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Chronic neck pain is pain in the neck over a long period of time. It usually lasts more than 3 months. The pain can range from mild to severe.
Chronic neck pain can be caused by a number of conditions, including problems with the muscles, nerves, or bones.
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your risk of chronic neck pain include having:
- Muscle strains and muscle tension
- Poor posture
- Osteoarthritis
- Disc degeneration
- Fibromyalgia
- Spinal stenosis
- Whiplash injury
- Prior spine surgery
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Tumors (rarely)
Chronic neck pain may also cause you to have neck stiffness. Pain may be worse when moving your neck. The pain can be any type of pain including burning, sharp, dull, and tingling. The pain may spread to other parts of the body such as the head, shoulders, and arms.
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. You may be referred to a specialist. Orthopedists specialize in bones and joints. A neurologist or neurosurgeon specializes in the nerves and spinal cord.
Images of your spine may be needed. This can be done with:
Your nerve and muscle function may need to be measured. This can be done using electromyography (EMG).
Talk with your doctor about the best plan for you. Options include the following:
Activity and Exercise
You may be able to decrease your pain by staying active and exercising. Your doctor may also refer you to a physical therapist. A therapist may work on strength exercises and stretching.
There are many different medications that may be used to help you manage your neck pain.
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)—to treat the pain and reduce inflammation
- Acetaminophen—to treat pain
- Certain antidepressant medications—sometimes used for neck pain
- Certain antiseizure medications
- Corticosteroid injection—to treat the pain and reduce inflammation caused by disc disease
Other Treatments
There are other treatments that might be helpful for neck pain.
- Low-level laser therapy— a light source is directed on the painful area
- Electrotherapy treatments, such as repetitive magnetic stimulation, and nerve and muscle stimulation
- Chiropractic care
- Acupuncture
- Intermittent traction (pulling on the neck)
- Massage
Most cases of neck pain are treated medically. In some cases surgery is needed. The type of surgery will depend on the cause of pain. For example, if you have a herniated disc in your neck, surgery will remove the damaged part of the disc.
To help reduce your chance of neck pain:
- Maintain good posture.
- Take breaks from activities that do not involve movement such as driving or working at a computer.
- Avoid sleeping with too many pillows.
- Get plenty of exercise.
- Make sure your desk chair and keyboard are at proper heights.
- Avoid cradling the phone in your neck.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Laura Lei-Rivera, PT, DPT, GCS
- Review Date: 09/2017 -
- Update Date: 09/03/2015 -


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My recent column on "coupon fairies" – people who leave unwanted coupons on store shelves for others to pick up – generated a lot of comments from readers and retailers alike. Not surprisingly, the store employees that wrote in were grateful that the issue of unwanted coupons littering shelves and refrigerator cases was addressed. Many consumers wrote with suggestions on what to do with extra, unwanted coupons:
"Dear Jill,
I just read your article about coupon fairies, and I wanted to share an idea with these generous souls that will allow them to still help others with the coupons they have left over. Many churches have a food pantry or food drives during different times of the year. Donate your coupons to a local church and allow them to use them to stock their pantries to serve the less fortunate in our communities. Keep that giving spirit alive!
Amy B."
"Dear Jill,
A local home for victims of domestic violence collects unwanted coupons in our area too. They prefer that the coupons not be cut as their wards cut coupons. They are always in need of donations & this is a small way to help.
Gwen R."
"Dear Jill,
I read your column every Sunday. Thank you for all the useful tips. I enjoyed your column about the coupon fairies. We also had coupon fairies here. The stores here let it be known they did not want the fairies leaving coupons all over the store. So I take my unwanted and expired coupons to my local VFW for the Ladies Auxiliary. They then send these to our military bases overseas for the men and women and families in the military. Manufacturers will honor these expired coupons for six months after the expiration date for our military personnel overseas. I find this very rewarding and a win-win way to help. I get rid of all the coupons I don't use, plus all of my expired coupons and I am also helping people and supporting our troops.
Jean B."
"Our church accepts coupons, which they mail overseas to military bases. We just take them to church on Sunday. I am sure many other churches do the same thing. Love your column!"
Joy S.
"Hi Jill,
Just read your column on coupon fairies and saw that store managers are not too happy about them. You have probably addressed this in the past, but please advise your readers that they can send unused and expired coupons to our troops overseas! You do have to pay to ship them, but it is such a blessing for them to receive them and you can combine with others to share the cost.
Cathy M."
While on the topic of expiring coupons, reader Gianna writes with a great question: When is it safe to recycle your coupon inserts?
"Dear Jill,
I am an avid couponer who uses your 'clipless' method of only cutting what I need and keeping the rest of the coupons in the newspaper insert every week. But how do I know when everything in the insert has expired and I can safely discard it without throwing out any coupons still valid? Got a trick for us for this?
Gianna P."
Absolutely! On the first of the month, every month, I post a list of expired inserts on my blog at JillCataldo.com. An insert doesn't make the list until every coupon inside has expired. Simply check the list, and if your insert's name and date is on it, it's safe to recycle, discard, or pass on to another organization.
Smart Living Tip: Many readers echoed the sentiment to send unwanted coupons to military bases, as they can indeed be used six months after the expiration dates. You can learn more about this at the following websites, all of which will help you get started: OperationExpiration.net, OCPnet.org and CouponsToTroops.com.
© CTW Features
Jill Cataldo, a coupon workshop instructor, writer and mother of three, never passes up a good deal. Learn more about Super-Couponing at her website, www.jillcataldo.com. Email your own couponing victories and questions to email@example.com.
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Kaua'i CC student art exhibition opens
June 3-8 at Kukui Grove Shopping CenterKauaʻi Community College
Dir of Community Relations & Special Projects, Office of the Chancellor
Susan A Lee, (808) 956-5852
Dir of Marketing & Communications, Office of the VP for Community Colleges
Students from the painting, drawing, graphic design, photograph and video production classes presented their artwork at a student exhibition on June 3, at the Kukui Grove Shopping Center in Lihue. The art will be on view in the Kaua'i Society of Artists Gallery until June 8, 2013, with an Artist Reception on Friday, June 7 at 6 p.m. The public is invited to browse through the gallery and enjoy the creative talents of Kaua'i Community College students. The Artist Reception is also open to the public.
"This if the first time the exhibition was held outside of the Kaua`i CC campus," said Matthew Fulmer, art instructor at Kaua'i CC. "Students are able to not only exhibit, but also sell their artwork."
According to Fulmer, the goals of art programs are to give those students hoping to move on to a four-year education a great start, or provide those who are looking to expand their skill set, the skills they need."
The Kaua'i Society of Artists generously donated the gallery space and waived commission fees to support Kaua'i CC students' endeavors. The exhibition exposes the college's art programs to people who may not be aware of the diversity of courses available at KCC.
Kaua'i CC digital video lecturer Gary Ellwood said: "This exhibition is a great opportunity for both the students and the Kaua'i Community to view a wide range of finished works. The students have the opportunity to see their work on the walls of a gallery, or on a big screen, and feel the pride of accomplishment that goes with a public display. Holding the exhibition at Kukui Grove Shopping Center opens the display to the whole island including visitors. In addition, the community gets a window into the creativity being nurtured at the College, witnessing the new, home grown talent that is blossoming there. It encourages potential Kaua'i CC students to develop a vision of what they could be learning at Kaua'i CC. Truly a WIN-WIN event for everyone."
One of the artists featured in the show is Kaua'i CC student Angel Camarillo, who is pursuing a degree in graphic design and exploring her future in art. Commenting on her decision to study at Kaua'i CC, she said, "I want to get a feel for what I want—to make sure of what I will pursue in life." Studying at Kaua'i CC works for her because she said she wants to "be closer to home and see my sister and brother grow up."
Other students featured in the show include: Jean Rhude, Norman Acupan, Alexandra Barrow, Eric Cano, Keenan Javinar,Laurie Laroque, Christine Nelson, Sean Palmer, Ashley Pascual, Derek Wright, Carol Bain, Helene Daub, Nicole Ludington-Braun, Lauren Mongillo, Tirah Brings, Shelley Leonard, Patricia Hebson, Jushue Perez, Mike Smith, Kawehi Hooph, Aquarius Kalama, Devin Vegas, Barbara Brings, Laurie Bolton, Carol Yasutake, Rachel Gauthier, Angel Camarillo, Kamanakai Palama, Sherry Dire, Ohrlan Laborte, Michaella Mintcheff, Reginald McPherson, Calthron Antoine, Kenneth Braudenburger, Lilia Yamamoto, Jasmine Santos, Sarah Britt, Stephen Tanji, Satchel Hamilton, Katherine Bueche, Ethan Miguel, Jon Ramboyon, Raevyn Ibia, Kelsey Kabazawa, Leslie Matsumoto, Darica McCain, Julie Pescador, Raquel Sullivan, Dorian Demarais, and Samuel Amonette.


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This recipe and photograph were taken from My Kitchen and published on Shin Min Daily News, one of the leading Chinese newspapers under SPH in Singapore, on the 16 July 2008. What was the reason, or perhaps I should say, excuse for unauthorised publication? I managed to get the answer, it was simply because "deadline was tight". BUT, hey... I have nothing to do with your job!! To me, it sounds like it is okay to rob the bank if we are in need of money since there are so many banks around. I was thinking if I should black out the editor's name but on the second thought, she needed to learn something. Yes, I am annoyed especially after I read her e-mail.
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I would like to thank my lawyer (should I mention your name?), family members and readers for supporting me in this matter.


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GENEVA (AP) — Israel's air campaign in Gaza may violate international laws prohibiting the targeting of civilians, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Friday.
Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said the Israeli military, which claims to have hit more than 1,100 targets that it says are mostly rocket-launching sites, and the Gaza militants, who have fired more than 550 rockets against Israel, must abide by international law.
"We have received deeply disturbing reports that many of the civilian casualties, including of children, occurred as a result of strikes on homes," Pillay said. "Such reports raise serious doubt about whether the Israeli strikes have been in accordance with international humanitarian law and international human rights law."
Pillay says she's seen for herself in Gaza how traumatic the airstrikes and rocket attacks are for civilians, particularly children. Her office says civilians bear the brunt of the conflict now — and all sides must refrain from launching attacks or putting military weapons in densely populated areas.
"Israel, Hamas, and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza have been down this road before, and it has led only to death, destruction, distrust and a painful prolongation of the conflict," Pillay said.
Targeting civilian homes violates international humanitarian law, but not if the homes are used for military purposes. But even then attacks on a home used by a military must be proportionate.


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Crystal Gold SW6305
Crystal Gold SW6305 belongs to the series of pearls that show brighter and more shiny colors than the standard Golden Luster Pearlescent pigments. It provides a gold metallic luster in a pearlescent pigment that has synthetic pearls, with a particle diameter of 10-60µm. This pigment is often described as "gold powder." It is used in car surface and refinished paints, in interior and exterior wall paints as well as gravure, screen and offset inks.
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Guangzhou Yortay Fine Chemicals Co. Ltd. is a pearlescent pigment manufacturer with a research and development team that provides service for the different needs of customers. Yortay Chemicals produces high performance pigments for the graphic art and inks industry at home and abroad. Their products are sold to more than 40 countries and they include conventional industrial grade and special effect grade pearlescent pigments.
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Black Stone Cherry Set to Play Clicks Live in Tyler on July 10 [VIDEO]
Hard/southern rockers Black Stone Cherry are invading Tyler on Wednesday (July 10), taking the stage at Clicks Live for one of the city's biggest rock shows of the year thus far.
Black Stone Cherry have been in the biz since 2001, and have released three albums and have charted eight singles. The band released their latest album, "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," in 2011 and it reached No. 29 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the UK Rock Album Chart.
Halestorm's Lzzy Hale appears on two songs on "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" -- "Such a Shame" and "Won't Let Go."
Black Stone Cherry have been on the bill for several huge rock acts over the years, supporting bands such as Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Nickelback, Alter Bridge and Theory of a Deadman They are also opening for classic rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company on their co-headlining tour. That tour makes a stop in The Woodlands on Thursday (July 11).
The Kentucky-based band will headline the three-band show with local supporting acts Rockett Queen and Victims of Sanity. The concert is set to start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $13 online or at the club, which is at 1946 ESE Loop 323 in Tyler.
Black Stone Cherry: 'White Trash Millionaire'


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Quote: The Once-ler, from The Lorax with photos by Chris Jordan
"I meant no harm. I most truly did not.
But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.
I biggered my wagons. I biggered the loads
of the Thneeds I shipped out. I was shipping them forth
to the South! To the East! To the West! To the North!
I went right on biggering ... selling more Thneeds.
And I biggered my money, which everyone needs."
Note to educators: Chris Jordan's dazzling images of stacked throwaway cell phones and crushed cars make the statistics that describe the huge waste streams of our consumer culture visible. Taking the first line of the excerpt above, "I meant no harm. I most truly did not," have your students be the Once-Ler and finish the apology to the Lorax in Dr. Seuss style.
- : This photo essay shows recent works of Chris Jordan from his Running the Numbers and Intolerable Beauty series.
- : Follow the journey of five media artists, led by photographer Chris Jordan, to Midway to witness the catastrophic effect of our disposable culture on some of the world's most beautiful and symbolic creatures.


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Zoe Konstantopoulou, a member of parliament for the left-wing, anti-bailout Greek party Syriza told CNBC that Greece's bailout deal was a "death sentence for Greek society."
With just three weeks to go until the Greeks vote in polls that many foreign analysts see as a choice between staying in the euro zone and leaving it, surveys showed that over 80 percent of Greeks want to keep the euro , but as many think that the country should renegotiate the terms of its bailout.
"Greeks are suffering and all of them want to change it for another agreement which would allow us to breathe," Konstantopoulou told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" in an interview in Athens.
Polls ahead of the elections on June 17 show that the pro-bailout party New Democracy are just ahead with 23.4 percent of voters' preferences compared to the anti-austerity Syriza party with 22.1 percent.
Rejecting the suggestion that a fifth of Greeks wouldn't actually rip up the bailout deal for Greece, Konstantopoulou said that no Greek would choose austerity.
"There is no Greek that would go for enforcing this deal, Greeks are suffering, and all of them want to change it or rip it up for another agreement which will provide us with another agreement which would allow us to breathe," she said.
She added that if the Syriza party won the elections it would mean ending the bailout deal, "which is no bailout deal at all," and re-examining the country's public debt.
"We believe that Greece has paid the public debt again and again, through very high interest which we have paid and re-paid and it's time to consider another policy for Greece," Konstantopoulou said.
She denied that bailout money was helping the country or could solve the euro zone crisis, saying that the deal was a breach of European Union legislation and that it only leads to a dead end for the country and its people.
"This path passes over the destruction of the Greek society - the Greeks are suffering, they are looking for food in the garbage - and this is no exit and bailout for a society," Konstantopoulou said.


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The Declaration of Independence cites as an example of King George's tyranny: "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance." To prevent a similar situation in the new United States of America, the Founders assigned the federal government limited powers.
Downsizing Blog
Food Subsidies Are No Free Lunch
We are being bombarded with sensationalist stories in the press about state and local governments having to "slash" programs because of a lack of revenues. These stories typically revolve around the question of whether the federal government will continue supplementing "essential services" provided by state and local government.
Another Government Employee Bailout
President Obama is proposing to give the states another $50 billion. However, that would amount to another bailout for state and local government employees and their unions. The president claims that more deficit spending is necessary to sustain the nascent economic recovery. But the only thing the money would sustain is the excessive wages and benefits government employees enjoy at the expense of the private sector.
Why Wait to Cut Spending?
President Obama has instructed federal agencies to come up with spending cuts equal to five percent of their discretionary budgets for fiscal year 2012. The 2012 fiscal year doesn't begin until October 2011. Why wait ?
Wash Post Cites 'Regime Uncertainty'
We argued in October that "regime uncertainty" was stifling the economy's ability to recover. Businesses are more reluctant to invest or hire when Washington pursues a policy agenda that could be detrimental to their bottom lines. The phrase was coined by economist Robert Higgs who observed that FDR's anti-business policies prolonged the Great Depression.
New Essay on Federal Pay
I have posted a new essay on federal worker pay. The essay gathers together ideas and data from my recent blogs on the topic.
Amtrak's Financial Shenanigans
Federal Spending Limit
The nation is facing a fiscal emergency. Debt is exploding and federal spending exceeds revenues by more than $1 trillion a year. To fix the problem, policymakers should pursue reforms on two paths.
Public Favors Wage Freeze
A wage freeze for federal workers is the vote winner in the House Republican YouCut poll this week. YouCut is designed to gather citizen input online regarding which federal programs to cut.
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When not arting about or working at the gallery, we do other stuff... Like last week it was my wife's birthday. It never rains in May, but it did this year changing our plans...
So we walked about and got into what we got into.
Never toured it... You?... No?... Let's go.
somehow at 2am we thought Karaoke!!!... Doremi Karaoke in Japantown! Stays open till past 3am.
Let's belt 'em out.
Saw Thee Ohsees last week.
For Jessie's birthday... so many birthdays.
Movie Star Junkies were great.
It was like that.
Thee Ohsees
Who are like that.
We said good bye to Fish's mural @FFDG
And the last photo of Simon, the gallery beta fish, who jumped ship after we left the gallery for the night... RIP.
We eat these guys.
Damon Soule installed his show at Fecal Face.
Doesn't matter how many fragile stickers you put on it.
Repaired but damaged... learn how to ship work correctly.
More family moments.
Don't forget to check those thru holes.
Watched the Giants beat Washington last night... Behind 1 run bottom of the 9th with two outs, homerun from Pablo to win it. Exciting beer ingested good stuff.
My landlord is in this photo.
His tenents are in this one.
The best part about the Giants winning at home is hearing...
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Perfume makers accused of failing to report toxic ingredients
The Washington Toxics Coalition says a recent test of 20 perfumes used by tweens uncovered the presence of hormone-disrupting chemicals called phthalates in nine products.
The non-profit group says five companies selling the products failed to disclose the potentially harmful chemicals as required by this state's Children's Safe Products Act of 2008.
According to Washington Toxics Coalition Science Director Erika Schreder, seven of the perfumes were made by major retailers that are routinely frequented by young people in their late adolescence and early teens.
"It's very disappointing that companies whose products are adored by children are not only using toxic chemicals in their products, but failing to comply with the law and report them," Schreder said in a news release issued Thursday.
Schreder says she notified each of the companies requesting a response. Most replied that the specific fragrance products names were not intended to be used by children under the age of 12. The products, retailers and retailer response are included in .


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Reading 3: The Lighthouse Letter
Following is a copy of the letter William Gilley received appointing him keeper of the newly built lighthouse on Baker Island.
Collectors Office
I have the pleasure to inform you that the President has appointed you to be keeper of the light house on Bakers Island, near Mount Desert, with a salary fixed at three hundred and fifty dollars per annum.
It will be necessary for you to reside and be steadily in the house provided for the keeper.
Major Cornelius Grinnell will furnish the establishment with oil, tube-glasses, wicks, buff skins and whiting; and when the buildings are finished and the light house fitted up and furnished, you will have the light house lit up during the nights. Further instructions in relation to your duties with the forms of accounts and returns will be sent you as soon as they can be prepared.
W, Iesley the agent will deliver over to you the buildings and appurtenances, for which you will give him your receipt. Please to acknowledge your acceptance of the appointment, and inform me of the night you intend first to light up the lantern.
I am respectfully,
Mr. William Gilley
Questions for Reading 3
1. Describe what life might be like for a lighthouse keeper in the past and today. Do you think this position changed life for the Gilleys on Baker Island? If so, how?
2. Why were lighthouses necessary to coastal islands? Are they still necessary today?
Reading 3 was provided courtesy of Acadia National Park.
Reading 3 was provided courtesy of Acadia National Park.


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Entertainment by Christie Beu from 5:30pm-9:30pm
3/22/2018 at 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Event Description
Come unwind while enjoying the tunes of Christie Beu.
Christie is one of the Beu Sisters and when singing solo, she is able to venture into many different ranges.
She always mesmerizes the guests with her voice range!


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By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg predicted on Sunday that pressure from the American public would eventually force the Congress to expand background checks for gun buyers, even though the measure faces an uncertain fate in the Senate.
As Bloomberg launched a $12 million national advertising campaign aimed at prodding members of the Senate to support expanded background checks, he said the measure's widespread popularity would trump gun-rights groups like the powerful National Rifle Association that oppose it.
"If 90 percent of the public wants something and their representatives vote against that, common sense says they are going to have a price to pay for that," Bloomberg said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
A top NRA executive predicted that the self-made billionaire' s efforts would change few minds. "He can't buy America," NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre said on the same program.
Lawmakers are scaling back President Barack Obama's ambitions for sweeping gun control measures, which took on a new urgency after the December 14 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 20 children and six adults.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid effectively ruled out an assault weapons ban last week, and limits on high-capacity ammunition clips also are likely to fall short.
Gun-control advocates say a system of expanded background checks would be the single most effective way to reduce gun violence across the country. Opinion polls show that more than 90 percent of all American voters and 85 percent of gun owners support it.
While such a measure could pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, it faces long odds in the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold the majority.
"I don't think their bill will pass the Senate and even if it does it won't pass the House," Republican Senator Tom Coburn said on C-SPAN.
The NRA argues that expanding existing background checks to cover the 40 percent of gun sales that are now exempt would only create more hurdles for law abiding citizens and do little to deter criminal purchases. The NRA instead wants the federal government to step up prosecutions under existing gun laws and boost security in schools.
Bloomberg acknowledged that a national ban on assault weapons is less popular with the public and is unlikely to succeed in Congress.
Several states, including New York, have passed assault-weapons bans of their own but others like Colorado, which tightened its gun laws recently, have not restricted the military-style rifles that are popular with gun owners.
"I think the feeling right now around assault weapons, at least in Colorado, is that it's so hard to define what an assault weapon is," Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper said on CNN's "State of the Nation."
"There's a lot of questions whether the 10-year federal ban that existed made a difference," Hickenlooper said. "It's a tough sell."
(Additional reporting by David Brunnstrom and Toni Clarke. Editing by Christopher Wilson)


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Shun Li and the Poet
A Friday free foreign film at The Depot
Bud Werner Memorial Library and the Steamboat Springs Arts Council present an award-winning Italian film directed by Andrea Segre.
WINNER! The Lux Prize awarded by the European Parliament & Best Feature Film at the London BFI Film Festival
About the film
Shun Li works in a textile factory near Rome, slowly paying off the broker that brought her from China to Italy, while saving money so she can bring her young son to join her. She is suddenly transferred to work as a bartender at a pub in a small town along the Venetian Lagoon. The pub is the hangout of the local fishermen, including Bepi, a handsome old Slav immigrant nicknamed "The Poet." A tender, delicate friendship grows between Shun Li and Bepi. But gossip soon threatens their innocent relationship, a bond that had once transcended two very different, yet not at all distant cultures.
Watch the trailer
In Italian and Mandarin with English subtitles
Run time: 98 min.
The free screening includes an award-wining short, fresh popcorn & a cash bar.


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DesignCon 2011 just ended, and it was the first year for AWR to exhibit. While a number of you use our software for high-speed SI design work, we have not allocated a significant portion of our tradeshow budget to this segment in the past. This year, however, we've changed it. We've expanded our presence at this show from largely tutorial in nature– thank you Dr. John Dunn for 3 years of top-notch talks on EM at this conference – to one that also incorporates a booth, partner demonstrations and on-line EDA Café interviews. (thanks Graham!)
Working a tradeshow booth is not usually a highlight for most people, but I can sincerely say that DesignCon was a real pleasure. This show was jam-packed with curious design engineers, and many proactively stopped by our booth and said, "I know AWR. What are you showing here?" The curiosity of the engineering community is contagious and the camaraderie extends to the aisles where questions and answers flowed freely. It was hard not to get excited by the buzz in the atmosphere and dynamics of all the attendees.
The show in many ways made me realize why AWR's next ad campaign, "Stop Waiting and Start Designing" makes perfect sense. Our collective curiosity as engineers, designers, marketers, and managers keeps us pushing the limit of what's possible. In the same way that AWR software makes designing the next big "GHz & beyond" wireless system or gadget possible, isn't it time you got curious too and found out how and why? Go ahead. Get curious. Learn more about AWR and how are software solutions are advancing the wireless revolution:


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From Proteopedia
Tricyclic series of Hsp90 inhibitors
Structural highlights
[HS90A_HUMAN] Molecular chaperone that promotes the maturation, structural maintenance and proper regulation of specific target proteins involved for instance in cell cycle control and signal transduction. Undergoes a functional cycle that is linked to its ATPase activity. This cycle probably induces conformational changes in the client proteins, thereby causing their activation. Interacts dynamically with various co-chaperones that modulate its substrate recognition, ATPase cycle and chaperone function.[1] [2]
Publication Abstract from PubMed
A novel class of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) inhibitors was developed after a low throughput screen (LTS) of a focused library containing approximately 21K compounds selected by virtual screening. The initial [1-{3-H-imidazo[4-5-c]pyridin-2-yl}-3,4-dihydro-2H-pyrido[2,1-a]isoindole- 6-one] (1) compound showed moderate activity (IC(50) = 7.6 muM on Hsp82, the yeast homologue of Hsp90). A high-resolution X-ray structure shows that compound 1 binds into an "induced" hydrophobic pocket, 10-15 A away from the ATP/resorcinol binding site. Iterative cycles of structure-based drug design (SBDD) and chemical synthesis led to the design and preparation of analogues with improved affinity. These optimized molecules make productive interactions within the ATP binding site as reported by other Hsp90 inhibitors. This resulted in compound 8, which is a highly potent inhibitor in biochemical and cellular assays (K(d) = 0.35 nM on Hsp90; IC(50) = 30 nM on SKBr3 mammary carcinoma cells) and in an in vivo leukemia model.
Tricyclic Series of Heat Shock Protein 90 (Hsp90) Inhibitors Part I: Discovery of Tricyclic Imidazo[4,5-c]pyridines as Potent Inhibitors of the Hsp90 Molecular Chaperone.,Vallee F, Carrez C, Pilorge F, Dupuy A, Parent A, Bertin L, Thompson F, Ferrari P, Fassy F, Lamberton A, Thomas A, Arrebola R, Guerif S, Rohaut A, Certal V, Ruxer JM, Delorme C, Jouanen A, Dumas J, Grepin C, Combeau C, Goulaouic H, Dereu N, Mikol V, Mailliet P, Minoux H J Med Chem. 2011 Oct 27;54(20):7206-19. Epub 2011 Oct 5. PMID:21972823[3]
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I am not 100% certain of the details, but this scam usually starts with divulging of personal contact info- address, name, phone, etc. Then they will proceed to wanting to know what the victims bank account number is for the transferring of funds, and often they will ask for a small financial contribution from the victim to cover the cost of something or other, as a gesture of 'good will'. These things will all occur over a few or several emails and slowly draw the victim into a sense of security in dealing with them. Of course the funds never get deposited.
The scam preys on the gullible, trusting, and those lacking in common sense, often by offering huge amounts of money for little effort, just a small financial contribution (small in comparison to the amount being offered.)
The 'From:' address is almost always forged, and the reply-to and source addresses are often from countries and domains without the best histories for cooperation with foreign law enforcement or extradition requests.
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Since this is the last in a long line of Poteau-Hilldale games, the Hornets were always known as a 3-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust kind of team. Poteau Coach Jeff Broyles commented earlier in the week how Hilldale quarterback Dalton Cunningham was similar to former Florida Gator QB Tim Tebow for his running prowess. Cunningham might well be, but without a doubt his strong right arm was what dismantled the Poteau Pirates in their District 4A-4 opener Friday night at Costner Stadium.Cunningham threw four touchdown passes of 99, 80, 33 and 67 yards as the Hornets stung the Pirates 42-16.


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Held at: Malmesbury Town Hall, 9th April 2011
The meeting opened at 7:34pm and those present (22 in number) signed the attendance sheet.
Steve Bailey and Jenny Radcliffe were appointed tellers.
Minutes of the 2010 AGM and EGM were distributed and approved with one spelling correction.
There were no matters arising.
Written reports were received from the President, Secretary and Treasurer, and the Membership Secretary.
Accounts were not available, and so there was no Auditor's Report. They are expected to be presented for approval at an EGM later in the year.
However, the Auditor, Alison Bexfield, presented a verbal report. Although she appreciated that new work commitments of the Treasurer Simon Mader had made it difficult for him to complete Accounts in time for the AGM, she noted that the Association required a Treasurer who was able to produce timely accounts. She had raised with Council the need for adequate controls (such as dual signatures and duplicates statements) as the Association holds substantial cash balances.
Council member Toby Manning, who was standing for Treasurer, stated that he intended if elected to address the issue of controls. Council member Jenny Radcliffe noted that Council was investigating dual signatories for the savings account. Geoff Kaniuk suggested that an "evote" of Council could be taken to authorise withdraws but Alison said this would not address her concerns. Tony Atkins commented that with Internet banking, multiple people should be able to view the balances without the need for duplicate statements.
|Jon Diamond
|Jonathan Chin
|Andrew Kay
|Toby Manning
|Jon Diamond
|Sandy Taylor
|Jonathan Chin
|Jon Diamond
|Andrew Kay
|Hon. Auditor
|Alison Bexfield
|Jenny Radcliffe
|Andrew Kay
All candidates were elected unopposed.
|council member
|Brian Brunswick
|Jenny Radcliffe
|Steve Bailey
|John Collins
|Toby Manning
|Jenny Radcliffe
|Jenny Radcliffe
|Jonathan Chin
|Sandy Taylor
|Colin Maclennan
|Steve Bailey
|Toby Manning
|Paul Smith
|Tony Atkins
|Mike Lynn
All candidates were elected unopposed.
New Council member Colin Maclennan introduced himself. Paul Smith was not able to attend.
No proposals had been received from members. Council had no proposals.
Jon Diamond reported that he, Toby Manning and Tony Atkins had met with representatives of the International Go Federation and the International Mind Sports Association in London. Proposals from various locations, including the city of Manchester, were currently being considered.
Toby Manning noted that resources the BGA contributed would be directly Go-related.
Jon Diamond noted that they had made suggestions for activities that could take place during the Games to help develop Go in the UK.
Plans were being made to hold an event in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
Any further news will be announced in the Journal and newsletter. Newsletter items will almost always have already appeared on the website. A forthcoming article in the Journal will discuss options for accessing news on the website (RSS feeds).
Jon Diamond noted that the paper newsletter was expensive to produce (over £1000 this year). A major factor was the cost of the included flyers.
About 170 members still receive the paper newsletter although only about 30 of them appeared not to have email addresses. About 70% of renewals/joining is done online now.
If the paper newsletter were discontinued the money saved would pay for several teaching sessions each year with professionals or could be put into recruitment and teaching people about Go.
Andrew Kay wondered if charging a nominal fee to receive the newsletter would encourage people to switch to receiving it electronically. Jon Diamond had informally surveyed members who had not yet switched. Some had indicated they would be willing to pay around £5 per year to continue to receive the paper version.
Alison Bexfield was concerned that tournaments were not costing themselves appropriately - although tournament levy covers publicity many tournaments were running at a loss and so the Association was wasting a substantial amount of money by producing their flyers.
Jenny Radcliffe said that her experience as a tournament director was that sending out flyers did not affect attendance. She suggested tournament directors should be asked if they really needed a flyer to be sent out.
The majority of the members present no longer received the paper newsletter and thought it would be acceptable not to send out flyers with the newsletter, but 3 wanted them to continue. Edmund Stephen-Smith pointed out that this opinion might not be representative of the people receiving the paper version.
Francis Roads asked if flyers could be sent as email attachments. Tony Atkins explained that the electronic newsletter was currently sent as plain text and without attachments because some people were worried about viruses. However web links are already included.
Richard Hunter suggested that the costs should be mentioned in the newsletter to encourage people to switch.
Steve Bailey asked how notices would be sent if the newsletter ceased. Jon pointed out that notices are not usually urgent and that the Journal is being produced regularly. Steve Bailey led the meeting in thanking the Journal Editor.
Luke Humphreys and Alison Bexfield suggested that more notice be given when membership was expiring and that reminders be sent.
Tony Atkins announced that although old journals were no longer being sold, the remaining copies are available for a nominal donation to the Castledine-Barnes Trust.
Francis Roads informed the meeting that although the Trust had spent some money recently on equipment, he would welcome requests for financial support for under-eighteen players as the Trust had not received any for quite a long time.
Toby Manning showed the meeting a sample of the 9x9 sets for schools that Castledine-Barnes Trust is subsidising.
Next year's Congress is to be held in Durham (20th-22nd April 2012).
Alison Bexfield asked if there was any central coordination of tournaments as she found the British Open, the Candidates and the Challengers tournaments were too close together and she wondered if this deterred some strong players from taking part. Richard Hunter agreed. Tony Atkins explained the historical reasons why these events happen when they do. The members present were evenly divided on whether it was a concern. Toby Manning noted that the dates could be changed if it was a problem and invited concrete proposals for a new calendar schedule. Alison Bexfield offered to write an article for the Journal.
Jon Diamond informed the meeting that Council had decided to award Gerry Mills lifetime membership. The meeting applauded the announcement.
Toby Manning and Tony Atkins called a vote of thanks to Paul Barnard and Elinor Brooks and others from Swindon Go club for organising the Congress.
The meeting closed at 8:22pm.


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Today's pics reveal a little more about the device's software. Unsurprisingly, the Note 8.0 is running Samsung's TouchWiz UI, but it also seems to be using a "phone-style" launcher, similar to the direction taken with the stock tablet launcher in Android 4.2 -- which this device is rumored to be running. The presence of floating windows suggests that Samsung's included its multi-window tech in the Note 8.0, too. In addition, we can also clearly see a notification bar up top in both shots.
Samsung's expected to make the Note 8.0 all officially official at Mobile World Congress at the end of February. Leaked spec sheets suggest we can expect similar internals to the Galaxy Note 2 -- a 1.6GHz Exynos 4 Quad CPU, 2GB of RAM and 16 and 32GB storage options, expandable via microSD slot. Stick with Android Central for full coverage of the Note 8.0 and other Samsung devices at MWC, and be sure to check out our latest podcast for more discussion on this device.
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Cultural Amnesia
Clive James' 20th-century canon.
Why is Anna Akhmatova's legacy important? What was shameful about Jorge Luis Borges' career? These are the kinds of questions esteemed critic Clive James poses and answers in his new book, Cultural Amnesia, a compendium of the intellectuals, artists, and thinkers who shaped the 20th century. Taken together, the essays—presented in an A-to-Z format—offer a compelling alternative history of the last century and of the struggles of liberal humanism against totalitarianism. Slate published an exclusive selection of these essays adapted for these pages.
"Anna Akhmatova: Assessing the Russian poet and femme fatale." Posted Feb. 5, 2007.
"Jorge Luis Borges: Can a great writer be blind to the world around him?" posted Feb. 7, 2007.
"Dick Cavett: The secret art of the talk-show host." Posted Feb. 9, 2007.
"Sergei Diaghilev: On generosity, artistic slobs, and dressing to kill." Posted Feb. 12, 2007.
"Duke Ellington: The supremacy of swing." Posted Feb. 14, 2007.
"Egon Friedell: The art of conversation." Posted Feb. 16, 2007.
"Terry Gilliam: What Braziltells us about torture today." Posted Feb. 20, 2007.
"Adolf Hitler: How the intellectual climate in Germany shaped the future Führer." Posted Feb. 21, 2007.
"Ernst Jünger: Did he help Hitler rise?" Posted Feb. 23, 2007.
"Alexandra Kollontai: The flaws of Soviet feminism." Posted Feb. 26, 2007.
"Christoph Lichtenberg: Lessons on how to write." Posted March 2, 2007.
"Nadezhda Mandelstam: How one wife's suffering changed how we see Communism." Posted March 6, 2007.
"Lewis Namier: The eccentric historian who changed British postwar culture." Posted March 8, 2007.
"Grigory Ordzhonokidze: When mass murderers repent." Posted March 13, 2007.
"Alfred Polgar: The forgotten wit whom Marlene Dietrich had hoped would write her biography." Posted March 16, 2007.
"Edgar Quinet: The man who understood the true cost of the violent revolution." Posted March 27, 2007. [Note: Because of a production error, this piece appeared after the excerpt about Rainer Maria Rilke.]
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"Paul Valéry: How poets write great poems." Posted April 10, 2007.
"Ludwig Wittgenstein: In search of the real artichoke." Posted April 12, 2007.
"Isoroku Yamamoto: The poet who planned Pearl Harbor." Posted April 17, 2007.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police have released a bystanders' video of what they say is an argument involving some people in a Bourbon Street throng raucously celebrating ahead of Mardi Gras when shots ring out, followed by screams.
Police spokesman Frank B. Robertson says the shooting in the crowded French Quarter just days before Fat Tuesday left four people wounded, including a male victim shot in the abdomen, thigh and pelvic area. He says one other male and two other females had lesser gunshot wounds.
The footage showed many partying in costumes before what police described as an argument between the most seriously injured male and two other men. Four rapid shots are heard, then screams.
Authorities have not said if they have made any arrests, saying they sought the public's help.


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Ghosts, Spirits, Apparitions, and the like.
RE: Ghosts, Spirits, Apparitions, and the like.
Aseptic said it well. If you are not open to other possible interpretations, it does damage the credibility.
Also, the idea of "putting the puzzle pieces together" can be explained by the human tendency to want to see patterns and agency behind things, whether such patterns and agency exist or not.
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RE: Ghosts, Spirits, Apparitions, and the like.
(20-01-2013 08:14 PM)amyb Wrote: Aseptic said it well. If you are not open to other possible interpretations, it does damage the credibility.There's nothing wrong with seeing patterns in principle, many brilliant people do it. But many brilliant people go over the edge into conspiracy and paranoia. For example, Jack Kevorkian, the life control activist (I'm trying to be politically correct here, but I called my necromancer CRPG character after him) was quite a gifted and talented person, but still he harbored some conspiracy ideas and I think he refused to use cars because of that, or something.
Sometimes I notice the "memes", they are like Lego blocks, they seemingly fit together, don't exclude each other. Such a person's worldview then may be put together of quite a colony of symbiotic memes.
Atlanteans in ancient times, then replaced by Anunnaki in prehistoric times, then Jesus had a wife and children, then Templars and freemasons got to some ancient alien technology from the times of Jesus, and now they want to control everyone through NWO, but friendly aliens are here to stop them.
The cure of this is to learn the Occam's razor.
RE: Ghosts, Spirits, Apparitions, and the like.
Of course it isn't all wrong; seeing patterns and agency has helped our species survive. That doesn't mean it hasn't also led to a lot of cognitive errors.
Funny you should mention Occam's Razor, when you've been making a lot of assumptions and unfounded claims that you'll survive death and you have some kind of soul or astral body or something. The simplest answer, which makes the least assumptions and is based on reality and observation, would be that people are dead after they die, at least as I see it.
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24-01-2013, 11:23 AM (This post was last modified: 24-01-2013 11:34 AM by Luminon.)
RE: Ghosts, Spirits, Apparitions, and the like.
(24-01-2013 02:47 AM)amyb Wrote: Of course it isn't all wrong; seeing patterns and agency has helped our species survive. That doesn't mean it hasn't also led to a lot of cognitive errors.You don't know the environment where I come from. I come from a family and broad circle of family friends who are basically new agey neo-hippies. They were starved for spirituality in the grey and dull era of Communism and now they enjoy it to the fullest. Of course, it's all strictly voluntary, my folks protected our freedom (no baptism, etc) and my two brothers are very critical of religions and so on, if they ever talk about them. But they basically don't care.
By far and large, I'm the one using Occam's razor the most where I come from. As I said, I'm a guy of experience, better said, perception. I'm something like an athlete or chess player, in the sense that I watch myself and focus on myself, because I am my own instrument. And I need a theory to explain, or at least catalogize what I observe.
And I use Occam's razor on everything that can't explain or otherwise bring more light to my observations. If I make assumptions, then always with a qualifier. Some are more probable/important/necessary, some less, some almost not. It's a jungle of thought, but in this jungle there's a natural order.
For example, right now my head hurts like goddamn fucking hell, exactly where the right side Chi meridian leads. When I press it on my neck, it stops hurting above that, as if I restricted the flow of pain. Therefore, I know which way it flows. And I sure am not in mood to consider how I'm imagining things or how I need peer-reviewed journals to know anything.
RE: Ghosts, Spirits, Apparitions, and the like.
I never said you can't believe it's magic unicorns that live in your brain and kick you in the chi meridian, causing headaches or whatever. I just said that it's not convincing to anyone but you, and that's why people don't necessarily accept it at face value.
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RE: Ghosts, Spirits, Apparitions, and the like.
(24-01-2013 11:23 AM)Luminon Wrote: I come from a family and broad circle of family friends who are basically new agey neo-hippies.That explains a lot.
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RE: Ghosts, Spirits, Apparitions, and the like.
(24-01-2013 11:23 AM)Luminon Wrote: By far and large, I'm the one using Occam's razor the most where I come from.
That's a little like being the best Jamaican bobsledder.
You are not applying it very deftly.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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RE: Ghosts, Spirits, Apparitions, and the like.
(20-01-2013 05:06 PM)smidgen Wrote: Like a posted on another thread today. I lived in a haunted house. Shortly after moving in friends and family members started saying that they would see my son standing on the second floor landing. Well it would always happen when my son was not home. It would be on weekend when he was with his father. Then we talked to the neighbors and they said that a boy had died in a fire about the same age as my son. And that he scared away the people who lived there before us. I know what I saw and what I experienced while living in that house. No one can tell me it didn't happen or it was just in my head because it wasn't just me experiencing it. So that's my story and I'm stickin to it. I don't need anyone to agree or disagree just my two cents thrown in.Personally, I can accept stories like these. Sometimes odd things genuinely do happen and they have no current explanation. However, what I can't accept is the conclusion; rapidly drawn out of ignorance and with a lack of any other explanation: "Ghosts done it". Let's call it a "Ghost of the gaps" argument.
I too have had two unusual experiences in my life, and only one of them has a decent amount of plausible explanations. The second; I can't explain even if I tried. But the fact that I don't know the answer(s) doesn't mean that I should assign one to them. Perhaps there are things which occur on the quantum level that we cannot currently explain. Perhaps they don't occur clearly enough or often enough to be observed and tested in controlled conditions. Who knows. Without sufficient evidence, even a nearly invisible vortex of incredible density that eats planets sounds ridiculous. But with enough evidence, we simply call them Black Holes. For this reason, when people tell me that strange and unexplained things have happened to them, I don't (always) conclude that they're crazy or mistaken. I maintain a healthy skepticism - up to and including being skeptical of their potential craziness. I'm open to a scientific explanation for phantom footsteps and spectral apparitions.
But while I may be open to a future scientific explanation, I'm not open to drawing a conclusion where no such conclusion has any right being drawn. For the sake of argument - because I don't know you personally - I'll concede that you did witness something. Perhaps it was not a trick of the eye or a glitch of the mind; but something genuine that took place in our material world in the middle of space-time. Ok. Even if that is the case, we do not currently know the mechanism behind this occurance. We don't know who or what or how it occured, and for that very reason, we cannot draw any conclusion whatsoever. The most we can possibly say at this time is "I don't know".
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RE: Ghosts, Spirits, Apparitions, and the like.
(14-12-2012 03:09 PM)conkles Wrote: When we die, all the energy holding our molecules together will be decomposed and effectively given back to the planet we took them from. After all, we are just atoms. And none of them are "ours," because as you sit and type and think there are atoms you just ate being put into you and atoms being brushed off yours skin. One day some of the atoms inside you had once been in a stalk of corn, which had some carbon dioxide it had taken from the air in photosynthesis. Most of that carbon is from engine emissions.
Well said.
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RE: Ghosts, Spirits, Apparitions, and the like.
I like ghosts, they make good stories. Heck my avatar is of a ghost from The Blackwell Legacy games who is stuck with a host who in turn helps other spirits crossover to the other side since he can't move on himself. To me ghosts are various natural phenomenon that have either been explained or yet to be explained. Mostly it is in the mind and just misinterpretations on film.
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Why it's good news that Pluto doesn't have rings
New Horizons' next destination might be ring-free, too, promising a safe passage for the spacecraft
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Pluto has no rings — New Horizons triple-checked. An exhaustive search for rings and dust particles around the dwarf planet before, during and after the spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 has come up empty.
"It's a very long paper to say we didn't find anything," says team member Tod Lauer of the analysis, posted online September 23 at arXiv.org. But the nonresult could help scientists understand the contents of the outer solar system — and help plan New Horizons' next encounter. The spacecraft is now on a course to a space rock in the Kuiper Belt, another 1.5 billion kilometers past Pluto.
Before New Horizons arrived at Pluto, the possible existence of rings was an urgent matter of safety. Hitting a particle as small as a sand grain could have damaged the spacecraft.
Searches with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2011 and 2012 turned up two previously unknown moons orbiting Pluto — Kerberos and Styx (SN: 11/28/15, p. 14) — and zero rings. Even so, many researchers expected to encounter rings, or at least some debris. The four outer planets in the solar system have rings, as do other small bodies in the solar system, like the tiny planetoid 10199 Chariklo (SN: 5/3/14, p. 10). And some studies suggest that Pluto probably had rings at one point in its past, left over from the collision that formed its largest moon, Charon.
Nine weeks before New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto, a team jokingly called the "crow's nest" acted much like a ship's lookout for potential hazards, says Lauer, an astronomer with the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Ariz. The group examined images taken with the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager camera, looking for ring particles reflecting sunlight or spots that moved against a starry background from one set of images to the next. Nothing turned up.
The team declared the spacecraft's trajectory safe, and New Horizons flew sailed safely past Pluto on July 14, 2015 (SN Online: 7/15/15). After the flyby, the team turned New Horizons around to look back at Pluto, and towards the sun. This was a much better position to look for rings, as dust particles would pop into view when backlit by the sun like motes of dust in the light from a window.
"If you really want to know for sure whether there's any dust there, the viewing geometries where you're looking past the dust with the sun in the background, that's the gold standard," says Matthew Tiscareno of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who studied Saturn's rings with the Cassini spacecraft but was not involved in New Horizons.
It took the better part of a year for all the data from New Horizons to return to Earth, and several months after that to analyze it, but the team is now ready to call it: The rings really aren't there — or at least they're too diffuse to see.
That's somewhat surprising, Lauer says. But the chaotic gravity of Pluto's family of moons might make it too hard for rings to find stable orbits. Or the slight pressure generated by light particles streaming from the sun could constantly blow would-be ring particles away.
It's also possible there just wasn't that much dust there to begin with. New Horizons saw fewer craters on Pluto and Charon than expected, which could mean there are fewer small bodies at that distance from the sun smacking into Pluto and its moons and kicking up dust.
That could be good news for New Horizons' next act. After five months in hibernation, the spacecraft woke up on September 11 and has set its sights on a smaller, weirder and more distant object: a space rock about 30 kilometers long called 2014 MU69 (SN Online: 7/20/17). Initial observations suggest it might be a double object, with two bodies orbiting closely or touching lightly.
New Horizons will fly past MU69 on January 1, 2019. In the meantime, the team is looking for hazards along the route. "We're going to do a similar effort to what we did with Pluto," Lauer says. "We're going to get in the crow's nest and get out our binoculars, as it were, and see if we're going to be okay."
T. Lauer et al. The New Horizons and Hubble Space Telescope search for rings, dust, and debris in the Pluto-Charon system. arXiv:1709.07981v1. Posted September 23, 2017.
Our past coverage of NASA's mission to Pluto.
C. Crockett. Pluto's smaller moons pose mysteries. Science News. Vol. 188, November 28, 2015, p. 14.
C. Crockett. Icy rings found around tiny space rock. Science News. Vol. 185, May 3, 2014, p. 10.
L. Grossman. New Horizons' next target caught making a star blink. Science News Online, July 20, 2017.


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RALEIGH � It�s understandable that North Carolina State prefers the present opposed to the past when assessing today�s matchup against No. 1 Duke.
After all, the game the 20th-ranked Wolfpack has been waiting for has arrived.
�This is a very big game for us,� N.C. State junior forward C.J. Leslie said. �We�re going to come in and treat it like one of the biggest games we�ll play this season. We�re not focused on the past too much. We�re trying to play the team that they are this year.�
PNC Arena is sold-out for this afternoon�s game in what will be Duke�s first true road game of the season.
N.C. State is the Atlantic Coast Conference preseason favorite, but it�s Duke that has surged to the top of the national rankings with a sterling run through a non-conference landscape filled with potential trouble spots.
N.C. State is in search of a credibility boost, and beating the Blue Devils would certainly qualify as such.
�A lot of people have tried so far this year and nobody has been able to do it,� N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said of toppling Duke.
N.C. State made it through its first two ACC games by putting together sizzling late-game stretches to repel Boston College and Georgia Tech.
N.C. State point guard Lorenzo Brown said good teams know how to pull games out in tight situations so that�s a bonus for the Wolfpack. However, the sluggish starts aren�t recommended.
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N.C. State hasn�t had a 3-0 ACC record since the 1988-89 season, so that�s one of the things the Wolfpack would like to accomplish. That season was also the last time N.C. State won 10 in a row, which will happen if there�s a Wolfpack victory today.
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Powder coating is not new, but it has finally become more affordable as people like Millenium have stepped up to serve this industry. Powder coating has many benefits over traditional liquid finishes; no streaking, no drips, no runs, and thicker coats. In a nutshell, you can coat more parts in less time with no drips or runs. Economically, you have lower cost per unit than with liquid coating. Powder coating is even better for the environment, and with a wide array of colors, any metal surface is coatable under this process, leaving a thicker coat than liquid coatings. This powder coating cure process requires a certain temperature for a certain length of time, in order to reach a full cure and establish the full film properties for which the material was designed. Normally, the powders cure at 200°C (390°F) for 10 minutes, depending on your parts.
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4. Once done, the frame was ready to be taken to the powder coating line.
5. Millenium is able to media blast pretty much anything that you can think of, including this '60's Nova. Just beware that once you take something down to metal, you might find rust, as they did on this car that seemed to be super clean when they began.
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7. With the frame clean, it was ready to hit the automated powder coating line.
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19. Once the housing came out of the oven, it was allowed to cool off.
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Artist and graphic designer Bruno Kurru may work in multiple mediums, but he states, "My research…interrogates the multiple definitions of painting and drawing," and "especially [is] about the influence of other media: the relationship between word and image, appropriation of signs of the virtual world." Kurru's drawings, paintings, photography, collage, and installations contain recurring motifs and juxtaposed elements, such as references to digital image manipulation or digital layering, and wood, plants, and fragments of text—which are made intentionally illegible. Inflected with a Surrealist quality, his works often resemble psychological portraits.
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