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We have a global mindset Ikast-Brande Municipality might not be very big, but hard work and determination has created an active and globally oriented community. Every day the world becomes increasingly global. Danish businesses trade internationally and employ foreign workers, while more and more Danes venture abroad in the search for new challenges. As a municipality we are very conscious of this when it comes to work, child care, and education. History speaks for itself. Hærvejen (The Army Way – an ancient trackway), the Jutland ridge and the many lakes and streams have through the years created a backdrop to which the inhabitants of the area have adapted. Today, the old Uldjyde or 'Wool-Jutlander' has been replaced with the global merchant, and an unquenchable entrepreneurial thirst has given us a view that stretches far beyond the borders of both municipality and country. The citizens of Midtjylland (Mid-Jutland) are made of something special.
We are focusing on business Quick and competent work, cross-disciplinary collaboration and constructive dialogue are all important ingredients in the working relationship between the municipality and the business community. This is something we are good at in Ikast-Brande, and not just if we must say so ourselves. In 2010 Ikast-Brande was named as Denmark's best municipality for business. From politicians to civil servants we have one goal: to find solutions instead of getting caught up in limitations. We meet the businesses on their level and find solutions that fit their individual needs. When a company contacts the municipality to either buy land for development, to expand their business or to acquire manpower, we are there to help them. Our infrastructure is good with easy access to Herning, Århus, Trekantsområdet (the triangle area of Vejle, Fredericia and Kolding), and the two international Airports, Billund and Karup, all within an hour's drive.
Contact: Business Consultant Tel.: +45 9960 4152 / +45 5139 8590, mail: firstname.lastname@example.com CEO Henning Hansen Tel.: +45 9960 4011 / +45 2027 9777, mail: email@example.com
We attract business Ikast-Brande's entrepreneurial spirit, the infrastructure, and the pulsating business community attracts small and large businesses to Ikast-Brande. In 2009 we sold more land for business development than any other municipality in Denmark. The municipality is home to small businesses with few employees, medium sized businesses, as well as large corporations with more than 15,000 employees worldwide. Ikast-Brande used to be known as a textile production area. Today, large parts of the production itself has been outsourced, while areas like design and administration in many cases still remain here in the municipality. Knowledge intensive and green businesses are also characteristic for the area. Add to that a number of businesses in the wholesale trade and the production sector. The wide variety of businesses and workplaces offer a long line of exciting job opportunities for everyone, from unskilled labourers to academics.
Contact: Business Consultant Lone Neldeberg Tel.: +45 9960 4152 / +45 5139 8590, mail: firstname.lastname@example.com CEO Henning Hansen Tel.: +45 9960 4011 / +45 2027 9777, mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Job Market Manager Birgit Thorup Tel.: +45 9960 4202, mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
We have beautiful nature Ikast-Brande Municipality is situated in an area of great natural beauty, with lakes, streams, and moors. Take a walk on HÌrvejen (The Army Way – an ancient trackway) and experience the traces of times past. Visit Harrild Hede (Harrild Moor) and experience wild deer and rare bird species. Or go for a walk or take a bike ride round one of the lakes. You could also choose to go on a fishing trip or venture out in a canoe or a kayak. For the children we have several woodland and nature playgrounds. We would of course like to preserve this beautiful nature, which is why the municipality has made an agreement with The Danish Society for Nature Conservation of to become a climate municipality. This means that we have committed ourselves to reducing our carbon emissions by a minimum of two percent every year. Contact: Ikast-Brande Tourist Board, www.visitikast-brande.dk
We offer childcare guarantee and international educations In today's modern society circumstances can change from day to day. This is why we offer childcare guarantee from the day you need it. For the very young children this means either private day care or nurseries, while children from age 2 to 9 years are offered a place in on of the municipality's day care centres. We even have an international day care centre, in which English is the spoken language. When the children are 5 or 6 years old they can enrol in one of the municipality's 13 state schools. Here we also offer a choice of an international school. International School Ikast-Brande is situated next to the international day care centre and uses the internationally recognised Cambridge Educational System. The system ensures smooth transition to other international schools in other countries. The school's leaving exam grants access to International Baccalaureate (IB) upper secondary schools in most parts of the world. One of these schools is Ikast-Brande Gymnasium (in Danish an upper secondary school is called a gymnasium). The international Gymnasium gives the students access to universities in more than 100 countries. Thus we offer an international education from nursery age right up to the Upper Secondary School Leaving Examination. For further education we have the School for Bachelor Degree in Social Education in Ikast, while many other types of educations are available in Herning, a distance of less than 15 kilometres.
Contact: International School Ikast-Brande, www.isib.dk, tel.: +45 9715 6465 Ikast-Brande Gymnasium, www.ikast-gym.dk, tel.: +45 9715 3611 School for Bachelor Degree in Social Education in Ikast www.viauc.dk/paedagog/ikast, tel.: +45 8755 3755 Education in Herning, www.uddannelsesbyherning.dk
We offer sports and culture at a high level Ikast-Brande Municipality is well known for its sports scene - on professional as well as amateur level. We are home to the Football Academy operating under FC Midtjylland, Sportstar College, the sports boarding school and the sports folk school (Idrætsefterskolen and Idrætshøjskolen), together known as ISI, as well as the professional golf coach education. The municipality offers handball, football, badminton, volleyball, taekwondo and golf at top level, but we have many other sports clubs offering a huge variety of disciplines. All in all there are 255 approved clubs and societies in the municipality, covering everything from music, culture, and hobbies, to international and religious societies. In Ikast-Brande Municipality we have great respect for all the volunteers who play a big part in creating such a diversity in the areas of culture, sports and leisure. We support initiatives that maintain and expand voluntary leadership. The municipality has several exciting libraries, cinemas, music schools and museums, and the two cultural hubs, "Remisen" in Brande and "Bakkehuset" in Ikast, offer a long line of exciting events throughout the year. If you like world famous artists then Herning is only a short drive away - Herning is home to Denmark's first multi-arena, which already has attracted international sports and music events to the area.
Contact: Sportstar College, www.sportstarcollege.dk Idrætsskolerne Ikast (Ikast Sports Schools), www.isi.dk Remisen, www.remisenbrande.dk - Bakkehuset, www.bakkehus.dk Biblioteket (Library), www.ikast-brandebibliotek.dk Ikast Swimming and Wellness Center, www.svommecenter.dk Ikast-Brande Music school, www.ikastbrandemusikskole.dk Kultur og fritid (Culture and leisure), Ikast-Brande Kommune firstname.lastname@example.com
We welcome new citizens In Ikast-Brande Municipality we welcome new citizens. We have an agreement with the municipality's housing societies where newcomers from abroad will be first in line for housing. If you would like to build your own home we also offer great possibilities. We have a long line of plots all over the municipality. Whether you prefer the city or the countryside, we have the right location for you. And they are cheap. We like to get to know our new citizens a little bit better. This is why we, in collaboration with the tourist board, twice annually organise a tour of the municipality. All newcomers furthermore receive a welcome package containing complimentary tickets for a variety of events. In Ikast-Brande Municipality we say "we�, because we have great experience with working together across the municipality, the business community, the societies, and the citizens to create the best possible environment for us all.
Contact: Borgerservice (Citizen Services), Ikast-Brande Municipality Tel.: +45 9960 4000, email firstname.lastname@example.com, www.ikast-brande.dk
We have an international society The International Society Herning & Ikast-Brande is a community for internationally minded people working and living in Herning or Ikast-Brande. The members of the society share their experiences on how to overcome cross-cultural barriers and help newcomers to integrate faster in the community. The society organises activities for international workers, students, their family members, international Danes, businesses and everyone who is open to becoming a part of a social network.
Contact: International Society Herning, Ikast-Brande, www.internationalsociety.dk Biblioteket (Library), tel.: +45 9960 5120, www.ikast-brandebibliotek.dk
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Analyzes basic structural systems. Covers principles of mechanics as applied to the design of flexural members, columns, continuous beams, and rigid frames. For nonengineering students; does not apply toward an engineering degree. Prereq., AREN 4035.
Considers probability concepts and theory for better design and control of aerospace engineering systems.Includes descriptive and inferential statistical methods for experimental analysis. Also covers discrete and continuous random variable distributions, estimators, confidence intervals, regression, analysis of variance, hypothesis testing, nonparametric statistics, random processes, and quality control, including software models of same. Prereq., junior or graduate standing or instructor consent. Same as ASEN 5047.
Explores the many dimensions of leadership that exceed technical knowledge: the ethical, societal, cultural, interpersonal, and personal. Through seminars, workshops and exposure to leaders, students will reflect upon their engineering education in light of the multifaceted demands of effective leadership and their own personal career goals. Students will take an active role in shaping the course. Prereq., junior standing; honors standing or instructor consent. Repeatable for credit up to 3 credit hours.
Same as ECEN 5053.
Students will develop a working understanding of the various types of contracts, key contract provisions, how to evaluate contract risk, ethical requirements, and most importantly explore effective contract administration. Construction and engineering contracts are at the core of all project relationships. Through lecture, group dialog and case studies students will develop confidence in their ability to assess, understand and deploy contract administration in a construction setting. Prereq., senior standing in civil or architectural engineering or instructor consent.
Focuses on GPS technology, software development, and applications. Lectures will cover the principal concepts used in GPS, and weekly laboratories will apply that knowledge. The course will culminate instudent design projects using GPS. Prereqs., APPM 2360 and GEEN 1300 or equivalent. Recommended junior/senior standing in engineering.
Introduces students to hands-on environmental sampling and analysis techniques for characterization of surface water, subsurface water, soils and sediments, and air. Laboratories include stream sampling, drilling, monitoring well installation, water level, slug tests, air sampling. Prereqs., CVEN 4404 and 4414, fluid mechanics, or instructor consent.
Applies engineering principles to the design of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems for buildings. Covers HVAC systems description, load estimating, applied psychometrics, coils and heat exchangers, air and water distribution systems, and primary equipment and systems. Prereq., AREN 3010. Same as CVEN 5110.
Introduces UNIX (Linux) system administration and related topics, including trouble-shooting system and network problems, hardware and software configuration and installation, basic scripting, and security aspects of Internet hosts. Students build a Linux server from the ground up, using provided computing resources, and must maintain and secure the server themselves. Prereqs., CSCI 2270 or instructor consent. Recommended prereq., CSCI 3308.
Given data rates, distance, reliability or bit error rates, the information required to specify the type of fiber, the source, the wave length, type of modulation, repeater or optical amplifiers, and detectors will be presented. Prereq., ECEN 3400 or equivalent. Same as TLEN 5480.
Introduces basic (artificial) neural network architectures and learning rules. Emphasizes mathematical analysis of these networks, methods of training them, and application to practical problems such as pattern recognition, signal processing, and control systems. Shows how to construct a network of "Neurons" and train them to serve a useful function. Prereqs., APPM 2360 or MATH 3130, and CSCI 1300 or equivalent. Same as ECEN 5120.
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Girls Soccer Roundup: Pine Tree Prevails, Nacogdoches Falls in Shootout
LONGVIEW — Pine Tree remained undefeated in District 32-4A with a 2-1 victory against intra-town foe Spring Hill on Tuesday at Pine Tree Stadium.
Pine Tree career goals and assists leader Amanda Wallin scored on a first-half cross from Emily Shelton to start the scoring. Two minutes into the second half, PT's Amanda Cabrera scored from 20 yards away on a top-shelf goal to the left side of the net.
Pine Tree (14-1-1, 6-0) misplayed a ball on the back end six minutes later to allow the Spring Hill goal, but the Lady Panthers failed to get another goal to tie the contest.
Pine Tree gained a 12-3 shots-on-goal advantage.
"I felt like we controlled the game, but it was one of those nights where the ball wouldn't get into the net more," said PT coach Daniel Rich.
Pine Tree hosts Marshall on Friday.
Lufkin Hudson Edges Nacogdoches in Shootout
HUDSON — Nacogdoches suffered its first District 35-4A loss in a shootout defeat at Lufkin Hudson on Tuesday.
Nacogdoches (4-1 in district) played Hudson to a 1-1 tie through regulation and overtime before losing in the shootout portion of the match. Nacogdoches got a regulation goal from Jenna McCarty, who scored off a Katherine Patton assist.
Nacogdoches visits Jacksonville on Friday.
Early Goal Lifts Lindale Over John Tyler
LINDALE — Riley Alvey's goal 23 seconds into the match led Lindale to a 1-0 win against John Tyler on Tuesday.
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Why do corporations file bankruptcy? Corporations generally only file Chapter 7 to liquidate assets, or Chapter 11 to reorganize. Only real people, not corporations, receive a discharge. Therefore,
Can a Creditor Garnish My Social Security Benefits? Generally, Social Security Benefits are exempt from garnishment, except for debts to the U.S. Treasury, or child support or alimony (family support
We've all heard the term "statute of limitations." But creditors have to deal with statutes of limitations too. They have a limited period in which they can attempt to collect on ordinary debts like contracts, credit cards, etc.. This guide details what the statue of limitations does and does not cover, and how it can apply to your situation.
Collection Practices That Violate The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act There are several things that a debt collector cannot do under the FDCPA. They cannot: • Call before 8am or after 9pm • Ca
Cleaning up Your Credit Report The fact that you filed a bankruptcy will stay on your credit report for 10 years after the date of last action in the bankruptcy case. Credit bureaus, however, often
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Debtors "Engaged in Business"? The Bankruptcy Code requires more of debtors filing Chapter 7 who have been engaged in business, than it does of those whose income is from employment. If you are oper
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Christ Cathedral of Harker Heights will celebrate its second anniversary with special services June 21 and June 23.
The anniversary's theme is "Making Christ the Center of our Community" from Ephesians 2:20, Pastor Harold VanArsdale said.
"I received revelation from God several years ago that the church in general used to be the center within the community where people could look forward to gaining help," he said. "Now it has become integrated within the community. I see God bringing the church back into being the central source where people will come to build their faith, gain direction and benefit from the resources we provide."
The June 21 service kicks off at 7 p.m. with a message from Johnasen Packs of Bridge Builders International Church in Arlington.
"Pastor Packs will be coming to us following his return from ministering in London," VanArsdale said.
The June 23 evening service begins at 4 p.m., conducted by Bishop R. Ray Gatewood of Bethesda Fellowship Ministries in Copperas Cove.
"Bishop Gatewood has the same spirit of making the church the center within the community," VanArsdale said.
The church is at 260 Commercial Drive, in a building it shares with the Learning Zone Daycare. For more information, call VanArsdale at (817) 885-0154.


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Join Opensource.com and General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now Chairman of the Board of Directors of Red Hat, for the Open Your World Forum webcast on February 16, 2011.
On February 16, 2011, opensource.com will host a webcast with General Hugh Shelton (US Army retired), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and chairman of the Red Hat board of Directors. Shelton will reflect on his nearly four-decade military career and how his experiences in the armed services shared many of the same principles as the open source way.
Serving two terms as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Shelton experienced the broad application of open source principles, including meritocracy, rapid prototyping, transparency, sharing, and authenticity. During this webcast, he'll give examples of the intersection of the open source way and the military, many of which are also chronicled in his recently published autobiography, Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior.
The "Open Your World" webinar is free to attend but you must register. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, February 16, from 2:00 - 3:00 pm EST and register today to attend this event.
Immediately following his talk, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. Participants can submit questions in advance on the registration form or questions can be emailed as well. For any one who can't attend this webinar the recording will be available online for one year.
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text: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ¿ Shares of Stanley Furniture Co. Inc. fell Wednesday after the company said a day earlier that its third-quarter results would be worse than the loss it recorded in the second quarter. Shares fell 74 cents, or 6.2 percent, to $11.15 in early afternoon trading. The San Francisco wood furniture maker reported a second-quarter pretax operating loss of $4.1 million, as sales tumbled 28 percent year-over-year to $42.3 million. Managers had said at the end of the second quarter that they believed sales had hit a bottom. A Raymond James analyst lowered profit estimates for the third quarter but maintained a "market perform" rating on the shares on Wednesday. Analyst Budd Bugatch lowered his expectations for third-quarter results to a loss of 33 cents per share from a loss of 16 cents per share. He also lowered his estimate for 2009 results to a loss of $1.13 per share from an 87 cent per share loss. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters predict a third-quarter loss of 18 cents per share and a 2009 loss of 84 cents per share. Stanley Furniture expects to release third-quarter results after markets close Oct. 14.


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We live in an area where that are not too many scheduled tournaments....maybe just twice a year. DH loves hunting and doing archery practice with friends, so I wanted to set up an informal tournament for them on our property. This is what I have to work with: we have about 10 acres of follow farmland that I could use and about 2 acres of that is more wild/rugged, he has two regular targets and two 3-D targets and I was thinking it could be for about 10 guys... I was thinking of doing a map of our place with a location for each target, kind of like stations...how many stations do you think I need? how much time should be allocated to each station? I was thinking of starting in the morning and then ending it with lunch for the guys. I appreciate any advice you have, I have never been to a tournament myself. Thank you.
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text: I know most of my blogs are always positive and uplifting, but I lost someone very special in my life this past week. Dr. Fred Carpenter, "Doc Iowa" as my dad would like to call him. The Carpenter family was THE reason I went to the University of Iowa. I can honestly say I would not be the man that I am today without the love and support of the Carpenters. Scott and Three were like a second set of big brothers. Scott signed me up for all of my classes' freshman year. He also took me around to every bar in town and introduced me to every doorman, bartender, and bouncer. I never had a problem getting in to a bar or getting a drink. Doc and Dorothy Carpenter were my second parents for the 4 years I went to Iowa. I went to every football and basketball game with them. Going to Iowa sporting events with the Carpenters were some of my fondest memories from school. I especially liked the basketball games. Sitting courtside next to Doc as he yelled at the refs and listening to Dorothy give me the inside scoop was the best. No matter if it was an Iowa win or loss, it was getting the chance to spend time with Doc and the rest of the family that mattered the most. Doc was also there every time I would get sick. I can remember many occasions Doc and Dorothy driving up from Newton to make sure I was okay. Dorothy was also always there any time I had a question with homework or a problem with a teacher. I could go on all day about how much the Carpenters have helped me. Having a second set of parents around during such a developmental part of my life was huge. I never really had the opportunity to get homesick because Doc and Dorothy were always around. THANK YOU DOC FOR EVERYTHING. I Miss you!


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Developing sex education for young people in sub-Saharan Africa is essential if the battle against HIV is to be won. Information about sex and marriage has traditionally been passed on to young girls by the 'senga', their father's sister, in rural Uganda. The UK's Medical Research Council carried out a pilot study which adapted this traditional institution in an attempt to combat AIDS. The study was conducted in two villages in rural Masaka over a period of 12 months.
Because of social change the old form of senga is dying out. Girls in particular have nowhere to turn for information about sexual matters. HIV in Ugandan girls aged 13 to 24 was running at over five per cent in 1997, four times as high as in boys of the same age. Some community members oppose the idea of 'sex education' as they think it is about learning how to perform the sexual act. However, they are happier to accept senga, an institution which is familiar to them.
Following discussion groups in the villages, local people identified that they needed to take action to prevent the spread of HIV. 11 adult women and three teenage girls were chosen by the villagers and trained to provide sex education and counselling within the community. The adult sengas saw an average of 21 patients each while the teenagers saw five patients over the course of the year. Another village without the benefit of the senga project was included in the study to act as a control. The study found that:
The report recommends:
The senga institution is not unique to Uganda. The senga, or her equivalent, has an important role in initiating young girls into womanhood in several parts of East and Southern Africa. In some of these countries a 'kojja' has also played an important role in sex education for boys. The senga model could be used in many other countries in the region where AIDS is endemic. Given the encouraging results of the pilot study, this modified form of the senga institution should be tested further in a larger study and in different communities to discover if it is effective in a variety of situations.
'Harnessing the senga institution of adolescent sex education for the control of HIV and STDs in rural Uganda', AIDS Care 15(2): 159-167, by H. Muyinda et al, 2003
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Police are investigating whether a serial hammer killer is targeting women in London after a French woman was bludgeoned to death in circumstances similar to other attacks.
Emilie Delagrange, 22, was found with a serious head injury lying near a cricket pitch in the south-west suburb of Twickenham on Thursday night. She died shortly afterwards.
The attack bore similarities to three other assaults in the neighbourhood in the past two years, all of which left female victims with severe head injuries.
A London police spokeswoman said the Delagrange investigation was being helped by officers from a team that probed the nearby murder of student Marsha McDonnell last year.
"The possibility that this was linked to other attacks is an important line of inquiry, but we are keeping an open mind," she said.
McDonnell, a 19-year-old gap-year student, was bludgeoned to death in the early hours of February 4, 2003, close to her home after taking the bus back from a night out with friends.
A 17-year-old boy who was arrested last March in connection with the murder is being held in a secure mental unit, but has not been charged.
Delagrange, who had been living and working in Twickenham, was killed as she walked home, also having taken the bus back from a night out.
Police said other similar attacks have taken place on women in the area, although not all victims were killed.
A month before the McDonnell murder, a 17-year-old girl survived serious head injuries from an attack in nearby Strawberry Hill, and in April this year a 34-year-old woman was attacked on Twickenham Green, where Delagrange died.
A few weeks after McDonnell was killed, a male 18-year-old was attacked nearby but escaped unhurt. He said the weapon he was struck with was a "hammer-like" tool.
Detectives are still trying to trace Delagrange's mustard coloured handbag and mobile phone.


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Woodbridge High football coach Rick Gibson has a good problem.
He has two quarterbacks and they both can play.
Both junior Michael Pritchett and senior Ryan Goodman each showed flashes of brilliance in the team's 49-10 win over Lancaster on Friday night at University.
They basically matched touchdown tosses with Pritchett throwing a 24-yard touchdown pass to Zach Kennedy, then Goodman hitting Austin DeFreitas for a 12-yard TD.
Pritchett came back with a 17-yard across the field touchdown pass to DeFreitas in the corner of the end zone.
Goodman finished off Woodbridge's five passing touchdowns on the night by finding DeFreitas open for a 54-yard catch and run TD and getting the ball to John Schiazzano for a 16-yard scoring strike.
Each actually didn't see that many snaps because Woodbridge scored so fast and so often in the contest.
"I wanted to give both of them a three-game shot," Gibson said. "And they're making it hard for me. Both of them are fighting for it. We're going to do it against Garden Grove and see what happens. What's really neat about that is that they are each other's best cheerer. When Michael threw the first touchdown pass, Ryan was the first to meet him and vice versa. It's pretty impressive."
Pritchett, who has come up through the Woodbridge system, was 3 for 4 passing on the night for 44 yards. He also took off for a 16-yard run.
Goodman, a transfer from Irvine High, ended up 4 of 7 for 96 yards. He also had an 18-yard run.
"We are both pulling for each other all of the time," Goodman said of his relationship with Pritchett. "We are best friends on the field. This is a great team and we are just trying our best to help the team win.
"It was an awesome game for us tonight."
Both quarterbacks have seen action in Woodbridge's two games so far. Gibson said after Friday night that he will go with the rotation of quarterbacks for at least one more game before he might settle on a primary QB.
Based on the play so far, Gibson really can't go wrong either way.
Passing touchdowns for Woodbridge in the win over Lancaster
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Shoshana Bean: I was approached sometime ago and they asked me to do it.
CK: Where are you from?
SB: I'm originally from Portland, Oregon but I live in L.A.
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Calcutta, May 21: Saradha Group owner Sudipta Sen has submitted a hand-written "complaint petition" against an Enforcement Directorate official with Alipore police for "threatening" him.
Sources in the home department said Sen, who is lodged in Alipore jail, alleged in the complaint submitted through prison officials that he was forced to sign on two documents by the ED official on April 22. The police have promptly started a case based on the complaint, sources said.
Sen has alleged that he was made to sign on two "back-dated notices" served on him by the Union finance ministry. "The notices were dated March 11 and March 20, and were served on Sen when the ED official went to the jail on April 22," an official said.
Some home department officials said the police had shown "exemplary" alacrity in registering the case, as opposed to the usual reluctance in taking cognisance of complaints lodged by those lodged in jail.
"It is obvious that not all complaints inmates register with the jail find their way to a police station. Trinamul MP Kunal Ghosh's petitions against the police were never taken seriously. The police are not proactive in accepting such complaints as inmates are rarely given the benefit of doubt," a home department official said.
"But in this (Sen's) case, no time was lost. The rift between the state police and the central Enforcement Directorate is no secret," the official added.
Alipore jail superintendent Chittaranjan Ghorai said: "Sudipta Sen has alleged that an ED official had forced him to sign on two back-dated notices. We have forwarded his petition letter to the police."
Sen had initially made the allegation against the ED official verbally, but was asked by jail officials to give it in writing. On Tuesday afternoon, he submitted the written petition, which was sent to Alipore police station that night.
Footage from CCTV cameras installed in the jail were examined to verify the presence of the ED official on the date mentioned by the Saradha chief.
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Sources in Bengal police said that since the ED had not got court permission to either meet or examine Sen, the jail visit was "illegal".
The ED defended the jail visit. "The name of the official who visited the jail is mentioned in the visitors' register. There are documents bearing the official seal of prison officials and mentioning that the chief disciplinary officer of the jail was present when the ED official met Sen. There is nothing illegal about it," a senior ED official said.
ED sources said the agency received a letter from the jail department on May 16, informing it that an "internal inquiry" had been started after it was found that an agency officer had served Sen two "back-dated" notices.


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Submerge it and they will come. Opportunistic seaweed, barnacles, and bacterial films can quickly befoul almost any underwater surface, but researchers are now using advances in nanotechnology and materials science to design environmentally friendly underwater coatings that repel these biological stowaways.
"Sea water is a very aggressive biological system," says Gabriel Lopez, whose lab at Duke University studies the interface of marine bacterial films with submerged surfaces. While the teeming abundance of ocean life makes coral reefs and tide pools attractive tourist destinations, for ships whose hulls become covered with slime, all this life can, quite literally, be a big drag.
On just one class of U.S. Navy destroyer, biological build-up is estimated to cost more than $50 million a year, mostly in extra fuel, according to a 2010 study performed by researchers from the U.S. Naval Academy and Naval Surface Warfare Center in Maryland. Marine biofouling can also disrupt the operation of ocean sensors, heat-exchangers that suck in water to cool mechanical systems, and other underwater equipment.
Traditionally, a ship's manufacturer could apply biocide-containing paint, designed to poison any colonizing organisms, to the underside of the hull. However, these paints often contain heavy metals or other toxic chemicals that might accumulate in the environment and unintentionally harm fish or other marine organisms.
To replace toxic paints, scientists and engineers are now looking for ways to manipulate the physical properties of surface coatings to discourage biological colonization. "Our end goal is to develop greener technology," Lopez says.
Lopez and his group focus on a class of materials called stimuli-responsive surfaces. As the name implies, the materials will alter their physical or chemical properties in response to a stimulus, such as a temperature change. The coatings being tested in Lopez's lab wrinkle on the micro- or nano-scale, shaking off slimy colonies of marine bacteria in a manner similar to how a horse might twitch its skin to shoo away flies.
The researchers also consider how a stimulus might alter the chemical properties of a surface in a way that could decrease a marine organism's ability to stick.
At the AVS Symposium Lopez will present results from experiments on two different types of stimuli-responsive surfaces: one that changes its texture in response to temperature and the other in response to an applied voltage.
The voltage-responsive surfaces are being developed in collaboration with the laboratory of Xuanhe Zhao, also a Duke researcher, who found that insulating cables can fail if they deform under voltages. "Surprisingly, the same failure mechanism can be made useful in deforming surfaces of coatings and detaching biofouling," Zhao said.
"The idea of an active surface is inspired by nature," adds Lopez, who remembers being intrigued by the question of how a sea anemone's waving tentacles are able to clean themselves. Other biological surfaces, such as shark skin, have already been copied by engineers seeking to learn from nature's own successful anti-fouling systems.
The model surfaces that Lopez and his team study are not yet in forms suitable for commercial applications, but they help the scientists understand the mechanisms behind effective texture or chemical changes. Understanding these mechanisms will also help the team develop materials and methods for controlling biofouling in a wide range of additional contexts, including on medical implants and industrial surfaces.
As a next step, the team will test how the surfaces are able to shake off other forms of marine life. Eventually the team hopes to submerge coated test panels in coastal waters and wait for the marine life to come, but hopefully not get too cozy.
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Soft corals are common marine organisms that inhabit tropical and subtropical oceans. They are shown to be rich source of secondary metabolites with biological activities. In this work, soft corals from two geographical locations were investigated using 1H-NMR spectroscopy coupled with multivariate statistical analysis at the metabolic level. A partial least-squares discriminant analysis showed clear separation among extracts of soft corals grown in Sanya Bay and Weizhou Island. The specific markers that contributed to discrimination between soft corals in two origins belonged to terpenes, sterols and
Soft corals refer to the marine colonial organisms in the class Octocorallia that inhabit tropical and subtropical area including South China Sea [
Several studies have reported the spatial diversity of chemical composition in soft corals. Koh
In this work, we tried to find whether obvious difference exist between soft corals from two geographical origins in the case of various species. Metabolite fingerprinting, coupled with multivariate data analysis, has been applied to give the overview of the metabolic state of biological samples and reveal the changes in measured metabolites due to external perturbations. Environmental metabolomics is one of these applications to study the organism—environment interactions [
In the present work, we investigated the natural variation in metabolites of soft corals from two collection sites in the South China Sea. The metabolic fingerprint and statistical analysis were used to find the metabolites that contribute to the differences between the two groups. In particular, the modeling results from methanol crude extracts and segmented samples were compared. The possible environmental factors for this discrimination were discussed.
The representative NMR spectra of methanol crude extract, ethyl acetate extract and Fr.1~Fr.5 from
In our previous studies, ethyl acetate extraction is a suitable method to remove the majority of primary metabolites such as fatty acids and sugars. Bioactive compounds such as terpenes were mainly in ethyl acetate extract [
Unlike other literature reports of genus
To provide a comprehensive interpretation of the metabolites differences in soft corals according to two different geographic origins, statistical analysis was applied to 1H-NMR spectral data sets.
Initially, crude extracts data and fractions data were subjected to PCA respectively and the outliers lying outside of 95% confidence limits on PC scores were removed to ensure the data reliability. PCA analysis did not well group samples between different geographical locations.
Subsequently, statistical analysis PLS-DA was performed on 1H-NMR spectra of methanol crude extracts. A classification model was established for discrimination between geographic origins. The optimal number of latent variables (LVs) determined by cross-validation (CV) was six. These latent variables adequately captured 91.6% of total variance with R2Y = 94.0% and Q2 = 32.7%. In addition, a permutation test was applied to check the validity of PLS-DA model. The result showed that it is quite likely to obtain lower goodness of fit (R2) and predictive ability (Q2) when the observations are permuted at random.
The PLS-DA scores plot of first three LVs was shown in
1H chemical shifts (ppm) and coupling constants (Hz) of
|1H Chemical Shifts (ppm) and Coupling Constants (Hz)
|∆9(15)-africanene [
|0.23 (dd,
|0.34 (t,
|(+)-aromadendrane-4α,10β-diol [
|0.01 (t,
|Alismoxide [
|5.46 (s)
|dendronpholide O [
|6.24 (s), 5.76 (s)
|4(15)-eudesmene-1β,6α-diol [
|4.85 (s), 4.72 (s)
|Germacra-4(15),5,10(14)-trien-1α-ol [
|5.82 (d,
The VIP (Variable Importance in the Projection) scores were calculated to investigate the highly influential variables of the given PLS model. Since the average of all X variables scores equals to one, these variables with largest scores (VIP > 1) were simply selected as the most affecting ones [
Partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) and OPLS-DA results of 1H-NMR data of methanol crude extracts from Weizhou Island (red asterisk) and Sanya Bay (blue circle). (
However, since the signal intensity in aromatic region was too low to be effective in the selected calculation model under the existence of large amount of primary metabolite signals, the previous PLS-DA analysis based on methanol crude extracts did not show us the variation of these minor second metabolites which we are concerned about between different groups. In order to decipher the intensity variation of weak peaks of second metabolites between Sanya Bay and Weizhou Island samples, PLS-DA was applied to NMR data obtained from all segmented samples. Calculated results for PLS-DA models were listed in
PLS-DA and OPLS-DA results of 1H-NMR data of Fr.1 and Fr.5 from Weizhou Island (red asterisk) and Sanya Bay (blue circle). (
Component vector values and cross-validated Q2 of leave-one-out test for PLS-DA models.
|PLS-DA Model Data
|Cross-validated Q2
|1H-NMR data of methanol extract
|1H-NMR data of ethyl acetate extract Fr.1
|1H-NMR data of ethyl acetate extract Fr.2
|1H-NMR data of ethyl acetate extract Fr.3
|1H-NMR data of ethyl acetate extract Fr.4
|1H-NMR data of ethyl acetate extract Fr.5
The maker signals of fraction models were also determined by the rank of chemical shift values in VIP selection method. Combined with the corresponding VIP values, the major variation were concentrated in aliphatic region and carbohydrate region for Fr.1 and Fr.5. In order to figure out the major cause of the variation, the literatures were researched about chemical constituents of soft corals obtained from Sanya Bay and Weizhou Island of South China sea. Sterols and steroidal glycosides were generally regarded as two main types of metabolites isolated from soft coral in Weizhou Island. However, terpenes and sterols can be obtained from most soft corals in Sanya Bay. It was shown that the possibility of finding terpenes in Sanya Bay was higher than in Weizhou Island.
The typical cases reported covers eleven samples from three common soft coral genus (
To further demonstrate the differences between two groups, OPLS-DA was employed to give an improved discrimination and help identifying potential significant metabolites. Before statistical analysis, lipid signal (large peak of -(CH2)n- in 1.24–1.32 ppm region) was removed from raw data of Fr.1 and Fr.5 to reveal the contribution of other biomarkers. The OPLS-DA models demonstrated better separation between different sample groups. From the loading plots, increased signal intensity at the region of 1.0–2.25 ppm in soft corals from Sanya Bay was in accordance with our investigation since signals of terpenes were concentrated in this area. In addition to this region, resonances intensity at δH 2.81, 2.85, 5.34 and 5.38 were higher in samples from Weizhou Island. The resonances at 5.34 and 5.38 ppm may due to allylic protons of common ∆5-Sterols [
Therefore, the significant difference was possibly due to increased levels of sterols and steroidal glycosides, along with decreased levels of terpenes in Weizhou Island samples compared with those in Sanya Bay samples. Sterols and sterol glucosides serve as the precursor for synthesis of steroidal hormones [
20 soft coral samples were collected in the area of Sanya Bay (South China sea, China, 18°13′ N, 109°23′ E) and Weizhou Island (South China sea, China, 21°02′ N, 109°09′ E) at the depth of 10 m in the summer season (
Location map of the studied area.
Physico-chemical parameters of Sanya Bay and Weizhou Island environment.
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|Sanya Bay
|Weizhou Island
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|29.6 [
|Salinity (‰)
|33.3 [
|32.9 [
|Dissolved oxygen (mg/L)
|6.72 [
|7.31 [
|8.14 [
|8.19 [
|Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen (mg/L)
|0.036 [
|0.05 [
|Dissolved Inorganic Phosphate(mg/L)
|0.007 [
|0.0039 [
Long-term (from 2005 to 2010) investigation showed the water-related environmental quality of Weizhou Island is well-kept. The concentration of metals in seawater around Weizhou Island was studied in 2011. The results indicate the ecological environment of this region was not polluted (Cu 3.57, Pb 0.35, Zn 6.97, Cr 1.44, Hg 0.017, As 0.44, Cd 0.014 μg/L of water sample) [
Soft coral samples were frozen immediately after collection. Among them, 12 samples were collected from Sanya Bay in Hainan province and 8 samples were collected from Weizhou Island in Guangxi province, respectively. The specimens were identified by Lee P. Van Ofwengen (National Museum of National History Naturalis, The Netherlands) (see Supplementary Table S1 for details), and voucher specimens were deposited at the same museum and also at State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs of Peking University, Beijing, China.
Methanol extracts: the soft coral samples were homogenized in 95% (v/v) ethanol under room temperature for four times and the concentrated extracts were desalted by dissolving in methanol, then sedimented by 12 h. After filtration, the solutions were concentrated
Ethyl acetate extracts: for each sample, a portion of residuals were redissolved in water and treated with ethyl acetate to obtain the fractions by using two-phase extraction method. This simple fractionation step divided the constituents of methanol crude extract into two parts according to different chemical polarity. The bioactive compounds like terpenes were proved mainly in ethyl acetate extract by applying thin layer chromatography (TLC) and 1H-NMR analysis.
Segmented samples: each of ethyl acetate residues was further chromatographed on a flash column (silica gel), gradient eluting with equal volume of petroleum ether-acetone (from 40:1 to acetone) to give five fractions, which were labeled as Fr.1, 2, …, 5 respectively.
Among these samples, the ethyl acetate extract of soft coral
About 10 mg of soft coral samples were dissolved into 500 μL of methanol (d4) containing internal standard as NMR samples. The deuterated solvent methanol (d4) was used to prepare all samples including methanol extracts, ethyl acetate extracts and five fractions for NMR analysis. All spectra were acquired on Bruker DRX 500 spectrometer operating at 500.13 MHz proton frequency using a 5 mm dual probe at 298 K. Solvent suppression was achieved by applying a presaturation scheme with 1D-NOESY presaturation. 256 transients were recorded, as 32 k data points with a spectral width of 8012.82 Hz and a relaxation delay of 5.0 s. A line broadening function of 0.3 Hz was applied to the FID prior to Fourier transformation. Some secondary metabolites of the representative sample were identified by comparing to the literature and pure compounds isolated from the soft coral
All NMR spectra were phased and baseline corrected with MestReNova software (version 8.1.2; Mestrelab Research SL, Santiago de Compostela, Spain). The solvent region of δ 3.25–3.37 ppm (methanol) and δ 5.12–4.52 ppm (water) were excluded from the spectra, and the residual spectral regions were divided into 0.04-ppm bins over the range of δ 0.4–10 ppm. The data were normalized to the total spectral region and exported in ASCII format containing 222 variables. The data files were imported into MATLAB (R2010a; Mathworks, Inc., Natick, MA, USA). Principal component analysis (PCA) was applied to give a overview of the data distribution. Supervised partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA and OPLS-DA) models were constructed in order to discriminate soft corals according to their geographic distribution. The PCA and PLS (OPLS) methods were performed by applying PLS Toolbox (Eigenvector Research, Inc., Manson, WA, USA). All the models were cross-validated using a leave-one-out method. The vadility was checked by performing permutation test. The optimal number of latent variables was selected by cross-validation and the performance of PLS model was evaluated by R2 (captured variance, "ability to fit the data") and Q2 (cross-validated coefficient, "ability to predict"). The VIP (variable importance in the projection) scores were calculated in order to explain the importance of each variable in a given PLS model. The interesting metabolites were identified by employing loading plots from OPLS models.
Due to high variability in the composition of secondary metabolites, no systematic studies on patterns of spatial variation in soft corals have been reported. The present work investigated the feasibility of applying 1H-NMR fingerprints in combination with supervised partial least squares discriminant analysis to give the variation of soft coral metabolites from different sites. Moreover, by employing further fractionation of ethyl acetate extracts, the PLS-DA and OPLS-DA models showed better prediction abilities. The results obtained on segmented samples shown that the important compounds related to group separation were mostly second metabolites such as terpenes, sterols and glucosides. These metabolites variation could be considered as the response of biosystem to different environment. Since coral reefs are highly sensitive ecosystems, they have been suggested as potential indicators of marine environment [
We thank State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, for sample collection and isolation. This work was supported by grants from the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2009ZX09501).
Zhiwei Deng designed the whole experiments and contributed to manuscript preparation. Qing He researched data and wrote the manuscript. Ruiqi Sun analyzed the data and performed data acquisition. Huijuan Liu and Zhufeng Geng performed sample preparation and helped analyze the data. Dawei Chen achieved isolation experiment. Yinping Li, Jiao Han, Wenhan Lin and Shushan Du contributed to structure elucidation and constructive discussions.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


text: Join us this Holiday season for a showing of "Arthur Christmas" at the Elk Grove Theatre! "Arthur Christmas" will be shown on Saturday, December 8th at 10:00 a.m. and admission is Free! Bring your camera and take pictures with Santa before the show. Arthur Christmas: "Arthur Christmas" reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the heart of the film is a story with the ingredients of a Christmas classic - a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.


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An interesting street soup
An interesting street soup
One thing that surprises me about street food in HCMC is the variety of soups. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't live without my daily ration of bun bo hue or pho, it's just that it is always so hot and humid here that soup isn't traditionally the first food that would come to mind if I was starting from scratch. Even though it's hot, there is no shortage of street soups; the version I find most interesting is hu tieu.
Hu tieu, introduced by Chinese-Cambodian immigrants, is interesting because it has so many variations. For a long stretch of time, I was actually eating hu tieu and I didn't know what it was called because the cart I got it from was unmarked. I just walked up, sat on the small stool, and the lady would bring me a bowl of the standard hu tieu, which is a light pork broth soup with slices of pork, some sausage, thin white rice noodles, bean sprouts, and green onion.
As I continued to return to my spot I saw other patrons ordering different variations. Some would get different noodles, thin yellow egg noodles, thicker yellow egg noodles, or ramen noodles. Some got different ingredients like shrimp, quail eggs, or small wontons. And some ordered their hu tieu dry with the broth served on the side. You prepare your bowl to your liking with condiments and veggies and add the broth yourself. Now I commonly go for a mix of the egg and white noodles, pork, sausage, and a bowl of wontons on the side but I still prefer the soup wet.
Hu tieu is a common dish in the south, as it was introduced in the Mekong region, and carts and streetside restaurants serving it up are common. If a cart is unmarked, like my neighbourhood vendor, a quick way to spot hu tieu is to look for multiple styles of displayed noodles but specifically look for the thin white noodles. Outside of that, go for the normal soup indicators like a large pot for boiling, a stack of bowls, or giant ladles.
Hu tieu is one of the cheaper soups on the street and it is very common to find bowls in the 10,000 to 20,000 VND price range — it's rare to pay over 20,000 VND.
By Angela Schonberg
Last updated on 7th February, 2017.


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Wireless Wednesday: Understanding Kenya's mHealth Ecosystem
m:lab East Africa
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM (EAT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
The first in the new series of mHealth meetups will be held on 3rd October 2012. The event is themed "Understanding Kenya's mHealth Ecosystem" . Stakeholders in the health sector will share thoughts on the mHealth ecosystem and the roles of the different sub-sector players. Read more on this event HERE
When & Where
3rd Floor, Bishop Magua Centre
George Padmore Rd
Opposite Uchumi Hyper
Nairobi Area Kenya
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM (EAT)
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- The University of Nairobi School of Computing and Informatics for rigorous academic research
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How a Gap in the Fermat Proof Was Bridged
By GINA KOLATA
Published: January 31, 1995
FERMAT'S last theorem, which has tantalized mathematicians for more than 350 years, has at last been solved, say those who have read the revised but not yet published proof. But the endgame of this furious chase has proved as full of last-minute surprises as a murder mystery.
For Dr. Andrew Wiles of Princeton University, the chief author of the proof, triumph had to be snatched from the jaws of disaster. His first proof, which aroused worldwide attention when announced two years ago, turned out to contain a gap, which Dr. Wiles found he was unable to cross alone.
The enormous intellectual trophy of having conquered the world's most famous mathematical problem seemed about to slip from his grasp. If he invited a well-known mathematician to help him bridge the gap, he would risk having to share the credit. What was needed, and what he pulled off, was a miraculous save with just the right collaborator.
On a mathematical level, Fermat's last theorem turns out to have extraordinarily deep roots, despite its apparent simplicity. The theorem is a special case of an overarching mathematical idea known as the Taniyama conjecture, which is itself a giant step toward the goal of the Langlands program, a grand unified theory of mathematics.
Proving Fermat's theorem showed how the even more daunting Taniyama conjecture might be tackled and now, with Dr. Wiles's proof in hand, one of his former students, Dr. Fred Diamond of Cambridge University in England, has already made considerable progress on the conjecture.
Fermat's last theorem dates to 1637. The French mathematician and physicist Pierre de Fermat had scribbled it in the margins of a book, adding that he had discovered a marvelous proof but that the margins were too small to hold it.
The theorem says that equations of the form xn +yn =zn have no solutions when n is a whole number greater than 2 and when x, y and z are positive whole numbers. When n equals 2, the equation is the familiar Pythagorean equation, which says that the squares of the lengths of two sides of a right triangle equal the square of the length of its hypotenuse. One solution is 32 +42 =52 .
Dr. Wiles, who is 41, had been fascinated with the challenge of the theorem since he was a child. Indeed it was Fermat's last theorem that drew him into mathematics. But he did not begin working on his proof until eight years ago, secluded in his attic office and telling just a few trusted friends what he was doing. Finally, he convinced himself that the work was done and he announced it in a series of three lectures at a mathematics meeting in Cambridge, England. Only at the end of the third lecture, on June 24, 1993, came the stunning announcement -- Fermat's last theorem was proved.
Leading researchers immediately hailed Dr. Wiles's achievement. Built on a body of sophisticated mathematics that had been developed in recent years, his proof made so much sense that they confidently predicted it would hold up to scrutiny.
Dr. Wiles, cautious and a bit nervous, decided not to circulate copies of his manuscript widely among mathematicians but instead to wait until a select few experts who were reviewing it before publication proclaimed it sound. Writing a complex proof, he said, "is like writing in a foreign language -- you are bound to make a few grammatical errors." If there were any faults, as often happens with complicated proofs, he wanted to fix them himself rather than share the glory.
"It's a very competitive environment," Dr. Wiles explained, and, after working for seven years and after getting so close, he wanted the victory to be his alone. The Gap A 'Minor' Problem Turns Into a Crisis
Several minor faults were found and Dr. Wiles fixed them. But then, in the fall of 1993, a reviewer asked him to justify an assertion, in the midst of his proof, that a certain estimate was correct.
The gap at first seemed to be a minor one. But though the estimate seemed intuitively to be correct, proving it was a different matter.
"At first I thought I was just being slow," he said. "It can be very hard to tell at first whether you're just being blind to something or whether there really is an obstacle -- it's very hard to tell the difference." After struggling in vain, he decided to go into complete seclusion. "If I was to focus on the problem, I could not allow myself to be distracted," he said. He tried out ideas on a Princeton colleague, Dr. Nicholas Katz, but told no one else the details of what he was doing.
In the outside world, Dr. Wiles'ssecretiveness irritated many and touched off a betting game on what he was up to and whether he would succeed.
"I noticed he was stuck and I was very pessimistic," said Dr. Gerd Faltings, a mathematician at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, Germany.
Dr. Kenneth Ribet of the University of California at Berkeley said that although he was rooting for Dr. Wiles, as time went by the unfilled gap in the proof was becoming something of an embarrassment. "A proof that is unfinished is no proof at all," Dr. Ribet said. "I had heard from people in other parts of mathematics that this whole algebraic geometry group has egg on its face, that we can't get our act together. They would say that we don't know a proof when we see one, so how could anyone believe what we say."


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Ross Cockrell may have been the Pittsburgh Steelers' most improved player last season, but the team sees him as nothing more than a No. 3 cornerback.
At least that's what the Steelers' actions are telling us.
Last week, the Steelers placed the low tender on Cockrell. That means the Steelers could lose the restricted free agent to another team for a fourth-round draft pick, if the Steelers don't match the offer.
And beginning today at noon, the Steelers, according to a team source, will begin negotiating with veteran free-agent cornerbacks in the hope of replacing -- or at least bringing in someone to compete with -- Cockrell for his starting job.
The most prominent names floated in various media reports are Dre Kirkpatrick of the Cincinnati Bengals and Stephon Gilmore of the Buffalo Bills.
Both of those starting cornerbacks are capable of starting and playing more press coverage for the Steelers, but neither will be 28 years old by opening day and would likely cost more than the Steelers are willing to pay.
If that turns out to be the case, the Steelers would keep Cockrell and make drafting a cornerback out of this year's rich draft crop a bigger priority.
The Steelers can begin negotiating with league free agents today at noon but can't sign anyone until 4 p.m. Thursday.
The Steelers enter free agency approximately $21 million under the salary cap, following the new contracts for Antonio Brown and James Harrison, the $12.1 million franchise tag on Le'Veon Bell, and the $1.8 million tenders for RFAs Cockrell and Chris Hubbard.
It's the biggest cushion the Steelers have enjoyed entering free agency, but they're also planning extensions for Stephon Tuitt and Alejandro Villanueva (costing approximately $5 million in this year's cap money) and need $2 million for their rookie class, $1.2 million for their practice squad and another $1 million when the cap expands to include 53 players. The Steelers would also like to enter the season with an emergency fund for injuries of about $4 million.
All of that leaves the Steelers with about $8 million in free-agent spending money, which could buy a pair of mid-tier players, such as Ladarius Green and Mike Mitchell, who respectively carried first-year cap hits of $2.4 million and $2.2 million upon signing with the team.
That would leave room for potentially re-signing Lawrence Timmons, but the Steelers say he wants more money than they're willing to pay.
The Steelers also believe they'll lose WR Markus Wheaton to another team in free agency.
Along with Timmons and Wheaton, Steelers free agents who can begin negotiating with other teams today at noon are: David Johnson, Jarvis Jones, Landry Jones, Ricardo Matthews, Shamarko Thomas, Cody Wallace and DeAngelo Williams.


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BJ's Top Hair Bands
Who doesn't love a good 'Hair Band'? Fun flashy and catchy as hell. Plus you know you have a good time at their shows!
Today we have a beautiful day here in the Albany area so I have been cranking up the tunes. To me it doesn't say summer unless I have annoyed my neighbors by blasting some of the 80's best. Hair bands are one of my favorite genres to rock out too, as I'm sure most of you do to. The music is fun and rowdy and just sugar coated enough for the girls to like it too, perfect.So what better tunes to crank up, kick back with a cold one and just totally enjoy this wonderful sunny day we are having?
I have my favorites, as do you and maybe we even share some of the same ones. One of my goals was to see as many hair bands as possible and I have seen quite a bit of them. Def Leppard twice, Motley Crue several times, Poison, Ratt, Cinderella, Fire House, the list goes on. So who is the best of the genre? Here are my top 10, all my opinion of course so make sure to add some in if I have left them out!
10. Warrant
I am hands down guilty of knowing ever single word to "Cherry Pie". Warrant is unfortunately known for just that song, but they have so many more. Expose yourself to some of their other music and you will love them too.
9. Slaughter
So 80's and still rocking out to this day. If you haven't been able to see Slaughter live, do it!
8. LA Guns
This was one of my favorite shows. I even got to introduce them on stage. The band may have a bit of an identity crisis right now but which ever version you see it will be awesome!
7. Bon Jovi
They may have changed up their sound a little bit, but old school Bon Jovi is one of the best in the hair genre. Especially Slippery When Wet.
6. Whitesnake
A hair metal Led Zeppelin, or at least that's what David Coverdale would like to believe. I think Whitesnake is hair metal. Loud guitars, screaming vocals, cars girls. Need I say more?
5. Dokken
I am glad to see Dokken back at it, even if the Lynch man isn't with them all the time. Don Dokken had an awesome voice and put together a great band.
4. Def Leppard
Def Leppard was actually my first concert ever, so I probably a little bias with the whole thing. I do love them no matter how many people make fun of them. Before Hysteria they had some pretty kick ass rock tunes.
3. Skid Row
Always loved Sebastian Bach's vocals with the band. They aren't with him any more and have kind of disappeared but we"ll always have "Youth Gone Wild" and "Slave to the Grind" to crank in remembrance.
2. Poison
If you listen to anyone from the genre talk about life on the Sunset Strip you know that Poison was the band that would out promote your gig anytime of the day of the night. I have seen them a few times and they totally won me over with their live show.
1. Motley Crue
The Crue is one of my all time favorite bands hair or not. I even liked when they changed up their sound a bit in the 90's to that crazy industrial sound. They were separated for a little bit, but have been going strong together for the last few years even with their own festivals. Niki even says they still have some of their best years ahead of them.
Twisted Sister and RATT would be my number 11 and 12 picks.


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Vmax Pro Duo
WBVReviewed.com Machine Review
UPDATE: The new Vmax Fitness Pro Duo are now upgraded to be even more powerful at 500W for Oscillation and 300W for Spiral instead of the original 300W and 200W motors
As mentioned in the Vmax Fitness Trio review, we visited Vmax Fitness' Vibration Studios and managed to review all of their vibration machines–Trio, Pro Duo, and the Q5.
The Vmax Pro Duo is poled-designed and instead of steel, the pole is made of hard ABS plastic. The handlebars are stiff and sturdy for people that may use it primarily for balancing, but I don't suggest grabbing it and tugging on it just for kicks. Since the handles are also on both sides of the pole, there's a little less freedom compared with that of the Vmax Trio.
There are 2 control panels on the Pro Duo, the main one at the top, and a secondary one on the middle of the pole. This works great when I am sitting down and meditating on the vibrating platform since I can easily adjust the speed settings very easily while I am sitting down and I won't have to stand up and sit down again to adjust. Similar to the Vmax Trio, the Pro Duo operates on 2 motors giving it an Oscillation and Spiral vibration mode, but instead of 500W and 300W, it is 300W and 200W. It is a little powered down compared to the Trio and we will see in our tests if there is any difference in the lifting power.
The top control panel utilizes a 3″ LCD display with UP/DOWN buttons for both the oscillation and spiral motions, a Power On/Off, Program, Time, and Mode. The bottom panel has a ON/OFF button, and UP/DOWN buttons for each of the two motions. The Pro Duo comes with 4 programs, 1 being Manual. 3 of these programs automatically adjust the speed settings as you go about the 10 minute routine and is quite useful if you want to set it and forget it! Manual mode allows you to take control of the UP/DOWN buttons and adjust the speeds of each motion on the fly. The motors are independently controlled and hence, you can set Oscillation to 25 while you leave Spiral at 5.
When I stepped onto the platform (I'm at 250 lbs), I feel that the machine is not as strong as the Trio. On the Trio it feels a lot more rapid and consistent. But to be fair, the Trio is a lot more powerful in terms of its 500W and 300W motors.
The vibration platform looks and feels like its smaller then the Vmax Trio but it is at 25.6″ x 32″, which is supposedly bigger then the Vmax Trio. I think it is because of the curvatures of the platform plate that gives me the feeling that it looks smaller. There doesn't seem to be any restraints when I am on the platform and it was very comfortable for me doing a variety of poses. The base itself is also made of steel but not as heavy as the Trio as the ABS case covers the whole frame, unlike the Trio.
Overall, the Vmax Pro Duo vibration machine is pretty good for users that want a slightly smaller machine with a pole and cannot afford too much space in the house. If you're using this model for weight loss, circulation, balance, increasing bone density, or lymphatic drainage, then the Pro Duo is perfect for you.
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Features & Specifications
|99 lbs
|25.6 x 32 x 55 in
|Platform size
25" x 21"
Home Use
|Motor output
800 watt total (500 watt Oscillation, 300 watt Spiral)
|Maximum user load
330 lbs
6-16 Hz Oscillation, 20-40 Hz Spiral
0-10 mm Oscillation, 1-2 mm Spiral
|Speed settings
60 each on Oscillation, and Spiral. 3700+ combinations
10.1 Gs
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Best Of :: Arts & Entertainment
When considering such a lofty title as this, there are a great many factors to consider. The easiest thing to do is first rule out any place that is overpriced, which excludes the beach bars, the Las Olas Riverfront, Himmarshee Village, and, well, just about every other place in Fort Lauderdale. Next lose any place where you can't get a nice European beer. Now all the dives are gone as well. You'd think there would be nothing left, but luckily a few communities surrounding Fort Lauderdale still have bars where the owners believe in serving quality drinks in a price range that allows even those bargoers on a strict budget to get tanked. Wilton Manors is one of those communities, and Shakespeare's Pub is about the best thing going. On a righteous night at Shakespeare's, you can drink a high-quality yet reasonably priced beer or five while listening to some good local bands and laughing at some piss-poor ones. And that's what going to a bar is all about, isn't it?
He was just passing through, never staying in one place more than a year. We knew that, but it's still hard to admit that's he's really gone -- with no forwarding address. That's probably why we feel a little like a jilted lover. The good news is, Chris Chandler liked us. He really, really liked us. He wrote about the area in an e-mail to his South Florida friends, "I like to think of Hollywood as pre-scene'.... The rent is cheap, there are a dozen places to hear affordable live music where the beer is cheap, and there are no A&R reps shaking the bushes to find Eminem taking a leak." High praise indeed. And of course, audiences who heard Chandler perform know this "folken-word" poet was just warming up his praise when he typed that missive. We'll miss the guy who pointed out poetically that the coldest place on earth is a South Florida movie theater, that karaoke-style, cover-tune-like guitar-strumming is crap, and that many of our residents look like George W. Bush when he's asked a simple question (which goes a long way toward explaining the election). Let's hope we do something really stupid that attracts national attention soon so Chandler comes back for a visit.
Theatergoers found a lot of reasons to dislike Paul Tei this season. He played a cold-blooded child-murderer in New Theatre's Never the Sinner and a hot-blooded serial killer in GableStage's Popcorn. But he is so good at being bad that we can't really hold it against him. Tei is the kind of actor who looks at a role not only as an opportunity to perform but also as a chance to create a persona. Consequently he can portray several different degenerates without his performances overlapping. As Wayne, the gun-toting redneck in Popcorn, Tei kept us riveted to our seats -- appalled and laughing. But as Richard Loeb, a wealthy young Chicago man who, along with his lover, kills a young boy on a Nietzsche-inspired whim, he was outstandingly appalling. Tei never let audiences simply dislike his character. With his willingness to take risks and push the boundaries of character definition, he could make Ted Bundy funny. He dared to play the insolent, arrogant murderer Loeb as childlike and capricious -- clubbing a kid in the head one moment and going out for hot dogs the next. Tei's topnotch acting transformed these two good plays into excellent ones.
An actress's success in a dramatic role can fall into one of two categories: the ability to make the unbelievable believable, and the ability to make the believable unbelievably incredible. Bridget Connors managed to do both in her role as a young Jewish woman dying of a terminal illness. That's the believable part. Rachel's plight could easily have been a case study in Harold S. Kushner's book When Bad Things Happen to Good People. She expressed all the predictable emotions and asked all the right metaphysical questions. The not-so-believable part is the conversion experience she had, which was facilitated by her sister, a devout member of the Christian Science faith. Believable or unbelievable, Connors brought something magical to the role from the moment she stepped on-stage. Her ability to be simultaneously earthy and ethereal left theatergoers feeling as if they were seeing a tragedy for the first time.
There are traditional galleries, and then there's Lumonics, "a specialized sensory environment," as its founders put it, which is easily South Florida's most unusual venue for multimedia art. Housed in a nondescript strip of businesses just north of the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, Lumonics brings together light sculptures, water sculptures (in other words, fountains), performance art, digital video, laser art, dance, and music, all in one blow-your-mind complex. Dorothy Tanner and her husband, Mel (who died in 1993), started Lumonics as a showcase for large-scale acrylic sculptures that combine bright colors with internal lighting. Those pieces, along with water sculptures, are still displayed in a few small rooms and in the large main theater, which is where things really get interesting. From an upstairs control booth, a pair of artists (originally Dorothy and Mel, now Dorothy and Marc Billard) create one-of-a-kind performances set to music that include digital video projections and lasers dancing across a 35-foot wall that serves as their palette. Tanner and her collaborators originally created their soundtracks using jazz, classical, and New-Age music, but have lately leaned more toward original material by Tanner and Billard. And their regular hour-and-a-half shows have evolved more or less into "happenings," with the main performance followed by late-night parties in the adjacent Nite-Light gallery, where visitors can dance to cutting-edge DJ music or just hang out among the light sculptures.
Who can turn the world on with a smile? Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile? Better still, who can sponsor a punk-rock food fight, inviting fans to attend a show and pelt band members with fruits and vegetables? It's the Mary Tyler Whores, of course, Broward's messy purveyors of stripped down, below-the-belt punk. For authenticity the band includes Joey Image, original drummer for protohardcore pioneers the Misfits. For fun the band sports an irreverent, clever handle. And for the hell of it, the musicians will let you throw your rotten citrus at them for no extra charge. Fort Lauderdale's Culture Room is a prime spot to pick up these Whores.