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- Great hanger Review by Styker
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This thing is great, I have used it the past few seasons. Definitely a "must have" for any hunter who climbs a tree! Like the other review I keep it in the side pack on the summit stand. The ratchet strap gives peace of mind when hanging an expensive piece of equipment on the end of the hanger, I never trusted the screw in style.
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- Reliable and sturdy Review by mystyx
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The ratchet strap can be a little cumbersome, until you get use to hooking it up. The main bracket and extension arm are good strong steel. It folds but can be a little long to carry in a regular fanny pack. I have saddle bags on my summit climber and can fit this into one of them just fine with room for a few other things like pull-up rope,call,snacks, etc. I used this Last season and plan on ordering another one for my wife for this upcoming season. Only suggestion i would make is to find some air line tubing, like what used in fish tanks, to cover the hook where the bow rests.This will help remove possible metal on metal clanking from hanging your bow or picking it up. Other than that im very pleased with quality.
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Blake Harrison wants to do drama
Blake Harrison may have struck comedy gold with The Inbetweeners - but he wants to do more drama.
The actor, 28, is continuing comedy in new show Big Bad World.
But Blake, who played girl-obsessed Neil Sutherland in The Inbetweeners, said he went into comedy "by accident".
"So far it's working out, but I definitely want to do more drama," he added.
Blake plays jobless and single graduate Ben, who has to move back in with his parents, in the sitcom Big Bad World, which stars Caroline Quentin as his mum.
The actor, who grew up in Peckham, said it was something he experienced first hand when he finished drama school and had to move home for six weeks and share a room with his younger brother.
"We grew up sharing a room, but by this point I was 22 and he was 18. It was quite difficult having two grown men in a small room together," he said.
:: Big Bad World can be seen on Comedy Central on Wednesdays.

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On the Robustness of the High-Quality Advantage under Vertical Differentiation
The idea that the high-quality provider in a vertically differentiated duopoly earns the higher profit (the so-called "high-quality advantage") appears to be an established fact among economists. This note shows that the high-quality advantage is not a robust feature of vertical differentiation models. A low-quality advantage can be predicted under perfectly plausible assumptions, such as a concave utility–quality and/or a convex unit cost–quality relation. The existence of a high- or a low-quality advantage depends on the nature of the firms' strategic interaction. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2006
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Wrentham, Massachusetts Shoplifting Lawyer
Wrentham, Massachusetts is a very quaint and desirable community located halfway between Boston and Providence, with ready driving access to both cities. Situated in Norfolk County, Wrentham has three beautiful lakes, substantial conservation land and open space, and a "small town New England charm" to it. Its location provides easy access to Gillette Stadium in nearby Foxboro, and a variety of interesting cultural, historical and recreational opportunities are all nearby. Not the least of attractive draws is the famous Wrentham Village Premium Shopping Outlets, home to almost 100 well-known stores offering discounted prices on premium clothing and home products.
Wrentham occupies approximately 22 sq. miles (59 km) and has a population of just over 10, 500. Neighboring communities include Franklin to the west, Norfolk to the north, Foxboro to the east, Plainville and Cumberland (RI) to the south, and Bellingham to the southwest.
More recently, Wrentham gained national notoriety when Scott Brown, who was a local Republican state Senator from Wrentham, was elected in a special election to replace the legendary Democratic U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, who died in August 2009.Wrentham, Massachusetts Shoplifting Lawyer
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Problem: Public facing hostname/IP address for your Raspberry Pi.
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About 25 years ago, a small private plane crashed in the woods near Brattleboro, Vermont. The details of the crash are the subject of legend among locals, but the site itself is a nice destination for a hike. You will see a huge tangle of aircraft aluminum (think of the TV show Lost). The hike is on private land, but isn't near any active residences. As long as hikers are respectful, the local landowners won't have any problem with them completing this beautiful 30-minute to 1-hour hike.
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Local protest of child marriage in Iraq
Gathering in El Cajon condemns proposed change in Middle-Eastern law
Eric Bartl 12:30 p.m., Nov. 21
Democratic congresswoman Susan Davis, who told supporters in a letter last month that "We've been robbed," is still trying to make up financial ground in the aftermath of the Kinde Durkee campaign treasurer scandal.
Davis said Durkee "may well become known as the Bernie Madoff of campaign finance treasurers," and asked her supporters to contribute new money to help undo the financial damage.
Those efforts are now underway, with Washington lobbyists being called on to do their share.
According to a fundraising invite posted on the website of the Sunlight Foundation's Political Party Time website, Davis threw a breakfast fundraiser October 4 at Washington's Zest American Bistro.
Political Action Committees were invited to give between $1,000 and $5,000 to get in; individuals were charged $500.
The locale's website describes the restaurant as a friend of the environment.
"Zest is the perfect place to dine at any time of day; Pork Tenderloin with Spicy Peach Chutney, Roasted leg of lamb on grilled flatbread, Salt and Spice roasted Salmon or Penne pasta with old world bolognese sauce are some of our signature offerings. Sunday brunch is also not to be missed!
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Nice session at Pico this morning, with middles and inside breaks working well, a small crowd and sunny, hazy skies. Waves were running 3-3+ and glassy to semi-glassy, with a mild breeze blowing from the estero. Shout out to Cody from Atlanta who's been enjoying some fine Pico waves the last few mornings. Photo: Check out Losmir's board,..nice.
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Last Saturday marked the official release of one of 2008's best business courses - Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE:BRK.A) (NYSE:BRK.B) annual shareholder letter. The education is free, as the shareholder letter became available on the company's website, but the year proved costly for shareholders as class A shares fell some 30% to end the year at $96,600. However, Berkshire Hathaway's shares did exceed the market's return, which fell 37% during the calendar year.
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Berkshire's Yardsticks
As followers of Buffett know, he doesn't judge success or failure by short-term share price fluctuations; this is a good thing seeing as Berkshire shares are already down another 20% in 2009, roughly matching the market's year-to-date fall. Berkshire's yardsticks, which Buffett laid out on page five of this year's letter, include its sizable investment portfolio, which ended the year at a value of $122 billion. Nearly half of this amount, $58.5 billion, is funded by an insurance float that Buffett characterizes as "money that doesn't belong to us but that we hold and invest for our own benefit" - meaning it's invested until it is paid out as an insurance claim. In 2008, the investment portfolio reported a full-year 14% drop in value, from $90,343 per Berkshire share to $77,793. (For further reading, see Think Like Warren Buffett.)
The second yardstick consists of Berkshire's 67 non-insurance companies, which don't include investing or insurance. This portfolio of companies reported a modest 4% drop in pretax earnings from $4,093 per Berkshire share to $3,921, because its retailing and residential construction businesses were hit particularly hard. Still, this level of performance is enviable, as was the 9.6% drop in Berkshire's overall book value per share. Remarkably, this drop in book value is the worst performance in Berkshire's history, followed by 2001's book value drop of 6.2%.
Still Defined by Its Insurance Operations.
In terms of relative performance, 2008 represented one of Berkshire's top 10 performance years, as they outperformed the S&P500 by 27.4% with results going back to 1965. The company is still primarily an insurance operation, which Buffett characterized as "an economic powerhouse," that delivered yet another annual underwriting gain. The insurance operations contain two reinsurance businesses - General Re and BH Reinsurance, which provide insurance to other insurers and compete with the likes of Ace Limited (NYSE:ACE) and XL Capital (NYSE:XL). The other primary operation is auto insurer GEICO, which now counts itself as the third largest auto insurer behind State Farm and Allstate (NYSE:ALL), and has grown market share nearly four-fold to 7.7% since 1993.
Much to Learn from the Other Units
Berkshire's manufacturing, service and retailing operations posted a slight 3% decrease in net income to $2.3 billion. However, like many firms, conditions deteriorated significantly in the fourth quarter and Buffett predicts pretty grim prospects for 2009. Still, the group earned 17.9% on average tangible net worth, which is a clear indication of the quality companies that Buffett owns. This is an enviable return and demonstrates that earnings capacity has hardly been impaired, though growth in earnings will take some time to recover.
Bottom line
Berkshire's non-insurance group is still representative of Berkshire overall - it's a group that Buffet claims "retains strong earning power even under today's conditions and will continue to deliver significant cash to the parent company." This group will use this cash to acquire and invest in other firms with appealing business models, which is in contrast to how "many competitors were trading water (or sinking) as 2008 came to a close."
In other words, Berkshire's book value growth was a far cry from the 20.3% annual growth it has experienced over more than four decades of operations, but it still bested most of the competition during a period of freefall in business activity that is among the worst Buffett has ever seen. However you measure it, there is much for investing students to learn in each installment of Berkshire's shareholder letters regarding how to manage businesses through thick and thin. (For more, see Warren Buffett: The Road To Riches and Warren Buffett: How He Does It .)


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John Milnewrote a review of Salewa Mountain Trainer GTX Mid Boot - Men's on July 19, 2011
Great boot
I'm a 12.5 foot but I usually to jump up to a 13 as very few companies make 12.5's. I have the regular Mountain Trainer in a size 13 but ended up going down to a size 12 in the Mid version because the Multi-fit footbed allows for an adjustable volume in the boot. I may still end up bumping up to the 13 but between the lacing and the footbed it's cool to see just how customizable they are.
I love both versions of the boot but the Mid feels like it's got a little bit more rocker to the sole and took a second to get used to coming from the low. It also has the PU shock absorber which gives a little extra cushion on your heel and makes longer hikes more comfortable.
The lacing to the toe lets you adjust the fit in the toebox to accommodate swelling feet or clamp it down when you need some extra performance, the tread and sticky rubber inspire confidence and the full rubber rand make sure that they'll last.
All around, this is an awesome boot.


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Lallzyme C® is a highly active enzyme formulated for clarification of white juice or wine. It has a low cinnamyl esterase activity to help protect against the formation of undesirable vinyl phenols. Lallzyme C® contains well-balanced pectinase activities adapted specifically for grape juice, high polygalacturonase and pectin lyase content for a fast decrease in viscosity and turbidity, and controlled levels of pectin esterase (enough to allow polygalacturonase activity but not enough to allow the formation of methanol in the must).
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Lallemand Human Nutrition specializes in the development and distribution of yeast and bacteria for the Food, Beverage and Nutrition industry. Lallemand products include a line of mineral- and vitamin-enriched yeasts and premium cranberry extracts and powders. Products offer health benefits in areas of immune health, intestinal health and digestive health and also have application in baking, brewing and oenology.


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WhitePages IDs Growth in the Explosion of Personal Data
This is the golden age for data nerds—especially if you collect data on people.
With Facebook steaming toward 1 billion users and smartphones now accounting for more than half the cell phone market in the U.S., the amount of digital information the average person generates about their lives has exploded. And it's not going to stop.
Here's one way measure that river of information: At Seattle online directory company WhitePages, number-crunchers are now ingesting more than 1 billion records about businesses and people every single month.
Those records are the basis for WhitePages' growing array of products, from its basic Web-based people search to advanced apps, like a new Android offering that turns social media profiles into a cool spin on caller ID.
Around the WhitePages office, they like to say the work is sort of like being in the oil refining business. "The challenge is not in obtaining or sourcing new data," founder and CEO Alex Algard says. "It's what we do with that data."
The company started in 1997, basically as a side project. Algard, who was working in finance at the time, noticed that the WhitePages.com Web address was sitting unused under the control of a service provider.
He got it for a bargain price, and at first built a simple directory service. "This was literally my moonlight project," Algard recalls. "It was 1 to 2 am, when I had some free time." But soon enough, Algard's stint in investment banking was over, and he moved to Seattle. At first, WhitePages was pretty much what it sounds like: An online version of the phone book. That information is still a key part of the WhitePages database, but it's got lots more company now.
While Algard wouldn't give me specific examples, he said a lot of the information comes from telecom companies and public records. Anyone who's worked with government data can tell you that there's a ton of information just sitting out there. But you really have to know how to find it.
"All on its own, any of the elements we have in our database you'd be able to find," Algard says. "But we do a better job, I think, of stitching it together into a single, authoritative profile about you."
Those skills apparently have translated into a strong business. Algard wouldn't discuss financial results in detail, but he does say the company has long been profitable. It's also attracted investment cash, with Providence Equity Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures investing $45 million in 2005. Previous reports have pegged WhitePages' revenue as high as $66 million in 2008.
By next year, Algard says, WhitePages' profit should be double what it was in 2011 (the vast majority of the company's reveneut comes from traditional online advertising). WhitePages could eventually be headed to the public markets, but an acquisition isn't out of the question, either—although it doesn't sound like WhitePages is looking to make either of those leaps immediately.
WhitePages remains a pretty small company, with just about 100 employees—Algard recently boasted on Twitter that the site has 44 million monthly unique visitors and just 36 engineers. But it's been using its cash to branch out for the future by developing new Web and mobile applications and strengthening the database technology at the core of everything.
It's a matter of necessity for a company that was built before people really started ditching land-line phones and essentially handing out tons of information about their relationships, their travels, and their favorite businesses and products.
Some of WhitePages offerings have been attempts to capitalize on the trends of the day, like the DealPop daily-deals service that was sold to Seattle's Tippr last year. Other experiments seem closer to the core of WhitePages' expertise, like the still-developing Neighbors feature that overlays names and phone numbers on a Bing map of addresses, with the idea that people could schedule parties or meetups with those living nearby.
WhitePages' latest creation might be its most ambitious. In an update of its previous caller ID app for Android smartphones, WhitePages integrated social and professional networking with local information, like weather and news headlines. So, when a friend calls, you're able to see what's going on in their city, check out a short version of their LinkedIn profile, and see their last tweet or Facebook post. As one reviewer said, it's "like caller ID on steroids."
"We're really bridging the virtual world with the real world. And when you do that, there's some really magic opportunities to create tons of usefulness," Algard says.
And while the new caller ID app was a pretty big milestone for WhitePages, there was another change that will have an even bigger effect. Just in the past month, WhitePages rebuilt its core database, moving from a SQL-based system toward the more modern noSQL database technology. Those systems can grow faster, handle more data, and be spread across servers more efficiently than their predecessors—making it easier and cheaper to manipulate the kind of wildly growing data that WhitePages collects.
Along with that update, WhitePages also re-launched its application programming interface and its system for letting Web users "claim" their profile and (the company hopes) add more data for the company to crunch, such as cell phone numbers. "It was the biggest re-architecture we've ever done of our systems," Algard says.
It's pretty interesting that a company founded on a decidedly old-school identifier—the humble phone number—has stuck around long enough to see so many changes in the attitudes about public identity.
When WhitePages started, anonymity reigned online, revered as one of the fundamental principles of Web use. These days, of course, real identities are increasingly the currency of our digital worlds, a change forced by Facebook and its drive to "make the world more open and connected."
Oh, and that whole data-hound thing? It's becoming pretty fashionable, too.
"A lot of Web companies are becoming more data-oriented. I think they're all realizing that, fundamentally, what they have in common is they build databases, and they're all for some single purpose," Algard says. "It's an exciting time for us. We've been doing this for well over a decade."


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St. Croix County committee voting deadline nears
Bob Forrest, executive director of the St. Croix County Farm Service Agency, urges farmers and other agricultural producers to vote in the FSA county committee election by Dec. 5, the deadline for casting ballots.
The St. Croix County Committee 2011 election is for Local Administrative Area 3 which includes the townships of Baldwin, Cady, Eau Galle, Hammond, Pleasant Valley, Rush River and Springfield.
"FSA county committees provide producers with the opportunity to help implement federal farm programs in their communities," said Forrest. "It is important that all farmers and ranchers, especially women and minorities, participate in the elections process to ensure the opinions expressed in committee meetings reflect an area's agricultural needs and concerns."
Producers must return ballots to the St. Croix FSA offices by the close of business on Dec. 5. Newly elected committee members and alternates take office Jan. 1, 2012.
The St. Croix FSA county committees consist of three elected members who help administer federal farm programs at the local level. Committees make decisions on conservation programs; commodity price support loans and payments; disaster assistance payments; and other agricultural issues.


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SALT LAKE CITY — After the first day in pads for spring football practice, Utah coach Kyle Whittingham wasn't doing any cartwheels about his offense.
"We did some good things on defense and we had some guys making plays. But on offense, we have a long way to go," Whittingham said, putting an emphasis on the word "long."
The Utes' receivers made several drops and the quarterbacks missed their targets, and overall the execution wasn't great for the offense in a two-hour practice at Rice-Eccles Stadium.
"Typically, the defense is ahead of the offense early on and that's certainly the case right now," Whittingham said.
OK, so let's talk about the defense.
Whittingham was thrilled with his defensive line and he singled out Star Lotulelei, Derrick Shelby, Dave Kruger, Joe Kruger and James Aiono. The linebacking crew, headed by converted safety Brian Blechin has been solid also, he said.
The biggest question mark on defense is the secondary, which must replace all four starters because of graduation (Justin Taplin-Ross, Lamar Chapman), an early NFL hopeful (Brandon Burton) and a position change (Blechin).
"It's tough to say where we are in the secondary," Whittingham said. "We feel we have some good athletes back there. There's not a lot of experience, but that's what spring ball is for."
According to Whittingham, the starters right now are Conroy Black and Ryan Lacy at the corners, and Terrell Reese and Michael Walker at safety.
Of the cornerbacks, defensive coordinator Kalani Sitake said, "They have ability. We just have to get their minds right."
Besides Black and Lacy, Sitake mentioned Wykie Freeman, Reggie Topps, Lewis Walker, Devin Mickles, Chandler Johnson and Joseph Smith as others who have a chance to challenge for the cornerback jobs.
"In past years, we've tried to get five corners ready and work with four," Sitake said. "We have the chance to get six or seven ready this year."
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UTE NOTES: Late in Saturday's practice, two players — receiver DeVonte Christopher and safety Damian Payne — both went down on the same play with pulled hamstrings. Whittingham said Christopher's was probably worse and said he could be out for a couple of weeks. Also, guard Sam Brenner hurt his hand and will get it checked out, Whittingham said. ... The Utes will practice twice this week, on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, before taking 10 days off for spring break.
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Yevadu film which is in news from past few months for getting its release delayed now and then is back into news stand with its story circulating again. This time Kajal Aggarwal has leaked the story line of Yevadu to her close mates giving hints of the movie.
Sources say Kajal Aggarwal character dies and even in a big brawl between Allu Arjun & villain gang leads to damage of his face. Then Allu Arjun goes for a face surgery and takes the face of Ram Charan. Then the story changes into a revenge saga and racy screenplay by director Vamsi will stand as USP for movie buffs.


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Unipolar, Precision DC Digital-to-Analog Conversion using the AD5450/AD5451/AD5452/AD5453 8-/10-/12-/14-Bit DACs
Design Resources
Device Drivers
- Software such as C code and/or FPGA code, used to communicate with component's digital interface.
- AD5443 - Microcontroller No-OS Driver
Features & Benefits
- Programmable output levels
- Inverting signal configuration
- High performance, low noise
Markets & Technology
Instrumentation and Measurement
The circuit described in this document is a high-performance, unipolar, precision DAC configuration which employs the AD5450/AD5451/AD5452/AD5453 family of precision multiplying DACs, the OP177 low-noise, high precision operational amplifier (op-amp) and the ADR01 precision 10 V reference. Because the op amp dictates the overall circuit dc performance in terms of precision, the OP177, a high precision, low noise op amp, is well matched for performance-driven applications. This circuit also uses the ADR01, which is a high accuracy, high stability, 10 V precision voltage reference. Because voltage reference temperature coefficient and long-term drift are primary considerations for applications requiring high precision conversion, this device is also an ideal candidate.
Figure 1. Unipolar Precision DC Configuration (Simplified Schematic: Decoupling and All Connections Not Shown)
The circuit uses the AD5450/AD5451/AD5452/AD5453 CMOS, current-output DACs, which provide 8-, 10-, 12- and 14-bit operation, respectively. Because this is a current-output DAC, an op amp is required for current-to-voltage (I-V) conversion at the output of the DAC. Because an op amp bias current and offset voltage are both important selection criteria for precision current output DACs, this circuit employs the OP177 op amp, which has ultralow offset voltage (25 μV) and bias current (2 nA). The OP177 and the AD5450/AD5451/ AD5452/AD5453 can be easily configured to provide a two-quadrant multiplying operation or a unipolar output voltage swing, as shown in Figure 1.
The AD5450/AD5451/AD5452/AD5453 are designed on a 5 V CMOS process and operate from a VDD power supply of 2.5 V to 5.5 V. The DACs accept VREF input ranges up to 10 V, as shown with the ADR01 reference in Figure 1. The ADR01 requires a supply voltage (VDD1) of 12 V minimum and can be driven from the same supply voltage that powers the output amplifier.
When an output amplifier is connected in unipolar mode, the output voltage is given by:
where D is the digital word loaded to the DAC, and N is the number of bits (D = 0 to 255 (8-bit AD5450); D = 0 to 1023 (10-bit AD5451); D = 0 to 4095 (12-bit AD5452); D = 0 to 16,383 (14-bit AD5453).
The input offset voltage of an op amp is multiplied by the variable noise gain (due to the code-dependent output resis-tance of the DAC) of the circuit. A change in this noise gain between two adjacent digital codes produces a step change in the output voltage due to the amplifier's input offset voltage. This output voltage change is superimposed on the desired change in output between the two codes and gives rise to a differential linearity error, which, if large enough, may cause the DAC to be nonmonotonic. In general, the input offset voltage should be a fraction of an LSB to ensure monotonic behavior when stepping through codes.
Relative accuracy or endpoint nonlinearity is one of the most widely used techniques in determining the accuracy perform-ance of a DAC circuit. This is a measure of the maximum deviation from a straight line passing through the endpoints of the DAC transfer function. It is measured after adjusting for zero and full-scale error and is normally expressed in LSBs. Figure 2 shows the performance of the circuit shown in Figure 1 using the AD5453 14-bit DAC and an OP177 amplifier.
Figure 2. AD5453 14-Bit DAC Relative Accuracy Plot
Excellent grounding, layout, and decoupling techniques must be used for proper operation of the circuit. All power supply pins should be decoupled directly at the pin with a low inductance (low ESL) 0.1 μF ceramic capacitor. The connection to ground should be directly to a large area ground plane. Additional decoupling using a 1 μF to 10 μF electrolytic capacitor is recom-mended on each power supply where it enters the PC board. The decoupling capacitors are not shown in Figure 1 for simplicity.
To optimize high frequency performance, the I-V amplifier should be located as close to the DAC as possible. The AD5450/ AD5451/AD5452/AD5453 data sheets show the schematics and layouts used for the evaluation boards.
The OP1177 and AD8065 are other excellent op amp candidates for the I-V conversion circuit. They also provide a low offset voltage and ultralow bias current.
The 10.0 V output ADR01 can be replaced by either the ADR02 or ADR03, which are low-noise references available from the same reference family as the ADR01 and provide 5.0 V and 2.5 V outputs, respectively. The ADR445 and ADR441 ultralow noise references are also suitable substitutes which provide 5.0 V and 2.5 V, respectively. Note that the size of the reference input voltage is restricted by the rail-to-rail voltage of the operational amplifier selected.
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text: Just wanted to let everybody know that our new iPOD/Auxilary interface is finally realeased.We pulled if off the market due to some communication problems on certain cars. This unit is made by PAC(Pacific Accessory Coproration). It allows browsing from the radio/steering wheel controls(if equiped) as well as full text on the radio.We are also releasing a HD radio tuner to go along with this. The P/N is uPAC-FRD24 and HDRT for the tuner. Its gonna retail for about 175.00(not inc. HD tuner) and here is the vehicle list. 2005-2007 Five Hundred, Freestyle,Focus,Fusion,Edge,Escape(inc. Hybrid), Expedition,Explorer,Sport Track,F-150,Taurus(inc X) 2005-2008 Mustang (Shaker 500 and 1000 included) 2006-2008 Lincoln-MKZ,MKX,Mark LT,Navigator, Zephyr 2007-2008 Mercury-Milan,Mariner(inc hybrid),Montego,Mountaineer 2007-2008 Super Duty F-250, F-350, F-450, We also have just released a radio replacement to keep the factory amplifiers while going to a aftermarket head unit.The P/N is C2R-FD1 and retails for About $129 Using this interface will enable factory features such as rear seat entertainment (RSE), rear seat controls (RSC) and the THXII amplifier when the original radio is removed. √ Provides VSS for navigation radios √ Illumination √ Parking Brake for navigation radios √ Reverse Trigger for back up camera √ Accessory 12v √ Digital Amp Turn-On √ 5v Sub Amp Turn-On 2005-2007 Five Hundred, Freestyle, Montego 2005-2008 Mustang (Shaker 500 and 1000 included) 2006-2008 Explorer, Fusion, Milan, Zephyr, Mountaineer 2007-2008 MKX, MKZ, Navigator, Sport Trac, Edge, Expedition 2008 Escape, F-250, F-350, F-450, Taurus (X), Marnier, Sable


text: We are used to describing systems of many particles by statistical mechanics. However, the basic postulate of statistical mechanics – ergodicity -- breaks down in so-called many-body localized systems, where disorder prevents particle transport and thermalization. In this talk, I will present a theory of the many-body localized (MBL) phase, based on new insights from quantum entanglement. I will argue that, in contrast to ergodic systems, MBL eigenstates are not highly entangled. I will use this fact to show that MBL phase is characterized by an infinite number of emergent local conservation laws, in terms of which the Hamiltonian acquires a universal form. Turning to the experimental implications, I will describe the response of MBL systems to quenches: surprisingly, entanglement shows logarithmic in time growth, reminiscent of glasses, while local observables exhibit power-law approach to "equilibrium" values. I will support the presented theory with results of numerical experiments. I will close by discussing other directions in exploring ergodicty and its breaking in quantum many-body systems.


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The Only Cop in the Neighborhood
Mubarak is the only cop in the neighborhood, the one who can perhaps see to it that until the convergence there will be relative calm and this is something that even Bush cannot provide.
If all goes well, George W. Bush will no longer be the president of the United States when the first practical steps of the convergence get under way. Though this is a matter of some two years from now, these two years will join the six years during which the American administration kept a cosmic distance from the Israeli-Arab conflict. No senior representative has worked day and night here to advance by one whit any diplomatic discourse; the secretary of state came and went hastily lest any stink of the conflict stick to her and an American boycott of the Palestinian Authority is the main contribution to "the war on terror." It can be said that in the past three decades there has not been such a lazy administration with respect to advancing the peace process.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is apparently hoping Bush's inactivity will be Washington's welcome contribution to the convergence plan. In any case, inertia has become Bush's only foreign policy. But even Olmert understands that the coming two years are critical for his plan. To this end the date of the truly important visit has been brought forward, the one with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. This is because when a war is developing in the territories between Fatah and Hamas and when the thin threads holding the truce together are coming apart, somebody has to be the policeman.
In the months that have elapsed since Hamas came into power, Egypt has intervened several times to establish order. It castigated Hamas, warned PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) against a total break with Hamas, met with the Islamic Jihad, demanded of Syria that it set limits for the leadership of the Hamas branch based in its territory, joined the international boycott of Hamas and dictated the main parameter with which the movement must comply: acceptance of the Arab initiative as it was formulated in the Arab League decision in Beirut in 2002.
Mubarak does not really believe that in the current circumstances it is possible to hold talks between Israel and Hamas, but he is worried about the absence of negotiations. He sees how Egypt is being drawn further into the events in the territories, especially in Gaza, which has an Egyptian force stationed on its border. This is why about a month ago he proposed holding a summit meeting between Olmert and Abu Mazen to prove there is still a chance for negotiations and at least to make it clear to Hamas that if it does not change its basic position, it is liable to find itself outside the Arab consensus. Olmert has closed this window. He has made it clear to Mubarak that he prefers to "focus on him" during the next visit. He has left Abu Mazen to Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
Mubarak knows that like the Palestinians, he too has no American partner. Between him and the American administration anger prevails. For two years now Mubarak has not paid his annual visit to the American capital and the free trade agreement between the countries has been frozen. The American intervention in Egypt's internal affairs annoys Mubarak, who believes Bush is responsible for the growth in the power of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as for the Hamas victory in the territories because of the insistence on holding elections as scheduled. Mubarak sees Bush as a serial damage-causer in the Middle East and he wants at least to prevent him from pushing the Palestinian problem to the point of no return. The Egyptian president is certain it will reach that point if the convergence plan perpetuates the conflict border with no real solution. The 78-year-old Mubarak also does not want to bequeath to Egypt a difficult conflict on its border.
Therefore, Mubarak will demand an Israeli commitment to hold talks so that he can create a partner; even if by default this will be Hamas. It is very much worth Olmert's while to listen carefully this time to what Mubarak has to say. This is because in order to realize his convergence obsession, he needs Mubarak at his side. Mubarak is the only cop in the neighborhood, the one who can perhaps see to it that until the convergence there will be relative calm and this is something that even Bush cannot provide.
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text: I am a former US ARMY M1A1 Tank Gunner. I have used many different type of weapons and had the privilege of shooting the 120mm Smooth Bore Sabot round as a Gunner. When I left the Army and became a citizen, I was focused on my future, my schooling and career. Several years had past and I eventually married but never got my CHL as we call it in Texas. (Concealed Handgun License). When I purchased our new home and was expecting my first child, I realized that I could not protect my family if someone broke into the house. I got a Shotgun and a Rifle and moved on. 3 Years later, I realized that as I take my family out around town that I may not be able to protect them away from the home and decided it was time for me to WAKE UP and get my CHL. I could not believe it took me that long but life has a funny way of getting in the way. Once I started thinking straight, I realized it was my responsibility to protect my family and my neighbor if I ever had to do so.


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Soldier - Poem by Nassy Fesharaki
I think maybe soldier I am or was
Soldiers were fooled by your laws
Then crying: "Devil's at the door"
We took backpack and gun's bullet
In light of moon I saw him walked
Beat of fear was in my heart
In boot was sand; if not mud
You as bastards in the senate
Spoke loudly supporting war
I shot at him and saw him fall
I dashed ahead fast in jeep's light
I went close and heard him whine
I took a rock, shattered his bones
I saw blood; running a mess flood
I saw his face, desert and contour
Not back at home
Those times aside
I have the chance
Bastards in senate
You have fooled all
I am ashamed. I took the lives based on your word. I can't take it. My way is one; to my grave.
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- Reuters reports that China will tighten its controls over foreign performers after Bjork shouted "Tibet! Tibet!" at a Shanghai concert last weekend.
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text: June 7 (Reuters) - Cash hogs around the U.S. Midwest traded steady to $1 per cwt higher on Friday. Supplies remain short, with dealers saying they expect further tightening next week. - Saturday slaughter seen very light, at zero to 5,000 head, as packers were cutting kills amid the short supply. - Some of the drop-off in market supply is credited to Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV), with cases detected at 103 hog sites in 11 states. - Hog owners hit by PEDV had a decline in pig and hog input, which forced them to slow production. "It is too early to tell how much herd devastation this virus will cause," an Illinois dealer said. - Check this website for PEDV updates: (here) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday estimated average cash margins at a negative $6.90 per head, compared with Thursday's negative $5.35, and a negative $2.65 a week ago, according to HedgersEdge.com.. - USDA late on Thursday quoted the pork carcass cutout value lower for a third consecutive day at $94.94 per cwt, down 28 cents from the previous day. - Iowa/southern Minnesota hogs traded steady at about $71 per cwt delivered to packing plants. - Illinois hogs were steady to $1 higher at about $71 per cwt delivered to plants. - Indiana hogs were $1 higher at about $68.50 per cwt delivered to plants and $69.50 per cwt at country points. - Northwest Ohio hogs were $1 higher at about $72 delivered to plants and about $69 at country points. (Reporting by Alyce Hinton in Chicago; Editing by Dale Hudson)


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Both carbohydrate (CHO) and caffeine have been used as ergogenic aids during exercise. It has been suggested that caffeine increases intestinal glucose absorption, but there are also suggestions that it may decrease muscle glucose uptake. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of caffeine on exogenous CHO oxidation. In a randomized crossover design, eight male cyclists (age 27 ± 2 yr, body mass 71.2 ± 2.3 kg, maximal oxygen uptake 65.7 ± 2.2 ml·kg−1·min−1) exercised at 64 ± 3% of maximal oxygen uptake for 120 min on three occasions. During exercise subjects ingested either a 5.8% glucose solution (Glu; 48 g/h), glucose with caffeine (Glu+Caf, 48 g/h + 5 mg·kg−1·h−1), or plain water (Wat). The glucose solution contained trace amounts of [U-13C]glucose so that exogenous CHO oxidation could be calculated. CHO and fat oxidation were measured by indirect calorimetry, and 13C appearance in the expired gases was measured by continuous-flow IRMS. Average exogenous CHO oxidation over the 90- to 120-min period was 26% higher (P < 0.05) in Glu+Caf (0.72 ± 0.04 g/min) compared with Glu (0.57 ± 0.04 g/min). Total CHO oxidation rates were higher (P < 0.05) in the CHO ingestion trials compared with Wat, but they were highest when Glu+Caf was ingested (1.21 ± 0.37, 1.84 ± 0.14, and 2.47 ± 0.23 g/min for Wat, Glu, and Glu+Caf, respectively; P < 0.05). There was also a trend (P = 0.082) toward an increased endogenous CHO oxidation with Glu+Caf (1.81 ± 0.22 g/min vs. 1.27 ± 0.13 g/min for Glu and 1.12 ± 0.37 g/min for Wat). In conclusion, compared with glucose alone, 5 mg·kg−1·h−1 of caffeine coingested with glucose increases exogenous CHO oxidation, possibly as a result of an enhanced intestinal absorption.
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The Helix Ribosome build system is a set of programs written in the Python programming language which provide a common interface to retrieving and building programs from source code stored in a CVS repository. The build system is made up of two basic subsystems. The first ("build") calculates the dependencies of a target, retrieves the source code, and runs commands to build that source code in the correct order. The second component ("Umake") is a cross-platform Makefile generator, which generates makefiles that work with MSVC, CodeWarrior, and typical Unix toolchains. Umake can be used independently from the build program.
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To John L. Fitzgerald, performing a tracheotomy isn't so different from building a Ford Taurus.
And that's the message he brings to his new position as CEO of the Marriottsville-based Bon Secours Health System Inc.
Mr. Fitzgerald, 42, is reviving the once-troubled company, which operates Bon Secours Hospital in West Baltimore and facilities in four other states. His method: emphasizing, and continually improving, quality.
"That philosophy is not commonplace in health care," he says, acknowledging that he's a fairly recent convert himself.
He learned from Dr. Paul Batalden, a colleague at the Nashville-based Hospital Corporation of America, where Mr. Fitzgerald worked for nine years. "The more I learned it, the more I became a real zealot," says Mr. Fitzgerald, who became the Bon Secours Health System's chief operating officer in October 1989 and took over as CEO at the beginning of this year.


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Kai Ryssdal: For a long time, health care economists had thought slowdowns and recessions didn't have all that big an effect on how much we spend on medical care. That when you've got to see the doctor, you've got to go see the doctor.
Turns out, that's not true. Not true at all. The official numbers came out today, and 2010 was another slow growth year for health care spending. From the Marketplace Health Desk at WHYY in Philadelphia, Gregory Warner explains.
Gregory Warner: Every year for most of the last decade, health care spending has been on a tear. Up six, seven, eight percent. That changed in 2009, when spending grew less than four percent. In 2010, growth was about the same.
Economist Paul Ginsburg runs the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington D.C. He says what's really suprising is that during 2010 when people could afford less care, people also reported fewer unmet medical needs.
Paul Ginsburg: People's standards of what their needs are, may be changing.
How much medical care you think you need, he says, has more to do with how much you can afford.
The White House released its official 2010 health spending report today. It says we still went the hospital a lot in 2010. We cut back on doctor visits and prescriptions. More optional services.
Bob Atlas of Avalere Health says there's a big reason people are reconsidering care. We're paying more out of pocket. Insurance companies and employers are shifting more of the tab to policyholders.
Bob Atlas: There's enough of a cost barrier, that on the margins, decisions are tilting toward not consuming rather than consuming.
But are we less healthy because of it? Like an economist, Paul Ginsburg says: it depends. Some untreated problems get a lot worse.
Ginsburg: But there are also lots of other issues, where, when they're not addressed, they get better! Because the human body is pretty good at healing itself.
Problem is, he says, the human brain isn't good at knowing the difference.
In Philadelphia, I'm Gregory Warner for Marketplace.


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Comparison and Evaluation of Scaled Data Mining Algorithms
Association rule mining is the most popular technique in data mining. Mining association rules is a prototypical problem as the data are being generated and stored every day in corporate computer database systems. To manage this knowledge, rules have to be pruned and grouped, so that only reasonable numbers of rules have to be inspected and analyzed. In this paper, the authors compare the standard association rule algorithms with the proposed Scaled Association Rules algorithm and AIREP algorithm. All these algorithms are compared according to the various factors like Type of dataset, support counting, rule generation, candidate generation, computational complexity and other factors.
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I guess Lena Headey could only do a cameo in "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" because she had to get back to shooting "Game of Thrones". Or something. Anyways, Headey has a small role in "City of Bones", playing the mother of the female lead, Phil Collins' kid, Lily, who is this super badass demon hunter, only she doesn't know it. Fortunately for her, Jamie Campbell Bower plays a hunky hunk who introduces her to her true destiny, which is, of course, to save the world. After all, anything less than saving all of humanity would be, well, rather mundane.
Check out the second trailer for "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones", the first of what Sony is hoping will launch a franchise. The movie is based on a YA series of books, but then I'm sure you already know that.
Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray (Lily Collins), discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother (Lena Headey), Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures. Based on the worldwide best-selling book series.
"City of Bones" also stars Kevin Zegers, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Durand, Jared Harris, Jemima West, Godfrey Gao, Aidan Turner, and CCH Pounder.
Striking for humanity this August 23, 2013.
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Posted by Daryl Paranada
For Marketplace Morning Report, Friday, September 24, 2010
Have you ever seen the St. Louis Arch? Its surrounding area is getting a redesign. Check out our pics. Automaker GM is going through some changes, too. Its initial public offering may be smaller than first thought. Congress is trying to use the tax code to keep companies from moving factories, and jobs, overseas. In commodities news, cotton prices are at a 15-year high. Overseas, the U.K. is considering breaking up big banks and a U.N. summit in Rome is looking at the world's food prices. Back home in the U.S., the media seem to paying more attention to education issues. Also, there's a malicious computer worm on the loose and durable goods has dropped. And before you check out our music, take a look at our latest wrap of the news -- in 60 seconds. Here's what we played:
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Think if Navin R. Johnson from The Jerk had grabbed his best girl, set up shop in potato country, and
Okay, so maybe we don't catch a peek at Napoleon tearing through a half-battalion of ninjas with nothing but a pair of nunchucks and a dream, and maybe they're holding back on the magic-wielding ligers and Scottish sorcerors for the sequel. What do you get here, though? Action! (Steak-fu. Rex Kwan Do. Slapfights.) Romance! (Enter Tina Majorino as the singularly-ponytailed love interest.) Political intrigue! (Pedro -- y'know, Efran Ramirez -- running for class president against the indomitable, heart-dotting Summer Wheatley.) Violent Kool-Aid guzzling! Mail order time travel! VHS-propelled dance grooves! Llama casseroles!
So...yeah. Because the flick isn't bogged down by all that much of a story, there's nothing to distract Napoleon Dynamite from being inhumanly funny. There's literally not a scene in the entire movie that doesn't out something that's instantly quotable. Napoleon Dynamite was shot in the same off-kilter little Idaho town where it's set, and the flick does feel like it has that Midwestern sort of work ethic. This isn't a comedy that's constantly mugging to the camera or leaning on Dr. Demento carnival music to remind the audience when they're supposed to giggle. It's sense of humor is brilliantly dry, understated, and unrelentingly quirky. Even the way Napoleon hunches over before awkwardly darting away -- as he does over and over again -- cracks me up.
Napoleon Dynamite is a love-it-or-hate-it movie, and dollars to doughnuts, you've been subjected to enough bad impressions or out-of-left-field quotes to know the sort of deep, dark obsession it can spark in its fans. I have to admit that the sheer overexposure has kind of smeared away some of the foam from my frothing-at-the-mouth fandom, so as much as I appreciate its off-kilter approach to comedy, I'm not nearly as smitten with Napoleon Dynamite these days as I was back in 2004. I'm really jaded and cynical, though, so don't pretend like I know anything.
Napoleon Dynamite is the Lay's Potato Chips of quirky indie comedies: if you can stomach that first bite, I betcha can't watch just once. Sometimes pop culture really does get it right. Recommended.
Napoleon Dynamite was shot independently and on the cheap, and...yeah, this Blu-ray disc kinda looks it too. Contrast tends to be drab and lifeless, and the photography's a good bit softer than usual. The movie was shot on fairly grainy stock, and its subdued palette skews towards the dull and pasty. That low-key approach actually services Napoleon Dynamite pretty well, and I'd chalk myself up as a fan of its cinematography; it doesn't spastically flail its arms around and draw attention to itself, but there's some really slick framing in here. It just doesn't make for all that much in the way of a Blu-ray disc to grab off the shelf and show off your overpriced home theater rig. 'Sbetter than a DVD but not really up to what usually springs to mind for these sorts of shiny, newly-minted five-inch discs.
Napoleon Dynamite is lightly letterboxed to an aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its AVC encode is given enough headroom to spread comfortably across this dual layer Blu-ray disc.
Like...oh, let's go with everything from Fox, Napoleon Dynamite gets the lossless nod on Blu-ray, and this disc's packing a 24-bit, 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track. This is a straightahead comedy mix, sure, but it still sounds alright. The sound design's anchored front and center, and although the surrounds belt out a little atmosphere -- background chatter and scattered effects like a city block of cluckin' chickens -- they're mostly hanging around to flesh out the music. The soundtrack's the best thing about Napoleon Dynamite's lossless audio, from the thundering toms and meaty bass as Napoleon struts down the street in his spankin' new suit to Jamiroquai's retro-funk backing the flick's hypercaffeinated dance sequence. Bass response is punchy when the movie screams out for it, especially the throaty rumble of that hydraulics-packin' hooptie. The film's dialogue is rendered cleanly and clearly throughout too, and it's balanced well enough in the mix. This lossless track isn't all that adventurous or overaggressive, but...y'know, it's fine for what it is.
Napoleon Dynamite piles on a heap of subtitles, to the point that it looks like even the commentaries are subtitled in Italian...? Hmmm. There's a DTS 5.1 track in Italian as well along with Dolby Digital 5.1 dubs in Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
If you've already grabbed the two-disc special edition DVD set from a couple years back, you already know the drill. The same stuff's piled on here, and none of it's in high-def.
...as if you really need me to hammer out a review of this oddball slice of indie-quirk at this point. Napoleon Dynamite's a polarizing flick. The people who love the movie really dig it; the smart money says that even if you haven't caught the movie, someone around you has belted out an impression and quoted entire scenes verbatim. If you've never been able to stomach Napoleon Dynamite, then...well, why are you breezing through this review again?
I have to admit that as obsessed as I was with the movie a few years back, Napoleon Dynamite doesn't really hold up all that well for me these days, and this Blu-ray disc's low-key audio and video don't exactly scream out for a $25-$35 upgrade to anyone who's already shelled out for one of the DVD sets. If you have an off-kilter sense of humor and deftly managed to avoid catching Napoleon Dynamite up till now, though, it's worth checking out, and most of the usual suspects online are only charging a few extra bucks for this Blu-ray disc over the two-disc special edition DVD anyway. Recommended.


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Hot Husband, Hot B-Day Shopping Spree, Posh Wins
Hot Husband, Hot B-Day Shopping Spree, Posh Wins
One of my favorites, Victoria Beckham celebrated her 33rd birthday yesterday (Happy Birthday Again, Posh!) and what better way to grow one more number older than to take your hot, hot husband out for a lengthy shopping spree in Paris. Obviously. I just love a) how hot they both look. Especially casual Victoria. But especially David, yowza and b) watching Posh just pick out everything she wants. Jealous much? Uhhh, yeah.
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November 2016
Maxim pulled the curtain back on the Emory workshop to give its readers an inside look at a Porsche 356 for the connoisseur.
View PDF of the article from the print issue
The web version of the article can be found here -->>>
Classic Porsche
Classic Porsche has been wanting to visit the shop for some time. We also gave them a sneak peek into the process of restoring the 356 SL.
Download Classic Porsche article here -->>
AutoWeek 356SL
356/2 063 is a significant car in the pantheon of Porsche Motorsport. AutoWeek put pen to paper:
Excellence 2016
November 2016
Bil Magasinet
October 2016
Our friends from Denmark's Bil Magasinet paid us a visit earlier this year to get a little Outlaw flavor for their very classy magazine on the automotive industry.
Gestalten - The Drive
Emory Motorsports' Outlaws are featured in a new book by specialty publisher Gestalten called "The Drive." Click the images or follow this link to their web site to place an order for this coffee-table quality book. Release date will be in June of 2016.
AutoWeek Brilliance
We've been thumbing through the pages of AutoWeek since we can remember. AutoWeek has been eyeballing our cars for some time, too. Here's their take on what we do:
Auto Motor und Sport
March 2016
Our friends from German magazine Auto Motor und Sport gave us some wonderful coverage for their audience in the fatherland who are hungry for news about the Porsche 356 Outlaw.
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Excellence 2013
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356 Club 2010
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Managing Water Network Using Geodatabase Concept
In this paper, the purpose and the goal of the paper are to introduce a framework based on onto Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to integrate geographic information of urban areas taking Khartoum State as an example. One of the main characteristics of such a framework is to support the information integration and data exchange between facilities using the base maps to solve the problem of distributing water networks. Entities in the Khartoum State (KS) infrastructure link information sources and lead to integration and exchange of associated information. The methodology used is to study the existing urban systems specially water network using Geodatabase concept which are analyzed by observing and comparing the related earlier work using different criteria.


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When we interviewed Advertising Age PR reporter Michael Bush recently, we speculated, "The PR industry is doing fine now, but we'll really know where things are headed come this fall," to which he responded, "I think that is absolutely true and it's what I'm hearing from a lot of people in the industry that I speak to."
Well, today maybe we're finding out some relevant market info a little sooner than we thought.
From PRWeek:
WPP reported a 10% increase in worldwide revenues from PR and public affairs work for the first five months of 2008. The figure excludes changes in currency values. Revenues overall were up 14.6%, or 4.5% excluding the impact of currency changes and acquisitions.
WPP Group, which includes Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton, and Ogilvy, among other PR firms, made the announcement today, June 24, at its annual general meeting in London.


text: Daisy finished her 1st OB class a couple weeks ago. It was a small class in an indoor facility. She was the only pup, the other dogs were all 18 months or older. On Saturday while at class with Gunnar, I asked the trainer when their next beginner class started, as we were interested in getting Daisy into another class. He says "I have one starting Monday, right here. You can come for free if you want, I have 10 dogs and one more isn't a problem" So we get a free class! It'll be good for Daisy, it's a large outdoor area, there will be a bunch of new dogs and distractions, and a lot more fun than being in a small room with only a couple dogs. We went last night, but it had been cancelled due to rain. One other owner showed up, with a 5 month old lab, so we let them play for a while. I was impressed with Daisy's recall. I went to the other side of the area, and would call her and she'd come running, then my wife would call her back, and she'd go running the other way. She was listening to sit and stay commands even with the other dog running around her- so she's off to a good start!


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This week: Fowl play in the market
It is perhaps a classic case of being thankful for small mercies. First-time buyers may despair at ever owning their own homes, but at least the cost of their weekly shop has not risen in line with house price inflation.
A report by Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, has shown that if the cost of food had risen at the same rate as house prices during the past 40 years, an average family of four's weekly shop would today cost £453. In 1971 an average weekly grocery basket cost £10.40 while the average home was worth £5,632. By 2011 the price of the average home had shot up to £245,319 — more than 43 times more expensive.
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Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announced today that it will participate in a large national study of the effectiveness of testosterone as a treatment for anemia, cardiovascular disease, decreased vitality, impaired memory and sexual function, loss of muscle mass and other health conditions that affect older men.
"LA BioMed is pleased to be chosen as the only site in Los Angeles and one of 12 sites in the country for this national study of the effectiveness of testosterone in the treatment of health problems that affect older men with low testosterone levels," said Ronald S. Swerdloff, MD, principal investigator for the study at LA BioMed. "We may be able to help older men with low testosterone levels remain healthy and independent longer if we find testosterone to be an effective treatment for health problems associated with low testosterone levels."
Funded primarily by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and coordinated by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the Testosterone Trial will involve 800 men at 12 sites around the country. About 70 volunteers are expected to participate in the study at LA BioMed.
The Testosterone Trial will include five separate studies. Men, ages 65 and older, with low serum testosterone and at least one of the following conditions - anemia, decreased physical function, low vitality, impaired cognition or reduced sexual function - will be randomly assigned to participate in a treatment group or a control group.
Treatment groups will be given a testosterone gel that is applied to the torso, abdomen or upper arms, while men in the control groups will receive a placebo gel for application to the same areas of their bodies.
Serum testosterone will be measured monthly for the first three months, and quarterly thereafter, for up to one year. Participants will be tested on a wide range of measures to evaluate physical function, vitality, cognition, cardiovascular disease and sexual function. A non-invasive method of checking for coronary obstruction will be performed before and after treatment on those that qualify.
"This study is important because testosterone products have been marketed for many years as treatments for a variety of conditions," said Evan C. Hadley, MD, director of NIA's Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology. "We hope this trial will establish whether testosterone therapy results in clear benefits for older men."
More information: More information about the study and criteria for participation is available at: www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/sho … terone+aging&rank=40 .
Source: Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center


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Model Description: Battery to replace the Nellcor PWRS
Compatibility: Nellcor PWRS (12V 75Ah)
Condition: New stock
Includes: One new medical battery for the Nellcor PWRS
Warranty: 1 year full replacement warranty included, additional warranty is available
Life time expectancy: 3-5 years
Manufacturer: UPS Battery Center Ltd.
The replacement battery for the Nellcor PWRS is a high quality battery that is designed to provide excellent performance, durability and long life in medical devices. This battery meets or exceeds the original manufacturer's specifications.
The PWRS medical battery is covered by our industry leading 1 year replacement warranty. Extended warranty of up to 3 years is available for your convenience. Our warranty is inclusive of shipping costs and is hassle free, the only warranty of this kind in the marketplace.
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June 15th-19th 2009
New Horizons, Strand House 22-24 Strand Street Great Dublin
This is a set of half day and full day workshops where participants will have the opportunity to test their application for compatibility with the most recent publicly available version of Windows 7. You will also receive valuable guidance on how to address compatibility issues discovered during testing. This is a great opportunity to test your applications on Windows 7, but there is limited availability so be sure to get on board early to get your preferred time slot.
Who should participate in a Windows 7 Remediation Workshop?
Software vendors may send 1-2 individuals to participate in the half day workshop (for Vista compatible apps) or full day workshop (for XP compatible apps). These individuals should be intimately familiar with the design of the application being tested and should be prepared to work with the workshop staff to execute the technical aspects of the testing process.
Software developers, database administrators and testers are all good candidates to represent your company at the workshop.
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· You will need to bring your application(s) to be loaded on our secure Windows test platform in a private developer lab environment for testing and debugging application issues.
· Prior to participating in the workshop, it would be advisable to go through the Windows 7 Application Compatibility Cookbook
A dedicated consultant will be on hand to support participants in investigating application compatibility, and give architectural guidance.
Please contact me directly for more details and to reserve a slot.


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Looking for a fun, team-oriented hospital that values a work-life balance while offering exceptional care for our canine and feline patients? Then Burleigh Road Animal Hospital could be the hospital for you! We are seeking a motivated, full/part-time small animal veterinarian to join our dynamic, fast-growing, AAHA-accredited veterinary practice located in Brookfield, WI. Our privately owned, three-doctor practice is located within minutes of Milwaukee, WI.
We offer high quality equipment including: digital x-ray, digital dental x-ray, ultrasound, and in-house laboratory. We are also located close to state-of-the-art 24/7 referral centers.
Our awesome benefits package includes: a competitive salary, health/dental/vision insurance, simple IRA retirement plan, license fees, membership dues, liability insurance, veterinary services at a reduced rate, vacation/personal time, Employee Assistance Program and a generous CE allowance.
New graduates are welcome to apply as we provide a strong mentoring environment!
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Adam Gillanderswrote a review of New Balance Minimus MT10 Trail Running Shoe - Men's on April 19, 2013
Best trail running shoe I've ever had.
Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Just like the title says, with many walking and running miles in them I can say confidently that these are the best minimalist shoes you can buy. The combination of ground feel and protection (on more technical and rocky trails make sure you adjust your form accordingly) gives this shoe a lightweight enough feel without losing your confidence in its ability to save you should you hit something a little sharp.
It fits like a glove. The outer framework of the shoe makes it stick to the form of your foot without much play, allowing you get a more true to size shoe. The toe box allows for plenty of room. Very easy to clean and incredibly comfortable sockless. The laces never come untied, and the small rand in the front will help some when you hit a nasty rock. I also own the winter run version of these which lacks the outer framing, but keeps your feet super warm so long as you keep moving. Even after postholing through over knee keep snow through parts of avalanched over trails, my feet dried fairly quickly and kept warm. I've never had a blister in either shoe.
The one con I can find is that the tread, although not completely disappearing, is losing more than I would like after this many miles. The main source of protection for your foot (other than your form) is the circular lugs. Once this loses its thickness, rocks can poke through the softer material between the lugs. Although I have not found this be a huge problem, I have had a few instances of pain because of it, only minor pains that go away within a few seconds. I have not had trouble with small rocks sticking in these portions like I have heard from a few others.
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Playwright/director Elizabeth A.M. Keel drew her inspiration for Paradise Misplaced: An Evening of Two New One Act Plays from real life. The first of the two short works is The Psychic Palace. It's a comedy about a couple made up of two people who have psychic powers, not that that does them much good when it comes to the romance department. ''They know all about the future, but they don't know much about how to be together,'' Keel tells us. ''I see all these psychics [in Montrose] and I thought it might be interesting if one of the people in a couple were a psychic. What if they both were, what would that be like? When you know the future, you develop a certain amount of arrogance and smugness. You're used to always being right, and there's nothing like a partner to put you in your place.''
The show's second play, The Rainbow Lands, is actually the continuation of a story Keel's mother wrote for Keel and her sister when the two girls were young. ''You discover in the course of the play that when they were little girls, these two adult sisters had actually been to one of those magical worlds like Neverland or Narnia with unicorns and all that stuff, which I call the Rainbow Lands. They've come back from there and have grown up and have decided that none of that really happened. Then a prince [from that world] shows up and needs their help, so they're drawn back into it. They have to face the fact that they really were there and decide if they want to go back again.'' Michelle Sanders directs The Psychic Palace; Keel directs The Rainbow Lands.
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