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REVIEW: Eizo EV2333WH-BK
Author: Damian Köb
++ very good, + good, +/- satisfactory, - bad, -- very bad
Energy saving is a current topic to which the new 23-inch EV2333WH LCD monitor from Eizo has paid special attention. As well as a light sensor, which measures the lighting in the surroundings and adjusts the display illumination accordingly, Eizo has also integrated a motion sensor. This allows the EV2333WH to recognise whether or not there is a user in front of the screen and if not, the monitor's snooze mode is activated after a certain period of time. Thus, energy can be saved as well as possible, especially in the office sector.
However, it would not be an Eizo monitor if the EV2333WH did not have even more to offer. A high-quality 23-inch PVA panel with 16,7 million reproducible colours in 16:9 format, with a 7 ms response time including overdrive and ergonomic adjustment options that leave nothing to be desired. In addition to the digital DVI input, the EV2333WH also has a DisplayPort. Typically for Eizo, the EV2333WH is available in two colours. The GY at the end of the model description stands fort he light grey version and the BK stands for the black version. Our detailed test should show how the Eizo EV2333WH performs in everyday use.
We connected and tested the Eizo EV2333WH via the digital DVI output of an Asus GTX 275 and the model was connected with this using a DVI cable. The calibration was carried out using an Eye-One colorimetre from X-Rite together with the iColor software from Quato and Colorimetre HCFR. As an external player source for Blu-ray media, we used the Sony BDP-S 350 Blu-ray player, connected via a HDMI-DVI cable.
The Eizo EV2333WH comes in a handy but not very compact box. Once the model is removed, however, the reason becomes clear: the monitor is delivered with the base mounted and this requires depth accordingly. Weighing just a little over 7 kilograms, the 23-inch model is vey light. The box also offers sufficient space for the accessories provided. Styrofoam sections and a soft foam bag ensure that the EV2333WH can be transported safely.
The packaging of the Eizo EV2333WH.
The scope of supply for the Eizo EV2333WH includes a DVI cable for digital and an analogue D-Sub VGA cable for analogue usage. For power supply, Eizo has included a power cable and there is also a 3.5 mm jack connector cable for transmitting audio signals. In addition, there is also a CD with a screen driver and "ScreenManager Pro" software, a guarantee card and a user manual. Unfortunately, no DisplayPort cable is provided.
Scope of supply of the Eizo EV2333WH.
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Ivrea (TO), 3rd April 2014 - WebSite X5® and Bookeo join forces to enable businesses, schools and tour operators to create their own websites that include an online 24/7 booking solution, to transform website visitors into customers.
April 3, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Good news for small and medium enterprises: Incomedia, a company with over fifteen years experience in developing multimedia software, and Bookeo, creator of the leading Bookeo online booking system, have formed a partnership that makes it even easier for businesses, schools and tour operators to create their own websites with a built-in online booking solution, ensuring secure payments.
Thanks to this partnership, the WebSite X5® software now incorporates a new widget, which users can include in their website to set up a Bookeo account and activate the Bookeo bookings solution directly from their website pages, even during the 30-day free trial period.
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Bookeo is a particularly precious ally for business development. Businesses that use Bookeo immediately notice an increase in performance, thanks to the management and sales features: being able to send confirmation emails and reminder texts noticeably reduces no-shows, and you can promote your business with gift vouchers and prepaid packages. Bookeo also features bookings and automatic coupon code verification for discounts offered by Groupon and other deal-of-the-day websites.
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Heinz Walz GmbH one of the world's top producers of highly sophisticated photosynthesis measuring systems. Close connections to leading scientists in basic and applied research have stimulated many innovative developments. Excellence in product quality and service have been a tradition of this company. Our current product line range from the well known PAM-Chlorophyll Fluorometers to measuring systems of plant Gas Exchange. It is complemented by Dew-Point Mirror instruments as well as Cold Traps and Measuring Gas Coolers.
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Innovation and tradition: These are the driving forces which made the Heinz Walz GmbH one of the world's top producers of highly sophisticated photosynthesis measuring systems.
Close connections to leading scientists in basic and applied research have stimulated many innovative developments. Excellence in product quality and service have been a tradition of this company since its founding in 1972.
The current product line ranges from the well know...
The current product line ranges from the well known PAM chlorophyll fluorometers and light measuring equipment to gas-exchange systems for physiological and ecophysiological research.
Dewpoint-mirror measuring systems as well as cold traps and measuring-gas coolers complement the line of products.
In our field of expertise, we provide custom made solutions, reaching from small specialized accessories to complete measuring stations.
A network of distributors in many countries provides close contact and technical advice to customers throughout the world.
The Heinz Walz GmbH has been serving science for more than 40 years with sophisticated measuring devices for plant research. Further on, the course is set for innovations and developments. Technical progress in LED technology and other electronic components enables us to design instruments with unprecedented analytical potential. These novel devices again drive progress in science.
Vice versa, scientific issues reveal the demand for new instrumentation and, thus, stimulate analytical and technical progress. This kind of fruitful mutual stimulation is based on extensive exchange of information and ideas between researchers and instrument developers.
In this context, we are well prepared for the future by having employed several full-time plant scientists within the company. They are closely associated with a group of external scientists, who are mainly responsible for instrument development (Ulrich Schreiber, Jörg Kolbowski, Rolf Gademann and Christof Klughammer).
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The introduction of the first open gas exchange measuring systems in 1977 and the first PAM fluorometers in 1985, triggered a wave of research activities, with the range of new applications steadily growing until today. So far, PAM fluorometry has been used primarily for assessment of PS II activity. Now, the DUAL-PAM-100 system has spurred research on properties of PS I electron transport, thylakoid membrane energization and NADPH formation.
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The scars marking Dani Dembrak's body allude to her nickname. "They call me 'Crash,'" she said, flashing her elbows and lower legs as evidence of some bike rides gone bad. "My first year (mountain biking), I crashed 42 times in races."
Picking the wrong path, or line, on her bike forced her to tumble over rocks and slam into trees. Wrecks caused her to bleed and stopped her cold.
But the hard knocks also moved her to keep going.
"She'll talk about crashing," said Babs McDonald, a friend and client of Dembrak's. "Having to get up makes her go harder. She is just incredible to watch."
For four years, McDonald has arrived to Dembrak's gym twice a week to follow her directions to physical fitness. A cross-section of men and women, many middle aged or older, also venture to Total Training Center on Chase Street, carrying extra pounds and doctors' orders to include workouts and rehab in their living routines.
Dembrak, a personal trainer whose gym is near its 100-member limit, juggles a full schedule of their fitness regimens as well as her own.
The 40-year-old cycles up to three hours during her 7 a.m.-7 p.m. workdays, which stretch out like body muscles. She climbs, treadmills, lifts weights and rides for miles in an effort to gear up for competition with the Porterfield Tire/Sunshine Cycles Racing Team.
Then Dembrak peppers her clients' sweaty workouts with first-person accounts about her cycling progress on the roads and in the mountains, where she has moved from last place to the winners' podium.
"My first year in mountain biking, I finished dead last in every race I entered," Dembrak said.
She didn't fare much better at the outset of road cycling. Her adventures started in the near freezing temperatures at Greenville, S.C., where Dembrak hit the pavement and skidded to her first road-race finish at the Spring Training Series in 1999.
When she switched to mountain biking nearly four years ago, Dembrak went from the results loser to winner, finally climbing to first-place in March at the Nova NORBA National Mountain Bike Series in Phoenix.
And in the pouring rain, Dembrak completed the Athens Twilight Criterion, a grueling, hour-long road biking feat that had always eluded her.
"The fact that she finished it ... she's very determined," McDonald said, shaking her head of the rainy night race in April she watched Dembrak finish. "If nothing else, that determination pulls her through."
This summer, Dembrak needed a bigger boost, however.
USA Cycling asked the Athens woman to represent the United States at the 2005 UCI Master World Mountain Bike Championships in British Columbia, Canada, as a result of her coveted first-place finish in Arizona.
But the invitation came only three weeks before the August event, leaving little time for her to secure sponsors. With Dembrak's travel budget exhausted, and none of the expenses covered by the national organization putting the team together, she figured she could not go.
Her clients intervened. They raised the $1,500 needed to send their trainer to her next challenge.
"It is quite amazing what they've done to support her," said Tina Pic, a professional cyclist who helps train Dembrak. "It's hard to make it at the beginning. They are like her little family."
Dembrak felt as though she owed them in return for their kindness. Her goal became to bring back a medal.
"I was really excited," she said. "They believed in me."
The joy turned to fear, however, when she started the race from a gravel pit with 40 other women in the master's division, ages 30 and older. She maneuvered the uphill climb just barely, slipping and falling behind in the opening minutes of the race.
"I thought, 'I'm in trouble,'" Dembrak said. "The girl from Britain knocked me over at the start. So I was dead last going up the hill."
But the feisty competitor rebounded, passing opponents one by one during the event, which took her 1 hour, 27 minutes and 4 seconds to complete. On the last leg, Dembrak passed the woman who earlier had caused her to fall, speeding to a third place finish in the 40-50 age division.
In cycling circles, the achievement was "a huge deal," said Jimmy Marbut, who owns Sunshine Cycles.
Yet, Dembrak discovered an even bigger reward after returning to her Athens gym. A banner tied to a wall there read: "You'll always be a winner to us, your team at Total Training."
"It really didn't matter to them how I did," Dembrak said. "They just wanted me to have the experience. I'm so glad they pushed me into going."
Her clients, many of whom have bought bicycles as a result of Dembrak's efforts, are grateful for the motivation she affords them. In sending her to Canada, they simply wanted her to compete and have fun.
"She is an inspiration to all of us, (particularly) to all of us in our 40s," said Dr. Glenn Alex, a client and sponsor of Dembrak's cycling teams through the years. "She really inspired me to get back into cycling competitively, because I saw how much she enjoyed it. She really deserves this. She has worked hard."
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Muscle movements are normally controlled by a complex system that allows some muscles to contract (tighten) while others relax. Damage to nerves in the central nervous system can disrupt the pattern. As a result, many muscles may contract all at once. This condition can be found in cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and other conditions that affect the brain and/or spinal cord. Spasticity mostly occurs in the legs but can occur in the arms.
What are symptoms of spasticity?
- Increased muscle tone
- Involuntary movements
- Spasms (quick and/or sustained involuntary muscle contractions)
- Clonus (series of fast involuntary contractions)
- Pain or discomfort
- Less ability to function
- Problems with care and hygiene
- Abnormal posture
- Contracture (permanent contraction of the muscle and tendon due to severe lasting stiffness and spasms)
- Bone and joint deformities
- Decreased quality of life
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The best way to treat spasticity usually means having an active patient or support person and caregivers who work with a team of healthcare professionals with different specialties. Members of this team may include one or more of the following individuals:
- Neurologist
- Physiatrist, a rehabilitation doctor
- Advanced practice clinician
- Physical therapist
- Occupational therapist
- Neurosurgeon
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When is spasticity treated?
Spasticity should be treated when it causes pain, interferes with activities of daily living or sleep, or leads to less ability to function.
What are some non-medical treatments for MS-related spasticity?
Spasticity can be reduced by:
- Performing stretching exercises daily. Prolonged stretching can make muscles longer, helping to decrease spasticity and prevent contracture.
- Splinting, casting, and bracing. These methods are used to maintain range of motion and flexibility.
What are some medical treatments used for MS-related spasticity?
Oral medications used to treat spasticity include:
- Baclofen (Lioresal®)
- Tizanidine (Zanaflex®)
- Dantrolene sodium (Dantrium®)
- Diazepam (Valium®)
- Clonazepam (Klonopin®)
- Gabapentin (Neurontin®)
What are the pros and cons of oral medications?
Oral medications have benefits as well as disadvantages. Advantages include:
- Oral medications can relax a large number of muscles.
- The dosage of oral medications is easily adjusted.
- Oral medications may be stopped at any time. However, many drugs should not be stopped abruptly.
Disadvantages include:
- The effect of oral medications may be modest.
- Drowsiness is a common side effect. Dizziness and weakness may occur.
- Some medications may cause liver inflammation.
What are other options for treating spasticity?
Local injections into spastic muscles may be very effective. These shots can reduce tone selectively in muscles that are causing the most spasm. Injections may involve botulinum toxin [Botulinum Toxin A (Botox®) and B (Myobloc®)] or phenol.
During botulinum toxin injections, the toxin is injected directly into the muscle, making spastic muscles weaker. This may improve positioning and function. The effects usually take 7 to 10 days to become noticeable. The effects last from 3 to 6 months.
Surgical treatments
- Intrathecal baclofen therapy (ITB)
- ITB therapy is used to treat severe spasticity. Baclofen is delivered directly to the spinal cord by a programmable pump and catheter. Because the drug is placed directly at the site of action within the spinal cord, much less baclofen is needed, and there are fewer side effects than if the drug were taken by mouth.
- Patients must undergo an ITB screening test prior to having a pump placed.
- Orthopedic surgery, or surgery that deals with treating muscles, bones, and connective tissue
- Neurosurgery, or surgery that deals with treating the brain, spinal cord, and nerves
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Spasticity Accessed 1/23/2015.
- American Academy of Neurology. Use of Botulinum Neurotoxin Injections to Treat Spasticity Accessed 1/23/2015.
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. NINDS Spasticity Information Page Accessed 1/23/2015.
- Aminoff MJ, Kerchner GA. Chapter 24. Nervous System Disorders. In:Papadakis MA, McPhee SJ, Rabow MW. eds. CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2014. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2014. Accessed 1/23/2015.
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Director of Plan II, Michael Stoff, Recognized
Thu, Dec 4, 2008
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Thirty-nine Plan II Honors Majors Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Fall 2008
Tue, Nov 25, 2008
Plan II Honors congratulates the Plan II Honors majors recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Research Week 2009
The second annual university-wide celebration of undergraduate research and creative activity at UT Austin.
Sun, Nov 16, 2008
Mark your calendar now for Research Week, 2009. The events will be held during the week of April 13, 2009, offering information on existing programs and many special events and activities that showcase undergraduate research and creative activity
President Powers' November, 2008 Message:
Thu, Nov 13, 2008
The University's continued success as an economic engine for all Texans depends on adequate state support. The new capital campaign is intended to fund excellence. It cannot be viewed as a substitute for state appropriations.
Plan II Chamber Music Society Concert
Sunday, November 9 at 7:00 pm in Jessen Auditorium FREE
Fri, Nov 7, 2008
Humanity in Action: Call for Applications
Full application materials will be available by November 15th at the HIA website.
Fri, Nov 7, 2008
The HIA Fellowship brings together university students from the United States and Europe for a rigorous, five-week summer program of interdisciplinary inquiry into human rights, diversity, and minority issues
The Broccoli Project presents Three Murders and It's Only Monday! A Murder Mystery Comedy
Don't miss the Broccoli Project's hilarious production of Pat Cook's Three Murders and It's Only Monday!, directed by Carter Rossner and assistant directed by Peyton Smith.
Mon, Nov 3, 2008
November 7, 13, 14, and 15 at 8PM, and November 9 at 2PM. Utopia Theater. $5.00
Plan II/Psychology major Sonya Crocker named UT female Student of the Year
Sonya was introduced as the recipient of the award at the UT v Oklahoma State football game on Oct. 25.
Thu, Oct 30, 2008
Announcing a new UT student organization, Guantánamo Watch
Plan II Honors student, Daniel Friedman is inaugural president
Wed, Oct 8, 2008
Guantánamo Watch is a new student organization at the University of Texas at Austin dedicated to raising awareness about the United States' detention policy at the Guantánamo Bay naval base.
Two Larry Temple Scholarships are awarded to Plan II Honors students
Nicole Masole and William Cochran are Plan II Honors sophomores.
Tue, Sep 30, 2008
The Larry Temple Scholarships are awarded at the beginning of the sophomore year and are renewable for two years at $11,000 per year.
Watch the Final Presidential Debate :: October 15, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
See Sen. Barak Obama and Sen. John McCain
Wed, Sep 24, 2008
The Joynes Reading Room will screen the final 2008 presidential debate on the Joynes Room 12 foot projection screen on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. Seating is limited; arrive early. Professor Trubawitz will host a discussion following the debate.
Announcing the 2008 Roger and Ann Worthington Essay Contest and Prompt
The Worthington Essay contest is open to all Plan II students.
Wed, Sep 24, 2008
A generous gift from Plan II alumnus Roger Worthington and his wife Ann made the Worthington Essay Prize possible beginning in 2002. Now a yearly competition, the Worthington Essay competition poses a difficult moral problem each year which entrants must answer in a short essay.
Stanley Lombardo Returns to Perform on Campus, Sept 24
Jessen Auditorium, HRH 2.104 at 7:00 pm FREE
Tue, Sep 16, 2008
Lombardo, one of the leading classical scholars and translators, entertains audiences with dramatic performances of Homer and Virgil.
Undergraduate Research Scholarships
The award seeks to encourage students to get involved in research early in their undergraduate experience.
Tue, Sep 16, 2008
Eligible applicants include students assisting a faculty member with a research project as well as students conducting independent research. Application deadline Oct 31.
New Q Drop Policy
New state legislated policy will affect students entering in fall 2007 or later
Tue, Sep 16, 2008
Study Abroad Fair, Wednesday, September 10
10:00 am to 3:00 pm on the Gregroy Plaza
Mon, Sep 8, 2008
Get information on study abroad opportunities and the application process before the October 1 deadline for spring 2009 study abroad programs.
THINK ABOUT IT :: The University Lecture Series :: Fall 2008
Not Your Everyday Lecture
Thu, Sep 4, 2008
The University Lecture Series gives first-year students an opportunity to interact with leading members of our faculty--scholars, scientists, and civic leaders who are nationally and internationally renowned. Lectures are scheduled for September 16, September 25 and October 1. All three lectures will take place in Gregory Gym at 7:00 pm. See details on the series and the lectures.
Seth Caplan, Plan II '99, Premieres Film in Austin
"In Search of Midnight Kiss" premiers on August 29 at the Alamo Drafthouse South.
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
The film is the story of one man's search for a midnight kiss on New Year's Eve. It has already come out to rave reviews in the U.K. and Greece and won multiple film festivals here in America.
Safety First
Are you prepared? Do you know how to respond to unexpected situations?
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
This is a safe campus in a safe city, but it's important to educate yourself to ensure your personal safety. We encourage students to visit the UT Police Department website and review information and videos. Safety is everyone's responsibility. Go to: UTPD
Actors from the London Stage perform Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Oct. 1-4, Austin and Winedale.
AFTLS is a troupe of five of England's most talented actors that visit UT annually .
Wed, Aug 20, 2008
The actors will spend a week on the Austin campus conducting classes and workshops in addition to the public performances. Follow link for pre-events lectures, ticket information and other details.
2008 Fall Senior Thesis Symposium
Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Wed, Aug 20, 2008
All Plan II parents, students, faculty and friends are invited.
2008 Plan II Parents' Day Events
Sunday, November 2, 2008: Plan II Family Day Brunch Reception 11:00 am to 12:15 pm and Parents' Day Model Classes 12:30 to 1:30 pm.
Wed, Aug 20, 2008
All Plan II parents and students are invited. More information to follow.
Plan II Alumni Gathering, Capistrano Beach, CA
Reception at the home of Roger and Ann Worthington on Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 5:30--8:30 pm
Wed, Aug 6, 2008
Speakers and hotel information at link
August 20th, Plan II Alumni Reception in Washington, DC
The Plan II Alumni Reception at 7:00 pm Precedes an 8:00 pm Shakespeare at Winedale performance of Romeo and Juliet
Tue, Jul 8, 2008
Shakespeare at Winedale on Tour: August 20, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
Voltaire's Coffees for the Class of 2012 (08 First-Years)
Registration for VCs is in progess and VCs are filling fast. Don't delay.
Sun, Jun 1, 2008
Opportunities for compelling discussion plus a chance to meet other PII first-years and some of the best professors. Scheduled days, times and locations now available.


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Student-led community-based projects will address health disparities throughout Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES- Five Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) students enrolled in the joint CDU/University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Education program were selected for the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASP). The five are among 16 graduate students chosen for the 2012-2013 class of Los Angeles Schweitzer Fellows who will spend a year learning to effectively address the social factors that impact health and developing lifelong leadership skills in the name of famed physician and humanitarian, Albert Schweitzer.CDU awardees will be part of the approximately 230 National Schweitzer Fellows at 12 program sites throughout the United States to partner with local community-based organizations for service projects.Rebecca Lopez '15, from Montebello, Calif., and Janelle Rodriguez '15, from Los Angeles, plan to develop and implement a health education and parenting curriculum for young, at-risk parents in East Los Angeles at the AltaMed Adolescent Family Life Program. "We are extremely excited and honored to be working as Schweitzer Fellows on a project that we feel will have profound effects on young parents in our community," said Lopez and Rodriguez. "We feel that our project embodies the spirit of community service and hope that it reflects our desire to contribute to the CDU Mission."Wemo Magbegor '14, from Dallas, will work alongside The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program to provide health education and screenings for diabetes and hypertension at local barbershops. "Balancing academics, clinical rotations, and family life in medical school is a difficult feat that any medical student can attest to," said Magbegor. "It is my understanding that African-Americans are being crippled by diabetes, the fifth deadliest disease in the United States. And that it is expected to be an epidemic in the African-American male population by 2050 compels me to take action."At the Student Run Homeless Clinic, a community service learning program of the Department of Family Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Dharma Sunjaya '15, from Fairfield, Calif., will partner with UCLA student, Mark Andre, to develop and implement a diabetic education program for homeless patients.Kene Ojukwu '13, from Pittsburg, will partner with UCLA student, Molly Diaz to implement a health education program for 5th-graders called Anatomy Academy at the Stella Middle Charter Academy.After completing their project, these students will become Schweitzer Fellows for Life, a network of 2,500 individuals dedicated to addressing health disparities.Established in 1992, the mission of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship is to develop individuals who are dedicated and skilled in addressing the health needs of underserved communities, and whose example influences and inspires others. The Los Angeles Schweitzer Fellows program, founded in 2007, was a collaboration between Kaiser Permanente; Los Angeles Physicians for Social Responsibility; Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County; University of Southern California; and University of California, Los Angeles. Kaiser Permanente of Southern California provides funding.All students chosen from CDU are in the joint CDU/UCLA Medical Education Program, a four year- community-based medical education program that provides training in the scholarly and humane aspects of medicine and fosters the development of leaders who will advance medical practice and knowledge in underserved areas ."Similar to the Schweitzer Fellowship, Charles Drew students are selected for their demonstrated commitment to underserved areas and trained to address health through a social lens," said President David M. Carlisle, M.D., Ph. D,, "I am proud of the initiative of these students to pursue the Fellowship and create programs that consciously address the needs of the Los Angeles community."Previous CDU Schweitzer Fellows include: Kenneth Kim '12, Jeffrey Dela Cruz '12 Erica Davenport '14 and Sabah R'id '14.
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Ray Tracing and Gaming - One Year Later
Ray tracing faster than rasterization: Example 1
I have been asked several times when ray tracing will become faster than rasterization (the current GPU approach for rendering). There are cases in which it is faster on a single desktop machine TODAY!
Example 1: High number of triangles
Ray tracing uses "acceleration structures" that sort all the geometry of a virtual world according to their position in space. There are several different acceleration structures, but the most common ones used in ray tracing are Uniform Grids, BSP-trees, kd-trees and Bounding Volume Hierarchies (BVHs).
As described in the introduction, when a ray is shot, we must find the first object that is hit by that ray. The general idea of spatial partitioning / acceleration structures is best described through a small example:
Imagine you have a building with 4 levels and on each of those there are 4 rooms, if a player is located in the top-most, left-most room as shown below:
Artistic representation of a building with 4 levels with each 4 rooms
When ray tracing, we want to figure out whether a piece of geometry is hit or not. In ray tracing speak we talk about a "camera" and when we shoot rays through it to determine what is visible we refer to these as "eye rays" or "primary rays". Naively, we could just shoot eye rays everywhere and see what gets hit and what does not. Clearly, in the above example 15/16 of these rays would be wasted. Thinking about this situation a little, it seems obvious that it is very unlikely that the camera will "see" anything in the right-most room on the lowest-level, so why even bother checking if a ray hits any of the geometry from that area? How can we avoid such redundant work?
With hierarchical spatial acceleration structures we can just look at a convenient representation of an area and determine if there is any interesting detail there worth investigating further. If not for a given area or volume, we can save a lot of computational effort. This way we can focus computational resources on the areas where the geometrical details are located.
One advantage of such hierarchical data structures is that they have the effect of changing a "linear search" – check everything (every time) to see if there is a match of interest - to a "logarithmic" search – check the highest level which represents the bounds of a large area, if and only if there is detail of interest in this area, then proceed to the next level. In the above example, the "top" level might represent the 4×4 grid...
...the next level might split the grid right down the middle top to bottom...
...on the left side that half might be split in the middle from side to side etc.
In the linear case we check every square in the grid – 16 units of work. In the logarithmic case, in step one, we eliminate the right half; In step two we eliminate the left, bottom half; In step three, the right half of the remaining quartet, and; In step 4, we determine which remaining half the interesting detail is in – so 4 steps instead of 16. If we increased the number of grid cells to 32, the result would be 32 checks in the linear case to 5 checks in the logarithmic case and so on. One way to think of this is that if we increase the complexity of a scene 10 times, using a hierarchical acceleration structure increases the cost of finding something by only 2×. Contrast that with the traditional rasterization approach, it is condemned to use a linear approach, so if we increase complexity by 10× the cost goes up by 10×.
This behavior is represented in this diagram:
The green curve represents the logarithmic behavior of ray tracing when the number of triangles are increased, the red line represents the linear behavior of rasterization. As you can see, initially for ray tracing (when the polygon count is low) ray tracing performance is at a disadvantage compared to rasterization, but quickly the two curves meet, and from that point on, as complexity increases ray tracing is ALWAYS faster than rasterization. This cross-over point depends on many factors: the performance of the CPU, the performance of the GPU etc, but this trend is a mathematical certainty, a logarithmic curve will always intersect a linear curve and the logarithmic curve will always win! Due to the linear scaling of ray tracing performance, doubling the number of CPUs would shrink the height of the green curve by half, moving the intersection point (S) closer and closer to 0, ie throw enough CPU cores at the problem and Ray Tracing would always be faster than Rasterization using a GPU.
One example that clearly is above that point is the Boeing 777 model with 350 million triangles. This extreme highly detailed model that includes every screw of the plane has been provided by Boeing to the research community in order to experiment with methods on how to render it.
Ray tracing has been proven to be the right solution for that (http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/Publications/ ). Even back in 2004 the research group from Saarland University was able to render the model with 3 to 7 frames per Second at 640x480 pixel resolution with a dual-core CPU from that year.
The question may arise, why can't these acceleration structures be used in rasterization? Well, they are, to a certain extent, but at a lower precision. Some games have one such coarse-grained structure for rendering graphics, a different one (at a different resolution) for collision-detection and yet another one for AI (sometimes created by different third-party infrastructure suppliers). Besides taking up more memory than necessary, one problem in using these three separately computed data structures is the effort to keep them consistent. See below for an example of what happens when the information from the collision detection structure differs from the rendering structure.
In the game "Oblivion" two different structures are used for graphical rendering and for collision detection. The process of a slowly closing door, changing its angle from frame to frame is clearly visible to the player. Therefore four states can be speculated: Open, closing, closed and opening. But the structure for collision detection engine does not update the dynamic movements with fine details such as the angle that the door is currently at. Therefore other NPCs like "Velwyn" can detect only two states of the door: Open; or Closed.
What happens in the game as a result, is that Velwyn approaches the player while is obviously closing, but Velwyn only gets information that the door is either open or closed. So we can end up in the situation depicted below where the character ends up mixed up with the door.
(Of course ray tracing can also be used for collision detection to avoid those problems but that is another story.)
But even if the acceleration structure for graphical rendering is consistent with the rest then there is another problem: In ray tracing we are testing a ray in a per-pixel exact method against the triangles. In rasterization there are no rays therefore the relevant area / volume of the structure can only be approximated. This can be done by different methods. Let' have a short look at two of them:
- Time consuming pre-calculations resulting in statements like "When I am in this room 1, then I could potentially see into room 2 and 3, but not room 4." For more information have a look at the Wikipedia entry for "Potentially Visible Set"
- Manually placed hints from a level designer for the engine known as visibility portals. Those consume a lot of time for the artists, e.g. Quake 4 has 3,200 of them. So far automatic algorithms for this have not made it into the practical world of game developers. The evaluation of the portals during the rendering process leads to complicated multi-pass techniques: First the scene is rendered with placeholders for these portals. Once it is detected that one of the placeholders is visible then this part of the scene is rendered again in full detail. More information can be found here.
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I am serving on a faculty search committee right now and reading a bunch of applications. Some of these fucken dipshitte applicants are providing research plans–the summary of current research and future directions to be taken when the applicant starts her own labbe–that are nearly fifteen motherfucken pages long with nearly one hundred motherfucken references to the literature. Who the fucken fucke is telling these poor fuckes that this is reasonable!?!?!?!?
A research plan should be an absolute maximum of three pages, including the references list. If you can't explain why I should give a fucke about your research in three pages or less, then I probably *shouldn't* give a fucke.
UPDATE: Effective research plans *do* have a few figures–three or four–frequently including model schematics, as well as a modest number of references (fewer than ten). The point is to make it as easy and efficient as possible for the reader to get the gist of what your research is all about and why it is going to exert a sustained substantial impact on your field.


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The Edmonton Impact is hoping to make an impact with the public.
Becoming the first-ever professional paintball team in Canada, Impact players are trying to sell their events as a real sport worthy of attention.
"You are seeing a lot of guys get paid now," said Impact player Josh Davey.
"It's blowing up in the United States - it's a billion-dollar industry.
"And you have got teams playing all over the world."
Competing in the 18-team National Professional Players League (NPPL), the Impact will play five league events starting next month in Huntington Beach, Calif.
Owned by Bart Yachimec - the owner/operator of seven car dealerships in metro Edmonton - the Impact will operate on a budget near $100,000.
However, the players won't be paid directly by the owner in the first year.
Instead, the nine players will earn money through sponsors and by placing in the top four of events.
In total, the Impact are scheduled to play in 14 events with the hope of splitting a big enough prize money pool to ensure every player will earn between $10,000-$40,000.
But the ultimate goal is to grow the sport to a level that's comparable to south of the border.
"(The sports) is just underexposed right now," said Yachimec. "TSN has been showing it for the last three or four months. It just needs more exposure.
"There is a player that signed last year for $100,000 in the United States."
According to some figures, paintball is apparently the third most popular extreme sport in the world with more than 10 million people playing in the U.S. in 2004.


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Blacks and Jews
Throughout history, few groups have faced as much scrutiny and oppression as blacks and Jews. This film delves into the troubled history and conflicts which both groups share, shedding light on the painful and lasting stereotypes which both groups deal with in their everyday lives.
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ABOARD THE CARNIVAL DREAM — The Titanic didn't have them. Neither did the snooty Queen Elizabeth 2 or the swinging TV Love Boat Pacific Princess.
But now many travelers refuse to cruise if they don't have a balcony cabin.
"The first couple of times I cruised I had a porthole window, but the third time I went to the balcony room, and I never went back after that," says Peggy Earo of Cary, N.C., who on this cruise has a balcony cabin on Deck 2 not far above the ocean swells.
"It's a sense of airiness. It's very calming and soothing. I like to see the storms and the waves, the sunrise and the sunset."
Earo is not alone, and the cruise industry has taken notice.
Eighty percent of cabins on the new Regal Princess debuting this month will have balconies. Sleek new river-cruise lines are inventing ways to give guests true balconies instead of just a railing. And big cruise lines keep making their balcony (also called veranda) cabins ever more elaborate.
"I would never book an inside stateroom," says John Safranski of Livonia, Mich., who has taken 10 cruises and has an 11th already booked.
"It doesn't get much better than sipping champagne out on the balcony as we cruise into the sunset."
Balcony cabins cost about 25 percent more than inside cabins. But that is less of a price difference than a few years ago.
"Back in the day, it could have been 75 percent to 100 percent more expensive to get a balcony, there were so few of them," says cruise analyst Stewart Chiron of Miami-based website The Cruise Guy. These days, "it would be crazy to build a ship that doesn't have them."
He says what's going away are ocean-view cabins: cabins that have window views of the water, but no way to sit outside.
Even inside cabins these days are being tricked out with "virtual balconies."
The new Royal Caribbean Quantum of the Seas class of ships debuting in November will have soothing video of the ocean broadcast on an interior wall, giving the feel of a balcony cabin if not the bracing reality.
Not that long ago, cruise-ship balcony cabins were for the few and the affluent, if ships offered them at all.
Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas was considered one of the first truly modern cruise ships in 1991. It offered balconies for 5 percent of its cabins, and that was a big deal. Ships built in the 2000s offered about 25 percent to 45 percent balcony cabins.
Now, all new ships offer balconies on more than 65 percent of rooms.
Ellen Creager, Detroit Free Press
Some varieties of balcony cabins
Cove balcony: Built into the hull, very private and on Deck 2, they are just three stories up from the ocean. I stayed in one and liked its location; so did Peggy Earo of Cary, N.C.: "It's cozy, you feel like you are sheltered, but you can really see the front and back of the ship."
Find it: Only on Carnival Dream-class ships.
Cost: About $50 cheaper than a typical balcony.
Aft balcony: Very back of the ship, gives you a 180-degree view and deeper balcony. Some cruise fans adore these cabins; others don't like thruster noise when the ship docks.
Find it: Nearly all cruise ships have these. One is the aft deluxe Oceanview stateroom with veranda on the Disney Fantasy.
Cost: About $100 more than a typical balcony.
Corner aft balcony: Often called owners' suites, they have an L-shaped veranda on the side and back of the ship.
Find it: Most ships have them; one outstanding example is the Haven aft-facing penthouse with large balcony on Norwegian's Breakaway.
Cost: About $1,500 more than a typical balcony.
Inward-facing balconies: These overlook the ship's interior mall attractions and tend to be priced higher than an interior cabin but lower than an ocean-side balcony. Some love the unusual view, others say these options can be noisier than an outside cabin.
Find it: The Central Park View and Boardwalk View staterooms on Royal Caribbean's Oasis and Allure.
Cost: About $50 cheaper than a typical ocean-side balcony.
Giant balconies: Top-of-the-line penthouse suites feature balconies nearly three times the size of a basic cabin.
Find it: If you book the 2,000-square-foot Owners' Suite on Oceania's Marina, you get a three-sided balcony, outdoor hot tub, baby grand piano and other bling.
Cost: About $11,000 more than a typical balcony.
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MAL edge past LMV 2nd in thrilling friendly
MAL claimed a thrilling last-ball victory in a four-run victory against London Maccabi Vale 2nd.
Skippered by Mark Landau, MAL elected to bat first on a good surface at Old Camdenians, but with a long outfield, openers Russell Corin and Adam Katten found runs hard to come by.
LMV new ball bowlers Ben Lederman and Jonathan Freedman kept things tight early on, with Katten departing in the eighth over to a delivery from Freedman.
Ian Salter joined Corin and found it equally tough to score initially - their partnership taking the score to 33 off 14 overs before Corin was bowled by Avi Hoddes for 13. David Garbacz made 4 before he was bowled by Jon Lederman.
Salter upped his scoring rate, before attempting to sweep Thomas Goulde and being bowled for 35. Mark Landau joined Tony Wise and looked to be aggressive from the off striking six boundaries in his 31.
Wise was bowled by Ben Kohler for 11, and Landau fell to the same bowler, Avi Schwarz clinging on to a good catch at square leg from a full blooded pull. Nathan Wise was bowled first ball.
Joel Newman and Lederman looked to take MAL through, but two quick run outs scuppered that plan, Newman and Yitzy Hill the unlucky men. Michael Klinger was last to go for 0, the innings closed on 145 after 38 overs.
After tea, Ben Kohler and Jonny Gould started solidly for LMV, with Neil Lederman and Yitzy Hill keeping a lid on the scoring rate.
Joel Newman and Mike Klinger replaced the opening bowlers, and the score had progressed to 61 before Kohler drove hard at Newman and was well held by youngster Nathan Wise at mid on for 27.
David Freedman was bowled by Mark Landau for 5, and Jonny Gould eventually fell for 19 in the 18th over, caught by Katten at mid-on from the bowling of Klinger. Schwartz was bowled by Landau for 0, and Jon Lederman joined Ben with 66 required from 20 overs with six wickets in hand.
LMV struggled to score off Landau and Salter. Both Ledermen fell in the same fashion, bowled by Salter's leg spin. Spanjar and Hoddes rebuilt well, but never really accelerated the run rate against Nathan Wise, Salter and the returning Neil Lederman.
By the final over six runs were needed for victory with four wickets in hand. Landau bowled it - and Hoddes was run out trying to scramble a single, as Neil Lederman calmy underarmed the ball to Landau to take down the stumps. Spanjar was LBW walking across his stumps, leaving five runs required from two balls. Two dot balls saw MAL win by four runs.
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Utilities hoping to build three power lines through Minnesota are proposing a different route for the one that would run between the Twin Cities area and La Crosse, Wis.
The CapX2020 project utilities had said one of the high-voltage lines might go through a wildlife refuge on the Mississippi River.
The utilities have backed off that proposal in favor of one that would route the line across the river at Alma, Wis. The line would go east to Blair then south to La Crosse, adding at least 15 miles to the route.
CapX2020 spokesman Tim Carlsgaard says the new route was a response to "a lot of concern" from citizens and regulatory agencies.
Several environmental groups still oppose the line, saying it would cause visual and environmental harm.
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Representative Dave Reichert sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman on Wednesday, demanding that the IRS provide information on its implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), specifically in regard to recently-negotiated intergovernmental agreements (IGAs).
FATCA imposes new reporting requirements on foreign financial institutions, forcing them to share certain information with the IRS about their U.S.-owned accounts or face up to a 30-percent withholding tax. In the letter, Rep. Reichert voices concerns about its impact on U.S. financial institutions' international competitiveness, the impact on the sale of treasury bonds, the potential avoidance of foreign investment in the U.S. and the effectiveness FATCA's implementation.
"Whether or not we agree on the approach that FATCA prescribes - which now allows the IRS to enforce the disclosure of personal private information about US persons from foreign companies -- it is now clear that the implementation process of FATCA involves the IRS acting with an implied license to determine a new direction for global tax policy," wrote Reichert. "I have talked with constituents, had discussions with international companies who are looking to comply, and many who wonder how successful these new policies will be in achieving their intended consequences."
In the letter, Reichert, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, asks Commissioner Shulman to provide information on how the IRS is taking into consideration the potential effects on U.S. businesses and persons when negotiating IGAs, and asks the IRS to provide information on these considerations as Congress looks toward comprehensive tax reform.


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Why Would Anyone Want the Job?
My question is: Why would anyone qualified for the Spokane Police Chief position want it?
Surely any applicant worthy of consideration would research the Spokane city government's and police department's history. It wouldn't even take much research. S/he would only have to read The Spokesman-Review's series of articles about the firehouse sex scandal and the police department's investi-bungle to see that top-to-bottom rehabilitation is essential if the Spokane Police Department is ever to regain public trust and confidence.
With only a little more research, prospective applicants would see that the City of Spokane is unlikely to give the new police chief the authority s/he would need. Housecleaning is going to make a lot of police department employees uneasy. An uneasy employee may be one who financially supports and votes for the current administration's opponents. Incumbent officials like to be able to say (sometimes truthfully, often not) they have the support of "their" police department.
Also, the police chief position is highly visible. Positive visibility contributes to political power, and political power residing in an honest, articulate, educated, determined, publicly-accessible Spokane police chief represents a political threat to some elected officials. Spokane's elected officials do not want a police chief who is smarter, more competent, and perhaps more honest than they are. Yet that's exactly the kind of chief Spokane needs.
The in-bred applicants already know how the Spo-political game is played, so to the out-of-town applicants, I'd say, "Do your homework before you're interviewed." And to the applicant who's finally offered the job, I'd ask, "Are you really sure you want it?"


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CHICAGO, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Carlos Beltran belted a game-tying homer and Jon Jay delivered the go-ahead hit in the 10th inning Saturday, rallying St. Louis past the Chicago Cubs 5-4.
The Cardinals were trailing 4-3 with one out in the ninth when Beltran connected for a solo homer into the right field bleachers against Chicago closer Carlos Marmol.
Then in the 10th, Mike Carpenter and pinch-hitter Bryan Anderson each drew a two-out walk off Jaye Chapman (0-1), and Jay followed by smacking a pitch down the first-base line for a double, sending Carpenter home with the decisive run.
Mitchell Boggs (4-1) earned the victory after retiring David DeJesus with two on and two out in the ninth and Jason Motte racked up his 39th save for St. Louis.
The Cards extended their lead for the second National League wild-card spot to 2 1/2 games over Milwaukee with the win and the Brewers' loss to Washington Saturday.
DeJesus hit a solo homer for the Cubs.


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You can not fly with canister and handle
Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Love the pack. Shovel holder and size is perfect. Just skied 6 days at Snowbird and Jackson Hole, however flying out of Salt Lake they will NOT allow you to check the canister and handle, even though it clearly states on the box that it meets IATA standards. I had to wait for fed ex to open and even then it has to ship as a hazardous good. Quite expensize and a pain to travel with at this point.


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By RICHARD B. WOODWARD
Published: October 22, 2006
Wallpaper City Guides
Phaidon Press, each about 110 pages, $8.95 paperback
Even those who don't read Wallpaper magazine or belong to its target audience -- young, British, affluent, design-obsessed -- can find room in a carry-on bag for its new travel guides. Vest-pocket slim and pleasing to the hand, with tabbed chapters and a cover that unfolds into a panorama of the city in question, they are also a bargain, cheaper than a drink at most of the trendy bo?s endorsed in their pages.
Best of all, for the rushed or the jaded the guides have reduced the list of desirable sights to a doable handful in each of 20 cities. Many of those included thus far are European, although New York and Los Angeles make the list, along with Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Singapore, Shanghai, Bangkok and Istanbul. The 40 cities scheduled for guides next year include Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, Las Vegas, Toronto and Montreal.
The point of view is decidedly Modernist, and a dizzying level of urbanity is taken for granted. The guide to Rome cites the Sistine Chapel just in passing and instead directs visitors to outstanding Italian Rationalist or Fascist buildings, including the Palazzo delle Terme (containing Mussolini's private gym), Garbatella (a blue-collar housing project from the 1930's) and a post office by Adalberto Libera and Mario de Renzi.
Like the magazine, the guides are better on contemporary architecture and design than on other arts. The London guide steers clear of the Banqueting House and the National Gallery, preferring to highlight exemplars of 20th-century Brutalism: the Economist Building by Alison and Peter Smithson, and Denys Lasdun's Royal College of Physicians. The suggestions aren't all so high-minded. The 24 Hours section-- a feature of each guide -- concludes that Primrose Hill is the ideal spot for watching a London sunset.
The select group of hotels, bars, gyms and shops vouched for tend to be sleek and pricey. There are also a surprising number of muddy color reproductions. Luckily, these faults are outweighed by the idiosyncratic tips. What other guide to Copenhagen would skip over Hans Christian Andersen in favor of a stop at Illums Bolighus, the spectacular housewares store, or propose a side trip to Charlottenlund to see a gas station designed in 1937 by Arne Jacobson?
No entry exceeds more than about 200 words, so supplemental reading is a must. The editors have kept matters sophisticated but simple.
At the back of each book are several pages of note paper (plain, lined, gridded) for jotting and sketching, recognition that traveling should be mapped out and yet can be as personal and improvisational as a diary. RICHARD B. WOODWARD


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Tehelka Magazine, Vol 4, Issue 46, Dated Dec 01 , 2007
Nellie: Carnage Catches Up
Assam's apathy to the massacre that killed 3,300 Muslims has lasted through successive governments since 1983. Damning new revelations may finally see justice done
ALMOST 25 YEARS after the barbaric Nellie massacre of February 18, 1983, government failure to ensure justice to the survivors has come back to haunt Assam's ruling Congress government in the run-up to panchayat polls in the state due to begin from December 31. The Opposition Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) has started raking up the issue and is set to make it one of their main poll planks. Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury, the AUDF working president, says, "The publication of the TD Tewari Commission report on the Nellie massacre and the action taken report will be one of our main issues in the coming panchayat polls. We want to expose the hypocrisy of the Congress which plays with the lives of the minorities and uses them as mere votebanks."
The infamous Nellie Massacre, in which 3,300 people were killed in a six-hour-long attack, took place shortly after a round of state polls, an election opposed by the All-Assam Students' Union (AASU), the student body leading the movement against so-called illegal migrants from Bangladesh. In the course of the elections, more than 500 AASU volunteers were killed. Polling was held on February 14 and voter turnout was low. Four days later, villages under the jurisdiction of the Nellie police outpost became the scene of a barbaric mass-murder.
The massacre has returned to the public consciousness with the recent publication of a book titled Nellie 1983, written by Diganta Sarma, a journalist with Assamese weekly Saadin. It has been just over a month since its release, but the book has already become a best-seller, evoking much public debate. Among its other revelations, the book also has a chapter exclusively given over to a special investigation into the government-promoted myth that no eyewitness could identify the attackers. Sarma's book unveils the existence of a police chargesheet according to which one Nurjaman Bhuyan, a resident of Borbari village, had identi-fied 13 of the Nellie attackers.
Claims Sarma, "Bhuyan could identify the faces of 13 people who lived in the vicinity of his village. He had seen them either in the market or in the field. These 13 people were among those who burnt down Bhuyan's house and killed 12 members of his family." Bhuyan was also injured in the attack but had a miraculous escape and survived to lodge an FIR in the Jagiroad Police station. A copy of the document is with Sarma — the case number was 86/83, GR No 231/83. The attackers Bhuyan had named in the FIR include: Bidhu Rai, BharatHazarika, Uma Kakati, Bakul Kakati, Hareswar Rabha, Raja Ram Rabha, Barana Das, Loknath Das, Bogiram Das, Nagen Deka, Bimal Deka, Bhumi Senapati, Prafulla Master and others. The police had registered a case against the accused under Indian Penal Code sections 147, 146, 326, 379, 436, 302 and 307. The police had also filed chargesheet (No 70) and submitted it in court in 1985. Three other persons — Gajen Rabha, Tengabor Kro and Golap Bordoloi — were further named as accused in the case.
Sarma, who has reprinted the chargesheet in his book, adds, "The chargesheet stands as a vital document of the massacre. In fact, the residents of Nellie are planning to use this book as evidence and file a case in the Supreme Court to demand an enhanced ex-gratia payment as was granted to the victims of the anti-Sikh riots." AUDF'S Choudhury points that the book and the chargesheet can be used as evidence and the court may reopen the cases again. THE RECORDS at the Jagiroad police station say that while 688 cases had been filed in connection with the Nellie massacre, the police submitted chargesheets in only 310. The remaining 378 cases were closed after a final report said there was no evidence against those accused. However, even the cases in which chargesheets were filed did not go very far either. All cases were dropped when the Asom Gana Parishad, the political party representing the AASU, came to power under the chief ministership of Prafulla Kumar Mahanta. For government authorities now, the issue is long dead.
After 25 years of waiting for justice, the victims of the Nellie carnage now need to critically introspect on how best to gather their collective strength for a push for justice. At the time of the massacre, the victims were so traumatised they did not even realise that they had been deprived of compensation or, for that matter, of any kind of justice. Assamese society, too, was sharply divided and not sympathetic to the Nellie victims; no outcry was made over the fact that the findings of the Tewari Commision report were never made public.
Says Debabrata Sarma, Secretary, United Revolutionary Movement Council of Assam, "The issue is relevant even today as the political history of Assam since 1983 has revolved around Assamese nationalism and the foreigner's issue. Around 10,000 people were butchered during the Assam agitation and ULFA has only perpetuated the politics of murder. For peace to return to Assam, we need to undergo a catharsis. It's the call of history — it's better late than never."


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The Blackbirds shot 40 percent from 3-point range (6 of 15), including 4 of 4 from Brandon Thompson in their fifth straight win. The Bulldogs (2-21, 1-10) made 2 of 18 from behind the arc.
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Normally, this wouldn't be an issue for FishbowlLA. But after the Las Vegas based casting service posted what amounts to a straight-up E! Online rehash–with no author byline, a run-on sentence and an errant extra paragraph break thrown in for bad measure–they had the gall to put out a press release about this waste of code:
ExploreTalent.com, a premier online social-network for talented individuals in the entertainment industry, announced a new blog on their news site today, titled, "Heidi Klum and Seal Separate"…
The blog details that no couple seemed more blissfully in love than supermodel Heidi Klum, 38, best known for modeling in Victoria's Secret catalogs, and world-famous singer, Seal, 48.
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A woman who works with her hands is a LABORER; a woman who works with her hands and head, a CRAFTSMAN; but a woman who works with her hands, her head and her heart is an ARTIST. ~ Louis Nizer
Monday, July 21, 2008
Take a quote, Leave a quote
What a guy, truer words never spoken! :) (I think this is why we stampers "bond for life" at swaps LOL!) :) I read this quote for the first time on a chalkboard at the Austin Children's Museum last week, you like?
Have a great quote for me? One you've newly discovered or an old favorite? please leave it here! :) I'll be home in a few hours with CHA scoop!!! Thanks for waiting!! :)
34 comments:
- Lee (LuvLee on SCS) said...
Oh I love quotes!! Here's one I love:
"Determine to live life with flair and laughter." ~ Maya Angelou
- July 21, 2008 at 12:29 AM
This one hangs on the wall in my craft room:
'Creative clutter is better than idle neatness'
I don't know who originated it but they are someone after my own heart
- July 21, 2008 at 12:58 AM
- Katie Renz said...
Hi Melanie,
I was browsing looking for something inpsirational but fun and came across this one by a gentleman named Christopher Morley - "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting" You can see how I used it here: http://katiespaperhaven.blogspot.com/2008/07/big-shots-are-only-litte-shots-who-keep.html
- July 21, 2008 at 1:37 AM
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you have imagined" ~Thoreau
- July 21, 2008 at 4:27 AM
- Jelly Bean said...
Here is a favorite quote of mine, author unknown:
Trees teach us to stay grounded but also to never stop reaching for the
- July 21, 2008 at 4:34 AM
- Mary Dawn said...
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. -Edna St. Vincent Millay
- July 21, 2008 at 5:22 AM
"Be the change you want to see in the world" Mahatma Gandhi
- July 21, 2008 at 5:42 AM
- catdidit said...
Oh I love quotes too! I have a little notebook of them that I have come across and will jot down, lol. This is one of my not so old favorites:
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."
Bill Cosby
- July 21, 2008 at 6:25 AM
I just love this quote.
"Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
It's a good life!
Terri E.
- July 21, 2008 at 6:55 AM
- Amy Johnson said...
My favorite quote that I use in cards for difficult situations where I just don't know what to say is this: 'Today, and in all your days to come, believe in your heart that everything is going to be alright."
- July 21, 2008 at 7:29 AM
- Dru said...
Here's one I love "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" Chinese Proverb
- July 21, 2008 at 9:31 AM
- Hev said...
I too love quotes and have quite a few on my blog - but must add more....
Here is one for you
"smile - fresh air is good for your teeth!" unknown.
Another "Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort" Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Have a wonderful day :)
- July 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM
- Dorothy said...
I love quotes and change my e-mail signature often with new ones- here's a few of my faves (that weren't already used:
"One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it." ~Sidney Howard
"Why Not" is a slogan for an interesting life.........."
"One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it."
~Sidney Howard
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is."
- July 21, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- szbacn1 said...
This one's long... but I have always loved it AND it is available as a stamp from Unity!
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" by Anais Nin
- July 21, 2008 at 10:24 AM
- agreenegg said...
I also love quotes! I have a huge spreadsheet full of them cross referenced for occassion - I know... NERD!
Here's my favorite;
"Remember who you are and what you represent" Author Unknown
Mother Hen
- July 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM
hi mel not shur this iz a quote or not but theze r wurds i wil live bi frum now on
aftr the last hospital visit i no this to b so vare tru
- July 21, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- Moosisk said...
I love quotes, too. I have notebooks full of them. It will be hard to just pick a few, but I will try. Here goes:
"Let us be like the lines that lead to the center of a circle, uniting there and not like parallel lines that never join."
-Hasidic Proverb
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
-John Cage
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
-Henry Ford
"It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so."
-Josh Billings
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
-Rabindranath Tagore
And lastly, since I have sisters:
"Big sisters are the crab grass on the lawn of life. (Linus describing Lucy.)
-Charles Schulz
- July 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM
- Alexandra said...
What a fabulous quote!! And so true!! I really like this one:
The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.
-- Helen Keller
*STAMPIN HUGS* Alex
- July 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM
"There, but for the grace of God, go I"
- July 21, 2008 at 2:31 PM
- maiahs_momma said...
Here is my favorite quote, it helps me get through a tough day:
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain." ~Author unknown
- July 21, 2008 at 3:27 PM
- Kelli said...
"Pretty is as pretty does" (don't know where this originated)
"Love, and do what you like."
--Saint Augustine
"We will all find time to do what we really want to do."
--William Feather
"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
--Cesare Pavese
- July 21, 2008 at 6:14 PM
- Whimsey said...
Not a quote, but great words to live by - check it out:
- July 21, 2008 at 6:20 PM
- lakind said...
I've always loved this from a Rolling Stones song of the same name: "Til the next time that we say goodbye, I'll be thinking of you."
I used it as my senior quote and it's part of my SCS signature. It's a nice way to say goodbye.
- July 21, 2008 at 7:08 PM
- Michelle said...
In the movie Akeelah and the Bee she reads a passage and it has stuck with me ever since it says..
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually who are you not to be? We are born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. As we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same" If anyone know who said it I would LOVE to know.. I keep it on my crafty desk to inspire me when my mojo leaves.
- July 21, 2008 at 7:37 PM
Here's my favorite:
Pray to God but continue to row toward shore - Russian Proverb
- July 21, 2008 at 7:51 PM
- Tamara said...
"A well behaved woman seldom makes history" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- July 21, 2008 at 10:03 PM
- Carolyn King said...
Hey Mel!!! congrats on your pub (not surprising at all!)
Also, it was so much fun seeing you again! hope you had a safe trip home! hugs!
- July 21, 2008 at 10:11 PM
- J said...
I have about 3 notebooks full of quotes, Love em' Janine A
Dont let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man has need to be forgiven
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
No matter what scale we use, we never know the weight of anothers persons burden.
Living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.
- July 21, 2008 at 10:37 PM
This is just one I like, there are so many others. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
JoAnn B. firstname.lastname@example.com
- July 21, 2008 at 10:38 PM
- Joan said...
Here's a quote I like --
"Creativity Takes Courage"
Henry Matisse
- July 22, 2008 at 7:16 AM
- Bee said...
"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance..."
- July 22, 2008 at 9:20 AM
- Donna said...
this is from one of my favorite (based on a true story) movies of a man wrongly accused of a murder 'The Life of David Gale' - I kept rewinding the movie to write the quote down.
"Because in the way end the only way we can measure the value of the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others" - David Gale
- July 22, 2008 at 10:42 AM
- virgo5 said...
Gee I can't think of anything brilliant without having to search somewhere! But when things aren't going right, or I'm caught off guard I always think to myself 'it must have happened for a reason' don't know if that's a quote, but it sure helps me look at the brighter side of things!
- July 22, 2008 at 2:54 PM
Besides stamping and surfing stamping related sites, I love to read. Thus the following quote,
"A person who won't read has no advantage over a person who can't read". Mark Twain
Also, I keep a box of 3x5 cards on my computer table so I can jot down nifty quotes that I come across on the net. Often use them on cards.
- July 28, 2008 at 3:29 PM


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Internet turns 21, but needs to grow up
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It celebrates its 21st birthday this year, but is the World Wide Web growing up? From e-mailing, search engines and file sharing to the dotcom bubble, the emergence of Google and, most recently, the creation of social media, the digital landscape has had many landmarks, but few ask what it has actually achieved.
Is social media the "killer app" of the web? Or is it mobile working? Perhaps it's e-commerce, something many of us use it for every day.
"The greatest achievement of the web is the fundamental shift in access to and control of knowledge," says Peter Chadha, founder of DrPete, a firm of independent strategic technology advisers.
He picks out Wikipedia as best embodying this new global spirit of collaboration, where anyone can be an author and effectively take control of the resource.
"This is a seismic change from pre-web, where knowledge was held and controlled by those who 'knew better'," says Chadha. "The web has enabled the dissemination of knowledge across the globe, and this has led to a knowledge-based economy and democratisation of the world."
Social media platforms such as Twitter are now being used to communicate so quickly and effectively that they can galvanise demonstrations and mass gatherings, for instance, in Cairo's Tahrir Square during last year's Arab spring uprising against Egypt's Mubarak government.
With 300 million Weibo users in China, 500 million on Twitter and an astonishing one billion active users of Facebook, the continuing importance of social media is the direct consequence of what some consider the crowning achievement of the connected world - mobile broadband.
The web's tie-in with telecommunications on a massive scale has been credited by some as fostering socioeconomic development across the globe, primarily through its promotion of mobile broadband via web-connected smartphones and laptops.
"Mobile broadband connects global citizens in remote, rural and previously under-served regions to the knowledge economy and the information society," says Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a body under the United Nations.
"It paves the way for a host of applications, products and services improving productivity, efficiency and quality of life across every sector from government services to education, transport, health, logistics, energy, urban planning, finance and entertainment."
Mobile broadband is a phenomenon. More than a billion people were using it by the end of last year, while ITU statistics show that by June this year global mobile subscriptions in general were just below six billion. That's a global penetration of 86 per cent.
However, that total figure does hide huge disparities; just over half of citizens in developed nations have a web-connected smartphone compared to only 8 per cent in developing countries. More startling is that barely a third of the world's population - 2.3 billion people - has any access to the internet. In Africa, web users are a tiny minority at a mere one in six.
It's precisely those statistics that prompted the inventor of the World Wide Web in 1989, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, to create the World Wide Web Foundation. As part of its mission to increase global access, its ongoing study called the Web Index ranks the web's impact on people in 61 countries, using statistics on telecommunications infrastructure, the use of social networks, business use of the web, and even freedom of speech.
As of September 2012, Sweden was the highest ranked, followed by the US and Britain, with Yemen and Zimbabwe at the bottom. China was placed 29th, between Kazakhstan and Tunisia, with Singapore and South Korea the top-ranked Asian countries in 11th and 13th place, respectively.
Crucially, the study also contains advice on where a country needs to improve.
"Unless we wish to create a second, potentially deeper and more dangerous mobile internet digital divide, we must ensure fair, affordable, universal access to all of the citizens of the world," said Toure, speaking ahead of October's ITU Telecom World event in Dubai.
This is because the web is now primarily a place to do business on the go. But it's not a level playing field. If the income gap that exists between the world's rich and poor is not to massively increase, web access has to be made as easy for a financier in Hong Kong as for a market trader in Yemen or Zimbabwe.
It's the smartphone that has the power to quickly transform lives for the better, but in future it's not going to just be handsets, tablets and laptops that use the web. Next up is the "internet of things", also known as machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, which will shape a world where your car can talk to your auto repairer, a pacemaker can feed medical data to a doctor, and where "smart metering" will put your home's heating system in direct communication with the utility company.
"Machines and devices outnumber humans by a factor of 10 to one," says Macario Namie, VP of marketing at M2M operator Jasper Wireless. "As a result, M2M is one the few markets that can truly surpass human connectivity. Its limitless reach holds tremendous promise in connecting future societies."
The World Wide Web has achieved much so far, but to truly live up to its name it's clearly got a lot more work to do yet.
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A lighter is a portable device used to generate a flame. It consists of a metal or plastic container filled with a flammable fluid or pressurized liquid gas, a means of ignition, and some provision for extinguishing the flame.
Big Boss and Zadornov
Shortly after the events of Operation Snake Eater in 1964, Naked Snake used a lighter to smoke a cigar while listening to the debriefing that EVA had left behind.
While the Militaires Sans Frontières were stationed in Colombia in 1974, Big Boss had a cigar lighter, whose operation became temperamental after becoming wet. He eventually grew fed up with it during a meeting with Vladimir Zadornov, and the latter offered the use of his modified prosthesis as a substitute. Zadornov was formerly a heavy smoker, and his prosthetic right hand had been installed with a lighter in the forefinger. Later, after Big Boss killed Zadornov at Mother Base's firing range, he utilized the red prosthesis as a new lighter.
It was implied that Big Boss, undergoing the alias of Ishmael, utilized a lighter to save Venom Snake, his phantom, from an assassin (as the latter had earlier been drenched in medical alcohol earlier) during XOF's attack on the hospital in Cyprus.
Venom Snake
Although technically not a real lighter, Venom Snake a few times used his iDroid's flame hologram to "light" one of his phantom cigars to pass time when arriving back on Mother Base.
Solid Snake
During the Zanzibar Land Disturbance, FOXHOUND operative Solid Snake was forced to improvise in his fight against Big Boss, having discarded his weapons earlier after they caught fire. While pursued by Big Boss throughout an underground base, Snake eventually located a sterling-made Zippo/JR Tokai lighter. Combining the lighter with a lacquer spray, he created a makeshift flamethrower, which he then used to burn Big Boss alive.
During his missions to stop the Guns of the Patriots Incident in 2014, Snake made use of a lighter so that he'd be able to smoke cigarettes.
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Steven Armstrong, due to his status as a cigar smoker, frequently carried a gold lighter around.
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In the Secret Theatre film Made in the USA, EVA supplied an M1911A1 to Naked Snake upon their first meeting, only for Snake to realize, after admiring its craftsmanship, that it was actually a novelty cigar lighter, much to his disappointment.
A FOXHOUND-themed zippo lighter was developed around the time of the first Metal Gear Solid game. Similarly, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater also had a Metal Gear Solid 3-themed zippo lighter.


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I work as a 2nd shift ICS/Unloader at store in Everett WA, WalMart is extremely cheap and stingy on pay for thier associates in comparison to the work we do. Despite being the most physically demanding job in the store and the fact that they keep adding more and more tasks and responsibilities to our shift the pay is lame at best only 40 cents over minimum wedge. Also they have been testing new procedures in our store in which our shift is responsible to complete additional tasks and having us work faster to unload the GM trucks so we can assist 3rd shift in the tasks they are supposed to finish.
Now I transfered from another store and they didnt have nearly as many additional responsibilities to worry about, it was unloading the trucks, taking the merchandise to the floor, separating, break packs, maby a carryout or two and cleaning up after; as opposed to Unloading trucks, zoneing departments, mixing paint, carryouts, picks, bin audits, bin dumps, trailer listing, assisting night stock, downstacking remix pallets, breakpacks, processing apperal, cleaning up and organizing the receiving area.
I think that with more physical and mental stress and responsibility should come more pay, asif the pay wasnt already crappy for the original tasks we are supposed to have my store keeps adding more and more without any increase in pay. I wouldnt reccomend working as a 2nd shift ICS/Unloader unless you want to spend your first 3-6 hours+(even more during holidays) sweating, twisting, acheing and bending while unloading 1400-2700 peice trucks, pulling pallets up to 2665lbs with ### half broken jacks while Managment sits there yelling FASTER! FASTER!, only to have tons more ### to do after your main objective is complete. All for half-assed pay.
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