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Gronów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina O¶no Lubuskie, within S³ubice County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland.
Church of St. Nicholas. Pius X, made of stone and bricks from the thirteenth century. Rebuilt at the turn of the fifteenth / sixteenth century, rebuilt again in the second half of the seventeenth century.
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papagolf21 (118461) 2013-11-21 0:57
Bonjour, cher Krzysztof,
J'aime beaucoup cette petite église aux toits rose, à sa simplicité architecturale et à son environnement.
La présence du personnage dynamise joliment l'ensemble.
Très bonne journée et un grand merci pour le sujet proposé.
snunney (113496) 2013-11-21 5:36
Witaj Krzysztof,
A fine capture of this pretty little church nicely framed by trees. The red roof and the person walking by bring the scene to life and compensate for the rather dull lighting. Excellent rendering of the textural detail.
holmertz (64462) 2013-11-21 8:15
Hello Krzysztof,
This is a very nice church and your composition is excellent. The child walking towards us adds a very good element. The red clothes contrast perfectly with the dark green grass.
Kind regards,
adramad (52412) 2013-11-22 8:19
Hello Krzysztof.
Small and original church, which seems to tower, is integrated into the interior thereof, their situation surrounded by trees makes it more charming, a friendly touch the image of the little boy, coming from the grass, is a touch lovely.
A lovely and bright colorful very natural.
A bright image with optimum clarity.
Good job.
Enjoy a good weekend.
Best wishes.
fabianoleite (11979) 2013-11-22 12:48
Interesting little church. I like the redness of the tiles and of the clothes of the child. I'd like the church less centered, though. Anyway, nice work, congratulations!
fritzi007 (13544) 2015-03-10 10:55
Hallo Krzysztof,
very good presentation and information about the Church of St. Nicholas, well done!
Wish you a nice day
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Roemer rips GOP field, eyes decision
President Buddy Roemer? He says he might take a shot at it because he's deeply unimpressed with the rest of the potential Republican field.
Next month the former congressman and Louisiana governor will announce whether he'll be competing for the GOP nomination for president. In an interview with The News Star in his home state he sounded ready to go for it: "I'm getting ready to make my case with the American people."
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Roemer has discussed his presidential ambitions with his family and board members of his Business First Bank. He's even found a replacement to run the bank should he hit the trail.
Analyzing the potential lineup of GOP contenders, Roemer told the Star on Friday that he "saw little leadership" and that "everybody I saw is part of the problem."
Far fetched? Just last week Louisiana political columnist John Maginnis laid out how Roemer could distinguish himself in a crowded primary field by citing the former governor's experience on the trail and call for campaign finance reform to choke off the big money behind national candidates.

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A couple of years ago, car maker Holden pulled the wraps off a new version of its locally made Commodore large car.
Dubbed the VE Series II, the car's 3.0-litre V6 and 6.0-litre V8 engines were able for the first time to run on E85, a sweet smelling mix of petrol and up to 85 per cent ethanol.
Holden said E85 – which has a higher octane rating and is claimed to improve performance slightly – would allow motorists to make a choice at the pump between higher-priced pure petrol, or its ''tens-of-cents-a-litre cheaper'' substitute.
Caltex Australia jumped on board, saying it would have more than 100 metropolitan and regional areas selling the fuel, dubbed Bio E-Flex, by the end of 2011.
Holden even heralded a US company, Coskata, that was intent on building an Australia based multimillion-dollar waste to-ethanol conversion plant that would have turned household rubbish including dirty nappies and lawn clippings into fuel.
Caltex recently passed a significant number in its E85 sales in Australia, racking up sales of 2 million litres of the biofuel since it was launched. However, taken in the context of Caltex's overall fuel sales of 10 billion litres a year, the E85 figure is a drop in the ocean.
Caltex admits these figures are ''below where we want to be''. What, then, has gone wrong?
''Bio E-Flex is still a niche fuel,'' Caltex Australia spokesman Sam Collyer says. ''Do we expect it to be a mainstream fuel in Australia? I don't think it is ever going to be a dominant fuel, but Caltex wants to be a market leader in fuels, so we will continue to support it.
''The uptake has been slower than we've expected.''
According to Collyer, since it first went on sale here E85 has been largely ignored by the big car fleets, robbing the fuel of critical mass, and he is not sure why.
Caltex has put E85 fuel facilities in for a number of fleets that use back-to-base refuelling, where the vehicles return to a single refuelling point rather than calling in to the local service station.
Drive contacted several fleet companies to ask them about their policy on using E85. While many encourage the use of E10 ethanol-blended fuel ''where practical'', there is nothing
pushing drivers to make a conscious choice for E85 at the pump. One fleet car representative Drive contacted did not even know what E85 was.
What, then, of Coskata, which after landing in Australia and meeting with state and federal government representatives and even job-hungry local councils, announced late last year that it was close to settling on a greenfield site for its first commercial biomass-to-ethanol production facility outside the US?
The small company attracted a big investment from Holden's parent company, General Motors, and also enjoys the support of Holden here in Australia.
After a successful trial run using Australian rubbish – apparently we have a very different mix of things that go into our rubbish bins compared with our US cousins – the company shelved its plans to build the $1 billion plant in outer suburban Melbourne.
It has since made the decision to switch tactics mid-stream to the more lucrative natural gas-to ethanol production process.
According to Coskata chief executive Bill Roe, despite shifting gear, the company is still working with its Australian partners to develop a waste-to ethanol plant.
''While our initial focus in the US has shifted to natural gas instead of biomass, we continue to support partners who will utilise other feedstocks, such as waste,'' Roe told Drive.
''We are not abandoning biomass, waste or other feedstocks; we are simply taking advantage of market conditions.''
However, before Coskata can do that, Roe admits the company needs to find a source of funding and, possibly, a better sense of timing. ''. . . The public markets are all about timing and [our] timing has been poor,'' he says.
No timeline is given, but Coskata can afford to take its time given the slow rush to the E85 pumps.
Holden's director of energy and environment, Richard Marshall, says the success of E85 is dependent on factors out of the car maker's control.
''Our role is to put the vehicles out there and provide the choice for the customer, and at the end of the day it is the customer who chooses what they want to do,'' he says.
There remain precious few vehicles on sale in Australia that are compatible with E85 but here is a detailed look at those that are:
Holden Commodore
All three engines in the Commodore's line-up are now E85 compatible. However, it pays to be careful if you're buying a secondhand 3.6-litre V6, as this engine was only updated to run on E85 in September last year.
Look at the inside of the fuel filter flap to check whether the car you're looking at is E85 compatible. Officially, the worst performer on E85 is the big V8, which on paper chews through 12.3 litres per 100 kilometres in six-speed auto form. Add an extra 20 per cent to bump the figure to near real-world fuel use, and add another 30 per cent to account for E85's faster burn rate, and the number could be as high as 23.0 litres per 100 kilometres.
You don't pay any extra for the E85 compatibility in the showroom, unlike LPG compatibility which costs an extra $2500 before any government subsidies.
Holden Captiva
A July update to the Captiva softroader range that added more value in the cabin also introduced extra flex-fuel ability under the bonnet. Tweaks to the drivetrain have also improved fuel use, although because no standard exists for an ethanol-blended fuel test, we don't know how much extra fuel the Captiva's 2.4-litre four-cylinder engine will burn through.
However, there's a downside. The diesel-engined version of the Captiva officially uses only between 7.6 litres and 8.1 litres of fuel for every 100 kilometres it travels depending on the model, while the petrol engine running on E85 ranges from a low of 8.8L/100km for the manual front wheel drive model to a high of 11.3L/100km for the 3.0-litre V6 version.
Again, with real-world figures adding about 20 per cent to the theoretical fuel use ones, and the fact that you'll burn through about 30 per cent more E85 over the same distance compared with petrol, that means the V6 could be chewing through a frightening 17.0L/100km in flex-fuel mode.
Jeep Cherokee
Although various US versions of the Jeep range are E85 compatible Australian buyers get one option, the Cherokee.
Only the company's older 3.7-litre V6 engine is able to use ethanol. The new 3.6-litre V6, which powers the Grand Cherokee and the Wrangler, can't.
The reason the Cherokee midsize off-roader stands alone next to the flex-fuel pump is a simple matter of geography.We essentially get the E85-friendly US-market version of the Cherokee that uses the right fuel lines to handle the fuel.
The other petrol-engined products on sale here are sourced from factories building cars for the diesel-focused European markets.
Bentley Continental Flying Spur
Upmarket British marque Bentley sells a lot of cars in the US, so it makes sense for the brand to make its engines compatible with US fuel standards that encourage the use of the ethanol-based fuel. That's why the big 6.0-litre W12 mill under the long, graceful bonnet of the luxury cars is one of the few on sale here to offer E85 compatibility.
If you think the Commodore's V8 likes a drink, wait until you get a load of the Conti's number: an official 16.6L/100km combined, but jumping to 25.3L/100km on the urban cycle.
The car maker has introduced a more fuel-efficient 4.0-litre twin turbo V8 that will go under the bonnet of the Continental later this year, but it will only be able to use E20.
A twin-turbocharged 6.75-litre V8 is still available under the bonnet of the flagship Mulsanne convertible.
Supercars Champion E85 Technology
The V8 Supercars championship has been using E85 as its official fuel since 2009. The sport adopted the fuel in part to clean up its environmental message, but also to increase strategy as teams are forced to deal with the fuel's much faster burn rate.
DJR team owner Dick Johnson says he believes the swap to the lower emission fuel has not changed that much about the sport. ''There were a number of changes we had to make to the engine to accommodate it, but as far as the performance goes, I don't think there's been any major downturn in the performance except for the amount of fuel that you use,'' he says.
During a typical race weekend, Johnson says the four cars in the DJR stable will use about 2000 litres of the fuel — at about $2.50 a litre. ''When you're in a situation where it is being sold to you as 40 per cent cheaper, when in actual fact you use 40 per cent more of it ... I don't know what school they [V8 Supercars] went to, but it is different to the one I went to,'' he says.
He says the fuel also gives the better-financed teams an advantage, as they can afford to run their engines leaner despite the damage it causes. ''The better-financed teams can afford to run the engine very lean and replace their pistons more often when they get damaged,'' he says.


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An Indiana University study examining the adoption of environmental education by schools in Israel, measured by Green School Certification, found that school change was assisted by community-based grassroots efforts, not just 'top-down' school policy. It also found that some types of schools were more likely to adopt the earth-friendly changes than other types. IU Sociologist Oren Pizmony Levy, lead author of the study, said the findings have implications for U.S. schools.
"Programs of environmental education certification for schools are on the rise worldwide," said Pizmony Levy, who will discuss his study on Saturday at the American Educational Research Association meeting in New Orleans. "Given the United Nations declared 2005-2014 as the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, this paper might offer ways to transform schools with regard to sustainable development."
Here are some findings:
- Primary schools and state-secular schools were more likely to adopt the environmental education changes than secondary and state-religious schools. Open-ended interviews with Israeli principals suggest the primary schools and state-secular schools have more "soft" or flexible curriculum that enables the incorporation of environmental education.
- Socioeconomic background of students in schools did not influence the likelihood of a school getting a Green School Certificate. Pizmony Levy said this means that environmental education is available for all children, regardless of their background.
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Pizmony Levy will discuss his study, "Green School Certificate in Israel: Social Predictors of Early Adoption," on Saturday, April 9, at 8:15 a.m. in the Ile de France III room at JW Marriott New Orleans during the session "King Cake: Examining Practices and Capacities for Environmental Education in Schools." Co-author of the study is Dafna Gan, an environmental educator working with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.


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Snowden Leaves Moscow's Airport, As Russia Grants Asylum
NSA leaker Edward Snowden has left Moscow's airport, his Russian legal adviser and others told reporters Thursday.
Snowden arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport from Hong Kong more than one month ago, after news media published a trove of secret U.S. documents supplied by the former NSA contractor.
Snowden's Russian adviser, Anatoly Kucherena, "has told reporters that he passed along documents to Edward Snowden allowing him to enter Russian soil," NPR's Corey Flintoff reports. "Kucherena and sources at Sheremetyevo Airport says Snowden has left the airport."
Multiple media outlets and WikiLeaks were reporting that Snowden has been granted asylum for a period of at least one year.
Earlier Thursday, WikiLeaks tweeted, "Edward Snowden has successfully acquired refugee status in Russia and will shortly leave the airport."
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Players were nominated and fans voted, but when the dust finally settled it was the ageless Marty Brodeur who walked away with the official NHL®14 If you attended one of the Midnight Launch events held across Canada, you were able to secure a custom cover. But even if you didn't, you can still get your own!
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Subject: General Tech | June 9, 2008 - 11:40 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Phoronix is trying out their brand new test suite on three different Linux distros. Mandriva, a bit of a different OS, was only tested for nine of the benchmarks, while Ubuntu and Fedora both went through the full battery of 24 tests. See which tests most closely match your needs, and pick your Linux distro accordingly.
"Last week we released Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 and one of the article requests we received as a result was to do a side-by-side
comparison between the popular desktop Linux distributions. Ask and you shall receive. Today we have up 28 test results from
Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora 9, and Mandriva 2008.1."
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Bills fans shouldn't worry about EdwardsMarch 18, 2010
Many media outlets have been pointing out the fact that the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks never extended a contract to defensive end Dwan Edwards due to failed physicals.
However, Buffalo Bills fans shouldn't worry about Edwards' neck.
Edwards had his c3 and c4 vertebrate fused in 2008 after a preseason injury to his neck, which caused him to miss the entire season.
In 2009 Edwards played the entire season, which included starting from week six on due to injury.
The one athlete that comes to mind that had spinal fusion in their neck and went on to have a successful career after is former Detroit Redwings center Steve Yzerman who had it done in 1994.
According to the Buffalo News, the Bills signed Edwards after Dr. Andrew Cappuccino examined him.
In the end, with the job that Dr. Cappuccino did with Kevin Everett I will trust the Bills on this one.


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Imagining what your life would be like under different circumstances is a good thing to do. If nothing else, it blows the cobwebs away, helping you see how you are really living. Combine that with the power of possibilities and it's guaranteed to get you thinking. Read the rest of this entry »
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You and I live beside a thin dividing line. All our dreams, plans, and desires flow on toward an infinitely distant horizon. While todays worries, uncertainties, and slights can so preoccupy our minds it's a struggle to get our mind anywhere beyond the here and now. Read the rest of this entry »


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Yes, i know I can buy it wound around the cardboard tubes - but I never cut it to the right length and then it inevitably curls up tight again right before I want to put something back on it so i indulge since I do so much baking. To me it is worth the extra expense.
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This court historically has been unusually restrictive when it comes to the filing of material like pre-trial discovery in the record for public access. Also, Rhode Island is the only district in the First Circuit that has the practice of lawyers filing all memoranda of law only with the judge assigned to the case, with no copy being put in the court file. US District Judge Richard P. Matsch who heard the McVeigh case said regarding too much secrecy in that case,
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International Journal of Plant Genomics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 817210, 4 pages
An Empirical Bayesian Method for Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes Using EST Data
Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Received 18 September 2007; Accepted 22 December 2007
Academic Editor: Xinping Cui
Copyright © 2008 Na You et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Detection of differentially expressed genes from expressed sequence tags (ESTs) data has received much attention. An empirical Bayesian method is introduced in which gene expression patterns are estimated and used to define detection statistics. Significantly differentially expressed genes can be declared given detection statistics. Simulation is done to evaluate the performance of proposed method. Two real applications are studied.
1. Introduction
It is important to detect differentially expressed genes, for example, exploring the key genes related to certain diseases. As the EST sequencing technology develops, a large number of EST databases from a variety of tissues are available. Enormous EST collections provide opportunities to quantify gene expression levels [1]. Efficient statistical methods are in great demand.
Several methods have been proposed to detect significantly differentially expressed (SDE) genes from EST data [2]. Fisher's exact test was used by the Cancer Genome Anatomy Project [3]. Audic and Claverie [4] developed a Bayesian method. GT statistic [5] and R statistic [6] were proposed for multilibrary comparison. In each method, gene-specific detection statistics quantify differences of gene expression levels and SDE genes are declared by their rankings.
An empirical Bayesian method is proposed to detect SDE genes. The relative gene expression abundances are estimated in each library, and a new detection statistic is derived for each gene. In Section 2, simulation experiments suggest that the proposed method outperforms those existing methods. Real applications are also studied in Section 2. Statistical methods are described in Section 3. The possibility of extending the method for multiple libraries is indicated in Section 4.
2. Results
Let and be the gene expression patterns in two libraries, where is the relative abundance of gene in library . The absolute difference between relative abundances is . Given a sample of ESTs from library , an empirical Bayes estimator for is defined in Section 3. Given gene seen in both samples, define . Given gene seen in only one sample, for example, sample 2, define if and otherwise, which is conservative in the sense that possibly underestimates . Gene is declared to be SDE if is relatively large.
2.1. Simulation
In a simulation experiment, EST frequencies are generated from a multinomial distribution with sample size and probability vector , where , , from , from , and and are two distributions over . The proposed methods, Fihser's exact test, test, AC statistic, and R statistic, are studied. Given a cutoff point , the efficiency of a statistical method is measured by , the expected percentage of the true first SDE genes being correctly declared as the first SDE genes. The average of estimated is calculated from 500 replications.
In the first four experiments, and the results are presented in Figure 1. Note that , , , and , , , respectively, where is the uniform distribution on , is degenerate at , is transformed from the beta distribution with shape parameters and by for , and is the gamma distribution with shape and scale . For each cutoff point are calculated. Clearly the proposed method has better performance than others.
In the second four experiments, , , and respectively, and the results are presented in Figure 2. Note that and in Figures 2(a) and 2(b) and and in Figures 2(c) and 2(d). The proposed method is usually the best one among all methods studied.
2.2. Real Applications
One example concerns Chinese spring wheat drought stressed leaf cDNA library (7235) and root cDNA library (#ASP), available at TIGR gene indexes database (downloaded at http://www.tigr.org/tdb/tgi, 01/06/2006). In each EST sample, there are totally 790 and 1306 sequenced ESTs, respectively. After removing the unannotated 103 and 194 ESTs, the annotated ESTs are clustered into 465 and 804 groups with each group associated with a unique gene. Only those well-annotated ESTs are used. The first 20 SDE genes by the proposed method are listed in Table 1, among which 7, 7, 7, and 7 genes are in the set of first 20 SDE genes by Fisher's exact test, test, AC statistic, and R statistic, respectively.
Another example concerns pinus gene expression level comparison in root gravitropism April 2003 test library (#FH3) and root control 2 (late) library (#FH4), also from TIGR, in which 2513 and 1132 ESTs associated with 1211 and 605 genes are well annotated and clustered. Table 2 lists the first 20 SDE genes by the proposed method, among which 4, 4, 5, and 3 genes are in the set of the first 20 SDE genes by Fisher's exact test, test, AC statistic, and R statistic, respectively.
3. Methods
Suppose that there are genes in a library. Let be the number of ESTs from gene , a Poisson variable with mean . Given a prior distribution on the , the posterior mean of is , where is a Poisson mixture. A gene is observed if and only if . Conditioning on , follows a zero-truncated Poisson mixture or a mixture of truncated Poisson, where Let be the odds that a gene is unseen. Write if and otherwise.
Let denote the number of genes with exactly ESTs in the sample. The nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator for is whose calculation is discussed in [7]. It is difficult to estimate well [8]. There are lower bound estimators, for example, [9], where is the number of observed expressed genes. An empirical Bayes estimator for isAs the relative abundance satisfies , let , where
4. Discussion
A new statistical method is proposed to compare the gene expression patterns in two cDNA libraries. It can be extended to multilibrary comparison, for example, considering all pairwise comparisons among multiple libraries [3].
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libLunchbox facilitates the development and deployment of multi-threaded applications. It provides OS Abstraction, using utility classes abstracting common operating system features (such as threads, locks, memory maps, shared library loading, and condition variables), high-performance primitives (including thread-safe utilities tuned for performance, such as atomic variables, spin locks, and lock-free containers), and utility classes (including helper primitives which are not in the standard library, such as logging, pools, and random number generation).
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Aberdeen schools continue to improve
Today's [Tuesday 05 August] SQA examination results show that our young people in schools across Aberdeen have continued to perform well.
The pupils have been rewarded for completing coursework, exams and unit assessments throughout the academic year 2013/14 in a wide range of qualifications and subjects. These include Access, Intermediates, Highers and Advanced Highers and, for the first time, the new Nationals which support Curriculum for Excellence.
There are several changes both in the qualifications and in the wider education system as a result of Curriculum for Excellence, which means that the results published today look different from previous years. The new National Courses are different from Standard Grade, with National 4 being assessed internally by schools, and National 5 being assessed externally, and comparisons cannot be like-for-like.
The pass rates for National Courses 2 to 5 for Aberdeen City Council-run schools in 2013/14 are as follows:
National 5 - 77.3%
National 4 - 93.8%
National 3 - 95.7%
National 2 - 96.0%
In 2013/14, alongside the new National Courses pupils also presented Access 2 & 3, Intermediate 1 & 2, Higher and Advanced Higher qualifications. The pass rates for these qualifications are as follows:
Access 2 - 77.8%
Access 3 - 100%
Intermediate 1 - 73.0%
Intermediate 2 - 75.4%
Higher - 76.2%
Advanced Higher - 81.2%
The Higher Grade pass is the second highest in the city since 2003 and the Advanced Higher pass rate is the second highest since the qualification was introduced in 2001.
Aberdeen City Council Leader Councillor Jenny Laing said: "We appreciate the hard work of our staff and pupils in this, the first year of the new national qualifications. The introduction of this new system means that these results set the benchmark for the years to come, and I am confident that we will continue to see improvements as the system beds-in.
"We are determined to do all that we can to encourage and support our young people to get the most out of their time at school, whether it is through gaining qualifications to go on to further education or looking at other positive destinations - we want to maximise the opportunities available to them.
"Closing the education gap remains a top priority and we will be work closely with our pupils, staff and parents to continue to improve performance."
Director of Education, Culture and Sport Gayle Gorman added: "I want to thank our teachers for their commitment and continued hard work during this challenging time of change. Their support has been crucial in helping our pupils to adapt to the new qualifications system.
"I am delighted that we have continued to make progress at Higher and Advanced Higher Grades. I am similarly delighted that our pupils have performed well in the new National qualifications."


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It's Friday afternoon, and that means it's time for me to give you a little weekend reading from around the web. Here are a few food related items that I thought might interest you.
Obama Foodorama is a blog that you need to be checking out. It covers everything that has to do with our president and food "From Arugula To Waffles. With Ag Policy Commentary, Barack Food Art, Recipes & Chowbama Info. I've been reading back through their posts all week.
As the effects of the peanut recall are still being felt, ABC News reports that one small New Jersey Peanut Company is refusing to comply with the FDA on the grounds that the FDA has no proof their peanuts are tainted and doing a recall would ruin its business. Before you take sides, read the full piece.
Fed up with a New Jersey company's refusal to recall peanuts tied to the ongoing salmonella outbreak, the government issued a public alert and warned the company to comply immediately or face a government raid.
The Food and Drug Administration has warned the public not to consume "any peanuts or peanut-derived products" sold by Westco Fruit and Nuts Inc. of Irvington, N.J. Investigators have been wrestling with the company since February, but the FDA does not have the power to force a recall.
How do you feel about lard? Wall Street Journal reports that it's becoming accepted once again in culinary circles. (It's the only fat used in one of my husband's family's secret recipes that I'm not allowed to reveal, so I feel ahead of a trend for once.)
At a Christmas dinner last year in Los Angeles, Steve Fineberg basked in compliments for his chopped liver pate, then revealed a secret. He had prepared the hors d'oeuvre using lard, the widely reviled pig fat most commonly associated with clogged arteries and obesity jokes.
The crowd turned on him. The scrunched faces of some dinner guests, Mr. Fineberg says, screamed: "Stop. I don't want to hear any more." One guest declared that lard "will kill you." Another, Joy Ferrara, recalls taking a reluctant bite, but says lard "is too much visually and mentally for me to handle. It's just the whole stigma of it."
After her interview two weeks ago on 60 Minutes, Alice Waters was taken to task by many people online for being "out of touch." Time has a short interview with her that sorta addresses this.
When Michelle Obama broke ground on the new White House vegetable garden, there was probably no one in America more elated than Alice Waters. For months, Waters had been engaged in a very public lobbying effort to get the First Family to take this step in the name of healthy, sustainable eating. The mother of the local-food movement and owner of Berkeley's famed Chez Panisse restaurant talked to TIME about President Kennedy's influence on her ideals, why she has a newfound love for the Department of Agriculture and how a well-made pasta dish can soften the psychological blow of the recession.
This isn't the first time you've lobbied a President to plant a garden at the White House, right?
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How long will it take me to learn Python or C++? I'm trying to make a MMORPG but I read that no one will take me seriously unless I have a demo or screenshots.
It takes years to master programming in any language. I'd reccommend that you start in Python and work up to C++ from there. Learn to use a graphics engine like PyOgre or a multimedia layer like PyGame (known to C++ programmers as SDL).
Most importantly don't start out with an MMORPG. Start out with an offline RPG or something even simpler. Maybe try a text adventure first. That way you don't have to learn all of your skills at once.
If you want to make an action game then you should probably follow a textbook to learn how to make code execute quickly by using big O analysis. If you want to do anything professionally then consider going to school to learn it.
im just learning for fun and ive always wanted to make a text adventure but ive actually been considering taking classes because ive always had this cool/weird idea for an MMO, but if you ask me i think samuraicrow is right, start small then work your way up. im starting on c++ i dont know anything about any other language, so i dont know if youd need to start with python though.
The time for learning a new language depends very much on the amount of previous experience and knowledge base. From nothing it will take you the time proportional to the complexity of the language divided by your IQ. Meaning if you want to learn a complex language and have the intelligence of a brick wall it will take you an eternity to learn to program.
IMHO programming isn't about a language but about the concepts behind these languages. It's like building a car or something..you need to be able to use the tools. But eventually it doesn't matter much which screwdriver (language) you use as long as it get's the job done. So after you learned how to use a..or several screwdrivers (python/c++,...) and similar tools you need to learn the concepts of how to build a car using these tools. The language is just a way to express yourself, it's the content that you carry using the language that actually counts. Just like learning a human language it will take you years to master all the sublte nounces of any given language. But that doesn't mean that you cannot have fun!! Quite contrary you can do a lot of amazing things gaven some basic knowledge. But most certainly you cannot create a mmorpg or anything that is nearly as complex to start with in the same way that you won't be able to write an entertaining french novel the day you start learning french.
Even if you could, you would most likely not enjoy it because it would take quite a while (read maybe years for a single person) to construct (or at least understand and implement using a library) all the necessary components to get something very basic on the screen (that you could call mmorpg).
A very simple sidescrolling shooter with no multiplayer (at least at the start, you can alway enhance it later) using SDL or something similar with expressive examples apps available that simplifies learning is achievable IMHO. You'll be suprised of the complexity of something as "simple" as that when it comes down to actually make it happen. Experimenting with a nice gfx library has the added bonus that you can easily see some results on the screen. Still you need to learn the basics before even attempting that. Get your IDE up and running, some hello world to compile and understand what's actually happening in there by playing with it/modifying it. Look at samples on the net etc..
My 2 cents..
Just another thing to think about: Why do you think getting a master in computer science takes 5 years full-time? Obviously not because the students are all dumb :blink: I won't say that you really need this much time to learn a single language, because you don't need to know everything for start. On the other side, even a freshly avarded master diploma won't make you an expert without further experience in the industry.
Computer Science != Programming
I'd say that the time has much less to do with a persons IQ, rather the ammount of effort they put into it. If you spend 8 hours a day studying, then you would be light years ahead of an Einstein spending 20 minutes a week.
On a related note, the latest issue of Scientific American has an interesting article relevant to this discussion based on 100 years of studying chess players. It's called The Expert Mind.
It depends on if you are that small percentage of natural programmers. If you are it shouldn't take you long. Just start with python and if you can't get any of you own games up within a week don't even bother with C++ since it's so much more difficult to program!
Just start with python and if you can't get any of you own games up within a week don't even bother with C++ since it's so much more difficult to program!
I think it takes a bit longer than a week to build a game no matter what language you use.
You can't really say how long it takes to learn a computer language but I can tell you it's going to take a long time. If you really want to learn though it should be fun and time won't matter. I've been programming since I was 10 (I'm 19 now), programming in C++ for a few years now and I'm nowhere near mastered it. I know enough about the language now to make a game, I'm just learning the DirectX API now.
If you have any ideas of getting a demo of an MMORPG up and running any time this year then I'd just forget about those ideas for now. You'd be good to get a demo running by the end of next year if ever but if you are really enjoying it then the time won't matter.
I suppose the best answer is get a decent book on the language you want to learn and see how quickly you feel comfortable progressing through it. You won't get an MMORPG done on your own any time soon, though. For C++ I highly recommend 'C++ Primer Plus, Fifth Edition'. That's the book I learned from. But there is a massive amount to learn to get a game running - especially for an MMORPG, but also for any modern commercial standard game. And not all of that it just C++ engine code anyway. You could also try 'Creating Games in C++: A Step-by-Step Guide' as well. Get both books and you'd be on to a good start.
C++ and working on a text adventure is a good route that a number of others have mentioned - I've followed that myself. It also helps as a way of prototyping your game concept. Very handy when your ultimate game is an RPG anyway.
Check out http://www.rdxgames.net/projects/wrathlands/ once you have a bit of C++ knowledge. You don't need much C++ to just follow along, but unfortunately some of the videos have dropped frames, so if you don't want to just copy from the accompanied source files then you'll need a bit of C++ to persevere on yourself. I learned a lot of stuff from this site.
I think it takes a bit longer than a week to build a game no matter what language you use.
You can't really say how long it takes to learn a computer language but I can tell you it's going to take a long time. If you really want to learn though it should be fun and time won't matter. I've been programming since I was 10 (I'm 19 now), programming in C++ for a few years now and I'm nowhere near mastered it. I know enough about the language now to make a game, I'm just learning the DirectX API now.
If you have any ideas of getting a demo of an MMORPG up and running any time this year then I'd just forget about those ideas for now. You'd be good to get a demo running by the end of next year if ever but if you are really enjoying it then the time won't matter.
With the help of this book and pygame it's quite possible:
On a more sober note it could take you up to 10 years!
If I want to get to C++ faster should I start with C++ or continue learning Python and then move on to C++?
I'd suggest only switching over to C++ if you run into speed issues with Python. The Boost libraries will let you embed Python scripts into your C++ code and C++ can be used to write extensions for Python. My suggestion: Learn them both. You'll probably need both in the end anyway.
Tamoki: If you start programming, you'll learn fast that very few times are you actually bottlenecked by the language, but rather by what you're *doing* with the language.
Python should be fast enough for the majority of what you want. And while learning, the knowledge will transfer very readily to *any* other language.
As SamuraiCrow suggests, you can even embed Python and implement the faster parts in C++. Personally I wouldn't use Python for it, since it can't be threaded (well, C++ can't have multiple interpreters running in a threaded environment - you can have threads IN Python, however). Lua's my choice.
It's true, average talent + lots of hard work = excellent programmer, massive talent + lazy sod = not a hope in hell.
On the subject of what to write, forget about a MMORPG or whatever it is... do you think War and Peace was Tolstoy's first bit of writing? Start with something simple like Asteroids or Break Out and build up your skills. Otherwise you'll just be utterly discouraged after a week.
For what it's worth...
A bit offtopic, but I always considered programming like art. You have to be born for it.
It's why I neve bothered to learn to play the piano.
That sounds like the mantra of a bonifide loser. This article from last month's Scientific American completely contradicts your assertion with empirical evidence.
I was practically tone deaf when I decided to start playing music. You can teach yourself most anything with enough dedication. If you played the piano 4 hours a day for the next ten years, I guarantee you would be superb. Many top notch musicians play upwards of 8 hours a day. With few exceptions, it's all practice.
I can code 4 hours / day for the next 10 years, and get more then with the piano. It's not really about beeing able to learn or not ... but how good can you become?


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The purpose of this letter is to express my gratitude to the entire staff of Peak Resources in Cherryville for their excellent care and compassion shown to our family during the recent illness and death of my mother, Helen Hovis.
Every member of Peak's management team was warm and friendly, as well as knowledgeable and willing to go the extra mile concerning every aspect of my mother's care. The first, second and third shift nurses and CNAs were not only professional, but also kind and willing to help in every way possible.
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Former Garstang mayor County Coun. Sandra Perkins is launching a cafe with a difference.
The town and county councillor, who has become a passionate dementia awareness campaigner, has organised a new memory cafe for Alzheimer sufferers and their carers.
The cafe session will be held on the first Wednesday of each month from 10am to noon at Garstang Library with the first session on Wednesday August 6.
She explained: "The idea is that carers and those living with dementia (we don't say suffering from) will come along for a coffee and a chat.
It will be a chance for carers to meet others in a similar situation and make friends.
"It will be very informal and people can stay for as long as they want– there is no pressure to stay for the whole two hours."
County Coun Perkins' late husband, Alan, had dementia and she said: "I know from experience that the Garstang community are dementia friendly and I am hoping that this venture will help to cement that friendship."
She also paid tribute to the staff at Garstang Library for their support.


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Collections of National Archives' records that explore Indigenous Australian rights in Vincent Lingiari the leader and Righting wrongs in the 1967 referendum, and the White Australia policy in Dictation to restrict immigration. For all Collections visit ABC Splash. Year 6 – 10
Over 60 film and television recordings from the National Archives, with teachers notes on topics such as the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, Australia Post, confidential military operations and nuclear testing. Year 5 to 12
More than 200 selected photographs, most from the 1950s and 60s, showing the face the Australian Government wanted to present to the world – people at work and at play, commemorating and celebrating. Foundation to Year 12.
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Discover documents and recordings covering Antarctic exploration, environmental impacts and Antarctic transport. Foundation to Year 10.
Document study on the role of huskies in Antarctica and their ban from the continent in 1991. Year 7 to 12
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Professor Fiona Wheeler explains the key concepts at the ACT Schools Constitutional Convention, 15 September 2010. Year 5 to 12
Website covering the 10 tumultuous years (1890–1900) of the creation of the Constitution – the people, the conventions, the arguments, the passion and the politics. Year 5 to 12
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Activities focusing on the Australian Coat of Arms, the role of the Governor-General, and the constitutional documents on display in our Federation Gallery in Canberra. Year 5 to 6
Teachers notes for the key documents of Federation on display at the National Archives, Canberra. Year 5 to 6
Uncover the lives of the Lane Pooles on our Uncommon Lives website. Charles was the first Commonwealth forester and Ruth was the interior designer for The Lodge and Government House. Year 7 to 12
Examine the case of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda on our Uncommon Lives website. Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda was the first Aboriginal Australian to have a case heard in the High Court. Year 7 to 12
Our Uncommon Lives website follows the rich trail of records left by this dedicated human rights lobbyist. Year 7 to 12
This education kit can be used with an online showcase of photographs by one of Australia's leading photographers. Developed for the touring exhibition, Max Dupain on Assignment. Year 5 to 12
Explore the individual experiences of Muslim migrants on our Uncommon Lives website. Adventure, adversity and opportunity in an unfamiliar land, from 1901 to 1975. Year 5 to 12
Investigate the story of scientist and inventor Wolf Klaphake (1900–67) on our Uncommon Lives website. Discover what happened to Klaphake after he emigrated from Germany in 1935. Year 7 to 12
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When we last left our hero he was contemplating his own ministry as filling up what's missing from Christ's sufferings (Col 1:24). As striking as this articulation of his ministry is, I suggested that its significance was intrinsic to his two-fold conviction that Christ's death reconciles all things and that this reconciliation is not yet complete. Thus the suffering, as much as the reconciliation, must be extended.
In the latter half of the paragraph about Paul's own ministry, the formation of Christ in the Gentiles is the goal. Paul extends Christ's death by going to the Gentiles, and the goal is that Christ Himself is formed in them. This is the hope of glory.
The story Paul tells is one in which there is a sure and certain line to be drawn between the cross of Christ and the eternal hope that lies ahead. "Hope" is Christological, and begun by participation "in him." Paul's own work intends to "present each person mature in Christ" (1:28).
The transformation that lies ahead is begun now. It begins with the cross, is reenacted in the community's cruciform life together, plays out in acts of faithful obedience and love, and resolves with hope being realized in glory.
The trick, it seems, is to hold onto all these things simultaneously: to be of sure hope, possessing Christ, while not embracing a triumphalism that neglects the cross; to be confident that we are a reconciled people, while still recognizing our need for transformation; to see the cross of Christ saving us, but not to leave it behind as we seek out how to best love and serve the world in which we find ourselves. There is no hope without the cross, but there is no maturity or love without it, either.


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Laura Howard, a young English nurse on holiday in Italy, helps the Contessa dell?Alba return to her home after an illness. Laura is befriended by the family and feels herself drawn to Domenico, the Contessa?s blind son. To her horror, she suddenly realises that his life is in danger. Enmeshed in a web of intrigue and confusion and unable to find the source of the threats, Laura despairs of her inability to convince the family that they are in mortal danger. Finally… (more)
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Jersey 2.0 milestone 2 is now available. It builds upon the first milestone and adds several new features such as server-side asynchronous processing, server-side content negotiation, improved JAX-RS parameter injection, and several others.
The REST endpoints can be published on Java SE HTTP Server, Grizzly 2 HTTP container, and some basic Servlet-based deployments. It also provides HTTPURLConnection-based client API implementation. Read about these and more about what's new in Marek's detailed post. Of course this is also the future reference implementation for JAX-RS 2.0.
Feel like trying it out? Simply go to Maven Central (of course none of this is production quality at this point). The latest JAX-RS Javadocs and Jersey 2.0 API docs are good starting points to explore. And provide them feedback at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Any idea if this and Grizzly 2 are included in latest promoted builds of Glassfish 4?
Thank you
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KS Caucus: EVERY Undecided Voter Broke for Cruz
The final March 4 Aggregate Average of the three groups polling the KS Caucus showed Trump (23.95%) leading Cruz (19.43%) with 28% undecided.
The chart below makes it very clear who the undecided voters broke for. (Click on the chart to expand it)
Because Trump, Rubio & Kasich's numbers stayed relatively static from the final Aggregate Average of polling to the final March 5 result, it is easy to measure the accuracy & precision of each of the individual groups polling the race. The only meaningful changes from the March 4 Aggregate Average to 2:00 P.M. Saturday March 5 were Cruz and Undecideds.
The measure of the accuracy and precision of a poll is not how well it predicts a final result, but how accurately it reflects the reality on the day(s) the poll was taken. This is a difficult concept for some people to grasp because there are really are undecided voters. And there were a lot of undecided voters heading into the Kansas Caucus. Look at the chart above, add the 28% undecided voters to Cruz's 19.43% and you get 47.43%–very close to Cruz's final result.
The pollsters had five measures to get right on the day(s) their poll was taken: Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Kasich and Undecided Voters.
Docking's poll was conducted 9 days before the Caucus. Freestate's final poll was conducted the Sunday & Monday before Super Tuesday (before Carson even dropped out) and Trafalgar wrapped up the Thursday before the Caucus.
Freestate and Docking's polls were conducted when Carson was still in the race. Trafalgar conducted its poll after Carson dropped out. To harmonize the data, Carson's share in Docking and Freestate are added into the "Und/Other" category.
With five measurements (Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, Undecided) an individual measure of a candidate's position within three points would be very accurate. Since all four polls had a margin of error about four we will say a measure within four is average and a total day-of-poll error less than twenty would be a good result. This creates three measures: The difference between the poll and the final results (Outcome Error) and Total Day-of-Poll Error and Average Day-of-Poll Error.
So, how accurate and precise were Trafalgar, Docking & Freestate's polls on the days they were taken? (Click on table to expand)
Docking's poll is pretty accurate considering it was taken 9 days before the Caucus. A lot of things happened in the race between Docking's polling and March 5th. Docking accurately measured Trump and Rubio but errored widely on Kasich and Undecided voters. Docking had an Outcome Error of 48.14, a total Day-of-Poll Error of 21.84 with an average Day-of-Poll Error 5.46.
Trafalgar, which wrapped up polling about 36 hours before voting started, should have been the most precise and accurate. Trafalgar overstated Trump, was dead on with Rubio and very close on Kasich. Where Trafalgar failed was the number of undecided voters, which when combined with the overstatement of Trump led to an Outcome Error of 32.79, a total Day-of-Poll Error of 26.5 and an average Day-of-Poll Error of 6.62.
We at Freestate have repeatedly said that polling a Presidential Caucus is extremely difficult. It is one of the hardest things to get right in polling but on February 28-29 we got everything right nailing Trump, Rubio and Kasich. When Cruz's numbers are added to Undecided they are within .71 of Cruz's final total. Freestate had an Outcome Error of 33.77, Day-of-Poll total error of 2.23 with a Day-of-Poll average error of .55. Freestate has been very accurate in the past regularly nailing projection predictions within 2-3 percentage points but getting this many measures dead-on is 90% innovative and skillfully executed methodology and 10% chance.
Predicting the outcome of an election, especially when there is a large group of undecided voters, is a blend of polling and then running simulations similar to Monte Carlo Simulations based on the polling, base rate odds and some reasonable conjectures. As Nate Silver says, modern polling is more mathematical alchemy than old fashioned statistical sampling.
Freestate built its simulations off the aggregate averages of 8 different model weightings of Freestate's February 15-16 & Feb 28-29 polls (Jeb was still in the race for the Feb 15-16 poll!), Docking and, in the final projection, Trafalgar. The more accurate the initial polls, the more accurate the resulting simulations and projections.
Before Trafalgar was added to the simulations, Freestate's projections were trending the correct direction showing a Cruz win (scroll to the end of the report).
But the simulations could not sustain the added errors of Trafalgar.
In the other March 5 GOP Primaries the undecided voters broke for Cruz. As the march to the GOP nomination continues, keep an eye on the undecided voters and if Kasich or Rubio drop out, Cruz could begin racking up the wins.


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Nick Lachey may have sold his home in Encino earlier this month, but he's not straying too far. The former boy band frontman and his wife, television host and actress Vanessa Minnillo, have paid $4.15 million for a larger estate in the area, The Times has confirmed.
Sitting on about four acres in the hills, the estate was formerly owned by late singer-songwriter Jenni Rivera. The property came up for sale a year ago for $4.19 million and was more recently listed at $4.175 million, records show.
Rivera, who died in a 2012 plane crash at age 43, bought the house in 2008 for $3.3 million.
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"I am always looking for new appetizers for a cocktail party, and this one looks simple, easy to eat and crowd-pleasing. I haven't tried these yet, but I am looking forward to my next party so I can try them. Update: I made these for a tailgating party and they were a huge hit. So simple, easy and delicious! Great presentation too. I was also able to purchase pickled ginger from the sushi bar at my Whole Foods. This will now be a go to recipe for me."
Peppered Tuna Skewers With Wasabi Mayonnaise
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- 2 tablespoons wasabi powder (horseradish powder)
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons water
- 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 lb fresh tuna steak, cut into 3/4-inch cubes
- 2 1⁄2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 28 large slice pickled ginger
- 28 wooden skewers (8 inch)
- 1 bunch watercress
- 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- Mix 2 tablespoons wasabi powder and 1 1/2 tablespoons water in small bowl to blend. Whisk in 1/2 cup mayonnaise. Cover wasabi mayonnaise and refrigerate at least 30 minutes. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Keep refrigerated.).
- Combine tuna and soy sauce in medium bowl; toss to coat. Marinate tuna 30 minutes at room temperature, stirring occasionally.
- Meanwhile, thread 1 ginger slice onto each skewer 2 inches from tip.
- Line platter with watercress. Place bowl of wasabi mayonnaise on platter.
- Drain tuna; pat dry. Return to medium bowl. Sprinkle with pepper; toss to coat. Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add tuna and sear until browned on all sides but still pink inside, about 2 minutes total.
- Thread 1 tuna cube onto each prepared skewer next to ginger. Arrange skewers on platter and serve.
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I have thinly disguised this thread by adding the words Canyon Nerve to the title . Dont let that fool you though this is the same old new wheels thread.
Anyhoo having sold my hardtail I now only have one mtb and It needs new wheels to replace it's stock Mavic crossrides which weren't great.
I have secured a well priced front 717 with a hope hub and now looking to get a equivalent rear wheel to suit a 10 speed cassette.
Do I go for a 717 rear with hope or XT hub or can anyone recommend a equally strongish rim / hub alternative. Im no downhill god but want something fairly strong but not overly heavy.


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A new project hopes to reveal more about the mysteries of "dark energy" by studying the night sky with a giant camera. The Engineer contacted the UK team behind the camera to find out more about it.
All the matter we can see around us only accounts for less than 5 per cent of the universe. Scientists believe that almost 75 per cent of the universe is made up of something known as "dark energy" and that this is responsible for the fact that all the galaxies are flying away from each other at an increasing speed. The problem is we can't see or otherwise detect this hypothetical dark energy and so we know very little about it – or even whether it really exists.
So to try and improve our knowledge of dark energy, more than 120 researchers from 23 institutions across the US, UK, Spain, Germany and Brazil are planning to study the night sky in unprecedented detail, a project known as the Dark Energy Survey (DES). To do this, they will use a special camera that will determine the shape and position of the galaxies by calculating their redshift – the way light from objects moving away from us increases in wavelength (shifting into the red end of the spectrum) as they accelerate – in order to work out how dark energy might be affecting them
The Engineer contacted two of the UK scientists from the Survey, Prof Will Percival of Portsmouth University, who co-ordinates one of the research strands, and Dr Peter Doel of University College London (UCL), who helped build the camera, and to find out more about it.
TE: For those who don't know, what is "dark energy"?
WP: "Dark Energy" is simply a name that has been given to the process that is driving the observed acceleration of the Universe. We don't actually know what that process is! On large-scales, the only force that we think should be important for the evolution of the universe is gravity. Gravity is an attractive force, pulling together matter, so we would expect the universe's expansion to be decelerating. However observations have now conclusively shone that it is accelerating, and we do not know why. There are many possibilities that have been discussed, but none has yet stood out at the most likely solution.
If we can't see dark energy, how will a camera help you look for it?
WP: The camera will observe what we can see – galaxies. The positions, shapes, brightnesses and clustering properties of these galaxies do trace the expansion of the universe and growth of structure within it, which in turn depend on dark energy. The specify probes are: looking for supernovae in the galaxies, and using these as standard candles; looking at the shapes of galaxies to see the distortions created by matter along the line-of-sight to the galaxies; looking at clusters of galaxies and how they evolve over the evolution of the universe; using the galaxy clustering pattern as a standard ruler to measure the expansion rate.
TE: How is this camera different from other astronomical cameras?
PD: The main difference is the size of the field of view and the size of the telescope mirror. The field of view is 2.2 degrees (giving an area of sky 20 times larger than the Moon). The camera is mounted on the Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo in Chile that has a 3.8m diameter mirror. The camera also uses 62 newly developed 2x4K [pixel] CCD [charge-coupled device] chips that have an enhanced red/near infrared light sensitivity. All this combines to give a camera with exceptional sensitivity and sky coverage.
What are the scientific principles behind how it works?
PD: The camera will take images with five different colour filters over a large part of the sky. By analysing the intensities in each colour scientists will be able to calculate the approximate redshift of millions of galaxies to map out their distribution in space. The shapes of the galaxies will also be measured, as dark matter between us and the galaxy is expected to distort their images and from maps of this distortion we can investigate the distribution of dark matter. From the dark matter distribution with cosmic time we can infer the parameters of dark energy.
WP: Redshifts are cosmological Doppler shifts caused by the expansion of the Universe. Distant galaxies appear redder because they are moving away from us (because the universe is expanding) and the light is observed at redder wavelengths. The Doppler effect is most commonly encountered by people when a moving object such as an ambulance is heard at different frequencies either coming towards us or going away from us. Redshift is the cosmic version of this applied to light rather than sound.
What is the UK's involvement in the project?
PD: The UK is playing a leading role in many of the DES science projects and has been involved in defining the science goals and in developing analysis techniques to extract the measurements and interpret the vast amount of data that will be produced. On the technical side, UCL was involved in the design, assembly, alignment and testing of the camera lens system. This lens system contains five lenses, the biggest being about 1m in diameter and about 180kg in weight.
What were the technical challenges in constructing the camera and how did you overcome them?
PD: One of the challenges was to design lens cells to hold the lens rigidly but with low stresses in the lens and to compensate for differing thermal expansion properties of the glass, cell and camera barrel. To do this we designed an essentially athermal cell constructed of a nickel/iron alloy that was produced with a carefully chosen coefficient of thermal expansion.
Another challenge was to align the lenses to an accuracy of ~50 micrometers (about half the thickness of an A4 sheet of paper) in tip, tilt, decentre and separation. This accuracy is required to produce the high image quality that is needed to achieve the science goals.
The alignment was performed by mounting the lenses on X-Y-tilt stages mounted on a large precision rotary table. The lenses were rotated and by measuring the surface variation with a digital dial gauge we could position the lenses to a high accuracy whilst placing them in their lens cells. The lens in their cells were then placed in the camera barrel and their positions checked with a pencil laser beam by measuring the deflections of the light reflected from and passed through each lens.
Will the equipment be developed any further?
PD: There are proposals that after the end of the survey the camera optics could be used in a wide field multi-object spectrograph instrument that could take approx 4000 astronomical spectra in one exposure.
How will the camera be used and what will the output be?
PD: All the images from the survey will be released to the general community after a period of time. As well as the stated science goals of the DES survey it is expected that a lot of other science will result from use of the data.


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MURRAY — The Salt Lake County Council has approved one-time grants of $2,000 each to assist residents of a Murray subdivision hit with a flash flood on July 26.
Residents of Walden Glen subdivision packed the council's work meeting Tuesday afternoon as the County Council mulled the best means to provide assistance to affected homeowners, rental tenants and others.
While legal representatives of the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office initially determined that the county is not legally liable for any damage caused by the sudden cloudburst, several members of the County Council and Mayor Peter Corroon said they felt a moral obligation to assist the affected residents.
"I am sympathetic about their recent troubles. It is important to look at things of this type on a case-by-case basis," Corroon said. "I believe offering small grants to help offset unexpected costs is morally the right thing to do."
Meanwhile, the county also agreed to work with residents of the subdivision to further assess the damage to homes that were not already assessed by private insurance companies. Jeff Rowley, the county's risk manager, said residents say 29 homes were affected by the flood. "We suspect there may be more," Rowley said.
Rowley was expected to update the County Council on Aug. 16. "We need to set up a process that is fair, legal and agreeable to the council," he said.
As the sudden storm raged on July 26, a contractor hired by the county was in the finishing stages of repairs to a nearby culvert, therefore the pipe was not functioning to capacity.
Some residents told the County Council that repair to storm drain, which is located along 5400 South, was protracted. According to the county's timeline of events, the county received a call on May 29 that water was coming out the storm drain.
"County crews responded removed failed manhole section, with the help of Newman Construction place a trench box to hold bank and keep flow moving from one section of the failed pipe to another," the timeline said.
Over the next month, the county requested the cost of repair from Newman Construction, used an expedited process to obtain necessary approvals for the bid, related contracts as well as obtaining permission from the Utah Department of Transportation for permission to work in a right of way.
On July 26, the day of the flash flood, "Newman begins repair work completing repair of irrigation line," the timeline states.
Later in the day, "Storm occurs, runoff overwhelms trench-box, flooding homes in Walden Glen subdivision."
Linda Hamilton, the county's chief administrative officer, said the timeline explains each step of executing the repair, which was completed July 27.
"I don't think it could have been done any quicker without violating county policy," she said.
For instance, replacing the 66-inch culvert with a 72-inch concrete pipe takes time. "You can't go buy a 72-inch pipe. It has to be manufactured," she said.
The residents' timeline of events says there was no activity at repair site from May 31 until July 25.
Some residents of the area said they believed that installing a trench box as a temporary repair contributed to the flooding.
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A trench box is intended to protect workers from cave-ins as they conduct repairs to pipes, he explained. "Any engineer is going to tell you that's not going to work," Sanford said.
Sanford said damage to his home was minimal, likely about $500. But he is concerned for neighbors, some of whom experienced damages in the range of $25,000 to $35,000. "Two thousand dollars isn't going to scratch the surface," he said.
Some residents raised concerns that the repair may still be botched. One woman told the council that the strong rain storm on Monday lifted the cover off a manhole.
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TORONTO With his team in control holding an 11-point second-half lead, Tearrius George couldnt help himself from knocking heads with agitator Rob Murphy.
It was a play indicative of the Calgary Stampeders lack of discipline in a 27-24 loss to the Toronto Argonauts Wednesday night at Rogers Centre.
At the end of a second-down incompletion, George and Murphy were doing the usual pushing and shoving after the whistle.
But George lost his cool and head-butted the noted pest of a left tackle.
Regardless of what he did, I should have never lost my cool, said George. I apologized to my team for that one.
Even though we got the ball back, it was one extra shot for them to make something happen.
It seemed helmets rolled all night in a physical contest, but the Stamps defence took things too far, too often.
They were slapped with three unnecessary roughness penalties and one facemask.
The Argos actually won the time of possession battle with only 187 yards passing, although running back Cory Boyd did rumble for 142 yards on 20 carries. Overall, the Stamps had nine penalties for 69 yards, while the Argos only took five for 25.
Its tough defensively when you play your heart out and there are situations when things get missed and guys get frustrated and retaliate, said defensive lineman Mike Labinjo.
It looks like a dumb penalty at the time, but there is a lot of stuff that doesnt get seen. We have to more disciplined. We knew they would try to get under our skin.


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Electronic Arts said Saturday that it made improvements in online access for SimCity, the city-building game that requires online connections for its single-player experience. SimCity had too much initial demand, and that left most players unable to access the title, leading to a huge number of complaints for EA.
Lucy Bradshaw (pictured), general manager of EA's Maxis Label, said in a post on Saturday that the game now has 40 times better server response times than at launch. And the company has doubled the number of people who can play the game at once. Server downtime is also reduced.
"The situation is good, but not good enough," Bradshaw wrote. "And since my boss is one of the negatively affected (!) — we're still driving hard to get everyone online, playing together, and no hitches."
Bradshaw continued, "Tens of thousands of new players are logging in every day. For that support — that commitment from our fans — we are deeply grateful. More than anything, we know that information is important to our players. Our Twitter chat today made that especially clear, and I want to say thank you sharing your ideas, your issues and for being, well, nicer than I thought you would be, given everything you've been through. Thank you."
EA can set up its new servers faster. But the game maker has to take down the original servers one by one to upgrade them.
"The improvements will be worth the downtime, and thanks for hanging with us as we do this," she said. "We'll also be adding more tonight as well. We'll be sending out detailed info shortly through our community forums and launcher."


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Effective Date: 03/01/2005, Docket: RP04-523-000, Status: Effective
Fourth Revised Sheet No. 212G Fourth Revised Sheet No. 212G : Suspended
Superseding: Third Revised Sheet No. 212G
(a) If SHIPPER is a local distribution company, or a Hinshaw pipeline
under Section 1(c) of the Natural Gas Act, subject to the jurisdiction
of a state regulatory agency, and if said state regulatory agency issues
a final order that (i) finds SHIPPER'S aggregate firm transportation quantities
with all of its pipeline transporters to be excessive when compared to its
requirements for firm transportation service necessary to serve all of the
loads attached to its distribution system, and (ii) requires SHIPPER to reduce
such aggregate firm transportation quantities, SHIPPER may reduce its
Transportation Demand under any Service Agreement for firm transportation services
between SHIPPER and COMPANY by the amount ordered by said state regulatory agency;
provided however, that any such reduction shall be applied first to the Transportation
Demand under the Service Agreement for which SHIPPER is paying the lowest transportation
rate, calculated on a one hundred percent(100%)load factor basis, and then to the
Transportation Demand under the Service Agreement with the shortest remaining contract term.
For purposes of determining under which Service Agreement Transporter is paying the lowest
rate, any seasonally adjusted contracts shall be considered to be discounted contracts,
with such discounted transportation rate to be determined by dividing the annual revenues
under the Service Agreement by the product of the maximum monthly Transportation Demand
times 12. Such reduction shall become effective twenty-four (24) months after the date of
SHIPPER'S written notice to COMPANY that it has been ordered by the state regulatory agency
to reduce its Transportation Demand. SHIPPER'S right to reduce its Transportation Demand as
provided in this Section 39 is conditioned upon (i) SHIPPER having provided written notice
to COMPANY that its aggregate firm transportation quantities were the subject of a state
regulatory proceeding so that COMPANY had a reasonable opportunity to participate in said
proceeding, and (ii) SHIPPER having made a good faith effort to defend its aggregate firm
transportation quantities in said proceeding.
(b) SHIPPER's right to reduce its Transportation Demand under this Section 39 shall not apply
to Service Agreements executed or extended as part of a system expansion or other transaction
between COMPANY and SHIPPER where facilities on COMPANY's system are to be constructed,
modified or sold after May 20, 2004, in consideration for the contract subscription or
extension; provided, however, once the primary term of such Service Agreement or contract
extension has expired, Section 39(a) will apply to any future evergreen periods for Service
Agreements covered hereunder. Each package of capacity under SHIPPER's firm Service Agreement
for which this Section 39(b) exclusion applies will be designated by the COMPANY on the
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Holiday Wishes
Tempting, but no.
I have a lot of writing that I'm going to get done. I may go to a movie, use some gift cards I received for the early Christmas we celebrated, and treat myself with takeout. Where you won't see me is sitting in a dark corner of IHOP with my laptop and a plate of chicken strips. It's just not going to happen. The really cool thing is I've never experienced a white Christmas, and there are rumors afloat that we might have a wintry mix that evening. THAT would totally rock.
Because I'm sappy and sentimental like that.
2012 Readers Choice Hottest Couple (Logan & Silver)
2012 Readers Choice Most Memorable Book (Twist)
2012 Readers Choice Favorite Author
2012 Readers Choice Most Engaging Author
So I finished reading "Edge of Never" (Indie author) and will be perusing the books this weekend for more discoveries. It was more engaging than "Easy", and I think because it felt less YA than Easy did, if that makes sense. YA is popular, but I do have a disconnect at times when trying to relate to the characters. Reading is always a personal journey, and we each relate to books and characters in different ways.
I liked the twist ending and yes, it will tug your heartstrings, but part of the ending I raised a brow on, mostly due to the age of the girl in the book. I couldn't help but end the story wondering what future lies in store for this very young girl. Won't just be looking for the bestsellers in my genres and the top 100, but also I like to check out the new releases. Be sure to stop by my Facebook page and be active on the messages I post about book chat. What I'd really like are a few good novellas.
Hope you have a safe and happy holidays. I was just thinking about previous years that stand out, and they're always the years where things went awry. My nephew was born close to Christmas and because it was an emergency C-section, my mom had to stay with them to help out. We ended up driving down with our presents in large, black trashbags and stayed at a hotel. It was a quaint little room with a kitchenette, and we put a miniature tree on the table. Another time was spent in an ice storm on the way to Little Rock, bumper to bumper traffic in the middle of the night in BFE. Funny how the unexpected moments in life are the ones you remember more than the planned.
So live life for the unexpected.
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Merry christmas and a Happy New Year and tell Simon to behave himself :)ReplyDelete
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Enjoy your Holiday....and the writing time!
I hope you get that white Christmas you are hoping for. Growing up in Arizona for 21 years I only ever had one, and it only lasted a few of the morning hours. Since moving to the mid-west, I have added many more. Nothing is more cozy than a snowy Christmas Eve by the fire. And thank you so much for your gifts to us...the gift of your writing. Have a wonderful holiday. ��❤Kendell PillerReplyDelete
Only placed ONE vote in the categories you were nominated in. You are very deserving of anything you win! ��
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Just like the headline reads, the first photo and image from Jason Reitman's ("Up in the Air") upcoming dramedy "Young Adult" have hit the web courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
The official picture on the left gives me a sort of an Elle Woods sort of vibe, maybe it's because of the little dog in the bag, but we won't be seeing the bend and snap in those movie, so ignore my logic on that. It's far from that girly girl movie.
Anyway, in the film, Theron plays an alcoholic writer of young-adult novels who, on a whim, decides to return to the small town that she left behind years ago to aggressively pursue her ex-boyfriend from high school (Patrick Wilson) — only now he is happily married and the father of a young child, which certainly complicates matters, and leads her to another high school classmate (Patton Oswalt), and no shortage of trouble.
Reitman reteams with his "Juno" writer Diablo Cody when the film hits limited release on December 9 in the U.S. and will have a wider release later on December 16.
You can view the film's poster, which I think is pretty fantastic, below:


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North and south of Lubbock Wrecker Service, 3209 Slaton Highway - excavation, installation and backfill for storm sewer line and manhole construction, as part of South Lubbock Drainage Project.
98th Street and Indiana Avenue - tunneling of storm sewer line as part of South Lubbock Drainage Project.
Glenna Goodacre Boulevard (formerly Eighth Street) - Closed to traffic between University Avenue and Avenue U.
Texas 114 - from Milwaukee Avenue to the Hockley County line. Work will begin on the north side of the highway, with traffic reduced to two lanes in each direction in the eastbound lanes. Construction scheduled to continue through spring 2007.
Avenue U - Closed to traffic for reconstruction between Clovis Highway and Colgate Street. To get to businesses on Avenue U, traffic will be detoured to University, then Erskine. Construction scheduled to last about six weeks.
Quaker Avenue at 23rd Street - right northbound lane closed for water line work through Wednesday.
Quaker Avenue between Brownfield Highway and 24th Street - closed to repair ruptured water line. Crews will work throughout the weekend.
23rd Street and Brownfield Highway - resulting in closing of right southbound lane on Quaker Avenue at the mouth of the alley for water line work through Wednesday.
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Top 10 Moments in Reality TV, Nov. 17-23
Each week, our writers compile a list of their favorite moments of the week from the reality shows currently on the air.
These moments from Survivor made the Top 10!
When First Grade Teachers Go Bad
Survivor viewers were front row observers to the further descent into dementia that embodies Jans existence in Chuay Jai. Jan built upon her earlier experiences of routinely hording the tree mail, attempting to smuggle $1000 in reward challenge funds, and taking on the daunting challenge of ensuring all creatures, great and small, receive a proper burial.
This week, Jans dark side began to emerge, and it involved the canteen of beer that Brian and Clay had brought back to camp. Once again, in her silent revolt against the concept of sharing that she normally preached everyday to a classroom of six year olds, she didnt want to share the beer with her tribe mates. Perhaps most disturbing, in a new twist, she asked for a nipple to use in drinking the beverage while clutching the canteen with a unbreakable grip.
Many psychologists reportedly believe that Jan might just have a few unresolved issues to discuss on her return.
Ex-porn star nearly squished by elephant, NEWS at 11
And in international news this evening another bizarre story from the reality show Survivor. We take you now live to Victoria Dew who is on location in Thailand. Vicky, what can you tell us?
Good evening ladies and gentleman. Earlier today Brian Heidik, Survivor 5 contestant from Quartz Hill, California, narrowly escaped being squished by an elephant while touring the Thai countryside. Fortunately for Brian, his choice of companion on the reward probably saved his life. Mr. Heidik brought along the smallest member of his tribe to share the ride. If you take a look over my shoulder you'll see that the seat perched upon this elephant is indeed too small to accomodate two normal sized people. It is evident that any other tribemate selection would have sent Brian plunging over the side to his death. Mr. Heidik also managed to stay firmly atop the elephant with a deathgrip on this side rail. Fortunately for his family, all is well and Brian is resting peacefully back at the Chuay Jai beach. Topper, back to you....
How do you spell -- SEE YA?
Give me a "J", give me an "A", give me a "K", give me an "E". What's that spell?
Wait a minute, what happened? Just when you thought little Miss Muffet had scared the spider (or in this case, "Jake the snake") away, Miss Penny gets her torch snuffed and takes her curds and whey along with her.
But don't worry about little Miss Penny. If you saw her on The Early Show you'd see she's doing just fine. Complete with a perfect little pedicure and diamond stud toe-ring.
Clay's Choice
Tensions mounted Thursday evening when Clay was faced with helping either Brian or Ted over the wall to continue in the reward challenge competition.
Tension? It's hardly comparable to Sophie's Choice, but I guess when you're on a reality show competing for a million dollars situations can seem magnified.
When it came down to it, though, Clay chose Brian, leaving a dejected Ted to wonder what went wrong. Guys -- it's just a reward challenge, not "who would you do?" Get over it!
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