boom of the "Morning Star."
The warrior did his best to sit his horse gracefully; but the miserable beast pranced and curveted in such a very unreasonable manner that his spectacles were continually shaking loose, and in his efforts to fix them, and at the same time to hold his horse, he lost control of his lance, and came near impaling two or three of the spectators.
Sir Dinadan's own groom then took the bridle rein, and leading the horse quietly to the jousting-ground put him in place directly opposite to Sir
Bleoberis, whose lance was in rest, and who evidently intended to spit the Professor
through and through at the first encounter. The Professor really felt uncomfortably at a disadvantage in his iron-clad condition, and he began to think that the sports and combats of the olden time were perhaps not so interesting after all, when brought within the range of practical experience.
Suddenly the herald's trumpet sounded a blast. The Professor had not the least notion of the meaning of the sound, but Sir Bleoberis started promptly towards him, and the Professor's horse, trained at jousting, also started. The Professor was not quite ready, and he pulled the rein hard while trying to fix his lance in its rest. This caused the horse to swerve sharply around, whereupon the warrior's spectacles came off, and the horse dashed at full speed to the side of the jousting-ground, bringing the half-blinded Professor's lance up against a tree, into which the point stuck fast. The Professor was hurled with some violence to the ground, and the horse ran away.
When they picked him up and unlatched his helmet, he was bleeding at the nose.
"It is of no consequence, Matilda, of not consequence, I assure you," he said. "I am shaken up a little, but not hurt. I think, perhaps, I need practice at this kind of thing."
The Professor, while speaking, felt about him in a bewildered way for the pocket in which he was used to keep his handkerchief. But as the armor baffled his efforts to find it, Miss Baffin offered him her kerchief with which to staunch the blood.
"The ancients, Matilda," said the Professor, as he pressed the handkerchief to his nose, "must have possessed great physical strength, and they could not have been near
sighted. By the way, where are my glasses?" Sir Dinadan handed them to him.
"You will not attempt to get on that horrid horse, again, pa, will you? said Miss Baffin, entreatingly.
"I think not, my child, unless I am forced to do so. Jousting is interesting to read about; but as a matter of fact it is brutal. I think, Sir
Dinadan, I should be more comfortable if I could get this cast iron overcoat off, so I could move my elbows without creaking."
Sir Dinadan helped him to remove his armor, and said: "My noble mother has insisted that Sir Bleoberis shall not fight with you, and the Baron has yielded to her wish."
"How can I thank you?" exclaimed Miss Baffin. Sir Dinadan looked at her as if he would like to tell her how, if he dared venture. But he only said:
"I deserve no thanks. My mother is upon your side and that of your father. She asks me to bring him to her."
The Baron was with his wife, and Sir Bleoberis stood before them.
"Sir Baffin," said the Baron, "Lady Bors insists that you are innocent of any wrong-doing; and Sir
Bleoberis, seeing that you are unskilled, has resolved not to have a combat with you. I am
willing to pardon you upon one condition: that you find my daughter and bring her back to me."
"That I should be willing to try to do under any circumstances," said the Professor. "I regret her loss very deeply. But, you see, I know nothing of the country. I am afraid I should not discover her if I should go alone."
"I will go with you," said Sir Bleoberis. "That is first-rate," said the Professor. "Give me your hand."
"We will keep your daughter in the castle as a hostage," said the Baron. "When you return with Ysolt you shall have the Lady
Tilly, and Sir Bleoberis shall have Ysolt." "I am profoundly grateful," replied Sir
Bleoberis, bowing. "My dear," said the Professor to Miss Baffin, "does the arrangement suit you?"
"It suits me," muttered Sir Dinadan. "I must stay whether I wish to or not," replied Miss Baffin. "But I shall worry about you every moment while you are gone."
"Sir Dinadan may be able to soothe her," said Sir Bleoberis, with a smile.
"I think I could, if I were allowed to try," insinuated Sir Agravaine.
"I charge Sir Dinadan and his noble parents with the task," said the Professor.
The entire party, with the exception of Sir Agravaine, then returned to the castle, so that the Professor could make ready for the journey.
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NEIL Warnock wanted to make Elland Road a fortress when he took over as manager last February.
Gradually, there are signs he is putting some of the building blocks in place to make Leeds hard to beat on home turf.
Their 1-0 win against Bolton was their fifth npower Championship win on the bounce on home soil – form which has kept them on the fringes of the chase for a play-off slot.
It was certainly not pretty, more perspiration than inspiration, as both sides served up a poor match for the New Year's Day crowd.
After successive dire displays on the road at Nottingham Forest and Hull, Leeds began like a side low on confidence.
Mis-placed passing and a tendency to be caught in possession meant Warnock's team were hardly able to mount a first-half attack of note.
Bolton were not much better, although Chris Eagles shaved the outside of a post with an angled shot and the same player forced Paddy Kenny into a full-length save from 25-yards.
However, Leeds were able to nullify the threat of striker Kevin Davies and slowly inched their way into the game which was settled by Luciano Becchio's 64th minute penalty.
There seemed little danger as Ross McCormack, with his back to goal just inside the box, collected the ball, but Tyrone Mears' rash challenge from behind gave Becchio the chance to net from the spot for his 18th goal of the season.
After that Leeds were content to soak up pressure against a Bolton side which huffed and puffed but could make little in-roads on a defence well marshalled by Alan Tate and Jason Pearce.
The result leaves Leeds two points from a play-off place and business in the January transfer window could well define the Whites' season.
Winger Ryan Hall has already signed from Southend while midfielder Michael Tonge looks set to sign a two-year deal today after a successful spell on loan from Stoke in the first half of the season.
The bigger test for new owners GFH Capital is not necessarily the money they will spend this month, but resisting bids for the likes of Becchio, who now has 85 career goals with Leeds, and rising star Sam Byram, from York.
Warnock lost Jerome Thomas and Luke Varney to a virus the night before the game and revealed how Paul Green, McCormack and goalkeeper Kenny all defied the illness to play.
Warnock expressed pride in his side's character as they moved up to eighth in the npower Championship.
"In the circumstances I can't be any prouder of the lads or praise them enough for the effort they put in," said Warnock.
"It wasn't a classic but it was all about desire.
"We were a bit nervous in the first half. When you get the drubbing we did at Hull it knocks the stuffing out of you but we grafted in there and the best move of the match led to the penalty.
"On paper Bolton have a far better team than us but you don't win matches on paper."
Bolton boss Dougie Freedman felt his side should have had a penalty for a foul on substitute David Ngog but Warnock countered: "It was a blatant attempt to win a penalty out of nothing. It was clutching at straws."
Freedman added: "The referees and their assistants are part-time, so it is not their fault. They don't train all week and they don't get help. They don't get coached or mentored.
"There should be a more professional approach because there is so much at stake."
Leeds United: Kenny, Byram, Tate, Pearce, Peltier, Green, Austin, Norris, Diouf (Gray 90), McCormack, Becchio. Subs (not used): Ashdown, Drury, Lees, Brown, Somma, Hall. Caution: Byram.
Bolton Wanderers: Bogdan, Mears, Ream, Knight, Alonso, Eagles, Andrews, Spearing, (Butterfield 78), Pratley (Ngog 67), Lee (Afobe 67), Davies. Subs (not used): Petrov, Ricketts, Sordell, Lonergan. Cautions: Knight, Andrews.
Referee: Phil Gibbs (West Midlands).
Attendance: 22,386.


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Sahamies Posts Scorching $1.6m Run in October
Finnish cash-game king Ilari "Ilari FIN" Sahamies went on an improbable run in October that saw him win an astounding $1.6 million on PokerStars.
Prior to October, Sahamies had been mired in a losing streak that had him down nearly $1 million since this summer.
Suffice to say that losing streak is no more and Sahamies is looking to finish the year with at least a $764k profit.
Some of the other big winners in October included 1II|1II|1iI|, Ben "Ben86" Tollerene and RaiseOnce while patpatman, Kanu7 and Fake Love888 all went into the red on PokerStars.
Here's a closer look at the biggest high stakes action from the past month.
Top 10 Biggest Online Winners in October
Ilari Sahamies was the biggest winner in October but that didn't stop 1II|1II|1iI|, commonly referred to as Barcode, from winning $1.1 million.
Barcode's impressive month included winning $500k in a single day. Poker fans have yet to discover the identity of Barcode although the account is registered in Canada.
Meanwhile Ben "Ben86" Tollerene posted another successful month that included $616k in profit. Tollerene is now the second biggest winner of the year $2.4 million in profit.
The other Ben – Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky – is the biggest winner of the year with just over $3 million in profit.
RaiseOnce, the rumored account of Phil Ivey, also had a solid month, winning a total of $430k.
Here's a complete look at the top 10 biggest winners this month according to hsdb.com:
1. Ilari FIN: +$1,603,083
2. 1II|1II|1iI|: +$1,191,239
3. LewisFriend: +$763,615
4. Ben86: +$616,330
6. RaiseOnce: +$430,112
8. Skjervoy: +$342,977
9. mikki696: +$340,828
10. Harrington10: +$327,896
Top 10 Biggest Online Losers in October
No one felt the wrath of Ilari Sahamies in the month of October quite like patpatman.
Patpatman, who is rumored to be one of the famous Malaysian businessmen, lost over $1 million in the last 30 days.
It's been a disastrous year for the patpatman account. Patpatman started by winning nearly $1 million in the early stages of 2012 but then nosedived to -$2.4 million.
At this point it's going to be very tough for patpatman to salvage anything from 2012 on PokerStars.
On the flip side, at least patpatman wasn't alone in the loser's column this month as skilled players Kanu7, Fake Love888 and Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond all lost hundreds of thousands.
Kanu7 was the second-biggest loser as he dropped $559k while Fake Love888, allegedly Patrik Antonius, dumped $465k.
Finally Galfond lost a total of $397k in October. Despite the loss, Galfond remains one of the biggest winners this year with $1.5k in profit. He's also in the semi-finals of the All-Star Showdown against Dan "jungleman12" Cates.
Here's a complete look at the top 10 biggest losers this month according to hsdb.com:
1. patpatman: -$1,113,321
2. Kanu7: -$559,149
3. Zypherin: -$530,689
4. Capoch: -$472,255
5. Terken89: -$469,490
6. Fake Love888: -$465,781
7. Joiso: -$458,748
8. MrSweets28: -$397,084
9. JoeIngram1: -$289,184
10. PepperoniF: -$272,861
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Woman Sees Jesus In Bathroom Mold
For most people, bathroom mold is a cross to bear.
For Chyenna Richards in Houston, it's a sign that God is truly everywhere — including her shower stall.
"People say your house is blessed," Richards told KRTK-TV. "I see the head, the hair, a cloak."
Where others see the presence of fungi, Richards sees a likeness of Jesus, and is moved by the holy mold.
"Maybe it means something. Maybe look into yourself and see if you need to change something in your life," she said.
The "holy mold" began growing a few months ago when Thomas George, who also lives in the house, was serving time in prison. Read more …


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Likes- football, music, camping, cinema, being outdoors, museums, travelling, good conversation and fun people.
Dislike- fake people, brussel sprouts, the film donnie darko, drum and bass, James blunt, arrogance, rudeness and people who live to moan!
Being the best hostess at parties.
Being creative.
Pub quizzes.
Movies- any war films, rom-coms, anything with tom hanks, old black and white movies, comedies or films that make you think. Favourites include back to the future, we were soldiers, high society, black hawk down, saving private Ryan, forest gump, team America, the list is endless.
Tv- supernatural, how i met your mother, qi, dollhouse, firefly, mock the week, fringe, the walking dead, Franklin and bash, bones, smallville, an idiot abroad, the ricky gervais show, pretty much anything on e4 or by Joss whedon.
Music- have a soft spot for old 80's and 90's cheese, old American classics from the 1930's to the 70's but otherwise greenday, king blues, you me at six etc. Will happily listen to anything from classical to rnb but i can't stand drum and bass!
Food- really not fussy, try to eat healthily but can't resist the odd pizza or Chinese here and there.


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|Re: SCO and FCO treatment of String, Locale, etc.
|Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:49:38 GMT
Hi Ilan, I think specifying embedded=false for a field of type Locale, String, Integer, etc. is not according to the spec. Chapter 18.5 on page 228 defines that embedded must be specified or default to true for such fields. This means a couple of .jdo file in the fieldtypes directory have a bug and need to be updated. The downside of the solution proposed in JDO-397 is that I need to clone the values before I can use them as field values. So the following code would fail, because it uses the same string for pc instances bound to different PMs. To make this code portable I need to clone the string. public static final String FIRSTNAME = "Michael"; ... emplyoee1.setFirstname(FIRSTNAME); pm1.makePersistent(employee1); emplyoee2.setFirstname(FIRSTNAME); pm2.makePersistent(employee2); Craig's suggested fix to the specification would allow the above code fragment to work with a JDO implementation no matter if the JDO implementation treats a String as FCO or SCO. What do you think? Regards Michael > You are right, the getPersistenceManager() is a bad example. Of course, there are many other examples. What to do when such a field value is an argument of makePersistent(), deletePersistent(), makeTransient(), etc... Handling this as a special case is possible, but I am not sure that it worth the effort, because it is rarely used. > > Actually I liked the "embedded=false" metadata because it adds a different test case, but omitting these settings might be an alternative to clone. > > Relevant metadata for instance is in: > jdo20-tck\jdo\datastoreidentity\org\apache\jdo\tck\pc\fieldtypes\FieldsOfLocale.jdo > But there are also "embedded-element=false", for instance in: > jdo20-tck\jdo\datastoreidentity\org\apache\jdo\tck\pc\fieldtypes\ArrayCollections.jdo > I don't know if there are also "embedded-key=false" and "embedded-value=false". I can prepare a complete list if it may help. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Craig L Russell" <email@example.com> > To: <email@example.com> > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 8:18 AM > Subject: Re: SCO and FCO treatment of String, Locale, etc. > > > Hi Ilan, > > On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:10 AM, Ilan Kirsh wrote: > > >> Hi Craig, >> >> Probably this discussion is mainly theoretical because most JDO >> implementations do not support system immutable types as FCO, and >> even in implementations that do support this, the default is to use >> SCO, and this default is rarely changed (if at all). Maybe the only >> application that tries to use this optional feature is the JDOTCK, >> in which some immutable type fields are defined with embedded=false >> in the metadata. >> >> In my opinion the suggested fix in [1], at least for the fields >> that are defined with embedded=false is the right solution. >> > > I had not understood that the tck tests in question defined > embedded=false. Changing this to "default" to allow the > implementation to choose would then be better. I'll take another look > at the test cases. > >> Unfortunately the suggested fix to the specification might be >> insufficient because it will cause conflicts in many other places. >> For instance, what should return JDOHelper.getPersistenceManager >> (field) when a FCO immutable type field is shared by two different >> PersistenceManagers? >> > > This is not portable behavior in any case. The specification could > define this to return null always for these cases. These instances > should not be associated with a PersistenceManager. > > >> What should happen when such a field value is passed as a query >> argument (according to the spec: "If a persistent instance >> associated with another PersistenceManager is passed as a >> parameter, JDOUserException is thrown during execute()"), etc. >> > > Since there is no ambiguity as to the semantics of passing such a > reference (there is no PersistenceManager that owns the instances) no > exception needs to be thrown. > >> The most logical solution IMO is to treat such FCO instances as any >> other FCO, and a user that chooses to use them with embedded=false >> (again, very rare) will have to use clone. >> > > It might be better to treat such FCO instances as special cases that > are not owned by a PersistenceManager, but are shared among all > PersistenceManagers. This treatment is consistent with what at least > one object database does (having a special database representation > for fixed precision integers etc.) > > Thanks, > > Craig > >> Regards, >> >> Ilan >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Craig L Russell >> To: JDO Expert Group ; Apache JDO project >> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 7:01 AM >> Subject: SCO and FCO treatment of String, Locale, etc. >> >> >> Javadogs, >> >> >> An issue has been raised [1] with regard to storage of instances >> of immutable system object classes, e.g. Integer, String, Locale. >> The specification calls for users of the API to not depend on >> whether these instances are stored as FCO or SCO. >> >> >> The intent of the specification is that applications should not >> depend on whether the instances are stored by themselves as >> persistent instances or stored as embedded within the domain class >> instances. Furthermore, the application should not depend on FCO >> behavior: uniquing of instances in the same PersistenceManager for >> the same instance. Finally, the application should not depend on >> guaranteeing SCO behavior: copying the instance upon commit and >> guaranteeing a distinct instance in memory upon reinstantiation. >> >> >> The rationale of this wording was specifically to allow an >> implementation of JDO to either store instances embedded in the >> "containing" domain class instance or as a nullable reference to a >> persistence-capable System class in the datastore, as is done by >> some object databases. >> >> >> The intent was not to impose restrictions on the application's >> use of the identical instance as the value of multiple fields of >> domain classes. A literal interpretation of this part of the >> specification would require users to guarantee that the same >> instance of any of the classes was never contained in instances >> managed by multiple PersistenceManagers. The effect of this >> interpretation is to require cloning for each instance of Integer, >> String, Locale, etc. used in domain classes. >> >> >> I believe that this interpretation should be disallowed by the >> specification, as it imposes a great burden on users. I would like >> the Expert Group to discuss this issue and straw proposal. >> >> >> <spec 6.4.3> >> Immutable Object Class types >> JDO implementations must support fields that reference instances >> of immutable object >> classes, and may choose to support these instances as SCOs or FCOs: >> •package java.lang: Boolean, Character, Byte, Short, Integer, Long, >> Float, Double, and String; >> •package java.util: Locale, Currency. >> •package java.math: BigDecimal, BigInteger. >> Portable JDO applications must not depend on whether instances of >> these classes are treat- >> ed as SCOs or FCOs. >> </spec 6.4.3> >> >> >> <proposed 6.4.3> >> Immutable Object Class types >> JDO implementations must support fields that reference instances >> of immutable object >> classes, and may choose to support these instances as SCOs or FCOs: >> •package java.lang: Boolean, Character, Byte, Short, Integer, Long, >> Float, Double, and String; >> •package java.util: Locale, Currency. >> •package java.math: BigDecimal, BigInteger. >> Portable JDO applications must not depend on SCO or FCO uniquing >> behavior, nor on the storage mechanism in the datastore. Portable >> applications may use the same instance of these classes as field >> values in any persistence-capable class instance. >> </proposed 6.4.3> >> >> >> [1]http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JDO-397?page=all >> >> >> Craig Russell >> Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/ >> products/jdo >> 408 276-5638 mailto:email@example.com >> P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! >> >> > > Craig Russell > Architect, Sun Java Enterprise System http://java.sun.com/products/jdo > 408 276-5638 mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com > P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! > > > -- Michael Bouschen Tech@Spree Engineering GmbH mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.tech.spree.de/ Tel.:++49/30/235 520-33 Buelowstr. 66 Fax.:++49/30/2175 2012 D-10783 Berlin
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Government Spends $400K on Cigarette-Sensing Undies
With most Americans having to tighten their belts in a sputtering economy, taxpayers might be miffed to learn the government gave more than 400 grand to develop underwear that can detect cigarette smoke. The dough came in the form of two grants totaling $402,721 to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, for researchers to create the Personal Automatic Cigarette Tracker or PACT.
According to the National Institute of Health, the device -- the prototype of which is sized like a vest; an underwear-sized garment is the goal -- is to better study when and how people smoke, as self evaluations are often inaccurate.


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COLUMBIA, Ky. -- Area families can have a good
time while helping out a good cause Saturday at Lindsey Wilson
Students in Lindsey Wilson's Health Learning Community are
sponsoring a fall festival Saturday, Nov. 21, in the college's
Biggers Sports Center. The event begins at noon CT. It is free and
open to the public.
The fall festival will include inflatables for children,
carnival games, a cake walk, cornhole tournament a face-painting
for the kids. Lindsey Wilson faculty and staff will participate in
a "Pie in the Face" event in which they charge for people to throw
a pie in their face.
Earlier in the day, "Cuties for a Cause" will be held in the
college's V.P. Henry Auditorium. The pageant -- open to females
ages 0-22 and males 0-5 -- will be held at 10 a.m. CT. Registration
is $10 early, $15 day of the pageant and $3 to enter the photogenic
category for the age division.
All proceeds from the fall festival and pageant will be used to
support Center for Courageous Kids of Allen
County, Ky. The Center for Courageous Kids is a world-class medical
camp that operates solely on donations.
"With the temperatures dropping, we wanted to do something that
would give people a chance to do something inside and also help out
a good cause," said Lindsey Wilson sophomore Ashley Adamson of
Columbia, who is a member of the Health Learning Community. "The
Center for Courageous Kids does incredible things for children who
have medical issues."
For more information about the fall festival or "Cuties for
a Cause," contact LWC biology instructor Tabitha Ellis at
email@example.com or (270) 384-8195.


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Random Blogging For Friday October 4th
Good Morning! And THANK YOU SIOUXLAND!!!! With your help we rose over $150,000 for Children's Miracle Network, and that money stays right here to help siouxland families! I couldn't be more happy and grateful to all of my listeners! You are the best! Here's what you missed on today's show!
The Morning Brain Buster:
Q. 15% of American Adults DO NOT use this. What?
A. The Internet
Bonehead Of The Day:
A Washington woman brought her child's birthday cake into a courthouse, rather than leave it in her car... with her dog.
Suddenly, a 50-year-old man ran in, grabbed a slice of cake and started eating it.
The cake had to go through a metal detector and ended up on a table when the man went after it.
Several cops went after the man and had to wrestle him to the ground. The man was at the courthouse after he was arrested for third-degree theft.
GOOD NEWS: A local bakery said they would replace the cake.
You Can Now Own A Miley Cyrus Twerking Figurine
HeroBuilders.com has started production on a Miley Cyrus twerking bobblehead that is for sale on the company's website.
The "Twerker Figurine with Bobble Butt Feature" is selling for $29.95. The company will only make 5,000 of them.
This isn't the first time the company took advantage of something that has gone viral. The company also made figurines of the tan mom from New Jersey, Barack Obama and other pop culture icons.
Tips To Help You Win The Lottery
A statistician from Louisiana has figured out a few ways to increase your chances of winning the lottery.
He's found that certain numbers come up more often than others.
Looking at the last 10 years, the most frequently drawn red Powerball number was 20.
For white balls the most frequently drawn were 42, 16, 35, 26, and 19.
There have been 16 winning Powerball tickets sold in Pennsylvania in the last 10 years, more than any other state…so you may want to buy your tickets there.
Facebook Is Creating A Housing Complex
Facebook already has a swanky campus in Menlo Park, but soon, it will also have an equally swanky housing community nearby.
The social network is working with a developer to build a 394-unit rental community within walking distance of Facebook headquarters.
Amenities include an on-site cafe and sports pub; a pet spa, dog park, and doggy day care; a yoga and training facility and other wellness services; a resort-like pool, rooftop deck, spa, and cabana; and, of course, a bicycle repair shop.
A Facebook rep says the $120 million project wasn't designed as an effort to retain employees. The development can only house about 10% of the local employees at most, and most of the units will be open to non-employees as well.
The development will include 208 one-bedroom apartments, 139 two-bedrooms, 35 studios, and 12 three-bedrooms; it won't be complete for at least two years.
The Best Burgers In America Are:
The list includes:
1. Minetta Tavern in New York City. Rapoport recommends the restaurant's Black Label Burger ($26). Caramelized onions add a touch of sweetness to the prime dry-aged beef, he says.
2. J.G. Melon in New York City. Burgers ($9.75) sizzle on a flat griddle at this 41-year-old pub and Upper East Side burger fixture. Cheese will cost customers an additional 50 cents and a trip to J.G. Melon is not complete without an order of the "old-school" cottage fries ($4.95).
3. Au Cheval in Chicago. Diners at the trendy eatery can order a single cheeseburger ($9.75) or a double ($11.95) on a brioche bun dressed with house-made Dijonnaise, pickles and minced onions.
4. Husk in historic Charleston, South Carolina (the restaurant has a second outpost in Nashville) serves its classic American cheeseburgers ($10) on a homemade buttermilk and benne seed bun. Its beef patties are blended with hickory-smoked bacon and a hot griddle helps the burgers develop a seared crust.
5. In-N-Out, the West Coast burger chain, has been popular with celebrities for years and many people make the trip just to eat at one. Its reputation and "exacting standards" -- preservative and additive free beef, crisp vegetables and freshly baked buns -- have made its burgers (about $1.95 for a plain burger, $2.25 with cheese) legendary.
Rapoport also gave high marks to burger chains Shake Shack and Five Guys.
National Crisis: La-Z-Boy Furniture Has Stuffing Shortage
La-Z-Boy has a cushion filling shortage for their chairs.
An elderly woman's La-Z-Boy was going flat so she called the local La-Z-Boy store and they told her there was a stuffing shortage.
She didn't hear back in months and her warranty was about to expire so she called the corporate office. They confirmed the shortage and said they would extend her warranty if it came to that.
They said that La-Z-Boy products are custom made and that's the reason for the shortage.
Getting Too Much Sleep Can Make You Ill
Getting too much sleep is just as bad as not getting enough....
Researchers found those who get too much or too little sleep are more likely to develop a range of physical and psychological conditions including coronary heart disease, diabetes, anxiety and obesity.
They say people who get six or less hours of sleep a night, or 10 or more hours are at risk.
~~Actor, Liev Schreiber is 46 (Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, A Walk on the Moon, The Manchurian Candidate, Defiance, X-Men Origina: Wolverine; Salt; Ray Donovan)
~~Actress, Alicia Silverstone is 37 (Clueless; Batman & Robin; Blast From The Past)
~~Actress, Susan Sarandon is 67 (The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Thelma & Louise; Dead Man Walking; The Greatest; The Lovely Bones; many more)
~~Actor, Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) is 57 (Water for Elephants; The Green Hornet)
~~Writer, Jackie Collins is 76
~~Actress, Rachel Leigh Cook is 34 (She's All That; Josie and the Pussycats; new TV show 'Perception')
~~Actress Dakota Johnson (upcoming "Fifty Shades Of Grey" movie) is 24
~~Actor Clifton Davis ("Amen") is 68 (Any Given Sunday)
~~Novelist, Anne Rice is 72
~~Actress Lori Saunders ("Petticoat Junction") is 72
~~Actor, Armand Assante is 64 (The Odyssey; Judge Dredd; American Gangster; Striptease)
~~Actor Bill Fagerbakke ("Coach," "Spongebob Squarepants") is 56
~~Former baseball manager, Tony LaRussa is 69
~~NBA star, Derrick Rose is 25
~~Singer-guitarist Marc Roberge (of O.A.R.) is 35
~~Hip-hop mogul, Russell Simmons is 56
~~Lil Mama is 24
~~Singer, Brooke Valentine is 29
~~Keyboardist Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard (of Sawyer Brown) is 53
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In Theaters This Weekend:
Gravity (PG-13)
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney are stuck in space. (PROJECTION: $40 MIL.)
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A Princeton grad student, believing he's been swindled, travels to Costa Rica to confront an online gambling tycoon. Stars Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Oliver Cooper, Anthony Mackie. (PROJECTION: $10- $12 MIL.)
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You've heard of Spanx - the magic underwear that ride up over your gut and completely suck in all the wobbly parts.
The same wonder fabric is going to be available in jean form - that's right, skinny jeans that actually make you skinny.
The pants have a side zipper and are almost a hybrid of jeans, leggins and Spanx. The jeans run between $98 and $108.
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Hello Doctor Bonnie, I have read a relating post that you've answered regarding someone smelling urine everywhere. I would like to know if anything can help relieve the olfactory hallucination? I, too, have been smelling urine everywhere for the past two-weeks. I tried to seek the source of the urine smell but cannot locate it (when I put my face against the carpet, the bed, couch, curtains and sniff everything, they do not give off a urine smell but there is always a urine smell somewhere in the air.) Especially before I fall asleep at night, when I lay in bed at night is when the smell is most pungent and lingers to the point that it triggers my migraine headache- smells like my bed was soaked in a pool of urine because it is so strong. I smell urine through out the day too, although no one else can smell the urine smell. I was told to visit a doctor specialized in internal, but I cannot afford to. Would there be long term effect to my problem? Is there anything I can do to help relieve what I am always smelling? I have tried powdering the carpet and vacuuming, steam cleaning, using air fresheners, and opening the windows all of the time when I am at home. Thank you for your time.
Hello I believe I can help you with your concern. Actually Dr. Bonnie does not have privileges in the Mental Health category and is mainly an expert in the Child Development and Relationship categories, but I am more than willing to help you if you like.
It is okay I understand, it is not often that olfactory hallucinations, or phantosmia, is encountered so that is probably why you only saw one expert answer a similar question. I would like to ask you a few questions to get more information, so that I can give you the best possible answer
You mentioned that this symptom of smelling urine everywhere started two weeks ago, do you only smell it in your home or other places as well?
Also have you had any recent head trauma?
Or do you suffer from seizures at all?
Okay so if phantosmia is your only symptom then most likely this is not a psychotic disorder (e.g. schizophrenia) as usually auditory and visual hallucinations are associated with psychosis, as well as thought disturbances, and delusions.
Typically phantosmia is can be caused by a head trauma, temporal lobe seizures, upper respiratory infections, and migraines.
So you mentioned that migraine headaches are a result of the urine smell, but the migraines also may be a cause to and you are in a never ending cycle where the migraines cause the phantosmia of urine and this increases your migraines.
So because you cannot afford to see a specialist (a neurologist would be best for this) then it would be hard to appropriately treat the problem without first finding out the cause.
The use of outside environmental air fresheners, powders, etc... will not lessen the extent of you smelling urine because the cause of your phantosmia is from the inside in your brain.
Or there is a likelihood that an upper respiratory infection damaged your olfactory senses to cause this smell, which would mean that the cause would not be in your brain
Still no matter what, the use of airfreshners and other similar items will not mask this smell because the cause is internal and finding the internal cause is your best bet to help lessen the symptoms.
I wish there was a quick fix for this, but usually a neurologist will run tests to rule out head trauma and seizures as a likely cause.
I am hopeful that this phantosmia is caused by migraines and thus the treatment would be more straightforward.
In addition, there is a possibility that a tumor could be the cause of this phatosmia, which is more reason to see a neurologist and get a MRI scan of the brain to rule that out as well.
Here are a couple good links that can provide you with more information on this
For treatment on phantosmia, it really depends on what the cause is. Some individuals respond well to antidepressant and antiseizure medications. If it is a physical problem like damage to the olfactory bulbs or possibly a tumor, the the phantosmia may respond and resolve with surgery. If it is just damage to the nasal cavity, then a nasal spray may be effective as well
I see that you are offline right now, but when you get back online I would be very interested in continuing this discussion with you and talking about anything further you would like to share regarding your concern, so if you respond in the chat box I will be able to get back to you as soon as possible.
No worries, I understand how the internet connection can do that. It is possible that migraine headaches may have worsened over time and that is why they have been causing this urine smell for the last 2 weeks. That is my hope because obviously the other possibilities for this are more frightening and less likely given your age
But yes when cleaning the home and using air fresheners are not helping this is definitely an internal issue and needs to be addressed as such. Phantosmia is a unique symptom and there are many possible causes for this, so that is why it is important to rule out all conditions that can cause this to appropriately treat it.
Well there is an antidepressant out there called Venflaxine (Effexor) that has been know to help individuals cure their phantosmia, so that may be effective for your depression, migraines, and then phantosmia. So you may want to try that.


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Too Cute! Mila Kunis Gets Invited to Marine Corps. Ball (VIDEO)
Mila Kunis is one of the most desired ladies in Hollywood, but it looks as though her appeal knows no bounds.
Sgt. Scott Moore, who is currently stationed in Musa Qala, Afghanistan shared a video, asking the Black Swan star to accompany him to the Marine Corps. Ball in North Carolina in November. Everyone together now — aww!
So, will Mila be attending?!
That still remains to be seen. Celebuzz is currently awaiting response from Mila's reps. Keep your fingers crossed for him!
We can't blame him for trying though! She is pretty stunning. Check out her stunning Oscars look below!
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This is why you have pro scouts.
The Penguins studied video of the Canadiens killing 32 of the 33 penalties they took against the most dangerous power-play in the league.
"Hey," a coach may have popped up and said, "let's try moving the puck quickly on our PP. Short passes, break down their box.
"No rushed plays or shots. We'll be patient, get traffic in front and set up some point shots."
In seven games, Washington scored once with the man advantage.
The Canadiens got four in 34 minutes.
And that was the ballgame.
The Pittsburgh coaches also noted the number of shots the Canadiens blocked against Washington – 41 in the deciding game.
Again, the Penguins got good puck movement and worked for open shots.
Result: Eight Canadiens blocked 15. And 14 Penguins blocked 22.
They saw what happened to Washington. And the Stanley Cup champions wdere ready.
The Canadiens had a 34-21 shot advantage and outscored the Penguins at even strength until Bill Guerin's empty-netter.
With him in the lineup, they are 25-13-7.
He is the key man on the power play and great 5-on-5.
There's a chance Jaro Spacek will be ready for Sunday. Let's hope so, because the D was smacked around by the Penguins and had a tough night.
Josh Gorges and Hal Gill, superb against Washington, looked tired and beaten down.
Jaro Halak was beaten on four of the first 14 shots he faced. yanked for Carey Price 5:18 into the third period, Jaro had allowed five goals on 20 shots – a save percentage of 75.
But you can't pin the loss on goaltending.
Indiscipline gave the Penguins all those PP opportunities. And while the Canadiens beat Marc-André Fleury three times and exerted some pressure, Jacques Martin has a problem with his forward lines.
And that problem is Andrei Kostitsyn.
On RDS, Joel Bouchard showed a replay of the goal that broke the Canadiens.
Mike Cammalleri had scored to make it 3-2. The Canadiens were making some noise late in the second period.
A few shifts later, AK46 is going off on a change. He has the puck in the neuutral zone and, Bouchard said, the play is to get the puck deep in the Pittsburgh zone.
Instead, Kostitsyn bangs a soft ricochet off the boards. The Pittsburgh Dman is on it just inside the blueline, and the league's best transition team is off to the races.
The Penguins gain the zone, four Canadiens overplay one side of the ice, Pascal Dupuis finds Craig Adams and Bingo!
A backbreaker!
It is becoming increasingly difficult, approaching impossible, to make a case for AK46's bright potential.
He has more brain cramps on one shift than Crosby has in a season. And having this dog as a teammate is an insult to the dedication of Brian Gionta.
In the first game of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, a first-round draft choice with size, speed and a wicked wrister ended the game playing with Glen Metropolit and Tom Pyatt.
The only player Jacques Martin likes less than Andrei Kostitsyn is Sergei Kostitsyn.
Package them both, Pierre, and trade them to Minsk.
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The PK sucked, but P.K. was excellent.
Pressed into a regular shifft and 19:40 of ice time, the Canadiens brightest young prospect scored a goal, showed he belonged and, late in the game, skated hard to make a nice play on Sidney Crosby.
The kid is going to be a very good player for a very long time.
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Props to the lads for not quitting.
Playing soo soon after an emotional seventh game against a well-rested powerhouse team, losing Markov early, getting killed on the PP, surrendering that killer goal to Adams …
The Canadiens kept being smacked down. But they picked themselves up every time.
Sunday will be very tough.
Probably no Markov. Third game in 4½ days. Jaro tired and maybe a bit psyched out.
But the logo on the jersey stands for CHaracter.
The Canadiens can play with Pittsburgh at even-strength.
This isn't over.
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Don't you just love HNIC?
Don Cherry talks about Jaroslav "Havlak".
Then the two ass-wipes on the iDesk quote some Web cretin calling Jaro "Red-Light Halak".
With the exception of Elliotte Friedman, the whole CBC crew makes me puke.


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Ricky is sightseeing in the beautiful city of Prague when he runs into Ivana Sugar – literally – and sends her flying. This chance meeting blossoms into a full-blown erotic encounter, and as "Out of Plans" resumes, they are already kissing passionately, their hands all over each other. Ivana grinds back against Ricky's crotch as he rubs between her thighs, and then straddles him, both of them still half-dressed in their eagerness. Her excitement builds as she guides his stiff cock into her pussy and starts to ride energetically, bouncing and swivelling her hips, then letting Ricky take control and slam into her. After an intense and noisy climax, she turns into doggy, thrusting back to meet Ricky's strokes as she comes again, then jerking him off over her breasts. It's a fast, frenzied and fiercely fulfilling liaison.
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Angelina Jolie Brings Stylish Shiloh, Zahara, Pax, and Maddox to Their Favorite NYC Art Store!
It's another crafty day for the Jolie-Pitt family! Angelina Jolie brought Shiloh, Zahara, Pax, and Maddox to the art store in NYC this afternoon. Angelina and Brad Pitt took their two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne on an outing to the same spot over the weekend and this time it was the four older kids' turn to pick up artsy activities. Among the loot they got was a toy sword that Shiloh proudly carried out. The actress was looking fresh-faced after a late ass-grabbing, PDA-filled night out with Brad to celebrate the world premiere of The Tourist. The couple looked hot together on the red carpet, but which screening twosome do you like the most? Angelina opened up about her dreams for her kids and their individual style and personalities during her press interviews promoting the movie, though one topic she hasn't broached is the controversy with Chelsea Handler.
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Guy Theunis, 60, denied reproducing articles inciting killings in a Rwandan magazine he edited, saying many pieces in question were just press reviews.
He is the first foreigner to go before one of the "gacaca" courts set up to help investigate the genocide in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died.
The gacaca referred him to face charges in a conventional court.
Belgian Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht expressed astonishment at Father Theunis' arrest and said he had asked for an explanation from Rwanda.
Former missionary
Father Theunis told the court in the Rugenge area: "I am astonished to hear all these allegations levelled against me. I sometimes wrote articles to press for human rights.
"I never republished articles from Kangura [an extremist publication], but just translated as part of a press review."
The higher, conventional court to which he has been referred can hand down the death penalty.
Rwandan prosecutor Emmanuel Rukangira told the BBC last week that Father Theunis was alleged to have incited Rwandans to commit genocide by republishing articles from Kangura in his Dialogue magazine.
Former Kangura editor Hassan Ngeze has been sentenced to life in prison by the United Nations court set up to try those responsible for the genocide.
Father Theunis was detained at the airport in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, last Tuesday while on his way home to South Africa from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He worked as a missionary in Rwanda, a former Belgian colony, from 1970 until 1994.
Some members of the Catholic hierarchy in Rwanda had close ties to extremist politicians and aided Hutu militias in the run-up to the 1994 killings.
Thousands of Tutsis were slaughtered after seeking sanctuary in churches.
In 2001, a Brussels court convicted two Rwandan Catholic nuns for their roles in the genocide.
In the 11 years since the genocide, some Rwandans have converted to Islam, saying the churches let them down.


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Date of Release: February 8, 2007
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Unite to Remind Parents of Importance of Child Passenger Safety
Valentine's Week to Focus on Booster Seats
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), approximately 7,500 lives have been saved by the proper use of child restraints during the past 20 years. Yet, motor vehicle crashes still remain the number one killer of children ages 4 to 14 in America. The reason? Too often it is the improper use or non-use of child safety seats and booster seats.
In 2005, an average of five children ages 14 and younger were killed and 640 were injured in motor vehicle crashes every single day.
That's why the Portsmouth Police Department is joining with NHTSA and other state and local leaders around Valentine's Day this year to commemorate Child Passenger Safety Week (Feb. 11-17).
On Sunday, February 11, 2007, NHTSA will kick-off the week with the first-ever National Seat Check Sunday in an effort to educate parents and to ensure all child safety seats are installed properly. The Portsmouth Police Department will continue to have three officers who are certified child passenger safety technicians providing free safety seat inspections on various days at various times by calling 603-610-7KID.
While 98 percent of America's infants and 93 percent of children ages 1 to 3 are regularly restrained, not enough children ages 4 through 7 are restrained properly for their size and age. Only 10 to 20 percent of children ages 4 through 7 who should be using booster seats to protect them are actually in them. But children ages 4 to 8 who are placed in booster seats are 59 percent less likely to be injured in a car crash than children who are restrained only by a seat belt.
As children grow, how they need to be secured in a car, truck, van or SUV changes. Moreover, when you're an expectant mother, it's important to always wear your seat belt to protect you and your unborn child. Wear the lap belt across your hips and below your belly with the shoulder belt across your chest (between your breasts). Once your child is born, be a role model and continue to buckle up, every trip, every time.
For maximum child passenger safety, parents and caregivers simply need to remember and follow the 4 Steps for Kids:
For the best possible protection keep infants in the back seat, in rear-facing child safety seats, as long as possible up to the height or weight limit of the particular seat. At a minimum, keep infants rear-facing until a minimum of age 1 and at least 20 pounds;
When children outgrow their rear-facing seats (at a minimum age 1 and at least 20 pounds) they should ride in forward-facing child safety seats, in the back seat, until they reach the upper weight or height limit of the particular seat (usually around age 4 and 40 pounds);
Once children outgrow their forward-facing seat (usually around age 4 and 40 pounds), they should ride in booster seats, in the back seat, until the vehicle seat belts fit properly. Seat belts fit properly when the lap belt lays across the upper thighs and the shoulder belt fits across the chest (usually at age 8 or when they are 4'9" tall);
When children outgrow their booster seats, (usually at age 8 or when they are 4'9" tall) they can use the adult seat belt in the back seat, if it fits properly (lap belt lays across the upper thighs and the shoulder belt across the chest).
This year, during Child Passenger Safety Week, please remember that if your children are under 4'9", they need to be in a booster seat. What better way to show you love them on Valentine's Day than to make sure they are secured properly? It might actually save your child's life.
For more information about [National Seat Check Sunday,] Child Passenger Safety Week and the proper use of booster seats, please visit www.BoosterSeat.gov , www.SaferCar.gov or www.SeatCheck.org.
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Chandrayaan: Mission Summary
Q: What is Chandrayaan?
A: Chandrayaan is the name of Indian Moon Mission. Chandrayaan-I is the first in this series. It is an unmanned mission.
Q: What does Chandrayaan mean?
A: In Sanskrit "Chandra" means moon and "yaan" mean craft or vehicle. So Chandrayaan literally means Moon-craft or Lunar-vehicle.
Q: Will this land on Moon?
A: Chandrayaan-I is an orbiter which will revolve around the moon in a circular orbit and take high resolution pictures of lunar surface. It will however carry a 30 kg probe that will penetrate the lunar surface
Q: How long will it take to reach the moon?
A: The journey to moon will take around 5 and a half day.
Q: How long will it revolve around the moon?
A: The mission will last over 2 years
Q: Which is the nodal agency for this mission?
A: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is spear heading this effort. Premier research institutes of India like Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai), Raman Research Institute (Bangalore), Physical Research Laboratory are involved in developing various payloads that will be used onboard the spacecraft.
Q: How will it be launched?
A: ISRO will use a modified version of its very successful rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) to launch Chandrayaan I
Q: When will it be launched?
A: Chandrayaan-I is scheduled for launched on 22nd October 2008, from Sriharikota on the eastern coast on India, with a window fixed between October 19 and October 28.
Q: How heavy or light is the satellite?
A: The remote sensing satellite will weigh 1304 kg. The initial orbit mass is 590 kg and the dry mass is 504 kg. The satellite will be cube shaped measuring 1.5 m on sides.
Q: How much will this mission cost?
A: The total mission cost is Rs. 380 Crore
Q: Are other countries partnering India in this mission?
A: Yes. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of USA, European Space Agency (ESA) and Bulgarian Aerospace Agency are partnering India in this mission.
Q: What are the scientific payload on board Chandrayaan-I?
A: The scientific payload has a total mass of 90 kg and contains five Indian instruments and six foreign instruments. (http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/psexperiments.htm)
Indian Payloads:
TMC: Terrain Mapping stereo Camera (TMC) in the panchromatic band, having 5 m spatial resolution and 20 km swath
HySI: Hyper Spectral Imaging camera (HYSI) operating in 400-950nm band with a spectral resolution of 15nm and spatial resolution of 80m with a swath of 20km
LLRI: Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI) with height resolution of about 10m
HEX: High Energy X-ray spectrometer (HEX) using Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride (CdZnTe) detector in the 30-250 keV energy region with spatial resolution of 40km
MIP: Moon Impact Probe (MIP) as piggyback on the main orbiter of the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft which will impact on the surface of the moon
International Payloads:
- C1XS: Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) through ESA -a collaboration between Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK and ISRO Satellite Centre, ISRO. Part of this payload is redesigned by ISRO to suit Chandrayaan-1 scientific objectives.
- SIR-2: Near Infra Red spectrometer (SIR-2) from Max Plank Institute, Lindau, Germany through ESA
- SARA: Sub KeV Atom Reflecting Analyser (SARA) through ESA, from Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden and Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO. The Data Processing Unit of this payload/ experiment is designed and developed by ISRO, while Swedish Institute of Space Physics develops the payload.
- RADOM: Radiation Dose Monitor Experiment (RADOM) from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- MiniSAR: Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR) from Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University and Naval Air Warfare Centre, USA through NASA
- M3: Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) from Brown University and Jet Propulsion.
Q: Are there plans to launch Chandrayaan-II?
A: Yes. Chandrayaan-II will have a rover that will land on Moon's surface and conduct experiments. The results will be relayed to the orbiter which will transmit then to earth. This will be launched in 2010-11 timeframe.
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