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As Apple, Google and Microsoft are all expected to release new tablets in near future, smaller tablet brand vendors may have trouble trying to survive in the battlefield.
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Tablet brand vendors seeking cooperation from telecom carriers to compete against first-tier players
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Google to debut US$99 Nexus tablet in 4Q12, say Taiwan makers
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Demand for white-box tablets keeps growing despite keen competition
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Moore silences Yanks in Rays' fourth straight win
ST. PETERSBURG -- Nobody would have been surprised if told that a Rays left-hander would have four wins with a 1.04 ERA in April. The surprise would have come when told that the left-hander was Matt Moore and not David Price.
Moore notched his fourth victory of the season to lead a 5-1 Rays win over the Yankees on Monday night at Tropicana Field, with 15,331 watching. With the victory, the Rays extended their winning streak to four games while moving to 9-10 on the season, while the Yankees fell to 10-8. After enduring a brutal nine-game road trip that saw them win just two games, the Rays are 4-0 on their current six-game homestand.
Moore allowed just two hits while striking out nine and walking three -- watching his ERA actually rise from 1.00 to 1.04, while Price, the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, is winless in April.
Rays manager Joe Maddon allowed himself a chuckle about the situation.
"Yeah, it's one of those baseball moments, but [Price] is going to do the same thing," Maddon said. "So it's encouraging."
Moore became the first starter in Rays history to win his first four starts of a season. The last AL pitcher 23 years old or younger to go 4-0 in his first four starts of a season was Jered Weaver of the Angels in 2006.
"I think that I was able to get ahead with my fastball and just really use my offspeed pitches the way they were meant to be used," Moore said. "I felt just as good -- if not better -- out there in the seventh and eighth innings than I did in the first and second."
Moore threw 105 pitches through seven innings, so the biggest surprise of the night came when Maddon allowed him to pitch the eighth.
"Yes, I was surprised, but I was very happy about it," Moore said. "It was nice to get out there and feel that tempo, even in the eighth inning."
Maddon explained that the eighth inning just "lined up nice" for Moore, who proceeded to retire the side in order while reaching a career-high pitch count of 117.
"[Moore] was good," Vernon Wells said. "He gave you opportunities to hit a pitch, and if you missed it, you were going to be walking back to the dugout. He's got great stuff, a quality arm, can overpower you, can beat you with his offspeed stuff. He's good."
Moore received some early run support when Ryan Roberts hit a solo homer off CC Sabathia with one out in the first. One out later, Evan Longoria singled to right, then scored on Sean Rodriguez's triple to right-center. Yunel Escobar followed with a two-run homer to put the Rays up, 4-0.
Moore noted that getting the early run support can have a profound effect on how a pitcher goes about his business.
"It's really hard to get into right here, but if you're talking about certain counts to certain hitters where you're going to throw a changeup to them or challenge them with a two-seamer here," Moore said. "I think it's hitter to hitter and situation to situation. You don't want a situation to get too big on you. We were able to keep them out of scoring position tonight."
Roberts added a second home run to lead off the third to push the Rays' lead to 5-0.
Tampa Bay has now homered in eight straight games (16 total) after recording just four home runs through its first 11 games.
"Honestly, it's so fun to watch," Maddon said, "because the guys have been trying so hard. Early in the season, we had a lot of bad luck. Things weren't falling our way, and they stayed with it. All of a sudden, it's coming back to us because we have not quit. And we won't quit."
Moore did not allow a hit until Robinson Cano homered with one out in the fourth to cut the lead to 5-1. Meanwhile, Sabathia allowed three home runs for only the ninth time in his 388 career starts while seeing his three-game winning streak snapped as his career record at Tropicana Field fell to 3-6.
"It's a different lineup every time," Sabathia said of facing the Rays. "It's just one of those things where I haven't pitched really good against them."
Historically, Moore has been a slow starter, even in the Minor Leagues. Last April, he went 0-1 with a 4.68 ERA in four starts. Maddon had a twinkle when asked about the turnaround.
"Probably because we've talked about it so much; we made such a big issue about it, he wanted to prove us wrong," Maddon said. "Which, you know, most of your children always want to do."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Misattribution is a memory problem that becomes more common with age and refers to when you forget where a memory comes from. For example, have you ever started telling someone a joke or story and then had them tell you that they were the ones who told it to you in the first place? This is because the source of that memory was lost or misattributed to someone else.
Older memories are particular prone to being misattributed due to their transience. Sometimes people can even think that something happened to them, when in fact it happened to someone else in the family. This is especially common for older married couples that have heard each other's stories many times over several years.
One way to help prevent misattribution is to stop and think carefully about a memory when you are recalling it. Try to think about who told it to you, when it happened, who else was there and why this is important to remember. Don't jump to conclusions. When you are making a new memory, focusing on the details will help you prevent misattribution in the future.
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EAST Lancashire residents have been enjoying blue skies and glorious sunshine over the past few days – 12 months on from blizzards.
Daffodils and tulips are in full bloom, and towns and villages have been bathed in spring sunshine. But while spring has sprung relatively early this year, this time last year the weather in East Lancashire was very different.
Last March, schools were forced to shut because of the snow, and blizzards brought travel chaos and road closures across the county. Last year's extreme March weather conditions were also blamed to the death of a Burnley man.
Gary Windle, 25, from Briercliffe, was found dead in deep snow after collapsing in a blizzard when returning home from a night out.
March 2013 also saw some of the heaviest snow in East Lancs for decades, with several snow ploughs and gritters even getting stuck and having to be rescued.
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With the help of Hitchcock Fleming, which brands itself as hfa, JRayl "will elevate its positioning as a leader in the transportation industry through reliable transportation and logistics solutions for its ever-growing customer base," according to a company news release.
"hfa has experience in this industry and that's what JRayl is looking for," said Jeremy Rayl, president and CEO of JRayl, in a statement. "We're continually expanding and leading the way our industry does business. We're excited to have hfa help us lead that charge."
JRayl, a second-generation, family-owned company, will use hfa for brand positioning, website design, media planning and buying and public relations.
Billings were not disclosed.
Disease Diagnostic Group LLC, the startup formed last summer from biomedical engineering research at the university's School of Engineering, also raised $250,000 to field-test the device this fall in Peru, according to a CWRU news release.
The research dollars have come from various sources, including the Coulter Foundation, CWRU said. The Case Coulter Translation Research Partnership provides research dollars primary focused on clinical translation for medical devices.
The option from the university's Technology Transfer Office will give Disease Diagnostic Group time to evaluate its Rapid Assessment of Malaria device "as an important pre-licensing step toward commercialization," CWRU said.
"They will be employing a working prototype to conduct field studies this fall to validate their design and ease of operation," said Wayne Hawthorne, the university's senior licensing manager, in a statement. "There is a big push worldwide to eradicate infectious diseases, such as malaria."
Disease Diagnostic Group's product detects a magnetic substance that malaria parasites release when digesting red blood cells. The device is designed to detect the disease in less than a minute using a drop of blood from a patient's fingertip.
For the local company's most recent fiscal year, "significant growth was generated through MT's progressive leadership, outstanding customer support and expansive relationship with Ricoh," according to a Ricoh news release.
"Over the years MT has always been an exemplary partner of Ricoh's," said James Coriddi, vice president of the Dealer Division for Ricoh U.S., in a statement. "MT has positioned itself as a top organization in our industry through powerful infrastructure and leadership, and a top-notch service organization with a customer-first commitment."
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Branded video content uploaded to the internet is a powerful sales and marketing tool, and watching video online is now an incredibly common activity, according to the Social Video Report carried out for Visibility IQ.
The report is an analysis of the way UK web users consume video content, and covers a range of video-related content: product reviews, TV adverts that appear online, and branded entertainment (such as viral videos) designed to build loyalty and recognition.
The results show that 78% of internet users aged between 15-64 watch videos online every week, and that 46% watch brand-related videos each week, with just 10% of users watching video less than once per month.


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Student Media
University of Alaska's Student Media is comprised of the UAA Media Board, KRUA 88.1 FM radio station, and The Northern Light newspaper.
Student Media's administrative office is housed within in the Student Life & Leadership office at the Student Union. Two faculty members in the Journalism and Public Communications department and an administrative advisor from Student Life & Leadership advise UAA's student media organizations.
KRUA and The Northern Light are independent media resources representing students at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Both organizations receive funding from UAA student fees. Currently, students pay an $11.00 media fee, of which KRUA receives $5.50 and The Northern Light receives $5.50.
KRUA 88.1 FM is an educational station created in order to enhance the student experience at the University of Alaska Anchorage by providing music, news, sports, campus event coverage and professional broadcast experience. KRUA employs 8 students and trains over 50 volunteer deejays each year and partners with the Journalism and Public Communications department to provide training and hands-on experience for JPC and other students. KRUA's broadcast license is owned by the University Of Alaska Board Of Regents, and is licensed as an educational, non-commercial FM radio station by the Federal Communications Commission.
Interested in volunteering? Here is the important information, including an application, on how to become a volunteer for KRUA 88.1FM.
The Northern Light is an educational news organization providing reporting, layout, photography, administrative, managerial, and marketing experience for student employees, and offers free writing workshops to interested UAA staff, faculty and students each semester. The Northern Light's staff is comprised of reporters, editors, business representatives, photographers and other student staff members. The Northern Light, funded by both media fees and advertising sales, is distributed throughout the UAA campus and the Anchorage community, with a total distribution is 2,500 copies weekly during the spring and fall semesters, and 2,000 copies bi-weekly during the summer semester.
For more information or to become involved with UAA Student Media, call 786-4733, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or stop by the Student Life & Leadership office, room 218 in the Student Union.


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Since she was a little girl, Stephanie Foxworth has dreamed of owning multiple businesses. One of her most ambitious plans involved building an amusement park. When that proved a bit beyond the parameters of the NFTE BizCamp she was taking, she focused on one component of it: making and selling chocolate covered apples.
"I want to remind customers how important it is to seek out joyous moments while living life," says Stephanie. "I feel I need to provide the world with an arrangement of fun, since I didn't have too much fun in my adolescent years. Too many vendors sell items that generate profit, but fail to meet the customer's health needs. Elaborate Dips adds fun to nutrition."
Stephanie's life has been filled with challenges. When her mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Stephanie had to learn to take care of herself. She found it difficult to succeed in school, because she was preoccupied with trying to make money for food and clothing. Then an altogether different kind of challenge came along.
"At sixteen, I had a baby boy," she reveals. "This was a good challenge, significant to making me the person I am today. Having my son gave me the motivation to finish high school and further my education. I was no longer living for myself alone—I have a baby boy to set an example for, and I refuse to fail him."
Stephanie's customers have been thrilled with her chocolate covered fruit, and her family is completely supportive of her endeavors. The most rewarding thing for Stephanie has been seeing her plans come to life and prosper. Stephanie was named the NFTE Northeast Ohio Young Entrepreneur of the Year for 2012.
An added benefit of entrepreneurship is that she can make money from home, while being a full time student at the University of Akron. With a double major in Media Production and Television/Radio and a minor in Business, she hopes to someday be a news anchor.
"My life before NFTE was full of empty dreams and aspirations. After my NFTE experience, my dreams became goals and my fantasies became reality."


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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, also known as ƒMRI, is a neuroimaging technique that measures the blood oxygenation,also called BOLD, that accompanies neuronal activity. The blood oxygenation level dependent fMRI allows an image spatial resolution that is of the order of a few millimetres, which is very good, with a temporal resolution of a few seconds, which is relatively poor in comparison to other methods of neuroimaging[1]. In recent years, ƒMRI usage has increased exponentially, though the results are not actually as convincing as they might seem. Functional magnetic resonance imaging is hindered by some very serious theoretical and methodological problems outlined below.
The BOLD Response: A Fundamental IssueEdit
When neurons fire or increase their firing rate, they draw on oxygen and various nutrients. The circulatory system of the brain reacts by sending the region that just fired more highly-oxygenated blood than is needed. This results in an increased blood oxygen level in the activated region. As a result of the magnetic characteristics of hemoglobin, oxygenated blood has a different magnetic signature than de-oxygenated blood. Therefore, with the right pulse sequence, an MRI scanner is able to detect this difference in blood oxygen level. In fMRI the resultant signal that is read is called blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD)[2]. That being said, the BOLD response possesses a number of concerns that must be attended to. Factors such as drugs, substances[3] and excitation[4] have been shown to increase BOLD response. Conversely, age and brain pathology[5] have been shown to decrease BOLD response. Furthermore, local differences in neurovascular coupling[6], and also attention[7] have been shown to modulate the BOLD signal. Haller and Bartsch[2] have also discussed how both hyperventilation and hypoventilation can modulate the BOLD response by altering the amount of carbon dioxide in the blood. This means that the same individual can have different BOLD activations depending on what type of respiratory state they are in (i.e. anxious and hyperventilating vs. relaxed). The abovementioned concerns expose the BOLD response as one of the fundamental issues pertaining to fMRI research.
See alsoEdit
- ↑ . Jezzard P., Matthews P.M., Smith S.M. (2001). Functional MRI: an introduction to methods. "Oxford: Oxford University Press"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Haller, S., Bartsch, A. (2009). Pitfalls in fMRI. European Radiology. 19, 2689-2706.
- ↑ Magalhaes, A. (2005). Functional magnetic resonance and spectroscopy in drug and substance abuse. Top Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 3, 247-251.
- ↑ Logothetis, N. (2008). What we can do and what we cannot do with fMRI. Nature. 7197, 869-878.
- ↑ Chen, C., Hou, B., Holodny, A. (2008). Effect of age and tumor grade on BOLD functional MR imaging in pre-operative assessment of patients with glioma. Radiology. 3, 971-978.
- ↑ Aguirre, G., Zarahn, E., and D'esposito, M. (1998). The variability of human BOLD hemodynamic responses. Neuroimage. 8 (4), 360-369.
- ↑ Corbetta, M., Miezin, F., Dobmeyer, S., Shulman, G., Petersen, S. (1990). Attentional modulation of neural processing of shape, color, and velocity in humans. Science. 4962, 1556-1559.


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Creating a Rubric as an Interactive PDF
This tutorial shows you how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro to add interactive elements to a rubric: •check boxes for recording information, •an automatically calculated score, and •a submit button to send a copy of the completed PDF form to your email. The first step shows you how to convert a rubric created in Microsoft Word into a PDF, though you could use any word processing program capable of exporting to PDF. This activity comes from the Adobe Professional Development Workshop, "Assessing Creativity in Today's Classroom."


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2016- 2017 Graduate Catalog
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For students whose initial enrollment occurs Fall 2016 - Summer 2017, this Catalog is valid through Summer 2025.
The University reserves the right to cancel or alter any part of this Catalog without notice (subject to the following):
The course offerings and requirements of the University of Memphis are continually under examination and revision. This Catalog presents the offerings and requirements in effect at the time of publication, but is no guarantee that they will not be changed or revoked. The specific courses or activities constituting the degree requirements for any programs are subject to state contractual terms and do not constitute a contract between the student and the University of Memphis.
The University of Memphis reserves the right to make changes as required in course offerings, curricula, academic policies and other rules and regulations affecting students to be effective whenever determined by the institution. These changes will govern current and formerly enrolled students. Enrollment of all students is subject to these conditions. Any fees, charges or costs, and all academic regulations set forth in this Bulletin are subject to change at any time, and all courses, programs, and activities described in this Bulletin are subject to cancellation or termination by the University of Memphis or the Tennessee Board of Regents at any time.
The University of Memphis provides the opportunity for students to increase their knowledge by providing programs of instruction in the various disciplines and programs through faculty who, in the opinion of the institution, are trained and qualified for teaching at the college level. However, the acquisition of knowledge by any student is contingent upon the student's desire and ability to learn and the application of appropriate study techniques to any course or program. Thus, the University of Memphis must necessarily limit representation of student preparedness in any field of study to the competency demonstrated at that specific point in time at which appropriate academic measurements were taken to certify course or program completion. (TBR 2:04:00:01)
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The University of Memphis is one of 45 institutions in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, the seventh largest system of higher education in the nation. The TBR is the governing board for this system, which comprises six universities, 13 community colleges and 26 area technology centers. The TBR system enrolls more than 80 percent of all Tennessee students attending public institutions of higher education.
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I have a gui from qtdesigner in maya with a ListBox(item) in the gui. I want the objects in the scene to be listed in the gui window.
Take a look at my code. the list of Water and Fire open up in a new window, and the print ListObjects command lists the objects in the scene in the script editor.
How do I get the objects to list in the new window AND THEN, how do I get the list to populate in the designated gui window. (I also have a 'refresh' button for the gui list, any
help there would be appreciated as well.
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import maya.cmds as cmds
import maya.mel as mel
def List():
listObjects = cmds.ls(g=True, cameras=True, lights=True)
cmds.textScrollList(numberOfRows=8, allowMultiSelection=True, append=['Fire', 'Water'])
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I'm heading to Charleston, SC on Saturday and wanted to hit a "good" barbecue spot along the way (and/or while I'm there)!
Any recommendations along I-95 south to I-26 east to Charleston? I've already hit about all the Q-joints in North Carolina, and now I'm starting to work on South Carolina now.
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When you speak you seem to sing
You speak not in words but in rhyme
Everything in the world is worthless
I enjoy hearing you for long time
And my day, then would be endless
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Sobekhotep wrote:Talib wrote:For Vietnamese in particular I think it looks ugly
Although I also dislike the modern Vietnamese orthography, I do like the unfortunately obsolete chữ Nôm system.
It's not 100% obsolete, many monks within Vietnam still learn it to a fluent level. It is also not uncommon to have Chữ Nôm art during the Lunar New year.
Most Vietnamese songs (except for native Southern ones) are sung in the Northern accent ironically regardless of where the artist comes from. To a non native, there is a major difference between the Northern, Central and Southern accents.
You HAVE to watch this American woman sing Vietnamese
Some other examples of Vietnamese classic songs:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfi70CPo5Y&translated=1 <a random 'modern' song>


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A 14th Century mystic poet named, "Hafiz" gives us this cheerful
message today:
"Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens
with a Love like that.
It lights up the 'Whole Sky.'"
Here is some 'food for thought,' in a much more serious tone:
"If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and
exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful
and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The
heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy, vastly
in excess of water power. The sun's energy controlled to create lakes
and rivers is for motive, purpose and transformation of arid deserts
into fertile land."
~Nikola Tesla, September 9, 1915
Solar energy became popular years ago, but a recent report mentioned
and gave 'credit' to President Jimmy Carter's administration in forming
close relations with the D. O. E., which is the Department of Energy.
I follow Greenpeace and have been posting on this subject with updates,
from time to time.
There is an acronym for India's governmental energy program. I may
have informed you of some of their solar home systems. The 'newest'
fact I found was there are 150,000 families in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
Vietnam and South Africa actively participants of SELCO.
Solar solutions are followed by a "Solar Foundation" here in the United
States, where "so far, its operations include 13,000 plus megawatts of
cumulative solar energy." This amount which the average layperson,
myself included, might think were rather 'low' in its numbers.
Interestingly enough, my instinct to guess this to be 'not much to speak of,'
really has the capacity to serve 2.2 million American homes.
The Solar Foundation carries out a solar job census of solar workers, which
gave a remarkable number of 143,000 solar workers in the U.S. This has
increased in numbers since 2012 by 20%.
Pioneers in solar advocacy formed by two men named Daniel Yergin
and Neville Williams have been working to increase awareness on two
They are a great 'resource' on the subject of solar power.
You may wish to check them out at:
Neville Williams' first book was called, "Chasing the Sun." President Bill
Clinton said of Williams' book:
"I really loved your book. I made everyone in the Clinton Foundation
read it. It's terrific."
The late Sir Arthur C. Clarke said of "Chasing the Sun:"
"A fascinating account of the author's odyssey to promote solar
energy in the developing world."
Here is something to be 'proud' about they tallied up the states which
have the best usage and most actively working with solar energy.
The Top 10 States in the U.S. are:
1. California 6. Massachusetts
2. Arizona 7. Hawaii
3. New Jersey 8. Colorado
4. North Carolina 9. New York
5. Nevada 10. New Mexico
Since President Obama came into office, there have been 550 new
major solar project. Sixteen of these have been permitted on federal
land with over 6,058 megawatts generating capacity. If you look back
at the total number given previously, this is about 50% of the solar power
presently available in the U.S. These are huge 'strides' or progress in
pursuing energy generated by the sun. This is in great part to realizing
the importance of other resources than gas or oil, thanks to collaboration
between both political parties.
The newest Neville Williams' book is titled, "Sun Power: How Energy
from the Sun Is Changing Lives Around the World Empowering America
and Saving the Planet."
Quite a lofty goal which all of us around the world can appreciate.
The hope for the future is to have more common usage by people
everywhere. By becoming a leader in solar power, our country could
become a major catalyst for global, political and economic change.
This is one more quote to bring you smiles:
"Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet- –
Nobody taxes the sun yet."
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Hi I am wondering if it is possible to get the Hi-Gain USB Wireless-G Dish Adapter into wireless mode on windows.
I am thinking a driver is needed from another post here talking about the driver and it appears that the driver is only for linux.
Is there a driver written for the Windows XP that will turn this device into monitor mode.
If so, can you please point me in the right direction.
If not, what do you recommend a VM of linux and then install those drivers?
Also, I do not know a lot about linux, is there a way tutorial on how to install drivers on linux, (I only know how to do this on Windows XP, since this is probably my favorite OS VS WinNT, 2000, Vista, OSX, and Linux)
Thanks for any help.
Also what tools are best to use to capture the IVs for linux?
First of all this is a backtrack linux support forum. This post will surely be moved or closed but before it does there a two drivers which allow certain cards in windows to be put in monitor mode. The wlidpackets drivers for a atheros chipset based card and the commview wifi driver works for a few others. Your best bet as I tell every one for support with windows, aircrack and packet injection is to visit the taz forumand check out the tutorials in wireless and security.


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Tall Dark and Swarfy wrote:Mark,Even though you are receiving positive responses in this thread, is an R2 Laser an answer looking for a question? The AS Laser is so great on so many levels. Would your efforts be better expended elsewhere?Personally I would prefer a revamp of the AEB-L Laser. Move production to a skilled Japanese house and introduce a somewhat exotic but stainless monosteel. Crucible and Konosuke talking over a cup of sake? That could be the stuff of legend. It wouldn't be cheap. I wouldn't care.Cheers,Rick
cedarhouse wrote:Boss,Check out the links below. HAP40 and R2 are both powdered metallurgy steels, which refers to how the steels are made. But the composition, the amounts and types of alloying elements differentiate one steel from another. Some of the guys on here really know their stuff, but just eyeballing it: HAP40: semi-stainless due to relatively low chromium content, lots of elements for increasing hardness and abrasion resistanceR2: stainless, fewer alloys, more "pure"Really reaching here, so if someone knows otherwise please correct me, but HAP40 should have killer edge retention but not be capable of quite the edge refinement that R2 can attain.HAP40 composition: http://www.zknives.com/knives/steels/st ... p?nm=hap40R2 composition: http://zknives.com/knives/steels/r2.shtmlPrimer on steel: http://www.zknives.com/knives/articles/ ... lfaq.shtml
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Cupcake Camp is Coming Back to Boston!!
Cupcake Camp is coming BACK to Boston! The turnout in 2010 was so great, that we're doing it again. This time there will be more space and more cupcakes for you to enjoy!
In case you missed it last year, be sure to check out my recap from the event. You can also learn about the event on the Cupcake Camp blog, the Cupcake Camp Facebook page, or follow Cupcake Camp Boston on Twitter.
Cupcake Camp will take place in the The Center for Arts at the Armory at 7pm on April 13th. Cupcake Camp Boston is sponsored by King Arthur Flour. A $5 donation is requested at the door and all proceeds will be donated to Lovin' Spoonfuls.
Be sure to RSVP online if you plan to attend. If you plan to bake cupcakes, fill out this form.
If you're like me and still can't decide what kind of cupcakes to bake for Cupcake Camp, be sure to check back next week. I'll be featuring cupcake recipes every day!
3 Responses to "Cupcake Camp is Coming Back to Boston!!"
So exciting! But it looks like I have to wait another year to go… hubs will be out of town and I'm so not dragging two little ones to this. Can you imagine how hyped up on sugar they'd be? Yikes! Can't wait for your recipes next week and of course a recap after the event 🙂
It could be a really fun night for them. But I know what you mean about getting them all sugared up…
Yay! Definitely say hi. I'll be walking around stuffing myself with cupcakes.


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3/4 c. shortening
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1 c. milk
2 eggs
1 1/2 c. confectionery sugar
1/3 c. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 c. evaporated milk
Mix together sugar, shortening, eggs, milk, and vinegar. Add rest of ingredients. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
After each cookie is frosted with white frosting, add 2 tablespoons cocoa to remaining icing and frost 1/2 of cookie with chocolate icing.
Cream sugar and shortening together until light. Mix flour and baking powder together. Add to sugar mixture with eggs.
Add vinegar to milk and add baking soda (to sour milk). Pour over other ingredients and add vanilla. Consistency will be cake like. Drop approximately 3 tablespoons per cookie on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees 7 minutes. Cool and frost 1/2 of cookie with white frosting and 1/2 with chocolate frosting.
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Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's live interview dated September 9th, 2011
Surah Taha, 130-131
"So be steadfast in the face of what they say, "
How will he persevere? With faith. Why do they say anything to him? Because he is faithful. One can not persevere in the absence of faith.
"Glorify your Lord with praise before the rising of the sun and before its setting."
Glorify Him during part of the night and at both ends of the day, so that hopefully you will be pleased."
Almighty Allah wants us to constantly remember Him.
Do not direct your eyes longingly to what We have given certain of them to enjoy."
How can one accomplish not directing his eyes to the enjoyments of this world? With faith. They are given for trial? To see whether he has faith or not. To see the profundity of his faith. This is the purpose of trial.
"Your Lord's provision is better and longer lasting."
This is a matter of faith. If Almighty Allah says that he will give provisions to him for all eternity, would an unfaithful ever believe in this? He merely says that he believes in what he sees, and tries to get his hands on whatever he can. That is why signs leading to faith are of vital importance. I wrote more than 300 books, most of them about the signs leading to faith. For instance, A9 TV channel is based mainly on the signs leading to faith. There is not a single expression that may lead to slightest doubt. We try to be sincere, honest and good-intentioned as much as we can be.


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PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania and Harvard football teams have been the Ivy League's dominant programs in recent years, with one or the other winning the championship each of the last five years and 10 of the 12 in this century.
In August, a preseason media poll predicted that trend to continue; they picked Harvard to defend its title from a year ago, and put Penn second.
On Saturday at Franklin Field, the No. 25/16 Crimson and Quakers met, and just as the media had predicted the game had championship implications -- the winner would guarantee itself a share of the crown.
The teams kicked off just after high noon on national television; over the next three hours, they engaged in a battle that lived up to the level of these championship programs.
Penn won the day, taking a 30-21 decision that was not wrapped up until the final seconds. However, it was a game that, as it wore on, made you realize you were watching something special regardless of how it turned out.
At 5-1 in the league, Penn clinches a share of its 16th Ivy League title, and its third in the last four years. Head Coach Al Bagnoli has been at the helm for nine of them.
Playing in their final home game on Saturday, the members of Penn's senior class join the Classes of 1985, 1986, 1987 and 2004 in earning three rings during their careers.
In addition to its title implications, the win was also Penn's first over a ranked opponent since 2006.
There is still the matter of next Saturday. Penn goes to Cornell to face a Big Red squad that dropped 48 points on them a year ago in a 10-point Cornell win at Franklin Field. In other words, the outright title is hardly a gimme. Kickoff will be 12:30 p.m. in Ithaca, N.Y.
Two other teams, meanwhile, will be hoping the Big Red can repeat the feat and allow them to gain a share of the championship. One of them, of course, is Harvard -- now 4-2 in Ivy play, the Crimson face Yale in The Game next Saturday at noon in Cambridge. Princeton is also 4-2, and the Tigers host Dartmouth next Saturday in at 1 p.m.
Back to the game.
Both teams played hard-nosed football, but there was no discernible trash talk. At the end, the players met at midfield and shook hands, congratulating each other on a job well done and showing the respect that these programs have for each other. Greatness knows, understands, and respects greatness.
The scene that typified this day? It wasn't any of the scoring plays, or the hard hits. It was the last play of the third quarter. Penn quarterback Billy Ragone, who had been a monster to that point, ran the ball up the middle. He went down from what looked like a mean tackle around his neck. He never got up.
It wasn't the neck. It was his ankle. Turned out he had fractured it on the play. The trainers hadn't even reached him, but he took his helmet off and pounded the turf with his fists. He knew. This senior, who has meant so much to the program the last three years, was done. In perhaps his final home game, he would have to watch the final quarter conclude from the sidelines. Next week's finale at Cornell? Out of the question.
After several minutes of attending to him on the field, the trainers got him onto the back of their truck and carted him over to Weightman Hall for X-rays and treatment. As they drove off the field, fans on both sides of the field stood and applauded. The Harvard coaches applauded. The Harvard players applauded. And how could you not? On the Ivy League's biggest stage, he was a warrior.
When it was over, Ragone was still on the back of that cart, sitting on the Penn sideline. It was poignant, watching how many of the Harvard players walked all the way over -- through the Penn players, student and alums who had stormed the field to celebrate this title -- to shake Ragone's hand and congratulate him.
Greatness knows, understands, and respects greatness.
Outside of the Penn locker room, you would have had a hard time finding someone who gave the Quakers a chance in Saturday's contest. The Red and Blue wasted no time answering the naysayers, taking the opening kickoff and needing just 2:45 to drive 69 yards for a touchdown. The scoring play was a beauty, as Ragone led the Harvard defense to believe he was going underneath with a pass, and instead went over the top to a wide-open Conner Scott for a 32-yard touchdown.
After its touchdown the Penn defense made its first appearance of the day and swarmed Harvard for a three-and-out deep in Crimson territory. After the punt, the Quakers took over on their own 48.
Football is a game of momentum, though, and at this point it switched sides. Penn's first offensive play was nullified by a holding penalty, and then Ragone's pass was intercepted by Harvard's Chris Splinter near midfield on the next play. Just six plays and 2:22 later, Colton Chapple ran it in from four yards and the score was tied at 7-7.
Penn responded. Thanks in part to a 47-yard run by Lyle Marsh, the Quakers ended up going 81 yards in 10 plays and found paydirt when Ragone ran it just inside the right pylon for a 14-7 lead at the 3:09 mark of the opening quarter.
Harvard tied it again, driving 72 yards down the field to start the second quarter. The eight-play drive put points on the board when Trevor Scales ran it in from a yard out on the left side.
Penn used a sustained drive to go in front a third time. Taking 11 plays and driving 84 yards in a drive that took almost five minutes, the Quakers went up 21-14 when Ragone -- who had a pair of nice runs on the drive -- found a wide-open Ryan O'Malley on the left side.
The teams went scoreless in the third quarter, but Penn doubled its lead shortly after Ragone's injury. Senior Andrew Holland, who has had more than his share of reps this fall, came on and picked up where Ragone left off. He handed off twice to senior Lyle Marsh, both times for two-yard gains, then lofted a beautiful pass into the end zone that sophomore tight end Mitchell King wrested away from a Harvard defender to make the score 28-14. The drive covered 87 yards -- 65 of them engineered by Ragone, 22 by Holland.
Harvard put the wake-up call to good use. The Crimson hurried down the field, needing just 3:13 to run eight plays that covered 64 yards and led to their third touchdown of the day. The touchdown came on third-and-goal, as tight end Kyle Juszczyk slipped through the line and got wide open on the left side where Chapple easily hit him for a 1-yard score.
So 10:42 was left when Penn got the ball back, its lead back to a single possession. The fans had to get a little unnerved when the Quakers went to Marsh three times and could not get a first down, forcing a punt. The defense responded, though; after Harvard gained 11 yards on its first play, the Crimson went 3-and-out and had to punt back.
Now there was 7:06 to play, and once again Penn could not help itself on offense. Again the Quakers punted. At the other end, there were no first downs to be had for Harvard, the big play being an option to the right on third-and-1 that junior cornerback Dan Wilk snuffed out when he tackled Scales for a one-yard loss. With the ball on its own 22 and just over four minutes left, Harvard coach Tim Murphy punted.
On its third drive with Holland at the helm, Penn finally broke through. Against the top-ranked rush defense in the nations, Marsh ran for seven yards of his career-high 130 yards, then five more to gain a big first down near midfield. With the clock inside three minutes, and the field tilted in its favor, the Quakers ran three straight times and forced the Crimson to use all three of their timeouts. Finally, Lopano punted and Harvard's Scott Miller took a fair catch at his 11 with 1:38 to play.
Harvard fans were hoping for a miracle score. They got a score, all right. No miracle, though.
On first down, Chapple was sacked for a yard loss by sophomore linebacker Dan Davis. On second down, another sack, this time for seven yards, by sophomore defensive end Feerooz Yacoobi. Third down? The dagger. Chapple never stood a chance against the Quakers' withering rush, and perhaps poetically it was Penn's solitary captain this year, Brandon Copeland, who wrapped Chapple up in the end zone for the safety that delivered another Ivy League championship.
On Senior Day, Penn's Senior Class of 2013 finished their careers at Franklin Field with a 12-1 (92.3%) record against Ivy opponents.
In his three quarters of action, Ragone was 8-of-17 through the air for 108 yards and two touchdowns. He has 3,999 career pass yards - third-most in Penn history. Ragone's 95 rushing yards marked the second-highest total of his career. His top target was Scott, who finished with four catches for 72 yards.
Lopano was an unsung hero as six of his eight punts pinned the third-highest scoring offense in the FCS inside the 20-yard line. Harvard's 21 points were its fewest since its last visit to Franklin Field - a 34-14 Ivy-title clinching win for Penn on Nov. 13, 2010.
Senior cornerback Dave Twamley, who added an interception for the second consecutive week, led the Quakers with eight tackles. Junior safety Sebastian Jaskowski had seven tackles and two pass breakups. Copeland finished with two sacks to give him 10 for his career and had five tackles in all. Wilk added six tackles to go along with his second interception of the season and first since the opener at Lafayette.
Harvard had ranked fourth in the nation in offense at a clip of 507.3 yards per game, but Penn held the Crimson to 295 on the day. The Crimson also led the nation in sacks entering the day, but finished with zero. Penn on the other hand, who entered the game with just 11 sacks on the year, finished with a season-high six.
Penn's quest to earn a ninth outright Ivy League title under Coach Bagnoli can be heard on WFIL 560 AM or the Penn Sports Network next Saturday.
Download: Penn FB va Harvard Packet.pdf


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This weeks landscape links from around the world
At Mouth of Holland Tunnel, a Vision for an Unlikely Oasis | Matt Flegenheimer | NY Times
New Yorkers might look back in wonder at an age when they could not yet take a seat, cozy up with a good book and a cup of coffee, and pass an afternoon beside the exhaust-choked mouth of the Holland Tunnel.
Does It Matter What You Call It? Landscape Urbanism in 'Scape 2012 | Sarah Kathleen Peck | Landscape Urbanism
"It doesn't matter what you call it–the larger effort to engage landscape ideas and landscape thinking in broad discourse is what the larger disciplines of landscape, urbanism, planning and architecture need."
As A City Remakes Itself, Putting Forward A Quietly Radical Plan | Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan | Fast Co. Design
It's a familiar refrain throughout America's emerging urban corridors: We need to rezone. We need to densify pre-existing residential neighborhoods, and rid ourselves of antiquated zoning laws….
Olmsted Scholar Feature: Landscape Architects and the Microbrewery Renaissance | Lee Streitz | Landscape Architecture Foundation Blog
The renaissance of microbreweries is under way. In the last thirty years, there has been a 1700% increase in the number of independent breweries in the United States. Similar to when the number of wineries and vineyards increased dramatically in the late 1990s….
Making a Man Into a Monument | Julia Flynn Siler | NY Times
Ms. Fisher, who is 61, envisioned visitors to the memorial encountering a massive "mountain of despair," and then walking through a removed slice of that mountain to reach a "stone of hope."


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How much government debt is too much government debt? That question is pertinent in most economies today, but is especially pertinent in the US, where Congress is debating whether to raise the government debt ceiling, and if so on what terms. Unless economists can give sensible advice on the appropriate maximum level for public debt, much of the debate on budgetary policy is based on little more than political bias or, even worse, gut feeling dressed up as expert opinion. Read more
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Mark DeLaquil has represented FORTUNE 500 companies, states, trade associations, amici curiae groups and public interest groups in regulatory proceedings, complex federal litigation and appellate proceedings. He has been named one of Law360's "Top 5 Environmental Attorneys Under the Age of 40."
Environmental Regulatory Proceedings and Litigation
Mr. DeLaquil focuses his practice on complex environmental and regulatory proceedings. He has represented and counseled state and private clients in Clean Air Act administrative proceedings and litigation, including preparing comments on proposed actions and contesting them in the courts of appeals. He has extensive experience in actions concerning climate change, air quality standards, emission standards and state implementation plans.
Appellate Litigation
Mr. DeLaquil has extensive appellate experience, having represented parties and amici curiae in proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh and District of Columbia Circuits, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Complex Dispute Resolution
Mr. DeLaquil has significant experience representing clients in complex federal and international litigation and arbitration. He has counseled clients in international litigation matters arising under the Alien Tort Statute, international environmental and human rights matters. He has also represented clients in litigation arising under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, state trade secret laws, copyright infringement and state fraud laws. Additionally, Mr. DeLaquil has represented clients in international commercial arbitrations.
Professional Activities
Mr. DeLaquil has served as faculty on ALI-ABA's course on Global Warming: Climate Change and the Law. He has been invited to speak on matters concerning the intersection of constitutional and international law by Albany Law School and the Colorado Bar Association's Bill of Rights Committee. In addition, he has been named one of Law360's "Top 5 Environmental Attorneys Under the Age of 40."
Mr. DeLaquil has also authored or co-authored several articles, including "Preemption and Law in the Twenty-First Century,"Chicago Journal of International Law (Winter 2005) and "Foreign Law and Opinion in State Courts," Albany Law Review (Fall 2006). He also co-authored a chapter in "Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and Worst in the White House," The Wall Street Journal (2004) with David B. Rivkin Jr.
- J.D., Harvard Law School, 2004, cum laude
- B.A., University of Florida, 2001, magna cum laude
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Short video featuring Mark DeLaquil
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Third Annual Executive Branch Review Conference
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Engage Volume 16, Issue 1
June 15, 2015
Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group Podcast
June 06, 2014
SCOTUScast 1-8-14 featuring Mark DeLaquil
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Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group Courthouse Steps Podcast
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Adobe's Digital Marketing solutions are now opening doors to predictive marketing optimizations that were previously only available to huge companies that spend millions of dollars constructing complex economic models to explain the reach of their marketing spend. These large models typically include surveys, studies, panels, and hosts of other expensive outside resources to deliver statistical optimization to your marketing budget that will maximize your return on spend.
With Adobe's recent acquisition of Efficient Frontier and recent advancements in predictive consulting, SiteCatalyst customers are able to unleash the full potential of their web analytics data in ways that have not been possible before.
One particular customer Adobe Consulting recently engaged with wanted to determine how to best allocate their digital marketing budget based on several years of historical performance. Their digital marketing channels included SEO, SEM, affiliates, media advertising, social media, network partners, and email campaigns. Because the performance of these channels had been thoroughly recorded across several years, Adobe Consulting was able to use this data to form statistical performance models around each of these marketing channels.
Read the full blog post at Adobe Digital Marketing Blog.


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For today's meatless recipe, we thought we'd mix it up a bit with a fun breakfast idea. Of course, by the time you read this, breakfast will likely be a memory. Save it for next Monday or make these for a healthy on-the-go snack. We love the use of whole grain millet to add crunch and nutrition to these treats.
This recipe comes from Jasmine Jafferali, MPH, of Healthy Jasmine. Of herself, Jasmine writes, "I am a Lifestyle and Wellness Consultant specializing in gluten free/allergy free living as well as family and women's health and fitness. My passion for health and well being stems from my own childhood. While my love of cooking and baking from scratch came from my mom's kitchen, I grew up drinking pop and hating veggies. As a result, I was overweight and led an inactive lifestyle. It was my personal mission until I got involved in high school sports. It is in my heart to raise my children to be healthy and happy. I want to help you do the same and to empower you to make realistic and healthy choices for you and your families. You can find me at www.healthyjasmine.com."
Millet Sunbutter Breakfast Cookies
- 1/3 cup Maple Syrup
- 1/2 cup of Sunbutter
- 3 Tbsp Date Sugar
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Vanilla Powder
- 1-2.5 oz jar of Pureed Prunes (baby food prune puree)
Dry Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup of Bob's Red Mill Tapioca Flour
- 1 cup of Quinoa Flakes
- 1/3 cup of uncooked Millet
- 3/4 cup of Chocolate Rice Cereal
- 1 tsp of Baking Soda
Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix and blend the wet ingredients. Add baking soda and tapioca flour until well blended. Slowly stir in quinoa flakes, millet and rice cereal with a wooden spoon until combined. Place by tablespoonfuls on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake at 350°F for 15-minutes.
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Wildcats Outpaced by Lady Bears in Second Half
Wildcats Outpaced by Lady Bears in Second Half
Jan. 16, 2013
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MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State played host to the top team in the game on Wednesday night, and battled with the Baylor Lady Bears for the first half. The Wildcats would claw their way back into the game by hitting a barrage of shots from long range, but it was not enough as Baylor rolled in the second half for the 90-69 win over the Wildcats.
K-State (10-7, 1-4) pulled within five points and had a chance to cut into the lead even more late in the first half before Baylor (15-1, 5-0) would go up by nine at the break.
The Wildcats shot 32.4 percent in the first half and 33.3 percent from long range to keep close with the Lady Bears. Baylor shot an impressive 58.1 percent with 32 of its 46 points coming in the paint to open the game.
Baylor jumped on K-State with four straight baskets in the paint to open the second stanza and extend the lead to 15 and force a quick timeout from the Wildcats. Out of the break, the Bears continued to apply the pressure and built the lead to as many as 27 points.
Senior Brittany Chambers had another impressive showing for the Wildcats as she led the way with 23 points. It marked her 26th career game scoring at least 20 points. Chambers was 4-of-9 from 3-point range and pulled down four rebounds while contributing five assists. Her four connections from beyond the arc moved Chambers into a tie for fifth in Big 12 history for career 3-point field goals made (276).
With her 23 points, Chambers became the ninth player in school history to score 300 or more points in three straight seasons, becoming the first to do so since Ashley Sweat in 2009-10.
Baylor's Brittney Griner tallied a game-high 29 points and had seven rebounds to go with three blocks and three assists. She shot 12-of-19 from the field hitting a number of pull-up jumpers in the lane.
K-State drained 13 shots from beyond the arc for the game, the most allowed by a Baylor opponent this season. The 44 attempts set the K-State school record and rank as the second-most three-point attempts in Big 12 history.
The Bears hit some milestones as well in the game. Baylor's 90 points are the most ever scored by a K-State opponent in Bramlage Coliseum. The 35 field goals made also are an opponent record in Bramlage.
K-State will hit the road this weekend to take on TCU in Fort Worth, Texas. The Wildcats defeated the Horned Frogs with less than three seconds remaining on the clock in their first meeting this season in Bramlage Coliseum by the score of 59-58. The game is set for a 7 p.m. tip and can be heard on the K-State Sports Network.


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Darwin on attacking Christianity: In 1873 Darwin wrote to his son on how to best attack Christianity:
"I have lately read Morley's Life of Voltaire and he insists strongly that direct attacks on Christianity (even when written with the wonderful force and vigour of Voltaire) produce little permanent effect: real good seems only to follow from slow and silent side attacks."
Charles Darwin, letter to his son George H Darwin, 21 Oct 1873
Evidence News, 16 December 2009
Charles Darwin was a bright young theological graduate, but by the end of his life he had turned his back on God, denied that Jesus Christ was the Son of God and declared Scripture to be "manifestly false". What happened?
Read the Creation Research article The Descent of a Man. PDF here
Darwin's letters are available from the Darwin Correspondence Project


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We've all heard that money doesn't grow on trees. Does it grow on solar trees?
One of the latest solar inventions, the Solar Tree, is digging its roots into the business world and residential communities. The idea of the solar tree first sprouted on the streets of Vienna. The concept was a little different, but the overall theme and name are the same. In Europe, solar trees are used in place of streetlights. The artificial trees provide enough light throughout the night, even if the sun doesn't shine for four days in a row. These solar lights even look like trees with branches that hold 10 solar lamps. Designed by Ross Lovegrove, the solar trees saved the city 524,000 KWh of electricity and $96,800 in 2005.
In the United States, San Diego-based Envision Solar is spearheading this energy-efficient invention with its own Solar Tree. Envision CEO and architect Robert Noble, who wanted to give parking lots more purpose than just a place to keep your car, created its aesthetically pleasing design. With its Solar Tree system, Envision Solar is on a mission to turn parking lots across the country into gardens of alternative energy by "planting" scores of the devices. Each "tree" is topped with a 1,000-square-foot canopy that is covered in solar cells built by Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Kyocera.
This system of "planting" several Solar Trees is called a Solar Grove. The Solar Groves work best on large parking lots, and they not only use the sun as a way to produce energy, they also shade cars, displace unwanted run-off, and even have a place to plug in electric vehicles. According to Envision Solar's Web site "a Solar Grove can pay for itself in as little as five years, and create positive cash flows from the first day of operation by avoiding the cost of existing electricity bills."
The prices of these "power plants" vary by size, installation, site conditions and a company's energy usage. Envision Solar will work with a company to create a financial analysis and see what's right for the business. Also, many states offer incentives for using solar energy. These can be found at www.dsireusa.org.
One of Envision Solar's better-known Solar Grove projects can be found at one of the nations "greenest" college campuses, the University of California at San Diego. Each tree generates more than 17,000 hours of clean energy per year and eliminates 13.2 metric tons of carbon emissions.
Various other kinds of solar trees can be seen all across the U.S. and are not solely produced by Envision Solar. One of the more ambitious projects is at Google's California headquarters. Energy Innovations, a company that also produces solar panels for parking lots, installed the 1.6-megawatt design.
Solar Trees were initially created by Envision Solar for large businesses, but have now been transformed to work on a smaller scale. Envision Solar recently started a new line of residential solar applications. An example of this is the LifeTree, a single post steel structure with a cantilevered canopy. It costs around $18,500 and provides about 1.4 kilowatts of clean energy.
Living in Arizona provides businesses and consumers with more than enough sunlight to take advantage of this cost-effective energy system. Solar Trees are a way to conserve space and energy. They can save a company and consumers money, and make an "eco-friendly" statement. Solar energy is the future and planting these solar "trees" has never had a bigger payoff.


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Official: THE KING AND I Coming Back to Broadway in Spring 2015; Kelli O'Hara to Lead?
As BroadwayWorld reported this morning, just last night, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were celebrated in Lyrics & Lyricists' Getting to Know You at the 92nd Street Y. At the special event, head of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization Ted Chapin, who was also acting as guest artistic director and host, shared that one of the duo's most beloved musicals, The King and I, will be brought back to the stage by Lincoln Center Theater in Spring 2015.
A Lincoln Center Theater representative has confirmed that the musical will indeed arrive on Broadway next year. Casting has not yet been announced, though Rodgers and Hammerstein veteran Kelli O'Hara, who is currently starring in The Bridges of Madison County, has long been rumored to lead the revival.
The King and I is a musical, the fifth by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon, which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. The musical's plot relates the experiences of Anna, a British schoolteacher hired as part of the King's drive to modernize his country. The relationship between the King and Anna is marked by conflict through much of the piece, as well as by a love that neither can admit. The musical premiered on March 29, 1951, at Broadway's St. James Theatre. It ran nearly three years, then the fourth longest-running Broadway musical in history, and has had many tours and revivals.
It is 1862 in Siam when an English widow, Anna Leonowens, and her young son arrive at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely considered to be a barbarian by those in the West, and he seeks Anna's assistance in changing his image, if not his ways. With both keeping a firm grip on their respective traditions and values, Anna and the King grow to understand and, eventually, respect one another, in a truly unique love story.
The show was most recently revived on Broadway in 1996, starring Donna Murphy as Anna, who won a Tony Award for her performance, and Lou Diamond Phillips as the King. The production was nominated for eight Tony Awards, winning best revival and three others.


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