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Since 1990, Pauly Group has assisted in senior administrative searches for the following community and technical colleges, and other higher education organizations.
Aims Community College, Greeley, CO
Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD
Austin Community College, Austin, TX
Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
Bismarck State College, Bismarck, ND
Black Hawk College, Moline, IL
Blackhawk Technical College, Janesville, WI
Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA
Burlington County College, Pemberton, NJ
Central New Mexico Community College, (Formerly Albuquerque TVI), NM
Cerro Coso Community College, Ridgecrest, CA
Chabot-Las Positas Community College District, Pleasanton, CA
Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, MD
City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
City University of New York, New York City, NY
Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA
College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
College of the Siskiyous, Weed, CA
Columbus State Community College, Columbus, OH
Community College of Alleghany County, Pittsburgh, PA
Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Community College of Beaver County, Monaca, PA
Corning Community College, Corning, NY
Cumberland County College, Vineland, NJ
Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH
Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA
Delta College, University Center, MI
Dodge City Community College, Dodge City, KS
Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Eastern Iowa Community College District, Davenport, IA
Edison State College (formerly Edison Community College), Fort Myers, FL
Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
Front Range Community College, Westminster, CO
Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA
Garden City Community College, Garden City, KS
Genesee Community College, Batavia, NY
Gloucester County College, Sewell, NJ
Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
Harper College, Palatine, IL
Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, PA
Hawkeye Community College, Waterloo, IA
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA
Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ
Illinois Community College Board, Springfield, IL
Illinois Community College Trustees Association, Springfield, IL
Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis, IN
Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY
Joliet Junior College, Joliet, IL
Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo, MI
Kaskaskia College, Centralia, IL
Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, MI
Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY
Lincoln Land Community College, Springfield, IL
Lehigh Carbon Community College, Schnecksville, PA
Louisiana Community and Technical College System, Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana State University at Eunice, Eunice, LA
Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI
Maricopa Community College District, Tempe, AZ
Marion Technical College, Marion, OH
Mass Bay Community College, Wellesley Hills, MA
Massasoit Community College, Brockton, MA
Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay, MA
Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ
Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE
Metropolitan Community Colleges District, Kansas City, MO
Middlesex Community College, Bedford, MA
Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ
Midwestern Higher Education Compact, Minneapolis, MN
Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee, WI
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, St. Paul, MN
Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, NY
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL
Mott Community College, Flint, MI
Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner, MA
New Hampshire Community Technical College, Manchester, NH
Niagara County Community College, Sanborn, NY
Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA
Northern Wyoming Community College District, Sheridan, WY
Northwest Community College, Powell, WY
Oakland Community College District, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ
Parkland College, Champaign, IL
Peralta Community College District, Oakland, CA
Pima County Community College District, Tucson, AZ
Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL
Prestonsburg Community College, Prestonsburg, KY
Prince George's Community College, Largo, MD
Quinebaug Valley Community College, Danielson, CT
Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg, NJ
Richland Community College, Decatur, IL
Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL
San Jacinto College District, Pasadena, TX
San Juan College, Farmington, NM
Salem Community College, Carneys Point, NJ
St. Louis Community College District, St. Louis, MO
San Jose/Evergreen Community College District, San Jose, CA
Solano Community College, Fairfield, CA
Southern Virginia Higher Education Center, South Boston, VA
South Suburban College, South Holland, IL
Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, MA
Stark State College, North Canton, OH
SUNY, Adirondack (formerly Adirondack Community College), Queensbury, NY
SUNY, Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY
Three Rivers Community College, Poplar Bluff, MO
University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash, Blue Ash, OH
Ventura County Community College District, Ventura, CA
Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN
Virginia Community College System, Richmond, VA
Wayne County College, Detroit, MI
Weatherford College, Weatherford, TX
Western Technical College, Lacrosse, WI
Westmoreland County College, Lacrosse, WI
Yosemite Community College District, Modesto, CA
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pngquant is a batch conversion utility to quantize and dither truecolor PNG images, especially those with a full alpha channel, down to "RGBA-palette" PNGs (i.e., PLTE + tRNS in PNG parlance). Such images are usually two to four times smaller than the full 32-bit versions, and partial transparency is preserved quite nicely. This makes pngquant especially useful both for Web sites and for PlayStation 2 development, where one of the texture formats is RGBA-palette-based (though not PNG-compressed).
The pnmtopng package contains the official pnmtopng and pngtopnm utilities for use with the rest of the PBMplus/NetPBM suite. They are among the best PNG-supporting applications available, with automatic detection of grayscale or palette images and excellent heuristics for creating the smallest possible PNG images.
QCAD is an application for computer aided drafting (CAD) in two dimensions (2D). With QCAD, you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors, mechanical parts, or schematics and diagrams. QCAD can be easily extended through plugins and its very powerful and complete ECMAScript (JavaScript) interface.
ResCafé is a Swing-based Java utility for reading and extracting resources such as ICONs and MENUs from the Resource Forks of Macintosh files. In particular, it allows Linux users to use nifty Mac-only icons with their favorite desktop, e.g., KDE. It is somewhat similar to ResEdit on MacOS except that it is not an editor; it operates on files in a read-only fashion. The various resource types are parsed by auto-detected plugin handler classes.
These are the demo programs that accompany O'Reilly's "PNG: The Definitive Guide." rpng is a simple file viewer with the ability to set a background color when displaying transparent PNGs. rpng2 is a progressive PNG viewer, designed to work like a web browser (though it contains no network code); it can generate a background image when displaying transparent PNGs. wpng is a simple converter from NetPBM to PNG format; in most respects it is much more limited than pnmtopng, but it supports interactive entry of PNG text annotations and will generate noninterlaced PNGs on the fly (rather than buffering the entire image first like pnmtopng). The viewers include simple front ends for both X and Win32; the converter is a command-line app that compiles on Unix, Windows, and probably other platforms.
This is a simple command-line utilitiy to convert images from TIFF to PNG format. It is primarily useful in dealing with TIFF images that contain alpha channels (transparency information), since the NetPBM suite is (currently) ill-suited for such conversions. A few test images are included.
TransFig is a set of tools for creating TeX documents with graphics which are portable, in the sense that they can be printed in a wide variety of environments. The fig2dev program that is part of TransFig is used by xfig when exporting drawings to the various output formats such as PostScript (and EPS), CGM, JPEG, LaTeX, PNG, and more.
wApua is a WAP WML browser written in Perl with a Tk user interface. It uses libwww-perl as its backend, has history and cache, and can display most WML tags, including tables and WBMP images. It includes a WBMP to XBM (wbmp2xbm) converter for command line use. It runs under X11 on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X as well as on Windows (both native and under Cygwin with X11). It should also work on other operating systems which are supported by Perl 5.6 or higher and Tk 800 or higher.
A tool that displays information about BOINC projects.
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Quote Of The Day: Derek Lam Opens Up Shop, Plans For The Future
One of the important things was to not just put in a white box. Even though the majority is white, we were going for a cleanness and modern simplicity while still being able to tell that you are in New York and in SoHo because of the cast iron we preserved in the space. We didn't just want to do a branded store, where if we also open a store in Paris and L.A. that they would all look the same. Of course we want it to have a Derek Lam signature to it, but it becomes boring when the stores look all the same — like duty-free."Comparison Shop", The Moment


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DeVice Wins the Hack4Colorado Pot for App that Helps Feed 'Vices'
What do you get when you put 100 Denver-area hackers together for about 48 hours and give them access to loads of data about hiking trails, where city dwellers can plant urban farms—and where you can buy marijuana legally?
You get 18 apps that can help rescuers find injured hikers, connect urban farmers to buyers, and help out-of-towners find cannabis and feed their vices while staying on the right side of the law.
Those were the ideas that came out of Hack4Colorado, a "civic hackathon" hosted in Denver by Galvanize. Teams designed apps through the weekend before an award ceremony Sunday.
The event was part of the National Day of Civic Hacking. About 90 events were scheduled as part of the event, which is in its inaugural year. The turnout for Hack4Colorado made it one of the largest events, Hack4Colorado organizer Ann Spoor said.
Eighteen teams developed apps that take public data provided by federal agencies like the U.S. Census Bureau or local governments and turn it into something useful for citizens. Teams competed in five tracks: tourism, health, sustainability, education, and government. The winners took home $2,000 each.
The audience voted DeVice Colorado best in show. The team put together an app that will help users find places near them where they can feed their vices. The app can be customized to the tastes of individual users, and features a broad number of "vices," which includes traditional vices like alcohol but also activities like hiking.
The app still has some kinks to work out, but it uses geolocation to find the user, and it knows where to find craft breweries and distilleries, coffee shops, trails, and late-night restaurants. But what probably set DeVice Colorado apart was its ability to direct users to the nearest marijuana dispensaries.
Legalized marijuana is a big issue in Colorado. There already are hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries in the state, and in November, Colorado voters approved the retail sale of marijuana.
Supporters say retail sales could lead to the development of a legal-pot tourist industry. If they're right, something like DeVice Colorado's app could become a widely used tool.
DeVice Colorado's website also includes links to information explaining the legality of marijuana in Colorado and which communities have opted to keep sales illegal. Other helpful features let users summon a cab and pulls data from police reports so they know how safe an area they're in.
DeVice also won the $2,000 prize for best tourism app.
Along with handing out prizes, the hackathon helped promote the idea of civic hacking, said Jason Lally, one of Hack4Colorado's organizers.
The key concept of civic hacking is that entrepreneurs, coders, and designers can use their expertise to build tools that help connect citizens with each other and government officials, Lally said. The government's contribution often is releasing some of the voluminous economic and demographic data it collects. Civic hackers can use that to build apps or even companies.
The idea resonated with the Hack4Colorado crowd.
"I saw a lot of heads nodding as people were presenting. I think a lot of teams got the idea of using public data sets and about trying to build something from them," Lally said.
Companies trying to capitalize on big data have been around for a while, but getting that data from publicly available government sources is new and potentially fertile ground for businesses.
"I think we're in the middle of its emergence. It's really, really new," Lally said. "There are definitely precedents, but we're defining an industry."
Prominent local startups like ReadyTalk, SendGrid, and iTriage sponsored Hack4Colorado and sent employees to help teams during the hackathon and judge the event. Many also provided cash prizes to the teams that best used their public APIs.
Getting government officials on board was another matter, largely because of the impression that hackers always have bad intentions. Some communities seemed to understand the benefit a hackathon could provide faster than others.
"I think people here really got that. In other cities, they didn't get that at all," Spoor said. With Colorado officials, "we had to explain it, but it wasn't a difficult conversation."
The idea seems to be here to stay. While this is the first hackathon under the Hack4Colorado banner, it's not the first civic hackfest in Colorado. That honor belongs to the one organized last year by Colorado Code for Communities.
That event drew about 30 people, Lally said.
After about 48 hours of work, organizers were a bit burned out. When they've recovered, they'll make some decisions about the future of the event, but it doesn't look like civic hackathons are going away in Colorado. The city of Denver and the state government are planning hackathons of their own, Spoor said.
"We're hoping this event is the launching pad and will create momentum for future events, like the city and state's hackathons," Spoor said.


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KARACHI, July 11: The London Metropolitan Police have confirmed that investigations against Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain have been initiated on charges of money laundering and incitement to violence.
According to a BBC Urdu Service report released on Thursday, the Metropolitan Police confirmed in a written reply that 'a considerable amount of money' had been found during raids on Mr Hussain's residence and office in London, but no arrest had so far been made.
It said the cash was found when a counter-terrorism unit of police raided Mr Hussain's office on Dec 6 last year under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act in connection with the investigation of Dr Imran Farooq murder case.
However, no further detail was provided by police as they said the money was seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Two more raids were carried out in as many houses in north London on June 18 and again a considerable amount of money was seized.
Police said it was being investigated as to how and under what circumstances the money had reached the three places, said the BBC Urdu Service report.
Talking to the host of BBC Two Newsnight, which aired a documentary about Mr Hussain and his party, senior MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar also admitted the seizure of some money during raids in London.
He said he could not comment on the investigation into possible money-laundering while police inquiries were in progress.
According to BBC News website, Newsnight understands that in raids on MQM-owned properties in London, police seized hundreds of thousands of dollars in unaccounted-for cash.
The London police also received thousands of complaints against Mr Hussain for a controversial speech from London to his followers in Karachi and police sent the transcript of the speech to Home Office for translation and analysis.
However, police did not tell the BBC anything about the advice they got from the Home Office on Mr Hussain's speech.
Newsnight also confirmed that in 2001 Mr Hussain had written a letter to then British prime minister Tony Blair in which the former had offered the British government his party's help in getting secret information about Jihadi networks in Pakistan. Newsnight got this letter under the Freedom of Information Act.
Dr Sattar was also shown clips of certain speeches of Mr Hussain. He told the programme host that the MQM chief had never said anything to incite violence and his party was never involved in violent activities.
Rejecting allegations levelled in the Newsnight programme, Dr Sattar said it appeared that "there has been an influence of pro-Taliban and radical forces while this documentary was being prepared".
Meanwhile, another MQM leader, Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, told a press conference here that parts of certain speeches of Mr Hussain had been presented out of context in the BBC programme.
Condemning the television programme for what he called out-of-context presentation of Mr Hussain's speeches, he asked people to exercise patience and vowed that MQM would raise its voice in a democratic manner at every forum against the propaganda.


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Demystifying multithreading and multi-core
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BERKELEY, Calif. Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better than multithreading? The fact is that the best vehicle for a given application might have one, the other or both. Or neither. They are independent (but complementary) design decisions. As multithreaded processors and multi-core chips become the norm, architects and designers of digital systems need to understand their respective attributes, advantages and disadvantages.
Both multithreading and multi-core approaches exploit the concurrency in a computational workload. The cost, in silicon, energy and complexity, of making a CPU run a single instruction stream ever faster goes up nonlinearly and eventually hits a wall imposed by the physical limitations of circuit technology. That wall keeps moving out a little farther every year, but cost- and power-sensitive designs are constrained to follow the bleeding edge from a safe distance. Fortunately, virtually all computer applications have some degree of concurrency: At least some of the time, two or more independent tasks need to be performed simultaneously. Taking advantage of concurrency to improve computing performance and efficiency isn't always trivial, but it's certainly easier than violating the laws of physics.
Multi-processor, or multi-core, systems exploit concurrency to spread work around a system. As many software tasks can run at the same time as there are processors in the system. This tractability can be used to improve absolute performance, cost or power/performance. Clearly, once one has built the fastest single processor possible in a given technology, the only way to get even more computer power is to use more than one of these processors. More subtly, if a load that would saturate a 1GHz processor could be spread evenly across 4 processors, those processors could be run at roughly 250MHz each. If each 250MHz processor is less than a quarter the size of the 1GHz processor, or consumes less than a quarter the power (either of which may be the case because of the nonlinear cost of higher operating frequencies), the multi-core system might be more economical.
Many designers of embedded SoCs are already exploiting concurrency with multiple cores. As is not the case with general-purpose workstations and servers, whose workload is variable and unknowable to system designers, fixed sets of embedded device functions are often able to be analyzed and decomposed into specialized tasks. Consequently, it is also possible to assign tasks across multiple processors, each of which has a specific responsibility, and each of which can be specified and configured optimally for that specific job.
Multithreaded processors also exploit the concurrency of multiple tasks, but in a different way and for a different reason. Instead of a system-level technique to spread CPU load, multithreading is processor-level optimization to improve area and energy efficiency. Multithreaded architecture is driven to a large degree by the realization that single-threaded, high-performance processors spend a surprising amount of time doing nothing. When the results of a memory access are required for a program to advance, and that access must reference RAM whose cycle time is tens of times slower than that of the processor, a single-threaded processor can do nothing but stall until the data is returned.
Multithreading can be described thus: If latencies prevent a single task from keeping a processor pipeline busy, a single pipeline should be able to complete more than one concurrent task in less time than it would take to run the tasks serially. This means running more than one task's instruction stream, or thread, at a time, which in turn means that the processor has to have more than one program counter and more than one set of programmable registers. Replicating those resources is far less costly than replicating an entire processor. In the MIPS32 34K processor, which implements the MIPS MT multithreading architecture, an increase in area of 14% can buy an increase of throughput of 60% relative to a comparable single-threaded core (as measured using the EEMBC PKFLOW and OSPF benchmarks, run sequentially on a MIPS32 24KE core versus concurrently on a dual-threaded MIPS32 34K core).
In theory, multi-processor architectures are infinitely scalable. No matter how many processors are used, it is always easy to imagine adding another, although only a limited class of problems can make practical use of thousands of CPUs. Each additional processor core on an SoC adds to the area of the chip at least as much as it adds to the performance.
Multithreading a single processor can only improve performance up to the level where the execution units are saturated. However, up to that limit, it can provide a "superlinear" payback for the investment in die size.
Although the means and the motives are different, multi-core systems and multithreaded cores have the common requirement that concurrency in the workload be expressed explicitly by software. If the system has already been coded in terms of multiple tasks running on a multitasking OS, there may be no more work to be done. Monolithic, single-threaded applications need to be reworked and decomposed either into sub-programs or explicit software threads.
This work must be done for both multithreaded and multi-core systems, and once the work is completed, either system can exploit the exposed concurrency, another reason why the two techniques are often confused, but which makes them highly complementary.


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Jobs are the issue of the moment in Washington, and properly so. President Obama is delivering a major address on the subject, as jobs and the economy dominate voters' ranking of the nation's most important problems and, according to Gallup, near-record numbers worry about being laid off themselves. Our own polling for the Alliance for American Manufacturing found more than twice as many voters saying they wanted Congress and the president to focus on creating jobs rather than on reducing the deficit.
But while jobs rightly command our attention, those who divine the president's reelection prospects by consulting the unemployment rate commit a serious error. While the economy plays a crucial role in presidential elections, not all economic indicators are created equal and unemployment is one of the less politically telling measures.
The 7.2 percent used in the formula was recorded at the time Ronald Reagan was reelected. Had someone wanted to make a case against his reelection then, they could have rightly said that no president since Roosevelt had won reelection with unemployment over 5.3 percent, and it would have been equally meaningless. And if one had wanted to argue that Nixon was doomed in 1972, one could have accurately argued that no president since Roosevelt had been reelected with unemployment higher than 4.8 percent.
"No one has ever" statements are analytically dubious on several grounds, including in this instance, the small number of cases. We haven't had many presidents running for reelection since Franklin Roosevelt (9); we haven't even had that many presidential elections since Franklin Roosevelt (16). Generalizing from a small number of cases is always dangerous. As illustrated above, simply adding to the number of cases is likely to cause records to fall.
Moreover, the unemployment rate fails to differentiate big winners from narrow ones. When Reagan was reelected with the highest unemployment since Roosevelt, he won 49 states and by the biggest margin since, well, Roosevelt. By the formula, he should have barely hung on. Go further. Do the thought experiment — if unemployment had been, say, 7.5 percent instead of 7.2, would Reagan have been reelected? Perhaps with something less than a 23-point margin, but it's hard to imagine even another 1 or 2 percent in unemployment eliminating all of his lead.
It is particularly difficult to imagine because presidents presiding over much lower levels of unemployment fared worse, not better, than Reagan. Truman defeated Dewey by just over four points when unemployment stood at just about half of what it was under Reagan.
Conversely, Carter lost to Reagan by 10 points when unemployment was just three-tenths of a point higher than it was as Reagan waltzed to reelection under the "Morning in America" banner.
In fact, a graph plotting unemployment rates against victory margins would look like a Jackson Pollock painting — with splotches of color randomly distributed around the chart, clearly demonstrating the absence of a consistent relationship.
Sophisticated statistical models confirmed the finding — neither unemployment rates, nor changes in those rates, are correlated with votes.
None of this is to suggest that economic factors do not exert a powerful influence on politics — they do. Unemployment is just not the relevant measure.
The less discussed, and more esoteric, change in real disposable income is the more important statistic. Not that the country is faring particularly well on that measure either. But the latest forecasts predict that real disposable income will be growing by 1.5 to 2 percent, come 2012 — and that's a level of growth consistent with reelection.
Mellman is president of The Mellman Group and has worked for Democratic candidates and causes since 1982. Current clients include the Majority Leader of the Senate and the Democratic Whip in the House.


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LONG BEACH >> The mayoral race came to public-access television Wednesday night as seven contenders for the seat passed around a single microphone and fielded questions to help boost their public profiles in a breakneck three-month primary campaign.
Hosted by the Long Beach Public Access Digital Network and the Long Beach Community Action Partnership, the forum was attended by real estate investor and former NFL player Damon Dunn, Long Beach City College Trustee Doug Otto, Vice Mayor Robert Garcia, Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, Willmore City Heritage Association Treasurer Jana Shields, auto detailer Richard Camp and businessman Steven Mozena.
For Dunn, Otto, Garcia and Lowenthal, the event was another in a series of debates held in advance of the April 8 election.
But for the rest, who are running without the support of political parties, unions or business organizations and are locked out of most debates, the cordial forum where participants were limited to one-minute answers was one of the few opportunities to be seen by a large audience.
Panelists asked candidates about the arts, poverty in Long Beach and their leadership styles and, in a first for the election season, their views on the city's "proportionate share" approach to budgeting in which police and fire services — which is two-thirds of everyday spending — have been cut the most in recent years.
Garcia, who has been on the council since 2009, said members have made tough decisions in order to get to a surplus this year after a decade of deficits.
"I think you're seeing some of the results of that," said Garcia, while adding that libraries, parks and other services play a role in improving public safety.
Otto disagreed that the city's approach was a straight proportionate one, but rather was the result of a careful look at priorities and available resources.
Dunn and Lowenthal did not support a proportionate approach to budgeting, though for different reasons.
Dunn tied the issue to productivity, saying that public safety is the most important service a city provides.
Lowenthal advocated adding resources for parks, libraries and other "safety net services."
"Those are the activities that lead to prevention of crime," Lowenthal said.
Shields said she is interested in restoring services "proportionately," while Camp said the issue is relative to the quality of law and order.
"We can't have prosperity and harmony and peace if we don't have law and order first," Camp said.
Mozena tied the issue to jobs, complimented Mayor Bob Foster's leadership and argued that he was the candidate to lead Long Beach into the future.
"Do you want to be rich in America?" he asked. "I feel like an infomercial. I can help you do it."
Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske is also in the race but did not attend the forum.
The program aired live on Charter channel 32 and Verizon FiOS channel 41. Additional broadcasts will be aired throughout the election season.
To view the forum on demand, go to padnet.tv.
Contact Eric Bradley at 562-499-1254


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VANCOUVER - Arland Bruce III is adapting to his new life as a B.C. Lion.
But first, the self-proclaimed "King of the Jungle" must get acquainted with the other leader of the pack.
Bruce, who was traded to B.C. last week from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, is looking to build chemistry with quarterback Travis Lulay, and Tuesday's practice -- the first full one for Bruce as a Lion -- was a good start.
"It's baby steps right now," the 33-year-old receiver said. "I always want to have a relationship with the quarterback, so we will be on the same page. I did that when I was a rookie coming into the league with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. I went to Khari (Jones') room at the hotel and said 'Hey, what do I need to do?' That's the type of chemistry you want to build."
Bruce compared Lulay with Tim Rattay, formerly of the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, and the CFL's Cody Pickett. By that, he meant the Lions pivot was smart, vocal, and "a guy who's not thinking about numbers and is out there playing football."
"He's helping not just myself but the whole offensive line and running backs," Bruce said. "He never seems down or complains. That's an all-star QB to me."
Lulay reciprocated the kind words and said it's now a matter of prepping Bruce for his Saturday debut against the Blue Bombers.
"You can definitely see his talent level," Lulay said. "The biggest thing is getting him up to speed and getting him in touch with what we're doing. Once you learn the language, you can understand conceptually how everything works together. We've been spending extra time doing just that."
Bruce is also using his time to get to know his other new teammates.
"He has been really great in the locker room," Geroy Simon said. "He's going to be a spark for us. He's just trying to get to know people and see where he fits in. That'll take some time."
Bruce is expected to replace rookie Nick Moore in the starting lineup and move to a slotback position Friday while fellow veteran Kamau Peterson shifts to a wide receiver spot.
Playing role aside, the newest Lion just wants to keep grinding at practice and let his play do the talking.
"I like to lead by example, come out here and work, not run my mouth," he said. "I can show you that better than I can tell you."


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Huntington Beach, CA (March 27, 2010) – Professional Home Cinema, a leader in professional grade cinema and sound products for the home, announced today the appointment of MK Marketing as its exclusive sales representative for the Pacific Southwest region covering Southern California, Southern Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii.
Based in Irvine California, MK Marketing was founded in 1992 by principal Mike Kavanaugh. The firm has been honored with numerous manufacturer awards for excellence and is highly regarded among AV dealerships and integrators throughout the territory. "The association with MK Marketing affirms our dedication to growing with premium accounts in the region," states Larry Reagan of PHC. "MK Marketing has a distinguished history of servicing high-end theater specialists and the technical expertise to promote our professional style cinema systems. Undoubtedly, they will be a significant asset to PHC and its dealers in the territory" Reagan added.
Professional Home Cinema provides a broad range of DSP driven loudspeaker and amplifier systems employing professional technologies and boasting legitimate commercial cinema output levels, unrestricted dynamics, and the amplifier power levels needed to provide true-to-life performance.
Commenting on their appointment, Mike Kavanaugh stated, "The MK Marketing team is excited to be working with PHC. We have respected the work of industry icon and PHC founder, Paul Hales for many years but were completely blown away when we heard our first PHC system." Adding, "We have experienced many good sounding theaters in our time but none that delivered the cinematic experience like PHC. Professional Home Cinema is unique in its ability to deliver the true cinematic experience to their clients, regardless of project size and without compromise."
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PHC was founded upon a simple principle: to combine the preeminent engineering technology from consumer and professional audio fields to produce the most accurate, robust and aurally-exciting audio product available for installed residential systems.
For further information please visit www.professionalhomecinema.com
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David Moyes Regardless of the good-will he had built up in abundance during his time as Everton boss, the Scot's time as Manchester United boss, not to mention his ill-fated stint in Spain, have left serious questions about the ability of the now Sunderland manager. Taking charge after Alex Ferguson would have been a difficult
We are Sunderland Football Club, and we're searching for a new manager, We've lost Sam Allardyce – and now we feel real anger. He was poached by the elite, of the English FA, To take up a new job – as England manager, we are now in disarray! But we are still in the English
Former Everton and Manchester United manager David Moyes is the newly appointed Sunderland boss: the club confirmed through a statement released to the press. The Scot takes over from Sam Allardyce who has likewise been appointed as manager, but this time for the England national team following Roy Hodgson's resignation after a disastrous Euro 2016


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Apple has released a software update for iPhoto, bringing it to v9.4.1. This update fixes some bugs and seeks to enhance the way users sync content to iOS devices via iTunes. There are also improvements when downloading and viewing photos synced with Facebook albums, and brings other stability enhancements.
According to the data logs, iPhoto v9.4.1:
- Improves the reliability of syncing to iOS devices via iTunes
- Fixes an issue that could cause iPhoto to quit unexpectedly when using the Export command
- Addresses an issue that could cause iPhoto to quit unexpectedly when upgrading multiple books, cards, and calendars.
- Resolves an issue with downloading and viewing photos synced from Facebook albums
The update weighs in at more than 757MB, and requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or higher (10.8.2 on Mountain Lion). The updates is now available at the Mac App Store, via Software Update or directly from Apple's support website.


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The talented artists on display are:
Mimi Ama, Annie Bohni, Ruth Casselman, Tamana S. H. Djuya, Doria Fochi, Dusty Hagerud, Colin R. Holmes, Rhonda Honing, Maryhelen McCormick, Shigeko Nagashima, Warren Oneschuk, Douglas Rae, Vicki Lynn Rae, Rubina Rajan, Polina Skvortsova, Jelena Sparica, Deborah Stephan, Myranda Storm, Patricia Vaughan, Theresa Wimbles & Hajni Yosifov
This special 3 week exhibition, ending during the North Shore Art Crawl, features work in a wide spectrum of mediums, styles & subject matter. We hope to encourage members of our community to share their talents for all to see. There will be a People's Choice Award of a $100 Opus Art Supplies gift card for the artwork that receives the most votes from visitors to the gallery. Art lovers-support creativity in our community & vote for your favourite work of art!
Opening reception: Tuesday, February 14th, from 6-8pm


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When he saw the Toronto area code on his caller ID, DeSclafani figured it might be one of the organization's higher-ups. He was right. It was assistant general manager Tony LaCava informing him he was part of a 12-player blockbuster trade with the Marlins.
"I was kind of taken aback," said DeSclafani, a 2011 sixth-round pick from Florida who had just completed his first professional season. "I got to learn the other side of baseball pretty quick.
"It's definitely weird how I'm going through different things I never thought of when I was playing baseball in Little League."
DeSclafani hopes the trade translates into playing in the big leagues a little sooner, though he's farthest away of the six players the Marlins received in the deal that shipped Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson and Jose Reyes to Toronto.
A hard-throwing reliever in college, DeSclafani appeared in 28 games for low Class A Lansing last season, making 21 starts and piggybacking with another pitcher seven other times. He went 11-3, 3.37 with 25 walks and 92 strikeouts in 123 innings.
Asked what role he preferred, DeSclafani said: "I just like being out on the mound. It was great in college to come in and close a game. You have that adrenaline and that's always fun, but so is starting."
DeSclafani complements a two-seam fastball with a changeup, slider and curve. Despite never having thrown a slider before last season, he had favorable results with it, so much so that he put the curve in his back pocket at one point during the season. When he incorporated it again it proved a useful weapon.
"I wouldn't say it's a major league curveball just yet, but it's slow enough to get the hitters off balance," DeSclafani said. "To come back with a harder breaking ball, whether it's a slider or cutter, definitely will help."
• Manager Jorge Hernandez received a promotion from the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League to low Class A Greensboro this season, where he'll be joined by pitching coach Blake McGinley and hitting coach Frank Moore, each in their second seasons.
• Righthander Jose Ceda, who did not pitch in 2012 after having Tommy John surgery, was throwing without restrictions and will vie for a bullpen job this season.


text: How to Recognize a Stroke Share This Article On average, someone in the U.S. has a stroke every 40 seconds. While strokes can't always be prevented, the faster you recognize the signs and symptoms, the more likely you are to reduce the chance of disability or death."The key is early recognition," explains Jason Parker MD, of the Bethesda North Advanced Stroke Center. "Time is the most important thing, if it does happen."Recognizing a StrokeA stroke is an interruption of blood supply to any part of the brain, and is sometimes called a "brain attack." When blood flow is stopped, the brain tissue does not get enough blood and oxygen to survive, and brain cells can die, causing permanent damage.Learn more:Bethesda North Advanced Stroke CenterDid you find this helpful? Sign up for our e-newsletter.At TriHealth, we educate people about stroke signs and symptoms based on guidelines provided by the American Stroke Association, which uses the acronym, "FAST." FAST Stands for:Face – Ask the person to smile and check to see if one side of the face droops.Arm – Ask the person to raise both arms and see if one arm drifts downward.Speech – Ask the person to repeat a simple sentence, and check to see if words are slurred or the sentence is repeated incorrectly.Time – If a person shows any of these symptoms, it is important to get to the hospital as quickly as possible, and immediately call 911."Any time someone gets to the hospital within three hours of [the onset of] symptoms, we have an opportunity to use clot-busting medications," Dr. Parker points out. This applies to patients who are suffering an ischemic stroke (the more common stroke type), which is caused by a blockage in the artery.The other type of stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, is caused by a tear in the artery's wall, which produces bleeding into or around the brain. This stroke is usually accompanied by a headache, often described as "the worst headache of someone's life."Stroke Risk FactorsThere are about 795,000 strokes in the United States each year; however, keeping blood pressure at 120/80 or less could prevent about 50 percent of these strokes.Common risk factors for strokes are also associated with other health conditions, like: DiabetesBlood clotting disordersHeart DiseaseHigh cholesterolHistory of heart attackSleep apneaBlockages in other arteries"So, if you have blockages in one artery, you are more likely to have blockages in the brain, too," Dr. Parker explains.Other risk factors include: Race (Native Americans, Hispanics and African-Americans are at a much higher risk than Caucasians) Family historyGender (in most age groups, stroke is more common in men than in women)Age (Risk goes up as you age) Weak areas in an artery wall or abnormal arteries and veins


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RICHMOND, Va., July 29 (UPI) -- People who have been bitten by a tick, may develop an allergy to red meat, U.S. researchers say.
Dr. Susan Wolver and Dr. Diane Sun of Virginia Commonwealth University said delayed anaphylaxis -- a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction -- to meat is a new syndrome identified initially in the southeastern United States.
Patients may wake up in the middle of the night, with hives or anaphylaxis -- a life-threatening type of allergic reaction -- 3-6 hours after having eaten red meat for dinner.
Wolver, Sun and colleagues analyzed three patient case studies and said the reaction might be caused by antibodies to a carbohydrate -- alpha-gal -- that were produced in a patient's blood in response to a Lone Star tick bite.
This carbohydrate substance is also present in meat, so when an individual who has been bitten by a tick eats the meat, his or her immune system activates the release of histamine in response to the presence of alpha-gal, which can cause hives and anaphylaxis, the researchers said.
"Where ticks are endemic, for example in the southeastern United States, clinicians should be aware of this new syndrome when presented with a case of anaphylaxis," Wolver said in a statement. "Current guidance is to counsel patients to avoid all mammalian meat -- beef, pork, lamb and venison."
The findings were published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.


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Sudan: More Christians in danger, warns bishop
A bishop has warned that more Sudanese Christians could suffer severe violations of human rights – like Mariam Ibrahim – stating that their legal protection in the country has been taken away. Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio, in neighbouring South Sudan, described the "worrying" legal situation of Christians since his country seceded from Sudan in July 2011.
Stressing concerns for fellow clergy in particular, Bishop Hiiboro said: "In Sudan bishops and priests have been living de facto as illegals since South Sudan's independence."
While Sudan's constitution guarantees equal rights regardless of a person's religion, Christians face discrimination under the law.The bishop said: "When we confront those in charge with this, they emphasise that Christians have the same rights as their compatriots, but this changes nothing in legal terms.
"Bishops and priests are not granted passports and they do not have legal status. They are able to leave the country but re-entry may be refused. Priests have already been expelled – and the bishops are condemned to remain silent."
The Bishop of Tombura-Yambio told ACN that, while there is freedom of worship for Sudan's more than three million Christians, they do not have the full protection under the law.
He said: "Christians in Sudan can attend divine service unmolested, but there is no genuine freedom of religion and conscience in the country. This is illustrated by the disgraceful case of Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishaq, which, unlike any others, has been widely publicised."
This 27-year-old Sudanese Christian woman was arrested in May and condemned to death and 100 lashes for apostasy and adultery, before courts quashed her sentence.
Bishop Hiiboro said: "Among those around her she had long been known as a Christian. For whatever motives, she was blackmailed and then charged. The government expressed no view on the matter and simply left it all to the Islamic clerics."
The accusation of apostasy came because Mariam Ibrahim's father was Muslim, but her mother was Orthodox and raised her as a Christian.Mariam Ibrahim was only released in June following international pressure, having given birth to her younger child while shackled in prison.
The family is sheltering in the US embassy – her husband Daniel Wani is a US citizen – after allegations of forged travel papers prevented them leaving Sudan for the US.
According to Bishop Hiiboro, discrimination against Christians is a reaction to the division of the country three years ago. He said: "Because the Church has always called on those with political responsibility to respect the dignity of the people, their freedom and also their vote in favour of the independence of the South, it is now being made responsible for the South's break-away.
"But the Church does not pursue any political aims. We only call upon politicians to respect freedom of religious faith and conscience."
There is still a joint Catholic Bishops' Conference for Sudan and South Sudan, which has the inter-religious dialogue with Muslims as one of its key concerns.


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With QB J.W. Walsh out for season, Oklahoma State hoping Wes Lunt healthy enough to go against TCU
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy has nothing but praise for the toughness of his young quarterbacks, who are dealing with their share of injuries this season.
Redshirt freshman J.W. Walsh, who came on to fill in for injured true freshman Wes Lunt three games back, is likely to miss the remainder of the season after suffering a knee injury early in a 31-10 victory over then-No. 24 Iowa State this past weekend.
Lunt appears to be the early favorite to start Saturday afternoon when the Cowboys (4-2, 2-1 Big 12) host TCU (5-2, 2-2).
"The quarterback situation, we have Wes Lunt and we have Clint Chelf," head coach Mike Gundy said. "What we're going to do is we have enough reps for both of them to get quality work in order to play on Saturday. Because we do move so fast in practice that it gives us a chance to give guys enough work. Clint is a lot like J.W. in the way he plays. He can run it. There's not any other information."
Gundy got serious when addressing the toughness of Walsh.
"I'm very proud of what J.W. has given our football team," he said. "I'm disappointed for him that he can't continue to play. He competed on about 70 plays, give or take a few, after he had the injury he has right now. The guy has a very high tolerance for pain.
"We have guys that play with pain. He's more visible because he's the quarterback."
None of Walsh's teammates even knew he had been injured during the game.
"I didn't know he was hurt until he hobbled up on crutches on Sunday," said offensive lineman Lane Taylor. "I was like, 'Are you OK?' He said yes.
"It's not much different whether it's Wes or J.W. Our mindset is to keep the quarterback clean, have no sacks. Not much changes from our perspective. We definitely don't want (Wes) to get dinged up again. We'll keep him clean."
Charlie Moore said the wide receivers are comfortable with either quarterback.
"The coaches put in the game plan and we adjust," he said. "Whether it's Wes or J.W., we adjust to them."
Offensive coordinator Todd Monken said he asked Walsh if he was OK and the player said yes.
"I asked (J.W.) how he was doing and he said, 'It hurts a little bit but I'm fine,'" Monken said. "Last season he was out there running with the wide receivers. He wants to be first. You have to respect a guy like that. That's what is frustrating. He wants to prove he should be our guy. You feel more for him."
Monken said Walsh bounced up after the sack and limped back to the huddle.
"He didn't go to the ground, didn't come out," Monken said. "I asked if he was OK and he said 'I'm a little sore but I will be alright.' That's a guy who really wants to play."
As for going forward, Monken said, "Well, last week was Wes Lunt's first full week of working with us. We'll evaluate it and look at Clint and Wes. We worked our offense into using more of an athletic quarterback, so we have to decide if we are going to continue in that direction, or is Wes going to be ready to throw the football and give us a chance to win."
Monken said the biggest obstacle for Lunt is timing.
"You work so hard for five weeks and then you do nothing, it will take time to get his timing back," Monken said.


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Benefit Concert - Don't Stop Believin - Gary Wellner's Gift for Pancreatic Cancer Research
80's rock legends unite to raise money and awareness for Pancreatic Cancer research. Benefit concert to be held Thursday, November 29th from 7:00PM-11:00PM at the Bayview Event Center in Excelsior, MN.
October 30, 2012 (Newswire.com) - 80's rock legends unite to perform at the "Don't Stop Beleavin" - Gary Wellner's Gift to Pancreatic Cancer Research benfit concert. The event to be held at the Bayview Event Center in Excelsior, MN, Thursday, November 29th from 7:00PM-11:00PM and will feature lead singers from leading 80's rock bands suuch as Santana, Toto and a performance by Tim Mahoney, a Minneapolis based singer/songwriter who recently appeared on NBC's "The Voice".
Gary Wellner is from Brooklyn Park, MN and was a retired teacher and college professor and long-time wrestling coach. He was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in September, 2012. Wellner's son-in-law, Mike Woodley reached out to his friends to organize a Pancreatic Cancer Research benefit event in Gary's name. "It came together quickly" said Mike Woodley, the benefit's organizer. "November is Pancreatic Cancer awareness month and the color is purple; we wanted bring awareness by creating a benefit to help the lives of people who suffer from the disease and aid in prevention research" Woodley went on to say.
Woodley added "Pancreatic Cancer is now ranked as the second leading cause of death to those diagnosed with Cancer according to the CDC and it hits our family and many others close to home, it's an important cause I have decided to passionately support".
The event will have a cash bar and silent/live auction. Performing that night will be, Kevin Chalfant, the first lead singer to stand in for Steve Perry and the band JOURNEY. Kevin was also lead singer for national bands 707, Alan Parsons Project and The Storm. Alex Ligertwood, SANTANA former lead singer (79'-94'). Derek St. Holmes Current and original lead vocals/guitar for the Ted Nugent Band. Fergie Frederiksen, Toto former lead singer and Tim Mahoney Mn Singer/Songwriter "THE VOICE" contestant 2011.
For more information please call 612-386-0082 or visit www.Headliner-band.com.
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Last June four-star offensive center Mark Brazinski decided that Rutgers was the place for him. Less than two months later, the Somerville (N.J.) Immaculata product decided that being a Scarlet Knight wasn't right for him.
That brings us to the present and Brazinski is again going through the decision making process.
"After my commitment I sat down and did a lot of research and realized it wasn't the place for me," Brazinski said. "I think sometimes I do too much work research into it but I realized this is a major decision so I did spreadsheets and basically beat the numbers into a pulp and saw where everything compared. That helped me in making my decision."
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The second decision for Brazinski has already been made, but will become public on Sunday evening at the Under Armour All-American Game.
"I am announcing at the game," Brazinski said. "The five hats I am going to have on the table are Florida State, North Carolina, Boston College, the University of Pennsylvania, and California."
The 6-foot-3, 297-pound offensive lineman talked about each of his finalists.
California: "I took a trip out to California last weekend. It was very warm. The coaches are very knowledgeable. They have the third highest-rated business school according to U.S. News & World Report and they are 21st overall as a school according to U.S. News & World Report. They are the top public school."
North Carolina: "I took my official visit a couple of months ago. It was a lot of fun. The kids were great. Butch Davis is a very knowledgeable man. Their business school is among the top 20 according to U.S. News & World Report."
Penn: "That is a I-AA Ivy. My brother played there. They have the Wharton School of Business, it is the number one business school in the world. My brother is currently a trader for a hedge fund on Park Ave., one block away from Wall Street. That is a once in a lifetime opportunity, to get a job like that. That is amazing."
Boston College: "I took multiple visits there. My official visit was to see them play Notre Dame. Great atmosphere and great coaches. Nice, cozy feeling to the campus. They have a top 20 business school according to U.S. News and World Report which is something that I look into a lot."
Florida State: "It has a very big football tradition. You know you are going to go to a big time bowl every year. They also have great fan support."
Brazinski said that in making his decision, he used three specific breakdowns of the prospective universities.
"I want to win a lot of football games, that is first and foremost. This is the only time in your life you get to do this and I want to go to a big time bowl. I want people to know what program I go to.
"The business school has to be a very top notch type of school because I want to be challenged academically. I want to enjoy life after football which includes having a real job.
"I want to fit in. I want to be able to come in, sit down with a group of guys who are already there, and feel comfortable with them. I also want to feel comfortable with the coaches because they decide who is and isn't going to play. Most of all, you are going to be dealing with these people for at least 40 hours every week so you want to be able to enjoy being around them."
On Sunday night, Brazinski will let it be known which school he thinks provide the right fit for him.


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A FEDERAL MP has joked that the success of shows like Masterchef has not led to the recruitment of more young Aussie cooks.
Victorian Labor MP Kelvin Thomson said the mass importation of skilled migrants was costing local jobs, and the skilled program was not about nuclear physicists or neurosurgeons.
"The largest category of entrants last year were cooks, and hairdressers also made it into the top five," he said referring to figures previously revealed by the Herald Sun.
"Apparently, notwithstanding the great success of My Kitchen Rules and Masterchef, we are unable to find, or train, young Australian cooks."
Mr Thomson told federal Parliament that immigration was out of control, with more than one million foreigners on temporary visas having work rights and a permanent skilled migration program of 129,000 last year.
"It's got to stop," he said.
"The size of the temporary and permanent migrant worker programs is a recipe for more young Australians to be out of work, with all the negative consequences unemployment has in relation to mental health, drugs, crime, and social harmony."
Mr Thomson said that the national jobless rate had risen to 6 per cent and thousands more jobs would be lost with the departure of Ford, Holden and Toyota from Australia.
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Get Them While They're Hot
Young planets stay hotter longer — Study shows newborn Earth-like planets could be easier to find
Out of the Dust, A Planet is Born
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech)
Young planets around other stars may be easier to spot because they stay hotter way longer than astronomers have thought, according to new work by MIT planetary scientist Linda Elkins-Tanton. The finding may aid in the search for habitable worlds around distant stars.
For a few million years after their initial formation, planets like Earth may maintain a hot surface of molten rock that would glow brightly enough to make them stand out as they orbit neighboring stars. Elkins-Tanton, Mitsui Career Development Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, says the "magma ocean" stage for Earth-sized planets may last a few million years, much longer than previously estimated. "That means we may actually see them elsewhere, as detection systems get better," she said.
She presented her new findings Tuesday, Oct. 14, at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences, being held in Ithaca, N.Y. The research shows that even after the surface magma solidifies, within about five million years, it could stay hot enough to glow brightly in infrared light for tens of millions of years, providing a relatively long window for detectability.
The new study shows that the surface of young planets may stay molten longer than previously believed.
The big problem for astronomers hoping to detect planets around other stars is the vast difference in brightness between the star and the planet, which shines only by reflecting light from its parent star. But the difference in brightness in infrared wavelengths for a glowing, molten planetary surface would be much less, making the detection more feasible.
The long duration of the molten stage turns out to be the result of a two-stage process, Elkins-Tanton explained. The initial heating, generated by a combination of radioactivity in the planet's interior and the heat generated by the collision of millions of chunks of rock crashing together to form the planet, actually is quite short-lived: The planet's surface is expected to solidify quickly, within a few hundred thousand years, as originally thought. But then a secondary upheaval begins, in which heavier iron-rich material that has solidified at the surface begins to sink toward the core, causing other hotter material to rise to the surface.
Mercury can be seen transiting the sun in this image captured by NASA¡¯s Solar Optical telescope onboard the Japanese satellite Hinode. One problem astronomers face in detecting rocky, Earth-like worlds is that stars are much brighter than the planets that orbit them.
Credit: Hinode JAXA/NASA/PPARC
This "overturn" process, it turns out, produces the much-longer-lived molten surface, lasting for millions of years, she said. Because the Earth's crust is so dynamic, there is no material left from that initial epoch that could be studied to test this modelling, she said, but on other planets such as Mars or Mercury there might be early remnant rocks that could be tested. The analysis also leads to specific conclusions about the surface composition of planets, so detection of certain specific minerals on Mercury, for example, which the MESSENGER spacecraft may be able to carry out when it begins its study of the planet in 2011, might support the theory.
In addition, the detection of hot, young planets around other stars, which might become possible over the next several years, might provide another line of evidence to support this conclusion, she said.
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA's Mars Fundamental Research Program.
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— @evleaks (@evleaks) January 19, 2014
Earlier this month, a set of images leaked out that gave us a sneak peek at a new smartphone user interface that Samsung allegedly has kicking around in its labs, complete with an HTC BlinkFeed/Google Now mashup that display sports scores, fitness information and more. Now that UI is back in another leak that sheds a bit more light on the types of info that Samsung's refreshed interface can display.
In a pair of images posted to Twitter, @evleaks has given us a closer look at the different types of information cards that Samsung is apparently considering for its user interface refresh. Included in the leak are cards for fitness, coffee payments, sports scores, restaurant reservations and a flight status. Each card also includes an image related to its topic, such as a Starbucks mug for a payment made to the coffee chain.
While still very much unofficial, this refreshed user interface is one of the biggest makeovers that we've seen TouchWiz receive to date. It's kind of tough to get a feel for how these new information cards work and how accurate they are based on the two sets of leaked screenshots that we've gotten, but so far they seem like an addition that'll give Samsung's TouchWiz UI a bit more of a personal touch. Now we just have to wait and see if the cards and the new UI that they're a part of will actually make it to market.
What do you make of this purported Samsung UI refresh? Do you like the company's take on personal information cards?
Via @evleaks