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iHerb is a most successful online business which is actively involved in charitable activities as well. This organization has expanded its charity now to six countries worldwide. This is a bigger achievement for an ecommerce company.
iHerb is an online trading company offering various holistic and herbal solutions. These products are spread into various categories like bathing, baby care, super foods, pet care products, aroma therapy related products etc. They are also into selling fitness products. Customers can choose to use their iHerb coupon, to buy products from any category. They have their own shipping centers located in two place and deliver their products worldwide.
On the charity front, this company is providing exemplary charity services in China, Korea, Russia, Japan and Cambodia. According to iHerb Director John McCarthy "As an international company with customers throughout the world, it's very important that we give back to communities struggling with enormous humanitarian needs". Not only this, the determined director says they foresee more than a half million being given away for charity, in 2015. He also positively expresses that their services may further expand to two more countries in 2016.
How do they do that?
Since they are into online trading of their products, they make the charity to tag to this business. That is, whenever a customer is getting associated with this company through an online purchase, they donate $10, from that purchase that the customer just made. There are various causes from which the customer can choose, as to where they want their $10 to go. These causes support children whose education is not supported by families, services into health and nutrition needs, providing the needy with a doctor, disaster help and much more.


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To help you travel safely to our campus the Corporate Communications team publishes two sets of travel updates:
- Weekly blog posts with details of known road works, disruptions to public transport and events affecting parking on campus for the coming week.
- Blog posts with details of any new information we get that may affect travel to campus.
For more general info on getting to campus, there is a good travel advice web page.


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NetRef - Wi-Fi Router Reference
By Z Studio Labs
This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
Find that router's manual, default IP, default username and password and then ping it to see if it's connected to your network. All with one app! No need to use search engines or router manufacturers' websites to find what you need.
- Includes the most popular brands and versions, with new additions added frequently
- Current and legacy models and different firmware versions
- Direct access to the user manual (no need to search or be stymied with flash websites)
- Features Default Passwords and IP schemes - never hunt for that default admin password again!
- Direct links to the online product home page
- High-res images of each router version - looks great on the Retina Display
NetRef is great for network admins and enthusiasts who work on various networks and need access to a lot of user manuals for diagnostics or setting up a new network. Then they can use the built-in ping feature to see if they can connect properly.
NetRef provides direct access to router manufacturers' web pages, manuals and basic information about each router all within the app. The last several manuals that were viewed are cached, so even if you're without an internet connection, you can pull those recent manuals up instantly.
Current vendors NetRef has reference material for:
More added all the time!
Support, suggestions or questions? Follow us on Twitter: @NetRefApp Let us know what you like or what we can improve!
What's New in Version 1.2
Now iPhone 5 and iOS 6 compatible!
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Customer Reviews
Love the ping feature
Nice ping feature to see if my router and NAS are still up. The manuals have come in handy a few times too.
Needs more routers. I have three mainstream brand routers readily available at big box stores and none of the are on the list.
Nice app for router set up !
Good information wish it covered more routers .
- $0.99
- Category: Utilities
- Updated: Oct 03, 2012
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 4.0 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Ziray Studio Labs, LLC
Compatibility: Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.


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In keeping with Skanska's corporate mission of environmental stewardship, the master plan for the Spring Crossing office development is both respectful of the unique character of the site and forward-thinking in its embrace of resource management strategies. The design seeks to protect the site's existing natural amenities and mesh them with new forms. Three distinct ecologies – Pine Forest, Coastal Prairie, and Bayou – provide the conceptual foundation for the project's site plan.
As the most defining feature of the existing site, the Pine Forest is comprised of both protected existing forest area and new stands of native mature trees. Minimal clearing of underbrush within this existing forest will enhance these areas for potential trails and other outdoor uses. Complementing the Pine Forest at the edges of the site, the Coastal Prairie landscape will provide a diverse palette of native grass and wildflower plantings. Once established, this landscape will require no irrigation and only minimal maintenance, and has the potential to support a large degree of biodiversity. Completing the landscape narrative is a set of water features designed to evoke a bayou ecology; the site will have its own sophisticated network of bioswales, rain gardens, and ponds that will provide visible green infrastructure for stormwater to circulate through the site and collect in ponds for irrigation use.
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August's movies
It was a slow movie month for me! I have not read The Giver and didn't even know what it was about before we went to see it. I think the book would be better but I'm not sure I want to read it now.
Now it's your turn. Add your 5 words (or less!) to mine and earn $1 for charity. Once we get to $100 the person with the most reviews will choose the charity. Click here to see the past winners, the charities they chose and the other reviews you can add to. Anyone is welcome to join in at any time.
I hope that you will take a few minutes to participate when you can each month. It's fun for me and for everyone else who reads it. I'm not looking for a critical review, just a few words about how you felt about the movie. This is ongoing so you can leave your 5 words anytime.
We're up to $54
Epic, 2013 (Voices-Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Christoph Waltz) Grade B
Shrunken teen saves the world!
Not very epic. Expected better. (Heather)
Only thing epic was title. (Sheree)
Poor crazy dad finds redemption. (Tony)
Get On Up, 2014 (Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Ackroyd, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer) Grade B
Ambitious, hard man to like.
Interesting story; execution confused me. (Kathy)
The Giver, 2014 (Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgard, Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift) Grade C
Like the idea and cast.
Great movie. Disturbing future concept. (Michelle)
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Haven't seen any of these. Amber read The Giver, but didn't want to see the movie because she was afraid they'd ruin it.
Comment by Carol | September 5, 2014 |
I don't think I watched even one movie in August – we are on a Sopranos marathon – 2 episodes most nights and on season 3 right now. It's been fun.
Comment by diane | September 6, 2014 |
Epic: Not very epic. Expected better.
I read the Giver a few years ago. It was different and interesting. But it sounds like the movie doesn't quite deliver.
Comment by Heather | September 8, 2014 |
I haven't seen any of these movies, and I can't remember what I saw in August. My memory is so bad right now. Argh. I know that I just saw The Guardians of the Galaxy this past Friday and l really liked it. 🙂
Comment by Literary Feline | September 8, 2014 |


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Finishing materials also include acoustic materials, which are used simultaneously as sound-absorbing coatings and as a decorative finish for the interiors of theaters, concert halls, and motion-picture theaters.
In construction, materials and items used to improve the service and decorative qualities of buildings and structures, as well as to protect structural members from atmospheric and other effects.
The main finishing materials in modern construction include finishing mortars and concretes; natural and artificial masonry materials; decorative ceramics; materials and items made from wood, paper, glass, plastic, and metals; and paints and varnishes.
Finishing materials are usually designed for interior or exterior finishing; some materials are used for both (for example, natural decorative stone, ceramic materials, and architectural glass).
A special group consists of materials and items for covering floors, which must meet a number of specific requirements (negligible wear, high impact strength, and so on).
An arbitrary distinction is made between finishing materials proper, which are used mainly to form decorative and protective coatings (varnishes and paints, wallpaper, polymeric films, linoleum, and so on), and structural finishing materials, which also perform the functions of enclosing members and are components of such members (decorative concrete, facing brick, glass blocks, and molded glass).
The finishing mortars are used for the formation of walls and ceilings with ideal geometry, for the elimination of small defects on the base and provide uniform absorption for the laying of the next coat.
The execution of the finishing mortar is an exceptionally important task which should guarantee the complete development of the properties of the final coat and the aesthetic appearance of the finishing works, eliminating the negative effects from light shades resulting eventually from uneven or rough surface with different light reflection or from uneven absorption of the base
masonry mortars are used together with all types of bricks, concrete blocks, light weight blocks and clay blocks to create masonry walls, both bearing and non-bearing, and can be applied by hand or by machine
plastering mortars can be used for basic rough levelling of mineral based walls, levelling and undercoating of concrete, light weight concrete, light weight blocks and brick walls. Filling holes and irregularities, levelling walls and ceilings. Also for repairing, levelling and undercoating of old rendered surfaces
mortars for walls or ceilings are suitable to smooth or fine-smooth before final treatment (i.e. paint, tiles, wall papers) of all even mineral based substrates like gypsum boards or plastered surfaces.
Cementitions mortars, corrosion inhibitors and epoxy inhibitors in order to repair, restore, and protect damaged or odd concrete structures and reinforce concrete structures
Ceresit solutions based on special mortars allow to anchor elements to horizontal or vertical surface, fix structural or non structural components such as plates, signs, masonry sections and bed components as iron manhole frames, street furnitureCeresit solutions based on special mortars allow to anchor elements to horizontal or vertical surface, fix structural or non structural components such as plates, signs, masonry sections and bed components as iron manhole frames, street furniture
paving joints/grout mortars are designed to facilitate the mortar application and to ensure the long-term service life of the joint.
Masonry Materials
A traditional finishing material is decorative stone, which is durable and has an attractive appearance.
Stone finishing materials are used for exterior and interior facings on walls and for floor coverings, mainly in public buildings and structures, such as theaters, hotels, and subway stations.
Stone materials are also used in the form of decorative chips to finish the surfaces of concrete and reinforced-concrete parts and units.
Types of Decorative Stones
Soap Stone
Character: Often has "busy" visual texture in a variety of colors
Formation: Granite is a plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar, mica and quartz.
Floor and Wall; Sometimes this is a desired look, but it can be very busy.
Countertops; The hardness of the stone makes granite the most popular choice for both kitchen and bathroom countertops.
Character: has voids, usually has some veining, variety of colors (mostly in the warm range).
Formation: Travertine is a sedimentary rock formed by precipitation of carbonate of minerals.
Floor and Wall
Generally not chosen for kitchen countertops due to its low density but travertine makes a beautiful countertop in a bathroom.
Character: Often has visible fossils embedded within, some color variety.
Formation: Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed of different crystal forms of calcium carbonate. Most grains in limestone are skeletal fragment of marine organisms.
Floor and Wall
Not generally chosen for countertops due to its porosity and tendency to stain-limestone is suitable for bathroom countertops.
Character: Marble often has distinct veining with a wide variety of colors.
Formation: Marble is a metamorphic crystalline rock formed when limestone has additional heat and pressure applied to it by the earth's crust, causing the stone to re-crystallize.
Floor and wall
Countertops--- occasionally
more popular choice for interior flooring.
Character: rough texture, mostly greys, but some varieties have dramatic some color variation.
Formation: Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash.
Floor and Wall: must consider shaling when choosing slate
Not generally used as kitchen countertops due to shaling.
Character: Looks similar to slate, but is harder and does not shale
Formation: a very hard metamorphic rock consisting of a mosaic of intergrown quartz crystals.
Same as slate
Character: translucent, can range from gold and oranges to green.
Formation: Onyx is a cryptocrystalline form of quartz. Onyx is a sedimentary rock, formed as stalactites and stalagmites in cave interiors.
Floor, Wall and decorative.
Most popular for Vanity countertops or specialty surfaces.
Character: Grey, sometimes greenish. With white veining. Smooth "soapy".
Formation: a metamorphic rock that is largely composed of the mineral talc.
Generally used for countertops
Chemical and heat resistant but NOT scratch resistant.
A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass.
Types of Tiles
Cement Tiles
Encaustic Tiles
Saltillo Tiles
Ceiling Tiles
Cement tiles are handmade, decorative, colorful tiles used primarily as floor coverings. Floors or walls covered with these tiles are noted for their multi-color patterns, durability and sophisticated look. These tiles are widely used in Latin America and Europe. Their popularity spread to the US, primarily in California and Florida through the 1930s and 40s.
Encaustic tiles are ceramic tiles in which the pattern or figure on the surface is not a product of the glaze but of different colors of clay. They are usually of two colors but a tile may be composed of as many as six. The pattern appears inlaid into the body of the tile, so that the design remains as the tile is worn down. Encaustic tiles may be glazed or unglazed and the inlay may be as shallow as an eighth of an inch, as is often the case with "printed" encaustic tile from the later medieval period, or as deep as a quarter inch.
Saltillo tile is a type of terra-cotta tile that originates in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.[1] It is one of the two most famous products of the city, the other being multi-coloured woven sarapes so typical of the region. Saltillo-type tiles are now manufactured at many places in Mexico, and high-fire "Saltillo look" tiles, many from Italy, compete with the terra-cotta originals
Ceiling tiles are different from floor or wall tiles in that weight is an issue when decorating a ceiling. Ceiling tiles are lightweight and made from a wide variety of materials, such as plastic, metal, fiberglass, mineral fiber, wood fiber, vinyl-coated gypsum and even cork. Most tiles are designed for installation in a suspended ceiling system, though some are designed to stick to a ceiling and are ideal for decorating a plain ceiling that is in good condition.
Wood Finishing Materials
Wood finishing materials are notable for their excellent appearance and service qualities.
Facing products are produced not only from decorative natural woods, such as oak, beech, and walnut, but also from carefully processed common species, such as birch and pine. The service life of wood finishing materials is increased by treating them with wood preservatives and by applying paint and varnish coatings.
Types of Wood Finishing Materials
Plywood is a manufactured wood panel made from thin sheets of wood veneer. Plywood layers (called veneers or plys) are glued together, with adjacent plies having their wood grain rotated relative to adjacent layers up to 90 degrees.
Fiberboard is a type of engineered wood product that is made out of wood fibers. Types of fiberboard (in order of increasing density) include particle board, medium-density fiberboard, and hardboard. Fiberboard is sometimes used as a synonym for particle board, but particle board usually refers to low-density fiberboard.
In woodworking, veneer refers to thin slices of wood, usually thinner than 3 mm (1/8 inch), that typically are glued onto core panels (typically, wood, particle board or medium-density fiberboard) to produce flat panels such as doors, tops and panels for cabinets, parquet floors and parts of furniture.
Parquetry is a geometric mosaic of wood pieces used for decorative effect.
The two main uses of parquetry are as veneer patterns on furniture and block patterns for flooring. Parquet patterns are entirely geometrical and angular—squares, triangles, lozenges. The most popular parquet flooring pattern is herringbone.
A type of paperboard generally made from reclaimed paper stock
Vinyl wallpaper - This is, by far, the most commonly purchased type of wallpaper.
Common Types of Wallpapers
Natural wallpaper - A natural wallpaper is a great way to bring texture into a room. They can be purchased in a variety of materials including grass cloth, hemp, jute, and cotton. Natural wallpaper has grown in popularity because it is eco-friendly and the perfect option for the 'green' home or office. The downside of using a natural wallpaper is that it will need to be installed by a professional.
Foil wallpaper - If you are looking to give the illusion of a larger space, foil wallpaper will do the trick. This is a light-reflective wallpaper that will brighten up even the darkest of rooms. Foil wallpaper is extremely fragile and can easily rip or tear during installation, thus it should be installed by a professional.
Flocked wallpaper - You may have heard this type of wallpaper referred to as 'textured wallpaper'. When flocked wallpaper is made, synthetic fibers are applied to give a raised pattern effect. This type of wallpaper may be difficult to clean, but it works very well in disguising wall imperfections.
Fiberglass weaves - Unlike some wallpaper, this type of wallpaper will not peel off when exposed to extreme humidity or moisture. Made of thick strands of material, this is an extremely durable type of wallpaper that will adhere to any surface - including brick or concrete. Typically seen in commercial settings, this type of wallpaper will usually need to be special ordered and installed by a professional.
Wallpaper is a kind of material used to cover and decorate the interior walls of homes, offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of interior decoration. It is usually sold in rolls and is put onto a wall using wallpaper paste. Wallpapers can come plain as 'lining paper' (so that it can be painted), textured (such as Anaglypta), with a regular repeating pattern design, or, much less commonly today, with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets.
Wallpapers of various types are widely used for interior finishing (mainly in residences); they have the advantages of low cost and labor requirements.
Glass can be used for much more than simply to cover the outside of your building - it can
also be used in interior design to brighten up rooms. The subtle, classic qualities of glass
work perfectly in combination with other materials such as wood, brick, concrete and metal.
Annealed glass
is the basic flat glass product that is the first result of the float process. It is the common glass that tends to break into large, jagged shards. It is used in some end products -- often in double-glazed windows
Laminated glass
is made of two or more layers of glass with one or more "interlayer's" of polymeric material bonded between the glass layers.
Reflective glass
is an ordinary float glass with a metallic coating to reduce solar heat. This special metallic coating also produces a mirror effect, preventing the subject from seeing through the glass.
Common Types of Glass
Plastic Sheets
Plastic film is a thin continuous polymeric material. Thicker plastic material is often called a "sheet". These thin plastic membranes are used to separate areas or volumes, to hold items, to act as barriers, or as printable surfaces.
Lincrusta is a deeply embossed wallcovering.
Lincrusta is made from a paste of gelled linseed oil and wood flour spread onto a paper base. It is then rolled between steel rollers, one of which has a pattern embossed upon it.
Linoleum is a floor covering made from renewable materials such as solidified linseed oil (linoxyn), pine rosin, ground cork dust, wood flour, and mineral fillers such as calcium carbonate, most commonly on a burlap or canvas backing; pigments are often added to the materials.
Common Types of Plastic Finishing Materials
Plastics are a promising type of finishing material. They are characterized by a broad range of colors, a variety of product shapes, excellent sanitary and hygenic qualities, and good corrosion resistance.
However, their service life substantially shorter than, for example, ceramic or glass finishing materials.
Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition which, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, is converted to a solid film. It is most commonly used to protect, color or provide texture to objects.
Paint finishing materials are intended mainly for painting operations.
It makes possible a substantial reduction in the labor-intensiveness of finishing operations and an improvement in the protective and decorative properties of structures.
Common Types of Paint
Matt Paint
Matt Enamel
Gloss Paint
Matt color is the most common of interior wall paints. There's no shine or sheen to the finish, making it ideal for walls and ceilings where you don't want any visual distractions. It's easy to apply, although it can often take more than a single coat to create a good solid color. Matt paint can be applied with a brush or roller and works well on walls that have imperfections. This makes it ideal for older houses. On the downside, matt paint is easily marked. Although some marks can be removed with a damp cloth, matt paint needs regular retouching.
Matt enamel is very much like matt paint, but tends to be far more durable. It's much easier to clean and rarely needs retouching, giving it a great advantage, especially if you have young children. It is also excellent for the kitchen, where you'll regularly need to wipe walls. The visual effect is very similar to matt paint and it can be applied in the same way.
Satin finish is one of the types of interior wall paint that many people know of, but few really understand. The finish is somewhere between matt and gloss and produces a low, soft sheen. This makes it ideal for areas where you'll need to clean the walls regularly.
An eggshell finish has a shine that's extremely subtle but without the same smoothness as a satin finish. Thus, it doesn't highlight imperfections quite as much, making it much more suitable as an interior wall paint. It's easy to apply and can often cover in a single coat, making it a better choice for many people.
Semi-gloss is another common interior paint, although it's more commonly used on trim rather than the walls. It offers a hard finish, is suitable to heavy use and is easy to clean with just soap and water. The shine produced is less than full gloss paint, but it's usually easy to achieve a good covering with just a single coat.
Apart from matt paint, gloss paint is the most common interior wall paint. It's one you can use on most walls, although some people use it sparingly on these surfaces and prefer to use it on woodwork because of its high shine. Gloss paint shows up all the imperfections on a wall and achieving an even coverage on a wall will often need more than a single coat of paint.
The main trend in the development of the finishing-materials industry is toward expansion of the assortment of materials, as well as toward improvement of their quality and an increase in the degree of factory preparation of materials and products.
The importance of this topic for us as an Architecture students is to be able to have knowledge and information about the right and exact materials that we will use in interior designing.
And it can give us ideas that we can put in our technical description everytime that we make plates.
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When it comes to hassle-free installation and flexibility, NetSuite is among those first names that come to mind. The ERP-solutions provider is finally in the league of ERP goliaths such as Oracle and SAP courtesy their developments last year which included the feat of achieving tax agreements in over 100 countries along with incorporating over 175 currencies and exchange rates.
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Designer: Oleg Beresnev
Oleg Beresnev is a talented illustration and graphic designer from Prague. His work includes wonderful collection of geometric flat animal world, an experiment he started based on distribution of proportions of the simplified geometric shapes and on emphasizing this shapes with colour. Some of his work is presented on this site, but for more of his creations, feel free to visit his website or social profiles.


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Dec 15, 2017 by Liz Hayes
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Earlier this month, President Donald J. Trump issued a proclamation recognizing that today is Bill of Rights Day. It was an easy proclamation to overlook: The president hasn't tweeted about it at all as of this writing.
Dec 15, 2017 by Maggie Garrett
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After a months-long fight, we have good news: The final tax bill that the House and Senate will vote on next week will NOT contain language to repeal the Johnson Amendment. A big thank you to all of you who emailed and called your members of Congress and educated your friends and family about this issue. You are the ones who won this fight.
Dec 14, 2017 by Rob Boston
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"Ten Commandments judge" Roy Moore wasn't the only loser Tuesday night. He dragged plenty of leaders and followers of the Religious Right down with him.
Moore's candidacy was a moral test for the Religious Right. The question was simple: Would the men and women who lead and join groups that are allegedly obsessed with "morals" and "values" continue to back Moore even in the face of credible charges of sexual assault and harassment against teenage girls?
Dec 13, 2017 by Rob Boston
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The people of Alabama did America a favor last night by voting against Roy Moore for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Moore is just what we don't need right now. His disdain for fundamental American values – from religious freedom to civil rights and equality to the rule of law – makes him a danger to our democracy.
Americans United knows Moore all too well. He's been a strident voice against church-state separation for decades, and we've fought back and won against many of his reckless actions.
Dec 12, 2017 by Liz Hayes
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This morning, another bill that allows religion to be used to discriminate started making its way through Congress. At 10 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce began debating a Republican bill that would change the federal law that governs higher education.
Dec 12, 2017 by Claire L. Hillan
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The religious liberty provisions of the First Amendment protect everybody's religious freedom. That means that private individuals and organizations can promote religion, but they can't force government to do so. That's what Americans United and our allied organizations explained in a friend-of-the-court brief we that filed yesterday in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Dec 11, 2017 by Liz Hayes
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The vast majority of voters – 82 percent – think birth control should be covered in health insurance plans, even if employers are morally opposed to it.
Dec 8, 2017 by Liz Hayes
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Today, Americans United and our allies are in court urging judges to once again rule that President Donald Trump's Muslim ban should not go into effect.
Dec 7, 2017 by Kelly Percival
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Yesterday, I attended "Unfinished Business" – the LGBTQ summit hosted by The Atlantic in Washington, D.C. The annual event is free to the public and seeks to showcase the current state of LGBTQ rights in the United States.
Dec 7, 2017 by Liz Hayes
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While much press this week has understandably been devoted to the U.S. Supreme Court case involving a Colorado baker who cited his religious beliefs as justification for refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, there was another noteworthy story developing in Colorado that has connections to the Supreme Court and religious freedom.


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Reading Level: Grades 2-4
Travis and his family are on a whale watching cruise off the coast of Alaska when disaster strikes. Their ship is hit by a giant rogue wave throwing Travis and Marina, the captain's daughter, into the freezing water. They watch helplessly as the ship sinks and the life raft is pushed away by the current. Now it is up to Travis to find a way to save himself and his injured companion before the brutal sea claims their lives.
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Summit Questions????
Trying to tie down one gg-grandfather. His name was John SOMMERVILLE. He lived in Oconomowoc. He moved to Oconomowoc, in the 1840's from Troy, New York. He was married to a Janet (?), and they had four children with all four born in New York (Mary, Agnes, John, William) and one child born in Wisconsin, Janet. The 1860 federal census shows them still in Oconomowoc, his wife Janet lists her age as 45. The date on the census is June 20, 1860. Now things det very intresting. There is a document thaty shows John marrying a Sophia ZABLE on October 12, 1860. What happened to Janmet? There never has been a death notice, obituary or gravestone found for her. She seeems to have just dropped off the screen. Sophia appears to have been married, at least she had at least one child before marrying John. Sophia can not be found prior to marrying John. Now the questions come: Either Janet died or the marrige was disolved. If she died why no record of it has nothing been found? If she and John divorced, where is that record? There must be sometype of recprd generated? Why cant we find anf record of Sophia (or her known daughter Augusta) prior to her wedding to John?
The 1865 Minnesota State census shows that the family has moved th Bergan. McCloud, Minnesota. So sometime between their marrige on October 12, 1860 and the date of the Minnesota State census (undated) they moved from Wisconsin to Minnesota.
So the questions are:
10 If Janet died, why cant we find anything at all?
2) What type of record would there be if Janet was divorced?
3) Was Sophia married before? Why cant we fibd her
John and Sophia were married by a Reverend Enos MONTAGUE in Summit. From research we know that Rev MONTAGUE was Presbyterian. This fits as a lot of the Scots emmigrants were Presbyterian. From research, we have found that Presbyterian services around that time (1860) were held in an old school house in Summit. The services were Presbyterian / Congregational. The servicers at a later date moved, unknown to where. Question, who would we contact from church records since most records remain at the local church and in this case the church is no more?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Wellspring Acquired by American Vantage6 Feb, 2004 By: Holly J. Wagner
Wellspring Media has been sold to entertainment and media company American Vantage Media Corp. (AVMC), a subsidiary of publicly traded American Vantage Companies, for $8 million in cash and notes, it was announcned by the two companies.
Wellspring's assets include a 1,000-title library distributed via its theatrical, home video, worldwide sales and direct response units (www.artfilmcollection.com and www.videocollection.com). As of Dec. 31, Wellspring's programming and film rights library had an audited net book value of $10.5 million; it was recently independently appraised at a value of $14 million, according to the companies. Wellspring's shareholders and employees were paid $8 million: $4 million in cash at closing and the balance in two-year notes.
With the new capital infusion, Wellspring will work to build its arthouse and wellness/spirituality catalogs, said Al Cattabiani, who will continue in his role as president.
"There's plenty of room in both of those things to grow just staying in those genres," he said. "We're going to do more, and better, of the same. We are not going to make any big aesthetic change." The company hopes to pursue some films screened this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
The company expects to maintain its offices and staff of 50 in New York and Los Angeles. Senior management will remain in place.
"In terms of what we actually do day to day, we don't expect any changes at all. By virtue of being better capitalized, we will be better at getting more and better product," he said. "What we're thinking about now is, how do we bulk up our release schedule? How do we take a step up from the base we had formed?"
AVCS recently acquired the assets of Hypnotic Media, the producer of Fox's TV series "The OC" and "Terry Tate, Office Linebacker" for Reebok.
Hypnotic also has a library of a little less than 900 short films, which may surface as compilations or DVD bonus materials.
"The idea is, each of us brings something a little bit different to the party," Cattabiani said.
"Wellspring provides us with three great assets: a first-class management team, a 1,000-film/DVD library and a worldwide distribution apparatus," said Stephen K. Bannon, vice chairman of American Vantage Companies and head of the board of directors' acquisition committee. "Coupled with our recent acquisition of Hypnotic in TV/film and branded content production and YaYa in interactive gaming, we have the nucleus for an extraordinary company."
For calendar-year 2003, Wellspring had audited revenue of $21.1 million and EBITDA of $4.3 million. Wellspring's 2003 net loss of $729,000 includes a one-time inventory obsolescence write-down of $575,000 related to its VHS films.


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Previously Science and wayneseguin published a study looking at the performance of nginx fair proxy. To take that a little further, Science conducted an examination of how Thin and Mongrel compare head-to-head on performance. For kicks we took a look at Rails page template caching facility to see if that significantly impacts performance (it does). Full details follow..
For an idea of what the h/w testing setup looked like, read the previous study (cited above). For these tests, we used 3 instances of Thin or Mongrel (with lots of free ram). nginx fair proxy was turned on. Rails caching was fully enabled (including template caching). The tests all ran for 300 seconds. We pulled HEAD requests only to minimize over the wire throughput variance (since the test were initiated remote of the data center). Thins were wired up to unix sockets and Mongrels were going over IP.
Overall, I'd say that under these testing conditions Thin is 4% faster than Mongrel. That's not much, and it's within the standard deviation of each test result, but it was pretty consistent throughout the testing so I'm inclined to believe it. Your results may vary. [1]
Here is the summary of results:
|Server type
|Avg response (s)
|Total pages (#)
|90% max response (s)
|Thins, 10 threads
|Mongrels, 10 threads
|Thins, 30 threads
|Mongrels, 30 threads
|Thins, 40 threads
|Mongrels, 40 threads
The full test results (including Standard Deviations) can be found here. We hope the provided measurements meet your requirements. Post a comment here if you'd like more information or background.
End Notes
- While I thought that much of the performance improvements could be attributed to the unix sockets themselves, many knowledgeable folks including Zed (author of Mongrel) and Marc (author of Thin) assert that performance of IP vs Sockets is really marginal in this day and age. Both Zed and Marc have indicated that any performance differences are probably due to code and architecture differences in the app servers themselves.
- You may also find this study of performance of various ruby app servers interesting: http://wiki.codemongers.com/Main
- Science also has a writeup on optimizing Nginx and Rails page caching which may be of interest to readers.
Methodology Addendum
- Zed Shaw requested a methodology review. The following bullets outline how I conducted all the tests.
- I used Jakarta JMeter 2.3.1 to run the test.
- I pulled HEAD requests to minimize measurement errors that might be caused by over the wire variations in bandwidth
- Rails Code path:
- I ran against two fairly distinct code paths and had several hundred URL variations that hit all over the database within those two code paths (One code path searched for a set of records within a US state, the other searched for a specific record and displayed details about it).
- Rails code used was production scale and quality. By this I mean it is code that runs a full-fledged webserver and it does a lot of work. It may not be the smartest or fastest code, but it provides a lot of user functionality that is probably pretty typical for "read mostly" Rails sites.
- All activity was read-only – no insert/updates were performed. Simulated traffic was typical for this website.
- I had a warmup period before each test, to make sure that all core code was cached before running the actual test. Warmup was generally around 100 seconds. I was not precise on this though.
- Tests all ran for 300 seconds. There was a ramp-up period (to go from 0 threads running to all threads running) on each test that was equal in seconds to half the number of threads – so a 10 thread test had a 5 second ramp-up. A 30 thread test had a 15 sec ramp-up.
- Testing was run from a single dev workstation located on a 6mbs ADSL line (uplink is usually around 600kbs effective).


text: High all, The rubber seal under the front windows on the outside of the car is broken on both sides on my 2008 3dr S3. Probably the guy who did the last paintjob removed them kinda brutally and they broke as a result. Removal seems straight forward, looks like you just need to pull them out, please correct me if I'm wrong. Anybody know the part number I would be looking for? I need it for both doors! Thanks a bunch.


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- Latest version of Drupal7 is now installed via Drush.
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Ryan Braun's steroid suspension was overturned on Thursday after arbitrator Shyam Das ruled for the Milwaukee Brewers' slugger in his appeal on his positive test for performance enhancing drugs. Braun's sample from October 1, 2011 turned up positive for synthetic testosterone, but because the sample wasn't delivered to the lab on the same day it was taken, the drug testing process was called into question. Braun called the process "fatally flawed" and was quoted as saying, "I don't honestly know what happened to it in that 44-hour period."
According to David Epstein and Joe Lemire's SI column, sources close to the situation noted that the sample was untarnished when delivered to the lab.
It is not uncommon for doping control officers in a wide array of sports to hold onto a sample — often in a refrigerator — if shipping is not immediately available, and while details of the chain of custody of Braun's sample were not immediately available, a source with knowledge of the sample said that the seals on the sample were unbroken when it arrived at the lab, and that standard lab tests on the sample showed that it had not degraded. In December, SI.com confirmed that Braun's sample was found to have an elevated level of testosterone, and that it tested positive for synthetic testosterone.
On his first day of Spring Training, Braun described himself as a victim, saying, "I'm a victim of a process that completely broke down and failed in the way that it was applied to me in the case. As players, we're held to a standard of 100 percent perfection regarding the program, and everybody else associated with that program should be held to the same standard. We're a part of a process where you're 100 percent guilty until proven innocent. It's the opposite of the American judicial system."
I'm not sure I'd agree. If anything, the system worked perfectly for him. According to the same SI article I linked above, their sources close to the situation said that his testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio was higher than any result in the history of baseball's drug testing program. Rather than go with the tainted supplement defense that never works, he chose to question the chain of custody, which was smart. But even that has its flaws. By questioning what happened to his sample in the time period that it was away from the lab, he's basically saying that someone tampered with his sample to cause it to test positive. But if the seal wasn't broken and and lab test showed that the sample wasn't degraded, isn't his argument already disproved?
Travis Tygart, the head of the US Anti-Doping Agency which does stringent drug testing for the Olympics was quoted as saying, "Synthetic drugs don't magically appear in urine because it took 48 hours versus 20 minutes to get to the laboratory." He also told the USA Today, "It's a gut kick to clean athletes in baseball for a technicality like this to undermine their rights."
Baseball writer Jeff Fletcher says it's not logical to have Braun prove that he didn't actually take the substance he tested positive for because it's not a defense that works historically. Yet, his guess is that since Braun passed prior tests, he probably just "accidentally" took a banned substance. Don't all prior first-time drug offenders pass prior tests? And because baseball's drug testing program isn't random during the season, I don't imagine it's that hard to pass.
MLB's policy reads that players will be tested within five days of reporting to Spring Training and one additional unannounced test on a random date. However, in the offseason, testing looks to be more random, which could've been when Braun was popped, since the regular season was technically over when he was tested. If any baseball player fails a test in Spring Training when he knows within a five day window when he'll be tested, he's an idiot. Drug tests are like IQ tests. Smart players will know generally when a drug is no longer in their system. To fail a scheduled drug test is just foolish. So none of us should be surprised to see that Braun's test was taken after the regular season ended, when the MLB can test randomly.
Braun doesn't seem to be interested in proving his innocence. If he was, he'd sue the person who was supposed to deliver the sample to the lab. Or maybe he'd ask the MLB to test him randomly year-round. Or maybe he'd try and figure out how his testosterone-to-epitestosterone could've even been as high as five times higher than normal, if those numbers are to be believed. He said on Friday that he would bet his life that the substance he failed for never entered his body. Yet, if his tested sample wasn't tampered with, whose body did it enter?
Ryan Braun isn't a victim. He's smart. Rich. And lucky.


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How Much Actual Money Is There In The World?
By Josh Clark and Kathryn Whitbourne
To make this question answerable in a finite amount of time, let's simplify things and ask, "How much money is there in actual United States dollars?" Since the statistics for the U.S. are easy to come by, we can examine this question in a couple of different ways.
The first way to look at it might be, "How much cash is there in U.S. currency?" If you took all the bills and coins floating around today in the world and added them all up, how much money would you have? All of that hard and easily liquidated currency is known as the M0 money supply.
This includes the bills and coins in people's pockets and mattresses, the money on hand in bank vaults and all of the deposits those banks have at reserve banks [source: Hamilton].
Obviously, there's some money missing, but there's an easy explanation for that: The Federal Reserve says that at any given time, between one-half and two-thirds of the M0 money stock of U.S. dollars is held overseas [source: Federal Reserve].
The rest of the money is in bankaccounts of various types, and the Federal Reserve has tracked these funds in three different values known as the M1, M2 and M3 money supplies. (M3 has since been dropped. More on that below.)
M1 represents all of the currency in the M0 money supply, plus all of the money held in checking accounts and other checkable accounts, as well as all of the money in travelers' checks. In June 2013, the M1 money supply for U.S. dollars equaled about $2.5 trillion [source: Federal Reserve].
M2 is the M1 supply, plus all of the money held in money market funds, savings accounts and CDs under $100,000. In June 2013, the M2 money supply was about $10.5 trillion [source: Federal Reserve].
M3 is M2 plus larger CDs. As of March 2006, the Fed stopped tracking the M3 money stock as an economic indicator because it felt it did not add any information on economic activity that was not already available from M2 [sources: Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Bank of New York].
All told, anyone looking for all of the U.S. dollars in the world in July 2013 could expect to find approximately $10.5 trillion in existence, using the M2 money supply definition. If you just want to count actual notes and coins, there are about U.S. $1.2 trillion floating around the globe.
Even though the Fed can't say precisely where all the U.S. dollars are in the world, it does try to keep track of how much exists. Find out why it's so difficult to track exactly how much money exists in the world on the next page.
In 2000, an exodus of much of Zimbabwe's labor pool led to a collapse of the country's financial system. To support public project spending, the government finance ministry printed surplus Zimdollars -- too many, in fact. Economically speaking, money is like any other commodity: It loses its value when there's an abundance of it.
A surplus of readily available money in circulation leads to inflation, where money has less purchasing power. In the first decade of the 21st century, Zimbabwe's economy entered hyperinflation.
Economists watching the startling loss of value of the Zimbabwe dollar estimated that it was losing value so quickly that its decline was equivalent to prices doubling in stores every 1.3 days.
This puts the annual inflation rate Zimbabwe experienced by the end of 2008 at 516,000,000,000,000,000,000 (quintillion) percent, the highest in the world [source: Berger].
The Zimbabwean government decided to fight fire with fire and printed even more money in higher denominations. Eventually, the country would produce a $100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note -- which had an exchange rate of about 30 U.S. dollars (USD) in January 2009 [source: BBC].
The government would go on to abandon its currency entirely, opting instead to adopt the U.S. dollar and South African rand as official currencies.
But what about all those trillion-dollar notes that the country's finance ministry produced in 2008?
The government never collected the bills or let people exchange them, so no one knows the final tally in circulation.
Indeed, the bills have become something of collectors' items and traders have stockpiled many, as they can fetch higher prices than what they were officially worth [source: McGroarty and Mutsaka].
Zimbabwe has shown how difficult it can be to keep track of how much money a single nation has in the global markets, let alone how much money there is in the world. However, this inherent difficulty hasn't stopped some from trying.
Perhaps the closest estimate to how much money exists in the world was released by Mike Hewitt, editor of the economics blog DollarDaze.com. Hewitt tracked the reporting of 135 currencies from central banks and financial ministries in 167 countries.
He found that in December 2010, these countries had notes and coins (M0) equaling $5.2 trillion in U.S. dollars in circulation [source: Hewitt]. The M2 figure was about U.S. $55 trillion. That's a lot of moolah.
In October 2008, the M0 figure was $3.94 trillion, so you can see the amount of money in circulation is increasingly very rapidly. Wrote Hewitt, "Every increase to the existing money supply dilutes the value of the currency already in existence. In other words, those people holding paper money lose purchasing power to create value for the new money."
Things would be a lot easier on Mike Hewitt and foreign exchange market analysts if there was only a single currency used by every country on the planet. So why don't we?
Pros and Cons of a Universal Currency
The concept of a single worldwide currency has been suggested since the 16th century, and came close to being instituted after World War II -- yet the idea remains little more than that. Proponents argue that a universal currency would mean an end to currency crises like Zimbabwe's.
A single currency wouldn't be subject to exchange rate fluctuations because there would be no competing currencies to exchange against. In other words, a universal currency would lose its value as a commodity bought and sold on open markets and would have value only for its worth in buying other commodities.
To put it plainly, money would become just money. Its purchasing power would be the result of the adjustment of interest rates and other monetary policy tools in response to inflation or deflation.
Who would be responsible for adjusting those interest rates, though?
One of the chief fears among opponents of a universal currency is the creation of a central body formed to oversee the monetary policy for a single world currency.
An extant international body, the United Nations(U.N.), provides an example of the potential pitfalls and strength a central global monetary body could expect. Successes like peace-building missions in nations as disparate as El Salvador, Mozambique and the former Yugoslavia attest to the power a unified international body can have to resolve conflict.
On the other side of the coin, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is widely accused of replacing science with diplomacy, as nations responsible for contributing to climate change aren't openly taken to task in IPCC reports.
These reasons and others continue to prevent the adoption of a universal currency. Perhaps closer on the horizon is the integration of separate currencies within regions into unified currencies. This has already occurred in some areas. The most famous example is the euro.
As of 2013, 17 countries in Europe use the euro instead of their local currencies. Some the benefits touted include stimulation in trade activities and a reduction in transaction costs and fluctuation risks as member countries no longer need to exchange currencies when doing business with each other.
Tourists also don't have to switch currencies when they travel either [sources: Currency Solutions, European Commission]. At the same time, there are significant disadvantages. For instance, a debt-laden country is no longer able to devalue its own currency to make its goods more attractive to buyers from other countries.
The financial troubles of countries like Greece and Spain in the 2010s have been exacerbated, some experts say, by the fact that they use the euro [sources:Schoen, Currency Solutions].
The euro is not the only example of a shared currency. Eight West African nations share a common currency, the West African CFA franc (CFA stands for Communauté Financière d'Afrique or African Financial Community), which was introduced in 1945.
A further six Central African countries use the Central African CFA franc, though the two currencies are interchangeable [source: Miller and Bouhan]. In 2008, Central American nations agreed to create a single currency for the region, but as of 2013 it has not happened [source: Central America Data].
Meanwhile, the Union of South American Countries put the brakes on their own common currency project in 2011, citing the experiences it observed with the European Union and the euro [source: MercoPress].
So while the debate over regional and universal currencies continues, people like Mike Hewitt will have to count money the old-fashioned way.
Dean Hedges
9/12/2015 08:18:48 pm
"Either something has value or it doesn't" .... ... in the world of accounting we assign value by using numbers , that which has a positive value is assigned at least a positive number , for instance , one ..... that which has no value is assigned zero , nothing, and in some cases , a negative number .... with 43 trillion printed, the iraqi dinar has been assigned a pretty large value as a whole by the original designer of the currency ... ....... thus , in an open market, that number could crush most weaker numbers in play. ... .... as far as usd is concerned , an article from 2009 is interesting. ... A $1.2 Trillion Slush Fund: My Boss Grilled the Vice Chair of the Fed Yesterday ....
9/12/2015 08:45:53 pm
Let us not forget that during October several major events are to happen. 1. On October 1st the United States either declares bankruptcy or it raises it's self imposed national debit limit.
Francis Albert
9/13/2015 11:29:36 am
Couple of things for ease of understanding. This info from 40 year currency historian/researcher/author:
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RIO DE JANEIRO — The scores of the United States' women's basketball games in this Olympics have been eye opening.
Team USA dismantled Spain, 101-72, here Saturday at Carioca Arena I, cruising to a sixth consecutive gold medal in a game that looked like just another mismatch against the best team in Europe. The United States averaged 102.1 points in this tournament, just short of the record 102.4 points the great 1996 team averaged, winning all eight of its games by an average of nearly 40 points.
"It's amazing isn't it? I mean when you think, that's 20 years," U.S. national coach Geno Auriemma said. "You know the first one was '96 and here we are 2016. It's mind boggling when you think about it what this team has been able to accomplish. There is such a level of expectation, there's such a level of respect for the people at the very top
We're doing stuff that may never be done again.".
This could be the last moment in the international sun for 31-year old guard Diana Taurasi, 35-year old incomparable point guard Sue Bird and 37-year old forward Tamika Catchings, who have all played a huge role on four Olympic gold medal teams with their work ethic and unselfish leadership. Auriemma put the three veterans on the court at the beginning of the fourth quarter with the game under total control, then took them out one last time with 5:44 to play so they could get some well deserved applause from an appreciative crowd.
I think it was a very emotional time," he said. "When you're around these players and you're around Sue and Diana and Tamika, and you know that this may be their last and you're able to send them out, it's like graduating seniors back home," Auriemma said. "And at the same time, you've got three young players who've never been here before. They get to go home with their first gold medal. ever.
"There's just a lot of emotions running through our team, and running through our locker room."
Taurasi, who led Team USA with 21 points, once again played like the most dominant player in the world, making 5-of-7 threes and contributing three rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals in 26 minutes. Bird, the incomparable point guard, was questionable for the game with a strained knee capsule suffered in Tuesday's quarterfinal against Japan, but still managed to play 16 minutes. Catchings, the 12th player on the deepest and possibly the best women's team in U.S. Olympic history, offered up six hard working minutes.
This game marked the end of Catchings' Olympic career. She is retiring at the end of the WNBA season. Taurasi and Bird have hinted that this will be their final Olympics although both could still return in four years in Tokyo. The three joined Lisa Leslie and Teresa Edwards as the only Olympians to win four gold medals.
"It's been hard. I keep hearing, 'This your last Olympics. This is your last one.' You kind of have to put that aside and enjoy every moment," Taurasi said. "You don't want to get caught up in that and forget all those the good times. I really treated this like my first one. I acted like I had never been here. Every practice, every bus ride, every dinner. I made sure to enjoy it all.
"You play these eight games and you want to win so bad. The one thing we didn't do is we didn't take any possessions off. We played every single game like it a gold medal game and that's why I think you see everyone is emotionally and physically spent right now. And that takes a certain character team and individuals. I've never been a part of anything like this."
This United States' team, which defeated Spain by 40 in pool play, plays beautiful, dominant basketball. "We have an All Star team where everyone plays up to their potential. That man, our coach, just finds a way to put things together," Taurasi said, suggesting this might be the United States' best Olympic team ever.
This United States' team, which featured 12 players with a combined 20 Olympic gold medals and defeated Spain by 40 in pool play, plays beautiful, dominant basketball. They trailed for just over 11 minutes in the entire Olympics and the biggest deficit was just four points — 6-2 to France. They never were down after the first quarter and with the exception of the semifinal win over France all the games were pretty much after 20 minutes.
Auriemma had five of his former UConn players– Taurasi, Bird, center Tina Charles, guard Maya Moore and forward Breanna Stewart– on this team and there was one point when he had all five of them on the court. "I was looking for movement and I put Stewie in to try to get some movement," he recalled. "After one up and down, I was like "Oh, Geez, I hope we play well. I'm going to hear this stuff if they don't.'
Team USA wound up creating separation by going on a 16-3 run with that group that turned a close game into a 49-point halftime lead. "I hope somebody got a picture of that because I want to send it out to recruits," he said with a smile.
Maybe this team is Haley's comet, but, based on their relentless assault of Spain and other teams throughout this tournament, it appears the gap between the United States and the rest of the world is growing, not shrinking.
"Things go in cycles," Auriemma said. "It's very difficult to stay at a real high level. We have an organization in the United States– USA Basketball– that is committed in so many ways– emotionally, financially in the effort to win gold medals. That probably accounts for a lot of our success. We also have college basketball and that helps our players grow over their four years.
We don't dominate as much in the 17, 18-year old level. A lot of teams in the rest of the world are way farther advanced than we are. But the college experience really helps our players prepare, as does playing overseas. So for every for every Brazil that isn't very good, Canada is coming on. For Every Russia that isn't as dominant now, Spain has been in the finals of the 2014 World Cup and this Olympics. For every Australia that struggled here, there's a Serbia that advances to the semi-finals.
"Those other countries will come back. The Russians won the 18-anbd-under European championship last year. They were great. Right now, we're at a real high level that maybe no one has ever seen before. That's not necessarily because the rest of the world is getting weaker. Women's basketball is getting stronger. In this tournament, if you watched all the game, there were so many close games. Australia, the No. 2 team in the world, got knocked out in the quarterfinals. France, who finished second in the 2012 Olympics, lost to Serbia
"If you just took us out of the tournament, this would be an amazing tournament. But, unfortunately, we're not going anywhere."


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Detection Wormhole in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
One of the severe attacks on routing protocols is called wormhole attack in which two or more malicious nodes receive packets at one point of the network and transmit them to another location by a wired or wireless tunnel. The wormhole is so powerful and detection of it is difficult. This attack can form a serious threat in wireless networks, especially against many wireless ad-hoc networks and location-based wireless security systems. There is several wormhole detection methods in the wireless ad-hoc networks which some of them are reviewed in this paper.
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As our Magic exhibition draws to a close, we will be touting our wares at the Allsorts Art Fair in Solihull on 4th June. All the info is on this cracking poster by Sarah Ray.
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Alex has been teaching English, history, and humanities for more than a decade, most recently at Kingswood Oxford in West Hartford and in the summer program at Phillips Andover. He has coached a variety of sports, primarily focusing on basketball and tennis, and he has been a student advisor and dormitory parent. Alex attended Phillips Exeter Academy before matriculating to Kenyon College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in English. While at Kenyon, Alex was the rugby club president, Chamber Singers president, and vice president of Phi Kappa Sigma. After a few years working in sports media (including as a production assistant for ESPN in Bristol) he earned a Master of Arts in liberal studies from Dartmouth College, concentrating in creative writing. His publications include an award-winning short story in Writer's Digest and an oral history on coach Jim Calhoun that won Dartmouth's Bronze Award. Alex teaches in the English department and resides on CPT3 with his wife Alexa, daughter Emerson, and son Bodhi. He is an assistant coach for boys' junior varsity basketball.


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July 1, 2016
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July 17, 2015
Return of the Geek Bazaar!! To Finish Off a Great week of Geek WeekGeeks of the Last Frontier, Harland Productions and Senshi-Con will host the 2nd Annual Geek Bazaar at the Anchorage MakerSpace! 12pm-7pm Saturday, July 18th, 2015 12pm-7pm Sunday, July 19th, 2015 Free Admittance! Vendor Booths Available. Vendor Signup! https://goo.gl/C2XvxI Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1651914925030029/
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Definitions for ballpointˈbɔlˌpɔɪnt
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ballpoint, ballpoint pen, ballpen, Biro(noun)
a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper
A ballpoint pen, biro.
Have you seen my ballpoint? I need to sign this form and a felt tip won't make carbons.
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The numerical value of ballpoint in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
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Ulster fear Coetzee's season is over after Bowe agony
Ulster hope to be told today that Marcell Coetzee's first season in Belfast isn't over after just four games.
Having arrived with an ACL injury, the Springbok had to wait until February for his debut but has since made a huge impact for his new side and quickly became a fans' favourite.
The all-action back-rower looks set to miss yet more crucial games, however, after having to depart the win over Zebre on Saturday with a knee complaint that was scanned yesterday.
While Ulster have said the injury is not to the same knee the 25-year-old damaged last April, the Kingspan outfit will still be holding their breath as they wait on news of their big name import's prognosis.
On average, a mild ligament strain to the knee takes between three to six weeks to heal, but should the scan reveal any more extensive damage his season would have to be in doubt.
The province's last game of the campaign, should they not maintain their position in the top four reclaimed over the weekend, is currently scheduled to be against inter-pro rivals and league leaders Leinster eight weeks from now.
If the injury were to linger any longer, it could also have implications for Coetzee's future international involvement.
South Africa have this month announced that, after July 1, those playing abroad must have amassed over 30 caps if they are to continue to represent the Springboks.
Thanks to his run of injuries, Coetzee still sits on 28 and would need to feature in a three-Test series with France in June to hit the quota before the ruling comes into force.
Unlike the likes of New Zealand, who jettisoned Coetzee's fellow Ulster ace Charles Piutau once he moved to the northern hemisphere, South Africa have previously selected their European-based players for Test duty.
In the past, Ulster have had to do without Springbok Ruan Pienaar for much of the early season thanks to his involvement in the Rugby Championship and autumn internationals.
Meanwhile, Ireland yesterday would not put a time frame on Tommy Bowe's return to action but confirmed that the Ulster winger had sustained a suspected fracture of his left leg.
Bowe was seeing the surgeon yesterday and it seems unlikely he will play again this season.
The Monaghan man came off the bench against Wales in Cardiff on Friday night to make a 69th international appearance but lasted only a matter of moments before picking up the injury. Carted off with a rueful look, it is only the latest in a series of unfortunate incidents for the two-time Lions tourist.
Having returned to Ulster from a spell with Ospreys in 2012, he has since suffered two serious knee problems as well as groin, hamstring and hand injuries.
He played only one game in 12 months having been injured at the 2015 World Cup but had fought his way back into the Ireland reckoning to appear twice in this Six Nations campaign.
Leinster's Fergus McFadden, with just four games under his belt this season, has been called into the Ireland squad as a replacement as they prepare to face England in Dublin in the final round of the Six Nations.
While England have already won the title, they are aiming for history in the shape of a second consecutive Grand Slam and record 19th straight win.
Their hosts did, however, get some good news on the injury front yesterday.
Conor Murray, who departed early in the second half of Friday night's contest with a shoulder injury, should start. The Munster nine sustained the blow in the first half but was kept on until shorty after the turn.
While confirming Murray would be fit for Saturday, team manager Paul Dean defended Ireland's decision to leave him on as long as they did.
"He's responded well to treatment," he said.
"You have to give the player every opportunity to continue and Conor is such a good guy, such a valuable asset to us that we needed to allow him to stay on as long as possible to try to overcome it.
"As it happened, he wasn't comfortable enough to continue so the best thing to do was to take him off."
Johnny Sexton is also set to feature after passing through the three stages of his HIA.
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Between 21st –28th June 2016 Glyndebourne's sell out production Il barbiere di Siviglia will be broadcast to cinemas across the United Kingdom. Directed by Annabel Arden, with set and costumes designed by Joanna Parker, the production has been described as "sheer visual sophistication" by The Independent who awarded it 5 stars.
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Custom Sangria Red 2009 Ford Expedition
Just because you drive a Ford Expedition, doesn't mean it has to look like your only priority is getting the kids to school and soccer practice.
This 2009 Sangria red Ford Expedition was recently posted for sale at Motorcars of Dallas (Fall 2014) and is an example of what we'd like to see more of from you Ford Expedition owners.
The modifications to this Expedition include:
20-inch chrome wheels
305/55R20 Nitto Trail Grappler tires (33.2″ x 12″ x 20″ tires)
Go Rhino grill / brush guard
Dual chrome exhaust tip
Deleted running boards
The only other modification we'd consider is a Readylift 3-inch leveling kit to give it a little more height.
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