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Tru TV set to air '24/7 Pacquiao/Bradley' Marathon
truTV Set to Broadcast HBO Reality Series '24/7 Pacquiao/Bradley' Marathon on Saturday, June 9
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Written By Sara Bibel
June 1st, 2012
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HBOs Emmy®-winning reality series 24/7 is coming to truTV, which will air a marathon replay of all four installments of the new series 24/7 Pacquiao/Bradley on Saturday, June 9, at 4 p.m. (ET/PT), just a few hours before the intriguing welterweight title showdown takes place in Las Vegas.
In the lead-up to the highly anticipated HBO Pay-Per-View® telecast on June 9 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena, where international superstar Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KOs) meets undefeated challenger Timothy Bradley Jr. (28-0, 12 KOs) in a 12-round welterweight title fight, truTV will air all four editions of the 24/7 reality series consecutively, starting at 4 p.m. (ET/PT) on fight day. This marks the first time truTV has ever presented HBOs 24/7. Each episode runs 30 minutes.
24/7 Pacquiao/Bradley is the all-access, behind-the-scenes pass that allows viewers to step into the lives of the fighters before they step into the ring. Pacquiao, the pride of the Philippines, who has won w orld titles in eight different weight divisions, is training at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, Calif., while the fast-rising Bradley is based in his hometown of Palms Springs, Calif.
Over the past five years, HBOs 24/7 franchise has earned 16 Sports Emmys® for production excellence. Narrated by Liev Schreiber, the fast-moving, documentary-style production focuses on the training, commitment and sacrifices that prizefighters make in order to realize their dreams. The turnaround time is among the quickest in television as the series follows the fighters and their teams, both at camp and at home, while excitement and anxiety builds for the big fight.
truTV, one of cables fastest growing brands, offers a wildly entertaining look at the real world through outrageous characters, unpredictable situations and irreverent storytelling. Currently seen in 92 million U.S. households, truTV features such popular original series as Hardcore Pawn, Fu ll Throttle Saloon, Lizard Lick Towing, Storage Hunters, Impractical Jokers, Operation Repo, South Beach Tow, Black Gold and World's Dumbest , as well as the acquired hit Wipeout. In addition, truTV is a partner in airing the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Championship. During the daytime, the channel features expert trial coverage under the name In Session.
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I need Jalopnik's help. I just accepted a new job with a salary delta of +$12-15k/year. That's alot to a guy who made $45k in 2006 including quite a bit of overtime. My question is, and I think it pertains to the ~30-40 something reader/writership demographic of my fellow Jalopnikkas, should I buy a house or another car? If it's a car, which I think it will be, which one? Our situation is this:
We do not have, and do not plan on having kids. Ever. Too damn many global problems could be solved by not overpopulating the planet while missing out on your dreams ;)
My wife loves fun cars with torque and the occaisional track day, hates automatic transmissions.
We rent a nice house in a great part of SE PDX from my cousin, who will never raise rent until we leave. $825/mo for a 2 BR 1 BA with fenced yard for our doggie, but no garage, only carport. He even let us put in a hot tub and keg fridge :)
We have two fun cars already: 2000 A6 2.7T Quattro 6 speed, 1995 Talon Tsi AWD 5 speed. Now we will be commuting to different places for work, and the Talon is not always roadworthy, which could pose an occaisional logistics issue. Such is the way of the DSM owner, but it's worth it. They are both great snow/HPDE cars, and I don't want to part with either, but part of me wants a real two seat, RWD sports car for weekends and the track. Part of me wants a convertible (I had one once, it's hard to describe why I lust for another, but it's a different experience on those fun weekend drives, despite the torsional rigidity compromise), the other part of me wants a dedicated track/road warrior with a roof and tight chassis. Part of me wants said car to be economical for spares/parts, the other part wants something so sexy, divisive, and rare that parts are a secondary concern.
So, my questions are: 1. Keep renting and get another car, or buy a house like my society, family, and friends say I should? You can't take it with you, and may or may not provide as much instant gratification as another car, especially a non-daily driver.
2. Buying a house is overrated, and the market is shifting towards a buyer's advantage anyway, so I should wait a year or two. The only question then is, S2000, or M coupe (or possibly a Mazdaspeed Miata). The Honda can be had for ~$15-20k, the M coupe for $20-22k. One would be more economical to run at the track, and have the topless option. Some may consider that crazy, since I live in the PNW, but I'll take my top off at +50 degrees F, or anything over 30MPH if it's snowing ;) The other would be way more sexy, passionate, pure, and expensive to maintain, but that still leaves me with two trackable cars if one is down. I know, neither has a turbo, but I already have 3 in my life :)
Note question number two is fully dependant on question one being answered with "car." Oh, and my wife has already OK'ed this, either way!
Well Turboner, we live in a city/state where no matter what we'll never be able to afford a house, especially at Gawker slave wages. So, we're saying car. Though we would be remiss if we did not point out that you could get a hoonalicious Se7en kit for that kind of money. Take it away, Mr. Navarro! Your thoughts?

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BOSTON An offensive explosion in the first and an explosion of a different type in the eighth marked the start and finish of the Red Sox thumping of the Orioles, 10-3, Friday night at Fenway Park.
Sending 13 batters to the plate in the first inning, with eight of them scoring, there was little else the Red Sox had to do in beating the Orioles, 10-3, for the second straight game at Fenway Park.
The Sox battered Orioles left-hander Zach Britton for six hits in the first, including a three-run blast by David Ortiz, his 19th of the season. Britton lasted just two-thirds of an inning, giving up eight runs (seven earned) on six hits and two walks with one strikeout.
Dustin Pedroia added a solo shot leading off the sixth off Chris Jakabauskus
Josh Beckett, who left after the fifth inning for precautionary reasons, with a mildly hyperextended left knee, earned the win improving to 7-4 with a 2.27 ERA. He gave up three runs on seven hits and two walks with three strikeouts.
Matt Albers followed Beckett, with four strikeouts in two innings.
Two bench-clearing brawls, with four ejections, in the eighth inning, triggered by a David Ortiz-Kevin Gregg showdown marked the end of the game. Ortiz, Gregg, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, and Jim Johnson were all ejected.
PLAYER OF THE GAME: David Ortiz
Ortizs three-run homer in the first inning off starter Zach Britton was the big blast in the Sox eight-run barrage that inning. It was his team-leading 19th home run of the season, second in as many nights against a lefty, and 146th of his career at Fenway Park, passing Bobby Doerr for sole possession of fifth all-time. It was the seventh time he has homered in back-to-back games this season four more than he did all last year.
Ortiz went 2-for-4 with three RBI, and is now 6-for-17 with three doubles, two home runs, and five walks in five games on the homestand.
But, it was his eighth-inning fireworks that provided Ortizs signature to the game. Ortiz and Os reliever Kevin Gregg sparked two bench-clearing brawls, with the second resulting in haymakers thrown by each and four players ejected Ortiz, Gregg, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, and the Os Jim Johnson.
Ortiz initially took exception to three inside pitches from Gregg that jackknifed the Sox DH, emptying both dugouts and bullpens. After flying out to center field, Ortiz objected to Greggs directions for him to run out the play to first base. Ortiz charged the mound, with an all-out brawl ensuing.
It was the ninth career ejection for Ortiz, and first for Saltalamacchia.
HONORABLE MENTION: Dustin Pedroia
For the second straight game, Pedroia blasted a titanic home run. Unlike his home run on Thursday, though, his Friday night shot leading off the sixth inning -- stayed in the park only because it hit the signage high above the Green Monster.
Pedroia went 2-for-4, raising his average to .281, with three RBI and a home run, his 10th of the season. It was the first time hes hit back-to-back home runs in consecutive games since April 10 and 11. He has homered in three of his last four games.
His first-inning single to center field extended his on-base streak to 22 games going back to June 15, the longest active streak in the AL. In that time he is 30-for-86, batting .349, with 17 walks. His eighth-inning walk was his 62nd of the season, passing Mark Bellhorn for most by a Sox second baseman prior to the All-Star break since 1946.
THE GOAT: Zach Britton
With less than a full inning of work to show for it, Britton left his team in a very deep and very early eight-run hole. It was more than the Orioles climb out of. After getting Jacoby Ellsbury to fly out to Adam Jones in center field one of two stellar catches the Os centerfield made on his Sox counterpart in the game -- to open the inning, Britton allowed the next seven Sox batters to reach base before he could record another out.
Britton went just two-thirds of an inning, giving up eight runs (seven earned) on six hits and two walks with a strikeout, and a home run. His record fell to 6-6 while his ERA climbed from 3.47 to 4.05.
Fans were still trying to find their seats at Fenway Park when the game was all but over. The Sox sent 13 batters to the plate in the first inning, with eight scoring. The last time the Sox scored as many runs in the first inning was on Aug. 12, 2008, against Texas, when they scored 10.
Jacoby Ellsbury led off against Zach Britton, flying out to Adam Jones, who made a nice catch, running into the triangle in center field. Dustin Pedroia singled to center Adrian Gonzalez walked. Kevin Youkilis singled through the shortstop hole, scoring Pedroia, sending Gonzalez to second. Ortiz blasted a three-run homer to right. Jason Varitek walked. Marco Scutaro singled to center, with Varitek taking third. Darnell McDonald doubled to left-center, scoring Varitek and Scutaro. Yamaico Navarro struck out. Ellsbury singled to left, scoring McDonald, and ending Brittons outing.
Brad Bergesen came in for the Os. Pedroia reached on an error by shortstop J.J. Hardy. Gonzalez singled, scoring Ellsbury, sending Pedroia to third. Youkilis grounded out to third, ending the offensive explosion.
The total: One inning, 13 batters, eight runs (seven earned), seven hits, two walks, one strikeout, one error, two runners left on base, and two pitchers. And one game virtually in the win column.
Sending 13 batters to the plate in the first inning, it was the 18th time the Sox have batted around this season, extending their major league lead
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1. How did you learn to program? Did you teach yourself using resources such as books and the internet, or did you learn from taking courses at a school or university?
2. In your opinion, what is the best language to start with for beginners, if it matters at all? Which language did you start with?
3. Did you feel overwhelmed at first?
4. Are you supposed to memorize all of the codes or just what the codes do? I think it's most likely the latter but I want to be certain.
5. What are the best IDE's to use for programming such as Assembly and C++?
6. Are there any prerequisites for programming? Is high level math necessary?
7. Do you have any advice or good resources to help me?
Thanks in advance.
1.) Combination of books, online resources, and courses in uni. You can find a ton just by googling specifics (ie google "popular ebook here".pdf ; or google "Learn programming website").
2.) Python or Java.
3.) Not really
4.) There's no way to memorize the code. That's why there are comments.
5.) Really subjective
6.) Not really any except for basic arithmetic and order of operations. For more difficult topics you will need to know certain things that are prerequisites. Obviously this differs from topic to topic.
7.) khan academy and code academy
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1. Started learning myself from internet and learnt the rest during first year of Uni.
2. There's really no good answer for this, I started with C++ and thought it was horrible (not anymore, tho). A lot people seem to suggest Python so you could try that.
3. A little but all you need to realize it that it's step by step procress, once you know how computers "think" and can think the same way, it starts getting easier.
4. There's not much to memorize outside of bigger libraries and those have usually documentation to them, so no. Most of the procress is using simple english works that mean pretty much do what they say on the tin.
5. I use Code::Blocks for C/C++, idk about others.
6. Patience.
I suck at math so I wouldn't say you need it, just need to learn the logic behind it.
7. Google is programmers best friend.
Really, if you ever get stuck on something, Google almost always can solve it or atleast help you solve it yourself. You can find plenty of tutorials and other helpfull stuff just by googling the language.
The game design and programming board is also very helpfull:
Great answers so far, you guys have been very helpful. Also, thanks for the link to the game development board, I never knew that existed. I would also like to hear more experiences from other programmers, so keep the replies coming!
neroAngelo 4 years ago#5
I learned in school so it wasn't overwhelming at all since I had a professional teaching me. I'd recommend starting with C# since it's easy to get started with. Visual Studio Express is the best IDE to use when getting started with C#. You also don't really ever sit down and memorize code. If you don't know how to code something you Google for an example, from that learn which APIs to use, then check the language doc of those APIs for more info. As you do this, you learn what APIs to use for different tasks. You may need to do some memorization of the basic types and keywords though. Only very basic math is needed to code. Usually just add, sub, mult, div. When you need to optimize something for performance, you might need more advanced math, but that's not too common.
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Chaos_Missile 4 years ago#6
1. A combination of both uni and self-learn. My bro introduced me to programming, which pique my interested
2. I started with C, though I've been using Java more recently. There has been many that says Python is a good starting point, and from what I've seen, it is. Though that could be because I've already done more difficult languages that it seems easy by comparison
3. Hello World. The first program ANYONE will do. 3 lines of code. The basic are quite simple and generalised thoughtout all the languages. It's going into the language specifics that's overwhelming
4. You do need to memorise some of the codes, what they do and the libraries they come from. If you used the IDE I started with, you WILL need to memorise. Other IDEs will automatically import them for you if neccesary
5. I used Visual C++ when I started coding in C, Dev C++ for C++, JCreator for Java. I've also dabbled a little in both Eclipse and Netbeans for Java and a little of C++. It highly depends on your personal preference tbqh.
6. You do need some maths knowledge, yes.
7. Google will be your best friend. Also, Stack Overflow, even if you dont join it, has plenty of experienced programmers that can help just through their articles alone.
You also need to be creative as it is sometimes impossible to find direct answers to a particular problem.
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I'm interested in learning to program. Although I don't intend to do it professionally or as a job as of now, I'd still like to become quite good at it. I'll be treating it as a hobby, but I'm willing to put a lot of time and effort into it. That said, I have a few questions for those who have learned to program.
1. University. Although that pretty much means self taught with a lot of the professors. But there were some good ones that helped me a lot.
2. I don't think it matters at all. Just get the basics of if-then statements and for looping down early, all programming languages have this, just in different forms.
4. Memorizing syntax is hardly important this day and age. Knowing structure and logic and all that is the most important thing.
5. People tend to like Eclipse. Not sure if it works with assembly because I don't **** with assembly.
6. I don't think anything higher than algebra is really necessary for a lot of stuff but it depends on what you're doing. I'd imagine if you were writing your own physics engine more would be required...
7. Not really anything specific. I always just googled everything and got help from various sites.
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Seems like most everyone so far has had some schooling in the matter. I hope not taking classes in programming will not be a handicap for me. :(
SinisterSlay 4 years ago#9
-CJF- posted...
I'm interested in learning to program. Although I don't intend to do it professionally or as a job as of now, I'd still like to become quite good at it. I'll be treating it as a hobby, but I'm willing to put a lot of time and effort into it. That said, I have a few questions for those who have learned to program.
1: I started in school, and learned some VB5. This got me interested and I branched out in languages. Then I took programming courses for college and then the rest is history.
2. Best for beginners? That's a tough choice as it's a moving target. Back when I started, vb6 was a good start because the alternative was C++... and no one wants that. When I was in college, they recommended Java as a start and called it an easy version of C++.
My opinion? I'd say start easy and get your feet wet with a bit of VBScript. With very little code you can do some basic things and learn logic and variables. Then move on to a strongly typed language like C#. Then once you have a handle on objects and variables, move to javascript and DOM (html5 related things)/
3: Yes, originally I only knew how to make stuff invisible on screen. My first lesson with variables was really confusing, but eventually it "clicked" and it all made sense.
4: No one memorizes code. If you need something you don't know how to do, you google it. Google is really good at coding problems.
I was recently moved to a VB.net project, I had never coded in vb.net, but the syntax is basically the same. Anything odd, and I just google it.
5: I am not sure if there actually is an IDE for assembly. Please don't start with C++, no one deserves to suffer pointers. Your going to drive yourself mad trying to make anything work.
6: High level math is not necessary for GUI programming. If you want to get into graphics and physics, then you need high level math.
7: Google is a great resource. Trying to search something like the Microsoft Knowledge base is hopeless without google. The MSKB search basically returns random results.
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a_Wizards_Baker 4 years ago#10
-CJF- posted...
Seems like most everyone so far has had some schooling in the matter. I hope not taking classes in programming will not be a handicap for me. :(
Honestly, you don't need to, but it will certainly help you over some of the hurdles of programming. Like some previous posters mentioned: C++ is difficult because the concepts involved (i.e. pointers). The language itself is very simple, but without taking classes i don't think i would have picked up those concepts as quickly from just reading a book.
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Hugh Jackman continues to film scenes on the streets of Madrid, Spain for his new film, The Tourist. Today, he was accompanied by co-stars Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams. Together, they shot around the capital's best known locations such as La Plaza Mayor, the Fine Arts Museum, and the Paseo del Prado. (Here are some pictures of Hugh and Ewan filming in NYC's Bryant Park.)
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The duck speaker is a fun gadget for your bath time. My brother loves it as it was birthday present for him and my nephew (2) found new friend - as you can speak through the duck to him from another room ;-) Great fun!!!
Not the loudest, so not suitable for a shower but for a bath would be fine. A bit muffled too but better than nothing. Fun anyway!
The volume it emits is about the same level as my iPad and iPhone with no speakers attached. Its sole advantage seems to be the fact that it can be placed much closer to the bath than these devices. If you have a small bathroom (like me), aside from the novelty value, I'm not sure you'll find these of much use as speakers.
Purchased this as a stocking filler for my husband who likes to take his iPod into the bathroom to listen to while he is in the bath. It's perfect! Our toddler loves it in her bath too! The radio is a great little feature too.
This a great gift. Got for my boyfriend for Christmas and the whole family uses it even the kids.
This duck was bought a a present for my sister, she absolutely loves it and thinks it was a brilliant gift.
Love it! plays nicely from I pod sounds good
All good. Bought as a gift, my sis was chuffed!
The iDuck Floating Wireless Speaker was well packed and looks as described.
iDuck Floating Wireless Speaker is an excellent product and very useful. Wanted a radio for the bath/shower, but this is even better.
I bought the iDuck Floating Wireless Speaker as a gift for my partners dad, and he loved it. It is a great novelty item, with extremely reliable functions. The speaker is great and loud enough. The fact that it is wireless is great as it's completely safe to use and the range for the duck is surprisingly a good distance! Would definitely recommend and buy again as a gift, I might even grab one for myself!
The iDuck is a perfect present for bath lovers. The sound quality is not excellent, but it won't bother you when you have the opportunity to listen to music in your bathtub with a little duck. I would recommend it, my boyfriend loves it.
My freind bought this and it is brilliant . The sound quality is excellent!!
Doesn't float in the shower, but he's happy in the tray getting splashed and providing tunes for the daily clean. Very cool.
Great little gadget...
What an amazing duck! I brought it for my best friends birthday (she loves ducks) and she has a bath with it all the time! I mean the fact that it can transmit songs is so cool! Though if you are a music critic you may find the sound a wee bit bad. Anyway, it is great so I suggest, if you like ducks or music or baths…get it!
I just love this small Duck speaker. I am listening to music all the time and especially when I am taking a bath. GREAT gadget !!
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A two-week amnesty on abandoned cars, supported by Encams (Environmental Campaigns), began yesterday.
Over 190 councils in England will be offering free collection and disposal of any vehicle which the owner is planning to scrap.
The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill, which is currently progressing through Parliament, will give local authorities new powers to deal with abandoned cars and nuisance vehicles.
It will make it an offence to abandon a motor vehicle and give local authorities the power to issue fixed penalty notices of £200 to transgressors.
Edmund King, Executive Director of the RAC Foundation, said: "Illegally abandoned cars are not only an eyesore, an environmental and social problem, but they are a potential death trap for children who play in them."


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I'm looking to till a new garden plot this weekend and my soil test shows that there is very little Nitrogen in the soil. I'm wondering what would be the best thing to add (and how much of it) to bring the Nitrogen level up. P and K look good. I'm all for composting, but having just moved into the house last year, I don't have any of my own.
So, yes, I'm looking for a quick fix for the lack of Nitrogen (I've got tomatoes that are ready to go in the ground). Compost? Urea? How much? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
quick fix (is there no such thing) for Nitrogen deficiency
I'm looking to till a new garden plot this weekend and my soil test shows that there is very little Nitrogen in the soil. I'm wondering what would be the best thing to add (and how much of it) to bring the Nitrogen level up. P and K look good. I'm all for composting, but having just moved into the house last year, I don't have any of my own.
Try blood meal - follow directions on the package.
An effective and inexpensive choice is alfalfa meal (which also has valuable trace minerals), but the cheapest nitrogen boost is probably kitchen scraps (especially fruits & vegetables) blended to mush and poured into a hole next to the plant. See http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1182911/ for an ongoing kitchen scraps discussion, and http://compost.css.cornell.edu/OnFarmHandbook/apa.taba1.html for a list of raw materials for composting that has a handy column for nitrogen percentage by dry weight.
I must offer a warning, though. I've discovered the hard way that overdoing the nitrogen-rich soil amendments can cause problems: http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1976/
I've seen warnings to NOT pace urea near sprouting seeds, and in any event to stay under 10 pounds per acre unless you can count on at least 1/4" of rain within a day or so 9and even then, stay under 20 pounds per acre).
On the other hand, I read one source that was considering adding 100 pounds per acre in one shot, since he expected somee crop to pull that much out.
Personally, even on established lawn, shurbs and trees, I spread it very thinly and several times per year to avoid burning: a 50-pound bag lasted me more than two years on about one acre.
Some advice that I think is sound:
Spread thinly to avoid burning.
Water it in to prevent loss due to turning into ammonia.
Don't apply before heavy rain: it is soluble and could wash right out.
Apply frequently and lightly, ratjher than in one heavy dose.
Best of all it to till it under during application, to get it into the soil.
The advatage is that it is cheap and concentrated: a 50-pound bag of 45-0-0 has more N than TWO TONS of compost that has 0.5% N.
On the other hand, your soil might need the 3,955 pounds of organic matter in that compoost even more than it needs the Nitrogen!
I would urge applying all the compost you can afford and haul to a new garden plot. Till it in with a little generic chemical fertilizer, whatever is handy.
Then, frequent light applications of any cheap high-N chemical fertilizer for the first few years, until you get a soil test that shows 'adequate' N for low-intensity gardening.
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Squeezing out longer battery life in increasingly smaller, more sophisticated, feature-laden wireless products can be a challenge. The list of portable wireless devices grows-cell phones, pagers, global positioning systems (GPS), personal digital assistants (PDAs), laptop and palm computers with Bluetooth devices, and Web pads are available now, with other appliances on the way. With these products, the need increases for high efficiency across a wide range of supply and operating voltages."Consumer demand has stretched the capabilities of portable devices, in terms of power and functionality while pressuring for smaller size and significantly longer battery life. Now they want it all: months-long battery life, 2 W RF transmission and Web surfing capability from a product small enough to comfortably fit in a shirt pocket," writes Darryl Phillips, a senior applications engineer at National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and a contributor to this week's focus on power-management strategies for portable products. Among the issues at stake: regulation schemes for different system requirements, emerging battery chemistries and the trade-offs in cost, efficiency and space among low-voltage dropout and switched regulation schemes.
High efficiency is forcing designers of wireless digital handsets away from using LDO regulators and toward increased use of inductive and capacitive switching-type voltage converters. Behind the move is that designers must successfully juggle two dynamics if they are to succeed. One is a shift in source voltages as systems move from alkaline, nickel cadmium, and nickel-metal hydride battery chemistries to lightweight lithium-ion. The other dynamic is the need to tailor these source supplies to the broad range of operating voltages needed to power logic and baseband circuits, processors, power amplifiers and displays. And like the shift in source voltages, many of these circuit operating voltages are also in flux.
Driving the need to efficiently convert source voltages to operating voltages is the high priority placed on battery-driven operating time. Efficient conversion means minimal waste of precious battery power. What's more, designs need to maintain their high efficiency across operating states that range from low-power standby mode to full load. To achieve the high efficiency they seek, portable equipment makers are largely drifting away from low-dropout voltage regulators to more power-efficient inductor- and capacitor-based switching dc/dc converters designed to minimize loss while keeping down the size and cost.
True, LDOs have their place, and can often work well with switching converters. Indeed, in his article, Phillips offered some examples of where LDOs work best for portable power management. In particular, he wrote, "providing that the input voltage range is close to the desired output voltage, LDOs provide good efficiency."
But often those input and output voltages differ significantly. Then it is the drive to achieve the highest efficiency voltage conversion in the face of those disparate source and load voltages that fuels a move from LDOs toward switching dc/dc converters. The shift is not insignificant given the appeal that LDOs have historically held for handset designers, who appreciate the fact that, unlike switch-mode supplies, they generate no EMI. "LDOs are cheap, easy to use, and do the job. Customers love them. The problem is that efficiency is not their strong point," said Peter Henry, National Semiconductor's director of power management integration.
Mickey McClure, a senior product manager at Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas) puts the requirements of handheld products into two categories. One category includes those products powered from one or two alkaline cells; the other, those powered from Li-ion cells. "For devices powered off one or two alkaline cells, you need to boost the voltage, primarily through a charge pump or conventional inductor-based boost converter," said McClure. "But with new cell phones almost exclusively going to lithium ion, you're not just interested in simply boosting voltage."
The reason is that, where alkaline, NiCd and NiMH cells develop about 1.2 V each, a Li-ion cell produces a nominal 3.6 V. Moreover, the voltage swing of a Li-ion as it discharges goes from about 4.2 V to 2.5 V, a range that falls both above and below the 3.3 V needed to power a typical cell phone chip set. As a result, the main power supply for a cell phone, if it is to make the most of the battery's energy, must be able to switch between boost (step-up) and buck (step-down) functions.
With logic voltages dipping to 1.8 V, that buck/boost capability needed with Li-ion cells reverts to a buck-only requirement. Moreover, not only has that low logic voltage already been reached with a chip set from cell phone maker Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) that takes a core voltage of 1.8 V, but additional voltage drops loom.
Beyond the baseband chips, another key power-consuming element in cell phones, the GaAs FET power amplifier, has blazed its own trail of change. And here too, changing voltages have affected power management and therefore regulator requirements.
"As the lithium-ion battery discharges down to 3 or 2.7 V, some designers boost that voltage up to a nominal 3.6 V," said Tony Armstrong, power ICs marketing director for Vishay Siliconix Inc., (Santa Clara, Calif.). Dc/dc converters are being harnessed to vary the amplifier's power level to the minimum needed to communicate with a basestation. "They are talking about synchronous buck converters that can adjust the output voltage from a nominal low of 0.3 V all the way up to 3.4 V and thereby optimizing battery life," said Armstrong. Vishay business development manager Kin Shum pointed out that synchronous converters wield two MOSFETs, eliminating the diode's inherent voltage drop. As a result, noted Shum, "People tend to move to a synchronous converter for all their low-voltage applications."
New display technology is another source of changing voltage requirements in portable handsets. David Bell, general manager for the power business unit of Linear Technology Corp., (Milpitas, Calif.)said that with color displays, designers are replacing the green or amber LEDs used for backlights with white LEDs. These have a forward voltage of 4 V compared to 1.8 V or 2 V for conventional LEDs and need a step-up converter where none was called for before. Also, said Bell, the color LCDs themselves run off a higher contrast-bias voltage, "up in the 9-V range, and once again requiring a boost converter."
As for PDAs, which have more complex power-management requirements than cell phones, boost converters are already part of the display subsystem, said Andrew Cowell, business manager for power products at Micrel Inc. (San Jose, Calif.). Not only do the larger displays in PDAs take higher voltages, around 20 V to 30 V, but the processors have higher performance levels, especially those that run Windows CE.
And on the subject of processors, Intel's power-saving SpeedStep specification for its latest mobile Pentium III processors is yet another curve ball that designers must field. That specification switches both the clock frequency and the core operating voltage when going from ac to battery power. Specifically, the switch is from 1.6 V and 600 MHz when ac-powered, to 1.35 V at 500 MHz when drawing power from the battery.
The bottom line is that power management in portable and wireless designs has changed the field of power from the static and staid field that it used to be, to one that is technically demanding, fast changing, and one which depends on that key product feature: battery-powered run-time.
Gil Bassak is a technical journalist and former practicing engineer who lives in Ossining, N. Y.


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The first objective of this paper is to identify the differences between microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts of competitiveness. The second objective is to explain why the concept of national competitiveness is controversial and why the obsession with competitiveness has adverse impacts on the allocation of resources and the choice of economic policies. The third goal is to describe and evaluate the methodology of the best known international rankings of competitiveness (World Competitiveness Yearbook and The Global Competitiveness Report). In the fourth section of this paper we use data published in this rankings to analyse changes in competitiveness of the Visegrad Group economies in 2007 - 2012.
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LOS ANGELES, May 9 (UPI) -- Grammy winning R&B singer Chris Brown, infamous for savagely beating the pop-star Rihanna—his then-girlfriend—hours before the 2009 Grammy awards, admitted to violating his probation during a court appearance today and was sentenced to additional jail time.
Brown was involved in altercation last October outside a hotel in Washington, D.C., where the singer faces misdemeanor assault charges after a man accused Brown of striking him.
Brown, arrested after being dismissed from a court-ordered rehab sentence, has been in custody since mid-March.
Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin sentenced Brown to a year in county jail, but gave credit for good behavior and time served, including rehab. The singer faces an additional 131 days behind bars.
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I began working for a Company in Michigan about 3 months ago. from day one i was faced with a co-worker that has a very insinuative nature, he kept asking me out, asking me if i loved my husband telling me that we should go out that we should be married, telling me that he knew that i had to be good in bed etc.
From day one i told him that i was a happily married woman and that this behaviour was not welcome. He took no notice of me a continued. He would even do all of this in front our our direct manager, who would take no action to prevent or end this behaviour.
About a month ago i Finlay made a complaint to my manager and asked him to say something to my co-worker as the situation was becoming ridiculous. My manager told me that the guy was crazy and not to take any notice of him.
The comments and sexual slurs stopped but from that day on things began to get very hostile at work. I felt watched like everyone was waiting for me to do something wrong.
Finlay I resigned because it was playing havoc with my nerves.
The other thing is that every morning when i walked in to work i would find some kind of porn page up on my work screen. I also complained about this and nothing was ever done about it.
I sent my resignation letter to the HR manager, who proceeded to call me 5 minutes later, apologizing and telling me that she knew nothing of this. She works at a different location, about 250 miles away. In fact i am the only female employee at my location.
She asked me to reconsider my resignation and told me that she would be conducting an investigation.
The next day she called again and her tone had changed. she left a message in my voice mail. Telling me that she would be driving down to our division on Monday and that she would like to me with me my direct manager (the guy that was present through al lot of the comments, and did nothing to prevent them) and there insurance guy.
I respond via email, telling her that i did not think that i would be comfortable having my direct manager present, but that i was willing to meet with her and the insurance guy.
She responded via email insisting that my direct manager be present! I don't quit know what to do or how to handle this and would be very appreciative of any advice anyone might give me.
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Visipak makes a wide variety of clear tube packaging containers. These extruded tubes offer exceptional clarity and are available in round, square, rectangle, triangle, oval and threaded varieties. Visipak tubes are made-to-order, and can be customized with many options such as labelling, printing, slicing and crimping. They are available in lengths up to 12 feet, with a broad selection of closures. These tubes are used to package all types of products, including hardware, cosmetics, toys and more.
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The process of thermoforming involves heating a thermoplastic sheet, placing it over a mould, and keeping it under vacuum until cooled. Visipak uses thermoforming to produce blister packaging and shipping trays, as well as clamshell packaging, a popular choice thanks to its many advantages. Clamshell packaging, for example, enables consumers to see the product, while still minimizing damage and theft. It is also durable and versatile. When used with interchangeable printed inserts, one clamshell can be used to package a variety of products of similar size. In addition, empty clamshells nest well, so shipping costs are minimized and storage is convenient.
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Healthcare IT Leadership Requires a Thick Skin
Healthcare is in crisis, and I'm here to report that IT is no panacea.
In fact, if you're in a healthcare IT leadership position, doing your job may feel a bit like running the gauntlet. In this ancient, barbaric practice used by both Europeans and Native Americans, prisoners or wrongdoers were forced to run between rows of soldiers or warriors who administered beatings.
Contrast the bright, shiny promises of healthcare IT vendors with the brutal, unforgiving punishment of making wrong choices in IT program selection, training, budgeting, and deployment and you get the picture.
There's a reason they call it execution.
The right technology, deployed wrongly, can burden providers with crushing workloads, plummeting morale, and bad headlines.
It's tough to gain the confidence of payers and patients if laptops packed with hordes of personal information are being lost or stolen. When patient wait times go up and customer satisfaction goes down, the public isn't going to be satisfied by excuses blaming "technical difficulties."
And yet, technology may be the only thing that gets and keeps healthcare costs under control. In all my travels, I keep encountering dedicated healthcare executives who have spent their entire careers growing up with technology, making it do the seemingly impossible.


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Jon Meacham has a lot of different faces to make these days. Watch the former Newsweek editor ahead in this four-second capture from this morning's appearance on MSNBC. Meachem co-hosts the PBS television newsmagazine "Need to Know."
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It's April Fools, but this is no joke. Today, I am as proud as I have ever been. The Knot is for sale. In the post below, I'm going to lay out your various options for order.
First, if you need some background on how The Knot came to be written, watch this.
I'm going to spare you the ginormous infomercial thing and just give you a look at the dedication page. You may roll your eyes. You may laugh. You may do any number of things, but I don't care–what I say is heartfelt and sincere. You are all part of my life.
For Janette: I love you more than I can say
For Max: Love is not an adequate word
For my family: You held me up when I couldn't hold on
For Adam T. Glass: You are my strange, strange brother
For the Readers of World's Strongest Librarian: You are even stranger than Adam.
Here are your buying options:
Option 1: You just can't wait and you have a Kindle.
Option 2: Buy a print copy from Amazon
A paperback copy of The Knot is on sale from Amazon for $20.95. I'm not at all embarrassed by that price. The Knot took three years to write and it's got a whole lotta pages and I love it.
Buy from Amazon. (this link will also take you to a synopsis of the book)
I am this book
This book means everything to me. It is pure me, and if you are a regular reader, that will be a good thing for you. The Knot is easily the most personal thing I am able to share with you. It was the only light-hearted thing in my life during the blackest years of my existence.
And it easily the most creative thing I've ever done, and that's saying something. Opening the package and seeing this book for the first time–well, I was as happy as I've ever been. When you read it, you will know that I had a hell of a good time writing it.
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The 1990 farm bill requires private certified pesticide applicators to keep records of all applications of federally restricted-use pesticides (RUP). The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) administers the Federal Pesticide Recordkeeping Program.
Although applicators have 14 days to record information about an RUP application, it is best do so immediately after each application to ensure accurate and detailed records. These records must be maintained for two years.
There is no required federal form on which to maintain your records; however, MU Extension publication MP693, Restricted-Use Pesticide Record-Keeping Form, can be downloaded, reproduced and used to be in compliance with the regulation.
Spot treatments are especially useful in the control of noxious weeds. If you apply restricted-use pesticides on the same day in a total area of less than a tenth of an acre, you are required to record all of the following information:
NoteGreenhouse and nursery treatments do not qualify as spot treatments.
Only the following people have the right to access your restricted-use pesticide records:
All commercial applicators will continue to maintain the records they currently keep under Missouri or federal regulations. The new federal pesticide record-keeping regulations require all commercial applicators, both agricultural and nonagricultural, to furnish a copy of the application record to the customer within 30 days of the restricted-use pesticide application.
The AMS administrator of USDA is responsible for the enforcement actions taken against violators of this standard.
Any private applicator who violates any provision of the regulations will be subject to the following civil penalties:
Maintenance of pesticide application records helps farmers to:
Also, USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts surveys on pesticide use for agricultural production. The information gathered from these surveys is used to maintain a database on the use of pesticides by agriculture. Various public and private organizations use the data when making decisions about or studying such issues as the safety of the nation's food supply, the quality of our water, and the impact of IPM.
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Worker Protection Standard (WPS) is a federal regulation intended to reduce the risk of pesticide poisoning and injury among agricultural workers. Private applicators hiring pesticide handlers or workers must display application information to all employees in an accessible area of the workplace before a pesticide is applied. This display is not limited to restricted-use pesticides, but is required when the label of any pesticide being used has an Agricultural Use Requirements section.
Additional record-keeping information is also required to meet federal WPS regulations:
The previously mentioned MU Extension record-keeping form, MP693, provides space to record the necessary information for both RUP and WPS records.
The brand or product name and EPA registration number for most restricted-use agricultural pesticides registered in Missouri are listed in the following table. If you use a restricted-use pesticide that is not listed, add the brand or product name and registration number to the table. This information is obtained from the pesticide label.
This list of products was accurate as of the date of publication of this guide. For an updated list of registered RUPs, contact the Missouri Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Pesticide Control at 573-751-5504.
Table 1Agricultural restricted-use pesticides for Missouri.
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Broncos Sign Ryan Harris, Place Ryan Clady On Injured ReserveThe Denver Broncos have signed veteran offensive lineman Ryan Harris a day after losing perennial Pro Bowler Ryan Clady to a torn knee ligament.
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text: The Weijing Holiday Hotel (Weijing Jiari Jiudian) is situated 16-minute drive from Harbin Railway Station and Central Avenue. Guests can enjoy free parking and Wi-Fi access in public areas. Diners can enjoy Chinese cuisine at the hotel's restaurant. Business travelers can host meetings and events in the hotel's on-site conference rooms. During your leisure time you can play a game of chess enjoy a drink at the teahouse or relax in one of the karaoke rooms.


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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesotans love to complain about our winter weather, but we also know how to enjoy it. So, what if the secret to losing weight was actually buried in all that snow and ice?
Tim Ferriss says it is. He takes three ice baths a week, loading 20 pounds of ice into his tub to do something he calls thermal loading.
"I'll sit in an ice bath up to my waist for 10 minutes," he said, "also reading a book or magazine."
Ferriss wrote about it in his book, "The 4-Hour Body," and talked about it on the Doctor Oz show. He says the key is the cold.
"Your body wants to be 98.6 degrees, and if your body temperature is lowered, it will do everything it can to get back to 98.6 degrees. It burns calories as heat, and most of those calories come from fat," he said.
Ferriss said you shouldn't start this plan cold turkey. Start with cold showers, work up to ice packs on your neck and then ice baths three times a week. But does his science hold water?
"We are looking for these quick fixes," says Dr. Stacy Ingraham, "no sweat equity to burn calories, and here's yet another great example. You don't have to sweat because you're freezing to death."
She studies kinesiology and exercise physiology at the University of Minnesota. She said Ferriss has his science backwards, because cold actually slows down metabolism.
"To burn the most calories," according to Ingraham, "sauna and room temperature, not cold water immersion."
But what if you still bought into what Ferriss was saying? We decided to see what it was like and go ahead and take the plunge.
We filled Frank Vascellaro's tub and added the bags of ice. Frank said it didn't hurt initially, it just made him cringe. But a few minutes in, it starts to become painful in your toes and feet. And after eight minutes, Frank decided to call it quits.
Afterwards, it took him quite a while to shake the chill, which left us wondering about the dangers.
"Long-term exposure in cold water can start lowering your core body temperature and that can be very dangerous," said Ingraham.
That's why ice baths for physical therapy are usually limited to 10 minutes.


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NY Times journalist Adam Liptak addresses Stetson Law commencement
Adam Liptak, lawyer, author and New York Times Supreme Court correspondent, addressed 260 graduates of Stetson University College of Law on May 17 in Gulfport, Fla. Stetson's morning commencement took place in the courtyard on the law school's Gulfport campus.
In his talk, Liptak focused on transitioning from legal counsel for The New York Times to his role as a popular columnist and journalist.
Liptak graduated from Yale with a law degree. While still in law school, he worked as a summer clerk for the legal department at The New York Times.
Liptak's legal career includes a decade advising The New York Times on matters including defamation, privacy and newsgathering. He taught media law at Columbia University School of Journalism, U.C.L.A. Law School and Yale Law School.
Liptak was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his series "American Exception" and writes the popular "Sidebar" column on legal developments for The New York Times. Liptak has investigated topics including the rise in life sentences in the U.S. and the impact of campaign contributions on Ohio Supreme Court justices' voting records.
Among the 260 students walking at Stetson Law's commencement were 192 full-time students, 43 part-time JD students, six LL.M. in elder law students, eight LL.M. in international law students, two JD/Grado students, one JD/Master of International Economic and Comparative Law student, and eight JD/MBA students. Outstanding members of this year's graduating class include:
- Shivani Alamo, an advocate for children and education reform who won the prestigious New Generation Award, a special Lewis Hine Award for Service to Children and Youth.
- Kevin Crews, a gifted writer who won both the 2014 and 2013 Florida Law Student Essay Contest. Crews also helped his team win the 2013 National Veterans Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C.
- Bradley Muhs, articles and symposia editor of the Stetson Law Review and an associate justice of Stetson's award-winning Moot Court Board.
- R. Rockwell Seay, a member of Stetson's Trial Team who helped his fellow students sweep the Florida Bar Chester Bedell Mock Trial Competition.
- Elizabeth "Niki" Strickland, a U.S. Army Captain and dedicated Stetson student ambassador and student mentor.
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A handmade dolls house will be auctioned by a Bury fund-raiser who has passed more than £17,000 on to charity in the past four years.
The carefully constructed four-storey dolls house has been beautifully finished by its creator.
Despite thieves removing its built in bathroom while it sat on view at Bryan Garnham's house in Great Barton it remains a unique and beautiful item.
The dolls house was donated to Mr Garnham to support his fund-raising efforts.
He said he was 'gob-smacked' when he first saw the four foot high toy.
Over the past four years Mr Garnham has sold toys, bikes, electrical items and kindling from his house.
All money raised is donated to Guide Dogs, East Anglia's Children's Hospice and St Nicholas Hospice Care.
He said: "I have a good life and now I get to pay it back.
"I say If you cannot do a good deed do not do a bad thing."
Mr Garnham will auction off the dolls house and is inviting people to come and view it before submitting a bid to purchase.
It will be sold unfurnished for its new owner to make their own.
Bryan said that several parties had already expressed an interest.
Bidding will conclude at the end of April. Contact Mr Garnham on 01284 787390.


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In a new interview with the "Today" show's Matt Lauer, Shellie Zimmerman discusses her evolving feelings about her estranged husband, George Zimmerman, and his involvement in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Shellie, who filed for divorce on Sept. 5, said the subsequent domestic altercation changed the way she saw her husband and his claim that he acted in self defense.
I'm conflicted on that,'' Shellie said of Zimmerman's acquittal. "I believe the evidence, but this revelation in my life has really helped me take the blinders off and start to see things differently."
A few days after the divorce filing, Shellie said Zimmerman showed up at her door, smashed her iPad and punched her father. In a phone call to police, Shellie claimed he had a gun, but later declined to press charges.
Asked whether the incident had any affect on Zimmerman's assertion that he acted in self-defense, Shellie said it gave her "doubts."
"I think anyone would doubt that innocence because I don't know the person that I've been married to," she added. "I have doubts, but I also believe the evidence."
Shellie still insists that her soon-to-be ex-husband didn't pursue Martin because he was black.
"He did not profile Trayvon Martin," she said.


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That's the hope for southern Doña Ana County where a master plan for such a facility could be completed within 100 days.
"The most unique thing is we can locate businesses on both sides of the border within a stone's throw from each other," said Jerry Pacheco, vice president with the Border Industrial Association and a trade columnist for the Journal.
Jon Barela, New Mexico Secretary of Economic Development, said that Gov. Susana Martinez and Chihuahua Gov. Cesar Duarte signed an agreement to create a binational industrial campus.
"(They agreed to) promote the region of San Jerónimo and Santa Teresa to attract manufacturing, logistics and transportation companies to the area," Barela said. "The campus would be approximately 300 acres in close proximity to the Santa Teresa Port of Entry."
He said an exact location has not yet been chosen.
Pacheco said the idea for such a facility has been around for more than a decade. William Mattiace, executive director for the New Mexico Border Authority, said that the construction of the $400 million Union Pacific railroad intermodal facility in Santa Teresa has added momentum to the project as did the construction of a large Foxconn factory, where Dell computers are made, just south of the border.
"I think the spark plug is Union Pacific and Foxconn," Mattiace said. "(Foxconn) is a huge corporation. They have 8,000 employees (in Juárez) and we have binational commerce going on that hasn't been here previously."
Barela said the clock is ticking.
"The two countries have agreed to complete a master plan for the binational industrial campus within the 100 days of the signing of the agreement on Nov. 30," he said. "(This) will allow the border region to attract more value-added manufactur-ers and prevent the further flight of companies to the Pacific Rim."
Pacheco said that businesses located on the U.S. side of the border would be subject to U.S. laws, etc., and vice versa for those in Mexico. But the businesses could freely interact.
"It's the best of both worlds," he said.
"Such an arrangement will allow tenants of the campus to achieve previously unattainable levels of economic advantage derived from combining the business climate advantages of both countries," Pacheco wrote in a proposal for the facility.


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Beijing - China's premier Wen Jiabao on Monday pledged 353.2m yuan ($55.3m) in food aid to African countries suffering their worst drought in years.The announcement came after the US government urged China, which has massive commercial interests in Africa, to do more to help the millions of people in danger of starvation in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa.Wen made the offer in a meeting with his Ethiopian counterpart, Meles Zenawi, in Beijing, although the aid will be distributed to several African countries, according to a statement on the foreign ministry website.The pledge is in addition to the 90m yuan Beijing said last month it would give to the Horn of Africa, which is suffering what the United Nations has called the region's worst drought in almost two decades.The United Nations estimates that $2.4bn is required to address the crisis, which has hit Somalia worst due to a relentless conflict and aid restrictions by Shabaab rebels in areas under their control.Germany's Africa policy coordinator said last month that large-scale land purchases by China in the Horn of Africa which had exacerbated the drought - a charge Beijing strongly denied.China has continued to pour money into Africa despite criticism from Western states of Beijing's support for the hardline regimes of leaders such as Sudan's Omar al-Bashir and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.China-Africa trade soared more than 40% last year to $126.9bn and Chinese companies invested heavily in mining, agriculture, forestry and construction industries throughout the continent.
Geez, this is heartless. With all their foreign reserves and new-found wealth, this is all they can come up with? The US with it's problems have given $500 million.
and this is all china can do.....im very dissapointed...imagine how much money they make from faking every1's work and they still donate so little i mean thats the money small countries like botswana or namibia can pledge.


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OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Jahi McMath, the California girl who became brain-dead after a tonsillectomy, is improving after feeding and tracheotomy tubes were inserted, her family said.
The 13-year-old underwent a tonsillectomy Dec. 9 at Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland and was declared brain-dead after she went into cardiac arrest and suffered extensive brain hemorrhaging. Three neurologists confirmed she was unable to breathe on her own, had no blood flow to her brain and no electrical activity.
While at the hospital in Oakland, she was on a ventilator and was receiving fluids intravenously, but was not being given nutrition. Her family fought for the right to transfer her to another care facility where she could receive nutrition, hoping for a miraculous recovery.
McMath was transferred Sunday to an undisclosed facility where the procedures were done to insert the tubes, the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune reported Wednesday.
"She is doing very well and getting the treatment she should have gotten 28 days ago," the family's attorney, Christopher Dolan, said in a text message. "Doctors are optimistic that her condition has stabilized and that her health is improving from when she was taken from Children's Hospital Oakland."


text: In this Yasmina Reza play, two couples meet to discuss a playground fighting incident between their eleven-year-old sons. Although they try to be mature, it isn't long before the adults are shouting at each other, trading alliances, and chasing each other around the couch. In this comedy, the parents act like children and the dialogue keeps your attention. So see this Tony Award-winning play with God of Carnage tickets!


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The LG G4 it's finally being official, carriers are announcing the availability for the device. Similar to what happend with HTC and Samsung that launch their flagship devices simultaneously on all major US carriers, LG will probably be able to do something like that.
So far, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon have announced plans to carry the device, although none of the carriers have mentioned exactly when we can expect to be able to purchase it. T-Mobile is running an early experience program, however, so if you sign up through T-Mobile you're entered in a chance to win a G4 before its publicly released.


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Kyocera Solar Grove Parking Lot
10 July 2005
|Kyocera Solar Grove
Kyocera recently held a public dedication for its first-ever Solar Grove—an array of 25 "solar trees" that converts a 186-vehicle parking lot into a 235-kW solar electric generating system.
Based on test conditions and adjusted for inverter efficiency estimated at 94%, the 235 kW system is capable of generating 421,000 kilowatt hours per year.
The system's 25 solar trees form a carport in a Kyocera employee parking lot, utilizing a total of 1,400 Kyocera KC-187G solar photovoltaic (PV) modules and 200 custom-manufactured, light-filtering PV modules.
The project is supported by the California Public Utilities Commission's "Self Generation Incentive Program," which will cover approximately 36% of the system's purchase and installation costs; as well as federal and state tax credits, and a five-year accelerated depreciation schedule.
The standard Kyocera solar modules used in the Solar Grove are covered by a 25-year manufacturer's warranty, and Kyocera anticipates that the Solar Grove will pay for itself within 12 years.
Adding vehicle-charging stanchions to such a design to support plug-in hybrids as well as full EVs seems a small additional step.
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Although Kyocera Solar's focus is more on the stationary (grid-tie systems, building-integrated photovoltaics) and the remote industrial, the Kyocera has a long-standing effort in electric vehicles as well.
In addition to its "Son of Sun" PV racer, the company developed (10 years ago) a prototype city EV: the Solar Car Vehicle (SCV).
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Imagine these at all the commuter train parking lots!
The latest speaker at Fermilab's Colloquia mentioned & showed a photo of a parking lot in Sacramento that had PVs like this. Is Kyocera's lot in Sacramento?
Check out the streaming video of The Sustainable Hydrogen Economy, John Turner NREL, http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/Colloquium/050706Turner/index.htm
Short of saving on a few thousand feet of cabling, what is the thrill of putting solar cells over the parking lot instead of on the roof of the adjacent building and running a few plug-ins to the spots requiring them?
I mean, sure it looks cool... but I'd much rather see them pave the lot with grass-paver material.
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Odds and ends for November 8
Chess, rubber duck enter Hall of Fame
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The rubber duck squeaked out a win for a place in the National Toy Hall of Fame, joining the ancient game of chess in the 2013 class inducted Thursday.
The pair beat out 10 other finalists: bubbles, the board game Clue, Fisher-Price Little People, little green Army men, the Magic 8 Ball, My Little Pony, Nerf toys, the Pac-Man video game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the scooter.
Online polls had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and My Little Pony running strong, but in the end a national selection committee made up of 23 experts, including toy collectors, designers and psychologists, voted in the winners.
"The two inductees … are fantastic examples of the two extremes in the world of play," said Christopher Bensch, vice president for collections at The Strong Museum, which houses the 15-year-old hall.
"One is so strategic. It's rule-driven. It's something that adults play and puzzle over," Bensch said, "and at the other extreme is a toy that's pure fun. It has no rules. No one wins or loses. You squeeze it. You float it. It's so silly, so fun."
Anyone can nominate a toy for the hall of fame, but to make it through the selection process and become a finalist a toy must have achieved icon status, survived through generations, foster learning, creativity or discovery and have profoundly changed play or toy design.
"If there is a game you can call classic, this is that game," said curator Nicolas Ricketts as he introduced chess during an induction ceremony. that featured the unveiling of chess- and rubber duck-themed cartoons by syndicated cartoonist Leigh Rubin.
Chess can be traced back centuries to an ancient Indian war game, but evolved into the game it is today by 1475, Ricketts said.
"In 1779, Benjamin Franklin wrote that playing this game inspires habits of foresight, circumspection and caution, all important traits in human life," he said. "Scholars today still study the effect of this game's play on the childhood brain and development."
The rubber duck "has been a fixture in pop culture for decades," curator Patricia Hogan said.
Although rubber toys first appeared in the late 1880s, no one knows exactly who hatched the idea of the rubber duck, museum officials said.
They weren't always meant for the bath — the first ones didn't float — but Ernie on "Sesame Street" secured its place in the tub with his 1970 ode, "Rubber Duckie." The song made it to No. 16 on the Billboard Top 40 chart.
To date, 53 toys are in the National Toy Hall of Fame, including alphabet blocks, the jump rope, playing cards, Scrabble and the stick.
Chris Brown countersues man over studio fight
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Brown has countersued a man who accused the R&B star's entourage of attacking him outside a recording studio earlier this year.
The singer filed an assault and battery lawsuit Wednesday against Sha'keir Duarte, who claimed in an earlier suit that he was injured when a fight erupted between Brown and Frank Ocean's entourages in January outside a West Hollywood studio.
Duarte sued Brown in August and accused the singer of being the aggressor in the fight. Brown's countersuit however accuses Duarte of instigating the fight by pushing, kicking and punching the R&B singer and threatening to kill him.
Brown, 24, is seeking unspecified damages.
Duarte's attorney Joseph Porter III did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.
No criminal charges were filed over the fight, but Brown may face criminal penalties after he was arrested last month in Washington, D.C. for allegedly punching a man outside a hotel.
Brown remains on probation for his 2009 attack on then-girlfriend Rihanna and is due for a hearing in Los Angeles on Nov. 20, during which the new case may be addressed. Brown spent a day and a half in custody and faces a misdemeanor battery charge over the incident.
The R&B singer entered rehab for anger management issues on Oct. 29.
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Kansas City Chiefs Scouts 'Fascinated' by Geno Smith; Will He Come to KC?March 27, 2013
The Kansas City Chiefs have added two quarterbacks to the roster after releasing Matt Cassel and letting Brady Quinn walk this offseason. The Chiefs made one of the biggest trades this offseason when they acquired Alex Smith from the San Francisco 49ers. The Chiefs got another quarterback after signing former Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel, who backed up Drew Brees in New Orleans.
At this point, it appears that the Chiefs won't even consider a quarterback with the top pick.
Think again.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Network tweeted Wednesday morning that Chiefs scouts are "fascinated" by West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith. Earlier this month, NFL.com league writer Chris Wesseling reported that Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said Smith is in consideration to be the top player taken by Kansas City.
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Word from #Chiefs scouts: They're fascinated by Geno Smith, comparing him to a young McNabb. They love how he throws. Need to study deeper2013-3-27 11:16:00
Fans are asking themselves whether this is a smokescreen from the Chiefs or if the Chiefs are being serious in considering Smith.
If the Chiefs own the No. 1 pick when the draft begins and select Smith, it would shock everyone. The Chiefs traded away the 34th pick in the 2013 NFL draft and possibly another second-round pick in the 2014 NFL draft.
Drafting Smith with the top pick and trading a high second-round pick for Alex Smith would give Kansas City a great group of quarterbacks on the depth chart. However, seeing teams give up valuable resources for two quarterbacks is unheard of.
Having Geno Smith, who could possibly be the No. 1 pick, compete for a starting spot would not go well with football fans in Kansas City. Teams don't ever draft players with the top pick and have them compete for a starting job.
Teams draft players with the top pick expecting them to be able to step into that starting role.
But Kansas City could also be using its comments to try to draw attention from Jacksonville, Oakland and Philadelphia, all who select, in that order, after Kansas City. Cleveland and Arizona, who also pick in the top 10, are teams who should consider trading with Kansas City if they are seeking a new quarterback.
Trading with the Raiders would be the least likely scenario because they are in the same division. But if the Raiders are willing to pay a high price, the Chiefs may pull a similar move that the Eagles made in 2010 when they traded McNabb to Washington.
For the Chiefs, trading the top pick to a team that desperately needs a quarterback is the smartest option. It would allow general manager John Dorsey to avoid having to pay as much as he would if he drafted a player with the first pick.
Kansas City could also add to its selections this year or next year and make up for one of the second-round pick losses.


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Anglo-Saxons of England. It was given to one who worked as a person who was a slayer of men in battle. The name means warrior or solider.
Bannind Early Origins
family seat from ancient times, long before the Norman Conquest in 1066.
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The English language only became standardized in the last few centuries; therefore, spelling variations are common among early Anglo-Saxon names. As the form of the English language changed, even the spelling of literate people's names evolved. Bannind has been recorded under many different variations, including Banning, Baning, Bannin and others.
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The Great Migration
For many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Bannind or a variant listed above: James Banning who settled in New England in 1774; Martin Banning arrived in Pennsylvania in 1856.
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